These are the root causes as to why your hormones are out of balance:
1. Poor Diet
2. Nutrient Deficiencies.
Your ferritin level needs to be between 80 – 100
3. Poor, or not enough, restorative sleep.
4. Toxins – including toxic relationships!
5. The wrong type and duration of exercise for you.
6. Chronic infections – bacterial, viral and fungal.
7. Poor adrenal or thyroid function.
8. Compromised liver function (e.g. fatty liver).
9. Poor digestion.
10. Insulin resistance.
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Test, Don’t Guess!
Digestion:
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The health of your digestion is central to the health of your entire body and mind. All disease begins in the gut, and conversely, most diseases can be healed in the gut (the enteric nervous system).
The gut is considered the second brain.
GALT (gut-associated lymphoid tissue), represents 70% of your entire immune system.
Weight, moods, hormone metabolism , and inflammation are gut-mediated (happens in the gut).
Estrobolome: collection of microbes capable of metabolizing estrogens.
The alkalinity of each part of my digestion is:
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Mouth: alkaline – breaks down carbohydrates
Stomach: acidic – breaks down proteins. First line of defense against microbes from your mouth.
Small Intestine: alkaline. Fat metabolism
Colon: acidic.
These are signs that I need to address my digestion ASAP!:
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Acid reflux or GERD
Burping incessantly
Gas
Bloating
Constipation
IBS symptoms
Diarrhea
Poorly formed stools
Bits of food in your stool
Nausea
What is a healthy bowel movement?:
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1 piece
comes out very easily (softer side)
dark in color (removing dead rbc that your liver has metabolized)
pointed at one end
no bits of food
at least 1 per day
no skid marks in the toilet bowel – too much mucus
does not float (fats not metabolized well), it should sink
Estrobolome:
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The estrobolome (enteric bacterial genes) modulates the enterohepatic circulation of estrogens and affects circulating and excreted estrogen levels.
i.e. is responsible for the metabolism of estrogen
B-Glucuronidase:
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A bacterial species that can “deconjugate” estrogen in the gut, leading to their reabsorption back into the circulation.
Robin’s Top Tips for Healthy Digestion:
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Chew your food well
Support strong stomach acid
Sit at the table while eating
Keep the conversation positive at the dinner table
