Hormones! What helps or hurts them? More than you may know! In this episode we build on part one and explore how cortisol, gut, liver, mindset, food, and some medical or herbal medicine may hurt or restore hormone balance. Time to dive in!

Testosterone…Responsible for FAR MORE than just sex drive! Who wouldn’t want enough of this!

6:20 What destroys testosterone in frogs, as well as men and women…and it is in more of your food than you think

8:47 Does marijuana use affect testosterone? What about lavender?

9:58 How female hormones affect our body shape, mood,concentration 

11:15 Sooo many reasons we could be estrogen dominant. (Liver, gut, caffeine, oh my!)

14:53  How can we help teenage girls to balance? Is birth control the only way? (Spoiler: NO!) And what does that have to do with the gut?

19:00 A new take on what to eat and how to build your microbiome. “Find the foods you like that like you back”

21:20 How do you know when it’s time to supplement hormones in menopause? Or if you need to? And how to do it safely?

22:59 Introducing…progesterone! Ahhh…It’s all good in hunter/gatherer land. And how cortisol changes all of that to hypervigilance and fatigue. The thief…

25:39 How do we heal Progesterone balance? What do we heal first?

29:50 What if I just need to feel better now?

30:31 Okinawan seniors are rocking it. Menopause doesn’t have to be horrible. What are they doing that we are not? And how do we change that?

35:01 Is adrenal fatigue a thing? And what IS actually fatiguing?

38:00 Which hormone replacement therapies are safer than others?

40:19 Why birth control is one of Dr Jon’s least favorite topics

44:26 What about bone loss? Bad news about a broken hip

51:46 time and a place, firefighters and house rebuilding crew

55:10 What Dr Jon has seen really make a difference in whether people heal…or don’t.

Dr Jon can be reached at Red Mountain Integrative Health, 435-586-9904

In part one with Jon Romney, ND he shares his journey into naturopathic medicine and what it is really like as a practitioner working with complicated cases that require more than traditional eastern or western medicine alone. (Some patients require teamwork of perspective and tools!) We learn where to look as the basics of health, more about how chronic stress may be affecting gut, liver, brain and hormonal function, and lay the building blocks for part 2 in our conversation, which covers the ins and outs of our hormones , how they affect us, and how to help them balance.

2:52 Dr. Jon’s journey to naturopathic medicine

13:00 How does a ND decide where to start with treating a complicated problem?

15:00 when do you start looking for mental/emotional stress? And what can that do to your immune system?

15:00 Can stress be a friend? How?   Link to Kelly McGonigal’s book  https://a.co/d/dSwjukX

Link to her ted talk : https://www.ted.com/talks/kelly_mcgonigal_how_to_make_stress_your_friend?utm_campaign=tedspread&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=tedcomshare

23:24 In an inflammatory state in the body we look toward your gut/microbiome. 79-80% of immune system is in the gut!

26:00 microbiome, Crohn’s, migraines, food reactions, bloating, autoimmune….and more!

28:00 Vagus nerve, cavewomen, and when is a good time for a bowel movement?

31: What did Becca pack for Bolivia, and why? Food in Bolivia,  glyphosate, and bacteria…communicate?

36: Treating when tests are showing normal, but the patient is obviously sick. PANDAS and infected teeth, and a disgusting sulfur smell

42: MTHFR is not just a fun acronym, and how gene testing is helpful for many situations

46: Endocrine system, and testosterone under threat. Why is that a bad thing? WHAT affects testosterone?

48:07 Mouth shape, mouth breathers, and what Dr. Becca thinks of her husband’s watch. .and his sleep apnea. Measures to reduce apnea that might surprise you.

01:05 How Dr Judy helped me walk and balance again, a stunning reality on the way to the bathroom

04:40 Different types of Cranial-sacral training

06:33  An osteopathic (and chiropractic) philosophy of medicine: the body possesses self-regulatory and self-healing mechanisms, and how those structures are working (or not) is deeply tied to its function (or dys-function)

10:43 Dr Judy’s journey through becoming a doctor, veteran, and clinician that noticed how much structure and movement mattered, and eventually a teacher of future doctors.

17:00 how hands-on doctors learn to feel… and when that may be vital

20:45 How do the bones in the skull fit together and why is that an amazing design? What is someone looking for when they feel the bones in your mouth? What else is there?

23:27 The lower half of the parasympathetic system. What does it affect?

24:29  What can happen to this all if I hit my head or land on my butt? What about birth trauma?

25:00 Please help my infant! Sleeping, nursing, digesting, and pooping. 

27:00 This system and anxiety, fight/flight overdrive

33:00 Brain surgery, epidurals, etc, and how their potential  effect on the fluid that bathes our nervous system. Dr Becca’s botched lumbar puncture and what actls like glue in the system

37:00 More to the story of bowel, bladder, prostate, and infertility issues. A surprising source of help!

38:22  Tethers in the system: a possible factor in willpower to continue on with life. A tender story from the treatment room, a conversation Dr Judy never wants to have, the very one  Dr Becca needed.

44:11 Cerebral spinal fluid flow is vital for life. Can it also affect our emotional state? (YES!)

46:15 A milking stool, and the 3 legs of balance needed in our lives

52:33 A clinician’s observations in regard to COVID-19..did this affect the nervous system and its nourishing fluid?

55:51 Choosing a doctor who pays attention…”that’s just good healthcare.”

Resources:
cranialacademy.org
Rocky Vista Healthcenter, Ivins, UT 435-233-9500

Get ready for a powerful perspective as Adrianne walks us through her journey of "over-productiveness" and "old-rusted-gate sorts of boundaries", through a massive health loss and into a time of great healing. Join us for her vulnerable and insightful  views on boundaries, acceptance, play, and vitality... a conversation worth listening to more than once.

3:13 How Adrianne’s creativity quieted a rambunctious group of teens…with Becca inside it.

7:37 Are we really responsible for other people’s healing and decisions? Does it make me enough? “Fixing” as a trauma response

11:21 Boundaries in action! Even with loved ones? 

13:29 Pressure at the brainstem...either it will kill you or teach you who matters the most in your health. 

14:47 Rusty gates and the queen’s space

20:08 Physical and metaphysical insights from a wobble board…how we make it easier or harder on ourselves when we “fall off”

26:00 Where are the answers we need? And how did Adrianne come to this place of knowing? Her story of massive production and performance, loss, misdiagnosis,  and healing.

39:00 3PD and what that stand for

40:17 Stress and its effect on functional neurologic disorders

42:12  A functional disorder can mean HOPE? (Instead of insanity?)

48:00  Healing may be different than curing, and how Adrianne has learned to accept what IS, moving and loving with reality.

52:05 Decay, rot, beauty, and how (especially if you are a nerd, too) it can teach us empathy and genuine presence communication

57:34  A doctor’s orders: “Becca, I want you to enjoy your life.”

1:00:00  Wisdom from Ekhart Tolle, a new earth in ourselves, and enthusiasm, enjoyment, and acceptance as the methods of living we choose for ourselves

1:01:00 What is joy?

1:05:00 The key to an open heart and spinning balls of light

01:10:57  What Adrianne thinks really makes a difference in living a life that you want to be living.

Who I am , and what you can expect to welcome into your life when you hit play!