Guest guest Posted June 16, 2008 Report Share Posted June 16, 2008 > So before they go off the deep end, my question is I believe sex-type > hormones are stored in fat? but eating fat should not increase/change one's > hormone status? > Take care, > Alice - HSing mom to Alice (w/DS) born Thanksgiving Day 1995 :-) > Hopewell Junction, NY http://www.frontiernet.net/~castella/ Sex hormones are stored in adipose tissue. How you eat fat CAN change one's hormone status. But not to worry about in normal amounts with organic food. But I think of it as the extremes - if you eat a lot of hormone-laced supermarket meat, you will ingest those hormones too. Or a ton of fake soy products, you'll get the estrogenic effect of soy. Or if you starve and don't get essential fats, you can't make hormones. And if you have an extreme amount of stored fat that has hormones in it, and you start to burn that fat really fast, those stored-fat hormones will be released too. This is how birth control pills can do it to it twice - once while you're taking them and then if they make you fat, again when you lose it. > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 16, 2008 Report Share Posted June 16, 2008 On 6/16/08, castella@... <castella@...> wrote: > on another list someone was arguing fat consumption and another posted " Just > for your info: hormones come from fats. " and someone replied " Uh huh. > Which is why girls who are a little chunky kick into puberty changes > earlier. Starts when weight reaches about 70#. " > > So before they go off the deep end, my question is I believe sex-type > hormones are stored in fat? but eating fat should not increase/change one's > hormone status? > Take care, > Alice - HSing mom to Alice (w/DS) born Thanksgiving Day 1995 :-) > Hopewell Junction, NY http://www.frontiernet.net/~castella/ The person replying is saying that girls who are fat, not girls who eat fat, go through puberty faster, which of course has nothing to do with the original poster who was you report was saying something about fat consumption. I don't know to what degree estrogen induces puberty, but adipose tissue is responsible for converting testosterone to estrogen, so girls with more adipose fat will have higher estrogen levels. I think there is some evidence that high-fat diets raise steroid hormone levels, but not estrogen specifically. Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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