Menopause is barreling down with a ferocity that is difficult to ignore. Like many women my age, I’ve had my share of health challenges and, until recently, blindly trusted the pharmaceutical industry to fix all that ailed me. Health by chemistry was a great thing; oral contraceptives, a fabulous invention, allergy meds – ditto, pain […]
As I described in my last post, hormones are substances secreted by various glands or organs throughout the body that have an effect on other organs or organ systems either in a positive or negative way. Men and women have pretty much the same hormones but the production of the sex steroids estrogen, progesterone, and […]
By chemical nature hormones can be Lipid-derived (e.g. steroids), monoamines, peptides or proteins. Steroids such as testosterone and estrogen are usually responsible for physical development from puberty to maturity and also for the fertility cycles. They are produced by placenta, adrenal gland, and gonads.Peptides and proteins are made from strings of amino acids that regulate […]
As I write this blog about endometriosis I find myself feeling for the women who struggle with this painful disease. For those unfamiliar with the disease, endometriosis is defined as the presence of endometrial tissue outside the uterus and affects approximately 10% of women of reproductive age.Current research is focused on identifying biomarkers which would […]