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Low cholesterol, tryptophan & methylation on Hormones – A Women’s Wellness Summit

March 28, 2016 By Trudy Scott 12 Comments

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Just sending you a quick reminder about the upcoming summit.

You’ll learn why you don’t have to accept anxiety, depression, mood swings, headaches, constant fatigue or dramatic periods, and how to find answers from some amazing women’s health experts!

Join me and educate yourself online and no cost from April 11-18, 2016 on Hormones: A Women’s Wellness Summit.

(you can register here https://qt247.isrefer.com/go/WWH16reg/trudyscottcn/)

Understanding your hormones may sound like an impossible mission, but it’s really not. As we learn to incorporate healthier choices into our lives, we feel better. And, as women, when we feel better, we can do anything! And as I like to say we deserve to feel our absolute best all the time!

Join health coach and acupuncturist Bridgit Danner, LAc, FDNP, and the 30+ health and wellness experts she has gathered to teach you how to keep your body in sync with your life.

Even if you’re not a woman, tune in to learn more so you can understand the women in your life – your mom, your sisters, your wife, your girlfriend, your daughter. Or share this information with the women in your life. You may even pick up some ideas for yourself, for example most of my interview is applicable for men too.

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Here is a snippet about the importance of cholesterol from my interview which airs on day 3: Balance Brain Chemistry to End Anxiety

A lot of people talk about concerns with high cholesterol, but if you’ve got very low cholesterol, you don’t have the raw material to make your hormones. That’s going to affect your mood. There’s actually research showing that very low cholesterol, a total cholesterol below 150 can make you more prone to mood problems and actually increase your risk for suicide.

If I see a woman with very low total cholesterol, the first thing I think about is absorption, as you just said. Have they got a gall bladder? Maybe they haven’t got enough bile production. Have they got damage to the gut, so they’re not able to absorb the nutrients that they’re eating? And when we add in extra healthy fats, and if you’re already doing that, then I would say look at the digestive component and see if that’s a factor. I’ve seen many women with hormonal issues just get their total cholesterol up, and their hormones start to balance a lot better, which is pretty amazing.

I also talk about how to figure out how much of the amino acids you may need and how to do a trial. In this snippet I’m talking about tryptophan for the low serotonin, worry-in-your-head kind of anxiety:

once you start on the tryptophan, for example, and the starting dose for tryptophan is 500mg. You start on that and you see how much did it improve? Wow, it went from an 8 or 9 out of 10 to a 6 out of ten. But I could definitely see some improvement. So after a few days, increase it. Go from 500mg to 1,000mg, twice a day. Yes, it improved 2 more notches, great. We’re making some gains, here. Then another few days later, or maybe a week later, add another one: 1,500mg, twice a day. Wow, now I’m feeling great. This is the dosage you stay on for a while until you feel like you don’t need it anymore.

If you increase it to the 1,500mg, for example, and you didn’t get any added benefits, then you would just go back to the lower dose. So it’s very individualized, it’s very targeted, meaning it’s targeted to your unique needs. Not everyone needs the amino acids. But if you score high on the questionnaire, and you do a trial and you benefit, then you know you need them. And then you just increase until you get the point of no more benefits.

And here is a snippet from Dr. Jill Carnahan’s interview – What’s the Big Deal About Methylation?:

we generally don’t treat methylation by itself. We treat it in the context of the patient. I’ll say that over and over again today because I think what I see in the internet and what I see with responses to my blog articles and things are patients saying, “Give me a protocol. I got this defect. What do I do?” It’s so important for patients to realize that just because you have a genetic defect, it does not cause disease. It’s genetics plus environment.

What is methylation? Basically, methylation is a process that’s involved in cellular repair. That repairs your DNA and RNA. All the time, we’re getting toxic insults to our body, chemicals and environmental things, foods even, and they can damage our DNA and RNA. Methylation is one of the processes that actually repairs those things so we don’t develop things like cancer.

Number two would be helping to create neurotransmitters. This is basically involved in our thinking, our mood, our concentration, our focus, our drive, and things like sleep, and ability to have just happiness and joy [and no anxiety]. People who have methylation issues will often have trouble with neurotransmitters.

Number one, repair DNA and RNA. Number two would be create neurotransmitters. Number three/number four would be detoxification, very involved in detoxification. Your processes to basically take care of toxic chemicals. Then, also, for immune system function which is related to the detoxification process.

Dr. Carnahan shares how our neurotransmitters are affected by methylation and how this impacts anxiety and depression:

The biopterin pathway is part of the methylation cycle. It actually comes from the folic acid metabolism cycle. If that isn’t running properly, this is where you make phenylalanine which is a precursor for tyrosine, tyrosine which is a precursor of dopamine, and tryptophan which is a precursor of 5-HTP.

You can also catch these great speakers on day 3 with myself and Dr. Carnahan:

  • Keesha Ewers – Common Causes of a Low Sex Drive
  • Jen Wittman – How to Have a Thyroid-Loving Lifestyle
  • Amy Medling – How to be a PCOS Diva

Other summit speakers cover the adrenals, low testosterone in women, PMS and missed periods, endometriosis, how to have gorgeous skin, fertility, pregnancy and post-partum, perimenopause, your hunger hormones, toxins in your food, bio-identical hormones, cell phone dangers and much much more.

I hope you join us online from April 11-18, 2016 on Hormones: A Women’s Wellness Summit

You can register here https://qt247.isrefer.com/go/WWH16reg/trudyscottcn/

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Filed Under: Events, Women's health Tagged With: Bridgit Danner, Jill Carnahan, Methylation

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About Trudy Scott

Food Mood Expert Trudy Scott is a certified nutritionist on a mission to educate and empower anxious individuals worldwide about natural solutions for anxiety, stress and emotional eating.

Trudy is the author of The Antianxiety Food Solution: How the Foods You Eat Can Help You Calm Your Anxious Mind, Improve Your Mood and End Cravings and host of The Anxiety Summit now in its 4th season and called a “bouquet of hope.”

Trudy is passionate about sharing the powerful food mood connection because she experienced the results first-hand, finding complete resolution of her anxiety and panic attacks.

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  1. AvatarCandy says

    March 28, 2016 at 1:40 pm

    I signed up for the summit. But I would love to request a summit for the over 55+ year old women. I am 60 and this summit seems to be for the child bearing ages. I have no uterus or ovaries, blood work is starting to show signs of early thyroid issues, no interest in sex since first child born 30 years ago, depression, anxiety but probably not hormone related, etc. All the ‘normal’ aging issues for us that missed a lot of the wave of natural help and cures. I have EDS, dysautonomia, Mast cell issues and others. But help with general aging would be great. Teaching old dogs new tricks is not as easy as the younger set. So how do we start? Maybe there is no interest in these things. Not too many people care about us older folks. But I thought 60 was supposed to be the 40…lol Just food for thought.

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  2. AvatarSam says

    April 1, 2016 at 7:13 pm

    Candy, have you follwed Christine Northrup at all? She puts a lot of great info out about some of the things you are talking about there.

    Reply
  3. AvatarPsychic Nest says

    April 6, 2016 at 11:09 am

    I am not sure if I have time to attend because I am very busy these days. It looks like an amazing course! Keep it up with your great work, I am new to your website and I must admit that I love it!

    Zaria

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    • AvatarTrudy Scott says

      April 8, 2016 at 6:10 pm

      It’s an online/virtual summit and is recorded so you can always purchase for future listening and learning. Glad you enjoy my site!

      Reply
  4. Avatardomenique says

    April 7, 2016 at 2:50 am

    I so wish you were speaking here in Melbourne! We need these sort of talks and valuable advice..any thoughts of doing sessions here in the future?? 🙂

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    • AvatarTrudy Scott says

      April 8, 2016 at 5:23 pm

      Domenique
      This is a virtual online event so you can listen in from all over the world and in your PJs.

      If you already know that, share more about Melbourne (like a possible venue, other practitioners you may know etc) and who knows I may just make it there and speak live. I have a dear friend in Melbourne and would love to visit her and come and speak.

      Reply
  5. AvatarLiz says

    April 17, 2016 at 7:36 am

    Did you say that all lectures will be up again tomorrow to listen to again?

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    • AvatarTrudy Scott says

      April 17, 2016 at 9:17 pm

      Liz
      All the interviews will be played on encore day Monday April 18th – enjoy!

      Reply
  6. AvatarCarol says

    April 17, 2016 at 11:45 am

    I too am 66 and tired of everything being geared towards younger women. Don’t bother telling me about Christine Northrup. I have never gotten help from her. I dried up and stopped having 4,5 orgasms at menopause. I have tried EVERYTHING. Dr.Anna Cabeza used to give a shot in your vagina to make it more snsitive, but even she doesn’t practice anymore. Some Functioning Medical Dr’s give you oxtocin,but they are very expensive, and again, on webinars.I live in an area that is backward in the Dr. Department. I’m on a budget. I will never have any kind of orgasm again.

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    • AvatarTrudy Scott says

      April 17, 2016 at 9:46 pm

      Carol
      Yes this event was geared for younger women and those up to perimenopause. We need to find you some menopause support. I believe Dr. Anna Cabeca is launching a group program called Menopause Magic May 15th

      Some other resources:
      Katherine Miller, Certified Holistic Health Coach, Menopause Guide http://mbodied.com/
      Dr. Mache Siebel has a new book “The Estrogen Window: The Breakthrough Guide to Being Healthy, Energized, and Hormonally Balanced–Through Perimenopause, Menopause, and Beyond” (I haven’t had a chance to read it yet but at first glance it looks really good) and is editor of My Menopause Mag http://www.mymenopausemag.com/

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  7. AvatarGalina says

    April 17, 2016 at 3:33 pm

    Trudy, I listened to your anxiety summit 2 years ago and your interview on Lyme Disease Summit You bring hope to me, Thank you! I have Hashimoto and severe anxiety and depression. Taking natural thyroid compound. Decided to go on anti-anxiety medication, bought it,,, and so scared to start taking it. I’ d rather follow your protocols. Nobody here in Canberra to consult with – there is a severe lack of any doctors and one knowledgeable doctor who specialises in hormonal health is booked for several months ahead. Dealing with anxiety alone is overwhelming. I started taking GABA but don’t see much relief. I would like to fill your questionnaire but can’t see it anywhere here. Thank you and all the blessings on your work!

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    • AvatarTrudy Scott says

      April 17, 2016 at 9:32 pm

      Galina
      Here is the questionnaire https://www.everywomanover29.com/blog/amino-acids-mood-questionnaire-from-the-antianxiety-food-solution/ and a blog on doing GABA trials https://www.everywomanover29.com/blog/how-to-do-an-amino-acid-trial-for-anxiety/

      I’m sorry to hear you don’t have access to good practitioners. If you are going to do this on your own, educate yourself and read my book and all the posts on this blog. You’re not alone – you’re now part of this community 🙂 and I’m glad you have hope!

      Reply

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