The Feminizing Of Humans Through Estrogen Laden Animal Products
Most scientific research done to show how we are likely to react to substances are done on animals, because they give us an idea of how our bodies will react to the substances without unethically subjecting humans to research that could adversely effect their health. Though humans don’t always react the same way as the animals do, the research still shows us possible and likely results of how humans would react under the same circumstances.
The feminizing of fish in the ocean from estrogenic compounds in water supplies has brought up concerns about how these estrogen compounds effect human development and health. The concern is these concentrated estrogen compounds could contaminate our drinking water, and has done so.
These estrogen compounds consist of environmental pollutants and naturally existing estrogen. More of the attention has been on the impact of the endocrine disrupting xenoestrogen industrial pollutants on our ecological environment, and little attention has been put on the environmental loading of natural estrogen.
More of the attention has been placed on the industrial pollutants even though some natural estrogens can be thousands of times more potent. There is concern that these potent natural sources of estrogen are entering our drinking water systems, and are coming from women excreting concentrated residue of estrogen birth control pills in their urine, or cows excreting it into their milk that we consume.
Though we excrete high levels estrogen that ends up in the environment and our drinking water, animals produce far more estrogen that ends up adversely effecting our ecology. One study estimates that 90% of estrogen that ends up in our environment comes from animals. The problem is the estrogen hormones get into our food supply and the feminized fish, and inter-sex roaches point to a big concern that the concentration of estrogen is also adversely effecting human beings.
