Your Teaさんのインスタグラム写真 - (Your TeaInstagram)「"Feeling bloated or retaining fluid isn’t anybody’s ‘cup of tea’ (see what I did there?). It’s safe to say that nobody likes feeling puffy or struggling to do up the top button on their jeans, especially when you swear they fit yesterday. We’ve written about fluid retention before here, but I want to look at more specifically what your hormones might be up to when your puffy self is getting you down. When hormones are the driving force behind your fluid retention, we need to look at the main offender – oestrogen. Excess oestrogen increases body fat. It leads to fluid retention as well as a host of other issues, including serious problems (if long-term), like cancer and more. Oestrogen is the hormone that is in full swing during the first phase of your menstrual cycle – from the time your period begins, it starts to build right through to the middle of your cycle. Progesterone is the hormone that increases during the ovulation phase – in a ‘perfect world’ this happens in the middle of your menstrual cycle. So oestrogen builds for 14 days and then drops, and progesterone then builds for 14 days and then drops, and this process is repeated for our reproductive years. Notice I said ‘in a perfect world’… Our world sadly, when it comes to our hormones, isn’t that perfect. And that’s ok, provided we know how to steer it back towards its best state. Progesterone not only supports healthy ovulation, it serves to counteract some of the nasty symptoms that result in excess oestrogen. It helps us to melt away fat as it uses it for energy (nice news!), it naturally helps with fluid retention (amen!) as it is a diuretic, and it assists in preventing breast cancer as well as endometrial cancer as it helps to balance out oestrogen." Taken from our blog, FEELING ‘FLUIDY’? HERE’S WHY!」8月12日 9時32分