Healthy Skin, Healthy Hormones: Your Body In Balance
The Exam Room by the Physicians Committee
Physicians Committee
4.9 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 14 January 2020
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
If you have been struggling with your skin and battling acne and nothing seems to make it go away, the solution could be getting your hormones back in balance!
As we begin our special series "Your Body In Balance" with Dr. Neal Barnard and "The Weight Loss Champion" Chuck Carroll the pair are joined by twin sisters Nina and Randa Nelson whose struggle with acne led to bouts of depression and took a toll on both the budding entertainers' careers. During bad flare ups they would shut themselves inside their home and shut out their friends and the outside world. It seemed as though pimples would plague them their entire lives and that all hope was lost. That is until they changed what their diet.
On this episode, Dr. Barnard explains why our hormones are affected by food and how if what we eat causes them to go haywire, the solution to healthier skin might begin at the table.
Their story is just one of many featured in Dr. Barnard's new book, Your Body In Balance which will be released February 4.
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About The Book
In Your Body in Balance, Dr. Barnard describes how food and hormones play a powerful role in:
- Fertility and menopause: Learn how foods affect the hormones that play a role in fertility, premenstrual syndrome, endometriosis, menstrual cramps, and polycystic ovarian syndrome. Learn how a plant-based diet can help manage menopause and reduce symptoms, including hot flashes.
- Sex-hormone related cancers: Read the science behind how foods affect estrogen and testosterone levels and the roles they play in breast, prostate, and other forms of cancer.
- Balancing the thyroid: Read about the surprising effects of diet on hypothyroidism and hyperthyroidism.
- Type 2 diabetes: Learn about how a healthy, plant-based diet can restore insulin function and help manage type 2 diabetes.
- Regulating metabolism: Learn how a plant-based diet can boost metabolic rate and affect how body fat is stored and burned.
The book also gives readers practical tips and resources, including answers to frequently asked questions and 65 hormone-balancing recipes developed by Lindsay Nixon.
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Dr. Barnard Tour Dates
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Chuck Carroll
Twitter: @ChuckCarrollWLC
IG: @ChuckCarrollWLC
Facebook: https://wghtloss.cc/ChuckFacebook
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Dr. Neal Barnard
Twitter: @DrNealBarnard
Facebook: http://bit.ly/DrBarnardFB
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Nina & Randa Nelson
IG: @ninanelson / @randanelson
YouTube: http://bit.ly/ninaranda
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Physicians Committee
Twitter: @PCRM
Facebook: https://wghtloss.cc/PCRMFacebook
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| 0:00.0 | I think when you have really bad acne you just feel like you can't start your life until it's clear. |
| 0:04.5 | That's exactly it. |
| 0:05.4 | Yeah. |
| 0:05.6 | Like, okay, we just stayed in our house and we stopped hanging out with our friends. |
| 0:09.4 | Okay, we're going to date. |
| 0:10.4 | We're going to start a life once this is gone and when you don't know how to get it away |
| 0:15.5 | you're just like, you feel stuck and depressed. |
| 0:17.8 | But the question is, if it comes with puberty or comes with your cycle, |
| 0:23.2 | maybe there's a hormonal connection. |
| 0:30.8 | Well, hello there and welcome to the Exam Room Podcast. |
| 0:34.3 | Brought to you by the Physicians Committee, a special edition. |
| 0:38.6 | Hi, I am the Weight Loss Champion, Chuck Carroll. |
| 0:41.0 | Thank you so very much for giving the show a listen this week |
| 0:44.4 | or a view or a download wherever it is in the world that you are. |
| 0:49.4 | We appreciate the fact that you are here. |
| 0:54.3 | This is the first of a special series of podcasts that we will be rolling out |
| 1:00.4 | over the course of the next few weeks. |
| 1:03.1 | All of them featuring Dr. Neil Barnard and some of the most amazing success stories |
| 1:10.2 | you will ever hear. |
| 1:14.2 | We're calling this series Your Body and Balance |
| 1:17.8 | and it is all about the connection between hormones and your health. |
| 1:22.8 | And this is also in advance of the release of Dr. Barnard's new book |
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