Sentences with phrase «oestrogen only»

A common misconception is that oestrogen only has negative effects on the body of a man.

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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.
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