Your body isn’t “working against you”. It’s responding to hormonal changes you were never properly taught about. 🤍 During perimenopause, oestrogen starts to fluctuate. Not just drop — fluctuate. Up one day. Down the next. And that hormonal chaos changes where your body prefers to store fat. Instead of your hips and thighs, more weight gathers around your middle. Your belly feels softer. Your waist thickens. Your clothes fit differently — even if you’re eating the same. 😩 It’s frustrating. And

Should you be getting your estrogen and progesterone checked with your gynecologist? And if these levels are normal, does this mean you are not in perimenopause? #thevagdoc **** This is general educational information not specific medical advice meant for any individual

Mirena Coil: Estrogen Dominance & Your Diet Problem

Estrogen dominance is the most overused label in women's health, and stay with me because I am giving you the exact labs to ask for and the 5 step protocol to fix the real problem at the end. Here is the part most clinicians skip. Before you blame estrogen you have to know whether it is actually elevated or simply unopposed. In perimenopause progesterone almost always falls first because ovulation becomes inconsistent, so estrogen only looks dominant by comparison even when the number on your la