Hormone Heroines Podcast17 Joulu 2025

Hormone Foundations: How Food, Stress & Gut Health Shape Your Cycle

Discover the core foundations of hormone health — nutrition, stress, sleep, gut health, and detoxification. Learn why most women experience hormone imbalances and how lifestyle, food habits, and environmental factors impact metabolism, mood, perimenopause, and longevity.

In this episode of the Hormone Heroines Podcast, we explore the powerful foundations that regulate women’s hormones — and why many symptoms often blamed on age or “just being a woman” are actually rooted in lifestyle, stress, nutrition, and gut health.

We break down how chronic stress disrupts the HPA axis, suppresses ovarian function, and accelerates hormone metabolism, creating issues like anovulation, mood swings, and metabolic dysfunction.

You’ll learn why whole foods, adequate protein, healthy fats, and fiber are critical for healthy estrogen, progesterone, and testosterone levels — and why restrictive dieting, fasting, and ultra-processed foods disrupt hormonal rhythms.

We also dive deep into gut health, including the estrobolome, inflammation, and the connection between the gut, brain, and endocrine system.

Whether you're cycling, in perimenopause, or post-menopausal, this episode provides actionable steps: eat enough food, move regularly (strength training especially), reduce stress, sleep well, and support detox organs so hormones can function the way they’re meant to.

Drs. Heidi Codino and Serena Russum are women’s health experts and the hosts of the Hormone Heroines Podcast.

Together, they bring decades of clinical experience in integrative women’s health, hormone optimization, natural medicine, and lifestyle-based healing.

Their mission is to empower women with education, tools, and foundational strategies that support hormone balance, longevity, and overall vitality.

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