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’srepparttar scoop—there’s a possible solution to these symptoms of hormonal problems that is simple to determine and inexpensive, too.

Stressing Out Teens today experience many hormonal imbalance symptoms as a result ofrepparttar 115074 pressures of being a teen today. Too often you’re exposed to chemicals in foods and inrepparttar 115075 environment from pesticides, plastics, beauty products, cleaners, and lawn and garden chemicals, just to name a few sources. Water alone can contain hormones. You’re exposed to so much junk food, fast food, and soda. Dairy products and farmed fish have added hormones and antibiotics. Antibiotics to control yeast and acne also stressrepparttar 115076 body. Your body can be overloaded byrepparttar 115077 time you enter your teen years.

Many of you are being put on birth control pills to control premenstrual syndrome (PMS)— symptoms that occur before or atrepparttar 115078 beginning of your period--or to prevent pregnancy. Or maybe you’re on medication for ADD or depression.

Then there’s allrepparttar 115079 stress that a typical teenager today is under with school work, social life, dating, sports, expectations to “berepparttar 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 inrepparttar 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 torepparttar 115082 Body Adrenal glands, which regulaterepparttar 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 ofrepparttar 115084 cause,repparttar 115085 results arerepparttar 115086 same.

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

Low Fat Fallacy

Written by Jim Foster


I guess we all know that obesity is at epidemic levels. It's drummed into us from all angles. Isn't it strange that we haverepparttar biggest range of low-fat foods available but we keep getting fatter?

Isn't somebody going to stand up and say "It hasn't worked"?

Inrepparttar 115073 70's and 80's we were told that fat wasrepparttar 115074 enemy, and carbohydrates were good. The USDA Healthy Food Pyramid had carbs asrepparttar 115075 base (6-11 servings per day). There was however, little mention ofrepparttar 115076 quality of these carbohydrates.

Manufacturers were quick to respond, and began bringing out "Low Fat", "Fat-Free", and "Lite" versions of various food products. These are generallyrepparttar 115077 biggest selling items, and have resulted in lot's of clever marketing tactics - in fact anything to makerepparttar 115078 consumer feel guilty, and look forrepparttar 115079 "Fat-Free" option.

Milk - Is Whole Milk Really That Bad?

Most of our modern milk undergoesrepparttar 115080 process of homogenisation. This process forcesrepparttar 115081 fat globules into an atomiser (i.e. tiny holes) that will form tiny particles. These particles are then evenly dispersed throughoutrepparttar 115082 milk, givingrepparttar 115083 milk a uniform appearance. Most of our low fat, trim, super-trim milks are created using this process.

However, recent research has shown that structural changes do occur inrepparttar 115084 homogenisation process. In unhomogenised milk, an enzyme called xanthine oxidase would pass throughtrepparttar 115085 digestive system, and be secreted harmlessly throughrepparttar 115086 bowel. The homogenisation process allows this enzyme to enterrepparttar 115087 bloodstream.

Some researchers are sayingrepparttar 115088 enzyme attacksrepparttar 115089 issues of our heart and arteries, encouranging an increase in cholesterol levels!

Low Fat Hasn't Worked

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