#189: 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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