3 Things You Need To Know About Hormones

Written By Nicole Hagen

Your hormones aren’t the problem. Hormones are messengers in your body that react to stressors and tell your body what to do and when to do it.

Hormones themselves aren’t keeping you from reaching your goals. 🙂‍↔️

However, the stressors in your life (under eating, over exercising, poor sleep, nutrient deficiencies, etc.) could be.

Getting “more strict” or going on another diet isn’t going to solve your hormone imbalance.

In fact, it could make your symptoms worse.

Eating for hormone health involves a nutrition strategy that supports stable blood sugar and emphasizes a variety of nutrients and antioxidants from whole foods. Cutting carbs, skipping meals, and eating as little as possible does the opposite.

Supplements alone will not balance your hormones or heal your symptoms.

Healing starts by ensuring your foundational habits (nutrition, sleep , movement, stress management, etc.) are in place, not with a pill, potion, tincture, or tonic.

If you want to learn more about what it means to have happy hormones and how to balance them naturally, don’t miss this week’s Health, Wealth & Wisdom Podcast episode featuring Functional Dietitian & Women’s Health Specialist, Jillian Greaves.

Nicole Hagen

A Nutrition Coach, adoptive mom, dog mom, and mint chocolate chip ice cream lover.

I didn’t always have this business: the Masters degree in Nutrition Science and Public Health, the passion, the clients... in fact, years ago you could have found me endlessly counting calories and trying to find my worth on the scale and at spin class, exhausted in my pursuit of (what I thought was) health and happiness.

In my early twenties, I struggled with crash dieting and disordered eating. Little did I know, those circumstances would be my one-way ticket out of my restrictive relationship with food & fitness. Those experiences led me here: to the life-giving, sustainable, habit-based nutrition philosophy I embody today. Today you can find me living life without a calorie counting app and spending time with my husband, one year old son, and our two crazy golden retriever pups.

I enjoy spending my free time reading, sipping on matcha lattes, and dreaming of ways I can help other women create healthy, confident relationships with food without selling their souls to food rules and calorie counting apps.

Because nothing lights me up more than helping women live full and vibrant lives without food fear, rules, or restriction. I want to be that permission granter in your life that whispers: “you really can do this” while the rest of the world continues to settle for short-term satisfaction.

https://nutritioncoachingwithnicole.com/
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