Touted as the 'natural cure' for menopause, the high dose plant supplements may have strong oestrogenic effects on the body, with all the dangers of large doses of ordinary oestrogens.
As bad news about HRT keeps rolling in, conventional and alternative practitioners have found themselves scrambling around for something to give women complaining of menopausal symptoms. So far, phytoestrogens have fitted the bill marvellously. Depending on whose research you read, phytoestrogens have either no oestrogenic effect or only a weak one. They work, we're told, by modifying the sensitivity of cells to physiological oestrogens as well as by modifying their production and metabolism. The result of this action on a given tissue can be either proestrogenic or antioestrogenic. Much attention has been focused on the antioestrogenic effect, which proponents say is protective. Phytoestrogens supposedly bind with oestrogen receptors in the body, preventing stronger and potentially more harmful oestroge...
Touted as the 'natural cure' for menopause, the high dose plant supplements may have strong oestrogenic effects on the body, with all the dangers of large doses of ordinary oestrogens.
As bad news about HRT keeps rolling in, conventional and alternative practitioners have found themselves scrambling around for something to give women complaining of menopausal symptoms. So far, phytoestrogens have fitted the bill marvellously. Depending on whose research you read, phytoestrogens have either no oestrogenic effect or only a weak one. They work, we're told, by modifying the sensitivity of cells to physiological oestrogens as well as by modifying their production and metabolism. The result of this action on a given tissue can be either proestrogenic or antioestrogenic. Much attention has been focused on the antioestrogenic effect, which proponents say is protective. Phytoestrogens supposedly bind with oestrogen receptors in the body, preventing stronger and potentially more harmful oestroge...
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