Top 3 Ways to Balance Hormones
Hormones are powerful chemical messengers that circulate through your bloodstream to specific target cells where they generate a wide range of biological responses. Think of hormones as the "prime movers" of your physical and emotional well-being.
Every time you get angry, become tired, laugh, cry, wake up, feel hungry, or fall asleep your body is responding to hormones. That's because hormone levels can impact virtually every major system and organ in your body.
Here’s the tricky thing about hormones though: they can be thrown out of balance by multiple causes. These include anemia, blood sugar swings, gut inflammation, food intolerance (especially gluten), essential fatty acid deficiencies, environmental toxins, and of course, chronic emotional and psychological stress.
All of these conditions must be addressed or any attempt to correct hormone imbalance will either fail or be only partially successful. With that in mind, here are the top 3 ways to support hormone balance:
Hormone balancing is a complex issue but if you start to incorporate these top 3 tips into your daily life you will be far better off.
Every time you get angry, become tired, laugh, cry, wake up, feel hungry, or fall asleep your body is responding to hormones. That's because hormone levels can impact virtually every major system and organ in your body.
Here’s the tricky thing about hormones though: they can be thrown out of balance by multiple causes. These include anemia, blood sugar swings, gut inflammation, food intolerance (especially gluten), essential fatty acid deficiencies, environmental toxins, and of course, chronic emotional and psychological stress.
All of these conditions must be addressed or any attempt to correct hormone imbalance will either fail or be only partially successful. With that in mind, here are the top 3 ways to support hormone balance:
- Stabilize blood sugar via a moderate or low-carb diet
- Practice stress management and relaxation techniques. This means to have fun, laugh and make exercise a regular part of your life. You may also want to research meditation techniques
- Avoid dietary causes of inflammation. Refined flours, high-fructose corn syrup and industrial seed oils in particular and the big ones are soybean, canola, sunflower, safflower, corn, peanut and cottonseed oils
Hormone balancing is a complex issue but if you start to incorporate these top 3 tips into your daily life you will be far better off.