Wednesday, October 05, 2005

Hormones and Breast Growth

Achieving true hormonal balance is key if you want to live a happy, healthy life. It is the difference between being healthy and sickly, positive or depressed, and heavy or slim. In addition to these very important aspects to hormonal harmony, it is also a fundamental key to healthy breast growth. We know that the more balanced your hormones are, the better you are able to handle stress, both mentally and physically.

Your hormones impact several of your body's physiological and psychological functions including appetite, sleep, immunity, and mental health. From a naturopathic perspective, the main causes of hormonal imbalance are poor or nutritionally void diets, lack of exercise, liver and bowel congestion, and general toxicity caused by a number of culprits. A poor balance of estrogen, progesterone, and other female androgens (sex hormones), can lead to stunted breast growth, slow breast growth, or the growth of unhealthy breast tissue.

Hormonal balance and harmony are an absolutely necessary foundation for natural, healthy breast growth, especially if you are trying to naturally augment breast tissue through the use of an oral supplement or external breast growth agent through the utilization of just the right balance of the sometimes overwhelming female hormone estrogen. Hormonal balance is the perfect conduit to breast growth, and without it, you may not get any results, or get disappointing results from any natural breast enhancement supplement or regimen.

We will discuss several principles and life habits that will help to maintain hormonal balance and facilitate faster, healthier, and more substantial breast growth.Some herbalists, naturopaths, and nutritionists may advocate a strict organic or macrobiotic diet, but this type of diet can easily result in a diet too high in carbohydrates, which creates other hormonal problems leading to imbalances. Some diets to follow that are excellent in controlling hormones and creating a hormonal equilibrium are the South Beach Diet and The Zone Diet.

These diets promote just the right balance of carbohydrates and protein to sustain the perfect balance indirectly by stabilizing blood sugar (insulin - another hormone - see the connection?) levels. This, coupled with exercise and stress management, will lead you in the right direction. High carbohydrate diets are just plain hormonally WRONG. They throw the body into a constant state of hunger, and upset the delicate hormonal balance by de-stabilizing insulin levels, alternately shooting them through the roof, and crashing them to the ground without warning.It has been shown that the addition of soy in moderate dosages (about 80 mg of isoflavones a day), can be helpful, as it contains HEALTHY phytoestrogens (plant derived compounds that mimic estrogen's role in the human body).

It's an excellent low fat source of protein that does not have the harmful growth hormones found in grocery store meat products. The best results come from whole soy found in food, not the types of soy in pill or supplement form, which are not digested or utilized by the body the same way. Tofu, gardenburgers, soy cheese, soy yogurt and the multitude of other soy based foods are excellent resources of whole soy.

Whole soy products notoriously promote a healthy level of estrogen in a woman's body, and are especially helpful for women with hormonal imbalances. Exercise is an absolute MUST for achieving and maintaining healthy hormone levels. Not only does it manage stress, thereby helping to suppress unhealthy surges of certain harmful hormones, but it also helps control weight, and is a great mood elevator, all of which are related to your hormones. Yoga has been found to be an excellent and relaxing exercise that helps with the body's hormonal (endocrine) system. Not only does yoga balance the endocrine system and regulate the hormonal and glandular changes that take place during times of stress and other life changes, it is a conduit to more bodily and spiritual awareness for women at a time when they need it most. Yoga also sculpts beautiful, lean muscle, which in turn reduces and helps burn fat.

Fat stores unhealthy amounts of estrogen many times, and can be in itself a perpetuating factor to overproduction of estrogen and weight gain.There are two basic hormones that we focus on when we talk about hormonal balance. These are the two that are the driving force of what makes us men, and what makes us women. These two hormone of course, are estrogen and testosterone. As a woman ages, the ovaries stop producing estrogen on a regular basis, and the main source for the production of estrogen become the adrenal glands.

Unused testosterone can also be transformed into estrogen, and the estrogen that is stored in fat cells is even utilized. Estrogen and another hormone, progesterone are designed to keep eachother in check, and act as eachother's equalizing force.Without the right balance of testosterone, progesterone and estrogen, we cannot live in a healthy state, and the stage for healthy breast growth cannot be set.

Taking a few extra steps in your lifestyle (albeit healthy, life-enriching steps), can dramatically increase your chances for success with natural breast growth agents such as pills, and other natural methods and systems by successfully harnessing the power of hormonal balance for healthy, natural breast growth. It is truly the foundation for breast growth success!

Sunday, October 02, 2005