Category: Hormones and Health
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How Do 8 Key Hormones Affect Your Health?
Hormones are chemical messengers that set the pace of your metabolism, appetite, mood, sleep and reproduction. Insulin, thyroid hormone, cortisol, estrogen, progesterone, testosterone, melatonin and serotonin…
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What Hypothyroidism Actually Does to Your Body
Hypothyroidism means the thyroid is not making enough hormone, so almost everything that runs on it slows down: heart rate, digestion, temperature, mood and thinking. It…
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Childhood Obesity in India: How Common It Is and What Helps
National surveys put childhood overweight and obesity in India at roughly one child in twenty, rising quickly, with urban school samples running several times higher. What…
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Does PCOS slow your metabolism?
Measured directly, barely. Pooling 13 studies, resting energy expenditure in women with PCOS differed from women without it by about 30 calories a day, a gap…