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.
The majority of women, sixty one percent, who participated in a nationwide survey felt that birth control pills caused weight gain. However, not all birth control pills cause weight gain. An equal number of women tend to gain weight as lose weight while taking birth control pills.Women concerned about weight loss or weight gain should talk with their health care professionals.hen two groups of women are given pills to take in a double blind study, one group takes birth control and the other group takes placebos but neither the women nor the researchers know which group is which, both groups show the same weight changes.