Youth and beauty have always been valuable attributes, and for many women they remain important throughout their lives. Recent studies conducted by scientists from Germany and Chile offer interesting data on how estrogens, the female sex hormones, can affect women's youthfulness and appearance. This is a hot topic, but one that requires attention and caution, as injecting estrogen into the body is not always safe or justified.

The study was conducted among 100 women between the ages of 35 and 55. Researchers first assessed each woman's age visually when they met, and then measured estrogen levels in their blood. Surprisingly, the results of this study showed that women with elevated estrogen levels looked younger than their years.

In fact, the difference between perceived and actual age in women can be as much as eight years in one direction or the other, the scientists report. These findings may pique the interest and questions of many women, but it's important to realize that high estrogen levels can be either the result of constitutional characteristics of the body or the result of artificially administered hormones.

Elevated estrogen levels in the body can have both positive and negative effects. Taking estrogen preparations should be carried out under the strict supervision of a doctor, as it is known that high doses of this hormone can increase the risk of developing neoplasms.