Hormone Imbalance:
A Common Cause of Weight Gain?
Could a hormone imbalance be the reason you are gaining weight and having difficulty losing it?
It may very well be.
For years, people having trouble losing weight have been telling their physicians that there must be something wrong with their hormones.
And for years, physicians have been dismissing their concerns and advising these patients to just eat less and exercise more.
But the truth is many people do have hormonal imbalances.And yes! A hormone imbalance can cause you to gain weight and keep you from losing it.
Fortunately, you can fight back!
What Is A Hormone?
Simply stated, a hormone is a chemical that is made in one part of the body that affects a different part of the body.
Hormones are powerful substances that control virtually every aspect of your physiology.
- Hormones control your emotions.
- Hormones control your appetite.
- Hormones control your metabolism.
- Hormones control the size of your muscles.
- Hormones control your energy level and your desire to exercise.
And, to a large extent, hormones control the amount of fat that you have and where on your bodies we store that fat.
How Do Hormones Make You Fat?
While some hormones affect fat synthesis and degradation directly others can make you fat by increasing your appetite, by decreasing your metabolism, and by lowering your energy levels.
This is particularly true when levels of these hormones are either too high or too low.
In fact...
... By preventing the breakdown of fat or by stimulating fat synthesis, hormones like insulin and cortisol, when present in excess, can make it virtually impossible to lose weight.
How Does a Hormonal Imbalances Develop?
Your hormonal status is not static. The levels of your various hormones change dramatically as you go through various stages of life like puberty and menopause. Environmental factors such as stress and diet can also have a major impact.
Even being overweight influences the levels of various hormones.
What Can You Do To Correct a Hormone Imbalance?
Fortunately, there are some things you can do to both detect and correct various hormonal imbalances.
While hormones like estrogen testosterone and progesterone can be restored and rebalanced using salivary testing and bio-identical or natural hormone preparations, other hormone imbalances can be corrected by changing your environment or the way you react to it.
For example, changing the composition your diet, the amount you eat at one time, and even the types of food that you eat together can dramatically influence levels of the hormone insulin, while decreasing stress can impact levels of the hormone cortisol.
Getting enough sleep can even help restore and rebalance certain hormones.
To learn about specific hormones, how they affect your weight, and what you can do to re-balance them, click on the links below.
The Hormone Leptin and Weight Loss
Insulin and Weight
Melatonin, Sleep and Weight Loss
The Sex Hormones, Menopause and Weight Loss
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