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healthy living ECO- ESTROGENS
BY MOJKA RENAUD, A.P., LN
They are environmental estrogens that are in every food we eat, milk or water that we drink. They are in birth control pills, plastics and environmental pesticides. Concern over environmental estrogen is so great that in 1999, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) initiated a screening and testing program to identify the potential endocrinesystem impact of the 87,000 chemicals in commercial use.
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Iam excited to give you a resolution that will make the most dramatic impact on your health in the future. This one affects everybody in the most insidious ways: ECOESTROGENS.
Environmental chemicals are called Ecoestrogens because they have the ability to mimic our own estrogen and enter our cells more efficiently than natural estrogen where they can alter tissue structure of our cells and cause tumor growths and cancer. Because of its estrogenic effect, it causes female char
acteristics in animals that are exposed to it. Lake Apopka, for example, is adjacent to an EPA Superfund site contaminated with dicofol and DDT. Both of these pesticides are known as estrogen mimics. University of Georgia researchers completed a study on alligators in Lake Apopka. Yes, THAT Lake Apopka, which is less than 25 miles from Lake Eola! At six months of age, female alligators from Lake Apopka had plasma estrogen concentrations almost two times greater than normal females. The plasma testosterone levels of male alligators were more than 3 times lower than in an adjacent lake. In another case, two Lake Apopka alligators without penises were identified as females but later observed to have testes! The reason why University of Georgia researched the lake is because abnormalities in the ovaries of these alligators are similar to the conditions seen in the ovaries of women suffering from reproductive issues.
ENVIRONMENTAL TOXINS
(U.S. EPA 1989 toxin released inventory) Inventory National Report
• 550,000,000 lbs. of industrial chemicals were dumped into public’s sewage storage. • 1,000,000,000 lbs. of chemical released into the ground. • 1,888,000,000 lbs. of chemicals discharged into surface waters. • 2,400,000,000 lbs. of air emissions • 3,705,670,380 lbs. of chemicals in one year.
Although DDT was banned in 1984 in the United States, 20% of all Florida produce tested, still contained DDT.
Breast Cancer is on the rise. How many friends or family do you know that have it in their early forties? According to Dr. Lee, a foremost researcher of natural hormones, Israel banned insecticides for 10 years and their breast cancer rate has declined 50%!
INGESTED TOXINS
• In the U.S., we allow over 10,000 chemical additives in our food supply. • T he average American consumes: • 14 lbs. of additives per year. • 120 lbs. of sugar. • 8 lbs. of salt.
Reference: “Do You Know What Your Patients Eat?” Monograph, E. Cheraskin, W. Ringsdorf, Dept. Oral Med., U. Alabama, 1976
WHAT CAN YOU DO? Eat organic food!
Other suggestions:
1. The fats of dairy and meat contain the
highest concentration of chemicals. Eat hormone free, antibiotic free meat, organic milk and dairy products (including butter). Meat and dairy have almost 20 times the amount of chemicals as vegetables.
Purify your water. Don’t drink water in restaurants or beverages made from it. Ask for bottled water like Evian or Perrier.
Stop spraying pesticides outside and
inside your home. The fumes linger for weeks and have a direct route through your inhalation into the lungs and to the brain (most of your brain is fats). There are natural pesticide free compa- nies you can choose instead.
4. Replace all your household cleaning chemicals with natural alternatives.
5. Stop contaminating your body with
synthetic skin creams and nail polishes, including removers and synthetic hair products.
6. Take your supplements. Vitamin C and Vitamin E have the most notable impact in helping the body to degrade the toxic effect of chemicals, almost ten-fold. Other extremely important nutrients are carnitine, arginine, zinc, selenium, V itamin B12, glutathione, coenzyme Q10 and high fiber diets.
7. Detoxify your body. Juicing and colonics is a must for everybody! Herbal extracts, such as custom-made homeopathic remedies, are the best from my experience with many patients.
8 . Make regular use of DNR Body Soaks or Bentonite Clay baths.
9. Drink lots of water, purified of course.
10. Stop drinking coffee. It is laced with many chemicals and even if it is organic, it causes acidity in the body, which hinders the elimination of chemicals from the tissues. Drink herbal teas, such as green tea or Calli tea, that are astrin- gent and can draw impurities from cells.
11. Read labels. If you don’t know what the ingredients are, avoid it! If you want to save the planet, start with your health first!
QUICK QUIZ
Which is correct? 1. You are what you eat. 2. You are what absorb. 3. You are what you don’t eliminate. Answer: All three are correct.
ORGANIC — The Better Choice
COMMERCIAL FOOD
• Is grown with Synthetic chemical fertilizers which do not provide a full range of minerals. • Spr ays with chemical pesticides, herbicides, and fungicides harming both man and earth. • Grows and uses genetically modified substance. • Uses gr owth hormones in animals. • Adds ar tificial coloring and preservatives. • Uses antibiotics to combat infection in animals.
ORGANIC FOOD
• Tastes better – grown in higher quality soils. • Reduces health risks from chemicals to farm workers, water supplies and consumer. • Contains more nutrients (up to 90% mor e). • Encourages biodiversity by eliminating the poisoning of beneficial birds, insects, animals and plants. • Creates a healthy microbiome in the soil.
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