{"componentChunkName":"component---common-build-question-tags-template-js","path":"/question-tag/hormones/","result":{"data":{"allQuestion":{"edges":[{"node":{"id":"Question_12364-markdown","title":"Does Smoking Marijuana Reduce the Body's Testosterone Production?","slug":"does-smoking-marijuana-reduce-the-bodys-testosterone-production","content":"\" You may have already heard about claims that smoking pot can lower testosterone levels. However, with all the information you can get online \"\n_____________________\n \nPast studies have reported either lower testosterone levels among marijuana users or no difference among users vs non-users. A more recent study of 1,215 healthy young Danish men aged 18-28 found that regular use of marijuana more than oncer per week was associated with reduced semen quality. They did also find that the men who were using marijuana had tendencies for unhealthier lifestyle (i.e. smoking, increased alcohol consumption, high caffeine intake, recreational drug use), which may also have affected their semen quality (Gundersen et al., 2015).\nHere is the link to the article; FYI https://academic.oup.com/aje/article/182/6/473/82600 \n\nLonah NP\n_____________________\n Testosterone is a sex hormone. It’s classed as an androgen, which is a male type of sex hormone.  Generally, most of a mans testosterone is produced in his testicles. Adrenal glands also produce some, and so do ovaries in women. The question about influence of marijuana on the testosteron level is not simple and requires more researches and studies. For example,  Block RI. et al. stated that smoking marijuana is barely touching the level of testerone. While Murphy L. (2001)  stated that  smoking cannabis  decrease blood levels of the three hormones LH, FSH, and testosterone.   However , the some researchers (Gunderson T.J . et al ) mentioned that \"serum testosterone concentrations were higher in men with more recent marijuana use\".  \n\n  Murphy L. Hormonal system and reproduction. In: Grotenhermen F, Russo E, eds. Grotenhermen, F., Russo, E. (eds.): Cannabis and cannabinoids. Pharmacology, toxicology, and therapeutic potential. Haworth Press, Binghamton/New York 2001, in press. \n\n Brown, TT et al.(2002). Endocrine effects of marijuana. Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, J Clin Pharmacol. 42(S1):90S-96S. \n\nGundersen, T.J,  Jørgensen, N.,  Andersson, M.A., et al (2015). Association Between Use of Marijuana and Male Reproductive Hormones and Semen Quality: A Study Among 1,215 Healthy Young Men, American Journal of Epidemiology, Volume 182, Issue 6, 15 September 2015, Pages 473–481, https://doi.org/10.1093/aje/kwv135 \n\nkrabell14","image":null}},{"node":{"id":"Question_9098-markdown","title":"Strange anxiety and sleeplessness when taking any cannabis?","slug":"strange-anxiety-and-sleeplessness-when-taking-any-cannabis","content":"\"I've always been a lightweight when it comes to substances. I could get drunk off of maybe two beers, high off of one good hit. I have been taking indicas up until 6 months ago when suddenly I started getting incredible anxiety and sleeplessness. Adding to this was a large increase in heat in my body...like hot flashes. \n\nI am a 27 yo F. Now if I take even the slightest amount of weed (have tried different strains) this happens. I can't figure out why this is happening. I hate the idea that I might never be able to smoke again.\n\nDoes this have to do with hormones? Seratonin? It can't be possible to \"green out\" with such small amounts of marijuana...right?\"\n_____________________\nHello there!  I'm so sorry that you are having these reactions.  However we might be able to do some deductive work to try to figure things out.  The more I think about your case, I wonder if cannabis is even the issue.  Hormonal swings in estrogen/ progesterone might cause some of the symptoms you describe.  Have you spoken to your ob-gyn or regular MD about these issues?  Is there any change in diet, stress levels at work, etc?   If you think cannabis may be the cause, I might try taking a break for a short time (perhaps a week or so) and see if there is any change in your symptoms.   Or another option is to try cannabis but to deliver it in a much lower concentration to your system;  you can try diluting cannabis tincture in tea, coffee, juice, or soup and see if this helps. Let us know if any of these ideas lead to any useful findings & best of luck!\n\ndrpark\n_____________________\nBUY CANNABIS \nWe have top quality medical cannabis buds, oil extract,wax, hash and edibles available at affordable prices. You can text me at 3033512578 if you need some medical marijuana. We ship discreetly worldwide ,100% delivery guarantee and you can visit our site legalonlineweedsuppliers.com Contact me for more details. Thanks\n\nJonathanzeus","image":null}},{"node":{"id":"Question_8392-markdown","title":"Can CBD help secondary estrogen positive breast cancer which has spread to the lungs, liver and bones?","slug":"can-cbd-help-secondary-estrogen-positive-breast-cancer-which-has-spread-to-the-lungs-liver-and-bones","content":"\n_____________________\nCBD may help with pain from cancers but unfortunately there is not a definitive cure with using CBD.\n\ndrpersaud","image":null}},{"node":{"id":"Question_10434-markdown","title":"I am wondering if CBD can affect estrogen patches.","slug":"i-am-wondering-if-cbd-can-affect-estrogen-patches","content":"","image":null}},{"node":{"id":"Question_10389-markdown","title":"Can using CBD alter the effects of estrogen patches?","slug":"can-using-cbd-alter-the-effects-of-estrogen-patches","content":"\"Could CBD either make my estrogen patch more or less effective?\"\n_____________________\nThe estrogen patch is essentially a method for the replacement of estrogen hormone. According to a study done on the effects of CBD on estrogen receptors, \"CBD failed to behave as an estrogen receptor agonist in vitro\". Meaning that CBD did not affect the estrogen receptors. Another study done on estrogen and CBD states that \"direct estrogenic activity of cannabis extract could not be demonstrated in vivo.\" Taking CBD with the use of estrogen patches does not prove to be contraindicated.\n\ntatiananp","image":null}},{"node":{"id":"Question_10004-markdown","title":"Can you recommend the best cannabis oil to treat secondary estrogen positive breast cancer?","slug":"can-you-recommend-the-best-cannabis-oil-to-treat-secondary-estrogen-positive-breast-cancer","content":"\n_____________________\nThis certainly seems like a very scary question that you're asking. Are you really asking for a cannabis oil to treat breast cancer that has reoccurred? \nYou can treat the symptoms with cannabis oil but I do not encourage you to treat cancer with Cannabis because there's no proof other than anecdotal stories (and that is not proof, only someone else's story) that cannabis may work.\nI have 45 licensed years experience doing integrated medicine and I do think many people have been led down the wrong road to believe that cannabis will cure their cancer but unfortunately I have watched too many of those people go on to suffer bad consequences.\nPlease, find an oncologist you can trust and fight the cancer with known Western medical treatments while supporting yourself with Cannabis for the symptoms.  \nWith current medical treatments for breast cancer there is a high rate of recovery or at least long remissions buying you time for a potential cure. You can never let down your guard when you have breast cancer because it can return as much is 30 years later.\nIf you have fear over further surgical and chemotherapy treatments, you must face your fears and walk-through them, do the treatments and hold intentions to survive. \nI had a tremendous fear of chemotherapy and it made my treatment much worse, so I had to have a talk with myself to change my attitude and my chemotherapy from that point on was very easy and I feel I will live a long healthy life as long as I do regular follow-up visits and of course I'm doing my cannabis daily because I also believe in this medication and feel it helped save my life.\nConsider picking up your phone and finding that new oncologist today, your life may depend on it. You are allowed to decide who is not right to see you and keep moving on until you find the right person. I have fired several doctors because they didn't listen to me or they did not honor what I had to say about myself and my wishes in the time of turmoil. There are good and caring doctors out there that are waiting to see you.\n\ndrolson\n_____________________\nWhat can I use for menopause systems after Estrogen driven breast cancer?\n\nNot what to use to prevent cancer\n\nseadog1","image":null}},{"node":{"id":"Question_9989-markdown","title":"treating estrogen positive breast cancer with CBD","slug":"treating-estrogen-positive-breast-cancer-with-cbd","content":"\"I'm interested in using the purest form of CBD oil to treat estrogen positive breast cancer. I would like to know what the best way is to use CBD oil for this purpose; what dosage, how often and for how long? Also, how much should I begin with and what brands are the purest and most effective?\"\n_____________________\nI'm so sorry to hear that you have been diagnosed with cancer-- I hope that your medical team has been able to help you work through the treatment options.  Cannabis can be used for cancer therapy in a couple different ways.  First, patients find cannabis can help with pain from the cancer itself, or from  side effects of chemotherapy and/or radiation therapy such as nausea, pain, or sleeplessness.  Second, often patients also wonder if cannabis can help with treating the cancer itself, i.e. killing cancer cells, and your question seems to be more related to this aspect.  Preliminary animal and lab studies indicate that cannabinoids such as CBD can assist your body in inducing cancer cell death and limiting their ability to spread/grow.  Here is one article you could start with: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3579246/  The exact dose is difficult to translate to humans, but it is likely hundreds of milligrams a day.  Fortunately, oral doses of up to 700 mg a day are well-tolerated.  CBD is available in many forms, but for these higher doses most people find they would take it orally as opposed to inhalation for instance.  Some studies suggest that CBD and THC can work synergistically (meaning that treatment is more effective when used together than either one alone), so incorporating THC is likely to augment the CBD effects if that is something you want to consider.  As far as a specific brand, look for products that are lab-tested and make the testing results available to you so that you can verify the potency and safety.\n\ndrbultman\n_____________________\n My mother was diagnosed in May of 2013 with stage 4 Cancer.She was given 3 to 6 months to live,not because of spreading but because of the location of the tumor, it is abutting the aorta. she is 53 and also has MS.I succeeded in saving her life by getting Rick Simpson Oil from this guy in California.You can contact him if interested in getting some Oil:Email... tplug05 at gmail dot com  Or Phone.....+1(559)420-0769 . \n\nalison leton","image":null}},{"node":{"id":"Question_7368-markdown","title":"Is testosterone breaking me out?","slug":"is-testosterone-breaking-me-out","content":"\"I am a female, age 25, and I smoke weed daily). I believe the testosterone is breaking me out, but I really do not want to quit (it helps with a number of issues) and I don't want to go back on the pill to regulate my hormones. Suggestions?\"\n_____________________\nAcne is a very common and frustrating skin condition for young adults and usually improves for most individuals between age 20-30. There are several physiologic processes that lead to acne including the way your body makes skin cells, produces protective oils, fights bacteria in your skin, and responds to skin irritants. A dysregulation in any of those processes can worsen acne. Hormonal changes that occur normally with age, menstrual cycles, or with stress can also affect those processes and worsen acne too.\n\nThe treatment of acne depends on the severity and whether or not you are pregnant or trying to become pregnant. The four main medications are salicylic acid, topical retinoids, benzoyl peroxide, and topical antibiotics. Severe acne is treated with oral forms of these medications which carry significant risks and should be discussed with your doctor. \n\nMedications that regulate your hormones can also be used to treat acne if the methods above have not been effective. These medications include low dose oral estrogen/progesterone (also known as birth control or oral contraceptives) and spironolactone. Spironolactone essentially lowers effective testosterone levels but can also affect your blood pressure and electrolyte levels so needs to be monitored with blood tests at least once per year.\n\nFinally, there are very few studies suggesting that cannabis products may be helpful for the treatment of acne. Smoked cannabis is similar to tobacco smoke in terms of particulate matter and hydrocarbons, which are known to irritate skin. There are very preliminary studies, such as the one referenced below, that suggest topical cannabinoid (CBD) products may help with acne because of their anti-inflammatory effect; however, the topical products on the market are often oil-based since THC/CBD are fat soluble molecules. Oil-based products are great for eczema but tend to make acne worse. \n\nIn summary, there are no studies showing that cannabis-infused topicals are effective in treating acne and have more potential for harm than good based on the other substances that cannabis topicals often contain. My suggestion would be to discontinue daily smoked cannabis and use a vaporizer instead if you must consume that frequently. Most importantly, talk to your primary care doctor or dermatologist about the numerous safe and effective options that are already available on the market summarized above.\n\nhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25061872\n\nsankmd","image":null}},{"node":{"id":"Question_7237-markdown","title":"What is the maintenance dose for:","slug":"what-is-the-maintenance-dose-for","content":"\"I had stage 1 estrogen receptive breast cancer. Clear for now, but Tamoxifen has terrible side effects and on blood thinner, Xarelto. So would 15 mg of CBD oil be right dosage?\"\n_____________________\nCBD can interact with blood thinners due to inhibition of the P450 liver enzymes that break them down. Be careful with dosage of CBD to avoid excessive bleeding.\n\ndrmicheleross","image":null}},{"node":{"id":"Question_11273-markdown","title":"How to relieve the symptoms of medication withdrawal? ","slug":"how-to-relieve-the-symptoms-of-medication-withdrawal","content":"\"In conjunction with starting the use of cannabis to help with PTSD. I started to taper off my medications for depression and anxiety. With my doctors approval. Now that I have completely stopped the medications both (Celera and Klonapan). I am having horrible withdrawal symptoms. I also stopped using the Estrogen patch that I feel I was on for just to long. I have upped my Vitamin D to the prescribed amount. I just tried a tincture that has a higher THC in the evening and it made me feel awful. I will try a lower dose tonight, I used the full dose my first time. I did not realize that I would be having this amount of withdrawal symptoms, my doctor said just to stop that I wouldn't have a problem. It has been about a week and still not doing well. I use a vape pen with high CBD one dose, twice a day. Any suggestions to help me out. I feel , all the general symptoms of medication withdrawal. I guess it just shows how long I have been on these medications and how I need to be patent and In the long run get my body regulated on healthier alternatives. Thank you \"\n_____________________\nWith all respect to Dr. Olson,  I've seen this following syndrome in my practice called Antidepressant Discontinuation Syndrome.  Here is a helpful article you can look at and also bring to your own MD.  The authors of this very well made article suggest against abrupt discontinuation of SSRI, SNRI's and other anti-depressants.  I want to stress that this has just been in my practice and Dr.Olson also probably has just as much if not more experience than I in this matter.  I offer this article humbly:\nhttp://www.aafp.org/afp/2006/0801/p449.html\n\ndrpark\n_____________________\nYou might be having SSRI (Celexa) withdraw symptoms. I could happen if you were on a high dose or even a mild dose. If a mild dose you might want to try waiting it out a day or two more and see how you do. If you were on a higher does or can not tolerate the withdraw symptoms, you might want to restart your Celexa. Restart at half the dose you were on. After a few days, or when you feel better, you might want to try again to taper off the Celexa. this time try cutting back on the dose by 50% each week (4-6 days). If you continue to feel ok, keep cutting back on the dose until you are off. If the withdrawal symptoms develop again, go back up on the dose you were on that didn't give you withdrawal symptoms and try again this time tapering the dose ever 2 weeks. The same issue can happen with the Klonopin. If so, try the same slow taper as mentioned above.\n\ndrpinto\n_____________________\nI have successfully removed many patients from SSRIs but the benzodiazepines are a whole other story. I usually encourage patients to be on high-dose CBD (~28:1) twice a day (10-15 drops twice daily) for one month before you start to withdraw from your either medications. SSRIs you can typically abruptly discontinue but save all your leftover pills because in about 4 to 5 days your body will want more SSRI medication, so give it a pill, if you need another pill the next day you can do that also but then try to stay off the medication for approximately a week, your body will scream for more and that's when you give it one or two pills but you will notice this is a sub therapeutic dose so your body will be tapering off at this point and it typically only takes a few weeks for you to be off the SSRI completely.\nBenzodiazepines should never abruptly be discontinued because they cause horrendous side effects.\nBenzodiazepine should be reduced by one dose per month. Please don't try to discontinue the benzodiazepines any quicker than that or you could cause more depression. You will eventually be off the benzodiazepines. You must be very careful with your THC intake because if you go high on THC you will increase your anxiety. Until you are well stabilized off the benzodiazepines you must concentrate mostly on high CBD Cannabis to keep your body calm but you don't get the full effect of CBD cannabis for approximately 3 to 4 weeks. Since you are prone to anxiety and depression, You legally can carry a high CBD/ low THC spray with you but when you are driving you must carry it in the back of the car like an open container of alcohol. If you feel anxious, one spray of the high CBD cannabis (8:1 to 18:1) should have a nice calming effect.\nMost people are vitamin D deficient and many doctors only measure the inactive form, 25-OHD, but they should also measure the active form that is excreted from the kidneys, 1,25-dihydroxy Vitamin D, since the inactive form maybe low but the active form maybe high and you don't want to overstress your kidneys. \nVitamin D is necessary for the human body to function normally because in the human body it is a hormone not a vitamin and hormones are necessary to create new healthy cells.\nIf the vitamin D blood level is low in your body, it negatively affects many systems, such as your muscles and blood pressure. With low levels of Vitamin D you may experience thyroid disease, chronic pain with muscle & joint aching, kidney stones & even calcified heart valves, high blood pressure, depression, osteoporosis, fibromyalgia, an increased risk of migraine headaches and even a significantly increased risk of breast cancer with a greater risk for metastatic disease and death. \nThe laboratory ‘normal’ for Vitamin D3 is 30-100 (30ng/mL is rickets level) but for optimum health the blood level must be 55-100. Do you want to be just ‘normal’ or would you like to go for optimum?\nThe kidney clearance function for Vitamin D must be monitored so the larger amounts of Vitamin D are not overwhelming the ability to clear any excess Vitamin D from the system and this is the level of the active form of Vitamin D. \nFor a healthy patient with normal kidney function and vitamin D deficiency, I recommend a large dose (called a bolus) of vitamin D3, approximately 40,000 international units to be given with food one time per week  plus 5000 International units of vitamin D3 per day, repeating the sequence for up to four weeks and then do a repeat blood level. For accuracy do not take your vitamin D right before the blood test and do not do the bolus the day before or the day of the blood test. You should notice a significant sense of well-being once your blood level of vitamin D3 is above 55 ng/mL but there is no benefit in going above 100 ng/mL.\nIn order to sleep as you're going off your other medications, please be aware that you may need to keep your CBD: THC ratio in a 2:1 balance in order to sleep without anxiety, so if you have had more THC in the evening you may need to take a higher dose of CBD to balance the ratio of CBD to THC.\nI know this all sounds technical and it sort of is but you can do this because I've had great success with other patients and if you still have questions you can always send your questions and we will give you an answer.\nIf you do have further questions, please don't send those questions as a response to this posting since the posting will only allow us to answer one time, then you must submit a new question.\nGood luck, this may go a little slow but it is well worth the journey to get you away from dangerous, addictive Western pharmaceutical drugs.\n\ndrolson","image":null}},{"node":{"id":"Question_10819-markdown","title":" Do fluctuating hormones effect my reaction to an edible?","slug":"do-fluctuating-hormones-effect-my-reaction-to-an-edible","content":"\"My reaction to a low dose edible (5mg)  seems to vary. Is this possibly due to hormones that change during the month? Sometimes it seems very strong and other times it feels just right.\nI use them to manage pain at night.\"\n_____________________\nCertainly, if you are a woman, anything can affect your hormones and in women the hormones fluctuate from day to day. We have many many hormones in the body, not just the sex hormones. If you are stressed, your beautiful hormone symphony is disrupted and the hormones will be funneled through a fight or flight pathway turning off somatomedian, causing you to age prematurely if you do not stop the stress. Somatostatin, the hormone that takes over when we are stressed, reduces your production of human growth hormone and can shrink your brain, your lungs, affect your heart, your GI tract, your adrenals, your thyroid, insulin, insulin resistance and you will lose motivation, have sleep disturbance, irritability and gain weight and one way to regain balance is to burn off the excess somatostatin by getting your heart rate above 100, or a very brisk walk.\nSo, try not to take on stress and learn to address stress appropriately, take care of the underlying cause and consider CBD edibles instead of THC edibles since the CBD does reduce inflammation that can result from the stress and helps you to stay calm but the THC is changed from delta 9 THC to delta 11 THC once the liver picks up the THC edible from the stomach, and it is twice as strong. That's okay if you just want to be high but it is not the most effective way to deal with stress.\nI would hope that using cannabis does not keep you in a situation that you might need to leave.\nYour hormones levels do fluctuate daily if you're female but it is a hormonal symphony. The hormones are timed to come in at the right time and edibles will not really affect that but stress can cause wild swings in the hormones.  Your reaction to the edible will be unique to you but may be different depending on the day of the month and how much stress you have acquired. Typically in the pre-menstrual phase women are more sensitive to chemicals and cravings. \nAre you peri-menopausal? Are you a new mom trying to adjust? Are you taking care of your nutrition, eating fresh, organic, raw greens every day (or blend them and drink them) for the B vitamins in their natural form? Are you in an intolerable situation?\nLet me know if you still need help......\n\ndrolson","image":null}}]}},"pageContext":{"limit":12,"skip":0,"numPages":1,"currentPage":1,"id":5357,"name":"Hormones","slug":"hormones","country":"US"}},"staticQueryHashes":["3949754563","4179947113","4202924991"]}