How Beef Is Destroying Your Hormones – Cynthia Thurlow : 1457

About this episode

This episode discusses the hormonal, gut, and environmental triggers behind perimenopause and offers solutions for women experiencing these issues.

If you're a woman in your 30s, 40s, or 50s feeling like your body is betraying you, this episode reveals the hormonal, gut, and environmental triggers behind perimenopause that most doctors never address, and exactly what you can do about it.    -Watch this episode on YouTube for the full video experience:  https://www.youtube.com/@DaveAspreyBPR   Host Dave Asprey sits down with Cynthia Thurlow, a nurse practitioner, CEO and founder of the Everyday Wellness Project, and a globally recognized expert in intermittent fasting and women's hormonal health. Her TEDx talk on intermittent fasting has surpassed 10 million views, and she brings over 20 years of functional medicine clinical experience to one of the most underserved conversations in longevity and human performance.  Together, they tear apart the outdated medical narrative around perimenopause and menopause, exposing how a lack of knowledge, not biology, is destroying relationships, careers, and quality of life for millions of women. Dave and Cynthia dig into the gut microbiome's role in every symptom women experience in midlife, the mold toxin that is 10,000 times more potent than human…

People in this episode

Host: Dave Asprey

Guest: Cynthia Thurlow

Topics covered

• hormonal health
• perimenopause
• gut microbiome
• biohacking
• women's health
• intermittent fasting

Keywords

• perimenopause
• hormones
• gut health
• biohacking
• women's health
• intermittent fasting
• metabolism
• hot flashes
• trauma
• mold toxin

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Everyday Wellness Project

Books & works: TEDx talk

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