Living Well with PMDD: PMDD and Women's Health with Dr. Patrick Flynn of the Wellness Way

We have our first ever guest on the podcast today: Dr. Patrick Flynn of The Wellness Way. We discuss health in general, women’s health, PMDD, and some ways to help our bodies function better. There are a few swear words. 

Topics
2:24 About Dr. Fynn
8:33 His focus on health and function
8:53 Taking an investigative approach
10:09 Health is function
12:58 Thoughts, Toxins, Trauma, multiple factors
17:59 Rethinking “healthy”
20:38 Hormone fluctuations; the expectation of feeling “stable”24:10 Consequences of taking SSRI’s, birth control pills 
27:17 You’ll have mood swings during cyclic years
29:41 Immune responses
34:07 PMDD vs PMS
36:31 Don’t be too attached to your diagnosis.
40:53 Just because it worked for someone else, doesn’t mean it will work for you.
41:12 Individuality is important with diagnosis and treatment
43:39 Where you live affects how your body responds 
44:00 Your body is trying to adapt all the time
46:05 Ways to help your body
54:48 Organ meats, Sisandra, and Ashwagandha
56:20 Insomnia issues
59:51 We have to compensate for our sassy behavior to our body
1:03:16 PMDD is t a response going on in your body 

Take Aways from Dr. Flynn

-Most women have a misconception of their body, are not well educated on it, and sometimes are downright lied to about it
-If women are really looking for health then they can’t just look at it from the standpoint of just trying not to die.
-There is no birth control, there is no, SSRI, there is no major medication that is going to help them recover out of it. It's just going to manage their suffering.
-I'm very frustrated with the whole aspect of when it comes to female care that estrogen is a demonized hormone. It's actually the basis for making women who they are.
-If we can start finding things that disrupt your function, we can figure out what's going on with your health and start to restore it. 
-The concept that a woman thinks that she is going to be stable through a month is already misleading.
-What you're going to notice is when you start to normalize that function, there's going to be a significant amount of amazing changes in normalcy.
-Women don’t eat enough protein, don’t get enough sleep, and have way too much mental stress.
-Women should be in bed between 9-10 p.m.
-Your body is so brilliant and it's trying to adapt to everything you're doing
-Support your li

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Resources
Monthly Mood Record: https://2039498wfreestuff.s3.amazonaws.com/Monthly_Mood_Record-final-2.pdf https://markspsychiatry.com/mood-diary/
PMS and Period Support Supplements: www.semainehealth.com/HEIDIBRADFORD98
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