Dr. Joshua John-Ram Schacter explains how hormone deficiency in midlife triggers weight gain, fatigue, low sex drive, and skin thinning. Low estrogen and testosterone accelerate arthritis, while thyroid deficiency causes joint pain and stiffness. Untreated deficiency raises the risk of heart disease and chronic inflammation.
People in middle ages have increased risk of weight gain. They have increased fatigue, lower sex drive. Your skin begins to thin. Injuries take longer to heal, chronic inflammatory states begin to develop. We have an increased risk of heart disease that's.
Very well shown, increased risk.
Of heart disease in patients with lower hormones. Why do we think that women have a very low risk of heart disease until they're in their 40s to 60s, and then it peaks? Well, it's because they don't have natural levels of hormones. Hormones affect almost every part of our body, in fact.
Everything from your.
Fingernails to your joint health.
We know that low.
Resting levels of estrogen and testosterone, your sex hormones, increase your risk of arthritis and its progression.
We know that.
Low levels of thyroid hormone increase the risk of joint pain, joint stiffness problems, called adhesive capsulitis, or stiffness of the joint.
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