Duncan - my reference

[Guest guest]

Duncan:

This REFERENCE that I sent you (read below) shows that women taking

antibiotics can have their hormones levels CHANGE (increase or decrease) and

if you read it, you would see that it contained the VERY SAME THING, that I

said a few days ago that you blew off.

" The results suggest that the intestinal bacterial flora plays a signifigant

role in Estrogen metabolism. "

I said this before, that IF I put Phytosterols in my body, my intestinal

flora will decide how hormones (and which ones) are metabolized from them.

2005)Effects of Palmvitee on Status of Superoxide Dismutase and

Glutathione

Peroxidase in Rat Liver during Aging. Malaysian Journal of

Biochemistry and

Molecular Biology, 12 (1). pp. 21-24. ISSN ISSN 1511-2616\

Can we agree on this?

Bonnie

[Guest guest]

Bonnie, The passage is FALSE. Metabolism means to " break down " , not to

create. By misconstruing the meaning you got the point reversed;

intestinal flora are not involved in making your hormones.

Put another way, making hormones is something the body may do with

some of the phytosterols after their absorption. In contrast, gut

bacteria do not " decide " on hormone creation although they can break

some existing hormones down. Here's your quote:

> I said this before, that IF I put Phytosterols in my body, my

intestinal

> flora will decide how hormones (and which ones) are metabolized from

them.

The hormones have not been created from the phytosterols while the

phytosterols are in the gut. Once the phytosterols have been absorbed

and some used to make hormones they are out of reach of these

bacteria. We do not rely on bacterial production of hormones; this

production if or when it occurs upsets our biological control over

hormone levels so is an interference, undesireable.

Phytosterols may well be broken down (metabolized) by gut bacteria but

this is not a hormone creation process.

Duncan

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> Duncan:

>

> This REFERENCE that I sent you (read below) shows that women taking

> antibiotics can have their hormones levels CHANGE (increase or

decrease) and

> if you read it, you would see that it contained the VERY SAME THING,

that I

> said a few days ago that you blew off.

>

> " The results suggest that the intestinal bacterial flora plays a

signifigant

> role in Estrogen metabolism. "

>

> I said this before, that IF I put Phytosterols in my body, my

intestinal

> flora will decide how hormones (and which ones) are metabolized from

them.

>

> 2005)Effects of Palmvitee on Status of Superoxide Dismutase and

> Glutathione

> Peroxidase in Rat Liver during Aging. Malaysian Journal of

> Biochemistry and

> Molecular Biology, 12 (1). pp. 21-24. ISSN ISSN 1511-2616\

>

> Can we agree on this?

>

> Bonnie

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