The Hormone Solution | Menopause, Perimenopause, & Women's Midlife Health

In this Q&A I answer some great questions from our listeners.

1. Carb tolerance testing and weight loss

2. Diet variation, metabolic flexibility and recovering from a low carb diet.

3. Thyroid and adrenal insufficiency specifically about the safety and efficacy of adrenal cortex. Adrenal cortex versus Cortef.

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For over 25 years Kate Deering has been involved in the health and fitness industry helping men and women of all ages achieve optimal health and wellness. Her expertise is based on certifications as a CHEK Exercise Coach, CHEK Holistic Lifestyle Coach 2, Olympic Lifting Coach, Z-health practitioner and a Certified Nutritional Consultant. Kate is the author of the book, "How to Heal Your Metabolism", which gives a completely different perspective on what is healthy for you and what is not. If you think you are doing everything right, and are not getting the results you want, you need to read this book. In this episode

• How Kate went from working out two hours a day and eating a low carb diet to feeling tired, having unexplained weight gain and other hormonal dysfunctions.
• What is the metabolism and how we can test it to see how it is functioning
• Why sugar in the right form is necessary to raise and maintain the metabolism.
• Why dieting and over exercising cause your metabolism to slow down
• How to begin repairing your metabolism so you can eat food and lose weight

You can find Kate at www.katedeering.com

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Often times eating right and exercising simply are not enough to get the body to lose weight.

There are two other big players when it comes to losing weight your gut and your mitochondria. If one or both of these are not functioning properly weight loss will be hard and likely impossible.

In todays episode I give you the low down on how to prepare your body for losing weight successfully without struggling, excessive sugar cravings, fatigue, and unrelenting hunger!

Links discussed in this episode:

• Microbe Formulas
• Heavy Metals Test
• Dr. Jay Davidson on Lyme Disease and Thyroid
• Dr. Todd Watts on Parasites and Thyroid
• Your Guide to Leptin Resistance

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Stacey Robbins is a soulful storyteller and key influencer in the global conversation on healing your life through Hashimoto's. Her award-winning book, "You're Not Crazy and You're Not Alone" is filled with hilarious, honest, and heart-aching moments along the journey of doctors telling her the symptoms were all in her head, to telling her a year and a half later to get her affairs in order.

In her darkest moments she dreamed her life and then, has been able to rise to live the life of her dreams: Raising her family in unique ways, losing 100 pounds, reversing her Hashimotos disease, traveling cross-country and then, to Europe for months on end, leading gorgeous boutique retreats in Italy. https://staceyrobbins.com/

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In today's episode Karen answers some of the listeners questions!

1. Hi Karen first off I love your podcast! I have a question for your Q&A on whether or not you recommend a keto for diet type diet for me. I have heard you discuss the benefits of a keto or carnivore diet to help revers insulin resistance and type two diabetes, But I also have heard you say that those diets aren't good for people with thyroid and adrenal issues. Well I have both hypothyroidism and type diabetes what would you recommend I do?

2. Why is my morning blood glucose so high? My hemoglobin A1c is 5.2 but my morning glucose is 112!

3. Thanks for answering our questions. When I eat low carb, I tend to wake up at 3 am and have a hard time falling back to sleep. However if I have some carbs I generally sleep through the night and wake up a little after 6 am. The problem is when I eat carbs during dinner, I can gain weight overnight. Eating low carb helps me to lose weight. Is there a reason for the interrupted sleep eating low carb?

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Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) is the most common reproductive disorder in the world, affecting an estimated eight to 20 percent of women of reproductive age, almost half of whom are unable to conceive. PCOS is also associated with increased risks of heart disease, ovarian and endometrial cancers, and type 2 diabetes.

​In this episode I talk with fasting and PCOS expert Dr. Nadia Brito Pateguana.

Nadia is a Naturopathic Doctor, Dietary Coach with The Fasting Method by IDM. Works alongside Dr. Jason Fung and Megan Ramos helping people with Metabolic Syndrome with Intermittent Fasting and Low Carb, real food dietary management. Her Focus has been on women's health for over 16 years on diet, PCOS, PMS, Fertility, Pregnancy, Postpartum and Menopausal health.

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Hormone imbalance is the #1 cause of weight loss resistance in women. Unfortunately these imbalances are happening much earlier for women and often times appear in our late 30's or early 40's.

In today's episode;

• The four options you have to test your hormones
• Benefits of testing your hormones
• Which 7 hormones are key to have tested
• Which tests can be done from home and ordered online and which tests are done through your doctor.
• Price point of each test

Purchase your saliva hormone test kit today!

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Episodes discussed:

1. The Stress Epidemic
2. Everything You Need to Know About Perimenopausal Weight Gain
3. Adrenaline Dominance and Your Hormones
4. Insulin Resistance and Weight Loss

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In today's episode, I speak with celebrity nutritionist JJ Virgin about food intolerances and weight loss resistance.

JJ Virgin is a food intolerance specialist, fitness expert, host of her own podcast, author of four New York Times bestsellers including The Virgin Diet, co-host of TLC's Freaky Eaters, and a regular guest on shows like Dr. Phil, Dr. Oz, and many others.

In this episode;

• the difference between food intolerances and food allergies
• the top 7 "health" foods that could be making you fat
• how food intolerances make you gain weight and create weight loss resistance
• the best test and easiest test to find out if you have any of the 7 food intolerances
• how sugar and stress contribute to food intolerances https://jjvirgin.com

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Have you ever reached your weight loss goals only to discover that you are still unsatisfied and full of self-hatred? Have you ever sabotaged your weight loss efforts? Do you look in the mirror each day and cut yourself down? Very few women have a positive outlook on their body when they are trying to lose weight. This lack of self acceptance and self love can stop you from losing weight and/or make it so that you are never satisfied with your efforts.

In this episode;

• I ask you some tough questions that need to be answered in order to reach your weight loss goals.
• What is happening on the brain level that keeps us in a state unnecessary self judgement.
• How we can self sabotage our efforts and subconsciously want to keep the weight on.
• The 6 basic human needs that can help you transform
• How to conquer self acceptance so that you can truly transform

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In 1986, at the bottom of a ten-year spiral into depression, rage, and self-loathing, Byron Katie woke up one morning to a state of constant joy that has never left her. She realized that when she believed her stressful thoughts, she suffered, but that when she questioned them, she didn't suffer, and that this is true for every human being. Her simple yet powerful process of inquiry is called The Work. Eckhart Tolle says, "Byron Katie's Work is a great blessing for our planet." Time magazine calls Katie "a spiritual innovator for the new millennium." The Work consists of four questions and the turnarounds, which are a way of experiencing the opposite of what you believe. When you question a thought, you see around it to the choices beyond suffering. Katie has been bringing The Work to millions of people for more than thirty years. Her public events, weekend workshops, five-day intensives, nine-day School for The Work, and 28-day residential Turnaround House have brought freedom to people all over the world. Byron Katie's books include the bestselling Loving What Is, I Need Your Love—Is That True?, A Thousand Names for Joy, and A Mind at Home with Itself. For more information, visit thework.com.

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Karen Martel is a transformational nutrition coach who specializes in women's weight loss resistance and hormone health.

She is the founder of the OnTrack program for women. OnTrack helps women optimize their weight loss results and balance their hormones. Get started at https://karenmartel.com/ontrack In the OnTrack Program, You Find Out Exactly What is Keeping You From Losing Weight, Balance Your Hormones and Feel Amazing!