What happens to your brain and body when you don't get enough sleep? We certainly know that a lack of sleep will actually prevent your brain from initially making new memories. It's almost as though without sleep, the memory inbox of the brain shuts down and...
PMS (premenstrual syndrome) is a cyclic recurrence of a group of symptoms that happen a week or two before a woman's period. In over 75% of the cases, too much estrogen relative to progesterone contributes to a range of PMS symptoms including: breast tenderness, mood...
Some practitioners continue to proclaim that all estrogens are the same and all progesterones (synthetic included) are alike. It's quite clear that there is sufficient scientific research to claim otherwise: very small differences between molecules can result in significant differences in effects on the body....
Difficulty sleeping is one of the more common symptoms during the hormonal transition of peri-menopause and menopause. Here's what the research has to say about how hormones affect sleep. First off, progesterone. This hormone is responsible for our deepest sleep cycle, non-REM sleep, primarily by affecting...
If that's a question you often ask yourself, you could have leptin resistance. “Why am I always hungry?” Is that a question you often ask yourself, even after meals? If so, you could have leptin resistance. Leptin, a hormone produced by body fat, controls whether or...