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Speaker 1 (00:01):
The hormones are your body's like chemical messengers. They see
think of them like as text messages being sent from
one organ to another. You know, they really help to
regulate everything. Your sleep, your metabolism, your mood, your reproductive
cycles obviously are really important based on your hormones.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
But if you don't fix cortisol and insulin, you're never
going to fix the other ones. You're never gonna fix onneth.
Welcome everybody to this week's edition of The Lindsay Elmore Show.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
We're flipping the script and I am going to get
interviewed instead of being the interviewer.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
It's gonna be really fun.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
And my interviewer today is Tammy, my Prodcast producer who
I love, and adoor and so we are going to
talk all about hormones.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
So let's get into it.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Yes, okay, So first up, let's just talk about the
hormones just generally and why are they so important for
our health? Like we hear a lot about them in media, especially,
you know, thought to talk about perimenopause and all the things.
So what to deal with hormones?
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Yeah, So, hormones are your bodies like chemical messengers. They
think of them like as text messages being sent from
one organ to another. You know, they they really help
to regulate everything your sleep, your metabolism, your mood. Your
reproductive cycles obviously are really important based on your hormones
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and then your energy, and then also how you respond
to stress. And so without your hormones working in balance,
it's like you're trying to like run a symphony, but
all your orchestra instruments are like out of tune, so
nothing sounds right, nothing feels right. And so these these
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signals are really important for our body regulation and how
they kind of how systems talk to one another.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Right, that's that's so important, Like, yeah, it's just it's
crazy how how it all works together. Now, I mentioned
the media before, and there's so much talk about perimenopause
and all that, and I did want to talk about
that because that's where I am.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Yeah, why don't.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Mid life feel like such the hormonal storm for those.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
In that that area, Well, I think I think probably
because most of the people are unhealthy to begin with,
you know what I mean, And so it feels like
a hormone and storm, But the hormonal storm.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Was already happening.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
It's just it wasn't so blatantly out there, but perimenopause,
you know, I think that it also culturally, women are
not honored for the transition at menopause as they are
in that like going into their period and their pregnancy ages.
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This is not an area like in other cultures where
women are really highly valued and like menopause is just
like an amazing thing. But here's the thing too, Menopause
in other in some countries where people eat better, have
better sleep patterns, or just healthier in general, menopause is
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not a thing like it is in the United States.
And I also think that there's been a little bit
of kind of glamorization of the problem of perimenopause. And
so like what in some women is like a real
problem is just like an Instagram post.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
For someone else.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
And so the hormonal storm was already going on, right,
It's what's happened is, you know, your cortisol was already elevated,
your insulin was already elevated, and now all of your
estrogen and your progesterone and your testosterone are just going wacky.
But it's because everything was already messed up to begin with,
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you know, And so it's because we're an unhealthy culture
that we have these like major problems at perimenopause, and
so a lot of it is just you reach that
space and your body starts screaming at you.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
But it's been screaming for a while. It's just you
couldn't hear it yet. With hormones is.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
That they're all out of balance already. And so if
they're all out of balance already, what is going on
in our bodies?
Speaker 2 (05:05):
You know, we have these signs of imbalance for years,
you know. I mean people have chronic fatigue.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
And weight gain and mood swings, brain fog. All of
these things are already happening. It's just it gets way
louder in in perimenopause. And so I think that is
it is probably a big piece of it. Perimenopause is
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really tough on women.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
It's really tough.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
And I also would say that some of the education
that healthcare providers, the education they're providing to their patients,
they're not you know. I know, for me personally, I
was told I just need to go on anti depressants,
and I'm like, WHOA wait a minute, I don't. I
don't really think that's that's what I'm asking here for
you know.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
So, so I think that's part of the problem as well,
is that women are not you know, we don't get
a handbook that says, hey, welcome the perimenopause. Here you go.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Yeah, yeah, I agree.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
We women definitely don't just like they don't get a like, hey,
you're here's you know. I guess there are like pregnancy
books and things like that out there.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
But I also.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Think that, you know, a lot of the crazy crazy
symptoms a lot of the reason I think that they're
crazy crazy is because we have been told as a culture,
you're just crazy crazy because you're growing.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
You know, it's like you're.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Going through menopause and your hormones are going like bananas
and you don't know like exactly what's going on in
your body, and you're told, oh, that's just normal, and
it's like, well, no, why don't we actually measure our
hormones and kind of see where we are.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Why don't we you know.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Look at diet, exercise, you know, sleep, all of those things,
and then really just like the value and honor of
going through the process.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
Right right exactly. So you mentioned sleep and diet, and
I know stress is also a big thing. Can you
talk a little bit about that above the role that
lifestyle actually plays within some of these things.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Well, I mean, lifestyle is every saying. You know what
I mean, there are only a few root causes of
disease and they're they're not sleeping well and what you
eat and how you move, and you know, we really
just don't take a look at what is causing everything
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from the get go. My my nutrition, my dietary balance,
my chronic stress, my sleep, my exercise and physical activity.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Other things you need to look at.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Our environmental exposures are really important. People are not always
looking at what is uh the what is in their
like you know, cupboards and in their cleaning materials, and
you know, we really want to look at what all
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the functional medicine like grounds are so that we can
figure out what there is and so you know, if
it's not sleep, exercise, nutrition, stress, relationships, trauma, microorganisms or
environmental pollutants or and then there's all there's the genetics
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as well that are predisposing us. There's the genetic predisposition,
but then there's those like antecedents, triggers and mediators, you know,
so the antecedents are are the things that happened to
you when you were a child, you know, all that crap,
But then there's a trigger of like everything was fine
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until and then the mediators is what has made things
better and worse over the years. In functional medicine, we
talk about like stop trying to mock the water off
the floor and turn off the faucet. Right, So it's
making that decision of like what how do we do
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the how do we do like the simplest thing instead
of doing the most complicated thing trying to fix the problem.
So that is really in functional medicine where we start
as far as looking at what is actually causing this
problem right exactly.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
Now, let's so when you look out there and there's
so much conflicting information one and there's so many different
things that you hear about, like everybody used to go
on on HRT or hormone hormone replacement therapy or can
you talk about some of those things some of those
myths that are some of those things that we hear
(10:17):
about that are probably not actually true.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Man, there's so many hormone myths out there, and so
we have to work, you know, to to sort out
the conflicting information.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Because because in some ways.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Perimenopause has been like glamorized and in other ways it
has been villainized.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
And I think the same thing.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Is true for you know, any kind of problems around pregnancy,
et cetera. And so, but you know, when it comes
to hormones, like a lot of people think you're never
going to have a hormone problem until you're in menopause.
Well that's just absolutely not true. I mean people could
have a hormone problem throughout their entire lives. I mean
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you think about people that have hypothyroidism from the very
beginning of their life.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
So you know, you have to you have to take
a look.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
At, Okay, where are they in their journey in this
hormone issue, because hormone imbalances can happen all the time.
You know, another big myth is that hormone replacement's.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
The only solution, you know, so I mean.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
Like hormone replacement can be a piece of the puzzle.
And really I think that's sleep just gets so under valued.
And you know, stress management is equally powerful.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
But you know, and sometimes that's really just what you need.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Because another thing in functional medicine that's super cool is
looking at how hormones.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
Like relate to each other. And so you know, up.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
Under all of your problems is a cortisol problem or
an insulin problem.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
One of those is down there.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
But everybody's looking at thyroid and testosterone and estrogen and
progesterone and lutinizing hormone and.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
This, that and the other.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
But if you don't fix cortisol and insulin, you're never
going to fix the other ones.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
You're never going to fix them.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
They're always going to be in bad shape.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
And so that is.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
Very important to look at, is that, you know, sometimes
we're so focused on what's up here when we really
need to be looking down here.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
So so if someone's out there thinking, wow, this sounds
like me. I'm all these things you're talking about, this
is me, what would you recommend to them if you.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Think this sounds like you? My best avice is to
begin by just being aware.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
Be aware, Start tracking your symptoms, so your sleep, your energy,
your mood, your your cycle changes. Get a basic lab panel.
You know, it's amazing how many people do start taking
medications before they've ever even tested their labs.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
And that makes no sense at all.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
And so you want to check your thiray, check your cortsol,
look at your insulin.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Where are your sex hormones? Really?
Speaker 1 (13:30):
Knowing where are you hormone lies is really important before
you start a supplementation program, et cetera. And then you
also just want to work with somebody who understands this
and knows what they're doing exactly.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
Then they can help guide you to whatever that next
step is. Dealing with the insulin, maybe getting the cortisol
under control, what other things you're popping up in those
labs that you're getting. Maybe there's something that we need
to address over here first rather than jump into all
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the usual things. So balancing our hormones is not just
about avoiding hot flashes or even pms.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
It's much more than that, right right?
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Oh yeah, so you know when your hormones, when your
hormones are doing well, you're gonna be in a better
mood just and who doesn't want that?
Speaker 2 (14:31):
I mean that sounds great to me. That alone is enough.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Your energy stays really stable, your sleep is better, your
metabolism works with you, not against you. Hormone balance, especially
cortisol and insulin. I can't say that enough. You know,
hormone balance doesn't just help you survive. They hope you
really thrive.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
I can attest to that because that's where I'm at now.
They're all balanced and I can get so much more done.
The brain works like it's supposed to. I'm getting a
certain amount of sleep, there's certain medications and I'm taking
to help with balancing all those things and keeping that
insulin level down. Yeah, and it's just been like night
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day and it's literally like night and days. So highly
recommend it. Now, let's you have a new course.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
Yeah, so let's talk a little.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
Bit about hormone harmony. Can you tell everybody what that's about.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
Yeah, So this is gonna be a huge expansion of
everything that we just talked about and more.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
We go through all the key hormones oxytose and cortisol, insulin, thyroid, hormone, estrogen, testosterone.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
We really dig in and we It's interesting, like why.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
This came up because I'm not typically a hormone kind
of pharmacist, but I started using a nasal spray and
oxytocin nasal spray, and when I talked about it online,
people really just kind of went crazy and loved it
and wanted to know so much more, and so this
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can help you understand how your hormones connect to your mood,
your metabolism, your longevity. But you know, we're not just
going to talk about what's wrong. We're going to talk
about how we fix it. We're going to talk about science,
about functional medicine and everyday lifestyle tools.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
And so this is about how do.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
We create empowerment and avoid confusion as it comes to
healing our hormones. We have a free ebook gives you
a sneak peek into the world of all of this
hormone healing. You'll find a breakdown of the most important hormones,
signs of imbalance, and simple steps that you can take
(16:58):
to feel better. So this is like your starter guide.
This is your roadmap that's going to get you going.
It's going to help start making sense of what's going
on in your body. And then if you want to
go deeper into it, there's a course for you there
as well. And so just you know, I think realizing
(17:21):
that that hormones don't have to be a mystery. They're
not something you're destined to battle for forever. With the
with the right tools, you can restore balance and feel
feel like yourself again. And so check out the link
in the show notes to grab your free e book
Let's start your journey together towards your hormone harmony.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
So, Lizzy, thank you so much for doing this talking
about hormones, sharing all all the knowledge, and this was
so much fun. And I think we should do more
of these, don't you think?
Speaker 2 (17:53):
I totally think so.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
And you know what I think we should do is
get some questions from our listeners. So thanks for listening
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