41 | Natural Remedies for Hormone Balance with Magdalena Wszelaki

Magdalena Wszelaki was inspired to change careers to the health and wellness field after conventional medicine failed her and she forged her own path to wellness, starting with her diagnosis of Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis in 2008. Magdalena is a Certified Holistic Health Coach and the author of Cooking for Hormone Balance, and today we’re getting deep into the weeds of the causes of hormone balance, natural remedies for hormone balance, and what you can do if you suspect your hormones are out of whack.

Magdalena’s journey with hormone imbalance began with a diagnosis of Graves’ Disease, Hashimoto’s and Adrenal Fatigue – Stage 2. It returned 10 years later when doctors diagnosed her with Estrogen Dominance and a dangerously high level of heavy metal toxicity. Fed up with doctors who wrote her conditions off with a laundry list of pharmaceuticals, Magdalena left her career in advertising to focus full-time on understanding her body, her relationship to food, and cracking the code on nutrition’s connection to hormonal balance.

In her book, Cooking for Hormone Balance, Magdalena helps women connect-the-dots between food and hormones and provides scientifically-backed information and custom dietary programs. The book also includes over 125 easy-to-prepare recipes for a wide-range of hormone-related conditions, including Thyroid conditions, Hashimoto’s, PCOS, PMS, estrogen dominance, and many more. Magdalena’s approach is based on the principles of functional medicine that emphasize uncovering the root causes of disease and treating a person from every aspect – which you guys know is exactly how I work with all my nutrition clients!

We discuss:

Natural remedies for hormone balance – how to use seed rotation and the best foods to avoid / best foods to eat for hormone balance
Environmental and stress triggers can set off autoimmune disease – and throw your hormones out of control.
An exercise for figuring out triggers for health conditions – making a timeline of stressful events in your life, everything from birth, to moves when you were a child or any trauma in your life. On the other side, write down big shifts in your health and see where they overlap.
Anxiety and autoimmune disease vs. hormonal imbalances
What happens when your hormones get out of whack? How issues with estrogen dominance can cause anxiety
The symptoms of estrogen dominance and insulin resistance
Conventional treatments for hormone imbalance
The pregnenolone steal – how a constant state of stress shunts our progesterone production and can mess up menstrual cycles and throw off your hormones
A recipe for a natural adrenal ‘cocktail’!