For this week's episode of the Clinician's Corner, we've gone into the archives to pull out another clinical pearl from one of our favorite episodes - and today we discuss beta glucuronidase and its surprisingly wide-ranging impact on our health (from hormones to gut health and even bone health).

 

This interview first aired earlier this year (2025), and the full interview can be viewed here.

 

Clinical pearls we extracted from the original interview:

• Understanding beta-glucuronidase (what it is and what it does)
• Challenging established views on beta glucuronidase
• Hormone-microbiome interactions
• Beta glucuronidase and GI function
• Clinical implications for women
• Gut-healing supplement recommendations 

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Timestamps: 

00:00 "Microbiome Shifts with Hormones"

03:15 Microbiome, Hormones, and IBS Connections

06:26 Hormones, IBS, and Menopause Trends

10:21 "Fermented Foods and Intuition"

13:04 Clinician's Corner: Thank You

 

Speaker bio:

Dr. Betty Murray is a women's health advocate, nutrition expert, PhD researcher, certified functional medicine practitioner, author, and speaker. Betty helps women over 40 harness their hormones to lose weight, optimize sleep, restore energy, and thrive. During her research for her Ph.D., Betty made several key discoveries that lead to hormone & metabolic imbalances that plague women over 40. Restoring balance to these key metabolic and hormone pathways is the basis of her Menopause Mastery Program. 

 

Dr. Betty is the founder and CEO of Living Well Dallas Functional Medicine Center and Menrva, a national women's telemedicine company providing bioidentical hormone treatment, nutrition, diet, and lifestyle guidance to feel like perimenopause and menopause never happened. She is the host of the Menopause Mastery Podcast, author, and featured writer for Brainz Magazine. As a professional speaker, she has shared the stage with Lisa Nichols, Dr. Mark Hyman, JJ Virgin, Dr. Steven Gundry, Codie Sanchez, Dr. Shrini Pallay, and many others, and she is a frequently featured nutrition expert on Fox News Broadcasting, CW33, NBC, and CBS.  

 

Keywords:

functional health practitioners, beta glucuronidase, gut health, hormones, estrogen metabolism, microbiome, menopause, perimenopause, chronic disease, stool testing, IBS (Irritable Bowel Syndrome), serotonin receptors, neurotransmitters, glucuronidation, prostaglandins, GI motility, hormone cycles, case studies, evidence-based strategies, clinical pearls, hormone receptors, digestive supplements, fermented foods, polyphenols, resistant starches, gut healing protocols, 5R protocol, clinical training, restorative health, women's health

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