Resveratrol is an anti-estrogen Resveratrol, a compound in the skin of red grapes, has an anti-oestrogenic effect. According to a 2006 test-tube study by the Chinese University of Hong Kong, the effect is so strong that supplementation of high but not impossible doses can protect women against breast cancer. And it can help athletes to lower their estradiol levels, we add ourselves. Study The researchers experimented with the human breast cancer cell SK-BR-3 and the genetically altered MCF-7aro cell. MCF-7 is also originally a human breast cancer cell. The researchers used a version of that cell into which researchers had stuck extra genes, so that the cell started producing aromatase. Aromatase is the enzyme that turns testosterone and androstenedione into estradiol. The relationship between estradiol and cancer is twofold. Estradiol can turn into 4- and 16-hydroxy analogs, which can turn healthy cells into cancer cells. In addition, many breast cancer cells have receptors for
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