NEVER DRINK WATER FROM THE TAP
Dr Marion Gluck has been helping women resolve hormone issues for more than 25 years. She says:
we are surrounded by hormones and hormone-mimicking compounds in our environment — they’re in plastic containers and bottles, in perfumes, pesticides and intensively-farmed meats.
The problem is they either create an excess of the hormone, or they block the receptors, meaning the body behaves as though it doesn’t have enough of that hormone.
One of the worst culprits is tap water. Since HRT and the contraceptive Pill have been widely prescribed, our waste water has been full of hormones.
It’s one of the reasons why male fish have started to display female characteristics, why oestrogen-related cancers, such as breast cancer, uterine cancers and ovarian cancers are on the rise — water is full of oestrogen which is not removed by the usual filtration systems.
This causes a hormonal imbalance which can lead to mood swings, but also to weight gain, something we often refer to as middle-aged spread, but which is often related to hormones in our environment.
The answer is to drink bottled water from natural sources (from glass bottles, not plastic) or to invest a reverse osmosis filtration system. Many argue that the hormones in water are negligible, but it’s the cumulative effect that you should worry about.