Fix Your HORMONES with the Right FOOD!

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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 re