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Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as an exogenous agent that interferes with synthesis, secretion, transport, metabolism, binding action, or elimination of natural blood-borne hormones that are present in the body and are responsible for homeostasis, reproduction, and developmental process. Xenoestrogens are artificially made compounds produced by industry
In the pig LR3 IGF-1 study, plasma endogenous IGF-1 was suppressed during infusion (Tomas et al., 1997), and the guinea pig study showed reduced plasma IGF-I and IGF-II during LR3 administration (Bastian et al., 1995)
But the drugs high cost has prompted several commercial insurance companies to drop coverage