Hormonal disruption is a growing problem

Many women suffer from fibroids, dymnemorrhea and more. Men are increasingly finding their levels of sex drive dampened on a regular basis. And I am not just talking about the over-50's.
There's also an increased frequency of puberty problems being experienced by adolescents; all related to hormonal influences, and being attributed to chemicals in the environment, or even to constituents in our food.
A 2006 study led by JA McLachlan highlighted these growing concerns, pointing to the many estrogen promoting or inhibiting chemicals now circulating in our environment and our food supply. These not only include toxins you may have already heard about, such as pesticides and plasticisers, but components of food such as soy protein, containing phytoestrogens, routinely added to a vast number of food items.
What can you do?
The main thing (as usual) is to decide to take control of your own health:

1. Drink filtered water - you can readily buy good quality water filters that will remove all kinds of nasties...but read the product description carefully before buying as many filters only remove some toxins and not others.
2. Read your food labels - gain some knowledge about what good to eat and what's not.
3. Avoid certain food packaging- some plastic wraps and trays are bad! Plastic number systems are helping identify good and bad plastics. There are a number of good websites that help you identify good and bad plastics.
4. Eat organic food if you can -home grown food, (made with your own pure compost is best!) Its a lot easier to buy organic that it used to be -you just have to take a little more time to choose.
5. Don't forget to exercise -this has tremendous hormone regulating and curative effects. More on this elsewhere in this blog!