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Estrogen dominance is at an all-time high for women 35 years or older in this country. Estrogen dominance can be linked to everything from allergies to autoimmune disorders, breast cancer, infertility and an increased acceleration in your aging process. So what can we do about estrogen dominance? That is where this episode comes in.

If you have been told that your symptoms are only fixable through hormonal birth control, hormone replacement, or just something you ‘don’t need to worry about’, I am here to set the record straight. Today I am taking a deep dive into estrogen dominance and covering everything that you need to know. 

If you are concerned that you may be struggling with estrogen dominance, this is the episode for you. Everything from naturally reversing estrogen dominance, especially if you are in perimenopause, to the biggest risks and symptoms associated with estrogen dominance are on the table today so that you can gain a clear picture of what is going on inside your body. 

What really matters is focusing on loving your gut and loving your liver so that your hormonal pathways can start to serve you instead of hinder you. By taking the steps to address and reversing your estrogen dominance you can take back control of your own health through natural solutions and lifestyle changes that can support your body. 

Are you ready to learn about the role of your different bodily functions when it comes to regulating hormones, detoxifying your cells and making changes so that you feel the best you can? Share your story of estrogen dominance and how you turned it around with us in the comments section on the episode page.

“I can fully relate to this story and fully relate to the concerns. Because it definitely begs the question of ‘could I have prevented that Hashimotos if I had addressed the estrogen dominance much earlier’? Again, it’s all about getting to the root causes.” (8:09)

“Those root causes, they come into the system, and I want to talk about how they ultimately end up throwing off your estrogen levels.” (14:17)

“This is why I can’t emphasize enough how important it is to love, optimize, just shower your liver with so much yummy goodness, because it is literally the gatekeeper to save estrogen metabolism.” (18:37)

“Whether you fully know if you have got an estrogen dominant issue or not, this is win-win, this is a mega win-win.” (21:56)

“Too often we don’t cleanse gently enough or for long enough to get real results. But this detox was designed to give you the perfect amount of time with the least amount of guess-work and hassle.” (33:04)

“What if radical self-healing was one step away, and it only took 14 days to jumpstart your hormone balance?” (35:17)

Resources Mentioned:

Register for the 14 Day Hormone Weight-Loss Detox Here

EY 154: How to Optimize Liver Function to Balance Your Hormones 

The Smart Moms Guide to Essential Oils by Dr. Mariza

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I truly believe that your morning routine sets your tone for the whole day. But did you know that your morning routine can also help you boost your metabolism and get rid of that stubborn weight just based on what you are putting in your body?

A Metabolism Routine Built for Busy Women

Nagina Abdullah is a health coach for women professionals, physicians, and 7-figure entrepreneurs who teaches women how to lose 20-60+ pounds even while working 60+ hours a week. Nagina created her metabolism-boosting morning routine to help herself and other women who have tried everything and are ready to successfully lose weight and create a sustainable and fun lifestyle change.

Why Your Mornings Hold the Power

Nagina’s routine mimics my morning routine exactly, which is why I am so excited to have her on the show today. Nagina knows first hand the importance of a solid morning routine and has created her plan to help women focus on adding foods that make them feel better instead of playing into the diet culture mindset of restriction. 

Most people don't associate losing weight with having fun, but with Nagina’s, the two go hand in hand and create sustainable, long-lasting results.

Boosting Your Metabolism Starts With Your Plate

When you have a metabolism-boosting morning routine, you will see slimming in your belly and the numbers on the scale dropping no matter if you are in perimenopause, menopause, or post-menopause. Nagina has seen women who have been trying to lose weight for decades finally start to see the results they have been craving with her super simple morning routine that focuses on additions instead of restrictions. 

With Nagina’s simple, cheap and easy solutions, you can embrace the tested and perfected fat-burning framework that helps you boost your metabolism throughout the day solely based on what is on your plate. If you are looking for the exact steps you need to get the weight off, keep it off, and boost your metabolism while having fun, this is the morning routine for you.

Are you already doing one of Nagina’s three major recommendations to boost your metabolism? What is working for you in your morning routine? Share which of her tips was your favorite with me in the comments section of the episode page.

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Resources Mentioned:

Get The Essential Oil Menopause Solution Book Here

5-Day Slim Down for Fierce, Feminine Leaders

Masala Body Website

Healthy Lifestyle for Professional Female Leaders Facebook Group

Follow Nagina on Instagram | LinkedIn | Pinterest

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Essentially You Episode #256: How to Build Lean Muscle and Boost Your Metabolism Based On Your Menstrual Cycle with Dr. Stephanie Estima

Essentially You Episode #192: How to Makeover Your Metabolism For Long-Term Success with Mark Sisson

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If you want to feel good, have energy throughout the entire day, get a good night's sleep, and successfully achieve your ideal weight, it is essential to get your inflammatory levels under control. Inflammation is the driver of most major diseases, but the good news is that you can use food and fasting to fight inflammation and regulate your hormones.

Gain Metabolic Flexibility and Find Food Peace

Dr. Will Cole is a leading functional-medicine expert who consults people worldwide and specializes in clinically investigating underlying factors of chronic disease and customizing a functional medicine approach. His new book, Intuitive Fasting, shows how to use the powerful benefits of flexible intermittent fasting to gain metabolic flexibility and find food peace.

Intuition Is Key

We all have an inflammatory response system that is unique to us, which is why Dr. Will encourages the use of intuitive fasting to learn what your body loves and hates. Fasting allows your cells to clean things up and allows your body to burn fat for fuel first and sugar for fuel when you need it. Dr. Will wants you to use fasting as a way to grow in your intuitive awareness of what feels good for your body specifically so that you can adopt fasting practices into your life long term. 

The combination of flexible, vacillating, intermittent fasting, along with a nutrient-rich ketotarian diet, can help you find your unique sweet spot, increase your metabolic flexibility, and fuel your body with the foods you love.

Not Another Fad Diet

While the idea of fasting may seem like another fad diet, it couldn’t be further from that. Our bodies and genetics are designed to make the most of fasting in a healthy way, and the benefits of fasting are literally coded into our DNA.

In addition to fasting, a ketotarian diet can mimic the same benefits of fasting, allowing for more powerful results. Finding the right foods for your body and when to eat them can help stop inflammation in its tracks and allow you to really get aligned with what your body needs from you.

Have you ever tried fasting? Are you looking to have your intuition guide you in the way you take back control of your health? Share your thoughts on Dr. Will Cole’s Intuitive Fasting framework with me in the comments section of the episode page.

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Resources Mentioned:

Dr. Will Cole Website

Intuitive Fasting by Dr. Will Cole

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Related Episodes: 

Essentially You Episode #133: Understanding Inflammation and Your Individual Food Triggers with Dr. Will Cole

Essentially You Episode #32: Calm Inflammation with the Ketotarian Diet with Dr. Will Cole

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Your menstrual cycle can impact your energy, metabolism, and even your creativity. So doesn't it make sense that you could leverage the four phases of your cycle to achieve optimal health and metabolic flexibility? While your body is constantly evolving every month, there are some simple ways that you can increase your metabolic flexibility, start eating for your cycle and become more in tune with your innate intuitive bodily wisdom. 

Leveraging Your Cycle for Optimal Health

Dr. Stephanie Estima is an expert in metabolism and body composition. She is focused on distilling strategies in nutrition, movement, and mindset to actualize human potential, longevity, and achievement. She is here today to share ways to navigate your hormones' changing landscape to treat your body right.

Eating in Tune with Your Cycle

Hormone imbalance, your stress response system, your menstrual cycle, and your metabolism are all deeply interconnected. The truth is, all women are born with the ability to burn fat for fuel or sugar for fuel, but we are never taught how to access the fat-burning pathway. Dr. Stephanie suggests starting there and then moving to a female ketogenic diet to introduce a nutrition plan that is in tune with your menstrual cycle.

Women are designed to have different needs during each of our four phases, but no woman is the same. Once you understand your natural rhythm and how long you stay in each phase, you can customize everything from your meal plan to your workout to better serve your body. In the long run, this will make you more metabolically flexible, decrease your perceived stress, and better prepare you for the hormonal changes in your present and future.

Listen to Your Body

As a woman, it is so important to learn how to listen to your body signals. Dr. Stephanie and I know that every woman is like a snowflake, and you have to take the time to learn how you uniquely operate. By taking ownership of our bodies, learning how to let your intuition be your guiding light, and understanding what you need for your female physiology, you can leverage your cycle to match up with your nutritional profile and start seeing the results you have been looking for. 

You get to choose the way you view your thoughts, your body, and your hormones. Perimenopause, menopause, and beyond can be an incredibly exciting, sexy, and fun time if you listen to what your body is telling you and honor and adapt to the changes your body is going through.

Resources Mentioned:

Register for the Perimenopause and Menopause Relief Summit

4-Week Meal Plan Free Gift

The Betty Body by Dr. Stephanie Estima

Dr. Stephanie Estima Website

The Estima Diet Protocol

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Have you ever felt misinformed or uninformed about the changes that your body is growing through during perimenopause and menopause? You are not alone, as there are millions of women just like you who are trying to navigate their bodies during their 30’s, 40’s, 50’s and beyond with little to no help or understanding.

How To Embrace Hormone Changes Naturally

I believe that every woman deserves to know how their body is working and what these hormonal changes mean, and how you can embrace this new stage of life with ease and grace.

Perimenopause can start in your mid-to-late 30’s and last anywhere from 4-12 years. While that may seem like a daunting number, the truth is that you have a lot more control over your hormones and this hormone transition that you have been led to believe. 

While your body is unique and there is no way to predict how it will react to these hormone changes, there are a lot of levers you can pull to ensure that this transition is as simple as possible for you and your body.

Setting Your Body up for Success

Many women are allowing their bodies to pay the price for decades of feeling stressed out and doing everything for everyone all the time, which sets us up for a crazy rocky hormone transition. But, the good news is that your hormones are constantly changing and adjusting to the environment you are in, and there is a lot to enjoy in this new stage of self-discovery.

By setting yourself up with the protocols mentioned in this episode, as well as the free Perimenopause and Menopause Relief Summit, you can set your body up for success as much as possible. What we do everyday dictates so much of how our body responds to life, especially during menopause and menopause.

Are you ready to join in the game-changing perimenopause and menopause relief summit? Let me know which speaker you are most excited to hear from in the comments section of the episode page.

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Resources Mentioned:

Register for the Perimenopause and Menopause Relief Summit

Related Episodes: 

Essentially You Episode #243: What You Need to Know About the Stages of Perimenopause and How To Address Them 

Essentially You Episode #211: What Is the Difference Between Perimenopause and Menopause and Why Is It So Confusing?

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I know first hand how frustrating it can be to not know what is going on with your body. The #1 most disruptive symptom I hear from women in perimenopause and beyond is unexplained weight gain and weight loss resistance. Often times it’s a combination of hormones and lifestyle that can be the culprit, but it takes some work to figure out your unique weight loss code.

You Are Not Alone in This Struggle

Karen Martel is a Certified Transformational Nutrition Coach and weight loss and hormone expert. After finding stubborn weight after the birth of her first child, Karen tried everything that other women were doing but still found no success. It wasn’t until a naturopath ran a hormone lab that she realized the real source of her issues.

Karen is determined to bring this knowledge to other women, and help them breakthrough weight loss resistance to find their own personal weight loss code. Through nutrition and hormone optimization, Karen is passionate about helping the millions of other women dealing with these issues figure their bodies out.

The Goldilocks Protocol

Almost every woman in North America is dealing with some sort of cortisol or insulin issue but doesn’t know it. When we enter our late 30’s and early 40’s, our progesterone and estrogen start to drop and can wreak havoc on our hormone levels. A common side effect of this change in hormones is weight gain, but it takes an individualized protocol to figure out what is going to work for you.

Over-exercising, restricting our food intake, and trying to place a bandaid on our root cause of hormone issues is not doing you any good. You can’t lie to yourself about your health, and it is time you started listening to what your body is trying to tell you to find lasting change.

Finding The Diet That Works For You

As women, we are constantly bombarded with the next new diet that promises to cure all of our concerns. In reality, these fad diets are ruining your metabolism and making us suffer. Methodologies such as the ketogenic diet or intermittent fasting can work as a therapeutic way to get your hormones back on track, but they are not sustainable in the long term, especially for women.

Karen recommends a primal based diet, which is easier to follow and puts you in a natural caloric deficit without all of the sufferings. While there is no magic pill to fix your root cause issues, coming to terms with that and putting the work into figuring out your personal weight loss code can have a game-changing effect on your overall health.

Resources Mentioned:

Register for the Perimenopause and Menopause Relief Summit

Karen Martel Website

The Other Side of Weight Loss Podcast

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Have you spent your 20’s going non-stop, only to feel the physical burden of your constant busyness now? Often times we don't even realize how bad we feel because we get used to it as our ‘normal’. But the truth is, self-care is a non-negotiable for survival, and you deserve a minute to pause and take care of yourself.

The Feel-Good Effect With Robyn Downs

Robyn Downs has been in the same position you are. Robyn has dedicated her life to spreading the feel-good effect. Using simple, science-backed strategies, Robyn helps people implement small hinges that can create big change when it comes to their emotional and physical wellbeing. Her work taps into cutting-edge science and psychology, neuroscience, mindfulness, and habits to help you find more calm, ease, and joy in your life right now.

Gentle Is the New Perfect

Robyn lives by the motto that ‘gentle is the new perfect’. By rejecting the striving mindset that so many of us have been caught up in, Robyn wants you to focus on what feels good instead. 

The feel-good mindset focuses on self-compassion, flexible thinking, and gratitude, the exact opposite of the striving mindset. Despite what you may have been told, being kind to yourself will not make you lazy or a quitter. But it will allow you to stop striving for perfectionism and make space for joy and rest in your daily life.

Get in Where You Fit In

You may think that you don't have time for self-care or to take a break. With Robyn’s 5-minute wellness routine, you can practice shifting your mindset for just an instant and see what a world of difference it can make. 

Robyn’s system puts into place actionable ways that you can put yourself into a feel-good state. By practicing the 4 R’s, revive, refresh, restore and rest, you can customize how it works into your life in as little as 5 minutes. The beauty in Robyn’s method is that it allows you to stop being productive and take some time to create actions and habits that are solely related to how you feel. 

Can you relate to our stories today? Are you feeling the physical repercussions of busyness and are ready to create small changes to support your brain and body? Share how you will create more ease in your life through a 5-minute wellness routine with me in the comments section of the episode page.

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Resources Mentioned:

Register for the Perimenopause and Menopause Relief Summit

The Feel Good Effect by Robyn Downs 

Real Food Whole Life Website

The Feel Good Effect Podcast

Join the Real Food Whole Life Community

Follow Robyn on Instagram | Pinterest

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Essentially You Episode #149: Why Mindfulness and Mindset Are Key To Healing Miracles with Elaina Ray

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If You Want To Stop Dieting Unsuccessfully, You Should:

Health resolutions and diets often bring in a new year, but that is not the best way to improve how you feel. Changing your health outcome starts with what is on your fork, and all it takes is simple and actionable changes.

Nutrition and Fitness as a Skill

Rachel Freiman is the CEO of MindStrong Fitness and is passionate about teaching others the skills necessary to ditch diets forever and embrace nutrition and fitness. Rachel is an educator at heart and focuses on both the mental and physical sides to building healthy and sustainable habits.

Why You Need to Break Up with Dieting

The truth is, diets are not sustainable. The belief that we haven't lost weight because we haven't found the ‘right’ diet stems from companies trying to sell you things. Rachel believes that the key to long-term health is education and developing the skills to focus less on restriction and more on what makes you feel good. 

Changing your mindset and healing your relationship with food will help you realize that the problem isn't you; it is the methods you have been using. Getting out of the ‘all in or all out’ mindset and instead focusing on the pleasure principle will give you the momentum you need to stop playing into the one size fits all diet industry.

Figuring Out Your Personal Macroplan

If you want to change your health, you need a personalized approach that is going to work for you and your body. Even if you have the strongest willpower in the world, telling yourself ‘no’ to foods you enjoy will not last. 

Labeling foods as good or bad, or working out in ways that don't actually provide the results you are searching for, is doing nothing for your physical or mental health. By approaching nutrition and exercise as a skill, you can develop habits that will serve you much better in the long run.

Are you ready to throw out your health resolutions for 2021? Share how you are supporting your body in a way that serves you in the comments section of the episode page.

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Resources Mentioned:

Free Perimenopause and Menopause Relief Summit

Becoming MindStrong: The Truth About Health, Fitness, and the Bullsh*t That's Holding You Back by Rachel Freiman

MindStrong Fitness Website

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Essentially You Episode #208: How Exercise Can Either Boost Your Metabolism or Damage It At Age 40+ With Debra Atkinson

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SIBO, or Small Intestine Bacterial Overgrowth, affects millions of people but can be difficult to nail down. Unlike other gut imbalances, SIBO happens when there is an overgrowth of bacteria in the upper part of your digestive tract. Because of the importance of the location of this bacteria, it takes the right support to heal your gut and reduce your inflammation.

Healing SIBO Through Food with Phoebe Lapine

Phoebe Lapine believes that food can and should be medicine. A writer, gluten-free chef, culinary instructor, Hashimoto’s advocate and so much more, Phoebe is here to share her story of autoimmune disease and healing SIBO from the inside out.

What You Need To Know About SIBO

Due to stress, lifestyle factors, and hormones, women suffer from SIBO far more often than men. It is important to understand the connections between all of these factors so that you can uncomplicate your symptoms and work on finding the healing protocol that is right for you. 

Everything from structural issues in your gut to your body's ability to kill bacteria can have an impact on your likelihood of developing SIBO. Gas, bloating, thyroid hormones, and so much more can play a role here, which is why it is essential to equip yourself with the necessary knowledge to address your gut dysbiosis in the best way possible.

Finding the Right Treatment for Your Body

Addressing bacteria overgrowth takes an individualized approach to be the most effective possible. Antibiotics, herbs, and different diets can all be helpful depending on your unique sensitivity, lifestyle, and detox methods. It is important to know what you are working with before you start to treat your symptoms. 

Phoebe suggests starting from a place of anti-inflammatory protocols. You don't have to stop enjoying food to cure your gut bacteria; all it takes is the knowledge to guide yourself through gut complications and get to a place of a beautifully diverse diet. Phoebe is a real example of the amazing possibilities of healing SIBO and clearing up what is going on in the body through food, lifestyle, and body kindness.

Do you or someone you love suffer from SIBO? Share which of Phoebe’s tips you are going to incorporate into your daily routine with me in the comments section of the episode page.

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Resources Mentioned:

Order the SIBO Made Simple Book Here

SIBO Made Simple Website

SIBO Made Simple Podcast

Feed Me Phoebe Website

The Wellness Project Website

Follow Phoebe on Instagram

Dr. Allison Siebecker Website

Related Episodes: 

Essentially You Episode #230: Dismantling Myths About Leaky Gut, Gut Health and Probiotics with Tina Anderson

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Stress can not only impact your mood and energy, it can actually change the way in which your brain responds to the source of your stress response. For so many women who are combating stress on the daily, this chronic affliction can have serious long-term effects on their physical health, mental state, and overall wellbeing.

Heal Your Life From Chronic Stress

Dr. Jennifer Love is board-certified in psychiatry, addiction psychiatry, and medicine, and is the new co-author of the book When Crisis Strikes: 5 Steps to Heal Your Brain, Body, and Life from Chronic Stress. Dr. Love is passionate about helping others get to the bottom of their stress bucket and loves to help others find a way to live life without chronic stress pulling them down.

Stress Is Like Snorkeling

Dr. Love believes that life is like snorkeling. Often we can be distracted by everything that is happening around us, focusing on keeping an eye out for sharks and enjoying the brilliance of the world under the sea. But suddenly we can look up and realize that we have drifted out past where we started and no longer recognize our surroundings anymore. 

Stress works just like snorkeling, which is why we have to take the time to check on ourselves, remove the distractions, and pull ourselves back into shore. Walking through these steps can help you evaluate how you react to chronic stress and take action to better handle your problems.

The Five Steps To Get a Grip on Stress

The five steps outlined in Dr. Love’s new book can help you get a grip on your stress, figure out what you can about an issue, take action, and reflect on what you have been through. The time of introspection is crucial when analyzing if the actions and thought patterns you have are adding value to your life, or just creating more chaos. 

None of us have time to get hung up in the vicious cycle of chronic stress. Dr. Love’s tools can help you get to the bottom of your stress bucket so that you can face new stressful challenges with the capacity to combat whatever happens.

Are you ready to stop living in a cycle of chronic stress and start empowering yourself to engage with what serves you? Share which of Dr. Love’s tips you are going to implement into your daily routine with me in the comments section of the episode page.

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Resources Mentioned:

Calm & Restore Instant Chewable

When Crisis Strikes: 5 Steps to Heal Your Brain, Body, and Life from Chronic Stress by Dr. Jennifer Love and Kjell Tore Hovik

Love + Hovik Website

Follow Dr. Love on Instagram

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Essentially You Episode #178: Are You Addicted to Stress? How To Banish Stress with 3 Strategies

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