Why Women Feel Off Even When Labs Are Normal: Hormone Imbalance, Inflammation & Nervous System Dysfunction

About this episode

This episode explores why women may feel unwell despite normal lab results, focusing on underlying issues like hormone imbalance and inflammation.

Your labs are “normal.” Yet you’re exhausted, inflamed, bloated, and don’t feel like yourself. What if hormones aren’t the real problem… but a downstream symptom of something deeper? In this episode of The Functional Aesthetician Podcast, we sit down with functional medicine practitioner and aesthetician, Heidi Cooper, to unpack why so many women in their 30s, 40s, and 50s experience fatigue, weight gain, skin flare-ups, and hormone imbalance symptoms, even when bloodwork looks “normal.” We t...

People in this episode

Host: Samantha Dench

Guest: Heidi Cooper

Topics covered

• hormone imbalance
• inflammation
• nervous system dysfunction
• fatigue
• women's health
• functional medicine

Keywords

• hormones
• bloodwork
• fatigue
• weight gain
• skin flare-ups
• functional medicine
• women's health

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