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Estrogen

Estrogen in Animal Products

Estrogen hormones can be thousands of times more estrogenic than typical endocrine-disrupting chemicals. Dietary exposure to natural sex steroids (In meat, dairy, and eggs) is “therefore highly relevant in the discussion of the impact of estrogens on human development and health.” And chicken estrogen is identical to human estrogen—they’re the same molecule. So it doesn’t […] Ref. Source 2e.

Estrogen

Estrogen Alters Memory Circuit Function in Women with Gene Variant

Hormone-gene interaction may underlie sex/individual differences in mental disorders

Fluctuations in estrogen can trigger atypical functioning in a key brain memory circuit in women with a common version of a gene, NIMH scientists have discovered. Brain scans revealed altered circuit activity linked to changes in the sex hormone in women with the gene variant while they performed a working memory task. Ref. Source 5n.

Estrogen Health & Special Psychology

Songbird study shows how estrogen may stop infection-induced brain inflammation. Estrogen synthesis, a process naturally occurring in the brains of zebra finches, may also fight off neuroinflammation caused by infection that occurs elsewhere in the body, new research indicates. Source 5u.