Dr. Elizabeth Boham

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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

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

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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.

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.

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, 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.