Are Your Hormones Balanced?

So, Are Your Hormones Balanced?

Aww, you don’t age at all.

What is your secret?

This is a common compliment that we all crave to hear.

We all desire to look young and fresh, no matter what our age is. Aging is an inevitable process, but what if we told you that there is a way to slow down this process? That there is a secret to looking young and healthy?

The secret lies in the hormones that are present in our bodies.

Hormones play a vital role in maintaining an individual’s overall health and well-being. There are over 50 hormones that have been identified in the human body, and each hormone plays a specific role.

Hormones are chemical messengers that travel in our bloodstream to various organs and tissues to regulate physiological processes and behavioural activities such as digestion, metabolism, sleep, excretion, growth, reproduction, and mood.

It’s not an exaggeration to say that hormones are the primary key to your whole-body system from born to death.

6 essential hormones you need to know.

1. Melatonin: Melatonin involves your internal body clock as the sunrise, preparing you to awake and get ready for sleep when the sun goes down. Benefits: Managing immune function, blood pressure, cortisol levels, regeneration, and antioxidant action

2. Insulin: Insulin is the primary anabolic hormone produced in the pancreas, which helps move glucose into your cells for energy. Main functions: Regulating glucose level, body’s metabolism of carbohydrates, fats, and proteins, storing glucose in your liver, muscles, and fat

3. Estrogen: Estrogen is the sex hormone that regulates the female reproductive system, female characteristics and sex drive and is primarily produced in a woman’s ovaries. When you have imbalanced estrogen, you may have irregular or no menstruation, more severe PMS or menopausal symptoms, hot flashes, night sweats, mood swings, sleeping problems, weight gain, low sexual drive, fatigue, depression, or dry skin.

4. Testosterone: Testosterone is also called the primary sex hormone that regulates the male reproductive system, sexual drive, and secondary male characteristics such as increased muscle, bone mass and the growth of body hair. When you have low or imbalanced testosterone, you may have low energy, fatigue, low interest in exercise or movement, feeling sadness, depression, troubles with memory or concentration, and lowered motivation and self-confidence.

5. Cortisol: Cortisol is the primary stress hormone produced by adrenal glands, which increases sugars in your bloodstream, enhances your brain’s usage of glucose and increases the availability of substances that repair tissues. When you have a high in cortisol, you may experience weight gain, especially in your face and belly, fatty deposits between your shoulder blades, muscle weakness in your upper arms and thighs, weak bones or fractures, high blood pressure, and high blood sugar which can turn into type 2 diabetes, wide, purple stretch marks on your belly.

6. Catecholamine: Catecholamines include dopamine, epinephrine(adrenaline), and norepinephrine(noradrenaline) which respond to emotional or physical stress. Catecholamines are produced mainly through your adrenal glands located above your kidneys. When you have a high in adrenaline, you may experience anxiety, a rapid heartbeat, heart palpitations, shaking, high blood pressure, sweating, a pale face, or weight loss.

 What is the hormonal belly?

Are you getting fat, especially around your belly?

 Hormones help regulate many human body functions such as metabolism, sex drive, mood manipulation and hunger.

You may have an imbalanced hormone called a hormonal belly.

10 symptoms when you have an imbalanced hormone.

*Tick your symptoms*

1. Slow or rapid heartbeat

2. Fatigue

3. Constipation or diarrhea or more frequent bowel movement

4. Unexplained weight gain or loss

5. Depression or anxiety

6. Higher than normal blood cholesterol levels

7. Numbness and tingling in your hands

8. Low sexual drive

9. Insomnia

10. Hair loss

10 natural ways you can improve your hormone balance

1. Sleep well

: Maintaining a balanced melatonin hormone that plays a role in sleep: Quality sleep will give you a younger look because your body system increases collagen production, essential to healthy skin and cellular repair, managing immune function, blood pressure, cortisol levels, regeneration, and antioxidant action during sleep. *Turning off your electronics, such as a mobile phone 2 hours before bed can help stimulate melatonin production, which will help you to fall asleep*

2. Moderate Diet

: Gaining weight is directly associated with hormonal imbalances, essential to maintain the ideal weight and balanced diet to prevent insulin resistance and diabetes.

3. Engage in Regular Exercise

: Many studies show that the main benefit of regular exercise is reducing insulin resistance and increasing insulin sensitivity. Being physically active can improve your brain health, strengthen bones and muscles, and reduce the risk factors for diabetes, obesity, and heart disease.

4. Stress management

: When you are under a high level of stress, your body system will produce cortisol hormone then, you may experience weight gain, especially in your face and belly, fatty deposits between your shoulder blades, muscle weakness in your upper arms and thighs, weak bones or fractures, high blood pressure, and high blood sugar which can turn into type 2 diabetes, wide, purple stretch marks on your belly.

5. Be happy and positive • Dopamine

: The Happy hormone that drives your brain’s reward system. • Serotonin: The mood hormone that can be boosted by regular exercise. • Oxytocin: The love hormone that can be boosted by being loved or loving Someone. • Estrogen, testosterone, and Progesterone: Imbalanced hormones can affect mood, stress hormones such as cortisol, interfere with secretion, action, and function of two happy hormones

6. Maintain a healthy gut environment

: Take prebiotics (cooked onion, asparagus, green bananas, chicory root, artichokes, dandelion green and oats) and probiotics (fermented coconut/ Greek yoghurt, kimchi, sauerkraut, kombucha and kefir drinks) Your gut health and balanced hormone are closely linked, so your imbalanced hormones often begin in your gut. Because your gut microbiome controls 70-80% of your immune system, which can lead to hormone imbalances and autoimmune conditions.

7. Healthy relationship

: Many studies show that being in a good relationship is linked to less cortisol production, the stress hormone. A healthy relationship is essential in your life, helping emotional support or probably the main reason you may feel happy.

8. Consume good fats or try Mediterranean Diet

: It’s essential for hormone production and maintenance of proper hormone function that certain fats such as Omega-3 help rebuild cells and stabilise hormones.

9. Enjoy the sunlight every morning

: The release of serotonin hormone is associated with boosting mood and helping a person feel calm and focused.

10. “Me” Time

: It helps your busy brain to unwind from stress, giving you a better night’s sleep, controlling your moods and patience, and focusing on living in the moment.

 Are you communicating well with the universe? Why does this always happen to me? I hope you don’t repeat the same mistake. Everything you are doing present moment, it’s rebalancing what you or the universe needs. What are you enjoying about being in this world? I hope we are more grateful, respectful, kind and patient to each other. Because we’ve never known what they have been through in their life.