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How Hormones Affect Our Mood, Reactions, and Motivation

Neurotransmitters play a crucial role in sustaining both physical and mental health. At every age, they shape how we feel, think, and respond.

While neurotransmitters directly affect the brain, hormones often govern their activity. Therefore, to identify the true root cause of your symptoms, testing neurotransmitters alongside hormones can give you and your healthcare practitioner a deeper insight into your well-being—or any disruptions to it.

Some people are born with hereditary conditions that influence hormone levels, while others may experience hormonal shifts due to factors like stress, poor diet, or exposure to harmful chemicals. Individuals with neurodivergent traits, such as ADHD, may notice a worsening of their symptoms when hormone levels fluctuate.

Restoring healthy hormone levels can significantly alleviate these issues and help people feel their best.

If you suspect a hormonal issue, regular testing is essential. This enables the creation of a personalized plan to address hormone irregularities and improve how you feel and function.

How Well is Your Hormone Therapy Doing? 

Over the past 25 years, hormone therapies have greatly expanded and diversified. Prescription medicines now target specific hormones to inhibit, excite, or block them. 

Today's hormone therapies are used to effectively manage diseases and conditions such as hormone-related breast cancer, prostate enlargement, acne, pattern baldness, thyroid disorders, menopause symptoms, infertility, osteoporosis, endometriosis, polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), adrenal insufficiency, growth hormone deficiencies, and new hormone-related contraceptives. 

While these treatments offer direct benefits, they also have expected side effects that impact the overall hormonal health of the body, leading to many undesirable consequences. 

Fortunately, hormone level testing has evolved alongside these therapies. You can now measure the impact of your hormone therapy on your overall hormone balance. Canary Club offers the LCMS Saliva Steroid Profile, newly updated to provide unparalleled sensitivity and specificity, helping you and your healthcare provider monitor and manage your treatment with greater accuracy. 

Body Wellness Starts with body awareness.

Do you ever feel like you're doing everything right—eating well, exercising regularly, and getting enough sleep—but still not feeling your best? It can be frustrating when you're putting in the effort but not seeing the results you want. Don't overthink this one. The time to begin a new course is NOW. No matter the size, we're here to help you take informed steps, one at a time, that can make a beneficial impact on your wellness.

As a thyroid doctor, I am particularly concerned about my patients' exposure to COVID-19. I believe thyroid issues are a risk factor for not only more easily contracting the virus, but also for having a more severe course of illness once it takes hold.

Spring Cleansing While at Home: 7 Natural Tips

While stuck at home, we have more time to focus on our health. Turn shelter in place into a mini detox retreat.

We are often given information that promises to help us to age in good health, lose weight, feel younger, look younger, or to recapture our lost youth- but how do we know where to start?  Your hormones may need some fine-tuning.

The Blue Monday Blues

Called "the most depressing day of the year," is it just seasonal sadness or real depression?

Stay lifted throughout the winter season!

Make tea time a boost for your hormones and neurotransmitters.

Hormone Cleansing for Springtime—7 Natural Tips

Across the world, traditional healers have used diet, herbs, and tonics to detox the body, cleanse the liver, and purify the blood.

Spice. Is there a connection?

Formerly having burned out her adrenal glands to a full Stage 3 Adrenal Fatigue level, Kitty was motivated to develop healthy solutions to transform the way the world uses spices.

The production of hormones is done by many glands throughout our body, and together they are part of the endocrine system.

When you have a thyroid disorder or disease, these conditions originate in the endocrine system and cause a hormone imbalance. When you have a hormone imbalance, the amount of hormone produced by a specific endocrine gland is either too little or too much of one or many hormones.

Are you depressed or do you suffer from anxiety?

Are you seeking relief from your own mind? As you search for answers to these pressing health concerns, it helps to understand how hormones and other brain chemicals affect moods.