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Breastfeeding - the impact of hormones on MS

Posted: Thu Jul 13, 2017 10:36 am
by 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.

Re: Breastfeeding - the impact of hormones on MS

Posted: Thu Jul 13, 2017 9:58 pm
by Scott1
You're confused!! Try being male.

Re: Breastfeeding - the impact of hormones on MS

Posted: Fri Jul 14, 2017 2:18 am
by Jaded
Ha ha!!

Re: Breastfeeding - the impact of hormones on MS

Posted: Wed Jul 19, 2017 2:21 pm
by 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.