Estrogen and Hormones:What we women need to know

I've been doing a lot of research these past several months and one of the things of great interest to me is... Why are the people of the USA the most ill and diseased in the world?

There's so much to sort through and attempt to make sense of, big companies and pharma want us to use their latest great products, action groups are battling to be heard and taken seriously, and everything in between.

We are at best left to feel confused, like we cannot do anything about the problem, and we haven't a clue, nor the time, to discover what's fact and what's fiction and what exactly is safe to eat and use these days.

There is hope!

Whenever I moved or arrived in a new town, the first thing I would do is find a place to buy organic food and some restaurants that didn't insult my taste buds and food intellect. Years ago fulfilling those criteria was a great feat in itself. As the years passed it became easier as natural foods became more and more main-stream. I've bought organic everything for the past 25 years. However, over the past few years I've been having conversations with my sisters and friends where we're saying to each other things like... "the organic produce looks and tastes exactly like the regular produce, what's up?"

Even this afternoon I took an apple out of the fridge and it felt "sticky" to the touch, not because it had gotten something sticky on it but because it's sprayed with some type of wax, which is no doubt a petro-chemical. I have paid extra, for the past 25 years to "not" have those types of things on my food. And up until the FDA and USDA took over the regulations on the organics things like petro-chemical waxes were forbidden.

What was also forbidden was to send a organically raised cow to a feed-lot for fattening up. Well gang, not any longer! All those little conversations I've had questioning, "is this really organic?" have come to a halt. Of course we had to suspect something was up when super market sized natural food stores began popping up virtually overnight and so-called organic products filled the shelves.

I am extremely sad to see that a perfectly fine, truly organic industry has been ruined and manipulated. I laughed when I heard WalMart was getting into organics... WalMart couldn't do real organics if their life depended on it! How do I know this? Because that chain is massive and even if you combined all the organic farms in the world together you still wouldn't be able to fill the shelves. True organic farms aren't capable of supplying a massive industry. This is why we are seeing additives and things like petro-chemicals in our organic foods today.

Do you know that according to the FDA and USDA it is perfectly acceptable for a Genetically Modified soybeean to be used in organic products? Or, that Genetically Modified corn is ok too?

Do you also know that the Genetically Modified crops can and do cross pollinate with crops that are not GM crops?

Do you know that "soy" is NOT a health food? It is in fact a poison that we shouldn't consume. Those studies they did some years ago on the Japanese soy-rich diet... well, the Japanese never ate the soy products that big industries have shoved in our faces claiming them to be healthy foods. Yes, we were duped.

In fact, the soy products the Japanese did eat were "fermented" for years before they were ever consumed and for the most part were used as condiments rather than a main dish. The very long process of fermenting soy is slow and expensive.

Also "soy protein" is a by-product, a waste-product. A product that even scientists agree should not be consumed. In the US, we don't see fermented and aged soy products that are ok to eat in very small amounts.

I believe that we women are getting a seriously bad deal here, our kids, and you guys are too. They say cancer is the number one killer in the US.

Are you also aware that cancer can "only" grow under certain conditions?

Cancer can only grow in "acidic" conditions. And, it can only grow in an "estrogen" excess environment. And that is precisely what we have with our diets and our health in this country. It's no wonder that we are the sickest country in the world!

Where does the estrogen and estrogen mimics come from? Genetically Modified crops (corn, soy, cotton & alfalfa), anything soy (and yes I do mean any form of soy), feed-lot animals. Those crops also get fed to the animals we eat. There are also tons of chemicals, household and industrial, that mimic estrogen.

WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT

Read labels. If any product has a list of ingredients you cannot pronounce (excluding latin names), and if the list is long, don't buy it. I refuse to buy any product that has any form of soy, or any form of corn in it. Same with cotton seed. I avoid all of those ingredients like the plague.

Buy Locally. No matter here you live in the US there is going to be a real organic farmer near you.

Eat Seasonally. Our bodies are suppose to get seasonal foods, not food trucked in some 3,000 miles from some far off location.

Eat only 100% Free-Range poultry products. Search out a local person who raises their own chickens and allows them to run freely, it doesn't take much ground to raise some chickens so there's no doubt someone is close to you.

Eat Grass-Fed beef, Bison, pigs, sheep, chicken, goat. I have found a fantastic source. I've had different cuts of their Bison, and beef and not only does it taste better than store bought, but it tastes better than the organic! I have also tried their butter, yes it is expensive, but I will say this... I will never again put any other kind of butter in my mouth! The flavor is absolutely astonishing. For the first time in my life, when I eat the grass-fed products, I can honestly say that every cell in my body has a smile. And, I truly feel that I've been slowly starving to death because the organic meats I have gotten are from feed-lots and not grass-fed. Check out their website and place a small order and you'll see what I mean...
US Wellness Meats

Here's a short artcle that I think you'll find interesting too...

THE PHYSIOLOGY OF HORMONES

by Sherrill Sellman

"Supplementing one's diet with plant-based digestive enzymes available from the health food store is becoming necessary for people of all ages.

Women and hormones equal big business these days. Like animals lured into a snare by a trail of crumbs, women have been cajoled with scientific studies, media advertising, patient hand books and drug samples to accept Hormone Replacement Therapy as a magic potion. HRT is praised as the cure for hot flashes and all the other symptoms assigned to the menopause pantheon. In addition, it is considered an and-aging medicine acting as a talisman to ward off osteoporosis, heart disease and Alzheimer's.

Millions of menopausal women flock to their doctors' offices. each year seeking relief from such complaints as hot flashes, night sweats, bloating, indigestion, allergies, headaches, insomnia, fatigue, depression, high blood pressure, weight gain, head hair loss, facial hair growth, mood swings, aging skin, irritability, foggy thinking, lack of concentration, anxiety attacks, heart palpitations, bone loss, and heavy bleeding.

The common panacea prescribed for all these symptoms is usually HRT. All these presenting symptoms are lumped together into the menopausal pigeonhole; estrogen deficiency is the diagnosis, and synthetic estrogen replacement becomes the cure. It's an obvious and simple solution for hormonal imbalance--or so we are led to believe.

But what if these symptoms that mostly plague 40 and 50-year-old women are not at all about menopause?

What if it's not estrogen deficiency but rather estrogen excess that is the cause of these discomforts?

What if the real physiological problems are, in fact, being ignored, misdiagnosed or misunderstood?

And what if the pathological condition of "menopause," the supposed cause of a midlife woman's lament, doesn't even exist?"

OTHER GREAT LINKS

Vital Choice Seafood

Weston A. Price Foundation

Local Harvest

Seeds of Deception

Weston A. Price Foundation

The Dark Side of America's Favorite Health Food Revealed

And if you haven't watched this 90 minute video yet I highly recommend it: The Future of Food
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