Hormones

Women naturally experience several periods of hormonal imbalance throughout their lifetime, including during:

• Puberty
• Menstruation
• Pregnancy, childbirth, and breast-feeding
• Perimenopause, menopause, and postmenopause

It is important to keep an eye on your mood, symptoms, sleep, weight and medication as all these things have an effect on your hormonal balance. As your hormones fluctuate, there will be many signs of your hormones being in imbalance. This can be seen in your mood, your symptoms, your sleep, your weight and your intake of medication.
Tracking your mood, medication and symptoms is furthermore a critical tool for managing depression, anxiety or bipolar disorder.

What is a Hormone?

Hormones are chemical signals - a kind of chemical messenger - that send messages around different parts of the body. Hormones are released into the blood, which means that one can measure the hormone levels in the body via a blood test.

There are several types of hormones that have different effects and are produced in several different organs in the body.

What kind of hormones are there?

• Estrogen
• Testosterone
• Insulin
• Growth hormone
• Progesterone
• Oxytocin Oxytocin
• Thyroidea hormon
• Corticosteroids

Where are they made?

Several of the body's organs produce hormones:

• The Pituitary gland
• Thyroid gland
• Adrenal
• Testicles in men
• The ovaries of women
• Pancreas

Some of these organs produce several kinds of hormones, while others only produce and regulate a single hormone.