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What’s the difference between depression and anxiety? Why is it that individuals with depression feel stressed and why do people with anxiety feel depressed? One way to comprehend this dichotomy would be to find out about the hormones controlling these feelings as well as the hormones responsible for producing mood-regulating neurotransmitters.
Additionally, anxiety and depression are so tightly associated only because one feeds off the other. When you’re depressed, anxiety obviously follows–anxiety about what to do about your own sadness, anxiety over how it’s impacting others, and anxiety over your capacity to meet home and work responsibilities. Alternately, feeling anxious all of the time inevitably darkens your mood, drains your energy, and stops you from objectively viewing things as they actually are.
Three hormones –serotonin, norepinephrine, and dopamine are primarily responsible for relaying compound messages throughout your central nervous system. When you suffer from anxiety and depression, a substantial imbalance in neurotransmitter levels is present that adversely affects your emotions and mindset. Studies exploring the start of depression and stress have discovered that only a minimum decrease in neurotransmitter levels might lead to depression and anxiety symptoms. Deregulation of serotonin, dopamine, and norepinephrine also impacts your sleep, appetite, endurance, and capacity to deal with stress productively.
Research into why more girls suffer from depression and anxiety than men point right to hormone changes occurring at critical times in a female’s lifetime, like pregnancy, perimenopause and menopause. Depression and anxiety correlate with abnormal neurotransmitter levels and decreased estrogen and progesterone levels in a female’s body. Further, being depressed and anxious makes the mind and body feel as if they are constantly under assault (both internally and externally), which compels the endocrine system to release considerable quantities of two stress hormones known as cortisol and adrenaline.
When coupled with reduced estrogen and progesterone and neurotransmitter levels, cortisol and adrenaline can cause serious health problems such as:
Estrogen, progesterone, and even testosterone are essential for making neurotransmitters. The generation of dopamine, serotonin, norepinephrine and other neurotransmitters needs particular amino acids and “co-factors” (a kind of nutrient). Subsequently, those amino acids and nutrients require sufficient quantities of hormones for their own development. This is only one of the chief reasons why women (and men) over 50+ frequently experience depression and stress as the testes and ovaries reduce the output of hormones essential for their general health and well-being.
Hormone Replacement Therapy, or HRT, safely and efficiently restores hormone levels to encourage the production and release of serotonin, norepinephrine, and dopamine without inducing severe health problems connected with laboratory-made hormones. Additionally, depressed and anxious men and women experiencing perimenopause, menopause, or andropause may find relief from different symptoms such as headaches/migraines, sleeplessness, hot flashes/night sweats, fatigue, and lack of endurance.
Unlike synthetic hormones which aren’t compatible with cell receptors, bioidentical hormones through Invigorate Health Hormone Replacement Therapy are specifically designed to be easily approved by cells arranged to recognize chemical and molecular compositions of hormones produced by your endocrine system. Medically-oriented chemicals going into the bloodstream which aren’t harmonious with target cells obviously produce adverse reactions in response to this incompatibility. That is why lab-made hormones carry a risk of cancer and heart disease when taken for prolonged times.
In case you’ve been taking prescription hormones such as depression, anxiety, and other signs of andropause and menopause, then you’ll be happy to know that switching to bioidentical hormones may reverse the harmful effects of artificial hormones. Call Invigorate Health now to find out more about how HRT can help alleviate anxiety and depression related to decreased hormone levels. You can also click the button below to book your consultation online.
