The topic of estrogen has been enduring for a long time. Search the Internet casually, either introducing the magical effect of estrogen or revealing the information that XX products contain estrogen and cause various side effects.
Everyone either thinks that estrogen belongs to hormone drugs and has hidden side effects. In short, estrogen must not be used, and it will be finished if it is used. Either they think estrogen is a magic drug. For women, they wish to rely entirely on estrogen to keep young and beautiful forever.
Don’t worry, let’s listen to this debate on estrogen.
PRESIDENT: What we want to discuss today is: Does estrogen do more harm than good to human body, or does the good outweigh the harm?
The positive side’s view is that the advantages outweigh the disadvantages, while the negative side’s view is that the disadvantages outweigh the advantages. Now please welcome the positive side to speak first.
Pro-Argument (Male): Estrogen is a gift from God to women,
Hello, President of the General Assembly. The other side is friendly in defense.
As we all know, estrogen is a gift from God to women.
When a girl enters puberty, the estrogen secreted by her ovaries makes her body concave and convex, her skin can be broken by blowing bombs, and even her pregnancy and childbirth cannot be separated from the support of estrogen. As a man, I can’t imagine how terrible the world would be without estrogen for women.
Anti-Party Argument (Female): Estrogen also has a dark side,
The other side argued amicably.
Just now, the other side has repeatedly stressed how significant the effect of estrogen on women is. However, when we discuss estrogen, we cannot only see its positive effect and avoid its negative effect. I will tell you about the dark side of estrogen.
In addition to being secreted and produced by the human body itself, Some foods, medicines, health care products and skin care products also contain estrogen. For example, using skin care products containing estrogen can indeed see the effect of skin improvement in a short period of time. However, many studies have shown that long-term use of cosmetics containing estrogen will increase the risk of women’s endometrial cancer, breast cancer and ovarian cancer.
Finally, I would like to ask you: If your family wants to supplement exogenous estrogen, do you agree?
Two Debates (Female): Exogenous Estrogen is not All Bad
First of all, I want to correct my opponent’s argument that exogenous estrogen is not all bad. For example, [soybean isoflavone] in beans is called [phytoestrogen]. When the human estrogen level is insufficient, it can slightly make up for the deficiency of estrogen. However, when the level of estrogen in the human body is high, it can prevent the excessive effect of estrogen and is the [regulator] of estrogen in the human body. Therefore, women should eat some bean products in an appropriate amount instead.
If I were to answer the questions raised by my opponent’s defense friends, my answer would be yes. Because my mother is currently in menopause, the doctor advised her to improve her quality of life through hormone replacement therapy and exogenous estrogen supplement to smoothly pass through menopause.
In addition to menstrual disorders, climacteric women also have hot flashes, night sweats, dysphoria, paranoia, fatigue and other conditions. These are all a series of problems brought about by ovarian aging and inability to secrete enough estrogen to maintain the normal operation of the body.
These problems usually do not have clear organic changes, and appropriate estrogen supplementation can alleviate them, which is why clinicians often recommend estrogen supplementation for perimenopausal or menopausal women.
Therefore, from our point of view, estrogen not only allowed my mother to pass menopause smoothly, but also saved me and my father!
(Applause ~)
Opposition to Two Debates (Male): Indiscriminate Estrogen Supplementation Has Carcinogenic Risk
Thank you for sharing the family story with your defense friends, but please note that our defense topic is the effect of estrogen on human body, not the effect of estrogen on your mother, so please don’t generalize.
Now, let’s discuss the result of a conjecture. Assuming that we all think that estrogen has more advantages than disadvantages, you can imagine that all kinds of foods, medicines and health products in the streets and lanes must be filled with estrogen, and women who wish to sell stinky tofu on the street would add some estrogen.
So, I want to put aside today’s debate topic and simply ask the audience and the other side’s defense friends. Do you still dare to eat? Breast cancer, endometrial cancer and ovarian cancer are no laughs!
Positive and Three Debates (Male): Proper Estrogen Supplement Has More Advantages than Disadvantages
We believe that our opponents deliberately exaggerated the side effects of estrogen, It is inappropriate to compare estrogen to a scourge. It is true that abuse of cosmetics and health products containing estrogen may increase the risk of endometrial cancer, breast cancer and ovarian cancer in women, but our view is that supplementing the right dose of estrogen at the right time has more advantages than disadvantages, and it is not recommended that all women take estrogen.
Of course, we have also prepared a lot of information to share with you:
1. Taking estrogen at the right time can effectively reduce the risk of coronary heart disease.
The so-called appropriate time refers to perimenopausal period. Some studies have shown that estrogen therapy during perimenopausal period can reduce the risk of coronary heart disease. However, estrogen supplementation after 10 years of menopause will not reduce the risk, and estrogen supplementation after 20 years will increase the risk instead.
2. Using estrogen at the right time can help reduce the incidence of Alzheimer’s disease (commonly known as senile dementia).
Several studies have confirmed that estrogen supplementation can improve the language memory and delayed memory ability of women under 65 years old. However, for women aged 65 to 79 years old, estrogen supplementation will increase the incidence of Alzheimer’s disease.
3. Estrogen supplementation after menopause is not significantly related to breast cancer.
In fact, IMS (International Menopausal Association) ‘s “Latest Recommendations on Postmenopausal Hormone Supplement” in 2007 clearly pointed out that there is no particularly significant relationship between breast cancer and postmenopausal estrogen supplementation. Other studies have shown that long-term estrogen supplementation (7-15 years) will not increase the risk of breast cancer.
4. Estrogen supplementation during perimenopause is helpful to prevent osteoporosis.
In addition, estrogen supplement therapy for women during perimenopause can prevent the occurrence of osteoporosis and significantly reduce the incidence of postmenopausal fractures.
Therefore, opponents who hope to regard estrogen as a “scourge” can look at this issue rationally.
(Thunderous applause broke out in the audience, and the result has proved the victory of the positive side. It is undoubtedly more beneficial than harmful to use a safe dose of estrogen at the right time.)
Chairman’s summary
The heated debate just now has given us a new understanding of the advantages and disadvantages of estrogen. The conclusion is:
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Under normal circumstances, estrogen does not need to be supplemented, and health care products and skin care products containing estrogen should not be purchased without authorization.
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Supplementing estrogen according to doctor’s advice during perimenopause is helpful to relieve climacteric symptoms and smoothly pass this period.
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Using estrogen at an appropriate time can effectively control its side effects and bring certain benefits at the same time. However, if it is used incorrectly or indiscriminately or abused, the disadvantages will outweigh the advantages.
Therefore, allow me to stress once again:
Any drug should stress the right timing and the right dose. Therefore, estrogen needs to be used under the guidance of doctors, and so-called health care products should not be blindly purchased.
Finally, I declare that the positive side wins!