Ever wonder why those 2^nd-graders now look like someone in the Miss America pageant when we were kids? Xenoestrogens, demonstrated by a brilliant high school student, are responsible. They go on to accelerate breast cancer in those who have such a tendency, and create prostate problems for men.

In the past, breast cancer was a disease of women in their 60’s or 70’s. Prostrate swelling and cancer have risen manifold in the past two decades. No connection? When I was young, one in fifty developed cancer in their lifetime, now it’s one in two. (NOT due to doctors getting smarter & finding cancer earlier).

The bad news: xenoestrogens are not only in plastics, but in the hormones used by stockmen & farmers to fatten up animals for market—beef, chicken, turkey, pork. If you really think your health is unaffected by this, you’re wrong.

These little chemicals also do a number on the immune system in general, setting up all kinds of cancers, and a number of autoimmune disorders ranging from fibromyalgias and chronic fatigue, common stomach and thyroid problems, multiple sclerosis, prostate enlargement, and too many others.

So, what do we do? Boycott KFC? A letter writing campaign to Congress to shut down Saran Wrap? Save your ink, politicians can’t read anyway. They only know how to chatter & gather for themselves, with only rare exceptions.The first step is to remember that you are what you eat. Shop for foods around the periphery of your supermarket, getting fresh, raw produce. In most stores, the further in the store you go, the older and more processed the foods are. Take a better look next time you shop!

Why don’t you grow your own tomatoes or perhaps other fruits/vegetables? There are a number of sources, easily findable by internet, such as organic ranchers producing beef and pork without all the harmful toxins, sources you can use to your healthy, Longevity -producing benefit. So many people complain, "It costs more", but how much is your chemotherapy or heart by-pass or silk-lined coffin going to cost? Even a cheap coffin is $10,000.

If your body is already suffering from the effects of these xenoestrogens, your liver needs to be detoxified to begin handling this and other poisons before its too late. Dr. Cohen is an expert in this field along with his unusually effective skills in all of the primary areas of naturopathic and homeopathic solutions. Once the detoxification has occurred, don’t make it worse by putting the same junk into your body that caused the poisoning in the first place. (Sounds like Proverbs, where the dog returns to its own vomit.)

Now, let’s talk about progesterone. Both men and women need progesterone in levels the average American isn’t getting. Progesterone is the precursor of estrogens in females and testosterone in males, and that low levels of progesterone may lead to miscarriage in females and infertility in males.

The human body converts that progesterone into cortisol, needed to make adrenaline to deal with stress. (Stress? isn't that the definitive cause of so many medical problems such as back pain, ulcers, psoriasis, and more?)

Carbohydrate metabolism, thyroid production, serotonin and dopamine functions in the brain, lipid metabolism, immune functions…all depend on progesterone to function correctly. If your stress has stolen all the progesterone to make cortisol to keep you going in stressful situations, that explains some of the fatigue, depression, rise in blood sugars and fats, frequent infection,…when we are near a "burn out" state.

One of the things needed to deal with this stressful state is more progesterone. Fortunately, there are some good progesterone products on the market made from wild yams. The best are "micronized" and are readily absorbed through the skin when applied on the abdomen, legs, or arms. If one doesn’t seem to be working, try another preparation. (That’s why we have both Anusol and Preparation H, because people respond differently to different remedies).