Pesticides and endocrine disruptors: an update on an ongoing catastrophe with Professor Charles Sultan, guest of Générations Futures in Bagnols-sur-Cèze

Des données scientifiques stupéfiantes rapportées par l’expert en santé environnementale Charles Sultan, invité par Générations Futures. C. C. – Midi Libre

L’expert en santé environnementale a livré une synthèse des dernières recherches scientifiques, dont celles de son équipe montpelliéraine, au public bagnolais, vendredi soir à la médiathèque.

"Nous baignons dans un monde chimique", launched in the preamble the Professor at the Faculty of Medicine of Montpellier Charles Sultan, specialist in childhood diseases, who has worked for more than twenty years on the consequences for child health of contamination by endocrine disruptors. The environmental health expert was the guest of Générations Futures, as part of the Week of Alternatives to Pesticides, Friday evening at the Bagnols media library. Thirty people listened to his summary, which was based on the results of the latest scientific research around the world. Terrible information. "These chemical substances are likely to alter the synthesis, storage, transport and action of natural hormones."

"A health, psychological, economic, social, ethical and legal scandal"

Pesticides and endocrine disruptors (ED) are "a health, psychological, economic, social, ethical and legal scandal". They are everywhere, "in the earth, the air, the water, the food chain, cosmetics, housing, health products, etc. hygiene, the professional environment…". Decrease in fertility, spermatogenesis, congenital diseases, genital malformations, early puberty, collapse of psychological and intellectual development, decline in IQ, asthma, high blood pressure, endometriosis, obesity, considerable increase in many diseases ("there have never been so many cases of autism, Parkinson's, autoimmune diseases"), for the Professor, a figure is to remember: "Specialists announce a 77% increase in cancers by 2050 […]. All organs, all systems of the body are likely to be impacted by pesticides and PE. There have never been so many testicular cancers and genital malformations in children. The fetal origins of adult pathologies and a transgenerational effect of these pollutants have been demonstrated." "In umbilical cord blood, 287 chemicals have been identified. 100% of placentas contain pesticides and plastic microbeads. This is my fight, we must protect the fetus." Studies establish a greater prevalence of certain diseases in the children of farmers.
Faced with the scale of the damage, "this evening, there should have been hundreds of us to mobilize and change our behavior. Share this information!" invited the doctor who advises a rational diet ", "as organic as possible", from "ban plastic compounds, d&amp ;rsquo;avoid all sources of pollution in your home".