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while continuing to pursue a healthy , physically active life style alongside his wife , who is both setting the very best example for his young daughter .
Our world ’ s out of control estrogen crisis is impacting proper development in young females as well , why is this problem ? High estrogen saturation from such a young age in girls means early puberty , in some cases as early as 8-9 years old ! Young women are getting infused with estrogen from the youngest ages , all the way through development and then into adulthood . Estrogen is the main component of modern birth control , which most young and middle aged women take throughout their lives . Estrogen is in the processed food , food products and various chemicals we feed to young girls which then carries on into adulthood . Studies on women ’ s fertility , which began in the 1960 ’ s ( focused on fertility rates and viable eggs ), these numbers have decreased by nearly 50 %! In the next 50 years this number is predicted to decline by yet , another 50 %. This is absolutely catastrophic ! Where will this take us as a species ? It will inevitably become increasingly harder and harder to conceive naturally , when pairing women ’ s low egg counts and men ’ s ever decreasing testosterone levels . That next visit to your local fast food joint could cost you a lot more than just not fitting into your favourite jeans or your favourite dress .
Young women are , more often than not , the ones who pay the highest price to this out-of-control estrogen ingestion which is linked to many early onset diseases . There has been an alarming increase of cases of breast cancer , ovarian cancer and cervical cancers in teenage girls , the risk only extrapolating into young adulthood . Estrogen overload and the increased rate of obesity in young women only increase the inevitable rise of comorbidities ( that is more than two diseases coexisting in one person ). Diabetes , heart disease , atherogenic cholesterol overload , not to mention the psychological trauma , lack of confidence and physical damage that these young women face in all stages of their life .
Today we are influenced by , and fall victim to this estrogen overload from before birth , it all begins with the nutrition of the mother and the influence of her diet on the unborn baby . Unfortunately , in our current society , new parents who do not actively seek out their own nutritional needs , are not taught , effective pre-and post natal nutrition . It is very much an unknown world to navigate , filled with unregulated , refined sugars , enriched white flour , high fructose corn syrup , and lactose ( dairy ) and oxidized vegetable oils . HEATED AND PROCESSED OMEGA 3 & 6 fats are just as bad , if not worse for us as the sugars we are consuming at an alarming rate ! When you combine them it is simply a metabolic and biochemical chaos for our bodies . Example : Chips ; Refined starch ( simple sugar ), superheated , processed vegetable oil for the “ crispiness ” and all the other tasty , convenience foods and food products which consist of a whole bunch of names we cannot pronounce . From infancy , our children are fed a steady diet of sugar ; from sippy cups of juice , cereal for breakfast , toast and milk , we are giving most children nearly 100g of simple sugars for their very first meal and yet little to no protein or essential ( healthy ) fats . We continue this trend from infancy then into childhood through teenage years which sets the stage for the exact same toxic dietary habits once adulthood hits .
We are conditioned from a young age to eat this way , not only is the convenience factor so appealing but we are programmed and ‘ trained ’ to crave it . Our brains have become addicted from birth ; the copious amounts of refined simple sugars we consume consistently are not being properly prioritized within our bodies , to be used as expended energy which is their true purpose . Instead they are now synonymous with the increase in body fat and high estrogen levels , all of which leads to the late development for young boys and early development in young girls . Adding to this , very little to no physical exercise for the vast majority of our society , over the last few decades , we are hooked up to screens of all sizes 24 / 7 and less and less we push young people to go outside and play . Due to modern technology , we certainly don ’ t have to work to keep ourselves warm or fed so from once , where we were in an existence of unavoidable physical activity ; we are more and more , less active and less physical . Activity , exercise and fitness all play a massively important role on the development or in some cases the lack of development , of our young people .
We have this excessive , constant and persuasive influence from media , food product advertising , culture , lack of exercise and toxins , yes toxins , commonly found in plastics all of which impact this estrogen crisis . Most specifically when speaking of toxins , one of the worst scandals was the knowledge of BPAs ( Biphenyl A ), a chemical compound commonly found and used in hard plastics and until recently in almost every
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