The Effects of Hormones in Dairy Milk on Cancer

The Effects of Hormones in Dairy Milk on Cancer

The Effects of Hormones in Dairy Milk on Cancer

The Effects of Hormones in Dairy Milk on Cancer

Natural estrogens are up to 100,000 times more potent than the synthetics that have estrogen mimicking properties. Where are these potent natural estrogens? You can find them in milk.

Most of the focus has been on synthetic chemicals found in pesticides, plastics and sunscreens that have estrogenic effects, with some activists suggesting that these are responsible for our “epidemic of cancer.” The fact is that there is no such epidemic, although there is some evidence that the hormone related cancers have increased somewhat. And that may be due to increased environmental hormone exposure, but not necessarily from synthetic chemicals. Natural estrogens are up to 100,000 times more potent than the synthetics that have estrogen mimicking properties. Where are these potent natural estrogens? You can find them in milk. If we are looking for a hormone-cancer connection, why not look at dairy products? They make a very significant contribution to our hormone intake and epidemiological studies suggest a link with some cancers. In men aged 20 to 39 milk and cheese consumption correlate strongly with the incidence of testicular cancer. In countries where dairy is rarely consumed, Algeria being an example, testicular cancer is rare, while in Denmark and Switzerland, where cheese is eaten in abundance, testicular cancer rates are high. In Japan, prostate cancer was almost non-existent fifty years ago, but has risen in incidence since, paralleling an increase in dairy consumption. Still the rate is only one tenth that in North America where interestingly we consume a lot more dairy products.

Is a connection to dairy scientifically plausible? After all, dairy consumption is not a new idea. Why hasn’t a connection between it and cancer been noted before? Perhaps it has to do with the fact that the milk we’re drinking today is different than that in the past. It has a higher level of hormones. This has absolutely nothing to do with bovine growth hormone which is being used in the States but not in Canada to increase milk production. That’s an irrelevant factor. But what is not irrelevant is that today cows are milked for about 300 days a year, and much of that time the cows are pregnant. Estrogen sulphate, the main estrogen in milk, is about thirty times as abundant in milk from pregnant cows than in milk from non-pregnant ones. And the amount of estrogen increases during the later stages of pregnancy. Progesterone also increases. A comparison of “modern milk” with milk in Mongolia, where cows are traditionally milked only five months of the year, and only during early pregnancy, reveals that the Mongolian milk has a lower hormone content. North American skim milk, though, is an exception. It has as low a hormone content as Mongolian milk since estrogen resides in fat. Another disturbing facet of the dairy-cancer connection is that rats fed milk develop more tumours than those fed water. None of this of course proves that dairy products are a factor in cancer but further investigation is warranted. In any case, you don’t have to go to Mongolia for your low-hormone milk, you can just drink skim milk. - Joe Schwarez PhD

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What Causes Cancer?

What Causes Cancer?

What Causes Cancer

What causes cancer?

Cancer is reversible. If toxins caused the problem, then detoxification is the solution

Most degenerative diseases, including cancer, do not have a readily identifiable enemy. In a bacterial infection, you can attack the “cause” of the disease with an antibiotic. Cancer seems to be caused by a collection of lifestyle and environmental factors that accumulate over the years. Since success against any degenerative disease requires getting to the root of the problem, let’s examine the accepted causes of cancer.

Toxic overload

America’s increasing incidence of cancer has closely paralleled our increasing exposure to cancer-causing substances in our environment...Of the 5 million registered chemicals in the world, mankind comes in contact with 70,000, of which at least 20,000 are known carcinogens, or cancer-causing agents. Each year, America alone sprays 1.2 billion pounds of pesticides on our food crops, dumps 90 billion pounds of toxic waste in our 55,000 toxic waste sites, feeds 9 million pounds of antibiotics to our farm animals to help them gain weight faster...

Bruce Ames, PhD, of the University of California, Berkeley has estimated that each of the 60 trillion cells in your body undergoes from 1,000 to 10,000 DNA “hits” or potentially cancer-causing breaks every day. Newer studies examining the role of the immune system in protecting us against cancer show that the average adult has one cancer cell appear in each day. Yet somehow, for most of us, our DNA repair mechanisms and immune system surveillance are able to keep the storm of genetic damage under control.

Wallowing in our own high-tech waste products is a major cause of cancer in modern society, since carcinogens add to the fury of the continuous assault on do you need. Wallowing in our own high-tech waste products is a major cause of cancer in modern society, since carcinogens add to the fury of the continuous assault on the DNA... Toxins not only causes DNA breakage, which can trigger cancer, but also subdue the immune system, which then allows cancer to become the “fox in the chicken coop”, with no controlling force... Cancer is reversible. If toxins caused the problem, then detoxification is the solution.

Cancer is a mistake cell that is growing wildly out of control... Cancer mimics the chemistry of a fetus, and hence becomes invisible to the human immune system. Cancer also weakens its host by installing its own abnormal biochemistry, including:

  • Changes in the pH or the acid/base balance
  • Creation of anaerobic (oxygen-deprived) pockets of tissue...
  • Blunting the immune system
  • Elevating metabolism and calorie needs, while simultaneously lowering appetite and food intake to a slowly starve the host
  • Ejecting by-products that create weakness, apathy, pain, and depression in the host
  • Siphoning nutrients out of the bloodstream like a parasite
  • With its invisible, predatory, and ever-changing nature, cancer is truly a tough condition to treat
  • Cancer is essentially an abnormal cell growth. It’s unchecked growth tends to overwhelm other functions in the body until death comes from:
    1. Organ failure, e.g., the kidneys shut down
    2. Infection, e.g., pneumonia, because immune system has been blunted
    3. Malnutrition, because the parasitic cancer shifts the host’s metabolism into high gear and efficient use of fuel, while also inducing a loss of appetite

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