{"id":226294,"date":"2025-12-02T05:11:51","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T11:11:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/hormone-disrupting-chemicals-from-plastics-shown-to-promote-a-chronic-inflammatory-skin-condition"},"modified":"2025-12-02T05:11:51","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T11:11:51","slug":"hormone-disrupting-chemicals-from-plastics-shown-to-promote-a-chronic-inflammatory-skin-condition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/hormone-disrupting-chemicals-from-plastics-shown-to-promote-a-chronic-inflammatory-skin-condition","title":{"rendered":"Hormone-disrupting chemicals from plastics shown to promote a chronic inflammatory skin condition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/hormone-disrupting-chemicals-from-plastics-shown-to-promote-a-chronic-inflammatory-skin-condition2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A Johns Hopkins Medicine study involving a dozen people with the inflammatory skin disease hidradenitis suppurativa (HS), which mostly affects skin folds, is believed to be the first to provide evidence that hormone-disrupting chemicals commonly found in ultra-processed food and single-use water bottles may contribute to the development of or worsen the condition in some people.<\/p>\n<p>The new findings about the disorder build on previous reports about the role of <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2025-05-silent-danger-tackle-chemicals-threaten.html?utm_source=embeddings&utm_medium=related&utm_campaign=internal\" rel=\"related\">endocrine-disrupting chemicals<\/a>, a common environmental contaminant known to mimic, block or alter the body\u2019s hormones, in human health. Researchers believe their findings suggest that reducing exposure could ease HS symptom severity and provide a new avenue of relief for a disease with limited FDA-approved treatment options that include biologic therapy and surgery.<\/p>\n<p>The full report on the study was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-025-65789-7\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>Nature Communications<\/i> on Nov. 28 and includes insights into the molecular mechanisms that are involved in the disease.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Johns Hopkins Medicine study involving a dozen people with the inflammatory skin disease hidradenitis suppurativa (HS), which mostly affects skin folds, is believed to be the first to provide evidence that hormone-disrupting chemicals commonly found in ultra-processed food and single-use water bottles may contribute to the development of or worsen the condition in some [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19,1506,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry","category-food","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226294","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}