Environmental Toxins: Environmental Toxin Can Act As Estrogen

Lorna Vanderhaeghe, a nutritionist with a bachelors degree in biochemistry, has been researching and writing about nutritional medicine for the last 25 years. Vanderhaage says that people are exposed to numerous compounds that can act as estrogens from the environment daily. Certain foods, stress, a lack of exercise, and environmental toxins can affect the way in which estrogen should act. An environmental compound known as an xenoestrogen can act as estrogen, increasing risk of certain kinds of cancer.

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Xenoestrogen overexposure is caused by exposure to pesticides in meat, poultry, and dairy products. They also can be found in plastics, fabric softeners, dry cleaned clothing, hair dyes, and perfumes. Vanderhaege says that personal products are so harmful that "by the time we leave the bathroom in the morning, we are totally toxic." Xenoestrogens are highly carcinogenic and can lead to many health problems.