Hormone Hotbed

I’m sure you have noticed that ‘hormones’ are the new black in the health industry. Businesses are popping up, radio and TV ads are being filled, and people are left feeling better…’without having to do anything.’

Men are being urged to have their testosterone checked. Women are being lured in by the inability to lose weight and their loss of energy. And the beauty about them both is that people don’t have to change a thing.The treatment is to give hormones that are lacking or imbalanced. Seems easy, right? What’s the danger?

The danger is that messing with hormones without addressing the underlying reason the hormones are off is risky business. Hormones are what your nervous system uses to communicate in the body. If you want to understand your hormones, you have to understand your nervous system, specifically the autonomic side of it.

Stress environments release certain hormones. Healthy environments release certain others. If you live on the stress side of the nervous system, of course your hormones will be imbalanced. Stress hormones are for protection. These will literally tear your body apart to make sure you can breath another day.

Could you maybe, just maybe, have low energy as a result? What about decrease in libido? What about poor sleep? How about poor concentration and memory?

What’s the danger in just giving these hormones? You talk about deficiency as one of the route causes if illness. If I’m deficient in a hormone and then take it, it’s creating sufficiency, right?

Not exactly. Hormones are for communication. If you are low, your body will work and try to produce the necessary hormones. The ‘catch’ is that you have to give your body the required building blocks to produce these hormones. In other words, it’s how you eat, move, and think that will determine your level of success for producing hormone production.

If you are low in testosterone and are given testosterone, your body sees the abundance and says, ‘you’ve got enough, I can relax on the production.’ When you stop taking testosterone, the body has a hard time making it since it relied on an outside source.

It would be like a fully capable person that has been living off welfare suddenly getting cut off and told you have to go find a job. It’s not a pretty situation. To get someone that has been relying on hand outs for an income to suddenly be inspired for gainful employment is a lot of hard work.

Stress is something more than just an emotional response to life. There is physical stress like sitting all day at a computer. There is chemical stress like eating sugar. You can be as happy as can be but still be ‘stressed’ based on your other deficient and toxic lifestyle choices.

Where do you start when it comes to balancing hormones without taking hormones? Start by adding sufficiency, the stuff your body needs. Start by giving your body the building blocks of hormones, which are essential fatty acids.

1. Starting with EPA:DHA Omega 3s. Start with 4,000 mg/day. By increasing this fatty intake and sufficiency, you are moving your body from stressed to healthy.

2. Learn how to control fall for at least 30 minutes/day. I mean, walk at least 30 minutes/day. Don’t look at walking as exercise. Look at it as a required nutrient. This movement feeds the brain and enhances the growth, healing, and repair side of the nervous system.

3. Practice gratitude and aspire to inspire before you expire. Being grateful in your season of life will take the focus away from protection and give it to growth, changing the state of your nervous system and hormone communication.

Obviously there are many more steps to take towards sufficiency and purity to balance hormones. You just have to be honest with yourself if you want to take those steps or play victim to your hormones. In one scenario I can definitely help. The other, not-so-much.