What impact hormones have on your life? Ask this to a woman and the answer will be profound because hormones dictate the way we react. From the girth of our waistlines to the tone of our mood, hormones decide all. The primary female hormone is estrogen which is responsible for the lush and curvaceous female body, supple skin texture and our sex lives. However, these days primarily owing to the stressful lifestyles women are facing increased episodes of hormonal imbalances which can occur to a woman of any age. A bit of biology lesson on hormones: they are proteins or steroids that travel in our blood directly in miniscule amounts and cast a major influence on our health and well

Are you filled with anxiety as you approach your periods? Does your personality undergo Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde kind of switch during this time of the month? Do you become irritable, difficult even unreasonable? If you have answered in yes, this means, like many other women you are suffering from premenstrual disorder, and you are suffering in silence. There are no confirmed statistics, but it is believed that as many as 80 percent women suffer from some form of premenstrual disorder. For many years PMS was dismissed as a psychological problem. The credit goes to Katharina Dalton, a physician and women’s health pioneer, who first identified this disruptive cyclic phenomenon. Her

Globally 10 percent women have subclinical hypothyroidism, a condition found in early stage of hypothyroidism. The malfunction of the thyroid gland has all pervasive effects on our body. Fortunately, treating and detecting hypothyroidism is easy. What role does the thyroid gland play in our overall health? Thyroid is a small, butterfly-shaped gland located at the base of your neck, just below your Adam’s apple. Hormones produced by the thyroid gland have an enormous impact on your health, affecting all aspects of your metabolism — from the rate at which your heart beats to how quickly you burn calories. When your thyroid gland stops secreting required amount of hormones, a

If you feel heavy around your midriff and armpits, do not blame yourself for hogging all along, for this chaos could be due to the change in your hormone level. Women of all ages experience hormone fluctuations. And as hormones regulate everything that happens in a woman’s body, their imbalance can create a host of problems. But incorporating a few lifestyle changes can bring a positive effect in the body. Keep reading…. Upheavals in hormone levels occur throughout a woman’s life. Hormones exercise influence over the entire body, from the top of our head to the tip of our toes. This disturbance can result in various unpleasant symptoms. An imbalance in hormones, especially