Friday Favorite: The Effects of Hormones in Milk on Infertility in Women
Dairy consumption is associated with years of advanced ovarian aging, thought to be due to the steroid hormones or endocrine-disrupting chemicals in cow’s milk.
The video I mentioned about the effects of these estrogens and progesterone in men and prepubescent children is The Effects of Hormones in Dairy Milk on Cancer ( ).
I talk about the effect of dairy estrogen on male fertility in Dairy Estrogen and Male Fertility ( ).
How else might diet affect fertility? See:
• Male Fertility and Diet ( )
• The Role of Diet in Declining Sperm Counts ( )
• Dietary Pollutants May Affect Testosterone Levels ( )
• Yellow Bell Peppers for Male Infertility and Lead Poisoning? ( )
• Do Cell Phones Lower Sperm Counts? ( )
• Does Laptop Wi-Fi Lower Sperm Counts? ( )
• The Effects of Marijuana on Fertility & Pregnancy ( )
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Cow’s milk is for baby cows.
Flaxseed is for baby flax.
Honey is for bees.
Your point?
@@4124V4TA-SNPCA-x you’re right, honey is indeed for bees. And if you have to refine cow’s milk for it to be somewhat “healthy”, you might as well leave it to the baby that actually needs it and digest it unrefined for growth since milk is literally created for the baby, either way that’s theft and weird to suckle on other species milk
@@4124V4TA-SNPCA-xinsanely dumb comment
Yep. Facts
@@4124V4TA-SNPCA-x “flaxseed is for baby flax.” are you okay? genuinely, I am worried about your cognitive health. Signs of mental decline can be seen even in your 50s and will quickly become an acute problem where there is no going back.
Is this American milk only, or worldwide milk? From what I recall American farmers are allowed to routinely give hormones to their animals. This is not allowed in other countries.
It’s not allowed, but many of them still do it, right? Although, it would take much longer for the cows to reach the required productivity.
These are natural hormones; the cows are pregnant constantly and the milk from pregnant cows is mixed with milk from non-pregnant cows. So the hormone levels of the cows are constantly extremely high.
@@Nobody-Nowhere Aha, OK. Thanks for the reply.
@@voaneves Not unless they want their milk poured down the drain and don’t get paid, no. Milk is routinely tested.
If it’s from a commercial producer who milks pregnant cows: ‘Cows are often milked until 60 d before their next expected calving. Milk from cows in the third trimester of pregnancy contains up to 20 times more estrogens than milk from nonpregnant cows.’ -Journal of Dairy Science
No added hormones; these are purely from pregnancy.
Is it just milk or also cheese and yoghurt?
Cheese is way worse than milk, its about dairy fat. The more dairy fat the more hormones, as hormones are fat soluble. Butter has 14x the estrogen content of dairy milk.
@@Nobody-Nowhere
Yet there are hundreds of studies that found positive effects of cheese consumption. People who eat cheese are happier, healthier for example. Less risk for Alzheimer’s, good for the microbiome, good source of vitamins and minerals…
Every coin has two sides.
You don’t eat fat. You eat cheese, a super complex thing fermented multiple times, eaten in a very complex food matrix, usually along with other foodstuff. I’m talking about real cheese, of course.
@@Nobody-Nowhere 😲
@@Nobody-Nowhere the question was about different kinds of fermented dairy products. You have answered butter that no one asked about. Right.
Your answer was like: bananas are bad for you because in the middle ages disease outbreaks were caused by grains…
@@4124V4TA-SNPCA-x Hundreds of *industry-funded studies that more often than not are dishonest. For example, Dr Greger broke down the famous study about cheese / saturated fat being good for your health: they went to developing countries where being able to buy things like cheese meant you have more money.
Turns out, the damage done from some occasional cheese is less than the damage to our bodies from the stress of being impoverished in a developing country.
The candy industry did the same thing to ‘prove’ that children who occasionally have candy are ‘healthier’.
It’s not just about ‘studies’ or about headlines that back up your biases. It’s about reading how the study was setup and analyzed. Industry-funded does not always mean it’s going to be a dishonest study, but starting off with a conflict of interest often leads to finding the results your employer wants to find.
All dairy aren’t created equal. There is more variety within single types of dairies like under the label of cheese or yoghurt than all whole plant foodstuff combined…
Milk consumption started at an unknown time in Eurasia, 25-11 thousands of years ago. Not that novel. We eat more novel things every day.
Not to mention that we consume milk of several different mammalian species, severeal hundreds of breeds within all species, all over the world, under different conditions.
What milk? From where? Prepared how? Big farm US processed cow dairy called “milk” and organic raw camel milk are night and day; for example. Organic cheese made from that? Etc. etc.
I don’t deny the problem.
Just saying.
But I won’t write any more as you delete comments left and right.
I wonder how long for deletion. Free thinking isn’t liked.
Humans have been evolving for six million years. A few thousand is pretty recent.
1:18 A plain Greek yogurt does not have more sugar than a double chocolate glazed cake donut. The plain Greek yogurt is 5 grams sugar and the donut is 19 grams sugar.
Exactly. The Greek yoghurt I most often consume has 3.9% sugar content, all natural. Fruits have more sugar than this…
He never used the word ‘plain’. Showing an image of plain yogurt was a poor choice but that’s the work of the video editor, not Dr. Greger. A cup of Chobani Vanilla has 21g of sugar.
@@dianeladico1769 He said at 1:22 the word plain and the photo is of Chobani plain Greek yogurt container. The Chobani Greek vanilla yogurt is 14 grams of sugar for the container not by ounces. The donut is by item not by ounces.
What a story with animal consumption. Certainly says something from all the errors
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