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Blog83: 5 Best Foods that Balance Your Hormones

Hormones have profound effects on mental, physical and emotional health. They are like messengers that have overpowering affects on your mental, physical and emotional health. Hormones plays a key role in controlling an everyday activity like growth, weight, mood, appetite, metabolism and reproduction. The endocrine glands secretes the right number of hormones required for various body functions.
Hormone imbalance is a most common problem in today's lifestyle. A healthy lifestyle and mindful eating habits are the keystone that help you streamline the hormones and maintain overall health. Choosing the right food is essential for quintessential for maintaining hormone balance.
Here are 5 Best Food to Balance Your Hormones:
1. Omega 3 rich foods: Essential fatty acids are vital for hormone production. Include these healthy fats like flax-seeds, chia seeds, walnuts, sea foods and fish (especially cold water fish like salmon, tuna and mackerel).  
2. Vitamin B Complex rich foods: Hormones play a key role in the emotional state of both men and women, but as women we are more likely to experience extreme and sudden changes in mood as a result of our hormones, mainly due to the monthly cycle and changing levels of progesterone and estrogen. Add milk, milk products, fortified cereals, eggs, shell fish and lean meat to your diet for maintaining emotional well being.
3. Protein rich foods: Protein influences the release of hormones that control appetite and food intake. Low protein diets are linked to decreased growth hormone, estrogen and prolactin (linked to immunity, metabolism and breast milk production) and increased stress responses and thyroid imbalance. Go for dairy products, eggs, lean meat, lentils and legumes.
4. Minerals rich foods: Magnesium, zinc and selenium rich foods stimulates hormones. Green leafy vegetables, nuts, beans, legumes and seeds are excellent sources.
5. Anti- Inflammatory Foods: Consuming anti- inflammatory foods like garlic, ginger, turmeric, tomatoes, berries and nuts help in balancing hormones. 
So, this is all for today's blog. Apart from the above ways try to be happy, avoid stress, eat healthy foods, exercise regularly, take adequate amount of sleep and do things that makes you happy like dancing, painting, writing to maintain your hormones balance. Hope you people like it and don't forget to follow me on Instagram and like my Facebook page.
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