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How is drinking from plastic water bottles similar to taking birth control pills – for men & women?

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July 10, 2009
	Dr. Gary Huber : Head Medical Ego

There’s a lot in the news about the environmental impact of plastic water bottles that give most of us pause to limit and hopefully work to halt our use.  If mother earth isn’t enough of a motivation, consider the inner terrain of your own body.

Bisphenol A (BPA) is a commonly used ingredient in the formulation of most plastics.  It can be found in plastic bottles, dental amalgams sealants, the linings of canned goods and just about any plastic you can imagine.  In other words, it is everywhere in our plastic world.  The problem is that BPA is not good for us in many ways. 

It is a synthetic estrogen-like compound that increases prostate cancer, breast cancer, neurologic defects, diabetes and now in a recent study out of the University of Cincinnati it is even tied to cardiac arrhythmia or irregular heart beat.  So just how prevalent is this BPA?  Well the Center for Disease Control found 93% of all adults and children to have it present in their urine and that was five years ago.  We can’t avoid all of it but we can drastically reduce our intake by doing a few simple things. 

Drink your water from stainless steel bottles, not plastic.  Use corning ware and glass instead of Tupperware and other plastics.  Never use plastic in a microwave.  That’s like supercharging an already deadly chemical.  And look for green drinks that have chlorella or chlorophyll as these help to bind and pull these chemicals out of your body.  When I see a plastic bottle, knowing the estrogen-like compounds lurking within, I think “that’s a birth control pill in sheep’s clothing”.  Any guys out there want to take birth control pills?

Be good to the earth; be good to the body.  Love a win-win.