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Antiperspirants are a potential endocrine disruptor. That is the antiperspirants cancer link. They now suspect this product to have possible links to both breast and prostate cancer. It is suspected as either a causative or contributor agent. This is enough to make anyone sweat who has used antiperspirants regularly. Antiperspirants are considered a drug by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA). That fact somehow is not mentioned in both both the media and advertisements for the product.

It is classified as a drug because antiperspirants affect a bodily function. It reduces the amount of sweat that reaches the skin. This has a profound effect, the sweat is laden with hormones that are suppose to reach the skins surface and evaporate. Now the hormones remain on and within the skin to be reabsorbed. This is what makes it a potential endocrine disruptor. This is a chronic assault that doesn’t allow the body to function as it is meant to. The reason this is significant is that both prostate and breast cancers are hormone dependent.

Using antiperspirants starts in utero, and continues through the teen years and into maturity. These hormones and pheromones are absorbed back into the system and effects the fetus. Prostate and breast tissues contain both androgen and estrogen receptors. So far the only evidence comes from plotting breast cancer incident and mortality from 74 countries, by antiperspirant use. The trend –lines reveal positive correlations. In African-Americans sweat glands are larger and more developed. This is a protective device, because of the higher heat exposure that occurs in their country of origin.

In our culture we often sweat less, which may not be good for the body. We do less physical labor, and work in air conditioned environments. Sweating is a protective mechanism that is built in for our protection. That is why people use steam baths, and saunas to detoxify the body of impurities. On all levels we are disrupting the natural protection that nature provided for us. We are putting ourselves in harms way by interfering. Thought the evidence for antiperspirants role in cancer is not what you can call a hundred percent conclusive, it is enough to forget throwing caution to the wind.

Placing chemicals that are absorbed in a place that can distribute them throughout the body is probably quite harmful. The question is do we have a choice since we produce sweat. However perspiration is basically odorless. The real odor stems from anaerobic bacteria. These are bacteria that flourish when your body is short on oxygen. The metabolism is the way your body gets rid of waste products. So many times odor is tied to an imbalance in your metabolism.

Toxins are another cause that is overlooked. These are substances that come from food and air that accumulate because the elimination channels are not functioning. The organs of elimination are the liver, kidneys, and colon. Imbalances in nutrition that results in constipation and low levels of magnesium or zinc will contribute to body odor. Peoples body chemistry reacts to a meat, or vegetarian diet and will produce an odor according to what was ingested. There are individuals that cannot metabolize foods containing certain substances. We know that onions, garlic, spicy foods, coffee, and alcohol play havoc with body odors. Rancid fats and oils also cause body odor.

Metabolic dysfunction, emotional stress, diabetes, liver disease, parasites, and fungus change the body’s odor. Antiperspirants are an easy answer to a complex problem. Toxic overload is part of the environment we live in. The real problem is antiperspirants add to this toxicity.

There are many ways to cut down on the use of antiperspirants, the first one is to take responsibility for your health. A person who is healthy is not using medications, and  tobacco, and is eating whole foods. They ingest less toxins, and eat foods high in chlorophyll also know as a deodorizer. The right vitamins and minerals help reduce specific secretions, which can cut down your dependence on antiperspirants. When your metabolism, elimination, circulation system function well, you function well.