Aaron Hartman, MDFunctional Medicine Specialist | Clinical Researcher

Why Estrogen May Not Work in the Body #shorts

27 Apr 2026 · 0 min

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In this short video, Dr. Aaron Hartman explains that various compounds commonly found in food—such as intoxicants, food additives, petroleum‑based solvents, and neuroendocrine disruptors like bisphenol A—can interfere with hormonal health. These substances may bind to estrogen receptors, preventing the body’s own estrogen from attaching and exerting its effects, thereby compromising estrogen function.

So what do I mean? The first group, intoxicants, that's food, food additives, things like neuroendocrine disruptors, petroleum-based solvents in our food. All of these can actually have a massive impact on your hormonal health and your body. Does your estrogen even work? Are your estrogen receptors even open? If there's bisphenol A, which is a neuroendocrine disruptor that looks and acts like estrogen, is bound there, then literally your own estrogen won't have a place to go do its work.