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Good morning, gorgeous. I have

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just dropped my son off.

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He's off to cricket for the day and

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I have been having, um,

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a huge amount of inquiries

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coming in about our program

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I'm so delighted to tell you that our program

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has been nominated as program of the year

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2023 2024.

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And um, my program is called Rescue

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You from the Rollercoaster of Perimenopause.

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And um, this is my third decade

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in clinical practice treating perimenopausal

0:36

women. Um, but I am pretty aware

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of the fact that suddenly the conversation

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is louder and prouder than ever before. So

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I'm absolutely delighted that

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this is actually the case. Perimenopausal

0:48

and menopausal women are finally, um,

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you know, getting the voice and getting the, um,

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the exposure that they need in order to get

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the help that they so desperately need.

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I'm here to tell you that everything that I do

1:01

is based in the research,

1:03

scientific evidence, and cutting edge,

1:05

um, at that. The ZOE PREDICT

1:07

trial, was a beautiful seminal

1:10

paper that came out about 12 months ago,

1:12

talking about the fact that, perimenopausal

1:15

women struggle with metabolism,

1:18

and therefore an increase in weight, particularly

1:20

around the middle, and that they are

1:23

definitely in this energy crisis. The words

1:25

are different, um, these are my words, not their words,

1:27

but the meaning is the same. And,

1:29

the trial also showed that,

1:32

that, women are struggling with immunity

1:34

and they're struggling with gut health. So

1:37

there was a huge correlation between

1:39

perimenopause and a decreased,

1:42

um, level of gut health in perimenopausal

1:44

women. So it's no surprise

1:47

and no mistake that my program

1:49

Rescue You from the Rollercoaster of Perimenopause,

1:52

which is a three part program, starts

1:54

with repair. And in repair,

1:57

we repair exactly that we

1:59

repair your gut. We repair your

2:01

microbiome. We repair your

2:03

metabolism. We repair your immune

2:05

system because 80 to 90 percent

2:07

of your immune system resides in

2:09

your gut. There is this incredible

2:12

part of your gastrointestinal tract called

2:14

secretory IGA and

2:16

is, it's the thick sticky biofilm

2:19

and um, it's this beautiful mucous membrane

2:21

layer that should be there to protect

2:24

the inner lining of your gastrointestinal tract

2:27

and it's within secretory

2:29

IGA. That, um, you know, 80 percent

2:31

of your immune system resides and also

2:33

80 percent of your feel good hormones

2:36

are produced in the gastrointestinal tract.

2:38

So, if you are having any

2:40

mood issues, anxiety, or depression,

2:43

and you have an inflammation in your gastrointestinal

2:45

tract, the two are related. These

2:47

are not two separate entities. They're absolutely related. Absolutely.

2:50

Related. If you have an inflammation

2:52

in the gut, you quite often have an inflammation

2:54

in the mood and the mind. So it

2:56

is absolutely imperative in perimenopause

3:00

to focus on the hierarchy

3:02

of healing. So when it, when

3:04

it comes to the hierarchy of healing, we

3:07

can't just dive in and rebalance

3:09

the hormones first. If you have

3:11

a dysbiotic gut or a gut integrity

3:13

issue or a leaky gut presentation. So

3:15

we absolutely need to focus on healing,

3:18

sealing and repairing your gut first. A

3:20

lot of the time we actually need to identify

3:23

individualized food triggers. So

3:26

many women in my clinic have food triggers

3:28

that create a dysbiosis in the gastrointestinal

3:30

tract and actually punch holes in

3:33

that beautiful gut lining,

3:35

you know, that gorgeous plumbing. And whenever I'm

3:37

talking about the gastrointestinal tract, I'm

3:39

actually talking about eyes, ears,

3:42

nose, throat, large

3:44

intestine, small intestine, liver,

3:46

anus, and vagina.

3:50

The microbiome is everywhere.

3:52

The microbiome of your girly bits

3:55

is attached to and connected to, although

3:57

intricately different, um,

4:00

but part of your generalized

4:02

microbiome. So your scalp

4:04

has a microbiome, your skin has a microbiome,

4:06

your gastrointestinal tract, of course, has a microbiome,

4:09

your gut has a microbiome, and so

4:12

does your vagina. So it is absolutely

4:14

imperative to keep the microbiome

4:16

healthy. In my clinic, I

4:18

start with the gut at every point in

4:20

time. There is no point in having

4:23

a toxic load or an unbeneficial

4:25

detoxification capacity when

4:27

you are trying to balance hormones. So balancing

4:30

hormones comes next. So in

4:32

repair... We repair your metabolism.

4:34

We repair your gut. We also repair

4:36

your ability to access energy. So

4:39

the mitochondria comes into this repair

4:41

program too. And what we

4:43

need to do is we need to get

4:45

ourselves into a fat burn

4:47

and out of a fat store state. So

4:50

because There is a correlation

4:53

and a link

4:55

between perimenopause and

4:58

high glucose levels, high blood glucose

5:00

levels, which then lead to an insulin

5:03

resistance. What this means

5:05

is we're actually not able to access the

5:07

energy from our food. In

5:09

order to think, in order to move,

5:11

in order to feel vibrant, and in

5:13

order to feel like we've got the energy that we need to

5:15

get throughout the day. So, we need to

5:17

fix this energy crisis, and we need to

5:20

get ourselves into a fat burn and out of

5:22

a fat store state. We need

5:24

to increase our fiber intake, so

5:26

that we have a beautiful gastrointestinal tract

5:28

lining, and so that our... gut

5:31

microbes, the beneficial gut microbes,

5:34

actually have something to feed on. If

5:36

your beneficial gut microbes are not receiving

5:39

enough food, so I always say to

5:41

my patients, please, in every single meal,

5:43

make sure you're feeding your microbiome. Because

5:46

if your microbiome doesn't have the food

5:48

that it needs to flourish, They will

5:50

start to eat your secretory IGA,

5:52

that beautiful, thick jelly like substance

5:54

that I was talking about before that

5:57

impacts your immutability and also

5:59

your mood. So your gut is

6:01

related to your mood. It is related to your immunity.

6:04

If you're having any, any signs and

6:06

symptoms on the skin in traditional Chinese

6:08

medicine, there is an internal and an external

6:11

relationship between your large intestine

6:13

and your skin. Your skin is also

6:15

a detoxification mechanism. So If

6:17

you're not able to get rid of the toxicity through

6:20

the large intestine and the liver, it'll

6:22

come out in the skin. So if you're having

6:24

any kind of, you know, skin

6:26

reactions, that can also be due

6:28

to a dysbiotic microbiome

6:30

and your detoxification pathway's not working

6:33

efficiently. Now, your detoxification

6:35

pathways can very easily get clogged up.

6:38

And don't forget the fact that we're actually

6:40

paleolithic beings. Our physiology

6:43

has not changed. Your physiology

6:45

is exactly the same as your hunter gatherer

6:47

ancestors. Although our lifestyles

6:49

have changed significantly, your

6:52

ancestors were not eating

6:54

processed food and we're not taking

6:57

in copious amounts of alcohol. They

6:59

didn't have the ability to eat food from a packet

7:01

or a box like we do these days.

7:04

So if your liver is congested and

7:06

don't forget, your liver will always prioritize

7:08

toxins first. If your liver

7:11

is congested and you're detoxifying

7:13

all the food like substances and the alcohol

7:15

first, you're going to have a backup

7:17

of oestrogen not being able to detoxify

7:20

through the large intestine and the liver. And

7:23

then, what happens with oestrogen is we

7:25

need to use it and then we need to lose it.

7:27

If we have oestrogen moving

7:30

through the system again once it's already

7:32

been used, we can have an oestrogenic

7:34

overload. When we have an estrogen

7:36

excess presentation, we can quite often also

7:39

have additional belly fat. So,

7:41

it's a complex picture. We need

7:43

to focus on the microbiome. We

7:45

need to focus on detoxification. We

7:48

need to focus on healing, sealing, and repairing your

7:50

gut. But we also need to make sure

7:52

that you can detoxify and eliminate

7:54

the estrogens that you have used

7:56

when you no longer need them. So,

7:59

back to repair. We need to repair your gastrointestinal

8:02

tract. We need to repair your metabolism,

8:04

the energy crisis, your mood,

8:07

absolutely your sleep. I have

8:09

so many perimenopausal women coming into the

8:11

clinic who cannot sleep. When you

8:13

can't sleep, melatonin is too

8:15

low. And if melatonin is

8:17

too low, cortisol is too high.

8:20

And this is part of the insulin resistance

8:22

and the weight gain resistance piece. So,

8:26

when insulin is, when

8:28

you have insulin resistance. Because

8:30

you have, okay, so let's go back. You're

8:32

not sleeping, so if melatonin

8:34

is not high enough, cortisol is too high.

8:37

Cortisol is your stress hormone. So

8:39

when cortisol is too high during

8:41

the night, you can actually have blood sugar

8:44

spikes. And it can be these blood

8:46

sugar spikes that wake you through the night.

8:48

So somewhere between 1 and 3

8:51

a. m. in the morning is liver time.

8:53

If you're having a blood sugar spike or you're having

8:55

difficulty detoxifying, you're waking

8:58

between 1 and 3 a. m. Your

9:00

liver is unhappy and

9:02

you have a potential blood sugar spike.

9:05

We need to keep your blood glucose

9:07

stable so that we don't have this

9:09

high blood glucose overnight. Because

9:11

if we have the high blood glucose overnight

9:13

and the high cortisol, you literally

9:16

wake up feeling like you've been run over by

9:18

a bus. So, if cortisol is high and

9:20

melatonin is too low at

9:22

night, your circadian rhythm is

9:24

disrupted. Every single cell

9:26

in your body has a circadian rhythm.

9:29

Every single cell in your body wants to

9:31

operate when the sun comes up in the morning

9:33

and go to sleep when the sun goes down at night.

9:36

When you do not sleep properly, your

9:39

cleaning mechanism in your brain doesn't

9:41

work quite as well. So your glymphatic

9:44

system. which is not the lymphatic

9:46

system starting with an L, it's the glymphatic

9:48

system starting with a G, is

9:50

not optimal. So what that means is that

9:53

your brain doesn't get cleaned overnight.

9:56

So this is one of the things that can end up

9:58

leading to Alzheimer's and dementia,

10:01

right? When our brains don't get the clean

10:03

out that they need. We've got this high

10:05

blood glucose, we've got this high cortisol,

10:08

basically this is prediabetes type 2, so

10:11

that it is so imperative that we test

10:13

HbA1c. Which is a three

10:15

month recording of your blood glucose levels

10:18

as well as your insulin resistance. We

10:20

need to test insulin, fasting

10:22

insulin, so that we know that your

10:24

blood glucose is okay. This is so

10:27

important in perimenopause and menopause.

10:29

So here we go. Our melatonin is

10:32

too low at night and our cortisol is too

10:34

high. And then what I'm seeing in the clinic

10:36

is that your CAR, your cortisol awakening

10:38

response, can either be too low

10:41

or too high, depending on where

10:43

you are in your chronic stress experience.

10:46

So, how long have you been over scheduled

10:48

for? How stressed have you been for how

10:50

long? And that will, that, you know, your

10:52

cortisol, or your cortisol awakening response

10:55

will depend on that. Initially, women

10:57

are in fight or flight when they're stressed,

10:59

initially, like in an acute phase,

11:01

and quite often that's when we see cortisol to

11:04

be high. And don't get me wrong, we absolutely

11:06

need cortisol. Cortisol is, um,

11:09

cortisol is imperative for life. Like

11:11

we need to be able to stand up for ourselves and we

11:13

need to be able to run for our lives and we need to be able

11:15

to fight for our lives. But again,

11:18

your beautiful paleolithic ancient body

11:20

doesn't know the difference between a tiger

11:22

at the cave and an alarm

11:24

or false lighting or a traffic jam.

11:27

So if your system thinks that you're running from

11:29

a tiger in the cave every

11:31

single day of your life, eventually

11:34

fight or flight turns into rollover

11:36

play dead. You just do

11:38

not have the energy.

11:41

To fight or stand up for yourself

11:44

or run anymore and you've got like this

11:46

rollover play dead Presentation where you

11:48

like literally please I just want to roll

11:51

over play dead. I just want to get back underneath

11:53

the covers I've woken up My

11:56

stress and my my energy

11:59

levels do not recover

12:01

with sleep You know that

12:03

you need to take care of your adrenals and

12:06

your stress levels if you wake in the morning

12:08

and you're not refreshed This means

12:10

you're not recovering with a full night's

12:13

sleep. This leads

12:15

me into talking about the connection

12:17

between your adrenals and your

12:19

thyroid. Now, this is still everything

12:21

that we're detailing and taking care of in

12:23

our repair program because

12:25

we have to make sure that our adrenals

12:28

are working optimally. We need adaptogens,

12:31

things like rhodiola and withania.

12:34

In my clinic, if you are stressed

12:36

and tired, I use

12:38

rhodiola, for example, as one of the adaptogenic

12:41

botanical medications. If you

12:43

are stressed and wired, I use

12:45

a beautiful blend of with Thania, like so

12:47

many different kinds of with Thania really

12:49

help women who are stressed and wired,

12:52

relax and rebalance their

12:54

circadian rhythms so that they don't have

12:56

a circadian rhythm disruption so that your body

12:58

knows when it's morning, that it knows

13:01

when it's nighttime, your body then knows

13:03

when to ovulate, right? And

13:05

you're not hungry at strange times of the day.

13:07

Having a balanced circadian rhythm also

13:09

helps to balance your leptin and your ghrelin,

13:12

which is your hunger response. Have you ever

13:14

noticed that after a really bad

13:16

night's sleep, you're stressed that day, but

13:18

you're also super hungry? So

13:21

our hunger, our leptin and our

13:23

ghrelin, ghrelin is the hormone that makes you pick up the fork

13:25

and eat, leptin is the hormone that makes you put

13:27

that down. Ghrelin and leptin

13:29

are completely disrupted if you have a circadian

13:31

rhythm disruption. And then what do we do?

13:33

Of course, we go for the drug

13:36

like food substances. And this is no shaming.

13:38

I'm a recovering food addict, so I know

13:40

all about drug like food substances. So,

13:43

you know, we go for the things that give us the hit, the

13:45

quick hit. You know, the sugar or the

13:47

dairy or the white flour, you name

13:49

it. And then unfortunately the unbeneficial

13:52

bacteria in your microbiome or your

13:54

gastrointestinal tract feed on

13:56

sugar and they are delighted. and

13:59

they cause all sorts of trouble by disrupting

14:01

your microbiome and potentially

14:03

creating a leaky gut presentation or a gut

14:06

intestinal permeability issue. Right,

14:08

so that's, your GP would rather talk to you about

14:11

a gut permeability integrity issue.

14:13

Um, our GPs and our allopathic practitioners

14:16

don't like the terminology leaky

14:18

gut presentation, so just use the right terminology

14:20

for them so that they take you seriously.

14:23

Um, yeah, and then once we have that,

14:26

we basically have inflammatory cytokines.

14:29

Um, coming out of

14:31

the gut into the bloodstream, attacking

14:34

our joints and attacking our mood and attacking

14:36

our mind. So again, if you

14:38

have an inflammation in the gut, you have an inflammation

14:40

in the mood and the mind. So

14:43

again, going back to the adrenals

14:45

and then the thyroid connection. Think

14:47

about the wording, you know, it's called perimenopause.

14:52

It's an invitation for you to pause,

14:54

but unfortunately a lot of the time we

14:56

also experience adrenal and thyropause.

14:59

Right, so you can, it's so often,

15:02

it's so common for perimenopausal

15:04

women, all women in their 40s, to

15:06

be diagnosed with a thyroid

15:08

condition. Um, I see Hashimoto's thyroiditis

15:12

in my clinic all the time. So

15:15

it is so important to know how to

15:17

test, what to test, and when

15:19

to test. You need a full

15:21

thyroid panel. I don't know why

15:23

it's so difficult to get the testing that we need in

15:25

this country, but unfortunately it is. So,

15:28

you need to test your thyroid, you need

15:30

to test your adrenals, you need to know

15:32

what your cortisol awakening response is doing,

15:35

and you absolutely need to know what your

15:37

thyroid stimulating hormone is doing. You

15:40

need to know TS, you need to know

15:42

T3, T4, reverse

15:44

T3, and you need to test both

15:46

thyroid antibodies. I cannot

15:48

tell you how many times. I've

15:50

had a woman come into my clinic going, Oh, my doctor's

15:53

tested my thyroid and everything is fine.

15:56

Your doctor's tested your thyroid stimulating

15:59

hormone and it is fine. And so

16:01

many women have a thyroid stimulating hormone

16:03

well within range, right? Well

16:05

within range. Thyroid stimulating hormone

16:08

ranges are huge, um,

16:11

uh, in my opinion. You know, 0. 5

16:13

to 4 is actually a huge range. But,

16:16

uh, you want your thyroid stimulating hormone at

16:18

about 1. 5 or 2. You really don't

16:20

want it any higher than that. To

16:22

me, as a functional medical practitioner, if

16:25

you have thyroid stimulating hormone,

16:28

two or above, you're a candidate

16:30

for hypothyroidism. Hypothyroidism

16:33

makes you feel exhausted, you

16:35

tend to hold on to weight, you can't

16:37

seem to lose weight, you struggle with weight loss

16:39

resistance, you're puffy, you're

16:42

really puffy. So it doesn't actually, it

16:44

isn't actually about the kilograms, but

16:46

you literally feel like you can't get rid of that

16:48

fluid retention. And again, quite often,

16:51

um, You know, your energy levels are

16:53

not recovered through sleep or

16:55

rest, so you still feel absolutely

16:57

exhausted on waking. Um,

16:59

so yes, so thyroid and adrenals absolutely

17:02

imperative, and then we need

17:04

to get you into this fat burn as opposed

17:06

to a fat store state, so that

17:08

your mitochondria can work extremely

17:11

well. The mitochondria is the energy

17:13

room of the cell. From

17:16

the age of 35 onwards, our

17:18

coenzyme Q10 can deplete quite

17:21

significantly. Coenzyme

17:24

Q10 or Ubiquinol is gold standard fuel

17:26

for your mitochondria. So, once you

17:28

start to support your mitochondria and

17:30

you have beautiful mitochondrial uncoupling,

17:33

you can actually access that energy level again.

17:36

And you need to, look,

17:38

perimenopause, there's never been a time in your life

17:40

where you have been more inflamed with

17:42

less energy. Progesterone is going

17:45

MIA, she's cool, calm, collected,

17:47

and she sleeps. Progesterone

17:49

also modulates the immune system and she

17:52

modulates estrogen. So without progesterone,

17:54

estrogen starts to rollercoaster. So that's where

17:56

we feel like we're really on this crazy

17:59

rollercoaster ride. One minute

18:01

we're exhausted, the next minute we're

18:03

snappy, the next minute we've got mum aggro

18:06

and relationship aggro. You

18:08

know, we've got dragon woman coming out

18:10

screaming at everyone, you know, and

18:12

then she feels really bad and really

18:14

ashamed for it. And that's also

18:17

because. You

18:19

don't have the reserve or the nourishment

18:21

that your adrenals need, and

18:24

your adrenals are starting to take on some

18:26

of the workload from the ovary, right?

18:28

And if you've had a high ACE score, you've been

18:30

under or overscheduled or

18:33

overstressed for far too long, your adrenals

18:35

are already exhausted and they're like, are you kidding me?

18:38

You now want me to do the job of the ovary

18:40

as well as your fight and flight and

18:42

like keeping you alive? No,

18:44

I'm sorry. No, I'm done. And

18:47

that's when women start to feel that real burnout,

18:49

you know, because the, the adrenals can't take

18:51

on any more. They're done. They're dusted.

18:54

They've, they've, they've been going for far

18:56

too long. So then you have this adrenal

18:58

pause. And then unfortunately,

19:00

due to the fact that the hypothalamus, pituitary,

19:03

adrenal and thyroid access is

19:05

all in communication with one another,

19:07

your thyroid starts to feel exhausted too.

19:10

Because if there's something going on in the adrenals, there's something

19:12

going on in your thyroid. So,

19:14

that is repair. We need to

19:17

repair your gut. We need to repair your immune

19:19

system. We need to repair your mood.

19:21

We need to repair your mind. We need to repair

19:23

your sleep. We need to repair

19:26

your metabolism so that you can

19:28

access fuel from your food. And

19:31

once your body has a nutrient

19:33

dense, rich blood supply, and

19:35

you are able to access the energy that you

19:37

really need, you've got stable blood

19:39

glucose levels and you don't have insulin

19:42

resistance anymore. Right?

19:44

You don't have this pre type 2 diabetes.

19:47

You don't have high HbA1c.

19:49

And, um, you are moving towards

19:51

vitality again. You will

19:53

seriously have the energy to do

19:56

what it is that you want to do in your life.

19:58

You will be able to serve the people that you love

20:01

with such incredible abundance.

20:03

You will have the ability to chase the joy.

20:06

And that is the first step in your hierarchy

20:09

of healing. Once you have an incredible

20:11

roadmap, you know how to heal, seal and

20:13

repair your gut. Um, you

20:15

can rebalance those hormones and you can

20:17

absolutely Make this

20:19

perimenopausal and menopausal experience

20:22

far more graceful, and that's just

20:24

part one. Part two is rebalance.

20:26

This is where we rebalance your hormones and

20:29

rebalance your life and teach you

20:31

how to live within this beautiful

20:33

cyclical gorgeous rhythm

20:36

that the female body was designed

20:39

to do. Now, even if you're not cycling

20:41

anymore, I highly recommend,

20:43

because we're earthlings and we live on

20:45

planet Earth, And we have

20:47

a lunar cycle, right? Our menstrual

20:49

cycle follows the moon. When you're

20:51

no longer cycling, why

20:54

not follow the lunar cycle? So, full

20:56

moon is ovulation. In

20:58

Rebalance, I teach you exactly

21:00

how to support yourself according to

21:02

the lunar cycle. So, for example,

21:04

between day 1 and day 3 of your cycle,

21:07

there is never a time in your life

21:09

where you are more in

21:12

tune and you are more

21:17

Intuitive. And then

21:19

between day three and day seven,

21:22

you are so creative. This is the creative

21:24

part of your cycle. This is when you start to dream

21:26

big. This is when you create. Between

21:29

day, you know, even between day three and

21:31

day 14, you are hugely creative,

21:34

and then when you want to get your message to the masses,

21:37

you get up on that stage on day 14.

21:39

When you are ovulating, you are absolutely

21:42

magnetic. I've walked into

21:44

parties and, you know, friends of

21:46

mine and I've gone, Oh, are you ovulating? And

21:48

they go, Oh my God, how do you know? And I'm like,

21:51

you look insane. It's when

21:53

you are your sexiest. It is when you

21:55

are at your peak. It is

21:57

when you are absolutely magnetic. So if

21:59

you have a message that really means something

22:01

and that you really need to share with people

22:03

that really need to hear it. Day

22:06

14 is your day. Get up on stage and do

22:08

it. Then if you are editing

22:10

a book, there is

22:12

never a time that is better to

22:14

edit between day 14

22:16

and 28 because you are in

22:18

your luteal phase. There

22:20

is never a time where you are more critical.

22:23

So you can use that. You can use

22:26

that incredible power to edit. And

22:28

when I say edit, yes, of course, edit your

22:30

book. Take out the bits that don't work,

22:32

but also edit your life, take

22:35

out the mindset that no longer serves you,

22:37

take out the friendship that no longer serves you

22:39

and edit the things that no longer serve you.

22:42

And I'm also here to tell you that

22:47

because, you know, so many of us are also

22:49

in relationship with others. This

22:52

is the time when you want to criticize.

22:54

This is the time when you want to criticize the people

22:56

in your life and you want to criticize your

22:58

relationship and potentially yourself too.

23:01

I highly recommend that you

23:03

write down what it is that you want to

23:05

change and I highly

23:08

recommend that you don't do it at this

23:10

point in time. This is not when

23:12

you give the feedback, you hold onto

23:14

that information. You use

23:16

your intelligence and you

23:18

make sure that you bring your most intelligent

23:21

self to your biggest challenge

23:23

or the thing that you want to impact most.

23:25

So you wait until you

23:28

are in the first half of your cycle when you're really

23:30

creative. And ideally you have

23:32

cocktails and feedback when you're ovulating. Your

23:34

partner is. far more

23:36

receptive towards your

23:38

beautiful feedback and your suggestions

23:41

when you're ovulating. So I highly recommend that you

23:43

do that then. So we've got repair,

23:45

we've got rebalance, and then we've got reclaim.

23:48

In reclaim, we reclaim your metabolic

23:50

health and we prevent chronic disease for

23:52

good. In this incredible

23:54

trial that I was talking about before, we

23:56

saw that All

23:58

of the chronic diseases that 41

24:01

million people worldwide

24:03

die from are preventable. You

24:06

can turn the ship around at any point in

24:08

time. Please don't die

24:10

from type 2 diabetes or Alzheimer's

24:12

and dementia, you know, which is type 3 diabetes.

24:15

Please don't die from a cardiovascular disease

24:18

risk that was preventable. Please

24:20

do the lifestyle pieces. They are absolutely

24:22

the hardest pieces to do and women don't want to hear

24:25

it. You know, so many women just want to take

24:27

a magic pill or the one thing. So

24:30

I know that there are so many things out there

24:32

in the marketing world that work. You know, there's

24:34

this one pill for menopause and it's going

24:36

to, you know, stop all of your horrible

24:38

symptoms. That's never the case and it's

24:40

never going to work long term. You know, it

24:42

is unsustainable. It might work for a while.

24:45

But if you want true sustainable health,

24:47

you need to do the lifestyle factors. The

24:49

Mediterranean and the longevity diet

24:51

have been proven to be absolutely brilliant

24:54

for perimenopausal women, but again, it's individualized

24:57

precision care. So, if you want to know

24:59

what's going on in your gut, I highly recommend

25:01

the GI 360. It is the

25:03

best functional test on the planet, in conjunction

25:05

with the OAT test, I'd say, but I think the GI

25:08

360 is absolutely fine for gut health.

25:10

And then, of course, I use the DUTCH test

25:13

for, um, hormonal health. So,

25:15

either the DUTCH Plus or or the dutch cycle

25:17

mapping or the dutch complete, but we can

25:19

talk about which one you need in the clinic

25:22

if this is something that resonates with you. So

25:24

please repair your gut, repair your metabolism,

25:26

repair the energy crisis, repair

25:28

your immune system, repair your mood, your mind,

25:31

and your sleep. Get all of the functional

25:33

tests that you need. Get a full blood

25:35

panel, full thyroid

25:37

panel, like I said before. and

25:40

please have a look at the MTHFR gene polymorphism

25:43

and have a look to see what's going on in your gut and

25:46

treat your life and

25:48

your health holistically. So health is

25:51

not separate. There is no mental

25:53

disease that isn't impacted by the gastrointestinal

25:56

tract. We're now even seeing in

25:58

the, um, In, in the, in

26:00

the psychology and the psychiatry textbooks

26:03

that inflammatory cytokines impact the

26:05

brain and nutritional deficiencies impact

26:07

the brain. Of course they do.

26:09

Of course they do. Health is bio

26:11

psycho social. But doing

26:14

the lifestyle pieces are hugely brilliant.

26:16

You know, get into bed early, get eight hours sleep,

26:19

you know, wake up and get that beautiful cortisol

26:22

balanced, you know, get that morning light into

26:24

your eyes. And, um, turn

26:26

off the screens at night and listen

26:28

to your body. You have the most incredible

26:30

intuition and body wisdom. You

26:33

just need to know body literacy.

26:35

You need to understand where you're at in your

26:37

cycle. You need to understand what your

26:39

gut is doing. You need to understand what it

26:41

is that the messages that your body are sending you are saying.

26:44

You need to understand where your progesterone is at,

26:46

your estrogen, your cortisol, your

26:49

testosterone, your atenocannabinolone, your

26:51

androsterone. You need to know where your

26:54

cortisol and your melatonin ratio

26:56

is at. You need to know whether you have

26:58

micronutrient deficiencies, you

27:00

know, please take your health into your own hands.

27:03

You need to care about yourself. We

27:05

don't necessarily have a health care system

27:07

that focuses on vitality. Now,

27:09

our mainstream doctors are great at keeping you

27:11

alive. But, you know, don't just

27:14

be alive. Like, I want you to thrive,

27:16

and particularly during perimenopause, because

27:18

we need to transition successfully into

27:20

menopause in order to be vital for

27:22

good and ensure that we don't actually

27:25

have any of these chronic diseases. So,

27:28

repair, rebalance, and reclaim.

27:30

Rescue you from the rollercoaster of perimenopause

27:33

and transition successfully. Book

27:36

your Clarity Call with me if you have any questions.

27:38

It's a free Clarity Call. Join my green

27:40

room while it's still free. It's a beautiful

27:42

place to start. It gives you some ideas

27:45

about what to test and when to test.

27:47

Um, yes, I completely understand that so

27:49

many women come into my clinic and they tell me,

27:51

you know, on a weekly basis. that the GP

27:54

say, you know, all your hormones

27:56

are fluctuating so much. We don't even know,

27:59

you know, when to test them. Yes, your hormones

28:01

are fluctuating so much, but we absolutely

28:03

do know when to test. We know

28:05

that we need to test estradiol and

28:07

sex hormone binding, globulin and testosterone

28:10

and FSH and LH and

28:13

prolactin between day one and day three of your cycle.

28:15

And we absolutely know that we need to test. progesterone

28:18

between day 19 and 22 of your

28:20

cycle. So if you can get those blood draws,

28:23

if you can get a full blood analysis, your

28:25

full thyroid panel, you know, check to

28:27

see that you've got, you know, adequate B6.

28:29

B12. D3 is absolutely

28:32

imperative. I see so many women

28:34

with such low D3 levels. Every

28:36

single cell in your body has a D3 receptor.

28:39

And, you know, if you have Seasonal

28:41

Affective Disorder, you absolutely need to check

28:43

your D3. And don't forget that we

28:45

need K2 to get D3 into the

28:47

bone to prevent osteopenia and

28:50

osteoporosis. And, of course, we need

28:52

to move in a way that we love. And we

28:54

absolutely need to be eating one gram

28:56

of net protein per kilogram of body

28:58

weight. Anyway, that's

29:00

my little synopsis about my program. I'm

29:02

so delighted to let you know that I've been nominated

29:05

as health and wellness coach of

29:07

the decade by the beautiful you life coaching academy

29:10

and I've been appointed to a global perimenopausal

29:12

panel and I'm so delighted to

29:14

be here. I'm here for you.

29:16

I had an extremely challenging health journey

29:19

myself. I was diagnosed with polycystic

29:21

ovarian syndrome, chronic fatigue syndrome,

29:23

Hashimoto's thyroiditis,

29:25

and I was a little girl who was trying

29:27

to Move away from the

29:29

pain of her parents divorce and being sent to boarding

29:32

school by overeating and

29:34

I'm a recovering food addict. I completely understand

29:36

what it's like, but I am now 47.

29:39

I'm in perimenopause. I'm somewhere

29:41

between a size 10 on a good day

29:44

and I do not diet, this is a diet

29:46

free zone. I live a beautiful,

29:48

beautiful, balanced 80

29:50

20 and you can too. You can

29:53

absolutely live in an incredible

29:55

body and you can support your biochemistry.

29:58

Please do not take negligent

30:00

care as, as the base.

30:03

You know, you, you can, you can thrive.

30:05

You can absolutely thrive at this time in your

30:07

life and I want you to. And,

30:09

um, you know. I'm busy.

30:11

I was a single mom for 13 years. I've

30:13

now found the love of my life. We've spent the

30:16

last three years together and

30:18

absolutely cannot wait to marry him.

30:20

And we have a patchwork family with

30:22

three teenagers, 16,

30:25

17 and 18, two dogs. And

30:27

believe me, we've got a busy life, but I'm absolutely

30:29

loving it. I understand how challenging perimenopause

30:32

can be. I know our children are in

30:34

challenging phases. I know that our careers

30:37

are potentially incredibly challenging at this point

30:39

in time. And we, you know, most of

30:41

us are mothers and lovers and sisters

30:43

and, you know, have children and aging

30:45

parents and all the things, but

30:47

your health does not need to suffer. And

30:50

I'm also here to tell you that it's not your fault.

30:52

Take it easy. Have a beautiful day. I can't

30:54

wait to meet you on the clarity call. Let me know

30:57

if you need any help. Shoot me through a question.

30:59

I would absolutely love to answer you. Take

31:01

it easy. Have a gorgeous day.