Progesterone is not both an anticatabolic hormone and an antiestrogenic hormone, or it doesn't protect the functional systems from atrophy

Negation: Progesterone is both an anticatabolic hormone and an antiestrogenic hormone, protecting the functional systems from atrophy 1 0 2

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If it is true that...

Changes of aging are also the result of complex interactions between organisms and their environment rather than some genetic program 1 0 2

and

Removal of an animal's pituitary or its equivalent optic gland in the case of an octopus, radically extends the animal's lifespan 1 0 2

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The catabolic, death-inducing hormone is produced by the ovary, under the influence of the optic gland's gonadotropins 1 0 2

Then it must be true that...

Progesterone is both an anticatabolic hormone and an antiestrogenic hormone, protecting the functional systems from atrophy 1 0 2

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Progesterone, by increasing oxidative efficiency, opposes this "angiogenic" (neovascularization) effect of estrogen 1 0 2 In old age, the catabolic hormones such as cortisol are relatively dominant 1 0 2 Progesterone is both an anticatabolic hormone and an antiestrogenic hormone, protecting the functional systems from atrophy 1 0 2 Estrogen affects our energetics and structure, and how those processes relate to aging, atrophy, cancerization, etc 1 0 2 Progesterone is probably the most perfect antiestrogenic hormone, and therefore an anti-stress and anti-aging hormone 1 0 2 Progesterone and pregnenolone, by reducing the stress reactions, should be helpful in the eye diseases of infancy and old age, as they are in the respiratory distress syndromes 1 0 1 Increased estrogen, nitric oxide, excitatory amino acids, cortisol, lactate, free unsaturated fatty acids, prolactin, growth hormone, histamine, serotonin, tumor necrosis factor and other pro-inflammatory cytokines and kinins, and a variety of prostaglandins and eicosanoids have been identified as anti-mitochondrial, anti-respiratory agents 1 0 2 Even medical progestogens offer some protection against Alzheimer's disease 1 0 2 Progesterone is a nerve growth factor, produced by glial cells 1 0 2 When progesterone is deficient, estrogen's effect is largely unopposed 1 0 2