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Understanding Hormones
Hormones are chemical messengers produced by various glands in our bodies. They are responsible for transmitting signals and regulating the functions of different organs and tissues. These powerful substances are secreted into the bloodstream and travel to specific target cells, where they bind to receptors and initiate specific actions.
The other way round, you look so old. What happens to you? That means you still have a little chance to be beautiful again if someone is telling the truth.
It's never too late.
You haven’t seen someone in a while. People will comment on your look, and I hope you see someone is honest rather than telling a white lie. The truth is always hurtful, but it can be the last chance to be beautiful again.
Now, it’s your choice to look healthy and young or old.
What is your choice?
What is the hormone?
We have over 50 hormones have been identified in the human body.
Hormones travel in your bloodstream to organs or tissues and communicate as chemical messengers to regulate many physiological processes and behavioural activities such as digestion, metabolism, sleep, excretion, growth, reproduction and mood.
It’s not an exaggeration to say that hormones are the primary key to your whole-body system from born to death.
6 essential hormones you need to know
1. Melatonin
: Melatonin involves your internal body clock as the sunrise, preparing you to awake and get ready for sleep when the sun goes down.
Benefits: Managing immune function, blood pressure, cortisol levels, regeneration, and antioxidant action
2. Insulin
: Insulin is the primary anabolic hormone produced in the pancreas, which helps to move glucose into your cells to use as energy.
Main functions: Regulating glucose level, body’s metabolism of carbohydrates, fats, and proteins, storing glucose in your liver, muscles and fat
3. Estrogen
: Estrogen is the sex hormone that regulates the female reproductive system, female characteristics and sex drive and is primarily produced in a woman’s ovaries.
When you have imbalanced estrogen, you may experience
1. Irregular or no menstruation,
2. More severe PMS or menopausal symptoms,
3. Hot flashes, night sweat, 4. Mood swings, sleeping problems,
5. Weight gain, low sexual drive,
6. Fatigue, depression, or dry skin.
4. Testosterone
: Testosterone is also called the primary sex hormone that regulates the male reproductive system, sexual drive, and secondary male characteristics such as increased muscle, bone mass and the growth of body hair.
When you have low or imbalanced testosterone, you may have low energy, fatigue, low interest in exercise or movement, feeling sadness, depression, troubles with memory or concentration, and lowered motivation and self-confidence.
5. Cortisol
: Cortisol is the primary stress hormone produced by adrenal glands, which increases sugars in your bloodstream, enhances your brain’s usage of glucose and increases the availability of substances that repair tissues.
When you have high cortisol, you may experience as below.
- Weight gain, especially in your face, belly, and fatty deposits between your shoulder blades
- Muscle weakness in your upper arms and thighs, weak bones or fractures
- High blood pressure and high blood sugar can turn into type 2 diabetes
- Wide, purple stretch marks on your belly
6. Catecholamine
: Catecholamines include dopamine, epinephrine(adrenaline), and norepinephrine(noradrenaline) which respond to emotional or physical stress. Catecholamines are produced mainly through your adrenal glands located above your kidneys.
When you have a high in adrenaline, you may experience anxiety, a rapid heartbeat, heart palpitations, shaking, high blood pressure, sweating, a pale face, or weight loss.
What is the hormonal belly?
Are you getting fat, especially around your belly?
Hormones help regulate many human body functions such as metabolism, sex drive, mood manipulation and hunger.
You may have an imbalanced hormone called a hormonal belly.
10 symptoms when you have an imbalanced hormone *Tick your symptoms*
Slow or rapid heartbeat
Fatigue
Constipation or diarrhea or more frequent bowel movement
Unexplained weight gain or loss
Depression or anxiety
Higher than normal blood cholesterol levels
Numbness and tingling in your hands
Low sexual drive
Insomnia
Hair loss
10 Natural Ways you can improve your Hormone Balance
1. Sleep well
Maintaining a balanced melatonin hormone that plays a role in sleep
: Quality sleep will give you a younger look because your body system increases collagen production, essential to healthy skin and cellular repair, managing immune function, blood pressure, cortisol levels, regeneration, and antioxidant action during sleep.
*Turning off your electronics, such as a mobile phone 2 hours before bed can help stimulate melatonin production, which will help you to fall asleep*
2. Moderate Diet
: Gaining weight is directly associated with hormonal imbalances, essential to maintain the ideal weight and balanced diet to prevent insulin resistance and diabetes.
3. Regular Exercise
: Many studies show that the main benefit of regular exercise is reducing insulin resistance and increasing insulin sensitivity. Being physically active can improve your brain health, strengthen bones and muscles, and reduce the risk factors for diabetes, obesity, and heart disease.
4. Stress management
: When you are under a high level of stress, your body system will produce cortisol hormone then, you may experience weight gain, especially in your face and belly, fatty deposits between your shoulder blades, muscle weakness in your upper arms and thighs, weak bones or fractures, high blood pressure, and high blood sugar which can turn into type 2 diabetes, wide, purple stretch marks on your belly.
5. Be happy
Dopamine is the happy hormone that drives your brain’s reward system.
Serotonin is the mood hormone that can be boosted by doing regular exercise.
Oxytocin is a hormone that can be boosted by being loved or loving someone.
Estrogen, testosterone, and Progesterone: Imbalanced hormones can affect mood and stress hormones such as cortisol and interfere with the secretion, action, and function of two happy hormones.
6. Maintain a healthy gut environment
Take prebiotics ( cooked onion, asparagus, green bananas, chicory root, artichokes, dandelion green and oats) and probiotics ( fermented coconut/ Greek yoghurt, kimchi, sauerkraut, kombucha and kefir drinks)
Your gut health and balanced hormone are closely linked, so your imbalanced hormones often begin in your gut.
Therefore your gut microbiome controls 70-80% of your immune systems, which can lead to hormone imbalances and autoimmune conditions.
7. Healthy relationship
: Many studies show that being in a good relationship is linked to less production of cortisol which is the stress hormone.
A healthy relationship is essential in your life, helping emotional support or probably the main reason you may feel happy.
8. Consume good fats or try Mediterranean Diet
: It’s essential for hormone production and maintenance of proper hormone function that certain fats such as Omega-3 help rebuild cells and stabilise hormones.
9. Enjoy the sunlight every morning
: The release of serotonin hormone is associated with boosting mood, helping a person feel calm and focused resulting in a quality night’s sleep.
10. “Me” Time
: It helps your busy brain to unwind from stress, giving you a better night’s sleep, controlling your moods and patience, and focusing on living in the moment resulting in producing more happy hormones and fewer stress hormones.
Are you able to connect with the universe?
Why do bad things always happen to me? I hope you learn from your mistakes and don’t repeat them. Everything you do helps the universe bring balance and harmony to your life. What do you enjoy about being in this world?
“I hope we can all be more grateful, respectful, kind, and patient towards each other. We should remember that we may not know what others have been through in their lives. Small acts of kindness can brighten someone’s day.”
You can check your calories, how much you need and how to calculate your target calories to manage your weight.
In addition, you can find how vital drinking water is, taking fibre, or checking other diet methods such as the keto diet, Mediterranean diet, intermittent fasting, dash diet, mind diet and paleo diet.
