Hormones & Cycles

The Gut-Vagina Connection: What the Research Actually Shows

Recurring bacterial vaginosis, yeast infections, or UTIs are usually treated as purely local, gynecological issues. A genuine, increasingly well-documented g...

IVF and Fertility Treatment: What the Gut Research Shows

IVF and other fertility treatments involve hormone protocols and physical demands well beyond general trying-to-conceive advice. Gut health research specific...

Gut Health After Miscarriage: What the Research Actually Says

Miscarriage is common, affecting roughly one in six recognized pregnancies, and it deserves to be talked about honestly rather than in whispers. This piece f...

Why Soy Helps Some Women's Hot Flashes and Not Others

Soy and [hot flashes]([[Gut Health After Menopause: The Estrogen Connection]]) come up constantly in menopause advice, with wildly mixed reports on whether i...

Puberty and the Gut: What New Research Is Finding

Puberty is usually explained purely as hormones switching on. Newer research suggests your gut bacteria play a more active role than people realized, and no ...

Andropause and the Gut: Men's Hormones With Age

Menopause gets a lot of coverage in gut health conversations, and rightly so. The gradual hormone decline men go through with age, sometimes called andropaus...

Your Gut Trimester by Trimester: What Changes and When

Related reading · [Gut health during pregnancy]([[Gut Health During Pregnancy]]): the general picture Pregnancy gut health isn't one fixed state. It shifts i...

Gut Health After Menopause: The Estrogen Connection

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Managing Perimenopause Gut Symptoms Day to Day

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Cortisol, Hormones, and the Gut: Breaking the Stress-Hormone Cycle

Cortisol shows up throughout this series as something that affects gut health, but its relationship with your body's other hormones, and the specific cycle i...

Postpartum Hormones and Gut Recovery

The postpartum period brings some of the biggest hormonal shifts a body goes through, and your gut plays a real, underappreciated part in this transition. If...

Thyroid Health and Your Gut: A Deeper Look (Part 2 of 2)

Gut 101 touched on the gut-thyroid connection as part of a broader hormones article. Given how common thyroid conditions are, particularly among women, the t...

Fertility and Gut Health: What Couples Should Know

For couples trying to conceive, gut health rarely comes up in the standard conversation, yet there are genuine, evidence-backed links worth knowing for both ...

Testosterone, Men's Hormones, and the Gut

Hormone health conversations in gut health content lean heavily toward estrogen and female hormones, but your gut also plays a genuine role in testosterone a...

Endometriosis and Gut Health: The Emerging Research

Endometriosis is a condition where tissue similar to the lining of the uterus grows outside it, causing pain, inflammation, and often serious disruption to d...

PCOS and Your Gut: What the Research Connects

Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is one of the most common hormonal conditions affecting people with ovaries, and gut health research has increasingly found ...

Menstrual Cycle Training and Gut Symptoms (Part 3 of 3)

Part 3 of 3 · Part 1: gut health and your period · Part 2: the full cycle, phase by phase Parts 1 and 2 covered how your [menstrual cycle]([[Your Gut and You...

How Hormonal Contraception Affects Your Gut

The gut health side of hormonal contraception is almost entirely missing from the conversations women have with their doctor when starting the pill, a hormon...

Your Gut and Your Period: What the Research Shows (Part 1 of 3)

Part 1 of 3 · Part 2: the full cycle, phase by phase · Part 3: cycle-aware training A lot of people notice their gut behaves differently around their period....

Gut Health and Hormonal Cycles: What Changes Each Month and Why (Part 2 of 3)

Part 2 of 3 · Part 1: gut health and your period · Part 3: cycle-aware training Part 1 covered gut symptoms around your period specifically. The full arc of ...

Weight and Long-Term Health Through Menopause

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Gut Health During Pregnancy

Related reading · [Your gut trimester by trimester]([[Your Gut Trimester by Trimester: What Changes and When]]): what changes and when Pregnancy is one of th...

Your Gut and Your Hormones: The Basics (Part 1 of 2)

Part 1 of 2 · Part 2 takes a deeper look at [thyroid](Thyroid Health and Your Gut: A Deeper Look (Part 2 of 2)) health specifically If you're managing a horm...