This word really hits to the core for me. How about you? INFOBESITY
It's very similar to eating "empty calories" - being overfed but undernourished
Lots of attention is given to hormone replacement and oral contraceptive pills to treat women's symptoms. And for good reason — they often work well to manage. But are there other options?
Acne vulgaris is often a sign of underlying metabolic disturbance – a web woven of blood sugar, insulin, and sex hormone imbalance and often also a signal of microbiome disturbance. Classically, insulin resistance leads to direct stimulation of androgens from the ovaries in females. Overproduction of testosterone may lead to excessive sebum production, which, in turn, may increase the risk of inflamed sebaceous glands. This can trigger acne outbreaks.
But what about cases where objective tests measurements all appear to be normal?
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