Slow Death

I talked earlier about the two killers in dairy that accomplish the most harm in initiating malignancies of the prostate and breast. How is this accomplished? Almost everyone has heard of estrogen positive breast cancer. It turns out that for hormonally sensitive cancers such as those of the breast and prostate there are receptors or receivers of estrogen known as receptors alpha and beta.Generally, if you stimulate estrogen receptor alpha you can cause cancer and if you stimulate estrogen receptor beta you can decrease the chance of cancer. In a balanced situation or normal state you are likely to have equal numbers of alpha and beta receptors. During milk and dairy ingestion you are consuming high levels of estrogens and the growth facter IGF-1. This is a dangerous situation because this combination results in an increase of both the estrogen receptors alpha and IGF-1 which result in transformation of prostate and breast cancer tissue to become cancerous.As always, I will give you an important paper to read. Most of the scientific papers can be pulled up on Entrez Pub Med which is the scientific section of the library of Congress. The important paper for this post is: Estrogen action on the prostate gland: a critical mix of endocrine and paracrine signaling by Risbridger GP. et al. Journal of Molecular Endocrinology. 2007 Sep;39(3):183-188.