librarising said:
In his book Life Without Bread Dr Wolfgang Lutz explains how diabetes is the result of hormonal imbalance.
Hormones fall into two groups, anabolic and catabolic. The body tries to keep these two hormone categories in balance. When one part is out, another part will compensate. Imagine a pair of scales with anabolic on one side and catabolic on the other
This can happen in two ways
A decrease in an anabolic/catabolic hormone will be dealt with by the body in one of two ways. Either an increase in a different anabolic/catabolic hormone, or a decrease in a catabolic/anabolic hormone. The reverse of course for an increase.
Since your sex drive is hormone-led this may be affected.
Geoff
The older I get and the longer I've worked as a Med Sec the more I think many illnesses can be attributed to hormonal imbalance of one sort or another. Our body is literally a clock, all the organs - heart, lungs, liver, spleen, pancreas, etc are like the different sized cogs we'd find in any old fashioned clock. Just as those cogs are different sizes and move around in synchronisation with each other, so do our organs move in tandem because of the hormones they release. When one hormone in one organ is a little bit off balance it has a knock on effect on all the other organs and their hormones. When we're short of one hormone, others will try to produce more to compensate for them - to keep us 'ticking'. Eventually, we become like an old clock that is running slow, losing time. Also each of our 'cogs' - organs is gradually eroded and damaged because of the extra stress on them.
This is why a woman's health can often deteriorate during the menopause years - it's not just about the ovaries and the womb, it affects the WHOLE body and it's why we develop things like diabetes, thyroid probs, depression, cancer etc. Same goes for men and their hormones too.
Yet our poor old hormones are often not taken seriously and we tend to use the term 'hormonal' with derision rather than with the sympathy it deserves.
I really wish more research would be done into the Endocrine system and its relation to the illnesses we tend to take for granted as being just 'part of life'. I think a lot could be avoided if we had a 'hormone tune up service'.