I want to speak for a moment about the effects of your hormones and your sleep. In fact, your hormones affects your emotions, your stress levels, your digestion, your temperature, your thirst, your libido. Because your endocrine system links all of your body areas to one another. We can see from the glands that produce and release your hormones around your body, how each one reacts with another so that as one releases hormones into the bloodstream, another will stop with a release of a certain hormone. So everything is very much related to both your physical and emotional symptoms. So some of the physical symptoms that you might be experiencing with a hormone imbalance might be an increased heart.

Weight, right or palpitations, digestive issues and pains with abdomen, abdominal cramps or period pains. You might have infertility issues or weight gain or weight loss. Or you might be experiencing chronic fatigue or muscle pains. Emotionally, we could be experiencing anything from mood swings to sleeplessness, anxiety, to despair, loss of confidence, sadness, being lethargic or irritable. People can often be really oversensitive and irrational or forgetful or even depressed. You might or might not have had a diagnosis the over 100 different auto immune disease.

The ones you You will have heard of more hypothyroidism and hyperthyroidism which is under active or over active cycroid. This might be classified as graves disease or Hashimoto disease. But as I said, there are over 100 different autoimmune diseases that affect your hormone balance. So understanding the causes of the hormone imbalance is quite important for you. But also what is important is what you can do yourself to help your body and how you can begin to improve your hormone balance. And we have discussed here, the food, exercise stress and sleep and how they act on your body.

You need to make sure your body has what it needs to work properly. So your diet is really important. You need to make sure you're treating your body with the respect it deserves. Are you getting enough exercise? Are you resting when you need to rest. Understanding the effects of food, exercise stress and sleep means that you can start to appreciate your hormones and their balance.

Sometimes it is necessary to get specific help to balance your hormones.