Sentences with phrase «of more estrogen»

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It is the estrogen in other types of birth control pills that decreases milk supply and thus makes nursing more difficult.

If you know far enough in advance, say 6 or 7 months, treatment with a combination of estrogen and progesterone (as in the birth control pill, but without a break) plus domperidone will simulate pregnancy somewhat and may allow you to produce more milk.

It is also believed that the plant estrogens found in milk thistle could be one of the reasons some women report making more breast milk when they take this herb.

When your period does return, more estrogen and less prolactin can affect the production of breast milk.

Estrogen levels also begin to rise which can cause the stomach to empty more slowly, resulting in nausea and loss of appetite.

For most of the woman's menstrual cycle, the cervix tends to remain firm, and is found to be positioned low and it is closede But, as the woman nears ovulation, then cervix becomes even softer, and it rises and opens when responding to the increased levels of estrogen that are present at ovulationo When a woman gets pregnant her cervix will tend to rise and thus the phrase high cervix pregnancyc The high cervix during pregnancy also becomes softer than normala The high cervix and pregnancy are the two features that the doctors associate with each othere Read more on friable cervix

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There's just a lot more of it now because your body is producing more estrogen, and more blood is flowing to the area around your vagina.

We're still waiting on a couple of tests to come back: some more hormone tests (my cancer is 95 % responsive to estrogen), and some genetic testing, but basically he told me that my cancer is very cooperative, it hasn't spread, and there is very little chance that I will need a mastectomy or chemotherapy.

The female breast contains cells called estrogen receptors which are stimulated by the presence of estrogen (or xeno - estrogens) into producing more mammary tissue.

That's because drinking to excess (more than two drinks each day) is linked to irregular periods, lack of ovulation and abnormal estrogen and progesterone levels, which can make it harder to conceive.

Hormones — mainly increased levels of progesterone, which cause the stomach to empty more slowly — are, again, largely to blame (though estrogen and hCG can also take some credit for your nausea).

Women who drink water contaminated with low levels of the weed killer atrazine may be more likely to have irregular menstruation and low estrogen levels, according to a new study

In healthy blood vessels, more common in younger women, estrogen can slow the development of artery - clogging plaques.

An epidemiological analysis of data from more than 6,000 American and Canadian women with breast cancer finds that post-diagnosis consumption of foods containing isoflavones — estrogen - like compounds primarily found in soy food — is associated with a 21 percent decrease in all - cause mortality.

Women with the KRAS - variant are also more susceptible to triple - negative breast cancer, tumors whose growth is not fueled by the hormones estrogen and progesterone, or by the presence of a particular genetic mutation known as HER2, which promotes cancer cell growth.

Detecting the presence of tumor estrogen or HER2 receptors with PET scans would enable oncologists to examine all sites of cancer for each patient, choose the appropriate drug treatment more quickly, monitor the tumor for changes that would necessitate a switch to another treatment, and even evaluate how well a drug is hitting its receptor targets.

These results confirmed the sensitivity to estrogen of pancreatic alpha cells, which then secrete less hyperglycemic glucagon, but more GLP1.

Baskaran said that transdermal estrogen administration is a more physiologic form of estrogen delivery than the oral preparation.

What's more, another analysis of the WHI data reveals that women taking estrogen were more likely to develop blood clots than were women getting dummy pills.

The drop in hormone use dates back to July 2002, when the Women's Health Initiative, a 15 - year study tracking the health of more than 160,000 women, abruptly ended its long - term study of estrogen - progestin hormone replacement therapy because women taking the drugs faced an elevated risk of invasive breast cancer and heart disease.

The reward center of the brain is much more attuned to the pleasurable effects of alcohol when estrogen levels are elevated, an effect that may underlie the development of addiction in women, according to a study on mice at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Because hearing loss becomes more common after menopause, the point in a woman's life when estrogen and progestogen levels fall off, it has long been assumed that HT would help reduce the risk of hearing loss.

«Women may be more vulnerable to the effects of alcohol or more likely to overindulge during certain stages of their cycle when estrogen levels are higher, or may be more likely to seek out alcohol during those stages.»

Heavy drinkers who consume more than eight drinks a day have a 63 percent increased risk of female breast cancer because alcohol increases levels of the female sex hormone estrogen.

Because prostate cancer is fueled in part by naturally rising estrogen levels in aging men, the prostate tissue's increased sensitivity to estrogen makes the development of cancer much more likely, according to Prins.

«Just think about how women are more prone to suffer from osteoporosis when they reach menopause because their estrogen levels drop,» said Ferron, director of the IRCM's Integrative and Molecular Physiology Research Unit.

The researchers also found that these neurons responded more robustly to male mouse urine when females had high circulating levels of estrogen or a combination of estrogen / progesterone, which surges before the mice become fertile.

More than 16,000 women had been enrolled in a trial that tested a combination of estrogen and progestin.

«Clearly, estrogen regulates TLR8 and other TLRs in ways that change the threshold of an inflammatory response, and female cells are hard wired to be more sensitive to this change,» said Nicholas Young, PhD, a molecular biologist with Ohio State's department of immunology who worked on the study.

They've discovered a group of immune regulating genes that become more active in the presence of estrogen, offering a clue to how the hormone's normally protective effects could go awry.

«The overwhelming sex bias of autoimmune disease demands that the estrogen connection be studied more deeply.»

More than 1,000 genes have estrogen receptor binding sites that control their expression, but less than one - tenth of those have been studied,» noted Jarjour, who is also an associate professor of immunology at Ohio State's College of Medicine.

«When estrogen triggers these genes to become more active, the genes tell the immune system to get ready to fight,» said Jarjour, whose lab is one of the few in the nation focusing on sex bias in auto - immune disease.

Psychology professor Rebecca Craft showed that, thanks to their estrogen levels, female rats are at least 30 percent more sensitive than males to the pain - relieving qualities of THC — the key active ingredient in cannabis.

Women are more likely to have osteoporosis; other key risk factors are a lack of vitamin D, calcium or estrogen.

While more advanced secondary and tertiary sewage treatments, including measures like activated charcoal filtration, can remove 90 to 100 percent of the estrogen in wastewater, some North American cities employ only primary treatment.

Women in Greece diagnosed with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS)-- which causes irregular menstrual periods, infertility, weight gain and excessive hair growth — were more likely to have higher blood levels of the estrogen - mimicking chemical bisphenol A than women without the disease, according to a study published last year.

Best of all, the derivatives were even more effective than the original compound, without leading to that worrisome estrogenic metabolite or showing much affinity themselves for estrogen receptors.

Some experts have traced estrogen - like chemicals to increased rates of human breast cancer, and there is even more evidence that they endanger animals by feminizing the sex organs of male frogs and fish living downstream from sewage treatment plants.

Although estrogen doses in oral contraceptives have decreased appreciably over the years, with pills in the 1960s typically containing more than double the estrogen dose of pills in the 1980s, the reduction in endometrial cancer risk was at least as great for women who used the pill during the 1980s as for those who used it in earlier decades.

Vaginal cell MI was higher and uterine volume decreased more slowly in soy - fed girls, both of which suggest estrogen - like responses.

Why men have more heart disease than premenopausal women has been unclear, but a new study shows that the sex hormones testosterone and estrogen alter cardiovascular risk factors in a way that raises a man's risk of heart disease.

The study involved a randomly selected subgroup of 413 racially and ethnically diverse postmenopausal women, ages 50 to 79, who were participants in the WHI estrogen - plus - progestin trial, which involved more than 16,500 women nationwide.

«This observation is important,» he added, «because more than two - thirds of breast cancers contain both estrogen and progesterone receptors.»

Although it was believed estrogen conferred cardiac protection and reduced the incidence of myocardial ischemic events and cerebrovascular accidents, the more recent literature indicates that this is not true and that HRT users have a higher risk of cardiac and cerebral events.»

«Our anaylsis suggests that biomarkers like E-cadherin are even more important than tumor size, tumor grade, the presence of estrogen receptors or the age of the patient.»

The 26 % excess of breast cancer is consistent with estimates from pooled epidemiological data, which reported a 15 % increase for estrogen plus progestin use for less than 5 years and a 53 % increase for use for more than 5 years.32 It is also consistent with the (nonsignificant) 27 % increase found after 6.8 years of follow - up in HERS.33

Recent estimates suggest that as many as 1.9 million children younger than 18 years have a sport - or recreation - related concussion each year in the United States.1 This injury is biomechanically induced, with symptoms resulting from neuronal dysfunction due to functional and neurometabolic alterations rather than gross structural abnormalities.2 Compared with boys involved in similar activities, girls experience higher rates of sport - related concussion,3 - 7 report more severe symptoms,8 - 11 demonstrate worse cognitive impairment,8 - 10, 12 and take longer to recover.11 The neural mechanisms behind these postconcussion sex differences are poorly understood but have been attributed to differences in neuroanatomy and physiology, 13 cerebral blood flow, 14 and the female sex hormones estrogen and progesterone.15 - 17

The activity of mPOA neurotensin neurons was more intense in female mice that had high estrogen levels or a mixture of estrogen and progesterone, which shoots up before they become fertile.