The Elegant Women

Archive for October, 2009

Is a woman who was going faster menopause disease and tired? At the time of menopause, women experience a condition in which sexual hormones (particularly estrogen and progesterone) which previously produced a no longer produced. The consequences of no longer produces these hormones is the occurrence of inflammatory diseases that are chronic, such as heart disease, cancer, osteoporosis, Alzhaimer and autoimmune diseases.

Before menopause, estrogen levels in balance and inflammation / inflammation that occurs generally mediocre and basically body to function effectively to prevent the entry of germs harmful. This will gradually change with the cessation of estrogen production at menopause. Research shows, in women with low estrogen levels in menopausal women as a higher risk of occurrence of chronic inflammatory processes.

Some theories say to do is to lower estrogen production, causing weight gain, which means increasing the number of fat cells. Fat cells produce “protein cytokines” that are pro-inflammatory. With the growing number of fat cells then this cytokine proteins and also increases risk by more easily exposed to infections that are chronic.
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