Thoughts about Hormones

[KellyB]

I have started using natural detergents after researching a lot about hormones and our bodies try to use everthing that is absorbed as God intended. Only now our body is absorbing all sorts of chemicals. Instead of grasping and using nutrients out of our blood stream to feel our cells, the chemical take the nutrients place after they kill them. So it messes with our bodies and hormones. Our body actually recognizes chlorine as estrogen. This appies to lotion and shampoo and soap. Basically anything that touches your skin or you ingest.

No Wonder women have so many problems with their hormones.

JUST FOOD FOR THOUGHT

[pioneerchristianmomof3]

Hmmmmm...very interesting. Thanks for sharing. I read somewhere once that using plastic in the microwave emits chemicals into the food that imitate estrogen and they think this is why girls are developing so much younger.

[myjoyoverflows]

Hmmmmm...very interesting. Thanks for sharing. I read somewhere once that using plastic in the microwave emits chemicals into the food that imitate estrogen and they think this is why girls are developing so much younger.

I've also heard about the whole plastic in the microwave thing can cause cancer...

[pioneerchristianmomof3]

Yes...I heard b/c too much estrogen can cause cancer. My mom had breast cancer and is not able to take hormone therapy for menopause as it will cause the cancer to come back.

I am seriously thinking of ditching the microwave...

[Timmys mom]

Yeah my husband told me not to microwave plastics anymore, so I try to make sure I put things to defrost in something else. I've been using plastic for years though!

Traci you are brave, I don't think I could get rid of my microwave. I use it way too much!

[pioneerchristianmomof3]

I don't really want too...however my mom is going through her third cancer fight (all different, not recuring) in 8 yrs...I am nervous about that history...my mom is only 52, and has been stage 4 breast cancer, stage 2 tumor in her chest wall, and now stage 3 tumors in her lungs and liver. :shock: ...if getting rid of the microwave can prevent the same for me, or lessen the chance...just thoughts...maybe it can get lost in the move??

Sorry to highjack the thread, Kelly! :oops: :lol:

[savedbygrace]

My dh just told me this tonight. I didn't know why or how it would cause cancer. As for girls being more developed, It didn't work for me! :?

[pioneerchristianmomof3]

The developing early, seems to be coming in our kids, as more and more kids have two working parents, and a lot more of their meals are "nuked".
The microwave rearranges the molecules in the food, and of course adds microwaves. No one is really sure how safe that rearrangement is, but it seems to be the common idea, that it is the chemicals from the containers, entering the food during the heating process, that are the biggest problems.

BTW...I am not an expert! This is just stuff I've read and I have taken an interest in, due to high cancer in my family, and both my girls developed very young.( I didn't even need a bra, until I was 16) I used the microwave all the time when they were little. I don't know if that's why,(even partly) just reasearching.

[Madre]

I would tend to think it also had something to do with the increase in fast food comsumption i.e. more hormone consumption. :?

[SupermansLady]

I have a friend whose 9 year old daughter started her period last fall. Her pediatrician told her that he felt the cause was due to all the large amounts of hormones in foods these days. Not just fast foods, but he mentioned specifically, chicken and eggs. As the chickens when in chicken houses are fed special steroids and hormones to make them grow/produce faster so that there is a larger yield quicker.

Makes sense to me. Scary to think of what the futue holds when a 9 year old girl could technically concieve and have a child.

[KellyB]

There are synthetic chemicals in all non-organic food that is destroying all girl and womens hormone balance. Take milk for example. If it is not organic then it is filled with synthetic hormones that are not at normal levels because their only purpose is to raise the hormones in the cow. Because of that, they raise the hormone levels in us. Same with all meat, eggs, cheese, yogurt etc. IF they are not organic...

Organic is more expensive but that is just disgusting and I think it is worth it.

Even the chemicals in fertilizer of conventional produce are threats to our hormone production, not to mention every cell in our body.

If anyone has Discovery Health, there is a really interesting show on there call "Get Fresh with Sara Snow" Check it out sometime. It is very informative. :lol:

[PBJ]

I just love my microwave. With me working it has saved my life! But, very interesting things here to think about. My hormones are ALL over the world these days! :lol: