10 Signs Showing You Have Hormone Imbalance

2015-10-28 03:37

Hormones play a very important role in our health, and the common hormones for us are estrogen, progesterone and sex hormones, thyroid (metabolism hormone), adrenaline, cortisol (which is for stress hormone) and melatonin (which is for sleep hormone). Hence, if hormone imbalance occurs on us, our health and activity can be affected in life. This time we introduce 10 signs showing hormone imbalance happening.

1. weight change

If your weight happens to have big changes, declining or increasing, it may indicate your hormone balance is broken. This is because thyroid gland produce hormone regulating metabolism. In this way, weight change can happen.

2. frequent fatigue and weakness

Cortisol is a hormone which is produced in adrenal gland when under stress, and it can lead to fatigue or tiredness.

In addition, lack of a thyroid hormone can also cause fatigue for people.

3. hot flashes and sweating at night

At night, if you feel very hot and sweat much with uncontrolled, it means that you have hot flashes and night sweat.

Reduced estrogen levels send mixed signals to the hypothalamus, which causes suspecting body overheating. This causes the hypothalamus to activate its coping mechanism to cold body through excessive sweating.

4. insomnia and sleeping problem

Estrogen and progesterone are responsible for regulating insomnia and sleeping. If there is disorder of hormones, they can happen on us.

5. hair loss

5. Hair Loss

Testosterone (a male hormone present in women in trace quantities) converts to its derivative hormone dihydrotestosterone (DHT) by interacting with an enzyme found in hair follicles.

6. Depression

Hormones disorder can appear on us, which makes us feel depressed.

7. indigestion, gastrointestinal discomfort

Gastrin, secretin and cholecystokinin are three hormones found in the gastrointestinal tract that contribute to digestion by assisting in breaking down food for quick absorption into the bloodstream. Thus, problems can happen if these hormones get imbalanced in body.

8. low libido

Testosterone disorder can make people have low libido in daily life.

9. urge to eat food

Hormone imbalance makes us have stress, which can let us feel much hungry in life.

10. dry eyes

Hormones can also be helpful for regulating eye functions and affect eye closely. Thus, eye can be dry when your hormones are disordered.

Our kidney is responsible for regulating hormones balance, thus for patients with kidney disease, it is very common to have hormone imbalance in life. The above signs are very common during hormone disorder. If you need any help or have any question, leave a message or contact online doctors anytime. We will reply very soon for you.

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