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i want to talk about how to

balance your hormones or manipulate your

hormones in a positive way so the first

question is what is a hormone

hormones are communication

particles that travel through the body

from one place to another they originate

from a gland that makes them and then

they travel through the bloodstream

and then they get received by a receptor

so right now i’m talking to you and

hopefully you’re listening to me through

your receptors to the ears you can see

me through the receptors of your

eyeballs but without me seeing you in

person i don’t really know if

these words are connecting to you and in

the body when the communication is

received there’s another signal sent

back

as a feedback loop it’s like a little

circuit type thing like a thermostat in

your house as soon as it hits a certain

temperature

maybe the heater turns off in the body

as soon as a certain blood pressure is

achieved

certain hormones will turn off maybe the

hormone regulating sodium and fluid as

soon as a certain blood sugar is

achieved like 80 certain hormones are

then turned off so if there’s no

feedback mechanism with hormones then

the hormone starts going higher and

higher and higher and higher and that

would be really bad in the body but

that’s the problem in the body with

hormones you somehow disrupt this

feedback mechanism whether you block the

receptors through what’s called

endocrine disruptors that would be like

the pesticides insecticides herbicides

fungicides

that can block the receptors and now

there’s no mechanism for this your

hormones to turn off they start going

higher and higher and higher and just as

a side note all those things i just

mentioned the pesticides insecticides

herbicides fungicides actually mimic

estrogen in the body

so an endocrine disruptor is really an

estrogen disruptor and then you have

another situation that doesn’t

necessarily block a receptor but it can

actually cause the receptor not to work

anymore or the receptor starts resisting

the hormone that’s called hormone

resistance and that happens

in quite a few hormones including

estrogen

and even cortisol where you have this

high level of chronic output of estrogen

for example and then the cells start

blocking that and now

that hormone doesn’t work anymore so let

me just give you like a very rare

example this really probably never

happens in life

let’s say you start eating a lot of

carbohydrates right for many many years

and you’re eating all these

carbohydrates and you’re raising insulin

and eventually you develop what’s called

insulin resistance and now that receptor

doesn’t work anymore so the body makes

more and more and more and then

eventually that communication starts

going down down down and then now the

blood sugars get out of control and you

become a diabetic so that’s another

problem with hormones same thing happens

with cortisol resistance where you have

too much chronic stress over a period of

time and then the function of cortisol

which is normally an anti-inflammatory

it doesn’t work and you end up with

inflammation and pain so

there’s really three dominating

hormones that tend to nullify and

destroy everything else one would be the

insulin

next one would be cortisol from the

stress and then the last one is estrogen

okay those three

tend to be dominating and they tend to

inhibit all these other hormones so let

me just kind of go through the hormones

and talk about what you can eat

to

provide

more balance with individual specific

hormones all right let’s start with the

thyroid

thyroid t4

is the thyroid hormone and 4 represents

the number of iodine molecules in that

hormone so to help enhance t4 you need

to consume more iodine so that comes

from

c kelp it comes from seafood

anything from the c now what about if

you wanted to convert

t4 to the t3 which is the active form of

the thyroid hormone so there’s a another

nutrient that helps you convert those

two because it’s really not about how

much t4 you have it’s about

how active

that thyroid hormone becomes in the

conversion to t3 now

80 percent of the conversion happens in

the liver and 20 happens in the kidneys

and so you need a healthy liver and

kidneys to have this work but selenium

is the key mineral for this conversion

and so the best food for selenium is a

brazil nut just one a day will give you

all the selenium you need and by the way

selenium is also in this seafood it’s in

the sea kelp now if you have too much

thyroid hormone okay some people have a

hyperthyroid condition uh one way to

inhibit that would be to consume

cruciferous vegetables because there’s a

certain compound in cruciferous

vegetables that can inhibit iodine all

right next hormone is cortisol

and

of course

lowering stress will help you with

cortisol but as far as foods go you

would want to eat food that’s high in

both potassium and magnesium these are

the two minerals

that help counter cortisol and help

relax the body and so more salad more

leafy greens would be what you want to

do also if you have a

low cortisol situation

sea salt is good to take too because

when the adrenal glands burn out you

also lose the retention of sodium and so

if you’re not consuming enough sea salt

that can weaken the adrenals all right

next hormone is growth hormone this is

the anti-aging hormone this is the

hormone that

helps you preserve your muscles and

other proteins to stimulate this hormone

you need to

make sure that you

keep your stress low you want to make

sure that you keep your protein intake

at a moderate amount not too much not

too low and so the amino acid that helps

increase growth hormone is arginine and

arginine is in a lot of different

proteins because arginine is an amino

acid and so you want to consume protein

that’s not missing

arginine okay so that has a complete

profile of amino acids

and so eggs are really good nuts have

arginine any animal meats have arginine

seafood has arginine all these will help

with growth hormone other ways to

increase growth hormone would be

high intensity exercise of a short

duration as in high intensity interval

training also sleep enhances growth

hormone so you need that recovery after

the exercise and of course if you want

to shut down carbohydrate to keep your

blood sugars very very high as in being

a diabetic all right next one is

testosterone that is increased with zinc

and now we’re getting into the red meats

we’re getting into seafood especially

oysters

oysters have the most zinc out of

anything you can eat so oysters and red

meat and also you want to avoid estrogen

okay so you probably want to avoid dairy

and anything else that’s estrogenic like

fermented soy and don’t go on a low-fat

diet you want to provide enough fat for

the body because testosterone is a

steroid hormone that is built from

cholesterol that goes the same for

cortisol and estrogen and even

progesterone all those are sex hormones

that need cholesterol as they’re

building a block now if you’re female

and you have too much

androgen which is a form of testosterone

and i’m talking about a condition called

pcos

polycystic ovarian syndrome and where

the androgens are just too high how do

you lower that well you lower the

hormone that’s triggering that whole

mechanism which is

insulin okay so you go in low carb you

do fasting that will help you

lower the output of androgens from your

ovaries okay next hormone is estrogen

this is a big one a lot of both men and

women are estrogen dominant because of

our environment we’re exposed to now

plastics okay where an average person in

a week consumes the amount of plastic

that would be the same as eating a

credit card okay all those plastics are

estrogenic they’re endocrine disruptors

okay and i’m talking about the plastics

in the drinking water so you’d want to

get a filter

for your drinking water don’t drink the

tap water but to help regulate estrogen

because there’s three different

estrogens and to help regulate and i

mean lowering the bad one and increasing

the good one

cruciferous vegetables are the best the

kale the broccoli the brussels sprouts

the cabbage the arugula

awesome radishes and you can also

regulate estrogen by consuming sea kelp

because iodine helps to curb the excess

amount of estrogen and one additional

thing is to avoid dairy because there

are certain hormones in dairy

that can actually make you more

astrogenic and then if you have low

estrogen if you wanted to increase it

fermented soy organic fermented soy

would probably help you like miso soup

tofu

things like that now progesterone okay

is enhanced with omega-3 fatty acids so

that would be like

salmon that would be like cod liver oil

and then we get to another hormone

called vitamin d yes that’s right

vitamin d is a hormone it’s not really a

vitamin and so the way to increase

vitamin d is through the sun but also

you can get some not all of it if you

consume cod liver oil fatty fish like

salmon and then we get to the big

hormone that’s pretty much destroying

everything and that’s insulin okay too

much insulin can be lowered if you

reduce your carbs if you do intermittent

fasting if you avoid msg but here’s the

problem with insulin if you don’t have

enough okay

like in a diabetes type one

the thing to do is not to increase it

with eating more sugar because that’s

just gonna that’s not gonna help you

it’s better to do this support the gland

that makes insulin with just general

healthy foods so there are certain

things that can increase your hormones

to help balance them but in reality it’s

better to support the endocrine system

as a whole

with

two things

healthy keto

and intermittent fasting and for that

information you need to watch this video

right here check it out