Balancing Hormones Naturally

If you’ve been told you have low progesterone, your first question is probably how to raise it. About 90% of the women in my DMs are asking some version of this. In this episode, Leah walks through the symptoms, why progesterone drops in the first place, and five things you can start doing today.

In this episode:
  • The symptoms of low progesterone, including brown spotting, painful or heavy periods, PMS, anxiety, and digestive issues before your period.
  • Why “brown spotting is just old blood” is the wrong place to stop asking questions, and why your cycle is considered your fifth vital sign.
  • Why symptoms are a gift, and what happens to them (and the cost of fixing them) when they get ignored.
  • Why your body will always prioritize cortisol over progesterone, and what that means when you’re living in fight or flight.
  • What regulating your nervous system actually means (it’s not a bubble bath), and how to check in with your body and shift your state in two to three minutes.
  • The supplements and foods that support progesterone, including vitamin C, vitamin E, vitamin B6, magnesium, and potassium rich foods.
  • How seed cycling works, which seeds to use in each phase, and why grinding them fresh matters.
  • Why eating enough food, especially good fats, matters for hormone production, and what your body does when it thinks it’s in a famine
  • How food sensitivities, gut health, and toxic burden tie into progesterone.
  • Why progesterone cream isn’t the answer for everyone, and the stories of clients who lengthened their luteal phase and carried a successful pregnancy by finding the root cause.
  • How to sleep in complete darkness and why it’s the easiest hack on the list.
  • When to test progesterone (5 to 7 days after ovulation) and why you have to track ovulation first.
  • Why this episode is for women who are ovulating, and what to look at if you aren’t.
Pick one thing from this episode, start today, and report back on how it goes.

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I’m Leah Brueggemann, a Functional Diagnostic Nutritional® Practitioner and Hormone Health Coach, helping you balance your hormones in effective and realistic ways so you can live a healthier, happier life. Through the Balance Hormones Naturally podcast, you’ll discover why your cycle is so important to your everyday health and how you can use nutrition to help support the rise and fall of your hormones and finally feel truly amazing.

Let’s connect:

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Website: https://www.leahbrueggemann.com/
Email: leahbcoaching@gmail.com

What is Balancing Hormones Naturally?

Boost your energy, balance hormones naturally, and heal holistically all without uprooting your entire life! Learn the secrets to balancing your hormones at: freehormonetraining.com.


Have you ever tried to Google your symptoms only to slam the laptop shut in frustration? Do you want natural, holistic solutions that actually work? Are you tired of being told that everything is normal, when you know it’s not? Are you ready to take back your health to live your best life? 


In this podcast, you’ll discover why your cycle is so important to your everyday health and how you can use nutrition to help support the rise and fall of your hormones and finally feel truly amazing. We dig deep to understand and heal the root causes of your symptoms so you can achieve lasting results that allow you to live a healthy and balanced life without a life-long pharmaceutical prescription. 


If you're ready to reclaim your energy, learn how to listen to your body, and holistically improve your overall health, you're in the right place! I’ll be sharing my tried and true methods for blood sugar balance, improved sleep quality, weight loss, and increased energy levels so you can live your healthiest life all without unreasonable lifestyle shifts, like restrictive dieting or excessive supplementing.


I’m Leah Brueggemann, a Functional Diagnostic Nutritional® Practitioner and Hormone Health Coach, helping you balance your hormones in effective and realistic ways so you can live a healthier, happier life.


Five years ago, I found out I had fibroadenomas (benign breast tumors), which 90% of the time return after surgical removal. I decided not to undergo the operation and instead found a way to heal the underlying cause. After years of extreme pain, irregular cycles, and ovarian cysts, I finally learned how to balance my hormones which healed my fibroadenomas and led me to regular, pain-free periods. 


I learned how to make lifestyle shifts, remove toxins from my environment, and give my body what it actually needs to function optimally and heal on a cellular level. After my experience, I became a Functional Diagnostic Nutritional® Practitioner so that I can empower women in their own holistic health journey.


Even if you’ve been told your labs are normal or that your symptoms aren’t a cause for concern - YOU are the expert of your body and your experience. You deserve to feel AMAZING, not just “normal”. I’m here to help you achieve optimal overall health through simple, straightforward lifestyle changes that you can start to implement today. 


Balancing Hormones Naturally isn’t just the name of the podcast, it’s the way forward to a happier, healthier life and I can’t wait to join you on the journey! 


Connect with Leah:

📧 Email: leahbcoaching@gmail.com

🌐 Website: leahbrueggemann.com

📷 IG: @leah_brueg and @balancinghormonesnaturally


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