>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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>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.