LadyGang - Candace Burch

Episode Date: August 30, 2022

Hormone Expert and founder of Your Hormone Balance, Candace Burch, returns to the podcast to share her tips changing your lifestyle to balance your hormones. From the beauty products we need to avoid, to signs of perimenopause and the impact of covid on our hormones, Candace is here to help us all reset. Check out our amazing sponsors!!! Hyundai: Check out the new Hyundai Palisade! It’s your journey. Learn more at HyundaiUSA.com  StarFace: Get 15% off a one time purchase at checkout with code LADYGANG at starface.world  Coors Light: Get Coors Light delivered straight to your door with Drizly or Instacart by going to coorslight.com/lady  Progressive: Quote your car insurance at Progressive.com to join the over 27 million drivers who trust Progressive!See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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amazing say that again the lady gang things are about to change around here each week we catch up with hollywood's hottest girl posse kelty knight becca tobin and jack vanik hello hello hello welcome to the lady gang i am becca tobin here with jack vanik and kelty knight oh hello hello how's everybody doing i just had a nervous mediocre for some reason right before we started this i don't know why i was nervous just because it it didn't come with me forcing it to happen you know like it it was just a random so that's just a normal poop yes so not nervous but have you changed anything in your diet the last few days no it wasn't a great one it was just like I'm like I don't know I have like a little bit of anxiety or like nervousness

maybe it's just because we have such a great guest on later and I was I don't know I'm just getting nervous about it okay unexplained nervous nerves nervous nervous um all right well in honor of your great poop or decent poop that you didn't have to force. It's time for Good Week. Yes, it is. Bad Week. Oh, no. I have to go first because mine is very intense.

Okay. I have proof that we are living in a simulation. Oh, I have so much proof of this, but go ahead. I know that I am the main character and that you are all sims. And I know this for sure

100%, 1,000 million trillion percent. And I'm going to tell you why this is both my good week and my bad week. Okay. This is just, it's all together. So, um, as you know, the internet can be a really cruel place. And, uh, and I think that, uh, it's a weird thing that we do as women to each other. I am guilty of this, not placing blame on anyone, but we all do it where, you know, there's a part of us that sees someone else like doing great. And then you're instantly like, am I great? Am I failing? Like the comparison is the thief of joy. And then there's the thing where if you're not deeply in therapy and you're

not like catching yourself in that moment where you automatically go and are just like super hard on other women, because you're like, I need to bring you down because you're, you're too good at womanhood and I need you to be like down on my level. right? So I had one of those days and I was, I was calling my brother and we were having conversation. And he says to me, Kelty, it's crabs in a bucket. And I was like, what are you talking about? And he goes, no, this is like the crabs in the bucket theory. And I was like, I have no, excuse me, what are you talking about? And he's like, it's proven. And there's Ted talks on

it. And he sent me a Ted talk where if you put one crab in a bucket, it will figure its way to crawl out and escape the bucket if you put 20 crabs in a bucket as soon as one crab starts to crawl out of the bucket the other crabs pull that crab down and it's like a whole isn't that crazy it's a whole thing about how it works and then there's all that i'll send you guys the ted talk but like then there's all these studies that humans have the same thing in our brain it's like I'm competitive. Uh, I need to eat in the forest, like billions of years old psyche things that when we are, we're all crabs in the bucket. And when we see someone crawling out of the bucket, we're got to pull that, that crab down. So this really made sense to me. And I was like, Oh,

you know, I'm going to give compassion to the other crabs in my bucket. If they see me crawling, of course, it's like, they have to do this and I've done it, you know, anyway. So this is, so that's like, you know, crabs in a bucket. That's my bad week. Like that I felt that way. So the good week is I know we're in a simulation because I've never heard the crabs in the bucket. How many times can I say crabs in a bucket? Crabs in a bucket. I've never heard about this before.

I got really into it. I started, I listened to that TED talk probably five times. It brought me great comfort. So then recently I, you guys know I'm in this book club, the Literati book club, and every month they send me a book. And for the last year, I've been Cheryl Strayed, who wrote Wild's book club. and I recently, after we had Tinks on our podcast, switched my subscription from Cheryl to be a part of Tinks Book Club because I wanted to see what she was offering. So I got my first Tinks Book

Club book and it happened to be Vivica A. Fox's memoir. Now this is not, I'm not really a Vivica Fox fan. I would never buy this book, but that's what's cool about the book club is they send you the book and then you, and I was like, well, I guess I'm going to read it if Tinks said it was good i'll read it even though this is not my type of book i swear to god page three vivica goes into a dissertation of crabs in a bucket this is the next day guys the next day she's like you have to know that everyone has this crabs and i was like crabs in a bucket is everywhere so the simulation clearly made people hate me on the internet and i felt shitty i complain to my brother he explained my sim number one brother explained crabs in a bucket i then

my sims book club gave me the book i read it on page three vivica fox who why the hell am i reading the vivica fox book is explaining crabs in a bucket the whole universe the whole sims is coming together to make me feel okay about my struggles i am the main character you are a figment of my imagination well i have really bad news for you i know you think the universe revolves around yourself, but that's actually something I like to call, or not I, the professionals, the scientific researchers of life. It's called Bader-Meinhof. It is what happens when you become aware of something and then suddenly it starts popping up all over your life. It's like you think about like a red car and then all of a sudden you see so many red cars on the freeway.

Yes. It's an interesting phenomenon and it's absolutely real. And what would have happened... in a bucket yeah there's not it's not a simulation i hate to tell you this but it's also well it is um i mean we are in one are we all being like i i need to know like what i don't i don't think that there's a main character of the simulation like kelty is saying like she is saying that she is the simulation she is character one i don't know about that one or maybe life just happens you know life is meaningless and then we all die anyway some are lucky and some are not don't pull me down bitches let me get out of my own bucket thanks the way that i would start to think about it is when you start having those feelings of wanting to pull somebody out of the of a bucket

just be like you're you've already made your way out of the bucket so it's not you're living outside the bucket you're creating your own new bucket you're in a you're in your own bucket there's no there's no need to even bother with other people because they're also out of the bucket and we're all out and we're on the beach and we're free we don't need to pay attention to each other so much yeah just stay in your own bucket stay in your own bucket and crawl out when you want because you're alone don't ever be social is also a great lesson from this okay So that was good and bad week. Okay.

Got it. Okay. Um, okay. So my good week is I just started using time hop. Do you guys use time hop? It shows you like what's on your phone from a year ago, two years ago from that day. Pictures, right? Pictures that are on your phone.

So I found something great on time hop and it was from five years ago and it's a screenshot with the man that got away. What? Josh Groban. oh my god a text which i was like i forgot that i so i matched with josh groban on raya five years ago and um we must have exchanged numbers i never met him but the text is from a conversation that we're just like going back and forth and then the last thing on the text said i'm glad you're weird as well as gorgeous josh groban joshy poo i was like excuse what a compliment

I mean, that's pretty much the best compliment that one can be given. Why did he say you were weird? What did you say? Because it doesn't make any sense. Our conversation doesn't make any sense, but we're going back and forth with some bantery kind of a thing. Is this when you were taking like a lot of sleeping pills and then texting? Yes, it was around that time.

Maybe that's why I don't really remember much of our, like, I don't remember that I ever got his phone number, but I'm like, wow, he really is the one that got away. I wonder what he's doing these days. So that's my good week. My bad week is I got an email from some gal named Jaylee Mathers, and I'm going to read it to you. And there's a lot of bleeps in this email. Okay.

It says, ugly, see you next Tuesday. Ugly, bleep, bleep, bleep looking whore with an ugly face and body and your ugly friends are trashed like your ugly bleep looking bleep boyfriend and that other skinny bleep bleep is trash too. like that ugly pathetic bleep suck and ugly dick ugly bitch sounds like it was written by me because it seems like it's trashing everyone in your life except me because healthy is clearly the skinny bleep hey really i didn't even bring myself into that and you guys i don't i don't know what this email is from i don't know if it was maybe not meant for me but it was such a wild

a website now to your actual email address yes jack at jack vanek.com i'm not sure if she meant to write mac at jack vanek.com and it got accidentally sent my way so this person went out of their way to spell out jack vanek so it's for you it's for me um i'm this person i don't know i i should probably look her up on instagram i'm sorry if i did anything to um make you that mad and she wrote out bleep no there are a lot of uh slurs and things in there that are not appropriate i don't like it i don't like it yikes well she wanted to she wanted you back in her crab bucket she did she's trying to pull me out of the bucket no she's pulling you back into the bucket i mean into the bucket she sees you getting out with your tiktok fame and she wants you back

in that goddamn bucket. You know, you are going to open yourself up to a lot of things like this with TikTok with your fame. So I want you to be ready. I'm ready. I'm ready. See, that didn't hurt me. It didn't knock me down. Like it's not bringing me down to the bucket. Good for you. Great. Wow. What's your bad week? Is that the bad week or the bad week? That was the bad week. Becca. Okay. Um, so my bad week is that Ford only takes shifts at between four and 5.00 AM. So you can imagine what's going on at this house. He sleeps through the night. He's a wonderful sleeper.

And if it weren't for these shits, he would probably sleep later. But he has been doing this literally for days in a row, for days and weeks in a row. Occasionally we'll get a relief and he'll sleep later and he won't have done it. I'm not sure what to do. Are there any mothers out there? I obviously can't shift his feeding schedule because that's like, you know, not possible. um so yeah that's that's what we're currently dealing with and zach's right now so when he poops does he wake up yeah yeah and then i know he's i mean even if he's not screaming his face

off he's like getting a little fussy he's making some noises and i'm like i would normally just leave him if i thought he was just waking up for no reason and then he'd go back to bed but the fact that we know there's shit in his diaper nine times out of ten it's like really and then you can't change his diaper by the time you've changed his diaper it's like putting him back in the crib there's no way he's gonna sleep for another like what 30 minutes or whatever he's supposed to wake up so that's what we're dealing with it's a delight and a joy um and my good week is that there were an overwhelming amount of people sending me a picture on on instagram recently i guess drake as we know him champagne poppy on instagram did a story posted a story

and it was just this woman in the picture and he says try tried to airdrop this woman a picture of herself because she's a dime and i i had so many people say is it you is this you is this you And one person even said, this looks like if you and Kelty had a baby. Wait, I need to see the picture. I got to show you. Hold on. We'll post this. I don't know.

Are we allowed to post this on Instagram? Yeah. I feel like it looks like you mixed with Kelty. Well, it's a big forehead. So that's where they're getting the Kelty. I have a big forehead too. The hairline is the hairline of my dreams. So it looks like you, Becca, I think.

It does look like you. I mean, especially from afar. She looks gorgeous. 50 looks rich well this is what i was gonna say it looks like you it kind of looks like sarah paulson a little bit yeah anyways it doesn't look like you now it looks like what you will look like when you're 50 what i took from that is that drake thinks i'm attractive yep so there you go that's all you needed so whatever takeaway you need also i love that drake is just out there airdropping pictures to beautiful women of themselves i mean how does he

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Celebrate responsibly. Coors Brewing Company, Golden, Colorado. Now back to the Lady Gang. All right. We're very excited to welcome back to the podcast one of only two people in the history of lady gang that has had three episodes dedicated to them spencer pratt and our fabulous hormone health educator candace birch so candace is back if you haven't listened to the first two episodes with her we met her i think in 2016 um so her background

is incredible. She in 2017 founded Your Hormone Balance. Her website is a one-on-one consulting practice. She's now joined by her two amazing daughters, Ryan and Jess, and they do nutrition and all kinds of coaching and a newsletter that's amazing and a website. She worked as a health editor, writer, and investigative journalist in London. She was a leading educational patient and provider, uh, at the ZRT hormone laboratory and the director of education there for 12 years. And she is just everything about hormones, disease prevention. She's a writer, speaker, podcaster. And, um, we basically started to feel like we're going through perimenopause. So we had to come have her back to explain that. And, uh, you can check all of her, uh, work out at

your hormone balance.com. So please welcome back to the lady gang podcast, Candace Birch. Wow. What an intro. I hope I can live up to it. I mean, we know you're going to live up to it. I do want to say before we get started, this is something I'm learning later in our podcasting is that, you know, we're going to talk about medical stuff during this episode. There is nothing like going to your doctor and everyone's treatment is theirs and different. And so any recommendations that you hear on this show. Um, you know, uh, they, they are opinions of Lady Gang and Candace only, and it may not work for you. It might not be the thing. So, uh, we don't want a bunch of messages that are like,

this is, you know, not the way, whatever works for you, you do you. Um, but Candace is going to offer her insight and her, uh, genius on this subject. And we're going to talk about it. And I hope that you guys learn some things. And if nothing else, you know what to ask your people when you go to the doctor next time. So let's get started. Okay. All right, Kelsey. You need to lead still. You're right. You're right. Okay. I'm still on. The first thing I want to talk about is I think something that we're all going through because we've just come out. I mean, we're not out of COVID, but we've just come out of being a lot of most people vaccinated for COVID. And we know that this with our periods and with ourselves and so um are you noticing any trends in like

post-covid hormones or what can we do to kind of get ourselves back and or did i just make that up and i just had a bad period and blamed it on something um no i i mean i think there's there hasn't been a lot of research into the covid thing but there's definitely um some data out of scandinavia actually that has shown that um a good 53 i think it was like over 53 percent of women have experienced changes in their periods the length or the the flow um and um you know more severe pms like over 40 percent in this particular study uh not to be confused with permanent changes. I think, you know, we have to look at sort of ambient stress, the background of stress that has been with us for a couple of, what, two and a half years now. And we know that

stress can absolutely disrupt ovulation. And the kind of stress that is ongoing, back burner, just, you know, becomes the background of our lives. And we're just feeling uncertain and unbalanced and out of sync and out of sorts. And I think that's probably what's messing with the whole, you know, the cycle. And then also there are immune responses when we have a period, the menstrual cycle is absolutely linked in with immunities because we need those antibodies and immune, our immune system to help us clear out every time we have a period, you know, we've got, there's possible bacteria in there and we need to do, it's a cleansing, right? So it's a kind of a detox every time we have a cycle and the immune system is thought to be linked in and connected

with that. So therefore, you know, we can have some immune responses where people feel, you know, maybe more prone to being sick, not bouncing back, having allergies or asthma, that kind of thing. But I don't see in the research that it's a permanent kind of thing, and hopefully we're moving out of it. But I don't think that that's the main, you know, this just kind of morphs into the whole question of stress and disrupted periods and early perimenopause kinds of issues. And I think people can be and have been catapulted into an early perimenopause maybe sooner than they would have had it not been for these last two and a half years of angst. Got it. So on the first two times you were here, we talked a lot about hormone basics and all of those things.

And so there's two kind of things that I really want to dig into today. And the first is something that Becca brought up on a podcast just a couple of weeks ago and, and we've known, but I really want to get into it, which is the beauty products. And you talk, you talk a lot about this on your Instagram and your newsletter, um, about these beauty products and everything we're layering on us, messing with our hormones. Um, and it, it seems so strange that the world would allow products to be made that are somehow messing, but how does that work and what can we do to help ourselves moving forward? Yeah. And in this country, we have, well, in America, I'm in England where they don't allow a lot of these chemicals or in Europe, there's something

like 1400 chemicals that are not allowed in skin products or beauty products. But in our country, of course, not only are they allowed, but they're not regulated. In fact, the cosmetic safety act, which was first initiated in 1938. That's something like 80 plus years ago, has not been updated since then. So we have cosmetic companies and the beauty industry is how many billions of dollars a year that do not have to list all the ingredients in their product. They are not accountable for any adverse events that may have even been reported to them by users. And really there's just no accountability. So we have to get very savvy and read ingredients. You have to become your own private detective. And I always say, if you see a product that has a ton of

ingredients on the back listed a mile long, half of which you can't pronounce, you want to avoid that product. And we have a lot of options. But the issue is that a lot of these chemicals are called, they're called endocrine disruptors or estrogen mimickers, meaning they can, some of these chemicals like parabens or BPAs, or, you know, there's a million different chemicals that you've heard about. Laureth sulfate is in all shampoos. You want to, you know, avoid that stuff, look for those things. A lot of these chemicals, for some reason, mimic estrogens. So then we get into this estrogen dominant situation where we have all the adverse effects of having too much estrogen and all the other hormones are being sort of deregulated or downregulated as the

chemicals overstimulate. So going to environmentalworkinggroup.org is a perfect resource. There's something on there called Skin Deep. You can look into a particular product that you're using and see how toxic and how disruptive it is. But basically, you want to look for products that just say no artificial hormones are used. But with cosmetics, we don't really know. I mean, they can use placental tissue in a cosmetic that can have hormones in it. So we have to sort of just really choose products that claim, hopefully, they're not lying to us, that claim to be natural. I mean, we have a couple good, um, companies that I, I like to recommend, uh, beauty, beauty counter. And there's another company I like called thrive cosmetics that has

great products. Um, you know, just all, all natural without any toxins in it. So I think the best and easiest way to go is to check out, uh, environmentalworkinggroup.org. And then some of these companies that we know are trying to do the right thing. But Candice, like, I guess when you're saying this, like I'm thinking and I'm like, okay, Kelty, go through your caboodle and figure out. It's not that hard. When you purchase, no, I know that, but it's like, it doesn't make sense to me. Like, I feel like I'm wearing some lotion, some serum, some, like, how could it possibly that much be seeping into my skin to cause this disruption? Like, wouldn't you just have to be wearing so much lipstick? I don't know. Well, is it a combination of all of the things that

you're wearing on a daily basis that is affecting your system constantly, right? I think there's something like 14 different products women are applying every day. You're talking about hair products, shampoos, different moisturizers. And I see in test results of women who are using any kind of anti-aging products, I see elevated estrogen levels all the time. Um, you know, with, with things like, um, retinol or, uh, you know, all, all kinds of things. And I'll have to say, are you, you know, sometimes these are menopausal women who aren't making much hormone, their ovaries are packed up and they're not really producing that much

hormone. And yet their levels are sky high. It's like, where the hell is this coming from? It's gotta be. So then the question becomes, what, what are you using on your skin? I remember talking to a woman who's been using a product for the last 15 years, the same product day after day after day. And I mean, people slather this stuff on, you know, if you think of the skin creams and the face creams and the hair products, it's, there's just tons of it.

Even fragrances, fragrances are, are endocrine disruptors because all the chemicals that they have in them, but yeah, this stuff is, we're inhaling it. It's on our skin. Our skin is the largest organ in the body that we're rubbing it in. It's all, you know, this stuff is going in and wreaking havoc really. And I never understood. I was like, so what? It's a chemical. Like I need my hair to look good. I need to soak off the acid. I need the acetone to soak off my gels. Well, someone really close to me just had estrogen positive breast cancer. And I didn't realize because I'm a dum-dum that all of those synthetic hormones or the hormone disruptors are actually probably most likely the cause for a lot of women who have breast cancer, that specific

type, because it's the overflow of estrogen, right? Yes. And estrogen is really, you know, when we recall that estrogen is a growth hormone, a very potent growth hormone, it's the hormone that grew all our female organs, you know, it gave us our curves, our breasts, our ovaries, our uterus, Thank God. But, you know, hey, you've got to control that. It's estrogen that grows the egg in the ovary. It's estrogen that thickens the endometrial lining that we shed as a period. So estrogen is a very potent growth hormone. And of course, we need that growth for all the functions that it, you know, it's also a great protector of heart and bone health and brain health. We need these hormones in the right amounts. And that's where hormone balance comes

in because the body in its wisdom has designed itself so that we have other hormones like progesterone that is produced at ovulation that will start to, you know, balance estrogen and keep it at bay. But if we're larding on all this stuff on our skin and we're inhaling things that are fragrances and our cleaning products, and we're eating foods that are, that are injected with hormones, because God knows that the meat packing industry is, is injecting cattle with hormones to make them grow fat faster. And what happens to us, we grow fat faster. But estrogen being a growth hormone is very much linked to breast cancer. I've actually asked women to stop using the creams that they were using for a few, because, you know, a lot of women are like, oh my

God, why are these levels so high? And I've asked them, let's redo these levels. I want you to stop this product. We don't exactly know what's in it. Let's stop for five days and then retest. And you wouldn't believe how the levels restore to normal. Oh, wow. Yeah. I should mention that in order to rid our bodies of excess estrogen, first of all, prevention is numero uno. So we're talking about how do we not in the first place expose ourselves, but you know, the unwitting exposure is always going to happen. So one of the things that we want to be able to do is to be aware of the things that kind of clear the system of excess estrogens. And that's where, of course, having a balance of progesterone. If you're low in progesterone, you don't want to be low in progesterone because

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and they'll leave you alone so you can listen to this podcast in peace in the front seat, then the Wi-Fi really helps you out. It's your journey. Learn more at HyundaiUSA.com. Safe Exit Assist is not a substitute for driver or passenger attentiveness. Always be aware of your surroundings and attentive of approaching vehicles. You're listening to the Lady Gang. I have a selfish question that I've never had a medical professional be able to answer for me, and it's about synthetic hormones. So when you're doing IVF and you're prepping your body to put the embryo inside of you, the transfer. They give you about five days of progesterone injections, like synthetic progesterone in a sesame oil or something like that.

I was never able, my body was never able to tolerate those injections. And I got violently ill, like within four to five hours of injection every night. So we had to cancel my transfers because I had a fever and you can't, you know, can't put an embryo in a body that's fighting something off. So there was never an explanation aside from like a hypersensitivity to the progesterone possibly, but I connected with all these women who had that experience, but like in the medical field, there's no explanation. It was just sort of like, Oh, this, sorry, it's not working. Well, they're giving you massive doses, huge doses, and, and all of these hormones work and synchrony. So to give massive doses of one hormone, I mean, obviously they're trying to

provide progesterone so that you can ovulate and have a successful fertilization. You have to have that progesterone after ovulation or produced upon ovulation, but a synthetic progesterone is not the way to go. I thought that some of these IVF programs used natural bioidentical progesterone. We should do a little, I should do a little research and find out which ones do because bioidentical progesterone is the, you know, is the good guy. Bioidenticals of all sorts, all these hormones, bioidentical means identical in structure and molecular function to the hormones our own bodies make. So when I was talking about that puzzle piece or landing on that docking pad, it fits. A natural bioidentical hormone fits. The synthetic

hormone doesn't fit. It's kind of like jamming the door open and then just overstimulation. So it's got to be bioidentical. And if it's not, then it's going to create all kinds of problems like you're describing. Bioidenticals also should be used if you're just using like progesterone as so many young women, you, you, you know, women going into perimenopause really can benefit from using some natural progesterone to, to even out the swing, the slings and arrows, you know, the rollercoaster, but it's got to be the bioidentical. It's got to be used in Goldilocks doses, like physiologic doses, where you're just replacing what your body isn't making perhaps. And, um, and used in sync with your cycles also. Um, I had a question kind of, you're talking about

the birth control and how that affects you. And then we were talking about periods and how that is your body's way to flush out a lot of stuff that's going on. So what happens when somebody's on a hormonal IUD and their period just stops? Is that really bad for your hormones because you're not having that monthly release? Well, I mean, any sort of hormonal birth control is going to work by pretty much suppressing ovulation. And when we, and you're not, you know, so, so when you're not ovulating, you're not, the ovaries are the main source of hormone production. So, you know, that's, that's really the big problem there. And I think that, um, you know, we have so many good options now to use these fertility trackers so that you can,

um, you know, you guys are all digital natives. You can get onto this fertility trackers and figure out when, when you're about to ovulate and when you're fertile and they're pretty much 97%, uh, effective. And that's a much better way to go than any kind of synthetic hormone contraceptive that is really going to, you know, mess with your hormones and not having periods and not ovulating is, you know, down the road. I see women your age or on birth control that have the same symptoms as women in menopause. You know, they're depressed, they can't lose weight, they've got hot flashes and night sweats, they've got vaginal dryness, their skin is dry, their hair is dry, all the symptoms of estrogen and progesterone imbalance. So why go there when

we have better options now? And I always say, I was the first in line with birth control back in the 60s. I wanted to live with my boyfriend. I didn't want to get pregnant. I'm all for family planning, but I think we have better options now. What would you say to women who are hearing this and it's like, yeah, I want to get my shit together, but where do I start? Like, yes, I want to know, is my progesterone low in this time? And like, just what would you say is the most actionable, less intimidating step? Well, first of all, I think it's important to know your symptoms. Symptom awareness is the first step. We have a symptom quiz at yourhormonebalance.com. If you go there, it's going to give you an idea, answering all the

questions, whether or not you're pretty likely to have a hormone imbalance. Heavy, painful periods, cramping that are maybe incapacitating, Jekyll and Hyde moods, bad PMS, bad periods, weight gain that just won't go, bloating, tender breasts. How about that? Fear of hugging. So tender that how many women have I talked to? That's estrogen dominance. These are all, you know, imbalances of hormones. So know the symptoms first and then, you know, take action. The testing confirms the symptoms. The testing says, yeah, look at your estrogen level relative to your progesterone or look at your testosterone level. It's really low and, or it's really high. And that's why you have acne and PCOS. But then all of that goes back to, you know, we identify these levels as high or low.

We can identify specific imbalances. We can identify how they tie in with the symptoms you're actually experiencing, which is really good because most women will say, oh my God, I'm so glad there was something wrong. I finally know. I'm so glad there were irregularities on my test report because now I have a reason for feeling the way I do. This is a really interesting thing. And oh my God, we bring you back for the fourth time because we have so much more that we wanted to talk about. I know. I do want to touch on perimenopause just a little bit personally. And also, cause I know this is like the age. So this kind of is around 38. You could start seeing signs. I, I actually, um, I think that I'm getting there because I've had a lot of health

issues this year and I've done every test under the sun. And, um, the last piece is coming back to you, we've done my hormones before, which was amazing, um, is coming back to you for a new, a new write-up. And it's really interesting to me because I see it in the Facebook group all the time. The girls are like, I'm so tired. Tell me about my thyroid. Tell me about this. And like you go to the doctor and they test all these things and they, it's so debilitating when you're sitting there and they're like, you're fine. There's nothing wrong with you. And I literally like the other day was at the doctor and he was like, well, I want to look at this. And I, he's like i want to do this extended range now because the the panel that they give everyone was like

clean i literally like melted off that little chair into a puddle i was like please help me like please i can't exist like this and and i do think hormones are such a big part of that but yeah here's what here's my question for today i remember suzanne summers was like how i stay young and my husband 10 times a day is like he's on the kitchen table on the kitchen table it's like all of these hormones. And then I'm starting to hear, because I'm sort of at that perimenopause age, like, oh, you need to make sure that you're ahead of it, that you're ahead of it, that you're not like, you know, depleted or whatever, and then see all the signs and then have to like pick up the slack. So what can someone who's 40-ish start to do to like prepare

themselves for this? Well, yeah, it used to be that perimenopause was sort of expected around age, the mid 40s. But now we're looking at these levels getting really wonky around late 30s and early 40s because there's an abundance of stress in the land, right? And, you know, what we've just been through with COVID, et cetera, I'm sure if there was data out there, how many women were catapulted into the perimenopause. And yeah, it's right that you can, all these things I was mentioning before you know getting rid of the xenoestrogens the chemicals in your diet in your in your life your beauty products etc that's that's so important eating properly managing your stress the superfluous stress do we really do we really need to you know go to every single

appointment can we cancel can we is are we chilling out i don't think a lot of people know how to relax anymore. We're just kind of jacked up and we're constantly in a state of excess cortisol hormones, which by the way, kind of take over when the adrenals are, are over-performing and in overdrive because we're going, going, going, and we're not sleeping enough and we're not producing, we're not ovulating and we're over-exercising. So all those things, yeah, you need to do, um, and you need to know what your levels are because if they're really out of balance, that's when you start to take action. You see it on the paper, you know, you see, okay, I get it. I need to make some changes because this is astonishingly off and I'm only

40 years old, but you know, there should be some inevitable fluctuation. I saw there was an article in Vogue recently about menopause and perimenopause. And one of the doctors that was quoted said something about anybody that tells you that they can clinically prove you're in perimenopause is bullshitting you. And I thought, well, that's bullshit because, I mean, forget the clinical proof. You know, you're in perimenopause when you have all of these symptoms, when you have hot flashes and night sweats, your moods are all over the place. Your fuse is short. You're, you're bleeding the bleeding changes that you're having. Um, your periods are getting heavier or lighter or crampier, or they've gone AWOL entirely, your libido, you'd rather delete emails,

you know, you're, you're not, all of these things should clue you in that, yeah, you're in the perimenopause and you feel stressed and you feel stress is kind of overwhelming. That word overwhelm when you feel overwhelmed, or you're ready to run a marathon at night when you should be calming down and, you know, falling asleep and staying asleep. These are all things that are potent signs. Then you see it in a test result, and then you take steps to turn it around because you can. You know, you can manage stress hormones. You can add in things. You look at the supplements you're taking. You look at your nutrients that you're getting into your diet. You look at your exercise program. You look at whether you're in sync with your cycles, aligning all of those

things with your cycles. And then you make the changes that you have to make. And it doesn't have to be that overwhelming because there are things for each, you know, each aspect. It's a holistic thing. It's, it doesn't, and we, in our rebalancing guide, we say, okay, try this, this, and this for the estrogen dominance. Try this. These things we know are helpful for sleep and adrenal support. And it's all of the things you can take, but it's also the changes you have to make in your lifestyle. Yep. I love this so much. All right. Well, we're booking you for the fourth comeback. Candice, you're the love of our lives. Yourhormonebalance.com is where you can head over to take that quiz, learn more about Candice and Jess and Ryan and everything that they're doing

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