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KETO and Hormones
The Effect of Keto Diet on Menstrual Cycles: Estrogen, Libido and other problems
WARNING: the Keto diet will raise or normalize your hormone levels.
Estrogen reigns as the most abundant female sex hormone. Estrogen stimulates the growth of the lining shed during menstruation. Estrogen production comes from the ovaries, adrenal glands, and fat. Yes. The fatter you are, the more estrogen you will produce.
Healthy, lean patients get most of their estrogen from ovaries. Add thirty pounds of fat cells, and those patients get most of their estrogen from fat.
What’s The Difference Between Estrogen…
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