Estrogenic substances are chemicals or substances that have similar effects to the hormone estrogen in the body. They can mimic the effects of estrogen and potentially disrupt the hormonal balance in humans and animals.
Full definition
They remove a wide range of different contaminants, including steroid estrogens and
many estrogenic substances like trihalomethanes.
A vast number of people have what is called estrogen dominance due to numerous
estrogenic substances in our environment — even if testing shows they have low estrogen (e.g. menopausal women).
Even though my estrogen was very low, too
many estrogenic substances were binding T3 and preventing it from getting into my cells.
We were stunned to see the effects of
this estrogenic substance.»
Humans are exposed through their diet to
estrogenic substances (substances having an effect similar to that of the human hormone estrogen) found in many plants.