the Balancing Hormones Naturally Podcast

Listen now to discover how you can use nutrition to balance your hormones naturally so you can have pain free regular periods!

 HOSTED BY: Leah Brueggemann, Certified Functional Diagnostic Nutritional® Practitioner

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Episode 109: Recharge Your Health with Dr. Zulia

In this episode, we sit down with Dr. Zulia Frost from Recharge Health to learn about red light therapy and how it can improve our overall health. Dr. Zulia helps us understand how to best use red light therapy tools to improve chronic fatigue, chronic, pain, and even stretch marks.

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Episode 108: Switch & Ditch - Protein Powder

To kick off our switch and ditch series, we're taking a close look at protein powder. We talk a lot about the importance of protein for our hormones and our cycles so let's dive into what makes a good protein powder and what we should try to avoid to make sure we're getting the most out of it.

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Episode 106: How to Start Living in Your Best Frequency

Did you know that, like everything in the world, the material our clothing is made from has an energy frequency? And this frequency can buoy us or weigh us down. As exciting as this is, it's hard to change over your entire wardrobe to take advantage of these frequencies, but what we can do is make changes where it impacts us the most!

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Episode 104: Greenwashing: Becoming an Educated Consumer

Companies have learned a new marketing trick: Greenwashing. Brands know that consumers are on the lookout for toxins like BPA and parabens now but unfortunately, that doesn't mean they have switched to healthier or safer ingredients. This is your first step to becoming an educated consumer!

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Episode 102: How to Choose Clean Makeup Brands

We all know that generic, drug-store makeup is full of toxins and things that are not good for our skin or for the world. But even makeup that is labeled as "clean", "organic", or "non-toxic" can have hidden chemicals that affect our health and hormones. In this episode, we talk about how to research product ingredients, ingredients to look for and avoid, and which products I like for both safe ingredients and great performance.

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Episode 101: Entrusting Your Health to Ethical Companies

Join us with Jill Rowe to learn all about how she founded one of my favorite non-toxic companies, Rowe Casa Organics. We discuss how Rowe Casa got started, the importance (and difficulty!) of sourcing ethical and clean ingredients, and how the world gives you what you need to fulfill your purpose.

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Episode 100: Pick Your Poison. Living a Non-Toxic Life

No matter what we do, as long as we live on this planet, we can't achieve the perfect non-toxic life. This doesn't mean we shouldn't do what we can but understanding that we'll never achieve perfection can help us to decide where we can get the most bang for our buck and where our efforts make the biggest impact. It's important to take it slow and know that we can't make the change overnight. Join me in this episode, the first in a series of non-toxic living, to learn how to get started and where to focus your energy.

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Episode 96: A Sweet & Spicy Non-Toxic Gift Guide for Valentine’s Day

With Valentine's day just around the corner, chances are you're shopping for friends, family, significant others, or yourself! It can be tough to find non-toxic items in the sea of cheap candy and drug store cosmetics so look no further for your Valentine's day non-toxic gift guide.

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