[SPEAKER_01]: because it can obviously help, but it doesn't fix the issue.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's not healing it.
[SPEAKER_01]: And you're just sticking to holistic bandaid on it.
[SPEAKER_01]: And those symptoms are going to crop up another place.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's okay, or it's just going to continue to get worse.
[SPEAKER_01]: Because now you're just like trying to plug the DM with like a bandaid, right?
[SPEAKER_01]: And then the bandit gets wet and it doesn't work and you can't get a jewelry stick.
[SPEAKER_01]: So you really
[SPEAKER_01]: need to think about it in that way.
[SPEAKER_01]: Welcome to the balancing hormones naturally podcast.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is your podcast host, Leah Brugman.
[SPEAKER_01]: I am a functional diagnostic nutritional practitioner.
[SPEAKER_01]: Here you're going to get actionable steps.
[SPEAKER_01]: You can take today to start balancing your hormones naturally so that you can maximize your menstrual cycle for painless periods, more energy and weight loss.
[SPEAKER_01]: Learn my three secrets to balancing hormones naturally.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Let's dive on it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hey, ladies, so today, we're going to be talking about how progesterone supplementation is not going to fix your low-progesterone issues.
[SPEAKER_01]: Leah's hot take.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is probably one of the most controversial things that I talk about is how progesterone supplementation is going to fix your progesterone issues.
[SPEAKER_01]: And we're going to break down.
[SPEAKER_01]: We're going to take break down what progesterone does and all of those good things.
[SPEAKER_01]: You guys know, like I do speak about this from experience.
[SPEAKER_01]: did have chronic low-progesture on that was one of the big things that drove me into balancing my hormones is because I had very irregular ovulations and when I did ovulate my luteal phase which is ovulation to period would be eight days and
[SPEAKER_01]: It should be told to fourteen.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I had very, very little progesterone and the only solution I was ever given.
[SPEAKER_01]: You guessed it is progesterone supplementation.
[SPEAKER_01]: I actually had a reaction to his progesterone supplementation.
[SPEAKER_01]: They're like just kind of made me psychotic.
[SPEAKER_01]: actually not actually psychotic, but it just made me very angry.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I do know a lot of women who are like, I, it's super moody.
[SPEAKER_01]: And when they were on progesterone supplementation as well.
[SPEAKER_01]: So something to kind of keep in mind there, but newsflash, it didn't actually fix my progesterone issues.
[SPEAKER_01]: So we're going to kind of talk about how to actually fix them and how I've helped a lot of women fix the progesterone issues.
[SPEAKER_01]: So first of all,
[SPEAKER_01]: This is my first time recording in my new office.
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[SPEAKER_01]: For sure I need to get a rug because can you guys hear the echo in here?
[SPEAKER_01]: It's the wooden floor with an empty office.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's not a great combo.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So, I would love your input.
[SPEAKER_01]: So, please give me your input on what you think I should do here because I'm open to suggestions.
[SPEAKER_01]: I would love suggestions, actually.
[SPEAKER_01]: So, some of you have a message on Instagram.
[SPEAKER_01]: Just comment under the YouTube video.
[SPEAKER_01]: So, today, today, we are going to be talking about suggestions.
[SPEAKER_01]: So, let's just dive in.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay?
[SPEAKER_01]: So, when we think about suggestions, what do you guys think about?
[SPEAKER_01]: probably think about pregnancy, right?
[SPEAKER_01]: I think that is probably one of the biggest things that we think about, we think about in terms of fertility.
[SPEAKER_01]: And if you are only thinking about it in terms of fertility, you are missing about ninety percent of the story of what
[SPEAKER_01]: progesterone does okay so before we talk about like what to do about it I think is important to know what it does so in the first half of your cycle so period to ovulation estrogen is the dominant hormone and ovulation to period.
[SPEAKER_01]: Progesterone's a dominant hormone so prior to ovulation you really don't have any progesterone it's very very very little.
[SPEAKER_01]: So this is also why it's important if you do get your hormones tested you need to be tracking your ovulation because you want to be testing progesterone five to seven days after ovulation and if you're someone that has irregular ovulations you very well can be testing at the wrong time and then you're told you have low progesterone so therefore let's just go on progesterone supplementation but that could in fact be something if you're going on progesterone supplementation like that and you
[SPEAKER_01]: have an ovulated yet that could be something that is impeding your ovulation.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, so that's why tracking is really important because otherwise you're not going to get a good read on your progesterone.
[SPEAKER_01]: So think of the first half of the cycle as estrogen is like the builder is like building up the uterone lining and then progesterone is the balancer.
[SPEAKER_01]: I like to think about progesterone as like so estrogen builds up the uterone lining and progesterone makes it comfy like makes it all ready for a guess makes it ready for a baby whether you're getting pregnant or not
[SPEAKER_01]: That is what particular story.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: No, it does so many other things, but in terms of the uterine lining, that's what it does.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's two hormones that keeps estrogen and check testosterone and progesterone, progesterone for women being much of the higher of the two.
[SPEAKER_01]: So this is where if you have low progesterone, a lot of times you hear about people talking about estrogen dominance and it's not that you necessarily have too much estrogen.
[SPEAKER_01]: Sometimes it is, but a lot of times it's just that you have two little progesterone in terms of estrogen.
[SPEAKER_01]: And that's why going on supplements to lower your estrogen
[SPEAKER_01]: might not be the answer because that may not be the reason why you're having those symptoms, okay?
[SPEAKER_01]: So a lot of symptoms that go along with low-progesterone are mood swings, heavy periods, breast tenderness, bloating, spotting before your period, cramping periods, pre-period anxiety, pre-period mood swings, PMDD is associated with low-progesterone as well, okay?
[SPEAKER_01]: It's really important to kind of think about that.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now, it really supports that luteal phase.
[SPEAKER_01]: So after ovulation, so you don't produce progesterone until after ovulation, because all the way up to ovulation, that follicle that releases the egg at ovulation forms what's called the corpus luteum, and that is now producing your progesterone, okay?
[SPEAKER_01]: And I like to think about it as like the grocery bag, that's holding everything together.
[SPEAKER_01]: Remember it's like preparing your house, it's making it all nice, but it holds everything together.
[SPEAKER_01]: So if you're having really short cycles, spotting, that's telling you like your groceries are reaching out of your bag.
[SPEAKER_01]: So progressions not strong enough to think about it, progressions not strong enough to keep it all together.
[SPEAKER_01]: Does that make sense?
[SPEAKER_01]: So that's why sometimes if you're like, why am I having really short cycles, it could be that you're ovulating in that little teal phases way too short.
[SPEAKER_01]: you aren't ambulating at all and that does happen as well.
[SPEAKER_01]: So number one thing when it comes to having low-projecture on is you have to track ovulation.
[SPEAKER_01]: You have to figure out if you're ovulating in the first place because that's number one.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's how we're producing the progesture.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, so that's how it so ports in that phase and how it supports not getting symptoms of the high estrogen.
[SPEAKER_01]: Excuse me.
[SPEAKER_01]: It also prepares the body for pregnancy.
[SPEAKER_01]: It they can it
[SPEAKER_01]: maintains that uterine lining so the embryo can implant something really important is that production also plays a very important role in your immune system so.
[SPEAKER_01]: When you think about.
[SPEAKER_01]: Women who have autoimmune issues, autoimmune issues, for example, a lot of them get better while they're pregnant.
[SPEAKER_01]: And that's because you lower the autoimmune, like the body attacking itself, so it doesn't attack the embryo.
[SPEAKER_01]: So it does play a really big role in preventing the moms immune system from rejecting the embryo.
[SPEAKER_01]: So it's kind of cool.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like, it's basically an immune modulator, which is cool.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like, isn't that cool that your body knows all those things?
[SPEAKER_01]: It also helps reduce anxiety and helps you sleep.
[SPEAKER_01]: It has a very calming effect on your brain because it is dissociation with a kappa, which is like your calm neurotransmitter.
[SPEAKER_01]: If you don't have enough that's where we're getting the anxiety, the insomnia.
[SPEAKER_01]: anybody yet insomnia before their period.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, that's fine.
[SPEAKER_01]: So if you ever feel like you're losing it before your period, that's typically because we don't have enough of the progesterone and enough of it to be like calming and centered.
[SPEAKER_01]: positive and all of those things.
[SPEAKER_01]: As Shujan is often talked about in terms of protecting bones, but per Joshan also has a lot of bone support and no protective health.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's a literally good for your brain and your memory, and it really helps give your bones Shoshan, especially through paramount of pulse.
[SPEAKER_01]: It is also an anti-inflammatory.
[SPEAKER_01]: So if
[SPEAKER_01]: when you're thinking about it in terms of that, think about it in terms of cramps.
[SPEAKER_01]: So two little progesterone, more progesterone and more cramps.
[SPEAKER_01]: So when you think about it as an anti-inflammatory, that's going to help period pain.
[SPEAKER_01]: And that's going to help with endo, all of these types of things.
[SPEAKER_01]: And that's why a lot of times with endo, we have estrogen very much unchecked or even progesterone resistance cells, which that is like another
[SPEAKER_01]: category to kind of think about there.
[SPEAKER_01]: So, production isn't just your pregnancy hormone.
[SPEAKER_01]: Did you hear all those amazing things that it does?
[SPEAKER_01]: It's your anti anxiety, period supporting, metabolism supporting, mood, balancing, awesomeness.
[SPEAKER_01]: But this magic only happens when you make it on your own, okay?
[SPEAKER_01]: That is where I think we're missing the boat, okay?
[SPEAKER_01]: So, yes, it is really important for pregnancy, but it impacts all of these other things.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I often hear from women, they're like, oh, you know, I had all these issues and I took possession of a meditation and it really seemed to work, like now I'm having all these issues again.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, because it didn't solve the problem, right?
[SPEAKER_01]: So,
[SPEAKER_01]: that is the big thing I always talk about.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now, let me tell you when I would, one hundred percent, tell you to go get professional supplementation.
[SPEAKER_01]: If you're pregnant and you have lower testosterone, go get your butt to the doctor, get on the testosterone supplementation.
[SPEAKER_01]: I tell us to clients all the time.
[SPEAKER_01]: If they, a lot, we have clients that will get pregnant.
[SPEAKER_01]: They've been struggling with infertility and they'll get pregnant before we've gotten their testosterone where I'm like, oh, it's going to be solid.
[SPEAKER_01]: Go test it, get on the testosterone supplementation if you need to, but
[SPEAKER_01]: If you are cycling and you have low-progesture on, it's not going to fix the issue, okay?
[SPEAKER_01]: And I have had too many clients who have been taking a project run to try and lengthen their luteal phase and then we start working on calming the inflammation in their body.
[SPEAKER_01]: We start supporting the ovulation butter and without a project run they lengthen their luteal phase.
[SPEAKER_01]: They get pregnant, they get rid of their prepared anxiety.
[SPEAKER_01]: they get rid of their PMS, they get rid of their anger before their period.
[SPEAKER_01]: So it's so possible, it's so possible, but we have to figure out what's driving your little progesterone, okay?
[SPEAKER_01]: So that's one of the biggest things that I think is so important that we're kind of like missing out on, right?
[SPEAKER_01]: So like I said, if you're pregnant, get your test to the doctor.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's often times when it's like, I will recommend it.
[SPEAKER_01]: for you to self-to-treat for an allopathic reason while you figure out the root issue.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like if there's something super severe going on, but because it can obviously help, but it doesn't fix the issue.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's not stealing it.
[SPEAKER_01]: And you're just sticking the holistic band aid on it.
[SPEAKER_01]: And those symptoms are gonna crop up another place that's okay, or it's just going to continue to get worse.
[SPEAKER_01]: Because now you're just like,
[SPEAKER_01]: trying to plug the DM with like a band-aid, right?
[SPEAKER_01]: And then the band-aid gets wet and it doesn't work and you can't get a jewelry stick.
[SPEAKER_01]: So you really need to think about it in that way.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's very different than something like magnesium, right?
[SPEAKER_01]: Where it's like, well, isn't that a holistic band-aid because I have to continue to take magnesium?
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, it's not really something that you produce.
[SPEAKER_01]: Right?
[SPEAKER_01]: So you have to think about it in that terms and we can't get enough of it from your food.
[SPEAKER_01]: So it's a little different, you know, in my opinion, I think it's a little different.
[SPEAKER_01]: So why is it low?
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay?
[SPEAKER_01]: Some of the most common causes, one of the most common, top of the line is chronic stress.
[SPEAKER_01]: Because progesterone and cortisol are made from pregnantalone and your body will always prioritize cortisol of a progesterone.
[SPEAKER_01]: because it's always going to prioritize the flight of flight hormones saving you from a bear versus making a baby, right?
[SPEAKER_01]: And I know we talked about all of the things that progesterone does outside of making a baby.
[SPEAKER_01]: But you have to think about it in the primary sense, like primal sense.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's where I was looking for primal sense.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's one of the big things that it does, right?
[SPEAKER_01]: So if we're constantly stressed, your body's going to try and to save you from the bears, it's just making the babies.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: And when we think about chronic stress, it is not just emotional stress.
[SPEAKER_01]: So sometimes people will be like, well, I'm not stressed.
[SPEAKER_01]: People who say they're not stressed are the people that are the most stressed.
[SPEAKER_01]: So if you're someone who's like, I'm not stressed, but I bought my eyes out like every time my cycle gets irregular.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's a stress, okay?
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not stressed, but I'm wired at night time and people annoy me.
[SPEAKER_01]: Probably stress.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, those are just some common ones where people like, oh, I'm not a stretch, but like, I don't like people or I'm not stressed, but every time something goes wrong with my cycle, I cry about it.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's like, okay, that is a stress, okay?
[SPEAKER_01]: But on top of that, there's other things that cause a stress, like blood sugar, instability, parasites, heavy metals, fruits of the activities, gut issues, all of those are what we would call hidden stressors because they're in fact, you can't stare at them.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's not like family or toxic work or things like that.
[SPEAKER_01]: or your dog peeing everywhere.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, that was wildly off topic, but remind me to tell you about the puppy that's driving me crazy.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Another one is going to be not eating enough food.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's going to impact again more like a hidden stress mineral imbalances.
[SPEAKER_01]: We have to think about all of the minerals that are going to support the production, the functions of our body that are going to produce possession.
[SPEAKER_01]: So when we think about this, we're kind of going to follow the trail.
[SPEAKER_01]: So minerals are going to impact ovulation, right?
[SPEAKER_01]: If we're super stressed all the time, we're going to have low potassium.
[SPEAKER_01]: potassium sensitizes our cell to our thyroid hormone.
[SPEAKER_01]: If we don't have optimal thyroid hormone, that's going to impact ovulation.
[SPEAKER_01]: Do you see how this all tracks out, which is why you guys, I talk about minerals all the time.
[SPEAKER_01]: Minerales and understanding your testing and all of that is, it is such a root issue.
[SPEAKER_01]: It truly is.
[SPEAKER_01]: I know I talk about them till the cows come in, but that's because minerals impact every functioning your body.
[SPEAKER_01]: They are the spark plugs to every function in your body.
[SPEAKER_01]: And so when people are like, I am balancing my minerals.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm taking electrolytes.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm taking a multi mineral.
[SPEAKER_01]: That is not what I'm talking about.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: We're going deep into what are your individual minerals and your patterns.
[SPEAKER_01]: And how can we support them?
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: That is obviously something that we do in a hormone reset program.
[SPEAKER_01]: We are going to be testing norm minerals.
[SPEAKER_01]: Information and gut issues are another really big cause of like a hidden stressor because it is interrupting the hormone communication.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's also going to be impacting your detoxification of estrogen, which if you're ratio of estrogen progesterones off, obviously we're going to have symptoms of low progesterone.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: I just want to like share with you some like real life examples of like how I've seen this play out.
[SPEAKER_01]: So we have a client that came to us for infertility and she had been on birth control for a long time.
[SPEAKER_01]: She's been off for seven or eight months.
[SPEAKER_01]: She had very irregular cycles are very long, very, very long.
[SPEAKER_01]: We started supporting her minerals and her stress.
[SPEAKER_01]: She was doing a really great job.
[SPEAKER_01]: She's like, I feel a lot less stress.
[SPEAKER_01]: She was really focusing on her eating and
[SPEAKER_01]: When we did a retest, we saw that she was like just moving all of these things like detoxing more like all of all of this craziness.
[SPEAKER_01]: And she's like, why is this happening?
[SPEAKER_01]: Like I wanted to see a positive retest, right?
[SPEAKER_01]: That is a positive recessed.
[SPEAKER_01]: We want to be detoxing and moving that stuff.
[SPEAKER_01]: But then when we supported that second retest, it's when her cycles really regulated.
[SPEAKER_01]: And she got back.
[SPEAKER_01]: Because we got a prediction.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's such a big difference to follow that root of like, don't just go, I ran this task and I started feeling better and it's great.
[SPEAKER_01]: A lot of times when you start feeling better, you're getting stronger, so you're going to start moving something.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not a big believer in jumping into detox.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think you need to get stronger first, so that you have an effective detox.
[SPEAKER_01]: And it doesn't deplete your body.
[SPEAKER_01]: I have had clients who were with net productors, supplementing with progesterone, and never could lengthen their luteal face, had really painful periods.
[SPEAKER_01]: We fixed the underlying issues, which were in their case, got inflammation.
[SPEAKER_01]: this particular person I'm talking about.
[SPEAKER_01]: God information, stress, blood sugar, instability, and when we fix those issues without progesterone, she got her painless cycles, and she links into her luthiocytes to twelve days.
[SPEAKER_01]: These are like real humans.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I think one of the hardest ones is not trying to out supplement a dysregulated nervous system.
[SPEAKER_01]: So when we hear chronic stress, is a big driver of low progesterone, what do you do?
[SPEAKER_01]: You go, where's the actual gonda?
[SPEAKER_01]: Where's the GABA?
[SPEAKER_01]: Where's the magnesium?
[SPEAKER_01]: Where's the rodeola?
[SPEAKER_01]: You can't out supplement a dysregulated nervous system.
[SPEAKER_01]: If you try and do that, you're going to really explain to me, really explain to me, and really low-protester.
[SPEAKER_01]: Because those herbs while they may help you not feel so flustered, they're not helping your body feel safe.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: And if your body doesn't feel safe, if your nervous system doesn't feel safe, that's going to be impacting, obviously, the main reason why you would have low-projection is if you weren't ovulating.
[SPEAKER_01]: So if you aren't ovulating, that's, I feel like the biggest, like, boom, boom.
[SPEAKER_01]: in your eyes of like why you have a little progesterone and then the circle becomes why are we not abrelating is it insulin resistant is it access testosterone is it not eating enough is it mineral imbalance is it stress is a thyroid issue because all of those would impact ovulation and then the last one I feel like that really drives low progesterone is a thyroid issue which again that also impacts ovulation so
[SPEAKER_01]: I think that two of the easiest things that you can start doing to support progesterone are supporting stress.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, supporting getting real stress.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then supporting equality, because the better your equality, the better your progesterone will be as well.
[SPEAKER_01]: And equality is like eating enough nutrient dense fruit, you know, cooking ten, foods that are high in cooking ten, zinc, all of these are going to support equality.
[SPEAKER_01]: Making sure you're eating enough, making sure you're staying away from endocrine disruptors and false fragrances, all of those are going to impact equally.
[SPEAKER_01]: Those are just some simple ways that you could do, and that's just focusing on your food and all of it.
[SPEAKER_01]: So the other one that obviously I would be doing, which is, again, just something you can start doing today is blood sugar balance.
[SPEAKER_01]: And here we go.
[SPEAKER_01]: Talking about blood sugar balance, again, you know, half your plate, non-starchi veggies, quarter fat, quarter protein, quarter fat and carb.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh my gosh.
[SPEAKER_01]: So, half your plate is non-starchi vetted veggies, quarter protein, quarter fat and carb.
[SPEAKER_01]: So, supporting blood sugar balance is something super simple that you could do.
[SPEAKER_01]: And so it's so crazy.
[SPEAKER_01]: I have so many people who are like, I balance my blood sugar and then we start looking at their meals in the hormone reset program and it's like, no, no, we're not balancing our blood sugar.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I don't mean that in a bad way.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's just that you don't know what you don't know.
[SPEAKER_01]: And when you start truly balancing your blood sugar, you have better sleep.
[SPEAKER_01]: You start having more energy.
[SPEAKER_01]: Your mood is more stable.
[SPEAKER_01]: It just makes a world of difference that truly does.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then supporting sleep
[SPEAKER_01]: So the more we can support a great circadian rhythm and sleep the better that's going to be supporting of our ovulation and therefore are just on levels.
[SPEAKER_01]: So that's another really big one and then functional testing.
[SPEAKER_01]: The reason why this can be such a game changer for you is because you get to know exactly what's going on with your minerals if you're going to do as you may testing and customize that to what you need.
[SPEAKER_01]: But also, I have never, ever ever seen anything work as well as seeing numbers to make you go, I need to make changes.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's one thing to have symptoms and be like, I don't feel good and I'm tired and all of that kind of stuff.
[SPEAKER_01]: But I have
[SPEAKER_01]: I had a client one time who she was actually really young.
[SPEAKER_01]: She was only twenty one or twenty two and she had a lot of trouble losing weight.
[SPEAKER_01]: She had painful periods.
[SPEAKER_01]: She had hair loss.
[SPEAKER_01]: She had migraines, which was like all like horrible things, right?
[SPEAKER_01]: But would she finally fall her glass and saw how screwy the numbers were?
[SPEAKER_01]: She just was like, oh,
[SPEAKER_01]: this, I need to make some changes like double down.
[SPEAKER_01]: And that is where I think it can be a really, really big game changer for a lot of people.
[SPEAKER_01]: So it's kind of like, I know you should do this stuff.
[SPEAKER_01]: I know I should.
[SPEAKER_01]: And not only are the tests guiding you on what to do, but it's like very hard data, facts of like, hey, this is what your levels are.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is what they should be.
[SPEAKER_01]: Obviously, we need to make some changes.
[SPEAKER_01]: So,
[SPEAKER_01]: I, if you have low progesterone, that's going to surprise you.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't, I wouldn't say that Dutch needs to be your first test.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think, as she may need to be your first test.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then before I would even do Dutch, I would probably do Gega if you, because that's going to look at our gut and how we detoxify as for Shen.
[SPEAKER_01]: and other hidden stressors that would be impacting progesterone.
[SPEAKER_01]: If you want to do all throughout one time, great, knock yourself out.
[SPEAKER_01]: But if we're going to go in order of like for a bunch of reasons, I would do HTML, then GMF, then Dutch.
[SPEAKER_01]: Because if you have all these symptoms, we know your hormones are screaming.
[SPEAKER_01]: We're well aware they are, right?
[SPEAKER_01]: And so let's go upstream further up to see like what we can do to support those hormones versus just looking at the levels.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, like, yeah, they suck.
[SPEAKER_01]: I knew they suck because I feel X, Y, C.
[SPEAKER_01]: and then trying to manipulate the hormones.
[SPEAKER_01]: So let's go farther up to your things that impact the hormones and start there.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay?
[SPEAKER_01]: And if you are using Projection, this is not me yelling at you.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, yeah, it's kind of me yelling at you, actually.
[SPEAKER_01]: I take that back.
[SPEAKER_01]: But it's not me yelling at you if you are also working to figure out why you need Projection supplementation.
[SPEAKER_01]: Because if you just use Projection supplementation, and you're like, this is gonna solve all my issues,
[SPEAKER_01]: You're not going to feel so good in a little bit because it's not going to work.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's not going to work long term.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: So let's dig deep and figure it out.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: You might already have like a little noodling of like what it actually is for you.
[SPEAKER_01]: And so let's now be an action taker.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: Let's go do it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Because if you don't fix why it's low,
[SPEAKER_01]: solving the problem.
[SPEAKER_01]: So, it's important.
[SPEAKER_01]: So, when you are digging deep, I think it's important to make sure that you're being very honest with the questions that you're answering for yourself.
[SPEAKER_01]: So, a lot of times, really, go away, balance my blood sugar, all I eat this way, always sleep this way.
[SPEAKER_01]: Be honest, be honest.
[SPEAKER_01]: Is that how you intend to do all of those things?
[SPEAKER_01]: Or is it actually how you are doing them?
[SPEAKER_01]: I think that's a very important question.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then actually implement.
[SPEAKER_01]: And if you've been trying to implement and isn't working for you're not consistent, we need to make a change.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: Accountability can be a game changer running labs is a game changer.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, and that is where the hormone reset program can just shine and change your life.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's literally called the hormone reset because it resets your hormones.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, and it has worked for hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of women.
[SPEAKER_01]: So someone just graduated from the hormone reset program and she said, I
[SPEAKER_01]: Don't think you talk enough.
[SPEAKER_01]: Sorry, I hit the mic.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't think you talk enough about how much one I want support you get in here and how much individualization you get in here.
[SPEAKER_01]: Because you are, you're paired with a coach who I have personally trained, who is your touch point person, the entire way.
[SPEAKER_01]: to literally be like, oh, you need help breaking down the modules.
[SPEAKER_01]: Let's do this.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, you need help like supporting these meals.
[SPEAKER_01]: Great.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, you need help with how we're going to manage this with our nervous system.
[SPEAKER_01]: Great.
[SPEAKER_01]: You need help implementing your protocol.
[SPEAKER_01]: Great.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, you have questions about XYZ.
[SPEAKER_01]: Great.
[SPEAKER_01]: You want to dive deeper with this lab?
[SPEAKER_01]: Great.
[SPEAKER_01]: And it makes everything so doable to have that person in your corner to have somebody fighting for you and helping you be your biggest advocate.
[SPEAKER_01]: So
[SPEAKER_01]: If you go to bit.lee slash HP free call, you can book your console call with Alexis is one of my past clients to chat about what you have going on to see if the hormone reset program is a good fit for you.
[SPEAKER_01]: If it's not a good fit for you, we're going to tell you that we do actually tell people that.
[SPEAKER_01]: And if this was super helpful for you in terms of understanding, like, um, progesterone cream is not a magic fix.
[SPEAKER_01]: Not, um, I would love it if you share with friend someone you really love because you want them to fix the crotch ostrich on issues.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: I, uh, tactile reader.
[SPEAKER_01]: Thank you for listening to today's episode of balancing hormones naturally.
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