Hi MGC, Wow! What a find! I will be spending some time with this article FOR SURE. I agree with everyone here. There must be a connection between our hormones and our connective tissue disease. We all eventually suffer from “endocrinology” gone wild, and although my Dexa bone scans and cholesterol have always looked good in the past, now that I have mast cell disease extraordinaire, I wonder what kind of havoc it has caused on those conditions…