Bleach
Bleach, chlorine compounds are especially harmful for a cystic liver. Chlorine compounds is an endocrine disruptor and causes intense liver pains. Eliminate bleach, chlorine, carbon tetrachloride, plastic from your environment. Inhaling bleach products is even more harmful if one has PLD as the lungs sit near the liver and inhalations can increase PLD symptoms. Environmental endocrine disruptors, xenoestrogens, contribute to decreased sperm counts, sterility, and reproductive tumors.
Bleach Cleansers
Find alternatives for bleach cleansers, plastics and perfume fragrances. Surprisingly, in the USA chicken, poultry, turkey and commercially prepared game birds have a chlorine bath before coming to market. This is to prevent salmonella. Consumer report magazine ran a special on poultry. Even the best quality poultry gets a quick dip in a chlorine bath.
Dichoroacetate DCA
Chlorine is sometimes added to city tap water. Caution with the contaminant dichloroacetate DCA; it can increase cyst growth. Check the cities with the best water supply. Key in your own zip code to find your tap water. Read this pdf to find cities with good tap water.
One can leave water for drinking out for twenty four hours to dissipate the chlorine or aerating city water achieves similar results.
What Makes Liver Cysts Grow?
Liver cysts have receptors within their cell walls. These following compounds are similar. They ↑ liver size and cyst growth attaching to hormone receptors within the liver cysts.
BPA
Bleach
Endocrine disruptors
Hormones
Parabens
Phytoestrogens
Phthalates
Plastic
Xenoestrogens
What is meant by bleach?
Chlorine is the main chemical contained in bleach. This is any chemical that causes whitening or lightening, including hair bleach and clothing bleach, sodium hypochlorite. Toxins applied to the hair can easily make contact with and be absorbed through the scalp into the bloodstream, thus affecting the liver adversely. Three of the chemicals in hair color surmised to pose the greatest toxicity include:
DCA Dichloroacetate in Chlorinated Tap Water
Dichloroacetate a common contaminant in chlorinated city water can accelerate cyst formation in the ARPKD model. Addition of bleach to city water is harmful to cystic organs. This is a residual acetate formed with chlorination. Careful of chlorine in city water. One can leave tap water out for 24 hours to dissipate the chlorine. Others have tried the use of a water filter that eliminates chlorine and others have tried aeration.
When skin cells are warmed and dilated like when in a hot shower, there is increased chlorine absorption as well as increased absorption of the contaminant dichloroacetate. Some have used shower filters to deter this from happening.
Scientists discovered that in the ARPKD model dichloroacetate accelerates cyst development. Dichloroacetate a contaminant from chlorination in some city tap water, may account for the differing results from drinking copious amounts of water in ADPKD clinical water trials. Japan has a high level of DCA in their city water.
2014
The advantages of drinking water early in the treatment of ADPKD is explained in this article by Dr. Grantham.↑ water intake PKD
"Although evidence is lacking to support increased water intake in the general population, available evidence indicates that individuals who are at risk for nephrolithiasis as well as those with CKD and PKD may benefit from 3-4 Liters of urine output each day, a level of excretion that is likely to be safe."Low Osmolar Diet Trial Adjusted Water Intake for Vasopressin Suppression in ADPKD
This is a clinical water trial at Tufts University with Dr. Perrone. Its title is Diet as a Potential Treatment for Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease.Bleach Articles:
Systemic harmful effects of ingestion of household bleaches
Endocrine Disruption in Fish By David Edward Kime
This book is very technical and Chapter 1.2 talks about endocrine disruptors.
From page 31
"Polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins (PCDDs) and dibenzofurans (PCDFs) originate from a wide variety of
domestic and industrial process, including incineration of plastics, industrial processes where chlorinated hydrocarbons are
used, combustion of fossil fuels and pulp mills using chlorine bleach processes."
From page 177
"Cumulative mortality of embryos and larvae, reared in pure. . .bleach effluent. . .impair reproductive success in fish.
Common carcinogens and endocrine disruptors
Chloroform C/EDC/B: Chloroform is used industrially as an extracting agent and solvent, as the working fluid in industrial
refrigeration systems and in the manufacture of cosmetics, dyes, drugs, fluorocarbons, glues and pesticides. Chloroform is an
ingredient in medicinal/pharmaceutical products such as cough syrups, liniments, mouthwashes and toothpastes, and in
domestic cleaning products containing bleach. Because chloroform is widely distributed in air and water, we are exposed to
it in air emissions from pulp/paper and chemicals and drugs manufacture, vehicle exhausts, tobacco smoke, burning of plastics,
and evaporation from polluted waterways. We are also exposed through water sources such as tap water, showers and swimming pools.
Reducing Your Exposure:
Avoiding Hormone Disruptors Organochlorines
Many organochlorines, or compounds which contain chlorine and carbon, do not easily breakdown in the environment and accumulate
to high concentrations in the fat of humans and animals. Many organochlorines are hormone disruptors. Organochlorines often are
produced as byproducts of industrial processes involving chlorine, organic matter and heat, such as bleached paper-making,
burning of hazardous, municipal & medical waste, and chemical production.
Consumer products tested for endocrine disruptors
Ultra-trace analysis of multiple endocrine-disrupting chemicals in municipal and bleached kraft mill effluents using gas chromatography-high-resolution mass spectrometry.
Study on Endocrine Disruptors in Drinking Water
Developmental
Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals in Wildlife Humans
This article has a little on bleach but more on endocrine disrupting chemicals.
Environmentally
Preferable Janitorial
Paper Supplies in Alameda
Processed Chlorine Free (PCF). Most paper manufacturers use chlorine derivatives to bleach paper. Byproducts from this bleaching
process can create hazardous substances that act as endocrine disruptors and carcinogens when released into the environment. Products
can be bleached in processes that whiten them without using chlorine chemistries. Recycled papers bleached without chlorine-based
chemicals are sometimes described as being Processed Chlorine Free (PCF).