Beware of Estrogen!
A rampant excess of estrogen can cause many conditions ranging from the serious (cancers) to the embarrassing (man boobs/ moobs). I have written often on the dangers posed to us by environmental estrogens – amongst other things, no man likes being reminded that he has 25% less testosterone than his grandfather’s generation – but sometimes it is worth labouring the point of just where these xeno estrogens (“foreign estrogens”) can so commonly come from.
One of the biggest estrogenic culprits that is within our easy control is with the use of plastic containers. Putting hot drinks into plastic beakers, or even worse using a microwave to heat up a plastic container, causes a lot of plastics to release excessive amounts of bisphenol A, a chemical that mimics estrogen. It is a salutary lesson to us all, but in lab animals bisphenol A has been shown to create huge reproductive and brain development problems.
My advice when it comes to basic estrogen management issues such as this is to do what I have done in my own home and thrown away all the plastic “heatable” containers and replaced them with glass ones. Once I have cooked something up and it has cooled down, then I may put it into some Tupperware if I am on the road all day. But I will never heat up plastic and food together – I value my health and my positive testosterone / estrogen balance too much for that.

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