I ate a pound of butter in one sitting

[waffenamp]

I was trying to learn more about if there was dangerous effects of eating to much dairy. Mainly butter and how much hormones like estrogen were in say a pound of butter. I only ask because I did something stupid last week and I ate a pound of butter in one sitting after seeing others do it on youtube.  Now after I ate this much butter I am fearing I set myself up for testicular or prostate cancer from consuming this much butter as I have read online that this would have a lot of estrogen in it to cause cancer. I have tried to research how much estrogen exactly I consumed but i'm finding different numbers and study's saying different things.  I am actually having a bit of testicular pain now about a week after consuming this pound of butter. I am not sure if this is all in my head because i'm thinking i'm going to get cancer now or if it is real. I was hoping to find someone that could help me and maybe educate me of how much estrogen and harm I actually consumed.

[gymdandee]

I hope the butter was from grass fed cattle. :>)

[Paxiled]

This is all in your head.  Eating a pound of butter is a stupid thing to do, but just doing it once isn't going to have any long-term effects.  Also, at least to my knowledge, dairy doesn't have that much to do with estrogen -- it's pretty far down on the list of foods that are estrogenic.  The main problems with dairy is that most people aren't born with the enzyme to digest it, or are allergic to it, or have an intolerance to it, and it's very high in calcium but very low in magnesium which can leave an imbalance if not make up by eating other foods very high in magnesium.  Also, of course, butter is mainly fat, and eating too much fat isn't the greatest idea, but there are worse fats than butter.  Most important lesson:  if you see it on the internet, your natural skepticism should kick in.  Unless you like being a daredevil.