# Atrazine, Frogs and Claims About Endocrine Disruptors

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2068667790215590188
- Source account: [@karma44921039](https://x.com/karma44921039)
- Source language: English
- Duration: 1:22
- Published: 2026-06-22
- Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/A3ywcqg4gK0J/en/atrazine-frogs-and-claims-about-endocrine-disruptors

## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/A3ywcqg4gK0J/en/atrazine-frogs-and-claims-about-endocrine-disruptors) They call it male feminization. Whenever you're adding all these chemicals, atrazine is the big one that's often studied. It's a herbicide.

[0:07](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/A3ywcqg4gK0J/en/atrazine-frogs-and-claims-about-endocrine-disruptors?t=7) It's the second most used herbicide in North America. I don't know if you've heard of atrazine.

[0:10](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/A3ywcqg4gK0J/en/atrazine-frogs-and-claims-about-endocrine-disruptors?t=10) - Right. - Yeah, it's in the drinking water.

[0:11](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/A3ywcqg4gK0J/en/atrazine-frogs-and-claims-about-endocrine-disruptors?t=11) Totally illegal in Europe, by the way. They don't even allow it in Europe. It's crazy.

[0:15](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/A3ywcqg4gK0J/en/atrazine-frogs-and-claims-about-endocrine-disruptors?t=15) And in America, it's the second most used after glyphosate.

[0:18](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/A3ywcqg4gK0J/en/atrazine-frogs-and-claims-about-endocrine-disruptors?t=18) But they'll call it male feminization. You give these animals atrazine exposures, and they're equal exposures to a lot of Americans.

[0:26](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/A3ywcqg4gK0J/en/atrazine-frogs-and-claims-about-endocrine-disruptors?t=26) And like, for example, if you have a frog and you've got him in 200 nanograms per deciliter of atrazine, 200, that male frog turns female. Now you've got a female frog.

[0:35](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/A3ywcqg4gK0J/en/atrazine-frogs-and-claims-about-endocrine-disruptors?t=35) But it's not just atrazine, because now you've got the plastic water bottles.

[0:37](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/A3ywcqg4gK0J/en/atrazine-frogs-and-claims-about-endocrine-disruptors?t=37) Oh, and you've got all this fragrance and all these parabens rubbing in on your skin.

[0:41](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/A3ywcqg4gK0J/en/atrazine-frogs-and-claims-about-endocrine-disruptors?t=41) Your skin is absorbing all this stuff. Oh, and now you've got like sunscreen chemicals, right? We haven't even talked about that.

[0:46](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/A3ywcqg4gK0J/en/atrazine-frogs-and-claims-about-endocrine-disruptors?t=46) But oxybenzone in sunscreen, by far the most widely used chemical in sunscreen, that's an estrogen endocrine disruptor. It acts like estrogen in your body.

[0:56](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/A3ywcqg4gK0J/en/atrazine-frogs-and-claims-about-endocrine-disruptors?t=56) And they did a study after I published my book. They did a study with oxybenzone, and one application of sunscreen, just one, seven days later, it was above the government's safety limits in people's blood.

[1:08](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/A3ywcqg4gK0J/en/atrazine-frogs-and-claims-about-endocrine-disruptors?t=68) And that's just an adult with one application of oxybenzone.

[1:11](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/A3ywcqg4gK0J/en/atrazine-frogs-and-claims-about-endocrine-disruptors?t=71) And some people are putting on their kids, like, five days a week, or putting on their faces, like personal care products that brag about, like, keeping your face protected from the sun.

[1:20](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/A3ywcqg4gK0J/en/atrazine-frogs-and-claims-about-endocrine-disruptors?t=80) They call it male feminization.