Karen martel is a Certified Hormone Specialist, Transformational Nutrition Coach and women’s weight loss expert. Like many root cause health experts, Karen has her own healing journey through severe hormonal dysfunction including hypothyroid, estrogen dominance, and adrenal insufficiency. She educated herself, optimized her food, addressed stress, and was able to balance her hormones and even reverse premature menopause.

Today Karen has a passion for nutrition and women’s hormones, especially bioidentical hormone therapy, perimenopause and menopause, estrogen dominance, thyroid conditions, solving weight loss resistance, and ancestral-based nutrition (Paleo, Ketogenic).

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“There’s no way around it. Food has to be the foundation to every single issue you have in your health and your mind.”

What's Inside:

2:18 Karen's healing journey through hormonal misery

10:30 Conventional docs often don’t run complete panels and might misinterpret the data

12:40 Why full thyroid marker testing is essential

19:15 The importance of reverse T3 (RT3)

21:40 The importance of asking WHY the immune system is attacking  your own body

23:40 A quick and easy way to test your thyroid function. Hint: get an old fashioned analog thermometer. And know which thyroid markers you should have tested.

27:34 Clues you may have thyroid dysfunction

29:39 Cortisol: the survival hormone

34:42 Why we get addicted to go, go, go

37:54 Insulin: why you must change your food first

42:32 Estrogen dominance: what it is and tell tale signs  

52:40 Karen’s big message: You don't have to suffer.

Resources mentioned:

Karen’s website: https://karenmartel.com/

On Track Membership Group: https://coaching.karenmartel.com/

Home test: Letsgetchecked.com

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