You need to learn this ONE tool
It drives me absolutely INSANE that women are not taught to understand their bodies.
Something as simple as learning to understand your temperature is an incredible tool for assessing the state of your hormones from home. Tracking your basal metabolic rate (BMR) by simply taking your temps upon waking is as easy window into the health of your thyroid.
Your thyroid is a driving force for all of your hormones and is absolutely essential for fertility. Understanding how well it’s functioning, how it responds to foods, exercise, and different points of your cycle is beyond essential to your healing journey.
Most women I have worked with, when they first start taking their temps, their BMT is BELOW 96° F.
YALL: 95° and below is considered HYPOTHERMIA.
What happens in the incidences of hypothermia?? Your ORGANS START SHUTTING DOWN. This includes your reproductive organs.
Track👏🏻your👏🏻temps👏🏻
Temperature is one of your most important biomarkers🔥
Overall, you should be WARM.
Here are a few marks you should experience in your temps and what they mean:
BMT (basal metabolic temp): this is your temp as soon as you wake up in the morning. For a healthy thyroid and overall hormones, this needs to be anywhere between 97.6-97.8 or higher during your follicular phase. And no less than 98.4 during ovulation and luteal phase. This is the MOST important marker. It can queue you into what your stress hormones are doing and what your progesterone, thyroid hormone, and other anti-stress hormones are doing.
Temps post meal: good, hormonally supportive meals should raise your temperature. If your temps are dropping after a meal, that is a sign of either a sluggish thyroid or a meal that is not metabolically supportive.
Temps & ovulation: when you ovulate, your BMT should raise to 98.4 and stay risen until the start of your next cycle. A temp that does not raise to this point or higher, or does not stay risen for the length of your luteal phase, is a sign of either anovulation and/or low progesterone.
Temps post workout: Take your temp before and after a work out. If your temp DROPS after your workout, that exercise is not hormonally supportive for you and should be reevaluated.
Being cold is not normal, but it is extremely common. If you are confused about where your hormones are at or don’t know where to start with understanding your hormones—start with tracking your temps. It’s cheap, easy, and STUPID informative.
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This post and no post on cassidywoelfel.com are meant to be taken as medical advice. Please consult with your physician and use common sense before making any diet or lifestyle changes.