All the modern food we men have been eating our entire lives has
estrogenic effects which have resulted in advanced deterioration of your testosterone levels.
Not exact matches
The increase may also have to do with excessive exposure to xenoestrogens, chemicals such as pesticides
which have
estrogenic effects on the body.
See: Interaction of
estrogenic chemicals and phytoestrogens with estrogen receptor β Soy isoflavone genistein has about 4 % of 17β - estradiol's affinity for estrogen receptor α, responsible for estrogen's feminizing
effects, and 87 % of its affinity for ERβ,
which acts as a tumor suppressor.
The bacteria in your colon convert these lignans into phytoestrogens,
which have mild
estrogenic and anti-
estrogenic effects.
A significant number of people are becoming increasingly sensitive to low exposures to 2,4 - D and many other chemicals.16 This increasing sensitivity may be due to a combination
effect of simultaneous exposure to
estrogenic nonylphenols15 mixed with locally sprayed herbicides,
which are also highly
estrogenic, and to antiandrogenic wind drift fungicides, 17 as well as to many other airborne chemicals.
The problem is that parabens are endocrine disruptors,
which means that they have an
estrogenic effect in the body — they bind to the same cell receptors as our own estrogen but they interfere with our normal, rhythmic, hormonal process.