Soy Estrogen Acts Like Carbon Monoxide

If you were sad and desperate, and decided to end your
own life by turning on your car's engine in a closed
garage with no ventilation, the vehicle's exhaust fumes
containing carbon monoxide would overwhelm your body
and might succeed in ending your life.

Hemoglobin is a protein contained within human blood.
As blood passes through one's lungs, it picks up oxygen
from the air we breathe. Molecules of oxygen attach to
hemoglobin molecules, which circulate through the body,
nourishing organs and tissues with an essential gaseous
life-sustaining element.

Your car's engine produces carbon monoxide, which competes
with oxygen for a place on the hemoglobin molecule. Carbon
monoxide, a colorless and odorless gas, displaces oxygen
from the blood so that hemoglobin receptors receive the
carbon monoxide, rather than the oxygen. In that sense,
carbon monoxide more readily attaches to hemoglobin, and
should be called an oxygen inhibitor, or oxygen interruptor.
So, what carbon monoxide does is mimic the action of oxygen
by attaching to the hemoglobin molecule. Instead of
oxygen-sustaining life, the body receives a toxin that
initially creates slight headaches followed by painful
frontal headaches often followed by nausea, dizziness,
convulsions, coma, and death.

Soy phytochemicals work much the same way in the human body.
Soybeans do not contain estrogen, although many poorly-informed
physicians confuse this concept. Soy actually contains
phytoestrogens. "Phyto" means "plant." Plant estrogens
cannot create the same behavioral or physiological effects
as estrogen, but they can fool the body into believing that
cells are dosed with estrogen-like hormones.

Real estrogen is a feminizing steroid hormone which defines a
woman's essence. Real estrogen is also a growth proliferator
that can become a pre or post-menopausal's woman's worst nightmare.
Estrogen, when internally secreted and combined with protein
growth hormones (hGH, IGF-I), often synergizes to create uterine,
ovarian, or breast cancers.

Soy phytoestrogens do not induce the same cellular proliferation
as do human steroid hormones, but they do share a similar name.
That is where the soy controversy confusion occurs. Much like the
binding of carbon monoxide to the hemoglobin molecule, soy
phytoestrogens bind to beta-like estrogen receptors in human cells
and interrupt the natural mechanisms of estrogen. In this sense,
soy actually prevents the dangerous growth effects normally
associated with true estrogen. Therefore, soy inhibits the
mechanisms of estrogen. Soy becomes a beneficial endocrine
disruptor.

It's not a good thing to have carbon monoxide take the place of
oxygen on a hemoglobin molecule. The adverse is true in the case
of phytoestrogens. When these non-steroid-like substances bind to
the cell's receptors and take the place of real steroid hormones,
they eliminate nature's perfect hazard for women. In that sense,
phytoestogens from soy prevent breast, uterine, and ovarian
cancers from initiating and proliferating.

Hooray for soy estrogens, which are entirely different from the
real thing. In this sense, soy consumption is a blessing, not a
hazard.

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com
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Monday March 28
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Trickle Down Economics

"I get by with a little help from my friends,
I get high with a little help from my friends,
Going to try with a little help from my friends."

The Beatles--1967

I first became of milk's problems a short time before
Monsanto received FDA approval for their genetically
engineered recombinant bovine growth hormone (rbGH).

History will one day record the George Bush government
as the United States of Monsantoland. With men like
Ashcroft and Rumsfeld having such intimate ties and
receiving past financial bonuses from Monsanto, it
is no wonder that this biotech company continues to
be the recipient of government subsidies and favors.

I am very proud of the fact that my Freedom of Information
Act requests, Citizen Petitions, and constant letters and
phone calls of complaint to the Food and Drug Administration
resulted in a temporary closing of Monsanto's European factory
last year.

I caught Monsanto with their GMO pants down and blew the
whistle on their shoddy manufacturing procedures. Monsanto
very well may have genetically engineered new forms of bacteria,
which now pose a threat to all of humankind.

Their factory was closed, their supply of genetically engineered
bovine growth hormone was temporarily compromised, but they are
now in full production again, stockpiling product for the next
emergency.

So, what is the result of having friends in high places?
To the benefit of Monsanto, and the detriment of American
taxpayers, Monsanto was granted a deferred tax benefit of
$106 million in 2004 as a result of financial losses
directly related to my actions.

This financial gift (sneaky government maneuvering) was awarded
to Monsanto under the guise of a little know and phony program
called the American Jobs Act of 2004 (ACJA) on October 30, 2004.

Funny thing about the American Jobs Act of 2004. This 650-page
Bill will reward American companies with $137 billion in tax
writeoffs over a ten year period, but here is the really
astounding part. Companies are eligible only if they do not
employ people overseas. In other words, do you see a bit of irony
here? Monsanto was hurt because their European factory could not'
supply product. Their losses cover the European operation, which
is counter to the purpose of this law. Somebody is screwing with
the American taxpayer.

In 2003, Monsanto wrote off a loss of $83 million. Last year,
that lost mushroomed to $230 million. The $106 million subsidy
is a gift from the George Bush government to those who have a
history of poisoning the world's children with innovations
such as rbGH, Agent Orange, dioxins, NutraPoison, herbicides,
pesticides, and other such wonderful gifts to humankind.

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com