Natural Hormone Balancing

Why Test Hormone Levels?

The Endocrine System uses vitamins, minerals, and fatty acids to make powerful chemical messengers called hormones. Hormones communicate with themselves and other internal body systems, making them essential for maintaining physical and mental health. An imbalance of any one hormone can throw your physical and mental health out of balance, causing aggravating and even serious health problems.

These symptoms if persisting for more than three months, may indicade a possible hormone imbalance. For decades coventional medicine has prescribed Hormone Replacement Therapy such as testosterone cream, birth control, and estrogen as if everyone needed the same thing and the same amount. Nothing could be further from the truth! Your hormones are like your fingerprints and in order to achieve optimal health, testing is needed to know what your specific imbalances are.

Adequate Vitamin D Levels Are Essential to Healthy & Disease Free Living

The New England Journal of Medicine estimates that 30-50% of children and adults in the US are at risk for vitamin D deficiency.

Vitamin D has been found in life forms dating back over 750 million years, and almost all plants and animals exposed to sunlight can produce Vitamin D.

In humans, vitamin D is critically important for the development, growth, and maintenance of a healthy body, from gestation until death. Vitamin D is actually a secosteroid hormone which means that it is the key which unlocks binding sites on the human genome. The human genome contains more than 2,700 binding sites for Vitamin D! Those binding sites are located near genes that are involved in virtually every known major disease of humans. It is for this reason that a Vitamin D deficiency can affect every aspect of human health and function.

According to the Vitamin D Council, some of the benefits of Vitamin D include:

• Blood sugar balance
• Immune system booster
• Regulates blood pressure
• Natural anti-inflammatory
• Prevents depression and Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
• Decreases muscle and joint pain
• Weight management
• Prevention against many forms of cancer

The Vitamin D Council also reports that the incidence of Vitamin D deficiency is a world wide epidemic, with more than 50% of the earth’s population being affected. In the United States, African Americans have the highest incidence of Vitamin D deficiency. This is due to increased skin pigmentation, which acts as a natural sun block, thus decreasing the amount of Vitmain D that can be made by the skin.