Hormonal 'Pollution' May Be Killing You!

Whether man, woman, or child, hormonal pollution is costing you -- pollution in the form of xenoestrogens -- synthetic estrogen in our air, our water, and the food we eat.

Estrogen, of course is the "female sex hormone." Men also produce it to a lesser degree. But in our industrialized world, it is everywere, most notably in the meat and poultry we eat. Chickens, turkeys, and cattle are injected with synthetic estrogen because it causes the animials to grow bigger, faster and be ready for the market, sooner.

But estrogen laced products do have their concequences. I've seen reports, for example, of 3 and 4-year-old girls who have started to develop breasts because the chicken in their diets was grown on estrogen.

In adults, the effects may be less obvious... just diseases people get, or so they think. But should people get these diseases? And at such alarming rates!

While excessive estrogen effects women the most, causing health problems such as auto-immune disorders (lupus, for example), fibroid tumors, breast and uterine cancer, osteoperosis, decreased sex drive, depression and irritabailty, it is also linked to prostate and testicular cancer in men. And it's been reported that polutants that mimic estrogen are causing a low sperm count "epidemic."

Estrogen "pollution" takes it's toll on children, too.

Along with early breast development, already mentioned, young girls are reaching puberty at 9 or 10 -- four to five years sooner than normal.

We can only guess at the effect of this hormone on young boys and how it may be influencing their sexual development.

Estrogen is said to be the most prescribed drug in America.

A woman can go to her doctor with slight symptoms of a hormonal imbalance, maybe sudden weight gain or lessened sex drive, only to be given a preseription for estrogen by her unknowing MD. Unknowing, because the problems are probably not being caused by too little estrogen but by too much of it.

The treatment for too much estrogen is not more estrogen! But that's what happens. And soon her symptoms become more serious, and may lead to a hysterectomy.

You'd think there was a conspiracy among the drug companies and MD's. And it goes beyond estrogen. I wonder how much estrogen-induced depression is now being treated with Prozac, Paxil, or Zoloft!

(I also wonder to what extent estrogen imbalance might fuel such problems as alcoholism and drug abuse. Could it be what helps get and keep people there?)

What's generally needed to balance out excessive estrogen is transdermal supplementation with a NATURAL progesterone cream. Not only can this eliminate the destructive tendencies of estrogen, it has no known side effects.

Lawrence Stepanowicz, ND

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