Category: Hormones

3 Subtle Healing Signs

When you start to unlearn both conventional and your typical functional wellness advice, step away from fad diets, and stop over exercising, healing begins. The healing journey is rewarding but can also be hard and overwhelming. Unlearning wellness and diet rules is hard. Especially in the online world when everyone is sharing their opinion on […]
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My Vaginal Steaming Experience

You might be wondering what the HECK is vaginal steaming and how this practice is beneficial for hormone health. I felt the same way when I first learned about steaming. It felt like another thing to add to my to-do list, and I wasn’t sure how effective it would actually be. When I did some […]
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Breastfeeding & Your Cycle

One of the most common questions we got after the podcast episode about breastfeeding with Therese Dansby was around ecological breastfeeding and when your cycle will return. When we are breastfeeding, prolactin is high and estrogen and progesterone are low. This delays ovulation and can be used as birth control for the firs 6 months […]
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Boron & Your Hormones

Many minerals can have a profound impact on hormone health, but boron not only impacts estrogen and testosterone, but also something called steroid hormone binding globulin or SHBG. SHBG is a protein that binds to sex hormones and carries them through the blood. SHBG binds to:-DHT-Testosterone-Androstenediol-Estradiol-Estrone SHBG has a greater affinity for male sex hormones […]
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The Hormonal Shifts of Menopause

Let’s start with defining menopause! Menopause is confirmed when you don’t have a period for 12 months. This lack of periods means that ovulation is not occurring and that you are no longer making progesterone or estrogen (other than the small amount coming from your adrenal glands). This is why menopause is a low hormone […]
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Optimizing Circadian Rhythm For Hormone Health

A circadian rhythm is a natural, internal process that regulates the sleep-wake cycle and repeats each day on a 24 hour cycle. It is most impacted by the light and dark cycles in our environment. Why Does Our Circadian Rhythm Matter For Our Hormones? Our circadian rhythm (CR) regulates our digestion, hormone production, metabolism, and […]
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How sex hormones impact the gallbladder

We need a healthy gallbladder in order to have healthy hormones, but our hormones can also impact that function of our gallbladder. In fact, on the Are You Menstrual? Podcast I did an episode with @gallbladder.nutritionist, we learned that many gallbladder issues are the result of a hormone imbalance. One of the most common hormone […]
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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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How to Assess Hormone Health at Home

While I think lab tests can be extremely valuable, I also think it’s important to have daily and monthly markers that you can use to assess your hormone health at home. There are three main areas you can use to do this:1. Tracking your cycles2. Establishing a baseline basal body temperature (BBT)3. Evaluating sleep, appetite, […]
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Possible Root Causes of Histamine Intolerance

In the Histamine intolerance 101 episode on the Are You Menstrual? Podcast we go through the 4 major root causes of histamine intolerance:-nutrient deficiencies-hormone imbalances-poor gut health-certain medications Let’s zoom in on nutrient deficiencies! Low levels of certain nutrients like copper, Vitamins A, B6, and C can lead to histamine build up along with excess […]
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