Most cases of hormonal imbalances boil down to these 3 simple things

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CONTRIBUTED CONTENT — Most cases of hormonal imbalances – polycystic ovary syndrome, pre-menstrual syndrome, infertility, perimenopause symptoms – boil down to three simple things. 

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People, and their doctors, often don’t know why they develop hormonal imbalances. Many are prescribed birth control pills to regulate their cycles. However, the reasons for hormone imbalances in most people are quite simple: high blood sugar, inflammation and poor estrogen clearance.

Chronically high stress and cortisol

When you’re in a chronic stress response from either your lifestyle, high blood sugar or undiagnosed autoimmune or other immune imbalances, this keeps your stress system running nonstop. The precursor hormones that should go to the reproductive hormones go to making stress hormones instead.

We especially see this with low progesterone. Plus, chronic stress breaks down immune barriers, keeps the immune system on high alert and alters hormone physiology.

Inflammation

Inflammation often goes hand-in-hand with high blood sugar and chronic stress. Combined, these factors can skew female hormones to produce too much testosterone in women (or too much estrogen in men) and too little progesterone. Hormone production and receptor sites are also impacted.

Poor clearance of estrogen through the liver

Inflammation jams up the detox pathways in the liver. One of the liver’s jobs is to metabolize hormones to clear them from the body. When liver detox is working poorly, the estrogen is metabolized into a more toxic form before being sent back into the bloodstream. This can cause symptoms of estrogen dominance.

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Written by JOSH REDD, chiropractic physician at RedRiver Health and Wellness Center.

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About Josh Redd

Josh Redd, MS, DABFM, DAAIM, is a chiropractic physician and author of the Amazon bestselling book “The Truth About Low Thyroid.” Redd owns seven functional medicine clinics in the western U.S. and sees patients from across the country and around the world who are suffering from challenging autoimmune, endocrine and neurological disorders.

He studied immunology, virology and epidemiology at Johns Hopkins where he is a MaPHB candidate. He also teaches thousands of health care practitioners about functional medicine and immunology, thyroid health, neurology, lab testing and more.

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