How to Optimize Your Hormone Health with Diet and Lifestyle Interventions with Dr. Stephanie Estima

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Dhru Purohit

Alternative Health, Medicine, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 5 December 2022

⏱️ 39 minutes

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This episode is brought to you by InsideTracker and Big Bold Health. A woman’s hormonal landscape changes dramatically throughout her life. Because of this unique biology, understanding her menstrual cycle and its rhythm can be incredibly useful for optimizing productivity, weight, sex drive, energy, and mood. On today’s mini-episode, Dhru sits down with Dr. Stephanie Estima to talk about how to eat and work out in a way that honors a woman’s natural cycle in her reproductive years. They also talk about how chronic stress affects women differently than men, the importance of listening to your body, and why loving yourself is one of the most radical things you can do. Dr. Estima is an expert in female metabolism and body composition. She is a doctor of chiropractic with a special interest in functional neurology, brain metabolism, and the specific application of the ketogenic diet and fasting to female physiology. She is particularly focused on distilling strategies in nutritional proxies, movement, posture, and mindset to actualize human potential, healthspan, longevity, and achievement. In this episode we dive into: - The big mistake women make when it comes to their hormonal health - How the accumulation of low-grade stress impacts metabolic health - The importance of listening to your body and attuning to your symptoms - The Estima Method for optimal hormone health Listen to the full episode here. For more on Dr. Estima, follow her on Instagram @Dr.Stephanie.Estima and through her website, hellobetty.club. Get her book, The Betty Body here. For more on Dhru Purohit, follow him on Instagram @dhrupurohit, Facebook @dhruxpurohit, Twitter @dhrupurohit, YouTube @dhrupurohit, and TikTok @dhru.purohit. Text Dhru at 302-200-5643 or click here. InsideTracker provides detailed nutrition and lifestyle guidance based on your individual needs. Right now, they’re offering my podcast community 20% off. Just go to https://www.insidetracker.com/DHRU to get your discount and try it out for yourself. Right now, Big Bold Health is offering my listeners $20 dollars off all of their products. Just go to https://www.bigboldhealth.com to get all of their products for $20 off with code DHRU20. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi everyone, Drew Prod here. Today we're talking with Dr. Stephanie Estima in this
0:06.1	mini episode and we're chatting all about women's health. Here are a few
0:11.4	topics that Dr. Stephanie is going to be covering. The big mistakes women make
0:16.0	when it comes to their hormonal health. How the accumulation of low-grade
0:21.0	stress impacts metabolic health and how women have to be mindful about being
0:25.7	more sensitive to stress than others. Lastly, we're going to chat about the
0:31.0	importance of listening to your body and attuning to your symptoms and we're
0:35.4	going to walk through Dr. Estima's protocol, the Estima method for optimal
0:40.4	hormone health. If you care about the intersection of strength training, metabolic
0:45.4	health, hormonal health and women's health, today's mini episode is definitely
0:49.6	for you. Stay tuned. I want to start at the beginning. Give us the
0:55.4	heroes journey behind this book of what you went through when it came to your
1:01.5	health. That's a great question. There was definitely a heroine's journey here.
1:07.5	I would say that for most of my life, so prior to our meeting up, all
1:13.6	throughout my high school years, my university years, my years in
1:19.4	in Cardboard Fick School, I honestly felt that my menstrual cycle was a punishment
1:26.5	for being a woman. I felt every month that my cramping, you know, the
1:33.3	bloating, the heat, the aggravation that my body felt was, it was my arch
1:39.6	nemesis and I had, I would take medication to silence it. I would completely
1:45.3	ignore it. I would set other goals. I would try to ignore the fact that I was a
1:49.8	woman because my focus at the time was really getting great grades. There was a
1:54.6	certain chiropractic school that I wanted to get into. There was only one and
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