Managing Long Term Illness and Chronic Conditions with Dr. Jill Carnahan
The Woman's Doctor
What if your most challenging moments were valuable teachers? Today on The Woman’s Doctor, we redefine resilience with our guest Dr. Jill Carahan: a former workaholic who reevaluated her priorities after an aggressive breast cancer diagnosis. Her constant stress and self-doubt severely crippled her immune system and made her susceptible to severe health issues. Dr. Carahan describes how she used work as a coping mechanism and what her life-threatening diagnosis taught her about living life to the fullest. These moments of turmoil can make or break you. Dr. Carnahan recalls the...
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Adrenal Reset for Thyroid Thrive: Adrenal Transformation Protocol with Izabella Wentz
The Woman's Doctor
Today on The Woman’s Doctor, we discuss a better way to overcome the hormonal imbalance. Dr. Isabella Wentz joins us to review her new book, “Adrenal Transformational Protocol” where she outlines a 4-week process to rebalance hormones, get better sleep, and regain your energy. Women are naturally in tune with their environment. Subconsciously you’re assessing threats, opportunities, and safety which dictate your body's survival strategy. When you are under chronic stress, your body retreats into survival mode. Dr. Wentz teaches you to recognize the danger signals in your life and shows...
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Getting to the Root Cause for Hormonal Health with Dr. Darin Ingels
The Woman's Doctor
Today on The Woman’s Doctor we discuss how an unhealthy gut leads to chronic illness and what you can do to heal your microbiome. Dr. Darin Ingels is the author of The Lyme Solution and has treated thousands of patients with practical and cost effective therapies that you can implement today. Whether you are facing lyme disease, autoimmune symptoms or even brain fog, all can be healed by healing the gut first. The microbiome thrives on leafy vegetables and fermented foods, just some of the first things you can add to your diet to improve the diversity in your gut. If you want...
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How To Restore Your Hormonal Intelligence with Dr. Aviva Romm
The Woman's Doctor
Every day, the average American is exposed to 80,000 chemicals in their food and water. It is impossible to reduce your toxin burden to zero but today on The Woman’s Doctor, best selling author of Hormone Intelligence, Dr. Aviva Romm joins us to share simple ways that you can lessen your exposure to endocrine disrupting chemicals in your home. Dr. Romm is a midwife, a Yale trained MD and a board certified family physician that is helping patients balance their hormones and establish healthy habits to reduce the risk of developing diseases. It can be overwhelming as you begin your...
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The Role and Challenges Women Face In our Society with Kimberly Seals Allers
The Woman's Doctor
Today on The Woman’s Doctor, Kimberly Seals Allers joins us to discuss the unfortunate state of maternal care in America. Kimberly is an award winning journalist and advocate for breastfeeding and infant health. Giving birth opened her eyes to the harsh reality that women face in modern hospitals, even in a developed nation. Most medical institutions are informed by and dominated by men, which has left a detrimental gap in the education available to most women, especially women of color. The average woman does not have a grasp of the female anatomy or the importance of hormonal...
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Busting Myths Around Women’s Health, Aging and Menopause with Dr. Susanne Bennett
The Woman's Doctor
Today on The Woman's Doctor, we dispel common myths around women’s health with Dr.Susanne Bennett. She is an authority on hormonal and gut health with over 30 years of experience as a natural medicine doctor. Dr. Bennett holds specialties in clinical nutrition, environmental medicine, allergies, aging and gut health. She brings a fresh perspective on women's health that inspires hope for a healthy and happy life even into your menopausal years. Society convinces women that life stops at menopause, treating it like a disease to be avoided and ashamed of. The reality is that menopause...
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Dry January
The Woman's Doctor
Today on the Woman’s Doctor, I wanted to share just how impactful, sobriety has been on my physical and mental well being. Dry January is a great exercise to test out an alcohol free lifestyle so that you can check in and understand exactly what role alcohol is playing in your life. Even light social drinking can have dramatic effects on your daily life that you may not be conscious of. In this episode, I will first be reviewing some of the negative side effects that are commonly associated with any alcohol consumption. Everyone knows the awful feeling of a hangover but we never talk...
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Stress and Hormones
The Woman's Doctor
Today on the Woman's Doctor, I discuss the detrimental effect stress has on our hormones and equip you with simple tools to mitigate stress’ effect on your physical and emotional health. Stress cannot be eliminated, at times, stress is even necessary but constant unmanaged stress leads to dangerous cortisol imbalances that can affect your mood, cravings, sleep and mindset. While cortisol is dangerous in excess, it is a crucial hormone that your body needs, especially in the morning. Simply exercising in the morning sun can improve your cortisol levels allowing you to manage stress...
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Hormones and Mood: The Hidden Opportunity in Emotional Distress
The Woman's Doctor
Today, on the Woman’s Doctor Podcast, I am sharing my own experience balancing my hormones in hopes of inspiring you along your own journey. Hormonal imbalances tend to make women more emotional but those emotions are a window into deeper issues you may be avoiding. I believe there is an opportunity, in these moments, to break the cycle of escapism. After noticing my own avoidant habits, I decided to face my emotional distress with stillness and silence. Instead of reaching for a drink, a distraction or even going shopping when you’re feeling emotional discomfort, sitting with...
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New Year's Resolution: Set Yourself Up for Success with Kathy Smith
The Woman's Doctor
Today on the Women’s Doctor, Kathy Smith joins us to discuss how to boost vitality in your later years. Kathy has been a fitness icon since the 1980’s and continues to inspire women to strive for progress not perfection. In this episode, she brings you the best strategies to stay consistent in your new year's resolutions. She believes that consistency in the process will always supersede the results. Resolutions often fail because we are taught to rework our entire life around a singular goal. Incremental changes centered around fun, community and feeling great will not only be...
info_outlineDr. Donese Worden is a Naturopathic doctor and a global health educator. She helps senior women regain sexual vigor and reminds you that menopause is nothing to dread. In fact, she explains that women should be happy, healthy and sexually active until the end of their life. Culturally, we have lost respect for women who are past their fertile years, but sex is so much more than procreation. It provides intimacy and vitality, which is so important for senior women. Dr. Worden shares simple ways you can mitigate the symptoms of menopause so you can enjoy your 3rd chapter to its fullest!
Takeaways:
[3:23] In ancient traditions menopause was celebrated; it marked women as wisdom keepers.
[3:50] A woman’s brain makes decisions considering every outcome and consequence
[4:30] Hormones are powerful messengers that ensure we are physically, emotionally and mentally well
[4:40] Environmental factors and stress can block our hormones from performing optimally
[5:40] In modern times, we have lost respect for elderly women, we view menopause as ovarian failure
[6:40] Men and Women’s brains have evolved to serve different functions within the tribe
[7:40] Healthy living will mitigate menopausal symptoms
[8:20] Hormonal changes have a correlation to brain chemistry
[9:20] Diet, lifestyle and stress management have a huge impact on your hormonal balance
[10:18] Vaginal dryness is rarely discussed during a check up
[11:16] If you become sexually inactive in your senior years it can begin to close
[12:10] Hormones dropping is often the cause of vaginal dryness in senior women
[13:00] Intimacy is an important to keeping a high quality of life
[14:15] Mindset and attention is a very important aspect of hormonal health
[15:10] Seniors often are more sexually active than younger people because they are stress free
[17:30] If you want to be more resilient you must find balance between joy, health and stress
[18:00] Women are more susceptible than men to heart disease as they age
[19:05] The Transylvania effect is proof that we are actually affected by the full moon (the cosmos)
[20:20] Menopause is relatively new phenemenon.
[21:10] By culturally delaying childbirth we are potentially ,overtime, delaying menopause in women
[21:50] Using music to shift an emotion is a great way to increase your superpowers
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“We think of menopause as “men-oh-pause” and ovarian failure and that’s looking at it as something to dread, instead of something to be celebrated.” [5:50]
“If you’re not keeping your body healthy, you’re not exercising, not eating well and keeping your stress where it should be, you will notice symptoms.” [7:40]
“Sexual pleasure is there for a reason, it’s not just for procreation!” [12:00]
“Women should be happy and healthy and having sex all the way to the end of their life.” [13:24]
“I have people 70 years old to 100 who are having more sex than the 30 and 40 year olds!” [15:10]
“During the full moon we have a harder time getting to sleep, we sleep a shorter amount of time and we don’t get as much deep sleep.” [19:45]
“We are connected to the moon, to the sun, to the planets and we’ve got to give the credence that we are energetic beings and we’re connected in many ways and all of those things affect our hormones.” [19:55]
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