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
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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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