About this episode

This episode discusses how the nervous system affects fertility, weight loss, and hormone balance with insights from experts in hormone health and fitness.

Having trouble getting pregnant and can't figure out why? Struggling to lose weight even if you're a gym rat? The answer to both problems may be that your nervous system doesn't feel safe. And if so your body will block fertility, weight loss, and hormone balance every single time. In this special live episode of the Ancient Health Podcast, Doctor Chris Motley, along with Dr. Anis Khalaf, interviewed Dr. Kela Smith, a hormone + fertility specialist, and creator of the Hormone Puzzle and the Hormone Puzzle Podcast, and Terry Barga a restorative fitness expert and producer of Nashville Fit Magazine for a mastermind on nutrition, fitness, and how to get your body to rest, relax, repair and reproduce. Hint: over-working out and calorie deficits can leave your system feeling unsafe, leading to hormonal disruption. In this episode, you'll learn: Why your body won't conceive, lose weight, or balance hormones while it's in fight-or-flight, and the simple daily practice that shifts you out of survival mode How overexercising tanked Dr. Kayla's own fertility as a personal trainer, and how she pregnant twice, with her second child born at 40 The truth about intermittent fasting for women…

People in this episode

Host: Doctor Chris Motley

Guests: Dr. Kela Smith, Terry Barga

Topics covered

• infertility
• nervous system
• hormone health
• nutrition
• fitness
• weight loss
• stress relief

Keywords

• infertility
• nervous system
• hormone balance
• weight loss
• over-exercising
• intermittent fasting
• stress relief
• nutrition
• fitness

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Hormone Puzzle, Hormone Puzzle Podcast, Nashville Fit Magazine

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