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Midlife hormones and why you don't feel like yourself · The Rockyn YES Podcast - with Dr. Raquel Yarroch

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  SPEAKER_00: Welcome back to the Rockin' Yes podcast.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm Dr.
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  SPEAKER_00: Raquel Yarrell, and I am the owner of Rock and Health and Whole Life Chiropractic.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I'm a chiropractor, I do functional medicine, and I also do breakthrough coaching.
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  SPEAKER_00: So stay with me right now.
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  SPEAKER_00: This podcast is going to be about midlife hormones and why you don't feel like yourself.
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  SPEAKER_00: So have you ever looked in the mirror and wondered, when did I stop feeling like myself?
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  SPEAKER_00: Sometimes you look at yourself and you start pointing out all the wrinkles in your face, or you look at like maybe you've gained some weight, so you point that out to your body, like, ooh, you know, my arms have gotten a little saggy, you know.
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  SPEAKER_00: So there's that's kind of like negative self-talk that you're saying to yourself.
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  SPEAKER_00: But here's the thing: you're noticing things are changing.
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  SPEAKER_00: You're no longer a teenager or in your 20s.
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  SPEAKER_00: You're probably in your 30s, 40s, 50s, probably closer to your 50s, realizing that your body is just changing.
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  SPEAKER_00: And when we talk about midlife hormones, there's a variety of different ways we can look at this.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, one I want to talk about the female hormones, midlife, what we go through.
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  SPEAKER_00: So it about, it can start actually mid-30s to late 30s, where you start to go through perimenopause.
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  SPEAKER_00: And perimenopause is where your cycle might start to shift and change.
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  SPEAKER_00: It might get longer, shorter, heavier, lighter.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's kind of doing various different things.
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  SPEAKER_00: And you might be thinking, well, this isn't much different than when I was in my 15s and 20s.
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  SPEAKER_00: And, you know, when I was in my teens, that they were crazy and horrible and I had horrible pains and I felt like crap.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, now it's a little bit different.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now you're also possibly having some hot sweats.
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  SPEAKER_00: You're also a little bit more moody.
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  SPEAKER_00: Even when your cycle isn't happening, you might be a little more short-tempered because the other thing that's happened during this time is you've taken on a lot more roles in your life.
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  SPEAKER_00: You're probably a mother, probably have maybe some children, maybe some grandchildren.
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  SPEAKER_00: You have a work career that you're working on.
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  SPEAKER_00: You've got your home life, you got a significant other possibly.
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  SPEAKER_00: So you've got a lot more on your plate versus just being a teenager or in your 20s.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm not dismissing 15s and 20s or the teenagers and 20s.
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  SPEAKER_00: But what I'm saying is midlife, 35 to 55, 60, your hormones are going through a shift and change.
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  SPEAKER_00: So you have paramenopause, and that can last up to 10 years.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then you have menopause, and that is a point where it's been a year and you haven't had a cycle, and that is like the date.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hey, I hit menopause.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's just a moment in time, it's been a year.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then you have postmenopause, and that's like the rest of your time where you are not having a cycle anymore.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, what kind of changes during this time?
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  SPEAKER_00: What's changing?
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  SPEAKER_00: Right?
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  SPEAKER_00: So we have hormones are changing.
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  SPEAKER_00: So your estrogen has been dropping, your progesterone has dropped, possibly the testosterone, and you're starting to not feel like yourself.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because the thing is, is you need estrogen, progesterone, and testosterone to actually feel good.
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  SPEAKER_00: They're also needed for like bone density.
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  SPEAKER_00: They're needed to have your hair grow healthy, they're needed for your skin to feel good.
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  SPEAKER_00: And they need it, you need it also for your weight and for your body proportion and your metabolism.
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  SPEAKER_00: But what happens when we start to go through these midlife hormonal changes is they start to decrease.
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  SPEAKER_00: And as they decrease, what we don't realize is also our metabolism starts to go down.
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  SPEAKER_00: So even though we might be eating and doing the exact same thing we've always done, but because our hormones are now shifting, we're starting to slowly gain a little extra weight, or we're not as muscular as we used to be.
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  SPEAKER_00: It takes more to become muscular.
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  SPEAKER_00: And what's happening is your progesterone is dropping.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then you might notice, hey, my sleep isn't as good anymore.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm having these night sweats.
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  SPEAKER_00: So you might get an average of a few hours of sleep at night.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then you don't feel good.
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  SPEAKER_00: So you wake up, you're already exhausted from a night of not sleeping well, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: Because you know, you've sweated through your sheets, you had to get up, change your clothes.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know, I used to have to put a towel down just to get back in bed because I wasn't gonna wake up my husband and have to have him get up and so I could change his sheets.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I just would lay a towel down and then go back to sleep, because otherwise it was like gross.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, but what I discovered during that time was I had to start looking at what's going on in my hormones, what's changing.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so I actually did my own testing.
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  SPEAKER_00: And because I'm a functional doctor and I'm a chiropractor, I can do that.
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  SPEAKER_00: You may not be.
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  SPEAKER_00: So you need to go to somebody.
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  SPEAKER_00: You need to go to like a functional medicine nutritionist, or you need to go to your health provider.
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  SPEAKER_00: Generally, I would choose functional because they're usually just going to give you uh drugs or the pill or other things like that.
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  SPEAKER_00: And this conversation is not about that, but most people, what I've been talking to, truly do not want the drugs.
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  SPEAKER_00: They don't want the pill, they don't want an antidepressant, they don't want that stuff, and they want to be listened to and heard.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so what what I do is I actually make sure that we find out what's going on and we actually test so we actually know what your hormones are doing at the right time, exactly what's happening, so we know exactly how to help you.
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  SPEAKER_00: But what's happening is your metabolism changes.
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  SPEAKER_00: You when you do your night sweats, and I remember I actually started my night sweats when I was in my late 20s, early 30s.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I remember I was working with a naturopath, and he asked me, he's like, So do you want to have children?
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  SPEAKER_00: And I'm like, Well, yeah, but not right now.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, I'm only in my late, I'm just in chiropractic college.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm not ready for kids yet.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's like, Well, here's the thing because of all your stress, all the stuff you're putting your body through, your body is trying to go through menopause right now, and you're only 29 years old.
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  SPEAKER_00: And every time you have your night sweats, you're leaking out calcium out of your bones.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I was like, Oh, crap.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's like, So you need to get a little bit more serious about your health.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so he was kind of my eye-opener.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, that was Challen Wake Off.
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  SPEAKER_00: And he's now no longer on this planet anymore.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's up in heaven.
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  SPEAKER_00: But he was huge at helping me start to shift and really look at things.
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  SPEAKER_00: And he made me really want to start exploring the functional medicine side of the world.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I didn't realize there was even that allowed.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I didn't know this until I started working with him.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so I'm bringing to you things that I've learned from him on top of all the extra learning that I have done.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I did a lot with him.
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  SPEAKER_00: And through that time, you know, I got my night sweats up, I got my body back into a state of health, I started bringing my calcium levels back up, I started getting myself stabilized.
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  SPEAKER_00: And when I did that, I started feeling much better.
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  SPEAKER_00: I started having energy, I started getting my thyroid balance, I started feeling better.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then, you know, obviously I got pregnant, you know, a few years later.
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  SPEAKER_00: But here's the thing: because I was running all the time and walking all the time and exercising and trying to do all the things I thought I was supposed to do, besides that I was going to college and working and doing everything else that you know you're supposed to do, plus, you know, have a social life.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I was like kind of like going 24-7, and I'm sure many of you can relate to that.
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  SPEAKER_00: You're we're we feel like we're going 24-7 and we want to stay fit.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I mean, I was running four or five miles a day.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I wasn't necessarily feeding my body a lot of food because you know, we're trained to believe that we need to be skinny.
• 7:58
  SPEAKER_00: I was skinny then.
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  SPEAKER_00: I was skinny then.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I mean, I was like a size two or four.
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  SPEAKER_00: I mean, I'm not that right now, but I was really skinny then.
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  SPEAKER_00: And um, but my health took a hit.
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  SPEAKER_00: And also because I lost weight without knowing that you have to detox and that you have to be healthy.
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  SPEAKER_00: I also became very toxic because I didn't do it the right way, which is another thing.
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  SPEAKER_00: I had to learn these things the very hard way because my health had to take a hit.
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  SPEAKER_00: And when it takes a hit, you have to look back and you have to analyze what the heck did I just do?
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  SPEAKER_00: And so, because of that, I have learned things.
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  SPEAKER_00: And now I bring that to you.
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  SPEAKER_00: So you don't have to go through this, or maybe you're already going through it and you're like, hey, I know exactly what we're talking about because that's what I've been doing, and that's why I feel like crap.
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  SPEAKER_00: I mean, my hair was falling out, my skin was getting dry.
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  SPEAKER_00: I actually got very, very sick to the point that my glands swelled up.
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  SPEAKER_00: I even went to the medical system and they just wanted to give me a drug.
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  SPEAKER_00: They're like, oh, well, you know, you're um a little swelled up, you know, or not swelled, but there uh was a prostagland, anti-prostaglandins or whatever it was.
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't remember, you've got to realize this like 20 years ago.
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  SPEAKER_00: And uh they're like, here, take this drug, that'll help.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I'm like, but I think it's something more.
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  SPEAKER_00: And when I first checked with him, he's like, Well, you know, your sugars are high, you're like pre-diabetic, you are um doing way too much, your body is breaking down.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so therefore, it's just when you go into breaking down and you're in survival mode, your body doesn't care.
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  SPEAKER_00: It doesn't need hair to survive, it doesn't need your skin to be beautiful to survive, it doesn't need your muscles to survive.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's it's trying to preserve your organs.
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  SPEAKER_00: And my body was doing that, and so I was starting to feel that.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I couldn't understand why I was so sick and so tired and so exhausted, and my neck was swelling up and I had I stunk.
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  SPEAKER_00: That was the other thing I went to the medical system.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, you know, it's just so weird because I'm really smelling different.
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  SPEAKER_00: And they're like, oh, well, you know, get a different kind of soap.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, well, shouldn't that be a key?
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  SPEAKER_00: And it was because when I did my testing, I realized that my kidneys weren't working 100%, but I had to learn this through functional.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then, because I the medical system is like, well, you're 29, there's nothing wrong with you.
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  SPEAKER_00: But they say that to you pretty much at every age, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: Or it's just age, deal with it.
• 10:28
  SPEAKER_00: So, anyways, I ended up having to work on healing my own self.
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  SPEAKER_00: And this has happened numerous times in my life with my gut issues, with diverticulitis, with my thyroid, with Hashimoto.
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  SPEAKER_00: So right now, I'm in the process of I'm actually seeing my thyroid nice and healed, we're reducing my thyroid medication.
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  SPEAKER_00: My gut has been doing really well.
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  SPEAKER_00: I mean, my life is in a completely different place than it was 20 years ago.
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  SPEAKER_00: But 20 years ago, I felt like crap.
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  SPEAKER_00: And there's been many times that I did.
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  SPEAKER_00: But once I actually started doing some different things and testing and reading things in a very different way and applying that to my health, I was able to completely shift that.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now back to the hormones.
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  SPEAKER_00: The thing is, is your body has every single one of your organs produce hormones.
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  SPEAKER_00: So if one hormone is off, all of them are off because they have like a messaging system.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so they're kind of like the messengers.
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  SPEAKER_00: If one messenger gets mad, he spreads the message to everybody.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's just like if one is happy, he spreads the message to everybody.
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  SPEAKER_00: So they all work in tandem, they all work together.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, say your sugar levels are off.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, that's gonna affect because that's your insulin and glucose, and that's gonna affect your estrogen, your progesterone, it's gonna affect your thyroid gland, it's gonna affect thyroxin, it's going to affect your ghrelin, which is uh a hormone in your gut that tells you when you're hungry, and then you have leptin, which tells you when you're full.
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  SPEAKER_00: You might be thinking, well, hey, my leptin and ghrelin are really off because either you're always hungry or you're never hungry, or you never can stop eating, or you don't even know when to eat.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like, you're like, I don't even get the clue that I'm supposed to eat.
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  SPEAKER_00: I've heard that from so many people because we become so desensitized to eating and knowing when to eat and when it's appropriate to eat and being on that set thing.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I have a lot of people that are like, well, I don't ever feel hungry.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I've been there too when you kind of shut off those hunger hormones, and stress can do that, because you'll see a lot of people, when you have stress, you can either you it throws ghrelin into a high stance where you're hungry all the time.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then there's some people when they're in stress that shuts off ghrelin.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so then ghrelin, you're never hungry.
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  SPEAKER_00: So you got to realize that.
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  SPEAKER_00: But then we have your insulin, and insulin is what balances the sugars in your body.
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  SPEAKER_00: And if we have that going off, well, that's gonna affect your estrogen, your progesterone, it's gonna affect your thyroid, it's going to affect everything.
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  SPEAKER_00: So there's also hormones in your liver and your um kidneys, and like every organ system basically has hormones.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's 50-some hormones in our body.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I want to kind of kind of keep talking a little bit about how like how this works.
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  SPEAKER_00: So lots of hormones in the body.
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  SPEAKER_00: Stress affects them, as we've already discussed.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like if you have stress, your body, that's stress is one of the number one destroyers of the body.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's hidden stress, known stress, emotional, mental, uh, physical, all different kinds of stress.
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  SPEAKER_00: And if you have stress, it's not that it's bad because stress can like, it can create things, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: Stress isn't always bad.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's why there's you stress, but then there's de-stress, which is the bad stress.
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  SPEAKER_00: Or when it becomes over consuming stress.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that can be because you're in college, it can mean because you're raising a family, it can be you're trying to do a career, it can mean you're trying to do these different things in your life.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sometimes we put added stress.
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  SPEAKER_00: We have type A personalities that have to put all this extra stress on our bodies that may not truly be there.
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  SPEAKER_00: We also have limiting beliefs that we feel feel we have to prove something or we have to be perfect.
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  SPEAKER_00: So we put that stress on ourselves, or we're not worthy enough.
• 14:21
  SPEAKER_00: So we put even more stress to try to make ourselves seem worthy when in reality you really truly are worthy.
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  SPEAKER_00: But that's a whole nother conversation for another day.
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  SPEAKER_00: So we have that going on.
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  SPEAKER_00: Stress affects your sleep.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hormones affect your sleep when you're in perimenopause, even when you get into menopause sometimes.
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  SPEAKER_00: Some women feel great in post-menopause.
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  SPEAKER_00: Some still have some of the symptoms of perimenopause, you know, and then when your sleep goes off, then you're grumpy.
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  SPEAKER_00: You don't eat right, your stress goes even higher.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then we have all the different things that kind of it's like a domino effect, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: It becomes a domino.
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  SPEAKER_00: You you can't sleep because your hormones are goofy or because you're or you're stressed.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then the next thing you know is you're not choosing good things, you're grumpy or moody, you're irritable, and you're yelling at people that you don't really want to yell at because you actually care about them, and you're trying to squash your stress down when you're at work and trying to keep it under wraps.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then there comes a time when you get in your car and you're probably raging in your car, like screaming at people.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then by the time you get home, you're like, oh, okay, and then you realize you're getting stressed there.
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  SPEAKER_00: So there's all of these different things that are affecting you.
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  SPEAKER_00: And pushing through this isn't the answer.
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  SPEAKER_00: You can't just keep, well, is this going to get better next year?
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  SPEAKER_00: Or I'll figure this out.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'll just keep pushing through.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is just life.
• 15:42
  SPEAKER_00: That's what I've been told this is just life.
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  SPEAKER_00: Or you go to the medical system, here's an antidepressant, or here's an anti-anxiety pill.
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  SPEAKER_00: And those aren't the answer either.
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  SPEAKER_00: Or the next one is the ADHD, the adult ADHD, because you're so under stressed you can't remember shit.
• 15:56
  SPEAKER_00: Or you got, you know, because you're under stress, your attention span is so short and you're here, you're squirreling everywhere.
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  SPEAKER_00: That doesn't mean you truly have ADHD.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sometimes you need to pause, check in with your body.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then the other thing is if this is the time where, hey, let's get some tests run.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's truly find out what's going on in your health.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's get some functional blood work run.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's check your hormones.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's check and see where your gut and your liver and your body are.
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  SPEAKER_00: How are they supporting you?
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  SPEAKER_00: Because if they're not supporting you, you're going to feel like you're crazy and all over the place and you need to be supported.
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  SPEAKER_00: So there's a couple of things I want you to consider doing.
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  SPEAKER_00: I would like you to.
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  SPEAKER_00: So this helps, like if you're going to come and see me, if you're going to go in and see anybody else, whatever, start a journal for maybe a week or two and just start writing down like how was your sleep on a scale of one to 10?
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  SPEAKER_00: You know, what did you notice?
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, even pay attention if you're dreaming or not, because there's different sleep cycles.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know, just kind of be more conscious of that.
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  SPEAKER_00: Maybe write down like how your stress was that day on a level of zero to ten, like how you handled it.
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  SPEAKER_00: How was your exercise that day?
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  SPEAKER_00: Did you do too much, too little, or was it your normal?
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  SPEAKER_00: And what is your normal?
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  SPEAKER_00: And then write down like um, what are you not?
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  SPEAKER_00: You don't have to be specific at what you're eating, but that does help.
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  SPEAKER_00: But if you can write down a general gist of what you're eating and how you felt with eating, even pay attention to your weight because your weight can fluctuate.
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  SPEAKER_00: So this is the other thing with hormones and weight, because we get so obsessed with weight, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: We just want to lose weight, we want to feel better, blah, blah, blah.
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  SPEAKER_00: But here's the thing: when your hormones go off, any one of them, they can cause your weight to go up and down throughout the day.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I know people who weigh themselves before they eat, after they eat, uh, in the morning, in the afternoon, in the evening, and all these different crazy types.
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  SPEAKER_00: They're like, my weight just gained four pounds, and then I lost four pounds, and then I was here and I was there.
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  SPEAKER_00: Here's the thing that's what hormones can do because sometimes you're holding on to water weight, sometimes it's releasing.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's all these different things that can be working that are causing some of this stuff.
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  SPEAKER_00: So it's more of a better idea that if you're going to weigh yourself, start paying attention.
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  SPEAKER_00: What are some of your low numbers?
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  SPEAKER_00: What are some of your high numbers?
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  SPEAKER_00: And they're just a guiding point.
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  SPEAKER_00: They might be when your body's the most swollen, when your body's the least swollen.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like, how are you doing?
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  SPEAKER_00: Is it a certain time of day?
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  SPEAKER_00: But I wouldn't get so focused on weight because weight's just a number.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's good to have a rough idea of it, but it doesn't mean you have to get obsessed with it.
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  SPEAKER_00: So the other thing is I want you to so kind of start writing down, like, even if you want to, like a little bit like what's your high, what's your low?
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  SPEAKER_00: What's an average day?
• 18:43
  SPEAKER_00: Sometimes you gain weight over the weekends because you eat off.
• 18:45
  SPEAKER_00: Sometimes you lose weight during the week because you're actually, you know, eating more correctly.
• 18:50
  SPEAKER_00: Or maybe you're doing your exercise differently on both.
• 18:52
  SPEAKER_00: And if you exercise and you lift heavy weights, or even if you do anything, sometimes you gain weight after exercising because your body is building inflammation, because as you lift weights, you kind of tear some of your muscles.
• 19:05
  SPEAKER_00: So, therefore, you might feel a little off that way, um, or gain weight because your body is breaking down and has to build itself up, which is what you're trying to do.
• 19:15
  SPEAKER_00: So your weight fluctuates even when you exercise.
• 19:18
  SPEAKER_00: So, again, don't be so over the top on it.
• 19:23
  SPEAKER_00: Just take a moment to be like, it's okay, my weight may fluctuate during the day.
• 19:29
  SPEAKER_00: You're just trying to get some guided points.
• 19:32
  SPEAKER_00: Um, the other thing is, you know, I'm going to have an opportunity for you to get on a complimentary clarity call with me, and we can kind of talk about what's going on and what your next best step is.
• 19:43
  SPEAKER_00: Or if you're like, you know what, I need to do something now.
• 19:46
  SPEAKER_00: I want to work with you, I want to get some tests ordered, and I want to start taking charge of my health and my life now, then schedule the deep dive consult.
• 19:54
  SPEAKER_00: I do have it 50% off right now.
• 19:56
  SPEAKER_00: So just go in and use special 50 to get in for that 50% off code.
• 20:01
  SPEAKER_00: And we'll have some forms for you to fill out inside it.
• 20:05
  SPEAKER_00: And then you and I are just going to sit down and really deep dive and figure out what you we need to do for your next steps and what tests to order, and then start a care plan for you so that you can get your life back under control.
• 20:18
  SPEAKER_00: So I don't want you to keep pushing through and pretending everything's fine.
• 20:22
  SPEAKER_00: You deserve to understand what's happening in your body and feel supported in your next chapter.
• 20:27
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm here to help you with that.
• 20:30
  SPEAKER_00: And um, next week I'm going to talk about holidays and how to enjoy them without putting yourself last.
• 20:40
  SPEAKER_00: This is the Rockness Podcast with Dr.
• 20:42
  SPEAKER_00: Raquel Yarrow.
• 20:43
  SPEAKER_00: Go check the show notes so that you can get in for uh the uh complementary clarity call.
• 20:50
  SPEAKER_00: It's a 30-minute call where we talk, or feel free to hop on if you're ready to deep dive for an hour and we really go over what's going on in your body.
• 20:58
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and it's not just one thing, but we go over what's really happening with you and we figure out what's the right tests to order if they're needed, or what's how do we start working and getting you feeling better.
• 21:10
  SPEAKER_00: Have a wonderful week.