A single dose of nicotine, equivalent to what you’d find in a cigarette, suppresses estrogen production in women’s brains.
Men are more likely to start using tobacco products. However, women who start the habit are less successful at stopping.
This is what researchers at Uppsala University wrote in a new press release published by the Scientific News Agency Eureka alert!.
For the first time, we can see that nicotine turns off the mechanisms that drive estrogen production in women’s brains, says Associate Professor Erica Comasco.
Researchers at Uppsala University in Uppsala, Sweden discovered that the effect happens in the thalamus, which is part of the brain’s limbic system.