Do you know where your estrogen is coming from? The answer may surprise you! Within our bodies, estrogen is primarily produced by the ovaries in women and the testes in men, but also by the liver, breasts, and adrenal glands. You also gain small amounts of environmental estrogens through hard plastics and can linings, cleaning products, sunblocks, perfumes, soaps, and printer toners, to name a few.
Yes, technology makes our lives more convenient with plastic, and its revolution has changed the world. Additionally, new chemicals and drugs are being produced rapidly, so we don't know the long-term effects they will have on our environment or our bodies. However, we know that our hormones can be disrupted by environmental factors.
For example, we gain estrogen-like compounds from everyday items, and our bodies can't tell the difference between these estrogen mimics and the real thing. Our hormone levels are thrown off. The benefit of homeopathy is that no matter which direction your hormones are off, either too high or too low, a homeopathic hormone formula like EstroPRO (estrogen and proestrogen) will rebalance your body's normal hormone output. All of our hormone supplements also include a liver detox to eliminate any harmful elements that have accumulated in our bodies.
Exposure to these chemicals is also believed to be causing early onset puberty in girls. Estrogen receptors are found on every cell in the body, which shows the importance of these hormones in the body's tissues and functions. The cellular receptors for estrogen are not as specific as you might think. Many chemicals resemble estrogen enough to bind and activate estrogen receptor sites. Even just touching these chemicals daily will cause your natural hormones to become imbalanced.
The source of these estrogen mimics is surprising and disturbing. Environmental chemicals, particularly estrogen-mimicking and gender-bending chemicals, which easily leach out of the products that contain them, are a likely culprit. This includes phthalates, parabens, PFOA, Bisphenol-A (BPA), and industrial petrochemicals that act as synthetic estrogen. These are found in our plastics and our tin can linings, in dental sealants, and on cash registers.
