Good organic food will sure help a lot, because many pesticides, herbicides, and fungicides that are on food are pseudoestrogens, which cause decline in testosterone. Atrazine is the chemical that first alerted Alex Jones to the problem of frogs undergoing feminization, for example.
Most plastics also ooze various chemicals, many of which also reduce testosterone. Our waterpipes are plastic, and pvc is one of the worst plastics in this regard, and also extremely common as plumbing pipe. Almost all our food is sold to us packaged in plastic. Tin cans are lined with plastic because many canned foods are acidic and chemically react with the metals of the cans. Same with soda cans. Lots of implements we use to cook have plastic lining, and teflon is horribly destructive of testosterone.
Our shampoos, soaps, conditioners, deodorants, toothpaste, makeup, cleaning solutions, glues, solvents, paints, and clothes are all oozing testosterone destroying chemicals.
The problem isn't soluble by taking vitamins, particularly not if - as is the rule - those supplements come in plastic bottles.
It's not just Soy. Many drugs and additives in our food also do the same thing.
What will help is using glass containers, steel cookware, ceramic plates, cups, and bowls, wool and cotton clothes and fabric, such as furniture and rugs, organic glues and solvents and paints, and avoiding plastic and factory processed foods and products of every kind.
It's a lot of work to replace shampoos and hygiene products with ones that don't contain harmful chemicals. I brush my teeth with baking soda with a bit of mint powder in it to make it taste better (can't find a toothbrush that isn't plastic though. Gonna have to make my own). There are recipes for soap, and similar products you can make yourself, or buy from specialty boutiques or local crafters. Coconut oil, baking soda and cornstarch to stiffen it will make deodorant.
The organic food and homestead community here on Steem is well represented, with folks like @homesteaderscoop, @breezin, @minismallholding, and the @naturalmedicine community even offers it's own token, Lotus. I'd start searching through their follows to find more, and through their back catalogs for posts with recipes.
Stop allowing plastics to ooze into your body through your foods, hygiene products, clothes, plumbing, and cookware and utensils first, and then see about getting plastics and chemicals out of your house and car to the extent you can. Copper water pipes are expensive, and you can only replace the ones in a home you own. The local water utility probably uses plastic pipes, which you probably can't get them to change. It might be possible to filter out many chemicals, but water filters good enough to get hormone analogs out of water aren't cheap. They're also usually made of plastic LOL.
Lemme know if you find any good ideas, too. I'm trying to figure out just how impacted I am by endocrine disruption through my doctor now, but my GP originally told me they didn't even know how to test for it. Since my heart attack they are coming around, since low test is a strong factor in heart disease. You might get tested to see if you're in need of medical intervention to restore healthy hormone levels. Most people don't have any idea they have that problem, and most doctors don't even know it's as big a problem as it is.
Good organic food will sure help a lot, because many pesticides, herbicides, and fungicides that are on food are pseudoestrogens, which cause decline in testosterone. Atrazine is the chemical that first alerted Alex Jones to the problem of frogs undergoing feminization, for example.
Most plastics also ooze various chemicals, many of which also reduce testosterone. Our waterpipes are plastic, and pvc is one of the worst plastics in this regard, and also extremely common as plumbing pipe. Almost all our food is sold to us packaged in plastic. Tin cans are lined with plastic because many canned foods are acidic and chemically react with the metals of the cans. Same with soda cans. Lots of implements we use to cook have plastic lining, and teflon is horribly destructive of testosterone.
Our shampoos, soaps, conditioners, deodorants, toothpaste, makeup, cleaning solutions, glues, solvents, paints, and clothes are all oozing testosterone destroying chemicals.
The problem isn't soluble by taking vitamins, particularly not if - as is the rule - those supplements come in plastic bottles.
It's not just Soy. Many drugs and additives in our food also do the same thing.
What will help is using glass containers, steel cookware, ceramic plates, cups, and bowls, wool and cotton clothes and fabric, such as furniture and rugs, organic glues and solvents and paints, and avoiding plastic and factory processed foods and products of every kind.
It's a lot of work to replace shampoos and hygiene products with ones that don't contain harmful chemicals. I brush my teeth with baking soda with a bit of mint powder in it to make it taste better (can't find a toothbrush that isn't plastic though. Gonna have to make my own). There are recipes for soap, and similar products you can make yourself, or buy from specialty boutiques or local crafters. Coconut oil, baking soda and cornstarch to stiffen it will make deodorant.
The organic food and homestead community here on Steem is well represented, with folks like @homesteaderscoop, @breezin, @minismallholding, and the @naturalmedicine community even offers it's own token, Lotus. I'd start searching through their follows to find more, and through their back catalogs for posts with recipes.
Stop allowing plastics to ooze into your body through your foods, hygiene products, clothes, plumbing, and cookware and utensils first, and then see about getting plastics and chemicals out of your house and car to the extent you can. Copper water pipes are expensive, and you can only replace the ones in a home you own. The local water utility probably uses plastic pipes, which you probably can't get them to change. It might be possible to filter out many chemicals, but water filters good enough to get hormone analogs out of water aren't cheap. They're also usually made of plastic LOL.
Lemme know if you find any good ideas, too. I'm trying to figure out just how impacted I am by endocrine disruption through my doctor now, but my GP originally told me they didn't even know how to test for it. Since my heart attack they are coming around, since low test is a strong factor in heart disease. You might get tested to see if you're in need of medical intervention to restore healthy hormone levels. Most people don't have any idea they have that problem, and most doctors don't even know it's as big a problem as it is.
Maybe show them Jeremy Grantham's letter.