Your Gut is the Key to Your Hormones | Nurture and Thrive Podcast

Are your hormones making you feel crazy, exhausted, or out of sync? In this episode of the Nurture and Thrive Podcast, we’re pulling back the curtain on one of the most overlooked root causes of hormone imbalance: your gut.

Join host Kathryn as she welcomes Vanessa Leazenby, private chef, mother of six, and creator of The Metabolic Chef on TikTok. Vanessa shares her powerful healing journey—how she overcame chronic fatigue, brain fog, pain, and hormone chaos using food as medicine. Her transformation is as practical as it is inspiring.

Inside this episode:

How your gut directly affects estrogen, progesterone, cortisol, and insulin

Signs your gut might be crying for help (spoiler: they're not “just PMS”)

Simple daily habits to support gut healing and hormone balance

What Vanessa eats, cooks, and recommends for busy moms trying to feel like themselves again

This episode is for you if:

You’ve been told your symptoms are “just aging” or “normal”

You’re tired of protocols that don’t stick

You want to support your hormones naturally without extreme diets

Whether you’re a mama in the thick of it, navigating perimenopause, or just starting to tune into your body—this conversation is here to empower you.

Drop a comment: What’s one gut symptom you’ve accepted as normal?

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