Dr. Tabatha Barber explains how environmental toxins overwhelm the body's detox system and disrupt hormones. Stress depletes the nutrients needed to clear toxins, while chemicals like atrazine cause estrogen dominance. Men's testosterone has dropped 30% in the past decade.
It happens gradually over our lives. And I've been measuring toxic loads in patients over the last 10+ years. And a lot of them can wreak havoc on our hormones. And so when we're exposed to a toxin, we have to break it down into a chemical product that's actually worse for us. We call it, it's the active metabolite. So it can make you very sick. And then you have to make it water-loving and you have to attach a molecule to be able to poop, to pee or sweat it out. And if you don't— and in order to do that second phase, you need amino acids, which comes from protein. And how many women don't eat enough protein? And you also need your B vitamins. And so as we get stressed, we're going to deplete our magnesium and our B vitamins, and then we have low protein. So the body has no other choice but to say, what else are we going to do with this? It can wreak havoc. And it's like I said, not one exposure, it's over a lifetime. So You know, we, we talk a lot about the women, but one of the shocking statistics I give before men is that men's testosterone levels have dropped 30% over the last decade. And Atrazine, in the PubMed studies, has been shown to chemically castrate male frogs. So if it's going to feminize male frogs, what does it do? It's going to give us estrogen dominance in women. And so it's— and that's going to make it harder for us not only to shed the weight but then feel in balance
