Sentences with phrase «plant oestrogen»

Too much protein is bad for your liver and can deplete vitamin A. Plus protein shakes are invariably soy (a) based — containing plant oestrogen — think «The pill»; think «moobs» and don't ingest!

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.

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.

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.

Treatments include introducing foods rich in plant oestrogens (e.g. tofu), nutritional supplements such as evening primrose oil, a range of herbal remedies and more.

The main reason being that soy contains phyto - oestrogens (plant oestrogens), which can mimic our body's own oestrogens and throw off hormonal balance.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

By contrast, soya products may be ingested in far higher amounts and typically contain a whole array of plant - derived «natural» oestrogens.

Phytoestrogens or plant - oestrogen has loads of immune assisting results and it even helps reduce the symptoms of menopause.

But pollution also covers hundreds of chemicals which are fine or even beneficial at low levels but which if released in large quantities or in problematic circumstances cause «harm» — like phosphorus (grows your veges but also leads to toxic cyanobacterial blooms which kill cattle), nitrogen (grows crops kills many native species of plants and promotes weed growth costing farmers), copper (used as an oxygen carrier by gastropods but in high concentrations kills the life in sediments which feed fish), hormones like oestrogen (essential for regulating bodies but in high concentrations confuse reproductive cycles especially with marine life) or maybe molasses from a sugar mill (good for rum but when dumped into east coast estuaries used to cause oxygen sag in estuaries leading to massive fish kills).