In this Guest Expert segment, Gina talks hormones and weight loss with Dr. Olinca Trejo. Dr. Olinca is a licensed, board-certified Naturopathic Doctor in the province of Ontario. She also holds an honours degree in Kinesiology and has achieved her certification and internship in bioidentical hormone replacement therapy (BHRT).

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Topics covered:

• Introducing the topic of hormones. So, what are hormones?
• There are so many hormones that play a role in supporting your body in this process
• The role of melatonin, cortisol, and reproductive hormones in SLEEP
• What happens to your body when you are not getting that deep sleep and the impact on weight loss
• When you are tired, you are more likely to make choices that are not aligned with your goals
• Sleep deprivation and the impact on insulin and your blood sugar levels 
• Perimenopause and menopause and the hormones that impact your sleep
• The impact of reduced quality of sleep on men and their hormones
• How working on your sleep helps your hormones
• The effect of poor quality sleep on your ability to cope with stress and your resilience
• Stress and your flight or fight response and the hormones that play a role
• Are you living in a constant state of stress?
• Women, as a result of how we are socialized, do you care for everyone else but yourselves
• Finding the opportunity to deal with that stress
• The impact of stress on your weight loss journey
• Starving yourself is one of the most stressful things you can do to your body
• Hormones involved in your metabolism; the role of your thyroid
• Ghrelin and Leptin and the impact on your weight loss
• Insulin resistance and chronic stress
• Dopamine and its impact on your choices and your metabolism
• Our current food environment gives us way too much dopamine
• Estrogen, testosterone and progesterone and your mood 
• The role of dopamine and serotonin on your mood
• How restrictive diets impact your serotonin levels
• Oxytocin and the importance of community to your weight loss journey
• Are your hormones in a traffic jam?
• If you are making an effort to maximize, you are doing so much to help your hormones
• The role that hormones play in women is only starting to be understood
• Your metabolism is truly impacted by the amount of muscle mass you have on your body 
• Menopause and perimenopause and the impact on your mood and body composition
• Medications during menopause and perimenopause and having that conversation
• Wellness is not a state of being. It's a state of action
• Men's hormones and the reduction in testosterone, what else could be going on? 
• Testosterone therapy for men
• Take action!! There are so many things that you can do to make a real difference and help you lose weight

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