In 2010, the VA finally adjusted its compensation policy for combat veterans suffering from PTSD, but denied justice to tens of thousands of MST survivors by not doing the same for them, said SWAN Executive Director Anu Bhagwati, a former Marine Corps captain and MST survivor.
At normal levels, estrogen actually helps keep you lean by goosing the production of insulin, a hormone that manages blood sugar. When estrogen gets thrown off, though, it turns you into a weight-gain machine. Here's how: When you eat, your blood sugar rises. Like a bodyguard, insulin lowers it by escorting glucose into three different places in your body.
Are female hormones making you fat... Female hormones are responsible for hormonal weight gain during puberty, pregnancy and menopause. They affect ALL women regardless of race, culture, creed, body shape or size.ndrogen. This is the hormone that we can point fingers at for that weight gain that makes you look for apple-shaped, you know that middle-aged spread-it's androgen that is responsible for sending new weight gained to wrap around your mid-section.