messtafarian
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I bought this "adaptogen" on Amazon because I read it blocks, lowers or antagonizes cortisol. But as I usually do I get around to Googling "Suppelement X Estrogen" to see if it is an estrogenic herb. A lot of "natural" herbal medicines are really estrogenic and that usually puts me off of taking them, but there are also studies that show Rhodiola is helpful with anemia, which I also have.
But rhodiola also "competitively binds to estrogenic receptors" suggesting that it has "estrogenic action."
Once we dive into hormonal imbalance I really get confused. For example mifepristone, which can cure an adrenal tumor, also blocks progesterone. Mifepristone can also cure fibroids, they say by "blocking the progesterone receptor." So that's confusing, because I've also read everywhere regarding alternative health that estrogen is the *cause* of fibroids and progesterone can *cure* fibroids. When you add substances that can block glucocortoids AND progesterone, is that helpful or not?
Anyway the above is just to illustrate my confusion about this stuff. So if rhodiola "competitively binds to the estrogen receptor," does that make it estrogenic? Or does it actually block the effects of estrogen because of its competition for the receptor?
I wish I understood this better.
But rhodiola also "competitively binds to estrogenic receptors" suggesting that it has "estrogenic action."
Once we dive into hormonal imbalance I really get confused. For example mifepristone, which can cure an adrenal tumor, also blocks progesterone. Mifepristone can also cure fibroids, they say by "blocking the progesterone receptor." So that's confusing, because I've also read everywhere regarding alternative health that estrogen is the *cause* of fibroids and progesterone can *cure* fibroids. When you add substances that can block glucocortoids AND progesterone, is that helpful or not?
Anyway the above is just to illustrate my confusion about this stuff. So if rhodiola "competitively binds to the estrogen receptor," does that make it estrogenic? Or does it actually block the effects of estrogen because of its competition for the receptor?
I wish I understood this better.