This guide provides you with the key knowledge required to understand the role your hormones play in pretty much every vital function within your body, from regulating metabolism and digestion, to ensuring you have regular and pleasant menstrual cycles, to helping maintain a healthy weight, and repairing reproductive tissues and ensuring regular elimination. More than 50 hormone genes are produced in the gut, making it the largest endocrine organ in the body, as well as the one most susceptible to stress. On top of cultivating good gut health to ensure proper hormone function, we also need to cultivate practises that help our nervous system self-regulate and remain in a state of coherence/calm. Poor gut health and adrenal fatigue profoundly affect hormone balance, therefore understanding how to use correct nutrition and calming techniques in order to return to balance is vital.
This guide contains a list of foods that help nourish and strengthen the body to support the secretion and the balance of our hormones. There is also a comprehensive section on the body-mind relationship and how our thoughts and our emotions can dramatically impact our health. You will also learn about herbs that support proper hormone function, as well as personal care products that should be used or avoided and that could be contributing towards subtle imbalance within the body, and key wellness action points + self-care tips to help you develop better hormone health. I hope that this guide empowers you with the knowledge you need to create better balance in your day-to-day life, understand how to correct imbalance, and honour the body for being the absolute miracle that it is.