These 3 hormone imbalances might be making you dizzy

Do you often feel dizzy?

Has this ever happened to you that you are doing an important piece of work and suddenly you start feeling dizzy and forgetful? For a while, your head starts spinning and you go blank? This is known as 'brain fog', which can come floating anywhere and at anytime.

'Brain fog' is a medical condition, which can lead to confusion, loss of focus, attention issue, poor concentration level and can even wreck your productivity level. If you have ever experienced it, you might know that brain fog is worst of all and one of the major causes of this haziness is hormone imbalance. When the hormones in your body are in balance, you can concentrate in a better way, but when they are even slightly off, it can disrupt your entire body function. So, if you often go blank then get yourself checked for these 3 hormone levels:

Thyroid
Low thyroid levels can even hamper your brain functioning. If your butterfly-shaped thyroid organ does not produce enough hormones then it can lead to forgetfulness and trouble in thinking clearly. Due to the low level of thyroid level, the brain starts to process things slowly and your brain's reflex action reduces. Imbalance in the thyroid level can even lead to cognitive impairment, weight gain, weakness, depression, irritability, and intolerance to cold. 

Cortisol
Everyone feels sad and stressed once in a while, but if it is a day-to-day affair then this might be the reason why you are feeling cloudy. Too much stress produces cortisol hormones, which leads to brain fog. Your cortisol level should be well balanced as both high and low levels of stress hormones can affect your overall health. Disruption in stress hormones can even lead to anxiety, depression, and memory problems. Moreover, it can harm the mitochondria (the powerhouse of the cell), which makes you feel weak and low in energy. 

Estrogen and Progestin
Brain fogging is quite common in women around age 40. This is due to the fluctuation in estrogen and progestin levels. Fluctuation in both these hormones can make it difficult for you to focus on your work. The hormonal imbalance can even lead to other issues like weight gain, mood swings, night sweats, and low sex drive.

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8 Signs of Strokes in Women: Why Women Have More Strokes

Women Are More Likely to Get Strokes…

Strokes are the third leading cause of death for women. The American Stroke Association reports that about 60% of stroke deaths occur in females, which means that women are more likely to have strokes than men.

Not only that, women are less likely to recognize the signs of stroke or receive immediate medical care.

Interestingly enough, 80% of strokes are preventable with diet, exercise, lifestyle modifications and medical care. It is critical that we understand why women are suffering more strokes, what the signs of strokes in women are, and what we can do to prevent them.

What Causes a Stroke?

Almost 800,000 Americans have strokes every year when a blood clot blocks circulation to the brain, or a blood vessel in the brain bursts. When that happens, brain cells are deprived of oxygen and begin to die. Abilities controlled by that area of the brain, such as memory and muscle control, are lost.
While many people recover fully after a stroke, almost two-thirds of stroke survivors suffer some level of disability. That means that even if a stroke doesn’t kill them, it could leave them disabled (including being paralyzed, or unable to speak, walk or care for themselves), depressed and unable to live independently.
Let’s do something about that. Let’s make strokes a high-priority women’s issue.

Why Are Women So Likely to Get Strokes?

Smoking, obesity, lack of exercise and uncontrolled high blood pressure/cholesterol place everyone at increased risk for having a stroke. However, there are many physical and cultural issues unique to women, which put them at even higher risk and may lead to poorer outcomes.

Women Live Longer

Women generally live longer than men , and incidences of stroke increase as we age. Higher incidences of death and disability may be because women are more likely to live alone later in life, which can delay access to life-saving/brain-saving healthcare. It also means that after a stroke, women are more likely to live in a long-term healthcare facility.

Women Have Different Hormones

Estrogen and progestin in oral contraceptives and hormone replacement therapy have been linked with increased incidences of stroke. While most women can use hormone replacement therapy with no problems, those who smoke, don’t exercise and/or are obese are at increased risk for having a stroke.

Women Get More Autoimmune Diseases

The American Autoimmune Related Diseases Association reports that women get autoimmune diseases three times more often than men. Lupus and other inflammatory autoimmune disorders can damage blood vessels and lead to blood clot formation and/or blood vessel rupture.

Women Get More Migraines

The National Stroke Association says that migraines with aura can increase a woman’s stroke risk two and a half times, and most people in the US who suffer migraines are women.

Women Put Themselves Last

Even when they don’t feel well, putting others first comes naturally to many women. Women may hesitate to seek emergency healthcare until after they’ve taken care of family and gotten a few chores out of the way.

Women Aren’t Studied

Throughout most of medical history, studies, tests and treatment for cardiovascular diseases, including stroke, focused primarily on men. They never considered the fact that women’s bodies faced different challenges and risks for stroke, and that women responded differently to treatment.

Women Are Taken Less Seriously

There’s a long history of gender discrimination in healthcare that makes many women gun-shy about getting the care they need. Many women report that healthcare providers belittle or minimize their medical complaints, or reduce their concerns to being anxiety-related or all in their heads. Even when they know something’s wrong, women are less likely to demand further testing or a second opinion  if their healthcare concerns are dismissed.

Women Are Subtle

“Because stroke symptoms in women are more subtle, they’re often not taken seriously,” says  a Dr.

“Furthermore, sometimes when women arrive at the hospital with symptoms, they’re misdiagnosed until it’s too late.”

What Are the Signs of Strokes in Women?

The American Heart Association says you should remember the acronym FAST:

• F- Face Weakness
• A-Arm Weakness
• S-Speech difficulty
• T-Time to call 9-1-1

Dr. adds, “Other stroke symptoms include sudden numbness of the face, arm or leg, sudden trouble seeing in one or both eyes, trouble walking and sudden headache that feels like the worst headache of your life.”
In addition, the National Stroke Association says that women may report symptoms that are different from those men commonly experience. They include:

• Loss of consciousness or fainting
• General weakness
• Difficulty or shortness of breath
• Confusion, unresponsiveness or disorientation
• Sudden behavioral change
• Agitation
• Hallucination
• Nausea or vomiting
• Pain
• Seizures
• Hiccups

What Should You Do if You Have Stroke Symptoms?

Call 911 immediately. Nobody knows your body better than you do.

 

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Birth control pills may block blood flow to brain

Turns out, birth control pills increase the risk of ischemic strokes which are usually caused by a blood clot that blocks or plugs a blood vessel in the brain. This keeps blood from flowing to the brain.

According to  stroke specialists, oral contraceptives increase the risk of ischemic stroke, but this risk is very small among women who do not have other stroke risk factors. 

Several mechanisms were proposed to explain why oral contraceptives increase stroke risk during the research, including raising blood pressure and making blood hypercoagulable.

"The ideal drug is one with the lowest estrogen and progestin doses that will be effective in preventing pregnancy while minimizing adverse effects," said a neurologist.

In women with other stroke risk factors, the risk is higher and, in most cases, oral contraceptive use is discouraged. These risk factors include high blood pressure, cigarette smoking and migraine headaches, especially migraines with sensory disturbances called the aura.


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"The Pill" For Men Might Soon Be a Thing

It looks like the Pill, which has been taken as a contraceptive by women for several decades, will now have an alternative that’s designed for men.

 

A recent study found that a trial pill was able to block sperm production in men while being safe for their health. 

The pill, which is made out of Dimethandrolone undecanoate (aka DMAU), was found to reduce testosterone levels and other hormones that spark sperm production. Dr. added that the goal was to develop a contraceptive method for men that has minimal side effects.

Serving as an androgen and a progestin, the pill provides an alternative to vasectomies, condoms and coitus interruptus. Some 40% of all pregnancies worldwide are actually unplanned, so there’s clearly an unmet need for new contraceptives, especially when it comes to men.

Some 83 men aged 18 to 50 participated in the study, and they were randomly assigned to one of three groups. The members of each group were given 100mg, 200mg and 400mg doses of the new pill respectively.
Following the 28-day trial period, participants’ testosterone levels were observed to have dropped to “castrate levels”, which is the ideal of testosterone in the blood after surgical or chemical castration. 

Furthermore, members of the 400mg group were observed to have had a drop in two hormones that regulated testosterone and sperm production.

Testosterone levels in a healthy man range from 350 to 1,100 nanograms per deciliter, and the pill managed to reduce their levels down to 13 nanograms per deciliter, which would be the testosterone levels normally associated with a pre-pubescent boy or teenage girl.

Just nine of the participants experienced a decreased libido, which would be a negligible amount if scaled up to a few million people.
Dr. noted that researchers have been working on male hormonal contraception for some 40 to 50 Years without that much success. 

Although long-acting implants and injections have been developed, men have always been interested in having an oral pill available, and this research represents a step forward in that area.

Simply reducing men’s testosterone levels down to the levels observed in the study would result in side effects similar to those experienced by women when they go through menopause. This includes marked changes in sexual desire and function here.

As a result, it’s important to point out that this pill includes a steroid to provide androgen activity in all other parts of the men’s bodies. The problem with the study conducted is that its time-frame didn’t allow for the researchers to be able to say what the long-term effects of taking it would be, however they did establish what could become a potentially safe dosage.

The next step with this pill is to trial it over three months, and that is in the pipeline in the near future. Longer-term studies will still be needed to fine-tune any potential side effects, as well couple studies to demonstrate that it actually works in the real world.

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HRT linked to higher risk of contracting and dying from breast cancer

 Estrogen plus progestin use has been linked with increased breast cancer incidence, a study has found.

The study also found that prognosis is similar for combined hormone therapy`s users and non-users  suggesting that death from breast cancer may be higher for hormone therapy users as well.

In the Women`s Health Initiative (WHI) randomized trial, estrogen plus progestin was associated with an increase in both breast cancer incidence and mortality.

In order to determine the differences between the WHI trial and other observational studies, lead researcher and colleagues, looked at post menopausal women, who had no prior hysterectomy with negative mammograms within two years and were either users or non-users of estrogen and progestin combined therapy.

They found that breast cancer incidence was higher in estrogen plus progestin users than incidence in non-users.

Women who started hormone therapy closer to menopause had a higher breast cancer risk with a weakening influence as the time from menopause increased.

The researchers wrote that because survival after breast cancer diagnosis did not differ between estrogen plus progestin users and nonusers, the higher breast cancer incidence of those using estrogen plus progestin may lead to increased breast cancer mortality on a population basis.