Dr Lalitha Badul
Hormones are your body’s chemical messengers. Produced in the endocrine glands, these powerful chemicals travel around your bloodstream telling tissues and organs what to do.
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They help control many of your body’s major processes, including metabolism and reproduction. When you have a hormonal imbalance, you have too much or too little of a certain hormone.
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Even tiny changes can have serious effects throughout your whole body.
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Think of hormones like a cake recipe. Too much or too little of any one ingredient affects the final product.
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While some hormone levels fluctuate throughout your lifetime and may just be the result of natural aging, other changes occur when your endocrine glands get the recipe wrong.
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