STEP 1: LIFESTYLE
Take inventory of your lifestyle to
find out whether poor eating habits, lack of exercise, lack of sleep, your
environment or stress may be affecting your hormone balance. Make a list of
things you can change that will have a positive impact on your health. Pick one
thing from the list and write down the steps you would need to take to make
that change.
In Dr.
Christiane Northrup's Hormone-Balancing
Food Plan, she asks patients to eliminate refined carbohydrates, such as
sugar, white rice, bread, alcohol, and foods made with white flour, such as
muffins, bagels, pasta, pretzels and other snack foods.
If you reintroduce a
certain food, do it one at a time, journal your symptoms, and see if you should
stay away from that food permanently.
Endocrine Disruptors:
Your
environment can also be the boogie man there to rob you of healthy hormonal function.
Endocrine disruptors are the hidden toxins that are ruining everyone’s
health. In men, endocrine disruptors enlarge breasts, reduce sperm count and
increase the chance of prostate cancer. In women, they affect pap smears,
encourage early onset of puberty and increase the chance of breast cancer.
In both sexes, they slow down
the thyroid.
Endocrine disruptors are common in many traditional building supplies and environments, including
polyvinyl flooring and wall coverings, wall-to-wall carpeting (a carcinogen
magnet), high VOC paints, stains and sealants, and poor indoor air quality as a
result of insufficient ventilation.
Xenoestrogens are
another invisible culprit; they
hijack your natural hormones and have reproductive and developmental
consequences. In a typical day, we are exposed to more than 700; in
toothpaste, deodorant, sunscreen, food preservatives, the lining of cans that
hold food, and many kinds of plastic.
You can start making positive changes to your lifestyle now. We have made it easy. Visit with our LifeStyle Educator to learn how you can make positive LifeStyle changes that will improve your hormonal health.
Take that first step!
Positive change happen
one step at a time.
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