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Estrogen and Neurodegenerative Diseases
One thing links estrogen and neurodegenerative diseases together is known as the Estrogen Replacement Therapy. It is reported that females and males suffer different risk of different types of diseases which cannot set aside neurodegenerative diseases.[1] Discovered the sexual difference in people suffering such diseases, scientists found the thing that really mattered was estrogen, the well known female hormone. Estrogen was found to have many effective aspects of neurodegenerative diseases but can not be a treatment for many reasons. The most important side effect is its ability to higher the chances of getting other diseases such as breast cancer and coronary heart disease. Since estrogen is a large family of molecules that can result in a different function to human, systems for screening such molecules were developed. Also, scientists discovered ways to make their own estrogen-like compounds that can perfectly avoid most side effects used synthetic biochemistry to discover new molecules.