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Dr. Naomi Whittaker is a board-certified OBGYN and a fellowship-trained surgeon who specializes in the Creighton Model FertilityCare System and NaProTechnology, which works cooperatively with a woman's body to treat the underlying cause of gynecologic issues and infertility, such as endometriosis and PCOS. Dr. Naomi is the founder of RRMAcademy.org and an OBGYN fertility surgeon focused on women's restorative reproductive medicine, compassionate healthcare, and education.

In this episode, Dr. Naomi and I discuss how NaPro Technology and the Creighton Model differ from conventional gynecological approaches, the benefits of cycle charting, the significant role of progesterone in women's health, common misconceptions within the medical community, insights into surgical interventions for cycle issues, and more. Enjoy the episode!

To learn more, visit https://nicolejardim.com/podcasts/revolutionizing-womens-healthcare-with-napro-technology-naomi-whittaker/.

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Are you ready to transform your menstrual health? Get started with the Fix Your Period Collective by taking my new and improved period quiz, which will translate your responses into a personalized period dashboard that gives you all the answers and solutions you've ever wanted for your cycle and hormone problems. Get started at https://fixyourperiod.com/quiz/.

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Dr. Lara Briden is a renowned naturopathic doctor and bestselling author of "Period Repair Manual," "Hormone Repair Manual," and her latest book, "Metabolism Repair for Women." With over 25 years of experience in women’s health, Lara has dedicated her career to helping women understand and navigate hormone-related health issues. She's also a respected figure in the scientific community, sitting on several advisory boards and authoring peer-reviewed papers.

In this conversation, Lara and I discuss metabolic flexibility and insulin resistance, the foundational elements of metabolic health, signs and symptoms of metabolic inflexibility, health implications of long-term metabolic inflexibility, common misconceptions about blood sugar, societal pressures surrounding weight loss, the need to address underlying health issues to improve overall well-being and metabolic health, and more. Enjoy the episode!

To learn more, visit https://nicolejardim.com/podcasts/mastering-metabolic-health-dr-lara-briden/.

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Join the Fix Your Period Collective

Are you ready to transform your menstrual health? Get started with the Fix Your Period Collective by taking my new and improved period quiz, which will translate your responses into a personalized period dashboard that gives you all the answers and solutions you've ever wanted for your cycle and hormone problems. Get started at https://fixyourperiod.com/quiz/.

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Brooke Scheller, DCN, CNS, is a Doctor of Clinical Nutrition, author, and the founder of Functional Sobriety, a nutrition-based program for alcohol reduction. After finding freedom from alcohol in 2021, Dr. Brooke took her experience in sobriety and applied her expertise in nutrition and functional medicine to help others change their relationship with alcohol. Her approach improves brain health, mood, energy, focus, gut health, and hormone balance. Dr. Brooke’s expertise extends beyond theory, rooted in her personal transformation, resulting in improved brain health, mood, energy, focus, gut health, and hormone balance.

In this episode, Dr. Brooke and I talk about her book "How to Eat to Change How You Drink," misconceptions around moderate drinking, the four drinking archetypes, her journey to stopping drinking, the need for individualized support, the impact of alcohol on gut health and neurotransmitters, nutritional strategies when cutting back on alcohol, and more. Enjoy the episode!

To learn more, visit https://nicolejardim.com/podcasts/how-to-eat-to-change-how-you-drink-dr-brooke-scheller/.

Podcast Production Support: Amazing Gains | https://listenerstoclients.com

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Join the Fix Your Period Collective

Are you ready to transform your menstrual health? Get started with the Fix Your Period Collective by taking my new and improved period quiz, which will translate your responses into a personalized period dashboard that gives you all the answers and solutions you've ever wanted for your cycle and hormone problems. Get started at https://fixyourperiod.com/quiz/.

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Today’s episode covers a topic that is hardly ever talked about in the mainstream: miscarriage and abortion and how they affect a person’s physical health and hormones as well as their emotional health.

I’m joined by Samantha Zipporah, a fertility, sex, and cycle educator, author, and activist with over 20 years of experience. Samantha is devoted to breaking the spells of oppression in reproductive and sexual health through collective healing, liberation, and education. A former birth doula, she provides radical love for navigating the womb continuum and reclaiming ancestral wisdom.

In this episode, we talk about how our culture disempowers people who menstruate, the over-medicalization of processes of the womb, putting pregnancy termination into context, the risks associated with pregnancy release, the psycho-spiritual aspects of miscarriages and abortions, and so much more!

To learn more visit https://nicolejardim.com/podcasts/holistic-miscarriage-abortion-education-samantha-zipporah.

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Join the Fix Your Period Collective

Are you ready to transform your menstrual health? Get started with the Fix Your Period Collective by taking my new and improved period quiz, which will translate your responses into a personalized period dashboard that gives you all the answers and solutions you've ever wanted for your cycle and hormone problems. Get started at https://fixyourperiod.com/quiz/.

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Kira Sutherland is an Australian Naturopath and Sports Nutritionist with more than 25 years in clinical practice. She divides her time between clients, lecturing at the undergraduate level, and mentoring practitioners of complementary medicine in the application of holistic sports nutrition. Known for her vibrant, straightforward teaching style, Kira’s focus is to empower and educate at a level where information becomes intrinsic knowledge.

In this episode, we talk about the lack of research including female participants, why females and males don’t benefit from the same approach to exercise, how your body is impacted by intermittent fasting, all the drama around protein and so much more!

To learn more visit https://nicolejardim.com/podcasts/how-to-optimize-your-diet-to-get-the-most-out-of-your-exercise-and-training-kira-sutherland.

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Join the Fix Your Period Collective

Are you ready to transform your menstrual health? Get started with the Fix Your Period Collective by taking my new and improved period quiz, which will translate your responses into a personalized period dashboard that gives you all the answers and solutions you've ever wanted for your cycle and hormone problems. Get started at https://fixyourperiod.com/quiz/.

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Chella Quint is a Brooklyn-born, UK-based designer, writer, and performer. She coined the phrase ‘period positive’ in 2006 and founded #periodpositive to use humor and joy to challenge menstrual taboos, and find long-term solutions to period poverty. Chella is a leading expert on menstruation education and the author of Own Your Period for young people and Be Period Positive for adults. She created the Period Positive Pledge as a framework for developing menstruation-inclusive policy and outreach. 

In this episode, we talk about period taboos and Chella’s work to break them, the life cycle of your period, cycle charting for young people, what’s normal for periods during the teen years, and so much more!

To learn more visit https://nicolejardim.com/podcasts/period-positivity-chella-quint.

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Join the Fix Your Period Collective

Are you ready to transform your menstrual health? Get started with the Fix Your Period Collective by taking my new and improved period quiz, which will translate your responses into a personalized period dashboard that gives you all the answers and solutions you've ever wanted for your cycle and hormone problems. Get started at https://fixyourperiod.com/quiz/.

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It’s fair to say that the subject of poop, and especially girls and women and pooping, is a little taboo.

I don’t know about you, but this topic was extremely embarrassing for me to talk about for a very long time. As a teenager living in gut health hell, I was too embarrassed to use the bathroom at school and instead tried to suffer through it until I got home. No way would I risk someone being in the stall next to me hearing what was happening!

On top of the social issues, keeping poops as a don’t ask-don’t tell topic meant I had no idea that my digestive issues were linked to all my hormonal woes. Here’s the thing - we have to talk about this stuff because just like periods, our digestive health tells us a lot about our bodies but we won’t know when something is wrong if we don’t even know what is normal, to begin with. Let’s push through the discomfort and start talking.

To learn more visit https://nicolejardim.com/podcasts/periods-poops-how-the-menstrual-cycle-affects-the-digestive-system.

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Join the Fix Your Period Collective

Are you ready to transform your menstrual health? Get started with the Fix Your Period Collective by taking my new and improved period quiz, which will translate your responses into a personalized period dashboard that gives you all the answers and solutions you've ever wanted for your cycle and hormone problems. Get started at https://fixyourperiod.com/quiz/.

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Female bodies are cyclical by nature, producing varying quantities of hormones at different points in our monthly menstrual cycle. These hormone fluctuations create four distinct phases of your cycle.

Learning about and embracing your internal cyclical nature is one of the most powerful and effective ways to maximize your true potential in all areas of life. Our periods don’t have to hold us back, even when we assume they will. It’s your unique cycle and you will need to learn to observe it, understand it, and work with it.

To learn more visit https://nicolejardim.com/podcasts/the-four-phases-of-the-menstrual-cycle.

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Join the Fix Your Period Collective

Are you ready to transform your menstrual health? Get started with the Fix Your Period Collective by taking my new and improved period quiz, which will translate your responses into a personalized period dashboard that gives you all the answers and solutions you've ever wanted for your cycle and hormone problems. Get started at https://fixyourperiod.com/quiz/.

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Carly, Alaina, and Julie Beyar are the Founders of Balanced Beyars Health and the Power of Periodization program. They are three sisters who went from being overactive collegiate soccer players to self-proclaimed "Hormone Hype Girls" and women's health educators. They are on a mission to get you hyped about predictable periods and living in alignment with the four phases of your cycle. Their ultimate goal is to make it fun for menstruators to cultivate a hormone-happy lifestyle that allows them to feel a deep partnership with their cyclical bodies, 100% of the time.

In this episode, we talk about what it was like to go from lifelong athletes to everyday life, the sisters’ experiences with the pill’s side effects and their transition off, how you can start living in alignment with your cycle, why you should bring your partner into your journey of learning, and so much more!

To learn more visit https://nicolejardim.com/podcasts/how-three-sisters-became-hormone-hype-girls-carly-alaina-julie-beyar.

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Mentioned in this episode:

Join the Fix Your Period Collective

Are you ready to transform your menstrual health? Get started with the Fix Your Period Collective by taking my new and improved period quiz, which will translate your responses into a personalized period dashboard that gives you all the answers and solutions you've ever wanted for your cycle and hormone problems. Get started at https://fixyourperiod.com/quiz/.

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Abby Epstein and Ricki Lake’s award-winning, critically acclaimed documentary The Business of Being Born debuted at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2007. With over 5 million views, an online community of over 100,000, and more than 10 million press imprints, it is often hailed as the “must-see” film among mothers-to-be.

Looking at the complex relationship of hormonal contraception to women’s health and liberation, their latest documentary, The Business of Birth Control, features the stories of activists, doctors, and scientists who are blowing the whistle on how hormonal birth control affects the mind and body. It is shocking, empowering, and heartbreaking all at the same time.

About 13 years ago I watched The Business of Being Born and I was blown away. I remember thinking, “I have to figure out a way to work with these women.” At the time I had no idea how I was going to make that happen. A year later, I moved to New York City, got my health coach certification, and met others in the women’s health space, including Holly Grigg Spall, the author of Sweetening the Pill, who was trying to get Ricki and Abby to turn her book into a movie. She introduced me to Abby and we’ve been friends ever since. I pitched in as much as I could over the years to get this film made and it’s finally here! You can catch me at the beginning of the film, talking about the pill and ovulation.

In this episode, we talk about our experiences with hormonal birth control, the far-reaching impact our hormones have on our health, why it was difficult to make this movie, how birth control has been used against women of color, the ongoing fight for reproductive justice, and so much more!

To learn more visit https://nicolejardim.com/podcasts/the-business-of-birth-control-abby-epstein-ricki-lake.

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Mentioned in this episode:

Join the Fix Your Period Collective

Are you ready to transform your menstrual health? Get started with the Fix Your Period Collective by taking my new and improved period quiz, which will translate your responses into a personalized period dashboard that gives you all the answers and solutions you've ever wanted for your cycle and hormone problems. Get started at https://fixyourperiod.com/quiz/.

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