A short transcript excerpt from a YouTube video by Dr. Tabatha Barber arguing that the most common symptom of estrogen dominance is constipation. The speaker explains that gut dysbiosis and slowed transit increase reabsorption of estrogen from stool, potentially worsening hormonal imbalance.
The most common symptom that I see with estrogen dominance is constipation. Because the bad bacteria that are contributing to this problem often slow down your gut so that you're not evacuating on a regular basis. You are only having a bowel movement every other day, every couple days, or you're alternating, alternating between diarrhea and constipation. And here's the problem. When you're constipated and the stool is sitting in your intestines for longer than it should, that's even more time for that estrogen to get reabsorbed back into your bloodstream, into your body.
