True. I know this is a simplification, probably completely wrong…but you, one random carbon atom? Sincerely, fuck you

    • JakenVeina@midwest.socialEnglish
      1·
      8 days ago

      I was gonna say, I’m rusty on my chemistry, but that couldn’t be a carbon atom floating off with just a single bond. Carbon needs 4 bonds to fill its shell.

  • Gladaed@feddit.orgEnglish
    11·
    8 days ago

    The right one is estradiol, not estrogen. So wrong by technicality.

    It’s quite in there so it’s probably more difficult to modify than a functional group.

    • Miisha@lemmy.blahaj.zonedeleted by creatorOPEnglish
      11·
      8 days ago

      Yes, people use estradiol and estrogen interchangeably. It’s technically not correct, but works in most cases, since estradiol is the estrogen that’s used for HRT, both in gender-affirming care and in menopausal women.

      Estrogens are a group of hormones. There are three main ones and one produced mainly during pregnancy.
      Estrogens are:

      • Estrone (E1)
      • Estradiol (E2, the one that’s used in HRT, most people mean this when referring to "estrogen)
      • Estriol (E3)
      • Estetrol (E4, had to look this one up, it’s apparently produced during pregnancy)

      So, yes, you’re correct but it really only is a technicality.
      Please correct me if I’m wrong about anything.

      • Gladaed@feddit.orgEnglish
        2·
        8 days ago

        I was having fun. It’s still a mismatch as T is an actual, concrete compound.

  • Simon_Shitewood@lemmy.mlEnglish
    6·
    8 days ago

    Not as far off as you think - the protein aromatase converts testosterone directly into estradiol by aromatising the carbon ring, I.e removing the bond with that carbon atom and moving it to the carbon ring. So theres a protein with the job to telling that one carbon atom to fuck off.