Sentences with phrase «estrogenic activity in»

Flax also contains plant phytoestrogens called lignans that act as antioxidants and block extra estrogenic activity in the body.

It is very likely that the typical beer belly may be related to excess estrogenic activity in the body due to binge drinking.

Avoid toxins — Many conventional body care and household cleaning products contain toxins that disrupt hormone production and / or favor estrogenic activity in the body.

Alfalfa also has components that promote estrogenic activity in women whose own sex hormone production has declined; thus, it is thought to have helped many women with the discomforts of menopause and pre-menstrual syndrome.

Not exact matches

Actually, many of the BPA replacemnets are worse than BPA in terms of their estrogenic activity.

It seems that across a whole host of soy products, soy lecithin was the most estrogenic (though estrogenic activity was found in almost all foods tested, even non-soy ones).

Chemicals with estrogenic activity «have been reported to have potential adverse health effects in mammals, including humans, especially in fetal and infant states,» says Dr. George Bittner, a professor of neurobiology at the University of Texas at Austin who has served on many National Institutes of Health panels.

One study in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives found that plastic products advertised as BPA - free still leached chemicals with estrogenic activity — and some of these chemicals were even more potent than BPA.

Chemicals having estrogenic activity (EA) reportedly cause many adverse health effects, especially at low doses in babies and children.

Weak estrogenic transcriptional activities of Bisphenol A and Bisphenol S. Toxicology in Vitro, Vol.

A scientific research study on eight healthy male volunteers showed that subjects supplementing with 10 mg of boron significantly increased free (active) testosterone levels and decreased estrogenic activity as measured by a significant decrease in estradiol after only seven days.

In the research on BPA - free plastics led by Bittner, he asserts that plastics can be made with existing inexpensive materials that don't have estrogenic activity.

Edit 2017: Recently, after learning about new research and working with even more women, I'm finding that plant - based phytoestrogens may promote ER beta activity, which can lower estrogenic potency in the body as a whole, thereby decreasing the risk for certain cancers (this is not true of synthetic estrogen, like that in hormonal birth control or estrogen replacement therapy).

Sometimes they increase estrogenic activity — depending on the type of estrogen receptor present in this kind of tissue, say, in this case, the skin — and sometimes they increase it, like in the ovaries.

«Clear evidence of adverse effects of genistein in studies with gestational, lactational and post-weaning treatment,» and that «Daidzein has estrogenic activity of its own.»

Kruse SO, Löhning A, Pauli GF, Winterhoff H, Nahrstedt A. «Fukiic and piscidic acid esters from the rhizome of Cimicifuga racemosa and the in vitro estrogenic activity of fukinolic acid.»

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.

Melvyn Werbach, M.D., and Michael Murray, N.D., in their book Botanical Influences on Illness (Third Line Press, 1994), say components of licorice exhibit numerous pharmacological actions, including estrogenic activity [24] and aldosteronelike action.

Estrogenic or antiandrogenic activities have been reported for other essential oils and some of their monoterpene constituents.13 - 18 On the basis of the three case reports and the in vitro studies, we suspect that repeated topical application of over-the-counter products containing lavender oil or tea tree oil was the cause of gynecomastia in the three patients.

Of the 19 women who did it, 13 showed a reduction in estrogenic activity (68 percent).