How Declining Hormones Disrupt the Gut Microbiome
Declining hormones can have a powerful—and often overlooked—impact on gut health. In this clip, Stacey Roberts explains how changes in hormones like estrogen, progesterone and testosterone alter the gut microbiome, influence inflammation, and affect digestion, immunity, and overall metabolic health.
We explore why hormonal shifts during perimenopause, menopause and andropause can lead to bloating, food sensitivities, weight changes, and chronic inflammation, and why supporting the gut becomes essential as hormones decline. This conversation highlights the critical connection between hormone balance and gut health, and why treating one without the other often falls short.
Watch the full episode to learn how nutrition, lifestyle, and root-cause strategies can help restore gut balance and support long-term wellness.
Full Transcript
Hormone Changes and Gut Health 0:00
So what kinds of things do you find that's contributing to leaky gut? So it always will depend on the person. But generally, if somebody is in paramentapause or menopause, the changes in the hormone levels will significantly affect the microbiome. So when we have those changes and hormone level, what we don't often think about is changing our diet, right? Doing things differently than we did in the first few decades of life to kind of accommodate and get ready for that change because when our estrogen, progesterone, testosterone levels decrease, we have significant changes to the microbiome.
So, but we don't necessarily eat differently and we probably even maybe drink more alcohol, as we get older and things like that. go out more because if we have more disposable income, we'll have that opportunity, right? So then we're kind of putting, you know, making the situation even worse when we are having less protection or if the hormone level is decreasing. we're actually adding more things in that can significantly impact the gut.
Diet and Fiber Deficiency 0:58
So that's one of the reasons why as we age that difference. But then there can be those people who just don't eat well. They don t eat things that are rich in fiber, which helps feed the
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