Breaking the “Why Bother” Cycle with Amanda Hinman

What if your brain fog, exhaustion, anxiety, or weight changes were actually your body trying to tell you something? In this episode of Shine On Success, host Dionne Malush talks with functional medicine expert Amanda Hinman, whose journey through autoimmune disease and her daughter’s severe seizures led her to help women heal from the inside out.

Dionne and Amanda explore why so many women in their forties, fifties, and sixties struggle with low energy, hormone imbalance, and the silent “why bother” mindset. They break down what proactive health really looks like and how small daily shifts can completely change how you feel.

If you’ve been overwhelmed, tired, or unsure what your symptoms mean, this conversation will give you clarity, hope, and a path forward.

Connect with Amanda here:

Website: https://www.hinmanholistic.com/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amanda-hinman-675100a3/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hinmanamanda

Chapters

• 0:02 Meet Amanda Hinman
• 1:34 Decoding Symptoms As Hormone Signals
• 3:40 Misdiagnosis, Hashimoto’s, And Meds Forever
• 6:40 Hitting A Wall With Restrictive Protocols
• 9:04 Daughter’s Seizures And A Turning Point
• 12:20 Discovering Functional Medicine Systems
• 16:25 Big Challenges For Women 40 Plus
• 18:45 PFFV: A Simple Meal Framework
• 21:06 Cholesterol, Thyroid, And Nutrient Links
• 24:05 The Why Bother Syndrome
• 28:30 Proactive Care Versus Disease Care

Transcript

SPEAKER_00: 0:02

Today's guest is someone who knows what it means to turn adity into purpose and build success by serving others. Amanda Hinman is a functional medicine health coach, bestselling author, and the founder of Hinman Holistic and the thyroid and hormone solution program. She's a woman's hormone expert who helps women in their 40s, 50s, and 60s kill naturally from Hashimoto's, hypothyroidism, insulin resistance, anxiety, brain fog, and more, giving them back their energy, confidence, and vitality. Her own health transformation became the catalyst for a thriving seven-figure business. And today, she empowers women everywhere with simple, sustainable strategies to reclaim their health and their future. Welcome, Amanda. How are you doing today? Thank you, Dionne. I'm well, I'm great. Happy to be here with you. I'm very excited to talk to you as both my sisters have thyroid disease and my dad had it too. So I'm anxious to hear a little bit about that. But uh but I always start with this. What is one thing you'd like people to know about you beyond your professional bio?

SPEAKER_01: 1:02

Uh one thing beyond my professional bio is that I just absolutely love and feel so privileged to be a mama of four daughters. I'm raising four teenage. Well, actually now my oldest just turned 20, but four daughters, and it's just really cool to get to see them become their own humans and their own starting in life.

SPEAKER_00: 1:19

A lot of girls in one household.

SPEAKER_01: 1:21

Yes.

SPEAKER_00: 1:22

I'm my husband is supportive with a lot of women around him. I'm sure. And if you know, yeah, I I love that. I have two sisters myself. So my dad was the good girl dad, and I love that so much. So you've been called a woman's hormone expert. What does that really mean for women you work with?

SPEAKER_01: 1:40

Uh honestly, it helps them. It it means that I can help them decode what their symptoms are telling them about their body. Because I think of hormones as like the messenger molecules in the body. They are there to help, you know, regulate different processes and different, whether it be temperature, whether it be metabolism, whether it be energy levels, our hormones are meant to signal to the cells how to respond. And whenever we're feeling brain fog, when we're feeling like afternoon slump, energy slump, fatigue, weight gain around the midsection, you know, that kind of muffin top type thing, or other symptoms like headaches, anxiety, racing thoughts, sleeplessness, insomnia, these are symbols and like little almost like your body's way of waving the red flag and saying, hey, something's not balanced here. Let's let's look a little bit closer, let's get under the hood and see what's really going on. So I help code those symptoms and and really make sense of what their body is asking for.

SPEAKER_00: 2:32

Because you just talk about a lot of symptoms. There's a lot of things that you're saying. And I have to know, like, what sparked your passion for this? This something you've always wanted to do?

SPEAKER_01: 2:41

Uh no, not necessarily. I feel like it was kind of a divine redirection. Um, ironically, Dion, I thought I considered myself to be a quote unquote very healthy person when I was in my, you know, 20s and even early 30s because I was doing all of the things that on paper look like they should lead to optimal health. I was eating salads and smoothies every day. I was teaching a cardio kickbox class two times a week as a group fitness instructor. I lived a very active and busy lifestyle. I had been a college athlete, so I knew what it was like to like go to the gym and work out and do all of these things. So I thought that that's what equated to optimal health. And then I had no idea. I was kind of felt like I was blindsided when I, you know, was having all these symptoms. I literally struggled with really bad anxiety and insomnia for many years. I was having my hair fall on, skin breakouts, like weight gain, all of these like bloating, all these unexplained effects in my body. And it didn't make sense because I thought I was eating salads and working out.

SPEAKER_02: 3:43

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01: 3:43

You know what I mean? So I was like, wait, I'm eating lots of vegetables, I'm working out all the time. Like, what's going on? And then when I was at the doctor and they finally diagnosed me with an autoimmune condition, Halashimoto's thyroiditis. And I remember my doctor was like, oh, this is fairly common. You're gonna have to take this medication for the rest of your life. Well, wait a second. What what do you mean? I'm just gonna have to take a medication for the rest of my life. And then he's like, Well, and usually once you have one autoimmune condition, it makes you at a higher risk to have additional autoimmune conditions develop in the coming decades. And it kind of just threw me off. I was like, that doesn't sound like something I want. That's that's you know, there's gotta be some more tour here than just take this pill.

SPEAKER_00: 4:20

And how old were you when that happened? I was 31 when that happened. Oh okay. So at that point, they're like, this is you need this forever.

SPEAKER_01: 4:27

Yeah, exactly. Like that's like many, many decades of just taking this medication, no questions asked. And then never sat with me. Well, and the the thing is that was only the starting point because that was my journey. And then I was like, okay, I'm gonna, I'm gonna fix this. I started working with an a holistic doctor, a naturopathic doctor who ran more tests and said, Well, in addition to this being a thyroid imbalance that's autoimmune, and further, we have to give you a list of uh, you know, a really strict food elimination diet, like all of these foods that I could no longer eat. And I was given a list of about 18 different supplements to start taking. And I was like, Okay, well, I guess this is gonna help me heal and started taking all the pills, and then feeling really restricted in my food, I started to get even more resentful around like nutriptin and like my relationship with food. And this wasn't working, my symptoms got worse. Like it didn't improve, so it didn't work. Well, I I guess temporarily I get a little bit of a bump. Like, I think we are kind of peaked up a little bit, and it kind of got a little bit of a bump from taking out the supplements, but then it just I honestly, it was like when my body was not getting out of the spider flight response and I was still stuck in this. I didn't actually solve the problem. I just simply tried to put a band-aid on it with supplements instead of medication. Really think about it, those are kind of the same approach of just like instead of taking this pill, I was taking all of these pills, but it wasn't really solving the root cause, right? I had no information about why this imbalance started, what was going on in my body, what were some of the things that I maybe was or wasn't doing that was leading to those dynamics happening. So I was totally disempowered around actual healing. And then about 15 months after my autoimmune diagnosis, my oldest daughter was turning eight at the time. And she had always been a highly sensitive girl. She was extremely intelligent, but really sensitive. She was uh her, you know, her prone to anxiety and like worry. And her anxiety like massively escalated to the point where she started to develop seizures, and she was having daily seizures. When I tell you, Deanna was like 10 to 15 seizures in a day, which were completely debilitating. What? And then it still breaks my heart to think about that.

SPEAKER_00: 6:36

It was unbelievable. That's a long seizures in a day.

SPEAKER_01: 6:39

Yeah, it was really, really difficult to watch as a parent. Like I felt like the biggest failure as a mom of like, because when we were told by the doctors after they ran all of the tests and we were down at, you know, pediatric um specialty hospital and everything, and a neurologist was like, you know, sometimes these things are hereditary. There's no tumor, there's no nothing specific cause, except for sometimes these things happen. And the solution for her was medication. She had to be on four different benzodiazepines as an eight-year-old taking 12 pills a day just to make it through 24 hours without having another episode. And I was told she would never be able to drive a car, not let alone the medication made her so like out of it. She was not her normal witty, charismatic self. She was highly drunk and very lethargic. And I was like, this is this is cannot be the rest of her life. Um, so that was really kind of like my story. And then her situation catalyst of like, I need to understand what's going on. So I went back to school, and that's when I studied and trained in functional medicine science, which is really looking at the interconnectedness of how all of our body systems work together, looking at hormones, endocrine system with digestion, with our nervous system, with our cardiovascular and our immune system, everything works together and putting the puzzle pieces together to see what are the factors for this unique person for myself. We're different, but for my daughter, but what were our factors that led to the situation where our body was responding the way it was? And then how could we kind of backtrack and create a new set of circumstances or behaviors or environment to create a different outcome? And essentially learning that and becoming empowered and understanding that, like how to work with my body instead of against it, how to help her work with her body. She greaned up of all seizure medication in less than a year, has been seizure-free ever since. She's now I just turned 20 years old. I was at the wean up of all my medication and the same thing, like we essentially reverse the autoimmune dynamic that was happening in my body and work with our bodies, right? Instead of kind of trying to plug and fix with a band-aid.

SPEAKER_00: 8:36

I'd love it. I mean, talk about defining moments, right? There's so many in that space that you that just puts you on this track to where you are today, which is amazing. And I'm sure that you're helping a lot of people. So, what is the big one of the biggest challenges that women over 40 face when it comes to energy, mood, metabolism? Because you know, I can feel that 57. Like I feel all of this, you know. I mean, I try to keep positive every day and I keep on, you know, keep positive, but I'm really tired. And on top of everything, five months ago, my head husband had a liver transplant. So, you know, he's on all of this medicine, right? And it's so difficult and we're struggling. So we don't have a we don't sleep all night long because he's in so much pain still, you know. So I'm going through it a lot at this image, and I, you know, I I want to know about that. Like what's a big challenge that that women face in this space?

SPEAKER_01: 9:26

Well, it's interesting that you said the liver, too, for your husband. So the liver is such a really critical organ because it does so many different things, in particular when we're thinking about energy levels and metabolism. Thyroid is thyroid hormone is one of the things that people tend to think about for weight loss because thyroid really strongly correlates with our metabolism, our ability for the cells to utilize and burn energy efficiently, right? Um, when women have sluggish thyroid or sluggish metabolism, that can definitely be a factor. The liver is an is an organ where a lot of this, like this conversion and I guess I would say like regulation of our hormones takes place. And in order for those systems to happen effectively, they need to have adequate nutrients each and every day to do the job that they're designed to do. So I always say, like, it's almost like your body does not keep pantry full and your left mud cheek, a pantry full of the right, you know, zinc minerals and magnesium and B vitamins and vitamin A, vitamin D. You actually need to consume those. You need to bring them in every day in order to have the adequate supply and amount so that the cells can do the job that they're designed to do. It's like kind of like putting gas in the car.

SPEAKER_02: 10:38

If we don't make sense, we'll put gas in our car. Yeah, it makes a lot of sense.

SPEAKER_01: 10:45

Yeah. And so one of the key I'm like, I'm happy to share like a super simple one-hand meal plan and strategy that I share with my clients if that's helpful. I would love that. So think of it as PFFV. Protein. Every day you want to have a free meal today. You want to have like a palm site serving of protein, right? PFFE. And the next one is F for fiber-rich foods. These are things like legumes, beans are really good sources of fiber, whole grains, quinoa. So, like a scoop, if you were to take a scoop of fiber-rich food, ideally three times a day with your meals. The second F is for fat, healthy fatty acids. So this is things like olive oil, maybe a slice or two of avocado, nuts and seeds are great sources. So think of like a thumb-size serving of healthy fats with your meal. And then finally, vegetables, brightly colored vegetables, a variety of nutrients are found in them. So like a full fist of veggie. So if we're thinking protein, fiber, fat, veggie, PFLV for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, you're gonna be on the right track to start to get some of those key minerals and vitamins and antioxidants in your into your body that your cells need to do their job.

SPEAKER_00: 11:56

That makes it easy. And I like all of that. So that should make it easier for me. I actually just this morning got a blood test back and everything was in red, and I was like, uh-oh. Oh, my cholesterol is really high. And I'm thinking, I've eaten more fish in the last year than I ever have in my life, but my I don't know if it affects my cholesterol, but I don't know.

SPEAKER_01: 12:12

I'm eating healthier, but Ooh, so I have a comment on that. Actually, cholesterol, and it's again an elevated cholesterol is fairly common across for many, many individuals, especially women, but there is a correlation for elevated cholesterol and slowing fibroid function, because in order for our hormones to work effectively, we need to have cholesterol, which is produced by the liver, ironically, plus thyroid hormone, plus vitamin A and several B vitamins, just to be able to create all the downstream steroid hormones. So things like cortisol, if we have cortisols of stress response, even things like testosterone to maintain lean muscle and tone. And for women, it starts to taper off. Obviously, our estrogen and progesterone taper off too. But all of those other hormones that I just named rely on having thyroid hormone, vitamin A, and B B vitamins. If we don't have enough of all of those other components, then the cholesterol can start to backlog and pile up because it's not matching up with these other thyroid hormone, vitamin A, B vitamins to go make some of the downstream hormones.

SPEAKER_00: 13:15

Does that make sense? Makes so much sense. Yes. And nobody's never told it to me like that before. So it's so interesting. And you know, I know that we don't talk often about this kind of stuff on the podcast, but I'm glad that we are because I think there's an opportunity for women to understand a little bit more. And there's something that you talk about called the why bother syndrome. And it's a silent sabotoire for women's health. What is it and how do you help women break through it?

SPEAKER_01: 13:38

Yeah, why bother syndrome? This is the kind of like a little name that I came up with because it's so prevalent when it's this ways that we can start to identify if we're falling into that category of why bother syndrome. It's like maybe you've thought I've just, there's I don't feel right in my body. I wish the bite I could have more sleep, I could have more energy, I want to have, you know, easier time releasing weight or whatever it is. And you've thought about getting additional information or maybe clarity and testing on what's going on in your body, and yet something else in life always becomes more important. I have things to do with kids, things to do with my career, other things always become, you know, more important and get put on the list above your health, then that's a symptom of Y Bother syndrome. Another way that this looks is like if you've had two nights of the last seven weeks or seven days where you have not slept peacefully, you have not wake woken up and felt refreshed and felt re-energized for the day, and yet you don't know what exactly to do are not changing the behavior around getting adequate recovery, adequate sleep. Another symptom, right? Another way that that can look like is if you've felt, you know, guilty at least three or four times in the last month because you quickly grabbed some food for convenience or just kind of ate something mindlessly because it was in front of you, or you're kind of coping and numbing out, and then later had guilt or shame around that choice of that decision. These are all things that are very common, by the way. There's no judgment, it's just starting to recognize like, oh, do I fall into any of these patterns? If that's the case, then there's probably some element of why even bother? Because part of you probably doesn't believe is it even possible for my body to reach the health that I truly desire. You know, as a culture, we've kind of been indoctrinated for so many years around like eh, as you after you hit age 40, it's kind of kind of go downhill from there. Especially and we've almost accepted that as the norm. So it's easy to justify, like, oh, why even bother trying this? Why didn't bother trying another diet or another, you know, workout routine? Because I'm not gonna be able to stick with it. It's not gonna make a difference. And anytime we see that type of like unconscious thinking happening, we're holding ourselves back from true vitality.

SPEAKER_00: 15:49

So I've said that a lot of times. Like, why bother? Like, I don't want to know if there's something wrong with me. Like, why bother? We're all gonna die. That's kind of like my how I think, and that's not really good. But you know, and I want to feel better. And I know just going through the amount of stress that I have the last two years, I think I'm doing pretty good overall. But I have a couple of nights that I didn't sleep in a week. I know that. And so I really love that you're sharing this because between the anxiety, which what anxiety does to me, I'll share this with you because this is such a weird feeling. I'll get pins and needles all over my face. It's not on one side or the other, so I'm not worried about that. It's all over my face to the point where like my lips actually get a little bit numb. And I've been doing that for years, like overstress, and all of a sudden I can feel it. It's like your cheeks get hot, and then all of a sudden you feel these little pins and needles everywhere. And so I don't think that's a good thing. And I don't know how to fix it outside of sleep. Sleep is the one thing. If I lay down and sleep, it helps. I wake up and it's usually gone. Just to say that, you know, everyone out there, like we all have stuff, no matter what level we're in. You know, I own a company that has 200 people in it. There's a lot of stress that goes with that itself. You know, my dad passed away almost two years ago, and I'm still grieving. My husband had a liver transplant, my mom moved in with us. We have a lot of stuff happening, just like everyone else, right? We all have stuff. But I feel like just listening to you, like I want to feel better every day because I love the energy that I had 10 years ago. I didn't have all this on my plate 10 years ago. So as you age, things happen and people die and things happen more than they ever have, right? So there's a lot to go through. And I just hope everybody listening understands that what Amanda's sharing with us is really important to having, you know, the energy and uh wherewithal to want to bother, right?

SPEAKER_01: 17:33

Well, and I think you tapped into something, Dionne, is because life does get for many of us women, it does become more full and there's more responsibilities, more people and loved ones that we have that we care about and team members. There's more things as we we love you to navigate each decade, right? And I think that's one of the biggest areas that that lights me up and why I truly feel so passionate about the way that I get to support women is because the current standard in our Western healthcare practice is just simply, candidly speaking, not adequate. It isn't. The the the process of going to the doctor for your annual checkups and getting your pat smears and getting your normal preventative screenings done, which is good to do. It's you know, it's great to go get your mammogram, it's great to go get your, you know, colonoscopy every couple of years. All of those things are very important. However, if we simply do that, that is essentially that's essentially disease care. That's catching something once it's at the point of becoming a diagnosable chronic disease. Now, what is the treatment for that disease? And what I get to do is proactive care. It's proactive partnership. It's it empowers women to not only understand and decode what the hormone symptoms are and what their body is telling them so that they can get ahead of the curve, so that they can create and build health instead of just waiting until it gets bad enough that now I have a diagnosable disease. Right. And then so it really, I think the disservice, unfortunately, is it's not yet the norm where we are just acclimated to proactively going above and beyond conventional healthcare to get that support for ourselves.

SPEAKER_00: 19:07

So in your career, so you've made a big pivot, right? You pivoted and then tell me about adversity because the reason I did shine on success was to find out about, you know, women and men who've been through adversity and pushed through the other side and you know, came through it because some people don't. They don't, they can't get back up after the adversity. But is there a point in your life where after all this you switched, you pivoted to this career, you you know, started taking new classes, your daughter was, you know, getting better. Was there any adversity that hit that you pushed through that really was difficult?

SPEAKER_01: 19:39

Yeah, I would say my health adversity was the most difficult by far, because that felt like, especially with my my daughter situation, life and death. Of course, I said that was by far the most difficult thing I've lived through. However, I've definitely had multiple adversities since then. And becoming a business owner, because once I had this passion and this like inspiration to help other women feel empowered to understand and take control of their healthful, the desire to do that and the reality of creating a business and learning how to market and learning how to, you know, speak and position yourself so that you can be a trusted expert, that's a whole nother skill set. And you know what at first in the beginning it was like, okay, well, I have a strong desire and this heart and this passion to to serve and to help, yes, but the journey of growing a team and building a business and stepping into a CEO role was absolutely been been difficult at times. There are times when it's like, even who even even trusting of like who do I think I am to show up and be visible on different stages and in different arenas and to write a book and to be a New York Times, you know, billboard. And it's like all the little, you know, all the little week you've been your head. Who do you think you are? Why are you doing it? Absolutely overcoming adversity. And it's like with each new stage, I think that's it kind of as parallel and like learning to just lean into that faith and take the steps forward, even if you're not clear of exactly how it's gonna work out or if it's gonna go the way you expect or desire or want it to go, you know? And so yeah, it's definitely uh it's a constant trust in faith, I think, for me personally.

SPEAKER_00: 21:13

Yeah, I don't know how people live without faith. It's got has to be very difficult. So, what's your definition of success? And have you hit your peak so far?

SPEAKER_01: 21:22

Oh, great question. I would say my definition of success is living with true presence and awareness of your and appreciation of your daily moments, honestly. Um I've had different periods where I've defined success differently, of like hitting certain benchmarks in my business and hitting certain revenue, you know, numbers because that's it, that's like a you know a standard for how many women I've supported, whether it was raising four daughters successfully to like launch and I have two of them launched on their own. Like I've had those kind of like tangible metrics. But honestly, the more and more I really get clear with what aligns for me, it's being able to be present and appreciate just those silly little moments in my life, like the moments where my husband and I are laughing about playing Yucca at the kitchen table with our daughters, or you know, when we're on a road trip and everyone's like jammed out to a fun song, or like it sounds weird, but in the past there were times where I was so busy trying to do do do in life, I wouldn't stop and notice those moments, you know, and the connection. So I think it's just the, I guess it's the the practice and the presence of noticing life and then seeing what's around me, you know, and and appreciating it. Even even the struggles. Like there are a lot of things where I used to not let myself feel the negative emotion. I would like try and cover it up or like, you know, push it aside or move through it. And now it's like sometimes like sadness. Like sometimes you just need a good cry and let it out, and that's okay too, you know.

SPEAKER_00: 22:44

And that's you know, I believe that on the other side of all of that is amazing, something so amazing. If you can just push through and it's okay to cry, it's okay to feel, right? And I think something that happens with women, we just shove it all away. And for me, for for grief, which has been many times in my life, I can remember there's a point where like 14 friends and family members died in two years. And I was afraid to pick up the phone because every time the phone rang, I was like, Who's who's dying now? You know, but what taught me a lot about where I am today, and I think if I hadn't gone through that, I don't know if I would have handled my dad's death as good as I did. I actually think for as close as we were, where I am today is much better than I ever thought I would be. But using things like this podcast and an outlet for it was incredibly important. Like I'm super creative. I've been creating things for two years straight. Like every day I come up with new ideas. My husband's about to hit me over the head with something. It's like, quit coming up with all these ideas. Let's go pick one. You know, the cool thing is I have a company that I was able to see that I could work at home for four months and it still runs, which is amazing. Feel good, but we have a great staff and they're doing amazing things. And now I can focus on what I love. And it's creating and finding ways that I can help other people like you are. It's you know, it's just different. I I want to help in different ways than you do, but that's what we're made of. We're those kind of women, right? And we are in a all girl, like we have three girls, you have four girls, like it's all girls, and my poor dad, and your poor husband. I mean, it's a lot of girl. But I was super excited about that. So if you had to tell me about, let's talk about the last and final things, which is like dieting and you know, you said something earlier about when you feel guilty about eating, and I think guilty about eating. I love food too much, I don't feel guilty. But yeah, so what can you do if you do feel that way? How do you fix it?

SPEAKER_01: 24:34

Yeah, well, I think many women that I work with do feel guilty because they feel like they know what they should do or quote unquote would be helpful for them. And yet if they don't make that choice, then they like shame or blame or shouldn't, you know, like you know, they feel guilty about their their behavior or choices. Um, I think one of the most important things is uh we and we we use this as part of a kind of nervous system rewiring practice is to recognize what is the emotion. Like, don't try and shove it down, don't try and like avoid it or pretend it's not there. It's like to really acknowledge and first recognize like, oh man, I'm feeling guilty because I didn't think I should eat that choppate to cookie last night, but I couldn't help myself and I just kept eating and ate two or three cookies or whatever, right? Whatever it is, it's like to recognize it, to name it, and then absolutely to get curious around it because the guilt, I feel like the negative emotion is a signpost to tell you what is the thought or the belief that's underneath it. So the phrase that I always recommend is I'm feeling blank insert negative emotion. I'm feeling guilty, I'm feeling shameful, whatever it is, because the story I'm telling myself is. And when you allow yourself to just fill in the blank, you start to see whether it's like I'm not good enough or I should have done better. You start to see your own self-criticism. And usually it's a matter of practicing, it's like exposing that self-hatred and that self-criticism so that we can then be reinforced about the importance of building our own self-love back, especially as women. I think that this is this is a lot of the work I do. It's like learning to have grace with yourself. Would you treat anyone else? Would you treat your child right into the child, the way that you're judging yourself around that situation? You know, if we can see it and actually just witness the negativity, then we can have greater compassion, which makes it easier to not do repeat the pattern again in the future.

SPEAKER_00: 26:20

So is there one thing you can tell our audience of what they can do, just one thing to get more energy?

SPEAKER_01: 26:26

One thing to get more energy, yes, absolutely. Um, when it comes, I'm gonna get a little technical here for you, but when it comes to metabolism and a cell's ability to generate a unit of ATP, which is a unit of energy essentially, a lot has to do with what I call consistent muscle contraction. This doesn't have to be hard or complex, but quite literally, how frequently are you moving your body throughout the day? Because in this culture in America, many of us maybe even go to the gym for 45 minutes or an hour and get a workout, but then we sit at our desk and are sedentary majority of the eight hours of the day, eight or nine hours. That is a metabolic nightmare. You're much better served to go for a five-minute, 10-minute walk after each meal three times a day, or to get up. And every time you go to the bathroom, do 10 body weight squats, but just move your body in different directions, consistent muscle contraction. Anytime you're moving your body, even those little like pedal machines under your desk, is allowing your body to be mobile because when you do that, you create more glucose utilization. So every cell can generate more units of ATP.

SPEAKER_00: 27:34

So being as I go to the restroom at least 40 times a day, how many try that idea?

SPEAKER_01: 27:39

Because I have at my office door. And every time I get up to the bathroom, when I walk through the office door, I just do 10 bodyweight squats.

SPEAKER_00: 27:47

I love that. That is so easy to do. And I always tell everybody everywhere I go, it's like I'm a dog, I have to mark my territory. I literally have to go to the bathroom everywhere we go. I get a Starbucks, which is 15 minutes from here. I end up having to go to the restroom. So I'm gonna use that, and I bet you I'm gonna have my body and my legs are gonna be solid here and a couple of thank you so much for sharing that. So, so thanks for sharing your expertise. That's really cool, and I love that we did this today. So, can you share how our listeners can get a hold of you, where they can find you, and they want to work with you?

SPEAKER_01: 28:18

Yeah, a great way to connect with me is on Instagram, Hinman Amanda. So you can find me there. I'm always posting little um, you know, helpful tips and strategies and tools, especially um even virtual workshops that I do every month. But also, I would invite your listeners, if they're curious by what their body is signaling to them, to download my free hormone health assessment. This is something that my client Corey recently did, and she's like, I had no idea that I thought I was totally stressed out and had elevated cortisol, but based on the symptoms, it allowed you to kind of match up which symptoms are showing up for your body, and that pointed to suppressed cortisol. She actually had two low levels of cortisol, and that was causing her imbalance and her problems. So it helps to see in the top six metabolic hormones what your body's symptoms may be pointing to and the area of where to start.

SPEAKER_00: 29:05

Great. Well, thank you so much for being here with me today. Thanks for sharing all of this, and I'm sure that I'll be reaching out. I want to try that free hormone and health assessment myself. Good luck. So thank you for sharing. Have a great day. You too.