INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (674,1,'2012-10-27 22:28:57','2012-10-28 03:28:57','<a title=\"Postpartum Mood Disorder Treated with Progesterone\" href=\"http://www.naprotechnology.com/depression.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Postpartum Mood Disorder Treated with Progesterone Therapy</a>\n\nhttp://www.naprotechnology.com/depression.htm\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\nDr. Al Sears, M.D.\n\n<a title=\"PPD - It\'s not in your mind\" href=\"http://www.alsearsmd.com/its-not-in-your-mind/\">http://www.alsearsmd.com/its-not-in-your-mind/</a>\n\n&nbsp;\n\nCourtney Cox  - attributes progesterone therapy to alleviating her postpartum mood disorder symptoms - racing heart, sleep problems, depression\n\n&nbsp;\n\nBreastfeeding with Postpartum Depression - Notice the mention of progesterone - only synthetic progesterone is studied - it actually acts like a progestin in a woman\'s body so this cannot be extrapolated to other forms of progesterone.\n\n<a title=\"Breastfeeding with Postpartum Depression\" href=\"http://nurse-practitioners-and-physician-assistants.advanceweb.com/Article/Breastfeeding-with-Postpartum-Depression.aspx\">http://nurse-practitioners-and-physician-assistants.advanceweb.com/Article/Breastfeeding-with-Postpartum-Depression.aspx</a>\n\n&nbsp;\n\nIf you have PMS - you are more likely to suffer from PPMD!  Be prepared!\n\n<a title=\"Posptartum Mood Disorder - Progesterone\" href=\"http://www.womentowomen.com/depressionanxietyandmood/postpartumdepression.aspx\">http://www.womentowomen.com/depressionanxietyandmood/postpartumdepression.aspx</a>\n\nHere\'s what Women to Women have to say about Postpartum Mood Disorder:\n\n\"<strong>Natural progesterone has a known effect on the GABA receptors in the brain — the same receptors that opiate drugs (narcotics) bind to.</strong> I will say that this protocol is controversial, so many conventional practitioners may be unwilling to try it. We and others, however, regularly observe improvement in these women’s depression and anxiety, and although there have been no large trials to date that prove its efficacy, we have used this protocol to good effect many times for many years.\"\n\n&nbsp;\n\nWhy are conventional practitioners unwilling to use it? Yet they are willing to prescribe antidepressants that they KNOW will give you side effects and get into breast milk.  They are afraid and uninformed.  They have heard of the 2002 study which found synthetic hormones posed a cancer risk and they have not looked any further.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nPMS Treatemen\n\nhttp://www.pmstreatmentclinic.com/services.html','Progesterone Therapy to Treat PPMD','','inherit','open','open','','659-revision-7','','','2012-10-27 22:28:57','2012-10-28 03:28:57','',659,'http://www.hormonesoup.com/659-revision-7/',0,'revision','',0),(675,1,'2012-10-27 22:29:43','2012-10-28 03:29:43','<a title=\"Postpartum Mood Disorder Treated with Progesterone\" href=\"http://www.naprotechnology.com/depression.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Postpartum Mood Disorder Treated with Progesterone Therapy</a>\r\n\r\nhttp://www.naprotechnology.com/depression.htm\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nDr. Al Sears, M.D.\r\n\r\n<a title=\"PPD - It\'s not in your mind\" href=\"http://www.alsearsmd.com/its-not-in-your-mind/\">http://www.alsearsmd.com/its-not-in-your-mind/</a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nCourtney Cox  - attributes progesterone therapy to alleviating her postpartum mood disorder symptoms - racing heart, sleep problems, depression\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nBreastfeeding with Postpartum Depression - Notice the mention of progesterone - only synthetic progesterone is studied - it actually acts like a progestin in a woman\'s body so this cannot be extrapolated to other forms of progesterone.\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Breastfeeding with Postpartum Depression\" href=\"http://nurse-practitioners-and-physician-assistants.advanceweb.com/Article/Breastfeeding-with-Postpartum-Depression.aspx\">http://nurse-practitioners-and-physician-assistants.advanceweb.com/Article/Breastfeeding-with-Postpartum-Depression.aspx</a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIf you have PMS - you are more likely to suffer from PPMD!  Be prepared!\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Posptartum Mood Disorder - Progesterone\" href=\"http://www.womentowomen.com/depressionanxietyandmood/postpartumdepression.aspx\">http://www.womentowomen.com/depressionanxietyandmood/postpartumdepression.aspx</a>\r\n\r\nHere\'s what Women to Women have to say about Postpartum Mood Disorder:\r\n\r\n\"<strong>Natural progesterone has a known effect on the GABA receptors in the brain — the same receptors that opiate drugs (narcotics) bind to.</strong> I will say that this protocol is controversial, so many conventional practitioners may be unwilling to try it. We and others, however, regularly observe improvement in these women’s depression and anxiety, and although there have been no large trials to date that prove its efficacy, we have used this protocol to good effect many times for many years.\"\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWhy are conventional practitioners unwilling to use it? Yet they are willing to prescribe antidepressants that they KNOW will give you side effects and get into breast milk.  They are afraid and uninformed.  They have heard of the 2002 study which found synthetic hormones posed a cancer risk and they have not looked any further.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nPMS Treatment Clinic - Natural Progesterone can Prevent Postpartum Depression if given right after birth\r\n\r\n<a title=\"PMS Treatment Clinic\" href=\"http://www.pmstreatmentclinic.com/services.html\" target=\"_blank\">http://www.pmstreatmentclinic.com/services.html</a>','Progesterone Therapy to Treat PPMD','','inherit','open','open','','659-revision-8','','','2012-10-27 22:29:43','2012-10-28 03:29:43','',659,'http://www.hormonesoup.com/659-revision-8/',0,'revision','',0),(676,1,'2012-10-27 22:39:30','2012-10-28 03:39:30','<a title=\"Postpartum Mood Disorder Treated with Progesterone\" href=\"http://www.naprotechnology.com/depression.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Postpartum Mood Disorder Treated with Progesterone Therapy</a>\r\n\r\nhttp://www.naprotechnology.com/depression.htm\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nDr. Al Sears, M.D.\r\n\r\n<a title=\"PPD - It\'s not in your mind\" href=\"http://www.alsearsmd.com/its-not-in-your-mind/\">http://www.alsearsmd.com/its-not-in-your-mind/</a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nDr. Katharine Dalton, UK - Pioneer in treating PMS &amp; PPMD with bioidentical progesterone\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Natural Progesterone Advisory Network\" href=\"http://www.natural-progesterone-advisory-network.com/PDFs/dalton.pdf#search=%22katharina%20dalton%22\" target=\"_blank\">http://www.natural-progesterone-advisory-network.com/PDFs/dalton.pdf#search=%22katharina%20dalton%22</a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Natural Progesterone Advisory Network\" href=\"http://www.natural-progesterone-advisory-network.com/PDFs/dalton.pdf#search=%22katharina%20dalton%22\" target=\"_blank\">Courtney Cox  - attributes progesterone therapy to alleviating her postpartum mood disorder symptoms - racing heart, sleep problems, depression</a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nBreastfeeding with Postpartum Depression - Notice the mention of progesterone - only synthetic progesterone is studied - it actually acts like a progestin in a woman\'s body so this cannot be extrapolated to other forms of progesterone.\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Breastfeeding with Postpartum Depression\" href=\"http://nurse-practitioners-and-physician-assistants.advanceweb.com/Article/Breastfeeding-with-Postpartum-Depression.aspx\">http://nurse-practitioners-and-physician-assistants.advanceweb.com/Article/Breastfeeding-with-Postpartum-Depression.aspx</a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIf you have PMS - you are more likely to suffer from PPMD!  Be prepared!\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Posptartum Mood Disorder - Progesterone\" href=\"http://www.womentowomen.com/depressionanxietyandmood/postpartumdepression.aspx\">http://www.womentowomen.com/depressionanxietyandmood/postpartumdepression.aspx</a>\r\n\r\nHere\'s what Women to Women have to say about Postpartum Mood Disorder:\r\n\r\n\"<strong>Natural progesterone has a known effect on the GABA receptors in the brain — the same receptors that opiate drugs (narcotics) bind to.</strong> I will say that this protocol is controversial, so many conventional practitioners may be unwilling to try it. We and others, however, regularly observe improvement in these women’s depression and anxiety, and although there have been no large trials to date that prove its efficacy, we have used this protocol to good effect many times for many years.\"\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWhy are conventional practitioners unwilling to use it? Yet they are willing to prescribe antidepressants that they KNOW will give you side effects and get into breast milk.  They are afraid and uninformed.  They have heard of the 2002 study which found synthetic hormones posed a cancer risk and they have not looked any further.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nPMS Treatment Clinic - Natural Progesterone can Prevent Postpartum Depression if given right after birth\r\n\r\n<a title=\"PMS Treatment Clinic\" href=\"http://www.pmstreatmentclinic.com/services.html\" target=\"_blank\">http://www.pmstreatmentclinic.com/services.html</a>\r\n\r\nNational Institute of Health -\r\n\r\nSome women may be more suseptible to the changes in hormone levels postpartum:\r\n\r\n<a title=\"NIH - Some women may be more sensitive to the drop in hormone levels postpartum\" href=\"http://clinicalcenter.nih.gov/participate/healthyvolunteers/newsletter_0102.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">http://clinicalcenter.nih.gov/participate/healthyvolunteers/newsletter_0102.shtml</a>','Progesterone Therapy to Treat PPMD','','inherit','open','open','','659-revision-9','','','2012-10-27 22:39:30','2012-10-28 03:39:30','',659,'http://www.hormonesoup.com/659-revision-9/',0,'revision','',0),(677,1,'2012-10-28 06:56:25','2012-10-28 11:56:25','So maybe you\'ve figured out you have symptoms of being estrogen dominant.  (Click here for list of estrogen dominance symptoms).(add link to post) You\'ve determined that you have several of the symptoms.  Some are pesky little nuisances in your life like decreased sex drive, headaches, fatigue, irritability but hey - you\'re a woman, that\'s normal right?  Some of the symptoms you might not even be aware of, like magnesium and zinc deficiency or bone loss.\n\nIf you go to your family doctor for most of these symptoms you will most likely be given a prescription.  You are very likely to walk out of her office with a prescription whether it be for antidepressants, headache pain relief, birth control pills (Oh God, not more Estrogen!!), or Chlomid for infertility.   If you\'re lucky you might get a lab requisition for some tests like checking your thyroid level.  But sadly the level your doctor will probably consider to be normal is inaccurate and based on old information.  Many doctors are still using TSH ranges - 0.5 to from 5.0 to 6.0 and are not following the latest recommendations by the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists which are actually 0.3 - 3.0 (and some doctors believe a TSH level over 2.0 puts you in the category of hypothyroidism).\n\nSo you might be wondering how I know all this?  Because I have been offered all of the above to treat my \"estrogen dominance\"!  Not once over the years of infertility, miscarriages, PMS, low thyroid did any doctor suggest I had symptoms of estrogen dominance!\n\nConsidering the not-so-pesky but more life threatening symptoms of estrogen dominance frightens me but I\'ll live through the fear and review them for you so you can understand why.\n<ul>\n	<li>Endometrial (uterine) cancer</li>\n	<li>Breast Cancer</li>\n	<li>Autoimmune Disorders such a lupus, thyroiditis,  and possibly Sjoegren\'s disease</li>\n	<li>Cervical Dysplacia (precancerous changes to the cervix which if left undetected &amp; untreated can cause cervical cancer - Get your PAP done!)</li>\n</ul>\nHere is one study that in my opinion highlights the reason we need to know what is going on in our bodies even when our symptoms seem pesky:\n\nThe American Journal of Epidemiology followed 1,083 women that had a history of infertility ranging from 13 - 33 years in 1981.  The researchers found that infertile women with progesterone deficiency had a premenopausal breast cancer risk that was <strong>540%</strong> greater than that of women whose infertility was due to non-hormonal causes.  And, the women with a progesterone deficiency had a 1,000% greater chance of death from <strong>all</strong> types of cancer.\n\nIt begs the question - why isn\'t anyone getting to the root of our \"pesky\" symptoms?  I have lived with unopposed estrogen roaming freely with little to no progesterone for my entire adult life.  Do I worry about my risk for breast cancer and other forms of cancer? Hell, yes I do.  I feel fortunate that I have taken the matter into my own hands and balanced my hormones by adding progesterone - but does anyone know what my cancer outlook is now?\n\nCancer prevention Coalition\n\n&nbsp;','I think I\'m Estrogen Dominant, So Now What?','','inherit','open','open','','653-revision-5','','','2012-10-28 06:56:25','2012-10-28 11:56:25','',653,'http://www.hormonesoup.com/653-revision-5/',0,'revision','',0),(678,1,'2012-10-28 07:03:58','2012-10-28 12:03:58','So maybe you\'ve figured out you have symptoms of being estrogen dominant.  (Click<a title=\"Estrogen Dominance\" href=\"http://www.hormonesoup.com/what-does-it-mean-to-be-estrogen-dominant/\" target=\"_blank\"> here</a> for list of estrogen dominance symptoms). You\'ve determined that you have several of the symptoms.  Some are pesky little nuisances in your life like decreased sex drive, headaches, fatigue, irritability but hey - you\'re a woman, that\'s normal right?  Some of the symptoms you might not even be aware of, like magnesium and zinc deficiency or bone loss.\n\nIf you go to your family doctor for most of these symptoms you will most likely be given a prescription.  You are very likely to walk out of her office with a prescription whether it be for antidepressants, headache pain relief, birth control pills (Oh God, not more Estrogen!!), or Chlomid for infertility.   If you\'re lucky you might get a lab requisition for some tests like checking your thyroid level.  But sadly the level your doctor will probably consider to be normal is inaccurate and based on old information.  Many doctors are still using TSH ranges - 0.5 to from 5.0 to 6.0 and are not following the latest recommendations by the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists which are actually 0.3 - 3.0 (and some doctors believe a TSH level over 2.0 puts you in the category of hypothyroidism). Thats a discussion for another day.\n\nSo you might be wondering how I know all this.   I know it because I have been offered all of the above to treat my \"estrogen dominance\"!  Not once over the years of infertility, miscarriages, PMS, low thyroid did any doctor suggest I had symptoms of estrogen dominance!   You might be thinking I must have had terrible doctors or that your doctor isn\'t like the doctors I have encountered.  But here\'s the thing - I didn\'t have \"bad\" doctors and my doctors are just like most other doctors out there.  It\'s not their fault really, they don\'t know, they haven\'t been taught and they need you to teach them.\n\nConsidering the not-so-pesky but more life threatening symptoms of estrogen dominance frightens me but I\'ll live through the fear and review them for you so you can understand why:\n<ul>\n	<li>Endometrial (uterine) cancer</li>\n	<li>Breast Cancer</li>\n	<li>Autoimmune Disorders such a lupus, thyroiditis, and possibly Sjoegren\'s disease</li>\n	<li>Cervical Dysplacia (precancerous changes to the cervix which if left undetected &amp; untreated can cause cervical cancer - Get your PAP done!)</li>\n</ul>\nHere is one study that in my opinion highlights the reason we need to know what is going on in our bodies even when our symptoms seem pesky:\n\nThe American Journal of Epidemiology followed 1,083 women that had a history of infertility ranging from 13 - 33 years in 1981.  The researchers found that infertile women with progesterone deficiency had a premenopausal breast cancer risk that was <strong>540%</strong> greater than that of women whose infertility was due to non-hormonal causes.  And, the women with a progesterone deficiency had a 1,000% greater chance of death from <strong>all</strong> types of cancer.\n\nIt begs the question - why isn\'t anyone getting to the root of our \"pesky\" symptoms?  I have lived with unopposed estrogen roaming freely with little to no progesterone for my entire adult life.  Do I worry about my risk for breast cancer and other forms of cancer? Hell, yes I do.  I feel fortunate that I have taken the matter into my own hands and balanced my hormones by adding progesterone - but does anyone know what my cancer outlook is now?\n\nCancer prevention Coalition\n\n&nbsp;','I think I\'m Estrogen Dominant, So Now What?','','inherit','open','open','','653-revision-6','','','2012-10-28 07:03:58','2012-10-28 12:03:58','',653,'http://www.hormonesoup.com/653-revision-6/',0,'revision','',0),(679,1,'2012-10-28 07:07:33','0000-00-00 00:00:00','You might be thinking I must have had terrible doctors or that your doctor isn\'t like the doctors I have encountered. But here\'s the thing - I didYou might be thinking I must have had terrible doctors or that your doctor isn\'t like the doctors I have encountered.  But here\'s the thing - I didn\'t have \"bad\" doctors and my doctors are just like most other doctors out there.  It\'s not their fault really, they don\'t know, they haven\'t been taught and they need you to teach them.','Bad Doctors?','','draft','open','open','','bad-doctors','','','2012-10-28 07:07:33','2012-10-28 12:07:33','',0,'http://www.hormonesoup.com/?p=679',0,'post','',0),(680,1,'2012-10-28 07:07:04','2012-10-28 12:07:04','','Auto Draft','','inherit','open','open','','679-revision','','','2012-10-28 07:07:04','2012-10-28 12:07:04','',679,'http://www.hormonesoup.com/679-revision/',0,'revision','',0),(681,1,'2012-10-28 07:05:37','2012-10-28 12:05:37','So maybe you\'ve figured out you have symptoms of being estrogen dominant.  (Click<a title=\"Estrogen Dominance\" href=\"http://www.hormonesoup.com/what-does-it-mean-to-be-estrogen-dominant/\" target=\"_blank\"> here</a> for list of estrogen dominance symptoms). You\'ve determined that you have several of the symptoms.  Some are pesky little nuisances in your life like decreased sex drive, headaches, fatigue, irritability but hey - you\'re a woman, that\'s normal right?  Some of the symptoms you might not even be aware of, like magnesium and zinc deficiency or bone loss.\n\nIf you go to your family doctor for most of these symptoms you will most likely be given a prescription.  You are very likely to walk out of her office with a prescription whether it be for antidepressants, headache pain relief, birth control pills (Oh God, not more Estrogen!!), or Chlomid for infertility.   If you\'re lucky you might get a lab requisition for some tests like checking your thyroid level.  But sadly the level your doctor will probably consider to be normal is inaccurate and based on old information.  Many doctors are still using TSH ranges - 0.5 to from 5.0 to 6.0 and are not following the latest recommendations by the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists which are actually 0.3 - 3.0 (and some doctors believe a TSH level over 2.0 puts you in the category of hypothyroidism). Thats a discussion for another day.\n\nSo you might be wondering how I know all this.   I know it because I have been offered all of the above to treat my \"estrogen dominance\"!  Not once over the years of infertility, miscarriages, PMS, low thyroid did any doctor suggest I had symptoms of estrogen dominance!   You might be thinking I must have had terrible doctors or that your doctor isn\'t like the doctors I have encountered.  But here\'s the thing - I didn\'t have \"bad\" doctors and my doctors are just like most other doctors out there.  It\'s not their fault really, they don\'t know, they haven\'t been taught and they need you to teach them.\n\nConsidering the not-so-pesky but more life threatening symptoms of estrogen dominance frightens me but I\'ll live through the fear and review them for you so you can understand why:\n<ul>\n	<li>Endometrial (uterine) cancer</li>\n	<li>Breast Cancer</li>\n	<li>Autoimmune Disorders such a lupus, thyroiditis, and possibly Sjoegren\'s disease</li>\n	<li>Cervical Dysplacia (precancerous changes to the cervix which if left undetected &amp; untreated can eventually cause cervical cancer - Get your PAP done!)</li>\n</ul>\nHere is one study that in my opinion highlights the reason we need to know what is going on in our bodies even when our symptoms seem pesky:\n\nThe American Journal of Epidemiology followed 1,083 women that had a history of infertility ranging from 13 - 33 years in 1981.  The researchers found that infertile women with progesterone deficiency had a premenopausal breast cancer risk that was <strong>540%</strong> greater than that of women whose infertility was due to non-hormonal causes.  And, the women with a progesterone deficiency had a 1,000% greater chance of death from <strong>all</strong> types of cancer.\n\nIt begs the question - why isn\'t anyone getting to the root of our \"pesky\" symptoms?  I have lived with unopposed estrogen roaming freely with little to no progesterone for my entire adult life.  Do I worry about my risk for breast cancer and other forms of cancer? Hell, yes I do.  I feel fortunate that I have taken the matter into my own hands and balanced my hormones by adding progesterone - but does anyone know what my cancer outlook is now?\n\nCancer prevention Coalition\n\n&nbsp;','I think I\'m Estrogen Dominant, So Now What?','','inherit','open','open','','653-revision-7','','','2012-10-28 07:05:37','2012-10-28 12:05:37','',653,'http://www.hormonesoup.com/653-revision-7/',0,'revision','',0),(682,1,'2012-10-28 07:15:51','2012-10-28 12:15:51','So maybe you\'ve figured out you have symptoms of being estrogen dominant.  (Click <a title=\"Estrogen Dominance\" href=\"http://www.hormonesoup.com/what-does-it-mean-to-be-estrogen-dominant/\" target=\"_blank\">here</a> for list of estrogen dominance symptoms). You\'ve determined that you have several of the symptoms.  Some are pesky little nuisances in your life like decreased sex drive, headaches, fatigue, irritability but hey - you\'re a woman, that\'s normal right?  Some of the symptoms you might not even be aware of, like magnesium and zinc deficiency or bone loss.\n\nIf you go to your family doctor for most of these symptoms you will most likely be given a prescription.  You are very likely to walk out of her office with a prescription whether it be for antidepressants, headache pain relief, birth control pills (Oh God, not more Estrogen!!), or Chlomid for infertility.   If you\'re lucky you might get a lab requisition for some tests like checking your thyroid level.  But sadly the level your doctor will probably consider to be normal is inaccurate and based on old information.  Many doctors are still using TSH ranges - 0.5 to from 5.0 to 6.0 and are not following the latest recommendations by the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists which are actually 0.3 - 3.0 (and some doctors believe a TSH level over 2.0 puts you in the category of hypothyroidism). Thats a discussion for another day.\n\nSo you might be wondering how I know all this.   I know it because I have been offered all of the above to treat my \"estrogen dominance\"!  Not once over the years of infertility, miscarriages, PMS, low thyroid did any doctor suggest I had symptoms of estrogen dominance!   You might be thinking I must have had terrible doctors or that your doctor isn\'t like the doctors I have encountered.  But here\'s the thing - I didn\'t have \"bad\" doctors and my doctors are just like most other doctors out there.  It\'s not their fault really, they don\'t know, they haven\'t been taught and they need you to teach them.\n\nConsidering the not-so-pesky but more life threatening symptoms of estrogen dominance frightens me but I\'ll live through the fear and review them for you so you can understand why:\n<ul>\n	<li>Endometrial (uterine) cancer</li>\n	<li>Breast Cancer</li>\n	<li>Autoimmune Disorders such a lupus, thyroiditis, and possibly Sjoegren\'s disease</li>\n	<li>Cervical Dysplacia (precancerous changes to the cervix which if left undetected &amp; untreated can eventually cause cervical cancer - Get your PAP done!)</li>\n</ul>\nHere is one study that in my opinion highlights the reason we need to know what is going on in our bodies even when our symptoms seem pesky:\n\nBack in 1981 a study published in the American Journal of Epidemiology found that infertile women with <em>progesterone deficiency</em> had a premenopausal breast cancer risk that was <strong>540%</strong> greater than that of women whose infertility was due to non-hormonal causes.  And, the women with a progesterone deficiency had a 1,000% greater chance of death from <strong>all</strong> types of cancer.  This study followed 1,083 women that had a history of infertility ranging from 13 - 33 years.\n\nIt begs the question - why isn\'t anyone getting to the root of our \"pesky\" symptoms?  I have lived with unopposed estrogen roaming freely with little to no progesterone for my entire adult life.  Do I worry about my risk for breast cancer and other forms of cancer? Hell, yes I do.  I feel fortunate that I have taken the matter into my own hands and balanced my hormones by adding progesterone - but does anyone know what my cancer outlook is now?\n\nCancer prevention Coalition\n\n&nbsp;','I think I\'m Estrogen Dominant, So Now What?','','inherit','open','open','','653-revision-8','','','2012-10-28 07:15:51','2012-10-28 12:15:51','',653,'http://www.hormonesoup.com/653-revision-8/',0,'revision','',0),(690,1,'2012-10-29 13:54:23','2012-10-29 18:54:23','[caption id=\"attachment_686\" align=\"alignright\" width=\"100\"]<a href=\"http://www.hormonesoup.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/1.jpg\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-686\" title=\"Now What?\" src=\"http://www.hormonesoup.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/1.jpg\" alt=\"I think Im Estrogen Dominant, Now What?\" width=\"100\" height=\"150\" /></a> I think I\'m Estrogen Dominant, Now What?[/caption]\n\nI\'m going to take a wild stab and guess that if you\'re not estrogen dominant then someone you love probably is, that\'s how prevelant estrogen dominance is in our society today.  Say you\'ve determined that you have several of the symptoms, some of which are pesky little nuisances in your life like decreased sex drive, headaches, fatigue, irritability but hey - you\'re a woman, that\'s normal right?  Some of the symptoms you might not even be aware of, like magnesium and zinc deficiency or bone loss.\n\nIf you go to your family doctor for most of these symptoms you will most likely be given a prescription.  You are very likely to walk out of her office with a prescription whether it be for antidepressants, headache pain relief, birth control pills (Oh God, not more Estrogen!!), or Chlomid for infertility.   If you\'re lucky you might get a lab requisition for some tests like checking your thyroid level.  Sadly the level your doctor will probably consider to be normal is inaccurate and based on old information.  Many doctors are still using TSH ranges of 0.5 to 5.0 or 6.0 and are not following the latest recommendations by the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists which are actually 0.3 - 3.0 (and some doctors believe a TSH level over 2.0 puts you in the category of hypothyroidism). Thats a discussion for another day.\n\nI will admit that thinking about the not-so-pesky but more life threatening symptoms of estrogen dominance frightens me a bit.  I\'ve been estrogen dominant my entire adult life so I have had unopposed estrogen roaming freely throughout my body.  I\'m not telling you this to frighten you but if you\'re estrogen dominant you need to know this stuff even though it\'s scary. I am telling you this because it fits with my view to <strong>Educate, Advocate and Empower</strong> yourself when it comes to your own health.  Here are the scary symptoms that are part of the reason I keep watch on my hormone levels through saliva and blood testing:\n<ul>\n	<li>Endometrial (uterine) cancer</li>\n	<li>Breast Cancer</li>\n	<li>Autoimmune Disorders such a lupus, thyroiditis, and possibly Sjoegren\'s disease</li>\n	<li>Cervical Dysplacia (precancerous changes to the cervix which if left undetected &amp; untreated can eventually cause cervical cancer - Get your PAP done!)</li>\n</ul>\n<div>Breast cancer is a particular concern to me, I\'m sure most women think about it from time to time.  Here is one study that in my opinion highlights the reason we need to know what is going on in our bodies even when our symptoms seem pesky:</div>\nBack in 1981 a study published in the American Journal of Epidemiology found that infertile women with <em>progesterone deficiency</em> had a premenopausal breast cancer risk that was <strong>540%</strong> greater than that of women whose infertility was due to non-hormonal causes.  And, the women with a progesterone deficiency had a <strong>1,000%</strong> greater chance of death from <strong>all</strong> types of cancer.  This study followed 1,083 women that had a history of infertility ranging from 13 - 33 years.\n\nSo you know how when faced with scary statistics like that, you try to figure out a way that this data doesn\'t fit for you? That\'s exactly what I started to think...oh I wasn\'t infertile for 13 - 33 years, phewph.  But really the truth is, I don\'t know what this means for me - I lived with progesterone deficiency from adolescence to my late thirties. I moved during that time and had a minumum of 6 different doctors - 3 were ob/gyn\'s so it\'s not like I only encountered one misinformed doctor. Yet with all these doctor\'s knowing my menstrual history none of them discussed this increased risk with me.\n\nIt begs the question - why isn\'t anyone getting to the root of our \"pesky\" symptoms in light of the bigger possibilities?  I have lived with unopposed estrogen roaming freely with little to no progesterone for my entire adult life.  Do I worry about my risk for breast cancer and other forms of cancer? Hell, yes I do.  I feel fortunate that I have taken the matter into my own hands and balanced my hormones by adding progesterone - but does anyone know what my cancer outlook is now? I hope I\'ve reduced it, I hope the risk continues to shrink overtime.\n\n&nbsp;','Why You Need to Care About Estrogen Dominance','','inherit','open','open','','653-revision-12','','','2012-10-29 13:54:23','2012-10-29 18:54:23','',653,'http://www.hormonesoup.com/653-revision-12/',0,'revision','',0),(689,1,'2012-10-28 23:35:39','2012-10-29 04:35:39','[caption id=\"attachment_686\" align=\"alignright\" width=\"100\"]<a href=\"http://www.hormonesoup.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/1.jpg\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-686\" title=\"Now What?\" src=\"http://www.hormonesoup.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/1.jpg\" alt=\"I think Im Estrogen Dominant, Now What?\" width=\"100\" height=\"150\" /></a> I think I\'m Estrogen Dominant, Now What?[/caption]\n\nSo maybe you\'ve realized you or someone you know has symptoms of being estrogen dominant.  (Click <a title=\"Estrogen Dominance\" href=\"http://www.hormonesoup.com/what-does-it-mean-to-be-estrogen-dominant/\" target=\"_blank\">here</a> for list of estrogen dominance symptoms). You\'ve determined that you have several of the symptoms, some of which are pesky little nuisances in your life like decreased sex drive, headaches, fatigue, irritability but hey - you\'re a woman, that\'s normal right?  Some of the symptoms you might not even be aware of, like magnesium and zinc deficiency or bone loss.\n\nIf you go to your family doctor for most of these symptoms you will most likely be given a prescription.  You are very likely to walk out of her office with a prescription whether it be for antidepressants, headache pain relief, birth control pills (Oh God, not more Estrogen!!), or Chlomid for infertility.   If you\'re lucky you might get a lab requisition for some tests like checking your thyroid level.  But sadly the level your doctor will probably consider to be normal is inaccurate and based on old information.  Many doctors are still using TSH ranges - 0.5 to from 5.0 to 6.0 and are not following the latest recommendations by the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists which are actually 0.3 - 3.0 (and some doctors believe a TSH level over 2.0 puts you in the category of hypothyroidism). Thats a discussion for another day.\n\nSo you might be wondering how I know all this.  I know it because I have been offered all of the above to treat my \"estrogen dominance\".  Not once over the years of infertility, miscarriages, PMS, low thyroid did any doctor suggest I had symptoms of estrogen dominance.  You might be thinking I must have had terrible doctors or that your doctor isn\'t like the doctors I have encountered.  But here\'s the thing - I didn\'t have \"bad\" doctors and my doctors are just like most other doctors out there.  It\'s not their fault really, they don\'t know, they haven\'t been taught and they need you to teach them. Besides, most doctors are so busy today  it\'s all they can do to treat your acute symptoms so they aren\'t really into prevention.\n\nI will admit that thinking about the not-so-pesky but more life threatening symptoms of estrogen dominance frightens me a bit.  I\'ve been estrogen dominant my entire adult life so I have had unopposed estrogen roaming freely throughout my body.  I\'m not telling you this to frighten you but if you\'re estrogen dominant you need to know this stuff even though it\'s scary. I am telling you this because it fits with my view to <strong>Educate, Advocate and Empower</strong> yourself when it comes to your own health.  Here are the scary symptoms that are part of the reason I keep watch on my hormone levels through saliva and blood testing:\n<ul>\n	<li>Endometrial (uterine) cancer</li>\n	<li>Breast Cancer</li>\n	<li>Autoimmune Disorders such a lupus, thyroiditis, and possibly Sjoegren\'s disease</li>\n	<li>Cervical Dysplacia (precancerous changes to the cervix which if left undetected &amp; untreated can eventually cause cervical cancer - Get your PAP done!)</li>\n</ul>\n<div></div>\n<div>Breast cancer is a particular concern to me, I\'m sure most women think about it from time to time.  Here is one study that in my opinion highlights the reason we need to know what is going on in our bodies even when our symptoms seem pesky:</div>\nBack in 1981 a study published in the American Journal of Epidemiology found that infertile women with <em>progesterone deficiency</em> had a premenopausal breast cancer risk that was <strong>540%</strong> greater than that of women whose infertility was due to non-hormonal causes.  And, the women with a progesterone deficiency had a 1,000% greater chance of death from <strong>all</strong> types of cancer.  This study followed 1,083 women that had a history of infertility ranging from 13 - 33 years.\n\nSo you know how when faced with scary statistics like that, you try to figure out a way that this data doesn\'t fit for you? That\'s exactly what I started to think...oh I wasn\'t infertile for 13 - 33 years, phewph.  But really the truth is, I don\'t know what this means for me - I lived with progesterone deficiency from adolescence to my late thirties. I moved during that time and had a minumum of 5 different doctors - 3 were ob/gyn\'s - yet none of them discussed this increased risk with me.\n\nIt begs the question - why isn\'t anyone getting to the root of our \"pesky\" symptoms in light of the bigger possibilities?  I have lived with unopposed estrogen roaming freely with little to no progesterone for my entire adult life.  Do I worry about my risk for breast cancer and other forms of cancer? Hell, yes I do.  I feel fortunate that I have taken the matter into my own hands and balanced my hormones by adding progesterone - but does anyone know what my cancer outlook is now? I hope I\'ve reduced it, I hope the risk continues to shrink overtime.  I worry for my own daughters, I worry for the women I care about who have symptoms of estrogen dominance and don\'t seem to hear my message.  Not everyone wants to hear this message.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;','Why You Need to Care Whether You\'re Estrogen Dominant','','inherit','open','open','','653-revision-11','','','2012-10-28 23:35:39','2012-10-29 04:35:39','',653,'http://www.hormonesoup.com/653-revision-11/',0,'revision','',0),(691,1,'2012-10-29 13:56:50','2012-10-29 18:56:50','[caption id=\"attachment_686\" align=\"alignright\" width=\"100\"]<a href=\"http://www.hormonesoup.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/1.jpg\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-686\" title=\"Now What?\" src=\"http://www.hormonesoup.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/1.jpg\" alt=\"I think Im Estrogen Dominant, Now What?\" width=\"100\" height=\"150\" /></a> I think I\'m Estrogen Dominant, Now What?[/caption]\n\nI\'m going to take a wild stab and guess that if you\'re not estrogen dominant then someone you love probably is, that\'s how prevelant estrogen dominance is in our society today.  Let\'s say you\'ve determined that you have several of the symptoms  (<a title=\"What does it mean to be estrogen dominant\" href=\"http://www.hormonesoup.com/what-does-it-mean-to-be-estrogen-dominant/\" target=\"_blank\">click here</a> ), some of which are pesky little nuisances in your life like decreased sex drive, headaches, fatigue, irritability but hey - you\'re a woman, that\'s normal right?  Some of the symptoms you might not even be aware of, like magnesium and zinc deficiency or bone loss.\n\nIf you go to your family doctor for most of these symptoms you will most likely be given a prescription.  You are very likely to walk out of her office with a prescription whether it be for antidepressants, headache pain relief, birth control pills (Oh God, not more Estrogen!!), or Chlomid for infertility.   If you\'re lucky you might get a lab requisition for some tests like checking your thyroid level.  Sadly the level your doctor will probably consider to be normal is inaccurate and based on old information.  Many doctors are still using TSH ranges of 0.5 to 5.0 or 6.0 and are not following the latest recommendations by the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists which are actually 0.3 - 3.0 (and some doctors believe a TSH level over 2.0 puts you in the category of hypothyroidism). Thats a discussion for another day.\n\nI will admit that thinking about the not-so-pesky but more life threatening symptoms of estrogen dominance frightens me a bit.  I\'ve been estrogen dominant my entire adult life so I have had unopposed estrogen roaming freely throughout my body.  I\'m not telling you this to frighten you but if you\'re estrogen dominant you need to know this stuff even though it\'s scary. I am telling you this because it fits with my view to <strong>Educate, Advocate and Empower%','Why You Need to Care About Estrogen Dominance','','inherit','open','open','','653-revision-13','','','2012-10-29 13:56:50','2012-10-29 18:56:50','',653,'http://www.hormonesoup.com/653-revision-13/',0,'revision','',0),(693,1,'2012-10-29 14:15:35','2012-10-29 19:15:35','[caption id=\"attachment_686\" align=\"alignright\" width=\"100\"]<a href=\"http://www.hormonesoup.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/1.jpg\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-686\" title=\"Now What?\" src=\"http://www.hormonesoup.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/1.jpg\" alt=\"I think Im Estrogen Dominant, Now What?\" width=\"100\" height=\"150\" /></a> I think I\'m Estrogen Dominant, Now What?[/caption]\n\nI\'m going to take a wild stab and guess that if you\'re not estrogen dominant then someone you love probably is, that\'s how prevelant estrogen dominance is in our society today.  Let\'s say you\'ve determined that you have several of the symptoms [[What it Means to beEstrogen Dominant]], some of which are pesky little nuisances in your life like decreased sex drive, headaches, fatigue, irritability but hey - you\'re a woman, that\'s normal right?  Some of the symptoms you might not even be aware of, like magnesium and zinc deficiency or bone loss.\n\nIf you go to your family doctor for most of these symptoms you will most likely be given a prescription.  You are very likely to walk out of her office with a prescription whether it be for antidepressants, headache pain relief, birth control pills (Oh God, not more Estrogen!!), or Chlomid for infertility.   If you\'re lucky you might get a lab requisition for some tests like checking your thyroid level.  Sadly the level your doctor will probably consider to be normal is inaccurate and based on old information.  Many doctors are still using TSH ranges of 0.5 to 5.0 or 6.0 and are not following the latest recommendations by the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists which are actually 0.3 - 3.0 (and some doctors believe a TSH level over 2.0 puts you in the category of hypothyroidism). Thats a discussion for another day.\n\nI will admit that thinking about the not-so-pesky but more life threatening symptoms of estrogen dominance frightens me a bit.  I\'ve been estrogen dominant my entire adult life so I have had unopposed estrogen roaming freely throughout my body.  I\'m not telling you this to frighten you but if you\'re estrogen dominant you need to know this stuff even though it\'s scary. I am telling you this because it fits with my view to <strong>Educate, Advocate and Empower</strong> yourself when it comes to your own health.  Here are the scary symptoms that are part of the reason I keep watch on my hormone levels through saliva and blood testing:\n<ul>\n	<li>Endometrial (uterine) cancer</li>\n	<li>Breast Cancer</li>\n	<li>Autoimmune Disorders such a lupus, thyroiditis, and possibly Sjoegren\'s disease</li>\n	<li>Cervical Dysplacia (precancerous changes to the cervix which if left undetected &amp; untreated can eventually cause cervical cancer - Get your PAP done!)</li>\n</ul>\n<div>Breast cancer is a particular concern to me, I\'m sure most women think about it from time to time.  Here is one study that in my opinion highlights the reason we need to know what is going on in our bodies even when our symptoms seem pesky:</div>\nBack in 1981 a study published in the American Journal of Epidemiology found that infertile women with <em>progesterone deficiency</em> had a premenopausal breast cancer risk that was <strong>540%</strong> greater than that of women whose infertility was due to non-hormonal causes.  And, the women with a progesterone deficiency had a <strong>1,000%</strong> greater chance of death from <strong>all</strong> types of cancer.  This study followed 1,083 women that had a history of infertility ranging from 13 - 33 years.\n\nSo you know how when faced with scary statistics like that, you try to figure out a way that this data doesn\'t fit for you? That\'s exactly what I started to think...oh I wasn\'t infertile for 13 - 33 years, phewph.  But really the truth is, I don\'t know what this means for me - I lived with progesterone deficiency from adolescence to my late thirties. I moved during that time and had a minumum of 6 different doctors - 3 were ob/gyn\'s so it\'s not like I only encountered one misinformed doctor. Yet with all these doctor\'s knowing my menstrual history none of them discussed this increased risk with me.\n\nIt begs the question - why isn\'t anyone getting to the root of our \"pesky\" symptoms in light of the bigger possibilities?  I have lived with unopposed estrogen roaming freely with little to no progesterone for my entire adult life.  Do I worry about my risk for breast cancer and other forms of cancer? Hell, yes I do.  I feel fortunate that I have taken the matter into my own hands and balanced my hormones by adding progesterone - but does anyone know what my cancer outlook is now? I hope I\'ve reduced it, I hope the risk continues to shrink overtime.\n\n&nbsp;','Why You Need to Care About Estrogen Dominance','','inherit','open','open','','653-revision-14','','','2012-10-29 14:15:35','2012-10-29 19:15:35','',653,'http://www.hormonesoup.com/653-revision-14/',0,'revision','',0),(694,1,'2012-10-29 14:17:36','2012-10-29 19:17:36','[caption id=\"attachment_686\" align=\"alignright\" width=\"100\"]<a href=\"http://www.hormonesoup.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/1.jpg\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-686\" title=\"Now What?\" src=\"http://www.hormonesoup.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/1.jpg\" alt=\"I think Im Estrogen Dominant, Now What?\" width=\"100\" height=\"150\" /></a> I think I\'m Estrogen Dominant, Now What?[/caption]\n\nI\'m going to take a wild stab and guess that if you\'re not estrogen dominant then someone you love probably is, that\'s how prevelant estrogen dominance is in our society today.  Let\'s say you\'ve determined that you have several of the symptoms I listed in \"<a title=\"What does it mean to be Estrogen Dominant?\" href=\"http://www.hormonesoup.com/what-does-it-mean-to-be-estrogen-dominant/\">What it Means to beEstrogen Dominant</a>\", some of which are pesky little nuisances in your life like decreased sex drive, headaches, fatigue, irritability but hey - you\'re a woman, that\'s normal right?  Some of the symptoms you might not even be aware of, like magnesium and zinc deficiency or bone loss.\n\nIf you go to your family doctor for most of these symptoms you will most likely be given a prescription.  You are very likely to walk out of her office with a prescription whether it be for antidepressants, headache pain relief, birth control pills (Oh God, not more Estrogen!!), or Chlomid for infertility.   If you\'re lucky you might get a lab requisition for some tests like checking your thyroid level.  Sadly the level your doctor will probably consider to be normal is inaccurate and based on old information.  Many doctors are still using TSH ranges of 0.5 to 5.0 or 6.0 and are not following the latest recommendations by the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists which are actually 0.3 - 3.0 (and some doctors believe a TSH level over 2.0 puts you in the category of hypothyroidism). Thats a discussion for another day.\n\nI will admit that thinking about the not-so-pesky but more life threatening symptoms of estrogen dominance frightens me a bit.  I\'ve been estrogen dominant my entire adult life so I have had unopposed estrogen roaming freely throughout my body.  I\'m not telling you this to frighten you but if you\'re estrogen dominant you need to know this stuff even though it\'s scary. I am telling you this because it fits with my view to <strong>Educate, Advocate and Empower</strong> yourself when it comes to your own health.  Here are the scary symptoms that are part of the reason I keep watch on my hormone levels through saliva and blood testing:\n<ul>\n	<li>Endometrial (uterine) cancer</li>\n	<li>Breast Cancer</li>\n	<li>Autoimmune Disorders such a lupus, thyroiditis, and possibly Sjoegren\'s disease</li>\n	<li>Cervical Dysplacia (precancerous changes to the cervix which if left undetected &amp; untreated can eventually cause cervical cancer - Get your PAP done!)</li>\n</ul>\n<div>Breast cancer is a particular concern to me, I\'m sure most women think about it from time to time.  Here is one study that in my opinion highlights the reason we need to know what is going on in our bodies even when our symptoms seem pesky:</div>\nBack in 1981 a study published in the American Journal of Epidemiology found that infertile women with <em>progesterone deficiency</em> had a premenopausal breast cancer risk that was <strong>540%</strong> greater than that of women whose infertility was due to non-hormonal causes.  And, the women with a progesterone deficiency had a <strong>1,000%</strong> greater chance of death from <strong>all</strong> types of cancer.  This study followed 1,083 women that had a history of infertility ranging from 13 - 33 years.\n\nSo you know how when faced with scary statistics like that, you try to figure out a way that this data doesn\'t fit for you? That\'s exactly what I started to think...oh I wasn\'t infertile for 13 - 33 years, phewph.  But really the truth is, I don\'t know what this means for me - I lived with progesterone deficiency from adolescence to my late thirties. I moved during that time and had a minumum of 6 different doctors - 3 were ob/gyn\'s so it\'s not like I only encountered one misinformed doctor. Yet with all these doctor\'s knowing my menstrual history none of them discussed this increased risk with me.\n\nIt begs the question - why isn\'t anyone getting to the root of our \"pesky\" symptoms in light of the bigger possibilities?  I have lived with unopposed estrogen roaming freely with little to no progesterone for my entire adult life.  Do I worry about my risk for breast cancer and other forms of cancer? Hell, yes I do.  I feel fortunate that I have taken the matter into my own hands and balanced my hormones by adding progesterone - but does anyone know what my cancer outlook is now? I hope I\'ve reduced it, I hope the risk continues to shrink overtime.\n\n&nbsp;','Why You Need to Care About Estrogen Dominance','','inherit','open','open','','653-revision-15','','','2012-10-29 14:17:36','2012-10-29 19:17:36','',653,'http://www.hormonesoup.com/653-revision-15/',0,'revision','',0),(695,1,'2012-10-29 14:18:38','2012-10-29 19:18:38','[caption id=\"attachment_686\" align=\"alignright\" width=\"100\"]<a href=\"http://www.hormonesoup.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/1.jpg\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-686\" title=\"Now What?\" src=\"http://www.hormonesoup.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/1.jpg\" alt=\"I think Im Estrogen Dominant, Now What?\" width=\"100\" height=\"150\" /></a> I think I\'m Estrogen Dominant, Now What?[/caption]\r\n\r\nI\'m going to take a wild stab and guess that if you\'re not estrogen dominant then someone you love probably is, that\'s how prevelant estrogen dominance is in our society today.  Let\'s say you\'ve determined that you have several of the symptoms I listed in \"<a title=\"What does it mean to be Estrogen Dominant?\" href=\"http://www.hormonesoup.com/what-does-it-mean-to-be-estrogen-dominant/\">What it Means to beEstrogen Dominant</a>\", some of which are pesky little nuisances in your life like decreased sex drive, headaches, fatigue, irritability but hey - you\'re a woman, that\'s normal right?  Some of the symptoms you might not even be aware of, like magnesium and zinc deficiency or bone loss.\r\n\r\nIf you go to your family doctor for most of these symptoms you will most likely be given a prescription.  You are very likely to walk out of her office with a prescription whether it be for antidepressants, headache pain relief, birth control pills (Oh God, not more Estrogen!!), or Chlomid for infertility.   If you\'re lucky you might get a lab requisition for some tests like checking your thyroid level.  Sadly the level your doctor will probably consider to be normal is inaccurate and based on old information.  Many doctors are still using TSH ranges of 0.5 to 5.0 or 6.0 and are not following the latest recommendations by the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists which are actually 0.3 - 3.0 (and some doctors believe a TSH level over 2.0 puts you in the category of hypothyroidism). Thats a discussion for another day.\r\n\r\nI will admit that thinking about the not-so-pesky but more life threatening symptoms of estrogen dominance frightens me a bit.  I\'ve been estrogen dominant my entire adult life so I have had unopposed estrogen roaming freely throughout my body.  I\'m not telling you this to frighten you but if you\'re estrogen dominant you need to know this stuff even though it\'s scary. I am telling you this because it fits with my view to <strong>Educate, Advocate and Empower</strong> yourself when it comes to your own health.  Here are the scary symptoms that are part of the reason I keep watch on my hormone levels through saliva and blood testing:\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Endometrial (uterine) cancer</li>\r\n	<li>Breast Cancer</li>\r\n	<li>Autoimmune Disorders such a lupus, thyroiditis, and possibly Sjoegren\'s disease</li>\r\n	<li>Cervical Dysplacia (precancerous changes to the cervix which if left undetected &amp; untreated can eventually cause cervical cancer - Get your PAP done!)</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<div>Breast cancer is a particular concern to me, I\'m sure most women think about it from time to time.  Here is one study that in my opinion highlights the reason we need to know what is going on in our bodies even when our symptoms seem pesky:</div>\r\nBack in 1981 a study published in the American Journal of Epidemiology found that infertile women with <em>progesterone deficiency</em> had a premenopausal breast cancer risk that was <strong>540%</strong> greater than that of women whose infertility was due to non-hormonal causes.  And, the women with a progesterone deficiency had a <strong>1,000%</strong> greater chance of death from <strong>all</strong> types of cancer.  This study followed 1,083 women that had a history of infertility ranging from 13 - 33 years.\r\n\r\nSo you know how when faced with scary statistics like that, you try to figure out a way that this data doesn\'t fit for you? That\'s exactly what I started to think...oh I wasn\'t infertile for 13 - 33 years, phewph.  But really the truth is, I don\'t know what this means for me - I lived with progesterone deficiency from adolescence to my late thirties. I moved during that time and had a minumum of 6 different doctors - 3 were ob/gyn\'s so it\'s not like I only encountered one misinformed doctor. Yet with all these doctor\'s knowing my menstrual history none of them discussed this increased risk with me.\r\n\r\nIt begs the question - why isn\'t anyone getting to the root of our \"pesky\" symptoms in light of the bigger possibilities?  I have lived with unopposed estrogen roaming freely with little to no progesterone for my entire adult life.  Do I worry about my risk for breast cancer and other forms of cancer? Hell, yes I do.  I feel fortunate that I have taken the matter into my own hands and balanced my hormones by adding progesterone - but does anyone know what my cancer outlook is now? I hope I\'ve reduced it, I hope the risk continues to shrink overtime.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','Why You Need to Care About Estrogen Dominance','','inherit','open','open','','653-revision-16','','','2012-10-29 14:18:38','2012-10-29 19:18:38','',653,'http://www.hormonesoup.com/653-revision-16/',0,'revision','',0),(696,1,'2013-04-01 15:20:56','2013-04-01 20:20:56','[caption id=\"attachment_686\" align=\"alignright\" width=\"100\"]<a href=\"http://www.hormonesoup.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/1.jpg\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-686\" title=\"Now What?\" alt=\"I think Im Estrogen Dominant, Now What?\" src=\"http://www.hormonesoup.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/1.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"150\" /></a> I think I\'m Estrogen Dominant, Now What?[/caption]\n\nI\'m going to take a wild stab and guess that if you\'re not estrogen dominant then someone you love probably is, that\'s how prevelant estrogen dominance is in our society today.  Let\'s say you\'ve determined that you have several of the symptoms I listed in \"<a title=\"What does it mean to be Estrogen Dominant?\" href=\"http://www.hormonesoup.com/what-does-it-mean-to-be-estrogen-dominant/\">What it Means to be Estrogen Dominant</a>\", some of which are pesky little nuisances in your life like decreased sex drive, headaches, fatigue, irritability but hey - you\'re a woman, that\'s normal right?  Some of the symptoms you might not even be aware of, like magnesium and zinc deficiency or bone loss.\n\nIf you go to your family doctor for most of these symptoms you will most likely be given a prescription.  You are very likely to walk out of her office with a prescription whether it be for antidepressants, headache pain relief, birth control pills (Oh God, not more Estrogen!!), or Chlomid for infertility.   If you\'re lucky you might get a lab requisition for some tests like checking your thyroid level.  Sadly the level your doctor will probably consider to be normal is inaccurate and based on old information.  Many doctors are still using TSH ranges of 0.5 to 5.0 or 6.0 and are not following the latest recommendations by the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists which are actually 0.3 - 3.0 (and some doctors believe a TSH level over 2.0 puts you in the category of hypothyroidism). Thats a discussion for another day.\n\nI will admit that thinking about the not-so-pesky but more life threatening symptoms of estrogen dominance frightens me a bit.  I\'ve been estrogen dominant my entire adult life so I have had unopposed estrogen roaming freely throughout my body.  I\'m not telling you this to frighten you but if you\'re estrogen dominant you need to know this stuff even though it\'s scary. I am telling you this because it fits with my view to <strong>Educate, Advocate and Empower</strong> yourself when it comes to your own health.  Here are the scary symptoms that are part of the reason I keep watch on my hormone levels through saliva and blood testing:\n<ul>\n	<li>Endometrial (uterine) cancer</li>\n	<li>Breast Cancer</li>\n	<li>Autoimmune Disorders such a lupus, thyroiditis, and possibly Sjoegren\'s disease</li>\n	<li>Cervical Dysplacia (precancerous changes to the cervix which if left undetected &amp; untreated can eventually cause cervical cancer - Get your PAP done!)</li>\n</ul>\n<div>Breast cancer is a particular concern to me, I\'m sure most women think about it from time to time.  Here is one study that in my opinion highlights the reason we need to know what is going on in our bodies even when our symptoms seem pesky:</div>\nBack in 1981 a study published in the American Journal of Epidemiology found that infertile women with <em>progesterone deficiency</em> had a premenopausal breast cancer risk that was <strong>540%</strong> greater than that of women whose infertility was due to non-hormonal causes.  And, the women with a progesterone deficiency had a <strong>1,000%</strong> greater chance of death from <strong>all</strong> types of cancer.  This study followed 1,083 women that had a history of infertility ranging from 13 - 33 years.\n\nSo you know how when faced with scary statistics like that, you try to figure out a way that this data doesn\'t fit for you? That\'s exactly what I started to think...oh I wasn\'t infertile for 13 - 33 years, phewph.  But really the truth is, I don\'t know what this means for me - I lived with progesterone deficiency from adolescence to my late thirties. I moved during that time and had a minumum of 6 different doctors - 3 were ob/gyn\'s so it\'s not like I only encountered one misinformed doctor. Yet with all these doctor\'s knowing my menstrual history none of them discussed this increased risk with me.\n\nIt begs the question - why isn\'t anyone getting to the root of our \"pesky\" symptoms in light of the bigger possibilities?  I have lived with unopposed estrogen roaming freely with little to no progesterone for my entire adult life.  Do I worry about my risk for breast cancer and other forms of cancer? Hell, yes I do.  I feel fortunate that I have taken the matter into my own hands and balanced my hormones by adding progesterone - but does anyone know what my cancer outlook is now? I hope I\'ve reduced it and I hope the risk continues to shrink over time. But more than that, I would like to see more research put into this key area of women\'s health.\n\n&nbsp;','Why You Need to Care About Estrogen Dominance','','inherit','open','open','','653-autosave','','','2013-04-01 15:20:56','2013-04-01 20:20:56','',653,'http://www.hormonesoup.com/653-autosave/',0,'revision','',0),(697,1,'2012-10-29 14:18:55','2012-10-29 19:18:55','[caption id=\"attachment_686\" align=\"alignright\" width=\"100\"]<a href=\"http://www.hormonesoup.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/1.jpg\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-686\" title=\"Now What?\" src=\"http://www.hormonesoup.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/1.jpg\" alt=\"I think Im Estrogen Dominant, Now What?\" width=\"100\" height=\"150\" /></a> I think I\'m Estrogen Dominant, Now What?[/caption]\r\n\r\nI\'m going to take a wild stab and guess that if you\'re not estrogen dominant then someone you love probably is, that\'s how prevelant estrogen dominance is in our society today.  Let\'s say you\'ve determined that you have several of the symptoms I listed in \"<a title=\"What does it mean to be Estrogen Dominant?\" href=\"http://www.hormonesoup.com/what-does-it-mean-to-be-estrogen-dominant/\">What it Means to beEstrogen Dominant</a>\", some of which are pesky little nuisances in your life like decreased sex drive, headaches, fatigue, irritability but hey - you\'re a woman, that\'s normal right?  Some of the symptoms you might not even be aware of, like magnesium and zinc deficiency or bone loss.\r\n\r\nIf you go to your family doctor for most of these symptoms you will most likely be given a prescription.  You are very likely to walk out of her office with a prescription whether it be for antidepressants, headache pain relief, birth control pills (Oh God, not more Estrogen!!), or Chlomid for infertility.   If you\'re lucky you might get a lab requisition for some tests like checking your thyroid level.  Sadly the level your doctor will probably consider to be normal is inaccurate and based on old information.  Many doctors are still using TSH ranges of 0.5 to 5.0 or 6.0 and are not following the latest recommendations by the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists which are actually 0.3 - 3.0 (and some doctors believe a TSH level over 2.0 puts you in the category of hypothyroidism). Thats a discussion for another day.\r\n\r\nI will admit that thinking about the not-so-pesky but more life threatening symptoms of estrogen dominance frightens me a bit.  I\'ve been estrogen dominant my entire adult life so I have had unopposed estrogen roaming freely throughout my body.  I\'m not telling you this to frighten you but if you\'re estrogen dominant you need to know this stuff even though it\'s scary. I am telling you this because it fits with my view to <strong>Educate, Advocate and Empower</strong> yourself when it comes to your own health.  Here are the scary symptoms that are part of the reason I keep watch on my hormone levels through saliva and blood testing:\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Endometrial (uterine) cancer</li>\r\n	<li>Breast Cancer</li>\r\n	<li>Autoimmune Disorders such a lupus, thyroiditis, and possibly Sjoegren\'s disease</li>\r\n	<li>Cervical Dysplacia (precancerous changes to the cervix which if left undetected &amp; untreated can eventually cause cervical cancer - Get your PAP done!)</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<div>Breast cancer is a particular concern to me, I\'m sure most women think about it from time to time.  Here is one study that in my opinion highlights the reason we need to know what is going on in our bodies even when our symptoms seem pesky:</div>\r\nBack in 1981 a study published in the American Journal of Epidemiology found that infertile women with <em>progesterone deficiency</em> had a premenopausal breast cancer risk that was <strong>540%</strong> greater than that of women whose infertility was due to non-hormonal causes.  And, the women with a progesterone deficiency had a <strong>1,000%</strong> greater chance of death from <strong>all</strong> types of cancer.  This study followed 1,083 women that had a history of infertility ranging from 13 - 33 years.\r\n\r\nSo you know how when faced with scary statistics like that, you try to figure out a way that this data doesn\'t fit for you? That\'s exactly what I started to think...oh I wasn\'t infertile for 13 - 33 years, phewph.  But really the truth is, I don\'t know what this means for me - I lived with progesterone deficiency from adolescence to my late thirties. I moved during that time and had a minumum of 6 different doctors - 3 were ob/gyn\'s so it\'s not like I only encountered one misinformed doctor. Yet with all these doctor\'s knowing my menstrual history none of them discussed this increased risk with me.\r\n\r\nIt begs the question - why isn\'t anyone getting to the root of our \"pesky\" symptoms in light of the bigger possibilities?  I have lived with unopposed estrogen roaming freely with little to no progesterone for my entire adult life.  Do I worry about my risk for breast cancer and other forms of cancer? Hell, yes I do.  I feel fortunate that I have taken the matter into my own hands and balanced my hormones by adding progesterone - but does anyone know what my cancer outlook is now? I hope I\'ve reduced it, I hope the risk continues to shrink overtime.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','Why You Need to Care About Estrogen Dominance','','inherit','open','open','','653-revision-17','','','2012-10-29 14:18:55','2012-10-29 19:18:55','',653,'http://www.hormonesoup.com/653-revision-17/',0,'revision','',0),(698,1,'2012-10-29 14:26:57','2012-10-29 19:26:57','[caption id=\"attachment_686\" align=\"alignright\" width=\"100\"]<a href=\"http://www.hormonesoup.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/1.jpg\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-686\" title=\"Now What?\" src=\"http://www.hormonesoup.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/1.jpg\" alt=\"I think Im Estrogen Dominant, Now What?\" width=\"100\" height=\"150\" /></a> I think I\'m Estrogen Dominant, Now What?[/caption]\r\n\r\nI\'m going to take a wild stab and guess that if you\'re not estrogen dominant then someone you love probably is, that\'s how prevelant estrogen dominance is in our society today.  Let\'s say you\'ve determined that you have several of the symptoms I listed in \"<a title=\"What does it mean to be Estrogen Dominant?\" href=\"http://www.hormonesoup.com/what-does-it-mean-to-be-estrogen-dominant/\">What it Means to be Estrogen Dominant</a>\", some of which are pesky little nuisances in your life like decreased sex drive, headaches, fatigue, irritability but hey - you\'re a woman, that\'s normal right?  Some of the symptoms you might not even be aware of, like magnesium and zinc deficiency or bone loss.\r\n\r\nIf you go to your family doctor for most of these symptoms you will most likely be given a prescription.  You are very likely to walk out of her office with a prescription whether it be for antidepressants, headache pain relief, birth control pills (Oh God, not more Estrogen!!), or Chlomid for infertility.   If you\'re lucky you might get a lab requisition for some tests like checking your thyroid level.  Sadly the level your doctor will probably consider to be normal is inaccurate and based on old information.  Many doctors are still using TSH ranges of 0.5 to 5.0 or 6.0 and are not following the latest recommendations by the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists which are actually 0.3 - 3.0 (and some doctors believe a TSH level over 2.0 puts you in the category of hypothyroidism). Thats a discussion for another day.\r\n\r\nI will admit that thinking about the not-so-pesky but more life threatening symptoms of estrogen dominance frightens me a bit.  I\'ve been estrogen dominant my entire adult life so I have had unopposed estrogen roaming freely throughout my body.  I\'m not telling you this to frighten you but if you\'re estrogen dominant you need to know this stuff even though it\'s scary. I am telling you this because it fits with my view to <strong>Educate, Advocate and Empower</strong> yourself when it comes to your own health.  Here are the scary symptoms that are part of the reason I keep watch on my hormone levels through saliva and blood testing:\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Endometrial (uterine) cancer</li>\r\n	<li>Breast Cancer</li>\r\n	<li>Autoimmune Disorders such a lupus, thyroiditis, and possibly Sjoegren\'s disease</li>\r\n	<li>Cervical Dysplacia (precancerous changes to the cervix which if left undetected &amp; untreated can eventually cause cervical cancer - Get your PAP done!)</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<div>Breast cancer is a particular concern to me, I\'m sure most women think about it from time to time.  Here is one study that in my opinion highlights the reason we need to know what is going on in our bodies even when our symptoms seem pesky:</div>\r\nBack in 1981 a study published in the American Journal of Epidemiology found that infertile women with <em>progesterone deficiency</em> had a premenopausal breast cancer risk that was <strong>540%</strong> greater than that of women whose infertility was due to non-hormonal causes.  And, the women with a progesterone deficiency had a <strong>1,000%</strong> greater chance of death from <strong>all</strong> types of cancer.  This study followed 1,083 women that had a history of infertility ranging from 13 - 33 years.\r\n\r\nSo you know how when faced with scary statistics like that, you try to figure out a way that this data doesn\'t fit for you? That\'s exactly what I started to think...oh I wasn\'t infertile for 13 - 33 years, phewph.  But really the truth is, I don\'t know what this means for me - I lived with progesterone deficiency from adolescence to my late thirties. I moved during that time and had a minumum of 6 different doctors - 3 were ob/gyn\'s so it\'s not like I only encountered one misinformed doctor. Yet with all these doctor\'s knowing my menstrual history none of them discussed this increased risk with me.\r\n\r\nIt begs the question - why isn\'t anyone getting to the root of our \"pesky\" symptoms in light of the bigger possibilities?  I have lived with unopposed estrogen roaming freely with little to no progesterone for my entire adult life.  Do I worry about my risk for breast cancer and other forms of cancer? Hell, yes I do.  I feel fortunate that I have taken the matter into my own hands and balanced my hormones by adding progesterone - but does anyone know what my cancer outlook is now? I hope I\'ve reduced it, I hope the risk continues to shrink overtime.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','Why You Need to Care About Estrogen Dominance','','inherit','open','open','','653-revision-18','','','2012-10-29 14:26:57','2012-10-29 19:26:57','',653,'http://www.hormonesoup.com/653-revision-18/',0,'revision','',0),(699,1,'2012-10-29 14:30:55','2012-10-29 19:30:55','[caption id=\"attachment_686\" align=\"alignright\" width=\"100\"]<a href=\"http://www.hormonesoup.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/1.jpg\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-686\" title=\"Now What?\" src=\"http://www.hormonesoup.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/1.jpg\" alt=\"I think Im Estrogen Dominant, Now What?\" width=\"100\" height=\"150\" /></a> I think I\'m Estrogen Dominant, Now What?[/caption]\r\n\r\nI\'m going to take a wild stab and guess that if you\'re not estrogen dominant then someone you love probably is, that\'s how prevelant estrogen dominance is in our society today.  Let\'s say you\'ve determined that you have several of the symptoms I listed in \"<a title=\"What does it mean to be Estrogen Dominant?\" href=\"http://www.hormonesoup.com/what-does-it-mean-to-be-estrogen-dominant/\">What it Means to be Estrogen Dominant</a>\", some of which are pesky little nuisances in your life like decreased sex drive, headaches, fatigue, irritability but hey - you\'re a woman, that\'s normal right?  Some of the symptoms you might not even be aware of, like magnesium and zinc deficiency or bone loss.\r\n\r\nIf you go to your family doctor for most of these symptoms you will most likely be given a prescription.  You are very likely to walk out of her office with a prescription whether it be for antidepressants, headache pain relief, birth control pills (Oh God, not more Estrogen!!), or Chlomid for infertility.   If you\'re lucky you might get a lab requisition for some tests like checking your thyroid level.  Sadly the level your doctor will probably consider to be normal is inaccurate and based on old information.  Many doctors are still using TSH ranges of 0.5 to 5.0 or 6.0 and are not following the latest recommendations by the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists which are actually 0.3 - 3.0 (and some doctors believe a TSH level over 2.0 puts you in the category of hypothyroidism). Thats a discussion for another day.\r\n\r\nI will admit that thinking about the not-so-pesky but more life threatening symptoms of estrogen dominance frightens me a bit.  I\'ve been estrogen dominant my entire adult life so I have had unopposed estrogen roaming freely throughout my body.  I\'m not telling you this to frighten you but if you\'re estrogen dominant you need to know this stuff even though it\'s scary. I am telling you this because it fits with my view to <strong>Educate, Advocate and Empower</strong> yourself when it comes to your own health.  Here are the scary symptoms that are part of the reason I keep watch on my hormone levels through saliva and blood testing:\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Endometrial (uterine) cancer</li>\r\n	<li>Breast Cancer</li>\r\n	<li>Autoimmune Disorders such a lupus, thyroiditis, and possibly Sjoegren\'s disease</li>\r\n	<li>Cervical Dysplacia (precancerous changes to the cervix which if left undetected &amp; untreated can eventually cause cervical cancer - Get your PAP done!)</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<div>Breast cancer is a particular concern to me, I\'m sure most women think about it from time to time.  Here is one study that in my opinion highlights the reason we need to know what is going on in our bodies even when our symptoms seem pesky:</div>\r\nBack in 1981 a study published in the American Journal of Epidemiology found that infertile women with <em>progesterone deficiency</em> had a premenopausal breast cancer risk that was <strong>540%</strong> greater than that of women whose infertility was due to non-hormonal causes.  And, the women with a progesterone deficiency had a <strong>1,000%</strong> greater chance of death from <strong>all</strong> types of cancer.  This study followed 1,083 women that had a history of infertility ranging from 13 - 33 years.\r\n\r\nSo you know how when faced with scary statistics like that, you try to figure out a way that this data doesn\'t fit for you? That\'s exactly what I started to think...oh I wasn\'t infertile for 13 - 33 years, phewph.  But really the truth is, I don\'t know what this means for me - I lived with progesterone deficiency from adolescence to my late thirties. I moved during that time and had a minumum of 6 different doctors - 3 were ob/gyn\'s so it\'s not like I only encountered one misinformed doctor. Yet with all these doctor\'s knowing my menstrual history none of them discussed this increased risk with me.\r\n\r\nIt begs the question - why isn\'t anyone getting to the root of our \"pesky\" symptoms in light of the bigger possibilities?  I have lived with unopposed estrogen roaming freely with little to no progesterone for my entire adult life.  Do I worry about my risk for breast cancer and other forms of cancer? Hell, yes I do.  I feel fortunate that I have taken the matter into my own hands and balanced my hormones by adding progesterone - but does anyone know what my cancer outlook is now? I hope I\'ve reduced it and I hope the risk continues to shrink over time. But more than that, I would like to see more research put into this key area of women\'s health.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','Why You Need to Care About Estrogen Dominance','','inherit','open','open','','653-revision-19','','','2012-10-29 14:30:55','2012-10-29 19:30:55','',653,'http://www.hormonesoup.com/653-revision-19/',0,'revision','',0),(700,1,'2012-10-30 09:37:35','2012-10-30 14:37:35','One Woman\'s Story of Postpartum Mood Disorder:\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n\"I suffered from depression during pregnancy and had no idea. Once I\r\n\r\nhad my son I started having these terrible thoughts all day everyday.\r\n\r\nI hated myself and felt like everyone around me hated me. So I\r\n\r\ndistanced myself from everyone and never went anywhere. I just thought\r\n\r\nI was sad and just knew it would past. I knew I didn\'t feel this way\r\n\r\nwith my first son but my thoughts made me feel like i deserved it. As\r\n\r\nthe weeks went by the thoughts and now visions got stronger and\r\n\r\nstronger and I felt like my family would be better without Us. I have\r\n\r\nnever felt so deeply sad and low and my whole life. I had to end this\r\n\r\nmisery I couldn\'t take it I just wanted out! I didn\'t think about how\r\n\r\nthis would affect everyone. Looking back at this, I felt like I was\r\n\r\nlooking at myself through a window like someone else had gotten into\r\n\r\nmy body and took over me. Because it was the total opposite of me.\"\r\n\r\nV.','V\'s Story of Postpartum Depression','','publish','open','open','','postpartum-mood-disorder-stories','','','2012-10-30 09:37:35','2012-10-30 14:37:35','',496,'http://www.hormonesoup.com/?page_id=700',2,'page','',0),(701,1,'2012-10-30 09:34:13','2012-10-30 14:34:13','I suffered from depression during pregnancy and had no idea. Once I\n\nhad my son I started having these terrible thoughts all day everyday.\n\nOne Woman\'s Story of Postpartum Moo\n\nI hated myself and felt like everyone around me hated me. So I\n\ndistanced myself from everyone and never went anywhere. I just thought\n\nI was sad and just knew it would past. I knew I didn\'t feel this way\n\nwith my first son but my thoughts made me feel like i deserved it. As\n\nthe weeks went by the thoughts and now visions got stronger and\n\nstronger and I felt like my family would be better without Us. I have\n\nnever felt so deeply sad and low and my whole life. I had to end this\n\nmisery I couldn\'t take it I just wanted out! I didn\'t think about how\n\nthis would affect everyone. Looking back at this, I felt like I was\n\nlooking at myself through a window like someone else had gotten into\n\nmy body and took over me. Because it was the total opposite of me.','Postpartum Mood Disorder Stories','','inherit','open','open','','700-revision','','','2012-10-30 09:34:13','2012-10-30 14:34:13','',700,'http://www.hormonesoup.com/700-revision/',0,'revision','',0),(702,1,'2012-10-30 09:37:17','2012-10-30 14:37:17','One Woman\'s Story of Postpartum Mood Disorder:\n\n&nbsp;\n\n\"I suffered from depression during pregnancy and had no idea. Once I\n\nhad my son I started having these terrible thoughts all day everyday.\n\nI hated myself and felt like everyone around me hated me. So I\n\ndistanced myself from everyone and never went anywhere. I just thought\n\nI was sad and just knew it would past. I knew I didn\'t feel this way\n\nwith my first son but my thoughts made me feel like i deserved it. As\n\nthe weeks went by the thoughts and now visions got stronger and\n\nstronger and I felt like my family would be better without Us. I have\n\nnever felt so deeply sad and low and my whole life. I had to end this\n\nmisery I couldn\'t take it I just wanted out! I didn\'t think about how\n\nthis would affect everyone. Looking back at this, I felt like I was\n\nlooking at myself through a window like someone else had gotten into\n\nmy body and took over me. Because it was the total opposite of me.\"\n\nV.','One','','inherit','open','open','','700-revision-2','','','2012-10-30 09:37:17','2012-10-30 14:37:17','',700,'http://www.hormonesoup.com/700-revision-2/',0,'revision','',0),(703,1,'2012-10-30 09:38:41','2012-10-30 14:38:41','One Woman\'s Story of Postpartum Mood Disorder:\n\n&nbsp;\n\n\"I suffered from depression during pregnancy and had no idea. Once I\n\nhad my son I started having these terrible thoughts all day everyday.\n\nI hated myself and felt like everyone around me hated me. So I\n\ndistanced myself from everyone and never went anywhere. I just thought\n\nI was sad and just knew it would past. I knew I didn\'t feel this way\n\nwith my first son but my thoughts made me feel like i deserved it. As\n\nthe weeks went by the thoughts and now visions got stronger and\n\nstronger and I felt like my family would be better without Us. I have\n\nnever felt so deeply sad and low and my whole life. I had to end this\n\nmisery I couldn\'t take it I just wanted out! I didn\'t think about how\n\nthis would affect everyone. Looking back at this, I felt like I was\n\nlooking at myself through a window like someone else had gotten into\n\nmy body and took over me. Because it was the total opposite of me.\"\n\nV.','V\'s Story of Postpartum Depression','','inherit','open','open','','700-autosave','','','2012-10-30 09:38:41','2012-10-30 14:38:41','',700,'http://www.hormonesoup.com/700-autosave/',0,'revision','',0),(704,1,'2012-10-30 09:47:39','2012-10-30 14:47:39','The purpose of this page is to teach you everything you missed out on in middle school and high school sex education class.   If you don\'t know what a healthy cycle looks like it can be hard to tell if you have a problem.  And in order to be your own health advocate you have to first understand how your body works.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nMost of what I know about my body\'s reproductive system I learned when I was experiencing infertility!  <em><strong>Sex education</strong></em> in school was probably supposed to teach me about my body but back then I really only cared about the \"important stuff\" in a teenager\'s life.  The thing is depending where you\'re at in life, what becomes interesting and important to you changes!\n\nTo be honest when I started really learning about my reproductive system I had already been menstruating for 16 years!  I got my period at age 12 and began my infertility journey when I was 28 years old.  All that time I didn\'t even realize that I was anovulatory...but that\'s another story.  The point is, I was embarrassed at how little I knew.  I know there are tons of women in the same boat and if you have young daughters they are headed in the same direction.  I\'ve noticed a number of visitors to my blog are looking for some basic but really important information about what a normal reproductive system is. I was reading book reviews about Toni Weschler\'s book, \"Taking Charge of Your Fertility\" and so many women were saying the same thing - they finally realized how little they knew about their own bodies.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nMore Coming Soon...subscribe to my blog to get the updates.','Sex Ed 101','','inherit','open','open','','570-autosave','','','2012-10-30 09:47:39','2012-10-30 14:47:39','',570,'http://www.hormonesoup.com/570-autosave/',0,'revision','',0),(705,1,'2012-09-28 11:56:52','2012-09-28 16:56:52','Most of what I know about my body\'s reproductive system I learned when I was experiencing infertility!  Sex education in school was probably supposed to teach me about my body but back then I really only cared about the \"important stuff\" in a teenager\'s life.  The thing is depending where you\'re at in life, what becomes interesting changes!\r\n\r\nTo be honest when I started really learning about my reproductive system I had already been menstruating for 16 years!  I got my period at age 12 and began my infertility journey when I was 28 years old.  All that time I didn\'t even realize that I was anovulatory...but that\'s another story.  The point is, I was embarrassed at how little I knew.  I know there are tons of women in the same boat.  I\'ve noticed a number of visitors to my blog are looking for some basic but really important information about what a normal reproductive system is!   Sometimes it\'s hard to really know if you have a problem if you don\'t know what a healthy cycle looks like.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nMore Coming Soon...subscribe to my blog to get the updates.','Reproductive System 101','','inherit','open','open','','570-revision-2','','','2012-09-28 11:56:52','2012-09-28 16:56:52','',570,'http://www.hormonesoup.com/570-revision-2/',0,'revision','',0),(706,1,'2012-09-12 19:44:37','2012-09-13 00:44:37','','About Me','','inherit','open','open','','7-revision-v1','','','2012-09-12 19:44:37','2012-09-13 00:44:37','',7,'http://www.hormonesoup.com/7-revision-33/',0,'revision','',0),(777,1,'2012-10-29 18:41:59','2012-10-29 23:41:59','[caption id=\"attachment_686\" align=\"alignright\" width=\"100\"]<a href=\"http://www.hormonesoup.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/1.jpg\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-686\" title=\"Now What?\" src=\"http://www.hormonesoup.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/1.jpg\" alt=\"I think Im Estrogen Dominant, Now What?\" width=\"100\" height=\"150\" /></a> I think I\'m Estrogen Dominant, Now What?[/caption]\r\n\r\nI\'m going to take a wild stab and guess that if you\'re not estrogen dominant then someone you love probably is, that\'s how prevelant estrogen dominance is in our society today.  Let\'s say you\'ve determined that you have several of the symptoms I listed in \"<a title=\"What does it mean to be Estrogen Dominant?\" href=\"http://www.hormonesoup.com/what-does-it-mean-to-be-estrogen-dominant/\">What it Means to be Estrogen Dominant</a>\", some of which are pesky little nuisances in your life like decreased sex drive, headaches, fatigue, irritability but hey - you\'re a woman, that\'s normal right?  Some of the symptoms you might not even be aware of, like magnesium and zinc deficiency or bone loss.\r\n\r\nIf you go to your family doctor for most of these symptoms you will most likely be given a prescription.  You are very likely to walk out of her office with a prescription whether it be for antidepressants, headache pain relief, birth control pills (Oh God, not more Estrogen!!), or Chlomid for infertility.   If you\'re lucky you might get a lab requisition for some tests like checking your thyroid level.  Sadly the level your doctor will probably consider to be normal is inaccurate and based on old information.  Many doctors are still using TSH ranges of 0.5 to 5.0 or 6.0 and are not following the latest recommendations by the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists which are actually 0.3 - 3.0 (and some doctors believe a TSH level over 2.0 puts you in the category of hypothyroidism). Thats a discussion for another day.\r\n\r\nI will admit that thinking about the not-so-pesky but more life threatening symptoms of estrogen dominance frightens me a bit.  I\'ve been estrogen dominant my entire adult life so I have had unopposed estrogen roaming freely throughout my body.  I\'m not telling you this to frighten you but if you\'re estrogen dominant you need to know this stuff even though it\'s scary. I am telling you this because it fits with my view to <strong>Educate, Advocate and Empower</strong> yourself when it comes to your own health.  Here are the scary symptoms that are part of the reason I keep watch on my hormone levels through saliva and blood testing:\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Endometrial (uterine) cancer</li>\r\n	<li>Breast Cancer</li>\r\n	<li>Autoimmune Disorders such a lupus, thyroiditis, and possibly Sjoegren\'s disease</li>\r\n	<li>Cervical Dysplacia (precancerous changes to the cervix which if left undetected &amp; untreated can eventually cause cervical cancer - Get your PAP done!)</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<div>Breast cancer is a particular concern to me, I\'m sure most women think about it from time to time.  Here is one study that in my opinion highlights the reason we need to know what is going on in our bodies even when our symptoms seem pesky:</div>\r\nBack in 1981 a study published in the American Journal of Epidemiology found that infertile women with <em>progesterone deficiency</em> had a premenopausal breast cancer risk that was <strong>540%</strong> greater than that of women whose infertility was due to non-hormonal causes.  And, the women with a progesterone deficiency had a <strong>1,000%</strong> greater chance of death from <strong>all</strong> types of cancer.  This study followed 1,083 women that had a history of infertility ranging from 13 - 33 years.\r\n\r\nSo you know how when faced with scary statistics like that, you try to figure out a way that this data doesn\'t fit for you? That\'s exactly what I started to think...oh I wasn\'t infertile for 13 - 33 years, phewph.  But really the truth is, I don\'t know what this means for me - I lived with progesterone deficiency from adolescence to my late thirties. I moved during that time and had a minumum of 6 different doctors - 3 were ob/gyn\'s so it\'s not like I only encountered one misinformed doctor. Yet with all these doctor\'s knowing my menstrual history none of them discussed this increased risk with me.\r\n\r\nIt begs the question - why isn\'t anyone getting to the root of our \"pesky\" symptoms in light of the bigger possibilities?  I have lived with unopposed estrogen roaming freely with little to no progesterone for my entire adult life.  Do I worry about my risk for breast cancer and other forms of cancer? Hell, yes I do.  I feel fortunate that I have taken the matter into my own hands and balanced my hormones by adding progesterone - but does anyone know what my cancer outlook is now? I hope I\'ve reduced it and I hope the risk continues to shrink over time. But more than that, I would like to see more research put into this key area of women\'s health.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','Why You Need to Care About Estrogen Dominance','','inherit','open','open','','653-revision-20','','','2012-10-29 18:41:59','2012-10-29 23:41:59','',653,'http://www.hormonesoup.com/653-revision-20/',0,'revision','',0),(708,1,'2012-10-30 17:11:38','0000-00-00 00:00:00','A survey published in 2009 about Maternal Health in Canada revealed that about 91% of the 6,421 new mothers reported they had enough information about postpartum depression.  91% sure seems like a high number, in fact, the summary of the survey put out by the Public Health Agency of Canada actually says:\r\n\r\n\"Women reported that they had enough information on basic infant and maternal\r\ncare (e.g., infant car seats, birth control, postpartum depression)...\".\r\n\r\nBut when I read the survey results that\'s not at all what I see.  I see the 9% of new moms who say they <strong>didn\'t</strong> have enough information about postpartum depression.  Why aren\'t they talking about the 9% who didn\'t get \"the memo\"?!\r\n\r\nHere\'s the thing, if you didn\'t develop postpartum depression you would probably feel like any amount of information was the right amount of information.  But what about those 9% of women who didn\'t feel like they had enough information - my guess (and I\'ll bet your guess too) is that they are precisely<strong> the women who developed a postpartum mood disorder!</strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Let\'s look at the numbers:</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n9% of women = 577 new moms didn\'t know enough about PPD\r\n\r\n7.5% of women = 481 new moms actually had PPD*\r\n\r\nA further 8.6% of women = 552 new moms were in the at-risk category*\r\n\r\n(*according to the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale)\r\n\r\nI extrapolated the results to the entire population of Canada out of curiousity  (this may not be an accurate sceintific method but you get the idea):  9% of approx 370,000 births in Canada that year = <strong>33,300</strong> new mothers who may have felt like they didn\'t have enough information about postpartum depression.\r\n\r\nSo while the Public Health Department sounds like they feel good about 91% I do <strong>NOT</strong> feel one bit good about it.\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>This is <strong>MY VIEW</strong> of their stats:</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<strong>Of the 481 new moms in the study who developed Postpartum Depression it is likely that 0% of them felt like they had enough information about it.</strong>\r\n\r\nOf the 552 new moms in the at-risk category it is likely that 97 felt like they <strong>didn\'t</strong> have enough information about PPD.\r\n\r\nClearly the number of new moms who feel like they have enough information about postpartum mood disorders needs to be 100%.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','9% of Women Didn\'t \"Get the Memo\" about Postpartum Depression','','draft','open','open','','9-of-women-didnt-get-the-memo-about-postpartum-depression','','','2012-10-30 17:11:38','2012-10-30 22:11:38','',0,'http://www.hormonesoup.com/?p=708',0,'post','',0),(709,1,'2012-10-30 14:14:09','2012-10-30 19:14:09','Postpartum Depression\n\nIn a 2006/07 survey about Maternal Health in Canada about 91% of the 6000 women reported that they had enough information about postpartum depression. That leaves 9% who say they didn\'t have enough information about postpartum depression.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nSo 91% is a high number of women who felt like they had been given enough information about postpartum depression.  In fact, the summary of the study actually says\n\n\"Women reported that they had enough information on basic infant and maternal\ncare (e.g., infant car seats, birth control, postpartum depression)\"\n\nDoesn\'t it make you wonder though - if you didn\'t ever have postpartum depression you would feel like any amount of information was the right amount of information! So those other 10% of women who didn\'t feel like they had enough information - my guess (and I\'ll bet your guess too) is that they are precisely the women who got postpartum depression!\n\nSo while the government and the people who provide postpartum care can feel good about 90% I don\'t feel one bit good about it.  That number needs to be 100% or else we are doing a disservice to women AND their babies!\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;','Access to Information Postpartum Mood Disorder ','','inherit','open','open','','708-revision','','','2012-10-30 14:14:09','2012-10-30 19:14:09','',708,'http://www.hormonesoup.com/708-revision/',0,'revision','',0),(710,1,'2012-10-30 14:17:44','2012-10-30 19:17:44','Postpartum Depression\n\nIn a 2006/07 survey about Maternal Health in Canada about 91% of the 6000 women reported that they had enough information about postpartum depression. That leaves 9% who say they didn\'t have enough information about postpartum depression.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nSo 91% is a high number of women who felt like they had been given enough information about postpartum depression.  In fact, the summary of the study actually says:\n\n\"Women reported that they had enough information on basic infant and maternal\ncare (e.g., infant car seats, birth control, postpartum depression)\".\n\nReally?!  Come on, I mean if you didn\'t ever have postpartum depression you would feel like <strong>any miniscule</strong> amount of information was the right amount of information. So those other 9% of women who didn\'t feel like they had enough information - my guess (and I\'ll bet your guess too) is that they are precisely<strong> the women who developed a postpartum mood disorder!</strong>\n\n9% of women in the survey amounts to 540 Canadian women who felt they didn\'t know enough about postpartum depression.\n\nSo while the government and the people who provide postpartum care can feel good about 91% I don\'t feel one bit good about it.  That number needs to be 100% or else we are doing a disservice to women AND their babies!\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;','Access to Information Postpartum Mood Disorder ','','inherit','open','open','','708-revision-2','','','2012-10-30 14:17:44','2012-10-30 19:17:44','',708,'http://www.hormonesoup.com/708-revision-2/',0,'revision','',0),(711,1,'2012-10-30 14:32:26','2012-10-30 19:32:26','Postpartum Depression\n\nIn a 2006/07 survey about Maternal Health in Canada about 91% of the 6,421 women reported that they had enough information about postpartum depression. That leaves 9% who say they <strong>didn\'t</strong> have enough information about postpartum depression.\n\nSo 91% is a high number of women who felt like they had been given enough information about postpartum depression.  In fact, the summary of the survey actually says:\n\n\"Women reported that they had enough information on basic infant and maternal\ncare (e.g., infant car seats, birth control, postpartum depression)\".\n\nHere\'s the thing, if you didn\'t develop postpartum depression you would feel like <strong>any miniscule</strong> amount of information was the right amount of information.  But what about those other 9% of women who didn\'t feel like they had enough information - my guess (and I\'ll bet your guess too) is that they are precisely<strong> the women who developed a postpartum mood disorder!</strong>\n\n9% of women in the survey amounts to  Canadian women who felt they didn\'t know enough about postpartum depression.\n\nwomen in the survey reported a  rate of postpartum mood disorder between 8.46% and 8.69%\n\nSo while the government and the people who provide postpartum care can feel good about 91% I do <strong>NOT</strong> feel one bit good about it.  That number needs to be 100% or else we are doing a disservice to women AND their babies and their families.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;','Access to Information Postpartum Mood Disorder ','','inherit','open','open','','708-revision-3','','','2012-10-30 14:32:26','2012-10-30 19:32:26','',708,'http://www.hormonesoup.com/708-revision-3/',0,'revision','',0),(712,1,'2012-10-30 15:04:52','2012-10-30 20:04:52','A survey published in 2009 about Maternal Health in Canada revealed that about 91% of the 6,421 new mothers reported they had enough information about postpartum depression.  91% sure seems like a high number, in fact, the summary of the survey put out by the Public Health Agency of Canada actually says:\n\n\"Women reported that they had enough information on basic infant and maternal\ncare (e.g., infant car seats, birth control, postpartum depression)...\".\n\nBut when I read the survey results that\'s not at all what I see.  I see the 9% of new moms who say they <strong>didn\'t</strong> have enough information about postpartum depression.  Why aren\'t they talking about the 9% who didn\'t get the memo?!\n\nHere\'s the thing, if you didn\'t develop postpartum depression of course you would feel like <strong>any miniscule</strong> amount of information was the right amount of information.  But what about those 9% of women who didn\'t feel like they had enough information - 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my guess (and I\'ll bet your guess too) is that they are precisely<strong> the women who developed a postpartum mood disorder!</strong>\n<ul>\n	<li>Let\'s look at the numbers:</li>\n</ul>\n9% of women = 577 new moms didn\'t know enough about PPD\n\n7.5% of women = 481 new moms actually had PPD*\n\n8.6% of women = 552 new moms were in the at-risk category*\n\n(*according to the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale)\n\n&nbsp;\n<ul>\n	<li>Extrapolating the results to the entire population of Canada:</li>\n</ul>\n9% of approx 370,000 births in Canada that year = <strong>33,300</strong> new mothers who may have felt like they didn\'t have enough information about postpartum depression.\n\nSo while the Public Health Department sounds like they feel good about 91% I do <strong>NOT</strong> feel one bit good about it.\n<ul>\n	<li>This is MY VIEW of their stats:</li>\n</ul>\nOf the 481 new moms in the study who developed Postpartum Depression<strong> 0%</strong> of them felt like they had enough information about it.\n\nOf the 552 new moms in the high-risk category\n\n&nbsp;\n\nThat number needs to be 100% or else we are doing a disservice to women AND their babies and their families.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;','9% of Women Didn\'t \"Get the Memo\" about Postpartum Depression','','inherit','open','open','','708-revision-6','','','2012-10-30 15:32:10','2012-10-30 20:32:10','',708,'http://www.hormonesoup.com/708-revision-6/',0,'revision','',0),(715,1,'2012-10-30 15:40:04','2012-10-30 20:40:04','A survey published in 2009 about Maternal Health in Canada revealed that about 91% of the 6,421 new mothers reported they had enough information about postpartum depression.  91% sure seems like a high number, in fact, the summary of the survey put out by the Public Health Agency of Canada actually says:\n\n\"Women reported that they had enough information on basic infant and maternal\ncare (e.g., infant car seats, birth control, postpartum depression)...\".\n\nBut when I read the survey results that\'s not at all what I see.  I see the 9% of new moms who say they <strong>didn\'t</strong> have enough information about postpartum depression.  Why aren\'t they talking about the 9% who didn\'t get \"the memo\"?!\n\nHere\'s the thing, if you didn\'t develop postpartum depression of course you would feel like <strong>any miniscule</strong> amount of information was the right amount of information.  But what about those 9% of women who didn\'t feel like they had enough information - 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my guess (and I\'ll bet your guess too) is that they are precisely<strong> the women who developed a postpartum mood disorder!</strong>\n<ul>\n	<li>Let\'s look at the numbers:</li>\n</ul>\n9% of women = 577 new moms didn\'t know enough about PPD\n\n7.5% of women = 481 new moms actually had PPD*\n\n8.6% of women = 552 new moms were in the at-risk category*\n\n(*according to the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale)\n\n&nbsp;\n<ul>\n	<li>Extrapolating the results to the entire population of Canada:</li>\n</ul>\n9% of approx 370,000 births in Canada that year = <strong>33,300</strong> new mothers who may have felt like they didn\'t have enough information about postpartum depression.\n\nSo while the Public Health Department sounds like they feel good about 91% I do <strong>NOT</strong> feel one bit good about it.\n<ul>\n	<li>This is <strong>MY VIEW</strong> of their stats:</li>\n</ul>\n<strong>Of the 481 new moms in the study who developed Postpartum Depression 0% of them felt like they had enough information about it.</strong>\n\nOf the 552 new moms in the at-risk category 97 felt like they didn\'t have enough information about PPD.\n\nClearly the number of new moms who feel like they have enough information about postpartum mood disorders needs to be 100%.','9% of Women Didn\'t \"Get the Memo\" about Postpartum Depression','','inherit','open','open','','708-revision-10','','','2012-10-30 15:44:05','2012-10-30 20:44:05','',708,'http://www.hormonesoup.com/708-revision-10/',0,'revision','',0),(716,1,'2012-10-30 15:40:57','2012-10-30 20:40:57','A survey published in 2009 about Maternal Health in Canada revealed that about 91% of the 6,421 new mothers reported they had enough information about postpartum depression.  91% sure seems like a high number, in fact, the summary of the survey put out by the Public Health Agency of Canada actually says:\r\n\r\n\"Women reported that they had enough information on basic infant and maternal\r\ncare (e.g., infant car seats, birth control, postpartum depression)...\".\r\n\r\nBut when I read the survey results that\'s not at all what I see.  I see the 9% of new moms who say they <strong>didn\'t</strong> have enough information about postpartum depression.  Why aren\'t they talking about the 9% who didn\'t get \"the memo\"?!\r\n\r\nHere\'s the thing, if you didn\'t develop postpartum depression of course you would feel like <strong>any miniscule</strong> amount of information was the right amount of information.  But what about those 9% of women who didn\'t feel like they had enough information - my guess (and I\'ll bet your guess too) is that they are precisely<strong> the women who developed a postpartum mood disorder!</strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Let\'s look at the numbers:</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n9% of women = 577 new moms didn\'t know enough about PPD\r\n\r\n7.5% of women = 481 new moms actually had PPD*\r\n\r\n8.6% of women = 552 new moms were in the at-risk category*\r\n\r\n(*according to the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale)\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Extrapolating the results to the entire population of Canada:</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n9% of approx 370,000 births in Canada that year = <strong>33,300</strong> new mothers who may have felt like they didn\'t have enough information about postpartum depression.\r\n\r\nSo while the Public Health Department sounds like they feel good about 91% I do <strong>NOT</strong> feel one bit good about it.\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>This is <strong>MY VIEW</strong> of their stats:</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<strong>Of the 481 new moms in the study who developed Postpartum Depression 0% of them felt like they had enough information about it.</strong>\r\n\r\nOf the 552 new moms in the at-risk category 97 felt like they didn\'t have enough information about PPD.\r\n\r\nClearly the number of new moms who feel like they have enough information about postpartum mood disorders needs to be 100%.','9% of Women Didn\'t \"Get the Memo\" about Postpartum Depression','','inherit','open','open','','708-revision-8','','','2012-10-30 15:40:57','2012-10-30 20:40:57','',708,'http://www.hormonesoup.com/708-revision-8/',0,'revision','',0),(717,1,'2012-10-30 15:42:04','2012-10-30 20:42:04','A survey published in 2009 about Maternal Health in Canada revealed that about 91% of the 6,421 new mothers reported they had enough information about postpartum depression.  91% sure seems like a high number, in fact, the summary of the survey put out by the Public Health Agency of Canada actually says:\r\n\r\n\"Women reported that they had enough information on basic infant and maternal\r\ncare (e.g., infant car seats, birth control, postpartum depression)...\".\r\n\r\nBut when I read the survey results that\'s not at all what I see.  I see the 9% of new moms who say they <strong>didn\'t</strong> have enough information about postpartum depression.  Why aren\'t they talking about the 9% who didn\'t get \"the memo\"?!\r\n\r\nHere\'s the thing, if you didn\'t develop postpartum depression of course you would feel like <strong>any miniscule</strong> amount of information was the right amount of information.  But what about those 9% of women who didn\'t feel like they had enough information - my guess (and I\'ll bet your guess too) is that they are precisely<strong> the women who developed a postpartum mood disorder!</strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Let\'s look at the numbers:</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n9% of women = 577 new moms didn\'t know enough about PPD\r\n\r\n7.5% of women = 481 new moms actually had PPD*\r\n\r\n8.6% of women = 552 new moms were in the at-risk category*\r\n\r\n(*according to the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale)\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Extrapolating the results to the entire population of Canada:</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n9% of approx 370,000 births in Canada that year = <strong>33,300</strong> new mothers who may have felt like they didn\'t have enough information about postpartum depression.\r\n\r\nSo while the Public Health Department sounds like they feel good about 91% I do <strong>NOT</strong> feel one bit good about it.\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>This is <strong>MY VIEW</strong> of their stats:</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<strong>Of the 481 new moms in the study who developed Postpartum Depression 0% of them felt like they had enough information about it.</strong>\r\n\r\nOf the 552 new moms in the at-risk category 97 felt like they didn\'t have enough information about PPD.\r\n\r\nClearly the number of new moms who feel like they have enough information about postpartum mood disorders needs to be 100%.','9% of Women Didn\'t \"Get the Memo\" about Postpartum Depression','','inherit','open','open','','708-revision-9','','','2012-10-30 15:42:04','2012-10-30 20:42:04','',708,'http://www.hormonesoup.com/708-revision-9/',0,'revision','',0),(719,1,'2012-10-30 16:07:52','2012-10-30 21:07:52','A survey published in 2009 about Maternal Health in Canada revealed that about 91% of the 6,421 new mothers reported they had enough information about postpartum depression.  91% sure seems like a high number, in fact, the summary of the survey put out by the Public Health Agency of Canada actually says:\n\n\"Women reported that they had enough information on basic infant and maternal\ncare (e.g., infant car seats, birth control, postpartum depression)...\".\n\nBut when I read the survey results that\'s not at all what I see.  I see the 9% of new moms who say they <strong>didn\'t</strong> have enough information about postpartum depression.  Why aren\'t they talking about the 9% who didn\'t get \"the memo\"?!\n\nHere\'s the thing, if you didn\'t develop postpartum depression you would probably feel like any amount of information was the right amount of information.  But what about those 9% of women who didn\'t feel like they had enough information - my guess (and I\'ll bet your guess too) is that they are precisely<strong> the women who developed a postpartum mood disorder!</strong>\n<ul>\n	<li>Let\'s look at the numbers:</li>\n</ul>\n9% of women = 577 new moms didn\'t know enough about PPD\n\n7.5% of women = 481 new moms actually had PPD*\n\nA further 8.6% of women = 552 new moms were in the at-risk category*\n\n(*according to the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale)\n\nI extrapolated the results to the entire population of Canada out of curiousity  (this may not be an accurate sceintific method but you get the idea):  9% of approx 370,000 births in Canada that year = <strong>33,300</strong> new mothers who may have felt like they didn\'t have enough information about postpartum depression.\n\nSo while the Public Health Department sounds like they feel good about 91% I do <strong>NOT</strong> feel one bit good about it.\n<ul>\n	<li>This is <strong>MY VIEW</strong> of their stats:</li>\n</ul>\n<strong>Of the 481 new moms in the study who developed Postpartum Depression it is likely that 0% of them felt like they had enough information about it.</strong>\n\nOf the 552 new moms in the at-risk category it is likely that 97 felt like they <strong>didn\'t</strong> have enough information about PPD.\n\nClearly the number of new moms who feel like they have enough information about postpartum mood disorders needs to be 100%.','9% of Women Didn\'t \"Get the Memo\" about Postpartum Depression','','inherit','open','open','','708-revision-11','','','2012-10-30 16:07:52','2012-10-30 21:07:52','',708,'http://www.hormonesoup.com/708-revision-11/',0,'revision','',0),(720,1,'2012-10-30 16:09:27','2012-10-30 21:09:27','A survey published in 2009 about Maternal Health in Canada revealed that about 91% of the 6,421 new mothers reported they had enough information about postpartum depression.  91% sure seems like a high number, in fact, the summary of the survey put out by the Public Health Agency of Canada actually says:\n\n\"Women reported that they had enough information on basic infant and maternal\ncare (e.g., infant car seats, birth control, postpartum depression)...\".\n\nBut when I read the survey results that\'s not at all what I see.  I see the 9% of new moms who say they <strong>didn\'t</strong> have enough information about postpartum depression.  Why aren\'t they talking about the 9% who didn\'t get \"the memo\"?!\n\nHere\'s the thing, if you didn\'t develop postpartum depression you would probably feel like any amount of information was the right amount of information.  But what about those 9% of women who didn\'t feel like they had enough information - my guess (and I\'ll bet your guess too) is that they are precisely<strong> the women who developed a postpartum mood disorder!</strong>\n<ul>\n	<li>Let\'s look at the numbers:</li>\n</ul>\n9% of women = 577 new moms didn\'t know enough about PPD\n\n7.5% of women = 481 new moms actually had PPD*\n\nA further 8.6% of women = 552 new moms were in the at-risk category*\n\n(*according to the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale)\n\nI extrapolated the results to the entire population of Canada out of curiousity  (this may not be an accurate sceintific method but you get the idea):  9% of approx 370,000 births in Canada that year = <strong>33,300</strong> new mothers who may have felt like they didn\'t have enough information about postpartum depression.\n\nSo while the Public Health Department sounds like they feel good about 91% I do <strong>NOT</strong> feel one bit good about it.\n<ul>\n	<li>This is <strong>MY VIEW</strong> of their stats:</li>\n</ul>\n<strong>Of the 481 new moms in the study who developed Postpartum Depression it is likely that 0% of them felt like they had enough information about it.</strong>\n\nOf the 552 new moms in the at-risk category it is likely that 97 felt like they <strong>didn\'t</strong> have enough information about PPD.\n\nClearly the number of new moms who feel like they have enough information about postpartum mood disorders needs to be 100%.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;','9% of Women Didn\'t \"Get the Memo\" about Postpartum Depression','','inherit','open','open','','708-revision-12','','','2012-10-30 16:09:27','2012-10-30 21:09:27','',708,'http://www.hormonesoup.com/708-revision-12/',0,'revision','',0),(722,1,'2012-11-12 22:33:33','2012-11-13 03:33:33','[caption id=\"attachment_860\" align=\"alignright\" width=\"150\"]<a style=\"color: #074d7c; cursor: pointer;\" href=\"http://www.hormonesoup.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/X-is-for-Xenoestrogens.jpg\"><img class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-860\" title=\"X is for Xenoestrogens\" src=\"http://www.hormonesoup.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/X-is-for-Xenoestrogens-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"X is for Xenoestrogens\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a> X is for Xenoestrogens[/caption]\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Maybe you\'ve heard of xenoestrogens but don\'t really know what they are or how they work in your body.  I\'m going to explain what they are and why I try to minimize them in my life and more importantly to me - in my <strong>children\'s </strong>lives.</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Xenoestrogen</strong> means <strong>foreign estrogen</strong> - which basically means any outside substance that acts like estrogen once inside our body.  It includes chemical compounds and pesticides, as well as synthetic estrogen that we ingest or apply to our skin.</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Phytoestrogens</strong> are another type of xenoestrogen - plants such as soy and flax can also behave like estrogen inside your body.  (This post won\'t delve into phytoestrogens as endocrine disruptors because plants like soy have been touted as either beneficial or harmful depending upon who you listen too.  It is a whole other conundrum and I\'ve read mixed studies.)</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Endocrine disruptors </strong>also called <strong>hormone disruptors </strong>are similar but actually refer specifically to chemicals and/or compounds that disrupt our endocrine (hormone) systems.</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals (EDC\'s)</strong> - the chemicals that are known or suspected to disrupt our hormones are sometimes referred to as <strong>EDC\'s</strong>.</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I\'ve known about xenoestrogens for quite a while but didn\'t really \"get\" what they were or this exotic sounding \"thing\" could possibly disrupt <em>my</em> hormones so I didn\'t immediately minimize my family\'s exposure.  When I finally did the research  it made me realize that the effect of xenoestrogen\'s is even more complicated than I could have imagined - scientists really have their work cut out for them on this one.</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I did final realize how important it is to eliminate xenoestrogens from my life when I  visualized what was actually going on in my body. Chemicals can disrupt our hormones in several ways but without getting too scientific on you here is a simple explanation to help you picture how the cosmetics or perfume you wear could possibly be disrupting your hormones:</p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: left;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">One way to think of it is like a game of musical chairs - let\'s imagine the chairs are the estrogen receptors - there\'s only a limited number of them to go around.  When the endocrine disrupting chemical (EDC) enters your body &amp; jumps onto the estrogen receptors there\'s nowhere for your own estrogen to go! Those special receptors are supposed to be there for the estrogen <em>your body</em> is producing but instead your own estrogen is left to roam freely - recirculating throughout your body. Sometimes those EDC\'s activate the receptors but sometimes they inactivate them!  The bottom line is that every time EDC\'s win the game -  your hormone health loses.</span></strong></p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: left;\">I love this <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a title=\"GreenFacts.org - Endocrine Disrupting Animation\" href=\"http://www.greenfacts.org/en/endocrine-disruptors/l-2/endocrine-disruptors-1.htm#2\" target=\"_blank\"> animated illustration</a></span> courtesy of GreenFacts.org check it out to watch an endocrine disruptor in action.</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This is a good example of how your body doesn\'t even have to be producing too much estrogen to show symptoms of <strong>estrogen dominance</strong>.  Now just imagine - your poor liver has to deal with all this excess re-circulating estrogen.  I\'ll talk about why you need to \"Show Some Love to Your Liver\" in a future post, which is especially true if you have hormone issues like I do.</p>\r\nThere are other ways your hormones can get disrupted, here are some links explaining the mechanisms:\r\n\r\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a title=\"Todipedia - Endocrine Disruptors\" href=\"http://toxipedia.org/display/toxipedia/Endocrine+Disruptors\" target=\"_blank\">Toxipedia - Endocrine Disruptors</a></span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a title=\"Mechanisms of Endocrine Disruption\" href=\"http://website.lineone.net/~mwarhurst/mechanisms.html\" target=\"_blank\">Mechanisms of Endocrine Disruption</a></span>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">As far as EDC\'s disrupting your hormones I think the most important thing to take away is that <strong>xenoestrogens are disruptive</strong> to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">everyone</span> - women and men, girls and boys, and especially developing babies and infants.  In my view, I already have enough hormone disruption going on in my body I don\'t need to add to it. And for some women removing xenoestrogens from their day-to-day lives may just hold the answer in solving their hormone health problems.</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">To stay informed:</p>\r\n\r\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\r\n	<li><strong>Read my previous posts</strong> about: <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a title=\"What Does it Mean to be Estrogen Dominant\" href=\"http://www.hormonesoup.com/what-does-it-mean-to-be-estrogen-dominant/\" target=\"_blank\">Estrogen dominance</a></span> </strong>&amp; <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a title=\"Why You Need to Care About Estrogen Dominance\" href=\"http://www.hormonesoup.com/why-you-need-to-care-about-estrogen-dominance/\" target=\"_blank\">Why Estrogen Dominance Matters to You</a></span></strong></li>\r\n	<li><strong><a title=\"Keep Up-to-Date\" href=\"http://www.hormonesoup.com/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Sign up</span></a> </strong>for updates if you\'d like to read <strong>more</strong> of my series of articles about  estrogen, endocrine disruptors and other hormone imbalance.</li>\r\n	<li><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Share this article</span></strong> If you learned something</li>\r\n	<li><a title=\"Share Your Story with Hormone Soup\" href=\"http://www.hormonesoup.com/share-your-story/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Share your Story</strong></span></a> so other women can benefit</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"></p>','X is for Xenoestrogens','','publish','open','open','','x-is-for-xenoestrogens','','http://www.hormonesoup.com/what-does-it-mean-to-be-estrogen-dominant/\nhttp://www.hormonesoup.com/why-you-need-to-care-about-estrogen-dominance/','2012-11-13 23:27:47','2012-11-14 04:27:47','',0,'http://www.hormonesoup.com/?p=722',0,'post','',0),(723,1,'2012-11-01 13:57:40','2012-11-01 18:57:40','Maybe you\'ve heard of xenoestrogens.','','','inherit','open','open','','722-revision','','','2012-11-01 13:57:40','2012-11-01 18:57:40','',722,'http://www.hormonesoup.com/722-revision/',0,'revision','',0),(724,1,'2012-10-25 13:16:19','2012-10-25 18:16:19','<h5>My site is about helping you be better informed because in order to advocate for your own health, you <em>must</em> arm yourself with information.  Here you will find a list of books, research, articles, and websites pertaining to bioidentical hormones &amp; women\'s health as it relates to hormones in general.  I am continually adding to the list so please check back.  Also if you have any suggestions for me to add to my list I would love to hear from you.  Send me an email at suggestions@hormonesoup.com</h5>\r\n<h2><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Books:</strong></span></h2>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em><strong>Hormone Balance Made Simple</strong></em></span> <strong><span style=\"color: #808080;\">by Dr. John Lee, MD and Virginia Hopkins</span></strong>\r\n<strong><em></em></strong></li>\r\n	<li><strong><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Hormone Solution</span></em> by Dr. Erika Schwartz</span></strong></li>\r\n	<li><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>Women\'s Bodies, Women\'s Wisdom</em> </span><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> </span>by Christiane Northrup</span></strong></li>\r\n	<li><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>What Your Doctor May Not Tell You about Menopause</em> </span> <span style=\"color: #808080;\">by John R. Lee, MD</span></strong></li>\r\n	<li><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Pre-Menopause</em></span> <span style=\"color: #808080;\">by John R. Lee, MD</span></strong></li>\r\n	<li><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>Sexy Hormones</em></span> <span style=\"color: #808080;\">by Lorna R. Vanderhaeghe and Alvin Pettle, MD</span></strong></li>\r\n	<li><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>A Smart Woman\'s Guide to Hormones</em></span> <span style=\"color: #808080;\">by Lorna Vanderhaeghe</span></strong></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em><strong>Taking Charge of Your Fertility</strong></em></span> <strong><span style=\"color: #808080;\">by Toni Weschler</span></strong></li>\r\n	<li><em><strong><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Truth about Sexuality Menopause and Testosterone</span> </span></span></strong></em><strong><span style=\"color: #808080;\">by Susan Rako, MD</span></strong></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><em>Female Brain Gone Insane</em></strong></span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong> <span style=\"color: #808080;\">by Mia Lundin</span></strong></span></span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In the Mood Again</span></em> by Genie James and Dr. C. W. Randolph</span></strong></span></span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Slim, Sane &amp; Sexy: Pocket Guide to Bioidentical Hormone Balancing</span></em> by Dr. Jay H. Mead</span></strong></span></span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Greatest Experiment Ever Performed on Women - Exploding the Estrogen Myth</span> </em>by Barbara Seaman</span></strong></span></span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Female Brain</span> </em>by Louann Brizendine</span></strong></span></span></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em><span style=\"color: #000000;\">What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Breast Cancer</span></em> by Dr. David Zara, PhD</span></strong></span></span></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h2><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Articles &amp;/or Research:</span></strong></h2>\r\nThe best UNBIASED article I have found about hormones. a MUST read: <a title=\"Harvard Womens Health - What are Bioidentical Hormones\" href=\"http://www.health.harvard.edu/newsweek/What-are-bioidentical-hormones.htm\">http://www.health.harvard.edu/newsweek/What-are-bioidentical-hormones.htm</a>\r\n\r\nPMS:  <a title=\"PMS Treatment Clinic\" href=\"http://www.pmstreatmentclinic.com/faqs.html\" target=\"_blank\">http://www.pmstreatmentclinic.com/faqs.html</a>\r\n\r\nAnxiety:  <a title=\"Bio-Identical Hormones Relieve Anxiety\" href=\"http://www.bioidenticalhormones101.com/Relieve_Anxiety.html\" target=\"_blank\">http://www.bioidenticalhormones101.com/Relieve_Anxiety.html</a>\r\n\r\nPioneer of Bioidentical Hormones: <a title=\"Dr John Lee\'s Website\" href=\"http://www.johnleemd.com/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">http://www.johnleemd.com/index.html</a>\r\n\r\nEstrogen &amp; Depression: <a title=\"Natural Estrogen as an Antidepressant for Women\" href=\"http://www.psychiatrist.com/pcc/brainstorm/br6206.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Natural Estrogen as an Antidepressant for Women</a>, by Stephen M. 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I would never have known that we need to start referring to postpartum mood disorder<strong>S</strong> (capital S) not the out-dated term postpartum depression.  I wouldn\'t have known to find my amazing naturopath who has helped my family in so many other ways.   I doubt I\'d be blogging about hormone issues.</li>\n</ul>','If I Knew Then What I Know Now...','','inherit','open','open','','728-revision-2','','','2012-11-02 13:07:19','2012-11-02 18:07:19','',728,'http://www.hormonesoup.com/728-revision-2/',0,'revision','',0),(731,1,'2012-11-02 13:08:15','2012-11-02 18:08:15','If you could turn back the clock, knowing what you know now would you?  Seems like an easy answer doesn\'t it.  My life would be different in a number of ways because I know so much more now than I did back \"then\".  My life path has taken me on a hormonal journey that has been like one of those scary amusement park rides - part roller coaster ride and part like a trip to hell - either way you can\'t wait to get off.\r\n\r\nIf I knew then what I know now:\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>I would have known that having a period every couple of months or so meant that I wasn\'t ovulating....</li>\r\n	<li>And if I knew I wasn\'t ovulating, I might have asked my doctors different questions....</li>\r\n	<li>And when my doctor told me that trying to have a baby \"was a magical time\" for my husband and I - I wouldn\'t have believed her....</li>\r\n	<li>And if I didn\'t believe her I wouldn\'t have tried unsuccessfully to get pregnant for over a year without help....</li>\r\n	<li>If I knew I didn\'t ovulate I would have figured out it was because my body didn\'t produce progesterone ....</li>\r\n	<li>Once I realized my ovaries weren\'t the progesterone factories they were supposed to be I might have realized that my progesterone deficiency could cause me to miscarry my babies....</li>\r\n	<li>Knowing that, I would have asked my ob/gyn the first time I got pregnant for natural progesterone even though he told me it was a placebo effect</li>\r\n	<li>If I\'d asked for the natural progesterone I wouldn\'t have shed a million tears over the two babies I lost</li>\r\n	<li>If I\'d known then that my body needed progesterone even when i wasn\'t trying to get pregnant I would have taken a saliva hormone test</li>\r\n	<li>If I had taken the saliva hormone test I would have discovered that I was severely deficient in progesterone - the calming hormone</li>\r\n	<li>And if I had known that the birth control pills my doctor prescribed for my PMS were going to make it worse I wouldn\'t have taken them</li>\r\n	<li>And if I had known natural progesterone would \"cure\" my PMS in the first cycle I wouldn\'t have taken that prescription of Zoloft for 6 head-splitting, weight-gaining miserable weeks</li>\r\n	<li>And if I knew then that postpartum depression isn\'t just depression but involves OCD and anxiety I would have known that my progesterone dose I was taking to prevent postpartum depression after my third baby was born was far too low</li>\r\n	<li>And if I was on the right dose of progesterone I wouldn\'t have stayed awake nights thinking I was dying and that I was going to be leaving three babies without a mama</li>\r\n	<li>And if I knew all of these things back then I wouldn\'t know about all the women suffering from infertility, miscarriages, PMS &amp; PMDD, and Postpartum Mood Disorder. 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I wouldn\'t realize that we need to change the way we think about women\'s hormone health. I would never have known that we need to start referring to postpartum mood disorder<strong>S</strong> (capital S) not the out-dated term postpartum depression.  I wouldn\'t have known to find my amazing naturopath who has helped my family in so many other ways.  I wouldn\'t have met some of the most amazing women on the planet. 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Even newborn babies born today have been contaminated with chemicals known to cause endocrine disruption.  Umbilical cords have been found in at least one study to be full of chemicals, chemicals in mattresses are being blamed for SIDS, and starting from birth the list just gets longer.\r\n\r\nI don\'t think if you met me you\'d automatically think that I\'m a granola-crunching, tree-hugger.  I wear makeup, I colour my hair, I love pedicures and manicures, I love to eat good food &amp; drink red wine, I recycle and compost as much as the next person.  I\'m not a fanatic I guess you could say, BUT, I believe that there are ways we can reduce the negative impact these things have on our health. I\'m not an expert, but more of a student - I\'m learning all the time about things I\'ve been doing or products I\'ve been using that are not only hurtful to the environment but harmful to my delicate hormonal balance.  More and more, my concern is for my children and the future of their health, including their hormone health.\r\n\r\nHere\'s some of the things I do to try to reduce my family\'s risk of exposure to hormone disrupting chemicals:\r\n<h1>Plastics:</h1>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>We avoid ALL plastics when we can - particularly 7, 6 &amp; 3.  Even my children know  \"7, 6 and 3 are not for me\".   When we were getting 100% rid of \"bad\" plastics I taught my children how to identify the plastic by the symbol and number.  I told them I\'d give them $1 for every bad plastic they found in our house!  They ran around the house like crazy.  Fortunately they only found 3 pieces of \"bad\" plastic in our house.</li>\r\n	<li>we never microwave anything in plastic</li>\r\n	<li>use glass or ceramics to store food</li>\r\n	<li>we don\'t let babies chew on plastics (or cell phones) - I try to give natural products/toys instead, I like shopping for eco-friendly kids stuff at <a title=\"Little Footprints Toys\" href=\"http://www.littlefootprintstoys.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Littlefootprintstoys.com</a></li>\r\n	<li>I breastfed my babies for well over a year &amp; I didn\'t use pacifiers - it was my choice not merely because of the plastic exposure but the \"plastic\" factor definitely belongs on the pro side to breastfeeding and thumb sucking over pacifiers, as well many formulas are soy based and it wasn\'t all that long ago that nasty endocrine disruptors were found in formula.  I didn\'t know at the time that my own exposure to phthalates, for example, meant that my breast milk would pass this endocrine disruptor onto my babies! Ugh.</li>\r\n	<li>we avoid plastic water bottles but we don\'t like stainless steel so found some good glass bottles that are wrapped in rubber so they are safe for my kids\' backpacks</li>\r\n	<li>we\'ve switched from Teflon pans to good old-fashion cast iron pans and stainless steel</li>\r\n	<li>we\'re getting rid of anything plastic that has a natural alternative - like exchanging plastic cutting boards for wooden boards, plastic kitchen storage - we use glass mason jars for a lot of our dry food</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h1>Cosmetics &amp; Body Care Products:</h1>\r\nWhen you consider that our skin is the largest organ in our body and it has direct exposure to many of the hormone disruptors.  Ever since I read that the average woman puts on 515 chemicals each morning I\'ve tried to reduce the amount of chemicals I put on my skin.  Finding out that I was putting things like formaldehyde on my skin each day just grossed me out.  Thinking about how I use topical progesterone cream made me realize even more how effective our skin is allowing both good and bad compounds into our body!\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>I have switched my cosmetics and body care products to natural products. There are many cosmetic choices that don\'t involve hormone disruptors. Many of the large health food stores like <a title=\"The Big Carrot - Body Care\" href=\"http://thebigcarrot.ca/index.php?id=27\" target=\"_blank\">\"The Big Carrot\"</a> in Toronto, Ontario, <a title=\"Nature\'s Emporium - Newmarket\" href=\"http://www.naturesemporium.ca/\" target=\"_blank\">\"Natures Emporium\"</a> in Newmarket, Ontario carry really nice body care &amp; cosmetic lines that are all natural.  Also their employees are super-informed about this stuff.  I also shop at <a title=\"The Detox Market\" href=\"http://www.thedetoxmarket.com/pages/our-location\" target=\"_blank\">\"The Detox Market\"</a> in Toronto, they have locations in LA and San Fransisco as well and they carry a small line of wonderful cosmetics and body care products.  And a small but lovely line of products at <a title=\"Elemi Organics\" href=\"http://www.elemi.ca/\" target=\"_blank\">Elemi Organics</a>. And if you can\'t give up your Sephora addiction - they even carry natural cosmetic lines.  I\'ve found when I ask for a product the natural ones are NEVER suggested - they don\'t rush you over to them, you have to specifically ask for natural products.  And their staff isn\'t really educated about the benefits of natural products. Also their website doesn\'t have a way of searching for their organic makeup so unless you know the name of the brand you\'ll have trouble figuring out which ones are natural. The good news about natural cosmetics? They work just as well, they are on-trend, they don\'t always have to cost more and are free of known hormone disruptors.</li>\r\n	<li>I confess I\'m a spa lover and try to look for either organic/natural products - and there are more and more organic spas popping up everywhere.</li>\r\n	<li>I use <a title=\"EWG - Skin Deep\" href=\"http://www.ewg.org/skindeep/\" target=\"_blank\">Environmental Working Group\'s Cosmetic Database - Skin Deep</a> to check on my family\'s body care products.  It\'s an invaluable resource for me.</li>\r\n	<li><a title=\"Campaign for Safe Cosmetics\" href=\"http://safecosmetics.org/\">Campaign for Safe Cosmetics</a> - a great site, full of information about cosmetics as well as how you can encourage safer cosmetics and demand cosmetic companies stop putting harmful chemicals in our makeup and body care products.</li>\r\n	<li>I keep informed also on <a title=\"Health Canada\" href=\"http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/cps-spc/cosmet-person/index-eng.php\">Health Canada\'s website</a> - the Canadian Government\'s site explains how to read the labels, has a Hotlist and most importantly publishes warnings and recalls on cosmetic items.</li>\r\n	<li>I\'ve read <strong>Gillian Deacon\'s book, <a title=\"There\'s Lead in Your Lipstick\" href=\"http://www.amazon.ca/Theres-Lead-In-Your-Lipstick/dp/0143172506\">\"There\'s Lead in Your Lipstick: Toxins in Our Everyday Body Care and How to Avoid Them\"</a></strong> - she really is an expert in this area and offers real advice about cosmetics and how to avoid chemicals.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>I avoid anti-bacterial products &amp; never buy them.</li>\r\n	<li>I avoid fragrances (a bit begrudgingly!) - they are jam-packed with hormone disruptors and have been able to make breast cancer cells grow in a lab environment! I used to wear perfume everyday and I am going to admit I miss it!  I spray it on once in a while (my clothes - even though I know I\'m still inhaling it) but I always feel like I am a walking endocrine disruptor!  So my fragrance use is very very minimal now.</li>\r\n	<li>we use natural sunscreen - I am going to admit I worry about slathering sunscreen all over my kids as much as I am concerned about their exposure to too much sun! My children spend a lot of time outdoors but I really do wonder what\'s worse for them - the chemicals or the sun?  I switched to natural sunscreen and feel better about it.</li>\r\n	<li>I buy natural deodorant and so far no one has ever told me I stink!  I am teaching my tween daughter why it\'s better for her than the stuff she sees all the other girls using.  Maybe instead of her being influenced by her peers using the trendy products, she\'ll be able to teach her friends about the benefits of using natural products.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h1>Household Products</h1>\r\nI used to love the clean smell of certain lemony or piney smelling cleaners! I just felt like my house smelled so clean! When I first switched I\'ll admit that I missed that \"just-cleaned\" smell.  Now when I encounter those same \"clean\" smells I just feel like holding my breath!  It\'s all in what you get used to.\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>I use natural cleaning products such as vinegar and baking soda or plant based cleaners - I\'ve found a lovely minty one that I love</li>\r\n	<li>I bought a floor steamer - it uses only tap water - no harsh chemicals</li>\r\n	<li>I don\'t use fabric softeners in the dryer - again, fragrances are loaded with hormone disruptors.  A bit of static never killed anyone, but fragrances....well...?</li>\r\n	<li>I check out my products on Environmental Working Groups database - I was surprised by some of the products I used - products that I thought were  green actually have chemicals in them!  I felt like such a sucker!</li>\r\n	<li>I\'ve always tended toward feather pillows which are natural but we\'ve had a few memory foam and other synthetic pillows over the years - we\'re switching to all natural pillows. The idea of my children breathing in petroleum based fumes and/or flame retardants all night long is bothersome!</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<a title=\"Environmental Working Group\'s Hall of Shame\" href=\"http://static.ewg.org/reports/2012/cleaners_hallofshame/cleaners_hallofshame.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Environmental Working Group\'s Hall of Shame</a> - Click here to see the worst offenders - some of these toxic chemicals are banned in certain countries, some have ingredients known to be carcinogenic.   And some of these products pretend they are \"green\" - some I\'ve had them in my own home thinking I was doing the right thing by buying \"Green\" products!  I\'m a sucker!\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Environmental Working Group\'s Guide to Cleaners\" href=\"http://www.ewg.org/guides/cleaners\" target=\"_blank\">Environmental Working Group\'s Guide to Healthy Cleaning</a> - Look up the cleaning products that you use on their database &amp; see what you\'re bringing into your house maybe without even knowing it!  EWG - rates common products for their safety.\r\n<h1>Food:</h1>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>I try to feed my family organic food as much as is possible based on what I have access to.</li>\r\n	<li>For many years I have been fortunate enough to be able to grow some of my own produce.</li>\r\n	<li>Again EWG to my rescue!  I keep informed with their <a title=\"EWG - Shoppers Guide to Pesticides\" href=\"http://www.ewg.org/foodnews/summary/\" target=\"_blank\">Shoppers Guide to Pesticides</a> - I keep a copy of their published Dirty Dozen and Clean 15 fruits and vegetables.  If you can\'t find all the organics where you live then at least focusing on the produce that has been found to have the highest concentrations of pesticide or the worst types of pesticide contamination</li>\r\n	<li>we have recently gone dairy-free at my house - once in a while some dairy slips into our diet but when it does I try to keep it organic.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nWhat\'s interesting is that once I began reducing my family\'s exposure, each action I took revealed another that I should or could take.  I\'m still figuring things out every day to improve our hormone health.  I you have any thoughts, ideas or tips - I\'d love to hear from you.\r\n<div></div>\r\n<div>\r\n\r\nTo stay informed:\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><strong>Read my previous posts</strong> about: <strong><a title=\"What Does it Mean to be Estrogen Dominant\" href=\"http://www.hormonesoup.com/what-does-it-mean-to-be-estrogen-dominant/\" target=\"_blank\">Estrogen dominance</a> </strong>&amp; <strong><a title=\"Why You Need to Care About Estrogen Dominance\" href=\"http://www.hormonesoup.com/why-you-need-to-care-about-estrogen-dominance/\" target=\"_blank\">Why Estrogen Dominance Matters to You</a></strong><strong> </strong>&amp;<strong><a title=\"X is for Xenoestrogens\" href=\"http://www.hormonesoup.com/x-is-for-xenoestrogens/\" target=\"_blank\"> X is for Xenoestrogens</a> &amp; <a title=\"Known &amp; Suspected Hormone Disruptors\" href=\"http://www.hormonesoup.com/known-suspected-hormone-disruptors/\" target=\"_blank\">Known &amp; Suspected Hormone Disruptors</a> </strong></li>\r\n	<li><strong><a title=\"Keep Up-to-Date\" href=\"http://www.hormonesoup.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up</a> </strong>for updates if you\'d like to read <strong>more</strong> of my series of articles about  estrogen, endocrine disruptors and other hormone imbalance.</li>\r\n	<li><strong>Please Share this article</strong> If you learned something</li>\r\n	<li><a title=\"Share Your Story with Hormone Soup\" href=\"http://www.hormonesoup.com/share-your-story/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Share your Story</strong></a> so other women can benefit</li>\r\n	<li>Send me your ideas I\'d love to incorporate them!</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</div>\r\n&nbsp;','Reducing My Family\'s Exposure to Hormone Disruptors','','publish','open','open','','reducing-my-familys-exposure-to-hormone-disruptors','','','2012-11-20 01:09:38','2012-11-20 06:09:38','',0,'http://www.hormonesoup.com/?p=931',0,'post','',1),(734,1,'2012-11-03 09:35:12','2012-11-03 14:35:12','Maybe you\'ve heard of xenoestrogens but don\'t really know what they are or how they work in your body.  I\'m going to explain what they are and why you need to minimize them in your life and perhaps even more so in your children\'s lives.\n\n<strong>Xenoestrogen</strong> means <strong>foreign estrogen</strong> - they are actually compounds we encounter in our daily lives which act like estrogens in our body.  You may have heard the terms <strong>endocrine disrupters</strong> or <strong>hormone disruptors</strong>.\n\nIt sounds weird but here\'s how it works:\n\nChemical compounds and pesticides enter your body &amp; jump onto the receptors that are supposed to be there for the estrogen <em>your body</em> is producing.  When your own estrogen comes along to do it\'s job it finds that these xenoestrogens have stolen their spot!  So your own estrogen has nowhere to go!\n\nYour body may not be producing too much estrogen but you will still have symptoms of estrogen dominance because your estrogen is now free to roam throughout your body with nowhere to go.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;',' X is for Xenoestrogens','','inherit','open','open','','722-revision-2','','','2012-11-03 09:35:12','2012-11-03 14:35:12','',722,'http://www.hormonesoup.com/722-revision-2/',0,'revision','',0),(735,1,'2012-11-03 09:37:34','2012-11-03 14:37:34','Maybe you\'ve heard of xenoestrogens but don\'t really know what they are or how they work in your body.  I\'m going to explain what they are and why you need to minimize them in your life and perhaps even more so in your children\'s lives.\n\n<strong>Xenoestrogen</strong> means <strong>foreign estrogen</strong> - they are actually compounds we encounter in our daily lives which act like estrogens in our body.  You may have heard the terms <strong>endocrine disrupters</strong> or <strong>hormone disruptors</strong>.\n\nIt sounds weird but here\'s how it works:\n\nChemical compounds and pesticides enter your body &amp; jump onto the receptors that are supposed to be there for the estrogen <em>your body</em> is producing.  When your own estrogen comes along to do it\'s job it finds that these xenoestrogens have stolen their spot!  So your own estrogen has nowhere to go!\n\nYour body doesn\'t even have to be producing too much estrogen to show symptoms of estrogen dominance!    Because our estrogen is now free to roam throughout your body with nowhere to go.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;',' X is for Xenoestrogens','','inherit','open','open','','722-revision-3','','','2012-11-03 09:37:34','2012-11-03 14:37:34','',722,'http://www.hormonesoup.com/722-revision-3/',0,'revision','',0),(736,1,'2012-11-03 09:44:31','2012-11-03 14:44:31','Maybe you\'ve heard of xenoestrogens but don\'t really know what they are or how they work in your body.  I\'m going to explain what they are and why you need to minimize them in your life and perhaps even more so in your children\'s lives.\n\n<strong>Xenoestrogen</strong> means <strong>foreign estrogen</strong> - they are actually compounds we encounter in our daily lives which act like estrogens in our body.  You may have heard the terms <strong>endocrine disrupters</strong> or <strong>hormone disruptors</strong>.\n\nIt sounds weird but here\'s how it works:\n\nChemical compounds and pesticides enter your body &amp; jump onto the receptors that are supposed to be there for the estrogen <em>your body</em> is producing.  When your own estrogen comes along to do it\'s job it finds that these xenoestrogens have stolen their spot!  So your own estrogen has nowhere to go!\n\nYour body doesn\'t even have to be producing too much estrogen to show symptoms of estrogen dominance!    Because our estrogen is now free to roam throughout your body with nowhere to go.\n\nRising rates of endometrial cancer\n\nRising rates of breast cancer\n\nHere\'s an article that\n\n<a title=\"Medical News Today - Xenoestrogens\" href=\"http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/245485.php\" target=\"_blank\">Medical News Today</a>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;',' X is for Xenoestrogens','','inherit','open','open','','722-revision-4','','','2012-11-03 09:44:31','2012-11-03 14:44:31','',722,'http://www.hormonesoup.com/722-revision-4/',0,'revision','',0),(737,1,'2012-11-03 11:30:43','2012-11-03 16:30:43','Maybe you\'ve heard of xenoestrogens but don\'t really know what they are or how they work in your body.  I\'m going to explain what they are and why you need to minimize them in your life and perhaps even more so in your children\'s lives.\n\n<strong>Xenoestrogen</strong> means <strong>foreign estrogen</strong> - they are actually compounds we encounter in our daily lives which act like estrogens in our body.  You may have heard the terms <strong>endocrine disrupters</strong> or <strong>hormone disruptors</strong>.\n\nIt sounds weird but here\'s how it works:\n\nIt\'s a bit like a game of musical chairs - chemical compounds and pesticides enter your body &amp; jump onto the receptors that are supposed to be there for the estrogen <em>your body</em> is producing.  When your own estrogen comes along it finds that these xenoestrogens have stolen their spot!  So your own estrogen has nowhere to go!  Xenoestrogens win the game and your own\n\nYour body doesn\'t even have to be producing too much estrogen to show symptoms of estrogen dominance!    Because our estrogen is now free to roam throughout your body with nowhere to go.\n\nWe have rising rates of\n\nEndometrial cancer\n\nBreast cancer\n\nPCOS\n\nEndometriosiss\n\nFibroids\n\n&nbsp;\n\nHere\'s an article about effects of Endocrine Disrupters on our health:\n\n<a title=\"Medical News Today - Xenoestrogens\" href=\"http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/245485.php\" target=\"_blank\">Medical News Today</a>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;',' X is for Xenoestrogens','','inherit','open','open','','722-revision-5','','','2012-11-03 11:30:43','2012-11-03 16:30:43','',722,'http://www.hormonesoup.com/722-revision-5/',0,'revision','',0),(738,1,'2012-11-03 11:31:16','2012-11-03 16:31:16','Maybe you\'ve heard of xenoestrogens but don\'t really know what they are or how they work in your body.  I\'m going to explain what they are and why you need to minimize them in your life and perhaps even more so in your children\'s lives.\r\n\r\n<strong>Xenoestrogen</strong> means <strong>foreign estrogen</strong> - they are actually compounds we encounter in our daily lives which act like estrogens in our body.  You may have heard the terms <strong>endocrine disrupters</strong> or <strong>hormone disruptors</strong>.\r\n\r\nIt sounds weird but here\'s how it works:\r\n\r\nIt\'s a bit like a game of musical chairs - chemical compounds and pesticides enter your body &amp; jump onto the receptors that are supposed to be there for the estrogen <em>your body</em> is producing.  When your own estrogen comes along it finds that these xenoestrogens have stolen their spot!  So your own estrogen has nowhere to go!  Every time xenoestrogens win the game - your body &amp; hormone health lose.\r\n\r\nYour body doesn\'t even have to be producing too much estrogen to show symptoms of estrogen dominance!    Because our estrogen is now free to roam throughout your body with nowhere to go.\r\n\r\nWe have rising rates of\r\n\r\nEndometrial cancer\r\n\r\nBreast cancer\r\n\r\nPCOS\r\n\r\nEndometriosiss\r\n\r\nFibroids\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nHere\'s an article about effects of Endocrine Disrupters on our health:\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Medical News Today - Xenoestrogens\" href=\"http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/245485.php\" target=\"_blank\">Medical News Today</a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;',' X is for Xenoestrogens','','inherit','open','open','','722-revision-6','','','2012-11-03 11:31:16','2012-11-03 16:31:16','',722,'http://www.hormonesoup.com/722-revision-6/',0,'revision','',0),(739,1,'2012-11-03 11:33:24','2012-11-03 16:33:24','Maybe you\'ve heard of xenoestrogens but don\'t really know what they are or how they work in your body.  I\'m going to explain what they are and why you need to minimize them in your life and perhaps even more so in your children\'s lives.\n\n<strong>Xenoestrogen</strong> means <strong>foreign estrogen</strong> - they are actually compounds we encounter in our daily lives which act like estrogens in our body.  You may have heard the terms <strong>endocrine disrupters</strong> or <strong>hormone disruptors</strong>.\n\nIt sounds weird but here\'s how it works:\n\nIt\'s a bit like a game of musical chairs - chemical compounds and pesticides enter your body &amp; jump onto the receptors that are supposed to be there for the estrogen <em>your body</em> is producing.  When your own estrogen comes along it finds that these xenoestrogens have stolen their spot!  So your own estrogen has nowhere to go!  Every time xenoestrogens win the game - your body &amp; hormone health lose.\n\nYour body doesn\'t even have to be producing too much estrogen to show symptoms of estrogen dominance!    Because our estrogen is now free to roam throughout your body with nowhere to go.\n\nWe have rising rates of\n\nEndometrial cancer\n\nBreast cancer\n\nPCOS - Poly-cycstic Ovarian Syndrome\n\nEndometriosiss\n\nFibroids\n\n&nbsp;\n\nHere\'s an article about effects of Endocrine Disrupters on our health:\n\n<a title=\"Medical News Today - Xenoestrogens\" href=\"http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/245485.php\" target=\"_blank\">Medical News Today</a>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;',' X is for Xenoestrogens','','inherit','open','open','','722-revision-7','','','2012-11-03 11:33:24','2012-11-03 16:33:24','',722,'http://www.hormonesoup.com/722-revision-7/',0,'revision','',0),(740,1,'2012-11-03 16:22:41','2012-11-03 21:22:41','Maybe you\'ve heard of xenoestrogens but don\'t really know what they are or how they work in your body.  I\'m going to explain what they are and why you need to minimize them in your life and perhaps even more so in your<strong> children\'s</strong> lives.\n\n<strong>Xenoestrogen</strong> means <strong>foreign estrogen</strong> - which basically means any outside substance that acts like estrogen once inside our body.  It includes chemical compounds and pesticides, but also plants like soy, as well as both synthetic and natural estrogens.\n\n<strong>Endocrine disrupters</strong> or <strong>hormone disruptors </strong>are similar but actually refer specifically to chemicals and/or compunds that disrupt our hormonal systems.\n\nSo here\'s a simple explanation of how it works:\n\nIt\'s a bit like a game of musical chairs - chemical compounds and pesticides enter your body &amp; jump onto the receptors that are supposed to be there for the estrogen <em>your body</em> is producing.  When your own estrogen comes along it finds that these xenoestrogens have stolen their spot!  So your own estrogen has nowhere to go!  Every time xenoestrogens win the game - your body &amp; hormone health lose.\n\nYour body doesn\'t even have to be producing too much estrogen to show symptoms of estrogen dominance!    Because our estrogen is now free to roam throughout your body with nowhere to go.\n\nWe have rising rates of\n\nEndometrial cancer\n\nBreast cancer\n\nPCOS - Poly-cycstic Ovarian Syndrome\n\nEndometriosiss\n\nFibroids\n\n&nbsp;\n\nHere\'s an article about effects of Endocrine Disrupters on our health:\n\n<a title=\"Medical News Today - Xenoestrogens\" href=\"http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/245485.php\" target=\"_blank\">Medical News Today</a>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;',' X is for Xenoestrogens','','inherit','open','open','','722-revision-8','','','2012-11-03 16:22:41','2012-11-03 21:22:41','',722,'http://www.hormonesoup.com/722-revision-8/',0,'revision','',0),(741,1,'2012-11-03 16:31:08','2012-11-03 21:31:08','Maybe you\'ve heard of xenoestrogens but don\'t really know what they are or how they work in your body.  I\'m going to explain what they are and why you need to minimize them in your life and perhaps even more so in your<strong> children\'s</strong> lives.\n\n<strong>Xenoestrogen</strong> means <strong>foreign estrogen</strong> - which basically means any outside substance that acts like estrogen once inside our body.  It includes chemical compounds and pesticides, but also plants like soy, as well as both synthetic and natural estrogens.\n\n<strong>Endocrine disrupters</strong> or <strong>hormone disruptors </strong>are similar but actually refer specifically to chemicals and/or compounds that disrupt our hormonal systems.\n\nSo here\'s a simple explanation of how it works:\n\nIt\'s a bit like a game of musical chairs - chemical compounds and pesticides enter your body &amp; jump onto the receptors that are supposed to be there for the estrogen <em>your body</em> is producing.  When your own estrogen comes along it finds that these xenoestrogens have stolen their spot!  So your own estrogen has nowhere to go!  Every time xenoestrogens win the game - your body &amp; hormone health lose.\n\nYour body doesn\'t even have to be producing too much estrogen to show symptoms of estrogen dominance!    Because our estrogen is now free to roam throughout your body with nowhere to go.\n\nEndocrine rising rates of:\n\nEndometrial cancer\n\nBreast cancer\n\nPCOS - Poly-cycstic Ovarian Syndrome\n\nEndometriosiss\n\nFibroids\n\n&nbsp;\n\nplastic bottles, metal food cans, detergents, flame retardants, food, toys, cosmetics, and pesticides\n\n&nbsp;\n\nFurther reading about the negative effects of Endocrine Disrupters on our health:\n\n<a title=\"Medical News Today - Xenoestrogens\" href=\"http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/245485.php\" target=\"_blank\">Medical News Today</a>\n\n<a title=\"National Institute of Health Sciences\" href=\"http://www.niehs.nih.gov/health/topics/agents/endocrine/index.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences</a>\n\n<a title=\"Wikipedia - Endorcrine Disruptor\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endocrine_disruptor\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia - Endocrine Disruptor</a>\n\n<a title=\"Natural Resources Defence Council\" href=\"http://www.nrdc.org/health/effects/qendoc.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Natural Resources Defence Council</a>\n\n<a title=\"EPA\" href=\"http://www.epa.gov/endocrine/#eds\" target=\"_blank\">Environmental Protection Agency </a>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;',' X is for Xenoestrogens','','inherit','open','open','','722-revision-9','','','2012-11-03 16:31:08','2012-11-03 21:31:08','',722,'http://www.hormonesoup.com/722-revision-9/',0,'revision','',0),(742,1,'2012-11-03 17:24:35','2012-11-03 22:24:35','Maybe you\'ve heard of xenoestrogens but don\'t really know what they are or how they work in your body.  I\'m going to explain what they are and why you need to minimize them in your life and perhaps even more so in your<strong> children\'s</strong> lives.\n\n<strong>Xenoestrogen</strong> means <strong>foreign estrogen</strong> - which basically means any outside substance that acts like estrogen once inside our body.  It includes chemical compounds and pesticides, but also plants like soy, as well as both synthetic and natural estrogens.\n\n<strong>Endocrine disrupters</strong> or <strong>hormone disruptors </strong>are similar but actually refer specifically to chemicals and/or compounds that disrupt our hormonal systems.\n\nThere\'s a few ways that disruption occurs but without getting too scientific on you here is one simple explanation of how it works:\n\nThink of it like a game of musical chairs - chemical compounds and pesticides enter your body &amp; jump onto the receptors that are supposed to be there for the estrogen <em>your body</em> is producing.  When your own estrogen comes along it finds that these xenoestrogens have stolen their spot!  So your own estrogen has nowhere to go!  Every time xenoestrogens win the game - your body &amp; hormone health lose.\n\nYour body doesn\'t even have to be producing too much estrogen to show symptoms of estrogen dominance!    Because our estrogen is now free to roam throughout your body with nowhere to go.\n\nEndocrine disruptors are being blamed for our rising rates of:\n<ul>\n	<li>Endometrial cancer</li>\n	<li>Breast cancer</li>\n	<li>PCOS - Poly-cycstic Ovarian Syndrome</li>\n	<li>Endometriosis</li>\n	<li>Fibroids</li>\n	<li>Infertility</li>\n	<li>and other problems, including testicular &amp; prostrate cancer in men.</li>\n</ul>\n&nbsp;\n\nplastic bottles, metal food cans, detergents, flame retardants, food, toys, cosmetics, and pesticides\n\n&nbsp;\n\nFurther reading about the negative effects of Endocrine Disrupters on our health:\n\n<a title=\"Medical News Today - Xenoestrogens\" href=\"http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/245485.php\" target=\"_blank\">Medical News Today</a>\n\n<a title=\"National Institute of Health Sciences\" href=\"http://www.niehs.nih.gov/health/topics/agents/endocrine/index.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences</a>\n\n<a title=\"Endocrine Society - Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals - A Scientific Study\" href=\"http://www.endo-society.org/journals/ScientificStatements/upload/EDC_Scientific_Statement.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">The Endocrine Society - Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals - A Scientific Statement </a>\n\nTEDx - The Endocrine Disruption Exchange\n\n<a title=\"Journal of Environmental &amp; Public Health - Endocrine Disrupters\" href=\"http://www.hindawi.com/journals/jeph/2012/713696/\" target=\"_blank\">Journal of Environmental &amp; Public Health</a>\n\n<a title=\"Wikipedia - Endorcrine Disruptor\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endocrine_disruptor\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia - Endocrine Disruptor</a>\n\n<a title=\"Natural Resources Defence Council\" href=\"http://www.nrdc.org/health/effects/qendoc.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Natural Resources Defence Council</a>\n\n<a title=\"EPA\" href=\"http://www.epa.gov/endocrine/#eds\" target=\"_blank\">Environmental Protection Agency </a>\n\n<a title=\"NIEHS - Recent Endocrine Research Resources\" href=\"http://www.niehs.nih.gov/health/assets/docs_a_e/endocrine_research_resources.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">NIEHS - Recent Endocrine Research Resources </a>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;',' X is for Xenoestrogens','','inherit','open','open','','722-revision-10','','','2012-11-03 17:24:35','2012-11-03 22:24:35','',722,'http://www.hormonesoup.com/722-revision-10/',0,'revision','',0),(743,1,'2012-11-07 17:20:08','2012-11-07 22:20:08','<strong>Endocrine disruptors</strong> are being blamed for our rising rates of:\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Endometrial cancer</li>\r\n	<li>Breast cancer</li>\r\n	<li>PCOS - Poly-cycstic Ovarian Syndrome</li>\r\n	<li>Endometriosis</li>\r\n	<li>Fibroids</li>\r\n	<li>Infertility</li>\r\n	<li>and other problems, including testicular &amp; prostrate cancer in men.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nAnd whether you realize it or not, you are encountering hundreds or thousands of hormone disruptors every day.  They are found in plastic, metal food cans, household cleaners &amp; detergents, food, flame retardants, toys, cosmetics, and pesticides.\r\n\r\nLike I said, there are other ways your hormones can get disrupted, here are some links explaining the mechanisms:\r\n\r\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a title=\"Todipedia - Endocrine Disruptors\" href=\"http://toxipedia.org/display/toxipedia/Endocrine+Disruptors\" target=\"_blank\">Toxipedia - Endocrine Disruptors</a></span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a title=\"Mechanisms of Endocrine Disruption\" href=\"http://website.lineone.net/~mwarhurst/mechanisms.html\" target=\"_blank\">Mechanisms of Endocrine Disruption</a></span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI am constantly doing research and compiling lists of articles and further reading about the negative effects of Endocrine Disruptors on our health.\r\n\r\nClick on the links below to read more about hormone disruptors:\r\n\r\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a title=\"Medical News Today - Xenoestrogens\" href=\"http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/245485.php\" target=\"_blank\">Medical News Today</a></span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a title=\"National Institute of Health Sciences\" href=\"http://www.niehs.nih.gov/health/topics/agents/endocrine/index.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences</a></span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a title=\"Endocrine Society - Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals - A Scientific Study\" href=\"http://www.endo-society.org/journals/ScientificStatements/upload/EDC_Scientific_Statement.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">The Endocrine Society - Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals - A Scientific Statement </a></span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a title=\"TEDx - The Endocrine Disruption Exchange\" href=\"http://www.endocrinedisruption.com/home.php\" target=\"_blank\">TEDx - The Endocrine Disruption Exchange</a></span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a title=\"Journal of Environmental &amp; Public Health - Endocrine Disrupters\" href=\"http://www.hindawi.com/journals/jeph/2012/713696/\" target=\"_blank\">Journal of Environmental &amp; Public Health</a></span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a title=\"Wikipedia - Endorcrine Disruptor\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endocrine_disruptor\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia - Endocrine Disruptor</a></span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a title=\"Natural Resources Defence Council\" href=\"http://www.nrdc.org/health/effects/qendoc.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Natural Resources Defence Council</a></span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a title=\"EPA\" href=\"http://www.epa.gov/endocrine/#eds\" target=\"_blank\">Environmental Protection Agency </a></span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a title=\"NIEHS - Recent Endocrine Research Resources\" href=\"http://www.niehs.nih.gov/health/assets/docs_a_e/endocrine_research_resources.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">NIEHS - Recent Endocrine Research Resources </a></span>\r\n\r\nPlease feel free to point me toward any studies or further reading that my readers would find informative. 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Get your kids involved - they\'ll go on a hunt through your household products for you.  You\'ll be clearing out your shelves of harmful products and educating your kids at the same time.\r\n<h3><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Negative Health Effects of Hormone Disruptors</strong></span></h3>\r\n<strong>Hormone disruptors also called endocrine disruptors </strong>are being blamed for our rising rates of:\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Endometrial cancer</li>\r\n	<li>Breast cancer</li>\r\n	<li>PCOS - Poly-cycstic Ovarian Syndrome</li>\r\n	<li>Endometriosis</li>\r\n	<li>Fibroids</li>\r\n	<li>Infertility</li>\r\n	<li>and other problems, including testicular &amp; prostrate cancer in men.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nWe encounter hundreds or thousands of hormone disruptors every day.  They are found in<strong> plastic, metal food cans, household cleaners &amp; detergents, food, flame retardants, toys, cosmetics, and pesticides.</strong>\r\n<h3><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Known &amp; Suspected Hormone Disruptors</span></h3>\r\nBased on the research I\'ve done about hormone disruptors here is a list of some of the more commonly discussed chemicals that mess around with our hormones in one way or another.  Clicking each compound name listed will take you to the Wikipedia® article if you\'d like to read more.\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a title=\"Paraben - Wikipedia\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraben\" target=\"_blank\">Parabens</a></span> - known to mimic estrogen &amp; <strong>linked to breast cancer</strong>. Widely found in makeup, moisturizers which may be why one study found significantly higher levels in women than men</li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a title=\"BHA - Wikipedia Link\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butylated_hydroxyanisole\" target=\"_blank\">BHA (Butylated hydroxyanisole)</a></span> - Food preservative also found in moisturizers and cosmetics such as lipsticks. Listed as a <strong>carcinogenic</strong> by the State of California. Health Canada lists BHA as \"<strong>high human health priority\"</strong>.  European Union prohibits it\'s use in fragrances. BHA interferes with hormone function.</li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a title=\"BHT\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butylated_hydroxytoluene\" target=\"_blank\">BHT (Butylated hydroxytoluene)</a></span> - closely related to BHA. May mimic estrogen and cause adverse affects to reproductive health.  Health Canada lists BHT as \"moderate human health priority\".</li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a title=\"Phthalate - Wikipedia\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phthalate\" target=\"_blank\">Phthalates</a></span> - are used in a wide variety of products, including nail products, children\'s toys, coating on pharmaceuticals, plastics, etc.  Certain phthalates have been shown to have an adverse affect on reproductive health and disrupt hormones.</li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a title=\"Triclosan - Wikipedia\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triclosan\" target=\"_blank\">Triclosan</a></span> - found in antibacterial products such as soaps, toothpastes, mouthwashes, hand sanitizers,  antiperspirants/deodorants, laundry detergent, facial tissues, trash bags.  Suspected as <strong>interfering with hormone function.</strong></li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a title=\"Formaldehyde_releaser\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formaldehyde_releaser\" target=\"_blank\">Formaldehyde releasing preservatives </a></span>(DMDM hydantoin, diazolidinyl urea, imidazolidinyl urea, methenamine, quaternium-15 and sodium hydroxymethylglycinate) - a <strong>known carcinogen</strong> to humans but still widely used in hair products, moisturizers, nail polishes, building supplies, etc.</li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a title=\"PEG - Polyethylene Glycol\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyethylene_glycol\" target=\"_blank\">PEG (polyethylene glycols)</a></span> - Can be contaminated with 1, 4 dioxans <strong>potentially carcinogenic</strong>. Unfortunately, PEG is frequently found in otherwise safe personal care products.</li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a title=\"Petrolatum\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrolatum\" target=\"_blank\">Petrolatum</a></span> - petroleum jelly - a known endocrine disruptor. Sodium Lauryl/Laureth Sulfate (SLS/SLES) - found in foamy products like soaps, shampoos, cleansers, bubble baths.  Can be contaminated with 1,4-dioxan which is <strong>potentially carcinogenic.</strong></li>\r\n	<li><a title=\"Coal Tar Dyes\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_coloring\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Coal Tar Dyes (also p-Phenylenediamine PPD)</span></a> (colors identified as CI followed by five digits or in the US as FD&amp;C or D&amp;C followed by a number) - used in food as artificial colours, many have been banned over the years but several are still in use, used in hair dyes and cosmetics. May be potential carcinogenic but not added to the official list yet.</li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a title=\"Cocamide DEA\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocamide_DEA\" target=\"_blank\">DEA, cocamide DEA and lauramide DEA</a> </span>- a<strong> known carcinogenic</strong>. Used to make soaps and shampoos foamy and as an emulsifying agent in cosmetics.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Websites I Highly Recommend</span></span></h3>\r\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a title=\"Environmental Working Group\'s Hall of Shame\" href=\"http://static.ewg.org/reports/2012/cleaners_hallofshame/cleaners_hallofshame.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Environmental Working Group\'s Hall of Shame</a></span> - click to see the worst offenders - some of these toxic chemicals are banned in certain countries, some have ingredients known to be carcinogenic.   And some of these products pretend they are \"green\" - some I\'ve had in my own home thinking I was doing the right thing by buying \"Green\" products!  Boy did I feel like a sucker!\r\n\r\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a title=\"Campaign for Safe Cosmetics\" href=\"http://safecosmetics.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Campaign for Safe Cosmetics</a></span> - a great site, full of information about cosmetics as well as how you can encourage safer cosmetics and demand cosmetic companies stop putting harmful chemicals in our makeup and body care products.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a title=\"Environmental Working Group\'s Guide to Cleaners\" href=\"http://www.ewg.org/guides/cleaners\" target=\"_blank\">Environmental Working Group\'s Guide to Healthy Cleaning</a></span> - Look up the Cleaning Products that you use &amp; see what you\'re bringing into your house maybe without even knowing it!  EWG - rates common products for\r\n\r\n<strong>Environmental Working Group</strong> has a list of every chemical under the sun! You can look up virtually any compound on their website and find out the good, bad and the ugly.  Check out their<a title=\"EWG\'s list of ALL chemicals\" href=\"http://www.ewg.org/chemindex/list\" target=\"_blank\"> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">list of all chemicals</span></a><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"> </span>or read more on their site about hormone disruptors, such as formaldehyde-releasers in baby formulas.\r\n\r\n<strong>David Suzuki Foundation</strong> has a great website and also lists the <a title=\"David Suzuki Foundation Dirty Dozen Chemicals in Cosmetics\" href=\"http://www.davidsuzuki.org/issues/health/science/toxics/dirty-dozen-cosmetic-chemicals/\" target=\"_blank\">\"<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Dirty Dozen</span>\"</a> chemicals to avoid in cosmetics.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a title=\"Health Canada\" href=\"http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/cps-spc/cosmet-person/index-eng.php\" target=\"_blank\">Health Canada</a></span> - the Canadian Government\'s site includes a Cosmetics Hotlist - many chemicals have been banned or have to be labelled in Canada. Not as good as in the EU but much better than in the USA. (To all my cross-border shopping friends - you may be getting more than your bargained for if you shop for cosmetics and body care products south of the border).  Explains how to read the labels, warnings and recalls, and a place for you to report adverse affects.\r\n\r\n<strong>Dr. Theo Colborn\'s book \"Our Stolen Future\"</strong> is a must-read for anyone interested in the topic of hormone disruption.  Click here for a more detailed chart from their website: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"> <a title=\"Chart of Endocrine Disruptors\" href=\"http://www.ourstolenfuture.org/Basics/chemlist.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Endocrine Disruptor Chart from OurStolenFuture.org</a></span>\r\n\r\n<strong>Gillian Deacon\'s book,</strong><strong> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a title=\"There\'s Lead in Your Lipstick\" href=\"http://www.amazon.ca/Theres-Lead-In-Your-Lipstick/dp/0143172506\" target=\"_blank\">\"There\'s Lead in Your Lipstick: Toxins in Our Everyday Body Care and How to Avoid Them\"</a></span></strong>\r\n<h3><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Get the Facts About Hormone Disruptors</span></h3>\r\nClick on the links below to read more about hormone disruptors:\r\n\r\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a title=\"Medical News Today - Xenoestrogens\" href=\"http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/245485.php\" target=\"_blank\">Medical News Today</a></span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a title=\"National Institute of Health Sciences\" href=\"http://www.niehs.nih.gov/health/topics/agents/endocrine/index.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences</a></span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a title=\"Endocrine Society - Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals - A Scientific Study\" href=\"http://www.endo-society.org/journals/ScientificStatements/upload/EDC_Scientific_Statement.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">The Endocrine Society - Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals - A Scientific Statement </a></span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a title=\"TEDx - The Endocrine Disruption Exchange\" href=\"http://www.endocrinedisruption.com/home.php\" target=\"_blank\">TEDx - The Endocrine Disruption Exchange</a></span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a title=\"Journal of Environmental &amp; Public Health - Endocrine Disrupters\" href=\"http://www.hindawi.com/journals/jeph/2012/713696/\" target=\"_blank\">Journal of Environmental &amp; Public Health</a></span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a title=\"Wikipedia - Endorcrine Disruptor\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endocrine_disruptor\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia - Endocrine Disruptor</a></span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a title=\"Natural Resources Defence Council\" href=\"http://www.nrdc.org/health/effects/qendoc.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Natural Resources Defence Council</a></span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a title=\"EPA\" href=\"http://www.epa.gov/endocrine/#eds\" target=\"_blank\">Environmental Protection Agency </a></span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a title=\"NIEHS - Recent Endocrine Research Resources\" href=\"http://www.niehs.nih.gov/health/assets/docs_a_e/endocrine_research_resources.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">NIEHS - Recent Endocrine Research Resources </a></span>\r\n\r\nPlease feel free to point me toward any studies or further reading that my readers would find informative. Thanks!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nTo stay informed:\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><strong>Read my previous posts</strong> about:<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"> </span><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a title=\"What Does it Mean to be Estrogen Dominant\" href=\"http://www.hormonesoup.com/what-does-it-mean-to-be-estrogen-dominant/\" target=\"_blank\">Estrogen dominance</a></span> </strong>&amp; <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a title=\"Why You Need to Care About Estrogen Dominance\" href=\"http://www.hormonesoup.com/why-you-need-to-care-about-estrogen-dominance/\" target=\"_blank\">Why Estrogen Dominance Matters to You</a></strong></span><strong> </strong>&amp;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a title=\"X is for Xenoestrogens\" href=\"http://www.hormonesoup.com/x-is-for-xenoestrogens/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong> X is for Xenoestrogens</strong></a></span></li>\r\n	<li><strong><a title=\"Keep Up-to-Date\" href=\"http://www.hormonesoup.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up</a> </strong>for updates if you\'d like to read <strong>more</strong> of my series of articles about  estrogen, endocrine disruptors and other hormone imbalance.</li>\r\n	<li><strong>Share this article</strong> If you learned something</li>\r\n	<li><a title=\"Share Your Story with Hormone Soup\" href=\"http://www.hormonesoup.com/share-your-story/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Share your Story</strong></a> so other women can benefit</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n&nbsp;','Known & Suspected Hormone Disruptors','','publish','open','open','','known-suspected-hormone-disruptors','','\nhttp://www.hormonesoup.com/what-does-it-mean-to-be-estrogen-dominant/','2012-11-14 09:31:59','2012-11-14 14:31:59','',0,'http://www.hormonesoup.com/?p=748',0,'post','',0),(749,1,'2012-11-03 17:30:18','2012-11-03 22:30:18','Parabens -\n\nBHA\n\nBHT\n\nPhthalate or Dibutyl Phthalate\n\nFormaldehyde\n\nPEG\n\nPetrolatum\n\nSodium Laureth Sulfate (SLES)\n\nSodium Lauryl Sulfate (SL','Known & Suspected Hormone Disruptors','','inherit','open','open','','748-revision','','','2012-11-03 17:30:18','2012-11-03 22:30:18','',748,'http://www.hormonesoup.com/748-revision/',0,'revision','',0),(750,1,'2012-11-03 17:30:42','2012-11-03 22:30:42','Parabens -\r\n\r\nBHA\r\n\r\nBHT\r\n\r\nPhthalate or Dibutyl Phthalate\r\n\r\nFormaldehyde\r\n\r\nPEG\r\n\r\nPetrolatum\r\n\r\nSodium Laureth Sulfate (SLES)\r\n\r\nSodium Lauryl Sulfate (SLS)\r\n\r\nTriclosan\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','Known & Suspected Hormone Disruptors','','inherit','open','open','','748-revision-2','','','2012-11-03 17:30:42','2012-11-03 22:30:42','',748,'http://www.hormonesoup.com/748-revision-2/',0,'revision','',0),(910,1,'2012-11-14 10:29:30','2012-11-14 15:29:30','The one thing I\'ve found throughout my research is that merely living on earth puts you at risk of exposure to hormone disrupting chemicals - they are everywhere! Even newborn babies born today have been contaminated with chemicals known to cause endocrine disruption.  Umbilical cords have been found in one study to be full of chemicals.\n\nI don\'t think if you met me you\'d automatically think that I\'m a granola-crunching, tree-hugger.  I wear makeup, I colour my hair, I like pedicures and manicures, I love to eat good food &amp; drink red wine, I recycle and compost as much as the next person.  I\'m not a fanatic I guess you could say, BUT, I believe that there are ways we can reduce the negative impact these things have on our health. I\'m not an expert, but more of a student - I\'m learning all the time about things I\'ve been doing or products I\'ve been using that are not only hurtful to the environment but harmful to my delicate hormonal balance.  More and more, my concern is for my children and the future of their health, including their hormone health.\n\nHere\'s some of the things I do to try to reduce my family\'s risk of exposure to hormone disrupting chemicals:\n<h1>Plastics:</h1>\n<ul>\n	<li>We avoid plastics when we can - particularly 7, 6 &amp; 3.  Even my children know  \"7, 6 and 3 are not for me\".   When we were getting rid of \"bad\" plastics I taught my children how to identify the plastic by the symbol and number.  I told them I\'d give them $1 for every bad plastic they found in our house!  They ran around the house like crazy.  Fortunately they only found 3 pieces of \"bad\" plastic in our house.</li>\n	<li>we never microwave anything in plastic</li>\n	<li>use glass or ceramics to store food</li>\n	<li>don\'t let babies chew on plastics - find natural products/toys instead</li>\n	<li>I breastfed my babies for well over a year &amp; I didn\'t use pacifiers - it was my choice not merely because of the plastic exposure but the \"plastic\" factor definitely belongs on the pro side to breastfeeding and thumb sucking over pacifiers, as well many formulas are soy based and it wasn\'t all that long ago that nasty endocrine disruptors were found in formula.  I didn\'t know that my own exposure to phthalates, for example, meant that my breast milk would pass this endocrine disruptor onto my babies.</li>\n	<li>try and avoid plastic water bottles but we don\'t like stainless steel so found some good glass bottles that are wrapped in rubber so they are safe for my kids\' backpacks</li>\n	<li>we\'ve switched from Teflon pans to good old fashion cast iron pans</li>\n	<li>we\'re getting rid of anything plastic that have a natural alternative - like exchanging plastic cutting boards for wooden boards</li>\n</ul>\n<h1>Cosmetics &amp; Body Care Products:</h1>\nWhen you consider that our skin is the largest organ in our body and it has direct exposure to many of the hormone disruptors.  Ever since I read that the average woman puts on 515 chemicals each morning I\'ve tried to reduce the amount of chemicals I put on my skin.  Finding out that I was putting things like formaldehyde on my skin each day just grossed me out.  Thinking about how I use topical progesterone cream made me realize even more how effective our skin is allowing both good and bad compounds into our body!\n<ul>\n	<li>I have switched my cosmetics and body care products to natural products. There are many cosmetic choices that don\'t involve hormone disruptors. Many of the large health food stores like <a title=\"The Big Carrot - Body Care\" href=\"http://thebigcarrot.ca/index.php?id=27\" target=\"_blank\">\"<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Big Carrot\"</span></a> in Toronto, Ontario, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a title=\"Nature\'s Emporium - Newmarket\" href=\"http://www.naturesemporium.ca/\" target=\"_blank\">\"Natures Emporium\"</a></span> in Newmarket, Ontario carry really nice body care &amp; cosmetic lines that are all natural.  Also their employees are super-informed about this stuff.  I also shop at <a title=\"The Detox Market\" href=\"http://www.thedetoxmarket.com/pages/our-location\" target=\"_blank\">\"<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Detox Market\"</span></a> in Toronto, they have locations in LA and San Fransisco as well and they carry a small line of wonderful cosmetics and body care products.  And if you can\'t give up your Sephora addiction - they even carry natural cosmetic lines.  I\'ve found when I ask for a product the natural ones are NEVER suggested - they don\'t rush you over to them, you have to specifically ask for natural products.  And their staff isn\'t really educated about the benefits of natural products. Also their website doesn\'t have a way of searching for their organic makeup so unless you know the name of the brand you\'ll have trouble figuring out which ones are natural.</li>\n	<li>I use <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a title=\"EWG - Skin Deep\" href=\"http://www.ewg.org/skindeep/\" target=\"_blank\">Environmental Working Group\'s Cosmetic Database - Skin Deep</a></span> to check on my family\'s body care products.  It\'s an invaluable resource for me.</li>\n</ul>\nThe good news about natural cosmetics? They work just as well, they are on-trend, they don\'t have to cost more and are free of known hormone disruptors.\n<ul>\n	<li>Avoid anti-bacterial products like the plague</li>\n	<li>Avoid fragrances - they are jam-packed with hormone disruptors and have been able to make breast cancer cells grow in a lab environment!</li>\n	<li>Use natural sunscreen - I am going to admit I worry about slathering sunscreen all over my kids as much as I am concerned about their exposure to too much sun! My children spend a lot of time outdoors but I really do wonder what\'s worse for them - the chemicals or the sun?  I switched to natural sunscreen and feel better about it.</li>\n	<li>I buy natural deodorant and am teaching my tween daughter why it\'s better for her than the stuff she sees all the other girls using.  Maybe instead of her being influenced by her peers using the trendy products, she\'ll be able to teach her friends about the benefits of using natural products.</li>\n</ul>\n<h1>Household Products:</h1>\n<ul>\n	<li>use natural cleaning products such as vinegar and baking soda or plant based cleaners</li>\n	<li>use a floor steamer - it uses only tap water - no harsh chemicals</li>\n	<li>don\'t use fabric softeners in the dryer - again, fragrances are loaded with hormone disruptors</li>\n	<li>I check out all products on Environmental Working Groups database - you may be surprised - even the products that you think are green probably have chemicals in them</li>\n</ul>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a title=\"Environmental Working Group\'s Hall of Shame\" href=\"http://static.ewg.org/reports/2012/cleaners_hallofshame/cleaners_hallofshame.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Environmental Working Group\'s Hall of Shame</a></span> - Click here to see the worst offenders - some of these toxic chemicals are banned in certain countries, some have ingredients known to be carcinogenic.   And some of these products pretend they are \"green\" - some I\'ve had them in my own home thinking I was doing the right thing by buying \"Green\" products!  I\'m a sucker!\n\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a title=\"Environmental Working Group\'s Guide to Cleaners\" href=\"http://www.ewg.org/guides/cleaners\" target=\"_blank\">Environmental Working Group\'s Guide to Healthy Cleaning</a> </span>- Look up the cleaning products that you use on their database &amp; see what you\'re bringing into your house maybe without even knowing it!  EWG - rates common products for their safety.\n<h1>Food:</h1>\n<ul>\n	<li>I try to feed my family organic food as much as is possible based on what I have access to.</li>\n	<li>For many years I have been fortunate enough to be able to grow some of my own produce.</li>\n	<li>Again EWG to my rescue!  I keep informed with their <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a title=\"EWG - Shoppers Guide to Pesticides\" href=\"http://www.ewg.org/foodnews/summary/\" target=\"_blank\">Shoppers Guide to Pesticides</a></span> - I keep a copy of their published Dirty Dozen and Clean 15 fruits and vegetables.  If you can\'t find all the organics where you live then at least focusing on the produce that has been found to have the highest concentrations of pesticide or the worst types of pesticide contamination</li>\n	<li>we have recently gone dairy-free at my house - once in a while some dairy slips into our diet but when it does I try to keep it organic.</li>\n</ul>\n&nbsp;','How I Reduce My Family\'s Exposure to Hormone Disruptors','','inherit','open','open','','767-revision-25','','','2012-11-14 10:29:30','2012-11-14 15:29:30','',767,'http://www.hormonesoup.com/767-revision-25/',0,'revision','',0),(756,1,'2012-11-08 13:00:15','0000-00-00 00:00:00','Further reading about the negative effects of Endocrine Disrupters on our health:\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Medical News Today - Xenoestrogens\" href=\"http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/245485.php\" target=\"_blank\">Medical News Today</a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"National Institute of Health Sciences\" href=\"http://www.niehs.nih.gov/health/topics/agents/endocrine/index.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences</a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Endocrine Society - Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals - A Scientific Study\" href=\"http://www.endo-society.org/journals/ScientificStatements/upload/EDC_Scientific_Statement.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">The Endocrine Society - Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals - A Scientific Statement </a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"TEDx - The Endocrine Disruption Exchange\" href=\"http://www.endocrinedisruption.com/home.php\" target=\"_blank\">TEDx - The Endocrine Disruption Exchange</a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Environment Canada - 2000 \" href=\"http://publications.gc.ca/Collection-R/LoPBdP/BP/prb0001-e.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Environment Canada - 2000</a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Journal of Environmental &amp; Public Health - Endocrine Disrupters\" href=\"http://www.hindawi.com/journals/jeph/2012/713696/\" target=\"_blank\">Journal of Environmental &amp; Public Health</a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Wikipedia - Endorcrine Disruptor\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endocrine_disruptor\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia - Endocrine Disruptor</a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Natural Resources Defence Council\" href=\"http://www.nrdc.org/health/effects/qendoc.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Natural Resources Defence Council</a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"WHEN - Women\'s Health and the Environment Network\" href=\"http://www.wsn.org/cbe/hormone.html\" target=\"_blank\">WHEN - Women\'s Health and the Environment Network</a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"EPA\" href=\"http://www.epa.gov/endocrine/#eds\" target=\"_blank\">Environmental Protection Agency </a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"NIEHS - Recent Endocrine Research Resources\" href=\"http://www.niehs.nih.gov/health/assets/docs_a_e/endocrine_research_resources.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">NIEHS - Recent Endocrine Research Resources </a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"NIEHS - Flame Retardants Linked to Reduced Fertility\" href=\"http://www.niehs.nih.gov/research/supported/sep/2010/fertility/index.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">NIEHS - Flame Retardants Linked to Infertility</a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Chem Trust - Pesticides\' Role in Some Cancers\" href=\"http://www.endocrinedisruption.com/files/CHEMTrustreportonpesticidesandcancer2010.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Chem Trust - Pesticide\'s Role in Some Cancers</a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Environmental Health Perspectives\" href=\"http://www.loe.org/images/content/090904/lowdose.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Environmental Health Perspectives </a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"The Endocrine Society Issues Statement of Principles\" href=\"http://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/2012/09/the-endocrine-society-issues-statement-of-principles/\" target=\"_blank\">The Endocrine Society - Statement of Principles</a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"HBCD - Flame retardant found in food in Dallas, TX\" href=\"http://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/2012/09/hexabromocyclododecane-hbcd-stereoisomers-in-u-s-food-from-dallas-texas/\" target=\"_blank\">Environmental Health Perspectives - HBCD, a flame retardant found in food</a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThis list is not exhaustive but provides a small sample of further reading for those interested in delving further into the research on endocrine disruptors.\r\n\r\nI\'m always looking for further research in the area of \"EDCs\" Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals and other Hormone Disrupters  -  please feel free to send me information on other articles/research to add to my growing list.','Research, Articles, Websites','','draft','open','open','','research-on-endocrine-disrupting-chemicals','','','2012-11-08 13:00:15','2012-11-08 18:00:15','',745,'http://www.hormonesoup.com/?page_id=756',4,'page','',0),(757,1,'2012-11-03 17:34:30','2012-11-03 22:34:30','','Research on Endo','','inherit','open','open','','756-revision','','','2012-11-03 17:34:30','2012-11-03 22:34:30','',756,'http://www.hormonesoup.com/756-revision/',0,'revision','',0),(758,1,'2012-11-03 17:34:41','2012-11-03 22:34:41','','Research on Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals','','inherit','open','open','','756-revision-2','','','2012-11-03 17:34:41','2012-11-03 22:34:41','',756,'http://www.hormonesoup.com/756-revision-2/',0,'revision','',0),(759,1,'2012-11-03 17:35:41','2012-11-03 22:35:41','Further reading about the negative effects of Endocrine Disrupters on our health:\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Medical News Today - Xenoestrogens\" href=\"http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/245485.php\" target=\"_blank\">Medical News Today</a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"National Institute of Health Sciences\" href=\"http://www.niehs.nih.gov/health/topics/agents/endocrine/index.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences</a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Endocrine Society - Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals - A Scientific Study\" href=\"http://www.endo-society.org/journals/ScientificStatements/upload/EDC_Scientific_Statement.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">The Endocrine Society - Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals - A Scientific Statement </a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"TEDx - The Endocrine Disruption Exchange\" href=\"http://www.endocrinedisruption.com/home.php\" target=\"_blank\">TEDx - The Endocrine Disruption Exchange</a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Journal of Environmental &amp; Public Health - Endocrine Disrupters\" href=\"http://www.hindawi.com/journals/jeph/2012/713696/\" target=\"_blank\">Journal of Environmental &amp; Public Health</a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Wikipedia - Endorcrine Disruptor\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endocrine_disruptor\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia - Endocrine Disruptor</a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Natural Resources Defence Council\" href=\"http://www.nrdc.org/health/effects/qendoc.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Natural Resources Defence Council</a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"EPA\" href=\"http://www.epa.gov/endocrine/#eds\" target=\"_blank\">Environmental Protection Agency </a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"NIEHS - Recent Endocrine Research Resources\" href=\"http://www.niehs.nih.gov/health/assets/docs_a_e/endocrine_research_resources.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">NIEHS - Recent Endocrine Research Resources </a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','Research on Hormone Disruptors','','inherit','open','open','','756-revision-3','','','2012-11-03 17:35:41','2012-11-03 22:35:41','',756,'http://www.hormonesoup.com/756-revision-3/',0,'revision','',0),(760,1,'2012-11-03 17:37:42','2012-11-03 22:37:42','Further reading about the negative effects of Endocrine Disrupters on our health:\n\n<a title=\"Medical News Today - Xenoestrogens\" href=\"http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/245485.php\" target=\"_blank\">Medical News Today</a>\n\n<a title=\"National Institute of Health Sciences\" href=\"http://www.niehs.nih.gov/health/topics/agents/endocrine/index.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences</a>\n\n<a title=\"Endocrine Society - Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals - A Scientific Study\" href=\"http://www.endo-society.org/journals/ScientificStatements/upload/EDC_Scientific_Statement.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">The Endocrine Society - Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals - A Scientific Statement </a>\n\n<a title=\"TEDx - The Endocrine Disruption Exchange\" href=\"http://www.endocrinedisruption.com/home.php\" target=\"_blank\">TEDx - The Endocrine Disruption Exchange</a>\n\n<a title=\"Journal of Environmental &amp; Public Health - Endocrine Disrupters\" href=\"http://www.hindawi.com/journals/jeph/2012/713696/\" target=\"_blank\">Journal of Environmental &amp; Public Health</a>\n\n<a title=\"Wikipedia - Endorcrine Disruptor\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endocrine_disruptor\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia - Endocrine Disruptor</a>\n\n<a title=\"Natural Resources Defence Council\" href=\"http://www.nrdc.org/health/effects/qendoc.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Natural Resources Defence Council</a>\n\n<a title=\"EPA\" href=\"http://www.epa.gov/endocrine/#eds\" target=\"_blank\">Environmental Protection Agency </a>\n\n<a title=\"NIEHS - Recent Endocrine Research Resources\" href=\"http://www.niehs.nih.gov/health/assets/docs_a_e/endocrine_research_resources.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">NIEHS - Recent Endocrine Research Resources </a>\n\n&nbsp;','Research on Hormone Disruptors','','inherit','open','open','','756-revision-4','','','2012-11-03 17:37:42','2012-11-03 22:37:42','',756,'http://www.hormonesoup.com/756-revision-4/',0,'revision','',0),(761,1,'2012-11-03 17:52:54','2012-11-03 22:52:54','Further reading about the negative effects of Endocrine Disrupters on our health:\n\n<a title=\"Medical News Today - Xenoestrogens\" href=\"http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/245485.php\" target=\"_blank\">Medical News Today</a>\n\n<a title=\"National Institute of Health Sciences\" href=\"http://www.niehs.nih.gov/health/topics/agents/endocrine/index.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences</a>\n\n<a title=\"Endocrine Society - Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals - A Scientific Study\" href=\"http://www.endo-society.org/journals/ScientificStatements/upload/EDC_Scientific_Statement.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">The Endocrine Society - Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals - A Scientific Statement </a>\n\n<a title=\"TEDx - The Endocrine Disruption Exchange\" href=\"http://www.endocrinedisruption.com/home.php\" target=\"_blank\">TEDx - The Endocrine Disruption Exchange</a>\n\n<a title=\"Journal of Environmental &amp; Public Health - Endocrine Disrupters\" href=\"http://www.hindawi.com/journals/jeph/2012/713696/\" target=\"_blank\">Journal of Environmental &amp; Public Health</a>\n\n<a title=\"Wikipedia - Endorcrine Disruptor\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endocrine_disruptor\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia - Endocrine Disruptor</a>\n\n<a title=\"Natural Resources Defence Council\" href=\"http://www.nrdc.org/health/effects/qendoc.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Natural Resources Defence Council</a>\n\n<a title=\"EPA\" href=\"http://www.epa.gov/endocrine/#eds\" target=\"_blank\">Environmental Protection Agency </a>\n\n<a title=\"NIEHS - Recent Endocrine Research Resources\" href=\"http://www.niehs.nih.gov/health/assets/docs_a_e/endocrine_research_resources.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">NIEHS - Recent Endocrine Research Resources </a>\n\n&nbsp;\n\nThis list is not exhaustive but provides a small sample of further reading for those interesI\'m always looking for further research in the area of \"EDCs\" Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals and other Hormone Disrupters  -  please feel free to send me information on other articles/research to add to my growing list.','Research on Hormone Disruptors','','inherit','open','open','','756-revision-5','','','2012-11-03 17:52:54','2012-11-03 22:52:54','',756,'http://www.hormonesoup.com/756-revision-5/',0,'revision','',0),(762,1,'2012-11-03 18:09:15','2012-11-03 23:09:15','Further reading about the negative effects of Endocrine Disrupters on our health:\n\n<a title=\"Medical News Today - Xenoestrogens\" href=\"http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/245485.php\" target=\"_blank\">Medical News Today</a>\n\n<a title=\"National Institute of Health Sciences\" href=\"http://www.niehs.nih.gov/health/topics/agents/endocrine/index.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences</a>\n\n<a title=\"Endocrine Society - Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals - A Scientific Study\" href=\"http://www.endo-society.org/journals/ScientificStatements/upload/EDC_Scientific_Statement.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">The Endocrine Society - Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals - A Scientific Statement </a>\n\n<a title=\"TEDx - The Endocrine Disruption Exchange\" href=\"http://www.endocrinedisruption.com/home.php\" target=\"_blank\">TEDx - The Endocrine Disruption Exchange</a>\n\n<a title=\"Journal of Environmental &amp; Public Health - Endocrine Disrupters\" href=\"http://www.hindawi.com/journals/jeph/2012/713696/\" target=\"_blank\">Journal of Environmental &amp; Public Health</a>\n\n<a title=\"Wikipedia - Endorcrine Disruptor\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endocrine_disruptor\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia - Endocrine Disruptor</a>\n\n<a title=\"Natural Resources Defence Council\" href=\"http://www.nrdc.org/health/effects/qendoc.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Natural Resources Defence Council</a>\n\n<a title=\"EPA\" href=\"http://www.epa.gov/endocrine/#eds\" target=\"_blank\">Environmental Protection Agency </a>\n\n<a title=\"NIEHS - Recent Endocrine Research Resources\" href=\"http://www.niehs.nih.gov/health/assets/docs_a_e/endocrine_research_resources.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">NIEHS - Recent Endocrine Research Resources </a>\n\n<a title=\"NIEHS - Flame Retardants Linked to Reduced Fertility\" href=\"http://www.niehs.nih.gov/research/supported/sep/2010/fertility/index.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">NIEHS - Flame Retardants Linked to Infertility</a>\n\n<a title=\"Chem Trust - Pesticides\' Role in Some Cancers\" href=\"http://www.endocrinedisruption.com/files/CHEMTrustreportonpesticidesandcancer2010.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Chem Trust - Pesticide\'s Role in Some Cancers</a>\n\n&nbsp;\n\nThis list is not exhaustive but provides a small sample of further reading for those interested in delving further into the research on endocrine disruptors.\n\nI\'m always looking for further research in the area of \"EDCs\" Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals and other Hormone Disrupters  -  please feel free to send me information on other articles/research to add to my growing list.','Research on Hormone Disruptors','','inherit','open','open','','756-revision-6','','','2012-11-03 18:09:15','2012-11-03 23:09:15','',756,'http://www.hormonesoup.com/756-revision-6/',0,'revision','',0),(763,1,'2012-11-03 18:10:30','2012-11-03 23:10:30','Further reading about the negative effects of Endocrine Disrupters on our health:\n\n<a title=\"Medical News Today - Xenoestrogens\" href=\"http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/245485.php\" target=\"_blank\">Medical News Today</a>\n\n<a title=\"National Institute of Health Sciences\" href=\"http://www.niehs.nih.gov/health/topics/agents/endocrine/index.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences</a>\n\n<a title=\"Endocrine Society - Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals - A Scientific Study\" href=\"http://www.endo-society.org/journals/ScientificStatements/upload/EDC_Scientific_Statement.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">The Endocrine Society - Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals - A Scientific Statement </a>\n\n<a title=\"TEDx - The Endocrine Disruption Exchange\" href=\"http://www.endocrinedisruption.com/home.php\" target=\"_blank\">TEDx - The Endocrine Disruption Exchange</a>\n\n<a title=\"Journal of Environmental &amp; Public Health - Endocrine Disrupters\" href=\"http://www.hindawi.com/journals/jeph/2012/713696/\" target=\"_blank\">Journal of Environmental &amp; Public Health</a>\n\n<a title=\"Wikipedia - Endorcrine Disruptor\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endocrine_disruptor\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia - Endocrine Disruptor</a>\n\n<a title=\"Natural Resources Defence Council\" href=\"http://www.nrdc.org/health/effects/qendoc.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Natural Resources Defence Council</a>\n\n<a title=\"EPA\" href=\"http://www.epa.gov/endocrine/#eds\" target=\"_blank\">Environmental Protection Agency </a>\n\n<a title=\"NIEHS - Recent Endocrine Research Resources\" href=\"http://www.niehs.nih.gov/health/assets/docs_a_e/endocrine_research_resources.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">NIEHS - Recent Endocrine Research Resources </a>\n\n<a title=\"NIEHS - Flame Retardants Linked to Reduced Fertility\" href=\"http://www.niehs.nih.gov/research/supported/sep/2010/fertility/index.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">NIEHS - Flame Retardants Linked to Infertility</a>\n\n<a title=\"Chem Trust - Pesticides\' Role in Some Cancers\" href=\"http://www.endocrinedisruption.com/files/CHEMTrustreportonpesticidesandcancer2010.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Chem Trust - Pesticide\'s Role in Some Cancers</a>\n\n&nbsp;\n\nThis list is not exhaustive but provides a small sample of further reading for those interested in delving further into the research on endocrine disruptors.\n\nI\'m always looking for further research in the area of \"EDCs\" Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals and other Hormone Disrupters  -  please feel free to send me information on other articles/research to add to my growing list.','Research on Hormone Disruptors','','inherit','open','open','','756-revision-7','','','2012-11-03 18:10:30','2012-11-03 23:10:30','',756,'http://www.hormonesoup.com/756-revision-7/',0,'revision','',0),(764,1,'2012-11-03 18:12:00','2012-11-03 23:12:00','Further reading about the negative effects of Endocrine Disrupters on our health:\n\n<a title=\"Medical News Today - Xenoestrogens\" href=\"http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/245485.php\" target=\"_blank\">Medical News Today</a>\n\n<a title=\"National Institute of Health Sciences\" href=\"http://www.niehs.nih.gov/health/topics/agents/endocrine/index.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences</a>\n\n<a title=\"Endocrine Society - Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals - A Scientific Study\" href=\"http://www.endo-society.org/journals/ScientificStatements/upload/EDC_Scientific_Statement.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">The Endocrine Society - Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals - A Scientific Statement </a>\n\n<a title=\"TEDx - The Endocrine Disruption Exchange\" href=\"http://www.endocrinedisruption.com/home.php\" target=\"_blank\">TEDx - The Endocrine Disruption Exchange</a>\n\n<a title=\"Journal of Environmental &amp; Public Health - Endocrine Disrupters\" href=\"http://www.hindawi.com/journals/jeph/2012/713696/\" target=\"_blank\">Journal of Environmental &amp; Public Health</a>\n\n<a title=\"Wikipedia - Endorcrine Disruptor\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endocrine_disruptor\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia - Endocrine Disruptor</a>\n\n<a title=\"Natural Resources Defence Council\" href=\"http://www.nrdc.org/health/effects/qendoc.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Natural Resources Defence Council</a>\n\n<a title=\"EPA\" href=\"http://www.epa.gov/endocrine/#eds\" target=\"_blank\">Environmental Protection Agency </a>\n\n<a title=\"NIEHS - Recent Endocrine Research Resources\" href=\"http://www.niehs.nih.gov/health/assets/docs_a_e/endocrine_research_resources.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">NIEHS - Recent Endocrine Research Resources </a>\n\n<a title=\"NIEHS - Flame Retardants Linked to Reduced Fertility\" href=\"http://www.niehs.nih.gov/research/supported/sep/2010/fertility/index.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">NIEHS - Flame Retardants Linked to Infertility</a>\n\n<a title=\"Chem Trust - Pesticides\' Role in Some Cancers\" href=\"http://www.endocrinedisruption.com/files/CHEMTrustreportonpesticidesandcancer2010.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Chem Trust - Pesticide\'s Role in Some Cancers</a>\n\n&nbsp;\n\nThis list is not exhaustive but provides a small sample of further reading for those interested in delving further into the research on endocrine disruptors.\n\nI\'m always looking for further research in the area of \"EDCs\" Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals and other Hormone Disrupters  -  please feel free to send me information on other articles/research to add to my growing list.','Research on Hormone Disruptors','','inherit','open','open','','756-revision-8','','','2012-11-03 18:12:00','2012-11-03 23:12:00','',756,'http://www.hormonesoup.com/756-revision-8/',0,'revision','',0),(765,1,'2012-11-03 18:14:25','2012-11-03 23:14:25','Further reading about the negative effects of Endocrine Disrupters on our health:\n\n<a title=\"Medical News Today - Xenoestrogens\" href=\"http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/245485.php\" target=\"_blank\">Medical News Today</a>\n\n<a title=\"National Institute of Health Sciences\" href=\"http://www.niehs.nih.gov/health/topics/agents/endocrine/index.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences</a>\n\n<a title=\"Endocrine Society - Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals - A Scientific Study\" href=\"http://www.endo-society.org/journals/ScientificStatements/upload/EDC_Scientific_Statement.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">The Endocrine Society - Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals - A Scientific Statement </a>\n\n<a title=\"TEDx - The Endocrine Disruption Exchange\" href=\"http://www.endocrinedisruption.com/home.php\" target=\"_blank\">TEDx - The Endocrine Disruption Exchange</a>\n\n<a title=\"Journal of Environmental &amp; Public Health - Endocrine Disrupters\" href=\"http://www.hindawi.com/journals/jeph/2012/713696/\" target=\"_blank\">Journal of Environmental &amp; Public Health</a>\n\n<a title=\"Wikipedia - Endorcrine Disruptor\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endocrine_disruptor\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia - Endocrine Disruptor</a>\n\n<a title=\"Natural Resources Defence Council\" href=\"http://www.nrdc.org/health/effects/qendoc.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Natural Resources Defence Council</a>\n\nWHEN - Women\'s Health and the Environment Network\n\n<a title=\"EPA\" href=\"http://www.epa.gov/endocrine/#eds\" target=\"_blank\">Environmental Protection Agency </a>\n\n<a title=\"NIEHS - Recent Endocrine Research Resources\" href=\"http://www.niehs.nih.gov/health/assets/docs_a_e/endocrine_research_resources.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">NIEHS - Recent Endocrine Research Resources </a>\n\n<a title=\"NIEHS - Flame Retardants Linked to Reduced Fertility\" href=\"http://www.niehs.nih.gov/research/supported/sep/2010/fertility/index.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">NIEHS - Flame Retardants Linked to Infertility</a>\n\n<a title=\"Chem Trust - Pesticides\' Role in Some Cancers\" href=\"http://www.endocrinedisruption.com/files/CHEMTrustreportonpesticidesandcancer2010.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Chem Trust - Pesticide\'s Role in Some Cancers</a>\n\n&nbsp;\n\nThis list is not exhaustive but provides a small sample of further reading for those interested in delving further into the research on endocrine disruptors.\n\nI\'m always looking for further research in the area of \"EDCs\" Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals and other Hormone Disrupters  -  please feel free to send me information on other articles/research to add to my growing list.','Research on Hormone Disruptors','','inherit','open','open','','756-revision-9','','','2012-11-03 18:14:25','2012-11-03 23:14:25','',756,'http://www.hormonesoup.com/756-revision-9/',0,'revision','',0),(766,1,'2012-11-03 18:14:31','2012-11-03 23:14:31','Further reading about the negative effects of Endocrine Disrupters on our health:\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Medical News Today - Xenoestrogens\" href=\"http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/245485.php\" target=\"_blank\">Medical News Today</a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"National Institute of Health Sciences\" href=\"http://www.niehs.nih.gov/health/topics/agents/endocrine/index.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences</a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Endocrine Society - Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals - A Scientific Study\" href=\"http://www.endo-society.org/journals/ScientificStatements/upload/EDC_Scientific_Statement.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">The Endocrine Society - Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals - A Scientific Statement </a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"TEDx - The Endocrine Disruption Exchange\" href=\"http://www.endocrinedisruption.com/home.php\" target=\"_blank\">TEDx - The Endocrine Disruption Exchange</a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Journal of Environmental &amp; Public Health - Endocrine Disrupters\" href=\"http://www.hindawi.com/journals/jeph/2012/713696/\" target=\"_blank\">Journal of Environmental &amp; Public Health</a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Wikipedia - Endorcrine Disruptor\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endocrine_disruptor\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia - Endocrine Disruptor</a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Natural Resources Defence Council\" href=\"http://www.nrdc.org/health/effects/qendoc.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Natural Resources Defence Council</a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"WHEN - Women\'s Health and the Environment Network\" href=\"http://www.wsn.org/cbe/hormone.html\" target=\"_blank\">WHEN - Women\'s Health and the Environment Network</a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"EPA\" href=\"http://www.epa.gov/endocrine/#eds\" target=\"_blank\">Environmental Protection Agency </a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"NIEHS - Recent Endocrine Research Resources\" href=\"http://www.niehs.nih.gov/health/assets/docs_a_e/endocrine_research_resources.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">NIEHS - Recent Endocrine Research Resources </a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"NIEHS - Flame Retardants Linked to Reduced Fertility\" href=\"http://www.niehs.nih.gov/research/supported/sep/2010/fertility/index.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">NIEHS - Flame Retardants Linked to Infertility</a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Chem Trust - Pesticides\' Role in Some Cancers\" href=\"http://www.endocrinedisruption.com/files/CHEMTrustreportonpesticidesandcancer2010.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Chem Trust - Pesticide\'s Role in Some Cancers</a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThis list is not exhaustive but provides a small sample of further reading for those interested in delving further into the research on endocrine disruptors.\r\n\r\nI\'m always looking for further research in the area of \"EDCs\" Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals and other Hormone Disrupters  -  please feel free to send me information on other articles/research to add to my growing list.','Research on Hormone Disruptors','','inherit','open','open','','756-revision-10','','','2012-11-03 18:14:31','2012-11-03 23:14:31','',756,'http://www.hormonesoup.com/756-revision-10/',0,'revision','',0),(767,1,'2012-11-22 14:17:26','2012-11-22 19:17:26','<a href=\"http://www.hormonesoup.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/dreamstime-natural-girl.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-934\" title=\"Natural Woman\" src=\"http://www.hormonesoup.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/dreamstime-natural-girl-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>I\'ve been estrogen dominant my entire adult life - it has affected my life in profound ways.  I know I\'m not the only woman who is living with disrupted hormones.  Sure I use compounded hormone cream to achieve balance, but what\'s the point of using hormones to balance if I\'m going to just spend my days causing further disruption?\r\n\r\nThe one thing I\'ve found throughout my research is that merely living on earth puts you at risk of exposure to hormone disrupting chemicals - they are everywhere! Even newborn babies born today have been contaminated with chemicals known to cause endocrine disruption.  Umbilical cords have been found in one study to be full of chemicals.\r\n\r\nI don\'t think if you met me you\'d automatically think that I\'m a granola-crunching, tree-hugger.  I wear makeup, I colour my hair, I like pedicures and manicures, I love to eat good food &amp; drink red wine, I recycle and compost as much as the next person.  I\'m not a fanatic I guess you could say, BUT, I believe that there are ways we can reduce the negative impact these things have on our health. I\'m not an expert, but more of a student - I\'m learning all the time about things I\'ve been doing or products I\'ve been using that are not only hurtful to the environment but harmful to my delicate hormonal balance.  More and more, my concern is for my children and the future of their health, including their hormone health.\r\n\r\nHere\'s some of the things I do to try to reduce my family\'s risk of exposure to hormone disrupting chemicals:\r\n<h1>Plastics:</h1>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>We avoid ALL plastics when we can - particularly 7, 6 &amp; 3.  Even my children know  \"7, 6 and 3 are not for me\".   When we were getting 100% rid of \"bad\" plastics I taught my children how to identify the plastic by the symbol and number.  I told them I\'d give them $1 for every bad plastic they found in our house!  They ran around the house like crazy.  Fortunately they only found 3 pieces of \"bad\" plastic in our house.</li>\r\n	<li>we never microwave anything in plastic</li>\r\n	<li>use glass or ceramics to store food</li>\r\n	<li>we don\'t let babies chew on plastics - find natural products/toys instead, I like shopping for eco-friendly kids stuff at <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a title=\"Little Footprints Toys\" href=\"http://www.littlefootprintstoys.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Littlefootprintstoys.com</a></span></li>\r\n	<li>I breastfed my babies for well over a year &amp; I didn\'t use pacifiers - it was my choice not merely because of the plastic exposure but the \"plastic\" factor definitely belongs on the pro side to breastfeeding and thumb sucking over pacifiers, as well many formulas are soy based and it wasn\'t all that long ago that nasty endocrine disruptors were found in formula.  I didn\'t know that my own exposure to phthalates, for example, meant that my breast milk would pass this endocrine disruptor onto my babies.</li>\r\n	<li>we avoid plastic water bottles but we don\'t like stainless steel so found some good glass bottles that are wrapped in rubber so they are safe for my kids\' backpacks</li>\r\n	<li>we\'ve switched from Teflon pans to good old-fashion cast iron pans</li>\r\n	<li>we\'re getting rid of anything plastic that has a natural alternative - like exchanging plastic cutting boards for wooden boards</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h1>Cosmetics &amp; Body Care Products:</h1>\r\nWhen you consider that our skin is the largest organ in our body and it has direct exposure to many of the hormone disruptors.  Ever since I read that the average woman puts on 515 chemicals each morning I\'ve tried to reduce the amount of chemicals I put on my skin.  Finding out that I was putting things like formaldehyde on my skin each day just grossed me out.  Thinking about how I use topical progesterone cream made me realize even more how effective our skin is allowing both good and bad compounds into our body!\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>I have switched my cosmetics and body care products to natural products. There are many cosmetic choices that don\'t involve hormone disruptors. Many of the large health food stores like <a title=\"The Big Carrot - Body Care\" href=\"http://thebigcarrot.ca/index.php?id=27\" target=\"_blank\">\"<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Big Carrot\"</span></a> in Toronto, Ontario, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a title=\"Nature\'s Emporium - Newmarket\" href=\"http://www.naturesemporium.ca/\" target=\"_blank\">\"Natures Emporium\"</a></span> in Newmarket, Ontario carry really nice body care &amp; cosmetic lines that are all natural.  Also their employees are super-informed about this stuff.  I also shop at <a title=\"The Detox Market\" href=\"http://www.thedetoxmarket.com/pages/our-location\" target=\"_blank\">\"<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Detox Market\"</span></a> in Toronto, they have locations in LA and San Fransisco as well and they carry a small line of wonderful cosmetics and body care products.  And a small but lovely line of products at <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a title=\"Elemi Organics\" href=\"http://www.elemi.ca/\" target=\"_blank\">Elemi Organics</a></span>. And if you can\'t give up your Sephora addiction - they even carry natural cosmetic lines.  I\'ve found when I ask for a product the natural ones are NEVER suggested - they don\'t rush you over to them, you have to specifically ask for natural products.  And their staff isn\'t really educated about the benefits of natural products. Also their website doesn\'t have a way of searching for their organic makeup so unless you know the name of the brand you\'ll have trouble figuring out which ones are natural. The good news about natural cosmetics? They work just as well, they are on-trend, they don\'t always have to cost more and are free of known hormone disruptors.</li>\r\n	<li>I confess I\'m a spa lover and look for either organic/natural products - there are more and more organic spas popping up</li>\r\n	<li>I use <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a title=\"EWG - Skin Deep\" href=\"http://www.ewg.org/skindeep/\" target=\"_blank\">Environmental Working Group\'s Cosmetic Database - Skin Deep</a></span> to check on my family\'s body care products.  It\'s an invaluable resource for me.</li>\r\n	<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a title=\"Campaign for Safe Cosmetics\" href=\"http://safecosmetics.org/\">Campaign for Safe Cosmetics</a></span> - a great site, full of information about cosmetics as well as how you can encourage safer cosmetics and demand cosmetic companies stop putting harmful chemicals in our makeup and body care products.</li>\r\n	<li>I keep informed also on <a style=\"text-decoration: underline;\" title=\"Health Canada\" href=\"http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/cps-spc/cosmet-person/index-eng.php\">Health Canada\'s website</a> - the Canadian Government\'s site explains how to read the labels, has a Hotlist and most importantly publishes warnings and recalls on cosmetic items.</li>\r\n	<li>I\'ve read <strong>Gillian Deacon\'s book, <a title=\"There\'s Lead in Your Lipstick\" href=\"http://www.amazon.ca/Theres-Lead-In-Your-Lipstick/dp/0143172506\">\"There\'s Lead in Your Lipstick: Toxins in Our Everyday Body Care and How to Avoid Them\"</a></strong> - she really is an expert in this area and offers real advice about cosmetics and how to avoid chemicals</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Avoid anti-bacterial products</li>\r\n	<li>Avoid fragrances - they are jam-packed with hormone disruptors and have been able to make breast cancer cells grow in a lab environment! I used to wear perfume everyday and I am going to admit I miss it!  I spray it on once in a while (my clothes - even though I know I\'m still inhaling it) but I always feel like I am a walking endocrine disruptor!  So my fragrance use is very very minimal now.</li>\r\n	<li>Use natural sunscreen - I am going to admit I worry about slathering sunscreen all over my kids as much as I am concerned about their exposure to too much sun! My children spend a lot of time outdoors but I really do wonder what\'s worse for them - the chemicals or the sun?  I switched to natural sunscreen and feel better about it.</li>\r\n	<li>I buy natural deodorant and so far no one has ever told me I stink!  I am teaching my tween daughter why it\'s better for her than the stuff she sees all the other girls using.  Maybe instead of her being influenced by her peers using the trendy products, she\'ll be able to teach her friends about the benefits of using natural products.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h1>Household Products</h1>\r\nI used to love the clean smell of certain lemony or piney smelling cleaners! I just felt like my house smelled so clean! When I first switched I\'ll admit that I missed that \"just-cleaned\" smell.  Now when I encounter those same \"clean\" smells I just feel like holding my breath!  It\'s all in what you get used to.\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>I use natural cleaning products such as vinegar and baking soda or plant based cleaners</li>\r\n	<li>I splurged and bought a floor steamer - it uses only tap water - no harsh chemicals</li>\r\n	<li>I don\'t use fabric softeners in the dryer - again, fragrances are loaded with hormone disruptors.  A bit of static never killed anyone, but fragrances....well...?</li>\r\n	<li>I check out all products on Environmental Working Groups database - I was surprised by some of the products I used - products that I thought were  green actually have chemicals in them!  I felt like such a sucker!</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a title=\"Environmental Working Group\'s Hall of Shame\" href=\"http://static.ewg.org/reports/2012/cleaners_hallofshame/cleaners_hallofshame.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Environmental Working Group\'s Hall of Shame</a></span> - Click here to see the worst offenders - some of these toxic chemicals are banned in certain countries, some have ingredients known to be carcinogenic.   And some of these products pretend they are \"green\" - some I\'ve had them in my own home thinking I was doing the right thing by buying \"Green\" products!  I\'m a sucker!\r\n\r\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a title=\"Environmental Working Group\'s Guide to Cleaners\" href=\"http://www.ewg.org/guides/cleaners\" target=\"_blank\">Environmental Working Group\'s Guide to Healthy Cleaning</a> </span>- Look up the cleaning products that you use on their database &amp; see what you\'re bringing into your house maybe without even knowing it!  EWG - rates common products for their safety.\r\n<h1>Food:</h1>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>I try to feed my family organic food as much as is possible based on what I have access to.</li>\r\n	<li>For many years I have been fortunate enough to be able to grow some of my own produce.</li>\r\n	<li>Again EWG to my rescue!  I keep informed with their <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a title=\"EWG - Shoppers Guide to Pesticides\" href=\"http://www.ewg.org/foodnews/summary/\" target=\"_blank\">Shoppers Guide to Pesticides</a></span> - I keep a copy of their published Dirty Dozen and Clean 15 fruits and vegetables.  If you can\'t find all the organics where you live then at least focusing on the produce that has been found to have the highest concentrations of pesticide or the worst types of pesticide contamination</li>\r\n	<li>we have recently gone dairy-free at my house - once in a while some dairy slips into our diet but when it does I try to keep it organic.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nWhat\'s interesting is that once I began reducing my family\'s exposure, each action I took revealed another that I should or could take.  I\'m still figuring things out every day to improve our hormone health.  I you have any thoughts, ideas or tips - I\'d love to hear from you.\r\n<div></div>\r\n<div>\r\n\r\nTo stay informed:\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><strong>Read my previous posts</strong> about: <strong><a title=\"What Does it Mean to be Estrogen Dominant\" href=\"http://www.hormonesoup.com/what-does-it-mean-to-be-estrogen-dominant/\" target=\"_blank\">Estrogen dominance</a> </strong>&amp; <strong><a title=\"Why You Need to Care About Estrogen Dominance\" href=\"http://www.hormonesoup.com/why-you-need-to-care-about-estrogen-dominance/\" target=\"_blank\">Why Estrogen Dominance Matters to You</a></strong><strong> </strong>&amp;<strong><a title=\"X is for Xenoestrogens\" href=\"http://www.hormonesoup.com/x-is-for-xenoestrogens/\" target=\"_blank\"> X is for Xenoestrogens</a> &amp; <a title=\"Known &amp; Suspected Hormone Disruptors\" href=\"http://www.hormonesoup.com/known-suspected-hormone-disruptors/\" target=\"_blank\">Known &amp; Suspected Hormone Disruptors</a> </strong></li>\r\n	<li><strong><a title=\"Keep Up-to-Date\" href=\"http://www.hormonesoup.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up</a> </strong>for updates if you\'d like to read <strong>more</strong> of my series of articles about  estrogen, endocrine disruptors and other hormone imbalance.</li>\r\n	<li><strong>Share this article</strong> If you learned something</li>\r\n	<li><a title=\"Share Your Story with Hormone Soup\" href=\"http://www.hormonesoup.com/share-your-story/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Share your Story</strong></a> so other women can benefit</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</div>\r\n&nbsp;','How I Reduce My Family\'s Exposure to Hormone Disruptors','','publish','open','open','','reducing-my-familys-exposure','','','2012-11-22 14:17:26','2012-11-22 19:17:26','',745,'http://www.hormonesoup.com/?page_id=767',4,'page','',0),(768,1,'2012-11-03 18:16:10','2012-11-03 23:16:10','Living on earth puts you at risk, Theo Colborn, PhD.','How to Reduce Your Risk','','inherit','open','open','','767-revision','','','2012-11-03 18:16:10','2012-11-03 23:16:10','',767,'http://www.hormonesoup.com/767-revision/',0,'revision','',0),(769,1,'2012-11-03 18:31:19','2012-11-03 23:31:19','Further reading about the negative effects of Endocrine Disrupters on our health:\n\n<a title=\"Medical News Today - Xenoestrogens\" href=\"http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/245485.php\" target=\"_blank\">Medical News Today</a>\n\n<a title=\"National Institute of Health Sciences\" href=\"http://www.niehs.nih.gov/health/topics/agents/endocrine/index.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences</a>\n\n<a title=\"Endocrine Society - Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals - A Scientific Study\" href=\"http://www.endo-society.org/journals/ScientificStatements/upload/EDC_Scientific_Statement.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">The Endocrine Society - Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals - A Scientific Statement </a>\n\n<a title=\"TEDx - The Endocrine Disruption Exchange\" href=\"http://www.endocrinedisruption.com/home.php\" target=\"_blank\">TEDx - The Endocrine Disruption Exchange</a>\n\n<a title=\"Journal of Environmental &amp; Public Health - Endocrine Disrupters\" href=\"http://www.hindawi.com/journals/jeph/2012/713696/\" target=\"_blank\">Journal of Environmental &amp; Public Health</a>\n\n<a title=\"Wikipedia - Endorcrine Disruptor\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endocrine_disruptor\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia - Endocrine Disruptor</a>\n\n<a title=\"Natural Resources Defence Council\" href=\"http://www.nrdc.org/health/effects/qendoc.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Natural Resources Defence Council</a>\n\n<a title=\"WHEN - Women\'s Health and the Environment Network\" href=\"http://www.wsn.org/cbe/hormone.html\" target=\"_blank\">WHEN - Women\'s Health and the Environment Network</a>\n\n<a title=\"EPA\" href=\"http://www.epa.gov/endocrine/#eds\" target=\"_blank\">Environmental Protection Agency </a>\n\n<a title=\"NIEHS - Recent Endocrine Research Resources\" href=\"http://www.niehs.nih.gov/health/assets/docs_a_e/endocrine_research_resources.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">NIEHS - Recent Endocrine Research Resources </a>\n\n<a title=\"NIEHS - Flame Retardants Linked to Reduced Fertility\" href=\"http://www.niehs.nih.gov/research/supported/sep/2010/fertility/index.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">NIEHS - Flame Retardants Linked to Infertility</a>\n\n<a title=\"Chem Trust - Pesticides\' Role in Some Cancers\" href=\"http://www.endocrinedisruption.com/files/CHEMTrustreportonpesticidesandcancer2010.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Chem Trust - Pesticide\'s Role in Some Cancers</a>\n\n<a title=\"Environmental Health Perspectives\" href=\"http://www.loe.org/images/content/090904/lowdose.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Environmental Health Perspectives </a>\n\n<a title=\"The Endocrine Society Issues Statement of Principles\" href=\"http://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/2012/09/the-endocrine-society-issues-statement-of-principles/\" target=\"_blank\">The Endocrine Society - Statement of Principles</a>\n\nEnvironmental Health Perspectives - HBCD, a flame retardant found in food\n\n&nbsp;\n\nThis list is not exhaustive but provides a small sample of further reading for those interested in delving further into the research on endocrine disruptors.\n\nI\'m always looking for further research in the area of \"EDCs\" Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals and other Hormone Disrupters  -  please feel free to send me information on other articles/research to add to my growing list.','Research & Articles','','inherit','open','open','','756-revision-11','','','2012-11-03 18:31:19','2012-11-03 23:31:19','',756,'http://www.hormonesoup.com/756-revision-11/',0,'revision','',0),(770,1,'2012-11-03 18:33:45','2012-11-03 23:33:45','Further reading about the negative effects of Endocrine Disrupters on our health:\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Medical News Today - Xenoestrogens\" href=\"http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/245485.php\" target=\"_blank\">Medical News Today</a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"National Institute of Health Sciences\" href=\"http://www.niehs.nih.gov/health/topics/agents/endocrine/index.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences</a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Endocrine Society - Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals - A Scientific Study\" href=\"http://www.endo-society.org/journals/ScientificStatements/upload/EDC_Scientific_Statement.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">The Endocrine Society - Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals - A Scientific Statement </a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"TEDx - The Endocrine Disruption Exchange\" href=\"http://www.endocrinedisruption.com/home.php\" target=\"_blank\">TEDx - The Endocrine Disruption Exchange</a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Journal of Environmental &amp; Public Health - Endocrine Disrupters\" href=\"http://www.hindawi.com/journals/jeph/2012/713696/\" target=\"_blank\">Journal of Environmental &amp; Public Health</a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Wikipedia - Endorcrine Disruptor\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endocrine_disruptor\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia - Endocrine Disruptor</a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Natural Resources Defence Council\" href=\"http://www.nrdc.org/health/effects/qendoc.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Natural Resources Defence Council</a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"WHEN - Women\'s Health and the Environment Network\" href=\"http://www.wsn.org/cbe/hormone.html\" target=\"_blank\">WHEN - Women\'s Health and the Environment Network</a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"EPA\" href=\"http://www.epa.gov/endocrine/#eds\" target=\"_blank\">Environmental Protection Agency </a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"NIEHS - Recent Endocrine Research Resources\" href=\"http://www.niehs.nih.gov/health/assets/docs_a_e/endocrine_research_resources.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">NIEHS - Recent Endocrine Research Resources </a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"NIEHS - Flame Retardants Linked to Reduced Fertility\" href=\"http://www.niehs.nih.gov/research/supported/sep/2010/fertility/index.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">NIEHS - Flame Retardants Linked to Infertility</a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Chem Trust - Pesticides\' Role in Some Cancers\" href=\"http://www.endocrinedisruption.com/files/CHEMTrustreportonpesticidesandcancer2010.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Chem Trust - Pesticide\'s Role in Some Cancers</a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Environmental Health Perspectives\" href=\"http://www.loe.org/images/content/090904/lowdose.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Environmental Health Perspectives </a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"The Endocrine Society Issues Statement of Principles\" href=\"http://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/2012/09/the-endocrine-society-issues-statement-of-principles/\" target=\"_blank\">The Endocrine Society - Statement of Principles</a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"HBCD - Flame retardant found in food in Dallas, TX\" href=\"http://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/2012/09/hexabromocyclododecane-hbcd-stereoisomers-in-u-s-food-from-dallas-texas/\" target=\"_blank\">Environmental Health Perspectives - HBCD, a flame retardant found in food</a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThis list is not exhaustive but provides a small sample of further reading for those interested in delving further into the research on endocrine disruptors.\r\n\r\nI\'m always looking for further research in the area of \"EDCs\" Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals and other Hormone Disrupters  -  please feel free to send me information on other articles/research to add to my growing list.','Research & Articles','','inherit','open','open','','756-revision-12','','','2012-11-03 18:33:45','2012-11-03 23:33:45','',756,'http://www.hormonesoup.com/756-revision-12/',0,'revision','',0),(771,1,'2012-11-03 18:37:49','2012-11-03 23:37:49','Living on earth puts you at risk, Theo Colborn, PhD.\n\nPlastics: Many contain BPA (Bisphenol A) and Phthalates\n<ul>\n	<li>Avoid plastics - particularly 7, 6 &amp; 3: remember \"7, 6 and 3 are not for me\"</li>\n	<li></li>\n</ul>','How to Reduce Your Risk','','inherit','open','open','','767-revision-2','','','2012-11-03 18:37:49','2012-11-03 23:37:49','',767,'http://www.hormonesoup.com/767-revision-2/',0,'revision','',0),(772,1,'2012-11-03 18:39:09','2012-11-03 23:39:09','Living on earth puts you at risk, Theo Colborn, PhD.\n\nPlastics: Many contain BPA (Bisphenol A) and Phthalates\n<ul>\n	<li>Avoid plastics - particularly 7, 6 &amp; 3: remember \"7, 6 and 3 are not for me\"</li>\n	<li>Never microwave anything in plastic</li>\n	<li>use glass or ceramics to store food</li>\n	<li>don\'t let babies chew on plastics - find natural products/toys instead</li>\n	<li></li>\n</ul>','How to Reduce Your Risk','','inherit','open','open','','767-revision-3','','','2012-11-03 18:39:09','2012-11-03 23:39:09','',767,'http://www.hormonesoup.com/767-revision-3/',0,'revision','',0),(921,1,'2012-11-15 23:47:50','2012-11-16 04:47:50','I\'ve been estrogen dominant my entire adult life - it\'s affected my life in profound ways.  I know I\'m not the only woman who is living with disrupted hormones.  Sure I use compounded hormone cream to achieve balance, but what\'s the point of using hormones to balance if I\'m going to just spend my days causing further disruption?\n\nThe one thing I\'ve found throughout my research is that merely living on earth puts you at risk of exposure to hormone disrupting chemicals - they are everywhere! Even newborn babies born today have been contaminated with chemicals known to cause endocrine disruption.  Umbilical cords have been found in one study to be full of chemicals.\n\nI don\'t think if you met me you\'d automatically think that I\'m a granola-crunching, tree-hugger.  I wear makeup, I colour my hair, I like pedicures and manicures, I love to eat good food &amp; drink red wine, I recycle and compost as much as the next person.  I\'m not a fanatic I guess you could say, BUT, I believe that there are ways we can reduce the negative impact these things have on our health. I\'m not an expert, but more of a student - I\'m learning all the time about things I\'ve been doing or products I\'ve been using that are not only hurtful to the environment but harmful to my delicate hormonal balance.  More and more, my concern is for my children and the future of their health, including their hormone health.\n\nHere\'s some of the things I do to try to reduce my family\'s risk of exposure to hormone disrupting chemicals:\n<h1>Plastics:</h1>\n<ul>\n	<li>We avoid ALL plastics when we can - particularly 7, 6 &amp; 3.  Even my children know  \"7, 6 and 3 are not for me\".   When we were getting 100% rid of \"bad\" plastics I taught my children how to identify the plastic by the symbol and number.  I told them I\'d give them $1 for every bad plastic they found in our house!  They ran around the house like crazy.  Fortunately they only found 3 pieces of \"bad\" plastic in our house.</li>\n	<li>we never microwave anything in plastic</li>\n	<li>use glass or ceramics to store food</li>\n	<li>don\'t let babies chew on plastics - find natural products/toys instead</li>\n	<li>I breastfed my babies for well over a year &amp; I didn\'t use pacifiers - it was my choice not merely because of the plastic exposure but the \"plastic\" factor definitely belongs on the pro side to breastfeeding and thumb sucking over pacifiers, as well many formulas are soy based and it wasn\'t all that long ago that nasty endocrine disruptors were found in formula.  I didn\'t know that my own exposure to phthalates, for example, meant that my breast milk would pass this endocrine disruptor onto my babies.</li>\n	<li>we avoid plastic water bottles but we don\'t like stainless steel so found some good glass bottles that are wrapped in rubber so they are safe for my kids\' backpacks</li>\n	<li>we\'ve switched from Teflon pans to good old-fashion cast iron pans</li>\n	<li>we\'re getting rid of anything plastic that has a natural alternative - like exchanging plastic cutting boards for wooden boards</li>\n</ul>\n<h1>Cosmetics &amp; Body Care Products:</h1>\nWhen you consider that our skin is the largest organ in our body and it has direct exposure to many of the hormone disruptors.  Ever since I read that the average woman puts on 515 chemicals each morning I\'ve tried to reduce the amount of chemicals I put on my skin.  Finding out that I was putting things like formaldehyde on my skin each day just grossed me out.  Thinking about how I use topical progesterone cream made me realize even more how effective our skin is allowing both good and bad compounds into our body!\n<ul>\n	<li>I have switched my cosmetics and body care products to natural products. There are many cosmetic choices that don\'t involve hormone disruptors. Many of the large health food stores like <a title=\"The Big Carrot - Body Care\" href=\"http://thebigcarrot.ca/index.php?id=27\" target=\"_blank\">\"<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Big Carrot\"</span></a> in Toronto, Ontario, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a title=\"Nature\'s Emporium - Newmarket\" href=\"http://www.naturesemporium.ca/\" target=\"_blank\">\"Natures Emporium\"</a></span> in Newmarket, Ontario carry really nice body care &amp; cosmetic lines that are all natural.  Also their employees are super-informed about this stuff.  I also shop at <a title=\"The Detox Market\" href=\"http://www.thedetoxmarket.com/pages/our-location\" target=\"_blank\">\"<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Detox Market\"</span></a> in Toronto, they have locations in LA and San Fransisco as well and they carry a small line of wonderful cosmetics and body care products.  And if you can\'t give up your Sephora addiction - they even carry natural cosmetic lines.  I\'ve found when I ask for a product the natural ones are NEVER suggested - they don\'t rush you over to them, you have to specifically ask for natural products.  And their staff isn\'t really educated about the benefits of natural products. Also their website doesn\'t have a way of searching for their organic makeup so unless you know the name of the brand you\'ll have trouble figuring out which ones are natural. The good news about natural cosmetics? They work just as well, they are on-trend, they don\'t always have to cost more and are free of known hormone disruptors.</li>\n	<li>I use <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a title=\"EWG - Skin Deep\" href=\"http://www.ewg.org/skindeep/\" target=\"_blank\">Environmental Working Group\'s Cosmetic Database - Skin Deep</a></span> to check on my family\'s body care products.  It\'s an invaluable resource for me.</li>\n	<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a title=\"Campaign for Safe Cosmetics\" href=\"http://safecosmetics.org/\">Campaign for Safe Cosmetics</a></span> - a great site, full of information about cosmetics as well as how you can encourage safer cosmetics and demand cosmetic companies stop putting harmful chemicals in our makeup and body care products.</li>\n	<li>I keep informed also on <a style=\"text-decoration: underline;\" title=\"Health Canada\" href=\"http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/cps-spc/cosmet-person/index-eng.php\">Health Canada\'s website</a> - the Canadian Government\'s site explains how to read the labels, has a Hotlist and most importantly publishes warnings and recalls on cosmetic items.</li>\n	<li>I\'ve read <strong>Gillian Deacon\'s book, <a title=\"There\'s Lead in Your Lipstick\" href=\"http://www.amazon.ca/Theres-Lead-In-Your-Lipstick/dp/0143172506\">\"There\'s Lead in Your Lipstick: Toxins in Our Everyday Body Care and How to Avoid Them\"</a></strong> - she really is an expert in this area and offers real advice about cosmetics and how to avoid chemicals</li>\n</ul>\n<ul>\n	<li>Avoid anti-bacterial products</li>\n	<li>Avoid fragrances - they are jam-packed with hormone disruptors and have been able to make breast cancer cells grow in a lab environment! I used to wear perfume everyday and I am going to admit I miss it!  I spray it on once in a while (my clothes - even though I know I\'m still inhaling it) but I always feel like I am a walking endocrine disruptor!  So my fragrance use is very very minimal now.</li>\n	<li>Use natural sunscreen - I am going to admit I worry about slathering sunscreen all over my kids as much as I am concerned about their exposure to too much sun! My children spend a lot of time outdoors but I really do wonder what\'s worse for them - the chemicals or the sun?  I switched to natural sunscreen and feel better about it.</li>\n	<li>I buy natural deodorant and so far no one has ever told me I stink!  I am teaching my tween daughter why it\'s better for her than the stuff she sees all the other girls using.  Maybe instead of her being influenced by her peers using the trendy products, she\'ll be able to teach her friends about the benefits of using natural products.</li>\n</ul>\n<h1>Household Products</h1>\nI used to love the clean smell of certain lemony or piney smelling cleaners! I just felt like my house smelled so clean! When I first switched I\'ll admit that I missed that \"just-cleaned\" smell.  Now when I encounter those same \"clean\" smells I just feel like holding my breath!  It\'s all in what you get used to.\n<ul>\n	<li>I use natural cleaning products such as vinegar and baking soda or plant based cleaners</li>\n	<li>I splurged and bought a floor steamer - it uses only tap water - no harsh chemicals</li>\n	<li>I don\'t use fabric softeners in the dryer - again, fragrances are loaded with hormone disruptors.  A bit of static never killed anyone, but fragrances....well...?</li>\n	<li>I check out all products on Environmental Working Groups database - I was surprised by some of the products I used - products that I thought were  green actually have chemicals in them!  I felt like such a sucker!</li>\n</ul>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a title=\"Environmental Working Group\'s Hall of Shame\" href=\"http://static.ewg.org/reports/2012/cleaners_hallofshame/cleaners_hallofshame.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Environmental Working Group\'s Hall of Shame</a></span> - Click here to see the worst offenders - some of these toxic chemicals are banned in certain countries, some have ingredients known to be carcinogenic.   And some of these products pretend they are \"green\" - some I\'ve had them in my own home thinking I was doing the right thing by buying \"Green\" products!  I\'m a sucker!\n\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a title=\"Environmental Working Group\'s Guide to Cleaners\" href=\"http://www.ewg.org/guides/cleaners\" target=\"_blank\">Environmental Working Group\'s Guide to Healthy Cleaning</a> </span>- Look up the cleaning products that you use on their database &amp; see what you\'re bringing into your house maybe without even knowing it!  EWG - rates common products for their safety.\n<h1>Food:</h1>\n<ul>\n	<li>I try to feed my family organic food as much as is possible based on what I have access to.</li>\n	<li>For many years I have been fortunate enough to be able to grow some of my own produce.</li>\n	<li>Again EWG to my rescue!  I keep informed with their <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a title=\"EWG - Shoppers Guide to Pesticides\" href=\"http://www.ewg.org/foodnews/summary/\" target=\"_blank\">Shoppers Guide to Pesticides</a></span> - I keep a copy of their published Dirty Dozen and Clean 15 fruits and vegetables.  If you can\'t find all the organics where you live then at least focusing on the produce that has been found to have the highest concentrations of pesticide or the worst types of pesticide contamination</li>\n	<li>we have recently gone dairy-free at my house - once in a while some dairy slips into our diet but when it does I try to keep it organic.</li>\n</ul>\n&nbsp;','How I Reduce My Family\'s Exposure to Hormone Disruptors','','inherit','open','open','','767-revision-27','','','2012-11-15 23:47:50','2012-11-16 04:47:50','',767,'http://www.hormonesoup.com/767-revision-27/',0,'revision','',0),(778,1,'2012-11-07 17:17:56','2012-11-07 22:17:56','Maybe you\'ve heard of xenoestrogens but don\'t really know what they are or how they work in your body.  I\'m going to explain what they are and why I try to minimize them in my life and more importantly to me - in my <strong>children\'s</strong> lives.\n\n<strong>Xenoestrogen</strong> means <strong>foreign estrogen</strong> - which basically means any outside substance that acts like estrogen once inside our body.  It includes chemical compounds and pesticides, as well as both synthetic and natural estrogen that we ingest or apply.  Phytoestrogens are another type of xenoestrogen - plants such as soy that have been touted as beneficial or harmful depending upon who you listen too. (I\'m not going to discuss phytoestrogens as endocrine disruptors in this post because it is a whole other conundrum but you can read a review about it whether it is beneficial or harmful <a title=\"The pros and cons of phytoestrogens\" href=\"http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3074428/\" target=\"_blank\">here</a>.)\n\n<strong>Endocrine disrupters</strong> or <strong>hormone disruptors </strong>are similar but actually refer specifically to chemicals and/or compounds that disrupt our hormonal systems.\n\nThere\'s a few ways that disruption occurs but without getting too scientific on you here is one simple explanation of how it works:\n\nThink of it like a game of musical chairs - chemical compounds and pesticides enter your body &amp; jump onto the receptors that are supposed to be there for the estrogen <em>your body</em> is producing.  When your own estrogen comes along it finds that these xenoestrogens have stolen their spot!  So your own estrogen has nowhere to go!  Every time xenoestrogens win the game - your body &amp; hormone health lose.\n\nYour body doesn\'t even have to be producing too much estrogen to show symptoms of estrogen dominance!    Because our estrogen is now free to roam throughout your body with nowhere to go.\n\nEndocrine disruptors are being blamed for our rising rates of:\n<ul>\n	<li>Endometrial cancer</li>\n	<li>Breast cancer</li>\n	<li>PCOS - Poly-cycstic Ovarian Syndrome</li>\n	<li>Endometriosis</li>\n	<li>Fibroids</li>\n	<li>Infertility</li>\n	<li>and other problems, including testicular &amp; prostrate cancer in men.</li>\n</ul>\n&nbsp;\n\nplastic bottles, metal food cans, detergents, flame retardants, food, toys, cosmetics, and pesticides\n\n&nbsp;\n\nFurther reading about the negative effects of Endocrine Disrupters on our health:\n\n<a title=\"Medical News Today - Xenoestrogens\" href=\"http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/245485.php\" target=\"_blank\">Medical News Today</a>\n\n<a title=\"National Institute of Health Sciences\" href=\"http://www.niehs.nih.gov/health/topics/agents/endocrine/index.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences</a>\n\n<a title=\"Endocrine Society - Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals - A Scientific Study\" href=\"http://www.endo-society.org/journals/ScientificStatements/upload/EDC_Scientific_Statement.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">The Endocrine Society - Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals - A Scientific Statement </a>\n\n<a title=\"TEDx - The Endocrine Disruption Exchange\" href=\"http://www.endocrinedisruption.com/home.php\" target=\"_blank\">TEDx - The Endocrine Disruption Exchange</a>\n\n<a title=\"Journal of Environmental &amp; Public Health - Endocrine Disrupters\" href=\"http://www.hindawi.com/journals/jeph/2012/713696/\" target=\"_blank\">Journal of Environmental &amp; Public Health</a>\n\n<a title=\"Wikipedia - Endorcrine Disruptor\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endocrine_disruptor\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia - Endocrine Disruptor</a>\n\n<a title=\"Natural Resources Defence Council\" href=\"http://www.nrdc.org/health/effects/qendoc.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Natural Resources Defence Council</a>\n\n<a title=\"EPA\" href=\"http://www.epa.gov/endocrine/#eds\" target=\"_blank\">Environmental Protection Agency </a>\n\n<a title=\"NIEHS - Recent Endocrine Research Resources\" href=\"http://www.niehs.nih.gov/health/assets/docs_a_e/endocrine_research_resources.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">NIEHS - Recent Endocrine Research Resources </a>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;',' X is for Xenoestrogens','','inherit','open','open','','722-revision-11','','','2012-11-07 17:17:56','2012-11-07 22:17:56','',722,'http://www.hormonesoup.com/722-revision-11/',0,'revision','',0),(779,1,'2012-11-03 17:26:41','2012-11-03 22:26:41','Further reading about the negative effects of Endocrine Disrupters on our health:\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Medical News Today - Xenoestrogens\" href=\"http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/245485.php\" target=\"_blank\">Medical News Today</a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"National Institute of Health Sciences\" href=\"http://www.niehs.nih.gov/health/topics/agents/endocrine/index.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences</a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Endocrine Society - Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals - A Scientific Study\" href=\"http://www.endo-society.org/journals/ScientificStatements/upload/EDC_Scientific_Statement.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">The Endocrine Society - Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals - A Scientific Statement </a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"TEDx - The Endocrine Disruption Exchange\" href=\"http://www.endocrinedisruption.com/home.php\" target=\"_blank\">TEDx - The Endocrine Disruption Exchange</a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Journal of Environmental &amp; Public Health - Endocrine Disrupters\" href=\"http://www.hindawi.com/journals/jeph/2012/713696/\" target=\"_blank\">Journal of Environmental &amp; Public Health</a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Wikipedia - Endorcrine Disruptor\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endocrine_disruptor\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia - Endocrine Disruptor</a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Natural Resources Defence Council\" href=\"http://www.nrdc.org/health/effects/qendoc.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Natural Resources Defence Council</a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"EPA\" href=\"http://www.epa.gov/endocrine/#eds\" target=\"_blank\">Environmental Protection Agency </a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"NIEHS - Recent Endocrine Research Resources\" href=\"http://www.niehs.nih.gov/health/assets/docs_a_e/endocrine_research_resources.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">NIEHS - Recent Endocrine Research Resources </a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','Hormone Disruption Research','','inherit','open','open','','743-revision-2','','','2012-11-03 17:26:41','2012-11-03 22:26:41','',743,'http://www.hormonesoup.com/743-revision-2/',0,'revision','',0),(781,1,'2012-11-07 17:21:42','2012-11-07 22:21:42','Further reading about the negative effects of Endocrine Disrupters on our health:\n\n<a title=\"Medical News Today - Xenoestrogens\" href=\"http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/245485.php\" target=\"_blank\">Medical News Today</a>\n\n<a title=\"National Institute of Health Sciences\" href=\"http://www.niehs.nih.gov/health/topics/agents/endocrine/index.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences</a>\n\n<a title=\"Endocrine Society - Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals - A Scientific Study\" href=\"http://www.endo-society.org/journals/ScientificStatements/upload/EDC_Scientific_Statement.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">The Endocrine Society - Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals - A Scientific Statement </a>\n\n<a title=\"TEDx - The Endocrine Disruption Exchange\" href=\"http://www.endocrinedisruption.com/home.php\" target=\"_blank\">TEDx - The Endocrine Disruption Exchange</a>\n\n<a title=\"Journal of Environmental &amp; Public Health - Endocrine Disrupters\" href=\"http://www.hindawi.com/journals/jeph/2012/713696/\" target=\"_blank\">Journal of Environmental &amp; Public Health</a>\n\n<a title=\"Wikipedia - Endorcrine Disruptor\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endocrine_disruptor\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia - Endocrine Disruptor</a>\n\n<a title=\"Natural Resources Defence Council\" href=\"http://www.nrdc.org/health/effects/qendoc.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Natural Resources Defence Council</a>\n\n<a title=\"EPA\" href=\"http://www.epa.gov/endocrine/#eds\" target=\"_blank\">Environmental Protection Agency </a>\n\n<a title=\"NIEHS - Recent Endocrine Research Resources\" href=\"http://www.niehs.nih.gov/health/assets/docs_a_e/endocrine_research_resources.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">NIEHS - Recent Endocrine Research Resources </a>\n\n&nbsp;','Hormone Disruptors - Further Reading','','inherit','open','open','','743-revision-4','','','2012-11-07 17:21:42','2012-11-07 22:21:42','',743,'http://www.hormonesoup.com/743-revision-4/',0,'revision','',0),(780,1,'2012-11-07 17:20:08','2012-11-07 22:20:08','Further reading about the negative effects of Endocrine Disrupters on our health:\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Medical News Today - Xenoestrogens\" href=\"http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/245485.php\" target=\"_blank\">Medical News Today</a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"National Institute of Health Sciences\" href=\"http://www.niehs.nih.gov/health/topics/agents/endocrine/index.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences</a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Endocrine Society - Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals - A Scientific Study\" href=\"http://www.endo-society.org/journals/ScientificStatements/upload/EDC_Scientific_Statement.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">The Endocrine Society - Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals - A Scientific Statement </a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"TEDx - The Endocrine Disruption Exchange\" href=\"http://www.endocrinedisruption.com/home.php\" target=\"_blank\">TEDx - The Endocrine Disruption Exchange</a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Journal of Environmental &amp; Public Health - Endocrine Disrupters\" href=\"http://www.hindawi.com/journals/jeph/2012/713696/\" target=\"_blank\">Journal of Environmental &amp; Public Health</a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Wikipedia - Endorcrine Disruptor\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endocrine_disruptor\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia - Endocrine Disruptor</a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Natural Resources Defence Council\" href=\"http://www.nrdc.org/health/effects/qendoc.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Natural Resources Defence Council</a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"EPA\" href=\"http://www.epa.gov/endocrine/#eds\" target=\"_blank\">Environmental Protection Agency </a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"NIEHS - Recent Endocrine Research Resources\" href=\"http://www.niehs.nih.gov/health/assets/docs_a_e/endocrine_research_resources.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">NIEHS - Recent Endocrine Research Resources </a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','Hormone Disruptors - Further Reading','','inherit','open','open','','743-revision-3','','','2012-11-07 17:20:08','2012-11-07 22:20:08','',743,'http://www.hormonesoup.com/743-revision-3/',0,'revision','',0),(782,1,'2012-11-07 17:22:44','2012-11-07 22:22:44','Further reading about the negative effects of Endocrine Disrupters on our health:\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Medical News Today - Xenoestrogens\" href=\"http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/245485.php\" target=\"_blank\">Medical News Today</a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"National Institute of Health Sciences\" href=\"http://www.niehs.nih.gov/health/topics/agents/endocrine/index.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences</a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Endocrine Society - Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals - A Scientific Study\" href=\"http://www.endo-society.org/journals/ScientificStatements/upload/EDC_Scientific_Statement.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">The Endocrine Society - Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals - A Scientific Statement </a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"TEDx - The Endocrine Disruption Exchange\" href=\"http://www.endocrinedisruption.com/home.php\" target=\"_blank\">TEDx - The Endocrine Disruption Exchange</a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Journal of Environmental &amp; Public Health - Endocrine Disrupters\" href=\"http://www.hindawi.com/journals/jeph/2012/713696/\" target=\"_blank\">Journal of Environmental &amp; Public Health</a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Wikipedia - Endorcrine Disruptor\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endocrine_disruptor\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia - Endocrine Disruptor</a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Natural Resources Defence Council\" href=\"http://www.nrdc.org/health/effects/qendoc.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Natural Resources Defence Council</a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"EPA\" href=\"http://www.epa.gov/endocrine/#eds\" target=\"_blank\">Environmental Protection Agency </a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"NIEHS - Recent Endocrine Research Resources\" href=\"http://www.niehs.nih.gov/health/assets/docs_a_e/endocrine_research_resources.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">NIEHS - Recent Endocrine Research Resources </a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','Hormone Disruptors - Further Reading','','inherit','open','open','','743-revision-5','','','2012-11-07 17:22:44','2012-11-07 22:22:44','',743,'http://www.hormonesoup.com/743-revision-5/',0,'revision','',0),(783,1,'2012-11-07 17:23:46','2012-11-07 22:23:46','Further reading about the negative effects of Endocrine Disrupters on our health:\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Medical News Today - Xenoestrogens\" href=\"http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/245485.php\" target=\"_blank\">Medical News Today</a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"National Institute of Health Sciences\" href=\"http://www.niehs.nih.gov/health/topics/agents/endocrine/index.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences</a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Endocrine Society - Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals - A Scientific Study\" href=\"http://www.endo-society.org/journals/ScientificStatements/upload/EDC_Scientific_Statement.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">The Endocrine Society - Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals - A Scientific Statement </a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"TEDx - The Endocrine Disruption Exchange\" href=\"http://www.endocrinedisruption.com/home.php\" target=\"_blank\">TEDx - The Endocrine Disruption Exchange</a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Journal of Environmental &amp; Public Health - Endocrine Disrupters\" href=\"http://www.hindawi.com/journals/jeph/2012/713696/\" target=\"_blank\">Journal of Environmental &amp; Public Health</a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Wikipedia - Endorcrine Disruptor\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endocrine_disruptor\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia - Endocrine Disruptor</a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Natural Resources Defence Council\" href=\"http://www.nrdc.org/health/effects/qendoc.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Natural Resources Defence Council</a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"EPA\" href=\"http://www.epa.gov/endocrine/#eds\" target=\"_blank\">Environmental Protection Agency </a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"NIEHS - Recent Endocrine Research Resources\" href=\"http://www.niehs.nih.gov/health/assets/docs_a_e/endocrine_research_resources.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">NIEHS - Recent Endocrine Research Resources </a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nNew links will be updated on an ongoing basis.  Please feel free to point me toward any studies or further reading that my readers would find informative. Thanks! S.','Hormone Disruptors - Further Reading','','inherit','open','open','','743-revision-6','','','2012-11-07 17:23:46','2012-11-07 22:23:46','',743,'http://www.hormonesoup.com/743-revision-6/',0,'revision','',0),(784,1,'2012-11-07 17:25:11','2012-11-07 22:25:11','I am constantly doing research and am compiliFurther reading about the negative effects of Endocrine Disrupters on our health:\n\n<a title=\"Medical News Today - Xenoestrogens\" href=\"http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/245485.php\" target=\"_blank\">Medical News Today</a>\n\n<a title=\"National Institute of Health Sciences\" href=\"http://www.niehs.nih.gov/health/topics/agents/endocrine/index.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences</a>\n\n<a title=\"Endocrine Society - Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals - A Scientific Study\" href=\"http://www.endo-society.org/journals/ScientificStatements/upload/EDC_Scientific_Statement.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">The Endocrine Society - Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals - A Scientific Statement </a>\n\n<a title=\"TEDx - The Endocrine Disruption Exchange\" href=\"http://www.endocrinedisruption.com/home.php\" target=\"_blank\">TEDx - The Endocrine Disruption Exchange</a>\n\n<a title=\"Journal of Environmental &amp; Public Health - Endocrine Disrupters\" href=\"http://www.hindawi.com/journals/jeph/2012/713696/\" target=\"_blank\">Journal of Environmental &amp; Public Health</a>\n\n<a title=\"Wikipedia - Endorcrine Disruptor\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endocrine_disruptor\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia - Endocrine Disruptor</a>\n\n<a title=\"Natural Resources Defence Council\" href=\"http://www.nrdc.org/health/effects/qendoc.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Natural Resources Defence Council</a>\n\n<a title=\"EPA\" href=\"http://www.epa.gov/endocrine/#eds\" target=\"_blank\">Environmental Protection Agency </a>\n\n<a title=\"NIEHS - Recent Endocrine Research Resources\" href=\"http://www.niehs.nih.gov/health/assets/docs_a_e/endocrine_research_resources.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">NIEHS - Recent Endocrine Research Resources </a>\n\n&nbsp;\n\nNew links will be updated on an ongoing basis.  Please feel free to point me toward any studies or further reading that my readers would find informative. Thanks!','Hormone Disruptors - Further Reading','','inherit','open','open','','743-revision-7','','','2012-11-07 17:25:11','2012-11-07 22:25:11','',743,'http://www.hormonesoup.com/743-revision-7/',0,'revision','',0),(785,1,'2012-11-07 17:25:52','2012-11-07 22:25:52','I am constantly doing research and am compiling a list of articles and further reading about the negative effects of Endocrine Disruptors on our health. Here are links to several studies/reviews about these hormone disruptors:\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Medical News Today - Xenoestrogens\" href=\"http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/245485.php\" target=\"_blank\">Medical News Today</a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"National Institute of Health Sciences\" href=\"http://www.niehs.nih.gov/health/topics/agents/endocrine/index.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences</a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Endocrine Society - Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals - A Scientific Study\" href=\"http://www.endo-society.org/journals/ScientificStatements/upload/EDC_Scientific_Statement.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">The Endocrine Society - Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals - A Scientific Statement </a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"TEDx - The Endocrine Disruption Exchange\" href=\"http://www.endocrinedisruption.com/home.php\" target=\"_blank\">TEDx - The Endocrine Disruption Exchange</a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Journal of Environmental &amp; Public Health - Endocrine Disrupters\" href=\"http://www.hindawi.com/journals/jeph/2012/713696/\" target=\"_blank\">Journal of Environmental &amp; Public Health</a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Wikipedia - Endorcrine Disruptor\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endocrine_disruptor\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia - Endocrine Disruptor</a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Natural Resources Defence Council\" href=\"http://www.nrdc.org/health/effects/qendoc.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Natural Resources Defence Council</a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"EPA\" href=\"http://www.epa.gov/endocrine/#eds\" target=\"_blank\">Environmental Protection Agency </a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"NIEHS - Recent Endocrine Research Resources\" href=\"http://www.niehs.nih.gov/health/assets/docs_a_e/endocrine_research_resources.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">NIEHS - Recent Endocrine Research Resources </a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nNew links will be updated on an ongoing basis.  Please feel free to point me toward any studies or further reading that my readers would find informative. Thanks!','Hormone Disruptors - Further Reading','','inherit','open','open','','743-revision-8','','','2012-11-07 17:25:52','2012-11-07 22:25:52','',743,'http://www.hormonesoup.com/743-revision-8/',0,'revision','',0),(786,1,'2012-11-07 17:26:19','2012-11-07 22:26:19','I am constantly doing research and am compiling a list of articles and further reading about the negative effects of Endocrine Disruptors on our health. Here are links to several studies/reviews about these hormone disruptors:\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Medical News Today - Xenoestrogens\" href=\"http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/245485.php\" target=\"_blank\">Medical News Today</a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"National Institute of Health Sciences\" href=\"http://www.niehs.nih.gov/health/topics/agents/endocrine/index.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences</a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Endocrine Society - Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals - A Scientific Study\" href=\"http://www.endo-society.org/journals/ScientificStatements/upload/EDC_Scientific_Statement.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">The Endocrine Society - Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals - A Scientific Statement </a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"TEDx - The Endocrine Disruption Exchange\" href=\"http://www.endocrinedisruption.com/home.php\" target=\"_blank\">TEDx - The Endocrine Disruption Exchange</a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Journal of Environmental &amp; Public Health - Endocrine Disrupters\" href=\"http://www.hindawi.com/journals/jeph/2012/713696/\" target=\"_blank\">Journal of Environmental &amp; Public Health</a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Wikipedia - Endorcrine Disruptor\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endocrine_disruptor\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia - Endocrine Disruptor</a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Natural Resources Defence Council\" href=\"http://www.nrdc.org/health/effects/qendoc.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Natural Resources Defence Council</a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"EPA\" href=\"http://www.epa.gov/endocrine/#eds\" target=\"_blank\">Environmental Protection Agency </a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"NIEHS - Recent Endocrine Research Resources\" href=\"http://www.niehs.nih.gov/health/assets/docs_a_e/endocrine_research_resources.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">NIEHS - Recent Endocrine Research Resources </a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nNew links will be updated on an ongoing basis.  Please feel free to point me toward any studies or further reading that my readers would find informative. Thanks!','Hormone Disruptors - Further Reading','','inherit','open','open','','743-revision-9','','','2012-11-07 17:26:19','2012-11-07 22:26:19','',743,'http://www.hormonesoup.com/743-revision-9/',0,'revision','',0),(787,1,'2012-11-07 16:13:25','2012-11-07 21:13:25','[caption id=\"attachment_686\" align=\"alignright\" width=\"100\"]<a href=\"http://www.hormonesoup.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/1.jpg\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-686\" title=\"Now What?\" src=\"http://www.hormonesoup.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/1.jpg\" alt=\"I think Im Estrogen Dominant, Now What?\" width=\"100\" height=\"150\" /></a> I think I\'m Estrogen Dominant, Now What?[/caption]\r\n\r\nI\'m going to take a wild stab and guess that if you\'re not estrogen dominant then someone you love probably is, that\'s how prevelant estrogen dominance is in our society today.  Let\'s say you\'ve determined that you have several of the symptoms I listed in \"<a title=\"What does it mean to be Estrogen Dominant?\" href=\"http://www.hormonesoup.com/what-does-it-mean-to-be-estrogen-dominant/\">What it Means to be Estrogen Dominant</a>\", some of which are pesky little nuisances in your life like decreased sex drive, headaches, fatigue, irritability but hey - you\'re a woman, that\'s normal right?  Some of the symptoms you might not even be aware of, like magnesium and zinc deficiency or bone loss.\r\n\r\nIf you go to your family doctor for most of these symptoms you will most likely be given a prescription.  You are very likely to walk out of her office with a prescription whether it be for antidepressants, headache pain relief, birth control pills (Oh God, not more Estrogen!!), or Chlomid for infertility.   If you\'re lucky you might get a lab requisition for some tests like checking your thyroid level.  Sadly the level your doctor will probably consider to be normal is inaccurate and based on old information.  Many doctors are still using TSH ranges of 0.5 to 5.0 or 6.0 and are not following the latest recommendations by the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists which are actually 0.3 - 3.0 (and some doctors believe a TSH level over 2.0 puts you in the category of hypothyroidism). Thats a discussion for another day.\r\n\r\nI will admit that thinking about the not-so-pesky but more life threatening symptoms of estrogen dominance frightens me a bit.  I\'ve been estrogen dominant my entire adult life so I have had unopposed estrogen roaming freely throughout my body.  I\'m not telling you this to frighten you but if you\'re estrogen dominant you need to know this stuff even though it\'s scary. I am telling you this because it fits with my view to <strong>Educate, Advocate and Empower</strong> yourself when it comes to your own health.  Here are the scary symptoms that are part of the reason I keep watch on my hormone levels through saliva and blood testing:\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Endometrial (uterine) cancer</li>\r\n	<li>Breast Cancer</li>\r\n	<li>Autoimmune Disorders such a lupus, thyroiditis, and possibly Sjoegren\'s disease</li>\r\n	<li>Cervical Dysplacia (precancerous changes to the cervix which if left undetected &amp; untreated can eventually cause cervical cancer - Get your PAP done!)</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<div>Breast cancer is a particular concern to me, I\'m sure most women think about it from time to time.  Here is one study that in my opinion highlights the reason we need to know what is going on in our bodies even when our symptoms seem pesky:</div>\r\nBack in 1981 a study published in the American Journal of Epidemiology found that infertile women with <em>progesterone deficiency</em> had a premenopausal breast cancer risk that was <strong>540%</strong> greater than that of women whose infertility was due to non-hormonal causes.  And, the women with a progesterone deficiency had a <strong>1,000%</strong> greater chance of death from <strong>all</strong> types of cancer.  This study followed 1,083 women that had a history of infertility ranging from 13 - 33 years.\r\n\r\nSo you know how when faced with scary statistics like that, you try to figure out a way that this data doesn\'t fit for you? That\'s exactly what I started to think...oh I wasn\'t infertile for 13 - 33 years, phewph.  But really the truth is, I don\'t know what this means for me - I lived with progesterone deficiency from adolescence to my late thirties. I moved during that time and had a minumum of 6 different doctors - 3 were ob/gyn\'s so it\'s not like I only encountered one misinformed doctor. Yet with all these doctor\'s knowing my menstrual history none of them discussed this increased risk with me.\r\n\r\nIt begs the question - why isn\'t anyone getting to the root of our \"pesky\" symptoms in light of the bigger possibilities?  I have lived with unopposed estrogen roaming freely with little to no progesterone for my entire adult life.  Do I worry about my risk for breast cancer and other forms of cancer? Hell, yes I do.  I feel fortunate that I have taken the matter into my own hands and balanced my hormones by adding progesterone - but does anyone know what my cancer outlook is now? I hope I\'ve reduced it and I hope the risk continues to shrink over time. 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 I\'m a sucker!\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Environmental Working Group\'s Guide to Cleaners\" href=\"http://www.ewg.org/guides/cleaners\" target=\"_blank\">Environmental Working Group\'s Guide to Healthy Cleaning</a> - Look up the Cleaning Products that you use &amp; see what you\'re bringing into your house maybe without even knowing it!  EWG - rates common products for\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','Known & Suspected Hormone Disruptors','','inherit','open','open','','748-revision-7','','','2012-11-07 17:45:10','2012-11-07 22:45:10','',748,'http://www.hormonesoup.com/748-revision-7/',0,'revision','',0),(794,1,'2012-11-07 17:49:53','2012-11-07 22:49:53','I am constantly doing research and compiling lists of articles and further reading about the negative effects of Endocrine Disruptors on our health.\n\nClick  are links to some of the studies/reviews I have researched about these hormone disruptors.\n\n<a title=\"Medical News Today - Xenoestrogens\" href=\"http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/245485.php\" target=\"_blank\">Medical News Today</a>\n\n<a title=\"National Institute of Health Sciences\" href=\"http://www.niehs.nih.gov/health/topics/agents/endocrine/index.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences</a>\n\n<a title=\"Endocrine Society - Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals - A Scientific Study\" href=\"http://www.endo-society.org/journals/ScientificStatements/upload/EDC_Scientific_Statement.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">The Endocrine Society - Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals - A Scientific Statement </a>\n\n<a title=\"TEDx - The Endocrine Disruption Exchange\" href=\"http://www.endocrinedisruption.com/home.php\" target=\"_blank\">TEDx - The Endocrine Disruption Exchange</a>\n\n<a title=\"Journal of Environmental &amp; Public Health - Endocrine Disrupters\" href=\"http://www.hindawi.com/journals/jeph/2012/713696/\" target=\"_blank\">Journal of Environmental &amp; Public Health</a>\n\n<a title=\"Wikipedia - Endorcrine Disruptor\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endocrine_disruptor\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia - Endocrine Disruptor</a>\n\n<a title=\"Natural Resources Defence Council\" href=\"http://www.nrdc.org/health/effects/qendoc.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Natural Resources Defence Council</a>\n\n<a title=\"EPA\" href=\"http://www.epa.gov/endocrine/#eds\" target=\"_blank\">Environmental Protection Agency </a>\n\n<a title=\"NIEHS - Recent Endocrine Research Resources\" href=\"http://www.niehs.nih.gov/health/assets/docs_a_e/endocrine_research_resources.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">NIEHS - Recent Endocrine Research Resources </a>\n\n&nbsp;\n\nNew links will be updated on an ongoing basis.  Please feel free to point me toward any studies or further reading that my readers would find informative. Thanks!','Hormone Disruptors - Further Reading','','inherit','open','open','','743-revision-10','','','2012-11-07 17:49:53','2012-11-07 22:49:53','',743,'http://www.hormonesoup.com/743-revision-10/',0,'revision','',0),(795,1,'2012-11-07 17:50:49','2012-11-07 22:50:49','I am constantly doing research and compiling lists of articles and further reading about the negative effects of Endocrine Disruptors on our health.\r\n\r\nClick on the links below to read some of the studies and reviews that  I have researched about hormone disruptors:\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Medical News Today - Xenoestrogens\" href=\"http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/245485.php\" target=\"_blank\">Medical News Today</a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"National Institute of Health Sciences\" href=\"http://www.niehs.nih.gov/health/topics/agents/endocrine/index.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences</a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Endocrine Society - Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals - A Scientific Study\" href=\"http://www.endo-society.org/journals/ScientificStatements/upload/EDC_Scientific_Statement.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">The Endocrine Society - Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals - A Scientific Statement </a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"TEDx - The Endocrine Disruption Exchange\" href=\"http://www.endocrinedisruption.com/home.php\" target=\"_blank\">TEDx - The Endocrine Disruption Exchange</a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Journal of Environmental &amp; Public Health - Endocrine Disrupters\" href=\"http://www.hindawi.com/journals/jeph/2012/713696/\" target=\"_blank\">Journal of Environmental &amp; Public Health</a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Wikipedia - Endorcrine Disruptor\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endocrine_disruptor\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia - Endocrine Disruptor</a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Natural Resources Defence Council\" href=\"http://www.nrdc.org/health/effects/qendoc.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Natural Resources Defence Council</a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"EPA\" href=\"http://www.epa.gov/endocrine/#eds\" target=\"_blank\">Environmental Protection Agency </a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"NIEHS - Recent Endocrine Research Resources\" href=\"http://www.niehs.nih.gov/health/assets/docs_a_e/endocrine_research_resources.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">NIEHS - Recent Endocrine Research Resources </a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nNew links will be updated on an ongoing basis.  Please feel free to point me toward any studies or further reading that my readers would find informative. Thanks!','Hormone Disruptors - Further Reading','','inherit','open','open','','743-revision-11','','','2012-11-07 17:50:49','2012-11-07 22:50:49','',743,'http://www.hormonesoup.com/743-revision-11/',0,'revision','',0),(796,1,'2012-11-07 17:57:22','2012-11-07 22:57:22','Merely living on earth puts you at risk - Theo Colborn, PhD.\n<h1>Plastics:</h1>\nMany contain BPA (Bisphenol A) and Phthalates\n<ul>\n	<li>Avoid plastics - particularly 7, 6 &amp; 3: remember \"7, 6 and 3 are not for me\"</li>\n	<li>Never microwave anything in plastic</li>\n	<li>use glass or ceramics to store food</li>\n	<li>don\'t let babies chew on plastics - find natural products/toys instead</li>\n</ul>\n&nbsp;\n<h1>Cosmetics:</h1>\n&nbsp;\n\nOrganochlorines:\n<h1>Household Cleaning Products:</h1>\n<a title=\"Environmental Working Group\'s Hall of Shame\" href=\"http://static.ewg.org/reports/2012/cleaners_hallofshame/cleaners_hallofshame.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Environmental Working Group\'s Hall of Shame</a> - Click here to see the worst offenders - some of these toxic chemicals are banned in certain countries, some have ingredients known to be carcinogenic.   And some of these products pretend they are \"green\" - some I\'ve had them in my own home thinking I was doing the right thing by buying \"Green\" products!  I\'m a sucker!\n\n<a title=\"Environmental Working Group\'s Guide to Cleaners\" href=\"http://www.ewg.org/guides/cleaners\" target=\"_blank\">Environmental Working Group\'s Guide to Healthy Cleaning</a> - Look up the Cleaning Products that you use &amp; see what you\'re bringing into your house maybe without even knowing it!  EWG - rates common products for\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;','How to Reduce Your Risk','','inherit','open','open','','767-revision-4','','','2012-11-07 17:57:22','2012-11-07 22:57:22','',767,'http://www.hormonesoup.com/767-revision-4/',0,'revision','',0),(797,1,'2012-11-07 18:03:43','2012-11-07 23:03:43','Merely living on earth puts you at risk - Theo Colborn, PhD.\n<h1>Plastics:</h1>\nMany contain BPA (Bisphenol A) and Phthalates\n<ul>\n	<li>We avoid plastics when we can - particularly 7, 6 &amp; 3.  Even my children know  \"7, 6 and 3 are not for me\".   When we were getting rid of \"bad\" plastics I taught my children what to look for and told them I\'d give them $1 for every bad plastic they found in our house!  They ran around the house like crazy.  Fortunately they only found 3 pieces of \"bad\" plastic in our house.</li>\n	<li>we never microwave anything in plastic</li>\n	<li>use glass or ceramics to store food</li>\n	<li>don\'t let babies chew on plastics - find natural products/toys instead</li>\n	<li>I breastfed my babies for well over a year each</li>\n	<li> I didn\'t use pacifiers - it was my choice not merely because of the plastic exposure but the \"plastic\" factor definitely belongs on the pro side to breastfeeding and thumb sucking over pacifiers</li>\n	<li>try and avoid plastic water bottles but we don\'t like stainless steel so found some good glass bottles that are wrapped in rubber so they are safe</li>\n</ul>\n&nbsp;\n<h1>Cosmetics:</h1>\n&nbsp;\n\nOrganochlorines:\n<h1>Household Cleaning Products:</h1>\n<a title=\"Environmental Working Group\'s Hall of Shame\" href=\"http://static.ewg.org/reports/2012/cleaners_hallofshame/cleaners_hallofshame.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Environmental Working Group\'s Hall of Shame</a> - Click here to see the worst offenders - some of these toxic chemicals are banned in certain countries, some have ingredients known to be carcinogenic.   And some of these products pretend they are \"green\" - some I\'ve had them in my own home thinking I was doing the right thing by buying \"Green\" products!  I\'m a sucker!\n\n<a title=\"Environmental Working Group\'s Guide to Cleaners\" href=\"http://www.ewg.org/guides/cleaners\" target=\"_blank\">Environmental Working Group\'s Guide to Healthy Cleaning</a> - Look up the Cleaning Products that you use &amp; see what you\'re bringing into your house maybe without even knowing it!  EWG - rates common products for\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;','How I Try to Reduce My Risk','','inherit','open','open','','767-revision-5','','','2012-11-07 18:03:43','2012-11-07 23:03:43','',767,'http://www.hormonesoup.com/767-revision-5/',0,'revision','',0),(798,1,'2012-11-07 18:04:58','2012-11-07 23:04:58','Merely living on earth puts you at risk - Theo Colborn, PhD.\n<h1>Plastics:</h1>\nMany contain BPA (Bisphenol A) and Phthalates\n<ul>\n	<li>We avoid plastics when we can - particularly 7, 6 &amp; 3.  Even my children know  \"7, 6 and 3 are not for me\".   When we were getting rid of \"bad\" plastics I taught my children what to look for and told them I\'d give them $1 for every bad plastic they found in our house!  They ran around the house like crazy.  Fortunately they only found 3 pieces of \"bad\" plastic in our house.</li>\n	<li>we never microwave anything in plastic</li>\n	<li>use glass or ceramics to store food</li>\n	<li>don\'t let babies chew on plastics - find natural products/toys instead</li>\n	<li>I breastfed my babies for well over a year each</li>\n	<li> I didn\'t use pacifiers - it was my choice not merely because of the plastic exposure but the \"plastic\" factor definitely belongs on the pro side to breastfeeding and thumb sucking over pacifiers</li>\n	<li>try and avoid plastic water bottles but we don\'t like stainless steel so found some good glass bottles that are wrapped in rubber so they are safe for my kids\' backpacks.</li>\n</ul>\n&nbsp;\n<h1>Cosmetics:</h1>\n&nbsp;\n\nOrganochlorines:\n<h1>Household Cleaning Products:</h1>\n<a title=\"Environmental Working Group\'s Hall of Shame\" href=\"http://static.ewg.org/reports/2012/cleaners_hallofshame/cleaners_hallofshame.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Environmental Working Group\'s Hall of Shame</a> - Click here to see the worst offenders - some of these toxic chemicals are banned in certain countries, some have ingredients known to be carcinogenic.   And some of these products pretend they are \"green\" - some I\'ve had them in my own home thinking I was doing the right thing by buying \"Green\" products!  I\'m a sucker!\n\n<a title=\"Environmental Working Group\'s Guide to Cleaners\" href=\"http://www.ewg.org/guides/cleaners\" target=\"_blank\">Environmental Working Group\'s Guide to Healthy Cleaning</a> - Look up the Cleaning Products that you use &amp; see what you\'re bringing into your house maybe without even knowing it!  EWG - rates common products for\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;','How I Try to Reduce My Risk','','inherit','open','open','','767-revision-6','','','2012-11-07 18:04:58','2012-11-07 23:04:58','',767,'http://www.hormonesoup.com/767-revision-6/',0,'revision','',0),(799,1,'2012-11-07 18:07:33','2012-11-07 23:07:33','Merely living on earth puts you at risk - Theo Colborn, PhD.\n<h1>Plastics:</h1>\nMany contain BPA (Bisphenol A) and Phthalates\n<ul>\n	<li>We avoid plastics when we can - particularly 7, 6 &amp; 3.  Even my children know  \"7, 6 and 3 are not for me\".   When we were getting rid of \"bad\" plastics I taught my children what to look for and told them I\'d give them $1 for every bad plastic they found in our house!  They ran around the house like crazy.  Fortunately they only found 3 pieces of \"bad\" plastic in our house.</li>\n	<li>we never microwave anything in plastic</li>\n	<li>use glass or ceramics to store food</li>\n	<li>don\'t let babies chew on plastics - find natural products/toys instead</li>\n	<li>I breastfed my babies for well over a year each</li>\n	<li> I didn\'t use pacifiers - it was my choice not merely because of the plastic exposure but the \"plastic\" factor definitely belongs on the pro side to breastfeeding and thumb sucking over pacifiers</li>\n	<li>try and avoid plastic water bottles but we don\'t like stainless steel so found some good glass bottles that are wrapped in rubber so they are safe for my kids\' backpacks.</li>\n</ul>\n&nbsp;\n<h1>Cosmetics:</h1>\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n<h1>Household Cleaning Products:</h1>\n<a title=\"Environmental Working Group\'s Hall of Shame\" href=\"http://static.ewg.org/reports/2012/cleaners_hallofshame/cleaners_hallofshame.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Environmental Working Group\'s Hall of Shame</a> - Click here to see the worst offenders - some of these toxic chemicals are banned in certain countries, some have ingredients known to be carcinogenic.   And some of these products pretend they are \"green\" - some I\'ve had them in my own home thinking I was doing the right thing by buying \"Green\" products!  I\'m a sucker!\n\n<a title=\"Environmental Working Group\'s Guide to Cleaners\" href=\"http://www.ewg.org/guides/cleaners\" target=\"_blank\">Environmental Working Group\'s Guide to Healthy Cleaning</a> - Look up the Cleaning Products that you use &amp; see what you\'re bringing into your house maybe without even knowing it!  EWG - rates common products for\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;','How I Try to Reduce My Risk','','inherit','open','open','','767-revision-7','','','2012-11-07 18:07:33','2012-11-07 23:07:33','',767,'http://www.hormonesoup.com/767-revision-7/',0,'revision','',0),(920,1,'2012-11-15 00:54:45','2012-11-15 05:54:45','Farewell Dear Ava,\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_917\" align=\"alignright\" width=\"150\"]<a href=\"http://www.hormonesoup.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/dreamstime-3-pregnant-women.jpg\"><img class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-917\" title=\"Three Pregnant Women\" src=\"http://www.hormonesoup.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/dreamstime-3-pregnant-women-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Three Pregnant Women\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a> Three Pregnant Women[/caption]\r\n\r\nI will never forget the first time we spoke - it was after my first miscarriage.  It had been weeks since my D&amp;C and I was still sad but was moving along with life as expected.  For me, the fact that I\'d only been pregnant for 10 weeks didn\'t lessen my sadness - I\'d already made plans with my baby and had hopes and dreams for his or her future.  Somehow it felt like no one else really understood. I woke up one morning immobilized with the grief of losing my baby. I only stopped crying long enough to call in sick to work that day and later call the health unit nurse who told me you had started a support group for women who\'d lost a baby.  When you called me back that day, I heard the voice of an angel. You cried with me and helped me get through that day and many other days that were to come.  You were the first person to acknowledge that I was already a mom.  You were the first person to understand that even though I\'d had a first term miscarriage, I felt the loss of my baby and was entitled to my grief.  I suddenly didn\'t feel so alone.  You introduced me to other wonderful women who\'d also lost babies and we helped each other get through our grief and our next pregnancies.\r\n\r\nWhen I got pregnant again I called you with with every little twinge and worry, you were so patient and supportive.  When I had another miscarriage you were there for me so I didn\'t have to go through it alone. You helped me come to the decision to avoid the same horrible D&amp;C experience I\'d had the first time.  I allowed my miscarriage to happen naturally and you were there for me every step of the way.\r\n\r\nYou weren\'t there just for me - you supported all of us that you brought together with your kindness, generosity and understanding.  Oh how many of us grieving moms did you help? I don\'t even know the number but I know you were there for every us who lost babies and you were there throughout our successful pregnancies too.\r\n\r\nBesides being the most supportive person in my life at that time, you taught me something that changed my life.  You taught me to be my own health advocate. You set an example for me as I watched you successfully advocate for yourself after you lost your precious twins and then go on to have a beautiful baby boy!  You taught me to do my own research about my miscarriages (which was a feat in 1998 with very little information on the internet). You encouraged me to figure out what tests and treatments I wanted and to walk into my doctor and tell him what I wanted.  So I did just that. I walked into my ob/gyn\'s office and told him I wanted him to prescribe me progesterone because I believed I was losing my babies due to insufficient progesterone production. He told me it was a \"placebo effect\" and recommended we simply try a third pregnancy to see what would happen.  Thanks to you I stood my ground! It was powerful and it worked - he wrote me the prescription.  My first baby was born in January 2000 because of you! I almost named my baby Ava, I wish I had. Because of you, I have never had another miscarriage and I went on to have three beautiful children!\r\n\r\nSomehow along the way, I started to forgot to advocate for myself but thankfully I eventually remembered the valuable gift you gave me and I will never forget again.\r\n\r\nToday I am a woman\'s health advocate because of you. I help other women educate themselves about their own health. I want to be for other women what you have been for me - a supportive friend who guides women to become their own health advocate.  You\'ve inspired me to help other women feel empowered.\r\n\r\nWe lost touch when I moved all over this vast country so I didn\'t know you were sick. I was going to ask you to contribute articles about things like incompetent cervixes and supporting moms who\'ve lost babies and advocating for your own health. I am sad that I never got a chance to help you like you helped me. I\'m sad I never got the chance to tell you about what I\'m doing today because of you. The impact of a single person on your life can be profound and for me that person has been you.\r\n\r\nInstead of you sharing your story on my site I am sharing with the world the story of one of the most amazing women I have ever had the privilege of knowing - my dear friend Ava - your legacy lives on. Thank you for the most wonderful gift.\r\n\r\nRest in Peace dear friend.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','Farewell Dear Ava','','inherit','open','open','','638-revision-16','','','2012-11-15 00:54:45','2012-11-15 05:54:45','',638,'http://www.hormonesoup.com/638-revision-16/',0,'revision','',0),(919,1,'2012-11-15 00:51:57','2012-11-15 05:51:57','Farewell Dear Ava,\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_917\" align=\"alignright\" width=\"150\"]<a href=\"http://www.hormonesoup.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/dreamstime-3-pregnant-women.jpg\"><img class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-917\" title=\"Three Pregnant Women\" src=\"http://www.hormonesoup.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/dreamstime-3-pregnant-women-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Three Pregnant Women\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a> Three Pregnant Women[/caption]\r\n\r\nI will never forget the first time we spoke - it was after my first miscarriage.  It had been weeks since my D&amp;C and I was still sad but was moving along with life as expected.  For me, the fact that I\'d only been pregnant for 10 weeks didn\'t lessen my sadness - I\'d already made plans with my baby and had hopes and dreams for his or her future.  Somehow it felt like no one else really understood. I woke up one morning immobilized with the grief of losing my baby. I only stopped crying long enough to call in sick to work that day and later call the health unit nurse who told me you had started a support group for women who\'d lost a baby.  When you called me back that day, I heard the voice of an angel. You cried with me and helped me get through that day and many other days that were to come.  You were the first person to acknowledge that I was already a mom.  You were the first person to understand that even though I\'d had a first term miscarriage, I felt the loss of my baby and was entitled to my grief.  I suddenly didn\'t feel so alone.  You introduced me to other wonderful women who\'d also lost babies and we helped each other get through our grief and our next pregnancies.\r\n\r\nWhen I got pregnant again I called you with with every little twinge and worry, you were so patient and supportive.  When I had another miscarriage you were there for me so I didn\'t have to go through it alone. You helped me come to the decision to avoid the same horrible D&amp;C experience I\'d had the first time.  I allowed my miscarriage to happen naturally and you were there for me every step of the way.\r\n\r\nYou weren\'t there just for me - you supported all of us that you brought together with your kindness, generosity and understanding.  Oh how many of us grieving moms did you help? I don\'t even know the number but I know you were there for every us who lost babies and you were there throughout our successful pregnancies too.\r\n\r\nBesides being the most supportive person in my life at that time, you taught me something that changed my life.  You taught me to be my own health advocate. You set an example for me as I watched you successfully advocate for yourself after you lost your precious twins and then go on to have a beautiful baby boy!  You taught me to do my own research about my miscarriages (which was a feat in 1998 with very little information on the internet). You encouraged me to figure out what tests and treatments I wanted and to walk into my doctor and tell him what I wanted.  So I did just that. I walked into my ob/gyn\'s office and told him I wanted him to prescribe me progesterone because I believed I was losing my babies due to insufficient progesterone production. He told me it was a \"placebo effect\" and recommended we simply try a third pregnancy to see what would happen.  Thanks to you I stood my ground! It was powerful and it worked - he wrote me the prescription.  My first baby was born in January 2000 because of you! I almost named my baby Ava, I wish I had. Because of you, I have never had another miscarriage and I went on to have three beautiful children!\r\n\r\nSomehow along the way, I started to forgot to advocate for myself but thankfully I eventually remembered the valuable gift you gave me and I will never forget again.\r\n\r\nToday I am a woman\'s health advocate because of you. I help other women educate themselves about their own health. I want to be for other women what you have been for me - a supportive friend who guides women to become their own health advocate.  You\'ve inspired me to help other women feel empowered.\r\n\r\nWe lost touch when I moved all over this vast country so I didn\'t know you were sick. I was going to ask you to contribute articles about things like incompetent cervixes and supporting moms who\'ve lost babies and advocating for your own health. I am sad that I never got a chance to help you like you helped me. I\'m sad I never got the chance to tell you about what I\'m doing today because of you. The impact of a single person on your life can be profound and for me that person has been you.\r\n\r\nInstead of you sharing your story on my site I am sharing with the world the story of one of the most amazing women I have ever had the privilege of knowing - my dear friend Ava - your legacy lives on. Thank you for the most wonderful gift.\r\n\r\nRest in Peace dear friend.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','Farewell Dear Ava','','inherit','open','open','','638-revision-15','','','2012-11-15 00:51:57','2012-11-15 05:51:57','',638,'http://www.hormonesoup.com/638-revision-15/',0,'revision','',0),(918,1,'2012-11-15 00:44:12','2012-11-15 05:44:12','Farewell Dear Ava,\r\n\r\nI will never forget the first time we spoke - it was after my first miscarriage.  It had been weeks since my D&amp;C and I was still sad but was moving along with life as expected.  For me, the fact that I\'d only been pregnant for 10 weeks didn\'t lessen my sadness - I\'d already made plans with my baby and had hopes and dreams for his or her future.  Somehow it felt like no one else really understood. I woke up one morning immobilized with the grief of losing my baby. I only stopped crying long enough to call in sick to work that day and later call the health unit nurse who told me you had started a support group for women who\'d lost a baby.  When you called me back that day, I heard the voice of an angel. You cried with me and helped me get through that day and many other days that were to come.  You were the first person to acknowledge that I was already a mom.  You were the first person to understand that even though I\'d had a first term miscarriage, I felt the loss of my baby and was entitled to my grief.  I suddenly didn\'t feel so alone.  You introduced me to other wonderful women who\'d also lost babies and we helped each other get through our grief and our next pregnancies.\r\n\r\nWhen I got pregnant again I called you with with every little twinge and worry, you were so patient and supportive.  When I had another miscarriage you were there for me so I didn\'t have to go through it alone. You helped me come to the decision to avoid the same horrible D&amp;C experience I\'d had the first time.  I allowed my miscarriage to happen naturally and you were there for me every step of the way.\r\n\r\nYou weren\'t there just for me - you supported all of us that you brought together with your kindness, generosity and understanding.  Oh how many of us grieving moms did you help? I don\'t even know the number but I know every one of those women who lost babies, whether or not they went on to have successful feels the same way about you as I do.\r\n\r\nBesides being the most supportive person in my life at that time, you taught me something that changed my life.  You taught me to be my own health advocate. You set an example for me as I watched you successfully advocate for yourself after you lost your precious twins and then go on to have a beautiful baby boy!  You taught me to do my own research about my miscarriages (which was a feat in 1998 with very little information on the internet). You encouraged me to figure out what tests and treatments I wanted and to walk into my doctor and tell him what I wanted.  So I did just that. I walked into my ob/gyn\'s office and told him I wanted him to prescribe me progesterone because I believed I was losing my babies due to insufficient progesterone production. He told me it was a \"placebo effect\" and recommended we simply try a third pregnancy to see what would happen.  Thanks to you I stood my ground! It was powerful and it worked - he wrote me the prescription.  My first baby was born in January 2000 because of you! I almost named my baby Ava, I wish I had. Because of you, I have never had another miscarriage and I went on to have three beautiful children!\r\n\r\nSomehow along the way, I started to forgot to advocate for myself but thankfully I eventually remembered the valuable gift you gave me and I will never forget again.\r\n\r\nToday I am a woman\'s health advocate because of you. I help other women educate themselves about their own health. I want to be for other women what you have been for me - a supportive friend who guides women to become their own health advocate.  You\'ve inspired me to help other women feel empowered.\r\n\r\nWe lost touch when I moved all over this vast country so I didn\'t know you were sick. I was going to ask you to contribute articles about things like incompetent cervixes and supporting moms who\'ve lost babies and advocating for your own health. I am sad that I never got a chance to help you like you helped me. I\'m sad I never got the chance to tell you about what I\'m doing today because of you. The impact of a single person on your life can be profound and for me that person has been you.\r\n\r\nInstead of you sharing your story on my site I am sharing with the world the story of one of the most amazing women I have ever had the privilege of knowing - my dear friend Ava - your legacy lives on. Thank you for the most wonderful gift.\r\n\r\nRest in Peace dear friend.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','Farewell Dear Ava','','inherit','open','open','','638-revision-14','','','2012-11-15 00:44:12','2012-11-15 05:44:12','',638,'http://www.hormonesoup.com/638-revision-14/',0,'revision','',0),(917,1,'2012-11-15 00:49:30','2012-11-15 05:49:30','Beautiful Pregnant Bellies','Beautiful Pregnant Bellies','Beautiful Pregnant Bellies','inherit','open','open','','httpwww-dreamstime-com-image19163834','','','2012-11-15 00:49:30','2012-11-15 05:49:30','',638,'http://www.hormonesoup.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/dreamstime-3-pregnant-women.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(915,1,'2012-11-15 00:54:07','2012-11-15 05:54:07','Farewell Dear Ava,\n\n[caption id=\"attachment_917\" align=\"alignright\" width=\"150\"]<a href=\"http://www.hormonesoup.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/dreamstime-3-pregnant-women.jpg\"><img class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-917\" title=\"Three Pregnant Women\" src=\"http://www.hormonesoup.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/dreamstime-3-pregnant-women-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Three Pregnant Women\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a> Three Pregnant Women[/caption]\n\nI will never forget the first time we spoke - it was after my first miscarriage.  It had been weeks since my D&amp;C and I was still sad but was moving along with life as expected.  For me, the fact that I\'d only been pregnant for 10 weeks didn\'t lessen my sadness - I\'d already made plans with my baby and had hopes and dreams for his or her future.  Somehow it felt like no one else really understood. I woke up one morning immobilized with the grief of losing my baby. I only stopped crying long enough to call in sick to work that day and later call the health unit nurse who told me you had started a support group for women who\'d lost a baby.  When you called me back that day, I heard the voice of an angel. You cried with me and helped me get through that day and many other days that were to come.  You were the first person to acknowledge that I was already a mom.  You were the first person to understand that even though I\'d had a first term miscarriage, I felt the loss of my baby and was entitled to my grief.  I suddenly didn\'t feel so alone.  You introduced me to other wonderful women who\'d also lost babies and we helped each other get through our grief and our next pregnancies.\n\nWhen I got pregnant again I called you with with every little twinge and worry, you were so patient and supportive.  When I had another miscarriage you were there for me so I didn\'t have to go through it alone. You helped me come to the decision to avoid the same horrible D&amp;C experience I\'d had the first time.  I allowed my miscarriage to happen naturally and you were there for me every step of the way.\n\nYou weren\'t there just for me - you supported all of us that you brought together with your kindness, generosity and understanding.  Oh how many of us grieving moms did you help? I don\'t even know the number but I know you were there for every us who lost babies and you were there throughout our successful pregnancies too.\n\nBesides being the most supportive person in my life at that time, you taught me something that changed my life.  You taught me to be my own health advocate. You set an example for me as I watched you successfully advocate for yourself after you lost your precious twins and then go on to have a beautiful baby boy!  You taught me to do my own research about my miscarriages (which was a feat in 1998 with very little information on the internet). You encouraged me to figure out what tests and treatments I wanted and to walk into my doctor and tell him what I wanted.  So I did just that. I walked into my ob/gyn\'s office and told him I wanted him to prescribe me progesterone because I believed I was losing my babies due to insufficient progesterone production. He told me it was a \"placebo effect\" and recommended we simply try a third pregnancy to see what would happen.  Thanks to you I stood my ground! It was powerful and it worked - he wrote me the prescription.  My first baby was born in January 2000 because of you! I almost named my baby Ava, I wish I had. Because of you, I have never had another miscarriage and I went on to have three beautiful children!\n\nSomehow along the way, I started to forgot to advocate for myself but thankfully I eventually remembered the valuable gift you gave me and I will never forget again.\n\nToday I am a woman\'s health advocate because of you. I help other women educate themselves about their own health. I want to be for other women what you have been for me - a supportive friend who guides women to become their own health advocate.  You\'ve inspired me to help other women feel empowered.\n\nWe lost touch when I moved all over this vast country so I didn\'t know you were sick. I was going to ask you to contribute articles about things like incompetent cervixes and supporting moms who\'ve lost babies and advocating for your own health. I am sad that I never got a chance to help you like you helped me. I\'m sad I never got the chance to tell you about what I\'m doing today because of you. The impact of a single person on your life can be profound and for me that person has been you.\n\nInstead of you sharing your story on my site I am sharing with the world the story of one of the most amazing women I have ever had the privilege of knowing - my dear friend Ava - your legacy lives on. Thank you for the most wonderful gift.\n\nRest in Peace dear friend.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;','Farewell Dear Ava','','inherit','open','open','','638-autosave','','','2012-11-15 00:54:07','2012-11-15 05:54:07','',638,'http://www.hormonesoup.com/638-autosave/',0,'revision','',0),(807,1,'2012-11-08 08:28:50','2012-11-08 13:28:50','Merely living on earth puts you at risk - Theo Colborn, PhD.\n<h1>Plastics:</h1>\nMany contain BPA (Bisphenol A) and Phthalates\n<ul>\n	<li>We avoid plastics when we can - particularly 7, 6 &amp; 3.  Even my children know  \"7, 6 and 3 are not for me\".   When we were getting rid of \"bad\" plastics I taught my children how to identify the plastic by the symbol and number.  I told them I\'d give them $1 for every bad plastic they found in our house!  They ran around the house like crazy.  Fortunately they only found 3 pieces of \"bad\" plastic in our house.</li>\n	<li>we never microwave anything in plastic</li>\n	<li>use glass or ceramics to store food</li>\n	<li>don\'t let babies chew on plastics - find natural products/toys instead</li>\n	<li>I breastfed my babies for well over a year &amp; I didn\'t use pacifiers - it was my choice not merely because of the plastic exposure but the \"plastic\" factor definitely belongs on the pro side to breastfeeding and thumb sucking over pacifiers, as well many formulas are soy based and it wasn\'t all that long ago that nasty endocrine disruptors were found in formula</li>\n	<li>try and avoid plastic water bottles but we don\'t like stainless steel so found some good glass bottles that are wrapped in rubber so they are safe for my kids\' backpacks.</li>\n	<li></li>\n</ul>\n&nbsp;\n<h1>Cosmetics:</h1>\nWhen you consider that our skin is the largest organ in our body and it has direct exposure to many of the hormone disruptors.  Ever since I read that the average woman puts on 515 chemicals each morning I\'ve tried to reduce the amount of chemicals I put on my skin.\n\nThere are many cosmetic choices that don\'t involve hormone disruptors - even Sephora carries natural cosmetic lines.  I\'ve found when I ask for a product the natural ones aren\'t the first suggested - they don\'t rush you over to them, you have to specifically ask for natural products.\n\nMany of the large health food stores \"The Big Carrot\" in Toronto, Ontario, \"Natures Emporium\" in Newmarket, Ontario carry really nice cosmetics that are all natural.  The good news? They work just as well, they are on-trend and they don\'t have to cost much more.\n\n&nbsp;\n<h1>Household Products:</h1>\n<ul>\n	<li>use natural cleaning products such as vinegar and baking soda</li>\n	<li>use a floor steamer - it uses only tap water - no harsh chemicals</li>\n	<li>don\'t use fabric softeners in the dryer - fragrances are loaded with hormone disruptors</li>\n	<li>I check out any other cleaning products on Environmental Working Groups database</li>\n</ul>\n<a title=\"Environmental Working Group\'s Hall of Shame\" href=\"http://static.ewg.org/reports/2012/cleaners_hallofshame/cleaners_hallofshame.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Environmental Working Group\'s Hall of Shame</a> - Click here to see the worst offenders - some of these toxic chemicals are banned in certain countries, some have ingredients known to be carcinogenic.   And some of these products pretend they are \"green\" - some I\'ve had them in my own home thinking I was doing the right thing by buying \"Green\" products!  I\'m a sucker!\n\n<a title=\"Environmental Working Group\'s Guide to Cleaners\" href=\"http://www.ewg.org/guides/cleaners\" target=\"_blank\">Environmental Working Group\'s Guide to Healthy Cleaning</a> - Look up the Cleaning Products that you use &amp; see what you\'re bringing into your house maybe without even knowing it!  EWG - rates common products for\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;','How I Try to Reduce My Family\'s Risk','','inherit','open','open','','767-revision-8','','','2012-11-08 08:28:50','2012-11-08 13:28:50','',767,'http://www.hormonesoup.com/767-revision-8/',0,'revision','',0),(808,1,'2012-11-08 09:36:11','2012-11-08 14:36:11','Merely living on earth puts you at risk - Theo Colborn, PhD.\n<h1>Plastics:</h1>\n<ul>\n	<li>We avoid plastics when we can - particularly 7, 6 &amp; 3.  Even my children know  \"7, 6 and 3 are not for me\".   When we were getting rid of \"bad\" plastics I taught my children how to identify the plastic by the symbol and number.  I told them I\'d give them $1 for every bad plastic they found in our house!  They ran around the house like crazy.  Fortunately they only found 3 pieces of \"bad\" plastic in our house.</li>\n	<li>we never microwave anything in plastic</li>\n	<li>use glass or ceramics to store food</li>\n	<li>don\'t let babies chew on plastics - find natural products/toys instead</li>\n	<li>I breastfed my babies for well over a year &amp; I didn\'t use pacifiers - it was my choice not merely because of the plastic exposure but the \"plastic\" factor definitely belongs on the pro side to breastfeeding and thumb sucking over pacifiers, as well many formulas are soy based and it wasn\'t all that long ago that nasty endocrine disruptors were found in formula</li>\n	<li>try and avoid plastic water bottles but we don\'t like stainless steel so found some good glass bottles that are wrapped in rubber so they are safe for my kids\' backpacks</li>\n</ul>\n&nbsp;\n<h1>Cosmetics &amp; Body Care Products:</h1>\nWhen you consider that our skin is the largest organ in our body and it has direct exposure to many of the hormone disruptors.  Ever since I read that the average woman puts on 515 chemicals each morning I\'ve tried to reduce the amount of chemicals I put on my skin.  Finding out that I was putting things like formaldehyde on my skin each day just grossed me out.  Thinking about how I use topical progesterone cream made me realize even more how effective our skin is allowing both good and bad compounds into our body!\n<ul>\n	<li>I have switched my cosmetics and body care products to natural products. There are many cosmetic choices that don\'t involve hormone disruptors. Many of the large health food stores like <a title=\"The Big Carrot - Body Care\" href=\"http://thebigcarrot.ca/index.php?id=27\" target=\"_blank\">\"The Big Carrot\"</a> in Toronto, Ontario, <a title=\"Nature\'s Emporium - Newmarket\" href=\"http://www.naturesemporium.ca/\" target=\"_blank\">\"Natures Emporium\"</a> in Newmarket, Ontario carry really nice body care &amp; cosmetic lines that are all natural.  I also shop at <a title=\"The Detox Market\" href=\"http://www.thedetoxmarket.com/pages/our-location\" target=\"_blank\">\"The Detox Market\"</a> in Toronto, they have locations in LA and San Fransisco as well and they carry a small line of wonderful cosmetics and body care products.  Even Sephora carries natural cosmetic lines.  I\'ve found when I ask for a product the natural ones aren\'t the first suggested - they don\'t rush you over to them, you have to specifically ask for natural products.  Also their website doesn\'t have a way of searching for their organic makeup so unless you know the name of the brand you\'ll have trouble figuring out which ones are natural.</li>\n	<li>I use <a title=\"EWG - Skin Deep\" href=\"http://www.ewg.org/skindeep/\" target=\"_blank\">Environmental Working Group\'s Cosmetic Database - Skin Deep</a> to check on my family\'s body care products.  It\'s an invaluable resource for me.</li>\n</ul>\nThe good news about natural cosmetics? They work just as well, they are on-trend, they don\'t have to cost more and are free of known hormone disruptors.\n<ul>\n	<li>Avoid anti-bacterial products like the plague!</li>\n	<li>Avoid fragrances - they are jam-packed with hormone disruptors and have been able to make breast cancer cells grow in a lab environment!</li>\n	<li>Use natural sunscreen - I worry about slathering sunscreen all over</li>\n</ul>\n&nbsp;\n<h1>Household Products:</h1>\n<ul>\n	<li>use natural cleaning products such as vinegar and baking soda or plant based cleaners</li>\n	<li>use a floor steamer - it uses only tap water - no harsh chemicals</li>\n	<li>don\'t use fabric softeners in the dryer - again, fragrances are loaded with hormone disruptors</li>\n	<li>I check out all products on Environmental Working Groups database - you may be surprised - even the products that you think are green probably have chemicals in them</li>\n</ul>\n<a title=\"Environmental Working Group\'s Hall of Shame\" href=\"http://static.ewg.org/reports/2012/cleaners_hallofshame/cleaners_hallofshame.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Environmental Working Group\'s Hall of Shame</a> - Click here to see the worst offenders - some of these toxic chemicals are banned in certain countries, some have ingredients known to be carcinogenic.   And some of these products pretend they are \"green\" - some I\'ve had them in my own home thinking I was doing the right thing by buying \"Green\" products!  I\'m a sucker!\n\n<a title=\"Environmental Working Group\'s Guide to Cleaners\" href=\"http://www.ewg.org/guides/cleaners\" target=\"_blank\">Environmental Working Group\'s Guide to Healthy Cleaning</a> - Look up the cleaning products that you use on their database &amp; see what you\'re bringing into your house maybe without even knowing it!  EWG - rates common products for their safety.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;','Reducing My Family\'s Risk','','inherit','open','open','','767-revision-9','','','2012-11-08 09:36:11','2012-11-08 14:36:11','',767,'http://www.hormonesoup.com/767-revision-9/',0,'revision','',0),(809,1,'2012-11-08 09:40:09','2012-11-08 14:40:09','Merely living on earth puts you at risk - Theo Colborn, PhD.\n<h1>Plastics:</h1>\n<ul>\n	<li>We avoid plastics when we can - particularly 7, 6 &amp; 3.  Even my children know  \"7, 6 and 3 are not for me\".   When we were getting rid of \"bad\" plastics I taught my children how to identify the plastic by the symbol and number.  I told them I\'d give them $1 for every bad plastic they found in our house!  They ran around the house like crazy.  Fortunately they only found 3 pieces of \"bad\" plastic in our house.</li>\n	<li>we never microwave anything in plastic</li>\n	<li>use glass or ceramics to store food</li>\n	<li>don\'t let babies chew on plastics - find natural products/toys instead</li>\n	<li>I breastfed my babies for well over a year &amp; I didn\'t use pacifiers - it was my choice not merely because of the plastic exposure but the \"plastic\" factor definitely belongs on the pro side to breastfeeding and thumb sucking over pacifiers, as well many formulas are soy based and it wasn\'t all that long ago that nasty endocrine disruptors were found in formula</li>\n	<li>try and avoid plastic water bottles but we don\'t like stainless steel so found some good glass bottles that are wrapped in rubber so they are safe for my kids\' backpacks</li>\n</ul>\n&nbsp;\n<h1>Cosmetics &amp; Body Care Products:</h1>\nWhen you consider that our skin is the largest organ in our body and it has direct exposure to many of the hormone disruptors.  Ever since I read that the average woman puts on 515 chemicals each morning I\'ve tried to reduce the amount of chemicals I put on my skin.  Finding out that I was putting things like formaldehyde on my skin each day just grossed me out.  Thinking about how I use topical progesterone cream made me realize even more how effective our skin is allowing both good and bad compounds into our body!\n<ul>\n	<li>I have switched my cosmetics and body care products to natural products. There are many cosmetic choices that don\'t involve hormone disruptors. Many of the large health food stores like <a title=\"The Big Carrot - Body Care\" href=\"http://thebigcarrot.ca/index.php?id=27\" target=\"_blank\">\"The Big Carrot\"</a> in Toronto, Ontario, <a title=\"Nature\'s Emporium - Newmarket\" href=\"http://www.naturesemporium.ca/\" target=\"_blank\">\"Natures Emporium\"</a> in Newmarket, Ontario carry really nice body care &amp; cosmetic lines that are all natural.  I also shop at <a title=\"The Detox Market\" href=\"http://www.thedetoxmarket.com/pages/our-location\" target=\"_blank\">\"The Detox Market\"</a> in Toronto, they have locations in LA and San Fransisco as well and they carry a small line of wonderful cosmetics and body care products.  Even Sephora carries natural cosmetic lines.  I\'ve found when I ask for a product the natural ones aren\'t the first suggested - they don\'t rush you over to them, you have to specifically ask for natural products.  Also their website doesn\'t have a way of searching for their organic makeup so unless you know the name of the brand you\'ll have trouble figuring out which ones are natural.</li>\n	<li>I use <a title=\"EWG - Skin Deep\" href=\"http://www.ewg.org/skindeep/\" target=\"_blank\">Environmental Working Group\'s Cosmetic Database - Skin Deep</a> to check on my family\'s body care products.  It\'s an invaluable resource for me.</li>\n</ul>\nThe good news about natural cosmetics? They work just as well, they are on-trend, they don\'t have to cost more and are free of known hormone disruptors.\n<ul>\n	<li>Avoid anti-bacterial products like the plague!</li>\n	<li>Avoid fragrances - they are jam-packed with hormone disruptors and have been able to make breast cancer cells grow in a lab environment!</li>\n	<li>Use natural sunscreen - I worry about slathering sunscreen all over my kids as much as I am concerned about their exposure to too much sun!  I really do wonder what\'s worse? The chemicals or the sun? So I switched to natural sunscreen.</li>\n	<li>I buy natural deodorant and am teaching my daughter why it\'s better for her than the stuff she sees all the other girls using.  Maybe instead of her being influenced by her peers using the trendy products, she\'ll be able to teach her friends</li>\n</ul>\n<h1>Household Products:</h1>\n<ul>\n	<li>use natural cleaning products such as vinegar and baking soda or plant based cleaners</li>\n	<li>use a floor steamer - it uses only tap water - no harsh chemicals</li>\n	<li>don\'t use fabric softeners in the dryer - again, fragrances are loaded with hormone disruptors</li>\n	<li>I check out all products on Environmental Working Groups database - you may be surprised - even the products that you think are green probably have chemicals in them</li>\n</ul>\n<a title=\"Environmental Working Group\'s Hall of Shame\" href=\"http://static.ewg.org/reports/2012/cleaners_hallofshame/cleaners_hallofshame.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Environmental Working Group\'s Hall of Shame</a> - Click here to see the worst offenders - some of these toxic chemicals are banned in certain countries, some have ingredients known to be carcinogenic.   And some of these products pretend they are \"green\" - some I\'ve had them in my own home thinking I was doing the right thing by buying \"Green\" products!  I\'m a sucker!\n\n<a title=\"Environmental Working Group\'s Guide to Cleaners\" href=\"http://www.ewg.org/guides/cleaners\" target=\"_blank\">Environmental Working Group\'s Guide to Healthy Cleaning</a> - Look up the cleaning products that you use on their database &amp; see what you\'re bringing into your house maybe without even knowing it!  EWG - rates common products for their safety.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;','Reducing My Family\'s Risk','','inherit','open','open','','767-revision-10','','','2012-11-08 09:40:09','2012-11-08 14:40:09','',767,'http://www.hormonesoup.com/767-revision-10/',0,'revision','',0),(810,1,'2012-11-08 09:47:07','2012-11-08 14:47:07','Merely living on earth puts you at risk - Theo Colborn, PhD.\n\nI don\'t think if you met me you\'d automatically think that I\'m a granola-crunching, tree-hugger.  I wear makeup, I colour my hair, I like pedicures and manicures, I love to eat good food &amp; drink red wine. I\'m not a fanatic I guess you could say, BUT, I believe that there are ways we can reduce the negative impact these things have on our health. I\'m not an expert, but more of a student - I\'m learning all the time about things I\'ve been doing or products I\'ve been using that are not only harmful to the environment but harmful to my delicate hormonal balance. I\n\nHere\'s some of the things I do to try to reduce my family\'s risk of exposure to hormone disrupting chemicals:\n<h1>Plastics:</h1>\n<ul>\n	<li>We avoid plastics when we can - particularly 7, 6 &amp; 3.  Even my children know  \"7, 6 and 3 are not for me\".   When we were getting rid of \"bad\" plastics I taught my children how to identify the plastic by the symbol and number.  I told them I\'d give them $1 for every bad plastic they found in our house!  They ran around the house like crazy.  Fortunately they only found 3 pieces of \"bad\" plastic in our house.</li>\n	<li>we never microwave anything in plastic</li>\n	<li>use glass or ceramics to store food</li>\n	<li>don\'t let babies chew on plastics - find natural products/toys instead</li>\n	<li>I breastfed my babies for well over a year &amp; I didn\'t use pacifiers - it was my choice not merely because of the plastic exposure but the \"plastic\" factor definitely belongs on the pro side to breastfeeding and thumb sucking over pacifiers, as well many formulas are soy based and it wasn\'t all that long ago that nasty endocrine disruptors were found in formula</li>\n	<li>try and avoid plastic water bottles but we don\'t like stainless steel so found some good glass bottles that are wrapped in rubber so they are safe for my kids\' backpacks</li>\n	<li>we\'ve switched from Teflon pans to good old fashion cast iron pans</li>\n</ul>\n&nbsp;\n<h1>Cosmetics &amp; Body Care Products:</h1>\nWhen you consider that our skin is the largest organ in our body and it has direct exposure to many of the hormone disruptors.  Ever since I read that the average woman puts on 515 chemicals each morning I\'ve tried to reduce the amount of chemicals I put on my skin.  Finding out that I was putting things like formaldehyde on my skin each day just grossed me out.  Thinking about how I use topical progesterone cream made me realize even more how effective our skin is allowing both good and bad compounds into our body!\n<ul>\n	<li>I have switched my cosmetics and body care products to natural products. There are many cosmetic choices that don\'t involve hormone disruptors. Many of the large health food stores like <a title=\"The Big Carrot - Body Care\" href=\"http://thebigcarrot.ca/index.php?id=27\" target=\"_blank\">\"The Big Carrot\"</a> in Toronto, Ontario, <a title=\"Nature\'s Emporium - Newmarket\" href=\"http://www.naturesemporium.ca/\" target=\"_blank\">\"Natures Emporium\"</a> in Newmarket, Ontario carry really nice body care &amp; cosmetic lines that are all natural.  I also shop at <a title=\"The Detox Market\" href=\"http://www.thedetoxmarket.com/pages/our-location\" target=\"_blank\">\"The Detox Market\"</a> in Toronto, they have locations in LA and San Fransisco as well and they carry a small line of wonderful cosmetics and body care products.  Even Sephora carries natural cosmetic lines.  I\'ve found when I ask for a product the natural ones aren\'t the first suggested - they don\'t rush you over to them, you have to specifically ask for natural products.  Also their website doesn\'t have a way of searching for their organic makeup so unless you know the name of the brand you\'ll have trouble figuring out which ones are natural.</li>\n	<li>I use <a title=\"EWG - Skin Deep\" href=\"http://www.ewg.org/skindeep/\" target=\"_blank\">Environmental Working Group\'s Cosmetic Database - Skin Deep</a> to check on my family\'s body care products.  It\'s an invaluable resource for me.</li>\n</ul>\nThe good news about natural cosmetics? They work just as well, they are on-trend, they don\'t have to cost more and are free of known hormone disruptors.\n<ul>\n	<li>Avoid anti-bacterial products like the plague!</li>\n	<li>Avoid fragrances - they are jam-packed with hormone disruptors and have been able to make breast cancer cells grow in a lab environment!</li>\n	<li>Use natural sunscreen - I worry about slathering sunscreen all over my kids as much as I am concerned about their exposure to too much sun!  I really do wonder what\'s worse? The chemicals or the sun? So I switched to natural sunscreen.</li>\n	<li>I buy natural deodorant and am teaching my tween daughter why it\'s better for her than the stuff she sees all the other girls using.  Maybe instead of her being influenced by her peers using the trendy products, she\'ll be able to teach her friends about the benefits of using natural products.</li>\n</ul>\n<h1>Household Products:</h1>\n<ul>\n	<li>use natural cleaning products such as vinegar and baking soda or plant based cleaners</li>\n	<li>use a floor steamer - it uses only tap water - no harsh chemicals</li>\n	<li>don\'t use fabric softeners in the dryer - again, fragrances are loaded with hormone disruptors</li>\n	<li>I check out all products on Environmental Working Groups database - you may be surprised - even the products that you think are green probably have chemicals in them</li>\n</ul>\n<a title=\"Environmental Working Group\'s Hall of Shame\" href=\"http://static.ewg.org/reports/2012/cleaners_hallofshame/cleaners_hallofshame.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Environmental Working Group\'s Hall of Shame</a> - Click here to see the worst offenders - some of these toxic chemicals are banned in certain countries, some have ingredients known to be carcinogenic.   And some of these products pretend they are \"green\" - some I\'ve had them in my own home thinking I was doing the right thing by buying \"Green\" products!  I\'m a sucker!\n\n<a title=\"Environmental Working Group\'s Guide to Cleaners\" href=\"http://www.ewg.org/guides/cleaners\" target=\"_blank\">Environmental Working Group\'s Guide to Healthy Cleaning</a> - Look up the cleaning products that you use on their database &amp; see what you\'re bringing into your house maybe without even knowing it!  EWG - rates common products for their safety.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;','Reducing My Family\'s Risk','','inherit','open','open','','767-revision-11','','','2012-11-08 09:47:07','2012-11-08 14:47:07','',767,'http://www.hormonesoup.com/767-revision-11/',0,'revision','',0),(811,1,'2012-11-08 10:07:44','2012-11-08 15:07:44','Merely living on earth puts you at risk - Theo Colborn, PhD.\n\nI don\'t think if you met me you\'d automatically think that I\'m a granola-crunching, tree-hugger.  I wear makeup, I colour my hair, I like pedicures and manicures, I love to eat good food &amp; drink red wine, I recycle and compost as much as the next person.  I\'m not a fanatic I guess you could say, BUT, I believe that there are ways we can reduce the negative impact these things have on our health. I\'m not an expert, but more of a student - I\'m learning all the time about things I\'ve been doing or products I\'ve been using that are not only hurtful to the environment but harmful to my delicate hormonal balance.  More and more, my concern is for my children and the future of their health, including their hormone health.\n\nHere\'s some of the things I do to try to reduce my family\'s risk of exposure to hormone disrupting chemicals:\n<h1>Plastics:</h1>\n<ul>\n	<li>We avoid plastics when we can - particularly 7, 6 &amp; 3.  Even my children know  \"7, 6 and 3 are not for me\".   When we were getting rid of \"bad\" plastics I taught my children how to identify the plastic by the symbol and number.  I told them I\'d give them $1 for every bad plastic they found in our house!  They ran around the house like crazy.  Fortunately they only found 3 pieces of \"bad\" plastic in our house.</li>\n	<li>we never microwave anything in plastic</li>\n	<li>use glass or ceramics to store food</li>\n	<li>don\'t let babies chew on plastics - find natural products/toys instead</li>\n	<li>I breastfed my babies for well over a year &amp; I didn\'t use pacifiers - it was my choice not merely because of the plastic exposure but the \"plastic\" factor definitely belongs on the pro side to breastfeeding and thumb sucking over pacifiers, as well many formulas are soy based and it wasn\'t all that long ago that nasty endocrine disruptors were found in formula</li>\n	<li>try and avoid plastic water bottles but we don\'t like stainless steel so found some good glass bottles that are wrapped in rubber so they are safe for my kids\' backpacks</li>\n	<li>we\'ve switched from Teflon pans to good old fashion cast iron pans</li>\n</ul>\n&nbsp;\n<h1>Cosmetics &amp; Body Care Products:</h1>\nWhen you consider that our skin is the largest organ in our body and it has direct exposure to many of the hormone disruptors.  Ever since I read that the average woman puts on 515 chemicals each morning I\'ve tried to reduce the amount of chemicals I put on my skin.  Finding out that I was putting things like formaldehyde on my skin each day just grossed me out.  Thinking about how I use topical progesterone cream made me realize even more how effective our skin is allowing both good and bad compounds into our body!\n<ul>\n	<li>I have switched my cosmetics and body care products to natural products. There are many cosmetic choices that don\'t involve hormone disruptors. Many of the large health food stores like <a title=\"The Big Carrot - Body Care\" href=\"http://thebigcarrot.ca/index.php?id=27\" target=\"_blank\">\"The Big Carrot\"</a> in Toronto, Ontario, <a title=\"Nature\'s Emporium - Newmarket\" href=\"http://www.naturesemporium.ca/\" target=\"_blank\">\"Natures Emporium\"</a> in Newmarket, Ontario carry really nice body care &amp; cosmetic lines that are all natural.  Also their employees are super-informed about this stuff.  I also shop at <a title=\"The Detox Market\" href=\"http://www.thedetoxmarket.com/pages/our-location\" target=\"_blank\">\"The Detox Market\"</a> in Toronto, they have locations in LA and San Fransisco as well and they carry a small line of wonderful cosmetics and body care products.  And if you can\'t give up your Sephora addiction - they even carry natural cosmetic lines.  I\'ve found when I ask for a product the natural ones are NEVER suggested - they don\'t rush you over to them, you have to specifically ask for natural products.  And their staff isn\'t really educated about the benefits of natural products. Also their website doesn\'t have a way of searching for their organic makeup so unless you know the name of the brand you\'ll have trouble figuring out which ones are natural.</li>\n	<li>I use <a title=\"EWG - Skin Deep\" href=\"http://www.ewg.org/skindeep/\" target=\"_blank\">Environmental Working Group\'s Cosmetic Database - Skin Deep</a> to check on my family\'s body care products.  It\'s an invaluable resource for me.</li>\n</ul>\nThe good news about natural cosmetics? They work just as well, they are on-trend, they don\'t have to cost more and are free of known hormone disruptors.\n<ul>\n	<li>Avoid anti-bacterial products like the plague</li>\n	<li>Avoid fragrances - they are jam-packed with hormone disruptors and have been able to make breast cancer cells grow in a lab environment!</li>\n	<li>Use natural sunscreen - I am going to admit I worry about slathering sunscreen all over my kids as much as I am concerned about their exposure to too much sun! My children spend a lot of time outdoors but I really do wonder what\'s worse for them - the chemicals or the sun?  I switched to natural sunscreen and feel better about</li>\n	<li>I buy natural deodorant and am teaching my tween daughter why it\'s better for her than the stuff she sees all the other girls using.  Maybe instead of her being influenced by her peers using the trendy products, she\'ll be able to teach her friends about the benefits of using natural products.</li>\n</ul>\n<h1>Household Products:</h1>\n<ul>\n	<li>use natural cleaning products such as vinegar and baking soda or plant based cleaners</li>\n	<li>use a floor steamer - it uses only tap water - no harsh chemicals</li>\n	<li>don\'t use fabric softeners in the dryer - again, fragrances are loaded with hormone disruptors</li>\n	<li>I check out all products on Environmental Working Groups database - you may be surprised - even the products that you think are green probably have chemicals in them</li>\n</ul>\n<a title=\"Environmental Working Group\'s Hall of Shame\" href=\"http://static.ewg.org/reports/2012/cleaners_hallofshame/cleaners_hallofshame.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Environmental Working Group\'s Hall of Shame</a> - Click here to see the worst offenders - some of these toxic chemicals are banned in certain countries, some have ingredients known to be carcinogenic.   And some of these products pretend they are \"green\" - some I\'ve had them in my own home thinking I was doing the right thing by buying \"Green\" products!  I\'m a sucker!\n\n<a title=\"Environmental Working Group\'s Guide to Cleaners\" href=\"http://www.ewg.org/guides/cleaners\" target=\"_blank\">Environmental Working Group\'s Guide to Healthy Cleaning</a> - Look up the cleaning products that you use on their database &amp; see what you\'re bringing into your house maybe without even knowing it!  EWG - rates common products for their safety.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;','Reducing My Family\'s Risk','','inherit','open','open','','767-revision-12','','','2012-11-08 10:07:44','2012-11-08 15:07:44','',767,'http://www.hormonesoup.com/767-revision-12/',0,'revision','',0),(812,1,'2012-11-08 10:17:16','2012-11-08 15:17:16','Merely living on earth puts you at risk - Theo Colborn, PhD.\n\nI don\'t think if you met me you\'d automatically think that I\'m a granola-crunching, tree-hugger.  I wear makeup, I colour my hair, I like pedicures and manicures, I love to eat good food &amp; drink red wine, I recycle and compost as much as the next person.  I\'m not a fanatic I guess you could say, BUT, I believe that there are ways we can reduce the negative impact these things have on our health. I\'m not an expert, but more of a student - I\'m learning all the time about things I\'ve been doing or products I\'ve been using that are not only hurtful to the environment but harmful to my delicate hormonal balance.  More and more, my concern is for my children and the future of their health, including their hormone health.\n\nHere\'s some of the things I do to try to reduce my family\'s risk of exposure to hormone disrupting chemicals:\n<h1>Plastics:</h1>\n<ul>\n	<li>We avoid plastics when we can - particularly 7, 6 &amp; 3.  Even my children know  \"7, 6 and 3 are not for me\".   When we were getting rid of \"bad\" plastics I taught my children how to identify the plastic by the symbol and number.  I told them I\'d give them $1 for every bad plastic they found in our house!  They ran around the house like crazy.  Fortunately they only found 3 pieces of \"bad\" plastic in our house.</li>\n	<li>we never microwave anything in plastic</li>\n	<li>use glass or ceramics to store food</li>\n	<li>don\'t let babies chew on plastics - find natural products/toys instead</li>\n	<li>I breastfed my babies for well over a year &amp; I didn\'t use pacifiers - it was my choice not merely because of the plastic exposure but the \"plastic\" factor definitely belongs on the pro side to breastfeeding and thumb sucking over pacifiers, as well many formulas are soy based and it wasn\'t all that long ago that nasty endocrine disruptors were found in formula.  I didn\'t know that my exposure to phthalates, for example, meant that my breast milk would pass this endocrine disruptor onto my babies.</li>\n	<li>try and avoid plastic water bottles but we don\'t like stainless steel so found some good glass bottles that are wrapped in rubber so they are safe for my kids\' backpacks</li>\n	<li>we\'ve switched from Teflon pans to good old fashion cast iron pans</li>\n</ul>\n<h1>Cosmetics &amp; Body Care Products:</h1>\nWhen you consider that our skin is the largest organ in our body and it has direct exposure to many of the hormone disruptors.  Ever since I read that the average woman puts on 515 chemicals each morning I\'ve tried to reduce the amount of chemicals I put on my skin.  Finding out that I was putting things like formaldehyde on my skin each day just grossed me out.  Thinking about how I use topical progesterone cream made me realize even more how effective our skin is allowing both good and bad compounds into our body!\n<ul>\n	<li>I have switched my cosmetics and body care products to natural products. There are many cosmetic choices that don\'t involve hormone disruptors. Many of the large health food stores like <a title=\"The Big Carrot - Body Care\" href=\"http://thebigcarrot.ca/index.php?id=27\" target=\"_blank\">\"The Big Carrot\"</a> in Toronto, Ontario, <a title=\"Nature\'s Emporium - Newmarket\" href=\"http://www.naturesemporium.ca/\" target=\"_blank\">\"Natures Emporium\"</a> in Newmarket, Ontario carry really nice body care &amp; cosmetic lines that are all natural.  Also their employees are super-informed about this stuff.  I also shop at <a title=\"The Detox Market\" href=\"http://www.thedetoxmarket.com/pages/our-location\" target=\"_blank\">\"The Detox Market\"</a> in Toronto, they have locations in LA and San Fransisco as well and they carry a small line of wonderful cosmetics and body care products.  And if you can\'t give up your Sephora addiction - they even carry natural cosmetic lines.  I\'ve found when I ask for a product the natural ones are NEVER suggested - they don\'t rush you over to them, you have to specifically ask for natural products.  And their staff isn\'t really educated about the benefits of natural products. Also their website doesn\'t have a way of searching for their organic makeup so unless you know the name of the brand you\'ll have trouble figuring out which ones are natural.</li>\n	<li>I use <a title=\"EWG - Skin Deep\" href=\"http://www.ewg.org/skindeep/\" target=\"_blank\">Environmental Working Group\'s Cosmetic Database - Skin Deep</a> to check on my family\'s body care products.  It\'s an invaluable resource for me.</li>\n</ul>\nThe good news about natural cosmetics? They work just as well, they are on-trend, they don\'t have to cost more and are free of known hormone disruptors.\n<ul>\n	<li>Avoid anti-bacterial products like the plague</li>\n	<li>Avoid fragrances - they are jam-packed with hormone disruptors and have been able to make breast cancer cells grow in a lab environment!</li>\n	<li>Use natural sunscreen - I am going to admit I worry about slathering sunscreen all over my kids as much as I am concerned about their exposure to too much sun! My children spend a lot of time outdoors but I really do wonder what\'s worse for them - the chemicals or the sun?  I switched to natural sunscreen and feel better about it.</li>\n	<li>I buy natural deodorant and am teaching my tween daughter why it\'s better for her than the stuff she sees all the other girls using.  Maybe instead of her being influenced by her peers using the trendy products, she\'ll be able to teach her friends about the benefits of using natural products.</li>\n</ul>\n<h1>Household Products:</h1>\n<ul>\n	<li>use natural cleaning products such as vinegar and baking soda or plant based cleaners</li>\n	<li>use a floor steamer - it uses only tap water - no harsh chemicals</li>\n	<li>don\'t use fabric softeners in the dryer - again, fragrances are loaded with hormone disruptors</li>\n	<li>I check out all products on Environmental Working Groups database - you may be surprised - even the products that you think are green probably have chemicals in them</li>\n</ul>\n<a title=\"Environmental Working Group\'s Hall of Shame\" href=\"http://static.ewg.org/reports/2012/cleaners_hallofshame/cleaners_hallofshame.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Environmental Working Group\'s Hall of Shame</a> - Click here to see the worst offenders - some of these toxic chemicals are banned in certain countries, some have ingredients known to be carcinogenic.   And some of these products pretend they are \"green\" - some I\'ve had them in my own home thinking I was doing the right thing by buying \"Green\" products!  I\'m a sucker!\n\n<a title=\"Environmental Working Group\'s Guide to Cleaners\" href=\"http://www.ewg.org/guides/cleaners\" target=\"_blank\">Environmental Working Group\'s Guide to Healthy Cleaning</a> - Look up the cleaning products that you use on their database &amp; see what you\'re bringing into your house maybe without even knowing it!  EWG - rates common products for their safety.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;','Reducing My Family\'s Risk','','inherit','open','open','','767-revision-13','','','2012-11-08 10:17:16','2012-11-08 15:17:16','',767,'http://www.hormonesoup.com/767-revision-13/',0,'revision','',0),(813,1,'2012-11-08 10:32:43','2012-11-08 15:32:43','The one thing I\'ve found throughout my research is that merely living on earth puts you at risk of exposure to hormone disrupting chemicals - they are everywhere! Even newborn babies born today have been contaminated with chemicals known to cause endocrine disruption.\n\nI don\'t think if you met me you\'d automatically think that I\'m a granola-crunching, tree-hugger.  I wear makeup, I colour my hair, I like pedicures and manicures, I love to eat good food &amp; drink red wine, I recycle and compost as much as the next person.  I\'m not a fanatic I guess you could say, BUT, I believe that there are ways we can reduce the negative impact these things have on our health. I\'m not an expert, but more of a student - I\'m learning all the time about things I\'ve been doing or products I\'ve been using that are not only hurtful to the environment but harmful to my delicate hormonal balance.  More and more, my concern is for my children and the future of their health, including their hormone health.\n\nHere\'s some of the things I do to try to reduce my family\'s risk of exposure to hormone disrupting chemicals:\n<h1>Plastics:</h1>\n<ul>\n	<li>We avoid plastics when we can - particularly 7, 6 &amp; 3.  Even my children know  \"7, 6 and 3 are not for me\".   When we were getting rid of \"bad\" plastics I taught my children how to identify the plastic by the symbol and number.  I told them I\'d give them $1 for every bad plastic they found in our house!  They ran around the house like crazy.  Fortunately they only found 3 pieces of \"bad\" plastic in our house.</li>\n	<li>we never microwave anything in plastic</li>\n	<li>use glass or ceramics to store food</li>\n	<li>don\'t let babies chew on plastics - find natural products/toys instead</li>\n	<li>I breastfed my babies for well over a year &amp; I didn\'t use pacifiers - it was my choice not merely because of the plastic exposure but the \"plastic\" factor definitely belongs on the pro side to breastfeeding and thumb sucking over pacifiers, as well many formulas are soy based and it wasn\'t all that long ago that nasty endocrine disruptors were found in formula.  I didn\'t know that my own exposure to phthalates, for example, meant that my breast milk would pass this endocrine disruptor onto my babies.</li>\n	<li>try and avoid plastic water bottles but we don\'t like stainless steel so found some good glass bottles that are wrapped in rubber so they are safe for my kids\' backpacks</li>\n	<li>we\'ve switched from Teflon pans to good old fashion cast iron pans</li>\n</ul>\n<h1>Cosmetics &amp; Body Care Products:</h1>\nWhen you consider that our skin is the largest organ in our body and it has direct exposure to many of the hormone disruptors.  Ever since I read that the average woman puts on 515 chemicals each morning I\'ve tried to reduce the amount of chemicals I put on my skin.  Finding out that I was putting things like formaldehyde on my skin each day just grossed me out.  Thinking about how I use topical progesterone cream made me realize even more how effective our skin is allowing both good and bad compounds into our body!\n<ul>\n	<li>I have switched my cosmetics and body care products to natural products. There are many cosmetic choices that don\'t involve hormone disruptors. Many of the large health food stores like <a title=\"The Big Carrot - Body Care\" href=\"http://thebigcarrot.ca/index.php?id=27\" target=\"_blank\">\"The Big Carrot\"</a> in Toronto, Ontario, <a title=\"Nature\'s Emporium - Newmarket\" href=\"http://www.naturesemporium.ca/\" target=\"_blank\">\"Natures Emporium\"</a> in Newmarket, Ontario carry really nice body care &amp; cosmetic lines that are all natural.  Also their employees are super-informed about this stuff.  I also shop at <a title=\"The Detox Market\" href=\"http://www.thedetoxmarket.com/pages/our-location\" target=\"_blank\">\"The Detox Market\"</a> in Toronto, they have locations in LA and San Fransisco as well and they carry a small line of wonderful cosmetics and body care products.  And if you can\'t give up your Sephora addiction - they even carry natural cosmetic lines.  I\'ve found when I ask for a product the natural ones are NEVER suggested - they don\'t rush you over to them, you have to specifically ask for natural products.  And their staff isn\'t really educated about the benefits of natural products. Also their website doesn\'t have a way of searching for their organic makeup so unless you know the name of the brand you\'ll have trouble figuring out which ones are natural.</li>\n	<li>I use <a title=\"EWG - Skin Deep\" href=\"http://www.ewg.org/skindeep/\" target=\"_blank\">Environmental Working Group\'s Cosmetic Database - Skin Deep</a> to check on my family\'s body care products.  It\'s an invaluable resource for me.</li>\n</ul>\nThe good news about natural cosmetics? They work just as well, they are on-trend, they don\'t have to cost more and are free of known hormone disruptors.\n<ul>\n	<li>Avoid anti-bacterial products like the plague</li>\n	<li>Avoid fragrances - they are jam-packed with hormone disruptors and have been able to make breast cancer cells grow in a lab environment!</li>\n	<li>Use natural sunscreen - I am going to admit I worry about slathering sunscreen all over my kids as much as I am concerned about their exposure to too much sun! My children spend a lot of time outdoors but I really do wonder what\'s worse for them - the chemicals or the sun?  I switched to natural sunscreen and feel better about it.</li>\n	<li>I buy natural deodorant and am teaching my tween daughter why it\'s better for her than the stuff she sees all the other girls using.  Maybe instead of her being influenced by her peers using the trendy products, she\'ll be able to teach her friends about the benefits of using natural products.</li>\n</ul>\n<h1>Household Products:</h1>\n<ul>\n	<li>use natural cleaning products such as vinegar and baking soda or plant based cleaners</li>\n	<li>use a floor steamer - it uses only tap water - no harsh chemicals</li>\n	<li>don\'t use fabric softeners in the dryer - again, fragrances are loaded with hormone disruptors</li>\n	<li>I check out all products on Environmental Working Groups database - you may be surprised - even the products that you think are green probably have chemicals in them</li>\n</ul>\n<a title=\"Environmental Working Group\'s Hall of Shame\" href=\"http://static.ewg.org/reports/2012/cleaners_hallofshame/cleaners_hallofshame.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Environmental Working Group\'s Hall of Shame</a> - Click here to see the worst offenders - some of these toxic chemicals are banned in certain countries, some have ingredients known to be carcinogenic.   And some of these products pretend they are \"green\" - some I\'ve had them in my own home thinking I was doing the right thing by buying \"Green\" products!  I\'m a sucker!\n\n<a title=\"Environmental Working Group\'s Guide to Cleaners\" href=\"http://www.ewg.org/guides/cleaners\" target=\"_blank\">Environmental Working Group\'s Guide to Healthy Cleaning</a> - Look up the cleaning products that you use on their database &amp; see what you\'re bringing into your house maybe without even knowing it!  EWG - rates common products for their safety.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;','Reducing My Family\'s Risk','','inherit','open','open','','767-revision-14','','','2012-11-08 10:32:43','2012-11-08 15:32:43','',767,'http://www.hormonesoup.com/767-revision-14/',0,'revision','',0),(814,1,'2012-11-08 10:40:07','2012-11-08 15:40:07','The one thing I\'ve found throughout my research is that merely living on earth puts you at risk of exposure to hormone disrupting chemicals - they are everywhere! Even newborn babies born today have been contaminated with chemicals known to cause endocrine disruption.\n\nI don\'t think if you met me you\'d automatically think that I\'m a granola-crunching, tree-hugger.  I wear makeup, I colour my hair, I like pedicures and manicures, I love to eat good food &amp; drink red wine, I recycle and compost as much as the next person.  I\'m not a fanatic I guess you could say, BUT, I believe that there are ways we can reduce the negative impact these things have on our health. I\'m not an expert, but more of a student - I\'m learning all the time about things I\'ve been doing or products I\'ve been using that are not only hurtful to the environment but harmful to my delicate hormonal balance.  More and more, my concern is for my children and the future of their health, including their hormone health.\n\nHere\'s some of the things I do to try to reduce my family\'s risk of exposure to hormone disrupting chemicals:\n<h1>Plastics:</h1>\n<ul>\n	<li>We avoid plastics when we can - particularly 7, 6 &amp; 3.  Even my children know  \"7, 6 and 3 are not for me\".   When we were getting rid of \"bad\" plastics I taught my children how to identify the plastic by the symbol and number.  I told them I\'d give them $1 for every bad plastic they found in our house!  They ran around the house like crazy.  Fortunately they only found 3 pieces of \"bad\" plastic in our house.</li>\n	<li>we never microwave anything in plastic</li>\n	<li>use glass or ceramics to store food</li>\n	<li>don\'t let babies chew on plastics - find natural products/toys instead</li>\n	<li>I breastfed my babies for well over a year &amp; I didn\'t use pacifiers - it was my choice not merely because of the plastic exposure but the \"plastic\" factor definitely belongs on the pro side to breastfeeding and thumb sucking over pacifiers, as well many formulas are soy based and it wasn\'t all that long ago that nasty endocrine disruptors were found in formula.  I didn\'t know that my own exposure to phthalates, for example, meant that my breast milk would pass this endocrine disruptor onto my babies.</li>\n	<li>try and avoid plastic water bottles but we don\'t like stainless steel so found some good glass bottles that are wrapped in rubber so they are safe for my kids\' backpacks</li>\n	<li>we\'ve switched from Teflon pans to good old fashion cast iron pans</li>\n</ul>\n<h1>Cosmetics &amp; Body Care Products:</h1>\nWhen you consider that our skin is the largest organ in our body and it has direct exposure to many of the hormone disruptors.  Ever since I read that the average woman puts on 515 chemicals each morning I\'ve tried to reduce the amount of chemicals I put on my skin.  Finding out that I was putting things like formaldehyde on my skin each day just grossed me out.  Thinking about how I use topical progesterone cream made me realize even more how effective our skin is allowing both good and bad compounds into our body!\n<ul>\n	<li>I have switched my cosmetics and body care products to natural products. There are many cosmetic choices that don\'t involve hormone disruptors. Many of the large health food stores like <a title=\"The Big Carrot - Body Care\" href=\"http://thebigcarrot.ca/index.php?id=27\" target=\"_blank\">\"The Big Carrot\"</a> in Toronto, Ontario, <a title=\"Nature\'s Emporium - Newmarket\" href=\"http://www.naturesemporium.ca/\" target=\"_blank\">\"Natures Emporium\"</a> in Newmarket, Ontario carry really nice body care &amp; cosmetic lines that are all natural.  Also their employees are super-informed about this stuff.  I also shop at <a title=\"The Detox Market\" href=\"http://www.thedetoxmarket.com/pages/our-location\" target=\"_blank\">\"The Detox Market\"</a> in Toronto, they have locations in LA and San Fransisco as well and they carry a small line of wonderful cosmetics and body care products.  And if you can\'t give up your Sephora addiction - they even carry natural cosmetic lines.  I\'ve found when I ask for a product the natural ones are NEVER suggested - they don\'t rush you over to them, you have to specifically ask for natural products.  And their staff isn\'t really educated about the benefits of natural products. Also their website doesn\'t have a way of searching for their organic makeup so unless you know the name of the brand you\'ll have trouble figuring out which ones are natural.</li>\n	<li>I use <a title=\"EWG - Skin Deep\" href=\"http://www.ewg.org/skindeep/\" target=\"_blank\">Environmental Working Group\'s Cosmetic Database - Skin Deep</a> to check on my family\'s body care products.  It\'s an invaluable resource for me.</li>\n</ul>\nThe good news about natural cosmetics? They work just as well, they are on-trend, they don\'t have to cost more and are free of known hormone disruptors.\n<ul>\n	<li>Avoid anti-bacterial products like the plague</li>\n	<li>Avoid fragrances - they are jam-packed with hormone disruptors and have been able to make breast cancer cells grow in a lab environment!</li>\n	<li>Use natural sunscreen - I am going to admit I worry about slathering sunscreen all over my kids as much as I am concerned about their exposure to too much sun! My children spend a lot of time outdoors but I really do wonder what\'s worse for them - the chemicals or the sun?  I switched to natural sunscreen and feel better about it.</li>\n	<li>I buy natural deodorant and am teaching my tween daughter why it\'s better for her than the stuff she sees all the other girls using.  Maybe instead of her being influenced by her peers using the trendy products, she\'ll be able to teach her friends about the benefits of using natural products.</li>\n</ul>\n<h1>Household Products:</h1>\n<ul>\n	<li>use natural cleaning products such as vinegar and baking soda or plant based cleaners</li>\n	<li>use a floor steamer - it uses only tap water - no harsh chemicals</li>\n	<li>don\'t use fabric softeners in the dryer - again, fragrances are loaded with hormone disruptors</li>\n	<li>I check out all products on Environmental Working Groups database - you may be surprised - even the products that you think are green probably have chemicals in them</li>\n</ul>\n<a title=\"Environmental Working Group\'s Hall of Shame\" href=\"http://static.ewg.org/reports/2012/cleaners_hallofshame/cleaners_hallofshame.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Environmental Working Group\'s Hall of Shame</a> - Click here to see the worst offenders - some of these toxic chemicals are banned in certain countries, some have ingredients known to be carcinogenic.   And some of these products pretend they are \"green\" - some I\'ve had them in my own home thinking I was doing the right thing by buying \"Green\" products!  I\'m a sucker!\n\n<a title=\"Environmental Working Group\'s Guide to Cleaners\" href=\"http://www.ewg.org/guides/cleaners\" target=\"_blank\">Environmental Working Group\'s Guide to Healthy Cleaning</a> - Look up the cleaning products that you use on their database &amp; see what you\'re bringing into your house maybe without even knowing it!  EWG - rates common products for their safety.\n<h1>Food:</h1>\n<ul>\n	<li>I try to feed my family organic food as much as is possible based on what I have access to.  For many years I have been fortunate enough to be able to grow some of my own produce.</li>\n	<li>Again EWG to my rescue!  I keep informed with their Shoppers Guide to Pesticides</li>\n</ul>\n&nbsp;','Reducing My Family\'s Risk','','inherit','open','open','','767-revision-15','','','2012-11-08 10:40:07','2012-11-08 15:40:07','',767,'http://www.hormonesoup.com/767-revision-15/',0,'revision','',0),(815,1,'2012-11-08 10:42:59','2012-11-08 15:42:59','The one thing I\'ve found throughout my research is that merely living on earth puts you at risk of exposure to hormone disrupting chemicals - they are everywhere! Even newborn babies born today have been contaminated with chemicals known to cause endocrine disruption.\n\nI don\'t think if you met me you\'d automatically think that I\'m a granola-crunching, tree-hugger.  I wear makeup, I colour my hair, I like pedicures and manicures, I love to eat good food &amp; drink red wine, I recycle and compost as much as the next person.  I\'m not a fanatic I guess you could say, BUT, I believe that there are ways we can reduce the negative impact these things have on our health. I\'m not an expert, but more of a student - I\'m learning all the time about things I\'ve been doing or products I\'ve been using that are not only hurtful to the environment but harmful to my delicate hormonal balance.  More and more, my concern is for my children and the future of their health, including their hormone health.\n\nHere\'s some of the things I do to try to reduce my family\'s risk of exposure to hormone disrupting chemicals:\n<h1>Plastics:</h1>\n<ul>\n	<li>We avoid plastics when we can - particularly 7, 6 &amp; 3.  Even my children know  \"7, 6 and 3 are not for me\".   When we were getting rid of \"bad\" plastics I taught my children how to identify the plastic by the symbol and number.  I told them I\'d give them $1 for every bad plastic they found in our house!  They ran around the house like crazy.  Fortunately they only found 3 pieces of \"bad\" plastic in our house.</li>\n	<li>we never microwave anything in plastic</li>\n	<li>use glass or ceramics to store food</li>\n	<li>don\'t let babies chew on plastics - find natural products/toys instead</li>\n	<li>I breastfed my babies for well over a year &amp; I didn\'t use pacifiers - it was my choice not merely because of the plastic exposure but the \"plastic\" factor definitely belongs on the pro side to breastfeeding and thumb sucking over pacifiers, as well many formulas are soy based and it wasn\'t all that long ago that nasty endocrine disruptors were found in formula.  I didn\'t know that my own exposure to phthalates, for example, meant that my breast milk would pass this endocrine disruptor onto my babies.</li>\n	<li>try and avoid plastic water bottles but we don\'t like stainless steel so found some good glass bottles that are wrapped in rubber so they are safe for my kids\' backpacks</li>\n	<li>we\'ve switched from Teflon pans to good old fashion cast iron pans</li>\n</ul>\n<h1>Cosmetics &amp; Body Care Products:</h1>\nWhen you consider that our skin is the largest organ in our body and it has direct exposure to many of the hormone disruptors.  Ever since I read that the average woman puts on 515 chemicals each morning I\'ve tried to reduce the amount of chemicals I put on my skin.  Finding out that I was putting things like formaldehyde on my skin each day just grossed me out.  Thinking about how I use topical progesterone cream made me realize even more how effective our skin is allowing both good and bad compounds into our body!\n<ul>\n	<li>I have switched my cosmetics and body care products to natural products. There are many cosmetic choices that don\'t involve hormone disruptors. Many of the large health food stores like <a title=\"The Big Carrot - Body Care\" href=\"http://thebigcarrot.ca/index.php?id=27\" target=\"_blank\">\"The Big Carrot\"</a> in Toronto, Ontario, <a title=\"Nature\'s Emporium - Newmarket\" href=\"http://www.naturesemporium.ca/\" target=\"_blank\">\"Natures Emporium\"</a> in Newmarket, Ontario carry really nice body care &amp; cosmetic lines that are all natural.  Also their employees are super-informed about this stuff.  I also shop at <a title=\"The Detox Market\" href=\"http://www.thedetoxmarket.com/pages/our-location\" target=\"_blank\">\"The Detox Market\"</a> in Toronto, they have locations in LA and San Fransisco as well and they carry a small line of wonderful cosmetics and body care products.  And if you can\'t give up your Sephora addiction - they even carry natural cosmetic lines.  I\'ve found when I ask for a product the natural ones are NEVER suggested - they don\'t rush you over to them, you have to specifically ask for natural products.  And their staff isn\'t really educated about the benefits of natural products. Also their website doesn\'t have a way of searching for their organic makeup so unless you know the name of the brand you\'ll have trouble figuring out which ones are natural.</li>\n	<li>I use <a title=\"EWG - Skin Deep\" href=\"http://www.ewg.org/skindeep/\" target=\"_blank\">Environmental Working Group\'s Cosmetic Database - Skin Deep</a> to check on my family\'s body care products.  It\'s an invaluable resource for me.</li>\n</ul>\nThe good news about natural cosmetics? They work just as well, they are on-trend, they don\'t have to cost more and are free of known hormone disruptors.\n<ul>\n	<li>Avoid anti-bacterial products like the plague</li>\n	<li>Avoid fragrances - they are jam-packed with hormone disruptors and have been able to make breast cancer cells grow in a lab environment!</li>\n	<li>Use natural sunscreen - I am going to admit I worry about slathering sunscreen all over my kids as much as I am concerned about their exposure to too much sun! My children spend a lot of time outdoors but I really do wonder what\'s worse for them - the chemicals or the sun?  I switched to natural sunscreen and feel better about it.</li>\n	<li>I buy natural deodorant and am teaching my tween daughter why it\'s better for her than the stuff she sees all the other girls using.  Maybe instead of her being influenced by her peers using the trendy products, she\'ll be able to teach her friends about the benefits of using natural products.</li>\n</ul>\n<h1>Household Products:</h1>\n<ul>\n	<li>use natural cleaning products such as vinegar and baking soda or plant based cleaners</li>\n	<li>use a floor steamer - it uses only tap water - no harsh chemicals</li>\n	<li>don\'t use fabric softeners in the dryer - again, fragrances are loaded with hormone disruptors</li>\n	<li>I check out all products on Environmental Working Groups database - you may be surprised - even the products that you think are green probably have chemicals in them</li>\n</ul>\n<a title=\"Environmental Working Group\'s Hall of Shame\" href=\"http://static.ewg.org/reports/2012/cleaners_hallofshame/cleaners_hallofshame.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Environmental Working Group\'s Hall of Shame</a> - Click here to see the worst offenders - some of these toxic chemicals are banned in certain countries, some have ingredients known to be carcinogenic.   And some of these products pretend they are \"green\" - some I\'ve had them in my own home thinking I was doing the right thing by buying \"Green\" products!  I\'m a sucker!\n\n<a title=\"Environmental Working Group\'s Guide to Cleaners\" href=\"http://www.ewg.org/guides/cleaners\" target=\"_blank\">Environmental Working Group\'s Guide to Healthy Cleaning</a> - Look up the cleaning products that you use on their database &amp; see what you\'re bringing into your house maybe without even knowing it!  EWG - rates common products for their safety.\n<h1>Food:</h1>\n<ul>\n	<li>I try to feed my family organic food as much as is possible based on what I have access to.</li>\n	<li>For many years I have been fortunate enough to be able to grow some of my own produce.</li>\n	<li>Again EWG to my rescue!  I keep informed with their <a title=\"EWG - Shoppers Guide to Pesticides\" href=\"http://www.ewg.org/foodnews/summary/\" target=\"_blank\">Shoppers Guide to Pesticides</a> - I keep a copy of their published Dirty Dozen and Clean 15 fruits and vegetables.  If you can\'t find all the organics where you live then at least focusing on the produce that has been found to have the highest concentrations of pesticide or the worst types of pesticide contamination</li>\n	<li></li>\n</ul>\n&nbsp;','Reducing My Family\'s Risk','','inherit','open','open','','767-revision-16','','','2012-11-08 10:42:59','2012-11-08 15:42:59','',767,'http://www.hormonesoup.com/767-revision-16/',0,'revision','',0),(816,1,'2012-11-08 10:45:11','2012-11-08 15:45:11','The one thing I\'ve found throughout my research is that merely living on earth puts you at risk of exposure to hormone disrupting chemicals - they are everywhere! Even newborn babies born today have been contaminated with chemicals known to cause endocrine disruption.\n\nI don\'t think if you met me you\'d automatically think that I\'m a granola-crunching, tree-hugger.  I wear makeup, I colour my hair, I like pedicures and manicures, I love to eat good food &amp; drink red wine, I recycle and compost as much as the next person.  I\'m not a fanatic I guess you could say, BUT, I believe that there are ways we can reduce the negative impact these things have on our health. I\'m not an expert, but more of a student - I\'m learning all the time about things I\'ve been doing or products I\'ve been using that are not only hurtful to the environment but harmful to my delicate hormonal balance.  More and more, my concern is for my children and the future of their health, including their hormone health.\n\nHere\'s some of the things I do to try to reduce my family\'s risk of exposure to hormone disrupting chemicals:\n<h1>Plastics:</h1>\n<ul>\n	<li>We avoid plastics when we can - particularly 7, 6 &amp; 3.  Even my children know  \"7, 6 and 3 are not for me\".   When we were getting rid of \"bad\" plastics I taught my children how to identify the plastic by the symbol and number.  I told them I\'d give them $1 for every bad plastic they found in our house!  They ran around the house like crazy.  Fortunately they only found 3 pieces of \"bad\" plastic in our house.</li>\n	<li>we never microwave anything in plastic</li>\n	<li>use glass or ceramics to store food</li>\n	<li>don\'t let babies chew on plastics - find natural products/toys instead</li>\n	<li>I breastfed my babies for well over a year &amp; I didn\'t use pacifiers - it was my choice not merely because of the plastic exposure but the \"plastic\" factor definitely belongs on the pro side to breastfeeding and thumb sucking over pacifiers, as well many formulas are soy based and it wasn\'t all that long ago that nasty endocrine disruptors were found in formula.  I didn\'t know that my own exposure to phthalates, for example, meant that my breast milk would pass this endocrine disruptor onto my babies.</li>\n	<li>try and avoid plastic water bottles but we don\'t like stainless steel so found some good glass bottles that are wrapped in rubber so they are safe for my kids\' backpacks</li>\n	<li>we\'ve switched from Teflon pans to good old fashion cast iron pans</li>\n</ul>\n<h1>Cosmetics &amp; Body Care Products:</h1>\nWhen you consider that our skin is the largest organ in our body and it has direct exposure to many of the hormone disruptors.  Ever since I read that the average woman puts on 515 chemicals each morning I\'ve tried to reduce the amount of chemicals I put on my skin.  Finding out that I was putting things like formaldehyde on my skin each day just grossed me out.  Thinking about how I use topical progesterone cream made me realize even more how effective our skin is allowing both good and bad compounds into our body!\n<ul>\n	<li>I have switched my cosmetics and body care products to natural products. There are many cosmetic choices that don\'t involve hormone disruptors. Many of the large health food stores like <a title=\"The Big Carrot - Body Care\" href=\"http://thebigcarrot.ca/index.php?id=27\" target=\"_blank\">\"The Big Carrot\"</a> in Toronto, Ontario, <a title=\"Nature\'s Emporium - Newmarket\" href=\"http://www.naturesemporium.ca/\" target=\"_blank\">\"Natures Emporium\"</a> in Newmarket, Ontario carry really nice body care &amp; cosmetic lines that are all natural.  Also their employees are super-informed about this stuff.  I also shop at <a title=\"The Detox Market\" href=\"http://www.thedetoxmarket.com/pages/our-location\" target=\"_blank\">\"The Detox Market\"</a> in Toronto, they have locations in LA and San Fransisco as well and they carry a small line of wonderful cosmetics and body care products.  And if you can\'t give up your Sephora addiction - they even carry natural cosmetic lines.  I\'ve found when I ask for a product the natural ones are NEVER suggested - they don\'t rush you over to them, you have to specifically ask for natural products.  And their staff isn\'t really educated about the benefits of natural products. Also their website doesn\'t have a way of searching for their organic makeup so unless you know the name of the brand you\'ll have trouble figuring out which ones are natural.</li>\n	<li>I use <a title=\"EWG - Skin Deep\" href=\"http://www.ewg.org/skindeep/\" target=\"_blank\">Environmental Working Group\'s Cosmetic Database - Skin Deep</a> to check on my family\'s body care products.  It\'s an invaluable resource for me.</li>\n</ul>\nThe good news about natural cosmetics? They work just as well, they are on-trend, they don\'t have to cost more and are free of known hormone disruptors.\n<ul>\n	<li>Avoid anti-bacterial products like the plague</li>\n	<li>Avoid fragrances - they are jam-packed with hormone disruptors and have been able to make breast cancer cells grow in a lab environment!</li>\n	<li>Use natural sunscreen - I am going to admit I worry about slathering sunscreen all over my kids as much as I am concerned about their exposure to too much sun! My children spend a lot of time outdoors but I really do wonder what\'s worse for them - the chemicals or the sun?  I switched to natural sunscreen and feel better about it.</li>\n	<li>I buy natural deodorant and am teaching my tween daughter why it\'s better for her than the stuff she sees all the other girls using.  Maybe instead of her being influenced by her peers using the trendy products, she\'ll be able to teach her friends about the benefits of using natural products.</li>\n</ul>\n<h1>Household Products:</h1>\n<ul>\n	<li>use natural cleaning products such as vinegar and baking soda or plant based cleaners</li>\n	<li>use a floor steamer - it uses only tap water - no harsh chemicals</li>\n	<li>don\'t use fabric softeners in the dryer - again, fragrances are loaded with hormone disruptors</li>\n	<li>I check out all products on Environmental Working Groups database - you may be surprised - even the products that you think are green probably have chemicals in them</li>\n</ul>\n<a title=\"Environmental Working Group\'s Hall of Shame\" href=\"http://static.ewg.org/reports/2012/cleaners_hallofshame/cleaners_hallofshame.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Environmental Working Group\'s Hall of Shame</a> - Click here to see the worst offenders - some of these toxic chemicals are banned in certain countries, some have ingredients known to be carcinogenic.   And some of these products pretend they are \"green\" - some I\'ve had them in my own home thinking I was doing the right thing by buying \"Green\" products!  I\'m a sucker!\n\n<a title=\"Environmental Working Group\'s Guide to Cleaners\" href=\"http://www.ewg.org/guides/cleaners\" target=\"_blank\">Environmental Working Group\'s Guide to Healthy Cleaning</a> - Look up the cleaning products that you use on their database &amp; see what you\'re bringing into your house maybe without even knowing it!  EWG - rates common products for their safety.\n<h1>Food:</h1>\n<ul>\n	<li>I try to feed my family organic food as much as is possible based on what I have access to.</li>\n	<li>For many years I have been fortunate enough to be able to grow some of my own produce.</li>\n	<li>Again EWG to my rescue!  I keep informed with their <a title=\"EWG - Shoppers Guide to Pesticides\" href=\"http://www.ewg.org/foodnews/summary/\" target=\"_blank\">Shoppers Guide to Pesticides</a> - I keep a copy of their published Dirty Dozen and Clean 15 fruits and vegetables.  If you can\'t find all the organics where you live then at least focusing on the produce that has been found to have the highest concentrations of pesticide or the worst types of pesticide contamination</li>\n	<li>we have recently gone dairy-free at my house - once in a while some dairy slips into our diet but when it does I try to keep it organic.</li>\n</ul>\n&nbsp;','Reducing My Family\'s Risk','','inherit','open','open','','767-revision-17','','','2012-11-08 10:45:11','2012-11-08 15:45:11','',767,'http://www.hormonesoup.com/767-revision-17/',0,'revision','',0),(817,1,'2012-11-03 18:34:35','2012-11-03 23:34:35','Further reading about the negative effects of Endocrine Disrupters on our health:\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Medical News Today - Xenoestrogens\" href=\"http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/245485.php\" target=\"_blank\">Medical News Today</a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"National Institute of Health Sciences\" href=\"http://www.niehs.nih.gov/health/topics/agents/endocrine/index.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences</a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Endocrine Society - Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals - A Scientific Study\" href=\"http://www.endo-society.org/journals/ScientificStatements/upload/EDC_Scientific_Statement.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">The Endocrine Society - Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals - A Scientific Statement </a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"TEDx - The Endocrine Disruption Exchange\" href=\"http://www.endocrinedisruption.com/home.php\" target=\"_blank\">TEDx - The Endocrine Disruption Exchange</a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Journal of Environmental &amp; Public Health - Endocrine Disrupters\" href=\"http://www.hindawi.com/journals/jeph/2012/713696/\" target=\"_blank\">Journal of Environmental &amp; Public Health</a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Wikipedia - Endorcrine Disruptor\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endocrine_disruptor\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia - Endocrine Disruptor</a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Natural Resources Defence Council\" href=\"http://www.nrdc.org/health/effects/qendoc.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Natural Resources Defence Council</a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"WHEN - Women\'s Health and the Environment Network\" href=\"http://www.wsn.org/cbe/hormone.html\" target=\"_blank\">WHEN - Women\'s Health and the Environment Network</a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"EPA\" href=\"http://www.epa.gov/endocrine/#eds\" target=\"_blank\">Environmental Protection Agency </a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"NIEHS - Recent Endocrine Research Resources\" href=\"http://www.niehs.nih.gov/health/assets/docs_a_e/endocrine_research_resources.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">NIEHS - Recent Endocrine Research Resources </a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"NIEHS - Flame Retardants Linked to Reduced Fertility\" href=\"http://www.niehs.nih.gov/research/supported/sep/2010/fertility/index.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">NIEHS - Flame Retardants Linked to Infertility</a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Chem Trust - Pesticides\' Role in Some Cancers\" href=\"http://www.endocrinedisruption.com/files/CHEMTrustreportonpesticidesandcancer2010.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Chem Trust - Pesticide\'s Role in Some Cancers</a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Environmental Health Perspectives\" href=\"http://www.loe.org/images/content/090904/lowdose.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Environmental Health Perspectives </a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"The Endocrine Society Issues Statement of Principles\" href=\"http://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/2012/09/the-endocrine-society-issues-statement-of-principles/\" target=\"_blank\">The Endocrine Society - Statement of Principles</a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"HBCD - Flame retardant found in food in Dallas, TX\" href=\"http://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/2012/09/hexabromocyclododecane-hbcd-stereoisomers-in-u-s-food-from-dallas-texas/\" target=\"_blank\">Environmental Health Perspectives - HBCD, a flame retardant found in food</a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThis list is not exhaustive but provides a small sample of further reading for those interested in delving further into the research on endocrine disruptors.\r\n\r\nI\'m always looking for further research in the area of \"EDCs\" Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals and other Hormone Disrupters  -  please feel free to send me information on other articles/research to add to my growing list.','Research & Articles','','inherit','open','open','','756-revision-13','','','2012-11-03 18:34:35','2012-11-03 23:34:35','',756,'http://www.hormonesoup.com/756-revision-13/',0,'revision','',0),(818,1,'2012-11-14 09:42:15','0000-00-00 00:00:00','Do what David Suzuki would do!  Let your government know that you want labelling of products and warnings about the health risks such as endocrine disruption.\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>In Canada, here\'s a link to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a title=\"David Suzuki - Take Action\" href=\"http://www.davidsuzuki.org/what-you-can-do/take-action/\" target=\"_blank\">David Suzuki\'s Take Action</a> </span>page with a link to e-mailing our Minister of Health, Leona Aglukkaq so you can let her know that it matters to you. Also let your local government representative know.</li>\r\n	<li>Also in Canada, support the call to amend the constitution to ensure Canadians have a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a title=\"Right to a Healthy Environment\" href=\"http://www.davidsuzuki.org/blogs/docs-talk/2012/10/a-healthy-environment-should-be-a-basic-human-right/\" target=\"_blank\">Constitutional Right to a Healthy Environment.</a></span></li>\r\n	<li>In USA, here\'s a link to<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"> <a title=\"Local Motion Green - Take Action\" href=\"http://www.lmgresources.org/library/?p=1261\" target=\"_blank\">Local Motion Green</a></span> website with direct ways you can help such as contacting the EPA, contacting your government representatives and senators to encourage action.</li>\r\n	<li>Check out <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a title=\"Campaign for Safe Cosmetics\" href=\"http://safecosmetics.org/article.php?list=type&amp;type=31\" target=\"_blank\">safecosmetics.org</a> </span>and learn how to take action.  Even showing support by \"Liking\" their facebook page makes a different - help spread the word and show your support for safer cosmetics.</li>\r\n	<li>Make wise consumer choices - choose to spend your dollars with companies and on products that are in line with minimizing health risks.</li>\r\n	<li>Tell companies that you want them to carry responsible products.</li>\r\n	<li>Check out <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a title=\"Reducing My Family\'s Exposure to Hormone Disruptors\" href=\" http://www.hormonesoup.com/reducing-my-familys-exposure/\" target=\"_blank\">what I do to minimize my family\'s exposure</a></span> but don\'t be overwhelmed.  I started out with small changes.  It\'s costly to change everything at once but it\'s do-able over time and I\'m still working on it.  The important part is getting started.</li>\r\n	<li>Get your little informed-self out there and share your knowledge with others. If they tell 2 friends and they tell 2 friends and they tell 2 friends....you get the picture.  With social media today, it\'s never been easier to help spread the message.</li>\r\n	<li>Teach your children - they will even keep you in line with your plan to avoid hormone disruptors!</li>\r\n</ul>','What to Do & How to Help','','draft','open','open','','what-to-do-how-to-help','','','2012-11-14 09:42:15','2012-11-14 14:42:15','',0,'http://www.hormonesoup.com/?page_id=818',5,'page','',0),(819,1,'2012-11-08 11:11:28','2012-11-08 16:11:28','Do what David Suzuki would do!  Let your government know that you want labelling of products and warnings about the health risks such as endocrine disruption.\n<ul>\n	<li>In Canada, here\'s a link to <a title=\"David Suzuki - Take Action\" href=\"http://www.davidsuzuki.org/what-you-can-do/take-action/\" target=\"_blank\">David Suzuki\'s Take Action</a> page with a link to e-mailing our Minister of Health, Leona Aglukkaq so you can let her know that it matters to you.</li>\n	<li>In USA, here\'s a link to <a title=\"Local Motion Green - Take Action\" href=\"http://www.lmgresources.org/library/?p=1261\" target=\"_blank\">Local Motion Green</a> website with direct ways you can help such as contacting the EPA, contacting your government representatives and senators to encourage action.</li>\n	<li>Make wise consumer choices - choose to spend your dollars with companies and on products that are in line with minimizing health risks.</li>\n	<li>Tell companies that you want them to carry responsible products.</li>\n	<li>Check out what I do to minimize my risk but don\'t be overwhelmed.  I started out with small changes.  It\'s costly to change everything at once but it\'s do-able over time and I\'m still working on it.  The important part is gett</li>\n</ul>','How to Help','','inherit','open','open','','818-revision','','','2012-11-08 11:11:28','2012-11-08 16:11:28','',818,'http://www.hormonesoup.com/818-revision/',0,'revision','',0),(820,1,'2012-11-08 11:13:10','2012-11-08 16:13:10','Do what David Suzuki would do!  Let your government know that you want labelling of products and warnings about the health risks such as endocrine disruption.\n<ul>\n	<li>In Canada, here\'s a link to <a title=\"David Suzuki - Take Action\" href=\"http://www.davidsuzuki.org/what-you-can-do/take-action/\" target=\"_blank\">David Suzuki\'s Take Action</a> page with a link to e-mailing our Minister of Health, Leona Aglukkaq so you can let her know that it matters to you.</li>\n	<li>In USA, here\'s a link to <a title=\"Local Motion Green - Take Action\" href=\"http://www.lmgresources.org/library/?p=1261\" target=\"_blank\">Local Motion Green</a> website with direct ways you can help such as contacting the EPA, contacting your government representatives and senators to encourage action.</li>\n	<li>Make wise consumer choices - choose to spend your dollars with companies and on products that are in line with minimizing health risks.</li>\n	<li>Tell companies that you want them to carry responsible products.</li>\n	<li>Check out what I do to minimize my risk but don\'t be overwhelmed.  I started out with small changes.  It\'s costly to change everything at once but it\'s do-able over time and I\'m still working on it.  The important part is getting started.</li>\n</ul>','How to Help','','inherit','open','open','','818-revision-2','','','2012-11-08 11:13:10','2012-11-08 16:13:10','',818,'http://www.hormonesoup.com/818-revision-2/',0,'revision','',0),(821,1,'2012-11-08 11:18:44','2012-11-08 16:18:44','Do what David Suzuki would do!  Let your government know that you want labelling of products and warnings about the health risks such as endocrine disruption.\n<ul>\n	<li>In Canada, here\'s a link to <a title=\"David Suzuki - Take Action\" href=\"http://www.davidsuzuki.org/what-you-can-do/take-action/\" target=\"_blank\">David Suzuki\'s Take Action</a> page with a link to e-mailing our Minister of Health, Leona Aglukkaq so you can let her know that it matters to you. Also let your local government representative know.</li>\n	<li>In USA, here\'s a link to <a title=\"Local Motion Green - Take Action\" href=\"http://www.lmgresources.org/library/?p=1261\" target=\"_blank\">Local Motion Green</a> website with direct ways you can help such as contacting the EPA, contacting your government representatives and senators to encourage action.</li>\n	<li>Make wise consumer choices - choose to spend your dollars with companies and on products that are in line with minimizing health risks.</li>\n	<li>Tell companies that you want them to carry responsible products.</li>\n	<li>Check out <a title=\"Reducing My Family\'s Exposure\" href=\"http://www.hormonesoup.com/how-to-reduce-your-risk/\" target=\"_blank\">what I do to minimize my family\'s </a>exposure but don\'t be overwhelmed.  I started out with small changes.  It\'s costly to change everything at once but it\'s do-able over time and I\'m still working on it.  The important part is getting started.</li>\n	<li>Get your little informed-self out there and share your knowledge with others. If they tell 2 friends and they tell 2 friends and they tell 2 friends....you get the pictu</li>\n</ul>','How to Help','','inherit','open','open','','818-revision-3','','','2012-11-08 11:18:44','2012-11-08 16:18:44','',818,'http://www.hormonesoup.com/818-revision-3/',0,'revision','',0),(822,1,'2012-11-08 10:45:22','2012-11-08 15:45:22','The one thing I\'ve found throughout my research is that merely living on earth puts you at risk of exposure to hormone disrupting chemicals - they are everywhere! Even newborn babies born today have been contaminated with chemicals known to cause endocrine disruption.\r\n\r\nI don\'t think if you met me you\'d automatically think that I\'m a granola-crunching, tree-hugger.  I wear makeup, I colour my hair, I like pedicures and manicures, I love to eat good food &amp; drink red wine, I recycle and compost as much as the next person.  I\'m not a fanatic I guess you could say, BUT, I believe that there are ways we can reduce the negative impact these things have on our health. I\'m not an expert, but more of a student - I\'m learning all the time about things I\'ve been doing or products I\'ve been using that are not only hurtful to the environment but harmful to my delicate hormonal balance.  More and more, my concern is for my children and the future of their health, including their hormone health.\r\n\r\nHere\'s some of the things I do to try to reduce my family\'s risk of exposure to hormone disrupting chemicals:\r\n<h1>Plastics:</h1>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>We avoid plastics when we can - particularly 7, 6 &amp; 3.  Even my children know  \"7, 6 and 3 are not for me\".   When we were getting rid of \"bad\" plastics I taught my children how to identify the plastic by the symbol and number.  I told them I\'d give them $1 for every bad plastic they found in our house!  They ran around the house like crazy.  Fortunately they only found 3 pieces of \"bad\" plastic in our house.</li>\r\n	<li>we never microwave anything in plastic</li>\r\n	<li>use glass or ceramics to store food</li>\r\n	<li>don\'t let babies chew on plastics - find natural products/toys instead</li>\r\n	<li>I breastfed my babies for well over a year &amp; I didn\'t use pacifiers - it was my choice not merely because of the plastic exposure but the \"plastic\" factor definitely belongs on the pro side to breastfeeding and thumb sucking over pacifiers, as well many formulas are soy based and it wasn\'t all that long ago that nasty endocrine disruptors were found in formula.  I didn\'t know that my own exposure to phthalates, for example, meant that my breast milk would pass this endocrine disruptor onto my babies.</li>\r\n	<li>try and avoid plastic water bottles but we don\'t like stainless steel so found some good glass bottles that are wrapped in rubber so they are safe for my kids\' backpacks</li>\r\n	<li>we\'ve switched from Teflon pans to good old fashion cast iron pans</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h1>Cosmetics &amp; Body Care Products:</h1>\r\nWhen you consider that our skin is the largest organ in our body and it has direct exposure to many of the hormone disruptors.  Ever since I read that the average woman puts on 515 chemicals each morning I\'ve tried to reduce the amount of chemicals I put on my skin.  Finding out that I was putting things like formaldehyde on my skin each day just grossed me out.  Thinking about how I use topical progesterone cream made me realize even more how effective our skin is allowing both good and bad compounds into our body!\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>I have switched my cosmetics and body care products to natural products. There are many cosmetic choices that don\'t involve hormone disruptors. Many of the large health food stores like <a title=\"The Big Carrot - Body Care\" href=\"http://thebigcarrot.ca/index.php?id=27\" target=\"_blank\">\"The Big Carrot\"</a> in Toronto, Ontario, <a title=\"Nature\'s Emporium - Newmarket\" href=\"http://www.naturesemporium.ca/\" target=\"_blank\">\"Natures Emporium\"</a> in Newmarket, Ontario carry really nice body care &amp; cosmetic lines that are all natural.  Also their employees are super-informed about this stuff.  I also shop at <a title=\"The Detox Market\" href=\"http://www.thedetoxmarket.com/pages/our-location\" target=\"_blank\">\"The Detox Market\"</a> in Toronto, they have locations in LA and San Fransisco as well and they carry a small line of wonderful cosmetics and body care products.  And if you can\'t give up your Sephora addiction - they even carry natural cosmetic lines.  I\'ve found when I ask for a product the natural ones are NEVER suggested - they don\'t rush you over to them, you have to specifically ask for natural products.  And their staff isn\'t really educated about the benefits of natural products. Also their website doesn\'t have a way of searching for their organic makeup so unless you know the name of the brand you\'ll have trouble figuring out which ones are natural.</li>\r\n	<li>I use <a title=\"EWG - Skin Deep\" href=\"http://www.ewg.org/skindeep/\" target=\"_blank\">Environmental Working Group\'s Cosmetic Database - Skin Deep</a> to check on my family\'s body care products.  It\'s an invaluable resource for me.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nThe good news about natural cosmetics? They work just as well, they are on-trend, they don\'t have to cost more and are free of known hormone disruptors.\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Avoid anti-bacterial products like the plague</li>\r\n	<li>Avoid fragrances - they are jam-packed with hormone disruptors and have been able to make breast cancer cells grow in a lab environment!</li>\r\n	<li>Use natural sunscreen - I am going to admit I worry about slathering sunscreen all over my kids as much as I am concerned about their exposure to too much sun! My children spend a lot of time outdoors but I really do wonder what\'s worse for them - the chemicals or the sun?  I switched to natural sunscreen and feel better about it.</li>\r\n	<li>I buy natural deodorant and am teaching my tween daughter why it\'s better for her than the stuff she sees all the other girls using.  Maybe instead of her being influenced by her peers using the trendy products, she\'ll be able to teach her friends about the benefits of using natural products.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h1>Household Products:</h1>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>use natural cleaning products such as vinegar and baking soda or plant based cleaners</li>\r\n	<li>use a floor steamer - it uses only tap water - no harsh chemicals</li>\r\n	<li>don\'t use fabric softeners in the dryer - again, fragrances are loaded with hormone disruptors</li>\r\n	<li>I check out all products on Environmental Working Groups database - you may be surprised - even the products that you think are green probably have chemicals in them</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<a title=\"Environmental Working Group\'s Hall of Shame\" href=\"http://static.ewg.org/reports/2012/cleaners_hallofshame/cleaners_hallofshame.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Environmental Working Group\'s Hall of Shame</a> - Click here to see the worst offenders - some of these toxic chemicals are banned in certain countries, some have ingredients known to be carcinogenic.   And some of these products pretend they are \"green\" - some I\'ve had them in my own home thinking I was doing the right thing by buying \"Green\" products!  I\'m a sucker!\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Environmental Working Group\'s Guide to Cleaners\" href=\"http://www.ewg.org/guides/cleaners\" target=\"_blank\">Environmental Working Group\'s Guide to Healthy Cleaning</a> - Look up the cleaning products that you use on their database &amp; see what you\'re bringing into your house maybe without even knowing it!  EWG - rates common products for their safety.\r\n<h1>Food:</h1>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>I try to feed my family organic food as much as is possible based on what I have access to.</li>\r\n	<li>For many years I have been fortunate enough to be able to grow some of my own produce.</li>\r\n	<li>Again EWG to my rescue!  I keep informed with their <a title=\"EWG - Shoppers Guide to Pesticides\" href=\"http://www.ewg.org/foodnews/summary/\" target=\"_blank\">Shoppers Guide to Pesticides</a> - I keep a copy of their published Dirty Dozen and Clean 15 fruits and vegetables.  If you can\'t find all the organics where you live then at least focusing on the produce that has been found to have the highest concentrations of pesticide or the worst types of pesticide contamination</li>\r\n	<li>we have recently gone dairy-free at my house - once in a while some dairy slips into our diet but when it does I try to keep it organic.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n&nbsp;','Reducing My Family\'s Risk','','inherit','open','open','','767-revision-18','','','2012-11-08 10:45:22','2012-11-08 15:45:22','',767,'http://www.hormonesoup.com/767-revision-18/',0,'revision','',0),(823,1,'2012-11-08 11:19:58','2012-11-08 16:19:58','The one thing I\'ve found throughout my research is that merely living on earth puts you at risk of exposure to hormone disrupting chemicals - they are everywhere! Even newborn babies born today have been contaminated with chemicals known to cause endocrine disruption.\r\n\r\nI don\'t think if you met me you\'d automatically think that I\'m a granola-crunching, tree-hugger.  I wear makeup, I colour my hair, I like pedicures and manicures, I love to eat good food &amp; drink red wine, I recycle and compost as much as the next person.  I\'m not a fanatic I guess you could say, BUT, I believe that there are ways we can reduce the negative impact these things have on our health. I\'m not an expert, but more of a student - I\'m learning all the time about things I\'ve been doing or products I\'ve been using that are not only hurtful to the environment but harmful to my delicate hormonal balance.  More and more, my concern is for my children and the future of their health, including their hormone health.\r\n\r\nHere\'s some of the things I do to try to reduce my family\'s risk of exposure to hormone disrupting chemicals:\r\n<h1>Plastics:</h1>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>We avoid plastics when we can - particularly 7, 6 &amp; 3.  Even my children know  \"7, 6 and 3 are not for me\".   When we were getting rid of \"bad\" plastics I taught my children how to identify the plastic by the symbol and number.  I told them I\'d give them $1 for every bad plastic they found in our house!  They ran around the house like crazy.  Fortunately they only found 3 pieces of \"bad\" plastic in our house.</li>\r\n	<li>we never microwave anything in plastic</li>\r\n	<li>use glass or ceramics to store food</li>\r\n	<li>don\'t let babies chew on plastics - find natural products/toys instead</li>\r\n	<li>I breastfed my babies for well over a year &amp; I didn\'t use pacifiers - it was my choice not merely because of the plastic exposure but the \"plastic\" factor definitely belongs on the pro side to breastfeeding and thumb sucking over pacifiers, as well many formulas are soy based and it wasn\'t all that long ago that nasty endocrine disruptors were found in formula.  I didn\'t know that my own exposure to phthalates, for example, meant that my breast milk would pass this endocrine disruptor onto my babies.</li>\r\n	<li>try and avoid plastic water bottles but we don\'t like stainless steel so found some good glass bottles that are wrapped in rubber so they are safe for my kids\' backpacks</li>\r\n	<li>we\'ve switched from Teflon pans to good old fashion cast iron pans</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h1>Cosmetics &amp; Body Care Products:</h1>\r\nWhen you consider that our skin is the largest organ in our body and it has direct exposure to many of the hormone disruptors.  Ever since I read that the average woman puts on 515 chemicals each morning I\'ve tried to reduce the amount of chemicals I put on my skin.  Finding out that I was putting things like formaldehyde on my skin each day just grossed me out.  Thinking about how I use topical progesterone cream made me realize even more how effective our skin is allowing both good and bad compounds into our body!\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>I have switched my cosmetics and body care products to natural products. There are many cosmetic choices that don\'t involve hormone disruptors. Many of the large health food stores like <a title=\"The Big Carrot - Body Care\" href=\"http://thebigcarrot.ca/index.php?id=27\" target=\"_blank\">\"The Big Carrot\"</a> in Toronto, Ontario, <a title=\"Nature\'s Emporium - Newmarket\" href=\"http://www.naturesemporium.ca/\" target=\"_blank\">\"Natures Emporium\"</a> in Newmarket, Ontario carry really nice body care &amp; cosmetic lines that are all natural.  Also their employees are super-informed about this stuff.  I also shop at <a title=\"The Detox Market\" href=\"http://www.thedetoxmarket.com/pages/our-location\" target=\"_blank\">\"The Detox Market\"</a> in Toronto, they have locations in LA and San Fransisco as well and they carry a small line of wonderful cosmetics and body care products.  And if you can\'t give up your Sephora addiction - they even carry natural cosmetic lines.  I\'ve found when I ask for a product the natural ones are NEVER suggested - they don\'t rush you over to them, you have to specifically ask for natural products.  And their staff isn\'t really educated about the benefits of natural products. Also their website doesn\'t have a way of searching for their organic makeup so unless you know the name of the brand you\'ll have trouble figuring out which ones are natural.</li>\r\n	<li>I use <a title=\"EWG - Skin Deep\" href=\"http://www.ewg.org/skindeep/\" target=\"_blank\">Environmental Working Group\'s Cosmetic Database - Skin Deep</a> to check on my family\'s body care products.  It\'s an invaluable resource for me.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nThe good news about natural cosmetics? They work just as well, they are on-trend, they don\'t have to cost more and are free of known hormone disruptors.\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Avoid anti-bacterial products like the plague</li>\r\n	<li>Avoid fragrances - they are jam-packed with hormone disruptors and have been able to make breast cancer cells grow in a lab environment!</li>\r\n	<li>Use natural sunscreen - I am going to admit I worry about slathering sunscreen all over my kids as much as I am concerned about their exposure to too much sun! My children spend a lot of time outdoors but I really do wonder what\'s worse for them - the chemicals or the sun?  I switched to natural sunscreen and feel better about it.</li>\r\n	<li>I buy natural deodorant and am teaching my tween daughter why it\'s better for her than the stuff she sees all the other girls using.  Maybe instead of her being influenced by her peers using the trendy products, she\'ll be able to teach her friends about the benefits of using natural products.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h1>Household Products:</h1>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>use natural cleaning products such as vinegar and baking soda or plant based cleaners</li>\r\n	<li>use a floor steamer - it uses only tap water - no harsh chemicals</li>\r\n	<li>don\'t use fabric softeners in the dryer - again, fragrances are loaded with hormone disruptors</li>\r\n	<li>I check out all products on Environmental Working Groups database - you may be surprised - even the products that you think are green probably have chemicals in them</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<a title=\"Environmental Working Group\'s Hall of Shame\" href=\"http://static.ewg.org/reports/2012/cleaners_hallofshame/cleaners_hallofshame.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Environmental Working Group\'s Hall of Shame</a> - Click here to see the worst offenders - some of these toxic chemicals are banned in certain countries, some have ingredients known to be carcinogenic.   And some of these products pretend they are \"green\" - some I\'ve had them in my own home thinking I was doing the right thing by buying \"Green\" products!  I\'m a sucker!\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Environmental Working Group\'s Guide to Cleaners\" href=\"http://www.ewg.org/guides/cleaners\" target=\"_blank\">Environmental Working Group\'s Guide to Healthy Cleaning</a> - Look up the cleaning products that you use on their database &amp; see what you\'re bringing into your house maybe without even knowing it!  EWG - rates common products for their safety.\r\n<h1>Food:</h1>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>I try to feed my family organic food as much as is possible based on what I have access to.</li>\r\n	<li>For many years I have been fortunate enough to be able to grow some of my own produce.</li>\r\n	<li>Again EWG to my rescue!  I keep informed with their <a title=\"EWG - Shoppers Guide to Pesticides\" href=\"http://www.ewg.org/foodnews/summary/\" target=\"_blank\">Shoppers Guide to Pesticides</a> - I keep a copy of their published Dirty Dozen and Clean 15 fruits and vegetables.  If you can\'t find all the organics where you live then at least focusing on the produce that has been found to have the highest concentrations of pesticide or the worst types of pesticide contamination</li>\r\n	<li>we have recently gone dairy-free at my house - once in a while some dairy slips into our diet but when it does I try to keep it organic.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n&nbsp;','Reducing My Family\'s Risk','','inherit','open','open','','767-revision-19','','','2012-11-08 11:19:58','2012-11-08 16:19:58','',767,'http://www.hormonesoup.com/767-revision-19/',0,'revision','',0),(824,1,'2012-11-08 11:21:40','2012-11-08 16:21:40','Do what David Suzuki would do!  Let your government know that you want labelling of products and warnings about the health risks such as endocrine disruption.\n<ul>\n	<li>In Canada, here\'s a link to <a title=\"David Suzuki - Take Action\" href=\"http://www.davidsuzuki.org/what-you-can-do/take-action/\" target=\"_blank\">David Suzuki\'s Take Action</a> page with a link to e-mailing our Minister of Health, Leona Aglukkaq so you can let her know that it matters to you. Also let your local government representative know.</li>\n	<li>In USA, here\'s a link to <a title=\"Local Motion Green - Take Action\" href=\"http://www.lmgresources.org/library/?p=1261\" target=\"_blank\">Local Motion Green</a> website with direct ways you can help such as contacting the EPA, contacting your government representatives and senators to encourage action.</li>\n	<li>Make wise consumer choices - choose to spend your dollars with companies and on products that are in line with minimizing health risks.</li>\n	<li>Tell companies that you want them to carry responsible products.</li>\n	<li>Check out <a title=\"Reducing My Family\'s Exposure\" href=\"http://www.hormonesoup.com/how-to-reduce-your-risk/\" target=\"_blank\">what I do to minimize my family\'s </a>exposure but don\'t be overwhelmed.  I started out with small changes.  It\'s costly to change everything at once but it\'s do-able over time and I\'m still working on it.  The important part is getting started.</li>\n	<li>Get your little informed-self out there and share your knowledge with others. If they tell 2 friends and they tell 2 friends and they tell 2 friends....you get the picture.  With social media today, it\'s never been easier to help spread the message.</li>\n</ul>','How to Help','','inherit','open','open','','818-revision-4','','','2012-11-08 11:21:40','2012-11-08 16:21:40','',818,'http://www.hormonesoup.com/818-revision-4/',0,'revision','',0),(825,1,'2012-11-08 11:27:10','2012-11-08 16:27:10','The one thing I\'ve found throughout my research is that merely living on earth puts you at risk of exposure to hormone disrupting chemicals - they are everywhere! Even newborn babies born today have been contaminated with chemicals known to cause endocrine disruption.\n\nI don\'t think if you met me you\'d automatically think that I\'m a granola-crunching, tree-hugger.  I wear makeup, I colour my hair, I like pedicures and manicures, I love to eat good food &amp; drink red wine, I recycle and compost as much as the next person.  I\'m not a fanatic I guess you could say, BUT, I believe that there are ways we can reduce the negative impact these things have on our health. I\'m not an expert, but more of a student - I\'m learning all the time about things I\'ve been doing or products I\'ve been using that are not only hurtful to the environment but harmful to my delicate hormonal balance.  More and more, my concern is for my children and the future of their health, including their hormone health.\n\nHere\'s some of the things I do to try to reduce my family\'s risk of exposure to hormone disrupting chemicals:\n<h1>Plastics:</h1>\n<ul>\n	<li>We avoid plastics when we can - particularly 7, 6 &amp; 3.  Even my children know  \"7, 6 and 3 are not for me\".   When we were getting rid of \"bad\" plastics I taught my children how to identify the plastic by the symbol and number.  I told them I\'d give them $1 for every bad plastic they found in our house!  They ran around the house like crazy.  Fortunately they only found 3 pieces of \"bad\" plastic in our house.</li>\n	<li>we never microwave anything in plastic</li>\n	<li>use glass or ceramics to store food</li>\n	<li>don\'t let babies chew on plastics - find natural products/toys instead</li>\n	<li>I breastfed my babies for well over a year &amp; I didn\'t use pacifiers - it was my choice not merely because of the plastic exposure but the \"plastic\" factor definitely belongs on the pro side to breastfeeding and thumb sucking over pacifiers, as well many formulas are soy based and it wasn\'t all that long ago that nasty endocrine disruptors were found in formula.  I didn\'t know that my own exposure to phthalates, for example, meant that my breast milk would pass this endocrine disruptor onto my babies.</li>\n	<li>try and avoid plastic water bottles but we don\'t like stainless steel so found some good glass bottles that are wrapped in rubber so they are safe for my kids\' backpacks</li>\n	<li>we\'ve switched from Teflon pans to good old fashion cast iron pans</li>\n</ul>\n<h1>Cosmetics &amp; Body Care Products:</h1>\nWhen you consider that our skin is the largest organ in our body and it has direct exposure to many of the hormone disruptors.  Ever since I read that the average woman puts on 515 chemicals each morning I\'ve tried to reduce the amount of chemicals I put on my skin.  Finding out that I was putting things like formaldehyde on my skin each day just grossed me out.  Thinking about how I use topical progesterone cream made me realize even more how effective our skin is allowing both good and bad compounds into our body!\n<ul>\n	<li>I have switched my cosmetics and body care products to natural products. There are many cosmetic choices that don\'t involve hormone disruptors. Many of the large health food stores like <a title=\"The Big Carrot - Body Care\" href=\"http://thebigcarrot.ca/index.php?id=27\" target=\"_blank\">\"The Big Carrot\"</a> in Toronto, Ontario, <a title=\"Nature\'s Emporium - Newmarket\" href=\"http://www.naturesemporium.ca/\" target=\"_blank\">\"Natures Emporium\"</a> in Newmarket, Ontario carry really nice body care &amp; cosmetic lines that are all natural.  Also their employees are super-informed about this stuff.  I also shop at <a title=\"The Detox Market\" href=\"http://www.thedetoxmarket.com/pages/our-location\" target=\"_blank\">\"The Detox Market\"</a> in Toronto, they have locations in LA and San Fransisco as well and they carry a small line of wonderful cosmetics and body care products.  And if you can\'t give up your Sephora addiction - they even carry natural cosmetic lines.  I\'ve found when I ask for a product the natural ones are NEVER suggested - they don\'t rush you over to them, you have to specifically ask for natural products.  And their staff isn\'t really educated about the benefits of natural products. Also their website doesn\'t have a way of searching for their organic makeup so unless you know the name of the brand you\'ll have trouble figuring out which ones are natural.</li>\n	<li>I use <a title=\"EWG - Skin Deep\" href=\"http://www.ewg.org/skindeep/\" target=\"_blank\">Environmental Working Group\'s Cosmetic Database - Skin Deep</a> to check on my family\'s body care products.  It\'s an invaluable resource for me.</li>\n</ul>\nThe good news about natural cosmetics? They work just as well, they are on-trend, they don\'t have to cost more and are free of known hormone disruptors.\n<ul>\n	<li>Avoid anti-bacterial products like the plague</li>\n	<li>Avoid fragrances - they are jam-packed with hormone disruptors and have been able to make breast cancer cells grow in a lab environment!</li>\n	<li>Use natural sunscreen - I am going to admit I worry about slathering sunscreen all over my kids as much as I am concerned about their exposure to too much sun! My children spend a lot of time outdoors but I really do wonder what\'s worse for them - the chemicals or the sun?  I switched to natural sunscreen and feel better about it.</li>\n	<li>I buy natural deodorant and am teaching my tween daughter why it\'s better for her than the stuff she sees all the other girls using.  Maybe instead of her being influenced by her peers using the trendy products, she\'ll be able to teach her friends about the benefits of using natural products.</li>\n</ul>\n<h1>Household Products:</h1>\n<ul>\n	<li>use natural cleaning products such as vinegar and baking soda or plant based cleaners</li>\n	<li>use a floor steamer - it uses only tap water - no harsh chemicals</li>\n	<li>don\'t use fabric softeners in the dryer - again, fragrances are loaded with hormone disruptors</li>\n	<li>I check out all products on Environmental Working Groups database - you may be surprised - even the products that you think are green probably have chemicals in them</li>\n</ul>\n<a title=\"Environmental Working Group\'s Hall of Shame\" href=\"http://static.ewg.org/reports/2012/cleaners_hallofshame/cleaners_hallofshame.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Environmental Working Group\'s Hall of Shame</a> - Click here to see the worst offenders - some of these toxic chemicals are banned in certain countries, some have ingredients known to be carcinogenic.   And some of these products pretend they are \"green\" - some I\'ve had them in my own home thinking I was doing the right thing by buying \"Green\" products!  I\'m a sucker!\n\n<a title=\"Environmental Working Group\'s Guide to Cleaners\" href=\"http://www.ewg.org/guides/cleaners\" target=\"_blank\">Environmental Working Group\'s Guide to Healthy Cleaning</a> - Look up the cleaning products that you use on their database &amp; see what you\'re bringing into your house maybe without even knowing it!  EWG - rates common products for their safety.\n<h1>Food:</h1>\n<ul>\n	<li>I try to feed my family organic food as much as is possible based on what I have access to.  Milk and meat products are the most important but I try to also buy fresh, organic produce. For many years I have been fortunate enough to be able to grow some of my own produce.</li>\n	<li>Again EWG to my rescue!  I keep informed with their <a title=\"EWG - Shoppers Guide to Pesticides\" href=\"http://www.ewg.org/foodnews/summary/\" target=\"_blank\">Shoppers Guide to Pesticides</a> - I keep a copy of their published Dirty Dozen and Clean 15 fruits and vegetables.  If you can\'t find all the organics where you live then at least focusing on the produce that has been found to have the highest concentrations of pesticide or the worst types of pesticide contamination</li>\n	<li>we have recently gone \"mostly\" dairy-free at my house - once in a while some dairy slips into our diet but when it does I try to keep it organic.  This has been hard for me, as I\'m a big cheese fan!  I still let myself indulge sometimes.</li>\n	<li>when I eat out I try to make organic choices, fortunately many of my favourite restaurants in Toronto have organic, local choices on their menu.</li>\n</ul>\n&nbsp;','Reducing My Family\'s Exposure to Hormone Disruptors','','inherit','open','open','','767-revision-20','','','2012-11-08 11:27:10','2012-11-08 16:27:10','',767,'http://www.hormonesoup.com/767-revision-20/',0,'revision','',0),(826,1,'2012-11-08 12:54:43','2012-11-08 17:54:43','Maybe you\'ve heard of xenoestrogens but don\'t really know what they are or how they work in your body.  I\'m going to explain what they are and why I try to minimize them in my life and more importantly to me - in my <strong>children\'s</strong> lives.\n\n<strong>Xenoestrogen</strong> means <strong>foreign estrogen</strong> - which basically means any outside substance that acts like estrogen once inside our body.  It includes chemical compounds and pesticides, as well as both synthetic and natural estrogen that we ingest or apply.  <strong>Phytoestrogens</strong> are another type of xenoestrogen - plants such as soy that have been touted as beneficial or harmful depending upon who you listen too. (I\'m not going to discuss phytoestrogens as endocrine disruptors in this post because it is a whole other conundrum and I\'ve read mixed studies but you can read one review about it whether it is beneficial or harmful <a title=\"The pros and cons of phytoestrogens\" href=\"http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3074428/\" target=\"_blank\">here</a>.)\n\n<strong>Endocrine disruptors </strong>also called <strong>hormone disruptors </strong>are similar but actually refer specifically to chemicals and/or compounds that disrupt our endocrine (hormone) systems.\n\nChemicals can disrupt our hormones in several ways but without getting too scientific on you here is one simple explanation of how a chemical can disrupt your hormones:\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Think of it like a game of musical chairs - let\'s imagine the chairs are the estrogen receptors - there\'s only a limited number of them to go around.  So when the endocrine disrupting chemical (EDC) enters your body &amp; jumps onto the estrogen receptors there\'s no where for your own estrogen to go.  Those receptors are supposed to be there for the estrogen <em>your body</em> is producing but instead your own estrogen has to roam freely in your body - contributing to estrogen dominance. Every time EDC\'s win the game - your body &amp; hormone health lose.</span></strong></p>\nYour body doesn\'t even have to be producing too much estrogen to show symptoms of estrogen dominance!\n\nEndocrine disruptors are being blamed for our rising rates of:\n<ul>\n	<li>Endometrial cancer</li>\n	<li>Breast cancer</li>\n	<li>PCOS - Poly-cycstic Ovarian Syndrome</li>\n	<li>Endometriosis</li>\n	<li>Fibroids</li>\n	<li>Infertility</li>\n	<li>and other problems, including testicular &amp; prostrate cancer in men.</li>\n</ul>\n&nbsp;\n\nXenoestrogens are found in plastic bottles, metal food cans, household cleaners &amp; detergents, food, flame retardants, toys, cosmetics, and pesticides.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nFurther reading about the negative effects of Endocrine Disrupters on our health:\n\n<a title=\"Medical News Today - Xenoestrogens\" href=\"http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/245485.php\" target=\"_blank\">Medical News Today</a>\n\n<a title=\"National Institute of Health Sciences\" href=\"http://www.niehs.nih.gov/health/topics/agents/endocrine/index.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences</a>\n\n<a title=\"Endocrine Society - Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals - A Scientific Study\" href=\"http://www.endo-society.org/journals/ScientificStatements/upload/EDC_Scientific_Statement.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">The Endocrine Society - Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals - A Scientific Statement </a>\n\n<a title=\"TEDx - The Endocrine Disruption Exchange\" href=\"http://www.endocrinedisruption.com/home.php\" target=\"_blank\">TEDx - The Endocrine Disruption Exchange</a>\n\n<a title=\"Journal of Environmental &amp; Public Health - Endocrine Disrupters\" href=\"http://www.hindawi.com/journals/jeph/2012/713696/\" target=\"_blank\">Journal of Environmental &amp; Public Health</a>\n\n<a title=\"Wikipedia - Endorcrine Disruptor\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endocrine_disruptor\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia - Endocrine Disruptor</a>\n\n<a title=\"Natural Resources Defence Council\" href=\"http://www.nrdc.org/health/effects/qendoc.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Natural Resources Defence Council</a>\n\n<a title=\"EPA\" href=\"http://www.epa.gov/endocrine/#eds\" target=\"_blank\">Environmental Protection Agency </a>\n\n<a title=\"NIEHS - Recent Endocrine Research Resources\" href=\"http://www.niehs.nih.gov/health/assets/docs_a_e/endocrine_research_resources.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">NIEHS - Recent Endocrine Research Resources </a>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;','X is for Xenoestrogens','','inherit','open','open','','722-revision-12','','','2012-11-08 12:54:43','2012-11-08 17:54:43','',722,'http://www.hormonesoup.com/722-revision-12/',0,'revision','',0),(827,1,'2012-11-08 12:58:07','2012-11-08 17:58:07','Maybe you\'ve heard of xenoestrogens but don\'t really know what they are or how they work in your body.  I\'m going to explain what they are and why I try to minimize them in my life and more importantly to me - in my <strong>children\'s</strong> lives.\n\n<strong>Xenoestrogen</strong> means <strong>foreign estrogen</strong> - which basically means any outside substance that acts like estrogen once inside our body.  It includes chemical compounds and pesticides, as well as both synthetic and natural estrogen that we ingest or apply.  <strong>Phytoestrogens</strong> are another type of xenoestrogen - plants such as soy that have been touted as beneficial or harmful depending upon who you listen too. (I\'m not going to discuss phytoestrogens as endocrine disruptors in this post because it is a whole other conundrum and I\'ve read mixed studies but you can read one review about it whether it is beneficial or harmful <a title=\"The pros and cons of phytoestrogens\" href=\"http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3074428/\" target=\"_blank\">here</a>.)\n\n<strong>Endocrine disruptors </strong>also called <strong>hormone disruptors </strong>are similar but actually refer specifically to chemicals and/or compounds that disrupt our endocrine (hormone) systems.\n\nChemicals can disrupt our hormones in several ways but without getting too scientific on you here is one simple explanation of how a chemical can disrupt your hormones:\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Think of it like a game of musical chairs - let\'s imagine the chairs are the estrogen receptors - there\'s only a limited number of them to go around.  So when the endocrine disrupting chemical (EDC) enters your body &amp; jumps onto the estrogen receptors there\'s no where for your own estrogen to go.  Those receptors are supposed to be there for the estrogen <em>your body</em> is producing but instead your own estrogen has to roam freely in your body - contributing to estrogen dominance. Every time EDC\'s win the game - your body &amp; hormone health lose.</span></strong></p>\nYour body doesn\'t even have to be producing too much estrogen to show symptoms of estrogen dominance!\n\nEndocrine disruptors are being blamed for our rising rates of:\n<ul>\n	<li>Endometrial cancer</li>\n	<li>Breast cancer</li>\n	<li>PCOS - Poly-cycstic Ovarian Syndrome</li>\n	<li>Endometriosis</li>\n	<li>Fibroids</li>\n	<li>Infertility</li>\n	<li>and other problems, including testicular &amp; prostrate cancer in men.</li>\n</ul>\nXenoestrogens are found in plastic, metal food cans, household cleaners &amp; detergents, food, flame retardants, toys, cosmetics, and pesticides.\n\nRead more my posts on Estrogen dominance or Why it Matters to you.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nFurther reading about the negative effects of Endocrine Disrupters on our health:\n\n<a title=\"Medical News Today - Xenoestrogens\" href=\"http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/245485.php\" target=\"_blank\">Medical News Today</a>\n\n<a title=\"National Institute of Health Sciences\" href=\"http://www.niehs.nih.gov/health/topics/agents/endocrine/index.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences</a>\n\n<a title=\"Endocrine Society - Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals - A Scientific Study\" href=\"http://www.endo-society.org/journals/ScientificStatements/upload/EDC_Scientific_Statement.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">The Endocrine Society - Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals - A Scientific Statement </a>\n\n<a title=\"TEDx - The Endocrine Disruption Exchange\" href=\"http://www.endocrinedisruption.com/home.php\" target=\"_blank\">TEDx - The Endocrine Disruption Exchange</a>\n\n<a title=\"Journal of Environmental &amp; Public Health - Endocrine Disrupters\" href=\"http://www.hindawi.com/journals/jeph/2012/713696/\" target=\"_blank\">Journal of Environmental &amp; Public Health</a>\n\n<a title=\"Wikipedia - Endorcrine Disruptor\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endocrine_disruptor\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia - Endocrine Disruptor</a>\n\n<a title=\"Natural Resources Defence Council\" href=\"http://www.nrdc.org/health/effects/qendoc.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Natural Resources Defence Council</a>\n\n<a title=\"EPA\" href=\"http://www.epa.gov/endocrine/#eds\" target=\"_blank\">Environmental Protection Agency </a>\n\n<a title=\"NIEHS - Recent Endocrine Research Resources\" href=\"http://www.niehs.nih.gov/health/assets/docs_a_e/endocrine_research_resources.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">NIEHS - Recent Endocrine Research Resources </a>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;','X is for Xenoestrogens','','inherit','open','open','','722-revision-13','','','2012-11-08 12:58:07','2012-11-08 17:58:07','',722,'http://www.hormonesoup.com/722-revision-13/',0,'revision','',0),(828,1,'2012-11-08 10:49:39','2012-11-08 15:49:39','Further reading about the negative effects of Endocrine Disrupters on our health:\n\n<a title=\"Medical News Today - Xenoestrogens\" href=\"http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/245485.php\" target=\"_blank\">Medical News Today</a>\n\n<a title=\"National Institute of Health Sciences\" href=\"http://www.niehs.nih.gov/health/topics/agents/endocrine/index.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences</a>\n\n<a title=\"Endocrine Society - Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals - A Scientific Study\" href=\"http://www.endo-society.org/journals/ScientificStatements/upload/EDC_Scientific_Statement.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">The Endocrine Society - Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals - A Scientific Statement </a>\n\n<a title=\"TEDx - The Endocrine Disruption Exchange\" href=\"http://www.endocrinedisruption.com/home.php\" target=\"_blank\">TEDx - The Endocrine Disruption Exchange</a>\n\n<a title=\"Environment Canada - 2000 \" href=\"http://publications.gc.ca/Collection-R/LoPBdP/BP/prb0001-e.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Environment Canada - 2000</a>\n\n<a title=\"Journal of Environmental &amp; Public Health - Endocrine Disrupters\" href=\"http://www.hindawi.com/journals/jeph/2012/713696/\" target=\"_blank\">Journal of Environmental &amp; Public Health</a>\n\n<a title=\"Wikipedia - Endorcrine Disruptor\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endocrine_disruptor\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia - Endocrine Disruptor</a>\n\n<a title=\"Natural Resources Defence Council\" href=\"http://www.nrdc.org/health/effects/qendoc.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Natural Resources Defence Council</a>\n\n<a title=\"WHEN - Women\'s Health and the Environment Network\" href=\"http://www.wsn.org/cbe/hormone.html\" target=\"_blank\">WHEN - Women\'s Health and the Environment Network</a>\n\n<a title=\"EPA\" href=\"http://www.epa.gov/endocrine/#eds\" target=\"_blank\">Environmental Protection Agency </a>\n\n<a title=\"NIEHS - Recent Endocrine Research Resources\" href=\"http://www.niehs.nih.gov/health/assets/docs_a_e/endocrine_research_resources.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">NIEHS - Recent Endocrine Research Resources </a>\n\n<a title=\"NIEHS - Flame Retardants Linked to Reduced Fertility\" href=\"http://www.niehs.nih.gov/research/supported/sep/2010/fertility/index.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">NIEHS - Flame Retardants Linked to Infertility</a>\n\n<a title=\"Chem Trust - Pesticides\' Role in Some Cancers\" href=\"http://www.endocrinedisruption.com/files/CHEMTrustreportonpesticidesandcancer2010.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Chem Trust - Pesticide\'s Role in Some Cancers</a>\n\n<a title=\"Environmental Health Perspectives\" href=\"http://www.loe.org/images/content/090904/lowdose.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Environmental Health Perspectives </a>\n\n<a title=\"The Endocrine Society Issues Statement of Principles\" href=\"http://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/2012/09/the-endocrine-society-issues-statement-of-principles/\" target=\"_blank\">The Endocrine Society - Statement of Principles</a>\n\n<a title=\"HBCD - Flame retardant found in food in Dallas, TX\" href=\"http://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/2012/09/hexabromocyclododecane-hbcd-stereoisomers-in-u-s-food-from-dallas-texas/\" target=\"_blank\">Environmental Health Perspectives - HBCD, a flame retardant found in food</a>\n\n&nbsp;\n\nThis list is not exhaustive but provides a small sample of further reading for those interested in delving further into the research on endocrine disruptors.\n\nI\'m always looking for further research in the area of \"EDCs\" Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals and other Hormone Disrupters  -  please feel free to send me information on other articles/research to add to my growing list.','Research & Articles','','inherit','open','open','','756-revision-14','','','2012-11-08 10:49:39','2012-11-08 15:49:39','',756,'http://www.hormonesoup.com/756-revision-14/',0,'revision','',0),(829,1,'2012-11-08 12:59:48','2012-11-08 17:59:48','Further reading about the negative effects of Endocrine Disrupters on our health:\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Medical News Today - Xenoestrogens\" href=\"http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/245485.php\" target=\"_blank\">Medical News Today</a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"National Institute of Health Sciences\" href=\"http://www.niehs.nih.gov/health/topics/agents/endocrine/index.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences</a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Endocrine Society - Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals - A Scientific Study\" href=\"http://www.endo-society.org/journals/ScientificStatements/upload/EDC_Scientific_Statement.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">The Endocrine Society - Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals - A Scientific Statement </a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"TEDx - The Endocrine Disruption Exchange\" href=\"http://www.endocrinedisruption.com/home.php\" target=\"_blank\">TEDx - The Endocrine Disruption Exchange</a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Environment Canada - 2000 \" href=\"http://publications.gc.ca/Collection-R/LoPBdP/BP/prb0001-e.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Environment Canada - 2000</a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Journal of Environmental &amp; Public Health - Endocrine Disrupters\" href=\"http://www.hindawi.com/journals/jeph/2012/713696/\" target=\"_blank\">Journal of Environmental &amp; Public Health</a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Wikipedia - Endorcrine Disruptor\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endocrine_disruptor\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia - Endocrine Disruptor</a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Natural Resources Defence Council\" href=\"http://www.nrdc.org/health/effects/qendoc.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Natural Resources Defence Council</a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"WHEN - Women\'s Health and the Environment Network\" href=\"http://www.wsn.org/cbe/hormone.html\" target=\"_blank\">WHEN - Women\'s Health and the Environment Network</a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"EPA\" href=\"http://www.epa.gov/endocrine/#eds\" target=\"_blank\">Environmental Protection Agency </a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"NIEHS - Recent Endocrine Research Resources\" href=\"http://www.niehs.nih.gov/health/assets/docs_a_e/endocrine_research_resources.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">NIEHS - Recent Endocrine Research Resources </a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"NIEHS - Flame Retardants Linked to Reduced Fertility\" href=\"http://www.niehs.nih.gov/research/supported/sep/2010/fertility/index.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">NIEHS - Flame Retardants Linked to Infertility</a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Chem Trust - Pesticides\' Role in Some Cancers\" href=\"http://www.endocrinedisruption.com/files/CHEMTrustreportonpesticidesandcancer2010.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Chem Trust - Pesticide\'s Role in Some Cancers</a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Environmental Health Perspectives\" href=\"http://www.loe.org/images/content/090904/lowdose.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Environmental Health Perspectives </a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"The Endocrine Society Issues Statement of Principles\" href=\"http://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/2012/09/the-endocrine-society-issues-statement-of-principles/\" target=\"_blank\">The Endocrine Society - Statement of Principles</a>\r\n\r\n<a title=\"HBCD - Flame retardant found in food in Dallas, TX\" href=\"http://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/2012/09/hexabromocyclododecane-hbcd-stereoisomers-in-u-s-food-from-dallas-texas/\" target=\"_blank\">Environmental Health Perspectives - HBCD, a flame retardant found in food</a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThis list is not exhaustive but provides a small sample of further reading for those interested in delving further into the research on endocrine disruptors.\r\n\r\nI\'m always looking for further research in the area of \"EDCs\" Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals and other Hormone Disrupters  -  please feel free to send me information on other articles/research to add to my growing list.','Research & Articles','','inherit','open','open','','756-revision-15','','','2012-11-08 12:59:48','2012-11-08 17:59:48','',756,'http://www.hormonesoup.com/756-revision-15/',0,'revision','',0),(831,1,'2012-11-08 11:21:50','2012-11-08 16:21:50','Do what David Suzuki would do!  Let your government know that you want labelling of products and warnings about the health risks such as endocrine disruption.\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>In Canada, here\'s a link to <a title=\"David Suzuki - Take Action\" href=\"http://www.davidsuzuki.org/what-you-can-do/take-action/\" target=\"_blank\">David Suzuki\'s Take Action</a> page with a link to e-mailing our Minister of Health, Leona Aglukkaq so you can let her know that it matters to you. Also let your local government representative know.</li>\r\n	<li>In USA, here\'s a link to <a title=\"Local Motion Green - Take Action\" href=\"http://www.lmgresources.org/library/?p=1261\" target=\"_blank\">Local Motion Green</a> website with direct ways you can help such as contacting the EPA, contacting your government representatives and senators to encourage action.</li>\r\n	<li>Make wise consumer choices - choose to spend your dollars with companies and on products that are in line with minimizing health risks.</li>\r\n	<li>Tell companies that you want them to carry responsible products.</li>\r\n	<li>Check out <a title=\"Reducing My Family\'s Exposure to Hormone Disruptors\" href=\" http://www.hormonesoup.com/reducing-my-familys-exposure/\" target=\"_blank\">what I do to minimize my family\'s exposure</a> but don\'t be overwhelmed.  I started out with small changes.  It\'s costly to change everything at once but it\'s do-able over time and I\'m still working on it.  The important part is getting started.</li>\r\n	<li>Get your little informed-self out there and share your knowledge with others. If they tell 2 friends and they tell 2 friends and they tell 2 friends....you get the picture.  With social media today, it\'s never been easier to help spread the message.</li>\r\n</ul>','How to Help','','inherit','open','open','','818-revision-5','','','2012-11-08 11:21:50','2012-11-08 16:21:50','',818,'http://www.hormonesoup.com/818-revision-5/',0,'revision','',0),(832,1,'2012-11-08 13:01:37','2012-11-08 18:01:37','Do what David Suzuki would do!  Let your government know that you want labelling of products and warnings about the health risks such as endocrine disruption.\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>In Canada, here\'s a link to <a title=\"David Suzuki - Take Action\" href=\"http://www.davidsuzuki.org/what-you-can-do/take-action/\" target=\"_blank\">David Suzuki\'s Take Action</a> page with a link to e-mailing our Minister of Health, Leona Aglukkaq so you can let her know that it matters to you. Also let your local government representative know.</li>\r\n	<li>In USA, here\'s a link to <a title=\"Local Motion Green - Take Action\" href=\"http://www.lmgresources.org/library/?p=1261\" target=\"_blank\">Local Motion Green</a> website with direct ways you can help such as contacting the EPA, contacting your government representatives and senators to encourage action.</li>\r\n	<li>Make wise consumer choices - choose to spend your dollars with companies and on products that are in line with minimizing health risks.</li>\r\n	<li>Tell companies that you want them to carry responsible products.</li>\r\n	<li>Check out <a title=\"Reducing My Family\'s Exposure to Hormone Disruptors\" href=\" http://www.hormonesoup.com/reducing-my-familys-exposure/\" target=\"_blank\">what I do to minimize my family\'s exposure</a> but don\'t be overwhelmed.  I started out with small changes.  It\'s costly to change everything at once but it\'s do-able over time and I\'m still working on it.  The important part is getting started.</li>\r\n	<li>Get your little informed-self out there and share your knowledge with others. If they tell 2 friends and they tell 2 friends and they tell 2 friends....you get the picture.  With social media today, it\'s never been easier to help spread the message.</li>\r\n	<li>Teach your children - they will even keep you in line with your plan to avoid hormone disruptors!</li>\r\n</ul>','What to Do & How to Help','','inherit','open','open','','818-revision-6','','','2012-11-08 13:01:37','2012-11-08 18:01:37','',818,'http://www.hormonesoup.com/818-revision-6/',0,'revision','',0),(833,1,'2012-11-08 13:07:13','2012-11-08 18:07:13','Maybe you\'ve heard of xenoestrogens but don\'t really know what they are or how they work in your body.  I\'m going to explain what they are and why I try to minimize them in my life and more importantly to me - in my <strong>children\'s</strong> lives.\n\n<strong>Xenoestrogen</strong> means <strong>foreign estrogen</strong> - which basically means any outside substance that acts like estrogen once inside our body.  It includes chemical compounds and pesticides, as well as both synthetic and natural estrogen that we ingest or apply.  <strong>Phytoestrogens</strong> are another type of xenoestrogen - plants such as soy that have been touted as beneficial or harmful depending upon who you listen too. (I\'m not going to discuss phytoestrogens as endocrine disruptors in this post because it is a whole other conundrum and I\'ve read mixed studies but you can read one review about it whether it is beneficial or harmful <a title=\"The pros and cons of phytoestrogens\" href=\"http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3074428/\" target=\"_blank\">here</a>.)\n\n<strong>Endocrine disruptors </strong>also called <strong>hormone disruptors </strong>are similar but actually refer specifically to chemicals and/or compounds that disrupt our endocrine (hormone) systems.\n\nChemicals can disrupt our hormones in several ways but without getting too scientific on you here is one simple explanation to help you visualize how a chemical can possibly disrupt your hormones:\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I think of it like a game of musical chairs - let\'s imagine the chairs are the estrogen receptors - there\'s only a limited number of them to go around.  When the endocrine disrupting chemical (EDC) enters your body &amp; jumps onto the estrogen receptors there\'s no where for your own estrogen to go! Those special receptors are supposed to be there for the estrogen <em>your body</em> is producing but instead your own estrogen has to roam freely in your body - contributing to estrogen dominance.   Every time EDC\'s win the game - your body &amp; hormone health lose.</span></strong></p>\nYour body doesn\'t even have to be producing too much estrogen to show symptoms of estrogen dominance.  Now imagine your poor liver has to deal with all this excess re-circulating estrogen.  (I\'ll talk about why you need to \"Show Some Love to Your Liver\" in a future post, especially if you have hormone issues.)\n\nEndocrine disruptors are being blamed for our rising rates of:\n<ul>\n	<li>Endometrial cancer</li>\n	<li>Breast cancer</li>\n	<li>PCOS - Poly-cycstic Ovarian Syndrome</li>\n	<li>Endometriosis</li>\n	<li>Fibroids</li>\n	<li>Infertility</li>\n	<li>and other problems, including testicular &amp; prostrate cancer in men.</li>\n</ul>\nXenoestrogens are found in plastic, metal food cans, household cleaners &amp; detergents, food, flame retardants, toys, cosmetics, and pesticides.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nRead my posts on:\n\nEstrogen dominance or on Why Estrogen Dominance Matters to you\n\nSign up for updates as I continue my series on estrogen\n\n&nbsp;\n\nFurther reading about the negative effects of Endocrine Disrupters on our health:\n\n<a title=\"Medical News Today - Xenoestrogens\" href=\"http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/245485.php\" target=\"_blank\">Medical News Today</a>\n\n<a title=\"National Institute of Health Sciences\" href=\"http://www.niehs.nih.gov/health/topics/agents/endocrine/index.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences</a>\n\n<a title=\"Endocrine Society - Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals - A Scientific Study\" href=\"http://www.endo-society.org/journals/ScientificStatements/upload/EDC_Scientific_Statement.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">The Endocrine Society - Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals - A Scientific Statement </a>\n\n<a title=\"TEDx - The Endocrine Disruption Exchange\" href=\"http://www.endocrinedisruption.com/home.php\" target=\"_blank\">TEDx - The Endocrine Disruption Exchange</a>\n\n<a title=\"Journal of Environmental &amp; Public Health - Endocrine Disrupters\" href=\"http://www.hindawi.com/journals/jeph/2012/713696/\" target=\"_blank\">Journal of Environmental &amp; Public Health</a>\n\n<a title=\"Wikipedia - Endorcrine Disruptor\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endocrine_disruptor\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia - Endocrine Disruptor</a>\n\n<a title=\"Natural Resources Defence Council\" href=\"http://www.nrdc.org/health/effects/qendoc.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Natural Resources Defence Council</a>\n\n<a title=\"EPA\" href=\"http://www.epa.gov/endocrine/#eds\" target=\"_blank\">Environmental Protection Agency </a>\n\n<a title=\"NIEHS - Recent Endocrine Research Resources\" href=\"http://www.niehs.nih.gov/health/assets/docs_a_e/endocrine_research_resources.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">NIEHS - Recent Endocrine Research Resources </a>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;','X is for Xenoestrogens','','inherit','open','open','','722-revision-14','','','2012-11-08 13:07:13','2012-11-08 18:07:13','',722,'http://www.hormonesoup.com/722-revision-14/',0,'revision','',0),(835,1,'2012-11-08 13:07:53','2012-11-08 18:07:53','The one thing I\'ve found throughout my research is that merely living on earth puts you at risk of exposure to hormone disrupting chemicals - they are everywhere! Even newborn babies born today have been contaminated with chemicals known to cause endocrine disruption.\r\n\r\nI don\'t think if you met me you\'d automatically think that I\'m a granola-crunching, tree-hugger.  I wear makeup, I colour my hair, I like pedicures and manicures, I love to eat good food &amp; drink red wine, I recycle and compost as much as the next person.  I\'m not a fanatic I guess you could say, BUT, I believe that there are ways we can reduce the negative impact these things have on our health. I\'m not an expert, but more of a student - I\'m learning all the time about things I\'ve been doing or products I\'ve been using that are not only hurtful to the environment but harmful to my delicate hormonal balance.  More and more, my concern is for my children and the future of their health, including their hormone health.\r\n\r\nHere\'s some of the things I do to try to reduce my family\'s risk of exposure to hormone disrupting chemicals:\r\n<h1>Plastics:</h1>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>We avoid plastics when we can - particularly 7, 6 &amp; 3.  Even my children know  \"7, 6 and 3 are not for me\".   When we were getting rid of \"bad\" plastics I taught my children how to identify the plastic by the symbol and number.  I told them I\'d give them $1 for every bad plastic they found in our house!  They ran around the house like crazy.  Fortunately they only found 3 pieces of \"bad\" plastic in our house.</li>\r\n	<li>we never microwave anything in plastic</li>\r\n	<li>use glass or ceramics to store food</li>\r\n	<li>don\'t let babies chew on plastics - find natural products/toys instead</li>\r\n	<li>I breastfed my babies for well over a year &amp; I didn\'t use pacifiers - it was my choice not merely because of the plastic exposure but the \"plastic\" factor definitely belongs on the pro side to breastfeeding and thumb sucking over pacifiers, as well many formulas are soy based and it wasn\'t all that long ago that nasty endocrine disruptors were found in formula.  I didn\'t know that my own exposure to phthalates, for example, meant that my breast milk would pass this endocrine disruptor onto my babies.</li>\r\n	<li>try and avoid plastic water bottles but we don\'t like stainless steel so found some good glass bottles that are wrapped in rubber so they are safe for my kids\' backpacks</li>\r\n	<li>we\'ve switched from Teflon pans to good old fashion cast iron pans</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h1>Cosmetics &amp; Body Care Products:</h1>\r\nWhen you consider that our skin is the largest organ in our body and it has direct exposure to many of the hormone disruptors.  Ever since I read that the average woman puts on 515 chemicals each morning I\'ve tried to reduce the amount of chemicals I put on my skin.  Finding out that I was putting things like formaldehyde on my skin each day just grossed me out.  Thinking about how I use topical progesterone cream made me realize even more how effective our skin is allowing both good and bad compounds into our body!\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>I have switched my cosmetics and body care products to natural products. There are many cosmetic choices that don\'t involve hormone disruptors. Many of the large health food stores like <a title=\"The Big Carrot - Body Care\" href=\"http://thebigcarrot.ca/index.php?id=27\" target=\"_blank\">\"The Big Carrot\"</a> in Toronto, Ontario, <a title=\"Nature\'s Emporium - Newmarket\" href=\"http://www.naturesemporium.ca/\" target=\"_blank\">\"Natures Emporium\"</a> in Newmarket, Ontario carry really nice body care &amp; cosmetic lines that are all natural.  Also their employees are super-informed about this stuff.  I also shop at <a title=\"The Detox Market\" href=\"http://www.thedetoxmarket.com/pages/our-location\" target=\"_blank\">\"The Detox Market\"</a> in Toronto, they have locations in LA and San Fransisco as well and they carry a small line of wonderful cosmetics and body care products.  And if you can\'t give up your Sephora addiction - they even carry natural cosmetic lines.  I\'ve found when I ask for a product the natural ones are NEVER suggested - they don\'t rush you over to them, you have to specifically ask for natural products.  And their staff isn\'t really educated about the benefits of natural products. Also their website doesn\'t have a way of searching for their organic makeup so unless you know the name of the brand you\'ll have trouble figuring out which ones are natural.</li>\r\n	<li>I use <a title=\"EWG - Skin Deep\" href=\"http://www.ewg.org/skindeep/\" target=\"_blank\">Environmental Working Group\'s Cosmetic Database - Skin Deep</a> to check on my family\'s body care products.  It\'s an invaluable resource for me.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nThe good news about natural cosmetics? They work just as well, they are on-trend, they don\'t have to cost more and are free of known hormone disruptors.\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Avoid anti-bacterial products like the plague</li>\r\n	<li>Avoid fragrances - they are jam-packed with hormone disruptors and have been able to make breast cancer cells grow in a lab environment!</li>\r\n	<li>Use natural sunscreen - I am going to admit I worry about slathering sunscreen all over my kids as much as I am concerned about their exposure to too much sun! My children spend a lot of time outdoors but I really do wonder what\'s worse for them - the chemicals or the sun?  I switched to natural sunscreen and feel better about it.</li>\r\n	<li>I buy natural deodorant and am teaching my tween daughter why it\'s better for her than the stuff she sees all the other girls using.  Maybe instead of her being influenced by her peers using the trendy products, she\'ll be able to teach her friends about the benefits of using natural products.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h1>Household Products:</h1>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>use natural cleaning products such as vinegar and baking soda or plant based cleaners</li>\r\n	<li>use a floor steamer - it uses only tap water - no harsh chemicals</li>\r\n	<li>don\'t use fabric softeners in the dryer - again, fragrances are loaded with hormone disruptors</li>\r\n	<li>I check out all products on Environmental Working Groups database - you may be surprised - even the products that you think are green probably have chemicals in them</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<a title=\"Environmental Working Group\'s Hall of Shame\" href=\"http://static.ewg.org/reports/2012/cleaners_hallofshame/cleaners_hallofshame.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Environmental Working Group\'s Hall of Shame</a> - Click here to see the worst offenders - some of these toxic chemicals are banned in certain countries, some have ingredients known to be carcinogenic.   And some of these products pretend they are \"green\" - some I\'ve had them in my own home thinking I was doing the right thing by buying \"Green\" products!  I\'m a sucker!\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Environmental Working Group\'s Guide to Cleaners\" href=\"http://www.ewg.org/guides/cleaners\" target=\"_blank\">Environmental Working Group\'s Guide to Healthy Cleaning</a> - Look up the cleaning products that you use on their database &amp; see what you\'re bringing into your house maybe without even knowing it!  EWG - rates common products for their safety.\r\n<h1>Food:</h1>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>I try to feed my family organic food as much as is possible based on what I have access to.</li>\r\n	<li>For many years I have been fortunate enough to be able to grow some of my own produce.</li>\r\n	<li>Again EWG to my rescue!  I keep informed with their <a title=\"EWG - Shoppers Guide to Pesticides\" href=\"http://www.ewg.org/foodnews/summary/\" target=\"_blank\">Shoppers Guide to Pesticides</a> - I keep a copy of their published Dirty Dozen and Clean 15 fruits and vegetables.  If you can\'t find all the organics where you live then at least focusing on the produce that has been found to have the highest concentrations of pesticide or the worst types of pesticide contamination</li>\r\n	<li>we have recently gone dairy-free at my house - once in a while some dairy slips into our diet but when it does I try to keep it organic.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n&nbsp;','Reducing My Family\'s Exposure to Hormone Disruptors','','inherit','open','open','','767-revision-22','','','2012-11-08 13:07:53','2012-11-08 18:07:53','',767,'http://www.hormonesoup.com/767-revision-22/',0,'revision','',0),(834,1,'2012-11-08 11:27:23','2012-11-08 16:27:23','The one thing I\'ve found throughout my research is that merely living on earth puts you at risk of exposure to hormone disrupting chemicals - they are everywhere! Even newborn babies born today have been contaminated with chemicals known to cause endocrine disruption.\r\n\r\nI don\'t think if you met me you\'d automatically think that I\'m a granola-crunching, tree-hugger.  I wear makeup, I colour my hair, I like pedicures and manicures, I love to eat good food &amp; drink red wine, I recycle and compost as much as the next person.  I\'m not a fanatic I guess you could say, BUT, I believe that there are ways we can reduce the negative impact these things have on our health. I\'m not an expert, but more of a student - I\'m learning all the time about things I\'ve been doing or products I\'ve been using that are not only hurtful to the environment but harmful to my delicate hormonal balance.  More and more, my concern is for my children and the future of their health, including their hormone health.\r\n\r\nHere\'s some of the things I do to try to reduce my family\'s risk of exposure to hormone disrupting chemicals:\r\n<h1>Plastics:</h1>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>We avoid plastics when we can - particularly 7, 6 &amp; 3.  Even my children know  \"7, 6 and 3 are not for me\".   When we were getting rid of \"bad\" plastics I taught my children how to identify the plastic by the symbol and number.  I told them I\'d give them $1 for every bad plastic they found in our house!  They ran around the house like crazy.  Fortunately they only found 3 pieces of \"bad\" plastic in our house.</li>\r\n	<li>we never microwave anything in plastic</li>\r\n	<li>use glass or ceramics to store food</li>\r\n	<li>don\'t let babies chew on plastics - find natural products/toys instead</li>\r\n	<li>I breastfed my babies for well over a year &amp; I didn\'t use pacifiers - it was my choice not merely because of the plastic exposure but the \"plastic\" factor definitely belongs on the pro side to breastfeeding and thumb sucking over pacifiers, as well many formulas are soy based and it wasn\'t all that long ago that nasty endocrine disruptors were found in formula.  I didn\'t know that my own exposure to phthalates, for example, meant that my breast milk would pass this endocrine disruptor onto my babies.</li>\r\n	<li>try and avoid plastic water bottles but we don\'t like stainless steel so found some good glass bottles that are wrapped in rubber so they are safe for my kids\' backpacks</li>\r\n	<li>we\'ve switched from Teflon pans to good old fashion cast iron pans</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h1>Cosmetics &amp; Body Care Products:</h1>\r\nWhen you consider that our skin is the largest organ in our body and it has direct exposure to many of the hormone disruptors.  Ever since I read that the average woman puts on 515 chemicals each morning I\'ve tried to reduce the amount of chemicals I put on my skin.  Finding out that I was putting things like formaldehyde on my skin each day just grossed me out.  Thinking about how I use topical progesterone cream made me realize even more how effective our skin is allowing both good and bad compounds into our body!\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>I have switched my cosmetics and body care products to natural products. There are many cosmetic choices that don\'t involve hormone disruptors. Many of the large health food stores like <a title=\"The Big Carrot - Body Care\" href=\"http://thebigcarrot.ca/index.php?id=27\" target=\"_blank\">\"The Big Carrot\"</a> in Toronto, Ontario, <a title=\"Nature\'s Emporium - Newmarket\" href=\"http://www.naturesemporium.ca/\" target=\"_blank\">\"Natures Emporium\"</a> in Newmarket, Ontario carry really nice body care &amp; cosmetic lines that are all natural.  Also their employees are super-informed about this stuff.  I also shop at <a title=\"The Detox Market\" href=\"http://www.thedetoxmarket.com/pages/our-location\" target=\"_blank\">\"The Detox Market\"</a> in Toronto, they have locations in LA and San Fransisco as well and they carry a small line of wonderful cosmetics and body care products.  And if you can\'t give up your Sephora addiction - they even carry natural cosmetic lines.  I\'ve found when I ask for a product the natural ones are NEVER suggested - they don\'t rush you over to them, you have to specifically ask for natural products.  And their staff isn\'t really educated about the benefits of natural products. Also their website doesn\'t have a way of searching for their organic makeup so unless you know the name of the brand you\'ll have trouble figuring out which ones are natural.</li>\r\n	<li>I use <a title=\"EWG - Skin Deep\" href=\"http://www.ewg.org/skindeep/\" target=\"_blank\">Environmental Working Group\'s Cosmetic Database - Skin Deep</a> to check on my family\'s body care products.  It\'s an invaluable resource for me.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nThe good news about natural cosmetics? They work just as well, they are on-trend, they don\'t have to cost more and are free of known hormone disruptors.\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Avoid anti-bacterial products like the plague</li>\r\n	<li>Avoid fragrances - they are jam-packed with hormone disruptors and have been able to make breast cancer cells grow in a lab environment!</li>\r\n	<li>Use natural sunscreen - I am going to admit I worry about slathering sunscreen all over my kids as much as I am concerned about their exposure to too much sun! My children spend a lot of time outdoors but I really do wonder what\'s worse for them - the chemicals or the sun?  I switched to natural sunscreen and feel better about it.</li>\r\n	<li>I buy natural deodorant and am teaching my tween daughter why it\'s better for her than the stuff she sees all the other girls using.  Maybe instead of her being influenced by her peers using the trendy products, she\'ll be able to teach her friends about the benefits of using natural products.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h1>Household Products:</h1>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>use natural cleaning products such as vinegar and baking soda or plant based cleaners</li>\r\n	<li>use a floor steamer - it uses only tap water - no harsh chemicals</li>\r\n	<li>don\'t use fabric softeners in the dryer - again, fragrances are loaded with hormone disruptors</li>\r\n	<li>I check out all products on Environmental Working Groups database - you may be surprised - even the products that you think are green probably have chemicals in them</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<a title=\"Environmental Working Group\'s Hall of Shame\" href=\"http://static.ewg.org/reports/2012/cleaners_hallofshame/cleaners_hallofshame.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Environmental Working Group\'s Hall of Shame</a> - Click here to see the worst offenders - some of these toxic chemicals are banned in certain countries, some have ingredients known to be carcinogenic.   And some of these products pretend they are \"green\" - some I\'ve had them in my own home thinking I was doing the right thing by buying \"Green\" products!  I\'m a sucker!\r\n\r\n<a title=\"Environmental Working Group\'s Guide to Cleaners\" href=\"http://www.ewg.org/guides/cleaners\" target=\"_blank\">Environmental Working Group\'s Guide to Healthy Cleaning</a> - Look up the cleaning products that you use on their database &amp; see what you\'re bringing into your house maybe without even knowing it!  EWG - rates common products for their safety.\r\n<h1>Food:</h1>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>I try to feed my family organic food as much as is possible based on what I have access to.  Milk and meat products are the most important but I try to also buy fresh, organic produce. For many years I have been fortunate enough to be able to grow some of my own produce.</li>\r\n	<li>Again EWG to my rescue!  I keep informed with their <a title=\"EWG - Shoppers Guide to Pesticides\" href=\"http://www.ewg.org/foodnews/summary/\" target=\"_blank\">Shoppers Guide to Pesticides</a> - I keep a copy of their published Dirty Dozen and Clean 15 fruits and vegetables.  If you can\'t find all the organics where you live then at least focusing on the produce that has been found to have the highest concentrations of pesticide or the worst types of pesticide contamination</li>\r\n	<li>we have recently gone \"mostly\" dairy-free at my house - once in a while some dairy slips into our diet but when it does I try to keep it organic.  This has been hard for me, as I\'m a big cheese fan!  I still let myself indulge sometimes.</li>\r\n	<li>when I eat out I try to make organic choices, fortunately many of my favourite restaurants in Toronto have organic, local and fresh choices on their menu.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n&nbsp;','Reducing My Family\'s Exposure to Hormone Disruptors','','inherit','open','open','','767-revision-21','','','2012-11-08 11:27:23','2012-11-08 16:27:23','',767,'http://www.hormonesoup.com/767-revision-21/',0,'revision','',0),(836,1,'2012-11-08 13:09:26','2012-11-08 18:09:26','Maybe you\'ve heard of xenoestrogens but don\'t really know what they are or how they work in your body.  I\'m going to explain what they are and why I try to minimize them in my life and more importantly to me - in my <strong>children\'s</strong> lives.\n\n<strong>Xenoestrogen</strong> means <strong>foreign estrogen</strong> - which basically means any outside substance that acts like estrogen once inside our body.  It includes chemical compounds and pesticides, as well as both synthetic and natural estrogen that we ingest or apply.  <strong>Phytoestrogens</strong> are another type of xenoestrogen - plants such as soy that have been touted as beneficial or harmful depending upon who you listen too. (I\'m not going to discuss phytoestrogens as endocrine disruptors in this post because it is a whole other conundrum and I\'ve read mixed studies but you can read one review about it whether it is beneficial or harmful <a title=\"The pros and cons of phytoestrogens\" href=\"http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3074428/\" target=\"_blank\">here</a>.)\n\n<strong>Endocrine disruptors </strong>also called <strong>hormone disruptors </strong>are similar but actually refer specifically to chemicals and/or compounds that disrupt our endocrine (hormone) systems.\n\nChemicals can disrupt our hormones in several ways but without getting too scientific on you here is one simple explanation to help you visualize how a chemical can possibly disrupt your hormones:\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I think of it like a game of musical chairs - let\'s imagine the chairs are the estrogen receptors - there\'s only a limited number of them to go around.  When the endocrine disrupting chemical (EDC) enters your body &amp; jumps onto the estrogen receptors there\'s no where for your own estrogen to go! Those special receptors are supposed to be there for the estrogen <em>your body</em> is producing but instead your own estrogen has to roam freely in your body - contributing to estrogen dominance.   Every time EDC\'s win the game - your body &amp; hormone health lose.</span></strong></p>\nYour body doesn\'t even have to be producing too much estrogen to show symptoms of estrogen dominance.  Now imagine your poor liver has to deal with all this excess re-circulating estrogen.  (I\'ll talk about why you need to \"Show Some Love to Your Liver\" in a future post, especially if you have hormone issues.)\n\nEndocrine disruptors are being blamed for our rising rates of:\n<ul>\n	<li>Endometrial cancer</li>\n	<li>Breast cancer</li>\n	<li>PCOS - Poly-cycstic Ovarian Syndrome</li>\n	<li>Endometriosis</li>\n	<li>Fibroids</li>\n	<li>Infertility</li>\n	<li>and other problems, including testicular &amp; prostrate cancer in men.</li>\n</ul>\nXenoestrogens are found in plastic, metal food cans, household cleaners &amp; detergents, food, flame retardants, toys, cosmetics, and pesticides.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nRead my posts on:\n\nEstrogen dominance or on<a title=\"Why You Need to Care About Estrogen Dominance\" href=\"http://www.hormonesoup.com/why-you-need-to-care-about-estrogen-dominance/\" target=\"_blank\"> Why Estrogen Dominance Matters</a> to you\n\nSign up for updates as I continue my series on estrogen\n\n&nbsp;\n\nFurther reading about the negative effects of Endocrine Disrupters on our health:\n\n<a title=\"Medical News Today - Xenoestrogens\" href=\"http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/245485.php\" target=\"_blank\">Medical News Today</a>\n\n<a title=\"National Institute of Health Sciences\" href=\"http://www.niehs.nih.gov/health/topics/agents/endocrine/index.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences</a>\n\n<a title=\"Endocrine Society - Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals - A Scientific Study\" href=\"http://www.endo-society.org/journals/ScientificStatements/upload/EDC_Scientific_Statement.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">The Endocrine Society - Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals - A Scientific Statement </a>\n\n<a title=\"TEDx - The Endocrine Disruption Exchange\" href=\"http://www.endocrinedisruption.com/home.php\" target=\"_blank\">TEDx - The Endocrine Disruption Exchange</a>\n\n<a title=\"Journal of Environmental &amp; Public Health - Endocrine Disrupters\" href=\"http://www.hindawi.com/journals/jeph/2012/713696/\" target=\"_blank\">Journal of Environmental &amp; Public Health</a>\n\n<a title=\"Wikipedia - Endorcrine Disruptor\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endocrine_disruptor\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia - Endocrine Disruptor</a>\n\n<a title=\"Natural Resources Defence Council\" href=\"http://www.nrdc.org/health/effects/qendoc.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Natural Resources Defence Council</a>\n\n<a title=\"EPA\" href=\"http://www.epa.gov/endocrine/#eds\" target=\"_blank\">Environmental Protection Agency </a>\n\n<a title=\"NIEHS - Recent Endocrine Research Resources\" href=\"http://www.niehs.nih.gov/health/assets/docs_a_e/endocrine_research_resources.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">NIEHS - Recent Endocrine Research Resources </a>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;','X is for Xenoestrogens','','inherit','open','open','','722-revision-15','','','2012-11-08 13:09:26','2012-11-08 18:09:26','',722,'http://www.hormonesoup.com/722-revision-15/',0,'revision','',0),(837,1,'2012-11-08 13:11:28','2012-11-08 18:11:28','Maybe you\'ve heard of xenoestrogens but don\'t really know what they are or how they work in your body.  I\'m going to explain what they are and why I try to minimize them in my life and more importantly to me - in my <strong>children\'s</strong> lives.\n\n<strong>Xenoestrogen</strong> means <strong>foreign estrogen</strong> - which basically means any outside substance that acts like estrogen once inside our body.  It includes chemical compounds and pesticides, as well as both synthetic and natural estrogen that we ingest or apply.  <strong>Phytoestrogens</strong> are another type of xenoestrogen - plants such as soy that have been touted as beneficial or harmful depending upon who you listen too. (I\'m not going to discuss phytoestrogens as endocrine disruptors in this post because it is a whole other conundrum and I\'ve read mixed studies but you can read one review about it whether it is beneficial or harmful <a title=\"The pros and cons of phytoestrogens\" href=\"http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3074428/\" target=\"_blank\">here</a>.)\n\n<strong>Endocrine disruptors </strong>also called <strong>hormone disruptors </strong>are similar but actually refer specifically to chemicals and/or compounds that disrupt our endocrine (hormone) systems.\n\nChemicals can disrupt our hormones in several ways but without getting too scientific on you here is one simple explanation to help you visualize how a chemical can possibly disrupt your hormones:\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I think of it like a game of musical chairs - let\'s imagine the chairs are the estrogen receptors - there\'s only a limited number of them to go around.  When the endocrine disrupting chemical (EDC) enters your body &amp; jumps onto the estrogen receptors there\'s no where for your own estrogen to go! Those special receptors are supposed to be there for the estrogen <em>your body</em> is producing but instead your own estrogen has to roam freely in your body - contributing to estrogen dominance.   Every time EDC\'s win the game - your body &amp; hormone health lose.</span></strong></p>\nYour body doesn\'t even have to be producing too much estrogen to show symptoms of estrogen dominance.  Now imagine your poor liver has to deal with all this excess re-circulating estrogen.  (I\'ll talk about why you need to \"Show Some Love to Your Liver\" in a future post, especially if you have hormone issues.)\n\nEndocrine disruptors are being blamed for our rising rates of:\n<ul>\n	<li>Endometrial cancer</li>\n	<li>Breast cancer</li>\n	<li>PCOS - Poly-cycstic Ovarian Syndrome</li>\n	<li>Endometriosis</li>\n	<li>Fibroids</li>\n	<li>Infertility</li>\n	<li>and other problems, including testicular &amp; prostrate cancer in men.</li>\n</ul>\nXenoestrogens are found in plastic, metal food cans, household cleaners &amp; detergents, food, flame retardants, toys, cosmetics, and pesticides.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nRead my posts on:\n\n<a title=\"What Does it Mean to be Estrogen Dominant\" href=\"http://www.hormonesoup.com/what-does-it-mean-to-be-estrogen-dominant/\" target=\"_blank\">Estrogen dominance</a> or on<a title=\"Why You Need to Care About Estrogen Dominance\" href=\"http://www.hormonesoup.com/why-you-need-to-care-about-estrogen-dominance/\" target=\"_blank\"> Why Estrogen Dominance Matters</a> to you.\n\nSign up for updates as I continue my series on estrogen.\n\nPlease\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;','X is for Xenoestrogens','','inherit','open','open','','722-revision-16','','','2012-11-08 13:11:28','2012-11-08 18:11:28','',722,'http://www.hormonesoup.com/722-revision-16/',0,'revision','',0),(838,1,'2012-11-08 13:12:24','2012-11-08 18:12:24','Maybe you\'ve heard of xenoestrogens but don\'t really know what they are or how they work in your body.  I\'m going to explain what they are and why I try to minimize them in my life and more importantly to me - in my <strong>children\'s</strong> lives.\r\n\r\n<strong>Xenoestrogen</strong> means <strong>foreign estrogen</strong> - which basically means any outside substance that acts like estrogen once inside our body.  It includes chemical compounds and pesticides, as well as both synthetic and natural estrogen that we ingest or apply.  <strong>Phytoestrogens</strong> are another type of xenoestrogen - plants such as soy that have been touted as beneficial or harmful depending upon who you listen too. (I\'m not going to discuss phytoestrogens as endocrine disruptors in this post because it is a whole other conundrum and I\'ve read mixed studies but you can read one review about it whether it is beneficial or harmful <a title=\"The pros and cons of phytoestrogens\" href=\"http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3074428/\" target=\"_blank\">here</a>.)\r\n\r\n<strong>Endocrine disruptors </strong>also called <strong>hormone disruptors </strong>are similar but actually refer specifically to chemicals and/or compounds that disrupt our endocrine (hormone) systems.\r\n\r\nChemicals can disrupt our hormones in several ways but without getting too scientific on you here is one simple explanation to help you visualize how a chemical can possibly disrupt your hormones:\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I think of it like a game of musical chairs - let\'s imagine the chairs are the estrogen receptors - there\'s only a limited number of them to go around.  When the endocrine disrupting chemical (EDC) enters your body &amp; jumps onto the estrogen receptors there\'s no where for your own estrogen to go! Those special receptors are supposed to be there for the estrogen <em>your body</em> is producing but instead your own estrogen has to roam freely in your body - contributing to estrogen dominance.   Every time EDC\'s win the game - your body &amp; hormone health lose.</span></strong></p>\r\nYour body doesn\'t even have to be producing too much estrogen to show symptoms of estrogen dominance.  Now imagine your poor liver has to deal with all this excess re-circulating estrogen.  (I\'ll talk about why you need to \"Show Some Love to Your Liver\" in a future post, especially if you have hormone issues.)\r\n\r\nEndocrine disruptors are being blamed for our rising rates of:\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Endometrial cancer</li>\r\n	<li>Breast cancer</li>\r\n	<li>PCOS - Poly-cycstic Ovarian Syndrome</li>\r\n	<li>Endometriosis</li>\r\n	<li>Fibroids</li>\r\n	<li>Infertility</li>\r\n	<li>and other problems, including testicular &amp; prostrate cancer in men.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nXenoestrogens are found in plastic, metal food cans, household cleaners &amp; detergents, food, flame retardants, toys, cosmetics, and pesticides.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nRead my posts on:\r\n\r\n<a title=\"What Does it Mean to be Estrogen Dominant\" href=\"http://www.hormonesoup.com/what-does-it-mean-to-be-estrogen-dominant/\" target=\"_blank\">Estrogen dominance</a> or on<a title=\"Why You Need to Care About Estrogen Dominance\" href=\"http://www.hormonesoup.com/why-you-need-to-care-about-estrogen-dominance/\" target=\"_blank\"> Why Estrogen Dominance Matters</a> to you.\r\n\r\nSign up for updates as I continue my series on estrogen.\r\n\r\nIf you learned something from this article please share it.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','X is for Xenoestrogens','','inherit','open','open','','722-revision-17','','','2012-11-08 13:12:24','2012-11-08 18:12:24','',722,'http://www.hormonesoup.com/722-revision-17/',0,'revision','',0),(839,1,'2012-11-08 13:13:54','2012-11-08 18:13:54','Maybe you\'ve heard of xenoestrogens but don\'t really know what they are or how they work in your body.  I\'m going to explain what they are and why I try to minimize them in my life and more importantly to me - in my <strong>children\'s</strong> lives.\n\n<strong>Xenoestrogen</strong> means <strong>foreign estrogen</strong> - which basically means any outside substance that acts like estrogen once inside our body.  It includes chemical compounds and pesticides, as well as both synthetic and natural estrogen that we ingest or apply.  <strong>Phytoestrogens</strong> are another type of xenoestrogen - plants such as soy that have been touted as beneficial or harmful depending upon who you listen too. (I\'m not going to discuss phytoestrogens as endocrine disruptors in this post because it is a whole other conundrum and I\'ve read mixed studies but you can read one review about it whether it is beneficial or harmful <a title=\"The pros and cons of phytoestrogens\" href=\"http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3074428/\" target=\"_blank\">here</a>.)\n\n<strong>Endocrine disruptors </strong>also called <strong>hormone disruptors </strong>are similar but actually refer specifically to chemicals and/or compounds that disrupt our endocrine (hormone) systems.\n\nChemicals can disrupt our hormones in several ways but without getting too scientific on you here is one simple explanation to help you visualize how a chemical can possibly disrupt your hormones:\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I think of it like a game of musical chairs - let\'s imagine the chairs are the estrogen receptors - there\'s only a limited number of them to go around.  When the endocrine disrupting chemical (EDC) enters your body &amp; jumps onto the estrogen receptors there\'s no where for your own estrogen to go! Those special receptors are supposed to be there for the estrogen <em>your body</em> is producing but instead your own estrogen has to roam freely in your body - contributing to estrogen dominance.   Every time EDC\'s win the game - your body &amp; hormone health lose.</span></strong></p>\nYour body doesn\'t even have to be producing too much estrogen to show symptoms of estrogen dominance.  Now imagine your poor liver has to deal with all this excess re-circulating estrogen.  (I\'ll talk about why you need to \"Show Some Love to Your Liver\" in a future post, especially if you have hormone issues.)\n\nEndocrine disruptors are being blamed for our rising rates of:\n<ul>\n	<li>Endometrial cancer</li>\n	<li>Breast cancer</li>\n	<li>PCOS - Poly-cycstic Ovarian Syndrome</li>\n	<li>Endometriosis</li>\n	<li>Fibroids</li>\n	<li>Infertility</li>\n	<li>and other problems, including testicular &amp; prostrate cancer in men.</li>\n</ul>\nXenoestrogens are found in plastic, metal food cans, household cleaners &amp; detergents, food, flame retardants, toys, cosmetics, and pesticides.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nRead my posts on:\n\n<a title=\"What Does it Mean to be Estrogen Dominant\" href=\"http://www.hormonesoup.com/what-does-it-mean-to-be-estrogen-dominant/\" target=\"_blank\">Estrogen dominance</a> or on<a title=\"Why You Need to Care About Estrogen Dominance\" href=\"http://www.hormonesoup.com/why-you-need-to-care-about-estrogen-dominance/\" target=\"_blank\"> Why Estrogen Dominance Matters</a> to you.\n\nSign up for updates as I continue my series on estrogen.\n\nIf you learned something from this article please share it.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;','X is for Xenoestrogens','','inherit','open','open','','722-revision-18','','','2012-11-08 13:13:54','2012-11-08 18:13:54','',722,'http://www.hormonesoup.com/722-revision-18/',0,'revision','',0),(840,1,'2012-11-08 13:46:22','2012-11-08 18:46:22','Maybe you\'ve heard of xenoestrogens but don\'t really know what they are or how they work in your body.  I\'m going to explain what they are and why I try to minimize them in my life and more importantly to me - in my <strong>children\'s</strong> lives.\n\n<strong>Xenoestrogen</strong> means <strong>foreign estrogen</strong> - which basically means any outside substance that acts like estrogen once inside our body.  It includes chemical compounds and pesticides, as well as both synthetic and natural estrogen that we ingest or apply.  <strong>Phytoestrogens</strong> are another type of xenoestrogen - plants such as soy that have been touted as beneficial or harmful depending upon who you listen too. (I\'m not going to discuss phytoestrogens as endocrine disruptors in this post because it is a whole other conundrum and I\'ve read mixed studies but you can read one review about it whether it is beneficial or harmful <a title=\"The pros and cons of phytoestrogens\" href=\"http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3074428/\" target=\"_blank\">here</a>.)\n\n<strong>Endocrine disruptors </strong>also called <strong>hormone disruptors </strong>are similar but actually refer specifically to chemicals and/or compounds that disrupt our endocrine (hormone) systems.\n\nChemicals can disrupt our hormones in several ways but without getting too scientific on you here is one simple explanation to help you visualize how a chemical can possibly disrupt your hormones:\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I think of it like a game of musical chairs - let\'s imagine the chairs are the estrogen receptors - there\'s only a limited number of them to go around.  When the endocrine disrupting chemical (EDC) enters your body &amp; jumps onto the estrogen receptors there\'s no where for your own estrogen to go! Those special receptors are supposed to be there for the estrogen <em>your body</em> is producing but instead your own estrogen has to roam freely in your body - contributing to estrogen dominance.   Every time EDC\'s win the game - your body &amp; hormone health lose.</span></strong></p>\nYour body doesn\'t even have to be producing too much estrogen to show symptoms of estrogen dominance.  Now imagine your poor liver has to deal with all this excess re-circulating estrogen.  (I\'ll talk about why you need to \"Show Some Love to Your Liver\" in a future post, especially if you have hormone issues.)\n\nEndocrine disruptors are being blamed for our rising rates of:\n<ul>\n	<li>Endometrial cancer</li>\n	<li>Breast cancer</li>\n	<li>PCOS - Poly-cycstic Ovarian Syndrome</li>\n	<li>Endometriosis</li>\n	<li>Fibroids</li>\n	<li>Infertility</li>\n	<li>and other problems, including testicular &amp; prostrate cancer in men.</li>\n</ul>\nXenoestrogens are found in plastic, metal food cans, household cleaners &amp; detergents, food, flame retardants, toys, cosmetics, and pesticides.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<strong>Read my posts</strong> on:\n\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a title=\"What Does it Mean to be Estrogen Dominant\" href=\"http://www.hormonesoup.com/what-does-it-mean-to-be-estrogen-dominant/\" target=\"_blank\">Estrogen dominance</a></span> or on<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a title=\"Why You Need to Care About Estrogen Dominance\" href=\"http://www.hormonesoup.com/why-you-need-to-care-about-estrogen-dominance/\" target=\"_blank\"> Why Estrogen Dominance Matters</a></span>.\n\n<strong>Sign up </strong>for updates if you\'d like to read more of my series of articles about  estrogen or other hormone imbalance.\n\nIf you learned something from this article<strong> please share it </strong>on Facebook or twitter.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;','X is for Xenoestrogens','','inherit','open','open','','722-revision-19','','','2012-11-08 13:46:22','2012-11-08 18:46:22','',722,'http://www.hormonesoup.com/722-revision-19/',0,'revision','',0),(841,1,'2012-11-08 13:48:02','2012-11-08 18:48:02','Maybe you\'ve heard of xenoestrogens but don\'t really know what they are or how they work in your body.  I\'m going to explain what they are and why I try to minimize them in my life and more importantly to me - in my <strong>children\'s</strong> lives.\n\n<strong>Xenoestrogen</strong> means <strong>foreign estrogen</strong> - which basically means any outside substance that acts like estrogen once inside our body.  It includes chemical compounds and pesticides, as well as both synthetic and natural estrogen that we ingest or apply.  <strong>Phytoestrogens</strong> are another type of xenoestrogen - plants such as soy that have been touted as beneficial or harmful depending upon who you listen too. (I\'m not going to discuss phytoestrogens as endocrine disruptors in this post because it is a whole other conundrum and I\'ve read mixed studies but you can read one review about it whether it is beneficial or harmful <a title=\"The pros and cons of phytoestrogens\" href=\"http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3074428/\" target=\"_blank\">here</a>.)\n\n<strong>Endocrine disruptors </strong>also called <strong>hormone disruptors </strong>are similar but actually refer specifically to chemicals and/or compounds that disrupt our endocrine (hormone) systems.\n\nChemicals can disrupt our hormones in several ways but without getting too scientific on you here is one simple explanation to help you visualize how a chemical can possibly disrupt your hormones:\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I think of it like a game of musical chairs - let\'s imagine the chairs are the estrogen receptors - there\'s only a limited number of them to go around.  When the endocrine disrupting chemical (EDC) enters your body &amp; jumps onto the estrogen receptors there\'s no where for your own estrogen to go! Those special receptors are supposed to be there for the estrogen <em>your body</em> is producing but instead your own estrogen has to roam freely in your body - contributing to estrogen dominance.   Every time EDC\'s win the game - your body &amp; hormone health lose.</span></strong></p>\nYour body doesn\'t even have to be producing too much estrogen to show symptoms of estrogen dominance.  Now imagine your poor liver has to deal with all this excess re-circulating estrogen.  (I\'ll talk about why you need to \"Show Some Love to Your Liver\" in a future post, especially if you have hormone issues.)\n\nEndocrine disruptors are being blamed for our rising rates of:\n<ul>\n	<li>Endometrial cancer</li>\n	<li>Breast cancer</li>\n	<li>PCOS - Poly-cycstic Ovarian Syndrome</li>\n	<li>Endometriosis</li>\n	<li>Fibroids</li>\n	<li>Infertility</li>\n	<li>and other problems, including testicular &amp; prostrate cancer in men.</li>\n</ul>\nXenoestrogens are found in plastic, metal food cans, household cleaners &amp; detergents, food, flame retardants, toys, cosmetics, and pesticides.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<strong>Read my posts</strong> on:\n\n<strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a title=\"What Does it Mean to be Estrogen Dominant\" href=\"http://www.hormonesoup.com/what-does-it-mean-to-be-estrogen-dominant/\" target=\"_blank\">Estrogen dominance</a></span> </strong>or on<strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a title=\"Why You Need to Care About Estrogen Dominance\" href=\"http://www.hormonesoup.com/why-you-need-to-care-about-estrogen-dominance/\" target=\"_blank\"> Why Estrogen Dominance Matters</a></span></strong>.\n\n<strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Sign up</span> </strong>for updates if you\'d like to read more of my series of articles about  estrogen or other hormone imbalance.\n\nIf you learned something from this article<strong> please share it </strong>on Facebook or twitter.\n\n<a title=\"Share Your Story with Hormone Soup\" href=\"http://www.hormonesoup.com/share-your-story/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Share your Story</strong></span></a> so other women can benefit and feel less alone.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;','X is for Xenoestrogens','','inherit','open','open','','722-revision-20','','','2012-11-08 13:48:02','2012-11-08 18:48:02','',722,'http://www.hormonesoup.com/722-revision-20/',0,'revision','',0),(842,1,'2012-11-08 14:25:04','2012-11-08 19:25:04','Maybe you\'ve heard of xenoestrogens but don\'t really know what they are or how they work in your body.  I\'m going to explain what they are and why I try to minimize them in my life and more importantly to me - in my <strong>children\'s</strong> lives.\n\n<strong>Xenoestrogen</strong> means <strong>foreign estrogen</strong> - which basically means any outside substance that acts like estrogen once inside our body.  It includes chemical compounds and pesticides, as well as both synthetic and natural estrogen that we ingest or apply.  <strong>Phytoestrogens</strong> are another type of xenoestrogen - plants such as soy that have been touted as beneficial or harmful depending upon who you listen too. (I\'m not going to discuss phytoestrogens as endocrine disruptors in this post because it is a whole other conundrum and I\'ve read mixed studies.)\n\n<strong>Endocrine disruptors </strong>also called <strong>hormone disruptors </strong>are similar but actually refer specifically to chemicals and/or compounds that disrupt our endocrine (hormone) systems.\n\nI\'ve known about xenoestrogens for a while now but didn\'t really \"get\" what they were or how a chemical could possibly disrupt my hormones in my body. Researching xenoestrogens made me realize that it\'s even more complicated than I could have imagined, scientists really have their work cut out for them on this one but damn I wish they\'d get to it!\n\nFor me it helped to visualize the process going on in our body. Chemicals can disrupt our hormones in several ways but without getting too scientific on you here is one simple explanation to help you visualize how a chemical could possibly disrupt your hormones:\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">One way to think of it is like a game of musical chairs - let\'s imagine the chairs are the estrogen receptors - there\'s only a limited number of them to go around.  When the endocrine disrupting chemical (EDC) enters your body &amp; jumps onto the estrogen receptors there\'s no where for your own estrogen to go! Those special receptors are supposed to be there for the estrogen <em>your body</em> is producing but instead your own estrogen has to roam freely in your body. Sometimes those EDC\'s activate the receptors but sometimes they inactivate them!  The bottom line is that every time EDC\'s win the game -  your hormone health loses.</span></strong></p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Check out this<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a title=\"GreenFacts.org - Endocrine Disrupting Animation\" href=\"http://www.greenfacts.org/en/endocrine-disruptors/l-2/endocrine-disruptors-1.htm#2\" target=\"_blank\"> animated illustration</a></span> to watch an endocrine disruptor in action on GreenFacts.org.</p>\nThis is a good example of how your body doesn\'t even have to be producing too much estrogen to show symptoms of estrogen dominance.  Now imagine your poor liver has to deal with all this excess re-circulating estrogen.  (I\'ll talk about why you need to \"Show Some Love to Your Liver\" in a future post, especially if you have hormone issues.)\n\nEndocrine disruptors are being blamed for our rising rates of:\n<ul>\n	<li>Endometrial cancer</li>\n	<li>Breast cancer</li>\n	<li>PCOS - Poly-cycstic Ovarian Syndrome</li>\n	<li>Endometriosis</li>\n	<li>Fibroids</li>\n	<li>Infertility</li>\n	<li>and other problems, including testicular &amp; prostrate cancer in men.</li>\n</ul>\nXenoestrogens are found in plastic, metal food cans, household cleaners &amp; detergents, food, flame retardants, toys, cosmetics, and pesticides.\n\nLike I said, there are other ways your hormones can get disrupted, here are some links explaining the mechanisms:\n\n<a title=\"Todipedia - Endocrine Disruptors\" href=\"http://toxipedia.org/display/toxipedia/Endocrine+Disruptors\" target=\"_blank\">Toxipedia - Endocrine Disruptors</a>\n\n<a title=\"Mechanisms of Endocrine Disruption\" href=\"http://website.lineone.net/~mwarhurst/mechanisms.html\" target=\"_blank\">Mechanisms of Endocrine Disruption</a>\n\nTo stay informed:\n<ul>\n	<li><strong>Read my posts</strong> about: <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a title=\"What Does it Mean to be Estrogen Dominant\" href=\"http://www.hormonesoup.com/what-does-it-mean-to-be-estrogen-dominant/\" target=\"_blank\">Estrogen dominance</a></span> </strong>&amp; <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a title=\"Why You Need to Care About Estrogen Dominance\" href=\"http://www.hormonesoup.com/why-you-need-to-care-about-estrogen-dominance/\" target=\"_blank\">Why Estrogen Dominance Matters to You</a></span></strong></li>\n	<li><strong><a title=\"Keep Up-to-Date\" href=\"http://www.hormonesoup.com/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Sign up</span></a> </strong>for updates if you\'d like to read more of my series of articles about  estrogen or other hormone imbalance.</li>\n	<li>Share this If you learned something from this article<strong> please share it </strong>on Facebook or twitter.</li>\n</ul>\n<a title=\"Share Your Story with Hormone Soup\" href=\"http://www.hormonesoup.com/share-your-story/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Share your Story</strong></span></a> so other women can benefit and feel less alone.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;','X is for Xenoestrogens','','inherit','open','open','','722-revision-21','','','2012-11-08 14:25:04','2012-11-08 19:25:04','',722,'http://www.hormonesoup.com/722-revision-21/',0,'revision','',0),