Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 The ovaries also tend to remain insulin sensitive. That means that if there's a genetic predisposition for the ovaries to overproduce androgen hormones—as there is with women who have PCOS—the excess insulin that's sent into the bloodstream to deal with the excess sugar winds up bathing these nonresistant tissues in an ocean of insulin that's way too much for their needs. And one of the responses to all that insulin hitting the ovaries is that they produce even more testosterone and androstene-dione, which leads to hair loss, acne, obesity, infertility, and other symptoms of PCOS. |
Tom Bohager
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 Possible causes include a genetic predisposition and autoimmune disorders, in which antibodies are produced that can damage a number of glands, including the ovaries. Smoking has also been known to cause early menopause.
Artificial menopause results from medical intervention that reduces or stops hormone secretion by the ovaries. These interventions include surgery to remove the ovaries or reduce their blood supply, and chemotherapy or radiation therapy to the pelvis to treat cancer. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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 Feinberg describes PCOS (which he refers to as "Syndrome O") as "World War III on a woman's ovaries and many other organs of the body." The ovaries may bubble up with characteristic cysts. The androgens may bring out male characteristics such as excess body and facial hair, balding, and even a lower voice. Acne and darkening of the skin also characterize the disease. With this condition, a woman may not ovulate for months at a time and then have a very heavy period. |
Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea
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 In 2002, two articles appeared in the New England Journal of Medicine suggesting the removal of the Fallopian tubes and the ovaries after the childbearing years for such women.34 Not only would such surgery prevent cancer of the ovaries, which is difficult to detect, it also purportedly reduces the rate of breast cancer. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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| That means that if there's a genetic predisposition for the ovaries to overproduce androgen hormones—as there is with women who have PCOS—the excess insulin that's sent into the bloodstream to deal with the excess sugar winds up bathing these nonresistant tissues in an ocean of insulin that's way too much for their needs. And one of the responses to all that insulin hitting the ovaries is that they produce even more testosterone and androstene-dione, which leads to hair loss, acne, obesity, infertility, and other symptoms of PCOS. |
Andreas Moritz
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 Whitish nails indicate the accumulation of fat and mucus in and around the heart, liver, pancreas, prostate, or ovaries. This condition is accompanied by poor blood circulation and low hemoglobin levels (anemia).
Vertical ridges in the fingernails generally indicate poor absorption of food and the disruption of important digestive, liver, and kidney functions. There may be general fatigue. Strong vertical ridges on the thumbnails, possibly with split ends, show that a person's testicles and prostate or ovaries are not functioning properly. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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| All that insulin can overwhelm a woman's ovaries to the point where she stops producing progesterone, the hormone that is required to prepare the uterus for pregnancy and to maintain that pregnancy. What happens is that instead of progesterone, the ovaries begin to turn out excessive amounts of androgens or "masculine hormones." Mind you, we women want a little testosterone in our system to maintain a healthy sex drive, but too much androgen can be, as you might expect, rather unfeminine. |
Mehmet C. Oz., M.D. and Michael F. Roizen, M.D.
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 E()(J Hliflt Follicle-containing eggs in the ovaries are nurtured with hormones but also produce progesterone and androgens themselves. The brain tells the ovary to start maturing an egg through a chemical called follicle-stimulating hormone; estrogen and luteinizing hormone tickle a mature egg out toward the fallopian tube
Back to reproduction and the life of the ovaries before menopause. Each month, the chosen egg produces a substance that prevents other eggs from developing. |
Ron Garner
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 REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM
The reproductive glands include the ovaries in the female, and the testes in the male. The ovaries produce ova, or eggs, during the reproductive part of a female's life, and the hormones estrogen and progesterone, which promote the production of feminizing cells in the female body. The testes produce sperm for the fertilization of the female's egg, and the hormone testosterone, which promotes the production of masculinizing cells in the male body.
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Even with an appreciation of how wonderfully our bodies are designed to produce health, why is disease on the increase? |
Dr. Sharon Moalem
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 When a human female is born, she already has the complete set of eggs she will have for life in her baby ovaries. As strange as it sounds, that means that the egg you developed from, with half of your chromosomes, was created in your mother's ovaries while she was still in your grandmother's womb. And new research demonstrates that when your grandmother passed epigenetic signals to your mother, she was also passing those signals to the egg that would eventually provide half of your DNA. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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| Feinberg describes PCOS (which he refers to as "Syndrome O") as "World War III on a woman's ovaries and many other organs of the body." The ovaries may bubble up with characteristic cysts. The androgens may bring out male characteristics such as excess body and facial hair, balding, and even a lower voice. Acne and darkening of the skin also characterize the disease. With this condition, a woman may not ovulate for months at a time and then have a very heavy period. |
Brigitte Mars, A.H.G.
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 Vitex is used in the treatment of amenorrhea, cysts (in the breasts, ovaries, and uterus), depression (related to menopause), dysmenorrhea, endometriosis, fibroids (in the breasts, ovaries, or uterus), infertility, herpes (related to menses), menorrhagia, migraines (related to menstrual cycle), polymenorrhea, premenstrual acne, premenstrual syndrome, and threatened miscarriage. It can also be beneficial after hysterectomy.
In order to improve hormonal problems with vitex, the herb should be taken for at least six months. |
Joerg Gruenwald, Ph.D.
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 The ovaries have 5 carpels fused at the base, on a short gynophore. The fruit is capsule which bursts open into mericarps ejecting the seeds.
Leaves, Stem and Root: The plant is a 0.5 to 1.5 m high perennial. Numerous erect, unbranched, and sticky-glandular-haired shoots grow from the root. The leaves are alternate, odd, 7 to 11 pinnate, and transparently punctuated with oil glands.
Characteristics: The plant has a strong lemon or cinnamon fragrance. The oil is easily inflammable.
Habitat: The plant is indigenous to Central Europe, parts of Asia, and cultivated in the northern U.S. |
C. W. Randolph, M.D.
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 Even though you no longer have ovaries, your body fat is still producing estrogen.
Estrogen-Dominant Men
For men, Question 1 is easy. If you are a man older than forty, your progesterone and testosterone levels have already started to decline. If you feel sluggish, bloated, and/or lethargic, these are symptoms of an underlying hormonal imbalance. Your age and your symptoms indicate that you are in the midst of male menopause, or andropause. Decreased sexual appetite, abdominal weight gain, and an inability to lose weight are three indications that you are most likely estrogen dominant. |
Bottom Line Health
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| The observation that a high percentage of women who were salt-resistant before the removal of ovaries became salt-sensitive suggests that salt sensitivity may be partially responsible for the increase in the progression of hypertension after menopause," says Ana Paula Dantas, an assistant professor of medicine in the division of nephrology and hypertension and the Center for the Study of Sex Differences in Health, Aging and Disease at Georgetown University.
"This study raises some important questions —should postmenopausal women be more concerned about dietary salt intake than men? |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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| By the time a woman is diagnosed with 'polycystic ovaries' or anovulatory (not ovulating) infertility, it's likely that the harmful consequences of Syndrome O have already seriously affected many organ systems in her body," observes Dr. Feinberg, author of Healing Syndrome O.
On the bright side, early symptoms of PCOS may alert women that they have an insulin imbalance before it progresses to a life-threatening case of diabetes or heart disease. Dr. |
Joerg Gruenwald, Ph.D.
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| There are 5 obovate, compressed ovaries with 5 splayed stigmas. There is a narrow, oblong-lanceolate schizocarp, 4 to 5 cm by 1 cm. It is winged above and below, first green then brown-red and finally brown. The seed is orbicular and found in the middle of the fruit section. It is thin-skinned, without any recognizable endosperm and has an ovate, flat cotyledon.
Leaves, Stem and Root: Ailanthus altissima is a beautiful, fast growing tree, up to 30 m high. The bark is smooth, pale and vertically striated. The branches are initially fine-haired, yellow or red brown. |
| There are 2 fused, inferior, 3-valved ovaries. The fruit is a 1 to 2-seeded, thin-skinned, 7 to 8 mm thick, globose black berry.
Leaves, Stem and Root: White Bryony is a perennial, extremely fast-growing plant. It has a thick, up 2.5 kg, tuberous root. The root is fleshy, wrinkled horizontally, yellowish-gray on the outside and white and slimy on the inside. The grooved, angular stems are climbing, branched and have long internodes and simple screw-like climbers. They grow up to 4 m long. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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| What happens is that instead of progesterone, the ovaries begin to turn out excessive amounts of androgens or "masculine hormones." Mind you, we women want a little testosterone in our system to maintain a healthy sex drive, but too much androgen can be, as you might expect, rather unfeminine.
"Androgens and insulin and its counterparts conspire to block the development and monthly release of an egg," says Ron Feinberg, M.D., a reproductive endocrinologist and adjunct associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Yale University School of Medicine. |
Joerg Gruenwald, Ph.D.
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| The ovaries are stemmed with a thickened style and rounded stigma. The pod-fruit is enclosed in the dried calyx. It is ovate, reticulate, dark brown, single-seeded, and does not spring open. The seed is ovate, smooth, shiny, and checkered yellow-green.
Leaves, Stem and Root: Anthyllis vulneraria is a 15 to 30 cm high half-rosette shrub with a sturdy tap-root and a short, entire or often branched rhizome. The stem is upright, unbranched or branched, and tomentose. The leaves, depending where they are on the stem, are variously pinnate. |
| The 2 or 3 ovaries with red stigmas develop into tomentose follicles containing numerous, dark, glossy, pea-sized seeds.
Leaves, Stem and Root: In its winter state, the plant has a turnip-like rhizome and close, gnarled root fibers, brown on the outside and white inside. The stem is leafy, erect, lightly branched and about 50 cm high. The leaves are alternate, more or less petiolate with a dark green glossy upper surface and a light green finely pubescent undersurface. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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| Healing Syndrome O: A Strategic Guide to Fertility, Polycystic ovaries, and Insulin
Imbalance. New York: Penguin, 2004. Hetherington, Marion. Food Cravings and Addiction. Leatherhead, Surrey, England: Leatherhead
Food International, 2001. InterNational Council on Infertility Information Dissemination, Inc., website. http://www.inciid
.org/faq.php?cat=infertilityl01&id=2#68. Kittel, Mary. Stay Fertile Longer. With Deborah Metzger. Emmaus, PA: Rodale Books, 2004, 244. "Low-Carb Diet May Help Women with Ovary Problems." http://www.nutraingredients.com/news/ ng.asp? |
Joerg Gruenwald, Ph.D.
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| The stamens and ovaries are numerous. The fruit is a red-brown, long-tailed nut.
Leaves, Stem and Root: The plant grows to about 1.5 to 5 m high. The leaves are petiolate, 5-pinnate. The leaflets are ovate or slightly cordate, acute, and lobed. The petioles are clinging and the stems climbing, grooved, at first leafy then woody.
Characteristics: The flowers have a slight white thorn scent. The plant is poisonous.
Habitat: The plant is indigenous to Europe. |
Marshall Editions
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 DIAGNOSIS
Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is a condition where multiple cysts develop from follicles on the ovaries. These follicles, which emerge around the egg, result from the influences of stimulating hormones from the brain. They are small and immature, and generally do not exceed inch in size and rarely grow to maturity. Problems begin when the eggs fail to be released.
PCOS is a common hormonal disorder among women. As some sufferers rarely ovulate, they can have a problem conceiving. One of the main symptoms is irregular periods or going for weeks without a period. |
Dr. Sharon Moalem
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| As strange as it sounds, that means that the egg you developed from, with half of your chromosomes, was created in your mother's ovaries while she was still in your grandmother's womb. And new research demonstrates that when your grandmother passed epigenetic signals to your mother, she was also passing those signals to the egg that would eventually provide half of your DNA.
Just as epigenetics has helped to unlock the mystery of thin-coated voles and sociable locusts, it's now helping to explain a series of confusing correlations researchers have gathered over the last century. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 In one, published in the prestigious journal Nature, male rats fed a small amount of dried onion daily had a 17 percent increase in calcium; female rats that had had their ovaries removed (which would rapidly induce bone loss and osteoporosis) had stronger bones when fed onions. And in another study, published in the Journal of Agriculture and Food Chemistry, a compound in onions inhibited the activity of the cells (osteoclasts) that break down bones. |
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