{"id":224574,"date":"2025-11-05T13:06:30","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T19:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/bisphenol-a-causes-sex-specific-changes-in-metabolism-and-the-immune-system-study-reveals"},"modified":"2025-11-05T13:06:30","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T19:06:30","slug":"bisphenol-a-causes-sex-specific-changes-in-metabolism-and-the-immune-system-study-reveals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/bisphenol-a-causes-sex-specific-changes-in-metabolism-and-the-immune-system-study-reveals","title":{"rendered":"Bisphenol A causes sex-specific changes in metabolism and the immune system, study reveals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/bisphenol-a-causes-sex-specific-changes-in-metabolism-and-the-immune-system-study-reveals.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Even small amounts of bisphenol A can lead to long-term health effects. When researchers studied adult rats exposed in the fetal stage, they found that females had developed a more masculine and males a more feminine gene expression pattern. This led to females progressing towards a cancer-like state, while males progressed towards metabolic syndrome, which can increase the risk of diabetes and heart disease.<\/p>\n<p>Bisphenol A is a synthetic chemical with estrogen-like properties that is commonly used in food packaging materials. The substance is banned in many products, but is still present in some packaging. Levels of bisphenol A in people\u2019s bodies are often above levels considered safe, with previous research showing that the substance can cause adverse health effects.<\/p>\n<p>Females masculinized and males feminized In the current study, published in Communications Medicine, researchers investigated how bisphenol A affects the body during the fetal stage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even small amounts of bisphenol A can lead to long-term health effects. When researchers studied adult rats exposed in the fetal stage, they found that females had developed a more masculine and males a more feminine gene expression pattern. This led to females progressing towards a cancer-like state, while males progressed towards metabolic syndrome, which [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":707,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19,1506,1495,1901],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry","category-food","category-health","category-sex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/707"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}