Hey, this is Amanda, women's health dietitian. And I'm Emily, nutritional therapy practitioner.

And this is the RU menstrual podcast, where we help you navigate the confusing world of women's hormones and teach you how to have healthy periods.

Each week, we will be diving into a different topic on women's health and sharing our perspective using nutrition, female physiology, and metabolic health.

Our goal is to help you wait through conflicting health information and empower you on your healing journey.

We hope you enjoy it.

In this episode, we are diving deeper into blood sugar balance and insulin resistance with PCOS expert and functional dietitian, Gillian Greaves.

Gillian provides comprehensive nutrition and lifestyle counseling to women with a special emphasis on PCOS, hormone balance, and digestive health.

Jillian helps clients identify and address the root causes of balance, and digestive health. Jillian helps clients identify and

address the root causes of their hormone and digestive symptoms naturally, using advanced lab testing,

personalized nutrition, and supportive lifestyle therapies as the first line of intervention.

Gillian runs a virtual private practice and is the creator of the empowered PCOS program.

It's her mission to empower women to take

back control of their health, reclaim their confidence, and experience life at its fullest potential.

Thank you so much for being here, Jillian. Thank you for having me. I'm so excited. It's going to be

a good episode. I get a lot of questions around blood sugar insulin resistance. Usually it relates to

PCOS, not always, or someone that maybe thinks that they have it, but really the goal of this

episode is to help you better understand how our blood sugar gets out of balance and then how to

support your body maintaining healthy blood sugar is long term. So why don't we start off with a little

bit of your background? Obviously, you're a functional

dietitian, but what made you want to focus on women's health? Yeah, so I love that question.

And really some of my personal experiences and my own personal health journey is sort of what

led me to become super passionate about women's health and to, you know,

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