Hormonal Issues
Hormonal imbalances
Burn outs, multiple stressors from life challenges, food sensitivities or allergies, bacterial or microbial imbalances, digestive issues, viruses over achievements, genetic factors, puberty or menopause, elevated blood sugar or insulin resistance, environmental stressors can all contribute to on going hormonal imbalances that can turn into full diseases or major discomforts.
Examples of major hormonal imbalance
Menopause & peri
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Menopause is not a “medical event”
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What felt like an optimal lifestyle *before* is likely not going to serve you best now at all. So the body is asking you to be open to change.
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Moving from an ovary-dominant phase of life to an adrenal-dominant phase of life imbalances what women have been ignoring/tolerating in the past years and pre existent dormant symptoms worsen and become impossible to ignore now.
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This is an opportunity for awareness and growth vs. a frustrating, annoying, disruptive time of life.
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Cortisol blocks the sex hormones when stressed hence low progesterone (peri menopause) leading to relative oestrogen dominance in the first stages.
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Hot flashes are NOT a sign of low hormones but a sign of hormonal imbalances.
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Functional medicine has many simple tools to help you thrive during these rocking years.
PCOS
Here are the mechanics behind the disease. Together we will address the symptoms and offer natural solutions.
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PCOS is affecting more and more young women as a result of high insulin stimulating diets (high in refined carbohydrates, sugars) and high toxic exposure in modern society (both in utero and life-long).
High insulin causes ovaries to make testosterone which reduces the level of progesterone and creates a mix of high testosterone and oestrogen dominance with low progesterone that is produced when proper ovulation occurs.
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Women with PCOS are more likely to get hormonal cancer.
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High insulin drives high body fat which spawns earlier menses and overall higher oestrogen levels throughout. Use of contraceptives hormones to “fix” PCOS may make this issue worse long-term.
Typically, women with PCOS do not ovulate, so there is no trigger to produce protective progesterone. Thus, they are more vulnerable to that higher oestrogen!
Enlarged Prostate & low testosterone
The most common root cause of benign prostate enlargement is a high-glycemic diet that is promoting insulin resistance.
The downstream symptoms can be low libido. weight gain. fatigue. prostate enlargement and prostate cancer.
Many concurrent lifestyle changes with a low carbohydrate diet addressing food intolerances and multiple stressors will reverse the symptoms quickly.
It needs to be addressed the earlier possible.
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