Why Your Hormones Won’t Balance (Until You Stop Chasing Symptoms)
You're doing everything right.
You're taking magnesium for better sleep. Seed cycling for cycle regularity. Maybe you've cut out gluten or dairy. You're eating more protein, drinking your water, trying to manage stress.
And yet... your cycles are still unpredictable. The bloating won't quit. Your energy crashes every afternoon.
So you add another supplement. Try another protocol. Google "how to balance hormones naturally" at 2am for the hundredth time.
Here's what I wish someone had told me years ago: You're not broken. You're just focused on the wrong thing.
The Symptom-Chasing Trap
Most of the advice you'll find online tells you how to address symptoms:
Bloated? Take digestive enzymes
Can't sleep? Try magnesium
Heavy periods? Seed cycle
Low energy? Eat more protein
And look—these aren't bad suggestions. But here's the problem: they're band-aids on a broken bone.
Think about it this way. If your check engine light comes on in your car, you could put a piece of tape over it so you don't have to see it anymore. Problem solved, right?
Of course not. The light is just telling you something's wrong under the hood. Covering it up doesn't fix the actual issue.
That's exactly what happens when you chase symptoms without understanding what's causing them in the first place.
What Root Cause Actually Means
When I talk about getting to the root cause, I'm talking about understanding why your body is responding the way it is.
Why is your body holding onto excess estrogen? Why isn't your digestive system breaking down food properly? Why is inflammation showing up in your gut and affecting your cycle?
These are the questions that matter. Because when you understand the "why," you can finally make changes that actually stick.
Let me give you an example. I worked with a woman who had been dealing with painful, heavy periods for years. She'd tried multiple supplements, eliminated foods, done all the "hormone balancing" protocols.
Nothing worked.
When we looked at her comprehensive gut panel, we could see overgrowth of inflammatory bacteria and poor fat breakdown. Her body wasn't eliminating estrogen properly because her digestion wasn't functioning well. The heavy periods weren't a hormone problem—they were a consequence of what was happening in her gut.
Once we supported her digestive function and rebalanced her gut microbiome, her periods became manageable. Not because we "fixed her hormones," but because we addressed what was actually causing the issue.
Why This Matters for You
If you've been trying everything and nothing's working, it's probably not because you're doing something wrong. You don’t need more discipline. It's because you're working on symptoms instead of causes.
And here's the thing—you can't Google your way to your root cause. You can't figure it out from Instagram posts or podcast episodes (even mine). Because your root cause is specific to your body, your history, your lifestyle.
This is why I use functional lab panels with my clients. Not because testing is required to make progress—you can absolutely improve your foundation without any testing at all—but because it gives us clarity. We're not guessing about what supplements to take or what foods to eliminate. We're looking at what's actually happening in your body and creating a protocol based on that information.
The Path Forward
So what do you do if you're stuck in the symptom-chasing cycle?
Start by asking yourself: "what am I actually trying to address here?"
Not "how do I stop bloating" but "why is my body bloated in the first place?"
Not "how do I make my cycles regular" but "what's causing them to be irregular?"
When you shift from focusing on symptoms to understanding causes, everything changes. You stop wasting money on supplements that don't work. You stop following protocols that aren't right for your body. You finally start moving forward instead of spinning your wheels.
If you're ready to stop chasing symptoms and start understanding what's actually going on in your body, I created a free guide that walks you through exactly this. It's called "The I've Tried Everything Guide" and it covers the most common gaps I see women missing, the foundations that most people skip, and how to figure out what your body actually needs.
I’ll send you the free guide, just share your information below. 👇
You're not broken. You're not doing anything wrong. You just need to look in the right direction.