Category: Progesterone

Is Doing Too Much To Heal Your Hormones Working Against You?

This is something I’ve been pondering a lot lately. I often hear from clients and women that reach out to me online that they are doing everything they can think of to balance their hormones, but somehow they are still feeling awful for at least half the month and have unpleasant periods. So what gives? […]
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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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How to Naturally Increase Progesterone

I wrote a guest blog post for Saalt Co about what your period is trying to tell you based on symptoms and length. It was so great to see so many women reading and connecting with their cycles! One of the most common questions I got was how to naturally increase progesterone. And to be honest, this […]
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Hormone Health On A Cellular Level

Balancing your hormones is a complex topic.  There are so many factors that influence hormone levels.  Hormone health is more than just looking at your estrogen and progesterone levels and trying to balance them out.  Do not get me wrong; they are both essential for hormone health; however, we cannot just focus on lowering estrogen […]
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Estrogen Dominance May Not Be Your Problem

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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