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🗓️ 14 May 2024
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Food can be medicine, especially when it comes to balancing your hormones. In this episode, you'll learn how to make simple and effective shifts to your nutrition for hormonal health. We're talking about caffeine intake, seed cycling, detox, and minerals. While we love a good functional lab test here at Team FN, you really can (and should!) move the needle with your hormone health just by starting with the basics - food!
(8:32) Macronutrient recommendations for blood sugar regulation
(18:18) How to shift your caffeine intake and intermittent fasting schedule to better support hormone balance
(27:34) Different foods to support your hormones in each phase of your cycle
(41:11) Seed cycling as a food as medicine approach
(50:08) Ways to naturally support detoxification
(58:55) Our #1 supplement recommendation
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0:00.0 | I'm Erin Holt, and this is the functional nutrition podcast where we lean into intuitive |
0:07.2 | functional medicine. We look at how diet, our environment, our emotions, and our beliefs all affect |
0:13.4 | our physical health. This podcast is your full-bodied, well-rounded resource. I've got over a decade |
0:19.8 | of clinical experience, and because of that, |
0:22.2 | I've got a major bone to pick with diet culture and the conventional health care model. |
0:26.4 | They're both failing so many of us. But functional medicine isn't the panacea that it's made |
0:31.3 | out to be either. We've got some work to do, and that's why creating a new model is my life's |
0:37.0 | work. I believe in the ripple |
0:38.7 | effect. So I founded the Functional Nutrition Academy, a school and mentorship for practitioners |
0:43.5 | who want to do the same. This show is for you if you're looking for new ways of thinking about |
0:48.6 | your health and you're ready to be an active participant in your own healing. Please keep in mind |
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1:05.3 | know whose life you might change. And of course, keep coming back for more. |
1:14.5 | Hello, my friends. |
1:17.1 | So today we're going to continue on with the hormone series. |
1:20.1 | Last week we talked about how to balance overall hormones, |
1:23.6 | but we laser focused in on progesterone, |
1:27.0 | because that's a big one that we see in practice here at TFN. |
1:29.3 | Today's show is going to be all about food and nutrition for your hormones because that's a huge, huge factor in overall hormone |
1:35.9 | health. And it's actually a class that our lead practitioner Rachel taught to the functional |
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