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Technology has taught us things we would have never have believed. Just how the heck did someone count our fat cells, and when we are trying to control our fat, it does make it seem like an uphill battle when you think about these actual numbers. Not all these 30 billion fat cells are quite the same, some fat is white fat, and some is brown fat and yes we also have something called beige fat! White fat stores our energy, brown fat releases it. In the process of the release white fat has to convert to brown fat, during which it is called beige fat. Babies and hibernating bears have a lot of brown fat. Adults actually have some brown fat cells within their white fat cells that is what technically is beige fat. Brown fat cells have lots of little drops of lipids. These cells also have an abundance of mitochondria. The mitochondria have iron, and that iron content is brown. White fat has a single large fat globule, few blood vessels through and the cells have very few ...

Nervous meaning "can I perform" can definitely impact conception. The alarms, bells, whistles, and sticks turning blue, signaling a woman's ovulation can be a fun game just so long. Then it gets to be a strai discuss sources of stress with your gyno as there are ways she can help you. n on the sexuality of many couples to the point that artificial insemination of partner's sperm may be necessary to just avoid the performance topic all together! We know that stress produces a variety of hormones that wreak havoc on our endocrine system. These stress hormones can produce derangement in the menstrual cycle, so affect ovulation, and derangement in our blood sugar and metabolism, affecting our weight, throw off our biological clock and affect sleep, so we always thought that there must be a link between cortisol levels and conception.In the late 1990s a research group in Australia looked at levels in epinephrine, norepinephrine and cortisol, and they really ...

How to wish yourself in a place in time, or a place in your life may work for pregnancy as well. So can you think yourself pregnant, or what some might call the red shoe technique (Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz? What women then want to know, is how to get into this mentally positive state to help them conceive, does the thinking have to be of any particular sort of? Concentrating? Wishful? Whimsical? Or you have to be mindful to get pregnant? Probably not strictly thinking, but new studies say it will help. Some define mindfulness pretty much like positive thinking or eliminating the physical effects of stress from your bodies. Other physicians and researchers emphasize mindfulness can be literally just being aware of a situation. In meditative circles they refer to mindfulness as the mental energy you can achieve by focusing, acceptance and being aware of one's feelings, one's body, and one's desires. Therapeutically it has been known to help overcome great adversity, gr...

"I never get angry, says a Woody Allen character in one of the director’s movies, “I grow a tumor instead.” So how does this apply to uterine fibroids? Drs Wise, Palmer, and Rosenberg of the Sloan Epidemiology Center at Boston University have shown that stress can make a woman more at risk to grow uterine fibroids. And they now have published the newest findings out of the Black Women's Health Study, and Dr. Wise has concluded that depression can increase the presence of uterine fibroids. Internal stress can play havoc with our health in many ways. Stress can have internal  consequences as stress  can alter the immune system, it can alter our pituitary gland control of the adrenal glands, and can alter our ability to repair aging of our organs. Stress in very early life, caused by abuse, can have a stress effect that spans our entire life. It is true that those who experienced childhood stress also were more likely to smoke, to be physically inactive, and to become alcoholics...

Nervous meaning "can I perform" can definitely impact conception. The alarms, bells, whistles, and sticks turning blue, signaling a woman's ovulation can be a fun game just so long. Then it gets to be a strain on the sexuality of many couples to the point that artificial insemination of partner's sperm may be necessary to just avoid the performance topic all together! We know that stress produces a variety of hormones that wreak havoc on our endocrine system. These stress hormones can produce derangement in the menstrual cycle, so affect ovulation, and derangement in our blood sugar and metabolism, affecting our weight, throw off our biological clock and affect sleep, so we always thought that there must be a link between cortisol levels and conception.In the late 1990s a research group in Australia looked at levels in epinephrine, norepinephrine and cortisol, and they really couldn't detect differences in those cycles that got pregnant, their study was published...