Environmental Estrogen - Estrogen Dominance.
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Environmental estrogens or xenoestrogens are gaining more notariety each day. Onceentering the body they effect the endocrine glands. They are becoming more prevalent inthe Western world. When entering the body they accumulate for years and years and areseriously affecting the reproductive system. Not just in the women but in men. Menshormonal diseases are up a great deal and even the size of their "manliness" issaid to be shrinking dramatically. In an article recently, the writer said "MaybeJohn Lennon WAS a prophet when he said Im not half the man I used to be."
There are 1000s of new toxins each year are entering the market. By the way,BCPs, Progestins, Provera, Depo-Provera all have estrogen counts and cannot beexcreted properly because of the unnatural chemical make up and change in molecularstructure.
Eating organically raised food is one big step to cutting out some of the xenoestrogens inyour body. NOTE: canned goods, plastics, and water are normal every day xenoestrogencarriers. Pesticides in your foods are the highest personal concentration as well.Detoxification, colon cleansing and natural progesterone are the best defense againstthese toxins. Flaxseed oil also blocks, to some extent, estrogen from taking overprogesterone receptors. Another NOTE: Estrogen is the name for a group/or type of hormonesand progesterone is a single hormone.
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