Lara Briden's Blog, page 11
May 1, 2020
How Insulin and Testosterone Cause Weight Gain in Women
Struggling with hormonal weight gain around your middle? It’s a common problem with PCOS, menopause, and birth control, but it’s not caused by estrogen. In women, estrogen is beneficial for weight loss.
Instead, abdominal weight gain is caused by insulin, testosterone, and androgenic progestins.
Here’s what you need to know.
Insulin resistance and weight gain
Insulin resistance is the condition of having chronically elevated levels of insulin. It’s also called hyperinsulinemi...
How Insulin and Testosterone Cause Weight Gain with PCOS, Menopause, and Hormonal Birth Control
Struggling with hormonal weight gain around your middle? Its a common problem with PCOS, menopause, and birth control, but its not caused by estrogen. In women, estrogen is beneficial for weight loss.
Instead, abdominal weight gain is caused by insulin, testosterone, and androgenic progestins.
Heres what you need to know.
Insulin resistance and weight gainInsulin resistance is the condition of having chronically elevated levels of insulin. Its also called hyperinsulinemia, metabolic...
The Role of Insulin and Testosterone in the Weight Gain of PCOS, Menopause, and Hormonal Birth Control
Struggling with hormonal weight gain around your middle? Its a common problem with PCOS, menopause, and birth control, but its not caused by estrogen. In women, estrogen is beneficial for weight loss.
Instead, abdominal weight gain is caused by insulin, testosterone, and androgenic progestins.
Lets take a closer look.
Insulin resistance and weight gainInsulin resistance is the condition of having chronically elevated levels of insulin. Its also called hyperinsulinemia, metabolic syndrome,...
April 29, 2020
High-Dose Fructose Is a Major Driver of Insulin Resistance (But Fruit Is Okay)
High-dose fructose is a major driver of insulin resistance, abdominal weight gain, fatty liver, heavy periods, and PCOS.
That does not mean that fruit is a driver of those conditions because whole fruit contains a relatively small amount of fructose compared to sweeteners like sucrose, syrup, honey, agave, coconut sugar, dates, dried fruit, and fruit juice. Fruit also provides nutrients and polyphenols that counterbalance fructose’s negative effects. In fact, low-dose fructose can improve...
April 19, 2020
Natural Treatment of Menstrual or Hormonal Migraines
Menstrual or hormonal migraines are caused by the drop from high to low estrogen and by the mast cell activation that occurs during the premenstrual phase.
Natural treatment for hormonal migraines includes reducing histamine and maybe avoiding gluten and also taking magnesium and natural progesterone.
Hormonal birth control can cause or worsen migraines
All types of hormonal birth control are potentially a problem for migraines but high estrogen pills are particularly bad and also carry a highe...
April 14, 2020
Immune Treatment for Endometriosis
Endometriosis is not a hormonal condition. It’s affected by estrogen but it’s not caused by estrogen or “estrogen dominance.”
Instead, endometriosis is a whole-body inflammatory and immune disease, and possibly a microbial disease.
What does that mean for treatment?
For one thing, it means that contraceptive pills and injections are the wrong tools for the job. They can relieve symptoms for some women, but not for everyone. And there’s officially no clear evidence that the pill works for endomet...
April 7, 2020
No Ovulation? It’s Not a Real Menstrual Cycle
A menstrual cycle is, by definition, an ovulatory cycle in which ovulation is the main event and progesterone is made.
Any other kind of bleed is either the breakthrough bleed of an anovulatory cycle or a pill-bleed, which are not real menstrual cycles.
An ovulatory cycle has two phases.
The two phases of an ovulatory cycle
The two phases of a menstrual cycle are the 1) pre-ovulatory or follicular phase when estradiol is made, and 2) the post-ovulatory luteal phase when progesterone is ma...
March 29, 2020
How to Increase Estrogen
Estrogen deficiency causes fatigue, weight gain, hair loss, depression, and insomnia. It also causes dry skin, recurrent bladder infections, and vaginal dryness.
Vaginal dryness is one of the most characteristic signs of estrogen deficiency and a good indicator that you do have deficiency.
What causes low estrogen?Theres no one way to increase estrogen. It all depends on why its low. Lets look at the three possible scenarios.
Scenario 1. You dont ovulate but youre not in menopauseHow to increase estrogen
Estrogen deficiency causes fatigue, weight gain, hair loss, depression, and insomnia. It also causes dry skin, recurrent bladder infections, and vaginal dryness.
Vaginal dryness is one of the most characteristic signs of estrogen deficiency and a good indicator that you do have deficiency.
What causes low estrogen?Theres no one way to increase estrogen. It all depends on why its low. Lets look at the three possible scenarios.
Scenario 1. You dont ovulate but youre not in menopauseMarch 25, 2020
How to Decrease Estrogen
Too much estrogen can cause heavy periods, breast pain, fibroids, and premenstrual irritability. It can also suppress thyroid function and increase the risk of breast cancer.
What natural treatment works to lower estrogen? To understand that, you need to think about the types of estrogen and why theyre high.
The many types of estrogenEstrogen is not one thing. Instead, estrogen is a generic term that can refer to any of the following:
Estradiol, which is the main (and best) estrogen from our...
