Dr. Tabatha BarberI teach women how to fast their way to a faith-filled, hormonally balanced, fabulous life!

Unlock Your Health: Gut, Hormones & Liver Connection #shorts

13 Jul 2026 · 2 min

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In this short conversation, Dr. Tabatha Barber and a co‑host discuss how conventional medicine often treats women’s health in isolated silos—OB‑GYNs focus on hormones, gastroenterologists on the gut, and primary care on liver enzymes or blood sugar—without considering the interconnected, preventative perspective. They argue that many hormonal imbalances are downstream effects of upstream dysfunction in the gut, liver, and gallbladder, which share a common microbiome. The dialogue highlights the overlooked importance of bile, natural GLP‑1, gut motility, and antimicrobial functions as key metabolic regulators that can influence hormone health. The speakers aim to educate women about looking beyond symptom‑based “sick‑care” and toward a holistic, preventive approach that addresses the gut‑liver‑bile axis.

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it's all interlooped, and we'll get into that today in terms of the gut and estrogelome and all of that, that I'm sure you cover a lot on your podcast as well. But when we think about conventional medicine, I think so many women struggle or they don't have the conversations we want them to be having because everyone works in silos, right? And so you go to your OB-GYN for your hormones, if they'll even run your hormones. You go to your GI doctor if they'll even listen to you, or you're able to get in in the next 12 months. You go to your primary care, your liver enzymes are elevating, your insulin's elevating, your A1C is elevating, but they're never looking at it from a preventative perspective. They're only going to look at it from a sick care or a disease perspective. And so, so many people can walk around with so much dysfunction, a lot of which can show up with or without digestive issues. And that's really where I want to just continue to educate people on the importance of bile, Again, we can get into that, but even from a metabolic perspective, our natural GLP-1, right, our natural motility support, our natural antimicrobial, it's so, so important, yet often very, very overlooked.
Oh my gosh. Yes. It's okay. Like, where do we even start? Because I think this is new information for a lot of women and for them to realize that what you said Hormones are a downstream issue. So often we have hormone, um, dysregulation or imbalance because of something upstream, a deeper root cause issue. And very often it is the gut or the liver or the gallbladder, and they're all part of the digestive tract. So they all share that microbiome.