Comments on: How to Balance Hormones Naturally (Understanding the HPATG Axis) /how-to-balance-hormones-naturally/ Functional Medicine Tue, 10 Feb 2026 21:10:15 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 By: Correcting Estrogen Deficiency (It’s Not All Dominance) – Dr. Alexandra MacKillop /how-to-balance-hormones-naturally/#comment-341 Tue, 03 Dec 2024 16:58:38 +0000 /#comment-341 […] Hormones 101 […]

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]]> By: The Thyroid-Fertility Connection – Dr. Alexandra MacKillop /how-to-balance-hormones-naturally/#comment-339 Tue, 29 Oct 2024 16:10:25 +0000 /#comment-339 […] Regulation of the Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Ovarian (HPO) Axis: Thyroid hormones influence the HPO axis, a crucial hormonal pathway that regulates menstrual cycles and fertility. T3 and T4 affect the release of gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) from the hypothalamus. GnRH, in turn, stimulates the pituitary gland to release follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) and luteinizing hormone (LH). These hormones are essential for ovarian follicle maturation and ovulation. Hypothyroidism can disrupt this hormonal signaling, leading to irregular or absent ovulation, which impairs menstrual regularity. For more on the HPO axis, check out my blog post: Hormones 101 […]

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]]> By: Reactive Hypoglycemia 101 (When “hangry” isn’t a strong enough word…) /how-to-balance-hormones-naturally/#comment-334 Fri, 18 Dec 2020 12:29:46 +0000 /#comment-334 […] which is ultimately triggered by environmental/lifestyle factors, namely stress. As I explain in this post about hormones, stress affects almost every system of our bodies, especially our metabolism. Stress interrupts the […]

]]> By: Do the Thing You Don’t Want to Do (a Story About Breakfast) /how-to-balance-hormones-naturally/#comment-333 Fri, 04 Dec 2020 12:37:28 +0000 /#comment-333 […] Stress affects every other hormonal system in our bodies. When our blood sugar drops and stress rises, it doesn’t just stop there. Cortisol communicates with every other hormonal system in our body, ranging from our sex hormones to thyroid hormones, to metabolism. Read more about it in this post: Hormones 101 […]

]]> By: The Problem With Birth Control Pills /how-to-balance-hormones-naturally/#comment-332 Fri, 16 Oct 2020 13:00:41 +0000 /#comment-332 […] our stress is reaching a critical level through changes to our menstrual cycles. Stress interrupts the delicate web of signals between our brains and the organs that secrete our hormones (sex hormones, thyroid hormones, metabolic hormones, and more) leading to missing, painful, or […]

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