Sentences with phrase «estrogen mimickers»
"Estrogen mimickers" refers to substances that can imitate or mimic the effects of the hormone estrogen in the body. These substances may be naturally occurring or man-made chemicals that can bind to estrogen receptors and have similar effects as estrogen. Full definition
* FYI: Tupperware would not typically have estrogen mimickers as it is made of HDPE or PET and does not have additives like phthalates, but cans certainly do.
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BPA is a potent estrogen mimicker found in most food can linings, some plastic wraps, and plastic cups and containers labeled # 7 in the little recycling triangle.
Also organic and grass fed animals will be free of antibiotics and pesticides which are full of estrogen mimickers that can increase fat storage in humans.
Among the potential side effects are changes in soy's natural estrogen mimickers, which may influence sexual development.
However, estrogen mimickers such as xenoestrogens, aren't eliminated naturally and end up accumulating in fatty tissue (such as breast tissue).
The unnamed products that were used to conduct the study contained lavender and tea tree oils, but they were diluted with a chemical that is a known estrogen mimicker (dimethyl sulfoxide.)
In our chemical filled world with estrogen mimickers everywhere, this is not good news.
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.
Are we exposed to a lot of environmental chemicals that are estrogen mimickers?
These estrogen mimickers not only affect the balance of estrogen to progesterone in our body but also affect estrogen metabolism and alter hormone activity.
Soy protein is an estrogen mimicker and can throw off optimal ratios of estrogens, progesterone, and testosterone.
Definitely stopping the synthetic hormones and being very mindful of plastic, because plastics have estrogen mimickers in them.