The low down on how to rid excess estrogen!

THE REALITY OF HORMONES….

Estrogen usually get touted as “the” female hormone but in fact P-r-o-g-e-s-t-e-r-o-n-e is THE important female sex hormone. 

While estrogen promotes growth in the body and is super important in the first half of our cycle to help grow healthy follicles- many women have high estrogen ALL cycle! 

When this happens, our estrogen is out of balance with progesterone and your hormones are officially imbalanced. AKA you have estrogen dominance! 

We get estrogen dominance from SO MANY sources and areas of dysfunction within the body! 

-Exposure to toxins 

-Birth control 

-Stress/ Cortisol 

-Iron Overload

-Nutrient Deficiencies

-Digestive Dysfunction 

-Poor liver health 

-PUFAs

-Insulin Resistance 

IT doesn't help that doctors “ranges” for estrogen are HUGE so most women are told their hormone levels are “normal” even though they have TONS of symptoms. 

Optimal estrogen levels are 27-45pg/mg even though the “normal” range is 27-156pg/mg. 

But even if your levels come back in that range you can still be estrogen dominant because excess estrogen that isn't removed from the body gets stored into our tissues! So it won't necessary show up on a blood test. 

So how they heck will you know if you have estrogen dominance? 

If you're experiencing….

-heavy periods

-mood swings/ depression

-fatigue

-not ovulating

-short luteal phase 

-brain fog

-low libido

-fibroids

-bloating

-breast tenderness

-spotting before periods

-weight gain

-migraines/ headaches

-hair loss

-pms symptoms 

struggle conceiving/ infertility

If you can check off multiple symptoms from above then chances are that your estrogen levels are high. 

So what do you do now?

WANT TO LEARN HOW TO PROMOTE PROGESTERONE IN ADDITION TO THESE WAYS TO RID EXCESS ESTROGEN? Keep an eye out for my upcoming blog on progesteron balancing!

THANKS FOR BEING HERE!

xoxo, Meghan