Glands in the endocrine system produce hormones. They are powerful chemicals that travel in the bloodstream and are responsible for many of your body’s processes. When there’s too little or too much hormones in the bloodstream, the slightest hormonal imbalance can cause significant effects throughout the body. For females, hormone levels fluctuate during puberty, menstruation, […]
What’s Causing Unusual Spotting And Bleeding? Spotting refers to light vaginal bleeding when you don’t have your period. This is also called intermenstrual bleeding, wherein spotting or bleeding between your normal periods. A lot of women experience intermenstrual bleeding. It shouldn’t be a cause of concern in most cases, but sometimes it’s a sign of […]
Oral contraceptive pills or “pills” contain the hormones estrogen and progestin that mimic the hormones women naturally produce. These hormones do a couple of things to ensure that pregnancy is not going to happen: they stop the ovaries from producing eggs for ovulation so that there’s no egg for the sperm to fertilize; they make […]
