Tammy & Lindsey Q+A: Hormones
The Lindsey Elmore Show
Lindsey Elmore
5.0 • 529 Ratings
🗓️ 5 September 2025
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Key Takeaways
- Hormones = the body’s messaging system. When they’re imbalanced, every “section of the orchestra” is out of tune—mood, sleep, energy, metabolism, cycles.
- Perimenopause isn’t the start of the storm. For many, cortisol and insulin dysregulation had been present long before; midlife amplifies the issue.
- Start with foundations. Sleep, nutrition, movement, stress regulation, relationships, environment, microbiome, and trauma history all play a role in maintaining hormone balance.
- Fix cortisol & insulin first. You won’t stabilize thyroid, estrogen, progesterone, or testosterone long-term without addressing these two.
- Test, don’t guess. Get a basic panel (thyroid, cortisol, insulin, sex hormones) before jumping into meds/supplements.
- Myths to ditch. Hormone issues aren’t only a menopause problem, and HRT isn’t the only solution—lifestyle and root-cause work matter.
- Balanced hormones = better life. More stable mood, energy, sleep, cognition, and metabolic ease.
- Resources. Lindsey’s Hormone Harmony course dives into oxytocin, cortisol, insulin, thyroid, estrogen, testosterone + practical protocols. A free ebook offers a starter roadmap (link in show notes).
- 00:57 – 02:12 | What hormones do: sleep, metabolism, mood, reproduction, stress response.
- 02:12 – 05:38 | Why midlife feels like a storm: cultural narratives, U.S. lifestyle factors, and pre-existing cortisol/insulin issues.
- 05:38 – 07:22 | Healthcare gaps: dismissal, antidepressants, “you’re just crazy” narratives; measure first.
- 07:22 – 09:56 | Lifestyle levers & functional lens: sleep, diet, stress, exercise, relationships, environment, microbiome, genetics; antecedents/triggers/mediators; “turn off the faucet.”
- 09:56 – 12:42 | Myths & priorities: hormone issues across the lifespan; HRT isn’t the only tool; start with cortisol and insulin.
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| 0:00.0 | hormones are your bodies like chemical messengers they think think of them like as text messages being sent from one organ to another you know they |
| 0:12.0 | they really help to regulate everything your sleep your metabolism your mood um your reproductive cycles obviously are |
| 0:20.8 | really important based on your hormones. |
| 0:23.5 | But if you don't fix cortisol and insulin, you're never going to fix the other ones. |
| 0:28.9 | You're never going to fix them. |
| 0:32.3 | Welcome everybody to this week's edition of the Lindsay Elmore show. |
| 0:35.9 | We're flipping the script and I am going to get |
| 0:39.3 | interviewed instead of being the interviewer. It's going to be really fun. And my interviewer today is |
| 0:46.6 | Tammy, my podcast producer who I love and adore. And so we are going to talk all about hormones. |
| 0:54.4 | So let's get into it. |
| 0:56.7 | Yes. |
| 0:57.1 | Okay. |
| 0:57.5 | So first, let's just talk about hormones just generally. |
| 1:02.8 | And why are they so important for our health? |
| 1:07.0 | Like we hear a lot about them in the media, especially, you know, |
| 1:09.8 | with all to talk about perimenopause |
| 1:11.0 | and all the things. So what's the deal with hormones? Yeah. So hormones are your bodies like |
| 1:18.4 | chemical messengers. They think, think of them like as text messages being sent from one organ to |
| 1:24.9 | another. You know, they, they really help to regulate everything. |
| 1:29.0 | Your sleep, your metabolism, your mood, your reproductive cycles, obviously, are really |
| 1:35.5 | important based on your hormones, and then your energy, and then also how you respond |
| 1:41.4 | to stress. |
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