Exercise and premenopausal hormones

[R.B.]

As best I understand it exercise reduces hormones connected to monthly cycle which includes estradiol the target of aromatase inhibitors. (as well I am sure lots of other things)

RB

June 2007

Physical activity and inactivity in relation to sex hormone, prolactin, and insulin-like growth factor concentrations in premenopausal women : Exercise and premenopausal hormones.
Tworoger SS, Missmer SA, Eliassen AH, Barbieri RL, Dowsett M, Hankinson SE.

Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, 181 Longwood Ave., 3rd Floor, Boston, MA, 02115, USA

Abstract

In general we observed few associations between sex hormone or IGF levels and measures of physical activity or inactivity. However, free testosterone was modestly inversely associated with total physical activity (p-trend = 0.02). Luteal estradiol, free estradiol, and estrone also were inversely associated with total physical activity (p-trend = 0.10, 0.04, 0.01, respectively); however, the trend was substantially attenuated when excluding women with anovulatory cycles or irregular cycles. These cross-sectional results suggest that physical activity and inactivity have limited associations with premenopausal sex hormone and growth factor levels, except possibly luteal estrogens.

PMID: 17549594 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher].