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ImportanceAnxious t1_ixzfng9 wrote

We can’t rule out diet on this one. These days, meat products are full of artificial hormones. A child who eats more processed meat (and other processed foods) has the likelihood of being obese. Excess fat will store hormones (natural or synthetic) which can trick the body into a faster puberty.

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jdubb999 t1_iy0inkt wrote

>These days, meat products are full of artificial hormones

Simply put, this is absolute horseshit. Number one, all pork and chicken is 100% hormone free in the US, so we are only talking about beef. Beef production does allow the use of growth hormones, including bovine somatotropin, estrogen, and progesterone. Ingested hormones have very low bioavailability (ask any rancher or athlete.) The amount of measurable hormones in treated beef is only marginally higher than measurable levels in untreated beef. However, the reality is that your body produces far more estrogen and progesterone (on the order of tens of thousands at minimum) hormones than the beyond miniscule amount you would consume eating beef or drinking milk.

Bovine somatotropin (rBST) is a protein completely broken down (like any other protein) by our digestive systems, and are incapable of binding to human growth hormone receptors.

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Dave30954 t1_ixzt8x7 wrote

Dairy products are also a factor here, such as milk. That milk is coming from the same cows that they’re pumping full of hormones and drugs to get them to produce as much milk and meat as possible.

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throwaway92715 t1_iy2aevz wrote

Yeah and obviously if the hormones are in the meat they are in the milk too. Did you know that all the manure gets dumped into waterways as well? So that hormones even get picked up in fish and algae

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No-Cress3750 t1_iy70utf wrote

Those artificial hormones affects the human growth hormone ( testosterone & estrogen ). The effect’s are visible in females but how does it possibly affect males?

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