The ibs.GRANADA certifies Alkanatur Drops free of endocrine disruptors
Bisphenol A, also known under the acronym BPA, is a chemical that is used in the manufacture of plastics, cans, purchase receipts and even in some products related to childcare such as baby bottles.
Not only did the World Health Organization warn about this, which is concerned with how analytics show that a high percentage of the population has this compound in the remains of urine. Something that suggests that it is even more present than it was thought years ago.
Some studies have already begun to link this type of chemical and the products that contain them with ailments such as cancer, brain damage (especially if a pregnant woman is constantly exposed to it), and even some hormonal problems. This is what are called endocrine disruptors.
Although awareness is slow, the first steps are being taken to eliminate this product from the food chain and its containers. Companies like the famous Campbell, known thanks to Warhol, have announced that from now on this chemical is withdrawn from their cans.
Experts like him Doctor Nicolás Olea, Scientific Director of the ibs.GRANADA, talks about endocrine disruptors as “chemical substances, environmental pollutants, generally made by man and man's industry and that once inside the body modify the balance of hormones. Hormones, as is well known, are chemical mediators that connect one organ to another and send or are chemical signals. These chemical signals can be interfered with, increased, decreased by another chemical compound that you use or that is planted in its place. The phenomenon is that there are some biological consequences of that interference.".
The Alkanatur Drops Jug, free of endocrine disruptors
The problem, in many cases, is the overexposure to which the population is subjected without hardly knowing it to this type of chemical products that can alter the hormonal balance.
And much more when it comes to something as common as bottles or jugs of water, elements of our day to day that few people can eliminate from their routines.
The Galician company Alkanatur, as a continuation of the study presented last year in collaboration with the University of Vigo on the benefits of alkaline water in the symptoms of diabetes, has gone a step further and has collaborated with the University of Granada to analyze "the possible hormonal activity of the compounds released into the water that has been in contact with the plastic jug that is the subject of the study”.
After this study, signed by the Biosanitary Research Institute of Granada and by Professor Nicolás Olea, is extracted as conclusionthat "Given the sensitivity and specificity of the methodology used, we can conclude that the "possible compounds released" from the Alkanatur Drops jar do not present hormonal activity for the alpha estrogen receptor when they are investigated in culture assays. Similarly, for the androgen receptor, none of the samples were able to activate it".