Dr. Heather Rhodes: Lifestyle habits that can cause a hormone imbalance and tips to restore healthy hormone levels #94
22 June 2022
Dr. Heather Rhodes (@drheatherrhodes) is a holistic pharmacist with a passion for women's health. She makes understanding your hormones simple and teaches you practical steps for maintaining hormone balance. Her natural approach to healing creates lasting results and symptom relief specifically for PCOS, PMS, Acne, and Fertility. She’s a cross fit instructor, ice cream addict, toddler mom, and adoption advocate!
In episode 94 of the PCOS Oracle Podcast, I speak with Dr. Heather Rhodes about the lifestyle habits that can cause a hormone imbalance and tips to restore healthy hormone levels.
In this episode Dr Heather talks about
- Dr Heather's health journey
- How your body responds to stress
- What stress even looks like to your body
- Signs your body is in a stressed state
- How to really listen to your body
- Ditch the weight loss pursuit and focus on nourishing your metabolism
Please enjoy!
Listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or on your favourite podcast platform.
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Show Notes
Download Dr Heathers FREE guide on how to support your hormones
Connect with: Dr. Heather Rhodes
Hey there! I am Despina Pavlou, founder of PCOS Oracle, certified personal trainer and corrective exercise specialist. I want to share with you the diet and lifestyle changes I made to naturally reverse my PCOS and achieve hormonal balance. I believe using my holistic approach you too can take back control from PCOS.
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