You spend days feeling bloated, cranky, and crampy. Sometimes the pain gets so bad that you can’t make it through work or school.
And while getting your period is inescapable, suffering through it doesn’t have to be.
Your worst period symptoms come from estrogen overload. And there’s a simple way to deal with that…
Ensure your gut microbiome is balanced so it can do its job… and keep your hormones from running wild.
Estrogen Intensifies Period Pain
Frustrating and painful period symptoms come from a mismatch in hormone levels—too much estrogen and not enough progesterone.[1]
We call this estrogen dominance, and it can make your period extra miserable.
Estrogen dominance can cause all sorts of symptoms, including:
- Abdominal pain
- Breast tenderness
- Heavy periods
- Irregular periods
- Intense cramping
- Bloating
- Mood swings
- Weight gain
So you can blame too much estrogen for your discomfort… and you can blame your gut for the excess estrogen.
Your Gut Microbiome Manages Estrogen
Your body is equipped with a natural hormone balancing system, and it centers on your gut microbiome—the trillions of bacteria in your gut.
In a healthy, well-balanced gut microbiome, beneficial probiotic bacteria outnumber harmful pathogenic bacteria.
Those probiotic bacteria positively influence every system in your body. That includes managing the hormones that come into play during your period.
A collection of certain types of bacteria—known as the estrobolome—regulate the levels of estrogen in your body.[2]
Here’s how that works[3]...
To get rid of extra estrogen, your body bundles it up and sends it through your digestive system for excretion. Once it reaches your estrobolome, the bacteria there unpack it using an enzyme called beta-glucuronidase.[4]
This effectively breaks down the estrogen bundles; some of the estrogen gets reactivated and sent back through your bloodstream to be utilized... while the estrogen your body doesn’t need gets lined up for excretion.
When your gut microbiome is in healthy balance, you produce the exact right amount of beta-glucuronidase to keep your estrogen levels where they need to be.
But when your gut microbiome is out of balance, a condition called dysbiosis, this estrogen-balancing system crashes.
An Unbalanced Gut Makes Period Problems Worse
Dysbiosis—a condition where pathogens outnumber probiotics in your gut microbiome—can knock your estrogen levels out of whack.[5] It disrupts the normal balancing process by changing the amount of beta-glucuronidase produced in your estrobolome.
Too much beta-glucuronidase leads to too much circulating estrogen… and results in estrogen dominance.
That greatly disrupts your feminine flow and can lead to all sorts of uncomfortable symptoms.
And to make matters worse, those harmful bacteria also produce toxins called lipopolysaccharides (or LPS toxins).[6] LPS toxins damage the protective lining of your gut so they can escape into your bloodstream.
Once LPS toxins are circulating, they can cause inflammation all over your body. They can also mess with your hormone levels…making your period symptoms unusually intense.[7]
Balancing Your Gut Creates a Healthy Estrogen Balance… and More
Getting—and keeping—your gut microbiome in healthy balance helps ensure your estrogen levels stay in check. In turn, that can help your period to be more regular and less painful.
And the benefits don’t stop there...
A healthy gut microbiome helps you stay healthy, energetic, and happy. That’s because your gut has connections with every system in your body. So a well-balanced gut can deliver all kinds of systemic support, including:
- Keeping your skin clearer[8]
- Managing sugar cravings[9]
- Maintaining a healthy weight[10]
- Getting a good night’s sleep[11]
- Balancing your blood sugar[12]
- Promoting a healthy inflammatory response[13]
- Keeping your immune system strong and prepared[14]
Unfortunately, it doesn’t take much to tip your gut microbiome out of balance.[15] A single dose of antibiotics can do it. So can stress and unpredictability, an unhealthy diet, and infections.
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