In episode 136 of Robb Wolf's The Paleo Solution Podcast, Wolf interviews "strength and conditioning and hormonal modulation guru expert extraordinaire Brad Davidson". On the podcast, Davidson says the following...
I'm in my mid 30s, have no apparent health issues, I feel fine, and I am thin, but I've always wondered about how modern products affect our hormones on a daily basis.Brad Davidson wrote:...Women don’t understand all the xeno estrogens that are in their lotion, their perfume, their shampoos. So we have real big discussion with high level athlete. Any type of a physique matters or performance in the body matters, we have a real big conversation. I always send them to EWG.org to rank their products to make sure that stuff's out.
But the big ones that I see in the chemicals are DBP, DEP, DEAHP, BZBP and DNP. Those are the ingredients you want to look for that are most dangerous or anything that has paraben after it. That's amazing how fast... Mark Schauss is a guy that I was introduced to through Charles. I took a seminar with him on toxicity.
He believes a large amount of toxins coming in are through solvents. The stuff we're putting on our bodies. So that's always a top 5 thing. After that, it's always an inability to detoxify estrogens appropriately, so we'll always use Dimavale, you know, sulforaphane products, to really help aid in the detoxification of the estrogen.
Most women just don’t understand that. I think every man, woman and child today has to be on some type of estrogen detoxification product every day because we're just bombarded and then 5, sleep's always an issue.
In my opinion, I've learned you know you have a liver toxicity issues when you're awake between 1 and 3. You know, it's kind of the Chinese clock for liver. I find when people, especially women when they're awake between 1 and 3, they're livers are overly burned with xeno-estrogens.
Source: http://robbwolf.com/2012/06/12/estrogen ... isode-136/
While rebalancing our portfolios is certainly important, I can't help but wonder if checking our hormones, occasionally, is a good idea as we age.
Unfortunately, many doctors do not fully understand how to support hormone imbalances. So I would recommend that anyone who is interested in rebalancing their hormones work with a qualified functional medical practitioner and possibly get an additional 2 or 3 medical opinions, if possible. This is not something you want to do entirely on your own.
However, I do recommend learning as much as possible about the subject before talking to your practitioner. Often a bit of education can save you a lot of pain (and money) down the road.