5 Strategies for Restoring Balance and Vitality in Men

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Though you may not realize it, keeping your hormones balanced is extremely important to keeping you healthy as you age. Unfortunately, as you get busier, certain things start falling aside from your immediate attention. Aspects like eating, sleeping, and exercising can be easily disturbed. As such, it becomes easier for you to experience a hormonal imbalance. If you want to keep things balanced and your vitality at its peak, here are five strategies to look and feel years younger.

1. Sleep Well Each Night

Once you get busy with your personal life and professional responsibilities on the job, you may find yourself trying to get by with less and less sleep day after day. If you think this won’t significantly impact your health, you’re wrong. Some studies have shown that men who lose sleep for just two weeks can have as much as a 15% reduction in their testosterone levels. If you let this pattern continue, your testosterone and other hormones may become more and more imbalanced.

2. Eat Healthy Foods

As you begin to get at least seven or eight hours of sleep night after night, you should also prioritize eating a diet filled with different types of healthy foods each day. To make the most of this, do such things as:

• Eat plenty of protein
• Include fruits and vegetables 
• Limit sugar intake
• Drink alcohol in moderation

Along with these suggestions, you should include healthy fats in your diet several times weekly. Foods considered to have healthy fats include various types of nuts and dark chocolate, which means you can still satisfy your sweet tooth and eat healthy at the same time.

3. Limit Light at Night

No, this does not mean you should relegate yourself to stumbling around in the dark once the sun goes down. Instead, you should be willing to limit your blue light exposure as you get closer to going to bed. In today’s world, this means putting down your cell phone and turning away from your computer, which can be tough to do at times. However, if you don’t, the blue light can confuse your body about what it’s supposed to do regarding going to sleep or staying awake. It can lead to your body producing less melatonin and messing regard circadian rhythm, resulting in less sleep, weight gain, fatigue, and other signs of hormone imbalance in men.

4. Manage Your Stress Levels

With so much happening in today’s world, you can become overwhelmed with stress before knowing what is happening. Whether you have a job with plenty of responsibilities or are dealing with issues in your personal life, letting your stress levels get too high will result in your body producing high levels of cortisol and adrenaline. 

As this starts to happen, you may experience a weight gain of more than a few pounds, changes in your mood that may have you feeling depressed and anxious, and potentially problems with your cardiovascular system that may lead to high blood pressure and put you at greater risk of having a heart attack or stroke.

5. Exercise Regularly

One of the best ways to keep your hormones in balance and give yourself plenty of vitality each day is to get yourself on an exercise program and exercise several times per week. If you want to go all the way and get extremely fit, you can join a nearby gym and find yourself using treadmills, weights, and other types of exercise equipment. 

Should you decide you just want to increase your fitness a bit more and do so in the convenience of your home, you can do strength-training exercises like push-ups and start taking walks around your neighborhood in the mornings or evenings.

Bottom Line

Instead of thinking you’ll need to rely on pills from your doctor or other similar treatment options, you can use these strategies and discover restoring balance and vitality in your life is much easier than you anticipated. Your testosterone and other hormones will stay balanced as you exercise, eat right, and get plenty of sleep.