Natural Remedy for Hormonal Imbalance

A natural remedy for hormonal imbalance starts with understanding what caused the hormonal imbalance in the first place. Identifying the hormonal imbalance symptoms, and then using food as medicine and clean nontoxic living to course correct.

Resetting hormones to healthy happy hormones does take time. Hormonal imbalances do not happen all at once but over time. To naturally repair your hormones will take time and commitment to a wellness lifestyle as well.

Today I will be sharing my hormone repair manual. Step-by-step what I did to heal my thyroid, be off of all thyroid medication, and lose over 50 pounds of hormonal weight gain!

In this blog post we will cover:

• What are hormonal imbalance’s most common causes
• Hormonal imbalance Symptoms
• Best Hormonal imbalance Diet
• My Happy Hormones Trifecta – 3 Easy to do steps to restoring hormonal balance

Hormonal Imbalance Causes

The main causes of hormonal imbalance issues are primarily the thyroid, stress, and eating disorders. 

Stress and insufficient sleep are noted as the top two causes of hormonal imbalance.

Next on the list of top causes of hormonal imbalances are an unhealthy diet and diabetes. 

You will hear me say all the time, “food is medicine or poison, it is either healing and nourishing the body or slowly killing it”. 

A quote that shook me to the chore the first time I heard it from Dr. Mark Hyman.

Dr. Hyman is a functional medicine doctor, the head of the Clevland Clinic, and one who also healed his autoimmune disorder (hormonal imbalance) using food as medicine just like I did and teach here on the blog!

Menopause and pregnancy both play major roles in throwing off the balance of the thyroid hormone. It is said that 6 out of 10 women in the US have a thyroid imbalance, and over 65% of them go untreated. 

No matter what the cause of your hormonal imbalance is, whether it is hypothyroidism, Estrogen dominance, Progesterone deficiency, or Adrenal fatigue. 

One thing they all have in common is there are now deficiencies. This leads me to part one of the three-part Happy Hormones Trifecta, Supplements.

While we are working to naturally repair our hormones it is vital that we are helping our body by adding supplements to support our hormones back to healthy hormonal balance!

HB-5 Hormonal Harmony Supplement is a 100% natural, all-in-one supplement developed by hormone specialist doctors to add the top vitamins for hormonal support.

Though this is not a “weight loss” supplement you will see it when you click the link about story after story of hormonal weight loss that occurred because the hormones came back into harmony.

Bonus!

Hormonal Imbalance Symptoms

Let us quickly cover some of the most common symptoms that you may have a hormonal imbalance

• hormone imbalance dry skin, most commonly itchy skin at night hormone imbalance
• itchy scalp hormonal imbalance
• hormone imbalance heavy periods (painful)
• vitamin d hormone imbalance (deficient)
• hormone imbalance after pregnancy (including depression, inability to lose the baby weight, etc)
• hormonal imbalance irregular periods
• progesterone deficiency (including depression, mood swings, low libido, weight gain, hot flashes, headaches/migraines)
• estrogen dominance (often heavy periods, irritability, mood swings, bloating, weight gain, irregular periods, hair loss, decreased sex drive, trouble sleeping, fertility issues, brain fog, night sweats)
• ridges on the figure nails
• excessively dry skin

One of the quickest and easiest ways to know for sure is to request a blood test for hormonal imbalance with your doctor. Endocrinologists are doctors specializing in hormone imbalance. 

Word of Caution: doctors and specialists told me that “healing my autoimmune system (thyroid) could not be done”. 

Quick Disclaimer: I am not a medical doctor. I am an everyday person just like you, who was frustrated and did not want to be on medication my whole life without ever actually fixing the problem. I call my posts I share how I used food as medicine, clean nontoxic living, and modern scientific tools and research to heal my autoimmune system and be free of all medication in hopes that you can find your own healing journey too.

So please use the doctors as a guide in healing your hormones.

I am here to tell you no matter what they were taught in medical school I am one of the hundreds maybe thousands who have healed my autoimmune system and you can too!

Part two of my three-part Happy Hormones Trifecta is upping nutrients. You may be the rare few that actually eat all of the fruits and veggies you should, take lots of supplements and multivitamins, and so on…..

Odds are though that you are like most of us and are not.

For the last two decades, our family has been drinking green drinks so that we are sure we are getting all the nutrients our bodies need. Organifi is one of our favorites, and it tastes the best too!

Do you want 30-Days The BEST Weight Loss Exercises at Home Workouts you can do in 10 minutes (free)? Click the link to read that post next!

Best Diets for Hormonal Imbalance

Can I be honest? I hate the word diet! In the US the word diet implies a start date and end date, depriving yourself, there are “cheat days”, and ultimately the word failure is most commonly associated with the word diet. 

How many people do you know who have “started” a diet only to: 

1) be successful until they quit and then they gained all their weight back + some extra 

2) fell off the wagon before they hit their goals? 

My guess is you could not count them on one hand, and you might have been the first person that came to mind. 

I get it, I have been there too.

Let’s get one thing out of the way up front. 

This hormonal imbalance diet is NOT a calorie restriction “diet”. 

Personally, I have seen too much research about the harmful long-term effects calorie restriction has on the brain. 

It is also something that the moment you deviate your metabolism is not able to process the excess and thus the weight that was lost comes back twice as fast plus an extra 20 pounds or more…..

However, there are foods that are affecting your hormones, and your hormones are affecting your weight loss (or lack thereof). 

Hormonal weight gain is one of the top reasons for obesity in women in the US today.

The meal plan that ended up working for me is Keto. 

Clean Keto to be more specific. 

Clean keto is removing dairy, processed foods, and highly refined foods that would otherwise be “keto-approved”. 

Dirty keto as it is now called is basically eating low carb, even if it is junk food as long as it qualifies as low-carb friendly you can eat it.

This version of eating my husband and I call the “human diet”. You know the real foods that grow out of the ground and that humans have eaten from the beginning of time?!?! (lol)

It was not until these Frankin-Foods, junk foods, fast foods, and highly processed refined carb-type foods cooked up in labs.

These Frankin-Foods are created by scientists whose intentions are to use chemicals and other ingredients that make people addicted so they eat more and buy more!

Sick right?

This is how I lost over 50 pounds, healed my hormones, am off all thyroid medication, and have kept it off effortlessly! Creating a wellness lifestyle is what I have learned along the way it is truly effortless.

My Healthy Hormones Trifecta 

Ok so what exactly does a healthy hormone trifecta mean? It is what I found to be the first three steps that must be taken in order to begin to naturally heal hormones and begin to reset our hormones to the healthy happy hormonal balance they should be.

Step 1: Food

Food is either medicine or poison, it is either nourishing and healing or slowly killing. It is estimated that 1 in 3 American adults will die from one of the Big 5 Killers. Cancer, diabetes, high blood pressure, cardiovascular problems, or Alzheimer’s disease.

The research is saying that many will even have more than one of the big 5 killers.

At the root of all of these deadly diseases is food.

How do we make sure we are NOT that one out of three?

Eliminate the foods causing the issues!

Start with Clean Keto for 90 days to six to eight months. This allows your body to detox from the foods causing the issues, as a bonus, the food cravings also stop.

It is no surprise that the “Frankin-foods” causing the issues are also made to create food addictions.

Then what I did was slowly start to eat more of a Paleo (ish) dinner.

Stick to keto breakfast and lunch for the most part. But start adding back in clean carbs for dinner.

The reason why Clean Keto is the diet of choice when it comes to hormonal imbalance is that it removes inflammatory foods. 

Inflammation and hormonal imbalance. No matter which one comes first it always leads to the other. Then round and round in a vicious cycle, they go. 

Inflammation disrupts hormonal production. 

Inflammation is like a huge wall blocking messages from getting to or from your hormone factory (endocrine system). 

I never counted carbs or macro or weighed my food. I saw this as a LIFESTYLE, not a diet. 

Did I mention I hate the word diet? (lol)

Mindset, when you are starting, is everything! I printed a list of foods I COULD eat not ones I couldn’t. I rephrased things to “I choose not to have that” or simply “no thanks”. 

Our minds are powerful and if we are thinking we are missing out or deprived how long do you think our sheer willpower will carry us? 

I never thought about a cheat day, because who am I really cheating right? I mean I would never let my husband have a once-a-week (or month) cheat day on me….. why would I cheat on myself (my health) with food that is causing me to be sick?

Step 2: Supplement

Hormonal imbalance means that our bodies struggle to try to keep up. Often times this leads to even more of a hormonal imbalance which is why it is SO IMPORTANT to supplement and help our bodies out!

Here on the blog, you will find many different blog posts where I tell you all the best hormonal support supplements. But, getting all the supplements separately can break the budget and be really overwhelming to schedule and remember.

Start with Hormonal Harmony this one ticks off a lot of the boxes in one easy-to-remember supplement.

Step 3: Boost Nutrients

Like in step two making too many changes all at once can be really overwhelming! So to simplify this step while not skipping out on the nutrients our bodies desperately need start with a good green drink.

What is a good green drink?

My husband and I are complete supplement snobs. We spend hours researching companies, their ingredients, how they source and process the products, and so on.

To save you a LOT of time here is our favorite.

I followed Drew Canoli way back in my juicing days. He must have heard the comments of hundreds of us saying how time-consuming and expensive.

He launched Organifi, which not only has a great green drink but really good Organifi Liver Cleans I highly recommend as well!

The liver is like our body’s recycling center and the foods in the SAD diet (standard American diet, fitting acronym) can really do a number on our livers as well as our hormones.

Transitioning to keto you will also be detoxing from many foods as well so a good liver cleanse to start your journey will help you feel a LOT better trust me.

Conclusion

The biggest factor in losing weight and resetting hormonal imbalances is creating a mindset for success. If you are ready to ditch the diet drama, get control of your hunger and cravings, reset and heal your hormones, and finally lose weight for good, I urge you to start with the quickest road to success the Happy Hormones Trifecta.

Happy Hormones Trifecta: Custom Keto Diet meal planner, Green drink, and Hormonal Harmony Supplements.

By eliminating the foods that wreak havoc on our hormones and then adding back in the nutritional vitamins and supplements of the green drink and the HB-5 all-in-one supplement in three easy done for your steps you are on the road to resetting your hormones and being free of all the hormonal imbalance symptoms and side effects!

I want the health and longevity I found in my journey for you too.

Invest in your health friend, you are worth it!

XOXO, 

K’Lee

PS as always if you need more one-on-one help or really need the accountability reach out and ask me about my wellness coaching and let us see if it is a good fit for you!

My husband, AKA our personal Bio-Hacker also teams up with me for couples coaching. He is 46 years old and looks like he is in his early 30s. His knowledge and insight on men’s hormones add amazing value to our couple’s coaching so both you and your spouse can win!