Dr. Tabatha Barber explains how gut bacteria produce beta-glucuronidase, an enzyme that reactivates estrogen so your body reabsorbs it. This can lead to estrogen dominance and symptoms like heavy periods and PMS. Fixing your gut bacteria may help more than treating symptoms alone.
Foreign. Here's one of the craziest things that I think is God made this enzyme that is produced by bacteria called beta glucuronidase. So certain bacteria called our stromolone will make this enzyme beta glucuronidase. And beta glucuronidase will cause us to reactivate estrogens that were previously deactivated and were in your stool to be leaving for evacuation. They will cause that estrogen to be reactivated and reabsorbed. The bacteria in your gut can shift your hormone levels. They can affect how much estrogen you have circulating. I think that is amazing. And it's just the tip of the iceberg. What we are now starting to understand about how our systems are all interconnected and relate to one another. And so the fact that bad bacteria in your gut can cause estrogen dominance and hormone imbalance is like, oh, my gosh, that's really eye opening. I need to get control of my gut health. I need to get these bacteria back into balance. So it's never about just taking hormones or, you know, dealing with heavy periods by having an ablation or using an IUD or, you know, taking some medicine for your PMS symptoms. It's trying to figure out, why are your hormones imbalanced and causing all of these symptoms? And it often stems from the gut.
