Estrogen / Nuerotransmitter’s link

On the more exciting item…. The mercury poisoning took out my endocrine system… when tested I was below menopausal at the level of a teenager even though my cycle was regular and predictable down to the hour…  Went on HRT which helped a lot but I’ve been trying to get off the estrogen since my body seems to have been thrown into menopause… and the environmental doctor has me on new amino acids and to rebalance the HPA Axis (endocrine basis).  This HPA Axis controls the sex hormones…I’m praying that everything will come into line once the underlying item is addressed.

Anyway I am super sensitive to EMF again – very painful, but exciting because I may have found a key to the puzzle…   When I did research on the EMF sensitivity there were two people groups that experienced it quite frequently but temporarily… women going through the change and those getting off or addicted to (can’t remember but believe) cocaine…

I haven’t had the time to do research, but I’m hoping there is a link and maybe the cocaine does a number on the hormones – or if you look at the people’s groups you find a common pattern of wacked out neurotransmitters…  I think I read that ‘they’ were surmizing that all groups had lower skin resistance to electricity…

I do get excited for the strangest things huh????  I’ll keep you updated when I find out anything… I don’t know what will result, but I have a lead in my little hobby to find out what is the cause of this lovely illness.

Blessings

2/21 research update – There is a link to cocaine and estrogen… rat studies show that those exposed to estrogen had a different experience to estrogen than those who were not…Also estrogen increase the dopamine levels…

Titre du document / Document title

Estrogen influences cocaine-induced blood oxygen level-dependent signal changes in female rats

Auteur(s) / Author(s)

FEBO Marcelo ; FERRIS Craig F. ; SEGARRA Annabell C. ;

Résumé / Abstract

We investigated the effect ofestrogen on cocaine-induced brain activity using blood oxygen level-dependent (BOLD) magnetic resonance imaging. Ovariectomized (Ovx) rats without estrogen and Ovx rats with estrogen (0vx+E) were given a single saline or cocaine injection (15 mg/kg, i.p.) for 5 d. After 7 d of withdrawal from injections, rats were challenged with cocaine during functional imaging. Acute cocaine administration produced positive BOLD activation in the prefrontal cortex, nucleus accumbens, striatum, ventral tegmental area, and hippocampus, among other brain regions. Positive BOLD signal changes were lower in 0vx+E than in Ovx rats. With repeated cocaine administration, 0vx+E rats showed enhanced BOLD signal changes in the nucleus accumbens, ventral tegmental area, and hippocampus compared with acutely treated animals. Our results indicate that estrogen influences the effects of acute and repeated cocaine administration on BOLD signal changes. The data suggest that in females with estrogen, cocaine-induced neuronal activity is enhanced after repeated cocaine administration. It is possible that the actions of estrogen within the aforementioned brain regions potentiate the behavioral response to cocaine observed in female rats.

Revue / Journal Title

The Journal of neuroscience   ISSN 0270-6474   CODEN JNRSDS

Source / Source

2005, vol. 25, n^o5, pp. 1132-1136 [5 page(s) (article)]

Langue / Language

Anglais

Editeur / Publisher

Society for Neuroscience, Washington, DC, ETATS-UNIS  (1981) (Revue)