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Hormonal 'Pollution' Is Costing You!
By: Lawrence Stepanowicz, ND
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 such as Natural
Balance Plus. Not only can this eliminate the destructive tendencies of
estrogen, it has no known side effects.
Men can also use a progesterne supplement like Kokoro Men's Creme to
support prostate health.
Bio:
Dr. Lawrence Stepanowicz publishes a newsletter called
Practical Health. For a free subscription and a free copy of Jon
Barron's "Lessons From The Miracle Doctors" visit http://practicalhealth.net
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