Live Life Healthy Podcast: Recent Episodes
Dr Priyanka Gupta ND
Dr. Priyanka, ND offers information, insight and practical tools to help you develop a lifestyle that promotes health, wholeness and healing. Every week tune in to hear evidence based information on particular health topics presented with the intent to motivate, inspire and dispel myth from fact. Empowering you to be your best and to Live Life Healthy, starting now!
While there is no foolproof way to avoid fibroids, once you have been diagnosed with these benign tumors, there are certain foods that may help. And there are others to avoid, since dietary changes may help keep tumor growth in check. Why is this the case? Balancing your hormone levels can help manage fibroid development since hormones, particularly estrogen, are one of the leading causes of new fibroid development and growth. And one easy, non-invasive way to balance your hormones is through simple changes in your diet. In this episode we discuss food choices to help balance estrogen for fibroids.
PCOS is a complex hormonal disorder that affects many females of childbearing age. Although we don't know the exact cause of PCOS, there seems to be a dysregulation of hormones namely insulin and testosterone. Symptoms can range from acne, hrsutism, tthinning hair, irregular periods and infertility. In this episode, I share some lifestyle interventions that can help to manage the symptoms and get to the root cause, namely insulin resistance. Find out what lifestyle factors play a role in the management of this condition.
Intestinal gut flora is responsible for many health benftis such as hormone balance and immune health. The ability of our ancestors to ward of disease and new pathogens as they spread across the world was largely due to the gut microbiome accroding to researchers. Changes in diet is largely responsible for the decline in healthy bacteria residing in the gut which may be the reason for the decline in our general health. Find out how good bacteria are tied to hormone health and who should not be taking probiotics.