Hello, hello, and welcome to the root cause medicine podcast. I'm your host, Dr. Carrie Jones.

Today, I am talking with the famous integrative dietitian, Esther Blum. We're talking all about

her top tricks and hacks for perimenopausal and menopausal women that she has seen work over her

many years of experience. Esther is a dietitian and high performance coach.

She currently maintains a virtual practice and is routinely quoted in the media. Plus, has multiple

TV appearances such as on the Dr. Oz show, the Today Show, and Fox News Live. She is the

best-selling author of five books, including her newest one, See You Later,

Avia Later, Avulator. Plus, pave women don't get fat, eat, drink, and be gorgeous, secrets

of gorgeous, and the Eat, Drink, and Be Gorgeous project. It was an absolute pleasure

talking with her today, as her no-b-s approach to entering menopause is just what we needed

to hear.

Here's a clip from today's conversation.

I am not a big fan of keto.

I do see some women who benefit from keto, but they'll do keto for three months.

And then all of a sudden it stops working and they regain all the weight because your

adrenal's tank, you don't have

enough carbs to support the conversion of T4 to T3, which is the active form of thyroid hormone.

So long term, you really want to have carbs in your diet. And as someone who has a very loving,

romantic relationship with carbs, I like to teach women on the right kinds of carbs.

So not only that, but I do like women to have carbs before bed, which goes against a lot of

what we were taught. And the thing is this, you're not sleeping so well right now.

So that nice bump in insulin from your dinner time carbs is going to

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