The Best Way to Balance Your Hormones
Fasting especially targets the hormone insulin—reducing insulin and improving insulin sensitivity. Reducing insulin has incredible benefits for your health. Reducing insulin can potentially help: • Decrease inflammation
• Improve diabetes
• Improve insulin resistance
• Decrease fat in the liver
• Decrease your risk for obesity
• Improve metabolic syndrome
• Support the autonomic nervous system
Fasting is fantastic for many other hormones as well, including: 1. Leptin 2. Thyroid stimulating hormone 3. Androgens 4. Estrogen 5. Testosterone 6. Cortisol 7. Growth hormone 8. Prolactin
Fasting can help support your circadian rhythms. By supporting your circadian rhythms, you’re also supporting and helping to balance certain hormones. Fasting also helps support your gut microbiome, which again may help improve your hormones.
Ketonia dietitian expert
Review of studies on the effects of intermittent fasting on sex hormone levels in adult females and males[۱]:
The findings of the studies indicate that fasting generally reduces androgens (i.e., testosterone and FAI) while increasing sex hormone-binding globulin (SHBG) in premenopausal females with obesity. These findings indicate that hyperandrogenic disorders like polycystic ovarian syndrome(PCOS) may be treated with intermittent fasting. However, it is essential to note that these results were generally only observed when food consumption was limited to earlier in the day. Thus, premenopausal women may need to finish eating by 4 pm each day to observe these benefits in androgen markers. However, other reproductive hormones, including prolactin, gonadotropins, and estrogen, do not appear to be impacted by fasting. Also, these results imply that intermittent fasting lowers total and free testosterone levels among lean, physically active young men. Despite the evidence being fairly limited, SHBG does not appear to change with intermittent fasting. Interestingly, the drop in circulating testosterone levels had no deleterious effects on muscle mass or strength.
Ramin Taghizadeh
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