Ok, step 2 is to reduce as much as possible exposure to all sorts of estrogen and terrible chemicals that surround us in daily Western life.
Some of these have already been alluded to by Roosh and others in this thread.
Beer, given the nature of this forum for men, is huge. The trend towards hoppier and hoppier IPAs, double IPAs, etc, is exacerbating this, as the hops are a potent phytoestrogen. Have you ever noticed a guy with a giant 'beer belly'? His other limbs are most likely remarkably pretty normally sized. How the hell does all the weight concentrate in the stomach and hips? This is not your normal obesity through caloric overintake.
It is the estrogen concentrating fat deposits where it would be on women, in the right areas for childbirth.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10372741
I have more or less cut beer out all together, drinking it only on very rare occasions, and even then, I go for very light and unhoppy beers. Fuck swilling a 6 pack of Bud or similar crap. Beer in particular is a 1-2 punch because, as you will recall from the previous post, alcohol is a major activator of aromatase which cannibalizes your test and turns it into estrogen, to say nothing of just loading more net estrogen from the hops.
Next up is plastic. I will draw your attention to this study, which found that BPA free is a meaningless commercial marketing slogan to make you think it's safe.
Almost all commercially available plastic products we sampled—independent of the type of resin, product, or retail source—leached chemicals having reliably detectable EA (estrogenic activity), including those advertised as BPA free. In some cases, BPA-free products released chemicals having more EA than did BPA-containing products.
Many plastic products are mischaracterized as being EA free if extracted with only one solvent and not exposed to common-use stresses. However, we can identify existing compounds, or have developed, monomers, additives, or processing agents that have no detectable EA and have similar costs. Hence, our data suggest that EA-free plastic products exposed to common-use stresses and extracted by saline and ethanol solvents could be cost-effectively made on a commercial scale and thereby eliminate a potential health risk posed by most currently available plastic products that leach chemicals having EA into food products.
https://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/1003220/
Estrogenic compounds in plastic are particularly activated by sunlight and heat. When you buy your shitty Dasani water bottle (which is just Atlanta municipal tap water, an entire subject I'll get to next), you're probably drinking tons of estrogen. If you go out for a hike with it, and the sunlight strikes it, the chemical reaction starts to release estrogen into the water. Even if you somehow keep it in shade the whole time, think about the fact that some Coke delivery man just set the pallet out in the sun by the gas station before they took it inside and put it in the fridges.
Bottom line, minimize exposure to plastic, especially as pertains to food and drink. Get a glass or metal bottle for your water, and use Pyrex dishes to store food. Fill your home with metal or glass furniture, decorations, etc. Do not be a retard and microwave plastic containers, or drink/eat things from Styrofoam containers. Canned foods are also usually lined with plastic coating containing BPA. If you see the word phthalate, stay away, it is a xenoestrogenic compound used to give plastic flexibility. Create an environment, at least in your own haven, where you can be as free from these toxins as possible, while minimizing your exposure in the outside world.
Now from the food packaging to the food itself. Commercially raised meat and dairy are contaminated with antibiotics, bovine growth hormones, and of course, estrogen.
85% of the world's soybean crop is processed into meal and vegetable oil, which is used for animal feed. Only 6% of soybeans go directly to human consumption, which should also be a huge no-no. Eat grass fed, free-range, hormone free, and organic whenever and wherever possible.
Fruits, nuts, grains, and vegetables also contain estrogenic compounds because of the insecticide and pesticide residues on them. Thirty out of 37 widely used pesticides tested by the group blocked or mimicked male hormones. Sixteen of the 30 had no known hormonal activity until now, while there was some previous evidence for the other 14, according to the study, published online last Thursday in the scientific journal Environmental Health Perspectives.
None of the 16 pesticides with the newly discovered hormonal activity is included in the EPA’s program, which means they are not currently screened and there are no plans to do so. "Considering all the evidence that human male reproduction is exhibiting troubling secular trends (sperm count and quality, hypospadias, cryptorchidism, testis cancer), this is highly troubling," he said.
Of the tested compounds, the most potent in terms of blocking androgens was the insecticide fenitrothion, an organophosphate insecticide used on orchard fruits, grains, rice, vegetables and other crops.
Others with hormonal activity include fludioxonil, fenhexamid, dimethomorph and imazalil, which are all fungicides. Fungicides are often applied close to harvest, so they are frequently found as residue in food. Some are new compounds which have been used for only a few years.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/artic...-hormones/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3138025/
These are the main ones, but notable sources I will briefly mention are cosmetics, shampoos, lotions, soaps, toothpastes which contain parabens or phenoxyethanol. You put this shit right on your skin, and it goes directly into the bloodstream. Unlike the stuff you eat, these can have 10x greater potency without being detoxified by the liver if you ate them.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16097138
Artificial sweeteners and MSG also have potential estrogenic effects, but I have faith that most people on this forum are aware of the many other toxic effects of these compounds, and if you're cutting out processed foods or plastic wrapped prepared foods, you should by all rights be avoiding these too as a byproduct.
For my 3rd and final post on the subject, I will cover my favorite topic of all: water.