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I'm not a proponent for hormone replacement therapy a hundred percent of the time or anything like that, but what I am a proponent of that's worked millions and millions of times is teaching people how to clean their environment and how to balance their hormones naturally. so hormones operate at very tiny amounts and they can be disturbing even by low low doses of hormonally active chemicals. So not only are endocrine disrupting chemicals bad for you but they're also bad for the environment it's been proven that they harm wildlife reproduction, I mean we have a serious problem with not only us but the animals because these chemicals are getting in all the waters the animals that you know, the pesticides and herbicides that these animals are exposed to or toxic food that they're eating the same thing is happening to the animals they cause these chemicals cause reproductive disorders in humans they cause infertility in males and females they're linked to a host of cancers and now we know without a doubt that exposure to these endocrine disrupting chemicals during early development in the womb and during childhood may cause permanent effects and might even cause permanent effects for generation after generation after generation.

Unfortunately many of the most used industrial, most of the industrial chemicals are endocrine disruptors and the sad thing is that there is very poor regulations and absolutely horrible oversight by the organization the government that is supposed to be protecting us the EPA the FDA the USDA not to mention the iresponsibility of corporate these corporate Monsanto in these big Dow Agro sciences and Cingenta and all these corporations that are putting out the majority of these chemicals and the plasticizers and everything else that are being released into the atmosphere and that have made their way into the food in the water. So again I want to talk to you about some of the most common things that you can avoid some of the most common endocrine disruptors out there it's going to be things that BPA dioxins and atrazine phthalates perchlorate fire retardants lead mercury arsenic organophosphate pesticides glycol esters, just some of these different things that you don't have to understand the actual chemicals but what you do need to do is understand that where these chemicals are coming from and how to find them and how to look for them in your own environment. Again it's just about keeping your own environment clean.

Some of these are actually called xeno estrogens and xeno estrogen is actually a type of xeno hormone and it really what it means is just that it's a chemical compound that imitates estrogen, basically like a fake estrogen and these can be synthetic or natural compounds.

So starting with one of the most significant xeno estrogens that is out there that I highly recommend that you avoid is going to be bisphenol A, or BPA and that's a chemical used in plastics. In your body it imitates estrogen, now think about how much plastic you're around every day and how food, just about every container is in plastic. The evidence of BPA toxicity is overwhelming and basically what happens is your body identifies BPA as if it was real estrogen and this can lead to your body behaving like it's loaded with estrogen.

So BPA has been been known to affect fertility, breast health, cause reproductive cancers initiate obesity diabetes and even early pregnancy. Now we've made a little bit of progress reducing the use of BPA but it was mostly a cover-up and most people don't know this, there's such a big market in BPA that the big companies when the baby bottle scandal came out with BPA, they were like 'okay let's just take BPA out of baby bottles', well they did that just so they could create a diversion so most people would say 'okay well these BPA is out of everything'. Well, the whole activist community pretty much stopped addressing the dangers of BPA after the baby bottle, because everybody just assumed it was gone and that's not the case, I means the BPA is still found in most food packaging sources. Back in 2008 Canada band baby bottles that contain BPA and at the time Walmart even volunteered to pull them off the shelf in the USA despite assurances from the FDA that the bottles were safe, again the FDA said that that BPA was safe, and it wasn't until 2010 where the FDA finally admitted that the national toxicology program studies were correct and that BPA was damaging to the brain, caused behavioral issues in children and affected the prostate gland, also affected fetuses and children. In 2011 the Harvard school of medicine published a study in the journal Pediatrics that found pregnant mothers exposure to BPA correlated behaviors of hyperactivity anxiety aggression and depression. I think that all of these childhood disorders that we're having problems with these days are all caused by chemicals. I'm a hundred percent sure of it because I know, but the problem is nobody else knows out there, but this is a Harvard school study right here I mean is telling you that. University of Virginia school of Medicine, when they exposed female mice to low levels of BPA before and during pregnancy, the offspring experienced measurable behavioral and neuronal changes. The genetic changes were detectable in the second third and even the fourth generation like I was saying earlier, it doesn't affect you now it can affect you four generations from now, can you imagine what happens four generations from now because of all these endocrine disrupting chemicals?

That was published in the Journal of Endocrinology, it's not like I'm making thius stuff up, this is scientific evidence. 90% of us have detectable amounts of BPA in our urine on any given day. BPA is actually even found on receipts and money right now so if you touch any receipt you're most likely getting BPA, if you're touching money you're getting BPA and one of the things that people don't understand, how many people out there use the microwave oven, you know how many TV dinners and food packaging is packaged in plastics out there, you heat it in the microwave not only BPA but all the chemicals end up coming in to your food. So I'll tell you another thing how many people do you know the drink out of aluminum cans diet drinks beer out of aluminum cans canned food that's in your pantry canned peas carrots, whatever even if it's organic. One that I'm really upset about is the national organic program hasn't eliminated BPA from the cartons, a lot of the linings in milk cartons, coconut milk, almond milk is not organic and you anything anything that is not organic is going to have BPA lining inside the cans the metal cans, so how do you avoid BPA? First thing you want to do is avoid canned food, and you should be eating healthy live food anyway, almost all cans, milk containers, all that stuff especially if it's not organic is going to be BPA lined.

Plastics with the recycling labels number one, number two and number four when you look on the bottom it has that little triangle with a number on it, those are the safer choice and do not contain BPA. Plastics marked with a PC for polycarbonate or a recycling number seven, be careful of those. Even a lot of the bottled water you have these days still have BPA or some other toxic plastic that sits out in the sun a lot of times at the convenience store or during shipping it can contain high levels that BPA.

next way to avoid BPA is going to be to not microwave your food or store food in plastic containers it will leech right into your food. Try not to handle, like I said earlier paper cash receipts, money, stuff like that, avoid drinking beer sodas, all that stuff in aluminum cans, if you're going to drink sodas, which you shouldn't be doing anyways because the body only wants and needs water after breast-feeding, then at least go to an organic food store and get your sodas or whatever in glass bottles and avoid any of the aluminum cans. Avoid cheap plastic toys, a lot of the swim toys, pretty much all the plastic toys that come from China are going to have toxic plastics and chemicals and that can be dangerous to your health and your child's health, so avoid plastic toys, one other cooking utensils you should use silicone or bamboo or something like that you just try to go all glass bamboo or silicon.

The second xenoestrogen that I want to talk about is dioxins and dioxins are industrial chemicals that interfere with the male and female sex hormones. Dioxins really affects sperm quality and counts and even worse dioxins build up in the body and over time they damage the immune system and the reproductive systems. According to the World Health Organization, about 95% of human exposure to dioxins comes from the diet and the highest level of dioxins is usually going to be found in the fat content of meat and fish it's also found in cigarette smoke and also herbicides, herbicides are what you spray on your lawn or your lawn service that comes and sprays herbicides on there to kill off the weeds or different types of plants you don't want growing there. It's really hard to avoid dioxins because industrial use has contaminated much of the food supply so really you know eat organic and try to avoid you know animals that have high fat content, milk also has nonorganic milk is going to have higher levels of dioxins than organic milk and personally I would recommend switching over to almond milk hemp milk coconut milk stuff like that and slowly reducing beef intake and your meat intake. So that's dioxins.

The third xenoestrogen that we're going to talk about is going to be atrazine from our friends not at Cengenta. Now anybody who doesn't know who Cengenta is, Cengenta is the big conglomerate like Monsanto which is destroying the planet with a bunch of chemicals and genetically modified research. Atrazine is a toxic herbicide which is primarily used on corn because so much corn is grown and atrazine is so heavily used, atrazine is a major drinking water contaminant. All the stuff sprayed on the farmlands ultimately leaches back into our water system, and if you think that your local municipal water plant is able to get the atrazine and the xeno estrogen and the pharmaceuticals and the chloride and all the other toxic chemicals out of water, no they cannot do that I mean when you drink tap water you literally drinking a chemical slew of poison, and your body is 8o to 90% water, so when you think about it, the body only wants and needs water yet the water is contaminated especially with all these hormone disrupting chemicals. According to the EPA atrazine is estimated to be the most heavily used herbicide in the US. 75% of the field corn acreage grown in the US is treated with atrazine.

Mostly the research done by the EPA shows that hormonal activity specifically testosterone, progesterone, leutinizing hormone, estrogen and thyroid hormones are all affected by atrazine. As a matter of fact in 2010 the University of California Berkeley reported that atrazine has gender bending effects on frogs. Microscopic, low levels of atrazine, levels below what the EPA considers safe have turned male frogs into female frogs. Now that is pretty crazy, and not just male friends that look like female frogs, we're talking male to female frogs with completely viable eggs. Atrazine is linked to breast tumors delayed puberty and even prostate cancer so, the best way to avoid atrazine is going to just buy organic produce, people say buying organic is expensive but you have to avoid these things and you know the second way is to get a good water filtration system and try to avoid tapwater, yes it might be a little bit expensive to put a whole house system or under sink system whatever but you're if you ever go out to restaurants and buy bottled water sparkling or in the bottle they had a glass bottle, I mean it's hard, it really is because what are you going to do, all the restaurants cook their food in toxic water I don't know of too many restaurants to cook their food in pure filtered water with no you know xenoestrogens or anything like that I mean the whole purpose is to learn about how you can improve your health to learn about how you balance your hormones naturally even if you do one thing at a time the first step is education you become aware of all the stuff.

So the number four endocrine disrupting chemical or xenoestrogen I'd like to talk about is phtalates. Phtalates are chemicals used to carry fragrances or soften plastics, they're used in sealants, cosmetics, perfumes, cologne, nail polish, water bottles again because phtalates make plastics flexible they even have phtalates on medications, a lot of medications for example Viagra and birth-control pills are coated with xenoestrogens phtalates which you know, why they are coated with phthalates makes no sense, body care products, plastic flooring adhesives, here's how they work, your body has a way of signaling when a cell should die, now when this is normal you're constantly regenerating new cells, the problem is phthalates prematurely trigger death inducing signal in cells, so instead of the normal process of when your cells are about to die they signals for new cells to start to regrow, with phthalates prematurely trigger the cell inducing signal so your cell sometimes before the're ready to die, die, and the cells that are most vulnerable to phthalates are going to be your testicular cells in men so phthalates have a direct relationship affecting hormones lowering sperm count, cause reproductive system birth defects, thyroid irregularities and they can also affect fertility and libido.

The Food and Drug Administration, the FDA, the ones that just have absolutely no oversight over this toxic stuff and allow everything toxic to try to block everything natural, they require most cosmetic ingredients to be listed but here's the problem, they offer a loophole for fragrances so their formulas are considered these companies' formulas are considered proprietary secrets of the manufacturer can simply use the term fragrance on the label. The thing about phtalates is that the're a common ingredient in the air fresheners that most people use in their car and spray all over the place. Matter of fact 75% of US households use some sort of air freshener. So the California EPA warns that both are developmental because some of these fragrances might say 'all natural' they might say 'unscented' but two phtalates that are popular are known as DEP and DVP and both are developmental toxins and harmful to the female and male reproductive tract, but the thing is you never know about these because you can't, they're not listed on the label, there's no requirements, although in the European Union they've banned phthalates in cosmetics and children's toys in 2004 and 14 other countries have banned phthalates except for the US. Those other countries have also banned fluoride and a lot of the other toxic chemicals. The problem is that in those other countries people are actually standing up and saying this is a problem let's bring it to the legislator let's bring it to our local government agencies we can do something about it. So in one human study boys born to mothers with high phthalate urine levels were more likely to have smaller penises scrotums and undescended testicles. Here's another one, boys born to mothers with the highest level of phthalates were 4 to 10 times more likely to have reduced genital development. One study in Puerto Rico found that phthalates cause premature breast development in girls younger than eight. A 2005 study for instance suggested that phthalates could affect the genital development of boys and other research has associated the chemicals with the early onset of puberty in girls. According to Greenpeace, testing by an independent laboratory found phthalates in 21 out of 30 samples of children's products purchased from China.Why is that important because kids end up chewing on plastic toys all the time. So how do you avoiud phthalates? Well one thing I'm going to talk about over and over and over is regular body cleansing, I mean a lot of these things we're to be exposed to in a regular basis and we just need to keep cleansing our body and cleansing our body, especially until you can get all this stuff out, one thing that's been lost is the fact that we're just accumulating toxins and not doing anything about it.

So cleansing the body regularly, avoiding the toxic chemical-based air fresheners, minimizing exposure to plastic toys, plastic wrap, food containers, body care and cosmetics, hygiene products, big source of phthalates you know if you have anything in your bathroom makeup, body lotion, shampoo, any of that stuff most likely every single thing in there's going to be an endocrine disruptor and you're going be absorbing that through your skin which is your largest organ, so one of the things you're going to do you need to either go down each ingredient that you don't understand on the label and type that ingredient in and then type in phthalate or endocrine disrupting chemical and you'll be able to pull up if that chemical's an endocrine disruptor, or you can just look at all those body care products and see if they contain 'fragrance', 'natural fragrance' or anything like that on the label and most likely it's going to have phthalates.

The next xenoestrogen is perchlorate which is really rocket fuel believe it or not and it's chemically similar to the harmful halogens and it competes with iodine and can disrupt your thyroid hormones by causing harm to the iodine transpores and we're going to talk later on how important iodine actually is at balancing your hormones naturally, but the reason I want to mention rocket fuel is it can throw your metabolism out and it even affects your brain and organ development especially in kids, Perchlorates been found in 93% of the nation's milk and lettus supply in an FDA study. Because it's in the big rivers because of the run off from the jet fuel and the rocket fuel and all the other stuff that is coming down into the water, in the rain that is going into all the rivers and all the rivers are used, especially the Colorado River to irrigate a lot of the farms and when you take toxic water from the river and irrigate your farms well then guess what you have all those toxic chemicals in your food and ultimately in the water supply. Drinking water in 22 states has extremely high levels of perchlorate. Here's a statistic is that perchlorate has been found in the breastmilk of 97% of the mothers who were tested, and according to the EPA perchlorate is detrimental to the thyroid gland, metabolism and hormone balance.

So how do you avoid perchlorate? Well number one you get enough iodine in your system to load the receptor site so your thyroid is not to be damaged, you want to drink purified water because perchlorate is a contaminant in most tap water and you want to try to eat organic foods as much as possible, keep coming back to the water and the organic foods because you're going to at least drastically reduce the amount of these chemicals if you are consuming pure clean water and pure clean organic foods especially if you grow your own food.

Next thing is fire retardants. Fire retardants contain polybrominated, bromine is a toxic halogen again, diphenyl ether, they're called PBDE's. Now fire retardants disrupt hormonal activity and the way they do it is they imitate your thyroid hormones. They really affect cognitive function, and flame retardants, are in a lot of building materials while at work you might be exposed to the building materials. When you rip out carpet you know that foam under the carpet usually has high levels of fire retardants. Reupholstering furniture with the foam in there. So in 2007 mattresses sold in the US are required to have flame retardants on them, just obviously so if there's a fire in your room you don't catch fire. But these companies are heavily dosing them especially these memory foam mattresses are the worst because people buy these memory foam mattress and then they sleep there and not only the fire retardants but all these other chemicals these foams are made out of leach out and then you sit there and breathe these all the time all the time and then you know while you're sleeping your sleep is disturbed, and these are all endocrine disrupting or hormonal imbalancing chemicals.

So avoid any products with brominated fire retardants and you know next time you buy curtains next time you buy fabrics next time you buy whatever you're going to buy, furniture for your house carpet, all that, you want to ask the manufacturer what type of chemicals what type of fire retardants and the type of material your carpets and everything are made of, a lot of them are actually made with petroleum based products,it's likethat statistic of a baby crawling on a standard floor ingales the equivalent of four cigarettes on a daily basis due to the amount of chemicals released in dust mites and all the other stuff that are on the floor in most houses with toxic carpet etc.

The next endocrine disrupting chemical I'd like to talk about is perfluorinated chemicals, we talked about brominated, just to back up the toxic halogens are fluoride, bromine, chlorine, and the other halogen is iodine and that's the good one, so there's the bad ones and those are the things that we want to look out for that wreck havok on the endocrine system, especially your thyroid. So perfluorinated chemicals are like brominated except with a fluoride compound in them and this is your nonstick cookware everybody uses, the Teflon's and the waterproof coatings people put on their decking outside, spray on their shoes everything else. Most people wouldn't think that their Teflon and frying pan would release endocrine disrupting chemicals but those have been linked to decreased sperm count and 99% of Americans have these in their homes. So another sad thing is these things never really breakdown in the environment and as you get rid of these and go to the toxic dumps and everything it just keeps contaminating the system and contaminating the system.

Actually a lot of the microwave food bags that contain different types of foods that you heat up in the microwave, those actually also contain perfluorinated compounds phthalates and toxic chemicals too, so how avoid those? Stay away from nonstick cookware and replace that with non-toxic ceramic-based nonchemical base cookware and for baking material use silicone, probably one of the best and that we use all the different types of ceramic type non-non-toxic a bunch of them out

The next type of endocrine disruptor is glycol ethers and that's used in paint cleaning products and cosmetics as well, you know you see proprelyne glycol and a lot of different cosmetics, there are a few problems associated with these. First, animal studies have shown that glycol ethers shrink the testicles, if you notice a lot of these things really affect the males reproduction system, and that's still pretty serious considering that a lot of times when a couple can't get pregnant at times the woman is blamed but I can tell you from experience, a lot of fertility and infertility issues, where we've issued cleansing, a lot of the time the majority of time it's the male that has the problem, at least in the last 10 to 15 years. So how do you avoid glycol ethers, you avoid toxic cleaning products around your house, what I would do is go around your house, look at all the cleaning products that you have and replace those with non-toxic cleaning products that don't contain any of these chemicals. I personally use and recommend Branch basic, something that works awesome but there are plenty of organic all-natural cleaning products out there, order online or make your own, you can type in how to make DIY cleaning products or how to make your own organic cleaning products and you can just useorganic vinegar and water, there's many different types of recipes orange oil with water vinegar stuff add a little hydrogen peroxide in there, there's plenty of recipes that you can use that are going to produce endocrine disrupting chemicals.

Now the next endocrine disruptor is lead. Now there's not as much lead around anymore as there used to be,but it's horrible to your whole body, I mean it can cause brain damage, it can lower your IQ, hearing loss, miscarriages, premature birth, increase blood pressure and kidney damage, nervous system potential problems but as far as hormones are concerned lead reduces the sex hormones and disrupts the hormone signaling process that controls how your bodies handle stress. Now 2013 study found that lead exposure can have disastrous effects on the reproductive system at 2012 study Turkish research found that chronic lead exposure was a factor responsible for erectile dysfunction. Sources of lead because they had to remove it from the paint but anything in your house that was painted before 1976 most likely still has a lot of lead and that can include toys, as a matter of fact they're still finding lead in toys coming from China right now so that can be another source anything for that matter painted outside of the US and imported in could contain lead and these are some of the sources, bullets if you handle bullets a lot, curtain weights, some of the old silver candleholders that contain lead fishing sinkers or lead fishing weights, might have some lead in some of your pipes in your house, sink faucets might have some lead and can contaminated drinking water that's why eventually what I recommend is when you redo the piping of an old house use pex tubing which is a high density polyethylene which is not going to emit any type of plastic or any type of endocrine disrupting chemicals and it's not made of metal, a lot of these metals have different compounds in them that can over time rust and put stuff in your water system.