Your Pelvic Floor Symptoms Aren’t Going Away (Even If You’re Eating Clean and Taking All the Right Supplements)
Another greens powder. Another probiotic. Another supplement stack that claims to “fix your hormones,” “heal your gut,” and “support core function” all at once.
Meanwhile… You're still leaking when you work out.
You’re still bloated. Still bracing every time you sneeze. Still avoiding movement because something feels off…
Here’s what most people won’t say out loud: You can’t supplement your way out of pelvic floor dysfunction, and you definitely can’t diet your way out of it either.
The Wellness Industry Wants You Focused on the Wrong Fix
Supplement companies are thriving off the fact that women will try anything before going back to the basics.
They want you to believe that a scoop of powder or a new pill is the missing piece.
But pelvic floor dysfunction isn’t caused by a magnesium deficiency.
It’s not because you didn’t take enough collagen. It’s not because your gut microbiome needs to be “balanced” before you can move without peeing yourself.
Supplements can support healing, but they can’t do the work for you.
Most Women Are Skipping the Basics That Actually Matter
And not because they’re lazy, but because no one ever taught them how to support their body at the root.
So let’s go back to the stuff that actually works.
1. Breathe Like Your Life Depends on It (Because It Kinda Does)
Your diaphragm and pelvic floor work together like a team.
If you’re chest breathing, clenching, sucking in, or holding your breath every time you move... you’re sending pressure to all the wrong places.
This is the foundation of pressure management, core activation, and pelvic floor function.
Want to actually connect to your pelvic floor? Start with 360° breathing. Learn how to inhale down, and exhale to lift.
2. Move Your Body, Stop Avoiding It.
Avoiding movement because you’re scared to leak, feel pain, or mess something up? Totally understandable. Also? Not helpful.
Movement isn’t the problem. It’s how you’re doing it that matters.
When you learn how to lift, squat, jump, and even sneeze with proper breathing, core control, and pelvic floor timing, everything changes. You don’t have to “play it safe” forever. You just have to retrain your system.
3. Stress Management Is Pelvic Floor Work (Yes, Really)
Let’s call it out: most of us are chronically stressed, overstimulated, and under-rested.
And guess what that does to your pelvic floor? It keeps it on. All the time.
High stress = high tone = tension = symptoms.
If your nervous system is in fight-or-flight 24/7, your pelvic floor literally can’t relax. Which means your symptoms stick around, no matter how many bridges and kegels you do.
If you want to heal, you’ve got to train your body to feel safe.
This includes breathwork, nervous system downshifting, somatic work, and basic lifestyle boundaries (yes, saying no to that thing you don’t want to do counts).
4. The Goal Isn’t More Exercises, It’s Better Connection
So many women are doing “core work” that’s totally disconnected from how their core and pelvic floor actually function.
Or worse, they’re doing the right exercises but without proper breathing, pressure control, or coordination. T
his is why it’s so frustrating when you feel like you’re “doing everything right” and nothing’s changing.
So No, It’s Not About Cutting Supplements. It’s About Prioritizing the Right Work First
I am not here to de-influence you! Take your magnesium. Love your greens powder. Enjoy your collagen.
Just stop expecting them to do the job your breath, movement, and nervous system are actually responsible for.
When you build from the inside out, everything else works better, including the supplements you do choose to keep in your routine.
