My investigations into the causes of blood disorders and cancers resulting from
exposure to drugs, chemicals and radiation which are known to be haemotoxin,
genotoxin and carcinogens also showed that many of the agents causing the blood
disorders and cancers also caused hormonal and sex alterations and fertility
problems in animals, humans and fish. One reference to the haemotoxin, genotoxin,
carcingogen effects is from research at the Department of Biochemistry of the
Thomas Jefferson University, USA in 1988.
The following are some of the references to these effects in medical textbooks
and papers and the media I have collected over the last few years.
Rachel Carson the American biologist in her book Silent Spring written in 1962
made several references to these problems she came across during the course of
her career. Page 115 gives information on the adverse effects on fertility of
birds caused by the organochlorine insecticide DDT and there are medical papers
showing DDT was included on the USA list of insecticides as causing aplastic
anaemia in humans, a precursor condition to cancers. On page 185 she notes that
DDT and methoxychlor also caused atrophy of the sex organs of rats and roosters
and low sperm counts in crop dusters using DDT. She also notes on Page 80 that
the fertility of birds was also affected by the phenoxy herbicide 2,4-D.
Journals including The Nature magazine and a report in The Halifax Courier on
5.12.1988 on research by Russian and Britain scientists warning that the human
race is in decline. This process these scientists said was due to modern medical
care and lack of natural selection with minor accumulation of genetic
contamination making many people unable survive in a modern world.
The British National Formulary ( the BNF) by the BMA and The Royal
Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain going back to at least 1986, the book
doctors in the UK prescribe from, documents many prescribed drugs as having
side-effects affecting hormones causing sex changes etc. The effects of the
antipsychotics phenothiazines and derivatives, which Rachel Carson (above)
noted, were also used as herbicides, in addition to causing blood disorders
which are precursor conditions to cancers and Parkinson’s Disease are also
documented to cause impotence, gynaecomastia (grow breasts on men) and
galactorrhoea (produce breast milk without pregnancy and some cases in the men
affected). A case of both growing breasts on men and producing milk was reported
on in The Guardian 19.2.1991 in a patient given Phenothiazine drugs as a
hospital patient. With the blood disorders which are precursor to cancers
questions I had asked in the UK Parliament on 11.1.1989 brought one answer which
admitted that Government medical experts were aware of nearly 200 prescribed
drugs associated with causing aplastic anaemia, the most serious of the blood
disorders, so it is probable that also a similar number of prescribed drugs also
cause hormonal and sexual changes.
The same book The BNF notes in the pages on side-effects of prescribed drugs
that where a child is born with birth defects that it should be considered if a
prescribed drugs taken by the mother when pregnant was responsible. It also
notes that side-effects of prescribed drugs like blood disorders and cancers
should be notified even if manifest years later.
In September 1992 Dr. Niels Skaaeback of the University of Copenhagen reviewed
61 studies of sperm counts in men from 1938 to 1990 and found that the average
count had dropped by half during this period. Note: This is the period when
there was a great increase in the use of pesticides and drugs documented to
affect hormones.
The Guardian 10.7.1992 reported “British to Block EC Social Policies”. A report
by The Health and Safety Executive advises the Government to “drag its feet” to
prevent new safety measures being introduced to reduce the exposure of workers
to chemical, biological, non-agricultural pesticides, carcinogens and
radiological agents. The report exposes the hypocrisy of the British Government.
A TV Horizon documentary programme on 31.10.1993 investigated the problems of
reduced sperm counts in man, the feminisation and demasculinisation of fish in
the Seine, alligators and turtles in Florida and changes in the sex of male fish
in UK waters. The programme had many experts from around the world expressing
the same opinion that the effects of oestrogens in chemicals was the cause.
The Lancet UK medical journal in June 1994 had a report on a seminar of the
Danish Organic Farmer’s Association showing that organic farmers had on average
twice the sperm count of the average man.
The report of a study by scientists at Brunel University in Sussex in 1994 and
reported on in the Yorkshire Evening Post found that male fish in the River Aire
in Yorkshire were being feminised by chemicals acting as oestrogens found in
sewage effluents. The Environment Department told the scientists not to disclose
individual rivers being studied so as not to create alarm.
There have been countless reports in medical papers and the media over the years
of children born with birth defects including sex changes following exposure of
their parents to pesticides and other toxic chemicals. One such case in the
Yorkshire Evening Post 5.12.1994 reported that a soldier used as a human guinea
pig by the British Government at their chemical and biologicial research
establishment at Porton Down had given birth to a son who was disabled. I have
come across cases of a mother exposed to the organochlorine insecticide lindane
(now banned in the UK and elsewhere) being diagnosed as having a serious blood
disorder documented to be caused by lindane, giving birth to a son with no
testicles.
A study by scientists and Friends of the Earth reported on in the Daily Mirror
on 6.2.1995 showed that detergents in drinking water mimic female sex hormones
and babies were being born that it was difficult to tell if they were boys or
girls. These same chemicals were also suspected of causing some of the increase
in testicular cancers. Of the 10 privatised water companies only Thames Water
said they had information on these effects but refused to tell F.o.E their
findings.
An article in The European newspaper 24-30.3.1995 was headed “A Touch of Female
trouble for Modern Man”. The article quoted from research showing that
pesticides, detergents plastics and other substances containing unnatural
xeno-oestrogens were probably responsible and noted that confirming this giving
infertile men anti-oestrogens often solved their infertility.
The Times 14.4.1995 in an article by Jeremy Laurance reported on further
research by Professor Skaaeback at Copenhagen University showing that global
pollution was responsible for the halving of sperm counts in men over the past
50 years. All these years later this research confirmed that of Rachel Carson in
her book in 1962 that DDT and industrial chemicals called xeno-oestrogens have
effects on fertility and cause sex changes.
The Nexus journal Oct.-Nov. 1995 reported that, a researcher Dr. Diana Dow
Edwards, was funded by Monsanto to study possible birth defects caused by the
ingestion of aspartame. After preliminary data showed damaging information about
aspartame, funding for the study was cut off. This cutting off of funds when
damaging effects of chemicals and prescribed drugs are found in research is
common and I have had this happen to me several times when I have been connected
to medical and scientific experts doing research into the blood disorders and
cancers caused by exposure to prescribed drugs, chemicals and radiation.
The Sunday Telegraph 19.11.95 reported that the Ministry of Agriculture was
backing the reintroduction of growth-enhancing hormones in cattle feed which
have led to some farmers developing female characteristics including enlarged
breasts.
A Daily Mail 1.5.1996 report about the research into the disappearance of beluga
whales in the St. Lawrence River in north American found that the whales
suffered many effects of the toxic chemicals and metals found in them, DDT,
mercury, PCB’s with teeth falling out, cancers etc. They also found that many
were suffering sex changes.
The book Altered Destinies 1996 by T. Colborn gives details of much research
from around the world showing that infertile men with aberrant cells later
developed testicular cancer and an increase in undescended testicles and an
decrease in male infertility.
The Sunday Telegraph 5.1.97 reported that the Council for Involuntary
Tranquilliser Addiction had found that many birth defects, including cleft
palette, wasted bodies and dyslexia, occurred in babies of mothers who took
tranquillisers when pregnant. Note here that just about all tranquillisers have
documented side-effects of blood disorders which are known to be caused by the
chemicals in the drugs which are haemotoxin, genotoxin and carcinogens. Ref.
Research from the Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Thomas
Jefferson University 1988.
The Mirror 16.1.1997 reported that the sugar substitute sodium cyclamate put on
the “danger list” in 1969 was back on the market in soft drinks and vitamins.
The artificial sweetener is linked to damage to men’s testicles and reduced
sperm counts. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said it was stunned to hear
it was back on the shelves in the U.K.
There were countless media reports on medical and scientific studies done in the
90’s on the problems of hormone distruptors, low sperm counts etc and one report
in The Guardian 15.12.11998 reported that the Chinese were now suffering
sterility due to modern living. In 1999 it was reported that The Medical
Research Council of the UK were planning a three year study into falling sperm
counts in men.
The Daily Telegraph and The Mirror October, 1998 carried reports that testicular
cancers had doubled in the last 20 years and that environmental pollution was to
blame.
The Express 13.7.1999 reported that plastic water pipes carried a risk of
gender-bending chemicals and the Environmental Agency in a report by the
Drinking Water Inspectorate has found that all the male fish in two rivers
studied had been feminised as a result of exposure to gender-bending chemicals.
Reports in most of the media including The Independent 11.7.1999 gave
information on a scientific report by the Worldwide Fund for Nature that more
than 350 pollutants were found in British breast milk. These reports confirm my
own observations reports from people with serious blood disorders and other
health problems I have recommended private toxicology tests that everyone is now
contaminated with man made chemicals documented in textbooks and papers to cause
serious illness.
The Independent 19.7.2001 Man settles claim over the “sex maniac drug” Mr.
Richard Davies brought an £8.5 million claim for the effects of a drug for a
non-malignant pituitary tumour. The case was settled to Mr. Davies satisfaction
after 8 days of an expected 8 week trial. He said the drug totally changed his
personality from a rather shy person to one who chased women and squandered
money on them. He bought a £1300 diamond ring for nightclub hostess he had only
known for 5 minutes.
The Mirror 11.9.2001 reported on research from Dr. Nicola Cherry of Canada’s
University of Alberta showed that D.I.Y enthusiasts exposed to organic solvents
in paints, thinners etc could be lowering sperm count in men. Note: These
chemicals are present in many of the prescribed drugs documented to cause sexual
changes.
Reports in the U.K angling media during 2002 quoted from scientific papers by
experts showing that half the male fish of some species are changing sex. And a
report in The Sunday Mirror 8.8.2002 showed that tests on 1,700 soldiers showed
that one third of them were sterile.
The Daily Mail 15.7.2003 reported that The Medical Research Council of the U.K.
found that phthalates found in shampoos were responsible for infertility, rises
in undescended testicles and testicular cancers and that toxicologists had
overlooked this cause in the past.
The Guardian 5.1.2004 reported that researchers at Aberdeen Fertility Centre had
found a 29% drop in sperm counts in more than 7,500 men in the 13 years between
1989 and 2002.
Many media reports in January 2004 gave information on recent research which
showed that pollution was changing the sex of whales, dolphins and seals and
polar bear cubs.
There are many reports of sexual crimes being committed by those on prescribed
drugs documented to cause hormonal and sexual changes. The Independent 8.6.2004
reported that in the case of the Spanish man found guilty of murdering Caroline
Dickinson in the dormitory of a French Youth Hostel in 1996 that he was on the
drug amitripyne hydrochloride which made him feel like “superman”. The BNF drug
book used by doctors in the U.K. when prescribing lists behavioural
disturbances, hypomania, confusion, interference with sexual function,
testicular enlargement and gynacomastia (enlarged breasts) as side-effects. In
other “high profile” cases of sexual attacks and murders there have been reports
in the media of the convicted person being on drugs which when you look them up
have exactly the same side-effects as the crime they were convicted of. The
media never picks up on this obvious connection even when you point it out to
them.
The Daily Mirror 28.6.2004 The Szeged University in Hungary found that mobile
phones, especially if kept in trouser pockets or on the belt could cut sperm
counts and sperm mobility. Many other papers carried the same report.
Green Health Watch 2004, 7.2(26)supplement Precocious Puberty. Reports from
Peurto Rico found girls as young as 2 reached puberty. The problem is worldwide
and gender bending chemicals in plastic and breast milk are implicated.
The Daily Mirror 8.11.2004 said that the NSPCC found child sex abusers as young
as 5.
The Daily Express 3.5.2005 Reported that in the USA it was found that bisphenol
A (AB) which has gender-bending effects can be found in plastic drinking bottles
and the development of unborn babies could be affected if mothers drank from
plastic bottles.
2005 There were countless reports of gender-bending chemicals in plastics,
pesticides altering genes the effects of which were causing many cancers and
could be passed on to future generations. It was admitted that these toxins
could be responsible for many cancers previously thought be of genetic cause.
In recent years there have been countless media reports on the massive increase
in cancers with a hormone connection. Breast cancers are one hormone related
cancer receiving publicity with reports of young girls now being affected. The
Daily Telegraph 27.8.2005 reported on Kirk Boyd of Northumberland being
diagnosed with testicular cancer at the age of 2.
I have not touched here on the hormone distruptors affecting the pituitary,
thyroid and the rest of the endocrine system as it is such a huge complex
subject it would be better tackled separately. Many prescribed drugs, chemicals
and radiation are known to cause adverse effects on the endocrine system causing
pituitary tumours, hypothyroidism with many symptoms which are very often
wrongly diagnosed by the medical profession. Of the drugs and chemicals the
fluoride containing ones are the most potent of these in displacing iodine
essential for thyroid function.
