Significant Factors Belie Individual Hormone Imbalances
These are the main culprits that lead to chronic stress, anxiety, and resulting weight gain.
When people come to me stressed out, and so upset about their body’s changes, I have to get inquisitive. My job is to find what is the deepest rooted place where they are confronting an obstacle and how is this really affecting them according to their constitutional type.
From here we find the ‘Hormone Imbalance Power Players’ and what will be a step by step process to uncover and support the imbalances, precursors, and co-morbidities that contribute to sub-clinical symptoms and issues.
There are many ways to solve these things, and most come down to a nervous system geared into higher levels of stress.
For example, last year I noticed swelling starting to happen some mornings in my fingers and hands. I was burnt out, drinking a lot of coffee, not eating enough. I was losing my hair, dealing with intense bloating and weight gain, feeling super anxious all the time. My sleep and digestive issues were showing up as Spleen Qi deficiency with the progressive swelling in my hands.
Like life, these factors are interwoven and intertwined, lost forever as either the chicken or the egg.
Because the pattern of Spleen Qi deficiency is seen within a greater dynamic, I was able to treat this right away. The swelling went away immediately after one session of acupuncture to my delight, and I know that I need acupuncture when I start to feel it come back.
I learned cooked cabbage helped a lot, eating full meals and warm breakfasts, and tending to my sleep were what helped the most. It was so easy to see this wasn’t something that needed a neurologist or medication. It was simply the right food choices for the body in Chinese Nutritional Therapy and receiving treatment for factors of stress that made it harder to eat properly.
When it comes to hormone imbalance, take into account all the other factors that play a significant role in the symptoms you’re experiencing today.
Living through the COVID-19 pandemic, we are operating in a smaller mental/emotional world, with a lot of social and domestic disturbances from the access we have from our phone and computers, not even mentioning other environmental toxins and this country’s food system, gluten, etc. as we see in this pie chart.
Looking at the five elements and constitutional factor (cf), symptoms can be addressed more effectively with better prognosis over time so we can live a life of vitality, longevity, ease, contentment, and purpose.
Consider the Optimize Plans which is a three-month package of twelve treatments to address hormone imbalance at its root.