Not exact matches
You
become sleep deprived, which worsens your stress
hormones, which worsens your period and
sex drive!
While
hormone replacement therapy for female
sex hormones has
become part of the accepted treatment for women experiencing menopause, the serious health benefits of testosterone replacement therapy for women are a relatively new realization.
It
becomes very clear that our health largely depends on
sex hormones, so it's beneficial to us to keep them in their optimal range.
Years of yo - yo diets, full of refined carbs and chemicals (hello diet coke, lean cuisines, bagels, cereal, beer, and crackers), eventually cause metabolic damage, usually in the form of Insulin Resistance, and organs that
become damaged / worn out (the liver, the pancreas, etc); and our hormonal system shifts from one that's full of Growth
Hormone,
sex hormones, and fat burning
hormones like Glucagon, to a hormonal system full of Insulin and Cortisol.
For example, an andropausal man whose serum test results indicate total testosterone at normal levels may still be experiencing loss of muscle and libido, prostate enlargement, and erectile dysfunction, along with increased risk of cardiovascular disease, osteoporosis and depression, if most of his testosterone is bound, which
becomes increasingly likely in men > 50, the age at which testosterone levels typically begin to decline, while levels of
sex hormone binding globulin (SHBG) increase with age.14
Steroids are manufactured completely artificially, are like chemically altered versions of your
hormones to
become similar to the male
sex hormones (primarily testosterone which has applications in bodybuilding).
Over time, the beneficial
hormone DHEA, also made in the adrenal glands, will
become depleted with persistent chronic stress, resulting in low
sex hormone levels such as testosterone and estrogen, as those are made from DHEA.
What's interesting is that magnesium appears to
become depleted by cyclical changes in the female
sex hormones during the luteal phase, which leads to PMS symptoms like migraines and bloating [4].
The use of these inhibitors are however
becoming more popular in aging men seeking to gain control over their
sex hormone levels, suppressing excess estrogen production while boosting low testosterone levels to a youthful state.
After mid-life the adrenal glands gradually
become the major source of the
sex hormones circulating throughout the body, having a whole host of physical, emotional and psychological effects, from libido to tendency to gain weight.
But once the adrenals
become chronically over-worked, more and more of the precursor materials (used to make
sex hormones) get diverted to make cortisol, resulting in a decrease in
sex hormones.
Next, T Bomb overpowers the
Sex -
Hormone - Binding Globulin (SHBG) that binds to testosterone
becoming it useless.
Even worse, if you're constantly releasing a ton of cortisol, your body will get drained and your cortisol levels
become depleted, as do your other (
sex)
hormones (aka adrenal fatigue)!
Oxytocin is a powerful «feel good»
hormone that's released when women have
sex, or
become physically intimate with a man.
They are less likely to
become aggressive or to act out due to the increased surge of
sex hormones.