All the better to confuse you with Hormone disrupters have lots of ways to confuse the body's signaling system when they occupy a hormones receptor. Let's compare hormone disrupters to normal hormones:

			Normal hormone activates the receptor at the appropriate level
		Hormone blocker interferes with the signal from the body hormones
			Hormone disrupters give a signal stronger than the body's hormone (and at the wrong time), or --
		Hormone disrupter gives a signal weaker than normal, also at the wrong time.

Here's more detail on endocrine disruption mechanism. The controversy about endocrine disrupters began with concern about chemicals that disrupt estrogen, but now it has expanded to cover chemicals that interfere with androgens -- male hormones. Keeping in mind that males have female hormones, and vice versa, we immediately realize that the endocrine story is a lot more complicated once thought. In fact, the endocrine disrupters story goes back to the dawn of modern environmentalism.

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