If you have daughters, this is really, really important.
Everyday women are told to fix their hormones with the latest
cleanse or capsule. I thought cramps were normal.
No. There's so much that you can do,
and there's this whole other world that you can live in.
You don't have to live like that.
Sisters in law Yasmin and Kaya learns that lesson first hand.
After years of struggling with their menstrual cycles and
burnout, they built BIA Wellness, a Women's Health brand
grounded in naturopathic research and real experience
experience. There's a lot of misconception
around what hormones are. The conversation around cortisol
has been very interesting. I think it's been demonized.
In this episode, we're exploring the hormone myths that keep
women stuck and what actually works.
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Yasmin and Kaya, thank you so much for being here.
It's so fun to to see you again Yasmin, and to meet you for the
first time. So nice to be here.
Thank you. Thank you.
What a beautiful, so beautiful place.
We can't wait. Thank you.
And you're pregnant now 31 weeks.
How has pregnancy been so far for you?
It's been. Good.
It's been good trying to take it easy, eat a lot, as much as I
can, you know? Yeah, do all the Wellness stuff.
What are your go to pregnancy foods?
Are you craving anything in particular?
Good question. Depends what day you get me.
Yeah. Sandwiches, sandwiches, fruits,
Persian food. I know.
I was telling you guys just like warm, good comfort foods.
Yeah, you were saying Persian food is like a lot of stews and
rice. That sounds like the perfect
meat and sea postpartum foods. I know.
Yeah. It hits a spot.
I'm getting hungry. I know, I know.
It's almost dinner time. Yeah.
OK. Tell me a little bit about each
of your roles within the company.
K and I are sister in law's so family, we started to be about
4-4 years ago. Yeah.
And I would say I probably run more of the operations, the
finance, more of the business side.
I mean, we work so closely on everything.
And you love that stuff. I do.
I do, yeah. I mean, it's my background, so
it's more natural. But you know, what's so fun
about having a company is that you get to be creative, you
know, whether it's, you know, Kayla will talk about what she
runs, but there's so many aspects that you get to use that
other brain of yours, which I love.
So yes, I'm an OPS finance person, but you know, I do love
the creative stuff and product development and people
community. It's it's so fun.
Your job is like the stuff that I was most excited to offload
when I started. I remember.
Is that right? But.
Some people are like, made for it, it sounds like.
It sounds like you can do both, which I think is kind of rare.
Yeah, yeah. She's you've always been
business minded. I hear stories from her dad and
her family. She was like an entrepreneur at
age 3. So she's she was born for this.
What were you doing when you were little?
Oh my God any way to make money like.
Yeah. It's like whatever it took, like
lemonade stands, you know, waitressing at home, cleaning
someone's house, like whatever I could do for a dollar.
I would put my brother, I would, I would make things and sell
them and I had these kids shops and I would put my brother who
was a few years younger than me. I would like put make a dance
floor out of like tape and I'd put my boom box out there in a
tip jar. And so I would make money off of
him dancing for tips. I way to do.
It he's he has Down syndrome, he has like the best dance move.
Like. You know, No Fear, just will go
out there and do his thing. Typical big sister behavior.
How can I use my little sibling to make money?
Giving him a shot, but I'm not sure.
I might not have. I love her.
OK, What about you? So people are always asking us
how do you work with family? And I think the key for us is
that we have two completely different skill sets.
So I'm on the creative and product development and
nutrition side, She's on the business side.
And I think we don't step over each other, which I, yeah, I
think that's the way to say it. And we both have an interest in
each other's fields. And I will completely sit in on
the operation side of things and she'll sit on the content side
of things. But we fully trust that the
person who is the expert is making the best decision.
So that's my role in the company.
And you started via because both of you, it sounds like we're
doing all the right things, but just we're not.
We're feeling like something was not right.
What was going on in your lives at that time?
Well, it's funny because I thought I was doing the right
things. Right.
And I know you had a similar story, Bethany.
Like, I was 13 years old, had horrible cramps.
I would miss days at school. And back then, it was go on
birth control. Everyone's on birth control.
Why not? Yeah.
So ended up going on birth control for over like 15 years
and it wasn't until I got off in my early 30s, I think I was like
30 or 31, where I started realizing like, Oh my gosh, this
pill shut off my hormones. I had 0 connection with my body.
I actually didn't have a period for that long, which is wild.
I remember my mom being like, don't you need your period?
Like we weren't educated on these things.
And my doctor's like no, if you're on that, this specific
pill, it doesn't happen. I get off and my hormones just
came back with like a major vengeance.
It was like younger Yasmin times 100 in terms of cramp pain,
acne, which was like the worst part because I did not even
want, I couldn't even go out when I had cramps.
But it just made me feel even more self-conscious breast
tenderness and you just don't feel like yourself.
And at that point in my life, it's when I met.
So Kay is my sister-in-law. I met Drew, my husband and Kaya
and they introduced me to this world of functional medicine.
I was like, what are you guys talking about?
Like there is a world where you don't need to suffer from your
periods. And so I thought I was doing
everything right, right on birth control.
And it wasn't till I got off where I really learned.
And we can get into that, you know, at any point, just so much
that you could do that is free and easy, that can make such an
impact to my period. So now I'm doing things in the
right way. But for so long, I wish I was
more educated as a as a younger woman.
There's so much that's in your control that I think people
don't, people still don't know. Yeah.
And what did you implement that helped you the most?
Yeah, I, it's seed cycling. I know.
So we started a company because it truly, truly changed my life.
And of course, like lifestyle and habits are important, right?
You know, you can't be chronically stressed eating fast
food and doing one Wellness element.
So I want to, you know, make sure it's, it's a holistic
approach. But I went into my functional
medicine doctor's office and she said, you know, you should start
seed cycling. She got all this blood work, but
I was on no supplements yet, you know, and I was just learning
about this. I didn't listen to her for two
years. I was like, what is she talking
about? Like a I'm not going to buy
seeds. I'm not even going to grind
them. Like you're talking to some like
I'm the business. I'm like, give me whatever is
easy to do and let me move through life, right?
Like I'm not a DIY person. And I wasn't taking her
seriously. And it wasn't until two years
later, Kaya was getting her master's in nutrition and her
professor, they were learning about seed cycling.
And he said, quote me if I'm wrong, Like 90% of people who
seed cycle from his experience, like see a shift, irregular
periods, periods. And she's like, did you ever try
that? I was like, you know what, Kaya?
I didn't. But because you brought it up,
I'm going to actually try and. Can you explain what seed
cycling is for anyone who isn't familiar with it?
Yeah, totally. So seed cycling is the literal
application of food as medicine. We like to say it's a little bit
of magic and a little bit of science or a lot of bit of
science. So our hormones require certain
nutrients or certain inputs to be produced, eliminated,
metabolized. And what you do with seed
cycling is you rotate 4 specific seeds throughout your menstrual
cycle. So there's four phases of the
menstrual cycle and you eat these specific seeds to promote
to to produce specific hormones like estrogen, progesterone.
And when there's imbalance in imbalances in those hormones,
you can see symptoms like PMS and all of the different things
that come with PMS, bad cramps, breast tenderness, whatever it
is. So seed cycling is essentially a
way to support bad periods, but it can also help women who are
in perimenopause and menopause and beyond.
Yeah, yeah. Because so these seeds contain
specific nutrients that are supportive for your hormones at
different phases within the month.
Totally. I didn't realize they could also
help with perimenopause and menopause.
Yes, yeah. So actually we have found that
women who are transitioning into perimenopause see the most
success with seed cycling. And the reason is because at
that stage your periods start to become more regular, they can
become heavier your. Do it?
How do they know which phase to take?
So we if you have a regular cycle, you start with the phase
one seeds, which is flax and pumpkin on the first day of your
cycle. If you don't have a regular
cycle, we just say, hey, start with the new moon because women
cycles are very connected to the moon cycle.
They're both roughly around 28 days.
So what is actually really interesting about women in
perimenopause is that they might be like, Oh, my cycle is now 42
days, or I haven't had a period in a few months and a lot of
them start seed cycling and their cycle becomes 28 days
again, which is really incredible.
So is that essentially like delaying it?
I like to think of it that way, which is also really nice
because the longer we can have a period as women, the better for
our bodies, right? We know that women who go into
early menopause or menopause earlier in life, that can have a
lot of challenges with your health.
So it's happening more and more. It's happening more and more,
and to younger and younger women, even women in their 30s.
When should women ideally start menopause or begin
perimenopause? So perimenopause can be even up
to 15 years. So a lot of women can start, you
know, mid 30s and late 30s, sometimes early 40s.
So it can be like a 10 to 15 year process.
And the challenge with perimenopause is there's no
really definitive way to say like here's a test, you're in
perimenopause. It's more just an array of
symptoms that you start to feel, your period starts to become
off, sleep is more challenging, weight loss becomes more
challenging. And so you know that will be an
indication that something is shifting.
OK. And you're saying, so either
start if you have an irregular period, whether you just have an
irregular period or if it's perimenopause related, you want
to start at the first day of your cycle or the new moon with
phase one? Yes, and then move into.
And when I'm saying phase one, I know we haven't gotten there
yet, but you have packaged these these seeds into a phase one and
a phase two option. Yeah.
So you would start phase one at that point and then transition
to Phase 2 when. So Phase 2 is supportive of the
second-half of your cycle, which is the luteal phase.
And that's typically when people start to see some of those more
gnarly symptoms of PMS. So ovulation on average, not for
everyone, occurs around day 14. So on day 15, you switch to
phase two, which is sesame and sunflower seeds.
And that is really to support the production of progesterone.
So after you ovulate, your body increases progesterone
production. And that's really important
because it helps regulate estrogen.
It what it's what helps you sleep.
It tackles mood challenges that people go through at that stage.
So each of these seeds is essentially designed to help
what hormone needs to be supported at that stage.
OK, Yeah. Amazing.
What if you have a short cycle? That's something that I have
dealt with since having my third child.
My cycle is shorter than I would like it to be.
Can seed cycling help with that? Absolutely, yes.
We've seen actually a lot of cases of women saying that
they've had a shorter cycle. It's some of the seeds, the
antioxidants and nutrients in there can help extend the luteal
phase, which can be really important, especially if women
are struggling with fertility issues and things like that.
We we've totally seen that. And you would just stay.
So it's essentially 2 weeks on the first bag of phase one and
then two weeks on the second bag.
So if your period comes early, we would encourage you to still
stay those two weeks. OK, so that's like that.
Can be just stay the course, just stay the call it all levels
out. Yeah, give it a few months.
You know, we always say three to six months and then you'll see
that your cycle hopefully will be shifting by extra day, extra
2 days. So yeah, it's it's wild the
emails we get every single. Just going to.
Ask Yeah, like, have you gotten a lot of feedback from people
that have tried this and have said, wow, like, I've struggled
with irregular cycles or whatever, like too short or too
long, and it's like all kind of evening out now.
Yeah, we get pretty miraculous emails that, I mean, some of our
favorite ones are mothers and daughters doing it together,
some mothers who are in perimenopause or menopause and
their daughters who are struggling with PMS doing it
together and seeing shifts. My favorite is when people say I
wasn't ovulating. I was having an an ovulatory
cycle. I started ovulating again and I
got pregnant. I mean, Oh my gosh, it's the
most heartwarming thing to to experience that.
That's. Amazing.
Yeah. So this helped you a lot.
Changed my life. I finally did it after listening
to Kaya. I was doing it wrong for a
little bit. I was like getting the wrong
seeds but I did it for one month and I was literally shocked that
most of my cramps were gone. My breast tenderness was gone.
I was like how are we not talking about this?
This makes no sense that I'm literally eating food and me as
someone who has horrible cramps in periods, I cured myself in a
month most of my symptoms. So it was mind blowing.
And that's when I chatted with Kay.
I was like, this is magic. Like if I knew this as a
teenager, this would have completely changed my life.
And think about all, I mean, 80% of women have PMS symptoms.
Think about how many people this could help.
And it's just food, you know, whether you buy a product or do
it yourself, it's an easy way to support your hormones.
And I always tell people, you know, it's just nutrients, give
it a shot. Unless you're allergic, there's
nothing to lose. I'm not giving you a medication.
That's why I like even on the street, I'm giving people seeds,
you know, like every, anyone I could give seeds to, I'm like,
just try it. And it, it blew my mind to the
point where we started a company.
I never thought we'd start a company, folks around seed
cycling, like I never thought I'd be in the food business.
But the mission was so important for us to get this message of
cross of cross of like you can do so much for your hormones and
why aren't we taught about this? You know it.
It gets me angry the. List of things that none of us
learned yes, growing up that we should have known exactly or
should have been taught. And now that you're pregnant,
how are you incorporating it? Or are you?
Yeah, So it's just more for a nutritional boost.
So because I'm not cycling, you don't need to cycle it anytime.
So just adding the seeds and smoothie like what we have here
that you graciously blended and. Yeah, let's do it.
OK. I normally do liver smoothies
but since you're you're I know wanting to avoid the raw liver.
I made this one with almond milk, berries, honey, mint and
phase. Two amazing.
That sounds so good. Cheers, Cheers.
Thank. You.
So delicious. Oh, the Mint.
Really good. I love it.
People are always like, well, how do you take the seeds?
And this is just one. This is the perfect example.
Yeah, What else? What else do you recommend?
Yogurt Yasmin is a champ. She takes it by the spoonful.
I doubt it. Or I'll put it with yogurt and
like some frozen berries. Yes, yeah, I do a lot of
smoothies. That's my big thing.
I'm imagining even just like sprinkling it on like ground
meat, like a. 100% totally. Stuff.
Eggs, salads, really any meal. We do all these recipes online,
but you can just keep it super simple.
Yeah, OK. On the subject of hormonal like
myths and misconceptions, if you could bust one piece of bad
hormone advice that just drives you bananas, what would that be?
I think I have one, but I want to hear yours.
I mean mine, I mean, we talked about it is that PMS is normal.
Like I talked to so many women because they asked like, oh,
like what's BA Tell me about seed cycling.
And they don't even realize that their day-to-day and their
periods, you don't have to live like that.
Like, and this was me for so long.
I thought cramps were normal. It really was until I started
getting acne and I met Kaya where I was like, oh, I don't
have to live like this. So it gets me fired up.
So if someone's like, Oh yeah, I just have cramps for a few days
and it's as if it's normal. Like, no, there's so much that
you can do and there's this whole other world that you can
live in to feel great, and your period's your 5th vital sign.
So it's important to understand these symptoms and hormones.
Yeah, for so many other reasons. So yes.
Yeah, and like you mentioned, like same exact story for me.
Had really bad cramps and an acne and went to the
dermatologist. Nothing really worked long term
for the acne. And so eventually I was put on
hormonal birth control and all of that kind of just went away.
But then six years later, when I went off of it, I had to deal
with all of the aftermath. Exactly, Yeah.
What about you? What's your biggest pet peeve?
The conversation around cortisol has been very interesting lately
and there's a lot of this person has cortisol face and this is a
cortisol detox and this is a drink that you need to lower
your cortisol. And I think the tough thing for
me is that basically it's been demonized.
This is really important hormone that has an A role in immunity,
inflammation, our sleep, wake cycle, so many different things.
And anytime something is demonized that way, it's a
little bit tough, which which has been very popular lately.
I've seen a lot of that. Yeah.
The cortisol face really blew up.
Is there any truth to that? If you have something like
Cushing's syndrome, which is the, the, you know, not what the
majority of people are dealing with, that's a serious situation
with cortisol. This is not a everyday thing
that people need to be worried about.
Yeah. Whenever I have founders on the
show who are also health conscious, also mothers, like
we're all juggling a lot. I'm just so curious what your
day-to-day routines look like. And I'm sure it changes a lot
based on the season and whatnot, but if you could just give us a
glimpse into your days, each of you.
Like, what does that look like right now for you?
How do you incorporate Wellness into your day?
Let's start with you, Yasmin. Yeah.
Something I think about all the time and I ask this question I
always I can't I want you to answer it too.
I'm like, what does your day-to-day look like?
Because there's some days where it doesn't look great.
You know, it's like we're I'm always calibrating and in
Wellness and I think we talked about this would be a like, you
don't need to be perfect. Everyone's like, oh, if I if I
don't wake up at a certain time, if I'm don't take certain
supplements, like I'm bad right? And it's like, it's a way of
life, like there's some days you're going to be better,
there's some days you're not going to be as great.
And that's OK. Like everything in moderation.
So even for myself, I would say a couple of, and this is still a
work in progress, but a couple of core things.
I would say that I've shifted, especially as a founder and
being in Wellness is I used to wake up very early.
Sleep was not a thing for me. You know, I was part of the 5:00
AM club because I thought, oh, you know, to be successful, you
wake up early, you you work before anyone comes in.
You know, you just like who who needs sleep?
You sleep when you're dead. Yeah.
No, I need sleep. I know.
I was in the 3:30 AM club at 1:00. 30 Oh my God, I'm.
Proud of that. Wow.
But that was like, I mean, I couldn't do 330.
I'd be like a monster, but yeah. Well, I was normally, I was
going to bed with my child, yeah, 7:30, and then waking up
at 3:30, OK, because I could get work in before she woke up.
Yeah. Yeah, it was.
Silly. It kind of worked for a little
while, but it was. Yeah.
It's interesting because sometimes in early business, not
to say you need to be doing that, but it's like you, you
just, you got to do what you got to do.
Totally. And you know, sometimes, like
the hustle part also gets demonized, Yeah, where it's
like, obviously like people can push it too far and we're only
human and we have limitations. But sometimes like you do kind
of just have to to do a little bit of.
That 100% exactly. It's like, yeah, we can glorify
it, but sometimes you got to do things like that to get anything
off the ground, especially when you have kids, you're juggling a
lot of things or if you have a full time job and you need to
stay up late to get something. So yes, I agree.
Like it's not Wellness friendly, but there's seasons of your life
where you got to do what you got to do to get something done.
But now, you know, we have a little bit of a team, the
business a little bit bigger. We're still, you know, small.
But I would say sleep has been one of the biggest things.
So I wake up at like 637. For me, that used to be super
late. And I try not to book very early
meetings. Like before I would wake up, go
straight to a call and I don't know, talk about cortisol.
I'm sure mine was like, so mornings I try to be sacred.
I eat breakfast. I never used to eat breakfast.
Now I have a proper blood sugar balancing breakfast, breakfast,
protein, fat and fiber and the way I feel is like I'm on
another level. Like the effectiveness of my
brain is incredible. So I know so many of my friends
still like they'll just have coffee and they're like, I'm not
hungry. I'm you know, I'm not eating and
I'm like, just try to eat something.
You will be on fire. So I forced myself to eat.
Those would be the two biggest morning changes.
And I would say this is a new thing that I recently have done,
which I'm it's been helping me in the evenings.
I try to wind down. I tend to get wound up at night.
Like I love when like, you know, the team's gone.
That's like my time to like catch up on emails, catch up on
work. You know, I don't have any kids
yet. So I can easily just get into
the rhythm of just get knocking things, knocking things out to
when it's late. But again, I'm interested in my
sleep. That's important.
So I have been putting, I, I recently got this like software
called Brick where I'll go in with my phone, I scan it and it
will block certain apps. So there's some things that I
need like support with. I am always on e-mail, always on
Slack. So at a certain point like 8:00,
I'll go and I'll swipe my phone and all of that will be off.
So I can't. What do you mean you swipe your
phone? So you have to go.
It's basically a device, it's a magnet and you go there and you
swipe your phone to turn off devices because there's all
these apps that you have on your phone that can block stuff, but
you can go in and unblock. It.
Totally. So you have tried to do that
before. Me too.
I've tried everything. So this one gives you a little
bit of friction where you have to walk somewhere and swipe in
order to turn things off or on for the app, Yeah.
I've never heard of that. Some people have like these
boxes where they lock your phone in, but it's like I want in case
of emergency or if I want to text someone, like I want my
phone. So that's been a new thing and
it's been game changing in terms of having me wind down at night.
So I'll stop work at a certain time and just, you know, kind of
wind down, take it easy. So there's I would say those are
like some of the high level things that I focus on without
getting like in the nitty nitty gritty I love.
That yeah, I need to have get that app.
And in the morning too, usually I wake up and I will go on my
phone because, you know, I am that person.
But it's still blocked. So until you're ready to unblock
it. Yeah.
So it's like a very intentional thing.
You have to go to this magnet thing.
Yeah, wherever you put it. Yeah, and do it.
I like that. I think that not being on emails
or like doing anything like too mentally stimulating at night is
key. I used to be be that person too.
Like once the kids would go to bed, I'd pull out my computer,
my laptop and start like hacking away at stuff.
But then you're just like on. I know it's so hard to wind
down. Totally.
And then you have dreams about it.
Yeah, like in the middle of the night and remember something
that you haven't done Exactly. Yeah, exactly.
Not the way to get ready. Healthy.
No. Yeah, OK.
What about you? We had a post that we just did.
I don't know if you've heard of Mel Robbins and her whole the
book that she released recently, but she has this whole like
321-GO. Like you set your alarm and you
don't snooze it. And we did a post.
What is it like to implement Mel Robbins routine as a mom?
And I was like, I don't need an alarm.
I literally do not need my kids are my alarm.
And so I will say at this stage of life with a four and a one
year old, there's not a lot of room for routine for me.
I know I'll I'll get there. I'll get it back one day.
But really it's like the most important thing to me is cooking
for my family. That's the way that I show my
love for them. That has to be a part of my
daily routine. So I pretty much wake up, make
coffee and cook for for the family.
And that's kind of a way for me to ground myself and in the
evening cook dinner. And then after that, my rule is
I don't watch anything upsetting or scary things or news or
anything like that. If you want to watch something
at night, make it funny, make it light hearted, read some romance
book or something like that. But that's kind of really it
right now. I try to get movement in when I
can get movement in. But that's this phase of life,
and we'll see in 10 years what happens next.
Yeah, I love that. I made the mistake of watching
like a really intense action movie.
And I pretty much, like never watch TV or movies anymore.
It's just like, it's something I've just cut out.
Yeah, not even intentionally, just I don't have time for that.
Yeah. But I was like, you know what?
I love action movies. I'm gonna watch an action movie.
And it was my favorite kind like scary, not scary, but intense
like airport like shooting kind of situation.
I love like intense action airport airplane related movies.
I don't know why. Niche it.
Was it was like Con Air from back in the day, Like, I don't
know all that stuff, but this one it was, it was so good, but
it was like I was just amped up by the time I finished it and I
could not sleep. I'm like, that wasn't worth it.
I'm never doing that again. Yeah.
Yeah, yeah. Because yeah, I'm prone to to
nightmares too. So if I, my husband's like,
let's watch this thing or that thing and I'm like, no, look, we
can go our separate way for like for two hours.
You have a lunch something? Yeah.
Exactly. Yeah.
What is like your go to breakfast that you make for your
family in the morning? Oh my gosh.
So their thing right now, because I'm, I hate to admit it,
but I have to sneak things in because my daughter is picky as
they call it. So my biggest thing that they've
been loving right now is I sneak everything into a pancake.
So the the I'll do like a side of berries, they'll do chicken
sausage, they love that. And then I'll do the pancake
with just banana oats that, you know, glyphosate free.
I try to pick the best of the best and then egg.
And that's how she's getting her her eggs in right now.
And they that's their favorite thing and they love it.
My son will eat anything. So anything I put in front of.
Him. I know I drink it at that age.
Yeah. That's your one year old.
Yeah. Exactly.
I know they and then in around 2.
I'm hoping to keep it going. You know, if you have any chips,
please let me know, but. I mean, you can just not feed
them. Yeah, I'm not afraid to, like,
make my kids miss meals. Yeah, they don't want to eat.
They're eating. And eventually their biology
will win out and they'll they'll eat it.
But I also don't like to purposefully make things that I
know they don't like. Sure.
Yeah. So it's like sometimes if we
make dinner and this is what we're all having, it's like, OK,
you've gotta have this. But if it's like a true food
that they just really don't love, like I'm not gonna just
keep making that thing for them to eat over and over.
Yeah. So I don't know.
It's like, yeah. I like that.
Balancing it is. No, it's good because my mom and
my sister will be like, well, you got keep.
You have to feed them something they'll like, keep giving them
snacks. And it's all coming from a place
of love. But I appreciate the
perspective. They're not gonna starve.
No. OK, no.
They won't let themselves starve.
Yeah. OK, so your 4 year old has not
gotten into the phase of sleeping in yet because it's
amazing when that happens. No, my 6 and 9 year olds sleep
in now and it's it's the best. Wow.
Like till like, I mean, if we didn't wake, we don't actually,
we don't wake them up. But if they didn't have anything
to wake up for, it would be like 738.
Wow. Probably.
But yeah, my, my 3 year old is a different story.
He's my alarm clock. OK, what time is he getting up?
He's he's like 630 right now so it's not too bad.
And often times I am already awake but but I know that if I'm
not awake that yeah, he will. He'll wake you up.
What are some of the biggest signs of hormonal dysregulation
that women often ignore? So I'll speak about something
specific, which is very common in the South Asian community,
which is my background, which is PCOS.
It's, it's, it's very common amongst in young Indian women.
And about 5 to 10% of the US population of women have PCOS or
80% of women have PMS. And many of those women say that their
symptoms are so debilitating that they interfere with
day-to-day life. And this has become normalized.
What are some of those symptoms? Oh, a heavy periods.
Period so bad you can't get off the couch period so bad you have
to take 6 and sets of painkillers, you know, everyday.
Really bad brain fog, fatigue, breast tenderness, low libido.
I mean, it really runs the gamut and I think that it's become so
common that people have accepted it as normal and and even
something like irregular periods, right?
We had Natalie Crawford on doctor Natalie Crawford, she's
an expert in fertility and all of this.
And she said, I should give you a calendar and you should be
able to point to when your period is coming within a one to
two day period. If that is not happening, more
often than not, something's going on.
And I can't tell you how many women I talked to who are like,
I don't know, I have no idea. Like it'll come when it comes.
And so I think that using your report, using your period as a
report card is really nice. And our reproductive age, we
essentially get this information every month that can tell us so
much about our stress, our nutrition, our sleep.
And a lot of women are not paying attention to that and
they're kind of ignoring the symptoms, which is unfortunate.
Yeah, what about stress? How does stress impact our
hormones? I think stress is inevitable.
And so I hate to say, and you have to manage stress.
You have to manage stress because it's just the fact of
life stressful. Yeah.
And so when I kind of talk about the foundational things that
people need to do every single day to really, you know, what
are the foundational pillars for health, sleep, nutrition,
exercise, exercise and movement, community, joy, purpose.
I think those last things, community, joy and purpose,
those are really the anecdotes to stress.
We're going to have stress all the time.
But if you're not implementing day-to-day joy and community and
people that you love and relationships that you love,
that's when the stress can kind of overtake everything else and
become very problematic. We know that stress and
progesterone are enemies, right? So if your body is stressed out,
it'll shut down reproduction, which is actually kind of a good
thing because it's basically saying this is not the time to
have a baby. This is not the time to get
pregnant. We need to kind of resettle.
And I remember reading a book on fertility called Awakening
Fertility, which is amazing. I highly recommend it.
And so much of it was based in traditional Chinese medicine,
which talks about in order to create a fertile body, you have
to focus on joy, make a joyful environment for your baby.
And I was like, that's so true. That's so beautiful.
I mean, who doesn't want a more joyful environment?
And so when I think about stress, I kind of take out like,
hey, you have to meditate, you have to do this, you have to do
that. And instead I'm like, well, what
brings you joy? And do more of that.
It's like adding and taking away.
That's. Why you always say because I
used to be that person. People are like you're stressing
too much. Maybe stress needs to be the
thing you take out and chaos. Like think about it like what
are you adding? Like how would you?
Feel like OK I'll just remove it.
I know like that stress out. Of it me out even more, I think
I'm OK. But people are like you're
stressed. But like Kayla would say this
what she just mentioned, like think about adding stuff like
what? What's joyful?
What's fun for you? I know I feel like we forget
that as I'm like know how to play and have fun and do things
that are enjoyable to them, but we just kind of get so stuck in
our to do lists and our day-to-day routines that we
forget like, Oh yeah, we can. We can still do fun things of
adults and absolutely bring us strong.
And it doesn't have to look any particular way.
It could be knitting, reading, going for a bike ride, swimming,
whatever it is like. Don't let the Internet convince
you. Anybody out there that it has to
look? I feel like this pickleball
revolution is probably adding a lot of joy to people.
'S life. Oh my gosh.
Actually when I play I don't do it regularly but.
Yeah, but it's fun and there's really great research around it,
too. Is there racket sports?
Yes. Tennis.
Pickleball extends lifespan, right?
Yeah. So it's amazing.
It's like the thing and you're getting movement.
The left and right brain absolutely with the racket
sport. Yeah, yeah, you have to use
your. You have to use your.
You have to use your body. You're talking to people.
There's so many. I love pickleball, too.
You play it. Yeah, Yeah.
I've been playing a lot more games lately cuz my kids are now
at the age where they can play card games and bop it.
We've been really into bop it. I feel like it's good for my
brain because it's working. Those auditory reaction stuff of
connecting the auditory stuff with like the physical like,
yeah. And then there's this GameSpot
it. Have you heard of Spot?
No. OK, you should start playing
this with your kids. It's really fun.
My 3 year old can play it, but it's, it's this card game and I
don't know how it works. It's, it's kind of a mystery to
me. But it's, they're these circular
cards and it comes in a deck and you flip over 2 at the same time
and they're filled with all these little figures.
There's like a turtle and a question mark and like all these
different things. And you have to find there's
always 2 that correspond. And it's like a memory.
Yeah. Yeah.
I hate the memory game, I suck at it like my kids beat me at
that one every time. But spot it is so fun and I feel
like it's just luck of the draw who's gonna win?
Like sometimes my 3 year old wins, sometimes I win, sometimes
my 6 year old, sometimes my 9 year old, but it's like 1 game
that I feel like all of us can play.
I love that, yeah, I love bringing back like especially
Bop it that what a throw. Didn't even know I know.
Yeah, my son got one for his birthday and he's too young for
it, but I just got really into it.
We were actually at a hotel celebrating his birthday and we
were all playing bop it. But I got like super addicted to
it. And my husband was gone doing
something and I was like home with the kids.
We had ordered room service and the room service guy comes in
and I'm like outside in the patio, like so into bop it and
my kids are in there and the guy's like, is your mom like,
where's your parent? And they were like, oh, she's
like out there, like. Bop it in the band I know.
I've been playing speed with my daughter.
Oh, that's fun, all these. Memories.
It's fun. Really good idea playing that
stuff. Also, I've heard a lot of women
say towards the end of pregnancy, puzzles.
Puzzles really. You're like waiting.
You need something to take your mind off things.
So OK. Yeah.
Nice, satisfying. You're like putting some
together. Yeah.
That's not the health stuff. OK, great.
Yeah. What about toxins?
How do you guys think about toxins in our environment and
what impact do toxins have on our hormones?
Yeah, this is a a low hanging fruit.
And you know who's great about talking about this is Allison,
who I know you're very good friends with.
And she put it beautifully. And I'll kind of take some of
what she said. It can be, it can feel really
scary in the world of toxins because there's no escaping
them. I mean, especially when it comes
to the whole conversation around microplastics and everything, it
feels daunting. So we don't need to go out
seeking toxins. They're there.
So what can we do to reduce our toxic burden?
And especially if you have young women in your home, if you have
daughters, this is really, really important.
I think there's somewhere along the lines somebody decided in
order for something to feel clean or for you to feel clean,
you have to smell a certain way. You have to smell like perfumes
or this or that, and it's not true.
And so these things are known endocrine disruptors, their
neurotoxins, their carcinogens in there.
And it's like we need to give our daughters a fighting chance.
And so if you have these things in your home, your, your kid
might get mad, but it's your responsibility to protect them.
Just get them out of the home because it's not worth it.
And the research around it is is it's pretty frightening.
Yeah, and that's such a big thing.
Now I'm thinking of all of the tweens and teens that are like
support obsessed. I thought we went through that
and that was kind of a thing of the past.
We went through that with Bath and Body Works generation.
Yeah, but people are still doing that.
Yeah, it's really harmful, especially at that age when like
their hormones are changing so much.
That's an important time and so influential in terms of like how
they're going to experience their their period and their
body as it changes. So yeah, if someone could
implement just one habit that would impact their hormonal
health for the better, what would that be for each of you?
What do you think, Yaz? I would say sleep for me is like
really dialing in your sleep as much as you can.
It's free. There's so much that you can do
to to get that in, you know, in your system.
And I think it's such a important foundational layer to
have. Yeah, I agree.
I agree too. I think that would be mine.
I mean, it's and nobody knows it better than a sleep deprived
mom, right? Because your you, your brain
doesn't function the same. You make poor choices, your
blood sugar gets messed up, the effects of insulin are
different, and sleep is just how our body detoxifies and how we
recover. So I think I agree.
You don't realize how important it is until you go for a
stretch. Yeah.
Without having it or having adequate sleep, yeah.
Yeah, take it for granted when I'm.
Song. What about magnesium?
What impact does magnesium have on our sleep and just stress
levels in general? Yeah.
Magnesium is is my favorite mineral, which I mean, I'm a
nutrition nerd, so I have one of those you.
Have like a top 10 mineral. And vitamin, vitamin C, but
magnesium is involved in so many processes in the body.
It's involved in over 600 enzymatic reactions in the body.
It plays a role in brain health, heart health, blood sugar, PMSI
mean you name it, magnesium plays a role.
And it's it's actually one of the more commonly accepted
things to use even in the hospital.
For example, like when women have preeclampsia or, you know,
they're struggling with different things in pregnancy,
they'll give them a magnesium drip.
And even cardiologists are recommending magnesium now
because so many people are struggling with anxiety and
heart palpitations and stuff like that.
So we knew that our second product had to be magnesium
because every expert we've ever talked to has consistently said
magnesium is one of the number one things that they recommend.
And so it's the ultimate relaxation mineral.
So if you're having trouble winding down, chances are you
need more magnesium. Most people don't get enough.
And even with the perfect diet, our soils depleted, you know,
there are a lot of factors there, so.
Can you overdo it with magnesium?
Yeah, for sure. And the way that you know if
you're overdoing it is that if you have loose stools, is that
right? Well, some people are really
sensitive to magnesium, so even if they're getting under 300
milligrams, they could still have loose stools.
Is that the serving size of yours?
Ours is 300, which is about the RDA is about 300.
It's different for men and women, I think, but that's about
the amount that I would recommend 300 to 500 for for
everyday people. But if you do experience loose
stools, you might need to take it easy build up.
There's certain types of magnesium's that really make you
go to the bathroom, magnesium citrate.
So if anybody's constipated, that could be a great tool.
And then there's ones that are a little bit easier on the
stomach, like magnesium glycinate, which is is is it's
the more universal one, OK. And you recommend taking it
before bed? Yeah, for sure.
I always recommend minerals before bed and vitamins in the
morning. Vitamins are more energized and
minerals are more chilling. So that's kind of how how we
like to do it. I.
Love that you guys have some good recipes on like magnesium
mocktails on your Instagram right?
Yeah, we, yeah, we've got somehow gone into the Mocktail
game. I don't know how that happened.
It's fun. There's so much that you could
do. Yeah, I was like salivating
scrolling through the other day as I was preparing for this
interview. We have.
A lot of good recipes in general.
We have an amazing chef who does all of all of our recipes.
She's very talented, so. What are some of your go to
recipes that you guys actually? In your daily lives or like
weekly or regular sausage. We have so many good.
Yeah, I mean, you're, you cook so much more than me.
We have a carrot cake, a carrot cake bar like protein bar
recipe, but it's really like carrot cake.
It tastes like carrot cake. How many ingredients are in it?
Not a lot, OK, like 5 and the frosting is like just cream
cheese and Maple syrup situation.
So it's very doable, very easy. And that one has gone viral and
it's it's so delicious. I recommend it.
OK, yeah, sounds amazing. And you put and there's seed
cycling in it. It's awesome.
Tell us about the three ingredient sweet potato wraps.
Oh, my gosh, that went, that went really viral.
I think it's sweet potato, some maybe arrowroot or something.
Gosh, I can't even remember what she put in there.
But it's not anything that is three ingredients instant hit,
right? Because it's so simple and it
kind of shows you don't need all the extra additives and things
to make a tortilla. That was like the appeal of it,
I think. Yeah.
And I think I mean you guys do such a great job as well, like
Kaya and our, you know, our team.
It's like you can actually eat healthy things that are easy to
do. So anytime we're reviewing
recipes, it's like what's easy to do for the modern woman who's
busy, right? We're not sitting there every
day spending hours on baking something, cooking something.
So you guys have done a great job just making it accessible
and easy for any health related meal, dessert, drink, smoothie.
So very approachable. And that one had purple sweet
potato, which if anybody's familiar with the Blue Zones and
Okinawa, that is their go to super food there.
It's really good too. It's I like.
And we get it in California, everywhere.
So we're lucky. Yeah, Really.
Yeah, it's not everywhere, unfortunately.
What is something that just absolutely wrecks hormones and
that anyone who wants to optimize their hormones should
stay far away from? I mean, this is maybe
unconventional, but we've talked about so many things.
I would say toxic people, like I don't know if maybe being
pregnant or like feeling people's energy or stress.
It's, I mean, it's just sometimes you got to put
boundaries and it's just not worth it.
It's like, how can you curate what you were saying?
Like community, fun, happiness. So you know, at least for me,
when someone stresses me out or is toxic, it truly impacts me
and my core is all I'm sure spikes and I get stressed.
So I think that's something we don't think enough about.
Yeah, I think it's something like with family and such we
can't always avoid and you have to learn to interact with people
that may stress us out or whatnot.
But I think we also forget that we can choose our friends and
the people that we aren't like related to.
And, and it's OK to remove yourself from a friendship or
even take a break from a friendship if, if it is
becoming, you know, overwhelming or or exceedingly difficult to,
to handle a certain personality type or whatnot.
Yeah. And how can you make yourself so
resilient that if you have those people in your life that you
love them and care for them and their family, that it doesn't
completely destroy you, Right. I think about that a lot because
there are certain people in my life.
I'm not gonna, I'm not gonna cut them out because I love them.
But, you know, how can we build that?
Resilience is important, too. You said toxic people.
I'm gonna say toxins. Yeah, toxin.
Toxins for sure. I think things like the plug
insurance, the air fresheners. Easy.
Yeah. Just the easy things that, you
know, I'm waiting to. Some of my friends I've just
met, I can't do this yet. But when we get closer, I'll
throw those things out in their house.
I'll be that person. Yeah.
Especially if they have young kids.
Yeah. Just just get it out of the
house. It's easy.
You don't need it. No.
Yeah, no, it's always shocking to me going into Airbnb's and
just yes, these plug insurance. I'm like, are we really still
doing this? Yeah, like, really, laundry
detergent that is wrong. Yeah.
And it's interesting because when you're used to it, you're
used to it. You don't get headaches.
But as you take things out and I walk into an Airbnb, I go into
someone's house, I get a headache.
So it's just amazing how your body will recalibrate.
It is so because I was like, oh, back then, I never thought it
was an issue. But it's not until you remove
stuff and then you're around and you're like, oh, this is toxic.
I feel it in my body. Totally, Yeah.
How do you guys protect your energy as founders, as moms?
Like are there any tips or tricks that you use or
frameworks to just make sure that you are showing up like to
the best of your ability for the things that really matter in
your worlds? I would say for me, I kind of
came into Wellness because I want to show up as my best self.
Like yes, I had horrible periods.
I was able to help that, but my my intention to get even deeper
in the space is how can I show up as a better person because I
want to live a big life. I want to have a family, I want
to have a business, I want to have friends, I want to have a
great marriage. I want to, you know, do it all.
And so much of that is how are you feeling every day?
How is your energy management? So I think doing everything that
we've talked about has become a lifestyle and I'm able to show
up as my best self in everything that I want to do.
Yeah, I think like a lot of times, I don't know, someone
who's newer on their health journey may feel overwhelmed by
by just like what's involved in truly living a healthy
lifestyle. But you don't have to do
everything at once. And like every single thing that
you do is going to give like energy and life back into you
tenfold. So you could look at it as being
overwhelming, or you can view it as just opportunities to become
better, and then your energy will increase and you'll feel
more able to take on the next thing and the next.
Thing true yeah, I love that. I think mine would be just
having the right community or having community is such a great
way to protect your peace and have people you can call to talk
to about certain things or you know we're in this together so
we rely on each other a lot which is really nice.
I mean to me every day, I, I, I pray every night and the number
one thing that comes to my mind is just the people in my life
and the gratitude that I have for them.
Yeah, I think gratitude is super important.
It's so easy to focus on what's not going well in your life.
And our brains are kind of focused on that to really to
recalibrate and make sure like you're giving thanks to all the
positive things that have happened.
Like I've had to had a gratitude journal for years.
But you know, sometimes you get busy, you forget.
But that's something I'm trying to bring back more intentionally
every day. There's so many beautiful.
Things state change. Gratitude.
Sad, right? Yeah, Yeah.
And you get to do things right. You get to deal with a tough
work situation. You get to push for a promotion,
whatever it is. So like changing that language
is key. Yeah, that was a big shift for
me when I, when I started primarily peer, I did not
realize that like being an entrepreneur is to deal with
like problem shall. Yes, exactly.
Like struggle after struggle after struggle and it doesn't
stop. And I used to think like, why is
this thing happening? This is so annoying, or why is
this thing happening? And OK, I just solved this thing
and now I have to deal with this.
But when I change that mindset to this is happening for me not
Yeah, it's like a very basic thing, but I just didn't think
that way going into it. And now I see these struggles
more as like, OK, what can I learn from this?
How can I grow from this? Like I've seen it.
I've seen it enough where it's played out.
And I've seen like, oh, that's why.
Like that's that's how I grew from that one challenge that
happened. Yeah.
And then try to look at everything that I'm dealing with
in the moment with that framework in mind.
Totally. It's like you take inventory and
you get perspective and hindsight and you, you know,
it's nice to have those reflective moments.
I think it's founders because you're like, we went through
that. We're going through our own, you
know, up and down right now. It's like manufacturing and this
and that. But I'm like, this is all
happening for a reason. I might not be able to see what
it is yet, but one day we will. I was listening to some
podcasts. I forgot who it was.
And he was like, being in business in a positive way.
That means you have problems, so it's a good thing.
Like things are always happening.
And I was the same exactly. I was like, why?
Why are things still happening? And if it wasn't, you know, for
meeting people like you and talking to other founders, I'm
like, oh, this is part of it. So when you're like, this is it,
you know, this is business. So this is what you signed up
for. Exactly why some people don't
sign up for it like and I don't blame you but.
Or why some people opt. Out of it or opt out of it?
Yeah. You know, you've been doing this
for a long time. So yeah, having that
expectation, I think is very helpful.
That helped me a lot too. Have you read Good to Great?
Yes, I just started it. I just started it.
Yeah, the audio book, Yeah, OK. Yeah, it's a it's a big one.
Uh huh. OK, I know I'm excited.
I'm gonna. I just got it on Emma, Emma
Greed's podcast. Yeah, yeah.
So it's it's good. OK, it's really good.
There's this analogy in there about being an entrepreneur is
like every day you have to like pick up the rock and look at
what's underneath. Like if you just avoid these
problems or try to gloss over them like they're not going
away, you have to like pick up that rot and stare at what's
underneath it face to face and like, deal with it.
And it's like gross. It's, you know, slimy hard, but
you know, you then you know, the next day it gets easier and it
gets easier because. Who else is going to?
Yeah, exactly. Yeah, no one else.
But when you're a business owner, you're the end of the
line. Well, right.
Yeah. Yasmin, you have an amazing
business podcast and you've talked to hundreds of of
founders and entrepreneurs. What's one thing you've learned
that has really stuck with you from all of the interviews that
you've done? I think there's two things that
stand out. One of them, which I thought was
so interesting, is that so many women started their businesses
when they were pregnant or had young kids.
And I think before I was on my journey, before I had a
business, I never knew you could do both.
And I think I started the podcast years ago because I
wanted to see more examples of like, what does it look like to
have a family? What does it look like to have a
business? So that has been very normal for
me now. So that's been super cool
because you think when you have a kid, your life might stop at
that point in terms of aspirations or starting
businesses. And if anything, it's been a
time of rebirth for so many women and reflection, which is
awesome. And another theme and this, this
really motivated me to start via, I feel like a lot of women,
including myself in the past, you want things to be perfect.
You know, you have this idea. You want to make sure all the,
you know, the, the T's are crossed or whatever that analogy
is. And you're like the expert and
you know, every little detail when really you talk to hundreds
of women, including yourself, You just start somewhere because
you can put together this business plan and think about it
forever. And really you're going to be
pivoting day-to-day in the beginning, week to week, month
to month. So don't even waste your time
thinking too far in advance is at least my opinion when I'm
gathering from a lot of these women entrepreneurs.
So you might not feel like you have the confidence, but
starting builds confidence, taking action builds confidence,
pivoting will build your confidence.
So I think that was very motivational for me.
And how, you know, it's just just go put it out there because
life is too short. You don't know what tomorrow's
going to bring. And you see, you meet all these
women that are doing incredible things and they're not different
from you. Like you have the potential to
do whatever you want to do. You just have to start and get
out of your own way. That is such good advice.
That's such good advice and I completely agree.
Like we are not special. Like we just we just did it.
We just started and have made so many mistakes.
I know I have and I am always thankful and I think we're all
similar in this way. But you guys don't have any
outside investments and, and neither did I when starting
primarily pure. And I'm so grateful for that
because, yeah, I shudder to think what I would have done
with $1,000,000, you know, if I had $1,000,000 to start
primarily pure, like what would I have just blown it on not
knowing what to do? Yeah.
So, yeah, I think the humble beginnings, it's something that
I'm really grateful for. And I think that you're right, a
lot of people think like, OK, I need, I need this amount of
money to start the company or I need to become an expert in this
thing. And it's like, no, like you
become an expert by doing it. Question for you.
What are some of the best foods to boost libido?
Oh. My gosh.
OK, so first of all, I will say any sort of diet that focuses on
Whole Foods, minimal refine and processed carbohydrates and
sugar is going to be beneficial. Now, if you're talking about
like libido, superfoods, oysters, anything with zinc,
right? Anything with a lot of zinc,
oysters, dark chocolate, watermelon is great, Beets are
great. Anything to help with nitric
oxide production, especially in men because that is like you
have low nitric oxide, that's when you get into erectile
dysfunction territory. So I mean, really the foundation
is have a Whole Foods diet and then there's some of these foods
that you can incorporate extra of.
OK good to know. What is 1 Wellness trend like?
A weird Wellness trend that each of you secretly love.
I love my red light people. Literally family will come to
our house and stay with us and we turn on all the red lights at
night and they're like what is going on?
What do you have? The light bulbs.
I have the light bulbs and we have like a panel.
Yeah, we started with the small one, now we have a bigger one.
But yeah, our in our bedroom, all the light bulbs are red.
So people think we're nuts. But, you know, in terms of me
talking about how important sleep is, I will do whatever it
takes. And it's very calming because I
did notice when I'm, you know, around just normal light.
I'm a night owl all naturally, so I will do whatever it takes
to just get me to be in that calm state.
So I'm all about red light. I love red light and I think
like early morning sunlight too. Yeah, it's been so huge for me.
Like I started with the blue light blocking glasses and that
made a huge difference. And then I started getting out
early in the morning to experience that, that natural
sunlight first thing to kind of get the circadian rhythm going
for the day and in a in TuneIn a good cycle.
And then by night time, like with the red light, then just
fall asleep so much faster. It really works.
I think people, like, make fun of it.
Yeah. They look like silly and not
that big of a deal. Like even my husband sometimes
he's like, like, he knows. Like, we've talked about the
science behind this. I've explained it to him, but
he's still just like, oh, my gosh, we'll roll his eyes at me
when he, like, turns on a light. And I'm like, what are you
doing? He's like, come on.
I'm like, no, it matters. Like, it literally like,
elevates cortisol, elevates adrenaline, all these hormones
that you don't want when you're trying to go to sleep.
And the red light does the opposite.
It boosts melatonin and boosts the good stuff.
So I'm with you on that. If you can't tell, I'm
passionate about that. I love it.
I love that. And if anybody is at home and
they don't have a red light and a little tip that I do for my
kids is watch the sunset. The sunset is a really nice,
you're saying, talk about morning light.
The sunset is also a nice way to kind of get your circadian
rhythm in line, which is is also a nice thing to do a family walk
at night. Yeah.
What about you? What's a weird Wellness trend
you like? You know what?
I don't think I've met one that I disliked.
I know. What's weird?
Normal. Weird.
Gosh, I will take it all. I mean, even if they're
potentially not doing much, I love a good cold plunge.
I love a good celery juice. And when I have the time, I'll,
I'll, I'll do all that fun stuff.
I know that it's not going to be the most impactful things,
right. The foundational stuff is the
most impactful. But I love all those Wellness
things. That's fun.
She tries them all. I tried them all.
Yeah. I'm like, Kay, how is that?
Like, she's like a Guinea pig. Yeah.
Totally, I love it. What's something you've tried
that you are happy to just like, leave behind not doing it.
I think like the 12 step morning routine, anything that I'm that
I feel guilty for not doing, I've let go of because it's
actually, like you said, it's more stressful than anything.
So feeling like I needed to get my morning pages in and then the
20 minute Transcendental Meditation and and then I have
to do this and my steps. Anything like that I I'm willing
to let go of. If it, if I'm being too strict
about it, it's got to go. Yeah.
Favorite food for hormonal balance?
We got a seed cycling. We can't we?
Yeah. You can't not I mean.
Flax, flax seeds are truly the hero of seed cycling because
they, they have lignans in them, which are polyphenol that your
gut bacteria love and they produce.
They're, they're considered phytoestrogens, but they have
weak estrogenic properties. But there's so much good
research on flax seeds for bone health, for heart health,
especially women who are going through menopause, for for
situations where women have really bad periods or PMSI mean
flax seeds are pretty pretty cool.
What phase is that in? Phase one, OK.
Yeah. So that is really to support
estrogen, which is climbing at the beginning of your cycle.
OK, Yeah. If you guys could leave women
who are struggling with their hormones with any bit of
encouragement and maybe some light at the end of the tunnel,
what would you say? I would say there's so much that
you can do. You might be feeling like you
don't feel like yourself, not feeling great every day, but
there's so many free simple things you can do at your home
today. And you know, we share free
content all the time. There's so much online that you
can learn about. Just start somewhere.
Don't feel too overwhelmed. Start with one thing and then
slowly stack it up. But you have so much more
control than you think. And I wish someone told me that
early on because I wish I would just default to doctors, what
they would say. And I think there's more
awareness now, which is wonderful and more education.
But there's so much in your control and there is a light at
the end of the tunnel. There is so much that can happen
for you so. So totally.
And I think a a reframe or a narrative shift around hormones.
We talked to so many women who are like, true, my hormones are
making me crazy. My hormones are the enemy.
I I even talked to somebody who said I just don't want hormones
in my body. Yeah.
And I was. Like didn't want period you.
Wouldn't be alive A but also B. Actually our hormones are what
make us feel good. Estrogen is what makes women
women, right? It gives us a glowy skin, and
estrogen and progesterone bring life into the world.
And so I think that there's a lot of misconception around what
hormones are and just that in two things, they drive PMS and
they make women crazy and menopause.
But that's just simply not true. So when you really learn to
understand your cycle and appreciate hormones for what
they are automatically, you're just going to feel so much more
connected to your body. Love it, thank you guys so much
for being here. Where can people connect with
you and find BIA and your amazing seed cycling blends?
Oh well, our I would highly recommend going to our
Instagram. That is where we share most of
our education and we have fun recipes and mocktails like you
mentioned. So that's at Bo Wellness, BEEYA
Wellness. Thank you so much.
You guys are such a light in the Wellness world and just likewise
so much positivity and wisdom. So thank you for being here
today. Thank.
You for having us so nice. Thank you.