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Resources

Interested in the link between fertility and environmental toxins? Then check out the books and Web sites below.

BOOKS
Our Stolen Future: Are We Threatening Our Fertility, Intelligence and Survival? A Scientific Detective Story by Theo Colborn, Dianne Dumanoski and John Peterson Myers (Plume, 1997) — A detailed look at how “industrial pollutants have spread with ease through the web of life,” and how they may be impacting human health, from lower sperm counts to hormone-related cancers and endometriosis.

Generations At Risk: Reproductive Health and the Environment by Ted Schettler, MD, Gina Soloman, MD, Maria Valenti and Annette Huddle (MIT Press, 2000) — A collaboration of public health professionals, physicians, environmental educators and policy advocates that supports the theory that human exposure to some toxic chemicals can have lifelong and even intergenerational effects on human reproduction and development.

Fateful Harvest: The True Story of a Small Town, a Global Industry and a Toxic Secret by Duff Wilson (HarperCollins, 2002) — A true story recounting how the mayor of small Washington town “blew the whistle” on American industries when she discovered were dumping toxic waste that they called “fertilizer” into fields and garden, causing failed crops, sick animals and rare diseases and threatening the health of her children.

Hormone Deception: How Everyday Foods and Products Are Disrupting Your Hormones — and How to Protect Yourself and Your Family by D. Lindsey Berkson (Contemporary Books, 2000) — Learn where hormone disruptors come from and how they affect all of us — adults, kids and the unborn — as well as how to minimize exposure to these dangerous substances.

Hormonal Chaos: The Scientific and Social Origins of the Environmental Endocrine Hypothesis by Sheldon Krimsky (John Hopkins University Press, 2000) — Support and criticism of the hypothesis that a variety of industrial and agricultural chemicals can interfere with the body’s normal hormone functions and cause reproductive, neurological and developmental abnormalities in humans and wildlife.

ARTICLES
“Opening the Door to Fertility,” Alternative Medicine (June 2006) — An in-depth look at alternative approaches that may enhance your chances of conceiving.

“Bad Chemistry,” OnEarth (Winter 2006) — This award-winning environmental magazine investigates how hundreds of manmade chemicals may be impacting our ability to reproduce.

WEB
www.ourstolenfuture.org — This Web site provides the latest information on the most recent developments and discoveries about endocrine disruption, as well as a link to former Vice President Al Gore’s foreword in Our Stolen Future.