Hormone Replacement Therapy: What Exercise Can Do for Your Hormones

Maintain a regular exercise routine while receiving hormone replacement therapy in Miami.

We experience hormone imbalances throughout our lives. An unhealthy diet, excessive stress, thyroid problems, and insufficient sleep may cause hormone imbalance. Hormone replacement therapy is the best way to balance your hormones.

However, aside from hormone therapy, there are other ways to help balance your hormones naturally. Lifestyle changes, including maintaining a regular exercise routine, can improve your hormonal health and allow you to feel and perform your best.

Let’s find out why it’s best to combine regular physical activity with hormone therapy in Miami.

Maintaining a regular fitness routine can help optimize the results of your hormone replacement therapy plan in Miami.

Can Exercise Help Balance Hormones?

The answer is yes! Engaging in regular exercise strongly influences our hormonal health. Besides improving blood flow to your muscles, exercise increases hormone receptor sensitivity, meaning that nutrients and hormone signals are delivered more effectively. A regular fitness routine is a big solution to many problems, especially hormonal issues.

Movement and exercise of any kind build strength, burn calories and improve your overall health. Hormones control many processes in the body, such as balancing blood sugar, regulating hunger, and promoting regular bowel movements. Regular exercise can help support these functions in our body.

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Exercise isn’t just something you do for a good sweat session; it’s also good for your overall health. Muscles also play a crucial role in metabolic regulation and hormone production.

What Hormones are Affected by Exercise?

Hormones are essential to the body, and having a regular exercise routine significantly affects our hormones. Exercise is best done simultaneously with hormone therapy.

• Dopamine – Dopamine is the “feel good” hormone giving us a sense of pleasure; it’s part of the body’s reward system. Our body also uses dopamine to regulate heart rate, sleep cycles, moods, attention, motivation, working memory, learning, and pain perception.

  Exercising triggers the release of dopamine, which improves mood. Exercise has been shown to increase executive function, improve attention, and regulate dopamine levels in the brain.

• Serotonin – Another hormone and neurotransmitter, serotonin, plays a crucial role in many body functions, such as mood, sleep, digestion, nausea, bone health, blood clotting, and sexual desire. It mediates satisfaction, happiness, and optimism.

  Just like dopamine, physical activity releases serotonin, which promotes a good night’s rest and improves mood. Men and women who suffer from anxiety and panic attacks can also benefit from exercise since dopamine is crucial to mental health.

• Testosterone – Testosterone is the most important male sex hormone, although women also have testosterone. Aside from regulating sex drive, testosterone is also said to affect men’s bone mass, fat distribution, muscle mass, and sperm production.

  Aside from hormone therapy, exercise will boost testosterone, though certain exercise increases testosterone more than others. It is believed that exercise increases testosterone levels because it promotes muscle building. The more muscle you have, the higher your testosterone level will be.

• Estrogen – Estrogen is the most influential female sex hormone. This hormone is the master multitasker of your endocrine system, affecting bone health, cholesterol levels, and various physical features in women, including the breasts, menstrual cycle, and reproduction.

  Studies have shown that regular exercise (aside from hormone therapy) significantly changes estrogen metabolism and reduces the risk of breast cancer.

• Cortisol – Among its many functions, cortisol is important in regulating your body’s stress response, thus called the “stress hormone.” Cortisol also affects how your body metabolizes fat, proteins, and carbohydrates.

  High cortisol levels are not good for the body. Engaging in non-strenuous, low-impact exercises can help lower your cortisol levels, so you can sleep better and reduce stress.

• Human Growth Hormone – The human growth hormone (HGH) plays many roles in the body’s essential functions, such as building muscle mass, boosting metabolism, and burning fat.  Exercise is a potent physiological stimulus for the secretion of HGH. Whenever we exercise, our HGH levels increase within 15 minutes!

Maintain a fitness routine together with your hormone therapy in Miami.

What are the Best Exercises for Hormonal Imbalance?

Depending on the type of hormonal imbalance, specific exercises are more effective than others. You must first determine if you are experiencing a hormonal imbalance. We use modern proprietary diagnostic testing at the NuLife Institute in Miami.

Our clinic offers several options for hormone therapy for women, such as bioidentical hormones and human growth hormone therapy.

Test your hormone levels to get an idea of where you stand, then adjust your exercise regimen to correct any imbalances and support your body’s needs.

Declining levels of estrogen and testosterone can lead to bone loss over time. If your estrogen or testosterone levels are low, you should focus on weight-bearing and strength-training exercises (such as yoga, hiking, and walking).

For those with higher levels of testosterone than usual, our hormone experts recommend sticking to low-intensity, gentle exercises during hormone therapy. Activities like yoga, Pilates, or brisk walking inhibit the continued overproduction of testosterone.

Those with high cortisol levels should avoid high-intensity workouts without adequate recovery. Overtraining can exacerbate physical stress and increase anxiety symptoms.

Compared to endurance training, high-intensity activities involving serious resistance and explosive movements are more effective for people with low levels of HGH.

Feel Your Best No Matter Your Age with Hormone Replacement Therapy in Miami

Our goal at NuLife Institute is to give our patients the best health, function, and longevity possible. We offer hormone replacement therapy for patients who want to improve their quality of life due to age-related hormone decline.

The NuLife Institute is a medical facility in Miami, FL, specializing in functional, integrative medicine, and age management and provides individualized, non-surgical age-reversing treatment plans.

Contact NuLife Institute today at 305-400-0005 for a complimentary consultation so you can speak with an expert. Live the healthy life you deserve with Miami’s best hormone replacement therapy.