18-06-2012, 11:39 AM
There is a lot of doubt over the efficacy of PM cream
Firstly, when deoxymiroestrol is exposed to the oxygen in air, it is converted to miroestrol, and deoxymiroestrol is considered to be the active ingredient - so anything your rub in will get converted to the weaker, possibly even ineffective, miroestrol.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10691701
Secondly, and more importantly, phytoestrogens seem to need to be processed in the liver in order to be effective.
Long and untidy URL pointing to a PDF
(NB HepG2 is an established culture of liver cells)
(I have seen it proposed in this forum that the liver processes miroestrol into deoxymiroestrol, but could not find a paper that explicitly says this)
Hope this is useful...
B.
Firstly, when deoxymiroestrol is exposed to the oxygen in air, it is converted to miroestrol, and deoxymiroestrol is considered to be the active ingredient - so anything your rub in will get converted to the weaker, possibly even ineffective, miroestrol.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10691701
Secondly, and more importantly, phytoestrogens seem to need to be processed in the liver in order to be effective.
Long and untidy URL pointing to a PDF
(NB HepG2 is an established culture of liver cells)
(I have seen it proposed in this forum that the liver processes miroestrol into deoxymiroestrol, but could not find a paper that explicitly says this)
Hope this is useful...
B.