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Hello sweaty and piss listeners.

This is Karen Nickel, nurse practitioner,

in to talk to you today about estrogen dominance.

This is something we talked about

in one of our really early episodes,

and I'm continuing to get questions about it so I thought I'd

refresh everyone's memory or if you haven't heard that episode from long ago you

might be interested in hearing about this pretty common problem.

So what is estrogen dominance? It's when there's too much estrogen in your body relative to the amount of progestrone we have.

Pre-minopausal and perimenopausal women can develop this imbalance in several different ways.

And ovulatory cycles can lead to estrogen

dominance. This is when we don't ovulate during a cycle. After we ovulate a mini organ called the corpus ludium forms at the side of ovulation and that

many organs secrete progesterone so if you do not ovulate you do not make progesterone. So if you do not ovulate you do not make progesterone that month.

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