Every day a sea of potentially hormone-disturbing toxins surrounds us, in pesticides and herbicides in our soil; in chemicals and additives in the food we eat; in contaminants in the water we drink; in pollutants from car exhausts and cigarette smoke; in chemicals in solvents, plastics and adhesives; as well as all the toxins we absorb through our skin in make up, hair dyes and household cleaning products along with possible radiation from visual display units, mobiles or VDUs. These everyday toxins have been linked to birth defects and hormonal disruption so great that some of them are now called EDCs or endocrine (hormone) disrupting chemicals.