Fat Cell behaviour...?!

[TiggerMe]

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Your Body in Balance - Neal Barnard

[Jazzw]

I think this probably works in reverse too. The more out of kilter your hormones are, the fatter your fat cells get to pump out hormones to balance things out…

[TiggerMe Ambassador in reply to Jazzw]

It makes so much sense doesn't it.... whether adolescent, pre or post menopausal, when your weight doesn't behave as you would expect it's actually balancing your hormones you need to look at!

So HRT can't be all bad when your body is desperately trying to sort out the loss of hormones by chubbing up 💃

[Lalatoot]

So my bum doesn't look big in this; I just have a lot of hormones.Think that's what is says, Eeyore.

[Jazzw in reply to Lalatoot]

Absolutely. I’m not fat, I’m hormonal.

[Batty1]

I have no thyroid or female hormones and my body went insane .

[TiggerMe Ambassador in reply to Batty1]

No testosterone?

[Batty1 in reply to TiggerMe]

Nope

[TiggerMe Ambassador in reply to Batty1]

How do you function??

[Batty1 in reply to TiggerMe]

I function fine actually aside from weight that went out of control after my thyroid was removed.

[TiggerMe Ambassador in reply to Batty1]

But wouldn't that suggest that your fat cells are multiplying in an attempt to create hormones?

So your experience ties up with this?

[Batty1 in reply to TiggerMe]

Try to get any doctor to believe your weight gain is because you have no thyroid and no female hormones …. But yes hormones definitely has a lot to do with everything.

[TiggerMe Ambassador in reply to Batty1]

Have you managed to get some HRT to try and balance things out yourself?

[Batty1 in reply to TiggerMe]

Im on HRT have been on that for 20 years now… recently my Male Endo said your at menopausal age you can stop the HRT now… I laughed well your at manapause age you can stop viagra now ….. My hubby cringes…..It irks me when Male doctors think females should stop hrt when they hit menopause age but yet and old guy can take viagra to keep him feeling like a man for the rest of his life and women can suffer … idiots.

[TiggerMe Ambassador in reply to Batty1]

Excellent retort 😂 well done you 🤗

[Hidden]

I stayed at 62kg from age 18 - 35 and at 6'1 I was on the cusp of underweight. Didn't matter what I did or didn't eat or how much I exercised my weight didn't move. I wonder how much that impacted my thyroid. I can't quite work it out in relation to the quote! 🤣 My brains dead today.

[TiggerMe Ambassador in reply to Hidden]

If only we could look back at our hormone/ vitamin levels then eh... I'm telling my daughter and everyone young and well to get some bloods done at least every 5 years so you have a marker of what is 'normal' for you... especially now with the way health care is going 😔

[Hidden]

Same. As soon as my kids are old enough I'll get them thyroid tests as a base

[TiggerMe Ambassador in reply to Hidden]

Thankfully my daughter hasn't got as wonky genes as me 😅

[Hidden in reply to TiggerMe]

I'm hopeful my kids have most of their dads genes because I'm sure he's part cyborg. Never gets sick.

Honestly, I'm not seething with jealousy of him. 😂