Sentences with phrase «block estrogen receptors»

Insulin will in turn block estrogen receptors, making it more difficult for estrogen to enter your cells.

They gave some of the rats flutamide, which blocks testosterone from activating receptors in the brain, and gave others tamoxifen, which blocks estrogen receptors, finding that the drugs lessen the anxious behavior in the rats.

For severe cases, doctors sometimes prescribe Danazol, a steroid derivative that decreases levels of the reproductive hormones FSH and LH, or tamoxifen, a breast - cancer drug that helps relieve breast pain by blocking estrogen receptors, thus preventing estrogens effect on breast tissue.

Tamoxifen works by blocking estrogen receptors in breast tissue.

Turmeric is one of those few natural substances that work by directly blocking estrogen receptors on the cellular level, hence having the effect of reducing the sensitivity of your breast tissue to estrogen.

Similarly to their estrogen lowering effects by inhibiting the aromatase enzyme, both progesterone and Vitamin E also work by directly blocking estrogen receptors.

Not exact matches

Numerous studies have shown that soy, as a phytoestrogen (mimics estrogen and binds to estrogen receptors, blocking actual estrogen from doing the same), interferes with menstruation and may disrupt the endocrine system, much in the same way some breast cancer medications do.

Perkins points out that antipsychotics block dopamine receptors in the brain, which can also have the effect of depressing estrogen and testosterone levels.

Along with the drug types mentioned above, other categories that blocked viral entry included estrogen receptor modulators used against cancer and serotonin reuptake inhibitors used to treat depression.

Now, all breast cancers are classified as estrogen - receptor positive or negative, an important guide to prognosis and therapy, and medications, such as tamoxifen, that can block the effects of estrogen have become important tools in the treatment and possible prevention of breast cancer.

A novel first - in - class small molecule (ERX - 11) that interacts with and disrupts the interactome of the estrogen receptor (ER), blocks the growth of ER - positive breast cancers, including those that are resistant to currently approved hormonal agents.

While many xenohormones have estrogenic effects, they can also be anti-estrogenic in the sense that they bind to estrogen receptors and in effect block their own potential estrogenic effect.

Saw Palmetto works by inhibiting the enzyme that converts testosterone into dihydro - testosterone (DHT) and also blocks estrogen at its receptors.

In addition, not only are some of them estrogen mimickers, but others will suppress your enzymatic activity necessary to produce androgen hormones, while other will block the receptor sites on the cell.

And then the quantities that's really easy to overeat — grains, uhhmm — and then carbs, and then that sugar, and like, you know, the fat tissue produces more estrogen, the inflammation is blocking the receptors.

With the discovery of estrogen receptor positive breast cancers came agents to block estrogen's effects, including the drug tamoxifen.

From my viewing of the videos, I think you may find the best information in his video on Breast Cancer and Flaxseeds as a way of learning how certain plant based foods (especially flax) «block» estrogen receptors (there are alpha and beta receptors, Dr. G does an elegant job of explaining the differences).

When an estrogen molecule occupies a testosterone receptor site on a cell membrane, it blocks the ability of testosterone to induce a healthy hormonal signal.

On the other hand, when too much estrogen is around, rye's lignans, by occupying estrogen receptors, block out the much more powerful human estrogens, causing a lowering in estrogenic activity, and providing potential protection against breast cancer.

Studies to date have shown that xanthohumol blocks the action of estrogen by binding to its receptor, which may lead to prevention of breast cancer.