The Simplicity Sessions

Joy McCarthy is a Holistic Nutritionist and founder of JoyousHealth.com, an award-winning blog focused on healthy living. She is a two-time bestselling author of Joyous Health and Joyous Detox, a World Gourmand Cookbook Award recipient. Her third book, The Joyous Cookbook, comes out in 2019. A trusted nutrition expert, Joy has been featured in hundreds of publications both online and in print from CBC to CNN; and is a regular health expert on television including Cityline and CTV's Your Morning. Co-founder of the Joyous Health Business Program and creator of the Joyous Health Natural Body Care Line. Joy lives in Toronto with her husband Walker and their daughter Vienna. Joy loves social media and shares her passion for food, family and fun as a way to channel positive energy into the lives of others.

Joy shares her passion about the relationship between the gut microbiome and your overall health. Recent research shows that we are more bacteria than we are human, that is why taking care of these bacteria has a vital importance.

The foundations of good gut health start with regular bowel movements which are essential for keeping hormone balance, as they directly contribute to hormone detoxification.

There are many key foods that are very effective at supporting the body's natural detoxification process, like kale, cabbage, arugula, broccoli, cauliflower, and sea vegetables which protect the liver. A healthy diet should include vegetables and fruits rich in fiber like spinach, apples, pears and green beans. The variety of these healthy foods makes a difference in assisting the detoxification of your systems. If you've experienced problems digesting raw foods, Joy also gives her best tips on how to start introducing them back into your diet.

Joy shares how the skin, as the largest channel of elimination, can be cared in different ways:

• ● dry brushing,
• ● showering the right way in order to protect your skin microbiome,
• ● and getting rid of the beauty products that are adding toxins and chemicals instead of enhancing your natural beauty and health.
• Joy, as a mother and an entrepreneur, has to juggle and sort her way through the daily chaos to create space for her own health, and in this episode she is giving out the best tips for real, strong, loving, sensitive and creative women to live their lives in a joyful and healthy way.
• Wishing you more simplicity and ease in all that you do!
• Get in touch Joy McCarthy:
• Learn more about Joy McCarthy
• The Natural Hair Care Challenge is a great way to love and nourish your way to natural, luscious hair in four weeks!
• This FREE Natural Hair Care Challenge will help you discover the difference nourishing foods and natural supplements can have for healthy hair from within. Plus you'll learn to do a hair detox and be able to wash your hair LESS!
• Joy McCarthy on Instagram
• Joy McCarthy on Facebook
• Online working with Jenn:
• To register for my signature program The Hormone Project and work with me 1:1 to support your health, hormones and more, please join the waitlist at jennpike.com/thehormoneproject
• Learn more about Jenn's work:
• Jenn Pike
• The Hormone Project
• The Simplicity Project Shop for books, DVDs, programs and much more!
• Get your free Syncing Guide!
• Simplicity TV on Youtube
• Quotes:
• "On the gut microbiome: research shows that we are more bacteria than we are human."
• "Having a good bowel movement is a way of detoxing your hormones."
• "It is dangerous to go through a detox diet without having the elimination channels opened, like pooping, sweating and urinating properly"
• "The skin is your larger channel of elimination."
• "If you can start to do one thing for your health, drink more water!"
• Additional Information About Jenn:
• Jenn studied and graduated with honors in Human Anatomy and Physiology with such a passion that it propelled her to continue her education over many years. Jenn is a Registered Holistic Nutritionist, Medical Exercise Specialist, Registered Yoga Instructor and Faculty of the Toronto Yoga Conference, Pre & Post Natal Yoga Expert, STOTT Pilates trained instructor, Twist Sport Conditioning Coach, Spin Instructor Crossfit Level 1 Coaching, among other certifications she got along the way. She is also a guest Holistic Expert for Breakfast Television, Global, CHCH, Rogers Tv and writes columns for STRONG Fitness Magazine, iRun magazine, Savvy Mom and contributes to Inside Fitness Magazine, The Toronto Star and Sun. She is also a proud educator and ambassador to Genuine Health, Nature's Emporium and Juice Plus.
• Jenn is a proud mama to two beautiful souls and her best teachers of life. She resides on Lake Simcoe in Keswick with her husband and two children.

Joy McCarthy is a Holistic Nutritionist and founder of JoyousHealth.com, an award-winning blog focused on healthy living. She is a two-time bestselling author of Joyous Health and Joyous Detox, a World Gourmand Cookbook Award recipient. Her third book, The Joyous Cookbook, comes out in 2019. A trusted nutrition expert, Joy has been featured in hundreds of publications both online and in print from CBC to CNN; and is a regular health expert on television including Cityline and CTV's Your Morning

Women's cycles are a superpower that can be tapped into, if you know when, how, and what to do. Cycles also go through different phases that must be understood and respected.

Today on the podcast I'm interviewing Megan from Zesty Ginger. Megan talks about the nutritional approach she uses for women with hormonal imbalances, and how, in her experience, intermittent fasting and keto diet are not the best in these cases.

Megan co-created Zesty Ginger with Alex, and both of these women have gone through their own personal journeys regarding hormonal balance, and learned how to optimize their bodies' functions according to the phase they are going through instead of going against them.

There are four different phases of the menstrual cycle (considering a standard 28 days cycle):

• ● Release Phase: Starts on day 1 of your full period. Time to slow down!
• ● Rise Phase: Starts at day 8 and extends to day 14. This is an ovulatory phase and is the most powerful one!
• ● Plateau Phase: Starts on day 15 and goes all the way to day 21. During this stage women tend to find balance between the old habits and the new ones. The focus during this phase is on supporting your body in the process of detoxification.
• ● Pause Phase: The last stage, lasts until the 28th day. It is the time to experience gratitude and let go of past failures. Depending on your body, this can be the phase where you feel cravings, cramps and irritability. This phase is also focused on detoxification.
• Megan also shares her knowledge about other factors that can contribute to hormonal imbalances, such as mold, gut infections, and toxic loads in the liver as a result of the usage of chemicals that come in beauty and hygiene products.
• Listen to this show to acquire a better understanding of your menstrual cycle, going through each phase and its characteristics, and also discovering other factors that have an impact on your hormonal balance.
• Wishing you more simplicity and ease in all that you do!
• Meet the creators of Zesty Ginger
• Alex Golden (M.D.) and Megan Blacksmith (Health Coach & Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Practitioner) of Zesty Ginger work with pre-menopausal women in an online group format. They focus on balancing hormones and supporting detoxification by teaching women to use the phases of their menstrual cycles to their advantage. The natural ebb and flow that happens to our hormones, organ systems, and bodies overall as women is there to renew and strengthen us. When we work with the natural cycles of our bodies, we allow ourselves to heal and recover on a level that few of us ever reach when we operate within the "rules" of the hectic modern world. Even the alternative medicine world has lost its connection to how the female body operates. Most protocols and health programs out there show no regard for the cycles that govern the flow of our bodies as women. By focusing on different activities, elixirs, foods and rituals each week of your cycle we can help the body to detoxify naturally.
• Get in touch with Alex and Megan
• Zesty Ginger
• Find out more about their cycle detox
• Zesty Ginger on Instagram
• Zesty Ginger on Facebook
• Online working with Jenn:
• To register for my signature program The Hormone Project and work with me 1:1 to support your health, hormones and more, please join the waitlist at jennpike.com/thehormoneproject
• Learn more about Jenn's work:
• Jenn Pike
• The Hormone Project
• The Simplicity Project Shop for books, DVDs, programs and much more!
• Get your free Syncing Guide!
• Simplicity TV on Youtube
• Quotes:
• "Tampon commercials implicity tell us: Be a man but in a female's body."
• "Listen to your body when it is telling you to slow down."
• "Your pre-conception lifestyle is so important because it is setting the foundation for the pregnancy, birth and beyond"
• Additional Information About Jenn:
• Jenn studied and graduated with honors in Human Anatomy and Physiology with such a passion that it propelled her to continue her education over many years. Jenn is a Registered Holistic Nutritionist, Medical Exercise Specialist, Registered Yoga Instructor and Faculty of the Toronto Yoga Conference, Pre & Post Natal Yoga Expert, STOTT Pilates trained instructor, Twist Sport Conditioning Coach, Spin Instructor Crossfit Level 1 Coaching, among other certifications she got along the way. She is also a guest Holistic Expert for Breakfast Television, Global, CHCH, Rogers Tv and writes columns for STRONG Fitness Magazine, iRun magazine, Savvy Mom and contributes to Inside Fitness Magazine, The Toronto Star and Sun. She is also a proud educator and ambassador to Genuine Health, Nature's Emporium and Juice Plus.
• Jenn is a proud mama to two beautiful souls and her best teachers of life. She resides on Lake Simcoe in Keswick with her husband and two children.

Women’s cycles are a superpower that can be tapped into, if you know when, how, and what to do. Cycles also go through different phases that must be understood and respected.

Today on the podcast I’m interviewing Megan from Zesty Ginger. Megan talks about the nutritional approach she uses for women with hormonal imbalances, and how, in her experience, intermittent fasting and keto diet are not the best in these cases

The fact that PMS is so common doesn't make it normal. Many women are being medicated to alleviate their PMS symptoms when there are natural ways to tackle the discomfort.

Listen to this episode if you want to know :

• ● What is PMS?
• ● What are the symptoms of PMS?
• ● What can you change in your lifestyle to bring relief in your system?
• ● Why birth control pills do not work.
• There are many reasons why PMS is so strong in some women's bodies, it can be that the levels of estrogen are higher than progesterone or that the levels of progesterone are so low that the body goes into a estrogen dominance state.
• If you want to see significant improvements within the next two to four menstrual cycles, follow the next steps:

1. 1. Lower inflammation through your diet choices and the right supplementation.
2. 2. Regulate your insulin and blood sugar.
3. 3. Have a formulation like EstroSmart that helps to support healthy estrogen levels, metabolization and detox.
4. 4. Increase your dietary fiber and water.
5. 5. Magnesium, essential oils and castor oil pack for cramp relief and headaches.
6. 6. Sleep and manage stress levels.
7. 7. Be patient but consistent!
8. Healing is possible for everyone, regardless what you do and where you live, you can achieve this without pills and medications, focusing on the environment that your body is living in. Wishing you more simplicity and ease in everything you do!
9. For a live experience with Jenn:
10. Please contact Nature's Emporium Newmarket directly via [email protected] or 905-898-1844 to register for the LIVE Simplicity Project course that begins January 23rd.
11. Online working with Jenn:
12. To register for my signature program The Hormone Project and work with me 1:1 to support your health, hormones and more please join the waitlist at jennpike.com/thehormoneproject
14. Learn more about Jenn's work:
15. Jenn Pike
16. The Hormone Project
17. The Simplicity Project Shop for books, DVDs, programs and much more!
18. Get your free Syncing Guide!
19. Simplicity TV on Youtube
20. Quotes:
21. "Many women unconsciously accept that suffering from PMS symptoms is the norm."
22. "Five days of medication is the magical number for damage to begin at the gut level."
23. "Simplicity is the name of the game when it comes to our health"
24. "Peppermint essential oil is great for fighting headaches"
25. "Detox your calendar and prioritize your sleep"
26. Additional Information About Jenn:
27. Jenn studied and graduated with honors in Human Anatomy and Physiology with such a passion that it propelled her to continue her education over many years. Jenn is a Registered Holistic Nutritionist, Medical Exercise Specialist, Registered Yoga Instructor and Faculty of the Toronto Yoga Conference, Pre & Post Natal Yoga Expert, STOTT Pilates trained instructor, Twist Sport Conditioning Coach, Spin Instructor Crossfit Level 1 Coaching, among other certifications she got along the way. She is also a guest Holistic Expert for Breakfast Television, Global, CHCH, Rogers Tv and writes columns for STRONG Fitness Magazine, iRun magazine, Savvy Mom and contributes to Inside Fitness Magazine, The Toronto Star and Sun. She is also a proud educator and ambassador to Genuine Health, Nature's Emporium and Juice Plus.
28. Jenn is a proud mama to two beautiful souls and her best teachers of life. She resides on Lake Simcoe in Keswick with her husband and two children.

The fact that PMS is so common doesn’t make it normal. Many women are being medicated to alleviate their PMS symptoms when there are natural ways to tackle the discomfort.

Listen to this episode if you want to know :

● What is PMS?

● What are the symptoms of PMS?

● What can you change in your lifestyle to bring relief in your system?

● Why birth control pills do not work.

Julie Daniluk RHN is a leading nutritionist and the co-host of Healthy Gourmet, a reality cooking show on OWN (the Oprah Winfrey Network). For twelve years, she was a co-operative owner and the Chief in store Nutritionist for one of Canada's largest health food stores, The Big Carrot Natural Food Market.

In this episode, Julie shares her knowledge about inflammation and how to reverse inflammatory conditions. Julie cured herself from what started as an E-coli infection she contracted in Asia, that kept progressing until she decided she needed to take the matter in her own hands.

She developed a list of foods that made her feel horrible, that ended up as a 15 pages document that Julie shared with friends and later became the foundation of her book Meals That Heal Inflammation.

Women suffer with inflammation more than men do. When women are transiting menopause, the sudden drop in estrogen causes higher inflammatory responses. The fact that women need to metabolize more estrogen than men, makes them more genetically predisposed to having a more sensitive immune system.

Inflammation acts different during the stages in women's life. Young people tend to have polycystic ovarian syndrome, in these cases an ultrasound can be a great way to know more about the ovaries' health before any treatment is implemented (avoid birth control pills as a measure to treat hormonal imbalance at all costs!)

It is also important to keep in mind that our intolerance to certain foods place one of the biggest roles in the hormonal cascade, so remember that researching and finding out which foods we don't tolerate is crucial to our overall health.

How can we devise a realistic approach to removing these inflammatory triggers in our body?

Start a food journal before beginning an elimination protocol. Learn about what you are eating and start adding foods that have macronutrients, as well as doubling up essential fatty acids, and get ready to feel amazing results in your hormonal balance within a month or two.

How do we reduce autoimmunity?

When you suffer from leaky gut (hyperpermeability of the gut) there is a high autoimmune response from your body. To help digestion Mandarin Skin Plus is a great ally and is a key tool to reduce autoimmunity. Also, you should add probiotics to your diet, but be very careful of highly fermented foods (like kombucha) that bring in a lot of histamine and sugar cane.

Favorite superfoods

Artichokes: Every single part of the artichoke has its own super power!

Arugula: Shifts hormones while reducing inflammation, and assists your liver in metabolizing estrogen correctly.

Burdock: Is a profound blood, lymphatic and liver cleanser that also helps eliminate toxins.

Cherries and Pomegranates: Have them for better fertility and anti-inflammatory effect.

Add raw cacao to your diet (not sugar filled commercial chocolate!).

Never give up! Miracles are real! Become your own body detector and regain your health.

Wishing you more simplicity and ease in everything you do!

For a live experience with Jenn:

Please contact Nature's Emporium Newmarket directly via [email protected] or 905-898-1844 to register for the LIVE Simplicity Project course that begins January 23rd.

Online working with Jenn:

To register for my signature program The Hormone Project and work with me 1:1 to support your health, hormones and more please email me at [email protected].

The next round of The Hormone Project begins January 21st.

Learn more about Jenn's work:

Jenn Pike

The Hormone Project

The Simplicity Project Shop for books, DVDs, programs and much more!

Get your free Syncing Guide!

Simplicity TV on Youtube

Quotes:

"There is a massive connection between women and inflammation."

"Heart attacks are more deadly for women."

"When women start hormone replace therapy, the blood clots faster."

"Women are three times more susceptible to contract osteoarthritis."

"Women are twice more likely to suffer from anxiety than men due to profund fluctuating hormones."

"If you feel really tired and disregarded anemia, you need to check the status of your thyroid antibodies."

"The healthiest foods can be the biggest irritants to certain bodies and, remember that you can develop an intolerance to any food in any stage in your life."

Get in touch with Julie

Sign up to Julie's 3-Day warm cleanse:

https://www.juliedaniluk.com/affiliate_users/sign_up

Additional Information About Jenn:

Jenn studied and graduated with honors in Human Anatomy and Physiology with such a passion that it propelled her to continue her education over many years. Jenn is a Registered Holistic Nutritionist, Medical Exercise Specialist, Registered Yoga Instructor and Faculty of the Toronto Yoga Conference, Pre & Post Natal Yoga Expert, STOTT Pilates trained instructor, Twist Sport Conditioning Coach, Spin Instructor Crossfit Level 1 Coaching, among other certifications she got along the way. She is also a guest Holistic Expert for Breakfast Television, Global, CHCH, Rogers Tv and writes columns for STRONG Fitness Magazine, iRun magazine, Savvy Mom and contributes to Inside Fitness Magazine, The Toronto Star and Sun. She is also a proud educator and ambassador to Genuine Health, Nature's Emporium and Juice Plus.

Jenn is a proud mama to two beautiful souls and her best teachers of life. She resides on Lake Simcoe in Keswick with her husband and two children.

Julie Daniluk RHN is a leading nutritionist and the co-host of Healthy Gourmet, a reality cooking show on OWN (the Oprah Winfrey Network). For twelve years, she was a co-operative owner and the Chief in store Nutritionist for one of Canada's largest health food stores, The Big Carrot Natural Food Market.

In this episode, Julie shares her knowledge about inflammation and how to reverse inflammatory conditions

This New Year's episode is a special one that aims to help you pinpoint your goals and intentions for 2019 the right way. Grab your pen and paper, and prepare a "Soul soothing" drink (find the recipe below) to really synch-in with what this episode is about.

New year's resolutions bring great expectations that usually don't last long and leave us with a feeling of failure, coming hand in hand with procrastination. We make it too complicated!

Find your balance: you can make your own choices. Even though we will encounter many situations that we cannot change, we can always decide how we react to them, and what perspective we use to interpret what life throws in front of us. We have choices today, pick the ones that will serve you and your purpose.

How do you decide your intentions for 2019?

• - Find the motivations behind your goals.
• - Identify how you want to feel.
• - Find how you can keep your energy focused on achieving these purposes.
• - Ask yourself: Are these goals yours, or they are someone else's?
• - Do not limit your dreams, anything is possible, but it is important to be honest with yourself.
• Mindset First
• Get in touch everyday with your motivation. Send love messages to yourself, reminding yourself what matters to you.
• Ask yourself who is getting into your mind and how their energy affecting your mindset.
• Nutrition
• Nutrition is the foundation for everything, it is even more important than exercise. A healthy nutrition is the key to healing, repairing and truly seeing the results of your training.
• Sleep
• Sleep is where all the healing takes place. Getting proper sleep is enough to start losing weight, most of the time.
• Supplements
• I suggest my "Foundational Five" which is a whole food complex (Juice Plus is the one Jenn's family uses), Vitamin D, probiotics, magnesium and omega 3. Also you can add a methylated B complex and collagen.
• Organizing and decluttering
• Your space needs to be organized if you want to be able to focus. Clear out your home, free out space! Your calendar needs to have clarity and simplicity too, Jenn uses Google calendar for all the family and personal activities, separating different activities with different colors.
• Finances
• This can be one of the biggest areas of stress. Use a spreadsheet, including all the income and all your expenses. Call everyone of your providers (internet, cable, insurance, online subscriptions) find out what you are not using, what can you delete or not renew, and you will free up lots of money. Clearing up your finances has more impact in your health than you think it has, once you know where your money is going you will be able to choose wisely and consciously where to spend it.
• Relationships
• Work on your connections with your family and friends, reach out to your community, break isolation. Schedule time with your family, your children and your spouse, you all need quality time.
• Reencounter Your Joy Point
• Ask yourself what do you love to do and when was the last time you did it. Find that joy point and spend good time on it.
• Regardless your situation, you have the opportunity to make 2019 the year you decide. Create your own vibrant, individual simplicity project, funnel your energy into your intentions.
• Happy new year!
• Wishing you more simplicity and ease in all that you do!
• Cacao Elixir drink recipe:

• ● 1 tablespoon of Dandy Blend
• ● 1 tablespoon of cacao or cocoa powder
• ● 1 teaspoon of Ceylon Cinnamon
• ● 1 tablespoon of coconut oil, MCT oil powder or nut butter
• ● 1 to 2 scoops of collagen
• ● ¼ cup of non dairy milk
• ● 1 cup and ½ of hot water
• Put all these rich ingredients into your blender; you can top it with a little bit of cinnamon, cacao, shredded coconut or nutmeg.
• For a live experience with Jenn:
• Please contact Nature's Emporium Newmarket directly via [email protected] or 905-898-1844 to register for the LIVE Simplicity Project course that begins January 23rd.
• Online working with Jenn:
• To register for my signature program The Hormone Project and work with me 1:1 to support your health, hormones and more please email me at [email protected].
• The next round of The Hormone Project begins January 21st.
• Learn more about Jenn's work:
• Jenn Pike
• The Hormone Project
• The Simplicity Project Shop for books, DVDs, programs and much more!
• Get your free Syncing Guide!
• Simplicity TV on Youtube
• Quotes:
• "Nutrition is everything, you can't sweat out the poor quality food you have put into your body."
• "Sleep is the motherland for all healing to happen, specially for your hormones."
• "Lose pounds of inflammation in a couple of weeks just by focusing on getting proper sleep."
• "Be very careful of what you put in your headspace before going to bed, your nervous system cannot separate between true stress and imagined stress."
• "A collagen supplement is very good for your joints, bones, tendons, ligaments, hair, nails, skin and gut health."
• "When you are really clear and honest about where you stand financially, that is when you can start make changes in your finances."
• Additional Information About Jenn:
• Jenn studied and graduated with honors in Human Anatomy and Physiology with such a passion that it propelled her to continue her education over many years. Jenn is a Registered Holistic Nutritionist, Medical Exercise Specialist, Registered Yoga Instructor and Faculty of the Toronto Yoga Conference, Pre & Post Natal Yoga Expert, STOTT Pilates trained instructor, Twist Sport Conditioning Coach, Spin Instructor Crossfit Level 1 Coaching, among other certifications she got along the way. She is also a guest Holistic Expert for Breakfast Television, Global, CHCH, Rogers Tv and writes columns for STRONG Fitness Magazine, iRun magazine, Savvy Mom and contributes to Inside Fitness Magazine, The Toronto Star and Sun. She is also a proud educator and ambassador to Genuine Health, Nature's Emporium and Juice Plus.
• Jenn is a proud mama to two beautiful souls and her best teachers of life. She resides on Lake Simcoe in Keswick with her husband and two children.

This New Year’s episode is a special one that aims to help you pinpoint your goals and intentions for 2019 the right way. Grab your pen and paper, and prepare a “Soul soothing” drink (find the recipe below) to really synch-in with what this episode is about.