The Hormone Genius Podcast

For most women, I don't think we think about losing our lives to heart disease. I think many women worry more about cancer? As a nurse practitioner, I see this every day with my patients, most of them fear breast cancer more than a heart attack, yet heart disease kills women at a rate seven times higher than breast cancer. In fact, one in all female deaths, is due to cardiovascular disease CAD. In general, Cardiovascular disease accounts for more deaths than cancer, accidents, and chronic respiratory issues combined. In The U. S. there are 2200 deaths a day due to CAD which is 1 death every 40 seconds. Needless to say, all of us need to perk up our ears, and our heart and have a better awareness of the risk factors that could impact our own heart health, and what we can do to modify those risks. Literally, our heart beats without resting a moment for each of us. It is the vital organ constantly pumping life through our arteries and veins every second, every minute of the day, so let's take a few minutes to have an awareness of the impact of heart disease particularly in women. Let's start a conversation with ourselves, our healthcare providers, and our loved ones about what steps we can take to keep our hearts pumping happily and healthily for a lifetime! Medical disclaimer: The information presented in The Hormone Genius Podcast is for informational purposes only and is not intended to be a substitute for actual medical or mental health advice from a doctor, psychologist, or any other medical or mental health professional.

Today we welcome Karen Barbieri, from Pietra fitness! Pietra fitness combines our spiritual health into movement, strengthening and exercise. According to their website "Many forms of exercise—some of them ancient—have provided effective ways to strengthen the body, heal illness, and promote longevity. We recognize the good and true wherever it is found and do well to utilize physical movements that are helpful." We know that the connection of the mind, body and soul is important for whole health and exercise is at the top if the list of things all of can implement to improve our quality and quantity of lifespan. As with nutrition, there are many tools and models of fitness. Jamie & Teresa want to provide you with options and empower you to choose a path of wellness that fits your values and lifestyle. Pietra combines a Christian meditation/prayer with exercise and all faiths are welcome to join! Our bodies are like a great house or cathedral, and we need to keep both the inside and outside strong. Join us in learning about this unique fitness model today! https://www.pietrafitness.com/about-pietra-fitness Opinions, statements, and beliefs of our interviewees are not necessarily a reflection of the HG podcast's beliefs and opinions as a whole. Medical disclaimer: The information presented in The Hormone Genius Podcast is for informational purposes only and is not intended to be a substitute for actual medical or mental health advice from a doctor, psychologist, or any other medical or mental health professional.

Jamie & Teresa want to empower women to be the genius of their own hormones! Part of that mission is helping women know the side effects of synthetic hormones, and especially the lesser known side effects of hormonal birth control. We will take a dive into some of these lesser known effects and make sure you can make an informed decision around taking these medications into your body. Hormonal birth control effects every system in our bodies, and in many ways is the most direct endocrine system disruptor that we put in our bodies as women. Our understanding of how these hormones effect us is ever evolving in science and medicine, but we know for sure that women themselves know how they feel when they take these medications, and many times the stories of women on the hormonal birth control are not heard! Well we want you to know that we understand that your experience taking birth control are real, and are experienced by many women across the globe. Unfortunately, many doctors do not listen to women, and often keep telling women that these side effects are not important and they dismiss them. It is time to start listening to women and to start giving women options for safer ways to plan their families, to also give them treatments that find the underlying root cause of their period problems and not just band-aid over our menstrual problems. You deserve this, and in fact all women deserve this! Reach out to us and let us know your experience around taking hormonal birth control, was it postive or negative? Do you feel like your medical provider listened to you regarding the symptoms and side effects you were/are experiencing with hormone birth control? Medical disclaimer: The information presented in The Hormone Genius Podcast is for informational purposes only and is not intended to be a substitute for actual medical or mental health advice from a doctor, psychologist, or any other medical or mental health professional.

Welcome to the season opener for The Hormone Genius Podcast! We are excited to be up and rolling out content again and hope you are ready for some awesome empowering information over the next year. Jamie and Teresa will give you some updates and fun news, while squeezing in another full run through of the hormones and flow of the menstrual cycle. We call it the 4 by 4 overview since we have 4 main hormones of the cycle; FSH, Estradiol, LH and finally Progesterone, AND we have 4 main phases of the cycle; The Menstrual phase, the Follicular phase, the Ovulatory phase & the Luteal phase. This is the information we want to make sure is drilled into each one of your lovely heads. You should be able to understand the cycle in detail, so you can be educated and empowered to see your cycle as a Vital Sign of Health!!! Join, Jamie & Teresa in Season 4 of The Hormone Genius Podcast now! Please continue to share our podcast, leave a review, and help other women be empowered to become the genius of their own hormones. Check out the book for young women, The Happy Girls Guide to Being Whole on Amazon, and please leave a review! www.amazon.com/Happy-Girls-Guide…Caps%2C176&sr=8-1 Check out Jamie's Hormone Fiat Institute too! www.fiatinstitute.com/ Medical disclaimer: The information presented in The Hormone Genius Podcast is for informational purposes only and is not intended to be a substitute for actual medical or mental health advice from a doctor, psychologist, or any other medical or mental health professional.

Men have a hormone genius too! When it comes to fertility, it takes two to tango and we want to take a dive into the issue of male infertility today on The Hormone Genius. Male infertility affects 50% of couples who are dealing with infertility. For those who are struggling with male infertility, or for those of you just interested in learning more about male aspects of fertility then you will want to listen to this episode and share it with a loved one. This is high level and although we cannot give medical advice and always recommend you talk to your doctor/healthcare provider about these issues, we want to provide basic framework of information, and a jumping off point for helping you take the next step to help a male partner/spouse, family member, or friend in your life. We should all have interest in male fertility since we all depend on both a man and a woman to be healthy hormonally, and physically and so let’s learn together how we can all take steps to improve or egg and sperm quality starting today! Medical disclaimer: The information presented in The Hormone Genius Podcast is for informational purposes only and is not intended to be a substitute for actual medical or mental health advice from a doctor, psychologist, or any other medical or mental health professional.

We are celebrating episode 100 of The Hormone Genius Podcast today. Without a doubt we would not be here today without all of YOU! All of our listeners and supporters in this last 3 years have organically grown our podcast to over 450,000 podcast listens in the last 3 yrs. Women’s lives have literally been changed by listening and we feel humbled and grateful for having been a small part of your journey to WHOLE health. Thanks to all who entered the FREE summer giveaway for a Hormone Genius Podcast T-shirt, and we will be announcing the winner with this release. Also, get excited for season 4 as we still have so much to talk about. Please continue to share our podcast, leave a review, and help other women be empowered to become the genius of their own hormones. Check out the book for young women, The Happy Girls Guide to Being Whole on Amazon, and please leave a review! https://www.amazon.com/Happy-Girls-Guide-Being-Whole/dp/1735223727/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2EADBZ7R3UJHG&keywords=teresa+Kenney&qid=1687874338&sprefix=teresa+kenne%2Caps%2C176&sr=8-1 Check out Jamie's Hormone Fiat Institute too! https://www.fiatinstitute.com/ Medical disclaimer: The information presented in The Hormone Genius Podcast is for informational purposes only and is not intended to be a substitute for actual medical or mental health advice from a doctor, psychologist, or any other medical or mental health professional.

Today on The Hormone Genius we are joined by Dr. Marguerite Duane who is a guest for the 2nd time and is updating us on her organization, and now non-profit FACTS. Dr. Marguerite Duane, a board-certified family physician and Adjunct Associate Professor at Georgetown University, is co-founder and Executive Director of FACTS – a non profit organization dedicated to educating healthcare professionals about the science supporting fertility awareness based methods. She also works with Modern Mobile Medicine, a direct primary care house-calls based practice serving patients of all ages in the Washington DC area. She is interested in serving an incredible need in the area of medicine by helping to integrate fertility awareness based methods and the science regarding them into the education tracks of doctors, nurse practitioners, nurses and any allied healthcare provider who is interested in learning this important knowledge in women’s health. If you are a medical provider then be looking to attend the conference coming in September called Revitalizing Women’s Health Care Together on the 29th-30th in MInneapolis, MN. One of the featured speakers will be Teresa Kenney from The Hormone Genius! She will be speaking on Menstrual Migraines throughout the Reproductive Lifespan. We will put all the links to the conference below! This episode is all creating the foundation of information, research, and education pathways for all healthcare providers in the area of cooperative and restorative medicine in women's health. Take a look at all the ways you can learn about FACTS and Dr. Duane's work below and don't forget to sign up for the conference if you are a healthcare provider! FACTS Conference: https://www.factsaboutfertility.org/revitalizing-womens-health/ FACTS CME Course: https://www.factsaboutfertility.org/learn-more/enroll-in-our-elective/ FACTS Webinars: https://www.factsaboutfertility.org/learn-more/webinars/ FACTS Elective: https://www.factsaboutfertility.org/learn-more/enroll-in-our-elective/ FACTS Ambassador Program: https://www.factsaboutfertility.org/learn-more/student-ambassadors/ Become a FACTS Member: https://www.factsaboutfertility.org/join/ Support FACTS: https://www.factsaboutfertility.org/learn-more/donation/ Opinions, statements, and beliefs of our interviewees are not necessarily a reflection of the HG podcast's beliefs and opinions as a whole. Medical disclaimer: The information presented in The Hormone Genius Podcast is for informational purposes only and is not intended to be a substitute for actual medical or mental health advice from a doctor, psychologist, or any other medical or mental health professional.

Jamie & Teresa wanted to squeeze in one more nutrition with the menstrual cycle episode this season! This episode will focus on the principles of fasting and incorporating this as a tool to help our bodies and our hormones. The inspiration behind this episode came from Jamie reading the book by Dr. Mindy Pelz called 'Fast Like a Girl', and how it inspired Jamie to really think about how fasting could potentially be a helpful tool for some women to implement. We realize that anytime we bring up nutrition and ways to eat, it can be triggering to many so we want to be sure you know that our goal is to just inform, and we do not want to push any sort of dietary intervention on any woman who feels that it could be harmful to them in anyway. This is why we want you to learn for yourself, talk to your doctor, and healthcare providers about your unique situation and make sure you feel called to any nutritional approach you take for your body. What Jamie & Teresa love is learning ourselves, and we love sharing what we have learned with you our listeners. So consider this a fun interview about what we learned from Dr. Pelz and our own knowledge about the cycle and how we can optimize our nutrition to help our hormones, help our menstrual cycles and performance on so many levels of life. We hope you enjoy this episode and share with your friends! Medical disclaimer: The information presented in The Hormone Genius Podcast is for informational purposes only and is not intended to be a substitute for actual medical or mental health advice from a doctor, psychologist, or any other medical or mental health professional.

Have you been wishing there was a resource for young women that would give them all the information they need to know about their body, their fertility cycle, and their hormones? Do you wish young women knew that there are alternatives to using birth control to treat period problems? In a world where women are often told that their bodies need to be controlled or suppressed, a new book from Lumen Press, in partnership with The Guiding Star Project and the Vitae Foundation, offers a different narrative. Written by women’s health nurse practitioner and co-creator of The Hormone Genius Podcast, Teresa Kenney’s new book The Happy Girl’s Guide to Being Whole aims to set young women free to believe their bodies were made good, and should be supported and respected. With over 22 years of clinical practice, working with women across the reproductive lifespan, and her service on the board of directors of the Guiding Star Project, a national, “wholistic” women’s health movement, Kenney’s experience amounts to a wealth of information for women seeking the truth about their bodies. Jamie will interview Teresa about her new book and what it all entails, how it could change the life of a woman you love, and where you can grab your copy today! It is available at lumenpress.org and on Amazon today, and do not forget to leave a review :) Especially on Amazon to help more women see this book as they are browsing for books about body literacy! https://www.amazon.com/Happy-Girls-Guide-Being-Whole/dp/1735223727/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2C23LSP0CLXJE&keywords=teresa+kenney&qid=1684895726&sprefix=teresa+kenney%2Caps%2C166&sr=8-1 https://www.lumenpress.org/product/the-happy-girls-guide-to-being-whole/ Medical disclaimer: The information presented in The Hormone Genius Podcast is for informational purposes only and is not intended to be a substitute for actual medical or mental health advice from a doctor, psychologist, or any other medical or mental health professional.

Join the Hormone Genius gals as they discuss Jamie's new hormone coach certification program through her organization, Fiat Institute. If you are loving this podcast and you are wanting to put "feet" on your convictions, and build a business doing something you love while building a culture that will celebrate the unique attributes of womanhood, hormones included, then be sure to check out the hormone coach certification program! This program is a great compliment to those already in the health field, but it was built specifically for the "everyday woman" to serve the "everyday woman." If you have an entrepreneurial "itch," you love health and hormones, and you desire to be a change agent, be sure to get in contact with Jamie by visiting www.fiatinstitute.com. P.S. Jamie holds LIVE monthly exploratory calls for women wanting to learn more about the program details, costs, requirements, etc. Her next call is taking place May 28, 7pm cst. To register, visit https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZErf-2uqzMoH9SdMvYAeXO5zjTyxdPrB6tR Medical disclaimer: The information presented in The Hormone Genius Podcast is for informational purposes only and is not intended to be a substitute for actual medical or mental health advice from a doctor, psychologist, or any other medical or mental health professional.