Sentences with phrase «sex hormones like»

Retained testes are able to produce sex hormones like testosterone.

Cortisol levels will elevate, beneficial sex hormones like testosterone and progesterone will plummet, and muscular imbalances will occur just as they do with overtraining and dietary and nutritional imbalances.

Sex hormones like eleuthero helps with DHEA levels.

Low fat diets tend to make sex hormones like testosterone drop and it also may interfere with the production of other hormones as well.

Hormones secreted by your thyroid interact with all your other hormones, including insulin, cortisol, and sex hormones like estrogen, progesterone, and testosterone.

The adrenals produce even more hormones than the pituitary gland does — steroid hormones like cortisol, sex hormones like DHEA, and stress hormones like adrenaline and dopamine.

PCOS is a condition characterized by excess androgens (male sex hormones like testosterone) that causes symptoms like irregular menstrual cycles, head hair loss, body hair growth (especially on the face), mild to severe acne and even depression.

Vitamin D acts on over 1,000 different genes and serves as a substrate for sex hormones like testosterone, human growth hormone, and estrogen.

Vitamin A is key to almost every process in the body — the concert master, so to speak — not only for protein synthesis, but also for hormone production (including sex hormones like testosterone, and thyroid hormone); vitamin A is also key to immune system function, critical for healthy vision and hearing, plays a role in bone health, and works in tandem with vitamins D and K2 for everything from the prevention of heart disease to the production of feel - good chemicals.

It produces a hormone that's gonna cause fats — it's gonna basically produce leptin which is another hormone that's gonna decrease our body's ability to signal satiation and signal that we're full, which is another thing, and it's also gonna produce more sex hormones like estrogen.

Some cancers are also linked to sex hormones like estrogen.

is the billion - dollar question: «We think, based on animal research, that sex hormones like estrogen are responsible,» says Abby Abelson, MD, a rheumatologist at the Cleveland Clinic.

Not exact matches

The artificial hormone is designed to mimic the role testosterone plays in non-sperm-related functions in the body, like sex drive, musculation, and hair growth.

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He also believes it was written by people «who are obviously completely ignorant of basic endocrinology, which is required to evaluate a chemical that acts like the sex hormone estradiol.»

Bisphenol A manufacturers have said the trace amount leaching into food and beverages isn't dangerous to people because it's quickly metabolized into a form that loses its ability to act like a female sex hormone.

Most plastic items leach chemicals that act like the sex hormone estrogen into food products, even if they don't contain BPA, according to a study in Environmental Health Perspectives, reports NPR.

Like many endocrine disruptors, those chemicals triggered the same effects as estrogens, or female sex hormones.

«How male and female sex hormones can affect the immune system is important for understanding the molecular and cellular basis of sex differences in diseases like asthma,» says Nicola Heller, an immunologist at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine not involved in the study.

Lavender oil and tea tree oil contain compounds that act like female sex hormones and interfere with male hormones, researchers have determined.

Its chemical structure is similar to that of bisphenol A (BPA), and like BPA, is can mimic the activity of estrogen, a female sex hormone.

From that point on, our hormones rule our every decade, giving us our first period (and PMS), the highs and lows of pregnancy, and the big M. And this chemical influence is actually a good thing: So - called sex hormones, like estrogen, progesterone and testosterone, help keep our sex drive up, our risk of heart disease down and our baby - making ability primed.

As a doctor who helps women reverse post-birth-control syndrome, reset their hormones, and reclaim their fabulousness, I see how conditions like early menopause do more than just mess with your sex drive and make you a cranky mess.

The thing is, our sex steroid hormones are made from the same raw materials as cortisol, so when the body has to make extra cortisol, you run the risk of decreasing your other steroid hormones (like progesterone and estrogen) on behalf of cortisol production.

«As you enter perimenopause» — which can start as early as your 30s — «your estrogen levels drop, while male sex hormones, like testosterone, remain nearly constant,» says Dr. Wu.

Truthfully, one of the biggest culprits I frequently see that knocks sex hormones out of balance is sugar, including sugar in «healthy» foods like wheat flour, which converts to sugar.

Your gastrointestinal system is known in the medical literature as your «second brain,» and gut - brain connection problems like leaky gut syndrome can affect your brain - hormone connection — leaving you with no sex drive and fatigue.

Cholesterol is an important organic compound that the body uses to make brain cells, sex hormones (like testosterone), and fat - digesting bile.

Ginseng is like a sex hormone all to itself.

As a bonus, fish oil also lowers sex - hormone binding globulin, the school bus - like protein that ferries testosterone around the body, so that more testosterone is free and available.

Understanding circadian rhythm and its relationship with common issues like insomnia and anxiety is especially relevant for women: Estrogen, the primary female sex hormone, helps set the rhythm of every woman through the master clock in the brain.

Unfortunately, a lot of even young women lower their testosterone by taking endocrine - disrupting pseudo-hormones like birth control pills, which lower their sex hormone binding globulin (SHBG), which carries sex hormones through the blood.

For each individual, the ideal amount of fat in his or her diet depends on factors like genetics, sex hormones, and activity levels.

If you have abnormal elevations in certain binding globulins like thyroid binding globulin, and sex hormone binding globulin, you could have «normal hormone levels» (totals), but still have below normal free levels.

Mimicking the body's natural hormones like the sex hormones estrogens and androgens as well as thyroid hormones.

These symptoms may also point to conditions like hypothyroidism, nutrient deficiencies (especially B vitamins and iron), hypoglycemia, and sex hormone imbalance.

Caffeine, like alcohol, fuels cortisol imbalance thereby robbing you of sex hormones and stressing your thyroid gland.

High cortisol also imbalances our sex hormones and can set the stage for low thyroid function — compounding symptoms like constipation and weight gain.

The article above states somewhere that progesterone is a female sex hormone, so I'm assuming it is something that is consistently present, but just needs to stay balanced, much like estrogen and testosterone.

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.

Another way to check hormone status is to measure the actual hormone levels like T4 / T3 (thyroid), or cortisol / dhea (adrenals), or estrogen / progesterone / testosterone (sex hormones).

When receptor doors close, there's inflammation, there's a shut down of cell function, and **** other hormones, like Thyroid, Sex, and Leptin (which tells our brain we're full) are prevented from entering and delivering their messages.

Leifke E, Gorenoi V, Wichers C, Von Zur MA, Von Buren E & Brabant G. Age - related changes of serum sex hormones, insulin - like growth factor - I and sex hormone binding globulin levels in men: cross-sectional data from a healthy male cohort.

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).

Whether real or imagined, your body responds to threat by releasing a cascade of stress hormones that increase your blood pressure, elevate your heart rate, suppress non-essential functions like digestion and sex drive, and prepare you for battle.

Many different hormones are involved in the aging process, like sex hormones (estrogen, testosterone and progesterone), adrenal hormones (DHEA and cortisol), thyroid hormones (T3 & T4, TSH), and metabolism and repair hormones (insulin, glucagon and growth hormone).

My state of hypothyroidism threw off all of my sex hormones so drastically that my pelvic ultrasound looked like the classic profile of someone with PCOS (there were sixteen or so cysts in a ring around one of my ovaries).

To figure out what's really going on, these tests must be interpreted properly, and they need to be considered in tandem with other major hubs in your hormone network like your adrenal hormones, insulin and your sex hormones.

Yes, vegan men (like me) have more testosterone than meat - eaters... BUT they also have higher sex hormone binding globulin... this means that the FREE testosterone in vegan men is no different from meat - eaters.

Cholesterol is the precursor to all sex hormones (like estrogen, progesterone, etc).