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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
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Posted: Mon Dec 24 17:57:16 1984
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Reply-To: barryg@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Barry Gold)
Organization: System Development Corp. R+D, Santa Monica
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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