Category: Hormones and Health

What the ADA guidance and the trials actually support on food and insulin resistance, with study sizes, and which popular foods and supplements fall short.

Medication weight gain is real and usually driven by appetite. Here is which drug classes are linked to it, what the Endocrine Society guideline lists as…

Insulin resistance does not lock fat in, but it can make hunger harder to manage. Here is what the Diabetes Prevention Program and four other trials…

The 2023 international PCOS guideline found no diet composition and no exercise type better than another. Here is what that means for weight, supplements and the…

Tiredness around a period is not one thing. It is a hormone fall you cannot prevent sitting underneath three inputs you can, and knowing which one…

There is no single way to balance hormones, because there is no single hormone. Dozens of them run on separate systems, and everyday habits reach only…

Excess body fat changes the chemistry around every egg and sperm cell: more oestrogen from fat tissue, more insulin, more inflammation, and more oxidative stress inside…

Shedding during weight loss is usually telogen effluvium: a metabolic shock pushes an unusually large share of follicles into their resting phase early, and they release…

Men do lose somewhat more, but the gap measured in trials is about a single percentage point of body weight, and the mechanism usually credited for…

Rarely as the main cause. Low testosterone and stubborn weight do travel together, but the evidence runs mostly the other way: carrying excess fat lowers testosterone…

Chronic low grade inflammation does not measurably slow the rate at which you burn calories at rest. What it does is interfere with insulin signalling, which…

Men and women run the same hormones at different volumes, and the gap is smaller than gym folklore suggests. On an identical diet men tend to…