November 7, 2023 • 31 mins
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Hello gorgeous,
this episode was recorded in the spur of the moment, as I'm driving home from dropping my son to his cricket match.
If you want to ditch the myriad of symptoms that derail your good days as you go through perimenopause, you need the right approach.
There's a "hierarchy of healing" that allow you to fix the vast majority of uncomfortable symptoms and reduce the risk of chronic illness in the future.
Your gut is the gateway to resolving so many issues you experience with your hair, skin, waistline, mood, energy, sleep!
Fix your gut first, then tackle your hormones to avoid a yo-yo effect of symptoms returning time and time again.
Learn to recognise how you trigger symptoms with lifestyle choices and nutrition.
Then resolve the symptoms with the approach that works for you.
Let me talk you through this in this episode.
If you want, you can then reach out for your personalised journey through perimenopause.
It can be a graceful journey for you!
In best health,
Dr Kirstey Holland
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Dr Kirstey Holland (00:03):
Good morning, gorgeous.
I have just dropped my son off.
He's off to cricket for the dayand I have been having, um, a
huge amount of inquiries comingin about our program I'm so
delighted to tell you that ourprogram has been nominated as
program of the year 2023 2024.
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And um, my program is calledRescue You from the
Rollercoaster of Perimenopause.
And um, this is my third decadein clinical practice treating
perimenopausal women.
Um, but I am pretty aware of thefact that suddenly the
conversation is louder andprouder than ever before.
So I'm absolutely delighted thatthis is actually the case.
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Perimenopausal and menopausalwomen are finally, um, you know,
getting the voice and gettingthe, um, the exposure that they
need in order to get the helpthat they so desperately need.
I'm here to tell you thateverything that I do is based in
the research, scientificevidence, and cutting edge, um,
at that.
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The ZOE PREDICT trial, was abeautiful seminal paper that
came out about 12 months ago,talking about the fact that,
perimenopausal women strugglewith metabolism, and therefore
an increase in weight,particularly around the middle,
and that they are definitely inthis energy crisis.
The words are different, um,these are my words, not their
words, but the meaning is thesame.
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And, the trial also showed that,that, women are struggling with
immunity and they're strugglingwith gut health.
So there was a huge correlationbetween perimenopause and a
decreased, um, level of guthealth in perimenopausal women.
So it's no surprise and nomistake that my program Rescue
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You from the Rollercoaster ofPerimenopause, which is a three
part program, starts withrepair.
And in repair, we repair exactlythat we repair your gut.
We repair your microbiome.
We repair your metabolism.
We repair your immune systembecause 80 to 90 percent of your
immune system resides in yourgut.
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There is this incredible part ofyour gastrointestinal tract
called secretory IGA and is,it's the thick sticky biofilm
and um, it's this beautifulmucous membrane layer that
should be there to protect theinner lining of your
gastrointestinal tract and it'swithin secretory IGA.
That, um, you know, 80 percentof your immune system resides
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and also 80 percent of your feelgood hormones are produced in
the gastrointestinal tract.
So, if you are having any moodissues, anxiety, or depression,
and you have an inflammation inyour gastrointestinal tract, the
two are related.
These are not two separateentities.
They're absolutely related.
Absolutely.
Related.
If you have an inflammation inthe gut, you quite often have an
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inflammation in the mood and themind.
So it is absolutely imperativein perimenopause to focus on the
hierarchy of healing.
So when it, when it comes to thehierarchy of healing, we can't
just dive in and rebalance thehormones first.
If you have a dysbiotic gut or agut integrity issue or a leaky
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gut presentation.
So we absolutely need to focuson healing, sealing and
repairing your gut first.
A lot of the time we actuallyneed to identify individualized
food triggers.
So many women in my clinic havefood triggers that create a
dysbiosis in thegastrointestinal tract and
actually punch holes in thatbeautiful gut lining, you know,
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that gorgeous plumbing.
And whenever I'm talking aboutthe gastrointestinal tract, I'm
actually talking about eyes,ears, nose, throat, large
intestine, small intestine,liver, anus, and vagina.
The microbiome is everywhere.
The microbiome of your girlybits is attached to and
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connected to, althoughintricately different, um, but
part of your generalizedmicrobiome.
So your scalp has a microbiome,your skin has a microbiome, your
gastrointestinal tract, ofcourse, has a microbiome, your
gut has a microbiome, and sodoes your vagina.
So it is absolutely imperativeto keep the microbiome healthy.
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In my clinic, I start with thegut at every point in time.
There is no point in having atoxic load or an unbeneficial
detoxification capacity when youare trying to balance hormones.
So balancing hormones comesnext.
So in repair...
We repair your metabolism.
We repair your gut.
We also repair your ability toaccess energy.
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So the mitochondria comes intothis repair program too.
And what we need to do is weneed to get ourselves into a fat
burn and out of a fat storestate.
So because There is acorrelation and a link between
perimenopause and high glucoselevels, high blood glucose
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levels, which then lead to aninsulin resistance.
What this means is we'reactually not able to access the
energy from our food.
In order to think, in order tomove, in order to feel vibrant,
and in order to feel like we'vegot the energy that we need to
get throughout the day.
So, we need to fix this energycrisis, and we need to get
ourselves into a fat burn andout of a fat store state.
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We need to increase our fiberintake, so that we have a
beautiful gastrointestinal tractlining, and so that our...
gut microbes, the beneficial gutmicrobes, actually have
something to feed on.
If your beneficial gut microbesare not receiving enough food,
so I always say to my patients,please, in every single meal,
make sure you're feeding yourmicrobiome.
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Because if your microbiomedoesn't have the food that it
needs to flourish, They willstart to eat your secretory IGA,
that beautiful, thick jelly likesubstance that I was talking
about before that impacts yourimmutability and also your mood.
So your gut is related to yourmood.
It is related to your immunity.
If you're having any, any signsand symptoms on the skin in
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traditional Chinese medicine,there is an internal and an
external relationship betweenyour large intestine and your
skin.
Your skin is also adetoxification mechanism.
So If you're not able to get ridof the toxicity through the
large intestine and the liver,it'll come out in the skin.
So if you're having any kind of,you know, skin reactions, that
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can also be due to a dysbioticmicrobiome and your
detoxification pathway's notworking efficiently.
Now, your detoxificationpathways can very easily get
clogged up.
And don't forget the fact thatwe're actually paleolithic
beings.
Our physiology has not changed.
Your physiology is exactly thesame as your hunter gatherer
ancestors.
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Although our lifestyles havechanged significantly, your
ancestors were not eatingprocessed food and we're not
taking in copious amounts ofalcohol.
They didn't have the ability toeat food from a packet or a box
like we do these days.
So if your liver is congestedand don't forget, your liver
will always prioritize toxinsfirst.
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If your liver is congested andyou're detoxifying all the food
like substances and the alcoholfirst, you're going to have a
backup of oestrogen not beingable to detoxify through the
large intestine and the liver.
And then, what happens withoestrogen is we need to use it
and then we need to lose it.
If we have oestrogen movingthrough the system again once
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it's already been used, we canhave an oestrogenic overload.
When we have an estrogen excesspresentation, we can quite often
also have additional belly fat.
So, it's a complex picture.
We need to focus on themicrobiome.
We need to focus ondetoxification.
We need to focus on healing,sealing, and repairing your gut.
But we also need to make surethat you can detoxify and
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eliminate the estrogens that youhave used when you no longer
need them.
So, back to repair.
We need to repair yourgastrointestinal tract.
We need to repair yourmetabolism, the energy crisis,
your mood, absolutely yoursleep.
I have so many perimenopausalwomen coming into the clinic who
cannot sleep.
When you can't sleep, melatoninis too low.
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And if melatonin is too low,cortisol is too high.
And this is part of the insulinresistance and the weight gain
resistance piece.
So, when insulin is, when youhave insulin resistance.
Because you have, okay, so let'sgo back.
You're not sleeping, so ifmelatonin is not high enough,
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cortisol is too high.
Cortisol is your stress hormone.
So when cortisol is too highduring the night, you can
actually have blood sugarspikes.
And it can be these blood sugarspikes that wake you through the
night.
So somewhere between 1 and 3 a.
m.
in the morning is liver time.
If you're having a blood sugarspike or you're having
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difficulty detoxifying, you'rewaking between 1 and 3 a.
m.
Your liver is unhappy and youhave a potential blood sugar
spike.
We need to keep your bloodglucose stable so that we don't
have this high blood glucoseovernight.
Because if we have the highblood glucose overnight and the
high cortisol, you literallywake up feeling like you've been
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run over by a bus.
So, if cortisol is high andmelatonin is too low at night,
your circadian rhythm isdisrupted.
Every single cell in your bodyhas a circadian rhythm.
Every single cell in your bodywants to operate when the sun
comes up in the morning and goto sleep when the sun goes down
at night.
When you do not sleep properly,your cleaning mechanism in your
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brain doesn't work quite aswell.
So your glymphatic system.
which is not the lymphaticsystem starting with an L, it's
the glymphatic system startingwith a G, is not optimal.
So what that means is that yourbrain doesn't get cleaned
overnight.
So this is one of the thingsthat can end up leading to
Alzheimer's and dementia, right?
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When our brains don't get theclean out that they need.
We've got this high bloodglucose, we've got this high
cortisol, basically this isprediabetes type 2, so that it
is so imperative that we testHbA1c.
Which is a three month recordingof your blood glucose levels as
well as your insulin resistance.
We need to test insulin, fastinginsulin, so that we know that
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your blood glucose is okay.
This is so important inperimenopause and menopause.
So here we go.
Our melatonin is too low atnight and our cortisol is too
high.
And then what I'm seeing in theclinic is that your CAR, your
cortisol awakening response, caneither be too low or too high,
depending on where you are inyour chronic stress experience.
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So, how long have you been overscheduled for?
How stressed have you been forhow long?
And that will, that, you know,your cortisol, or your cortisol
awakening response will dependon that.
Initially, women are in fight orflight when they're stressed,
initially, like in an acutephase, and quite often that's
when we see cortisol to be high.
And don't get me wrong, weabsolutely need cortisol.
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Cortisol is, um, cortisol isimperative for life.
Like we need to be able to standup for ourselves and we need to
be able to run for our lives andwe need to be able to fight for
our lives.
But again, your beautifulpaleolithic ancient body doesn't
know the difference between atiger at the cave and an alarm
or false lighting or a trafficjam.
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So if your system thinks thatyou're running from a tiger in
the cave every single day ofyour life, eventually fight or
flight turns into rollover playdead.
You just do not have the energy.
To fight or stand up foryourself or run anymore and
you've got like this rolloverplay dead Presentation where you
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like literally please I justwant to roll over play dead.
I just want to get backunderneath the covers I've woken
up My stress and my my energylevels do not recover with sleep
You know that you need to takecare of your adrenals and your
stress levels if you wake in themorning and you're not refreshed
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This means you're not recoveringwith a full night's sleep.
This leads me into talking aboutthe connection between your
adrenals and your thyroid.
Now, this is still everythingthat we're detailing and taking
care of in our repair programbecause we have to make sure
that our adrenals are workingoptimally.
We need adaptogens, things likerhodiola and withania.
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In my clinic, if you arestressed and tired, I use
rhodiola, for example, as one ofthe adaptogenic botanical
medications.
If you are stressed and wired, Iuse a beautiful blend of with
Thania, like so many differentkinds of with Thania really help
women who are stressed andwired, relax and rebalance their
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circadian rhythms so that theydon't have a circadian rhythm
disruption so that your bodyknows when it's morning, that it
knows when it's nighttime, yourbody then knows when to ovulate,
right?
And you're not hungry at strangetimes of the day.
Having a balanced circadianrhythm also helps to balance
your leptin and your ghrelin,which is your hunger response.
Have you ever noticed that aftera really bad night's sleep,
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you're stressed that day, butyou're also super hungry?
So our hunger, our leptin andour ghrelin, ghrelin is the
hormone that makes you pick upthe fork and eat, leptin is the
hormone that makes you put thatdown.
Ghrelin and leptin arecompletely disrupted if you have
a circadian rhythm disruption.
And then what do we do?
Of course, we go for the druglike food substances.
And this is no shaming.
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I'm a recovering food addict, soI know all about drug like food
substances.
So, you know, we go for thethings that give us the hit, the
quick hit.
You know, the sugar or the dairyor the white flour, you name it.
And then unfortunately theunbeneficial bacteria in your
microbiome or yourgastrointestinal tract feed on
sugar and they are delighted.
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and they cause all sorts oftrouble by disrupting your
microbiome and potentiallycreating a leaky gut
presentation or a gut intestinalpermeability issue.
Right, so that's, your GP wouldrather talk to you about a gut
permeability integrity issue.
Um, our GPs and our allopathicpractitioners don't like the
terminology leaky gutpresentation, so just use the
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right terminology for them sothat they take you seriously.
Um, yeah, and then once we havethat, we basically have
inflammatory cytokines.
Um, coming out of the gut intothe bloodstream, attacking our
joints and attacking our moodand attacking our mind.
So again, if you have aninflammation in the gut, you
have an inflammation in the moodand the mind.
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So again, going back to theadrenals and then the thyroid
connection.
Think about the wording, youknow, it's called perimenopause.
It's an invitation for you topause, but unfortunately a lot
of the time we also experienceadrenal and thyropause.
Right, so you can, it's sooften, it's so common for
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perimenopausal women, all womenin their 40s, to be diagnosed
with a thyroid condition.
Um, I see Hashimoto'sthyroiditis in my clinic all the
time.
So it is so important to knowhow to test, what to test, and
when to test.
You need a full thyroid panel.
I don't know why it's sodifficult to get the testing
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that we need in this country,but unfortunately it is.
So, you need to test yourthyroid, you need to test your
adrenals, you need to know whatyour cortisol awakening response
is doing, and you absolutelyneed to know what your thyroid
stimulating hormone is doing.
You need to know TS, you need toknow T3, T4, reverse T3, and you
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need to test both thyroidantibodies.
I cannot tell you how manytimes.
I've had a woman come into myclinic going, Oh, my doctor's
tested my thyroid and everythingis fine.
Your doctor's tested yourthyroid stimulating hormone and
it is fine.
And so many women have a thyroidstimulating hormone well within
range, right?
Well within range.
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Thyroid stimulating hormoneranges are huge, um, uh, in my
opinion.
You know, 0.
5 to 4 is actually a huge range.
But, uh, you want your thyroidstimulating hormone at about 1.
5 or 2.
You really don't want it anyhigher than that.
To me, as a functional medicalpractitioner, if you have
thyroid stimulating hormone, twoor above, you're a candidate for
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hypothyroidism.
Hypothyroidism makes you feelexhausted, you tend to hold on
to weight, you can't seem tolose weight, you struggle with
weight loss resistance, you'repuffy, you're really puffy.
So it doesn't actually, it isn'tactually about the kilograms,
but you literally feel like youcan't get rid of that fluid
retention.
And again, quite often, um, Youknow, your energy levels are not
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recovered through sleep or rest,so you still feel absolutely
exhausted on waking.
Um, so yes, so thyroid andadrenals absolutely imperative,
and then we need to get you intothis fat burn as opposed to a
fat store state, so that yourmitochondria can work extremely
well.
The mitochondria is the energyroom of the cell.
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From the age of 35 onwards, ourcoenzyme Q10 can deplete quite
significantly.
Coenzyme Q10 or Ubiquinol isgold standard fuel for your
mitochondria.
So, once you start to supportyour mitochondria and you have
beautiful mitochondrialuncoupling, you can actually
access that energy level again.
And you need to, look,perimenopause, there's never
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been a time in your life whereyou have been more inflamed with
less energy.
Progesterone is going MIA, she'scool, calm, collected, and she
sleeps.
Progesterone also modulates theimmune system and she modulates
estrogen.
So without progesterone,estrogen starts to
rollercoaster.
So that's where we feel likewe're really on this crazy
rollercoaster ride.
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One minute we're exhausted, thenext minute we're snappy, the
next minute we've got mum aggroand relationship aggro.
You know, we've got dragon womancoming out screaming at
everyone, you know, and then shefeels really bad and really
ashamed for it.
And that's also because.
You don't have the reserve orthe nourishment that your
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adrenals need, and your adrenalsare starting to take on some of
the workload from the ovary,right?
And if you've had a high ACEscore, you've been under or
overscheduled or overstressedfor far too long, your adrenals
are already exhausted andthey're like, are you kidding
me?
You now want me to do the job ofthe ovary as well as your fight
and flight and like keeping youalive?
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No, I'm sorry.
No, I'm done.
And that's when women start tofeel that real burnout, you
know, because the, the adrenalscan't take on any more.
They're done.
They're dusted.
They've, they've, they've beengoing for far too long.
So then you have this adrenalpause.
And then unfortunately, due tothe fact that the hypothalamus,
pituitary, adrenal and thyroidaccess is all in communication
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with one another, your thyroidstarts to feel exhausted too.
Because if there's somethinggoing on in the adrenals,
there's something going on inyour thyroid.
So, that is repair.
We need to repair your gut.
We need to repair your immunesystem.
We need to repair your mood.
We need to repair your mind.
We need to repair your sleep.
We need to repair yourmetabolism so that you can
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access fuel from your food.
And once your body has anutrient dense, rich blood
supply, and you are able toaccess the energy that you
really need, you've got stableblood glucose levels and you
don't have insulin resistanceanymore.
Right?
You don't have this pre type 2diabetes.
You don't have high HbA1c.
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And, um, you are moving towardsvitality again.
You will seriously have theenergy to do what it is that you
want to do in your life.
You will be able to serve thepeople that you love with such
incredible abundance.
You will have the ability tochase the joy.
And that is the first step inyour hierarchy of healing.
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Once you have an incredibleroadmap, you know how to heal,
seal and repair your gut.
Um, you can rebalance thosehormones and you can absolutely
Make this perimenopausal andmenopausal experience far more
graceful, and that's just partone.
Part two is rebalance.
This is where we rebalance yourhormones and rebalance your life
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and teach you how to live withinthis beautiful cyclical gorgeous
rhythm that the female body wasdesigned to do.
Now, even if you're not cyclinganymore, I highly recommend,
because we're earthlings and welive on planet Earth, And we
have a lunar cycle, right?
Our menstrual cycle follows themoon.
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When you're no longer cycling,why not follow the lunar cycle?
So, full moon is ovulation.
In Rebalance, I teach youexactly how to support yourself
according to the lunar cycle.
So, for example, between day 1and day 3 of your cycle, there
is never a time in your lifewhere you are more in tune and
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you are more Intuitive.
And then between day three andday seven, you are so creative.
This is the creative part ofyour cycle.
This is when you start to dreambig.
This is when you create.
Between day, you know, evenbetween day three and day 14,
you are hugely creative, andthen when you want to get your
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message to the masses, you getup on that stage on day 14.
When you are ovulating, you areabsolutely magnetic.
I've walked into parties and,you know, friends of mine and
I've gone, Oh, are youovulating?
And they go, Oh my God, how doyou know?
And I'm like, you look insane.
It's when you are your sexiest.
It is when you are at your peak.
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It is when you are absolutelymagnetic.
So if you have a message thatreally means something and that
you really need to share withpeople that really need to hear
it.
Day 14 is your day.
Get up on stage and do it.
Then if you are editing a book,there is never a time that is
better to edit between day 14and 28 because you are in your
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luteal phase.
There is never a time where youare more critical.
So you can use that.
You can use that incrediblepower to edit.
And when I say edit, yes, ofcourse, edit your book.
Take out the bits that don'twork, but also edit your life,
take out the mindset that nolonger serves you, take out the
friendship that no longer servesyou and edit the things that no
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longer serve you.
And I'm also here to tell youthat because, you know, so many
of us are also in relationshipwith others.
This is the time when you wantto criticize.
This is the time when you wantto criticize the people in your
life and you want to criticizeyour relationship and
potentially yourself too.
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I highly recommend that youwrite down what it is that you
want to change and I highlyrecommend that you don't do it
at this point in time.
This is not when you give thefeedback, you hold onto that
information.
You use your intelligence andyou make sure that you bring
your most intelligent self toyour biggest challenge or the
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thing that you want to impactmost.
So you wait until you are in thefirst half of your cycle when
you're really creative.
And ideally you have cocktailsand feedback when you're
ovulating.
Your partner is.
far more receptive towards yourbeautiful feedback and your
suggestions when you'reovulating.
So I highly recommend that youdo that then.
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So we've got repair, we've gotrebalance, and then we've got
reclaim.
In reclaim, we reclaim yourmetabolic health and we prevent
chronic disease for good.
In this incredible trial that Iwas talking about before, we saw
that All of the chronic diseasesthat 41 million people worldwide
die from are preventable.
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You can turn the ship around atany point in time.
Please don't die from type 2diabetes or Alzheimer's and
dementia, you know, which istype 3 diabetes.
Please don't die from acardiovascular disease risk that
was preventable.
Please do the lifestyle pieces.
They are absolutely the hardestpieces to do and women don't
want to hear it.
You know, so many women justwant to take a magic pill or the
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one thing.
So I know that there are so manythings out there in the
marketing world that work.
You know, there's this one pillfor menopause and it's going to,
you know, stop all of yourhorrible symptoms.
That's never the case and it'snever going to work long term.
You know, it is unsustainable.
It might work for a while.
But if you want true sustainablehealth, you need to do the
lifestyle factors.
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The Mediterranean and thelongevity diet have been proven
to be absolutely brilliant forperimenopausal women, but again,
it's individualized precisioncare.
So, if you want to know what'sgoing on in your gut, I highly
recommend the GI 360.
It is the best functional teston the planet, in conjunction
with the OAT test, I'd say, butI think the GI 360 is absolutely
fine for gut health.
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And then, of course, I use theDUTCH test for, um, hormonal
health.
So, either the DUTCH Plus or orthe dutch cycle mapping or the
dutch complete, but we can talkabout which one you need in the
clinic if this is something thatresonates with you.
So please repair your gut,repair your metabolism, repair
the energy crisis, repair yourimmune system, repair your mood,
your mind, and your sleep.
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Get all of the functional teststhat you need.
Get a full blood panel, fullthyroid panel, like I said
before.
and please have a look at theMTHFR gene polymorphism and have
a look to see what's going on inyour gut and treat your life and
your health holistically.
So health is not separate.
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There is no mental disease thatisn't impacted by the
gastrointestinal tract.
We're now even seeing in the,um, In, in the, in the
psychology and the psychiatrytextbooks that inflammatory
cytokines impact the brain andnutritional deficiencies impact
the brain.
Of course they do.
Of course they do.
Health is bio psycho social.
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But doing the lifestyle piecesare hugely brilliant.
You know, get into bed early,get eight hours sleep, you know,
wake up and get that beautifulcortisol balanced, you know, get
that morning light into youreyes.
And, um, turn off the screens atnight and listen to your body.
You have the most incredibleintuition and body wisdom.
You just need to know bodyliteracy.
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You need to understand whereyou're at in your cycle.
You need to understand what yourgut is doing.
You need to understand what itis that the messages that your
body are sending you are saying.
You need to understand whereyour progesterone is at, your
estrogen, your cortisol, yourtestosterone, your
atenocannabinolone, yourandrosterone.
You need to know where yourcortisol and your melatonin
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ratio is at.
You need to know whether youhave micronutrient deficiencies,
you know, please take yourhealth into your own hands.
You need to care about yourself.
We don't necessarily have ahealth care system that focuses
on vitality.
Now, our mainstream doctors aregreat at keeping you alive.
But, you know, don't just bealive.
Like, I want you to thrive, andparticularly during
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perimenopause, because we needto transition successfully into
menopause in order to be vitalfor good and ensure that we
don't actually have any of thesechronic diseases.
So, repair, rebalance, andreclaim.
Rescue you from therollercoaster of perimenopause
and transition successfully.
Book your Clarity Call with meif you have any questions.
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It's a free Clarity Call.
Join my green room while it'sstill free.
It's a beautiful place to start.
It gives you some ideas aboutwhat to test and when to test.
Um, yes, I completely understandthat so many women come into my
clinic and they tell me, youknow, on a weekly basis.
that the GP say, you know, allyour hormones are fluctuating so
much.
We don't even know, you know,when to test them.
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Yes, your hormones arefluctuating so much, but we
absolutely do know when to test.
We know that we need to testestradiol and sex hormone
binding, globulin andtestosterone and FSH and LH and
prolactin between day one andday three of your cycle.
And we absolutely know that weneed to test.
progesterone between day 19 and22 of your cycle.
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So if you can get those blooddraws, if you can get a full
blood analysis, your fullthyroid panel, you know, check
to see that you've got, youknow, adequate B6.
B12.
D3 is absolutely imperative.
I see so many women with suchlow D3 levels.
Every single cell in your bodyhas a D3 receptor.
And, you know, if you haveSeasonal Affective Disorder, you
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absolutely need to check yourD3.
And don't forget that we need K2to get D3 into the bone to
prevent osteopenia andosteoporosis.
And, of course, we need to movein a way that we love.
And we absolutely need to beeating one gram of net protein
per kilogram of body weight.
Anyway, that's my littlesynopsis about my program.
I'm so delighted to let you knowthat I've been nominated as
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health and wellness coach of thedecade by the beautiful you life
coaching academy and I've beenappointed to a global
perimenopausal panel and I'm sodelighted to be here.
I'm here for you.
I had an extremely challenginghealth journey myself.
I was diagnosed with polycysticovarian syndrome, chronic
fatigue syndrome, Hashimoto'sthyroiditis, and I was a little
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girl who was trying to Move awayfrom the pain of her parents
divorce and being sent toboarding school by overeating
and I'm a recovering foodaddict.
I completely understand whatit's like, but I am now 47.
I'm in perimenopause.
I'm somewhere between a size 10on a good day and I do not diet,
this is a diet free zone.
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I live a beautiful, beautiful,balanced 80 20 and you can too.
You can absolutely live in anincredible body and you can
support your biochemistry.
Please do not take negligentcare as, as the base.
You know, you, you can, you canthrive.
You can absolutely thrive atthis time in your life and I
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want you to.
And, um, you know.
I'm busy.
I was a single mom for 13 years.
I've now found the love of mylife.
We've spent the last three yearstogether and absolutely cannot
wait to marry him.
And we have a patchwork familywith three teenagers, 16, 17 and
18, two dogs.
And believe me, we've got a busylife, but I'm absolutely loving
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it.
I understand how challengingperimenopause can be.
I know our children are inchallenging phases.
I know that our careers arepotentially incredibly
challenging at this point intime.
And we, you know, most of us aremothers and lovers and sisters
and, you know, have children andaging parents and all the
things, but your health does notneed to suffer.
And I'm also here to tell youthat it's not your fault.
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Take it easy.
Have a beautiful day.
I can't wait to meet you on theclarity call.
Let me know if you need anyhelp.
Shoot me through a question.
I would absolutely love toanswer you.
Take it easy.
Have a gorgeous day.
Good morning, gorgeous.
I have just dropped my son off.
He's off to cricket for the dayand I have been having, um, a
huge amount of inquiries comingin about our program I'm so
delighted to tell you that ourprogram has been nominated as
program of the year 2023 2024.
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And um, my program is calledRescue You from the
Rollercoaster of Perimenopause.
And um, this is my third decadein clinical practice treating
perimenopausal women.
Um, but I am pretty aware of thefact that suddenly the
conversation is louder andprouder than ever before.
So I'm absolutely delighted thatthis is actually the case.
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Perimenopausal and menopausalwomen are finally, um, you know,
getting the voice and gettingthe, um, the exposure that they
need in order to get the helpthat they so desperately need.
I'm here to tell you thateverything that I do is based in
the research, scientificevidence, and cutting edge, um,
at that.
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The ZOE PREDICT trial, was abeautiful seminal paper that
came out about 12 months ago,talking about the fact that,
perimenopausal women strugglewith metabolism, and therefore
an increase in weight,particularly around the middle,
and that they are definitely inthis energy crisis.
The words are different, um,these are my words, not their
words, but the meaning is thesame.
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And, the trial also showed that,that, women are struggling with
immunity and they're strugglingwith gut health.
So there was a huge correlationbetween perimenopause and a
decreased, um, level of guthealth in perimenopausal women.
So it's no surprise and nomistake that my program Rescue
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You from the Rollercoaster ofPerimenopause, which is a three
part program, starts withrepair.
And in repair, we repair exactlythat we repair your gut.
We repair your microbiome.
We repair your metabolism.
We repair your immune systembecause 80 to 90 percent of your
immune system resides in yourgut.
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There is this incredible part ofyour gastrointestinal tract
called secretory IGA and is,it's the thick sticky biofilm
and um, it's this beautifulmucous membrane layer that
should be there to protect theinner lining of your
gastrointestinal tract and it'swithin secretory IGA.
That, um, you know, 80 percentof your immune system resides
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and also 80 percent of your feelgood hormones are produced in
the gastrointestinal tract.
So, if you are having any moodissues, anxiety, or depression,
and you have an inflammation inyour gastrointestinal tract, the
two are related.
These are not two separateentities.
They're absolutely related.
Absolutely.
Related.
If you have an inflammation inthe gut, you quite often have an
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inflammation in the mood and themind.
So it is absolutely imperativein perimenopause to focus on the
hierarchy of healing.
So when it, when it comes to thehierarchy of healing, we can't
just dive in and rebalance thehormones first.
If you have a dysbiotic gut or agut integrity issue or a leaky
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gut presentation.
So we absolutely need to focuson healing, sealing and
repairing your gut first.
A lot of the time we actuallyneed to identify individualized
food triggers.
So many women in my clinic havefood triggers that create a
dysbiosis in thegastrointestinal tract and
actually punch holes in thatbeautiful gut lining, you know,
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that gorgeous plumbing.
And whenever I'm talking aboutthe gastrointestinal tract, I'm
actually talking about eyes,ears, nose, throat, large
intestine, small intestine,liver, anus, and vagina.
The microbiome is everywhere.
The microbiome of your girlybits is attached to and
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connected to, althoughintricately different, um, but
part of your generalizedmicrobiome.
So your scalp has a microbiome,your skin has a microbiome, your
gastrointestinal tract, ofcourse, has a microbiome, your
gut has a microbiome, and sodoes your vagina.
So it is absolutely imperativeto keep the microbiome healthy.
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In my clinic, I start with thegut at every point in time.
There is no point in having atoxic load or an unbeneficial
detoxification capacity when youare trying to balance hormones.
So balancing hormones comesnext.
So in repair...
We repair your metabolism.
We repair your gut.
We also repair your ability toaccess energy.
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So the mitochondria comes intothis repair program too.
And what we need to do is weneed to get ourselves into a fat
burn and out of a fat storestate.
So because There is acorrelation and a link between
perimenopause and high glucoselevels, high blood glucose
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levels, which then lead to aninsulin resistance.
What this means is we'reactually not able to access the
energy from our food.
In order to think, in order tomove, in order to feel vibrant,
and in order to feel like we'vegot the energy that we need to
get throughout the day.
So, we need to fix this energycrisis, and we need to get
ourselves into a fat burn andout of a fat store state.
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We need to increase our fiberintake, so that we have a
beautiful gastrointestinal tractlining, and so that our...
gut microbes, the beneficial gutmicrobes, actually have
something to feed on.
If your beneficial gut microbesare not receiving enough food,
so I always say to my patients,please, in every single meal,
make sure you're feeding yourmicrobiome.
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Because if your microbiomedoesn't have the food that it
needs to flourish, They willstart to eat your secretory IGA,
that beautiful, thick jelly likesubstance that I was talking
about before that impacts yourimmutability and also your mood.
So your gut is related to yourmood.
It is related to your immunity.
If you're having any, any signsand symptoms on the skin in
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traditional Chinese medicine,there is an internal and an
external relationship betweenyour large intestine and your
skin.
Your skin is also adetoxification mechanism.
So If you're not able to get ridof the toxicity through the
large intestine and the liver,it'll come out in the skin.
So if you're having any kind of,you know, skin reactions, that
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can also be due to a dysbioticmicrobiome and your
detoxification pathway's notworking efficiently.
Now, your detoxificationpathways can very easily get
clogged up.
And don't forget the fact thatwe're actually paleolithic
beings.
Our physiology has not changed.
Your physiology is exactly thesame as your hunter gatherer
ancestors.
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Although our lifestyles havechanged significantly, your
ancestors were not eatingprocessed food and we're not
taking in copious amounts ofalcohol.
They didn't have the ability toeat food from a packet or a box
like we do these days.
So if your liver is congestedand don't forget, your liver
will always prioritize toxinsfirst.
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If your liver is congested andyou're detoxifying all the food
like substances and the alcoholfirst, you're going to have a
backup of oestrogen not beingable to detoxify through the
large intestine and the liver.
And then, what happens withoestrogen is we need to use it
and then we need to lose it.
If we have oestrogen movingthrough the system again once
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it's already been used, we canhave an oestrogenic overload.
When we have an estrogen excesspresentation, we can quite often
also have additional belly fat.
So, it's a complex picture.
We need to focus on themicrobiome.
We need to focus ondetoxification.
We need to focus on healing,sealing, and repairing your gut.
But we also need to make surethat you can detoxify and
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eliminate the estrogens that youhave used when you no longer
need them.
So, back to repair.
We need to repair yourgastrointestinal tract.
We need to repair yourmetabolism, the energy crisis,
your mood, absolutely yoursleep.
I have so many perimenopausalwomen coming into the clinic who
cannot sleep.
When you can't sleep, melatoninis too low.
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And if melatonin is too low,cortisol is too high.
And this is part of the insulinresistance and the weight gain
resistance piece.
So, when insulin is, when youhave insulin resistance.
Because you have, okay, so let'sgo back.
You're not sleeping, so ifmelatonin is not high enough,
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cortisol is too high.
Cortisol is your stress hormone.
So when cortisol is too highduring the night, you can
actually have blood sugarspikes.
And it can be these blood sugarspikes that wake you through the
night.
So somewhere between 1 and 3 a.
m.
in the morning is liver time.
If you're having a blood sugarspike or you're having
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difficulty detoxifying, you'rewaking between 1 and 3 a.
m.
Your liver is unhappy and youhave a potential blood sugar
spike.
We need to keep your bloodglucose stable so that we don't
have this high blood glucoseovernight.
Because if we have the highblood glucose overnight and the
high cortisol, you literallywake up feeling like you've been
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run over by a bus.
So, if cortisol is high andmelatonin is too low at night,
your circadian rhythm isdisrupted.
Every single cell in your bodyhas a circadian rhythm.
Every single cell in your bodywants to operate when the sun
comes up in the morning and goto sleep when the sun goes down
at night.
When you do not sleep properly,your cleaning mechanism in your
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brain doesn't work quite aswell.
So your glymphatic system.
which is not the lymphaticsystem starting with an L, it's
the glymphatic system startingwith a G, is not optimal.
So what that means is that yourbrain doesn't get cleaned
overnight.
So this is one of the thingsthat can end up leading to
Alzheimer's and dementia, right?
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When our brains don't get theclean out that they need.
We've got this high bloodglucose, we've got this high
cortisol, basically this isprediabetes type 2, so that it
is so imperative that we testHbA1c.
Which is a three month recordingof your blood glucose levels as
well as your insulin resistance.
We need to test insulin, fastinginsulin, so that we know that
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your blood glucose is okay.
This is so important inperimenopause and menopause.
So here we go.
Our melatonin is too low atnight and our cortisol is too
high.
And then what I'm seeing in theclinic is that your CAR, your
cortisol awakening response, caneither be too low or too high,
depending on where you are inyour chronic stress experience.
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So, how long have you been overscheduled for?
How stressed have you been forhow long?
And that will, that, you know,your cortisol, or your cortisol
awakening response will dependon that.
Initially, women are in fight orflight when they're stressed,
initially, like in an acutephase, and quite often that's
when we see cortisol to be high.
And don't get me wrong, weabsolutely need cortisol.
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Cortisol is, um, cortisol isimperative for life.
Like we need to be able to standup for ourselves and we need to
be able to run for our lives andwe need to be able to fight for
our lives.
But again, your beautifulpaleolithic ancient body doesn't
know the difference between atiger at the cave and an alarm
or false lighting or a trafficjam.
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So if your system thinks thatyou're running from a tiger in
the cave every single day ofyour life, eventually fight or
flight turns into rollover playdead.
You just do not have the energy.
To fight or stand up foryourself or run anymore and
you've got like this rolloverplay dead Presentation where you
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like literally please I justwant to roll over play dead.
I just want to get backunderneath the covers I've woken
up My stress and my my energylevels do not recover with sleep
You know that you need to takecare of your adrenals and your
stress levels if you wake in themorning and you're not refreshed
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This means you're not recoveringwith a full night's sleep.
This leads me into talking aboutthe connection between your
adrenals and your thyroid.
Now, this is still everythingthat we're detailing and taking
care of in our repair programbecause we have to make sure
that our adrenals are workingoptimally.
We need adaptogens, things likerhodiola and withania.
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In my clinic, if you arestressed and tired, I use
rhodiola, for example, as one ofthe adaptogenic botanical
medications.
If you are stressed and wired, Iuse a beautiful blend of with
Thania, like so many differentkinds of with Thania really help
women who are stressed andwired, relax and rebalance their
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circadian rhythms so that theydon't have a circadian rhythm
disruption so that your bodyknows when it's morning, that it
knows when it's nighttime, yourbody then knows when to ovulate,
right?
And you're not hungry at strangetimes of the day.
Having a balanced circadianrhythm also helps to balance
your leptin and your ghrelin,which is your hunger response.
Have you ever noticed that aftera really bad night's sleep,
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you're stressed that day, butyou're also super hungry?
So our hunger, our leptin andour ghrelin, ghrelin is the
hormone that makes you pick upthe fork and eat, leptin is the
hormone that makes you put thatdown.
Ghrelin and leptin arecompletely disrupted if you have
a circadian rhythm disruption.
And then what do we do?
Of course, we go for the druglike food substances.
And this is no shaming.
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I'm a recovering food addict, soI know all about drug like food
substances.
So, you know, we go for thethings that give us the hit, the
quick hit.
You know, the sugar or the dairyor the white flour, you name it.
And then unfortunately theunbeneficial bacteria in your
microbiome or yourgastrointestinal tract feed on
sugar and they are delighted.
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and they cause all sorts oftrouble by disrupting your
microbiome and potentiallycreating a leaky gut
presentation or a gut intestinalpermeability issue.
Right, so that's, your GP wouldrather talk to you about a gut
permeability integrity issue.
Um, our GPs and our allopathicpractitioners don't like the
terminology leaky gutpresentation, so just use the
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right terminology for them sothat they take you seriously.
Um, yeah, and then once we havethat, we basically have
inflammatory cytokines.
Um, coming out of the gut intothe bloodstream, attacking our
joints and attacking our moodand attacking our mind.
So again, if you have aninflammation in the gut, you
have an inflammation in the moodand the mind.
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So again, going back to theadrenals and then the thyroid
connection.
Think about the wording, youknow, it's called perimenopause.
It's an invitation for you topause, but unfortunately a lot
of the time we also experienceadrenal and thyropause.
Right, so you can, it's sooften, it's so common for
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perimenopausal women, all womenin their 40s, to be diagnosed
with a thyroid condition.
Um, I see Hashimoto'sthyroiditis in my clinic all the
time.
So it is so important to knowhow to test, what to test, and
when to test.
You need a full thyroid panel.
I don't know why it's sodifficult to get the testing
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that we need in this country,but unfortunately it is.
So, you need to test yourthyroid, you need to test your
adrenals, you need to know whatyour cortisol awakening response
is doing, and you absolutelyneed to know what your thyroid
stimulating hormone is doing.
You need to know TS, you need toknow T3, T4, reverse T3, and you
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need to test both thyroidantibodies.
I cannot tell you how manytimes.
I've had a woman come into myclinic going, Oh, my doctor's
tested my thyroid and everythingis fine.
Your doctor's tested yourthyroid stimulating hormone and
it is fine.
And so many women have a thyroidstimulating hormone well within
range, right?
Well within range.
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Thyroid stimulating hormoneranges are huge, um, uh, in my
opinion.
You know, 0.
5 to 4 is actually a huge range.
But, uh, you want your thyroidstimulating hormone at about 1.
5 or 2.
You really don't want it anyhigher than that.
To me, as a functional medicalpractitioner, if you have
thyroid stimulating hormone, twoor above, you're a candidate for
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hypothyroidism.
Hypothyroidism makes you feelexhausted, you tend to hold on
to weight, you can't seem tolose weight, you struggle with
weight loss resistance, you'repuffy, you're really puffy.
So it doesn't actually, it isn'tactually about the kilograms,
but you literally feel like youcan't get rid of that fluid
retention.
And again, quite often, um, Youknow, your energy levels are not
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recovered through sleep or rest,so you still feel absolutely
exhausted on waking.
Um, so yes, so thyroid andadrenals absolutely imperative,
and then we need to get you intothis fat burn as opposed to a
fat store state, so that yourmitochondria can work extremely
well.
The mitochondria is the energyroom of the cell.
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From the age of 35 onwards, ourcoenzyme Q10 can deplete quite
significantly.
Coenzyme Q10 or Ubiquinol isgold standard fuel for your
mitochondria.
So, once you start to supportyour mitochondria and you have
beautiful mitochondrialuncoupling, you can actually
access that energy level again.
And you need to, look,perimenopause, there's never
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been a time in your life whereyou have been more inflamed with
less energy.
Progesterone is going MIA, she'scool, calm, collected, and she
sleeps.
Progesterone also modulates theimmune system and she modulates
estrogen.
So without progesterone,estrogen starts to
rollercoaster.
So that's where we feel likewe're really on this crazy
rollercoaster ride.
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One minute we're exhausted, thenext minute we're snappy, the
next minute we've got mum aggroand relationship aggro.
You know, we've got dragon womancoming out screaming at
everyone, you know, and then shefeels really bad and really
ashamed for it.
And that's also because.
You don't have the reserve orthe nourishment that your
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adrenals need, and your adrenalsare starting to take on some of
the workload from the ovary,right?
And if you've had a high ACEscore, you've been under or
overscheduled or overstressedfor far too long, your adrenals
are already exhausted andthey're like, are you kidding
me?
You now want me to do the job ofthe ovary as well as your fight
and flight and like keeping youalive?
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No, I'm sorry.
No, I'm done.
And that's when women start tofeel that real burnout, you
know, because the, the adrenalscan't take on any more.
They're done.
They're dusted.
They've, they've, they've beengoing for far too long.
So then you have this adrenalpause.
And then unfortunately, due tothe fact that the hypothalamus,
pituitary, adrenal and thyroidaccess is all in communication
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with one another, your thyroidstarts to feel exhausted too.
Because if there's somethinggoing on in the adrenals,
there's something going on inyour thyroid.
So, that is repair.
We need to repair your gut.
We need to repair your immunesystem.
We need to repair your mood.
We need to repair your mind.
We need to repair your sleep.
We need to repair yourmetabolism so that you can
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access fuel from your food.
And once your body has anutrient dense, rich blood
supply, and you are able toaccess the energy that you
really need, you've got stableblood glucose levels and you
don't have insulin resistanceanymore.
Right?
You don't have this pre type 2diabetes.
You don't have high HbA1c.
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And, um, you are moving towardsvitality again.
You will seriously have theenergy to do what it is that you
want to do in your life.
You will be able to serve thepeople that you love with such
incredible abundance.
You will have the ability tochase the joy.
And that is the first step inyour hierarchy of healing.
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Once you have an incredibleroadmap, you know how to heal,
seal and repair your gut.
Um, you can rebalance thosehormones and you can absolutely
Make this perimenopausal andmenopausal experience far more
graceful, and that's just partone.
Part two is rebalance.
This is where we rebalance yourhormones and rebalance your life
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and teach you how to live withinthis beautiful cyclical gorgeous
rhythm that the female body wasdesigned to do.
Now, even if you're not cyclinganymore, I highly recommend,
because we're earthlings and welive on planet Earth, And we
have a lunar cycle, right?
Our menstrual cycle follows themoon.
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When you're no longer cycling,why not follow the lunar cycle?
So, full moon is ovulation.
In Rebalance, I teach youexactly how to support yourself
according to the lunar cycle.
So, for example, between day 1and day 3 of your cycle, there
is never a time in your lifewhere you are more in tune and
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you are more Intuitive.
And then between day three andday seven, you are so creative.
This is the creative part ofyour cycle.
This is when you start to dreambig.
This is when you create.
Between day, you know, evenbetween day three and day 14,
you are hugely creative, andthen when you want to get your
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message to the masses, you getup on that stage on day 14.
When you are ovulating, you areabsolutely magnetic.
I've walked into parties and,you know, friends of mine and
I've gone, Oh, are youovulating?
And they go, Oh my God, how doyou know?
And I'm like, you look insane.
It's when you are your sexiest.
It is when you are at your peak.
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It is when you are absolutelymagnetic.
So if you have a message thatreally means something and that
you really need to share withpeople that really need to hear
it.
Day 14 is your day.
Get up on stage and do it.
Then if you are editing a book,there is never a time that is
better to edit between day 14and 28 because you are in your
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luteal phase.
There is never a time where youare more critical.
So you can use that.
You can use that incrediblepower to edit.
And when I say edit, yes, ofcourse, edit your book.
Take out the bits that don'twork, but also edit your life,
take out the mindset that nolonger serves you, take out the
friendship that no longer servesyou and edit the things that no
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longer serve you.
And I'm also here to tell youthat because, you know, so many
of us are also in relationshipwith others.
This is the time when you wantto criticize.
This is the time when you wantto criticize the people in your
life and you want to criticizeyour relationship and
potentially yourself too.
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I highly recommend that youwrite down what it is that you
want to change and I highlyrecommend that you don't do it
at this point in time.
This is not when you give thefeedback, you hold onto that
information.
You use your intelligence andyou make sure that you bring
your most intelligent self toyour biggest challenge or the
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thing that you want to impactmost.
So you wait until you are in thefirst half of your cycle when
you're really creative.
And ideally you have cocktailsand feedback when you're
ovulating.
Your partner is.
far more receptive towards yourbeautiful feedback and your
suggestions when you'reovulating.
So I highly recommend that youdo that then.
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So we've got repair, we've gotrebalance, and then we've got
reclaim.
In reclaim, we reclaim yourmetabolic health and we prevent
chronic disease for good.
In this incredible trial that Iwas talking about before, we saw
that All of the chronic diseasesthat 41 million people worldwide
die from are preventable.
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You can turn the ship around atany point in time.
Please don't die from type 2diabetes or Alzheimer's and
dementia, you know, which istype 3 diabetes.
Please don't die from acardiovascular disease risk that
was preventable.
Please do the lifestyle pieces.
They are absolutely the hardestpieces to do and women don't
want to hear it.
You know, so many women justwant to take a magic pill or the
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one thing.
So I know that there are so manythings out there in the
marketing world that work.
You know, there's this one pillfor menopause and it's going to,
you know, stop all of yourhorrible symptoms.
That's never the case and it'snever going to work long term.
You know, it is unsustainable.
It might work for a while.
But if you want true sustainablehealth, you need to do the
lifestyle factors.
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The Mediterranean and thelongevity diet have been proven
to be absolutely brilliant forperimenopausal women, but again,
it's individualized precisioncare.
So, if you want to know what'sgoing on in your gut, I highly
recommend the GI 360.
It is the best functional teston the planet, in conjunction
with the OAT test, I'd say, butI think the GI 360 is absolutely
fine for gut health.
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And then, of course, I use theDUTCH test for, um, hormonal
health.
So, either the DUTCH Plus or orthe dutch cycle mapping or the
dutch complete, but we can talkabout which one you need in the
clinic if this is something thatresonates with you.
So please repair your gut,repair your metabolism, repair
the energy crisis, repair yourimmune system, repair your mood,
your mind, and your sleep.
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Get all of the functional teststhat you need.
Get a full blood panel, fullthyroid panel, like I said
before.
and please have a look at theMTHFR gene polymorphism and have
a look to see what's going on inyour gut and treat your life and
your health holistically.
So health is not separate.
(25:52):
There is no mental disease thatisn't impacted by the
gastrointestinal tract.
We're now even seeing in the,um, In, in the, in the
psychology and the psychiatrytextbooks that inflammatory
cytokines impact the brain andnutritional deficiencies impact
the brain.
Of course they do.
Of course they do.
Health is bio psycho social.
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But doing the lifestyle piecesare hugely brilliant.
You know, get into bed early,get eight hours sleep, you know,
wake up and get that beautifulcortisol balanced, you know, get
that morning light into youreyes.
And, um, turn off the screens atnight and listen to your body.
You have the most incredibleintuition and body wisdom.
You just need to know bodyliteracy.
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You need to understand whereyou're at in your cycle.
You need to understand what yourgut is doing.
You need to understand what itis that the messages that your
body are sending you are saying.
You need to understand whereyour progesterone is at, your
estrogen, your cortisol, yourtestosterone, your
atenocannabinolone, yourandrosterone.
You need to know where yourcortisol and your melatonin
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ratio is at.
You need to know whether youhave micronutrient deficiencies,
you know, please take yourhealth into your own hands.
You need to care about yourself.
We don't necessarily have ahealth care system that focuses
on vitality.
Now, our mainstream doctors aregreat at keeping you alive.
But, you know, don't just bealive.
Like, I want you to thrive, andparticularly during
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perimenopause, because we needto transition successfully into
menopause in order to be vitalfor good and ensure that we
don't actually have any of thesechronic diseases.
So, repair, rebalance, andreclaim.
Rescue you from therollercoaster of perimenopause
and transition successfully.
Book your Clarity Call with meif you have any questions.
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It's a free Clarity Call.
Join my green room while it'sstill free.
It's a beautiful place to start.
It gives you some ideas aboutwhat to test and when to test.
Um, yes, I completely understandthat so many women come into my
clinic and they tell me, youknow, on a weekly basis.
that the GP say, you know, allyour hormones are fluctuating so
much.
We don't even know, you know,when to test them.
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Yes, your hormones arefluctuating so much, but we
absolutely do know when to test.
We know that we need to testestradiol and sex hormone
binding, globulin andtestosterone and FSH and LH and
prolactin between day one andday three of your cycle.
And we absolutely know that weneed to test.
progesterone between day 19 and22 of your cycle.
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So if you can get those blooddraws, if you can get a full
blood analysis, your fullthyroid panel, you know, check
to see that you've got, youknow, adequate B6.
B12.
D3 is absolutely imperative.
I see so many women with suchlow D3 levels.
Every single cell in your bodyhas a D3 receptor.
And, you know, if you haveSeasonal Affective Disorder, you
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absolutely need to check yourD3.
And don't forget that we need K2to get D3 into the bone to
prevent osteopenia andosteoporosis.
And, of course, we need to movein a way that we love.
And we absolutely need to beeating one gram of net protein
per kilogram of body weight.
Anyway, that's my littlesynopsis about my program.
I'm so delighted to let you knowthat I've been nominated as
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health and wellness coach of thedecade by the beautiful you life
coaching academy and I've beenappointed to a global
perimenopausal panel and I'm sodelighted to be here.
I'm here for you.
I had an extremely challenginghealth journey myself.
I was diagnosed with polycysticovarian syndrome, chronic
fatigue syndrome, Hashimoto'sthyroiditis, and I was a little
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girl who was trying to Move awayfrom the pain of her parents
divorce and being sent toboarding school by overeating
and I'm a recovering foodaddict.
I completely understand whatit's like, but I am now 47.
I'm in perimenopause.
I'm somewhere between a size 10on a good day and I do not diet,
this is a diet free zone.
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I live a beautiful, beautiful,balanced 80 20 and you can too.
You can absolutely live in anincredible body and you can
support your biochemistry.
Please do not take negligentcare as, as the base.
You know, you, you can, you canthrive.
You can absolutely thrive atthis time in your life and I
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want you to.
And, um, you know.
I'm busy.
I was a single mom for 13 years.
I've now found the love of mylife.
We've spent the last three yearstogether and absolutely cannot
wait to marry him.
And we have a patchwork familywith three teenagers, 16, 17 and
18, two dogs.
And believe me, we've got a busylife, but I'm absolutely loving
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it.
I understand how challengingperimenopause can be.
I know our children are inchallenging phases.
I know that our careers arepotentially incredibly
challenging at this point intime.
And we, you know, most of us aremothers and lovers and sisters
and, you know, have children andaging parents and all the
things, but your health does notneed to suffer.
And I'm also here to tell youthat it's not your fault.
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Take it easy.
Have a beautiful day.
I can't wait to meet you on theclarity call.
Let me know if you need anyhelp.
Shoot me through a question.
I would absolutely love toanswer you.
Take it easy.
Have a gorgeous day.
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