Hormones 101
Imagine a world where the word “hormonal” isn’t used as an insult. Knowell strives to help women recognize that hormones help make them who they are and who they can be. It’s time that women feel empowered and embrace their bodies by understanding hormone health. Feeling hormonal can be fantastic!
Just like we strive for balance in our lifestyles—offsetting long work weeks with plenty of rest and self-care—our bodies seek equilibrium, too. (This balanced biological state is called homeostasis, if you want to get technical.) Hormones are highly specialized watchdogs for homeostasis. They communicate closely with tissues and organs, sensing tiny shifts in body chemistry and responding accordingly.
Think you don’t need to worry about hormonal health unless you’re trying to conceive or nearing menopause? Not true. From a woman’s first menstrual cycle and for the rest of her life, hormones regulate mood, metabolism, sleep, and much more.
Sadly, we aren’t often encouraged to have pride in the possibilities of our hormones. Instead, we tend to blame them when we don’t feel our best. Symptoms of hormonal imbalance, like bloating, mood swings, fatigue, and PMS, are often brushed aside. They’re normalized, and women are taught to accept them.
But here’s the thing: Hormonal health is a reflection of overall health. When we consistently produce too much of one hormone or too little of another, it creates a ripple effect that can throw the whole body out of balance. This can contribute to major problems down the road, including inflammation, chronic fatigue, mood disorders, immune disturbances, sexual dysfunction, and infertility.
This is why Knowell exists. We’re on a mission to empower you by helping you understand your hormone health. It’s time to embrace your body and recognize that your hormones are a powerful asset, not an adversary.
Hormones are
incredibly individual.
Your hormonal profile is unique to you, and it naturally shifts over time. There are over 50 hormones and they all interact like instruments in a symphony: Each organ in the endocrine system relies on the others to function at its best.
In an ideal situation, every note blends with the rest to create something beautiful. However, if the percussion suddenly goes out of rhythm or the string section plays too quietly, the music doesn’t sound as harmonious.
That second scenario is all too common, but there are things you can do to positively impact your hormonal experience. The first step in taking better care of your hormones is to understand their needs.
Just like many other aspects of overall health, lifestyle elements such as fitness and environment can make a difference—and so can nutrition.
Knowell provides focused nutrients to nourish hormone balance, and the information you need to support your hormones in every other aspect of life.
The endocrine system is where our hormones come alive. It’s a body-wide complex of glands that create hormones and release them into the bloodstream. These hormones communicate with other organs and tissues to get important jobs done—growth and development, reproduction, sleep, and metabolism, to name a few—and to create balance in the body.
Want to know more? Explore the key elements of your endocrine system below—because, really, we should all be on a first-name basis with our own biology.