507: Revive Your Hormones with Sonya Jensen

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Lucas Rockwood

Love, Detox, Food, Yogabody, Pranayama, Vegan, Selfimprovement, Self-improvement, Relationships, Meditation, Breathing, Education, Emotions, Mental, Vegetarian, Inspiring, Leader, Balance, Motivating, Weightloss, Flexibility, Habits, Health, Motivation, Yoga, Nutrition

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🗓️ 16 March 2022

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Hormones affect your attention, libido, fertility, and lean muscle mass. So much of how we experience the world is determined by these complex chemicals sloshing around inside us–and they are under attack! High stress lifestyles, high carbohydrate diets, and endocrine disrupting toxins threaten to throw us off balance every day. This week’s podcast guest will help you think strategically about how to find balance.

You’ll learn:

Why negative thinking / shadow work can be helpful for finding motivation
The importance of the adrenal glands
Why high cortisol can trigger a chain reaction
Risk vs reward of birth control

Links

Sonya’s Website

ABOUT OUR GUEST

Sonya is a naturopath, mother, author, yoga teacher, and podcaster. Her book is called, Woman Unleashed: Release Your Story, Revive Your Hormones & Reclaim Your Freedom

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0:00.0	Your chemical body, your endocrine system, your hormones, they determine so much of how
0:08.5	you and I show up in the world.
0:11.0	Our motivation, our drive, our ability to focus and concentrate, it affects our ability
0:17.0	to gain and lose weight, our ability to hold on to lean muscle mass, obvious things like
0:23.1	libido and fertility, essentially these chemicals sloshing around inside of us.
0:28.2	They're really shaping our world view and our world experience, and here's the challenge.
0:32.9	Our hormones are under attack, our high stress lifestyles are a problem, our high carbohydrate
0:38.8	diets are a problem, the petrochemical toxins that we're exposed to, that act as endocrine
0:44.0	disruptors, they mess up your hormones, they're also a problem, there are other things as
0:48.1	well, but essentially it's very, very difficult to stay hormonally balanced.
0:52.7	How does this show up?
0:53.7	Well, right now, something like one and three couples are having trouble conceiving.
0:58.5	If you look at testosterone levels in men, they are dropping precipitously compared to
1:03.2	20, 30, 50 years ago, things like ED, things like PC, OS, these are huge, huge problems
1:10.8	that are getting worse, not better, every single day.
1:14.1	On this week's podcast, you will meet a naturopath who focuses on female hormones specifically,
1:19.6	hopefully to give you some ideas about how to find balance.
1:22.6	If you're new here, it's the Lucas Rockwood show, I'm a yoga teacher, teacher trainer,
1:26.4	I'm a serial entrepreneur, and the father of three kids, but first and foremost, I am a
1:30.2	student.
1:31.2	I like to learn things, I use this show as a way to go out and research things, find interesting
1:35.7	people doing interesting work, and I bring their best work to you here on the show.
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