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Life Sciences => Physiology & Medicine => Topic started by: thedoc on 09/02/2010 17:18:18

Title: If humans eat feminised fish, do they become more feminine?
Post by: thedoc on 09/02/2010 17:18:18

If human males eat feminised fish, will they become more feminine too?”
Asked by Silverwing Benoir, Second Life

               
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Title: If humans eat feminised fish, do they become more feminine?
Post by: thedoc on 09/02/2010 17:18:18

We put this question to Professor Karen Kidd:
There’s a lot of concern about oestrogens in the environment and what they're doing to our health, but in this case, we’ve looked for estrogens in fish muscle and have found no evidence that they concentrate in the muscle or any parts of the fish that we eat.  So, in this case, it’s not a risk to human health.

Title: If humans eat feminised fish, do they become more feminine?
Post by: thedoc on 09/02/2010 18:19:34

Listen to the answer to this question on our podcast. (http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/podcasts/show/2010.02.07/)