Progesterone pills
Progesterone is a hormone that the body makes naturally during the second two weeks of a woman’s menstrual cycle. It is secreted by the ovary once a woman reaches the reproductive age. Progesterone and similar substances called progestogens and progestin’s may also be taken orally as part of menopausal hormone therapy, in birth control pills, [...]
HRT side effects
Hormone Replacement Therapy, or HRT, has a number of different benefits, but it also has a number of side effects as well. HRT is often used to help relieve some of the symptoms of menopause, including hot flashes, sleep disorders, vaginal dryness, and night sweats. Menopause results in a lack of estrogen being produced in [...]
Menopausal hormone therapy
Ask any woman who has gone through it now, going through menopause is no picnic. Women who are going through menopause suffer from hot flashes, cold flashes, fits of anger and rage, poor memory, irregular periods, crying jags, the inability to sleep, extreme nervousness and the list can go on and on. No wonder so [...]
DHEA supplement
DHEA is a type of hormone that is produced in the adrenal gland. It is a precursor to the male and female sex hormones. DHEA is also synthesized and used in the brain. The body uses DHEA as a way to produce both testosterone and estrogen and other neural chemicals needed for brain function.
DHEA is [...]
Dexamethasone
Dexamethasone is a type of medication used to help with inflammation in the body. It is in the steroidal family of drugs and is used to treat all sorts of medical conditions that result in inflammation. Steroids are very strong medications that should only be used under a doctor’s supervision. Many other medications and medical [...]
HGH side effects
HGH is a natural hormone that is produced by the pituitary gland in the brain. HGH is the acronym for human growth hormone. This hormone is responsible for the healthy growth of the human body. It also helps maintain healthy cells. As people grow older they begin to produce less HGH that they did in [...]
Natural estrogen cream
Surely you have heard the horror stories. Sleepless nights, unpredictable hot flashes that leave you in a pool of sweat, wild mood swings that leave you crying at greeting card commercials one minute and yelling at your husband for leaving dirty dishes in the sink. No, these aren’t the symptoms of an alien taking over [...]
Prednisone
Prednisone is a natural steroid that is very similar to cortisone. The adrenal glands in the human body produce prednisone, but some times the body does not produced enough due to adrenal gland exhaustion. When adrenal glands burn out and problems arise, a synthetic hormone can be used. Natural steroids are vital for normal body [...]
HCG injections for weight loss
There are many different hyped methods to use for weight loss, but not all of them work. A lot of weight loss techniques are really just a ploy to profit the company marketing them, and some may work better for some than others. HCG injections for weight loss have been discussed for a while but [...]
Corticosteroids
During the period shortly before the 1950’s there was a product discovered by the Mayo Clinic that was thought to be the cure for arthritis. Corticosteroids, as they are called, were tested in clinical trials and found to have amazing results for treating the chronic joint pain and degradation associated with arthritis. Over time however, [...]
Low progesterone symptoms
Progesterone is a type of hormone that is produced in both the male and female body, but it is much more important to women. This is because the hormone is related to conception and fertility. In fact, Progesterone is actually produced by the ovaries during ovulation, although the adrenal gland also produces a small amount [...]
Cortisol reducer
Cortisol is the ’stress hormone’ which is created because of stress and is responsible for increasing your blood pressure and blood sugar levels. The cortisol hormone also reduces your immune responses. While it’s important to have some cortisol in your body, it’s a lot better if you don’t have too much of it. High cortisol [...]
Prohormone supplements
Prohormone supplements are dietary supplements that are used by people who are weight training or body building and want to gain muscle mass. These prohormone supplements are very similar in nature to anabolic steroids as they are the precursor to the hormones testosterone and nor testosterone. They have one molecule missing from their make up. [...]
HCG Hormone
For a long time, hormones were misunderstood. Back in the early 20th century, a cocaine-fueled Sigmund Freud thought that the reason women sometimes acted erratically was due to a female-only phenomenon known only as hysteria. It is now thought that Freud had used this explanation in place of science he did not understand in regard [...]
Anabolic steroids
When most people think of anabolic steroids, they have the image in their mind of an athlete who takes the drugs to improve performance. While the publicity given to those who use any performance enhancing drugs is huge, athletes are not the only people abusing anabolic steroids. These days, there are people in almost every [...]
Andropause treatment
While some in the medical community scoff at the idea of “male menopause”, it is an established fact that many men experience a condition very similar to menopause during middle age. Symptoms of this condition have been recorded since the mid-1940s and include things like depression, impaired memory, insomnia, hot flashes and a loss of [...]
Steroids side effects
While most people who use anabolic steroids to gain the advantage of increased muscle size and stamina for competitions, there are others who use them just to increase their muscles. The problem is there are many serious side effects caused by steroids that are dangerous and even lethal. Synthetic steroids side effects can be dangerous [...]
Human growth hormone
The current scientific knowledge that we have about the human body is that as we grow and age, our pituitary gland releases a human growth hormone. The organs of the body absorb the hormone and use it to help the body grow. This human growth hormone (HGH) is what causes the body to grow into [...]
Homeopathic HCG
Homeopathic HCG or human chorionic gonadotropin is a substance that is normally secreted by a woman during the early months of pregnancy. This substance has been used for years by those who want to lose weight in an injectable form under the care of a weight loss physician. The issues with this form include the [...]
7-Keto DHEA
7-Keto DHEA is a metabolite of DHEA. This means that 7-Keto is a substance that is produced when DHEA is metabolized by the human body. DHEA is the adrenal hormone Dehydro-epiandrosterone. This hormone is present in the body in large amounts at birth. The levels remain high in early childhood then ebb and flow until [...]
Melatonin
Melatonin is a necessary hormone secreted in the brain. It comes from the pineal gland and is responsible for regulating the other hormones throughout the body as well as keeping the body’s internal clock running smoothly. Our body’s internal clock is also referred to as the circadian rhythm. The circadian rhythm is extremely important in [...]
Hormone replacement therapy
Hormone replacement therapy is the most common treatment for women going through menopause. When menopause occurs, the ovaries lower a woman’s production of estrogen and progesterone which causes a wide variety of symptoms. Menopause causes the menstrual cycle to end and can also cause hot flashes, urinary and vaginal problems and mood swings. Once the [...]
Low testosterone symptoms
When people feel bad, many times they chalk it up to a bad day or a dietary imbalance. Of course, you might suffer from a vitamin or mineral deficiency, but many times people eat well enough to prevent this from happening. Another cause could be a chronic condition or disease, but again if you are [...]
Thyroid supplements
The thyroid performs many important functions in the body. It secretes hormones that stimulate and regulate growth and metabolism. It also helps with many daily body functions such as stimulate the pituitary gland. The pituitary is responsible for regulating hormones from the adrenal glands, ovaries and testicles. So you can see how important the thyroid [...]
Testosterone supplements
Testosterone is the primary hormone for development in men, particularly during fetal development and during puberty. Although there are small levels of testosterone found in women, they are much less than found in their male counterparts. Testosterone is a naturally produced hormone and supplementation is rarely necessary, however there are some medical conditions where testosterone [...]
