Moody Bitches: The Truth About the Drugs You're Taking, The Sleep You're Missing, The Sex You're Not Having, and What's Really Making You Crazy by Julie Holland

Author:Julie Holland [Holland, Julie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2015-03-02T23:00:00+00:00

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Exercise researcher Jean Denis Rouillon studied more than three hundred women for fifteen years to arrive at a surprising conclusion. Breasts get saggier with a bra than without one. Cooper’s ligaments support the breasts. Jokingly referred to as Cooper’s droopers, these ligaments atrophy when denied the benefits of gravity. In the women studied who didn’t wear bras, their nipples lifted 7 millimeters a year toward their shoulders, their breasts became firmer, stretch marks faded more, and their back pain decreased.

Wearing a bra 24/7 cuts off your lymphatic drainage and may increase your risk of breast cancer. Premenopausal women who don’t wear bras have half the risk of breast cancer compared with bra wearers. Sleeping without a bra can lower your risk of breast cancer by 60 percent.

If you’d like something stronger to link to breast cancer, try bisphenol-A (BPA), an artificial estrogen developed in the 1930s to prevent miscarriages, which didn’t work. A by-product of refining petroleum, BPA is cheap to make and ended up being used to make plastics instead, a $6 billion business. BPA found its way into everything from CDs to cell phones, canned food linings, bike helmets, cash register receipts, and plane tickets. The problem is, BPA looks like estrogen to the breast cell, activating the estrogen receptors, causing cancer cells to replicate and grow invasively. BPA basically turns on and off the genes that form breast cancer. When young rats are fed BPA, they become more susceptible to getting breast cancer later on when they’re exposed to other carcinogens. Breasts do most of their growing long after birth, during puberty, and the structures necessary for lactation don’t grow until later in a pregnancy—two opportunities for incorporating carcinogens into the machinery.

Then there’s atrazine, a pesticide often found in drinking water that increases activity of the enzyme aromatase, which converts testosterone and other hormones into estrogens. When developing mice are exposed to atrazine, they can’t adequately nurse their young after they deliver. There are at least two hundred chemicals known to cause mammary gland tumors in animal studies. Hundreds of new chemicals come to market every year, joining thousands more, many of which affect our endocrine systems, acting as estrogens, antiandrogens, or thyroid hormone impersonators. Our mammary glands are the most sensitive organs to endocrine disrupters like atrazine, DDT (another pesticide), and BPA, yet when our government tests chemicals for their effects on our health, surveying kidneys, brains, and genitals, they leave out looking at breasts, perhaps the only time that men do.

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