Womens' Hormonal Problems: Part 2

Painful periods and menstruation, which produces heavy blood flow is another symptom or side effect of hormonal imbalances in women of all ages. In fact, a common prescription remedy for these symptoms for years has been to prescribe birth control pills, which are known to adjust the hormone levels in a woman's body.

Women's bodies create two hormones naturally: estrogen and progesterone. Both hormones play important roles in a woman's body, and the balance needs to be maintained in order for everything to work properly. Many things can throw the balance of these hormones off, however, including stress and lack of nutrition, or proper exercise.

Doctors and medical scientists appear to be concerned primarily with estrogen, however, probably because a woman's body produces less of this hormone as she ages. The link between the two hormones, and the full importance of progesterone's role in a woman's body is not fully known. So, common treatments simply try to replace estrogen in a woman's body as it begins to be produced less.

The natural approach, however, is to restore the balance of the hormone levels in the body. This in turn relieves the myriad of conditions and symptoms caused by an imbalance, and helps improve a woman's overall health in the process too.

Herbal Remedies for Balancing Hormones