Dr. Joshua John-Ram SchacterDr. Joshua Schacter, DO FAAOS, is America’s Holistic Orthopedic Surgeon, with nearly two decades of surgical expertise.

Deficient Hormone Levels Pose Significant Health Risks

10 Jun 2023 · 1 min

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A short YouTube conversation led by Dr. Joshua John-Ram Schacter explaining health risks associated with deficient hormone levels. Key points: middle-aged people can experience weight gain, fatigue, reduced libido, thinning skin, slower wound healing, chronic inflammation, higher heart disease risk, and increased risk/progression of arthritis and joint-stiffness conditions linked to low estrogen, testosterone, and thyroid hormones.

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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.