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.
As the âhunger hormone,â some may be ready to make ghrelin out to be a villain. Obesity and weight-loss are complicated, so perhaps it would be comforting to have a bad guy hormone that stimulates hunger so we can focus on this âbadâ hormone that causes us to gain weight.