Blog: Hormonal Balance & Health Tips | Health Natura

Your hormones control your mood, emotions, and mental health [9]. Most people blame external circumstances for mood changes. The real cause sits within your biochemistry. Estrogen, progesterone, and testosterone fluctuations directly impact neurotransmitters. This creates mood changes, irritability, and depressive episodes [10]. A study of 86,000 women revealed 1.7 to 4 percent developed OCD after childbirth [11]—another 25 to 40 percent experienced recurring OCD symptoms [11]. Hormones an …

Too much progesterone from HRT (Hormone Replacement Therapy) creates symptoms nearly identical to PMS, making them easy to miss without proper knowledge. Progesterone remains essential for reproductive health, yet excessive levels lead to uncomfortable daily effects. Progesterone naturally rises to 10 times normal levels during pregnancy, peaking in the third trimester (65 to 290 ng/mL). Got questions? Ask the author in the comments section at the bottom of this page. Using hormone replacement t …