Here's a sneak peek from the latest episode of Waste Away, the Intermittent Fasting podcast. So with mood, I always talk to my patients and I say mood is really a symptom. I mean, it's a very real problem, but it's not like a disease. It's a symptom of something else going wrong. So if we think, if we suspect that potentially it's a hormone symptom, then, you know, the most common one I would see with anxiety is a low progesterone

or estrogen dominance. So estrogen progesterone balance is very important. And sometimes I see

people with just very low progesterone and tons of estrogen. So I would say if it's a cyclical

thing that you're noticing and you're getting more anxiety around the time of your period or around

the time of ovulation,

that's when I would sort of have more suspicion there.

And then especially if there's other symptoms to suggest hormone imbalances.

So that might be, you know, estrogen dominant kind of symptoms where there's a lot of breast tenderness or fibroids or really heavy painful periods.

And then it could also be sort of low

progesterone symptoms, which could be weight gain and anxiety and fatigue, trouble sleeping as well.

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