The speakeasyhealth Podcast offers a refreshing perspective into how to tackle hormonal imbalances such as period irregularities & gut symptoms, by engaging the root cause approach & integrative practices. Rocsi, a certified nutritionist and hormone health coach, compacted the strategy that helped her heal into a simplified approach: nutrition at the core of healing & knowledge for sustainability. With bi-weekly episodes, Rocsi aims to support women struggling with their hormones to develop ...
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The name, Living Hellth, comes from the unfortunate reality that the experience of health for many can be anything from confusing to chronic, and quite frankly a living hell. In our first season, we’re starting with Women’s Hellth. Women live in poor health for 25% more of their lives than men do. We’ll be covering the issues, experiences and chronic conditions that disproportionately effect women or affect women differently than men - including endometriosis, Migraines, Menopause, PMS and C ...
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Rocsi's story: Living with autoimmune disease, removing cystic ovaries and managing primary dysmenorrhea
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After a decade long fight for answers to her symptoms, Rocsi was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease called Hashimoto's - where the body's own immune system attacks the thyroid. It didn't end there, as she still had to learn why she had such painful and heavy periods. She discovered why, but it then meant she had to undergo a c-section surgery. Sh…
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Autoimmune expert: Dr Mark Vanderpump is an endocrinologist specialising in thyroid disease and and reproductive endocrinology including PCOS
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In this episode, I interview a leading Endocrinologist based in London, Dr Mark Vanderpump, on autoimmune diseases, with a special focus on thyroid conditions. In this episode, I ask him: Why are women more imapcted by autoimmune diseases than men? What are autoimmune diseases and why do they occur? What are the autoimmune diseases triggers and tre…
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Trailer: Rocsi's story: A decade long fight for an autoimmune disease diagnosis, and even longer fight to explain her extremely heavy periods
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We'll launch our next two episodes this week, the first is our personal story. Rocsi shares her very long and very frustrating journey to get the answers to her debilitating symptoms. But it didn't end there - she then had to push for answers to her painful periods, which in the end, required c-section surgery and a long road to recovery. Rocsi's s…
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Is there a link between ADHD & female reproductive hormones? Dr Jessica Agnew-Blais chats through emerging research on hormonal transitions and fluctuations
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In this episode, we’re joined by Dr Jessica Agnew-Blais is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology at Queen Mary University London. Her research investigates the developmental course of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) across the life span. In this episode we discuss what the research states when it comes to ADHD and hormonal transitions and…
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Endometriosis surgeon & pelvic pain expert: Dr Karolina Afors shares the stats, facts and practical advice with it comes to this chronic condition
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In this third episode on endometriosis, we speak with Dr Karolina Afors, a Consultant Gynaecologist at University College London Hospitals, with over 17 years of experience in the NHS (the public healthcare system for England and Wales). She specialises in pelvic pain and endometriosis, including conducting surgery on patients suffering from Endo. …
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Raphy's Living Hellth story: Endo & chronic illness sufferer and health advocate
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In this episode, I speak with Raphy about her living hellth journey with Endometriosis and chronic illness. Raphy has been diagnosed with PCOS, Endometriosis, Adenomiosis and chronic fatigue. She’s undergone multiple surgeries, chemical menopause and two rounds of egg freezing - all before the age of 27. She a 27-year-old part-time content creator …
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Ella's living hell: From Stage 4 Endometriosis, doctors ignoring her pain, fertility struggles, to symptom tracking, self-advocating for her health, finding the right support and conceiving her beautiful ...
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In this first episode, the first of three special episodes focused on Endometriosis. My friend, Ella, share her story with stage 4 endometriosis and subsequently, her fertility journey. Ella is now in her early 30s and we spend this episode chatting and reflecting on what life was like leading up to her diagnosis, during her surgeries and her journ…
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Welcome to the Living Hellth Podcast - launching next week! Subcribe to hear our first four episodes - you'll hear personal stories on Endometriosis as well as an expert speaker covering off all the stats and facts!By Jo Doyle
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ep12 | 5 Strategies You Did Not Try Yet To Recover Your Period
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Did you lose your period, or is it becoming more and more irregular? Maybe you went from 30-day cycles to 35-40 over the past few months or maybe your period ghosted you completely and you’re left wondering “what on earth is going on?!”. In this Podcast episode, I explore the most common reasons for missing periods, and I help you with a 5-step sol…
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Struggling with PCOS symptoms despite following treatment faithfully? Are you still missing your period, feeling cold and sluggish, or gaining weight even with a healthy diet and regular exercise? Have you started to wonder, “Maybe I’m just unlucky, nothing works for me”? You’re not alone, and you might not have PCOS. Or you might indeed have PCOS …
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ep 10 | The Gut - Period Problems Connection
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This Podcast episode is brought to you by Nicola Smith, from the Breaking Your Cycle Summit 🩸 Have you ever wondered why, even when you do everything “right” for your period, you still experience symptoms like PMS, PCOS, PMDD, heavy bleeding, or irregular cycles? Have you noticed that these hormonal issues often come with digestive symptoms too? Th…
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ep9 | Fertility Awareness Method for Better Menstrual Cycles
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Does using the birth control pill or other hormonal contraceptives leave you with terrible symptoms? Did you stop feeling like yourself but feel helpless because you don’t know what else is out there that will help you understand how to avoid pregnancy successfully? Or perhaps you’ve been trying to get pregnant for a while but don’t know how to opt…
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ep8 | How to quit hormonal contraceptives & Reclaim your Period
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Have you ever wondered how hormonal contraceptives work and how it impacts your body? You might be familiar with the long list of side effects of the pill already, but have you ever wondered if there is a better way to take charge of your fertility? And most importantly, how do you even begin to do that with so much confusing information out there?…
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ep7 | Why is gut health so crucial to healthy cycles and periods?
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How many of us could even begin to think that the state of our gut can lead to more painful periods and a PMS-ridden cycle? I bet not too many! In this episode, I explore the connection between an unhealthy gut and more painful cycles and difficult periods and I provide practical solutions to understand what to do to heal your gut and fix your peri…
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In this episode, we cover the following topics: - what is insulin resistance - insulin resistance and blood sugar imbalances are not the same - symptoms to diagnose insulin resistance and metabolic health - why the Rotterdam Criteria most doctors rely on to diagnose PCOS is not accurate - how can women be misdiagnosed with PCOS - how can a healthy …
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ep5 | Ovulation is making your period painful 😱
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Have you ever heard that ovulation is the cause of your painful periods? Has your doctor ever told you that, or perhaps that was the rationale behind putting you on hormonal birth control to stop ovulation? In today’s episode, I am busting this myth around ovulation being painful, and together we are unpicking the real reason for painful periods as…
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ep4 | Blood sugar spikes & the impact on your period pain and weight
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Are blood sugar imbalances as dangerous as they are portrayed on social media? Inflammation, cycle synching, and blood sugar spikes have taken over the internet in the past two years and have become the go-to topics for inducing fear to make a buck 💲. In this episode, I aim to clarify what's true and what's fiction and share some simple ways in whi…
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ep2 | Quitting the Pill& Managing PCOS (a case study)
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This is the first case study episode I am publishing to show you, using real-life scenarios (names were changed), how to follow a structured approach to heal hormonal imbalances. In today's episode, I cover how my client safely quit the birth control pill, with a PCOS diagnosis and a cluster of symptoms (fatigue, hunger, weight gain, hormonal acne)…
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ep3 | The root cause approach to PCOS & Endometriosis
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I am joined by Dr Naomi Whittaker in today's episode to speak about PCOS and Endometriosis & dive deep into what we can do to get a diagnosis & how to support our body using the root cause approach. Here's what you can expect to learn from this episode: ✅ What is PCOS ✅ What is Endometriosis ✅ The concept behind NaPro technology and the connection …
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Welcome to the speakeasyhealth Podcast, where we speak about hormone health topics, in an easy way. In this episode, I share: ✅ Who am I ✅ About the structure of the podcast ✅ About my health journey & what determined me to develop my unique approach to health 👋 Come say hi & learn more: 🌎 website: https://speakeasyhealthnutrition.com/ 📲Instagram: …
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