Clover
Avoid clover
(Trifolium pratense) Clover
Red Clover
Clover honey, one of the most common and inexpensive honeys available. Clover is an estrogen disruptor and can greatly increase liver cyst growth.
In the 1940's, the sheep farmers of Perth in western Australia began to experience an epidemic of still births despite three seasons of exceptionally
good weather. The handsome merino sheep looked healthy. However, the ewe's failed to go into labor; the lambs died in still birth and often the mothers
as well. In a matter of 5 years, the ewes failed to conceive at all even after repeated breeding with fertile rams. Federal and agricultural specialists
found the problem. It was clover.
Fifteen years earlier, ranchers had imported a clover variety from the Mediterranean region in Europe. The first scientific paper on this phenomenon appeared
in the Australian Veterinary Journal in 1946 and proclaimed this as "clover disease". Three years later (3) chemicals were identified as suspects.
Formononetin only one of the chemicals was determined to be the culprit. Formononetin strongly mimics estrogen.
From the first article below, GEN is the same isoflavone in both soy and clover.
"Hence, it is an open question whether GEN has exclusively beneficial effects, as claimed by industrial companies,
or whether they are endocrine disruptors that endanger the mammary gland or the uterus. Furthermore, little is known about the
biological effects of GEN after long-term oral administration, which is the common method of treatment in postmenopausal women."
