Food Psych #299: Do You Need a Diet to Balance Your Hormones?

Christy answers an audience question about whether you really need a “hormone-balancing” diet to deal with hormonal changes.

Resources Mentioned

• Subscribe to the weekly newsletter, Food Psych Weekly 

• Submit your questions for a chance to have them answered in the weekly newsletter

• My online course, Intuitive Eating Fundamentals

• My first book, Anti-Diet: Reclaim Your Time, Money, Well-Being, and Happiness Through Intuitive Eating

• My upcoming book, The Wellness Trap: Break Free from Diet Culture, Disinformation, and Dubious Diagnoses and Find Your True Well-Being

• The Making Peace with Food Card Deck

• Subscribe to the podcast here

• My list of providers specializing in disordered eating

• Migraines and perimenopause

• Episode 240 with Erica Leon

• Evidence that consuming some dairy products may be helpful at warding off early menopause (CW: nutritional minutiae, weight-stigmatizing language) and preventing osteoporosis after menopause

• Case reports suggesting that avoiding gluten and dairy could be harmful for people with Hashimoto’s

• Food Psych episode 199, about PCOS

• Food Psych episode 274, which discusses hypothalamic amenorrhea 

• Food Psych episode 182, which discusses hypothalamic amenorrhea

• Food Psych episode 197, which discusses hypothalamic amenorrhea

• Evidence that low-dose estrogen replacement could potentially be helpful with migraines in perimenopause