Word: estrogenous
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...report that interested me most looked at the association between breast cancer and soy-based foods. This is a controversial topic because soy contains isoflavones, some of which in isolated form can stimulate the growth of estrogen-receptor-positive breast-cancer cells. That's why many Western doctors warn women against eating soy. Yet the epidemiological evidence has been promising: Asian women on diets rich in soy have significantly lower rates of breast cancer than Western women have...
...recent study headed by researchers at the Harvard-affiliated Dana-Farber Cancer Institute has identified a complete map of the genetic regions that may influence how estrogen contributes to breast cancer—results that could advance clinical treatment for breast cancer patients. The study identifies the molecular “control panels,” which consists of thousands of on-off switches for genes, that may be part of the mechanism by which estrogen regulates breast cancer. The findings—to be published in Nature Genetics this month—may help individualize treatment for breast cancer...
...paper published in February in the International Journal of Epidemiology, Campos and others reviewed what medicine knows about how fat-or adiposity-is supposed to cause disease. They concluded that with the exception of osteoarthritis, where increased weight contributes to wear on joints, and a few cancers where estrogen originating in fat tissue may play a role, "causal links between body fat and disease remain hypothetical." They cite a recent U.S. study that found women who'd had an average of 10 kg of fat removed by liposuction had no improvements in health markers over the next three months...
...Finally, depression and hormones have a lot to do with pain in some people. Back and neck pain flare-ups in people under stress are commonplace. We have successfully treated many pain patients with anti-depressants. Back in the days of female hormone replacement therapy, samples of estrogen skin patches gave great relief of all sorts of joint pains suffered by certain peri-menopausal patients. Exercise, strangely enough, seems to have taken the place of the hormones we used to give - with nearly the same pain relief. This might be a covert form of hormonal therapy itself; the "pleasure hormones...
...think that fertility and health are sexy. Sexual selection in a nutshell: If people did not think that attributes linked to these positive characteristics were attractive, the human race would have died out pretty quickly. For example, female fertility is indicated by curvier bodies, which correspond to higher estrogen levels and more advantageous fat distribution—curvier girls get pregnant easily and can have truckloads of children. So why is the fashion industry emphasizing this totally unprecedented aesthetic? When I look at the fashion-forward Europeans, all I see is disaster. Tight jeans on men make them look sterile...