Podcast Episode: 95: Supporting Hormonal Teenagers + Creating a Safe and Healthy Home + Simple Wellness Strategies for Women 40+

How do you deal with hormonal teenagers? Naturopathic doctor and mother, Dr. Rachel Schwartzman shares her insights about how to support teenagers and their overall health.

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Topics Discussed in this Episode:

Dealing with hormonal teenagers, supporting their health, and optimizing their hormones
Women’s health and hormonal health
Strategies that women can implement to support their hormones
The benefits of acupuncture
The organic acid test and what it looks at
Creating a healthy home
What it means to be a birth doula

Key Takeaways:

Kids can start with herbs from as young as when they start eating solids.
When it comes to the products that you use, for something that’s chemical-based, you can find a natural alternative.
Cruciferous vegetables, the brassica family, are very good at detoxifying our hormones and are great for the liver.
Honey is the best cough syrup. When you add garlic to it, it’s very good for immune support.
Herbs can be a great medicine to help balance out our hormones.
Vitamin B6 helps to metabolize estrogen.
Acupuncture helps with symptom management and helping to balance out hormones.
Our best management for pain when giving birth is good labor support.

Action Steps:

Start your kids with herbs from a really young age.
Help your children to detox on a daily basis.

Rachel said:

“Being healthy and getting into our optimal health… it takes some work, but the pay-off is really great.”

“When we’re doing acupuncture, it’s really a great way to balance out the entire whole person. We’re not really working on just one symptom picture but we’re actually taking that whole person into consideration.”

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