It's Not You, It's Your Hormones: The essential guide for women over 40 to fight fat, fatigue and hormone havoc

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My summary: A very well researched book with bang up to date Information. I definitely recommend it.' Yet I couldn’t tell you precisely what is wrong. I am obviously in the ‘ menopausal ballpark‘ and a recent blood test indicated that I had arrived with all flags flying. I already have a dodgy thyroid which has given me all sorts of strange symptoms but recently I have found myself sporting a middle tyre which won’t shift.

Here are some key hormonal imbalances that could be making you feel less than ideal and what to do about them. For hormone balance, it’s also important to quit crash diets or severely restrictive diets — both contribute to hormonal imbalances. One study found that a three-week-long crash diet caused cortisol levels to spike in women. Research also shows that crash dieting lowers levels of the satiety hormone leptin and increases the hunger hormone ghrelin, so you crave food more.

The good news is that hormones respond really well to some love and attention! Simple tweaks to diet and lifestyle can have dramatic and long-lasting effects, including renewed energy, loss of stubborn fat, balanced moods and cycles, flatter stomach, better sleep, and a clear head. The second type of communication is between an endocrine gland and a target organ. An example of this is when your pancreas releases insulin, which then acts on your muscles and liver to help process glucose. Which body tissues make hormones? She and her team at Happy Hormones now help women all over the world to rebalance their hormones, reclaim their health and feel better than ever! With little help or advice available, many women are left to ‘just get on with it’. But when a woman is not at her best, it’s not just her that suffers - the impact on her families, friends, partners and colleagues can be devastating.

And let’s not talk about mood swings. Up one minute, down the next and although I’ve never been a particularly patient person, nowadays I don’t want to wait for anything. Help with menopause symptoms – time to manage your hormones! I thoroughly recommend this book to anyone over 40 who isn’t feeling quite as good as they would like.'Thyroid hormones affect almost every cell in the body, so if levels drop, you can experience a myriad of symptoms, some subtle and some not so subtle,” says Dr. Tandon. Many symptoms of thyroid imbalance can make you feel less than your vivacious and vibrant self, including:

I will concentrate on the four main hormonal imbalances that are responsible for many of the health issues you might be facing in your 40s, and which respond really well to some TLC in the form of good nutrition and lifestyle choices. Alongside the plan I was given from Synergised's integrative health practitioner, I’m exploring functional medicine, a similarly patient-centred approach to healthcare which considers diet, lifestyle and behaviour to treat root causes of hormonal imbalances. My therapist, Rose Ferguson, a certified functional medicine practitioner and nutritionist, tells me that “by focusing on specific nutrients – such as omega-3 fatty acids for reducing inflammation, or vitamin D for boosting mood – functional medicine can often correct hormonal imbalances from the ground up”. Likewise, “nutritional strategies, such as adopting a low-glycaemic diet, can stabilise insulin levels, thereby impacting other hormones like cortisol and testosterone in a positive manner”. While we might not be able to control or remove many of the stresses in our lives, we can certainly change our reactions to them. And we can incorporate some down time, even if it’s just for a few minutes a day.When cortisol is raised, we tend to take shorter breaths. This reduces the amount of oxygen we take in and prolongs the stress response. And I’m on a MISSION! To educate and empower other women to regain control of their hormones so that they don’t have to suffer needlessly. Today I have the pleasure of sitting and talking to Emma Guns. Emma has a fantastic podcast of her own, The Emma Guns Show, and I have guested on her podcast. Today we talk about her own journey with hormones, PCOS, hair loss and binge eating. The Emma I spoke with was so comfortable in her own skin compared to the woman I met in 2017. I absolutely loved this chat and I hope you do too! I think there is a lot of value in here for all women.Thyroid disease, including hypothyroidism (low thyroid hormone levels) and hyperthyroidism (high thyroid hormone levels). Your body uses hormones for two types of communication. The first type is communication between two endocrine glands: One gland releases a hormone, which stimulates another gland to change the levels of hormones that it’s releasing. An example of this is the communication between your pituitary gland and thyroid. Your pituitary gland releases thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH), which triggers your thyroid gland to release its hormones, which then affect various aspects of your body. I had no idea it was anything to do with my hormones, I felt I was too young! When I got tested though it turned out all my main four hormones were out of balance! Hormones start to change around the age of 35, very gradually so you don’t often notice the symptoms until you’re in your 40s. Whether you are in perimenopause (the years running up to menopause), or you are post-menopausal, hormone imbalances can cause havoc.

But when I hit 40 everything changed. I suddenly couldn’t get away with it any longer. I couldn’t lose my muffin top, despite every fad diet going, my weekend hangovers were getting worse, I felt achy and cold, and frankly exhausted. The most well-known is traditional hormone replacement therapy (HRT), though both Dr Kinsella and Dr Shotter advocate the use of bio-identical hormones. “BHRT is a form of HRT that uses structurally identical hormones to your natural hormones,” Dr Shotter says. “What makes it different to common HRT treatments available on the NHS, is that it’s fully customised – it has been compounded especially for you.” It's Not You, It's Your Hormones is an informative and practical guide to empower women to regain control of their hormones and transform how they look, feel, think and behave. Specialized glands that make up your endocrine system make and release most of the hormones in your body. A gland is an organ that makes one or more substances, such as hormones, digestive juices, sweat or tears. Endocrine glands release hormones directly into your bloodstream.This book is for every woman over 40 who is suffering needlessly. If you're stressed out, exhausted, overweight, depressed, irritable, forgetful, suffering with PMS or embarrassing hot flushes, if you've tried diets, slimming pills or excessive workouts - and nothing has worked - then it's for you. You may have been to see your doctor and been told you are 'normal' for your age, or been offered medication. If you’re not feeling yourself, you’re tired of being tired, your mood swings are affecting your relationships, your brain fog is affecting your work, you don’t sleep well. Or you can’t shift that stubborn weight no matter what you try. After failing to find any medical help for her symptoms of exhaustion, weight gain, brain fog and mood swings in her early 40s, she discovered she was going through peri-menopause and it was her hormones that were at fault! Adipose tissue is commonly known as body fat. It’s located all over your body, including under your skin, around internal organs, between muscles, in bone marrow and breast tissue. At Happy Hormones For Life, she heads up a team of specialised nutritionists who help women all over the world to get the menopause support that they need.