Sentences with phrase «things like estrogen»

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For one thing, the beans contain a substance that behaves very much like estrogen in the human body — which has the potential to increase cancer risks, as well as contribute to developmental problems in children.

«Estrogenic chemicals» affect the body like estrogen naturally does, only this isn't a good thing for infants or toddlers, or anyone really.

«We are dealing with extremely small quantities and there are a lot of things out there that look like estrogen,» he said.

From that point on, our hormones rule our every decade, giving us our first period (and PMS), the highs and lows of pregnancy, and the big M. And this chemical influence is actually a good thing: So - called sex hormones, like estrogen, progesterone and testosterone, help keep our sex drive up, our risk of heart disease down and our baby - making ability primed.

When your estrogen and progesterone are out of balance, you experience things like breast tenderness, irritability, low libido, mood swings, insomnia, irregular menstrual cycles, miscarriages, painful periods, and yes — infertility.

The thing is, our sex steroid hormones are made from the same raw materials as cortisol, so when the body has to make extra cortisol, you run the risk of decreasing your other steroid hormones (like progesterone and estrogen) on behalf of cortisol production.

I don't think there's gonna — there's gonna be a lot of motivation to do a lot of research on it, but we know estrogen dominance can cause things like fibroids to happen.

It produces a hormone that's gonna cause fats — it's gonna basically produce leptin which is another hormone that's gonna decrease our body's ability to signal satiation and signal that we're full, which is another thing, and it's also gonna produce more sex hormones like estrogen.

For these people there was an increase of things like cholesterol, blood sugar, and estrogen levels.

The other thing is to help control or decrease the conversion of testosterone into estrogen like by products which can happen.

This means that we can look at genetics and make specific recommendations for diet, exercise and supplements that will help you metabolize hormones like estrogen in a healthier way, and now I'm all for direct to consumer testing — tests like 23 & Me, Ubiome and Cube that let you DIY thing like genetics and Vitamin D at home.

More benign treatments that we offer here are geared towards first looking at hormone levels like high estrogen in men and reducing them with things like DIM or Indole -3-carbinol, vitamins.

But before we talk about some of that stuff, the other thing I wanted to ask you about because I know this can promote some abnormal clots formation and something like the blood thickening that we talked about is excess estrogen.

You're body is used to all these endogenous artificial testosterone, you know, your testosterone to estrogen ratio is getting messed up and so you do have to use what's called post cycle therapy when you're on pro-hormones and we won't get into the post cycle therapy as much on this podcast «cause I know we're kinda pushing for time but the problem is that if you don't cycle pro hormones, it can be tough on your liver, it can be tough on your own endogenous production so it's something that you do wan na make sure that you do, that you understand how to cycle properly and I have to be careful of course, giving out recommendations like that on this show just because so many people who are listening to this are competing in event like triathlons and marathons and thing of that nature where they're gonna be drug tested and stuff like this would be a big no - no anyways, you know, or they're going after more natural means and let's face it, prohormones can be kinda damaging to your body and the reason for that is because a lot of these side effects: acne and hair loss, breast tissue enlargement, or you know, what we affectionately call bitch tits in dudes, prostate swelling, you know, a lot of these hormonal imbalances that get created from dumping exogenous sources of hormones into your body and creating like a hormone milieu that can be a real real issue from a health standpoint.

So a lot of these are really not so good and it throws us into a state known as estrogen - dominance and this can allow things like fibroids to grow and endometriosis and even cause excessive bleeding that can even cause things like anemia which cause more fatigue and cause more thyroid and adrenal issues because now your body's ability to carry oxygen because you're low in iron is now impeded, so now you're set up for a world of hurt when it comes to energy and mood and how you feel.

Men experience things like mood swings, weight gain and gynecomastia (man boobs) when their estrogen gets out of control.

These get in the body and mimic the effects of estrogen causing things like weight gain, mood disorders, and increased risk of estrogen - linked cancers.