If you’ve been told you have low progesterone, your first question is probably how to raise it. About 90% of the women in my DMs are asking some version of this. In this episode, Leah walks through the symptoms, why progesterone drops in the first place, and five things you can start doing today.
In this episode:
- The symptoms of low progesterone, including brown spotting, painful or heavy periods, PMS, anxiety, and digestive issues before your period.
- Why “brown spotting is just old blood” is the wrong place to stop asking questions, and why your cycle is considered your fifth vital sign.
- Why symptoms are a gift, and what happens to them (and the cost of fixing them) when they get ignored.
- Why your body will always prioritize cortisol over progesterone, and what that means when you’re living in fight or flight.
- What regulating your nervous system actually means (it’s not a bubble bath), and how to check in with your body and shift your state in two to three minutes.
- The supplements and foods that support progesterone, including vitamin C, vitamin E, vitamin B6, magnesium, and potassium rich foods.
- How seed cycling works, which seeds to use in each phase, and why grinding them fresh matters.
- Why eating enough food, especially good fats, matters for hormone production, and what your body does when it thinks it’s in a famine
- How food sensitivities, gut health, and toxic burden tie into progesterone.
- Why progesterone cream isn’t the answer for everyone, and the stories of clients who lengthened their luteal phase and carried a successful pregnancy by finding the root cause.
- How to sleep in complete darkness and why it’s the easiest hack on the list.
- When to test progesterone (5 to 7 days after ovulation) and why you have to track ovulation first.
- Why this episode is for women who are ovulating, and what to look at if you aren’t.
Pick one thing from this episode, start today, and report back on how it goes.
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I’m Leah Brueggemann, a Functional Diagnostic Nutritional® Practitioner and Hormone Health Coach, helping you balance your hormones in effective and realistic ways so you can live a healthier, happier life. Through the Balance Hormones Naturally podcast, you’ll discover why your cycle is so important to your everyday health and how you can use nutrition to help support the rise and fall of your hormones and finally feel truly amazing.
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