Why Exercise And Lack Of Food Is Extremely Deadly For Women
Food keeps the body functioning. Exercise keeps the body fit. Here are the dark facts behind them and how they can be potentially deadly for women.
Ah, exercise - everybody needs it, but it’s such a pain in the butt. Every woman knows the struggle of pre-workout procrastination.
Everybody's obviously heard countless times that it supposedly keeps us ‘healthy’, but did you know that it actually has many extremely dangerous health disadvantages?
Exercise is proven to lower estrogen levels, which can lead to a large variety of health issues, including infertility, weaker bones, hot flashes, irregular periods, painful intercourse, increase in UTIs, and even depression which can lead to suicide. Estrogen, of course, is the primary sex hormone which promotes the development and maintenance of female characteristics of the body, and so loss of them can be very dangerous to your health as previously stated. According to Medical News Today, "Low estrogen levels can cause a variety of health issues and affect a woman's overall well-being. Any woman who experiences symptoms of low estrogen should talk with her doctor."
The exact same can be said for lack of food, especially in anorexia. So, next time your trashy, cis-white boyfriend tells you not to eat any more chicken nuggets because you’ve “had too many”, tell that boy "bye" because he’s lowering your estrogen levels by being a bigot, and you can thank him later when he’s paying for your therapy bills!
The lowering of estrogen is not only damaging health-wise, but also unfathomably emotionally demeaning. Estrogen is what turns quiet, underpowered little girls being told that their gender makes them unworthy into strong, independent women that know they don't need a man to feel worthwhile. To have less estrone than other female-identifying individuals is degrading and makes you seem less like a woman. However, don't worry - you are who you choose to be, whether your hormones like it or not.
Don't be fooled, though. Us females also - brace yourselves - have very tiny amounts of testosterone within us as well (between 15 to 70 nanograms per deciliters). In comparison to these facts, the average woman has 17-200 ng/dL of estrogen. This means that depending on how much you exercise and how little your boyfriend makes you eat, along with various other reasons that lower estrone like chemotherapy, you could be lowered to an almost equal rate of testosterone. This wouldn't necessarily make you a masculine-cisgendered male, however, it would chemically categorise you into being on the same hormonal basis as them. Therefore, it increases your sex drive and makes you subject to being a rapist and/or having misogynistic tendencies, such as physical abuse and anger issues (anger is quite literally caused by the increase of testosterone and adrenaline and decrease of cortisol, the 'fear' hormone). However, some unfortunate women are simply born with lower estrogen and higher testosterone levels. We pay our due respects to you fallen soldiers, and remember not to let those manly urges take over you - self control is key.
That goes to all girls out there, not just testosterone-leaning ones: SELF CONTROL IS KEY. Your mental, emotional, and physical health is most important. Remember that it's a-okay to cease your exercising ritual, and it's a-ok eat as much as you want. Because, sweetheart, you'll look beautiful either way. An estrogen-fuelled smile would just be the icing atop of your beautiful cake.
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