What About Hormones

by

irgin iews

irginia

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I am constantly getting results from TVs who want to know where they can get female hor- mones and who ask various ques- tions about them. They also ob- viously have various misconcep- tions about them which moves me to write about the subject.

TYPES: Substances that have estrogenic (female hormone-like) effects are quite varied. An "estrogen" is any substance exhibiting estrogenic effects. The primary female hormone itself is called estrone and is elaborated by the female ovary. It is responsible for the development of female primary and secondary sexual char- acteristics. Stilbesterol is a substance not made in the body but which is so structured that the body is able to modify it into a ma- terial with estrogenic effects.

Progestins are materials exhibiting affects on the uterus which prepare it for the implantation of a fertilized ovum. The principle one is progesterone and it is made in the corpus luteum which is a material which forms in an empty egg follicle after a ripe egg es shed.

PREPARATIONS: Estrogenic materials may range from syn- thetic crystalline estrone or estradiol, through active extracts (us- ually from urine of stallions) to diethyl stilbestrol which is a syn-

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