The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow

By Phuli Cohan, M.D.

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Melatonin

Melatonin relaxes you, makes you sleepy, cools your body, and lets you sleep while entertaining you with interesting dreams. It is the only hormone affected by light, temperature, and electromagnetic fields. Melatonin controls the deep and dream phases of your sleep.

Melatonin is made from serotonin. Depression is often due to low serotonin levels. When serotonin levels are low, melatonin levels may also be low. This explains why sleep disturbance often accompanies depression, particularly during menopause.

The best foods for sleep are dairy, bananas, oats, sweet corn, rice, tomatoes, and whey protein.

If you suspect your levels are low, you can take melatonin in pill form.

Melatonin can be beneficial for jet lag, insomnia and seasonal affect disorder.

Growth Hormone

Growth hormone reduces obesity and heart disease, improves memory and immune function, and supports sex hormone production. Growth hormone is believed to be partly responsible for many of the signs and symptoms that we associate with aging. Taking it is known to turn back the clock.

Growth hormone is a protein-based hormone produced by the pituitary gland primarily while you sleep.

Now safe, yet expensive, growth hormone is available by injection only.

Symptoms of Low Growth Hormone

• People with low growth hormone can look and feel tired and old. Unlike adrenal fatigue that is worse in the afternoon, or thyroid fatigue that is worse in the morning, growth hormone fatigue is constant.
• People with low growth hormone are anxious, but they aren't really aware of their anxiety, they are just easily overwhelmed.
• If growth hormone is low, then sleep is poor, since most growth hormone is produced during the deepest phases of sleep. When you are low in growth hormone, sleep feels light and is easily interrupted. Sleep doesn't feel refreshing, and you have the sense that you have been up all night even though your bed partner may say that you seemed to sleep enough.
• People with low growth hormone look older than their years.

Growth hormone injections may be considered controversial, but they have an excellent track record for safety. If your levels are low (determined by urinary or blood tests) it can improve your life and lessen aging effects long-term.
The future of hormones is now. With a simple blood test, we can look at our DNA and determine if we are at risk for breast cancer, stroke, heart disease, dementia, or osteoporosis. We can be proactive to prevent our own heart attack and cancer. Our health doesn't have to be random or solely based on genetics.

More and more doctors are studying alternative forms of healing. We use acupuncture, homeopathy, meditation, yoga, prayer, herbs, massage, and physical therapy to strengthen ourselves, and we use foods medicinally to prevent and curb disease.

Our journey as women can bring the contentment, the strength, and the courage to be everything we want to be. The world needs more happy and healthy women. Be one.

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