Sentences with phrase «less hormone sensitive»

Lower body fat in both males and females has about 67 % less blood flow, and has 87 % less hormone sensitive lipase activity (HSL).

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Women with PCOS have cells that are less sensitive to insulin, resulting in higher insulin levels and increased production of male hormones.

Fat cells grow larger when we gain weight, and the larger they get, the less sensitive they are to the hormone insulin, which cues the cells to take up glucose from the bloodstream.

The hippocampus neurons therefore were less sensitive to stress hormones and were less able to tamp down the animal's stress response.

Moreover, endocrine disruptors render sperm less sensitive for progesterone and prostaglandins — two important hormones released by cells surrounding the egg.

According to Dr. David Zava, who has studied the interaction of cortisol and hormones, «When cortisol is high the brain is less sensitive to estrogens.

Receptor resistance: For a number of reasons, our cells can become less sensitive to hormones.

It's important to note that you can also get man boobs when your hormone levels are normal, and your breast tissue is just more sensitive to normal levels of estrogen, or less sensitive to normal levels of testosterone.

Many of my clients find their hormone levels are normal, and this just means that their breasts are more sensitive to estrogen and / or less sensitive to testosterone because of estrogen / androgen receptor abnormalities.

Our tissues become less sensitive to the hormone, and our immune system less responsive to its» regulatory effect.

When stress becomes chronic, however, your immune system becomes less sensitive to cortisol, and since inflammation is partly regulated by this hormone, this decreased sensitivity heightens the inflammatory response and allows inflammation to get out of control.