Top reasons for hormonal imbalance
‘These days I feel like I have constant PMT - like it's always the week before my period'
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How to do a DIY hormone reset
I started crying for no reason, I just bit my husband's head off, my breasts are painful and swollen. I'm wired and anxious and I can't sleep even though I feel exhausted
Do you want your period or a zimmerframe?
This question made me sit up straight! No easy feat as I was lying in bed, 7lbs heavier than I wanted to be, with a hot water bottle in the waistband of my jogging bottoms for my crampy stomach. I was listening to a podcast all about women's hormones with a controversial hormones researcher That podcast was a real eye opener for me. I already knew that for women our sex hormones start to decline at around 35 years (around 30+ for men) but what was interesting was her claim that hormones are linked to longevity.Her theory was that once estrogen starts to decline it is a signal to your body that it is time to wrap things up and that's...
Why you must do this before you detox
I heard the sound before I felt the pain 😬 I was so excited that I could finally get into full splits after years of yoga. The problem was in my excitement I’d rushed into it this time without my usual stretching routine - argh! I jumped up (as quickly as I could given I’d just torn my hamstrings!) Five minutes is all it would have taken to prepare properly but this would cost me a month in injury time
How to safely detox your body
I was on Instagram the other day and I saw yet another ad for a detox product that was essentially just a combination of herbal laxatives that could do more harm to people than good