314: The best foods for hormone health in your 20s, 30s, 40s & beyond | Aviva Romm, M.D.

Aviva Romm, M.D.: “We should be listening to what [our hormones] are saying instead of blaming them when things go wrong.”

Romm, an internal medicine and board-certified family physician and midwife, joins mbg co-CEO, Jason Wachob, to discuss how to approach hormone health by decade, plus:

- Why you should have phytoestrogens on your radar

- How to grocery shop for hormone health

- Why you should pay attention to your estrobolome

- The strange link between melatonin and weight gain

- Signs your hormones are imbalanced & what to do

Referenced in the episode:

- Romm's new book, Hormone Intelligence.

- mbg Podcast episode #206, with Romm.

- mbg Podcast episode #12, with Romm.

- Colleen's personal story about having a pulmonary embolism.

- A study demonstrating a link between hormonal contraception and depression.

- An mbg article by Steven Gundry, M.D., about foods high in lectins.

- mbg Podcast episode #298, with Dan Buettner.

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