Estrogen Q&A: The Good, The Bad & The Ugly

Thank you for your patience while I recovered from a cold over the past few weeks. I’m a firm believer that we get sick when we need it, and the recovery and downtime are exactly what I needed, but I’m on the road to recovery, and we are jumping back into our hormone series with a Q&A on Estrogen in today’s episode. 

The story of estrogen begins in the 1960s when hormonal birth control comes on the scene and has this big push encouraging women to supplement with estrogen to increase their femininity. It is not uncommon to see what we are currently seeing in the menopause crowd today. However, we are leaving out a crucial component of the impact of hormones in our body, resulting from appropriate progesterone levels. 

Progesterone is what keeps our estrogen in check and keeps us from tipping the scales into an estrogen imbalance. Now, if you find yourself in a state of estrogen dominance, there are ways that you can tip the scales back in your favor, and I cover many of these practices in today’s episode, so be sure to tune in for those tips! 

We are just scratching the surface of estrogen in the female body, and we take a deeper dive in today’s episode. You won’t want to miss the insight I share today, so be sure to tune in to see where estrogen imbalance might be occurring in your life or how you can avoid estrogen imbalance.

In this episode:

[00:00:47] Welcome back to The Fully Nourished Podcast!
[00:01:32] We are continuing our hormone series with a Q&A on Estrogen. 
[00:14:13] The hormones that keep estrogen in check.
[00:18:40] What are the bad estrogens, what impacts are they having, and how do we combat estrogen dominance or imbalance?
[00:35:24] What are phytoestrogens, and how do they impact estrogen in our bodies?
[00:42:58] Can estrogen contribute to girls getting their periods early?
[00:45:56] Can high estrogen cause painful periods?
[00:48:35] Is DIM worth taking to detoxify estrogen?
[00:53:26] Is hormone replacement therapy a bad thing? 
[00:59:42] Thanks for joining me on The Fully Nourished Podcast! 

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