Sentences with phrase «work like estrogen»

And too bad that fat cells work like estrogen - factories.

Not exact matches

A close look at her blood work showed insulin resistance, elevated inflammatory markers like C - reactive protein (CRP), and estrogen dominance: all signs of hormonal imbalances.

Sure, many manufacturers are working hard to produce BPA - free bottles, but truth be told there are still compounds used in the making process that act like estrogen when released.

One of the reasons it may work for some women is that the fennel plant has estrogen - like properties.

It looks like nausea is caused by the elevated levels of progesterone and estrogen, which make the stomach work slower.

However, along with this seemingly linear storyline in which retinoids block progesterone's promotion of CK5 + cells, previous work in the lab of CU Cancer Center investigator Peter Kabos, MD, and others shows that breast cancers treated with anti-estrogen drugs like tamoxifen or aromatase inhibitors show an increased population of CK5 + cells — it is as if these therapies remove the roadblock of estrogen - dependent cells, leaving CK5 + cells to proliferate.

The theory is that Omega - 3's work to reduce risk in several ways, from reducing the effect of estrogen - like compounds to decreasing inflammation.

One of those tissues, one of those organs, is our brain, our nervous system, so estrogen can work a little bit like serotonin and, so what you might notice, right before your period when your estrogen levels drop, or women that are going through menopause and have a drop in estrogen levels, is you'll get irritable, you'll get depressed, and you'll crave carbs like crazy.

I am still uncertain about why my arms sags and wrinkle like a much older person, as if aging has accelerated, but next I will dig into cortisol and insulin resistance testing while working on balancing my estrogen to progesterone and testosterone levels.

Edit 2017: Recently, after learning about new research and working with even more women, I'm finding that plant - based phytoestrogens may promote ER beta activity, which can lower estrogenic potency in the body as a whole, thereby decreasing the risk for certain cancers (this is not true of synthetic estrogen, like that in hormonal birth control or estrogen replacement therapy).

For example, enterolactone made from flaxseed lignans has been shown to be an estrogen agonist (promoting estrogen production, through increased formation of transcription factors like ER - alpha and ER - beta), as well as an estrogen antagonist (working against estrogen production, through inhibition of enzymes like estrogen synthetase).

Known as the female ginseng, it is a hormone balancer and scientists believe it may contain mild estrogen - like qualities and work to stabilize your blood vessels, reducing hot flashes and decreasing vaginal dryness.

Vaginal estrogen, like vaginal estriol (estriol is the weakest form of estrogen and can reverse vaginal dryness), works locally (very little is absorbed by the body) to restore elasticity and integrity to the vaginal wall.