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Subscribe to the video podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@DrTazMD/podcastsWhy are testosterone levels plummeting in men of all ages, even in their 20s? In this powerful episode of Hol+, Dr. Taz MD unpacks the silent epidemic of low testosterone, exploring how modern life, poor gut health, chronic stress, and environmental toxins are sabotaging men's energy, mood, and vitality. Whether you're feeling tired, mentally foggy, or just not like yourself, this conversation connects the dots between hormones and whole-body health and offers a roadmap for reclaiming your strength.Dr. Taz reveals her holistic, functional medicine approach to naturally balancing testosterone without jumping straight to hormone therapy. You'll learn how nutrition, sleep, liver health, supplements, and even your emotional patterns can affect your testosterone levels and what to do about it, no matter your age.In this episode, Dr. Taz explains:Why testosterone is declining in men as young as 20How gut health and nutrient deficiencies wreck your hormonesThe shocking impact of sleep and screen time on testosteroneWhich medications silently lower testosterone levelsWhy stress and cortisol are crushing male vitalityHow to naturally boost testosterone the Hol+ wayWhat to fix before starting testosterone replacement therapyIf you're a man navigating low energy, low libido, poor focus, or a parent, partner, or provider concerned about hormonal health, this episode is your starting point for sustainable change.Topics Covered:Causes of low testosterone in young and older menNatural ways to raise testosterone (without side effects)Gut, liver, and stress connections to male hormonesThe danger of high-dose testosterone replacementA functional medicine framework for lasting vitalityHow environment, sleep, and diet quietly affect your T levelsThank you to our sponsor: OneSkinGet 15% off your first order with the code DRTAZ at oneskin.co/drtazConnect further to Hol+ at https://holplus.co/- Don't forget to like, subscribe, and hit the notification bell to stay updated on future episodes of hol+.Stay ConnectedSubscribe to the audio podcast: https://holplus.transistor.fm/subscribeSubscribe to the video podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@DrTazMD/podcastsFollow Dr. Taz on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drtazmd/https://www.instagram.com/liveholplus/Join the conversation on X: https://x.com/@drtazmdTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@drtazmdFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/drtazmd/Host & Production TeamHost: Dr. Taz; Produced by Rainbow Creative (Executive Producer: Matthew Jones; Lead Producer: Lauren Feighan; Editors: Jeremiah Schultz and Patrick Edwards)Don't forget to like, subscribe, and hit the notification bell to stay updated on future episodes of hol+00:00 Introduction 03:09 Why Testosterone Decline Is a Global Issue05:46 Key Symptoms of Low T in Men08:00 Gut Health and Testosterone Connection09:52 Nutrients That Boost Testosterone Naturally12:54 The Role of Cortisol and Chronic Stress15:00 Sleep, Light, and Hormone Regulation16:10 How Environmental Toxins Crash Hormones18:26 Medications That Lower Testosterone20:53 Problems with Standard TRT Approaches22:43 The Hol+ Way to Rebuild Hormones25:41 Root Causes in Chinese Medicine Explained30:33 Lifestyle, Diet, and Emotional Vitality32:30 Why Hormonal Health Impacts the Entire Family33:31 Final Thoughts on Men's Health and Vitality
In this episode of Mikkipedia, Mikki explores a commonly overlooked health marker—C-Reactive Protein (CRP). While traditional lab ranges often label values under 5 mg/L as "normal," Mikki explains why even mild elevations (around 3–4 mg/L) can signal underlying low-grade inflammation. She breaks down what CRP actually reflects, the various root causes (from gut issues and food sensitivities to overtraining and hormonal shifts), and what practical steps you can take to investigate and lower it. If your blood work seems “fine” but you're not feeling your best, this episode is for you.Tune in to learn:What CRP is and why “normal” might not be optimalCommon hidden triggers of low-grade inflammationHow to track and troubleshoot symptoms across lifestyle, diet, and hormonesThe role of food sensitivities, histamine, overtraining, and gut healthStrategic testing, supplements, and self-experimentation tips Contact Mikki:https://mikkiwilliden.com/https://www.facebook.com/mikkiwillidennutritionhttps://www.instagram.com/mikkiwilliden/https://linktr.ee/mikkiwillidenSave 20% on all Nuzest Products WORLDWIDE with the code MIKKI at www.nuzest.co.nz, www.nuzest.com.au or www.nuzest.comCurranz supplement: MIKKI saves you 25% at www.curranz.co.nz or www.curranz.co.uk off your first order
Send us a textIn this candid and relatable episode of Sweet Insights, Ali and Amy get real about why self-care isn't just about bubble baths and face masks—it's essential for hormone balance, energy, and mental clarity.
Episode Highlights With KatieWhy sunlight and salt first thing supports energy and hormonesThe oral detox ritual that supports your microbiome and immune systemWhich supplements to take on an empty stomach (and why)The movement hack that supports lymph, fascia, and moodWhy protein before caffeine is the ultimate hormone hackHow to time your supplements for max absorptionThe no-screen morning boundary that protects your mental clarityResources MentionedBioptimizers Magnesium and MasszymesPectasolBeam MineralsRebounderTongue scraper and oral care from WellnesseDissolve it All from MitoLifeProtein powders and collagen I useCacao CalmCoffee and mushroom coffee
In this powerhouse episode of The Macro Hour, Nikkiey sits down with world-renowned exercise physiologist and nutrition scientist Dr. Stacy Sims — the woman who rewrote the rules for how females should train, fuel, and recover.If you've been stuck doing all the “right things” and still not seeing results — this is the conversation you need.They cover:Why traditional training fails women 45+How to build muscle and lose fat without tanking your hormonesThe real reason 1200-calorie diets are backfiringSupplements that actually work (and what to skip)How to train smarter through perimenopause and menopauseThe truth about carbs, fasting, HRT, and more in a rapid-fire myth-busting roundThis is not about working harder — it's about working smarter with your body. If you're ready to stop guessing and start thriving, hit play.If you want to dive deeper into Dr. Stacy Sims' work and stay connected, here's where you can find her:Website & Newsletter: drstacysims.comInstagram: @drstacysimsFacebook: facebook.com/drstacysimsFind Dr. Stacy Sim's books at your local bookstore, Amazon or Barnes & NobleClick To Watch A Free Macro TrainingClick To Apply For Our ProgramsIf you've got a story about how The Macro Hour Podcast has positively impacted your life, we'd love to hear from you! Fill out this short form for a chance to be featured!Wanna collaborate with WarriorBabe? Click HERE! Follow Nikkiey and WarriorBabe's Socials:WarriorBabe - Instagram | Facebook | YouTube | WebsiteNikkiey - Instagram | Facebook | TikTok Welcome to The Macro Hour Podcast, where we talk about mindset, methodology, and tactics that will help you lose body fat, build muscle, be strong, and feel insanely confident. We've got a no-bullshit, no-nonsense approach with a lot of love and heart to help you reach your goals.
In this jam-packed episode, we're replaying Day 1 of my 3-Day Live training: “The Real Reason High-Performing Women Worry They're Having a Midlife Crisis.”Midlife isn't a crisis. But when you're a high-achieving, badass woman who's spent her life checking all the boxes, hitting every goal, and showing up for everyone else… it can feel like one.Here's the truth bomb: most of us weren't taught how to ask the right questions in midlife—we were taught to just keep going. So we hit this point where we've built an impressive life… and suddenly find ourselves wondering:What's next?Why doesn't this feel better?Am I running out of time?What do I actually want now?This episode is about waking up to that quiet “WTF is happening” voice in your head and realizing that you are not crazy, broken, or ungrateful. You're just in the middle of the most powerful pivot of your life. And today, we're naming it, normalizing it, and giving you tools to actually navigate it.
Still gaining weight in perimenopause even though you're eating clean, working out, and maybe even trying hormone therapy?In this solo episode, Monika Eva exposes the real root causes behind perimenopause weight gain—and why estrogen isn't the only hormone throwing your body off. If you've been told it's “just aging” or “just low estrogen,” this conversation will be a game-changer.Monika breaks down:Why estrogen-only fixes like BHRT often fall flatHow cortisol and chronic stress sabotage your metabolism and hormonesThe impact of years of dieting and over-exercising on your metabolismWhat your gut has to do with detox, hormones, and inflammationWhy you feel bloated, puffy, and “swollen”—and how to fix itWhat your body actually needs to feel safe enough to release stubborn weightThis isn't about working harder. It's about finally understanding your body and healing the real root causes—not just masking symptoms.If you're in your 40s and feel stuck, inflamed, and frustrated by the lack of answers… this episode will connect the dots and give you real direction.Thanks for listening. Please rate & review so we can reach more women with this very important information. Share with a friend whom you know would benefit from listening to The Balanced Body Podcast.Follow your host, Monika Eva, on IG here: https://www.instagram.com/monikaeevaTake my FREE Weight Loss & Energy Blocker Assessment to find out what's blocking you from releasing the weight & being energized here:https://www.monikaeva.com/whatsblockingyouLearn more about working with Monika here:https://www.monikaeva.com
Send us a textJoin us this week as we welcome Dr. Susannah Unsworth, a women's health expert and menopause specialist, to shed light on the ins and outs of HRT. Whether you're currently using hormone replacement therapy, considering it, or are searching for alternatives after breast cancer, this episode offers valuable insights for you. We dive into various topics including the benefits and safety of HRT, managing menopausal symptoms, personalized treatment options, and the role of lifestyle in navigating menopause. Plus, we discuss whether testosterone is right for you and why some women may struggle with progesterone. Dr. Unsworth provides essential guidance for anyone thinking about HRT. As always, thanks for tuning in, and see you next time! I think you find this conversation reassuring, empowering and educational..Topics we cover . . .Understanding menopause and HRTNavigating breast cancer and HRTCommon menopausal symptoms Vaginal healthy and urinary issuesPersonalising HRT treatmentSafety of HRT - can you use it beyond 5 years?Understanding HRT and breast cancer riskHow long should you take HRT?Alternatives to HRT and ageing well without hormonesThe importance of lifestyle in menopauseExploring testosterone - do you need it?Why some women don't tolerate progesteroneNavigating HRT prescriptions and the role of body identical HRTKey advice for women considering HRT For more information about Dr. Unsworth, visit her at https://cambridgewomenshealth.co.uk/https://cambridgewomenshealth.co.uk/contacthttps://cambridgewomenshealth.co.uk/aboutAmanda Ryder Registered Nutritional Therapist ~ Author of Feel good for Menopause @amandarydernutritionhello@amandaryder.co.ukwww.amandaryder.co.uk
In today's episode I'm going to be diving into how you can support your body naturally, if you've been on hormonal birth control and have decided to transition off.I will be discussing:How birth control impacts female hormonesThe differences between IUDS (hormone inclusive and hormone free) and the OCPSide effects of using birth controlThe five areas I focus on with my clients when helping them transition off birth controlPost birth control syndrome and potential struggles coming off of birth controlHow to replenishing nutrient storesHow to heal and support the gutSupporting hormone detoxIdentifying Hormone Imbalance (if any)Reversing Metabolic MayhemSupplements that helpDiet and lifestyle strategiesPlease keep in mind when listening to this episode these are generalized guidelines, not personalized recommendations. Every womans body is unique, and every womans body will have unique needs when coming off of birth control. I highly recommend working one on one with a coach or practitioner who understands the potential side effects of being on and transitioning off the pill and is comfortable addressing post-birth control syndrome. LINK TO : What Your Doctor Isn't Telling You About Hormonal Birth ControlLINK TO: 47 Ways to Heal a Dysregulated Nervous System_____________________________________Join me on the 'gram! Get free recipes and tips delivered right to your inbox every Friday!Learn more about your options for working 1:1 with me: https://www.revivewellness.health/services or use this link here, to schedule a free strategy call!Try Syntrax! To try to the most delicious, gluten free, lactose free "top of the line" whey isolate AND save 25% use the code "syntraxallison" at checkout.Want some FREE LMNT? Use this link for a FREE sample pack with any order!Better Bodies discount code "BB15" at checkout to save 15% on my favorite betterbodies gear! Save 10% on PureFactorFormulations supplements with my code "Revive10" at checkout!
At this time of year we all get the chance to press the reset button. Sometimes this means leaving bad habits behind, or trying new things to improve on our health.If you have committed to "Dry January"- this episode is a MUST LISTEN.Today we are taking a DEEP Dive into all things Detoxification.After this episode, you'll understand how detoxing actually works and what you can to do feel better now!Joining me is Dr. Libby Weaver-Nutritional biochemist, thirteen-time bestselling author, speaker and founder of the food-based supplement, Bio Blends.I love Dr. Libby's approach to health because she has this natural ability to break down the most complex of concepts into simple terms that everyone can understand and implement. In this episode you will learn:Misconceptions around detoxingLifestyle habits that interfere with the detox processThe role of iron for detoxification The role your liver plays in weight lossWhat is considered "safe" alcohol consumptionThe affects of alcohol on our liver, sleep & hormonesThe invisible load of stress on the body and how to alleviate itAnd more!!!If you find value in this episode, I hope you will share with a friend!Connect with the podcast community on Instagram @kathyspencehealthJoin my INNER CIRCLE to be the first to know about upcoming episodes, anti-inflammatory recipes, upcoming workshops and in-person eventsThanks for listening!xo, kMentioned on the show:Quit Like A WomanThe Invisible LoadCLICK HERE for all the RESOURCES mentioned in the show
“You are literally draining your hormones by staying under artificial light.”“Simple things like getting sunlight in the morning and grounding yourself can completely shift your hormones.” - Jack SchroderYou'll discover…How Jack increased his testosterone by 5x without any medicationSimple steps you can start today optimize your hormonesHow blue light at night drains your sex hormonesThe nightime habit that's lowering testosterone and raising estrogenWhy breathing through your nose can improve your hormone healthWhy spending time outside everyday is essential for balanced hormonesThe top foods to eat for boosting sex hormones naturallyJack's #1 supplement for better sleep and hormone balanceSmall nighttime changes that help you wake up energizedHow deep sleep recharges your hormone levelsListen now and stay wise!EPISODES YOU MAY ENJOY:Why We're Like Teslas and Need to Plug Back In w/ Dr. Bruce Hoffman (Apple, Spotify)Progress Not Perfection (Apple, Spotify)Get Flexible Faster, More Sunlight and Less Stretching w/ Andreas Christou (Apple, Spotify)Connect with Jack:Instagram: @jackschroder_Website: www.jackschroder.comX: @jack_schroder_Connect with your host Josh Dodds:Website: www.thecalnut.comInstagram: @josh__doddsThis podcast is proudly produced in partnership with www.podlad.com
Common acne treatments just aren't cutting it. In fact, they can make acne even worse in the long term. They may help manage symptoms, but they usually aren't solving the root issues of acne.We need to ask: why is acne happening in the first place? What does it look like to look at root causes, do lab testing, assess health history, and ultimately put together a plan that doesn't just manage acne, but solves it? In this episode, Jordan talks with functional medicine dietician Robyn Johnson. They talk about all things acne, root causes, stress, and what it looks like to run on food as fuel instead of stress hormones.Tune in to learn:Why common acne treatments aren't cutting it (or even making things worse)How metabolism, blood sugar, cortisol, nutrition, and detox systems play a role in acneWhy completely removing certain foods from the diet may not be the best long-term strategyThe 5 main root causes of acneThe role stress plays in skin healthShifts to start helping your body run off of food as fuel instead of stress hormonesThe importance of minerals and how to incorporate more minerals in your dietWant to dig deeper into this topic? Check out these resources mentioned in the episode:The Clear Skin LabRayvi Mineral Drink MixRobyn's WebsiteIG: @nutritionbyrobyn
Join us today for an encore of our conversation with Dr. Taz Bhatia from our Hormonal Health Series. Danielle, Whitney, and Dr. Bhatia discuss navigating the complex world of hormonal shifts, discovering how to maintain your vitality and energy through different life stages with practical strategies for supporting your hormonal health.Dr. Taz shares:How hormonal changes impact our energy and well-beingNutritional and lifestyle tips for balancing hormonesStrategies for managing stress and its effect on hormonesThe importance of personalized medicine in hormonal healthPractical advice for staying vibrant through hormonal shiftsAbout Dr. Taz Bhatia:Dr. Taz Bhatia is a board-certified integrative medicine physician specializing in women's health, weight loss, and nutrition. As the author of several holistic health books, she is committed to helping her patients achieve optimal vitality through personalized, integrative care.Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drtazmd/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episode Highlights With Dr. Gabrielle LyonWhy the body becomes less efficient at protein turnover with age and how to counteract thisThe biggest needle movers when it comes to building muscleWhy not to train to get better and what to do insteadHow to build an effective structure for getting stronger that doesn't have to take a ton of timeWhy high-intensity training even just once a week, can make a huge differenceWhen you exercise, you sensitize muscles to glucoseThe long-term benefits of training on hormones and agingDifferences between women and men with training and hormonesThe most important workouts women can doWhat to know about sarcopenia and what we can do about itSarcopenia is not a disease of aging but a disease of inactivity How this relates to cardiovascular disease and Alzheimer'sWhat the normal recommendations get wrong about protein consumptionQuality of protein matters and how to optimize thisDietary protein is essential to building and maintaining muscle but quality matters a lotThe normal dietary protein numbers are just the minimum to avoid deficiency and are not adequate for building muscle and being metabolically optimalStandards vs goals for getting betterHow to use technology and tracking to your advantage in making these changesResources We MentionForever Strong: A New, Science-Based Strategy for Aging Well by Dr. Gabrielle LyonDr. Gabrielle Lyon - websiteDr. Gabrielle Lyon - PodcastHand Grip Strengthener
Join me for my FIRST guest podcast episode with Sally Beiting! This was a no-brainer for me that I wanted to have Sally on the pod as she has been my coach for the past year now and has helped me so much throughout my healing journey. Sally is a Functional Health Coach and is on a mission to help you to optimize your health by healing from the inside out. Her main focuses of interest are gut health, women's hormones and health + fitness. In this episode we discuss: What is functional medicine How does functional medicine differ from naturopathyThe difference between functional medicine and Western medicineCommon misconceptions when it comes to trying to "balance" your hormonesSome of the most common symptoms Sally sees in practice when women are struggling with their health and hormonesThe connection between your gut and hormonesAdvice to listen to when trying to heal your body Some tangible action steps you can start doing now if you wanted to improve your healthWhere you can find Sally:Instagram: @sallybeitingEmail: sallyb@nutritiondynamic.comAnd if you're not already, be sure to follow me on socials @thestrengthgirl to follow along and weigh-in on the conversations we'll be having. Be sure to also take a screenshot of the episode and pop it into social media so that I know you've tuned in. I'll be utilizing my socials to get some inspo from you on what it is you want to hear next!--Website: https://thestrengthgirl.com/Instagram: @thestrengthgirlFacebook: facebook.com/thestrengthgirl
This week, Britt chats with Emily Dawson a Toronto-based Holistic Nutritionist specializing in Gastrointestinal Health and Digestive Wellness. She has been through it all herself, the constipation, IBS and confusion surrounding her diagnosis. That's why it is now her passion to help others on their gastrointestinal wellness journey!In this weeks episode, we break down how you lifestyle is setting you up for terrible digestion and rocky hormones.In this episode;Why your morning routine matters & why would should ditch scrolling the phone in the morningWhy morning sunlight is so important for energy and hormonesWhy sipping on coffee before anything else is messing up your hormonesThe importance of brushing your teeth before eating and drinking Are your HIIT workouts supporting your hormones?Balancing meals for better hormonesAre you eating enough food during the day?The impact that your evening routine have on hormone and digestive healthConnect with Emily on Instagram: @eatingwithemily__ or on her website. Emily referenced Light Therapy in this Episode: Here is a LINK to one of her favs.Check out our previous episodes below! Episode 90: Everything H.Pylori- Symptoms, Nutritional & Herbal Approaches for Eradication & Why it Should be on your Radar with Holistic Nutritionist Emily DawsonEpisode 36: Understanding the Difference Between Food Intolerances, Food Sensitivities, and Food Allergies with Registered Holistic Nutritionist & Functional Nutrition Practitioner Emily DawsonEpisode 22: Your IBS is NOT a Life Sentence & Your Heartburn Might Not be What you Think with Emily DawsonConnect with Britt
Have you noticed how your ADHD ebbs and flows, impacting your mood and energy during did phases of your month? This conversation will empower you to understand why and, importantly, how you can help yourself and feel more in control of both your ADHD and hormones.This week's Kate chats with Adele Wimsett, a Women's Health Practitioner & Cyclical Living Expert diagnosed with combined type ADHD. Having co-authored the book Essential Feminine Wisdom, she is passionate about educating women & girls on how to harness the power of their cyclical nature. Adele bridges the woo & the science, supporting women to balance their hormones naturally and is passionate about speaking on all things menstrual education!During this episode, Kate and Adele spoke about:How the female ADHD brain is affected by hormonesThe different stages of our cycle and the feelings and emotions that often arise on different daysHow to advocate for yourself with ADHD and hormone supportWhy tracking your cycle is importantHow working with the moon can help create more awareness in the cycleHow can we look after ourselves in the different cyclic phases to help our ADHDOvulation and ADHDProgesterone sensitivityRecognising all the unknown with hormones and ADHDWhat perimenopause does to women with ADHDHRT, menopause and ADHD - what we need to know and the powerful changes HRTMemory and ADHD traits that flare up during our hormonal changesEssential oils to work with your cycleYou can connect with Adele via her website harmoniseyou.co.uk or on Instagram, @harmoniseyou.Kate's new four-part workshop series, Regulating Your ADHD Nervous System, is available here.Welcome to a new episode of ADHD Women's Wellbeing Wisdom! Have a look at some of Kate's workshops and free resources here.Kate Moryoussef is a women's ADHD Lifestyle & Wellbeing coach and EFT practitioner who helps overwhelmed and unfulfilled newly diagnosed ADHD women find more calm, balance, hope, health, compassion, creativity, and clarity. Follow the podcast on Instagram here.Follow Kate on Instagram hereFind Kate's resources on ADDitude magazine here
How to handle difficult symptoms that keep coming back. Tools to help you get out of the stress, worry, and pain. Strengthen your nervous system to rebuild your health.“I think anyone with chronic illness can understand that your brain will jump around everywhere trying to understand where a symptom came from. And usually what you did to cause it. So it's not always the nicest way to look at it. We blame ourselves for the symptom.” - Sarah HookYou'll discover:What fight, flight, and freeze feel likeWhat a regulated nervous system feels likeIdentifying habits that increase adrenalineThe importance of daylight for our hormonesThe power of being in natureBring back your wandering mind to a place of mindfulnessLeaving behind the analyzing and fixing mindsetHow to bring yourself back when your mind starts to worryBreak the cycle of the trauma response to your symptomsSimple ways to connect back to your bodyConnecting to your body on a deeper level so you can give it what it needsIntegrative health and nutrition coach Sarah Hook shares the key tools that helped her regulate her nervous system. These tools helped put her mind and body at ease.Sarah uses these tools with her clients to help them break out of difficult symptoms or repetitive thoughts that are stressful. The tools are simple and can be used by anyone at any time. Listen now and stay wise!Get connected with your host Josh Dodds:http://www.thecalnut.com This podcast is proudly produced in partnership with http://www.podlad.com
Hear it Here - adbl.co/3SztAytSmall neuroscience tweaks that can completely change your relationship with your own thoughts. Time to find your anxiety cure instead of endlessly thinking about it. Anxiety is a funny thing. We can't always define it, but we know it when we have or don't have it. Well, forget defining it—just use scientific and psychological tips to get rid of it! Learn to wake up excited and energized each day, not dreading your life. The Anxiety Cure is a simple guide to making your every waking moment a calm one. It's not full of woo-woo advice that you can't use—it's 100% actions that you will scientifically reduce your anxiety, and also increase your happiness, dopamine, serotonin, you name it. Each idea has true science behind it, and includes a plan for implementing it into your daily life. This isn't a blog post with abstract ideas, this is a book of action and implementation. Welcome to accessible and practical neuroscience! A calm mind is the most elusive thing in human history. Take a shortcut with this book. Nick Trenton grew up in rural Illinois and is quite literally a farm boy. His best friend growing up was his trusty companion Leonard the dachshund. RIP Leonard. Eventually, he made it off the farm and obtained a BS in Economics, followed by an MA in Behavioral Psychology. Equally important—learn to remove unhappiness and discomfort from your life! What a little bit of hope and anticipation can do for your entire moodCan it really be as simple as stimulating your brain's pleasure centers with ice cream?How to optimize your dose hormonesThe importance of social activity and interaction for the brainHow to change your environment to trigger happiness - easily but seldom doneAging as a key to contentment?How happiness can start from inside-out, or outside-in. ©2023 Nick Trenton (P)2023 Nick Trenton
Today we're diving into female health x Ayurveda, functional nutrition, hormone balancing with food, and the incredible research behind Yoga Nidra. My guest for the podcast this week is Nimisha Gandhi, a nutritionist, researcher, educator, community-builder, and devoted mother. With a background in functional medicine nutrition, Ayurvedic counseling, and Yoga Nidra/meditation teaching, Nimisha's journey from tech founder to wellness advocate is fueled by a passion for preventative healthcare. Through her practice, Moon Cycle Nutrition, Nimisha blends functional medicine nutrition with Ayurvedic principles to craft personalized plans for reproductive and gut health. Her research-based work and insightful teachings inspire wellness seekers globally through workshops, webinars, and speaking engagements. Other topics:Nutrition & AyurdevaHormonal health from Ayurveda's perspectiveThe intersection of Western Medicine and AyurvedaThe research behind Yoga Nidra and it's impact on our hormonesThe spiritual aspect of our cycle The different types of Doshas Nimisha's Bio:Nutritionist, researcher, educator, community-builder, and mother, Nimisha Gandhi is well-known for her work and life passion for preventative healthcare. Nimisha is a functional medicine nutritionist, Ayurvedic counselor, Yoga Nidra/meditation teacher, and former tech founder. She holds a B.S. in pre-med Psychobiology from UCLA and has years of additional education in her field. In Nimisha's private practice, Moon Cycle Nutrition, she specializes in reproductive and gut health with an emphasis on the mind, body, and soul. Nimisha combines functional medicine nutrition with ancient Ayurvedic principles to help her clients find deeply personalized eating and lifestyle plans. Her clients learn to awaken their untapped healer and empower themselves about their own health journey. She also uses the innate wisdom of changing hormones and cycles of nature to help her clients flow with their body. Moon Cycle Nutrition is a conscious evolution practice that draws on deep inner inquiry, food as medicine, meditation, sleep, rituals, lab work, movement, and insight that she has picked up along the journey. Nimisha serves as a board member of several health and wellness companies and organizations, including FemTech Collective, Womco, and Conscious Kitchen. She speaks regularly at conferences, retreats, and private events. You can also find Nimisha teaching workshops, webinars, and classes in-person and virtually. Her work is research-based, intuitive, and from the soul.To connect with Nimisha: IG: mooncyclenutritionLI: Nimisha Gandhi Yoni Health and Wellness Guidewww.mooncyclenutrition.comSupport the showTo connect with Kasia Join our monthly newsletter www.inflowplanner.com (use code "podcast10" for 10% off) @The_Other_Way_Podcast @InFlowPlanner Submit topic/theme/speaker requests
In this Guest Expert segment, Gina talks hormones and weight loss with Dr. Olinca Trejo. Dr. Olinca is a licensed, board-certified Naturopathic Doctor in the province of Ontario. She also holds an honours degree in Kinesiology and has achieved her certification and internship in bioidentical hormone replacement therapy (BHRT).You can find the full video hosted at:https://www.facebook.com/groups/livymethodwinter2024Topics covered:Introducing the topic of hormones. So, what are hormones?There are so many hormones that play a role in supporting your body in this processThe role of melatonin, cortisol, and reproductive hormones in SLEEPWhat happens to your body when you are not getting that deep sleep and the impact on weight lossWhen you are tired, you are more likely to make choices that are not aligned with your goalsSleep deprivation and the impact on insulin and your blood sugar levels Perimenopause and menopause and the hormones that impact your sleepThe impact of reduced quality of sleep on men and their hormonesHow working on your sleep helps your hormonesThe effect of poor quality sleep on your ability to cope with stress and your resilienceStress and your flight or fight response and the hormones that play a roleAre you living in a constant state of stress?Women, as a result of how we are socialized, do you care for everyone else but yourselvesFinding the opportunity to deal with that stressThe impact of stress on your weight loss journeyStarving yourself is one of the most stressful things you can do to your bodyHormones involved in your metabolism; the role of your thyroidGhrelin and Leptin and the impact on your weight lossInsulin resistance and chronic stressDopamine and its impact on your choices and your metabolismOur current food environment gives us way too much dopamineEstrogen, testosterone and progesterone and your mood The role of dopamine and serotonin on your moodHow restrictive diets impact your serotonin levelsOxytocin and the importance of community to your weight loss journeyAre your hormones in a traffic jam?If you are making an effort to maximize, you are doing so much to help your hormonesThe role that hormones play in women is only starting to be understoodYour metabolism is truly impacted by the amount of muscle mass you have on your body Menopause and perimenopause and the impact on your mood and body compositionMedications during menopause and perimenopause and having that conversationWellness is not a state of being. It's a state of actionMen's hormones and the reduction in testosterone, what else could be going on? Testosterone therapy for menTake action!! There are so many things that you can do to make a real difference and help you lose weightemail: info@haltonphysiotherapy.caTo learn more about The Livy Method, visit www.ginalivy.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Lisa Mosconi PhD, renowned neuroscientist with over 200 published papers, says: Menopause is having a moment. She's right, and she's written the book to meet that moment. The Menopause Brain, a book being celebrated around the world. Gen X has arrived mid-life, with all the state-of-flux symptoms that come with peri-menopause and menopause and said: Enough! Why are we not talking about this? Why are we being gaslit in Dr's offices for our symptoms and being offered multiple medications for anxiety, depression and pain, but not having a conversation about what might help us far more, due to outdated medical research claims of overblown HRT risks? We also have been robbed of the exciting potential for embracing the rite of passage into a new chapter, from a spiritual and personal growth perspective. We discuss: Menopause is not a disease, and it's not just ‘aging' - it is a neuro-endocrine transition: A biological eventWhat's happening during this transition and why sex hormones aren't just sex hormonesThe risks that increase from midlife for women including a discussion around Alzheimer's DiseaseThe benefits of ‘getting to the other side' from a resilience and cognition perspective. Was HRT risk ‘fear' in the late 20th Century overblown? Lifestyle considerations to support us during our transitionValidation for your own experience: A critical piece in the transitionConnect with Lisa on the following platforms:Website — lisamosconi.comInstagram — @dr_mosconiTikTok — @lisamosconiphdGrab a copy of her book, The Menopause Brain available in Booktopia: https://bit.ly/themenopausebrain Thank you to this month's sponsor for partnering with our show and helping you make your swaps with their special offer: Ausclimate giving you 10% off their Winix Air Purifiers and Dehumidifiers at ausclimate.com.au. CODE: LOWTOXLIFE at checkoutBe sure to join me on Instagram @lowtoxlife and tag me with your shares and AHAs of this week's episode. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Gut health has become a big topic - and for good reason! But let's dive into gut health 101 and why it's so important to find the right strategies to heal your gut!In this episode we dive into:Common [but not normal] gut symptoms How the gut directly impacts metabolism and hormonesThe most common root causes we see in our clientsFoundational digestive nutrition and lifestyle strategiesHow testing can be a game changer for your individual gut healing journeyTo learn more about our client-favorite test package referenced in this episode, The Good Gut Bundle - click here!Follow Chrissy & the team on @thenourishedera Instagram for daily women's health tips! Follow Chrissy on her Instagram: @chrissywilliams.rd WORK WITH US : https://www.chrissywilliamsnutrition.com/
In this Guest Expert segment, Gina talks hormones and weight loss with Dr. Olinca Trejo. Dr. Olinca is a licensed, board-certified Naturopathic Doctor in the province of Ontario. She also holds an honours degree in Kinesiology and has achieved her certification and internship in bioidentical hormone replacement therapy (BHRT).You can find the full video hosted at:https://www.facebook.com/groups/livymethodwinter2024Topics covered:Introducing the topic of hormones. So, what are hormones?There are so many hormones that play a role in supporting your body in this processThe role of melatonin, cortisol, and reproductive hormones in SLEEPWhat happens to your body when you are not getting that deep sleep and the impact on weight lossWhen you are tired, you are more likely to make choices that are not aligned with your goalsSleep deprivation and the impact on insulin and your blood sugar levels Perimenopause and menopause and the hormones that impact your sleepThe impact of reduced quality of sleep on men and their hormonesHow working on your sleep helps your hormonesThe effect of poor quality sleep on your ability to cope with stress and your resilienceStress and your flight or fight response and the hormones that play a roleAre you living in a constant state of stress?Women, as a result of how we are socialized, do you care for everyone else but yourselvesFinding the opportunity to deal with that stressThe impact of stress on your weight loss journeyStarving yourself is one of the most stressful things you can do to your bodyHormones involved in your metabolism; the role of your thyroidGhrelin and Leptin and the impact on your weight lossInsulin resistance and chronic stressDopamine and its impact on your choices and your metabolismOur current food environment gives us way too much dopamineEstrogen, testosterone and progesterone and your mood The role of dopamine and serotonin on your moodHow restrictive diets impact your serotonin levelsOxytocin and the importance of community to your weight loss journeyAre your hormones in a traffic jam?If you are making an effort to maximize, you are doing so much to help your hormonesThe role that hormones play in women is only starting to be understoodYour metabolism is truly impacted by the amount of muscle mass you have on your body Menopause and perimenopause and the impact on your mood and body compositionMedications during menopause and perimenopause and having that conversationWellness is not a state of being. It's a state of actionMen's hormones and the reduction in testosterone, what else could be going on? Testosterone therapy for menTake action!! There are so many things that you can do to make a real difference and help you lose weightemail: info@haltonphysiotherapy.caTo learn more about The Livy Method, visit www.ginalivy.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Kaely McDevitt is a Registered Dietitian specializing in nutrition for women's health. She owns a virtual private practice where she and her team help their clients reclaim their energy, optimize fertility and overcome hormone symptoms through personalized nutrition. Having experienced the pitfalls of a conventional approach to women's health first hand, Kaely is passionate about empowering women to build health from a place of connection: to self, to nature and to community. Listen in to hear Kaely Share:How diet culture has impacted hormone health for women todayHow overachieving and burnout is impacting our ovulation Common mistakes women are making that are impacting our hormonesHow blood sugar swings are impacting our hormonesThe benefits of progesterone beyond fertilityThe wisdom we can learn from tracking our cycle and living in sync with our cyclesWhat eating for happy and healthy hormones looks likeThe importance of rest for optimal health and hormonesConnect with Kaely:InstagramWebsiteI'd love to connect with you!Sign up for my newsletterFollow me on Instagram or and head to my website to get 60+ free hormone healthy recipes, download my free Ebook, How to Boost Your Egg Quality, learn about my coaching programs and stay up to date on all my latest workshops and courses!Thank you so much for listening to the About Health and Hormones Podcast! If you loved today's episode, I would love to know! Please leave a rating and review so I can make this podcast even better for you all. I would love to connect with you.I'm so glad you were here today and I wish you all health and happiness!This episode was edited and produced by Intent Media.
Want to boost your testosterone naturally? This episode of the Sex Upgraded Podcast will tell you how. Join Taylor & male hormone expert Dr. Tracy Gapin for a practical & motivating conversation about how YOU can be the best version of yourself by optimizing all of your male hormone levels.Hormone optimization is key to overall vitality, with insights into libido, peak performance, mental clarity, and conquering life's challenges. Check out my personal testosterone journey in this video. And...
Biologist and self care coach, Kylie Patchett and Jo talk about their experiences of midlife depression in this raw and honest discussion. They touch on: Shame and guiltThe role of HormonesThe role of TraumaTrauma ResponsesDepression as an invitation to heal old woundsThe dark side of resilience, bravery and strength Redefining the roles we play in our own livesThe value of getting out of the head and into the bodySomatic practices, breath work and yogaMental Health First AidReducing stigma The Jim Carrey quote Kylie was thinking of is, I believe: “Depression is your body saying f*ck you, I don't want to be this character anymore, I don't want to hold up this avatar that you've created in the world. It's too much for me. You should think of the word ‘depressed' as ‘deep rest.' Your body needs to be depressed. It needs deep rest from the character that you've been trying to play.” Jim Carrey Books mentioned:“The Woman's Brain” by Dr Sarah Mackay: https://amzn.to/44gPE3W“The Second Spring, The Self Care Guide to Menopause” by Kate Coddrington: https://amzn.to/3PEdL7V You can find Kylie here: https://www.kyliepatchett.com.au/About this Podcast: Like all transitions, midlife can be messy and sad and glorious all at once, leaving many midlife women feeling rather alone and somewhat invisible. But what does this transition we are experiencing lead to? I'm Jo Blackwell, a photographer, author and coach for women who want more from their lives post 50 and I'm here to remind you that if we manage our health and embrace it, growing older can lead to one of the greatest periods of growth and transformation of our lives. My aim is to help women step into a starring role in their own lives - whatever that means to you. The Midlife Movement was created to change minds about midlife and growing older, one story at a time. Because we only become invisible when when we stop seeing ourselves. email jo@joblackwell.co.uk to take part in the podcast or suggest guests. See The Midlife & Beyond section of my website for more information and resources to help you navigate change with less stress and more joy! www.joblackwell.co.uk
In this episode of The Dr. Kinney Show, I'm doing a Q&A session and answering all of the questions you guys have sent me about your health and wellness. I always appreciate getting feedback and questions from you all, and I'm excited to be diving into some of them with you today. Topics covered in this episode include:How to find out the root cause of your autoimmune diseaseWays to incorporate more self-love practiced into your life to improve your healthWhy you actually need to practice relaxing regularly What you need to know about your PMS symptoms, ovulation time, and hormonesThe best way to test your adrenals and what the results mean for your healthWhat to do if you're not responding to thyroid medication when you have a thyroid disorderMake sure to tune in to hear my answer to your top questions! Show notes available at www.drerinkinney.com/127Resources Mentioned: I would love to connect on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DrKinneyND and Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drkinney!
Tania Elfersy is a transformative coach, speaker and award-winning author, specializing in midlife women's health. Tania has spent years researching what causes and what can relieve symptoms associated with perimenopause and menopause. She became free of her own physical and emotional symptoms naturally and simply, through insight alone. Tania set up The Wiser Woman project in 2015 to help women transform their experience of midlife change. Her new brilliant book The Wiser Woman's Guide to Perimenopause and Menopause is available now. Tania explains how:The challenges of perimenopause might not all be about your hormonesYour body is not malfunctioning in midlifeThe challenges of perimenopause are not about your hormonesThe insights that released Tania from her menopause symptomsThe potential toxicity of the beliefs and stories we tell ourselves and what to do about themHow spiritual awakening can change the game at midlifeHow to learn what our body wants us to knowHow we can help ourselves in midlifeTania's links:The Wiser Woman course: https://www.thewiserwoman.com/courseTania's Website: https://www.thewiserwoman.com/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheWiserWoman Twitter: https://twitter.com/4TheWiserWoman More information about Katehttps://www.katecodrington.co.uk/Instagram @kate_codringtonSecond Spring: the self-care guide to menopause is available from your favourite bookshopMusicTrust Me (instrumental) by RYYZNCreative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0Free Download / StreamMusic promoted by Audio LibraryArtworkKate's portrait by Lori Fitzdoodles
We sat down with our medical advisor at beeya, Dr. Corina Dunlap, to discuss the foundations of balancing our hormones and bodies as women. She reminded us how healing really does start with the basics and left us eager to build healthy lifestyles with our natural fluctuations in mind.In this episode you'll learn: Why bloating happens during your cycleThe impact of blood sugar on stressWhere to start with cycle syncingHow seed cycling can help your gut and hormonesThe secret ingredients that set beeya apartDr. Corina Dunlap is a licensed naturopathic doctor (ND) and women's health and hormone specialist. She is the creator of Health by Design, a deeply personalized women's healthcare program, and The Healthy Hormones Method, a transformational framework for women. Specializing in the treatment of conditions that range from irregular periods to PMS, thyroid imbalances, endometriosis, pelvic pain, and menopause, she is an internationally recognized expert in natural fertility optimization and women's health at all stages of life. Dr. Dunlap is a clinician, researcher, educator, and speaker.This episode is brought to you by Beeya:* If you or anyone you know have been struggling with hormonal imbalances and bad periods, go to https://beeyawellness.com/free to download the free guide to tackling hormonal imbalances and to learn more about Beeya's seed cycling bundle.* Plus, get $10 off your order by using promo code BEHINDHEREMPIRE10.Follow Corina: * Website: https://drcorinadunlap.com/* Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drcorinadunlap/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Today we are diving into the #1 Biohack for Women's Wellness! It's a tool for optimizing your heath and hormones, reducing period discomforts, feeling more radiant in your body, vibrant in your mind, confident in yourself, magnetic in your work, turned on in your intimacy and connected in your relationships!What you'll learn and key takeaways:#1 Biohack for Women's Optimal WellnessWhat is your Femme FLOW?Connect with your true feminine powerUnderstand your menstrual cycleTake a journey through your female hormonesThe super powers of your periodUnveiling your hormonal advantage in each phase of your cycleHealth benefits of ovulationLiving in alignment with your Femme FLOW to optimize every area of your life - work, relationships, health, intimacy, motherhood and beyondThe phases of your cycle where you're physically strongest and mentally most focusedTips for living in your Femme FLOW all month longHow to reconnect to your feminine essenceResources & Links:Join Femme FLOW: A 6-week menstrual and hormonal wellness portal for women to reconnect to your natural feminine essence. We cover cycles and flow so you can optimize your heath and hormones, reduce period discomforts, feel more radiant in your body, vibrant in your mind, confident in yourself, magnetic in your work, turned on in your intimacy and connected in your relationships.Thank you so much for listening. I'm so honored that you're here and would be SO grateful if you could leave me a review on Apple podcasts or Spotify, that way we can inspire and educate even more people together.I'd love to connect with you on IG: www.instagram.com/bindistablesVisit my website for more resources and ways to work with me: www.bindistables.com
Have you ever experienced the feeling of not being yourself?As we age, our bodies also change. There are cycles that help with our hormones that eventually come to an end. Some examples being the menstrual decay, and as well as the degradation of testosterone levels as the years go by. But these processes ending doesn't mean you just have to accept that that is how life is going to be.In this episode, Kashif is joined by the founder of The Menopause Method, Dr. Daved Rosensweet. Over the years he has worked towards the expertise of menopause and hormone replacement therapy which sprouted from a personal story of speaking with an expert on progesterone. He is also the founder of I Wonder, Doctor, and as well as the Institute of BioIdentical Medicine. He is a nationally known lecturer and presenter at The American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine (A4M), The American College for Advancement in Medicine (ACAM), The Age Management Medicine Group (AMMG), and more. In 2019, he was called to Washington to speak in front of The National Academies of Science Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) on "The Safety and Efficacy of Bioidentical Hormones."They discussed about how hormone replacement therapy took off until there were false stories in 2002 that changed the perspective of the people and put hormone therapy in a bad light. People thought that it would increase the risk of breast cancer and other diseases. But what is the truth about hormones?Hormones are actually a way to resolve diseases at the root cause especially since menopause affects women's anxiety, depression, physical, and psychological health. Hormones are capable of lessening risks of heart attack and breast cancer. As for men, hormones help with the symptoms of testosterone degradation. Kashif and Dr. Rosensweet also discuss the following points:The peak years of men and womenPre-menopause and menopausal stagesProper application/intake of hormonesThe circadian rhythm of hormone flowHormone testingThe insufficiency and overdose of hormonesIf you wish to learn more about Dr. Rosensweet and his work, you may click through the links below:You may avail of a free copy of his book, "Happy Health Hormones: How to Thrive in Menopause" through https://iobim.org/book/Websites:www.brite.livewww.iobim.orgwww.menopausemethod.comhttps://iwonderdoctor.com/#welcomehttps://www.davedrosensweetmd.com________________________________________________________________________________Don't forget to grab yourself a copy of Kashif Khan's book, "The DNA Way: Unlock the Secrets of Your Genes to Reverse Disease, Slow Aging, and Achieve Optimal Wellness" which is now available for presale!Follow Kashif Khan to receive updates on the UNPILLED Podcast!This episode may also be streamed on YouTube!
I'm talking with Dr Sarah Myhill about her new book, The Underactive Thyroid: Do It Yourself because your doctor won't.Getting the basics rightThings have to be done in a specific, logical orderDr Myhill's approach to diagnosisThe importance of taking personal responsibility for your own healthEnergy delivery mechanisms: body, brain and thyroid symptomsFollowing a paleo-keto diet as the foundation stoneLow carb (not NO carb)The 2 guts: upper gut (carnivore), lower gut (vegetarian)The problem with the upper gut fermentingKetones + ketosisManagement of thyroid hormonesThe circadian rhythm of thyroid hormonesRecommended ranges (by Dr Myhill) for thyroid hormonesThyroid glandulars - what they are, the difference between therapeutic and food grade glandulars and where to source.Dr Sarah Myhill qualified in medicine (with Honours) from Middlesex Hospital Medical School in 1981 and has since focused tirelessly on identifying and treating the underlying causes of health problems, especially the 'diseases of civilisation' with which we are beset in the West. She has worked in the NHS and private practice and for 17 years was the Hon Secretary of the British Society for Ecological Medicine, which focuses on the causes of disease and treating through diet, supplements and avoiding toxic stress. She helps to run and lecture at the Society's training courses and also lectures regularly on organophosphate poisoning, the problems of silicone, and chronic fatigue syndrome.Connect with Dr Myhill:https://www.drmyhill.co.uk/https://www.instagram.com/drmyhill/https://www.facebook.com/groups/108048875899603TwitterPurchase Dr Myhill's BooksThe Underactive Thyroid: Do it yourself because your doctor won't.Paleo-Ketogenic: The Why and the HowDiagnosis and Treatment of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Myalgic Encephalitis, 2nd ed: It's Mitochondria and Hypochondria. -------Let's Talk Thyroid is a podcast where we explore different aspects of living thyroid-friendly lifestyle positively & practically to help you thrive and not just survive.WEBSITE: https://letstalkthyroid.com✅ Download your FREE Printable Thyroid Health Checklist:
Episode Highlights With Dr. MollyWhy biohacking is different for women and how to be carefulHow to use current technology to improve your mitochondriaThe way stress changes metabolism and why weight gain or trouble losing weight can actually be a symptom of high stress and low mitochondria functionWhy recovery is so important and how to avoid burnoutHow to nourish your mitochondriaThings that damage your mitochondria: smoking, vaping, alcohol, pesticides, refined sugarHow chronic stress directly damages mitochondriaWhat mito-hormetic stressor areThe war over vegetables and what she thinks about vegan vs carnivoreMicrobiome and mitochondria crosstalk and why this is importantWhat HRV can tell us about health and ways to improve itHow to use a glucose monitor at home to improve health and hormonesWhat to understand about the glycemic index and how this is the average response of 1000 peopleHow to look at the body from a first principles angle and improve hormonesThe way synthetic hormones including birth control can change your hormones and your attraction to your partnerHer take on peptides and hormonesResources We MentionThe Spark Factor: The Secret to Supercharging Energy, Becoming Resilient, and Feeling Better Than Ever by Dr. Molly MaloofDr. Molly - websiteDr. Molly - InstagramLevels - CGMThanks to Our Sponsors:Zero Acre Farm - Their cultured oil is an innovative and healthy alternative to seed oils. Its neutral taste makes it perfect for roasting, sauteing, stir-frying, baking, dressing, drizzling, and baking.LMNT - My go-to electrolyte mix that I use during workouts while fasting and in the sauna. It's a clean source of all of your electrolyte needs
In the first part of the episode, Michelle talks about her personal experience with anxiety and panic attacks, explaining how to decode and respond to our internal anxiety in a neutralizing way. She also gives tangible tools to use during times of high anxiety/ panic and gives helpful insight into what is happening in the body during stress.She then sits down with Amanda Montalvo, RD (@hormonehealingrd) to discuss the physiology of anxiety and tangible steps we can take to de-stress. They discuss :Being addicted/ conditioned to stress and the rush of hormonesThe impact of stress and anxiety on the female body The body's physiological response to stress, step-by-stepHow stress depletes our minerals, specific minerals that are affected and whyStress and blood pressure (Hint: It's not just about sodium!)Benefits of hair mineral testingHPA Axis dysregulation, how to support your adrenal glandsHow THYROID is affected by stress, anxiety, and mineral deficiencies The ONE thing you can do today to help your body recover from stress Links:Get anxiety + panic attack support from a functional nutrition and naturopathic perspective with our 8 week online self-guided program “Anxiety Proof”Work with Amanda and her free resources: Follow Amanda on IG @HormonehealingRDAre You Menstrual? Podcast with Amanda Montalvo Master Your Minerals course Adrenal Cocktail RecipesWork with Michelle and her free resources: Quiet the DietEpisode Page (with Transcript)Work 1-on-1 with a functional Registered Dietitian at Michelle Shapiro Nutrition LLCLearn more about the practiceFollow the pod on IGFollow Michelle on IGTimestamps:(2:00) Michelle's experience with panic attacks, anxiety symptoms as a results of drastic-weight loss(3:30) Michelle's visual explanation of what anxiety does for us, how to use our anxiety as an opportunity to let us know what's going on in our body. (6:00) What to do during a rush of anxiety or panic attack, hormones & anxiety from an evolutionary perspective (14:22) Amanda Montalvo (@hormonehealingrd) talks about being addicted to stress & the rush of stress hormones on a daily basis (20:54) The impact of stress and anxiety on women's bodies in particular(25:21) Amanda walks through the body's physiological response to stress, step-by-step(31:11) How stress depletes our minerals, specific minerals that are affected and why(36:21) Stress and blood pressure (Hint: It's not just about sodium!) (46:45) Benefits of hair mineral testing(49:05) HPA Axis dysregulation, how to support your adrenal glands, adrenal cocktails
Today's episode is sponsored by KetoCon 2023. Ketocon is returning to Austin, TX on April 21 through 23rd in 2023. Ketocon is the largest event in the U.S. focused solely on the science and stories of living a ketogenic diet and lifestyle. We'll be throwing a Carnivore party and recording a CATG episode at Ketocon!!Use Code CATG at ketocon.org to get $50 off your ticket!See you there! Thank you for supporting this podcast._____Be part of our 100th episode! Get your ticket here!In this episode, Laura and Judy deep dive into reasons for adding carbs on a carnivore diet. 100th episodeTrends in carnivore: MCT challenge, PSMFA1C on carnivore (Blood sugar)Dawn effectLow protein risksProtein and amino acidsThe reasons for carbs, including fiberCarbs and sleepCarbs and hormonesThe big picture of cortisolGluconeogenesisExogenous hormonesCarbs as a bandaidCrossfit MenopauseLong term risks and benefitsRESOURCES: CATG 100th EpisodeCATG Ep 77 - The Endocrine/Hormone SystemNwJ Ep. 147 - Dr. Ben Bikman InterviewNwJ Ep. 183 - Dr. Donald Layman InterviewLaura's LocalsNwJ NewsletterSPONSORS: KETOCON: Use Code CATG at ketocon.org to get $50 off your ticket!JUDY'S RESOURCES:Judy's Book, Carnivore CureFree #Carnivore75Hard ProgramNutrition with Judy ArticlesNutrition with Judy ResourcesJudy's InstagramNutrition with Judy PodcastJudy's YouTubeJudy's Facebook_____ LAURA'S RESOURCES: Laura's LocalsLaura's Discount Codes & InterviewsLaura's AmazonLaura's YouTubeLaura's Instagram_____ DISCLAIMER: This podcast should never be considered medical advice. We always recommend working with your medical team. Do not self-diagnose. Always seek medical guidance when you have a medical condition.Use Code CATG at ketocon.org to get $50 off your ticket!
As late as the 1950's The Journal of Obstetrics Gynecology and Surgery had an editorial suggesting that all women should have a hysterectomy after their childbearing years. It seems the general consensus among doctors was that a woman's reproductive organs are good for only one thing: childbearing, and after a woman has had all the children she wants, these organs are expendable, which then led to a worldwide push to perform these surgeries at an alarming rate. The highest rates are in the United States, followed by Canada and Australia.I realize today's show may be a trigger for some of you, but the topic of reproductive health is just too important not to discuss, so I brought back Dr. Elizabeth Plourde, a clinical laboratory scientist and North American Menopause Society Certified Menopause Practitioner, to the show. In addition to being a practitioner and scientist who worked with hormone testing, and cutting edge cancer and DNA medical research laboratories, she spent over a decade researching women's hormones, learning how women's bodies function.From that research and those findings, she wrote Your Guide to Hysterectomy, Ovary Removal and Hormone Replacement, which explains how our ovarian hormones are critically important to maintain healthy tissues and women's bodies.20 years after her book was published, we now have studies published in 2021 and 2022 medical journals confirming her conclusions that our ovarian hormones are important throughout our lives and well past menopause. The studies confirm her findings that women who have had their ovaries removed and do not take hormone replacement die younger with heart disease than women who take hormones.In this episode, we discuss:Why women who have had their ovaries removed and do not take hormone replacement die younger with heart disease than women who take hormonesThe important role ovarian hormones play in keeping our tissues healthy and eliminating debilitating osteoporosisWhy looking at root causes of excessive bleeding, fibroids, and cancer are the keys to healingQuestions to ask your doctor if you are considering a hysterectomyClick on the episode link to read the full transcript along with links to Elizabeth's website, books, and research.
This week on the podcast, Britt chats with Mia Harris, a weight loss and hormones nutritionist. She's a passionate about helping women balance their hormones, lose weight and find peace with food and their body.In this episode Britt and Mia chat all about how yo-yo dieting might be impacting your hormones, and what you can do to focus on a more sustainable approach to nutritionIn this episode, Britt & Mia cover;Mia's history with yo-yo dieting and what her diet looks like now, with more balanceHow yo-yo dieting can contribute to the ever-common hormone imbalance piece of the puzzleHow your thyroid can be impacted How yo-yodieting impacts cortisol levelsWhy intermittent fasting isn't the best for womenThe impact that yo-yo dieting has on sex hormonesThe signs that our body is sending us that our sex hormones are offPeriods and poops, good indicators of your health statusThe implications of yo-yo dieting on our hunger hormonesWhat are hunger hormones and what do they doHow we can focus on for a sustainable approach to nutrition for better hormones and long term healthy habitsConnect with Mia on instagram at @miaharrisnutrition or check out her website here. If you're interested in working with Britt, check out her signature 12-week Fuel your Fire Personalized Nutrition Program, where she works with you to get to the ROOT of your digestive woes !If you think you might be a good fit for this program, and you're ready to take your health into your own hands, click here to book a free discovery call.Pre-registration is also open for her Fuel Your Fire 12-Week Self Paced Course where you can reset your digestive system, reclaim your energy and rediscover your zest for life in 12 weeks! Check it out and pre-register HERE.You can also sign up for Britt's weekly newsletter where she gives a weekly dose of holistic Connect with Britt
Follow Get Confident with Johnelle Hosking on your favourite listening app and click the bell to get notified of new episodes as they're released.It means the world to me to have this information out in the world! For about 14 months now I've had issues with my hormones which have left me feeling like a completely different person due to the mood swings, low energy, and brain fog. I started working on my hormones with Pip from Patient Advocates and today we have her on the show to share her knowledge. Here's what we cover:How hormones impact our livesEnvironmental impacts on hormonesThe biggest effect on our hormonesThe age our hormones finally balance (for a time)How contraception interferes with our natural hormone rhythmHormones, PMS, and periods or nonperiodsMy own personal experience with hormones and the impacts they've had on my lifeCycle phases and how we feeland more!Check out Patient Advocates hereFollow Street Kai on Facebook hereConnect with Johnelle Hosking:Sign up to receive extra podcast insights, behind-the-scenes details, and bonuses straight to your inbox plus you'll get my Confidence Meditation completely free. Sign up here. Book your free roadmap call with me. We'll create your custom roadmap to get you career confident. Book yours here. Let's connect on Instagram and Facebook.
There are so many women out there who are taking the lesser worn path that combines purpose, the needs of our families and the needs of our community through the creation of a heart centered business, and today I am joined by Steph Fleeton, founder of Spirited Hearts, who is one such change maker.
Ladies! You know all those diets and new workout plans you keep trying hoping to lose that extra 5lbs or to feel a little better? Maybe it's not working because it was designed based off the male body. YEP. This episode is essential for all women to finally begin to work WITH our cycle and how to advocate for our total health. If you have any questions about this episode or want to get some of the resources we mentioned, head over to LesleyLogan.co/podcast. If you have any comments or questions about the Be It pod shoot us a message at beit@lesleylogan.co . And as always, if you're enjoying the show please share it with someone who you think would enjoy it as well. It is your continued support that will help us continue to help others. Thank you so much! Never miss another show by subscribing at LesleyLogan.co/subscribe.In this episode you will learn about:How proactive health can impact your lifestyle and balance your hormonesThe benefits of a functional doctorHow to rule out the doctors who won't serve you wellWhat is your body saying day-to- dayHow to cycle sync your workouts for maximum benefits4-legged chair analogy and how it relates to your hormone system. The things to consider in your hormone imbalanceThe two most common issues for hormone imbalance The range of “normal” has not been defined for youBIO Jenny Swisher has had a wide background in health and fitness from owning a gym with her husband to building a network of marketing health professionals, to deep diving into hormone health. Jenny is now a holistic health coach, mom, and creator of SYNC: How to Fuel and Train with Your Female Hormone Cycle digital course. The course is designed to teach women how to work with their practitioners to uncover the root cause of their hormone imbalances, how to track their cycles using an ovuscope, and how to cycle sync their workouts and nutrition to their menstrual phases.Jenny's podcast, SYNC Your Life, is also working to spread the word on the message that women are not small men, and that getting a female into great shape means paying attention to her physiology and working with it instead of against it.Episode References/Links:SYNC Your Life PodcastBeyond The Pill by Jolene BrightenFind your functional doctor! Institute for Functional Medicine If you enjoyed this episode, make sure and give us a five star rating and leave us a review on iTunes, Podcast Addict, Podchaser or Castbox.Be It Till You See It Podcast SurveyResourcesWatch the Be It Till You See It podcast on YouTube!Lesley Logan websiteBe It Till You See It PodcastOnline Pilates Classes by Lesley LoganOnline Pilates Classes by Lesley Logan on YouTubeProfitable PilatesSocial MediaInstagramFacebookLinkedInEpisode Transcript:Lesley Logan Hey loves, how are you? Oh my gosh, okay, so I am so stoked for you to talk to this for you to talk, you're not gonna talk to her. I mean, you could talk to her while you're walking, you're gonna listen to her. (Lesley laughs) Oh my gosh, okay, so I am part of a group and I was reaching out for some guests. And this woman raised her hand. And I thought it must been earlier in the year or maybe even late last year, to be honest, and we had a phone call. And like all busy women, we have lives and she's growing her companies and growing my companies. And so we, we knew we had, we're gonna have a great conversation. I knew I had to have her on. And also, like, life just takes time. And I share this, and I share this. And when I introduced her, I share this because it's so so important that you hear this. You're gonna learn so much from people in your lives, like I learn more from the conversations I have, and the epic relations that I've have, then in any book, okay? And so, but not every relationship can start right away. Not every conversation gets to start right away. And I think it's important that we keep that in mind. So you don't take things personally, if a conversation doesn't happen, or if it gets canceled, and then you are intentional. So I have an intentional list of people that I'm like, "This someone is someone I really want you in my life. This is someone I really want to conversation with. This is I want to connect with." And then I make sure that I reach out from time to time. And so I'm so stoked because I was on this, this guest podcast and I really hope you listen to it if you haven't already. And not only you're going to love this and this podcast is going to just enlighten you on so many things. Ladies, this is for you. Our guest is Jenny Swisher and she is 100% a woman on a mission and passionate about hormone health with women and she is really diving into find out different ways that you can make it easy for women to know about their hormone health to be in control and to use that for themselves. So here's what's so exciting. You're gonna listen to all this amazing wisdom and the story from Jenny Swisher right now and I want you to truly listen to her BE IT action items, especially the last one please, please, please, please, please, ladies, please. And then I really want you to take stock about the things that you are doing, track things in your life, have intentionality around these things to try not to excuse your feelings or things you want a way, please because you cannot be it till you see it if you are just kind of flat floating through and just letting things happen. That's not how it works. We have to take some action. So listen to our actions up to the end. Listen to these amazing words from Jenny Swisher. I'm so glad I got to have her as a guest for you. And I can't wait to hear how you use these actions in your life.Welcome to the Be It Till You See It podcast where we talk about taking messy action, knowing that perfect is boring. I'm Lesley Logan, Pilates instructor and fitness business coach. I've trained thousands of people around the world and the number one thing I see stopping people from achieving anything is self doubt. My friends, action brings clarity and it's the antidote to fear. Each week, my guests will bring Bold, Executable, Intrinsic and Targeted steps that you can use to put yourself first and Be It Till You See It. It's a practice, not a perfect. Let's get started.Hey, Be It listeners. All right, I am really thrilled. This woman and I actually talked many, many moons ago. And because when you are busy women rockin things that you have in this world and have important people in your lives. Sometimes schedules can get can take a little while to have these important conversations. But what I'm so stoked about is that, that just means we get to actually and I get to have more conversations together, which is really cool. And I say that because I think it can be really tricky when you meet someone and you want them to be your friend or you want to connect with you want to network with them. And that it takes a while for that ball to get rolling. You can get a little frustrated. What I will say is having been on our guests podcast, let the time take it and stay consistent and keep showing up and it will it'll be what it's going to be and so here without further ado, let me actually just get her on. Jenny Swisher is here, and I am so stoked to have her on. I'm really thrilled that our paths have crossed. Thank goodness for the groups that were in. So Jenny, will you tell everyone who you are and what you're up to these days?Jenny Swisher Absolutely. Well, thank you for having me on. I've been listening to your podcast to these last several weeks and I love the vibe that you put out into the world and the message that you're sharing. I hope that women especially listening to this day will come away with something. So my name is Jenny Swisher. I started a SYNC digital course in 2020 focused on women's hormone health. So basically, that's my story. And I'm sticking to it right, I have a struggle that started in my 20s having to do with chronic migraine and hormone imbalance that led me into this journey of self discovery and really becoming my own best doctor. And I looked around as a as a personal trainer and a nutritionist, and I saw this need with other women out there who were struggling, and they were being told their testing was normal. And what they were experiencing was normal. And I thought, "No, this isn't right, we need to intervene. And we need to educate women on their health, their especially their menstrual health, and how to really get to the root cause of issues for them." So I launched my course in 2020, have a podcast now called SYNC Your Life, which you were on, just we just interviewed you last week, so it'll be on your soon live. But uh, yeah, I love this journey that I'm on because I'm meeting so many women out there who always tell me that they wish they had known this information years ago. And so I feel like I'm really sort of like living into my purpose. I'm following this calling to really bridge the gap between the medical community and functional wellness, and really getting people on board with a more functional approach to their health.Lesley Logan Yeah, I love this. And I also love the timing of this, because we just had on one of our guests, talking about women's health and our importance of being an advocate, and it's exhausting to be an advocate for yourself, but you have to do it and and I love the the specificity of yours because I do think that it's if we should have known when we were probably 14 or 13. Like when you're when you're watching those videos about your cycle, it's probably like, and here's all the different possibilities. And here just just so that it's not fearful, it's not this negative stigma that we have around it. And then it's easier to know that you have to sync things and that there's there's so much more possibility out there for all of us. I would love to so you, you started your course and 2020. What kind of was the impetus for that? Because I feel like taking on the idea of like, I'm going to do a course that requires a (Jenny: Yeah.) lot more than just passion and an idea.Jenny Swisher Absolutely, yeah. So as I mentioned briefly, you know, in my 20s, I started experiencing chronic migraine, and when I say chronic migraine, I mean, I had consistent pain. If I woke up in the middle of night, I still have a headache for two and a half consecutive years. And so I was referred to Mayo Clinic, Diamond Clinic, I was referred to all these different specialists, I saw a total of 14 different neurologists and specialists. And I had the world's gamut of testing on my brain and my spine. And you know, I even saw chiropractors and all different types of experts in this field that were like, everything's fine, everything's normal. We're not sure why you're having these headaches. And I knew deep down that there was a reason and I just had to get to the root of that reason. But I unfortunately spent a little bit too long, sitting in the in the waiting room of doctors offices hoping for my Doctor House is what I like to say, looking for that doctor who could who could say, "Uh huh, you have mold in your gutters, you know, and that's the problem." You know ...Lesley Logan I know. I remember that show. Everyone if you don't remember all this show, like the doctors would like sneak out of the hospital and like break into people's houses to find out, "Oh, you use lead paint and this one thing, and that's the thing." And with my health conditions too." I was like, "There's gotta be, there must be something here ..." There's gonna be a doctor that finds it. And so I totally understand, like, you go down that rabbit hole, like and you hold off for it. But there's like, also maybe because of that, that hope or because of that fixation, you might miss what is (Jenny: Yeah.) actually right there in front of you.Jenny Swisher Absolutely. And I kept thinking that. I kept thinking, you know, this just came on and my husband and I got married at an early age. We were highschool sweethearts. We got married right out of college. And almost instantly after we came home from the honeymoon, I started experiencing these migraines and then they slowly became daily. And like I said, I found myself in multiple doctor's offices and super frustrated because I was spending a lot of money, a lot of time. I was trying a lot of different pharmaceuticals on myself. I felt like a human guinea pig. I did you know I was I would go into hospital settings for overnight stays for IV drips that were just simply trials like drug trials to see if things would work. And so I finally was, you know, to give you the sort of high level version of the story I I was on a walk with my yoga instructor because yes, I also tried yoga during that time you'll try anything. I did chiropractic, Pilates, yoga. I did, like I said, acupuncture, like everything possible. If someone mentioned it, I was like, "Sure I'll try it." (Lesley: Yeah.) And through that journey. I met my yoga instructor who is now one of my very best friends and she really was a respite for me during that time. She had a family member who was also struggling with migraine and so it felt like I had somebody who would listen and who had she knew somebody that was going through something similar and it was so good for me to have that outlet instead of just always dumping it onto my husband or or you know my family. And ...Lesley Logan Well, and also that have someone like you just said that understands because I think I think thank you for explaining that you had like these two and a half day long migraines. I think people think, "Oh, I had them migraine." Or sometimes people say, "I have a migraine." They just like throw it out there. And it's like, (Jenny: Yeah.) people don't realize that like when someone actually truly has like migraine like it can this is debilitating. Like this is taking over your life. So you (Jenny: Yeah.) really do need someone who actually understands that, someone not just like, "Okay, like you have a headache like it's a hard headache."Yeah, yeah, absolutely. And so I was on this walk with my friend Jen. And I was at a breaking point, I was at that point, I was carrying painkillers in my pocket. I had sort of resolved myself to this idea that, in order to get through each day, I was gonna have to just take the painkiller as a preventative thing, like I was gonna have to wake up every day and just take this painkiller. And she said to me, "You've got to, you've got to stop doing this, like, you've got to, you've got to find someone else, like, I'm gonna refer you to my friend, she's a functional medicine doctor, perhaps that can be an answer, or maybe she can connect you to the right person, you got to keep trying." And she really was sort of like, you know, I felt like I was almost on a ledge, and she was talking me off the ledge, like, "You can't give up, you've got to be your own best doctor, you got to keep advocating for yourself." And so she referred me to this functional medicine doctor. All of this was happening at the same time that another friend had introduced me to Home Fitness. I started with P90X the old school DVD program, this this was, I don't know, 12 or 13 years ago, it feels like forever ago. And I just thought at that time, and it's only going to make sense probably to people who have dealt with chronic pain issues. Sometimes the only way to escape the chronic pain is through a distraction. (Lesley: Yeah.) And for me, the exercise was almost as painful as the migraine. And so it was like it was it was putting other parts of my body into focus. When I was doing a workout or holding a wall squat. All I could think about was the wall squat and I wasn't thinking about my headache. And so for me, exercise became my relief, it became this thing that I really looked forward to, and it started with that home program. So all of this was happening at once I started seeing a functional medicine doctor, I started exercising more I started getting into nutrition, and I really sort of the doors were opened for me, I guess you could say to this idea of proactive health, as opposed to taking medications to treat my symptoms. What if I really started looking at my lifestyle? What kind of food was I putting in my body? What was my sleep like? Really, you know, the term biohacking was fresh back in the day, 12 years ago, and that term started popping up into the podcast I was listening to and really started surrounding myself in that environment. And so long story short, I became a coach with Team Beachbody in network marketing business. And I started helping a lot of people, building a team of health coaches and using our home fitness products at the time. This was 12 years ago. I worked my way into the top of the company for that. And my husband and I decided let's take this to the next level. And I said I can't do anything else until I get these headaches figured out. And so thankfully, because of my functional medicine doctor doing the right kind of testing on me that no one had ever done before. And for her really taking the time to hear about how this pain was happening and patterns that were behind it. And just having someone to listen, I started meeting the right specialists and meeting the right people that could tell me, "Hey, we actually think your headaches are hormonally triggered." And so that led to this idea of you know, okay, I want to learn more about hormones, then because I don't feel like I really, (Lesley: Yeah.) I didn't understand my mens... I didn't understand my menstrual cycle. This is when I'm in my 20s, my husband and I had gone off of birth control. Lesley: Which it's own, like.) And so I'm like ...... which everyone (Jenny: Yeah.) just so you in case you don't know, in case you've never gone off. Just getting off doesn't mean okay, you're like you just snap back, like the body has been forever. Like there are so there's actually a book called like After The Pill, I think or Beyond the Pill. (Jenny: Yeah.) And then there's like, just if you anytime you're doing anything hormonal to your body, it's going to take at least 100 days for changes to be made. And oftentimes, we're just like, you're just taken off of it. And no one like goes just so you know, it's gonna be a little weird for a while.Jenny Swisher It's a roller coaster. Yeah, just get ready for the roller coaster. Yeah, exactly. And so but I didn't I didn't put the two and two together at the time. It didn't make sense. (Lesley: Right.) No, of course. Now, when I look back, I'm like, "Well, of course, I had gone off of birth control, and my headaches spiraled out of control." I never made that connection. Right. (Lesley: Yeah.) And then, unfortunately, I never had a doctor to ask that question to make that connection either. And so anyways, so we ended up, you know, getting to sort of the root cause of my headaches, which for me, people always say, "Well, what is it?" The root cause for me tends to be estrogen dominance, which is when my estrogen is too high in relation to my progesterone. That's very common for women and perimenopause after the age of 35 not so normal for women at the age of 22. And so I really once I started to learn what that trigger was, and I started to supplement accordingly to really help my body detoxify that estrogen, estrogen and to eat the right foods. And so I went on progesterone, bion... bioidentical progesterone cream, supplementation once those things started to happen. I, you know, I was able to eliminate all pharmaceuticals and really just focus on these nutraceuticals and it was life changing. But I just want to mention, too, that at that same time, it explains so much about our infertility journey that we were also on. And at the time, becoming pregnant and starting a family was not a priority for us because I was in so much pain, but it was also this sort of thing in the back of my mind that was like, "Gosh, I've been off birth control now for several years then nothing's happening." (Lesley: We haven't even had oops.) Exactly, exactly. And so you know, and so I started thinking, like, once I started learning that the headaches were hormonally triggered, I really started to sort of dive into that. I started to dive into wanting to just be an expert on hormone health, and really to learn about my own body. And I started to make these other connections (Lesley: Yeah.) about our fertility, our fertility journey, as well. So all of that to say that it's been my story. And it's been something that you know, I always say that when somebody you know, whether it's photography, or whatever, whenever somebody gets into something, right, you can become obsessed with it to the point of becoming becoming an expert. You know what I mean?Lesley Logan Yeah ... But and like because you became an expert, like, that's, like the though, it only makes sense that you take all this information and you share it with the world instead of keeping it to yourself. Like I (Jenny: Yeah.) you know, and, like, it is, for every, there's I know, so many of our listeners, like, "Oh, yeah, the hormones." Like another, another person who wasn't helped. Like, and I also in those listeners, like, "Oh, my gosh, like, maybe that's my problem." And so for those people, you know, what are like, for people who are like just thinking maybe this is what I've got going on? Like, where should they look in their communities for support? Like, what are the type of people to like, type of titles to look for? Because obviously took a yoga teacher to connect you to a holistic doctor, like, who should they look for in their communities to maybe get the right testing?Jenny Swisher Well, the first thing that I'll say is, thanks to modern technology, a lot of this stuff is becoming more talked about. So there are podcasts out there, not just mine, but others there are digital courses out there, not just mine, but others there are lots of things virtually, that you can tap into to really start to learn about yourself. But if you're looking for somebody to work with, like if you're looking for a functional practitioner, I always tell people to start by going to ifm.org, which stands for Institute for Functional Medicine.org. You can do a search by zip code to see if there's a functional medicine practitioner near you. You can also do searches for things like integrative health practitioner, you know, naturopath, those types of things to really, and I would, here's the bad thing is that I always tell people, I'm like, "Just because you find someone that has that title doesn't still doesn't mean that it's the right doctor for you." (Lesley: Right.) So one thing, one thing that I like to do is I take with my course takers, I give them a list of questions to ask the doctor. (Lesley: Oh cool.) And a lot of times I'll tell them before you go to the doctor, have this sort of interview with the office, call the office and say, "Do you do this type of testing? Is this you know, are you planning on testing me on certain days of my cycle?" Like ask these certain questions that really sort of rule out the people who are not going to be working well. (Lesley: Yeah.) And it shows you what they know, you know what I mean? And so that's something that I like to supply people with is just this, this idea of like, okay, how to find the right doctor? Yes, but how to weed out the wrong doctors, too.Lesley Logan I love this. Actually, this is like so helpful. And because we actually have done this with like, interviewees, like people we want to interview, like, we'll put it in, depending on the type of job that we're looking for, like almost a trick question, not to like, be mean. But like, if you have to pay attention to detail, and you don't answer a question that has detail in it, then I don't want to read your application, I don't want to do an interview with you. Same thing goes with like, you can look up a Pilates instructor near you. That doesn't mean that the right Pilates instructor for you. So like, there are ... (Jenny: Yeah.) anyone you're looking for you you don't want to go, "Oh, this is the person. They are the holy grail." It's like, go in with some questions and make sure that they are the person who understands your issue. Like how many people have they helped with this problem? (Jenny: Yeah.) Have they seen this before? Or do they have like, one of my friends is a holistic doctor. And she has a huge network of doctors that she can reach out to if a problem is not something that she's familiar with, or she's exhausted all of her options so that she can either forward you on the right person with all the information or get the support from them that they have from their expertise. And so I think it it really does require like testing to see if the person you're talking to has a willingness to learn and a willingness to fight for your fight for your health. And you're not just (Jenny: Yeah.) another person that they're seeing that day.Jenny Swisher Yeah. (Lesley: Yeah.) Yeah, I think I think you have to be your own best doctor. And I think that you have to go into the the appointment knowing that I mean, I don't know about anybody listening. But I know for me, especially after I feel like I'm an expert in sitting in doctors offices, after years of doing it. I felt like I got to the point where they were just going to diagnose or give me whatever I was leading them to. You know what I mean? (Lesley: Yeah.) Like you're, you're leading the doctor to the eventual answer. And so the more hormone literate you can become about your own body and your own cycle. For example, in the case of hormone health, the easier it's going to be for the doctor to make those connections or to really truly help you. I find that most people don't have the awareness that they need the self awareness and the body awareness of their own body to be able to go and get a proper answer from a doctor. And so it starts with that but then when you are in that situation, being able to when you go into it knowing like this is how my body is supposed to operate. This is how it's supposed to feel. These are the things that I've learned about hormone health and I'm not I'm low in energy or I'm this or I'm that that then you can go into the appointment say, "Hey, I think this is how I'm supposed has to be feeling. But instead I feel this way, what are some things that we can look into?"Lesley Logan Yeah, and I think so this is this brings up something that like I find, I feel like it may be it's only in like Western culture. But what I've seen is most people are so disconnected from their bodies, that they don't even know how long they haven't felt good. Or they that this has like, how long have they been sweeping it under the rug and tell the rug is full. And it's like spewing out the stuff. And then they're like, when was the last when was the last time you felt that until this, it's like, I actually don't know. And so then, especially for my situation with my stomach issues, I had thought something was like a stomach bug. And then I thought it was like food poisoning. And then it came in, it just kept morphing. And because I got stressed about it. And because I waited so long and tried different things, I exacerbate the problem to them becoming multi systematic. So that my brain, I wasn't doing a good, I wasn't sleeping, so then I couldn't actually create digestive cycles. And so then the stomach issues I had ended up becoming where I had no stomach acid. So now I'm not you know, so became this whole thing, because I had either waited too long, tried leaving the doctor's down a certain path instead of just like really just taking a high level view of like, where what's going on and what, like, as these things aren't causing each other, but these things are individual things. And it's you know, I don't know if the answer is that every single day, we should just all like otter into like, like a voice message into ourselves like, "This is I woke up. This is I slept last night. This is what I'm going (Jenny: Yeah.) to eat this morning." But we kind of do so that you can see like, where did the pattern start? When did I start (Jenny: Yeah.) feeling like low energy? When did I, when did this bloating become daily? When did these migraines become consistent?Jenny Swisher Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I think I mean, it starts with I mean, I don't think there's a problem with that at all. I mean, I think every single day when I wake up, I think about I look at my Aura ring stats. I look at okay, did my heart rate recover? Well, that I, what was my sleep score for the night, and that sort of determines my day, right? If I had a terrible sleep score, I just came off of COVID. So my sleep scores haven't been the greatest, right? So I'm listening to that I'm not going to push my body in a workout. If my sleep score is terrible, and I didn't rest well the night before. So it starts with that paying attention to how did I sleep? You know, am I am I eating enough? Especially for women, I see a lot of women not eating enough like, are my eating enough? Am I eating enough protein? Am I am I exercising in the ways that align with my energy, which a lot of women aren't doing either, right? They're doing things like the elliptical or the treadmill nonstop, as opposed to mixing things up. So I think then your lifestyle can adjust if you just listen, you know, the number one testimonial that I get from the women in my course. And this, I told my husband recently I'm like, it's sort of sad that this is so commonly said. But so many women come into the course and I give you know, in the course I give like meal plans, I give you customized fitness calendars to sync with your cycle, I give you the questions for your doctor and supplementation to request and all these different things. And the one thing I hear from them is, "This course gave me the permission, I needed to listen to my body." And I hear that so much. And it's like, I don't know, I mean, it must I don't know if it's society, or what leads us down this path of of, of believing that we're crazy or believing that we shouldn't listen to our body or we should follow societal norms, or we should pound the pavement when it comes to our workouts or whatever it is. But I think there's peace and saying, "Okay, well, how did I do... how did I sleep last night? What was my day like yesterday?" And paying attention to that day to day, so that you can then make the decisions on what's going to give me energy. (Lesley: Well ...) At the end of the day, it's about the energy.Lesley Logan And I think so I would love to know what we were all told to stop listening to our bodies. But the other thing is, is I think what's very fascinating is women especially like men's hormonal cycle is very different. And so their workouts can pretty much be the same no matter what day of the week it is, they can they don't have to like, they don't ... they can actually do their hit classes three days a week, and then whatever. Like they, whatever their body wants, it's fine. Whereas I didn't know this. I worked in gyms, I worked with some of the top trainers in the world who studied all this physiology. And no one said, "Hey, just so you know, when you're on this part of your cycle, you should probably be just doing low impact stuff. And when you're on this part of your cycle, depending on how your body feels, you can do double dose workouts, you can do these things." And I was like, when I found this out, only two years ago, I was like, "Oh, so I don't actually have to feel bad that I don't feel, I don't have the energy to actually do that workout that I did two days ago, because I'm (Jenny: Yeah.) not supposed to. I'm not supposed to have that." And so what ended up happening was as soon as I started doing my workouts based on my hormones, I started seeing way more impact in the workouts I was doing they were way more effective, more efficient, and it felt good in my body like it really felt good. (Jenny: Yeah.) You know. I didn't I didn't feel like well, that workout just took me out for the whole day.Jenny Swisher Yeah, when I started learning about cycle thinking fitness, I didn't want to believe it because I had been this con and the P90X was where I started essentially, you know, I was following this calendar day in and day out without realizing that it was you know, it's a calendar designed for men. I mean, fitness in general, we talk about all these different things as it pertains to periodization training and even with with nutrition things like intermittent fasting and ketogenic diets and all these things. And what people don't always realize is that the research for this that's been done has been done on men. And I follow Dr. Stacey Sims out of Australia. She's fascinating. I felt I've taken her course, she has a viral TED Talk on this topic. But she talks about how, when researchers were asked, "Why don't why they don't study women, when it comes to fitness nutrition?" Their answer was, "Well, women's hormones make them too complex to study." And so instead, women have just followed suit to the the male exercise patterns or the diets that tend to work for men. And, you know, to kind of come back full circle to one of your original questions was how did the course come about? When my husband and I, we had a personal training studio for five and a half years, and I was training people I was following this 90 day transformation theme. I was bringing people in for six days a week of training, we were we were working on different muscle groups working on that muscle confusion. And when I was doing that, I had about 50 50 clients, I had 50% men, 50% women, and I always like to say, the men would always come in and do the workouts, but they would never almost never follow the nutrition. Right. They would just cook, they would eat whatever their wife cooked for dinner or whatever they didn't follow with my nutrition plans. The women, however, would come in, and they would say, "I'm following your nutrition plans, and I'm coming in six days a week and my body isn't changing." And so when I started to experience that, as a personal trainer, and I had my own story with what worked for me and my headache journey, and my hormone imbalance, and knowing that most women maybe feel off or have low energy, but they're being told they're normal, all these things sort of started coming together. And I was like, okay, this is why women aren't able to reach that maximum energy, and to reach that fit lifestyle because a) they're being told they're crazy. They're not getting to the root cause of any imbalances, but b) their training according to a man schedule, (Lesley: Yeah.) their their training, their training in this sort of day and day out grind, and not paying attention to the ebbs and flows of our energies throughout the month. And it's it once you learn it and once you can understand your body and how you can make this work for you. It is game changing, game changing.Lesley Logan How long would you say it takes like if someone is very diligent. How long does it take for them to kind of see a pattern in their in their body? Is it like a three month thing? Because, you know, or is it is can you find out in a couple of cycles? Like how long are we are they having (Jenny: Yeah.) to wait till they can see the patterns?Jenny Swisher Most women will tell me after the first 30 days that they that everything that they did in the last 30 days made sense. So in other words, for example, I have a woman who just recently said, you know, hey, I'm following your I get, like I said to give calendars. And so she's like, you know, "I have a 30 day cycle, I'm following this calendar. And I thought today I was gonna go to the gym and take this exercise class. But the calendar said I needed to scale it back and do a yoga and an active recovery." And so according to her cycle, right, and so she's like, "I listened to that. And I went to the gym anyway, and I didn't do the class, but I just went off into this open gym area, and I followed this yoga routine." And she's like, "I feel so good." Like, she felt so good coming out of that class, out of that yoga that she was doing, as opposed to, you know, the the hard grind workout that she was going to do in the fit live fitness classes she was going to do instead. So they they start to almost prove it to themselves, because they (Lesley: Yeah.) follow, they follow that calendar. And they're like, "Oh, yeah, this is how I'm feeling." And you know, (Lesley: That's cool.) and as soon as soon enough, they start to see this, of course, this is what I should be after that first month, right? Then they know they come out of that first period that they have, and they start feeling that estrogen rise, and they're like, "I'm ready to push harder now." Right. I've had the active recovery now I'm ready to proceed, and they start to get into that rhythm. And when you get into that rhythm, you can't go back.Lesley Logan You know, so this is so true. Because, um, so I have to film about 10 to 12 workouts every month. And when we had set up the week to do it, the team was just like, okay, it takes us this time, much time, like they work backwards from what it had to go up. So they're like, "This is your filming week." And I was like, "Okay," so I'm doing it. And like, you know, I was like, I frickin love my job. Like, I love what I created for myself. I love my members. I love everything. I frickin don't want to do this right now. And then I'm like, "Is something wrong with me? Do I not like, I don't like why don't I want to do the thing that I love doing? Like I love Pilates. Oh, because it's literally the wrong week for me to be on camera." Like it's like when there's like literally a week where it's like, I want to be by myself. I want to be inward, I want to be retrospective. So it's not even that I can't do the workout. It's that I don't actually want to be on camera, doing the workout. And so as soon as we switched when it happened, not only is the workout the right for me, it also was the right time for me to be out and about doing it. And it is such night and day difference when you actually like can figure that out for yourself. And so for me, I you know, I do like a CrossFit type of thing with my dad and my husband, and we go three times a week. And so when it is the type of week that it's like this is not really what my body wants to do. I don't care if it's for time. How much time do I can I take? Can I take 45 minutes to do this? I'll be the last one, that's fine. I'm not usually but I will, I will go slower, I won't pick up the heaviest weight. I'm like, "You know what, I'm gonna pick up a little bit lighter weight, I'm gonna give a listen to that. So that I can still be or my family, but be honoring my body can actually do in this moment right now." And so that takes a lot more a lot of courage. I definitely was like, is people gonna pay attention? No, they don't care. No one's looking to see what weight you picked up. They don't see that you picked up a lighter weight, they don't see that you're going slower that day. Like no one's actually paying attention to you. And so it giving yourself that permission to do it a little bit less, give yourself or what's really cool is when it is the time that I can go harder. I just go harder. I'm like, I'm not I don't even care. I don't care if I'm the first one done by 10 minutes. I'm just gonna (Jenny: Yeah.) because it is freeing to know that (Jenny: Yeah.) information that like now is the time to like, turn it up.Jenny Swisher Mm-hmm. Yep. And you feel it. Yeah, you feel it within you, you know, you feel that energy go up, and you're ready to push.Lesley Logan Yeah. What are some other things that a hormonal imbalance might look like? So for you is migraines, for other people, it's like frustration, crankiness. You know, ... irritation. Like what are some things that people might not realize could be from a hormonal imbalance?Jenny Swisher Yeah, and I always like to tell people, you know, that, for me, it was a very, I would call it severe manifestation, right? Like I was able to, I've had the migraine every day, and I had to get to the cause of what was going on. Not everybody has severe symptoms. So not everybody will have a migraine every single day, right? Or menstrual cramps every single day, but they start to see, again, it comes back to that energy, the thing I hear the most is, I have trouble getting on to getting out of bed in the morning, or I feel like I'm crashing mid to late afternoon. And I have to rely on caffeine to get me through the rest of the day. Whenever I whenever I start to hear things about energy, I start to really my ears perk up because I say, "Okay, something has to be off." Most likely from a hormonal perspective. I teach in my course and on my podcast, I teach hormones through analogies, because that's how I learned. Right. I probably would never would have, you know, medical school would have thrown me off if it was to textbooky because I want to learn everything as as visually as I can. And so for me, I like to teach women that your your hormone system, your endocrine system is like a four legged chair, you have four legs of that chair, and what happens if I saw if one of those legs so let's talk about it. So if you have four legs, you have your sex hormones, you have your cortisol, which is your stress, your thyroid and your blood sugar. So if I was to saw even just an inch of let's say, your blood sugar leg of your chair, what happens to the whole chair? The whole chair, but yeah, the whole chair becomes wobbly. The foundation that your chair sits on the floor that it's sitting on is your gut health. So the first thing that I like to talk about with women is you know, what, what are your digestive? What's your digestive health? Are you going to the restroom every single day? Are you going multiple times a day? Are you uncomfortable? Is there bloating? Is there gas? Is there cramping? Like what does that look like? Because we want to address any sort of gut imbalances or the gut microbiome first. But after that, then we really take a look at okay, let's see what we if we can figure out which leg of the chair is the weakest which one is causing the issue? I will tell you that you asked what symptoms do I see most I would say the majority of women are suffering from as a root cause, either blood sugar instability, or what we would call adrenal issues, which is a cortisol response issue stress, right? Stress, sleep, that sort of thing. Those are the two most common issues. But like I said, they can sort of pull on the other ones. So for example, in my case, right I am, my sex hormone, leg of the chair was the weakest, my progesterone was not producing itself in my own body, without supplementation, without help. So but because of that, it pulls from my cortisol in order to operate. And so what happens is, then I don't sleep then I start having night wakings and I start having a sort of a more severe stress response to things right, like the whole chair shifts. And so you can get to the root cause of that pretty easily through testing that is unfortunately not done in the most in the average doctor's office. (Lesley: Yeah.) And that's, that's something that's not talked about either, and I hope that in the next 10 years, this type of testing is is common. I hope every woman is getting it from the time they're in their 20s until they are entering perimenopause or menopause.Lesley Logan I agree. I think like, well, first I think more and more people are asking for like they're they're getting more acutely aware that like when they say, "We ran a panel." It wasn't a full panel. (Jenny: Right.) And they're also getting it's more and more people are understanding that like, "We actually don't know what the range should be for you." (Jenny: Yeah.) We they, they did a test on like, I don't even think it was a ton of people it was like I don't know, maybe 100,000 people is not a lot and then they took off it's like the Olympics they take off the bottom two and a half percent and the top two and a half percent and they go, "This is the range that that should be." But we don't know how many men were in that test, how many women were that like what that is where you need to be based on like the lifestyle that you have and like what you're doing and so like when I was told everything was in range. This other person who actually did like 200 tests my body he was like, yeah, he's like, "Yeah, your range by one point on your B12." He's like He's like," I have seen people like go suicidal on this." Like that is not like that's not you don't want to be that low, like you actually want to be up here like he's like you're he's like, "Yeah, sure you're in range on vitamin D by one point." Like I, he's like, "I should have you in the hospital, you're so low on these things like this is not okay." And so yes, it's so it's really important that we know. But I think also more and more people are becoming aware through the works of you and other other people out there that like, there are more tests to be done. And I think if the more people are being told you can advocate for yourself, you actually can say I need to have these tests done, it would make me feel really comfortable if I have them done. And you can actually go to a different doctor, you can like now I know insurance in the US is frickin nightmare. I am in the nightmare of it. And it is hard. But we have managed to figure out within the network, we're allowed to be in like, like we've been able to find people who will listen to us. And it that is a job. And it's annoying, and it's frustrating. But we get this one body, we get one, you know, so (Jenny: Yeah.) we can't just brush it off and go, "Okay, well, this is just the life I'm going to this is just how it's going to be." Like that you don't (Jenny: Right.) you all are here with such an amazing impact you can leave on the world. And if we don't have your energy at the normal levels, if we don't have you sleeping the right way. If you don't, then you can't be the person you want to be ever. So it's not gonna be possible no matter how many books you read, no matter how many podcasts you listen to, it's just not gonna work.Jenny Swisher Yeah, I like to say normal is not optimal. And so just because your range is falling into the normal range, just know that that range was determined by a broad, broad pool of people, like you said, and it's not determined by what's optimal. And so if you really do the research on what is the optimal range for D3, or for vitamin D? What's the optimal range for vitamin D? What's the optimal range for progesterone to estrogen ratios? Right. Those types of things, when you really, really dig into that a lot of times you see, actually my results weren't normal at all. They might have been falling into those into those wide ranges, but they're not optimal. And that's what matters. There's a huge difference in your energy between normal and optimal. The other thing I'll say ...Lesley Logan Go ahead. (Lesley: Oh yeah.) Go ahead. I just say I friggin love that ... Jenny Swisher The other thing that I ... yeah, you're fine. The other thing I'll say is, is especially you know, I mean, I have two young kids, I have a almost six year old and a two year old. And I see this happen so often that women especially will they know that their energy is off, I like to say that they know their check engine light is flashing. But because we're women, almost everybody else comes first, right? Our kids come first making sure that their lunches are packed, and that they have their doctor's appointments and that they're taken care of and, and sometimes we just think, "Oh, it's just me." Right. Like I just have low inner, I just need to go to sleep earlier, or I just need to do this, or I'm just not doing this. And we put the blame on ourselves, even though deep down. It's like no, there could be something functionally going on. And you have to make that a priority. You have to make it a priority to sort of number one, be you know, be your own best advocate and find the right person who will listen to you but also do the research to know what is optimal for me.Lesley Logan Yeah. Oh, we could keep going forever. I'm gonna have to have you back. I'm sure I think I'm gonna have a panel. Because I've had so many different women experts on here, I think we just have to have a whole panel, can just bring all the minds together, we're gonna take a brief moment, we can find out where we can follow you and listen to your podcast and all the other things. (Jenny: Awesome.)All right, Jenny, where can people get to know more information like dive in deeper with you?Jenny Swisher Yeah, so the first thing that I'll share is that I do have a free hormone imbalance quiz. So if you want to take a free hormone imbalance quiz to see if your symptoms could mean hormone imbalance, you can go to sync.jenny swisher.com, s y n c.jennyswisher.com. I can give you the link for the show notes as well. If you want if you want to hear more about me and the digital course that I offer and my podcasts, you can just check out jennyswisher.com. And I'm on all social media at Jenny Swisher.Lesley Logan Amazing, we'll have all those links down below. So it's really easy. So you can let... Y'all if you don't have to work your phone, you just swipe up the show, just go. And then there's the notes. And you could just click on the links. We were talking about this today with our team. I was like, "Oh, I always click the show notes, links." And my producer and my husband, "You do?" I'm like, "I'm not gonna remember the URL. I'm on a walk." So I'm just gonna (Jenny: Yeah.) like the things, email it to myself. But look at it later ... (Jenny: Yeah.) SoJenny Swisher Use the show notes. We put time into those so that you can make it easy for yourself.Lesley Logan That's right. We, people do spend a lot of time on those. Okay, BE IT action items. So bold executable, intrinsic or targeted steps people can take to be it till they see it. What do you have for us?Jenny Swisher Yeah, so the first thing that I would say, especially as it pertains to your hormonal health is track your cycle. You're only going to really understand the bigger picture when you realize that you are most likely not the textbook. So track your cycle. There's lots of apps out there that are being there. We have one that's actually in development right now for launch in January. But there's (Lesley: Cool.) tons of apps out there that you can you can find tons of resources on on that or you could even just be pen to paper. You can also just write down and journal your cycle and not just when your period starts or cervical mucus which is really important but also paying attention to those signs of energy. What am I feeling like where are the headaches coming on? Am I getting crampy around a certain time of the month. Am I, am I low energy at certain points of the month, because that's going to help you if you do that functional testing to compare and say, "Oh, well, this makes sense because this was low when I was low energy." Right. Number two, number two is find a functional medicine practitioner near you, or even someone virtually, and get the right testing done. You can also do, like I said, whether it's my course or someone else's course, and really just to sort of do the legwork that unfortunately, we should have been taught back in middle school, like really start to understand your menstrual cycle and what what should be happening on a month to month basis. And that'll help you get a better picture, especially when you're comparing that to your own journal. And then number three, and this might be a little bit I don't know, off off the beaten path. But I think this is a super common issue that I see with women, and that is, make sure you're eating enough. A lot of women are not eating enough of the right foods, and they complain about things like carb cravings, or they wonder why they're adding on the excess belly fat or the weight in the hips and thighs. And a lot of times it comes down to blood sugar regulation. And so if we look at are you eating enough? Especially, are you eating enough proteins and fats? You need all three macros to survive and thrive. So if you're cutting anything out, you're most likely going to be finding yourself binging or craving those things. I find that women, when women increase their protein, you want to be consuming at least one gram of protein per pound of body weight. So if you weigh 130 pounds, you need at least 130 grams of protein per day, I assure you, I have to focus on it to make it a priority for myself. (Lesley: Oh yeah.) So I assure you that but most women are not coming close to that number. So if you start to do that, you'll start to actually see where you're not craving the junk food and you're not craving the other things because your body is finally satiated. Doing that alone can stabilize your blood sugar. And like I said before, it's one of the most common issues for hormone imbalance. So if you can really stabilize that blood sugar, track your cycles, find a practitioner who can do this type of testing, you will be on the right path for sure.Lesley Logan Oh my God, I love all of these things so much. And you are correct. I heard that protein thing too. And I was like, "Oh, well how much protein am I getting?" And I was like, "I thought I was doing pretty good because then every meal." No, I wasn't even close to like 60% on my body weight. And (Jenny: Yeah.) so it's like, okay, well how to get more intentional? How we do this? And we even have my father sign over to all the ladies here. But like my dad has been trying to, he's 70. He's like, I don't really like, like this extra weight. If I, if I had a little bit less of it, it wouldn't hurt my knees as much. And what his trainer say. She talked about holistic doctor, and she said, "Make sure he is eating enough protein." She's like, (Jenny: Yeah.) "I would like to get him. If he wants to weigh this much. I want to get this much protein a day." And he looked at us he's like, "How am I supposed to do that?" (Jenny: Yeah.) And so we're like make a list of foods. (Jenny: take effort. Yeah.) Yeah, it's tough. Oh, well, we could talk all day, you'll have to definitely let us know when your app is out. We would love to share that. I am a big fan of like, anything that you can really truly track that makes your life easier for you to figure this out. It is life changing. It is so freeing in your be it till you see it journey. If you can go, "Oh, these are the weeks that I can go take action. And these are the weeks that I'm like, probably gonna want to look at the action I took instead of taking more." Even that simplicity is so freeing. So Jenny, thank you for your knowledge, your expertise, for your time, everyone. How are you going to use these BE IT action items in your life? We want to know. So tag the @be_it_pod, tag @jennyswisher. Let us know. Share this with a girlfriend in your life. Share this with a dude who has women in his life. The more we can all be aware of it, the actual, the faster we can change the way the world works as far as women's health and hormonal health. So thank you so much, and we'll see you next time.That's all I got for this episode of the Be It Till You See It podcast. 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As Gregg Braden says in his video, you don't have to go to Tibet to be monk-like! Right now, in your own home, you can be like a Tibetan monk, by using your breath and gratitude, to accomplish, on demand:Self-healingImprove immune function (SIGA response, white blood cells in your mouth)Improve awareness, intuition, and fast information retrievalRegulation of body temperature and production of anti-aging hormonesThe simple practice below causes coherence and sends different, calming and healing chemistry to your brain.Gently touch heart to bring awareness to your heart.Do slow breathing, 5 seconds inhale, 5 seconds exhale (when we feel safe, we automatically breathe slower).Feel as though the breath is coming from the heart.Feel any one of the feelings that create 0.1 Hz: appreciation, gratitude, care, compassion.It takes 72 hours to build the connections so keep it up!Braden, Gregg, Two Powerful Methods To Awaken Heart & Brain Connection, You Tube 18:04, July 14, 2021https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=gregg+braden+the+powerful+methods+to+awaken+heart+and+brain+connection+ Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.
When most people think about healthy living, they tend to think about eating whole foods, getting macronutrients like proteins and fats, and taking the right vitamins.And while those are all important aspects of health, minerals are often overlooked.Minerals play a huge role in our health and yet many women don't realize that they may be struggling with mineral imbalances.So in this episode, Jordan talks with Women's Health Dietitian and Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Practitioner, and mineral master, Amanda Montalvo.Together they dig into why minerals are so crucial for our health and how we can prioritize them for better health.If you're ready to learn more about your body and how to support your health, then tune in to learn:Why minerals are so critical for our health and hormonesThe role minerals play in thyroid and adrenal healthHow minerals get out of balance and the symptoms we may experienceWhat kind of testing can be done to check mineral levelsHow stress affects our minerals Steps we can take to start balancing minerals in our bodyReady to dig deeper? Explore more at hormonehealingrd.com.
This week, Britt chats with Mia Harris, a hormone nutritionist that helps women balance their hormones and create a healthy relationship with food and their body. She is a Registered Holistic Nutritionist that takes a realistic approach to health and wellness that doesn't involve restriction or deprivation. In this episode, Mia chats all about hormone balance and the role that balanced blood sugar plays in establishing a healthy hormone foundation. If you've been feeling;Irritable That daily afternoon slumpRelying on coffee for energySugar addictionAnxietyPanic attacksWeight gain...you may want to take a closer look at your blood sugar stability!If you struggle with blood sugar balance you will not want to miss this episode! This episode is jam packed with actionable steps that you can immediately incorporate for better blood sugar balance (and why you should care about it!) Episode HighlightsSigns of blood sugar instabilityHow Mia's health journey lead her down this path and finding balance with nutritionMia's past struggles with unsustainable nutrition patterns (and why balance is important)Symptoms associated with hormone imbalanceMia shares her viewpoint on why so many women are dealing with hormone imbalancesHow to support our blood sugar balance, nutritionallyThe pillars that she focuses on with regards to hormone balanceThe role that blood sugar balance plays in balanced hormones The role that stress plays in balanced hormonesThe importance of a healthy gut for hormone balance Why everyone should incorporate blood sugar balancing practicesSimple swaps you can make to every day meals for better blood sugar balance How to create a blood sugar balanced smoothies Why it is important to eat for joy and fun, as well as nourishmentWhy you should include breakfast with your morning coffeeThe importance of listening to your bodyNon-scale indicators of health status What blood sugar balance looks like and feels like Why the birth control pill is not necessarily the best solution for balancing hormonesIf you would like to connect with Mia, you can find her on Instagram at Connect with Britt
We've been led to believe by the mainstream medical authority that hormone optimization therapy can lead to dangerous side effects, but what if the studies actually show the opposite? A lack of awareness around hormone optimization is leading people to fear taking testosterone, estrogen and ferritin when, in reality, hormones support the body on multiple levels. So, how can we use these hormones to change our health for the better? In this episode we speak to Kenneth Wilgers MD, an expert in hormone therapy, to deconstruct the myths around this subject. 89-90% of knowledgeable doctors and functional doctors believe what's against the evidence. -Dr. Kenneth Wilgers Three Things We Learned How the current paradigm of phlebotomy is the cause of health problemsDoctors still encourage phlebotomy but what are the risks The importance of estrogen when attempting to balance and optimize hormonesThe average clinician still has no concept of the importance of estrogen, how is this still the case? Why testosterone is not the culprit behind health issuesTestosterone is still being blamed for an increase in Polycythaemia and Erythrocytosis, but what's the real cause? Guest Bio Kenneth Wilgers MD is the owner of Optimist VIP Health in Montgomery Texas, and Wilgers Clinic in Beaumont Texas. Alongside spending time with his family in Montgomery, Kenneth is one of the top optimized physicians on the planet. For more information, visit https://thewilgersclinic.com/.
Hormones are the internal chemical messengers that have a powerful influence on our mental and physical wellbeing.When your hormone levels are balanced, you will tend to have stable moods and feel energetic, motivated, and mentally sharp. But - when hormone levels are out of whack, you may experience a range of symptoms that are also commonly associated with mental illness like depression. There may be anxiety, fatigue, brain fog, low motivation, low libido, difficulty concentrating… the list goes on. And – often people don't realise it is the imbalance in their hormones that are causing the problems. To talk us through all this is Dr Nicky Keay – a hormone expert who has lent that expertise to the likes of the International Olympic Committee and regularly contributes to publications including the British Journal of Sports Medicine In this episode we discuss:What causes our hormones to be disruptedThe lifestyle factors we can adopt to get them in syncWhen we need to start paying attention to our hormonal healthThe key sex hormones - testosterone and estrogenTestosterone replacement therapy and HRT - pros and consThe importance of resistance training The dangers of excessive cardioWhy we all should be taking vitamin D supplementationWhy our sex-hormones need carbohydratesWhy hormones love routine So-called 'adrenal fatigue' Avoiding processed foodsSocial connection and its positive impact on hormonesThe perimenopause and menopause - and how to mitigate its effects Being proactive rather than reactive with our healthForth's private home blood tests are here: https://www.forthwithlife.co.uk/I hope you find this episode useful – if you do please can you share it – as that does make a big difference. **Follow/message me:Instagram https://www.instagram.com/simonmundie/Twitter https://twitter.com/simonmundieAnd for the 'Mundie on Monday' newsletter - featuring three of the best Life Lessons from three years and 200 of these conversations - head to simonmundie.com (where you can also drop me an email)Please do share this episode with anyone who may benefit, and rate and review wherever you get your podcasts. It makes a big difference and is hugely appreciated.***Finally, a huge thanks to my sponsors, Puresport. Their range of CBD and Nootropics supplements have had a significant impact on how I sleep, manage stress, and focus throughout the day. I can't recommend them enough. I have many friends and family who have tried their huge range of products - and now swear by them.CBD has been shown to have benefits for anxiety, inflammation, aches and pains - and it may even be good for long term brain and heart health. Puresport are paving the way in the natural wellness market with their unparalleled range of products. I am currently enjoying their Destress oil, with ashwaganda and the sunshine Vitamin D - ideal for hormonal health. Plus, their Female Balance: Hormone Health nootropic capsules are highly recommended.The good news is that Life Lessons listeners can get 20% off all full prices products with code Life20 at checkout. Head to www.puresport.co to check out their extensive range, their rebranded products... and to get your 20% discount. Enjoy! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Chile, this week we are talking about the relationship between libido and fertility. Many of us are unaware that our hormones and nutrition are important factors that impact libido and fertility. Tune in to this episode to discover how to get your nutrition and hormones together for improved fertility.In this show, I discuss the issues with fertility in women and how hormonal imbalance can affect fertility. Chaseedaw Giles and Dr. Columbus also share their expertise -Xo Raw GirlGet ready to learn:The link between libido, fertility and sexual healthHow hormones and nutrition come to play in the mixDoes a lower libido signify lower fertility?How life stages like menopause impact libido and fertility Impacts of estrogen and androgen dominance in womenHow mental stress and obesity in men can affect fertility Tackling diet issues that cause hormonal imbalance and affect libidoHow hormonal balance can arise from beauty productsThe benefits of exercise and vitamin-rich foods for sex hormonesThe dangers of birth control pillsWhy the quality of diary poses a threat to fertilityIs blood type an important factor?The link between hair loss and birth control methods Enrol for Staying Ageless 30+ todayFind me on Clubhouse @therawgirlCheck out Dr. Columbus websites: https://www.thehealthyheartdoc.org/ https://www.slavefood.org/ Find Dr. Columbus Batiste on Instagram: @hearthealthydoc and @slavefoodproject_ Find Chaseedaw on Instagram
In this episode, I have a fascinating insight into period pain with my colleague, menstruality coach, educator, speaker and facilitator Lisa de Jong. Lisa works in Ireland and helps women understand and work with the cyclical nature of their menstrual cycle for physical and emotional wellbeing. I was so touched that Lisa decided to share her personal journey with period pain, it's a sweet, tender conversation and you'll learn loads about how to manage period pain and the utter gems of wisdom that Lisa has gathered over the years.Using her personal and professional experience we explore:How life experiences affected the menstrual cycle How period pain affects identitySide effects of taking the pillHow cosmetics affect your periodThe systemic nature of hormones and wellbeingWhat to eat to balance your hormonesThe role of the gut in period health How to use the menstrual cycle as a strength How to manage a sensitive system and the gifts it can bringWhat helped in the journey to emotional wellbeingPlus Lisa's blinding top tip for a wonderful inner world, especially for people who experience pain.You can find out more about Lisa's programs and 1-2-1's on her site. Her online course Self Care and the Menstrual Cycle starts 24th January 2021.In our conversation we mentionedRed SchoolWomancode by Alisa VittiMayan Abdominal MassageLife Changing Bread I'd love to hear your thoughts on the topics we discuss, you can message me through Instagram or have a look at my website where you'll find a wealth of free resources.You will find the podcast on Spotify, iTunes and many more platforms soon. It would be wonderful if you would pop over to Spotify or iTunes to rate and subscribe to Life - An Inside Job to encourage more people to nourish their inner lives.MusicTrust Me (instrumental) by RYYZN https://soundcloud.com/ryyzn Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/trust-me-instrumental Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/KZoaU3rjIZoArtworkPortrait by Lori Fitzdoodles
It’s Fit At Any Age month on Women’s Health, where we’re celebrating women’s evolving health, fitness and wellness needs. And, of course, arming you with the tools you need to feel, perform and look your best - at every age and stage. This week we’re talking about the menopause and perimenopause - stages of life that have gone unspoken about for too long, and might not be as far away as you’d think. The perimenopause (where hormone levels drop, your periods become inconsistent and you can experience a tonne of undesirable symptoms including fatigue, low mood and forgetfulness) tends to start when women are in their early 40s. And, in the case of WH Editor-in-Chief Claire Sanderson, they appeared in her late 30s. In today’s episode she chats to GP and leading menopause specialist Dr Louise Newson about her disorienting journey into the perimenopause and the key lessons she wants all women on - or approaching - that journey to know. Here, they discuss how to spot the signs that you’ve entered a menopausal or perimenopausal phase, and discuss the actions you can take to get back on your game at what is - personally and professionally - such a key time of life.Follow Dr Louise Newson on Instagram: @menopause_doctorFollow Claire Sanderson on Instagram: @clairesanderson Follow Women’s Health on Instagram: @womenshealthuk Topics: Spot the signs of the perimenopauseTwo women share their perimenopause journeysHRT and breast cancer: how robust is the connection?Managing menopause without hormonesThe mental health impact of nosediving hormonesLike what you’re hearing? We'd love if you could rate and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts, as it really helps other people find the show. Also, remember to subscribe wherever you get your podcasts, so you’ll never miss an episode. Got a goal in mind? Shoot us a message on Instagram putting ‘Going for Goal’ at the start of your message and our experts could be helping you achieve your health goal in an upcoming episode. Or you can send us an email on womenshealth@womenshealthmag.co.uk. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
My guest today is David Hamilton PhD. A writer, columnist, speaker and author of 10 books covering the science of kindness, self esteem, and the mind body connection. He is the ‘Kindness Tsar’ and has been featured on Channel 4’s Sunday Brunch Live in the UK, and on CBS Sunday Morning in the US.We talk broadly about the subjects of kindness, self esteem, mind body medicine as well as his personal journey from organic chemist at a well known pharmaceutical company, to now having the courage and confidence to preach what he practices.On the show today we talk about:The placebo effectCultivated Inner self confidence and esteemManifesting physical changes in the body and brain with visualisation and mental exerciseThe antidote to stress hormonesThe virality of KindnessThe difference between toxic positivity and empathyKindness and Positivity as a muscle that needs to be workedI’d definitely recommend that you go and check out David’s selection of published books - covering Kindness, How Your Mind Can Heal Your Body and Self Love - all of which can be found here on his websitePlease do check out The Doctor's Kitchen website for full show notes and guest links and resources for this podcast. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
If you’ve been suffering with hormone imbalances that remain unresolved then the problem might actually be due to a histamine problem.Many are familiar with histamine as the mediator or allergic symptoms but few know about the interaction between histamine and sex hormones and how this hormone can cause female symptoms like heavy painful periods to global problems including gastrointestinal dysfunction, mood and memory problems.Naturopathic Physician, Hormone Expert and author of Hangry, Dr. Brooke Kalanick, explains this connection, how to know if you have a problem with your histamine and what to do about it. Key Notes:Factors that cause unbalanced hormonesThe connection between histamine and hormonesHow to diagnose if you have histamine issuesFoods to avoid if you have histamine issuesRemedies for hormone histamine concernsQuotes:“We love supplement one-shot wonders but they rarely fix the problem.” – Dr. Kyrin“Health is all about balance.” – Dr. Kyrin “Her brilliant health means being my own best friend.” – Dr. Brooke KalanickLinks Mentioned:Dr. Brooke Kalanick’s website - https://betterbydrbrooke.com/Guide To Lab Testing & Your Hormones - https://betterbydrbrooke.com/lp/lab-guide/ See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
The interesting thing about the body is that no matter how surface level our thoughts are about what is going on, or, what we want to change so it looks or feels better, you can virtually guarantee that it runs deep and that the cause is contributed to by an unknown number of factors and that solving it is often... tricky, even for practitioners. HOWEVER, one thing that many, many issues have in common is hormonal involvement, dysregulation or imbalance and if you can regulate those through diet and lifestyle factors then you are well on the way to removing this challenge from your day to day.. in many cases it makes solving the complex, kinda simple, if you know whats going on!On Today's Episode We Cover:How hormonal issues creep up on you and then have a compound effectThe impact of food on the hunger hormonesThe foods to eat to regulate your hormones--SOCIAL MEDIA--MONIKA EVAInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/mattylansdown/Website: https://www.monikaeva.com/--MATTY LANSDOWNInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/mattylansdown/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matty-lansdown-0bb76b61/Website: https://mattylansdown.com/--Got a question? Or maybe even a guest suggestion? Email through - podcast@mattylansdown.com--DOWNLOAD YOUR INTERMITTENT FASTING E-BOOK RIGHT HERE: https://mattylansdown.kartra.com/page/FreeIFeBook--Join the Facebook Group Here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/HealthHacksForHumans/--Thanks for checking out the show. If you enjoyed this episode and want to hear more then please consider subscribing. If you really loved this episode and want to just tell the world about it then please take a screen shot and share it on your Instagram story and be sure to tag me so I know you're tuning in. 5 star ratings and positive reviews really help the podcast too so thank you in advance!......Music credits:Intro/Outro track Tropic Love by "Diviners feat. Contacreast" www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoJfqJsGk8s
So it’s December…One of the biggest party months of the year with Christmas parties, gatherings, alcohol and sh*tty food. The temptation and peer pressure to drink and eat copious amounts of food is high, you don’t want to miss out on a “good time”.You stress about the calories so you restrict throughout the day so you can binge on alcohol and then binge on food to curb your cravings later.Sounds like a merry-go-round of f*ckery to me! One that I used to be on also.I remember up until 4 years ago, when this time of year came around, I would restrict my calories leading into the holidays because I knew that I was approaching a 2-week bender of binge drinking, binge eating and feeling like sh*t. My mentality back then was “So I can have fun, I need to restrict”. Not to mention I was completely unhappy in myself so I drank to drown my sorrows away.January 1st hit, the “New Year, New Me” set in and I thought all of that binging would be fine because I would start fresh the next year…While this was happening, my metabolism was f*cked, I wasn’t sleeping well, I was moody and my digestion was sh*t…Rather than enjoying the ‘most wonderful time of the year’, I spent the majority of it drunk and hungover.I now approach this time of year no different to any other day of the year...I do like to have the odd drink of a really nice champagne or a cocktail and I enjoy filling up my plate on Christmas day, but I do it because when I shifted my focus to getting better and healing, the decisions became easier to either not drink again or have one or two...not bloody 20....So should I drink? Well it really depends on your body and health goals and why you’re drinking? I used to drink to drink to numb my problems and pain. If I was sad or stressed I drank to cope. If you’re goal is to lose 20kgs, have serious hormonal or metabolic issues then maybe you need to really ask yourself does drinking align with my goals?In this episode, we discuss how we attack Christmas and how you can break the cycle of restricting then binge eating this year.We dive in to How alcohol affects our blood sugar levels and hormonesThe causes of binge eating at this time of yearWhat we used to do in the past, why it didn’t work for us and what we do nowThe advice we give to our clients when this ‘silly’ season arrivesNOW my body is now a well-oiled machine because I eat metabolically optimising food. Food that makes me feel bloody good such as liver, oysters, carrot salad, OJ, milk, sugar, fruit, potatoes, butter and the list goes on.I now feel like I can enjoy food, rather than feeling like I need to binge on it and binge drink because in the past I only got to eat yummy food every now and then...the rest of the time I was restricting myself, killing myself doing cardio and ruining my body.So with all of that being said, stop restricting, this leads to feeling unhappy and anxious at this time of year. ENJOY yourself, eat good food, when you restrict it leads to binge eating...it isn’t worth it and you only feel like crap then next day which just begins the cycle all over again.
Join Aimee as she speaks to Dr. Melissa Rupp, a Chiropractor in northwest Iowa who has struggled to balance her hormones and painful periods since she was 12 years old. Hear how she changed her diet, went on a thyroid regimen and finally got pregnant after years of infertility and grief. You'll also discover the important roles that the Creighton Model and Natural Procreative Technology played in Melissa's journey to becoming a mother.Melissa also talks about the amazing organization that she belongs to called Guiding Star, that helps thousands of women on the journey to reclaim natural authority of their own bodies and family planning. On this episode:Melissa explains why she believes that the pill is partially responsible for her infertilityWhy the pill was developed and why it could be doing your body more harm than goodThe importance of listening to your body and understanding that it's okay to question something or someone, even your doctor!What endometriosis is including common symptoms to look out forMelissa reveals why she believed she had an issue with her thyroid and the steps she took to reverse some of the issuesMelissa shares the heart-breaking story of getting pregnant despite being told she couldn't ovulate and dealing with the tragic miscarriage that followedHow Creighton Model charting can help enhance your chances of becoming pregnantHarmful toxins found in everyday products and how they can disrupt your hormonesThe steps Melissa took and changes she made to her lifestyle that eventually lead to her becoming pregnant with a healthy baby daughterIf you want to find out more about Melissa and her journey through balancing hormones, removing harmful toxins from her body and having her daughter, you can check out Melissa's inspirational blog that details the entire story.Did you enjoy this episode? If so, please don't forget to leave a rating and let me know your thoughts with a written review.To keep up with this podcast, please subscribe to the show to make sure you never miss an episode! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/aimee-carlson0/message
Join Aimee as she speaks to Dr. Melissa Rupp, a Chiropractor in northwest Iowa who has struggled to balance her hormones and painful periods since she was 12 years old. Hear how she changed her diet, went on a thyroid regimen and finally got pregnant after years of infertility and grief. You’ll also discover the important roles that the Creighton Model and Natural Procreative Technology played in Melissa’s journey to becoming a mother.Melissa also talks about the amazing organization that she belongs to called Guiding Star, that helps thousands of women on the journey to reclaim natural authority of their own bodies and family planning. On this episode:Melissa explains why she believes that the pill is partially responsible for her infertilityWhy the pill was developed and why it could be doing your body more harm than goodThe importance of listening to your body and understanding that it’s okay to question something or someone, even your doctor!What endometriosis is including common symptoms to look out forMelissa reveals why she believed she had an issue with her thyroid and the steps she took to reverse some of the issuesMelissa shares the heart-breaking story of getting pregnant despite being told she couldn’t ovulate and dealing with the tragic miscarriage that followedHow Creighton Model charting can help enhance your chances of becoming pregnantHarmful toxins found in everyday products and how they can disrupt your hormonesThe steps Melissa took and changes she made to her lifestyle that eventually lead to her becoming pregnant with a healthy baby daughterIf you want to find out more about Melissa and her journey through balancing hormones, removing harmful toxins from her body and having her daughter, you can check out Melissa’s inspirational blog that details the entire story.Did you enjoy this episode? If so, please don’t forget to leave a rating and let me know your thoughts with a written review.To keep up with this podcast, please subscribe to the show to make sure you never miss an episode! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Hey everyone! This is a fun and hip podcast today about essential oils in the bedroom! Since you couples are about to share a holiday together - we figured we would bring some content to support! :) On today's podcast we discuss: What is libido? How can you change or support it?Benefits of sexual intimacyHormonal support to boost libidoSupplements and essential oils to help boost hormonesThe three forms of estrogen: the good, the defenders (phytoestrogens), and the ugly (xenoestrogens)Herbs and foods to support libidoMen and libido healthAphrodisiacs and libido Interested in essential oils? www.thepaleomama.com/essential-oils And here are the show notes: Intro: 00:09 Welcome to essential oil healthcare radio. I am frank. I am a certified physician assistant and I'm Jackie Ritz. I'm an herbalist and lover of essential oils and we would love to bring to you this podcast about herbs, essential oils, supplements, all these ways that you can live a natural life. So stay tuned and listen to us and we'll be bringing to you lots of content on essential oils using herbs, using natural remedies to take care of yourself in your family. Intro: 00:37 Hey and welcome to today's episode where we get to talk about something kind of edgy, but that's okay because that's just how we roll. This is essential oil healthcare radio and I'm frank. This is Jackie and we are going to talk about how to spice up your life. This episode is dropping at a and during the same week, actually a Valentine's Day. So you may want to look for some ways to help impress your significant other in ways that you know, only you can, but anyway, we wanted to give you guys some additional tips and things that we haven't talked to with many folks and also kind of came up with ourselves over the course of the time that we have used, you know, nutrition, essential oils and some of the other great herbs and supplements and things like that to really make sure that although I'm 40, I'll be honest with you, I still feel like I'm in my teens. Intro: 01:31 So I think Jackie would be happy to also Frank:
It is with IMMENSE joy that we welcome one of my greatest mentors at the moment, Dr. Stephen Cabral, to the podcast! You all get to witness my own first interaction with him, including my story of how I believe I manifested this interview before I even had the idea for a podcast. Dr. Cabral is a wealth of knowledge and one of the most generous people I know, simply in terms of how much free health information he shares every single day on his own podcast, The Cabral Concept. As a Board Certified Naturopathic Doctor and founder of the Cabral Wellness Institute and StephenCabral.com, Dr. Cabral has not only helped over 250,000 people worldwide to rebalance and re-energize their body, but claims himself as his first and greatest client. After being diagnosed with a life-altering illness at 17 and given no hope for recovery, Stephen traveled all over the world and discovered how to combine ancient Ayurvedic healing practices with state-of-the-art Naturopathic & Functional Medicine to fully heal himself along with all who have since come to his online and Boston based practice. Through the use of Functional Medicine lab testing and Personalized Wellness Plans, Cabral and his team help people rebalance their mind and body to recover all forms of “dis-ease,” including auto-immune, thyroid, fatigue, hormone, weight gain, digestive, childhood, mood, skin, and dozens of other hard to treat health conditions.His mission is to help people understand that there is always a reason why you have not achieved your ideal wellness or weight loss goals and that you can and will get well again!Click Here for more about Dr. Stephen CabralEpisode HYElights:Why you shouldn't keep guessing, and just start testingThe case for functional medicine lab tests, and why annual blood work just isn't enoughWhy we need to stop asking for permission to take our health into our own handsThe difference between a functional medicine detox and your typical “cleanse”How giving ourselves ultimatums is the root of self-sabotageHow the timeline should be less relevant than the end goal when it comes to our healthWhy the liver is the secret window to your healthHow to empty your “rain barrel”How all forms of stress impact hormonesThe impact of birth control Why a clean diet and exercise will only take you so farThe importance of becoming “self aware” and finding your authentic self to be truly happyAnd literally SO much more! You'll just have to listen :)~SUBSCRIBE for clickable links!~The Rain Barrel Effect by Dr. Stephen CabralThe Cabral Concept PodcastAnatomy of The Spirit by Dr. Caroline MyssThe Idiot's Guide to Ayurveda by Sahara Rose KetabiFunctional Medicine DetoxFunctional Medicine Lab TestingIntegrative Health Practitioner// Follow me on IG < --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-hye-life-podcast/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-hye-life-podcast/support
Dr. Mariza Snyder is a chiropractor whose expertise is in functional wellness for women, specifically around hormonal health. She is the author of 7 books, including her newest, “The Essential Oils Menopause Solution.” Today, Dr. Mariza shares her healing journey and how the inner drive that pushed her to achieve all her goals also led to many health issues. Dr. Avanti and Dr. Mariza also dive deeper into the stories that are attached to women's menstrual cycles from an early age and how this affects how women view their hormonal fluctuations negatively. They also explore why a woman's menstrual cycle is the 5th vital sign and go through the four phases of the cycle. Dr. Mariza also breaks down easy steps to begin healing your hormones and how to tap into the power of each phase!Today on The Healing Catalyst:How Dr. Mariza's childhood trauma led her to becoming a hormone expertDiscovering a lineage of hormonal imbalanceHow environmental factors, nutrition, and mindset affect hormones3 simple ways to begin balancing your hormonesThe four phases of a woman's cycle & tapping into the power of eachNutrition and activities for each of the four phases of the menstrual cycleFollow Dr. Mariza:IG: @drmariza Website: www.drmariza.com Book: The Essential Oils Menopause SolutionPodcast: Essentially YouConnect with Dr. Avanti:Sign-up to become a founding member of The Healing Catalyst Collective and access resources for this episode.Subscribe, Rate and Review: The Healing Catalyst podcastWebsite: avantikumarsingh.comAvanti's Book: The Health CatalystInstagram: @avantikumarsinghPodcast: avantikumarsingh.com/podcastThe Content is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always seek the advice of your physician or another qualified health provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition.This show is produced by Soulfire Productions