Episode 89: Understanding our many hormones with Nicki Williams

Nicki Williams is a nutritionist, author, speaker, and women’s health expert. She’s the author of the excellent book, It’s Not You, It’s Your Hormones. We often focus mainly on our sex hormones, but there are lots more to consider, especially in midlife.

We talk about:

How Nicki first got interested in hormones
How unprepared she was for the changes of perimenopause
Why we need to consider more hormones than just our sex hormones in midlife and beyond – we have over 100 hormones!
The Feisty Four hormones that can cause us most trouble: cortisol, thyroid, insulin and estrogen
The importance of diet and lifestyle
How we can take better care of our hormonal balance
The importance of stress management
Looking after the gut and liver
Why HRT may not be the panacea we want it to be in midlife
Understanding our thyroid
What to consider when things start to change in midlife
How we tolerate certain things less well as we age
Eliminating things like gluten and dairy short term to monitor any impact
Being open to possibility and curious about how to fix issues
Nicki’s 4 step happy hormone code

And more!

Find out more about Nicki:

Nicki’s website: happyhormonesforlife.com

Nicki’s book: ‘It’s Not You, It’s Your Hormones’