Hormone Happy Hour with Dr. Heather Rhodes
Sep 28, 2026 · 43 min · 13 segments
Happy fall, friends! 🍂 We’re kicking things off with a reminder from my son’s teacher that I think we ALL need to hear: Do your best and keep going. Because perfectionism can keep us stuck in a cycle…
If your body is regulating your blood sugar all day long, then it's not actually doing the things you want it to do.
It's driving the immune system up, which keeps you from being able to receive and can create a bunch of symptoms.
So if you're someone that is like, hey, I am noticing I'm doing a lot of the right things, I'm eating in a lot of the right ways, but...
I'm still having trouble with my body not showing up with the libido that I want.
I'm still having trouble with hot flashes or cravings or being able to lose weight or inflammation.
Like all of those things are going to have some component of blood sugar regulation and intertwined with resolving them and so you guys know that i am not necessarily someone that's like there's going to be this one thing that is just going to be the solution to all of your problems but i do think that there are these key foundations that if you can really optimize those key foundations the majority of things that you're experiencing will get better.
Your body will unlock and you will start to see healing in the way that you've been desiring it.
It might not be perfect, but it will be good enough for you to be able to absolutely keep going and regain that self-trust where you feel really good about the decisions you've made.
And that alone starts to calm your nervous system, starts to calm your immune system.
So some of those like key foundational pieces that I'm like, hey, most people are in some way not optimizing these things.
If your body is regulating your blood sugar all day long, then it's not actually doing the things you want it to do.
It's driving the immune system up, which keeps you from being able to receive and can create a bunch of symptoms.
So if you're someone that is like, hey, I am noticing I'm doing a lot of the right things, I'm eating in a lot of the right ways, but...
I'm still having trouble with my body not showing up with the libido that I want.
I'm still having trouble with hot flashes or cravings or being able to lose weight or inflammation.
Like all of those things are going to have some component of blood sugar regulation and intertwined with resolving them and so you guys know that i am not necessarily someone that's like there's going to be this one thing that is just going to be the solution to all of your problems but i do think that there are these key foundations that if you can really optimize those key foundations the majority of things that you're experiencing will get better.
Your body will unlock and you will start to see healing in the way that you've been desiring it.
It might not be perfect, but it will be good enough for you to be able to absolutely keep going and regain that self-trust where you feel really good about the decisions you've made.
And that alone starts to calm your nervous system, starts to calm your immune system.
So some of those like key foundational pieces that I'm like, hey, most people are in some way not optimizing these things.
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