How To Balance Your Hormones Naturally

What Are Hormones?

Think of hormones as your body's little messengers. They're produced by glands in your endocrine system and travel through your bloodstream to keep everything running smoothly—from your mood and energy levels to your sleep, metabolism, and even reproductive health. In simple terms, they're like the texts that different parts of your body send to one another, ensuring everyone's on the same page. In this blog, we'll chat about natural ways to support these essential messengers and help you feel your best every day.

How To Balance Your Hormones Naturally

Your hormones affect all aspects of your life, including mood, energy, metabolism, and skin health. When your hormones are out of balance you could experience all sorts of symptoms, this is called Premenstrual Syndrome or PMS. The symptoms occur any time after ovulation and will usually disappear as soon as your period arrives. Hormonal imbalance affects everyone differently but there are some common traits. 

What Are The Symptoms of PMS

Common symptoms associated with PMS include, anxiety, irritability, mood swings, or anger. You can experience sugar craving coming up to your period. Tiredness, sleep problems, headaches or migraine are common. Or you may have skin problems, in particular around the chin area.  Many women experience breast tenderness and fluid retention. Some of these symptoms are also associated with perimenopause. So it can be confusing whether you are having worsening PMS symptoms or you are beginning the menopausal journey. The better you are at balancing hormones when you are young the better chance you have of having less symptoms when it comes to going through the menopause.

Natural Ways To Balance Hormones

A healthy diet, exercise, and sleep will all contribute to healthy hormonal balance. Top up your diet with a good multivitamin to make sure that you are getting a bit of everything to begin with. Make sure that it has Vitamin B6 in the form of pyridoxal -5-phosphate. B6 has been shown to help mood and over the years I have seen excellent results for tender breasts and fluid retention.

Magnesium is crucial. There usually isn’t enough in a multivitamin so you could consider topping up on it, especially if you are anxious, stressed, or tired. It works well with B6. This combination has also been shown to be effective for women who suffer with headaches and migraine. There are lots of magnesium supplements available. You can choose powders, tablets, or capsules.  BetterYou Magnesium Body Spray is a popular choice, especially if you are already taking a lot of supplements. You can massage this into the skin. It absorbs quickly and is also brilliant to help with tired, aching legs after a long day of standing.

For those of you with sugar cravings it could be good to add in some chromium. This helps metabolise sugar and calm sugar cravings in some people.

NHP PM Support is an all-in-one supplement to help balance hormones. It also contains B vitamins including B6, magnesium, and chromium to support energy, hormone health, and blood sugar balance. It also contains Siberian Ginseng, Chamomile and Dandelion to help cope with stress and to support detoxification. 

Agnus Castus is another option, this herb has a balancing effect on the female hormones. Many women have seen improvements in their mood, skin health, and generally feel better and more balanced after taking it.

You could combine the above with Omega 3 fatty acids as these are also important for hormonal balance. Omega 3 supports skin, hair, mood, joints, memory, and may help relieve breast tenderness. You will be spoilt for choice when it comes to choosing your Omega 3 supplement. NHP Omega 3 has the advantage of having some Peppermint oil added to help support digestion of the omega oils.

This is a small selection of supplements that can help you balance your hormones naturally.

Balance your hormones for a stress less life!