To lower the risk of breast cancer, which has been linked to a woman's lifetime exposure to oestrogen, doses
of oestradiol will be low.
To reduce this risk, doctors will also give the women hormone replacement therapy, in the form
of oestradiol in a skin patch, supplemented by a dose of progestogen every three months.
They found that the number of spines in the hypothalamic arcuate nucleus, an area of the brain known to be linked to female sexual behaviour, correlated with the amount
of oestradiol injected into the rats, as did their behaviour.
Haslam SZ, Shyamala G. Effect
of oestradiol on progesterone receptors in normal mammary glands and its relationship with lactation.
Not exact matches
The cells from the ovaries, on the other hand, showed no change in their production
of the hormones progesterone and
oestradiol.
In a separate study, Paul Micevych and his colleagues at the University
of California, Los Angeles, investigated the effect on the brain
of the female rat's sexual cycle — characterised by an increase in
oestradiol production every four days.
Men consuming tofu instead
of meat for 4 weeks had lower testosterone -
oestradiol ratios as well as changes in other hormone levels.
Here is the recent evidence how dangerous both tap and bottled water can be today: «A powerful form
of oestrogen called
oestradiol (100 times more powerful than natural oestrogens) is causing half the male fish in our (UK) rivers to change sex, research shows!
Research has now shown that boron supplementation in postmenopausal women doubles the blood level
of the most active form
of oestrogen, 17 - beta
oestradiol, to the level found in women on oestrogen replacement therapy.
They have made the following proposals; firstly that the relationship may not be observed unless drinking behaviour is monitored prospectively and secondly that a correlation is evident between
oestradiol levels and the number
of weekly drinks consumed (0.2 — 8.2 drinks per week).
For the peri-ovulatory phase, evidence for a rise in the absolute amount
of bioavailable
oestradiol was presented.
The alcohol - induced increase in
oestradiol levels was only evident up to a consumption level
of one drink per day.
Alcohol consumption was associated with a rise in the levels
of plasma dehydroepiandrosterone sulphate during the follicular phase; plasma oestrone,
oestradiol and urinary
oestradiol in the peri-ovulatory phase and urinary oestrone,
oestradiol and oestriol in the luteal phase.
Higher levels
of intake were not associated with further increases in
oestradiol.
Validity
of estimating non-sex hormone - binding globulin bound testosterone and
oestradiol from total hormone measurements in boys and girls
Neutering in female dogs reduces the production
of progesterone and
oestradiol, which may have a controlling effect on compulsions.