Alisa Vitti

And, as you know from earlier chapters, most symptoms that occur with hormonal conditions are due to an excess of estrogen within the bloodstream.

Let’s look at the red flags—the warning signs—for each part of the endocrine system in turn:

Blood Sugar

• High blood sugar. Hyperactivity, jitters, dizziness, anxiety

• Low blood sugar. Headache, shaking, sweating, irritability, fatigue

Adrenals

• Overworked adrenals. Inability to concentrate, low physical stamina and endurance, low blood sugar symptoms, difficulty getting out of bed, hangover-like feelings when you wake up, insomnia, depression, anxiety, low libido, difficulty concentrating, poor memory, low immunity

Elimination

If you have congested pathways of elimination, you’ll typically develop symptoms in the order that the organs of elimination are listed below. In other words, if you have signs of congestion at the level of the skin, the final organ listed, then everything before it is also backed up; so make sure you’re taking the right actions to support those pathways to help resolve your skin issues. (See instructions in chapter 4 for supporting the various organs of elimination.) Conversely, if you experience symptoms related to the large intestine and leave those symptoms unaddressed, over time you’ll experience a flare-up of symptoms in the liver, then lymph, then skin.

• Large intestine. Constipation, diarrhea, IBS, bloating

• Liver. Food sensitivities and allergies, pain (sharp or dull) under the right rib cage after eating a rich meal or drinking alcohol, sweating, foul body odor (especially from the armpits and feet)

• Lymph and skin. Acne (cysts, whiteheads, blackheads), rosacea, eczema, dandruff, oily scalp, body odor

Reproductive Organs

• Signs of imbalance. Physical cues that don’t align with those described in the four phases of the menstrual cycle outlined in chapter 5, indicating that your estrogen and progesterone levels aren’t balanced

Remember that symptoms of any hormone-based problem with your reproductive organs—problems such as fibroids, endometriosis, PCOS, and heavy/painful/missing periods—may stem from an issue in any of the other categories listed above as well. Fortunately, the WomanCode protocol will address these symptoms no matter where the problem first originated

One of the many things you start to notice when living the WomanCode way is that the cleaner you eat and the more you remove FLO Blockers from your life, the more you become aware of what happens in your body when you do encounter those obstacles.