Hormonal imbalance
When people hear the term hormonal imbalance, most immediately think about the change of life, menopause. Although it's true that women going through menopause have significant hormonal changes, the issues associated with hormonal imbalance, such as abdominal weight gain, typically begin in a woman's early to mid-thirties and and man's early forties.
In fact, weight loss research proves that because of shifting hormone production, the average person will add one to two pounds around his or her middle each year between the ages of thirty·five and fifty·tive. As long as your body's cellular metabolism is compromised by an untreated hormone imbalance - rnost particularly estrogen dominance- the extra pounds around your middle will be nearly impossible to lose.
Healthy hormone function from puberty to thirty
When a woman begins to menstruate until she is approximately thirty years old, her ratio of estrogen to progesterone is optimal. In this ideal scenario, estrogen does the following for her:
- Develops the sex organs and secondary sex characteristics such as breasts and pubic hair.
- Maintains the menstrual cycle.
- Supports the growth and function of the uterus, specifically creating the lining of the uterus to prepare it for
- pregnancy.
- Stimulates cell growth.
- Maintains the uterus and prepares it for pregnancy during the reproductive years.
- Promotes the survival of an ovum (egg) once it is fertilized.
- Stimulates bone building that can prevent or treat osteoporosis.
- Acts as a natural diuretic to prevent bloating.
- Serves as a natural antidepressant.
- Posters a calming effect on the body.
- Maintains libido.
- Promotes regular sleep patterns.
- Opposes estrogen's predisposition to promote cell growth, thereby providing protection from uterine,
- breast, and ovarian cancer as well as flbrocystic disease in females and an increased risk of prostate cancer in males.
What is estrogen dominance?
It is important to understand that being estrogen dominant doesn’t mean that your body is producing too much estrogen; rather, it means that your body's estrogen production is not balanced by progesterone production. Estrogen dominance occurs when the natural ratio of estrogen to progesterone is upset—in other words, when the body's internal estrogen—to—progesterone seesaw becomes tilted.
How your body becomes a "fat magnet"
Estrogen dominance causes a host of metabolic disturbances, which occur much like a chicken-and-egg relationship;
- Too much estrogen circulating in the body increases body fat, and fatty tissue within the body produces and stores more estrogen. Body fat contains an enzyme that converts adrenal steroids to estrogen. At a cellular level, body fat continues to produce more estrogen, and a high estrogen level, in turn, causes the body to increase its store of fatty tissue. In other words, your belly becomes a "fat magnet"
- When you’re estrogen dominant, your body is unable to effectively use fat stores for energy, which means that your body’s ability to metabolize or burn body fat for calories is compromised. The result is extra weight that won’t go away even with more exercise or less eating.
- When high estrogen levels are unopposed by sufficient progesterone, the resulting condition of estrogen dominance also impacts your body fat’s distribution. ln both men and women, higher estrogen levels predispose the body to store fat around the abdomen. In women, estrogen dominance causes fat to be storied around the waist, hips, and thighs, and it's the main reason that many middle-age women have pear-shaped bodies.Estrogen dominance is also the reason for the rniddle—age spare tire in men.
The thyroid gland is best known for its metabolic function affecting weight. Estrogen dominance renders the thyroid hormones dysfunctional, causing your body’s metabolism to slow down. The resulting condition is called relative hypothyroidism. ln addition, the changes in your body's blood sugar levels—some of which occur naturally with age and some of which are due to a hormone imbalance—are also linked to weight gain. As the body’s progesterone production decreases with age and estrogen becomes dominant, your body releases insulin more rapidly and more often. When fluctuating hormones unnaturally stimulate insulin release, you get hungry... jump read in here
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