Help Me Balance My Hormones
Unbalances in hormones have become a common problem for modern women.
Unfortunately, the 24/7 world you live in makes it harder and harder to keep your hormones balanced. So, it’s become almost normal for women to experience any number of the following symptoms…
• Acne
• Premenstrual moodiness, irritability, anger, teariness
• Period pain
• Heavy periods
• No periods
• Irregular periods
• Breast tenderness
• Miscarriages
• Infertility
And the solutions conventional medicine has for hormone imbalance problems are not what you’d call solutions at all. Their solutions are the oral contraceptive pill (OCP), implant or Mirena IUD.
And despite what they tell you, these options don’t rebalance your hormones. These options might relieve your symptoms, but they don’t fix the hormonal imbalance. Once you stop the treatment, your symptoms will return and possibly be worse than before.
The reason for this is that hormonal contraceptives stop you from ovulating. That’s why they are contraceptives. They suppress ovulation.
So, if you are taking the OCP or have an implant, the hormone levels from them override your natural levels and stop your follicles from maturing and releasing eggs. Which is great for contraception. But…
It screws up the natural signalling between your brain and your ovaries. Your brain gets used to not signalling your ovaries to make hormones. So when you stop the OCP or have the Implanont or Mirena removed, you don’t have a normal hormonal rhythm.
And this is why your period might not return or is irregular.
So, hormonal birth control is definitely not hormone-balancing.
The only way you can truly rebalance your hormones is with the right foods, vitamins, minerals and herbs. Natural things that restore health and proper ovarian function. Pharmaceutical drugs can’t do this.
But the real secret to rebalancing your hormones is not just willy-nilly trying different diets, herbs and nutritional supplements. You need to identify which of your hormones are out of balance.
Because there are different herbal and supplement protocols for different hormone imbalances.
For example, in a condition like Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS), there can be imbalances not just with testosterone but also with oestrogen and progesterone.
If you’re not getting a period or you get one very infrequently, then it could be because oestrogen is low. Or testosterone is high. Or, as is commonly the case, stress hormones have shut down your menstrual cycle.
So, as you can see, it’s not just your reproductive hormones that can be out of balance but your stress hormones, too. This isn’t surprising given how stressful normal modern life is.
You can get your hormones tested with a blood test, but as you might have already experienced, they often come back ‘normal’. This is because blood tests have been designed to identify disease. Your hormonal imbalances aren’t usually at a disease level, so the blood test doesn’t pick them up.
However, the GOOD NEWS is that there is a way to pinpoint your hormone imbalances with laser-like accuracy. You do this with saliva testing.
Just like your blood, your saliva has your hormones in it. But unlike blood, your saliva only contains the ‘active’ hormones. And it’s the active hormones that work on your cells. So, by measuring these ‘active’ hormones, you get a clearer picture of what is going on.
High morning cortisol
Low cortisol all day (adrenal fatigue)
High testosterone
Low progesterone and high normal testosterone
High testosterone, high oestrogens and low normal progesterone
So, as you can see, saliva testing really clarifies what’s going on with your hormones.
I get most of my patients to do saliva testing. It’s easy and painless. I give you the kit, and you do it in the privacy of your own home and then post it off.
When I get your results back, I will see your imbalances (testosterone, progesterone, oestrogen, cortisol) so I can design an individualised natural hormone rebalancing program for you to correct them.
The testing tells me exactly what foods, herbs, vitamins, minerals and other nutrients I need to include in my natural hormone balancing program to trigger my body to produce the optimal hormone level.
Once that happens, your mood stabilises, your period comes regularly, your skin clears up, your period pain disappears, and so on.
So, if you have symptoms of hormone imbalances and want to eliminate them naturally, contact us today to organize a Hormone Imbalance Assessment Consultation.
During your 60-minute consultation with me, we will thoroughly assess…
• Your current hormone imbalance symptoms
• Your diet and exercise habits
• Your previous medical, stress and lifestyle history
Then, we can determine what saliva tests you’ll need to do to identify, with laser-like accuracy, the hormonal imbalances causing your problems.
Once we have all this critical information, we can design your individualised plan to rebalance your hormones naturally.
