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The Emma Guns Show

Health Special | Hormones in Lockdown

The Emma Guns Show

Emma Gunavardhana

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4.81.4K Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2020

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Dr Elaine McQuade returns to the podcast to talk about the very real impact lockdown and the stress of a pandemic are having on our hormones.

The first thing to you need to know is, it's completely normal, and not unexpected, to be feeling out of balance. Tune in to hear Elaine's strategies for getting you feeling your best.

Links from the show:

Qi Gong Empoweredstillness.co.uk

Supplements to help with stress and sleep: Ashwaganda - adaptogen for helping to manage stress . Good for mood and energy .

Magnesium is nature’s tranquilliser and Nutri Advanced MegaMag Night Formula is a great choice, just be warned as can cause diarrhoea for some who are sensitive to magnesium.

Nutri Advanced MegaMag Calmeze for daytime use and curbing feelings of anxiety.

CBD oil for calming Kloris 500mg 5% CBD Oil.

Elaine's tips for lockdown. 

Try and maintain routine 

1 Sleep hygiene 

2 Regular meals good fats and protein with each meal help balance blood sugar and manage mood swings and hormones. 

If you are suffering from a loss of appetite, smoothies, fruit, veg and some protein powder and fats ( avocado/nut butter ) as a meal substitute . Try to avoid processed food, sugars and either eliminate of limit alcohol. 

3 Exercise - walking in nature, online yoga, or own routine.

4 Journaling gratitude diary to try and maintain some positivity and rewire the brain in this challenging time. 

5 Connection, if you are feeling challenged reach out - message a friend. You are never alone and we are all ( yes all !!) going through our ups and downs . 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

What a delight to like to have Dr Elaine McQuaid back on the show. Now Elaine, hi.

0:11.3

Hi, I am nice to be back. Thank you for inviting me alone.

0:15.0

It's nice to have you here. So you are, just to put you into context, even though I'm sure many listeners will remember you fondly from our previous episode.

0:23.0

You are a doctor, a functional medicine,

0:25.0

and a bio-identical hormone specialist,

0:28.0

as well as an ex-NHS doctor.

0:30.0

And you are joining me because we are currently at the time of recording

0:35.2

Two and a bit months into lockdown here in the UK. That's right isn't it? Yeah.

0:39.6

Yeah. The day's emoting into one, aren't they?

0:43.0

Yeah, longer than we expected and yeah.

0:47.0

And I noticed a few weeks ago, amongst many friends,

0:51.0

a feeling of real bluh and lots of people feeling out of sorts. I'm sorry

0:56.3

that there isn't a word to describe but I'm just gonna that expression is

1:00.2

hopefully appropriate. Definitely feeling out of sorts and you would imagine it would be to be expected but then I started to wonder about hormones which is why I called you up and I wondered whether the sudden change in lifestyle of having to go into lockdown

1:16.0

could actually be impacting our hormones and therefore affecting our mood,

1:21.0

affecting how well we feel.

1:23.0

And could it be?

1:26.0

It certainly could, yeah. I mean, we're in a really stressful period now that's sort of a mass external stress that's going on as well as sort of the

1:36.2

stresses that are happening and so as we talked before about just whatever's going

1:40.7

on in the world is obviously a big external stress is going on.

1:43.6

And a lot of people are having a big change in their lifestyle.

1:46.8

They're at home.

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