"A new study finds that oxytocin, the 'cuddle hormone,' can reduce acute feelings of loneliness and enhance bonding in group therapy settings for individuals experiencing chronic loneliness.
While not a cure-all, oxytocin shows promise as a supportive tool during therapy, potentially helping patients better navigate the initial challenges of addressing their loneliness."
If transmasculine people taking testosterone experience improvements in their long covid symptoms, and transfeminine people taking estrogen experience the opposite, then the way sex differences in covid presentation are talked about need to include these realities. Sex is a multidimensional phenomenon and the endocrine system is a malleable thing
Parts of the Icelandic medical establishment have been having a moral panic over topological hormonal medicine for menopausal cis women, with numerous op-eds being written in journals and newspapers.
The problem — if there is a problem at all — is insufficient instructions and advice from endocrinologists and pharmacists.
Can anyone point me in the direction of information regarding increased libido during #perimenopause ? It's impossible to search for online as you just get a gazillion bits of information about the exact opposite.
This will be my ongoing🧵on exercise b/c I need to organize dammit as can’t find anything
In 2020 recall reading a tiny blip of an article about exercise post Covid & WILL eventually hunt it down
Swore it was WP but searching “Washington post, Covid exercise” is getting me mostly pro exercise articles🤦🏻♀️ such as this gem from my favorite 🙄🙄Covid resource Leana Wen /s
Written in 2023 but 2024, they are FINALLY pointing out obvious truth
NYT obits.. I get 10 gift articles monthly so this will be a continuing🧵until this Plague ends.. They only do obituaries of notable people so can only imagine… btw 60’s is the new 90+ it would seem perusing them yesterday
"[Nanoplastics] are particles that are less than a micron in size.
Much of the plastic seems to be coming from the bottle itself and the reverse osmosis membrane filter used to keep out other contaminants."
"Chemicals in #plastic food and drink packaging can act like or interfere with our body’s natural #hormones, possibly leading to a slew of health issues, including #metabolic disorders.
Not all plastics are created equal. Some, like polyurethane (PUR), polyvinyl chloride (PVC), and low-density polyethylene (LDPE) – commonly used in everyday items such as cling wrap and Ziploc bags – were found to have more profound effects on cell nuclei than others."
Hello mes #transfem sûr.e.s, j'ai besoin de conseils pour mon THS. J'ai fais une prise de sang récemment et mes taux sont très bas (je suis sous gel).
J'ai deux pistes :
soit le gel marche pas sur moi;
soit je gère mal ma prise de sang.
Pour le dernier point, mon médecin m'avait dit de pas mettre de gel le jour de la prise de sang pour pas être sur un pic d'œstrogènes. Je me mets du gel la veille au matin du coup. Est-ce que ça pourrait expliquer mes taux bas sur le bilan sanguin ?
Mon médecin m'a prescrit des comprimés du coup. J'ai pas forcément envie que ce soit ma méthode sur le long terme non plus, et le gel me saoule un peu. Je sais qu'il y a plusieurs meufs ici qui sont sous injection. Est-ce que vous conseillez ? Où est-ce qu'il faut que je me renseigne pour me les procurer et pour me les injecter ? (J'en ai parlé à mon médecin qui est complètement ok avec cette méthode)
Je suis ouverte à tout autre conseil sur le THS également !
❓ Est-ce que quelqu'un-e sait si avec un injecteur de mésothérapie il est possible d'effectuer une injection sous-cutanée d'Androtardyl ? Et oui il s'agit bien de sous-cutanée.
J'ai conscience que le prod est très visqueux, mais de quelques recherches j'ai cru lire que des injecteurs peuvent gérer du visqueux.
I found a great resource on chronic non-allergic #rhinitis (no longer referred to as vasomotor) that may be helpful to people in medical and #pharmacy related fields (and others). It addresses everything from testing, to subtypes, ranks treatments, management, etc..
(But do check side effects of treatments if people are on other meds, have high eye pressure or #glaucoma, and so on...)
I'm theorizing that limited life span has prevented humanity fully understanding the generational impact of traumatic stress from #racism spanning thousands of years. I believe DNA expression such as #SCD is an example of epigenetics over long periods.
So, what except for the possibility of breaking the disinfection chain makes squeezing the oily substance out of a couple of #progesterone soft capsules into a syringe and administering it to oneself as an intramuscular injection, because I just did?
BOSTON – A federal grand jury returned an indictment today charging a #Texas man with threatening a #Boston doctor because the doctor provided care for members of the #transgender community.
#MatthewJordanLindner(38) of #ComfortTexas, was charged with interstate transmission of threatening communication, & selecting the victim because of the gender identity of persons for whom the victim provided medical care.
A first-of-its-kind emergency rule introduced this week by Missouri's #Republican AG #AndrewBailey will impose numerous restrictions on both adults and children before they can receive puberty-blocking drugs, #hormones or surgeries "for the purpose of transitioning gender."
Transgender rights advocates challenge the rule in court before its effective date April 27
Castration before puberty increases median lifespan of male mice (www.lifespan.io)
Researchers tested the hypothesis that testicular hormones released after puberty are responsible for sex-specific differences in lifespan....