Estrogen in our drinking water

[TomJones]

Gentlemen,
We are being bombarded with estrogen in our environment. No wonder why gynecomastia is on the rise.

Atrozine, now banned in Europe since 2004, is a major (as in huge) contributor of estrogen in our drinking water in the USA.  Atrozine is a common herbicide.

wwwDOTmacroevolutionDOTnet/atrazine.html#.U8djo4Uo6aw
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thenewcenturymanDOTcom/tag/estrogen-in-water-drinking-supply/

And we thought BPAs in plastic was bad enough.

I recommend a water filter.
Tom

[Paa_Paw]

First off, I am a 77 year old man and I have had this condition virtually unchanged since I was a boy of 12 in 1949. If there is a recent increase in the incidence of the condition I have failed to notice it.

I was a Medic in the Air Force for over eight years (starting in 1955) and I saw a lot of young men with the condition in various degrees. I cannot believe the incidence overall has changed significantly.

I had several different careers over my lifetime. The last being the design of small commercial water purification systems. Usually about 600 gallons per day or less.

What has changed is that the internet has made people in general aware of the artificial standards of what is supposed to look good. What has not been adequately conveyed is that the standards are photo shopped or air brushed and actually do not represent true normal human bodies. The standards are false.

What else has changes is that when something does not meet the artificial standard, we go looking for someone or something to blame. In this case it is the drinking water. I don't buy it, but if you want to eliminate that possibility, a filter will not do it. I do not trust De-Ionizing filters as the Regeneration of their media beds is a process that itself produces too much pollution. Reverse Osmosis is very good at removing mineral salts from water but it is really not that effective at removing organics. That leaves distilled water. Try it if you like but realize that you really need the minerals you will then not be getting from your drinking water. Activated Carbon filters are slightly more effective at reducing some organics, but it still comes back to distilled if you are really concerned.

When I was a school boy in the 1950's I would never have believed that people would one day pay more for drinking water than for Gasoline, but we are here.

Fortunately I am old enough that I will not have to endure too many more years of this nonsense.