🎄 HOLIDAY HORMONE FOOD & WINE GUIDE
🥃 THE LEAST DAMAGING HOLIDAY DRINKS
These aren’t “healthy.” They’re just the ones your hormones tolerate without staging a coup.
✔️ Clear Spirits (Vodka, Tequila, Gin)
- Lowest histamine load
- Lowest sugar
- Minimal aromatase stimulation→ Smallest estrogen spike, smallest testosterone drop.
✔️ Brut Champagne / Dry Prosecco
- Low sugar = smaller insulin surge− Higher histamine→ Decent option if you’re not histamine-sensitive.
🍷 THE DRINK THAT RAISES ESTROGEN THE FASTEST
🚫 WINE (Red, white, rosé — the whole category)
Mechanisms you’ve already seen in our recent posts:
• Alcohol increases aromatase → estrogen bumps
• Wine specifically has compounds that amplify this
• Liver gets bogged down → estrogen detox slows• High histamine → inflammation + PMS flare
• Gut permeability increases → hormonal chaos next day
This is why women 35–55 feel puffy, moody, wired-but-tired, and breast-tender within HOURS of drinking wine.
🍸 THE HOLIDAY HORMONE VILLAINS
• Sugar cocktails
• Eggnog with liquor
• Cream-based cocktails
• Mulled wine with added sugar
These spike insulin → raise cortisol → suppress progesterone → destabilize sleep + mood.
✨ IF YOU’RE GOING TO DRINK…
• Protein BEFORE alcohol
• Alternate with electrolytes
• Stop drinking 3 hours before bed
• Magnesium glycinate at night
• 20-minute walk the next morning
This keeps your glucose curve flat, your cortisol predictable, and your estrogen detox pathways open for business.
🎁 FREE MINI-COURSE: HOLIDAY WINE AND DINE GUIDE
I’m dropping a free, short course this week on how to navigate:
🔥 Alcohol
🔥 Holiday foods
🔥 Sleep
🔥 Bloating
🔥 Estrogen swings
🔥 Perimenopause flare triggers
You’ll learn how to eat, drink, celebrate, and recover without feeling like your hormones are in witness protection until January.
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