A small study of the female hormone estriol has found it not only reduced the immune attacks of multiple sclerosis in women, but also improved their performance on mental tests – a benefit never demonstrated by the 10 approved MS drugs.
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Infertility Treatment May Significantly Increase Multiple Sclerosis Activity
Researchers in Argentina report that women with multiple sclerosis (MS) who undergo assisted reproduction technology (ART) infertility treatment are at risk for increased disease activity. Study findings published in Annals of Neurology, a journal of the American Neurological Association and Child Neurology Society, suggest reproductive hormones contribute to regulation of immune responses in autoimmune diseases such as MS. Read full article.