Alcoholic beverages as a source of estrogens.
Сгенерированная сводка:
Алкогольные напитки содержат не только алкоголь, но и множество других веществ, которые могут влиять на физиологические эффекты напитков.
Растения, используемые для производства алкогольных напитков, содержат эстрогеноподобные вещества.
Исследования с участием субъектов, которые сами не вырабатывали эстроген, показали, что фитоэстрогены в конгенерах алкогольных напитков оказывают эстрогеноподобное действие как на животных, так и на людей.
Abstract:
Alcoholic beverages contain not only alcohol but also numerous other substances (i.e., congeners) that may contribute to the beverages' physiological effects. Plants used to produce alcoholic beverages contain estrogenlike substances (i.e., phytoestrogens). Observations that men with alcoholic cirrhosis often show testicular failure and symptoms of feminization have suggested that alcoholic beverages may contain biologically active phytoestrogens as congeners. Biochemical analyses have identified several phytoestrogens in the congeners of bourbon, beer, and wine. Studies using subjects who produced no estrogen themselves (i.e., rats whose ovaries had been removed and postmenopausal women) demonstrated that phytoestrogens in alcoholic beverage congeners exerted estrogenlike effects in both animals and humans. Those effects were observed even at moderate drinking levels.