Now, the drop in
estrogen production due to menopause doesn't mean you're definitely going to experience symptoms, or that your estrogen levels are going to dive below normal.
Not exact matches
Your hormones are transitioning, baby is fussy
due to the new hormones, 6 weeks is one of the biggest growth spurts, all of that by itself is daunting then they want you to add in a new BC pill (hopefully
estrogen free) that can throw off your hormones and
production cause moms to panic and think that their milk is going down which then causes them to supplement or just give up all together.
Breast tenderness:
Due to
estrogen and progesterone developing the breast tissue for milk
production
This is partly
due to reduction in the
production of hormones such as testosterone, human growth hormone and
estrogen and also because of lack of weight - bearing activity.
So, when the body begins slowing down its
production of
estrogen due to menopause, a woman may experience more and worse headaches.
Birth control pills, for example, can alter the body's testosterone
production by rendering 50 percent of it useless,
due to the synthetic
estrogen it contains.
Low testosterone may be
due to inadequate
production or signaling from any gland, increased conversion to
estrogen (
due to aromatase enzyme), or increased amount of sex hormone binding globulin (SHBG), which binds up too much
estrogen or testosterone.
Furthermore, when blood sugar is imbalanced, our hormones are directly affected
due to constant high levels of insulin in our systems, causing insulin receptors on the ovaries to throw off the proper
production of
estrogen and testosterone (creating more testosterone than normal and less
estrogen than normal).
Increased conversion to
estrogen may be
due to age, weight gain, poor diet, lack of exercise, high stress, and hypothyroidism, and increased SHBG may occur from increased
estrogen exposure (e.g., weight gain, birth control, plastics / environmental endocrine disrupting chemicals), cigarette smoking, hyperthyroid (increased
production) stress, and poor liver health (e.g. elevated liver enzymes).