High Performance Health Hair Loss, Hormones, Stress and Skin with Dr Carrie Jones
Dr Carrie Jones chief medical director at ‘Dutch Test is an expert in women’s hormones and health and talks with Angela about how you can understand more about your hormones, how they are working and the potential impact of factors such as stress
Hair loss and challenges with skin can be indicators that there is an imbalance or issue with hormones and this episode has great content for anyone who wants to understand more about the role hormones play in achieving optimum health
KEY TAKEAWAYS
- DUTCH is an acronym for Dried Urine Test for Comprehensive Hormones. It allows a deeper look at hormones and their pathways
- The saliva test is a more focused look at awakening cortisol. Cortisol’s number one job is to get more and make more glucose
- Oestrogen has to be processed and in the process, is converted into metabolites
- There are three parts to the process of detoxification of oestrogen and each phase plays an important role
- When you take Ic3 supplements or eat foods from the brassica family the stomach acid breaks it apart and creates DIM (diindolylmethane) and this takes the oestrogen pushes it preferentially down the 2 pathway
- Alcohol has to be processed and if you are a woman with high oestrogen drinking can result in the liver preferentially processes the alcohol affecting the processing of oestrogen
- You can have normal levels of oestrogen on testing but be filled with oestrogen mimicking chemicals that are close enough in composition to unlock the oestrogen receptors
- Now we have thousands of chemicals in everyday use
- The 5alpha pathway converts the intergenic hormones into the very potent androgen DHT
- You make melatonin during the night and it is a powerful antioxidant and influences the
- onset of sleep
- Intermittent fasting can help you to stop eating throughout the day as any food intake affect your blood sugar
- Don’t be sedentary the body likes rhythms and the biggest rhythm we have is the light and dark cycle
- The light and dark rhythm affects all other body rhythms and habits
BEST MOMENTS
‘The cortisol awakening response should push you into an alert state’
‘It’s such an amazing test especially when combined with other data’
‘DIM is where the magic happens’
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ABOUT THE HOST
Angela Foster
Angela is a Nutritionist, Health and Performance Coach. She is also the Founder and CEO of My DNA Edge, an Exclusive Private Membership Site giving individuals the tools and bio hacks needed to optimise their genetic expression for optimal health and performance.
After recovering from a serious illness in 2014, Angela left the world of Corporate Law with a single mission in mind:
To inspire and educate others to live an energetic, healthful, and limitless life.
Angela believes that we can truly have it all and has spent the last 5 years researching the habits and routines of high performers, uncovering age-old secrets, time-honoured holistic practices and modern science to create a blueprint for Optimal Human Performance.
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