
How Hormones and Movement Are Connected
Hormones play a key role in how your body responds to training, sleep, stress, and recovery. When hormone levels are out of balance due to chronic stress, poor sleep, or cycle fluctuations, it affects everything from your core strength to digestion and mental clarity.
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Elevated stress hormones (like cortisol) in both men and women can lead to tight pelvic floor muscles, disrupted gut function, reduced core coordination, and slower recovery.
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Low-level chronic stress impacts both men and women, often leading to issues like fatigue, poor digestion, anxiety, disrupted sleep, and abdominal tension.
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Disrupted sleep suppresses melatonin and growth hormone, both essential for repair, immunity, and hormone regulation.
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Women with unbalanced estrogen or progesterone may experience increased bloating, inflammation, hair loss, pelvic pain, and joint instability during certain phases of the menstrual cycle.
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Unfortunately, you can't outrun unbalanced hormones, poor gut health or continual stress. Your health is a system, and it works best when all the areas are supported simultaneously. This is why our Heal'rs design classes and treatments around breath, core awareness, and total-body integration, it goes beyond reps, supplements or medications, but education for long term health.
