Has your doctor ever admitted that regulating hormone levels is a very tricky thing to do?
Here is a list of 10 things to consider when you are dealing with treatment of high or low hormone levels:
- Lab test may show what the hormone levels are in the blood or saliva, but it does not show how much is actually being used.
- The creation of hormones is a multi-step process that requires many different substrates (which we get from our diets) in order to assemble and convert the hormone into its active form.
- Hormone levels are dependant on the environmental stresses placed on them for creating, converting and utilizing the hormone so that the body may properly respond (healthy living vs not so healthy living).
- Certain hormones act different depending on the levels of other hormones.
- Taking exogenous hormones (meds) can influence your body's natural production of the hormone.
- Taking exogenous hormones can influence the levels of other hormones.
- The majority of hormonal problems did not happen overnight. They are a problem of lifestyle choices, thereby responding to changes in lifestyle.
- Hormonal problems are not always easily identified, yet can cause a wide array of problems.
- Hormonal problems usually require multiple changes in one's life in order to make significant improvements, since multiple triggers of hormonal problems can usually be identified.
- Hormones have their say in both the nervous system and endocrine system, making these multitaskers very influential in our overall health.
Hormonal problems are classically treated by simply giving more hormones. I hope that this list has identified some problems in that way of thinking.
Changes in hormonal levels and utilization of the hormones can be addressed in ways that are directly and indirectly targeted at that hormone...which often has very impressive results.
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