WEBVTT - Nutrition Hotline with Dr Libby, Nutritional Biochemist ☎️ 0:00:00.560 --> 0:00:03.640 I'd like to acknowledge the traditional owners on which this 0:00:03.720 --> 0:00:08.160 episode is being recorded, the combo marry people. We pay 0:00:08.320 --> 0:00:12.360 our respects to elders past, present and emerging, and extend 0:00:12.480 --> 0:00:16.520 that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. 0:00:16.560 --> 0:00:24.279 Today I'm your host, Georgie Stevenson, and this is the 0:00:24.400 --> 0:00:32.080 Rise and Conquer podcast. This is the podcast where which 0:00:32.120 --> 0:00:36.560 have mindset, self development and becoming your higher self mix 0:00:36.600 --> 0:00:39.440 soon with a lot of laughs, plus behind the scenes 0:00:39.479 --> 0:00:43.040 of my life running two businesses and being among Think 0:00:43.080 --> 0:00:45.599 of us as the perfect combo of brunch with your 0:00:45.640 --> 0:00:49.239 besties mixed with self development. No matter where you are 0:00:49.320 --> 0:00:52.040 in your journey, We're here to help you be curious, 0:00:52.280 --> 0:00:57.880 pull yourself out, and embrace radical self awareness. If you're 0:00:57.920 --> 0:01:00.280 ready to get into the driver's seat of your own 0:01:00.360 --> 0:01:03.600 life and stop letting life past you by, then you're 0:01:03.640 --> 0:01:11.160 in the right place. Hey everybody, and welcome back to 0:01:11.160 --> 0:01:15.039 the RNC potty. Oh my god, today do we have 0:01:15.120 --> 0:01:16.200 an episode for you? 0:01:16.520 --> 0:01:17.760 It's so good. 0:01:18.280 --> 0:01:22.920 Me and it here are both obsessed with Doctor Libby. 0:01:23.360 --> 0:01:23.440 So. 0:01:23.600 --> 0:01:28.160 Doctor Libby is a nutritional biochemist. She is a thirteen 0:01:28.240 --> 0:01:33.560 time best selling author and international acclaimed speaker. We are 0:01:33.840 --> 0:01:37.920 so grateful to have her on the potty. This interview 0:01:38.120 --> 0:01:40.200 was done a little bit differently. We thought it would 0:01:40.240 --> 0:01:43.679 be a bit of fun to do a GE's hotline, 0:01:43.760 --> 0:01:46.600 but with doctor Libby. So basically we just quick fired 0:01:47.200 --> 0:01:50.040 all your health questions. We put them in the Facebook. 0:01:50.080 --> 0:01:52.640 Of course, got you guys to get involved. If you're 0:01:52.640 --> 0:01:55.720 not in the Facebook, come and join us. And oh 0:01:55.760 --> 0:01:58.720 my god, she is a wealth of knowledge, isn't she 0:01:59.240 --> 0:02:02.760 just like amazing And I love she did speak about 0:02:02.760 --> 0:02:05.040 it in the interview, but I love how she approaches 0:02:05.120 --> 0:02:09.440 everything very holistically, which I find is tends to be 0:02:09.520 --> 0:02:11.600 more rare in the health and fitness industry. 0:02:11.720 --> 0:02:14.239 And she says she does it from three pillars, which 0:02:14.280 --> 0:02:18.840 is psychological, emotional, and scientific, And I feel like it 0:02:19.000 --> 0:02:21.880 just makes everything so like easy to understand. 0:02:22.120 --> 0:02:25.640 Yeah, so digestible and a big thing I noticed And 0:02:25.720 --> 0:02:28.839 what I loved and I think you guys will absolutely love, 0:02:29.600 --> 0:02:33.160 is she's a little bit woo woo, yes, so good. 0:02:33.680 --> 0:02:36.240 Like she broad in some things about you know, you 0:02:36.280 --> 0:02:38.560 guys will hear that, like, you know, I've got health 0:02:38.600 --> 0:02:42.760 and how much you know, like our concept of self 0:02:43.400 --> 0:02:46.480 like deals with that and I had never ever hurt 0:02:46.600 --> 0:02:51.000 someone who is more scientifically based, like talk in that way, 0:02:51.080 --> 0:02:53.600 and it was so beautiful and I think it's also 0:02:54.200 --> 0:02:57.000 you guys will like listen to this episode. You'll feel 0:02:57.000 --> 0:03:00.680 her energy and also you'll be like, oh wow, I 0:03:00.680 --> 0:03:04.200 can actually see things, you know, from her point of view, 0:03:04.240 --> 0:03:08.079 but also yeah, be able to understand and digest it. 0:03:08.280 --> 0:03:09.560 Yes, it's amazing. 0:03:09.960 --> 0:03:12.360 So today we're chatting about We asked her a whole 0:03:12.360 --> 0:03:14.399 heap of questions, but just a couple is like how 0:03:14.400 --> 0:03:18.320 to eat for your hormones, eating around your cycle? She 0:03:18.480 --> 0:03:21.360 answers the This was like one of the most asked 0:03:21.400 --> 0:03:23.560 questions of the Facebook, and he was so surprised, but 0:03:23.600 --> 0:03:25.639 then it made a lot of sense. Yeah, I was 0:03:25.680 --> 0:03:27.240 a bit shocked. I didn't know what she was going 0:03:27.320 --> 0:03:30.000 to say, but I'm so happy with her answer. But 0:03:30.600 --> 0:03:34.519 how bad dairy actually is and just which milk is best? 0:03:35.760 --> 0:03:38.440 It takes such a big question, eh, And then also 0:03:38.480 --> 0:03:40.520 you know how to eat for your gut and so 0:03:40.800 --> 0:03:44.760 much more. She also answered some really good questions around sugar, 0:03:45.280 --> 0:03:47.800 what it actually does to our bodies, how we can 0:03:47.840 --> 0:03:52.400 minimize it. And I didn't really understand like whyologically what 0:03:53.040 --> 0:03:55.480 like goes on and it was like so mind blowing. 0:03:56.080 --> 0:03:57.440 So yeah, that was really that was one of my 0:03:57.480 --> 0:03:58.720 favorite parts of the interview too. 0:03:58.600 --> 0:04:01.720 Mine too. I love how she was talking about sugar 0:04:01.760 --> 0:04:05.840 and she actually launched a sugar course that I've been 0:04:05.880 --> 0:04:07.920 doing and I think you've been doing it as well 0:04:07.920 --> 0:04:08.360 as Georgy. 0:04:09.080 --> 0:04:10.280 Let's talk about the sugar cost. 0:04:10.400 --> 0:04:15.680 Yeah, I loved it because she I personally love sugar 0:04:16.040 --> 0:04:19.920 like I love it, my chocolate I have like I love, 0:04:20.120 --> 0:04:22.800 I love sweet things, I have a sweet tooth. But 0:04:23.480 --> 0:04:27.480 I didn't realize how dependent I was on sugar and 0:04:27.520 --> 0:04:30.360 how much it controlled me. And I wanted to take 0:04:30.400 --> 0:04:33.479 that control back. Like I don't want to cut sugar out. 0:04:33.640 --> 0:04:36.000 I'm not that person, but I do want to have 0:04:36.080 --> 0:04:38.560 control over when I eat it and I don't want 0:04:38.600 --> 0:04:40.960 to crave it. And I think that's what drew me 0:04:41.000 --> 0:04:44.320 to the course, her course so much, because even though 0:04:44.360 --> 0:04:47.360 it is more like of a shake off sugar, that's 0:04:47.360 --> 0:04:51.400 what it's called as well, it's more about having the 0:04:51.440 --> 0:04:54.080 power to decide how much you want. 0:04:54.320 --> 0:04:56.680 Well. I so I've been doing the course soon fuck it. 0:04:56.680 --> 0:04:59.039 It's good. It's also good because, like I know, the 0:04:59.040 --> 0:05:02.640 first video is but then the next one's like they come, 0:05:02.839 --> 0:05:04.640 they're a lot shorter, and I felt like I could 0:05:04.720 --> 0:05:07.400 like digest it really easy. Yeah, but like I think 0:05:07.400 --> 0:05:09.400 one of them was like four minutes long, Yeah, which 0:05:09.440 --> 0:05:14.599 is really great. We're tied. Yeah, But what I really 0:05:14.720 --> 0:05:19.880 liked is for me personally, when I have awareness about 0:05:19.920 --> 0:05:23.080 what something is. Because if you just tell me sugar 0:05:23.160 --> 0:05:25.640 is bad, don't have it it? Will you know this 0:05:25.760 --> 0:05:28.440 and that, Like that's not really gonna get me. But 0:05:28.880 --> 0:05:33.560 if you give me awareness what actually is happening, and 0:05:33.800 --> 0:05:36.800 also tell me like a lot of things of did 0:05:36.839 --> 0:05:39.160 you know you know when you have sugar at this time, 0:05:39.360 --> 0:05:42.320 or you know, like the different things like that where 0:05:42.360 --> 0:05:46.240 I'm like when I'm then having three sugars in my coffee, 0:05:46.520 --> 0:05:51.279 I'm like, hmm, this is half of what today. This 0:05:51.440 --> 0:05:56.120 is so interesting step into curiosity because we're not doing 0:05:56.120 --> 0:05:58.600 shame here and I can just be so much more 0:05:58.640 --> 0:06:01.400 conscious And then again, like you a tire, actually make 0:06:01.480 --> 0:06:04.560 the decision for myself, because if someone tells me cut 0:06:04.560 --> 0:06:07.359 out sugar, I'm like no. But if you tell me, 0:06:07.640 --> 0:06:09.560 you know, give me a lot of information, and then 0:06:09.560 --> 0:06:12.039 you're like, you do what's best for you? Yeah, what 0:06:12.080 --> 0:06:14.520 do you think I'm gonna pick Yes, Aly, she can't 0:06:14.520 --> 0:06:17.360 mind fucking us little bit she is and I love it. Yeah. 0:06:17.400 --> 0:06:19.680 So on that note, did we end up getting a 0:06:19.720 --> 0:06:22.560 code for the course tier? Yes, we did, all right, 0:06:22.680 --> 0:06:24.400 go ahead share it away. 0:06:24.200 --> 0:06:26.719 Because we loved it so much. We did ask doctor 0:06:26.760 --> 0:06:29.279 Libby if there was a possibility of getting a discount 0:06:29.360 --> 0:06:30.440 code for you. 0:06:30.200 --> 0:06:32.840 All, we know you love a dissy. Yeah, and she's 0:06:33.040 --> 0:06:33.520 very kind. 0:06:33.600 --> 0:06:36.000 She's given us a discount code so you can use 0:06:36.040 --> 0:06:39.159 Georgie ten at checkout for ten percent off the next 0:06:39.200 --> 0:06:42.120 intake of the course, which is on March twenty seventh. 0:06:42.480 --> 0:06:44.839 We'll pop the link to like the infra page for 0:06:44.880 --> 0:06:48.200 the course and all of that in show notes. But honestly, 0:06:48.200 --> 0:06:51.640 couldn't recommend it enough. I have already learned so much, 0:06:51.640 --> 0:06:54.160 and we're only at the end of the first phase 0:06:54.760 --> 0:06:56.600 of the course at the moment, and we still got 0:06:56.640 --> 0:06:58.279 two more to go, and I'm so excited. 0:06:58.480 --> 0:07:01.520 Yeah, I'm really excited for the second phase. Weekly Wrecks 0:07:01.760 --> 0:07:02.320 U go first. 0:07:02.520 --> 0:07:06.000 I am struggling on the recommendations front at the moment, 0:07:06.160 --> 0:07:10.160 but I would like to recommend watching We shared it 0:07:10.200 --> 0:07:14.600 on Instagram. The Oscar Winners speeches that were done, particularly 0:07:14.640 --> 0:07:18.280 by Michelle Yeo, And I apologize if I'm mispronouncing his name, 0:07:18.320 --> 0:07:24.120 but kihoy Kwon I they are the most expanding speeches 0:07:24.240 --> 0:07:26.720 I think I've heard in such a long time. And 0:07:27.120 --> 0:07:29.760 I've gone into like, oh, I haven't gone in a 0:07:29.760 --> 0:07:31.680 deep dive, but a lot of their tiktoks have been 0:07:31.680 --> 0:07:33.880 coming up now because I've been interacting with that content 0:07:33.960 --> 0:07:36.360 and just hearing more about their stories and what they 0:07:36.400 --> 0:07:39.520 went through. And he had his health insurance taken away 0:07:39.520 --> 0:07:42.160 from him at one point because he wasn't booking enough work, 0:07:42.400 --> 0:07:46.320 and he came he went to America's refugee and it's 0:07:46.440 --> 0:07:49.480 just like insane to think that, oh my gosh, like 0:07:49.520 --> 0:07:53.000 he's winning an Oscar now, so literally anything can happen. 0:07:53.400 --> 0:07:54.240 So incredible. 0:07:54.400 --> 0:07:57.960 Yeah, So I think just like I guess my recommendation 0:07:58.120 --> 0:08:01.040 is exposed yourself to some expense content this week. 0:08:01.120 --> 0:08:03.559 I think I love that so much. Yeah, what's yours? 0:08:04.160 --> 0:08:09.440 I'm gonna go a bit rokier and I think like 0:08:09.640 --> 0:08:12.840 I am going on a bit of a lots of 0:08:12.960 --> 0:08:16.080 journey's happening right now. But as you guys know, like 0:08:16.120 --> 0:08:18.640 I got a personal coach, like a business a business 0:08:18.680 --> 0:08:21.080 mentor so I've been going on that journey. But then 0:08:21.200 --> 0:08:24.080 also it has been bringing up a lot of you know, 0:08:24.200 --> 0:08:28.400 stuff about even just like me personally, like with my health. 0:08:28.640 --> 0:08:30.800 And then so now I've also got like a health 0:08:30.880 --> 0:08:34.520 coach and he's been helping me a lot. And my 0:08:34.800 --> 0:08:39.000 wreck for the week is like, know that you can 0:08:39.160 --> 0:08:41.839 do things differently, so bear with me. I'm going to 0:08:41.880 --> 0:08:45.400 get to the point. So, for example, with my health coach, 0:08:45.559 --> 0:08:48.240 I've actually been working with him in a very unique way. 0:08:48.720 --> 0:08:50.800 So he's like he's a bit of a fitness bro. 0:08:52.280 --> 0:08:55.600 I love that. He would probably feel like, oh my god, 0:08:55.679 --> 0:08:57.760 don't call me that, but he's a bit of a 0:08:57.800 --> 0:09:01.160 fitness bow. And like I'm guessing with his other clients, 0:09:01.240 --> 0:09:05.000 like they do micros and it's like that sort of shit. Yeah, 0:09:05.040 --> 0:09:07.800 and like that's just not my vibe. I don't really 0:09:07.880 --> 0:09:10.840 want to be weighing my food and doing that. It's 0:09:11.200 --> 0:09:13.040 it's just I don't want to do it. And also 0:09:13.320 --> 0:09:15.600 not to say I won't do it in the future, 0:09:15.960 --> 0:09:19.719 like I probably won't, but I'm like, I don't want 0:09:19.720 --> 0:09:21.960 to be like that person who's like really against something 0:09:22.000 --> 0:09:24.960 and if you do it, amazing, But I was just like, Oh, 0:09:25.000 --> 0:09:28.400 so what I'm actually needing. And I had a conversation 0:09:28.480 --> 0:09:30.560 with him and I was like, so, what I'm actually 0:09:30.600 --> 0:09:34.320 needing is almost like an accountability buddy beg clues. What 0:09:34.559 --> 0:09:37.760 happens with me is I have a lot of the 0:09:37.840 --> 0:09:40.400 knowledge and also like I've done a lot of things 0:09:40.440 --> 0:09:42.520 where it's like I know generally how I should be 0:09:42.520 --> 0:09:45.120 eating a complete meal. I know, you know, the cubs 0:09:45.120 --> 0:09:48.440 and fats and proteins and different things, but when I 0:09:48.480 --> 0:09:53.000 get busy at work, I resort to going to the 0:09:53.040 --> 0:09:57.800 easiest and fastest option. And I kind of, you know, 0:09:57.960 --> 0:10:01.640 I want to strengthen being that person who doesn't do that, 0:10:02.679 --> 0:10:06.000 but in order to do that, I needed some help. Yeah, 0:10:06.040 --> 0:10:08.280 And so I kind of said to him like I 0:10:08.360 --> 0:10:09.880 kind of want to work a bit different and I 0:10:09.920 --> 0:10:12.840 don't want to like fucking do the macros and stuff, 0:10:13.280 --> 0:10:15.760 but I literally just want to And also I don't 0:10:15.800 --> 0:10:18.400 want you to give me a meal plan because that's 0:10:18.440 --> 0:10:19.560 also not the vibe for me. 0:10:19.960 --> 0:10:21.960 It's like I want to eat what I want when 0:10:22.000 --> 0:10:23.319 I want, yes, yeah, but. 0:10:23.679 --> 0:10:27.400 I want some direction. So how I actually work with him? 0:10:27.840 --> 0:10:29.520 And actually I'll just give him a quick shout out 0:10:29.559 --> 0:10:34.680 shout out to j Fizzle. His name is actually Jared Wills, 0:10:34.720 --> 0:10:39.080 but we'll call him Jay Fizzle. So I'll put his 0:10:39.160 --> 0:10:42.120 little thing in the bio. Okay, is that a bio? 0:10:42.640 --> 0:10:43.920 Show notes show notes. 0:10:44.080 --> 0:10:46.080 I'll put his little link in the show notes Jared. 0:10:46.480 --> 0:10:49.960 So how I work with Jared is I actually just 0:10:50.160 --> 0:10:54.600 send him my meals and then he gives me feedback 0:10:54.800 --> 0:10:55.600 after the fact. 0:10:56.040 --> 0:10:56.800 I love that. 0:10:57.240 --> 0:10:59.680 So we have that little like fitness app, we fucking 0:10:59.720 --> 0:11:04.160 inter and it's like you know, Breakfast and chain of 0:11:04.240 --> 0:11:08.920 Russ and then he will be like, hey, like if 0:11:08.960 --> 0:11:10.920 I've sent it to him in real time, he can 0:11:10.920 --> 0:11:13.360 give me real time feedback of like you need to 0:11:13.360 --> 0:11:15.960 add protein in. And this is the huge thing that 0:11:16.000 --> 0:11:18.880 I've like noticed is like my protein lax, which is 0:11:18.920 --> 0:11:23.400 funny because like I own a protein which he throws 0:11:23.440 --> 0:11:27.000 in my face and just have a shake. You have 0:11:27.040 --> 0:11:29.439 a million usually And you know what else, I fucking 0:11:29.480 --> 0:11:32.320 love He's so brutal with me. He's so savage, and 0:11:32.360 --> 0:11:35.360 I love it. And then you know he can tell 0:11:35.360 --> 0:11:37.840 me in real time or even because sometimes that's just 0:11:37.880 --> 0:11:40.520 not feasible because I'm so fucking busy. Yeah, and I 0:11:40.520 --> 0:11:42.680 will send it in the app like after hours and 0:11:42.720 --> 0:11:44.840 then he can give me some feedback back and after 0:11:44.880 --> 0:11:49.040 the week. And it's not the quickest way because it 0:11:49.160 --> 0:11:51.360 is quite slow because we're like going back and forth 0:11:51.480 --> 0:11:54.200 sometimes like I've really fucking eaten the stuff in the 0:11:54.240 --> 0:11:55.920 day and it's like I should have added protein all 0:11:55.960 --> 0:11:59.400 this and that. But I'm learning and I'm also able 0:11:59.520 --> 0:12:02.760 to do things in a way that works for me 0:12:03.000 --> 0:12:06.520 and my lifestyle. And I think sometimes we get stuck 0:12:06.600 --> 0:12:08.280 in the oh, well, I want to get a PT 0:12:08.440 --> 0:12:10.320 or I want to get a coach, but I don't 0:12:10.400 --> 0:12:11.880 want to have to weigh my meals and I don't 0:12:11.880 --> 0:12:14.680 want to have to do this, so it's automatically, automatically 0:12:14.720 --> 0:12:18.520 you cancel them out. And so a big wreck from 0:12:18.559 --> 0:12:22.000 me this week is, you know, if you do want 0:12:22.040 --> 0:12:24.720 to evolve and you do want like help along the journey, 0:12:24.880 --> 0:12:29.079 is like asked to do things differently because it can 0:12:29.120 --> 0:12:32.280 look different for you. And it's also fine if it's 0:12:32.320 --> 0:12:35.240 slower or it's like not the quote unquote how it's 0:12:35.240 --> 0:12:38.280 supposed to be, because if it works for you, it's 0:12:38.320 --> 0:12:40.719 actually going to be sustainable and you're actually going to 0:12:40.800 --> 0:12:43.280 be able to stick to it. And I find like 0:12:43.440 --> 0:12:47.040 with how we've been working together, I'm able to I 0:12:47.120 --> 0:12:48.760 do things in my way and I feel like I'm 0:12:48.880 --> 0:12:51.120 learning a lot and i feel like I'm making really 0:12:51.160 --> 0:12:55.760 great changes, even though like they're very incremental. Yeah, but 0:12:55.840 --> 0:12:57.880 it's like that's what I'm like, Oh, that's the vibe 0:12:57.920 --> 0:13:00.920 for me, and that's fine. Whereas for example, I might 0:13:01.000 --> 0:13:03.320 have you know, my business coach and fucking work really 0:13:03.320 --> 0:13:05.559 fast or like work in a different way. But it's 0:13:05.600 --> 0:13:09.040 like having the autonomy of like knowing you can do 0:13:09.120 --> 0:13:11.800 things in a different way. They get to look different 0:13:11.800 --> 0:13:14.280 and it might just be having that conversation with that person, 0:13:14.880 --> 0:13:18.920 so like really random outside the box. 0:13:19.440 --> 0:13:43.760 But yeah, anyway, let's get into the episode. 0:13:33.280 --> 0:13:37.680 Doctor Libby. Welcome to the Rights and Conquer Podcasts. 0:13:37.720 --> 0:13:39.880 Georgie. It's a joy to join you. Thank you so 0:13:40.000 --> 0:13:40.720 much for having me. 0:13:41.400 --> 0:13:46.000 We are so excited. I'm actually I'm a huge fan 0:13:46.120 --> 0:13:47.559 and I've got like all your books. 0:13:49.600 --> 0:13:52.199 That's so sweet that I hope they're useful. 0:13:52.960 --> 0:13:55.880 They're so useful, and I feel like I found you 0:13:56.080 --> 0:13:59.800 years and years ago when I was really you know, 0:14:00.040 --> 0:14:03.800 getting into my health journey and really figuring out what 0:14:04.040 --> 0:14:08.079 health meant for me and you know, getting away from 0:14:08.320 --> 0:14:10.560 diet culture and that sort of thing, and I just 0:14:10.920 --> 0:14:14.440 I found your books and your approach to everything so 0:14:14.559 --> 0:14:17.480 well rounded, and I love I was dealing with like 0:14:17.520 --> 0:14:21.320 a hormone imbalance at the time, and so I loved 0:14:21.800 --> 0:14:24.920 your information and just how you said it in such 0:14:24.920 --> 0:14:28.000 a way that I could like digest and really you know, 0:14:28.120 --> 0:14:31.120 resonate with. So yeah, I'm really excited for this. 0:14:32.240 --> 0:14:34.920 Oh, thank you so much. That's really that's really lovely. 0:14:35.480 --> 0:14:36.240 So first of. 0:14:36.200 --> 0:14:40.840 All, before we get into the hotline questions. Our community 0:14:41.520 --> 0:14:45.360 was so excited, got quite a few health questions. We're 0:14:45.400 --> 0:14:47.400 all a bit of a on a healthcare right now. 0:14:47.680 --> 0:14:49.480 But before we get into that, do you want to 0:14:49.560 --> 0:14:52.080 just give us a quick intro in your own words 0:14:52.120 --> 0:14:53.840 of who you are and what you do? 0:14:54.440 --> 0:14:56.040 Oh? Thank you? Sure. Yeah. 0:14:56.080 --> 0:15:00.120 So I grew up in tamworin Country, New South Wales, Australia. 0:15:00.440 --> 0:15:02.160 My office right now is in burly Heads on the 0:15:02.160 --> 0:15:05.080 Gold Coast, which is obviously. 0:15:04.840 --> 0:15:06.200 Gorgeous spot that we all love. 0:15:06.560 --> 0:15:08.840 But I went to university for fourteen years, which I 0:15:08.880 --> 0:15:11.600 know makes me sound really thick and like I failed everything, 0:15:11.720 --> 0:15:14.240 but I very much loved learning and I still do. 0:15:14.320 --> 0:15:16.880 So I originally studied nutrition and dietetics and then did 0:15:16.880 --> 0:15:19.640 honors and then did a PhD in biochemistry. So there's 0:15:19.640 --> 0:15:22.840 lots of science in my background. But since then, I've 0:15:22.840 --> 0:15:25.400 worked with people one on one for about twenty three 0:15:25.520 --> 0:15:28.960 twenty four years, and that's where you get to see 0:15:28.960 --> 0:15:31.800 what really makes a difference in people's lives. And I've 0:15:31.840 --> 0:15:35.560 combined my twenty plus years of clinical experience with my 0:15:35.680 --> 0:15:38.640 fourteen years at UNI to create what I call my 0:15:38.680 --> 0:15:42.080 three pillar approach. And those three pillars are the biochemical, the. 0:15:42.120 --> 0:15:45.360 Nutritional, and the emotional. So I look at absolutely everything 0:15:45.680 --> 0:15:46.920 through those three lenses. 0:15:47.760 --> 0:15:51.280 That's amazing, and I think that's why, you know, I 0:15:51.400 --> 0:15:56.480 found your content so easy to digest. Is you really come, 0:15:56.880 --> 0:16:00.880 you know, from every avenue. So that's epic. Well, let's 0:16:00.960 --> 0:16:05.040 get straight into it, Guys Hotline with doctor Libby. Feel 0:16:05.080 --> 0:16:10.280 so privileged, So let's get into some female questions. And look, 0:16:10.400 --> 0:16:13.920 these are kind of some really really great questions that 0:16:13.960 --> 0:16:18.280 our community has. And so the first one is, you know, 0:16:18.320 --> 0:16:23.520 how can we start eating for hormone balancing and just 0:16:23.560 --> 0:16:26.080 to be you know, nice to our hormones because I 0:16:26.160 --> 0:16:29.000 feel like sometimes when we think of hormones, we don't 0:16:29.040 --> 0:16:31.520 think of, you know, the food we eat every single day. 0:16:31.920 --> 0:16:36.720 So our hormones love whole, real food, and they don't 0:16:36.800 --> 0:16:42.320 love certain substances in processed food, so particularly ultra processed 0:16:42.320 --> 0:16:45.920 foods that are full of fake food ingredients and you know, 0:16:46.280 --> 0:16:48.680 jam packed with sugar or artificial sweetness. 0:16:49.040 --> 0:16:50.680 Our hormone balance doesn't love that. 0:16:50.760 --> 0:16:53.840 Because not only when it comes to our sex hormones, 0:16:54.200 --> 0:16:58.800 obviously the majority are made in our ovaries, but our 0:16:58.840 --> 0:17:01.600 adrainal glands also made a small amount. Our adrenals are 0:17:01.640 --> 0:17:04.760 also where we make our stress hormones from. But beyond 0:17:04.880 --> 0:17:08.760 the ovaries being able to make estrogen and progesterone, for example, 0:17:09.080 --> 0:17:12.719 that all needs nutrients, but the systems in the body 0:17:12.760 --> 0:17:17.159 that actually regulate our hormones they also need nutrients. So, 0:17:17.240 --> 0:17:21.200 for example, the liver and the gut are primarily responsible 0:17:21.240 --> 0:17:25.440 for estrogen metabolism, and a lot of challenges with hormones 0:17:25.600 --> 0:17:30.160 occur when we're producing too much estrogen and our body 0:17:30.200 --> 0:17:33.960 is not able to effectively detoxify the estrogen that we make, 0:17:34.640 --> 0:17:39.200 So the liver is the organ primarily responsible for detoxification. 0:17:39.800 --> 0:17:42.880 So when we're choosing foods that I refer to as 0:17:42.960 --> 0:17:47.080 liver loaders. They're some of the biggest corruptors. And I 0:17:47.160 --> 0:17:50.240 know it's not fun to hear. And I only say 0:17:50.280 --> 0:17:53.240 this not to say don't ever have this stuff, But 0:17:53.280 --> 0:17:55.960 we just need to get honest with ourselves about how 0:17:56.000 --> 0:17:59.679 these things affect us. So, for example, alcohol is a 0:17:59.720 --> 0:18:03.800 really big disruptor to healthy estrogen metabolism, so we need 0:18:03.840 --> 0:18:07.560 to understand that and then adjust ourselves accordingly. So some 0:18:07.680 --> 0:18:10.959 women will share with me, if they have an alcoholic 0:18:11.080 --> 0:18:15.760 drink or a few, say, seven days after they've started menstruating, 0:18:16.320 --> 0:18:19.000 they handle it a lot better than if they have 0:18:19.160 --> 0:18:22.040 it just before they're about to bleed. They might notice 0:18:22.040 --> 0:18:25.600 they don't sleep properly, or they get really hot that 0:18:25.680 --> 0:18:28.240 it bloats them more. So you can start to pay 0:18:28.280 --> 0:18:30.520 attention if you want to to how that stuff affects you. 0:18:30.560 --> 0:18:33.840 But as far as eating for hormones go, when you eat, 0:18:33.880 --> 0:18:37.439 to look after your liver, and that's a really great step. 0:18:37.560 --> 0:18:40.600 The liver loves whole real foods. It loves it particularly 0:18:40.640 --> 0:18:43.440 loves veggies. It loves the veggies in the brassica family, 0:18:43.760 --> 0:18:47.439 so broccoli, couliflower, kale, brussels sprouts, it really loves those. 0:18:48.520 --> 0:18:51.960 But also and I feel that your community will find 0:18:52.000 --> 0:18:54.480 this really fascinating. I know when I first learned it, it 0:18:54.560 --> 0:18:59.080 just blew my mind. Detoxification actually has two phases that 0:18:59.119 --> 0:19:02.480 it goes through in the liver, and phase one needs 0:19:02.600 --> 0:19:06.760 all sorts of nutrients, including iron, and iron is the 0:19:06.800 --> 0:19:11.720 most peutritional deficiency amongst women of menstruation age, pregnant women, 0:19:12.000 --> 0:19:13.480 and unfortunately also children. 0:19:14.000 --> 0:19:14.720 So we don't just. 0:19:14.720 --> 0:19:19.560 Need iron for great energy and a clear mind, but 0:19:19.680 --> 0:19:23.240 we need it for really healthy phase one liver detox 0:19:23.320 --> 0:19:24.800 pathways to work properly. 0:19:25.440 --> 0:19:26.280 We also need. 0:19:26.160 --> 0:19:29.000 Iron for thyroid function, which has not talked about enough. 0:19:29.040 --> 0:19:32.920 So when we're talking about our sex hormones, the liver 0:19:33.000 --> 0:19:37.399 obviously it needs iron to be able to detox estrogen effectively. 0:19:37.480 --> 0:19:39.600 So that's a really big one, and I know I'm rambling, 0:19:39.600 --> 0:19:42.240 but just really quickly before I wrap that answer up. 0:19:44.000 --> 0:19:47.560 The way that we eat needs to foster ovulation, because 0:19:47.840 --> 0:19:50.440 it's that lovely big surge of progesterone that we get 0:19:50.480 --> 0:19:54.639 after we ovulate. That it's not just important progesterone. It's 0:19:54.640 --> 0:19:57.920 not just important for fertility. It is it has so 0:19:57.960 --> 0:20:01.920 many extraordinary biological bio logical effects. It's a really powerful 0:20:01.920 --> 0:20:05.000 anti anxiety agent, it's an antidepressant. 0:20:04.240 --> 0:20:05.080 It's a diuretic. 0:20:05.160 --> 0:20:08.280 It allows us to use it, lets us get rid 0:20:08.320 --> 0:20:12.280 of excess fluid, and it's crucial for thyroid function as well. 0:20:12.359 --> 0:20:17.000 So when we choose whole real food, you give your 0:20:17.040 --> 0:20:19.840 ovaries what they need to be able to foster ovulation. 0:20:20.040 --> 0:20:24.960 So it's nutrients like iodine, selenium, zinc, vitamin D which 0:20:25.000 --> 0:20:27.280 we mostly get from sunshine. They're some of the key 0:20:27.400 --> 0:20:29.240 nutrients that will help foster ovulation. 0:20:29.560 --> 0:20:34.720 Would you recommend like supplementing with iron and some of 0:20:34.800 --> 0:20:37.840 the ones you just enlisted then, or would you prefer 0:20:38.280 --> 0:20:39.760 we get it from whole foods. 0:20:40.280 --> 0:20:43.399 So if someone is actually iron deficient and they know 0:20:43.560 --> 0:20:46.800 that through a blood test, food alone won't get that 0:20:46.880 --> 0:20:49.959 back up. In my clinical experience, you need to supplement. 0:20:50.760 --> 0:20:53.320 For some people very sadly that iron will be so 0:20:53.480 --> 0:20:57.879 low they'll need an infusion. Even supplements, you know, just 0:20:57.960 --> 0:21:00.840 they it's almost like they can't catch up, particularly if 0:21:00.840 --> 0:21:03.800 menstruation is really heavy, if you're losing a lot of 0:21:03.800 --> 0:21:07.119 blood every month. What I would always do is work 0:21:07.160 --> 0:21:09.199 on the blood loss to see if we can lighten 0:21:09.240 --> 0:21:12.680 it at the same time as supplementing the iron for example. 0:21:13.240 --> 0:21:15.439 And then what about the ones you listed before, like 0:21:15.480 --> 0:21:17.960 the selenium and that sort of thing, would you suggest 0:21:18.000 --> 0:21:21.480 supplementing or trying to get from our foods. 0:21:22.040 --> 0:21:24.919 So selenium is a pretty easy one to get with 0:21:25.040 --> 0:21:28.080 food because we only need between two and six brazil 0:21:28.160 --> 0:21:31.720 nuts a day to get our selenium. So if you 0:21:32.200 --> 0:21:35.040 just think that, it's almost like little they're like a 0:21:35.040 --> 0:21:36.679 little selenium pill if you like. 0:21:36.800 --> 0:21:39.399