Essential oils or essential oils are becoming an epidemic trend for use in various needs. Its use ranging from moisturizer, hair nurse, aromatherapy, cleaning products and others. However, is it really that essential oils are safe?
New research presented at ENDO 2018 or the 100th annual meeting of the Endocrine Society in Chicago states if essential oils, especially lavender and tea tree variants can disrupt hormones. The study was conducted by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), which is part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
The study is an assertion of some research in the past that connects essential oils with hormonal disorders. Such use may lead to abnormal breast growth in young boys or prepubertal gynecomastia.
The suspicion arose when a 2007 report in the New England Journal of Medicine states, there are three 10-year-old boys identified by a Denver pediatrician having large unexplained breasts. Doctors study the children regularly and are found to use essential oils with tea tree and lavender variants.
In all three cases, when the boy stops using the product, the problem disappears a few months later. When the researchers tested the oil on human cells in the laboratory, they decided that the oil appeared to disrupt hormone behavior in the cell.
New research presented at ENDO 2018 or the 100th annual meeting of the Endocrine Society in Chicago states if essential oils, especially lavender and tea tree variants can disrupt hormones. The study was conducted by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), which is part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
The study is an assertion of some research in the past that connects essential oils with hormonal disorders. Such use may lead to abnormal breast growth in young boys or prepubertal gynecomastia.
The suspicion arose when a 2007 report in the New England Journal of Medicine states, there are three 10-year-old boys identified by a Denver pediatrician having large unexplained breasts. Doctors study the children regularly and are found to use essential oils with tea tree and lavender variants.
In all three cases, when the boy stops using the product, the problem disappears a few months later. When the researchers tested the oil on human cells in the laboratory, they decided that the oil appeared to disrupt hormone behavior in the cell.
