How Does Hormonal Imbalance Cause Weight Gain and Treatment?
Losing weight becomes more difficult when you are getting older. You can be frustrating regarding your weight loss result no matter you put more effort to maintain on your diet and exercise. Weight loss fail isn't your fault, but your hormone is the culprit. Hormonal imbalances or hormonal are off can impact your body regulates weight. Therefore, maintain and gain hormones can help you lose weight.
Below are three factors to cause hormonal imbalance:
- Age - As we state that hormones are responsible for the way human body functions, but human hormone levels naturally decline with age. Usually, our body growth hormone production reduces at the age 30. Then female start to lose estrogen and male lose testosterone in their 40s. Next is the decrease in progesterone, parathyroid hormone, DHEA and calcitonin. It means that your body loses the ability to regulate the processes that lead to weight loss if without proper hormonal balance. Meanwhile, it will cause in a slower metabolism, and increased abdominal fat. So, your body will become tired, lacks vitality, slow response and loss of motivation which can lead to extra weight gain.
- Menopause - Hormonal imbalance tends to cause weight gain when men and women at age 50s above. Also, women's menopause and peri-menopause are one of factor can lead to a hormonal imbalance between testosterone, progesterone and estrogen levels.
- Stress lead overeats - One of the factors that changed your levels of other hormones that lead to weight gain (such as cortisol) and also may cause to insulin resistance.
Can hormone imbalance be treated?
Diet
Food can have a significant impact on human health because storing excess fat can lead to hormonal imbalances:
- High in sugar
- Processed carbohydrates
- Hydrogenated Fats
- Genetically modified foods
- Conventional beef
- Dairy
- Poultry
Regular Exercise
Physical activity is essential for hormone balance. Exercise helps maintain low levels of cortisol and also helps keep hormone balance by lowering cortisol levels in the body and maintaining serum insulin levels. Cortisol levels become very high when the body is under stress. Experts say moderate exercise 30-60 minutes a day helps fight stress and hormone balance.
Bioidentical Hormone Replacement Therapy (BHRT)
With the development of today's technology, you can reverse your hormone imbalance and restore your ability to reduce weight by replenishing the hormones you've lost by through hormone replacement therapy (HRT). According to the medical doctor said that uses bioidentical hormones rather than synthetic ones during selecting (HRT) hormone replacement therapy due to not all hormones are created equal. The reason is bioidentical hormones may be safer and very few cause side effects.
However, you can correctly understand why you need them once you know those various bioidentical hormones affect your body regulates your body weight. Therefore, when you added to a proper workout and healthy diet, these different hormones can improve you take off the body weight.
- Testosterone - Its sex hormone produced by male and female inhibits fat storage. Low testosterone levels will lead sugar cravings and insulin resistance.
- Estrone - It can help the female to control their sugar cravings and appetite.
- Progesterone - It will cause women to overeat when the imbalance of progesterone. The progesterone is mainly to improve the conversion of stored body fat to energy. Therefore, it often used in HRT for female.
- DHEA - It is also known as dehydroepiandrosterone which is a hormone that help reduces weight by increasing the body's metabolism. DHEA Also helps to prevent fat storage.
- Human Growth Hormone (HGH) - It function is mainly to convert body fat into muscle mass and inhibits the production of body fat which so won't cause you so much visceral and subcutaneous fats problem.
- Insulin - It helps cells (liver, muscle, and fat) to take in glucose to be used for energy and also control blood glucose levels.
- Incretin - There have two important incretin hormones called glucose-dependent insulin tropic polypeptide (GIP) and glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) which function to stimulate insulin secretion in response to meals.
- Pregnenolone - A powerful hormone able to regulate other hormones such as improve testosterone levels which able to increase metabolism and weight loss. It also can improve brain function and immunity.
Conclusion
Therefore, you can balance your hormones by replenishing your imbalance hormones through (BHRT) bioidentical hormone replacement therapy for weight loss if diet and exercise don't help much for you.
