Wednesday, January 5, 2011

30 somethings & Hormones





























Ok I'm 37 years old now and I tell associates all the time "when you hit age 30 years your body changes" of course this is not the case for everyone, but I usually say that when someone comments first about what changed about their body when they hit 30.  I can tell you the day after my 30th b-day I had a backache like never before, my knees started to hurt.  I wasn't in Kansas anymore Dorothy LOL.- Kitty  


 



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Women Ages 30-39


Maintaining Hormone Balance

 
We have found our mate, started a family, and hormonally-speaking are on  automatic pilot for the next fifteen plus years. Some of us have no  children, others have one or more and our hormones follow the changes  set by the presence or absence of pregnancy. While busy raising the  family Mother Nature wants our species to thrive and survive. This  simple fact translates in a fairly constant hormone balance with rare  glitches in the system. Our periods are fairly regular, we maintain our  weight, we sleep well and look young and are still full of energy.   Because it takes our offspring a minimum of 15 years to become  self-sustaining, our hormone balance and the state of our health has to  parallel this timeline. Scientifically, hormones will continue  protecting us for the 15 years we need to raise the children.  Emotionally and economically our society has extended the time our  children need our support. But even from that standpoint eventually our  children become self-sufficient. They do grow up. By the time they're  off to college, starting their own search for a mate, or beginning a  career, they leave behind not only an empty nest, but a hormonally  drained parent, who is now 40-50 years old.

During our reproductive years, we are healthy. We stay healthy because  the high levels of sex hormones we produce, protect us from illness.

Even though most young people are healthy, statistically speaking, and  wellness is the rule, the system is not perfect. Identifying the  imperfections in our hormone balance that occur during our youth opens  the door for us to protect ourselves from aging as we get older.

Hormones do not protect us from ALL harm. Like a computer system, the  human body does crash on occasion.  The hormone balance gets thrown off even in the healthiest of people at the  peak of their youth. When the hormone balance is off, we experience  symptoms. Not every young woman will experience symptoms of hormone  imbalance, but many women will at different times in their lives. Our  ability to manage our own menopause, with its  significant hormone deficiencies, requires an understanding of the  concept that episodes of hormone imbalances occur regardless of age. 











Hormone Balance And Symptoms

When our hormones are in balance, our bodies function like well oiled  engines, when the balance is off, we become squeaky wheels. Minute  changes in hormone levels, almost imperceptible to even the most  sensitive of lab tests, create significant symptoms. It is the suddenness of change in the levels of hormones that gives us  symptoms at all stages and ages in life.  Laboratory tests cannot measure these infinitesimal fluctuations. They  offer little help as we desperately try to right our lives, while on the  roller coaster ride of our hormones. If no diagnosable disease exists,  conventional medicine cannot treat us.  Despite high tech tests and scientific breakthroughs, the best  diagnostic tool in life remains "how you feel". Let's use it to identify  the symptoms, and then connect them to their particular hormones. A  careful examination of the symptoms of hormone imbalance as they appear  throughout our lives reveals more than you think. Notice how the same  symptoms you experienced at 20 and ignored, become overwhelming at 40,  and then deadly at 60. It is crucial to connect the similarity in symptoms at all ages with  hormone imbalance.  If we connect them, we can treat them. If we treat  them effectively- meaning, with natural hormones- we prevent aging and  disease. Identified by decades, symptoms of hormone imbalance become easier to  understand, and quicker to treat.
Read on to find out more about Women's Hormones