Hormones enable people and other animals to live, develop and reproduce.
Unfortunately, it is becoming increasingly evident that many common pollutants have the ability to disrupt hormones. They can mimic natural hormones, fitting into receptors and triggering biological changes that should not happen. They block natural hormones from doing their jobs. They can interfere with mechanisms in the body which regulate how hormones operate. From the moment of conception onward, people and other animals are bombarded with pollutants which disrupt hormones.