Hi everyone, Dr. Axe here. I am so excited to introduce you to today's co-host of my show,

Naomi Weddle. Naomi is a pioneer in the beauty and nutrition industries. She has founded several

successful wellness brands as an expert in diet, herbal medicine and longevity. And Naomi has

traveled the world including Europe and Asia, studying natural health and finding rare exotic

superfoods to help people heal and fight disease. She's also made it her personal mission

to better the lives of women by empowering them to take control of their health.

Naomi is someone I really trust and admire and I am thrilled to have her here today.

I hope you enjoy her wisdom on today's show.

Welcome Lara. You are a naturopathic doctor and I am so excited to have you here

on the Dr. Axe show. Everybody, I'm Naomi Weddle and I have the great privilege

of being able to interview people like Lara. She's written two books. We're going to get

right into it all around the health of us as women. So the period repair manual as well as the

hormone repair manual, like my absolute favorite topics. I'm a mother of four. Lara and my eldest

child is 19 and she just started college. And so when she got her period and as I'm

watching her develop, thinking very much about her hormones and what that means and how we can

really support them. So I'm very excited to have this conversation. I would just love to have

you start by telling us a little bit about your background, like what you got your undergraduate

degree in and a little bit about you. Of course. Thanks so much for having me. It's really

lovely to meet you. So as you can hear from my mixed accent, I'm Canadian originally,

I now live in New Zealand, which is sort of why I have this complicated accent. But my first

degree was in evolutionary biology. I worked as an evolutionary biologist, I published a scientific

paper in six differences in foraging behavior. So I came at it all through that path. And then

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