How To Naturally Balance Your Hormones

How To Naturally Balance Your Hormones

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Date:- 2018-05-07 00:00:00

Hormones are body’s chemical messengers that are secreted by various glands and organs including thyroid, adrenals, pituitary, ovaries, testicles and pancreas. Produced in the endocrine glands. These powerful chemicals such as estrogen,testosterone, adrenaline and insulin are extremely important and travel around your bloodstream to control the health of  body’s major processes, including metabolism and reproduction. Each of your hormones has its own unique job to do, but each hormone depends on information that’s communicated to it from other hormones in order to carry out its tasks.

Hormones affect on overall health if concentration more or less than actually it is. This may lead to a hormone imbalance that responds to changes and can have serious effects throughout your whole body.

A highly-stress lifestyle and improper dietary factors can wreak havoc hormonal balance of a human. Hormones are produced in a complex process, but depend on beneficial fats and cholesterol, so lack of these factors in a diet may find glitches in their hormones. People who have improved diet, started exercising but are still not losing weight, it seems that all in having a common problem i.e. hormone imbalance.

Hormones are responsible for many of your body’s major processes. When hormones get out of balance, the symptoms can be extremely varied. Hormonal imbalance can cause a variety of serious complications, so it’s important to seek treatment as soon as possible. There are many safe and effective natural remedies you can start incorporating right away to promote hormone balance.

 

Common symptoms of hormone imbalance at any life stage include:

•           Bloating

•           Midsection weight gain, despite eating healthy and exercising

•           Acne, especially around the chin, mouth and jawline

•           Fatigue, despite sleeping 7-8 hours each night

•           Irritability

•           Depression

•           Anxiety

•           Sugar cravings

•           Constipation

•           Abdominal cramping

•           Painful periods

•           PMS symptoms: cravings, depression, irritability, breast tenderness

•           Frequent headaches

 

The Mentioned Ways to Naturally Balance Hormones

 

Eat Healthy Fats:

Short, medium and long- chain fatty acids in foods is a key to keeping your hormones in a proper range. Your body needs various types of fats to create hormones, including saturated fat and cholesterol. The body can synthesize these fats and it also needs from the diet. However, two essential fatty acids, linoleic and alpha-linolenic , are not synthesized in the body and must be obtained from food. The fats found in these essential fatty acids are omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids. These are important in the normal functioning of all the tissues. It helps to keep inflammation at low levels, boost metabolism and promote weight loss.

The good sources of anti-inflammatory, healthy fats include: coconut oil, avocados, grass-fed butter. Coconut oil has natural anti-bacterial and fat- burning effects. Avocado helps in improving heart health, controlling appetite and contributing to a daily intake of fiber and nutrients such as potassium.

Omega-3 fatty acids are also known to keep inflammation low and perform cognitive functions. Intake omega-3 fatty acids in your diet protects the brain from any nervous damage and reduce pro-inflammatory responses. Omega-3 fatty acids are derived from linolenic acid. The principal omega-3 is alpha- linolenic acid (ALA). For example, wild fish, chia seeds, flax seed, walnuts and grass-fed animal products.

Omega-6 fats are derived from linoleic acid and are found in sunflower, safflower, corn, soybean, cottonseed, sesame, canola. A less common omega-6 fatty acid, gamma-linolenic acid has anti-inflammatory effects along with disease fighting  properties. GLA can be found in rare oils like borage, evening primrose, hemp oil.

 

Avoid toxins and increase your fiber diet from fruits and vegetables:

Protect your life from harmful chemicals and filled your life with non-toxic products everyday. To take a significant diet, it is necessary to avoid toxins in food. It can disrupt your metabolism. Some toxins to avoid nicotine, caffeine, BHT (Butylated Hydroxytoluene), BHA( Butylated hydroxyanisole), rBGH(recombinant Bovine Growth Hormone), BPA(Bisphenol-A), brominated vegetable oil, artificial food coloring dyes. These toxins  increase the number of fat cells in your body and decrease the calories you burn, few of them are carcinogenic and change the lifestyle, Your body requires more food to eat, your body becomes helpless to manage hunger

Fibers found in fruits, grains, nuts, beans and vegetables. A high-fiber diet is necessary for a healthy life and keeping to reduce the risk of various diseases like heart diseases, diabetes, constipation and colon cancer. Fiber is important for a healthy digestive system slows the absorption of sugars found in carbohydrates consumed and for lowering cholesterol.

Fiber can actually help keep you youthful. This simple substance shows a powerful effect on he. Water-soluble fiber binds to bile acids, substances produced by the liver that help in digestion because water-soluble fibers absorb water during digestion that results in stool bulk and fat absorption due to pulls off cholesterol from the blood and may improve blood sugar levels in people. The best sources of soluble fiber are oats, dried beans, fruits such as apples, oranges, grapefruit, vegetables, legumes such as dried beans, lentils and peas.

 

Get the proper amount of sleep :

A lack of sleep contributing to a hormone imbalance and it is the worst condition that disrupts your work schedule and affects your daily working activity. It is necessary to take 8 hours of restful sleep every night that is in favors of your body and making time for the activities you perform daily. If you feel restrict in getting proper sleep then you are in a state of stress. This gives a negative effect on your hormones. Cortisol and adrenaline, the primary “stress hormone” is regulated at midnight. Therefore, people who go to bed late never truly get a break from their sympathetic flight/fight stress response. Body is equipped to handle moderate amount of stress. When cortisol is constantly released into your bloodstream as a response to stress, it can upset the balance between the rest of your hormones. Having high levels of cortisol is never a good thing. Not only does it also responds adrenal glands  that produce stress hormones, but it continually sends signals to your body that you’re in danger. The continuous release of cortisol can also lead to stress making fat. Therefore, to manage your stress levels, yours sleep won’t get affected.

 

Throw out vegetable oils and using essentials oils :

Many women have great success with using essential oils for hormone balance and to alleviate cramping, PMS and other symptoms. Using essential oils safely can help alleviate the struggles of PMS and even helping hormones balance over time.

Clary Sage : Clary sage is a powerhouse when it comes to helping women. It is wonderful for alleviating pain, reducing the feeling of stress, and improving hormone balance. It has unique hormone like components that help to balance out estrogen production in the body. It helps in reducing PMS, menstrual cramps, relieving pain.

Lavender : The inhalation of lavender can alleviate depression and emotional symptoms of PMS. It  has beneficial properties including balancing hormones, offering pain relief in abdominal region associated with cramps, PMS and menstrual symptoms, headaches, decreasing stress and depression.

 

Natural remedies and supplements :

There are many nutritional supplements that claim to treat menopause and hormone imbalance. Many of these supplements contain plant-derived hormones. These are sometimes called “bioidentical” hormones because they chemically resemble the body’s natural hormones. There is no evidence to suggest that they work better than regular hormone therapy. Some people find that yoga helps treat symptoms of hormonal imbalance. Yoga is excellent for your strength, flexibility, and balance. It may also help you lose weight, which can help regulate your hormones.

 

You can also make the following natural remedies that changes lifestyle :

 Lose weight : A 10 percent reduction in body weight in women can make your periods more regular and increase your chances of getting pregnant. In men, weight loss may help improve erectile function.

 Eat well : A balanced diet is an important part of overall health.

Avoid hot flashes : Try to identify things that commonly trigger hot flashes, like warm temperatures, spicy foods, or hot beverages.

It’s sometimes necessary to supplement in order to fill nutritional voids that can be leading to a hormone imbalance. Here, some supplements given below:

Evening primrose oil : Evening primrose oil contains omega-6 fatty acids, such as LA and GLA, that support overall hormonal function. Supplementing with evening primrose oil can help to relieve premenstrual and PCOS symptoms. It also maintains total cholesterol level in blood.   

Vitamin D : Vitamin D almost acts like a hormone inside the body and has important implications for keeping inflammation levels low. This is why people who live in dark areas supplement with vitamin D efficiently. Sunshine is really the best way to optimize vitamin D levels because your bare skin actually makes vitamin D on its own when exposed to even small amounts of direct sunlight. 

 

The right way of exercise :

Adding gentle exercise like yoga to your routine to start, rather than intense exercise like high-intensity interval training, which can initially cause more physical stress to your body, promoting the release of even more cortisol.  You can engage in personal reflection and taking time for yourself. Practicing meditation or healing prayer can be extremely beneficial, and so can deep breathing exercises, spending time outdoors and exercising every day. 

Hormones are responsible for many of your body’s major processes. When hormones get out of balance, the symptoms can be extremely varied. Hormonal imbalance can cause a variety of serious complications, so it’s important to seek treatment as soon as possible. There are many safe and effective natural remedies you can start incorporating right away to promote hormone balance.

Since hormones are directly involved in how you feel on a day to day basis, the benefits of balancing hormones naturally are endless. Therefore, it is necessary to maintain hormones in equilibrium. You can expect refreshing mood, enhancing energy, detoxifying skin, improved digestion and a greater sense of well-being overall.