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"Examples of other common xenoestrogens are dioxin plastics, chlorinated products, and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, which are derived from gasoline and oil combustion and found in cigarette smoke and charbroiled meats. They are literally everywhere—in our plastics, food wraps, water, air, spermicides, nail polish, and vaginal lubricants. As if these kinds of environmental exposure were not enough, we women may be smearing carcinogens on our bodies every day unknowingly." - Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.)

"Petroleum distillates abound in just about every conventional consumer product on the market: lip gloss, perfume, hand dishwashing liquid, fertilizer, pesticides, plastics, paint thinners, solvents, artificial fragrances, furniture polishes, stain removers, and oven cleaners. If at all possible, try to phase these highly flammable bioaccumulative compounds out of your life, especially if you're thinking about having children. Exposure to petroleum distillates might pose risks to the liver, respiratory, cardiovascular, immune, endocrine, and gastrointestinal systems." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"Although many plastics can be among the most harmful creations of the modern era, this doesn't mean you have to stop touching and using all forms of plastic. We have to maintain some semblance of realism. You probably know that I've been in the digestive health field for many years, and I've watched people transform their lives through good nutrition, supplementation, and small shifts in their lifestyle to support a healthy body." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"I can't tolerate anything like gasoline fumes, new plastics, or any kind of new materials in a building. I have very restricted access to public places because of fragrances that are often used in offices, stores, or public restrooms, and because of cleaning solutions and sprays used in public places. After two years, I am still slowly making progress, but I know that I have several more years ahead of me before I can bring my immune system back to where it should be. I like people and I have always, all my life, been around people." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.) "Because developing brains are significantly more vulnerable to toxicity than adult brains, children are at great risk from common chemicals used in plastics, adhesives, aluminum, paint, nylon, nail polish remover, and more. In recent years, chemical exposure has increasingly been linked to a variety of "subclinical" mental health symptoms (behavior changes, cognitive decline) as well as neurodevelopmental disorders, such as autism, attention deficit disorder (ADD), and mental retardation." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.) "I became allergic to everything in my own home, I reacted to plastics of all kinds, and I couldn't breathe outdoor air. The air inside my home had to be filtered especially for me and I had to wear charcoal face masks to breathe. I was literally a captive in my home for the first year. Also, I had depression, mood swings, and a lot of confusion and memory loss. I would go into one room and forget why I was there. I know a lot of people have that complaint from, time to time, but I had it consistently throughout the day." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"So, when you combine poor soil concentrations of magnesium salts, the inadequate magnesium in soft drinking water, an overabundance of "dead water" in plastic water bottles (some which also leach plastics into that water), and lifestyle stressors that diminish magnesium, it's no wonder that many of us are deficient. And the research indicates that deficiencies are found in other countries as well. A recently published German study brings this point into focus." - Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., The Sinatra Solution Metabolic Cardiology (Get the book.)

"Though their evidence is not yet conclusive, Davis and her team of researchers have drawn a link between the reduced sex ratio and industrial chemicals, especially certain plastics and metals that have been proven to damage male-producing sperm. Heavy metals including arsenic, cadmium, lead, and mercury have been shown to affect the ratio of male to female births, and endocrine disruptors, like dioxin and PCBs, can play a role in determining a child's sex." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"Other causes may include bisphenol A and phthalates (found in many plastics such as baby containers, water bottles, and the inner lining of soda cans), other man-made chemicals that affect hormonal balance (such as those found in cosmetics, toothpastes, shampoos, and hair dyes), stress at home and at school, and excessive TV viewing and media use. Soy—A Carcinogen for Humans? The food industry, which operates in a similar way to the pharmaceutical industry, has successfully convinced the population that soy is a health food." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.)

"Exposure to these chemicals—which can be present in everything from toxic plastics and conventional laundry detergents to organophosphate pesticides?could disrupt the body's hormone signals that regulate reproduction and development, either by blocking, mimicking, or interfering with the action of hormones. "If left to our own devices, our bodies are really pretty good about making checks and balances," said Dr. Mady Hornig, an associate professor of epidemiology at Columbia University. " - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"Sulfur is involved in another pathway that helps dismantle, process, and alter neurotransmitters, steroid hormones like testosterone and estrogen, drugs, industrial compounds, phenolics (benzene-derived compounds commonly used in plastics, disinfectants, and pharmaceuticals), and toxins from both intestinal bacteria and the environment. When your body is deficient in dietary sulfur,your body cannot effectively detoxify certain substances. And some of these substances that rely on the so-called sulfation pathway to be broken down and eliminated can be highly toxic." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"Benzene is present in crude oil and gasoline and is an important industrial chemical which is used in industry as a solvent or to make other chemicals and products such as dyes, detergents, nylon and plastics. It is found in everyday items including gasoline, paints and paint removers. Benzene is a clear, colorless and flammable liquid with a sweet odor. Research conducted since the 1980s by the National Cancer Institute has found that workers exposed to benzene, even at relatively low levels, have lower levels of white blood cells." - Allison Tannis, Probiotic Rescue: How You can use Probiotics to Fight Cholesterol, Cancer, Superbugs, Digestive Complaints and More (Get the book.) "Phthalates are widely used to make plastics and in personal care products. They are endocrine disrupting and medical literature suggests they may be linked to some reproductive defects in the male fetus. As many personal care products are targeted to teenage girls in puberty and women of childbearing years, phthalates are gaining attention as a possible cancer-causing chemical that should be avoided. • Pesticides have been reviewed by European and North American studies and are linked with an increased rate of leukemia in children." - Allison Tannis, Probiotic Rescue: How You can use Probiotics to Fight Cholesterol, Cancer, Superbugs, Digestive Complaints and More (Get the book.)

"They are literally everywhere—in our plastics, food wraps, water, air, spermicides, nail polish, and vaginal lubricants. As if these kinds of environmental exposure were not enough, we women may be smearing carcinogens on our bodies every day unknowingly. Nearly all skin products, deodorants, and cosmetics contain preservatives, known as parabens, that have been linked to breast cancer. Methylparaben has been shown to enter the skin and is concentrated in our fat cells." - Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.) "Oily foods absorb plastics more readily than other foods. Do not microwave foods in plastic containers or freeze water in plastic bottles. Drink green tea instead of coffee. Avoid fabric softeners or laundry detergents that use nonylphe-nol or octylphenol, which place petrochemicals in contact with your skin. Use natural forms of pest control. Avoid condoms with the spermicide nonoxyl-9, which breaks down into a xenoestrogen. Know Your Symptoms et's talk about how you feel and what symptoms you are having, and the many reasons you may be feeling this way." - Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.) "For a healthy liver, you need a diet rich in cruciferous vegetables, green leafy vegetables, and fruits, and a clean environment, avoiding exposure as much as possible to pesticides, preservatives, plastics, and food dyes. You also need to limit your alcohol and caffeine intake. For a healthy bowel, avoid overusing antibiotics, and if you do use them, replace friendly bacteria with probiotics. Consider bowel cleansing with herbs and/or testing for overgrowth of bacteria and yeast if your bowels are not moving regularly." - Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.)

"A major component of indoor air pollution, styrene is found in many consumer products, especially those associated with home renovation: plastics, rubbers, resins, insulation, fiberglass, pipes, containers, wainscoting, and carpet backing. If you're thinking about remodeling your home, ask about the styrene content of the building materials you're considering using. A number of the most common—caulking compounds and sealants, vinyl flooring, and various paint-related products?might be worth avoiding." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"When Becky eats a dinner of mako shark in a pepper crust at her favorite seafood eatery, she is ingesting those plastics as well as traceable levels of the highly active contraceptives—from the excretion of birth-control pills through our sewage system—that also now appear regularly in test samples of U.S. seawater. These industrial compounds—both of which are known endocrine disruptors— magnify in intensity as they are passed up the food chain from host to host, reaching their second to highest concentration in us—and their highest of all in human breast milk." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.)

"Environmental estrogen, or xenoestrogen (pronounced "ZEE-no-estrogen"), can be found in pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, plastics, fuels, car exhausts, dry cleaning chemicals, industrial waste, and meat from animals that have been fed estrogenic drugs to fatten them. It is also found in the synthetic estrogen and progesterone (chemically termed progestin) of birth control pills and hormone therapies; these synthetic hormones are secreted in women's urine, are flushed down the toilet, and eventually make their way back into the food chain." - C. W. Randolph, M.D., From Belly Fat to Belly FLAT: How Your Hormones Are Adding Inches to Your Waistline and Subtracting Years from Your Life (Get the book.) "Pesticides and plastics. Chemical pesticides, herbicides, and fungicides are routinely applied to mass-produced fruits and vegetables. In addition, most people routinely use bug sprays, weed killers, and other pesticides in their homes and yards. Finally, plastic products are part of almost every person's daily life, and many of them give off xenoestrogens when heated, whether purposely in a microwave oven or accidentally in a hot car. Petrochemicals and solvents." - C. W. Randolph, M.D., From Belly Fat to Belly FLAT: How Your Hormones Are Adding Inches to Your Waistline and Subtracting Years from Your Life (Get the book.) "Consciously Take Time To De-Stress Exercise Laugh Sleep APPENDIX B How to Reduce the Estrogens in Your Environment he following list can help you to take action to reduce the effect of environmental estrogens in your life: • Because some plastics shed xenohormones when heated, assume that they all do, and protect yourself accordingly. Don't drink hot beverages from plastic cups and don't drink water from a plastic bottle that has been left in the sun or in a hot car. • Don't microwave your food or drinks in plastic containers; avoid using plastic wrap to cover food in the microwave." - C. W. Randolph, M.D., From Belly Fat to Belly FLAT: How Your Hormones Are Adding Inches to Your Waistline and Subtracting Years from Your Life (Get the book.) "BPA, a chemical found in epoxy resin and polycarbonate plastics, may impair the reproductive organs and have adverse effects on tumors, breast tissue development, and prostate development by reducing sperm count. BPA can leach into water bottles through normal wear and tear and exposure to heat and cleaning agents. This includes leaving your plastic water bottle in your car during errands, in your backpack during hikes, and running it through your dishwasher or using harsh detergents." - C. W. Randolph, M.D., From Belly Fat to Belly FLAT: How Your Hormones Are Adding Inches to Your Waistline and Subtracting Years from Your Life (Get the book.)

"Substances that have been shown to have estrogenic effects in the body include polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), weed killers, substances that line cans, plastics, detergents, and household cleaners.31 Despite this lack of identification of a definitive link between chemical exposures and endometriosis, we do know that women are exposed to a multitude of chemicals in utero, in childhood, peripubertally (the time around the appearance of secondary sex characteristics such as pubic hair), and as adults." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.) "We can identify chemicals in cosmetics, nail polish, plastics, household cleaners, dry cleaning, and foods. A survey by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (the National Report on Human Exposure to Environmental Chemicals) is currently underway, which monitors 145 chemicals in 2,500 people in the United States." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"These include everything from flame-retardant furniture and fabric coatings to polycarbonate plastics. The health effects of very few of these (less than 10 percent) have been tested, so there are no data to suggest that they are safe—and remarkably few regulatory procedures put into place to ensure that they are not. The Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), enacted by Congress in 1976, gives the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) "broad authority to identify and control substances that may pose a threat to human health or the environment." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"Whenever we heat plastics, we increase the likelihood of leaching out chemicals. Some drinking straws carry the warning on the label "not for hot beverages" for good reason: if you put that straw into a boiling cup of hot cocoa, you are creating something akin to a hot-water extraction technique—not unlike that used in labs to help isolate and draw out chemicals—causing the chemicals in the straw to be jettisoned directly into your yummy cup of cocoa." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.)

"Switch to Nontoxic Cooking and Storage Wares Avoid plastics, nonstick wares, and aluminums when you store (and for that matter, cook) foods. Use nonplastic wares, containers, and wrappings, such as ceramics, porcelain, glass, and natural parchment paper. ENHANCE DIGESTION WITH ENZYMES AND PROBIOTICS Up to now, I've been covering mostly external toxins. But remember that there are two types of toxins—those that originate from your outside environment and those that arise from your body's normal functions." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"Let's look at some of the other culprits Becky encountered in her day, such as Teflon, pesticides, and plastics. At breakfast, Becky's favorite no-hassle, stick-free Teflon pan is sending up gaseous fumes. Teflon is manufactured with a chemical known as per-fluorooctanoic acid, or PFOA—as are other nonstick cookware, car parts, flooring, computer chips, phone cables, Stainmaster carpet guard, upholstery, clothing, grease-resistant french fry boxes, and disposable coffee cups like the ones you get at your local coffee shop." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.)

"Industrial chemicals such as pesticides, fungicides and insecticides, plastics, radiation, and synthetic products are changing the natural health-giving properties of our food. They introduce toxins to our bodies that our ancestors did not have to cope with. Some industrial chemicals, detergents, and food dyes are classified as hormone disrupters because they are estrogen mimics. Our bodies mistake synthetic estrogens for the real thing, accept it, and process it, which causes an imbalance of our natural hormones." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.) "They are found in herbicide and pesticide sprays, petroleum products, plastics, and other chemicals that pollute our food, air, and water. Agricultural animals raised for meat consumption are injected with estrogen-like hormones to increase fat content. These synthetic hormones remain in the meat when it is consumed. Even though they may be in small amounts, it takes very little to upset the delicate hormone balance in the body." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

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