Pure estrogen antagonists are distinguished from the estrogen agonists/antagonists in that they produce only estrogen antagonistic effects in all tissues studied. One example of a clinically available ...

Incorporating soy products, flax seeds, and sesame seeds into your diet can help boost estrogen levels due to their phytoestrogen content, which mimics estrogen in the body. Certain vitamins and ...

COVINGTON, La. — When you think about female hormones and health, you don't usually think about memory, learning, and concentration. And yet another study is showing just how important estrogen is to ...

Women who have higher natural estrogen levels also may have a higher risk of stroke — a novel finding that suggests a possible new way to prevent this deadly disease, doctors reported Friday. More ...

Although individuals often consume natural products because of their potential health benefits, a new review indicates that it is not clear whether the benefits of plant-derived compounds that mimic ...

Researchers have developed a chemical that transforms into a powerful hormone once inside a rat — but only in the brain, not the body. A protein in rats’ brains turns a chemical nicknamed DHED into ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 87, No. 17 (Sep., 1990), pp. 6883-6887 (5 pages) Many estrogen-antagonist and -agonist ligands have been ...

A new study published in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease suggests that women who experience greater lifetime exposure to ...

ORLANDO -- A natural, or bioidentical, combined estradiol-progesterone capsule (TX-001HR) significantly decreases the frequency and severity of moderate to severe hot flashes in postmenopausal women, ...

The menopause transition, encompassing perimenopause and postmenopause, affects every woman differently, but the symptoms—hot flashes, sleep disturbance, irritability, and anxiety—can be profoundly ...

Which estrogen supplement is best? From hot flashes to mood swings to poor sleep, the symptoms of menopause can be debilitating. For years, doctors prescribed hormone replacement therapy to relieve ...

Exposure to small amounts of an ingredient in polycarbonate plastic may increase a person’s risk of diabetes, according to a new study in mice. The synthetic chemical called bisphenol-A is used to ...