So much so that researchers still don't fully understand the implication of oestrogen on your mood - we know that it can cause the neurotransmitter serotonin to surge, which decreases depression and increases buzzy feel good endorphins, hence why
when oestrogen levels plummet after ovulation and pre-period, you can feel so crappy.
When oestrogen levels drop acutely after childbirth, the concentration of monoamine oxidase A rises.
When oestrogen levels drop acutely after childbirth, the concentration of monoamine oxidase A rises.
Not exact matches
As women age, the pelvic floor muscles begin to weaken, either through childbirth, too much straining
when eliminating the bowel over the years, or, most commonly, due to reduced
oestrogen levels after menopause.
But pollution also covers hundreds of chemicals which are fine or even beneficial at low
levels but which if released in large quantities or in problematic circumstances cause «harm» — like phosphorus (grows your veges but also leads to toxic cyanobacterial blooms which kill cattle), nitrogen (grows crops kills many native species of plants and promotes weed growth costing farmers), copper (used as an oxygen carrier by gastropods but in high concentrations kills the life in sediments which feed fish), hormones like
oestrogen (essential for regulating bodies but in high concentrations confuse reproductive cycles especially with marine life) or maybe molasses from a sugar mill (good for rum but
when dumped into east coast estuaries used to cause oxygen sag in estuaries leading to massive fish kills).