Listen to Helen sharing her story of how  she was diagnosed with endometriosis much later on, her experience with chronic fatigue, weight gain from anti depressants and dealing with stress, anxiety & perimenopause but more importantly her story of redemption.

Jodz is an incredible example of how - if we educate and treat ourselves well before and during perimenopause, our transition to menopause can be a lot quicker and smoother. Jeff also shares some incredible nuggets about how to take care of yourself through these stages of life so there is loads to absorb and learn from.

00:00:29 - Personalised Intro - Jodz Beatty
00:02:02 - Perimenopause Symptoms
00:04:26 - Menstruation Pattern and Quality
00:06:44 - Understanding Perimenopause to Menopause - The physiological process / transition
00:07:15 - Common Medical Prescription for Menopause - Synthetic Progesterone
00:07:53 - Choosing your Treatment Plan
00:09:14 - Role of the Adrenals
00:10:20 - Menopausal Weight Gain - Why?
00:14:34 - Sugar, Hot Flushes and Insulin Sensitivity
00:15:11 - Happy Hormones for Hormonal Support
00:15:50 - Preparing for the Best Menopause Experience
00:17:00 - Alcohol, Sugar, Stress & Caffeine
00:19:49 - Gut Health / Issues and the Liver
00:24:25 - Holistic Healing - Advice
00:26:22 - Jodz Journey
00:28:45 - Education is Key
00:29:30 - Managing Menopause Naturally
00:31:30 - The Menopause Transition
00:34:00 - Different Menopause Journies
00:38:00 - Mandropause
00:38:42 - Choosing your Path

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This week we chat to Anna who has lived with hormonal imbalances for 34 years since she started her menstruation at ten years old and had severe symptoms of long, heavy and painful bleeds until the age of fifteen where they suspected appendicitis and found cysts on the ovaries. 

Jeff really provides incredible medical information here for us to devour on hormones, hormone metabolism within the liver and its effects on the body and how to support this for women with hormonal imbalances, PCOS, possible causes including theories on contraception and insight in to how the endocrine system functions.

00:00:27 - Speaker Snippet

00:01:59 - Conversation Intro

00:02:51 - PCOS Symptoms & Diagnosis - Exploratory Surgery

00:04:21 - PCOS Treatment - Oral Contraceptive

00:05:24 - Family Support  

00:05:59 - Family History of Hormonal Imbalance (Fibroids)

00:07:44 - PCOS - A Modern Day Illness

00:10:20 - Hormone Metabolism

00:11:44 - Anatomy & Physiology of Hormones

00:14:00 - Diet & Lifestyle

00:17:48 - Testing for a Hormonal Imbalance

00:23:30 - Managing PCOS

00:27:35 - Probiotics, Prebiotics & Gut Microbiome

00:33:12 - Hormones & Your Moods

00:38:49 - Adenomyosis Diagnosis & Heavy Bleeding

00:40:56 - Perimenopause

00:44:37 - Treatment & Managing Adenomyosis

00:46:38 - Happy Healthy You & Happy Hormones as Support in Managing Hormonal Symptoms

00:47:57 - Happy Calm for Adrenal Fatigue

00:51:25 - The Importance of Sleep

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Melissa chats to us about her isolating and emotional experience moving through perimenopause and how the hormonal shifts and loss of control impacted her personal life drastically. After seeking help from numerous medical professionals and being prescribed antidepressants and even diagnosed as possibly bipolar, she found Happy Hormones which aided her in feeling like herself again and finding relief to manage this phase of her life.

00:00:27 - Introduction
00:02:20 - Melissa's Hormonal Story
00:03:50 - Hormones & Moods 
00:05:43 - Searching for a diagnosis
00:15:22 - Perimenopause Journey & Symptoms
00:22:42 - Symptom Management Perimenopause & Menopause
00:30:05 - Emotional Impact on Partner
00:33:27 - Coping Tools
00:37:53 - Depo Provera & Implanon
00:43:18 - Closing

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This week we chat to Julie all the way from Paris who found Happy Hormones after a grueling experience from being on the Mirena following the birth of her third child. Julie experienced severe nausea and vomiting and could not find any answers until she linked it to her repressed menstruation & ovulation.

Julie opens up to us about how it impacted her work, her family and her marriage and how she searched for answers from numerous specialists with no explanation. Despite so many symptoms including severe mood swings, low libido and acne, no one suspected an issue with her hormones until she connected the dots. She then started her holistic healing journey with Happy Hormones and managed to get her life and body back on track.

This is such an insightful story and although there are interventions or options which support some women,  it is so vital we also understand the risks and know what symptoms to look out for if things seem off track with our bodies and we have that body awareness to pick up and act when necessary.

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In this episode we chat to the fabulous Kym about her journey from her 30's to where she is now at 52. Kym miraculously naturally conceived her first child without knowing she had any hormonal imbalances or conditions and it was only when her and her Husband wanted to try for their second child and experiencing 3 tragic miscarriages, that they realized something was going on.

Kym opens up beautifully and speaks about the heartache of the loss of the children for both her and her husband, the struggles she faced with the medical system to start and how they managed to overcome it through marriage/couple counseling and we discuss how little information and support there really was (and still is) when she was going through this.

Incredibly Kym was able to manage and keep common symptoms associated with endometriosis of severe pain and discomfort at bay without even knowing it by the lifestyle she led and incorporating movement and healthy eating.

We jump forward to today where keeping up with the above, with a little help from Happy Hormones, Kym breezed through menopause and is feeling incredible in her body in her 50s.

There is so much to take from this episode and we hope that this will help other women feel that they are not alone, that there is an invisible, sacred support circle of women who have carried these burdens and that it is possible to overcome them.

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We chat to Melle from New Zealand (and little Zaylee) about her journey from her emotional PCOS diagnosis in the year she was going to get married, being told she may not be able to conceive and how she managed to incredibly naturally have two girls through making changes in her diet and lifestyle.

We speak through all the typical symptoms of PCOS including hair growth, weight gain, insulin resistance (resulting in sugar cravings), difficult to budge weight and irregular cycles throughout her life which were managed by birth control and how she got on top of them. We also discuss the heartache of being diagnosed and the dedication and commitment that goes in to managing a hormonal imbalance.

Melle worked really hard  through patterns of emotional eating and moved to wholefoods, reducing sugar, gluten and alcohol, including more movement in her days and Happy Hormones supplements which all resulted in healthy weight loss, reduced symptoms, her feeling better and well and her two healthy babies!

This episode goes a little deeper in to postpartum too discussing birth trauma, breastfeeding, pelvic floor damage and her prolapsed bladder after her first birth.

Melle openly shares her beautifully inspirational story so other women who have just been diagnosed can take hope in knowing this is a condition that can be managed.

We hope you enjoy this episode and if you enjoyed it, please rate us and subscribe.

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Diet & Your Hormones-
https://happyhealthyyou.com.au/blogs/articles/is-your-diet-affecting-your-hormones

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https://happyhealthyyou.com.au/blogs/articles/how-to-control-your-hunger

Beat Sugar Cravings-
https://happyhealthyyou.com.au/blogs/articles/influence-of-sugar-on-hormonal-health

Alcohol Affects on Health-
https://happyhealthyyou.com.au/blogs/articles/alcohol-how-it-affects-your-health-well-being

What is PCOS?-
https://happyhealthyyou.com.au/blogs/articles/what-is-pcos

PCOS Diagnosis & Treatment-
https://happyhealthyyou.com.au/blogs/articles/new-guidelines-for-pcos-diagnosis-and-treatment

PCOS Causes-
https://happyhealthyyou.com.au/blogs/articles/what-causes-pcos

Natural PCOS Management-
https://happyhealthyyou.com.au/blogs/articles/10-natural-treatments-for-pcos

Ovulation & PCOS-
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Top Fertility Foods-
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Postpartum Tips to Balance Hormones-
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How Happy Hormones Works-
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Our conversation with a very brave 29 year old Chloe discusses how she had to push and wait for years to get a diagnosis (as many endo sufferers do) through a laparoscopy and from there how she started managing her condition and the impact it has had on her life.

Symptoms of severe pain began as a teen during her menstrual cycle and the management was through birth control, she discusses how it impacted her moods and weight. After coming off this, even worse symptoms began including painful intercourse and intense flare ups. She talks us through her journey of hospital visits, ER admissions and the isolating journey she has walked so far.

There is so much helpful information in here for endometriosis sufferers through as well as from Jeff Butterworth (our registered Naturopath & founder of Healthy Happy You) and those who know people with the condition This is a heart wrenching story and really highlights how women are suffering in silence and the tough path so many women who suffer from this disorder have to walk with so little understanding and support.

We hope this touches you and helps create more awareness and understanding around the condition so other women can get their diagnosis earlier and start getting their lives back on track and taking care of themselves in the way they need to to manage their condition with the support and guidance that they deserve.

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Laparoscopic Surgery for Endometriosis-
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Impact of Hormonal Imbalances on Your Life-
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29 year old Victoria from Texas chats deeply about the trauma she experienced in her first birth and postpartum journey including PPD, a full body candida infection, Hypothyroid and Hyperthyroidism on top of the challenges and stresses of early motherhood and lack of support she experienced from the medical system.

She suffered with hormonal imbalances from her teens with painful, heavy periods, PMS & then thyroid issues before her first pregnancy and talks us through this all and also reveals her latest pregnancy (which she managed to do naturally) through Happy Healthy You's 4 week program and implementing her own lifestyle changes after experiencing perimenopause symptoms.

This is such an open and inspiring story, we discuss depression, insomnia, diet, nutrition, weight, gut health, adrenals, how to spot symptoms of hormonal imbalances and when to push for support and a diagnosis and how to support yourself through these shifts.

We hope you enjoy this episode and that it motivates you to take your health in to your own hands to live a better life. 

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Balancing Hormones Postpartum-
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Nicole shares how she struggled with her hormones as a teen resulting in a PCOS diagnosis and how that impacted her trying to conceive. She also shares both the conventional and alternative methods she used to eventually conceive and discusses the tools she utilizes to manage her hormonal health today.

She goes through her teen years to twenties struggling with symptoms with little support and guidance, using oral contraceptives to try and aid her which only brought on more mood swings as it does for many women.

We speak through the difficulties of trying to conceive twice via clomid and IUI with a devastating miscarriage and eventually alternative support including Asian Acupuncture which aided her falling pregnant with her second child.

She now has control over her life again with natural supplements and a better understanding of her body and what it needs.

It is an inspiring story and will motivate anyone who watches the podcast to start to make the changes needed to take back control of their hormonal health.

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Hormonal Imbalance Impact on Lives-
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