Good review of metabolic endotoxemia, inflammation, and the use of probiotics, prebiotics to reduce inflammation and effect energy balance. Implications in metabolic syndrome.
DDE in hispanic farm workers found to be inversely associated with testosterone. Again, DDE and other persistent organohalogen pollutants, work to lower testosterone in men.
I don't normally post blog posts, however, this post has merits for the purpose of figure 1 and figure 2. Figure 1 highlights the different omega 3:omega 6 of different fish and figure 2 highlights the different omega3;6 in wild versus farm raised fish.
Scary stat--75% of samples from air and rainfall taken in delta contaminated with glyphosate and its metabolite AMPA. These levels were not measured in 1995 so % increase is unable to be determined. We do know that roundup use has increased dramatically over that time frame.