GUIDE FOR HORMONAL BALANCE GUIDE FOR HORMONAL BALANCE FOR

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As women age, their hormones naturally change. Finding a good balance with your hormones as you go through various stages of life is best done in a preventative fashion, where you not only focus on a more active and healthy lifestyle but better dietary habits, sleep habits, and changes to what you put on your skin or take as a supplement.

Women go through 4 main stages in life during which hormones change significantly:

1. PUBERTY

During puberty or adolescence, the hormones are raging so to speak changes in hormones can have emotional and physical impacts particularly when it comes to mood and mental health.

During puberty the majority of the hormonal changes happen in the brain in the body, activating things like the apocrine glands, growing hair, and starting menstruation.

2. SEXUAL MATURATION

From the late teens through the 40s, women are at their most reproductive and have significant changes in hormones that can affect mood, sexual appetite, sleep habits, and more.

During this stage, pregnancy can result in significant hormonal changes that impact the health of your hair, your nails, and your skin. While some of these changes are for the best because the massive increase in hormones the result of your pregnancy are beneficial, once you give birth, the massive decrease of the same hormones can feel detrimental and cause just as significant a change but in some cases, for the worst.

3. MENOPAUSE

The biggest hormonal change that women have to contend with is menopause. Menopause happens around the age of 50 when the ovaries stop producing progesterone and estrogen. Oral estrogen pills can help alleviate the symptoms and topical creams can help as well.

Menopausal hormonal changes, unlike the hormonal changes brought about by pregnancy happened rather slowly. While it's often said that the happens at the age of 50, it doesn't happen immediately but rather, gradually takes place over what could very well be a decade. Hormone levels fluctuate more and more often as menopause takes hold.

4. POST-CLIMACTERIC

During the post-climacteric or Elderly phase, women experience the end of their ovarian function and with this comes significant increase in the symptoms of aging which can result from decreased hormone production.