What Is The Endocrine System?
The endocrine system provides all the good chemicals that run our body – each one depends on the right ratio of another to balance your chemical makeup perfectly. Part of our endocrine system is in the brain.
Hormones regulate the digestive system, muscle retention and weight and are affected by stress, transitioning through middle age and diabetes. When hormones are balanced, the body’s system runs at its optimal level. One chemical gets out of whack and the whole system starts to wobble. Many of these hormone imbalances add to our stroke risk and brain performance.
Who Do I Find?
Endocrinologists, hormone replacement therapists, naturopath doctors and Chinese medicine practitioners are good sources of hormone health and balancing. The key is finding someone who truly understands the relationship all of your hormones play with each other and their effect on the body. Knowing an imbalanced gut from stress will lead to poor brain function is important. Be sure whomever you choose looks at your entire medical history, medications and treats your body as an entire entity.
Caution
This is not an area to play doctor yourself so before you stock up with fenugreek and maca at your local vitamin store, talk to professionals. The endocrine system can be disrupted with the tiniest amount of hormone changes but have gigantic consequences.
Below are articles explaining the importance of our endocrine system, location of these components, how they can be affection by brain injury, diabetes, stress and diet.
BRAIN ANATOMY AND HOW IT WORKS – A BRAIN PRIMER
CHRONIC STRESS PUTS YOUR HEALTH AT RISK
RESEARCH PROGRESS ON THE ROLE OF HORMONES IN ISCHEMIC STROKE
NEUROENDOCRINE CHANGES IN PATIENTS WITH ACUTE SPACE OCCUPYING ISCHEMIC STROKE
HORMONAL IMBALANCES AFTER BRAIN INJURY
DECREASED SERUM TESTOSTERONE IN MEN WITH ACUTE ISCHEMIC STROKE