Holistic Health with Dr. Heather Heck: Makeup Dump

05/17/24 • 29 min

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I don't know about you, but I've found it challenging to find a lot of clean anti-aging products on the market. That may be an entirely separate episode, so today we're focused on looking through our makeup bags and uncovering our good-better-best options in clean cosmetics.
When I was having fertility issues, I immediately started looking through my makeup bag. If you weren't aware, chemicals commonly found in most of today's ready-to-go cosmetics often include highly toxic additives, carcinogens, and endocrine system disrupters. These EDCs like to mimic our own hormones and bind to our receptors wreaking havoc on our health. You probably recognize chemical names such as parabens, phthalates, polyethylene glycol, and even metals like mercury. Honestly, for those of you who have been struggling with infertility, PCOS, endometriosis, or adenomyosis, this one is for you! Stay away from these harmful chemicals.
Consider products like:
- Schmidts
- Rise Well
- MyCHELLE
- Hyaluronic Acid
- Young Blood
- Honest
- Ilia
- Replica
- Rescue Remedy
And please utilize the resource I reference: Environmental Working Group ewg.org

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Holistic Health with Dr. Heather Heck: Dr. Peter Nickless

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Dr. Peter Nickless, is currently the Dean of Online Education for Northeast College of Health Sciences. He has a master's degree in human nutrition from the University of Bridgeport, a Master of Business Administration from the University of Southern New Hampshire, a master's degree in operations and project management from the University of Southern New Hampshire, and a Ph.D. in biomedical informatics from Rutgers University. Throughout his college career, he won several championships in powerlifting and chased his dream of becoming an Olympic weightlifter. Most recently, he’s self-published his first book. But most recently, he’s been more focused on longevity.

Today, we listen as Peter talks a lot about his experience in sports nutrition and perhaps his understanding of the differences between the ‘bro-science’ verses endurance training. He’s also found that sports nutrition has blended itself into overall men’s health including getting more sleep, limiting stress, and how or when we choose to take supplements. While he was training, he restricted his own supplement use due to his fear of being disqualified from competing. He specifically discusses anabolics, amphetamines, and peptides that are now found in the marketplace without any prescriptions and only marketing claims that haven’t actually been tested. Fortunately, some companies are starting to self-police.

Peter is a colleague of mine and I always enjoy his perspective. He’s extremely experienced and very informed. I like the direction this conversation took as he provided some insight for those in the 30-65-year-old age group, especially men. He shared how we can all optimize our health, recovery, testosterone levels, muscle mass, and how we can age well while still being able to perform.

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Holistic Health with Dr. Heather Heck: Female Hormonal Health

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What affects your hormones, especially your estrogen levels? Well, high-intensity exercises, stress, lack of sleep, certain foods, mineral deficiencies, eating estrogen-generating foods, and allowing toxins to be absorbed from beauty products... in other words, so many things!
Anti-nutrients from things like genetically modified 'Frankenfoods' like monosodium glutamate (MSG) and Soy Protein Isolate can affect the production of estrogen in the body. Estrogen hormones are made in the ovaries, the liver, your adrenals, and in your breasts. Many autoimmune diseases and cancers have been linked to the consumption of unfermented and highly processed soy which is often the format we have access to in the United States. Think baby formula, protein bars, and tofu. Whereas, research shows that China has one of the lowest rates of breast cancer. This actually makes sense because they consume fermented soy (Miso, Natto, and Tempeh) which cultivates healthy gut bacteria.
Let's talk about how we take care of our estrogen levels, today!

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