Xeno-Estrogens: The Hidden Danger

 

“Why do some women get some of the conditions on this list - even if they’ve never taken any birth control pills?”

 

There is a second major change in the last half of the twentieth century that has affected the entire world’s industrialized population – men and women alike. 

 

This earth-changing event?

 

Xeno-Estrogens

 

What are xeno-estrogens?  They are chemical compounds that induce estrogen-like effects on the body. Pronounced “Zeeno-estrogens,” these estrogen mimics are being artificially dumped into our environment at an alarming rate.

 

Almost every man, woman and child in the modern world is exposed to these compounds on a daily basis. Produced by chemical waste, animal feed supplements, plastic containers and a veritable host of other man-made products – it’s now almost impossible to escape the onslaught.

 

 In fact, one author estimates over 10,000 different xeno-estrogens exist in the environment we live in.

The problem is so bad that young girls are reaching puberty far earlier than what nature intended. What was once considered a medical abnormality is now the norm. Even men are not immune: Many are actually developing breast tissue as they grow older through the constant exposure to these compounds.

And it’s not just young girls and middle age men. In a recent report by Scientific American, boys as young as 4 years old have started to grow breasts! The culprit?  Xeno-estrogens found in tee tree and lavender oils. (Once the mimics were stopped – the boys returned to normal.) *

Other examples of materials leeching these xeno-estrogens include plastics, plastic drinking bottles, detergents, petroleum products, commercially raised beef and chicken, and preservatives such as methyl-paraben in skin lotions and gels. 

 

* Incidentally, this problem doesn’t just involve humans. A recent article in “The Week” magazine cites estrogen-like contaminants being responsible for male fish in Maryland’s Potomac River actually carrying eggs! What used to be a one in a million abnormality now affects 80% of the smallmouth bass population.