Easy Nutritional Ways to Support Elimination for Healthy Hormones

If you’ve been trying everything to balance your hormones, have more energy, improve your mood and feel balanced, but you haven’t addressed your gut health, you’re missing a huge piece of the puzzle. You can’t have healthy hormones without a healthy microbiome, good nutrition and efficient elimination.

Connecting the Dots

If things aren’t “regular” and moving efficiently, this can not only make you feel bloated and uncomfortable, but can significantly impact your ability to properly clear and detoxify hormones. This leads to imbalances and symptoms such as PMS, mood swings, anxiety, fatigue, hot flashes, poor sleep and more.

Hormones, such as estrogens, are mainly detoxified via the liver and colon, which means that if these organs aren’t functioning optimally, we can develop issues with low thyroid function, infertility and estrogen dominance, which are root causes of PMS and menopause symptoms. In addition to proper elimination and detoxification, working on balancing gut bacteria are an important factor for optimal, balanced hormones. Nutrition is one of the first things we assess when a woman comes to us with hormonal concerns.

6 Nutritional Supports for Healthy Elimination & Hormones

Drink Plenty of Pure, Spring Water

Most women are not drinking enough water, or are drinking the wrong type of water that is inhibiting a healthy microbiome. Tap water is chock full of chemicals, such as chlorine, fluoride and chloramines, as well as different bacteria and even parasites, heavy metals and residual medications. Additionally, forever chemicals or PFAS and xenoestrogens found in tap water can significantly disrupt hormones. Get a water filter STAT if you’re looking to balance your hormones and gut health and keep them balanced.

Aim for 30 Plants Per Week

Aiming for 30 different vegetables per week will increase your fibre intake, while boosting beneficial phytochemicals such as antioxidants and polyphenols, which support both your gut bacteria and your hormones. If you struggle to digest a lot of plant fibres, work your way up slowly and consider gently cooking your veggies to increase digestibility.

Replace These Top 2 Inflammatory Foods

What are the top 2 inflammatory foods we recommend removing from your diet to support healthy elimination and hormones? Refined sugars and refined oils. These fake foods fuel inflammation, bad bacteria and yeast, increase oxidative stress and free radicals, damaging DNA, while creating congestion in the body. They are not gut or hormone-friendly! Opt for natural sweeteners like raw honey or coconut sugar and healthy fats and oils, such as beef tallow, coconut oil and avocado oil.

Take a Break From Gluten & Dairy

Our clients are often shocked at how much better they feel when they remove gluten, dairy and processed sugars from their diet. These are inflammatory foods that increase mucus production, while putting strain on digestion and detox pathways, two things you don’t want when your goal is healthy hormones. They can also slow elimination and cause constipation.

Increase Your Magnesium

Getting more magnesium-rich foods provide numerous benefits, including aiding constipation, energy, mood, sleep and hormones. Increase foods like dark leafy green vegetables, grass-fed meats, dark naturally-sweetened chocolate, nuts and seeds. Additionally, choose a high quality magnesium supplement to support proper elimination, sleep and hormones

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Include Probiotic Foods

If you love the idea of having great digestion and feeling balanced, probiotic foods are a must. Foods like sauerkraut, kimchi, coconut kefir and other fermented foods support healthy hormones via the microbiome, with specialized bacterial strains. Different probiotic foods contain different strains of beneficial bacteria, so try to get a variety for the most impact.

If you’re ready to take your gut health and hormones to the next level, consider booking a consultation with us! You can find our online booking links for our practitioners here: Book Online Now.