I have a super special treat for you today–an interview with a published author who specializes in the kind of diet that can help us heal our hormones. And I am not talking just to the ladies here, men–listen up! We all have hormones, so we all need to know how to eat to have healthy, balanced hormones, because hormones are responsible for so much more than our reproductive health and sexuality–they pretty much run the show, which is our entire body.
Dr. Janice Stanger is my guest, and she and I will be talking to you for the next 40+ minutes about the diet that you and your kids should be eating from early on in order to have lifelong hormone health.
You will learn things that will totally blow the lid off your mind–by the end of today’s episode you will have enough reasons reasons to never touch any animal food as long as you shall live, or to feed it to your young children…or to even cook it around them.
You will learn things about eggs and dairy that you probably never heard about before.
And then we will share with you 5 Things You Should Do to Achieve Optimal Hormone Health.
We will break them down one by one, and make them achievable. So, if you are struggling with a hormone imbalance, you don’t want to miss today’s episode!
Now, before I jump into it, I have a quick announcement that you don’t want to miss. I am about to launch a super program that is designed for women to achieve optimal hormone health. Next week I will launch a FREE Master Class that you can attend to get a scoop on it and learn enough to start healing your hormones immediately. However, this Master Class on Hormone Health will be made available only to Vegalicious subscribers. So, if you want to get an exclusive invitation to it, make sure that you are subscriber!
And now, to today’s episode (transcript provided).
Janice Stanger, PhD
Janice Stanger, PhD, author of The Perfect Formula Diet, is a health and wellness expert who has worked with employers and individuals for thirty years. She communicates the science of whole-food, plant-based nutrition in a way that consumers can easily understand and use to make healthier choices. Janice has a Ph.D. in Human Development and Aging from University of California, San Francisco, an MBA from University of California, Berkeley, and is certified in plant-based nutrition. She is the Nutrition Director of the nonprofit Nurses for Health. Visit her site for updates from Janice.
5 Things You Should Do to Achieve Perfect Hormone Health
TRANSCRIPT
Elena: Dr. Stanger, welcome to Vegalicious podcast. I am so happy you could be a part of today’s episode.
Dr. Stanger: Glad to be here.
Elena: I am so thrilled. I read your article on Forks over Knives, on the topic of hormones. There is no better topic for me to talk about, since that is what I work on with my clients and talk about with my listeners—keeping our hormone healthy. We talk about what messes them up, how to get them well and how to keep them well.
I want to ask you several questions about hormones. First of all, what are hormones, and why do we even need to care about them?
Dr. Stanger: Hormones are chemical messengers that help coordinate all the parts in your body. Your body has about a hundred trillion cells, more or less, not that anyone ever sat down and counted them, but that’s a common estimate, and they have to coordinate with each other. It’s all the cells that are grouped into organs, such as the heart, the uterus and the stomach, the pancreas, and so on. And all those organs have to coordinate with each other, and also we have to keep everything in our bodies just right.
For example, we need exactly the right amount of calcium in the body. The body needs to be just the right temperature, the right acidity, and so on. So, because all this stuff is very tightly regulated, hormones are a very important part for maintaining that balance, by acting as chemical messengers from cell to cell and from organ to organ.
Elena: So, hormones are needed for much than just are sexuality. They are not just for having babies, develop breasts, or for men to have their proper testosterone levels; it sounds like hormones are involved in so much more.
Dr. Stanger: Oh, absolutely! Hormones regulate growth, metabolism; they do regulate reproduction. But the most important thing they regulate is what’s called homeostasis, which is what’s keeping the body on keel and survivable range. Just to take one example, which I think will make it clear for everybody, is that you need just the right amount of calcium in your body to survive. Too much or too little calcium in your blood can be fatal. So, in order to regulate calcium your body basically has two hormones, the parathyroid hormone and activated vitamin D, and that’s what keeps your calcium limits extremely narrow.
So, that’s just one illustration of illustration of why hormones are important every single second we are alive.
Elena: So, basically, we need them for more than just child bearing or having a healthy sex drive.
There is such a crisis right now, on the rise in America, it’s like an epidemic or hormone imbalances. Women, by the time they come to me, they have exhausted all of their means of getting well. The doctors tell them: “Get on medication. That’s how you will get well,” or if they go to naturopaths they are told to take all these supplements, they try crazy diets like the Paleo diet, and by the time they get to me, I am their last hope. They just want to know what they can do to get well. What is causing this epidemic of hormone imbalances in America?
Dr. Stanger: There are quite a few things coming together, Elena, but I would like to emphasize three main factors that mess up your hormones. And, as I go through them, you will see the way to fix your hormones is simply the opposite of the things that mess up your hormones.
So, the first thing is what I call the worst of the joys of human lifestyle. Now the worst of modern lifestyle is, the things that are coming back very recently, is humans are becoming more affluent and technologically sophisticated—those things are like sitting around all day, being completely sedentary, not even getting off your couch to do anything, because you have a remote and because you have a personal assistant that can deem the lights, and things like that.
Sleeping erratically.
And there are endocrine disruptors that a lot of people think of them as just disrupting estrogen and sex hormones, but they can actually disrupt a lot of hormones; and those are the eight thousand plus chemical environment that we find in our environment. Some of them even in organic foods, so they will be around for centuries; some of them are more volatile, so they’ll only affect us for a few hours or a few days, which doesn’t mean that they are not important, because they can still mess us up. Those chemicals are everywhere. They are in certain products, they are usually in our carpets, our furniture, our mattress, laundry detergent, personal care products, cleaning products, sometimes they might even be in food as preservatives. Pesticides and herbicides have gotten into foods, and so on.
So those are all things that can potentially disrupt or poison our hormones, among other things. They have become more and more common as they accumulated in the environment. There is just no way to know what damage they can cause.
So, that’s number one.
Number two is doing what I call “trying to second guess your body.” And by second guessing your body here is what I mean. Your body is very intricate and has a hundred trillion cells and all these organs and hormones, and other systems that regulate your body like your nervous system. And it is designed to be self-regulating and to get what it really needs from the environment, like the food and so on.
People start second guessing their body, doing things like taking supplements, taking supplemental hormones, doing anti-aging medicine, and things like that. Now, I am not saying that it’s never good to take hormones. Sometimes it’s necessary and sometimes it’s even lifesaving. For example, if someone has T1 diabetes, they pretty much have to take insulin. It’s not really a choice. And there are many other cases when taking hormones might be desirable, because of some clinical diagnosis or condition.
But, here is the thing—you wanna be a smart consumer, you wanna ask a lot of good questions, because you don’t want to take hormones for what I call “recreational” reasons, which are things like anti-aging, or to have bigger muscles, or to have more energy, or just general goals like that, like losing weight. It should be for very specific clinical diagnosis like type 1 diabetes, or something else that can be identified, where you, as an informed patient have considered every treatment option and completely understand your condition, you understand the cause of your condition, you’ve spoken to multiple doctors, you have checked into other credible sources of information, not just random things on the internet, but credible, scientific sources of information. And when you’ve done all that and come to the conclusion “Yes, taking this hormone is my best option, or one of the best options for treating my condition,” it’s not just mindlessly taking it.
Elena: Dr. Stanger, should we exhaust all the natural means before resorting to taking hormone supplements or hormone medications? Are there things we can do in our lives, on our own to max out our healing process, before deciding that we have to depend on something chemical nature, including supplements? Are there things that we can do on our first?
Dr. Stanger: Exactly! And I’m glad you asked that, because that brings us to number three to mess up your hormones, which is eating animal foods. They mess with your hormones in many ways, one of which is that animal foods actually contain hormones, estrogen and testosterone, and others. So, the way to heal ourselves is to do the opposite of messes them up.
It’s to eat whole plant foods, rather than animal foods, and the other thing would be to be active and staying away from chemical products. We can’t avoid all chemicals in our environment—it’s impossible; the whole planet to certain extent has been poisoned, but you can certainly minimize the amount of them by doing things like eating organic food, to the extent you can afford them, which have less herbicides and pesticides. You can be active, which helps your body naturally produce balance in hormones. You can stay away from certain products. For example, anything that says “fragrance” on it (if something has lavender oil in it, or something of sorts, that’s ok), but if it just says “fragrance” on it, it can be hundreds of different chemicals that are allowed under the rubric of fragrance. Many of them are chemicals that can damage DNA, and otherwise disrupt your body and your hormones.
By using natural products and keeping your environment as free from these kind of chemicals as much as possible, moving around, being outdoors getting some sunshine, eating whole plant foods, avoid oils, and, if you can afford, get organic foods—that’s always a good thing to do. Those are all things that will help you.
Now, there are some things that there is no cure for, so you will be taking hormones. For example, I talked about T1 diabetes. If you have T1 diabetes and hold off on taking insulin, you will end up being dead.
Elena: Right, like you said, there is probably a small percentage of people that will end up depending on supplements or medication, but I think majority of us, eighty percent or more, can do what we can first, and even people with T1 diabetes can improve the way they feel. One of my good friends is T1 diabetic, but she is consuming a whole foods plant based diet and that helps her to control her insulin dependence better.
Dr. Stanger: Absolute! Absolutely! It helps everybody. Clearly she is going to always need to take insulin, but she’s gonna be able to take less and feel better.
Elena: Let me take you back to what you said on a couple of things quickly. One of the things you mentioned that are important for our health is sleep. Can you talk a little bit about why sleep is important for our hormone health?
Dr. Stanger: Absolutely! Hormones have a daily rhythm. They don’t all have a daily rhythm, but many hormones have a natural daily rhythm—higher during the day, or higher at night—hormones can be very complex. Our bodies are designed, when you think back on our evolutionary history, to sleep at night, when it’s dark, and be up during the day, when it’s light. So, when we have a very disrupted sleep schedule or when we don’t get enough sleep, daily rhythms, which are very important get all messed up. So, that can make it very hard to be back on track.
Sleep is one of the things that’s not completely understood yet. Scientists have been studying sleep for a very long time, and they published probably thousands of papers on it, but still, as one of the physiological processes it’s still the least well understood. But we do know that when getting too little, and also, conversely getting too much, or getting at the wrong time of day, for example, sleeping during the day and being up all night, are all things that can mess up our hormones and can shorten our lives even.
Elena: What hormone imbalances can be provoked by sleep deprivation or improper sleep balance?
Dr. Stanger: Well, melatonin is obviously one of the ones that’s best studies because it’s very closely tied to the hormone cycles. But a lot of these things aren’t well understood because sleep itself as a physiological function is not well understood. There are other physiological functions that are well understood like, for example, digestion, but not sleep. So, can just observe the effects. For example, that work a night shift, so they are up all night, are more prone to chronic diseases, and that might affect your health and longevity. So, we are seeing the effects more than understanding the process itself.
Elena: I’m a very healthy person, I used to be in tip-top shape; I am a fitness trainer—before I had my daughter. I am running a business. Then I had a little one, so, I’m a Mommy during the day, and work at night, so I started to work until like 2 and 3 in the morning. I was doing everything right—I ate right, I exercise, I manage stress, but my body all of a sudden began to gain weight. So, I’ve noticed that if you take one of these things that are important to our health, kind of like breaking one of the legs of a chair, the rest gets out of balance. For me it was sleep disruption and sleep deprivation that led to weight gain. So, one of the things that I am now passionate about is teaching women that we need to sleep. It is very hard to find a balance being either a professional woman with kids, or a stay at home mom that takes care of her kids. What tips do you have that women should follow to remember that they should come first?
Dr. Stanger: It’s going to be a lot of things, because it’s hard to devote hours a day to yourself when you are a mom. I also had that experience when I was a young mother. At one point I had two daughters, they are two years apart, so, I had two very young children that I was taking care of.
I think it’s more the little things. So, put up signs, or do whatever you need to do to remind yourself to start getting ready for bed at 10 o’clock or 11 o’clock, or whatever time you need to. Make that a habit.
Set aside little bits of time; things like making yourself a healthy snack; always make sure you have fresh fruit in the house to snack on.
When you are in a situation being a busy mother with young children, and/or very busy in your professional life, start forming good habits, maybe one or two at a time.
Another thing you can do, in terms of all the chemicals in your house, and you certainly don’t want your children exposed to those, is to start looking very carefully at personal care products, and your cleaners—those are things you buy all the time, so you can replace them more often than, say, your sofa, which might have some toxic covering. You cannot replace a sofa every day, but you go through shampoo and body lotion and spray cleaner and all that pretty fast; and sure it doesn’t have fragrance in it. Look at the list of ingredients, if there are things you can’t pronounce then it’s probably nothing you want. You can learn to make cleaners out of things like vinegar and baking soda (on YouTube), without that taking too much of your time.
There are a lot of little things you can do, and over time these little things will start adding up, and become habits; then you will make room for more habits.
Elena: That’s excellent advice! Now, you mentioned perfume several times, as in a chemical. I remember there was a documentary that came out several years ago talking about how perfumes and colognes, and personal care products that we use daily to look and smell good for ourselves and for others, actually affect reproductive health of young children. So, there’s a connection between using chemicals around children and them having infertility issues in the future. Is that in the right ballpark of what you are saying?
Dr. Stanger: A lot of these chemicals are estrogenic. They have an effect on your body that is similar to estrogen. They are not the same as estrogen, but they can have an estrogenic effect, which is certainly not good for young children, boys or girls. Here’s the thing to remember, this estrogenic effect is not as powerful as the effect of food. There is estrogen in animal foods, which often includes the steroids which are given to animals to enhance their growth. So, steroids, and estrogen and testosterone as well, because all women have both estrogen and testosterone, and all men have both estrogen and testosterone, the difference is just a matter of balance, so, all animals you eat will have estrogen and testosterone, which can be identical to human.
The biggest sources of estrogen are actually dairy and eggs, which makes sense because they are both related to reproduction. So, there is a lot of estrogen in eggs. And in terms of dairy, the reason there is so much estrogen in dairy is that cows nowadays are kept pregnant all the time, and that’s true whether they are factory farmed cows or cows grown, so called, organically. So, what happens is the cow has to be kept pregnant all the time, because the farmers always want to milk them. So, they give birth and a few months later they are impregnated again.
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While they are pregnant, obviously they have a placenta, because that’s needed to nourish the developing calf, and the placenta is like a hormone factory. Placenta is pumping out hormones all day and all night long, that’s one of its big functions. So, a lot of that estrogen gets into the cow’s milk. And it’s not just the cow’s milk, but the milk of any mammal, be it a goat or sheep, etc., that was taken from a pregnant female animal, it’s going to be extremely high in estrogen.
So, while the chemicals are not good for your children, and you certainly would want to get rid of these things, feeding them estrogen, in terms of dairy and eggs and so on, is actually even more harmful.
Elena: I often talk to mothers who are very health conscious, who think that they are doing great giving their kids whole milk or organically produced milk. So, there is really no “good” milk to give to your children, because either way we are pumping estrogen into their bodies.
Dr. Stanger: Exactly! The thing about organic dairy which is good is that animal won’t have been treated with antibiotics, and certainly we don’t want antibiotics in our food, so that’s a good thing, but when you think of all the other chemicals and not just hormones, but things like heterocyclic amines and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons—fumes that come from cooking meat, a lot of these things are like cigarette smoke that find their way into the lungs. To the extent that your child is exposed to those, it is not much different than exposing your child to cigarettes.
There are multiple toxic things. So, simply eating organic meat, dairy or eggs will reduce some of these chemicals, but it won’t cut them out. It will reduce some of the chemicals and the antibiotics, but some of the other toxic substances in those foods that simply taking one away does not make it healthy.
Elena: So, by the end of the day, when we take into account our surroundings, the environment, chemicals in them and in our diet, if we are sedentary and we are not getting enough rest, our hormones are really taking a beating.
Dr. Stanger: Absolutely! And same with the developing child, because remember, as children grow, hormones are also responsible for growth, and sexuality among other things, and as the child is growing, you want your child to sleep regularly and not be exposed to extra chemicals; you want your child to be active and not to be sitting in front of the computer or on the sofa every waking minute. You want your child to be active and running around, using his/her body and mind, so that they can develop creativity, strength and health, and all those great things. So, those are all very important. So, pretty much what’s good for you, to a large extent is good for the child; and when you do it, as a mom, you’re setting a good example for your child. Your child sees you do it, and that sets him or her for a lifetime of health.
Elena: Certainly. Most of my listeners and most of my clients are women, so this message resounds loud and clear with us. I usually take my daughter out to play for at least a couple of hours a day, and when we are home, doing arts or reading, we make sure that she keeps moving.
I think that there is also an epidemic in America that if the child is too active then she/he is diagnosed with ADD or ADHD, instead of parents looking to see if they can change their diet, or allow a child to be a child, as opposed to expecting children to be little meek lambs that would sit all day long and do nothing.
Dr. Stanger: Right, and that’s a good point. That’s another very important subject to understand. Children may be over diagnosed and over medicated with things that either can be treated naturally or those might not even be problems, but just being a kid.
Elena: I grew up oversees, and for us active children were the norm, but an exception. Then we came to America and heard that kids were put on meds for being active and being children. We were horrified. At one point we were thinking: “We have to go back to where we came from, so our kids won’t be affected by this.” Later, of course we learned, that we still had the freedom and responsibility for our kids and no one could just make them go on meds, but it was quite frightening for us in the beginning.
Dr. Stanger: I could certainly imagine that.
Elena: So, we talked about diet, we talked about sleep, exercise; where does stress management fit into this picture of having healthy hormones?
Dr. Stanger: There are hormones that are produced during stress. If they are just produced during acute stress, for example, if you see a car going toward you or some other potentially devastating tragedy, then your hormones should kick in, because that helps you properly respond to that situation. But when they are going constantly, then one thing to know about these hormones is that they are all interconnected, so one of these stress hormones is chronically stimulated, then others can get out of balance as well.
Again, this is a challenging thing for many people to come up with the means for stress management, and I think it’s almost easier to control a diet, because that doesn’t take a whole lot of time. Once you develop new habits and put new foods in your refrigerator and pantry, there is not a whole lot more to do on that. But the stress can take, learning a better self-talk, and other manners of stress relief that might be time consuming or hard to practice when you got a couple of kids running around, or some professional demands, like deadlines or a hard boss, etc.
So, it is important to address those. If you take care of the other aspects—the food, environment, etc., then you will be on your way, but you do need to at some point deal with what’s causing stress in your life and figure out what you can do about it.
Elena: So, in the order of importance, if we had to choose between diet, environment, fitness, sleep and stress, how should we rank them?
Dr. Stanger: I would definitely put diet first, because diet controls everything. Diet is for your body; diet actually turns into your body. There are so many sources of harmful chemicals; but we can’t forget all the good chemicals that we get from fruits and vegetables, grains and seeds—there’s all kind of great stuff that helps to support your body and what you go through, all the challenges. So, diet is definitely on top.
After that, it’s kind of hard to rank it, because in a way, it depends on an individual and their specific circumstance, but you definitely need to look at all these things. But it’s almost impossible to realistically address them all. So, the best thing, after you figured out your diet, is to pick what you can work on that’s realistically within parameters of your life, your life, your professional life and other things.
What can you start working on now? What do you want to start working on?
Some people start with diet and something small and when they experience success—it gets them more energized to tackle the next thing. So, don’t bite off more than you can chew and tackles everything one thing at a time. Pick your big goal and start chipping away at that, after you’ve taken care of the diet, and then move onto something else. Keep track of what you’re doing, and if you start on, say, September of this year and keep track of what you are accomplishing, then by September of next year you will see “Wow! I’ve come a long way! I’ve cleaned up my diet, I’m sleeping an hour more a night, and I’m getting a little bit of exercise,” even if you start with 15 minutes, it’s still good. That way you can feel proud of your progress, and that will encourage you keep doing more and more.
Elena: I think it’s the wisest way to approach it, because sometimes you can have too much of a good thing. I am an overachiever, so, when I do something I do it all at once, but I have clients who would get overwhelmed if we say “Let’s change your diet and exercise, and do other things.” What I’ve learned through these years is that we start with diet first, because diet, like you said, is the foundation of everything, and then we pick an area of the other four things you mentioned, and we start chiseling away at them, until they feel confident. They start feeling great, because their diet is better, and all of a sudden they begin to feel more empowered to do life.
Dr. Stanger: Yes. And it’s easy for women to feel out of control in their lives, because of all the demands on them. But doing the steps exactly as you said, Elena, they can start feeling empowered and excited and healthy. That’s a really, really important transition, and it can really change people’s lives.
Elena: At this point, Dr. Stanger, I’m going to mention three hormonal disorders, and I would like for you to either gives us examples of how to deal with them, how to expect the progress to happen, or if you have any success stories to share about those.
Let’s start with menopause. A lot of American women are suffering with menopause symptoms. What can they do to avoid all of the expected menopause symptoms? For example, in the country that I’m from, most women have uneventful menopause transition; and when you come to America, it’s the sweats, the hot flashes, the headaches, etc. What can women going through menopause do for themselves to feel better?
Dr. Stanger: I think that a good diet is important, in terms of not eating animal foods and overall a clean diet, which is based on a variety of whole plant foods. Definitely not all fruits and vegetables, because that won’t give them enough calories to keep them alive, and give them a feeling of being satiated. But a variety which will include whole grains and beans and potatoes, and so on, cooked without oils. And eat them throughout the day, so you are having smaller meals, so things are more spaced out. This will definitely help a lot. And really staying away from anti-aging supplements, and that will help a lot. They might seem to help in the short term, but there are other possibilities. Studies have found that they could lead to problems in the long term, for example, higher breast cancer risk.
Elena: What about women suffering with hypothyroidism?
Dr. Stanger: One thing to ask is are they really hypothyroid, because the definition of what is hypothyroid has changed over time. The drug companies have wanted to make it more defined, so that at a certain level of thyroid hormone would be considered fine 50 years ago now is considered too low, because that way these companies can sell more drugs.
If someone is really hypothyroid and they have already done what they need to do, then they should make sure they are getting adequate iodide in the diet. Iodine that can be found in sea vegetables. You don’t want too much of it. Too much iodine also has a bad effect on the thyroid gland, so you wanna be getting a minute amount. You don’t want to overwhelm your body with iodine, because that is bad as well.
They should try the various dietary strategies. And verify if you can identify an autoimmune disease. It’s good to make sure first that you don’t need medication, instead of starting to take it on the basis of that one test, because a lab test could be wrong. You really want to be careful, because once you start taking thyroid medication, your body will start making less of it on its own, so it would be difficult to get off the drug.
Elena: A lot of clients that I work with, and I basically teach people how to eat right, I noticed that the shorter period of time the woman is on thyroid medication, the easier it is for her to come off of it eventually. We have a lot of success with them just eating their way back to good thyroid health. And then I have a portion of women who have been on thyroid medication for 15-20 years, they end up being able to reduce it, under doctor’s supervision, to a very low dose, but because their bodies are now dependent on it and their thyroid gland is so shut down that they actually have to keep up with taking some meds for the rest of their lives.
Dr. Stanger: Yes, unfortunately that does happen.
Elena: And the last one. I have a lot of young women listening to me and women who come to me, who are struggling with infertility. What are the few things they can do to increase their chances of motherhood?
Dr. Stanger: Here’s the thing about the reproductive system, and it’s true in men, but especially more so in women, it’s extremely finely tuned; and in women it follows a very finely tuned monthly rhythm. Estrogen going up or down, progesterone going up and down. And if there’s a fertilized egg to develop and actually be implanted in the uterus, a very well-orchestrated events of hormones needs to occur. Those are easily disrupted. For example, a woman might get pregnant, in a sense of having a fertilized egg that month, but the egg might not successfully implant. So, she is basically infertile, if the fertilized egg can’t implant and grow into a fetus. So, it’s really important not to mess up your hormones. You wanna be basically healthy—you wanna be a healthy weight, you want not be eating estrogen and other hormones that are going to disrupt this very finely tuned cycle of hormonal events that keep the fertilized egg where it needs to be. So everything has to be extremely finely tuned.
The best thing you can do, since humans have been successfully reproductive for a long time, so, obviously women’s bodies are designed to be successful reproductively, is just get out of your way. Stop messing up your body, because that’s what most of have been doing all our lives. So, the best way is to be a healthy person—not mess up your hormones, make sure you are a healthy weight, you are getting enough sleep, you aren’t taking any drugs that aren’t absolutely essential to your health and survival, etc. And then you’re going to maximize the chance of your body doing what it designed to do, as a woman, which is to have babies. It shouldn’t be that women have these many problems, because otherwise the human race would not have survived this long.
Elena: That is fantastic advice.
I have one parting question for you. Where can Vegalicious readers and listeners find your book, THE PERFECT FORMULA DIET?
Dr. Stanger: The best place to find it is on Amazon, printed or Kindle options. The book will show you how to eat right and be healthy, because that’s the most fundamental thing that we need to do.
Elena: And where can Vegalicious listeners find you?
Dr. Stanger: www.perfectformuladiet.com. Check out the blog section, because I post there regularly, and talk about the latest research and things I’ve been working on.
Elena: Thank you so much for your time. We’ve learned that we need to take care of our diet, our environment, stay active, get enough sleep, and, of course, manage stress, which is then, the perfect formula for hormone health.
Call to Hormone Action
I hope you enjoyed this interview as much as I did. We have laid out five simple steps for you to follow to achieve optimal hormone health. All you have to do now is start working on each one.
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