Posts Tagged ‘drugs’
Acne, Hormones and Women
We’ve discussed about corticosteroids and we’ve said that these are some hormones or drugs that have hormone-like effects. But our bodies contain other many, many hormones and our health depends on their being properly balanced.
When you feel that something is not working inside you and physicians shake their heads without being able to say [...]
6. Quinine
Quinine is also a very old medication that is prescribed for a very old disease: malaria. Malaria remained a plague of the third world’s countries and if you are traveling in these regions you should know that malaria still exists and represents a real risk.
But because quinine may trigger acne breakouts, be sure to [...]
2. Corticosteroids
Corticosteroids represent a class of steroid hormones that are naturally produced in our adrenal cortex; they are involved in a wide range of physiologic systems, such as immune response, stress response, regulation of inflammation and carbohydrate metabolism and protein catabolism and even our behavior, for example.
As we’ve already said before, although they are tiny, apparently [...]