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So I want to answer the question, can dairy actually affect your hormones or not?

Well, let's just take a look at what milk is.

Milk is a product that is designed to feed a cap, a growing calf.

It's loaded with a lot of different hormones, primarily estrogen and also IGF, different

types of estrogen.

IGF is a growth hormone and so is estrogen.

Now the hormones in milk can target the prostate, the breast, the uterus, the ovary.

When I was in practice, I found a high correlation between women coming in having fibroids and

them consuming a lot of dairy.

So you have milk, cream, half and half sour cream, cream cheese, cheese itself, yogurt, butter,

the fattier the dairy, the more hormones.

Now I'm not against dairy, but some people are already estrogen dominant.

They have hormonal imbalances.

They may have a prostate enlargement.

They may have cysts in the breast as fibrocystic breast or they might have a problem in uterus

or endometriosis, which is extra growth tissue around the uterus or they might have cysts

in the ovaries or even polycystic ovarian syndrome as well.

That's basically the condition where your antigens are too high because there are various cysts

in the ovary stimulating that specific hormone.

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