If you’re dealing with heavy or clotted periods, intense PMS, breast tenderness, migraines around your cycle, bloating before your period, or feeling overly emotional, anxious, or wired, you’re going to want to listen to this episode. Estrogen is not the enemy. In fact, we need estrogen for ovulation, bone health, insulin sensitivity, and brain function. The problem starts when estrogen is too high, not clearing properly, or overpowering progesterone. This episode will help you understand what your symptoms are actually telling you, and where to start.

In this episode I’m sharing:

• The 7 most common signs of high estrogen, including heavy bleeding, short cycles, breast tenderness, PMS, migraines, and more
• Why high estrogen almost always goes hand-in-hand with low progesterone (and why you can’t look at one without the other)
• How estrogen increases histamine activity, leading to anxiety, insomnia, nausea, rage, and premenstrual mood swings
• Why migraines around ovulation or before your period are often tied to estrogen fluctuations and inflammation
• How stress, alcohol, and lack of sleep worsen estrogen symptoms by slowing liver detoxification
• The difference between high estrogen vs. estrogen dominance and why labs can look “normal” while symptoms are anything but
• How copper imbalance can make estrogen feel stronger even when blood levels are normal
• Why gut health matters, including the role of beta-glucuronidase in estrogen recirculation
• Where to start naturally: blood sugar balance, fiber intake, liver support, bitters, vitamin C, and reducing endocrine disruptors

Estrogen doesn’t work in isolation. When progesterone, liver detox, gut health, minerals, and blood sugar aren’t supported, estrogen symptoms show up loud and clear. This episode will help you recognize the signs of high estrogen, understand what’s driving them, and take practical steps toward calmer moods, lighter periods, and more balanced hormones.

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I’m Leah Brueggemann, a Functional Diagnostic Nutritional® Practitioner and Hormone Health Coach, helping you balance your hormones in effective and realistic ways so you can live a healthier, happier life.

Through the Balance Hormones Naturally podcast, you’ll discover why your cycle is so important to your everyday health and how you can use nutrition to help support the rise and fall of your hormones and finally feel truly amazing. We dig deep to understand and heal the root causes of your symptoms so you can achieve lasting results through manageable and realistic lifestyle changes, allowing you to live a healthy and balanced life without a life-long pharmaceutical prescription.

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