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Learn MoreHerbs and Hormones: Part 1
Welcome to a three part series on herbs and hormones. There are many common health problems that have a hormonal imbalance as their root cause. This series will take a look at how herbs can help with these problems.
Numerous health problems, symptoms, and conditions are related to, or caused by, hormonal imbalances in a woman’s body. In fact, so many things are caused by hormonal problems, that many of the complaints are dismissed as psychosomatic complaints by doctors who don’t know any better.
Just a few of the problems caused by hormonal imbalances include acne, night sweats, chronic fatigue, vaginal dryness, mood swings, depression and anxiety, headaches, fuzzy thinking, and water retention or swelling in various parts of the body.
More severe problems are also caused by hormonal imbalances though. Some of these include infertility, Endometriosis, fibroids, heart palpitations, urinary dysfunction and infections, breast pain, and irregular periods.
These problems, however, are not limited to women entering menopause which is the common belief of both men and women. In fact, many problems which affect teenage girls, young adult women, and middle aged women are all caused in whole or in part by hormonal problems.
Teenage girls often experience heavy acne problems when their body is going through puberty, and this is known to be caused by the hormonal changes happening within her body. Unfortunately many young women never get their hormones balanced properly though, so they continue to struggle with acne throughout their lives. Even older women can suffer from acne which again, is due to hormonal imbalance.
Very painful periods and heavy blood flow is another symptom or side effect of hormonal imbalances of women at all ages. In fact, a common prescription remedy for these symptoms for years has been to prescribe birth control pills, which are known to adjust the hormone levels in a woman’s body.
Women’s bodies create two hormones naturally: estrogen and progesterone. Both hormones play important roles in a woman’s body, and the balance needs to be kept in order for everything to work properly. Many things can throw the balance of these hormones off however, including stress, poor nutrition, or proper exercise.
Doctors and medical scientists will often be concerned primarily with estrogen–primarily because a woman’s body produces less of this hormone as she ages. The link between the two hormones, and the full importance of the progesterone’s role in a woman’s body is not fully known. Most often, treatments simply try to replace estrogen in as a woman’s body produces less of it.
The natural approach however, is to restore the balance of the hormone levels in the body. This in turn relieves the myriad of conditions and symptoms caused by an imbalance, and helps improve a woman’s overall health in the process too.
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Is it possible for hormonal imbalance to affect your memory or lack of it…? lol
I read something about fuzzy thinking… please let me know what I could use for that.
Thanks,
ReplyMimi
the best suggestion to ace battle is to consulat a professional doctor. each of us has a different skin therefore everyone should try a different solution.
ReplyA very interesting approach to the treatment of spots and acne. Most people look at creams, lotions and exfoliates, but this is the first time I have seen this hormonal imbalance correction method.
ReplyPhilip @ get rid of spots´s last blog ..Understanding the Best Acne Treatments
I’ve tried several chemical creams, will def check out some herbal treatments.
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Stress is also a big factor in contacting acne. One should be head strong to discipline himself/herself to drink more water, eat healthy foods, avoid fatty and oily foods, be with yourself a moment of the day because we need to introspect, remember, from a healthy mind come a healthy body.
There are things in life that we couldn’t avoided like hormonal imbalance and certain diseases, but we could prevent it and the time to start is now. Start a healthy lifestyle.
Always remember, do not panic or buy medication in abrupt if you are not familiar with the meds, please search forums and ask the experts about it.
Also always remember that there is a solution in every problem.
ReplyBarbara @ prevent acne´s last blog ..Colon Cleanse a Super Colon Cleanse Program
This is a great article! When I am first working with patients of depression, I encourage them to rule out any physical possibilities. Hormonal imbalance is definitely something that should get checked out.
ReplyFor me creams and medical solutions never worked but when I found out for herbal remedies and the ones that you can make at home I found how to reduce them easily. Now I have no more problems with my skin.
ReplyExcellent article. Modern medicine is often too quick to medicate and turn to pharmaceutical remedies, when we really should be looking more to natural and herbal solutions. These treatments have existed for thousands of years but modern medicine wants to ignore them just becuase you can’t patent nature!
ReplyWow.. another natural cure. I always go for pharmaceutical solutions because like many others, we are clueless about natural methods to cure. I think this is information that pharmaceutical companies don’t want you to know!
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Numerous health problems, symptoms, and conditions are related to, or caused by, hormonal imbalances in a woman’s body.Problems caused by hormonal imbalances include depression and anxiety, headaches, fuzzy thinking.Glad to read this post.
ReplyAs mentioned in the post, stress and poor nutrition are the causative agents of the hormonal imbalances. I wished to read much more on these triggering factors in your post. Stress has become a part and parcel of life. And every female has different tolerance levels to stress. This causative factor then becomes too general. Much more needs to be known. As it is said, prevention is better than cure.
ReplyThere are actually a number of herbs that have been investigated for their effects on the female hormonal system – more than a lot of people realize. I think its dawning on the world in general that traditional hormone replacement might be neither as safe nor as effective as originally hoped. I’ve been writing a lot about these herbs on my site – Shatavari, Maca, and many others – there’s a lot out there and I’m doing my best to bring good info about them to everyone…
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