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7 Urgent Health Challenges Facing Women

Natural Solutions for Low Energy, Stress, Hormones, and More

by Lori & Jonathan Otto and the Health Secret Team

brought to you by HEALTH SECRET

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INTRODUCTION

A shocking 75% of American women are on pre-scription drugs, compared to only 56% of men. Yet we’re not getting any healthier. And the quest for health is an expensive endeavor. In 1998, Americans spent $73 billion on prescription medications. By 2016 that number had risen to $329 billion for the year! Sadly, two-thirds of that outrageous spending was for women.

Prescriptions are not only expensive, but they come with a variety of side effects that can be more or just as dangerous as the condition they treat!

It’s little wonder so many women are seeking natu-ral solutions. Remedies from nature are often easi-er to access, cheaper, and some of them can get to the root cause of the issue, rather than simply cover up the symptoms.

Hi, I’m Lori Otto and I know firsthand how dif-ficult it can be to find answers to health chal-lenges. I struggled for YEARS with a long list of ailments. I was hypoglycemic, had anemia, di-gestive allergies (including IBS, bloating, and pain to the point of being afraid to eat), respi-ratory and skin allergies… I had adrenal fatigue, brain fog, anxiety, depression, and chronic pain in my joints, shoulders, and back. I was misera-ble and desperate.

I could not get better or get pregnant, no mat-ter what I did… And I almost lost my marriage. Many days I just wanted to crawl into a hole and give up.

Happily, everything changed once I found and used the natural remedies that could resolve the core issues underlying my health challeng-es, so I could finally reclaim my life. I also re-cently gave birth to a gorgeous, healthy baby boy, Asher!

I understand how confusing it can be when it comes to all the conflicting messages about what is healthy and what is bad for you. I deeply understand the

desire to find actual, practical solutions so you can heal and reclaim YOUR life, too.

I want to thank you for taking the time to read this eBook, which is part of the groundbreaking NEW 9 Episode Docuseries Women’s Health Secrets, which my husband, Jonathan Otto, and I have created. In this life-changing docuseries, you will discover the key natural herbs and ingredients that can help re-duce inflammation, balance blood sugar, decrease insulin resistance, assist in weight loss, remove harmful toxins and parasites from the body, pro-mote healthy digestion, moderate immunity, sup-port fertility and reproductive (menstrual) health, boost your energy, improve joint function, reverse neurodegenerative decline, promote optimal brain health, and so much more.

In this eBook, we want to share tips and lifestyle choices that can lead to a younger, happier, and healthier you, in both mind and body.

Let’s explore the most common, urgent health con-cerns for women, and how you can use natural herbs and remedies to revolutionize your health.

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COMMON WOMEN’S

HEALTH CHALLENGES

In this time of intense stress, juggling demanding jobs and family responsibilities, and the general at-mosphere of immediate gratification that we live in, it can be tough to find space or time to take care of your health. Especially for women.

The age-old joke is that women, particularly moms, “don’t have time” to get sick...there’s simply too much to do and too many people to take care of. So they “don’t get sick.”

Of course, that’s a lie! Women do deal with our own health challenges... We simply don’t always take care of ourselves as we should. Too often women put themselves last on the list of priorities.

Some of the most common health issues and risks facing women today include:

� Heart attack

� Stroke

� Stress

� Anxiety

� Fatigue

� Low energy

� Infertility

� Hormone imbalance

� Cancer

� Weight gain

� Autoimmune disease

� Diabetes

� Thyroid problems

� Cardiovascular disease

� Hair loss

� Skin issues

There are also female-specific health issues, such as PMS, PCOS, fibroids, endometriosis, and meno-pause.

Then, there are mental health issues such as de-pression. In fact, there are certain types of depres-sion that are unique to women.

In reality, the list above is just the tip of the iceberg. We can’t possibly focus on every single health chal-lenge women face in one book, but we can look at seven of the most urgent issues, and then explore several natural solutions that support optimal, vi-brant health.

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1. HEART HEALTH

When you consider the national statistics on heart disease, you begin to understand why this is the most urgent health concern for women.

According to the CDC, heart disease is the lead-ing cause of death for 1 in 5 women in the United States. However, only 56% of women recognize this danger.

So what is heart disease, exactly?

The term ‘heart disease’ actually refers to several different heart conditions. These include heart at-tack, coronary artery disease, arrhythmias, as well as cardiovascular disease, which refers to condi-tions with blocked or narrowed blood vessels that can lead to heart attack or stroke. Things that affect your heart’s valves, muscles, or rhythm are consid-ered heart disease.

High blood pressure (hypertension) does not nec-essarily mean you have heart disease; however, it definitely increases the risk.

Factors that affect and increase the dangers of hy-pertension and/or heart disease include:

� Unbalanced gut (microbiome)

� Overweight and obesity

� Diabetes

� High sodium diet

� High cholesterol

� Chronic stress

� Smoking

� Lack of exercise

� Family history

The most surprising item on this list is probably gut health. A recent study highlighted a connection between poor gut health and increased incidence of arterial hardening, a well-known risk factor for heart disease. In contrast, researchers saw a de-

creased incidence of arterial stiffness in those with a more diverse (healthier) microbiome.

Another study, published just a year ago, compared the stools of 218 people with atherosclerotic cardio-vascular disease (ACVD) to 187 healthy individuals. They noted vast differences between the microbi-omes of the two sets, indicating a link between an unhealthy gut and ACVD.

According to Dr. JoAnn Manson, professor of medi-cine at Harvard Medical School and chief of preven-tive medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, “There’s a complex interplay between the microbes in our intestines and most of the systems in our bodies, including the vascular, nervous, endocrine, and im-mune systems. All of these relationships are highly rel-evant to cardiovascular health.”

Dr. Manson and colleagues published a study in 2017 where they saw a strong connection between blood levels of a certain substance called trime-thylamine N-oxide (TMAO), a byproduct of eating red meat, fish, poultry, and eggs. What happens is certain gut bacteria feed on a nutrient in these foods called choline. This creates a substance called trimethylamine (TMA), which your liver then con-verts into TMAO.

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TMAO has been strongly connected to the devel-opment of artery-clogging plaques, heart attacks, and strokes. Dr. Manson’s study found that those with high TMAO had a 62% higher risk of “seri-ous” cardiovascular events than people with low levels.

Significantly, this risk was determined to NOT be connected to other risk factors like obesity, diabe-tes, and kidney function. In other words, even if you are not obese, and do not have diabetes or kidney problems, having a high level of TMAO as a result of an abundance of certain gut choline-eating bacte-ria and eating high-choline foods such as red meat, fish, poultry and, eggs puts you at a 62% higher risk of heart disease and problems.

What all of this and other growing research seems to indicate is that ensuring your gut has a wide diversity of organisms, and that your di-gestive system is functioning optimally may be a foundational way to decrease the risk of heart disease and ensure a healthier heart.

We look at other ways to naturally support heart health later on.

2. WEIGHT GAIN

Unwanted weight gain is not just a matter of incon-venience or aesthetics (how it looks, or you prefer to look), it’s a red flag that can signal developing health problems. In addition, added weight increas-es the risk of disease.

Conditions science connects to excess weight in-clude:

� Cancer

� High blood pressure

� Heart disease

� Heart failure

� Stroke

� Type 2 diabetes

� Fatty liver disease

� Kidney disease

� Osteoarthritis

� Sleep apnea

� Gout

Pregnancy problems (high blood sugar, high blood pressure, and increased risk for cesarean delivery)

According to some sources, each pound of excess weight increases the risk of disease. When you get up into higher numbers of excess weight, the data gets a little scary.

For example, some experts calculate that thirty pounds of extra weight may increase the risk for heart disease, stroke, and diabetes by 40, 75, and 100% respectively, with the risk for breast cancer risk jumping to 110%.

With these same metrics, some estimate that 55 pounds of excess weight would make the risk of heart disease jump to 80%, with the risk for both breast cancer and diabetes tripling to over 300% each.

One Swedish study found that people at roughly 30 pounds overweight with high cholesterol and high blood pressure had a terrifying 500% increase in the risk of Alzheimer’s.

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Suffice to say, being overweight is a matter of con-cern for any woman seeking true health.

So what causes weight gain?

Many will tell you that weight gain is simply a mat-ter of calories versus energy expended (movement/exercise). However, if you’ve got excess weight, you probably know that it’s often not that simple!

Not understanding why you are gaining weight, or unable to release excess weight despite your best efforts can be frustrating, at best. As highlighted above, at worst, it can mean health issues or the compounded risk for potential health problems.

Factors that can affect your weight include:

� Inflammation

� Parasites

� Toxins

� Unbalanced microbiome (gut)

� Yeast overgrowth

� Hormones

� Thyroid

� Food allergies or intolerances

� Autoimmune disease

� Insulin resistance

� Diet insufficient in essential nutrients

� Malabsorption of nutrients

� Ineffective or incomplete elimination

Many things on this list can create or be part of a cycle of cause and effect. Meaning, one issue leads to another, and in turn, they each trigger other is-sues and even each other, and/or combine to influ-ence other problems. It’s a ‘which came first — the inflammation, hormone imbalance, or the insulin resistance’ type of situation.

To discover what is causing your weight gain, or your challenges in releasing your extra weight, all of the above should be considered. However, the foundation of health starts with nutrition. You want

to make sure you are not only consuming all the nu-trients your body needs to function best — things like omega 3s, Vitamins K2 and D3, glutathione, and more that we discuss further on — you want to en-sure you are ABSORBING the nutrients.

Proper absorption depends on several systems, processes, and factors. These include hormones, enzymes, and even your gut flora.

Hand in hand with absorption is proper elimination. Your body must be able to efficiently and complete-ly remove toxins and waste from your body, other-wise more toxins are created.

Assisting your body in proper elimination means giving it a fighting chance by including several antioxidants in your diet and ensuring your lym-phatic system, kidneys, and liver are functioning well—flushing out toxins and waste. In addition, your body’s waste disposal system (gut and colon) must be running well, without toxic build-up, con-stipation, or inflammation that can create further toxicity. Also, if you’re not expelling waste properly, your body can’t absorb nutrients effectively, under-mining a healthy diet or the benefits of nutritional supplements.

Anything you can do to help your body eliminate toxins, free radicals (oxidants) or parasites, and

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flush them out, the better. All things that help mod-erate inflammatory response naturally, and ensure the availability and absorption of nutrients, will help your body be able to naturally heal and achieve a healthy weight.

We explore several natural ways to support your body in these efforts later in this book.

3. ANXIETY

More than 40 million adults in the United States are affected by anxiety disorders, yet just under 37% re-ceive treatment. According to the National Institute of Mental Health, women are twice as likely to get an anxiety disorder some time in their life.

Anxiety often coincides with other health conditions such as:

� Eating disorders

� Headaches

� Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS)

� Sleep disorders

� Substance abuse

� Adult ADHD (attention-deficit/hyperactive disorder)

� BDD (body dysmorphic disorder)

� Chronic pain

� Fibromyalgia

� Stress

4. DEPRESSION

Many people with anxiety disorders also experience depression. Of course, depression can be indepen-dent of anxiety.

There are different types of depression, but near-ly all types of depression affect more women than men. The World Health Organization (WHO) esti-mates that twice as many women than men are likely to have a depressive episode.

Some basic stats on depression:

� Major depressive disorder (MDD) is categorized as a collection of serious depressive symptoms that last for a period of two weeks or more. It affects about 7% of the population per year, the majority of them women. The average age for this condition to develop is 32.5 years.

� Persistent depressive disorder (PDD) is considered a ‘low-level depression’, that is not as severe as MDD but may last longer. In general, a diagnosis means depressive symptoms have been present for two or more years. It affects around 1.9% of women, compared to 1% of men.

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� Seasonal depression, also known as seasonal affective disorder, includes a time of major depression, with mood influenced by the seasons. Four out of five people with this disorder are women.

� Postnatal (postpartum) depression is different from the “baby blues”. The “baby blues affects up to 80% of new mothers and usually lasts about 2 weeks as the body’s hormones rebalance, and the mother recovers from labor. These feelings of sadness, worry, and fatigue go away on their own. Postnatal depression presents with more serious symptoms, lasts longer and may require treatment. According to the NIMH (the National Institute for Mental Health), with “postpartum depression, feelings of sadness and anxiety can be extreme and might interfere with a woman’s ability to care for herself or her family.”

5. STRESS

Stress, which may or may not be correlated to anx-iety and depression, is also a common health con-cern for women.

According to the American Psychological Associa-tion (APA), chronic stress is on the rise in the US, as are the physical symptoms or effects of stress. In fact, according to an annual poll, Americans are the most stressed-out people on the planet! Just this year, the New York Times reported that out of over 150,000 people polled world-wide, Americans reported the most stress, with 55% saying they felt stress for most of the day. Globally, that statistic was just 35%. Similarly, 45% of Americans polled said they had felt significant worry the previous day.

That’s a lot of people anxious, stressed, and de-pressed! That makes the odds that you are included in those numbers quite high.

The problem with that is the toll each of these three conditions can take on the body. Likewise, these conditions can overlap. Stress can trigger

anxiety, anxiety can be part of depression, and de-pression can create stress and anxiety.

Depression and anxiety can limit your activities, which can further affect mental health in terms of lack of support, or your happiness quotient. It may also limit your physical activity, which, of course, will affect overall health.

However, of these last three health issues, stress is the most damaging to your body and health.

Though research is showing that men and women respond to stress differently, it is widely accepted that chronic stress is extremely harmful to your health and wellbeing.

Stress can lead to:

� Menstrual problems

� Hair loss

� Headaches

� Back pain

� Overeating

� Digestive issues: upset stomach, cramps, bloating, heartburn, IBS

� Weight loss or gain

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� Skin problems: breakouts, hives, rashes

� Irritability

� Sleep problems

� Depression

� Lack of focus

� High blood pressure and heart trouble

� Weakened immune system

� Inflammation - considered the root cause of many diseases, including autoimmune disorders and cancer

In keeping with the theme of the body’s health con-ditions affecting the overall homeostasis of its com-plex systems and processes, if stress creates or con-

tributes to one of the conditions listed above, they can, in turn, contribute to or create other problems.

For example, lack of sleep can contribute to irritabil-ity or a lack of focus. Lack of proper sleep will also increase the stress hormone cortisol. A weakened immune system can lead to greater health con-

cerns. Weight gain by stress eating can lead to the risks we discussed above.

Your body is a delicate system! Anything you can do to lower stress will be of benefit.

DECREASING STRESS

Some of the main lifestyle changes you can make to lower stress levels include:

� Participate in cortisol-lowering activities like deep breathing, meditation, and yoga

� Makes choices that:

• Allow you more time to sleep

• Create a better sleep

• Allow you more downtime to relax and have fun

• Lower pressure on you: lowering your budget

• Ensure you eat regular balanced meals

• Get enough healthy exercise or fun physical activities

� Laugh more — laughter is incredibly healing and releases good hormones that can help lower stress

� Get more hugs! That’s right, studies show that more frequent hugs from a partner or loved one increases calming oxytocin levels in women, and even lowers cortisol and blood pressure.

Another thing you can do to help with stress is to consume high-quality supplements that are prov-en to lower cortisol, like fish oil (omega-3), ashwa-gandha, and other adaptogens. We look closer at these and other natural remedies further on in this book. Plus, we take an even deeper dive into the natural solutions for these conditions and many more in our soon-to-be-released, 9 Episode Do-cuseries, Women’s Health Secrets.

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6. LOW ENERGY

Women are doing more than ever. Working, raising kids. Starting and running companies. Creating a docuseries, like me!

Having low energy was one of my worst symptoms before I found relief with natural medicines. I could barely get out of bed, many days. And I’m not alone. Many women struggle with this issue.

Stimulants like caffeine just burn out your precious adrenal system. But not having enough energy to get through a day can simply become intolerable. Besides this, low energy can be a sign of deeper health issues, and should never be dismissed as ‘just part of life’ for too long. And yet, as I discov-ered myself, many Western doctors don’t take low energy very seriously as a symptom. So what can you do?

First thing is to look at the possible causes for your low energy. There are several basic factors that can contribute to this. Here are some places to begin, when seeking the root cause of your low energy.

SLEEP PROBLEMS

Sleep is a basic physiological requirement for all hu-mans. Lack of sleep can lead to a great many health problems, including low energy. Ask yourself: Are you sleeping enough? Is your sleep interrupted by something or someone? Could you have sleep ap-nea?

Whatever it takes to make sure you are getting suffi-cient, uninterrupted and fully restful sleep—able to go through all the sleep cycles—you must do. This should not include sleeping pills. This could include things to lower your cortisol (and overall stress), like meditation, hot baths, exercise, supplements, etc.

PARASITES

Parasites are designed to live undetected. Their sur-vival depends on you not knowing they are there. That is why you can live for many years—just as I did!—with parasites, and have no real clue. Even

testing for parasites (if you can even convince your doctor to do this), is not reliable. Yet, you could have more than one common parasite living inside you, literally sucking the life out of you. They also can emit low-level amounts of toxins as part of their life cycle, increasing the tax on your body.

We discuss this issue in depth in Women’s Health Secrets, including what you can do to expel para-sites from your body. We’ll look at one or two natu-ral ways to do this with supplements, below.

NUTRITION

Your gas engine cannot run on diesel fuel. That is a fact. How can we expect our body to run well if we are not giving it the best, or even correct fuel?

By now you are probably aware that our soil is not providing the same level of vitamins and minerals (nutrients) in our fresh produce that our grandpar-ents grew up with. That is an unfortunate fact of the times we live in.

Likewise, the quality of seeds and breeds of fresh foods are somewhat skewed. They have been modi-fied in a variety of ways, mainly to ensure they ripen quickly and are less prone to attack by disease or insects.

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If our fresh produce has become increasingly less nutritious, where do we begin when discussing processed foods? Processing removes many of the good things that do make it into our food, and of-ten add several artificial ingredients in the name of shelf life, taste and even cost-cutting. Manufactur-ers will even add chemicals and fillers in order to make foods more “addictive”!

Yet, even if you are on an organic, plant-based diet and taking supplements to get an array of vitamins and minerals…You could be malnourished. In fact, you aren’t “what you eat,” you’re what you ABSORB.

Many women don’t realize that if their gut health, the health of their liver, kidneys, or lymphatic sys-tem is compromised, they may not be absorbing much nutrition at all. So you could be eating all the right things, but if your gut (microbiome) is out of balance, you may not be absorbing nutrients well. Likewise, if your liver, kidneys, and lymphatics are struggling to remove toxins and waste from your body, you may have malabsorption.

Ensuring your gut is balanced, your body is detoxi-fying itself efficiently and completely, as well nour-ishing yourself with the right foods, vitamins and minerals are essential to creating a foundation for having the energy you want to live a vibrant life.

Other causes for low energy can include candida overgrowth, anemia, heart problems, autoimmune disease, imbalanced hormones, thyroid problems, and low-grade infection. The list of natural supple-ments to support all of these issues follows.

We discuss ALL the above with over 60 doctors and experts in the upcoming 9 Episode Docuseries, Women’s Health Secrets. Check your email for your invitation!

7. HORMONAL ISSUES

You’ve probably been hearing about your hor-mones since you were a teenager. Women, espe-cially it seems, are ruled by our hormones for what seems like our entire lives!

It starts out with puberty and the onset of our men-struation. We hear about how hormones make us a woman, make us moody, make us grow. Our hormones are blamed on skin breakouts, weight gain, bloating, PMS. We take hormones to prevent pregnancy. If we choose to or are able to be moth-ers, then we have pregnancy hormones rising and falling. If you’re trying to get pregnant you may be injecting hormones into your body. If you have had a hysterectomy you may need to take hormones. If you breastfeed, hormone levels can create havoc in your life, too. It can feel like everything in our life is hormones, hormones, hormones!

Then as we get older, women go through ‘the change’. As a society, women are trained to fear this period of life. We hear about night sweats soaking through the sheets, hot flashes, random bleeding, loss of sexual desire, and intense mood swings. We’re told our hormones are depleted.

Though each woman’s journey through their re-productive life will definitely be unique, we do all share the same physiological makeup and our hor-mones control much of it. And while it can feel like we really are “ruled” by and at the mercy of what our hormones are doing, there’s much more to it.

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There’s much you can do to get and help keep your hormones in balance.

The first thing to understand is that while you hear a lot about estrogen and progesterone, those are just two hormones out of the 50 or so that our body secretes and circulates, and uses to function.

As with just about every other system or aspect of our body, all of these hormones are designed to work in harmony. Their synergy is vital to your health. As well, hormones are created in multiple areas of your body: your brain, pancreas, gut (mi-crobiome), ovaries—just to name a few!

Here is a list of symptoms that may indicate hor-mone imbalance.

� Weight gain or weight loss

� Excessive sweating

� Difficulty sleeping

� Sensitivity to cold and heat

� Dry skin or skin rashes

� Changes in blood pressure or heart rate

� Brittle or weak bones

� Elevated or low blood sugar

� Irritability and anxiety

� Fatigue

� Thirst

� Depression

� Headaches

� Changes in bathroom behavior (frequency, urgency)

� Bloating

� Changes in appetite

� Lower sex drive

� Thinning, brittle hair

� Infertility

� Puffy face

� Blurred vision

� Goiter

� Breast tenderness

� Deepening of the voice (females)

� Heavy, irregular, or painful periods

� Osteoporosis (weak, brittle bones)

� Hot flashes and night sweats

� Vaginal dryness

� Indigestion

� Acne (during or just before menstruation)

� Fibroids, or uterine bleeding not associated with menstruation

� Increased hair growth on the face, neck, chest, or back

� Thinning hair or hair loss

� Skin tags

As one doctor explains it, “Hormones act like traffic signs and signals by telling your body what to do and when, and making sure its machinery runs smoothly and maintains homeostasis, or balance.”

Knowing this, you can understand how getting your hormones into balance requires a multi-level ap-proach. You need to address the entire body, and support its function, to attain optimal hormone balance. Here are some ways to support hormone balance.

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SLEEP

Yes, sleep again. Lack of sleep can play real havoc on your hormones. For full function, your brain needs uninterrupted sleep that permits it to pass through all five stages of each sleep cycle. “Sleep deprivation causes imbalances in many hormones, and in turn, the imbalance of these hormones causes more sleep deprivation,” according to functional medicine prac-titioner Veronica Anderson, MD, IFMCP.

In particular, insulin, ghrelin, leptin, cortisol, and growth hormone are all affected by sleep.

For example, if you don’t get enough sleep, you temporarily become insulin resistant. Even just one bad night can create this, according to a 2010 study published in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism.

Another example we find in scientific research, less than 6.5 hours of sleep affect leptin and ghrelin lev-els — two hormones directly connected to your ap-petite.

Your thyroid hormones are also affected by sleep. This can slow your metabolism and cause your thy-roid function to wane.

Cortisol, the “stress hormone” also is affected by lack of sleep. Normally your cortisol level should de-crease at night, allowing you to sleep. Studies have shown that cortisol levels can fall up to six times more slowly if you are sleep deprived. In turn, “El-evations of evening cortisol levels in chronic sleep loss are likely to promote the development of insu-lin resistance, a risk factor for obesity and diabetes.”

Increased cortisol also affects your “sex” hormones, including testosterone, estrogen, and progester-one. This can not only affect your sex drive (libido), but any change to these key hormones will affect your reproductive system and more.

Bottom line: making sure you get enough quali-ty sleep is very important for hormone balance.

EXERCISE

ANY amount of exercise or physical activity is better than none. As they say—sitting is the new smoking. Inactivity is hurting us, while any increase in physi-cal activity has a tremendous benefit.

Among its benefits, exercise (even just walking) helps:

� Control insulin levels and decrease insulin resistance.

� Support hormones that help maintain muscle and which normally decline with age. Namely DHEA, growth hormone, testosterone, and IGF-1

� Increases adiponectin, a hormone that helps regulate metabolism and has anti-inflammatory effects.

� Balance thyroid hormone levels and control how efficiently the body uses them

� Reduce some of the effects of cortisol

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NUTRITION

What you eat—and absorb! (see above)—is ex-tremely important to having balanced hormones.

Insulin, serotonin, cortisol and dopamine, estrogen and testosterone can all be affected by the food choices you make. Each nutrient plays a role in how your hormones function and how your body uses them.

In particular, diets high in sugar and refined carbs will eventually knock your insulin levels out of whack.

Studies show that even fructose (sugar from fruit, agave, honey, and maple syrup) can increase insulin levels that promote insulin resistance and related conditions, like PCOS… Especially if you are already overweight, obese, or have prediabetes or diabetes.

The consumption of medium-chain triglycerides (MCTs) may also be beneficial for hormone balance. Consuming MCTs and other ‘healthy’ fats like fish oil, and olive or avocado oil may help lower insulin resistance by increasing insulin sensitivity. It also triggers the release of hormones that help you feel full and satisfied. They also have been seen to be anti-inflammatory, and decrease both cortisol and adrenaline.

As important as what you eat is how much you eat. UNDEReating can affect your hormone levels. Stud-ies have shown that restricting calories to under 1200 per day increases cortisol and that calorie-re-stricted diets can even trigger insulin resistance.

Overeating has its own pitfalls and will affect your hormone balance, especially as it relates to insulin and cortisol.

Alcohol can curb health efforts, in part because of the ways it can contribute to gut imbalance. Your gut flora must be in balance for hormones like sero-tonin and dopamine to be manufactured and used effectively.

A yeast overgrowth (candida) can also affect your hormones. What you eat will “feed or starve” candi-da, and other organisms in your microbiome.

There are many natural supplements you can use to help heal your body so that your hormones are in balance. We’ll look at just a few further on in this book.

And remember, we dive into the nutritional piece of hormone balance even deeper into our ground-breaking new docuseries, Women’s Health Secrets.

Other ways to naturally support hormone balance include managing stress (especially cortisol levels), reducing sugar in your diet, upping your fiber in-take, quitting smoking, drinking green tea, reducing dairy intake, and making sure you are getting ade-quate protein (amino acids).

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NATURAL SOLUTIONS TO

WOMEN’S HEALTH ISSUES

Your body is a complex organism. It contains a myr-iad of systems and processes that work in harmo-ny to create homeostasis—balance. When one or more of these systems get out of balance, health challenges begin. Symptoms commence, and dis-ease can begin.

Due to this complexity, there is often overlap when it comes to the cause and the resolution of health issues. For example, a simple headache could be the result of many different factors. It could stem from what your hormones are doing, or needing more water, or even a reaction to something you ate.

The same applies in reverse when it comes to nat-ural solutions for the common health issues we’ve explored so far—There may be one natural sub-stance or remedy that can affect multiple systems in the body, and help you achieve homeostasis and thus better health.

Water is a good example of this. Not drinking enough water can lead to dehydration that can put a burden on your kidneys, or give you a headache. It can also cause constipation. Or even fatigue.

Likewise, decreasing your stress and cortisol lev-els will heal numerous health issues and systems in your body. As will increasing your absorption of essential nutrients, decreasing inflammation, and ensuring your body is able to effectively detoxify.

For this reason, we’re going to list out the natural remedies separately, here. Keep in mind, though, that just like your body works together in harmony with all its systems and processes, many of these natural substances can and will work together to help you achieve better health, too.

Before we begin, just a reminder that we do a deep dive into all of the health issues we’ve explored so far, and many more, in the 9 Episode Docuseries, Women’s Health Secrets. In creating this ground-breaking new docuseries, we spoke at length with over 60 doctors and experts about what you can do to naturally turn your health around, just like I did. Be sure to check your email for your special invita-tion to join the live streaming event, coming soon.

Below are nine of the top herbs, minerals, and substances that can assist you in your quest for health.

Please note: We cannot and do not offer medical ad-vice. You should always consult a trusted health pro-fessional before changing, decreasing, or adding to your medications and healing protocols.

ASHWAGANDHA

Ashwagandha is a staple in ancient Ayurvedic prac-tice. It’s known for improving sleep, boosting con-centration, memory, and cognitive function; re-lieving both stress and anxiety, increasing energy levels, and improving concentration.

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Research has demonstrated that this adaptogen has multiple healing properties including possess-ing anti-cancer, antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, and antitumor properties. Ashwagandha has also been found to have positive influences over endocrine and central nervous systems.

Other health benefits of ashwagandha that re-search has confirmed include:

� Lowers blood sugar levels

� Reduces cortisol levels

� Helps with severe depression

� Supports fertility

� Increases antioxidants

� Increases muscle mass and strength

� Decreases inflammation

� Helps fight infection

� Reduces cholesterol and triglyceride levels

� Promotes antioxidant activity and reduces free radical damage

� Reduces oxidative stress

� Helps induce programmed death of cancer cells

PRECAUTIONS: People with autoimmune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, Hashimoto’s thyroiditis, and Type 1 diabetes should be cautious with ashwagandha. Consult your healthcare profes-sional. Additionally, caution is needed if you are tak-ing medication for thyroid disease, as ashwagandha may increase thyroid hormone levels in some peo-ple—A case where the natural healing that occurs lowers the need for thyroid supplementation, po-tentially causing an overabundance of thyroid hor-mones. A natural healthcare practitioner should be able to guide you.

BERBERINE

Berberine is a natural chemical found in that is found in some 450 plants, including goldenseal, Eu-ropean barberry, and tree turmeric.

This plant extract has been a staple in Chinese and other traditional medical practices. In recent decades berberine has been studied for its many health benefits. These include:

� Benefitting heart and cardiovascular health and function

� Lowering blood pressure (decreasing hypertension)

� Balancing blood sugar

� Curbing insulin resistance

� Regulating metabolism

� Supporting antibacterial and anti-inflammatory properties

� Improving bone health

� Helping rebalance gut flora

� Promoting anti-cancer properties

� Reducing fat build-up in the liver

When compared to lifestyle changes alone, berber-ine was found to be as effective as common med-ications in lowering blood sugar levels, lipid levels, and decreasing hypertension. The upsides were decreased cost (the herb is cheaper than common medicines) and the absence of serious side effects.

A 2008 study demonstrated that berberine com-bined with cinnamon extract had better “anti-dia-betic” effects than a leading prescription medica-tion for people with elevated blood sugar, or Type 2 diabetes.

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In another study, one gram of berberine per day lowered fasting blood sugar by 20% and also im-proved levels of blood lipids, like cholesterol and triglycerides.

Other studies suggest berberine helps with weight loss and can improve symptoms and markers of metabolic syndrome.

PRECAUTIONS: Berberine can decrease the speed the liver breaks down some medications. You should also take precautions if you are taking medi-cations to lower your cholesterol or blood pressure.

DIGESTIVE ENZYMES

If you are not digesting and absorbing nutrients, your body is not getting enough of the right “fuel” to function well, let alone heal. If your body is deal-ing with inflammation, it may not be digesting food efficiently.

Supplementing with digestive enzymes can reduce the burden on your digestive organs—the stomach, pancreas, liver, gallbladder, and small intestine—by making foods easier to digest. They do this by help-ing your body to break down harder-to-digest pro-teins, starches, and fats.

Sometimes your body does not produce adequate amounts of the many enzymes required for proper digestion. Supplementing with quality enzymes can correct this.

Signs that you might benefit from taking digestive enzymes include the following symptoms:

� Food cravings

� Thyroid problems

� Hormone imbalances

� Severe PMS

� Acid reflux, heartburn, GERD

� Bloating

� Flatulence

� Diarrhea

� Losing hair

� Brain fog

� Fatigue

� Joint pain and arthritis

� Dull or dry skin

� Insomnia

� Depression

� Irritability and mood swings

� Migraines and headaches

In Women’s Health Secrets, we discuss the types of enzymes you should consume, as well as best time and ways to take them.

MIMOSA PUDICA

This plant is also known as the “shy plant” and has been used by Ayurvedic practitioners for thou-sands of years. It’s been used to treat a wide variety of conditions, and research has shown that it has many medicinal properties. Among these, mimosa pudica holds the following benefits:

� Antiparasitic

� Anti-inflammatory

� Anti-microbial

� Antipyretic (lowers fever)

� Antidiarrheal

� Pain relief

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� Lowers blood sugar

� Lowers blood pressure

� Helps purify blood

� Helps menstrual cramps

� Supports uterine health

� Supports depression

� Helps hemorrhoids

� Treats eczema and psoriasis (topically)

� Acts as a diuretic

� Helps ulcers

� Promotes liver healing

� Assists with detox

� Promotes gut (microbiome) health

� Helps sciatic nerve regeneration

This plant will actually paralyze parasites, so your body can purge them. In fact, two separate studies concluded that mimosa pudica is as effective as the leading anti-parasite medication.

Mimosa pudica acts as a powerful internal “scrub-ber”. It will work its way through the intestinal walls, pulling out parasites, toxins, heavy metals, biofilms, and other unwanted elements to provide immune and digestive support.

This plant was a stand-out component of my healing protocol, and in getting rid of parasites that were rav-aging my body without me knowing!

WORMWOOD

Wormwood is actually a cousin of the daisy fami-ly. As a known, natural antiparasitic herb it’s used to help eliminate intestinal worms, especially pin-worms and roundworms.

Wormwood is also used to treat anorexia, Crohn’s disease, SIBO, insomnia, anemia, lack of appetite, flatulence, stomachache, and indigestion. It’s also antibacterial and antimicrobial, proving effective to fight Candida overgrowths.

OMEGA-3

Omega-3 fatty acids—especially DHA and EPA—are essential to health, healing, and longevity. It’s some-thing your body needs to function at the basic level and must be consumed, because your body cannot manufacture it. Sadly, many people are deficient in this essential nutrient.

Fish oil is an excellent source of DHA and EPA. Sci-ence has studied and shown that omega-3 helps:

� Decrease inflammation

� Support heart health and function

� Support cardiovascular health and function

� Protect the heart

� Protect your cardiovascular system

� Support brain function and longevity

� Support erectile dysfunction

� Lower Depression, Anxiety & Stress

� Lower cortisol

� Support Mental illness

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� Improve metabolism

� Premenstrual Syndrome (PMS)

� Prevent and support Alzheimer’s

� Prevent and support dementia

� Lower oxidative stress

� Support healthy immunity

� Balance blood sugar

� Prevent tumor proliferation

� Prevent Cancer

� Support hormone balance

Note: During pregnancy and after childbirth women should be especially aware of the need to consume enough omega-3.

PROBIOTICS & PREBIOTICS

Hopefully, you are already aware of the importance that probiotics and prebiotics play in your quest to heal your gut (microbiome). In addition, these build-ing blocks for a balanced gut and diversity in gut flora can help naturally support you in healing au-toimmune disease, inflammation, depression, anxi-ety, hormone balance, and more.

Here are some important, general facts:

Your gut contains trillions and trillions of organisms that are not only part of your digestive system but contribute to mood, hormone balance, and even brain function. This environment is called your mi-crobiome. The organisms are known collectively as microbiota.

The symbiotic balance of these organisms in your microbiome is essential to overall health, but in par-ticular for a healthy immune response and inflam-mation.

“Probiotics” is the term used for a variety of bene-ficial bacteria that are essential for a healthy set of microbiota and microbiome.

Prebiotics are fundamentally food for your micro-biota. They often come in the form of soluble fiber and resistant starches that encourage a healthy bal-ance in your microbiome, by feeding the probiotics.

While many people know that getting good probi-otics is important, they often overlook the value of prebiotics. Optimal health is achieved with a bal-ance of both.

Why is this balance of probiotics and prebiotics so vital? There are so many answers to that question!

However, in the context of autoimmune disease and inflammation, here are just a few ways a bal-anced microbiome can help:

70% of your immune cells are found in your micro-biome.

Your microbiota are at the core of immune re-sponse, and thus any deviation from a healthy re-sponse, such as in the case of autoimmune disease.

A gut that is not functioning optimally may not ab-sorb Vitamin K or other vital nutrients.

An inflamed gut often leads to gut permeability, or “leaky gut”, now thought to be at the root of several autoimmune diseases.

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Your gut has been found to directly influence anxi-ety levels.

Both probiotics and prebiotics help reduce cortisol.

Researchers have observed that Alzheimer’s pa-tients frequently demonstrate unhealthy microbio-ta patterns.

As long as 100 years ago, doctors believed an un-healthy gut led to chronic infection, stress, and in-flammation.

A 2015 study showed Lactobacillus acidophilus could reduce gut inflammation. Probiotics are known to quicken healing in gastrointestinal infections, as well as the cold or flu, decrease blood pressure, and provide relief from ulcerative colitis, IBS, and Crohn’s disease.

The Arthritis Foundation list probiotics as “crucial” to both health and supporting a life with arthritis.

We really could go on for several pages about both probiotics and prebiotics. Afterall, “probiotic” means “for life”, or “pro” life. Keeping your micro-biome filled with happy and balanced microbiota is the foundation of all healing.

So how do you do that?

The easiest and surest way to keep your microbi-ome happy is to eat a healthy, diverse, and high fi-

ber diet. But if you are out of balance, you may have to increase the balance of ‘good’ bacteria. In fact, experts recommend daily supplementation with good quality prebiotics and probiotics.

One challenge consumers face is that most probi-otics sold in foods come from dairy, which is often a trigger for yet more inflammation and/or autoim-mune issues. These types of foods are also notori-ous for containing far fewer probiotics than adver-tised.

Unfortunately the same applies to many store-bought probiotic supplements, as well. Even with the more expensive, refrigerated probiotics, you have no way of knowing how many live bacteria are present, simply because there are so many envi-ronmental factors in transit, storage, and stocking shelves that can compromise (or completely kill) them!

A plant-based probiotic is more stable and doesn’t need refrigeration.

You’ll be looking for a variety of organisms, includ-ing: Lactobacillus plantarum, Lactobacillus paracasei, Lactobacillus acidophilus, marine polysaccharides, fructooligosaccharide (FOS), and Bifidobacterium lac-tis.

Prebiotics are much more stable. They easily sur-vive the long journey from your mouth to your in-testines. Probiotics are more of a challenge in this way, so finding a formula that has a high number of bacteria (often called CFUs, for Colony Forming Units) and that offers some kind of capsule protec-tion is ideal. The number of CFUs will ensure you get the most ‘soldiers in the field’ as it were; and a capsule with protective shielding allows it to travel to your gut and ensure they arrive ready to make a home in your microbiome.

Get your microbiota in balance, keep them happy and healthy with continued supplementation and a top-notch diet, and you can witness the antianxiety, antistress, autoimmune, and inflammation support and more yourself.

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FULVICS (FULVIC AND HUMIC ACID)

Fulvic and humic acids are electrolytes created by microorganisms in the soil or aquatic environments that enable nutrients and minerals to be assimi-lated by plants. They are water soluble, and func-tion in all pH conditions, namely: acidic, neutral, and alkaline.

As electrolytes, fulvics have the ability to bal-ance and energize biological matter. Studies have demonstrated that electrolytes, as conductors of electricity, have the power to restore life. In con-trast, as we grow older, our own biological electric potential decreases. Some experts believe that by harnessing the power of fulvics, we restore balance to cell life and renew the electrical potential, which in turn prolongs the life of the cells and the organ-ism they reside in.

As we’ve discussed previously, optimal health comes from balance, and absorption is the key. You can eat the most nutritious diet in the world but un-less your cells can use the nutrients, it is somewhat self-defeating.

Fulvics assists the body in absorbing nutrients into the cells, even determining which minerals to assim-ilate, and which not, for optimum cellular balance.

Several degenerative diseases have been paired with silica deficiency. Fulvic acid has the ability to easily dissolve silica, being an excellent catalyst for cells to absorb this nutrient.

In some ways, fulvics are a form of probiotic and prebiotic in one, in that they promote a healthy gut balance. They do this in several ways.

Fulvics are powerful antioxidants that rid your body of oxidative stress that comes from free radicals.

Fulvics are not just antioxidants, they are free radi-cal scavengers that protect your cells from the dam-age of free radicals.

They are a source of detoxifying enzymes called su-peroxide dismutases (SODs)

Oxidative stress from free radicals is indicative of several autoimmune diseases, and also Alzheimer’s, in particular.

Good nutrition helps inflammation, and helps your gut stay healthy. Fulvics help your body absorb the right nutrients and even assist cells in knowing which nutrients are needed and at what level

Fulvics dissolve silica, an essential nutrient that also binds toxins and helps remove them from the body.

In general, fulvics are chelators, binding toxic met-als and ushering them out of your body and harm’s way.

Fulvics help prevent leaky gut by way of stopping gut permeability. This, in turn, helps to detoxify your body, decrease immune response, and lower inflammation. Leaky gut has been associated as a root cause of autoimmune disease.

Fulvics can also help with Alzheimer’s. Nearly all ex-perts agree inflammation is a key component to this condition. Fulvics have been seen to not only pre-vent the plaques and tangles associated with this devastating disease, but to actually untangle them.

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It’s clear that fulvics are beneficial for overall health, as well as being great allies in healing inflammation, autoimmune diseases, and your gut.

Other very valuable and effective natural supple-ments for women to consider are:

� Turmeric � Ginger � Bioperine � Rhodiola � Milk Thistle (Silymarin) � Vitamin D3 � Cordyceps (Glutathione) � Dandelion Root

� White Mulberry � Triphala � Yucca root � Vitamin K2

Find out exactly why and how all these natural remedies (and others) work to support wom-en’s health in Women’s Health Secrets. We inter-viewed over 60 doctors and experts to discuss health concerns that matter to you.

This 9 Episode Docuseries explores...

� PCOS

� Endometriosis

� Thyroid Health

� Autoimmune Disease

� Ovarian Cysts

� Cervical Cancer

� Fibroids

� Insulin problems

� Blood sugar issues

� Adrenal fatigue

� Hormonal imbalances

� Breast health

� Weight Struggles

� Birth Control

� Fertility

� Miscarriage

� Menopause

� Parasites

� Toxins and Detox

� Pregnancy

� Postpartum Health

� Children’s Health

� Skin Health and Aging

� Gut Health and Restoration

� Healthy and Healing Diet

Join us on November 25th, for the world pre-miere of Women’s Health Secrets. Check your email for your invitation!

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ABOUT LORI & JONATHAN OTTO

Lori Otto is a natural medicine advocate and inves-tigative journalist who, along with her husband Jon-athan, has traveled around the world uncovering little-known natural health secrets from renowned doctors, researchers, and health experts.

For many years, Lori was in a losing battle with her body. Nothing worked. No medicine helped. Doctors could not heal her and said much of it was “in her head”. By turning to natural remedies and supple-ments, she successfully overcame hypoglycemia, ane-mia, digestive allergies — including IBS, bloating, and pain to the point of being afraid to eat — significant respiratory and skin allergies, adrenal fatigue, brain fog, and joint pain, and was able to cease her prescrip-tions for anxiety and depression. Lori credits this dramatic healing to a foundational anti-parasitic detox com-bined with gut healing and restoration that allowed her renewed intake of healthy nutrients to be absorbed properly.

Before her own severe health issues were corrected, she was a devotee of standard medical care and, in her own words was “very skeptical” towards natural medicine. Through her travels and her husband’s earlier work, she observed countless testimonials of healing success achieved through natural remedies. “I could no longer deny the power behind natural medicine and its incredible results.”

Lori had struggled to get pregnant but is now the proud mother of a healthy baby boy, Asher. Throughout her healing journey, she studied all she could about pregnancy and labor, and this learning experience inspired her to create the groundbreaking 9 Episode Docuseries, Women’s Health Secrets. Her goal is to educate and empower other women, offering them hope and healing.

Jonathan Otto is an investigative journalist, humanitarian, and award-winning documentary filmmaker. His life narrative is characterized by his unceasing desire to uncover truth and alleviate suffering in the world. He volunteers his own time overseas, especially in Africa where he has sometimes faced life-threatening situa-tions, and for which he continually draws finances from his own pocket, whenever necessary.

Jonathan has turned his attention to seeking truth and exposing error in the areas of health and wellness. This has led him to create and collaborate as an editor and producer on many health films and projects, such as the docuseries, The Truth About Cancer and The Truth About Vaccines with Ty Bollinger, and Diet Against Dis-ease with Dr. Joseph Mercola

In recent years, Jonathan has created and produced his own self-hosted docuseries, Depression, Anxiety & Dementia Secrets, Autoimmune Secrets, and Natural Medicine Secrets. These docuseries represent his unceasing global quest to find truth, gathering stories and protocols from world-renowned health experts and their patients.

It’s been Jonathan’s supreme pleasure to collaborate with and support his beautiful wife, and mother of their young son, Lori Otto.

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