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Category Archive: Hormones

Lactic Acidosis Symptoms

Lactic acidosis and metformin (Glucophage) This is an extremely uncommon problem unless you have risk factors. But, just […]

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Measuring Estrogen Levels (and the Premarin issue)

The following information comes from a published letter on measuring estrogen: Shuer  Premarin is derived from horses, thus […]

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Estrogen in Psychiatry

You’d think psychiatry would know more about this. Everyone knows estrogen has something to do with mood, right? […]

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Menopause and Bipolar Disorder

Most of the mood experts I’ve read seem to agree: bipolar symptoms can worsen in the 5 years […]

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The Basics of Bipolar Treatment

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First, before treatment actually starts, you and your doctor must be sure that you don’t have thyroid changes […]

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Details of the Thyroid Story

TSH: 1.0 is normal; 3.5 is not? What is “normal” for TSH? This is controversial. But all you […]

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High-Dose Thyroid Hormone As a Mood Stabilizer in Bipolar Disorder

This webpage describes the use of thyroid hormone as a treatment for rapid cycling bipolar disorder. If you […]

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Thyroid and Bipolar Disorder

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Here are two reasons to care about thyroid: 1. There is a clear connection between the process of […]

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PCOS or Metabolic Syndrome, Which is it?

Glad you asked, that means you’re really looking at this question closely. (There are pages on this site […]

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“Metabolic Syndrome”

(updated 12/2014) [mwm-aal-display] Why Metabolic Syndrome matters in psych’ settings Metabolic Syndrome is important in mental health for […]

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Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS)

Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS) has something to do with psychiatry? Indeed it appears so, in two ways: first, […]

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Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder (PMDD)

PMDD is basically PMS (premenstrual syndrome) so severe that it has an official label as a psychiatric diagnosis. […]

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Premenstrual Syndrome (PMS)

We still know far too little For several years there has been little clear new information worth posting […]

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Menopause and Mood

Menopause affects mood, especially “perimenopause”, the phase roughly 5 years prior to the end of menses (age 51, on average, […]

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Hormones and Mood — Introduction

It’s amazing how little is known about some really basic things — like what causes PMS, for example. […]

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