NFT: The New Puberty

puberty at 8!

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In comment 12386819 Jim in Fairfax said:

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Assuming that's more city water than well water?

What about hormones from food?

its not just hormones in water and food. Better and more consistent nutrition has a lot to do with it. Also there are a lot of chemicals that may react biologically that will exacerbate typical developmental timings.

There is a mountain of scientific evidence that plainly show plasticizers, hormones, et al. have profound and deleterious effects on normal animal development.

McDonald's food is filled with plasticizers.

Also causes gall stones.

Pretty nasty stuff.

In comment 12386837 pinyin said:

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McDonald's food is filled with plasticizers. Also causes gall stones. Pretty nasty stuff.

plasticizers are awful. I worked in a wet-lab at one point and they are very very reactive to biological membranes & processes.

It will become an autism type thread with paranoia and heresay postulated as fact.

THe only fact is that a greater proportion of young girls are experiencing precocious puberty. PP has been around forever, so the question is why is its frequency increasing? Puberty and therefore precocious puberty are genetically programmed life changes, so the first deduction is that its an interaction between one's genes and its enviroment. So there is not a single agent responsible. Stop blaming plasticizers or heavy water or whatever, when you know its more complex than that. Start with population studies to look for associated factors before talking about mechanisms.

So having said all that. I'm very curious what going on with young girls today. And young boys, if there is a similar phenomena going on.

(Any day for me now!)

But I was under the impression that increasing childhood obesity was substantively responsible for the change in puberty onset.

the results of the communist water fluoridation plot.

Wow.

It wasn't until our mid-40s that we had our baby (a girl; just like I'd always wanted). She's 4 now, and potentially half-way to puberty already?

The one thing that's truly profound is the passing of time.

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was showing early signs so we switched to milk that doesn't contain HGH. I don't know if it had an effect or not but her "rapid" advancement seemed to slow and her development is right on schedule according to her doctor.

not sure if I'm buying into a bunch of BS but it is what it is

are outside of my circle of competence but enough people have expressed concern that Wegman's has made it easy and now sells HGH free milk.

It was an easy switch for us but apart from one observation, I've got nothing to offer to this discussion.