Once again this week, I want to start with some clinical insights, because my patients have been so fascinating recently! I’ve been working with a 66 year old man for about 3 years now and when I first saw him, he had recently retired. He loved to run and to golf, but his ability to do those things was deteriorating rapidly due to aging. We’ve been having an ongoing conversation about how to level up despite aging. Slowly but surely, we started to break some of the paradigms of this retired banker. We started doing one-on-one yoga sessions to improve his range of motion for golf. We started tweaking his diet and nudging him towards a cleanse, which he was not thrilled about as a huge wine connoisseur. At first, he just agreed to 2 days a week of his wine, but it was making a difference! He came in this week and told me he had the best round of golf in his life… at 66! 

We just continued to stack good health habits and he continued to improve.

This week, we had a conversation about what his next year will look like. Even through all of this, he’s still skeptical. Sometimes he asks when he can stop doing all the new health habits he’s stacked. But, when you consider that he’s only been leveling up for 3 of his 66 years, it makes sense. Since he was a banker, I explained it in terms he could understand… Compound Interest. Health works the same way. As long as you’re taking action, you’re investing in your future and the longer you continue to invest, even if it’s maintaining the same good habits, will pay dividends!

I had another patient in his 70s I talked with this week. He’s worked his entire life as an investment banker and financial planner and after our conversation about my finances, he stopped me and said it’s time for him to start investing in his health. He’ll be starting his journey from scratch at 74! But here’s the thing… he’s starting.

You’re never too old to begin to invest in your health.

We have people who do our New Year’s Cleanse every year, because it’s become a part of who they are. It’s a yearly reset that draws a line in the sand and prevents aging to creep in. The most dangerous part of aging is that our standards for ourselves are lower. Just because you’re aging doesn’t mean you need to gain weight, be on tons or prescriptions, or give up on your health. While we have some people who look forward to a yearly cleanse, we have others who are hesitant to join us. Maybe they eat good enough or think they’re doing enough and don’t need it. But, what blows me away is, even though I eat 99% organic, doing the cleanse makes me feel SO MUCH BETTER every year! It’s about getting clean, taking out even good foods that are hard to break down, and allowing ourselves to rehab using the supplements. You can sign up by clicking the link above or contacting my office at 850.231.9288 or info@balance30a.com. We kick off January 3rd, we spend time together as a tribe, share tips and recipes and level up together!

Now let’s get to the questions…

1. I’m in my mid-40s and pre-menopausal. I’ve had my cycle every 10 days. What can I do to ease my transition into menopause?

This is about the time of life when perimenopause hits and if you haven’t hit it, you need to prepare. Your adrenals need to be strongly supported. During menopause, your ovaries retire; during perimenopause, they go on an extended vacation. One of the absolute best things you can do is cleanse. All your hormones have receptors and they act like a baseball glove to absorb the hormone as needed. If those receptors are full of junk, when that hormone comes, it can’t be absorbed and it goes away, often being stored in a fat cell. We typically use a Core Four protocol. We start with an herb called Chaste Tree, which would be helpful for all non-pregnant women, because it helps the body produce its best amount of progesterone. Next, is a supplement called Hypothalmex, which supports th

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Release Date: 15/12/2021, 21:46:43