191 | Understanding Hormone Health and Getting off Birth Control with Sarah Grace Meckelberg
Welcome to Episode 191 of The Optimal Body Podcast
Understanding Hormone Health and Getting off Birth Control with Sarah Grace Meckelberg
Wanting to come off birth control? Struggling to find a diet that works for you? Hoping to optimize hormone health? We’ve got Sarah Grace, dietitian, and licensed nutritionist, on to explore the realms of nutrition and how it relates to hormone health, birth control, and PCOS. With an emphasis on steps to compiling reliable and credible advice, Sarah describes whether or not intermittent fasting and the keto diet are beneficial for women. Through this discussion, she discusses optimal sources of carbohydrates and the truth around birth control. With masking effects of birth control, Sarah shares how birth control may be perpetuating the root causes of different symptoms and diagnoses. In light of getting to the root cause, Sarah provides her best tips on how you can optimize your physiology, while on birth control, and what to focus on coming off birth control. She dives into what the anti-inflammatory diet consists of and what lab/ blood tests to look into if you are wanting to approach your hormonal health. Finally, she dabbles into the world of supplements and its role in the birth control process. Grab a notebook and sit tight for this whirlwind of information!
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What you will learn in this interview with Sarah Grace
4:37 – How to combat the misinformation on the internet?
6:32 – Are they diets that can be harmful to women?
11:51 – Sources of smart carbs
14:11 – Why nutrition and educating online?
19:17 – The truth around birth control
22:28 – Wanting to get off birth control & approaching the root cause
27:30 – How to start optimizing your hormone health?
22:56 – Anti-inflammatory Diet
37:47 – Labs & blood work for hormone dysregulation
38:58 – Supplements to help to go off birth control
42:29– Recommendations for reputable companies
About Sarah Grace
Sarah Grace Meckelberg is a renowned media dietitian, licensed nutritionist, speaker, online social media influencer and founder of Fresh Fit n Healthy. With a Bachelors in Human Nutrition, a Masters in Exercise Physiology and Nutrition, and her experience after working with hundreds of women worldwide, she has a passion for living out a healthy, balanced lifestyle, and helps others do the same. Sarah Grace now specializes in empowering women to learn how to utilize sustainable, realistic nutrition and lifestyle changes to support healthy hormones and feel their best, so that they can be their best in the areas that matter most to them. She does this through both her free online content, her online courses, and her all-inclusive hormone program, Hormone Healing Academy. With over 10 years of experience in the nutrition industry and over 600,000 followers worldwide combined, she has dedicated her career to helping women say goodbye to the fad diets and imbalanced hormones holding them back in life from feeling their best, and create a truly healthy, balanced lifestyle that supports optimal hormone levels. Sarah Grace is also the host of top-rated Real SOULutions Podcast within the health space, where she talks through hormone health & real life barriers standing in the way of our healthiest, happiest self.
Website: www.FreshFitnHealthy.com Podcast: Real SOULutions Podcast Instagram: @sarahgracemeck (180k+) Tik Tok: @sarahgracemeck (500k+)
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