Hi I'm a chemist, my current work is with PFAS compounds, often known as forever chemicals. Please ask me about those, or anything else you are curious about related to chemistry. I will try to give you a solid response.

  • forcequit [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    how involved is older (with higher risk of cancer I think?) manufacture of premarin? I understand it was prepared from pregnant mare urine but that's as far as I got

    • ZoomeristLeninist [comrade/them, she/her]M
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      2 years ago

      Hmm I don’t know anything about that but people with ovaries have estrogen in their urine, moreso if they’re pregnant. So it’s probably as simple as just extracting the mixed estrogens from from horse urine. From what I’ve found googling, the cancer was caused by mixing premarin with progestin