Estrogen is a fairly controversial hormone.  By that I mean that one minute you hear that phytoestrogens, the plant based natural chemical that you can get from certain herbs, seeds and veggies, are helpful and preventive against cancer and the next you hear that too much may actually help fuel cancer.  Who’s to say which is actually true or has more scientific merit, but now science is saying that the actual hormone estrogen may help women in the fight against certain types of heart disease.

This is where it gets real interesting, in lab animals, the females who had their ovaries removed and therefore dropped substantially or to zero in their estrogen production, were much more likely to suffer artery and circulatory damage than those with their arteries intact, and producing adequate amounts of estrogen. 

Not only that, but fine “grit” in the air, or otherwise known as pollution, has been found to increase the risk of heart disease in postmenopausal women substantially more than women pre-menopause, who are still producing tons of estrogen, suggesting that estrogen adds a significant added benefit and protection to heart health and protection against a big causation of heart disease in women, which I didn’t know before, is actually air pollution!

 

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