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#38 Blissfully Hormonal · Giving Pain Purpose with Lyndsay Soprano

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This is Your Pain Game podcast where we talk about the game of living in
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and with chronic pain and trauma, getting to the heart of how to heal.
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I am your host, Lindsay Soprano. On the show, I plan
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on discussing with doctors, chronic pain patients, ballistic practitioners, loved ones,
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and anybody that is interested in having their voice heard in the chronic pain and
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trauma world that we live in. So balance, guys and gals, Oh
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my gosh, I don't know what the hell that word means. I stink
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at balance. I mean, I'm getting better at it, but we all
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live such chaotic lives, you know what. I don't have children, but
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I feel like I have a mountain of children around me all of the time.
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Some days I feel like I'm walking or in my case, sometimes rolling
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on a tight rope and I'm unsure about what this like mid forties bullshit that's
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happening with my bod and how my hormones are kind of a little bit out
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of whack, you know. And I've gone through every kind of test on
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the planet. All of these test results come to me and I'm like,
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I have no idea what any of this means I have no idea what this
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actually means to my balance, to my well being, to my health,
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to this, to that the other thing, because everybody's just like take this
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text, take this, do this, do that, and then there's no
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actual analysis behind it. There's no direction, there's no hey, this is
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actually why this is happening lens. And I know that I'm teetering close to
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paramountopause. I mean, I'm forty five years old. You know I've got
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a few like random skin you know, fluctuations for lack of a better term.
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I'm fortunate that I haven't had to deal with acne in my life,
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so I'm very grateful for that. But I just don't feel as radiant as
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I used to. And I know a lot of that is from trauma,
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A lot of that is from chronic pain, and a lot of that is
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from absolute sleep'd deformation, because as if you've listened to the show, you
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know I don't sleep so like, for an example, last week, I
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got a grand total for seven days, fifteen hours of sleep. Not great?
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Is this from hormones? Possibly it's for sure contributing factor. And do
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these imbalances in our hormones cause chronic pain, or at least contribute to the
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intensity of chronic pain. Absolutely, So let's talk about it with without further
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ado, I'd like to introduce to you my guest today, Megan Bliss.
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I have like the best last names of people on the show, by the
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way, it's like you recruit us or something, you know, like we
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gotta have good last names too. Yeah, if your last name stocks,
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they're not allowed on the show. Because a couple of weeks ago, I
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had a gall on my show and her last name is loving, like hello,
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And now I've got Missus Bliss on here, and I'm so excited to
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have you here. So Megan is a hormone optimization expert and a women's health
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advocate. And if there's one thing that I talk about on this show and
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I will continue to is advocacy. So this is why we need her.
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And she also is a lover of horses, and I know that's kind of
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like a silly like Rando in here, but it is amazing. Horses are
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such a majestic animal, and they're healing capabilities for people, especially in chronic
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pain, are really awesome as well. So she's kind of got like a
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little but she's got a bunch of things in her little bag for us.
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She is a nurse practitioner, and it fell kind of into this niche market
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of hormone optimization for women, as she just kind of is dived into dove
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dived. I think dived is where we're gonna go in relation to our body's
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intricate hormone systems. And I mean, hormones are nuts, man. So
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here we go, baby like she's being here today, a little miss Bliss.
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I'm rolling out the red carpet for you. Thank you, thanks for
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having me. Yes, absolutely, I'd like to start talking with you about
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how you kind of got into this work, because I know you've got a
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story. Yeah yeah, So, I mean I felt terrible in my twenties
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and I was supposed to be in the prime of my life, you know,
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and I had gone to grad school, I had gone through a nurse
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practitioner schooling, and I thought I had all the tools in order to help
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me be live my best life or whatever. And I really quickly realized that
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I did not have nearly what I needed in order to not only help myself,
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but help the patients that I was seeing on a consistent basis I would,
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and I think being a female provider, a lot more women entrusted me
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in coming to me because we can kind of relate on so many different levels,
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you know. And so they would come to me and they would tell
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me how they were feeling. They were exhausted, they felt like they were
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trapped in a foreign body, they were gaining weight or losing weight and having
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no idea what was happening there. The moods were all over the place,
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and they were come to me to help them. And I would do everything
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that I was trained in my traditional schooling to do and look into and it
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just was not enough. And then so I started digging and I knew that
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I needed I needed more, I needed more resources in my toolbox, and
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that kind of led me down a functional, integrative health approach. And then
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when the pandemic hit, I was like, I gotta take this virtual.
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Like we were in a virtual world. Now I've got to take this virtually.
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So that's what I've been doing in the past few years, is doing
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mostly virtual and helping women. And because it took me a while to figure
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myself out, you know, and then I'm like, Okay, it can't
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take that long for most people. I got to streamline things and figure out
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a good process. And so that's what I've spent the last five years doing
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is streamlining everything. I love it. So when when it came to you
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having like fluctuations in your world and in your health and all of that,
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what were you experiencing? Yeah, so I was insomnia, couldn't slate,
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So I related, it's such a great party, right, That was when
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my best ideas would come to me. Was totally I was supposed to be
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sleeping, but yeah, no. And my threshold with dealing with life in
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general, like my kids, my husband, just the general stressors in life,
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that threshold was just plummeting. It didn't take much for me to pop
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off and be super irritable, be low on patience, all of that.
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And I know a lot of that irritability threshold has a lot to do with
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how you're feeling internally, and I'm sure with chronic pain, you know that
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like if you're the more pain you're in, the less you can handle the
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excess stressors. And so I was not coping well with the general stressors in
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my life. I was gaining weight even though I was trying to diet and
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exercise. I was, like I said, not sleeping. Well, my
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moods were all over the place, and I felt like I could sleep for
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fifteen hours even though I couldn't sleep. I felt like I could sleep for
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fifteen hours and still never feel rested. So that's how I personally felt.
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Yeah, and I completely identify with the insomnia obviously. Like I just said
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in the beginning, I mean, it takes me until like about four o'clock
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in the afternoon. Then I'm raring I'm raring go, and I'm like,
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what the hell, I don't know how I do what I do. And
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everybody always says, like, I don't know how you do it, Linday,
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I'm like, I'm not this like amazing person. And in regards to
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that, it's just I buckle up and I just make it happen every day.
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But I am tired of being tired, right, And I think the
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hormone fluctuation side of me, Like I when we talk about like our periods
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and all this as we're getting older and all the fluctuations that are coming with
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thought, like oh gosh, I'm like I didn't have a period for three
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years. I was like, sweet I'm going through this like a badass.
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Then it came back like a force to be reckoned with, and I'm like,
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you've got to be kidding me. So when you're when you're talking about
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bringing on people into your consulting, what what do you what do you do
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for women? And how can you walk us through that process? Because I
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think that we all are given multiple billion billions of tests all of the time
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and we get our blood work back and they're like, oh, okay,
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so you know everything's actually okay. I'm like, no, no, everything
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is not okay. So can you talk to us about that? Yes?
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Yes, And I know you've kind of done next level testing, You've done
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the specialty testing and all of that, and and I do feel like there
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is a very good benefit for doing the specialty testing because it is very it
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is more narrowed and specific for you personally. Then if you just do generic
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blood labs through any general lab, because they're having to look at normal for
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a wide population it doesn't matter who you are, your gender or anything like,
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you know, so they've got to they have to have these wide ranges
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of normals, and it's not really making you feel optimal. So it's not
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catching things before they get terrible. And so that's what I like about the
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specialty testing is you can really narrow things down and you can really see more
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specific for your needs. But then, like you said, what do you
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do with that? You know it's I'll get I'll get that a lot like,
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Okay, what don't know what the test? What I asked to be
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ordered? And it's yeah, you can get the test, but if you
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don't have all of the answers to how to balance that and come at it
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from a very personalized approach because some of us need, don't you know,
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some of us will need those bioidentical hormone replacement therapy, some of us will
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only need supplementation, some of us will only need lifestyle changes, and so
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it definitely takes a very personalized approach for that. But everybody's individual and it
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can seem daunting, but you can streamline things. Yeah, and I love
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because I always say this on the show and I will continue and it works
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in this particular scenario as well. As everybody is everybody, it's your your
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own person, Believe it or not, Guys, we are all different.
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And it's one of the things that I've struggled with And I know that everybody
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that is on this show, no matter what side it is, whether they're
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chronic pain patient or there's somebody that's been trauma or there's somebody like you that's
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in the keeler department. I call you healer because that's what you're doing,
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and you're working keel the body and to help us, and so I appreciate
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you for doing that. But it's really nuts where you're like, You've got
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all of these things in front of you, and now what do I do
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with it? That's where I'm at. I have done every freaking test on
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the planet. Most of them are gross because the tests are gross, Like
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guys, you have to like dig through your poo like it's gross. It's
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totally effing grows. But I've done all of it, and I have found
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out some very interesting things about my body. And I am sitting here with
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all of these results with no game plan none. Yeah, so great.
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So I did all of this. I spent thousands of dollars because a lot,
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especially in chronic pain world, maybe not just as in chronic pain,
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but anybody that's just dealing with health issues, we spend a ton of money
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to get answers and it's really frustrating, like beyond so, how can you
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help us with those frustration points? Yeah? So, and that's a big
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thing that I'm hugely passionate about because you can't have all the lab work in
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the world. But if that provider or practice or whoever you're working with doesn't
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know that specific lab and they don't know how to interpret it or where to
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guy do or processes, like what good is it? It's like you're standing
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there with a key and the door is over there, but you can't get
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Like, you can't the door, Yeah, you can't connect it to actually
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get in and do stuff. So and we all have unique talents and we
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all should play in the sandbox together. Good. So I think of it
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like adding a new practitioner or something in your sandbox and allowing them to be
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a part of your team. Whereas a lot of people are like one doctor
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that's who I go to for everything, and really we can't be expecting them
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to know everything about the human body. The human body is so complex.
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It is so hard to know everything about the human body. So, so,
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yeah, working with somebody who is knowledgeable about the specialty testing that you
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are curious about and has processes in place to help you. And that's what
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I've been building my programs around the last couple of years is is having processes
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that you can you can work through and you don't necessarily have to have your
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prescription for it or anything like that. So so when so I I call
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Megan Bliss little miss Bliss. Um, so I call a little miss Bliss
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is in my phone as little miss Bliss. Now, um, it's so
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when I call you and I'm like, hey, I've got all of these
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different things, like just even using me as an example, I don't sleep,
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I've got all of these test results. What do you do for me?
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Like how can you walk us through? Like what that what your approaches
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and how you go about it? Because I think that's that's really important because
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as we you know, we go for our normal, We go for our
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mammos, we go for our this, we do our this little little we
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follow all of the things we're supposed to do, and we check off all
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of the boxes and then we're like, great, I don't have breast cancer
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and I don't have I don't have like a you know, cancer and my
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f commuterus whatever, like great, that's fantastic. I still feel like shit.
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Yeah, I still feel like shit. So take me down the path
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of not feeling like shit. All right, Yeah, yeah, let's do
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it. Let's do it. Let's dig through the boo, let's dig right,
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right, And really, eighty percent of women are struggling with hormone issues.
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Eighty percent, eighty percent of women struggle with hormone imbalances. So for
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me, that's really where I dive in, is like, Okay, if
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we can get your hormones supported, balanced and and working well, you'll feel
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so much better. So then you can work on the underlying processes that are
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necessary for life, you know, because when I this is a terrible analogy,
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but here we are, there's nothing TMI here in this spaceholder I didn't
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think. So think about, you know, going back to your stul sample
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that you were fishing through. Think about you you sit on the toilet and
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you go to the bathroom and you let a big one, and you are
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in your mother in laws or your cousin's home, and you go to flush
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the toilet. You're confidence that it's all gonna we're cooking up. You're it's
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gonna go down the toilet just fine, you know, but you turn around
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and that water is rising. It's like a dumb and dumber moment, you
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know, Oh my god, I definitely know that moment. Yeah, it's
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coming up, and you are like, oh, what am I gonna do?
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What am I gonna do? So initially, we gotta shut off the
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water, Like, we gotta shut off the water, get that water stopped
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so that we do not have an overflowed toilet. And so for me going
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with working with women, if we go for the hormones, we can shut
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off that water. We just shut off that water and get you out of
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overflow mode, that overwhelm overflow mode while we're working on getting the clog out,
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you know, doing the underground work, and then and then it's gonna
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flow seamlessly. So terrible analogy, but that's kind of Oh, it's wonderful,
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especially because I'm seeing her using her hand. I'm trying to plunge a
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toilet in the background, even though yeah, yeah, I'm absolutely dead.
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But I mean that because that's what we all feel like. I mean,
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we we all feel a little clogged up, I mean to be honest,
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like, oh my god, and then we're like Okay, I'll deal with
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that tomorrow. That's my line. I'll deal with that tomorrow. I'll figure
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that out later. So when I come to you and I bring you my
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clog toilet, well this was took a completely different turn from blissfulness. I
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know that's the end goal. Is bliss the end goal. So when I
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come to you, what do you do? You go through all of our
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test results and then so what happens from there? So we start with the
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identification process, identify those biggest, scariest beasts that are happening inside you.
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And yes, I do like to do thorough lab testing. Whether it's a
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combination of blood, saliva, you're in stool. It kind of depends on
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the biggest beast that we're dealing with. We identify what the issue is and
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then we're doing a big root cause analysis, which trauma, you know,
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that's one of the big root causes of a lot of things. And then
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we look for infection. So we're finding out those root causes and it's usually
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not just one thing. It's usually a few things. Kind of a recipe
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that is sprinkled together and not making very good cookies. It's it's not very
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yummy cookies. So anyways, that's what we got to find that root cause.
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And then once we've got that identification process done, we know where the
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big beasts are, we know which ones to tackle first. Then we really
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go for those, and we're going to strategically supplement, whether that's using natural
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supplements that you can just get over the counter, or whether something more hardcore
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like some hormone support is going to be needed, because and there's there's controversy
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about hormones, but if you are lacking hormones, hormones are such life giving
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there we need them every every organ and our body needs hormones, and when
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we are deficient or excess in one of them, it can cause a lot
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of health issues later on. Sure, sometimes they don't show up, you
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know, when we're younger, but they can show up later on. Usually
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the symptoms are there, like the insomnia, the irritability, all of the
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weight gain, all of that fun stuff. But but so then we're going
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to strategically supplement and we're going to figure out, okay, how do we
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stop that water while we're working on the clog. And then we work on
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the clog, which is going to come from nutrition, movement, stress,
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management, which I know that is so good. I know, right management,
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I don't want to manage it. I want to gone. Not like
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we can sell our jobs, our husbands, our kids. You know,
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we can't really sell all these things. I mean I probably we probably could.
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We probably could, it'd probably be a little bit more blissful. But
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but you know, we got to be able to handle some life. So
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having good coping mechanisms in life can be helpful in knowing what works for each
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individual person. And then we look at movement, we look at the nutrition,
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look at what brings you joy in life, because joy is a critical
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aspect of the whole healing process. And so what fuels your fire, what
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really ignites your passions? And it's really hard when you feel terrible to even
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know how to remember what your passions are. So so getting that waterstop can
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help ignite some creativity in finding your passions and all that. And then I
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really like to empower and teach people how to navigate their lab work without having
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to have their hands held all the time. So they can navigate their lab
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work, they can order it, they can do their own supplementing, and
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they're not necessarily needing that continual help with it all. So empowerment is a
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big part of what I like to do well. And I like that at
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the empowerment part of it because I think a lot of people and some people
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need the hand holding all of the time, right, Like my sweetie he
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needs that, Like absolutely, me, I just need like my map,
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give me my roadmap and then I'm good. Like I don't need somebody to
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remind me and to like you're doing great, Lindsay, you know, like
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I don't need that stuff. Just give me my map and then I'm good.
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Right. But I think that as as we're getting older and gross,
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we're aging, you know, it's like it's not interturing thinking well and one
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of the things that you were when I didn't want to interrupt you, but
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when you're talking about things that like we don't necessarily know that happened that when
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we're young, but that's because we don't give a shit. When we're young.
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We're like the world is our oyster and we're gonna be able to do
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anything. I have been polycystic forever, so I was really really hard to
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try to get pregnant, which only happened once and we lost it. But
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it and through that process, the polycystical variant syndrome. It's like, Okay,
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that's been me forever, and I've had multiple surgeries on my uterus and
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my ovaries and now I've got, you know, another thing, I've got
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an MRI. That's like, okay, lindsay, I did a full body
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MRI and so and because I was like, if there's something going on in
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my bod, I want to know, like I'm going to go after and
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people like, why would you do that? I'm like, what do you
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mean, why would I do? Shut up? Of course I'm doing it.
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What's going on with my body? I need to know because I feel
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like I'm piecemealing here and there instead of holistically treating my bod. And that's
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one of the reasons why I left doctors, because it was just like I
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wasn't getting anywhere with anybody, and I'd much rather just be where I am
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than be worse off, which is what I was dealing with when it came
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to doctors. And unfortunately, we need them to help us order these labs
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that you talk about and all of that. But that's a misnomer because we
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all think we have to go to our general practitioner or to our doctor or
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to our the DA DADA to get some of these tests done. It's absolutely
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inaccurate. You can get whatever the hell you want to. Granted, there's
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probably a pretty penny that's put put towards some of it, and I know
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that wholehearted me how much it is to maintain this bot on a daily But
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you know, for you, you can order tests for us. That's freaking
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awesome, you know, Yeah, so you give you you empower us without
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even like that immediately, you empower us by being able to do that,
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and that's super awesome. Yeah. I love I love having a toolbox.
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Like I was saying earlier, you know, like I didn't have the tools
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that I needed as a practitioner even and it was so frustrating for me.
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Yeah, then when I was able to expand that toolbox, I'm like,
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let me give that toolbox to whoever needs it and have the have the manual
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user manual in there too, so then you're not blindly having these labs and
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have no idea what to do with them. Oh, do you unplug a
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clog toilet with Megan Bliss? I make that a training video? But no,
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well, I mean it's a legit. I mean, it's such it's
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such a gross analogy, but it's also just totally great because we know the
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feeling. We know that scary feeling we totally do like at a party or
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whatever, like, what the hell, even in your own home, it's
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scary, It's totally scary. But I'm I'm just tired of being tired,
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and I know that there are a lot of people that feel the same way,
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and unfortunately, I feel like a lot of it is women versus men
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that feel this lag. Well, what's different between the two of us are
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hormones, right, Hormone fluctuation. Hormones are one of the most powerful chemical
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messengers in the body. They communicate with every single organ, receptor site everywhere
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in the body. And when we say hormones, there's actually so many different
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hormones in the body. But when we say hormones, we're kind of thinking
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the female hormones professterone, testosterone, you're so crazy, you're on Yeah,
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Oh my gosh, if I hear that one more time, I'm going to
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blow my brains out. Yeah, but they're not bad. We actually need
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these hormones, Like I said, they're they're powerful chemical messengers. They help
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us reduce inflammation in our body when they're the right balance. They help our
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neural transmitters communicate in the brain. They're at those little stop lights for the
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for the neural transmitters, and so when there's not hormones there as crossing guards,
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things can get all all yes. So being are the most powerful chemical
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messengers in the body. They help us prevent heart disease, diabetes, dementia,
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all of these things. We have estrogen receptors in our brain and our
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heart, in our bones, everywhere, and so we need these hormones.
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The problem is is that we are exposed to a lot of synthetic hormones that
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mess us up. We're exposed to a lot of toxins in our environment that
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mess us up, and then when our body is stressed, it's kind of
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like if you are running from a tiger. You know, if you're running
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from a tiger, do you need to have reproductive hormones? No, you
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do not, So it kind of takes away your bodies efforts of producing good
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balance with these hormones when you're under constant stress, because it's going to defer
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to the life saving mechanisms when and your body doesn't know it's not a tiger.
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Your body doesn't know you went through this terrible childhood traumatic incident or adulthood
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traumatic incident. You know, your body doesn't know that. It just knows
24:26
that it's stressed. And so that's that's where having good balance and understanding what
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your hormones are because the symptoms are intertwined. You can have symptoms that they
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seem like they're the thyroid hormones causing the issues, and it's actually your estrogen
24:41
and progesterone balance is the issue. Or you can have you can have issues
24:47
that you think are more insulin related and it's actually one of your feminine hormones
24:51
too. Huh. That's so interesting because like I'm literally like in my head
24:56
going like, Okay, every single woman in my life is going to need
24:59
to listen to this episode, all different for all different reasons, Like all
25:03
of my girlfriends are all struggling with this that the other thing. What have
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you right? Right? And it depends on the stage and and so that's
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that is something that I worked through in my programs. Okay, what stage
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are you in and what problems are you facing and what are the common imbalances
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here. I mean, really, hormone optimization should start from before we start
25:23
having cycles when we're younger. Yeah, it's when it should be starting.
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And really it's it's really hard because I'll have like I went did an educational
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seminar at a high school here and I said, did you girls, did
25:37
you know that you don't have to have painful cycles terrible acne? And they
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were like, it's not normally And we've been conditioned to think that all of
25:47
this is just normal, you know, and and I no, No,
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there's a lot you can do to actually help so that you don't experience this,
25:55
like having your our paths and hampons are terrible and they're actually making our
26:00
periods and our hormone balance worse. So that's kind of like the first process
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I start with these young gals, and then in the whole fertility realm,
26:07
there's a lot of synthetic hormones that are thrown at women and that messes with
26:11
things, and it's it's kind of like a puzzle piece with hormones when they
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go park at the receptor sites they're supposed to fit in, you know,
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just like a puzzle, and things are supposed to fit really good. And
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if you put a synthetic hormone in there, it's basically like putting a flat
26:26
end where it's not supposed to be. It's supposed to go into that piece.
26:30
It's like a square pag in aund Exactly, yeah, exactly, So
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I mean, is it covering the whole shore and is it doing what is
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ultimately the goal like getting achieving a pregnancy that type of thing, or preventing
26:42
a pregnancy shore, But it's actually not doing all the protective benefits that our
26:48
natural hormones do. And when you add in that synthetic hormone, it shuts
26:52
off our natural production of those hormones because the brain's like, oh, I'm
26:56
getting something. Something's covering that. Oh I'm getting something, so I don't
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need to make anymore by myself. So that can happen in the fertility realm.
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And then in the perimenopauzzle realm, we have fluctuations, and it depends
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on what we're exposed to, our traumas, our stress levels, all of
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that. But naturally for gestroon starts decreasing after the age of thirty five,
27:17
and it just kind of depends on where we're at in life, how steep
27:21
that drop goes and how quickly that drop happens, and it can cause so
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many things, insomnia, irritability, all that fun stuff. I get super
27:30
fun, like super fun. So yeah, so I'm going to send you
27:34
all of my test results perfect, and then maybe we do an episode of
27:41
you going through these so the world knows how jack I am. But I
27:45
like, for example, I have age pylori. I have no idea what
27:49
the hell that is. I don't know where it came from. I don't
27:52
know what to do with it. All I know is I have it.
27:53
And people are telling me to drink a tea and I'm like, I don't
27:59
think that that's the way I want to roll. Is just drink tea for
28:02
thirty fricking days to try to get rid of this. I have no idea.
28:06
My doctor, my general practitioner, he's like, well, I'm not
28:10
going to put you on a bunch of bantibiotics because I don't have proof.
28:12
I'm like, I gave you proof in all of these tests. He wants
28:15
me to do a breath test. I don't even know what that means,
28:19
and I'm like, dude, I already have the results. I spent like
28:23
thousands of dollars on all this. Please just help me get rid of this.
28:26
But if I was asking for an opiate, he would probably be like,
28:30
sweet, not a problem, Yeah, here you go. Just take
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oxy for two weeks. You're gonna be good to go. But me,
28:37
I'm like, I'm trying to get rid of something that's in my stomach and
28:38
my intestines. And he's like, yeah, no I don't so I need
28:41
you to come in for further testing. I'm like, fuck off, like
28:45
I have it in front of you, like, just help me. This
28:49
is why I'm frustrated. Like I'm just done. I'm just done with doctors
28:53
unless it's an absolute emergency. I don't want to talk to you guys anymore.
29:00
You're not alone. So okay. So when it comes to typically when
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it comes to women, um, and do you treat men as well or
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just women? Mostly women? But it's because we're so crazy perfectly, what
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happens is I'm like treating the woman and then she's like, UM, my
29:17
husband boyfriend, UM, can we get him some help too, And I'm
29:19
like, you bet you, let's let's do it. I love it.
29:22
I love it because I think that like even as we're aging when it comes
29:26
to from a men's department where we're like, oh well, let's just take
29:30
medication for ED, right, like symptoms suppress right, So can you talk
29:36
about that a little bit? Actually, I'm actually all of a sudden very
29:38
concerned about this topic, more specifically the ED. He's gonna kill me?
29:45
Yeah, very common, very common in men come from a lot of different
29:52
hormone imbalances. Even too high of cortisol can cause it because if you are
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not in more of a parasympathetic, you know, like relax state, do
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you really think that's going to work down there? Do not need to make
30:07
babies if we are being chased by a tiger and that's how men make babies.
30:11
So that is one one of the aspects is you're just you're in this
30:15
stressed state. So there's one aspect. Then there's testosterone. Men start going
30:22
through andropause, just kind of like women at thirty five with progesterone. It
30:25
starts taking. About thirty five is when men's testosterone starts going down. And
30:30
that can either plummet really fast depending on the environment, drama, all those
30:34
root cause stuff, or it can be a slow, steady decline, which
30:40
is better, which is what we want, is a slow but there's methods
30:44
to naturally support a prolonged testosterone production or there's bioidentical testosterone that can help maintain
30:52
stuff. So you're so wonderful. Hopefully I'm providing a happier sex life for
30:59
a couple z Allo all over the world. Yeah. Well, and because
31:03
in all sincerity, like and I want to circle back just to like,
31:07
this is the Pain Game podcast, and we talk about trauma and we talk
31:11
about pain because when it comes to pain and trauma and hormones and stress and
31:18
all the things that we're talking about that is just with chronic pain in general.
31:22
Like I was reading after you and I did our meat and Great,
31:25
I was like googling about like hormones and chronic pain. I was like,
31:26
holy shit, Like that is nuts. That has never been fricken talked about
31:37
with me or anybody that I know in the chronic pain world that I'm in
31:41
about hormones have the best symptom improvements are going to be energy and pain production
31:45
are two of the most common things that I Wow, I love that so
31:51
much. So I'm sending you all of my stuff. Correct we'll go through
31:57
my toilet bowl on another episode or something. But I just I want to
32:02
leave our listeners with well, I'm going to have you leave our listeners with
32:06
but I we need to and I'd say this all of the time. We
32:10
have to be our own advocates. We cannot just get blood work and be
32:15
like everything's groovy. You. If you don't feel groovy, then you're not
32:19
fucking groovy, right Like, if you don't feel good, there's a reason.
32:22
So don't just say, oh, well, my blood work all looks
32:27
great, and you can't be told, oh, everything's normal too. You've
32:30
got it right, because it can look normal to one person and one provider,
32:34
and it's not looking normal to somebody else that has a little bit more
32:38
trained of an eye to see something. And if you're not feeling good,
32:43
there's always something that you can be digging in and finding. In my opinion,
32:46
and so for me, it's it's always sure, this might not be
32:52
your biggest issue. Let's keep digging, like, let's let's keep going and
32:57
let's keep trudging forward. And there if you're not feeling good, there's a
33:00
reason. Thank you for saying that, because there are so many of us
33:05
that feel hopeless and feel like there's just I don't want to make another doctor's
33:09
appointment. I don't. I'm not doing it, Like I literally have a
33:13
list of places that I should probably be calling of, like a rheumatologist and
33:17
this and then that, and I just avoid the list because I know what
33:21
it's going to end up being. It's gonna end up being me in the
33:23
same exact place, just even more frustrated. Appointment. Yeah, you're gonna
33:30
be telled let's buying or here's a medication. Yeah, neurologist is telling me
33:34
that there's no pain in my legs. Really bite me? So AnyWho?
33:39
Okay, so we have to jam. So okay, a couple different things.
33:44
We've got her website, which is Megan Bliss dot com exactly what you
33:46
would expect it to be spelled like. And she's on Instagram of course,
33:51
so insta is Megan Bliss NP like nurse practitioner. Yes, yes, And
33:55
then you can do there's a hormone symptom checklist that you told me about,
34:00
because a lot of people are like, oh, I don't know, are
34:01
my hormones? Yes, eighty percent of women's hormones are terrible. But it's
34:06
likely some hormone issues, But if you're unsure, I've got this checklist at
34:10
check hormones dot com that you can go through and be like, oh,
34:14
okay, maybe it's worth it. Yeah, well, I mean I'm going
34:17
to definitely do it because I'm I'm actually really like, wow, I'd be
34:22
very interested in it because I've got my girlfriends like I've got fibroid issues.
34:24
I'm like, do you like do you not like that's what the doctor's telling
34:28
you, but do you really have hormone issues? And that was something one
34:30
of my girlfriends that popped up into my brain when you were talking. But
34:34
so what do you want to leave our listeners with? I just want to
34:37
really back to the empowerment, like, don't give up on yourself. If
34:40
you are feeling it in your heart that there is something going on, don't
34:45
let one provider tell you, oh, you're normal, or it's not worth
34:49
it to check hormones, or you're just hormonal and there's nothing to do about
34:53
it, you know. And if you're filling it on your heart that there
34:55
is something deeper going on, listen to your heart and you're worth it and
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you should just be able to live a life you confidently love You're so great.
35:06
That is such a great way. I mean, seriously, that is
35:08
it. And I have a girlfriend Shannon. You know you're listening because she
35:12
listens every Tuesday when they drop. My girls, Dan and you totally needed
35:15
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