Olinda Rola,
Symptoms of hormone imbalance in women may begin as
early as the late twenties to the forties. Symptoms of hormone imbalance in women tend to increase
as a woman ages, especially if ignored in the earlier years. Hormone imbalance symptoms can be any
one or more of the following:
• Allergy symptoms
• Depression, fatigue and anxiety
• Endometriosis
• Fibrocystic breasts
• Hair loss and facial hair growth
• Headaches, dizziness and foggy thinking
• Low sex drive
• Osteoporosis
• PMS
• Urinary tract infections and incontinence
• Uterine fibroids
• Weight gain, water retention and bloating
• Wrinkly skin
Symptoms of hormone
imbalance are caused primarily by the incorrect relationship between progesterone and estrogen
levels in the body. The two female hormones, estrogen and progesterone, exist in a delicate
balance. Variations in that balance can have a dramatic effect on your health, resulting in
symptoms of hormone imbalance. The amounts of these hormones that the woman's body produces from
month to month can vary, depending on factors such as stress, nutrition, exercise and most
importantly - ovulation or the lack of ovulation.
In the first 10-12
days of the menstrual cycle, only estrogen is produced in the female body. If ovulation occurs,
then progesterone is produced by the ovaries. On day 28 or so, levels of both hormones drop,
resulting in menstruation. However, if ovulation did not occur, you can still have the menstrual
period, but the estrogen is never "balanced" by progesterone, which needed ovulation to trigger its
production. And this results in symptoms of hormone imbalance appearing - you have estrogen but
progesterone production drops to very low levels.
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In the industrialized countries, women
take birth control pills, are exposed to household chemicals at home, car exhaust
and other environmental xenoestrogens. In addition, women often have stressful
lives, eat processed foods or skip meals, take synthetic estrogen HRT (hormone
replacement therapy) and have hysterectomies. All these factors can add more
estrogen to the female body, resulting in excess estrogen which will cause hormone
imbalance symptoms. |
How can a woman tell
if she is experiencing hormone imbalance symptoms? An easy, fast and effective way is to take the
online test provided by a leading womens health clinic for early signs of menopause and symptoms of
hormone imbalance in women. The online test takes just a few minutes and is free. Learn more about
your health, symptoms, what the symptoms are telling you and what to do about it based on your
answers to important questions. Read more about hormone imbalance, estrogen dominance symptoms and
physician-recommended natural treatments for eliminating the symptoms of hormone
imbalance.
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