Sentences with phrase «factors like estrogen»

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Yes, there are many dietary and environmental factors that affect breast cancer risk, most of which are presumed to act via increasing or decreasing the levels of estrogens or estrogen - like substances to which women are chronically exposed.

The theory is, by supplementing with Fenugreek, mothers increase their estrogen - like factor and therefore produce more breast milk.

Fat - containing cells — especially those in the abdomen — behave like little hormone factories, he says, secreting estrogen, insulin, and a host of other so - called growth factors.

Anything that alters your hormone levels — like changing to a new hormonal birth control pill (that increases your estrogen levels) or too much stress (high cortisol) is a risk factor.

Your treatment will depend on where your cancer started, whether it has invaded other breast tissue or spread to other parts of your body, and whether hormones like estrogen or progesterone fuel its growth, among other factors.

Type # 2 is atrophic: So that's someone who loses their trophic factor of support like estrogen, testosterone, insulin, and vitamin D3.

The veterans study used a very large sample spanning the longest out of all existing studies, but factors like red blood cell count, estrogen and DHT levels were not tracked.

Proponents suggest that black cohosh's potentially estrogen - like effects may be beneficial to women as they experience menopause - related declines in their estrogen levels (a key factor in the development of menopausal symptoms).

For example, enterolactone made from flaxseed lignans has been shown to be an estrogen agonist (promoting estrogen production, through increased formation of transcription factors like ER - alpha and ER - beta), as well as an estrogen antagonist (working against estrogen production, through inhibition of enzymes like estrogen synthetase).