Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site sdcrdcf.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!barryg From: barryg@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Barry Gold) Newsgroups: net.women.only Subject: Re: exercise and alleviating the blues/blahs Message-ID: <1626@sdcrdcf.UUCP> Date: Mon, 24-Dec-84 17:57:16 EST Article-I.D.: sdcrdcf.1626 Posted: Mon Dec 24 17:57:16 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 27-Dec-84 02:42:23 EST References: <4596@tektronix.UUCP> Reply-To: barryg@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Barry Gold) Organization: System Development Corp. R+D, Santa Monica Lines: 12 Summary: I read awhile back in an article on menopausal hot flushes that obese overweight women get fewer/milder hot flushes becasue fat manufactures endocrine hormones and therefore obese women didn't have the abrupt fall off of feminine hormones at menopause that non-obese women did. I think that perhaps shedding weight due to exercise might also mean reducing one's general endocrine level. I once had a brand of birth control pill that gave me the weeps. I told the gynecologist I was accustomed to getting annoyed come my period, NOT to getting miserable, and persuaded him to change me to a new prescription, which brought back my familiar mood cycle. Presumably this was also due to level of endocrine. --Lee Gold