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A List of Xenoestrogens

Posted on October 20, 2007 by sowgenerously, edited by Endometriosis Journey for redundancy

If you are attempting to avoid xenoestrogen exposure, here is a list of substances to avoid. I compiled this from many sources and it’s the most complete list on the Internet. Xenoestrogen contributes to “excess estrogen” or “estrogen dominance”.

The short answer is to go as organic and “green” as you can.

Avoid:

* Commercially-raised, non-organic meats such as beef, chicken, and pork

* Commercial dairy products including milk, butter, cheese, and ice cream – Use only organic products that do not contain bovine growth hormone

* Unfiltered water, including water you bathe in – Use reverse-osmosis filtered water such as Dazani or get your own filter

* Laundry detergent – Use white vinegar, baking soda, or tri-sodium phosphate (TSP)… According to some experts, avoid even the Seventh Generation and Eco brands

* Dryer sheets and fabric softeners – Use white vinegar is a marvelous natural fabric softener, no smell after it dries

* Avoid Primpro, DES, Premarin, Cimetidine (Tagamet), Marijuana, and Birth Control Pills (BCPs are often prescribed FOR endo. Talk to your doctor).

* Hormone replacement therapy (HRT)

* Progesterone creams or other lotions made with paraben preservatives

* Soy

* Ground flaxseed – If you’re looking for the Omega-3 effect, use fish oil instead

* No sunflower oil, no safflower oil, no cottonseed oil, no canola oil – Use olive oil or grapeseed oil

* Avoid Tea tree oil (melaleuca) – I know, I love tea tree oil, this one is tough

* No lavendar oil

* Avoid coffee and caffeine

* Sage and rosemary

* Shampoos, lotions, soaps, cosmetics that contain paraben or phenoxyethanol – Almost all contain them, you have to look far and wide. Be diligent, you’re getting hundreds of times more exposure through your skin than through your diet. So far, I’ve found Kiss My Face brands to be okay.

* Shampoos that purposely include estrogen (these are shampoos that cater to the African-American market)

* Avoid reheating foods in plastic or styrofoam containers

* Avoid drinking out of plastic cups and containers

* Air fresheners that contain pthalates

Avoid naturally occurring plant estrogens:

* Coffee

* Clover, red clover tea, alfalfa sprouts

* Sunflower seeds

* Queen Anne’s lace (wild carrot)

* Pomegranate – The Greeks used this plant as a contraceptive!

* Dates

* Fennel

* Licorice, red clover, yucca, hops (beer) and motherwort

* Bloodroot, ocotillo, mandrake, oregano, damiana, pennyroyal, verbena, nutmeg, tumeric, yucca, thyme, calamus rt., red clover, goldenseal, licorice, mistletoe, cumin, fennel, chamomile, cloves

Chemicals:

* 4-Methylbenzylidene camphor (4-MBC) (sunscreen lotions)

* butylated hydroxyanisole / BHA (food preservative)

* atrazine (weedkiller)

* bisphenol A (monomer for polycarbonate plastic and epoxy resin; antioxidant in plasticizers) – also known as BPA

* dieldrin (insecticide)

* DDT (insecticide)

* endosulfan (insecticide)

* erythrosine / FD&C Red No. 3

* heptachlor (insecticide)

* lindane / hexachlorocyclohexane (insecticide)

* methoxychlor (insecticide)

* nonylphenol and derivatives (industrial surfactants; emulsifiers for emulsion polymerization; laboratory detergents; pesticides)

* polychlorinated biphenyls / PCBs (in electrical oils, lubricants, adhesives, paints)

* phenosulfothiazine (a red dye)

* phthalates (plasticizers)

* DEHP (plasticizer for PVC)

Here is another list from Dr. Peter Eckhart, MD:

1. Do not heat food or water with plastic in the microwave. Do not drink hot liquids in foam styrofoam cups or receptacles.

2. Change your laundry detergent because it cannot be fully washed from the clothes and can be absorbed through the skin. Do NOT use dryer sheets or fabric softener.

3. Do not use anything on the skin with parabens or phenoxyethanol in them. This includes shampoo, soap, makeup, hand lotion, body lotion, and toothpaste. Oral substances are 90% filtered by the liver. Skin-absorbed substances are 100% absorbed by the body, thus, a skin dose is 10 times an oral dose.

4. Avoid coffee. Avoid decaf coffee. No caffeine. No tea. No colas. Caffeine increases estradiol levels by 70%!

5. No sunflower oil, no safflower oil, no cottonseed oil, no canola oil. (Guess that leaves olive oil).

6. Avoid shampoos that are “rich in hormones” and have estrogen added to them.

7. Avoid estrogenic herbs especially TOPICALLY such as sage and rosemary. (Good to know coming up on Thanksgiving!)

8. Avoid weak estrogens such as soy and ground flax seed.

9. Many sunscreens are estrogenic. Use a hat and long sleeved shirt.

10. Use cosmetics with minerals or grapefruit seed extract as a preservative.

//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenoestrogen

Pthalates are in the cheese powder from mac and cheese boxes. According to Nat Geo, eating a bowl of this will block your testosterone production significantly.

I think it's worth noting that we're meant to still have some estrogen, and if we did literally everything in our ability to increase testosterone we may end up too primeval for modern society. I know for me personally, as I've slowly been raising my test levels, it has taken time to adjust mentally to all the new aggression I've experienced. Rather than doing all of these things at once, which would be unnecessarily difficult to maintain and would leave us with far higher test levels than we are used to handling, I think it would be best to take one item on this list per week. This would raise testosterone at a manageable pace, and give us time to build our wills slowly.

"The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not smashing it."

-Arnold H. Glasow

>people use to live on nothing but beer

>didn't turn into faggots

gonna have to find something else to blame your desire to suck cocks on OP

>Avoid naturally occurring plant estrogens:

>* Coffee

stopped reading right there

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22349085

http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/ijes/vol10/iss1/11/

https://www.anabolicmen.com/caffeine-testosterone/

nice shitpost anyway

>>124147

>projecting this much

>>124149

that's good to know, you should be doing your own research on everything, Coffee doesn't = caffeine though

>>124147

I think this is partially true. Scottish highlanders had a very masculine culture compared to ours, so the beer wasn't very significant when you factor societal expectations in with the rest of their diets. Today we're so chem'd up and we have a culture of faggotry, that it's going to happen with or without beer. I'm fine with sacrificing most items on this list, and I encourage everyone to practice mental fortitude and self-development. But there's no reason to get rid of beer completely (unless you're an alcoholic).

>>124147

Hops are a relatively modern addition to beer, being first used around the 1000s in Europe. Hops are also extremely xenoestrogenic, so much so that women who picked hops had to wear gloves to avoid absorbing any of it through the skin. This is why beer is bad - if you can find hopless beer then sure, it's a bit better for you.

still empty calories though, you asshat

>>124133

/fit/ worries too much about hormones. Eat some meat and lift some weights and you will be just fine.