Living Well Naturally Nov. 2014 | Page 26

BODY HEALTH Are Your Hormones Out of Balance? By Dr. Michael Morsillo, B.Sc., N.D. Have you ever thought that you may have a hormonal imbalance? Maybe there is a new symptom you have that can’t be explained; or perhaps you feel your once boundless vitality slowly slipping away, only to be explained by a shrug of the shoulders and a simple “I guess that’s just part of aging”? I have had many patients with long-standing health issues caused by hormonal imbalances, which had never been identified. Hormones are extremely important to our overall health and are often described as our “messengers” because our body uses hormones for communication. For example, if our cells need to take in sugar from the blood stream, our pancreas wil