05/14/2026
This book is a MUST READ!! Excellent, well-written, informative, accessible and invaluable!!
In a world where estrogen has been crowned the hero of women’s health, Balance Matters challenges the narrative—and asks a better question: what if it’s not about more hormones, but the right balance?
Our esteemed colleague, health journalist and educator Kitty Martone, known as Healthy Gut Girl, shares her personal journey through hormone confusion, dead ends in conventional care, and the discoveries that changed everything. Drawing from years of research and real-world experience, she unpacks the misunderstood roles of estrogen and progesterone—and why so many women still feel unwell despite doing “everything right.”
This book goes beyond surface-level solutions to explore the true foundations of hormone health, including metabolism, thyroid function, liver detoxification, and gut health. It explains why symptoms like hot flashes, anxiety, weight gain, and fatigue are often signs of imbalance—not deficiency—and why simply adding estrogen isn’t always the answer.
Balance Matters is a call for clarity, context, and a return to foundational health. It offers a grounded, empowering perspective for women who are ready to step out of the confusion and finally understand what their bodies have been trying to say all along.
Balance Matters: Rethinking Estrogen, Reclaiming Progesterone, Restoring Hormonal Stability - By Kitty Martone
Available on Amazon and Kindle
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“This is not just a book about hormones, it is a book about understanding your body at a deeper level. It gives you a framework to think differently, to stop chasing symptoms, and to start building real health from the ground up. You can tell this was written with intention to actually help people, and that is what makes it so powerful.” - Jake Miner, Metabolic Health Coach
