Blood sugar, or glucose, is your body's primary energy source, derived mainly from carbohydrates in our diet. When you eat, your digestive system breaks down food into glucose, which then enters your bloodstream. The hormone insulin, produced by the pancreas, helps transport this glucose into your cells for energy or storage.
How does this impact weight, mood and hormones?
But what about happiness? That can be elusive these days as well. You may be somebody who struggles to find it regularly, or perhaps you could just use a little more of it in general (who couldn't?). So today I thought I'd share a bit of information on something that we have some control over...The Happy Hormones.
Almost all hormones have some influence on mood—including sex hormones like estrogen and progesterone as well as stress hormones like cortisol, but there's a small group of hormones that have a particularly large amount of influence. They include:
If you've been trying everything but you're not losing weight, there are few areas to examine, hormones being one of them.
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