How Beans Help You Eliminate Excess Hormones (and Why It Matters More Than You Think)

If you’ve been looking for a simple, affordable, and science-backed way to support hormone balance, reduce inflammation, and improve your emotional and physical resilience, it’s time to give beans a second look. Yes, beans.

Let’s talk about the incredible power of soluble fiber and the critical role it plays in detoxifying your body of excess hormones—including stress hormones like cortisol and adrenaline—and supporting full-body balance.

The Missing Link: Soluble Fiber and Detoxification

When we think of detox, we often imagine juice cleanses or expensive supplements. But the real magic happens in a place most people have never heard of: the enterohepatic circulation system. This is your body’s built-in recycling loop—especially for hormones and fat-soluble toxins.

Here’s how it works: Your liver pulls fat-soluble waste—including excess hormones, toxins from fragrances and chemicals, and even pesticides—out of your bloodstream. It packages all of that into bile, which then travels into your digestive tract.

Ideally, that bile exits the body. But here’s the catch: your body reabsorbs about 95% of it through the end of your small intestine, in a process called enterohepatic recirculation.

So unless you interrupt this cycle, those old hormones and toxins get recycled back into your bloodstream—again and again. And here’s the issue: hormones are not passive. They are chemical messengers that catalyze reactions in the body.

When you have too many hormones recirculating, they can trigger reactions that were never meant to happen—or happen too frequently. This overstimulation can lead to inflammation, mood issues, weight gain, reproductive imbalances, and more.

The Hero of the Story: Soluble Fiber

This is where soluble fiber comes in. Soluble fiber acts like a net. It binds to the fat molecules in bile—including all those excess hormones and chemical waste products—and prevents them from being reabsorbed. Instead, it carries them all the way through your colon and out of your body.

But here’s the important part: Soluble fiber has to be present at the same time as the bile to catch it. That’s why frequency matters more than quantity. A big serving of beans once a day won’t do as much as small servings throughout the day.