What’s the connection between digestion and hormones?
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Your hormones control so many vital systems in your body, including your gastrointestinal tract function.
Most women are well aware that female sex hormones affect their GI function.
In pregnancy, everything slows down from the high progesterone levels causing indigestion and constipation. Premenstrually, some women may have changes in their bowel movements, including diarrhea, when their estrogen and progesterone levels start to fall.
Other hormones affect digestion too.
Cortisol increases gastric secretions and too much cortisol can actually wear down the epithelial lining leading to inflammation and potentially leaky gut syndrome. Progesterone slows down gastrointestinal tract motility, which can lead to luteal phase bloating and constipation. Estrogen maintains the epithelial lining, keeping it healthy, with the ability to absorb fluid in and out of the stool for normal bowel movements.
When estradiol levels start to fall in menopause, it affects gastric secretion of hydrochloric acid, which can cause indigestion and GERD symptoms because estrogen is necessary to maintain the epithelial lining of the stomach which produces hydrochloric acid. Low estrogen can actually influence gallbladder activity, reducing bile release which leads to fat malabsorption.
Estrogen helps keep bile ducts lubricated and patent to improve the flow of bile.
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