but Dr Dan and I always
joke – it’s our favorite
topic to talk about.
of NomNom Paleo
came up to me and
said, you’re going
to talk about sex
on your panel on
Sunday, right? I
said, what?! The
panel was a Beyond
Food Panel, so I
put together this
group of people. It
was Daryl Edwards,
Kyle Maynard, Dr.
Dan Stickler and
Steve Kirsch of The
Paleo Drummer and
we were going to talk
about all these things
that I have been talking
about here – stress
management, sleep, just
basic lifestyle stuff,
mindfulness. She said,
you’re going to talk
about sex, right? I was
like, okay, why not? So
I went to Tony Federico,
our moderator and said,
I need you to slip in a
sex question for me and
I don’t even remember
how he brought it up
Dr. Dan really specializes
in hormones . In fact,
he’s still in the process
of straightening my
hormones out now. He
does a lot of hormone
therapy work and he
has done amazing stuff.
So what we’re seeing is
that once people start
this paleo lifestyle, all
of a sudden their libido
returns especially women.
It’s because we’re in our
premenopausal phase so
we’re like our eggs are
last ditch effort - got
to get them out there.
I always say, if you’re in
your late 30s or early 40s
and you’re a woman and
you have no sex drive, you
have serious stuff going
on in your body and you
need to get that checked
out. Unfortunately, the
diet doesn’t always just
do it enough so you
might need hormone
therapy, some panels