That is an interesting discussion to have. It should also be mentioned that humans consume more calories than their bodies strictly need, in their formative years. During puberty, that excess energy is spent on creating hormones and developing the body itself. During the years prior, the majority of it is spent on developing the brain; changing its shape, increasing the number of neurons and synapses. For girls, that period of development ends earlier, and they enter puberty at a younger age than boys. If girls start to enter puberty at even younger ages, likely as a result of hormones ingested in food and water (the latter largely because our water purification and filtration systems don't work on substances as small as oestrogen, and that constantly more of it is being flushed in the toilet because of all the women who take the pill, which are essentially just chunks of oestrogen supplements, the excess of which is simply not ingested and thus gets released in urine), then it could cause permanent impairments to women's mental development.
However, I am unconvinced that puberty blockers could delay this in a way that the body would consider natural enough for it to continue developing the brain, as it normally would have if it hadn't entered puberty prematurely. Are we sure that we've found the right substance to accomplish that?
I disagree for the brain. Decline only begins post-puberty, in the early twenties. The brain is still in development until puberty is initiated, after which further changes are no longer caused by its structural development, but rather as a result of the influence of hormones.
As far as animals affected by particulates in the water supply go, isn't that why Alex Jones was saying they were turning the frogs gay? Sure, he can be a nutjob and not always present all the evidence required to convince the population at large, but there's usually some grounding behind his claims. I also remember hearing about some other animals that are hermaphrodites, that can change sex, that were beginning to have an overrepresentation of females in their populations. I guess it is possible that this was caused by plastic rather than oestrogen, though.
That is an interesting discussion to have. It should also be mentioned that humans consume more calories than their bodies strictly need, in their formative years. During puberty, that excess energy is spent on creating hormones and developing the body itself. During the years prior, the majority of it is spent on developing the brain; changing its shape, increasing the number of neurons and synapses. For girls, that period of development ends earlier, and they enter puberty at a younger age than boys. If girls start to enter puberty at even younger ages, likely as a result of hormones ingested in food and water (the latter largely because our water purification and filtration systems don't work on substances as small as oestrogen, and that constantly more of it is being flushed in the toilet because of all the women who take the pill, which are essentially just chunks of oestrogen supplements, the excess of which is simply not ingested and thus gets released in urine), then it could cause permanent impairments to women's mental development.
However, I am unconvinced that puberty blockers could delay this in a way that the body would consider natural enough for it to continue developing the brain, as it normally would have if it hadn't entered puberty prematurely. Are we sure that we've found the right substance to accomplish that?
I disagree for the brain. Decline only begins post-puberty, in the early twenties. The brain is still in development until puberty is initiated, after which further changes are no longer caused by its structural development, but rather as a result of the influence of hormones.
As far as animals affected by particulates in the water supply go, isn't that why Alex Jones was saying they were turning the frogs gay? Sure, he can be a nutjob and not always present all the evidence required to convince the population at large, but there's usually some grounding behind his claims. I also remember hearing about some other animals that are hermaphrodites, that can change sex, that were beginning to have an overrepresentation of females in their populations. I guess it is possible that this was caused by plastic rather than oestrogen, though.