Re: Natural hormones in food

[Guest guest]

> Sally and Enig comment negatively about estrogen like effects

of

> some substances in soy, but don't all animal foods contain hormones

that

> affect our hormonal profiles as well? Aren't they harmful too?

The current textbooks on digestion still claim that hormones do not

survive protein reduction to amino acids in the stomach. However,

given the poor state of digestion in most individuals, and prevalence

of " leaky gut " (intestinal permeability) due to imflammatory reactions

in the small intestine from eating non-biologically correct foods

(grain, etc.), some peptides and whole proteins probably are entering

the bloodstream; not good.

And

how

> are they different from horse derived hormones used for HRT, aside

from

> risks of manipulating individual hormones?

Specific hormone taken on specific dosing schedule, taken on empty

stomach to bypass protein splitting in stomach (passes throught to

intestine due to too little stimulus for acid production and due to

unsuppressed motility (low volume food mass)). Still not a good

idea in my opinion.

Portland, OR