Helpers On Helping

Estrogen Dominance Is a Stress Problem

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Have you ever been told your labs are "normal" while your body feels like it’s screaming? This episode explores why estrogen dominance is often a stress problem, not a hormone failure. I'm diving into how your survival mechanisms might be siphoning off your progesterone. 

  • The Ratio Reality: Estrogen dominance is primarily a ratio problem occurring when estrogen is high or even normal relative to progesterone, which has dropped too low to maintain the "seesaw" balance.
  • The Pregnenolone Steal: When your body perceives high demand for survival, it redirects pregnenolone—the "mother hormone"—away from progesterone production to create cortisol instead.
  • The Cost of Self-Abandonment: Chronic people-pleasing and "shaping shifting" are registered by your nervous system as active threats, creating a persistent cortisol drip that efficiently depletes your progesterone reserves.
  • The Relate Phase: Real restoration begins with the nervous system; by curiously identifying the subtle stressors and relationships that keep you "braced for impact," you can finally shift the biological pattern.

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    Helpers On HelpingBy Riley Smith