Heterocyclic Amines in Eggs, Cheese, and Creatine Supplements?
Channel: NutritionFacts.org
Date: 2013-01-23

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DESCRIPTION: Even vegetarians could potentially be exposed to the carcinogens typically formed by cooking meat through eggs, cheese, creatine sports supplements, and cigarette smoke. Caution may also be necessary with athletic protein supplementation. See Heavy Metals in Protein Powder Supplements (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/heavy-metals-in-protein-powder-supplements/). In general, Some Dietary Supplements May Be More Than a Waste of Money (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/some-dietary-supplements-may-be-more-than-a-waste-of-money/).
 
More information on the Meatless Monday campaign can be found on their website meatlessmonday.com.
 
Measuring toxin levels in hair or nail clippings is a noninvasive way to measure long-term exposure levels. See Hair Testing for Mercury (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/hair-testing-for-mercury/) and Hair Testing for Mercury Before Considering Pregnancy (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/hair-testing-for-mercury-before-considering-pregnancy/) for another instance of where it's used.
 
Heterocyclic amines are not the only class of meat carcinogens also found in cigarette smoke. See my video When Nitrites Go Bad (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/when-nitrites-go-bad/). While the body can detox itself of both nitrosamines and these cooked meat chemicals within hours or days, some pollutants found in meat can persist in the body. See Industrial Pollutants in Vegans (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/industrial-pollutants-in-vegans/), Flame Retardant Chemical Contamination (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/flame-retardant-chemical-contamination-2/), and How Fast Can Children Detoxify from PCBs? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/how-fast-can-children-detoxify-from-pcbs/)
 
This is the final video of a four part series on heterocyclic amines—or is it? In Estrogenic Cooked Meat Carcinogens (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/estrogenic-cooked-meat-carcinogens/) we explored the role of these cooked meat chemicals in tumor growth. In PhIP: The Three Strikes Breast Carcinogen (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/phip-the-three-strikes-breast-carcinogen/) we explored their role in cancer invasion. Then Reducing Cancer Risk In Meateaters (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/reducing-cancer-risk-in-meateaters/) offered some mediation strategies. The next two videos also involve these carcinogens, but only as an experimental model of cancer formation to test the power of various plants to stop this transformation.

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