Chemicals You Are Exposed To Can Disrupt Your Hormones

For many years there have been news stories about how various pesticides harm wildlife, including our beloved Bald Eagles. Gradually scientists recognized that humans exposed to food toxins, chemicals that leak into waters, and even some of these same pesticides can have disruption to their hormone system. We suspect that hair loss, aging, premature menopause, infertility, hypothyroidism as well as a host of other diseases can be related to the substances that have now gained the name Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals. One of the largest endocrine hormone producing organs in our body is our fat tissue. It has been newly reported in the American Journal Of Obstetrics and Gynecology that a number of these Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals can alter the physiology of our adipose (fat) endocrine organ and cause obesity. A new term has now arrived: Obesogen. Simply put an obesogen is a chemical that leads you to be obese. The question is what exact substances can act as an obesogen, and if we can identify them what can we do to limit exposure. If we cannot identify the obesogens what can we do to inactivate them or inactivate their effects. Obesogens you may be getting exposed to include mercury, pesticides, insecticides (commercial), BPA, and phthalates. Toxin testing is not always available or affordable, but it is something you can discuss with your health care provider. Organic eating will limit exposure. One solution is easy: the less adipose tissue you have the fewer hormones there are to be disrupted. So to the extent that you can lose weight, replace fat with muscle weight, or remove fat through technology such as CoolSculpting, you can begin to inactivate the effects of obesogens. Whether at a heart healthy weight or carrying extra girth, the importance of minimizing toxin exposure has become clearer and clearer. If you are interested in finding ways to combat obesogens come in to discuss at Women's Health Practice.

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Passing Your Uterine Lining, Menstrual Period Norms

Decidual Cast Periods can be fairly easy, passing some tissue at a time, or off can come the whole lining in one piece called a decidual cast. Generally the lining of the uterus is only 6-8 mm thick at the time of the menstrual period, and it is shed gradually, a few cells at a time. The decidual cast is when the entire lining passes spontaneously. It's not uncommon, but it usually both uncomfortable, and alarming to some. But us women are designed to have some sort of periods Or Not? We have to pass tissue each month. Or Not? Are they good for us? Or Not? Do we want them? Or Not? Is this something that is individual? Or Not? It's a complex topic that I will be discussing a lot over my time in this blog. So lets start with basics: How much do we bleed and what are we loosing, and just what was this that the patient passed? And another basic: track your periods, and the Women's Health Practice site http://www.womenshealthpractice.com/media/pdf/menstrual_chart.pdf you...

Post-Endometrial Ablation Syndrome

If you have had an endometrial ablation and have developed symptoms of pelvic pain you might have post endometrial ablation syndrome. What is post-endometrial ablation syndrome? It is a constellation of symptoms due to entrapped blood or tissue within a uterus that has previously undergone an endometrial ablation. We are able to diagnose this at Women's Health Practic e but occasionally other conditions are causing similar symptoms. Other complications of endometrial ablation include pregnancy, risks from pre-existing conditions such as a polyp or fibroid, an infection of the uterus, or a pregnancy. If you have had a tubal ligation then it is possible that the condition could be post-ablation tubal sterilization syndrome. The ablation procedure is designed to destroy all lining tissue, but in fact there is no way to confirm the completeness of the ablation. It is thought that either residual or regrowth of the tissue is producing the symptoms of post-endometrial ablation syndrom...

You Have an IUD: But a Positive Pregnancy Test

Fortunately IUD pregnancy failures are rare. But if you have an IUD for contraception, and you get a positive pregnancy test, you probably ask yourself, what next? Well, make your gyno appointment promptly, this is a condition that is not typically an emergency, but it can be and it’s not handled over the phone or on a blog, or through self diagnosis! That being said, some researchers from University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas decided to look back at over 4100 women who had IUDs and of those 42 cases who became pregnant in their institution, over about a year period of time, to help understand what these women could expect when they got to their gyno and what actually happened to their pregnancies. Accurate pregnancy diagnosis, pelvic examination, and pelvic ultrasound were the cornerstones of the evaluations. They had very specific ways they looked at their ultrasound to prove there was no pregnancy in the fallopian tube, or partially in the fallopian tube...

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