https://researchopenworld.com/endocrine-disruptors-caused-faulty-hormonal-imprinting-focus-on-women/#

Hormonal imprinting is a physiological process, when hormone receptors and the target hormone meet in the first occasion, perinatally. This process is needed for the normal function of the receptor-hormone complex and valid for life. However, hormone-like molecules also can bind to the developing receptor causing faulty imprinting and its consequences: altered binding of hormones, inclination to diseases, manifestation of diseases, disturbing the physiological hormonal regulation. The faulty imprinting also has a lifelong effect. Industrial, communal, nutritional and medical endocrine disruptors are faulty imprinters and their variables as well, as amounts are enormously growing in the human environment. The faulty imprinting influences also the microsomal enzyme system. Numerous diseases, manifested at adult age can be deduced to perinatal faulty hormonal imprinting and the higher sensitivity of women to drugs (more adverse reactions) could be explained by perinatal events. The extremely growing variants and amount of endocrine disruptors could rearrange the whole endocrine system, which could be disastrous or useful alike in the future.