How to balance hormones naturally

Hormone Balancing

With women’s health challenges such as menstruation imbalances, menopausal side effects and infertility affecting such a large percentage of women in society, it is very important to ask why.

And more importantly: it is essential to know how to balance hormones naturally and energetically.

Let us explore this more.

Women’s Health

The scientific approach to women’s health is quite a recent thing. 

In the 1990s, attention was brought to light on how women’s health care has been lacking and should have an increased invested focus. This initiated an important transformation at the core of society for a change of regulations to bring equality into women’s health challenges.

Feminine Energetics

This much-needed transformation has brought to light how lacking balanced feminine energetics is in society.

It is a reemerging energy that needs lots of nurturing and expression to find its place in society and within us as women.

Bearing this in mind, it is not surprising bearing this in mind that Endometriosis affects roughly 10% (190 million) of reproductive age women and girls globally.

The current data shows that between 48 million couples and 186 million individuals have infertility globally.

This is not surprising as almost every woman who books a session has infertility or menstrual imbalances.

Sometimes the menstrual imbalance is unpleasant but does not affect functioning so it is not the foremost concern of the sessions. Many accept it as a normal part of their life when it is an imbalance.

There is a massive amount of healing that is desperately needed for women and the divine feminine.

Let us explore more about this.

What are Hormones

Hormones can be thought of as messengers of a chemical nature that alter the ecosystem they are a part of.

They move between different glands, organs and tissues in the body, relaying very important messages in the body from one part to the next. 

This allows for the coordination and functioning of different components within the body.

These hormones form what is known as the endocrine system.

How do Hormones work?

Hormones affect much of the body’s functioning and allow for many important bodily processes to occur.

Hormones can be thought of as tiny messengers being sent from one place to another with specific keys. 

If the key fits, then the door is opened and the process can begin.

This can either be a release of the chemical needed to initiate a process in another area of the body or it can be to regulate, increase or decrease, how much chemical is within the body.

Hormones in action

Hormones are the cornerstone of our functioning and do what we need to function.

Adrenaline is there to send an instinctive message to slam on the brakes when a car jumps a stop street.

The pancreas produces insulin which helps to regular sugar levels when we have a meal, providing a stable internal environment.

Melatonin from the pituitary helps for a peaceful sleep allowing a deeply refreshing rest. 

What are female hormones?

There are many different hormones that not only affect our everyday functioning but affect us as women. 

These hormones regulate our cycles and fertility.

Let us explain two of them here:  estrogen and progesterone

These hormones are not consistent during the month, they change as a women’s cycle does.

Estrogen

Estrogen is the hormone most associated with women’s health.

It is produced mostly in the ovaries but the adrenal and fat cells can produce them in minuscule amounts too. 

Estrogen is a central component of the reproductive and sexual development and helps to govern:

• puberty
• menstruation
• pregnancy
• menopause

Although Estrogen affects these processes, they affect other areas of the body as well, including the brain, cardiovascular system, hair, musculoskeletal system, skin and urinary tract.

Progesterone

Progesterone is another female sex hormone produced by the ovaries.

Progesterone is important for pregnancy but also it regulates oestrogen.

What causes hormonal imbalances

Hormonal imbalances can be from within the body’s coding

• It can be passed down through Genes
• It can be autoimmune
• Cancer, tumour or growth
• Problems within the endocrine system itself.

However, there are other causes. Causes that may affect or exacerbate the above. These are causes that we have control over.

What causes hormonal imbalances?

Some external causes of hormonal imbalance may include:

• chronic stress
• poor diet and nutrition
• being overweight
• hormonal replacement or birth control medications
• misuse of anabolic steroid medications
• exposure to toxins, pollutants, and endocrine-disrupting chemicals, including pesticides and herbicides

What causes hormone imbalances

There are also many things to avoid when looking for balancing hormones.

Here are some interesting studies

Studies show that the most prevalent cancer in women in America is breast cancer. This can be altered with lifestyle.

There is a 62 % lower risk of getting breast cancer when women maintain a good weight, eat plant-based and limited alcohol. This is a massive reduction.

Cooked meat and the carcinogens in it increase the risk at 47% of getting breast cancer, that is almost 1 in 2 women.

It is not only food but also our products. Aluminium, found in many antiperspirants is, not surprisingly, toxic for the body. There are mixed reports on whether this can lead to cancer, with research showing a possible link.

However, in Petri dishes, they do have pro-estrogenic effects on breast cancer cells.

How to balance hormones naturally

There are many ways to balance hormones naturally and it starts with the basics.

• Exercise
• Lifestyle
• Diet
• Emotional Regulation
• Trauma Release

Hormones are important

As we have seen Hormones are important yet many suffer from hormonal imbalances which affect their lives in detrimental ways.

Our lifestyle can cause these imbalances but there are many different ways that we can balance hormones naturally.