Groats are used in soups and porridges: steel-cut oats is simply another name for sliced oat groats. Groats of many cereals are the basis of kasha, a porridge-like staple meal of Eastern Europe and Eurasia.
Most often, abnormal uterine bleeding is caused by a hormone imbalance. When hormones are the cause, doctors call the problem dysfunctional uterine bleeding (DUB) . DUB is more common in teenagers or in women who are approaching menopause.
1 It's these sex hormones that cause the changes of puberty, like breast development in girls. 2  Peripheral precocious puberty or precocious pseudo-puberty is a different condition. 3  It's also rarer. 4  The hormones estrogen and testosterone trigger the symptoms. 5  But the brain and pituitary gland are not involved.