# What To Do About Your Hormones Including HRT (feat. Dr. Andrea Colon)

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Podcast: [Salad With a Side of Fries  Nutrition, Wellness & Weight Loss](https://stenobird.com/podcast/salad-with-a-side-of-fries-nutrition-wellness-weight-loss-91254)
Published: 2026-06-10T07:00:00+00:00
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## Resource

Are your hormones running your life, and not in a good way? If you are struggling with fatigue, mood swings, weight gain, or sleepless nights, this episode is the missing piece you have been looking for. Understanding hormone balance is not just about estrogen and progesterone. It starts much earlier in the hormonal chain, and getting to the root cause changes everything. In this episode of Salad with a Side of Fries, host Jenn Trepeck sits down with Dr. Andrea Colon, a naturopathic doctor and founder of Reclaim Integrative in Newport Beach, California, who specializes in women's hormone health and metabolic medicine. Together, they walk through the steps for lifestyle, nutrition, supplementation, and bioidentical hormone replacement therapy to restore balance, energy, and vitality. From understanding why cortisol imbalance is the upstream driver of so many symptoms women dismiss as inevitable aging, to exploring how to balance hormones naturally for women before ever adding HRT, this conversation is both practical and empowering. What You Will Learn in This Episode: ✅ Why cortisol imbalance is the overlooked driver behind perimenopause symptoms, disrupted sleep, and stubborn menopause weight gain, and how chronic stress depletes your hormone production over time ✅ How to use foundational nutrition strategies, including adequate protein intake, quality carbohydrates, and consistent meals, to begin restoring hormone balance before reaching for supplements or medications ✅ Which key micronutrients, including vitamin D, iron, and B vitamins, are commonly depleted in women and how those deficiencies directly suppress healthy hormone function ✅ How practitioners assess when lifestyle and herbs are enough versus when bioidentical hormone replacement therapy is the appropriat…

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