Symptoms of Hormone Imbalance

We are all guilty of using the phrase, “Not tonight, I have a headache.”

The most common headache triggers are hormonal imbalance and blood sugar fluctuation – not to mention food allergies, caffeine, lack of sleep, extreme weather conditions, medications and stress.

Understanding the role of estrogen in the body:

Estrogen dominance is a term coined by Dr. Lee in his first book on natural progesterone. It describes a condition in which a woman can have deficient, normal or excessive estrogen, but has little or no progesterone to balance its effects in the body.

Even a woman with low estrogen levels can have estrogen dominance symptoms if she doesn’t have any progesterone.
Here are a few things to remember about estrogen dominance.

• Fat stores estrogen. The more you gain weight, the more estrogen you will retain.
• Stress - that word we’re all too familiar with – produces cortisol, boosting estrogen levels and contributing to weight gain.
• A toxic liver will not filter estrogen out of the body.
• So many foods we eat are fed estrogen to make them grow and produce more food. Eating meat and dairy products will increase your estrogen levels.
• Plastic containers, pesticides and cleaning chemicals produce “xeno-estrogens” – chemicals that mimic estrogen in the body. Read more.