hey y'all! welcome back to my channel if
you are new here my name is Kayla and
welcome so in today's video we're
talking all about balancing your
hormones and I'm also gonna be sharing
three hormone balancing smoothie recipes
so be sure to stick around until the end
because this video is gonna be good
about 85% of the clients that I work
with are female and a lot of them when
they came to me were experiencing some
sort of hormonal imbalance you know
whether it was severe like PCOS or
hypothyroidism or adrenal insufficiency
or maybe it was just a certain symptom
that could possibly be linked to a
hormonal imbalance like fatigue or mood
swings adult acne hot flashes severe PMS
symptoms things like that the point is
that a lot of the women that I've worked
with were experiencing some level of
hormonal imbalance and that's because
there are so many normal disruptors in
our environment today that it's more
important than ever especially us women
to support our endocrine system on a
daily basis and you can support your
endocrine system in a variety of ways
starting with lowering the overall
stress in your life switching to a diet
that supports your hormones and one
thing that I found makes a big
difference is start to include certain
nutrients and adaptogenic herbs into
your diet that specifically target the
endocrine system and really have to
bring those hormones back into balance
and two of my favorite adaptogenic herbs
when it comes to balancing your hormones
are ashwagandha and maca we're going to
be using both of those in our smoothies
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y'all let's get started making these
hormone balancing smoothies the first
one I'm going to share is my ultimate
hormone balancing smoothie and in this
one we're going to be using the
ashwagandha powder and the maca powder
we're gonna start by adding one cup of
unsweetened almond milk half of a frozen
banana 1/4 of an avocado one handful of
kale one celery stalk two tablespoons of
ground chia seeds one tablespoon of
fresh lemon juice 1 teaspoon of
ashwagandha powder and 1 teaspoon of
maca powder
ashwagandha is one of the best
adaptogenic herbs when it comes to
reducing stress and anxiety in the body
it even helps to improve your overall
energy levels you know a lot of my
clients they see their energy levels go
up when they start to include
ashwagandha into their daily diet
ashwagandha can be great for improving
your sleep improving your mood and it's
just great for overall support of your
adrenal and your thyroid gland and by
the way if you've never heard of
adaptogenic herbs they basically have to
promote balance in the body so they
adapt to whatever your body needs
they had this ability to regulate your
system up or down depending on what your
body needs in that moment and
ashwagandha is a true superstar when it
comes to managing stress and
in fact it can actually have to reduce
cortisol which is a hormone that your
body produces when it's under stress now
in the short term that's not necessarily
a bad thing when you need to escape from
from danger right but the problem is
that nowadays we are chronically
stressed and if your cortisol levels are
chronically elevated this can actually
lead to belly fats low energy levels
brain fog and it can even start to wear
down your adrenals and your thyroid and
personally I believe that one of the
reasons why people struggle so much with
low energy levels you know they need
caffeine to wake them up and to get them
going keep them going in the afternoon
is because they live chronically
stressed lives and over time that can
wear down your adrenal glands which
eventually can affect your thyroid you
know it's really just a domino effect so
supporting those adrenal glands and your
overall endocrine system can make the
biggest difference in how you feel your
energy levels your overall sense of
well-being and that's why I love
ashwagandha so much because it really
helps your body to be more resilient
towards stress and anxiety and it can
really help to support those adrenal
glands okay so my next hormone balancing
smoothie is for all my chocolate lovers
out there and it is my chocolate dreams
energy smoothie so in this one we're
going to be using the maca powder and
the cacao powder we're gonna start by
adding in one cup of unsweetened almond
milk one handful of spinach half of a
frozen banana 1/4 of an avocado one
tablespoon of hemp seeds one tablespoon
of almond butter 1 tablespoon of cacao
powder and 1 teaspoon of maca powder now
maca powder is another adaptogenic herb
that's really good for balancing your
hormones in fact it has a lot of similar
benefits to ashwagandha it can help to
increase your energy levels it can help
to reduce stress a little bit but it's
also great for reducing PMS symptoms it
can help to regulate your monthly cycle
and it's great for those of you that are
transitioning off of birth control it
helps to lessen a lot of those negative
side effects maca can also be good for
those of you going through menopause in
fact some studies
actually suggest that maca can help to
reduce hot flashes and night sweats now
if you're experiencing adult acne then
maca can also be helpful with that in
some cases but you know overall maca is
not only great as an adaptogen and herb
and balancing your hormones but it's
also a great source of vitamins and
minerals such as zinc selenium calcium
and potassium and personally I have
found that when I use ashwagandha and
maca together it gives this sort of the
synergistic effect it helps to increase
its effectiveness it seems but I will
say that if this is your first time
using a definite herbs then use them
separately first just to see how your
body reacts to them and then if it
reacts positively then try using them
together and of course I also use cacao
powder in this smoothie no cacao is a
great source of magnesium and I always
tell my female clients you know if
you're craving chocolate that time of
the month it could be your body telling
you that it needs magnesium so
definitely use cacao powder put it in
your smoothies you can bake with it I
like to make fat bombs with it but yeah
reach for that instead of reaching for
that processed milk chocolate that's
full of sugars and additives and all
sorts of nasty ingredients cacao powder
is definitely a staple in my house and I
use it all the time alright and my last
hormone balancing smoothie is my
balancing berrylicious smoothie so we're
going to start by adding one cup of
unsweetened almond milk to the blender
two handfuls of spinach half a cup of
frozen strawberries half a cup of frozen
raspberries one tea spoon of ashwagandha
powder two tablespoons of ground chia
seeds and one tablespoon of flax oil
blend that up and it's ready to go and
by the way all of these smoothie recipes
are pretty flexible so you know feel
free to play around with the superfood
powders to find your favorite
combination of flavors okay y'all those
are my 3 hormone balancing smoothie
recipes and it is nail time for the
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below alright y'all that is it for
today's video I hope that it was helpful
to you maybe you learned something and I
really hope you give these smoothie
recipes a try because there are just so
many people especially women that are
experiencing hormonal imbalances so it's
very important to start to support that
endocrinology psious alright well if you
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