The Koko Kwon Podcast

What if your painful periods, PMDD, mood swings, exhaustion, or hormonal imbalance aren’t “normal” but messages from your body asking for help?

In this eye-opening episode of The Koko Kwon Podcast, we sit down with women’s health practitioner Catie Perkins to uncover the real reasons behind painful periods, PMS, PMDD, hormone imbalance, and hormonal birth control side effects. Too often, women are told their symptoms are normal or something they must simply tolerate. This conversation challenges that belief.

Catie shares her deeply personal health journey, including her battle with thyroid cancer, chronic fatigue, and long-term hormonal disruption. Through functional and holistic medicine, she discovered how stress, nutrition, gut health, toxins, and birth control can silently impact women’s hormone health and overall well-being.

This episode is designed to help women reconnect with their bodies, understand their menstrual cycles, and explore natural, science-backed ways to support hormonal balance.

Learn more about our guest, Catie Perkins at the following links:

https://stan.store/chrysaliswellnessbycatie

https://www.instagram.com/chrysalis.wellness/

• painful or heavy periods

• PMS, PMDD, anxiety, or emotional mood swings

• confusion around hormonal birth control

• chronic fatigue or unexplained symptoms

• feeling dismissed or unheard about your health

👉 This conversation offers clarity, validation, and practical guidance for your healing journey.

• Painful periods, PMS & PMDD explained

• Hormonal birth control and its hidden effects

• Stress, nutrition & hormone imbalance

• The gut–hormone connection

• Toxins & endocrine disruptors

• Natural remedies & herbal tinctures

• Supplements that support hormone health

• Cycle syncing & understanding the menstrual cycle

• Functional medicine approaches to women’s health

• 01:41 – Painful Periods, PMS & Hormone Imbalance Explained
• 03:06 – Catie Perkins’ Story: Birth Control & Dismissed Symptoms
• 09:54 – PMS vs PMDD: What’s Normal, Red Flags, Clots & Cramps
• 14:47 – Root Causes of Hormone Imbalance: Stress, Gut Health & Inflammation
• 32:36 – Healing Hormones by Working With Your Body
• 34:43 – PMS/PMDD Mood Swings, Stress & Finding Support
• 42:01 – Endocrine Disruptors & Simple Non-Toxic Swaps
• 48:46 – Luteal Phase Hunger & Natural PMDD Relief
• 01:01:41 – Cold Foods, Blood Flow & Period Pain (TCM Insight)
• 01:05:32 – Supplements for Hormone Balance: Magnesium & Vitamin D
• 01:10:46 – Cycle Syncing 101 & Signs of Estrogen Dominance
• 01:26:27 – Hormones, Anger & Emotional Conditioning
• 01:32:01 – Thyroid Cancer, Brain Fog & Hormone Recovery
• 01:37:48 – Gut Reset & PMS/PMDD Healing Breakthrough
• 01:48:48 – Daily Habits for Hormone Health & Birth Control Side Effects

Subscribe to The Koko Kwon Podcast for honest conversations about:

• women’s health & hormones

• periods, PMS & PMDD education

• holistic & functional medicine

• mental, emotional & physical wellbeing

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