(03-24-2023, 06:05 PM)mikesez Wrote:

(03-24-2023, 05:30 PM)americus 2.0 Wrote: Screw you Mike. Have you had to endure ANYTHING related to hormone issues?

I'm dealing with it right now going through the absolute worst perimenopause anyone I know has heard about, to include my very experienced doctor. It's like a perfect [BLEEP] storm of mental and physical misery that is barely controlled by hormone replacement therapy that we can't seem to get quite right but it's better than nothing. And because of HRT my thyroid is affected but I can't do a damn thing about it because I have adrenal fatigue.

I'm not going into anymore detail than that but I guarantee you I know a hell of a lot more about how hormones affect the body than you ever will and none of your reading material qualifies you to have a knowledgeable opinion. Stop making yourself look foolish.

I'm sorry you're having difficulty.  My mother had a very bad experience around age 50 as well.  I have no idea what that feels like and I never will and I never said I did.

So, with your greatly increased knowledge of how hormones work in women around age 50, what did I say about treatments for people under 18 that was incorrect?

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(03-24-2023, 05:58 PM)WingerDinger Wrote: That was a verbal [BLEEP] whoopin if I ever read one lololol

Just because she's mad doesn't mean she's right.

Lol. You are so delusional. For everything you change in the human body there is a reaction. I'll make it super simple for you....

Everyone has estrogen and testosterone but men and women have different levels of each according to their biological make-up. Testosterone for men and estrogen for women. It's pretty simple.  

Adding hormones to a male body that is not biologically engineered to receive those extra hormones is going to do damage to the body and the mind. Same for doing it to the female body.

Restricting hormones from either sex when their bodies supposed to have them, we're talking puberty, does damage to the body and the mind. 

When men and women's bodies start decreasing in those hormones later in life it does damage to the body and mind. For men it's andropause, for women it's menopause. Thankfully there are ways to help ease this natural transition by using HRT to keep things from going off the rails. Unless you're like me and there's a perfect storm of three hormone related issues going on at once, but I digress.

Hormones in all their forms drive everything in the human body. To artificially alter any of it is detrimental. It can cause anything from depression to digestion issues to joint pain. That's the extremely short list. 

Our bodies are constantly changing from birth to death and what feels weird at age 12 is going to feel different at ages 15, 18, 30 and so on. 

I could go on about how medications given to kids, specifically meds for ADD/ADHD, and all the processed food kids eat actually alters their hormones and is probably what has led to this explosion in numbers of them being confused about who they are, but I have better ways to spend the rest of my Saturday. 

You go ahead and wallow in your willful ignorance though. It seems to be your happy place.

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