The literature on sleep and obesity is becoming dense. Lots of things happen to people when they sleep. One of them has to do with appetite regulation, so many researchers are coming to believe that sleep plays a dominant role in today’s vast American...
I’m going to pick up here where I left off on my last post. There, I covered the role that exercise and energy deficits play in HPA-axis-induced amenorrhea. Here, I cover the effects of psychosocial stress, and also how the two kinds of stress play off of each...
The hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis (you can read an introduction to it here) is one of the leading contributors to poor reproductive health. The pituitary gland tells the reproductive organs what to do, and the hypothalamus tells the pituitary gland what to...
Pregnenolone steal is not a term commonly used by medical professionals and doctors. Yet if described to them, they would happily admit that it is a real phenomenon that affects millions of people. In fact, it affects every person (and especially every woman, since...
There are two primary ways in which the HPA axis (read an overview of the axis and what it does here) can malfunction: its activity can increase, or its activity can decrease. I discuss increased and decreased adrenal and pituitary function below. Why all this talk on...
The abbreviation HPA axis stands for Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal axis. Sometimes it is the HPAT or HPATO axis, standing for Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal-Thyroid-Ovary axis – depending on how expansive and inclusive you want your definition to be....
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