Our health depends on maintaining balance: to sustain physical and mental energy, we must balance rest with exercise and activity; to meet our needs for fuel, we must balance protein with carbohydrates and fats; to keep our cells healthy and synchronized, we need to balance our hormones. While it may be obvious that the first two examples are affected by the foods you eat, many people don’t realize that diet and lifestyle can also affect your hormone balance. Hormones help to regulate and orchestrate vital processes throughout your body. Avoiding hormone imbalances is therefore essential to maintain good health.

A hormone is a substance produced in the body (by one or more cells) that acts as a chemical signal and affects cells in other parts of the body. Hormones are involved in virtually every physiological process in the body. When hormones are unbalanced, the entire body is affected. The human body has close to seventy major hormones (and well over 100 all together), and each is critical for health. Hormones help to regulate inflammatory processes — some hormones promote inflammation while others suppress it.

Unfortunately, it is becoming increasingly common for women and men to suffer from hormone imbalances, particularly of reproductive hormones. Our stressed out “eat on the run” modern lifestyle requires a make over.  Recent scientific discoveries have confirmed that there are powerful foods and herbs that can help us attain hormonal harmony.

Learn how to focus on hormone health so you can handle stress, improve sleep and reduce cravings at my next workshop, The Recipe for Hormone Balance, in the beautiful Market Kitchen at the South St. Lawrence Center. It’s happening on Nov. 12, 2011 from 1 pm to 3:30 pm.

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