Sentences with phrase «utero hormone»

I think in utero hormone levels has been proposed as a large factor as well, which might not necessarily require your «forced procreation».

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In 2003, University of Texas psychoacoustics specialist Dennis McFadden found that when measuring the way the brain reacts to sound, lesbians fell in between heterosexual men and straight women, meaning they are exposed to higher than normal levels of male hormone in utero.

Thanks to all those fun hormones you had to deal with while your babe was in utero have now carried on to them outside of the womb which has caused some rough looking skin.

The hormones that your body releases help to dissolve the fat used to feed your baby in utero to be used in breast milk.

Depression itself can reflect an imbalance of the hormones serotonin and cortisol — which are hormones that affect the development of your baby in utero.

If you find blood in your baby girl's diaper, it's likely a normal response to the hormones she was exposed to while in utero.

In newborns it's a lingering hormone that is leftover from when the baby was in utero later in pregnancy.

Exposure of the fetus to BPA in utero is of particular concern, because the chemical, which mimics the hormone estrogen, has been linked to several kinds of cancer, including prostate cancer, in rodent models.

The team's findings support the idea that particular sex hormones in the utero may affect the growth of ASD in both male and female children.

What we are learning is that the in utero environment may also affect the timing of future pubertal development in offspring, which makes sense since human brains are developed in utero and the brain releases hormones affecting puberty,» said study lead author Ai Kubo.

Hormone - disrupting compounds, or endocrine disruptors, have been shown to trigger obesity in mice exposed to the compounds in utero.

A parent's diet, physical activity, stress hormone levels, and exposure to environmental chemicals are other examples of factors that can affect a child's brain development beginning in utero.

Depression itself can reflect an imbalance of the hormones serotonin and cortisol — which are hormones that affect the development of your baby in utero.

Rather ominously, phthalates are known as endocrine disrupters, meaning that they can change the body's production of the sex hormones testosterone and estrogen and, in animal studies, alter the onset of puberty in mouse pups exposed to high levels of the chemicals in utero.

We've known for quite a while that stress in the dam during pregnancy can have an effect on the pups» anxiety levels and general resiliency due to the high levels of stress hormones the babies are exposed to in utero, but the research on epigenetics is adding a whole new layer to consider.

Due to that philosophy, parents did not know that this wonderful adopted child experienced a different brain developmental trajectory than biological kids and kids who did not experience their first years (plus utero) bathed in stress hormones.