An Endocrinologist is a specialist dealing with disorders of hormones - substances which regulate all metabolic processes occurring in the human body. Hormones are responsible for the metabolism, sexual processes, maintaining proper body temperature, recuperation, energy (and lack thereof), the mood, look - skin, hair, body (weight), and many others.
Many human disorders are associated with an altered hormonal balance, but in most cases we are not aware of it. Unfortunately, the most ‘recognizable’, because of a certain period of life, are all symptoms associated with the menopause. In women, the menopause causes characteristic changes from menstrual disturbances, through hot flushes and changing moods, to the metabolic effects such as osteoporosis, inclusive. In men, the processes associated to hormone imbalances are less rapid and concern impotence, symptoms of burnout, irritability, and metabolic disorders associated with body weight, etc.
Few realize, however, that hormonal changes may occur at different ages, and almost always can and should be treated. Disorders of the ovaries are no longer very common in young adolescent girls. For women, menstrual disorders can contribute to weight gain, cause problems with skin and excessive hair in unusual places. Very common to the thyroid gland (possibly related to environmental pollution and stress) are problems which cause nervousness and / or lethargy, changes in perspiration, changing body weight, other skin symptoms, menstrual disorders, difficulties with overlap pregnancy and/or the child, and many other work-related symptoms of the metabolic processes. Also, there are increasingly more common disorders of the adrenal gland (often related to stress, malnutrition, age). They cause symptoms of fatigue, burnout, reduced resistance to stress, decreased physical strength, etc.
All these ailments can be treated and such treatments will often further protect against the discomfort from the distortion of an increasing number of processes running in the body. In many cases, we do not talk about treatment, but about normal hormonal substitution, because the hormones are natural substances in the body. Hormone substitution is certainly nothing to be afraid of. Applied after a thorough diagnosis, monitored and controlled under the supervision of a specialist endocrinologist, the result is one which helps immensely to improve the comfort of our lives.
