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Thyroid gland
The thyroid gland produces thyroid hormones that stimulate metabolism and growth. The thyroid gland is located just below the throat and looks like a butterfly with its wings spread. It is an organ weighing about 10 to 20 grams.
Uterus
The uterus is the organ that nurtures a fertilized egg and plays a central role in pregnancy.
Ovary
The ovaries produce estrogen and progesterone, two female hormones involved in the development of a feminine body, pregnancy, and childbirth.
Hormones
Hormones are important substances that regulate various functions of the body in order to maintain organs and tissues in a stable state. Growth of bones and muscles, energy metabolism, blood pressure, appetite, and digestion of food are also influenced by hormones. Hormones are produced in the brain and various organs, and more than 100 types of hormones have been discovered.
Female Hormone
Hormones produced in the ovaries of women. There are two types of female hormones: estrogen and progesterone.
Estrogen plays the role of “preparing for pregnancy” and “building a feminine body,” while progesterone plays the role of “maintaining pregnancy.
Estrogen
Hormone that thickens the endometrium and prepares the body for pregnancy. It helps build a womanly body (breast development and a rounded body). It also stimulates the production of collagen and maintains healthy blood vessels, bones, joints, and brain.
Progesterone
Progesterone is a hormone that makes it easier to conceive by maintaining the endometrium, which has become thickened through the action of estrogen, soft. It stores water and nutrients, and once pregnancy is established, it maintains the pregnancy. It also raises body temperature and increases appetite.
Menstruation
A phenomenon that occurs when the endometrium is shed, resulting in bleeding. Estrogen and progesterone are involved.
Dysmenorrhea
A condition in which menstruation is accompanied by symptoms such as lower abdominal pain and back pain that interfere with daily life and improve with the end of menstruation. Dysmenorrhea can be divided into two types: functional dysmenorrhea, in which symptoms appear without a causative disease, and organic dysmenorrhea, which is caused by a uterine disease.
LEP (low-dose estrogen/progestin combination) formulation
One of the drugs used in the treatment of dysmenorrhea. They reduce menstrual pain by resting ovulation and preventing the endometrium from thickening.
PMS (Premenstrual Syndrome)
Various physical and mental discomforts that begin a few days (3 to 10 days) before menstruation and subside with the onset of menstruation. When the mental symptoms are particularly severe and interfere with daily life, it may be diagnosed as “Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder (PMDD).
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