Aromatase inhibitors are medications that block an enzyme called aromatase. This enzyme plays a role in converting certain hormones into estrogen. By inhibiting aromatase, these medications reduce the levels of estrogen in the body.
Aromatase inhibitors are commonly used to treat hormone receptor-positive breast cancer in postmenopausal women, as cancer cells in these cases can use estrogen to grow.
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Tens of thousands of women each year receive treatment
with aromatase inhibitor medication which stops estrogen production, essentially starving hormone receptor - positive breast cancer cells.
Bodybuilders who use steroids also
use aromatase inhibitors (AI) to combat the conversion of the ever - increasing testosterone levels into estrogen.
Bodybuilders often
take aromatase inhibitors alongside their testosterone, to prevent the aromatization of their testosterone.
Although supplements purported to increase testosterone have been around for awhile, recently we have seen the introduction of novel new nutrients which are research proven to increase testosterone levels such as various forms of
aromatase inhibitors such as pZole seen in the supplement Triazole, which reduces estrogen and causes a rise in testosterone, as well as D - Aspartic Acid (Testforce 2) and those based around the Prolensis herb (Tropinol).
T bomb 3xtreme is basically a combination of Zinc and Magnesium or ZMA, with different natural testosterone enhancers such as tribulus, tongkat ali, and avena sativa.It also
contains aromatase inhibitors such as chrysin which prevents the conversion of testosterone to estradiol.
And in March 2008, researchers announced that drugs in a newer class
called aromatase inhibitors (AIs) stopped breast cancer recurrence for postmenopausal patients who had completed tamoxifen treatment (even years after).
Women aren't the only ones who benefit
from aromatase inhibitors, and the compounds in pomegranate are also helpful for men with benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) or prostate cancer.
A CUMC - led study finds that acupuncture can reduce the joint pain caused
by aromatase inhibitors, a drug taken by two - thirds of all breast cancer patients.
However, along with this seemingly linear storyline in which retinoids block progesterone's promotion of CK5 + cells, previous work in the lab of CU Cancer Center investigator Peter Kabos, MD, and others shows that breast cancers treated with anti-estrogen drugs like tamoxifen or
aromatase inhibitors show an increased population of CK5 + cells — it is as if these therapies remove the roadblock of estrogen - dependent cells, leaving CK5 + cells to proliferate.
Effect of exercise on weight, body fat, and serum inflammatory biomarkers in breast cancer survivors with
aromatase inhibitor arthralgias (joint pain): The hormones and physical exercise (HOPE) study.
For example, women whose cancer was no longer controlled by letrozole or
other aromatase inhibitors, those who had already begun to receive chemotherapy, and premenopausal patients with metastatic disease.
In summary, this study sheds light on the somatic alteration landscape of ER - positive breast cancers and offers insight into some of the mechanisms of
aromatase inhibitor resistance.
The fact that atrazine uses the aromatase pathway to increase estrogen production is important, because it means the chemical could work directly
against aromatase inhibitors, a class of drugs used to treat breast cancer.
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The ingredients inside EstroQuench ™ is documented to have anti-aromatase activity as well as androgenic adaptogens which support the function of
endogenous aromatase inhibitors.
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Androsta -3,5-diene-7,17-dione is an extremely potent
suicidal aromatase inhibitor which is frequently compared to the prescription drug Exemestane (Aromasin).
Selective aromatase inhibitors are promising new ovulation - inducing agents, which were developed to improve on the success of earlier drugs as well as reducing some of the drawbacks such as a high rate of multiple births.
Letrozole, also commonly referred to as an
oral aromatase inhibitor that is usually used in treating hormonally responsive breast cancer after undergoing surgery.
When the original PES Erase was introduced to the market consumers got a taste of the strongest
OTC aromatase inhibitor and worldwide best selling anti-estrogen product of the current generation of supplements.
In other patients,
using aromatase inhibitors to block estrogen synthesis and allow HOXC10 and other genes to destroy the cancer works in the short term,» said Dr. Oesterreich.
Aromatase inhibitors such as Arimidex and Femara — mainly used by postmenopausal women — keep your body from making the hormone in the first place, significantly lowering the chances that breast cancer will return.
Before accepting your doctor's suggestion of going onto the first line ovulation drug, check to see that he or she has read Volume 27, Number 3 of Current Opinion in Obstetrics and Gynecology (published in June 2015), where leading Canadian experts concluded that: «High - level evidence supports [
aromatase inhibitors] as the first drug of choice for ovulation induction in the PCOS population.
However in cases where low testosterone levels are not related to excessive aromatisation the use
of aromatase inhibitors on their own are of little benefit.
And mushrooms are
aromatase inhibitors that block the synthesis of estrogen — making them especially protective against breast cancer.
Other medications might include
the aromatase inhibitor testolactone and the weak androgen danazol.
Estrogen - blocking medications, such as selective estrogen receptor modulators and
aromatase inhibitors, reduce the risk of breast cancer in women with a high risk of the disease.
The aromatase inhibitor is now being tested in a clinical trial in France, led by Netchine, who has become a close collaborator and friend of Harbison's.
For years Harbison, who works at Mount Sinai, has prescribed patients a mix of growth hormones and, off - label, a type of breast cancer drug called
an aromatase inhibitor that she believes gives a stunted child several more years of growth.
The HOPE study looked at the effect of exercise on body weight, body fat, and inflammatory biomarkers in 121 women with joint pain from taking
aromatase inhibitors (AI) as adjuvant therapy.
In animal and cell culture studies, the drug inhibited growth both in estrogen - dependent breast cancer cells and in cells that had developed resistance to the anti-estrogen tamoxifen and / or to
the aromatase inhibitors, two of the most widely used types of drugs to prevent and treat estrogen - dependent breast cancer.
«Because the study showed a statistically significant benefit among patients whose disease progressed on
an aromatase inhibitor, a larger phase III study comparing this combination to other approved therapies used after initial therapies fail, like exemestane and everolimus, should be done.»
The trial enrolled 118 post-menopausal women with metastatic hormone - receptor - positive breast cancer whose cancer continued to progress after being treated with
an aromatase inhibitor.