Re: sex steoids and athletic performance

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Actually, suppression of the normal menstrual cycle decreases testosterone levels and many athletes notice that their athletic performance decreases due to changes in cardiovascular and muscle function. LalondeSubject: Re: birth control for women soldiersTo: nfpprofessionals Received: Tuesday, April 24, 2012, 7:31 AM

yes not only for that but as a performance enhancer I think. I believe powerful synthetic steroids -- even the ovarian ones -- can be performance enhancers, though i don't have data. Sheila would your neighbors be willing to share her story to raise awareness?

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Re: birth control for women soldiers

This discussion could apply to female athletes. Our neighbors lost a young adult daughter who had graduated from college. She had helped her parents rake up their leaves and then went back to her apartment to shower. She died in the shower. A year later the neighbor informed us that a team mate of their daughter with a one year old baby died the same way. Could these athletes have taken the pill so as to avoid a period during competition?

I thought about the pill being the cause later after learning about the fact that two members of the team died when young and unexpectedly. We invited our neighbors over for dinner about 2 months after the death of their daughter but the mother was still so emotionally upset and crying that the husband turned down the invite. The mother could not stop crying during the visitation, etc.

birth control for women soldiers

I had written yesterday, email must have gone into cyber space, but it seems this issue is increasingly one of "convenience". What message are we sending our women, as we erase their cycles, essentially creating a "man" as they go perform their vital duties around the globe. Wouldn't it be better if they embrace the role God has given them as a woman? How about instead of "be all you can be", be "who you were created to be"? Not that women cannot embrace their callings -- but that we fulfill our vocations AS women...

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and yet pregnant women have always been thought to be stronger physically than non-pregnant women (data?). Is it that while pregnant they have higher testosterone levels and not just estrogen?

Sincerely yours,

Dominic M. Pedulla MD, FACC, CNFPMC, ABVM, ACPh

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Re: birth control for women soldiers

This discussion could apply to female athletes. Our neighbors lost a young adult daughter who had graduated from college. She had helped her parents rake up their leaves and then went back to her apartment to shower. She died in the shower. A year later the neighbor informed us that a team mate of their daughter with a one year old baby died the same way. Could these athletes have taken the pill so as to avoid a period during competition?

I thought about the pill being the cause later after learning about the fact that two members of the team died when young and unexpectedly. We invited our neighbors over for dinner about 2 months after the death of their daughter but the mother was still so emotionally upset and crying that the husband turned down the invite. The mother could not stop crying during the visitation, etc.

birth control for women soldiers

I had written yesterday, email must have gone into cyber space, but it seems this issue is increasingly one of "convenience". What message are we sending our women, as we erase their cycles, essentially creating a "man" as they go perform their vital duties around the globe. Wouldn't it be better if they embrace the role God has given them as a woman? How about instead of "be all you can be", be "who you were created to be"? Not that women cannot embrace their callings -- but that we fulfill our vocations AS women...

"I AM ordinary in the correct sense of the term; which means the acceptance of an order; a Creator and the Creation, the common sense of gratitude for Creation, life and love as gifts permanently good, marriage and chivalry as laws rightly controlling them, and the rest of the normal traditions of our race and religion. It is also thought a little odd that I regard the grass as green, even after some newly-discovered Slovak artist has painted it grey; that I think daylight very tolerable in spite of thirteen Lithuanian philosophers sitting in a row and cursing the light of day; and that, in matters more polemical, I actually prefer weddings to divorces and babies to Birth Control." ~GKC: 'The Thing,' VI. Obstinate Orthodoxy.

Dr. Peck, MD, CCD, AAFP, Marquette NFP Instructor

Pecks Family Practice, PLC

1688 W Granada Blvd, Ste 2A

Ormond Beach, FL 32174

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I have been following these comments.  My first thought on reading the question (I forget who posed it) was:  Isn't this yet another use of BCP -- stopping something that is normal?  Shouldn't medication be used to treat an abnormality?  If a woman is going to be in an area with little water, is it not possible to take a 2-3 month supply of tampons (they don't take much luggage space) and some Handi-wipes? 

We are trying, aside from the moral issue of oral contraceptive use, to get the message out of the link between OCP and breast cancer.  Is the risk of breast cancer really worth the inconvenience of menstrual flow??

In short, this is another way of " messing with God's Plan " .Peggy Bartley

 

Actually, suppression of the normal menstrual cycle decreases testosterone levels and many athletes notice that their athletic performance decreases due to changes in cardiovascular and muscle function.

Lalonde

Subject: Re: birth control for women soldiersTo: nfpprofessionals Received: Tuesday, April 24, 2012, 7:31 AM

 

yes not only for that but as a performance enhancer I think. I believe powerful synthetic steroids -- even the ovarian ones -- can be performance enhancers, though i don't have data. Sheila would your neighbors be willing to share her story to raise awareness?

Sincerely yours,

Dominic M. Pedulla MD, FACC, CNFPMC, ABVM, ACPh

Interventional Cardiologist, Endovascular Diplomate, Varicose Vein Specialist, Noncontraceptive Family Planning Consultant, Family Planning Researcher

Medical Director, The Oklahoma Vein and Endovascular Center (www.noveinok.com, veininfo@...)

Executive Director, The Edith Stein Foundation (www.theedithsteinfoundation.com)

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(FAX)

pedullad@...

Re: birth control for women soldiers

 

This discussion could apply to female athletes.  Our neighbors lost a young adult daughter who had graduated from college.  She had helped her parents rake up  their leaves and then went back to her apartment to shower.  She died in the shower.  A year later the neighbor informed us that a team mate of their daughter with a one year old baby died the same way.  Could these athletes have taken the pill so as to avoid a period during competition? 

    I thought about the pill being the cause later after learning about the fact that two members of the team died when young and unexpectedly.  We invited our neighbors over for dinner about 2 months after the death of their daughter but the mother was still so emotionally upset and crying that the husband turned down the invite.  The mother could not stop crying during the visitation, etc. 

 

birth control for women soldiers

 

  I had written yesterday, email must have gone into cyber space, but it seems this issue is increasingly one of " convenience " . What message are we sending our women, as we erase their cycles, essentially creating a " man " as they go perform their vital duties around the globe.  Wouldn't it be better if they embrace the role God has given them as a woman? How about instead of " be all you can be " , be " who you were created to be " ? Not that women cannot embrace their callings -- but that we fulfill our vocations AS women...

 

" I AM ordinary in the correct sense of the term; which means the acceptance of an order; a Creator and the Creation, the common sense of gratitude for Creation, life and love as gifts permanently good, marriage and chivalry as laws rightly controlling them, and the rest of the normal traditions of our race and religion. It is also thought a little odd that I regard the grass as green, even after some newly-discovered Slovak artist has painted it grey; that I think daylight very tolerable in spite of thirteen Lithuanian philosophers sitting in a row and cursing the light of day; and that, in matters more polemical, I actually prefer weddings to divorces and babies to Birth Control. " ~GKC: 'The Thing,' VI. Obstinate Orthodoxy.

 

 

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Pecks Family Practice, PLC

1688 W Granada Blvd, Ste 2A

Ormond Beach, FL  32174

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Peggy                                                               

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Yes, and thus the athlete often suppresses thyroid. That is why heart rate in athletes is low. This and the irregular cycle is a sign of metabolic suppression, not health, and should alert the woman. The estrogen dominance only serves to perpetuate the thyroid/metabolic suppression further. The muscles and heart do not get enough energy and oxygen, magnesium is typically low in hypothyroidism, stress hormones are elicited, capillary leakage.... Thus, sudden cardiac death may result. As the days get shorter in fall(reference to raking leaves), the thyroid is further suppressed, it is not uncommon for some to need up to 4x the thyroid in winter as summer. D Hemstad, RN ,BSNNutrition and Fertility EducatorBillings Ovulation MethodDiabetes Metab 2001 Nov;27(5 Pt 2):S12-9. [Modifications in myocardial energy metabolism in diabetic patients]] [Article in French] Grynberg A. “Because FA is the main heart fuel (although the most expensive one in oxygen, and prompt to induce deleterious effects), this process is based on a balanced fatty acid (FA) metabolism.” “Sudden death, hypercatecholaminemia, diabetes and heart failure have been associated with an altered PUFA content in cardiac membranes.”AJCN. E Chiuve, Ethan C Korngold, L Januzzi Jr, Lou Gantzer, and M AlbertIn this prospective cohort of women, higher plasma concentrations and dietary magnesium intakes were associated with lower risks of SCD. If the observed association is causal, interventions directed at increasing dietary or plasma magnesium might lower the risk of SCD.+Cardiologia. 1997 Jul;42(7):729-35. [Circadian variation of sudden cardiac death in young people with and without coronary disease] Assanelli D, Bersatti F, Turla C, Restori M, Amariti ML, Romano A, Ferrari M. “To clarify whether sudden cardiac death has a circadian rhythm in young people we have studied 40 patients < 45 years who died in Brescia between 1984 and 1993 of sudden cardiac death showing at autopsy features of coronary artery disease (CAD) and 12 patients aged < 30 years who died of sudden cardiac death without autoptic features of CAD. We observed a circadian rhythm in the hours of the morning in the two groups, more evident in patients without CAD. In patients with autoptic features of CAD, we also observed a higher rate of events during the winter months. We would like to stress the importance of the adrenergic system as a trigger able to produce the event.”Arq Bras Endocrinol Metabol. 2004 Feb;48(1):171-5. Epub 2004 Jun 1.Thyroid hormone and adrenergic signaling in the heart.Kim B, Carvalho-Bianco SD, Larsen PR.SourceThyroid Section, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Hypertension, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 021115, USA. bkim@...AbstractThyroid hormone action has profound consequences for the heart, ranging from atrial fibrillation to hemodynamic collapse. It has long been known that the cardiovascular signs and symptoms seen in thyrotoxicosis resemble those seen in states of catecholamine excess. However, measured concentrations of serum catecholamines in patients with thyrotoxicosis are typically normal or even low, suggesting an increase in the adrenergic responsiveness of the thyrotoxic heart. In spite of several decades of work, the question of whether thyroid hormone increases cardiac adrenergic responsiveness is still controversial. In this brief review, we consider the reasons underlying this controversy, focusing on the complexity of the adrenergic signaling cascade.Thyroid. 2008 Feb;18(2):157-65. Silva JE, Bianco SD. Thyroid-adrenergic interactions: physiological and clinical implications.SourceBaystate Medical Center, Tufts University Medical School, Springfield, Massachusetts 01199, USA. enrique.silva@...The sympathoadrenal system, including the sympathetic nervous system and the adrenal medulla, interacts with thyroid hormone (TH) at various levels.... which is to stimulate thermogenic mechanisms and synergize with the sympathoadrenal system to produce heat and maintain body temperature. Finally, emerging results suggest the possibility that disrupted interactions between the two systems contribute to explain metabolic variability, for example, fuel efficiency, energy expenditure, and lipolytic responses.

Actually, suppression of the normal menstrual cycle decreases testosterone levels and many athletes notice that their athletic performance decreases due to changes in cardiovascular and muscle function. LalondeSubject: Re: birth control for women soldiersTo: nfpprofessionals Received: Tuesday, April 24, 2012, 7:31 AM

yes not only for that but as a performance enhancer I think. I believe powerful synthetic steroids -- even the ovarian ones -- can be performance enhancers, though i don't have data. Sheila would your neighbors be willing to share her story to raise awareness?

Sincerely yours,

Dominic M. Pedulla MD, FACC, CNFPMC, ABVM, ACPh

Interventional Cardiologist, Endovascular Diplomate, Varicose Vein Specialist, Noncontraceptive Family Planning Consultant, Family Planning Researcher

Medical Director, The Oklahoma Vein and Endovascular Center (www.noveinok.com, veininfo@...)

Executive Director, The Edith Stein Foundation (www.theedithsteinfoundation.com)

(office)

(cell)

(FAX)

pedullad@...

Re: birth control for women soldiers

This discussion could apply to female athletes. Our neighbors lost a young adult daughter who had graduated from college. She had helped her parents rake up their leaves and then went back to her apartment to shower. She died in the shower. A year later the neighbor informed us that a team mate of their daughter with a one year old baby died the same way. Could these athletes have taken the pill so as to avoid a period during competition?

I thought about the pill being the cause later after learning about the fact that two members of the team died when young and unexpectedly. We invited our neighbors over for dinner about 2 months after the death of their daughter but the mother was still so emotionally upset and crying that the husband turned down the invite. The mother could not stop crying during the visitation, etc.

birth control for women soldiers

I had written yesterday, email must have gone into cyber space, but it seems this issue is increasingly one of "convenience". What message are we sending our women, as we erase their cycles, essentially creating a "man" as they go perform their vital duties around the globe. Wouldn't it be better if they embrace the role God has given them as a woman? How about instead of "be all you can be", be "who you were created to be"? Not that women cannot embrace their callings -- but that we fulfill our vocations AS women...

"I AM ordinary in the correct sense of the term; which means the acceptance of an order; a Creator and the Creation, the common sense of gratitude for Creation, life and love as gifts permanently good, marriage and chivalry as laws rightly controlling them, and the rest of the normal traditions of our race and religion. It is also thought a little odd that I regard the grass as green, even after some newly-discovered Slovak artist has painted it grey; that I think daylight very tolerable in spite of thirteen Lithuanian philosophers sitting in a row and cursing the light of day; and that, in matters more polemical, I actually prefer weddings to divorces and babies to Birth Control." ~GKC: 'The Thing,' VI. Obstinate Orthodoxy.

Dr. Peck, MD, CCD, AAFP, Marquette NFP Instructor

Pecks Family Practice, PLC

1688 W Granada Blvd, Ste 2A

Ormond Beach, FL 32174

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