Tuesday tip: Balancing hormones

Tuesday tip: Balancing hormones 🚩 🤔

You will often see fitness or wellness coaches talking about you needing to ‘balance your hormones’ or promising that certain products can do this. This is a huge red flag. Fitness coaches, personal trainers, wellness coaches, life coaches etc should not be talking about hormones in this respect – it falls outside their scope of practice and I’m afraid in most cases they don’t know what they’re talking about. The wellness world is full of this sort or marketing quackery that preys on people – right now the main target is peri menopausal and menopausal women, though often it targets other groups too.

The only person qualified to tell you that you need to ‘balance’ your hormones is an endocrinologist. For example – balancing the levels of thyroid hormones, or the levels of oestrogen and progesterone has real and significant medical implications. Another example is cortisol production – if ‘imbalanced’ through chronic stress it causes oestrogen and androgens to be suppressed. These are facts, based on medical science, not conjecture based on the current social media hype that preys on vulnerable people.

Inevitably you’ll also see that these people talking about a need to balance hormones are also selling programs or supplements which will ‘balance your hormones’ …. Ta da! What a surprise…

There is so much fear and distrust for doctors and the medical community, and none whatsoever for non-regulated, unproven and untested products purchased over the counter or internet. If someone has a real hormone imbalance they need medical care – likely in the form of an endocrinologist but certainly not a collection of random supplements or diets.

Happy Tuesday 🤗

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