Hormone Healing RD

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Prenatal Nutrition with Loren De La Cruz Nov 01, 2021

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Are You Menstrual? –
In this episode, we are back for round two with Loren De La Cruz, or you may know her as @innatefunctionalnutrition on Instagram to expand on our last episode on preconception nutrition and dig more into nutrition for pregnancy. Loren is a Functional Nutritional Therapy Practitioner, Root Cause Protocol Consultant, and Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Practitioner that specializes in preconception nutrition. Her mission is to empower women with the tools and the knowledge they need to regulate their cycles, balance their hormones, heal their metabolism, optimize their fertility and have a thriving pregnancy.
There’s a lot of fear around nutrition and pregnancy.
It seems like a woman will take all of these steps to eat more nutrient-dense foods, including things like organ meats, shellfish, maybe raw dairy, and optimize their supplements, then they get pregnant, and everything goes out the window. My goal with this episode is to help remove the fear around nutrition during pregnancy, especially certain foods and supplements.
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Preparing for Conception with Loren De La Cruz Oct 25, 2021

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Are You Menstrual? –
In this episode, I am joined by Loren de la Cruz or you may know her as @innatefunctionalnutrition on Instagram to share knowledge on how to prepare your body for conception. Loren is a Functional Nutritional Therapy Practitioner, Root Cause Protocol Consultant, and Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Practitioner that specializes in preconception nutrition. Her mission is to empower women with the tools and the knowledge they need to regulate their cycles, balance their hormones, heal their metabolism, optimize their fertility, and have a thriving pregnancy.
Preparing for pregnancy is such an important time, but can also be confusing. Our goal today is to help you understand what is most important to focus on and dispel some common preconception myths.
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Getting To The Root Cause of Acne with Robyn Johnson, RD Oct 18, 2021

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Are You Menstrual?
In this episode, we are discussing a topic I think most women can relate to and that is acne. I’m here with my friend and colleague, Robyn Johnson AKA @nutritionbyrobyn on IG. Robyn is a Functional Medicine Dietitian Nutritionist. Her passion of using food and lifestyle as medicine found her after a personal battle and triumph with psoriasis. She specializes in helping women optimize their hormones, gut and skin by finding the root cause to their symptoms. Robyn runs a virtual private practice and is the creator of The Clear Skin Lab. Robyn believes healthcare should be individualized and that starts with each person understanding how their body works and what their body needs to truly thrive!
We are going to dig into the different types of acne, possible root causes, face mapping, accutane, and so much more!
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Estrogen Waves & The Ups and Downs of Healing Oct 11, 2021

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Are You Menstrual? –
In this episode, we cover a topic we get endless questions and DM’s about--the ups and downs of the healing journey and specifically what causes this--shifts in estrogen or what we like to call estrogen waves. Healing isn’t linear, but man, sometimes it is rough. We’ve been there. You see some improvements, then your next cycle hits you like a bag of bricks, you’re breaking out, and your clothes are getting tighter. When starting our healing journey, we often have a picture in our minds of what this will look like. Typically we are thinking of feeling better after a few weeks or a couple of months, and while this is the case for some people, sometimes it takes longer, and most women feel a little worse before they feel better. This is all a result of your body adjusting to its environment and rebalancing hormones and minerals.
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Stress & Building Resiliency with Kaely, RD Oct 04, 2021

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Are You Menstrual? –
In this episode, I am joined by my friend and colleague, Kaely McDevitt, also known as KaelyRD on Instagram. Kaely is a Registered Dietitian specializing in women's health. She owns a virtual private practice where she and her team help their clients overcome hormone and digestive issues through personalized nutrition. Having experienced the pitfalls of a conventional approach to women's health first hand, Kaely is passionate about empowering women to take the driver's seat over their health and wellbeing.

The goal of this podcast episode is to help you understand the body’s stress response and how to build resiliency. So often we are focusing all of our energy on eliminating stress, when in reality we are always going to deal with stress. We want to help you build your body’s resiliency to stress and respond to stress better.

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Fertility Awareness Method with Nina Boyce Sep 27, 2021

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Are You Menstrual? –
In this episode, we are focusing on my favorite method of birth control: The Fertility Awareness Method (FAM) with a certified fertility awareness coach, Nina Boyce. Nina is a certified Fertility Awareness Educator and Reiki Practitioner based in Columbus, OH. Her coaching programs focus on FAM for optimized conception, and/or non-hormonal birth control, and she passionately believes that all women deserve to understand how their body functions. Nina takes a holistic approach, focusing on nutrition and mineral testing, cycle charting, and lifestyle modifications to help her clients achieve their desired fertility goals. She is also the host of the Healing Hormones Podcast, where she interviews leading women in the world of menstrual health.
While FAM is an amazing form of birth control and can also help you conceive, it’s so much more than that. FAM gives you an inside look into your hormones, stress, and overall health. I personally think it is an essential tool on your healing journey and can serve you through the many transitions of female life. If you’re wondering about hormonal birth control methods, we discussed those and their impact in our last episode.
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The Impact & Side Effects of Hormonal Birth Control Sep 20, 2021

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Are You Menstrual? –
So far on the podcast, we have discussed a wide variety of topics spanning women’s health and hormones, from mineral balance and metabolic health to PCOS and menopause. One area that we have yet to cover is birth control—which we realize is hugely important to most women in their childbearing years. A whopping 80% of women will take the pill at some point in their lifetime, and for that reason, we didn’t want to go any longer without speaking on it. In this episode, we’ll be covering what you need to know about hormonal birth control, including the different types, how HBC works to prevent pregnancy, and the specific impact each type can have on the female body.
Hormonal birth control (HBC) has been a big part of my health journey and morphed my career path, and is something that has impacted many of my clients' lives as well. I don't want any woman EVER to feel bad about taking hormonal birth control. I took it for seven years and then had a copper IUD, and I don't regret it. This allowed me to avoid pregnancy while finishing college and starting my career. I have since adopted and successfully used the Fertility Awareness Method, but we’ll go deeper into that in our next episode on non-hormonal birth control. Our goal today is to educate you on the effects of birth control so that you can make an informed decision for yourself going forward.
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Light & Your Circadian Rhythm Sep 13, 2021

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Are You Menstrual?
In this episode, we are covering another foundational topic for hormone health: light exposure and circadian rhythm. We can’t talk about one without mentioning the other, and many women don’t realize that both things have a significant impact on hormone health.
Our bodies take in everything in our environment as information, and light is a big part of that. The focus is often on reducing blue light exposure, but increasing sunlight is just as important, if not even more critical. Our light exposure can impact our circadian rhythm, which is our body’s internal clock. This then trickles down to impact digestion, hormones, sleep, energy, and more!
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Menopause with Wise and Well Sep 06, 2021

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Are You Menstrual? –
We have a very special episode focusing on midlife women and peri/post menopause with Maria and Kristin from Wise and Well. Maria, an FDN practitioner, and Kristin, a Board-certified nutritionist, are plain spoken friends and practitioners who share a passion for women's health, especially women's health at midlife. As both are themselves menopausal, they've refined the art and science of thriving as a midlife woman based on both clinical and personal experience. They combine individualized nutrition and lifestyle changes tailored to midlife women's needs with mindset coaching, lab testing and hormone replacement therapy education to help women thrive so that they can stop or prevent their health from spinning out of control.
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Liver: Hormone Superhero Aug 30, 2021

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Are You Menstrual ? –
This episode is a tribute to one of our most hard-working organs: the LIVER. The liver is best known for detoxification, but most people forget that your liver has to be healthy and functioning optimally to detox. We will talk about exactly what that means and how popular detox programs and supplements are missing the mark.
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