Are we dancing to hormones?

Our vital organs are so important to be in good shape and be healthy. In our own little ways, we try our best to take care. Some are conscious of body care by choosing right foods and follow good habits to live healthy, but whereas, some just survive. This blog wants to address a little more than managing a healthy life. It’s about the effects of the hormones. “Hormones control a host of our bodies’ functions,” says Troy Dillard, MD, a PeaceHealth endocrinologist in Bellingham, Washington. Your hormones are generated by your endocrine system, which is made up of glands and other parts of your body that make and release various hormones. There are a lot of things we do every day that trigger our hormones.

Let me point out a few. Chronic stress puts your health at risk and can wreak havoc on your mind and body. When you are in extreme stress, adrenal glands located atop your kidneys, release a surge of hormones, including adrenaline and cortisol. Adrenaline segregated increases your heart rate, elevates your blood pressure and boosts energy supplies. Then there is cortisol that curbs functions that would be nonessential or harmful in a fight-or-flight situation. The long-term activation of the stress response system and the overexposure to cortisol and other stress hormones that follows, can disrupt almost all your body's processes. This puts you at increased risk of many health problems, including: Anxiety, Depression, Digestive problems, Headaches, Muscle tension and pain, heart disease, heart attack, high blood pressure, stroke, sleep problems, etc.

Oxytocin, dopamine, and serotonin are often referred to as our “happy hormones.” When you’re attracted to another person, your brain releases dopamine, your serotonin levels increase, and oxytocin is produced. This causes you to feel a surge of positive emotion. Having too much dopamine — concentrated in some parts of the brain and not enough in other parts — is linked to being more competitive, aggressive and having poor impulse control. It can lead to conditions that include ADHD, binge eating, addiction and gambling.

We may not be able to successfully manage our hormones every time even with medicines, but most of the reactions can be addressed by how we manage our thoughts positive or negative including our emotions.  Most of the thoughts good or bad or how we feel and what we feel emerges from our heart. We don’t dance to the reactions of our hormone, but basically by what we think and how we feel in our heart. Meditations, external factors and situations are just a temporary solution. You need to have your heart right, to have the thoughts processed through your mind. When it comes to human problem, Jesus estimates the true state of human heart which says, “For from the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, all sexual immorality, theft, lying, and slander. These are what defile you…”. But, instead of setting our heart right, we perform rituals for our body hoping things will be taken care. Further, the Bible estimates the state of a human being, “The Lord observed the extent of human wickedness on the earth, and he saw that everything they thought or imagined was consistently and totally evil.”. Do we have a solution? Yes, we do. To be saved from our wretchedness of sin we need the cleansing of our evil from our heart by trusting Christ who by His crucifixion, death and resurrection offered salvation. A simple prayer can transform you to become a new person and you don’t have to bother about your hormones because you will be able to keep your heart at peace.

 

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