Hormones are chemical substances that your body makes in glands of the endocrine organs. While there are glands throughout your body, the pea-sized pituitary gland at the base of your brain is responsible for making hormones that tell the other glands what hormones they should make.
Hormones are important to both physical and emotional body functions. When hormones are in balance, the body and emotions work as they should. When they are out of balance, there can be major impacts on a woman’s body, emotions, and daily life. Knowing what hormones are at work in the body, their function, and how they fluctuate throughout the month and throughout a lifetime is good information to learn. This will help you identify signs of imbalances as well as give you peace of mind if you are experiencing “normal” hormone fluctuations. When you have a hormonal imbalance, the gland making your hormones produces too much or not enough of that specific hormone.
Estrogen is a hormone most associated with women’s health and considered one of the key elements of a woman’s sexual and reproductive health.
Systems and functions that rely on estrogen:
Estrogen imbalance is one of the most common hormonal issues affecting women. Estrogen decreases in women as they reach a certain age, and it is not uncommon for women to begin feeling “off” as a result of their dropping estrogen levels. Recognizing the signs and beginning a proactive course of treatment can help you get your health back on track.
Symptoms of Low Estrogen:
While many people mistakenly assume that testosterone is a hormone only important to men’s health, it serves a critical function in women’s bodies as well. As a woman, your body uses testosterone to produce a form of estrogen called estradiol. Testosterone is key to a thriving libido, excellent bone density and muscle strength, energy, and the production of new blood cells.
Signs of low testosterone in women:
Progesterone, in combination with estrogen, interacts with chemicals in your brain to control your mood and your general sense of well-being. Progesterone keeps a balance with estrogen, the other primary sex hormone, in those assigned female at birth. Progesterone also helps to produce testosterone, the primary sex hormone in males. A small amount of progesterone is made in the adrenal glands in both men and women, which release hormones for a variety of bodily functions
Low progesterone can affect your body in several ways, sometime causing noticeable symptoms.
Symptoms of low progesterone (in people who aren’t pregnant) include:
Thyroid hormones control your body’s metabolism. They help transform the food we eat into energy. Thyroid hormone represents the combination of the two main hormones that your thyroid gland releases: thyroxine (T4) and triiodothyronine (T3).
Abnormal thyroid hormone levels usually cause noticeable symptoms. Since thyroid hormone is responsible for controlling the speed of your metabolism, too much thyroid hormone can make it faster than normal and too little thyroid hormone can slow it down.
These imbalances cause certain symptoms, including:
Our team can run some simple blood tests to see if any of your hormone levels are irregular.
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