We have bottles for ourselves, Ryder, and Channing. We love the LifeFactory glass water bottles.

ItвЂ™s not as hard as you think once you commit to it and make bringing water with you part of your anticancer lifestyle. Never buy water from a plastic water bottle again. Since the amount of hormone released in the body naturally is so small to produce so many profound effects, the (cumulative) dose needed begin throwing things off is very low.

With estrogen mimickers and endocrine disruptors as a whole itвЂ™s also important to note that it doesnвЂ™t take much at all to lead to health problems. Again, weвЂ™ll get into what to avoid besides plastics in a future article but at the end of the day we all need to be striving to live naturally and continually asking ourselves if what weвЂ™re exposing ourselves and our children to could be unnatural. These endocrine disrupting chemicals deserve an article of their own, but for now, know that they mess with hormones in all sorts of ways that screw up the bodyвЂ™s regular functions and lead to all sorts of serious health problems. ThereвЂ™s even strong evidence to suggest that estrogen mimickers and all endocrine disrupting chemicals can have a negative effect of epigenetics (the way your genes actually get expressed). ItвЂ™s basically what regulates all biological processes in the body from development of the brain and nervous system, to growth and function of the reproductive system, to metabolism and regulating blood sugar levels. The endocrine system is made of female ovaries, male testes, the pituitary gland, thyroid gland, adrenal glands, hypothalamus, pituitary gland, thyroid gland, adrenal gland, and so on. If this wasnвЂ™t bad enough, estrogen mimickers are part of a much larger group pf chemicals known as endocrine disrupting chemicals. Estrogen Mimickers are Just Part of the Problem This is a particularly scary thought given the fact that even вЂњhealthyвЂќ people already have a large number of cancer cells floating around at any given time. The test that they used to determine the coming from the plastics had estrogenic activity by the way? The researchers exposed a line of estrogen receptive breast cancer cells to them and noted increases in multiplication rates.

ItвЂ™s also important to note that many products labeled вЂњBPA-freeвЂќ actually had far greater estrogenic activity than those containing BPA!! If that wasnвЂ™t bad enough, when they exposed the products to everyday conditions such as sunlight and heat (sitting in a car, dishwashing, microwaving), 95% of the products leached estrogen mimicking chemicals. Initially the test showed that around 70% of these products leached chemicals with estrogenic activity. WeвЂ™re talking everything from baby bottles to adult water bottles to food containers and wraps to plastic bags. Not just the plastic bottles that hopefully youвЂ™re already avoiding. Now what if I told you that almost EVERYTHING you buy in a plastic packaging of any sort, whether itвЂ™s one of the supposed вЂњsafeвЂќ recycling symbols or BPA-free, is leaching these xeno-estrogens into your food?ДЄ 2011 study took 455 products straight off retailersвЂ™ shelves, from Walmart up to Whole Foods, and tested them for the release of estrogen mimicking chemicals. Virtually All Plastics Leach Estrogen Mimicking Chemicals And thatвЂ™s not to mention early puberty in females, reduced sperm count in males, altered functions of reproductive organs, and obesity.

Chemicals with estrogenic activity have been linked to most notably breast cancer, but also ovarian, testicular, and prostate cancers. As the name implies, these mimic the hormone estrogen inside the body, throwing off hormonal balance and encouraging rapid cell division. The main health concern behind Bisphenol-A (BPA) is that it acts as an estrogen mimicker, or xeno-estrogen. DonвЂ™t think for one minute that just because you or your children are drinking out of a BPA-free bottle or eating something from a BPA-free container there isnвЂ™t a significant health risk. BPA is NOT the Only Estrogen Mimicker in Plastic!Д«PA-free does not equal safe.

Chewing on plastic increase in estrogen