One of the major ongoing arguments for eating and drinking certain foods is that they are good for you.
This is especially true for foods and even supplements that contain phytoestrogens.
For example, there is a huge claim that soy products are good because they have high amounts of healthy phytoestrogens that are thought to prevent cancer.
And there are truthfully thousands if not millions of chemicals in food and supplements, that have phytoestrogens similar to those in soy.
Estrogens are everywhere
Compounds that resemble estrogens include plant like estrogens, which are called phytoestrogens, or chemicals that resemble estrogens, called xenoestrogens.
And they are everywhere.
In laundry detergent, in food additives, even in green tea.
And they are thought to be very helpful.
But are they?
Here was a very important study that was designed to see if small amounts of phytoestrogens actually fight cancer, or contribute to cancer.
They used breast cancer as their model, but the same kind of research findings would probably apply identically to cancers such as prostate cancer.
Small amounts of phytoestrogens and xenoestrogens are not as great as they say
In this study, they gave rats very small amounts of phytoestrogens, and they found that cancer cells proliferated in the breast tissue of the rats.
They gave very small quantities to the rats, similar to the small quantities you would get in ordinary food.
Not just ordinary food, but food containing phytoestrogens.
Food that I don’t recommend you eat after you read about the study.
Small amounts of estrogen-like chemicals cause cancer and lower testosterone
They are everywhere, and not only do they cause cancer, but they also result in low testosterone.
They compete directly in the body with the hormonal chain that produces testosterone.
Higher estrogen levels block testosterone.
If you’ve ever been given a testosterone supplement, you may already know this.
Testosterone supplements turn partially into estrogen in the body.
This is why I don’t recommend testosterone supplements for 99.99% of men.
Estrogen itself is carcinogenic
There is evidence that even human estrogen is not helpful.
We need to have a certain level of estrogen, even us men, but almost all of us have tested levels that are too high.
And you add up all of the fake estrogens that we get in our food, in our water, in our laundry room, our dining room, our bathrooms, and our personal care products, can all produce cancer and lower testosterone levels.
What about tea?
Tea has some phytoestrogen, but it has also many other compounds the combat or counteract the effects of the fido estrogens.
On balance tea is very healthy, and I will have more to say about tea shortly.
Stay tuned.
And note this, that all teas can be good for you, as long as they are real teas, and not herbal teas.
I’m talking about green tea, oolong tea, and black tea, the kind with caffeine in it.
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