#Hormonal imbalance

[sennamaticart]

I can finally share a preview of the guest comic I made for Oh Joy Sex Toy! I got to talk about Hirsutism, what it is, and what it's like to have it! If you wanna see the rest of the comic, you can read them over here on OJST!

[malialadycolor]

Got that girl juice in me ✨💫

[theambitiouswoman]

Herbs to help you regulate cortisol and stress 🌿🍵🧚

🍃 Chamomile when you have an anxious stomach

🍃 Valerian when your thoughts don’t let you sleep

🍃 Skullcap when you feel muscle tension from stress

🍃 Holy basil when you’ve been high stress for days

🍃 Rhodiola when you feel burnt out from stress

🍃 Gotu kola when stress is causing you brain fog

🍃 Passion flower when you feel irritable and snappy

[bullshit-tqia]

You really let your own insecurities and online discourse convince you an entire marginal identity doesn't exist and is bad. Truly pathetic, could've been avoided with touching grass and interacting with ppl in real life

Or…maybe you should listen to trans people…and not just the ones who blindly validate you instead of telling you what you’re actually doing to yourself…

I was in a lot of physical pain because of HRT. Some days I would be in so much physical pain in my legs I couldn’t stand or walk. There were times were I couldn’t go to work or school because my arms hurt so badly from the physical changes I was going through that I couldn’t use my arms at all. I was forced to stay in bed for days waiting for the painful cramping to go away. Every month I still had painful period cramps, some so bad I would wake up in the middle of the night.

It’s really not worth it. I was on HRT for a year and 3 months and I look no different other than being covered in body hair. My voice barely deepened.

I was just in pain and humiliating myself because people told me I had to change my body instead of accept my sex.

And one of the biggest impacts to how I felt about being trans and the trans community was being assaulted by a transwoman while intoxicated. I started really seeing the community as what it is after that, and after I was in so much physical pain and dealing with bullshit I actually never had to deal with at all. I’m done with the fetishistic & misogynistic community that is the trans community.

[homemakinghippie]

I'm finally getting back to hormone management. I haven't really done anything special for my hormones the last four months, but I'm ready to take care of myself again.

[daportalpractitioner]

short vs. long luteal phase

did you know that your luteal phase is a key indicator for fertility? in a healthy cycle, your luteal phase (which happens right after ovulation) is between 10-17 days. it's important that you are experiencing your luteal phase in its ideal range for womb health regulation, which is responsible for your ability to magnetize + manifest.

a short luteal phase is less than 10 days, meaning that your bleed phase begins less than 10 days after ovulation. having a short luteal phase puts you at risk for infertility + miscarriages because the uterine lining isn't think enough to sustain an embryo.

a long luteal phase is more than 18 days. having a long luteal phase can be associated with hormonal imbalance, such as polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) — a leading cause of infertility.

[nenelonomh]

tips to improve hormonal health (and their effect)

eat a balanced diet include a variety of fruits, vegetables, whole grains, lean proteins, and healthy fats to provide essential nutrients.

engage in regular exercise engaging in regular physical activity helps regulate hormones and improve insulin sensitivity

get adequate sleep aim for 7-9 hours of quality sleep per night to help maintain hormonal balance

stress reduction practice stress-reducing techniques such as meditation, yoga, or deep breathing exercises

avoid processed foods minimize the intake of processed foods and sugars that can disrupt hormonal balance

stay hydrated drink plenty of water throughout the day to support overall health

[downfalldestiny]

Oppenheimer.exe stopped working 🤔🤐 !.

[belle-blue]

Girl... I'm so needy and emotional today. Damn, I just want someone to hold me so tight that I can't breathe. Someone who loves me so much that they convince me to do the same. Uhg, why did I have to be so freaking hard to love!?

[adviceformefromme]

Hi! Could you recommend some of your resources to learn about nutricion?

Hey sweetie, first source of learning about nutrition for me was listening to my body.

Seeing how my body responds and feels after certain foods, a food log definitely helps just writing your meals or using an app like my fitness pal. You can then get a broader picture of what’s going on. I sensed something was off as I was eating loads of what seemed ‘healthy food’ but I felt exhausted and hungry. My glucose levels from the carbs were spiking and dropping from sweet potatoes to cheeky whole grain crackers, to apples.

I wish I did this sooner, but I got a freestyle libre 2 off Amazon this is a continuous glucose monitor you wear on your arm. This allowed me to learn in real time how my body was responding to the foods I was eating. The most important thing was to avoid the extreme glucose highs and lows from the food (fruits, carbs, sugars,, starches), so I switched to protein and greens diet. Mainly my own research and intrigue that led me down this path. I listened to podcasts on hormone imbalance, and gut health.

Other resources books: deep nutrition, the pro-biotic diet, general research and articles online. This podcast was great on gut microbiome

My main focus was regulating hormones as I was in extreme estrogen dominance, so I zoomed out and researched liver health also because the liver is responsible for removing excess estrogen, kidney health, gut health. I am still on the journey and about to enroll on a nutrition course so will definitely post more as I learn! 💗

[onwacollective]

I created this Womb Healing Masterpost a year or so ago. Since then, I’ve continued to grow this list of resources, adding more info as I learn it. Every book, interview, podcast on the list I’ve read or listened to and found useful in my own healing. But I realize all this info can be overwhelming, confusing, and time consuming to get through to create the real change needed to balance your hormones. So, I’ve created cycle syncing wallpaper habit reminders to support women and menstruating individuals in balancing their hormones HERE.

How to use:

These are specifically created for the 80% of women experiencing hormonal imbalance. I’ve designed them to make integrating the information and ancestral wisdom needed to balance hormones easily accessible. Switch each wallpaper background as you transition through each phase of your cycle. Every time you glance at your phone you get a reminder of what to focus on at a specific point in your cycle.

Each wallpaper contains:

🌟 A hormonal phase specific grocery list informed by the Autoimmune protocol (AIP) which means it excludes largely known gut irritants like nuts, seeds, beans, eggs, nightshade vegetables etc.

🌟 A list of herbal teas specific to the needs of each hormonal phase

🌟 A list of self-care practices specific to each hormonal phase

🌟 A journaling prompt

🌟 An affirmation

🌟 Basic overview of the hormonal changes occurring within the body during each phase

🌟 A list of vitamins/minerals to focus on in each phase (grocery list includes foods that contain these vitamins/minerals!)

🌟 Best care practices and tips for each phase

I have a vision of these hanging as posters in schools to teach children about the changes in each cycle. I wanted to make balancing hormones so easy that teenage me could do it. The info on the habit reminders connects to the practices and teachings described in the original tumblr post so if you ever want to dive deeper into a segment of info you can. You can find more info on how to download HERE.

If we let it, womb healing can be a beautiful initiation into feminine power. Be gentle with yourself 💗

[theambitiouswoman]

Carrots help balance hormones and promote glowing skin 🥕✨

Their indigestible fibers detox excess estrogen, reducing bloating, irregular periods, sleep issues, acne, anxiety, and fatigue.

Rich in Vitamin A & C and antioxidants, they promote cell regeneration, keeping skin healthy and preventing dryness.

Antioxidants protect the skin from free radical damage, reducing signs of aging.

Beta-carotene also converts to vitamin A in the body, enhancing a natural glow and even skin tone.

The Vitamin C boosts collagen production, improving skin elasticity and firmness.

[suzieb-fit]

I'm in a very bad way, so I'm just glad I pushed through, to get on with things today.

But yeah, need to curl up with some non-health related content now.

Need to swap my focus.

Started reading one from my lifelong book collection. Stephen King is the best 👌

And doing some colouring is a good way to relax and "zone out" of the "stress-head" thing.

[catholic-paladin]

this is a bit TMI so my male followers can just skip this one, but I feel like it needs to be said if it can help just one other woman's health. I'm gonna go off a bit:

I have had severe pain, irregular cycles, and almost every possible symptom of hormonal imbalance under the sun for YEARS. I eat a very clean diet; no processed foods, no fake stuff, just whole foods, meat, veggies, and occasional fruits and rice. I also get moderate exercise through work and recreation, essentially, I'm fit. Or I should be. So imagine my distress and frustration that despite all my efforts I still had fucked up hormones. Until one day I figured out it was one food. ONE FUCKING FOOD. Peppermint tea. Peppermint "fucks with your hormones" tea.

I'm a bit of a mint addict, I used to drink peppermint tea and peppermint flavored stuff every single day. It's my go to non- caffeine beverage. Health blogs and gurus wax poetic about the "wonderful benefits of "uwu harmless and safe pepprmint tea, it wouldn't hurt a fly!" Never once did I read or hear that freaking peppermint of all things can screw with your hormones, specifically estrogen. In fact people swore up and down the wall that mint is "the safest herb", and its "good for hormonal health". I stopped drinking peppermint only because I ran out and through a series of forgetful grocery trips and laziness I just forgot to get more. Then when I began to notice my normal pms symptoms had failed to rear their ugly heads I started reexamining what I'd done differently the past few weeks. The only things that stuck out to me were a slight increase in physical exercise/stress relieving hobbies (probably helped a bit) and a glaring lack of MINT in my diet. So I completely avoided mint for weeks. The result? Aside from improved skin, the first completely pain-free period I've had since I was 14. I'M FUCKING 26, I've been dealing with increasing pain for over a decade because of PEPPERMINT???? wtf.

Anyway, if you're female and suffer from hormonal imbalances like estrogen dominance and drink peppermint tea, maybe try quitting for a few weeks. Get plenty of exercise, de-stress outdoors, eat lots of red meat. FEEL BETTER ffs.

[spiritsurfers]

Channeled reading on PCOS & Hormonal Balance

https://spiritsurfers.substack.com/p/channeled-health-reading-pcos-and

[accidentalslayer]

I'm sorry to bother, but I was wondering if you would be willing to tell me more about cushings because it sounds a lot like what ive been going through my entire life

So, I'm going to take personal observations of events in my life and apply them to the symptoms I've been experiencing. I'm not an expert on this since the official diagnosis is new and I'm still learning a lot of things about it. But! I'll offer you what I can of the things I do know.

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🍁 Before I hit my teenage years, I was 99 lbs and looked completely different. I hadn't developed a slight hump at the back of my neck that my grandparents thought was just bad posture (so they would often yell at me for any "slouching" at the dinner table, in the living room, basically anywhere they could get away with yelling at me). I wasn't puffing up in weight and finding it EXTREMELY HARD to lose weight without starving myself (At one point, I became hard-core bulimic because going from 99 lbs to suddenly being made fun of by the kids in Catholic school destroyed me, I started pulling out my hair) My face had definable cheek bones. I didn't have fat underneath my arms that just...hung. I didn't have extra hair growing on my chin.

I used to look normal.

🎃 My periods started off HARDCORE. Pain everywhere. Blood everywhere. I was laid out for at least the first and second day of a normal period and sometimes longer if it was worse. Nobody thought that was weird as fuck. But looking back on it, I should have been getting medical help for that. Instead, I was being ignored.

👻 Trying to piece apart my mood disorder from the long, intense, sustained period in my childhood that started at my birth is practically an impossible task. For both my therapist and myself. But after I entered my late 20's (around 27 to 29) those mood disorders got much worse. To the point where it's become full-blown psychotic depression that I struggle to keep in check with now. There's so much art and things I want to share but this...awful looming wall called depression is currently keeping me stuck in place and I don't even know how to deal, really. My therapists coping mechanisms only go so far when the mood disorder is an imbalanced hormonal issue.

🦇 My period stopped early and presented itself as signs of perimenopause with no discernable cause before the tumors on my adrenaline glands formed. I had hot flashes, extreme emotional ups and downs that caused people to leave my life, and gained even MORE weight than before. My belly became "pendulous" meaning round, with most of it pooled around my hips and lower stomach. Cushings is pure body horror made flesh in my opinion. Not only are you helpless to prevent the weight gain (unless severe measures are taken) but you're stuck in your body while it happens. I could've spent more effort trying to diet at this point but the majority of my life has been spent in and out of foster homes or homeless on the street. It's only recently, in my 30's, that I've found a permanent place of residence.

🍬 In these stages of Cushings, I have adrenaline rushes. They manifest as spontaneous, unavoidable, quick onset of extreme panic attacks. Paranoia. Anxiety. Dread. Insomnia. And pure rage that overtake me. If I can even relax to sleep, I'll have vivid nightmares. Or I'll go to sleep and feel like I haven't slept at all. But try to pick that apart from the trauma, right? These symptoms share beds with PTSD, C-PTSD, ect. While Cushings has no definable reason for happening, some believe long sustained periods of trauma can cause Cushings to just...activate. Because your adrenaline glands were overproducing so much during those traumatic events that your brain/body just decided to never stop.

This is not to mention all the aches, pains, and muscle stress I feel physically as well. I need to take at least two medications to sleep at night at all because of the pain I experience.

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In short, Cushings destroys your life. If you think you have a hormonal issue and relate to any of the points I made, I would recommend checking it out with your doctor if you can. I don't...really know what your healthcare system looks like where you live. Right now, I'm fighting with the American Healthcare system to just be fucking respected during my appointments.

The crime of being fat in the American Healthcare system is often death or mistreatment.

I really hope that any of this helps.