Do you have any links to studies that prove this? My understanding is that the human body safely elimintaes the hormones during digestion, although admittedly, I'm no biologist. Take a look at the nutrition facts on a gallon of milk and tell me it's unhealthy, it's one of the most balanced foods out there. Buy hormone free milk if you want, but I'll save my money and get the regular stuff.
It's safe to say that you're more into fitness than I am, but I've always had good results with milk, and it's nice to just have something normal and good tasting after a workout instead of having to mix up a protein supplement that doesn't taste good. To each his own I guess.
Yeah it will take me a little time, but I can put something together for you. Ive worked with a professional medical nutritionist on my diet and supplementation for the last year or so, and it is amazing the shit that is in our environments and the havoc it plays with our systems.
There is synthetic estrogen in absolutely fucking EVERYTHING in our environment it seems. I put hardwood floors in my house because, I shit you not, your skin will absorb the estrogen hormone from
carpeting. It is absolutely no wonder why Dr's that study hormones have speculated/theorized that the testosterone content of men today is roughly 50% of what it was around the time of world war 2.
The human body doesn't process out hormones during the digestive process. That's why girls have tits at age 8, and people are generally larger than they have been in the past. Its also why some people trying to replicate what steroids do through oral "pro hormones" still work.
These dairy farmers are loading their cows with estrogen hormones to do one thing- get them to gain and retain weight. That is what estrogen and cortisol do. Different people are more sensitive to it at different points in time, and the older you get the worse it will get.
Here is one quick article from Harvard-
http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/2006/12.07/11-dairy.html
I pretty much quit dairy all together with the exception of some yogurts and cheeses, so if I drank a big glass of milk right now my colon would probably explode. That being said, if you are going to drink milk, Id find some "big brother government said it is illegal" non-pasturized milk from the Amish that doesnt have hormones injected into it AND that was free-range fed (as opposed to grain/corn fed), and that would be way better for you.
I firmly believe that the science of nutrition and environmental hormone effects are going to become huge areas of study in the coming years.