Feel out of wack? You probably are! Today we cover hormones and their imbalances, dealing with doctors who aren't really listening, and ending on a cool high note! Thank you for listening Uterinekind!
Grumpy? Bloated? Weight gain? Abnormal periods? In today’s episode, we cover why your body feels so out of balance. That’s probably because it is! Your hormones run the show and we’ll give you some insight on just what the heck estrogen and progesterone are doing to your body. We will continue to cover this topic in future episodes so stay tuned!
In this week's Hear Me! Hear Me! Q & A segment, we hear from a listener and their struggle with dealing with a doctor’s suggestion that just doesn’t seem right for their issues. Learn how to deal with doctors who aren’t actively listening to you to avoid frustration and save time on getting yourself the treatment you deserve!
Lastly, we end on a high note that is, oh so cool in this summer heat! Spain makes yet another appearance! Sometimes looking to the past, brings solutions to the future.
Thanks for listening, learning and being you. And join us back here every Tuesday for all things uterus, in service to you, uterinekind.
Carol:
Hormones. We say the word, talk about them like we know what they are. Every part of our body is affected by them, run by them, run over by them. And it's the go to job if a person is moody or irritable. What are you hormonal? Yeah, I am. Come here, let me show you. But it's accurate to point to hormones when experiencing chronic uterine conditions because hormones regulate essentially everything. It's time we get up close and personal with hormones. Are you ready for this list? Oh, boy. And this week's, Hear Me, Hear Me spotlights the challenges you experience just attempting to get a diagnosis. I don't get PMS anymore, and I'm PMS off just thinking about you having that experience. Which is why it's so important to end on a high note with this podcast. Because we're all about reducing the stress hormone cortisol. And this week's high note is ultra cooling. It's tackling a modern problem by looking to the past and standing up to the critics. I'm your host, Carol Johnson, and this is Hello Uterus.
Raise your hand if you've ever pretended to know what people are talking about when they talk about hormones. It's me in my thirty S. Forty S. If you had asked me what a hormone was, is it a hormone or is it hormonal? I wouldn't know it as a noun, an adjective. No doctor sits you down when your period is starting and says, let me tell you all about the hormones in your body right now and how they're going to affect you for the rest of your life. We don't get that. We're all still learning about them. And guess what? So is the medical community. Oh, boy. Which is why we got to work together. Because as we've said several times on this show, we know very little. We just got to admit that we know some very important stuff. We can do a lot of important stuff, but there's so much we don't know. And there are also people who are care providers who just don't want to know because there's a lot for them to know that gets in the way of them knowing. All right? Nobody can know all. So it is on us to kind of get up to speed on some of these things, and we're going to help you do that with Hormones. This is the first of many episodes because there's a lot to understand here. Don't be intimidated. I promise that there will be actionable things that you can do after listening to this podcast. And we're going to keep it light, but we're going to be informative here. So, hormones, what are they? Well, essentially, they keep you alive and well. Literally. They run around in your body using the bloodstream as transportation and turn the dials of organs and processes to keep you in an optimal state of wellbeing. They're like the night manager. They're like the playground supervisor. They're the adult on duty, except sometimes they kind of lose their way. But really, it's not their fault. They would operate perfectly if they weren't inundated with a wide variety of things that disrupts the balance that they need to maintain in order to effectively manage your exquisite system. Hormonal imbalance plays a role in some things. Are you ready for this list? PMS, PCOS, fibroids, endometriosis, adenomiosis, thickened endometrium infertility fibrosis stick, breast tissue, sleep issues, mood issues, exhaustion, digestive problems, pelvic pain, painful periods, heavy periods, irregular periods, missing periods, painful sex, weight gain, mood swings, low sex drive insomnia, chronic fatigue, hair loss. Are you still with me? That makes it seem like the majority of chronic uterine conditions and their symptoms are caused by hormonal imbalances. I'm trying to think of one thing that's not caused by a hormonal imbalance or affected by it, and I can't come up with one. And these symptoms, it's not just like you get one or two. They can come in clusters. You could have multiple symptoms, none of which are easy to deal with. These are the symptoms that, over time, we minimize. We structure our life around them. We become used to them. We're told they're normal. It's just part of being a woman. No, it's not. It's part of having a hormonal imbalance. Are lust for life dims? When hormones are not able to do what they naturally do so well, because of disruption, our relationships suffer, our career suffers. Like, hormonal imbalance is not separate from fibroids, PMS, heavy periods, and those things take us out of life. They take us away from our careers, from our jobs, from the things that we love to do, and we fail to connect the dots, which is not your fault. It's like a herculean task to be able to gather up all of this information and connect the dots, then go and convince somebody who subjectively likely doesn't believe that you have the ability to connect the dots, that you have connected the dots. That's a very difficult thing to do. And it's expensive, too, to go from doctor to doctor to doctor. Right. So it's fascinating that we've likely all dealt with some or many of the symptoms of hormonal imbalances. And what has our collective experience been? I don't have the exact data on this, but I know that every single day I read multiple stories about being told to take birth control pills for essentially everything, or hormone replacement therapy to fix your heart issues or something. And I guess I get it in the sense that hormones do run the show, basically. So you would think, like, well, maybe we just need to give a little bit more of this hormone or a little bit more of that hormone. Yeah. No, the first thing after you unload those symptoms on your care team, if the first thing is we're going to put you on birth control pills and see if that helps your symptoms, you get up and you leave. And I would recommend also asking for your copay back before you walk out of that office. Because if this was 1980, I can understand why that would be the recommendation, but it's not. It's 2022. We have a better understanding of what we don't know. Like, for instance, do we know why fibroids appear and grow? No, but we know that they are impacted by hormones. So for someone to say, Here, take some hormonal pills, right? So let's say you're not even looking for birth control, but that's what we just tend to call them. But hormonal balancing meds take these. Well, what if those exacerbate some other condition? Now we're in this cycle of hell where we can't get a grip on what's really going on because we're processing and metabolizing our hormones, other hormones. It's like a free for all. So we're going to start because there is just a slew to cover. We're going to start in this episode by focusing primarily on estrogen and progesterone and what happens when they aren't in balance. And then in upcoming episodes, we'll get into other hormones. And next week, we're going to start talking about endocrine disrupting chemicals in depth. So subscribe to the podcast to get an alert. When that episode drops, you can subscribe where you listen to podcasts. You can also go to Hello Uterus.com and you can grab our RSS feed there and check out the podcast that you might have missed or those that I'll reference today. So before we dive into estrogen and progesterone, we're going to start with a few overall hormone facts. Scientists have identified over 50 hormones in the body so far. So far is the really important part in that statement. Not that there's 50 hormones that they've identified, but that they're still identifying hormones. Hormones in the glands that create and release them into your bloodstream to go about their work are called or referenced as the endocrine system. The endocrine system regulates all the biological processes in your body for your entire life, including the development of the brain, the nervous system, the growth and functioning of the reproductive system, your metabolism, blood sugar levels, the female ovaries, male testes and pituitary, thyroid and adrenal glands are major players in this endocrine system. While the uterus doesn't secrete hormones, the ovaries and placenta do, and hormones affect uterine processes. The hormones and the uterus are tight, so that means that they communicate. And when they're communicating well, things are going really well. When that communication is bad, it means that they're out of balance and that as a result, you won't be experiencing optimal wellness because, again, the hormones regulate your entire being. Statistics show that 80% of uterine kind suffer from hormonal imbalance. 80%. So estrogen and progesterone, these two hormones, like our bodies in general, need balance in order to be effective and cause no harm. So what's estrogen? Estrogen drives cells to grow and multiply, like breast tissue cells. Endometrial tissue cells and even fat cells. In addition to regulating the menstrual cycle, estrogen affects the reproductive tract, the urinary tract, the heart and blood vessels, bones, skin, hair, mucous membranes, pelvic muscles, and the brain. This hormone is in everybody's business. Remember when we talked about the longterm effects of hysterectomies heart issues, brain issues? Connecting the dots while we await research is what we do here. Progesterone causes cells to differentiate and mature. It helps regulate breast tissue growth, it helps regulate your menstrual cycle, and it can help with weight loss. So these two hormones kind of work hand in hand in balance create like homeostasis happy, right? Happy. According to the National Library of Medicine, one primary action of both of these hormones is to regulate the development and function of the uterus. And that's why we're talking about them. So what happens if they're out of balance? Estrogen dominance can affect you in a lot of ways. We talked about the symptoms at the start of the episode, but let's just revisit specific to estrogen heavy, painful periods PMS, headaches, decreased sex drive bloating mood swings, fatigue, anxiety and depression breast tenderness endometriosis fibroids, hormonal weight gain. Low progesterone may cause irregular or absent menstrual cycles, mood changes, particularly anxiety and depression, hot flashes, night sweats, vaginal dryness and headaches or migraines in women who aren't pregnant, symptoms of high progesterone are similar to PMS and can include anxiety and agitation, breath, swelling and tenderness, depression, fatigue and weight gain. But there's more slight dizziness waking up groggy or on edge bloating sense of physical instability, spinning sensation, discomfort or pain in the legs water retention anxiety are just feeling tense changes to libido, usually a decreased sex drive. Holy crap. When you listen to all of that, that's what we talk about all the time. Like all of those symptoms. Those symptoms are discussed by people who are trying to feel better in problem consultations with their physicians. Like, I would say thousands of times a day is probably pretty accurate. These are really difficult symptoms to deal with, and I want to just underscore that because I know that if you're dealing with them, you're likely minimizing them. After reading all those symptoms, I want us all to have a group hug so we can just kind of cry gently on everybody's shoulders and not have a single person tell us that we're hormonal because we're crying. We can say together, yes, this stuff is real and it's bad because it doesn't affect the entire population, ie. Men. It gets shafted. No pun intended. Let's talk a little bit about estrogen dominance. That is something that a lot of people deal with. I mean, first of all, hormonal imbalance. Up to 80% of people deal with it, right? So I'm stating the obvious here, but what drives estrogen dominance the most from our research? Paramedopause when progesterone declines and estrogen increases and the body is meant to handle that, right? Paramenopause and menopause are normal cycles that those with a uterus go through. It doesn't mean that our experiences with them are normal. It just means that the cycle is normal. So don't let anybody be like, Oh, no, that's just the beauty of being a woman. No, it's not. So paramedopause definitely contributes to an estrogen dominant situation. Birth control pills often insanely suggested to people who are in paramedicause. Why do I say insanely suggested? Because birth control pills are not recommended for women over 35. The older you are, the more complications you can experience from taking birth control pills. And long term usage of hormonal medications is not great for the body. Your diet can contribute to estrogen dominance. There are foods that elevate estrogen in your body. Plastics, really good reason not to use single use plastic bottles or really any plastic in any way, shape or form. I've read from physicians, multiple physicians, saying things like get pyrex, ditch your plastic food storage containers and get glass ones. Don't microwave things in plastic, don't use plastic wrap to cover your food. Don't drink the water out of the bottle. It's been sitting in the back of your car for three months like, I've done. Just don't do it. Plastics and micro plastics, which are in so many things that we put on our skin, which is the largest organ that we have, and the things that are absorbed through the skin can go directly into our bloodstream. So avoiding plastics and micro plastics and really all endocrine disrupting chemicals, and if that's a new term for you, endocrine disrupting chemicals or EDCs. We're headed there next week on Hello Uterus to talk about this and it's a must listen, another thing that drives estrogen dominance? Stress. Absolutely. And we have got a ton of reasons to be stressed right now. And sometimes when I read those symptoms lists, I feel like I might be stressing you out. And I don't want to stress you out, but I do want you to know because you might not have the opportunity to sort of bring the whole picture together. And by hearing those exhausting two experience symptoms together might help you connect on some things that you are living with daily. So what drives progesterone dominance? A reduction in estrogen birth control meds again. Hormonal based medications. Pregnancy drives progesterone dominance as the progesterone is used by the uterus to maintain the pregnancy, these best friends who occasionally fall out need to be in balance. The list of stuff that can go sideways is wild. Now you know your body better than anyone, better than your doctor, better than your mother, better than your partner, and it's your experience with it that matters. Lay out all your symptoms without apology and demand a diagnosis. That is the best piece of guidance that we can give you is to not think that you're broken or that there's something wrong or that you're doing something wrong. Don't let anyone make you feel like you're doing something wrong, someone outside of you, like a physician, the best role that they can play is to have a collaborative conversation with you, where they listen intently and take notes as you tell them what your daily life. And then to educate you using a variety of means that can help take you down a path so that you can come back together at that next appointment decision time, and make the determination that's best for you. Without that collaborative environment, you won't get there. And so if somebody sits down and listens to your tale of woe and says, it's normal, here's some birth control pills, that's not a collaborative learning environment. That's designed to treat the root cause of your symptoms. Okay, we will be right back with how you get ahead of the hormonal curve after this break.
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Carol: How do you get ahead of the hormonal curve? Knowing the phase you're in narrows your focus so you can sort yourself based on your life phase. Are you in the reproductive phase, meaning you're menstruating capable of becoming pregnant? Are you in the paramedapausal phase where your hormones are now? Their balance is changing because you're changing. The role that they need to play in your changing body is shifting during paramedopause. And then there's the menopause phase again, another phase change in your life, and as a result, your hormones adjust accordingly. So in each of these phases, hormone levels will fluctuate and regulate your state of being based on where you're at in your life cycle. So knowing that will help you kind of cut out some of the other stuff that you don't need to pay attention to and zero in on what might be happening now. And then you got to see the right doctor. It depends on your personal situation, where you're at and what you've done to date. So I'm going to shoot right for the gold standard, which is an endocrinologist. These doctors focus on the endocrine system. They focus on determining where the hormones are at in your body by putting you through a series of tests. And some of them are tests that you're probably accustomed to having, like getting blood drawn, providing a urine or saliva sample. But they also do what they call stimulation and suppression testing. And that means that they give you hormones and other substances that either start or stop your production of certain hormones. And then they evaluate how your body responds. So it's a method of witnessing the endocrine system in action. And then, because these physicians are specialists in the endocrine system, they understand, based on experience, what these types of reactions mean in the test results. It is really important for people who either are concerned about their hormones or have reason to believe that they're dealing with a hormonal condition. Or perhaps you've been diagnosed with fibroids. You believe you might have endometriosis. Endocrinologists give you an understanding of what could arguably be called the most important aspect of your body, which is your endocrine system. We'll have an endocrinologist on to talk about this. I promise you that. As I said before, if your doctor listens to your symptoms and suggests putting you on birth control pills, just run. Dr. Elizabeth Crawl told us in the first episode of Hello Uterus that there is not definitive evidence of why fibroids occur, but it is known that hormones affect their growth. So taking birth control pills without knowing what is causing your symptoms may cause or inflame other problems. That's that circle of hell. Getting your hormone levels tested and looking at the results is really beneficial. Understanding what the levels mean, make that a mission. Ask your doctor to explain it to you, but then do additional research using Always Vetted Resources, the National Library of Medicine, other journals. So you can always research a particular thing that your doctor pointed out to you. Maybe your doctor said estrogen dominance. That's your issue. Go to Google, but don't go to Doctor Google. Go to Google and type in estrogen dominance journals. Clinical research, that's where you should focus your time and energy on actual data, which, again, out of the gate, can be a little intimidating. But there's always like a summary on these studies. Generally speaking, there will be regular language there that you can read and understand, I promise you. Because if I can do it, you can do it. That I can promise you. There's two reasons why it's important to understand what the results of any test is. Because you can have an impact specifically to hormone levels. You can have an impact on them and improve some of your symptoms on your own. And let's not gloss over PF. The importance of knowing what's screwing with you. Cortisol rises when we're under stress. That's another hormone. Not knowing what's causing your symptoms causes stress. Stress can cause hormonal imbalance. Dealing with your symptoms causes stress, leading to more symptoms and stress. It's hard to feel strong enough to tackle things like endometriosis or fibroids when you're not stressed. But when you are stressed, what do you do? Do you ignore it? Do you procrastinate? Do you go see 20 doctors because you think you have cancer? Again, without data? We don't need the data to let us know that if we personally suspect something is out of alignment with our bodies, we will stress about it. Make it your mission to know what is at the root cause of your symptoms. And then get this lifestyle advice. That stuff that they tell you, I'm the first one to dismiss it because sometimes I'm just like, no, I don't want to do that. But it's real. Try it. But not in place of getting a definitive diagnosis. I'm not suggesting that. Don't be like, oh my gosh, I'm not going to go to the doctor because I'm too scared. So I'm going to drink lemon water and I'm going to breathe and meditate and everything is going to be okay. It's not. There's a part of you that is still saying, oh my God, what if I'm dying of cancer? Understanding what is going on in your body is something that you really do owe it to yourself to do, because it will it will make you feel better. Imagine you go to the doctor. You have a great doctor. You go to an endocrinologist and they do the hormone testing for you. And they come back and they say, hey, here are your hormones. They're out of balance. That's why you're feeling this way. That's why you're experiencing these symptoms. And here are the various things that we can do to get your hormones back in balance. You will feel instantly better. Which is why I think getting a diagnosis and focusing on your lifestyle changes, those are the two best things that you can do for yourself. It's not necessarily going to get you to a cure in a matter of days, but it will improve your experience with your symptoms. Mentally, you will feel stronger. Emotionally, you will feel stronger. You may even be able to lower estrogen on your own through diet and lifestyle changes. Let's look at it from this angle. If your body is stressed, then you're compounding the hormonal imbalance in your body. A cascade of problems can result from that, right? So I feel like just tackling that first and foremost. Like, after hearing this episode today, if you just say to yourself, you know what, I'm just going to focus for the next seven days on chilling out and lowering my stress levels, I think you're going to feel stronger at the end of those seven days. So connecting the dots on your symptoms with the help of a doctor who has deep expertise and has chosen to prioritize in their practice, hormonal balancing, really good. Step number one. And then other things like make sure you're getting enough water, make sure you're sleeping well, make sure you're breathing properly. Really deep belly breathing. A new choice every day to do something that would support hormonal balance. And again, how would you know? How do you know? What food should I be eating? Well, you don't know unless you have a definitive diagnosis that says, oh, your hormones are out of balance. And in these ways, remember, 50 hormones. We just talked about two of them today. In conclusion, on our one of many talks about hormones in the uterus. I'm going to leave you with this from the EPA dot gov website. That's the Environmental Protection Agency, because you know what? They got it right. I kind of thought it was insane that they would have this on their website, but they did. In quotes, there is little doubt that small disturbances in endocrine function, particularly during certain highly sensitive stages of the life cycle, for instance, development, pregnancy, lactation, I would add paramedopause menopause can lead to profound and lasting effects. Little doubt that small disturbances and endocrine function can lead to profound and lasting effects. And they're not talking about excellence, right? They're talking about stuff that's not good. At the EPA website, I was doing little research on endocrine disrupting chemicals for next week. So we are going to take a break and come back with Hear Me, hear Me. And while we take this break, I want you to do this breathing exercise. It's really easy. You're going to breathe in through both nostrils for a count of 5 seconds and then you're going to hold it for 2 seconds and then breathe out slowly through your mouth for 10 seconds. All the while your brain or your communication system, brain and heart, probably good way to go is going to tell your system to relax. So you breathe in for a count of five, hold for a count of two, out through the mouth for a count of ten, and the whole time just tell your beautiful, fabulous, wonderful, exquisite human system to relax. And we'll be right back with Hear me, hear me,
Hear me, hear me. I haven't done it like that. I just kind of felt like I needed to. Okay, this is one we've heard before from our friends. My doctor brushed me off when I told her I had pelvic pain, weight gain, night sweats, and I'm trying and failing at getting pregnant. Hold on to your hats, kids, when you hear this next sentence. She told me to go to therapy and get a nutritionist. I'm so glad I found this podcast and agree we have to get educated to get well. But what if the doctor won't listen anyway? Signed PMS off. Wow. I don't know the type of doctor that told you to go to therapy and get a nutritionist. I'm going to assume it was a gynecologist. And again, I don't have all the answers. It's kind of an opinion here, but my opinion is maybe you're with an obstetrician, a gynecologist who is primarily focused on obstetrics. And so that might be the first round that they suggest. Right? They're like, oh, you'll get pregnant eventually in their mind. I've seen this a million times. Another person telling me about their night sweats and their waking and their pelvic pain. So you need to look at the type of doctor that you're going to. That's the first thing that comes to mind. And then get a new doctor. But getting a new doctor doesn't cut it when finding the right doctor is near impossible. And then getting an appointment before you hit 90 is questionable. And you said that you want to get pregnant, so it's not like you have all the time in the world, right? Each appointment costs money. Insurance doesn't cover all doctors. Nothing is standardized. And uterine care, what you experience at one doctor is not at all what you may experience at another. There's gaslighting and racial prejudice and the beast known as insurance companies who want you. Well, as long as it doesn't cost them anything because, you know, profits. So I get fully that saying you are not with the right doctor isn't that helpful. And in an ideal world, you would have direct access to a specialist. So if you're seeing an OB, their business model is delivering babies. If you're seeing a guy, their business model is basic gynecologic health. They're really basic stuff. But just remember, these are businesses. There's a business model that they're following, and it's their business model, and it's their choice in general, a physician can set up their practice and conduct it the way they want. And I also want to say that no doctor can do it all and no doctor can master it all. My experience has been that the people who get themselves in front of specialists, they get greater traction, they move faster toward a diagnosis and then a treatment that works for them based on a collaborative conversation about what the best care plan is. I've said before, I'm 56, right? So my pediatrician was my general practitioner, my GP, and also my gynecologist until I was 20. Is that nuts? My pediatrician my mom. And I didn't know any better. And back in the was zero effort to educate on uterine wellness or anything. There was nothing. You knew nothing. It's just no Internet. We were like lemmings in the biggest light bulb moment during the last five years of researching and working in uterine care was recognizing what it's like to be a doctor today. I know it might sound that I like hammer on doctors all the time, but I have a lot of empathy for what it's like to be a doctor today. It radically altered my view of what their world is like, and it completely changed how I approach care. So it's like, hey, I'm not blaming you. I'm recognizing what your world is like, and I'm recognizing what my world is like. And I'm going to go in armed with information and zero apologies for having that information and zero apologies for asking questions and probing follow up questions, because it's my body and I'm paying the bill, and that's how we're going to roll here. So if your doctor wants to leap over the education process and politely proceed with their recommended care plan, you have my permission. PMS off to bolt. That's not the way to do uterine care. And it's changing. It is definitely changing. The fact that this podcast is live is evidence that it's changing. We're done not talking about these things, so I hope that that helps. And I hope that the information today also helped you PMS off. Get well. And it's okay to be PMS off. It's totally okay. I don't get PMS anymore and I'm PMS off just thinking about you having that experience. So all good by me. Remember, permission to bolt. Especially if they say, here's some birth control pills and they want to pat you on the head. Okay, we're going to take a quick break and then we are going to end on a high note.
Ending on a high note. Ancient air conditioning is on its way to Madrid. You all are going to think that I am so obsessed with Spain. They made the ending on a high note on paid menstrual leave, which is obsession worthy. If it was super easy to move from country to country, wouldn't that be great? They'd all be competing for us, right? We would have all these rights because countries would have to compete for us to go live in them. We need to make that happen. Anyway, this one feels so right because it's tackling a modern problem by looking to the past and standing up to the critics. So Spain is saying, hey, there is a climate issue going on. And they're looking to the past to see how other civilizations dealt with excessive heat in desert places. And they have decided that they are going to build a garden. But not just any garden. This is a wind garden. A massive wind garden. 35 acres of green space and an overall size of 593 accessible acres. So in northern Madrid, there are a lot of trains there and there was a lot of unused earth around these train tracks. And they came up with a plan to essentially build this massive garden, but structure it so that it delivers massive benefits, one of which is the expectation that it will lower the city's temperature by four degrees. That is amazing. And this came out of ancient Middle Eastern practices to regulate temperature in large locations. This garden will capture the breeze and then disperse it around the park and out into the streets. And they're getting the kids involved by enabling them to design the park in Minecraft. I need to meet the person who came up with this. The park is called Nuevo Norte and they created a scale model in Minecraft so that people could use the real space and suggest how they want it to be built out. It's just amazing. And then Madrid, this concept, this garden, Nuevo Norte, came to be because one of their goals is to be a sustainable city in which 80% of travel will be on foot, bike, or on public transportation. 80% of travel. That's just so smart. It's so smart. It's inspiring to know that Madrid is focused on progress and that Spain prioritizes human rights. There's so much that can be done and so many opportunities to improve how we live and treat the planet and we have to prioritize it. And then you got to get everybody behind it, which seems in the United States, like that would be an impossible task, at least on such a grand scale. But it can be done. And so that's why I think it is a high note in the sense that we are moving forward. We are going to need to tackle issues like climate change when a country like Spain goes and creates this project, other countries look. Could you imagine if you were able to lower New York City's temperature by four degrees? Everything from people's sense of happiness, comfort, well being, to the cost savings, to the savings to the planet. It's just amazing. I can't wait to see this park. We will link to the website to Madrid Nuevo Norte, and if you have minecraft or you play minecraft, you should go and make something cool there. It would be so fun to build something in minecraft and then find it actually come to life in a park. Oh my gosh. It's so cool being human. Okay, so this was the first of many episodes where we will get at hormones, demystify them, help you navigate the health care system so that you can get a diagnosis instead of getting gas lit. And in our next episode, as I said earlier, we're going to tackle hormone disrupting chemicals. So come back for class next week on Hello Uterus. Thank you to angel, our producer to the team back at Uterine Kind. They are building a platform that will change the Uterine care experience for everyone. And it's coming in the fall of 2022. And thank you for spending this time with us for prioritizing your Uterine wellness and hopefully getting some actionable guidance that will make it easier for you to get to wellness without delay. Send us your questions hello at Hello Uterus.com and visit Helloyuneris.com for our blog posts, where we put links to research and the things that we mentioned in our podcast episodes so you can check them out and get additional insight. And thank you for being here. I hope you have a great week and I hope everything's balanced. All those little hormone gremlins are happy and they're getting what they need so that you can get what you need. We'll see you next week. Bye.
Angel: The Hello Uterus podcast is For Informational Use Only. The content shared here is to not be used to diagnose or treat any medical condition. Please speak with a physician about your health conditions and call 911 if it's an emergency. And thank you, Uterine Kind, for listening.