Dr. Elizabeth Boham

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The Dr. Hyman Show · Reclaim Your Hormones: How to Treat PMS and PCOS Naturally · 9 Dec 2024 podcast

so when you really focus on the adrenal glands for example so you have you have two adrenal glands typically they sit up on top of your kidneys and those glands produce cortisol and they produce dhea and they a bunch of other things yeah so cortisol is one of your stress hormones so when you're under a lot of stress if you're under chronic stress for example i mean you know your body is going to be producing a lot of cortisol all the time

And so what can happen, what can happen is then the body is spending all this time making cortisol to handle that chronic stress you're under. You're dealing with your kids and then your parents, as you talked about. You know, you're working all the time, your job. You're not giving your body enough time to rest. You're not getting enough sleep. You might not be eating right.

You know, you might be just running from one thing to the other. It may not be taking the time to do your meditation or your exercise, right? You're just not doing that self-care, which is so important for your adrenal glands. And when that's happening, then your body's spending all this time producing cortisol that it can't do as good a job at producing progesterone.

Right?

Right. And so then you have more of those signs of low progesterone, which we talked about before, which is irregular sleep, irritability, you know, more crankiness, more PMS, right? So it's really important that we step back and say, okay, how can we support your adrenal glands? And that's really a lot of self-care, you know, by saying, okay, I need to give myself time to rest.

I need to give myself enough time to sleep. Meditate maybe. Exactly. I got to get my meditation in, right? And I think that makes a big difference. It can really help with balancing the hormones. We know, right, that even simple meditation, 15 minutes twice a day can cut back on, can significantly cut in half the amount of hot flashes a woman has during those perimenopause.

We haven't even talked about hot flashes yet, right?

Yeah.

Yes.

Right, right. We were talking about how when you get more insulin resistance, you gain more weight around the belly, right? And we know that when we gain more weight around the belly, that we have more of that aromatase enzyme, which makes more estrogen and again, throws us out of balance.

Yeah, alcohol really is a concern because the way alcohol, and there's multiple ways that alcohol can impact risk of breast cancer, for example, but it also seems to result in a higher level of free estrogen in the body. And so we know it disrupts sleep.

Yeah.

Yep.

Yeah, you know, unfortunately, there's a linear relationship between alcohol and breast cancer risk. So for every drink a woman drinks per day, like every time she increases the amount that she drinks per day, her risk of breast cancer goes up even further.

So, you know, what's considered moderation for women is five or less drinks a week, with a drink being, you know, five ounces of wine or, you know, an ounce of... One ounce of hard liquor, yeah. It's not very much.

And that's for a whole week. But what's interesting is you're right. There has been even studies showing that even one drink a day is linked with an increased risk of breast cancer. And it may be because it is impairing, well, partly because it's impairing our liver and our ability to detoxify. And it's shifting estrogen levels. And it also depletes the body of B vitamins.

So there's so many impacts that alcohol has there.

Right, absolutely. That's something we're always measuring, right? We're looking at how the body is metabolizing hormones, and we're looking at the microbiome. And I think that that's important when we're dealing with a woman in perimenopause. Sometimes they just don't even understand, why am I feeling this way? Why am I all of a sudden more irritable? Why am I having a harder time with my periods?

You know, why are they heavier? Why can't I sleep? Why am I getting hot flashes now? Right. And so sometimes just educating them is a great first place to start. And a lot of times women just feel better when they start to understand, OK, this is this is going to you know, my hormones are shifting. And then what can I do to support them? Yeah. And we were talking about how great meditation is.

Right. Because it's oh, yeah.

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