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The video explains how to keep your sex hormones balanced throughout your life and avoid symptoms of hormonal imbalances such as hair loss, low energy, mood swings, and sexual problems. The video covers the following topics:
- How sex hormones are produced and eliminated in the body, and what factors affect their levels and functions.
- How to maintain a diet with enough healthy fats, cholesterol, and low glycemic index to provide the raw materials and prevent the conversion of testosterone into harmful estrogen.
- How to support the liver, adrenal glands, and other organs that produce and metabolize sex hormones, and how to do liver cleanses to avoid hormone accumulation.
- How to reduce stress levels, insulin resistance, and vitamin D and magnesium deficiency, which can impair hormone balance.
- How to use supplements such as DHEA, creatine, DIM, and vitex to boost or rebalance sex hormones.
The video emphasizes the benefits of having balanced sex hormones for physical, mental, and sexual health. It also provides links to other videos on related topics.
Here are the key facts extracted from the text:
1. Many people today suffer from symptoms linked to hormonal imbalances from hair loss, low energy, low confidence, difficulty losing fat and gaining muscle, headaches, migraines, lower abdominal pain, mood changes, muscle weakness, chronic fatigue and lack of confidence.
2. All our sex hormones (estrogen, progesterone, testosterone and their derivatives) are produced in a very similar way from cholesterol, which is essential to have enough raw materials to produce them.
3. Sex hormones are produced mainly in the testicles or ovaries, but also in the adrenal glands, liver, prostate, placenta, body fat and hair follicles.
4. Sex hormones are transported by proteins such as SHBG (sex hormone binding globulin), which can affect their activity and availability. Free or bioavailable hormones are the ones that can act effectively.
5. Sex hormones have to be metabolized or eliminated once they have finished acting. When this elimination process does not happen correctly, the hormones begin to accumulate and give us problems from alopecia to cancer.
6. The liver is essential for the production and elimination of sex hormones. A liver cleanse can help to improve the hormonal balance and avoid symptoms of excess or deficiency.
7. The glycemic index of the diet affects the percentage of body fat and the amount of aromatase, an enzyme that transforms testosterone into estrogen. A lower glycemic index can help to lower body fat and aromatase levels and maintain a good hormonal balance.
8. Strength exercises can help to develop more muscle mass and prevent the transformation of testosterone into estrogen. They can also increase the production of sexual hormones in both men and women.
9. Stress levels can cause a drop in progesterone and testosterone and relatively high levels of estrogen. It is important to reduce stress or take adaptogens such as rhodiola rosea to lower the impact of cortisol on the body and the adrenal glands.
10. Vitamin D and magnesium are two key substances to maintain a good hormone balance. It is important to avoid deficiencies of these nutrients or supplement them if necessary.
11. Creatine can help to increase testosterone levels in men who have low levels. DIM (diindolylmethane) can help to rebalance estrogen and progesterone levels in women who have an imbalance.
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