Firstly, we want to celebrate all women this week. It’s important to acknowledge the health and wellbeing for all women during this week. It is also important to balance your hormone levels, because it helps you function physically, mentally and emotionally and helps your body running optimally.

Hormones are your body’s chemical messengers . They travel all around your body and send signals to one another to ensure they work. They can affect different systems such as:

Growth and development
Metabolism – how your body gets energy from the foods you eat
Sexual function
Reproduction
Mood

So where does food come into play?

Well a hormone balancing diet requires healthy digestions, stable sugar levels and a well-functioning liver. You’d also be surprised that reviving restoring your gut health can not only make your hormones happy but can assist in many other health concerns that you may have not thought to be interconnected such as allergies, hives chronic pain, depression and anxiety. If your’e wondering what a balanced hormonal healthy person looks like well to name a few- it is someone that has amazing sleep, feels energetic and reacts to stressors in life with reason. You’d be surprised how many of us may not relate to these attributes and an imbalanced hormonal system may be why.

The great news is that you can restore you hormonal health through diet. Here are some great foods and tips to get started with:

Replace refined sugars with natural sugars

Sugar not only provides major highs and lows in mood and energy, it can also disrupt one of the most powerful hormones in the body: insulin. And insulin is closely connected to all of the other hormones in your body, including estrogen and testosterone.

Leafy greens

Greens like Kale, Spinach, Beets Greens, Swiss Chard are loaded with antioxidants that can prevent inflammation and lower your stress levels and also help with leveling out estrogen levels .

Fatty foods

Fatty foods such as your fish, avocados, nuts and seeds. Eating these kind of healthy fats can help release hormones making the body feel full and sustaining your energy levels. They also reduce inflammation, as well as the presence of so-called “stress” hormones, cortisol and adrenaline. For women, fish oil can help estrogen balance, lessening the side effects of menopause and menstruation