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Throwing hormone balance so far into left field.

Okay, so to understand what affects women's hormones, we first have to accept the concept that we are complex biological beings who come with ovaries and a uterus with the intention of producing a baby.

And what the body and the system has to do is analyze the environment for how safe is it

for you to be pregnant because that is really energetically demanding and also you can't run

from predators very easily but also having a baby in that environment and so if anyone's listening

this and they're like but I don't want to have a baby we just won't tell your body okay

we just won't tell your body because biologically We just won't tell your body because biologically and

physiologically speaking, that's what it's geared to do. So with that, it's going to be

surveying all kinds of things in our environment. How is your food intake? Not just calories,

but your nutrient density as well. How is your sleep? How are your stress levels? All of

these things can impact our hormones.

And our hormones are chemical messengers going around telling us, hey, what's up? A big area that we are

now really starting to grasp, like I think on the global level, is the impact of environmental

toxins. Something that we have in medicine known about,

there's been research for decades,

is now really starting to get accepted by clinicians

as a major cause of endocrine issues or hormonal issues.

Yeah, I was just watching,

I was just watching John Stewart show the other night and they were interviewing

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