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Re: Is there anyone who could not take AI's?
An alternative might be conjugated linoleic acid. A study involving the anti-aromatase activity of white button mushrooms postulates CLA may be responsible:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17178902
I PDF'd the Natural Standard monograph and uploaded it to my Dropbox account if you'd like to read more about CLA.
dropbox.com/sh/4n8bzeo73d93k64/ULu-_ZSZNj/NS-CLA.pdf
The above will open like a normal web link, but you will also be able to download it as a PDF if you want to keep a copy.
The monograph doesn't specifically mention the anti-aromatase activity of CLA (and I intend to get on Natural Standard about that), but it does explain the pros and cons of using it, generally, as well as the other purposes to which it's put. There are also several studies in Google Scholar and PubMed about CLA's anti-aromatase action, but it might be more productive to use "white button mushroom aromatase" as the search term.
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