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Can balancing hormones cause weight loss?

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What?: There are thousands of hormones and they generally are "in balance" unless you have a disease or an abusive life-style. Hormones can become "unbalanced" if you gain a lot of weight. The treatment is to lose the weight through diet and exercise to help your body regularize your hormones. The weight gain causes the imbalance, not the other way around.

Answered 7/24/2014

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