Balance your hormones by learning to love yourself and your life
In this short course, we’ll discuss our hormonal balance. There is a separate course about insulin resistance which goes much deeper into hormonal issues (where insulin resistance is the root cause) and contains extremely important information especially if you suffer from metabolic issues such as weight gain or chronic symptoms or diseases.
In this course we’ll go through many other, well known hormones and neurotransmitters and discuss how to balance them. These are:
leptin
dopamine
serotonin
oxytocin
melatonin
How do all these hormones affect our wellbeing, our weight, sleep, mood and mental health. We will discuss the importance of supporting your hormonal balance by optimising the function of these hormones, whatever age you are. You will learn about some main issues that could cause problems, such as poor diet, sleep problems, lack of sunlight, too much blue light (phones and computer screens) and chronic stress.
Love and happiness chemistry within the body is healing and hate or fear chemistry is what makes us ill.
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Leptin is an important part of our entire metabolism. Leptin tells our brain that we are full and have enough nutrients which leads to our body burning the stored energy. Lack of leptin may therefore lead to obesity (not burning stored energy) and even overeating (our brain does not understand that we are full even when we have just eaten).
Leptin is also much, much more than this. It is connected to many other vital functions in the body.
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The importance of natural light to all life, including us humans has been ignored, but instead, we are constantly being warned about the dangers of sun. We are also not told how harmful it is for us all to instead, keep looking at our screens and scroll on our phones all the time.
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How can we can use these love hormones to feel good, without anything from the outside, by ourselves. This way we can take control of our own health, instead of giving the power to other people.
Dopamine is the hormone that helps us feel motivated.
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Serotonin acts as a balancing hormone to dopamine. Serotonin brings love, safety, calm and balance into our mind. It helps as feel the inner peace and safety we all need.
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Oxytocin brings very positive feelings such as trust, security, empathy and feeling of bonding.
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Melatonin is a hormone that your brain produces in response to darkness. It helps with the timing of your circadian rhythms (24-hour internal clock) and with sleep. Being exposed to light at night can block melatonin production.
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everything in life works in rhytm and the key is the balance between everything
Most chronic symptoms are caused by us losing the balance in our life. We know the importance of circadian rhythms in the body. Everything is connected to each other, all hormones, genes and metabolic processes in the body. If we lose the balance, we become ill. The only way to recover and reverse the symptoms is to regain the balance.
In order to improve our life, we need to, always, think about this balance. If we want to improve our fitness and exercise, for example but forget to rest, our body is not in balance. Rest is just an important part of improving our health and fitness as is exercise. Eating and sleeping rhythms are both essential in everyday life. Any disturbances in them cause problems and lead to diseases.
We talk about the importance of correct meal times (correct rhythm in eating) in my insulin resistance course. To put this simply: this eating rhythm consists of two events; eating and not eating. If we don’t have a break between meals, but eat too often, there is no balance.
When we eat, insulin is secreted, glucagon, the antagonist of insulin, is secreted when we don’t eat. Insulin stores sugar in muscles, liver, and as fat in adipose tissue. Glucagon, in turn, releases stored energy for use by cells. If there is no balance, for example because you eat too often, are constantly snacking, one of these hormones and it’s functions do not work properly. The consequence might be weight gain for example.
When talking about sleeping, both too much and too little sleep is harmful. The length of sleep needed is different for different people, but many experts in the field consider 8 hours of sleep to be ideal. Sleep affects many hormones in the body, including those regulating our appetite and those related to stress. As an example, growth hormone is released during deep sleep, which is vital to cell growth and repair. Sleeping well is therefore essential to keeping our hormones balanced.
This is why, I always talk about the importance of all lifestyle measures, whatever the problem with have in our life.