The Estrogen Balancing Act: Estrogen Excess

Welcome to The Herbarium’s intensive on estrogen excess, The Estrogen Balancing Act: Estrogen Excess with herbalist Sara Rooney. There are three sessions to this series—two articles and one video.

In the first session, Sara reviews the fundamentals of estrogen excess in terms of what patterns in the body it describes, what estrogens are and the role they play in the body, contributing factors to imbalance, clinical manifestations, the potentially serious long-term health implications, and tests useful for analyzing estrogen excess. 

The second session, Sara presents approaches for managing estrogen excess, including information about conventional pharmaceutical options as well as herbal, nutritional, and lifestyle strategies to help balance estrogen levels and reduce any potential risks from hormonal imbalance.

In the third and final session, Sara shares a PowerPoint presentation with four real-life case studies of estrogen excess, and illustrates how individualized protocols consisting of nutritional, herbal, and lifestyle support can be tailored for the client and help them regain hormonal balance and, ultimately, good health.

By the end of this intensive, students will gain a better understanding of estrogen excess imbalance, symptoms and manifestations, and the herbs, nutrition, and lifestyle changes that can be incorporated to support individuals with this condition.