I will ask my dr this week .There is a great thread called weight loss tips by brokenman on this forum, its less about "weight loss" but more about how the start fixing yourself and eventually find the easiest and least damaging way to lose fat mass and gain lean mass. It's a pretty good guide which takes the best knowledge from the forum and turns it into a step by step?
Pregnenolone and Progesterone, best to read all the threads dedicated to these + ray peat;s actual articles on them. They are the "safest" hormones to use to rebalance from estrogen/serotonin dominance but there are always risks.... Preg is the master hormone that all the others are made of so having extra from that can mean some systems aren't shut down in a chronic stress situation. It can, it seems for some people, all be converted into the stress hormones though. Not an expert in the area.