Balance your Hormones Naturally
Updated: Aug 15, 2022
It's amazing how hormones can control your health and your life. Your hormones can regulate everything from sleep cycles to mood swings to libido to weight gain.
There are many phases of women's hormones as it fluctuates through the years.
Puberty, on average, starts around age 10 1/2 with the body making sex hormones (mostly estrogen), which assists in the physical change of a females body and sets the stage for child bearing.
The 20's & 30's are considered a woman's child bearing years and hormones are usually at an optimal balance for this. However, as early as 35 years old, the hormones can start dropping off and reducing estrogen levels putting a woman into the perimenopausal stage of life.
Perimenopause is when the hormones are fluctuating greatly. The body is giving giving an influx of estrogen as one last shot towards child bearing, yet really wants to taper off and go into menopause. It gives us the most symptoms of things like hot flashes, mood swings, irritability, sleep disturbances and wacky cycles, just to name a few.
Here are symptoms of having hormone imbalances:
High Estrogen (the most common)
Mood swings (usually more emotional, crying, or weeping)
Tender or lumpy (cystic) breasts
Hot Flashes
Fibroids
Endometriosis
Headaches
Weight gain
Hair loss
Decreased libido
Depression/Anxiety
Insomnia
Mental fog
Bloating
Having high estrogen over a period of time can lead to more serious conditions such as breast cancer, uterine cancer, ovarian cancer, thyroid diseases, blood clots, and heart disease.
High Progesterone
Achy legs
Drowsiness
Dizziness
Waking up groggy
Mood is 'on edge' or irritable/angry
Vaginal dryness
Water retention
Headaches
Depression/Anxiety
Having high progesterone over a period of time can lead to osteoperosis.
Low Testosterone
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