The Health Diva

Industrial, agricultural and chemical companies have introduced Xenoestrogens into the environment over the last 70 years.

Increasing numbers of chemicals are demonstrated to function as xenoestrogens. Nonylphenol, is a powerful xenoestrogen, found in plastics, and is an additive in detergents, pesticides, and spermicides. The banned pesticide DDT is a xenoestrogen, so is the unbanned pesticides endosulphan, and atrazine, the most commonly used weed killer in US cornfields. Livestock are also sources of xeonestrogens, cattle in particular are actively given hormone treatments to improve meat quality and milk production.

There are many ways that we can cut down our exposure to xenoestrogens, probably the best way is to try and eat as much organic foods as possible, organic fruits and vegetables are grown using traditional farming methods, thus omitting powerful chemical pesticides, choosing organic or RSPCA backed freedom foods, meat and dairy products also reduces your overall toxic load.

Finally it has been proven that over time plastics can react with their content and leach xenogestrogens into the food chain, so avoid fizzy drinks in plastic containers, also micro waving foods in plastic containers can speed up that leaching process, combined with the fact that microwaving foods actually disturbs the molecular structure of nutrients, destroying their biological activity, and is therefore best avoided.