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Lovers and Friends with Shan Boodram

S1 Ep95: No, THAT’S Not Normal! How Hormones Could Be Impacting Your Sex Life and Health

Lovers and Friends with Shan Boodram

LOVERS by shan

Sexuality, Society & Culture, Relationships, Health & Fitness

55.5K Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2023

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Do you want to understand hormones better? Dr. Jolene Brighten is here to demystify the power of hormones and how they can affect fertility, sex drive, ADHD, how long it takes to orgasm, and period pain. Tune in as she explains what hormones are, their function and role in our bodies, plus how they can be managed for improved health and wellness. Learn from the experts! Don't miss out on this insightful educational experience with Dr. Jolene Brighten.

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0:00.0

Why does your boyfriend or your sexual partner need to have your period tracker on their phone too?

0:07.1

They hear something that happens so often in my practice. I hear this so many times.

0:12.5

She was so into me, like, they're so into me. And then it's like they don't even want to have sex with me.

0:19.3

Like they want nothing to do with me. And like, did I wrong no friend she's entered her ludial phase she passed ovulation

0:25.5

and then passing ovulation she went into ludial and now things have shifted with her hormones but

0:30.8

hormones do affect us in very positive ways I feel like the spin is always like, oh, hormones just make your life

0:38.4

hell and they make women crazy. They can, but not often. Often hormones are giving us superpowers.

0:45.5

And so you can understand, you know, when are the best times to be approaching conversations.

0:51.1

It's not usually when she's coming up on her period. If you've got to have a

0:55.0

difficult conversation, wait because her hormone's about to drop and she doesn't have her allies

0:59.5

in her corner. And she may feel more inward. Like she's doing more introspective work. And now

1:05.0

you're like, look at me. Pay attention to us. Like come outside and she's not quite ready for that.

1:09.6

A week past your period edging on ovulation,

1:12.8

you can get by on less sleep, less calories, like you will also feel like, um, a lot more invincible,

1:18.5

easier time to travel. If it is just like the day before your period, day of your period,

1:23.9

you also have the factor of like you're definitely going to be more tired.

1:28.1

Your, the stress is going to affect you a lot more. And again, that's because you don't have

1:33.2

progesterone and estrogen in your corner in the same way. So ease her stress.

1:37.5

Lovers and friends. I'm going to take you on a trip, baby. I don't pretend. I said, lovers and friends. I'm going to hold you down down to the end. I say,

1:48.7

Hi, lovers and friends. My name is Shambudram. I'm the host of this podcast, and we are rapidly approaching our 100th episode. What should we do? I actually don't have any ideas. If you have any fun ideas for things that we could do to

2:01.7

commemorate this, I'd love to hear it. And speaking of which, out of our existing 95 episodes at this

2:08.3

point, this one is unique. So since the beginning of my career, I have taken a medicine with

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