Welcome back to the Anxion Health Podcast where we educate you on real health solutions that

will help transform the way you live, feel, and overcome disease naturally.

I'm your host Courtney Versage, along with Dr. Josh Axe and Dr. Chris Motley.

We're so happy you've joined us, let's dive into today's episode.

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Welcome back to the podcast.

My name is Courtney and we are diving into hormones today.

I'm really excited to talk about this one specific area of your hormones and we're

talking about progesterone.

We always talk about a lot of estrogen and estrogen dominance, but sometimes we forget

about the sister hormone and that's what we're going to talk about today in relation

to luteal phase deficiency.

Now, LPD, not to be confused with LBD, we're not talking about your little black dress,

even though we could, but we won't do that today.

We're talking about LPD, so luteal phase deficiency and it's connection with progesterone.

Now, in order to understand luteal phase deficiency, we have to look at what the luteal phase

is and understanding where it fits into the picture of your overall hormones.

So we've talked about this on other episodes, but the simple way of looking at your hormones

is breaking it up into two phases.

You've got the front end, which is kind of a building phase, right?

This is what we call the follicular phase and this is when your follicles are really

maturing in eggs, so leading up until ovulation, which is really the pinnacle point, this kind

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