Hormone biology

29 10, 2025

How do you tell if you have low salt and how can you fix it?

2025-10-29T21:53:08+10:00October 29th, 2025|Categories: Drugs & Therapies, Endocrine Diseases, Hormone biology|Tags: , |

It’s important to be balanced in all areas of life, but most of all on a molecular level. Our hormones, vitamins, minerals, fluids and temperature are all constantly changing, but they also have to [...]

21 02, 2025

Excess cortisol and its impact on long-term health

2025-02-21T21:51:56+10:00February 21st, 2025|Categories: Adrenal gland, Cardiovascular, Endocrine Diseases, Hormone biology|Tags: , , , , , |

In medicine, too much or too little of something is usually a problem. Excess hormones, excess knees, hospital excess - all of these things can be a genuine pain in the butt. For ages, [...]

18 01, 2025

Cortisol, stress and chronic disease: what’s the connection?

2025-01-20T20:59:19+10:00January 18th, 2025|Categories: Adrenal gland, Hormone biology, Lifestyle|Tags: , , |

If you don’t already have enough to worry about, have you ever thought about how stress is really bad for you? We usually think of stress as a mental thing, but the feeling of [...]

16 12, 2024

Don’t buy testosterone online from strangers on the internet

2024-12-16T13:32:19+10:00December 16th, 2024|Categories: Drugs & Therapies, Hormone biology, Lifestyle, Men’s health, Reproductive health|Tags: , , , , |

It feels hypocritical to warn you about buying testosterone online when testosterone replacement therapy has made such a huge difference in my life. The benefit for me was instant – better energy, better mood, [...]

8 10, 2024

How obesity affects your sperm and fertility

2024-10-08T14:23:15+10:00October 8th, 2024|Categories: Hormone biology, Lifestyle, Men’s health, Obesity, Research Updates|Tags: , , , |

It turns out that when it comes to fertility, size does matter – but maybe not in the way we all assumed. Every day it feels like there’s some new advice for would-be dads [...]

6 06, 2024

Ania vs Cushing’s Disease: a patient’s story

2024-06-06T19:20:00+10:00June 6th, 2024|Categories: Endocrine Diseases, Hormone biology, Pituitary gland|Tags: , , , |

While other journalists might be on the hunt for a cushy job, Ania Stepien is on a different mission—she’s searching for a Cushing's job. Cushing’s disease is a rare condition that can take years [...]

22 11, 2023

An overview of current and future medications for obesity

2023-11-22T23:11:08+10:00November 22nd, 2023|Categories: Drugs & Therapies, Hormone biology, Lifestyle, Medications and therapies, Research Updates|Tags: , , , , , |

Obesity is a chronic health condition affecting nearly a third of Australians. As a risk factor for illness and death it’s second only to smoking. Holding excess weight has been linked to 30 diseases [...]

26 10, 2023

New diabetes drug Mounjaro approved by the TGA

2023-10-26T18:27:28+10:00October 26th, 2023|Categories: Diabetes, Drugs & Therapies, Hormone biology, Medications and therapies|Tags: , , , |

A new drug to treat Type 2 Diabetes has been approved by Australia’s Therapeutic Goods Administration and is now available in Australian pharmacies. Australia now joins the US, the EU and Canada in offering [...]

24 08, 2023

Testosterone replacement therapy for older men might be safer than we thought

2023-08-24T19:52:08+10:00August 24th, 2023|Categories: Drugs & Therapies, Endocrine Diseases, Hormone biology, Medications and therapies, Men’s health, Research Updates|Tags: , , , , |

For years, people taking testosterone replacement therapy were advised that it could be bad for their hearts and lead to troubled tickers down the road. However, a new study has found that older men [...]

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