Hormone Health in the 30′s and 40′s How’s yours?

Are you tired a lot, especially mid to late afternoon?

Are there nights you have difficulty sleeping?

Are the pounds starting to add on that won’t come off like they used to?

Are you experiencing mood swings or increased irritability?

Have your periods changed? Are they shorter? Longer? Heavier? Lighter? Closer together? Missed months?

Are you on synthetic birth control pills?

No matter what your age, feeling good and being healthy is about balancing your hormones.

What Causes Hormone Imbalance?

Hormone balance is affected by age which is constantly changing and in transition throughout a woman’s lifetime.

There are many factors in ones life that can throw off hormone levels at any age.

Firstly, environment toxins have to be considered. Much of our food is contaminated with pesticides and herbicides. Food is also full of processed preservatives and chemicals that our bodies were never meant to ingest and digest. Our water is polluted with everything from heavy metals in factory run off, like mercury and pharmaceuticals that contaminate our ground water. Our air is polluted with smog, exhaust smoke from factories, depleted uranium in the gulf stream from the wars in the middle east, fumes from cleaning supplies used in the home and more.

One’s daily stress and lifestyle are also a contributing factor to hormone imbalance. From noise pollution, angry drivers, poor sleep, work, death in the family, serious illness, accidents, etc. Susanne Somers reports in her latest book AGELESS , “They say in today’s world we experience more stress in a single day than a person in Elizabethan times experienced in their entire lives.”

Transitions are a part of aging and each passage that occurs involves changing hormone levels.

What is PMS?

PMS (Premenstrual Syndrome) is described in the dictionary as: ” a disorder causing a range of symptoms such as nervousness, irritability, bloating, depression, headache, fatigue, tenderness of the breasts and acne, that occur each month following ovulation and leading up to menstruation: usually five to fourteen days before.”

If you suffer from PMS, there are two things you can do. First, find a health care practitioner who understands bio identical hormone replacement therapy. Then, have a simple hormone test which so often will reveal that your bio-chemical imbalance is hormonal in nature. The findings make handling the symptoms very easy.

Hormone replacement is not solely for the older woman.

Could This Be Perimenopause?

Just like puberty and PMS, perimenopause is about hormone imbalance. In particular, it is about hormone surges. Perimenopause is the transition stage from normal menstrual periods to no periods at all and it can start in the early thirties.

As women are still having periods it is often tossed off by doctors as “nothing serious”, however, during this stage, women can be in a severe state of hormonal imbalance that has potentially dangerous consequences. It is in hormone imbalance that diseases can accelerate increasing a woman’s chances for cancer, diabetes and heart attacks.

A health care practitioner that understands bio-identical hormones and hormone imbalance can order simple tests to reveal your levels and offer you natural safe solutions

At Lifeworks Wellness Center , you can do a full hormone panel test to learn exactly where your hormone levels are and receive natural solutions to get your hormone levels in balance and return to a feeling of good health with youthful energy! For more information call 727-466-6789 or visit LifeWorksWellnessCenter.com