Natural Hormone Therapy: A Holistic Approach to Balance
Natural hormone treatments for hormonal imbalance include lifestyle changes like managing stress, taking regular exercise, enjoying a nutritious diet, maintaining a healthy weight and getting enough sleep.
How to Treat Hormonal Imbalance in Women Naturally
Stress can disrupt female hormones causing a hormonal imbalance. Reduce your stress by taking exercise, practicing mindfulness or meditation and being out in nature. The stress hormone cortisol impairs the body’s feedback system. Chronic stress can harm your hormone balance by causing cortisol levels to remain elevated, stimulating your appetite and leading to weight gain.
By taking regular exercise you can help regulate your hormones and help combat hormonal imbalance. Weight gain is directly associated with hormonal imbalance and can lead to insulin sensitivity and reproductive health problems. By maintaining a healthy weight you can also improve hormonal imbalance especially if you have been diagnosed with a condition like Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS). Avoid high levels of sugar as they can disrupt blood sugar and insulin levels which can contribute to hormonal imbalance.
Poor sleep is linked to hormonal imbalance, so make sure to prioritise around eight hours of sleep a night, this gives the body time for essential hormone balancing.
Best Herbs and Supplements for Hormone Regulation
If you have a hormone imbalance it is important to look after your gut health, as your gut microbiome regulates hormones by modulating insulin resistance and feelings of fullness. Also avoid sugar as it promotes insulin resistance.
If you are looking for a natural hormone treatment then improve your diet by avoiding unprocessed food, drinks and excess alcohol. Instead, include quality protein for essential amino acids; foods such as eggs, chicken, fish and lentils are high protein foods.
Fibre stimulates the production of hormones that make you feel full. It also aids digestion and helps regulate blood sugar levels, eat vegetables, beans and nuts to get quality fibre.
Healthy fats can help reduce insulin resistance and appetite. Healthy fats can prevent cortisol levels from increasing during stress. Ensure you have plenty of oily fish, avocado and (unsalted) nuts as well as plenty of fruit and vegetables.
Top Herbal and Homeopathic Remedies for Menopause
- Evening Primrose oil provides gamma-linolenic acid (GLA) which can help regulate hormones as well as ease PMS symptoms.
- Ashwaganda is an Ayurvedic herb that is a known adaptogen that can help reduce stress and support adrenal function.
- Red Clover contains isoflavones which may have oestrogen like effects.
- Black Cohosh can balance oestrogen and progesterone levels.
Effective Natural Treatments for Perimenopause Symptoms
Female hormones can be balanced naturally by including phytoestrogens in your diet. Phytoestrogens are plant-based compounds that mimic oestrogen in the body. Incorporate (organic) tofu, edamame beans, flax seed, chickpeas and sesame regularly in your diet if you have a hormone imbalance.
The Mediterranean diet is rich in whole grains, fish and vegetables and can help balance hormones. This can be a simple and natural way to regulate your hormones.
Homeopathy for Hormonal Imbalance: What to Expect
Hormones are involved in all aspects of our health and they help our bodies function properly. Hormones can have a profound effect on mental, emotional and physical health controlling your appetite, weight, fertility and mood. If you are looking for an alternative treatment to balance your hormones then homeopathy can be a great natural solution.
Sepia
Sepia is a homeopathic medicine that is known for its affinity with female hormonal imbalance. If you suffer from a hormonal imbalance and perhaps this has come on at a time of hormonal fluctuation, e.g. puberty, pregnancy, peri/menopause then this may be a useful homeopathic medicine for you to have to establish good hormone balance. The periods may be late and scanty or early and profuse. There can be dryness during intercourse and a lower libido. Those with a hormonal balance who can benefit from taking Sepia may also find that they can feel angry, sensitive to others and irritable.
Pulsatilla
Pulsatilla is also a homeopathic medicine that has a large female symptom picture and is great at delivering homeopathic hormone balancing. It is indicated when the period is delayed or irregular. It can often be accompanied by a headache. The bleed can be dark and thick. Pulsatilla is a changeable remedy and those that benefit from it will feel timid, emotional, and tearful with changeable moods.
Cimicifuga
Cimicifuga is a homeopathic medicine often used for hormonal imbalance in females. The period is profuse, dark, and coagulated. It can be irregular in time and flow, and there is sensitivity in the body, often accompanied by a backache, and or pain across the pelvis. The periods can stop during times of emotional disturbance. Emotionally you feel gloomy and dejected and a feeling of exhaustion.
Lachesis
Lachesis is used for hormonal imbalance often during peri/menopause, especially where there are hot flashes, headaches, or palpitations. The period can be short and feeble often darker in colour and with an acrid smell. With this scanty period comes more pain. The libido is often elevated. You will feel a nervous excitability often with a desire to talk a lot, jumping from subject to subject! You can also feel suspicious or jealous of others when your hormones are out of balance.
Belladonna
Belladonna is a homeopathic medicine which can be used for hormonal imbalance in females. The period is profuse, bright red and early. There can be strong pain and a gushing of blood. The breasts can feel sore. Headaches can also accompany the symptoms. If you need this remedy, you will experience changeable moods, which will include anger, quarrelsomeness and crying easily.
Why Choose Natural Hormone Treatment?
I specialise in natural treatment for hormonal imbalance, my solution is the Women’s Health Hormonal Treatment Plan. It is suitable for females aged 12-65 who are seeking an alternative medicine for hormonal imbalance including painful periods, heavy periods PMS etc.
The Women’s Health Hormonal Treatment Plan includes 1:1 online consultations with me, Kiran, a female qualified homeopath with over 18 years of professional clinical experience, a bespoke plan for homeopathic remedies, tissue salts, a supplement review and recommendations, a nourishment plan and regular check-in phone calls and email support.
Book a Hormone Health Consultation with a Qualified Homeopath
Start by booking a low cost per-qualifying consultation with me to talk about an alternative treatment for hormonal imbalance, homeopathic treatment with me and how homeopathy can address your symptoms and help reduce them naturally so that you feel healthier, centered and well.
Once you start a course on the Women’s Health Hormonal Treatment Plan you should start to notice improvements in your condition within a few weeks. Homeopathic treatment for hormonal imbalance usually lasts around 3 – 6 months. This will vary according to your symptoms, how long you have had them and the severity.
Get in touch to book your consultation with me and let’s work together using homeopathy treatment to naturally balance your hormones.
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