Estrogen hormones can be thousands of times more estrogenic than typical endocrine-disrupting chemicals.
Dietary exposure to natural sex steroids (in meat, dairy, and eggs) is “therefore highly relevant in the discussion of the impact of estrogens on human development and health.” And chicken estrogen is identical to human estrogen—they’re the same molecule. So, it doesn’t matter if it ends up in our drinking supply from women taking birth control pills excreting it in their urine, or cows excreting it into their milk. The source doesn’t matter; the quantity does.
You can see that a child’s exposure to estrogens in drinking water is about 150 times lower than exposure from cow’s milk; so, our day-to-day estrogen exposure levels are more likely determined by whether or not we happen to eat dairy products that day.
Human urine is “often cited as the main source of natural and synthetic estrogens in the aquatic environment,” but the level of estrogen even in the urine of heavy meat-eaters, who have significantly higher levels, pales in comparison to the estrogen excreted by the farm animals themselves. Pigs, sheep, cattle, and chickens produce literally tons of estrogen every year.
Women may excrete 16 mg every day, but farm animals may release ten times more, or in the case of pregnant cows, thousands of times more. Animal waste may contribute an estimated 90% of total estrogens in the environment. Five gallons of runoff water contaminated with chicken manure may contain a birth control pill’s worth of estrogen.
Estrogen levels in poultry litter are so high that when farmers feed chicken manure to their animals to save on feed costs, it may trigger premature development. Poultry manure has among the highest hormone content, quadruple the total estrogens, and nine times more 17-beta estradiol, the most potent estrogen and a “complete” carcinogen, as it exerts both tumor initiating and tumor promoting effects.
From a human health standpoint, do we really care about feminized fish, or the appearance of “intersex roaches”? The problem is that the hormones get into the food supply. Endogenous steroid hormones in food of animal origin are unavoidable as they occur naturally in these products. It’s not a matter of injected hormones, which are banned in places like Europe in order to protect consumers’ health. Sex steroid hormones are part of animal metabolism; and so, all foodstuffs of animal origin contain these hormones, which have been connected with several human health problems.
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Estradiol is a type of estrogen. According to studies, more than 2.5 billion women are using contraceptive pills, flush down at the toilets and into the water supply.
Furthermore, scientists have found out that 80% of this hormone in more than 50 sites underwent tests.
The water suppliers, individual households, and authorities are not keen on the clean-up efforts of concerned agencies. Meanwhile, the pharmaceutical industries are very active in fighting against the issue for fear of decreasing global sales in the market.
There are studies in the United States and Europe that show the water to be positive in pharmaceuticals. These include ACE inhibitors, antidepressants, antibiotics, beta-blockers, carbamazepine, fibrates, painkillers, and tranquilizers.
Also, there are alarming amounts of antidepressants in the brains of several freshwater fishes. Indeed, finding synthetic health can be a little bit pricey.
For example, if you drink around three liters of tap water with drug contamination each day, one can more likely consume the same amount of a prescribed dose in one lifetime.
Indeed, researchers can now understand the effects of the prescribed dosage of medicine. However, they do not yet understand the permanent presence of drugs in the bloodstream.
Each generation, the consumption of synthetic medication tends to rise. As such, the number of drugs in the water will surely increase in the coming years.
Finally, the drugs that people consume in the water are now mixed with all others. Then, it creates a unique chemical that has not been studied by science.
Experts are now conducting several studies to prove if, indeed, the condition is harmless. Today, one cannot easily conclude that the chronic consumption of drugs in the water is safe.
One health concern of the chronic consumption of this hormone is that it can affect the sexual development of pre-pubescent teenagers. The body of these groups of children relies much on the presence of the regulated amounts of female and male hormones to develop the appropriate sexual characteristics in the specific period.
Another health concern that can greatly affect men. With the water consumption contaminated with estrogen, they can develop more breast tissues versus their peers in the previous generations. With this, they can struggle with abnormal development and functioning of the prostate.
According to studies, these hormones can cause infertility in the fishes. As such, it can be possible that it can cause the same with humans.
Finally, some researchers show that the estrogen in drinking water can be responsible for the aggressive behavior of men.
According to studies, bottled water has 90% microplastics. As such, there are speculations on indeed how healthy bottled water can be.
Ingredients/constituents of antibiotics, antidepressants, birth control pills, cancer tablets, tranquilizers, analgesics and hormones were found in various concentrations in water. Not only is medicine a serious concern, but cosmetic products are also posing a threat. The last decade proved that agricultural pesticides and DDT caused serious reproduction problems in animals and humans.
At present in South Africa, large quantities of EDCs are being released into our atmosphere, soil and groundwater through the manufacture, use and waste disposal of EDC containing products. Of particular concern is the use of highly toxic endocrine disrupting chemicals in their direct form such as DDT.
The presence of EDCs in South African waters systems may have an impact on the health of the South African population and wildlife. In related studies EDC effects have been noticed in animals (fish, birds and eland).
Die gesondheid van jou liggaam is jou verantwoordelikheid.- Suid Afrika
QUANLIM LIFE-
Its time that you control what you eat and drink- where it come from - Its your LIFE- YOUR BODY- You live in a world that is GREEDY- and you are the target.
People don't realise how much of these toxins is in their body. With our new Human Scanning device we can see all these health problems. People are spending millions of rands on doctors and health products to treat all the side effects.
It's time that you wake up - and start treating your body with the best- It time to questioning your foods and drinks... Every week we see people that is sick of all these toxins- Pharma cannot heal then as they treat the symptoms orr diagnosed them with some kind of chronic disease. This is all in your digestive system, blood and cells- and this will eventually move over to Cancer and more. Women that cannot get pregnant and spending thousands or rans on Fertility Doctors. Their is away to get these toxins out and control it but it will take time and you need to be patience. Men become Estrogen dominant and low in Testosterone and then they start using all these quick fixes like injections and protein shakes and eventually they start using all kinds of steroids that will eventually crack their nervous system.
Billions are spent on all these shakes... nobody want to die at a young age orr been sick at a young age. -
We see more people with allergies - skin problems, digestive, nerve oxygen problems and much more- treated with antibiotics, cortisones and pain stiller...TREATING THE SYMPTOMS
YES- I see it every day- WAKE UP- you don't want to end up in the hands of PHARMA...
Just look around you- see if you can see 2 out of ten people that look healthy- not overweight and sitting with big round face and bellies.. Most people under the age of 20 may look healthy but if you look at people older, you will find it very hard to see really healthy people. Social media is creating a life that does not exist and people believe everything they see online.
Water is life.. and it's your life too
PLEASE WAKE UP- you are in control of you own LIFE- Take control and start maintaining you body in the correct way.
Johann Pretorius Human Behaviour and Health Care Specialist Pretoria- South Africa.
