My Top Ten Tips for Hormone Balance
Eleanor Gordon Eleanor Gordon

My Top Ten Tips for Hormone Balance

Keep your blood sugar in check:
Prevent the blood sugar rollercoaster by eating at consistent times and including a source of quality protein with every meal. Erratic blood sugar can over stimulate your stress hormones and increase inflammation levels within the body.

You need to poop at least once every day. Without this, oestrogen metabolites and toxins can get recirculated in the body causing hormone havoc. Regular fibre intake helps keep your bowls regular so that your body can excrete any unwanted substances out. You should aim for at least 30g a day.

Read More
Endometriosis & Fertility
Eleanor Gordon Eleanor Gordon

Endometriosis & Fertility

Endometriosis is a chronic condition, that particularly affects women of child-bearing age – the condition has been known to go into remission post menopause as it is largely impacted by our hormones.

Often women are not sure, or even aware they have endometriosis until they experience difficulties with fertility.

How can Endometriosis impact fertility?

Dysbiosis: Endometriosis patients have been shown to have higher levels of gram-negative bacteria in the pelvic microbiome. 

Read More
Are you sure you’re Ovulating?
Eleanor Gordon Eleanor Gordon

Are you sure you’re Ovulating?

It may surprise you to know that ‘ovulation’ is actually the main event of your cycle, not your period

We cannot produce and release a healthy, viable egg unless ovulation is taking place.

Ovulation is also how our bodies make hormones. We need to ovulate to produce and regulate healthy amounts of oestrogen and progesterone. Without ovulation occurring there is no corpus luteum created, and without that no progesterone is released.

Read More