1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:02,360 Yeah, the pills handed out like candy, but most people don't 2 00:00:02,360 --> 00:00:05,000 realize it's classified as a Group 1 carcinogen. 3 00:00:05,200 --> 00:00:07,040 Birth control doesn't regulate anything. 4 00:00:07,360 --> 00:00:08,760 It's shutting down your natural site. 5 00:00:08,760 --> 00:00:11,360 It's just putting it to sleep. I wish I had had all these 6 00:00:11,360 --> 00:00:14,640 little tips that aren't $500 worth of supplements. 7 00:00:14,680 --> 00:00:18,240 I want to hear some of your favorite habits that every woman 8 00:00:18,240 --> 00:00:21,840 can start doing on a daily basis to improve their hormonal 9 00:00:21,840 --> 00:00:25,280 health. Welcome to grounded Wellness. 10 00:00:25,280 --> 00:00:29,120 I'm your host Bethany McDaniel, founder of primarily pure, mom 11 00:00:29,120 --> 00:00:31,360 of three and biohacking enthusiast. 12 00:00:31,720 --> 00:00:35,800 We created this podcast to bring you practical advice to live a 13 00:00:35,800 --> 00:00:39,520 more vibrant and intentional life rooted in long lasting 14 00:00:39,520 --> 00:00:42,160 health. We record right here on our 15 00:00:42,160 --> 00:00:46,480 regenerative farm, grounded with our feet in the soil, exploring 16 00:00:46,480 --> 00:00:50,720 bold truths, overlooked wisdom and holistic tools that support 17 00:00:50,720 --> 00:00:53,560 true well-being. These conversations will 18 00:00:53,800 --> 00:00:56,960 challenge everything you know about health and Wellness. 19 00:00:56,960 --> 00:01:00,960 Today, I am so excited to welcome Emily Dietrich, an 20 00:01:01,000 --> 00:01:04,480 Integrative Nutrition health coach who has helped thousands 21 00:01:04,480 --> 00:01:07,120 of women balance their hormones naturally. 22 00:01:07,280 --> 00:01:10,240 After years of struggling with the side effects of synthetic 23 00:01:10,240 --> 00:01:13,920 birth control and hormone imbalances, Emily has made it 24 00:01:13,920 --> 00:01:18,680 her mission to help women break free of painful periods and live 25 00:01:18,680 --> 00:01:22,320 in tune with their cycles. In this episode, we are diving 26 00:01:22,320 --> 00:01:26,080 into the most common hormone myths, what your body really 27 00:01:26,080 --> 00:01:29,680 needs in each phase of your cycle, and simple ways to feel 28 00:01:29,680 --> 00:01:32,520 more energized, aligned and In Sync. 29 00:01:32,800 --> 00:01:38,840 Let's dig in. Emily, thank you so much for 30 00:01:38,840 --> 00:01:41,280 coming out to The Farm. I feel like I already know you 31 00:01:41,280 --> 00:01:44,120 because I've been following you for so long and have listened to 32 00:01:44,120 --> 00:01:48,040 you on several other podcasts, but it's so nice to finally meet 33 00:01:48,040 --> 00:01:50,400 you in person. For anyone who isn't familiar 34 00:01:50,400 --> 00:01:54,120 with your work, can you give a little breakdown of who you are 35 00:01:54,120 --> 00:01:56,920 and what you do? Yes, OK, so I'm so excited to be 36 00:01:56,920 --> 00:01:58,760 here. First of all, this is gorgeous. 37 00:01:58,760 --> 00:02:00,920 This is the coolest podcast that I've ever been on. 38 00:02:01,680 --> 00:02:04,480 So a little bit about me. I have been in the hormone 39 00:02:04,480 --> 00:02:09,360 balancing space for six years now, and I got into it because 40 00:02:09,360 --> 00:02:13,120 my own hormones were a mess. So I spent 10 years on hormonal 41 00:02:13,120 --> 00:02:16,280 birth control. I got on when I was 15 for no 42 00:02:16,280 --> 00:02:18,600 reason really. I think my sister was getting on 43 00:02:18,600 --> 00:02:21,280 it, maybe she had acne something, and so they just put 44 00:02:21,280 --> 00:02:23,320 me on it too. Literally the same story, yeah. 45 00:02:23,600 --> 00:02:25,400 Yeah, it was just like, I don't even know why. 46 00:02:25,560 --> 00:02:27,960 Probably 15 or 16, yeah, in about 10 years. 47 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:28,720 Exactly. Yeah. 48 00:02:28,840 --> 00:02:31,320 So you stay on it and it was fine at first, like I didn't 49 00:02:31,320 --> 00:02:35,200 have any issues with it. And then about 8 years and I 50 00:02:35,200 --> 00:02:39,080 started experiencing just weight gain all of a sudden, like there 51 00:02:39,080 --> 00:02:42,000 were so many things. I also was vegan for a little 52 00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:44,120 bit if there was a lot of factors that went into it. 53 00:02:44,520 --> 00:02:46,840 But all of a sudden it felt like my body was fighting back 54 00:02:46,840 --> 00:02:49,720 against me. And I went to the doctor and 55 00:02:49,720 --> 00:02:51,840 they were like, everything you're experiencing is normal, 56 00:02:51,840 --> 00:02:53,520 of course. And it's like it's not. 57 00:02:53,520 --> 00:02:55,320 I can tell you I don't feel normal. 58 00:02:55,560 --> 00:02:59,000 And so after going to a couple doctors and I got problems at 59 00:02:59,000 --> 00:03:01,360 the time too, I just was like, OK, I got to get off this. 60 00:03:01,840 --> 00:03:04,040 So I got off hormonal birth control and I just did it 61 00:03:04,040 --> 00:03:05,720 myself. My doctor was like, we'll see 62 00:03:05,720 --> 00:03:07,960 you back when you're pregnant. And I was like, I still haven't 63 00:03:07,960 --> 00:03:11,800 gone back. And she just was like, you don't 64 00:03:11,800 --> 00:03:15,040 know how to track. Like basically treated me like I 65 00:03:15,400 --> 00:03:17,680 didn't know what I was doing, that I didn't know my own body, 66 00:03:17,680 --> 00:03:21,080 that she knew better than me. And that just grossed me out. 67 00:03:21,080 --> 00:03:22,200 And I was, I got to get out of here. 68 00:03:22,520 --> 00:03:24,440 So I took matters in my own hands. 69 00:03:24,440 --> 00:03:27,200 I basically was my own Guinea pig at the time. 70 00:03:27,200 --> 00:03:30,760 Like not much. This was almost six years ago. 71 00:03:30,760 --> 00:03:34,280 No one was really talking about gut health or like gluten issues 72 00:03:34,280 --> 00:03:36,800 or anything like that. And so I kind of had to do it 73 00:03:36,800 --> 00:03:39,880 myself and went gluten free, went dairy free, did a bunch of 74 00:03:39,880 --> 00:03:42,320 things, bounced my own hormones and you. 75 00:03:42,320 --> 00:03:44,280 Weren't even seeing a practitioner, you were just 76 00:03:44,280 --> 00:03:45,680 figuring it out and trying things on your. 77 00:03:45,680 --> 00:03:47,520 Own I just went for it. I just went for it because I 78 00:03:47,520 --> 00:03:51,240 figured, and this is what I tell clients now too, is yes, hormone 79 00:03:51,240 --> 00:03:55,520 tests are important, but if you're just starting out, it's 80 00:03:55,520 --> 00:03:56,720 going to tell you what you already know. 81 00:03:56,760 --> 00:03:59,680 If you feel like your cortisol is messed up and all this, it 82 00:03:59,680 --> 00:04:01,480 probably is. And so there's so many 83 00:04:01,480 --> 00:04:04,440 foundational things you can do before you spend a bunch of 84 00:04:04,440 --> 00:04:07,280 money on testing to get things honed in a little bit and to 85 00:04:07,280 --> 00:04:10,400 work on foundations and then move into testing after that. 86 00:04:10,400 --> 00:04:11,480 I. Totally agree with that. 87 00:04:11,480 --> 00:04:14,480 There are basic things that every single person can do that 88 00:04:14,480 --> 00:04:16,399 will improve their health and their hormones. 89 00:04:16,600 --> 00:04:20,320 And yes, like it's great to get more specific and specialized 90 00:04:20,320 --> 00:04:23,200 down the road if you need to. But I completely agree about the 91 00:04:23,200 --> 00:04:25,240 foundational stuff, and I want to get into more of that later 92 00:04:25,240 --> 00:04:25,680 too. Yeah. 93 00:04:25,680 --> 00:04:27,600 People just want to go straight into testing, and I get it 94 00:04:27,600 --> 00:04:30,240 because you want answers, yeah, Or you want a diagnosis, you 95 00:04:30,240 --> 00:04:32,680 want a starting point. But there really are, like, 96 00:04:32,680 --> 00:04:35,800 simple, cheap freeways that you can do all of this. 97 00:04:35,800 --> 00:04:39,120 So yeah, then after going through all of that, I made it 98 00:04:39,120 --> 00:04:41,720 my mission because I didn't feel like anyone was there to help 99 00:04:41,720 --> 00:04:43,280 me. Like, my traditional Western 100 00:04:43,280 --> 00:04:45,880 medicine doctor wasn't there to help me. 101 00:04:45,880 --> 00:04:48,640 And it felt like even on the Internet, I wasn't seeing much 102 00:04:48,640 --> 00:04:51,800 about, like, balancing hormones. So I made it my mission. 103 00:04:51,800 --> 00:04:53,080 I was like, this is what I'm going to do. 104 00:04:53,080 --> 00:04:55,160 I'm going to help women. I was already a health coach at 105 00:04:55,160 --> 00:04:58,240 that point. And so that's kind of where my 106 00:04:58,240 --> 00:05:01,240 Instagram went. I grew my Instagram and here I 107 00:05:01,280 --> 00:05:03,320 am. What did you experience in your 108 00:05:03,320 --> 00:05:05,360 own health? Like, how did your health 109 00:05:05,360 --> 00:05:08,000 transform? What differences did you see 110 00:05:08,000 --> 00:05:11,120 once you started balancing out your hormones on your own? 111 00:05:11,760 --> 00:05:14,760 So it started, I think it started with a round of 112 00:05:14,760 --> 00:05:17,760 antibiotics that then like messed up my gut that then did 113 00:05:17,760 --> 00:05:22,360 this whole domino effect with my entire body, which I was also 114 00:05:22,360 --> 00:05:24,240 vegan for a year. So there's a lot of these 115 00:05:24,240 --> 00:05:25,360 things. That's a long time. 116 00:05:25,400 --> 00:05:27,560 It's a really long time and it started getting messed up at 117 00:05:27,560 --> 00:05:28,120 6:00. Months. 118 00:05:28,520 --> 00:05:30,920 Wow. And yeah, after a year of being 119 00:05:30,920 --> 00:05:33,280 vegetarian, I was like, this isn't working. 120 00:05:33,280 --> 00:05:35,000 Yeah. But yeah, vegan, that's even. 121 00:05:35,000 --> 00:05:37,160 It was real. I made a little YouTube channel. 122 00:05:37,320 --> 00:05:39,920 I said vegan recipes. Here's why veganism is so 123 00:05:39,920 --> 00:05:43,120 amazing and I guess I had to go through it because I don't know 124 00:05:43,120 --> 00:05:46,360 if I would be here sharing the same story if I hadn't gone 125 00:05:46,360 --> 00:05:49,000 through it and realized what really didn't work and what was 126 00:05:49,000 --> 00:05:53,640 not optimal for, I would argue everyone, but definitely a 127 00:05:53,640 --> 00:05:57,480 majority of people. So I was gaining weight out of 128 00:05:57,480 --> 00:05:59,440 nowhere. I was eating healthy like I 129 00:05:59,440 --> 00:06:01,640 wasn't eating junk food. It was still gluten free at the 130 00:06:01,640 --> 00:06:03,440 time. Eating healthy, working out, 131 00:06:03,440 --> 00:06:06,720 gaining weight. My periods went from being kind 132 00:06:06,720 --> 00:06:09,920 of easy to really painful. And then they were gone 133 00:06:09,920 --> 00:06:12,760 completely. What else? 134 00:06:12,760 --> 00:06:16,520 My libido was negative. Like I felt so trapped in my 135 00:06:16,520 --> 00:06:18,920 body. I had hormonal acne. 136 00:06:19,160 --> 00:06:21,520 I felt crazy, like my mood swings were crazy. 137 00:06:21,720 --> 00:06:24,320 I would cry all the time. It just, it was so bad. 138 00:06:24,600 --> 00:06:27,320 And so that's when I went to my doctor and was like, this isn't 139 00:06:27,320 --> 00:06:29,160 right. I tried three different birth 140 00:06:29,160 --> 00:06:31,800 controls in one year because I just thought like Goldilocks, I 141 00:06:31,800 --> 00:06:33,480 don't know, maybe it's this one, maybe this one. 142 00:06:33,880 --> 00:06:35,400 No, none of them. And we're right. 143 00:06:36,320 --> 00:06:38,640 And so I finally got off it and it took a couple years because I 144 00:06:38,640 --> 00:06:40,000 didn't really know what I was doing. 145 00:06:40,160 --> 00:06:43,960 So it took a few years, probably 2 to fully balance out and to 146 00:06:43,960 --> 00:06:46,480 get my body back after being vegan and all of that. 147 00:06:47,640 --> 00:06:49,560 But it was a journey. And so now I have clients where 148 00:06:49,560 --> 00:06:52,640 it really only takes, I mean, you feel better pretty instantly 149 00:06:52,800 --> 00:06:55,640 within a month, but then after four to six months, you're 150 00:06:55,760 --> 00:06:58,400 you're having probably regular periods, pain free periods. 151 00:06:58,800 --> 00:07:01,880 It doesn't take a long time and it's again not all consuming 152 00:07:02,080 --> 00:07:04,800 like you don't have to do everything perfect to see 153 00:07:04,800 --> 00:07:06,240 results. Totally. 154 00:07:06,240 --> 00:07:08,480 And I think that's the awesome thing about this, is that 155 00:07:08,640 --> 00:07:11,400 there's so much hope. Like, yes, we could paint a 156 00:07:11,400 --> 00:07:14,800 really sad picture about, like, the pill and what it does, but 157 00:07:14,800 --> 00:07:17,960 then there is so much hope to recover from all of that. 158 00:07:18,040 --> 00:07:20,240 Yeah. You also recently got married. 159 00:07:21,520 --> 00:07:26,640 How has your experience with fertility awareness and and 160 00:07:26,640 --> 00:07:32,440 hormone stuff impacted your future journey into motherhood? 161 00:07:32,880 --> 00:07:35,360 I, I've always wanted to be a mom. 162 00:07:35,360 --> 00:07:38,960 Like ever since I was little, I wanted to be a mom and I'm just 163 00:07:38,960 --> 00:07:42,480 so excited. And I think so in terms of even 164 00:07:42,480 --> 00:07:43,920 going back to being on birth control. 165 00:07:43,920 --> 00:07:46,280 And I say this to, like, my friends who have daughters that 166 00:07:46,280 --> 00:07:49,320 I can't wait for them to teach them about their actual body. 167 00:07:49,840 --> 00:07:53,520 I think young girls aren't really taught, like, the miracle 168 00:07:53,520 --> 00:07:55,880 of getting pregnant and growing a child and like, truly the 169 00:07:55,880 --> 00:07:58,760 miracle, like what a menstrual cycle is, which sounds crazy to 170 00:07:58,760 --> 00:08:01,240 say and kind of silly, but it is. 171 00:08:02,040 --> 00:08:06,240 And I just think if I'd known all of this sooner, I probably 172 00:08:06,240 --> 00:08:09,320 would have treated my body better from the beginning if I 173 00:08:09,320 --> 00:08:12,720 understood what it was capable of. 174 00:08:13,360 --> 00:08:17,000 And so I think balancing my hormones, learning so much about 175 00:08:17,000 --> 00:08:21,600 fertility and how the female body works, it's so incredible. 176 00:08:21,600 --> 00:08:23,840 And it still blows my mind. Like I, we don't have kids yet. 177 00:08:23,840 --> 00:08:25,400 I'm not pregnant yet, but I can't wait. 178 00:08:25,400 --> 00:08:29,280 Like I can't wait to be pregnant and to like create a human and 179 00:08:29,280 --> 00:08:33,039 to give birth and to experience all of those things connected to 180 00:08:33,039 --> 00:08:35,000 my body. Because I think being on birth 181 00:08:35,000 --> 00:08:39,280 control, I was so disconnected. Like it was like, that's over 182 00:08:39,280 --> 00:08:42,520 here and I'm over here and I didn't see it holistically. 183 00:08:42,880 --> 00:08:45,920 So now it's just like, it's beautiful and I just can't wait 184 00:08:45,920 --> 00:08:48,960 to experience all of it, the good and the bad and everything 185 00:08:48,960 --> 00:08:50,360 that comes with it. For sure. 186 00:08:50,360 --> 00:08:54,080 I think you develop a reverence for your body and what it's 187 00:08:54,080 --> 00:08:57,000 capable of and just all of the processes that we go through as 188 00:08:57,000 --> 00:08:59,840 women when you have that understanding and connection. 189 00:09:00,560 --> 00:09:03,360 I've heard you say that PMS is optional. 190 00:09:03,360 --> 00:09:06,440 Yeah, which may sound crazy to some people, but can you explain 191 00:09:06,440 --> 00:09:09,960 what you mean by that? Yeah, So PMS, like we get told, 192 00:09:10,160 --> 00:09:11,440 oh, it's just part of being a woman. 193 00:09:11,440 --> 00:09:13,240 Like, welcome to womanhood. Like, this is it. 194 00:09:13,240 --> 00:09:15,280 This is the rest of your life, basically. 195 00:09:15,280 --> 00:09:16,840 It's gonna suck. This is just part of it. 196 00:09:17,200 --> 00:09:19,160 And that's not true. Like it's not normal. 197 00:09:19,160 --> 00:09:22,000 It's common. And people normalize common 198 00:09:22,000 --> 00:09:23,720 things. So if everyone you know is 199 00:09:23,720 --> 00:09:26,200 experiencing it, it still doesn't make it normal. 200 00:09:26,440 --> 00:09:29,720 And so I think there's this idea of everyone complaining. 201 00:09:29,720 --> 00:09:33,000 I mean, the endless memes on the Internet about, like, being on 202 00:09:33,000 --> 00:09:35,920 your period and feeling. And yeah, should you take it 203 00:09:35,920 --> 00:09:37,560 easier on your period? Of course. 204 00:09:38,320 --> 00:09:40,360 But like, this whole idea that women should get a full week 205 00:09:40,360 --> 00:09:41,800 off. And, like, you shouldn't need a 206 00:09:41,800 --> 00:09:43,360 full week off because it shouldn't be like that. 207 00:09:43,360 --> 00:09:44,440 You shouldn't be calling out of school. 208 00:09:44,440 --> 00:09:45,720 You shouldn't be staying home from work. 209 00:09:45,880 --> 00:09:47,120 You shouldn't be canceling plans. 210 00:09:47,120 --> 00:09:50,840 Like, none of that's normal. And I think no one's told. 211 00:09:50,840 --> 00:09:53,160 No one's given hope. No one's given like, hey, this, 212 00:09:53,240 --> 00:09:54,760 you don't have to live like this. 213 00:09:55,600 --> 00:10:00,240 And so, so many women are once they have a pain free period or 214 00:10:00,240 --> 00:10:02,960 whatever I say pain free, relatively pain free. 215 00:10:02,960 --> 00:10:05,240 There is some discomfort, which is normal. 216 00:10:05,240 --> 00:10:08,240 You don't want to feel nothing. Your body is doing things. 217 00:10:08,240 --> 00:10:10,600 And I think again now you develop a reverence and a 218 00:10:10,600 --> 00:10:13,840 respect for it instead of thinking your body's working 219 00:10:13,840 --> 00:10:15,400 against you. So you feel like the. 220 00:10:15,560 --> 00:10:17,840 Difference of like when I was in high school, I would get 221 00:10:17,840 --> 00:10:20,920 nauseous, I would sometimes throw up from my period, I would 222 00:10:20,920 --> 00:10:24,880 have to leave school. And now it yes, it's not 223 00:10:24,880 --> 00:10:27,720 completely pain free. There's some cramping, but it 224 00:10:27,720 --> 00:10:30,440 doesn't it's not debilitating. It shouldn't affect your 225 00:10:30,440 --> 00:10:31,840 day-to-day life. Yeah, that's how I say it. 226 00:10:31,840 --> 00:10:33,880 Like, you should know what's happening, but it shouldn't 227 00:10:33,880 --> 00:10:35,360 affect your day-to-day life. Yeah. 228 00:10:35,880 --> 00:10:38,720 And PMS symptoms are signs of like, hormone imbalances. 229 00:10:38,920 --> 00:10:42,280 So like having cramps or heavy periods or tender breasts. 230 00:10:42,280 --> 00:10:44,800 All of that is like high estrogen, which you can detox 231 00:10:44,800 --> 00:10:46,920 naturally. So there's all of these things. 232 00:10:46,920 --> 00:10:49,640 And I write, I try to think of them as like little smoke 233 00:10:49,640 --> 00:10:51,960 signals, like little signs from your body to listen. 234 00:10:52,160 --> 00:10:54,720 The symptoms are just invitations to listen to your 235 00:10:54,720 --> 00:10:57,280 body. And I think we're just in so 236 00:10:57,280 --> 00:10:59,560 many people. And I was for a long time in the 237 00:10:59,560 --> 00:11:03,960 business of ignoring it and just kind of dampering it down, 238 00:11:03,960 --> 00:11:06,560 quieting it, go taking ibuprofen, my doll, whatever it 239 00:11:06,560 --> 00:11:10,360 may be, and just moving on with my day and it now I don't have 240 00:11:10,360 --> 00:11:12,440 to do any of that. Yeah, we say the same thing 241 00:11:12,440 --> 00:11:16,000 about the skin, like acne, like these things that show up on the 242 00:11:16,000 --> 00:11:19,040 skin. They're, it's trying to tell us 243 00:11:19,040 --> 00:11:21,600 something about what's going on internally and rather than 244 00:11:21,600 --> 00:11:24,600 masking it, let's like listen and figure it out. 245 00:11:25,160 --> 00:11:29,120 You have helped 20,000 women balance their hormones 246 00:11:29,120 --> 00:11:31,960 naturally, which is insane. What's the most common 247 00:11:31,960 --> 00:11:33,760 misconception that people come to you with? 248 00:11:33,760 --> 00:11:36,200 Oh. My gosh, OK, gosh. 249 00:11:36,200 --> 00:11:38,560 It's about hormones. Probably about if it we're 250 00:11:38,560 --> 00:11:40,280 talking just like periods and hormones in Dragon Ball. 251 00:11:40,280 --> 00:11:42,200 It's the idea that you can get pregnant every day of the month 252 00:11:42,720 --> 00:11:45,440 that's the craziest one. Like I have women in their 30s 253 00:11:45,440 --> 00:11:48,880 that are like, I didn't know this and like, that's crazy. 254 00:11:48,880 --> 00:11:51,040 That says something about like the education in our country. 255 00:11:51,040 --> 00:11:55,120 First of all, 'cause it's mostly women from the US, but. 256 00:11:55,160 --> 00:11:58,000 We're just like moms like talking to their daughters about 257 00:11:58,000 --> 00:11:59,680 these things. Yeah, I never got. 258 00:11:59,680 --> 00:12:02,760 And I love my love you mom. I never got that whole talk. 259 00:12:02,760 --> 00:12:03,880 Yeah. They give you like a book or 260 00:12:03,880 --> 00:12:06,200 whatever and then you move on. Right. 261 00:12:06,280 --> 00:12:10,320 And so it's it's no one's fault. It's just they were told and 262 00:12:10,320 --> 00:12:11,960 they were. It's you know, we have a chance 263 00:12:11,960 --> 00:12:14,840 to break the cycle, which is why I'm so excited to, like, have a 264 00:12:14,840 --> 00:12:16,480 daughter. Hopefully, God willing, I don't. 265 00:12:16,480 --> 00:12:18,720 Maybe I'll end up with all boys and I'll tell them about it. 266 00:12:18,720 --> 00:12:21,440 I don't know, but I just. That's an important thing for 267 00:12:21,440 --> 00:12:22,840 parents to talk about. With the kids, though, yeah, 268 00:12:23,120 --> 00:12:24,080 yeah. Natural. 269 00:12:24,080 --> 00:12:27,200 It's a normal taboo. It's crazy because then you grow 270 00:12:27,200 --> 00:12:29,800 up and you have people, you know, girls whispering to each 271 00:12:29,800 --> 00:12:30,640 other. Do you have a tampon? 272 00:12:31,080 --> 00:12:33,240 And like, what? It's fine. 273 00:12:33,240 --> 00:12:35,680 It's fine. I mean, don't yell it, but it 274 00:12:35,680 --> 00:12:39,760 shouldn't be something we hide. So yeah, it's just crazy. 275 00:12:39,760 --> 00:12:42,520 Another misconception. I mean, other ones that you 276 00:12:42,520 --> 00:12:45,280 probably get to like skin and dairy, that like dairy's the 277 00:12:45,280 --> 00:12:48,800 enemy and dairy's bad for you, and some dairy's inflammatory. 278 00:12:48,920 --> 00:12:51,240 But it depends on your gut health, and it depends on how it 279 00:12:51,240 --> 00:12:52,960 was raised and it depends on the quality. 280 00:12:53,600 --> 00:12:56,320 So there's so many things that we get told or like red meat's 281 00:12:56,320 --> 00:12:58,720 bad for you, but it's actually so good for your hormones. 282 00:13:00,160 --> 00:13:02,200 I probably low fat. That low fat is good. 283 00:13:02,240 --> 00:13:03,760 That's probably the the worst one. 284 00:13:04,320 --> 00:13:06,320 People still think that. Yeah, no, they don't. 285 00:13:06,440 --> 00:13:08,880 I get messages all the time of like, are you worried about your 286 00:13:08,880 --> 00:13:11,080 cholesterol? I'm like, you know, you need 287 00:13:11,080 --> 00:13:13,840 cholesterol to make hormones. If you don't have cholesterol, 288 00:13:13,840 --> 00:13:15,840 you literally can't make progesterone. 289 00:13:15,840 --> 00:13:19,320 You can't make anything. So it's that's the crazy. 290 00:13:19,320 --> 00:13:23,000 One for everything. For everything to synthesize 291 00:13:23,000 --> 00:13:26,280 vitamin D, you need cholesterol. So it's just that's probably the 292 00:13:26,280 --> 00:13:30,040 craziest 1 and I'm so grateful I wasn't my grandpa was like suit 293 00:13:30,040 --> 00:13:31,920 my momma's dad super health conscious. 294 00:13:31,920 --> 00:13:35,640 Like how did juice shop 40 years ago didn't believe in like the 295 00:13:35,640 --> 00:13:37,400 eggs have high cholesterol, don't eat them. 296 00:13:37,400 --> 00:13:39,880 Didn't believe in low fat so I love that. 297 00:13:39,880 --> 00:13:42,240 I'm so grateful all. That all that property. 298 00:13:42,360 --> 00:13:44,440 Ignore all of it. He was in Coffee Enemies 40 299 00:13:44,440 --> 00:13:45,680 years ago. Coffee Enemies. 300 00:13:45,680 --> 00:13:47,480 Yeah. So he was an OG. 301 00:13:47,480 --> 00:13:49,400 So I think that's where I get a lot of this from. 302 00:13:49,400 --> 00:13:51,400 The crunchier stuff. Yeah. 303 00:13:51,400 --> 00:13:53,560 Like growing up my mom, like our one of the favorite things she 304 00:13:53,560 --> 00:13:56,640 would make us was strawberries, bananas, raw honey, and then 305 00:13:56,640 --> 00:13:58,480 like goat milk or fresh cream. Wow. 306 00:13:58,480 --> 00:13:59,600 That was like my favorite thing. That's. 307 00:13:59,600 --> 00:14:01,200 Incredible. We touched on this a little 308 00:14:01,200 --> 00:14:04,120 while ago, but I want to hear some of your favorite habits 309 00:14:04,440 --> 00:14:08,360 that every woman can start doing on a daily basis to improve 310 00:14:08,360 --> 00:14:10,440 their hormonal health. It's my favorite. 311 00:14:10,760 --> 00:14:13,160 So I love sharing tips and tricks. 312 00:14:13,160 --> 00:14:15,880 I share so much on my Instagram. It's like a lot of people like 313 00:14:15,880 --> 00:14:17,720 you share so much. What could your course be about? 314 00:14:17,720 --> 00:14:20,320 And like, trust me, like people have changed their lives with 315 00:14:20,320 --> 00:14:23,360 just my Instagram stuff because a lot of people gatekeep on 316 00:14:23,360 --> 00:14:25,320 Instagram and on social media in general. 317 00:14:26,160 --> 00:14:28,320 And I just again, when I was going through all this, I wish I 318 00:14:28,320 --> 00:14:31,880 had had all these little tips that aren't $500 worth of 319 00:14:31,880 --> 00:14:34,360 supplements and like crazy biohacking stuff. 320 00:14:35,040 --> 00:14:38,760 So I would say my biggest tip would be to have breakfast, a 321 00:14:38,760 --> 00:14:42,200 higher protein breakfast, like 20 to 30 grams, ideally within 322 00:14:42,200 --> 00:14:44,360 one hour of waking up before coffee. 323 00:14:44,600 --> 00:14:47,720 So no coffee and an empty stomach And no like waiting to 324 00:14:47,720 --> 00:14:50,880 eat lunch or waiting to eat skipping breakfast completely. 325 00:14:51,080 --> 00:14:54,200 It's just going to trigger cortisol and so many women that 326 00:14:54,200 --> 00:14:56,400 fast constantly. There's a time and a place to 327 00:14:56,400 --> 00:14:58,120 fast during your cycle and all of that. 328 00:14:58,560 --> 00:15:00,680 But the women that are like, I have so much energy. 329 00:15:00,920 --> 00:15:03,640 I feel so clear and like, that's cortisol, like that's 330 00:15:03,640 --> 00:15:05,560 adrenaline. Like that's what you're running 331 00:15:05,560 --> 00:15:07,920 on. And I fasted for a long time. 332 00:15:07,920 --> 00:15:09,480 That was part of that whole journey. 333 00:15:09,800 --> 00:15:12,920 And I felt the same way until again, all of a sudden my 334 00:15:12,920 --> 00:15:15,160 thyroid was messed up. I was gaining weight, like 335 00:15:15,160 --> 00:15:16,640 everything. I was fatigued. 336 00:15:16,640 --> 00:15:19,920 My cortisol was dysregulated. And then I realized like, oh, I 337 00:15:19,920 --> 00:15:21,960 need food. Like our bodies need to run on 338 00:15:21,960 --> 00:15:23,920 food. We can't just fast all the time. 339 00:15:24,200 --> 00:15:27,600 I'm with you on that. I I do appreciate fasting and I 340 00:15:27,600 --> 00:15:30,040 think there is a place for it and I I've experienced benefits 341 00:15:30,040 --> 00:15:32,760 from it, but now I time it with my cycle. 342 00:15:32,760 --> 00:15:34,720 Yeah, maybe we'll talk about that a little bit later. 343 00:15:34,760 --> 00:15:38,080 But yeah, I think doing it too much is not a good thing. 344 00:15:38,240 --> 00:15:40,080 Yeah. And it's just I like circadian 345 00:15:40,080 --> 00:15:41,720 fasting. So like eating with the sun. 346 00:15:41,720 --> 00:15:43,040 Yeah. So having breakfast like when 347 00:15:43,040 --> 00:15:45,560 the sun is coming up and then having your last meal before the 348 00:15:45,560 --> 00:15:47,640 sun goes down. That makes sense to me. 349 00:15:48,360 --> 00:15:49,760 OK. And then one more tip that I 350 00:15:49,760 --> 00:15:51,640 have is probably about lymphatic drainage. 351 00:15:51,800 --> 00:15:55,400 This is something I didn't take seriously at first on during my 352 00:15:55,400 --> 00:15:58,760 hormone balancing journey. I just had other things to worry 353 00:15:58,760 --> 00:16:01,080 about in the meantime, but then once I incorporated it, I 354 00:16:01,080 --> 00:16:04,680 noticed not only did I feel less puffy and inflamed, but I just 355 00:16:04,680 --> 00:16:07,840 felt better. And so I'll do like a facial 356 00:16:07,840 --> 00:16:10,400 lymphatic drainage first thing in the morning right when I wake 357 00:16:10,400 --> 00:16:12,560 up. I just like open up all the 358 00:16:12,560 --> 00:16:14,560 drainage pathways. You just like do a little couple 359 00:16:14,560 --> 00:16:18,080 pumps in like where your lymph nodes are and that helps so 360 00:16:18,080 --> 00:16:19,680 much. And then I'll either like just 361 00:16:19,680 --> 00:16:22,080 jump or if you have a rebounder, you can do that, but you can 362 00:16:22,080 --> 00:16:25,240 just jump or get a $5 jump rope. Do it for like 10 minutes. 363 00:16:25,480 --> 00:16:28,440 It's going to just move so much lymph and the thing like our 364 00:16:28,560 --> 00:16:31,560 heart pumps blood, but our lymphatic system needs like 365 00:16:31,560 --> 00:16:35,120 manual stimulation to move. The lymphatic system gets toxins 366 00:16:35,120 --> 00:16:37,360 out basically, and it needs a little help. 367 00:16:37,680 --> 00:16:40,240 So I noticed that that helped so much. 368 00:16:40,240 --> 00:16:43,720 Just again with my skin, with everything, just when toxins are 369 00:16:43,720 --> 00:16:46,480 able to circulate and get out of the body, it makes such a 370 00:16:46,480 --> 00:16:48,000 difference. So that's another like little 371 00:16:48,000 --> 00:16:49,600 hack that's not really food related. 372 00:16:49,640 --> 00:16:51,920 Yeah, and it's free. And like you said, there's so 373 00:16:51,920 --> 00:16:54,120 many different ways you can do that, whether it's the manual 374 00:16:54,120 --> 00:16:57,800 stuff like I find myself just like I get lymphatic drainage 375 00:16:57,800 --> 00:17:02,680 massages and you know, Gwah shot and all that, like go, I go 376 00:17:02,680 --> 00:17:04,760 somewhere to have that. But then I just find myself 377 00:17:04,760 --> 00:17:08,720 wanting to like move my, my skin, my lips, because I just 378 00:17:08,880 --> 00:17:11,520 once you like experience how good it feels, you just kind of 379 00:17:11,520 --> 00:17:13,520 crave it. And I'm always like after I like 380 00:17:13,520 --> 00:17:16,160 take a sports bra, I like. Move, kind of move around. 381 00:17:16,200 --> 00:17:19,480 Yeah, just like so good. Get things flowing and then the 382 00:17:19,480 --> 00:17:21,280 jumping. Yeah, the jumping and it's fun. 383 00:17:21,480 --> 00:17:23,440 It is just fun. It just kind of gets your energy 384 00:17:23,440 --> 00:17:25,839 up. Easy becomes addicting. 385 00:17:26,000 --> 00:17:28,680 I and like think about it anymore, it's just a part of. 386 00:17:28,960 --> 00:17:31,560 I dunk my face in a bowl of ice water every morning, Love. 387 00:17:31,560 --> 00:17:32,760 And now I'm addicted. Yeah. 388 00:17:32,760 --> 00:17:35,560 My moms like, how do you do it? And like, I crave it now. 389 00:17:35,560 --> 00:17:37,400 Like, I love it. It feels so good. 390 00:17:37,400 --> 00:17:38,880 Yeah. So that's another thing which 391 00:17:38,880 --> 00:17:40,600 can it supports your nervous system, too. 392 00:17:40,600 --> 00:17:43,640 It stimulates like the vagus nerve, which nervous system is 393 00:17:43,640 --> 00:17:46,080 super important for hormones too, because that's like you can 394 00:17:46,080 --> 00:17:48,640 be doing everything right. But if your nervous system is 395 00:17:48,640 --> 00:17:51,680 dysregulated and it's all it's lighting up and you're in fight 396 00:17:51,680 --> 00:17:54,840 or flight, it really doesn't matter how much protein you're 397 00:17:54,840 --> 00:17:56,040 eating. That helps. 398 00:17:56,240 --> 00:17:58,200 But you really got to get your body feeling safe. 399 00:17:58,360 --> 00:18:01,520 That's kind of what everything comes down to with hormones is 400 00:18:01,920 --> 00:18:05,000 we're all, we're women especially are really on high 401 00:18:05,000 --> 00:18:08,680 alert for danger at all times. So men have like a single focus, 402 00:18:08,800 --> 00:18:10,360 They're looking for date, they're hunting. 403 00:18:10,600 --> 00:18:13,480 Women have a diffused awareness and we're always scanning, 404 00:18:13,680 --> 00:18:16,360 always scanning for danger, always scanning In the world we 405 00:18:16,360 --> 00:18:19,560 live in now, there's so much going on all around us at any 406 00:18:19,560 --> 00:18:21,720 given time. And so I think our nervous 407 00:18:21,720 --> 00:18:25,280 system can get triggered a lot and we get so used to it that we 408 00:18:25,280 --> 00:18:28,080 don't know what's going on. I think I was living in fight or 409 00:18:28,080 --> 00:18:30,360 flight for a long time and just thought it was normal. 410 00:18:30,720 --> 00:18:32,840 And so many women come to me saying the same thing. 411 00:18:32,840 --> 00:18:35,360 They're like, something happened my periods later this and that. 412 00:18:35,480 --> 00:18:37,680 Do you know what it could be? I'm like, well, what's your 413 00:18:37,680 --> 00:18:39,240 day-to-day life like? And they're like, well, I'm 414 00:18:39,240 --> 00:18:41,240 trying to plan a wedding and I'm still in grad school and I'm 415 00:18:41,240 --> 00:18:43,640 this and I'm actually, I'm trying to get pregnant soon. 416 00:18:43,640 --> 00:18:46,240 I'm like right there, right there. 417 00:18:46,240 --> 00:18:47,800 And they're like, well, I don't feel stressed. 418 00:18:48,240 --> 00:18:50,280 I'm like reading that makes me stressed. 419 00:18:50,640 --> 00:18:52,080 So it's like they're just so used to it. 420 00:18:52,080 --> 00:18:53,960 Also doing a million things at one time. 421 00:18:54,520 --> 00:18:57,880 And I've heard you talk about this too, but like, I feel like 422 00:18:57,880 --> 00:19:01,520 for me and regulating my nervous system, going outside in the 423 00:19:01,520 --> 00:19:05,480 morning and just getting morning sunlight grounding has been a 424 00:19:05,480 --> 00:19:08,160 game changer. Like starting my day out that 425 00:19:08,160 --> 00:19:11,320 way versus picking up my phone and being exposed to artificial 426 00:19:11,320 --> 00:19:15,440 light and drinking coffee before eating anything and all these 427 00:19:15,440 --> 00:19:18,360 things that just put us in this state of stress. 428 00:19:18,840 --> 00:19:21,720 And you don't realize it like until you start doing it, until 429 00:19:21,720 --> 00:19:25,000 you take an hour off your phone. Like you wake up, keep your 430 00:19:25,000 --> 00:19:27,880 phone another room, even get like an old school alarm clock 431 00:19:28,400 --> 00:19:31,600 or just let your body wake up if you have the ability to do that. 432 00:19:32,080 --> 00:19:35,280 And getting outside, getting morning sun, just sitting there 433 00:19:35,280 --> 00:19:37,640 for a minute, maybe doing your lymphatic drainage there like 434 00:19:37,800 --> 00:19:39,720 doing you can kill a lot of birds with one stone. 435 00:19:39,720 --> 00:19:41,760 You can. It makes such a difference. 436 00:19:41,760 --> 00:19:44,120 My neighbors probably think I'm so weird because I go outside 437 00:19:44,120 --> 00:19:46,800 and our backyard, we have like the house we're living in now. 438 00:19:46,800 --> 00:19:49,960 There's like a pond back there and so there's other houses that 439 00:19:49,960 --> 00:19:53,080 can like see our back patio, but I literally go outside in the 440 00:19:53,080 --> 00:19:58,160 morning and I just like lay down in the cement, just like laying 441 00:19:58,160 --> 00:19:59,040 there. Charging they'll. 442 00:19:59,040 --> 00:20:01,480 Probably think I'm like dead but yeah, I literally feel like I'm 443 00:20:01,480 --> 00:20:04,400 charging my battery from the the ground because you can ground on 444 00:20:04,400 --> 00:20:07,240 cement and then the sunlight and like listening to the birds. 445 00:20:07,240 --> 00:20:09,880 It's like the best way to start my day. 446 00:20:10,000 --> 00:20:12,680 And when you think of it like that's how we should be, yeah. 447 00:20:12,880 --> 00:20:16,960 Like we're not, we're a we've, we haven't evolved, but our 448 00:20:16,960 --> 00:20:19,840 environment around us has evolved so quickly and we have 449 00:20:19,840 --> 00:20:22,440 not caught up yet. And so I think the more we can 450 00:20:22,440 --> 00:20:26,240 get back to nature and basics and grounding and not being on 451 00:20:26,240 --> 00:20:29,480 our phones first thing and it's triggering your fight or flight 452 00:20:29,480 --> 00:20:32,160 100%. I've noticed the more I'm off my 453 00:20:32,160 --> 00:20:34,040 phone in the morning, time feels slower. 454 00:20:34,440 --> 00:20:38,600 I feel calmer, like I truly do. If I'm on my phone first thing, 455 00:20:38,840 --> 00:20:41,400 if I have to be for work for the rest of the day, I'm like, my 456 00:20:41,400 --> 00:20:42,960 brain is pinballing between things. 457 00:20:42,960 --> 00:20:46,400 I can't focus. There's just so much noise and 458 00:20:46,400 --> 00:20:48,880 so yeah, staying off your phone in the morning is so good and 459 00:20:48,880 --> 00:20:51,560 just getting outside 5 minutes, 10 minutes, like whatever you 460 00:20:51,560 --> 00:20:53,360 can get is better than nothing. Start. 461 00:20:53,360 --> 00:20:53,960 Small. Yeah. 462 00:20:54,000 --> 00:20:55,800 And they don't naturally like want more and more. 463 00:20:55,840 --> 00:20:58,040 Yes, yeah. The more time I spent outside, I 464 00:20:58,040 --> 00:21:00,040 truly it's a vitamin. It's a vitamin. 465 00:21:01,120 --> 00:21:05,320 OK, I want to transition to the pill, and I have an alarming 466 00:21:05,320 --> 00:21:09,200 stat here. A 2007 review by the Internal 467 00:21:09,200 --> 00:21:13,160 Agency for Research on Cancer found that women who use oral 468 00:21:13,160 --> 00:21:16,960 contraceptives for 10 or more years double their risk of 469 00:21:16,960 --> 00:21:20,520 cervical cancer. What are your thoughts on that? 470 00:21:20,920 --> 00:21:23,200 It's sad. It's really sad because they'll 471 00:21:23,200 --> 00:21:26,960 tell you that it prevents cervical cancer it at first 472 00:21:26,960 --> 00:21:29,240 because it can help reduce inflammation if you have 473 00:21:29,240 --> 00:21:32,360 endometriosis, right, which can cause you to grow scar tissue 474 00:21:32,360 --> 00:21:36,280 and cause a bunch of issues. Yeah, it can help in the 475 00:21:36,280 --> 00:21:39,200 meantime, but you're just shutting down your hormones. 476 00:21:39,360 --> 00:21:42,680 So you're introducing a constant stream of fake estrogen, 477 00:21:42,760 --> 00:21:45,840 basically, and that's going to catch up with you. 478 00:21:46,160 --> 00:21:49,440 So cancer rates, I mean, rates of anxiety and depression. 479 00:21:50,040 --> 00:21:52,640 I think there was a Danish study done on over a million women, 480 00:21:52,880 --> 00:21:57,440 and they found that they're 23 to 80% more likely to experience 481 00:21:57,440 --> 00:22:01,040 symptoms of depression. Teen girls on the pill are 20 482 00:22:01,520 --> 00:22:05,120 times more likely something like that to be diagnosed with 483 00:22:05,120 --> 00:22:07,120 depression and to be on anti anxiety meds. 484 00:22:07,440 --> 00:22:11,920 There's just so many staggering statistics that it's crazy to me 485 00:22:11,920 --> 00:22:15,800 that young girls whose bodies and brains and bones are still 486 00:22:15,800 --> 00:22:20,080 developing are being put on something that literally is 487 00:22:20,080 --> 00:22:23,480 killing young girls. Without being educated only on 488 00:22:23,480 --> 00:22:24,440 those. Just handed it. 489 00:22:24,720 --> 00:22:26,040 Yeah. And it's like, it should have a 490 00:22:26,040 --> 00:22:29,080 black box warning, like these poor girls and their families 491 00:22:29,080 --> 00:22:32,480 who are fighting for them because it increase your rate of 492 00:22:33,280 --> 00:22:35,120 blood clots. So you can get a blood clot. 493 00:22:35,120 --> 00:22:36,880 It can go to your brain. And there's girls that have 494 00:22:36,880 --> 00:22:39,200 died. And so there's a really good 495 00:22:39,200 --> 00:22:42,120 documentary, The Business of Birth Control, which is done by 496 00:22:42,120 --> 00:22:43,440 the same people as The Business of Being. 497 00:22:43,440 --> 00:22:45,520 Yeah, I saw that one. That was so good. 498 00:22:45,520 --> 00:22:48,400 It makes you feel like I, I went through all the emotions 499 00:22:48,400 --> 00:22:51,960 watching it, like you'll feel angry and sad and just like 500 00:22:51,960 --> 00:22:55,880 befuddled that the fact that this is still given to girls, 501 00:22:55,880 --> 00:23:00,600 young girls, women, without being given like proper informed 502 00:23:00,600 --> 00:23:02,600 consent, which is the saddest part. 503 00:23:02,800 --> 00:23:05,320 Yeah. How does it impact your ability 504 00:23:05,320 --> 00:23:08,800 to conceive later on? So we can, it can do a multitude 505 00:23:08,800 --> 00:23:10,280 of things. I feel like we don't even really 506 00:23:10,280 --> 00:23:13,040 know all of them because of the downstream effects that it has 507 00:23:13,040 --> 00:23:16,960 on gut health and on triggering autoimmune conditions when you 508 00:23:16,960 --> 00:23:20,480 get off, like you can get autoimmune PCOS when you get off 509 00:23:20,480 --> 00:23:22,200 of birth control. All of these things can be 510 00:23:22,200 --> 00:23:26,800 triggered one, if you don't get off birth control the right way, 511 00:23:26,800 --> 00:23:29,920 kind of if you're not helping your body, supplementing 512 00:23:29,920 --> 00:23:32,760 correctly, detoxing correctly, you can experience something 513 00:23:32,760 --> 00:23:35,680 called post birth control syndrome where if you had 514 00:23:35,680 --> 00:23:38,320 hormone imbalances before getting on, they come back 515 00:23:38,320 --> 00:23:40,120 tenfold. They come back like kind of 516 00:23:40,120 --> 00:23:44,480 angrier because all you did was mask them and so many girls. 517 00:23:44,480 --> 00:23:46,840 I'll get commas. It regulated my period. 518 00:23:47,320 --> 00:23:49,480 No, it didn't. Birth control doesn't regulate 519 00:23:49,480 --> 00:23:51,720 anything. It's shutting down your natural 520 00:23:51,720 --> 00:23:52,960 site. It's just putting it to sleep. 521 00:23:53,080 --> 00:23:55,360 And I've heard you say it's actually a fake bleed. 522 00:23:55,400 --> 00:23:56,920 Yeah, yeah, it's a withdrawal bleed. 523 00:23:57,120 --> 00:23:59,640 So what does that mean exactly? So like when you have three 524 00:23:59,640 --> 00:24:02,040 weeks of taking the pill and then one week of the sugar 525 00:24:02,040 --> 00:24:06,400 pills, really that bleed is just a withdrawal symptom of not 526 00:24:06,400 --> 00:24:09,040 taking the fake hormones. OK, Yeah. 527 00:24:09,040 --> 00:24:11,360 So you're not having you're not ovulating. 528 00:24:11,480 --> 00:24:13,120 So if you're not ovulating, you're not getting a real 529 00:24:13,120 --> 00:24:15,760 period. Gosh, that is wild to think that 530 00:24:15,760 --> 00:24:20,360 like I didn't ovulate for 10 years and I was put on the pill 531 00:24:20,360 --> 00:24:24,480 for acne and it it worked. But then when I went off of it, 532 00:24:24,640 --> 00:24:27,800 the acne was worse than ever. And by then I knew a thing or 533 00:24:27,800 --> 00:24:30,320 two about diet and lifestyle and was able to like bring things 534 00:24:30,320 --> 00:24:33,000 into balance. But for people that don't, I 535 00:24:33,000 --> 00:24:37,240 mean, I mean, that's so sad. Like you're just left with this 536 00:24:37,240 --> 00:24:40,800 mess and that you were never told was going to happen. 537 00:24:40,800 --> 00:24:42,040 Yeah. And you just have to figure it 538 00:24:42,040 --> 00:24:44,120 out. I never had acne until I got off 539 00:24:44,120 --> 00:24:44,920 birth control. Wow. 540 00:24:45,160 --> 00:24:49,480 And then it was so bad and I think even worse than I had 541 00:24:49,480 --> 00:24:53,640 never experienced it, thinking I was like, oh, look at me, I'm 542 00:24:53,640 --> 00:24:54,640 lucky. I'm God's favorite. 543 00:24:54,640 --> 00:24:57,520 I don't have acne. Then I got off first control and 544 00:24:57,520 --> 00:24:59,600 it hit me like a ton of bricks and it was so bad. 545 00:24:59,600 --> 00:25:04,160 It was so like cystic and painful and I was so insecure. 546 00:25:04,480 --> 00:25:07,440 I tell this story. I don't like driving. 547 00:25:07,440 --> 00:25:08,840 I make my husband drive everywhere. 548 00:25:09,080 --> 00:25:11,400 Passenger Princess, proper passenger Princess. 549 00:25:12,280 --> 00:25:14,880 And when I had hormonal acne, it was mainly on this side. 550 00:25:15,560 --> 00:25:19,080 And so I would drive so that he couldn't see it. 551 00:25:19,600 --> 00:25:22,720 Oh my gosh. I like I was that insecure about 552 00:25:22,720 --> 00:25:24,480 it that I like didn't want to leave the house. 553 00:25:25,400 --> 00:25:29,520 It's so isolating. And so I understand why women 554 00:25:29,520 --> 00:25:31,520 get on birth control if they feel like they have no other 555 00:25:31,520 --> 00:25:34,360 option. But truly, like there's no, 556 00:25:34,680 --> 00:25:37,000 there are some out there good Western Med doctors, but for the 557 00:25:37,000 --> 00:25:39,840 most part, like if you're going to go to an OB, it's going to be 558 00:25:39,840 --> 00:25:41,720 a traditional one and they're just going to tell you birth 559 00:25:41,720 --> 00:25:43,840 control is the option. Yeah, the pills handed out like 560 00:25:43,840 --> 00:25:46,520 candy, but most people don't realize it's classified as a 561 00:25:46,520 --> 00:25:48,840 Group 1 carcinogen. It's insane. 562 00:25:48,840 --> 00:25:51,840 I just again, like, why is no one talking about this? 563 00:25:51,840 --> 00:25:55,720 We get, I mean, in the media now, like we're getting vilified 564 00:25:56,000 --> 00:26:00,440 for wanting to help women work on their fertility, and I don't 565 00:26:00,440 --> 00:26:03,440 get it. For women who are terrified to 566 00:26:03,440 --> 00:26:06,440 go off of the pill because they don't know what's going to 567 00:26:06,440 --> 00:26:09,080 happen with their hormones or maybe they're afraid of getting 568 00:26:09,080 --> 00:26:10,800 pregnant, what would you say to them? 569 00:26:12,360 --> 00:26:16,520 I was that I felt that way. It took me 6 months of being 570 00:26:16,520 --> 00:26:20,720 miserable on the pill until I finally, I did so much research. 571 00:26:20,720 --> 00:26:23,400 I was looking up the fertility awareness method like is this 572 00:26:23,400 --> 00:26:26,640 legit? A year prior I had had a friend 573 00:26:27,000 --> 00:26:29,400 tell me that she was doing that and I was like, that's sketchy 574 00:26:29,400 --> 00:26:30,520 like you're going to get pregnant. 575 00:26:30,720 --> 00:26:33,840 I was like that person and I was like, how could that possibly 576 00:26:33,840 --> 00:26:36,760 work? Which the crazy thing is, 577 00:26:36,840 --> 00:26:40,480 hormonal birth control for the most part is only 91% effective. 578 00:26:40,760 --> 00:26:45,160 So that means 9 out of every hundred women that take birth 579 00:26:45,160 --> 00:26:48,560 control will get pregnant on it. So that's not that effective. 580 00:26:48,640 --> 00:26:51,440 That's almost one in 10 that will get pregnant on birth. 581 00:26:51,440 --> 00:26:52,480 Control. Not very good odds. 582 00:26:52,480 --> 00:26:56,080 No. And so the more one, I was just 583 00:26:56,080 --> 00:26:58,200 so miserable that anything was better than being on it. 584 00:26:58,440 --> 00:27:01,560 Like I was so at that point pretty depressed. 585 00:27:01,560 --> 00:27:03,160 Like I just didn't feel like myself. 586 00:27:03,160 --> 00:27:05,160 And so I was like, anything's better than this. 587 00:27:05,160 --> 00:27:07,480 I got to get off. I didn't feel like, I honestly 588 00:27:07,480 --> 00:27:09,000 didn't feel like I had the option to stay on it. 589 00:27:10,240 --> 00:27:15,160 But to those girls, I understand feeling scared because I was the 590 00:27:15,160 --> 00:27:17,040 same way. But we're not taught. 591 00:27:17,040 --> 00:27:19,480 So the more you learn, the more you educate yourself, the more 592 00:27:19,480 --> 00:27:22,000 you learn about your cycle, the more you learn how effective 593 00:27:22,000 --> 00:27:23,880 things like the fertility awareness method, like the 594 00:27:23,880 --> 00:27:26,160 symptothermal where you're tracking cervical fluid, you're 595 00:27:26,160 --> 00:27:28,680 tracking your temperature. It's so accurate. 596 00:27:28,760 --> 00:27:30,680 This has been around for so long. 597 00:27:30,880 --> 00:27:32,440 It's highly accurate. I've been doing it for five 598 00:27:32,440 --> 00:27:34,720 years. I've never had one scare or one 599 00:27:34,720 --> 00:27:37,320 issue or anything. OK, can you explain more about 600 00:27:37,320 --> 00:27:39,800 it? Like what all do you do to track 601 00:27:39,800 --> 00:27:42,600 your cycle? So there are apps out there, but 602 00:27:42,600 --> 00:27:46,160 I, I recommend all women learn hand charting, like just do it 603 00:27:46,160 --> 00:27:50,280 by hand first so you understand what goes into it and you feel 604 00:27:50,280 --> 00:27:54,400 more connected to your body. And, and I feel like I felt more 605 00:27:54,400 --> 00:27:58,000 empowered and more confident in the method that because I knew 606 00:27:58,040 --> 00:28:01,240 how to do it. So you track your temperature 607 00:28:01,240 --> 00:28:03,560 every morning you take your temperature with a special 608 00:28:03,560 --> 00:28:06,400 thermometer called a basal body thermometer, which goes to like 609 00:28:06,400 --> 00:28:08,080 point, it goes to 2 decimal points. 610 00:28:08,480 --> 00:28:11,600 So it's way more accurate. And the reason why this method 611 00:28:11,600 --> 00:28:14,840 works is because right before you ovulate, your temperature 612 00:28:14,840 --> 00:28:16,960 will dip slightly. And this is all due to hormone 613 00:28:16,960 --> 00:28:19,520 fluctuations. It'll dip slightly and then 614 00:28:19,520 --> 00:28:21,400 it'll spike. And when I say spike, we're 615 00:28:21,400 --> 00:28:24,840 talking half a degree, just slightly and then it'll stay 616 00:28:24,840 --> 00:28:26,280 elevated until you get your period. 617 00:28:26,400 --> 00:28:28,800 OK, So you can as you as time goes by and you're tracking 618 00:28:28,800 --> 00:28:31,520 this, you can see it and then? Then what happens when you get 619 00:28:31,520 --> 00:28:32,920 your period? Then when you get your period 620 00:28:32,920 --> 00:28:36,200 drops down, it drops back down to a baseline temp, which should 621 00:28:36,200 --> 00:28:40,960 be like above 97°, like 97.5 is a good, is a good starting 622 00:28:40,960 --> 00:28:43,560 point. If you're low 90 sevens or under 623 00:28:43,560 --> 00:28:46,560 that probably some thyroid metabolism issue going on. 624 00:28:47,440 --> 00:28:49,680 But yeah, the longer you track it, you start to see these 625 00:28:49,680 --> 00:28:51,880 fluctuations. And what's really cool is you 626 00:28:51,880 --> 00:28:53,960 can track like through apps or just hand turning. 627 00:28:53,960 --> 00:28:57,240 You can also track your symptoms and you start to see how 628 00:28:57,240 --> 00:29:00,840 cyclical everything is. You're like, oh, especially as 629 00:29:00,840 --> 00:29:04,160 an entrepreneur, I'm like, oh, every day on day 26 of my cycle, 630 00:29:04,160 --> 00:29:05,720 I want to burn my business to the ground. 631 00:29:06,080 --> 00:29:08,840 So like there's certain and things are every day or every 632 00:29:08,840 --> 00:29:12,160 time around this time, I'm super irritated and I need to like 633 00:29:12,160 --> 00:29:14,960 take a step back and see the bigger picture. 634 00:29:15,480 --> 00:29:17,880 My husband is doing something. Or if your kids or whatever, you 635 00:29:17,880 --> 00:29:20,840 start to learn the reasons behind why you feel the way you 636 00:29:20,840 --> 00:29:24,600 feel, and I think you're able to give yourself more grace. 637 00:29:25,080 --> 00:29:27,120 So yeah, with the fertility awareness method, you're 638 00:29:27,120 --> 00:29:29,640 tracking your temperature and your cervical fluid over the 639 00:29:29,640 --> 00:29:32,400 course of the month. And through those patterns, you 640 00:29:32,400 --> 00:29:35,160 can figure out your fertile window, which is only 6 days. 641 00:29:35,360 --> 00:29:37,720 You can only get pregnant six days out of every cycle, not 642 00:29:37,720 --> 00:29:41,200 every day. That's another crazy thing that 643 00:29:41,200 --> 00:29:45,560 a lot of women and I didn't know until I was like probably 2223. 644 00:29:45,800 --> 00:29:46,680 Yeah. So. 645 00:29:46,720 --> 00:29:48,640 For a very long time. Insane and. 646 00:29:48,640 --> 00:29:54,200 Mostly how our bodies are right before ovulation. 647 00:29:54,280 --> 00:29:56,200 Yep. Would you say like how many days 648 00:29:56,200 --> 00:30:00,120 before ovulation 555 is and one day following or the is the 649 00:30:00,120 --> 00:30:01,600 window in which you can get pregnant? 650 00:30:01,600 --> 00:30:03,480 Yeah. So 5 days before cuz sperm can 651 00:30:03,480 --> 00:30:05,960 live for up to five days and then the day of ovulation and 652 00:30:05,960 --> 00:30:07,120 that's it. That's it. 653 00:30:07,120 --> 00:30:09,320 So I have women that are like I got pregnant outside of my 654 00:30:09,320 --> 00:30:12,680 fertile window. I was like, you can't, so your 655 00:30:12,680 --> 00:30:14,920 fertile window is just. Different than ovulating when 656 00:30:14,920 --> 00:30:16,760 you think you. Are and so it's just so 657 00:30:16,760 --> 00:30:19,040 important and I have a lot of women that come to me and 658 00:30:19,040 --> 00:30:21,200 they're, they'll say this and I don't know what's going on in my 659 00:30:21,200 --> 00:30:22,480 periods late. I'm like, well, do you know when 660 00:30:22,480 --> 00:30:24,320 you ovulate? Because there's no such thing as 661 00:30:24,320 --> 00:30:26,520 a late period there. It's just late. 662 00:30:26,640 --> 00:30:29,840 It's the late ovulation. So if you can figure that out, 663 00:30:29,840 --> 00:30:31,880 it's a lot easier. And same with when it comes to 664 00:30:31,880 --> 00:30:34,600 getting pregnant. If you know your cycle and you 665 00:30:34,600 --> 00:30:38,280 know you ovulate on day, let's say 16, but you get your period 666 00:30:38,280 --> 00:30:40,840 on day 26. So you have a normal range 667 00:30:40,840 --> 00:30:44,560 cycle, but your luteal phase is 10 days, which is not really 668 00:30:44,560 --> 00:30:47,040 enough to sustain like implantation for a pregnancy. 669 00:30:47,280 --> 00:30:49,240 It would indicate that you have low progesterone. 670 00:30:49,600 --> 00:30:52,480 And so if you understand that, you can say, OK, then I'll boost 671 00:30:52,480 --> 00:30:56,040 progesterone naturally versus I have women that will go to see a 672 00:30:56,040 --> 00:30:58,320 doctor and the doctor will say you have fertility problems or 673 00:30:58,320 --> 00:31:02,440 you need IVF or this and that without even asking them if they 674 00:31:02,440 --> 00:31:04,160 understand their cycle or kind of what's going. 675 00:31:04,160 --> 00:31:06,640 On So what you're saying is you can only get pregnant within 676 00:31:06,640 --> 00:31:09,640 that six day window and outside of that it's OK to have 677 00:31:09,800 --> 00:31:12,040 unprotected sex? Yeah, if you want to get 678 00:31:12,040 --> 00:31:14,560 pregnant. Yes, yes, yeah. 679 00:31:14,640 --> 00:31:17,440 It's literally those six days outside of your fertile window. 680 00:31:17,640 --> 00:31:20,480 It is physically impossible to get pregnant. 681 00:31:20,600 --> 00:31:21,840 That is the only time you're fertile. 682 00:31:21,960 --> 00:31:25,600 So any other time of the month, outside of those six days, green 683 00:31:25,600 --> 00:31:26,920 light, green light, you're good to go. 684 00:31:27,320 --> 00:31:31,400 So whether you're someone who wants to have a child or you're 685 00:31:31,400 --> 00:31:34,520 trying to prevent pregnancy, regardless this is something 686 00:31:34,520 --> 00:31:37,640 that is valuable. Or if you're not having sex and 687 00:31:37,640 --> 00:31:39,280 you just want to understand your body better. 688 00:31:39,480 --> 00:31:42,520 This is something that is so valuable for every woman to pay 689 00:31:42,520 --> 00:31:44,680 attention to. And I can't wait to teach like 690 00:31:44,680 --> 00:31:47,240 my daughter right as she's getting over teaching her about 691 00:31:47,240 --> 00:31:49,600 this and then as she gets older. This is a method that follows 692 00:31:49,600 --> 00:31:52,520 you through life. So whether you're not having sex 693 00:31:52,520 --> 00:31:55,880 at you're maybe trying for a baby or trying to avoid 694 00:31:55,880 --> 00:31:58,640 pregnancy, the method works the same in all ways. 695 00:31:58,960 --> 00:32:00,960 And so it's you just kind of flip the way you use it. 696 00:32:01,200 --> 00:32:03,360 Yeah, so. What about other methods of 697 00:32:03,360 --> 00:32:05,440 contraception? The IUD? 698 00:32:05,480 --> 00:32:09,200 What are your thoughts on that? No especially so a lot of women 699 00:32:09,200 --> 00:32:12,640 think the copper IUD is better from what I've heard. 700 00:32:12,720 --> 00:32:16,640 I've I was never on it. It's worse symptom wise. 1 701 00:32:16,640 --> 00:32:18,760 copper toxicity is an issue. You're putting something that's 702 00:32:18,760 --> 00:32:20,440 covered in heavy metals into your body. 703 00:32:21,160 --> 00:32:23,560 I've actually saw recently an article where they were talking 704 00:32:23,560 --> 00:32:29,080 about how that like metal coil uncoiled in the uterus and it 705 00:32:29,080 --> 00:32:31,640 disintegrated. So it's just literal heavy 706 00:32:31,640 --> 00:32:34,880 metals absorbing into your body. It's a foreign device. 707 00:32:34,880 --> 00:32:37,320 The way that it works. The copper 1 is just like 708 00:32:37,360 --> 00:32:39,560 irritating the lining of the uterus, so nothing can stick, 709 00:32:40,280 --> 00:32:43,200 but it can do permanent damage. It can get dislodged. 710 00:32:43,880 --> 00:32:45,960 And what I've heard with that, So what we're learning is that 711 00:32:45,960 --> 00:32:48,520 the inflammation is not localized to the uterus. 712 00:32:48,520 --> 00:32:51,560 That inflammation spreads throughout the entire body. 713 00:32:51,880 --> 00:32:54,600 And so from what I've heard from women who are on the copper IUD 714 00:32:54,600 --> 00:32:56,440 and got on it because they thought it was better and non 715 00:32:56,440 --> 00:32:59,480 hormonal, they experienced the worst side effects, the most 716 00:32:59,480 --> 00:33:01,680 debilitating cramps and things like that. 717 00:33:02,040 --> 00:33:04,920 So there's that. The hormonal IUD is releasing a 718 00:33:04,920 --> 00:33:06,920 constant stream of hormones that works two ways. 719 00:33:06,920 --> 00:33:10,120 One by irritating, second by just releasing exogenous 720 00:33:10,120 --> 00:33:13,800 hormones constantly with the copper IUD. 721 00:33:13,800 --> 00:33:17,080 Also, what I think no one really talks about is that you're still 722 00:33:17,080 --> 00:33:21,960 ovulating. So if you if you do like have 723 00:33:22,120 --> 00:33:25,200 unprotected sex, it is a possibility that something could 724 00:33:25,200 --> 00:33:27,240 get fertilized, but never implant. 725 00:33:27,520 --> 00:33:30,720 And so your body just passes it, which is really sad. 726 00:33:30,720 --> 00:33:33,200 And no, I don't, I know women weren't told that. 727 00:33:33,200 --> 00:33:36,400 So many women that were like, I never would have gone on it if I 728 00:33:36,400 --> 00:33:39,920 learned that. So yeah, the hormonal ID, the 729 00:33:39,920 --> 00:33:42,960 pill, the patch, it's all just fake hormones essentially 730 00:33:42,960 --> 00:33:45,200 shutting your shutting your period off. 731 00:33:46,200 --> 00:33:50,040 Well, OK, I want to get into cycle thinking. 732 00:33:50,040 --> 00:33:53,000 I want to give every woman listening an understanding of 733 00:33:53,000 --> 00:33:56,400 what happens during each of the four phases that we go through 734 00:33:56,400 --> 00:33:59,960 every month and how to support our bodies in each phase. 735 00:33:59,960 --> 00:34:02,240 OK, this is my favorite. This is my favorite little 736 00:34:02,240 --> 00:34:04,880 workshop to do so. Cycle thinking, I kind of like 737 00:34:04,880 --> 00:34:07,640 going with your flow. Cycle Thinking was coined, I 738 00:34:07,640 --> 00:34:10,199 think trademark copyrighted by Elisa Vidi who wrote a book on 739 00:34:10,199 --> 00:34:12,600 it. I call it going with your flow. 740 00:34:12,600 --> 00:34:14,719 It's just living in tune with your cycle. 741 00:34:14,920 --> 00:34:17,360 So we have 4 phases. It's not like when I was 742 00:34:17,360 --> 00:34:19,440 younger, I just thought I was on my period or I wasn't on my 743 00:34:19,440 --> 00:34:21,800 period and that was it. I didn't really know much. 744 00:34:22,159 --> 00:34:24,440 And I also thought my period was like the main event. 745 00:34:24,639 --> 00:34:26,440 And it's really not. It's like the byproduct. 746 00:34:26,440 --> 00:34:29,000 It's like kind of the part that doesn't really matter, which is 747 00:34:29,000 --> 00:34:31,239 fascinating. So you have 4 phases. 748 00:34:31,480 --> 00:34:33,679 You have your menstrual phase, which is the first phase. 749 00:34:33,679 --> 00:34:36,679 So day one of your period marks, day one of your cycle, you'll 750 00:34:36,679 --> 00:34:40,199 move into follicular, which is like your inner spring. 751 00:34:40,199 --> 00:34:42,840 That's how I like, I'll describe them as seasons. 752 00:34:42,840 --> 00:34:46,440 So if menstrual is your winter, follicular is spring ovulation, 753 00:34:46,440 --> 00:34:49,159 which is the main events, what your body is preparing for all 754 00:34:49,159 --> 00:34:52,360 month long. The best I'm ovulate right now. 755 00:34:52,360 --> 00:34:54,440 I was like good timing, good timing for the really good 756 00:34:54,480 --> 00:34:57,600 timing. So that's like your summer, your 757 00:34:57,600 --> 00:34:59,240 inner summer. And then luteal would be like 758 00:34:59,240 --> 00:35:00,840 the fall. As leaves are changing, your 759 00:35:00,840 --> 00:35:02,360 hormones are changing before your period. 760 00:35:02,360 --> 00:35:04,640 So menstrual phase is the first phase. 761 00:35:04,640 --> 00:35:07,200 This typically lasts between 3:00 and six days. 762 00:35:07,520 --> 00:35:11,240 A healthy period would be like 3 full days to about 6 days. 763 00:35:11,520 --> 00:35:14,480 Anything 7 or longer, there's probably something going on. 764 00:35:14,480 --> 00:35:17,000 You know women that have like 7-8 ten day cycles. 765 00:35:17,160 --> 00:35:21,000 Not normal, but this is a time. Again, if you think of how what 766 00:35:21,000 --> 00:35:23,720 you would do in winter, you would hibernate, you would stay 767 00:35:23,720 --> 00:35:26,080 inside. You would eat warm, hearty, 768 00:35:26,080 --> 00:35:29,560 grounding foods like stews and slow cooked foods. 769 00:35:29,920 --> 00:35:31,240 So that's what I like to think of. 770 00:35:31,520 --> 00:35:33,680 If you think about your period as winter, just do things you 771 00:35:33,680 --> 00:35:36,360 would do in the winter, introspective, write in your 772 00:35:36,360 --> 00:35:38,440 journal. Just take some time by yourself. 773 00:35:38,440 --> 00:35:41,000 Don't make plans. Don't book podcast interviews. 774 00:35:41,680 --> 00:35:45,240 Don't put a news interview on my period. 775 00:35:46,360 --> 00:35:50,320 This was just like last week or like a week and a half ago. 776 00:35:50,760 --> 00:35:54,360 It took so much out of me. I feel like I still haven't 777 00:35:54,360 --> 00:35:58,600 fully recovered from just not being able to rest during that 778 00:35:58,600 --> 00:36:00,600 time. It was so important and crazy 779 00:36:00,880 --> 00:36:02,720 and you'll realize. And it was like a full day 780 00:36:02,720 --> 00:36:04,880 thing, like they came out here to the farms, the headboard. 781 00:36:04,880 --> 00:36:08,160 It was like a big, big thing and I was just like, I felt so 782 00:36:08,160 --> 00:36:09,600 depleted, like more than I would have. 783 00:36:09,680 --> 00:36:13,160 Yeah, so I like to think of it also before I dive back in. 784 00:36:13,200 --> 00:36:16,280 I was like instead of so women and men have different cycles, 785 00:36:16,280 --> 00:36:18,520 right. Men have like a circadian cycle 786 00:36:18,520 --> 00:36:20,880 which is 24 hours. So like they get to wake up, 787 00:36:20,880 --> 00:36:23,400 they're like little robots every 24 hours, same thing. 788 00:36:23,720 --> 00:36:27,400 We have a 28 day cycle. So we have an infradian rhythm 789 00:36:27,640 --> 00:36:31,560 and we have to start seeing our like To Do List or our battery 790 00:36:31,760 --> 00:36:35,440 as a monthly battery instead of a daily battery and everything 791 00:36:35,440 --> 00:36:37,680 gets so much easier. So if you think about it, if you 792 00:36:37,680 --> 00:36:40,640 spend the month charging your battery, living in tune with 793 00:36:40,640 --> 00:36:43,920 your cycle and resting on your period, everything's going to be 794 00:36:43,920 --> 00:36:45,920 easier versus if you try to go against it. 795 00:36:46,120 --> 00:36:48,680 You're doing things on your period, you have nothing, you 796 00:36:48,680 --> 00:36:50,960 have nothing to go off of. So it's really like you're in 797 00:36:50,960 --> 00:36:52,880 the red and it does take longer to recover. 798 00:36:53,760 --> 00:36:56,480 So I think it's so important to see it as like a monthly battery 799 00:36:56,480 --> 00:37:00,760 and monthly To Do List instead of daily tasks and it makes it 800 00:37:00,760 --> 00:37:02,800 so much easier. So your period is the inner 801 00:37:02,800 --> 00:37:05,680 winter again, hibernation. Like that's what I want you to 802 00:37:05,680 --> 00:37:08,360 think of warm, hearty foods, things like that. 803 00:37:08,360 --> 00:37:10,440 Then as you move into follicular, this is like your 804 00:37:10,440 --> 00:37:12,200 inner spring. So it's like the flowers are 805 00:37:12,200 --> 00:37:15,240 blooming, your energy starting to come back after your period. 806 00:37:15,520 --> 00:37:17,800 This is when your body is essentially working on the 807 00:37:17,800 --> 00:37:19,920 little follicles that will then release an egg. 808 00:37:20,440 --> 00:37:23,400 So your hormones are starting to come up where on your period all 809 00:37:23,400 --> 00:37:26,520 your hormones are flat lined. Essentially This is why you feel 810 00:37:26,640 --> 00:37:28,640 unmotivated. You just want to Netflix until 811 00:37:28,640 --> 00:37:31,120 you want to hang out at home. So everything's at its lowest. 812 00:37:31,680 --> 00:37:34,680 So that's normal to not be full of energy on your period. 813 00:37:35,160 --> 00:37:37,720 But like I said, it shouldn't affect your day-to-day life. 814 00:37:37,920 --> 00:37:40,240 You shouldn't feel like I can't get off the couch. 815 00:37:40,960 --> 00:37:44,520 It should just be honoring rest and listening to your body so 816 00:37:44,520 --> 00:37:46,200 follicular your energy is coming back. 817 00:37:46,360 --> 00:37:50,000 This is a time when you want to focus on healthy fats and 818 00:37:50,000 --> 00:37:53,200 fermented foods to support gut health, where your gut 819 00:37:53,200 --> 00:37:55,320 microbiome also changes over the course of the month. 820 00:37:55,480 --> 00:37:58,320 So this is a really good time to add in like kimchi or sauerkraut 821 00:37:58,320 --> 00:38:01,080 to your meals. Eat more eggs, eat more nut 822 00:38:01,080 --> 00:38:04,880 butter, eat more avocados, healthy fats to kind of help 823 00:38:04,880 --> 00:38:07,640 boost progesterone as you come up to ovulation. 824 00:38:08,240 --> 00:38:09,840 So follicular, flat, inner spring. 825 00:38:10,000 --> 00:38:12,320 Then as you move into ovulation, the main event, this is what 826 00:38:12,320 --> 00:38:15,400 your body's been preparing, preparing for all month long, 827 00:38:15,960 --> 00:38:19,720 getting ready to release an egg. So another important thing, even 828 00:38:19,720 --> 00:38:22,480 if we're not trying to get pregnant, our bodies always are 829 00:38:22,760 --> 00:38:24,680 like our female bodies. That's what the menstrual cycle 830 00:38:24,680 --> 00:38:26,920 is. It's always trying to get 831 00:38:26,920 --> 00:38:28,520 pregnant. It's always doing that. 832 00:38:29,400 --> 00:38:32,000 And regardless or not if we care, right? 833 00:38:32,840 --> 00:38:36,000 So it's so important to support this process because truly your 834 00:38:36,000 --> 00:38:38,200 period is like the Canary in the coal mine. 835 00:38:38,320 --> 00:38:41,200 It is your health report card that you get every single month. 836 00:38:41,480 --> 00:38:44,280 And you can kind of tell what's going on by the length and how 837 00:38:44,280 --> 00:38:46,120 painful it is and all of that good stuff. 838 00:38:46,480 --> 00:38:49,160 So you're leading up to ovulation, which is your inner 839 00:38:49,160 --> 00:38:51,320 summer. This is when an egg is released. 840 00:38:51,840 --> 00:38:55,000 Ovulation is a one day event, but I like to think of ovulation 841 00:38:55,000 --> 00:38:57,040 as a week. So especially if you're new to 842 00:38:57,040 --> 00:39:00,880 cycle thinking, I like to just say use a week for each one. 843 00:39:01,040 --> 00:39:04,240 So like treat your period as a week, treat follicular as a 844 00:39:04,240 --> 00:39:07,320 week, ovulation as you get into the hang of it versus kind of 845 00:39:07,320 --> 00:39:08,680 trying to do it all at one time and. 846 00:39:08,680 --> 00:39:12,560 You do kind of feel that high of ovulation for a few days before 847 00:39:12,560 --> 00:39:14,600 a few days after. Yeah, that's what I've noticed 848 00:39:14,600 --> 00:39:17,560 is like, you start and once you pay attention to these things, 849 00:39:17,640 --> 00:39:20,240 you'll notice it. Like you'll notice your facial 850 00:39:20,240 --> 00:39:21,760 features actually change your skin. 851 00:39:21,840 --> 00:39:24,200 Skin looks better versus in your lateral phase. 852 00:39:24,360 --> 00:39:29,320 You had a viral reel that got, I think, like, what was it, 20 853 00:39:29,320 --> 00:39:34,040 million views talking about? How your bone structure changes 854 00:39:34,280 --> 00:39:36,720 during ovulation? How? 855 00:39:36,840 --> 00:39:37,880 Crazy. It's crazy. 856 00:39:37,880 --> 00:39:40,200 So like I said, our bodies are always trying to get pregnant. 857 00:39:40,360 --> 00:39:43,720 So it's during ovulation is when you're fertile, your skin is 858 00:39:43,720 --> 00:39:46,240 glowing, you have like you might feel better. 859 00:39:46,240 --> 00:39:49,040 Like people are like once I tell women they're like, oh, now I 860 00:39:49,040 --> 00:39:51,800 notice it. Now I notice it every time now. 861 00:39:51,800 --> 00:39:53,400 It's not just like, oh, I have ugly days. 862 00:39:53,400 --> 00:39:55,160 It's like that's probably your luteal phase. 863 00:39:55,200 --> 00:39:58,120 Yeah, before they probably just thought it's total random, just 864 00:39:58,120 --> 00:40:00,480 that like some days I look great, some days I don't. 865 00:40:00,480 --> 00:40:03,480 Love the reflection I'm seeing. But am I crazy? 866 00:40:03,480 --> 00:40:03,880 Yeah. Yeah. 867 00:40:03,880 --> 00:40:06,960 Am I crazy that I think I look, you know, uglier at this time, 868 00:40:06,960 --> 00:40:09,240 and I feel hot at this time? You're not crazy. 869 00:40:09,440 --> 00:40:12,120 That's totally normal. And yeah, during your luteal 870 00:40:12,120 --> 00:40:14,360 phase, your skin is more dry, so your skin care can change 871 00:40:14,560 --> 00:40:17,720 through your cycle. Ovulation, it's already going to 872 00:40:17,720 --> 00:40:19,680 glow. And there's certain times where 873 00:40:19,680 --> 00:40:22,520 it's better to exfoliate or it's better to use like a retinol 874 00:40:22,680 --> 00:40:25,560 versus later in the cycle when your skin is more sensitive. 875 00:40:26,520 --> 00:40:28,200 So all of these things, it's just so fast the. 876 00:40:28,200 --> 00:40:32,360 Skin's more sensitive in the luteal phase and menstrual phase 877 00:40:32,640 --> 00:40:34,680 maybe OK. Yeah, it's way more sensitive, 878 00:40:34,680 --> 00:40:36,960 so you don't want to use any like harsh exfoliants or 879 00:40:36,960 --> 00:40:38,560 anything crazy. This would be time for like a 880 00:40:38,560 --> 00:40:41,800 mask or like soothing, you know, soothing bomb masks, things like 881 00:40:41,800 --> 00:40:44,960 that to really calm inflammation and rehydrate. 882 00:40:45,560 --> 00:40:47,720 So that's it. I just think it's also crazy. 883 00:40:47,720 --> 00:40:50,480 But yeah, your bone structure shifts slightly to make you look 884 00:40:50,600 --> 00:40:52,520 more feminine and more attractive. 885 00:40:53,320 --> 00:40:56,120 It's it's just insane. Everything your body is doing is 886 00:40:56,120 --> 00:40:58,680 trying to get you pregnant, which I think is fascinating. 887 00:40:58,680 --> 00:41:01,080 Like I'm saying, I like to nerd out on this like I didn't. 888 00:41:01,560 --> 00:41:04,240 Not that I never took my body seriously, but I didn't 889 00:41:04,240 --> 00:41:09,600 understand how cool it all is that it all works together to do 890 00:41:09,600 --> 00:41:10,080 this. It's. 891 00:41:10,080 --> 00:41:12,160 Miraculous. Yeah, it's it truly is a 892 00:41:12,160 --> 00:41:15,400 miracle. And so, yeah, ovulation is the 893 00:41:15,400 --> 00:41:17,880 main event of your cycle. All hormones are peaking for the 894 00:41:17,880 --> 00:41:19,760 most part. So your libido is high, your 895 00:41:19,760 --> 00:41:22,240 energy is high. This is the best time for 896 00:41:22,240 --> 00:41:26,520 outings, for podcast interviews, for date nights, for like if you 897 00:41:26,520 --> 00:41:28,200 have a job interview, this would be a great time. 898 00:41:28,200 --> 00:41:30,160 You're more magnetic. People are actually more drawn 899 00:41:30,160 --> 00:41:33,400 to you also, and the right and the left hemispheres of your 900 00:41:33,400 --> 00:41:36,520 brain actually are like more connected during that time. 901 00:41:36,680 --> 00:41:40,400 So you can speak your like, you can talk better and you have 902 00:41:40,720 --> 00:41:43,280 like your thoughts, you're more creative and you're it's just, 903 00:41:43,280 --> 00:41:46,120 it's crazy versus we all know like when you're in your period, 904 00:41:46,120 --> 00:41:47,800 you can't think like your brain doesn't work. 905 00:41:48,120 --> 00:41:51,040 Your brain doesn't work. You fumble over words and it's 906 00:41:51,080 --> 00:41:54,160 everything just feels harder. And that's where it comes back 907 00:41:54,160 --> 00:41:57,840 to living in like with a monthly battery where you're really 908 00:41:57,960 --> 00:42:00,400 living with your hormones instead of kind of working 909 00:42:00,400 --> 00:42:03,280 against them or trying to do the same thing every day, fasting 910 00:42:03,280 --> 00:42:06,160 every day. It's just your body's going to 911 00:42:06,160 --> 00:42:08,360 reject that after a little bit during ovulation. 912 00:42:08,360 --> 00:42:11,160 If you think of it as your inner summer, think about things that 913 00:42:11,160 --> 00:42:12,720 you would be eating during the summer. 914 00:42:12,720 --> 00:42:16,320 So like rash, like fresh raw foods, salads, things like that. 915 00:42:16,480 --> 00:42:19,240 You actually might not have much as much of an appetite. 916 00:42:19,240 --> 00:42:21,320 I've noticed that too that I want like lighter foods. 917 00:42:21,760 --> 00:42:24,120 So this is when I'll do like yogurts and berries and chia 918 00:42:24,120 --> 00:42:26,280 pudding. Sometimes you can hold more 919 00:42:26,280 --> 00:42:28,960 water weight and it can like kind of make you constipated 920 00:42:28,960 --> 00:42:31,320 during this time. So I just say more fiber, more 921 00:42:31,320 --> 00:42:33,120 like fruits and veggies and things like that. 922 00:42:33,120 --> 00:42:35,000 Seafood is really good during this time. 923 00:42:35,240 --> 00:42:38,120 And another fun thing is I find that I crave these foods 924 00:42:38,120 --> 00:42:41,800 naturally whenever I'm ovulating those, all I want is seafood. 925 00:42:42,000 --> 00:42:45,400 All I want is oysters or salmon or fruit or things like that. 926 00:42:45,520 --> 00:42:47,840 Interesting. Yeah, the food is the one thing 927 00:42:47,840 --> 00:42:51,480 I haven't gotten there yet on. I pay attention to where I'm at 928 00:42:51,480 --> 00:42:53,560 in my cycle in terms of my schedule. 929 00:42:53,560 --> 00:42:58,080 I try to obviously didn't last. But like happens. 930 00:42:58,160 --> 00:43:01,800 Yeah, sometimes things happen and then with like workouts and 931 00:43:01,800 --> 00:43:06,040 things like that, like, but the food I can't quite, I haven't 932 00:43:06,040 --> 00:43:09,000 gotten there because it's like feeding the family and like 933 00:43:09,040 --> 00:43:10,800 planning. And sometimes it's so last 934 00:43:10,800 --> 00:43:14,360 minute and, or I, I mean, my husband cooks a lot of the time. 935 00:43:14,360 --> 00:43:17,160 So it's like maybe, maybe at some point. 936 00:43:17,160 --> 00:43:19,840 But I will say like even if you pay attention. 937 00:43:20,560 --> 00:43:21,600 To. Like a little bit. 938 00:43:21,680 --> 00:43:24,960 Just implement a few of these things, they will help and I'm 939 00:43:24,960 --> 00:43:28,360 sure like if you do it all it even is that much better. 940 00:43:28,360 --> 00:43:29,840 It's even better, but don't stress you out. 941 00:43:30,000 --> 00:43:31,200 Don't stress out trying to do it. 942 00:43:31,200 --> 00:43:35,120 All that's The thing is like live in tune and if you notice 943 00:43:35,120 --> 00:43:37,040 you're craving certain things, lean into that. 944 00:43:37,520 --> 00:43:39,920 But there are times. Into cravings, yeah, Think more 945 00:43:39,920 --> 00:43:42,200 about that, yeah. And you don't, again, like 946 00:43:42,880 --> 00:43:45,000 simple things. You can do just seafood or just 947 00:43:45,000 --> 00:43:48,120 remember if you're ovulating, oh, I'll get some oysters or 948 00:43:48,120 --> 00:43:50,960 I'll do salmon or something like that, or adding in chia pudding 949 00:43:50,960 --> 00:43:52,920 or something to add on top of it. 950 00:43:53,920 --> 00:43:57,040 But in easy ways like OK, during your follicular phase, which you 951 00:43:57,040 --> 00:43:59,720 can treat as the first half of your cycle, you know, you can 952 00:43:59,720 --> 00:44:02,200 kind of treat them as longer, more fermented foods. 953 00:44:02,200 --> 00:44:05,440 So just have it on hand, have a little spoonful of sauerkraut or 954 00:44:05,440 --> 00:44:09,000 vitamin C rich foods is a really good time during your follicular 955 00:44:09,000 --> 00:44:11,600 phase. So I'll move into luteal now. 956 00:44:11,800 --> 00:44:15,120 So ovulation one day event, but it lasts for about 6 days. 957 00:44:15,320 --> 00:44:18,840 You'll feel the effects and then as you go into luteal, which is 958 00:44:18,840 --> 00:44:20,840 the longest phase. So luteal is like your inner 959 00:44:20,840 --> 00:44:23,320 fall, your inner autumn. It's the longest phase that 960 00:44:23,320 --> 00:44:25,880 lasts. About 10 to ideally 12 to 14 961 00:44:25,880 --> 00:44:30,040 days is a healthy luteal phase. The first half, you're kind of 962 00:44:30,040 --> 00:44:32,640 still riding the ovulation time. You still have energy, you're 963 00:44:32,640 --> 00:44:35,680 still kind of riding that. And then as the second-half 964 00:44:35,680 --> 00:44:38,160 starts to hit about the week before your period, that's when 965 00:44:38,160 --> 00:44:40,840 you'll notice a lull. Your energy starts to come down 966 00:44:40,840 --> 00:44:43,680 and you kind of have this natural proclivity to just 967 00:44:43,680 --> 00:44:46,160 retreating. Another fun thing. 968 00:44:46,960 --> 00:44:49,280 I you're kind of in a nesting mode also. 969 00:44:49,280 --> 00:44:53,040 So this is the best phase to kind of finish your To Do List. 970 00:44:53,280 --> 00:44:56,200 I try to think of it also, if your period is coming, what task 971 00:44:56,200 --> 00:44:59,400 can you check off the list and what things can you kind of tie 972 00:44:59,400 --> 00:45:00,600 up? What loose ends can you tie up 973 00:45:00,600 --> 00:45:02,320 before you get your period? And you're not going to want to 974 00:45:02,320 --> 00:45:04,520 do anything. I feel like that is the only 975 00:45:04,520 --> 00:45:07,880 good thing about the end of the yeah phase because otherwise I 976 00:45:07,880 --> 00:45:11,000 hate it. No, but I do feel like I wanna 977 00:45:11,000 --> 00:45:13,280 organize, like I'm like organizing and getting rid of 978 00:45:13,280 --> 00:45:14,640 things in the house. Yep. 979 00:45:14,800 --> 00:45:17,120 And then yes, like checking things off the To Do List. 980 00:45:17,120 --> 00:45:21,280 So if you can like lean into that, that's like how I would 981 00:45:21,280 --> 00:45:24,120 think of like making the most of that time of the month. 982 00:45:24,200 --> 00:45:26,040 Yeah. Is how can you set yourself up 983 00:45:26,680 --> 00:45:29,240 versus, I feel like for a long time health, I was very 984 00:45:29,240 --> 00:45:30,960 reactive. We're reactive to like our 985 00:45:30,960 --> 00:45:33,360 period and our hormones and things like that versus cycle 986 00:45:33,360 --> 00:45:36,040 tracking and all of that. Understanding it going with your 987 00:45:36,040 --> 00:45:39,600 flow is, is more proactive. You're getting ahead of it and 988 00:45:39,600 --> 00:45:42,600 you're kind of preparing for the next phase so that when it gets 989 00:45:42,600 --> 00:45:46,080 there, you're ready like ludial phase, you organize everything, 990 00:45:46,280 --> 00:45:48,920 everything's good to go. Maybe you meal prep, maybe you 991 00:45:48,920 --> 00:45:51,720 set yourself up for your period and now you're fine. 992 00:45:51,720 --> 00:45:54,680 And so you're not no longer like kind of treading water or trying 993 00:45:54,680 --> 00:45:56,960 to get ahead of it. You've are trying, trying to 994 00:45:56,960 --> 00:45:58,920 like catch up to it. You're getting ahead of it. 995 00:45:58,960 --> 00:46:01,200 What about workouts? How do we adjust our workouts at 996 00:46:01,200 --> 00:46:02,400 different times throughout the month? 997 00:46:02,760 --> 00:46:06,560 This is a really good one. I used to be like a gym rat, 998 00:46:06,560 --> 00:46:09,720 like I used to be obsessed with working out like no days off, 999 00:46:09,720 --> 00:46:11,880 like hardcore. And that was another thing that 1000 00:46:11,880 --> 00:46:15,760 added into the whole perfect storm of my hormones. 1001 00:46:16,040 --> 00:46:18,840 And once I learned about cycle thinking and just living in tune 1002 00:46:18,840 --> 00:46:21,400 with my cycle, Oh my gosh, it seriously changed my life. 1003 00:46:21,400 --> 00:46:25,280 Because you again, you don't realize like how inflamed you're 1004 00:46:25,280 --> 00:46:28,600 making yourself by going to like people that I know that go to 1005 00:46:28,600 --> 00:46:32,160 Barry's boot camp like 3 or 4 times a week, which is a such a 1006 00:46:32,160 --> 00:46:35,040 high intensity thing or orange theory or these super high 1007 00:46:35,040 --> 00:46:37,640 intensity workouts that you don't need to do all the time, 1008 00:46:37,640 --> 00:46:38,840 you shouldn't be doing all the time. 1009 00:46:38,840 --> 00:46:41,520 Oh, there's like the 4:00 AM cruise at those places. 1010 00:46:41,800 --> 00:46:42,920 Like. I don't understand. 1011 00:46:42,920 --> 00:46:45,440 It you're ruining your life. The lights are all dark, the 1012 00:46:45,440 --> 00:46:48,440 music's so loud and like this isn't, this is so intense. 1013 00:46:48,440 --> 00:46:50,320 Like maybe once a month I can handle it. 1014 00:46:50,720 --> 00:46:53,080 But so on your period really take it easy. 1015 00:46:53,960 --> 00:46:56,800 I'm not saying don't work out at all but listen to your body 1016 00:46:57,040 --> 00:46:58,800 rest. Definitely don't do anything 1017 00:46:58,800 --> 00:47:02,200 high intensity but some girls I know lift weights on their 1018 00:47:02,200 --> 00:47:04,720 period and feel better. Definitely be walking. 1019 00:47:04,760 --> 00:47:07,760 I like to do walking it really helps move especially if you 1020 00:47:07,760 --> 00:47:09,280 have cramps. Like going on a long walk can 1021 00:47:09,280 --> 00:47:11,160 really help especially being in nature. 1022 00:47:11,160 --> 00:47:13,080 All of those things are getting all the benefits. 1023 00:47:13,240 --> 00:47:14,840 I walk with a weighted vest normally. 1024 00:47:14,880 --> 00:47:16,760 That's so good. That's my workout right now. 1025 00:47:17,080 --> 00:47:18,560 It's the yeah, I love. I'm obsessed. 1026 00:47:18,600 --> 00:47:21,120 And I think, yeah, I know eventually I want to start 1027 00:47:21,360 --> 00:47:23,320 lifting weights again and doing other things, but right now it's 1028 00:47:23,320 --> 00:47:26,080 working great for me. So I love it, but I don't, it 1029 00:47:26,080 --> 00:47:29,440 doesn't feel good on my period on like the first or second day. 1030 00:47:29,480 --> 00:47:33,280 Yeah, feels like too heavy. It's again, it's a normal walk. 1031 00:47:33,560 --> 00:47:35,400 Feels really good. What weight do you use? 1032 00:47:35,400 --> 00:47:37,760 I need another. 20 now, yeah, OK. 1033 00:47:37,760 --> 00:47:40,640 I started lighter and then like just kept going up and I feel 1034 00:47:40,640 --> 00:47:42,720 like 20 is good. I like 20. 1035 00:47:42,720 --> 00:47:46,960 I have a 15 and a 25 and now I'm at the place where like 15 feels 1036 00:47:46,960 --> 00:47:49,320 a little light but the 25 kind of hurts my shoulders. 1037 00:47:49,320 --> 00:47:50,600 Yeah, that's the thing with the heavier weights. 1038 00:47:51,000 --> 00:47:53,760 I started with 35 and I'm like. That's intense, this. 1039 00:47:53,760 --> 00:47:54,840 Is see, I can't do that. Yeah. 1040 00:47:55,240 --> 00:47:57,480 So then I got a 5 and I was like, this is way too late. 1041 00:47:57,480 --> 00:47:59,960 Yeah. So like both, yeah. 1042 00:48:00,160 --> 00:48:03,360 It's really good out. But now maybe I need to try 25 1043 00:48:03,360 --> 00:48:05,360 if you're doing 25. It's fun. 1044 00:48:05,360 --> 00:48:08,440 I and I kind of slide it to the side and now I figured that I'm 1045 00:48:08,440 --> 00:48:09,760 like, I think I just need to get used to it. 1046 00:48:09,760 --> 00:48:11,600 Yeah, but I think they call it rocking. 1047 00:48:11,600 --> 00:48:13,400 Yes, right. It's rocking primal. 1048 00:48:13,400 --> 00:48:15,800 Like it's so good for you. It's so good for your posture, 1049 00:48:15,800 --> 00:48:17,400 for your spine putting like it's. 1050 00:48:17,600 --> 00:48:19,400 I love it. I know I feel like I'm getting a 1051 00:48:19,400 --> 00:48:21,760 strength training workout like your core. 1052 00:48:22,160 --> 00:48:24,440 Yeah, yeah, it's the best. And you can start, you can do a 1053 00:48:24,440 --> 00:48:26,720 couple push ups with it. I mean, you could do so much. 1054 00:48:26,840 --> 00:48:28,960 I travel with it now because I love it so much. 1055 00:48:28,960 --> 00:48:31,640 So I will like wear it because you can't put it in your 1056 00:48:31,640 --> 00:48:33,840 suitcase or in your carry on. It's going to weigh it down. 1057 00:48:34,040 --> 00:48:37,240 So I wear it in the airport and always gets flagged by security. 1058 00:48:37,600 --> 00:48:39,520 I always get questions. Oh my God. 1059 00:48:39,520 --> 00:48:42,840 But I don't know, it's like worth even the hassle of that 1060 00:48:42,840 --> 00:48:43,840 for me because. No, I love. 1061 00:48:43,840 --> 00:48:46,640 That I love it so much. No, it is addicting and it just 1062 00:48:46,640 --> 00:48:48,960 feels like a little better than a walk and a walk feels great. 1063 00:48:48,960 --> 00:48:50,640 And if you can add a little extra weight, that's. 1064 00:48:50,800 --> 00:48:53,120 Awesome boost, yeah. Someone walked past me. 1065 00:48:53,120 --> 00:48:54,760 I was doing it the other day because I lived near college. 1066 00:48:54,760 --> 00:48:57,600 Like, what are you training for? And I was like, motherhood, like 1067 00:48:57,640 --> 00:48:59,480 carrying a child. Yeah. 1068 00:48:59,480 --> 00:49:01,840 Seriously. So yeah. 1069 00:49:01,840 --> 00:49:04,040 So on your period, take a little easy listening to your body. 1070 00:49:04,040 --> 00:49:06,200 If you feel like moving, go for it. 1071 00:49:06,360 --> 00:49:10,040 But if you don't, don't go against that like inner knowing 1072 00:49:10,760 --> 00:49:12,920 follicular, this is a great time for circuit training. 1073 00:49:12,920 --> 00:49:15,880 Your energy is coming back up. So weightlifting you really can 1074 00:49:15,880 --> 00:49:18,640 strength train because I think a lot of the gripe some people, 1075 00:49:18,640 --> 00:49:21,720 some women have with cycle thinking and tracking is OK. 1076 00:49:21,720 --> 00:49:24,600 Well, I'm only allowed to do weightlifting like this one week 1077 00:49:24,600 --> 00:49:26,240 of my period. How am I going to like build 1078 00:49:26,240 --> 00:49:27,960 muscle? And it's like you just have to 1079 00:49:28,440 --> 00:49:30,760 listen to your body for the most part like that. 1080 00:49:30,800 --> 00:49:35,000 That's what I go back to most often is you know your body 1081 00:49:35,000 --> 00:49:37,040 best. And it takes a while to get back 1082 00:49:37,040 --> 00:49:39,120 in tune with that because we are birth control. 1083 00:49:39,120 --> 00:49:41,160 All these things disconnect us so much from our body. 1084 00:49:42,240 --> 00:49:44,680 But I think like, you know, you know when to push yourself, you 1085 00:49:44,680 --> 00:49:47,000 know when to take it easy. But follicular again, your 1086 00:49:47,000 --> 00:49:48,640 energy is coming back. You're feeling more social. 1087 00:49:48,640 --> 00:49:51,440 This is a great time for group workouts or circuit training, 1088 00:49:51,440 --> 00:49:54,040 strength training, that's all great during follicular moving 1089 00:49:54,040 --> 00:49:56,520 into ovulation, more strength training is great. 1090 00:49:56,520 --> 00:49:59,000 You may feel like you give a ton of energy. 1091 00:49:59,720 --> 00:50:01,840 And just a side note, if ovulation is when you feel the 1092 00:50:01,840 --> 00:50:04,240 worst, that's a sign that there's something going on. 1093 00:50:05,320 --> 00:50:07,360 So it's when all hormones are kind of peaking. 1094 00:50:07,480 --> 00:50:10,720 So if you already have like too much estrogen or too much of 1095 00:50:10,720 --> 00:50:13,040 other hormones, it's going to make you feel worse. 1096 00:50:13,040 --> 00:50:15,720 When you should feel your best, you should feel like you have 1097 00:50:15,720 --> 00:50:18,080 the most energy is actually when you can get away. 1098 00:50:18,080 --> 00:50:20,280 Like there's been times where I've only gotten like 6 hours of 1099 00:50:20,280 --> 00:50:22,200 sleep during ovulation, but I feel great. 1100 00:50:22,360 --> 00:50:24,120 Yeah. I'm like, how do I look this 1101 00:50:24,120 --> 00:50:26,840 good for six hours of sleep? Sometimes too, I wonder, I 1102 00:50:26,840 --> 00:50:29,680 haven't paid attention to like when that happens, but yeah, 1103 00:50:29,920 --> 00:50:31,040 maybe it is. It's usually versus. 1104 00:50:31,040 --> 00:50:33,640 Ludy, I'll get 9 hours and I look like I slept too. 1105 00:50:34,080 --> 00:50:37,880 So that's a whole other thing. And that's also important that 1106 00:50:37,880 --> 00:50:40,560 even I take care of my hormones, I bounce on my pay attention. 1107 00:50:40,720 --> 00:50:43,800 I still go through these things. It's not like oh, everything's 1108 00:50:43,800 --> 00:50:46,320 fine all the time. No, I still experience the 1109 00:50:46,320 --> 00:50:48,320 fluctuations. They're just not as drastic. 1110 00:50:48,680 --> 00:50:52,160 Crazy mood swings, crazy differences, crazy intense 1111 00:50:52,160 --> 00:50:54,680 emotions. That's not normal, but you 1112 00:50:54,680 --> 00:50:57,400 should notice the fluctuations and that's part of the beauty of 1113 00:50:57,400 --> 00:50:59,520 it. So ovulation, great time to add 1114 00:50:59,520 --> 00:51:01,280 in some hit. So this would be a great time 1115 00:51:01,440 --> 00:51:04,400 for high intensity classes, for doing sprints, for doing things 1116 00:51:04,400 --> 00:51:07,640 like that. And then luteal first half, 1117 00:51:07,840 --> 00:51:10,040 you're going to want to kind of still ride that ovulation high. 1118 00:51:10,040 --> 00:51:12,720 So listen to your body. Then the week before your 1119 00:51:12,720 --> 00:51:15,120 period, you naturally have less energy. 1120 00:51:15,320 --> 00:51:17,320 So listen to that. This is when you can kind of 1121 00:51:17,320 --> 00:51:20,520 move into more like just Pilates, low impact, more 1122 00:51:20,520 --> 00:51:22,920 walking, and then you kind of start it all over again. 1123 00:51:22,920 --> 00:51:25,360 So you can still strength training, you can still work out 1124 00:51:25,360 --> 00:51:27,920 throughout your period. It's just small adjustments 1125 00:51:27,920 --> 00:51:30,680 because in the luteal phase, what I didn't mention when we're 1126 00:51:30,680 --> 00:51:33,760 talking about all the phases is this is when your body is the 1127 00:51:33,760 --> 00:51:36,440 most prone to stress. So your your threshold for 1128 00:51:36,440 --> 00:51:40,120 stress is way lower. And this is because during this 1129 00:51:40,120 --> 00:51:42,720 time, your body would be nurturing a possible pregnancy. 1130 00:51:42,960 --> 00:51:46,240 So it's on high alert for any dangers that's going to tell it 1131 00:51:46,240 --> 00:51:48,560 like this is not a safe place for a baby. 1132 00:51:48,840 --> 00:51:52,600 We'll try again next month. And so it's really important to 1133 00:51:52,600 --> 00:51:54,640 lower stress during this time. Luteal phase. 1134 00:51:54,640 --> 00:51:58,000 You want to pull back on caffeine, so like switch to 1135 00:51:58,000 --> 00:51:59,960 matcha, switch to decaf or half calf. 1136 00:51:59,960 --> 00:52:02,840 I like drinking half calf. I just mix regular and decaf 1137 00:52:02,840 --> 00:52:04,680 beans. That's a great time. 1138 00:52:05,000 --> 00:52:07,480 Really, if you drink alcohol, really pulling back during this 1139 00:52:07,480 --> 00:52:10,160 time, that's going to put extra stress on your liver and just 1140 00:52:10,160 --> 00:52:12,720 add more inflammation. So anywhere we can pull out 1141 00:52:12,720 --> 00:52:15,320 these little stress bricks, kind of lower that wall. 1142 00:52:15,320 --> 00:52:18,840 It's going to be so helpful. And again, help maximize that 1143 00:52:18,840 --> 00:52:21,960 monthly battery so that we're not draining it too quickly and 1144 00:52:21,960 --> 00:52:24,520 then we're running on empty. Probably not a good time for 1145 00:52:24,520 --> 00:52:26,640 like cold plunges. And not a good time for cold 1146 00:52:26,640 --> 00:52:28,520 plunges. The body can perceive as an 1147 00:52:28,520 --> 00:52:31,320 extra stressor because the body will feel the effects of that 1148 00:52:31,320 --> 00:52:33,000 stressor more intensely. Yeah. 1149 00:52:33,280 --> 00:52:35,720 And then immune function goes down a bit too, right? 1150 00:52:35,720 --> 00:52:37,640 That's. What I was gonna say too is so 1151 00:52:37,640 --> 00:52:40,040 in follicular is why I was saying vitamin C rich foods and 1152 00:52:40,040 --> 00:52:41,560 supporting your gut during that time. 1153 00:52:41,600 --> 00:52:43,960 There's so many women that are like, I always get sick before 1154 00:52:43,960 --> 00:52:46,640 my period. Your immune system is suppressed 1155 00:52:46,840 --> 00:52:49,400 again, so that your body doesn't reject a possible pregnancy. 1156 00:52:49,400 --> 00:52:51,600 So everything your body is doing, it's wants to get 1157 00:52:51,600 --> 00:52:54,120 pregnant. So your, your nervous system is 1158 00:52:54,120 --> 00:52:56,880 more like on high alert. Your immune system is 1159 00:52:56,880 --> 00:52:59,680 suppressed. All of these things which add so 1160 00:52:59,680 --> 00:53:02,560 much stress on the body. And our bodies don't know the 1161 00:53:02,560 --> 00:53:05,320 difference between stressors. We may not think it's stress. 1162 00:53:05,320 --> 00:53:08,320 It may be exciting to us and maybe travel, but our body 1163 00:53:08,320 --> 00:53:10,520 doesn't know that. And so really paying attention 1164 00:53:10,520 --> 00:53:12,400 to these things. And again, if we are going to 1165 00:53:12,400 --> 00:53:14,480 travel during our luteal phase, if we are going to do other 1166 00:53:14,480 --> 00:53:17,280 things, they go, OK, so I'm really going to reduce sugar. 1167 00:53:17,280 --> 00:53:19,880 I'm really going to reduce like staying up late. 1168 00:53:20,040 --> 00:53:22,520 I'm going to try to get as much sleep as I can and just kind of 1169 00:53:22,520 --> 00:53:26,200 overcompensating in other areas because you can't, we don't live 1170 00:53:26,200 --> 00:53:28,120 in a vacuum. You can't be perfect. 1171 00:53:28,280 --> 00:53:30,120 You can't do all of these things all the time. 1172 00:53:30,360 --> 00:53:32,920 And so like you're saying, picking one or two again, eating 1173 00:53:32,920 --> 00:53:35,800 red meat before your period and on your period you're losing 1174 00:53:35,800 --> 00:53:37,440 blood. It's just kind of these like 1175 00:53:37,440 --> 00:53:40,360 almost common sense things where it's like, Oh yeah, of course, 1176 00:53:40,840 --> 00:53:42,080 of course I would do that. Yeah. 1177 00:53:42,640 --> 00:53:44,960 It just becomes. Intuitive, like once you start, 1178 00:53:44,960 --> 00:53:48,320 it just kind of feels natural and you'll naturally want to do, 1179 00:53:48,360 --> 00:53:50,320 yeah, these things. And it that's with everything, 1180 00:53:50,320 --> 00:53:52,280 yeah. Practice comes the more you do 1181 00:53:52,280 --> 00:53:55,000 it, the longer you do it because at first it is overwhelming. 1182 00:53:56,040 --> 00:53:57,960 And I was like, I how do I do all of this? 1183 00:53:57,960 --> 00:53:59,480 Yeah. So I'm only going to eat chicken 1184 00:53:59,480 --> 00:54:02,120 and eggs in my follicular face. And it's like, no, it's not 1185 00:54:02,120 --> 00:54:04,200 realistic, especially like you're saying, with families and 1186 00:54:04,200 --> 00:54:05,800 different taste buds and things like that. 1187 00:54:06,040 --> 00:54:08,280 So just doing what you can, where you can, yeah. 1188 00:54:09,080 --> 00:54:12,800 Talk to us about blood sugar. What role does our blood sugar 1189 00:54:12,800 --> 00:54:16,320 play in our hormones? A huge role. 1190 00:54:16,560 --> 00:54:19,280 And I don't think this was something, again, I also didn't 1191 00:54:19,280 --> 00:54:20,600 really pay attention to at first. 1192 00:54:20,600 --> 00:54:22,200 I was like, oh, eat protein and this and that. 1193 00:54:22,200 --> 00:54:26,400 But truly managing balancing your blood sugar is so important 1194 00:54:26,400 --> 00:54:29,240 because when blood sugar spikes and insulin spikes, cortisol 1195 00:54:29,240 --> 00:54:31,800 spikes. And so we really want to avoid 1196 00:54:31,800 --> 00:54:35,200 these huge dips and spikes as much as we can and balance it 1197 00:54:35,200 --> 00:54:37,080 out. Eating protein, eating a lot of 1198 00:54:37,080 --> 00:54:38,960 protein with your meals, that's one way. 1199 00:54:39,080 --> 00:54:42,120 Healthy fats in there. Even simple things like changing 1200 00:54:42,120 --> 00:54:44,920 how you eat. So instead of going you have 1201 00:54:44,920 --> 00:54:47,160 maybe sweet potatoes and steak and a salad. 1202 00:54:47,560 --> 00:54:50,120 You can start with maybe some salad which is some fiber and 1203 00:54:50,120 --> 00:54:53,280 greens, have some steak, and then move into sweet potatoes 1204 00:54:53,280 --> 00:54:55,680 which have carbs. But now you've kind of dampened 1205 00:54:55,680 --> 00:54:58,720 it with protein and veggies first and it's really going to 1206 00:54:58,720 --> 00:54:59,840 stave it off. So for raw. 1207 00:54:59,840 --> 00:55:02,240 Carrots. Raw carrots, oh, the raw carrot 1208 00:55:02,240 --> 00:55:04,880 salad become. Addicted to I just like take a 1209 00:55:04,880 --> 00:55:08,080 big carrot as I'm like working on dinner Bugs Bunny and just 1210 00:55:08,080 --> 00:55:09,160 yeah. Bugs Bunny, yeah. 1211 00:55:09,160 --> 00:55:10,720 And then? My kids are like, I want one and 1212 00:55:10,720 --> 00:55:14,120 like everyone's just eating raw carrots and like normal. 1213 00:55:14,160 --> 00:55:16,400 It's and it's. Fun carrots are so good. 1214 00:55:16,400 --> 00:55:18,320 It's just like it's kind of an activity too. 1215 00:55:18,320 --> 00:55:20,360 It is. It takes a long time to eat it 1216 00:55:20,360 --> 00:55:22,760 and chew it and everything. And you want to leave the skin 1217 00:55:22,760 --> 00:55:23,920 on. I get a lot of questions of 1218 00:55:23,920 --> 00:55:26,160 like, oh, can I peel it? Can I do baby carrots? 1219 00:55:26,160 --> 00:55:27,880 It's not. You really want the insoluble 1220 00:55:27,880 --> 00:55:31,200 fiber that comes from the skin. That's kind of what helps to 1221 00:55:31,200 --> 00:55:34,720 bind to and flush out those excess toxins and hormones and 1222 00:55:34,720 --> 00:55:37,680 estrogen and things like that. So rock carrot, you can do a 1223 00:55:37,680 --> 00:55:39,280 rock carrot salad. I do that too. 1224 00:55:39,720 --> 00:55:42,000 You make that. So I do the ribbon. 1225 00:55:42,000 --> 00:55:44,520 So I take like a peeler, OK, and I'll peel the carrot into 1226 00:55:44,520 --> 00:55:46,600 ribbons. And then I just do a little bit 1227 00:55:46,600 --> 00:55:50,000 of olive oil or coconut oil, whatever you want, a little bit 1228 00:55:50,000 --> 00:55:52,400 of apple cider vinegar and then salt. 1229 00:55:52,680 --> 00:55:55,240 Sometimes I do apple shavings in it too. 1230 00:55:55,440 --> 00:55:58,800 Sometimes I do a little Dijon. You can really do like sesame 1231 00:55:58,800 --> 00:56:02,000 oil, sesame seeds, like green onions and make it kind of an 1232 00:56:02,000 --> 00:56:04,640 Asian style. You can do it have it every day. 1233 00:56:04,640 --> 00:56:08,360 And that's just one of those little like daily hacks to help. 1234 00:56:08,880 --> 00:56:10,480 One, it's good for you. There's fiber, there's 1235 00:56:10,480 --> 00:56:13,240 nutrients, there's vitamins and minerals, but then it's also 1236 00:56:13,240 --> 00:56:16,800 helping flush out excess estrogen, which is so important. 1237 00:56:16,800 --> 00:56:19,400 Our livers. There's, you know, your toxin 1238 00:56:19,400 --> 00:56:21,520 bucket nowadays, it's so easy to get it filled up. 1239 00:56:21,720 --> 00:56:24,760 And so the more we can help flush out and do all these 1240 00:56:24,760 --> 00:56:27,360 things and you know, Castor oil, there's all these little things 1241 00:56:27,360 --> 00:56:31,080 that we can do everyday. I saw you post about Castor oil 1242 00:56:31,080 --> 00:56:33,280 so I've that's one thing I haven't gotten into yet. 1243 00:56:33,840 --> 00:56:36,120 I love Castor oil like for skin care products and we have it in 1244 00:56:36,120 --> 00:56:39,160 some of our products but I've never done a Castor oil pack but 1245 00:56:39,160 --> 00:56:41,920 I saw you post about just rubbing it on your belly. 1246 00:56:41,920 --> 00:56:46,840 Yeah, so that rub it in, Yeah. Or you can now I bought you can 1247 00:56:46,840 --> 00:56:49,000 now buy Castor oil patches like on Amazon. 1248 00:56:49,320 --> 00:56:52,800 So it's like a little adhesive with a little pad that goes over 1249 00:56:52,800 --> 00:56:54,080 your. Belly button because I have the 1250 00:56:54,080 --> 00:56:56,640 whole Castor oil pack set up and I just like haven't. 1251 00:56:56,680 --> 00:56:58,920 It's a lot and it's I've ruined so many sheets. 1252 00:56:59,440 --> 00:57:01,680 I've ruined so many sheets and like. 1253 00:57:02,000 --> 00:57:03,760 Yeah, I don't want to. Because it kind of it can. 1254 00:57:03,960 --> 00:57:04,960 It can. Leak by the patch. 1255 00:57:05,480 --> 00:57:06,480 So I do that. Now. 1256 00:57:06,480 --> 00:57:09,200 What I do actually is like 3 sprays of the cycle soothing 1257 00:57:09,200 --> 00:57:12,200 spray, the magnesium, I'll do like 3 sprays and then a little 1258 00:57:12,200 --> 00:57:13,880 bit of Castor oil before I go to bed. 1259 00:57:13,880 --> 00:57:15,800 Sleep like a baby every night. Like a baby. 1260 00:57:15,800 --> 00:57:18,480 Yeah, just throw it on because Castor oil packs. 1261 00:57:18,480 --> 00:57:21,200 I was actually talking to an acupuncturist and she said every 1262 00:57:21,200 --> 00:57:22,920 day can be really intense on your liver. 1263 00:57:22,920 --> 00:57:24,720 And I was like, well, how about just a little bit in the belly 1264 00:57:24,720 --> 00:57:25,800 button? She was like, yeah, that's fine. 1265 00:57:25,960 --> 00:57:26,680 In the belly. Button. 1266 00:57:26,680 --> 00:57:29,240 I do it in my belly button and then I kind of rub it around. 1267 00:57:29,440 --> 00:57:31,560 Yeah, OK. But now with the patches, No, it 1268 00:57:31,560 --> 00:57:33,440 makes it easy. It just kind of keeps it all in 1269 00:57:33,440 --> 00:57:34,640 and it's not messy. Yeah. 1270 00:57:34,920 --> 00:57:36,560 So you do the cycle soothing spray. 1271 00:57:36,920 --> 00:57:39,760 You do metal spray patch on, and then I do a little like, yeah, 1272 00:57:39,760 --> 00:57:42,440 drizzle the Castor oil and then I lock it in. 1273 00:57:42,560 --> 00:57:44,560 And you do, even when you're not on your period, you do cycle 1274 00:57:44,560 --> 00:57:45,720 soothing. Yeah, just because of the 1275 00:57:45,760 --> 00:57:46,720 magnesium. That's just. 1276 00:57:46,720 --> 00:57:47,920 Good. I need to get the sleep one now 1277 00:57:47,920 --> 00:57:50,240 I just need to get your sleep one and then I'll be good. 1278 00:57:50,240 --> 00:57:53,200 But for now even I mean. It'll still do the same thing. 1279 00:57:53,200 --> 00:57:56,520 Yeah, still. The lavender smells so good and 1280 00:57:56,520 --> 00:57:58,880 that way like because it is the salty magnesium stuff, so it 1281 00:57:58,880 --> 00:58:00,680 just kind of keeps it locked in and it doesn't get anywhere. 1282 00:58:00,680 --> 00:58:03,840 But I love that. OK, so yeah, that's an easy way, 1283 00:58:03,840 --> 00:58:07,000 mess free. And then for blood sugar, I 1284 00:58:07,360 --> 00:58:10,760 also, I've seen you talk about apple cider vinegar mixed with 1285 00:58:10,760 --> 00:58:12,440 water before meals. I do. 1286 00:58:12,880 --> 00:58:15,440 I love that one. And then moving after eating. 1287 00:58:15,440 --> 00:58:19,480 Yeah, just like a 10 minute walk or I will often do air squats 1288 00:58:19,480 --> 00:58:22,920 after me and people think I'm so weird and I'm like cat raises 1289 00:58:22,920 --> 00:58:24,440 for not doing it. Half raises. 1290 00:58:24,440 --> 00:58:28,000 Half raises are actually the fastest way to lower blood 1291 00:58:28,000 --> 00:58:28,760 sugar. No way. 1292 00:58:28,760 --> 00:58:29,880 Yeah. How many do you do? 1293 00:58:29,880 --> 00:58:32,240 I have a friend who did it after she did, like, her glucose test. 1294 00:58:32,240 --> 00:58:35,400 She just stood there doing calf raises before the thing, and she 1295 00:58:35,400 --> 00:58:36,480 was was perfect. Yeah. 1296 00:58:36,920 --> 00:58:38,760 Crazy. So you can just, like, do it 1297 00:58:38,760 --> 00:58:40,120 for, like, a couple minutes. It's intent. 1298 00:58:40,120 --> 00:58:42,280 Enough of them over the years and I would like cramp if I 1299 00:58:42,280 --> 00:58:46,000 started thinking too. No, they do her, but after a 1300 00:58:46,000 --> 00:58:48,040 while. But yeah, so calf raises, 5 1301 00:58:48,040 --> 00:58:51,120 minute, even a 5 minute walk can reduce a glucose spike by like 1302 00:58:51,120 --> 00:58:52,360 20 to 30%. Wow. 1303 00:58:52,760 --> 00:58:55,080 Which is, again, any way we can just reduce a little bit? 1304 00:58:55,080 --> 00:58:58,360 Because some people, the goal is never to not raise your blood 1305 00:58:58,360 --> 00:58:59,960 sugar at all. That's normal. 1306 00:58:59,960 --> 00:59:02,160 It's going to happen. Even a sauna will spike a blood 1307 00:59:02,160 --> 00:59:03,920 sugar. So stress. 1308 00:59:04,080 --> 00:59:05,720 But another one. This is a crazy one. 1309 00:59:05,720 --> 00:59:08,640 I was wearing ACGM. This was probably a year ago, at 1310 00:59:08,640 --> 00:59:11,800 least now. And I, it's just a fun thing to 1311 00:59:11,800 --> 00:59:13,680 do to kind of like get some data points. 1312 00:59:13,680 --> 00:59:17,000 I was testing a couple things and that night I'd had dinner at 1313 00:59:17,000 --> 00:59:19,720 like 5:00 PM. I'm a big early dinner person. 1314 00:59:19,720 --> 00:59:22,160 I love a 5:00 PM dinner. Same when we have friends that 1315 00:59:22,160 --> 00:59:25,240 are like, so like dinner at 7:30, Daniel looks at me like, 1316 00:59:25,720 --> 00:59:28,560 and I'm like, absolutely not. I can't work 7:30. 1317 00:59:28,760 --> 00:59:31,200 No, I'm makeup off. I'm in bed by that time. 1318 00:59:31,200 --> 00:59:33,520 Yeah, you're then you're going to bed with a full stomach. 1319 00:59:33,520 --> 00:59:35,400 It doesn't feel good. It impacts your sleep. 1320 00:59:35,920 --> 00:59:38,600 Totally, totally. So I like an early dinner and 1321 00:59:38,600 --> 00:59:40,960 then that night we got on a walk and everything and then it was 1322 00:59:40,960 --> 00:59:45,600 about 9 PMI was in bed scrolling on my phone that the next 1323 00:59:45,600 --> 00:59:47,960 morning or that I think that night I checked it, I tapped it 1324 00:59:47,960 --> 00:59:51,080 to sync it before I went to bed. Blood sugar spike from scrolling 1325 00:59:51,080 --> 00:59:53,720 my phone from this stress. Wow. 1326 00:59:53,920 --> 00:59:56,480 So all of these things that again, I didn't and I didn't 1327 00:59:56,480 --> 00:59:59,200 feel like I feel like it was funny memes and reels, like it 1328 00:59:59,200 --> 01:00:01,280 wasn't anything intense. I remember thinking. 1329 01:00:01,640 --> 01:00:04,440 Wow, were you wearing amber like glasses or anything? 1330 01:00:04,520 --> 01:00:06,320 Yes, I was wearing blue light glasses. 1331 01:00:06,320 --> 01:00:07,320 Still wearing. I was wearing blue light 1332 01:00:07,320 --> 01:00:10,440 glasses. Wow, so that's the crazy thing. 1333 01:00:11,280 --> 01:00:13,440 I mean, maybe it's like the emfs and just the. 1334 01:00:13,600 --> 01:00:15,200 Oh 100% the. Dopamine. 1335 01:00:15,240 --> 01:00:17,480 I don't know. It's probably the dopamine, it's 1336 01:00:17,480 --> 01:00:20,680 probably whatever you're again, perceiving that we're not even 1337 01:00:20,680 --> 01:00:24,160 aware of all of this stuff that's going on, like just in 1338 01:00:24,160 --> 01:00:27,800 our like monkey brain, you know, that we're not aware of and it, 1339 01:00:27,840 --> 01:00:30,760 it all impacts it. And so it does feel like 1340 01:00:30,760 --> 01:00:33,640 sometimes I'll get DMS like, how do you live knowing all of this 1341 01:00:33,640 --> 01:00:34,720 stuff? Like, well, you don't have to do 1342 01:00:34,720 --> 01:00:36,120 it all. You don't have to do it all. 1343 01:00:36,440 --> 01:00:38,560 Do a couple things. So like we live in a modern 1344 01:00:38,560 --> 01:00:40,720 world. You can't not everyone can let 1345 01:00:40,720 --> 01:00:43,440 like one day the goal is to live on a farm like this, but we 1346 01:00:43,440 --> 01:00:46,480 can't all do it right now. And so yeah, right now I live in 1347 01:00:46,480 --> 01:00:49,440 an apartment and so there are EMF, there's people next to me 1348 01:00:49,600 --> 01:00:51,880 across. I unplug my Wi-Fi, but they 1349 01:00:51,880 --> 01:00:54,440 don't. So it's like I do what I can, 1350 01:00:54,640 --> 01:00:58,960 but I live in the real world. And so I just, I let it go. 1351 01:00:58,960 --> 01:01:01,760 I let it go as we're like getting closer to trying for 1352 01:01:01,760 --> 01:01:03,600 kids and probably in the next couple months. 1353 01:01:03,960 --> 01:01:07,040 I had for a long time, it's like I got to get this test and this 1354 01:01:07,040 --> 01:01:10,840 gut test and this hormone test and I have to like do all these 1355 01:01:10,840 --> 01:01:13,760 things. I was like, maybe I don't, maybe 1356 01:01:13,800 --> 01:01:15,800 I don't need all that like, of course, a blood test to see 1357 01:01:15,800 --> 01:01:18,440 where I'm at. But I've kind of let go of this 1358 01:01:18,440 --> 01:01:20,480 like everything needs to be perfect. 1359 01:01:20,480 --> 01:01:23,200 I need to see everything, like all the numbers need to be 1360 01:01:23,200 --> 01:01:25,440 great. And I've just let go of that 1361 01:01:25,440 --> 01:01:29,800 like control because that's probably that's more unhealthy. 1362 01:01:29,800 --> 01:01:33,760 Like that cortisol is more unhealthy than the EMF's from my 1363 01:01:33,760 --> 01:01:36,680 neighbor's Wi-Fi. 100 percent, 100%. 1364 01:01:36,680 --> 01:01:39,720 So yeah, I want to talk about period products. 1365 01:01:39,760 --> 01:01:41,960 Before we yes. What's your take? 1366 01:01:42,120 --> 01:01:43,560 What do you like? What do you not like? 1367 01:01:43,800 --> 01:01:45,960 This has changed over the years. I will say I've never used a 1368 01:01:45,960 --> 01:01:49,840 menstrual cup or a disc that I just couldn't get on board with 1369 01:01:49,840 --> 01:01:52,960 that. I tried the cup one time. 1370 01:01:53,440 --> 01:01:56,320 The logistics of it and being in public, I don't know. 1371 01:01:56,520 --> 01:01:58,680 Like I work from home and I'm home most of the time. 1372 01:01:59,160 --> 01:02:00,280 But if I'm not, I think I would panic. 1373 01:02:00,280 --> 01:02:02,480 I think I would like feel scared. 1374 01:02:02,480 --> 01:02:06,680 So I mean I used tampons for years and then and back in the 1375 01:02:06,680 --> 01:02:09,280 day I used like the Tampax sport, like the scented ones. 1376 01:02:09,280 --> 01:02:10,520 OK. I used those ones. 1377 01:02:10,520 --> 01:02:14,760 Oh my gosh, that's insane that they make me scented tampons. 1378 01:02:14,760 --> 01:02:16,760 No, it's disgusting. Yeah, horrible. 1379 01:02:17,000 --> 01:02:20,280 So then I moved to organic cotton because gas tampons 1380 01:02:20,280 --> 01:02:23,080 contain chlorine and bleat. Like, it's creepy. 1381 01:02:23,520 --> 01:02:25,800 And then I recently started just using pads. 1382 01:02:26,240 --> 01:02:30,280 It changed whatever discomfort and like pain I had gone. 1383 01:02:30,720 --> 01:02:32,160 No way. So I'm now convinced that like, 1384 01:02:32,160 --> 01:02:34,360 tampons also cause, which makes sense, irritation and 1385 01:02:34,360 --> 01:02:37,800 inflammation. And just like it can't, it feels 1386 01:02:37,800 --> 01:02:39,640 weird. Yeah, it's a foreign object. 1387 01:02:39,640 --> 01:02:42,000 I've heard you're not the first person I've heard say this, that 1388 01:02:42,000 --> 01:02:47,640 it helps to lessen any sort of like cramping and that the flow 1389 01:02:47,640 --> 01:02:51,000 also decreases. Yep, it's weird. 1390 01:02:51,000 --> 01:02:53,440 So interesting. I'm I haven't gone there. 1391 01:02:53,480 --> 01:02:55,120 Yet so I switched to that and that's. 1392 01:02:55,200 --> 01:02:57,280 Then try it. Yeah, that was like probably the 1393 01:02:57,280 --> 01:03:00,160 biggest difference because for years my peers are pretty easy. 1394 01:03:00,160 --> 01:03:02,280 Yeah. And then I switched to and it 1395 01:03:02,320 --> 01:03:04,120 sometimes every time it's like you can't control. 1396 01:03:04,120 --> 01:03:05,960 Sometimes I'm somewhere where it doesn't make sense. 1397 01:03:06,720 --> 01:03:09,240 But for the most part it changed the game for me. 1398 01:03:09,240 --> 01:03:12,520 I was like, oh, I had no idea how much even that was affecting 1399 01:03:12,520 --> 01:03:14,120 me. Yeah, so. 1400 01:03:14,160 --> 01:03:16,400 What brand new? I use garnu. 1401 01:03:16,480 --> 01:03:18,680 OK, I didn't know. That Garnu, Yeah. 1402 01:03:18,920 --> 01:03:21,920 I love everything they do. Yeah, I used to. 1403 01:03:21,920 --> 01:03:23,840 So I have it on subscription and then it's just easy. 1404 01:03:24,000 --> 01:03:25,760 Yeah. There's good brands like Nature 1405 01:03:25,760 --> 01:03:27,200 Care. Yeah, Attracare. 1406 01:03:27,240 --> 01:03:29,440 That's probably the best brand that I've found in like Sprouts 1407 01:03:29,440 --> 01:03:31,760 or Whole Foods. I get those. 1408 01:03:31,760 --> 01:03:33,720 But now there's so many. But yeah, you just want to watch 1409 01:03:33,720 --> 01:03:36,680 out for like titanium dioxide and a couple other things and 1410 01:03:36,680 --> 01:03:39,720 definitely buying organic and like things that are not 1411 01:03:39,720 --> 01:03:42,600 bleached with chlorine. It's like, that's creepy. 1412 01:03:42,760 --> 01:03:45,400 Chlorine in the. Yeah, I don't know, things I 1413 01:03:45,400 --> 01:03:47,880 never used to think of, and now they're just. 1414 01:03:48,120 --> 01:03:49,480 In there. Same with toilet paper. 1415 01:03:49,560 --> 01:03:52,280 Never used to think of that. And Nope, it's another thing to 1416 01:03:52,280 --> 01:03:54,440 be aware of Underwear. And now you've talked about 1417 01:03:54,440 --> 01:03:57,240 this, like why should women be wearing organic underwear? 1418 01:03:57,240 --> 01:04:00,640 Why is that important? So our skin is our largest 1419 01:04:00,640 --> 01:04:03,640 organ, like our dermal absorption, anything you put on 1420 01:04:03,640 --> 01:04:06,320 your skin, lotion, stuff like that sinks in to your 1421 01:04:06,320 --> 01:04:08,640 bloodstream in 30 seconds, which is crazy. 1422 01:04:08,880 --> 01:04:12,200 But even now our bodies are absorbing materials. 1423 01:04:12,200 --> 01:04:15,000 So most of the things we wear and I'm not perfect, I have 1424 01:04:15,000 --> 01:04:18,000 polyester, of course, a lot of my things are natural fibers, 1425 01:04:18,000 --> 01:04:22,880 but your underwear and like even bras and camisole, sports bras, 1426 01:04:23,160 --> 01:04:26,160 leggings, so many. Things. 1427 01:04:26,280 --> 01:04:29,040 Especially when you're sweating, especially near like yes, 1428 01:04:29,160 --> 01:04:32,480 exactly. And so and that's another thing 1429 01:04:32,680 --> 01:04:35,040 that I was radicalized on. I didn't used to shower right 1430 01:04:35,040 --> 01:04:36,680 away. Don't come after me after a 1431 01:04:36,680 --> 01:04:38,920 workout. And then I was like, oh, you're 1432 01:04:38,920 --> 01:04:41,800 sweating out all your toxins. And if you don't rinse them off, 1433 01:04:41,920 --> 01:04:43,360 your body's just going to reabsorb them. 1434 01:04:43,600 --> 01:04:46,160 So now I'm big on like rinsing right after, which I didn't. 1435 01:04:46,160 --> 01:04:47,960 I used to be lazy about that. I never did. 1436 01:04:48,520 --> 01:04:51,040 Yeah, until I had a naturopath explained that and I was like, 1437 01:04:51,200 --> 01:04:54,960 duh, duh. So now, yeah, it's your largest 1438 01:04:54,960 --> 01:04:58,320 organ and on the most sensitive parts of your body, maybe we 1439 01:04:58,320 --> 01:05:01,080 don't want to put plastic and absorb polyester and dyes and 1440 01:05:01,080 --> 01:05:03,280 things like that. So I love packed, they sell 1441 01:05:03,280 --> 01:05:06,000 organic underwear. There's so many good brands I 1442 01:05:06,000 --> 01:05:07,680 like. Packed and subset. 1443 01:05:08,120 --> 01:05:10,360 I've heard of Subset too, or even brands like Skims. 1444 01:05:10,360 --> 01:05:14,640 They have complete cotton ones, not organic, but cotton, yeah. 1445 01:05:14,640 --> 01:05:16,560 So just. Natural fibers, that's like the 1446 01:05:16,560 --> 01:05:17,920 first step. And then if you can get it 1447 01:05:17,920 --> 01:05:19,040 organic, even better. Yeah. 1448 01:05:19,520 --> 01:05:22,680 Emily, thank you so much for being here and making the trip 1449 01:05:22,680 --> 01:05:24,840 out to the farm. It was so fun to finally meet 1450 01:05:24,840 --> 01:05:28,320 you in real life. Where can people find you and 1451 01:05:28,320 --> 01:05:30,080 continue to learn from you? Yes, thank you. 1452 01:05:30,080 --> 01:05:33,320 This has been so fun. I seriously, this is so cute. 1453 01:05:33,320 --> 01:05:35,160 The animals are just right here. He's here. 1454 01:05:35,360 --> 01:05:36,680 To talk I ain't talking about how much I. 1455 01:05:36,760 --> 01:05:38,120 They hurt us. They hurt us. 1456 01:05:38,120 --> 01:05:39,520 They're the worst animal. Here to talk. 1457 01:05:39,560 --> 01:05:41,440 But you've got the sheep. I think the sheep have been in 1458 01:05:41,440 --> 01:05:44,160 the background a few times and they're so cute and just got 1459 01:05:44,200 --> 01:05:45,480 sheer. They're actually not that cute, 1460 01:05:45,480 --> 01:05:46,520 right? No, I saw that. 1461 01:05:46,520 --> 01:05:49,800 So I'm on Instagram. Little Ray of health is my 1462 01:05:49,800 --> 01:05:51,800 Instagram handle. I have a podcast, a little Ray 1463 01:05:51,800 --> 01:05:54,120 of Health podcast. Those are the two places I spend 1464 01:05:54,120 --> 01:05:57,280 the most time. Feel free to DM me, Come say hi. 1465 01:05:57,480 --> 01:05:59,880 I just, I love like I still run my Instagram. 1466 01:05:59,880 --> 01:06:02,840 It's just me reading my DMS and like interacting with everyone 1467 01:06:02,840 --> 01:06:06,400 is my favorite part of this. Like I think social media can 1468 01:06:06,400 --> 01:06:08,480 still be social. It can be daunting sometimes, 1469 01:06:08,480 --> 01:06:11,880 but it truly is one of my favorite parts of my job. 1470 01:06:12,160 --> 01:06:14,640 And so yeah, Instagram, little Ray of health is like my 1471 01:06:14,640 --> 01:06:16,600 favorite place to be. Thank you so much. 1472 01:06:16,600 --> 01:06:18,840 I know this information is going to help so many people. 1473 01:06:19,120 --> 01:06:21,720 I know it's helped me just everything I've learned from you 1474 01:06:21,720 --> 01:06:23,040 in the past. So thank you again. 1475 01:06:23,080 --> 01:06:24,120 You're welcome. Thank you.