Stress, Gut Health & the Female Lifecycle of Hormones

In today's episode of the Balancing Chaos Podcast, Kelley sits down with world renowned women's health and hormones specialist, Dr. Aviva Romm. Aviva Romm is an MD, a midwife, and an herbalist who sees health and medicine a different way than a lot of doctors. Her focus is on what she calls ‘our total health ecology’, utilizing medicine to identify and reverse the root causes of chronic health conditions, particularly hormonal problems in women and common children’s health problems. She is considered one of the world leaders in botanical medicine and is the author of seven books on natural medicine, including the textbook Hormone Intelligence and The Adrenal Thyroid Revolution. In today's episode of the show, Kelley and Dr. Romm discuss the impact of lifestyle on chronic conditions in women. Dr. Romm emphasizes that 85-95% of chronic conditions are due to lifestyle factors, challenging the notion that certain issues like painful periods, bad PMS and weight gain / irritability / insomnia in perimenopause and menopause, are just a normal part of being a woman. Dr. Romm aims to help women understand how lifestyle choices can influence their health from puberty to menopause. So join them today as they uncover the impacts of stress on other hormones, how your microbiome influences everything from hormones to cancer, the truth about the risks and benefits of bioidentical hormone replacement therapy and so much more!