Dr. Chelsea Eilts reveals the neuroendocrine and metabolic roots of PCOS, beyond simple hormone imbalances. Learn functional strategies for blood sugar, stress, and circadian rhythm to restore balance and reclaim your health.
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In this episode of the Heroines Podcast, Dr. Chelsea Eilts, a naturopathic doctor and functional health expert, explains that PCOS is more than a hormone issue — it’s a neuroendocrine metabolic disorder. She dives into the root causes, including blood sugar instability, adrenal stress, and circadian rhythm disruption, offering functional solutions beyond conventional symptom management.
Listeners learn actionable strategies: stabilizing blood sugar through nutrition, supporting adrenal health with stress reduction and adaptogens, and restoring circadian rhythms through light, movement, and sleep optimization. Dr. Eilts emphasizes that long-term symptom resolution is possible with consistent lifestyle and functional interventions, challenging the myth that women must simply "manage" PCOS forever.
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Dr. Chelsea Eilts is a naturopathic doctor, doctor of classical Chinese medicine, and functional health expert. She empowers women to understand and address the root causes of PCOS and other hormonal imbalances through holistic, science-backed strategies.
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Instagram: @hormone_heroines
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Website: www.blossominglongevity.com
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Dr. Chelsea's website: www.aurumsage.com
Somatic Guided practice: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TFbAs4iez28na0w2V1yBWLK6BL7n3rx8/view?usp=sharing
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Two women doctors reveal the untold truth about hormonal chaos — from burnout, infertility, and mood swings to true healing through functional medicine and BHRT. Learn how to restore balance and feel like yourself again while hearing their own personal stories.
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In this powerful first episode of Hormone Heroines Podcast, co-hosts Dr. Serena and Dr. Heidi share their deeply personal stories that inspired their careers in holistic medicine.
Dr. Serena recounts her struggles with athletic amenorrhea, multiple miscarriages, and the long-term side effects of hormonal birth control. She explains how holistic medicine — stress reduction, gut healing, and targeted supplementation — helped her conceive naturally. Later, during her second pregnancy journey, she found renewed stability and hope through bioidentical progesterone therapy (BHRT).
Dr. Heidi reflects on a lifetime of hormonal turmoil — from severe PMDD and Hyperemesis Gravidarum to a near-death experience during childbirth. Years later, Hashimoto's diagnosis explained her ongoing fatigue and mood swings. She now manages perimenopause with bioidentical hormones, strength training, and nutrition, crediting these tools for restoring her vitality.
Together, they emphasize that stress, lifestyle, and gut health profoundly affect hormonal balance — and that women deserve better education, options, and medical support. Their message is one of hope: you can reclaim your health, no matter your hormonal stage or history.
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Functional medicine doctors, mothers, and hormone experts, Dr. Heidi and Dr. Serena help women rewrite their health stories through root-cause medicine and real-world compassion.
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Instagram: @hormone_heroines
TikTok: @hormone_heroines
Youtube: @HormoneHeroines
Website: www.blossominglongevity.com
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GDF 15 and Dr. Marlena Fejzo the geneticist who discovered it:
https://www.aaas.org/news/geneticist-wins-womens-health-prize-pioneering-discoveries-about-severe-morning-sickness
https://www.hyperemesis.org/news/nature2023/
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Dr. Vonda Wright's book "Unbreakable: A Woman's Guide to Aging With Power"
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