Is An Endocrine Disorder Behind Your Weight Gain or Weight Loss?

Diet or diabetes is not always the culprit when it comes to unexplained changes in your weight. Endocrine disorders can result from dysfunction originating in the peripheral endocrine gland itself (primary disorders) or from understimulation or overstimulation by the pituitary (secondary disorders). The disorders can result in hormone overproduction (hyperfunction) or underproduction (hypofunction). Rarely, endocrine disorders (usually hypofunction) occur because of abnormal tissue responses to hormones.

Weight Swings Are Associated With Endocrine Disorders

The symptoms that characterize endocrine disorders are either hyperfunction or hypo function.

In hyperfunction tissues because hypersensitive to hormones and the body’s antibodies react.  This can lead to conditions such as Grave’s Disease.  The person may become hyperactive and features may become distorted. A rapid heartbeat is also associated with hyperfunction.

The Endocrine System

In hypofunction, the endocrine gland is not stimulated enough by the pituitary gland. This leads to a conditions such as goiter or peripheral endocrine gland hyperplasia. Fatigue, loss of libido and weight gain are symptoms of hypofunction.

The main cause of hyperfunction is hormonal changes or dysfunction due to aging. The main cause of hypofunction are conditions such as tumors, inflections, vascular disorders or toxins.

Care and Treatment of An Endocrine Disorder

Usually hormones are prescribed to treat disorders of the endocrine glands. Hypofunction will be treated by hormone replacement therapy. Radiation, therapy, surgery and drugs treat hyperfunction in extreme cases.  The key to enrolling in the Healthy & Active program is to get your body back in balance so that radical allopathic methods are not needed to treat your heath problem.

The symptoms of endocrine disorders can be managed with hormone therapy ad a change of diet for the most part.  This is where the blood profiling that comes with the deployment of the Healthy and Active plan can help you get to the bottom of what is actually causing your weight gain, weight loss or even swings between the two and then help you find the diet that can best keep your particular condition under control.

For more information about the Healthy & Active Program please visit our website at www.healthy-active.com. You may also call us in Toronto at (41) 440-2217 and ask for Adrienne Wright Bulow or Dr. Michael Rahman or email us at adrienne@healthy-active.com.