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Mind Your Hormones
Mind Your Hormones, with Board Certified Holistic Nutritionist Corinne Angelica, is all about holistic health, naturally supporting your hormones, cyclical nature, fertility, personal growth + evolution & more! Each episode will be full of education, empowerment, real talk and simple strategies you can start today to find inner peace & overall wellbeing.
Mind Your Hormones
61. [PCOS] Struggling with FACIAL HAIR?! Here's the root causes & tips to heal it!
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Corinne Angelica
I'm SUPER excited for you to hear today's episode because I have personally struggling with this for YEARS so if you do too, I FEEL YOU.
I struggled for so long because I wasn't addressing (or even knew of) the root cause which is why I'm jamming out on this with you because it's helped me so much!
2 ROOT CAUSES= Insulin Resistance & Inflammation
INSULIN RESISTANCE
- A condition of high insulin, where the cells of your liver and muscles fail to respond properly to insulin.
- INSULIN is a hormone made by your pancreas. It stimulates your liver & muscles to take up sugar from your blood & convert it to energy.
- Under normal conditions your hormone insulin rises briefly after eating. This stimulates your liver & muscle cells to take up food energy from your blood & covert it to energy.
- This causes your blood sugar to fall & then your insulin to fall.
- Insulin resistance- your pancreas has to make more and more insulin to try and get it’s message through to your cells since your cells aren’t responding to it.
- Too much insulin
- creates inflammation & causes weight gain- & can lead to diabetes, osteoporosis & heart disease.
- AND it can impair ovulation & stimulate your ovaries to make testosterone instead of estrogen.
- AND it stimulates your pituitary to make more LH which makes more androgens.
- AND it lowers androgen binding protein SHBG which results in more free testosterone & unbound testosterone
CAUSES of INSULIN RESISTANCE
- Smoking, stress, birth control, sleep deprivation, alcohol, trans fat, unhealthy gut microbiome, magnesium deficiency & environmental toxins
STEPS To HEAL
- No sugar (being by reducing it & then eliminating- NOT FOR FOREVER!)
- Sleep: More info on Sleep here: Episode 53
- DON’T RESTRICT CALORIES
INFLAMMATION
- DISRUPTS hormone receptors & suppresses ovulation.
- Stimulates adrenal glands & ovaries to make more androgens.
- Inflammation can come from insulin resistance, smoking, inflammatory foods, environmental toxins, digestive problems
STEPS TO HEAL
- Avoid inflammatory foods (gluten, sugar, dairy)
- Reduce exposure to environmental toxins- pesticides, plastics, mercury
SOURCES
The Period Repair Manual by Dr. Lara Briden
WAYS WE CAN CONNECT!
- Come hangout with me on instagram @corinneangealica
- Join my FREE TEXT COMMUNITY to get weekly HORMONE HEALTH & MINDSET TIPS texted right to your phone!
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So grateful you’re here! XO Corinne