3 Year ANNIVERSARY EPISODE! It's Not Your Age: Your Hormones Won’t Heal Until Your Gut Does - What Doctors Miss About Hormonal Imbalances

#162  - ✨3 Year ANNIVERSARY EPISODE! ✨It's Not Your Age: Your Hormones Won’t Heal Until Your Gut Does - What Doctors Miss About Hormonal Imbalances

If you feel like you're doing everything "right" for your hormones—eating clean, taking the supplements, managing stress (or trying to)—but your symptoms keep coming back... this one’s for you.

✨To wrap up Pretty Well's 3rd season (and 3rd birthday!), I’m sharing a special episode based on a talk I gave to a group of seasoned practitioners about the real root causes of hormone imbalances—and why gut health is the missing piece almost no one is talking about.

We’re diving into:

• The gut-hormone loop and why it’s not a one-way street

• How specific gut bacteria actually regulate estrogen (and how to fix them)

• Why your liver is packing estrogen like it’s taking out the trash—and what happens when it gets recycled instead

• The gut markers that reveal whether you’re headed toward hormonal imbalances

• Short chain fatty acids, prebiotics, and why fiber might just be your hormonal superpower

• Endotoxemia, beta-glucuronidase, and the test that shows it all

• The gut-thyroid axis and how leaky gut can silently mess with your thyroid

• The downstream effects of chronic stress, and how it steals your raw materials for making hormones (read: stress = hormonal havoc) 

✨Plus, I share the exact labs I run with clients, how to interpret them, and the three-step approach I use to:

1. Heal the gut

2. Balance hormones

3. Calm the nervous system for lasting results

👀If you deal with hormonal imbalances, stubborn thyroid issues, chronic inflammation and fatigue—this episode is packed with science-backed takeaways you can actually use.

The future of hormonal healing isn’t just about HRT or the right supplements. It’s about addressing your gut, resetting your nervous system, and finally breaking the cycle of doing everything "right" and still feeling off.

⭐️This one is loaded. Grab a pen.

 

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Nothing in this podcast is to be taken as medical advice, please take informed accountability and speak to your provider before making changes to your health routine.

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