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So we've been looking at studies and diets and society and practitioners and books and podcasts
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listening to these protocols that were literally designed for men. The scientific studies were
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done on men and here we are as women. Why do you guide women to investigating that? Everything
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is bio individualist so it's really knowing you but first thing is to if you still have a cycle
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is to track your cycle and I think that menstrual cycles are a vital sign. They really are the
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window to what's going on in the whole body. Yeah it is life worth and it's honestly it's such a big
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you know I think about like overall metabolic health and cellular health and then number two
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is to be paying attention to your cues, your symptoms, your signs, what's happening for you
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and tracking that alongside of your your cycle to get a sense of oh what's normally I used to
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always feel amazing in this part of my cycle but things are shifting or my PMS symptoms were only
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two days leading up to my period and now they kind of like they just keep it keeps going and going
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to like seven eight nine days. You mentioned something that I heard called bikini medicine right
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so we're living in a world right now where there's finally okay we've looked at women's bodies
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all wrong. The bikini medicine is that we are inherently small men except for when it comes to
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our reproductive organs and our breasts. Sometimes the feeling of going to work is like I get to go
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with my dearest friend. I'm so excited to have you here Dr. Marissa Snyder thank you for coming
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to Root and Wellness. I'm just so happy to be here. Literally when I met you I was like where have
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you been all my life. Yeah it was like you know divine intervention. Yeah they're indipitous. Yeah
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to be. All right so to kick things off Root and Wellness is all about becoming rooted in our very
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busy and modern world. Let's start off the show by talking about some things that help you feel
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really rooted in your health and yourself and your inner wisdom to heal. What are some practices
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that you have? I'm right out the gate in the morning. I wake up and I do a body scan. I just
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check in with my body. I start from the head and go all the way down and just check in with my heart,
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my mind, my presence and then I do a little meditation to kind of just get grounded with my day.
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There's a great quote by Luis has Luis Hayes that says how you start your morning is how you live
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your day and how you live your day is how you live your life and so there were years where my morning
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was chaos controlled chaos and but then my day was controlled chaos. Did you normalize control
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chaos too? Like for me that was like oh I'm being productive this isn't good. Efficiency. Efficiency
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totally. Your slight edge. Yeah until it's not until it wears on your body over time and so
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I just I'm very intentional about attuning to my body and a question I love to ask myself
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every morning is what would I love? What would I love? Beautiful. Other things that I love is
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well what what I love in terms of rooting is cuddles with my son connecting with my son that
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oxytocin boosts but just connection. I just think friendship family but particularly he's such a
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light being like being with him just feels so rooted. Should our boys together? Yeah that would be
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so good. Yeah it's funny that connection is the most self-regulating thing that you can possibly
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do and now you know the joke is that we always wait for science to vilify everything right up
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and out the eight minute hug at first thing in the morning like just hold for eight minutes and
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take a deep breath and like just notice your physiology shift. So I love asking this question to
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everyone that comes on because the emphasis is to point out that we're all different so as
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much as we're looking for things to help us feel rooted in the exterior world what might help
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the listeners feel rooted could be different and unique so thank you for sharing that. That's
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beautiful. Love the body scan. Okay so on the opposite side. Here we are. We love being busy,
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being on the go, being productive. What are some things that cause you to feel uprooted?
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And I know you as a practitioner you can probably catch on to the things that were part of your
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dysregulation in the past so talk to us about what causes you to feel uprooted. Particularly for
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me or even for what I see is the overdoing. We can overdo health. I remember when I was healing from
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what felt like chronic fatigue when I was in my early 30s. I was I felt like I was checking
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all the boxes. I was doing the yoga. I was eating the anti-inflammatory foods but it was it was this
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checklist and yet I was so deregulated in the doing of all the things and I feel even in a lot
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of the health practices that we talk about and that we recommend that particularly women who I
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get to serve is that well we we overdo extended fasting. We we overdo extended workouts. We you know
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we overdo and so I think again not attuning to our bodies and listening to what our body really
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needs in the moment that we lose our way and in just the in the doing of health that may not be
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attuned to what our bodies actually need. I love that. I know you and I we both talk a lot about
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in the overdoing it's the belief that it has to be so complicated but I think that when you pull back
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and I'm sure you've noticed this with your patients it's often the most simple acts repeated
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with consistency over time that bring the most results right. It's that 20% instead of the 80%
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sometimes and I love that you said that too because when I was at my unhealthiest I was doing all
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the right things two hours at the gym atkins diet hard core busy working out like everything but
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it sounds so stressful. So it's stressful yeah and we talked about this on your podcast your
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amazing podcast about this concept of dysregulation in the body and I think that for women and men
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but there's this wisdom and if your body is constantly stuck plugged into this like high intensity
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frequency it's like this high voltage electricity every single day how on earth could your body
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function at its best right yeah yeah I mean we can get away with it for only so long exactly yeah
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it feels good yeah for a minute for a minute when we're younger I want to take a quick break from
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space where wellness finally makes sense join today at monasharma.com I think that it would have been
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very different for both of us if growing up as much as we were taught as women that busyness
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productivity was success if we were taught how to regulate our system in between what a difference
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or if we were taught that we were worthy just being who we are on this planet I think I felt like
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my worthiness was predicated on how much I did how I showed up for my family how I was selfless
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in terms of you know taking care of everyone first before myself but my family only ever celebrated
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my accolades it not just me being who I am and that's one thing that I've been so mindful of for
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my son is just letting him know that he is worthy just being just being funny I say the same
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things to my kids that I wish I had heard you are enough just the way that you are you are special
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never try to change yeah and do you feel like in this kind of shadow work are you still unpacking
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oh yes today absolutely absolutely every day I feel like it is my I would say it's my underlying
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operating system yeah and I get to say well this is my purpose and this is my mission you know and
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there yeah I feel like I think it's going to be the work that many of us will always get to do
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I love that and that's actually a really good segue into
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hormonal shifts and something that I love that you talk about is it's kind of like the acceptance
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like the awakening moving through paramanopause and menopause which I'm trying to learn from other
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people around me see ultimate acceptance for like no more BS this is who you are it's okay to
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like let all of your true colors shine and something that I know as one of your goals is to
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help women become healers in their own home according to who they are in their constitution and
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their blueprint which I think is so special so let's dive in first by talking a little bit you
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mentioned something that I heard called bikini medicine yeah right so we're living in a world
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right now where there's finally okay we've looked at women's bodies all wrong we've you know we've
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studied men only and we've assumed that women needed to go through the same protocols as men
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talked us a little bit about this concept and kind of the awakening that's happening right now
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absolutely well I'm sure you know we didn't really start mandating research for women until the
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1990s it was like 1993 so you know this is like in our lifetime that this has happened and I actually
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just had my physical exam a couple weeks ago or about a month ago and you know your primary doctor
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especially for a woman who's 45 like me they have their checklist and labs are part of that and
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your vitals are a part of that but it's very bikini medicine so I they want me to do the mammogram
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they want me to get the pap smear right and so bikini medicine is that we are inherently small men
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except for when it comes to our reproductive organs and our breasts and that's the only distinction
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and so when you think about kind of the standard of care for perimenopause or even you know for a
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lot of women going into their doctor's office it's going to be birth control pills to manage a lot
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of those symptoms and and that's that's making a very you know unfair assumption that our hormones
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these whole body hormones are only reproductive hormones and that they just impact our reproductive
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organs and our breasts and we know that this is so far from the truth and so that's basically
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what bikini medicine is and unfortunately women have suffered the consequences of what I call
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lazy medicine so we've been looking at studies and diets and society and practitioners and books
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and podcasts listening to these protocols that were literally designed for men right the scientific
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studies were done on men and here we are as women you know we're talking about this before the show
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but I'm doing all the right things I'm doing the workets and the cold plunge and the sauna and
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the reading and the rest and the red light why like I just don't feel good in my body and I love
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that you're an advocate for helping people understand or women if you feel like a stranger in your
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body then there's room to do a little bit more research so how do you guide women to investigating that
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and I can imagine there's probably patients of yours who have a bit of resistance like no but
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you know doing all the right things no but my doctors said my labs are are totally fine how do you
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do with that resistance yeah and if we're talking about particularly this transition of perimenopause
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which again is a you know on average eight to ten year transition and I saw something recently
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you said that's not a transition that is a career that's a career it's a big it's a big part of our
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lives it's one of the biggest hormone transitions and shifts we're gonna go through and so what
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you know again everything is bio individual as you and I talked about and so cold plunge especially
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if you have a deregulated nervous system it may not be the thing you know and so it's really
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knowing you but there are three things that I always recommend women to really know your body
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first thing is to if you still have a cycle is to track your cycle and I think that menstrual
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cycles are a vital sign it really really are the window to what's going on in the whole body
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literally life force yeah it is yeah it is life and it's honestly it's such a big you know
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I think about like overall metabolic health and cellular health and when our metabolism is healthy
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and our cells are healthy well then we are really right for reproductive you know health and
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reproductive health span but as you know as we're winding down in perimenopause what's happening
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the second puberty really pain attention to our menstrual cycle is going to give us a lot of
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information about our bodies and then number two is to be paying attention to your cues your
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symptoms your signs what's happening for you and and tracking that alongside of your your cycle
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to get a sense of oh what's you know I normally I used to always feel amazing in this part of my
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cycle but things are shifting or my PMS symptoms were only two days leading up to my period and now
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they kind of like they just keep it keeps going and going to like seven eight nine days and so
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and then the other thing I think can really help to support and kind of give us some information
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is knowing our numbers our biomarkers and so again there's something to be said about listening to
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our deeper intuition but then also kind of you know tracking our kind of health biomarkers over time
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to get a sense of what's what's true for us so you know some lab numbers normals may not be your
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normals but if we don't have a timeline of that information it can be hard to know and so I
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always recommend women you know not only understanding their labs as I get I know it's not easy and
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we you know we grew up in a time where the doctors knew all and we we really want to you know kind
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of give them that role in our lives but you know an unfortunate truth is that no one's coming to save us
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especially us as women we're talking about mama it's like I'm saving everybody else you know and so
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I think having that information over time that I can look at daily monthly annually can really
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help set the course of how I'm feeling and how to optimize that we'll go back to the biomarkers
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like if I'm putting myself in as as your patient right I think that in the way that we hear about
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paramount of puzzle symptoms it feels like it should just like oh here it's happening this is it
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right but often through our hormones they're the most subtle messages in cues from our bodies that
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can often be cumulative so I'll share my story I want to hear yours also but finding out that I
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was going through paramount applies actually came through my acupuncturist who I went to see for
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some shoulder issues and he's like oh we have frozen shoulder and I was like oh no no that that
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can't be it's just it's from working out or just twisted it the wrong way it's frozen shoulder and
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it's like you know what I can put you on Chinese herbs you can come back for all the acupuncture
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in the world but this is one area where as a practitioner I wouldn't be serving you if I didn't
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tell you that you should have started estrogen a while ago because you're going through paramount
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applies tears like what do you mean and I'm sharing this story because I think if there's anyone
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out there like me I resisted it there's no right of passage when women make these transitions
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you know no longer having children anymore or like hey I'm not going to be pregnant again now
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we're going through paramount applies and what I'm seeing out there in the media is the doom
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and the gloom and it often paramount puzzle symptoms sounds like you know when you watch a drug
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commercial and at the end of the commercial beside effects you're going to suffer from this
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hair falling at moodyness irritability loss of sex drive loss of muscle you know just the list
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goes on and on and so the doom and gloom so I think what I'm trying to say is in the subtleties
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of the symptoms that you might be experiencing maybe just come to terms with the fact that they're
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not normal and if you have a doctor like you who hasn't kind of helped you unpack all of that
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it's time to find the doctor that will and like I think it's just it's becoming the wild west too
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understanding what to do hormonally and what hormones to take so what part of your journey
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kind of put you down into this path and did you feel served by your medical community at the time also
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well what really started me on the journey of paramount applies was watching my mom
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go through paramount applies and I always say it was kind of like a nightmare unfolding my mom
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really struggled she had the side of all the side effects and especially towards late paramount
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really heavy heavy heavy bleeding severe mood swings brain fog insomnia hot flashes I mean the
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the list went on and on and she just really struggled I think when as a woman you're you're doing
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life and you're handling all of this you have a lot of capacity and you're used to having
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capacity what I always say is you're not having to negotiate with yourself and then in pairing
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medabytes you kind of are having to go you're like whoa like I I'm having a really hard time doing
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the things that I used to do pretty effortlessly and it can happen very quickly sometimes women can
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fill that shift in like six months or maybe sometimes it takes a lot longer and so I was watching
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my mom go through this and I was watching you know initially she kind of wasn't queuing me into
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what she was doing and her standard of care wasn't great and so I remember thinking two things one
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is this gonna happen to me number one you know because we wonder how much is genetics and how much
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is like is this my fate and the number two I just I broke my heart to see how she was failed at
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every corner in this journey and so when I was stepping in I was actually I went from post-partum
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to pairing menopause so there was really no pit stop in between and um you know post-partum
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in its own right kind of feels a bit like parry and menopause because it's a low hormone state
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and you know you're not sleeping and move any mamas who've been through post you they know
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and so I really didn't have much of a buffer between post-partum and parry but I remember I
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I was 43 about to be 44 and again you're talking about the subtle signs all of a sudden I didn't
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have as much resilience um I noticed my stress tolerance wasn't as tolerant I didn't have as much
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of it um I noticed my brain wasn't firing the way that I was used to and I um my I have low thyroid
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functions I take thyroid medications that was the first hormone I thought hmm this kind of feels
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like maybe my thyroid needs a little bit more support so you know it ran all the labs and did all
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the things and um was trying to optimize that but still was struggling and so I was like hmm what
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so it's so funny I was going down so many rabbit holes I was running all the labs I'm like oh maybe
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I have a little bit of inflammation or maybe it's this and maybe I've been pushing myself too hard
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and then I remember three months in a row um seven days prior to my period starting I had rage
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and the first month I was like hmm this is interesting second month I was like oh it's back
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and the third month I was like this is perimenopause that's what this is that's this is a hormone
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shift that is consistent and that's kind of how I knew that I was in it so hovering on that because
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so many symptoms often we take those to the doctors and they're like oh just try this medication
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try this supplement try going to bed early or nothing or nothing or nothing or I think it's
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all in your head yeah or go figure it out doctors put me on testosterone pellets therapy which I
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shared with you before breaks my heart and it just put my entire system into overdrive and it was
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so intense that like I felt what it was like to be a man for a few days because the levels were just
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way too high and it was a band aid you can't regulate and with a woman's body like we need
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things are subtle and nourishing and this was like rocket fuel into one direction and then rage
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like zero to 100 so let's talk about what's causing those symptoms to happen insomnia brain fog
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weight gain rage what's happening in the body absolutely and so as I mentioned it's not
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bikini medicine it's a yes and it's whole body changes but one of the the one of the organ systems
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of our body that has the most profound reorganization and you'll see this in Dr. Mascone's work
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particularly in her book the menopause brain is that the brain is massively reorganizing
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progesterone it's actually made in the brain known as aloe pregnant alone but also estrogen is
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known as the master regulator of the brain she is the CEO of a woman's brain and so you can imagine
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going to this you know eight to ten year time where the brain is used to estrogen on the daily
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and is used to rhythmic estrogen that is not only you know it has estradiol peak on day 11 has
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another little peak on like day 21 so the body has been running this cycle in rhythmic dosing of
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hormones for decades and then and so the brain is very reliant on this it's running glucose
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metabolism it is helping in terms of being fertilizer for the brain it's reducing inflammation
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it is helping the brain to fire on all cylinders and so as estradiol is inconsistently binding to
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the critical receptor sites of the brain all of a sudden we start to feel this massive shift
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and that's when we begin to feel these brain related symptoms and I would say 80% of peri symptoms
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are actually brain related hot flashes night sweats insomnia brain fog depression anxiety
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low stress tolerance all of this is brain and so when we start to like lose that estradiol signal
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the brain is kind of desperately clinging to when it's going to come into play it's kind of like
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dating a boyfriend who's just constantly ghosting you you know and you're like
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call me back you know you're just you know so that's what it kind of feels like a
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estradiol in the brain and the also progesterone too is playing a big role here in how GABA
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production is and how GABA is binding to receptor sites and so we think about PMS symptoms
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that's usually a decline in progesterone that's having an impact on neurotransmitters like serotonin
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and GABA so we feel again more moody more irritable more stressed hot let lack of stress tolerance
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and so yeah these are these are whole body hormones are having a profound impact not only on the brain
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but our metabolic health our gut health our our stress response system our cardiovascular health
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they mean everything our our our muscular skeletal system where we see frozen shoulder in
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hip pain and and then also inflammation too and so we I do it's a yes and I always say that
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paramedic pause is a window of vulnerability and a window of opportunity so we get to be discerning
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about what is right for our bodies and we get to decide that our health is deserving of being
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the number one priority oh my gosh why don't we ever done that right well we we are forced into
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well we we're given a choice in these moments these symptoms are a calling they're they're a
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a beautiful signal to say hey I really need support I really need to be nourished and loved
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and given you know given the the care and consideration that you've given everyone else it's my turn
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just the irony of all that though too like imagine this woman if we were to really take this on as
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a badge of honor because it makes no sense right self-care in your mid 40s being the number one thing
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no you've got so many responsibilities in your career in your family in your left one your kids
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it's laughable it's laughable like how self-care usually drops down here yeah but I like you I believe
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if self-care goes to number one you can show up in the world for everything else and you can
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tune into the symptoms from the body to help understand what you actually need so what you're
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talking about then is this neural inflammation that's happening to the brain yes part of it is
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okay you know the lot of the newest research is showing that parry menopause is a not only a
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neurotransition but a neuro inflammation state but you think about how many of us come into parry
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into midlife with a little bit of inflammation a little bit of insulin resistance a little
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bit of glucose deregulation and the brain you think about come to the hungry as organs of the body
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you know really needing a lot of glucose to function or a lot of good metabolic health when we
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see ester dial begin to dip or inconsistently binding to receptor sites of the brain all of a
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sudden we see an increase in inflammation in the brain but another part of the body as well and so
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can this be mediated and mitigated absolutely but there just needs to be an awareness and so
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that's why I think there's so much you know it's having its moment is that it deserves their
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deserves to be an awareness it's not just aging aging's happening at the same time we're running
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in tandem so we have hormones that are declining and we have aging happening but inflammation is
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really at the kind of at the root of a lot of what's going on couldn't agree more with that
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and here's where let's talk about where to hover then so if you're meeting with a new patient
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she comes to you and you know Dr. Marisa I have got inflammation my bowel movements are completely
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different I have way more anxiety I have porcelain my hair is falling out my triglyceride
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score is my insulin is just like looking completely different than ever before my labs
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and I'm doing all the right things on paper what's going on where do you start
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why I would start with I'd run a I'd run a full lab panel I would really love to understand
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what is going on and I would you know when I think about like say reading the tea leaves you've got
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a you know say it's a woman particularly I want to look at labs just see if there's anything
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I'm missing or any gaps that I need that I need to fill in that I don't see or don't know
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too I want to really understand the symptoms and the history but then I also want to understand
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what are the goals what's the desires and they take all of that into account and then start
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looking at the day to day like what's really going on you know are we rushing our meals you know
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are we leaving leaving a predominantly sedentary life like you know is stress really the driver of
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so much of what's going on and so I really want to get into the nitty gritty of what's happening
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because if you know again yes gut is the center of a lot of our health our healing hormones are
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also running the show and so with cellular metabolic health but I also want to know how are you
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driving the day because again I think about hormones in particular as being they're they're doing
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the best they can with what they got in the moment that they're in they're really being driven by
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you in a lot of ways and so that would be the first step is kind of looking at all of those pieces
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and then really doing a deep dive into how she's living her life or how they're living their life
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and going from there but nutrition is always a big piece circadian rhythm optimization is a big part
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of this self-care is huge supporting the gut through nutrition and supplementation and if a deeper
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gut healing protocol is necessary then we'll go down that road but yeah I mean I would be looking
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at thyroid for hair loss there's just so many pieces there that I would be looking at but ultimately
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how are you living your life is what I'm most interested in there's two things that I'm going to
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take away from that that I think are so key so the first one understanding your biology it sounds like
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this is something that you do with all of your patients what I think this is the coolest thing about
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modern medicine today is like the data that we can get based on your physiology but what I'm hearing
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too is no matter what your symptoms are maybe you decide what are the two three four things that are
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really causing me the most suffering that's probably an area for you to really own in on or like
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to zone in in terms of creating a protocol for them and you talked about so gut neural inflammation
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vagus nerve nervous system and stuff like that isn't stress something that depletes or
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progesterone over time stress depletes everything over time stress deregulates your blood sugar
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stress depletes your nutrients stress pokes holes in your gut stress I mean get with a list the
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stress will throw your cycle off I always say you know the kind of consistently our worst cycles
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will be January of every year because of the stress of the holidays we were talking about the
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first quarter yeah yeah exactly you're like woo goodness and so I find you know if there was
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an underpinning driver the most insidious kind of silent killer or driver of inflammation is
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always going to be stress so that's why I always want to look at that and so when women come to me
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so a lot of the things I hear from women will say well I want you to know that I'm not lazy
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I want you to know that I have been doing everything I want you to know and I what I see in
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in the labs and in the history is how how poorly deregulated she is you know trying to do
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all the things and and you know driven by beliefs driven by lack of worthiness and so I'm like okay
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a part of this journey is going to be deeper work a part of this journey is the pause you know
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am I giving you a to-do list of more things isn't going to help you you know reregulate your nervous
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system and so it's always a part of the protocol it's like how do we how do we how can we integrate
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breathwork how can we integrate walks outside in nature how can we integrate maybe maybe therapy
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maybe internal family systems getting to the root of some of those beliefs that are driving
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behavior part of the journey is the pause we need to make that go viral it is have you ever been
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able to take an app to rest prior to doing this work were you or that person no no I um I was the
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girl I was a woman who timed everything I timed everything I timed out quickly I get pump gas
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I timed out quickly I could go to the bathroom I timed out quickly I get to shower and I would
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improve on those times I could tell you how quickly I can get to the beach from my house right now
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and I could tell you that I can I have about a minute buffer you know so like I can get to my from
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my house to the beach and back to my home in 18 minutes and sometimes like just to get to see the
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ocean and the surfers out there and to get to walk to the beach and home I'll take that 18 minutes
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but there are definitely days where I deserve to luxuriate in that walk and watch the surfers for 10
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minutes you know and so you and I are going to be great friends because we have the same history I
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would take so much pride in my schedule right then we have the external world validating you know
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flow state use every second be productive every second of every hour get more done and
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um noticing that that was probably the biggest detriment to be feeling even more stress um keep
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it on the timeline but it was that feeling in my body it also it's also it feels addictive it's
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so addictive I used to say um it was my slight edge that's what I called it I didn't know I was
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stealing from myself the whole time I didn't know that I was up love like up regulating adrenaline
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and or up enough ran and even cortisol to like kick into gear to get there first you know I would
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I would find myself doing something leisurely like going to the park but I would want to rush to get
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there like yeah like gosh for bed I don't get there you know and I'm like I'm just going to relax
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but I have to be there by a certain time like I just felt like I was always I call you know
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rushing women syndrome oh totally yeah yeah I was the what's next okay what's next we did this
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yeah future future feeling and I was like oh gosh please don't let me do this to my son
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yeah I love that we're kind of hovering on this because it's our lifestyle factors that are
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really detrimental to our hormones and you and I have a dear friend Dr. Mindy Peltz and
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something that I love that she says is that women are living at a generational mismatch
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for where we are within society today we're taught to do so much in this external world but our
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physiology was actually not meant to do that but we move through these cycles right and even
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throughout our cycle we're designed to practice different activities in order to bring balance
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into our body and our physiology for it to function yeah I always say that everyone loves including
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ourselves day 11 us everybody wants day 11 us right we were vivacious energized high-estor
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dial peak right we are you know loving nurturing more intimacy we're just we're just kind of at
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our highest high our brain is firing right that our brain's like yeah I'm fleshed with Esther
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dial but then no one you know we have many times that we beat ourselves up where we're a day 26
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us or day 27 us and never gave ourselves permission to just go inward and to be with ourselves not
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push the hard workout you know not push the the inner the big intermittent fasting you know whatever
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that looks like and I remember I would just be so mad at myself right leading up to my period because
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I couldn't do the heavy workout and not that I still didn't do it I pushed through it but I was like
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man you just kind of you kind of sucked at that like and I just I had no idea no one had taught me
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that this was a time to just one listen to my body my body is like can we not do this
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why do we have to do this today like can I we just go for a walk can we just slow it down
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and you're like no this is the only path you know and so it breaks my heart how much we beat
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ourselves into submission and just beat our bodies up trying to like you know meet the demands
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of what health is supposed to be or how we're supposed to look and it's been so damaging to our bodies
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ah that just feels so good to hear you say because I think the message for women is what if we
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could just have radical acceptance for where we are today and the things that our body needs today
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not tomorrow not based on a timeline of things that have to get done and if we normalize that in
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society the shift that could happen for women not only in productivity but in happiness also and
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ease so on that note can we talk about some of the beautiful things that happen you know I love
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being around our friends who are in their 50s and 60s and beyond like those women who are saying
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just wait just wait it's coming so can you talk a little bit about the intuition the creativity
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what happens when we tune into the wisdom of our body and this obvious this intelligence that's
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within us absolutely I think one we get to be discerning which is so nice we get to decide what
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our energy what we want to put our energy towards I think that and I think the sooner we can learn
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discernment about what we if it's not a full body yes it's a full body no like the earlier we get
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to learn that the better um boundaries hmm I would you know how often where we just boundary
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less you know or we grew up in boundary less families and you know we get to an age where we're
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just like no I have boundaries that I'm setting I think that becomes so just such a big superpower
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and then you know connection like soul sisterhood you know just really having those deep relationships
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I think becomes so big and then trusting ourselves in our wisdom and just knowing like I
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I feel good I feel comfortable in knowing me in knowing what I want and trusting myself in those
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decisions so I think that that is the ultimate north compass is that your your trusting yourself
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is always going to lead the way so you keep putting your hand over your heart speaking I wonder in case
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people are listening instead of watching and um what you're making me think of is all of those
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gifts so you're intuition setting boundaries coming into your body what I talk about in my
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world is moving from the critic brain or the judge brain into your your heart right the emotional
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body and it's almost like well you're if you were in your emotional body then you would awaken
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those pathways anyways of creativity and wisdom because when there's no judgment there's the
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freedom to just be right do you have a heart practice every day you said a body scan first thing
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in the morning is that something that you recommend to your clients I don't know if you've done
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heart math yeah I love heart math and I love um well I'm not even track heartbeat variability but I
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also um I think that's the first step in my my every day morning practice is my heart I have a heart
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basically a heart meditation that I do just kind of come through and that's why that's why I love
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that question of what would I love you know how often are we asking ourselves what would I love like
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what would my love come through be or what would feel good you know versus you know what what do I
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have to do or what do I you know it's so it's a different come through and man it just shifts everything
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to me but also when we come from our heart yeah the judgment fades away our inner critic or even
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outer critic towards others um tends to just melt away as well and I think when we're able to
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with love and lead from our heart um I just everything softens our conversations all of it
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can you imagine going to your doctor's office and in the waiting room you do a heart coherence
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meditation before you go into say your doctor which means that you kind of come into your power
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your superpower or wisdom or kind of just like holding your own ground before you go into
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speak to somebody who's gonna dictate at you right I just think that there's so much power in
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that so thank you for for talking about that so when our clients do go to the doctor yeah
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I work with so many people and it's funny I put a survey out to my community talking to them
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about something that they want to know more of and can you not probably like
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dozens of dozens of answers saying I just I'm doing all the right things my doctor won't
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check certain labs my doctor says that this is the way that it is when I'm in my 40s or 50s and
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just to accept it it's like women are still suffering despite the education that's out there so
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let's do part one what are the specific labs or biomarkers that you tell your clients to look for
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and I'm gonna go ahead and preface this with if your doctor will not run these labs you better
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find a doctor who's your partner in healing yeah well the beautiful thing is today there's so
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many direct to consumer lab companies too you still want someone to help you interpret those
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but you really can go and get your labs ran which is so nice so I'm so grateful and then we also
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live in a time of bio observability you may laugh I've got a whoop on yeah I've got a continuous
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goop goes on and on right now I'm putting mine on tomorrow and I think okay it's a yes and in terms of
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I listen to my body and I like the data I you know um sleep for me will make or break me it just
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it will that's you know I had a couple brain injuries two summers ago and ever really ever since
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and I don't know if it was brain injuries in Perry or or what but um sleep is one of the
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greatest things that I can give my body like I know that for sure and I also just love to kind of
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make like obviously check it in the morning and see how energized I feel but then I also love to
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see it on the I like the data too so I think there's nothing to be said about that and so again
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it's one of the ways that we can be bio observable we talked about earlier menstrual cycle you know
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maybe we're in a garment or a or a or a whoop strap if that would be of assistance and then like
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you know maybe quarterly or annually we put on a continuous goop goes monitor just to kind of see
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you know yeah even if you don't wear it every day right yeah I think every woman should just
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wear it to test and heart rate variability too yeah yeah I mean so I love more than
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I think I look at more than anything is my sleep my my stress because it looks at stress and real
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time on the whoop which is very very enlightening for any of us but I look at HRV and resting heart rate
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every day that's really the markers I'm looking at the most of like how can I have autonomic nervous
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system control so that I am calming my nervous system if I know that I have complex PTSD and there's
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a lot of trauma that I'm still healing how do I how am I intentional about regulating myself
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mainly because I want to feel peace in my body but I also want to be able to be a very peaceful
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mama for my beautiful boy who's for who needs mama to co-regulate him and so I want to show up
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for him not only me but also him so funny how our children are our greatest teachers in the sense of
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like oh yes it's look at how you know look at their need for regulation why wouldn't we have a
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need for regulation yeah so bio observability and then labs so let's get in the labs again
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kind of the standard ones complete blood panel with differential right let's take a look at your
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your white blood cells your blood cells your platelets all that next is lipids and there's gonna be
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some lipids that are standard here and then not so triglycerides LDL total cholesterol HDL but
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also I'd love to see a lipoprotein little A and I'd love to see an APO B now if you can't get
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the lipoprotein little A or the APO B fire your doctor now I'm kidding no I would look at
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disease prevention especially once we're in if we're talking about women even after the age of
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35 but mostly mainly after the age of 40 like we need to know this information if heart disease
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is the number one killer of women more than men why aren't we looking at cardiovascular markers
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like like the ones that really move the needle now if you can't seem to get those two kind of
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specialized markers I always love to divide triglycerides over your HDL and get a ratio that'll
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really one of the best ratios for cardiovascular health or risk is that and I always want it
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basically under a 1.5 ideally under one when it starts creeping past two or more then I start to
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I mean obviously I'm looking at everything else but that is a great marker not only for insulin
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resistance but for cardiovascular health and those those will always be included in any lipid panel
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triglycerides in HDL divide your triglycerides over your HDL and you'll get that ratio okay so
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that's your lipid panel and then your inflammation panel so vitamin D, uric acid if we're looking
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at cardiovascular inflammation, homocysteine, sed rate and fibrinogen also highly sensitive CRP
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so those are your inflammation markers blood glucose markers are going to be fasting obviously
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fasting glucose is always going to be in the metabolic labs fasting insulin so we know that
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fasting insulin can dictate insulin resistance and other metabolic issues a decade prior to when
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it will ever show up on your fasting blood glucose and then get a hemoglobin A1C because I'll do it
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anyway and then what I would be looking for I want a full iron panel so iron ferritin just looking
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at all the saturation so many women you know due to deficiencies or maybe even you know heavy
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bleeding or dealing with anemia so I want to see that especially if low energy is a situation
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a full thyroid panel so not TSH and T4 free T4 I want free T4 free T3 reverse T3 I want your thyroid
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antibodies I want to look at everything if I can get magnesium and b9 a full 8 and b12 I'll take it
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I will always take it and then see what else would I love and then hormones I mean if I would let's
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let's do it so ideally we're testing hormones seven days after ovulation or before your menstrual
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cycle that way we can capture progesterone but run all of them the full testosterone panel progesterone
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estrogen let's look at early morning cortisol and that's the other thing about labs try to run
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them as early as you can so we really get a sense of what what fasted labs are but I would say those
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trying to think if I've missed anything those would be my my base that's my basic panel I love
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in okay so there's so many things I want to go back to first of all insulin and glucose right so
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you're wearing a glucose monitor I'm putting one back on because that's one of the markers that I've
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seen shift despite having a really beautiful diet that's high in fiber and protein and good fat
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something is shifting within within me there's also a genetic precursor for me there you go and as
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well as my estrogen which is going away yeah a lot of my family has diabetes and prediabetes
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the the Mexican side of my family and so when I ran my genetics that is the ultimate precursor
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is keeping my eye on that and so I do believe that blood glucose and insulin which we don't have a
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way of measuring insulin in real time our blood glucose wearing a continuous glucose monitor will
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be the best indicator of kind of how insulin is shifting as a response to our daily life but I
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ultimately I think it's the ultimate biomarker of our longevity and so I I love I love wearing I
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put them on I've used to put one on every quarter but now it's every it's probably twice a year
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give or take I want to just make sure I'm keeping with an optimal range and it's so amazing how
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much we can shift our our fasting insulin and our blood glucose into optimal range so we have
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good metabolic health and I can go over the five big metabolic markers we went over a couple of
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those but there's so much that we can learn about wearing a continuous glucose monitor in terms
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of our sleep our stress our movement what obviously what we're eating every single day all of that
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is playing a role in energy metabolism it's the one thing that really like people the first
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question for me is Mona what do I eat what's the perfect diet your perfect diet is as unique as
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you so I put a glucose monitor on them with new clients probably every quarter to really help me
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identify which foods are great for the metabolic health in which ones are not serving them and like
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nine times out of 10 unless there's deeper stuff going on they'll notice an improvement in their
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sleep an improvement in their energy throughout the day an improvement in their mental focus I also
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do some like food allergy testing and stuff like that maybe a look at my microbiome stuff but yeah
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and do you use levels I love levels yeah I love Casey I love levels yeah I that's one of the
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first things I do as well I think if I can optimize metabolic health cellular energy we are winning the
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game because everything is driven by cellular energy and mitochondrial energy production so if I
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can get that under control and manage the stress piece we are winning and then and then we can talk
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about the optimizers the hormones and all of that right and so but yeah for women I you know if
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even I mean we think about polycystic ovarian syndrome which is often at its core insulin resistance
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as well and so if we see younger women struggling with a bit of insulin resistance or just glucose
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you know deregulation you can imagine as our hormones are not rhythmically running the way that
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they're normally running we start to lose that estradiol capacity it's declining we start to see
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an up shoot in insulin resistance and then belly fat and body composition changes and and you know
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no woman wants that you know we can handle the mood swings and a lot of the things when we start
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to see the weight gain come on because we start to lose our metabolic was a little bit of our
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metabolic resilience due to loss of muscle insulin resistance declining hormones we're like okay hard
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stop what do I do to get this back under control and to me optimizing metabolic health is always
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one of the best keys to doing that hard stop and maybe let's unlearn that that's the opportunity
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to go hardcore because women are just like oh I'm gonna work out more I'm gonna die at more I'm
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gonna not sleep as much I'm gonna go more hardcore no more hardcore just listen to your body
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all right for our women who maybe are not having a regular cycle if you're looking at their hormones
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through blood do you use Dutch tests you could use a Dutch test absolutely you know and I
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I'm a big fan of both serum hormones and Dutch tests the reason why I love the Dutch test is
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that I get a look at the pathways and I get a really put together the pieces so it gives me a
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lot more information but I'm always really mindful with my with the audience that it's expensive you
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know and so I'm my so can can you mostly go to your you bring your list of labs you want to your
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general practitioner and see what you can get especially if you're in your 40s majority of what I
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ask for I suggested they will run they'll you know and if you have a if you can make a case like I
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you know especially with your symptoms that would that could that could dictate those labs running
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but yes if I've as a functional doctor and you're working with me personally and we've got some
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financial wear with all like I'm running the Dutch test yeah and I'll say to the Dutch test which
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I love it's like reading it's uncovering you know the secret to four knocks it's impossible to read
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as a practitioner not all doctors know how to read them or decipher them or make a protocol based on
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it so you need to find the right doctor there's a company called endo access have you heard of them
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I'm going to send you details so they basically created a system on the back end where
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your entire Dutch test just goes through and it creates a protocol to help you understand all of
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your unique pathways and your deficiencies so that you know what to do after that so yeah I love that
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I love it so much yeah so you mentioned when we're thinking about these deficiencies within our
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body another woman that another one that women experience moving into paramount deposits estrogen
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dominance I want to take a quick break from today's episode to ask if you know that stress
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doesn't just feel different for everyone it affects your body in unique ways based on your hormones
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as well can you talk to us about what is estrogen dominance what does it feel like within the body
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what are some symptoms to look out for absolutely so estrogen dominance is when I and we can
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call it unopposed estrogen I love it and often it happens more in the luteal phase where we we've
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got progesterone she's the queen bee right we have significantly more progesterone ideally
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especially if we have ovulatory cycles if we're having an ovulatory cycle so skipped ovulation
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ovulation is the precursor to progesterone we can't have progesterone without ovulation
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this is why I feel like a patriarchal medical system or health care system where we made the
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periods the main event ovulation was always the main event and so I just want to take a moment and
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just celebrate our ovulatory cycles and most women like there's no clue around when they're
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ovulating what the symptoms would be how to celebrate it like there's none of that really I
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would say it wasn't until I was trying to get pregnant and I was trying to track when I was
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ovulating or when I did a touch test and I was trying to track when I was ovulating again instead
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of like the internal wisdom of my body such a disservice yeah such a disservice we're changing that
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I think about our our ovulatory cycle it's not even called an ovulatory cycle but it is truly a
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super power so ovulation is the precursor so that corpus ludium is a temporary
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integrin structure that releases progesterone in alludial phase and progestation right so
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if you if you do get pregnant that hormone is going to help you maintain that pregnancy
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and so it's no surprise that it's the first hormone to to leave in our some for some of us in our
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mid to late 30s it's every woman is a little bit different how we would even know that progesterone
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is beginning to decline before astradial is you know kind of a way we would know let's say natural
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menopause happens anywhere between 45 and 55 years old and so we just reverse engineer that but also
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I always tell women ask your mom hopefully she didn't have a full hysterectomy and perimenopause
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because that is still the second most common surgery surgery in women today but it definitely
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was in our mom's era so I I talked to so many women who's like well my mom had hysterectomy
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which was 45 due to due to fibroids due to estrogen dominance so it's usually due to fibroids
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and obviously other reasons why we hysterectomies are are performed but if your mom went through
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menopause at 52 you're probably going to go into menopause around 52 years old and then if
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perimenopause is at let's say 10 years used to may start to notice the symptoms at like 42
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but for some of us it's earlier I know women who go into menopause at 48 49 47 and so
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that kind of information could be so helpful but progesterone is the first hormone to start to drop
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and so astradial she may still be hanging on also we live in a very toxic world not conducive
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for a happy optimized hormones and one of those is you know estrogens in fragrance
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BPA cleaners nail polish flip flops plastics you know yes yoga clothes we'll not call all the
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names out of the yoga clothes but clothes that I see every single day in in my class in my
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Pilates class in yoga class and then even even receipts and things that you don't even think
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that are so innocuous nail polish makeup I mean the list goes on and on lotions and so there's
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so we're adding to that astradial burden a little bit so as progesterone is she's dropping
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and the liver it's usually a yes and it's getting a bit overburdened due to life
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we start to see the kind of this increase in astradial is estrogen metabolites and with
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estrogen in particular as phenomenal as she is we need to use it and lose it it's kind of we're
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circulating and detoxifying estrogen 24 seven but if the liver is having a hard time
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the liver and the gut it's having a hard time moving and safely excreting estrogen out of the
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system we will start to see symptoms of estrogen dominance or unopposed estrogen in our body
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again it's another symptom of a lack of efficiency within the body because the resilience is off
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yeah right yes yeah god I think and I'm pointing that out because so often we're looking oh
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it's estrogen dominance okay I've got a label I've got something to fix yeah to fix right
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to pull up yeah I'm so much more than that I wish I could I wish we could say that these hormones
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operated in a silo they do not they do not operate in a silo but and if you're wondering well what
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00:56:58.160 --> 00:57:03.520
does that even feel like it's heavy periods painful heavy periods maybe cramping it's weight
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00:57:03.520 --> 00:57:09.040
distribution really thick weight distribution hips and thighs it's your boobs get a size bigger or
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maybe they feel ropey and heavy right before your period maybe even the entire luteal phase
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of pain on what's going on it's fibroids you know which again blood maybe hopefully you know
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notice but 88% of us will have fibroids before we get to menopause and it's usually in this kind of
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wonky or early even early period menopause phase where we see that that this like ratio of
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00:57:32.560 --> 00:57:38.000
progesterone to estrogen is just off and then if the if the gut and the liver are not able to clear
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fast enough and again the exposure of those toxins it kind of just burdens the system
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are guiding us just looking for thyrites actively is this part of the common dialogue when you're
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going for your yearly pap are they are they looking no no it's symptom driven exactly yeah it's
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symptom driven yeah so again I think it's like the ownership the tape we can take away is to ask
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questions like really do ask questions when you go in because for me especially if I come back without
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00:58:03.200 --> 00:58:07.040
your labs are normal it's normal everything's normal they won't do the investigation
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they don't know what's alive it's pathology driven and also they won't if you wonder why your doctor
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won't run a lab it's because they don't want the liability of having to review it
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so like I don't run that like they just don't know they don't want the responsibility of not
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knowing what to do with it whatever any of the takeaways from today's episode are write them down
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pen to paper and take all of your concerns to your doctor and get an answer that you feel
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really comfortable and satisfied with and if you don't love it um that time where I was I was kind
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of perimenopause was happening um but I had hit that the whole time that I was going through that
616
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I had two major concussions and so that kind of just that you know and none of it's in a silo
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inflammation was high and I remember running labs many times in those six months it was around a
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six month period that I was just really in it probably one of the sickest six months that I can
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remember was right before I turned 44 um my son was two and a half years old you know and I
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remember going back to my because yeah we have it's really great insurance and I'm like if I can
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run my labs you know in the insurance system rather me paying for them out of pocket I will you
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know if you can if not I took it out of pocket as well and I can order my own labs but again
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my as well insurance do what it does I remember going in and asking for a number of labs again
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for inflammation and um I wanted to see my iron profile my thyroid I was just staying really
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on top of it and she looked at me dead in the face and she said you know you've been dealing with
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this a lot of this year and you don't still know what it is she's like you know it basically she
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was putting the blame on me for not figuring I'm like that is why I'm here I don't need you to
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look at my labs I don't need you to interpret my labs I don't need you to just run them I'm asking
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you to run these and I'm not trying to get anything from you and I just couldn't I was just
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saying they're just so dumb struck I didn't I didn't expect anything from her I knew she couldn't
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figure this out I I knew that for sure I knew that I needed more information to figure it out for
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myself but I just I was like this is so many women's experiences we are blanks it's your fault yeah
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it's your fault oh yeah so you're going through a pyramid of us do that yeah same thing
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I'm so sorry to hear that no I know it was just um I oh I mean I I am my demographic you know and I
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always want I want to be in the lived experience of what so many women are dealing with as well and
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so when I was in that lived experience I was like hmm there it is this is it she is blaming me you know
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so in that understanding when you do go to your doctor looking at those labs maybe do you
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consider doing something like a mycotoxin test I don't know I run these often with a lot of my
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clients uh to your intestine to really understand what toxins could be lingering within your body
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to your point when my symptoms were at their worst I was dealing with major mold and so like what
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am I going to address first my hormones or the mold and the toxins within my body first I need to
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support my liver so my liver can actually do its job right so doing further investigation and
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I want to go back to like doing an audit so if myself and Dr. Marisa were in your house with you
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let's do an audit together let's go through your kitchen anything that you wouldn't want us to see
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throw it in the trash your body if it doesn't know what an ingredient is neither with your
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with your body go through your personal cleaners we're talking about that we're talking about your
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personal care products when my health was at its worst I was working at Christian Dior's
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lathering my body in perfume every single day breathing in the toxins every day full face of
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makeup with toxins and chemicals and colors and dyes and perfumes it's no wonder that I stop
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getting my periods during that time so doing audit there's so many cool brands out there
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and products that are safer cleaner pure safe rest to be using on our bodies and if it's not
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everything just get the 80 percent yeah just get the in and just upgrade over time of you know what
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01:02:06.000 --> 01:02:10.800
it looked like 10 years ago for me is very different when it looks like today but yeah just
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get upgrade once your clean products are out upgrade the cleaning products you know take your shoes
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off when you walk it before you walk in the house those you know vacuum and dust regularly have
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plants in the house as well and and then if you know in terms of upgrading if you can afford air
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purifiers and ultimately water purifiers and the other thing that I and and and move everything
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to glass move everything to glass no plastics no plastics at all so those are the things that I
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think about kind of those first easy steps to move and then yes absolutely I mean one of our rules
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I think 98 percent is that we make everything at home from scratch and we I I have a very full
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life you know as a mom and as a career woman and I know that food is is probably the biggest
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lever that I can pull from my family and if that means more time in the kitchen well that's
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what it means it's just more time in the kitchen and I'm okay with that their new rituals once you
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adapt to them and it becomes a ritual with your family at home and your schedule then it happens
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with a lot of ease yeah I don't think most people understand how easily we absorb our environment
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through our skin until you've done something like a dermal medicine or a patch which leads me to
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bio identical hormones yeah which are like they've been not a not a game changer a life
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changer I feel like bio identical hormones have given me a part of myself back that I haven't seen
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in since before I had my kids so let's talk about this yeah I started with an estrogen patch now
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I'm using a cream with progesterone and I'm sleeping better my energies better my mood is better my
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brain fog is decreased I'm putting less effort at the gym and I'm feeling more gains within my
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body tell us about that and I hope you go into the fear also that exists around them let's face it
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the impact of stress is the worst I haven't trying to keep up with everything from work and businesses
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family time kid schedules gatherings and let's be real I am not on a consistent wellness routine
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mean that's what we're running on we are running on ester dial and for gestural we're also running
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on thyroid hormone and in cortisol and there's a lot of hormones that play but as I talked about
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from the beginning of this interview with you is their whole body hormones and oh my goodness what
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a light bulb moment when you bring them in now I will say that ester dial isn't going to walk you
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outside ester dial isn't going to you know you know support you know give you a anti-inflammatory
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nutrient dense diets like there's a lot of lifestyle that is at play it's no perfect red pill it's
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like I know it is it is sold as like the magic bullet and in so many ways bringing those hormones
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back online for us or maintaining them so that they never go offline I think is a game changer I
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think we all deserve them I believe that we deserve every tool in the toolbox I should have
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preface that in conjunction but yes and yes please and so I'm it's so interesting I'm on I'm
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on progesterone I I have brought ester dial in a couple times but I then become a bit estrogen
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dominant a little unopposed estrogen and so I am actually at a holding pattern where we're
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waiting to bring estrogen back in and especially when you're bringing in ester dial patches or
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creams or whatever that may be still you got to you got to support your liver in your gut you always
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make sure whether you're putting a patch on or you're still making it yourself you always want
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to be supporting and so I took a pause with ester dial personally until I really it's so funny
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when you think you're supporting your your detox pathways and you're like oh this is interesting
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I maybe I need to support them a little bit better you know and so it's it with parian
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particular it's it's a little bit and that's why there's no standard of care for this like
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when it comes to it's birth control that's what we're doing instead which are synthetic hormones
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at higher doses that turn off your cycle and and the obviously there's a time and place and you
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get to decide but I think it's important that we have informed consent but with bioidentical hormones
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like estrogen and progesterone we're really just filling in the gap of what we're slowly losing
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over time which I think is beautiful and so I think for it's everyone is a little bit different
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in terms of it's for a lot of us it's going to be symptom driven and then and then labs will help
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to dictate that as well but just know that symptoms are really going to be dictating when is the good
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time for you to start for some of us it's going to be 42 some of us going to be five 45 some of us
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could be all the way to 49 48 and so working with a practitioner who really understands hormones
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01:09:28.000 --> 01:09:34.000
it's going to be mission critical here but that also is really open to being on the journey with you
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the whole time you know it's not a set it and forget it solution like it's going to need to be
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titrated and kind of optimized for your body and life circumstances happen where it may need to
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01:09:46.240 --> 01:09:51.920
be titrated again so again listening to your body that's why I said track your cycle track your
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symptoms look at those labs and then based on that the protocol will be created to kind of really
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help you just ease this transition with grace this is really where I'm excited in you know now there's
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all of this awareness around women's hormones and the research that's also coming out around
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the bioidenticals and longevity in cancer prevention yeah cardiovascular prevention
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dementia prevention bone loss prevention general urinary syndrome prevention I mean the list is
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long insulin resistance prevention potentially I mean again you can't drink frappuccinos all day
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and then put on a estradiol patch and it fixes everything it's a yes and but yeah we're and so I
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say once you get them on get on them as soon as it's it's it's viable or it's it's for you
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01:10:39.840 --> 01:10:44.880
and again that can really range in the perimenopause journey and then ride them to the wheels fall off
739
01:10:45.760 --> 01:10:50.480
yeah and I'm hearing you know this really it needs to come with the disclaimer that every woman
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is different there's no cookie cutter hormone you start at this age and this is what you take
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and that's the formula for you because it should be different so finding a doctor again who's
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really going to help you in the journey I think is so important and I hope we find so many more of
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them I love that women are just having a voice in this area right now all right we covered food
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we covered toxins we talked about sleep we talked about metabolic health you and I love moving
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our bodies it's part of our prescriptive health and I I get this lived heavy but I also think that
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it's about honoring your constitution and different types of movement so are you prescriptive in
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this area for women no I am not I mean I think resistance training is is helpful in terms of
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muscle and bone protection but I kind of where I'm landing right now is move as much as possible
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whenever possible but any kind of movement honestly whether it's walking or it's Pilates or
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it's dancing particularly around metabolic aliveness what I have found optimizes your metabolic
751
01:11:52.720 --> 01:11:59.200
labs more than anything is a movement and movement that's punctuated punctuated throughout the day
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I grew up with the myth that as long as you did the one workout you were done remember the 20-minute
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workouts yeah yeah I love 20-minute workouts too but I think you know doing squats doing 10 squats
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every 45 minutes is more beneficial than that 30 only 30-minute walk in the morning and so
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I'm just a big proponent of being physically active just moving your body as much as possible
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movement is life and the more that we can be moving especially outside in nature or just outside
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in general I think is the ultimate biohack and if you can do it with a matcha and you're bestie
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01:12:37.040 --> 01:12:43.600
yeah better still yeah I say it's just like your nutrition but diversity is just key
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variety and diversity just move your body in different ways and I remember yoga teachers saying like
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you know there's no need to lift heavy and you know there's this thing with woman like I need to
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lift heavy I need to lift heavy I think it's so important you and I have talked about our mothers
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and their their health but also I've had the most fit buff men in their 40s 50s and 60s in
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some yoga poses and they're shaking like they're shaking holding these poses so there's
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them there's a lot of power in the subtle movements also absolutely yeah and there's a lot of
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power in if you don't have time for a 15 minute workout or a 45 minute workout or whatever that
766
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may be like you just your life is so full I used to think that there wasn't value in a little
767
01:13:25.760 --> 01:13:31.360
five minute here a little three minute there and there is way more value than we ever imagined even
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01:13:31.360 --> 01:13:36.960
better value than the big workout like if you do that big let's say hit workout or you know
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string training workout but then you sit for six hours you're basically it's discounted in a lot of
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ways and so I'm a big fan I love exercise snacks yeah yeah I'm all upstairs for three minutes
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I'll do jump squats with my son in the in the kitchen we just I build in these little exercise
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snacks throughout the day so if I can't like today I was in the car super early for this and
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I didn't do the workout early this morning and so when I get home later tonight I'm just going to
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be punctuating movement throughout my afternoon and evening and it's a way exercise yes I love that
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term do you have a rebounder I do yes and that's again three minutes on the rebounder that's
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good and then get back into the meeting you know five minutes outside walking outside for five minutes
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yeah maybe some a voice memo to a bestie and then back at it like I just I love to punctuate my day
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which is with as much movement as possible and the one big thing I've walked away with that
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at the open intended is that I feel more energized especially you know you start a computer
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too long and your brain just just like it's like you can't even read the words on the screen anymore
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and so your body's like can we can we get up can we do a little something and so that to me is
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moving throughout the day and if you get outside even better still there's so much incredible
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things that happen when you just trust your bodies it's 20 minute workout is even more impactful
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than being in a 60 minute hardcore yeah oh yeah 20 minutes all day yeah yeah yeah especially
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with huggies yeah I mean if you got an autoimmune condition or your your your easy like you you
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have had a deregulated stress response system overtraining is not it you will burn out so quick
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and so I always tell women 20 to 30 minutes you can get so much done in 20 to 30 minutes you know
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that maybe be your big main workout and then just build out many movements throughout the day
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for the rest of the day and most importantly if there was ever a time to move it is after meals
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gentle movement walking walking stairs after a meal I mean I have seen this time and time again
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looking at continuous glucose graphs I've looked at so many graphs and it's amazing how quickly
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you can get your blood sugar back into range make it a ritual with your family yeah
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before you put the dishes away and go for a walk yeah and love it you'll be honoring your
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mitochondria and your circadian rhythm at night too there's so many benefits to doing and supporting
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your digestive system helping to calm your your emotional well-being I just there's so many like
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and getting to spend time with your family instead of in front of a TV or whatever I mean that
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connection is invaluable love it all right I could talk to you for hours and hours if we're
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going to close things up with some rapid fire questions oh yay yay okay so what is the best thing
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that we can do for hot flashes what estrogen noted what's the best thing that we can do if we
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struggle with weight loss I would say balance your blood sugar balance your insulin and and move move
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your body what's the best thing that we can do for low energy that's such a good question I would
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also say movement as well but gentle movement and yeah I would yeah those would be my two things
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that I would recommend what's the best thing that we can do for mood swings oh self-care honoring
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yourself taking walks by yourself just just time to yourself yeah maybe understanding yeah right
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yeah that's the best thing that we can do for fatigue the number one thing I would do for fatigue
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is balance blood sugar the number two thing I would do for fatigue is optimizing circadian rhythm
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so going to bed at the same time and waking up at the same time just getting on that circadian
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clock I find is so beneficial for our overall mitochondrial health are you out in the sun for
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seeing the morning I am yeah I'm up at the same time every morning I'm outside in nature every
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morning after my meditation and it's incredible like my body is just my circadian rhythm is programmed
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around a 930 bedtime and I six o'clock wake time and then I'm outside for about at least five to
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seven minutes be and then I have time to myself for probably an hour and a half before my
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sun's awake I think start training and understanding your circadian rhythm and really focusing on that
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as a zone of healing is also going to be the future of health care I agreed yeah agreed and it
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may be hard at first as you're kind of recalibrating but your body so wants to be optimizing that way
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and I've noticed such a major energy shift in my patients we didn't talk about adaptogens but
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adaptogens are such a big area of opportunity from an irovetics standpoint from the ashram using
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herbal teas throughout the day so healing and therapeutic do you have two or three adaptogens
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that you love I do rodeola is probably my favorite I love that's the golden root right talk about
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firing on the brain and supporting the stress response system buffering stress throughout the day
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I love rodeolids a little bit of an activator so I recommend it in the morning I love holy basil
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I love holy basil tea and so that's a very that's one of my favorite adaptogens at night before bed
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a Tulsi tea is so good and then my other one that I love is scissandra again I love that it is a
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just a very vivacious adaptogen it helps to kind of center me but also gives me a little boost
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I know a lot of people love ashwagandha that's a big one but scissandra and rodeola are two of my
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absolute favorites for the morning keep your medicine cabinet open with all of these teas right
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you can cycle these in and out you can rotate them every six to eight weeks they're all therapeutic
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in india I would always my aunties would just grow all these herbs on their balcony for use right
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so matrix healing matrix medicine last two what is your favorite ancient healing remedy
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hmm my favorite ancient healing I would say I think it's meditation I think it's just a calmness
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in the meditation just to kind of get into your body I don't know if there's anything better than
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knowing your body and trusting that needs to be prescribed last one if you could leave our
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listeners with just one takeaway that you're most passionate about right now what would it be
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yeah that you deserve to feel amazing in your body you deserve healing you deserve to feel well
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I think sometimes we don't even believe that we deserve it and then it just you know that
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belief really can be a north star and how we tend to ourselves and a lot of women have been told
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that they don't deserve to feel good they need to take care of everybody else but if we can
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if we can anchor to that deserving of feeling well and feeling amazing to me that shifts everything
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that is the mindset mindset shift that we all deserve and we all we all should get to
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in body I adore you it's such a big concept of this show is like just remembering you are
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your healer you are your greatest healer but you have to believe it mm-hmm you have so much
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inspiration you keep us laughing through your social media you are a mother you are now on your
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eighth book nine nine this is the ninth yeah I have overdone it in life you can see I'm feeling it
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I'm very passionate yes that's what comes off from you and you make things very tangible for your
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audience and thank you for being like having a wisdom but also shedding some lightness and humor
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for your your audience it just I really do feel it your source of inspiration for all of us
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how do you keep in touch with your community what do I do um Instagram is a great place to come
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and find me I do I mean I think we all I mean it's hard it's hard going through life you know
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especially in in transition in midlife and so if I can bring a little bit of you know levity to
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that I love it but also the the podcast and energize with Dr. Marisa like that is I mean if you are
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in this transition and you are looking for support and you're looking for amazing experts like yourself
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like yes please I want women to feel so supported so held and to feel like okay I have got the
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recommendations um and the solutions at my fingertips I can decide what are my non-negotiables
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and I know how to have a educated conversation with my doctor so that we are on the same team
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that's what the show's all about beautiful um I'm excited to have you back yes
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yes please part of my inspiration for this podcast was to gather the female the women that I know
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the tribe of healers that are out there doing the work that you do and like we should just create
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an area for women to go to for the section on like the area that they need information or a sense
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of inspiration or understanding and just like this is the future just honoring our constitution and
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just having something to look forward to instead of the doom and gloom that's been portrayed
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for women for so long so thank you for that yeah absolutely my pleasure
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So we've been looking at studies and diets and society and practitioners and books and podcasts
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listening to these protocols that were literally designed for men. The scientific studies were
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done on men and here we are as women. Why do you guide women to investigating that? Everything
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is bio individualist so it's really knowing you but first thing is to if you still have a cycle
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is to track your cycle and I think that menstrual cycles are a vital sign. They really are the
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window to what's going on in the whole body. Yeah it is life worth and it's honestly it's such a big
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you know I think about like overall metabolic health and cellular health and then number two
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is to be paying attention to your cues, your symptoms, your signs, what's happening for you
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and tracking that alongside of your your cycle to get a sense of oh what's normally I used to
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always feel amazing in this part of my cycle but things are shifting or my PMS symptoms were only
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two days leading up to my period and now they kind of like they just keep it keeps going and going
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to like seven eight nine days. You mentioned something that I heard called bikini medicine right
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so we're living in a world right now where there's finally okay we've looked at women's bodies
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all wrong. The bikini medicine is that we are inherently small men except for when it comes to
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our reproductive organs and our breasts. Sometimes the feeling of going to work is like I get to go
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with my dearest friend. I'm so excited to have you here Dr. Marissa Snyder thank you for coming
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to Root and Wellness. I'm just so happy to be here. Literally when I met you I was like where have
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you been all my life. Yeah it was like you know divine intervention. Yeah they're indipitous. Yeah
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to be. All right so to kick things off Root and Wellness is all about becoming rooted in our very
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busy and modern world. Let's start off the show by talking about some things that help you feel
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really rooted in your health and yourself and your inner wisdom to heal. What are some practices
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that you have? I'm right out the gate in the morning. I wake up and I do a body scan. I just
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check in with my body. I start from the head and go all the way down and just check in with my heart,
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my mind, my presence and then I do a little meditation to kind of just get grounded with my day.
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There's a great quote by Luis has Luis Hayes that says how you start your morning is how you live
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your day and how you live your day is how you live your life and so there were years where my morning
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was chaos controlled chaos and but then my day was controlled chaos. Did you normalize control
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chaos too? Like for me that was like oh I'm being productive this isn't good. Efficiency. Efficiency
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totally. Your slight edge. Yeah until it's not until it wears on your body over time and so
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I just I'm very intentional about attuning to my body and a question I love to ask myself
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every morning is what would I love? What would I love? Beautiful. Other things that I love is
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well what what I love in terms of rooting is cuddles with my son connecting with my son that
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oxytocin boosts but just connection. I just think friendship family but particularly he's such a
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light being like being with him just feels so rooted. Should our boys together? Yeah that would be
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so good. Yeah it's funny that connection is the most self-regulating thing that you can possibly
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do and now you know the joke is that we always wait for science to vilify everything right up
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and out the eight minute hug at first thing in the morning like just hold for eight minutes and
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take a deep breath and like just notice your physiology shift. So I love asking this question to
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everyone that comes on because the emphasis is to point out that we're all different so as
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much as we're looking for things to help us feel rooted in the exterior world what might help
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the listeners feel rooted could be different and unique so thank you for sharing that. That's
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beautiful. Love the body scan. Okay so on the opposite side. Here we are. We love being busy,
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being on the go, being productive. What are some things that cause you to feel uprooted?
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And I know you as a practitioner you can probably catch on to the things that were part of your
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dysregulation in the past so talk to us about what causes you to feel uprooted. Particularly for
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me or even for what I see is the overdoing. We can overdo health. I remember when I was healing from
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what felt like chronic fatigue when I was in my early 30s. I was I felt like I was checking
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all the boxes. I was doing the yoga. I was eating the anti-inflammatory foods but it was it was this
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checklist and yet I was so deregulated in the doing of all the things and I feel even in a lot
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of the health practices that we talk about and that we recommend that particularly women who I
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get to serve is that well we we overdo extended fasting. We we overdo extended workouts. We you know
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we overdo and so I think again not attuning to our bodies and listening to what our body really
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needs in the moment that we lose our way and in just the in the doing of health that may not be
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attuned to what our bodies actually need. I love that. I know you and I we both talk a lot about
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in the overdoing it's the belief that it has to be so complicated but I think that when you pull back
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and I'm sure you've noticed this with your patients it's often the most simple acts repeated
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with consistency over time that bring the most results right. It's that 20% instead of the 80%
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sometimes and I love that you said that too because when I was at my unhealthiest I was doing all
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the right things two hours at the gym atkins diet hard core busy working out like everything but
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it sounds so stressful. So it's stressful yeah and we talked about this on your podcast your
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amazing podcast about this concept of dysregulation in the body and I think that for women and men
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but there's this wisdom and if your body is constantly stuck plugged into this like high intensity
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frequency it's like this high voltage electricity every single day how on earth could your body
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function at its best right yeah yeah I mean we can get away with it for only so long exactly yeah
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it feels good yeah for a minute for a minute when we're younger I want to take a quick break from
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space where wellness finally makes sense join today at monasharma.com I think that it would have been
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very different for both of us if growing up as much as we were taught as women that busyness
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productivity was success if we were taught how to regulate our system in between what a difference
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or if we were taught that we were worthy just being who we are on this planet I think I felt like
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my worthiness was predicated on how much I did how I showed up for my family how I was selfless
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in terms of you know taking care of everyone first before myself but my family only ever celebrated
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my accolades it not just me being who I am and that's one thing that I've been so mindful of for
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my son is just letting him know that he is worthy just being just being funny I say the same
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things to my kids that I wish I had heard you are enough just the way that you are you are special
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never try to change yeah and do you feel like in this kind of shadow work are you still unpacking
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oh yes today absolutely absolutely every day I feel like it is my I would say it's my underlying
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operating system yeah and I get to say well this is my purpose and this is my mission you know and
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there yeah I feel like I think it's going to be the work that many of us will always get to do
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I love that and that's actually a really good segue into
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hormonal shifts and something that I love that you talk about is it's kind of like the acceptance
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like the awakening moving through paramanopause and menopause which I'm trying to learn from other
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people around me see ultimate acceptance for like no more BS this is who you are it's okay to
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like let all of your true colors shine and something that I know as one of your goals is to
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help women become healers in their own home according to who they are in their constitution and
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their blueprint which I think is so special so let's dive in first by talking a little bit you
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mentioned something that I heard called bikini medicine yeah right so we're living in a world
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right now where there's finally okay we've looked at women's bodies all wrong we've you know we've
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studied men only and we've assumed that women needed to go through the same protocols as men
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talked us a little bit about this concept and kind of the awakening that's happening right now
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absolutely well I'm sure you know we didn't really start mandating research for women until the
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1990s it was like 1993 so you know this is like in our lifetime that this has happened and I actually
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just had my physical exam a couple weeks ago or about a month ago and you know your primary doctor
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especially for a woman who's 45 like me they have their checklist and labs are part of that and
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your vitals are a part of that but it's very bikini medicine so I they want me to do the mammogram
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they want me to get the pap smear right and so bikini medicine is that we are inherently small men
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except for when it comes to our reproductive organs and our breasts and that's the only distinction
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and so when you think about kind of the standard of care for perimenopause or even you know for a
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lot of women going into their doctor's office it's going to be birth control pills to manage a lot
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of those symptoms and and that's that's making a very you know unfair assumption that our hormones
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these whole body hormones are only reproductive hormones and that they just impact our reproductive
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organs and our breasts and we know that this is so far from the truth and so that's basically
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what bikini medicine is and unfortunately women have suffered the consequences of what I call
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lazy medicine so we've been looking at studies and diets and society and practitioners and books
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and podcasts listening to these protocols that were literally designed for men right the scientific
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studies were done on men and here we are as women you know we're talking about this before the show
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but I'm doing all the right things I'm doing the workets and the cold plunge and the sauna and
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the reading and the rest and the red light why like I just don't feel good in my body and I love
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that you're an advocate for helping people understand or women if you feel like a stranger in your
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body then there's room to do a little bit more research so how do you guide women to investigating that
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and I can imagine there's probably patients of yours who have a bit of resistance like no but
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you know doing all the right things no but my doctors said my labs are are totally fine how do you
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do with that resistance yeah and if we're talking about particularly this transition of perimenopause
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which again is a you know on average eight to ten year transition and I saw something recently
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you said that's not a transition that is a career that's a career it's a big it's a big part of our
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lives it's one of the biggest hormone transitions and shifts we're gonna go through and so what
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you know again everything is bio individual as you and I talked about and so cold plunge especially
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if you have a deregulated nervous system it may not be the thing you know and so it's really
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knowing you but there are three things that I always recommend women to really know your body
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first thing is to if you still have a cycle is to track your cycle and I think that menstrual
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cycles are a vital sign it really really are the window to what's going on in the whole body
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literally life force yeah it is yeah it is life and it's honestly it's such a big you know
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I think about like overall metabolic health and cellular health and when our metabolism is healthy
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and our cells are healthy well then we are really right for reproductive you know health and
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reproductive health span but as you know as we're winding down in perimenopause what's happening
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the second puberty really pain attention to our menstrual cycle is going to give us a lot of
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information about our bodies and then number two is to be paying attention to your cues your
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symptoms your signs what's happening for you and and tracking that alongside of your your cycle
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to get a sense of oh what's you know I normally I used to always feel amazing in this part of my
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cycle but things are shifting or my PMS symptoms were only two days leading up to my period and now
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they kind of like they just keep it keeps going and going to like seven eight nine days and so
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and then the other thing I think can really help to support and kind of give us some information
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is knowing our numbers our biomarkers and so again there's something to be said about listening to
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our deeper intuition but then also kind of you know tracking our kind of health biomarkers over time
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to get a sense of what's what's true for us so you know some lab numbers normals may not be your
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normals but if we don't have a timeline of that information it can be hard to know and so I
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always recommend women you know not only understanding their labs as I get I know it's not easy and
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we you know we grew up in a time where the doctors knew all and we we really want to you know kind
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of give them that role in our lives but you know an unfortunate truth is that no one's coming to save us
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especially us as women we're talking about mama it's like I'm saving everybody else you know and so
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I think having that information over time that I can look at daily monthly annually can really
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help set the course of how I'm feeling and how to optimize that we'll go back to the biomarkers
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like if I'm putting myself in as as your patient right I think that in the way that we hear about
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paramount of puzzle symptoms it feels like it should just like oh here it's happening this is it
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right but often through our hormones they're the most subtle messages in cues from our bodies that
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can often be cumulative so I'll share my story I want to hear yours also but finding out that I
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was going through paramount applies actually came through my acupuncturist who I went to see for
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some shoulder issues and he's like oh we have frozen shoulder and I was like oh no no that that
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can't be it's just it's from working out or just twisted it the wrong way it's frozen shoulder and
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it's like you know what I can put you on Chinese herbs you can come back for all the acupuncture
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in the world but this is one area where as a practitioner I wouldn't be serving you if I didn't
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tell you that you should have started estrogen a while ago because you're going through paramount
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applies tears like what do you mean and I'm sharing this story because I think if there's anyone
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out there like me I resisted it there's no right of passage when women make these transitions
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you know no longer having children anymore or like hey I'm not going to be pregnant again now
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we're going through paramount applies and what I'm seeing out there in the media is the doom
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and the gloom and it often paramount puzzle symptoms sounds like you know when you watch a drug
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commercial and at the end of the commercial beside effects you're going to suffer from this
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hair falling at moodyness irritability loss of sex drive loss of muscle you know just the list
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goes on and on and so the doom and gloom so I think what I'm trying to say is in the subtleties
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of the symptoms that you might be experiencing maybe just come to terms with the fact that they're
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not normal and if you have a doctor like you who hasn't kind of helped you unpack all of that
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it's time to find the doctor that will and like I think it's just it's becoming the wild west too
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understanding what to do hormonally and what hormones to take so what part of your journey
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kind of put you down into this path and did you feel served by your medical community at the time also
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well what really started me on the journey of paramount applies was watching my mom
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go through paramount applies and I always say it was kind of like a nightmare unfolding my mom
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really struggled she had the side of all the side effects and especially towards late paramount
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really heavy heavy heavy bleeding severe mood swings brain fog insomnia hot flashes I mean the
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the list went on and on and she just really struggled I think when as a woman you're you're doing
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life and you're handling all of this you have a lot of capacity and you're used to having
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capacity what I always say is you're not having to negotiate with yourself and then in pairing
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medabytes you kind of are having to go you're like whoa like I I'm having a really hard time doing
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the things that I used to do pretty effortlessly and it can happen very quickly sometimes women can
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fill that shift in like six months or maybe sometimes it takes a lot longer and so I was watching
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my mom go through this and I was watching you know initially she kind of wasn't queuing me into
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what she was doing and her standard of care wasn't great and so I remember thinking two things one
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is this gonna happen to me number one you know because we wonder how much is genetics and how much
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is like is this my fate and the number two I just I broke my heart to see how she was failed at
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every corner in this journey and so when I was stepping in I was actually I went from post-partum
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to pairing menopause so there was really no pit stop in between and um you know post-partum
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in its own right kind of feels a bit like parry and menopause because it's a low hormone state
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and you know you're not sleeping and move any mamas who've been through post you they know
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and so I really didn't have much of a buffer between post-partum and parry but I remember I
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I was 43 about to be 44 and again you're talking about the subtle signs all of a sudden I didn't
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have as much resilience um I noticed my stress tolerance wasn't as tolerant I didn't have as much
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of it um I noticed my brain wasn't firing the way that I was used to and I um my I have low thyroid
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functions I take thyroid medications that was the first hormone I thought hmm this kind of feels
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like maybe my thyroid needs a little bit more support so you know it ran all the labs and did all
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the things and um was trying to optimize that but still was struggling and so I was like hmm what
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so it's so funny I was going down so many rabbit holes I was running all the labs I'm like oh maybe
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I have a little bit of inflammation or maybe it's this and maybe I've been pushing myself too hard
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and then I remember three months in a row um seven days prior to my period starting I had rage
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and the first month I was like hmm this is interesting second month I was like oh it's back
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and the third month I was like this is perimenopause that's what this is that's this is a hormone
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shift that is consistent and that's kind of how I knew that I was in it so hovering on that because
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so many symptoms often we take those to the doctors and they're like oh just try this medication
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try this supplement try going to bed early or nothing or nothing or nothing or I think it's
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all in your head yeah or go figure it out doctors put me on testosterone pellets therapy which I
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shared with you before breaks my heart and it just put my entire system into overdrive and it was
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so intense that like I felt what it was like to be a man for a few days because the levels were just
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way too high and it was a band aid you can't regulate and with a woman's body like we need
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things are subtle and nourishing and this was like rocket fuel into one direction and then rage
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like zero to 100 so let's talk about what's causing those symptoms to happen insomnia brain fog
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weight gain rage what's happening in the body absolutely and so as I mentioned it's not
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bikini medicine it's a yes and it's whole body changes but one of the the one of the organ systems
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of our body that has the most profound reorganization and you'll see this in Dr. Mascone's work
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particularly in her book the menopause brain is that the brain is massively reorganizing
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progesterone it's actually made in the brain known as aloe pregnant alone but also estrogen is
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known as the master regulator of the brain she is the CEO of a woman's brain and so you can imagine
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going to this you know eight to ten year time where the brain is used to estrogen on the daily
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and is used to rhythmic estrogen that is not only you know it has estradiol peak on day 11 has
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another little peak on like day 21 so the body has been running this cycle in rhythmic dosing of
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hormones for decades and then and so the brain is very reliant on this it's running glucose
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metabolism it is helping in terms of being fertilizer for the brain it's reducing inflammation
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it is helping the brain to fire on all cylinders and so as estradiol is inconsistently binding to
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the critical receptor sites of the brain all of a sudden we start to feel this massive shift
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and that's when we begin to feel these brain related symptoms and I would say 80% of peri symptoms
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are actually brain related hot flashes night sweats insomnia brain fog depression anxiety
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low stress tolerance all of this is brain and so when we start to like lose that estradiol signal
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the brain is kind of desperately clinging to when it's going to come into play it's kind of like
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dating a boyfriend who's just constantly ghosting you you know and you're like
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call me back you know you're just you know so that's what it kind of feels like a
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estradiol in the brain and the also progesterone too is playing a big role here in how GABA
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production is and how GABA is binding to receptor sites and so we think about PMS symptoms
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that's usually a decline in progesterone that's having an impact on neurotransmitters like serotonin
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and GABA so we feel again more moody more irritable more stressed hot let lack of stress tolerance
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and so yeah these are these are whole body hormones are having a profound impact not only on the brain
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but our metabolic health our gut health our our stress response system our cardiovascular health
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they mean everything our our our muscular skeletal system where we see frozen shoulder in
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hip pain and and then also inflammation too and so we I do it's a yes and I always say that
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paramedic pause is a window of vulnerability and a window of opportunity so we get to be discerning
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about what is right for our bodies and we get to decide that our health is deserving of being
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the number one priority oh my gosh why don't we ever done that right well we we are forced into
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well we we're given a choice in these moments these symptoms are a calling they're they're a
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a beautiful signal to say hey I really need support I really need to be nourished and loved
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and given you know given the the care and consideration that you've given everyone else it's my turn
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just the irony of all that though too like imagine this woman if we were to really take this on as
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a badge of honor because it makes no sense right self-care in your mid 40s being the number one thing
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no you've got so many responsibilities in your career in your family in your left one your kids
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it's laughable it's laughable like how self-care usually drops down here yeah but I like you I believe
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if self-care goes to number one you can show up in the world for everything else and you can
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tune into the symptoms from the body to help understand what you actually need so what you're
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talking about then is this neural inflammation that's happening to the brain yes part of it is
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okay you know the lot of the newest research is showing that parry menopause is a not only a
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neurotransition but a neuro inflammation state but you think about how many of us come into parry
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into midlife with a little bit of inflammation a little bit of insulin resistance a little
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bit of glucose deregulation and the brain you think about come to the hungry as organs of the body
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you know really needing a lot of glucose to function or a lot of good metabolic health when we
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see ester dial begin to dip or inconsistently binding to receptor sites of the brain all of a
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sudden we see an increase in inflammation in the brain but another part of the body as well and so
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can this be mediated and mitigated absolutely but there just needs to be an awareness and so
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that's why I think there's so much you know it's having its moment is that it deserves their
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deserves to be an awareness it's not just aging aging's happening at the same time we're running
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in tandem so we have hormones that are declining and we have aging happening but inflammation is
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really at the kind of at the root of a lot of what's going on couldn't agree more with that
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and here's where let's talk about where to hover then so if you're meeting with a new patient
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she comes to you and you know Dr. Marisa I have got inflammation my bowel movements are completely
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different I have way more anxiety I have porcelain my hair is falling out my triglyceride
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score is my insulin is just like looking completely different than ever before my labs
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and I'm doing all the right things on paper what's going on where do you start
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why I would start with I'd run a I'd run a full lab panel I would really love to understand
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what is going on and I would you know when I think about like say reading the tea leaves you've got
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a you know say it's a woman particularly I want to look at labs just see if there's anything
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I'm missing or any gaps that I need that I need to fill in that I don't see or don't know
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too I want to really understand the symptoms and the history but then I also want to understand
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what are the goals what's the desires and they take all of that into account and then start
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looking at the day to day like what's really going on you know are we rushing our meals you know
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are we leaving leaving a predominantly sedentary life like you know is stress really the driver of
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so much of what's going on and so I really want to get into the nitty gritty of what's happening
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because if you know again yes gut is the center of a lot of our health our healing hormones are
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also running the show and so with cellular metabolic health but I also want to know how are you
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driving the day because again I think about hormones in particular as being they're they're doing
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the best they can with what they got in the moment that they're in they're really being driven by
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you in a lot of ways and so that would be the first step is kind of looking at all of those pieces
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and then really doing a deep dive into how she's living her life or how they're living their life
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and going from there but nutrition is always a big piece circadian rhythm optimization is a big part
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of this self-care is huge supporting the gut through nutrition and supplementation and if a deeper
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gut healing protocol is necessary then we'll go down that road but yeah I mean I would be looking
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at thyroid for hair loss there's just so many pieces there that I would be looking at but ultimately
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how are you living your life is what I'm most interested in there's two things that I'm going to
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take away from that that I think are so key so the first one understanding your biology it sounds like
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this is something that you do with all of your patients what I think this is the coolest thing about
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modern medicine today is like the data that we can get based on your physiology but what I'm hearing
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too is no matter what your symptoms are maybe you decide what are the two three four things that are
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really causing me the most suffering that's probably an area for you to really own in on or like
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to zone in in terms of creating a protocol for them and you talked about so gut neural inflammation
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vagus nerve nervous system and stuff like that isn't stress something that depletes or
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progesterone over time stress depletes everything over time stress deregulates your blood sugar
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stress depletes your nutrients stress pokes holes in your gut stress I mean get with a list the
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stress will throw your cycle off I always say you know the kind of consistently our worst cycles
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will be January of every year because of the stress of the holidays we were talking about the
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first quarter yeah yeah exactly you're like woo goodness and so I find you know if there was
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an underpinning driver the most insidious kind of silent killer or driver of inflammation is
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always going to be stress so that's why I always want to look at that and so when women come to me
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so a lot of the things I hear from women will say well I want you to know that I'm not lazy
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I want you to know that I have been doing everything I want you to know and I what I see in
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in the labs and in the history is how how poorly deregulated she is you know trying to do
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all the things and and you know driven by beliefs driven by lack of worthiness and so I'm like okay
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a part of this journey is going to be deeper work a part of this journey is the pause you know
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am I giving you a to-do list of more things isn't going to help you you know reregulate your nervous
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system and so it's always a part of the protocol it's like how do we how do we how can we integrate
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breathwork how can we integrate walks outside in nature how can we integrate maybe maybe therapy
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maybe internal family systems getting to the root of some of those beliefs that are driving
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behavior part of the journey is the pause we need to make that go viral it is have you ever been
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able to take an app to rest prior to doing this work were you or that person no no I um I was the
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girl I was a woman who timed everything I timed everything I timed out quickly I get pump gas
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I timed out quickly I could go to the bathroom I timed out quickly I get to shower and I would
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improve on those times I could tell you how quickly I can get to the beach from my house right now
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and I could tell you that I can I have about a minute buffer you know so like I can get to my from
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my house to the beach and back to my home in 18 minutes and sometimes like just to get to see the
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ocean and the surfers out there and to get to walk to the beach and home I'll take that 18 minutes
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but there are definitely days where I deserve to luxuriate in that walk and watch the surfers for 10
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minutes you know and so you and I are going to be great friends because we have the same history I
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would take so much pride in my schedule right then we have the external world validating you know
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flow state use every second be productive every second of every hour get more done and
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um noticing that that was probably the biggest detriment to be feeling even more stress um keep
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it on the timeline but it was that feeling in my body it also it's also it feels addictive it's
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so addictive I used to say um it was my slight edge that's what I called it I didn't know I was
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stealing from myself the whole time I didn't know that I was up love like up regulating adrenaline
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and or up enough ran and even cortisol to like kick into gear to get there first you know I would
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I would find myself doing something leisurely like going to the park but I would want to rush to get
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there like yeah like gosh for bed I don't get there you know and I'm like I'm just going to relax
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but I have to be there by a certain time like I just felt like I was always I call you know
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rushing women syndrome oh totally yeah yeah I was the what's next okay what's next we did this
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yeah future future feeling and I was like oh gosh please don't let me do this to my son
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yeah I love that we're kind of hovering on this because it's our lifestyle factors that are
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really detrimental to our hormones and you and I have a dear friend Dr. Mindy Peltz and
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something that I love that she says is that women are living at a generational mismatch
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for where we are within society today we're taught to do so much in this external world but our
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physiology was actually not meant to do that but we move through these cycles right and even
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throughout our cycle we're designed to practice different activities in order to bring balance
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into our body and our physiology for it to function yeah I always say that everyone loves including
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ourselves day 11 us everybody wants day 11 us right we were vivacious energized high-estor
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dial peak right we are you know loving nurturing more intimacy we're just we're just kind of at
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our highest high our brain is firing right that our brain's like yeah I'm fleshed with Esther
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dial but then no one you know we have many times that we beat ourselves up where we're a day 26
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us or day 27 us and never gave ourselves permission to just go inward and to be with ourselves not
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push the hard workout you know not push the the inner the big intermittent fasting you know whatever
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that looks like and I remember I would just be so mad at myself right leading up to my period because
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I couldn't do the heavy workout and not that I still didn't do it I pushed through it but I was like
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man you just kind of you kind of sucked at that like and I just I had no idea no one had taught me
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that this was a time to just one listen to my body my body is like can we not do this
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why do we have to do this today like can I we just go for a walk can we just slow it down
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and you're like no this is the only path you know and so it breaks my heart how much we beat
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ourselves into submission and just beat our bodies up trying to like you know meet the demands
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of what health is supposed to be or how we're supposed to look and it's been so damaging to our bodies
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ah that just feels so good to hear you say because I think the message for women is what if we
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could just have radical acceptance for where we are today and the things that our body needs today
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not tomorrow not based on a timeline of things that have to get done and if we normalize that in
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society the shift that could happen for women not only in productivity but in happiness also and
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ease so on that note can we talk about some of the beautiful things that happen you know I love
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being around our friends who are in their 50s and 60s and beyond like those women who are saying
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just wait just wait it's coming so can you talk a little bit about the intuition the creativity
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what happens when we tune into the wisdom of our body and this obvious this intelligence that's
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within us absolutely I think one we get to be discerning which is so nice we get to decide what
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our energy what we want to put our energy towards I think that and I think the sooner we can learn
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discernment about what we if it's not a full body yes it's a full body no like the earlier we get
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to learn that the better um boundaries hmm I would you know how often where we just boundary
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less you know or we grew up in boundary less families and you know we get to an age where we're
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just like no I have boundaries that I'm setting I think that becomes so just such a big superpower
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and then you know connection like soul sisterhood you know just really having those deep relationships
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I think becomes so big and then trusting ourselves in our wisdom and just knowing like I
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I feel good I feel comfortable in knowing me in knowing what I want and trusting myself in those
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decisions so I think that that is the ultimate north compass is that your your trusting yourself
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is always going to lead the way so you keep putting your hand over your heart speaking I wonder in case
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people are listening instead of watching and um what you're making me think of is all of those
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gifts so you're intuition setting boundaries coming into your body what I talk about in my
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world is moving from the critic brain or the judge brain into your your heart right the emotional
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body and it's almost like well you're if you were in your emotional body then you would awaken
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those pathways anyways of creativity and wisdom because when there's no judgment there's the
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freedom to just be right do you have a heart practice every day you said a body scan first thing
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in the morning is that something that you recommend to your clients I don't know if you've done
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heart math yeah I love heart math and I love um well I'm not even track heartbeat variability but I
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also um I think that's the first step in my my every day morning practice is my heart I have a heart
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basically a heart meditation that I do just kind of come through and that's why that's why I love
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that question of what would I love you know how often are we asking ourselves what would I love like
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what would my love come through be or what would feel good you know versus you know what what do I
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have to do or what do I you know it's so it's a different come through and man it just shifts everything
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to me but also when we come from our heart yeah the judgment fades away our inner critic or even
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outer critic towards others um tends to just melt away as well and I think when we're able to
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with love and lead from our heart um I just everything softens our conversations all of it
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can you imagine going to your doctor's office and in the waiting room you do a heart coherence
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meditation before you go into say your doctor which means that you kind of come into your power
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your superpower or wisdom or kind of just like holding your own ground before you go into
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speak to somebody who's gonna dictate at you right I just think that there's so much power in
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that so thank you for for talking about that so when our clients do go to the doctor yeah
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I work with so many people and it's funny I put a survey out to my community talking to them
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about something that they want to know more of and can you not probably like
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dozens of dozens of answers saying I just I'm doing all the right things my doctor won't
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check certain labs my doctor says that this is the way that it is when I'm in my 40s or 50s and
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just to accept it it's like women are still suffering despite the education that's out there so
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let's do part one what are the specific labs or biomarkers that you tell your clients to look for
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and I'm gonna go ahead and preface this with if your doctor will not run these labs you better
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find a doctor who's your partner in healing yeah well the beautiful thing is today there's so
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many direct to consumer lab companies too you still want someone to help you interpret those
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but you really can go and get your labs ran which is so nice so I'm so grateful and then we also
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live in a time of bio observability you may laugh I've got a whoop on yeah I've got a continuous
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goop goes on and on right now I'm putting mine on tomorrow and I think okay it's a yes and in terms of
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I listen to my body and I like the data I you know um sleep for me will make or break me it just
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it will that's you know I had a couple brain injuries two summers ago and ever really ever since
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and I don't know if it was brain injuries in Perry or or what but um sleep is one of the
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greatest things that I can give my body like I know that for sure and I also just love to kind of
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make like obviously check it in the morning and see how energized I feel but then I also love to
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see it on the I like the data too so I think there's nothing to be said about that and so again
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it's one of the ways that we can be bio observable we talked about earlier menstrual cycle you know
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maybe we're in a garment or a or a or a whoop strap if that would be of assistance and then like
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you know maybe quarterly or annually we put on a continuous goop goes monitor just to kind of see
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you know yeah even if you don't wear it every day right yeah I think every woman should just
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wear it to test and heart rate variability too yeah yeah I mean so I love more than
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I think I look at more than anything is my sleep my my stress because it looks at stress and real
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time on the whoop which is very very enlightening for any of us but I look at HRV and resting heart rate
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every day that's really the markers I'm looking at the most of like how can I have autonomic nervous
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system control so that I am calming my nervous system if I know that I have complex PTSD and there's
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a lot of trauma that I'm still healing how do I how am I intentional about regulating myself
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mainly because I want to feel peace in my body but I also want to be able to be a very peaceful
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mama for my beautiful boy who's for who needs mama to co-regulate him and so I want to show up
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for him not only me but also him so funny how our children are our greatest teachers in the sense of
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like oh yes it's look at how you know look at their need for regulation why wouldn't we have a
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need for regulation yeah so bio observability and then labs so let's get in the labs again
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kind of the standard ones complete blood panel with differential right let's take a look at your
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your white blood cells your blood cells your platelets all that next is lipids and there's gonna be
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some lipids that are standard here and then not so triglycerides LDL total cholesterol HDL but
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also I'd love to see a lipoprotein little A and I'd love to see an APO B now if you can't get
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the lipoprotein little A or the APO B fire your doctor now I'm kidding no I would look at
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disease prevention especially once we're in if we're talking about women even after the age of
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35 but mostly mainly after the age of 40 like we need to know this information if heart disease
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is the number one killer of women more than men why aren't we looking at cardiovascular markers
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like like the ones that really move the needle now if you can't seem to get those two kind of
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specialized markers I always love to divide triglycerides over your HDL and get a ratio that'll
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really one of the best ratios for cardiovascular health or risk is that and I always want it
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basically under a 1.5 ideally under one when it starts creeping past two or more then I start to
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I mean obviously I'm looking at everything else but that is a great marker not only for insulin
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resistance but for cardiovascular health and those those will always be included in any lipid panel
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triglycerides in HDL divide your triglycerides over your HDL and you'll get that ratio okay so
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that's your lipid panel and then your inflammation panel so vitamin D, uric acid if we're looking
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at cardiovascular inflammation, homocysteine, sed rate and fibrinogen also highly sensitive CRP
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so those are your inflammation markers blood glucose markers are going to be fasting obviously
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fasting glucose is always going to be in the metabolic labs fasting insulin so we know that
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fasting insulin can dictate insulin resistance and other metabolic issues a decade prior to when
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it will ever show up on your fasting blood glucose and then get a hemoglobin A1C because I'll do it
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anyway and then what I would be looking for I want a full iron panel so iron ferritin just looking
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at all the saturation so many women you know due to deficiencies or maybe even you know heavy
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bleeding or dealing with anemia so I want to see that especially if low energy is a situation
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a full thyroid panel so not TSH and T4 free T4 I want free T4 free T3 reverse T3 I want your thyroid
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antibodies I want to look at everything if I can get magnesium and b9 a full 8 and b12 I'll take it
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I will always take it and then see what else would I love and then hormones I mean if I would let's
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let's do it so ideally we're testing hormones seven days after ovulation or before your menstrual
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cycle that way we can capture progesterone but run all of them the full testosterone panel progesterone
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estrogen let's look at early morning cortisol and that's the other thing about labs try to run
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them as early as you can so we really get a sense of what what fasted labs are but I would say those
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trying to think if I've missed anything those would be my my base that's my basic panel I love
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in okay so there's so many things I want to go back to first of all insulin and glucose right so
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you're wearing a glucose monitor I'm putting one back on because that's one of the markers that I've
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seen shift despite having a really beautiful diet that's high in fiber and protein and good fat
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something is shifting within within me there's also a genetic precursor for me there you go and as
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well as my estrogen which is going away yeah a lot of my family has diabetes and prediabetes
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the the Mexican side of my family and so when I ran my genetics that is the ultimate precursor
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is keeping my eye on that and so I do believe that blood glucose and insulin which we don't have a
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way of measuring insulin in real time our blood glucose wearing a continuous glucose monitor will
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be the best indicator of kind of how insulin is shifting as a response to our daily life but I
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ultimately I think it's the ultimate biomarker of our longevity and so I I love I love wearing I
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put them on I've used to put one on every quarter but now it's every it's probably twice a year
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give or take I want to just make sure I'm keeping with an optimal range and it's so amazing how
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much we can shift our our fasting insulin and our blood glucose into optimal range so we have
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good metabolic health and I can go over the five big metabolic markers we went over a couple of
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those but there's so much that we can learn about wearing a continuous glucose monitor in terms
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of our sleep our stress our movement what obviously what we're eating every single day all of that
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is playing a role in energy metabolism it's the one thing that really like people the first
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question for me is Mona what do I eat what's the perfect diet your perfect diet is as unique as
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you so I put a glucose monitor on them with new clients probably every quarter to really help me
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identify which foods are great for the metabolic health in which ones are not serving them and like
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nine times out of 10 unless there's deeper stuff going on they'll notice an improvement in their
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sleep an improvement in their energy throughout the day an improvement in their mental focus I also
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do some like food allergy testing and stuff like that maybe a look at my microbiome stuff but yeah
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and do you use levels I love levels yeah I love Casey I love levels yeah I that's one of the
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first things I do as well I think if I can optimize metabolic health cellular energy we are winning the
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game because everything is driven by cellular energy and mitochondrial energy production so if I
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can get that under control and manage the stress piece we are winning and then and then we can talk
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about the optimizers the hormones and all of that right and so but yeah for women I you know if
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even I mean we think about polycystic ovarian syndrome which is often at its core insulin resistance
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as well and so if we see younger women struggling with a bit of insulin resistance or just glucose
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you know deregulation you can imagine as our hormones are not rhythmically running the way that
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they're normally running we start to lose that estradiol capacity it's declining we start to see
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an up shoot in insulin resistance and then belly fat and body composition changes and and you know
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no woman wants that you know we can handle the mood swings and a lot of the things when we start
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to see the weight gain come on because we start to lose our metabolic was a little bit of our
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metabolic resilience due to loss of muscle insulin resistance declining hormones we're like okay hard
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stop what do I do to get this back under control and to me optimizing metabolic health is always
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one of the best keys to doing that hard stop and maybe let's unlearn that that's the opportunity
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to go hardcore because women are just like oh I'm gonna work out more I'm gonna die at more I'm
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gonna not sleep as much I'm gonna go more hardcore no more hardcore just listen to your body
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all right for our women who maybe are not having a regular cycle if you're looking at their hormones
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through blood do you use Dutch tests you could use a Dutch test absolutely you know and I
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I'm a big fan of both serum hormones and Dutch tests the reason why I love the Dutch test is
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that I get a look at the pathways and I get a really put together the pieces so it gives me a
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lot more information but I'm always really mindful with my with the audience that it's expensive you
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know and so I'm my so can can you mostly go to your you bring your list of labs you want to your
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general practitioner and see what you can get especially if you're in your 40s majority of what I
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ask for I suggested they will run they'll you know and if you have a if you can make a case like I
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you know especially with your symptoms that would that could that could dictate those labs running
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but yes if I've as a functional doctor and you're working with me personally and we've got some
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financial wear with all like I'm running the Dutch test yeah and I'll say to the Dutch test which
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I love it's like reading it's uncovering you know the secret to four knocks it's impossible to read
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as a practitioner not all doctors know how to read them or decipher them or make a protocol based on
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it so you need to find the right doctor there's a company called endo access have you heard of them
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I'm going to send you details so they basically created a system on the back end where
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your entire Dutch test just goes through and it creates a protocol to help you understand all of
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your unique pathways and your deficiencies so that you know what to do after that so yeah I love that
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I love it so much yeah so you mentioned when we're thinking about these deficiencies within our
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body another woman that another one that women experience moving into paramount deposits estrogen
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dominance I want to take a quick break from today's episode to ask if you know that stress
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doesn't just feel different for everyone it affects your body in unique ways based on your hormones
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as well can you talk to us about what is estrogen dominance what does it feel like within the body
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what are some symptoms to look out for absolutely so estrogen dominance is when I and we can
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call it unopposed estrogen I love it and often it happens more in the luteal phase where we we've
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got progesterone she's the queen bee right we have significantly more progesterone ideally
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especially if we have ovulatory cycles if we're having an ovulatory cycle so skipped ovulation
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ovulation is the precursor to progesterone we can't have progesterone without ovulation
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this is why I feel like a patriarchal medical system or health care system where we made the
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periods the main event ovulation was always the main event and so I just want to take a moment and
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just celebrate our ovulatory cycles and most women like there's no clue around when they're
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ovulating what the symptoms would be how to celebrate it like there's none of that really I
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would say it wasn't until I was trying to get pregnant and I was trying to track when I was
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ovulating or when I did a touch test and I was trying to track when I was ovulating again instead
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of like the internal wisdom of my body such a disservice yeah such a disservice we're changing that
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I think about our our ovulatory cycle it's not even called an ovulatory cycle but it is truly a
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super power so ovulation is the precursor so that corpus ludium is a temporary
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integrin structure that releases progesterone in alludial phase and progestation right so
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if you if you do get pregnant that hormone is going to help you maintain that pregnancy
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and so it's no surprise that it's the first hormone to to leave in our some for some of us in our
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mid to late 30s it's every woman is a little bit different how we would even know that progesterone
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is beginning to decline before astradial is you know kind of a way we would know let's say natural
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menopause happens anywhere between 45 and 55 years old and so we just reverse engineer that but also
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I always tell women ask your mom hopefully she didn't have a full hysterectomy and perimenopause
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because that is still the second most common surgery surgery in women today but it definitely
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was in our mom's era so I I talked to so many women who's like well my mom had hysterectomy
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which was 45 due to due to fibroids due to estrogen dominance so it's usually due to fibroids
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and obviously other reasons why we hysterectomies are are performed but if your mom went through
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menopause at 52 you're probably going to go into menopause around 52 years old and then if
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perimenopause is at let's say 10 years used to may start to notice the symptoms at like 42
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but for some of us it's earlier I know women who go into menopause at 48 49 47 and so
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that kind of information could be so helpful but progesterone is the first hormone to start to drop
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and so astradial she may still be hanging on also we live in a very toxic world not conducive
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for a happy optimized hormones and one of those is you know estrogens in fragrance
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BPA cleaners nail polish flip flops plastics you know yes yoga clothes we'll not call all the
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names out of the yoga clothes but clothes that I see every single day in in my class in my
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Pilates class in yoga class and then even even receipts and things that you don't even think
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that are so innocuous nail polish makeup I mean the list goes on and on lotions and so there's
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so we're adding to that astradial burden a little bit so as progesterone is she's dropping
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and the liver it's usually a yes and it's getting a bit overburdened due to life
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we start to see the kind of this increase in astradial is estrogen metabolites and with
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estrogen in particular as phenomenal as she is we need to use it and lose it it's kind of we're
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circulating and detoxifying estrogen 24 seven but if the liver is having a hard time
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the liver and the gut it's having a hard time moving and safely excreting estrogen out of the
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system we will start to see symptoms of estrogen dominance or unopposed estrogen in our body
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again it's another symptom of a lack of efficiency within the body because the resilience is off
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yeah right yes yeah god I think and I'm pointing that out because so often we're looking oh
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it's estrogen dominance okay I've got a label I've got something to fix yeah to fix right
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to pull up yeah I'm so much more than that I wish I could I wish we could say that these hormones
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operated in a silo they do not they do not operate in a silo but and if you're wondering well what
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does that even feel like it's heavy periods painful heavy periods maybe cramping it's weight
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distribution really thick weight distribution hips and thighs it's your boobs get a size bigger or
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maybe they feel ropey and heavy right before your period maybe even the entire luteal phase
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of pain on what's going on it's fibroids you know which again blood maybe hopefully you know
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notice but 88% of us will have fibroids before we get to menopause and it's usually in this kind of
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wonky or early even early period menopause phase where we see that that this like ratio of
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progesterone to estrogen is just off and then if the if the gut and the liver are not able to clear
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fast enough and again the exposure of those toxins it kind of just burdens the system
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are guiding us just looking for thyrites actively is this part of the common dialogue when you're
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going for your yearly pap are they are they looking no no it's symptom driven exactly yeah it's
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symptom driven yeah so again I think it's like the ownership the tape we can take away is to ask
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questions like really do ask questions when you go in because for me especially if I come back without
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your labs are normal it's normal everything's normal they won't do the investigation
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they don't know what's alive it's pathology driven and also they won't if you wonder why your doctor
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won't run a lab it's because they don't want the liability of having to review it
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so like I don't run that like they just don't know they don't want the responsibility of not
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knowing what to do with it whatever any of the takeaways from today's episode are write them down
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pen to paper and take all of your concerns to your doctor and get an answer that you feel
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really comfortable and satisfied with and if you don't love it um that time where I was I was kind
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of perimenopause was happening um but I had hit that the whole time that I was going through that
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I had two major concussions and so that kind of just that you know and none of it's in a silo
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inflammation was high and I remember running labs many times in those six months it was around a
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six month period that I was just really in it probably one of the sickest six months that I can
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remember was right before I turned 44 um my son was two and a half years old you know and I
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remember going back to my because yeah we have it's really great insurance and I'm like if I can
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run my labs you know in the insurance system rather me paying for them out of pocket I will you
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know if you can if not I took it out of pocket as well and I can order my own labs but again
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my as well insurance do what it does I remember going in and asking for a number of labs again
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for inflammation and um I wanted to see my iron profile my thyroid I was just staying really
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on top of it and she looked at me dead in the face and she said you know you've been dealing with
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this a lot of this year and you don't still know what it is she's like you know it basically she
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was putting the blame on me for not figuring I'm like that is why I'm here I don't need you to
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look at my labs I don't need you to interpret my labs I don't need you to just run them I'm asking
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you to run these and I'm not trying to get anything from you and I just couldn't I was just
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saying they're just so dumb struck I didn't I didn't expect anything from her I knew she couldn't
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figure this out I I knew that for sure I knew that I needed more information to figure it out for
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myself but I just I was like this is so many women's experiences we are blanks it's your fault yeah
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it's your fault oh yeah so you're going through a pyramid of us do that yeah same thing
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I'm so sorry to hear that no I know it was just um I oh I mean I I am my demographic you know and I
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always want I want to be in the lived experience of what so many women are dealing with as well and
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so when I was in that lived experience I was like hmm there it is this is it she is blaming me you know
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so in that understanding when you do go to your doctor looking at those labs maybe do you
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consider doing something like a mycotoxin test I don't know I run these often with a lot of my
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clients uh to your intestine to really understand what toxins could be lingering within your body
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to your point when my symptoms were at their worst I was dealing with major mold and so like what
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am I going to address first my hormones or the mold and the toxins within my body first I need to
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support my liver so my liver can actually do its job right so doing further investigation and
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I want to go back to like doing an audit so if myself and Dr. Marisa were in your house with you
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let's do an audit together let's go through your kitchen anything that you wouldn't want us to see
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throw it in the trash your body if it doesn't know what an ingredient is neither with your
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with your body go through your personal cleaners we're talking about that we're talking about your
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personal care products when my health was at its worst I was working at Christian Dior's
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lathering my body in perfume every single day breathing in the toxins every day full face of
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makeup with toxins and chemicals and colors and dyes and perfumes it's no wonder that I stop
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getting my periods during that time so doing audit there's so many cool brands out there
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and products that are safer cleaner pure safe rest to be using on our bodies and if it's not
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everything just get the 80 percent yeah just get the in and just upgrade over time of you know what
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it looked like 10 years ago for me is very different when it looks like today but yeah just
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get upgrade once your clean products are out upgrade the cleaning products you know take your shoes
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off when you walk it before you walk in the house those you know vacuum and dust regularly have
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plants in the house as well and and then if you know in terms of upgrading if you can afford air
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purifiers and ultimately water purifiers and the other thing that I and and and move everything
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to glass move everything to glass no plastics no plastics at all so those are the things that I
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think about kind of those first easy steps to move and then yes absolutely I mean one of our rules
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I think 98 percent is that we make everything at home from scratch and we I I have a very full
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life you know as a mom and as a career woman and I know that food is is probably the biggest
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lever that I can pull from my family and if that means more time in the kitchen well that's
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what it means it's just more time in the kitchen and I'm okay with that their new rituals once you
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adapt to them and it becomes a ritual with your family at home and your schedule then it happens
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with a lot of ease yeah I don't think most people understand how easily we absorb our environment
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through our skin until you've done something like a dermal medicine or a patch which leads me to
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bio identical hormones yeah which are like they've been not a not a game changer a life
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changer I feel like bio identical hormones have given me a part of myself back that I haven't seen
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in since before I had my kids so let's talk about this yeah I started with an estrogen patch now
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I'm using a cream with progesterone and I'm sleeping better my energies better my mood is better my
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brain fog is decreased I'm putting less effort at the gym and I'm feeling more gains within my
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body tell us about that and I hope you go into the fear also that exists around them let's face it
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the impact of stress is the worst I haven't trying to keep up with everything from work and businesses
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family time kid schedules gatherings and let's be real I am not on a consistent wellness routine
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mean that's what we're running on we are running on ester dial and for gestural we're also running
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on thyroid hormone and in cortisol and there's a lot of hormones that play but as I talked about
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from the beginning of this interview with you is their whole body hormones and oh my goodness what
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a light bulb moment when you bring them in now I will say that ester dial isn't going to walk you
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outside ester dial isn't going to you know you know support you know give you a anti-inflammatory
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nutrient dense diets like there's a lot of lifestyle that is at play it's no perfect red pill it's
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like I know it is it is sold as like the magic bullet and in so many ways bringing those hormones
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back online for us or maintaining them so that they never go offline I think is a game changer I
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think we all deserve them I believe that we deserve every tool in the toolbox I should have
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preface that in conjunction but yes and yes please and so I'm it's so interesting I'm on I'm
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on progesterone I I have brought ester dial in a couple times but I then become a bit estrogen
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dominant a little unopposed estrogen and so I am actually at a holding pattern where we're
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waiting to bring estrogen back in and especially when you're bringing in ester dial patches or
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creams or whatever that may be still you got to you got to support your liver in your gut you always
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make sure whether you're putting a patch on or you're still making it yourself you always want
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to be supporting and so I took a pause with ester dial personally until I really it's so funny
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when you think you're supporting your your detox pathways and you're like oh this is interesting
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I maybe I need to support them a little bit better you know and so it's it with parian
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particular it's it's a little bit and that's why there's no standard of care for this like
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when it comes to it's birth control that's what we're doing instead which are synthetic hormones
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at higher doses that turn off your cycle and and the obviously there's a time and place and you
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get to decide but I think it's important that we have informed consent but with bioidentical hormones
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like estrogen and progesterone we're really just filling in the gap of what we're slowly losing
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over time which I think is beautiful and so I think for it's everyone is a little bit different
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in terms of it's for a lot of us it's going to be symptom driven and then and then labs will help
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to dictate that as well but just know that symptoms are really going to be dictating when is the good
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time for you to start for some of us it's going to be 42 some of us going to be five 45 some of us
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could be all the way to 49 48 and so working with a practitioner who really understands hormones
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it's going to be mission critical here but that also is really open to being on the journey with you
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the whole time you know it's not a set it and forget it solution like it's going to need to be
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titrated and kind of optimized for your body and life circumstances happen where it may need to
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be titrated again so again listening to your body that's why I said track your cycle track your
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symptoms look at those labs and then based on that the protocol will be created to kind of really
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help you just ease this transition with grace this is really where I'm excited in you know now there's
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all of this awareness around women's hormones and the research that's also coming out around
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the bioidenticals and longevity in cancer prevention yeah cardiovascular prevention
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dementia prevention bone loss prevention general urinary syndrome prevention I mean the list is
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long insulin resistance prevention potentially I mean again you can't drink frappuccinos all day
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and then put on a estradiol patch and it fixes everything it's a yes and but yeah we're and so I
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say once you get them on get on them as soon as it's it's it's viable or it's it's for you
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and again that can really range in the perimenopause journey and then ride them to the wheels fall off
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yeah and I'm hearing you know this really it needs to come with the disclaimer that every woman
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is different there's no cookie cutter hormone you start at this age and this is what you take
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and that's the formula for you because it should be different so finding a doctor again who's
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really going to help you in the journey I think is so important and I hope we find so many more of
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them I love that women are just having a voice in this area right now all right we covered food
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we covered toxins we talked about sleep we talked about metabolic health you and I love moving
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our bodies it's part of our prescriptive health and I I get this lived heavy but I also think that
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it's about honoring your constitution and different types of movement so are you prescriptive in
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this area for women no I am not I mean I think resistance training is is helpful in terms of
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muscle and bone protection but I kind of where I'm landing right now is move as much as possible
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whenever possible but any kind of movement honestly whether it's walking or it's Pilates or
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it's dancing particularly around metabolic aliveness what I have found optimizes your metabolic
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labs more than anything is a movement and movement that's punctuated punctuated throughout the day
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I grew up with the myth that as long as you did the one workout you were done remember the 20-minute
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workouts yeah yeah I love 20-minute workouts too but I think you know doing squats doing 10 squats
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every 45 minutes is more beneficial than that 30 only 30-minute walk in the morning and so
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I'm just a big proponent of being physically active just moving your body as much as possible
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movement is life and the more that we can be moving especially outside in nature or just outside
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in general I think is the ultimate biohack and if you can do it with a matcha and you're bestie
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yeah better still yeah I say it's just like your nutrition but diversity is just key
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variety and diversity just move your body in different ways and I remember yoga teachers saying like
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you know there's no need to lift heavy and you know there's this thing with woman like I need to
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lift heavy I need to lift heavy I think it's so important you and I have talked about our mothers
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and their their health but also I've had the most fit buff men in their 40s 50s and 60s in
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some yoga poses and they're shaking like they're shaking holding these poses so there's
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them there's a lot of power in the subtle movements also absolutely yeah and there's a lot of
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power in if you don't have time for a 15 minute workout or a 45 minute workout or whatever that
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may be like you just your life is so full I used to think that there wasn't value in a little
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five minute here a little three minute there and there is way more value than we ever imagined even
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better value than the big workout like if you do that big let's say hit workout or you know
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string training workout but then you sit for six hours you're basically it's discounted in a lot of
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ways and so I'm a big fan I love exercise snacks yeah yeah I'm all upstairs for three minutes
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I'll do jump squats with my son in the in the kitchen we just I build in these little exercise
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snacks throughout the day so if I can't like today I was in the car super early for this and
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I didn't do the workout early this morning and so when I get home later tonight I'm just going to
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be punctuating movement throughout my afternoon and evening and it's a way exercise yes I love that
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term do you have a rebounder I do yes and that's again three minutes on the rebounder that's
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good and then get back into the meeting you know five minutes outside walking outside for five minutes
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yeah maybe some a voice memo to a bestie and then back at it like I just I love to punctuate my day
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which is with as much movement as possible and the one big thing I've walked away with that
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at the open intended is that I feel more energized especially you know you start a computer
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too long and your brain just just like it's like you can't even read the words on the screen anymore
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and so your body's like can we can we get up can we do a little something and so that to me is
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moving throughout the day and if you get outside even better still there's so much incredible
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things that happen when you just trust your bodies it's 20 minute workout is even more impactful
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than being in a 60 minute hardcore yeah oh yeah 20 minutes all day yeah yeah yeah especially
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with huggies yeah I mean if you got an autoimmune condition or your your your easy like you you
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have had a deregulated stress response system overtraining is not it you will burn out so quick
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and so I always tell women 20 to 30 minutes you can get so much done in 20 to 30 minutes you know
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that maybe be your big main workout and then just build out many movements throughout the day
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for the rest of the day and most importantly if there was ever a time to move it is after meals
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gentle movement walking walking stairs after a meal I mean I have seen this time and time again
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looking at continuous glucose graphs I've looked at so many graphs and it's amazing how quickly
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you can get your blood sugar back into range make it a ritual with your family yeah
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before you put the dishes away and go for a walk yeah and love it you'll be honoring your
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mitochondria and your circadian rhythm at night too there's so many benefits to doing and supporting
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your digestive system helping to calm your your emotional well-being I just there's so many like
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and getting to spend time with your family instead of in front of a TV or whatever I mean that
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connection is invaluable love it all right I could talk to you for hours and hours if we're
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going to close things up with some rapid fire questions oh yay yay okay so what is the best thing
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that we can do for hot flashes what estrogen noted what's the best thing that we can do if we
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struggle with weight loss I would say balance your blood sugar balance your insulin and and move move
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your body what's the best thing that we can do for low energy that's such a good question I would
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also say movement as well but gentle movement and yeah I would yeah those would be my two things
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that I would recommend what's the best thing that we can do for mood swings oh self-care honoring
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yourself taking walks by yourself just just time to yourself yeah maybe understanding yeah right
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yeah that's the best thing that we can do for fatigue the number one thing I would do for fatigue
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is balance blood sugar the number two thing I would do for fatigue is optimizing circadian rhythm
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so going to bed at the same time and waking up at the same time just getting on that circadian
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clock I find is so beneficial for our overall mitochondrial health are you out in the sun for
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seeing the morning I am yeah I'm up at the same time every morning I'm outside in nature every
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morning after my meditation and it's incredible like my body is just my circadian rhythm is programmed
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around a 930 bedtime and I six o'clock wake time and then I'm outside for about at least five to
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seven minutes be and then I have time to myself for probably an hour and a half before my
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sun's awake I think start training and understanding your circadian rhythm and really focusing on that
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as a zone of healing is also going to be the future of health care I agreed yeah agreed and it
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may be hard at first as you're kind of recalibrating but your body so wants to be optimizing that way
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and I've noticed such a major energy shift in my patients we didn't talk about adaptogens but
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adaptogens are such a big area of opportunity from an irovetics standpoint from the ashram using
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herbal teas throughout the day so healing and therapeutic do you have two or three adaptogens
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that you love I do rodeola is probably my favorite I love that's the golden root right talk about
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firing on the brain and supporting the stress response system buffering stress throughout the day
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I love rodeolids a little bit of an activator so I recommend it in the morning I love holy basil
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I love holy basil tea and so that's a very that's one of my favorite adaptogens at night before bed
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a Tulsi tea is so good and then my other one that I love is scissandra again I love that it is a
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just a very vivacious adaptogen it helps to kind of center me but also gives me a little boost
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I know a lot of people love ashwagandha that's a big one but scissandra and rodeola are two of my
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absolute favorites for the morning keep your medicine cabinet open with all of these teas right
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you can cycle these in and out you can rotate them every six to eight weeks they're all therapeutic
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in india I would always my aunties would just grow all these herbs on their balcony for use right
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so matrix healing matrix medicine last two what is your favorite ancient healing remedy
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hmm my favorite ancient healing I would say I think it's meditation I think it's just a calmness
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in the meditation just to kind of get into your body I don't know if there's anything better than
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knowing your body and trusting that needs to be prescribed last one if you could leave our
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listeners with just one takeaway that you're most passionate about right now what would it be
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yeah that you deserve to feel amazing in your body you deserve healing you deserve to feel well
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I think sometimes we don't even believe that we deserve it and then it just you know that
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belief really can be a north star and how we tend to ourselves and a lot of women have been told
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that they don't deserve to feel good they need to take care of everybody else but if we can
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if we can anchor to that deserving of feeling well and feeling amazing to me that shifts everything
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that is the mindset mindset shift that we all deserve and we all we all should get to
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in body I adore you it's such a big concept of this show is like just remembering you are
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your healer you are your greatest healer but you have to believe it mm-hmm you have so much
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inspiration you keep us laughing through your social media you are a mother you are now on your
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eighth book nine nine this is the ninth yeah I have overdone it in life you can see I'm feeling it
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I'm very passionate yes that's what comes off from you and you make things very tangible for your
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audience and thank you for being like having a wisdom but also shedding some lightness and humor
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for your your audience it just I really do feel it your source of inspiration for all of us
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how do you keep in touch with your community what do I do um Instagram is a great place to come
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and find me I do I mean I think we all I mean it's hard it's hard going through life you know
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especially in in transition in midlife and so if I can bring a little bit of you know levity to
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that I love it but also the the podcast and energize with Dr. Marisa like that is I mean if you are
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in this transition and you are looking for support and you're looking for amazing experts like yourself
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like yes please I want women to feel so supported so held and to feel like okay I have got the
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recommendations um and the solutions at my fingertips I can decide what are my non-negotiables
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and I know how to have a educated conversation with my doctor so that we are on the same team
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that's what the show's all about beautiful um I'm excited to have you back yes
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yes please part of my inspiration for this podcast was to gather the female the women that I know
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the tribe of healers that are out there doing the work that you do and like we should just create
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an area for women to go to for the section on like the area that they need information or a sense
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of inspiration or understanding and just like this is the future just honoring our constitution and
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just having something to look forward to instead of the doom and gloom that's been portrayed
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for women for so long so thank you for that yeah absolutely my pleasure
