Unexplained Weight Gain and Tiredness? Kyla’s Female Hormone Panel Helps Solve the Riddle!

Hormones get a bad rap. You might blame sudden hormonal changes for feeling irritable. Maybe you hold hormones responsible for your sob fest while binging TV teen dramas and rom coms . Of course, you don’t want to hear someone else blame your behavior on hormones. After all, they aren’t in control. You are.

Still, there’s no question these stealthy chemical messengers are at least to be responsible for everything from unexplained weight gain to insomnia to irregular periods. Possible culprits include your cortisol levels and overall thyroid health. Guessing won’t solve the issue. Neither will swallowing the latest internet-promoted elixir. No, if you’re hoping to resolve unexpected hormonal changes and achieve an ideal metabolic balance, then your first step should be getting an at-home hormone panel. Because you don’t want to blame hormones for life’s challenges. But you also don’t want to ignore them either.

Those Sometimes Horrible Hormones

While many might first consider their effects on the body, the reality is far more intricate than a simple estrogen-progestin dynamic. With over four dozen hormones orchestrating various bodily functions, it’s an intricate dance of biochemical messengers. However, amidst this complexity, the urgent issues of exhaustion, sleep deprivation, unwanted weight gain, and even more severe health challenges demand immediate attention and resolution.

Imagine your endocrine system as a very active group chat. The party planner is the part of your brain called the hypothalamus. Although the size of a fingertip, this small but mighty leader is in charge of everything from your body’s temperature to your cortisol levels. Located at the base of the brain, the hypothalamus sends “text messages” through your blood via the nearby pituitary gland. Different tissues receive those “texts” and respond by creating and releasing hormones. These chemicals have a relationship with just about every part of your body including your organs, skin and muscles.

Unfortunately, a perfectly planned party falls apart if one person drops the ball. That’s why getting your hormones checked can help you solve the riddle of everything from elevated stress to unexplained weight gain. If you have questions and want an answer that doesn’t involve driving to a doctor’s office, then an at-home hormone panel may be ideal. Instead of waiting to be seen, you need only do a simple finger prick and mail in a sample. Just remember, all at-home tests aren’t created equal. Right now, Kyla offers a test that will look at 14 important bio markers including your estrogen levels, progesterone levels, thyroid function and cortisol levels for $99 or get it covered by your insurance. Many similar tests cost more than twice as much.

Kyla, analyzing a small blood sample can save your life. Our mission is to make the best diagnostic solutions available in a convenient app that leverages proprietary AI technology that identifies hidden risks other tests miss.

By analyzing what makes you unique – your genetic inheritance, lifestyle habits, and health status – we multiply the diagnostic power of a hormone panel tests so you can identify the underlying cause of any imbalance and act when it matters: before you get sick.

Knowing Your Hormones is Half the Battle

Even otherwise healthy people can be suddenly sidelined by hormonal changes like elevated cortisol levels. When you understand your hormones, it’s easy to see how an imbalance can radically alter your life. After all, hormones aren’t just responsible for negative events like unexplained weight gain. 

Some hormones have even become popular supplements –– like melatonin which is described on the National Institutes of Health website as, a “hormone that your brain produces in response to darkness…[it] helps with the timing of your circadian rhythms (24-hour internal clock) and with sleep.” Most studies on the supplement’s efficacy have been inconclusive but a recent one considered it safe for older adults and reported it delivered modest benefits for “treating insomnia and for circadian rhythm sleep-wake disorders.”

If you’ve ever narrowly avoided a car accident, then you know exactly what receiving a dose of the stress hormone cortisol feels like. Responsible for the fight-or-flight response which includes elevated breathing and heart rate, cortisol levels that don’t quickly return to normal following a stressful situation can be a problem. In fact, elevated cortisol levels at night will not only disrupt your sleep-wake cycle but they often lead to unexplained weight gain. That’s because cortisol elevates your blood sugar. When that drops, you may not only be hungry but crave foods night in sugar and simple carbohydrates.

Thyroid health is another important factor when it comes to body weight because the gland produces hormones that interact with everything from your digestive and cardiovascular systems to regulating your metabolic rate.

Hormones do a lot –– and we haven’t even gotten into the way they evolve from the adrenal gland maturing to the point that it signals pubescent development including  breasts and pubic hair to the affects of declining amounts of estrogen beginning in your mid to late 20s. There’s even a hormone that’s only produced when you’re pregnant. The human chorionic gonadotropin hormone (hCG n) increases during the first trimester and is believed partly responsible for morning sickness.

What you’re most like looking for is what’s called metabolic balance. This is helpfully explained by Dr. Carl-Gustaf Elinder, “…concerning a specific substance is the physiological condition in which the intake and loss of the substance from the body are equal.” In other words, hormones serve a vital function but if your body is producing more than its using, then you’re going to have an issue.

Hormones are vital for a happy, healthy life. Signs of suboptimal levels range from mild symptoms like bloating, breast swelling, and acne to more significant issues such as unexpected weight gain, increased body fat, irregular periods, reduced bone density, and fibrocystic lumps.

The point is, if you’re concerned about your metabolic balance or symptoms of hormonal changes like unexplained weight gain, then getting a hormone test is important. Getting one done at home means avoiding long waits at a medical center. After all, the last thing you want is spiking cortisol levels while you’re trying to reduce stress.

As you take steps to achieve metabolic balance, you may also want to consider increasing your healthy lifespan. Kyla’s anti-aging program is powered by AI technology and the skilled expertise of medical professionals. Best of all, the risk assessment is completely free. So download the app today and look forward to a better tomorrow.

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