These are all clues that can suggest hormonal imbalance.
For example, fatigue and difficulty sleeping suggest problems with the adrenals, the glands that produce stress hormones.
Peri-menopausal and menstrual issues suggest imbalances with estrogen, progesterone, and testosterone, the sex hormones.
Weight gain and fatigue are often a combination of all three of these hormonal imbalances.
But weight gain may also suggest a diet with too many sweets and starches.
Carbohydrate-intolerance, meaning the hormone insulin isnt working properly, is too often the culprit.
So heres where to start:
1.
Cut back wayback on the sweets and starches.
Too many can set your hormones on a wild ride.
Even better:eliminate sweets and starches altogether for two weeksto see how your body reacts.
Try reducing your grains, legumes and high sugar fruits for two weeks.
You may unknowingly be carbohydrate-intolerant.
Eat more healthy fats.
(And let go of fat-phobia.)
Be good to your microbiome.
This will not only keep digestion and elimination running smoothly, but help hormone function too.
Here are15 more ways to be good to your microbiome.)
Avoid reactive, inflammatory foods.
Aim to sleep more and better.
A more rapidly aging body and brain.
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Shoot for 7 to 8 hours a night to enable your hormones to do their job.
Cool it on the stimulants.
In fact, they interfere with optimal hormonal function.
Train yourself to unwind in ways that enhance healthy hormone function.
If its an anti-inflammatory diet, hell do that.
Hes looking at the body as a system rather than looking at isolated things.
In addition to his practice, he is also an instructor in mbg’sFunctional Nutrition Program.
