A common misconception is that
oestrogen only has negative effects on the body of a man.
Not exact matches
Our endocrine system (which regulates our hormones) is so delicate that
only a small amount of synthetic
oestrogen will disrupt it — and unfortunately we are absorbing so much of it.
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.»
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.
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.
«If you're treating the thyroid or progesterone and
oestrogen imbalances, it's
only temporary because you're not dealing with the reasons why they manifest in the body.