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Dr. Joni Labbe<\/p>\n
Dr. Joni Labbe is a board-certified clinical nutritionist specializing in science-based nutrition with a focus on women’s health issues.<\/p>\n
She has successfully helped pre-menopausal and menopausal women regain and maintain their health since 1995. Dr. Labbe is the author of Why Is Mid-Life Mooching Your Mojo and It\u2019s Not Just Menopause: It\u2019s Your Thyroid. She is also a professional speaker, radio personality, fitness expert, and former host of \u201cHealthier Way With Dr. Labbe.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dr. Labbe is one of the country\u2019s leading authorities on thyroid disorders, including Hashimoto\u2019s disease. Dr. Labbe has also authored numerous articles and blogs on health, nutrition, and thyroid health, as seen in Naturally Savvy, Thyroid Nation, and Fox News. She is a Board Certified Clinical Nutritionist, Doctor of Chiropractic, and has post graduate training in Functional Neurology, Functional Endocrinology, Functional Blood Chemistry Analysis, and earned a Diplomate and Fellow in Nutrition from the American Association of Integrative Medicine.<\/p>\n
Dr. Labbe resides in San Diego, California. While Dr. Joni\u2019s career helping women overcome thyroid issues spans over two decades, her personal passions are family, supporting worthy causes, traveling internationally and spending time in nature. She loves music, especially gospel, jazz and the blues; her favorites are Ray Charles, Billy Holiday, Etta James, and the great Eric Clapton. Laughing with friends and family over a great \u201ctribal meal\u201d is her idea of an evening well-spent. Dr. Labbe provides an excellent example of living vibrantly post-menopause, successfully managing her own symptoms of Hashimoto\u2019s and Celiac disease. It\u2019s her life\u2019s mission to help others \u201close that voice in your head telling you that you\u2019re crazy, lazy, or finished!\u201d<\/p>\n
Your thyroid is screaming, your adrenals are wrecked, you can’t remember where you put your keys, and the only thing in your closet that fits is your shoes.<\/p>\n
But your doctor says you’re FINE… Menopause sucks!<\/p>\n
But it doesn’t have to.<\/p>\n
You Are Not Lazy, Crazy, Or Finished!<\/p>\n
Are you experiencing:
\n\u2022 Fatigue
\n\u2022 Energy crashes
\n\u2022 Brain fog
\n\u2022 Memory loss
\n\u2022 Insomnia
\n\u2022 Irregular cycles
\n\u2022 Hot flashes
\n\u2022 Night sweats
\n\u2022 Weight gain<\/p>\n
The transition into menopause can take ten or more years, and be a wildly unpleasant ride at times.<\/p>\n
Challenging? Yes. But, girlfriends, don’t let mid-life mooch your mojo. Instead, embrace this time as a wake-up call to win back your health and passion for life.<\/p>\n
Dr. Labbe’s 9-step program offers powerful, science-based nutritional therapy and holistic lifestyle solutions to ease the mid-life transition, reclaim your mojo, and restore yourself to vibrant health.<\/p>\n
This revolutionary book explains where your mojo went and empowers you with the knowledge and tools to get it back! It includes a detailed discussion of all the factors that may be causing your chronic fatigue and menopause-like symptoms, including a thyroid condition called Hashimoto’s, adrenal fatigue, food allergies, and even a leaky gut!<\/p>\n
THE FIRST PIECE OF THE PUZZLE:<\/p>\n
You\u2019re Not Lazy, Crazy or Finished<\/p>\n
Michelle was a well-educated woman in her early 50s, and the mother of two college students. I knew right away that Michelle was a unique and special person, but her story was all too familiar. She was physically falling apart, having been to the Mayo Clinic, acupuncturists, chiropractors, naturopaths, MD\u2019s, and faith healers \u2013 all to no avail.<\/p>\n
One doctor told Michelle she might have fibromyalgia. Others said she suffered from depression and anxiety, and that taking an antidepressant might help. She came to my office looking and feeling weary. Her skin was darkening, her hair thinning. She simply had no gas left in the tank.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have a good marriage,\u201d Michelle said. \u201cIt seems like just yesterday I was full of life and energy. But I am terrified. It was all I could do to drag myself into your office today.\u201d Michelle wiped at her big brown eyes. \u201cDoctors can\u2019t find anything wrong, and all of my blood work is normal. I really can\u2019t point to anything causing my insomnia, depression, and weight gain. Yes, I have stress, but it\u2019s not overwhelming. Simple tasks like getting dinner on the table are sometimes too much. The brain fog is unrelenting. I try to form sentences, but the words don\u2019t come out.\u201d Her hands trembled as she choked out her story. \u201cI can\u2019t remember why I walked into a room. I can\u2019t remember my friends\u2019 names. I\u2019m falling apart.\u201d<\/p>\n
Michelle reported that whenever she talked about not feeling well her family changed the subject. Her poor health was beginning to strain her marriage. \u201cI love my husband, but I have no libido. Intercourse is painful sometimes, and frankly I\u2019m just not interested. I\u2019m so tired all day, and my joints hurt. I know I\u2019m too young to feel this way, but my friends and doctors chalk it all up to aging.\u201d<\/p>\n
Michelle\u2019s confidence had been shattered by ongoing, unrelenting health problems, and her emotions were stretched to the breaking point. She felt like she was dying, but all her lab test results came back \u2018normal,\u2019 suggesting there was nothing medically wrong with her. Therefore, others concluded that she must be lazy, crazy, or finished. But Michelle, like the hundreds of women I talk to and work with across the country, is far from finished with her life. Yet because she could not be diagnosed with a disease or assigned an insurance code, doctors dismissed her complaints, or decided she was suffering from depression or anxiety.<\/p>\n
We needed to get to the root of what was causing Michelle\u2019s symptoms. By running blood tests to include a comprehensive metabolic panel, a complete thyroid panel (including T3, T4, T7), a CBC with differentials, plus thyroid antibodies (TPO and TBG), (I will share with you what all these tests mean later in the book) we learned that Michelle has Hashimoto\u2019s disease, an autoimmune thyroid disease that affects more women than men, and is the most under-diagnosed autoimmune disease in the US. (I will talk about Hashimoto\u2019s in more depth later in this book.) The tests revealed that she also has a \u201cleaky gut,\u201d which causes chronic inflammation in the body. Michelle followed a protocol I designed for her of science-based nutritional therapy, functional neurological treatments, and a gluten-free, dairy-free diet. Within six weeks the brain fog disappeared, her spirits lifted, and she felt sexual for the first time in years.<\/p>\n
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