5 Adaptogens Every Woman Needs for Hormonal Balance
If you’ve felt more stressed, burnt out, or hormonally off over the past few years, you’re not imagining it. Ongoing stress has a direct impact on your hormones, from your sleep and skin to your cycle and mood. When your stress response is constantly activated, your body shifts into survival mode, and your hormones take the hit.
The good news? There are herbs that can help bring your system back into balance in a natural, steady way. They’re called adaptogens, and they’re one of the simplest tools for supporting calm energy, better moods, and healthier hormones.
Let’s keep this simple and clear.
How Stress Disrupts Your Hormones
When you’re under stress, your body releases cortisol. A normal response, until it becomes constant. Here’s what long-term stress does:
- Prioritises cortisol over key sex hormones (like estrogen + progesterone)
- Disrupts ovulation and cycle regularity
- Impacts sleep, libido, skin clarity, and mood
- Throws your nervous system out of balance
Your body isn’t trying to sabotage you, it’s trying to keep you alive. But it needs help finding its way back to balance. That’s where adaptogens come in.
What Are Adaptogens?
Adaptogens are herbs that help your body adapt to physical and emotional stress. They don’t push you up or down, they gently guide your body back to centre. Adaptogens meet your body where it’s at, helping you wind down or find energy when you need it. What they do is:
- Support the adrenal glands
- Regulate cortisol
- Calm inflammation
- Improve stress resilience
- Support hormonal balance indirectly
- Boost mood and energy (in a steady, grounded way)
5 Adaptogens to Support Hormonal Balance
One: Ashwagandha
The grounding, calming powerhouse. It helps to lower cortisol, support the nervous system, improves sleep, boosts immunity and reduces stress-related inflammation.
Find it in our Hormone Balance + PMS Support blends.
Two: Liquorice
Not technically an adaptogen, but functions like one. It helps to regulate cortisol, support estrogen and androgen balance, calms inflammation, and soothes the digestive tract and mucous membranes.
Find it in our Hormone Balance blend.
Three: Shatavari
The queen of female hormonal balance. It helps to support PMS, mood and cycle regularity, enhances libido, supports fertility, eases menopausal symptoms and nourishes the female reproductive system.
Find it in our Meno Balance blend.
Four: Maca
Your natural energiser. It helps improve energy and mood, supports estrogen balance, enhances libido, and helps reduce menopausal symptoms.
Find it in our Meno Balance blend.
Five: Schisandra Berry
The liver-loving beauty herb. It helps support liver detoxification (critical for hormone balance), reduces stress, boosts libido and enhances energy and endurance.
Find it in our Daily Hormone blend.
How to Use Adaptogens
Our naturopath-formulated blends include therapeutic doses of these adaptogens so you don’t have to buy 5 different herbs or figure out complicated routines. Just add your chosen blend to a smoothie, water, or warm drink. Simple, consistent support that fits into daily life.
- Daily Hormone → stress + liver support for steady daily balance
- Hormone Balance → targeted PMS + cycle symptom support
- PMS Support → magnesium + adaptogens for calmer periods
- Meno Balance → adaptogenic support for peri-menopause + menopause
Adaptogens aren’t a quick fix, but taken consistently, they support the hormonal foundation your body has been craving.