Hormones Balance
Nutritional Interventions For Hormonal Balancing & Women’s Health
Address hormonal imbalances and other women’s health issues with nutrition, supplementation and the help of our Nutritional Therapy Practitioner, women’s health nutritionist and resident-expert in hormone balancing.
Do You Experience Any Of These Hormone Imbalance Symptoms?
Why Balance Hormones?
Hormones are chemical messenger compounds that are produced throughout the body by endocrine glands. They control every major body process from sleep to mood, metabolism and reproduction. Production of too little or too much of these hormones cause a variety of imbalance in the body, as the systems they control are disrupted.
Hormonal Imbalance Symptoms
Effectively, these disruptions are the cause of many bothersome symptoms so many of us live with on a day-to-day basis:
Fatigue
Temperature sensitivities
Dry skin
Weight gain or weight loss
Frequent urination
Water retention or puffiness
Low sex drive
Sweating
Anxiety, irritability or depression
Hunger or thirst
Stretch marks
Causes of Hormonal Imbalances
Hormonal imbalances may be caused by a variety of factors including exposure to environmental toxins, inflammation, underlying health conditions, stress injury or trauma, medications and eating disorders.
As a result, hormones balance is crucial to overall health and well-being.
Common Hormonal Imbalances:
PCOS (Polycystic Ovary Syndrome)
Estrogen dominance
Hypothyroidism
Hyperthyroidism
Perimenopause
Menopause
Post menopause
Insulin resistance & diabetes
Stress
Insomnia
Benefits Of Working With A Woman’s Health & Hormone Balancing Nutritionist
Achieving a hormones balance and addressing various women’s health concerns through various nutritional interventions can provide the following benefits:
Weight Management
Boosted energy
Increased insulin sensitivity
Reduced stress
More restful sleep
Enhanced vitality
Improved digestion
Increased confidence
Better mood
Healthier hair, skin & nails
Higher quality of life
Who May Benefit From Working With Women’s Health & Hormonal Balancing Nutritionist
Any person who may be suffering from hormonal imbalances may benefit from working with a women’s health nutritionist.
Reason being, some of the most common symptoms of hormonal imbalances respond well to nutritional interventions.
Hormones balance for weight gain
Working with a practitioner who specializes in hormonal balancing can potentially assist those looking to curb unwanted and previously unexplained weight gain.
Menstrual cycle hormones
A nutritional therapy practitioner or dietitian can certainly help women with irregularities in their menstrual cycles, including PMS, period pain, change in frequency of their cycle, or a heavy or light flow.
Androgen hormones
A practitioner specializing in hormonal balancing can assist those suffering from androgen excess, including excess hair growth or hair loss.
Stress hormones
Effective nutritional intervention has been shown to have a positive impact on Cortisol, the primary stress hormone.
Hyperglycemia and insulin resistance
Using nutritional interventions, we can help those stricken with a high blood sugar level and those seeking an insulin resistance diet.
Hormonal hot flashes and night sweats
A hormonal balance specialist can also analyze eating habits of and assist those women who experience hormonal hot flashes and night sweats
Temperature sensitivity and hormonal balancing
You can also obtain help addressing temperature sensitivity that some women may experience with hormonal imbalances.
Hormones and mental health
The balancing of hormones has been shown to alleviate irritability, anxiety and even depression.
Inflammation
Nutritional interventions can reduce the inflammation that so often plagues the sufferers of various hormonal imbalances.
PCOS management
A nutritionist and dietitian can assist women with a variety of women's health concerns, including Polycystic Ovary Syndrome treatment.
Discover moreThyroid
Our practitioners can help clients address various health concerns surrounding hypothyroidism and hyperthyroidism.
Menopause
Those looking to correct hormonal imbalances as they pertain to perimenopause, menopause and postmenopause often seek the help of a practitioner who specializes in hormones.
Estrogen dominance diet
Some clients seek out the help of a hormone specialist for guidance in adopting the estrogen dominance diet, including estrogen dominance supplements.
Hormone balancing diet plan
Since we specialize in healthy, personalized meal planning, our clients can enlist the help of our nutritional therapy practitioner and dietitian to create a hormone balancing diet plan.
Hormone Testing For Hormonal Imbalances
Hormones Balance Testing
Through specialized training, our nutritional therapy practitioner and registered dietitian can provide in-depth information and advice on hormonal imbalance testing.
Hormonal pathways are complex, and specific interventions may require evaluation of these pathways to further personalize the dietary recommendations.
Types Of Hormones Tests
There are different types of hormonal imbalance tests. Both traditional medicine blood tests or functional tests may be beneficial in hormone testing, including:
- Thyroid panel (blood test for TSH, T4 and T3)
- Hormone panel (blood test for estrogens, progesterone, testosterone, DHEA-s, FSH and LH)
- Dried Urine Test for Comprehensive Hormones (DUTCH) (urine test for estrogens, progesterone, testosterone, DHEA-s, cortisol, melatonin, organic acids markers and oxidative stress markers)
Why Enlist The Help Of Our Women’s Health Nutritionist?
Our clients work with nutritional therapy practitioner and clinical & functional nutritionist–our resident expert in balancing hormones and other women’s health issues via nutritional interventions, for many reasons:
Many years of training and experience in evidence-based hormone balance interventions
Practitioners who understand the complex pathways and systems that are involved in hormone disruption
Assist you in getting to the root cause of hormonal imbalance
Help you discover hormone imbalance symptoms & why you're experiencing them
Provide personalized recommendations on hormone balancing foods & supplements
Give advice on and provide a requisition for a hormones test
Thoroughly analyze the hormones test & provide a report
Help create a customized hormone balancing diet plan or meal plan
Refer you to other health care practitioners for further evaluation & support, if needed
About Our Practitioners
At JM Nutrition, our practitioner who is well-equipped to assist clients with matters pertaining to hormonal balancing is Vanessa Phillips, Nutritional Therapy Practitioner & Clinical Nutritionist.
In addition, our holistic nutritionist can also be of assistance, particularly with meal planning tailored to your specific needs.
Contact us for a no-obligation phone consultation during which we can:
✓ outline how the process works in greater detail
✓ discuss your goal(s)
✓ explain how billing and pricing work
✓ address concerns about insurance
✓ answer any other questions