S2 Ep21: Is this Normal? Hormones, Birth Control, & Periods w/ Dr. Jolene Brighten

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Nutrition, Self-improvement, Education, Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Alternative Health

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🗓️ 18 March 2024

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Jolene Brighten is back on the podcast!!!!!! She is a genius in all things periods, birth control, hormones, PMS, PCOS, endocrine disrupters, and more. Dr. Brighten, the author of "Is this Normal?" & "Beyond the Pill", answers as many write-in questions as we could possibly get to, like:

How should I prepare to get off birth control?
What natural BC options does she recommend?
What periods are "normal"?
How do I improve mood swings? PCOS?
What hormone disrupters do we need to pay attention to?
Transparently.. IS THIS NORMAL??

CALL SYD Advice write-in's this week include: irregular periods, losing your period, & 2 years post birth control with no regulation. We are so lucky to have access to such an expert. Your next step?? BUY HER BOOKS. They changed my life & allowed me to get off BC, listen to my body, & use my OURA ring to regulate instead.

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0:00.0	Okay, everybody, we are back on Well Said Podcasts. I'm so excited for today's episode. And this is
0:05.2	somebody you may recognize. Maybe it's from TikTok, maybe it's from Instagram. Maybe it's from a
0:09.6	previous episode when the podcast was straight candid. But Dr. Jolene Brighton is here on the episode.
0:15.5	I literally have her books right by me and I'm going to put them in the camera. Hold on. I got to grab this one. This one's big and full of knowledge. They're both full of knowledge. But my favorites,
0:24.6	this is normal and beyond the pill. And I'm not a big reader. I'm going to be honest. I'm going to
0:28.8	say that up front. I'm not a reader. But. We're going to dive into a ton, a ton of things related to coming off birth control,
0:41.7	general period information.
0:43.4	So sorry, guys, but this is actually going to be helpful for you, too,
0:46.1	even though you think you might need this information.
0:48.4	If you've got a lady at all, you probably want to know these things.
0:51.3	And then just like, why low sex drive?
0:53.6	How can we help our, um,
0:55.7	different estrogen levels or progesterone levels, um, endocrine disruptors? There's a ton of ton of
1:01.2	of things we're going to cover. I have four call Sid Ritin. So we're going to answer those.
1:05.8	If you were, um, one of the lucky ones that I selected, you're going to get your advice actually answered by
1:11.1	Jolene and myself.
1:12.6	Of course, I'll add color, but I'm not the expert in this area.
1:15.5	I'm like, I'll add color.
1:16.6	I'll be here to give a little opinion if I can.
1:18.6	Without further ado, Dr. Jolene Brighton, hi, I'm so glad you're here. How you doing?
1:41.3	Thanks so much for having me.
1:43.3	I'm pretty good. I'm actually like rocking a hoodie today.
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