Is Estrogen Dominance Causing Hormonal Roller Coaster in Your 40s? 🌪️

Progesterone keeps estrogen in check. It's probably the most common scenario that I see for women in their 40s is this picture of estrogen dominance and this low progesterone or progesterone deficiency, and it causes a slew of symptoms. And it's a roller coaster because although progesterone is just declining steadily and every month you're just struggling to make it, estrogen is a little more erratic. And sometimes your ovaries will try to overcompensate because they're trying to, say, make progesterone. And so your estrogen levels can get far up again before they come back down. So estrogen is really erratic in your 40s, made worse when you're making excess cortisol to handle all your stressful daily lives.