18. Understanding Women’s Health: Hormone Education & Myths with Paula Carper

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The Radiant Mission Podcast | Episode 18
Host: Rebecca Twomey @theradiantmission
Co-Host: Rachel Smith
Guest: Paula Carper

Thank you for listening to The Radiant Mission podcast! We are on a mission to encourage and inspire you on your walk with Christ and as you journey through life. 

In Episode 18 we talk with a very special guest, Paula Carper. She is a registered dietician and expert on women’s hormones. She shares insights on what every woman needs to know about hormones, some of the myths about hormones that exist today, and how to heal our bodies holistically.

In This Episode:

• Introduction to Paula Carper
  • Dietician for 26 years with a background in the fitness industry. Fun fact: Paula loves to dance!
  • She started off in the health industry but quickly saw how nutrition was not a main focus in the medical industry.
  • She began to experience some women’s health issues such as endometriosis fibroids. This was a turning point for her. She started to look for answers and they didn’t have answers for her, just a recommendation for surgery. 
  • Paula ended up in functional medicine and became passionate about helping other women.
  • Many women experience issues where the recommendation is a hysterectomy. However, the symptoms that cause these issues are often not solved by surgery. The underlying cause is often dysfunction occurring in the body. It can be an immune disorder that has a hormonal component. 
  • Paula works with women experiencing menopause, hormonal imbalances, fertility related hormonal issues, and more.
• Women’s hormone cycle
  • We were designed to create, nurture, and birth babies into this world. That’s why we have the hormones that we have. If our hormones are built around our reproductive cycles, we need to understand each piece of that cycle.
  • Understanding why we have a period is an important thing. A bleed while on birth control is not a period and many people do not know this. It is actually a withdrawal bleed from the artificial hormones. Birth control suppresses ovulation. It’s important to understand that we’re suppressing our hormones while on birth control.
  • Discussion on the enemy’s involvement in hormonal birth control and it being used as a tool of the enemy to let us think that we can divorce the natural effects of what sexual relationships were meant to create. It takes away our power to create. 
• Myths about hormones
  • “My doctor says my hormones are fine”
  • This typically involves a doctor performing a test at random and those hormones are going to change during different parts of our cycles. The hormones in our blood our are actually storage of what’s going on—they don’t tell you the whole picture. 

Bible Verses Mentioned:

Proverbs 3:7-8

"Do not be wise in your own eyes; fear the LORD and shun evil. This will bring health to your body and nourishment to your bones."

Resources Mentioned

• Noble Nutrition with Paula Carper
  • Visit Paula’s website

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