The Simplicity Sessions

In this episode, I've been talking in a couple of episodes recently about the importance of gut health. I did one a few weeks ago, all about IBS and the real warning signs that can come with that.

We run a lot of stool testing inside of our clinic. When we talk about different testing to run, in an ideal scenario, you would have comprehensive, complete blood work that is done. What this does provide you an opportunity from a serum level perspective in your blood to understand in this snapshot in time and what's been going on in your health that's been building up to a lot of your symptoms that you have going on, what is potentially contributing to that. So blood is always going to be the best.

When we're looking at thyroid markers and full hematology panel, your differentials getting a better understanding of what is going on with iron. Although for true iron pictures, you have to look at what's going on in the gut.

We're going to talk about that today.

Let's dive in!

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• The Simplicity Women's Wellness Clinic | jennpike.com/wellnessclinic

• The Audacious Woman Mentorship | jennpike.com/theaudaciouswoman

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Have a question? Send it over to [email protected] and I'll do my best to share helpful insights, thoughts and advice.

In this episode, I am very excited about today's guest Dr. Allan Bacon, who is here chatting with us, about all things muscle building and understanding how to create a really effective strategy in the gym in terms of your training split. We're going to talk about macros and understanding the application of things like cardio and fat loss.

Let's dive in!

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Website: http://www.MauiAthletics.com

Instagram: @DrAllanBacon

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• The Simplicity Women's Wellness Clinic | jennpike.com/wellnessclinic

• The Audacious Woman Mentorship | jennpike.com/theaudaciouswoman

Connect with Jenn:

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Have a question? Send it over to [email protected] and I'll do my best to share helpful insights, thoughts and advice.

Today is actually an impromptu recording. I had another episode that was going to go live this week, but I just came out of being a guest expert inside one of my colleagues workshops that she was hosting. And I feel so riled up based on a lot of the questions and the concerns, the shares and honestly, the confusion that so many of the women had inside of this.

We talked a lot today about perimenopause, around a lot of the confusion, thinking that your period has to change in order for perimenopause to even be something that has started to think that you have to have every single symptom under the sun in order to be in perimenopause.

Believing the statistics that when we hear the average woman is 51 years old when she goes through menopause, that that means that you're only going to be around 50 when you go into perimenopause, because it only takes a year. I sat there and thought to myself, isn't it so wild how we live in a time right now where we have access to thousands of podcasts? I'm not the first one that you have listened to, and I definitely won't be the last one.

We have access to hundreds of thousands of YouTube channels that we could tune into.

We have Instagram.

People were following Snap and TikTok and Facebook and blogs and email and you name it. And yet still we are confused, we are frustrated, and we are overwhelmed when it comes to understanding our own body.

Let's dive in!

Thank you for joining us today. If you could rate, review & subscribe, it would mean the world to me! While you're at it, take a screenshot and tag me @jennpike to share on Instagram – I'll re-share that baby out to the community & once a month I'll be doing a draw from those re-shares and send the winner something special!

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This episode is sponsored by:

• St. Francis Herb Farm | Go to stfrancisherbfarm.com and save 15% off every order with code JENNPIKE15

• Skin Essence Organics | Go to skinessence.ca and save 15% off your first order with code JENNPIKE15 /// Save 10% off every order with code JENNPIKE10

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Free Resources:

• Free Perimenopause Support Guide | jennpike.com/perimenopausesupport

• Free Blood Work Guide | jennpike.com/bloodworkguide

• The Simplicity Sessions Podcast | jennpike.com/podcast

Programs:

• The Perimenopause Project | jennpike.com/theperimenopauseproject

• The Hormone Project Academy | jennpike.com/thehormoneproject

• Synced Virtual Fitness Studio | jennpike.com/synced

• The Simplicity Women's Wellness Clinic | jennpike.com/wellnessclinic

• The Audacious Woman Mentorship | jennpike.com/theaudaciouswoman

Connect with Jenn:

• Instagram | @jennpike

• Facebook | @thesimplicityproject

• YouTube | Simplicity TV

• Website | The Simplicity Project Inc.

Have a question? Send it over to [email protected] and I'll do my best to share helpful insights, thoughts and advice.

In this episode, I am so excited for my guest today Dr. Kwadwo Kyeremanten. I met him in person a couple of months ago now, and even before I met him, I knew that I wanted to have him on the show. I am always in such awe of people who show up very authentically and have this unapologetic energy to themselves in the world, and he definitely embodies that.

Let's dive in!

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Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/kwadcast/

Website - https://solvinghealthcare.ca/

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This episode is sponsored by:

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Free Resources:

• Free Perimenopause Support Guide | jennpike.com/perimenopausesupport

• Free Blood Work Guide | jennpike.com/bloodworkguide

• The Simplicity Sessions Podcast | jennpike.com/podcast

Programs:

• The Perimenopause Project | jennpike.com/theperimenopauseproject

• The Hormone Project Academy | jennpike.com/thehormoneproject

• Synced Virtual Fitness Studio | jennpike.com/synced

• The Simplicity Women's Wellness Clinic | jennpike.com/wellnessclinic

• The Audacious Woman Mentorship | jennpike.com/theaudaciouswoman

Connect with Jenn:

• Instagram | @jennpike

• Facebook | @thesimplicityproject

• YouTube | Simplicity TV

• Website | The Simplicity Project Inc.

Have a question? Send it over to [email protected] and I'll do my best to share helpful insights, thoughts and advice.

In this episode, I am dropping in with a couple of reminders, maybe not even reminders, maybe these are things you're hearing for the first time about how to really be supporting your nervous system in your forties. I'm saying in your forties, but I think that these are things that you should be doing in your twenties, your thirties, your forties, your fifties, your sixties, your seventies.

I really do believe that these are actually tips for better, healthier nervous system support for all of us that are living at this time, in this moment in history. Because it's a lot, everything that we're dealing with on our handheld devices is non stop information and notifications and, binging and dinging and pming and dming and all of the things that are coming at us from our phones or iPads, laptops, we are just constantly bombarded.

For so many, we can feel like we wake up and, we're eating a healthy breakfast and we're having a healthy lunch and we're eating good food throughout the day. On the surface, you feel like you are doing everything right, but there's this energy in your body or this fatigue, this kind of exhaustion, your body feeling depleted or feeling deficient and you can't quite put your finger on it.

And a lot of the time, especially for women's health and hormones.

Let's dive in!

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This episode is sponsored by:

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• Skin Essence Organics | Go to skinessence.ca and save 15% off your first order with code JENNPIKE15 /// Save 10% off every order with code JENNPIKE10

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Free Resources:

• Free Perimenopause Support Guide | jennpike.com/perimenopausesupport

• Free Blood Work Guide | jennpike.com/bloodworkguide

• The Simplicity Sessions Podcast | jennpike.com/podcast

Programs:

• The Perimenopause Project | jennpike.com/theperimenopauseproject

• The Hormone Project Academy | jennpike.com/thehormoneproject

• Synced Virtual Fitness Studio | jennpike.com/synced

• The Simplicity Women's Wellness Clinic | jennpike.com/wellnessclinic

• The Audacious Woman Mentorship | jennpike.com/theaudaciouswoman

Connect with Jenn:

• Instagram | @jennpike

• Facebook | @thesimplicityproject

• YouTube | Simplicity TV

• Website | The Simplicity Project Inc.

Have a question? Send it over to [email protected] and I'll do my best to share helpful insights, thoughts and advice.

In this episode, I get asked a lot about the things that I do in my life, and I was recently speaking at a women's event and one of the questions that they asked those of us on the panel were things that we stopped doing in our forties. I was like, oh, I had to think about it. I could tell you things that I started to do in my forties, but the things that I stopped doing in my forties. The first thing that came to my mind was I stopped drinking alcohol and I got my butt to bed. But there is more!

Let's dive in!

Thank you for joining us today. If you could rate, review & subscribe, it would mean the world to me! While you're at it, take a screenshot and tag me @jennpike to share on Instagram – I'll re-share that baby out to the community & once a month I'll be doing a draw from those re-shares and send the winner something special!

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This episode is sponsored by:

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• Skin Essence Organics | Go to skinessence.ca and save 15% off your first order with code JENNPIKE15 /// Save 10% off every order with code JENNPIKE10

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Free Resources:

• Free Perimenopause Support Guide | jennpike.com/perimenopausesupport

• Free Blood Work Guide | jennpike.com/bloodworkguide

• The Simplicity Sessions Podcast | jennpike.com/podcast

Programs:

• The Perimenopause Project | jennpike.com/theperimenopauseproject

• The Hormone Project Academy | jennpike.com/thehormoneproject

• Synced Virtual Fitness Studio | jennpike.com/synced

• The Simplicity Women's Wellness Clinic | jennpike.com/wellnessclinic

• The Audacious Woman Mentorship | jennpike.com/theaudaciouswoman

Connect with Jenn:

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• Facebook | @thesimplicityproject

• YouTube | Simplicity TV

• Website | The Simplicity Project Inc.

Have a question? Send it over to [email protected] and I'll do my best to share helpful insights, thoughts and advice.

In this episode, our incredible guest is Megan Lyons. She is a double board-certified holistic and clinical nutritionist and a functional nutrition expert. There is a lot that she could be talking about today, but I really wanted to dial in a conversation about our thyroid health. We also discuss Megan's transition from a Harvard graduate, MBA, and now here she is in the health and wellness space.

Let's dive in!

Thank you for joining us today. If you could rate, review & subscribe, it would mean the world to me! While you're at it, take a screenshot and tag me @jennpike to share on Instagram – I'll re-share that baby out to the community & once a month I'll be doing a draw from those re-shares and send the winner something special!

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This episode is sponsored by:

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Free Resources:

• Free Perimenopause Support Guide | jennpike.com/perimenopausesupport

• Free Blood Work Guide | jennpike.com/bloodworkguide

• The Simplicity Sessions Podcast | jennpike.com/podcast

Programs:

• The Perimenopause Project | jennpike.com/theperimenopauseproject

• The Hormone Project Academy | jennpike.com/thehormoneproject

• Synced Virtual Fitness Studio | jennpike.com/synced

• The Simplicity Women's Wellness Clinic | jennpike.com/wellnessclinic

• The Audacious Woman Mentorship | jennpike.com/theaudaciouswoman

Connect with Jenn:

• Instagram | @jennpike

• Facebook | @thesimplicityproject

• YouTube | Simplicity TV

• Website | The Simplicity Project Inc.

Have a question? Send it over to [email protected] and I'll do my best to share helpful insights, thoughts and advice.

In this episode, we are chatting about my simplicity in six tips for weight loss and for creating a really fit, strong body in your forties. Now, at the time of this recording, I'm just a couple of weeks away from turning 45, so I'm officially into my mid-forties.

I know everyone says this when they hit a certain stage of their life. Well, maybe not everyone, but it seems to be my experience in having conversations with a lot of women. I grew up hearing when you hit your forties, that meant you were old and after 40, your body kind of just felt like it fell apart and went downhill.

My experience has been the opposite, at least in the first half of my forties, and I feel more connected to my body than I ever have in my forties.

Let's dive in!

Thank you for joining us today. If you could rate, review & subscribe, it would mean the world to me! While you're at it, take a screenshot and tag me @jennpike to share on Instagram – I'll re-share that baby out to the community & once a month I'll be doing a draw from those re-shares and send the winner something special!

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This episode is sponsored by:

• St. Francis Herb Farm | Go to stfrancisherbfarm.com and save 15% off every order with code JENNPIKE15

• Skin Essence Organics | Go to skinessence.ca and save 15% off your first order with code JENNPIKE15 /// Save 10% off every order with code JENNPIKE10

• Eversio Wellness | Go to eversiowellness.com/discount/jennpike15 and save 15% off every order with code JENNPIKE15 /// not available for "subscribe & save" option

Free Resources:

• Free Perimenopause Support Guide | jennpike.com/perimenopausesupport

• Free Blood Work Guide | jennpike.com/bloodworkguide

• The Simplicity Sessions Podcast | jennpike.com/podcast

Programs:

• The Perimenopause Project | jennpike.com/theperimenopauseproject

• The Hormone Project Academy | jennpike.com/thehormoneproject

• Synced Virtual Fitness Studio | jennpike.com/synced

• The Simplicity Women's Wellness Clinic | jennpike.com/wellnessclinic

• The Audacious Woman Mentorship | jennpike.com/theaudaciouswoman

Connect with Jenn:

• Instagram | @jennpike

• Facebook | @thesimplicityproject

• YouTube | Simplicity TV

• Website | The Simplicity Project Inc.

Have a question? Send it over to [email protected] and I'll do my best to share helpful insights, thoughts and advice.

In this episode, I am stoked to have Bria Gadd here today, who is known as the period whisperer. She spends her days, time and energy both in her practice and her podcast, helping women reclaim the knowledge that their body has and move to a place of empowerment and knowledge so that they can feel vital and thrive in their bodies, premenopause, menopause and beyond, instead of living the life that many of us have been taught, which is just to survive and get through it.

Not today, not on our watch.

Let's dive in!

Thank you for joining us today. If you could rate, review & subscribe, it would mean the world to me! While you're at it, take a screenshot and tag me @jennpike to share on Instagram – I'll re-share that baby out to the community & once a month I'll be doing a draw from those re-shares and send the winner something special!

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Website - https://www.briatheperiodwhisperer.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bria_period_whisperer/

Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/bria.gadd/

Free Daily Hormone Checklist https://www.briatheperiodwhisperer.com/DailyHormoneChecklist

This episode is sponsored by:

• St. Francis Herb Farm | Go to stfrancisherbfarm.com and save 15% off every order with code JENNPIKE15

• Skin Essence Organics | Go to skinessence.ca and save 15% off your first order with code JENNPIKE15 /// Save 10% off every order with code JENNPIKE10

• Eversio Wellness | Go to eversiowellness.com/discount/jennpike15 and save 15% off every order with code JENNPIKE15 /// not available for "subscribe & save" option

Free Resources:

• Free Perimenopause Support Guide | jennpike.com/perimenopausesupport

• Free Blood Work Guide | jennpike.com/bloodworkguide

• The Simplicity Sessions Podcast | jennpike.com/podcast

Programs:

• The Perimenopause Project | jennpike.com/theperimenopauseproject

• The Hormone Project Academy | jennpike.com/thehormoneproject

• Synced Virtual Fitness Studio | jennpike.com/synced

• The Simplicity Women's Wellness Clinic | jennpike.com/wellnessclinic

• The Audacious Woman Mentorship | jennpike.com/theaudaciouswoman

Connect with Jenn:

• Instagram | @jennpike

• Facebook | @thesimplicityproject

• YouTube | Simplicity TV

• Website | The Simplicity Project Inc.

Have a question? Send it over to [email protected] and I'll do my best to share helpful insights, thoughts and advice.

In this episode, We are talking all about your gallbladder health and perimenopause. This is a really under discussed, overlooked area of our health at any point in our life, but most definitely when we're starting to experience an increase in hormonal symptoms, inflammation, digestive issues, you know, bowel issues, skin issues, energy, weight loss, all of the above. It's something that I see really often in my clients.

In the last couple of years, what I recognized is that there was a direct correlation with, liver stagnation and signs of liver toxicity, or maybe not even toxicity, but just sluggish liver activity, meaning that the liver was not able to do the job that it was meant to do as well. Therefore, we were starting to have some upstream and downstream impact in terms of side effects or symptoms, rather, and the role that the gallbladder was playing in that.

It's very difficult to work on one without working on the other and making sure that they are equally supported, because the liver and the gallbladder, they are working within one another and depend on the health of each other.

Let's dive in!

Thank you for joining us today. If you could rate, review & subscribe, it would mean the world to me! While you're at it, take a screenshot and tag me @jennpike to share on Instagram – I'll re-share that baby out to the community & once a month I'll be doing a draw from those re-shares and send the winner something special!

Click here to listen:

Apple Podcasts – CLICK HERESpotify – CLICK HERE

This episode is sponsored by:

• St. Francis Herb Farm | Go to stfrancisherbfarm.com and save 15% off every order with code JENNPIKE15

• Skin Essence Organics | Go to skinessence.ca and save 15% off your first order with code JENNPIKE15 /// Save 10% off every order with code JENNPIKE10

• Eversio Wellness | Go to eversiowellness.com/discount/jennpike15 and save 15% off every order with code JENNPIKE15 /// not available for "subscribe & save" option

Free Resources:

• Free Perimenopause Support Guide | jennpike.com/perimenopausesupport

• Free Blood Work Guide | jennpike.com/bloodworkguide

• The Simplicity Sessions Podcast | jennpike.com/podcast

Programs:

• The Perimenopause Project | jennpike.com/theperimenopauseproject

• The Hormone Project Academy | jennpike.com/thehormoneproject

• Synced Virtual Fitness Studio | jennpike.com/synced

• The Simplicity Women's Wellness Clinic | jennpike.com/wellnessclinic

• The Audacious Woman Mentorship | jennpike.com/theaudaciouswoman

Connect with Jenn:

• Instagram | @jennpike

• Facebook | @thesimplicityproject

• YouTube | Simplicity TV

• Website | The Simplicity Project Inc.

Have a question? Send it over to [email protected] and I'll do my best to share helpful insights, thoughts and advice.