Sentences with phrase «mimic oestrogens»

His team is also checking blood and urine samples for chemicals that mimic oestrogen, from plastics in the environment, for example, to soya in the diet.

Some industrial chemicals, such as bisphenol A, mimic oestrogen, but little is known about how the effects of different oestrogen - like chemicals add up in water.

The Xenohormone that is most common is Xenoestrogen — this is a man made compound that enters the body and mimics the oestrogen hormone and amplifies the effect.

Not exact matches

Soy contains a group of phytoestrogens (compounds found in plants that mimic the activity of oestrogen) called isoflavones, but the isoflavone content of a soy protein isolate depends on the method used to isolate it.

Matteo Boretto, the first author on this study, commented that «we were very excited to see that we could not only robustly grow and amplify endometrial tissue in a dish, but that the tiny structures were also able to reproduce normal responses of the endometrium to hormones: oestrogen makes the tissue thicken, progesterone then induces maturation including folding (see picture), and subsequent removal of both hormones mimics the cell shedding of the menstrual period.»

No one is sure why this should be the case, but obesity and exposure to chemicals that mimic the female hormone oestrogen are the prime suspects.

While your article on regulation of the oestrogen mimic bisphenol A (23 October, p 26) was in press, Canada declared...

Laboratory studies show that, at the right dose, BPA can act as a hormone mimic, binding not only to oestrogen receptors but to other related receptors, too.

Environmental factors like oestrogen mimicking molecules can also deteriorate their quality,» says Barratt.

The main reason being that soy contains phyto - oestrogens (plant oestrogens), which can mimic our body's own oestrogens and throw off hormonal balance.

BPA can mimic hormones like adrenaline and testosterone as well as oestrogen and because minuscule amounts of these powerful hormones can cause major biological changes, imagine for one moment what your body does when it is bombarded with plastics containing BPA every day!

There are also studies that indicate that SLS mimics the effects of certain hormones in the body, causing hormone disruption and making the body produce more oestrogen (a type of estrogen) than necessary — wreaking havoc on the endocrine system.

But just as lead actors in Woody Allen films frequently mimic the tics of their director, so female writers working with him, including Schumer, invariably create typical Apatow characters — the stunted adolescent who can't grow up — just with added oestrogen.