References and resources 

 

Find books, website, podcast, and links to the specialists and experts I have learned from and keep on being inspired by!

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janiepelletier.com - Holistic Nutrition consultation + Yoga teaching

• Online - in House - in Person  consultations

• 1 on 1 &  couples consultations

• Personalized Yoga-Nutrition 3-month program (upon request)

• Let’s Talk Perimenopause : Hormonal-Gut connection conferences (in person, online)

• Weekly Yoga teaching : Kitimat & Terrace (BC)

• All services In english et français

• Corporative conferences, classes and workshops upon request

 

 

 

 

Continued Education

 

Pacific Rim College - In person and online / Student Clinic

Return to Wholeness with Dr. Gabor Maté

the Ayurvedic Institute

 

Note: All the following are meant to be sources of information, I have no affiliation with any of these companies. You don’t have to purchase anything, just rent books at your local library! I invite you to consult privately with me or other health practitioners if you have any further questions or wish access lab testing.

 

Hormones / Metabolic Health 

 

Menopause foundation of Canada / Fondation canadienne de la ménopause

Dr. Mindy Pelz The Menopause reset & Fast like a girl + Podcast

Dr. Claudia Welch, Ayurveda, Traditional Chinese Medcicine

Dr. Taz Bhatia Website + Video, Youtube Channel + Podcast

Marie Claire Haver - Podcast + The Galverson Diet + Books

Cynthia Thurlow

Dr. Felice Gersh, MD PCOS SOS & Menopause, 50 things you need to know

Aviva Rom, MD Hormone intelligence + Podcast

Izabella Wentz, The Thyroid pharmacist 

GreenMedInfo

Sara Gottfried MD

Dr. Jade Teta - Next Level Human, personal and physical developmen

Beeya - Seed cycling (you don't have to purchase from this site, simply get some whole food at your chosen location and add them to your meals!)

 

Perimenopause / Menopause symptoms: Decode your body’s signals and learn more about each symptom by clicking on the image.

 

HRT- Hormone replacement therapy

 

Science and Humans: hormones replacement therapy for men and women

The Controversial History of Hormone Replacement Therapy

Peter Attia on HRT

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Women's Health Initiative - Controversial scientific research

 

Book : Estrogen Matters by Avrum Bluming MD, Carol Travis PhD

 

Tori Hudson ND

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Lab testings: You are recommended to consult a Naturopathic doctor (ND), conventional doctor MD for prescription and consultation, or/and  other certified Holistic health care practitioner for consultation and recommendation. 

 

Hormone Note: Sex hormones urine & saliva testings are more accurate than blood testing

Glow Natural Wellness - saliva

Dutch test: Urine

Science and Humans: blood testing (which you can get from your conventional MD)

Food sensitivity

Sensitivity Check: Hair

 

Nutrition

The Glucose Goddess - Blood sugar Balance ( 10 core glucose Hacks)

CARBS Explained: The Science Behind Our Food 

The GAPs diet

Spice Spice Baby - Medicine in your spice cupboard

Julie Daniluk

Inflammation, at the root of all conditions,  with Professor Calder

The Spruce eats - Fermented vegetables

Beeya - Seed Cycling Handout

Dr. Catherine Shanahan - Book Dark Calories, Toxic chemically refined vegetable oils

​Julie Daniluk - Anti-inflammatory protocol, holistic Nutritionist

 

Longevity / Brain / cognition

 

Understanding the Changes in Your Female Brain After 40 with Dr. Lisa Mosconi

Dr. Lisa Mosconi

Dr. Dale Bredesen

Younger You - Research, book, program

Dr. Heather Sandison - Alzheimer prevention & reversal

 

Researches

Hormones

• (WHAP) Women Healthy aging Project

• SWAN study - Study of women’s Health across the nations 

• Prometrium - Progesterone (micronised) 100 and 200 mg, soft capsule (For oral use) Consumer Medicine Information

• The Postmenopausal Estrogen/Progestin Interventions Study: primary outcomes in adherent women

• WHI the Memory study

• Combined and progestagen-only hormonal contraceptives and breast cancer risk: A UK nested case–control study and meta-analysis

 

Metabolism / Immunity

• immunometabolism at the intersection of metabolic signaling, cell fate, and systems immunology

• Association Between Calcium or Vitamin D Supplementation and Fracture Incidence in Community-Dwelling Older Adults: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

 

Dental Nutrition

 

Living Well with Dr. Michelle - Oral Health with Nutrition

The Mouth-Body Connection by Dr Gerry Curatola

The Dental Diet by Steven Lin

 

Movement

 

Dr. Stacy sims

Training to Cardio: A Comprehensive Movement Plan with Dr. Stacy Sims

Mobility & bone-strengthening tips for women with Vonda Wright M.S.

Mindful strength- Podcast + website

Jules Mitchell - Yoga biomechanics, continued education 

Katy Bowman - Nutritious Movement

 

Intermittent Fasting

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Dr. Mindy Pelz: Fast Like a Girl, Eat Like a Girl

A Clinician's Experience of 15 Years of Intermittent Fasting

Gin Stephen

 

Video / documentary

Eating your way to balance your hormones

Michelle Sand, ND - insulin, cortisol and thyroid hormones are the leaders

That Sugar Movie

Live to 100 - The Blue zones

You are what you eat - the Twin experiment

 

Podcast

ZOE Science & Nutrition

Fitness routines for menopause with Dr. Stacy Sims - exercise for every stage 

Mel Robbins Podcast with Dr. Marie-Claire Haver: Informations regarding perimenopause 

Are Minerals the Building Blocks of Our Cells? with Caroline Alan the Mineral Geek

The resetter - Dr. Mindy Pelz

Peter Attia MD

Mark Groves

 

Toxicity in Foods

 

Center for Food as Medicine

Bayer and the Bees - 30 min documentary about toxic Neonicotinoid pesticides

ConsumerLab - Best chocolate choices

Clean Food Facts 

Allergies and connection with the environment- cross-reactivity

 

Trauma / emotional healing 

 

ACE score (Adverse Childhood Experience) - Take the Quiz

Women, Food, and God by Geneen Roth (and all other books)

When the body says no by Gabor Maté

Rachel Hollis - Podcast, book, empowerment

Ho’oponopono forgiveness practice

Intuitive Eating - 10 principles

High-Functioning Codependents: How to Stop Being Everything for Everyone with Terri Cole

Research tDCS for Major depression disorder

 

Books

Reach out to your local library! Prioritize spending your money on Healthy Foods!

 

Fast like a girl, Eat like a Girl, & The Menopause Reset By Dr. Mindy Pelz

Outlive by Peter Attia, MD

Eating into the Wild Side by Jo Robinson

In Defense of Food by Michael Polan

Food Politics by Marion Nestle 

What the heck should I eat By Mark Hyman MD

Appetite for profit by Michele Simon

The menopause brain by Dr. Lisa Mosconi

Women Food and Hormones by dr. Sara Gottfried

Meals that Heals Inflammation by Julie Daniluk R.H.N

Aging Bones: A Short story of osteoporosis by Gerald N. Grob

 

Yoga 

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Barrie Risman Yoga

Studio Mile End, MTL - Online & in person classes, teacher training (Fr & Eng)

Mon Yoga Virtuel- Online (French), classes, meditation, breathwork

Essence Du Souffle - Breathwork, online & in person (French)

Vedic food Prayer - audio Tutorial

 

Books

Eastern Body Western Mind by Anodea Judith

 

Herbal Medicine

Apotheka herbal boutique, Victoria (delivery)

Harmonic Arts, Canadian dispensary

Pacific Rim College - In person and online / Student Clinic

David Winston, ethnobotanist

Look up your local health food store or herbal dispensary - Shop Local!

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Supplementation

 

Fullscrip online dispensary- Get 10% off on your order, Third party quality control supplementation.

Ritual Protein Powder - Easy to digest

Probiotics (and other products): UDO’s, New Roots, BioGaia, Genestra

BEAM minerals

 

Thyroid

Thyroid health

Izabella Wentz, The Thyroid pharmacist 

BC government, thyroid resources

Dr. Rebecca Warren - program, testing, resources

 

Francophone / French resources

 

Documentaires - Visuel

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Enquête-hormonothérapie

Loto-Méno - série documentaire

SPM:Splendeurs,Peines et Mystères -Série documentaire

 

Spécialistes - Centres

 

Mouvement Montagne, accompagnement périnatal, plateforme Mama, cours, blogue, service doula

Victorious Med - gestion du stress, méditation et respiration

Isabelle fleury, Naturopath, Sherbrooke

Santé des femmes, test hormonal, Site

Geneviève Roy-Proulx, Médecin de famille spécialisé en santé hormonale / Périménopause, Magog, site

Dr. Sylvie Demers - hormonothérapie 

Cynthia Ma - Enseignante facilitatrice womb witch