General Health Information

A hormone called Estrogen plays in puberty to the help it gives in
creating life. Related to this hormone is a health condition among
women called menopause hot flashes.
These hot flushes a woman experience during menopause are the result of
the estrogen in her body being depleted. The developing follicles in
the ovaries, the corpus luteum, the placenta during pregnancy function
in producing the hormone estrogen. Follicle-stimulating hormone (also
called FSH) and luteinizing hormone (also called LH) stimulate the
production of estrogen in the ovaries. Inadequate or excessive
production of FSH and LH can throw off the balance of estrogen (a
female hormone) which often results to many reproductive problems.
Other tissues such as the liver, adrenal glands, and even the breasts
also produce estrogen but only in minimal amounts.