20/05/2026
Everyone wants to talk about hormones.
Almost nobody wants to talk about whether they’re actually pooing properly.
And honestly? We’re incredibly grateful that women’s hormones are finally receiving the attention they deserve. For far too long, women were dismissed, ignored, gaslit, handed the pill, or told their symptoms were “normal.”
So it’s powerful that conversations around hormones are finally happening.
But if we’re going to talk about hormones… we also need to talk about poo.
Because one of the most overlooked drivers of hormonal dysfunction in women is poor elimination.
We have somehow created an entire wellness culture obsessed with hormone tests, supplements, powders, detox teas, seed cycling, progesterone creams, and expensive protocols while completely bypassing one of the body’s most basic biological requirements:
The ability to effectively remove waste.
Your bowel is not just a tube that stores p**p. It is one of the body’s major detoxification and hormone-clearing organs.
And beyond that, gut health and bowel health are intricately connected to reproduction and fertility itself.
A congested, inflamed, stagnant digestive system can influence: hormone metabolism, nutrient absorption, inflammation, immune function, nervous system regulation, detoxification, microbial balance, oestrogen clearance, ovulation health and reproductive health
The reproductive system does not operate separately from the gut. They are deeply interconnected.
Every single day, your liver works incredibly hard to process excess hormones, toxins, inflammatory compounds, metabolic waste, old cholesterol metabolites, and environmental chemicals. Once processed, much of this waste is packaged into bile and sent into the digestive tract to be eliminated through the stool.
But here’s the part many women are never told:
The body tries to clear excess hormones, but when constipation, stagnation, and bowel backlog are present, those hormones can be reabsorbed straight back into circulation instead of being properly eliminated.
Read that again!
The body is trying to get rid of them… but sluggish elimination keeps recycling them back through the system.
And here’s something even more important:
Just because you’re pooing every day does not automatically mean you’re eliminating well. Some people are technically “going daily” while still carrying significant stagnation and incomplete evacuation. Because bowel health is not just about how often you p**p. It’s about how WELL you p**p.
We’re talking complete elimination. Easy elimination. The “I feel lighter afterwards” kind of elimination. The poo-euphoric kind of elimination.
Not tiny rabbit pellets, three incomplete bowel motions a day, straining, sitting there for twenty minutes, feeling like more is still inside, relying on coffee to trigger a bowel motion, living with chronic abdominal pressure and stagnation.
Healthy elimination should feel complete, satisfying, and effortless.
Imagine taking your household rubbish out once every four days and expecting the house to still feel fresh.
Poor elimination doesn’t just affect the colon. It can influence the entire internal environment of the body. This is one reason constipation and sluggish elimination may contribute to:
PMS/PMDD
painful periods
breast tenderness
bloating
fluid retention
hormonal acne
headaches
skin issues
fatigue
irritability
sluggishness
inflammatory symptoms
feelings of heaviness within the body
endometriosis
adenomyosis
PMOS (formally known as PCOS)
Infertility
and more
And then there’s the gut bacteria conversation. Some gut bacteria can interfere with hormone elimination. When poo sits in the bowel for too long, these bacteria can reactivate hormones, especially oestrogen, that the body was trying to remove. In simple terms, the body takes the rubbish out… then the bowel pulls it straight back in again.
This is why healthy hormones are not just about producing hormones properly. They are also about clearing them optimally.
At Bottoms Up Colonics, we often see women spending years trying to “fix hormones” while the body is actually screaming for more foundational support:
hydration
minerals
fibre balance
nervous system regulation
movement
digestive support
proper bile flow
improved elimination
Because the body cannot detoxify efficiently if the drainage pathways are congested. And perhaps one of the most confronting parts of this conversation is how many women have normalised dysfunction.
They think:
“I’ve always been constipated.” “I’ve always been bloated.” “I just have bad hormones.” “This is normal for women.”
No!
Common does not mean normal.
The female body was designed to eliminate daily. Comfortably. Completely. Without force.
Not because bowel motions are “just digestion.” But because elimination is deeply tied to detoxification, inflammation, microbial balance, hormone regulation, fertility, reproduction, and whole-body wellbeing.
If you truly want to support hormones, you need to start with the body’s elimination and drainage pathways first, then build from there.
Because maybe you don’t need more hormonal support. Maybe your body is actually asking for better elimination, digestive health, hydration, and bowel function so it can finally do what it has been trying to do all along.
www.bottomsupcolonics.com.au
