What Causes Estrogen Dominance?

Why is Estrogen Dominance so common these days?

The answer is pretty simple. Our environment has an exorbitant amount of toxins our liver has to process, our food quality is poor & our stress level is high. This is the perfect recipe for estrogen dominance.

Estrogen is the primary female sex hormone in women (men have too) & there are three major endogenous estrogen (estrogen our body makes) estrone, estradiol & estriol.

Our other primary sex hormone is progesterone which helps balance out estrogen. Did you know from age 35-50 there is a 75% reduction in the production of progesterone in the body? During that time estrogen only drops 35% making us more likely to experience estrogen dominance.

Some symptoms of estrogen dominance include PMS, low sex drive, heavy periods, bloating, weight gain, irritability, hair loss, fatigue & infertility.

Estrogen dominance doesn't happen overnight as it's typically due to an accumulation of the listed toxicities.

Our liver processes our hormones so if your liver is busy taking care of all that junk - it's going to put processing estrogen at the bottom of the list.

By supporting all of the phases of detoxification in the liver, this will help to support estrogen metabolism thereby decreasing estrogen dominance.

What does this look like?

🔸Switch to natural personal care products 💄💅
🔸Eat Organic 🥬
🔸Adequate protein intake 🍗🍳
🔸Liver supporting herbs
🔸Digestive enzymes / bile support
🔸Eat Cruciferous veggies 🥦
🔸Castor oil packs
🔸DIM supplement
🔸Sweat daily 💦
🔸 Support daily 💩

** Important thing to keep in mind. Just because your estrogen wasn't sky high on your lab tests doesn't mean you don't have dominance. It all depends on your estrogen to progesterone ratio along with your symptoms.

If your doctor told you your lab tests are normal, keep in mind they may not be checking the ratio & they also base their lab values on unhealthy populations. This is why functional medicine lab ranges are within a more narrow acceptable range because we are trying to optimize your health & not just meet a cut off point just before disease starts in the body.