What You Need to Know About Hormones & How to Balance them. This is for men too!

​How to support PMS, menopause symptoms, PCOS, prostate health, acne and prevent hormonal cancers.

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Hormones — such as estrogen, testosterone, adrenaline and insulin, are extremely important chemical messengers that affect many aspects of your overall health. That’s why a hormonal imbalance can be problematic, so you want to make sure you know how to balance hormones. 

What are hormones?
Hormones are molecules produced by the endocrine system that send messages to various parts of the body. They help regulate your body’s processes, like hunger,  blood pressure, temperature, mood, sleep and sexual desire. While hormones are essential to reproduction, they are fundamental to all the systems of your body.  Hormones are released from glands in your endocrine system. They tell your body how to breathe and how to expend energy.  Hormones flow through the whole body, but only affect certain cells designed to receive their messages. Hormones and hormone receptor sites work together like a lock and a key. 

What do hormones do in my body?   
All bodies experience hormonal shifts constantly throughout the day.  When you eat a meal, the pancreas produces the hormone insulin to help regulate blood sugar. When you slam on the brakes to avoid a car collision, your adrenal glands pump out the hormone adrenaline (epinephrine) to help you act quickly. Your pineal gland works to produce the hormone melatonin to help you get restful sleep at night.
When hormones aren’t balanced correctly, an endocrine disorder can be to blame. Having too much of a hormone (also known as hyper-function) or not having enough of a hormone (known as hypo-function), can cause problems. 

Hormonal imbalance can cause: 

• Diabetes/Obesity
• Thyroid disorders (e.g. hypothyroidism, hyperthyroidism)
• Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS)   
• Cancer - any cancer, but more often breast, ovarian and thyroid
• Adrenal insufficiency or overactive adrenals 

Tiny but mighty, our bodies depend on hormones to function. Some people are more sensitive to hormones than others. This might explain why some people suffer from premenstrual syndrome or postpartum depression, while others aren’t bothered at all by the hormonal changes of menstruation and pregnancy. 

SOME SYMPTOMS OF HORMONAL IMBALANCE
- Depression/Anxiety 
- Brain fog
- Fatigue
- Insomnia
- Weight gain or loss, water retention
- Appetite loss or lack of satiety
- Pain/inflammation
- High Blood Pressure/Low Blood Pressure

WHAT YOU CAN DO TO BALANCE YOUR HORMONES

• Get enough sleep.  8 hours is extremely important! Get to bed between 10:00 & 10:30 helps you get into deeper sleep and allows your adrenal glands to regenerate.  Your stress and hunger hormones will balance.
• Manage STRESS.  Laugh lots and have fun. Stress causes hormonal imbalance and inflammation, and that causes disease.  
• EXERCISE...it helps to increase hormone levels, if lacking and also to balance them.
• Eat 3 meals a day spaced out 5-6 hours.  This allows your insulin to come ALL the way down and it takes this long to do that. Your insulin is then able to fully balance, which directly impacts hormonal balancing.  Don't eat past 9:00 pm or within 2 hours of going to bed.  When you eat before bed your body is busy digesting all night long and isn't able to rest and heal.  
• Eat balanced meals.  Get a good protein source in, healthy fats, (organic extra virgin olive oil, organic cold-pressed flaxseed oil, ground organic flaxseeds, avocados, walnuts), lots of organic veggies, and berries. *FATS HELP TO BUILD HORMONES.
• Eat lots of cruciferous vegetables.  Broccoli, asparagus, cauliflower, kale, arugula all help to balance hormones naturally.
• Make sure to get enough protein in your diet and reduce unrefined carbs and the amount.  Protein helps to balance blood sugar. Too much carbohydrates/sugars will spike insulin, causing a spike in estrogens, then they drop, causing low estrogen symptoms (weight gain, hot flashes, fatigue, and overall hormonal imbalance) 
• Cut processed sugars out of your diet.  They cause inflammation which is the cause of all disease but it also causes high insulin, and that causes hormonal imbalance.  
• Take supportive supplements for hormones, stress and overall health. 

SUPPORTIVE SUPPLEMENTS TO HELP BALANCE HORMONES
​#1 - DIM     "NATURALLY BALANCES HORMONES"
Great for PMS, menopause/all symptoms, PCOS, prostate health, prevent and support breast, ovarian, thyroid and prostate cancers, great for acne, and weight loss.
Diindolylmethane (DIM) is a compound created when you digest cruciferous vegetables, such as broccoli or Brussels sprouts. DIM supplements are very high doses of cruciferous vegetables. Research suggests that DIM affects estrogen levels in your body, helping to balance them, preventing estrogen dominance.  HELPS a variety of hormone-related conditions, including acne, menopause symptoms, prostate issues, and certain forms of cancer such as breast, ovarian and thyroid cancers.

• Probiotics - REMEMBER...if your gut isn't healthy, your body will not be healthy and cannot heal. There is a gut mind connection.  When your gut isn't healthy, your mind will not be healthy. We make some serotonin in our gut as well as our brain.  
• Vitamin D3 - Is a HORMONE!  We need it for our brain to function well, and stress hormones to do what they need.  
• Vitamin C - helps with stress, hormones and energy.  
• Zinc - besides preventing colds and flues and relieving sore throats, and acne, zinc helps against STRESS...of any kind!  . 
• Omegas - Helps to support your gonads (sex hormones)
• Pure Genomics Multi (Pure Encapsulations) - An optimum dose multi with B complex which increases energy in our cells and STRESS).  It also has high dose zinc and selenium, which supports thyroid and adrenal health, directly affecting our stress hormones.  It also has high amounts of beta carotene to build the immune system to help prevent flues, colds, cancer etc. YOU ONLY NEED 1/DAY. 
• NAC (N-Acetyl Cystein) -  NAC is a potent antioxidant. It is the precursor to glutathione, the most powerful antioxidant made by the body, and is a rich source of sulfur, a mineral needed to make some vitamins, hormones, and tissue.

 
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PMS, Menopause symptoms, acne, PCOS, prostate issues, prevents  and supports hormonal cancers...breast, ovarian, thyroid, prostate, & helps with weight loss.    

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