Dr. Becky Campbell - The Health Babes’ Guide to Balancing Hormones: A Detailed Plan with Recipes to Support Mood, Energy Levels, Sleep, Libido and More

The Health Babes

GUIDE TO BALANCING HORMONES

A Detailed Plan with Recipes to Support Mood, Energy Levels, Sleep, Libido and More

DR. KRYSTAL HOHN AND DR. BECKY CAMPBELL

Hosts of The Health Babes podcast

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This book is dedicated to everyone who has decided that they will not accept answers like, Its just your age, Its all in your head or anything along those lines, as an answer to the signals your body is sending you.

Congratulations on deciding to listen to your body and learn about how to best support your health and feel your best. We are honored that you are putting your health in our hands and hope to give you all the answers you need.

If you know anything about us, you know that we both struggled with our own health issues for years before figuring out what was causing them. The thing is, all health issues have a root cause. The problem with that is most people dont know where to even begin or who to turn to when figuring this out. Between the two of us, we have had thyroid issues, estrogen dominance, androgen dominance, histamine intolerance, adrenal hormone imbalancethe list goes on.

So, trust us when we tell you we get it. We get how painful this can all be and how frustrating it is when no one understands or takes your health issues seriously. This is the exact reason we do what we do. We want to fill you with as much knowledge as we can on how the body works so that you too can get better, the way that we both have.

I want you to know that functional medicine practitioners were usually patients that could not find answers to their health issues before they became a practitioner. I am a practitioner who has been in your shoes and has been down the modern medical route time and time again with disappointment. This is why I am passionate about what I do, because I can relate to almost every one of my patients and readers on a personal level.

I know how hard it is to be sick and tired of feeling sick and tired, and feeling like no doctor can give you an answer. This is why its my mission to help you uncover your own personal root cause with each book I write.

So here is my story, and how I went from being sick to finding my root cause and eventually putting all of my symptoms into remission. I believe that it sets the tone for the bookthat there is hope and feeling better is possible. I offer this inspiration to help you move forward towards uncovering your root causes and encourage you to keep advocating for your health.

For as long as I can remember, I have never felt good. I remember being younger and wanting to go home from school because I was tired or just didnt feel well. In high school, I missed a lot of my early morning classes because I couldnt get out of bed on time. I remember being so fatigued, and it seemed like I was the only one who was dealing with this. No one else around me seemed to have any of the same issues. While I was trying to get through high school, I was also trying to figure out why I felt so exhausted all of the time.

Fast forward to graduate school where I had an enormous amount of stress, barely any time to eat and was working out way too hard for the amount of calories I was taking in. I started getting extreme anxiety, debilitating brain fog, my hair was falling out in clumps and I gained thirty pounds very quickly, despite working out 6 days a week. I also suffered with migraine headaches, strange crawling sensations on my scalp, food sensitivities, abdominal bloatingthe list goes on.

It wasnt until I found a holistic health practitioner that I learned why all of this was happening to me. I was finally diagnosed with Hashimotos thyroiditis, gut infections, high cortisol (stress hormone), estrogen dominance, mercury toxicity, chronic EBV, and about 10 years later, I would diagnose myself with something called Mast Cell Activation Syndrome and Histamine Intolerance.

I want to teach you about root cause(s) because this is how you heal your body.

Most of us start in functional medicine because we know what its like to feel badly. When I found what worked for me, I wanted to share it with others.

As long as I can remember, I suffered from bloating, IBS and anxiety. As a kid, I would constantly have a stomachache or get ear infections. Fast forward to graduate school when stress was high; my anxiety and gut symptoms were exacerbated. This is when I started diving into nutrition. I was researching inflammatory foods and the impact they had on my gut health. After removing a lot of these foods, I started feeling better.

Later on, after I had my son, I really started to feel off. I could tell my hormones were dysregulated. The lack of sleep, feeling isolated in motherhood and the stress of owning a business was really weighing on me. I was gaining weight, developing cystic acne and felt like I was crawling out of my skin. I can remember canceling events because my skin was so inflamed. Not only did I feel badly on the inside, I was so insecure about how I looked on the outside too. Through functional medicine, I soon found out that I was dealing with estrogen dominance, high testosterone and a candida gut infection that was contributing to a lot of my symptoms.

I worked on my gut, spent time on stress management and eliminated foods that were contributing to my imbalances.

My skin soon cleared, I felt energized, lost weight and my gut symptoms started to melt away.

The experience with my hormones is what led me to my passion for writing this book, working with patients and creating a health brand. Its the reason why I spend most days in the trenches, guiding patients to health. There is so much disconnection in healthcare today. My hope is that this book helps you understand just how important your hormones are. When your body gives you a symptom, there is a reason behind it. You just have to be open and make the changes to better your health.

You know when you meet someone and you just totally get each other? Even if others dont get you, you have a secret bond that no one will ever understand. Welp, that is us! We have known each other for years and attended the same graduate school. We joined forces in our virtual practice, working with people all over the world with a multitude of health issues. However, we wanted to be able to reach more people on a broader level, so we locked arms and The Health Babes brand was born.