13-10-2011, 21:49
Next week, I'm planning another experiment, and a trial with panax ginseng is high on the list. Because panax ginseng increases estriol, I wanted to know if estriol is useful for NBE. You won't believe it, but this has been studied:
http://cancerres.aacrjournals.org/content/1/1/55.short
Estradiol is 241 times more effective for duct growth than estrone. Estriol is 30 times less effective than estrone. There goes my panax ginseng experiment.
Even more surprising was this paragraph:
"During the past several years increasing evidence has
accumulated indicating that this mammary hyperplasia
is due not to a direct action of estrogen upon the
mammary gland but instead to an increased rate of
secretion of anterior pituitary hormones which have
been called mammogen. Data recently published indicate
that this consists of 2 factors: a duct-growth factor
and a lobule-alveolar-growth factor."
The "past several years" should be put in perspective: the publication is from 1941. But I didn't know breasts have their own growth factors, let alone two separate ones. This probably means I should forget about IGF-1, and look for an herb that increases the mammogenic growth factors.
http://cancerres.aacrjournals.org/content/1/1/55.short
Estradiol is 241 times more effective for duct growth than estrone. Estriol is 30 times less effective than estrone. There goes my panax ginseng experiment.
Even more surprising was this paragraph:
"During the past several years increasing evidence has
accumulated indicating that this mammary hyperplasia
is due not to a direct action of estrogen upon the
mammary gland but instead to an increased rate of
secretion of anterior pituitary hormones which have
been called mammogen. Data recently published indicate
that this consists of 2 factors: a duct-growth factor
and a lobule-alveolar-growth factor."
The "past several years" should be put in perspective: the publication is from 1941. But I didn't know breasts have their own growth factors, let alone two separate ones. This probably means I should forget about IGF-1, and look for an herb that increases the mammogenic growth factors.