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#76 Introducing Kylie

[00:00:00] Welcome back to episode of the Hormone Hub Podcast, where we talk all things perimenopause, menopause, and have the conversations no one else is having. Sit back, relax, and enjoy this episode. 

Hello. Hello ladies and welcome back to The Hormone Hub. I am your host, Kylie Pinwill. And today I feel like I’m a gonna be a bit self-indulgent. I thought I would introduce myself. We have lots of new members of our community, lots of new listeners, and I thought I, yeah, it’s about time I reintroduced myself ’cause you’re probably wondering who is this woman anyway. So I thought today we would cover who I am, my kind of background, my hormonal history, how I sort of got to be working in this space with so many women. What I do, you know, and how I sort of look after my own hormones, and then also how I can best help you as well.

So strap [00:01:00] on in and let’s go. Alrighty. So I am 52 years old. I live on the Sunshine Coast in Australia, which is a really beautiful part of the world. I am a Sydney girl from at heart, though. I grew up on the Northern beaches and we moved to the Sunshine Coast about seven years ago, I think. Yeah, obviously coming from the northern beaches to the Sunshine Coast, love the beach.

So I’ve just really taken it to a, a warmer water, really. I, yeah, big traveler. I, at 17, I had never been overseas. My heart was set on going overseas, so I landed in Sweden of all places as an exchange student. And I literally, how I ended up in Sweden is I opened the, the map, or I, I think it was actually a globe at that stage, spinning the globe.

Where was the furthest place from Australia and it was, yeah, I think it was either Sweden, Finland or, or Norway. So yeah, Sweden, it was, so had [00:02:00] an amazing year and yeah, still to this day in touch with a lot of my Swedish host family who are just gorgeous people. So their now adult children have come and stayed with us, are now friends with our children and, you know, well my grownup children, which is really nice.

So yeah, so beautiful relationship. So I have three teenage kids, 19, 16, and. 14, so two boys and a girl. So yeah, fun times, as you can imagine with a 14-year-old girl. Anyone else feeling my pain? Let me know. But yeah, no, she’s, she’s fine. Has her moments, and I think it’s, yeah, the butt of two kind of strong personalities coming together.

I have a border Collie and have been happily married for the most part for the last 22 years. To my beautiful husband, Sean, so, so that’s kind of me in a nutshell. I, yeah, so we [00:03:00] left Sydney, we traveled, we didn’t come straight to the Sunshine Coast, so we sold up in Sydney and then spent a year with the three kids traveling around Australia, which was amazing.

So it was kind of like before it was a, a thing to do, so it well before Covid. And yeah, the kids were in primary school and yeah, it was seriously one of the most amazing experiences and, you know, the kids still talk about it. So yeah, all the other fancy holidays and they talk about, you know, living in a, in a van.

So how I kind of, you know, came to be working in this space. So I’ve been in the health and fitness industry forever. So, back in the, oh, it would’ve been the early nineties when I was at uni teaching, Les Mills aerobic classes in a fluro G-string leotard. So that was me. Loved it wasn’t particularly coordinated, terrible at step classes and all of that, but loved it and had a ball doing it.

So yeah, so I’ve [00:04:00] always been interested in, you know, health, wellness, fitness, you know, that side of it. I did after a little stint in, you know, corporate sales and things like that go into, personal training. Although very briefly, because I realized pretty quickly as a personal trainer that spending one hour with someone while they’re on the treadmill or on the rower or, you know, lifting weights, was not really gonna have a huge impact on you know, the other seven hours or seven days a week, you know, and the other 23 hours of that, of that day. So, yeah, so I really got into, and being a foodie, I love my food. Anyone who’s sort of been in my world for a long time knows that I love my food, I love my coffee, and I love my wine. So, you know, being a nutritionist, Isn’t about being perfect by any means. It’s about, you know, how can we fit this into, to daily life? How do we, where’s the balance? And you know, I [00:05:00] think that’s what I’ve always loved doing. I have, you know, definitely I. You know, had struggles with my weight. You know, I came back from Sweden and it was interesting because I remember when they left, we were in a big sort of meeting with all the exchange students and they said to us, you know, you’ll go overseas and you’ll put on 15 kilos.

And I was like, what? That’s a lot of weight. And then sure enough, I went overseas and I put on 15 kilos. And I think, yeah, it was funny how the mind works because I think because it was expected of us. We made it our mission to do that, which is, you know, the logic in that is, is crazy. But, you know, as a 17-year-old, you know, in Sweden I ate all the fika, I ate all the cheese, all the, you know, all the things.

So, and I had a ball, did, you know, very easily lose that weight when I got home. And, you know, and again, you know, pregnancies, weight went up. And then while I was pregnant with my middle son, I, yeah, had a [00:06:00] tumor on my thyroid, so I actually had half my thyroid removed, back at that point. And I didn’t really realize, you know, I had no choice but to get it out. There was sort of some suss cells going on, and it ended up being benign, but yeah, so didn’t really realize at the time what that meant for my future metabolism. To have that thyroid taken out. So I, you know, went through years of on and off medications. Stronger, weaker, tried it, didn’t work, didn’t feel good, you know, and, you know, the whole range of, of trying to get that, that balance back and then, you know, realized it came down to managing my stress and nourishing my body. You know, if I was doing those two things, my thyroid was good. If I was, you know, particularly stressed, particularly wound up particularly, you know, over a period of time, you know, when the kids were young, gosh, my. Geez, [00:07:00] things were not good. But yeah. But definitely I learned what was likely to flare up my thyroid or slow it down. And you know, how I needed to manage to keep it sort of more even. So, yeah, so, and it was definitely a, a long period of trial and error then, you know, and today, you know, thyroid’s good. Again, I need to manage my stress and I’ll go into a bit more about that why bit. I’ll go into why that is so mixing up and losing my words again.

So, you know, also in the throes at 52 of perimenopause. So yeah, so, managing my thyroid now. Yeah, medication free and yeah, I haven’t been taking medication for my thyroid for years. And you know, for me personally, everyone is different. Everyone has a different reason why they’re on thyroid medication, but for me it was definitely you know, a good thing to manage it more with stress management and, [00:08:00] and diet as well. So, yeah. So after I did my stint as a PT, I realized that that wasn’t really where I wanted to be. So, and apart from the fact that I preferred my own time in the gym, training myself versus training other people.

Mm-hmm. So then I went back to study. I studied at Nature Care in Sydney. You know, a thousand years ago, and I did, I studied nutritional medicine, which, you know, was amazing and it just gave me such a good insight into how everything in our body is connected and how important the nutrients from food is.

So we’ve, we are feeding our body the nutrients that it needs to be well, you know, our body is going to be well if we are feeding it, processed foods that our body doesn’t know what to do with our body is not gonna be well, you know, when we do that. And seriously, that’s what it comes down to. So definitely you know, so I started [00:09:00] off, when I graduated, I was working in clinic. And look, I loved it, but you know, I really felt as a practitioner that there was a real sort of disconnect because I would have a, a woman come in and see me in clinic. We would have a great session, we would go through, you know, how she was feeling, what was going on for her, and then she would go and I, you know, she’d book in for a month’s time and, you know, she’d come back in a month’s time and, you know, life, life gets busy. So she’d sort of implemented some of the things we talked about. She’d forgotten about some of the things we’d talked about. You know, and she was, for the most part, things were tracking, feeling okay and then, you know, a month later she’d book in again, and then, you know, there’d be a cancellation. So then, you know, the dog got sick and had to go to the vet or one of the kids, you know, needed to go to the doctor or whatever it was. So, you know, I just had those two appointments with her, but I always sort of felt that I didn’t have the opportunity to facilitate real change, you know, in her life to make things better. [00:10:00] And you know, sometimes I would see those clients afterwards and I was sort of like, oh yeah, you know, and I get it, you know, oh, I went to a nutritionist and you know, it didn’t really work, but you know, how can, how can it, when, you know, we had just two sessions together and you know, no kind of, ’cause in that hour appointment you don’t have time to help people sort of, you know, how that then gets implemented into their life. So yeah, it was sort of, yeah, I found it challenging. I enjoyed it, but found it challenging and I didn’t know that there was another way to work. So then when I moved to Queensland, I you know, it still started working with some of my clients from Sydney.

So we were doing it online and this sort of changed everything. And it was before online. It was before Telehealth, it was before all of that became before Covid. So I was already up running Zoom appointments with clients. And what that allowed me to do, because there was no sort of travel [00:11:00] time to the clinic, there was no waiting if I was running late.

It just meant that people could contact me at a time, or we could make our appointments at a time that suited them better. And when they could sit down, relax, and then actually take in, you know, the information and we could have a real conversation about what was going on. So, so that was sort of how I started working online.

But then going back to sort of how I started in the perimenopause and menopause zone was when we, you know, finished traveling around Australia. We moved to the Sunshine Coast, like I said, so, and looking back, it was kind of like the writing was on the wall, that something was going to go sideways. So we’d just moved state. We were settling our kids into a brand new school. We didn’t know a single person here. We were also building a house at the time, so we were renting, you know, we only had bits of our furniture ’cause everything was still in storage. You know, starting a new business. So there [00:12:00] was a lot going on. And I hit a wall. Okay. So my thyroid kind of took a bit of a dive you know, and then that dragged my adrenals down with it. And, you know, I was just like, what is going on? I started putting on weight. I was cranky. I was tired all the time. And I think it was that fatigue was the biggest thing. You know, I would just get to lunchtime and I couldn’t get off the lounge.

So, yeah, I knew something wasn’t right. So went of course as we do, went and saw the doctor and did all the blood tests, and guess what? Everything was normal. I’m just like, no, this is not right. So then, you know, I sort of took, I because, you know, and I can do this because, you know, this is what I do for a living.

So I sort of took my blood tests and then I looked at, you know, where I was sitting in the, you know, the normal range versus the optimal range. Now, normal range of blood tests is quite [00:13:00] wide, and we generally get blood tests done when we don’t feel well. So when we are sitting on the outside of normal, you know, we can still be normal, but we feel like rubbish.

So when we are, and then when you look at that, when we are in the optimal range, that’s where we feel well, and that’s where we are well, okay. And that’s where we wanna be is, is in that normal range in that, sorry, optimal range. So I was sitting on the outside for so many markers for iron, thyroid, you know, my liver was all over the place ’cause you know, traveling around Australia for a year, there was a fair amount of wine consumed that year. Not a healthy amount, I have to say, but, you know, and things were out, you know, definitely out. So. I had a good chat to my GP at the same time and I said to her, ’cause I’d had a marina in, it was my second marina and it was a, I just didn’t feel right and I couldn’t put my finger on what it was.

So, had a really great chat to her. She was [00:14:00] amazing. She said, yep, let’s book you in. She didn’t take the marinas out. So there was one sort of doctor in the clinic who happened to own the clinic. She said, book in with this guy and you know, he’ll take it out for you. I said, okay. So I was working on, you know, cleaning up my diet.

I was working because the sugar cravings, that was the other thing, were insane. So, you know, I was working on my sugar cravings, you know, you know, reducing my sugar consumption, you know, cutting out my alcohol consumption. I was very reliant on coffee. So, you know, again, it was making the conscious decision to cut back. Now I’m not a big fan of cutting out. I’m a, you know, I think for when you are gonna make changes that are gonna be long-term changes, if you have a look at, okay, if you are drinking every night, okay, can we cut that down to the weekends. If you are just a weekend drinker and you [00:15:00] drink, you know, four or five glasses on the weekend, can we cut it down to one or two?

If you drink, you know, two large coffees a day, can we cut it down to two small coffees a day? You know, so it’s not about cutting things out, but it’s about, you know, okay, let’s reduce that load. On your liver and let’s reduce that load on your body. So, so yeah. So I was consciously cutting down on the things that I knew my body didn’t need.

I stopped, ’cause I was also running at that point. So I would get up in the morning. We had, you know, we’ve got a border Collie, so I would get up and run, you know, 10 ks. And it was just nuts. And, you know, so I switched running for walking, which yeah, was absolutely my adrenals and my cortisol levels just went, ah, thank you.

She stopped finally. So, yeah, so there was a lot of things going on and I wasn’t doing myself any favors, so I really had a good look at, you know, what did I need to, to change? [00:16:00] So yeah, so going back to getting my marina taken out. So I, in the meantime, I had also done a Dutch test for my hormones. So this is kind of like, And now I, you know, tend not to do hormone testing for women.

I tend to talk to the, you know, talk to you. What are your symptoms? What are you going through? How are you feeling in your own body? Now the reason I do this, because our blood tests aren’t great for testing hormones, because our hormones are, fluctuating on a daily, if not an hourly basis. So, you know, Blood tests aren’t ideal.

So what we, what I did at the time was a urine and a saliva test. So what came back was that my estrogen was sky -high and my progesterone was pretty much down the toilet. So it was that imbalance of estrogen and progesterone, you know, and triggered by so many things. So triggered by [00:17:00] stress. Triggered by a Dicky thyroid. You know, my thyroid levels were out, you know, everything was just out of balance. So what I decided to do was, you know, take that marina out and just start from scratch. Like, let my body kind of like find where it was. So at the time I was probably about 43, 44 maybe. I can’t remember exactly, but yeah, it was sort of like, early to mid forties.

So went booked in to have the marina out. Now when I rocked up for that appointment, it was, you know, this guy, you know, Typical overweight, not very inspiring kind of gp. And I’ve gone in there and I said, oh, you know, I’m here to have the marina taken out. And he didn’t ask me anything. He didn’t ask me about my symptoms, how I was feeling, why I wanted it taken out, nothing.

So my personal gp, she, you know, and I had had a great conversation about it and she was on board, [00:18:00] this guy’s come in not knowing anything about me. And he said to me, he goes, you’ll be back in a month. Begging me to put this back in. And I just looked at him and I was just like, sorry mate. I’m not gonna be begging you to do anything.

And then, you know, he was, oh, he was just such an arrogant, cockhead for a better word. And he was like, oh, you’ll be begging me to put this, you know, back in, it’s, it’s the best thing for, for every single woman. And I was just like, oh, you know, and he really got my cackles up. And then, okay, so he took the marina out and that was all fine.

And then I’m getting dressed and I come out of the little cubicle. He says to me, here you go. And he’s handed me two scripts. One was for synthetic estrogen, h r t. Okay. Now I was 43. 44 at the time. You know, I. And had tested my estrogen sky high. So he’s given me a script for more synthetic estrogen. [00:19:00] I was like, oh my God.

And another script for the marina, because apparently I’d be back begging him and oh, and then he said to me, he goes, I’ve treated thousands of women and they all love this stuff. And I was like, oh, and by the, this stage I was rotable. I was furious. And I was furious. More so because, you know, I knew that I wasn’t gonna touch the, the estrogen and I knew that I wasn’t gonna be back for that marina.

But what kind of like really got to me was how many women would’ve just, you know, would he have intimidated into doing what he said. You know, and that was what got to me. I was like, well, hang on a sec. I know my body well enough to know that that is exactly what I do not need. You know, like if I’ve already got high estrogen, why would I load synthetic estrogen? On top of my already naturally high levels. So anyway, yeah, I was absolutely livid. So anyway, so that was kind of [00:20:00] how, what kickstarted me down the whole sort of journey of, of perimenopause because then I was talking to a friend who’s also a colleague and I was saying, oh, I dunno what’s wrong with me? I’m tired. You know, look at my, you know, putting on weight, I’m fat. Even my eyelids are fat. I feel gross. I. You know, just disgusting. And I can’t eat, you know, I can’t even think about getting through the day without 600 coffees and you know, a load of chocolate. And she’s looking at me and she goes, you have perimenopause?

And I went, get out. Okay. I was a bit rooted than that, and I was like, get out. And she’s like, no, you are. And I was like, no, I’m not old, old enough for that yet. Because when I went through college, we spent a lot, lot, lot of time working on periods and fertility. Maybe five minutes on menopause and zero time on perimenopause.

So we’d never learnt about it in college. So like if we’re not learing at that doing [00:21:00] a health degree, how then does the general public know about this, right? So, and she’s sort of like, no. She goes, off you go, you’re in perimenopause. I was like, no. And she was like, yeah. And I was like, oh, I hate you. She was like, she really good friend.

But it was just, I couldn’t see it in myself, but she could see it. You know, a mile away. And then, you know, when I went down sort of a bit more like self-discovery, it was indeed perimenopause. So high circulating levels of estrogen. Low, low, low progesterone, you know, a cranky, irritable, you know, moody, feeling chunky, you know, you tired, exhausted all of the things. Brain fog, all of it. So yeah, it was crazy. So yeah, so I sort of put myself on this journey of, you know, getting the right balance of food back. So, you know, definitely, you know, working on supporting my blood sugar, you know, getting my [00:22:00] digestive system, you know, back under control, you know, learning to manage my stress. So that was a big one. And, you know, self-care, all of all of the things that I preach to you guys all the time. So, yeah, so that kind of like triggered off, you know, that that whole journey for me through perimenopause and menopause. You know, and I, I think as our body changes, you know, and we come out of our twenties and thirties, you know, we need to figure out how to work more holistically with our body and how to work with our hormones.

So this goes a bit beyond. You know, diet and exercise. So, you know, counting calories, you know, that whole calorie deficit thing when we’ve got this hormonal kind of cascade happening in the background, it just doesn’t cut it. So that’s why, you know, I hear from women all the time, you know, they go on this two week, you know, I’ve been on this for two weeks.

It didn’t work. I did that for two weeks. It didn’t work. I did this for two weeks and it didn’t work. [00:23:00] It’s because we don’t need diet. That diet and exercise, so just eat less and move more. It doesn’t work. We need to address our hormones, you know, a hundred percent when we’re, you know, even from late thirties through our forties into our fifties.

So, you know, and I think when you understand what your body’s going through, how your body’s changing and how to work with it, you know, it’s just, it’s absolutely life changing. So it’s, you know, kind of become my, my mission, I guess, to educate and empower women to understand their bodies, you know, what’s normal and what’s not.

Just because something is common and it happens to a lot of women, doesn’t mean it’s normal. Okay. And you know, also to, to, you know, get you to a place where you feel empowered to make informed choices about your own health. You know, to avoid the scenario of what, what I went through with Dr. Dinosaur.

Because I think when you understand your body, you know where you’re [00:24:00] at, you, you know what to ask for. You know, so if you do wanna go down that h r t path, you know, you know that there’s other, there’s better options. You know, if you are in perimenopause, you do not need more estrogen, you know, if, unless you’re in late stage perimenopause.

But if you were in early perimenopause, you know, you need progesterone, you don’t need more estrogen because your estrogen is already high. So, you know, all of those nuances is, is what I really want to, you know, sort of help support women, you know, to understand what’s going on. So, definitely not a diet approach.

It’s a balanced hormone approach. So with my own kind of body, and you know, I talk about this with my clients the other day, and we do, inside my Well-balanced Woman Program, we do sort of group calls on a weekly basis. And I was talking, to the ladies a couple of weeks ago about my own non-negotiables.

So these are just things, it’s not, [00:25:00] it’s like brushing my teeth. I don’t have to think about this. It just flows. So, you know, every single day, and look, I’m not perfect, so not every single day, but most days I move my body. You know, our bodies were designed to move. Our bodies weren’t necessarily designed to do F 45, 6 days a week, but our bodies were designed to move.

So whether that for you looks like walking or jogging, or hiking or stretching or, you know, yoga, Pilates, swimming, you know, it doesn’t matter what you are doing as long as you are moving and moving in a way that, you know, you don’t feel exhausted afterwards and need a nap. You know, moving in a way where you feel energized afterwards and, you know, choose something you enjoy. There is no point. Choosing an ex or doing an exercise that you don’t enjoy just for the sake of doing exercise. My other non-negotiable is having something green at [00:26:00] every single meal. Now, this is, if you’ve been in my world, you also know that I’m pretty, pretty lazy when it comes to cooking and food prep.

I always have in my fridge a plastic container. It’s a Tupperware container thing that breathes, a container full of spinach and a container full of rocket. So I can grab a handful of rocket or a handful of baby spinach at any given point during my day, and I can put that in the blender for my smoothie. I can put that on my plate and put my eggs on top. I can put that on my, you know, if I’m gonna have a wrap for lunch with my wrap. At least I’ve got color there. My kids, if they’ve cooked themselves, you know, because I’m also not loving being in the kitchen. I also, I know a nutritionist who doesn’t love cooking. Go figure. I love cooking when I’ve got the time to cook, and I, you know, but daily dinner, what’s for dinner? Like, I really don’t care. It’s not, not into, I’m the [00:27:00] worst wife in the world. Luckily, my husband is awesome, he cooks. But my kids, if they’ve cooked their own breakfast and they’ve just got a plate of brown food, so they might have, you know, eggs, toast, bacon, you know, I will say to them, where’s the green stuff?

And, you know, get out the container. They’ll all roll their eyes, but they’ll all put that green stuff on their, on their plate. So having something green, I always have a bottle of water with me when I get in the car. So I’ve got a big, stainless steel, one liter water bottle, and that comes with me everywhere I go.

I since found out apparently in Queensland it is illegal to drink or eat in your car. I. Dunno, why. Don’t ask me why. And I’ve never heard of anyone being pulled over for it. But my defense is water is essential to life. If ever I get busted for that. But I make sure I finish that. Like if I’m doing the school run, I make sure I finish that bottle of water by the time I get home.

If I’m going to Pilates or going to the gym, I’ll start drinking it on my way and I’ll finish it on my way home. So I’ve had a liter [00:28:00] of water. Every time I get in the car. And likewise, before I switch my computer off at night, you know, I make sure that that bottle that I keep on my desk is empty. So, you know, sometimes at 5, 5 30 at night, I am sitting here sculling a liter of water.

But you know, at least I’ve got that water in. I. My other non-negotiable is listening to my body. So I rest when I need to, if I feel, and I now know my own warning signs. So having had adrenal fatigue, having a, you know, only half a thyroid, I go downhill pretty fast. And I think once you’ve had any kind of adrenal issues, Chronic fatigue, adrenal fatigue, burnout, you know, whatever you wanna call it. You know, you do a dance with it. So you’ve had it and you are more susceptible to, you know, going down that rabbit hole again. So now I know when I need to, stop. Sorry. Now I know when I need to [00:29:00] slow down. Now I know when I need to, rest. I know when I need to just put boundaries up and this is boundaries with my clients, boundaries with my team, boundaries with my family. That no, I cannot be switched on 24 7, you know, and I generally have pretty high energy levels, but I can crash and get really low. So, so to me, you know, reading an hour or so on the weekend, oh my god, I have just finished reading, the Seven Sisters series. Oh, if you love reading and you haven’t got into that yet, I highly recommend it. Lucinda Riley. There’s eight books in the, the series and I read them back to back to back. So good. So yeah. So just a little aside there, always happy to do, you know, book recommendations with anyone as well because yeah, I do love to read and that actually just ignited my whole passion for reading.

So yeah, I will sit and read. Okay. My other non-negotiable is I get up, I, I go to bed at 9, 9 30 every [00:30:00] single night. Okay. Except if the Matildas are playing in a semifinal because you know, The Matildas, aren’t they awesome? But yeah, I make sure that I’m in bed then and I make sure I’m up at six o’clock every morning.

So, you know, I do love that if I don’t get up at six and get out the door and move my body, it, it doesn’t happen. So, you know, that’s my non-negotiable. So I hope that kind of helps, you know, and, you know, really encourage you to sort of sit back and go, okay, well where are your non-negotiables as well? So I have, you know, there’s lots of ways that I can help.

There’s lots of ways that we can work together. Obviously I have this podcast, which is amazing. We are coming up to 80 episodes, which is really fun. So I haven’t missed a week. So yeah, I am very committed to getting this out every week. We’ve got some amazing guests coming up. So, you know, feel free to give me feedback on, you know, topics that you’d like to hear.

You know, I want to. You know, have this as [00:31:00] interactive as I can. We also have our Hormone Hub community, so there’s, you know, 10,000 women in that community. So there’s, there’s lots going on in there. We also have plenty of free resources for you inside that community to help. So if you need help with stress or.

Weight gain or fatigue or anxiety, you know, whatever it is, let us know. We, we can hook you up with the right resources. Then if you would like to take things further and work with me, you can. Absolutely can. So we have the Well-Balanced Woman program and we are about to do a bit of a rebrand, and call it the Hormone Code and, you know, do an upgrade.

So we’re constantly doing an upgrade. And this is where we look through, you know, we work together really closely in the, that time. So we, you know, we do telehealth appointments, we do food sensitivity testing, and then work through, you know, those, those, we get the foundations right of your nutrition.

Then we walk, walk through and we, you know, have a [00:32:00] look at it. The, I guess, the foundations of your body and the, the underlying causes. So we make sure that your digestive system’s working well. We make sure you’re absorbing the nutrients from your food and eliminating properly so, so many women, you know, suffer, bloating, constipation, diarrhea.

You know, we wanna address that because, you know, No one is happy, feeling constipated and bloated and you know, it’s, it’s not normal. Very common, but not normal. So we wanna address that digestive system. We wanna support your liver. And this is so important because this is where we, I. You know, your, this is where we clear our excess hormones.

This is where we clear cholesterol. This is where we support your, blood sugar response. You know, if you’ve got fatty deposits in your liver, you know it’s going to, you are gonna feel sluggish. Okay? And, you know, just looking after that whole system is, is really important. Managing your stress and giving you, you know, the tools to bring down that.

You know, we’re all, [00:33:00] we all have chronically elevated levels of cortisol. We run around like crazy chooks and you know, we just need to like literally calm the farm. So, you know, using those tools to get those cortisol levels down, because if you are running around constantly with elevated cortisol levels, you know your thyroid’s gonna be affected, your hormones are affected, your digestive system is affected, your blood sugar is affected, you know, so it’s.

We need to address all four of those pillars. So your body works well so the inflammation comes down, so your energy comes back, you sleep better. You know, and if weight loss is your goal, you know, that’s when the weight loss happens, is after we’ve fixed those underneath things. So, yeah, so we’ve got two, two versions of, of the Well Balanced Woman.

So one is sort of like our V I P program where you work really closely with me, and the other is our self-study version. So this is where you still get all the great content. Still [00:34:00] get the guidance. You have access to me through our v i p, you know, support group and, you know, so you’re not doing it totally on your own.

But you know, that’s definitely a more, I guess, economical way of, of going through it. If you, you know, feel that you’re okay without that one-on-one support. And then we have our Weight Loss Wisdom program. So that is for ladies who I call it our down and dirty weight loss. We get in, we get the weight off, and you know, then we help you keep it off as well.

So, so that’s, that one’s more weight loss focused, whereas the Well Balanced Woman is more sort of holistic. All right, well who knew that I had so much to say? Well, okay. We all know. I have a lot to say, but anyway, I hope that sort of, you know, you got to know me a little bit better and you know, I would love to hear from you.

I would love to hear about, you know, what you are going through, how I can help. You know, just even if you traveled around Australia, [00:35:00] if you have a border Collie, if you are also dealing with teenage children. Hey, reply, let me know. Yeah, and that’s it. And I think, you know, connection with other people is so important and, you know, you are part of the, the Hormone Hub Community now, and, you know, and I really, I really wanna thank you as well for, for listening to all my ramblings and for being part of my beautiful community.

Alright, well that’s it from me. Bye for now and I will see you in the next episode.

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