The Livy Method Podcast - Age and Your Hormones: What's Happening

Episode Date: May 19, 2026

What if the reason you feel so off… isn’t just hormones, but the way your body has been trying to survive for years?In this episode, on Gina Livy’s birthday no less, Gina and hormone expert Dr. Olinca Trejo have a candid, funny, and seriously eye-opening conversation about hormones while you age.They break down how modern life keeps the body stuck in survival mode, what cortisol is actually doing behind the scenes, and why your hunger, cravings, sleep, mood, and energy can all feel completely out of sync. From menopause to stress eating to waking up at 3 a.m. wide awake, this conversation connects the dots in a way that finally makes sense.This episode feels like sitting in on a conversation with two friends who just happen to know a whole lot about hormones.This episode aligns with day 30 of our Spring 2026 weight loss program. You can find the full video hosted at: www.facebook.com/groups/livymethodspring2026To learn more about The Livy Method, visit livymethod.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

I'm going to be honest with you, this podcast is unapologetically a hot mess because that is what midlife feels like sometimes. Why, though? And how do we make it better? Do we all just need facelifts and g-lp-1s? I mean, let's talk about it. No bullshit, no wellness wankery here because we're trying to make real change and change is hard. But we're in this together. Welcome to the Living Method podcast.

Thanks. I love it. I love that it goes with your outfit. This is exactly why I chose a shirt. have to know everybody that backstage, Gina was like, oh, you look so bright today. And I was like, oh, I was thinking of you because it was matching my hat. That's right. Let's purchase as I ever made. Happy birthday. Queen? Thank you. Thank you. I'm 53. 50 fucking three. And feeling like 23 inside. I know this about you. I also was just saying like I, on my birthdays, I like drink wine. I

sleep and you go and write a book. And that just shows you the type of people that we have on this podcast today, people. Well, going to the Cotswolds to work on my book was like a full treat on itself. And before that, I was like a way for business. And I came back for, we missed you at the dance party. We missed you at the dance party. I know I had to go get an MRI. But next time, I'm going to come next time.

Now that I know that I can fully dance because my MRI was clear, like, you better believe I'm going to break it down on the dance floor. Okay. Yeah. Well, we'll talk about that behind the scenes. But let's like also talk about how, you know, are getting old and it's a lot. I came back and then, yeah, went to the Cotswolds, which was amazing. God, countryside is beautiful. Talk about like so good for your soul. I recognize it's very privileged to be able to do that. And then back this weekend and, you know, I golfed. I saved the

world from zombies. I went to medieval times. Like, what am I fucking 20? Like, I'm tired. I'm tired. But today we sleep in. Today. rest. Last night I went to bed. I like, Tony took me up for like a lobster dinner last night and I was falling asleep in the lobster. I was like, I am so tired.

Let's talk about getting older and hormones because you're here to talk about hormones. I love that conversation with your, with your, I can't wear this the whole time. I specifically did my hair for this, you guys. So you're stuck with my half of the cat. You're leaving it on.

Everyone wants to talk menopause. and hormones. And, you know, of course, we can talk about that. But there's such a bigger conversation when it comes to hormones. And people forever have been like, yes, you have a weight loss program, but I, will it work with hormones? And I'm like, yeah, of course. But of course, they're always thinking like hormones, menopause, when there's so many other hormones in your body. And it's an interesting conversation with GLP1's weight loss medications because GLP1 also a hormone and what it does is helps suppress your appetite. But then you also have your hunger hormones, like you're growling when you're hungry and your leptin when you're satisfied.

And then when we're not sleeping, that affects our sleep hormones. So then we're craving more carbs and sugar the next day. Like we just want to fucking lose weight. What hormone conversation are we having today? In 20 minutes fix my hormones. We have a we have like that big hour and a half conversation that we did with hormones. I'm going to link that today for people that goes through all the different hormones in your body. But this reminded me, stop, stop.

stop, stop, stop. You're doing your hormone course. I am. Right? Yeah. I am. Yes, we today, tomorrow is actually the last day of the first module, but you can take any modules separately. And we go through all of this in so much detail, all the conversations that we've had,

we put them together, we go into detail so that we can have an actionable plan to help you understand how they balance your hormones. And so if you want to deep dive on this conversations, you guys, like DM us, like we'll send you all the information. It's so important. Yeah, how do we even grasp it? Like, just give me an outline and I'm not trying to sell your program. You know, obviously, you know, people, I think it's been great. Like, learning about hormones is a game changer. Not just for losing weight, but actually like just being healthy. Not even just through menopause as you get older.

What, like, what are that? Can you just give me a quick overview of all the different working, but like, what modules do you have? Like, maybe that can give people a picture of like how enormous this conversation. Yeah. So the first module we actually. actually talk about the environment and how the environment shapes your hormones and impacts your hormones. And we go through things like gut health, inflammation, endocrine disruptors, microplastics, things like that. Because if you don't change the environment that you put your hormones and your hormones are never going to change, right? And it's so easy for people to come into these conversations saying like, what supplement can I take to balance out my hormones? And I'm like,

girl, we need to start from like the very basics. And that is the foundation of how your body's responding to all of this. Oh, I love that because this is, I used to say that all the time. We're creating the environment for your body to be able to even focus on fat loss in the first place, which is why the beginning of the program is give the body what it needs, right? Whether you're a new member, returning member. Love that. Okay, yes.

Environment. Second module, we go through how stress hijacks your metabolism because we try to focus. focus on cortisol and its impact on things like appetite, satiety, food choices, food cravings, so that we can pull it all together. And then the third one is all about metabolism, right? We talk about thyroid, we talk about growth hormone, we talk about menopause. And then the very last one, should you choose to stick with us, it's more about the longevity part of it, which is more about, you know, because I think

that this, the menopause conversation is so important, but I think the hard part about it is that at least on social media. And actually, yeah, on social media, it's very much, though, like, the answer to your hormone issues is HRT. Yeah. And if you can't take HRT, then you are screwed. Also, if you're not in menopause, right? Because menopause is a single day in your life.

Nobody really talks about, like, what happens after that? Like, what happens to your hormones after that? Like, when you don't have estrogen, like, what happens? And so the very last module is very much about, like, longevity. and like cardiovascular health, bone health, sleep, like all of those things so that we can age because we're all aging. Today is the youngest we're ever going to be for the rest of our lives. I know, but it's a beautiful day.

It is it. So it's like how do we make the most out of what we have and out of the hormones that we do have because it's not just about estrogen-progester and testosterone? It's not. Yeah, especially when it comes to weight loss and Dr. Jennifer Zolvitzky, like she's a MD menopause especially she'll tell you this. HRT helps you manage your menopause symptoms. So it helps you get better sleep.

It's not like a magical thing. You take it and you're going to lose weight. It's like 80% lifestyle and it's great to be able to take things. Okay. First of all, you know, I saw a thing yesterday about longevity. Someone's like longevity. There's only one G, but you pronounce both. And then I was like, wait, what?

It's actually longevity, L-O-N-Givity. Isn't that crazy? Right? Because long-givity. I just assumed, anyway, we're going to go with longevity. Are you getting used to say you twice? You know, I pronounce everything. We're like, I'm next again.

Like half the time, my husband comes upstairs. He's like, it's not candida. It's Canada. And I'm like, man, ha, ha, ha, well, you know what's interesting. I'm going to go there because your doctor is a doctor. Your husband's a doctor, an MD, right? Yeah. And someone was like, who, what is this girl's certification credentials? She didn't say it like that. She asked in a very nice way. But it occurred to me that today that people might not understand what a natural pathic doctor does. And this is sort of where you go to your doctor. And we know they were not trained in hormones in women's hormones. They know no training in that. My own doctor admitted that. She's fucking amazing. Also not trained in supplementation. That's kind of like kind of like preemptive health. Or what do you? call that when you're trying to like get ahead of it you're trying preventative

preventative health your doctor is more like i have this i have that i need something to help me with that so maybe just a quick blurb of like um what a naturalopathic doctor like what what is your area of specialty i know it's hormones but just just quit yeah yeah so we're actually trained um similarly to medical doctors we go through a core program that's a postgrad for your program that honestly you walk out pretty much like a GP in the sense that at least in other provinces, but on Ontario, you're able to prescribe like medications and you're able to diagnose and treat and do physical exams and all these things. However, the premise of naturopatic medicine truly is focused on prevention and integrative care because we understand the role

of allopathic medicine. Nobody's saying like if you have an infection, don't go get antibiotics. But what we're looking at is like, yo, if you keep on getting infected, infections. It's not really probably the virus that's a problem with the bacteria. There's probably something going on in the background. And so what we focus is on trying to treat the root cause of disease. And we have different modalities, right? Like supplements, acupuncture, herbal medicine, all of these things. Our training, well, it's like a core training. We all have different focuses and specialties because of my own hormone journey. Honestly, I became obsessed with hormones from like really, really early on.

I loved hormones before they were cool. And it's really, honestly, I did. And it's really helped me understand so much about how things are connected. And in this weight loss conversation, I think it's allowed me to get rid of a lot of like guilt and shame that we put on people because they're not doing the less calories, more exercise, right? Because it's only when you understand all of the nuances and all of these connections, because we are a system of connections that are connected to each other.

It's only when you understand that, then you can fully understand how to treat the root cause and not just with, you know, listen, GLP ones are amazing. They're amazing, amazing, amazing. But they're only like a very small piece of a greater puzzle. And that's what you're here. Oh, yeah. Like it's not just your GLP1 hormone.

That's like one little tiny little little hormone. It's one. And there's so much you can do to address your hormones. I was just thinking about the new name for PCOS, polyandocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome, which, you know, we knew that PCOS had to do with hormones, your metabolism, all of that, which is why their answer was, just lose weight. It'll help. Thoughts on that?

This is where you've been talking about hormones forever. This is where it's a real thing, hormones. And I think we just kind of flippantly through it out there. And people like, yeah, hormones, HR, that was the answer to everything. I think for women who have suffered from, quote, unquote, polysynchorean syndrome, which can look very different, right? And that's actually the hard thing about syndromes,

quote unquote, labeled in medicine, is that we don't really have excellent criteria to kind of diagnose you with. It's kind of like, you kind of all look like each other. We're just going to put you on the same. category and especially when it comes to PCOS, there was lean PCOS. There was like, you know, the women with PCOS that look like they had that abdominal oposity and like were struggling to lose weight and have the acne and all of these things. And I think that, you know, for the vast majority of women, having now a, not label, but something that kind of validates your experience

it validates your frustration and validates all of this can just feel like there's this pressure taken off of you because it validates the like shit I wasn't doing everything wrong and this isn't my fault and it's not something that I was doing or not doing it's that metabolically these hormones were working against me right and that is often what we see with weight loss as well because hormones are driving so much of this and if you ignore the hormone part of it like you're ignoring 80 to 90% of the whole story, right? Really? You are.

And the thing is that doctors are not. And this, again, this is why I love our program because you're here and you're taking the time to explain this to us. And we've had so many conversations with you that are all available to our members. We're going to put together like a best of a best series in the half. But when else, your family doctor is not sitting down and explaining all of this to you.

Or especially knowing you, know what we're trying to do here in the program. So you're having a more focus conversation. Because out there, it seems like everybody, every influencer on the planet is now trying to sell us supplements and peptides and, you know, all of, like, it's just so fucking complicated, but really important to know and understand. Yeah. And honestly, if there was a supplement or a peptide, believe me, I would have already used it and I would be a vigiliner. Like, listen, like, I'm not here to keep like, there's a secret supplement. that will fix all of your issues.

Like, no, ma'am, I would be selling that supplement and we would be having this conversation from my yacht. Like, I don't, you know, so I don't, we actually would be speaking from each other's yachts just like over, you know, the ocean. And so I think that, you know, the challenging part about it is that, especially when it comes to hormones. And originally you had asked me, like, what kind of throws everything out of balance? And honestly, it's her modern environment, right?

And I think that the hard part about it is that there isn't a single thing that's going to balance your hormones. It's going to be setting down all of these like strategies and giving your body what it needed from the beginning to balance out its hormones on its own because your body knows what to do. It's just that it's constantly in a state of survival and constantly feeling like there's 3,000 threats coming out. you in your body because you are an animal you're a mammal you're a very smart animal most of us yeah um but your your body will always choose to survive and your hormones will always adapt to whatever it is that you're doing in order to survive and if your body has these strategies right with your sleep with feeding yourself properly with this the stress reduction with the mindful eating with all of these things your body kind of gets to a place where no longer feels under threat it no longer feels in survival

And nobody's saying like, oh my God, we're going to sell you the program that's going to decrease your stress. There's not going to be any stress in your life. We also be real rich for that. Yeah. But we're just telling you, we're here to create strategies to allow your body to physiologically get to a place of balance and a homeostasis where everything is going back to what you were meant to be from the beginning, right? We're not selling you like a new you. We're selling you that like we're just helping you. discover the old you in bringing it to thrive.

Yeah, I mean, it's like your hormones have like, yeah, like the homeal stasis. Like that's your set point that you start, right? And that's where your hormones have adjusted everything around that way. You basically, if your body's storing excess fat, you've taught your body that it needs this fat and it like it utilizes its fat and its everyday functions. Your fat just doesn't sit there and do anything. So give the body what it needs. So your body's like, oh, we don't need all this fat.

You create the environment so your body can focus. This is very scientific. Your body can focus on fat loss. Your body releases that fat through its natural metabolic process. You hit a plateau. Your body adjust to that new weight. You keep repeating that until you reach your goal weight. And then you help your body to adjust to that new weight.

And all your hormones need to create a new set point around that weight. So it's not just losing your weight. And this is what I mean by in a way you can maintain and sustain. I want to talk about estrogen for a second. It just occurred to me as obviously, you know, we're not producing eggs anymore. Our estrogen levels start to decrease and decline. And estrogen is very anti-inflammatory. So this is sort of why I think when you go through menopause, it's the state of your body coming in.

Having done all these deprivation diets, constantly starving yourself over and over. Your stress levels are through the roof. You are not working out and maintaining muscle mass. So your muscle mass is, you know, not what it was when you're 20 and it's it's kind of like that's the impact and then so when you drink the wine you don't have that anti-inflammatory estrogen anymore so your body reacts when you have processed foods you react when you don't sleep you react yeah a hundred percent there's so many shifts that happen right but even from a microbiome standpoint we lose a lot of my our microbiome diversity

as you're going through menopause which is actually why you stop tolerating things things like alcohol as well, right? Why fiber becomes really, really important. And I think that, honestly, the hardest part about this transition is that most of us just get, most of us come into that perimenopausal transition already with high cortisol levels because you're in that sandwich generation where your kids are growing up and you're an Uber driver and they have like big demands on your time. Your parents are aging and they have demands on your time.

your career is changing, you're like, what the fuck is happening to me? So there's all of these things that are happening in that transition. And naturally, even without that, we know that those changes in estrogen, what will happen is that your body, because all of these hormones are connected, right? The minute that your body sends us this change in estrogen, what it does is like, oh, my God, there's something that's happening. And it actually tries to produce more of the precursors to these hormones that ends up shunting it into cortisol because your body doesn't.

have the capacity to produce more and more estrogen. And so you end up with an elevated baseline level of cortisol. And that's not even talking about the, you're not sleeping well because your sleep becomes inefficient and you have nights and lots and hot flashes. Yeah. Right. Your cortisol is through the roof.

And so your body, honestly, your prefrontal cortex goes out the window and your body's just like reward, reward, reward, reward, reward. And what do we typically do? We eat things that we shouldn't. We drink the wine at night. And is this like, it's this vicious cycle that we, get through and that's actually where you know a lot of these strategies

I find kind of like help you just kind of like float your boat because well estrogen is amazing if I just give you estrogen this is a conversation about hormone therapy right if I just give you estrogen it's not that you're like oh my God my motivation is like I'm an exercise

I'm asleep I'm a workout I'm gonna do this it's like no you guys it's you know there's a component of estrogen for sure that will cause this right but there's also the the piece of your body needs to fall back into the habits and the strategies that you've created so that we're when you're in a state of this array whether it's physical mental or emotional physical being this menopause piece you can fall back on these strategies to kind of keep your body afloat right because honestly eventually your body gets used to the

loss of estrogen yes yeah yeah except for your vagina your vagina never really gets used to like everybody go get some vaginal estrogen but but your vagina never gets used to the loss of estrogen everybody everything else does and everything just kind of calms down and if you have those strategies that allowed you to kind of like float your boat in the tsunami like you're gonna be way better off than people that didn't yeah and i mean listen we we we know it's a lot easier said than this is why this is a lifestyle program like i went through the worst i went through the worst of the worst with perimenopause i'm you know i'm I'm almost six months post at this point. I feel great, except when I drink fucking wine and eat like shit and don't get sleep

and stress my ass out, you know. This is sort of where I think women are really surprised because HRT is really just addressing your symptoms. So if you have hot flashes, crappy sleep, obviously that makes it a lot harder for you to be able to lose weight. So this is where it really comes down to making lifestyle changes, which is what we're doing on the program. For the sake of time, I want to talk about, um,

Because cortisol you're talking about, it's not high stress. It's the inability to calm down from stress. And cortisol basically is the make you fat hormone when you have, like you're not giving your body time to adjust, calm down from the stress. High cortisol can signal like, give me, stormy extra. I want to talk about that. And then I want to talk about hunger hormones because we're downsizing this week. And we have to help our hunger hormones adjust along the way as well.

So cortisol in terms of sleep, like what happens when we get a crap? sleep. And this is also why it's so important to not eat at night. But just real, real quick on that one. Okay. So cortisol actually, cortisol is a beautiful hormone. You can't survive without it. But cortisol is actually what regulates your circadian rhythm. So you're waking sleep cycle. Right. And it opposes melatonin, which means that cortisol is that hormone that's going to wake you up feeling really alert. And then that night, it's supposed to go down so that melatonin can increase, right? And then you can fall asleep. However, when you're constantly in that fight or flight mode, what will happen acutely is that your body will be like, there's a bear that's coming. And it will release

adrenaline to get you into that like, I got to run. However, the hard thing about this is that adrenaline is very short-lived. And so when it feels like the bear is coming and it's coming and it's coming and it's constantly in that phytor flight activation, your body will feel like, well, I can't keep on releasing adrenaline because it's going to cause a heart attack. And so what it does is that starts releasing cortisol because it's the hormone that makes you alert, right? Yes. And so then the challenge with that is that now you don't get the suppression of cortisol at night and your melatonin can't rise in the middle of the night to kind of keep you that

deep restored to sleep. And so with that chronic activation, that cortisol is going to remain really elevated. You're going to drink the wine and then the wine is going to make you feel like, oh, I feel like a little bit sleepy. But and then you're going to eat the chips and you're going to eat the chips and you're going to all of the things that actually increase your temperature and feed into this cortisol pathway. And your cortisol not only does it not go down enough, at 3 to 4 o'clock in the morning, when your cortisol is naturally supposed to be slowly rising to wake you up at 7, literally

you've just fed that cortisol pathway and now that cortisol is going to be way higher. And at 3 to 4 o'clock in the morning, you're going to wake up hot and sweaty because you've increased that core body temperature. and with a cortisol that's so elevated that most of you know this, you're waking up at 3 or 4 o'clock in the morning, feeling wide awake, way more awake than you did at 7 o'clock in the morning when you were supposed to get out of bed. Yeah.

And then what will happen is that then when you're not sleeping, right, your cortisol is going to be really, really high first thing in the morning, and then you're feeding again that cycle. But the problem is that chronically, you only have so much of this hormone, right? It's almost like you have a gas thing full of this cortisol. And with a gas tank, I mean, with these gas prices also, but with a gas tank, you're like, you will overspend at some point. And so when this is going on for like weeks or months or years and you're not sleeping properly,

which is actually where your body is refilling that gas tank, you're waking up with a quarter of that gas tank, right? And you're spending that quarter of a gas tank first thing in the morning, a four o'clock in the morning when you're like wide awake, jolting out of bed because physiologically you're body is like, the bear is coming. And by seven, you're waking up with a level that at some point when you were healthy and balanced, you had at like eight o'clock at night. And then what will happen is that then your body's like, I'm tired, I have brain fog, I don't have time, I don't have the motivation. I'm not, I'm just going to eat the chest because it made me feel better. And so what

we know is that a lot of these sleep deprivation, with chronic sleep deprivation, what will happen is that your hormones not only will be out of whack when it comes to stress hormones. because you're never replenishing and restoring. But as a survival mechanism, because your body, again, will always choose to survive. And this is a stress hormone that tells your body this story of like, they said there that's about to eat you. And I'm not going to tell you when or where. It's just going to come at some point.

Your body is a survival mechanism. What is going to do is that exactly, it's going to increase your appetite, it's going to decrease your satiety hormones, it's going to increase your fat storing hormones, and decrease your metabolism. Why? Because it's going to try to store all of that fat so that when the big fat bear comes to get you, you have that stored energy, right, for fuel. Yeah, because we're just walking around like this all the time. 100%. Let my candles. All time. All time. All time. Listen, you know, this is like, I've never met a woman who's really taking care of her sleep properly and really understand why. We want to eat chips. We keep eating at night. You want to lose

weight and just really not understanding how important is you have to get up, get some sunlight in your face in the morning to regulate that circadian rhythm. You've got to move your body, whether you like it or not, go for walks. You don't have to join the gym. You've got to, you've got to move your body. You've got to stop eating at night. You have to find ways to calm down from your stress. Everyone's like, give me HRT. And no disrespect to HRT, of course. But like that, you can take all that HRT in the world. It's not going to MRT, whatever you want call it. So I'm going to know if you're not really taking your stress and your sleep. Seriously, what do I do? What do I do? What do I do? Right? We've talked about stress techniques and

sleep hygiene and that. Love that. And we're all in and together. We're all like, hey. 100%. And we do the best that we can with what we've got. You know, like we stress is going to be a normal part of your life, but it's how you respond to stress and adapt to the stress. Right. And unfortunately for all of us, you and I struggle with this. We struggle with this. We struggle. We struggle with motivation just like everybody else. But the best, like we're trying to give you the best science back strategies to help you reduce that stress to help you thrive and not just survive, right? Because we are all in survival mode. And the way that we got here was because we were in survival mode, right? We're just trying to teach you to reverse that so that we can thrive and we can work

with our body and we can work with a hormone so that when there is acute stress, you've responded appropriately. We're not saying like your cortisol is never going to respond if you do the breath work and the exercise. No, no. It's just that the way that you're responding to your everyday small stressors, like you're responding to a pin dropping as if it was a big fat bear that was about to eat you, right? There has to be like an appropriate response to the appropriate stress. And so once you balance out your hormones, once you work on these basics, your body will be like able to do that. It's just that right now. It responds to everything the exact same way. It doesn't understand the difference. Yeah, right. This is like where we're all stressing about the scale, right? And we're

not really, but I'm doing everything you said, Gina, I'm eating the things, right? And maybe you're moving a little bit. It's really so much more than that. And this is why the living method, not just weight loss, but it's lifestyle change. You were absolutely a product of your environment. Like, let's, let's be real for a second. Think about the state of our bodies when we entered, you know, menopause. I know there's lots of women talking about being postmenopause, whether you're in peri menopause or your state of your body right now fucking today. your stress, your food choices, like how you got here, all the starvation diets that you've done, and yet our inclination is to, to, you know, oh, I just, I have to eat less because that's how

I'm going to lose this weight when we've done that a million times, right? Like that's, everyone wants the magical answer to hormones or the supplement or the peptide or all those things. And yeah, maybe they can help because, you know, we're fans of supplements or omega-3, but in a medium magnesium. But at the end of the day, if you're not doing the lifestyle shit, you can take all the omega-3 in the world or peptide whatever it's not going to help um i love you i love this conversation i do want to touch on real quick although we're out of time um the the hunger hormones

the hormones leptin and growl in because these also need to adjust because they can get all fucked up this is why we're eating ginormous portions of food and we are still hungry afterwards or we're going all day long without eating and we're not hungry at all and they're all over the fucking place right now because we're following the food plan and now we're downsizing. What say you about your hunger hormones? Yeah. So ghrelin is actually the hunger hormone that's produced by your stomach and leptin is produced by your fat cells, right?

And that's the one that tells your brain like, we got ample food store. Don't worry. Don't eat. The crazy thing is that these two are the first to get disrupted when cortisol is high. Again, because your body goes into survival mode. And so even when, let's talk about even just sleep, right? One to two nights of less than six hours sleep will increase ghrelin. So that hunger hormone, it will increase ghrelin by about 30%.

So you're way hungrier and decrease leptin by about 20%, which means that you don't actually get full. The other thing that will change is that then your food preferences will change. And you're going to want quick hitting carbs, quick hitting fats. Like you're going to want processed foods because it just means that like just give me access to calories real quick. And so when we're downsizing, it's so important for you to have that mindfulness component, right? And listen to your body, bring down that cortisol and kind of get again connected to what is my body telling me my body physiologically in my stomach versus what is my brain telling me. because the biggest and the hardest part about this is that it's almost like your brain and your body get disconnected when you're in chronic stress your brain is doing something your body is doing something completely different and why because your body can't like it has to start ignoring your body so your brain has to start on your body right because it's like girl like I got a bigger fish to fry like I can't listen to like your heart rate and like all of these things and so then bringing that mindfulness component slowing down when you're eating legitimately literally literally leaving those two bites of food on the plate.

Taking a step back allows you to be like, how do I actually feel? Right? Because these hormones don't respond immediately. They take like 10, 20, 30 minutes to start kicking in. And so when you've golfed down your food in five minutes, you don't have time to like listen to your grilling and your lipin. Your body's already onto the next thing.

And so this is actually why it's so important to add in that mindfulness, the slowing down. They're leaving a quick, like, few bites so that you can reconnect your brain to your body and they can start speaking the same language. Ooh, not to mention we're distracted when we're eating. And then because we're on a diet, all the diet dialogue comes up, right? Like, what if I'm hungry? And I don't want to waste this food. And I'm used to clearing my plate.

We should have led with this. I know. I know. Sorry, guys. we got excited. It's her birthday. It's her birthday. We can do it.

You can do whatever you want today. This is it. I'm actually going to clip this part and repost it in the group because I think this is so important. We get so frustrated and don't understand how it all fits together. This is how it all fits together. So when you're not sleeping and then you are hungrier the next day and then you're, the hormone that tells you you are satisfied is like 20% decreased. And so yeah.

So this is why we're this is what we're helping our. our hormones get more in sync and we are reconnecting with ourselves. I love you. I'll wait too. Happy horseback. Thank you so much. Okay. Honest to goodness, you guys know, I don't want you spending any more money than you need

to, but investing in Dr. Olinka because this was a long time coming, her hormone class. Honestly, the best thing you can do, once you understand the big picture of hormones, you'll have mad respect for your sleep, for managing your stress, for moving your body, understanding what's going on with your body and really understanding your body's on your side. Is this your hormones are the messengers that are telling your body what to do? And it's got all fucked up because it does like, it's like what the fuck is going on. When we think, when we feel like with where am I what the fuck is going on? Our hormones are like, I don't know, man.

You tell us. Just trying to help you survive, girl. Like, I don't know, Becky. Like, I don't want to lose weight. I just want to survive. Yeah. I just want to lose weight. Tell me how to lose weight.

I got 91 days, you know. Thanks everyone for joining us. I hope you enjoyed this conversation today. I am going to link those foundational conversations with Dr. Olinka because they're so great. But if you want to sign up for her course, where do they go? Your website, send you an email. What are they doing? They can go on our Instagram and DM us or through our website or they can email us at info at doctor at doctorolinka.com.

Okay, info at doctor alinka.com or follow her for her tips that she does. share at follow to just review all the things that Gina shares. I love that you are too busy for Instagram. I love that. I love that at Dr. dot Elinka. Thank you so much everyone joining us live listening after the fact.

And someone saying Kim, I highly recommend Dr. O's class full of amazing information and led by Dr. O. Yeah, she's fantastic. And listen, and for whatever reason you're so inclined or finances or whatever, we have so many great podcast episodes. So many.

Done with Dr. Alinka on hormones. Just go to the Livy Method podcast. Search Dr. Alenka. You'll pull them all up. We'll add some to the out. Have a fantastic day, everyone. Thanks. Thanks.

Dr. O, love you. Happy birthday. Love you. Thanks. Thank you.