In addition to ensuring healthy adrenal gland function, natural supplements like soy isoflavones have been shown to help
modulate estrogen receptor sites and therefore assist in maintaining healthy bones.
They are pesticides and other toxic chemicals used in the environment that are estrogenic in nature, that is; the body identifies them as estrogen and allows them to attach to
estrogen receptor sites in the breast, and other areas.
When we consume these we take on the body - burden of excessive, non-essential hormones that have no choice but to build up
at estrogen receptor sites.
For example, xenoestrogens are a common, man - made EDC that bind to your body's
estrogen receptor sites, throwing off the fragile balance of estrogen and progesterone (female sex hormones).
Anyway, it's kind of modulating some of
those estrogen receptor sites.
Because estrogen and progesterone receptor sites are very similar at the cellular level,
estrogen receptor sites can «wake up» when occupied by progesterone molecules, enhancing the action of estrogen for a short period of time.
Xenoestrogens have the ability to bind to
our estrogen receptor sites.