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I'm SUPER excited for you to hear today's episode because I have personally struggling with this for YEARS so if you do too, I FEEL YOU.

I struggled for so long because I wasn't addressing (or even knew of) the root cause which is why I'm jamming out on this with you because it's helped me so much!

2 ROOT CAUSES= Insulin Resistance & Inflammation

INSULIN RESISTANCE

• A condition of high insulin, where the cells of your liver and muscles fail to respond properly to insulin.
• INSULIN is a hormone made by your pancreas. It stimulates your liver & muscles to take up sugar from your blood & convert it to energy.
• Under normal conditions your hormone insulin rises briefly after eating. This stimulates your liver & muscle cells to take up food energy from your blood & covert it to energy. 
• This causes your blood sugar to fall & then your insulin to fall.
• Insulin resistance- your pancreas has to make more and more insulin to try and get it’s message through to your cells since your cells aren’t responding to it.
• Too much insulin
• • creates inflammation & causes weight gain- & can lead to diabetes, osteoporosis & heart disease.
  • AND it can impair ovulation & stimulate your ovaries to make testosterone instead of estrogen.
  • AND it stimulates your pituitary to make more LH which makes more androgens.
  • AND it lowers androgen binding protein SHBG which results in more free testosterone & unbound testosterone

CAUSES of INSULIN RESISTANCE

STEPS To HEAL

• No sugar (being by reducing it & then eliminating- NOT FOR FOREVER!)
• Sleep: More info on Sleep here: Episode 53
• DON’T RESTRICT CALORIES

INFLAMMATION

• DISRUPTS hormone receptors & suppresses ovulation.
• Stimulates adrenal glands & ovaries to make more androgens.
• Inflammation can come from insulin resistance, smoking, inflammatory foods, environmental toxins, digestive problems

STEPS TO HEAL

• Avoid inflammatory foods (gluten, sugar, dairy)
• Reduce exposure to environmental toxins- pesticides, plastics, mercury

SOURCES

The Period Repair Manual by Dr. Lara Briden

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