Hormonal disorders

Hormonal disorders can occur in a person in middle age. In rare cases, failures are observed in young people. It should be said that scientists can not say for sure who has hormonal disorders more often: men or women. The reasons for the malfunctions are varied. As a rule, hormonal failure in girls occurs due to some disease or as a result of an incorrect lifestyle.

The health of a woman largely depends on the coordinated work of her endocrine system. The hormonal background is made up of four main hormones: testosterone, progesterone, estrogen, prolactin. If the concentration of these components is disturbed, failures occur. Hormonal disorders have a very negative effect on the psyche of a woman. In addition, failures in the endocrine system provoke various serious diseases. Among them, in particular, include infertility, obesity, myoma of the uterus, polycystosis, disorders of the cycle.

There are often hormonal disorders in men. The main signs of a failure in the endocrine system are weight gain, weakening of immunity, a decrease in muscle mass, a disorder of sexual desire, an increase in the size of the mammary glands, as well as a growth of the breast - gynecomastia. As well as in women, hormonal failures in men are accompanied by stressful, depressive conditions, a depressed mood, irritability, nervousness increases.

Treatment of the disorder of the endocrine system, regardless of the sex of the patient, is carried out on the basis of the results of the tests and the causes that provoked the deviations. To achieve greater efficiency, in addition to therapeutic measures, a healthy lifestyle, a balanced diet, a regimen are recommended.

Hormonal disorders suggest an increased or decreased content of these or other hormones in the body. In accordance with the results of the tests, substitution therapy may be prescribed.

As you know, the main male hormone is testosterone. Its concentration reaches its peak by twenty-five years. After reaching this age, the level of testosterone in the body begins to decrease (by one and a half percent per year). In middle age, a man in one or another measure has a deficiency of this hormone. Together with testosterone, other compounds are present in the body, some of which can perform certain functions of testosterone, and some compounds have a significant effect on its activity.

So, the follicle-stimulating hormone is produced in the pituitary gland. Thanks to this compound, the level of testosterone rises , spermatogenesis is regulated. Hormonal disorders, in particular, insufficient production of sex hormones, provoke an increase in FSH.

In the pituitary gland LH is produced. The concentration of luteinizing hormone also increases with a lack of sex hormones. LH has a stimulating effect on testicular cells and enhances the production of testosterone.

In the anterior lobe of the pituitary gland prolactin is produced. This compound controls the production of sex hormones, regulates the secretion of spermatozoa, responsible for their mobility. Elevated levels of prolactin are noted during sleep, stress, and physical exertion.

Estradiol is the main female sex hormone, the strongest of estrogens. The production of estrogens in men occurs in the adrenal cortex and testicles. Most of the estradiol in men is produced by the conversion of the testosterone molecule. This hormone inhibits the production of testosterone. Increased estrogen in a man leads to failure. In women, however, a reduced concentration of estradiol provokes tumors of the uterus, mammary glands, a decrease in libido, osteoporosis, obesity.