The Importance of Maintaining Hormone Balance for Your Skin
Have you ever heard of the word acne? Well, it is a skin disorder, mainly caused by some hormonal imbalance. There are a whole host of problems, symptoms, and conditions which are caused by hormonal imbalance in your body.
Hormones are responsible for the regulation of many important functions; among them are: cell metabolism, muscle metabolism, balance of our internal environment, sexual and reproductive function, sleep and growth cycles, and the burning and storing of fat. In regards to acne, hormones also control and regulate your skin oil production. Oil secreted by skin is also known as sebum. Sebum production goes into overdrive when our hormones are in flux.
The acne dilemma is often experienced more by female society as compared to men. This does not mean that men don’t get acne badly as well, but women are typically the ones that often suffer acne even later into life. Our hormone levels are subject to more swings than men are, simply because we experience life events that change our hormone balance, like our menstrual cycle, pregnancy, menopause, and other events that make our hormones a little more difficult to control than men’s are.
Very often, the teens become victims of acne because they are experiencing numerous changes in hormone levels and hormone activity. They are going through the changes that make them men and women, respectively, and unfortunately this entails a whole lot of hormone craziness during that time period. Our skin’s clarity and freedom from acne depends in large part on what our hormones are doing, so it should come as no surprise that during these formative years of hormone dips and spikes, you would experience acne the worst. .
So far you understand that your acne is an important message that something is going very wrong internally. The big question on every ones mind then is, how do you begin to regulate these hormones in our body? Since this article is going to take up quite a bit more time than I originally thought, I’m going to split this into two parts. Hormone balance, as you know, is absolutely a fundamental, critical aspect to not only hormonal acne control, but also to your mental health, and it is something that should be addressed often.
