Breastfeeding - the impact of hormones on MS

[Jaded]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/artic ... st-MS.html

The above article suggests oestrogen makes MS worse. I decided to take HRT because I thought the opposite. As per this research

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2760629/

Confused? Me too

J.

[Scott1]

You're confused!! Try being male.

[Jaded]

Ha ha!!

[centenarian100]

The state of pregnancy reduces the risk of MS relapses, but this could be due to factors other than high estrogen. Some potential examples include higher endogenous glucocorticoids, anovulation, elevated glomerular filtration rate and cardiac output, immunoregulation, and so forth.

Some of the trials done by Dr. Barbara Geisler at UCLA suggest that estriol may be protective in MS.