Monday, February 1, 2010

Blame it on the Couch?


It is a serious and often heart wrenching topic for many couple, the struggle to get pregnant. Now comes one of the strangest twist on this complicated subject.
Leave it to Cal-Berkeley, but a recent study that your furniture may play a role in fertility. It turns out harmful chemicals found in electronics, furniture, carpets, plastics and upholstery fabrics may be why you're having trouble getting pregnant.
The Sun baked egg-heads at Berkeley 97% of us have detectable levels of PBDEs (or polybrominated diphenyl ethers) in our bloodstream. If 97% of us have it, how can anybody get pregnant.
If you don't want to dig through the academia-talk, here is a version of the story in the L.A. Times. Hey that's as close to an understandable write-up I can find.

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