That means women eating cereal with soy milk and drinking a soy latte each day are effectively getting the same estrogen effect as if they were taking a birth control pill. (healthybabycode.com)
Menopause is associated with decrease of total energy expenditure due to the loss of estrogen effects on the hypothalamus via increased release of orexigenic hormones NPY, agouti - related peptides, and a decrease in lean body mass (67). (academic.oup.com)
Curiously, the drug tamoxifen, which usually blocks estrogen effects, also darkened skin. (sciencedaily.com)