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Hello, friends. Today we're going to talk about food, nutrition, and diet for hormone health.

And the reason that I want to talk about this is because there is so much conversation around

female hormones right now, which is an amazing and incredible thing. But when we position

hormones at the center of the conversation, we can run the risk of potentially looking at

hormones the wrong way. The way that we should be thinking about hormones is that hormones

are really more often than not the effect and not the cause. So I've said it before, I will say it

again, hormones are usually not a root cause. Now, of course, if we're thinking about parimenopause

and postmenopause and that huge endocrine transition,

then our hormones can certainly impact the way that we feel. But it is not the only part of

the overall picture. And so my concern is that if we're just centering hormones that we're

missing the bigger picture, we really need to widen the scope on this conversation.

Because your hormones

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