5 ways to balance your endocrine system

It is reported that the main causes of female hormone imbalance include excessive mental stress, fear, sadness, environmental and climate changes, long-term overwork, malnutrition, anemia, or certain diseases such as abnormal thyroid and adrenal cortex function. In addition, the following three common behaviors can seriously affect endocrine levels, and women should be vigilant.

Improper weight loss: Many weight loss methods on the market advocate dieting or taking medicine to lose weight. The weight drops quickly and the body's functions cannot adapt, thus leading to hormone imbalance.

Excessive exercise: Excessive exercise will change the ratio of fat and muscle tissue in the body, affect hormone secretion, and thus cause irregular menstruation or even amenorrhea.

Improper behavior: Abuse of psychiatric drugs, drug abuse, anti-cancer drugs and alcoholism can disrupt hormone secretion.

5 ways to balance your endocrine system

1. Keep warm and eat red meat

Cold, women’s blood circulation is poor, their hands and feet are cold and they suffer from dysmenorrhea. If the blood circulation is not smooth, spots will appear on the face. The energy in the body cannot moisturize the skin, and the skin will lose its vitality.

Women can eat red meat in moderation. Red meat is a blessing for women, especially beef and mutton, which contain a lot of iron and can effectively prevent anemia. Ginger, red dates, animal blood, glutinous rice wine, cherries... and other foods that are rich in iron or relatively mild are also suitable for daily consumption. But you should not eat foods like white fungus, lemon, and bamboo shoots during menstruation.

Always keep warm, don't drink anything too cold, drink more hot drinks; don't stay in the air-conditioned room all the time, and don't choose style over temperature, and don't wear belly-baring clothes when it's cold in autumn. The best way to keep warm in winter is to soak in hot water. Don’t save gas. Soak in hot water for 30 minutes and massage it, and even the coldest body will be warmed up. It’s okay if you can’t take a bath or soak your feet. If all else fails, hold a cup of hot water or a hot water bottle all day.

2. Pay attention to your daily diet and choose hot hormones

From the first menstruation to menopause, a woman has more than 400 eggs. Each ovulation process is a hormone metabolism. Women with normal hormone levels in their bodies have a rosy and delicate complexion. Women with poor metabolism will have various problems on their faces.

Natural hormones have bidirectional regulatory functions and can inhibit excessive hormones. For example: soybeans, pomegranates, yam, angelica, fennel, snow frog, royal jelly...especially soybeans and soy products contain a large amount of phytoestrogens, which play an important role in preventing breast cancer, especially soybeans, which can change the secretion of hormones in the body. Clinical medical research shows that soybeans and soy products have the function of balancing estrogen in the body. When the estrogen in the body is too low, soybeans or soy products will increase it, but when the estrogen is too high, soybeans or soy products will also reduce it.

3. Drink Yin-nourishing foods

There are many things that nourish yin, such as the wolfberry we often drink, which nourishes the liver and kidneys. It’s better to put some wolfberry when cooking porridge. For example, bitter melon, white fungus, mulberry, Ligustrum lucidum, polygonatum, duck eggs, rock sugar, American ginseng, old duck, lily, cuttlefish, lotus seeds, coconut and coconut milk, etc.

Special Recommendation:

Bird's nest: Very nourishing, nourishing yin means nourishing the yin fluid in the body. Bird's nest is the saliva of swallows, which becomes a gel after solidification and is used to protect the young swallows. Once picked, the mother swallow has no choice but to spit out saliva again. When she has no more saliva, she will spit out blood, which is the blood swallow that people think is the most nutritious.

Snow clam: It is the oviduct of a kind of forest frog in Northeast China. Its effect is similar to that of bird's nest, but snow clam contains hormones and is not as mild as bird's nest. If you eat it once a week, a small amount of hormones is good. In addition, coconut milk is usually added to stewed snow clam, and coconut milk is relatively cool, so there will not be any problem.

4. Eat less fast food and stay away from toxins

What fast food brings to women is a high incidence of cardiovascular diseases and reproductive system tumors. Excessive intake of saturated fat can stimulate excessive secretion of estrogen. The steroids in fat can be converted into estrogen in the body, promoting the formation of breast cancer cells. Excessive intake of artificial hormones and excessive toxins in the body can also cause endocrine disorders. Use less plastic products (including plastic bags) to hold microwave food as toxic substances can easily spill out.

5. Keep a regular schedule and try not to stay up late

Lack of sleep can cause metabolic disorders. People who often stay up late or have an irregular schedule will not only age very quickly, but their health will also be seriously damaged, so try not to stay up late if you can! People who sleep 4 hours or less per night will have problems with their body's metabolism in processing carbohydrates. To improve sleep quality, you can exercise within 2 to 3 hours before going to bed to help keep your sleep stable. At the same time, taking a hot bath or drinking a glass of hot milk before going to bed is also beneficial.

Recommended diet for regulating endocrine

Peach Blossom Pig's Trotter Porridge

Ingredients: 1 gram of peach blossom (dried), 1 clean pig's trotter, 100 grams of polished rice, and appropriate amounts of fine salt, soy sauce, ground ginger, onion, sesame oil, and MSG. Roast the peach blossoms and grind them into fine powder for later use;

Steps: Wash the japonica rice, separate the pig's trotter skin and bones, put them in an iron pot, add appropriate amount of water, boil them over high heat, then simmer them over low heat until the pig's trotter is cooked through. Take out the bones, add rice and peach blossom powder, simmer the porridge over low heat, add salt, sesame oil and other seasonings into the porridge, and mix well. Take one dose every other day, warm and drink in several doses.

Efficacy: This prescription can promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis, and is suitable for postpartum women.

Spot clearing food therapy soup

10 grams of loofah, 10 grams of silkworm, 10 grams of white poria, 10 grams of white chrysanthemum, 20 grams of mother of pearl, 3 roses, and 10 red dates. Decoction the juice twice and mix them, take it twice after meals. One course of treatment is 10 days. Generally, patients will see results after one course of treatment.

Peach Blossom and Angelica Wine

Around the Qingming Festival, collect 300 grams of peach blossoms that have just begun to bloom or have recently opened from the southeast branches, put them in a bottle with 40 grams of Angelica dahurica, add 100 milliliters of white wine, seal it for 1 month, and then open it for use. Drink 1 cup of peach blossom and angelica wine each morning and evening. When drinking, pour a little medicinal wine into your palms, rub your hands together, and when your palms become warm, rub your face back and forth.

4. Chicken with cyperus

1 chicken, 20g Cyperus rotundus, 10g Citrus aurantium, 20g Kumquat cake. After washing the chicken, remove the impurities, put the Chinese medicinal herbs such as Cyperus rotundus into the chicken's belly, and steam it in a steamer. Remove the residue, drink the soup and eat the chicken, and swallow the kumquat cake after eating. Once a week. Suitable for those caused by qi stagnation.