Did you know the hormones that control your menstrual period are regulated by your gut?
In this article, I’m going to be revealing the reason why you need to clean up your gut to balance your hormones.
Your gut influences more than you may know. Scientist have found that the wellbeing of the gut microbiome is connected directly with the endocrine system that deals with the hormones. The gut microbiome makes hormones and also signals when other hormones should be released, taking part in more than aiding digestion only.
Here is how hormone imbalances start in your gut.
The gut houses trillions of bacteria that does a number of important things such as maintaining a healthy immune system and producing certain vitamins.
Your gut will always house some bad bacteria, but you must try to keep the right balance of gut flora in order to avoid gut flora imbalances. This is a condition also known as dysbiosis where too much bad gut flora takes over and can lead to leaky gut. And having a leaky gut shows that you have loose intestinal lining cells that allows larger molecules that shouldn’t pass through the gut wall to slip through, thereby creating a severe inflammation that can result to hormone imbalance.
By disrupting estrobolome, the gut bacteria that utilize estrogens, leaky gut can affect estrogen hormones. Estrogen imbalances could influence a woman’s risk of developing uterine fibroids and postmenopausal breast cancer.
How to Use A Hormone Balancing Diet to Clean Up Your Gut
You can clean up your gut and balance your hormones with a hormone balancing diet. Your diet plays an important role in forming gut flora as well as protecting against gut issues and leaky gut. Here is some way to clean up your gut using hormone-balancing diet.
- Eat anti-inflammatory foods and healthy fats
Inflammation is the main trigger for gut diseases like leaky gut. Eating anti-inflammatory foods such as spinach and green beans can help to regulate inflammation levels and clean up your gut. For proper functioning of your hormones, your body needs the right amount of good fats as hormones flourish on fat production. Add anyone of these healthy fats in your daily diet to maintain the right amount of good fat in your body.
Coconut Oil: contains lauric acid and MCT which is very useful for production of hormones.
Homemade white butter: It provides a rich source of fat-soluble vitamins A, D, E and K2. You can also use plant based healthy fats like avocado oil and olive oil which are considered as the building blocks for production of hormones.
Egg Yolks: rich in many minerals and vitamins including A, D, E, Calcium, Iron and Selenium. They help in balancing hormone levels naturally.
Raw Nuts: Walnut, Macadamia and Unsalted Brazilian nuts are rich in Omega 3. The anti-inflammatory effects of Omega 3s helps to boost hormone balance.
- Eating prebiotic fiber-rich foods
Eating foods high in fiber such as leafy vegetables e.g., Whole grains, Nuts & legumes, Fresh fruit & vegetables, Asparagus, bananas, chicory, garlic, Jerusalem artichoke, onions, berries and raw nuts provides the fuel required by your colon cells to function properly. When you consume foods that are rich in fiber, they travel to your large intestine, where your gut flora in turn converts that fiber to energy and help to promote a healthy gut.
- Eating Probiotic Rich foods
Fermented and cultured foods such as yoghurt, curd, buttermilk, kanji water, bone broth, sauerkraut, kimchi and kombucha contain probiotics, a sufficient number of good microorganisms that help balance your healthy gut flora and prevent leaky gut syndrome.
Celeste London is a Holistic Hormone Nutritionist who teaches women how to use food to balance female hormones and clean up leaky gut. If you’ll like to learn how to use food to balance female hormones and clean up your gut. You can book a consultation with here https://calendly.com/hellocelestelondon/
