The Feminisation of Nature

Environmental pollution threatens all animal life on this planet. The worst and most dangerous pollution in a longer perspective, might very well be a matter of sex hormones, because it has the potential to interrupt reproduction.

I. Fat & Hormones

I am sure that most of you have at some time in life had the experience of something new that fundamentally changes the way you look at a certain thing, making you instantly see it in a different light. It can be triggered by something you hear or read, or by almost anything. And it changes your thinking forever.

That happened to me several decades ago when I was browsing through a box of second-hand books in a major European city. Suddenly I held in my hand a book from 1982, named "Diabetes Breakthrough: Control Through Nutrition" by Somasundaram (Sam) Addanki.

Interesting as it might be, diabetes control through nutrition was nothing new to me, and I don't think I would have bought the book, had I not looked through it and seen some sentences about the connection between hormones and fat. Sam Addanki did not just link diabetes and some other diseases to obesity, he took the whole thing a step further. Why would fat be dangerous? The problem is, as we shall see, hormones, mainly estrogens (female sexual hormones). Today this is more or less accepted by the medical establishment, but then it was not. How far the consequences of this might take us, however, is still realised only by a limited few.

There is a complex interaction between various glands and organs, and too much estrogen disturbs or blocks the signals (communication) between them, causing havoc in the systems, resulting in diabetes, cancer (especially of the uterus, breasts, colon and prostate) and other ailments – even overeating and overweight. It causes male feminisation, impotence, and sometimes sterility. How it works is fascinating reading, but a full explanation would require a lot of medical details, so let us try to keep it simple. The point is that the signals will no longer work properly and organs will start to act on incorrect information.

Glandular estrogen is produced naturally by all individuals, male and female. If that were all, everything would probably function well. The problem is that additional estrogens are added by a number of factors we can influence.

1. Contraception pills & estrogen therapy.

2. Obesity. (Fat tissue actually produces estrogens. The more fat, the more estrogens.)

3. High fat diet. Intestinal bacteria produce estrogens when they are fed fat.

4. Alcohol (especially for males), which decreases the secretion of various male hormones and increases levels of estrogens and prolactin (another "female" hormone).

5. Other factors, which are not mentioned by Sam Addanki. More about that below.

An interesting detail is that the liver can change sex! One of the many important functions of this organ is to act as a filter of hormones. It removes those we are not meant to have and excretes them via the faeces. In males it filters out estrogens, in females it filters out testosterone [a "male" hormone]. When a man gets too much estrogen, it blocks the hypothalamus, which then allows the pituitary to feminise the liver. [Normally the male hypothalamus is sending signals that block feminisation.] The male liver then starts to filter out male hormones instead. At this stage the body contains too much estrogen which it is no longer trying to get rid of! The man is feminised; and once the liver believes it is female, the level of female hormones is rapidly increasing. The whole man is in various ways feminised.

How this works in a female is more obscure. The surprising fact is that a female getting too much estrogens becomes masculine; she is losing her feminine characteristics. The exact mechanism behind that is not known.

Once you are full of estrogens, can you normalise the systems again?

Yes, no, and maybe. According to Addanki it is possible to clear your body of excessive amounts of estrogens, simply by reducing or eliminating the factors 1-4 above. Then all the systems will return to natural function and stop causing damage. Sam Addanki suggests that damage, once caused, cannot be repaired, but that it is the total exposure to estrogens during life that counts. Especially for the female, whose exposure as a whole is much higher than for the male.

Personally I have found no convincing evidence of that damage cannot be reversed, so I want to keep the question open. Under ideal conditions the body's ability to repair itself is enormous, after all.

Here we leave the thoughts of Sam Addanki and enter contemporary research.

II. Change of Animal Behaviour

Changes in behaviour of certain species have been observed and studied. These changes include:

1. Many males have little or no interest in sex and reproduction. A constantly increasing number of males are sterile and erroneously grown sexual organs are increasingly common.

2. Reproduction, if it takes place, results in relatively more females than males.

3. Males have a decreased level of activity. They become passive.

4. Females are increasingly active and aggressive, with little or no interest in taking care of their offspring (if applicable). They are becoming more masculine.

5. Increased activities of an homosexual nature (both sexes).

6. Premature puberty of females (if applicable).

These observations have been made on populations of fish, birds, and mammals suffering from excessive levels of female sex hormones (estrogens). It is a sensitive political matter, but some readers might find these observations reminiscent of certain tendencies in human society!

Some scientists claim that homosexuality is natural by referring to hundreds of species of animals which have shown homosexual behaviour. That is no evidence at all. These animals are affected by artificially caused excessive levels of estrogens, just as are humans.

But how can animals suffer from excessive amounts of female sex hormones? They do not use contraceptive pills or hormone therapy, they do not have a high fat diet and they do not drink alcohol!

Well, actually they do get contraceptive pills and hormone therapy, in form of emission of waste. Urine from humans who use them releases tonnes of active hormones into nature every day. It affects every living being on earth.

In addition to that there is something else as bad as real hormones; it is hormone-imitating substances, so-called xenohormones. They have hormone-like (mostly estrogen-like) effects. All of them are human-made and spread, and the health impact on animal life (including humans) is huge.

III. Xenoestrogens

1. One of the major sources of xenoestrogens is plastics, released when the plastics are getting warm or heated - or when there is a contact with fat. Possibly under other conditions too.

Xenohormones are dissolved by fat, so if you store fat-containing food in plastics, fat in the food will cause xenoestrogens to be released from the plastics and get into the food, which you will eat. This is worse the softer the plastic is, because the substance used to make it soft imitates hormones.

If you get plastics on your skin, you will absorb xenoestrogens from it, since the skin is oily. Clothes of certain synthetic fibres might be a danger (although this has not been studied in detail).

2. Food derived from non-organic livestock. They are fed synthetic estrogen to grow fatter. If you eat meat and live in a modern society, you are certainly exposed to this.

3. Pesticides and herbicides used in agriculture. Especially if they are petrochemically derived.

4. Most emulsifiers in cosmetics and other substances found in beauty care products, like hair spray, deodorant, nail polish and perfume.

5. Many forms of industrial waste. Even in the form of gas.

It is impossible to avoid everything that is harmful in life but one can try to minimise exposure. Some things are easy: to avoid storing fat-containing food in plastics, for example, or to eat fat-containing food that has been stored in plastics.

VI. Phytoestrogens

Phytoestrogens are estrogen-imitating substances naturally existing in certain plants. They are often recommended to post-menopausal women as an alternative to hormone replacement therapy with synthetic estrogen. It is often claimed to be harmless and also to prevent certain ailments. However, that is a matter of doubt.

The best known source of phytoestrogen is soy. It is true that soy does contain some beneficial substances, but its isoflavones also have been proved as the cause of toxicity in estrogen sensitive systems and in the thyroid. They inhibit thyroid peroxidase, and inhibition can generate thyroid abnormalities, like goiter and autoimmune thyroiditis. Animal tests have shown that soy has carcinogenic effects [causing cancer]. A study in Hawaii has shown a connection between two to four servings of tofu (a soy product) and accelerated brain ageing!

Other studies suggesting positive effects have not been convincing, so some caution is wise here. The same study can show that the isoflavone genistein (from soy) can possibly prevent breast cancer, but at the same time that if the breast cancer is already there, it can accelerate its growth.

If estrogen replacement is really necessary - which it should not be - phytoestrogens appear to be the least bad alternative, but they should not be used unconditionally, if at all.

It is also wise to question the positive effects of estrogen replacement therapy as a whole. It is well-known, for instance, for reducing the risk of female osteoporosis, which is a disease in which bones become fragile and more likely to break. But it is only efficacious in the short or medium term. If you become very old, there will come a day when you will be worse off for having used it.

V. Prospects

The feminisation of nature might very well be the gravest threat to human life and animal life at large that we have ever faced. It is a strong contributory factor to the increase of many degenerative diseases such as diabetes and cancer, and it gradually transforms a large number of species to masculine females and feminine males. Homosexuality, lacking interest in offspring, and finally total sterility might be the end of much animal life as we know it, and certainly of humanity. This has already gone as far as to transform the societal structure in parts of the world. It's just that no one wants to see it; it is too politically sensitive.

(This article is based on material previously published in Meriondho Leo/TMA and in my e-book “Paradigms of Health”, 2019.)

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