Dr. Natasha Turner’s Hormone Diet
Dr. Natasha Turner, ND, is a Canadian naturopath located in Toronto, Canada who has written the bestseller “The Hormone Diet – Lose Fat, Gain Strength, Live Younger Longer”. She also runs a practice in Toronto which provides a program to women and men who want to balance their hormones, detox, and obtain nutrition counselling, etc.
“The Hormone Diet” is a well researched book which explains her program for achieving optimum health and balanced hormones by way of a hormone diet. It is divided into two parts, the first explaining hormones and their effect on health, hormone balance and weight loss. Hormone balance and the role hormones play in weight loss are the keys to achieving menopause weight loss. Without hormone balance, we will not be able to control our weight and health. This is the same thing that all the experts are saying and current research reveals.
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Hormones not only control our appetites and ability to lose weight. They play a vital role in our ability to be able to maintain weight loss and a multitude of functions in the body. Unbalanced hormones will affect the very quality of our life, including our sense of wellbeing, our ability to sleep, our energy levels and how we experience menopause and aging. Dr. Turner also looks at other root causes of obesity besides hormone imbalance, problems such as inflammation, thyroid and adrenal problems.
She also discusses the Mediterranean diet and its known benefits to our health including curing metabolic issues, reducing high blood pressure and prevention of heart disease. She also mentions the Glyci-med diet approach to eating (which helps balance blood sugar levels in the body) and believes that a healthy balanced hormone diet falls somewhere between these two systems of diets. Eating the correct foods from the Mediterranean diet at the correct times is, she believes, the way to go. And we wholeheartedly agree.
Dr. Turner’s devised method of menopause diet is a low glycemic Mediterranean diet combination which dictates eating more vegetables than fruits (six to ten portions of vegetables, three portions of fruits), eggs and poultry three to five times per week, daily servings of nuts, protein bars and whey protein, only one to three portions of whole grains a day, potatoes and sweets are eaten only once a week
Like the other experts already discussed here, such as Dr. Oz, Suzanne Somers, and the researchers who have investigated the Mediterranean diet and the Okinwa hormone diets, balancing your hormones comes from a multi-pronged approach which includes stress reduction, exercise, improving quality of sleep, and hormone balancing by bioidentical hormones. Following a hormone diet is also a part of this for optimum health.
Dr. Turner’s approach is a three step process to total wellness and fat loss. The first step involves renewing and revitalizing your body by reducing inflammation, fixing the problem of sleep deprivation, and reducing stress levels. Secondly, nourishing your body and balancing your hormones if you need to. Lastly, restoring your strength, vigour and radiance by way of exercising regularly. It is a common sense approach to hormone diets and fat loss which looks at the whole health profile of an individual.
Her advice for preparing yourself for the hormone diet includes an anti-inflammatory detox diet which you will follow for two weeks to reduce inflammation in the body and your exposure to toxins in our food and environment. This is the way to discovering food sensitivities that might be making us feel bad and wreak havoc with our health and wellbeing.
The Hormone Diets book also contains a hormone profile questionnaire which you can fill out and help identify hormone imbalance issues. Delicious healthy recipes are found at the back of the book with accompanying nutritional information and exercise routines for building your strength and stamina. Also, you will find many nutritional supplement recommendations for such deficiencies as hormonal imbalance, mood issues, and estrogen dominance. Dr. Turner, besides recommending nutritional supplements etc., also writes of the benefits of sex and exercise, both of which help balance hormones, reducing cortisol levels and increasing the feel good hormones such as serotonin levels and endorphins, and burn the fat. This hormone diet can’t be bad at all.
“The Hormone Diet” is a great read and full of excellent advice if you find yourself facing a situation of hormone imbalance and excess menopause weight gain. This book is suitable for both women and men. Remember, achieving menopause weight loss goals begins with revitalizing your body, getting your stress levels down, sleeping well and balancing your hormones and taking a good look at your lifestyle. With these basic changes to your lifestyle you will be able to live a healthy and longer life. Definitely worth the read if you are looking for hormone diets to help with restoring hormone balance and achieving fat loss that seems to sneak up on us as we reach menopause.
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