Beyond Balance: The Hidden Impact of Estrogen in Modern Life

Estrogen is a hormone present in both men and women that affects reproduction, bone health, cardiovascular function, brain health, and even skin and hair quality. When estrogen levels become imbalanced, it can lead to various health issues including mood disturbances, irregular periods, hot flashes, weight gain, and metabolic problems.

• Estrogen consists of three components: estradiol, estrone, and estriol
• Modern environmental factors and dietary choices contribute to rising estrogen dominance
• Low estrogen commonly occurs during perimenopause, menopause, and after childbirth
• High estrogen is often linked to obesity, fatty liver problems, PCOS, and metabolic issues
• Increasing fiber through vegetables like broccoli and kale helps eliminate excess estrogen
• Supporting liver function with leafy greens enhances detoxification of excess hormones
• Phytoestrogens from sources like flax seeds can help balance estrogen levels
• Avoiding plastic containers, receipt paper, and pesticides reduces exposure to estrogen disruptors
• Supplements like DIM, calcium D-glucarate, and milk thistle support hormone balance
• Natural detoxification through proper hydration and sauna sessions helps manage estrogen levels

For baseline hormone testing, consult with a healthcare provider who can help determine if you have an estrogen imbalance and develop a personalized treatment plan.

Chapters

• 0:00 Introduction to Estrogen Dominance
• 1:45 Estrogen's Purpose and Functions
• 3:04 Causes and Symptoms of Imbalance
• 4:32 Lifestyle Changes for Hormone Balance
• 8:03 Supplements and Environmental Detoxification
• 11:43 Natural Detox Methods and Closing

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:25

Hey, how are you? This is Demi Aras Grossman, integrative and Respective Science. So I am talking about. Today's topic is on estrogen dominance. Hi, estrogen, what's up? Thanks for coming in.

Speaker 1: 0:41

So what exactly does it mean? You know what is estrogen and it's a hormone. Obviously's a hormone. Obviously that are in men and women. It's like a normal level. Why does it change? What are reasonings for that? That depends. Most of the time it's high or low. It will cause different issues for individuals. You always want everything balanced With life and things. It changes, right, but it's still a hormone that men and women have.

Speaker 1: 1:15

So its main purpose is consisted of three components. So estrogen is consisted of estrogen 1, 2, and 3, is consistent of estrogen 1, 2, and 3, estradiol, estrone and estriol. It's primarily produced by the ovaries, but it actually starts from the brain signals and produced out of the adrenal glands. Small parts of the adrenal glands are also produced. It's for reproductive health. Menstrual cycles helps with bone strength, heart health. It helps with the overall, mostly women that have it higher. Hi, adriana, thanks for coming in. The main purpose is for reproduction, for menstrual cycle, for stimulating the female urinary, to help support if you're a pregnancy. That's the main purpose, right the bone health purposes to help with bone density, help with modifying the amounts of osteoporosis in the body, predivascular. It helps with, you know, blood vessel function. It can help with cholesterol, balance Brain and mood. It will help with building better neurotransmitters of serotonin and affecting the mood and memory and in general it can also build up more collagen and hydration to help with hair growth and biotin and other balances.

Speaker 1: 2:41

Now, when it's off balance, like anything, when we're talking about a balance, high or low, low when it's too low, it's usually more common, obviously, those that are going toward a perimenopause, menopausal state and or after childbirth. The can also be caused due to high exercise, individuals, people with eating disorders, medical conditions and symptoms. Symptoms that would usually be a cause would be you'll have like mood disturbances, irregular periods, hot flashes Women say that that bothers them more moods and then you know, female, just dryness and just itching. That's an issue. Now I've found that more people are usually higher estrogen now with the amount of changes in the environment and our foods, and higher estrogen actually happens with those individuals that are more obese, those individuals with fatty liver problems, those individuals that have PCOS or some metabolic health issue or even tumors in certain areas in the adrenals in the different parts of the body, and it may cause excess other hormones like androgen excess or testosterone lowering breast tenderness. You could actually end up having heavier periods, get regular and lead swings again. So not so fun, not so fun. And we do things again. So not so fun, not so fun.

Speaker 1: 4:07

Now, ways to improve it. Key components that usually will be beneficial is obviously lifestyle changes. Now, how do you change or how do you check for it? So initially, when I'm looking for someone that may have possible, you know irregularities due to their estrogen. I want them to work on their lifestyle changes and you know the root cause of that usually has to do with they're not sleeping properly, their dietary changes, their stress levels have changed and their physical activity has changed. That means they have not increased their fiber at all.

Speaker 1: 4:50

Um, and how to do that? It's actually pretty simple stuff. You know. It's really basic, beginner things that you can do. You're going to increase your fiber. You're going to get some vegetables in um, things like cauliflower, broccoli, brussels sprouts, kale, even those little mini um bean sprouts, whole grains that you can tolerate. Supporting liver function. Now, liver function. I talk a ton about this, about leafy greens, spinach, arugula, swiss chard detoxifying the body and trying to eliminate excess estrogen. Now you detoxify the liver by cleaning it out and eating the right stuff. So that's what it comes down to Phytoestrogens to help get rid of the estrogen.

Speaker 1: 5:32

Fight away, I think, fight away. Estrogen getting rid of? Um, good ones are like flax seeds. Um, hi, how are you, auntie? Um, and I connect with you. Oh, I do have you on. Oh, good, you are 51, divorce, putting me first, love, that lifestyle fashion, empty. Thanks for coming, I appreciate you. Um, so how do you use those phytoestrogens? So, phytoestrogens are, use, think, fight, even though that's not what it's not literally fight, it's phytoestrogen and we're going to fight away the excess estrogen in the body. Things are like flax seeds. Um, that helps balance the estrogen amounts.

Speaker 1: 6:11

Soy products, but I don't really like too much soy, so I'm not going to. I wouldn't necessarily recommend that. Avoiding excess sugars on processed foods, that's almost with anything really higher fatty, sugary things can always cause a mis imbalance in metabolic issues. Issues. Healthier fats, you know, try to consume that like omega-3, salmon, sardines, walnuts, avocados, omegas. And then when you're trying to reduce alcohol intake, so, um, I'm not a drinker, you know, don't drink.

Speaker 1: 6:44

Hey, how's it going? Nice to meet you. Thanks for coming in. I really appreciate it. I really appreciate you even stopping in coming in. I really appreciate it. I really appreciate you even stopping in. So thinking of it like no drinking. You know nothing like that. I don't consume alcohol anymore. I use these like mocktail kind of things now, like different companies that I recommend that I love to. You know, if I want to go out and still have some time with my friends, I will have these mocktails or seltzers and stuff like that, because I would like my liver to last me until I'm in my nineties and I want to be the best version of myself. It doesn't mean that you're being this, though, it's just. You know, for me I'd like to keep everything kind of you know more chill. Hey, how's it going? Lexi, thanks for coming in. If you're coming, I'm going to follow you. So I appreciate it.

Speaker 1: 7:37

So, lifestyle management when it comes to balancing out your estrogen Exercise, physical exercise for you, that can mean anything from walking to high intensity to mid-intensity, depending upon your age. Walking to high intensity to mid intensity, depending upon your age, and then modifying it like a yoga Pilates for relaxation and hormone balance and improving your circulation. I'm always a big fan of stress management in anything. So I say you know, finding a mindful way each and every day can make a difference in your day. It really can. Just one little thing can change your, your perspective.

Speaker 1: 8:15

Now, weight management, now lowering your weight. You can use weights. You can work on nutrition. Keep on. Your excess fat will caught, will hold in more estrogen. So that's why you kind of get more of that belly, belly, belly and you and you get more in the hips. So trying to get rid of that will lower the estrogen levels. That's why those with low estrogen usually are like when they're too low there's usually some sort of deficiency. But most people, when they're at a nice balance, they feel good.

Speaker 1: 8:51

So things that I used to use if you're not going to supplement with food or lifestyle exercise, you can use supplements. Now, do I think supplements are the only answer? No, but sometimes people need them. Now there's one called DIM which is dinodilomethylene. It's a compound that's found actually in vegetables. So if you're going to eat good vegetables, you don't need it. You can consume that. It helps metabolize the estrogen.

Speaker 1: 9:15

You can take calcium ducloderate, d-glucorate, and that is for supporting detoxification in the liver and what that does is it's excreted, so that it will help excrete the estrogen Milk thistle. Milk thistle is good for a number of things. Men use it for their things, Men use it for their prostate, women use it for liver function and think of it overall. It's helping with the liver function. So you help decrease the liver function. You know, decrease and detox the liver. You're going to help with the overall for men or women in their hormone balance. Probiotics can be used pre and pro to help with the overall improving the health of the gut. Omega-3s are always good to just help the surrounding layer of the cells. Magnesium I love everybody. There's so many different types but in this scenario it will help improve so you can lower that excess of estrogen.

Speaker 1: 10:12

Now how can you detox yourself from an environmental exposure to estrogen? Now receipts have estrogen. You know that's really pretty surprising. People don't realize, like paper receipts, some types of inks, avoiding too much plastic. There's a lot of BPA in those. They can also be very estrogen-dominant or estrogen disruptors. They would say Pesticides. They can change Non-organic or TML kind of products.

Speaker 1: 10:45

I mean, do the best you can, you know, try to be as natural as you can. But, eric, you know our environments and our. You know I live in New Jersey. If I can say that I'm not in an environmental area, I would be lying to myself. Sorry, but you know I don't live in Montana. I wish I did, you know I would probably be living in a nice, clean area. Hi, how are you? Dr Buffer, thanks for coming in. I appreciate it.

Speaker 1: 11:10

And you know, and then support a natural way of detoxifying. So natural ways of detoxifying vary. So detoxification has to do with hydration, sweating and detoxifying the liver. So how do you hydrate the right way? You add electrolytes if needed, you can do saunas. I'm a big fan of saunas. I don't know if it's the sound. They love cold punches. People have that in their regimen.

Speaker 1: 11:36

Women, sometimes there's like a varied on that because it can, you know, fluctuate the steroid and the stress levels. So maybe a little bit of a flat. You know, a small short period. Burst of that short period, first of that. But I'm not necessarily a big fan, especially if you already have high cortisol or you already have like a belly fat or hip and adipose tissue in your hips and in your belly. Most probably you have an estrogen issue. So unfortunately I'm not a cold blood fan but I do like sauna, so that helps with that sway.

Speaker 1: 12:20

And then just kind of monitoring some of these things overall and then again too, go and visit a provider that will give you at least a baseline testing. Granted, the hormones do fluctuate during your time of the period, and you know, see. And then also for men too, men have to check their um estrogen, their hormone levels, because some of them have a am just you know, change in the balance of their hormones and then, and they'll know, there's some sort of you know whether it's too low, too high. So I hope this helps. This is just a quick um overview about estrogen dominance and low estrogen in the body and if you have any additional questions, reach out to me. I'd be glad to help Talk with you soon.