Milk and Hormones

Hopefully you have read the papers that showed that dairy can cause prostate cancer in an appropriate animal model. Why would that be the case? It is known that prostate cancer, breast cancer, ovarian and endometrial cancers are sensitive to hormones. Why should we worry about dairy products. Milk is made by cows for their calves. Milk is a hormonal delivery system for these calves. Grosvenor and others showed that milk contains many bioactive hormones and proteins. Among the hormones in milk are estrogens, testosterone,insulin-like growth factor, progesterone and PSA. Grosvenor et al can be accessed at:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed8119234 and the title is:

Hormones and growth factors in milk. Please read this extract or the whole paper can be downloaded for free and we will next talk about what these hormones can do to you.-R.Bibb, M.D.