A hormonal imbalance will affect you from PMS to Infertility to Menopause and everything in between. Hormones can make us feel like life is beautiful and enjoyable or dark and challenging. Regardless of age, you’ll always feel well and strong when your hormones are in balance.
It is often said ‘happy wife, happy life’, but I would take that one step further and say happy hormones, happy life!
We are all made up of 100 trillion cells and 11 systems but we are still all identically different. Your hormones are not just affected by your endocrine system but they are affected by all other 10 systems too. That is why I developed my 7 Pillars of Wellness so that you can look at your health holistically to support optimum mental and physical health.
7 pillars can seem overwhelming and to make this easier for you and to help you navigate your own personal wellness journey we have created a FREE Wellness Quiz helping you to pinpoint the top three areas you need to focus on to scale up your health. This is a wonderful way to start or improve your wellness journey giving you tailored advice on how to strengthen your physical and mental health.
The Endocrine System
The endocrine system is a tightly regulated system that is designed to help your hormones and their functions at just the right level to support wellness. One way this is achieved is through ‘feedback loops’. When these loops don’t have the right cofactors from vitamins, minerals and herbs the whole endocrine system suffer making you feel mentally and physically wobbly.
Teenage boys and men also suffer from hormonal imbalance, so I have shared below eight of my top tips to balance and support your endocrine system to feel strong, healthy and optimistic about life.
Instead of working from the symptoms of hormonal imbalance back, I will discuss the foundational parts of your health that you can balance now before symptoms arise. If you are already symptomatic, you can implement these tips to get back into balance and optimum wellness.
Both men and women will benefit from using these three tips below, and I’m already supporting my children with this advice, so I set them up to win long term.
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1. Deal With Your Inflammation
A diet high in animal fats, processed meats and grains, dairy and sugar will increase inflammation and cause hormone imbalance. These inflammatory foods increase your risk of disease and obesity and are a significant cause of hormone issues. Excessive alcohol also increases inflammation and reduces immune function, and has a knock-on effect on your endocrine system.
For women, heavy drinking increases the risk of ovulation disorders. For men, it lowers testosterone levels, causes erectile dysfunction and decreases sperm production, so stick to a few glasses of organic red wine a week. Caffeine can cause hormonal imbalance and dehydration and lead to mineral deficiencies. High consumption of caffeine can also interfere with fertility.
Lowering your caffeine to one cup per day, or giving it up entirely, is a good idea when you’re trying to get pregnant.
Eat more plants, less animal protein, cut dairy, sugar and gluten and go more pesca-vegan (or organic chicken if you don’t like fish) for three months to combat your inflammation and hormonal imbalance. Ideally, it is best to eat 3 cups of green veggies per day, but if you find that a little tricky fast track like I do with our Rejuv Super Greens Powder or Super Greens Capsules.
Drink at least 2L of water per day and to enhance hydration at a cellular level mix up our Wellness or Detox Water each day which acts as a natural electrolyte to boost hydration and reduce inflammation.
2. Balance Your Blood Sugar Levels
Blood sugar spikes will directly impact your hormones and cause them to peak, creating hormonal imbalance, particularly oestrogen, leaving you feeling mentally and physically out of sorts. The sugar rush will also kick start your fight or flight/stress response surging adrenaline and cortisol creating a vicious cycle leading to fatigue and mental disorders such as depression and anxiety.
Good quality protein at each meal from fish, nuts, seeds, organic eggs, or a vegan protein powder will provide easily absorbed essential amino acids to balance your blood sugar levels and hormones. Adding Omega 3’s from oily fish, avocados, nuts, seeds, and coconut oil will also help regulate your blood sugar levels.
Research shows will also help regulate ovulation, improve egg quality and even delay the ageing of the ovaries. Just be mindful of increasing fish high in mercury. If you don’t like to eat fish, add a good Omega 3 supplement like our Omega 3 and Krill Oil Capsules.
Do your best to opt for organic foods with lots of green vegetables, as pesticides can affect oestrogen and other hormones and worsen your hormonal imbalances.
Suppose you feel you have an issue with your blood sugar levels, especially with Easter just around the corner. In that case, our popular Blood Sugar Support Capsules have wondrous herbal ingredients to adjust insulin levels having a direct balancing effect on hormones.
3. Use Herbs for Hormonal Balance
I love Chinese & Ayurvedic herbs, and I have been using them for most of my career with great success. Herbs act as hormone balancers working with your body to regulate ratios of your hormones instead of just giving you a high dose of a particular hormone such as oestrogen, that has been linked to female cancers.
Traditionally taken as a tea, these herbs can be pretty arduous for the taste buds and tough to endure, not to mention the many hours requited to boil them up.
For this reason, I formulated my Female Balance Capsules for women to balance hormonal symptoms such as painful periods, irregular periods, endometriosis, water retention, sore breasts, sugar cravings, mood swings and period pain.
Our Female Balance Capsules will also help combat any menopause symptoms such as low libido, hot flushes, dry skin, weight gain, low energy and mood swings helping you to elegantly move through menopause, reduce symptoms and realign into this amazing new season of feminine flow.
After having my own fertility issues I also formulated our Fertility Support Capsules for couples to fast track hormonal balancing without intense herbal tea flavours that are difficult to drink. This combination is ideal if you have fertility issues.
If you feel like a more comprehensive RESET you can also opt for our Womens Health Pack that comes with a FREE Nutritional and Wellness plan to support all of your 7 Pillars of Wellness PLUS this bundle is discounted by 20%.
Gone are the days we have to suffer in silence with our hormones, it’s time you stepped into your inner goddess and live from a place of integration and outrageously good health.
FREE DOWNLOAD: Another 7 Tips For Balancing Your Hormones
I've collated all my tips for balancing your hormones into a printable PDF you can download for free. All you need to do is add your name and email below to unlock your download of "10 Ways To Reset Hormonal Imbalances".
As you can see, there are many things you can do through diet, lifestyle and supplementation to balance your endocrine system, reduce inflammation, get out of fight or flight and reduce hormone imbalances at any age.
To Summarise we can support you in THREE WAYS;
1. Take our FREE Wellness Quiz to pinpoint the top 3 areas you need to focus on to scale up your health
2. Implement my top 10 tips and add in some herbal supplementation such as our Female Balance or Fertility and Libido caps to fast track your journey
3. Do a Full Hormonal Reset with our Women's Health Pack with a full Nutritional and Wellness plan and plant based supplements to restore your hormonal and mind body balance.
Please keep it simple, for the grass isn’t greener on the other side. The grass is greener where you water it. So make the above changes, move, breathe, be kind to yourself and notice all the beauty around you so you can balance your hormones and nourish your mind, body, and soul.
