Browsing articles in "estrogen"
“Animal experiments show that lack of thyroid hormone can cause cystic ovaries.” -Ray Peat, PhD in “Nutrition for Women” Animal Reproduction Science Volume 39, Issue 2 , Pages 159-168, July 1995 The importance of thyroid hormone in experimental ovarian cyst formation in gilts Remigiusz Fitko, Jan Kucharski, Beata Szlezyngier The Anatomical Record Volume 90, Issue [...]
By Martha Rosenberg Want to increase your chances of getting node-positive breast cancer and dying from it? Take hormone therapy. Pharma’s lucrative estrogen plus progestin combo is already known to increase the chance of getting breast cancer by 26 percent. But an article in this week’s Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) shows hormone therapy [...]
Vitamin E and vitamin A also protect against lipid peroxidation, and vitamin A is specifically involved in progesterone synthesis. Vitamin A also has a variety of anti-estrogen functions, that are often considered to be relevant to protection against cancer. -Ray Peat, PhD American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Vol 5, 666-673 Relation of Vitamin A Deficiency [...]
Capitalizing on the FDA’s list of food ingredients that are Generally Regarded as Safe (GRAS), here is a top 10 list of substances Generally Regarded as Harmful (GRAH). Carageenan and the gums, ironically, are considered GRAS, but the data (1,2) indicates that they’re GRAH. Some of the substances below do have a physiological function, however, [...]
Also See Alcohol Consumption – Estrogen and Progesterone In Women How does estrogen enhance endotoxin toxicity? Let me count the ways. PUFA and Liver Toxicity; Protection by Saturated Fats Endotoxin: Poisoning from the Inside Out Hepatology. 2000 Jan;31(1):117-23. Estrogen is involved in early alcohol-induced liver injury in a rat enteral feeding model. Yin M, Ikejima [...]
Proc Biol Sci. 1998 October 7; 265(1408): 1847–1851. Physical work causes suppression of ovarian function in women. G Jasieńska and P T Ellison The suppression of reproductive function is known to occur in women engaging in activities that require high energetic expenses, such as sport participation and subsistence work. It is still unclear, however, if [...]
Br Med J. 1970 April 25; 2(5703): 203–209. Thromboembolic Disease and the Steroidal Content of Oral Contraceptives. A Report to the Committee on Safety of Drugs W. H. W. Inman, M. P. Vessey, Barbro Westerholm, and A. Engelund Reports of thromboembolism following the use of oral contraceptives received by drug safety committees in the United [...]
Alcohol and Alcoholism (2000) 35 (5): 417-423. THE EFFECTS OF MODERATE ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION ON FEMALE HORMONE LEVELS AND REPRODUCTIVE FUNCTION Studies that have investigated the effect of moderate alcohol consumption on the level of oestrogens and progesterone in both pre- and post-menopausal women are reviewed. It is concluded that several lines of evidence point to [...]
Also see: Bisphenol A (BPA), Estrogen, and Diabetes Am J Obstet Gynecol. 1990 Jul;163(1 Pt 2):382-7. Effects of oral contraceptives on carbohydrate and lipid metabolisms in a healthy population: the Telecom study. Simon D, Senan C, Garnier P, Saint-Paul M, Garat E, Thibult N, Papoz L. In a cross-sectional study that aimed to identify risk [...]
J Endocrinol Invest. 1993 Sep;16(8):619-24. Hormonal pattern in women affected by rheumatoid arthritis. Valentino R, Savastano S, Tommaselli AP, Riccio A, Mariniello P, Pronesti G, De Divitiis PM, Lombardi G. Gonadal sex hormones may account for the sexual dimorphism in the immune response and for the greater incidence of autoimmune disease in females. We have [...]
