Feeling grouchy? A dictionary will tell you that grouchiness is being grumpy, peevish, tending to complain or grumble. Readiness to show annoyance or impatience.
Nobody wants to be a grouch and nobody wants to be around a grouch. But if it seems to be out of your control, what can you do? Do you just feel unhappy, and anyone nearby gets to hear about it? Or do you snap at others for nothing? Does your family recommend a psychiatrist or, heaven forbid, psychiatric drugs with horrible side effects? Is it “all in your head”?
Perhaps a person who was a sane and happy person turns into an irritable curmudgeon because of tiredness. However, the tiredness AND the grouchiness AND many other symptoms can have a physiological cause, hormones out of balance. As people get older, both men and women, the endocrine system glands produce less and less of their hormones. Sometimes one hormone cuts off and throws the entire system out of balance.
You are not losing your mind and you do not need drugs with harmful side effects. It should come as a relief to know that irritability and depression associated with hormone imbalance can be remedied with a modern medical technique to balance the declining hormones in the body.
The technique is bio-identical hormone replacement therapy. Bio-identical means the hormones being replaced should be exactly the same, molecule for molecule, as those the body manufactures. And hormone replacement therapy includes replacing all the hormones that are deficient, not just a quick prescription for estrogen and progesterone (for women) and testosterone (for men).
Many physicians prescribe hormones for their patients, and get some results occasionally, even with estrogen made from pregnant horse urine, or whatever the latest drug is. But a growing number of doctors, trained in alternative medicine, get spectacular results with a bio-identical hormone replacement program.
The first action a doctor should take is a detailed discussion with the patient – to find out exactly what’s wrong, and all the accompanying symptoms. Hormone deficiencies cause other symptoms, too, such as hair loss, weight gain, loss of muscle mass, and loss of libido, to name a few. The second action such a doctor would take is medical testing in a lab, to determine which hormones need replacement and in what amount.
When the doctor knows exactly what hormones need to be replaced and in what amounts, he will begin a program to gradiently administer bio-identical hormones to bring them up to the level a person had as a youth. The gradual introduction of hormones prevents the body from being shocked with a sudden incursion of hormones.
You can be a happy, and more healthy individual again. You do not have to feel tired and grouchy. Recent medical studies assure that bio-identical hormone replacement therapy works wonders.
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