“You don’t need a study to believe a woman’s story about her body and that is where medicine is getting things backward.” - Dr. Jolene Brighten
We Talk About:
- Her son’s sudden illness and how it led to Dr. Brighten living in Paris
- PANDAs and PANs
- Learning how to feel your feelings without getting stuck in them
- Making the most of challenging situations
- Hormone 101
- Adrenal glands
- The markers you need to test when your thyroid and hormones are off
- 3 phases of the menstrual cycle
- follicular phase
- ovulatory phase
- luteal phase
- fertility window
- progesterone and estrogen
- how thyroid, adrenals and hormone cycles are all interconnected
- Hormonal birth control
- 60% of women use the pill for symptom management which can delay diagnosis
- why it’s our right to choose
- side effects that we should know before taking the pill
- how to prepare your body to come off the pill
- the connection between stress and hormones
- the importance of light pollution and hormone cycles
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Beyond the Pill - (Dr. Brighten’s new book): https://amzn.to/2D9liVD
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