Medical Hydrology and Balneology: Environmental Aspects

Medical Hydrology and Balneology: Environmental Aspects
brain development problems, deformations of the body (including limbs); sexual
development problems, feminizing of males or masculine effects on females, etc.
Any system in the body controlled by hormones, can be derailed by hormone disruptors.
Health effects attributed to endocrine disrupting compounds include a range
of reproductive problems (reduced fertility, male and female reproductive tract
abnormalities, and skewed male/female sex ratios, loss of fetus, menstrual problems);
changes in hormone levels; early puberty; brain and behavior problems;
impaired immune functions; and various cancers.
Conclusions
Although mud action on various functions is still little known, some beneficial
effects on some genital disorders have been observed empirically since antiquity,
when sterile women are recommended to make partial or general mud baths. The
experimental results on the composition and physico-chemical inter-relationships
that contribute to its therapeutic effects are limited in the literature.
Salt water and mud are extracted from Heliothermal Ursu lake and contain human-like
estrogen and progesterone hormones liberated by Artemia salina, which
improves significantly the hormonal status of the body. Human –like measured
hormone levels are: in salt water estrogen human-like 95 S.U % and progesterone
human-like 0.7-0.8 mg%, in mud estrogen human like 355 S.U.% and progesterone
human like 2.5 mg%. On the other hand, the high amount of salt in water – 300 g/l
and in mud – 95% of mineral fraction of mud relieves pelvic tissue fluids and stasis
and decreases pelvic inflammation. Both estrogen and progesterone levels are
important for embryo implantation.
Keywords: Estrogens, Endocrine Disruptors,Mud, Salt Waters, Artemia Salina
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