Because of what hormones is the weight of a woman increasing?
Last reviewed: 23.04.2024
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Age-related disorders in the body and hormones
There are several age syndromes that endocrinologists qualify as causes of excess weight. Here they are:
- PMS (the so-called premenstrual syndrome)
- Depression
- Chronic fatigue
- fibromyalgic syndrome
- polycystic ovary syndrome
These conditions affect the hormonal balance, breaking it, and thus do not allow us to control and keep our weight in the normal state. And with age, these states are only weakened, and therefore, their consequences are increasingly difficult for women.
That's why it's important to consult a doctor from time to time for hormone levels in the body.
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Let's clarify some of the terms
This is necessary for a woman to understand what hormonal processes take place in her body at this or that period of her life.
What is premenopause?
This is the time period during which a woman can not complain about irregular monthly and poor condition of the body as a whole. The hormonal balance is normal at this time.
What is perimenopause?
This is the time when the hormones of progesterone and estradiol decrease in women. She complains of the monthly, which sometimes happen, then no. In addition, the number of excretions changes every time, leading a woman to hysterics.
What is premenstrual syndrome (PMS)?
This is the time between the period of ovulation and menstruation. At this time a woman can radically change her mood - from sudden irritability and aggression to icy calm and apathy. The menstrual cycle continues, the ovaries work and produce sex hormones.
What is menopause?
This is a period in the life of a woman when her periods stop. The work of the ovaries is inhibited, and then they cease to function at all.
Menopause doctors called the time period when there are no monthly for a year. Menopause can be natural (due to age-related changes) and surgical (when the uterus is removed).
What is postmenopause?
This is the time period that occurs after the final cessation of menstruation. Stop to develop and sex hormones.
How does perimenopause affect weight gain?
When the woman finally stops monthly and the menopause comes, the level of sex hormones decreases significantly.
It is worth noting that not all women at this time can gain weight. But most are victims of increased appetite and increased fat deposits. Such women, according to statistics, more than 80%. They begin to recover first of all in the waist and abdomen.
Unpleasant "gifts" in a load to increase in weight - insomnia, absent-mindedness of memory and attention, a decrease in attraction to men, unmotivated aggression, mood swings up to complete apathy to life. Still, the work of the nervous and immune system may be upset, which threatens with frequent allergies, which were not even in sight.
Disturbance of the heart and vessels can also cause hormonal failure during the menopause. This can result in unexpected completeness.
Lack of sex hormones and the consequences
In the period of 45-50 a woman can already have menopause. But at this age she is still socially active: the woman works, is engaged in a family, does everything in the house. This active activity is superimposed on her physical condition, which can significantly worsen. And do yourself and go to the doctor once, but the woman does not consider it necessary.
The payment for inattention to yourself is great: the level of the stress hormone cortisol is increasing, the number of sex hormones decreases, because the ovaries are not so active. The woman risks the occurrence of diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, pressure jumps and brittle bone. Nails, hair and skin as a result of hormonal imbalance are not the best kind.
All this further inhibits the work of the ovaries and the production of sex hormones. As a result - a significant increase in weight, especially against a background of small physical activity.
To avoid these problems, you need to contact an endocrinologist for a hormonal level examination . Then you can control the lack or excess of hormones. As a consequence - to optimize your weight and improve your health.