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Hormones in milk and meat!From: Laura (anonymous@obgyn.net)Sat Feb 28 08:04:57 2004
I would like to respond Bett's message from yesterday--she said that she felt much better after she stopped consuming cow's milk. I've heard other women here say the same thing and I think I'm going to try it (although right now I'm drinking a lot of milk!) What I found interesting about Bett's post is that she was talking a lot about hormones. I'm still new to the whole endo thing--only been suffering for about a year, and my doctor has been no help so most of what I know about it I learned here--so I wasn't really aware that hormones play such a large role in endo and menstrual pain (although I guess it's common sense). What just clicked in my head is this: maybe it isn't the cow's milk itself that causes our symptoms to worsen, but the hormones that are injected into the cows! It's common knowledge that milk contains residues of all sorts of hormones and antibiotics which were injected into the cows to make them healthy and productive. Same with red meat--heifers are injected with steroids which stay in the meat when it is eaten. Not a pleasant thought at all--it makes me want to become a vegetarian. There are so many synthetic hormones in our food these days, no wonder it's wreaking havoc on our bodies! I've also read that the massive numbers of women taking birth control pills has caused large amounts of hormones to be let into our lakes and rivers (because they urinate out the excess and it gets into the water system), causing fish to become hermaphrodites and be unable to breed. This sort of thing scares me. I believe that the drug companies are tampering with nature more than they realize (or maybe they do realize, I don't know). It also angers me, because what if a lot of women with endo got it because of synthetic hormones in their food? It's hardly their fault then, is it, then doctors (some doctors) treat them like it's all in their head or give them more drugs and synthetic hormones. This doesn't seem right to me. There are certainly times when surgery and/or drugs are neccessary. But, on the whole, the more I think about it the more I believe that most women would be better off without doctors--or at least, would be better off supplementing the doctor's care with a proper diet, cutting out milk and meat or eating organic, generally taking good care of themselves. Virtually all of the success stories I've read on this message board involve the individual changing their diet, taking herbs, and exercising. I haven't heard many people say they had a good experience with drugs or bcps. I don't know if I'm way off course here, but I was just thinking about it so I thought I'd share my thoughts with everyone. Laura
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