163 // 50 Shades of Poo - What Your Bowel Movements Say About Your Health

SHOW NOTES AT 


Thinking about using nutrition and holistic health for restoring thyroid function? Learn EVERYTHING you need to know by joining our Free Facebook Group. Thriving Thyroid Balance Community.


Are you interested in learning more about your thyroid and finding answers? 


We got you! 


We have several different opportunities to work with us at several different price points and opportunities. 


Our signature 6-month program is called The Hansen Method, we offer this in a VIP setting with personalized plans and protocols, individual one on one coaching and incredible bonuses that change regularly. You can schedule a complimentary thyroid breakthrough call with one of our thyroid advisors. Click here.  If you have questions about the Hansen Method and want to discuss your specific situation and make sure this is the right program for you you can schedule a complimentary thyroid breakthrough call with one of our team members. schedule here. Hurry, my schedule fills up quickly and we only work with limited amount of women at any given time.


 Join hundreds of women who have improved their symptoms by 80% and lose on average 30lbs in the 4 months.  


Not ready to schedule a call, no problem. Learn more about the Hansen Method to see if it’s a good fit for you. Click here to learn more. 


We also offer The Hansen Method as a Self Guided option. 


Option number 1 for self guide is where you are totally on your own to go through the program content, make the changes and execute them on your own. Click here to purchase. 


Option number 2 includes group coaching and access to our members facebook group that will allow you access to our Thyroid Success Coaches and testing with personalized protocols. Click here to purchase.   


But one of our favorite ways to work with us is our Thriving Thyroid Coaching Membership Opportunity.  This is where many of clients first begin working with us. It allows you to get to know us, our system and start making changes before making a larger financial investment. Click here to learn more


CONTACT LINKS


DOWNLOADABLE RESOURCES


PAID RESOURCES


AFFILIATE LINKS

 

Xo,

Shannon Hansen


P.S. Make sure to schedule our Thyroid Breakthrough call with one of our thyroid advisors. 


AUDIO TRANSCRIPTION

160 // My Core Values and Changes Are Coming

SHOW NOTES



Thinking about using nutrition and holistic health for restoring thyroid function? Learn EVERYTHING you need to know by joining our Free Facebook Group. Thriving Thyroid Balance Community.



Are you interested in learning more about your thyroid and finding answers? 



We got you! 



We have several different opportunities to work with us at several different price points and opportunities. 



Our signature 6-month program is called The Hansen Method, we offer this in a VIP setting with personalized plans and protocols, individual one on one coaching and incredible bonuses that change regularly. You can schedule a complimentary thyroid breakthrough call with one of our thyroid advisors. Click here.  If you have questions about the Hansen Method and want to discuss your specific situation and make sure this is the right program for you you can schedule a complimentary thyroid breakthrough call with one of our team members. schedule here. Hurry, my schedule fills up quickly and we only work with limited amount of women at any given time.



 Join hundreds of women who have improved their symptoms by 80% and lose on average 30lbs in the 4 months.  



Not ready to schedule a call, no problem. Learn more about the Hansen Method to see if it’s a good fit for you. Click here to learn more. 



We also offer The Hansen Method as a Self Guided option. 



Option number 1 for self guide is where you are totally on your own to go through the program content, make the changes and execute them on your own. Click here to purchase. 



Option number 2 includes group coaching and access to our members facebook group that will allow you access to our Thyroid Success Coaches and testing with personalized protocols. Click here to purchase.   



But one of our favorite ways to work with us is our Thriving Thyroid Coaching Membership Opportunity.  This is where many of clients first begin working with us. It allows you to get to know us, our system and start making changes before making a larger financial investment. Click here to learn more



CONTACT LINKS



DOWNLOADABLE RESOURCES



PAID RESOURCES



AFFILIATE LINKS

 

Xo,

Shannon Hansen



P.S. Make sure to schedule our Thyroid Breakthrough call with one of our thyroid advisors. 


AUDIO TRANSCRIPTION

164 // How Much Should I Be Pooping?

SHOW NOTES AT 



Thinking about using nutrition and holistic health for restoring thyroid function? Learn EVERYTHING you need to know by joining our Free Facebook Group. Thriving Thyroid Balance Community.



Are you interested in learning more about your thyroid and finding answers? 



We got you! 



We have several different opportunities to work with us at several different price points and opportunities. 



Our signature 6-month program is called The Hansen Method, we offer this in a VIP setting with personalized plans and protocols, individual one on one coaching and incredible bonuses that change regularly. You can schedule a complimentary thyroid breakthrough call with one of our thyroid advisors. Click here.  If you have questions about the Hansen Method and want to discuss your specific situation and make sure this is the right program for you you can schedule a complimentary thyroid breakthrough call with one of our team members. schedule here. Hurry, my schedule fills up quickly and we only work with limited amount of women at any given time.



 Join hundreds of women who have improved their symptoms by 80% and lose on average 30lbs in the 4 months.  



Not ready to schedule a call, no problem. Learn more about the Hansen Method to see if it’s a good fit for you. Click here to learn more. 



We also offer The Hansen Method as a Self Guided option. 



Option number 1 for self guide is where you are totally on your own to go through the program content, make the changes and execute them on your own. Click here to purchase. 



Option number 2 includes group coaching and access to our members facebook group that will allow you access to our Thyroid Success Coaches and testing with personalized protocols. Click here to purchase.   



But one of our favorite ways to work with us is our Thriving Thyroid Coaching Membership Opportunity.  This is where many of clients first begin working with us. It allows you to get to know us, our system and start making changes before making a larger financial investment. Click here to learn more



CONTACT LINKS



DOWNLOADABLE RESOURCES



PAID RESOURCES



AFFILIATE LINKS

 

Xo,

Shannon Hansen



P.S. Make sure to schedule our Thyroid Breakthrough call with one of our thyroid advisors. 

AUDIO TRANSCRIPTION

162 // Gas, Bloating and Constipation, Oh My!

SHOW NOTES AT 



Thinking about using nutrition and holistic health for restoring thyroid function? Learn EVERYTHING you need to know by joining our Free Facebook Group. Thriving Thyroid Balance Community.



Are you interested in learning more about your thyroid and finding answers? 



We got you! 



We have several different opportunities to work with us at several different price points and opportunities. 



Our signature 6-month program is called The Hansen Method, we offer this in a VIP setting with personalized plans and protocols, individual one on one coaching and incredible bonuses that change regularly. You can schedule a complimentary thyroid breakthrough call with one of our thyroid advisors. Click here.  If you have questions about the Hansen Method and want to discuss your specific situation and make sure this is the right program for you you can schedule a complimentary thyroid breakthrough call with one of our team members. schedule here. Hurry, my schedule fills up quickly and we only work with limited amount of women at any given time.



 Join hundreds of women who have improved their symptoms by 80% and lose on average 30lbs in the 4 months.  



Not ready to schedule a call, no problem. Learn more about the Hansen Method to see if it’s a good fit for you. Click here to learn more. 



We also offer The Hansen Method as a Self Guided option. 



Option number 1 for self guide is where you are totally on your own to go through the program content, make the changes and execute them on your own. Click here to purchase. 



Option number 2 includes group coaching and access to our members facebook group that will allow you access to our Thyroid Success Coaches and testing with personalized protocols. Click here to purchase.   



But one of our favorite ways to work with us is our Thriving Thyroid Coaching Membership Opportunity.  This is where many of clients first begin working with us. It allows you to get to know us, our system and start making changes before making a larger financial investment. Click here to learn more



CONTACT LINKS



DOWNLOADABLE RESOURCES



PAID RESOURCES



AFFILIATE LINKS

 

Xo,

Shannon Hansen



P.S. Make sure to schedule our Thyroid Breakthrough call with one of our thyroid advisors. 

AUDIO TRANSCRIPTION


159 // My Story, it’s been a long time...

SHOW NOTES AT 

 

Thinking about using nutrition and holistic health for restoring thyroid function? Learn EVERYTHING you need to know by joining our Free Facebook Group. Thriving Thyroid Balance Community.

 

Are you interested in learning more about your thyroid and finding answers? 

 

We got you! 

 

We have several different opportunities to work with us at several different price points and opportunities. 

 

Our signature 6-month program is called The Hansen Method, we offer this in a VIP setting with personalized plans and protocols, individual one on one coaching and incredible bonuses that change regularly. You can schedule a complimentary thyroid breakthrough call with one of our thyroid advisors. Click here.  If you have questions about the Hansen Method and want to discuss your specific situation and make sure this is the right program for you you can schedule a complimentary thyroid breakthrough call with one of our team members. schedule here. Hurry, my schedule fills up quickly and we only work with limited amount of women at any given time.

 

 Join hundreds of women who have improved their symptoms by 80% and lose on average 30lbs in the 4 months.  

 

Not ready to schedule a call, no problem. Learn more about the Hansen Method to see if it’s a good fit for you. Click here to learn more. 

 

We also offer The Hansen Method as a Self Guided option. 

 

Option number 1 for self guide is where you are totally on your own to go through the program content, make the changes and execute them on your own. Click here to purchase. 

 

Option number 2 includes group coaching and access to our members facebook group that will allow you access to our Thyroid Success Coaches and testing with personalized protocols. Click here to purchase.   

 

But one of our favorite ways to work with us is our Thriving Thyroid Coaching Membership Opportunity.  This is where many of clients first begin working with us. It allows you to get to know us, our system and start making changes before making a larger financial investment. Click here to learn more

 

CONTACT LINKS

 

DOWNLOADABLE RESOURCES

 

PAID RESOURCES

 

AFFILIATE LINKS

 

Xo,

Shannon Hansen

 

P.S. Make sure to schedule our Thyroid Breakthrough call with one of our thyroid advisors. 

AUDIO TRANSCRIPTION

Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Thriving Thyroid Podcast

Speaker 2: where we choose to become empowered patients and take our health into our own hands.

Speaker 1: Hi, I'm Shannon Hansen, a Christian entrepreneur, a

Speaker 2: mom of three, and after dealing with my own health mystery, I made it my mission to learn everything I could about the thyroid.

Speaker 1: I soon became certified as a holistic wellness practitioner, a functional nutrition practitioner, and a functional diagnostic practitioner, and so much more. After that, I founded the revolutionary thyroid program, The Hansen Method.

Speaker 2: As a health professional and a mom, I fully understand the importance of having a fun, simple, and sustainable plan for achieving a responsive thyroid. So I share actionable and practical strategies for developing a responsive thyroid so that the ambitious moms and women can gain freedom from fatigue and lose the thyroid weight once and for all. Each week, I will be here for you.

Speaker 1: Along with my guest experts, we will be sharing simple and tangible tips that work for not only your thyroid, your hormones, your family, and your mindset so that you can get back to living the life that you envisioned for yourself Welcome to the Thriving Thyroid Podcast. Alright, you guys, welcome back to part two of my story and how I got started with natural health and remedies and all the things.

And so in the last episode, we left off on my first baby being six months old, and I started cross-diperine and using essential oils. So fast forward from that, what happened is my husband and I, it was a mutual decision. We decided that it was time for him to go back to school and he was a German welder at the time. And that lifestyle just didn't fit with what we wanted to do, and he always wanted to be an engineer. So we packed up all of our things and we moved to Idaho to allow him to pursue his dreams and his passions so he could support the family.

Well, come to like a lot of things I think aligned for me at that point. So my husband was going to school. I had baby number one.

We got up there shortly after. I was like, I feel like baby number two needs to come. And make a long story short, I ended up getting off birth control.

We planned for baby number two, had baby number two, and I felt very strongly that it was time to go back to school with both kids. It was a lot of work. It was a lot of sacrifice.

And it was a lot of conversations. Obviously, like this wasn't the original plan. The original plan was for my husband to go to school. And if I wanted to, I could go back to school when he was done. It just seemed like such an impossible task to financially for both of us to be going to school at the same time. Well, fast forward and I just kept having this feeling like it was time. Here I had my brother or not my brother, my sister and my husband both going to school. And I was watching their growth and progression as people, as individuals. And I was like, I want that.

I wanted that so bad. And, you know, obviously my husband and I have lots of conversations and one of the conversations about me going back to school was. He wanted me to pursue a education in something that I was passionate about or that I wanted to learn about versus going to school to become an accountant or a teacher or something where like just essentially brought in money. Which was really nice and refreshing to be able to have the support of someone to just say, go take classes for personal development. Essentially, and I thought I had wanted to study herbal medicine. I don't even know where I got that idea from to be honest. But long story short. I did a ton of research.

I looked for several different programs and I just couldn't find one that resonated. So in my, my discovery and my researching process, I found a school called the Southwest Institute of Healing Arts. And they offered a program as a holistic wellness practitioner. And in that program, the focus was nutrition.

The minor or the understudy was urban farming. And then there were all kinds of other intro modalities to several different healing modalities. I don't know what the right word is. I was introduced to a rick-o-therapy, herbal medicine, homeopathy, box flowers, reflexology. I know I'm missing stuff in this list. But it basically introduced me to just about every kind of healing modality.

on at least a introduction level. And several people have asked me, oh, what program did you do? What program did you get started with? And the program that I originally went through is no longer in existence. So it's super sad because I felt like it was such a great program that allowed me to find different things, right? Like I, and in, I laugh about this now, but when I was originally looking at all of the things, the thing that really drew me to this program was the wide variety, obviously. But I was like, in my mind, I said my family every day, so I was like, yeah, I could learn about nutrition.

That sounds great. It'd be really good and important to learn more about feeding my family properly. And also, urban farming.

I have a garden, let's learn how to garden better. And that was kind of the original thought process that I had at that time. Well, obviously that shaped and molded me into a lot of different things that I am now doing. So fast forward, completed that program. While I was completing that program, I was nine months pregnant doing my internships in like a local farm. That was one of my requirements to pass off urban farming is you had to do an internship.

And so I'm out there doing all the things and documenting all of the things and turning them in. And it was one of those things that I honestly didn't even know that I had to do. I must have missed it or forgot about it or something. And it was like time to graduate. And I was like, what the heck is going on? And I was like, oh yeah, you didn't do your intern or like you need to turn in this stuff.

And I was like, what is going on? So anyways, it was a super fun process and that's where I learned how to butcher chickens and do a lot with obviously gardening and things like that. So it was a really good experience. I don't even think it was maybe like 20 hours. Like it really wasn't a lot of time. At least maybe it was more than that.

I don't know. It's been several years. I slept a few times. So I learned a lot.

I was able to study what I wanted to do. So then had baby number three and we moved. Well, we moved while I was pregnant. I was like 20 weeks pregnant. We moved from Idaho back to Arizona where our families are originally from.

And then three months after I had her, we moved into a different house. And in that process, I started gardening again. I started teaching gardening classes to little kids. I started like we started our quote unquote little homestead and it's been, it was wonderful. I started because of what I was doing, I started organically having friends, people that we go to church with ask me, what are you doing? What is your background? What is your certification?

I know you graduated, you know, whatever. And so I started seeing clients here and there. Well, it became growingly challenging, became more challenging.

That's the word. It became more challenging to take clients because first of all, I was trying to take them out my kitchen table and my kids are around and I could not focus. So then, you know, my husband started taking them to go to me and I grew up in his house. And then I was like, okay, it's really not working at the kitchen table. Like I need more of a space. So my husband built me a little office outside.

I started seeing people. I would have a babysitter come over and hang out with the kids in the house and I'm in the backyard. It was still difficult and challenging because people would cancel on me. And I would, you know, all of the different things.

Like you could just imagine kids canceling or not being able to find someone and still having a client and, you know, all of these different things. And then I'm like, I'm spending, one, I was not charging enough, by the way. I don't even want to tell you guys what I was charging per session because I look back now and I was like, by the time I paid a babysitter, by the time I like worked, because just so you guys know, that you may spend 30 minutes to an hour with your practitioner, but if they do quality work, they're usually spending an hour, two, three, four hours behind the scenes working on your case, working on recipes, working on meal plans, working on your protocols, working on all of the different things.

When I do HCMA testing for my clients, it's probably two to four hours, depending on what that person has going on. And that is a significant amount of time not with my family. So, and I wasn't sleeping at night, cause I was doing that night and I couldn't find babysitters and all of these different things. And I was getting tired, I was getting exhausted. And I started to see more and more people move online. Now, keep in mind that this was pre-COVID. Now I feel like practitioners are like everybody's online.

But at the time, I was like, maybe that's the answer. Maybe I work with clients online through Zoom and through virtual coaching and things like that. So that my kids can be playing in the background. My house can look crazy. And I can have people come over and it was fine. I could arrange it so it was during nap time. I could, you know, whatever the case was.

I did set up videos. There was a lot more flexibility that felt very family friendly in this capacity. So I made a significant investment once again. I went back to become, well, in the mix of this, I went back and became a functional nutrition practitioner. And then I made a significant investment into learning how to set up an online business. And I spent $10,000 on a program that taught me how to set up all of the tech, how to build everything out, how to track everything, how to market.

And this is a perfect example of what it's like behind the scenes. My baby decided to come in and she needed her mom. So now we have babies in the background while we're recording podcasts. And I wouldn't have it any other way. So I just really needed something that was going to support my family. And so in that $10,000 program, it taught me obviously so much about business, marketing, setting things up from a technical standpoint, how to reach people online, really so much of my business. And thankfully, I made that 10K investment back within the first six months. And so I launched my program online in January of 2020.

And we all know it happened a few months later. So that was quite the adventure for me. And one of the things people like asked me is, you know, how was that for you? And I always tell people that it was really actually kind of a good thing because I feel like people started to take their health a little more serious. I had a lot of clients for a long time who were very interested and very serious about not only getting help, but really improving, not just improving thyroid function, but improving their health overall. I had a really high success rate in terms of compliance with my clients. I would say, take this supplement and they would do it.

I would say, eat this food and they would do it. And, you know, obviously, I didn't have too much. I mean, I had probably two years of experience prior to all of the, like, prior to COVID, working with clients, but it was very, very part-time. And it's been crazy.

It's been a wild ride. But so anyway, that's kind of the technical standpoint of how I got started online. But then the personal side of it. So, wow, a lot of this was happening or actually prior to me deciding to work with thyroid specifically, I had my own thyroid story or scare. So, backing up when I was in school, my mom was diagnosed with thyroid cancer and my dad was diagnosed with stage four lung cancer that had metastasized and went to his brain and he ended up passing away about 30 days from his diagnosis and everything.

So, it happened really, really fast. And my mom called me and she was like, just so you know, tomorrow I'm having surgery. I'm having my thyroid down. You know, I have cancer. It's the best kind of cancer, you know, you could have.

And I was kind of caught off guard with all of this and I didn't really know what to do. So, fast forward, I was after baby number three, I was experiencing a lot of constipation, a lot of fatigue, a lot of classics, I worried symptoms and my doctors are saying, oh, everything's normal. Everything's fine. And I just knew that something wasn't. And so I was bouncing back and forth between natural pathic doctors and conventional doctors. And I was really just trying to seek answers.

I was just trying to figure out what was going on. And I ended up getting a referral from a friend for an endocrinologist and they tested everything. I brought in a list of my symptoms, brought in medical history, went over everything and the doctor, she was very sweet and she just reassured me. She's like, you know what, sounds like something's really going on here. We're going to do all of the testing and, you know, we're going to find you answers.

And I was like, okay, great. In the office that day, they did blood work and they did an ultrasound of my thyroid. I wasn't allowed, like at certain points, they made me turn my head and I wasn't allowed to look at the monitor. And that was really kind of scary, given my mom's history with thyroid cancer. And, you know, the doctor came in and went over everything and basically said that I had some masses on my thyroid and that because of my mom's medical history, I needed to have a biopsy done. And I was pretty nervous at that point because we really didn't know what it was.

I did all of the other cortisol testing and, you know, everything. And I remember we were driving up to Utah to go visit family after dropping off the test results. And I was sitting in the back with kiddos and they were all sleeping and I was listening to the song Warrior by Avril Lavigne. And she had been, she has been clinically ill for a long time and that new song came out after her experience and kind of taking her healing journey. And so I felt like I was.

at that point, at that tipping point, where I could go one way or another. And I think, I can't remember exactly if we had my thyroid test results back, but I remember thinking I had Hashimoto's, and because I was told I had damage to my thyroid. Essentially, I had holes in my thyroid, my thyroid was shriveled up, and so I just remember thinking I have Hashimoto's, I have an autoimmune condition, and my life is forever changed. And I, like, some things I've had my blood results back. I don't think the results were back, because that was before I had my biopsy, and they did my biopsy when I came back. So I must not have had results. It must have just been that they told me there was visible damage to my thyroid, and I knew what that meant.

Well, fast forward from that. I went in for my biopsy, we went over blood lobs, and I was told by that endocrinologist that everything was fine and my blood lobs were normal, and I should just go see a dietician to help me lose weight. And I was devastated. I was absolutely devastated.

We did the biopsy, got a call a week or so later, and once again, everything was normal, everything was fine, and come back in a year to re-biopsy everything. And that was that tipping point for me, where talking to my mom and my sister, and they're like, now this is why you have done all of this work, and you've gone to school, and you're doing all these things, and now this is your story. Now this is going to help you help other people. And it was at that point when I really buckled down and started researching and learning about thyroid, because nobody was coming to save me. I was there. I had to do it on my own, because nobody else could, would, should.

Like, you know, I don't know. And so that was really what set the tone for me in working towards restoring thyroid function. And again, ultimately, when I decided to invest in the $10,000 program and do all of these things in addition to the education and certificate programs that I've joined, that was the deciding factor for me. Because I do not want women, families, moms to struggle without answers the way that I did. It was challenging at that point for me to play soccer with my kids, because then I would need to go take a nap. So I would play with them for 10, 15 minutes, and then I would go sleep for two hours. You know, I would be standing at the sink, and I would be crying in pain because my body just hurt so bad.

And I knew, I knew that couldn't be my forever story. So with that being said, you guys, that is why I love thyroid. That is why I work online. That is why I am so passionate about what I do is because I struggled for a long time. And I honestly, there's so many more pieces of this story, but I wanted to give you a starting off point and really kind of hound in like why I'm here and why I stuck around for the last three years online and rode the entrepreneurial wave and done all the things.

And my kids go swimming and I stay home and work. And I choose to do this because I want you women to experience what I now have. And I don't want you to struggle with the fatigue. I don't want you to have the hair loss.

I don't want your confidence to be shaken. I don't want you to play with your kids or your grandkids for five, ten minutes and then have to say no to them for two or three hours because you physically have to recover. That stuff is not normal and society has made it normal and told you, oh, you're just aging. Oh, you're just menopausal. Oh, you're just the mom. Oh, you're just blah, blah, blah, blah. No, don't accept that story if you don't want to. All right, you guys, I'll see you on the next.

Speaker 2: Before you go, I want to make an offer to you guys. Now, there's no pressure here, but if you are like me and you just want to get to the root of the issue and you want help and you want guidance and you just want to know what to do and you are an action taker and you are highly ambitious, we have several spots that are open for the Hampson Method.

Our schedule fills up very quickly. So if you are interested in getting in filling out an application and joining us, please take the time to visit the show notes and schedule your CyberAid Breakthrough Call. We will be talking to you about what is holding you back. Where do you want to go? How do you want to feel and then give you our personal and professional recommendations on the next step for you so that you can get out of this CyberKia once and for all?

Way to go before you go! Please subscribe if you saw a value in today's episode. Leave us a review and share on Instagram and please tag us. We love you! Yes! Pretty please!

158 | Unleashing the Inner Goddess: My Journey Guiding Women through Thyroid Imbalances Pt. 1

SHOW NOTES AT 

 

Thinking about using nutrition and holistic health for restoring thyroid function? Learn EVERYTHING you need to know by joining our Free Facebook Group. Thriving Thyroid Balance Community.

 

Are you interested in learning more about your thyroid and finding answers? 

 

We got you! 

 

We have several different opportunities to work with us at several different price points and opportunities. 

 

Our signature 6-month program is called The Hansen Method, we offer this in a VIP setting with personalized plans and protocols, individual one on one coaching and incredible bonuses that change regularly. You can schedule a complimentary thyroid breakthrough call with one of our thyroid advisors. Click here.  If you have questions about the Hansen Method and want to discuss your specific situation and make sure this is the right program for you you can schedule a complimentary thyroid breakthrough call with one of our team members. schedule here. Hurry, my schedule fills up quickly and we only work with limited amount of women at any given time.

 

 Join hundreds of women who have improved their symptoms by 80% and lose on average 30lbs in the 4 months.  

 

Not ready to schedule a call, no problem. Learn more about the Hansen Method to see if it’s a good fit for you. Click here to learn more. 

 

We also offer The Hansen Method as a Self Guided option. 

 

Option number 1 for self guide is where you are totally on your own to go through the program content, make the changes and execute them on your own. Click here to purchase. 

 

Option number 2 includes group coaching and access to our members facebook group that will allow you access to our Thyroid Success Coaches and testing with personalized protocols. Click here to purchase.   

 

But one of our favorite ways to work with us is our Thriving Thyroid Coaching Membership Opportunity.  This is where many of clients first begin working with us. It allows you to get to know us, our system and start making changes before making a larger financial investment. Click here to learn more

 

CONTACT LINKS

 

DOWNLOADABLE RESOURCES

 

PAID RESOURCES

 

AFFILIATE LINKS

 

Xo,

Shannon Hansen

 

P.S. Make sure to schedule our Thyroid Breakthrough call with one of our thyroid advisors. 

Audio Transcription

Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Thrivy Cyberase Podcast where we choose to become empowered patients and take our health into our own hands. Hi, I'm Shannon Hansen, a Christian entrepreneur, a mom of three, and after dealing with my own health mystery, I made it my mission to learn everything I could about the thyroid. I soon became certified as a holistic wellness practitioner, a functional nutrition practitioner, and a functional diagnostic practitioner, and so much more. After that, I founded the Revolutionary Thyroid Program, The Hansen Method. As a health professional and a mom, I fully understand the importance of having a fun, simple, and sustainable plan for achieving a responsive thyroid. So I share actionable

Speaker 2: and practical strategies for

Speaker 1: developing a responsive thyroid so that the ambitious moms and women can gain freedom from fatigue and lose the thyroid weight once and for all. Each week, I will be here for you, along with my guest expert. We will be sharing simple and tangible tips that work for not only your thyroid, your hormones, your family, and your mindset so that you can get back to living the life that you envisioned for yourself. Welcome to the Thriving Thyroid Podcast. Alright, you guys.

Hey, welcome back to the Thriving Thyroid Podcast with your host, Shannon Hansen. I was really inspired by a friend of mine where we kind of started our businesses at the same time, at least online. Like, when I was starting my business online, she was starting her business online. Both of us had worked with other people prior to all of this. And she got on her Instagram stories and was like, it's been a long time since I've shared my story.

And I was like, oh my gosh, it is a long time since I have shared my story about why I do what I do. And that's essentially what she was also talking about, was why do we show up? Why are we on these platforms?

Why are we doing the work that we're doing in the way that we're doing it? And so I just felt very inspired by that. And I was like, she is so right. She is so right. I am also in that place where I share business pieces of my story. So let's kind of dive in.

And this might be a multiple part theory because I think in order for you guys to really understand why this is so important to me, you have to understand so many different pieces and parts of my life to bring this all together. So the first experience that I personally had with natural medicine was when I was 17 years old. I was having, I grew up in conventional medicine, not conventional, in, yeah, conventional medicine. That's the right word.

Going to see doctors, doing well checks. There was not really ever any thought behind what is natural, what is not natural. My parents ate very clean, growing up. I did not have sugar, any form of like processed sugar until after I was two years old. And that only happened because we went to go on vacation and I saw grandma and grandma fed me some, some candy.

So, and that was very, I would say normal, like getting a treat, getting a candy bar, eating ice cream, things like that was, was a treat for us. Growing it and then after that, like my parents, my mom was a vegan for a while, vegetarian, juice, vegetarian. For a long time, my dad, I remember growing up and like he would add raw eggs to his protein shakes in effort to get added protein. Protein was a big thing or is a big thing when you're trying to bulk up.

And this is before protein powders were as prevalent as they are today. And so I, I just remember very distinctly having these memories of my parents definitely taking care of themselves. I grew up one of those, one of those sounds growing up was my mom would, I would wake up to listening to my mom on her stationary bike and I had a big fan in the front. And so, you know, my siblings joke that it was.

we would hear the Wushin sound in the morning. So definitely grew up with a very, in a very blessed home, being that like my parents were very mindful of what we were eating to the best of their ability. I grew up eating weird strange things like calamari. I remember my first time having calamari was when I was first grade. We went to a kids parents-teacher conference and they had calamari out for the parents and I tried it and I liked it and I kept going back for more and my teachers were like, you like calamari? But like they were so blown away because they're like most kids will not touch that. And I was like, I don't know anything about it.

Like I don't know why they would it. It's delicious, you know? And I grew up eating deer hearts and all kinds of stuff because my dad was a hunter.

So food has never been, like I've never been scared of food and I eat a wide variety of things. So that's a little bit about my background. At 17, like I said, I went to have my first experience with naturopathic medicine and holistic health. So this was, I moved, I was primarily raised by my mom. I did not see my dad for over eight years. We didn't know where he was or what he was doing and there's kind of a story behind that but not the point of today's, not the point of today's conversation. But I was, me and my mom were not getting along. We were not being eye to eye. And now as a mom and an adult, I can see how and with my own kids, I can see how it is important to have both a mom and a dad because there are times in our lives where we're closer to the dad, we're closer to the mom because we get different needs met by both, by both parents.

And so I went to go live with my dad and it was probably one of the best moves for me, not only like physically but also spiritually because my, I grew up in a pretty conservative, my mom is very conservative in our belief and in our thoughts. So I am a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saint and we have dress codes. We have different things that we should abide by. Yes, they're guidelines. They're guidelines.

I'll say it that way. So my mom wanted my shorts to go to my knees and wanted me to at least have like short sleeves. She liked, you tell me what a rule is and I'm like rules are meant to be broken.

That's what I tell my husband all the time. Rules are meant to be broken. And I mean, listen reason, right? Like I do know now that a lot of rules and guidelines are set forth to keep us safe. And that's what I tell my kids. We don't have rules to restrict us.

We have rules to keep us safe and out of harm's way. And I like now that I'm a mom of four girls, I can definitely see that that was what my mom tried to do. But my dad did. I was not required to have the same level of like conservativeness.

Is that a word? I wasn't required to uphold those standards with my dad. The way that I was with my mom, my dad stopped going to church when I was little. And so anyway, it was right after my 17th birthday. And he thought it was appropriate for me because again, my parents were very health conscious.

You go in for annual checks, you know, get things picked out, make sure everything's working properly or whatever. And my dad had been working with a natural pathic doctor. They discovered that he had gluten sensitivity over he only thought it was dairy, but when he would eat gluten and dairy, he would react only to the dairy. And so he cut out dairy for a long time when it was actually a gluten sensitivity.

And so that's kind of like an interesting story. So he was working with this natural pathic doctor to kind of isolate and figure out, you know, what was going on with his digestive system and all these wonderful things. And he sent me to he booked me an appointment and he sent me to get a natural pathic doctor. And like looking back, like it was so cool because I didn't even know or realize like anything was wrong with my body. Everything that I was experiencing was quote unquote normal for teenage girls, acne, heavy periods, painful periods, crampy, things like that.

It was all categorized as normal. And so when I went to this natural pathic doctor and they I filled out like 15 pages of information that I was honestly like, I don't know the answer to this. Like I'm sitting there asking my dad, how, how often do I eat? How often do I eat? How often do I do this?

How often did that? Because I like at 17, I was not aware of what I had going on in my body, right? Like or what I was doing, I was just going through life and feeling with things as it. So this cute little doctor, super petite, she was like really short, really petite and her frame came in and very like, I don't want to say homely looking, but like when I think of like a um verbal medicine doctor or something like that, like she's the person that I that I picture and in in my head, someone with like dark brown plain hair, they don't do their hair, they are just a little bit more like their hair might be frizzy, you know, like that kind of like that kind of look and anyways, so I go in, she asked me some questions about my cycle and I'm answering them that the best of my ability. I drove myself there, so I'm like literally completely alone, my dad gave me a blank check and I go to the doctor and she says okay, let me go check on something, leave room, tell them back in, she's like okay, here's what we're gonna do, she gives me I don't know five or six supplements that I'm supposed to take, writes down on the lids, how many I'm supposed to take and how often I'm supposed to take these supplements and they give me a grocery bag and tie it up and I go up to the front and I am they tell me my total and I write it, I write in the number and I'm thinking oh my gosh, this is a lot of money, you know, I think it's around like $180, but for me being in high school and only working part-time and making you know like just above minimum wage, like it felt like a lot of money and so it was, I didn't know why I was taking this stuff, I just remember feeling like one, this is a lot of money, two, if my dad sent me and he felt like this was important that I would follow through and I would take, I had my my little like pills in my bag and next to I had a TV in my room and next to it on the floor and I remember like before school I would take whatever I needed to and then after school I'd come home and I would take the other one, I don't know if that was the right thing, like they did not break down when I was supposed to be taking it or anything like that and I noticed like very quickly my started to clear up. Now I didn't know that that was connected to what I was doing with this supplement. I honestly had no clue because I didn't like honestly guys I was so oblivious like I was so uneducated at this point and fast forward I finished up my supplement, moved back with my mom or I moved back with my mom and I finished up my supplement and I just, I, because I was so uneducated I didn't know I should go buy them again and I didn't know why my acne came back and why these other things came back once I started the supplement. Again it wasn't until years later that I started to make this connection so moved back with my mom my acne came back, my cycles came back, I started on esophageal lactic acid and I went to the doctor with my mom and she was like well you know for your acne and your period we'll put you on birth control and I was like I'm not going on birth control like I I distinctly remember I was like I am not sexually active I do not want birth control the doctor made my mom leave the room and she's like hey it's okay you know like she's basically telling me it's okay like my mom isn't there and I was like listen I unless I am the next Virgin Mary like I haven't had sex I'm not pregnant like you know and it was kind of like a funny a funny thing um and she remembers that for years every time I went in she was like you're the girl that told me you you know and being 17 almost 18 and being pretty and not sexually active like that was kind of mind-blowing to to my doctor and so basically she's like well I don't know what else to do for your skin so they referred me to a dermatologist did all of the lotions and potions and creams and face washes and everything to try to clear up the acne I remember him telling me you know don't wash your face in the shower because you have to wait till you get out and I'm thinking what the crap like this is so stupid you know but anyways I followed it it still did not take care of the acne there was still stuff happening inside my body so being a female with acne my next option was acutane and you have to take acutate when you take acutane as a female you have to take birth control because there are some yucky nasty side effects with the body that or like birth defects can happen with in the body if you get pregnant so I was actually pretty lucky I did not suffer from a lot of the acutane Acutane symptoms being like I didn't have dry skin.

It wasn't super flaky. It's gonna get red It just cleared everything up and my skin was beautiful. I Looking back now, I'm like man my skin was so so nice, you know, like I wish that was something that Could have continued for me like I took my Honestly, I kind of love Acutane Because my skin did so good. I ended up having to do two rounds of acutane stayed on birth control got like by that point got married with my husband and Just be it on birth control. I had taken it for several years We get married. I want to have a baby and so the month that I got off birth control I got pregnant with my baby and this doesn't even like maybe a year Barely a year after I had been off acutane maybe a little bit longer but this was also the first time in my life where I Did not realize how exhausted I was we would be I remember like distinctly being at church and just yawning and I'm like, oh my gosh I can't even sing because I like every time I open my mouth.

I'm yawning and I was so embarrassed by that and I was like what the heck but I was also waking up at like 4 30 in the morning both my husband will get both my husband and I woke up super early in the morning To go to work both of us preferred that I got done by work at work by like two o'clock and I would go to the gym on the way home and then I would come home and clean up the house and make dinner and my house was like spotless and it was maybe and like I Got pregnant with baby and I remember cleaning the bathroom and Just being like oh my gosh. There's a lot of chemicals in here. There's a lot of smell in here I probably shouldn't be breathing in all of these chemicals Guys I honestly don't know where that thought came from because I had never heard someone else say anything like that at least not to my knowledge So I talked to my husband about it and I was like, you know, I just they say that women couldn't clean litter boxes Well, they're pregnant so I probably shouldn't be smelling and all these fumes and may have been agreed and so he took over cleaning the bathroom for a little while that kind of died off because I came home earlier than he did and It was just easier for me to do it myself, you know a lot of times He by the way, you guys like my husband is freaking awesome.

He always is super helpful but That was kind of like my first little moment I think of Opening my mind. I Hired a midwife and I wanted to have a natural home birth on a mom and my sister had home birth and I was like that's exactly what I want to do and It was really like that was My list now fast forward Pregnant delivery my delivery was horrendous and I ended up having to be transferred to the hospital Going through that whole process of all of that baby come six months later I had to start cost I bring I was inspired by a friend who was cost I bring for baby and so Jumped on that bandwagon. I guess and again on like several different forums and pages about Clothed I bring and things like that people started talking about this thing called tea tree and no idea what that was Tea tree oil. Okay, I'll go to the grocery store by you know buy some at the grocery stores and then One thing led to another On mommy pages or talking about clothed I bring and oil like all of this stuff I got hooked on some of these natural Wellness pages started learning more and more about natural health and natural wellness and I was like all this stuff is really cool So I feel like this is a good place to wrap up This first part of my story if you guys want to hear more about How I got started even further with natural health Then come back for part two Before you go I There's no pressure here,

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Our signature 6-month program is called The Hansen Method, we offer this in a VIP setting with personalized plans and protocols, individual one on one coaching and incredible bonuses that change regularly. You can schedule a complimentary thyroid breakthrough call with one of our thyroid advisors. Click here.  If you have questions about the Hansen Method and want to discuss your specific situation and make sure this is the right program for you you can schedule a complimentary thyroid breakthrough call with one of our team members. schedule here. Hurry, my schedule fills up quickly and we only work with limited amount of women at any given time.

 

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156 // Period Talk Natural Alternatives to Conventional Menstrual Products

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Not ready to schedule a call, no problem. Learn more about the Hansen Method to see if it’s a good fit for you. Click here to learn more. 

 

We also offer The Hansen Method as a Self Guided option. 

 

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Option number 2 includes group coaching and access to our members facebook group that will allow you access to our Thyroid Success Coaches and testing with personalized protocols. Click here to purchase.   

 

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155 | Surviving the Luteal Limbo: Navigating the Hormonal Rollercoaster of Your Menstrual Cycle Part 4

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Our signature 6-month program is called The Hansen Method, we offer this in a VIP setting with personalized plans and protocols, individual one on one coaching and incredible bonuses that change regularly. You can schedule a complimentary thyroid breakthrough call with one of our thyroid advisors. Click here.  If you have questions about the Hansen Method and want to discuss your specific situation and make sure this is the right program for you you can schedule a complimentary thyroid breakthrough call with one of our team members. schedule here. Hurry, my schedule fills up quickly and we only work with limited amount of women at any given time.


 Join hundreds of women who have improved their symptoms by 80% and lose on average 30lbs in the 4 months.  


Not ready to schedule a call, no problem. Learn more about the Hansen Method to see if it’s a good fit for you. Click here to learn more. 


We also offer The Hansen Method as a Self Guided option. 


Option number 1 for self guide is where you are totally on your own to go through the program content, make the changes and execute them on your own. Click here to purchase. 


Option number 2 includes group coaching and access to our members facebook group that will allow you access to our Thyroid Success Coaches and testing with personalized protocols. Click here to purchase.   


But one of our favorite ways to work with us is our Thriving Thyroid Coaching Membership Opportunity.  This is where many of clients first begin working with us. It allows you to get to know us, our system and start making changes before making a larger financial investment. Click here to learn more


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(00:00):

Welcome back to the Thriving Thyroid Podcast, where we choose to become empowered patients and take our health into our own hands. Hi, I'm Shannon Hansen, a Christian entrepreneur, a mom of three. And after dealing with my own health mysteries, I made it my mission to learn everything I could about the thyroid. I soon became certified as a holistic wellness practitioner, a functional nutrition practitioner, and a functional diagnostic practitioner. And so much more after that, I founded the Revolutionary Thyroid Program, the method. As a health professional and a mom, I fully understand the importance of having a fun, simple, and sustainable plan for achieving a responsive thyroid. So I share actionable and practical strategies for developing a responsive thyroid so that the ambitious moms and women can gain freedom from fatigue and lose the thyroid weight once and for all. Each week, I will be here for you, along with my guest experts. We will be sharing simple and tangible tips that work for not only your thyroid, your hormones, your family, and your mindset, so that you can get back to living the life that you envisioned for yourself. Welcome to the Thriving Thyroid Podcast.

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All right, you guys. Welcome back to the Thriving Thyroid Podcast with your host Shannon Hansen. I, we are talking about the lu teal limbo, that phase between ovulation and menstruation, and what happens between the two big events of our monthly cycles. So this is a continuation of a four-ish part series where we've been talking about all things hormones and helping us to understand how these different phases, phases of our body are impacting our health, our hormones, our energy, our bowel movements, our digestive tract, like honestly, so much is happening during this period of time throughout the month. Now, as a reminder, men cycle their hormone cycle daily. As women, our hormones cycle monthly. And so where as men come home and they're like, I need to take a little nap and rest like that is quote unquote normal for them. However, the same thing happens for us, but ours happens on that monthly, that monthly continuation, <laugh>.

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So let's talk about the 10 to 14 days between ovulation and your menstruation. So this is when your hormones peak in concentration, they start to rise, rise, rise, and then they drop right before our menstruation or our menstrual cycle. So estrogen, progesterone, and est, estrogen, progesterone, and testosterone, all peak right before the, the cycle starts. Now, estrogen specifically peaks right before you start your cycle. And this is what causes a peak in energy. And this is also when you might notice the day before your cycle, you go into a nesting phase, I gotta get everything done, I need to do the dishes and do the laundry, and I have all this energy and I wanna organize the cabinets and clean out the car, and, you know, do all of the things in preparation for the lack of energy that's gonna happen while you're on your menstrual cycle.

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And this is something that I really don't think I realized until recently and like how it impacted not only myself, but also my clients. And so it's really fun and interesting to watch how, if that happens, right? Like if you experience that or if you don't, and why don't you, and all of those things. So, okay, moving on, <laugh>. Estrogen is going to thicken the uterine lining and progesterone is what keeps it there. And so with a lot of women who struggle with hypothyroidism, we have heavy cycles. Or, and Hashimotos, we have heavy cycles because estrogen is really high and those xenoestrogens and stuff are in the body confusing the body and mimicking estrogen. So the estrogen is like essentially doubly <laugh>, doubly high. That's not the right <laugh>, that's not the right thing, but that's what our body thinks, right?

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Well, progesterone is on the low end. So this is why we also see issues with P C O S insulin resistance, some of the, those other hormonal imbalances with hypothyroidism. And so one of my like favorite things of all time is making sure that I am supporting progesterone levels in myself and also in the clients that I'm working with. There are several different ways. Progesterone creams plat wellness has one, I will link up the progesterone cream that I use in in the show notes for you guys. If there's a discount code, it's awesome. And I also find that on those nights that I'm kind of wound up where I'm like, oh my gosh, I have this to do and that to do and this to do, and I'm, I'm feeling a little bit maybe more anxious and having a hard time settling down for the night I can put on some progesterone cream.

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And it just relaxes my mind and my body and my spirit, and I just feel so much better. And I'm able to sleep well <laugh>. So, okay, so the next thing that we wanna be doing for that lal phase in terms of like exercise, this is where we want to focus on burning extra energy. So strength training, yoga scaling back for, and scaling back for the second week. Okay, so for the fir, so let me see if I can clear this up. So during the ovulation, your ovulation phase, which is a three to five window period of time, you can do hit training, you can do boot camps, you can do some high intensity interval training, strength training, yoga training, like your body is designed to have a little bit more energy. And now, so that's for about a week. And then that second week or that first week after ovulation and the first week of your lu teal phase, you can continue, you can continue using up that extra energy, okay?

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Continue doing the hit training, continue doing the boot boot camps, yoga, cycling, things like that. On the, a couple days before your cycle, you are going to want to scale back a little bit, maybe shift to some yoga, some Pilates, some swimming, some light exercise that is still movement, still working good in your body, but your body, because all of the hormones are revving up right before they, they drop down, you're gonna feel some shifts inside your body in terms of energy. Your body's gonna let you know, especially if you are very in tune with what your body is saying. So during this week, during, or the two weeks I guess of your L tail phase, you're gonna wanna focus on be rich foods, calcium rich foods, and magnesium rich foods. Now, one of the things that I tell my clients is the week before your cycle and while you're on your cycle, you are going to use up more magnesium.

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And as a result, this is where a lot of people want to, like, this is where we get snappy. This is where we get irritable. This is where we start to experience some of those PMs type symptoms. And you're like, why do I feel so crazy? <Laugh>, right? So this can just be a way to keep your body calm and keep you feeling really, really good. So some examples of be rich foods and some of these you guys like you might not like <laugh>, that's okay. Just find what you like. You don't have to eat all of them, but dark leafy green. So that's gonna be your spinach, your collared greens, turn up greens lettuce. Also organ meats. I tell people even red meat, okay, is gonna be really good and really high. And B, vitamins. I have never tried liver. I, that's not something that like I can bring myself to, but I have used like organ meat and capsules.

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Code age has some really, really great ones. And so they have all of the B vitamins. And so I've taken those around my menstrual cycle in the past to help because they're also really good in iron and a lot of us are like, because we are shedding, we lo we use up some of those other vital nutrients. So the next weighing is eggs. Eggs are great for ha being rich and be vitamins. If you can do dairy, do milk it is rich and B vitamins. I know many, many people ha with Hashimotos and hypothyroidism have issues with dairy. So what I recommend for all of my clients is to remove it for a minimum of 90 days to allow the inflammation and allowed the body to kind of reset and restore itself. And then if you want to try to reintroduce it, take notice to how you feel.

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And of course dairy is one of those things that I always, always, always recommend that you are using good high quality products. Raw milk is gonna be the best. A two Milk is also great talking to your farmers about, you know, what, how they raise their <laugh>, how they raise their cows, what they're feeding them. All of those are also super important. Oysters, clams and muscles, legumes. So those are gonna be like your beans. So black beans chick peas, kidney beans, pinto beans, those types of things. Chicken and Turkey, which we talked about. And so then let's talk about magnesium rich foods. Now magnesium is honestly like this really cool mineral. And we, most of our clients don't have enough magnesium. Especially women. We're not, we're not consuming enough magnesium for the amount of stress that we are under on an ongoing basis.

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And so we really want to focus on magnesium rich foods. This is why I think women love chocolate, because naturally chocolate is really high in magnesium. And so we want, we crave that, we want that, we need that. And our body recognizes chocolate as being rich in magnesium. And so around our cycle, guess what? Your chocolate cravings increase. There's a reason for this. So dark chocolate I, what is it? 70% or higher is really what we're looking for. There is a brand, you guys, huli moly, <laugh>, like it's, I'm like, I don't know if I can eat any other chocolate anymore. Like, it's so good. It's called Hugh, I think I'm saying that right. H u it comes in like a brown-ish bag, that's not the right word, but like container, maybe a bag <laugh>, I dunno what it's called. I just get 'em at my local grocery store.

(13:01):

It's not they're not super hard to find. I've seen 'em on Amazon. But hu hu I'm assuming is the brand that I love. Now, the ones that I have gotten are filled with cashew butter, which as we've just talked about, you need more magnesium and you need more B vitamins. Both of those things are in, in that little chocolate bar thing. And honestly, like they have these little tiny squares, I just want to nibble, nibble on them because they're very rich, but they're also very decadent. They don't add extra sugars, oils or a lot of the other inflammatory things for that we find in a lot of chocolates out there. So highly recommend, highly recommend for that. The next food that is rich in magnesium is going to be avocados. This I know can be pretty surprising for a lot of people.

(14:04):

At least for me, when I learned that, cuz that wasn't something that I was like, oh yeah, mag oh my goodness, avocados are rich in magnesium. So now for the rest of the magnesium rich foods, a lot of these are gonna cross over into the be rich foods calcium or yeah, calcium rich foods, because food is not an isolated nutrient. It's not just magnesium, it's not just calcium. A lot of these foods work synergistically together to help with the bioavailable form of those nutrients. So spinach, swiss chard, dark chocolate, sunflower seeds, cashews flax seeds, almond butter, pumpkin seeds, amaranth, black beans. Like I said, avocados, quinoa is also really, really great. Lina figs, yogurt, bananas.

(15:13):

And then let's go towards the calcium rich foods. So the calcium rich foods that I'm gonna recommend, we all know that like milk, <laugh> cheese, they say are good sources of calcium. However, things like broccoli specifically broccoli stems are gonna be really, really high in calcium, figs, chia seeds, almonds, butternut squash, collards, kale. Those types of plant-based things are going to be fantastic for that. As well as like what we talked about earlier, some of the avocados, celery, fennel, Brussels sprouts cabbage. Again, I mean, some of this I feel like we're kind of like <laugh> beating, beating a dead horse, you know, where it's like, okay, Shannon, we know, we know we should be eating whole foods. But sometimes I think it's important for us to understand and also take note to like, oh, when I'm on my menstrual cycle, I crave chocolate. Or when I'm on my menstrual cycle, man, I just can't get enough of that green smoothie that I make. And maybe it's not the like green smoothie specifically, but maybe it's the spinach that you're putting in there, or the kale that you're putting in there, or some of those other nutrients. So listen to that and take notice of that and tune into your body because your body is always communicating with you. All right, you guys, I will see you on the next.

(16:52):

Before you go, I'm thrilled to share an extraordinary opportunity with all of you who are struggling with your thyroid. I want to introduce to you the game changer that will revolutionary revolutionize your journey to better health and wellbeing through the thyroid Fed Hub. I know that you're struggling with energy and fatigue and low libidos and hair loss and brain fog and weight gain, and I know firsthand the frustration and the challenges that come with this condition. But guess what? The thyroid fed is here to make your life so much easier, starting with your grocery bills. Cindy, one of our amazing members, she used to spend $200 a week on groceries for her family, but with the thyroid Fed hub, sh, and meal planning database, she is now slashed out to $150 a week. So imagine that the money that you're spending, that you'll save while enjoying these delicious and nutritious foods that also support your hormones and your thyroid.

(18:01):

So no more stressing about what to make for dinner or how to nourish your body properly for your thyroid. The Thy Thyroid Fed Hub provides you with methods and strategies to support your thyroid hormone function, ensuring that you're on the right track for better hormone balancing and sustainable weight loss. So say goodbye to overwhelming meal choices and hello to Food Freedom and Confidence. But that's not all. As a member of the Thyroid Fed Hub, you'll get exclusive access to quarterly bonus trainings. These trainings will dive in depth on specific topics to that are designed to empower our clients from understanding your metabolic mastering to mastering meal planning to meal prep, we've got you covered. We are committed to giving you the knowledge and the tools that it needs, that you need in order to take control of your health journey. And guess what? We also provide you with monthly q and a sessions where you can bring your burning questions and get personalized guidance.

(19:05):

Our team of expert coaches will be right there with you offering valuable insight and advice to help you make informed food decision and further balance the thyroid hormones. So ladies, this is your chance to break free from the weight of your thyroid struggles, join the thyroid fed and the hub thyroid fed hub, and experience an incredible transformation that awaits you. Imagine feeling more energized, shedding those stubborn pounds, and becoming the best version of yourself You are you ready to embark on this journey with us? Head over to the show notes and check out the thyroid Fed hub and secure your spot. You don't wanna miss this opportunity to save money, reduce stress, and reclaim your vitality together. Let's thrive with balance with a balanced thyroid and renew the sense of confidence and freedom you have in food choices. And don't forget, it is only $20 a month. It is less than $30 a day for someone to plan your meals and give you a personalized grocery list. All right? I can't wait to welcome you to our vibrant community at the thyroid Fed. So get he ready to transform your life and truly feel amazing because you deserve it, my friend. See you on the inside.

(20:35):

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Join the Thyroid Fed Hub, click here.

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SHOW NOTES AT 

 

Get on the Hansen Method waitlist. Click here. We open up the Hansen Method 2-3x a year so that we can fully support our clients to the highest degree possible.

 

Thinking about using nutrition and holistic health for restoring thyroid function? Learn EVERYTHING you need to know by joining our Free Facebook Group. Thriving Thyroid Balance Community.

 

Are you interested in learning more about your thyroid and finding answers? 

 

We got you! 

 

We have several different opportunities to work with us at several different price points and opportunities. 

 

Our signature 6-month program is called The Hansen Method, we offer this in a VIP setting with personalized plans and protocols, individual one on one coaching and incredible bonuses that change regularly. You can schedule a complimentary thyroid breakthrough call with one of our thyroid advisors. Click here.  If you have questions about the Hansen Method and want to discuss your specific situation and make sure this is the right program for you you can schedule a complimentary thyroid breakthrough call with one of our team members. schedule here. Hurry, my schedule fills up quickly and we only work with limited amount of women at any given time.

 

 Join hundreds of women who have improved their symptoms by 80% and lose on average 30lbs in the 4 months.  

 

Not ready to schedule a call, no problem. Learn more about the Hansen Method to see if it’s a good fit for you. Click here to learn more. 

 

We also offer The Hansen Method as a Self Guided option. 

 

Option number 1 for self guide is where you are totally on your own to go through the program content, make the changes and execute them on your own. Click here to purchase. 

 

Option number 2 includes group coaching and access to our members facebook group that will allow you access to our Thyroid Success Coaches and testing with personalized protocols. Click here to purchase.   

 

But one of our favorite ways to work with us is our Thriving Thyroid Coaching Membership Opportunity.  This is where many of clients first begin working with us. It allows you to get to know us, our system and start making changes before making a larger financial investment. Click here to learn more

 

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PAID RESOURCES

 

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Xo,

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(00:00):

Welcome back to the Thriving Thyroid Podcast, where we choose to become empowered patients and take our health into our own hands. Hi, I'm Shannon Hansen, a Christian entrepreneur, a mom of three. And after dealing with my own health mysteries, I made it my mission to learn everything I could about the thyroid. I soon became certified as a holistic wellness practitioner, a functional nutrition practitioner, and a functional diagnostic practitioner. And so much more after that, I founded the Revolutionary Thyroid Program, the method. As a health professional and a mom, I fully understand the importance of having a fun, simple, and sustainable plan for achieving a responsive thyroid. So I share actionable and practical strategies for developing a responsive thyroid so that the ambitious moms and women can gain freedom from fatigue and lose the thyroid weight once and for all. Each week, I will be here for you, along with my guest experts. We will be sharing simple and tangible tips that work for not only your thyroid, your hormones, your family, and your mindset, so that you can get back to living the life that you envisioned for yourself. Welcome to the Thriving Thyroid Podcast.

(01:22):

Hello. Hello, you guys. Welcome back to the Thriving Thyroid Podcast with your host Shannon Hansen. And today we're gonna be talking about nutrition and food and the importance of building a strong foundation when it comes to food for our thyroid. Because what I think I failed to understand <laugh> early in the journey and early in the process, was how much food and nutrition was impacting my life and impacting my health. And not just food, but it was like the basics, right? The, the foundational pieces of, of information, not information, the basic lifestyle things that were really impacting my health, right? So for example, sleeping four to eight hours a night, and then waking up the next day to run all of my responsibilities, my duties, I was turning to food for, for comfort. Not really comfort, but for energy, right? And because I don't drink coffee and things like that, and I wasn't drinking soda at the time, either.

(02:42):

I was turning towards sugary processed food and I was running myself ragged, and I was doing the best that I could. I was trying to nourish my body. I was trying to saturate my body with nutrition, but because I wasn't feeling good, it was really hard to have the energy to plan and prepare food and go grocery shopping, and then not just grow grocery shopping, but then to execute everything on top of having a busy, crazy life <laugh> with kids and husbands, and church and community stuff, and family stuff. And I mean, I think all of us can relate to feelings of like, I just don't have time. And so several years ago, I, and if you've followed me from the very beginning, which most people haven't, because my, my early beginning in what I was doing in nutrition, I offered a core not so much a course, a program very similar to the thyroid Fed Hub.

(03:46):

It was just a generalized nutrition planning services. And you guys, there's tons of them out there. Like I'm sure if you spend 10 minutes looking for meal planning services, you could find a million. I can think of like five of them. <Laugh> off the top of my head. Granted, I do this for work, but a lot of 'em are not geared towards thyroid specific, not geared towards hormone specific and not geared towards the family. Okay? I've, some of them that I've looked at, they are geared towards you know, family and convenience, right? Or they're geared towards, you know, empty nesters or two people households, or people who love to just meal prep all the time and eat the same three meals for the week. You know, <laugh> like, and so what I wanted to do was something a little bit different, and that's why I created the Thyroid Fed Hub, is for families and or for basically anyone who is struggling with hormonal things, who is struggling to figure out what to eat, when to eat it, and how to put together a kitchen that they are comfortable and happy and excited to be in.

(05:13):

Because one, food is central, right? Like, we cannot get away from food. We have to eat to live <laugh>. Many thyroid people are skipping meals, and this is exasperating the issue. And so what I wanted to do is give you a foundation, give you framework to help support your body and your hormones, and specifically your thyroid, right? Because we're all, we're all about the thyroid here in a way that is sustainable for your family. Because again, what works for me and my family may not work for you and your family. I have a four kids, it's me and my husband. I host a lot of kids at my house, <laugh>. You guys often hear probably kids in the background of my podcast and or in my Facebook lives or social media or whatever, like, my kids are always there because they're such a foundational part of who I am as a person, and I want to model what is appropriate for them to do for their body.

(06:23):

And so, again, I buy a surplus of fruits and veggies and I, I don't just cross my fingers and hope that we get everything eaten before it goes bad. Oftentimes what happens is I buy what I think is gonna be appro an appropriate amount for the week, and then halfway through the week, I have to go get more fruits and veggies because my kids, I've eaten them all. <Laugh>, you know or there's like extra kids at my house and they have eaten that stuff and it's great, it's fantastic. I wouldn't have it any, any other way in all honesty, because I think that this next generation is like, they're just so valuable, right? They're so valuable. And now that I know better, I can do better. So let me give you some tips for if you have a big family <laugh>. And I feel like this is perfect timing for me as well, because one, it's summertime and two, we are getting ready or we just finished hosting a family of five at our house.

(07:32):

So for four days I had 11 people in my home that I was preparing meals for and you know, lunch, breakfast, lunch, dinner kind of thing. Obviously we did go out to eat, but for four days we don't wanna just eat out <laugh>, we don't wanna just eat out. So my grocery shopping trip probably looked very different. I went to Costco, I spent about $400 that has lasted us that entire time and a few days extra, right? And two of the big things that I did is, number one, I prepared like a breakfast casserole. I did potatoes cuz potatoes are super cheap. They're really filling, they're also really high in potassium. And potassium helps with cellular sensitivity. I have not done an H T M A with client levels in a normal range for potassium. Okay? so anyways, we don't have to go into all of that, but I, I, myself obviously have thyroid imbalances.

(08:39):

And then I have another daughter who when we've done some testing on her, it shows that her thyroid falls into slightly underactive, okay? So I wanna be making sure that my kids are getting potassium rich foods. So I did potatoes, we did some really clean sausage, and then I did eggs on top and baked it in the oven. My kids and everybody has ate on that for several days in the morning. I did some, you know, obviously pancakes and eggs just some other breakfast type things. But when we did pancakes, we had fresh fruit to put on top. We had all of the yummy fixings. And we were also making sure that we were balancing everything out with protein, right? And healthy fats to keep these kids not only full, but also their brain nourished because, and some of the adults <laugh> that attended are there also have a, a d d, adhd.

(09:38):

So knowing that the foods that I prepared would help with cognitive function, help with hyperactivity, help with the cellular sensitivity and hormone balancing for everybody as a whole. And so then lunches, I just did super, super easy. What I did is every day, no matter what we did, and this also helped with snacking for the kids, I made a fruit tray, a veggie tray the, I made like a fruit dip that was made with Greek yogurt for the kids. So if they wanted to dip it in something, they had a little bit of extra protein in there. And then on the veggie tray did something really similar. We used a dairy free ranch dressing for the kids. And honestly like, they would kind of cycle through the kitchen and, and snack on it as needed. And that is something that I've been doing for a long time.

(10:40):

I got away from that for a period of time and, and we're getting back to it now cuz I was like, man, I am blowing through these. Like, so Costco has some like really clean granola bars, like the made good little ball things and just a few other really clean snacks. Well, those things are expensive. Y'all like, they're so expensive, but they're nice to have around. So when, and every kid that comes to my house, they all know where like the snack bin is. And I tell them, you are welcome to go get food. Because now most of the kids, I know their family situation, I know that they have plenty of food and you know, whatever, but you never know. And so I've always wanted to be the person that can make sure that these kids are getting what they need.

(11:34):

And I'm like, ma'am, I'm spending a ton of money on snacks. And so I started re-implementing these fruit and veggie snacks for my kids and for everybody else. And I am saving money with my groceries doing that. And at a time where groceries are continually going up, I just, and groceries are going up. So I feel really good about that because it's much cheaper than those pre-packaged snacks and they're all, it's also more nutrient dense for the kids. They can find hopefully something that they like between the two plates. Even if they're eating all fruit, I'm, I'm all for that for these kiddos. Versus I have other clients who are empty nesters where it's like maybe just them, like they're just cooking for them and or like them and a spouse. And so their grocery budget, their, the way that they attack food is gonna be very different.

(12:38):

If both of 'em are working all day, they're not necessarily gonna work for, want to work 40 hours a week and come home and spend an hour in the kitchen cooking and preparing food in the evening. Like, it's just too much. And then what do they do for breakfast? What do they do for lunch when they're running out the door for breakfast and for lunchtime they are like like eating at work, right? So their approach has to be very different. And so I encourage them to do things very similarly, obviously in a different way because they're adults. So when I work with those clients, I'm talking to them about what do you like to eat for breakfast? What do you enjoy? What is easy? What is fun? What is something sustainable for you? Some of them it's like making hard boiled eggs in the beginning of the week and then pairing it with, you know, other things.

(13:34):

So they get their protein. Some of them it is protein shake. Some of them it is a breakfast casserole where it's already pre-made or like a frittata or something like that cuz they have a little, a little bit more sophisticated taste or they can add in some veggies and get some fiber in there and, and things like that. And then we rotate through different options with that so that they're getting a wide variety of food, right? Because we as adults and kids as well we need a variety of foods and we need to be eating foods that are within season. We'll have to do a whole other podcast about food eating seasonally. But you know, and so in, in the thyroid Fed Hub, that's one of the things that we talk about. Like we talk about eating foods within the season, what is in season?

(14:28):

The recipes that we choose to put in there are also seasonally, we try to do some research, but we also listen to our clients. What do you need more of? Do you need more breakfast? Do you need more lunch ideas? Do you need more dinner ideas? So that you guys can feel confident in your food choices. Okay? So that's breakfast if you kind of fall into if you're working right, we have to also talk about what access to appliances, <laugh>. Do you have, like I have some, I have one lady that I'm working with who is a, a mail lady and she delivers mail. So she's in a car <laugh> or in a, in a, I guess a car, a vehicle delivering mail. So what she has access to is gonna be very different than someone who has a fully stocked break room where they have kitchen, microwave, you know, all all the things, right?

(15:30):

Air fryers and coffee pots and stuff. And so we have to also look at that. We also have to look at what is sustainable for you. So I have one client who she ki she jokes about this and I'm like, she kind of like makes fun of herself and I'm like, no, but this is a very real thing. And so what she does is she likes to pack quote unquote kid Lunchables, right? She's like, I just love eating that way. And so we talk about what to, what to put in those, what to put it in those so that she is getting the variety of foods that she wants, the textures that she needs, and also the nutrition that she needs. We talk about a lot of other different things to make it more of a complete meal so that she is having fun, it is sustainable for her, but she's also, like I said, getting the, the variety of nutrients that she needs for her body.

(16:34):

And so the thyroid Fed Hub is ever-evolving. You guys, I'm listening to every single person in that, in that area to say, okay, what are, what are those missing gaps in order to help you with your thyroid function, with helping you personalize and customize everything and get everything that you need so that you feel comfortable and confident in your decisions. And so we have run it for I think two months now. I started at a super, super low price of $8 a month. You guys, which is <laugh>, ridiculous <laugh> to be honest. But I wanted to get in there and figure out what we were, what people were saying, what their experiences was. We have over 30 people who have already joined us. I think we're actually closer to probably 40 now, but as of June 1st I'm increasing the price to $20 a month still.

(17:31):

That is less than a dollar a day. Because I want you guys to feel and figure out the system that works best for you. I dive in depth on the system that I use. So I'll give you an example. I create my meal plan and my meal, my grocery list and everything for a week. And then because I've done the work one time, I save that and I put it in a binder. And so when I don't have time in a week or two or a couple weeks or a month or next year, whenever it is, I can go back to all of the meal plans with the recipes that I've created and put together for my family. And I can say, oh yeah, this was a really good week, everybody loved that. All these things are within season and I can take my grocery list and go to the grocery store, print it off, whatever, go to the grocery store and or even what I've been doing lately, <laugh> is going online and just ordering all the food and either doing grocery pickup or having it delivered to my home because of time, right?

(18:42):

So one of our clients inside the thyroid Fed Hub Cindy, her name is Cindy, she says she slashed her bill from $200 a week for her family to $150 a week. And it has also helped eliminate the stress in figuring out what foods to make to support my thyroid function. And she finally has food freedom and confidence to make the choices she needs to nourish her body. So in addition to that, you guys not only are gonna get access to done for meal plans in there we have a variety different ones. The ones that we added for the month of May cuz we are in May <laugh> for the month of May, is a six week summer slum down program. There are three different meal plans. I always tell everybody to go through it twice because once you do that you can also catch any food sensitivities, any reactions that you're having, so on and so forth.

(19:39):

So there's some additional training in there for that. Then there's other ones that are like an anti-inflammatory or whatever. So there are some instructions on where to get started for those. For the meal plans, you can print them out, use them exactly as they are, or you can make modifications to them. We also have a monthly coaching session of monthly q and a where you can come and ask me questions. You don't have to wait for that coaching call every single month. You have access to a Facebook group for support and you can post your question in there, tag me in it and I will of course answer them. It's super easy. And then in addition to that, cuz that's not enough to get monthly recipes, question and answers done for you meal plans things like that. We also have quarterly bonus trainings.

(20:39):

Our next quarterly training, oh man, I don't know if I remember off the top of my head. It is coming up I think next Monday. Let's see, I think it's the fifth. Yeah, we're doing a bonus training on June 5th. And that is all about metabolic typing. So I'm gonna dive in depth on metabolic typing, teaching you more about metabolism what foods work best for specific ty specific types of metabolism and how to support your body with the food and nutrition specifically for your body. How to listen for that, how to understand that, how to make adjustments if you hit those plateaus and you're like, this is so frustrating, right? Because all of that is so, so important for our body and important for us to learn how to listen to our body. So if you are ready to take action, you can head over to this show notes.

(21:44):

There is a link in there for the thyroid Fed hub June 1st. The price is going up from $8 a month to $20 a month. Of course you guys are probably gonna ask, you can cancel at any time that you don't. We just need like a 30 day notice. So just send us a message and, and I will cancel it before that next billing cycle. Okay? so head over, join us, join the conversation, get some help, ask for guidance, come to the coaching calls. You guys like this is really such an affordable price for the value that you're getting in those coaching calls. Like they're already changing people's lives and we've only had two <laugh>. So with that being said, I will see you guys on the next. Before you go, I am thrilled to share an extraordinary opportunity with all of you who are struggling with your thyroid.

(22:43):

I want to introduce to you the game changer that will revolution revolutionize your journey to better health and wellbeing through the thyroid Fed Hub. I know that you're struggling with energy and fatigue and low libidos and hair loss and brain fog and weight gain, and I know firsthand the frustration and the challenges that come with this condition. But guess what? The thyroid fed is here to make your life so much easier, starting with your grocery bills. Cindy, one of our amazing members, she used to spend $200 a week on groceries for her family, but with the thyroid fed hub, sh, and meal planning database, she is now slashed out to $150 a week. So imagine that the money that you're spending, that you'll save while enjoying these delicious and nutritious foods that also support your hormones and your thyroid. So no more stressing about what to make for dinner or how to nourish your body properly for your thyroid.

(23:50):

The thy thyroid Fed Hub provides you with methods and strategies to support your thyroid hormone function, ensuring that you're on the right track for better hormone balancing and sustainable weight loss. So say goodbye to overwhelming meal choices and hello to Food Freedom and confidence. But that's not all. As a member of the Thyroid Fed Hub, you'll get exclusive access to quarterly bonus trainings. These trainings will dive in depth on specific topics to that are designed to empower our clients from understanding your metabolic mastering to mastering meal planning to meal prep. We've got, you've covered. We are committed to giving you the knowledge and the tools that it needs, that you need in order to take control of your health journey. And guess what? We also provide you with monthly q and a sessions where you can bring your burning questions and get personalized guidance. Our team of expert coaches will be right there with you offering valuable insight and advice to help you make informed food decision and further balance balances thyroid hormones.

(25:01):

So ladies, this is your chance to break free from the weight of your thyroid struggles, join the thyroid fed and the hub thyroid fed hub, and experience an incredible transformation that awaits you imagine feeling more energized, shedding those stubborn pounds, and becoming the best version of yourself You are you ready to embark on this journey with us? Head over to the show notes and check out the thyroid Fed hub and secure your spot. You don't wanna miss this opportunity to save money, reduce stress, and reclaim your vitality together. Let's thrive with balance with a balanced thyroid and renew the sense of confidence and freedom you have in food choices. And don't forget it is only $20 a month. It is less than $30 a day for someone to plan your meals and give you a personalized grocery list. All right? I can't wait to welcome you to our vibrant community at the thyroid fed. So get he ready to transform your life and truly feel amazing because you deserve it, my friend. See you on the inside.

(26:19):

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SHow notes

Thyroid Fed Hub, enroll now. 

 

.

.

.

SHOW NOTES AT 

 

Get on the Hansen Method waitlist. Click here. We open up the Hansen Method 2-3x a year so that we can fully support our clients to the highest degree possible.

 

Thinking about using nutrition and holistic health for restoring thyroid function? Learn EVERYTHING you need to know by joining our Free Facebook Group. Thriving Thyroid Balance Community.

 

Are you interested in learning more about your thyroid and finding answers? 

 

We got you! 

 

We have several different opportunities to work with us at several different price points and opportunities. 

 

Our signature 6-month program is called The Hansen Method, we offer this in a VIP setting with personalized plans and protocols, individual one on one coaching and incredible bonuses that change regularly. You can schedule a complimentary thyroid breakthrough call with one of our thyroid advisors. Click here.  If you have questions about the Hansen Method and want to discuss your specific situation and make sure this is the right program for you you can schedule a complimentary thyroid breakthrough call with one of our team members. schedule here. Hurry, my schedule fills up quickly and we only work with limited amount of women at any given time.

 

 Join hundreds of women who have improved their symptoms by 80% and lose on average 30lbs in the 4 months.  

 

Not ready to schedule a call, no problem. Learn more about the Hansen Method to see if it’s a good fit for you. Click here to learn more. 

 

We also offer The Hansen Method as a Self Guided option. 

 

Option number 1 for self guide is where you are totally on your own to go through the program content, make the changes and execute them on your own. Click here to purchase. 

 

Option number 2 includes group coaching and access to our members facebook group that will allow you access to our Thyroid Success Coaches and testing with personalized protocols. Click here to purchase.   

 

But one of our favorite ways to work with us is our Thriving Thyroid Coaching Membership Opportunity.  This is where many of clients first begin working with us. It allows you to get to know us, our system and start making changes before making a larger financial investment. Click here to learn more

 

CONTACT LINKS

 

DOWNLOADABLE RESOURCES

 

PAID RESOURCES

 

AFFILIATE LINKS

 

Xo,

Shannon Hansen

 

P.S. Make sure to schedule our Thyroid Breakthrough call with one of our thyroid advisors. 

audio transcription

00:00):

Welcome back to the Thriving Thyroid Podcast, where we choose to become empowered patients and take our health into our own hands. Hi, I'm Shannon Hansen, a Christian entrepreneur, a mom of three. And after dealing with my own health mysteries, I made it my mission to learn everything I could about the thyroid. I soon became certified as a holistic wellness practitioner, a functional nutrition practitioner, and a functional diagnostic practitioner. And so much more after that, I founded the Revolutionary Thyroid Program, the Hanson Method. As a health professional and a mom, I fully understand the importance of having a fun, simple, and sustainable plan for achieving a responsive thyroid. So I share actionable and practical strategies for developing a responsive thyroid so that the ambitious moms and women can gain freedom from fatigue and lose the thyroid weight once and for all. Each week, I will be here for you, along with my guest experts.

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We will be sharing simple and tangible tips that work for not only your thyroid, your hormones, your family, and your mindset, so that you can get back to living the life that you envisioned for yourself. Ovation, welcome to the Thriving Thyroid Podcast. And we're not taught things in between. However, even with ovulation, some of the things that I don't think I fully understood until becoming a practitioner learning about women's hormones, like some of this didn't all come together for me either until after that, and maybe you guys had some different sex ed or <laugh> hormone education from your parents, but hopefully we're gonna be sharing some valuable insight to you for this, this part during, during your cycle. Now, obviously when you go through menopause, you no longer have a cycle, but do you still ovulate? Well, the answer is no, because the egg isn't dropping right.

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However, you still have a surge in hormones because your body, those hormonal changes do not change <laugh> just because you go through menstrual cycles or just because you go through ovulation oh my gosh, because you go through men <laugh> menopause because you go through menopause, your body still has those hormonal fluctuations inside of them. The result of an egg dropping and or your menstrual cycle starting, that doesn't change. So when we hit between about day, I think it's 11, let me just double check. Yeah. So day 12 to day 16, that is our ovulation window. And what happens during that time is all of our hormones really begin to peak at that point, allowing the egg to drop from the fallopian tubes in hopes of pregnancy, right? And so the other thing that starts about day five, five days before your ovulation is your estrogen or not estrogen.

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Oh my goodness, you guys, your testosterone is going to change. So around day 10, nine to 10 of your cycle, that is when you're feeling in the mood and you can't keep your hands off of your partner. And that's because of testosterone. So testosterone, and yes, you guys, we do need testosterone. I know that is one of the big things that we think, oh, that's just like a, a man's hormone. But we do need small amounts or small quantities of this testosterone because our body is smart, and it is going to increase the testosterone to elevate your mood, your libido, about five days before you ovulate, so that you'll be seeking out a partner in obviously in hopes to get pregnant. Whether you really want a baby or not, like your body is going to have some of those natural urges, and we want that which can live, okay?

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So sperm can live in the body for about three to five days in hopes that when the egg is released, that you'll become pregnant. So that's why, despite the fact that your eggs live for only about 24 hours, you are considered fertile for the four to, or five to six days out of each month. So it doesn't seem, doesn't it seem a little silly to suppress our hormones endlessly when your fertility is only about six days out a month? This is one of the things that has always kind of blown my mind when it comes to birth control, right? Birth control all month long. We wanna suppress, suppress, suppress. And this is why coming off of birth control can be so difficult and challenging for people. And then if you don't really know any better when you have, when you come off the birth control, you're gonna have side effects, and then you're gonna be like, ah, this isn't worth it.

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And then you just go back on, on the birth control. So it's really important that we are looking at the hormones as a whole. So if one hormone is out of balance, this is the whole body, the whole system, the all of the hormones are gonna be out of balance. And this is again, why we really need to track our symptoms over time and like throughout the month, I shouldn't say over time, but track it throughout the, the month to see when do I have energy? When am I not feeling good? When is this happening? When is that happening? And really pay attention to that because I don't think I wasn't ever taught to do those types of things. Now, in addition to that, there are, we have to also understand that when we are working to balance our hormones, it is going to take us at least, at least three cycles, three months to get everything to regulate everything, to start working a little bit better and really notice those hormonal changes that are happening and that we want.

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So for this time, I want to also talk about some of the differences that in our, in our hormones and what can happen. What are some of the symptoms? I guess that's what I'm trying to say to, to say, Ooh, words are hard this morning. So your heavy, painful periods and mood swings are not all because of estrogen and progesterone. Okay? But that's probably what your doctor has been telling you. So if you were all about estrogen dominance and low progesterone, then simply going on the birth control to take hormone replacement pills to get rid of your symptoms, this isn't gonna work, right? It's not gonna work long term, it's not going to be beneficial, and ultimately it's gonna leave you with unpleasant side effects and consequences such as bone loss, blood clots, strokes, leaky gut dementia, and reproductive cancers. So like ovarian cancers and cysts and things like that.

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So the problem with the medical industry is that it's focusing on fixing, fixing air quotes here, the high estrogen and low progesterone symptoms, and it doesn't at all address the why these things are getting outta balance. So low progesterone accounts for symptoms like mid swings, low libido in an inability to get or stay pregnant, hair loss, sore breasts and spotting mid-cycle. So if you are spotting or if your cycle is all over the place, we have to look at low progesterone. So low progesterone can be caused by several different reasons. Number one, brain injuries to the pituitary or penal gland. So think whiplash or even pregnancy, pregnancy changes those types of things and increase in food that contain estrogenic properties like non fermented soy pesticides or herbicides. We see this happen a lot with women farmers, <laugh>, because you guys are probably around a little bit more pesticides and herbicides and things like that.

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And, and obviously there are ways to help support your body if that's your living, right? Like I always tell people there's more than one way. And then the last thing that, not the last thing, but one of the other causes of low progesterone can be poor communication between the brain and the ovaries. And this can again be like because of the vagus nerve or again, whiplash and things like that. So, high estrogen symptoms, account for irregular periods, heavy cycles, endometriosis, P P C O S, painful periods, hormonal breakouts and weight gain. So estrogen dominance. And there again, there's a couple different kinds of estrogen dominance, which I'll talk about here in just a second. But first, xeno estrogen. So these are toxins that mimic estrogen in the body and they can be found in your everyday care products. So plastic skincare products, things like that.

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So it's really important that when we are using products, especially on our skin as women and in our hair and things like that, that we are using products that are not estrogen mimicking, okay? That they don't confuse the body. The second thing is an overload of toxins in the body. When we have too many toxins in the body, our body is going to try to protect you from those poor liver metabolism. So if you are not pooping <laugh>, if you are having like a clay colored stool or light colored brown stool, these can also be signs of a poor liver metabolism messing up all of your hormones and just creating some havoc there. The second thing, or not the second thing, I think that's like the fourth thing <laugh> is going back to the first one, the low pge, low progesterone. So when progesterone is low, we can have issues.

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Okay? And then last that I wanted to bring up a diet heavy and soy and you guys, soy comes in so many places, like even the chocolates that we crave around our menstrual cycle, a lot of them do have soy in them. So it's really important that we also look at the, the chocolate that we're eating. Okay? So like I mentioned, there are two different types of estrogen dominance. One is there is true estrogen dominance, meaning the body has too much, the second kind is too much estrogen to proje two progesterone. So meaning the ratio is off. So when we're testing hormones, we can't just look at this hormone, this hormone, we have to also look at estrogen and progesterone and the relationship that they have. And you guys will see on, like when you do sex hormone panels, you will see this huge range of numbers and your doctor isn't usually asking, where were you at in your menstrual cycle?

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They're just looking, oh, yeah, okay, you follow within this range and you're fine. Not necessarily is this normal for the range or for the phase of my menstrual cycle that I'm in. And I, I don't know why, I don't know why <laugh> that we're not being taught to, to track our cycle a little bit better. Okay? So when we don't deal with a root cause, like we mentioned above, we end up chasing symptoms. We end up chasing supplements, hormone replacement, birth control, which can lead to a worsening of symptoms over time. Our female female hormones play a huge role in the overall hormone and re production and regulation. So if you aren't tracking your menstrual cycle, you guys please start because this is really your fifth vital sign and it's going to reveal so much about you. There's so many things that you can do, we can do to help regulate and improve hormone production as it is.

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So the first thing that you're gonna need to do and need to understand is the four phases of the menstrual cycle, which we are working our way through in the podcast. So even if you're not menstruating menopause, your hormones are still gonna rise and fall throughout the month. So tapping into your body and looking at your symptoms can give you a greater clue as to what is going on. Okay? Let's see. I also, I'm trying to, yeah, so let's quickly talk about the after the ovulation phase hits. Wait, hold on. I wanted to, okay, so I'm gonna kind of back up and share a little bit more. And we're gonna go into the ovulation phase, and then I'm gonna share with you in this kinds of yoga that, or <laugh> kinds of yoga kinds of exercise, what you should be eating in terms of like your diet when you're doing this.

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So before your menstrual psych, before your ovulation cycle, you hit the L tail phase. So after you finish the follicular phase, we transition into a five-ish day window of ovulation. So this is when F s h follicular stimulating hormone is rising, okay? The rise of that followed by the rise in l lutin hormone or LH stimulating stimulates the fo the molecules to release egg estrogen, inclu in, oh my goodness, words are hard, estrogen increase increases further, okay? So estrogen is going to rise to help thicken the lining. Testosterone is going to begin to surge driving the hormones and then dropping around the ovulation. This is a great week for us to communicate with people around us work partners, family, because our communication is really on point at this point, at, at this point, <laugh> at this time. And this is a week to ask for the raise, ask for pitching a new idea to someone, selling something, negotiating with something for something that you want.

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And you should also notice a surge in energy this week. So what you can do, and when it comes to this, like leverage that time when your body is saying, oh, this, like, I have more energy, I'm feeling really good, what you can do is start to do like Bikram yoga, you can do boot camps or hit training, cycling, some kind of energy exercise, what am I trying to say? An exercise that has high energy where you can push out a lot versus when you're on your menstrual cycle, you're gonna want lower impact, low energy, more kind of a flowy, just moving your body light, stretching, that kind of thing. Okay? So during this ovulation cycle, you are probably craving raw fruits, veggies, fiber. So go ahead and feed into that, especially for the veggies that are high in glutathione and protein. This helps to detoxify the liver, and this is really critical for your body at this time.

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So this, having foods, eating foods that are rich in glutathione is going to make it easier for your body to metabolize and eliminate estrogen. So things that, so what, let me go back and explain just in case you're like, wait, what does that mean? So when we release, or when we metabolize and eliminate that extra estrogen, that's when our body, lets go of the weight. That's when we stop having all of those cycle or all of those symptoms that we talked about earlier related to estrogen dominance, meaning like poor liver function, poor progesterone, where we're having irregular cycles and mens heavy periods, endometriosis, P C O S, painful periods, breakouts, and weight gain, right? So we, we really want to support our body in eliminating that estrogen. So stick to lighter grains like quinoa or raw veggies. So after ovulation phase, you're gonna hit that lu teal phase, and then we will go into that on the next podcast.

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Let me just, I wanna double check one more thing for you guys to see if I'm missing anything else as far as like what you should be doing during this time. Okay? So we talked about, okay, nope, I think we got all of that that I wanted to talk about in that section. The other part that I want to share with you guys is there is something called seed cycling. So this happened, this was kind of put together back in the 19, in 1987 by Dr. Edmund d Dwayne, I think. And this was really used to help people regulate their menstrual cycles back in the seventies slash early eighties. So first and foremost, we have to be tracking our, our phases, right? We have to know what our hormones are doing. But one of, and and here's the other interesting thing.

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A lot of people will try to debunk seed cycling, but we know that seeds help our body produce seeds, <laugh>, right? Like if you are wanting to support brain function, walnuts are great for that. If you wanna support different parts of the body, you are going to want to eat certain foods, right? And we know that seeds, support seeds in our body. Well, guess what are our hormones? Women we're releasing seeds or eggs every single month. So from day one to 14, we classify this as the follicular phase, even though it also includes the ovulation fades. So what you're gonna wanna do every single day, and you can do this a lot of different ways, is you want to have one tablespoon of flax seeds and one tablespoon of raw pumpkin seeds. For me, I just try to sprinkle them on a salad, make a smoothie something like that so that I'm able to get those in.

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And the reason for this is these seeds are rich or high in omega-3 fatty acids, which are going to, which is going to help promote healthy cell membranes. Flax seeds contain liga in, I hope I said that right, which will block excess estrogen in the first phase of the cycle, okay? Most of us are experiencing high estrogen levels so that flax seed can help bring those down. Pumpkin seeds are really high in zinc and they support progesterone production and relief that is needed for the release of the second phase of our cycle. And then day 15 to 28, we, we switch up the seeds that we are doing. So this is where we're hitting that first round of, or like we're, we're starting to get into, I said this wrong a couple seconds ago. The lou teal phase is where we start the ovulation.

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Okay? So the lal phase is where we're shifting not the follicular phase. The follicular phase is prepping the body for this. So day 15 to day 28 our body shifts from estrogen projection, estrogen production to progesterone production, and the egg e rubs releasing the progesterone to thicken the uterine lining. So for this phase, you are going to want to do one tablespoon of ground flax seeds and one tablespoon of sunflower seeds. So these are really rich in omega six fatty acids. Sesame seeds contain the liga ins he, which help to block excess estrogen while the sunflower seeds provide the body with selenium, which is a trace mineral that assists in liver detoxification and the process of hormones overall. So here's a cool thing. It takes four selenium molecules to turn into glutathione. So this is when we do seed cycling, it helps with that part, okay?

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It helps with getting the glutathione so that we can get the extra estrogen and things out. So just a couple other tidbits before we wrap this up. It's best to purchase whole seeds, meaning raw, organic and unha, unhealth, whatever that word is, <laugh>, and use a coffee grinder or like a high powered, high powered blender to mix them up. Only prep about two days at a time and keep those refrigerated. You can keep 'em refrigerated for a little bit longer, but if you just keep 'em on your counter so that they're out and you can see them more easily, only do about two days at a time. I, for me, like I said earlier the easiest way for me to do them is oftentimes in smoothies on salads. I don't do a lot of soups only because I live in Arizona and that's hot, and I don't always feel like soup <laugh>. But you can't, if you do oatmeal, you can sprinkle it on your oatmeal added to your veggies or grains, or you can just eat them on your own. So while you may notice changes within that first month of seed cycling it, like I said, it's really gonna take about three to four months to see significant improvements in your cycle. So be patient, be consistent, keep going. You got this, and I'll see you guys on the next.

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152 | The Mind-Body Connection: How Body Mapping Can Enhance Your Feminine Energy with Laurel Huston

SHOW NOTES

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Laurel Dawn Huston is an award-winning international keynote speaker and mentor. She is innovative, and engaging on stage, with ground-breaking content. She is the creator of Body Mapping, a Trauma Informed Breathwork Facilitator and a Tantra coach.

 

 

By honing the skills in these areas Laurel has become a highly sought-after expert in masculine and feminine energy. She has helped 1000s regain trust and confidence in their relationships with their divine Identity, power of Influence, and reconnect to the sacred sexual experiences that create Intimacy inside and out.

 

Laurel utilizes balancing the masculine/feminine energies, Body Mapping and breathwork to empower others to reunite with their divine energy... so they can live a life of tuned in and turned on.

 

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Insta- @Reflectionsinsideandout

Web- ReflectionsInsideandout.com

Free Body Map- https://reflectionsinsideandoutevent.com/free-body-map

 

We discussed:

  • What is Body Mapping?

  • How does it help?

  • Why do we need to know about Feminine Energy?

 

 AUDIO TRANSCRIPTION

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Laurel Houston is an award-winning international keynote speaker and mentor. She is innovative and engaging on stage with groundbreaking content. She is a creator of body mapping, trauma informed breathwork facilitator. And by honing these skills in this area areas, Laurel has become a highly sought after expert in masculine and feminine energy. She has helped thousands regain their confidence in their relationships with their divine identity, power of influence, and reconnect to this sacred sexual experience that created Ency inside and out. Laurel utilizes balancing the masculine and feminine energy, body mapping and breath work to empower others to reunite, to reunite with their divine energy so that they can live a life that is tuned in and tuned on. I loved this podcast interview. I feel like I got so much out of it, and I know you guys will too. Welcome back to the Thriving Thyroid Podcast, where we choose to become empowered patients and take our health into our own hands.

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Hi, I'm Shannon Hansen, a Christian entrepreneur, a mom of three. And after dealing with my own health mysteries, I made it my mission to learn everything I could about the thyroid. I soon became certified as a holistic wellness practitioner, a functional nutrition practitioner, and a functional diagnostic practitioner. And so much more after that, I founded the Revolutionary Thyroid Program, the Handsome Method. As a health professional and a mom, I fully understand the importance of having a fun, simple, and sustainable plan for achieving a responsive thyroid. So I share actionable and practical strategies for developing a responsive thyroid so that the ambitious moms and women can gain freedom from fatigue and lose the thyroid weight once and for all. Each week, I will be here for you, along with my guest experts. We will be sharing simple and tangible tips that work for not only your thyroid, your hormones, your family, and your mindset, so that you can get back to living the life that you envision for yourself. Welcome to the Thriving Thyroid Podcast.

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All right, welcome to the th Thriving Thyroid Podcast. We have Laurel Houston with us today, and this is something very different than what we normally talk about on the podcast, so I'm really excited to have this conversation. So welcome, Laurel.

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Thank you.

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Yeah. So give everybody a little bit of a background as to who you are and what you do.

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Perfect. So like she said, my name is Laurel Houston, and from a academic standpoint, I have two degrees. One in communication, another in psychology with human development and through weird chain events. I was also a professor for a little while teaching anatomy and physiology. And then I have a total other side 20 years experience as a cosmetologist and as weird as those all sound they all merged together to create what I do now, which is a modality called body mapping. So I am a coach and mentor, and I do keynote speaking. But really what my goal is, is to teach people to love who they are inside and out. That is, if you get down to like my one sentence, I just want people to love who they are. And so there's, I use breathwork, I use body mapping to teach people how to see themselves differently, how to understand not body language, because that comes from the, the brain, but the language of their body, what message their body is trying to tell them. And that's the big thing about what I love to teach is are you listening to your body? What is your body trying to say to you?

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Yeah, and I love that. I remember listening to one of your classes several years ago, and this is kind of a side note on me growing up I was in high school and we were taking pictures and I felt like I looked so good or whatever, and there were, and I was with my best friend. We were standing in line and these girls behind us were like, wow, those girls are so pretty. They look like Barbie dolls, but they both have big noses. And I was like, that just kind of crushed me in a way. So I was like, when I graduate, I'm getting a nose job and you know, all the like <laugh>, whatever. And I remember, and then, you know, I got older and it was still there, but it wasn't as prevalent. And then listening to some of your classes, and this is kind of a side note to like what we were going to be talking about, but mm-hmm. <Affirmative>, I just remember thinking, I am perfectly designed.

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Yes, yes. Very much so.

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And that gave me like the confidence to be like, I don't need to change the way that I look for somebody else. Like they may think that I have a big note <laugh>, but like, I, like I am perfect the way that I am. So definitely a life-changing moment for me. <Laugh>

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Good in that regard.

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So

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Go ahead and Well, I would say, and that is actually one of the reasons why I created body mapping, because I, like so many people had that moment where I thought I was doing okay <laugh>, and then someone else's opinion, or us hearing those opinions so often that we took them on as our own opinion. And all of the sudden we thought we needed to change or be better or, and so I kind of had to find something that it was like, Hey, I need to learn to love what I look like. Cause at the time I didn't have the money for plastic surgery, so I was like, all right, my options are <laugh>. Yeah. And the beautiful part about body mapping it's based on your own body. So you use your own proportions and symmetry to measure your body against your body.

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And that's one of the things I love about it, because no matter how much we compare ourselves to someone else, we will always be wrong about who they are and about who we are. The premise of body mapping is, so for instance, your thumb from the tip of your thumb to the center of your knuckle measures your eye, and then your eye measures all of the other features on your face. And the cool part is, is that my thumb measures my eye, but it won't measure yours. So as soon as I compare my body to your body, I'm wrong about both of us.

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Yeah.

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And when body mapping, I actually tell people it's how to find your divine blueprint. It's, none of us came with a manual, but we all have a map on our body to help us exactly what you said, learn just how amazing we are, what our purpose is, that we have a divine influence and that we get to have really beautiful, amazing lives because we're far more perfect than we ever thought we were.

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Yeah. And I, I love that. I really do. So I work with a lot of the youth in our, in our church, and I'm like, if I could give you one thing <laugh>, it would be that, you know?

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Yeah.

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Anyways, I'm kind of derailing here. So let's go back to

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We're going exactly where we need to go. You're totally fine, <laugh>.

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So let's go back to like what is body mapping and how that plays a role with the thyroid?

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Cool. So like I said, it, it's based on measurements and symmetry on the external part of the body, but for things like organs and that kind of stuff, we really look at basically what is your body trying to tell you? And there are, there a virus can cause a cold that's proven. If I I got stung by a scorpion a little while ago and I got staph in the scorpion sting. And so the staph caused an infection. Like I didn't just miraculously get an infection for no reason something caused it. However, what symptoms did your body get? Because that is the language your body is trying to say, Hey, just so you know, this is what, what's happening here. So if you get a cold and you make out with your partner and I lose my voice and he gets a stuffy nose, there are emotional things that we are holding in our body that are causing those messages or symptoms to come up.

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And they're not good or bad, or right or wrong, they're just messages. And that's the big reason, probably the number one thing that I try to get people to understand is that symptoms are not bad. They're not positive or negative, they're just messages. And when you listen to those messages in pleasure, then your body doesn't try to give you messages through pain. But how many times have you been in a situation where things are going so good, you don't pay attention to what's around you, and then all of a sudden everything falls apart. So you're now very aware of the details of your life. Your body does the same thing as far as your thyroid is concerned. And since this is a thyroid podcast, I'm not gonna go too deep into the anatomy and physiology of it, but in a very, very short explanation, your thyroid is the brain to your hormones.

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It's the thing that tells your body, you start puberty, go through menopause. Hey, we're pregnant, we need these hormones. And so if you think of the, your thyroid of the, the brain of your hormones and your hormones are the things that transmit those messages. They're the things that go all throughout your body and say, function in this way. When your thyroid is emotionally struggling, usually the, the lifestyle or the action behind it was a dramatic change occurred that was unexpected. So I've wor, I've literally worked with thousands of women over the last 10 years, and I have yet to meet a woman who has thyroid issues. And as we talk about her past experiences, there was a dramatic unexpected change that happened in her life. Not all of them are bad though,

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Right?

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So one of 'em, I mean, one of her boyfriend proposed and they'd only been dating for like three months, but she knew it was, and so it was this really good Yes, yes, yes. I'm, I'm so in on this. It was just so unexpected. Versus I had another client that out of nowhere when she was in sixth grade, her parents moved to another country so that they could do service for their church. And she left all of her friends behind. And so she started having thyroid problems at a very young age. So your thyroid is about change. And one of the other reasons why women have a lot of thyroid issues when it comes to the mental emotional part of it is because women have, women are going into what I call decision fatigue. Have you ever heard of this before?

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No. I mean, I, I've not heard of it of it that way, but I know exactly what you're saying. And because I, I feel like I'm there right now. I just, so I have a one year old and we had three kids. We had a six year gap, and then we had a little surprise happen. And lately I've just been saying, I can't think for everybody.

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Yes.

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Like, if you could fill up your water bottle and carry it to the car instead of mom having to think about, okay, does everybody have their water bottle? It's a snacks or packed. Do I have diapers? Do I have wipes? Do I, you know, is this, what are we gonna be eating for dinner? Oh, wait, what about breakfast the next morning? Like, oh my gosh, <laugh>.

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Yes. That, that is decision fatigue. It is when and men get it too, but because they have different hormones than us, their body literally processes it in a different way. Yeah. So when women have to make, and the, and the other part of it is that women think cyclic and men think linear. And so, and it's actually one of, it's based on our hormones. So when you track a woman's menstrual cycle, she'll actually have a different problem solving skill based on where she's at in her cycle. And a lot of people don't realize that squirrel side note, but they did a, a 90 day brain scan on a thousand women every single day. And what they discovered was that during the four different phases of their cycle, they have four completely different brain scans, meaning a woman basically is four different women <laugh> during her cycle.

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And, and so there are times when you can make those fast decisions and then two weeks later you're like, I don't even wanna decide if I'm gonna brush my teeth or not. Like I'm on pure default right now if I don't already have the habit of it, it's not happening. And how dare you ask me to make a decision right now. So that, those are all things that decision fatigue kind of exacerbates. And how it ties to the thyroid is that when you make decisions only in your head, you actually cut out inspiration and intuition. Cuz intuition is felt in the body. Intuition usually comes from the heart. So a lot of times on a physiological, or excuse me, on a, on a more metaphysical, maybe like your chakras, when women are not using their heart for decision making, they're only using their head, nothing is feeding your throat.

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So no good energy is feeding your, your thyroid. It's all getting skipped. And what this does from an emotional perspective is it, it makes your thyroid get drained. It's like nothing is feeding us. We're not feeling loved, we're not feeling cared for. And then that shows up in a mental way too. No one supports me, no one is helping me. If I have to make one more decision, the decision is going to be that I'm never going to make a decision again. Like someone else, step up, <laugh>, and then we have our little mini meltdown, and those who love us go, what can we do to help? Just tell me what to do. And you go, oh my gosh. The thought of having to give you step by step instructions of how to complete this task is more exhaustive than me just taking a nap and then completing the task. Except I can't take a nap because I'm in such overwhelmed mentally that I couldn't actually fall asleep.

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Yeah.

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<Laugh>. So

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I feel like this conversation is just for me right now. <Laugh>

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No, it's, it is literally for every, every woman out there. And, and I wanna speak to both the, the science part of it, but also the, the energetic, the metaphysical, the, because I, I believe all of us to be a mind, a body and a spirit. And if you only focus on the physical thyroid, then you're spiritual, which is more of your emotional and your mental are still in dise. They're still kind of like, excuse me. Yeah. Could you please pay attention to us? So one of the things that actually helps the thyroid is to start speaking and saying what you mean and meaning what you say, and then holding true to it. I was in last night I had one of my group mentoring sessions, and this was the entire conversation. So I love that this came up again because I have these women that are like, I have good, I have a good husband and he has a good husband, but I'll have my meltdown moment. And then he'll be like, well, just tell me what you want me to do. And she's like, I don't wanna have to tell you anything. I want you to just look around the house and do something. How do you not see that that needs, like, how long has that pillow been on the ground that I've walked past 90 times in hopes that someone else will notice it bend over and pick it up and put it back on the couch?

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Yeah.

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So what this is doing to your thyroid in women, because we cycle monthly instead of men who cycle daily, the amount of testosterone that we get has to last throughout the entire month. Where with men, the amount of testosterone that they get repeats every single day. So this is why it's really easy for men to wake up early, get out of bed, accomplish a whole bunch of tasks, get out their dopamine hits, and then by five o'clock they're like zombie.

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Yeah.

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So with women, we get our, our hit of testosterone during right before ovulation, and we're like <laugh>. I start all sorts of new projects.

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Yeah. And I

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Have the energy to do it because you do. And then a week later you're like I'm such a horrible person.

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I'm not finishing anything. I procrastinated and I need more sleep and I just lack discipline. And I have,

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I have no motivation. You're not crazy and you're not lazy. You're cycling.

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Yeah.

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So if you continue to try to have the same schedule as as the hormone levels that allowed you to start the project, your body goes, we're outta testosterone. I guess we have to use adrenaline.

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Yeah.

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So then you go into what's called adrenal fatigue. And when you're in adrenal fatigue, you're literally in fight, flight, freeze or faw, which means you don't have your cognitive capacity and you can't make decisions.

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Mm-Hmm. <affirmative>.

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So to narrow that down and make it really simple, when you are trying to function beyond your energetic, meaning the level of energy you have, capacity, you are telling your body just push through. So then you continue to push through and a woman's body needs rest, it needs more sleep. And what it does to your thyroid is it make, because your thyroid is like, okay, so we're still in fight, fight or freeze. I'm still getting cortisol, we're releasing adrenaline. Ooh, here's a hit of dopamine. Hope you feel better now. Except every time we get a hit of dopamine, we don't get oxytocin. And oxytocin is the bonding hormone, and it's what helps us actually receive the support people are trying to give us.

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I, yeah. Okay. I feel this. It's just where I'm at right now with all the things in my life, because this is the busy April for my family is the busy season. Yeah. My husband works 60 to 80 hours a week. My kids are playing club softball, so that means he

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You're never home <laugh>.

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Yeah. We're never home. I have two kids doing that on top of church, on top of dance, on top of piano lessons. And I'm like, I'm exhausted. And because I can't do what you're saying, cycle with my cycle and rest at least leads to that burnout feeling of like, I can't make another decision. I just need, I just need a day off. You know? And as I've learned, I'm like, so my kids were supposed to go to school today, and two of them stayed home. And I'm like, okay, <laugh>, like, just one more thing. And it's fine. You hear them in the background, it's fine. But I was like, I was gonna take a nap today. You know, I had, I had scheduled in a nap because I knew that I needed that, right? Mm-Hmm. <affirmative> and I, I'll still take a nap. They're old enough where I can, okay. That's

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Literally what I was gonna say. I'm like laid out for you can still have, you can still have a nap, you know that right? <Laugh>? Yes. Yeah.

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Well, my one year old, I have to nap when she's napping. <Laugh>. I can't just, that's

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Bad. Her

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Wild. But you know, but I learned that and I've learned that it's okay to slow down versus most women think I just need to keep pushing. I just need to do more. I need to perform more, I need to see more. And if I was more, then I would have the love and acceptance of all of these other people around me. Mm-Hmm.

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<Affirmative>

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And

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How's that working?

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Yeah. <laugh>,

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How's that going for you? <Laugh>? So from a physiological perspective, women actually need oxytocin. And so the things to help us with that, and I'm gonna talk about the physical part of that. I'm gonna talk about the emotional and mental part of it, the things that a woman needs to create oxytocin, intimacy. So pleasure in the bedroom, but also outside the bedroom, touch without expectation. And so it's really funny because when a group of women get together, you can always tell who the affection depleted are because they touch everybody's arms as they talk to them. <Laugh>

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Interesting.

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They they'll lean, like if you're sitting in chairs, they'll slowly start leaning towards you until they're touching you and they won't even realize that they're touching you because women need physical touch. Physical touch helps us release oxytocin. And oxytocin is the number one needed hormone in women. And dopamine kills oxytocin. So when a woman is task driven, she's pressure driven instead of pleasure driven, she is actually killing the hormone that will help her heal and recover energetically.

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This is so good.

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So when women can look and, and I'm not saying that you sit around your house on the couch like a princess and say, I'm just going into flow. I'm just being in feminine energy. I'm doing nothing now. That's not what I'm saying. I still, I have three children. We homeschool. I have a, a, a multi six figure business with multiple employees. I don't sit on my couch and wait for the universe to deliver beautiful things to my door, <laugh>. But I also look at the list of things I have to do today. And I say, how, okay, here's my first question. What of these do I have to do?

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And of the things that I have to do, how can I make them be done in pleasure instead of pressure? So part of this is, okay, if it's pressure driven, I have to hurry and clean the kitchen. This is the only time I have today to clean the kitchen. I've gotta hurry and get it done. Versus pleasure. I get to clean the kitchen because I am someone who deserves to live in a house that's clean and I now have joy cleaning my kitchen because I am not a slob and I want a clean kitchen. The, the neutral part of this is the dishes can sit because having dirty dishes does not mean anything about whether or not I am a good housekeeper wife or mother. It means I chose to not do dishes right now cuz I'm tired.

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That was a big shift that I had to make a few years ago because I feel like if my kitchen is messy, my entire house is messy. And I used to not be able to go to sleep until all the things were Well, as a mom, all the things never get done. <Laugh>. No. There's always stuff to be, to be doing. And my sleep, I was sleeping. All my kids are joining us now.

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You're good. <Laugh>, I always have kids home <laugh>. Yeah.

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I was sleeping three to four hours a night, and so I was exhausted and it wrecked my hormones, it wrecked my health. It made me a not a very happy, nice person. And so I had to get to the point where you, what you were talking about in that neutral sense where it's like there can be this in my sink, there can be things on my countertop and it doesn't make me a bad person. It doesn't make me a bad man. Someone else. Yeah. My work is infinite and it's for me. And my kids are good.

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So here you're okay. So No, you're good. One of the things that I was gonna say is that one of the reasons why women have this programming, and I'm gonna do a, a really short history lesson, and the very first thing I want to say when I tell this story is that I will never agree that in order to elevate or lift women, we have to push men down. Now with that being said, we have millenniums worth of training and programming and societal expectations about a man's role versus a woman's role. I get that just because that's the expectation doesn't actually mean that it's the good or right thing <laugh>. So

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Yeah, no, I love that.

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When when I say this, no, that I am not saying this to demean men because there were women who did this too. But throughout time you had corrupt, I used that word intentionally, corrupt men and women who learned. If we can make women feel exhausted and burned out, they're easier to control. If women feel that they're worth that their entire identity is based on what they can offer a man, then they're easier to con contain. And when you can contain and control a woman, you can contain and control a society. And so, I mean, even if, even if I don't go into women were property and women couldn't even have their own ba credit card until the 1970s. Leaving all of that aside, when people learned if a woman was in burnout, if she was in pressure and not pleasure, she is controllable. If she is pleasure led, masculine energy thrives on pleasing the feminine. So when a woman is in pleasure led actions, she controls and inspires the people around her. And so a simple way of saying that is when you as a woman who has influence over your children, over your spouse, over your neighbors, over your community, over your church, whoever, if you are a woman who understands that the mere fact that you are a woman, you have influence over others. If you want that influence to inspire and build confidence in others, you take action through what will bring me pleasure, joy, peace, calm, instead of if I do enough, I will one day be enough.

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Yeah. That's so good. And that is something that I think I was raised in a home where like your word was dictated on how much you could produce

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Mm-Hmm. <Affirmative>,

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Right? How much you could do, how much you could contribute what you were doing. And that's been really hard to try to let go of because, but I think the more that I talk to women, the more I'm like, oh you too. You know? Yes. It's like, and we're all walking around looking at other people thinking, wow, they got all their stuff together when they're sitting there feeling the exact same way as we are. And my daughter like <laugh>, these words were not my own words. My daughter was like, I just don't feel like I fit in. And I was like, welcome to being 12. I guarantee all of the other girls on your softball team and your church group and your class, they all feel the same way. And you not feeling like you fit in is going to come within yourself and feel like finding that connection for yourself and not waiting for other people to do it. And I was like, wow, this is not me <laugh> like this is, I mean, it was something that I needed to hear just as much as her, but I think it's important for us to know that we're not alone feeling, feeling like we're alone. <Laugh>. You know,

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My, my oldest is a, an 11 year old girl as well. And when she came to me with that and what you said was beautiful and so true and when you're listening to this on a podcast, people pause, rewind and re-listen to what she just said because it is gold. The other piece to this that I told my daughter was, has it ever occurred to you that maybe you don't fit in just because you were born to stand out and lead?

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Oh, I love that.

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And I think that we try to to teach people yes, you're, you're one of us, which is a beautiful message because women are a, we, we need community, women are gatherers, we're collectors, <laugh>, we want that. But no matter what the group is, and and you can watch this, we want someone who will stand up, stand out and say, here's what we're doing. And she can be inspiring or she can be a not nice person, <laugh>, right? And you either, you either have a group of women that are doing good or you have a group of women who are minions to a corrupt individual.

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So when you talk to your daughter next time she says, I just don't feel like I fit in. Say maybe you don't fit in cuz you're supposed to stand out because you are allowed to be seen. Your words matter and it is safe for you to be heard and everything you ever, everything else you said, and everyone else feels like they're an oddball, everyone else feels like, oh my gosh, I don't fit in. Everyone else has those same, are you kidding me right now? Moments, I mean even as a mom this will sound weird, but when we moved, I live in southern Utah and we moved in the first it like three weeks after going to church. I'm a cosmetologist and or I by, I was a cosmetologist for 20 years and I really enjoyed doing hair. So my eight and six year old boys still get their hair done. And I had four different people come up to me in comparison and say, oh my gosh, your family always looks so put together. I'm so jealous. Which gave me the opportunity to share one of my favorite things. I'm glad you were jealous because jealousy is your spirit trying to tell you you're already a vibrational match for the thing you desire.

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Oh, I love that.

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And which is different than greed or covetness. Like when you're greedy you're like, because I want that. I don't want you to have that. Jealousy is I see that you have that and I want that too. And when you have that feeling, when you look at another woman and you go, oh my gosh, she's beautiful. You are jealous of her beauty because your spirit is trying to say, do you not recognize your beautiful too? You are craving the very thing that you are.

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Would you say like it's a knowing that you're already that beautiful,

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I think

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Like your spirit knowing that or how

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Oh absolutely. Your spirit already knows that your spirit is is the one part of you that's perfect <laugh>. It's why we get so frustrated and we shut her down. Cuz we are like, do you remember this fleshy thing that you're housed in? It cannot do what you just suggested <laugh>. Yeah. Yeah. So, but your spirit is, is there to help you rediscover. You're not becoming anything. If you pull a carrot out of the ground, it's not going to miraculously become an onion because you change its location. You're not becoming anything new. You are just uncovering what other people buried you in. So if you think of yourself as a carrot that just got pulled out of the ground and it's dirty and it has value, even though it has dirt on it already. I mean someone planted that carrot for a reason. They wanted it. So the mere fact that you exist, you're already a desirable person. You're already wanted, you're already good enough. Even with the dirt on you, you still have value because people are like, woo, look at my beautiful carrots. And personal development is about you, you know, getting, getting washed off and discovering I've, I've always been this, I just got buried and forgot. Yeah. Got buried in other people's expectations. Got buried in my own mind chatter.

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So to go back to your original question cause I totally squire No, no

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Problem. That's ok. I don't even remember what my question was. So

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With decision making and with women that are in burnout, it is that will this bring me pleasure and joy and peace or do I feel like I have to do this or I am unworthy of love, acceptance and support because that's a head decision

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And your head is a calculator, your head is a clock, your heart is a compass. And when you ask your heart for a direction, you get it. And when you ask a clock for direction, you get deadlines, you get statistics, you get comparison, and then you're confused. So the best advice that I can give women that's very, very simple that may not be easy for you is what does your heart want you to do today? Because honestly, like one of the things this morning bec and I realize I have the luxury of this cause I homeschool my kids, so we don't have a morning deadline, but all my kids woke up before me, they all crawled in bed with me and we snuggled for like 15 minutes. And they told me about the bike ride they went on yesterday and they told me about the butterfly that they found that was coming out of its chrysalis and they stared at it for an hour and watched the process. And then my six-year-old got bored and I mean we just talked and I started my day with oxytocin and all of a sudden I had a level of energy that seven years ago I prayed for so that I could get out of bed and finish my to-dos.

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Yeah. <Laugh>.

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And, and so that is what my heart wanted in that moment. And my stomach was like, we're hungry. And I was like, that's nice. I'm snuggling my kiddos <laugh>.

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Yes. You can wait for a minute.

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Yeah.

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<Laugh>, I,

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We have access. I love

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That

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We have access to food. I promise you'll get some right now. I want hugs and, and I feel like so many women have been shamed for wanting to follow their heart's desires that now that they're, they're afraid to follow it or they have disappointment. They've said, this is what, and this actually affects the thyra too. They have voiced what they've wanted but they've done it through demand or unexpressed expectations and then they didn't get what they wanted. And so now they have disappointment and they're like, see no one listens to me. They listened. They just didn't hear your message cuz you weren't clear with it.

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Yeah. That is something that I have been learning like more recently cause I've been doing like my own human design and things like that and I'm like, oh this is so good because one of the things, one of my takeaways is I need to voice what I need. Right? I need help or to my husband. How can I expect my husband to know that I need a help if I don't tell him? Right.

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He has no idea.

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He has no idea.

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And it's not cuz he is stupid, it's because he has a different thought process.

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Yes. So I, in recent time I've been walking up to him and be like, I just need a hug and he will stop whatever he's doing and he will hug me and he will hold me. And it's beautiful and it's wonderful and it's exactly what I need, but I have to learn to communicate that with him and with my kids. I told them I needed help watching babies since they decided to stay home. And this is their version of watching the baby <laugh> hanging out with mom. And it's fine because I chose this right? Like I chose to work from home. I chose to be able to be present with my kids when they needed me. And so, well some of it is like, be quiet cuz I can't focus on what I'm thinking. The other part of me is like I love that I have this capability.

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Yeah.

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And as like a, a bigger picture, like this is what I chose and I'm happy with that decision.

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So you just spoken to something without realizing that you've spoken to something. So I wanna go there for just a minute if I can. When we create a story that takes a lot of decision making power <laugh>. And so, and I'm gonna use myself as an example cuz I've been where you are. Like I said, my oldest is 11 and my youngest is six, which means that in my decade long business I birthed, I was pregnant with hg puking my guts out till I popped blood vessels. Imp peed my pants twice. So while building my business, I conceived <laugh> newborn, two of my three children.

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Yeah.

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And at first I would have these experiences where, you know, I would be working on a, with a client on Zoom before Zoom was cool and everyone else was using it and you know, my baby would start crying in the background and I would make a story about, oh my gosh, this is so unprofessional they can hear my baby. Instead of, wow, my baby needs help. I'm gonna tell my client I'll be right back. I've gotta go get my baby. And so the story is what put me into shame and embarrassment because my client, who was also a mom who also had a newborn, was the one that actually had to say to me, you're good if we need to pause by you get your baby. That's what I should have been embarrassed about. The fact that I was so worried about someone else's opinion, <laugh>, that I was neglecting my child. And so I learned a lot from that moment because I went, no, I am never going to let the fear and the story I created in my head about what I think other people are thinking have more power over me than my own heart.

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And, and when women are making decisions and they're, because we're talking about decision making, but there is a physiological response that's happening in a woman's body. And when you make decisions that are things like, how can I increase oxytocin in my day so that I actually have the energy to do my have-tos? Cuz I still think I have to accomplish something in order to be worthy of love. <Laugh>. It's, it's a step-by-step process. Ladies, <laugh>, you won't get there overnight. I'm not gonna try to pretend that you are, but if you can start to say, what can I, how can I feel more love today instead of what can I do to feel more love today? Very different. Yeah. How can I feel more love today? I can walk out to my husband and say, babe, I would love a hug.

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Yeah,

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I can. And most

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Husbands would do it at a drop of a hat. Oh, you wanna hug? Yeah, sure. Like, but they, they don't, if we have this expectation and it's not communicated, how can we hold them to that standard and that that was a mistake that I was doing for a long time and I would get frustrated with him and he is like, but I'm doing everything. You know,

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You're doing all of, you're doing all of my explicit instructions, but what about my implied that you're a man and you didn't even notice <laugh>. Yes,

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<Laugh>, yes. And my, I will say my husband, I know a lot of people say this, my husband is hands down, he has this very special gift of looking around and seeing what needs to be done and doing it. Mm-Hmm. <affirmative> and someti. I used to complain because I'm like, he doesn't, like, why can't he just sit down and give me a hug? Or why can't he sit down and be with me? And that was like, he, his love language is service and so he's like, I'm serving you. I see that the pillow is on the floor and there's dishes in the sink and I am capable of doing it when I know that you've been home all day with the kids running around doing all these extra things. And I can do that. And I'm like, I just need you to be with me <laugh>. You know? So

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But you, I mean that not to turn this into a total relationship, but that's, I mean, I only talk about three things. I talk about bodies, intimacy and money. So <laugh> Yeah. But with your relationship with your husband in his mind, and I think that this is is true for a lot of husbands, they're like, I thought I was helping.

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Yeah.

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I thought I was doing exactly what you needed because we will give love the way we want to receive love and we will only receive the level of love at which we love ourselves. Okay. I'm gonna say that again, <laugh>, we will only receive love from others at the same level of love we give to ourselves. Yeah. And so this is why for me, I, when I was learning to love and appreciate my body, when I actually started accepting body parts that I'd been like, oh, we're just gonna pretend like that's not there. Cause I don't like it. <Laugh>.

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Yeah. Yeah.

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So the first part was I needed to accept my body, then I needed to listen to my body. And then it was very, very easy to love my body. And the more I loved my body, the less I required other people to validate my body. And so, and, and I guess the reason why this is coming up, when you have thyroid issues, you do have weight gain, you do have mood swings, you have all of the physical symptoms that come along with it, that sometimes you feel like my body has betrayed me.

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Yes.

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Your body didn't betray you. Your body functioned at the level of capacity you allowed it to function at. Instead of processing the unexpressed change or unexpected change and expressing how you felt about this change, without shame, without judgment, that's what shut your thigh right down because something happened and you didn't talk about it in truth. Yeah. And so it didn't just shut your throat down, it then shut your heart down. And once your heart gets shut down, your, your solar plexus, which is where we hold confidence, our personal power, that gets shut down. And when your confidence and personal power gets shut down, it shuts down your sacl, which is our creativity, it's our connections, our connection to God, to source to spirit, whatever your word is. And when that is shut down, our root chakra, which is where safety is housed, takes over and everything we do is focused on will I feel safe. This is why when someone else tries to help and they pick up the pillow and you go, thank you for picking up the pillow. And then you immediately go behind him and turn it

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And fluff it and

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<Laugh> and fluff it and, and finish the task. Because if I feel out of control in here, I'm going to try to take mass control of out here.

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Yeah.

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And one of the things that my husband and I learned and that I would love to share is he has become aware of when I am in anxiousness even more than I am aware of it at this point as a defense mechanism, probably, I don't know, <laugh> probably. But when I am sensing and having those moments of anxiousness, he has learned to come up to me, he will ask are, do you want to be touched right now? If I do, then I'll say Yes, please hold me. If I don't, he will actually take a step back because if women have any type of abuse, trauma, proximity doesn't calm them, it exacerbates the fight. Fight freeze.

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Yeah.

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And so I spent six years in a very, very abusive relationship and that is part of the conversation we've had. So he always asks for permission to touch me. The second piece is whether he's touching me or not, he'll look me in the eyes and say, you are safe, I choose you.

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Aww.

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And as silly as that sounds, as I'm freaking out over dishes not being done, that is the core of what if I do enough, then I am enough and I will finally be loved for who I am. So for him to say, and I choose you, all of a sudden the pillow on the, on the floor doesn't matter because that pillow isn't determining whether or not he loves me will protect me or choose me. So if, if there are men listening to this, if you wanna calm your wife down quickly, when she is irrational, look at her and say, I will protect you. I choose you. And the first time you say this, she'll go, what the? What? <laugh>,

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<Laugh>

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Look at her again and say, I am here. I choose you. I will protect you. Because when women feel unsafe, they will protect themselves by any means necessary. So if she is reminded, I am here to protect you, you are safe, I choose you, there is a portion of her brain that will turn back on, which is called rational thinking <laugh>, because now she's safe. So she can connect and because she can connect to you, her sense of personal power and presence comes back and then her heart turns back on and then her voice turns back on and then she'll say something like this thank you

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<Laugh>.

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And you'll know when you turned her back on because this sound will come out. Because she's clearing the pathway. <Laugh>.

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Ah, okay. I'm gonna have to pay attention to when I did that <laugh>.

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And if it is an excitement, it won't be, if it won't be a it'll be a, ah, thanks women express energy through their voice. Men do it through their arms.

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Oh, okay.

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This is why men are always like fist bump hitting their chest. Like they're, it's all about their arms for them and women, it's about our voice. And so when we feel like our words don't matter, no one listens to us. When you are in that place, the best advice that I can give you is when you hear yourself saying, no one ever listens to me. Take a deep breath, go in a room by yourself and ask your body, what are you trying to tell me that I'm not hearing? When a woman feels unheard, it's because she's not listening to her own needs. Period. It's not about the dysfunctionality of the people you live with. It's not about their age, it's not about their attention level, it's not about their gender. If you are constantly feeling unheard, it's because you're not listening to yourself. You're not listening to your intuition, you're not listening to your body.

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Can I, I wanna share something. I don't normally talk about this. I mean I talk about this in my coaching group because it makes sense to them, but I feel like I need to share it now. So one of the big things that I see with my clients is they are not eating enough calories. They're skipping breakfast or skipping lunch or skipping meals. And I'm totally guilty of this. And so we're not, I you're not nurturing yourself even if it's just water, even if it's a meal, what a snack. Like whatever. Or if you are grabbing food, you're grabbing fast, easy, convenient food because I don't have time to, to sit down and eat a meal. I don't have time to sleep. I don't have time to move my body. I don't have time to go sit out in the sun and read a book because, and that is once my women can start prioritizing even just eating a meal and nourishing themselves a little bit more.

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Mm-Hmm. <affirmative>

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Things shift.

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Yes. Because there's a, like I said, I have a background in psychology and there was a, a psychologist named Maslow, and he created Maslow's hierarchy of human needs. And the short version of this pyramid is your brain has a hierarchy of what it focuses on. And if you try to get it to focus on the top of the pyramid, but the bottom of the pyramid has crumbled, it won't. The base of the pyramid is physical, food, water, shelter, breath, temperature reproduction. The next level above that is safety. Routines, rules, consistency, security. That's all safety trust. Then it goes to a sense of belonging. That's connection. That's intimacy. Then it goes to success and, and esteem. These are accomplishments, then it goes to self-actualization. I know who I am and I'm secure in that if your bottom exactly what you just said, if your brain thinks it's dying because your body is hungry, it doesn't care about your goals and it sure doesn't care about your relationship.

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Yeah.

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Because it physically can't focus on it. You. And so by skipping meals, by going into dehydration, by being in sleep deprivation, you are starting your day in fight flight freezer, faw. And it is directly affecting whether or not you can make decisions from a chemical level, from a physiological level. Not even like a, oh, I'm worthy of this decision. I can, I don't have to prove myself. I can have this from a very, very basic, can I make the decision? No, the only thing your brain cares about is whether or not it's going to live. And I just slept for eight hours, <laugh>, I laugh, I just slept for eight hours, <laugh>, I need a drink, I need some food, I need to pee.

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And when you deny your body, it actually inhibits you from connecting to your spirit, from connecting to your heart, from connecting to inspiration. So on a a, a side note to go along with this, when you are creating routines, schedules, patterns, if they deprive your physical needs, your body and your brain will be sabotage. So for example, if you're trying to create a routine around exercise, but in order to exercise when an expert has told you to exercise, so you need to wake up at five o'clock in the morning and exercise. If you are in a constant state of sleep deprivation so that you can exercise that routine will not be sustainable because your brain recognizes that sleep deprivation is killing you. You're not lazy. It's not that you're undedicated or undisciplined, it's that your brain is like, exercise is killing us through sleep deprivation.

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Yeah. <laugh>

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And sleep deprivation. Oh, I've been there. Sleep deprivation is more important than movement and weight loss. And so your brain will say you need to take a nap and you're hitting your snooze button. The other thing this goes back to when I was talking about men versus women. Physiologically most personal development techniques were created to, to make men more masculine because that's their natural state, to be the provider, be the protector. And when you have a woman who follows traditional personal development tactics like a miracle morning, she is being put into a masculine state of provider and protector instead of nurture, healer. And it will make her more tired and overwhelmed faster.

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Yeah.

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So one of the things that I say to my clients is, if you want to have a miracle morning, but five o'clock is too early for you, then don't wake up at five o'clock. And don't shame yourself for not being able to get outta bed on a consistent routine. Because depending on where you are in your cycle, five o'clock could be easy. And then two weeks later you're like, I can barely drag myself out of bed at seven. It's because you have different hormone levels and you need more sleep.

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Yeah.

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Men don't have that monthly cycle. They have a daily one. So I guess with that, stop shaming yourself for not being able to do what the experts have said. Especially since the majority of medical research that has been done about health and fitness was done on test subjects that were male between the ages of 18 and 24. So with the highest levels of testosterone, a man housed throughout his lifetime is when they said, if you wanna exercise and be healthy, this is the routine you should follow. Where for women, that's the fastest way to put you into a cortisol response and get your body to hold estrogen. And when you hold estrogen, you don't release weight.

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Yeah.

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So,

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Yeah. No, this is so good. I could talk to you probably all day long. <Laugh>. and so let's, let's wrap this up. So what is one or two takeaways that you feel like the listeners should have?

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So first start choosing your day through what will bring me joy, pleasure instead of pressure. Because when you make pleasure based decisions, you get a different chemical response than when you make pressure decisions. Secondly, start listening to your body. If you want to feel heard, if you want to feel like you can communicate your needs to others, then you need to honor your own needs. So when you need to go to the bathroom, go to the bathroom when you need to drink, drink water. When you're hungry, eat food. When you are tense, take a deep breath, start honoring your body because you're going to rebuild trust with your body. What this would look like in a day-to-day. Okay, here's what I wanna put into action. In the morning, you can look at your list or you can look around your house and as you make your list in your head of all the things you need to do, as you make your list, pay attention to how your body reacts to the list.

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Wow. So if you're reading your list and your list says, pick up kids from school, and you go, oh, I gotta see my kids. And then you, it says, do laundry and your body goes, don't do laundry that day. You don't have the energy or the capacity to do it. And if you're like, but if I don't do laundry that day, then we won't have any, I'm sure there's at least one other person in your house that can help with laundry and they won't do it the way you would do it, but the task would still be completed. Get back in tune with the language of your body. Does your body feel expanded? That's a yes. Or does it feel contracted? Like death and dismemberment is about to occur. If I have to clean another bathroom, then don't clean a bathroom that day. <Laugh>. And that doesn't make you lazy and that doesn't make that you undeserving of a good life. You're already worthy, you're already deserving, you're already enough. And that will never change.

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I love that. That's so wonderful. Thank you Laurel for being on. I really appreciate it. This was, I feel like this conversation was equally for me, <laugh> as the listeners, just because I'm, I'm, I'm in the grind of some of these things and I, I do know like mentally things will end. I know like when April ends, it's like, oh, okay, now I can rest. You know, now I have the help. And things have actually, okay, this is another side note. Things have actually improved this time with my husband's schedule because I have been able to communicate with him. Like, when we're at softball games, I need you to just sit and be with me <laugh>, you know, like, hold my hand or whatever. Because we're at the baseball fields, like he's just ended a long workday and he wa we've always prioritized the kids, right?

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So normally he'll take them to the park while they're warming up or whatever. And now we stand there together while they play. But we're spending that time together, which is something that I need, which brings our relationship better. But one, it took me a long time to realize what that need was. Mm-Hmm. <Affirmative>. And two, it took me time to figure out how that was going. So even though we're in a busy season for us, things are getting better because I am learning to communicate my means. So, alright. Well thank you guys so much. Oh, and where can people follow you and

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Oh yes. I'm on Instagram and Facebook on Instagram Reflections inside and out. That's also my Facebook page for those that are like, I want to know more about body mapping. I have a free Facebook group, she's gonna put that into the description. But if you go to groups on Facebook and you go to body mapping with Laurel, you'll see my free Facebook group. I've got ton of content in there, <laugh>. So and it, and just to give back. So if that is something that calls you, that you feel like, yeah, I want, I want to learn more about this, then I would love to have you join us.

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Yeah, perfect. Everything will be linked up in the show notes so you guys can go check her out. And thank you so much for being here.

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Thank you.

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(00:00):

Welcome back to the Thriving Thyroid Podcast, where we choose to become empowered patients and take our health into our own hands. Hi, I'm Shannon Hansen, a Christian entrepreneur, a mom of three. And after dealing with my own health mysteries, I made it my mission to learn everything I could about the thyroid. I soon became certified as a holistic wellness practitioner, a functional nutrition practitioner, and a functional diagnostic practitioner. And so much more after that, I founded the Revolutionary Thyroid Program, the method. As a health professional and a mom, I fully understand the importance of having a fun, simple, and sustainable plan for achieving a responsive thyroid. So I share actionable and practical strategies for developing a responsive thyroid so that the ambitious moms and women can gain freedom from fatigue and lose the thyroid weight once and for all. Each week, I will be here for you, along with my guest experts. We will be sharing simple and tangible tips that work for not only your thyroid, your hormones, your family, and your mindset, so that you can get back to living the life that you envisioned for yourself. Welcome to the Thriving Thyroid Podcast.

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All right, you guys. Welcome back to the Thriving Thyroid Podcast with your host Shannon Hanson. I Let's talk about <laugh>, all of the things. So we are gonna be talking about your menstrual cycle, specifically the follicular phase of your menstrual cycle. And this is a phase that I was never taught about, I was never educated on in high school, elementary school, whatever, right? Like when, whenever that process was of people teaching us about taking charge of our hormones. It was, and again, depending on the area, and I know times have changed depending on your education growing up about your menstrual cycle. If it was anything like mine, it was, boys have sperm, girls have eggs, they go together, they make a baby <laugh>. And it, I mean, it was very high level information. And in addition to that, I was taught more abstinence, abstinence from my parents abstinence, because I grew up in a, you know, a little bit more conservative area.

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More or less, it wasn't until I did move to Colorado for a little, a short period of time in high school, and I didn't do their sexual education program, but I heard it was like more than I had ever experienced <laugh> any other time. So, and you know, all of that is okay, and all of that is fine and whatever, and you know, you guys, you do, you and the area that you do is, you know, is great, whatever your beliefs are on that. Like I said, for me and my kids, we are a little bit more conservative. I waited until I was married for those things. But I also grew up in a home that was very open about conversations. Like I never had to be fearful of going to my mom and asking, Hey, I heard this thing at school.

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What is this? You know? And I would get <laugh> the nice clean version of, of things, right? And my parents did a, my mom, it was really my mom. My mom did a great job talking to me about the body, what is normal, what is not normal? And I had my first yeast infection in high school, and I have a really funny story. I won't share that <laugh>, like publicly on the podcast. Actually, maybe I will. Let's do it. Okay. So I, if you guys know, you know, right? Yeast infections, they're very itchy. You're uncomfortable. I'm, I like, it's like, it felt like it came on all the sudden. I've only ever had one yeast infection. So I don't know if this is how all of them are, but it was like, I just could not, like, I would scratch and it would be fine.

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And then it was like right back. And so I went to the bathroom and I was like, whoa, things are <laugh>, not what they're supposed to be down there. And I was trying to get out my mom's attention. I was like, mom, mom, mom. And my mom's on the phone and she's giving me the finger and like, you know, telling me, not the finger, not the middle finger, but like the one minute finger, okay, go away. Like one minute I'm busy, you know, kind of deal. And I was like, mom, I yelled at her and she turns around probably a little annoyed, and I just pulled down my pants and I was like, I don't know what's wrong, <laugh>. And she was like, oh, okay. And sh she was talking to her sister and she was like Denise, I need to go <laugh>. And then we were able to take care of it, and it was all fine, but it was one of those situations, looking back, I laugh about it because I felt comfortable enough <laugh> to like pull down my pants and get, I don't know, maybe a shock and awe from my mom.

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Like, something is wrong, right? And my mom was super great. We were able to take care of it. It was like, it was not a big deal after that. And so, as I've become a practitioner, as I've learned more and more, I'm like, people just don't know this information about their body. And even though I feel like I grew up in a conservative place, I was still taught and educated about my body, and I, I really strive to do the same thing for my kids. My sex talk was very, I don't wanna say like scientific, but it was like, kind of like what I said at the beginning of the podcast. Girls have eggs, boys have sperm, you know, they come together and whatever. And, and I knew enough <laugh> that I could put some pieces together, right? And I don't know if my mom went into detail, I was just sitting there thinking, oh my gosh, what is this conversation?

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I don't wanna have it. And you know, as I've grown up, I'm like, I'm so grateful for that. I really like looking at this situation now. I'm so grateful for that. And my kids have had <laugh> a very similar conversation, but they, my kids have also grown up with animals. And so some of that, that conversation has been taken care of. Anyways, that's a long <laugh>, a long introduction. We are gonna be talking about the follicular phase because I think it's really important that we begin to understand what our body is doing and begin to understand how we can take charge of our menstrual cycle and fertility and hormones and all of these different things. So as a reminder, even if you are postpartum, not postpartum, oh my goodness, well, I guess postpartum them too. But if you have gone through menopause or you're going through menopause, you still have the same hormonal fluctuations.

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The result of having a menstrual cycle is what changes, right? But you still have the rise and fall of hormones and, and everything just like if you were having a menstrual cycle, okay? And this is something that I don't think I even realized as a practitioner for a while, that it's the same <laugh>. Everybody is like, well, you know, when you go through menopause, what happens? Well, I don't have a period anymore. Yay, that's wonderful. But I, anyways so I really try to drive that home with my ladies is I'm like, you still have hormonal fluctuations. Just because <laugh>, you're not having a menstrual cycle, doesn't mean that there's not changes to your hormones. You were biologically designed to have these hormonal changes. So after you have your menstrual cycle, you complete your menstrual cycle, you go into what is called the follicular phase, which is technically the first phase of the menstrual cycle.

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This period of time approximately lasts 10 to 14 days. And during this time, the body is preparing for pregnancy by increasing the production of hormones that are helping to develop the ovarian molecules which contain the eggs. So if you are trying to prepare for baby, this is a great time to nourish your body in helping this process along. Okay? We'll get into some food here later, <laugh> towards the end. But at the beginning of the follicular phase, levels of follicular stimulating hormone, fs h rises, FSH is produced by the pituitary gland, is a cri and is a critical part in development of the molecules in the ovaries. So I want to point this out, you guys, the pituitary gland is the same gland in the body that makes thyroid hormone. So if you're having issues with T s h, you're also most likely having issues with F S h, which is why so many people struggle with fertility when they also have thyroid.

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Okay? So the, the follicular, the follicles <laugh> contain mature eggs and the FSH levels increase, and the molecules, molecules, that sounds so weird when I say that, begin to grow and mature, okay? And as the molecules mature, they produce estrogen in the body. And that is a hormone that is responsible for thickening the lining of the uterus. And this is essential for the implantation of the fertilized egg, right? And the estrogen levels rise, they signal the pituitary, okay? So that, again, that gland in the bra or at the base of the brain, that makes ts h to it, the, the pituitary gland signals for it to decrease the production of F S H F S H, which helps to prevent multiple eggs from maturing at once. Okay? So I wanna pause here for just a quick second. So many of the women that I work with have what is called estrogen dominance.

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Estrogen dominance causes heavy menstrual cycles. It causes breast tenderness, it causes a lot of cramping the mood swings or the irritability before your cycle, before your cycle and things. So if that, there's two different kinds of estrogen dominance. One being estrogen is really high. So it's like true estrogen dominance, or, or, and this is where everybody's like, oh, look at the panels. Oh, everything's normal, you're fine. When we look at the estrogen to progesterone ratio, so estrogen could be quote unquote normal progesterone could be quote unquote normal. However, if the ratio, if you're on the high end of estrogen and the low end of progesterone, you have estrogen dominance, this is going to make it difficult for fertility. This is going to make it difficult around your menstrual cycle. Your husband's gonna wanna move out <laugh> during that ti during that time.

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And so it's really, really important that we are supporting hormones. So that, and, and as a result, your pituitary glands, so that not only are, do you have good fertility, but you also have good, strong relationships, and you're also helping with T s h production for your thyroid. Okay? So the dominant molecule that like has grown, continues to grow, and it approaches that maturity, okay? During that 10 to 14 day window, and it produces even more estrogen. And the high levels of estrogen trigger this surge in lutin hormone called lh, which causes a mature molecule to release the egg. And, and this process is known as ovulation. And we're gonna dive into ovulation a little bit later in some of the future episodes. But we're gonna, we're gonna touch on it because how do you talk about the cycle without talking about other parts of it, right?

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So after ovulation, the molecule, the follicular phase ends, and that's when the ltil phase begins. And if the egg isn't fertilized or if the egg is fertilized, it will implant in the thickened uterine lining and then pregnancy starts. And if the egg isn't fertilized, then we all know what happens. We start having our menstrual cycle, and then we start this <laugh>, we start the cycle all over again. So I wanna give you a couple examples of some women that I've worked with. Not only do they have thyroid issues, one of 'em has P C O S, and one of them has endometriosis. So when it comes to, so the first story that I'm gonna share with you, her name was Stephanie. Stephanie had been struggling with irregular cycles and fertility issues for years, and she was diagnosed with P C O S or polycystic ovarian syndrome and Hashimotos.

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So after working with my team, we were really focusing on the thyroid, nourishing her body, and just supporting her body for a possibility of becoming pregnant. Okay? And what we did is we really focused on lifestyle changes. So things like her food, her nutrition making sure that she was exercising and that her, her cycles started to regulate, and it did take some time. But one of the things that we, or a couple of the things that we addressed with her is vitamin and mineral deficiencies. So there are a ton of women and men too that are deficient in minerals, and this can impact the body's ability to produce hormones and develop quality egg and sperm for the con the conception of babies. So we really worked on addressing that. The second component of this was balancing blood sugar. You guys, this is huge.

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This is a really big issue when it comes to P C O S. So when our blood sugar is off, it can drastically increase inflammation and downgrade or deregulate the ovulation hormone and sperm, sperm and egg quality. So it's really important that you are working closely with someone to help understand how your body reacts to certain kinds of foods and what they do. And we really, for her, for Stephanie, we focus on individualized nutrition plans that were specific to her nutritional needs, okay? Balancing her blood glucose levels, things like that. Then we also looked at those toxic, toxic burden or harmful chemicals and pollutants and things that she was being exposed to on a daily basis, because this can also increase oxidative stress that is damaging our mitochondria and reduces egg quality. So we really wanted to also focus on proper antioxidants for her and healthy, making sure that she had a healthy detoxification system in order to address this.

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And then, of course, last but not least, how do you, how do you do all this without talking about gut health, right? So not eating the right foods for your body or inflammatory foods can cause that chronic immune reaction and an inflamed gut lining. And so we, we really made sure that her digestive system was working super optimally during that time. And you wanna know what happened after changing her diet, eating a little bit better, regulating her cycle, she eventually was able to become pregnant and gave birth to a little boy. So I'm not telling you that this is like, oh, this is gonna happen in three months. No, this was a long-term game for her. She came to us after she had already done and made a lot of changes, but with the testing that we do and some coaching and things, we were able to just hone it in a little bit more.

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And she did work with me for a little over a year <laugh> before getting, getting that little baby boy. So just so you guys know, if this is something that you're struggling with, it's not an overnight thing. And there are, we have a lot of fertility people on the podcast, so if you want go, go back and check out some of their episodes. I know crystal Melanson, I think I'm saying it right, crystal with a c crystal, Melenson dot, cnn, or ccn, that's what it is on Instagram. She is a natural fertility practitioner. You guys can go check her out. She's phenomenal. She's been on the podcast in one of the, the early episodes. And so if that's something that you are looking for, go check her out. Okay? So another woman that I was working with she was experiencing hormonal issues, right?

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She had been having heavy periods painful periods for years, and was finally diagnosed with endometriosis, along with her thyroid. And actually, I think she was like maybe diagnosed a week or two after starting with us, or like right before, I can't, I can't remember the timeline. But after implementing the changes that we talked about with Stephanie, then she also started, things started to improve for her. So after making the changes, reducing stress, eliminating certain foods from her diet, and using some herbal teas, some herbal remedies supplements and things like that, we were able to reduce her symptoms and improve her menstrual cycle. And she also saw improvements with her fertility. She didn't get pregnant, but when she was, you know, testing her ovulation on the little stickies, they were doing much better. And you know, I'm, unfortunately, I don't know what happened if they got pregnant or not, but her cycles definitely did start to clear up.

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So the follicular phase is really a essential component to our fertility because it is the time when the body is preparing to release the egg from the fertilization. So for couples that are trying to conceive, understanding this follicular phase and tracking ovulation is really a critical part in increasing your chances of ovulation. So ovulation occurs during the follicular phase, okay? And typically around day 14 of your 28 day cycle. So however, the time can vary from woman to woman. And there is a window <laugh> a couple days before and a couple days after that you could potentially get pregnant. So for this reason, tracking ovulation is really essential in knowing when the best time to conceive is. And you can do this, you guys, one of my favorite apps is flow. I track my cycle on there every time. And then there was a period of time where I was also tracking my basil temperature every morning.

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That did get really difficult <laugh> for me for a while, just because you ha, i I just wake up and I like hit the ground running, right? <Laugh>, and you're not supposed to do that. You're supposed to like take your temperature before you even get out of bed. Anyways. So that can be really important for you guys. So there are various ways of tracking ovulation, iCLU, including using ovulation predictor kits or tracking your basal temperature, which we talked about monitoring cervical fluid changes and charting your menstrual cycle. So by charting ovulation, couples can really identify that fertile window, which is the time during which they're most likely deceive conceive, okay? So that fertile window typically lasts around six days, right? Couple days before, couple days after starting five days before ovulation and ending on the day of ovulation. So timing, intercourse during that window can also increase the chances of the sperm, meaning the egg and fertilizing.

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So in many ways, tracking ovulation is like planning a trip. You guys, just as one needs to plan a trip and prepare for the trip to ensure it's successful and enjoyable, tracking ovulation requires preparation and timing to increase the likelihood of conception. So, for example, just as one would research the best time to travel to the destination to avoid bad weather or crowds or couples or, you know, not couples, <laugh> couples can research and track their ovulation to help support that, that conception of things. So we also wanna be making sure that we're packing the right gear for that trip, okay? And how do we do that? We do that by eating a nutrient dense diet, supporting our stress levels and supporting in supporting our fertility. So I want to just quickly talk about some of the things that I recommend for my clients to do.

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So during this follicular phase. Number one, we need to understand that our hormones are beginning to rise, okay? The second thing, you're gonna notice that you have more energy during this time. So the movement that you're doing, the exercises that you're doing should be like, upbeat. So things like Zumba or cardio or dancing or like movement, like it should be so fun, <laugh>. Okay? The second part of this is fresh fruit or fresh food that is fresh food that is very colorful and vibrant and light. Things like fermented food and lean protein and beans, sprouts and seeds and things. Because think about it this way too. You are preparing your body, you're preparing your seeds, okay? Even if you're not trying to have a baby <laugh>, I know we talked a lot about having a baby, but even if you're not trying to have a baby, you want to support your body in such a way that those seeds are developing optimally.

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And we do that through other seeds, okay? So pumpkin seeds, sesame seeds sunflower seeds, all of those seeds, <laugh>, okay? S sprouted seeds, right? Like yeah, s sprouted seeds like broccoli sprouts or alfalfa sprouts or microgreens or, or things like that. Just like think of those things that are starting new life <laugh>. I don't know how else to say that. And just very vibrant and fresh in their color and in their texture and, and all of those things to help with the follicular phase. All right, you guys, I talked to you for a long time today, <laugh>. I hope you got a lot of value out of today's episode. And if you did, I would love for you to share this on Instagram or come and say hello. And I want to also invite you before getting off to our masterclass that I'm having on Friday, it is totally free.

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If you register, I will send the replay link or you can attend live. It is, I'm not gonna do all of the math <laugh>. It is 1230 on Friday, May 12th, we will be going over three overlooked secrets that is blocking your thyroid from working. We're gonna be talking about food, we're gonna be talking about medication. It is honestly packed. I have so many clients who have said, I learned more in this 60 minutes about my hormones and my thyroid than I have in 10 years working with my doctor. So the class is very, very valuable. Head over to the show notes, get registered, and I will see you guys on the next way

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150// 3 Steps to Reversing Hashimoto’s with Dr. Anshul G.

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Dr. Anshul Gupta is a best-selling author, speaker, researcher, and the world expert in Hashimoto’s disease. He educates people worldwide on reversing Hashimoto’s disease. He is a Board-Certified Family Medicine Physician, with advanced certification in Functional Medicine, Peptide therapy, and also Fellowship trained in Integrative Medicine. He has worked at the prestigious Cleveland Clinic Department of Functional Medicine alongside Dr. Mark Hyman. He has helped thousands of patients to reverse their health issues by using the concepts of functional medicine.

 

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Welcome back to the Thriving Thyroid Podcast, where we choose to become empowered patients and take our health into our own hands. Hi, I'm Shannon Hansen, a Christian entrepreneur, a mom of three. And after dealing with my own health mysteries, I made it my mission to learn everything I could about the thyroid. I soon became certified as a holistic wellness practitioner, a functional nutrition practitioner, and a functional diagnostic practitioner, and so much more After that, I founded the Revolutionary Thyroid Program, the method. As a health professional and a mom, I fully understand the importance of having a fun, simple, and sustainable plan for achieving a responsive thyroid. So I share actionable and practical strategies for developing a responsive thyroid so that the ambitious moms and women can gain freedom from fatigue and lose the thyroid weight once and for all. Each week I will be here for you, along with my guest experts. We will be sharing simple and tangible tips that work for not only your thyroid, your hormones, your family, and your mindset, so that you can get back to living the life that you envisioned for yourself. Welcome to the Thriving Thyroid Podcast.

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All right, you guys. Welcome back to the Thriving Thyroid Podcast. I have Dr. G and he's gonna tell you his name and how to say it the right way. <Laugh>. So welcome.

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Thank you so much, Shannon. You know, your podcast is amazing. You're doing great work of helping so many women in need, so thank you so much for doing it. My full name is Dr. An Gupta, so you did a great job. Lot of my A clients, my patients, and my staff calls me Dr. G. So you did a great job of doing that.

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Yeah, I love that. Well thank you so much for being on. Why don't you, let's just kind of dive into how did you get started working with Hashimotos?

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Yeah, so actually like my journey starts with, you know, after doing my family medicine residency, I was working in a private clinic and just few years into my practice I was having a lot of health troubles. I started feeling tired or fatigued. I was gaining weight even though I did not change anything in my diet or my lifestyle, I was having this horrible stomach pain and it, it'll hit me just randomly at times and I was trying to take medicines for it. It was not working. I was having brain fog issues, like to the point that, you know, after I, I was done with the clinic, I was not able to concentrate on anything else. I was kind of having mood changes, you know, a lot of different problems were creeping into my life and I tried to solve them myself because being a physician, I thought I'm smart enough to doing it.

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So I started taking medications. Nothing worked, of course, yeah. And then I thought, well, I'm not smart enough. Maybe let me go to these specialists who can help me out. And I went to specialists after specialists that did a whole bunch of testing, endoscopies, colonoscopies, ultrasounds, blood work, everything was normal. They added more medications into my medical regimen, nothing worked. At one point they were telling me that maybe it's just in my head that I was too depressed or I was just too anxious or too stressed out. Being in being a new physician. And I was like, I have done this for a while. I don't think that's an issue. There is something else going on. I was just 32 years of age and I had no hope of getting better. I didn't knew what to do. That's where I found functional medicine. I heard stories how functional medicine can help people heal their root cause and get their life back.

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I got certified into functional medicine, applied the protocol into my own life. I found my root causes of my issues and then made a step-wise plan, which focused on diet changes, taking certain supplements, working on my stress reduction techniques, exercising techniques, and within one month amazing result. My complete stomach pain was gone. Within six months I lost 40 pounds. I was off all medications. My mental clarity was amazing. My energy was so high that I was able to participate in a 5K rugged maniac and I was never an esthetic person. So for me to do that was a big thing. Now, when I saw those amazing results, you know, I started thinking that I need to see people and help them out in this functional medicine model of care. I started working at the Cleveland Clinic Functional Medicine Department along with Dr. Mark Hyman. And then I suddenly I saw that, you know, a lot of females, middle-aged females were coming to see me with similar symptoms.

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Yeah, they were all gaining weight, they were having fatigue or tiredness issues, they were having brain fog issues and one thing was common. They all had thyroid problems. They all were taking medications, doing what the doctors were telling them to do, but still not getting better. That's where I decided I need to do research into why they're feeling this way and I need to help them out. So that's where my research led me into my three step process, which, you know, I have discussed in my bestselling book Reversing Hashimotos, that way I help people identify their root causes and help reverse people Hashimotos <inaudible> so they can get their life back.

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I, I love that and I love when practitioners have their own story associated with like Hashimoto's or gut health or whatever, because I think it makes us a little bit more empathetic for someone that we're working with and say, oh yeah, I totally know what you're, what you're experiencing. So that's great. Can you explain what Hashimoto's is and how that affects the thyroid gland?

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Absolutely. So Hashimoto's disease is an autoimmune condition of the thyroid gland. What that means is that, you know, like the body starts producing antibodies, which starts destroying the thyroid gland in a very slow fashion. And ultimately when the thyroid gland is destroyed to the point it is not able to cope up with the demand of the body of the thyroid hormone, then it leads to low thyroid conditional hypothyroidism. Now, most females or most people actually do not know that the number one reason of thyroid condition or hypothyroidism in world is Hashimoto's disease. And the worst part is this. Most females have never been checked for Hashimoto's disease. So they just have been told that they have a thyroid condition and you have to take this medicine. But they have never been told why, what kind of thyroid condition they have. And the reality is that they have Hashimoto's disease, which is an autoimmune condition, not just one day. The thyroid decided that, okay, well I'm not going to produce enough thyroid hormone for your body. That doesn't happen. There has to be a reason in Hashimoto's disease is the number one disease which is affecting thyroid gland currently.

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Yeah, I was just reading like a report the other day that says LEVOTHYROXIN is the number one medication prescribed in the us. So if that doesn't tell you something <laugh> there, there's definitely an an issue with that. So how, I mean, I guess that's perfect way to second way segue into this is how common is Hashimoto's and who is at the most risk for that?

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So Hashimoto's disease is the most common autoimmune condition in the world currently. Okay. So that's first thing. The statistics are staggering. You know, like we don't even know the exact number of Hashimoto's disease patient because most of them have not been checked for Hashimotos. But even people who have been checked AF currently are at least 14 million people who have been diagnosed with Hashimotos in United States alone. And the most common people who have been kind of diagnosed with Hashimotos are middle-aged females, you know, which are between 30 to 60 years of age. But the statistics now show that females which are even younger, are being diagnosed with Hashimotos. Even males are being diagnosed with Hashimotos and even children are also getting affected with this. So this is kind of a current epidemic that we are going through, which is Hashimotos and we don't even know the complete extent of how many people are being affected.

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Yeah, yeah. Do you, have you seen any research as to like why this is a growing issue amongst, I mean everybody?

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Yeah, so what I've figured out is that there are definitely root causes, you know, and our environment is particularly has changed a lot, which affects autoimmune diseases. So the research suggests that, you know, Hashimotos happens between because of interplay between a person's genetic pool and the environment around it. Now our genetic pool doesn't change very quickly, but our environment has changed very quickly, whether it being the food that we eat currently, whether it's G M O, whether it is genetically modified, the way it has been grown, or the amount of toxins which has been poured into our environment, you know, every day we are having new and new toxins which are being poured, which directly affects the thyroid gland. And then plus, you know, like we have different kind of stressors which we are going through each and every day. You know, there is something happening around us in the world. So we all are stressed out. The current lifestyle that we are living in, you know, with all the pressures, especially females go through so much pressures, taking care of their family, taking care of their kids, taking care of their parents, you know, and then sometime they're even working. All of that pressures and all of that stress again leads to triggering of Hashimotos. So I think this all environment things which have been changing, has been leading to more and more Hashimoto's disease.

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Yeah, yeah. And so I just wanna summarize. So our environment, what we're eating and then stressors, daily stressors, lowering immune system, burning up minerals, burning up nutrients that are important for our body. So let's, I wanna transition and go into like your three step process, cuz I know that that includes lifestyle, nutrition, all of that. So let's walk through what, first of all, what are those three steps? And then, then we can kind of break them down a little bit further and have you explain,

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Right. So the three steps, you know, I've tried to make them as simple as possible for people. So the very first step is identifying the root cause because until we roll the root cause or causes of a particular person, we cannot reverse Hashimotos or cannot help them out. So I've identified five major categories of root causes, which causes Hashimoto sea. The very first category is food sensitive teeth. Our food has been changing a lot and each and every person, you know, reacts to certain kinds of food research have shown that certain foods leads to triggering of Hashimoto. So we need to identify what foods are causing trouble for that person. The second is nutritional deficiencies. You know, our bodies are low in certain vitamins and minerals. Your thyroid needs certain vitamin minerals to completely function properly. And most people with Hashimoto disease have low levels of those vitamins and minerals.

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And we need to know which vitamins and minerals are low so we can fix them. The third thing as we discuss is stressors. What kind of stressors that person has gone through. We see it very, very oftenly that females who have either gone through pregnancies or you know, like you know, have gone through menopause or having a bad relationship, they certainly have Hashimoto's disease. So stress leads to Hashimoto's disease and we need to identify what kind of stress then comes toxins, you know, like their toxins, which are heavy metals like leadin, mercury, then their toxins like mold toxins. Then their environmental toxins. We need to identify what kind of toxins are present so that we can remove them. And the last one is the infections. The infections like viral infections like Epstein bar virus, we know that that leads to Hashimotos. Certain kind of parasites in the gut can lead to Hashimotos.

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Then there are certain other chronic infections like Lyme disease and barella and baia, they can again lead to Hashimotos. So these are the main five big categories of root causes that we need to identify for a person. The important aspect over here is that most people think that they only have one root cause and they're trying to find that one root cause. And most people have more than two or three root causes, which are playing a role in Hashimoto seed. So this is where need to work with a professional who understand this root cause approach, because the regular doctors will not have no idea about root causes. They will not be able to identify or help you to order these advanced tests to look for these root causes. Yes, but very important in the very first step to identify the root cause in the next step.

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The second step is we start fixing these root causes and fixing the thyroid that has been destroyed in that aspect. You know, we have this specific diet which is called the Mith Thyroid Diet because in Hashimoto's patients, not only the thyroid is being destroyed, their mitochondria is also being destroyed. So this diet focusing on healing both the thyroid and the mitochondria. And along with that, you know, there are certain supplements which support the thyroid and the mitochondria to help them function during this second step. The third step is basically removing the toxicities. You know, all the toxicity we spoke about, whether those are the toxins, whether those are chronic infections or whether those are those chronic stressors that persons are dealing with. We work on removing those toxicities so the body can function better and you know, like thyroid functions better than the Hashimotos gets better love. So those are the, I love that three steps person has to go through love.

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Yeah, perfect. I love that. I love that it's including you know, finding out like why <laugh> why you're here. And I do tell some of my clients and stuff, I'm like, we may not find everything that has triggered all of these because for them sometimes they just don't know that something is important to tell me. Like, I ha I've worked with one client for like a year and a half and then she finally told me this thing and I was like, why didn't you tell me that a year ago? And she's like, I didn't know that it was related, you know? So I think that that's really important when you guys are working with practitioners and doctors, whoever, like tell them everything, whether you think it's connected or not, like, you know, it could be, it could help us identify some of the things in there.

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Food sensitivities, I'm seeing that a lot. Mineral nutrition deficiencies. Also seeing that a lot with the work that I do. And then nutrition, I think one of the big, I'm gonna call it a mistake, and maybe that's not the right word. A big mistake that conventional medicine is doing is missing or overlooking the importance of nutrition. They come from a long line of doctors and practitioners and they all told me all of their nutrition courses, and maybe this was true for you when you were going through medical school. They were like, we crammed that in with all of like the really hard things because we knew that that nutrition class was gonna be like an easy pass. So they, they strategically planned their classes to, to put in nutrition with other things because it was gonna be an easier class. I don't know, was that true for you as well or?

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Absolutely yes. You know, like, you know, being a physicians or being, you know, like, you know, new training doctors, you're just looking forward to kind of, you know, like diagnosing those chronic or like, you know, those rare diseases and then trying to figure out how is the quick fix by finding the right medicine for it, right? So in the medical schools, a lot of times, you know, it is nobody's talking about the physiology or the biochemistry of a particular disease or how we can actually reverse them by working on the physiology aspect of things. And medicines most of the time do not work over there. They are kind of actually working at just putting a bandaid, you know, of making that person feel better. And nutrition is great. We know that food is medicine, so certainly we can heal a lot of these chronic diseases through food, but we need to know the right diet and the right food, right?

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Because as you were mentioning, a lot of convention doctors say, well, eat whatever you like and if you want to eat McDonald's, if you want to eat Burger Kings, if you want to eat fried food, process food, go ahead and eat. Doesn't matter, just live your life. Right? But you and me know that there is good amount of research suggesting that all these foods which are high end transfers, which are much more processed, definitely her thyroid definitely causes Hashimoto's disease. So they needs to be removed and we need to eat real food, vegetables, fruits, you know, good quality protein, good quality fats, all those things needs to be a part of a person who, Hashimoto's or thyroid condition for them to get better. Unless we make those changes, you know, things are not going to get better, right? So food definitely has an impact. Food can actually make changes to your genetic material. People don't even know that that food has so much power. Food carries information all the way to your genes. So by doing right things with your food, you can actually change your genetic makeup, which is not going to only help you but whole will going to help you with your future generations, you know, which is going to have better genetic poo.

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Yeah, yeah. And I love that. So one of the things that like really stood out to me many years ago when I was learning about herbal medicine and nutrition and everything was they talked about how, okay, so this is like, I feel like it's kind of hard to explain. So when I'm pregnant with my daughter, I'm carrying not only my daughter, but I'm carrying like her eggs, right? Because all of her sexual organs have been developed and she has all of her eggs and whatever. So the things that I'm eating and the things that I'm doing and taking care of myself are not just impacting me, it's impacting my daughter and my grandchildren. And when I learned that, I was like, cuz I have four girls. And so I'm like, oh my gosh, this is really important what we're doing. And you know, I I recently told my husband, I was like, we're not going out to eat as much.

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I mean, we've never been people that go out to eat a lot, but I was like, I'm buying more higher quality of ingredients and learning to cook some of those things that we go out to eat. And you know, because we're like, oh yeah, we, we enjoy whatever it is and I'm learning to make it at home and, and making those substitutions. And honestly like my family is so much happier with the way that it tastes, the way that our stomach is sitting, all of those different things. And so I really love that you, you brought up the importance of one real food and how our food is changing our genetic makeup. And I mean, I think most of the women that I work with are kind of out of childbearers, but they have kids that they can talk to, hey, like focus on good whole healthy foods. So I love that so much. What, let's kind of wrap this up. What is one other thing, well let me ask this, ask it this way. If someone is wanting to get started restoring like thyroid function, what is the one thing that you would suggest they start with? I

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Think obviously the couple of things that I will say that, you know, they should be focusing on as we discuss food is definitely the first priority of anybody that they should be focusing on in that aspect. Removing the food which are bad for your thyroid, which is gluten, dairy, soy, corn, sugars, processed food, processed meats, just throw them outta the window. Those are not going to be helpful. Those are not real foods, they're not adding any nutritional value to your life. Just throw them out and then include real foods as you discuss green leafy vegetables, colorful vegetables in your diet, great fruits, you know, good quality proteins, chicken, fish, Turkey, you know, good quality fats, avocados, nuts and seeds. All those things should be part of your life that is going to help you heal your thyroid. So that's the first important thing that is not only going to be helpful for you, but for your whole family.

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Whether it's your husband, whether it's your kids, anything. When people start working with us, not only the client that we are working with gets better, their whole family certainly starts seeing a change. Their, you know, like husbands sometimes lose 20 pounds or husband has issues with their gut and suddenly he feel that he's going more regular to the restroom or their kids, you know, who have been having trouble or challenges with a D H D not able to focus at the school and suddenly like, you know, they're getting great grades, they're able to focus on things just with these simple changes, you're not only changing your life, you're changing the life of other people around you. So I think food is definitely number one. And second one is also toxins. I believe we are putting too much chemicals in our body and it is very important, I will not suggest anybody to doing a detox protocol on their own, but what I'm suggesting is reducing the burden of toxins that you are being exposed to on our everyday basis.

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We know that females love to do makeup and they use a lot of body products every day. And again, I'm not suggesting that females should stop doing it, my wife does it, you know, like my mother, you know, like loses body products. But people do not know that how many toxins are present in these regular body products they're using. Yes, but there is alternatives. You can use body products which are free with toxins. There is a organization called Environmental Working Group. They have a great app of e wg.org. You can actually look for safe makeups, lipsticks, or any of the body products you can use over there. So that's first thing. The second of all is that food that you are buying try to buy organic as much as possible or locally grown as much as possible so that again, the amount of chemicals or toxins which are present over there that you're getting exposed to will be less and less.

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The third thing is cleaning products. Cleaning products. Each and every female, you know, like is buying tons of cleaning products to keep their home neat and clean and also free from all these bacteria and viruses. But what they don't realize is that those cleaning products are adding to the chemical burden of their house. Again, using simple cleaning products, you know, which are free from chemicals, which, you know, have natural ingredients in them. They still do the job and you know, like will be chemical free. So these are simple things that people, females can do that will help them to lower the burden of toxins because time and again, each and every thyroid patients I'm seeing their body is overburdened with toxins. So a lot of people are going after doing these detox protocols, which they are buying online or doing it on their own and getting even worse. I suggest them first. Why not start with lowering the burden of toxins in your body and then working with a professional, you know, like who is expert into a detox protocol, who can safely help your body to get rid of those toxins will be the next step. But first step you can just take on on your own by helping remove or helping lowering the burden of toxins in your body.

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Yeah, I love that. I love reducing the burden of toxins. I maybe you would disagree. Maybe you have a different area. One of the places that I tell my clients to start with is start with your laundry room. You know, get rid of the dryer sheets, get rid of like all the flavors and smells and everything. And start, I mean, wool dryer balls. Like there's ways to make your laundry smell good that don't involve the fragrances and the chemicals and stuff because that one room is going throughout your entire house. You're sleeping on them, you're putting them on your clothes. I don't know, do you have, do you have a different area that you tell them to start with or?

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No, I think that's a great, you know, like point, you know, like absolutely like, you know, laundry detergents and then laundry sheets and then you know, like fragrances that people are using. Absolutely. That's a great way to start with, you know, doing things, you know, but the, the makeup, you know, and the body products that a lot of females use, you know, there was a recess study done like it was shown that a female before she leaves their home in the morning, they use more than 200 products on their skin before they leave their house on an average. That's the amount of products that, you know, females are using. So just imagine, and people think, and a lot of emails don't even know that skin is the biggest organ of our body and we can absorb things from what we're you are putting on the skin.

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So all that chemicals which are, which is high in lead mercury, high in pesticides, high in arsenic, high in a whole bunch of other chemicals gets directly absorbed from the skin into your bloodstream. And thyroid is like a sponge. Yeah. All of the chemicals directly goes to the thyroid and gets deposited over there. So it might be very small amount of the chemical, but because you're putting them each and every day and on your body and your skin is directly slowly and slowly builds up in your system and suddenly one day your throid is toxic.

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Yeah, I will say when I switched to natural medic natural medicine natural makeup a few years ago, I did notice that like, and not that you probably experienced this too much with all the makeup you wear, I'm just kidding <laugh>. But I was using makeup to cover some of like the hyperpigmentation that I had from acne and things like that. But when I switched over to more natural, clean, safe products, I didn't have to wear the same level of makeup that I did before because it actually instated healing. And that was my biggest fear with transitioning to like a natural makeup was I can't cover up some of these other issues that I was having. So totally. I I'm on board. I know makeup for women can be a little scary cuz I was, I was in that category <laugh>, it's like I found what worked for me and I didn't want to, didn't wanna, you know, shift to that. But so tell us where you c people can find your book reversing Hashimotos.

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Yeah, so I wrote this book Reversing Hashimotos, my three step process that will going to help, you know, like females with improving their Hashimotos, get their life back. The book is easily available on Amazon, you know, very easy name reversing Hashimotos, you know, they can find it very easy read. The good part is that this is a research based book. So I have tons of references behind in the book, more than one 60 references, scientific re references to base the book on and very easy read so that you know, a common person can understand what is happening with their body, what is happening with their Hashimotos, and it gives them a message or a hope or a plan of reversing it. It discusses the three steps that we discuss. It even has certain questions that people can answer over there that'll help them to identify their root causes also.

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Awesome. So instead of like spending thousands of dollars towards, you know, like on the testing this book, you know, have these questionnaires that might be helpful to help them identify what certain root causes they might be dealing with. Talks about the diet and the supplements and you know, other things that we discussed about that can be very helpful for people. The biggest thing is that this is, this book has a message. It gives them hope to each and every Hashimotos patients that their life doesn't have to be identified with Hashimotos. They have a hope to reverse it. They have a hope to get better and not get limited by taking this medicine for lifelong and they can get a life free from Hashimotos and get their and live their life to the fullest.

(29:03):

I love that. A message of hope. So you said they can find it on Amazon and where can they find you online and like social media and stuff?

(29:14):

Yeah, so mean I share a lot of information for people who are interested in knowing more about THD and Hashimotos in various ways. So I have a very active blog, which is present on my website, which is unsure gupta md.com. If you allow to read, you know, about Hashimotos or thd, they can do it. I'm also on social media, on Instagram even I have YouTube channels people who like want to watch to watch small videos. My handle is Un Gupta MD over there. And again, you know, I am sharing scientific based information on Instagram and YouTube where people can follow with us. We even have a telemedicine functional medicine practice, so people who want to work with us one-to-one, they can now get an online consultation with us wherever they are in the country. Again, they can go on our website, call lunch gupta md.com and they can find more information over there.

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Perfect. Well everything will be linked up in the show notes for our listeners and we really appreciate having you on Dr. G. I feel like I learned a few things, took some notes and I, I love that it's simple. I love three steps, you know, very simple, very easy to follow. And so I know that the listeners will really appreciate it. So thank you for being on today.

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It's my pleasure. Thank you so much for having me over here again. You're doing great work and so I'm really privileged to be here and share this great information with your listeners.

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Yeah, absolutely. All right you guys, we will see you on the next

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149// A Bloody Good Time: Understanding the Four Phases of Your Cycle part 1

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(00:01):

All right you guys. Hey, welcome back to the Thriving Thyroid Podcast. Hi, I, I feel like I have a change of plans, <laugh>, now that I'm talking to you guys, I, well, first and foremost, I wanna share a little bit about myself just cuz I think it's fun to get to know the person on the other side of, of these episodes. So I wanted to share with you guys, I have always been someone that is like, why do you get everything all done? I wish I could be like you, I wish I could be as productive as you and I don't know how you do it all, and all these things. And I'm like, what do you mean you just, you just do it <laugh>. You just do it. And people are like, no, you just do it. We don't know. We don't know.

(00:54):

So here I am literally sitting here in my laundry room with my headphones on and my computer and I'm recording a podcast because sometimes you just have to do it. You just have to figure out how to get stuff done, <laugh>. And so I am sitting here and I'm like, okay, we're gonna record this podcast. And then I'm sitting here thinking, oh my gosh, we might have to make this multiple different series and episodes because I've talked about your menstrual cycle. I don't wanna say on a surface level, but I wanna kind of get into the nitty gritty of your hormones and why they're super important for us to, to pay attention to. So I think we're gonna make this probably a multi, multi-part series to help you understand. So today we're gonna kind of keep it high level. I'm gonna introduce probably some new things and then I will probably most likely build on this a little bit more.

(02:03):

So today, let's talk about hormones, <laugh>, and we probably all heard the terms estrogen, progesterone and testosterone, testosterone, but did you know that they interact with each other and they do affect your body throughout the month? So men, they cycle their hormone cycle throughout the day. Us women, we are a little bit different. <Laugh>, we cycle monthly. And so this is why like your husband is wakes up energy, whatever goes throughout his day has some peaks into energy. And then at nighttime he, I don't wanna say falls flat, but he, it's one of those things where it's like he comes home and he needs to like veg out. Well, we do that as women, but our cycle is over like a 28 day period of time. So when you are on your menstrual cycle, you will notice a drop in energy the day, the, the day before your menstrual cycle when things are working all optimally and doing all the good things that they should be doing.

(03:17):

The day before your menstrual cycle, you're gonna have a surge energy. You're gonna go into a nesting period where you want to cook and clean and organize things and clean out pantries and closets and all of the things to get organized in preparation for a few days of, I don't wanna say no energy, but little energy. So when we're on our menstrual cycle, it is totally normal to feel fatigued and to need to maybe rest a little bit more. And it's not a bad thing, right? It is really not a bad thing. And I think so much of society is like women need to do more and be more and have more and, and whatever. And I, hopefully you guys are all Christian or at least open to ideas of Christianity. I've been watching the chosen with my family, we've watched it for, I dunno, probably over a year now.

(04:22):

And there's an episode in there where a woman has a bleeding disorder and she, in, in the Bible, you are not allowed <laugh> to be, I, I don't know all of the rules and stipulations, but you were considered unclean, right? You're considered unclean. You can't be around other people when you are menstruating. I always remember hearing that growing up and I'm like, that's so sad, <laugh>, that's so sad. You know, to like basically be deemed un queen and, and you're not allowed to be around other people. And then now as an adult, I'm like, wait, is that a bad thing? <Laugh>? Like, I don't wanna be around my family. I want, I wanna have a day or two of like rest and hibernation. And I've contemplated on that and I'm like, maybe it wasn't a bad thing that they weren't allowed to be around other people.

(05:22):

Or like maybe <laugh> maybe the way that it is explained in the Bible isn't necessarily as accurate as what what it has been depicted at as recent times. Because I know for myself when I'm on my cycle and what I've noticed with the women that I work with, they want to kind of retreat. We want to go into a little bit of a hibernation, we want to rest, we want to have downtime <laugh>, right? And so I, I've thought about that and I mean, I would honestly, if I had to be like banned and not around my family, I'd be very, very sad. But if I had the opportunity to rest a little bit more and, and kind of isolate and take care of myself during that time, I wouldn't be upset about it <laugh>, right? Like, I would not be upset about all of that.

(06:15):

So anyways, just kind of a interesting, I don't know, food for thought and honestly there might be a scholar out there that knows <laugh>, knows the answer to that, but I, anyways, I kind of, I derailed <laugh> for a second. So during our menstrual cycle, it should be three to five days long, okay? And during this time it can feel, well, let me say this, you know that feeling when you start a new job and everything is chaotic and it's unpredictable and you have no clue what you're doing and all of that, that's really what is happening during our menstrual cycle. So estrogen and progesterone levels have dropped and the uterus is now shedding it's sliming. And we might experience the cramping, the fatigue, the mood swings and that can be a tough start to the month. However, it can also be a benefit when we learn how to work with it properly.

(07:18):

So something that I really blew my mind before, like I always, I I would say that I had a quote unquote heavy cycle growing up, but I wouldn't have categorized my cycle as being heavy compared to other people that I talked to because some of them were having to change every hour, right? Like they were bleeding through super pluses and pads and tampons and mine was not to that level. I did need to have, you know, a large or a super or like a plus a super tampon or something along those lines. But I was able to utilize that for several hours and, and stuff through high school and, and so on. Now I have a client, and this might be tmi, but they would wear a tampon and a pad or no, actually somebody told me that they wore two tampons and a pad and they would still bleed through that every, every so often.

(08:31):

And I was like, holy moly. Like, ha, how, like, that's gotta be so uncomfortable. And so when I learned this a few years ago about how much fluid you should be losing, this is something that I have started to build into the conversations that I'm having around the menstrual cycle because I think it gives us a place to like understand what is normal and what is not normal and what our menstrual cycles should look like. Because let's face it, like I don't know about you guys, but <laugh> nobody comes to the bathroom with me <laugh> during that time of the month. Okay? I'm just saying like that is, that is something that I take care of on my own and <laugh> yeah, that's, so I don't have something to compare to with somebody else other than maybe what they have told me. So with that being said, this is what I learned a couple years ago that I think is really important for you guys to understand. And this was really valuable information for me as well. So during the entire menstrual phase, so the three to five days, we should be losing no more than three tablespoons, three tablespoons of menstrual fluid during that time.

(09:57):

Woo. <Laugh>, that is not a lot. And when I heard that I about fell outta my chair because I was like, yeah, I know that that is probably more, how do I say this? Like, I was using a diva cup at the time and so I was like, I'm having to change my diva cup two to three times a day. And I haven't, like <laugh> measured it out, but I was like, in my mind as I'm driving down the road, I'm like, I'm pretty sure like one of those cups is about two tablespoons, like just an estimate. And if I'm doing that multiple times a day, then yes, that is too much. Okay, that is too much. No wonder I feel tired. No wonder I feel depleted. No wonder like my body is just like in shut down phase. And that for me was a wake up call and I was like, okay, there's work that has to be done on my hormones in order to get me to a much healthier place with my menstrual cycle.

(11:06):

All right, <laugh>. So a lot of information there. I think what I'm going to do, you guys, cuz I wanna get through all of the different phases. I'm gonna record several other podcasts where we're diving in a little bit deeper into each one of these phases and what should be happening. But I wanted to share that for you guys with the menstrual cycle and then we'll come back back around to that in some of the further trainings. Okay? So the second part, so after we have a three to five day menstrual cycle ish, we're gonna be moving into the follicular phase. So think of the follicular phase as a growth spurt. It's like planting, it's like a plant needs, like, sorry, we plant to plant <laugh>. We plant a seed that seed needs sunlight and water to grow. So our molecules need estrogen to mature as the molecules grow, they produce more estrogen, which is going to be the thickening of the lining.

(12:11):

Cuz remember we just lost all of that. It's gonna be growing that again. And you might notice more energy in your body, a better mood. You're gonna feel like you're coming out of hibernation and you're gonna be ready to tackle new projects during your menstrual cycle. You're gonna, your brain's gonna be a little creative <laugh>. It might have some new ideas, it might start making plans for something to come, Hey, you need to blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, right? <Laugh>. And so during that time you might not ha well, you're menstruating, you might not have the time to execute everything, but that is a really great time to take notes, take notes on those ideas and those thoughts. And then, you know, if you decide a day or two later that, oh, that's not, that's not for me, totally fine, and that's acceptable as well.

(13:06):

But during that follicular phase, that's when you're gonna have the energy to get some of those projects done. And it's a very exciting time. And so I think also if you guys are anything like me, I often will compare myself to that version of me that's in the follicular phase and the ovulatory phase where I'm like, man, why can't I just get stuff done? Come on Shannon. Like, just be motivated. Just get stuff done. Just, you know, p plow through, like, what's wrong with you? And then when I stop and I look back and I'm like, oh, my hormones, right? <Laugh>, learn to work with your hormone, Shannon. Learn to learn again. Learn to work with your hormones <laugh>. So anyways, so it's really important that during that time, like pay attention, right? Pay attention to your body. And let me just quickly say this because some of you out there might be like, well, I'm not menstruating.

(14:05):

Does this pertain to me? Yes, you may not have the menstrual heart of it, you might not be bleeding, but your hormones are following some of these natural rhythms to, to the cycle, right? You're gonna notice that you have one week, several days where you're like, I am just zapped. I just have no energy. Maybe you're feeling a little moody <laugh>, maybe you're feeling irritable, maybe you're like, I just want people to leave me alone. That is going to be when you're menstrual cycle is, and then you'll come out of that hibernation and you'll be good to go. All right? So that's gonna last. The follicular phase

(14:50):

Is usually day six to day 14. On day 14, you're gonna have your ovulation day. Now again, <laugh> I think most people now know, but in case you don't, there are several days that you can get pregnant. You just because you're ovulating or it is your ovulatory day, doesn't mean that that's the only day you can get pregnant during that time. Like there's, there's a window of opportunity. Okay, <laugh>. So congratulations on that. You've made it to the peak of your hormone, your hormonal rollercoaster. So ovulation is like a party for your ovaries. One lucky follicle fol follicle follicle will be released as an egg. And if it meets the sperm, then that could obviously result in a pregnancy. And so the sudden surge of estrogen triggers a spike in the lutin hormone lh, which causes the molecule to burst open and release the egg.

(16:03):

And it's like a pinata exploding. And the egg is the candy, right? So if you're trying to get pregnant, then it's <laugh>, then we want the, the party from the pinata. If you're not, then you know, maybe you might feel a little bit different about that. <Laugh> Then day 15, today, 16 is the ltil phase. And after the excitement of our ovulation and the ltil phase, it's like a cool down period that folco, that fol that releases the egg, becomes a corpus lutian, which produces progesterone. So progesterone helps thicken the uterine lining and per and prepares the body for that possible pregnancy. So we have some thickening of the lining that happens d during the follicular phase, and then we have the ovulation. And, and then the body will say, okay, thank you progesterone. Let's build up this, this this wall and make it a nice little like cushy bed.

(17:13):

So if progesterone thickens the lining if the egg isn't fertilized, then the corpus lutia or the egg will shrink and the progesterone levels will drop. This drop in hormones is like the end of the party, right? It's time to get ready to, to clean up and go home. So you might experience some PMs symptoms. This is when you could be noticing bloating, irritation, maybe some cravings, but don't worry that there's more to this <laugh>. So hormonal imbalances can affect more than just our menstrual cycle. Here are some analogies to help us better understand how these hormones are playing a role on the entire body. So we're, we're all here to talk about the thyroid. Our thyroid glands produce our hormone, our thyroid hormones help to regulate our metabolism, our energy body temperature. So if the thyroid is overact active, it's like a car is getting stuck in high gear and you might feel anxious and jittery and overheated.

(18:24):

Well, on the other hand, an underactive thyroid is like a car getting stuck in low gear. So this is when you're feeling tired and sluggish. And so when we are going throughout the month for a menstrual cycle, you guys could be getting stuck in high gear or low gear based off what your thyroid is doing. And that could be playing a role in how your sex mor hormones are being produced. So then let's talk about insulin really quickly. Insulin is a hormone that helps to regulate blood sugar levels. If our body can't produce enough insulin or use it effectively, it's like that traffic jam on the highway. So glucose aka sugar can't get anywhere it needs to go and your cells are gonna be left without energy because sugar, glucose is energy for the body. It's that quick fast thing. And this is why a

(19:23):

Lot of the women that we work with inside the Hanson method, they're like, I just can't break up with sugar. And I'm like, listen, my friend <laugh> it's because your body is trying to tell you, I need energy. And when we like our thyroid, right? When we get stuck in that low gear and we're tired and we're sluggish and we're slow and things aren't working and we're stuck in this traffic jam, and then we're feeling irritable, and then we're like, I am worthless and I can't do anything and everything is wrong, and I'm, you know, a nobody, our, our insulin is gonna be like, Hey, I need something here. And so then it's gonna trigger you to go to the pantry or to the gas station or wherever to try to get some kind of energy and it's going to feel very uncontrollable. It's gonna be like, you know, maybe you have goodwill power for a day, two days, three days, and then all of a sudden you're ravenous.

(20:22):

And that is because your body needs that sugar to as fuel, right? Like our, our car is gonna give us a check, not checking engine light, like a gas light. And you're gonna say, okay, if I wanna keep driving this thing, I'm gonna give it some gas. Our body does the same thing and it will cause the sugar cravings to continue and to escalate if it is not, if it's not dealt with. Okay? So cortisol, cortisol, you guys, it's not a bad hormone. Like I feel like it gets such a bad rap, but it's really not. So cortisol is known as a stress hormone and it can be released during times of stress. So in small doses, cortisol can actually be really, really helpful at increasing alertness and focus. But chronic stress can lead to high levels of cortisol, which is like a smoke detector that never stops beeping, right?

(21:25):

Like, if cortisol is up, then we're gonna feel anxious, we're gonna feel irritable, we're gonna feel we're gonna have trouble sleeping. And eventually, if we stay in that state for too long, cortisol is gonna go away. It because we've overworked it and it's gonna, like, that's when we hit burnout. That's when we hit things like not just burnout, but double burnout you guys. So really quickly, let's wrap up today's episode. And we are, I'm gonna keep recording more information about your menstrual cycle. But right now you're call to action. What I want you guys to be doing is take notice. If you are not already tracking your menstrual cycle, please start doing that. If you are not menstruating, okay, meaning you're perimenopause, postmenopause or you've had an ablation, a lot of the women that I work with have had uterine ablations, and so they're not having a quote unquote cycle and they're not bleeding.

(22:30):

I want you to track your symptoms. I want you to see when do I have energy? When do I have low energy? When do I feel like I'm nesting? When, you know, like really keep track of these things. Now the other really cool and interesting thing, especially for the women that I work with who are perimenopause or postmenopausal, is I tell them to sync up to the moon. So what that means is when it's a full moon or a new moon, see what your symptoms are doing. See if your, if your libido climbs or if it's tanked and you're tired, because that can give you an idea or an understanding of what is happening. So if your libido is a little bit higher than normal, you might be closer to ion. And it's honestly, it's so funny, this might be t m i and if I have family members, like, please just shut this off and, and stop listening, <laugh>.

(23:40):

But I swear my husband knows when I'm ovulating, I'm like, literally like, how do you know? Like, how do you know? And he is like, what do you mean? I said that to him not too long ago. I was like, how do you know? And he's like, how do I know what? I'm like, how do you know that I'm ovulating? And he is like, I don't know, <laugh>. Like, men can just feel that. So if that can also be another sign, right? Like men know, I feel like men know <laugh>, whether they know no or not, like our body, our our pheromones are giving off information for people around us to, or men around us to, to make some passes <laugh>. So pay attention to that and that can really, really help you to just better understand what you need to do to support your hormones.

(24:33):

And we will continue this conversation. We're gonna be diving, I, I feel like today we did a pretty good overview of the menstrual cycle. I'm probably gonna touch on that in another one where we talk about food and what you should be eating during that time and all of those wonderful things. And then we're gonna go into all of the different, the other phases and we'll talk about what you should be eating during those phases and other, other signs and symptoms of what you got going on. So if you liked today's episode on hormones, come see hi on Instagram, okay? Download the workbook. Well let me, let me finish my thought. Come say hi on Instagram, <laugh> at Thriving Thyroid, and head over to the show notes you guys to download your workbook for your menstrual cycle. It's going to be really beneficial. And I promise you guys, as you continue to listen to these episodes and you hear about what is going on you're gonna have a better understanding of what you need to do and be able to become that empowered patient and just find joy, right? Find how to leverage your symptoms, find how to leverage your body in a way that makes you feel really good about yourself and who you are. And I will see you guys on the next.

 

148// Empowered for Life The Key to a Strong and Lean Core for Decades to Come with Moni Tupholme

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As a 50-year-old Mom of 2 (3 if you count hubby) Moni is a respected athlete and sought-after performance and fat loss specialist who works with busy, active women over 40 and 50 ++ to help them lose hormonal inches and reconnect with who they really are.

 

Her mission is to show women how to stop the endless cycle of trying, overthinking, and googling and to start empowering themselves with simple, science-backed strategies to feel and look the way they desire.

 

As the founder of The 3M System To Rev Your Over 40 Metabolism, Moni specializes in healing and priming the body (and mind) first before asking it to shape, at the same time working on limiting beliefs, stuck emotions, and mean girl self-talk that keeps women from lasting results.

 

Moni often appears in national online and print publications as well as national and international Podcasts. She is also an Amazon Best Seller for her contribution to the book Pursuit: 365.

 

 

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Topics we discussed:

1. What so we feel shifts in our core and midline?

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3. What key area we need to focus on to empower ourselves in having a strong, lean core now and decades forward?

 audio transcription

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All right, you guys, welcome back to the Thriving Thyroid Podcast. I have monny with me, and I'm really excited to have this conversation with her about restoring the core after having kiddos and all of the different things. So welcome to the, the, the podcast Monny. Yay.

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Thanks for having me. I'm so excited to be here.

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Yeah. All right. So give us a little bit of your background and who you are.

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So background is like the boring stuff, is that I have my function of nutrition and fitness and my performance nutrition, as well as certified in epigenetics, which is just a fancy word about how we create and form habits and how our brain works. I was a former professional athlete and a D one had a D one scholarship to the states, and then as soon as I hit 40 ish in that realm, I felt these shifts happening. And I was like, but wait a second. I work out. I eat clean. I did have kids later on in life. That's sort of the exciting part of who I am, is the, the two kids 12 gonna be 12 and eight three kids if you count my husband, but two kids. And then I, I felt just these natural shifts and I said, but what work, what was working isn't working now.

(01:29):

So around that time, and I'm 50, I started zoning in on how we h basically and what's going on with us hormonally, yes. But just as an active woman in her forties and now, fifties, sixties plus, plus that I work with what shifts are happening and how we have to not only Shannon, change the game, excuse the pun, but change the game and what we're doing, but also the narrative and a lot of the belief systems that we've come into believing, like how I was, I don't you remember getting ready for vacation and being like, okay, I'll eat salads three times a day. I'll work out like crazy. Run five days a week and then you'll be bikini body ready in two weeks. Not the case now. And I think many, many women feel it as they get older. And not only that, yeah, I think just after you have kids, as you know, and just getting reconnected with the changes that your body's gone through and the healing that you have to go through.

(02:29):

So that has led me to what I am I'm doing now. And that's kind of the boring stuff. The, the fun stuff is that I love what I do. I've been doing it a long time. I'm from just outside of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and I try to keep active again with my, my young kids. And we love travel and we love being outside and hitting the beach. Yes, we do have beaches up here in, in Canada. Lots of lovely beaches and warm weather. And yeah. I'm excited that you're having us, us here, and we're having this conversation because this is an area, I don't know about you, but this is probably the number one area I get asked about with women. It's like, how do I, what's going on here as I'm pointing sort of to my midline and how do I get rid of it? <Laugh>?

(03:14):

Yes. And you guys are gonna hear my kids in the background <laugh> for this conversation. Yeah, the midline, I, a lot of my clients carry it in, like their hips and thighs mm-hmm. <Affirmative>. And so they have kind of that pair shape or they have like that spare tire kind of thing that they are struggling to lose. So how, I guess let's just kind of dive into this conversation mm-hmm. <Affirmative>. So what shifts happen in our core and in our midline as we begin to age?

(03:49):

Okay. So body composition naturally changes as we age based on really a number of factors, but I'm gonna talk about three off the top. And the big one is this fan that fancy word of lifestyle. I think, you know, we've all heard it in social media and everything, you know flash data, but how we produce and biofeedback cortisol, which is a key stress and fat storing hormone changes as we age. Okay. And I'll say this too, aging, yes. But also depending on what level of stress you are, you could be in your early thirties, but have high level of stress or stressors in your life and maybe be more sensitive to that fat-storing hormone cortisol. So the cortisol receptors in our visceral fluff, which is our, our fluff that's closest to our organs, it's our main source of protection has also increased as we age.

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And this all leads to a heightened sense of what we call in the wellness space, fight or flight. Okay. It's, it's a natural response that we have when our, our mind and our bodies are having a perceived stressor. And it's either you're gonna stand and you're gonna fight it <laugh>. Some people even say freeze. You wanna, you know, play dead and be a, you know, turtle on the back, or you're gonna run and you're gonna run like heck. So it's a natural response that we all have and our way that our daughters are being triggered in that fight or flight, the main response is to hold onto fluff. Because we have to remember too, Shannon, that people have to understand that, that that fluff, which is my nice word for fat is protection. Yeah. That's what it is. Yep. I know it's a pain in the butt and it's a nuisance.

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And we, we don't like to have the pinkies and the fluffies and everything, but there's a reason behind. It's a symptom for something and your body's holding onto it because it's a preferred energy source and it's protection to vital organs, and our brain needs it. Our brain's made out of it. Okay. So it, so that's lifestyle. Okay. Just how we're dealing with the busyness of life. You ask everybody today, how are they doing? I'm busy, right? The second one is environment. As you and I sit here and have this conversation, <laugh>, a lot of us are sitting more, right? Yeah. Thanks to zoom meetings and maybe what's happened over the last couple years, you know, but the average person now they're saying sits more than they sleep in a day. And even if you work out, and I think this is a huge misconception for many women, even if you work out for that 45 minutes a day and then, but you sit for the rest of the day, that's not enough movement in your day. Yeah. But women think, you know, I've worked out today. Yeah. But then you're still sitting eight hours a day and back to back meetings or, or doing your thing. And this all naturally lowers what we call your resting metabolic rate, which means the rate of which we're just using up energy, AK calories to perform every day. Innate functions or functions like activity and working out. And all of that also leads to a decrease in muscle mass, which is super, super key as as we age. So environment is big, we're just sitting, we're not moving.

(07:03):

Can I ask you, like for, let's say people have a desk job.

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Yep.

(07:10):

What do you recommend? Like, I know for me, like I have a standing desk, so a lot of times I stand up, you know, while I'm doing stuff, but you're like, I'm still stationary. Yes. I, I guess I am engaging muscles standing, but I'm still not actively moving. I don't know what the right word is for that. Yeah. So do you have some suggestions on how to compensate for that?

(07:36):

Yeah, 100%. And it is, there is a difference. I know women that have the standing desk and that that's great for alignment and yeah. Using different stabilizing muscles, you can engage your core even, you know, as you're standing. But when we say sedentary, it is movement. And with you and I that you sit at our desk too and work all day, I literally, and it sounds so simple and elementary, but start with putting a reminder in your phone and just saying alarm, like every hour, get up, move. And I say, when don't make it like a pain in your butt that the alarm's gonna go off and you're gonna say, no, I'm in the middle of writing this email. Pause. Right. Try to maybe equate it to times in your day, like when you may have to go get some more water. Okay, may, you're gonna go have some lunch, you know, you're may gonna go get, grab the mail and try to piggyback it with something that you would do in your day already.

(08:32):

So it doesn't seem like this extra task, but just doing movement. So for myself, I used to work at my desk and eat and do emails and eat. Now I block off that time legit in my calendar, and now I go for a walk before it's just around my block. It's probably 10 to 15 minutes. I take the fur baby. If he's not sleeping. We have an older dog, right? And I just go and then come back and have my lunch. Hey, there's so many great things about being outside in nature. It's your biggest serotonin boost, which is your most effective and free way of combating cortis cortisol. And that's just not woowoo, that's science-based. And yeah, just getting outside breathing, not looking at your phone, just grounding yourself. Get some movement and circulation in, you see women now that have the treadmill, you know, under the desk. I can't, I am a great multitasker. I don't think I could do that. <Laugh>. See, and I

(09:26):

Wondered that. I'm like, maybe if I was on a business call where I'm just listening, but like trying to like walk and talk and type and No,

(09:35):

I'll fall off. I'll fall off for sure. So try to try to look at your schedule, look at your day and, and, and commit to yourself, where am I gonna get up and move Right. And move my body. And it, it, it is about circuit circulation. Listen, like ultimately circulation's big because for us to utilize the fluff, it needs to be released and then it circulates our body until another cell pick picks it up, the keyword there circulates. So we need blood flow. Right? Or it's just, it's sitting right? Yes. And not being released. And if it's not getting picked up, guess what? It gets restored. <Laugh>. Yeah. It gets restored. So

(10:18):

One of the things that I do, and it's very similar to you Yeah. Is I don't start my meetings until like 9:00 AM So, or usually 10, like I'll start kind of working, I might answer like some emails or do voice messages or something to my team to just like, Hey, you know, let's get up and get going. Because I get back from dropping off my kids at eight 30 that, you know, whatever. And so I kind of, I like to start with making sure my house is cleaned up, maybe similar to you, a 10, 15 minute walk, nothing too serious with the baby. And then usually about that time she's ready for nap, I nurse her, I put her to sleep, and then I like go into my day mm-hmm. <Affirmative> for things. And then I, one of the things that I've also learned when it comes to like attention and focus and brain fog and stuff, is there's a lot of studies out there that say, work for 45 minutes and then go do a different task and come back. Mm-Hmm. <Affirmative>. And so, cause you start to kind of zone, right? Like that 45 minute mark, it's like, okay, scroll Facebook, oh, this, that, you know, like your brain starts to wander. And so what I've done is about that 45 minute mark, that's when I'm getting up to go to the bathroom. That's when I'm getting up to go get a drink. I'll go switch the laundry from the washing machine to the driver <laugh>, you know? And be intentional about building in movement for, for the day. So yeah. And

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I know there's a lot of moms out there, especially with young kids that are like, oh, I'm moving. Like I have toddlers. I'm running around. So then that, that's not one of the, the, the, you know, things that may be going on or shifts that may be happening, but lifestyle and stress running after that toddler is right. Yes. And the third one that I would say Shannon probably is hormones. And I think it's so easy now for us all to say I'm blaming the hormones. I blame the hormones for everything. And we can't just blame one, but looks, let's look at the two big players. Okay? And that's estrogen and insulin fat, storing hormone and estrogen is what gives us that hourglass shape, okay? And it really starts to decline. Doesn't matter how well you eat and how you work out as you age.

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Okay? And if we have more stressors coming at us and we're not really building up our stress resiliency and our stress accommodation, it can affect us earlier than the typical over 40. Okay? So something just to remember for your younger, your younger viewers and your younger audience or younger listeners I should say. But it also estrogen is, is she's funny because she also tells you where to store fat, right? Hence that subcutaneous fat, which is the pinchy kind, and it's very high in what we call our estrogen receptors, right? It makes sense. It's a protection. It wants to protect hips, thighs, waist, right? Key areas of the female reproductive system. So we become more insulin resistant as well, meaning that we just don't metabolize energy like carbohydrates as we used to, and especially the refined carbohydrates. And again, this is not about being anti-car, but when we're, we're in a busy lifestyle, we need to learn, and I know this is what you do in your Hanson method and in your other protocols, we need to learn how to utilize our nutrition to match our energy demand. And this is not about intuitive eating. This is not about rotating your macros or calorie counting or what I call food calculus. But it is being in tune to how we are nourishing ourselves and the timing of everything. So lifestyle, environment, hormones, you put all those three into play and right away as a, as a symptom, a response to something naturally, we're gonna hold onto that extra fluff in that core hip thigh. Okay? Make sense? Yep.

(14:30):

Yep. Totally. All right, let's move on to the next question that I have for you. And I lost it. <Laugh>. I don't know what I'm doing. The

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Myths. Okay,

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Let's go back over here. So what are the biggest myths? Yes, thank you miss around the belly, the fluff

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Bake ones. The biggest one I think we all know by now is that you can't sit up your way out of it, right? Ah, yes. And I will argue this, you cannot work out your way out of it. Excuse my glamor grammar, but you, you kind of get my point. We have to change the narrative as we're aging that workouts are not about losing weight anymore. Ladies, workouts, the subset of working out is losing weight, but workouts are around yes. Your stress accommodation for many around you know, system health and organ health and cardiovascular health and nerve, all the things. Okay? It's about functional fitness and being able to hold lean muscle mass and, and to have your bones healthy so that you can carry groceries up the stairs when you're 80. Okay? The subsets of that is weight loss, but there's the burn calories mentality has to be Bye-bye.

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Doesn't work. Mm-Hmm. <affirmative>. Okay. So the big, that's the biggest myth. The where we need to put our focus then is these two things, consistency and efficiency. And, and please write those down because your body more than ever in your thirties, whether you've had kids or not, forties, fifties, sixties, is that your body's creating consistency now more than ever. Social injustice, covid craziness, yo-yo dieting, the on and the off again, your cheat days, your start fresh Mondays, all of which are paning up to being a huge detriment and triggering your body to hold onto fluff because it doesn't trust what you're doing anymore. Doesn't matter if you did a three month challenge, eat clean challenge. Okay? The fact of how, think about how many years women do that and then fall off if you will, off the wagon. I think there's never should be a wagon.

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If there's a wagon, it's moving too fast, right? But they fall off. Yeah. Say, you know, f it because the summer's here and I want my backyard barbecues and I got vacation with the girls and the family's going to Disney. And then you find motivation and from something and it gets you back on every single time we have that start fresh, it gets harder and harder and harder. Does it matter how clean you eat? How hard you work out? So we need to think about that when it comes to nutrition. When we think about movement and working out, if you will, when we're training our core area, again, core literally is from, you know, sternum all the way down to, to the pit bones, Hey, down there. We need to have efficient stabilizer muscles first. So again, this is not about the setups. <Laugh> okay?

(17:33):

Yeah. And the side planks, it is about developing the inner core stabilizers and it's about functional fitness. And then we build from there, we build the strength first. Okay? We get rid of inflammation in the body first, we prime the body, then we can strengthen and shape into the lean core or the trim thigh or whatever you'd like. But that initial needs to be there. But most women miss that step, right? They just say, I'll work out harder, I'll do the sit-ups, I'll do the leg raises, I'll do the butt lifts and it should work.

(18:09):

I, I love that on so many levels, <laugh>, because it's not about going to the gym more

(18:19):

No.

(18:20):

To get the, the stuff. So I love the way that you put it in priming the body and nutrition fuel for the body is a key component to that as well.

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Yep. 100%. And when you want, because a lot of us feel disconnected from our core area, right? You feel like, oh, you know, what does it feel like? You know? And when you ha when it's sore, you're like, oh, I remember those muscles. Hey, so the key there is to really develop the internal stabilizers and we can do an exercise by doing it like everyone's heard of keels, right? Or pelvic floor exercises. Yep. So yep. We call them dims in my community. And what we're basically doing is working the inner transverse muscles. I'm using my hands, you can't see, but the inner transverse muscles that kind of wrap around our waist and give us our shape. So if we just sit here right now and we flex and try to pull our belly button into our spine and hold it for 15 seconds and then release, and then do that three times, not every single day, every couple days, that's gonna start building up those internal stabilizer muscles. Then we progress into the planks and then we can progress into the, to you know, the, some leg raises or things like that. Okay. But the dims, if women wanna know where to start, that's it. Don't start with doing, doing the setup setup's. Probably one of the worst exercises that you can do for your core, actually, cuz you're actually most women engage their quads, <laugh>, and hip flexors. Yep.

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So I've been doing pure bar, so it's a bar course or a bar workout and it does a lot of that. And there's, so we do a plank at the beginning towards like the beginning of the workout. Yeah. And then at the end we're doing, they have like three core sections, I don't know. Yeah. And like there are a variety of different things working different parts of the abs. And they recently, I've taken a few classes and the classes that they're doing, some of them, I'm noticing that my hip flexors like it, I feel it there. Mm-Hmm.

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<Affirmative>

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And because I have the separation of the amps, the recti dati recti, that's the word. Yep. <Laugh> and an umbilical hernia. Mm-Hmm. <Affirmative>. I'm like, there's a lot of core strength that is missing mm-hmm. <Affirmative> for me. So anyways, and I think, but

(20:54):

That's huge for you to recognize that because if your core's not strong enough, you're gonna naturally engage your hip flexors in your, in your clots to help you go through the movement and you felt the soreness there. So now focus on ones that maybe aren't as big of a movement. And again, you're holding Right. Tightening more than anything to start off with. I think you feel the, you feel the difference. Yeah.

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Yeah. Well and that's, that's what I was gonna say is instead of always like following the class

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<Laugh> Yeah.

(21:26):

Instead of like engaging in those like crunches and stuff like that, I'm like, I'm gonna do more holding and squeezing mm-hmm. <Affirmative>. Because what happens when you do like those sit-ups is that coning effect. Yes. And

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It,

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It works so mm-hmm. <Affirmative> anyways, that's a little,

(21:45):

The power belly, but many, yeah. Many women are there, right? They get the power belly. It's all about the, the, whether, what stage of life you're in, it's just having that mind body connection right. With that area and really feeling the movement and breathing through the movement. And it doesn't need to be this huge sweat session right. To, to get it done. And it shouldn't be, again, efficiency and consistency. Where can you be efficient in your exercise and movements like you just said. Right. Your aha. And where can you be consistent? Right? Where is it? Go into your day. <Laugh>,

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She needs her mom.

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I love it. I love it.

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Yeah. Okay. So I think that was super helpful, at least for me, hearing other people who are more, I feel like I have a basis for like workouts and stuff, but I would not be a trainer <laugh>. Like, don't ask me to train you. That is not, you know, that's not in my wheelhouse. But let's, as we wrap this up, what are the key areas that we need to focus on when we're learning to empower ourselves in being strong and having that lean core for now and then obviously into the future. Especially, I have to say this too, for people who are fifties, sixties, you know, that kind of thing. And they're noticing changes in their body. Mm-Hmm. <affirmative>, this movement, a lot of movement. Core strength is about functionality too. Mm-Hmm. <affirmative>, it's being able to get in and out of bed. It's being able to get in and out of a chair. It's able like being able to go carry it in your groceries and going up and down the stairs long-term and your core is a huge part of that. And so even if you aren't an athlete or don't wanna go to the gym, we need to be loving Yes. Loving the core

(23:49):

<Laugh> very conscious. And I I'd say too, don't get overly number focused. I know, you know, there's the measurements, you take your waist and then you take your chest and you have the differential number. It, it, there's so many different variables and factors that can really equate to what the, the outcome of that number means, right? But just ask yourself like, am I, am I comfortable? Am I strong? Am I confident in that area? And again, confidence is bleeding. You're gonna have good days and bad days. But in a nutshell. And then, and then do the small steps like I said. But what can we do now to focus on three again, I guess I love the number three today. So number one is nutrition, right? And again, we see, hear that whole saying like, abs are made in the kitchen. It's pretty true, right?

(24:37):

It's pretty true. And making sure number one, that you are eating enough to meet your specific energy demand and or your healing protocol. Okay? Because I think a lot of women think they can just muscle through. They wanna start counting things, they want the control. That's why Noom maps and Fit pals are so popular because we love that control of what we're eating and it feels good punching in that number. But you know what? They don't know how stressed your day was. They didn't know that you're a running around meeting after meeting across town. They don't know that you had to take your kids to three different arenas in three different hours after work. Right? So just be mindful of your energy exchange and know that nutrition is there to support it and not have that narrative of like, I'm going to eat, I'm gonna get, the more I eat, I'm gonna get bigger.

(25:28):

Okay? The more I eat gonna bitter. And for me, I always say making sure that we're using our nutrition to support our insulin levels. That's the biggest. Like insulin and cortisol, like Shannon when I interviewed you, we talked about this, they're the big players, right? And like if people come to you with your thyroid, usually have some other hormone that's in play or having something going on with it. Okay? So it's the same here, just nutrition. Make sure it's matching your energy demand. If you have questions around that, reach out <laugh>. Yeah. And then two is train your core to redirect how your muscles work. And again, when we're training our core, it is all about in developing those internal stabilizers. First. If you don't know what that means or want some more information around that, reach out to me. I have a guide I could give you that we all have guides, guides, guides.

(26:20):

But I have a guide that I can give you that will help. And it's things, like I said, doing your dims, right? It could be a little bit of a plank, maybe even with your knees on the ground. It could be what we call the dead bug. It sounds terrible, but basically you're on your back, okay? With your knees in the air and your arms in the air and you're just alternating knee and arm to the ground, concentrating on keeping your spine in alignment. It's hard work cuz right away your back wants to arch, right? But we have to use those inner core muscles to keep it nice and straight. So redirect how we're training our core. And the third part is, again, move again. The fluff is not burned. We hear like burn the fat, like it, technically it is, it is a gas that gets released but it, it actually circulates our body and is hopefully used up by as energy sourced by something else.

(27:14):

If not, it's restored. So blood flown circulation are huge factors on whether you are fluff is utilized or stored. And obviously movement helps and muscles our biggest consumer of glucose as well. So therefore can help with your insulin regulation, which is a fat storing hormone. If insulin's out of whack, again, doesn't matter how clean you eat or how hard you work out, it's gonna have a slew of side effects. One of them is holding onto that extra fluff. So nutrition, train, move, train properly and then move. That's the places where to start. And to keep it simple. I will add to that Shannon, because I think we try to overcomplicate things and then we leads to overwhelm, which leads inaction. It doesn't need to be like that. I say to my clients, I'm like, it's not slow, it's strategic. So keep it simple. Maybe you just focus on doing those inner core exercises that I spoke about. Then you focus on maybe some nutrition and talking to Shannon about how, how nutrition should meet with your goals. And then we can talk about maybe incorporating some movement more into your day. Right. Start slow. Because if we wanna have that to-do list and add to it, it's just not gonna work. <Laugh> efficiency and consistency, right? We have to keep on that.

(28:31):

Totally. And I, I love that. I love telling my clients, I'm like, pick one thing. Mm-Hmm <affirmative> one thing more. Mm-Hmm <affirmative> focus on that and then add something new in, right? Like yeah, focus on doing the exercises. Okay, now I'm gonna add in eating more vegetables or drinking more water or like something instead of an all or nothing mentality because the all or nothing mentality gets us

(28:57):

To frustration. <Laugh>

(28:59):

Yeah. Leads to frustration and confusion and frustration and inaction. Right In action. Like we talked about, you talked about that freeze where the fight or flight or freeze. And most of us freeze

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<Laugh>, most of us freeze. And I think, like, correct me if I'm wrong, I'm offering you your listeners a guide and it's like, it's the power of protein in your breakfast. Because when people say, okay, nutritionally what do I do? This guide will help. And protein as we age is huge. And it's a big builder has great thermogenic effects. We need it in our body for a variety of reasons that explain in the guide. But many women, much as many women are not getting enough protein in their diets. And this is a simple way to add it in, especially in one of the most important meals of the day, which is your breakfast, right? Yeah. And a lot of busy women out there are saying, I don't eat breakfast today. Eat your breakfast <laugh>. Well, and that,

(29:58):

Honestly, that's what I struggle with probably the most is getting enough protein because mm-hmm. <Affirmative>. Okay. So here's a little like tidbit about our family is I let everybody get their food first. You know? Or at least all of my kids.

(30:15):

Yeah.

(30:16):

So all of my kids get their food, then I get my food and then my husband gets our food. Like that is kind of our process. <Laugh>. Mm-Hmm. <affirmative>. So he gets all the scraps usually every once in a while I'm like, I'll make your plate first and then, you know, and then I'll make his or I make 'em at the same time. But if our kids eat a lot more meat, then

(30:38):

The protein's gone. We're

(30:39):

Left with like chicken scraps, you know, <laugh>. And so anyways, protein is huge. Finding enough ways to get protein in. I have some strategic things that I now do Yeah. For myself to try to get the protein in, but I, I know I'm still under <laugh> what I should be eating.

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Yeah. So

(31:01):

Just know that you guys are not alone if you're struggling to get enough protein. And that's one of the things that I tell all of my clients. Get more protein, get more protein. Most of us eat enough fats and enough carbohydrates.

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Yep.

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It's the protein.

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Yep. So every single meal, right? Don't back load it and just have your protein source at, at, at dinnertime. And again, when we say protein source, it can be omnivore, it can be meat, or it can be plant-based, right? If you're plant-based and we're diving down another rabbit hole here, you and I as always, but if it's plant-based, we need to diversify cuz it's not a complete per protein. So you just have to make sure for all my vegans and vegetarians out there, that you are eating different types of plant-based proteins to hopefully get that complete protein in your diet for that day or that day. Okay. That's, and then that's it. It just takes a little bit time. But in that guide that I give you guys is definitely a great start and we talk a lot about protein and sneaky ways to add it in there. <Laugh>.

(31:58):

I'm gonna go download it cuz I wanna see if you have some other ideas or suggestions for mm-hmm. <Affirmative> for me too, so.

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Awesome.

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I know busy moms trying to do all the things. So thank you so much Monique for being on. Is there any last thoughts that you wanna share with the listeners?

(32:21):

No, I think this has been so fun. I think again, with that area, just remember it's not that you're doing something wrong, right? It's just a sign that your body's telling you something. You know, if you wanna blame somebody, blame estrogen. But it's not something that you're doing wrong. So please don't start dissecting your nutrition or dissecting how you work out or adding more time at the gym and really sit back, listen to this podcast, think about where in your day you can start adding in the tips that Shannon and I talked about and keep it simple. And that's it.

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I love it. Perfect. Yay. I will link everything up, all of Monique's information, her social media. Yeah, of course my kids <laugh>, all of Monique's social media and her guide so you guys can head over to the show notes and download it and I will see you guys on the next.

 

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I have had a week of hell <laugh>. I, and it's very timely that I happen to have planned out a podcast all about the baby wants to play with my microphone, you guys. I planned out this podcast about sleep and then this week I have had the worst sleep at the time of recording this. This is Friday and then I put this podcast is going out on Monday. So this week I have had two nights with this lovely baby sleeping less than three hours a night. So it has been so fun. And yesterday I had to go apologize to all of the people around me because I was a very grumpy pants. I went to, it's this whole story, you guys. I went down to the kids' school to pick them up and the people in the front office, she made a comment, which was a joke, but I didn't take it as a joke at the time.

Speaker 1 (01:07):

She was like, oh, we don't know where your daughter is. And I was like, I can't even with you right now. She's like, oh, but we'll fight. She was like, I can't find your daughter right now cuz she called her class and she wasn't in her class. And she's like, haha, you know, but we'll find her. And I was like, it was just the wrong joke. Any other time I would've been like, haha. Yeah, no problem. You know, because, because we know a ton of the teachers down there and my kids, that particular kid I know, like one of my good friends outside of school and whatever her classroom is right next door to my daughter's class. So even though I could have probably guessed that that kid was in my friend's class, <laugh>, it was just the wrong joke at the wrong time.

Speaker 1 (01:56):

And I was like, I rolled my eyes and I was like, I can't even with you right now. And I walked out of the front office and stood outside to wait for that kid. And I, looking back, I'm like, wow, sleep really impact <laugh> my mood, right? If I am not getting enough sleep, I am crabby. And it's been a long time since I have been this sleep deprived, not by my own choice might I add, but anyways, so I'm excited to talk to you guys about sleep because sleep is very relevant. And before we dive into today's conversation, I want to kind of go back and take a journey with my own sleep with you guys really quickly, because some of these things are very relevant to what many of you guys could be experiencing at this time when it comes to your own sleep.

Speaker 1 (02:54):

So kids, of course, they impact how we sleep. <Laugh>. So growing up, like I never had sleep issues that I can really think of. I do remember in like kindergarten telling my mom, I want, I had just learned about being nocturnal, right? Or nocturnal animals. And I told my mom one night I didn't wanna go to bed. I was like, I wanna be nocturnal <laugh>. And my mom was like okay, <laugh>. But even like through junior high, high school, things like that, I, I wouldn't say high. I had a hard time falling asleep. Sometimes I would if there was a test or something, obviously, you know, that kind of got my mind a little racy, then yes, I did struggle. But generally speaking, within 20 minutes of laying down, I was able to fall asleep. That continued on into early married life, had my first baby.

Speaker 1 (03:58):

And my first baby was an awful sleeper, and I was very young when I had her. I was, it was right before my 20th, 21st birthday. And I didn't have a lot of friends that also had kids. I had friends, but I, I didn't have friends that were having baby to talk about any of this with. So I just thought it was normal because I had heard people say sleep when the baby sleeps. And so I would, I would be up with her every hour and a half for the first like three years of her life. And it was when I had my second kid, I was waking up more with my three year old than I was with my newborn. And that was my first sign that like, whoa, something is wrong. <Laugh> with her sleep. Like her, she just, she would wake up and then like, go back to bed.

Speaker 1 (04:52):

But like I, she would always wake me up. I always had to like soothe her. I'd bring her into bed with me or, you know, rub her back or go lay in her room or whatever. And that was when I was like, okay, something has to give here. And we, I got, I made a weighted blanket for her, and that worked fantastic for, for a period of time, <laugh>. Because after like three or four nights she caught on and she was like, I don't want my special blanket. It makes me sleepy. And I was like, yes, that is the point, dear. Like, mama needs some sleep. And fast forward, you know, three kids, I have three kids. And my third kid, she was a pretty good sleeper. She would take naps pretty good, she would sleep. But then when she got to be about like two, three, I, if I remember correctly, she would just wake up in the middle of the night and want to be awake for like an hour or two, and then I'm just sitting there in the dark with her in the living room trying not to disturb anybody else.

Speaker 1 (06:00):

And that was really looking back, a very pivotal part in my health and in my journey, because I had hit burnout, I had hit double burnout without knowing what it was and without being able to identify this is what's going on with me. But that is when I really started to have to go see doctors. That's when I was seeing gastroenterologists and endocrinologists and naturopathic doctors and spending all this money on my health trying to figure out what the heck was wrong with me because I couldn't fall asleep at night, right? My energy peaked at night, couldn't fall asleep. That's when I would try to rest. But it was like, okay, I guess I'll do some laundry, or I guess I'll clean up the house or whatever. And then in the morning, my six-year-old would like literally have to like push me out of bed to get her up to school on time.

Speaker 1 (06:57):

She was the one waking me up. And I was like, this is not normal, right? Like, this is not normal to feel this way. Fast forward a little bit. During that time I also, things were getting so bad that I was starting to experience fibromyalgia type pain where it was like just this deep muscle pain inside of my body. And I was like, I am too young for this. Like, I should not be, I should not be experiencing the, these types of symptoms. Like I wasn't even 30 yet, and I'm going to the doctor's, everybody's saying everything's normal, everything's normal, everything's normal, nothing's wrong with you. And I'm like, I don't feel normal. And that is, I could go on and on about this story. That's not the point of today. The point of today is to help you guys better understand how critical sleep is and how sleep mapping can help you identify what organ systems glands are involved in helping to regulate sleep and which ones could be out of balance for you based off your sleeping habits and patterns.

Speaker 1 (08:13):

Okay? So let's dive into the nitty gritty. So what are hor what hormones are needed for sleep? There are actually several hormones that are needed to regulate sleep, including melatonin, cortisol, and serotonin. Melatonin is the hormone that is naturally produced by the body as it gets darker, okay? And it helps to regulate the sleep awake cycle inside of the body. Cortisol, well actually let me back up before we go into cortisol. So with melatonin, our body, we have this natural circadian rhythm where when it starts to get dark, we should be winding down. We should be saying, oh, it's, you know, I'm feeling tired and whatever, right? And then when the sun comes up, our body should start to naturally wake up. It right? Now you guys are probably feeling this too. The sun is coming up and so I'm actually waking up now before my alarm clock and I'm like, no, I still have 20 minutes to sleep, but it's because the sun is coming in and my hormones are like saying, okay, it's time to wake up.

Speaker 1 (09:25):

<Laugh>. You know, cortisol on the other hand is produced in response to stress and can interfere with, with sleep at night. If cortisol is now again, going back to like my story, my cortisol, I was at burnout. So what had happened for so long is I was using too much cortisol and then my body kind of flat lined and I had no energy. So that's where the, you guys hear the baby. That's where my body wasn't able to that's when I started experiencing the fibromyalgia symptoms because cortisol gets this really bad rap as like this hormone that's like, oh, belly fat. Oh, it's so bad. But cortisol is actually an anti-inflammatory. So if you guys have burned out your adrenal glands burned out your cortisol levels, and now you're operating from a place of not having enough, which is what I was doing, that's when I started having the muscle aches and pains, okay?

Speaker 1 (10:38):

So we really have to pay attention to that and look at, Hey, how are, how is my body reacting to these things? Okay? So finally we have serotonin. Serotonin is a hormone that helps to regulate mood, but it also impacts sleep. So to get a little like geeky on you guys, and this is a pathway that I talk about a lot with my clients because it's important for us to understand that everything is connected and that just because you're having the end result of like sleeping issue, there's actually several other pathways that have been disrupted for many different reasons. So first one being stomach acid. We have to have zinc and potassium to make stomach acid, zinc, potassium zinc, zinc, sodium and potassium to make stomach acid and sodium and potassium also to help regulate cortisol. So when we're under a lot of stress, guess what happens?

Speaker 1 (11:36):

Stomach acid goes down, stomach acid goes down, we stop digesting and absorbing and assimilating our food. So then we're not getting the B vitamins, we're not getting iron levels. Like, so we could be struggling with anemia or ferritin levels or imbalances with ferritin levels. And then we're not also breaking down our protein. So the critical pieces and components of regulating sleep is gonna be number one, stomach acid. Well actually backing up cortisol, right? Because if our body is taking the, those minerals to help regulate your cortisol stomach acid is gonna go down. And then we need that stomach acid to break down B vitamins and tryptophan, specifically B6 and tryptophan. Tryptophan is a protein. Those two work together to produce serotonin. That serotonin then turns into melatonin. So right away, <laugh>, when clients come in and they say, oh, this, this, this. I go, boom, we have to go all the way back to number one, stomach acid, but two stress management.

Speaker 1 (12:52):

Okay? Hopefully this is making sense. Rewind, re-listen if you need to <laugh> and we can talk about a little bit more. So then the next one is, which organs systems and glands are involved in regulation of sleep? So there are several different systems and glands that are involved in regulating this, including the brain, the liver, the adrenal glands because the brain is controlling the sleep awake cycle and that, and regulating the production of me melatonin as well as like the co-factors and the nutrients behind it, okay? The liver is responsible for metabolizing the hormones and detoxifying them in the body. So if the body isn't doing that, if the liver is not doing that, the body's gonna wake up and say, Hey, we're missing this critical piece. We're missing this component. That's why you guys could be waking up between, around from one to 3:00 AM because your body's saying, Hey, delivery needs to be stimulated, right?

Speaker 1 (13:59):

It needs to do something that doesn't have the mechanisms that it needs in order to detoxify. So it's gonna wake you up and say, Hey, go to the bathroom, or it's gonna wake you up and be like, pay attention to me. This is, that is a sign that your body is trying to talk to you and tell you what it's needing. And you're find, and if you're like me, you're finding it annoying. You're like, why can't I just sleep through the night? Right? Why do I have to wake up and pee, huh? Yeah. Okay. And then finally we have the adrenal glands which produce cortisols. So again, if we are stressed out overnight, this could be impacting our sleep. And again, if you, what happened to me is I had what we call like a reverse curve when it comes to cortisol. So this is why I was peaking at night.

Speaker 1 (14:53):

My, my cortisone was like low when I woke up. I would have like a little bit of inter an energy then I would kind of crash in the afternoon. And then by like dinnertime, I was like amped up, right? Like I was so wired and tired, <laugh>, it was a joke. And then every morning I'm like, man, why did I stay up so late? I, you know, I'm gonna break this cycle. I'm gonna have to do something. This is not right. Like, and I couldn't break the cycle, you guys, because I didn't fully understand what was happening to my body at that time. And so I was trying all, all kinds of like, weird stuff right? To, to do it until I figured out exactly what to do. Now I'm not even gonna share. Well, one of the things, actually, I will share this.

Speaker 2 (15:42):

One of the things that I did to regulate sleep is

Speaker 1 (15:45):

You guys, I started doing vitamin injections in my bum. Now

Speaker 2 (15:50):

I was so desperate to get this under control and get this like, taken care of,

Speaker 1 (15:56):

That I

Speaker 2 (15:57):

Was willing to do whatever,

Speaker 1 (15:59):

Right? I was willing

Speaker 2 (16:00):

To do what I needed to do because my family, my kids felt like they were, I felt like

Speaker 1 (16:06):

They were suffering as a result of my sleeping patterns and my sleeping issues. And so those vitamin injections, yes, they did help, but now I, now there's other things that can be done to reverse the, the circadian rhythm or the cortisol spike that I was having at night. And that's what I recommend for my clients if they are experiencing those types of things. So I wanna share just a quick story with you guys about Sarah. So Sarah had been experiencing insomnia for several years and was finding it really difficult to fall asleep and stay asleep. And it was impacting her work and her personal life and her kids. And she was feeling exhausted and irritable throughout the day. So after working with the US and undergoing several nights of sleep mapping, she discovered that her liver was struggling to detoxify, which was impacting her quality sleep and not allowing her to get into that full REM cycle.

Speaker 1 (17:15):

So by making some dietary lifestyle changes to support her liver, you guys, we use food. We use food. I want you to like, keep in mind we didn't supplement this because this was lifestyle, okay? Dietary and lifestyle things. She was able to improve her sleep dramatically, and she was able to feel more rested and she had more energy throughout the day. So that is possible for you guys. You don't Now, since before, should I share this? I'm, I'm debating. One of the things that I share with my clients inside the Hanson method is and I've only had to do this maybe a couple of times because there's so much to sleep you guys. So first and foremost, let's talk about melatonin. Okay? So melatonin suppresses insulin naturally while you are sleeping. So we want this to happen. This helps keep blood sugar levels stable, and melatonin helps to regulate those hunger hormones in the middle of the night so that you feel satiated and you don't have to wake up and eat right?

Speaker 1 (18:32):

And I, that was always a question for me because I was like, wait, why can't I go like nine, 10 hours without needing to eat? But then in the day I'm like, ravenous, right? That is because of melatonin. That is one of the responsibilities that melatonin has. And when things are working properly, melatonin and insulin will work together to help keep you asleep and help you to stay asleep. Isn't that pretty cool? Okay. The second thing that you guys need to know about melatonin is melatonin is to support, one of the other roles of melatonin is to support gut bacteria, which helps to produce melatonin as well as other neuro neurotransmitters, including the calm, happy hormones like serotonin. So we kind of touched on that stress. So melatonin is also known as like the stress slayer, okay? When we have good bacteria in our gut, it's going to help with stress, it's gonna help with neurotransmitters, and it's gonna help with sleep.

Speaker 1 (19:38):

So probiotics is again, one of the things that I recommend for literally every single client of mine because it helps with so much happening. Okay? So now we see, hopefully you guys see the importance of melatonin. A couple things too. And this one I've shared on my Instagram. So if you follow me at Thriving Thyroid, I've, I've shared this in my new speed, but melatonin can be used when you're sick to help you recover from illness because it helps support the body. It helps support the body in like such a way that helps you to fight infections and, and melatonin is really great. Okay? So a couple things that if you guys want to get a discount on this stuff. Now, I'm not saying that you have to run out and buy this, I personally would use dietary <laugh> and lifestyle changes over supplementation.

Speaker 1 (20:41):

But there it's really important that there, that you guys know that there are options out there. So there is two different kinds of melatonin that I, I like to recommend. And again, I've out of like the hundreds of people that I've worked with, I've only recommended these like twice ever <laugh>, okay? So the first one is melatonin. Prolonged release. So long-term use of melatonin has not been studied. So it's really, really important that you guys are not just doing this ongoing, like I feel like this is a short term side. This is a short term like bandaid in order to help you figure out the other areas. So melatonin, prolonged release by Douglas Labs supports a healthy sleep cycle, supports immune function antioxidants and will support it. And it cross, it crosses over the blood-brain barrier. So this is great for perimenopause and postmenopausal women who are struggling to stay asleep.

Speaker 1 (21:48):

Yeah, I like that one for those women. But again, lifestyle should take care of most of this. Now, if you are struggling to fall asleep quickly, there is a Douglas Labs makes a sublingual melatonin. So again, this is not intended for ki this one specifically is not intended for kids or people under 18. If you're pregnant, nursing or taking any prescription medication, you guys especially hormone replacement therapy, this is not for you. And or if you also have autoimmunity or depressive disorders, okay? So that kind of rules out a lot of people <laugh>. But sublingual melatonin helps you to fall asleep quickly. So in the gallbladder, melatonin helps convert cholesterol into bile and prevents oxidative stress inside the body, and it helps to increase the mobility of gallstones in the gallbladder. So it's really important that if you do take this, that you're following the recommendations and understanding the side effects of this in the show notes, you guys can set up an account on fullscript under me and you guys will get a discount if you do choose to go this route.

Speaker 1 (23:06):

The second thing and my preferred method when I, this week, I have taken the <laugh> doTERRA Serenity capsules because it's not melatonin, it just helps relax the body. And I find that I, because I'm still nursing in the middle of the night, I want to wake up feeling refreshed and ready to go. And that's what the serenity capsules have helped me do. I don't take them all the time, but I do use them <laugh>. They just help calm and encourage restful sleep. The nervous system help reduce stress, and they don't make me feel groggy in the morning because it has lavender essential oil and altheine along with like lemon balm and passion fruit and camera meal. So it just is very relaxing to the body. Now if your kids are struggling with sleep I have a few clients where I work with their kids and they have some diagnoses, I will say it that way, diagnoses that impact their sleep as kid kids and circadian rhythm.

Speaker 1 (24:20):

So Dr. Grain mom has some liquid melatonin and goodnight gummies that are really fantastic for the li the gummies are recommended for kids eight and up. But again, don't take this as like medical advice. You need to talk to your doctor about any of that. And then the liquid melatonin is for kids and adults. I don't remember what ages that one is recommended for. However again, you can check out the show notes, use my discount code thyroid, thriving Thyroid, 10 for those ones. And they, a lot of my clients who have kids who are maybe on the autism spectrum or a d d or ADHD or something like that who really struggle to go to sleep and and stay asleep, these have been very beneficial for them and their families. Again, talk to your professionals, talk to your doctors, especially if you're doing this for kids.

Speaker 1 (25:29):

But I, I like to share that information with you guys if you guys are at all struggling the way that I was struggling <laugh> with, with things happening with my kiddos and all the things. So let's talk about some ways to get good sleep and then we'll talk lastly about sleep mapping. And we'll wrap this up here. So number one, we need to create a sleep conducive area by keeping the bedroom cool, dark and quiet. We need to stick to a regular sleep schedule and wake up time. Avoid stimulating activities before bed, like watching tv, using electronics. If you do have to use them, use blue blockers or something along that, those lines. And then incorporate relaxation techniques such as deep breathing or meditation I have found. And even if your kids struggle with sleep, I have done this with my kids and I have found that it has worked really great.

Speaker 1 (26:31):

They have some kid meditation stories that you can find that walk kids through relaxing their body and they, there's like a rabbit and horses and animals and whatever, and it's like this fun story, but by the end of the story that's maybe like 10, 15 minutes long, it's an audio. I think, I'm sure there's a lot of them out there. My kids are relaxed enough to fall asleep and or they've already fallen asleep by that time. So that's worked really, really great and something that I would recommend way, way, way, way, way before <laugh> any kind of supplementation. And then of course eating a balanced diet that is rich in sleep, supporting nutrients such as magnesium, tryptophan B vitamins. And then also consider using essential oils like lavender. VTI ever is fantastic. Juniper Berry is known as like the, what do they call it?

Speaker 1 (27:35):

I think it's like the nighttime, I don't know, something that helps calm, <laugh>, calm me down. Or chamomile tea. So, you know, obviously using all of those. And then there's some of the other basic sleep things like eliminating coffee and caffeine and finishing, you know, dinner and whatever, whatever, whatever, right? Like all of the things. But those would be some places that I would start. So lastly, how does sleep map you guys? I am going to link up a workbook for you guys to track your sleep. Now, the best thing to do with sleep is to track it over three to five days. So you can start to see patterns emerging here. And in this workbook too, let me say this is, it's going to share with you a circadian rhythm chart that I really love and can help you to better understand which systems, glands, organs are not working, whoop.

Speaker 1 (28:43):

And by i, by tracking our sleep and checking out this circadian rhythm, you are gonna get a better idea of what is happening internally and maybe get, maybe you already know what to do for your liver or maybe you can, you know, do some research or whatever. Or if you guys want some additional help, feel free to reach out to us, right? I would love to have a thyroid breakthrough call with you. We can discuss further how to help you with sleep, help you get answers to support your sleep and your energy and your poop and your menstrual cycles and your sleep cycles and all these different things because sometimes it's going to be really difficult and challenging. And what I have noticed after years of coaching and years of working with people is it's like all of us have only so much willpower.

Speaker 1 (29:37):

We can go research, there's plenty of information out there on Dr. Google, but you, if you don't see results very quickly, it's gonna be really easy to fall back into old habits and then we're wasting time and then we're wasting money, and then we're wasting energy and then we feel like a failure because we weren't successful and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, right? That is what a coach does for you, is they help simplify the process and give you a very clear roadmap because we see things that you may not see. We know things like tryptophan and B6 and stomach acid and all these things that can be the missing piece of the puzzle for you guys. So in the show notes, there's lots of things that you guys can do. You guys can download the workbook, fill it out. This month we are building on top of all of these different things. We're starting with sleep. So start with sleep, track your sleep, see what's going on there, see how you need to, like, what information you can find from there. And if you're not finding the answers that you are looking for, book a call with me. You guys book a call, let's have a conversation and talk about how we can help support you, your hormones and help you get back to the life that you deserve. All right, you guys, I'll see you on the next.

 

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00:01):

Welcome back to the Thriving Thyroid Podcast, where we choose to become empowered patients and take our health into our own hands. Hi, I'm Shannon Hansen, a Christian entrepreneur, a mom of three. And after dealing with my own health mysteries, I made it my mission to learn everything I could about the thyroid. I soon became certified as a holistic wellness practitioner, a functional nutrition practitioner, and a functional diagnostic practitioner. And so much more After that, I founded the Revolutionary Thyroid Program, the Hanon Method. As a health professional and a mom, I fully understand the importance of having a fun, simple, and sustainable plan for achieving a responsive thyroid. So I share actionable and practical strategies for developing a responsive thyroid so that the ambitious moms and women can gain freedom from fatigue and lose the thyroid weight once and for all. Each week I will be here for you, along with my guest experts. We will be sharing simple and tangible tips that work for not only your thyroid, your hormones, your family, and your mindset, so that you can get back to living the life that you envision for yourself. Welcome to the Thriving Thyroid Podcast cast.

(01:24):

Welcome back to the Thriving Thyroid Podcast with myself, Shannon Hansen. I am your host of this podcast. It's been a while since I've introduced myself, and so I wanted to take a quick second to just say hello <laugh>, and I have just been feeling a great sense of like, I need to share pieces of my story that have led me to the things that I'm doing currently and why I have such strong beliefs in what I'm doing right and, and why I'm doing it and all of the things. And so in today's episode, I thought it would be really fun to talk to you guys about symptom mapping and one of the things that I use with my clients, and also draw some connections to my own personal story. So I have some really exciting news. I have been playing with a few things behind the scenes of like content and how I'm addressing it and how I'm planning things out and all of the things, not that that's probably super fun or exciting for you guys, but all May, we are going to be focusing on symptom mapping and how it pertains to what your body is telling you.

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And this is a tool that I use with my clients inside the handsome method for a thriving thyroid to help them, even if they haven't been diagnosed with thyroid, even if they're struggling with other things, to give them tools and resources that are actually beneficial and will actually move the needle forward. So this can be used, this is super beneficial for women with thyroid and or any kind of hormonal imbalance or simply if they are trying to figure out what the heck is wrong with me <laugh>. Because symptom mapping is designed to help you listen to your body and identify what is going on and what your body is trying to tell you. Our body doesn't have physical words. It can't say, Hey Shannon, you have a headache today because you haven't eaten all day and your blood sugar levels are way out of whack.

(03:59):

And so I'm trying to tell you to go eat food. Or, Hey, that meal that you ate last night that was super inflammatory and full of junk food wasn't balanced out with nutrient dense food, and therefore I'm having an inflammatory response and it's showing up as a headache, or you're having a headache because you've been sitting in front of the screen for too long without any kind of blue blocker or whatever, and whatever, right? Like our body can't use language and words like that in order to help us figure stuff out. And so it's up to us to figure out what the heck is going on <laugh>. And so symptom mapping is this process that I use to help identify and track symptoms in order to better understand how to you can and should be managing it. And it involves keeping records of symptoms that you were experiencing along with the frequency severity and any triggers that could be associated with it.

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I wanna share just a quick little story. I was reviewing one of my clients like intake forms today, and I noticed that. So in in the intake form, there's like a, a question that says, you know, if, are there any foods that trigger negative side effects or whatever, something along those lines. It's written a little bit better than that. And because of symptom mapping with this specific client, we are going back and where we've had tons of gains, but in this one area we're still a little stuck, okay? And so I went back to her intake form, I went back to her journals, I went back to all of this information to figure out what is the next step that we need to take in order for her to get better, feel better, and continue to see the progress that she's been seeing. And I noticed that the, the foods that she's reacting to are high histamine foods.

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And so anyways, we don't have to go into what we're doing, but because of the, this process that of tracking the symptoms and this verity and the triggers and all of these different things, we can then make adjustments to her overall plan and her protocol and, and what she's doing and the foods that she's eating. And, and we have to, because of test results and because of the symptom mapping, we have to increase certain foods or foods that are high in potassium because right now, again, looking at her journal, she's eating about half the amount of potassium that she needs. Now, keep in mind, potassium is your body cellular sensitivity, which makes it easier for your body to uptake thyroid hormones. So because of this information, we are able to make adjustments and continue to move forward. Okay, so let's talk about who should be using symptom mapping.

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Actually, let me say this <laugh> first, we just kind of talked about what symptom mapping is. I'll summarize that really quickly. Once again, it is keeping record of the symptoms that you are experiencing, how long you're experiencing the severity, and any triggers that you notice being associated with him. Okay, so who should be symptom mapping? Symptom mapping can be useful for anyone, including kids who are experiencing chronic symptoms or conditions. This includes women with thyroid, women with hormones. This could be little kiddos, <laugh>, this could be for your husband. I noticed a few years ago that my husband was always getting headaches on Sunday. And so as we were kind of figuring out what the heck was going on and why it was always on Sunday and whatever, it's because pretty much every other day during the week at the time, he was going to circle K or qt or I don't even know, honestly, which gas station.

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He was going to a gas station and getting a 42 ounce soda with high caffeine. And on Sundays he wasn't doing that because he was trying to observe the Sabbath day and not, you know, go spend money and whatever. Well, his body was withdrawing every Sunday from the caffeine. So sometimes symptom mapping can be useful for other family members by paying attention to habits, patterns, routines, and so you can better understand your overall health and wellness and for your kids because your body speaks in a different language. So when to use symptom mapping, okay? So symptom mapping can be used on an ongoing basis to track your symptoms and identify patterns over time. It can also be used during specific times when you notice an increase in symptoms or you're having changes in your health. And or one of the things that I like, I like to do, or what I have done is if I know that I have a doctor's appointment coming up in a month or a couple weeks or whatever, I may keep a note on my phone in the note section and write down, I noticed I had a headache today.

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I would rate it one through 10, or I had a migraine or my acne is popping up, or I don't know, like puffiness or inflammation or whatever it may be. Okay? And when I go into the doctor, I can share that information with them and ask for specific testing because sometimes <laugh> you may go to the doctor and say, Hey, I really feel like I need to have my hormones tested. And they're like, well, what do you have going on? And you're like, well, I don't know. I just feel like something's off and, you know, I can't lose weight. And, and they're like, okay. Like, no, I don't think you need that. So having these records essentially and saying, Hey, listen, I'm getting headaches five days a week. My cycle was five days late, I was super crampy. I had to take, you know, Motrin every two hours because my cramps were so bad or whatever it was.

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Then you ha like, it helps you remember that information. And so you can go in and say, this is why I would like to have my hormones tested. This is why I feel like I need X, Y, Z. Okay? So symptom mapping can be used, like I said, for a short period of time. It can be used for a longer period of time. I will be a hundred percent honest you guys. I freaking love the women who do a thyroid breakthrough call. And they come and they're like, here's all the, here's all the things that I've been experiencing this last week. And I'm like, oh my gosh, this is absolutely amazing. Or, and not like in a ranty story, like jump around place, but just like a, I have this, this, this is, you know, and I get headaches five days a week and you know, my last cycle was 52 days long and you know, whatever, just like high level bullet points because those symptoms of the shoulder pain and the knee pain and the neck pain and the calf pain or the calf tightness or whatever it is, helps me to gain a greater understanding of what is a possible avenue that this person is needing.

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Or if they come in, they're like, I'm not hungry in the morning. And I don't know, we could go <laugh>, we could, honestly, I could list off probably a million different symptoms. That's not really the point obviously for today's <laugh> conversation. We'll get into that a little bit later this week or not this week, this month. But those types of things are super beneficial for me because I like to treat, not even treat, that's probably not the right word. I like to work with people as a whole. I recognize that the body is mind, body, spirit and your physical body is giving us symptoms of what is happening, okay? It's an external sign of an internal issue. So, okay, so how do use symptom mapping? Start by identifying the symptoms that you're experiencing. Then create a log or a journal to keep record of these symptoms, including their frequency, their severity, and any triggers that you've had.

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I have, so my clients inside the Hanson method, they receive a weekly symptom assessment. This symptom assessment goes over all of the different areas from hair, skin, nails, bathroom trips, bowel movements, urination, trips aches, pains, weight, oh my goodness neurological things. So anxiety, depression headaches, mental clarity, focus. And they rate them on a scale from one to five. And what I do then on Monday morning, they have the weekend to fill it out and then Monday morning, if they haven't, they get a nice little note saying, Hey, here's your reminder <laugh>. And that is one of the ways that I ensure that my clients are getting results because every single week I'm reviewing those and I'm saying, wow, this person is progressing. Ooh, this person is not progressing, and then they actually went backwards and their symptoms are getting worse. And then I can reach out to that client and say, Hey Sarah, I noticed that this week these and these symptoms flared up.

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What changed? What happened? You know, or if we started a new protocol or something like that, I can reach out and be like, Hey, how are you feeling on this? And we can make adjustments, right? So this is super beneficial for all of the things. Now keep it, keep it simple and easy and something that you will be consistent with. So my clients use an app that I'm able to see. They're able to log everything I have access to it. It's a really great way for us to communicate back and forth. If you're an old fashioned pen and paper kind of person, <laugh>, you know, keep it in a place that you can keep track of things. Use, like I said earlier, a note on your phone, use your computer, whatever you need to do that you are going to be able to be consistent and at least do two weeks at a time because in those two weeks you should notice patterns starting to emerge.

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Okay? So a minimum of two weeks. So why is symptom mapping beneficial for women? So symptom mapping can be beneficial for women with thyroid because it helps identify, like I said, those patterns and the triggers. So if you're tracking your sleep, your stress, your aches and pains and menstrual cycles, it can help identify those patterns and, and how they may be associated with your thyroid with the changes in your, your cycle or whatever. And I wanna give you a quick example. I actually have two examples. So one of my clients <laugh>, I, we were, I don't even remember exactly what we were talking about on a coaching call. And I mentioned to them the day before you start your cycle, you typically have a surge in hormones, specifically like estrogen, estrogen peaks. And you will go into a quote unquote nesting kind of phase.

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Your body will give you a little boost of energy, you'll do laundry and you'll do dishes and you'll kind of clean and tidy up your house. You might organize a pantry or a drawer or a closet or I don't know, something <laugh>, right? And then the next day you'll start your cycle. And when we're on our cycle, our energy levels drop. And it's really interesting to see, now that you guys know <laugh>, many of you're gonna be like, oh my gosh. Like especially next time you like start your cycle or whatever, you'll be like, oh my gosh, yesterday I did all these things and then today I'm tired and I need a nap. We need to understand those, those cycles and know that that is totally normal when it comes to our menstrual cycle. Instead of beating ourself up and saying, oh my gosh, I'm a failure and I'm such a bad person and I don't have the energy and I just can't get anything done.

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No, you can, but we also have to learn to work with our body. And once I started you guys, this is so bad, <laugh>, before I start my cycle, I try to have everything done. So the, the three, four days that I'm on my cycle now I can kind of chill out and I can do minimal amounts of things and I can plan to have a nap if I need to, right? Because I know that my body needs that extra sleep. And I will prioritize going to bed early and eating nutrient dense food and eating foods that are lightly cooked and not raw and all, you know, all of these things in order to better support my body. But I know this now because I've tracked my symptoms and I've tracked other symptoms, <laugh> of my clients and then, you know, we get to put it all together.

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So that's why we symptom map. So I wanna share a couple stories. So, oh, that's funny. I just shared a story of Sarah, and this is a different Sarah <laugh>. So Sarah is a different, Sarah <laugh> is 35 year old woman with hypothyroidism, and she was experiencing chronic pain, chronic fatigue, joint pain, brain fog for several months. She started implementing the symptom mapping and was able to identify her symptoms when they were worse on those days. Like her symptoms seemed to flare up when she didn't get enough s sleep and sh when she was consuming a high amount of gluten foods. And so because she identified she's eating more carbs, she's eating, you know, more gluten inflammatory type foods and the lack of sleep, that's when her brain fog and her chronic pain and all these things began to flare up and she was able to make changes to her eating and get some specific enzymes to help with the gluten and just avoid it or whatever, right?

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Like we, we talked about a lot of different strategies to help her with that. And then magically things started to clear up <laugh>, right? Or things got better and she developed the skills necessary to not have the symptoms pop up. So the next one Emily, so Emily is, was, was, is <laugh> 28? She might have had a birthdate spending a little, a little bit of time. She was 20, she was is 28 with hyper thyroidism, okay? And she had been experiencing that increased heart rate, the anxiety for several weeks. And by using the symptom mapping, she was able to identify that her symptoms were worse when she was under a lot of stress and when she was working in her office, like in her, yeah, I guess in her office and not in her home office. So when she was working in the office going into work, there we go, <laugh> going into work versus when she was staying home, because several years ago, like some of this came out a little bit later, but several years ago that building had a lot of water damage and there was mold and things in there.

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So the anxiety, the heart rate flared up when she was at work and we were able to identify that because, because of symptom mapping, right? She was able to say, oh, I might need to like work from home a little bit more. And she's actually last I heard she was talking to the boss and the owner of the, the building to talk about like a mold mitigation kind of process and get things cleaned up and or get some air purifiers for her, her office. So not only did it help her <laugh>, but it was helping her other colleagues because last, again, last I heard they were starting to make adjustments for what was going on. So in conclusion for today, symptom mapping is a really powerful tool that we can use to better understand and manage our symptoms by tracking things related to poop, stress, aches, pains, menstrual cycles and you guys are able to identify those triggers that could be associated with that and help with overall health and wellness and improve the quality of life and all of the things.

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So like I said before, or like I mentioned before, may we are going to be focusing on what is symptom mapping, who should be using it? But then we're gonna be going into the nitty gritty of poop, bowel movements, <laugh>, sleep, your menstrual cycle, body aches and pains, stress management. Like what, what are these signs and symptoms that are happening trying to tell you, trying to help you learn about, and I wanna give you those skills, right? So I wanted you guys for this week and maybe <laugh> you can start doing this, so that as these trainings come out, you can begin to make your own connections. You can say, oh my gosh, my headache, or oh my gosh, my menstrual cycle or, you know, my bowel movements, this is what it means. And then, and then you can start making positive changes. Okay?

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Super exciting. I am am currently working on a workbook for you guys that is going to go along with what we are talking about this month. And so that should be coming out on the next podcast where we're starting to break down poop and sleep and all of those other things. And so for this month, you guys can do your workbook alongside us and hopefully you'll have some really good big aha moments. And I would love for you guys to share this episode with someone else who you know is struggling with their health and maybe they can also listen along and have their own aha moments and start conversations and start learning to advocate for themselves because you guys, this is really, really one of the most powerful tools that I have that I could share with anybody. So with that being said, I will see you guys on the next and hopefully you'll have your workbook and you will have your symptom assessments all done and we can start having some really good podcast episode conversations. All right you guys, I'll see you on the next

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145 // How Minerals Are Important for Your Overall Health and More Importantly Your Thyroid with Ruby Miller

Health is Ruby's passion, and is something she's been interested in since she was a little girl, asking her mom all sorts of questions. She was inspired by a co-worker at 16 when she observed her healthy eating habits and the resulting energy she had. After Ruby's son was born, she dealt with some significant health issues and post partum depression, which led her into deep diving of minerals & understanding how they work.

She then went on to become a certified health coach in the spring of 2020 with a passion to see other young moms feel good and thrive throughout their day. She is also a Certified Root Cause Protocol Consultant, specializing in mineral dysregulation. Ruby is also a huge advocate of abuse awareness and helping women heal from abusive relationships. Some of Ruby's other loves are dark chocolate, coffee, her two very adorable children, her handsome fiance, and horses.

 

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Welcome back to the Thriving Thyroid Podcast, where we choose to become empowered patients and take our health into our own hands. Hi, I'm Shannon Hansen, a Christian entrepreneur, a mom of three. And after dealing with my own health mysteries, I made it my mission to learn everything I could about the thyroid. I soon became certified as a holistic wellness practitioner, a functional nutrition practitioner, and a functional diagnostic practitioner. And so much more After that, I founded the Revolutionary Thyroid Program, the Hanon Method. As a health professional and a mom, I fully understand the importance of having a fun, simple, and sustainable plan for achieving a responsive thyroid. So I share actionable and practical strategies for developing a responsive thyroid so that the ambitious moms and women can gain freedom from fatigue and lose the thyroid weight once and for all. Each week I will be here for you, along with my guest experts. We will be sharing simple and tangible tips that work for not only your thyroid, your hormones, your family, and your mindset, so that you can get back to living the life that you envision for yourself. Welcome to the Thriving Thyroid Podcast cast.

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All right, you guys. Welcome back to the Thriving Thyroid Podcast. I have Ruby with me. Welcome, Ruby. Hi, thanks for having me today. I'm super excited to be sharing. Yeah, we're excited to have you here. So give us like a little bit about who you are and what you do. Sure. So I have a pretty interesting health journey which is what brought me to this place in helping other women, other moms find freedom and go from surviving their every day to thriving and enjoying life. Been there. So I feel like I, I understand what it's like when, you know, you're just living through your life and it's, it's not, you're not living your, your best life. So I became a health coach about three years ago. I've always been very intrigued by health and understanding how the body works and what it needs to function properly.

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So I decided this is something I wanna go after to pursue right after going through a divorce. I put my all into this so that this has been an amazing, an amazing opportunity for me to just learn more about the body and also help other, other women feel good. So like I said, I'm a health coach. I'm also a, a certified root cause protocol consultant. Really focusing on how minerals control the body. I love that. So that's a part of why we're, we're here to have this conversation is to talk about the importance of minerals. So when did you first like realize that minerals were an important or a key part of like health? When I first started working with my own health coach about seven years ago, that was right after my son was born. I started seeking out answers.

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I had severe eczema and adrenal fatigue, postpartum depression, all the things. And by you know, I went through the, some medical stuff. I was like, this is not the answer. I can't, this is not helping. So found my health coach who focuses on minerals and it really just, it stuck with me like nothing had before and I was like, wow, this is incredible. How all of this works in order for a body to function properly. So yeah, I guess that's about when all of that started. Yeah, I love that. So I, similar to you, like after baby number two was born, I was like, something is not right inside my body. <Laugh>. and that pushed me into getting education, but it wasn't until much later in my education that I learned about minerals. Like I knew based off like my beliefs and stuff, I really strongly feel that like the food and what we put into our body is a key player in how our body runs and operates.

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And there were certain things that were still missing and I was like, I don't understand. I'm gluten-free, I'm dairy-free, I'm exercising, I'm, you know, eating organic. I'm doing all of the quote unquote right things, but something was still kind of missing in mm-hmm. <Affirmative> in that for me. So I love that you had someone earlier in your journey Yes. To, to share with that with you. Sure. So what was one of the things that you like discovered in, I'm assuming your first hair analysis? Yes. yeah, so very interesting. My first hair analysis I believe, and I still have a copy of that somewhere, <laugh>. I believe my sodium and potassium were just through the roof, magnesium through the roof. And keep in mind I was also under extreme heavy emotional, I don't know, chaos if you wanna say that. And yeah, that was really obviously coming out and showing on my skin.

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My eczema was probably the worst, like it that was, I can't, I relate to people who go, who go with that, deal with that. It's not fun. So yeah, sodium, a potassium low copper was another one. Low copper, low bi available copper on, on my hair test. So we really started slowly having to, to supplement sodium potassium cuz I just reacted and it was a slow process. But, you know, with just sticking to it I, and I think we tested like six months later, things really started shifting and did in that six months, what kind of results were you starting to see for yourself? Well I, honestly, it took about four months before I started seeing any results Okay. From when I started with my coach. And that first initial hair test I was dealing, and I didn't realize it at the time that much.

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I was dealing with a lot of histamine responses. So, and that the liver does have a part of that big part of that too, kidneys. And so anytime like, you know, taking whole food, vitamin C sodium, potassium, I would just, my body would go crazy. But with the encouragement of my coach, she just encourage me to keep on on going and doing the best that I can. And also adding in the magnesium is in I think about two and a half or three months into that. I just, I, I knew something with it was gonna, this was, this was it. And so I just stuck with it. And then I, I started seeing results within about four months of starting whole food supplementation and also understanding how to manage some stress. And it, it really just works together.

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You know, if you don't have the minerals to help manage the stress, but then you have stress cuz you don't have the minerals to manage have the minerals to help you with that stress response. It's like, it's a full, you know, a circle right there. So it's, yeah. I think it was about four months until I started seeing really some really great results. I love that because I'm sure as you know, as like a practitioner and stuff, our clients, they walk in and Okay, so I, I'll just share. I have one client the last like two weeks on call, she's like, so how quickly am I gonna see results? I'm like, you're, you're two weeks into your protocol <laugh> like you're two weeks into this, right? You just told me that you had doubled the energy and you're feeling better and you're sleeping through the night, but you're still asking me when everything's gonna go away, when you've been dealing with some of these things for 15, 20 years.

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Right. It's not a light bulb <laugh>. So I love that. Right. it took you four months, but you still did continued on on that ride. Yeah. I mean, it's gonna take the body a while to heal. Like I tell, I tell my clients all the time too, you can't expect a miracle overnight. You didn't get here overnight. So averaging about, so example, for example, like if somebody's been dealing with their symptoms for maybe 10 years, so an average of one to two month per year. So, you know, 10 to 20 months before you can really see some really lasting results. But that also is gonna depend on, on you how much you're gonna put into it as well, you know, I, we, we can't as the coaches or we can't do this for you. So that's also gonna depend on how much, how much you put into it.

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Yeah, that's exactly what I tell my clients. I'm like, for every year expect at least a month of active healing. Mm-Hmm. <Affirmative> not, I did really good for two weeks and then Right. I threw everything out the window and then came back to it. You know, like, no, it's a consistent effort right on, on your part. And it's not like, it's not about perfection, it's about putting forward Right. The time and the energy and the effort and doing a little bit better than what you did the day before. So. Right. Let's transition the call a little bit and I wanna talk about how the liver impacts your thyroid health. Mm-Hmm. <affirmative>, absolutely. I love talking about the liver. The liver is such an amazing organ. It's the second largest organ after our skin. And it really takes a beating. And not just, people a lot of times assume, well, I don't have any liver issues cuz I don't drink alcohol.

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Well, you don't have to drink alcohol to have liver issues. You know, the liver is like a filter. It filters out toxins. It filters out so many things. So we are exposed to the amount of toxins you were exposed to, let's say for example, a hundred years ago. We're exposed to that in about one day. So there's a, there's a lot of toxins we're exposed to and the body isn't able to, I mean, that's a lot. I mean, think about what, especially as females, you know, if you grew up, you know, the nineties or I mean early two thousands, like all the, and I'm sure earlier too, but just speaking to I guess that generation, like all the, you know, makeup and toxins and birth control and all of that, like the body can only handle so much.

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And the liver, the liver can't always handle that. So it's gonna start acting up and be like, Hey, I really need support here. So, and, and also the other thing with the liver is copper coppers and really one of my favorite minerals that's where the bioavailability of the copper happens. So converting copper from what's not available for the body to being bioavailable to use. And so it's also, it's really important to remember that also a lot of other things happen besides just how it filters out toxins. See the liver is also where T4 gets converted to t3 which is super, super important when it comes to helping our, our thyroid function. You know, thyroid is an incredible little organ that also does a, a lot for our body. Yeah, no, and I, I think that that's one like misconception when it comes to the thyroid is that it only happens right here in your neck, you know?

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Mm-Hmm. <Affirmative>, it doesn't, like we, I I didn't know this until obviously I went down a further further rabbit hole that your thyroid and your thyroid hormones play with not only your thyroid, but your liver, your small intestines. Like it's not a OneStop shop thing, right? Yeah. So for, for me, when I'm looking at thyroid health I immediately think, okay, there's, there's a bigger issue going on here. I feel like the, the thyroid is more of like a symptom of something else, of what's, what's not converting or working right in the body. I work with a lot of clients who do have thyroid issues, whether that's hypo or Hashimotos or some who have hyper. That's seems not to be the majority of people. But yeah, so the liver is super important for thyroid function. Bile you know, gets made into the liver bio is like our body's detergent, you know, without having proper bio flow, things aren't gonna flow well.

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And when you know, then you have the chance of having gallstones or, you know, parasite, there's all sorts of things that can happen when things are, the liver is <inaudible>. And so one of the things that with, with vile is 95% of our vial is recycled and then stored in the gallbladder. And the gallbladder that's supposed to capture a lot of toxins, right? So, you know, what happens when the toxins aren't able to be excreted, it just, it kind of just keeps recycling in, in that gall in the gallbladder. And so making sure you know, that the liver is being supported whether I like to implement liver flushes there's different kinds, but you don't wanna be doing a lot of those unless you have some sort of mineral some, you know, you're supporting the body with minerals because, you know, doing too many flushes, detoxes that can be really stressful going, going there right off the bat.

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Well, and I don't know about, like, I know everybody's kind of clienteles a little bit different. A lot of my clients, when they have thyroid, they're also constipated. And so depending on, and, and I know like a flush is different. But if they're trying to, let's just say detox, we'll we'll use that term very loosely. If they're trying to detox and they're not having a bowel movement, it's not <laugh>, it's not gonna work. Don't, yeah. It's not, you gotta have, you've gotta have a man. Yeah. Bowel movements, that's another, it's, it's hard to just talk about one part of the body without going into all the other, because, you know, the liver is a detox lymphatic system is another one, which is yeah. Another topic. But you know, if you're not, if you're not having adequate bowel movements a day, you, you probably don't wanna do anything detoxing wise because you're not, it's, it's not gonna go anywhere.

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Yeah. So, you know, that's definitely number one. Make sure that you're having one to two movements a day. Two most that's two, but I say one but two for sure <laugh>. So and so something that I see a lot in my, like, I clients from like between the ages of 35 to 50 major, they, a lot of 'em have major digestive issues. And a lot of that is because bile isn't flowing, toxic, sluggish bile, about 80% of women over the age of 40 have a toxic sluggish bile flow. And why is that? Like, what's, what's going on behind that? I mean, there's, there, there's a lot of things. And so if you have, if you're having trouble with your thyroid or you're on thyroid medication, definitely look at your liver health, you know, what are you doing for your liver?

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Are you supporting your liver? With herbs cast oil packs are you having good movement? Is your bio flowing? Do you even have your gallbladder? That's another big one. Is, you know, there's, there's a lot of people who do not have gallbladders. I don't know the percentage of women, but, and the, the thing that I would say for my clients, about 50% don't have gallbladders. Like, so, and again, I like, I know my clientele is different than like a majority of the women out there. But about 50% of them don't have Wow. A gallbladder. And it usually starts with that mm-hmm. <Affirmative> like the removal of that, and then they start having thyroid issue and I'm like, right, <laugh>, you know, so Right. And it's, yeah, it just shocks me, I don't know, maybe you shouldn't anymore because of our, our healthcare system, it's really sick care system.

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How doctors aren't educating these women on what, how to take care of their bodies post removing the gall bladder. Like, first of all, why are we, why are we looking at why is a gall bladder being removed? That should be the big question you're asking before you even let your doctor do that. Like, why, you know, if if you have a lot of gallstone in there, then that's an indication. You've got a, your bial isn't flowing, you've got major toxic buildup. So, and there are things you can do to help support that. I'm not saying to not have it removed, but I would probably look at other avenues before, before doing that because it's such a vital organ. It's so vital. It's, yeah. And the thing that I get frustrated with, and I, a lot of my clients who have, don't have a gall bladder, and they come to me and they're like, and I'm like, are you taking anything to help with bio flow?

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Like, ox file or, and they're like, yeah, no, I didn't know that. And I'm like, doctors need to do better at making sure they give the clients some sort of thing to go off of when they get home because you need bio. Like, it's just, it's shocking to me. And it's, it's such an important part of our detoxification pathway. Totally. Yeah. I, I 100% agree. I'm like, okay, this is <laugh>. That's what I tell my clients when they come in and they don't have a gallbladder. I'm like, this is something you're gonna be on for the rest of your life because you don't have a gallbladder <laugh>. And they look at me like, well, why didn't my doctor tell you? I'm like, I don't know. Like, I don't know if it's a lack of education. I don't know if they gloss over some of these things because they think that everybody knows it.

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You know, like, I don't, I don't know. I'm not exactly sure. And I know some of my clients have even asked, or their doctors are like, okay, now that I don't have a gob letters or anything that I need to do, and their doctors say, Nope. Every, like, you're good to go. You know? So I'm like, ah, so no. Or they'll tell them, I just eat low fat, just eat low fat. Well, <laugh> no, your body needs fat though. We need retinal, we need real vitamin A good quality sources of fat to be able, like, that has a lot of nutrients and minerals in it. So that's not really that's like kind of like saying, well, you know I have a cut on my finger, so I'm just gonna cut my finger off <laugh>, you know? No, let's heal the terrain. Let's heal what's going on the dysfunction.

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Let's question why are, why are there so many gallbladder issues? Why are there so many liver issues? The other thing that I'd like to touch on with when it comes to liver is emotional health. So the, a anchor is correlated with the liver. So, and, and a lot of people who have trouble with, you know, emotional health, especially with getting angry really easy most times have a lot of liver stuff going on too. You know, think about, you know, if the body isn't able to handle a lot of the toxins, so it's not gonna also be able to handle some of these even more tougher emotions, if that makes sense. Yeah. So I often see such a big difference in clients when they start supporting the liver with how they feel emotionally, how they're able to process hard things and, you know, work through things that have normally like, just made them snap just like that.

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So you know, it's super important to, to address the emotional side of it as well and how that can impact your liver. No, I love that so much. And I mean, obviously that's like a whole other thing to talk about <laugh> emotions and how that interconnects with different organs and systems and stuff. I, my granddad died from liver cancer and he, I mean, he was a heavy drinker for many years and, and whatever. Yeah. But he, not when I was around, but my, what my mom told me was that he was very like, angry, you know, a lot of the times and have anger issues. And I think that that's one thing I'm like, and when I started to learn about the interconnection of human emotion and, and like organ function and things like that, I was like, oh, that's so interesting, you know?

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Right. Like, that's so interesting how they all connect and it, it kind, it helps you have a little more empathy in some ways, uhhuh knowing that, okay, well hey, you know, know, maybe they're struggling because X, Y, Z or their liver isn't functioning well. So like, you know, if you're coming to me and how, how can I best support you in that area? Yeah, I, I feel like just gives you a little bit more, more empathy, I mean, to help them feel better. Totally. So I know you do some work with like kids and stuff like that. So what is something that people can do to help support like their kids or like Yeah, we'll just say that. How, how can they support like their kids and their family for better health? Sure. So are we talking specifically liver function or just overall?

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Just overall. Yeah. Sorry, <laugh>. Okay. No, you're fine. So first of all, heal yourself. You know how on the airplane they always tell you to put your oxygen mask on before you can, before put any anyone else's on. That's the same thing. You're not being selfish by putting yourself first, putting yourself out there, because if you are not able to be well and feel good, you know, that's gonna come, that's gonna rub off on your whole family. You know, nobody wants to be around a person who is not fun to be around, just to be honest. And, you know, if you're struggling in your health, I really encourage you to work with someone get some testing done. I prefer H T M A and also a BIORESONANCE scan. We, that's those two are my types of testing that we do. To get an insight of what you're, you know, what's going on in your body, support your adrenals with, with some, with an adrenal cocktail, sodium, potassium support, your liver health Castro oil packs different herbs for, for the liver, like milk, milk, Theo dandelion, those are some really good ones.

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Acknowledge your stress, like what's causing you a lot of stress? How are you handling that? Are you working, have you worked through, you know, really hard traumas that have been in your life? Those are some really good ways to start with supporting your health for overall for your kids. And as a, as a mom of a five and a six year old, I'm telling you, it does really rub off on them once they, and they start saying, well, I'm doing this stuff, and they're like, can I try this? Or, you know, include them and understanding what minerals do for the body and kind of make it fun for them to, to so they can understand. And I think, yeah, that's probably what has worked, that's worked really, really well for me and really, really what I encourage my clients to do moms for their children.

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I, I love that we do something similar. So my kid, so I have four okay. 12, 9, 6, and then a one year old. And one of the things that we started to do several years ago is we would talk about at the dinner table how, you know, salmon has good, healthy fats mm-hmm. <Affirmative>, and that helps mm-hmm. <Affirmative>, I would, yeah. I keep it very high level for my kids, right. It helps with your brain, you know very simple. Yeah, very simple. And they were like, oh, okay. You know, and then when I introduced new foods, they would a, they would ask me mm-hmm <affirmative>, what is this good for mom? And I'm like I dunno, <laugh>. So sometimes we would google it together and mm-hmm. <Affirmative>, that was also one of the things that I started using with, had a client several years ago who had a lot of fear around food. She had done all of the diets, all of the things. Yeah. And she

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Was like, can I eat watermelon? Can I eat apples? Can? I'm like, oh my freaking heck. <Laugh>. Yes. If it is a whole food mm-hmm. <Affirmative>, yes. If it is like a whole food or something, like, please eat it and if you're scared of it, go research. I told her, I was like, go Google the benefits of eating a watermelon. You know, <laugh>, like, because we shouldn't have fear around Whole Foods we need. Right. Anyways, that's a whole other thing. But yeah, I hear what you're saying. Definitely true. <Laugh>, we need to keep, like they provide our body with something, you know? Right. Maybe your body doesn't need that specific thing. Mm-Hmm. <Affirmative> mm-hmm. <Affirmative> and it, it'll let you know. And obviously working with practitioners and things can help you, help you identify Yeah, absolutely. A little bit better. That's gonna put another added stress on the body. If, you know, obviously if there's fear around food, there's always gonna be a reason for all of that. But, you know, stress, that's a big one. And I, I know I probably sound like a broken record, but chronic stress does so much to your body. I mean, it, it affects the hormones that help convert the T4 to T3 in the thyroid. And it literally, it just, it slows everything down in the body. So recognizing what your stressors are is super important.

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Very, very true. Okay, so let's wrap up here. What are, what is something that you think the listeners should know or anything about, like minerals and, and all of that? And then we'll tell 'em Sure. Where they can find you. Yeah, so first off, I just wanna say that you got this mama and you're doing the best that you can. If you're making one small change, you know, in your life on the daily or the weekly, you're, you're going forward. And I really encourage all the listeners especially the Mamas, to not to not give up. Because there is a life and there is hope on the other side of that. I, I've been there where you're at and I know that it feels like you're never gonna get there, but you will trust the process. So one of the things I would really, one of the first things I would highly suggest doing if you don't already is support your adrenal function with sodium sodium potassium restraint, whether that's a homemade adrenal cocktail or one of my favorites from Jigsaw.

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I love, I love that adrenal cocktail. Or whether, yeah, like I said, you make your own. We need the sodium potassium to be pumping before we really start introducing some other minerals in the body. Sleep, you know, good quality sleep. I know that's probably hard for some who have little ones. But, you know, supporting your own needs, arresting when you can rest doing things you enjoy to do, you know yeah, that's really important as well. Eating a diet rich in Whole Foods, can't stress that one enough, you know, it's so easy to grab something packaged, especially when you're running on no sleep, you know, drinking that coffee. Definitely hold off on drinking coffee before food in the morning. I can't stress that one enough. That's really gonna impact your liver. So, you know, making sure that you're getting a good start with protein before you get all of that caffeine.

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Yeah, I, I love that too. I'm drinking my adrenal cocktail this morning. Thanks. So go ahead. No, I was just gonna say, I have one here too. I need to drink it. I just haven't gotten to it yet, so <laugh>, it's coming. Well, but that's the important thing, right? Like we're, we're, we're on the same journey with you, right? Not, maybe not the exact same journey, but like we're, we're busy moms, we're business owners. We do all of the life things, and it always like pains me to hear people say, I just don't have time. I don't have time. And I'm like, mm-hmm. <Affirmative>, and I, this is kinda like a, a segue, but I had, this was a couple years ago, so I was a new business owner, COVID had happened. I was homeschooling my kids, I was, you know, trying to do all the things and I really wanted to participate in like this coaching program.

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And I asked the person on the phone on the other side who had the program, I said, you know, how much time do I need to invest in into this? And he was like, oh, so time's an issue. And I was like, no, no, no, time is not an issue. And I said, <laugh>, this came out before it, like even registered in my head. This is why it like stands out to me so much. As I said, I'm, I make time for things that are important for me. I just need to know like what kind of time investment that I need to spend on this. Mm-Hmm. <Affirmative>. And so I think for like the listeners out there like that, if you are looking at a program or looking to work with someone, that can be a beneficial thing to ask them is, right, what is my time investment Right?

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In this? Because it may not be as bad as you think. Mm-Hmm. <Affirmative>, like I tell my clients, I'm like to go through all of the things and implement everything. You're probably looking at an extra, maybe 30 minutes to an hour, right. Of your time per week. Right. In addition to what you're already doing, like cooking your foods, you're just prioritizing, you know mm-hmm. <Affirmative> what kinds of foods you're eating that are matching up with what your body needs. Yeah, that's so true. So, so true. It's, you know, you, you will make time for what's really important and you may, you may need to make that really priority right now for this season of life, whether that's the next six month or half year because it's going to, if you do that now you get your some of your health issues, you know, more uncontrolled and healed you're gonna be so much further ahead in five years.

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That's always what I like. If clients tell me, Hey, I wish I would've done this like five years ago. I'm like, well, look at where you're at now. Well, that's true. Thankfully, you haven't waited, you didn't wait another five years and you're here now. We're gonna get you to a good place. Good place. So, yep. Totally. Totally. All right, well thank you so much for being on today. And we will, where can people find you on social media? So I have an Instagram page. It's Ruby Miller, my last name is Miller. Pretty generic. It's I think you're, you're gonna have it in the links correct. Yep. It's just Ruby with three Ys and underscore and Miller with two Rs. I, that's where you can find me. Facebook it's gonna be under Grit and Grace Wellness Co. And I do have a TikTok as well where I post content too.

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And that's the same as my Instagram handle. Cool. I'm gonna go follow you on TikTok. Okay. Just don't scroll back A couple years ago, I, I honestly like, I created a TikTok <laugh>, I think I've posted two things. I am not active on there and I have everybody's like utilizing it. They need to be on there. Yeah. And I'm like, it's one more thing that <laugh> I know I'm trying to do all of, you know, as a mo. So here, here's kind of, well flip this around for like the listeners is I only have so much bandwidth in my day having four kids running a business. I am, maybe I shouldn't say this yet out loud, I might jinx it, but I'm getting a dairy cow, which means I'm gonna have to milk a cow <laugh>. That's right. No, I'm so excited. I'm so my fiance, I'm so excited.

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No, we're not getting a cow. So so we, we have two cows, two for beef right now, and we just butchered like our first cow. That's awesome. February. and then we, like, we do chickens, we do our own chickens and stuff. And so like, I've wanted a dairy cow for so long <laugh>. Anyways, I think I'm getting one this week. So here, here's the thing. That's awesome. If I can do all of that with my kids sports, piano harp dance lessons, softball season, right? Like homework, church stuff, like you guys name it. Like I promise this is stuff that you guys can do. I yeah, I know. I, I, I agree with you. It's, I'm a soest single mom. And yeah, I am always like, you, you don't have time for to do wa and I'm sorry, but y you're gonna have to make time.

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You'll figure it out. If I can do it then you definitely can, you know running after kids, yeah, it, it's a lot taking care of your own home and, and I, I know it's a lot, but it's not impossible and you, this is probably gonna be one of the most important things you can do for yourself going forward if you want true and lasting healing in your body. Yep. Yep. I, I really believe that. I believe minerals play a really important part in the body. And so, yeah. You know, figuring out how your body utilizes them and plays with them is, is valuable. So yes. We will link everything up in the show notes and you guys can go follow Ruby and I just followed you on TikTok, but Oh, okay. Just don't <laugh>. Ok. So I started, I don't have time for that.

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I don't care. Whatever. I, I started using it and for my business probably like a half a year ago. And before that it was just covid stuff and then I, I had a few videos that went kind of viral and yeah. So now it's it's, it's a fun platform to use and I'm learning how to navigate it. But yeah, thanks for having me on today. It's been great to be able to share what I'm passionate about and yeah. Thank you. Yeah, we appreciate you. We'll see you guys on the next

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