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Welcome to Food Psych, a podcast dedicated to critiquing diet and wellness culture and

answering your questions about intuitive eating and the anti-diet approach. I'm your host

christieherison and I'm a registered dietitian certified intuitive eating counselor,

journalist and author of the books anti-diet which is available now and the wellness trap which

will be out in early 2023. And by the way on this show I avoid saying diet culture stuff like

weight and calorie numbers but we don't censor swear words or other adult language so listener

discretion is advised.

If you're healthy, every side, see the food you want.

Hey there, welcome to this episode of Food Psych. I'm your host christieherison and today I'm

going to answer an audience question about whether you really need a quote-unquote hormone balancing

diet to deal with hormonal changes. The person who asks the question is going through these shifts

in midlife but my answer really applies no matter when you might be experiencing hormonal changes.

And with wellness culture's constant pushing of diets for this issue, I think it's important

to address what the science really says and doesn't say. Before I answer a few quick announcements,

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