What your doctor won't tell you is that there is a connection between your fatigue, weight gain, and digestive symptoms. He can’t tell you that your symptoms will be fixed with these medications but they will say “we can manage the symptoms.” But you came to the doctor to get help in getting rid of the symptoms, not manage them! This is because MDs are trained in symptom treatment with medications, and although they are excellent with acute care your chronic symptoms will continue to persist unless nutrition and lifestyle are addressed.

You can balance your hormones naturally once you understand the big connection between gut health and your hormones. In my experience as a functional nutritionist, the endocrine (hormone) system affects the microbiome which contributes to these imbalances and if you don’t work on gut health the hormones often stay out of balance. If you are reading this blog, you likely have gut microbiome imbalances if you have hormonal acne, hormonal weight gain, PCOS, Thyroid Disease, Adrenal Fatigue, menopause or PMS symptoms.

Elevated cortisol means there is chronic overstimulation of stress on the body.

The stress could be from the food you eat (sugar), emotional stress, or immune stressors or triggers like…