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If you want to know the most important thing you can do to reduce environmental exposure to hormone disruptors, it's filter the water you drink and cook with. Sadly, the kitchen tap in most homes spews out an estrogenic cocktail. Where does that water come from? Rivers, stream, lakes, reservoirs, and ground water. Oh, and your recycled pee. Treated, of course, but know this: water treatment plants are not equipped and do not remove the ethinyl estradiol from birth control pills that 100 million women worldwide consume and excrete every day. And that's a proper estrogen. Not an imitator. And a potent one. Released into the water supply. I'm just saying these pharmaceutical estrogens are turning up in bodies of water all over the globe. The same bodies of water we draw from for drinking water.
Now, I'm not opposed to oral contraception. Don't miss the point. In fact, the use of veterinarian estrogen is more than 5 times the use of oral contraceptives. And that was 15 years ago. I'm sure it's more now. Heck, you and I flush natural hormones down the toilet every day. The point is it's there in the water, and water is a recycled commodity. Your municipal water company is probably not even testing for hormones. You have to filter them. That's the only way they come out. A simple activated charcoal filter will do it, or a membrane filter that's in a reverse osmosis system. Different geographies will have different amounts of estrogen in the water. Some may have next to none, but remember even a little adds to your total estrogenic exposure. You have to have your drinking water tested to know for sure.
Major estrogenics found in drinking water:
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