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  1. 0:00Hey, hey, we are on part three of my iced tea method, which is insulin cortisol estrogen and thyroid. So today we're talking about estrogen
  2. 0:07So quick recap part one was insulin the first domino this drives inflammation and fat storage before blood sugar even begins to move
  3. 0:15Part two is cortisol right the rhythm hormone. So when this breaks or is out of rhythm, you're gonna have belly fat broken sleep
  4. 0:22mood swings just not feeling like yourself swollen and puffy so today
  5. 0:26I'm gonna actually show you what estrogen is and why it tends to dominate ways that seem impossible and what your liver and your gut have to
  6. 0:34Do with all of it very very very important. So by the end of this my goal is for you to have sense of what's going on
  7. 0:40With your body in a way that you probably never have before so let's get into it
  8. 0:45Okay, so most people talk about estrogen like it's just one thing men have it women have it
  9. 0:50But most of us are talking about women in estrogen and it's never just one thing. It's three
  10. 0:54Okay, so you have estradiol, which is the main character the reproductive years of estrogen it protects your brain your bones your heart your
  11. 1:02Metabolism and this one declines in paring menopause or you're gonna have like fluctuations
  12. 1:07This is the one HRT usually replaces okay, then there's estrone. That's kind of like the understudy
  13. 1:13It's made from fat tissue. I'm even after menopause when estradiol drops as strewn steps in so too much
  14. 1:20Estrone from too much fat too much fat tissue often will drive estrogen dominance and
  15. 1:26Estrol which is the gentle one the protective one most likely you'll find that in vaginal creams
  16. 1:32So the ratio between these three matters more than any single lab marker
  17. 1:37Okay, or any number on a lab result and the most standard panels typically only measure one of them which is estradiol
  18. 1:45So what happens is when your estrogen declines you're not only losing a reproductive hormone your brain
  19. 1:52Which estrogen supports serotonin and dopamine so when it drops the flatness the inability to feel joy the
  20. 2:00Super low mood that just arrived without reason y'all this happened to me a couple weeks ago, and it was awful
  21. 2:05So it's up and down for me right now, too. It's not depression. That's just estrogen decline
  22. 2:10Your sleep estrogen helps regulate restorative deep sleep
  23. 2:14So when it drops eight hours of bed, and you probably still wake up feeling exhausted. So your metabolism
  24. 2:22Estrogen supports insulin sensitivity so when it drops fat storage often increases
  25. 2:27Specifically belly fat and it's not because you're necessarily eating more it's because your your metabolic environment has changed your joints your skin your hair your heart
  26. 2:36It's all protected by estrogen, and so it's all affected when it drops. I often like to think
  27. 2:43About the woman who's in her early 40s right like started saying you know, I don't feel like myself. I feel off
  28. 2:50I'm not sleeping. I've gained weight like I'm holding this weight like where this even come from. I didn't change anything
  29. 2:55I'm feeling super irritable. I feel flat
  30. 2:58That is not aging that is a woman losing estrogen's protection across one of those
  31. 3:04one of those
  32. 3:06Systems at the same time and here's something that sounds impossible until you understand it and I hear this a lot
  33. 3:12But you can have low estrogen and estrogen dominance at the same time because estrogen dominance
  34. 3:19It's not about how much estrogen you have. It's about the ratio of your estrogen to progesterone
  35. 3:25So in pairing menopause when your progesterone is declining that is progesterone is the first hormone that drops well before
  36. 3:32estrogen and years before estrogen and many women so I like to think of it almost like a sea salt, right?
  37. 3:38So you have estrogen on one side
  38. 3:40Pigeastro and on the other so when pigeastro and drops what's gonna happen estrogen stays and then estrogen crashes down
  39. 3:47So that is estrogen dominance even when estrogen is
  40. 3:52Lower than it used to be so you can be in menopause have super low estrogen
  41. 3:55But you can still have estrogen dominant symptoms and what this often feels like if you are still cycling
  42. 4:01You're gonna have super heavy periods in your late 30s or 40s. You're gonna be experiencing breast tenderness
  43. 4:06Still holding weight around your hips button thighs. That does not respond to diet
  44. 4:11Definitely more bloating mood swings that follow a pattern, right? So more fibroids that lead
  45. 4:17The show and often fatigue so if you're checking off for five of these that is one root with many of these branches
  46. 4:23So address the root and the branches result right and here's the part that pretty much nobody talks about and this is a piece that
  47. 4:29Explains why women gain weight on HRT and why systems?
  48. 4:35symptoms present even after the hormones are replaced because
  49. 4:39After estrogen does its job your body actually has to clear it
  50. 4:43So you have two organs that handle that your liver and your gut
  51. 4:46I actually spoke about this and another IG that I would definitely listen to lots of you resonated with that
  52. 4:51But the liver breaks down estrogen through a two-face process and then it packages it all for elimination
  53. 4:56So when your liver is overburdened your estrogen can't clear it fast enough and guess what?
  54. 5:02What does it do? It just recirculates and if you're not pooping that just exacerbates it and it stores it as fat
  55. 5:07And that is called estrogen dominance
  56. 5:09Then your gut is supposed to complete the clearance right so the pooping but when your microbiome is disrupted
  57. 5:16It produces an enzyme called I can never say this right beta gluenidase
  58. 5:21That's how you say it and that's an enzyme that takes estrogen from your liver
  59. 5:24That's already cleared and it puts it right back in the liver clears it right your gut recycles it so it's it's like this hamster
  60. 5:31Wheel I've loved it right so bloated every single day looking nine months pregnant from the moment I wake up
  61. 5:37Couldn't lose weight definitely store in a ton of weight in my hips button thighs. I have massive brain fog
  62. 5:41I just could like not think clearly and I will go the doctor and they just be like oh it's IBS your labs are normal
  63. 5:46So I ended up paying for a GI map
  64. 5:48I've done a few a comprehensive gut test that pretty much never any doctor orders
  65. 5:52We order it we do it all and what we found is just like dysbiosis poor fat absorption poor bio flow
  66. 5:58And my astro or my liver was trying to clear the estrogen
  67. 6:01But my gut was like literally recycling it straight back in
  68. 6:05So once we address both the bloating disappeared the brain fog really started to lift I'm like okay
  69. 6:10I kind of feel like myself again the weight started moving my jeans were fitting better
  70. 6:14I just wasn't feeling so bloated and it's the same hormones right
  71. 6:17They were just finally cleared out properly and this is one of the many reasons why we do the flush and the first phase of our protocols
  72. 6:23Because you cannot just like throw macros and all these things on a backed up system
  73. 6:28It's just not gonna work so you have to clear everything out first then everything will actually work so
  74. 6:34Here are four most direct things you can do just to help with estrogen balance starting today
  75. 6:39So number one is eating those crucifixed vegetables every single day
  76. 6:43So think of things like broccoli cauliflower brussel sprouts kale they contain something called dim and
  77. 6:50These are compounds that and it's also it's also sulfurate. I can never say that one either
  78. 6:55Compounds directly to support your livers estrogen clearance pathway
  79. 6:59So I would definitely do like one cup a day non-negotiable
  80. 7:02Two if you want to have consistent bowel movements because when stool sits in the colon
  81. 7:06It you know, it's it's cleared estrogen will often just reabsorb
  82. 7:11So I would recommend magnesium glycinate like three to four hundred milligrams at night
  83. 7:15Most women have their first consistent bowel movement within a week
  84. 7:19I would say and number three you've got to reduce alcohol
  85. 7:22You just got to cut it out alcohol inhibits the liver enzymes that just clear estrogen and it takes up to 48 hours per drink
  86. 7:28So your Friday night one glass of wine is affecting your Saturday and Sunday hormone clearance
  87. 7:33So most women on HRT they've probably never been told this
  88. 7:38So make sure you do that number four is you really have to manage your cortisol
  89. 7:41So chronically elevated cortisol. What is that gonna do? Obviously? That's it's gonna drive belly fat, right?
  90. 7:45But belly fat produces more estro and some more estro means more estrogen dominance
  91. 7:50And then what also happens is cortisol will often suppress
  92. 7:53Pigestrone directly so making the estrogen dominance magnified just making it so much worse
  93. 7:58So again cortisol is high progesterone drops estrogen dominance gets worse
  94. 8:02So cortisol management is a direct
  95. 8:05estrogen intervention they're essentially like having the same conversation so everything I taught you is well established in science and
  96. 8:12It's the reason most women have never even heard of it because I will say that the conventional system is designed to
  97. 8:20So conventional medicine is all about catching a disease, right?
  98. 8:23So it's not about optimizing a woman who's sick. So if you're already having these symptoms
  99. 8:27You're already well along into a hormonal disruption
  100. 8:31So you have to make sure your body is supported and it responds in a way that
  101. 8:36That it knows it needs the right direction the right order, right?
  102. 8:40So I've just seen this over and over again. We've worked with thousands of women exact same situation
  103. 8:45But next week I'm gonna talk about part four of my IC which is thyroid
  104. 8:49So if you're feeling exhausted you can't sleep
  105. 8:53The hair loss the face change the metabolism that you feel like stopped responding come back for part four
  106. 9:00I promise it's gonna help a bunch. So if you're interested in more comment quiz below
  107. 9:04I'll be happy to send you my free two minute hormone assessment
  108. 9:06We can really see which hormone is blocking your fat loss and how we can best support you. So hope you're having a great day. Bye

@kim.schaper's estrogen recycling claim, fact-checked

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Estrogen metabolism involves enterohepatic circulation where gut bacteria can influence hormone reabsorption through beta-glucuronidase enzyme activity. However, most HRT optimization issues relate to inadequate dosing or delivery methods rather than gut microbiome dysfunction.

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  • Most HRT optimization issues relate to inadequate dosing or delivery methods, not gut microbiome problems

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  • Enterohepatic circulation allows gut bacteria to influence estrogen reabsorption through beta-glucuronidase enzyme activity
  • Most HRT optimization issues relate to inadequate dosing or delivery methods, not gut microbiome problems
  • Normal hormone lab ranges vary widely between individuals, with many women needing 150-300 pg/mL estradiol for symptom relief
  • Clinical trials testing probiotics for HRT optimization show limited evidence of symptom improvement
  • The gut-hormone connection exists but shouldn't be the first explanation for hormone therapy failures
  • Proper HRT dosing optimization should precede gut health interventions for persistent symptoms
  • Fuhrman et al. (2014) demonstrated microbiome effects on estrogen metabolism, but causation for HRT failure remains unproven

Our take · Written by FormBlends editorial team · Reviewed by FormBlends Medical Team · This is not a transcript. It is our independent review of the video above.

What does this video actually claim?

Kim Schaper tells women their HRT isn't working because their gut bacteria are "recycling" estrogen their liver already processed. She claims disrupted gut bacteria prevent proper estrogen elimination, causing estrogen to get "put straight back in" circulation "over and over."

The video targets women who feel awful despite normal hormone labs and correct HRT doses. Schaper positions gut health as the missing piece in hormone therapy effectiveness.

Is the estrogen recycling concept real?

Yes, but Schaper oversimplifies a complex process. Estrogen metabolism involves the enterohepatic circulation, where gut bacteria do influence hormone levels through beta-glucuronidase enzyme activity.

Research by Fuhrman et al. (Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, 2014) showed gut microbiome composition affects estrogen metabolism. Specific bacterial strains produce beta-glucuronidase, which can deconjugate estrogen metabolites and increase reabsorption.

However, calling this "recycling" makes it sound like a malfunction. It's actually a normal physiological process that becomes problematic only with severe dysbiosis or specific bacterial overgrowth patterns.

What did she get wrong about HRT troubleshooting?

Schaper jumps straight to gut bacteria without considering more common HRT issues. Poor symptom relief despite "normal" labs often reflects inadequate hormone levels, wrong delivery methods, or timing problems.

The North American Menopause Society's 2022 position statement emphasizes that "normal" hormone levels vary widely between individuals. Many women need higher estradiol levels (150-300 pg/mL) than standard ranges suggest for symptom relief.

Blaming the gut microbiome first ignores basic HRT optimization. Most women feeling awful on HRT need dose adjustments, not probiotic protocols.

Does gut health actually affect hormone therapy?

The evidence is mixed and mostly observational. Baker et al. (Menopause, 2017) found associations between gut bacterial diversity and estrogen metabolite ratios, but this doesn't prove causation.

Clinical trials testing probiotics for HRT optimization are limited. A 2019 study by Flores et al. in Beneficial Microbes showed modest changes in estrogen metabolism with specific Lactobacillus strains, but no improvement in menopausal symptoms.

The gut-hormone connection exists, but it's not the primary reason HRT fails to work. Most hormone therapy problems stem from dosing, delivery methods, or unrealistic expectations about timeline for improvement.

What should women on HRT actually know?

Start with HRT basics before blaming your gut bacteria. Work with providers who understand bioidentical hormone optimization and individualized dosing based on symptoms, not just lab ranges.

If you're still struggling after proper HRT optimization, then consider gut health. But don't skip the fundamentals chasing trendy explanations for hormone therapy failures.

Schaper's gut advice isn't wrong, but it shouldn't be the first stop for HRT troubleshooting. Fix your hormone dosing first.

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Kim Schaper | Women’s Hormone & Metabolic Health Specialist · Instagram creator

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What does the video say about enterohepatic circulation allows gut bacteria to influence estrogen reabsorption through?

Enterohepatic circulation allows gut bacteria to influence estrogen reabsorption through beta-glucuronidase enzyme activity

What does the video say about most hrt optimization?

Most HRT optimization issues relate to inadequate dosing or delivery methods, not gut microbiome problems

What does the video say about normal hormone lab ranges vary widely between individuals, with many?

Normal hormone lab ranges vary widely between individuals, with many women needing 150-300 pg/mL estradiol for symptom relief

What does the video say about clinical trials testing probiotics for hrt optimization show limited evidence?

Clinical trials testing probiotics for HRT optimization show limited evidence of symptom improvement

What does the video say about the gut-hormone connection exists?

The gut-hormone connection exists but shouldn't be the first explanation for hormone therapy failures

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Proper HRT dosing optimization should precede gut health interventions for persistent symptoms

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