How to Support Your Body During Perimenopause & What Women Need to Know About Alcohol, Caffeine and Melatonin with Dr. Deanna Minich

Anyone who menstruates will navigate a range of hormonal shifts
throughout their life. Today, we’re focusing on the transition
between our reproductive years and menopause–otherwise known as
perimenopause. If you don’t think this applies to you yet, we
urge you to reconsider as we’ve learned how nourishment in our
early years can be hugely supportive as our bodies shift
throughout our entire lives.


In this episode you’ll learn: 


* What leads to early perimenopause


* How to deal with HOT FLASHES when you’ve tried everything


* What women need to know about ALCOHOL and CAFFEINE


* How and why to get more diversity in your diet


* The best COLOR to eat for hormone health


* The truth about supplementing with melatonin


* And more…


Deanna Minich, MS, PhD, CNS, Certified Functional Medicine
Practitioner (IFMCP), is a nutrition scientist, international
lecturer, teacher, and author, with over twenty years of
experience in academia and in the food and dietary supplement
industries.


Throughout the years, she has been active as a functional
medicine clinician in clinical trials and in her own practice
(Food & Spirit), which has now become oriented towards
groups, workshops, and retreats. She is the author of six
consumer books on wellness topics, four book chapters, and fifty
scientific publications. Her academic background is in nutrition
science, including a Master of Science (M.S.) degree in Human
Nutrition and Dietetics from the University of Illinois at
Chicago (1995) and a Doctorate (Ph.D.) in Medical Sciences
(nutrition focus) from the University of Groningen in the
Netherlands (1999). For a decade, she was part of the research
team led by the “father of Functional Medicine,” Dr. Jeffrey
Bland, and has served on the Nutrition Advisory Board for The
Institute of Functional Medicine, as well as on the Board of
Directors for the American Nutrition Association.


She is Chief Science Officer at Symphony Natural Health, where
she leads the medical advisory team, oversees scientific
communication, and provides educational leadership for the
company’s plant-derived nutraceuticals. She is passionate about
helping others to live well using therapeutic lifestyle changes
that impact their physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual
health.


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