Hormonal Concerns

In today's factory farms, where producing full-grown animals as quickly as possible is the goal, feed is continually treated with growth-promoting drugs, and farmed animals are dosed with hormones. Some of these are natural forms of estrogen, such as estradiol, and some are chemicals that mimic naturally occurring hormones. These hormones and other drugs don't leave the body easily. They are stored in the fatty tissue of animals who are slaughtered, cut up, and sold at grocery stores. When people eat this animal flesh or drink cow's milk, the hormones and other drugs enter their bodies. A diet high in meat may expose a man to many of the synthetic hormones that are used in meat production, increasing the risk of becoming estrogen-dominant rather than testosterone-dominant. When meat makes a man estrogen-dominant, his testosterone levels plummet. In addition to causing the development of breasts, weight gain, and numerous types of cancer, estrogen dominance triggers many sexual limitations.

According to Chris Steidle, director of the Impotence Center, a decrease in testosterone causes a condition called "andropause." The symptoms of andropause are advanced signs of aging, osteoporosis, loss of muscle tissue, decreased sex drive, decreased ability to enjoy sex, and a significant decrease in erectile function. You might say that eating meat takes an otherwise healthy, strong, virile man and hormonally turns him into a weak, frail, old eunuch.

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