Working with Your Hormones... rather than against them!

How to work with your hormones rather than against them, particularly during any change or transitions in life

What are hormones you may ask : they are chemicals that coordinate different functions in your body by carrying messages through your blood to your organs, skin, muscles and other tissues. These signals tell your body what to do and when to do it. Hormones are essential for life and your health.

A few of the major hormones and the roles they play

Insulin: The fat-storage hormone

This is released by your pancreas and makes it possible for your organs, liver, and fat to absorb glucose. If your body doesn’t generate enough insulin or if it isn’t using it well, blood sugar accumulates and can set you up for diabetes.

Melatonin: The Sleep Hormone

Melatonin is instrumental in your sleep/wake cycles and your internal body clock. As it gets dark, your brain ramps up your melatonin levels to prepare you for sleep. Exposure to the blue light of screens at night can interrupt natural sleep patterns.

Estrogen: A steriod hormone

Estrogen is involved in bone formation, blood clotting, and the health of your skin and nails. If you are depleted in estrogen, you may have low moods or depression. When estrogen levels fluctuate, as they do during menopause, you may experience hot flashes, low libido, and weight gain.?

Serotonin: Regulates many body functions

Serotonin plays a key role in such body functions as mood, sleep, digestion, nausea, wound healing, bone health, blood clotting. It regulated anxiety, helps you experience happiness - 90% is produced in the intestines.

Cortisol: The stress hormone

It’s a natural alert system to let you know when you’re under duress. While it’s helpful when you need to be aware of imminent danger (like being chased by a lion) most of us have raised cortisol due to daily perceived stress and consistently high cortisol levels can lead to anxiety, weight gain, migraines, heart problems, irritability, brain fog, and sleep disturbances.

The great news is, when you act in accordance with the release of your key hormones you can begin to work with your body instead against it.

? Wake up with the sun and get outside in the fresh air and sunlight for your natural cortisol rise between 6-7 am.

? Hold off on drinking your organic caffeine until 8am when you cortisol peaks.

? Eat your meals with the rise of ghrelin (the hunger hormone).?It is secreted at approximately 8 am, 1 pm, and 6 pm.?You should completely stop eating by 8 pm at the latest to ensure optimal metabolic and fat burning.

? 9 am-11 am is the time to be productive as this is when our brain starts to produce more serotonin for improved mood and wellbeing, and dopamine for focus and motivation.

? Workout in the first 8 hours of the day between 6 am - 2pm when the body is most active metabolically, for you can reap even greater benefits from your workout.

? By 2 pm, your body begins to move into a fat storage phase and this is why you are not as glucose tolerant at night, so the more you eat later in the day and evening, the greater the fat storage impact is on the body.

? Leptin (a hormone that regulates hunger), peaks at 7pm for optimal fat burning. This is why it is optimal to stop eating around 7pm so that your body can use your food as fuel efficiently for the evening.

? 7 pm-9 pm is when our body temperature begins to drop, which helps to prepare us for sleep. Our digestive system also starts to slow down at this time. If we eat too much too late, too often, we can delay digestion and delay the onset of rest and repair.

? At 10 pm as long as we are avoiding blue light, melatonin rises and cortisol should fall. This is the time when the brain begins to consolidate memories, detox and clean out the waste and debris from the day as it repairs and replenishes the system as you sleep. So make sure you go to bed between 10 - 11 pm.

Once you begin to follow and implement this daily routine you will see changes not only to your energy levels, but to your sleep, not only will your energy levels rise during the day but your sleep will be deeper and more restorative at night and your body will become a fat burning instead of a fat storing machine.

I hope these tips help you to work with your hormones, rather than again them to create balance for you and any other women in your life, friends and/or family. I always recommend combining a whole-foods diet with healthy lifestyle choices, a less toxic environment and the right supplementation to start you on your journey to vibrant, long-lasting wellness.?

If you are looking to make changes to your health, no matter where you are starting from then please do connect with me. I would love to have a chat, find out more about you, understand what is going on for you and how I can support you to achieve your personal health and well-being goals.

Health doesn't have to be hard and full of sacrifice and I am on a mission to help woman understand that simple and easy can be life changing.

Kerry Madgwick: Award Winning Hypno-Nutritionist Helping you get your energy back, boost?your mood and feel confident, healthy, revived and in control of your health.?By working with me, you are taking control of your health and getting educated on how you can learn to navigate what is right for your unique body.

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