Restoring Hormonal Balance for Good Health
Hormonal imbalance does more than just make a person moody or emotional, and this is not exclusive to women in their menopausal years either. You may not be aware of this, but your hormones may be making you sick, or to be more precise, the imbalance of your hormones may be causing your health issues. Believe it or not, when some of your hormones are too high or too low, these will bring about illnesses that are either merely annoying or pretty serious.
The balance of your hormones is crucial to your overall wellbeing and a slight imbalance in any of the five major ones (estrogen, testosterone, thyroid, cortisol, and progesterone) that your body depends on can bring about both physical and mental health concerns. For example, women can experience rather extreme PMS when they have high estrogen levels. Another possible effect of an estrogen imbalance is weight gain and difficulty in losing weight.
It is not that difficult for a person to actually find themselves suffering from hormonal imbalance, particularly in this day and age when people are too busy to live a healthy and balanced life. Factors like the high levels of stress people experience every day, a sedentary lifestyle, and bad habits can also be blamed for this problem. Add to these poor food choices, and sleeping less due to a hectic schedule, and you have the perfect recipe for hormonal imbalance.
Can Getting Your Hormones Back On Track Help?
Before you even think about trying to get your hormones back in balance, you should first check with your doctor to know which ones need some adjusting. It’s just like trying to find out what ingredients are missing in a recipe – you need to find out what these are before adding them in to balance out what you are cooking. You cannot just indiscriminately add in whatever you think is missing.
Once your doctor tells you what is out of whack in your system, you can then begin the restoration process, and this can involve a few things. Your doctor can recommend specific treatments for you, if they feel that this can help get things back on track better, like hormone replacement therapy. You will also be told how to keep your hormones balanced by way of lifestyle changes.
Some of the things you need to avoid in order to keep yourself hormonal balance and in the pink of health include high alcohol intake, caffeine, lack of sleep, and stress. You also need to choose what you eat since your diet can and will dictate how healthy your body is and will be. You will also need to curtail bad habits like smoking and lazing around. You need to get up and exercise in order to get your body back in balance.
One of the things that may also be giving you problems with imbalanced hormones is the intake of the wrong supplements. You might not be aware of it, but you may actually be causing your own imbalance due to the ingestion of supplements that increase the levels of hormones that are already high enough or on even keel to begin with. Before taking any supplements, it is a good idea to ask your doctor for recommendations.
Taking your doctor’s advice, living a healthy lifestyle, and trying to steer clear of nasty habits will help you remove any of the problems brought about by hormonal imbalance. Avoiding these problems will also help you to avoid the more serious illnesses that come with such imbalances. These include diabetes (due to insulin imbalance), hypothyroidism (due to thyroid hormone reduction), and osteoporosis (prolonged lack of estrogen).
Sources:
http://www.foxnews.com/health/2013/07/02/are-your-hormones-making-sick.html
https://womeninbalance.org/about-hormone-imbalance/hormone-imbalance-restoration/
http://wellnessmama.com/5425/balance-hormones/
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2014/02/23/hormones.aspx
http://www.livestrong.com/article/152424-hormonal-imbalance-diseases/
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