Expert shares 'red flag' signs your hormones are out of balance

An expert has shared the signs she seems most often in women with hormone imbalances. Being out of sync with your hormones can cause a range of unwanted symptoms from fatigue or weight gain to itchy skin or low mood.

Hormones are chemicals produced by glands in the endocrine system and released into the bloodstream, and an imbalance occurs when there is too much or too little of a hormone. Hormones are important for regulating many different processes in the body including appetite and , sleep cycles, reproductive cycles and sexual function, body temperature and mood.

Jaime, a clinical naturopath, shares helpful videos and advice on TikTok as and has recently discussed the "red flags" she sees in patients with hormone imbalances. The caption read: "Here are the big signs your hormones are out of balance from a naturopath. This is what I’m looking for."

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She said: "Some signs that you might have a hormonal imbalance and that is something that we need to address. So my name is Jaime, I'm a naturopath and homeopath focus on women and family health.

"Now I get people say to me all the time 'do I have a hormone imbalance', 'are my hormones out of whack', 'how do I know', 'do I test full bath' right? These from my point of view often as a naturopath I don't test.

"The reason why I don't test is because your symptoms are like giant red flags to me that your hormones are out of whack so I thought I would let you guys know what are some of the signs that I look for as a naturopath to tell me that your hormones are out of balance.

"So one of them, really the most common kind of presentations of a hormonal imbalance is the high oestrogen and therefore low progesterone picture. What does this look like? High oestrogen picture is that before your period you get painful breasts, swollen breast, you get really bloated - really bloated or really fluidy - my clients will often say they get really fluidy.

"Now you don't have to have all of these by the way, I'm just giving you some examples. Getting before or during your period, having issues with your sleep before or during your period."

She added: "Then also looking at the heaviness of your period, if it's really heavy really painful these are really big signs to me that you have that high oestrogen picture. Now let's look at the low progesterone picture, this is where sometimes you might spot in around your ovulation and then it's spotting in the lead up to or just be like in the days or like weeks leading up to your period or the few days before your period.

"This is a really big sign right so if you start your period by spotting in the days leading into it that's low progesterone. Now the reason why we know that that's low progesterone is because progesterone helps hold the blood in...so if you're literally leaking blood you don't have enough progesterone right.

"This is when I then look at your whole case, all of your symptoms, everything that's going on in your health, in your life your digestion, your sleep, your stress, your mental health - I look at everything.

"Then from there I put together a personalised treatment plan right so when you have symptoms that jump out at me like this. I don't need to test because it's so obvious to me because I've been doing this for so long and I know this I know these sign."

Signs of hormonal imbalances

According to , these are the 10 signs of hormonal imbalance to look out for:

• Mood swings
• Heavy or painful periods
• Low libido
• Insomnia and poor-quality sleep
• Unexplained weight gain
• Skin problems
• Fertility problems
• Headaches
• Weak bones
• Vaginal dryness