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The Why Not Today? Podcast - Season 3 - Episode 45, Laura Morrow, Laura Morrow Wellness. Learn about Menopause · Why Not Today? with Leslie Kane

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  Welcome to the Why Not Today podcast where we celebrate courage, termination, and the
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  power of saying why not today.
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  On your host, Leslie Cain, in each episode we dive into inspiring stories of individuals
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  who have taken bold steps, faced their fears, and embraced the possibilities of today.
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  From entrepreneurs to artists, dreamers to doers, we explore the moments when they set
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  enough waiting why not today.
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  Bring me as we uncover the heartwarming, the audacious, and the transformative.
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  Whether it's pursuing a lifelong passion, overcoming obstacles, or simply choosing joy.
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  Our guests share their journeys and inspire us all.
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  I started this podcast in honor of my father, Patrick Cain, who often said why not today.
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  Remember, you're just one decision away from changing your life.
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  And I've got another repeat guest on to the podcast today, Laura Moro.
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  And Laura and I met years ago through our Mary Kaye business and journey, and then reconnected
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  recently.
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  She's got a new business.
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  I've got a new business.
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  And Laura was on, gosh, sometime this year.
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  This summer.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  Talking about your journey and how you created a business.
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  And part of my mission is educating, giving women tools, or people, and especially women
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  tools, and the subject of menopause and perimenopause is coming up a lot.
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  And I do host a monthly lunch called why not today KX.
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  And so Laura's going to be our guest speaker in January.
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  And we thought this might be a good opportunity to share on the podcast a little bit more
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  about what she's going to talk about because everybody can't come to lunch.
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  So we're going to give a deeper dive.
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  We're going to hear and then off also at the luncheon and just give some help, some
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  tidbits, some tips, some directions, some resources.
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  So Laura, if you want to introduce yourself, just a little who Laura is, and then not your
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  whole career, but just who Laura is.
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  And then we will get on to courage and menopause and perimenopause.
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  Yeah.
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  Laura Moro, Viana, Virginia, married with two kids.
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  And all my health issues started after I started having kids.
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  And so that's why I switched my career from Mary Kay, like I used to do with Leslie to
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  focusing on women's health.
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  And I absolutely love doing that and helping other women, especially when they feel like
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  there is nothing else that they can do or no one else is helping them.
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  That's when I come in.
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  Yeah.
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  And we're going to talk about that in a minute too.
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  But before we go into all that, what does courage mean to you?
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  See if it's different than it was the last episode.
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  You know what?
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  I don't even go back and listen to what I said, but courage to me is feeling the fear
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  and doing it anyway, just pushing through and just going for the things that you really
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  want in life.
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  Right.
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  And our definitions change and it can change daily.
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  And depending on what our day looks like.
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  And yeah, sometimes in that today moment, why not today messages are just getting up
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  in the morning sometimes.
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  It's just making those fears.
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  So you have health issues after having your second child.
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  And if you want a deeper dive into that, you can listen to the previous episode.
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  And maybe I can take that in the show notes too.
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  Yeah.
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  I don't remember the number, but so you went from just to kind of summarize went from super
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  unhealthy like couldn't get out of bed.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  Like I'm out.
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  It was diet and what you're eating.
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  And so why don't you share a little about that and then how you can support women and
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  let's start digging into menopause and paramount pause.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  Absolutely.
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  Yes, I got to the point where I was having trouble like walking like zero energy headaches
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  every day.
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  Couldn't lose the baby way to one day.
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  I literally couldn't get out of bed because I had so much pain and I had tingling in my
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  arms and legs, which is what really scared me.
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  And yeah, if you listen to the other episode, you'll hear that I completely changed my diet.
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  A lot of lifestyle factors and within a matter of weeks felt so much better.
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  The pain started going away, more energy headaches went away and started losing the way.
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  It was amazing.
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  What kind of diet did you have to go to?
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  Anti-inflammatory.
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  Okay.
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  Anti-inflammatory diet.
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  So that is a focus on and this is very relevant for hormone issues too.
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  Taking my diet to focus on like whole foods, real foods, getting rid of all the process
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  things, but it was further than that.
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  It was also for me, gluten was a big issue.
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  I also got rid of dairy, sugar and for me, nightshades like peppers is still one of my
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  biggest things.
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  I added a lot of things back in again and really figured out my personal diet, which
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  is what I help my clients with.
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  I don't believe in a one size fits all for everyone, which is, and I'll get into this,
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  which is why I do testing and really figure out what's right for each person.
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  And so that is, but really focusing on eating real food is, it will go a long way.
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  So how do you know if you're having issues and what, like we all hear anti-inflammatory
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  and inflammation, how do you know if you have it?
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  Or you know, I'm 60, have those aches and pains and soreness here, but how do you know
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  if it's an issue and how do you, yeah, how do you know?
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  And I've heard people once they stop or they change their diet, they're like, oh, I had
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  no idea that I was feeling this wasn't normal.
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  Yes, that's the thing.
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  We think that, oh, well, we're just getting older.
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  So we're supposed to have these aches and pains, right?
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  But really that shouldn't be until you're much older, like your 70s and 80s.
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  If you're feeling those things when you're younger, you probably have inflammation and
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  inflammation is just when your body, your immune system has gone into overdrive.
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  And that can be because you never got over an illness like long COVID is inflammation
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  or it can be because of stress, it can be because of hormones.
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  So many different factors will cause your immune system to be on overdrive all the time.
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  And what happens is when there's not an actual like virus or bacteria to attack, it starts
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  attacking your own body system.
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  So if you're having aches and pains, like it's attacking your joints.
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  If you're having things like tingling and headaches and a lot of times muscle issues,
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  it's attacking your nervous system or like brain issues.
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  If you're having digestive issues, it's attacking your digestive system.
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  So if you're just having a lot of these issues over time, then that's inflammation.
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  And you can get tests for that, but just the symptoms itself is enough to show that this
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  is going on in your body.
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  And if it keeps going on, that's when it can develop into something like an autoimmune
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  disease.
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  Right.
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  So I know you do testing.
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  Do you test just for inflammation or do you test?
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  I know you test for a lot of other things.
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  Yeah.
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  So my tests are a lot more specific than that.
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  And in all of these tests, when it shows certain numbers, it does show that you have inflammation,
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  but I don't do a test just for inflammation.
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  It's more detailed than that.
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  So the main test that I focus on is a Dutch test, which is testing your hormones.
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  And it tests your reproductive hormones and your stress hormones, which is when you go
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  to the doctor, blood tests aren't going to test your stress hormones.
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  And that is really critical.
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  So most entrepreneurs, women who are like, want to be a why not today person, a lot of
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  them are high achieving, right?
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  And are dealing with a lot of stress, even though they're doing it anyway, that's still
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  stressful.
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  So most women like that are having issues with their cortisol, their stress hormones.
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  I also test your gut and really see what's going on there.
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  It does tell if there's inflammation or not, and also if there's any bacteria, viruses,
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  parasites, things like that, that is causing these digestive issues and also looks at the
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  health of your intestines and your digestive tract.
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  I also do food sensitivity testing, which is really popular because a lot of people are
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  just like, oh, I'll go gluten free.
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  I'll go dairy free.
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  And they might see little changes, but not huge changes and they think, oh, well, it's
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  not diet.
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  That's not going to help me.
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  But when we do the food sensitivity testing, it tests 176 different foods and ingredients,
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  and we can get very exact of what your body needs rather than just a one size fits all
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  that you might Google or hear about on social media.
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  So we're really getting down to what is causing your body issues.
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  And then I also do hair testing where we can test minerals in your body like iron, calcium,
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  magnesium, those kind of things and also heavy metals because those things grow out in your
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  hair.
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  That's what your hair is made out of.
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  So the lab can see what is growing out in your hair and what you have maybe too much
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  of or not enough of, which is a lot of people's problems.
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  Right.
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  I'm curious.
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  So I know I want to do a deeper dive today, talk about para menopause and menopause.
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  And I know it's all news and all over social media and everybody's talking about it.
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  And it's so confusing.
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  So first, what's the difference between para menopause and menopause?
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  Yeah, that's a great question.
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  There is.
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  So menopause, unlike all of the myths and things that you see everywhere, menopause is
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  literally one day of your entire life, one day.
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  Wow.
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  So the, yeah, right?
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  Menopause is the day that when you have gone 12 months without a period, without bleeding,
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  on that anniversary of that 12th month is the day of menopause.
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  So it's your menses has paused.
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  Okay.
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  It's stopped.
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  So that's the one day.
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  So the time before that, when you're experiencing the symptoms before that is called para menopause.
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  So it's before menopause.
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  And the time after that is actually called post menopause.
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  Okay.
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  Okay.
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  So para menopause, the time leading up to that 12 months is where that can last for
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  10 years or more.
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  And so I have clients who are even in their 30s that have started having these symptoms.
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  And it's so funny too, because even if you have gone 11 months and 28 days, if you start
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  your period, that has to start the whole year all over again.
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  Yeah.
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  So that a lot of people that happens a few times, people don't really talk about post
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  menopause.
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  I haven't really heard it, but that probably in the world that a lot of people listening
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  in the pot, a lot of my audience is in that age group.
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  And but they are.
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  And here's the thing you.
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  So a lot of people think like once your cycle stops, then there's nothing else you can do.
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  Like you just deal with it.
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  But that's when we know that your hormones are rock bottom.
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  And so that's when we really need to do things to help you get out of that so that you're
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  honestly not feeling like an old lady all the time, right?
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  Like nobody wants that.
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  We have goals and we have dreams and we have things we want to do.
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  We don't have time to just feel old.
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  And so that's, that's how I can really help.
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  So I can help alleviate the symptoms before and then afterwards help you get back up to
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  balance.
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  So you're feeling a lot better for that.
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  Or did you just do you need to do tests for that?
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  Or do you just, you know, based on your cycle and when it finished, you know, you can start
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  or.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  So I do testing.
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  Yeah.
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  So we look at your, your cycle first of all.
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  So we look at that too.
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  But then we can also be a lot more exact than that and see actually where your hormones
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  are.
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  So your, if you've heard of the words like estrogen, progesterone, testosterone, and
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  we can see exactly where those things are.
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  And so we can get those things back into the proper balance of each other.
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  So it's not always just bringing everything up when you're in perimenopause.
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  When you're in menopause, it's everything's rock bottom.
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  Okay.
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  So like things, things are just stopping.
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  Because it's not just like your hormones up here and they go in and dive.
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  It's more like a roller coaster.
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  Like some days they're high, some days they're low.
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  Even within the day, it can cycle and change, which is why, you know, you've probably heard
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  the stereotypes of women like feeling crazy and moody and, you know, all these things.
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  That was my reality of my mother.
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  She was like mean during, you know, seemed like, well, and at that point too, and who
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  knows how much of it was really menopause, post menopause.
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  She had six kids.
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  The youngest had a major disability.
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  So, you know, I remember her crying or leaving the house or just like done with us.
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  Sure.
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  There was a lot of factors and everybody just said menopause.
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  Yeah.
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  And that's the thing that and her stress hormones, I'm sure we're out of control with six kids.
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  Right.
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  And there's no business.
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  So, add that.
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  Add it all together.
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  And here's the thing.
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  Like so, for instance, I had a client who was experiencing that a lot of moodiness.
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  Like she and her husband, she was like, I love my husband, but we're like, I feel like I'm
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  snapping at him.
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  I don't want to be that way.
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  And her energy was in the tank.
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  She was gaining weight.
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  Her digestion wasn't great.
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  She went to the doctor and the doctor was like, you have all the symptoms of perimenopause,
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  but with the blood work, we, the blood work isn't showing it.
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  So there's nothing we can do except put you on two antidepressants.
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  And so maybe that'll help your mood.
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  And she was like, listen, there's a place for antidepressants.
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  I've been on them before.
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  I know what that felt like.
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  That's not what this is.
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  I can tell a difference.
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  I know I need something more.
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  So the thing is when you go and get a blood test from the doctor, first of all, it is
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  only what your hormones are doing right that second that you give the blood.
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  When my testing is a urine test and it's over 24 hours, you take several samples and you
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  take it at a particular time during the month so that they know what your hormones are supposed
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  to be at in that part of your cycle.
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  And so they can tell a lot more exactly what your hormones really are instead of just that
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  one point of time.
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  They can get a lot bigger picture.
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  Plus, we looked at her stress hormones too.
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  We were able to tell that from the test.
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  And from that, we were able to get her back in balance from like changing some things
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  with her food, changing her lifestyle, changing like her movement, her stress management,
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  helping her sleep better, and I help her with some vitamins and minerals that she was deficient
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  in.
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  And in just a few months, she was like losing weight.
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  Like everybody likes to see that.
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  But her relationship with her husband was better.
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  She wasn't snapping.
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  She felt better.
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  She had energy to do all the physical because she's a pretty physical active person.
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  She had the energy to do all the things that she wanted to do.
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  And it was life changing.
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  And she was like, I knew there was something more, but my doctors couldn't help me.
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  So that's the kind of thing that the difference makes.
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  The doctors and the tests, I had a physical.
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  And I was like, do I need to fast?
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  They're like, no, we do tests after you leave.
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  You don't need to fast based on the test.
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  And with the insurance I have, I asked like how much are all these tests going to cost?
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  And it took like two days to figure out anybody to give me the answer.
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  And then I reached back to the doctor and I'm like, do I really need all these tests?
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  She's like, no, you probably don't.
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  So they took half of them off.
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  And it showed nothing because I don't think they really tested anything.
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  Yeah.
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  So, but yeah.
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  All right.
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  So, paraminopause, menopause, postmenopause, what are some of the myths?
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  What are some of the things people are talking about that aren't true?
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  Because there's so much of them.
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  And I noticed there's a lot out there.
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  And before we go into those myths, there's a book that people have been quoting and talking
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  about.
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  Have you read it?
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  Something menopause?
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  The new menopause?
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  Yeah.
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  The liable.
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  Dr. Mary Slayer, Haver.
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  Yes.
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  And it is like I actually have the book, I think, right here on my desk.
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  Right here.
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  Yeah.
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  That's the book everybody's talking about.
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  And yeah, she is amazing.
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  And what I love about her is she is bringing a lot of awareness to this issue.
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  And she is really working to make changes in the health industry, which is so amazing.
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  And she's very personable too.
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  So follow her on social media.
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  She's really great.
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  She gets a lot of great tips.
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  And at the same time, it's still general information, right?
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  It's still just a one size fits all.
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  And we are all so unique that what one person needs is very different than what somebody
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  else needs.
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  And so what I do is really help you get down to the root causes of what's going on.
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  Is it your, you know, is it your, that your progesterone is low?
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  Is it that your stress hormones are high?
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  Is it your like inflammation in your gut that's actually causing a lot of these issues?
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  Like I really get down to it and give you very precise.
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  So this is a good place to like, you know, like read and like become aware and really
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  understand what's going on in your body.
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  But if you're really having these issues and especially if you've tried to make changes
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  before and it hasn't really like given you the results that you want, that's when people
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  come to me.
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  So some of the issues and I've heard lots of about these these days and then we'll get
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  to math.
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  It's like, what are the some of the signs or symptoms that people don't necessarily
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  talk about?
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  And my sister had frozen shoulder and went to yes, or physical therapist for a year and
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  all these things.
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  And then found out that it may not be a physical, it was more could been related to menopause.
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  Yeah.
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  What are the symptoms that we're just ignoring or going to a doctor for other things that
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  could be caused by the hormones?
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  Mm hmm.
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  Yeah.
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  And that's one of the, I actually had the frozen shoulder too.
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  I know exactly.
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  So that is one of the big myths is that if I'm not having hot flashes or night sweats,
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  then I must not be dealing with hormonal things because that's that's like some of the big
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  things that everybody hears, right?
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  But there's so many and I'm just going to read some of the and these aren't even all
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  of them.
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  These are just probably the most most popular, but there's like dozens.
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  So one is like overwhelming fatigue, brain fog and difficulty concentrating the weight
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  gain and stubborn belly fat, bloating and digestive issues, trouble sleeping, waking
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  up in the middle of the night, mood swings, anxiety and depression.
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  Of course, the hot flashes and night sweats changes in your breasts, acne and skin issues,
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  hair loss or thinning, loss of sex drive, joint pain, the frozen shoulder, irregular
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  periods and easily emotional.
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  So that's a lot of.
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  And any of the stages from pre menopause to menopause to postmenopause.
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  Mm hmm.
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  Yep.
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  Yep.
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  Exactly.
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  Exactly.
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  And so depending on where your hormones are, like what balance they are kind of depends
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  on which symptoms that you're having.
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  So it's just so much more and so many women are just like, you know, I'm, I'm an honest
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  entrepreneur.
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  I have a bunch of kids.
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  I'm, you know, dealing with this and that and you just excuse it for so long that we
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  just, we just push through, right?
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  Like we're just like, okay, I can deal with it.
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  I can deal with it.
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  And then usually when people come to me, it's when they've hit some sort of rock bottom,
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  you know, some sort of point of like, I can't do this anymore.
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  Well, I was going to say it's interesting.
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  I think this is, I've noticed post COVID that pre COVID everybody, when he asked anybody
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  how they were, they were busy.
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  And I think all the answer I get to that question more often than not, and I kind of tested an
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  event one night is everybody's overwhelmed.
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  And so how much that could be again, the circle we swim in the women over certain age and just,
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  you know, there's so much on our plate, but we're not handling it as well because of the
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  hormone issue and we're not addressing.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  And I will tell you, so one of the questions that I asked my clients when, when they're
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  brand new is when was the last time you felt good?
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  And I will tell you a hundred percent of my clients, the date is sometime before COVID.
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  100%.
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  Wow.
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  And here's the scary thing.
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  What is feeling good?
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  Yeah.
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  Well, it's different for everybody, but I just asked that question for you.
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  When was the last time you really felt good?
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  And it's before COVID and COVID this right now was five years ago.
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  Yeah.
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  And so if it's been five years or more since you felt good, you need to like ask for help,
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  right, because it's not just going to magically get better on its own if it's been that long.
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  Does that make sense?
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  Oh, that's scary.
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  So, all right.
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  So let's go to mess and what do we miss?
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  Yes.
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  Yes.
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  So, yes, that one, there's a lot more, you know, like we just talked about a lot more
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  symptoms than people think.
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  One is, you know, I'm only in my thirties or forties.
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  I'm too young for menopause, right?
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  And we kind of talked about that.
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  Perimenopause can last for years, especially if you've done things like taken hormonal birth
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  control.
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  I have a brand new client who's 28 years old and who is already experiencing a lot of these
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  things.
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  And so we're going to really work down to get down to the root causes of what's happening,
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  but she's taken...
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  Is there any difference if whether you've had kids or not had kids?
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  You've had a kid you've had, how it affects you?
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  I almost wondered.
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  Yes.
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  Yes, that is a good question.
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  Yes.
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  So, every time that you're pregnant, whether you actually had the baby or not, your hormones
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  do change.
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  And that is when a lot of women start experiencing more inflammation is, you know, after a hormone
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  change and autoimmune disease.
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  And so, yes, like pregnancies and every single pregnancy, like I said, whether it came to
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  term or not, changes your hormonal makeup in your body.
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  Right.
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  Yeah.
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  So, that makes a big difference.
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  Yeah.
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  And also, like I said, like some people think, oh, well, I'm too old to worry about that.
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  I went through menopause years ago.
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  This isn't relevant to me.
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  Like I said, then at that point, we know your hormones are rock bottom.
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  We know that there's things we can do to bring those up and help your body feel better.
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  And also, your stress hormones.
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  Everybody has those stress hormones.
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  And so, there's a lot we can do to balance those as well.
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  And another myth is that, you know, my doctor said my labs are fine and there's...
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  So, there's nothing that I can do.
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  But there's so many things that, A, they're...
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  Like you said, they're probably not testing enough things or testing the right things or
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  testing it at the right time of month or the right time of day or all those things.
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  But then also, there's so many more things you can do.
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  It's not just, oh, here's a, you know, hormone pill to balance things.
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  There's a lot more resources and tools in the toolbox to help.
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  And that's what I was going to ask too.
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  So what are some of the things as women over a certain age going through these things?
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  What are some of the things we can do ourselves?
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  I've heard weightlifting is important.
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  We're protein.
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  So what are some of the things that we can do, you know, if we're not going to invest
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  in somebody helping us or do all the tests, some of the things as we're getting older
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  that's got to help us.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  I mean, first of all, focusing on food, what you're eating, what goes into your body.
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  I've, you know, like, there are myths that, you know, like eat wherever you want.
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  It doesn't matter.
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  But it does just like a car.
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  If you're not putting gasoline into the car, if you're putting sugar in the gas tank, like
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  it's not, it's not going to run, right?
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  And the same thing with our body.
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  Our food is what gives us energy or doesn't give us energy.
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  And so it's what we're eating.
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  So many people think, you know, when they're talking to somebody in nutrition, it's going
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  to be somebody who tells them all the things that they shouldn't be eating.
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  But a lot of my clients aren't eating enough of the good things that should support their
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  body.
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  So you mentioned protein.
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  A lot of women don't eat enough protein.
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  But also talking to a trainer one time, she was tracking my calories.
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  She's like, you're not eating enough.
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  Yes.
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  And that's what I was going to say.
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  And what I found too is since COVID, a lot of women already didn't eat breakfast.
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  A lot of women are skipping lunch now because with the zoo, when people went into the office,
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  there was that culture of the lunch break in the middle of the day, right?
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  Now that people are working at home, they are just being scheduled for meeting after
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  meeting after meeting all day long.
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  Lunch.
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  I've worked pre-COVID for myself and lunch has always been my struggle.
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  I'll eat breakfast and eat dinner, but lunch.
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  And it's not, I just keep, start working and then I just don't take time.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  And that's what I'm seeing from almost everybody who's working on, working at home or doing
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  a lot of Zoom and conference calls if it's in the office or not, because they're just
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  being scheduled and they're not setting the boundary of like, this is my time to eat lunch.
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  And they're looking at it as an afterthought as a, you know, I'll do this if I have time.
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  But if you don't schedule it, you're not going to have time because other people are scheduling
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  you.
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  And here's the thing.
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  Eating is a necessity of life.
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  It's like breathing.
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  If you're not eating, then, you know, and then you wonder why you're like crashing in
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  the afternoon and you're exhausted and you have to drink more coffee or eat sugar to
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  keep going because you haven't given your body the energy, the fuel to keep going.
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  And so adding in lunch or even an afternoon snack is one of the biggest things that I
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  help my clients with to really see why that's so important.
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  You have resources available on your website?
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  Just what are the resources?
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  I do.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  If you go to lauramoro.com and you go to my resources section, I have resources on
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  there.
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  And also, it's not on my website, but maybe you can link it to the show notes.
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  The best resource for anybody interested in this is I have a guide called a hormone balancing
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  nutrition guide.
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  And it really talks about the foods to eat to support your body, like what vitamins and
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  minerals that are really good for you.
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  So like eating things with B vitamins, vitamins, B, things like that that are going to be really
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  helpful.
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  And then it also talks about some lifestyle things that you can do to also help because
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  it's not just about food, but things that you can do to help you get more sleep because
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  sleep is the only time our body heals.
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  And so if you're not feeling your best and you're not sleeping, your body doesn't get
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  a chance to ever catch up and feel good, if that makes sense.
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  So you can be doing all the right things during the day, but if you're not sleeping well,
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  then you're not really going to end up feeling better.
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  So that's one of the first things that I help my clients with is to sleep better.
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  And that's even just, first of all, making it a priority, right?
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  I mean, all the things you've talked about are so simple, but we get so busy, we don't
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  do those things.
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  And isn't this a perfect time of the year?
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  We're recording this on January 2nd.
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  It'll come out, but like, let's pay attention to those.
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  So we've already gone past the time I usually try to go.
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  So yeah, lots of good info.
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  So we're going to have you as a guest at the lunch in January, which is Thursday, January
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  23rd in North Virginia, if anybody wants to come and get a deeper dive with Laura.
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  I will link in the show notes, if you send me a link to that guy, would be great.
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  And I'll obviously contact information.
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  Oh my, so this has been mind blowing, so much good information.
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  And I'm going to order that book, I think, and just start there and go to your website.
• 32:45
  And all the things we need to be more educated, and I think that's the thing.
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  Take some time to do things, to help us instead of amazing how much time we waste, look in
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  other people's life on a phone.
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  Yes, yes.
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  Instead of taking care of our life.
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  Yes.
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  And I do free consultations.
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  So, you know, I can talk to you and tell you like what tests could be helpful for you,
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  you know, some some basic things that you can be doing, you know, does this look like
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  formals or not.
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  So you know, I can just have a chat with you and I hope you sort of figure out the right
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  direction.
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  Even if it's not something that you're ready to get started with right now, I can, I can
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  kind of like guide you in the right direction and share my thoughts and what is probably
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  going on.
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  Maybe what we need to do is schedule one for me before the luncheon and I can share that.
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  Perfect.
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  There you go.
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  So, how would you encourage somebody to say why not today and take care of their own health?
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  I guess is a big question.
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  I think that's the biggest thing is to to make the decision to be committed to your
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  help.
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  I heard this on a podcast one time that the difference between consistency and being committed
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  to your goal is consistently you feel like, oh, if I'm going to be consistent, I have
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  to exercise every day and eat healthy every day.
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  And but the problem is if you hit a roadblock, you like you get sick or you get really busy
• 34:21
  at work and then you miss a couple of days and you feel like, oh, well, that's it.
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  Just go back to eating, whatever, go back to just sitting on the couch.
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  But if you are committed to the goal, it doesn't matter if you miss or you have roadblocks.
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  If you have a bigger commitment to it, then you are going to keep prioritizing yourself.
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  So just really, I think that's one of the biggest things is especially we as women,
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  I hate that we do this, but we just don't commit to ourselves.
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  We'll commit to everybody else.
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  We'll commit to our business.
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  You know, we'll do all these things, but we have a hard time committing to ourselves.
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  So just making that first step, that first commitment that like, okay, I am going to
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  make the commitment to feel better and to start making some small steps.
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  I think is really the biggest hurdle.
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  And it goes back to that, put your oxygen mask on yourself first.
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  Yes, exactly.
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  Exactly.
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  Yeah.
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  All right.
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  So you've inspired me to go make some healthier choices and I'll definitely schedule something
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  like that.
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  Awesome.
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  I'm excited to have you as our guest at the luncheon.
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  And I will share all these links in the show notes.
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  So thank you, Laura, for all your insight and information.
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  And I think we could have gone for hours and hours and hours.
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  Yeah.
• 35:41
  Exactly.
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  I love it.
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  I love it.
• 35:44
  Thank you for sharing or having me share and helping hopefully inspire lots of women
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  to commit to themselves this year.
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  I love it.
• 35:53
  Absolutely.
• 35:54
  So thank you for everybody for listening or watching and sharing, learning this inspiring
• 35:58
  journey and how we can take care of ourselves.
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  And the why not today is more than just a podcast.
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  It is movement to help people to live their life, to pursue their dreams and live it with
• 36:10
  courage.
• 36:11
  And so I encourage you to say why not today daily.
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  And you can see everything you want about the why not day podcast at why not today podcast
• 36:19
  dot com.
• 36:20
  We're on all the channels subscribe, especially at YouTube, comment, invite some friends and
• 36:25
  let's start a movement together and help each other be courageous together and make a difference.
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  So remember every day is an opportunity to take an action, chase your dreams and make
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  a difference.
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  So why not today?
• 36:37
  Thanks again, Laura.
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  And happy New Year to everybody.
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  Bye.
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  Bye.
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  Bye.