Healthy Habit Hack: 8 Types of Hormones – EXPLAINED!

Tracee:

When people think about hormones, they think about estrogen, progesterone, and testosterone but there are so many others.

What do we need to do to actually help start regulating our hormones?

Debbie:

What people don’t realize is that cholesterol is in animal fats and is the precursor for all the hormones.

You actually need cholesterol in your diet just to even make your hormones. 

My favorite hormone to talk about especially related to low-carb dieting is insulin because what people don’t realize is that insulin is produced when you eat glucose any kind of sugar. 

Your insulin goes up and what does insulin do? It wants to regulate how much sugar is in the blood. So it actually hides the sugar. It doesn’t get rid of the sugar but it takes the sugar out and it actually stores it. 

When insulin goes up, you are now a fat-storing person.

Tracee:

That is why it’s so important to keep insulin low, so you’re not storing fat.

When insulin is low, glucagon is high and glucagon is a fat releasing hormone.

So if you just think about managing your insulin and all carbohydrates end up breaking down into glucose which puts your pancreas on alert and then your body secretes insulin.

Once you’re secreting insulin, your fat-storing. 

Debbie:

The cholesterol is important for our bodies because it is the precursor for all the hormones to be made.

We need our hormones especially estrogen, testosterone, progesterone – we need all our sex hormones and they’re actually made with cholesterol. 

You need cholesterol in your diet just to make your sex hormones and people don’t realize that they always want to blame the poor cholesterol.

Tracee:

Cholesterol puts out all the fires and it’s actually the sugar and the inflammation caused by sugar that causes all the heart disease, stroke and then cholesterol comes to actually patch up the hole.

When we age, cholesterol all of a sudden becomes “demonized” and so we stop eating it and you wonder why you age faster and it is because you’re not making all the youthful hormones.

There are studies out there saying, “the higher cholesterol level you have the longer you live.”

Another hormone people probably don’t think about is cortisol and cortisol is a stress hormone.

When we are in fight or flight which is when all your body’s energy will go to your limb so you can run away from the tiger, however, it’s not good to be in a chronic state of hot fight or flight or high levels of stress because then your body’s energy is doing other things.

Cortisol is also a fat-storage hormone.

If you have high cortisol high stress you could be putting on weight without even realizing it just from being stressed that’s why that’s where meditation, deep breathing, and any distressing activities.

It’s very important to keep our cortisol at bed – keep it level.

Debbie:

Another very important hormone is leptin. Leptin is the hormone that literally tells you that you’re full and you can stop eating and it’s produced by fat cells so your fat cells are filling up because you’re eating food and they are producing leptin.

Leptin wants to cross the blood-brain barrier so we can tell your brain are full and the problem is people are eating way too much that there’s so much leptin being produced and when you are a sugar burner and have high inflammation the leptin does not cross the blood-brain barrier and they’re finding the leptin is being produced by the fat cells.

There’s a lot of leptin in the blood but it’s not getting in and it’s not making you feel full.

People are constantly not feeling satisfied then they’re constantly eating.

Tracee:

The last hormone is ghrelin. I always say ghrelin is like growling so your stomach is growling for

food ghrelin growling, get it?

So when we eat when we’re not hungry because it’s lunchtime or dinner time then your ghrelin actually never has an opportunity to work or to be needed so you actually can be resistant to it because your body all of a sudden doesn’t need it.

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