Systemic hormone therapy means a patient takes a pharmacological agent that goes through the woman system. Dr. Charles Kalstone, Obstetrician and Gynecologist with Baptist Health South Florida, explains this is opposite to local hormone therapy, which will be estrogen absorbing trough the vagina into the system. Systemic hormone therapy comes in different forms: pills, transdermal…...

When women go through menopause, they can get hormone replacement therapy (HRT). Monica Ponce, Physician Assistant with Sunset Dermatology, explains the effect of HRT on hair loss. She also talks about the differences of hair loss between women and men...

Dr. Patricia Feito, Family Medicine Physician at Baptist Health Primary Care, explains how women are more susceptible to getting migraines than men, because of hormones: "Every single month women go through their menstrual cycle, so what we're seeing with the premenstrual patients is that when they have a drop and a sharp decline in their…...

Dr. Manuel Torres, Family Medicine Physician at Baptist Health Primary Care, explains how hunger hormones work when you're getting hungry because of a hormonal influence. "Everything we do comes from a sort of hormonal influence, so there's a hormone called Ghrelin that makes you hungry and Leptin is one of the hormones that helps you…...

Dr. Charles Kalstone, Obstetrician and Gynecologist with Baptist Health South Florida, tells their patients to take the hormone therapy as long as they want the benefits. Dr. Kalstone affirms the benefits of the therapy will start to lose 3 years after stopping the treatment. He prefers to discuss the risks and benefits of the hormone…...

Dr. Manuel Torres, Family Medicine Physician at Baptist Health Primary Care, explains different types of calories (from fat, from carbohydrates, from protein) have different hormonal influence. "If you predominantly eat a carbohydrate heavy diet, we're 90, 80, 60, 70 percent of the calories that are coming in from carbohydrates. That favors our hormonal profile where…...

Women who think they’re pregnant, have problems with vaginal bleeding, have had certain kinds of cancers, have had a stroke or heart attacks, have had blood clots or have liver disease should not take hormone therapy. Dr. Debra Kenward, Obstetrician and Gynecologist with Baptist Health South Florida, considers the treatment should be individualized and discussed…...

Frankie Powell, Patient Care Supervisor of Labor & Delivery at Homestead Hospital, explains the hormonal changes in postpartum depression: "When you become pregnant, you have an increase in the hormones progesterone and estrogen, and when you deliver the baby, you have a dramatic drop in those hormones, and that can cause a chemical imbalance in…...