Category: Estrogen

Healing is not linear

For the sake of balancing your hormones and getting your period back on track, you’ve started making simple changes to your diet and lifestyle. You’ve been told that you should start seeing relief from your symptoms within a matter of weeks, but it’s been a month and you feel—well, frankly—like sh*t. Maybe your 🩸 is […]
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How to Balance Estrogen and Progesterone

You’ve probably read a post or heard someone describing symptoms of excess estrogen and resonated with it. I know I have. However, high estrogen isn’t the main problem. Can reducing estrogen in your environment, beauty products, menstrual products, and home help your symptoms? Yes, and I think it’s a piece of the hormone imbalance puzzle, […]
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Alcohol & Your Hormones

How does alcohol impact our hormones and overall health? We know that alcohol increases estrogen levels, which often leads to unwanted symptoms for many women (PMS, period pain, mood changes, acne, sluggish thyroid, fibroids, etc.), but it impacts many other areas of our health that can trickly down and impact hormones. How Alcohol Impacts The […]
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Estrogen and Histamine Feedback Loop

Estrogen is very tied to histamine levels–both have an impact on each other. This is often a result of other underlying issues but is an important piece of the puzzle for many. If you look at the first image below, you will see that estrogen and histamines work in a feedback loop. @larabriden says it […]
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Low Estrogen & The Healing Journey

If you’ve gotten your hormones tested and were expecting to see high estrogen due to common excess estrogen symptoms (acne, PMS, mood changes, weight gain, fatigue, brain fog, painful/heavy periods, sluggish thyroid, etc.), but were surprised to see it was actually low, this post is for you. I cannot tell you how many clients I’ve […]
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Is It Really Low Estrogen?

If you’ve gotten your hormones tested and were expecting to see high estrogen due to common excess estrogen symptoms (acne, PMS, mood changes, weight gain, fatigue, brain fog, painful/heavy periods, sluggish thyroid, etc.), but were surprised to see it was actually low, this post is for you. I cannot tell you how many clients I’ve […]
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The Relationship Between Cortisol and Estrogen

The majority of my clients struggle with estrogen dominant symptoms such as acne, hair loss, weight gain/difficulty losing weight, waking at night, low blood sugars, hypothyroidism, heavy, painful periods, bloating, and so much more. It can be hard to decipher where these symptoms come from since they can all seem like they stem from different […]
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Understanding Estrogen & Progesterone

Before we dive into the differences in estrogen and progesterone, let’s first talk about when they appear during your cycle. We have 4 main hormonal shifts during our cycle: These can seem like a lot to keep track of. To simplify hormonal shifts during the cycle, first half of the cycle is primarily estrogen, second […]
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Supporting The 3 Phases of Estrogen Detox

I get a lot of questions about estrogen. I mean A LOT. At least 3 a day. And I get it. Estrogen feels confusing. Especially with social media–you have some people posting about estrogen dominance and what symptoms mean you’re estrogen dominant and then others posting about how to detox estrogen or an estrogen “cleanse” […]
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How To Grow Broccoli Sprouts

My most popular youtube video is STILL the one of me showing you how to grow your own broccoli sprouts from like 2-3 years ago. ⁣ 🥦Why broccoli sprouts?⁣ 1. 3-4 day old broccoli sprouts have up to 100x the amount of sulforaphane as mature broccoli.⁣ 2. Sulforaphane is a potent cancer-fighting, detox boosting, and […]
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