Sentences with phrase «oestrogen in»

High prolonged levels of oestrogen in the body can cause aplastic anaemia.

Pyometra develops through the assistance of hormonal stimulation from progesterone and oestrogen in the uterus.

There are two ways to accumulate excess oestrogen in the body: we either produce too much of it on our own (endogenous) or acquire it from our environment (exogenous).

In women, hormone imbalance occurs when there is an excess amount of oestrogen in their bodies.

Insoluble fibre, found in whole wheat and brown rice, is also good because it binds itself to oestrogen in the digestive tract and has a laxative effect.

When Ken Setchell and his colleagues at the University of Cincinnati first found an unknown oestrogen in human urine, just over a decade ago, they thought they had found a new human hormone.

Equol is a reliable indicator of isoflavone consumption: as a rule, the more plant oestrogen in the diet, the greater the amount of equol in the urine.

most importantly focusing on detoxification and rejuvenating our bodies plus balancing our hormones (testosterone, progesterone and oestrogen in particular).

Being overweight since extra fat in the body may lead to the production of the hormone oestrogen in excess.

The oestrogens in contraceptives also have a lethal effect on some elements of the larger environment; they have been shown to destroy the fertility of some groups of fish, for instance.

For comparison, the daily contraceptive pill contains around 50 micrograms of oestrogen, though the synthetic oestrogens in most modern pills are much more potent than BPA.

The effects on fish appear to be caused by oestrogens in the water flowing from sewage treatment works into rivers.

Not exact matches

Sweet potatoes are also phytoestrogenic which means they help remove unwanted environmental oestrogens, and they also promote productive bacteria in the gut.

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.

Since the endocrine system and the adrenal glands are responsible for the release of important hormones into the body, too much caffeine can result in an imbalance in hormones, such as oestrogen and testosterone.

Baby led weaned babies tend to rely on milk for longer, which is good for baby because milk is still the most nutritious food they can have under the age of 1, and for mother because regular breastfeeding including night suckling contributes to reduced oestrogen levels over a longer period, resulting in a lower risk of breast cancer later in life.

The increased level of oestrogen and blood in your body during pregnancy is thought to be the cause of pregnancy rhinitis.

That means your body has less exposure to the hormone oestrogen, a known factor in ovarian and uterine cancer.

Several factors can affect oestrogen levels in the body.

The metallic taste is caused by changing hormone levels, in particular oestrogen, which plays a role in controlling and moderating the sense of taste.

Progesterone, Oestrogen and Testosterone: All helpful in aiding the growth of mammary tissue for breastfeeding and also useful in helping regulate postnatal bleeding Iron: The placenta is rich in iron and can contribute to relieving the symptoms of anaemia, such as tiredness and depression Vitamins B6, C, D, E, K, B Complex, all help to boost the immune system.

Any oestrogen containing contraceptive should be avoided, particularly in the first 6 weeks after birth, because they decrease your production of breast milk.

This is simply because your body will be producing more oestrogen than usual due to the additional fat cells in your body.

Breast Cancer Care comment on claims that long - term use of Tamoxifen may increase proportion of oestrogen receptor (ER) negative cancers which develop in the opposite breast

«The study shows that long - term use of Tamoxifen does not increase incidence of breast cancer in the opposite breast, but it may increase the proportion of oestrogen receptor negative cancers.

His lab hopes to knock out a specific oestrogen receptor in dogs to understand the hormone's effects on fertility.

Strenuous exercise is known to reduce oestrogen levels in women and girls.

Every month, the tissue that lines a woman's womb first thickens, then matures and finally — unless the woman becomes pregnant — degenerates in a cycle that is regulated by changing levels of the female hormones oestrogen and progesterone.

By using a range of tissue stains, they were able to assess levels of oestrogen receptor (ER), progesterone receptor (PR) and HER2 — human epidermal growth factor — in order to divide the samples into four subtypes.

The potential health effects of phyto - oestrogens are often studied, but no one has looked at whether humans are the only primates with a taste for plants containing the chemicals, says Michael Wasserman of McGill University in Montreal, Canada.

HUMANS aren't the only primate to risk the reproductive repercussions of a diet rich in oestrogen - like compounds.

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.»

«In particular, the hippocampus — a part of the brain that is involved in the verbal recall memory task — is very sensitive to changes in oestrogen and cortisol.&raquIn particular, the hippocampus — a part of the brain that is involved in the verbal recall memory task — is very sensitive to changes in oestrogen and cortisol.&raquin the verbal recall memory task — is very sensitive to changes in oestrogen and cortisol.&raquin oestrogen and cortisol.»

She also measured levels of the hormones oestrogen and cortisol in their blood, and repeated these tests on 48 non-pregnant women.

What's more, the decline in verbal memory seemed to be related to hormone levels: women who experienced high levels of oestrogen during early pregnancy and lower levels of the stress hormone cortisol throughout pregnancy experienced the most marked fall in verbal memory performance.

Follow this entry in The New Shorter Oxford Dictionary with a search for a definition of Oenothera, and you trip across an unknown narcotic plant from Greece, known as the wine trap, the fact that plants opening by day and closing by night are called sundrops, that an oersted is defined as one gilbert per maxwell and a handy run through of the oestrogen family of steroids.

The most telling link between plant oestrogens and breast cancer to date comes from the work carried out at the MRC in Cambridge by Bingham and Aedin Cassidy.

At a meeting of the Society for Neuroscience in Washington DC last week, Victor Henderson and colleagues from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, presented findings that suggest women on oestrogen therapy are 40 per cent less likely to develop the disease than those who are not.

Part of the time, the women ate a normal Western diet low in plant oestrogens.

«We don't really know yet what effect plant oestrogens are having on humans,» cautions John McLachlan, director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences in North Carolina.

To date, some 15 oestrogen - like chemicals derived from plants have been discovered in human urine.

Oestrogen, manufactured by both ovaries and testicles, albeit in differing amounts, is potentially dangerous because it is a potent stimulator of cell growth in certain tissues — notably the breast, ovary, uterus and prostate.

Could oestrogen also help to maintain brain cells in those at risk of Alzheimer's?

Because of a quirk of evolution, these plant chemicals are close enough to the natural hormone's shape to bind to the oestrogen receptors on cells in the human body.

Giving the rats oestrogen implants not only improved their performance in learning tests but also helped to preserve the brain cells, reported Meharvan Singh, a graduate student at Gainesville.

If researchers are right, women taking oestrogen after the menopause may also reduce their risk of developing Alzheimer's disease, by protecting key cells in the brain.

Now Stavros Manolagas and colleagues at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Indianapolis have shown that oestrogen suppresses a protein which stimulates the development of bone - destroying cells.

Of these variants, reported today in the journals Nature and Nature Genetics, 65 are common variants that predispose to breast cancer and a further seven predispose specifically to oestrogen - receptor negative breast cancer - the subset of cases that do not respond to hormonal therapies, such as the drug tamoxifen.

Oestrogen levels are higher in women than in men, so if alcohol interacts with these molecules and stops them from damaging DNA, the reduction in kidney - cancer rates would be larger for women than for men.

In a second therapy commonly used for men with prostate cancer, doctors administer the female sex hormone oestrogen, which counteracts the androgens.