This episode is a short and sweet menu of different testing options for your sex hormones. Anna covers blood and urine testing options as well as home monitoring devices. Learn how to make sure you test at the right time in your cycle and possible genetic tests that can be useful. 

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Mira Device

Dutch Complete Hormones + CAR

Oestradiol 

Day 21 Progesterone

Testosterone

Advanced Female Hormones for Oestrogen, Testosterone, Prolactin, LH. FSH

You can refer back to the following blog for examples of different testing options. 

It is a common experience for women with fatigue, chronic illness and other inflammatory conditions to experience hormone imbalances alongside and on top of their primary illness experience. Sex hormones can act like the volume control of the body. As they naturally fluctuate across a month they can turn the volume up and down on symptoms. This is part 1 of a 3 part series where we look at how your sex hormones fluctuate across the different phases of the cycle, what can go wrong and why you might feel better or worse at different stages. Part 2 and Part 3 will focus on testing for female hormone imbalances and things we can do to further support the body respectively. 

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In this episode, Anna offers a framework and a toolbox to support fatigue recovery from a “mindset perspective”. Although it is hard to separate mind and body, we can influence our physiology from the top down using language, cognition, reasoning, and voluntary movement. Anna touches on how you can use the power of these tools to help you get “unstuck” in your chronic illness experience. 

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Navigating a fatigue recovery experience can also come hand in hand with navigating changes in body, shape, and size. For some, this is just part of the process and for others, it can be an uncomfortable experience. In this episode, Anna explains why we might gain weight in fatigue recovery and where weight loss fits in the context of fatigue recovery. She shares guidance for managing food and exercise in support of healthy body weight and minimising weight gain. She ends with a short discussion about where the nervous system may intersect with our attitudes toward weight, exercise, and food. 

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Anna shares her perspective on addressing the imbalance of neurotransmitters in fatigue recovery. She zooms out and offers an understanding about how taking a big-picture view can be much more successful and beneficial in the long term.

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Anna shares a framework for understanding neuroinflammation from her training in Psychoneuroimmunology with Leo Priumbroom. This is based on the understanding that you cannot have chronic disease without neuroinflammation and that neuroinflammation is the universal mechanism behind disease. She takes her time to explain the mechanism of neuroinflammation in both acute and chronic illness and offers insight into how we support the body to find health again.

Black elderberry, black chokeberry, blackcurrant, highbush blueberry, globe artichoke heads, filter coffee, lowbush blueberry, sweet cherry, strawberry, blackberry, plum, red raspberry, flaxseed meal, dark chocolate, chestnut, black tea, green tea, pure apple juice, whole grain rye bread, hazelnut, red wine, soy yoghurt, cacao powder, pure pomegranate juice, soy flour, black grape, black olive, pure grapefruit juice, pure blood orange juice, milk chocolate, spinach, pecan nut, prune, red currant, soy tempeh, peach, soy tofu, green olive, black bean, red onion, green grape, white bean, chocolate beverage with milk, roasted soy bean, potato, shallot, soy milk, red chicory, broccoli.

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Anna shares an update about where she is in her own healing journey. She enters into a discussion about identity and the importance of how we choose to identify with our illness experience. She finishes up sharing some strategies she is using to support her body right now. 

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Are you just managing your fatigue recovery or are you experiencing the deeper healing that is required to fully recover? In this episode Anna talks about the difference between Fatigue Management and true healing, how she distinguishes between the two and how to know which stage you may be in at the moment.

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Knowing what to eat can be really confusing. There are so many mixed messages it’s hard to know if you should be vegan, low carb, carnivore or keto!? In this episode Anna breaks down a step by step framework that you can follow to optimise your diet for energy in a way that hopefully shouldn’t feel too overwhelming and restrictive.

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There comes a point in one’s fatigue recovery journey where you are doing okay but you want more. In this episode Anna talks about how she progressed her daily exercise from walking to getting back into the gym and lifting heavy weights. She talks about important considerations as you take the next step and how you can minimise PEM and support recovery.

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