Mona SharmaCelebrity nutritionist and wellness advocate

Hormone Imbalance Starts In Your Gut Do This To Reverse It

11 Nov 2025 · 1 min

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In this conversational video, Mona Sharma shares her personal struggle with PCOS and discusses how hormonal imbalances in women—especially those with PCOS and perimenopause—are often rooted in gut health. Speaker A explains that gut dysbiosis can trigger a cascade of hormonal symptoms such as weight gain, emotional volatility, night sweats, and accelerated aging signs (gray hair, loss of collagen, aches). The approach to treatment involves first identifying the specific PCOS phenotype, then applying a tailored mix of medication, diet, and supplementation to rebalance the gut‑hormone axis. Real‑world patient anecdotes illustrate that correcting gut health can rapidly restore energy, improve weight management, and reverse premature aging symptoms. The dialogue ends with a probing question about the mechanisms that make weight loss especially difficult when the gut is compromised.

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I was diagnosed with PCOS when I was in my early 20s. That was so bad, a doctor literally looked me in the face and said, it's going to be really hard for you to have children. And I was so destroyed by that. PCOS is on the rise. Women are suffering from this.
So what I do for PCOS is first I look at what's happening and then the version of pcos, and then depending on that version, then the correctives come in, which is sometimes medication, sometimes diet, sometimes supplementation.
Mostly it's 80% of women experience hormonal symptoms. We're blaming our hormones. And people who are talking about hormones aren't talking about the relationship to gut health.
Your gut really ties into your hormone health.
When a lot of women who have issues with their hormones actually have issues with their gut health first when it's.
Dysregulated, you'll get weight gain. You'll get too much emotionality around things. The stress resilience goes down. If there's too little, you start to get night sweats and hot flashes. This is why I founded my practice with gut and hormones, hormones as my specialty, because that combination addresses roughly 80 to 90% of the physiology of people.
Do you know how many women I work with in perimenopause who the feedback is, I've aged so quickly in the past few years. The gray hair that's on set, the skin that's sagging, the loss of collagen, the aches, the pains.
I have so many patients that, like, came into me and they zero out of energy and they've had 10 failed doctors. But when you get your gut and your hormones dialed in, within a few months, they're like, back to where, you know, and they're like, wow, like, I have my life back.
What happens in the gut that makes it almost impossible for women to lose weight?