Atrazine is a chlorinated triazine systemic herbicide that is used to selectively control annual grasses and broadleaf weeds before they emerge. Pesticide products containing atrazine are registered for use on several agricultural crops, with the highest use on field corn, sweet corn, sorghum, and sugarcane.

There is more Atrazine in municipal tap water than was used in the frog experiment conducted by Tyrone Hayes, a biologist and herpetologist at UC Berkeley in Berkeley, California. Hayes discovered that Atrazine can cause serious sexual abnormalities in male frogs, basically feminizing male frogs. In one of Hayes’ studies, four out of 40 genetically male African clawed frogs raised in an atrazine solution developed into what appeared to be normal females. Two of the frogs had ovaries but retained their male DNA, while the other two mated with males and laid eggs that hatched into chromosomally male offspring.

Hayes also discovered that atrazine causes hermaphroditism. In a study, tadpoles raised in atrazine-contaminated water developed both male and female gonads. Hermaphroditism of tadpoles can occur even at levels as low as 0.1 parts per billion (ppb), which is 30 times lower than the EPA’s limit of 3 ppb for drinking water. Hayes’ experiments used less atrazine than is contained in the nations municipal water. Yes, there’s more atrazine in drinking water than was used in experiments that feminized male frogs and caused hermaphroditism in tadpoles.

Lastly, Hayes discovered that atrazine castrates male frogs. Long-term exposure to low levels of atrazine can emasculate frogs, and some studies have found that atrazine exposure can cause reduced plasma testosterone levels, decreased size of dermal breeding glands, fewer testicular tubules with mature sperm bundles, lower fertility rates, and altered larynx structure.

Additionally, atrazine has been detected in the food supply, mostly fruit and produce.

Atrazine has been detected in potatoes, peas, berries, tower gourd, grape broad bean, olives (and olive oil), carrots, lettuce, zucchini, runnerbeans, oranges, wheat, soy shoots, soy milk, wine grapes, red wine, wine, Chinese teas, honey; apple juice, cranberry juice, grape juice; strawberries, lemons, raisins, eggs, rice, maize, onion, grapefruit, red grapefruit, oranges, black currants, orange juice, tomatoes, strawberry juice, garlic, infant nutrient cereal-based foods, oysters, bovine milk, and municipal tap water.

Atrazine has even been detected in female breast milk. Source: Analysis of Endocrine Disrupting Compounds in Food (2011, Blackwell Publishing).

Solutions to counter the effects of exposure to atrazine include purchasing and consuming organic fruits and vegetables as much as possible (based on affordability, availability, or accessibility), only drink purified water that you process with a filtering or purifying unit (e.g., reverse osmosis unit such as brands like Aqua Tru, Sim Pure, Bluevua, Waterdrop, and Stokk) and enhanced with ozonation from a portable ozone generator (e.g., brands like Aldious, Ivation, Cameco, A2Z), consume food-grade activated charcoal at least once a week (one teaspoon added to drinking water or three capsules), detoxify your body at least once a year (e.g., Full Body Detox from Divine Medicinals .com, Wombmanly .shop, Verdure Herbs .com, or Powered by Nature Herbs .com).

Men should consume libidogenic, anabolic, and androgenic herbs that help maintain and increase or boost free testosterone levels in the body, herbs like Bulbine Natalensis root, Tongkat Ali root, Mpesu bark, Maral root, Bangalala root, Fadogia Agrestis root, and Sarsaparilla root; or consume a testosterone supplement (e.g., T Boost formula from ManDyngo .com). Atrazine has been detected in milk, thus men should avoid dairy products as much as possible as milk is the basis of dairy products (cheese, cream, butter, ice cream). Dairy products should be organic as much as possible.