How Healthy Are Your Hormones

Women’s hormones pack an amazing amount of power into very tiny molecules. In fact women’s hormones are even powerful enough to unbalance a corporation! No, I’m not referring to that old way of oppressing women by using their hormones as an excuse. I’m referring to the fact that when women decided to do something different about their hormone balance, Wyeth Australia’s sales plummeted a whopping 30% in one day!
Since the invention of the birth control pill in the ’60s and the various products that grew out of that discovery, the answer to “what should I do about my hormones?” has always been, “replace, replace replace,” – with the synthetic hormones similar to or the same as the ones in birth control pills. But now, that option has been exposed as dangerous, even life-threatening.Does balancing our hormones mean exposing ourselves to the dangers of synthetic hormones, with their increased risk of stroke, heart attacks and more? Is there a way we can support our own hormone balancing process by taking charge of our own glandular, biochemical and environmental uniqueness? Is it a myth that the only option for balancing our hormones is some form of hormone replacement? Or do real hormone balance and real health go hand in glove? As women, can we participate in creating our own true and truly safe hormone balance? Is there such an approach, one which is truly holistic?
How can we take charge of our own glandular, biochemical and environmental uniqueness if we don’t know what’s going on? To take control of our own bodies, we need to start by assessing them, so we can find out whether any various symptoms we might have indicate that our hormonal systems are out of balance and might need some help.
In researching what symptoms these might have their roots in female hormones, I came up with a whopping two hundred and nine!

Why is this number so huge? Because female hormones are at the very core of how everything – our bodies, minds, spirits, emotions – work and integrate together. So if they don’t work, other systems don’t either.
Illuminating that integrated process – the interplay between hormones and the bodies in which they are operating, means taking into account the interplay of three factors:

•the state of our own glandular system,•the condition of our body in which that system is operating, and•the environment in which we live.
That may sound complicated, but taking the first step in that process is incredibly simple. It’s one each individual woman can do, no matter what our level of sophistication or skill. We can use a simple checklist to find out how many of our symptoms might be linked to a hormone imbalance

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