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Why. 
Hormones are incredible chemical messengers in our body and affect everything - our brain, heart, bones, muscles, skin, and reproductive organs. 

Hormones are an essential part of the workings of every cell in the human body.  Hormones work best when balanced.  But stress, poor food choices, inadequate sleep, synthetic hormones, and sedentary lifestyles can throw hormones out of balance and create real health problems.  When your hormones are out of balance, it can contribute to migraines, insomnia, weight gain, hot flashes, mood swings, and low libido, to name a few.  Over time, hormone imbalances can lead to rapid aging and increase risk for disease.

What to do. 
There is good news!  There is an array of things you can do to create and achieve hormone balance.  By creating hormone balance you can regain your sexual vitality, sleep better, have more energy and just feel better.  All the balance steps we've provided will contribute to hormone balance, especially eating nutritiously, regularly exercising, and reducing stress. But here are a few more things you can do:

• Get in touch with your own unique hormonal rhythms.  Pay attention to any symptoms you may have to identify patterns.  Such as, do you feel worse in the morning after eating a big sugar dessert the night before?  Do you have headaches that are triggered by 3 cups of coffee?  Does your energy flag after two days of no exercise? 
  
  
• Journal how you feel for 2 weeks.   This can be as simple as writing short words about your mood, energy and overall well-being in the morning, afternoon and at night.  Look for any patterns and think about choices you are making that may be triggering the feeling or symptom.
  
  
• Journal symptoms (use a regular calendar) of perimenopause or menopause that you are having for a month, such as time of hot flashes, days of night sweats, length of periods, days of headaches (time of mid-period or ovulation, pre-menstrual, during period). This is wonderful information to share with your primary healthcare provider as a way to pinpoint the imbalance issues and improve your care versus generalized symptoms reporting.
  
  
• Have your hormone levels tested.
  
  
• Work with your healthcare provider to find a plan that addresses your hormone imbalances. 
  
  
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