Reclaim your balance: Stress & hormones
Are you feeling overwhelmed, exhausted, or just not yourself lately? You're not alone, and you're not stuck. At RJ Health & Wellbeing, we help you understand the root causes of stress and hormonal imbalance so you can feel vibrant, focused, and in control again.
We don’t do one-size-fits-all. Your personalised wellness plan includes:
- Deep-Dive Consultation: We explore your symptoms, lifestyle, diet, and stress triggers.
- Functional testing: If needed, targeted functional tests are undertaken to guide nutrition and lifestyle advice.
- Tailored lifestyle medicine plan: Designed to support your hormonal health and restore vitality.
Whether you're dealing with perimenopause, PMDD, PCOS, or thyroid issues, this is your roadmap to health and longevity.
Hormones matter
Hormones are your body’s messengers. When they’re out of sync, everything feels harder, including sleep, mood, digestion, energy, even relationships. The functional medicine approach helps restore harmony by addressing the root cause, not just the symptoms.
If you experience any of the following, functional nutrition and lifestyle interventions (in conjunction with any necessary ongoing medical treatment) can make an important difference to your day to day health and wellbeing:
- Stress related problems: Anxiety / Depression / Insomnia
- Type 2 diabetes / pre-diabetes
- Endometriosis
- Skin conditions including acne, eczema, psoriasis
- Menopausal or perimenopausal symptoms
- PCOS/PMOS (polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome)
What stress is doing to the body
Stress isn't 'just in your head'. It triggers a cascade of chemical reactions that can lead to:
- Raised blood sugar levels
- Muscle breakdown
- Low mood
- Difficulty concentrating
- Difficulty sleeping
- Unhealthful coping habits
Long term effects of stress
Left unchecked, chronic stress can lead to a number of conditions, including:
- Anxiety
- Depression
- Insomnia
- Weight gain
- Chronic conditions including type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease
Small changes can make a big difference
If you’re experiencing new or persistent hormone related symptoms, start by speaking with your GP. From there and alongside medical management, consider one of our tailored wellbeing packages to help you move toward feeling more like yourself again.
Personalised nutrition and lifestyle support for hormone health from a trusted practitioner. Available online across the UK.
- IFM trained functional medicine practitioner
- Registered Nutritionist (AFN)
- Nutritional Therapist (BANT)
- Resident doctor NHS background
"The sessions with Rebecca have given me the tools I need to optimise both how I am feeling and how I deal with symptoms from my condition. Since following the process she set for me I have more energy, feel and look significantly better, and have lost some weight into the bargain! Now i know what works for me, I simply need to continue the good habits I have adopted. For the first time in several years, I feel optimistic about my health and well-being."
Lifestyle medicine to support health issues related to stress or hormones
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Step 1: Understand the root cause
In addition to discussing your current symptoms and concerns, we take a detailed medical and lifestyle history that incorporates a full analysis of your diet, exercise, stress exposure and sleep quality, as well as interpretation of any previous test results. You may also be asked to complete a three-day food diary.
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Step 2: Undertake further testing
If necessary, you may be recommended further testing in order to help inform personalised nutrition recommendations.
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Step 3: Create a personalised wellness plan
I will use the information we have gathered during our initial session, combined with any further results, to design a personalised functional medicine programme for you. The aim will be to support hormonal health as well as optimising your long-term health and wellbeing.
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