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Can Women’s Health Get Better With Age? | Stacy Sims PhD

The Dr. Gabrielle Lyon Show

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Is Progesterone Anabolic?

I had never thought about estrogen as anabolic and I'm going to tell you why just because in the literature when I think about muscle protein synthesis, I oftentimes just the hormone receptors. The way estrogen impacts muscle up until late seems to be very confusing and somewhat nebulous. When we have estrogen available and we have estrogen not countered by progesterone, then we see this upturn in lean mast development muscle protein synthesis as well as strength and power cues.

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