How to Lose Weight

How to Lose Belly Fat

 

Synthetic Estrogens Cause Weight Gain

Estrogen is found in the hormone-laden meat you get at the grocery store. It’s found in plastic, too. Every time you take a sip from your water bottle or heat up a frozen dinner, you’re ingesting harmful chemicals that create synthetic estrogen in your body. This can cause you to have too much estrogen.

Why is that a problem? There are lots of ways that too much estrogen in your system can make you sick. It can cause heart disease and five different kinds of cancer. Estogen can also make you fat, impotent, depressed, and tired. Too much estrogen is also the biggest undiagnosed cause of prostate disease in men.

Here is something else about the estrogen we’re putting in our food that’s very disturbing. Females are getting sexually mature features at younger and younger ages.  A new study shows the number of 7-year-old girls hitting puberty has doubled since 1997. It’s one more case where we’ve altered our environment without awareness of the consequences.  We are not subject to the same environmental conditions as our ancestors because we have drastically altered our environment.

Everything from the beef at the grocery store to the water bottles you drink from can expose you to these estrogens. The good news is that  you can learn to avoid these harmful chemicals. To help keep your hormone levels balanced, it has been suggested in the scientific literature that resveratol helps to control estrogen levels in your body. 

In addition to resveratrol, there are other actions you can take.

 1. Eat hormone-free meat. Choose grass-fed beef and free-range poultry to avoid eating any of the hormones pumped in standard grain-fed cows and caged chickens. Grain-fed beef is full of hormones, including estrogen. Instead, try to opt for grass-fed beef. These cows roam and graze on pesticide-free grass. Free-range chicken is also the best choice. There are no added hormones to make the chickens plump, and they’re free to run on a farm.

 2. Eat cage-free eggs. Cage-free eggs come from free-range chickens. They’re hormone-free and have more of the nutrients you need. Plus, they taste great.

 3. Avoid plastic as much as possible. Don’t drink out of plastic water bottles or eat food stored in plastic containers. Even aluminum cans are lined with plastics, so be wary. They contain the chemicals that mimic estrogen. Instead, use metal or glass containers. Be particular careful not to microwave food in plastic containers because this causes the release of these synthetic estrogens into your food!

4. Broccoli, cauliflower, Brussels sprouts, and cabbage can help lower your estrogen levels.