Aaron Hartman, MDFunctional Medicine Specialist | Clinical Researcher

Gut Health 101-2 | The Hidden Key to Hormone Balance

9 Dec 2024 · 1 min

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Aaron Hartman, MD explains how the gut handles about 70% of hormone breakdown and detoxification. When the GI tract isn't working right, hormones recirculate and cause inflammation: headaches, migraines, joint pain, fatigue. He connects his own history of joint pain and slipped discs to hormonal imbalance.

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70% of that breakdown and detoxification occurs in the GI tract. So now we're back to the gut again, the gut being a super important thing for detoxifying hormones, particularly estrogen. And then all of a sudden, now it's also where 70% of the immune system is. And hormonal issues, interesting enough, have a massive inflammatory component to it, whether it's headaches, migraines, joint aches and pains, fatigue. Could you talk about some of, some of the things you dealt with over your journey of your hormonal journey that would relate to inflammation? As someone who symptoms joints and pains, getting injured really easy, you know, slip discs, slip disc, nerve impingement kind of stuff.