And I get it; when I was battling my own
hormone issues I wanted a medical solution; I wanted a pill or treatment that would set my hormones straight so I didn't have to think about it anymore.
Not exact matches
• you are able to attend two consultations in Stockholm and one Skype consultation • you are willing to make lifestyle or / and diet changes • you are able to pay for some tests, for example a hair mineral analyse or a
hormone test • you are able to pay for supplements, like vitamins and minerals • you have a specific health
issue you
want help to solve
She notes that if this has been an ongoing
issue for you, you might
want to see your doctor about your pituitary and other
hormone levels in your body.
So, in this case, if you look at luteinizing
hormone, luteinizing
hormone is your brain's signal to tell your testes to make more testosterone, and if you have low testosterone, you may
want to consider as I did on this panel, testing luteinizing
hormone because that can show whether it's an
issue with the testes, or whether it's an
issue with the brain, and it looks like what you're saying, Dr. Bryan, is that in my case, I'm showing low luteinizing
hormone, which suggests that these
issues with, for example, low testosterone, or cortisol, might be occurring potentially, you know, higher up and, you know, from a brain signaling level.
For starters, you don't
want to eat too little because this causes your body to panic releasing stress
hormones, atrophying your lean muscle mass... which causes more
hormone imbalances... which destroys your sleep... which cause massive
issues with your brain... and down the nasty rabbit hole you go.
Even though I didn't really had any
issues with the IUD, I
wanted to free myself from the synthetic
hormones.
I highly recommend it for any woman with PCOS
wanting to take control of her health — for weight loss,
hormone stabilization, or fertility
issues.
If PMS or even PMDD is an
issue for you, this could be indicative of too high estrogen and not enough progesterone (the calming
hormone) and you might
want to consider doing my cleanse to get your estrogen under control.
You're body is used to all these endogenous artificial testosterone, you know, your testosterone to estrogen ratio is getting messed up and so you do have to use what's called post cycle therapy when you're on pro-
hormones and we won't get into the post cycle therapy as much on this podcast «cause I know we're kinda pushing for time but the problem is that if you don't cycle pro
hormones, it can be tough on your liver, it can be tough on your own endogenous production so it's something that you do
wan na make sure that you do, that you understand how to cycle properly and I have to be careful of course, giving out recommendations like that on this show just because so many people who are listening to this are competing in event like triathlons and marathons and thing of that nature where they're gonna be drug tested and stuff like this would be a big no - no anyways, you know, or they're going after more natural means and let's face it, prohormones can be kinda damaging to your body and the reason for that is because a lot of these side effects: acne and hair loss, breast tissue enlargement, or you know, what we affectionately call bitch tits in dudes, prostate swelling, you know, a lot of these hormonal imbalances that get created from dumping exogenous sources of
hormones into your body and creating like a
hormone milieu that can be a real real
issue from a health standpoint.
I
want to try doing a little bit of Intermittent Fasting,» but let's say, they have
hormone and blood sugar
issues.
I recently bought a house, am in school and have had lots of travels, so I'm wondering if it could be stress, or a deeper underlying
issue like endo, polyps, etc (aunt had endo and cervical cancer) I
want to have children in the next couple of years, so am nervous about reproductive health... and seeing this doc, I am adamant on not going on any BC / artificial
hormones.
Testosterone testing is often just the beginning for our patients — we
want to look at all your
hormones (and other health markers) to see if there are additional
issues.
When our
hormones aren't doing their best work we can see
issues such as the rollercoaster that is PCOS, so it makes sense to
want to keep them operating efficiently.