Top 4 Hormones Every Woman Should Know

➡️ Are you in a plateau, struggling to see results, feeling out of sync with your body?
Do you want to work WITH your body to look & feel better?
Do you suspect some hormone issues or want to improve your fertility?

The answer lies in optimizing your HORMONES.

➡️ The 4 Hormone Systems Women Need to Know are: Blood Sugar, Thyroid, Adrenals & Sex Hormones.

1️⃣ Blood Sugar & Insulin: these are your metabolic hormones that are regulated by what and how often we eat, our stress, sleep and activity. Irregular blood sugar can pose stress in the body and causes an inflammatory response.

2️⃣ Thyroid: This is our body’s internal thermostat that regulates our metabolic burn, digestion, cognitive focus, mood, energy and more.

3️⃣ Adrenals: These glands produce adrenaline & cortisol, which regulate our stress response. Too much stress, with poor stress management, can pose serious threats to the other systems, such as decreased thyroid function, poor blood sugar management & wonky sex hormones.

4️⃣ Sex hormones: includes estrogen, progesterone & testosterone. Too little or too much of these can be linked back to other root issues, such as chronic stress, inflammation, deficiencies, gut and liver dysfunction.

➡️So when we look at results, it is not just about “eat less and move more”.

Overcoming hormone imbalances is a HUGE way I help my clients improve their health & optimize results!

I help women Look, Feel and Function at THEIR personal best using a whole body, functional medicine approach to health. Without using extremes or cookie cutter approaches, I provide the framework AND the support needed to create optimal energy, balanced hormones, and a body that you feel comfortable and confident in! Check out how to work with me here.

The Hormone Cycle

1) Adrenals produce cortisol -(the body’s stress hormone), aldosterone – (regulates blood pressure), and DHEA – (affects blood sugar).
Plus, the adrenals can also secrete some testosterone and estrogen as well have a direct interplay with the…
2) Thyroid (which produces inactive thyroid hormone T4 and active thyroid hormone T3) and…
3) Ovaries (which produce estrogen, testosterone, and progesterone)

Too much Cortisol produced by the adrenals directly blocks the conversion of inactive T4 to active T3, slowing metablic function. AND if your thyroid is SLOW, you can’t CLEAR excess cortisol... So it is vicious cycle.

Stress (in the form of inadequate energy intake, over-exercising, physical, perceived stress, etc.) will negatively affect ovulation. Stress can impact the detoxification of estrogen leading to estrogen excess.

Our stress levels (how much and how we respond to it) directly affects the rest of the systems. When we aren’t addressing this, it creates chronic inflammation & internal health problems.

You can read more about that here.

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So you can see that the hormone systems that ALL work together to affect your physiology, health and results. None of these organs/glands and their hormones work solo by themselves. If you’re working on one area, you should also look at it’s connection to the others.

Not looking at hormones and the whole body is exactly why so many people fail to achieve their weight-loss goals. Their metabolism slows down as their body systems are completely overwhelmed with different types of stress.

When I first start with clients that want to improve their hormones (and results) we look at these 4 areas & specifically start with the adrenals/stress load and current lifestyle.

➡️ Curious about these 4 hormone systems & using a holistic approach to better results?

I specialize in helping moms and busy women reshape their body, improve their energy and balance their hormones, using a holistic approach versus quick fixes, so that they can have confidence in their body and abilities!

View my Women’s Wellness Academy Program here.

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