What does ED stand for?

Enterodiol

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21-25,28) Evidence indicates that plant lignans acquire their anticancer properties only after being ingested and converted by intestinal bacteria to mammalian lignans, particularly enterolactone and enterodiol.

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16) [FIGURE 2 OMITTED] Secoisolariciresinol diglucoside (SDG), a flaxseed lignan, and its metabolites secoisolariciresinol (SECO), enterodiol (ED), and enterolactone (EL), which are all formed in the body have antioxidant activity.

Effects of flaxseed lignan on in vitro mitogen-stimulated t cell ...

When you eat lignans, bacteria in the digestive tract convert them into estrogen-like substances called enterodiol and enterolactone, which are thought to have anti-tumor effects.

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16) Lignans appear to have a protective effect against some cancers because they are metabolized by beneficial bacteria in the colon into enterolactone and enterodiol, two substances that have mild estrogen-like effects.

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Enterodiol and enterolactone exert their estrogenic effects through binding to estrogen receptor (ER) or show anti-estrogenic effects by competing with endoestrogen on ER (Setchell and Adlercreutz, 1988).

In vivo anti-osteoporotic activity of isotaxiresinol, a lignan from ...

Excretion of the lignans enterolactone and enterodiol and of equol in omnivorous and vegetarian postmenopausal women and in women with breast cancer.

Etiology and pathogenesis of uterine leiomyomas: a review. (Research ...

Lignans are plant compounds metabolized in the mammalian gut to produce the phytoestrogens enterolactone and enterodiol.

Dietary lignan intakes and risk of pre- and postmenopausal breast ...

Phytoestrogens can be divided into three main classes: isoflavones (such as genistein and daidzein), coumestans (such as coumestrol), and lignans (such as enterodiol and enterolactone) (Figure 1).

Interactions of Dietary Estrogens with Human Estrogen Receptors and ...