Many toxic chemicals and stressful physical processes can activate the same functions as estrogen

Negation: Not all toxic chemicals and stressful physical processes can activate the same functions as estrogen 0 0 0

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If it is true that...

Estrogen sets the brain's temperature regulator lower but can also lower the metabolic rate through serotonin and other mediators 1 0 2

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Estrogen plays a role in organisms as diverse as yeasts, worms, mollusks, and in modifying the function of practically every type of animal cell--skin, nerve, muscle, bone, hair, gland, etc 1 0 2

Then it must be true that...

Many toxic chemicals and stressful physical processes can activate the same functions as estrogen 1 0 2

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Ray Peat/Aging, estrogen, and progesterone

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Many chemicals can produce effects similar to estrogen 1 0 1 Toxic effects of estrogens were known by the middle of the 20th century 1 0 2 Unpleasant consequences of estrogen excess resemble some events of aging 1 0 2 Estrogen was identified as a carcinogen in the first half of the 20th century 1 0 2 All maladies caused by estrogen excess develop in the same way that it interferes with pregnancy, by driving the tissue to require more energy and oxygen than can be delivered to it 1 0 2 Estrogen affects our energetics and structure, and how those processes relate to aging, atrophy, cancerization, etc 1 0 2 Adjusting many things in our diet and environment can more perfectly oppose the estrogenic and age-accelerating influences 1 0 2 The toxicity of estrogen and unsaturated fats has been recognized for most of the twentieth century 1 0 2 Estrogen and acetylcholine are excitotoxins 1 0 2 Endorphins are stress-induced and involved in estrogen action 1 0 1