AVOID 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."
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