Hello everyone and welcome to the Evolve with Emily Show. I'm your host, Emily Hayden. And today we are going to talk all about headaches, migraines, hormone imbalances, a little on gut health and also autoimmunity. Now to do that, I've brought on Dr. Meg Mill, who's a functional medicine practitioner, bestselling author, podcast host, and speaker. In her virtual functional medicine practice,

she works with patients worldwide to heal the root cause of their health struggles through advanced

diagnostic testing and personalized support. With her two decades of clinical experience

in conventional and functional medicine, she can help people improve their health naturally

while still understanding and respecting conventional practice protocols. She can help people improve their health naturally while still understanding and respecting

conventional practice protocols. She has been seen in national publications and on media such as

Fox News Channel, ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, Readers Digest, Help Magazine and Life and Style, as well as

several other national publications. So without further ado, I'm really honored to

introduce to you guys, Dr. Meg Mill. Welcome to the show. Hello. Thank you so much for having me.

Of course. So I am really excited to dive in because, as I shared briefly before we started

recording, I've been on my own hormone health journey. I come from the background of being a

bodybuilder, competitor. I dieted really harshly and strictly for a very long time, and it did

have an effect on my hormones, and keeping those in check was quite the struggle for me. I realized

that a mistake that I made was I thought that I was getting a comprehensive

hormone panel done when I went to get my blood work done. And what I really came to find out was

that I wasn't getting a comprehensive panel done. I was only testing, I guess, the very surface

level things that my doctor suggested I tested. So I'm really excited to just dive in today. And I think

where I'd like to start is just starting with maybe what are some telltale signs or maybe

what are a few symptoms that people could be experiencing that would kind of raise some red flags

to say, hey, you might want to think about getting your hormones checked.

Yeah. So there's a whole slew of things. And really what we want to do is look into

different hormonal imbalances. So, but a lot of times, you know, so I guess I would say often,

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