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(0:31) Introduction to Health Decoded (2:16) Focus on women's health, hormones, and perimenopause (8:39) Disruptors and differences: Perimenopause vs. menopause (15:48) Functional medicine approach to hormone testing (21:41) Gut health, metabolic, and toxic burden testing (23:22) Functional medicine protocols for hormonal balance (26:27) Lifestyle and diet modifications for hormonal health (30:16) Special offers and listener engagement (31:29) Final sign-off and encouragement00:00:00
Here's the thing.
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You know, most of the suffering that people experience with old menopause is actually in
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perimenopause.
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And women are told to wait until it gets bad enough to consider, you know, hormone therapy
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or addressing it.
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And really, that's backwards.
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We believe in catching it early, supporting the body naturally, you know, with lifestyle,
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nutrition, activity levels to mitigate and dampen, if not fully get rid of those symptoms
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that you would feel.
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And if that is possible.
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Welcome back to another episode of Health Decoded.
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I'm your host, doctor Alessi.
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I'm excited to get into another episode here today.
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Today's episode is gonna be a little bit more focused and a little bit more specific towards
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women's health and hormones, but this is gonna be a powerful one.
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These are things we see all the time in our clinic and, honestly, has just been something
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that's been a little bit more prevalent lately.
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Not sure why that is, but it was something that I noticed I was getting a lot of questions
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about.
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We were seeing a lot of these types of cases and so we said, hey, why don't we dig into
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this, give a little bit of information to people, and ultimately try to provide some
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education.
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So again, today is gonna be all about women's health and hormone one zero one.
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And really, you know, to to get into it, women's health isn't really just about
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reproduction.
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So your hormones are really an orchestra.
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It's delicate, it's complex, it's a dynamic system that influences nearly every part of a
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woman's body.
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Obviously, this pertains to women and men in that regard.
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However, this episode is going to be specifically about women's hormone and those
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impacts.
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So your hormones influence everything.
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Really, they affect your brain, your mood, focus, memory, your metabolism, how your body
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is burning fat and building muscle, the storage of energy, your immune system, inflammation,
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autoimmunity, resilience to infection, as well as things like heart health, bone density, your
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skin elasticity and your gut function.
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All of these are driven by the balance of your hormones.
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So, you know, many women that we see in the clinic come in and they say they have these
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symptoms, yet they've been told that, oh, this is just your aging, you're getting older, or
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oh, it's just it's in your head.
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Or the worst one I've heard is that literally a patient said that the doctor she saw told her
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your symptoms are normal.
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That's not medicine.
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That's gaslighting really because symptoms with hormones are not normal.
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Your body should be able to have balance and be able to age, I air quote that normally without
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having symptoms.
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So it's all about understanding the rhythm.
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So let's start.
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We're going to have basically a few segments of this episode.
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The first segment is going to be basically understanding hormones.
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Then we'll get into kind of what symptoms you might notice if there's imbalance, how to test
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for hormonal imbalances, and what tests we would use, and then what kind of fixes you have
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in functional medicine.
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So let's get into understanding the hormonal rhythm.
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Women's hormones follow a monthly what's called Infraedian rhythm.
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So it's roughly a twenty eight day cycle, although it varies from woman to woman.
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But the four phases include phase one is the follicular phase.
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So this is day one to fourteen ish.
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Estrogen begins to rise during this phase, you'll feel more energized, maybe clear,
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creative.
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This is where you have more of that get up and go.
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The ovulation phase, which is around day fourteen is where estrogen peaks.
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Testosterone is going to bump up as well.
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This is often where libido is is high and increasing.
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Women feel this effect for sure.
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Phase three is is when you get into the luteal phase.
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So this is between day fifteen to twenty eight of a cycle.
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Your progesterone begins to rise now to balance with the estrogen.
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If there's an imbalance in this, this is where PMS symptoms will often show up or be
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increased.
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And so again, these intense symptoms are not necessarily normal, although they are common.
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And then the phase four is the menstrual phase, right?
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Which is where we start day one over again, hormones are going to drop.
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If you have inflammation or some type of nutrient deficiency, period symptoms will be
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worse, right?
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They will be exacerbated by this.
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So, you know, there's a great quote here out of the Journal of Endocrine Reviews that said
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fluctuations in estrogen and progesterone modulate nearly every physiological symptom
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system.
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Sorry.
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That is awesome.
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So basically, you know, what that tells us is that that balance between estrogen and
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progesterone is critical for your body to function as it normally should.
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So when there's imbalance, again, symptoms are going to be the first sign of that.
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So getting into a little bit more of like what these hormones are, just talked about like the
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cycle there, but estrogen is really a support for the brain, bone density, metabolism and
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mood.
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If you have too much estrogen, you can get those PMS symptoms, cramping, maybe more
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intense heavy bleeding, breast tenderness.
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If you have too little, you might feel very flat, fatigued, maybe brain foggy, like there's
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no energy.
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Now, progesterone basically is kind of on the opposite, it calms the nervous system, it's
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going to promote sleep, regulate cycles, and protect against estrogen dominance.
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Chronic stress over time, blood sugar crashes and inflammation can all lower progesterone.
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We're going to get more into that.
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Now, here's one that many women don't think isn't they don't think about, but testosterone
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and DHEA.
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These support muscle tone, libido, motivation, mental drive, they're that vitality hormone.
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It's the same for men, women just don't have as much or require as much, should say.
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But they do need them and low levels of testosterone is actually something I see a lot
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and that we work with.
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So it's important again, not just to focus on one or the other, but the balance and kind of
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the rhythm of all these working in conjunction.
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Now, the next ones that are important thyroid hormones and cortisol.
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And so again, these orchestrate the energy, your metabolism and your body's stress
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response, and they are deeply connected to sex hormones and must be evaluated together with
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them.
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If you're looking at one, again, just like we talked about in previous episodes, you're
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getting a snapshot, you're not getting the full picture.
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A quote here out of the journal The Lancet said the interplay between reproductive, adrenal and
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thyroid hormones is fundamental to female health, and it often gets overlooked in
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conventional care.
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Great quote.
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I agree with that.
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Now, let's talk a little bit about like why hormones might get hijacked or get thrown off.
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So really modern life is anti hormone.
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It just is everything we're exposed to things like chronic stress, which are spiking our
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cortisol, lowering progesterone, environmental toxins, things like BPAs and pesticides can
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mimic or even block estrogen.
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Poor nutrition, which is going to be, you know, probably lead to depleted vitamins and
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nutrients, which are required for hormone production.
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Sleep deprivation disrupts that hypothalamic pituitary adrenal axis, which can suppress
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ovulation.
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So even subtle imbalances when gone unchecked can spiral into bigger issues.
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These can eventually lead to things like PCOS, estrogen dominance, perimenopause, infertility,
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even autoimmune thyroid disease, which obviously we've discussed before in a previous
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episode can be very, very detrimental to your health.
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So what is perimenopause?
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Right?
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I always like to clear this up versus menopause.
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So perimenopause typically starts like maybe like late thirties and can last for about five
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to ten years.
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This is when on a physiological level, we're seeing progesterone start to decline.
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A woman's cycle may shorten, PMS often worsens, and estrogen just becomes erratic.
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Right?
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Again, these symptoms, however, are not normal.
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It shouldn't be like overly intense.
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Menopause is defined as about twelve months without a period.
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That's basically like what would be, considered like the start of menopause or the concept of
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menopause.
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By this point, both estrogen and progesterone are low.
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So here's the thing.
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Most of the suffering that people experience with old menopause is actually in
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perimenopause.
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And women are told to wait until it gets bad enough to consider hormone therapy or
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addressing it.
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And really, that's backwards.
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We believe in catching it early, supporting the body naturally, you know, with lifestyle,
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nutrition, activity levels to mitigate and dampen, if not fully get rid of those symptoms
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that you would feel.
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And it that is possible.
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That is doable.
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I just think it's so such a far off concept that many people don't consider that an option
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because Western medicine hasn't really educated around that.
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That's just the truth.
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Now, let's get into a little bit of like the symptoms of hormonal imbalance and and what you
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could experience.
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So, you know, to get real, if you're a woman who's been told your symptoms are normal, but
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you still feel tired all the time, you're gaining weight around your belly, maybe you're
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anxious, moody, Something deeper is going on, and it's not normal.
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It's not just aging.
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It's your body's talking to you, and we have to be able to listen and take inventory as to what
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our body is doing.
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So because things that are unchecked often become worse, not better over time.
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That's just the reality of it.
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So some cycle related symptoms that are often brushed off.
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Many women are told that period issues are just part of being a woman.
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But really the pain, suffering and dysfunction are not normal.
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If you're experiencing intense painful cramps, or you're needing to take pain pillars,
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painkillers just to get through your period.
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If you have heavier bleeding or clots larger than say a quarter, if you have PMS mood
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swings, anxiety, or you know, get tiered tearfulness before your period, breast
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tenderness or intense swelling.
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These are signs of either estrogen dominance or progesterone deficiency.
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So again, that imbalance.
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There was a study in the Journal of Women's Health in 2020, said that premenstrual symptoms
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are closely linked to hormonal imbalances and chronic stress induced progesterone
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suppression.
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So again, the chronic stress lowering progesterone leading to oestrogen being higher
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in that ratio leading to symptoms.
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Right?
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So some symptoms you would notice in perimenopause, right?
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Which they they quote as the invisible years.
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Perimenopause can begin about five to ten years before real menopause.
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And most women don't even realize it's happening.
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So here's what it looks like.
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You're going to start with the hot flashes, night sweats, sleep trouble, like difficulty
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falling or staying asleep, increased anxiety or irritability, especially maybe mid cycle.
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Low libido is a big one that we see that unfortunately, many women are not comfortable
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talking about.
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Shorter or heavier or irregular cycles, all these things can be symptoms of that.
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So again, this is your brain and your body struggling to maintain a hormonal rhythm and
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balance.
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Estrogen begins to fluctuate where progesterone drops first, and that imbalance will then
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impact everything.
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Let's get into the metabolic mood and energy symptoms that you might feel.
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So again, this is where it gets kind of tricky.
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Most women don't often connect these to hormones.
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And unfortunately, most conventional doctors don't either.
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So things like unexplained weight gain, especially like around the belly, belly fat,
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fatigue, even after eight hours of sleep, blood sugar crashes or feeling that like hangry
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between meals, hair thinning, dry skin, depression, irritability, or basically that
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feeling of like, blah, like just don't care.
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All of these are hormonal.
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And so hormones can affect your mitochondria, which is go back 10 episodes we talked about is
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your cellular energy engine, your your thyroid and even your brain chemistry are controlled by
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this.
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And so estrogen influences a lot of things.
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Influences your serotonin, which is a calming hormone.
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Progesterone then also has a calming effect as well.
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And then testosterone affects motivation and drive.
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So if we have that imbalance, again, hormonal fluctuations are going to impact brain energy,
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metabolism, neurotransmitter activity, and even inflammation, which can then contribute to
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symptoms.
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Again, are not the problem.
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Symptoms are the check engine light that there is a problem.
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And so you know, if you're if you're exhausted, inflamed, you feel foggy, but you've been told
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that your labs are normal.
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The truth is you didn't go deep enough or whoever was telling you that didn't take a deep
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enough look.
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And so isolated symptoms are not enough.
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They're a message, they're a pattern, but you need to decode that.
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Just not just so that you can feel better, but so that your body can get back to a state of
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Now back to the episode.
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Alright, welcome back.
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Let's get into kind of the next piece here, which is really functional medicine lab
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testing.
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And really the labs you need to know when you're talking about hormones and possible
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hormone imbalance and symptoms associated, and a lot of things that often get under tested,
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misdiagnosed or even just missed with other doctors.
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Again, I'm going to just make sure I state here that I'm not anti medicine.
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I'm not anti doctors.
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I just think that across the board, there's not enough of a deeper look into things when it
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comes to medicine.
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Take a snapshot and then we prescribe a pill.
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And that's it.
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Versus the functional medicine approach is really what we're talking about is looking at
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the nitty gritty like, is this marker getting close to being out of range?
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Even if it's not out of range yet, is it getting close?
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And how do we prevent it from becoming a problem?
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Right?
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Wouldn't you want to prevent your tire from popping in the middle of the highway rather
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than waiting for that to happen?
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Same concept, right?
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So, you know, the kind of the gap there is that typical testing from your primary care doc or
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your OBGYN is going to include looking at TSH for your thyroid.
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They're going to run estradiol and then maybe like a lipid panel in a CBC.
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It's like that that would be like you read the first page of a book and now you're trying to
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just give a summary on the book doesn't work.
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So, the functional medicine panel and specifically the one we would run at Alessi
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functional health is going to be the full picture.
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Now let's get into what that would look like.
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So, we're going to use these cycle specific labs, so often via saliva, urine and blood.
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And so, we're going to get accurate real time data.
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We're going to look at estradiol, progesterone, testosterone, DHEA.
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We like to do a full cortisol, daily cortisol, we call it.
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This is going to show you the AMPM and your total daily rhythm of cortisol.
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How does your stress response, right?
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The Dutch test, which is basically the industry gold standard for mapping estrogen metabolism,
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cortisol and your hormone balance.
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And then really important, we're going to look at FSH and LH, which is follicle stimulating
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hormone and luteinizing hormone.
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These are very important when looking into ovarian function and that that transition into
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perimenopause and menopause.
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So there's a study out of the Journal of steroid biochemistry and molecular biology that
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was quoted saying salivary and urine based testing provide more accurate measures of
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bioavailable sex hormones than serum alone.
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We take it a step further, we look at the serum, the urine and the saliva.
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I like to just get the full picture.
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And so the next thing we're going to definitely look into is the thyroid panel.
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And so we're not just going look at TSH, which is your thyroid stimulating hormone.
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We're going to look at free T3, free T4, reverse T3, which is that inactive.
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We're going to look at TPO and thyroglobulin antibodies.
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Does your body have an autoimmune response to the thyroid?
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We're going to look at total T3, and then we're going to look at what's called thyroid binding
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globulin.
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Now, the reason we do this is because ninety percent of women with low thyroid symptoms have
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Hashimoto's, yet they don't get diagnosed with Hashimoto's because the conventional medicine
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doctors only run TSH.
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You can't make a diagnosis there.
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And so then you're diagnosing someone as low thyroid putting them on medication when the
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problem is deeper.
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The problem is that they have something causing their body to mount an autoimmune response to
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their thyroid.
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You can take all the medicine in the world you want, you're not going to fix the problem if
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you don't get to the bottom of it.
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And so additional labs that are going to definitely play in that we run are things like
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running gut health labs, looking at zonulin and lipopolysaccharide markers for intestinal
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permeability, doing a stool test, looking for pathogens, inflammation, dysbiosis.
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It's really important with with autoimmunity to run things like food sensitivity panels.
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Are there delayed reactions that are missed by an allergy test, right?
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That are causing your body to now mount an inflammatory immune response attacking your
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thyroid, attacking your joints.
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We're going to look at micronutrient panels, B12, magnesium, zinc, selenium, iodine, iron,
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ferritin, which is especially important if someone has heavy bleeding.
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Also important to look at toxic burden markers, things like heavy metals, plastics, phthalates,
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liver liver detox markers, using something like an organic acids test, which we call an oat
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test.
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All of this is important because those intense symptoms during perimenopause and menopause can
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often be caused by your body having a toxic burden or toxic overload.
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Also important to look at the metabolic and insulin response, right?
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So blood sugar and inflammation.
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So we look at fasting insulin, hemoglobin A1C, leptin, C reactive protein.
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These can detect early metabolic or even PCOS patterns.
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Now, know that's a lot.
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But again, the concept is, you know, you wouldn't go watch the first ten minutes of a
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movie and then go tell everyone how much you love the movie.
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Right?
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Or even be able to talk about whether the movie was good.
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You got to see the whole thing.
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And that's what functional medicine does.
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It gives us the entire picture.
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Because every system is connected.
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Every system leaves clues.
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And when you test the terrain and not just the symptom, you're going to find the why behind
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the what.
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So you don't heal what you don't measure.
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Great quote.
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If you you can measure it, now you can manage it.
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And so let's get into Okay, we talked about what we can measure, what we can test.
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Let's get into some of the protocols that can now help with these kind of things.
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So what happens after the testing?
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Once we see what's off, right?
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What's causing dysfunction?
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We don't just put a band aid on it or give you a supplement, right?
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Because that's the same approach as medicine.
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Here's a pill.
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We're not just going to be natural band aids, right?
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So we want a roadmap.
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We want to really create a personalized plan based on the data, based on the symptoms, not
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guesswork.
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And so this is where functional medicine really shines.
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So step one, remove the interference.
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So before we can balance hormones, we need to remove what's disrupting them in the first
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place.
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Again, before you can, you know, fix your tire problem, you should probably remove the nail
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that's in the tire.
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So common triggers are going to be things like gluten, dairy, especially seen with autoimmune
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or Hashimoto's, refined sugar and alcohol.
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So these can destabilize blood sugar and hormones.
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Endocrine disrupting chemicals, again, toxic tests.
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So BPA, plastics, phthalates, parabens, these are in beauty products all the time.
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Chronic stress and poor sleep patterns.
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So in the Journal of Women's Health and Functional Medicine twenty twenty, there was a
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quote saying hormonal balance can only be restored when the root causes like
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inflammation, toxin exposure and nutrient depletion are addressed first.
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Fantastic quote.
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Again, if you don't fix the cause, you're just going to be managing the same symptoms over and
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over again.
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Now, step two, once we've removed the interference, rebuilding that hormonal harmony,
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that balance.
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So we've gotten rid of the stressors.
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Now we use targeted support.
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So some of the nutraceuticals that we would commonly use are going to be things like
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magnesium glycinate.
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This is very great for balancing the nervous system and that hormonal stability.
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Magnesium is a cofactor with an over 300 reactions within the body.
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So if we're deficient in magnesium, there's going to be a lot of things that are off.
00:25:15
B complex vitamins, these are important for methylation and detox energy and the
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neurotransmitter production.
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Omega threes, anti inflammatories, they they aid in hormone production, as well as like your
00:25:29
body's ability to create hormones.
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Zinc and selenium are important for thyroid and immune function.
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A great one that we use is called VITACs' chase tree, which is an herb which helps regulate
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progesterone.
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And we're not using these as much in isolation.
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We we we have these protocols that we use that are, you know, tried and true.
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They're tested and they get great results because we often see that the summation of
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multiple things used in conjunction is just going to get better results than something used
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in isolation.
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We'll use things like adaptogens, ashwagandha, and rhodiola, which are going to help balance
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that adrenal and that stress resilience.
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So we we don't just throw these at you, right?
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We are going to dose these and phase these based on lab data.
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It's not a one size fits all approach.
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Every patient is different.
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Every person is different.
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Body is biologically different.
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And so symptoms tell us something, data tells us more, your response to things tells us more.
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And so we're constantly tweaking and fine tuning until we get it right.
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Step three is then gut, liver and detox support.
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So your hormones don't just exist in your ovaries, they're processed and cleared by your
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gut and your liver.
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And so it's important to support these.
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So supporting the gut lining, using things like collagen, glutamine, zinc, carnosine, these are
00:26:50
fantastic.
00:26:51
Balancing the microbiome with probiotics and herbal antimicrobials if you need, and then
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enhancing those detox pathways with NAC, glutathione, and even things like sauna and
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rebounding to get the body moving.
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Making sure that we're using the restroom daily, right?
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We're having bowel movements, we're sweating regularly, because your hormones will stay
00:27:13
recirculating in the body.
00:27:15
And that can lead to symptoms like PMS, acne, mood swings, if the body's not clearing out
00:27:20
those those hormones.
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And then step four is what we call cycle syncing and, you know, using lifestyle
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upgrades.
00:27:27
So again, we're not just we're not just treating, we're teaching throughout this
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process.
00:27:32
Functional medicine isn't just about fixing your body.
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It's about helping your body fix itself.
00:27:37
And so we guide women through cycle syncing, which is matching workouts and nutrition to
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menstrual phases, right?
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Different times of the month require different things.
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Ideally, when your body is going through the stress of your cycle, probably not best to go
00:27:53
hit a bunch of HIT workouts and be burning it at both ends trying to, you know, build your
00:27:58
business or whatever and overly stressing yourself.
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It's good to have that cycle.
00:28:02
So lifestyle strategies that we would implement would be things like HRV training, breath work,
00:28:08
using cold exposure for the adrenal health and balance, circadian rhythm alignment, making
00:28:13
sure that our body's, you know, moving with the sun in that proper cycle.
00:28:19
Personalized nutrition plans that are going to support hormone and blood sugar balance.
00:28:24
And then fitness protocols, right?
00:28:25
We guide on this kind of stuff, so that you're working with your hormones, not against them.
00:28:30
And so there's a great quote out of the American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine 2021
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said that lifestyle interventions, including circadian hygiene, stress reduction and
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nutrition are foundational in long term hormone balance.
00:28:44
So again, very important that we are managing the lifestyle, not just throwing pills at it,
00:28:50
trying to cover it up, where functional medicine can be bastardized and often just
00:28:55
mimic Western medicine with a natural approach is when that's the case, right?
00:29:00
We see doctors doing this all the time.
00:29:02
They say, Oh, this is functional medicine.
00:29:03
They're really just using supplements instead of medicine with the same symptom focused
00:29:09
approach.
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We're trying to get to the root cause at Alessi functional health.
00:29:13
We're trying to fix what's leading to the problem in the first place.
00:29:16
So in summary here, hormonal imbalance isn't just about your ovaries.
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It's a full system dysfunction.
00:29:24
And so when we remove what's harming, restore what's missing and rebuild the body's
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intelligence, your hormones don't need to be managed.
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They self regulate, and that's real healing.
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So if you're interested in learning more about our functional medicine programs and how we
00:29:41
help to heal reverse and fix hormone imbalance, go to alessifunctionalhealth.com, look into
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00:29:51
It's our flagship primary care functional medicine program, where we take people through
00:29:57
blood work, custom protocols, nutraceuticals to fix, and then ultimately educate them to take
00:30:04
ownership of their health.
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