What Are Your Top 3-5 Best Tips for Thriving in Perimenopause as Hormones Fluctuate Erratically?

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What are your top three to five best tips for thriving in perimenopause as hormones fluctuate erratically? This is JJ Virgin, four time New York Times Best selling author, celebrity nutrition expert and Fitness hall of Famer. I've been on a lifelong quest for answers to the toughest health questions and now I'm sharing what I found with you. Welcome to Ask the Health Expert Soupbox from Instagram asks what are your top three to five best tips for thriving in perimenopause as hormone fluctuates erratically? And can I say that's an understatement. Oh my gosh. I have some great ones. I'll be right back with them. Stay with me.

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Yeah, I would say hormones fluctuating erratically is probably an understatement. Like it's a roller coaster ride. So if you're heading into that, here's what's super duper important. You want to control everything that you possibly can control. So don't add to the roller coaster ride yourself. So, so what does that mean? One of the key, most important things as you start to go into menopause is your adrenal health, your stress. Because if you are stressed out and your adrenals are getting exhausted, that's gonna make everything worse. Especially because as you start to go into menopause, you need to produce your estrogen through your adrenal glands. You're gonna start weighing in on them. So first thing is, be kind to yourself. Find what helps support your adrenal glands best for you. And one woman's bliss might be like worst nightmare. So find what helps relieve your stress. One of the key things, of course, here is good sleep. That's super important for your adrenal glands. Vitamin C, another really important thing for your adrenal glands. But look at what this might be. Maybe it's high intensity interval training that trains your sympathetic nervous system how to handle stress better. Maybe it's restorative yoga. Maybe it's playing with your dog. So find the things that really nourish your adrenal glands and help you recover and do that for yourself every single day. So that's generally managing stress and getting good night's sleep. Super duper important. You can't have good adrenal health if you're not sleeping well. That's number one. Number two, keep your blood sugar balanced. So this is a super important time to be eating from what I call the virgin diet or sugar impact diet plate. And that's good clean protein, healthy fats, and then a load of non starchy vegetables to get great fiber and a little bit of slow, low carbs that's great for satiety and keeping that blood sugar super balanced. That will also help your stress hormones. So there you go. And then the third thing is make sure that your thyroid is optimized. Go check in with a functional medicine doctor. Get your whole thyroid panel, including your thyroid antibodies and free T3 checked. Make sure that you are in optimal range, not just in normal range. Normal is not optimal by a long shot because if your thyroid's not working well, you're going to struggle even more and you need that to have good sex hormone production. Now a couple other things that can be helpful here in your diet. Look at eating some phytoestrogen rich foods. One of my favorite things to do here is throw freshly ground flaxseed meals and I especially like the golden flax into my smoothie. So there's one thing that you can do. Berries also are super helpful there, cruciferous vegetables, sesame and garlic. So a little hummus can go can work here well too. So make sure you're doing that now. Next thing that can be helpful is Annatto gg. This is a product from Designs for Health that I really like here because it can help with menopausal symptoms, hot flashes, help with bone density, so could support all of those things. So that is one that I would definitely add in is Annatto GG for help in that. And the other thing that I like along with cruciferous vegetables is to take dim. Dim can help detoxify some of the bad estrogens out of your body, which can be happening as you're sailing into this time. So look at those two supplements as things that can really help here. And then make sure too that you're working on that really blood sugar balanced diet with rich in phytoestrogens, keeping your adrenals happy, managing your stress and getting a good night's sleep. There you go. And just remember, this too will pass and the other side is fantastic. All right, if you've got questions, I've got answers. Just go over to JJ Virgin on Instagram JJ Virgin Official on Facebook. You can join my Facebook group, JJ Virgin Lifestyle. Ask questions there. Or you can always do it. When you go to subscribetoj.com, you'll be able to subscribe to the show on your favorite platform and then leave a comment comment and we will get that answered for you. All right, see you next time.

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