Will female fitness cause estrogen abnormalities

In most cases, scientific and reasonable fitness will not disrupt estrogen levels, but can help maintain endocrine in a more stable state. Only extreme fitness methods may induce estrogen abnormalities.

I have been practicing strength training for more than four years, and I have met hundreds or dozens of fitness enthusiasts around me. The debate on this issue has really never stopped - there is a girl who has just postponed training for two months and insists that lifting irons messes up her hormones. There is also a sister who has been exercising regularly for three years and has not suffered from premenstrual syndrome and ovulation bleeding that have troubled her for many years. The two groups of people each say their own reasons, but in fact they are not the same thing at all.

A while ago, there was a little girl in the studio who was born in 1999. In order to catch up with a deadline to go to the beach for a liposuction, she got up at six o'clock every morning and climbed the stairs on an empty stomach for an hour. Then she came back to work for two hours after get off work. She ate 1,100 calories a day, and even a sugar-free yogurt had to be counted as a gram. No. In two months, I lost almost 15 pounds, but my aunt stopped for almost a month and a half. She went to the hospital to find out that the estradiol level was lower than the reference value for menopause. Later, she cut off most of her aerobic exercise and added high-quality fats such as nuts and avocados to her diet. She ate 1,800 calories a day. Within three weeks, her aunt returned to normal. Do you think this is the fault of fitness? In fact, it is the body's self-protection mechanism that is at work. When your long-term energy intake is far lower than your consumption and your body fat is lost too quickly, your body will assume that you are in a "survival crisis" and will naturally cut off the supply of reproductive-related hormones first to ensure that you are alive first.

Of course, many obstetricians and gynecologists will remind women not to overly pursue muscle lines with low body fat. This statement is indeed well-founded. After all, the synthesis of estrogen cannot be separated from cholesterol as a raw material, and an appropriate amount of fat reserve is the "warehouse" of cholesterol. Generally speaking, the body fat rate is lower than 1 At 7%, estrogen synthesis is prone to insufficient supply. If combined with long-term high-intensity training pressure, cortisol remains high for a long time, which will further interfere with the normal secretion of estrogen. It is indeed not uncommon for professional female bodybuilders to have aunt disorders during their preparation period.

But we ordinary fitness enthusiasts really don’t need to worry about this. You usually train three or four days a week for forty or fifty minutes each time, whether it’s dancing Pamela, lifting irons or running two laps. As long as you don’t diet blindly and eat something, and maintain body fat in the healthy range of 20%-24%, then A little amount of exercise is a long way from "excessive". On the contrary, regular exercise can help you regulate metabolism and relieve daily stress. Several of my friends who suffered from polycystic cysts in the past just insisted on strength training three times a week and brisk walking twice a week. Within half a year, after a review, the hormone levels returned to the normal range.

The pitfalls that you should avoid are not fitness itself, but the fallacies that advocate "body fat must be below 18% to achieve a waistline" and "eating fat will make you gain weight". Don't mess with your body in pursuit of the so-called "perfect figure". Fitness is meant to live a more comfortable life, so don't do the opposite.