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.

When you’re a teenager, self-conscious and unsure, acne can weigh on your self-esteem and make you feel like isolating yourself. You dream of a day when you’re older and zit-free, only to discover that acne does not necessarily ride off into the sunset on your 18th birthday. For up to 22% of adult women and 3 percent of adult men, acne is something that lingers well into your adult years.

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…