when someone assigned female at birth doesn't get periods or someone assigned male grows breasts. Or you might be infertile – meaning you are not able to get pregnant or get someone else pregnant when you want to. These conditions have many other causes, though. ...
Any attempt to use any oral artificial estrogen made me very sick and the patches left red welts that lasted for months. So I have stayed with oral Premarin, and although I don't appreciate the way horses are treated in order to produce it, I am very grateful that it stops the severe...
Testosterone therapy might be appropriate if: You havereduced sex drive, depression and fatigue after surgically induced menopause, and estrogen therapy hasn't relieved your symptoms. You are postmenopausal, taking estrogen therapy and have a decreased sex drive with no other identifiable causes. ...
(a) What causes antidiuretic hormone (ADH) release? (b) What effect does this hormone have? The Hypothalamus: The hypothalamus serves an essential role in the body since it is the primary control of the automatic nervous system and the center that controls various act...
Osteoporosis is a bone condition that’s primarily caused by bone loss. This bone disease most often affects women because the estrogen changes that occur during menopause sharply decrease bone density. This drop in bone density affects strength and bala
What is/are the physiological effect/s of the estrogen hormone? Why do you shiver when the environmental temperature is very low? What causes a decrease in metabolism? What is epinephrine? What is the adaptive advantage of cortisol? Increased levels of what three hormones indicate that...
Research states that hormonal birth control, like the birth control pill, can stop ovulation from occurring by increasing progesterone and estrogen levels (10). This causes the follicles to be less sensitive to hormones, and therefore not to grow (10). Pregnancy and breastfeeding can also pause...
Functional. A functional cause of delayed puberty is hypogonadotropic hypogonadism. The production of gonadotropin-releasing hormone {GnRH) from the hypothalamus is delayed. Without it, the pituitary gland does not release hormones to stimulate the ovaries or testes.Estrogenor testosterone are not produ...
I am a 42 year old woman, who, at the age of 19 years old had a hysterectomy and I did not start taking estrogen until about one year ago because I heard so many stories about that it causes breast cancer and blood clots and many other side affects. ...
And since Sjögren’s affects women at a far greater rate than men — 9 out of 10 people with the disease are women — it’s believed that estrogen may play a role in the development of the disease. [2] Being a post-menopausal woman is a risk factor for Sjorgen’s syndrome. [6...