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Judy Ribner, DNP, CNM, is a midwife doctor and the founder of New York City's largest home birth practice, Holistic Midwifery New York. Judy's journey into midwifery was sparked by her deep appreciation for the innate power and intuition within the birthing process. Having completed her doctorate and graduating as the NYU Valedictorian, Judy brings a wealth of knowledge and expertise to her practice. With a focus on preserving the physiologic process of birth, she cherishes helping individuals tap into their own strength and wisdom.

In this episode, Judy and I talk about the role of natural hormones in guiding labor and birth, potential risks associated with epidurals and synthetic labor hormones like pitocin, the safety of planned home births, the relative risk of hospital births in the United States, the profound impact that honoring the body's wisdom can have on birth outcomes, and so much more!

To learn more, visit https://nicolejardim.com/podcasts/navigating-birth-choices-insights-from-a-midwife-on-home-birth-and-hospital-birth-judy-ribner/.

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Are you ready to transform your menstrual health? Get started with the Fix Your Period Collective by taking my new and improved period quiz, which will translate your responses into a personalized period dashboard that gives you all the answers and solutions you've ever wanted for your cycle and hormone problems. Get started at https://fixyourperiod.com/quiz/.

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Dr. Jaban Moore is a Doctor of Chiropractic who works virtually with clients through functional medicine protocols to assist them in overcoming chronic health conditions and symptoms. He specializes in Lyme disease, Lyme co-infections, PANS/PANDAS, autism, parasitic infections, environmental toxicities, and mitochondrial support.

In this episode, we talk about Dr. Jaban’s struggle with Lyme disease, how you can learn to interpret the messages your hormones are sending you, what makes Lyme disease so problematic, why it’s crucial to address the underlying factors triggering your symptoms, what to do if you think you may have Lyme disease, and so much more!

If you've been struggling with chronic health conditions or symptoms and are looking for answers, this episode could be a game-changer.

To learn more, visit https://nicolejardim.com/podcasts/how-lyme-disease-its-co-infections-impact-hormones-dr-jaban-moore/.

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Are you ready to transform your menstrual health? Get started with the Fix Your Period Collective by taking my new and improved period quiz, which will translate your responses into a personalized period dashboard that gives you all the answers and solutions you've ever wanted for your cycle and hormone problems. Get started at https://fixyourperiod.com/quiz/.

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Dr. Mandy Leonhardt is a fully qualified and GMC-registered GP. She is particularly interested in women’s health, nutrition, and healthy aging, and her ongoing professional development reflects this passion. She offers a private clinic specializing in the holistic assessment and individualized treatment of hormonal imbalances at every stage of a woman’s life: Premenstrual Syndrome (PMS), Perimenopause, and Menopause. She aims to give women the best evidence-based, personally tailored advice about treatment options for hormonal imbalances and healthy aging.

In this episode, Dr. Mandy and I dive into a condition called premature ovarian insufficiency, also known as primary ovarian insufficiency or premature ovarian failure. Dr. Mandy sheds light on what POI is, why it’s so underdiagnosed, the causes of this condition, why POI is hard to treat, and so much more!

To learn more, visit https://nicolejardim.com/podcasts/causes-and-treatments-for-premature-ovarian-insufficiency-with-dr-mandy-leonhardt/.

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Join the Fix Your Period Collective

Are you ready to transform your menstrual health? Get started with the Fix Your Period Collective by taking my new and improved period quiz, which will translate your responses into a personalized period dashboard that gives you all the answers and solutions you've ever wanted for your cycle and hormone problems. Get started at https://fixyourperiod.com/quiz/.

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Lindsey Vestal is an occupational therapist with a special interest in pelvic health. She founded the first in-home pelvic health practice in NYC run by OT, the Functional Pelvis. She teaches OTs how to become rock-star pelvic floor therapists. Lindsey is a pioneer in pelvic health and has dedicated her career to helping individuals.

In this episode, Lindsey and I talk about how occupational therapy supports people, her insights into the importance of a holistic approach to pelvic health, what it looks like to receive trauma-informed care, why practitioners in this field need to be knowledgeable and empathetic, how you can find the right pelvic floor therapist for you, and so much more!

To learn more, visit https://nicolejardim.com/podcasts/a-trauma-informed-approach-to-pelvic-healthcare-lindsey-vestal/.

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Join the Fix Your Period Collective

Are you ready to transform your menstrual health? Get started with the Fix Your Period Collective by taking my new and improved period quiz, which will translate your responses into a personalized period dashboard that gives you all the answers and solutions you've ever wanted for your cycle and hormone problems. Get started at https://fixyourperiod.com/quiz/.

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Holly Grigg-Spall is a well-known author and researcher in women's health whose work has inspired many to question the pharmaceutical industry's approach to birth control.

Holly is the author of the cult hit Sweetening the Pill: Or How We Got Hooked On Hormonal Birth Control. The book was released in 2013 and has since become an underground phenomenon. She is also a producer on a feature documentary, The Business of Birth Control, inspired by Sweetening the Pill, directed by Abby Epstein, and executive produced by Ricki Lake.

In this episode, I’m talking to Holly about Teena (https://myteena.com/), an easy-to-use cycle-tracking device that empowers young girls to understand their bodies better. We discuss why cycle tracking is essential for tweens and teens, why most of what’s on the market today isn’t suitable for this age group, how Teena is helping to fill the gap left by sex education classes, the long-term impact of supporting and empowering young girls about their menstrual cycles, and so much more!

To learn more, visit https://nicolejardim.com/podcasts/cycle-tracking-for-tweens-teens-with-teena-holly-grigg-spall/.

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Join the Fix Your Period Collective

Are you ready to transform your menstrual health? Get started with the Fix Your Period Collective by taking my new and improved period quiz, which will translate your responses into a personalized period dashboard that gives you all the answers and solutions you've ever wanted for your cycle and hormone problems. Get started at https://fixyourperiod.com/quiz/.

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Katie Edmonds is a Nutritional Therapist, Paleo Autoimmune Certified Coach, creator of the popular blog Heal Endo, and author of the 4-Week Endometriosis Diet Plan and Heal Endo: An Anti-inflammatory Approach to Healing from Endometriosis. After putting her endometriosis into remission, something she never knew was possible, Katie has developed education and offerings around a research-backed diet and lifestyle shown to help heal the chronic inflammation and immune dysfunction that those with endometriosis experience.

In this episode, Katie and I talk about her experience of “unraveling by endo,” how she put her endometriosis into complete clinical remission, why endo is so misunderstood, why surgery isn’t a viable option for most people with endo, how you can start to support your immune system and improve your symptoms, and so much more!

To learn more, visit https://nicolejardim.com/podcasts/does-everyone-with-endometriosis-need-surgery-katie-edmonds/.

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Join the Fix Your Period Collective

Are you ready to transform your menstrual health? Get started with the Fix Your Period Collective by taking my new and improved period quiz, which will translate your responses into a personalized period dashboard that gives you all the answers and solutions you've ever wanted for your cycle and hormone problems. Get started at https://fixyourperiod.com/quiz/.

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Catherine Dezynski is a licensed certified nurse midwife and women’s health nurse practitioner. Her clinical areas of expertise include family planning, colposcopy, office-based gynecology, and labor management. Catherine is a member of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG), Nurse Practitioners in Women’s Health (NPWH), and the American Society for Colposcopy and Cervical Pathology (ASCCP). Catherine is also a medical science liaison for BD, a global medical technology company and the creator of advanced cervical cancer screening tests.

In this episode, we talk about why cervical cancer is underdiagnosed, shocking statistics on the rates of diagnosis and death, how the testing innovations at BD help women prevent cervical cancer before it starts, why HPV testing is recommended alongside Pap smears, what you need to know about the HPV vaccine, and so much more!

To learn more, visit https://nicolejardim.com/podcasts/advanced-cervical-cancer-testing-that-could-save-your-life-catherine-dezynski/.

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Join the Fix Your Period Collective

Are you ready to transform your menstrual health? Get started with the Fix Your Period Collective by taking my new and improved period quiz, which will translate your responses into a personalized period dashboard that gives you all the answers and solutions you've ever wanted for your cycle and hormone problems. Get started at https://fixyourperiod.com/quiz/.

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Coach Gessie Thompson is a fibroids survivor turned Health Activist and Founder of the online wellness platform TheDeToxNow.com. She works with celebrities and everyday women daily to eliminate the health equity gap by educating and empowering BIPOC women and families with resources, detoxes, herbal supplements, programs, coaching, and a community support system that helps their bodies heal and prevent inflammatory conditions such as Fibroids, diabetes, high blood pressure, infertility and more.

In this episode, Gessie and I talk about the deeply ingrained medical bias against black women, how women of color are frequently dismissed by medical professionals, the shocking new study highlighting the toxicity of hair relaxers, why black and brown women have disproportionately high exposure to environmental toxins, the ongoing fight for reproductive justice, Gessie’s commitment to empowering women with the information and tools to have the best possible outcome, and so much more!

To learn more, visit https://nicolejardim.com/podcasts/the-state-of-emergency-of-black-womens-health-gessie-thompson/.

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Join the Fix Your Period Collective

Are you ready to transform your menstrual health? Get started with the Fix Your Period Collective by taking my new and improved period quiz, which will translate your responses into a personalized period dashboard that gives you all the answers and solutions you've ever wanted for your cycle and hormone problems. Get started at https://fixyourperiod.com/quiz/.

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Sandra Sharpe is a Certified Functional Medicine Health Coach who focuses on the gut and hormone connection and helps women restore hormone balance through a root cause approach. Through her health obstacles with gut and hormonal imbalances, debilitating PMS, chronic migraines, Hashimoto's Thyroiditis, hypothyroidism, and thyroid cancer, Sandra realized that there were massive gaps in the women's health space. After years of educating herself about these topics and getting the answers she needed, her mission is to help women worldwide finally get the education, support, and tools they've always needed.

In this episode, we talk about why women need to be proactive about our thyroid health, how the thyroid connects with almost every period-related problem and impacts fertility, symptoms of thyroid imbalance, what you need to know about thyroid testing, how you can start to improve your thyroid health without being overwhelmed, and so much more!

To learn more, visit https://nicolejardim.com/podcasts/how-your-thyroid-affects-your-cycles-fertility-sandra-sharpe/.

This episode is brought to you by Knix. Visit Knix.com to shop for period underwear and more.

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Mentioned in this episode:

Join the Fix Your Period Collective

Are you ready to transform your menstrual health? Get started with the Fix Your Period Collective by taking my new and improved period quiz, which will translate your responses into a personalized period dashboard that gives you all the answers and solutions you've ever wanted for your cycle and hormone problems. Get started at https://fixyourperiod.com/quiz/.

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Mari Dickerson is an integrative coach and psychotherapist specializing in women's health, trauma, and spirituality. She holds a master's degree in clinical social work from NYU and has worked in the mental health and healing field for over ten years. As a multi-passionate healer, Mari has training in yoga, meditation, reiki, psychoanalysis, addiction treatment, EMDR and women's health and hormones. In her work with women, Mari integrates the basics of menstrual health and body literacy with trauma work and supportive coaching to help female clients reduce symptoms, get in touch with their intuition, and find their feminine power.

In this episode, we talk about how Mari first made the connection between hormones and psychology, why she takes a very different approach from traditional mental health therapy, the history of hysteria and its connection to patriarchal oppression, bridging the gap between the mental health and health coaching fields, and so much more!

To learn more, visit https://nicolejardim.com/podcasts/female-hormones-and-feminine-psychology-mari-dickerson/.

This episode is brought to you by Knix. Visit Knix.com to shop for period underwear and more.

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Mentioned in this episode:

Join the Fix Your Period Collective

Are you ready to transform your menstrual health? Get started with the Fix Your Period Collective by taking my new and improved period quiz, which will translate your responses into a personalized period dashboard that gives you all the answers and solutions you've ever wanted for your cycle and hormone problems. Get started at https://fixyourperiod.com/quiz/.

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