Realized this today.
If you think about the biological meaning of estrogen, it signifies a loss of stability/balance, whereas progesterone is the opposite. High estrogen leads to either obesity or excess leanness, mania or sluggishness, etc. Dr. Peat also writes this in his article on aspirin:
"Aspirin is an antioxidant that protects against lipid peroxidation, but it also stimulates mitochondrial respiration. It can inhibit abnormal cell division, but promote normal cell division. It can facilitate learning, while preventing excitotoxic nerve injury. It reduces clotting, but it can decrease excessive menstrual bleeding. These, and many other strangely beneficial effects of aspirin, strongly suggest that it is acting on very basic biological processes, in a coherent way.
In explaining aspirin's effects, as in explaining those of estrogen and progesterone, or polyunsaturated fats and vitamin E, I think we need concepts of a very broad sort, such as "stability and instability."
The unsaturated (n-6 and n-3) fats that accumulate in our tissues, instead of being part of the system for reestablishing order and stability, tend to amplify the instability that is triggered by excitation, by estrogen, or by external stresses."
All supplements adversely impact the balance of our bodies. In liver vitamin A comes with vitamin E and vitamin K, B-vitamins occur in certain proportions, in protein zinc comes in certain ratios relative to other minerals, etc. and no amount of human analysis can ever exactly replicate the balance found in nature (I think milk is the most balanced food). So even though certain supplements might lower estrogen in the blood in the short-run, since they are subtly worsening the balance of the body, they are "estrogenic" in nature in the long-run.
If you think about the biological meaning of estrogen, it signifies a loss of stability/balance, whereas progesterone is the opposite. High estrogen leads to either obesity or excess leanness, mania or sluggishness, etc. Dr. Peat also writes this in his article on aspirin:
"Aspirin is an antioxidant that protects against lipid peroxidation, but it also stimulates mitochondrial respiration. It can inhibit abnormal cell division, but promote normal cell division. It can facilitate learning, while preventing excitotoxic nerve injury. It reduces clotting, but it can decrease excessive menstrual bleeding. These, and many other strangely beneficial effects of aspirin, strongly suggest that it is acting on very basic biological processes, in a coherent way.
In explaining aspirin's effects, as in explaining those of estrogen and progesterone, or polyunsaturated fats and vitamin E, I think we need concepts of a very broad sort, such as "stability and instability."
The unsaturated (n-6 and n-3) fats that accumulate in our tissues, instead of being part of the system for reestablishing order and stability, tend to amplify the instability that is triggered by excitation, by estrogen, or by external stresses."
All supplements adversely impact the balance of our bodies. In liver vitamin A comes with vitamin E and vitamin K, B-vitamins occur in certain proportions, in protein zinc comes in certain ratios relative to other minerals, etc. and no amount of human analysis can ever exactly replicate the balance found in nature (I think milk is the most balanced food). So even though certain supplements might lower estrogen in the blood in the short-run, since they are subtly worsening the balance of the body, they are "estrogenic" in nature in the long-run.