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47. 4 Subtle Signs of Perimenopause PLUS a Celebratory Offer

September 05, 2024 • Naihomy Jerez • Episode 47

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September is Menopause Awareness Month. Thanks to public figures, menopause is no longer a hush-hush topic—it's time to validate women's experiences with hormonal changes. Plus, we're celebrating WELLthy Generation podcast's first anniversary with a special coaching offer!

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Early signs of perimenopause can sneak up as early as your mid-thirties. Is unexpected weight gain or a shift in your menstrual cycle on your radar? These subtle changes often go unnoticed but are crucial in understanding your body's journey. From gut health to hormone balance, we emphasize a holistic approach to wellness. Finally, I invite you to you embrace your age with knowledge and confidence. Elevate your life, avoid despair, and make lasting changes before 2025. Don’t miss out!

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Speaker 1:

Hey friends, welcome back to Wealthy Generation Podcast. Happy September, happy back to school season, if that is something that applies to you, whether you work at a school, whether you have kids in school, whether you have to deal with back to school traffic. That is the worst. Back to school traffic the school buses, all parents trying to get their kids to school, plus the garbage trucks, construction, everything else out there. You just have to really plan ahead to get out the door to get wherever. You have to go on time because child the way back to school traffic be trafficking, back to school traffic be trafficking. So I think that whether we are involved in the school system or not, we all get affected by these kinds of changes when so much of the society is doing something at the same time. So I see you, I feel you.

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Something else that is now happening in September that I had no idea about until recently is that apparently, september is also menopause awareness month. Menopause is really having a moment perimenopause hormones, the public eye are really talking about this now and just standing up for women, women's research and bringing so much awareness than ever, ever, ever before. I know of a lot of celebrities, like Drew Barrymore who was it? I saw Oprah on a magazine cover. This former reporter that I used to watch on TV back in the day, her name is Tamsen Fidel. She's building a whole documentary. She is bringing doctors together, specialists, because it is such an impactful event in every female's life and it's not spoken about enough. The same way that all females menstruate, all females will also go through the changes the hormonal changes of perimenopause and menopause. Now, something that I was asked recently and something that I also asked my doctor myself was about when does it start and when is it too soon? And one time I went to my doctor and I was like, oh, I think these symptoms might be because of perimenopause. And she was like, no, no, no, you're too young. And I spoke to another individual who went and asked her doctor about like, is she in perimenopause? And the doctor again said no, that she is too young. And it started around later, let's say in your forties.

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And I want to touch on this specifically to honor menopause month and just to bring a little bit more awareness behind different schools of thoughts and different, I guess, different, I think it's different schools of thought within the science fields of where. What kind of research are you following? Because there are different researches to follow and I want to get into that the one I follow versus the regular medical system and the things that they are told, and I just want to offer you this different perspective because it might be you might feel seen with this, you might feel validated, it might empower you and really motivate you to create change and to look for answers and to support yourself when you actually have someone validating you and seeing you and they're not letting you know that it's in your head or that you're too young or that it's not it. But before I get into that, I also want to share something major that I have going on, so I'm going to put a pause on that. That's what I'm going to talk about on this episode, and I have concrete things that you can look out for. And before I get started, though, I really want to share something super, super, super exciting with you. So, number one, if you are listening to this episode and this podcast, I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for your support, for listening, for your time, for your attention, because in this month of September, my podcast, wealthy Generation W-E-L-L-T-H-Y is turning one, and I can't believe it because, well, I can believe it. I've put so much love and attention and dedication in building out each episode and making sure that I am showing up with information that is backed by science, that is accurate, that is supportive, that is relatable and actionable for you.

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And I had so much mind drama about starting a podcast in the first place because I would always say, oh, I don't know what I'm going to talk about or I don't know what I can share. I was really intimidated by that and I was really intimidated by the follow through. Right, I'm the type of person that if I say I'm going to do something, I'm going to do it and I'm going to commit to it, and sometimes I was scared of that commitment. Does that sound familiar to you? So with me it's like either I commit and I get it done and I follow through, or I don't I'm not in this wishy-washy middle area or if I try something and it's not for me, then I stop. It takes a lot of energy just to be an indecision and being like, yes, I'm going to do this or, no, I'm not going to do that.

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So I have committed to this podcast, to you, the listener, and I cannot thank you enough, and we are going to be turning one at the end of this month. So in honor of that, I really wanted to give or create or I don't know share a gift with all of my audience, and I decided that that would be in celebration of my one year anniversary for Wealthy Generation to bring back an offer that I had not shared or sold in over two years. And if you have been listening to my podcast at all or following me on Instagram or on my newsletter, you know that for a very long time I have only sold six months of one-on-one food and hormone health coaching. It has been six months. There hasn't been anything different. And back in the day about two years ago, I used to have a three-month offer 12 weeks of one-on-one coaching and I have brought that back, not just the timeframe but also the pricing of it from two years ago. So the investment or the payment is about half of what it used to be.

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But let me tell you why I brought back this 12 week offer because I am not a fan of sharing, let's say, an offer that is not going to get my clients good, good, good results. And not only did I get my clients results back in the day, but also all of my clients who have worked with me so far. I took a look through all their notes and I was like, what kind of results have they gotten in the 12 weeks that we have worked together? And it has been so much everything from losing 10 to 15 pounds to getting rid of period pain, of menstrual cycle pain and crankiness, getting their energy back where they're not, on this constant rollercoaster of dips in their energy, lifting up an amazing and debilitating amount of brain fog where you didn't even realize how clear and how enjoyable your life was when you were interacting either with others or with people. So I wanted to bring this back specifically at this time too, because the end of the year is coming.

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Believe it or not, I know that years really are just flying by and frustration is also heightening in the way that we're feeling in, let's say, in honor of this perimenopause and menopause. A lot of things are changing in our lives. We have a lot on our plates and now we get thrown quote unquote, this wrench in the mix of just everything within ourselves changing, and that can be very frustrating. It takes up extremes amount of energy and it can be quite debilitating to your self-esteem, to your confidence and literally in your health, where you're not able to function as you were before. So I am offering three months of one-on-one food and hormone health coaching. The offer is available until September 10th and I have seven spots available. I had eight, but one already sold and I can share with you what those spots are If you send me an email or DM or you text me or however you want to get in contact with me, but I want to share that this is.

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12 weeks is the perfect amount of time for you to learn how to lose weight and to keep it off without a diet right, especially if you're 35 years old plus, because the strategies do change. A lot of the things that we're following are meant for men. They're not really working for us anymore. You're probably going to the gym and getting opposite results, like gaining weight, and it can be extremely frustrating. You don't even know what to eat anymore. You're forcing yourself to stop having foods that you enjoy or having sweets because you feel like that's going to help you get the results that you want, but it's not happening. Even though you are doing these things, you can find motivation and consistency, to eat healthy and move more. I know that's a desire for a lot of people, where they're like, oh, if I just had the desire and can do some of these things consistently, if I only knew what to do, then I would do it. We can work on your relationship with food Instead of being scared of food or panic around food, especially around the weekends when we want to go out, eat at restaurants, hang out with friends let alone the holidays coming around the corner so you can learn how to build your relationship with food and feel good in your body for more than a day, right.

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One thing I'm going to talk about today is how our digestive systems change and there's bloating and gas, and everything you seem to eat doesn't land well in your belly. So let's learn how to feel good in our bodies for more than just a day, or a few hours even, and make choices that actually are in support of your hormones, as they're doing their thing. I love to say that when we are, let's say, 35 and under, our hormones have a pretty good way of supporting us from the inside out, where, if you are not suffering from any significant hormone imbalance, they kind of know what to do. They keep you on track with your goals. It's very easy to make changes and it's very easy to make impact with only making a few changes right and every single time you know it's like, oh, I only used to do these little things in my 20s and they would work so well. Well, why is that? Because your hormones were really supporting you from the inside out. I remember I went to hot yoga three times and I lost 15 pounds in my 20s, and now that's not generally the case or how it works 20s, and now that's not generally the case or how it works. So, learning you can really learn in 12 weeks how to support your hormones from what I like to say, the outside in Now you need to give your body messages. You need to kind of teach and share with your hormones what you wanted to do to get the results you want. But that is from external actions that will influence how your body reacts on the inside. So that is a whole shift when before it was done from the inside out.

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You will definitely get customized resources. I have monthly office hours, calls with the group and access to past recorded trainings in my client portal, where there are trainings on food and weight loss and perimenopause, in addition to cooking classes, where you have recipes and videos of me cooking the foods. Okay, so let's reserve your spot. Make sure to DM me on Instagram, send me an email and or book a consultation call with the link in the show notes, and make sure to secure one of your seven spots by September 10th. The investment is a single payment of $2,098 for a lifetime of change in 12 weeks where you can actually dig deep with someone aka me, who will support you and help you through one of the most frustrating time periods and save you so much time and energy of running to different places trying to figure this out when you can use food and lifestyle, and I would teach you how to use food and lifestyle to actually heal and support your hormones so that you can get the results that you want in a loving and compassionate way, instead of trying to restrict and force, be super upset and frustrated at everything that's happening. I can promise you we can make a huge difference and impact together, and I cannot wait to be your coach. So that is how I am celebrating the one year anniversary of this podcast. Again, thank you so much for listening. If you have not done so already, I would super, super appreciate it if you would leave a rating and a review to help me grow and to help other people understand the value that they will receive while listening to episodes on Wealthy Generation. Cool, thank you so much.

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Now let's jump right in to four reasons. That or not necessarily four reasons, but four changes that might be happening with you or in your body that can give you clues as to perimenopause starting or not. So this came up because not only did I ask my own doctor. But again, like I mentioned before, I had this conversation with someone else and they're like oh, but my doctor says it's too early. So in general medicine doctors are is not really in the curriculum, the syllabus, their plan to really teach doctors about menopause and what happens, and this has been proven over and over again where doctors come clean and they're like, oh, I only received one class, I only received a few hours, it wasn't really spoken about. So this is the kind of information they have, unless they themselves have decided to dig a little bit deeper into the topic.

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Now I follow the research of Dr Stacey Sims, dr Sarah Godfrey, dr Marie Claire. There's a bunch of doctors who are really digging deep into menopause, into perimenopause, into these hormonal changes that starts to happen in women. What do they look like? When do they start, what are the symptoms that might be super apparent, like, let's say, hot flashes, or are not as impactful and they're more subtle and you can't really understand why they're happening. And those are the ones I want to talk about.

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Because, per the research that I follow, let's say with Dr Stacey Sims, where she is a PhD doctor and she really follows the physiology of women from the start. She doesn't come at it from a medical perspective. It's just literally like your physiology, how your body works. Not only that, but she really applies it to all stages of women's lives, so through menstruation, perimenopause, postmenopause and she really takes an approach where women are active. So a lot of the research, too, is done on women who are sedentary, who are not really moving, who are already experiencing chronic illnesses, diseases, not feeling well, and the results that you get when you apply research to that kind of female population can be different from what a female who is already an athlete, already eating pretty well, already moving, the tweaks that they might need right the basics no longer applies to them. We need to level it up. So, as an active person myself, that is the type of research that I like to follow and that is usually the baseline of the information that I share, aside from my certifications through the Institute for Integrative Nutrition, where I got my certification as a integrative nutrition, health coach and hormone health as well.

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So that is the difference when, let's say, my doctor was like oh, naomi, no, it can't be perimenopause because you're too young, and I went to my doctor at 37 because I started gaining weight out of the blue. After six years of being super consistent with my weight, the way my clothes fit me, I was eating the same, I was working out the same All of a sudden I gained about 30 pounds in about three or four months and that was very shocking to me and I was like what's happening now? The research says that perimenopause starts around the age of 35. And I know that may seem very young and, to be honest with you, when I turned 35 and even 36, I did not really have any glimpse of symptoms at all of perimenopause until I had all that weight gain and my blood sugar numbers started to change a little bit. And that is exactly what we're going to cover.

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So when I share information like it starts around 35 years old, it might shock you. And then you might go and ask your doctor and then your doctor is like oh no, it's too young, like you're too young and that might be confusing to you. No, it's too young, like you're too young and that might be confusing to you. But I want to share that. There is this whole other like fields in the science, or research in the sciences, where it is in fact proven that these changes start to happen. So what are the kinds of?

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I want to mention four different subtle ways that perimenopause might start showing up for you that you might not even be realizing until I mention it now, that might be affecting you and you're not even 40 yet, because you're not exhibiting signs that are very aggressive. Exhibiting signs that are very aggressive that you might have seen other females in your family or even in the media suffer through, like the most annoying one being hot flashes or being forgetful or things like that. So the first one and these are things that have well, three out of the four are things that have happened to me the first one is changes in your period. All right, so if you are tracking your period, you might notice that there maybe is changes in your flow, the heaviness or the lightness of it, and for me it has been a change in length. So all through my twenties and my early thirties, my period length has been 28 to 26 days, religious, religiously, right, every month, and recently, in the past year or two, the length of my period has been from 23 to 25 days. Okay, so that to me signifies that my period is changing, is still consistent. So it has changed from 28 to 26 days to 23 to 25 days, but it still comes consistently.

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Some women, as they get deeper into perimenopause, not only does the length change, but how often it comes also changes. So now it becomes unpredictable when exactly is it going to come, and it's kind of like playing Russian roulette and that can get very annoying. But if you're a person that tracks their period, roulette and that can get very annoying. But if you're a person that tracks their period and I recommend that you should please track your periods it can tell you a lot. You can learn how to be very graceful with yourself when you start to learn your patterns. But anyway, when you track your period, you get to see these kinds of patterns of changes in your cycle length. So that is one thing that you might not even get noticed. It might not get explained as a symptom of perimenopause. That can give you some insights as to where your body is currently.

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So number two is changes in weight. As I mentioned before, one of the big impactful symptoms for me was gaining about 30 pounds in a very short amount of time, after being super consistent with my weight and how clothes fit me for six years and I really noticed a shift. It didn't even feel like weight gain for me, essentially like, yes, the scale went up, but in my body it didn't feel that way. I just felt puffy, and to me that signaled inflammation. To me that signaled that my body was struggling with something, and I believe that something was my blood sugar, which started to change. So that's number four, number three, oh no, sorry, number two and three go in similar kind of hand in hand for me, because my blood sugar as I got tested for my A1C it was shifting a little bit, not necessarily in period in in prediabetes, but enough so that my body was having a reaction to it. Not only was I feeling inflamed and puffy and the scale went up, my clothes was not fitting well. I had a lot of extra inflammation around my belly area which made all my pants fit really tight. It was really uncomfortable for me to sit down and it was an extremely frustrating time for me because that meant that I just had to kind of figure it out again and I have to say, after I started applying all of the different strategies that I had learned for entering perimenopause, it really helped.

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And another sign that my body really gave me was that I started to develop hyperpigmentation around my neck and especially in people of color. It is hyperpigmentation around the neck where you get dark blotches, or your neck is dark behind you or in front, or you have a lot of skin tacks. You have darkening of skin around the fold, so let's say around your armpits or your elbows in the creases. That is also a sign that your body is struggling with controlling your blood sugar. And I brought this up to my doctor and I showed her the pictures of my neck and the dark blotches and she's like oh, that's probably eczema. But I knew it was not eczema, it didn't. It didn't present as AN. I forgot like exactly how to say the name because it's a complicated medical name, but it trends like the acronym is AN and around the neck area, my neck was had dark blotches and it didn't present as normal as it normally does. But I knew my body and I knew that something was up and as soon as I started making the changes to help my body regulate the blood sugar a little bit more, the dark blotches went away. So all of this was happening to me or in my body.

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Around the same time where I gained the weight, I started to get the dark blotches. I felt the inflammation, my body showed it, the inflammation, my body showed it and again, it was so frustrating. So those are changes that if you feel like, oh my gosh, things are happening out of nowhere, I don't know what's going on, I feel like I'm losing control and you are 35 plus, that might be a sign that perimenopause is starting, is developing, and I don't want you to be scared of that. And it can be because, honestly, I was kind of pissed and upset and I was like I've been like, why is all of the like, my regular things not working Right? But it gave me this opportunity to dig deeper and to make shifts and to get curious and to make the changes. And now I really do see how that is key in health and wellness. And I hadn't really experienced this until two years or a year and a half ago when I had this experience that wellness just develops with the different seasons and we need to adjust to the different seasons to keep getting the results that we want.

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So luckily, I was able to hire a personal trainer. That helped, but it wasn't really making an impact. I was stuck in that area of oh my gosh, I'm going to the gym and nothing is shifting. I still feel the same in my body. I'm not seeing any progress or changes. And what helped actually help me see progress aside from the fact that I continue to go to the gym and work with my trainer and also adjust my training plan to that of a perimenopausal woman was that I also adjusted certain things of how I was eating, and if you hear the ice cream truck in the background, you're welcome. I guess it just pulled up into my neighborhood and this mic picks up everything, so you might be hearing the ice cream truck in the in the background anyway.

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So after I changed certain things about how I was eating, then I started to see changes, and by changes I don't mean like my weight dropped dramatically I actually don't want it to, because I really want to focus on building my muscles and protecting my lean muscle mass, and that is exactly what I'm doing. But I do have a focus on lowering my overall body fat and just focusing on that body fat composition. But the best part of all, regardless of what those numbers say, is that I finally feel like myself again in my clothes. And yes, I went and bought bigger size clothes, not a problem, like two sizes bigger than what I was wearing before. Either way, I was feeling comfortable in them. I was not feeling like I was suffocating or a sausage or anything like that.

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I know that I need to feel good in my own skin, in my body, and nothing else that is going to, let's say, help you achieve the shape that you want, and I'm all for things like shapewear and all of that to smooth things out, but that is not necessarily going to change how you feel on the inside. If you were feeling anything like me, where I was feeling very puffy and very inflamed and I could see it in the photos and I was like what's happening? What's going on? Why do I feel this way? So, yes, that is something that might be happening. So, yes, that is something that might be happening. And you don't even realize how tight it is to perimenopause. And here we are blaming ourselves and saying like but I haven't done this or I haven't done that, why is this changing? Another marker that changes in blood work during perimenopause is cholesterol levels. If you are not predisposed to genetically high cholesterol, then your cholesterol might start to shift as well and you're like but wait a second again. I haven't been eating in a way to raise this, but it also starts to shift with perimenopause and there are also things that you can do to help manage those things. Again, we have to influence and send messages to our body from the outside in, because from the inside out it's having a little bit of a difficult moment with all of our hormones shifting around due to perimenopause and the last one I'm going to bring up that's super impactful.

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So number four is changes with your stomach or your digestive system. All of a sudden, you might be finding yourself like not tolerating food as you used to before. Everything you eat gives you stomach ache. Everything you eat makes you super bloated. A bubbly stomach gives you diarrhea or you're constipated and you almost become afraid to eat right when you're just. It becomes monotonous. You become nervous. It's not even enjoyable for you to go out anymore and enjoy food because you don't know what's going to happen.

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If you already suffer from stomach issues, let's say IBS or celiac, so you already have some sort of stomach condition before you hit perimenopause, you might find that is getting worse or your symptoms are returning, and this is because our stomach gut, like our gut, our stomach gut, like our gut, starts to shift as well. When our hormones start to shift, with perimenopause, the main ones being estrogen and progesterone then it starts to also impact certain gut bacterias in our microbiome, in our gut area, and the diversity of gut bacterias in there starts to shift and it starts to look more of that of a man Because, remember, men don't have yes, men have estrogen, but they don't have higher levels of the specific type of estrogen that women create, which is E2 and progesterone that helps us ovulate and helps us menstruate, and all of that. So all of a sudden, our microbiome or gut starts resembling that of a man and we start to feel terrible and we start to feel like we are not tolerating food. So I'm a big proponent of always taking care of your gut and protecting it. I mean, I even work with my kids to do that because it is one of your biggest lifelines of feeling healthy. It connects with your brain, it impacts your mental health, it impacts your immune system. So, overall, hands down.

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No matter what age you are, you must, and I highly recommend for you to take really good care of your gut health right, and even more so when we start to get into perimenopause, as our hormones start to change. It starts to impact other areas and functions in our body, including our gut, and then it is assumed like, oh my gosh, I can't eat dairy anymore. It just doesn't sit well with me. I can't eat gluten anymore, I can't eat all these things I used to love anymore, because the tolerance like you can no longer tolerate it. And yes, that might be true, for you know a certain amount of food that you're eating, the quality of food that you're eating, like it might. It can definitely be true, especially if we're overdoing it.

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But what can also be true is that it doesn't need to be all or nothing, it doesn't need to be black or white, but the key difference is that your gut needs to be able to support you. You must learn how to heal your gut, how to make sure your gut is populated with good gut bacteria, to make sure that you are feeding your good gut bacteria, to make sure that your gut is nice and sealed. And after years and years and years of maybe not realizing that you're not taking good care of your gut, and now some strains of gut bacteria that are essential for you to digest food, well, they're dying off because of changes in perimenopause. Now you can see how this puts you in a predicament of food not landing well in your stomach when it used to before. And again, your hormones are supporting you from the inside out. Now you need to support it from the outside in, and there are ways to do that. So all of a sudden, you learn how to protect your gut, you know how to heal your gut and really work with it, and now you can actually still enjoy things like dairy, things like gluten, probably in a moderated fashion, like I think what people can tolerate is very individual and you need to figure out what that is for yourself, but it doesn't mean that you 100% need to avoid it.

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And another thing I'm a big proponent for is quality right. The quality of dairy, the quality of gluten, how it's being prepared. Is it mixed with other inflammatory ingredients? And that might be the cause? Right? Like we cannot pinpoint something that has multiple ingredients inside and say all of a sudden, oh, I can't eat this, or I can't have this or that always doesn't feel good because it might just very well be the other ingredients that is being created with, made with, cooked with or baked with or whatever it is. So this is so multi-layered If you feel super overwhelmed right now is because I'm sharing a lot of information.

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But the thing is, when you start to understand how to apply this information and you're guided through it and it is explained to you in a way that you understand it and you get to apply it at your own pace and really start to build that connection with your body, because what usually happens is that somebody tells you you know, do X, y, z, you'll, you'll get a handout at the doctor's office. You get a handout from a registered dietitian or a nutritionist in your doctor's office and they were like just follow these things. But the main thing that's missed is how do you apply this without being stressed out? Number one and unfamiliar. And number two, how is it that you build awareness with your body to know if this works for you or not? Right? That, I think, is the key difference.

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Where there's no connection bills, you just blindly follow what someone else says, or some sort of diet out there, or what your friend did, or what you heard on social media, or what you heard on social media, and you don't even know why. You don't even know if it's working or not working for you. You don't know what changes to make. You don't know if you're getting results, and that can be super frustrating. And then you feel symptoms in your body like maybe your stomach is bothering you inflammation, maybe you're getting headaches or strong cravings, and or you don't have any energy, you can't think straight and all of a sudden you like blame these things or seek to make reasoning from them, like to try and explain them to yourself, because our brain always wants an explanation. That is something else, and it's usually age that gets blamed in this culture of let's blame everything on getting older, which I unsubscribe from or let's blame everything on this particular food food, because that's what we hear all the time without actually knowing if that is truly the case, if that applies to you.

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So creating this intimate relationship between yourself and your body and your food and your schedule can really make all the difference when you are trying to figure out what's going on and, more so, right, how to help yourself, how to help yourself. And if you know that these four items are things, are symptoms that start to happen when we are in perimenopause and, trust me, it can be confused for many other things. It may not just be perimenopause, it can be other things, it's just one area that is not spoken about that I wanted to bring up and bring light on. But it can also be other things and this is why it's so important to have a holistic perspective, have a holistic approach and just take a look at you as the whole person, other things that are going on in your life that may be affecting your health or your blood work or your period or your weight and things like that to really start to dissect and understand what's happening. And again, that takes some time, that takes some attention and dedication to yourself and to really want to make a difference and to really want to make an impact and dedicate time to you feeling well. And that is truly invaluable to do, because it's really hard to move through life just feeling like crap all of the time and trying to figure it out all the time and kind of dipping into being miserable because you no longer get to live your life the way you like it and the way you enjoy it and eat the foods you love and go to the places you enjoy, because you're always so scared or so afraid of, like, what your stomach is going to do or how you're going to feel. So you get to really build consistency for the most part of feeling stable, of feeling good within yourself, even when things are rapidly changing in your body. They may or may not be rapidly changing, but you can definitely support yourself from the outside in and as seasons change and maybe your symptoms change. Then we go back to the drawing board and we analyze a little bit and we make further changes. Cool.

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I hope this was helpful and it helped clear up a little bit of this whole. 35 years old is really early to start perimenopause, when, yes, it might be for some people, but for other people it may not. And it's better to have this kind of information and awareness and just tap into yourself so that we are not beating ourselves up over changes that are happening and not knowing what to do about it because it's not being spoken about in our community. Okay, and paying attention to things like your blood work, like your blood sugar and your cholesterol and what your weight is doing, not in a way to beat yourself up, but just to notice patterns. Notice patterns within your health. That is super important. The same way with your period, the same way with what's going on with your digestive system Okay, and I don't want you to stay stuck in the mindset of nothing can be done. I am really telling you and advocating for a lot can be done and you do not have to stay stuck in misery and frustration and anger for years upon years when there are clear solutions that can be applied specifically to you, your lifestyle, what you enjoy and your health needs. I hope this was super helpful.

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Again, I want to invite you and encourage you to join me for three months, 12 weeks, 12 weeks of one-on-one food and hormone health coaching.

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Dm me, send me an email. I will leave a link in the show notes for you to reach out, so that you can start to create these kinds of changes for yourself and really release all of this mindset Like join me on this side. How can we be baddies in our forties? Right, and by that I mean just feeling well and knowing what to do, and not like going down this slippery slope of my life is done and everything is filled with misery. We can live still a fruitful life. We can be gentle with ourselves. We can take it season by season and really make our lives joyful and enjoyable. So I invite you join me for three months. This offer is definitely something that you want to take advantage of. Again, it's available until September 10th, and I cannot wait to create magic to help you become a totally different, elevated individual before 2025, baby, okay, I'll talk to you soon and I'll see you next week. Bye.