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How Hormones Turn Into Toxins, with Dr. Sharon Stills

Release Date: 02/10/2025

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An imbalanced microbiome, stress, and environmental toxins can turn your hormones into toxins that will stay in your body, affecting your overall well-being. This could lead to weight gain and mood swings, even if you're diligently following a healthy diet and exercise routine. Instead of experiencing vibrant health, you could be feeling fatigued and emotionally drained, despite your best efforts to achieve hormonal balance. That's why optimizing your body's eliminatory organs can lead to better hormone balance and a healthier life.

Listen now to start taking care of your hormones today!

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Show Notes

In this episode, Dr. Sharon Stills delves into the intricate relationship between hormones and toxins in our bodies. She shared her expertise on the factors that can disrupt hormone balance and act as toxins in the body. Xenoestrogens can even come from sources such as supermarket receipts, emphasizing the pervasive nature of these environmental toxins. Dr. Stills also emphasized the crucial role of the liver and gut in processing hormones, underlining the interconnectedness of bodily systems in maintaining hormone balance. Understanding how to minimize exposure and optimize toxin elimination can be your key to feeling freaking amazing.

Hormones Becoming Toxins

Understanding how hormones can turn into toxins that stay in your body sheds light on the intricate balance necessary for optimal health. Hormones, crucial for bodily functions, can act disruptively due to various factors like an imbalanced microbiome, stress, and exposure to environmental xenoestrogens. This can lead to disturbances in hormone regulation, impacting your overall well-being.

Eliminatory Organs for Hormone Balance

The proper functioning of organs like the liver, gut, and kidneys plays a crucial role in the detoxification and elimination of hormones, highlighting their essential role in supporting overall health. This highlights the importance of optimizing these organs for effective detoxification. By focusing on enhancing liver function, promoting regular bowel movements, and supporting other eliminatory pathways, you can aid your body in efficiently processing and eliminating toxins.

Lifestyle Factors and Epigenetics

Dr. Stills challenged the conventional belief that genetics alone determine your health, emphasizing the power of lifestyle choices in shaping well-being. By focusing on factors like diet, movement, thoughts, and toxin exposure, you can enhance your health outcomes and maintain proper hormone balance.

Listen now to start taking care of your hormones today!

Guest Bio

Dr. Sharon Stills is a Naturopathic Medical Doctor providing comprehensive health care, therapeutic and diagnostic services to patients worldwide. She combines her conventional medical training, data-driven science, cutting-edge diagnostic tools and a deep knowledge of natural healing to effectively identify and treat health concerns ranging from allergies to end stage cancer, and everything in between.

Dr. Stills is a 2001 graduate of SCNM (The Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine) in Tempe, Arizona, one of the nation’s foremost accredited medical schools. She specializes in European Biological Medicine –having trained extensively with Dr. Thomas Rau formerly of the Paracelsus Clinic in Switzerland. She was chosen to lecture alongside him as part of the Paracelsus Academy. In addition, she is also extremely well-versed in pro-aging therapies and Bio-identical Hormone Replacement. She is well known for her successful involvement with patients dealing with a Cancer Diagnosis – both early and advanced stage – and has been featured in many Oncology Summits based on her experience and knowledge of the subject. Dr. Stills travels the world seeking out the best of Natural Medicine options and bringing them back to the US.

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