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What You Need to Know about Hormones and Breast Cancer
Progesterone is an essential hormone with an important job. It helps to regulate the entire endocrine system and supports the nervous system. It has hundreds of roles such as maintaining the reproductive cycle, making cortisol, regulating thyroid hormones, supporting neurotransmitters and providing myelin sheath for the nervous system. Progesterone is also the antagonist to oestrogen; for these hormones to maintain balance progesterone needs to be between 200 to 300 times higher than oestrogen. Progesterone actually gets its name from pregnancy as in progestation. A woman’s body increases progesterone 40 fold to grow the baby. It does the important task of forming a healthy brain, nervous system and endocrine system for…
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SIBO May be Behind Your Gut and Hormone Issues
Candida was once the focus of bad gut bacteria, but now we have found another culprit – SIBO. If you have been experiencing exhaustion, anxiety and digestive problems you may be dealing with small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO). This nasty critter can cause horrible health problems, but thankfully we know how to boot it out. The Role of Gut Bacteria Balanced gut bacteria (the microbiome) perform incredibly important functions within the body. The microbiome is the foundation of our immune system making up 80% of our total immunity. Beneficial bacteria protect us against pathogens such as (bad) bacteria, viruses, parasites and yeast infections. They help the body absorb nutrients, and…
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How to Nourish Your Hormone Harmony
Today more and more women are suffering from symptoms of unhappy hormones. Whether it’s polycystic ovarian syndrome, infertility, or hot flushes, these problems all stem from the same culmination of stressors. In fact problems with adrenal stress, thyroid disorders, reproductive health and mental emotional health, all go hand in hand. There is no separation, the group of endocrine glands and neurotransmitters all function together in one beautiful orchestra. When we learn to listen to our internal signals, we hear the call of our hormones. Weight gain, water retention, depression, mood swings, sleep problems, digestive problems, low energy levels, reactiveness, anxiety, low libido, skin problems, reproductive irregularities, slow metabolism, panic attacks, neurosis,…
