Aaron Hartman, MDFunctional Medicine Specialist | Clinical Researcher

How Your Gut Health Influences Your Hormones | The Hidden Hormone Saboteur in Your Gut

13 Jun 2025 · 0 min

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A short video/transcript by Aaron Hartman, MD explaining how the gut microbiome influences sex hormones and offering simple, actionable steps to improve hormone regulation. The speaker identifies the gut as a major, often-overlooked driver of hormonal balance and begins listing three practical interventions; the first recommended action is to maintain a daily bowel movement.

These are all expressions of your gut microbiome or the bacteria in your gut affecting your sex hormones. A lot of the traditional ways we deal with this are just by giving birth control pills or different hormone blockers, which have a lot of negative downstream effects. So this is a big thing that can be affecting your hormones, your gut. So what are three simple things you can do that can have a massive impact on hormone regulation? Well, the first thing is to have a daily bowel movement.