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How to Use Peppermint for a Sore Throat
A sore throat can strike at any time of the year, for a multitude of reasons. When that happens, it helps to be prepared with an at-home remedy like peppermint. The benefits of this plant are truly impressive: it’s a pain reliever, anti-inflammatory, antiviral,...
What To Eat During Each Phase Of The Menstrual Cycle: A Beginner’s Guide
Although hormonal fluctuations are a natural part of the menstrual cycle, they can wreak havoc on your health and quality of life. While symptoms like mood swings, breakouts, bloating, cramps or a heavy flow, are very common, it doesn't have to be that way. You can...
A Complete Guide to Using Yarrow for Heavy Periods
If there’s one herb that herbalists have relied on for quick relief from bleeding, it’s yarrow. This herb has been used for external wounds, internal wounds (such as ulcers in the GI tract) and yes, heavy menstrual bleeding. In fact, yarrow’s ability to curb...
How to Meditate Without Getting Bored: 10 Tips To Enjoy Your Practice
Meditation is a great way to connect with yourself while also reaping many of its benefits (such as improved mental state, less stress and anxiety, better sleep quality, and more). But since there really isn’t anything to “do” during meditation, it’s easy to get bored...
Exercise for Hormone Balance: A Complete Guide
Although exercise is often looked at as a pathway to a slimmer body, science shows that it does so much more. Exercise - and really, all movement - supports the entire body at the physical, mental and emotional level. Most of these positive benefits come from the fact...
High Potassium Foods for Bloating: 27 Amazing Sources and Benefits
Although bloating can occur for multiple reasons - such as stress or hormonal imbalance - in some cases, it can be due to hypokalemia aka low potassium. Potassium is a nutrient that affects the digestive system in multiple ways, especially when it comes to muscle...
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From recipes and how-to tutorials, to practical tips that will help you stay on track, the Youtube channel has plenty of valuable resources for you. You will also find playlists for topics like PCOS, menstrual cycle, herbs and much more.
5 Essential Diet and Lifestyle Tips For Natural Hormone Balance
1. Mindset First
Taking charge of your hormones begins with self-compassion and an unwavering commitment to yourself. Your commitment has to be unwavering because even your loved ones may not always agree with the appraoch you’re taking.
The outside world will constantly try to convince you that your body is just “complicated,” or “you should just find ways to cope” or “take this pill and just suppress the symptoms.”
Your ability to stay focused and to love yourself unconditionally through the tough days is what will ultimately get you to the life and healthy body that you deserve.
2. Consume Anti-Inflammatory Foods
Anti-inflammatory foods are simply whole foods. Choose any that you enjoy and commit to consuming them more regularly.
It helps to focus more on plant foods because they are more nutrient dense (i.e. more variety of nutrients) and more anti-inflammatory.
That said, you do not have to be vegetarian or vegan in order to support your hormones naturally.
Simply find a healthy balance between plants and clean meats.
To get an overview of what to include in your diet use this hormone-balancing diet plan.
3. Priotize “Higher Self” Care
Are you playing small? Have you convinced yourself that your needs, desires and wants don’t matter? Have you been putting up with people, activities or negative self-talk that doesn’t serve you?
All of those things add stress to your life and can put you in a state of fight-or-flight (hello inflammation!).
So, it might be time to start nourishing yourself at a deeper level and working towards living a life that is aligned with your higher self.
Basically it’s time to live from the space of your higher self!
This article on how to start a self-care routine has some basic ideas you can use to start nurturing yourself more.
4. Supplement Wisely
Herbs and supplements are incredibly powerful gifts from mother nature.
But remember that you cannot out-supplement a poor diet, an unhealthy lifestyle or a mindset that is holding you back.
To get the most from supplements, you must use them the way they’re intended: as an add-on or support for your diet.
Being clear on this aspect will save you from a lot of frustration and also save you from wasting time (and money) on too many unnecessary quick fixes.
Because quality matters much more than quantity, I’ve compiled this list of 5 supplements for female hormonal imbalance that you can choose from (based on your needs).
5. Do More Low Intensity Workouts
Exercise is a great tool for releasing feel-good hormones, clearing your mind and maintaining overall health.
However, exercise that is too strenuous can actually create more stress in the body, leaving you depleted.
So, as you work on regulating your hormones, it’s essential that you listen to your body and adapt your workout routines to your daily needs.
To figure out the type of exercise that makes sense for you, use this guide on exercise for hormone balance.
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