Addressing Listener Dilemmas and Skincare

In today's episode, we talk about all things women's health. fromrom hormones and supplements to PMS and endO. It's a really interesting episode, but of course please do seek your own medical advice. Hi Tinies, we've got the amazing pepper camberon today and we're going to get into all of this Piods aren't that pas, but it's When they're really painful, they shouldn't be. Before I was put on the pill, I was like fifteen, the periods were really bad, so painful. So what we do is we focus on things like estrogen detoxification because endo, adeno, fibrosros, all these sorts of things are estrogen dependent. So we make sure that we help them detox their estrogen because you have to detox it through the liver, and that's really connected with things like PMS, any menstrual irregularities This week we have gorgeous pepper camel joining us My absolute eeicon. So you've been on the pod before a few times? Yes. I'm Pippa Campbell. I'm a functional hormone nutritionist and well, I'm lots of things actually, I have various hats, functional medicine practitioner, and naturopath. And what I do in clinic and what I've been doing for twenty years is naturopathic endocrinology. So that's hormones in a naturopathic way. Pippa has been my for the last maybe five years. Gsh, you know, I think it's even longer I reckon it's seven. Andpologize And Hip has helped me tremendously with so many different things, mainly I guess the girly stuff, the hormone stuff, but really my overall Health. And today I guess we're just gonna talk about like hormones mainly. Well, hormones is my specialty, so I definitely want to talk about hormones. I think I started with you just doing some baseline testing to see what was going on because I felt I felt tired all the time That was my main thing. was I don't feel like I wake up feeling one hundred percent And I had reaccurount UTIs like on and off. Those are like my things and I had loads wrong. I had Candida overgrowth quite a lot. Yeah, you did, but the funny thing is we did DNA testing, do you remember? Oh yeah, that's where we started. And the funny thing is you said, No, no, I'm fine. It's not really a lot you wrong with me. a bit tired, but no, I'm fine. You didn't even mention like within the first half an hour the UTIs. Forgot about it You've been on a load of antibiotics. I know. I've been on a shirload of antibiotics in my life. And I think when you don't have a UTI in that moment, you forget about it Yeah so interesting how quickly you get over the trauma of UTI And then I think I emailed after like, oh no, it was in the last five minut.'s like, Oh, shit. I UTIs. Yeah, like you' had six in the last year. Like, oh, that's relevant. And then we found that actually Candida overgrowth was probably the cause of it at the time. And I think we dealt with that and it did put those UTIs into a mission. And I stopped feeling tired all the time I couldn't believe You don't understand what feeling normal and optimal, I guess, as such feels like until you've had it because When I've just been feeling tired virtually my whole teenage and early twenties, I just thought that was normal. I know, you get used. then I'm like no one else seems to be as tired as I am, so is it normal? Yeah. And I think part of that was the Candida, which is a yeast overgrow. So we all have it, but it's when it's overgrown. and it can make you have brain fog as well, feel quite tired and foggy And the Canada feeds on sugar and carbs. Now I'm not saying it's always diet's fault at all, but again, I think it was probably that those constant antibiotics as well. and that can cause an overgrowth. So then it's this spiral of them feeling tired and UTIs and antibiotics and then But we got there. did We got there and now I'm feeling fantastic and the DNA testing was so useful ' that aligned up with so many other things that I was like feeling family history and things like that and my brother and I actually did it at the same time and I think our DNA was quite similar. D talks, Gene. But he had the gluted th on, gene and I didn't. I got very jealous of that So you're missing you're missing the glutathyene So that means it's a powerful antioxidant and that helps us detox so many things, including our hormones as well And we make it. But if you're missing the glutathne gene then that's something that means you're going to be deficient in. And then I think we saw in Dutch testing that confirmed that you were. So it means that you do need to supplement with it Yeah because I mean, it's literally it does so many things. And it's so important. Yeah. I've learnted so much from you. I feel like I read now Well, your Instagram is so useful and insightful anyway. and your supplements that you sell, anyone can buy those, right? You don't have to be They're retail. So anyone can buy them. I think the best thing to do when people are considering supplements because let's face it there's like overwhelmed in the supplement world People say, o know, what's right for me? And then they end up just buying everything or buying nothing And so I developed my metabolics type quiz which is from my first book. So you do a quiz to find out your metabolic type could be cortisol type, insulin, thyroid, etceter. you do the quiz, various questions, and then you get your answer which type you are and then we give you supplements, lifestyle, diet as well. then it means that you know which supplements to take. And that can change, so I think you should do it every few months. But the metabolic Tites quiz is a really good place to start. Okay, that's such good advice for people. And you do have a fifteen minute phone cool thing on the bottom of your page too. And is that for people that are really unsure and they just want to whiz through? It's for anyone, it's free. That's with Rachel on my team. And then you can talk about the various symptoms that you're getting and she will advise the supplements in my range astic Also the quality of supplements I have now learnt from you and over the years is so important. Like you can take really crap supplements that have all these fillers and bad things. Obviously youre also like top top tier. So they're made in the UK. of course we source ingredients. My saffron in my chill supplements organic. I love saffron. So most of the herbs, where possible, I get organic we test for heavy metals and other contaminants. So my creatine supplement that's coming out soon, we've tested that because that has been shown so many creatine supplements have been shown to be contaminated So we test for that as well. Look, people might say they're more expensive. Yes, they are more expensive than be hest I'm a functional medicine practitioner. I'm not going to produce supplements of inferior quality. You know, I want to take them. I want my family to take them as well. So we test for all the heavy metals, I make sure the ingredients are really pure as well. So it's just something I feel very strongly about. I mean, I love them and I see such a big difference when especially with the detox tablet. Yeah, do you like the detox? Oh my gosh don't take it see such a difference in I feel like the way I feel And also, I don't know if it's In my head, I feel like my digestion and stuff changed momed. Yeah Yeah, lots of people say that And I don't know because it's obvly not a probiotic But I still feel like it makes a difference. Yeah, but the liver, so the liver is so important. It even plays a part in digestion. Now, if your liver is sluggish If it's not functioning properly, you have a snip on any of your. I have one of those, donon't worry about. a little snip on your jean and just, you know, exposed to so many things, then it can be really sluggish can cause bloating because you're just exposed to all these toxins. The liver is sluggish slows down. You don't produce as much bile, which is like I call it the liver's liquid gold and it helps with digestion, digests fats and forms a nice a nice soft poo. so and then therefore everything's backing up and you just feel really bloated. So lots of people say they feel less bloated on it. Interesting that that's common I feel like The thing with supplements functional medicine, and all these extra curricular things that kind of fall into this biohacking bracket, but I feel like that's maybe too far in one way sometimes We're trying to counteract the shit that we hit and deal with our bodies every day from the modern world. like pollution and toxins from clothes and makeup and the list goes on and on and on. We are living in a different world. So when I look when I was in my teens and twenties, I was one of the few people that had menstrual problems. I had severely chronic PMS, which is why I do what I do today. Um But not many people did You know, there weren't many of my friends that had low thyroid period problems And we are living in a different world now. So we're seeing so many more clients in their teens and twenties with all sorts of hormonal problems. But look, I think there are some simple things that we can do. We can't avoid everything. No. So we need to make sure we are supporting our liver Eating the right foods, know good quality protein, lots of cruciferous vegetables, Herbs and spices is a fantastic turmeric, for example. takeake my detox supplement, of course. But I think, you know, we can avoid some things without people sort of worrying about everything So don't put plastic in the microwave. Don't put oily or acidic foods in plastic. thinkink about things like Tin tomatoes, for example. I'm not saying you never eat them, but try and you can get like posissata in glass, for example. Yes that's what I. Because tins are lined with plastic and that tomato is acidic and reacts with the plastic and that's when it leaches the BP and everything. Yeah. Even if you're buying an organic can of tomatoes. like I remember I was doing spag bowl and something else like twice a week. I was eating quite a lot of canned chopped tomatoes. I was thinking they' fine because they're organic, then I was like learn about the leeaching of the BPA. so now I just sop out for glass posata and then I chop up my own tomatoes. Bri. And those things are just becoming, they're just automatic now. I don't have to think twice about them I think it's just those small little smart changes that are really easy to do and they're not overwhelming and they're not like expensive, like and it's not like a No, they arere alternatives. so yeah If you look at, I don't know, sardines in oil, for example, in a tin. So there's the oil. So the same problem again, whether it's the BPA, BPS, BPS and the other toxins in that plastic that lines the tin, you could go for Brian So there are other options. Okay. And is brine that's water Taste is nice. I know, but you mix up with a nice little oil then you put the wine on. Exactly, I know. And get the taste that way. Okay, so and do you think this is why so you mentioned infertility and irregular periods and things like that? And it feels like every person and their dog has endO or PMOS something. I recently was diagnosed with PMOS, endometriosis and endomyosis. Yeah, adomyosis, yeah. I didn't have any symptoms. So I think classic symptoms for all of those things is really, really awful periods, really heavy periods eloating. I think you can get really bad acne, brain. I think it is so debilitating what I see on the internet, people that have it And I know people that have it too And this takes me to the next point. I had an MRI scan, which I spoke about on the podcast when I had it mustust have been It was like November time And they were like, oh, you've got a little cyst on your right ovary Nothing to worry about, but just get that checked again in a couple months. This is and I went for this scan with Panuvo They were fantastic I kind of forgot about it And then some things were going on with my sister had Endo and we've known about that for a while And I watched the Haley Bieber Birth story And she was talking all about how she had had this three D scan internal and they found this gap in her cervix, which meant that Before she got pregnant, she'd have to get that fixed to prevent miscarriage because her chanance of miscarriage is very high, so it was a fantastic piece of knowledge for her to have So a week service, that's what I had. I had a week cvice and my daughter was born six weeks early, nearly eight weeks early I couldn't keep her in. So then do the stitch. But I didn't know, you see So yes, if I had known then I mean, I wasn't having you know, ultrasounds, for that sort of thing. I mean, I literally wasn't no one was I wouldn't have even thought of it So for some reason, part of my cervix was weak. And so she was born early. She was all fine, thank goodness, but I know my waters were leaking I mean literally I was out I was out on a girl's Christmas lunch And I thought things are feeling a bit uncomfortable. This was eight weeks before. my due date And it it's a bit painful. And I had been but I've been leaking for weeks and this is awful. I've been leaking a little bit for weeks and I'd been to the doctor and they just said it's your bladder. Oh, they thought you were Yeah, no I. I mean complete What is it awful It's awful. Wear aappy love and you'll be. That was awful. It wasn't my bladder. I was there leaking hind waters. I mean, I was leaking Exactly. So it's amniotic fluid. Yes. And so for my son, I had a stitch put in. and it was okay. Well they took a stitch out and I was like And they saiday stay in hospital tonight because I think they thought I'd have the stitch taken out and he would drop out. So the stitch is taken out of my cervix. I'm waiting that waiting Is he coming? out, notothing. and then I was sent home a week later came along. So it obviously wasn't that week. No Gossh, that's so strange that they can just put a stitch in there and it holds everything together So yeah, so Hailey Bber had this So then that prompted me to think, shhit, I need to do that other the scan. I'm going to do this three D scan. This sounds fantastic reallyally didn't think anything of it. I also thought it was quite good to know what's going on with the old like reproductive area and On my way to this clinic, I was thinking right, beforefore I was put on the pill, I was like In fifteen, the periods were really bad So painful So, so painful and that's why I was put on the pll. But the last four years they've been fine. So I think he It's probably just like the first couple periods for shit. I don't know how it works Anyway, so I'm in this clinic, the one's up inside and the screen' there. Yeah, endometrioma, endometriosis, endomiosis and PTOS. I'm like this fucking sticks inside me and I'm like what Are you saying? And apparently it's really hard to get a diagnosis for all these things like these poor girls that suffer for years being turned away by doctors and I just told with no symptoms at all yet, you've got all this shit wrong with you. I was like, o my god, I'm never going to be able to havebey all these racing thoughts. Sop shell shocks, leave this office and have to drive home. Um And still I'm now in this limbo stage of going to see this specialist for Eo because my first period after that scan was Horrendous. What we have to go through guys like really quite shitty. But after the MRI, did they refer you to a specialist? They said we ur because they knew I had private health insurance. They were like go and get An up scan Okay, but did they say who to go to or anything Okay Look, I think Everyone has their own views on whether to go with these things. I'm slightly on the fence and look, you've discovered Eing. But the fact they didn't sort of immediately because imagine if there was somebody who was really you were scared. I think they could have referred me. Okay I wasn't scared off the MRI because the girl was like, it's just a cyst. It's probably going to pass through with your next period. However, I would like you to go and get that checked again in another couple of months with an ultrasound But she was like, I'm not worried. So I wasn't worried. Well, that's at all for now. But when I went to this other scan, you know, the three D ultrasound scan, I went to this fertility clinic for this fucking scared me. She was quite reassuring but then she was like Do you think about freezing your eggs if you're going gonna have a baby like soon. And I was like, Oh, I don't want to freeze my eggs I don't want to. And this is you with no symptoms before you even had the MRI. So this this is my point is that I think knowledge is useful and you're right about the cIS. So simple cISs, I've had two. And I just, you know make sure I take some eastern detox things because CI are often Eian sort of related. And so many girls would have it and would't and women and don't even know But yes, you, they should pass. There are different types of cISs or's an endometroma. Exactly. So it's different from a simple cIS, which I've heard a couple of times. But I think with these MRIs, I think they can be really useful I also think for some women and you were fine. I think for some girls women It could feed their health anxieties or even thinking about. It's a big thing at the moment on social media, on Instagram. I'm seeing everyone going for MRI's I think it's probably freaking some women out because they're thinking if I don't go for it, if I don't spend this money, What are they going to find? What about if I don't go and then something happens in a few years's time and I could have prevented it? I think it's feeding health anxieties But then on the flip side they could find something early and then Fantastic. look what we've caught before it's even a problem.es. So it's difficult and these things are fucking expensive. They are. I mean, I think look, I wish that I had gone for breast ultrasounds when I was younger because by the time I did sort of late forties, that was the first time I found out that I had lumpy bumpy breasts. I couldn't feel it, you know, it was like normal for me And you know, that sort of freaked me out, I, Ohh my goodness, I've got all these cys in my breast, you know. And I think it would have been nice to know what type of basts I have. if I had dense basts, ultrasounds are good for that. I had done since I was forty vaginal ultrasounds. quite normal for me. And I think I wish that there are certain countries that offer this sort of thing in Europe So you've got vaginal ultrasound. Bast ult sound, thyroid. and I think That you know, those would be good. So rather than I mean, I think a full body MRI for somebody who wants it, but certainly for certain you want to cut down on cost. justust do an ultrasound breast.. va would that be when you say vagina, would that be the full wand thing that I hear It's the big sausage that goes up Yeah and then check the thyroid Yeah, I think so. I mean, not necessarily all of them. I would say vaginal ultrasound is useful, I think breast I do address one every year. I think the best pce of mind I think it's like I think it's like two hundredQid I pay every year. Yes and all of these issues and now it's probably my algorithm, but the amount of people that have one of these three things, so many is crazy. And I do also think that since this endometriosis documentaries come out as well, which is obviously fantastic for raising awareness And those things can do one of two things It can make you feel better and seen or it can make you feel fucking petrified, which is what it did to me. It's just it triggers me and it's scared me because I feel like I haven't quite come to terms with what I've got yet. So me seeing that and these poor girls going, you know, eight rounds of IVF and still no luck. and I'm like, oh my god, I don't wan to see that either. And you didn't even have symptoms. You see those girls who have endor adeno, you know, a lot of them they've already got really painful periods, so they know about it. And when we talk about pain, I mean I mean, for a lot of women, periods aren't that pleasant, but it's when they're really painful, they shouldn't be. They shouldn't be that painful. I've got honestly loads wrong with you guys. No one would think you're living in fight or flight, but your sort of system temperature, you know results sort of say you are. But does when I look back like I think I don't know if it's my Mind isn't that sort of anxious about anything, but my body clearly really struggles. But the week before my period, the social anxiety that I would have was horrendous I would be sat, even with my family with Toby like, my best friends so I see all the time What are you going to say next? What can you say that's interesting? What can you say that's funny? A actuallyually shouldn't say that, because it's not funny and they're going to that you're weird U And it was like, I guess and you see girls talking about this all the time, right? Like in their luteal phase that they just hate themselves. Yeah It was like never that bad before and it was progressively getting worse and worse and worse and worse. Since I've been on all of these things and I don't know if it's dim, I don't know what it is that's been clearly balancing things. haven't felt that in a while. A doing the progestteran cream? No. No, so so it's the thyroid and the estrogen detox support then. Interesting. So You know, no one would know that about you, that that's how you felt starting to say it to people Okay. becausecause it was getting really bad. and I was getting to the point where I was like, I don't w want to book a dinner for that week because I'll be on really bad form But it's really specific what you were feeling. So for me I mean, my PMS was literally from the minute I ovulated So I was put on the pill as well, because I was getting I was getting chronic PMS. So I was put on the pill in my teens. We didn't know anything else back then, you know, I'm fifty three now. So this is like in my teens. And I was put on the pill, but it was literally just sticky tape. And then I came off the pill a few years later. I am telling you the rebound was horrific. My PMS destroyed two weeks of my cycle. I mean, I just couldn't I couldn't go out couldn't do anything brain fog, Achy neck. I mean, literally, I felt like I was ding likeike just felt really spacy Ay and so once my period came, my period was not my problem. once my period came, everything was much better. my periods come, you know. But the PMS was horrific for two weeks from the min up. And then my cycle was twenty six days. That's a classifictern dominance thing. So it come aroundound again I know really all that until and so I went to u Eventually, I came off the pill. The rebound was horrific and that can happen. Unfortunate girls listening will know that when they come off the pill, whichich is why it so often they're scared to come off So this happened to me and then my mother took me to what she called was, I mean, she could not understand. she'd never had problems. She could not understand what this PMS was. She thought I was making up. I'm telling you, you don't make up this stuff. So we went to what she called was a quack She's actually very famous and pioneered the use of progesterone called Dr. Kataterina Dalton She took me to her and I was prescribed four hundred milligram pessaries of vaginal pessaries for progesterone didn't work becausecause back in day, anyone that sort did know a little bit about estroen dominance thought it was just low progesterone. No one was talking about you know high estrogen or not clearing your estrogen. And it wasn't until I discovered that a few years later and I went to a functional medicine practitioner And I got on Liver detox support. I got on DM I changed my diet, I had Canada as well. so I had to cut out all like sugars and lower carbohydrate, which wasn't great because I lost about half a stone, which I couldn't do, couldouldn't afford to do really, but Within three cycles and I've been struggling for years within three cycles, I no longer had PMS. My God, I know That's not normal, as you say. No, it's not. I mean, for most girls that come to us, they have got they might have heavy periods, slightly painful, but nothing nothing that you know so extreme. It shouldn't be that extreme. So what we do is we focus on things like eastern detoxification because endo adeno fibrosidros, all these sorts of things are estrogen dependent. we make sure that we help them detox their estrogen because you have to detox it through the liver. And that's really connected with things like PMS, any menstrual irregularities. lookook at progesterone as well levels and check thyroid. Thyroid' so important. I'm seeing more and more girls with low thyroid. and Big sign and a big symptom of low thyroid is fatigue And I think again, like you said, you put up with it And you think, oh no, I'm fine. Another symptom is low ferritin and low iron and they're getting iron infusions, but no one's getting to the root cause. It's crazy. it It's g crazy, these like iron tablets or iron infusions. But why Why Why are was everyone getting thid? So I've got a low thyroid, which ye I discovered I obviously had tests and we discovered it. But the frustrating thing with that is the doctor said to me, No your thyroid iss absolutely fine and said me on my merry wayay. and then pl look at her do. she was said, No no, no Noow thyroid pothyroid. We need to sort that out. It drives me n actually. honestly The amount of women, I get DMs every day comments on my Instagram from women saying, you know, my doctor, these are my results. My doctor' turned me away says, I'm absolutely fine. You know, they're in tears. They're absute tears. I mean, it's just, quite frankly, it's a shit show. The thyroid care. And And that's then linking on to all these other vide everything that we have going on. Thyroid is everything So fatigue, low thyroid, for cold hand and feet as well feel I have had Yeah. That's a classic brainard thing and people I did have one person say to me a few years ago Go get your thyroid check. It was a girl called Ella Ross I went to school with her. She replied to she was like, babe, I think you've got a thyroid problem. Really? My mum has the same thing and they found that she has low thyroid And I just ignored that And I know you've been trying to get me to do thyroidis for years and I've just not bered toast. I't know why. a pie ofaper for so many fucking problems. I know o at hair loss as well. that's so distressing, honestly. so the women who come and see us in clinic. who are losing her. are so distressed. It's soagining It's horrible. Be I mean, so they will be, it might be they're washing their hair every other day. pulling out clumps. Some women obviously have thick hair. They might not notice it, but they're washing their hair every other day and they just feel, o, there's more coming out. Well you can see it in the plug hole in the shower. You would notice. And then out a third of eyebrow. I mean, gosh my eybrows Have you noticed my eyebrows have come back? No, you probably wouldn't anyway they're looking thicker. My thyroid crashed a bit in the winter. Oh my goodness. Another thyroidmptom I have't l thyroid symptom I haven't mention puffy face and under the eyes. I mean, literally puffy and fat. and puffy my daughter, she didn't want to say anything. I wish she had because honestly, I was just thinking, I've got to go for thyroid test, and I was busy I hadn't really noticed. It happened really quickly And she didn't want to say anything because she just thought my fat face was to do with perimenophause. She was thinking, Ohh God, this is what's gonna to happen to me. I'm gonna end! Y she did. I can't I wish you said that fast. It was really fast because I was getting to later perimenopause, my estrogen was declining and these things quite often happen together. And I kept thinking I'm going to test my bloods in, you know, and I'd stopped taking my body temperature. I was just busy and then it was the last episode of my podcast that I do with Victoria Woodorm. And we did it in person. This is just before I tested my thyroid. I was testing it the next day. We did it in person. I'm so embarrassed, honestly. becausecause it's the only in person we we did, only in person one we did and it was Zoom. sorry, we normally do Zoom and this one was actually sort of in person, my face was just so puffy and fat I literally don't want to like I don't want to repost any of the clips. It's just like, but there is one pinned actually on my on my Instagram how puffy it was. And no joke. when I got to the right, we used thyroid glandulas and clin which you're on. So it's a whole desiccated thyroid. It's what they used to use before thyroxin So we've got fluoride and chlorine bromides, they all sort of compete with iodine. So we need iodine for good thyroid function. Actually it's good for the ovaries as well. And breast tissue. U so we need iodine. Oh I think actually aligned perfectly where my Dutch results came back within two days of me having this endoiagnosis. And then it literally like married up perfectly, didn't it? And then my thyroid results married up perfectly. So what we're seeing is we're measuring your hormones and then the metabolites, that's once they've gone through the liver So we're seeing the whole journey. So what's got to tissue level rather than a blood test, which is just serum So it's a dry urine test. So we're seeing what you've actually used and got rid of. And we're measuring as well cortisol and then we've got organic acids like B vitamins, melatonin, various neurotransmitters as well. I mean, herbs are lovely. like hererbal teas. Yeah. I think things I do you say herbal teas because I know there's this whole thing like you can get the plastic free teaabag, but then the plastic free tea bag is sealed With glue, which is also toxants the best thing to do is loose leaf tea Yeaho back to the basics. Iy so I have all these lovely pots, like little apothecary because I know my sort of herbs, I've studied herbs. and in my kitchen all the different herbs. And actually in my hormones book at the back, we have a lot of herbal teas, but it's all fresh well dried herbs, should I say? it's all dried herbs and it's like teaspoon of this teaspoon of that. You can buy on Amazon these cute little glass teapots which have a strainer Yeah like a stainless steel strainer in it. and I just use those. We have all different pots. I love a loose sleef. So I think people can start on things like You know, sleepy ones. you've got Valerian, you've got Camomile, passionflower So there were some lovely, lovely herbs and then detoxy dandelelion milk thisle. And that helps the liver. Yeah. ye. But it's interesting because You'll never know that if you didn't know, if you didn't have the MRI, didn't then have the ultrasound Imagine if you hadn't and you didn't know all these things and you just went on and The baby That would be fantastic. but what if since doing all the dM oping that NAC that might prevent it from growing further. It is growing quite fast my endometrioma. So DM is from cruciferous vegetables, which is why I'm always saying to eat cruciferous vegetables. It's a compound that's taken from the helps detoxify estrogen I didn't know that. I thought it was some funky pink It's like a sort of paleale peachy pink. I don't know why I imagined it be. No, you know. And then NAC is the precursor to glutathine, which is our body's master antioxidant that we can make for you less so. Knowledge is power and it' not it's upset me that it's there. It's not really upset me that I found out about it because I'm so optimistic and I know there's so much Like I believe so much in what you do And I think it's so powerful. So I think it's just if anything, I'm relieved that I know because I'm like at least I'm doing everything I can now to combat it. whereereas I might have just left it for another four years and just thought I'll be fine to have a baby and then it might be too late So I think What we would have done is, and look, I'm not saying you should or you shouldn't, I don't know the answer here, but I think we would have what we would have done is just focused on your cycle. We would have seen, right, you're thirty to thirty five days. what's happening here? We've done your Dutch test, your lower progesterone. We would have just, that's what we would have done Anyway would have focused on that. so we would have got there. Shall we get into the dilemmas irs I'm wring him because I'm hoping I'm not the only one who feels like this For about a week before my period, every single month, I genuinely feel like a different person I can go from being completely fine to crying because someone looked at me the wrong way, getting irrationally annoyed at things that normally wouldn't bother me, and feeling so exhausted that I could sleep for a week The frustrating thing is that I know it's hormonal, but in the moment it feels so real. I'll convince myself my friends are annoyed at me, that my relationship is doomed and I'm failing at work. and then a few days later my period arrives and suddenly everything seems normal again It's like spending one week every month battling my own brain I've tried all the obious things, eating better, drinking more water exercising, getting more sleep, but I still seem to get hit by the same emotional roller coaster every month Some months are more manageable, but other months I honestly wonder how women are expected to just carry on as normal. I'd love to know if either of you have experienced this and also what you or any of the tinies have found helpful Have supplements, lifyle changes, hormone tests or treatments genuinely made a difference? orr is this just something that we all secretly struggle with every month Please tell me I'm not the only one feeling personally victimized by my own hormones. No Poor thing. I mean, it's horrific. and no people shouldn't be silently suffering and this is not normal. So the first thing she said she's made dietary changes, which is really good, but I would focus on cruciferous vegetables, particularly during that time broccoli Broccoli sprouts is like they're like a superpower U Two tablespoons of broccoli sprouts. You can grow them. I don't have green fingers, so I buy them from my local organic delivery. I buy them and every time there's mold on them That's awful. every single time they're within date, but there's little white bits of growth. Always on m. Yeah, see if it is definitely mold on them, do you think? The Innet I don't know who to ask, but the internet said very common to get mold on it. so I st they can. Yeah. I mean the ones I get actually are fine, but I'm not sure where you get it from and how if they're keeping it a bit warm. You can honestly, you can grow them I see I because I get them so easily locally, but you can you can get grow kits So I think but you've got rocket, water creress cabbage, cauliflower, all these cruciferous vegetables are very powerful for detoxing estrogen. And this is what I think is going on with her. And we see this in Cana all the time So focus on those, also then blood sugar during this time. So make sure that you're having twenty to thirty grams of protein at each meal. It could be like a chicken breast or a fish fillet or something like that, eggs or breakfast. That's really important to balance blood sugar during that time. Also, I have blogs on my website. you can read more and do the Mabolic types quiz, which gives more information there as well and the right supplements to take, so my detox supplement really good. and I think try seed cycling as well. I would. I'd really try that. I do think most people don't feel fab the week before their period, but feeling This shit is When you feel that bad, that's not normal. And she's right. You know when you're right. Yeah. You know when you're right that it is hormonal. So she's right But just remember to also tell yourself this is hormonal and I'm going to get to the bottom of it and you're going to be doing everything you can and that's fine. Okay, love you so much. goodood luck. Dilemma two. Hi girls. I need some advice lately. I've completely lost my confidence when it comes to my skin. No matter what I do, I can't seem to get on top of it. Some weeks it's painful breakouts, other weeks it's redness, oily patches or just looking tired all the time The thing is, I'm convinced it's linked to my hormones because it seems to flare up at certain points in my cycle and then settle down again. You see, she knows her hormones. Only to come back the following month. I've fallen down the skincare rabbit hole trying to fix it, bought serums, creams, masks and every product social media has promise would transform my skin, but nothing works. The more I've looked into it, the more I've started wondering whether the problem isn't actually my skincare routine at all. I've heard people talk about hormonal acne and hormone imbalances. I'd love to know if either of you have experienced anything similar and what has helped. Is this something lots of women go through? Yeah. They do, but again, it's not normal. She knows it's hormonal. it is hormonal because she says it's linked to her cycle. So two things with skin issues and hormonal acne You've got androgens, so that's like testosterone. So you've got excess androgens and excess estrogen. So again, same advice for her in terms of if it's estrogen dominance, then all those cruciferous vegetables that I've talked about and the broccoli sprouts, eating lots of those to help with that estrogen detoxification, protein as well to balance blood sugar She's already tried the skincare and again, that's what people do. They end up buying a load spending a fortune on skincare. and that's not the problem. Supporting liver, again, detox teeth because you've got to detox your androgens, you've got to detox your estrogen Ground flax seeds, so seed cycling or just using ground flax seeds, great for anrogens. Then a nice liver detox te with dandelion and milk thistle in, really good as well. So I would start there, but to me it sounds like she knows it's hormonal. It's definitely linked with her cycle. Okay And then in terms of what you're putting on your skin, definitely stop all those million different products. I see something called a corneotherapist, which is someone who studies all of the layers of the skin. It's not like a dermatologist, which is just like top layer. and it's very holistic and they normally use products that are They're normally like from Germany, for example, so I have these products called Dermovigils that come from Germany. There's like three or four ingredients per product. They're incredible. Just get on Google, wherever you live and type in corneotherapist near me, do some research. and I would find someone that can help you with the out of bit as well because you've probably got a bit of a damaged barrier as well if you're using all these different products be a good place to start in terms of skincare, I would say as well. Okay, thank you so much, Pippa. Thank you. Amazing and so interesting. And if anyone wants to find Pippa, there's a website. 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I know, I'm honestly such a I mean, I've always been so into. I'm like if anyone could see my morning routine, it's so weird, honest You've got the face mask on, you've got red light, you got the panel of the red light and I stand in front of it with like every morning, it's amazing Anyway, u yeah, thank you so so much. Bye, thank you. Bye