Health: Approaches to the treatment of obesity and A Free Weight Loss Formula

Approaches to the treatment of obesity and A Free Weight Loss Formula

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Teen Rap: Hormone Facts Adults Don't Always Know

Written by Dr. Loretta Lanphier, ND, CN, HHP

Teen Rap: Hormone Facts Adults Don’t Always Know By Dr. Loretta Lanphier, ND, CN, HHP

Are you wondering how to handle your body’s changes, acne, mood swings, anger, or just plain stress? Here’s repparttar scoop—there’s a possible solution to these symptoms of hormonal problems that is simple to determine and inexpensive, too.

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Then there’s all repparttar 115079 stress that a typical teenager today is under with school work, social life, dating, sports, expectations to “be repparttar 115080 best,” high achievement pressure, summer school, get into college, etc. Your home environment might be stressing you with sibling arguments, disagreements with parents, a death in repparttar 115081 family, alcoholism, an unexpected divorce, or a parent running off. Or you’re helping a friend going through some of these issues and share their pain. The list is endless.

What Happens to repparttar 115082 Body Adrenal glands, which regulate repparttar 115083 hormones in your body, do a good job under normal circumstances. But too much stress creates hormonal imbalances, which then creates emotional instability. Your adrenals can get exhausted, then can cause hormone imbalances, or hormone imbalances can cause adrenal exhaustion. Regardless of repparttar 115084 cause, repparttar 115085 results are repparttar 115086 same.

So to handle all of repparttar 115087 stress, your adrenals produce a large amount of a steroid called cortisol. This over production leads to a huge reduction of repparttar 115088 hormone progesterone. When this happens, another hormone estrogen takes over. So now two hormones are affected. They have become unbalanced.

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