Hormone Imbalance in Women: Brief Overview

♧Hormones are very important chemicals your body produces to regulate various functions. Reproductive functions in women are regulated.

♧These hormones work by sending signals and messages to various organs and tissues that are responsive for reproduction.

♧When they work peacefully, your body behaves in a predictable way. But when there is a problem in their level and function, like there is too much or too little of any one hormone, then imbalance occurs.

♧Most times this can happen without any signs and even a particular cause.

1. #Symptoms

Can present as:

•       Depression

•       Extreme fatigue

•        Weariness

•        Allergies

•       Endometriosis

•       Hair loss and probably facial hair growth

•       Osteoporosis

•       Irregular menses

•       Painful menses

•       Acne

•       Night sweats

•       Hot flushes

•       Loss of libido

•       Mood swing

•       Headaches and migraines

•       Weight gain

These are the few symptoms of hormone imbalance.

These symptoms if ignored in the initial stages can grow worse as time goes by.

• 1. Incorrect relationship between progesterone and estrogen levels in the woman’s body. These are the two key hormones that must coexist peacefully in a perfect balance, and any variations and changes in this perfect balance will start to have a dramatic effect on the woman’s health, leading to imbalance.

•  2.Taking the Pill, a contraceptive and birth control medication.

•  3.Infection

•  4.Extreme weight loss

•  5. Anorexia

•  6.Extreme sports

•  7.Too much of stress.

• 8.Malnutrition

• 9.Environmental reasons, including pollution, poisons.

• 10.Surgeries

• 11. Consumption of animal products with estrogen

• 12. Over nutrition

•13. Early-onset menopause

•14. Ovarian failure

• 15. Thyroid disorders

3. #Preventing Hormonal Imbalance

•1. Controlling diet or exercise regimes.

• 2. Healthy lifestyle

• 3. Processed foods should be avoided as much as possible because they contain chemicals that can interfere with the production of the two important hormones.

• 4. A good diet beneficial to hormonal balance should be composed of foods that are rich in omega-3 and omega-6 acids.

•  5. Fohow drugs are used to correct hormonal imbalance in women.