Optimizing Our Hormones

This article is the second in a ten-part series regarding brain health in our living welderly lives. Some of the information I share is from a book I’m reading titled Regain Your Brain by Peggy Sarlin. I also attended a Healing Energy Convention held locally last weekend and will draw on that exercise as well.

My previous essay, in this regard, dealt with the importance of quality sleep while this article will detail the value of what Ms. Sarlin refers to as the symphony of hormones playing inside our bodies. That symphony depends on every cell functioning at an optimum level resulting in physical energy and being sharp-minded. If that hormone level is off-balance, we suffer the consequences, including lack of energy and memory issues.
Did you know that by age 70, our youthful hormones can drop as much as 90 percent? For optimum brain health, we need to boost our youth hormones and reduce the aging ones. Youth hormones include the human growth hormone (HGH), testosterone, estrogen, and thyroid. At the Healing Energy Convention, I attended a class about the importance of HGH. I learned that this hormone is highly effective in reversing signs of aging and it is replenished naturally in our bodies during the deep sleep stage. I’ll also refer you back to the article I wrote a couple of weeks ago entitled Memory Loss and Lack of Sleep. We need to recognize our need for quality sleep every night and make it a priority. My sleep quality has increased immensely in the last several weeks by implementing some of the tips I shared in that article. I use earplugs to keep out noise at all levels, a sleep mask to nullify distractions such as street lights, etc. and I’ve put myself on a schedule. My body knows it can depend on having regular hours for sleep. I feel more rested, and I know I’m getting into that deep sleep stage because I am dreaming nightly. It’s amazing what a difference this has made in the way I feel.

Here are a few tips to achieve a good balance of hormones and even boosting them as needed. We can take sugar out of our diets, making eating healthy whole foods a priority. We can work on achieving the stage of deep sleep every night. We can add exercise to our routines, and if we have stress issues, we should address and control them. (My next article will deal specifically with identification of and dealing with stress.) We can find a doctor who specializes in metabolic anti-aging medicine. In this partnership the goal will be to clean up toxins and infections that may be infecting our bodies. The consideration of taking anti-inflammatory supplements to support hormonal balance ought to be discussed. Both men and women have levels of testosterone as well as estrogen and it is a delicate balance as to the appropriate amount of each to achieve optimum wellness.

There’s a lot of life to live out there and taking care of our bodies and minds will put us in a place to fully paticipate.