When you’re feeling a bit strange and you’re not sure why, it’s easy to simply blame your hormones. The truth is, you are probably right about this.
Hormones rule much of your body, influencing your cycle, appetite, sex drive, weight and other processes within the body. Before you throw up your hands in frustration, it’s important to realize that you have some control over your hormones.
In fact, certain behaviors may make them sink or surge in the body. Take time to learn about some seemingly harmless things you may be doing that can mess with your body’s hormones, impacting your physical and mental health.
① Late Night Stress
At night, cortisol, a stress hormone, generally drops. This makes it easier for you to get to sleep.
However, late night stress can keep cortisol levels high, making it tough to wind down and get the sleep you need. Avoid stressing out late at night and learn to relieve anxiety.
② That Sugar Addiction
When you consume too much sugar, it can lead to weight gain. When you gain extra weight, it could cause insulin resistance. Insulin is a hormone that ensures your cells get enough energy by moving sugar to the bloodstream.
The result:
Eating too many sugary foods increases insulin resistance, which is often results in metabolic syndrome (pre-diabetes) or Type II Diabetes.
③ Hitting the Caffeine
Caffeine boosts cortisol production, which may result in you feeling anxious or uptight. This will keep you from sleeping well too.
If you’re going to have a caffeinated beverage, don’t have more than two in a day, and drink them well before 3-4pm, so it doesn’t interrupt your sleep cycle.
④ The Insomnia Cycle
Unfortunately, insomnia often creates a vicious cycle. When you don’t get enough sleep, cortisol levels rise, which increases blood sugar.
Then, blood sugar takes a dive, which makes you feel cranky, stressed and hungry. It’s easy to start grabbing junk foods when you feel this way. Making sure you get enough sleep every night can help level out cortisol levels.
⑤ Skipping Your Cardio Workouts
Don’t skip your cardio workouts, since cardio helps to reduce ghrelin, a hormone that helps to suppress your appetite. You may feel like eating more if you’re not doing your cardio, so make sure you get in a good heart-pumping, cardio workout.
⑥ Extreme Dieting
Extreme dieting may make your hormones go crazy, specifically your estrogen levels. When body-fat levels begin to drop significant, which can happen if you’re overdoing the exercise or failing to eat enough calories, the levels of estrogen drop in your body.
This drop in estrogen stops your regular cycle until you get back to healthy levels of body fat.
⑦ Sleep Deprivation
If you go a single night without getting the sleep your body needs, it can create a lack of the hormone leptin, which tells your body that you’re not hungry.
This means you’ll feel hungrier than normal because you missed some sleep, making it easy to overeat and pack on the pounds.
⑧ Grabbing Sugar to Ease PMS Symptoms
It’s easy to reach for a sugary treat when you’re dealing with PMS, but sugar doesn’t help. Sugar actually messes with brain chemicals, which are already out of whack because you’re dealing with PMS.
If you’re feeling moody or cranky, skip the sugar, since it will make you feel worse. Grab foods that will actually help, such as sweet potatoes, a single glass of wine, spinach or skim milk.
⑨ Failure to Exercise Regularly
It’s easy to skip those workouts when you’re tired, but failing to exercise regularly could be making you more tired. If you don’t exercise regularly, the body doesn’t make and release the right amount of the feel-good chemicals called endorphins.
Endorphins make you feel alert and positive, but they also help to increase sex hormone levels, giving your libido a boost, while ensuring that your immune system functions at its best. As you exercise more, the body will produce even more endorphins.
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hi..i am nodi..im 22years old..but i have no sexual feelings…i had tried lots of medicine..bue it didnt work..plz can u have any suggetion for me..plz help me..
Nodi,I wanted to reply to you because I have talked to many women with this same issue .When I was your age I already had my 4 kids.But I never really had a sex drive a little during the pregnancies bu when not pregnant ,I could care less if I had sex or not .we go through a hormone change about every 7 years .when I reached 26 I went through a major hormone change,some things bad like deodorant stopped working which sucked ,but my sex drive changed.When I had sex not only was I wanting it ,I was able to not only climax but do it multiple times.You have to remember women usually don’t hit there prime til about 32 years old.I think I hit mine at 26.So I do think it has to do with age.I have talked with many young women about this because I was pretty blown away at how I changed ,all the younger women I talked to said they really had no sex drive ,they could care less if they had it or not,and the older women 28 and older said they were really enjoying there sex life,as I was and still am at 38.The older I spoke with also said when they were younger they felt the same way I did,and only had sex with there boyfriend or husband out of obligation.I also want to point out your sexual partner has a lot to do with it also,if he or she isn’t pleasing you then you aren’t gonna be happy,but hang in there, I feel this somewhat normal for young women , when u get a little older it will kick in.I responded to this assuming you are a female,if not sorry.i also want to point out I am not a dr nor a specialist of any kind.just going by experience
Plz give me some tips and meal for pcos.i am suffering pcos since last 2 years.plz reply me thanx
Well for PCOS, try to avoid sugars and you can have spearmint tea, myoinositol, flaxseeds, saw palmetto and regular workout