Dr. Stephanie Estima

Like all the green leafy vegetables, certainly potatoes and rice, yams. sweet potato, all these things have like a constant, there's a constant rotation in my home because I feel like these are really great carbohydrates. My boys play competitive soccer. So I also, there's like bananas everywhere. Like there's like, there's always carbohydrates in the house. And I think that,

Like all the green leafy vegetables, certainly potatoes and rice, yams. sweet potato, all these things have like a constant, there's a constant rotation in my home because I feel like these are really great carbohydrates. My boys play competitive soccer. So I also, there's like bananas everywhere. Like there's like, there's always carbohydrates in the house. And I think that,

Like all the green leafy vegetables, certainly potatoes and rice, yams. sweet potato, all these things have like a constant, there's a constant rotation in my home because I feel like these are really great carbohydrates. My boys play competitive soccer. So I also, there's like bananas everywhere. Like there's like, there's always carbohydrates in the house. And I think that,

If women can sort of heal their relationship to carbohydrates, I think we'd be better off. We certainly know that they make us feel good. They help, like I was mentioning before with the thyroid function, they help convert. When insulin is elevated, of course, we convert inactive thyroid hormone T4 to active thyroid hormone T3. in the gut that happens in the liver and in the muscles as well.

If women can sort of heal their relationship to carbohydrates, I think we'd be better off. We certainly know that they make us feel good. They help, like I was mentioning before with the thyroid function, they help convert. When insulin is elevated, of course, we convert inactive thyroid hormone T4 to active thyroid hormone T3. in the gut that happens in the liver and in the muscles as well.

If women can sort of heal their relationship to carbohydrates, I think we'd be better off. We certainly know that they make us feel good. They help, like I was mentioning before with the thyroid function, they help convert. When insulin is elevated, of course, we convert inactive thyroid hormone T4 to active thyroid hormone T3. in the gut that happens in the liver and in the muscles as well.

So very, very important to be thinking about carbohydrates and the muscle. Like we've been talking about the musculoskeletal system, but the muscle is one of the sites where we see inactive to active thyroid hormone converted. So, you know, very important there. So carbs very important. And then the other thing you mentioned is sleep. I think that sleep is the panacea for recovery.

So very, very important to be thinking about carbohydrates and the muscle. Like we've been talking about the musculoskeletal system, but the muscle is one of the sites where we see inactive to active thyroid hormone converted. So, you know, very important there. So carbs very important. And then the other thing you mentioned is sleep. I think that sleep is the panacea for recovery.

So very, very important to be thinking about carbohydrates and the muscle. Like we've been talking about the musculoskeletal system, but the muscle is one of the sites where we see inactive to active thyroid hormone converted. So, you know, very important there. So carbs very important. And then the other thing you mentioned is sleep. I think that sleep is the panacea for recovery.

And this is, of course, one of the most common things that women in perimenopause start to complain about is like the initiation and the continuation of sleep, right? Like they can't initiate or maintain their sleep.

And this is, of course, one of the most common things that women in perimenopause start to complain about is like the initiation and the continuation of sleep, right? Like they can't initiate or maintain their sleep.

And this is, of course, one of the most common things that women in perimenopause start to complain about is like the initiation and the continuation of sleep, right? Like they can't initiate or maintain their sleep.

So to your point before around hormones, I think that this may be, first you have to make sure that you have like a good sleep, like you're not like doom scrolling on Instagram in your bed, you know, with all the LED lights on, you know, like we want to be thinking...

So to your point before around hormones, I think that this may be, first you have to make sure that you have like a good sleep, like you're not like doom scrolling on Instagram in your bed, you know, with all the LED lights on, you know, like we want to be thinking...

So to your point before around hormones, I think that this may be, first you have to make sure that you have like a good sleep, like you're not like doom scrolling on Instagram in your bed, you know, with all the LED lights on, you know, like we want to be thinking...

yeah so nice sleep hygiene most of you know what that is anyway like most of you if you're listening to the show you there's this has been covered on previous podcasts and you're also already intelligent enough to know that your phone shouldn't be in your bedroom uh your lights should be low uh there should be some type of transition routine

yeah so nice sleep hygiene most of you know what that is anyway like most of you if you're listening to the show you there's this has been covered on previous podcasts and you're also already intelligent enough to know that your phone shouldn't be in your bedroom uh your lights should be low uh there should be some type of transition routine

yeah so nice sleep hygiene most of you know what that is anyway like most of you if you're listening to the show you there's this has been covered on previous podcasts and you're also already intelligent enough to know that your phone shouldn't be in your bedroom uh your lights should be low uh there should be some type of transition routine

From day to night, for me, that ends up being like my skincare routine. So I'm like oils in my hair and my face and taking my makeup off and castor oil and all the stuff. So that's sort of like my brain's cue that's like, oh, it's bedtime now, right? So some type of transition routine, really helpful. Reading, all that beautiful stuff. Orgasm with a partner or yourself.

From day to night, for me, that ends up being like my skincare routine. So I'm like oils in my hair and my face and taking my makeup off and castor oil and all the stuff. So that's sort of like my brain's cue that's like, oh, it's bedtime now, right? So some type of transition routine, really helpful. Reading, all that beautiful stuff. Orgasm with a partner or yourself.