Hormones are your body’s chemical messengers. Produced in the endocrine glands, these powerful chemicals travel around your bloodstream telling tissues and organs what to do. They help control many of your body’s major processes, including metabolism and reproduction.

When you have a hormonal imbalance, you have too much or too little of a certain hormone. Even tiny changes can have serious effects throughout your whole body. Think of hormones like a cake recipe. Too much or too little of any one ingredient affects the final product. While some hormone levels fluctuate throughout your lifetime and may just be the result of natural aging, other changes occur when your endocrine glands get the recipe wrong.

Some common hormonal conditions affecting both men and women could cause weight gain, fatigue, increased sensitivity to cold or heat, constipation, or frequent bowel movements, dry skin, increased/decreased heart rate, muscle aches, pain and stiffness, decreased sex drive and fertility.

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Treatment will depend on the cause and every person may require a different treatment for his or her presenting hormonal imbalance. The treatment is normally increasing the level of the hormone in question or increasing another hormone that will have a regulation effect on the other. For example during the menopause it is possible to prescribe medications that make up for the natural loss of estrogen to help with extreme symptoms. In men testosterone can be prescribed to help with delayed or stunted puberty.  

The Five Element acupuncturist sees hormonal imbalances (like any symptom) as a sign of some kind of underlying imbalance in the person. All living beings are governed by the natural laws we observe in nature and the cause of the hormonal imbalance experienced by the presenting patient will have a cause in one of the five elements that produce our outer and inner reality. Practitioners of this ancient healing tradition have the skills to diagnose the unique cause of the hormonal imbalance/s in each person and effect an acupuncture treatment that has the potential to not only restore the natural balance of hormonal activity but all suffering.

Hormonal Imbalances 

Hormones are your body’s chemical messengers. Produced in the endocrine glands, these powerful chemicals travel around your bloodstream telling tissues and organs what to do. They help control many of your body’s major processes, including metabolism and reproduction.

When you have a hormonal imbalance, you have too much or too little of a certain hormone. Even tiny changes can have serious effects throughout your whole body. Think of hormones like a cake recipe. Too much or too little of any one ingredient affects the final product. While some hormone levels fluctuate throughout your lifetime and may just be the result of natural aging, other changes occur when your endocrine glands get the recipe wrong.

Some common hormonal conditions affecting both men and women could cause weight gain, fatigue, increased sensitivity to cold or heat, constipation, or frequent bowel movements, dry skin, increased/decreased heart rate, muscle aches, pain and stiffness, decreased sex drive and fertility.

Treatment will depend on the cause and every person may require a different treatment for his or her presenting hormonal imbalance. The treatment is normally increasing the level of the hormone in question or increasing another hormone that will have a regulation effect on the other. For example during the menopause it is possible to prescribe medications that make up for the natural loss of estrogen to help with extreme symptoms. In men testosterone can be prescribed to help with delayed or stunted puberty.  

The Five Element acupuncturist sees hormonal imbalances (like any symptom) as a sign of some kind of underlying imbalance in the person. All living beings are governed by the natural laws we observe in nature and the cause of the hormonal imbalance experienced by the presenting patient will have a cause in one of the five elements that produce our outer and inner reality. Practitioners of this ancient healing tradition have the skills to diagnose the unique cause of the hormonal imbalance/s in each person and effect an acupuncture treatment that has the potential to not only restore the natural balance of hormonal activity but all suffering.