Dr. Betty Murray explains that estrogen toxicity doesn't mean estrogen is poisonous or that you should avoid HRT. It describes a genetic tendency to metabolize estrogen through slower, less water-soluble pathways. Symptoms may signal a need for lifestyle changes like diet and exercise to support better metabolism.
We talk about estrogen toxicity and people get a little freaked out by that term. And so I just wanna explain that that doesn't mean you're going to be toxic. It doesn't mean you shouldn't take HRT. It doesn't mean any of those things. It means that you genetically have a tendency to, instead of metabolizing down one pathway, metabolize down one or more of these other pathways where then it's a little bit harder for it to become water soluble and leave the body. It doesn't mean it's impossible. It doesn't mean you're not doing it through the pathway that's easiest or anything like that. It just means watch out for these symptoms because you might need to do lifestyle things in order to mitigate this.
