635: THIS Could Be Behind Your Hormonal Challenges
CONSISTENT by Primal Potential
Elizabeth Benton
4.9 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 29 July 2019
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
In the last few weeks, I have been asked at least once a day to talk more about the link between gut health & hormones. I recently announced that I am pregnant and I've shared that I KNOW a big part of the reason I was able to get pregnant naturally is because I focused on improving my gut health in the months before conceiving.
If you've followed my story, you know it involves a number of hormonal imbalances. I was diagnosed with polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) when I was 16 years old. In my mid-twenties, a fertility specialist told me I'd need medical interventions to get pregnant. In my early thirties I was diagnosed with hashimotos thyroiditis, an auto-immune thyroid condition. When I froze my eggs in 2017, I was again told that it was highly unlikely that I could get pregnant without intervention.
And yet, I did. In fact, we conceived the very first month we began to try.
But don't fret - today's episode isn't about fertility (entirely). Our gut health impacts our hormones. Thyroid hormones, estrogen, progesterone, testosterone, insulin...gut health impacts menopause, energy, body composition and so much more.
That's what we're looking at today.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Primal Potential and I am your host, Elizabeth Benton. |
| 0:07.2 | Primal Potential is about you. |
| 0:09.5 | Your ability to change is not defined by yesterday and doesn't need to wait until tomorrow. |
| 0:15.9 | Your transformation is now. |
| 0:19.5 | Let's get started. |
| 0:20.5 | Hello everybody, welcome back to the Primal Potential Podcast. |
| 0:24.8 | I am Elizabeth Benton and I got a lot of messages from you guys after we did Thursday's episode |
| 0:32.5 | on Endocrine Disruptors and Obesadians and people really love those science-based episodes |
| 0:39.9 | and it just so happens that we are doing one again. |
| 0:44.2 | Those of you who really enjoy the more mindset-based episodes, hang tight. |
| 0:48.2 | I've got a good one coming for you on Thursday. |
| 0:52.0 | Today I wanted to go in the direction of emails. |
| 0:57.0 | I've been getting every single day. |
| 0:59.4 | So many of you know, I would say, hopefully most of you know at this point that I am pregnant |
| 1:06.6 | and there's been one question that I have gotten at least once a day since I made that announcement. |
| 1:15.4 | And it's in response to the fact that I shared when I told you guys that I was pregnant, |
| 1:21.2 | I shared that I feel 100% certain that a big part of how and why I was able to get pregnant |
| 1:34.3 | naturally without intervention and quickly the first month we were really serious about |
| 1:41.1 | trying is because I had focused on my gut health so seriously for the |
| 1:50.8 | four months or so maybe a little bit longer than that prior to trying. |
| 1:58.6 | So today I want to talk about what in the world gut health has to do with hormones. |
| 2:03.8 | And in my case, what gut health has to do with fertility but I don't want folks to be like, |
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