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Speaker 1: Wind Down with Janet Kramer and Imheart Radio podcast.

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Speaker 2: So obviously we're still in January. Do you guys like

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Speaker 2: the whole New Year, New You thing?

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Speaker 1: Like?

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Speaker 2: Do you like when putin I couldn't even finish my

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Speaker 2: sentence to get it out before we knew that one

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Speaker 2: kit Cat came on?

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Speaker 3: What about new Year? Well? What about New Year, New you?

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Speaker 3: Do you not like?

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Speaker 4: I just think there's a lot of pressure.

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Speaker 3: I like you, guys, I have a theory about this.

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Speaker 5: Are you ready? You're gonna like my way of doing life? Okay,

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Speaker 5: January is not New Year, New You. It's just a

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Speaker 5: new year, and you get all of January to figure

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Speaker 5: out what are my goals and then you can start

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Speaker 5: in February and it's the shortest month, so that feels

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Speaker 5: cozy to but I feel like.

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Speaker 2: The February is also putting pressure on the February and

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Speaker 2: then the rest of the year.

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Speaker 5: I think what Cat's point just said, Oh I know

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Speaker 5: what you're saying. Okay, So no, I just think any like,

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Speaker 5: I don't really do resolutions, Yeah, but I don't even

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Speaker 5: like pressure on myself to even find a word or

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Speaker 5: whatever anybody does.

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Speaker 3: Just January, just take a minute.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I do think like I like like I like

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Speaker 4: the like the feeling of like a starting over, like

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Speaker 4: like the work. I really love it, like, Okay, what's

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Speaker 4: the plan for this year? What's the Like it feels

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Speaker 4: like a slow build usually for work, but like you

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Speaker 4: can focus, Like I like that part of it, But

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Speaker 4: I don't like the like what's your news resolution, what's

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Speaker 4: your you know, and like I did do stuff lash January,

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Speaker 4: but this January, you know what, I'm just kind of

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Speaker 4: like not putting on a pressure on myself.

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Speaker 2: Because last January was it was prepping for the wedding,

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Speaker 2: right yeah, like I'm going to do PMS program and

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Speaker 2: just like I did because.

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Speaker 4: That's when it started, right, Yeah, it was like January

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Speaker 4: eighth or something, which was fine, Like I think I

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Speaker 4: handled that okay, But then I think what happened for

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Speaker 4: this year because I did gain some weight back that

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Speaker 4: I was like kind of putting that pressure on myself

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Speaker 4: to do it again. Yeah you know what I mean.

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Speaker 4: And I'm like, you know, I don't know that I

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Speaker 4: really want that pressure on myself. Like I'm happy, I'm good.

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Speaker 4: I don't know.

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Speaker 3: Do you weigh yourself?

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Speaker 6: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: How often do you weigh yourself.

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Speaker 4: I mean I weigh myself every day. You weigh every day,

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Speaker 4: Like I've said, it is not a mental thing for me. Really,

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Speaker 4: It truly is to keep up with Like I wouldn't

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Speaker 4: know probably that I was gaining weight if I didn't.

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Speaker 3: Well, I think none of us were structured pants anymore, right, Exactly,

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Speaker 3: there's no U.

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Speaker 4: And you're like, okay, like I'm getting a little you know,

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Speaker 4: like I just always have. But when I was thirty

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Speaker 4: pounds heavier, it truly didn't really affect me in like

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Speaker 4: a mental weight where it does a lot of people.

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Speaker 2: So so like I mean, like when the number goes

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Speaker 2: up or something you don't see, you say, that doesn't.

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Speaker 3: Affect you men?

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Speaker 2: Really no, So then I guess why do you weigh

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Speaker 2: yourself every day just to like get nice thing?

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Speaker 3: That's like, I'm just like you really.

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Speaker 4: Kind of have it. I think from losing. It's more

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Speaker 4: from when I was losing, I had to weigh myself

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Speaker 4: every day to see if I was and that definitely

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Speaker 4: helped me in the losing process. Yeah, but it's not

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Speaker 4: like I get on the scale and see another number

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Speaker 4: and then get you know, I'm like, hey, I should

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Speaker 4: probably get that in check and do better. But like

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Speaker 4: it doesn't really, but I know it does a lot

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Speaker 4: of people, and I'm not a fan of that for

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Speaker 4: a lot of people.

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Speaker 3: I'm one of those people.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure, which one are you? Oh the number

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Speaker 3: Oh it will.

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Speaker 2: It will mentally throw me so down the rabbit hole

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Speaker 2: that I won't, like not eat if it's a number

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Speaker 2: over like, I won't eat, I'll like do that whole thing.

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Speaker 2: I mean, we've talked about this before, but it's it's

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Speaker 2: a total mind Yeah for me, Yeah, I feel like.

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Speaker 4: Why I have to preface that by I do that.

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Speaker 4: But for me, I have not found it to be

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Speaker 4: an unhealthy habit, sure, whereas it can be a very

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Speaker 5: So for me now, because I know muscle is so

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Speaker 5: good for me, and I've been I've weighed so much

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Speaker 5: more than I do now because I had good muscle

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Speaker 5: and I felt strong. Gosh, that was like I felt

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Speaker 5: so hot in that moment. But I don't. It doesn't

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Speaker 5: do that to me now, which is good. I would

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Speaker 5: say I'm a good balance right in the middle. Right now, Well,

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Speaker 5: that's got to be very like positive.

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Speaker 4: It feels good you know what I mean, Like, that's

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Speaker 4: got to feel good to see your mental health kind

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Speaker 4: of change around that.

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Speaker 3: That's so very cool.

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Speaker 5: But now it was weird because when I lost all

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Speaker 5: the weight after the baby, it was because I lost

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Speaker 5: the muscle because I couldn't work.

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Speaker 3: Out when I got so sad. Yeah, and that was weird. Sure,

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Speaker 3: But then there are times where I will.

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Speaker 5: Get on this scale to get myself back in check. Yeah,

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Speaker 5: because I have body dysmorphia in the way that I

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Speaker 5: think it's so much more than it is.

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Speaker 3: And then I get on there and I'm like, Okay, Kristen, calm.

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Speaker 5: Down right, right, But it's just weird to gauge again

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Speaker 5: because we're not wearing real clothes hardly ever, seriously, Like

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Speaker 5: it's a weird.

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Speaker 4: I know, occasionally I put on my geens, I'm like,

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Speaker 4: did they fit like this last time? I don't really remember.

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Speaker 3: No, But it's great because now you don't even remember.

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Speaker 6: It's actually Burvan.

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Speaker 3: It's like, I don't know, maybe they fit just like this,

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Speaker 3: but it's been so long I can't.

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Speaker 4: I just want to be healthy. I think that that's

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Speaker 4: my thing. Like I'm gonna like not stress about the

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Speaker 4: I want to get on my you know, all my

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Speaker 4: levels good, all those things well.

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Speaker 2: And that is why we are doing this episode today.

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Speaker 2: If you're hearing some noise in the background too, We've

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Speaker 2: got our girl Nicole here and we're going to introduce her.

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Speaker 2: She's going to put one more IVY and I was like,

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Speaker 2: I just got an IVY because I'm like, oh, Nicole's

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Speaker 2: on the rundown today. I was like, oh, I was

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Speaker 2: like Ivy's girls. I get so excited. But you know,

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Speaker 2: I think it's hard. I'm just gonna say this so

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Speaker 2: and then we'll you know, we'll intro Nicole after she's

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Speaker 2: poked kyb here.

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Speaker 3: But I how do I say this?

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Speaker 2: Because I don't want to discredit I don't want to

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Speaker 2: discredit doctors because they have a very obviously important job

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Speaker 2: and what they do is very important. But there's I

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Speaker 2: think a different level of Uh. I don't want to

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Speaker 2: say it's not science, it's a different level of really

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Speaker 2: looking at blood work in a way that my doctor

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Speaker 2: he would just draw the regular panel of vitamin D

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Speaker 2: and iron. But I don't know, I've never truly gotten

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Speaker 2: until last year, a full panel of all of my

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Speaker 2: levels checked because post Roman I was so screwed up. Yes,

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Speaker 2: And I didn't even realize how messed up I was

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Speaker 2: until I went to a place that and what do

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Speaker 2: you how do you even like functional medical? Functional medicine.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's a good mix between like super western and Eastern.

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Speaker 2: And we'll have Nicole, you know, describe functional medicine. But

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Speaker 2: it was eye opening to me because I didn't realize,

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Speaker 2: I didn't realize how much I needed it.

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Speaker 3: Well, what's wild?

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Speaker 5: And she can go into depth with this when she's

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Speaker 5: done sticking in them. What's wild is what is considered

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Speaker 5: normal and what is considered Like, you're fine because your

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Speaker 5: level's at a certain level, but in reality, like how

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Speaker 5: they get those numbers and what what why they come

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Speaker 5: up with those numbers is so crazy and vast that

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Speaker 5: it doesn't apply to every single person.

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Speaker 2: Well, and that's the thing too, because they're they're they're

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Speaker 2: reading it different. Yes, they're also going to go into

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Speaker 4: For me, the whole reason I went is not necessarily

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Speaker 4: because I felt bad or you know, like I felt

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Speaker 4: you know, It was more the whole like vitamin thing

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Speaker 4: was so stressful to me. Yeah, there are so many

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Speaker 4: you hear all these things? Do you take this?

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Speaker 2: Do you take that as I'm posting like fifteen supplements?

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Speaker 2: But I'm like yeah, but I was actually also taking

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Speaker 2: all those supplements down, and I'm like, is this too much?

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Speaker 3: Like is there actually a reverse?

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Speaker 1: You know?

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Speaker 4: And I'd look at it like, well I should get that,

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Speaker 4: and I should I don't know. So I finally just

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Speaker 1: Well?

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Speaker 5: Also, it's wild too, because even brands of vitamins matter,

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Speaker 5: like you can't you know, like certain vitamins don't dilute well,

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Speaker 2: I think, well, and that's why you are the one

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Speaker 2: that actually maybe was the one that introduced me to

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Speaker 2: Nicole and all functional medicine. And I honestly it's not

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Speaker 2: that I didn't I guess. I just I'm like, well,

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Speaker 2: why didn't why didn't our doctors tell us this? Like

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Speaker 2: why didn't our doctors run these panels and go, oh,

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Speaker 2: you are so low in X, Y and Z. But

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Speaker 2: there's just a whole level of more depth and in

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Speaker 2: functional medicine. So let's take a quick break and then

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Speaker 2: let's get Nicole on and dive right into it. Nicole,

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Speaker 2: thank you so much for coming on the show. Last year,

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Speaker 2: I came into your office and I was so embarrassed

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Speaker 2: because I mean, she doesn't know me that well, not

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Speaker 2: well enough, obviously, not even close to like you girls,

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Speaker 2: even though she's you know, looking at my poop samples

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Speaker 2: and everything that that, like you know, she's we've given her.

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Speaker 3: It gets intimate fast, Okay, it sure does.

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Speaker 2: But I just started like bawling because she's like and

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Speaker 2: I'm like, i.

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Speaker 6: Don't even know why I'm crying.

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Speaker 3: I'm just like I'm not happy and I don't know.

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Speaker 2: And then she and I was like, I'm so sorry,

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Speaker 2: and like, how many do people A lot of people

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Speaker 2: just come in your office and cry.

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Speaker 6: Well, she's like, well, like you too.

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Speaker 1: I think krist and I have had like a weekly

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Speaker 3: I'm like, a hey girl.

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Speaker 2: It was like, well, it's hard because you feel like

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Speaker 2: I didn't know why I felt the way that I felt.

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Speaker 2: I'm like, you know, I went to therapy and and

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Speaker 2: she's telling me I'm not depressed. I'm like, then, why

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Speaker 2: Why do I like feel just like brain foggy?

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Speaker 3: And you, you.

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Speaker 1: that people are taking calcium supplements. But if you are

437
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Speaker 1: not taking vitamin D with your calcium, you're not going

438
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Speaker 1: to absorb it well. And if you're not taking vitamin

439
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Speaker 1: K with your D and your calcium, that calcium is

440
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Speaker 1: actually going to go towards plaque build up, so atherosclerosis,

441
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Speaker 1: which can lead to cardiovascular disease, versus being reabsorbed back

442
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Speaker 1: into the bone where obviously we actually want it since

443
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Speaker 1: we're trying to reduce things like osteoporosis, very very important.

444
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Speaker 4: So this is I get them a touch on this

445
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Speaker 4: real fast. This is where I get very frustrated. So

446
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Speaker 4: you don't work with children, right.

447
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Speaker 1: Not typically like I see kids from time to time,

448
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Speaker 1: but I much more work.

449
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Speaker 4: I'm not trying to change a subject, but it has

450
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Speaker 4: to do with the vitamin D. So when I took

451
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Speaker 4: my fifteen year old boy and my almost thirteen year

452
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Speaker 4: old girl to their regular pediatrician visits. The boy is

453
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Speaker 4: supposed to be taking calcium, the girls are supposed to

454
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Speaker 4: be taking vitamin D, and I'm like, is anyone going

455
00:21:04,119 --> 00:21:06,719
Speaker 4: to mention anything else? So like, should they also be

456
00:21:06,840 --> 00:21:08,920
Speaker 4: taking vitamin D plus K two?

457
00:21:09,600 --> 00:21:09,919
Speaker 6: Yeah?

458
00:21:09,960 --> 00:21:12,639
Speaker 1: So with pediatrics, like I said, adults are my specialty,

459
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Speaker 1: but generally speaking yes, Yeah, generally speaking yes, and most

460
00:21:16,600 --> 00:21:19,359
Speaker 1: children's vitamins, like the well rounded quality ones will also

461
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Speaker 1: include that in there to a very small degree.

462
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Speaker 4: Yeah. That's just where I get frustrated, because now that

463
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Speaker 4: I know that, I'm like, is anyone gonna tell me that?

464
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Speaker 2: But also with super frustrating, and I'm going to just

465
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Speaker 2: go on top of this. I was sitting there talking

466
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Speaker 2: to her about Nicole about vaccines, and I was struggling.

467
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Speaker 2: I was like, listen, I'm going to give some and

468
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Speaker 2: I'm some of them I'm having really tough time with

469
00:21:37,560 --> 00:21:40,960
Speaker 2: and I just don't know. And she was, well, don't

470
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Speaker 2: do tailan al. You know the one thing the damned

471
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Speaker 2: doctor say before and after, make sure you give them

472
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Speaker 2: tilan all if be there before or after. And She's

473
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Speaker 2: like do not give talan all because I say or

474
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Speaker 2: after vaccines.

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Speaker 1: I mean, ever, if I had it my way, It's interesting.

476
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Speaker 1: Research actually shows of all the medications in the world,

477
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Speaker 1: tyland All is considered one of the most dangerous medications

478
00:22:01,800 --> 00:22:03,000
Speaker 1: on the market.

479
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Speaker 6: It's yeah, I know, and especially to.

480
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Speaker 1: Follow that like post vaccine, I think what happens to

481
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Speaker 1: a lot of people is, you know, in today's vaccine world,

482
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Speaker 1: kids are getting a lot of vaccines at once, a ton,

483
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Speaker 1: back to back to back to back. It's you know,

484
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Speaker 1: there's a lot of things in vaccines outside of just

485
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Speaker 1: this stuff that we want, a lot of metals and

486
00:22:25,440 --> 00:22:29,359
Speaker 1: whatnot that are used for preservative purposes. However, when you

487
00:22:29,560 --> 00:22:32,520
Speaker 1: flood the body with a whole bunch of different heavy

488
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Speaker 1: metals that are in these vaccines and then you give

489
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Speaker 1: them thileanol, thileanol depletes glutathion, which is our master antioxidant,

490
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Speaker 1: which is what protects us from things like heavy metal toxicity.

491
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Speaker 1: Do you talk about kids who experience things like vaccine injuries?

492
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Speaker 1: And this is a really really big reason why we

493
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Speaker 1: see this. So yeah, post vaccine, no tileanol.

494
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Speaker 2: Because it takes away the gluteithion, or it not takes

495
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Speaker 2: it away, but it blocks it enough.

496
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Speaker 6: It blocks it. Yeah, isn't that insane.

497
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Speaker 2: I'm like, I want to like go into my pediatric

498
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Speaker 2: and pediatrician and be like, why are you telling me this?

499
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Speaker 3: Why are you telling all of this?

500
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Speaker 4: It's just so hard because I do believe in functional

501
00:23:09,640 --> 00:23:12,320
Speaker 4: medicine obviously, but I also do believe in my kids

502
00:23:12,359 --> 00:23:16,000
Speaker 4: going to the pediatrician and vaccines, and so it's just

503
00:23:16,080 --> 00:23:19,560
Speaker 4: like this balance, but I don't feel like I'm getting

504
00:23:19,560 --> 00:23:22,760
Speaker 4: all the correct and for it. It's just it overwhelms me.

505
00:23:23,280 --> 00:23:24,600
Speaker 4: It completely overwhelms me.

506
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Speaker 5: You've been like, functional medicine to me has always been

507
00:23:27,400 --> 00:23:32,159
Speaker 5: like the good balance for me because holistic medicine is

508
00:23:32,400 --> 00:23:37,359
Speaker 5: beautiful and lovely and I've done that and it was

509
00:23:37,440 --> 00:23:40,960
Speaker 5: effective ish, but there is I mean, listen, I'm sitting

510
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Speaker 5: here with rods in my back, Like I believe in

511
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Speaker 5: modern medicine and I believe in doctors and nurses and

512
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Speaker 5: all of those things. I just also feel like it

513
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Speaker 5: doesn't have to be all or nothing, and it felt

514
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Speaker 5: like there was nothing right in the middle. Yes, and

515
00:23:52,920 --> 00:23:54,800
Speaker 5: so to sit with someone that has a brain like

516
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Speaker 5: yours and say, like, you know, I don't want to

517
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Speaker 5: be on zoloft postpartum, and I was in it while

518
00:24:01,000 --> 00:24:03,119
Speaker 5: it was lovely and it helped me at the time

519
00:24:03,920 --> 00:24:06,480
Speaker 5: mood wise, it also made me not super want to

520
00:24:06,520 --> 00:24:09,960
Speaker 5: have sex that sucked because I really enjoy that, like sure,

521
00:24:10,200 --> 00:24:12,000
Speaker 5: and it makes me feel like a girlfriend, and that

522
00:24:12,040 --> 00:24:15,520
Speaker 5: makes you feel better postpartum, you know, like so to

523
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Speaker 5: sit with you and say, like you can come off

524
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Speaker 5: of that. We have to be careful how we do

525
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Speaker 5: it and slow, but like just all of those things

526
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Speaker 5: where and I never want to throw any obs under

527
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Speaker 5: the bus because quite honestly, I have like the cream

528
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Speaker 5: of the crop.

529
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Speaker 3: I think she's brilliant.

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Speaker 5: That is what is suggested pretty quickly when you do

531
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Speaker 5: the postpartum checklist and you score low.

532
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like, okay, we need to.

533
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Speaker 5: Look into something, and it is effective and helpful.

534
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Speaker 6: It is.

535
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Speaker 5: But also my body was a train wreck. I mean

536
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Speaker 5: my first round of labs, it was like no testosterone

537
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Speaker 5: at all, right, I mean like at a three.

538
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Speaker 1: Yeah, namesies, yes, I'm pretty sure y'all. Suveles couldn't even

539
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Speaker 1: be read because they were so low. That's the lesson thereach.

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Speaker 2: I didn't but as a forty year old woman, you know,

541
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Speaker 2: I didn't know that testosterone like we were supposed to.

542
00:25:04,600 --> 00:25:08,360
Speaker 2: We even should have our testosterone taken. Like, so, I'm

543
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Speaker 2: like when you when you were saying like I need

544
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Speaker 2: testosterone shots, I'm like, what, Like, isn't that only for men?

545
00:25:12,680 --> 00:25:12,880
Speaker 1: Yeah?

546
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Speaker 3: I was so confused.

547
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Speaker 4: I mean, I did know that, but I had no

548
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Speaker 4: idea when was that low though.

549
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Speaker 6: Yeah, I don't. I don't know that you're so shots

550
00:25:20,960 --> 00:25:21,480
Speaker 6: anymore now.

551
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Speaker 4: But it wasn't really helped me. She was like, well,

552
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Speaker 4: then don't do it.

553
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Speaker 2: And I was like, see, I noticed that I do

554
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Speaker 2: notice the difference when when I don't do the shots.

555
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Speaker 2: I really do, like my energy level is different and

556
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Speaker 2: I feel and now that I'm taking the dhah, which

557
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Speaker 2: what is DHA?

558
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Speaker 1: So that is the other hormone that comes from our

559
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Speaker 1: adrenal glance. We're talking about adrenal fatigue. You know, people

560
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Speaker 1: who have experienced lots of chronic stress, lots of previous trauma.

561
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Speaker 1: You can see there's different varying levels. Yeah, Jack, check,

562
00:25:48,480 --> 00:25:51,800
Speaker 1: there's varying levels of adrenal fatigue. And when that DHA

563
00:25:51,960 --> 00:25:54,879
Speaker 1: level starts to go down, when it's low enough, I

564
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Speaker 1: will supplement with it.

565
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Speaker 2: You mentioned this earlier where it's even if you're not

566
00:26:11,640 --> 00:26:15,760
Speaker 2: in the PTSD chronic stress or trauma right in this moment,

567
00:26:15,960 --> 00:26:17,720
Speaker 2: it still can be in your body. And I think

568
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Speaker 2: that's something that I've taken to heart because when I'm like, well,

569
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Speaker 2: everything's amazing, I'm getting you know, I was getting married

570
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Speaker 2: and I have a beautiful baby, and you know, life

571
00:26:27,440 --> 00:26:30,280
Speaker 2: is good and work is good, and it's like, why

572
00:26:30,280 --> 00:26:33,360
Speaker 2: do I feel like this load? And You're like, well,

573
00:26:33,600 --> 00:26:35,960
Speaker 2: it could still be in you from when your PTSD

574
00:26:36,080 --> 00:26:38,560
Speaker 2: or abusive relationships. And I'm like, what that's like. I

575
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Speaker 2: didn't know how much that really affected the body present.

576
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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, one hundred percent. It affects you present day.

577
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Speaker 1: And when you talk about hormones as a whole, I

578
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Speaker 1: always try to explain it like think of it like

579
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Speaker 1: a like a line, like your adrenals have to work

580
00:26:52,200 --> 00:26:54,200
Speaker 1: for your thyroid to work. Your thyroid has to work

581
00:26:54,200 --> 00:26:56,160
Speaker 1: for your sex hormones to work. So if you have

582
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Speaker 1: hormone dysfunction at the very top, like with your adrenals,

583
00:26:59,280 --> 00:27:01,720
Speaker 1: like what you're experience and saying that's going to give

584
00:27:01,720 --> 00:27:05,280
Speaker 1: you full body repercussions. And so I always start I'm

585
00:27:05,280 --> 00:27:07,119
Speaker 1: always like, you know, treat the adrenals first and then

586
00:27:07,160 --> 00:27:09,600
Speaker 1: go from there because oftentimes if you have that right dysfunction,

587
00:27:09,640 --> 00:27:12,120
Speaker 1: it could come from that. Sex hormone dysfunction also comes

588
00:27:12,200 --> 00:27:15,199
Speaker 1: from that, and so treating that in you especially is

589
00:27:15,200 --> 00:27:18,119
Speaker 1: so important. But for everyone else out there, you know,

590
00:27:18,720 --> 00:27:21,920
Speaker 1: it's all the hormones are connected. Our body is one

591
00:27:22,119 --> 00:27:24,439
Speaker 1: giant system, which we're not trained to look at it

592
00:27:24,520 --> 00:27:27,440
Speaker 1: like that. Inconventional medicine. We're actually trained quite the opposite.

593
00:27:27,560 --> 00:27:29,160
Speaker 1: And I can't tell you when I was in commisional

594
00:27:29,200 --> 00:27:30,840
Speaker 1: medicine the number of times I was like, oh no,

595
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Speaker 1: I don't treat that.

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Speaker 6: You have to see so and so.

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Speaker 2: Uh.

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00:27:33,359 --> 00:27:35,399
Speaker 1: It is not until I went into functional medicine that

599
00:27:35,440 --> 00:27:38,120
Speaker 1: I realized, like, oh wait a second, everything is actually

600
00:27:38,119 --> 00:27:39,760
Speaker 1: related needs to be treated as such.

601
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Speaker 2: So what do you think is the biggest I don't

602
00:27:45,040 --> 00:27:47,480
Speaker 2: want to say fad, but something where you know, obviously

603
00:27:47,880 --> 00:27:50,560
Speaker 2: there's you know, the whole new year, new, this new thing,

604
00:27:50,640 --> 00:27:52,440
Speaker 2: Like what is the thing that you look at and

605
00:27:52,520 --> 00:27:54,720
Speaker 2: you're like, you know this this diet is is there

606
00:27:54,720 --> 00:27:57,280
Speaker 2: a certain diet? They're like, don't do that? Or like

607
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Speaker 2: what is or there is there a product? Or is

608
00:27:59,560 --> 00:28:01,919
Speaker 2: there something? And they're something that you're seeing. That's like,

609
00:28:02,000 --> 00:28:04,080
Speaker 2: it shouldn't be promoted the way that's being promoted.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I think I have two answers to this.

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Speaker 1: With the diet, it feels like everyone goes carnivor Keto,

612
00:28:12,240 --> 00:28:15,720
Speaker 1: which I'm not the biggest fan of. I think, you know,

613
00:28:15,880 --> 00:28:18,280
Speaker 1: short term diets, any kind of diet is fine, but

614
00:28:18,440 --> 00:28:20,000
Speaker 1: a lot of people hop on these diets and then

615
00:28:20,040 --> 00:28:22,680
Speaker 1: they stay on them long term. And what's interesting about

616
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Speaker 1: both of them is typically the people you'll see that

617
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Speaker 1: hop on these diet trends are, you know, people who

618
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Speaker 1: have quite significant weight to lose or they have dealt

619
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Speaker 1: with things like insulin resistance. Do they lose weight, yes,

620
00:28:34,920 --> 00:28:38,480
Speaker 1: But if you already have something like metabolic syndrome or

621
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Speaker 1: insulin resistance, the likelihood is that you already have things

622
00:28:41,760 --> 00:28:45,440
Speaker 1: like high cholesterol, plaque build up, possibly leaning towards that

623
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Speaker 1: cardiovascular disease state. And when you do something like the

624
00:28:49,040 --> 00:28:51,800
Speaker 1: carnivor diet, you lose all your phyto nutrients. Most people

625
00:28:51,840 --> 00:28:54,400
Speaker 1: are not eating like a colorful plate of fruits and veggies.

626
00:28:54,800 --> 00:28:57,880
Speaker 1: When you do something like keto, same concept, your fats

627
00:28:57,920 --> 00:29:01,600
Speaker 1: go sky high because you're going low carb. Both of

628
00:29:01,640 --> 00:29:05,360
Speaker 1: these can have really negative repercussions in people who are

629
00:29:05,440 --> 00:29:09,200
Speaker 1: probably already experiencing some of this from having insulin resistance

630
00:29:09,320 --> 00:29:13,560
Speaker 1: and being overweight or obese to begin with. So I

631
00:29:13,600 --> 00:29:16,080
Speaker 1: always like to tell people well rounded is the way

632
00:29:16,120 --> 00:29:18,480
Speaker 1: to go. I mean, I think we've all probably heard

633
00:29:18,520 --> 00:29:21,760
Speaker 1: of the Mediterranean diet, but getting things like anti inflammatory

634
00:29:21,800 --> 00:29:26,320
Speaker 1: diet yep, whole whole grains, omega three fatty acids like

635
00:29:26,400 --> 00:29:29,280
Speaker 1: these are some of the best things you can do

636
00:29:29,360 --> 00:29:31,320
Speaker 1: for weight. It's fine to go a little lower carb

637
00:29:31,360 --> 00:29:33,880
Speaker 1: and higher fat, but it shouldn't be an all or

638
00:29:33,920 --> 00:29:37,000
Speaker 1: nothing scenario. And I definitely see time and time again

639
00:29:37,040 --> 00:29:38,760
Speaker 1: people who've been on these diets for a long time,

640
00:29:38,840 --> 00:29:41,200
Speaker 1: they actually end up having kind of long term repercussions

641
00:29:41,200 --> 00:29:43,440
Speaker 1: to their health, things like plaque build up and being

642
00:29:43,440 --> 00:29:46,040
Speaker 1: at a higher increased risk for cardiovascular disease.

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Speaker 6: Down the line.

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Speaker 3: What do you think about alcohol?

645
00:29:48,160 --> 00:29:51,280
Speaker 1: So there is a lot of research to say that

646
00:29:51,440 --> 00:29:54,840
Speaker 1: red wine does have its heart health benefits, and red

647
00:29:54,840 --> 00:29:59,200
Speaker 1: wine is actually recommended in the Mediterranean diet. So I

648
00:29:59,240 --> 00:30:00,640
Speaker 1: think everything in moderation.

649
00:30:01,000 --> 00:30:02,959
Speaker 2: What would you say is like a moderate like to

650
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Speaker 2: have a glass of wine, Like, what would you say

651
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Speaker 2: is a moderate level or for a week or a month.

652
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Speaker 6: Recommended for a week, probably like one to two glasses

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Speaker 6: a week.

654
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Speaker 5: Wanted to Yes, I have a question when it comes

655
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Speaker 5: to like seafood, because Mediterranean diet is glorious and beautiful. Yes,

656
00:30:17,360 --> 00:30:20,160
Speaker 5: we also live in the United States, Yes, and we

657
00:30:20,240 --> 00:30:23,520
Speaker 5: specifically live here right in the middle where they're like, yeah,

658
00:30:23,840 --> 00:30:25,000
Speaker 5: super landlocked and no.

659
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Speaker 3: Fresh Like where what is our best way to get.

660
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Speaker 5: Things like like I can eat salmon now mcause I

661
00:30:31,680 --> 00:30:34,120
Speaker 5: know it's good for me, yes, but also if you're

662
00:30:34,120 --> 00:30:37,080
Speaker 5: eating not good meat, yes, it's not good for you.

663
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Speaker 5: So if you're not eating great seafood, you might as

664
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Speaker 5: well just not eat it at all.

665
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Speaker 6: That's fair.

666
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Speaker 3: Yeah, So where do we go?

667
00:30:43,320 --> 00:30:43,640
Speaker 6: Yeah?

668
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Speaker 4: And so I think is there a site that you

669
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Speaker 4: order that you like?

670
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Speaker 1: So that's a good question. I still pick up my

671
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Speaker 1: seafood here locally. I'm actually, truthfully, I'm not a huge

672
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Speaker 1: seafood eater. I forced myself to eat salmon a few

673
00:30:54,640 --> 00:30:55,920
Speaker 1: times a week because I know it's good for me,

674
00:30:56,000 --> 00:30:59,360
Speaker 1: but it's not not my jam lean proteins. The other

675
00:30:59,400 --> 00:31:02,200
Speaker 1: way to go chicken and turkey, And I think the

676
00:31:02,280 --> 00:31:04,600
Speaker 1: thing that we can look for and this is accessible

677
00:31:04,600 --> 00:31:06,160
Speaker 1: to anybody depending on where you're located.

678
00:31:06,240 --> 00:31:07,880
Speaker 6: Is you just want to find someone.

679
00:31:07,600 --> 00:31:13,920
Speaker 1: Who locally produces their meat essentially grass fed, pasture raised.

680
00:31:14,040 --> 00:31:16,400
Speaker 1: That's the most important things you can look for. There

681
00:31:16,400 --> 00:31:19,640
Speaker 1: are some like smaller markets even here locally in Nashville

682
00:31:20,480 --> 00:31:22,360
Speaker 1: that will sell things like this, like your farmer's markets

683
00:31:22,400 --> 00:31:25,520
Speaker 1: and whatnot. But typically, you know, in different communities, you

684
00:31:25,520 --> 00:31:28,840
Speaker 1: can ask around and there's usually places or farmers who

685
00:31:29,000 --> 00:31:31,400
Speaker 1: will sell. There's also lots of Facebook pages for this.

686
00:31:32,200 --> 00:31:36,760
Speaker 1: I'm a member of multiple different Facebook pages like Frenchy

687
00:31:36,840 --> 00:31:40,280
Speaker 1: Moms of Tennessee or something like that, who they constantly

688
00:31:40,360 --> 00:31:42,360
Speaker 1: have like people who can produce this stuff and will

689
00:31:42,360 --> 00:31:45,400
Speaker 1: sell it to the general community. So going back to

690
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Speaker 1: the salmon, just so I can also say this too,

691
00:31:49,000 --> 00:31:51,920
Speaker 1: I think there's you know, you hear fresh never frozen,

692
00:31:51,920 --> 00:31:53,840
Speaker 1: and you always want that to be the direction that

693
00:31:53,880 --> 00:31:56,239
Speaker 1: you go. But a lot of the live bacteria that

694
00:31:56,280 --> 00:31:59,040
Speaker 1: live in salmon die when you freeze it. Though it's

695
00:31:59,040 --> 00:32:02,440
Speaker 1: not always the worst thing if your salmon's frozen to

696
00:32:02,480 --> 00:32:02,840
Speaker 1: begin with.

697
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Speaker 2: Okay, great, Going back to women's health and in forties,

698
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Speaker 2: obviously testosterone in hormones. Was there anything else that we

699
00:32:12,360 --> 00:32:14,920
Speaker 2: should be of concern as we age and go into

700
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Speaker 2: perimont and pause or anything else that we should go. Okay,

701
00:32:17,840 --> 00:32:20,080
Speaker 2: we're in our forties now, this is something we should

702
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Speaker 2: really look out for.

703
00:32:22,320 --> 00:32:22,680
Speaker 6: Yeah.

704
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Speaker 1: I think when we enter our thirties and forties, that's

705
00:32:27,200 --> 00:32:30,840
Speaker 1: when kind of lifestyle things that we've done for a

706
00:32:30,840 --> 00:32:33,480
Speaker 1: long time really start to come into play. And you

707
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Speaker 1: also had asked me earlier about trending supplements, like.

708
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Speaker 2: Don't look at my Starbucks cup? Okay, I like, like,

709
00:32:38,160 --> 00:32:39,680
Speaker 2: I like I saw her to stare at it. I'm like,

710
00:32:39,720 --> 00:32:41,000
Speaker 2: I'm not giving up my Chi tea.

711
00:32:41,080 --> 00:32:44,600
Speaker 3: Yet. We can only do so much one thing at

712
00:32:44,600 --> 00:32:45,480
Speaker 3: a time, one thing.

713
00:32:45,400 --> 00:32:45,840
Speaker 6: At a time.

714
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Speaker 1: Yes, my husband jokes that that is my crutch too.

715
00:32:48,760 --> 00:32:50,840
Speaker 1: So I live an eighty twenty lifestyle. Eighty percent of

716
00:32:50,880 --> 00:32:53,040
Speaker 1: the time I do very well. Twenty percent of the time.

717
00:32:53,200 --> 00:32:53,960
Speaker 1: I drink Starbucks.

718
00:32:54,920 --> 00:32:55,400
Speaker 3: Okay.

719
00:32:56,320 --> 00:32:59,160
Speaker 1: But yeah, I think when we start to enter thirties

720
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Speaker 1: and forties, the lifestyle things that we've had, like our

721
00:33:02,840 --> 00:33:05,240
Speaker 1: childhood in teen years is when you really start to

722
00:33:05,240 --> 00:33:07,960
Speaker 1: see those things come to light. So gut dysfunction is

723
00:33:08,000 --> 00:33:11,000
Speaker 1: huge here and I hear it all the time. It's like, oh,

724
00:33:11,040 --> 00:33:13,120
Speaker 1: I've been fine for all these years, and then suddenly

725
00:33:13,120 --> 00:33:16,200
Speaker 1: I'm just getting bloated randomly, or I'm constipated or diarrhea

726
00:33:16,240 --> 00:33:20,080
Speaker 1: or whatever. And it's typically because things from our childhood

727
00:33:20,080 --> 00:33:23,040
Speaker 1: are really starting to like affect us, like multiple rounds

728
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Speaker 1: of childhood antibiotics, for example.

729
00:33:24,960 --> 00:33:26,520
Speaker 2: Or the cherries that we would just eat from, like

730
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Speaker 2: the Marciano cherries.

731
00:33:27,640 --> 00:33:35,680
Speaker 1: That yes, they're really just a vehicle to get sugar

732
00:33:35,720 --> 00:33:36,840
Speaker 1: straight to your bloodstream.

733
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Speaker 6: I was always.

734
00:33:39,120 --> 00:33:41,720
Speaker 3: Popping them by the bartender that like is so I

735
00:33:41,840 --> 00:33:43,800
Speaker 3: never liked them. I was the olive girl. But it's

736
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Speaker 3: something you.

737
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Speaker 1: Would do the olive girls. So yes, all right, sorry,

738
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Speaker 1: I go back to what you're saying. No, you're totally fine.

739
00:33:53,160 --> 00:33:55,320
Speaker 1: But yeah, I think gut health is the other big one,

740
00:33:55,400 --> 00:33:57,640
Speaker 1: and it's important for so many things. Not only do

741
00:33:57,720 --> 00:34:01,520
Speaker 1: you really start to see dysfunction in the thirty thirties

742
00:34:01,520 --> 00:34:05,400
Speaker 1: and forties, but gut health is kind of that gateway

743
00:34:05,440 --> 00:34:08,640
Speaker 1: to develop things like chronic disease. And so I think

744
00:34:08,680 --> 00:34:10,640
Speaker 1: we've all heard the term leaky gut like over and

745
00:34:10,680 --> 00:34:13,560
Speaker 1: over again, which is literally what it sounds like, like

746
00:34:13,600 --> 00:34:16,600
Speaker 1: your cells aren't as close together anymore due to toxins,

747
00:34:16,680 --> 00:34:19,560
Speaker 1: antibiotic stress, YadA YadA, all that good stuff, and so

748
00:34:20,600 --> 00:34:23,080
Speaker 1: different things that we eat or pathogens we come into

749
00:34:23,080 --> 00:34:25,080
Speaker 1: contact to you can start to enter into our body

750
00:34:25,080 --> 00:34:27,000
Speaker 1: in places it's not meant to be, and then our

751
00:34:27,040 --> 00:34:29,479
Speaker 1: body builds up antibodies, and that's when we see things

752
00:34:29,520 --> 00:34:33,000
Speaker 1: like autoimmune conditions develop food sensitivities. Like I think y'all

753
00:34:33,040 --> 00:34:35,200
Speaker 1: both done the food sensitivity test and you're like, oh

754
00:34:35,239 --> 00:34:37,880
Speaker 1: my gosh, I'm allergic to like eighty different things. Now

755
00:34:37,960 --> 00:34:39,719
Speaker 1: it's just because we have a leaky gut, So our

756
00:34:39,760 --> 00:34:42,239
Speaker 1: gut is like I need to produce antibodies to these

757
00:34:42,239 --> 00:34:44,560
Speaker 1: things that I wouldn't normally. There's also a lot of

758
00:34:44,600 --> 00:34:46,480
Speaker 1: theories out there that this is also kind of the

759
00:34:46,480 --> 00:34:49,520
Speaker 1: developing of the epigenetic changes in the development of things

760
00:34:49,560 --> 00:34:52,280
Speaker 1: like cancer. And so, to answer your question from earlier

761
00:34:52,320 --> 00:34:54,000
Speaker 1: when you were like, are there supplements out there that

762
00:34:54,040 --> 00:34:57,120
Speaker 1: you feel like are trending? All those websites that are like,

763
00:34:57,160 --> 00:34:59,759
Speaker 1: if you just buy this one gut health supplement, you're

764
00:34:59,840 --> 00:35:00,960
Speaker 1: life life will be changed.

765
00:35:01,320 --> 00:35:02,480
Speaker 6: Will it help you? Sure?

766
00:35:02,600 --> 00:35:04,560
Speaker 1: I mean a lot of them do have good ingredients

767
00:35:04,600 --> 00:35:07,920
Speaker 1: in there, but you're not actually fixing anything. You're kind

768
00:35:07,960 --> 00:35:11,080
Speaker 1: of just adding a layer of like probiotics, which is great,

769
00:35:11,640 --> 00:35:14,719
Speaker 1: and some gut health support, so your symptoms are minimized,

770
00:35:14,880 --> 00:35:17,239
Speaker 1: but what caused it to begin with is actually still

771
00:35:17,239 --> 00:35:18,440
Speaker 1: probably not being treated.

772
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Speaker 5: So okay, is there something somebody can do that's listening

773
00:35:21,760 --> 00:35:24,960
Speaker 5: that doesn't have you besides this podcast.

774
00:35:24,560 --> 00:35:26,799
Speaker 3: Or a functional medicine place in their area?

775
00:35:27,239 --> 00:35:30,200
Speaker 5: Like, is there like a protocol that you could in

776
00:35:30,280 --> 00:35:32,200
Speaker 5: this Maybe a no, that's okay, but like if is

777
00:35:32,239 --> 00:35:34,799
Speaker 5: there like a general protocol you could say would be

778
00:35:34,880 --> 00:35:38,200
Speaker 5: helping people get towards like healing from leaky gut or

779
00:35:38,239 --> 00:35:40,320
Speaker 5: I have a leaky gut a fence right now because

780
00:35:40,360 --> 00:35:41,800
Speaker 5: I have a leaky gut.

781
00:35:41,840 --> 00:35:44,359
Speaker 3: We have determined Yes, but also.

782
00:35:44,200 --> 00:35:47,120
Speaker 2: Like you know their overall too, like is it going

783
00:35:47,200 --> 00:35:51,800
Speaker 2: to you know, lab blood draw and then having someone

784
00:35:51,840 --> 00:35:53,880
Speaker 2: be able to read Like how does someone even do that?

785
00:35:53,920 --> 00:35:55,640
Speaker 2: And I also know it can be expensive too, so

786
00:35:55,880 --> 00:36:00,480
Speaker 2: what's the Is there a company that you know can

787
00:36:00,719 --> 00:36:02,600
Speaker 2: be a little bit better with the pricing on things?

788
00:36:03,440 --> 00:36:07,480
Speaker 1: Yeah, So when it comes to really figuring out exactly

789
00:36:07,520 --> 00:36:10,080
Speaker 1: what's going on in the gut, it does generally require

790
00:36:10,200 --> 00:36:14,160
Speaker 1: some comprehensive stool testing, but that being said, I definitely

791
00:36:14,160 --> 00:36:16,360
Speaker 1: have patients who are like, like you said, it's a

792
00:36:16,360 --> 00:36:18,040
Speaker 1: pricey test. So I'm like, you know, they're like, listen,

793
00:36:18,080 --> 00:36:20,200
Speaker 1: I can't afford this, So what can I do? So

794
00:36:20,239 --> 00:36:21,799
Speaker 1: there are some good rules of thumb. There is a

795
00:36:21,840 --> 00:36:24,480
Speaker 1: protocol that I use and I'm happy to share that

796
00:36:24,520 --> 00:36:26,040
Speaker 1: you can kind of just do your best to follow

797
00:36:26,080 --> 00:36:27,960
Speaker 1: with what you know, even if you don't have the

798
00:36:28,040 --> 00:36:30,000
Speaker 1: resources to be able to get like that full fledged

799
00:36:30,000 --> 00:36:32,720
Speaker 1: gut program. So it's something I learned from the Institute

800
00:36:32,719 --> 00:36:35,400
Speaker 1: of Functional Medicine. It's called the five R gut program.

801
00:36:35,440 --> 00:36:37,920
Speaker 1: So Step ones remove You want to remove anything that

802
00:36:37,960 --> 00:36:40,799
Speaker 1: you have. Food sensitivities too. If every time that you

803
00:36:40,840 --> 00:36:43,480
Speaker 1: eat gluten you get bloated, you're going to want to

804
00:36:43,520 --> 00:36:45,520
Speaker 1: remove that. You want to remove toxins. You want to

805
00:36:45,520 --> 00:36:48,080
Speaker 1: move alcohol certainly if you do, like you know, vaping

806
00:36:48,200 --> 00:36:50,200
Speaker 1: or anything like that, anything harmful to the body, we

807
00:36:50,239 --> 00:36:52,279
Speaker 1: want to just get rid of that. And then when

808
00:36:52,280 --> 00:36:55,319
Speaker 1: we move on to step two, we're really replacing. So

809
00:36:55,600 --> 00:36:59,040
Speaker 1: what is it about the digestive process that's not functioning?

810
00:36:59,239 --> 00:37:01,799
Speaker 1: This is where have that advanced testing can come into

811
00:37:01,880 --> 00:37:05,400
Speaker 1: hand and come and be useful. But you know, If

812
00:37:05,440 --> 00:37:08,160
Speaker 1: you have acid reflex, you probably have low stomach acid.

813
00:37:08,560 --> 00:37:13,080
Speaker 1: If you have batty looking floating stools that are weird colors,

814
00:37:13,160 --> 00:37:16,160
Speaker 1: your gallbladder's probably sluggish. If you have undigested food in

815
00:37:16,200 --> 00:37:19,080
Speaker 1: your stool, it's probably low pancreatic enzymes. So you want

816
00:37:19,120 --> 00:37:22,360
Speaker 1: to take digestive enzymes or whatever's appropriate for you. And

817
00:37:22,360 --> 00:37:25,960
Speaker 1: that's the replace. You move on to reinoculate your probotics,

818
00:37:26,000 --> 00:37:29,359
Speaker 1: your probiotics. Then you move on to repair. That's where

819
00:37:29,400 --> 00:37:32,000
Speaker 1: you're really repairing the leaky gut. Things like el glutamine

820
00:37:32,000 --> 00:37:35,680
Speaker 1: and alivera can be so helpful for this. And then last,

821
00:37:35,680 --> 00:37:38,120
Speaker 1: but not least, is the rebalanced component, which just means,

822
00:37:38,160 --> 00:37:42,480
Speaker 1: however you ended up here, whether it's stress, toxins, anabiotic use.

823
00:37:42,520 --> 00:37:43,000
Speaker 6: Avoid that.

824
00:37:43,120 --> 00:37:44,640
Speaker 1: So reset your life to make sure that you can

825
00:37:44,680 --> 00:37:47,000
Speaker 1: be successful in the future. That's a guideline I give

826
00:37:47,040 --> 00:37:49,719
Speaker 1: to my patients and it works really well whether or

827
00:37:49,719 --> 00:37:51,680
Speaker 1: not you have the gut test. The gut test really

828
00:37:51,719 --> 00:37:53,960
Speaker 1: is just very specific. So I'm like, oh, you need

829
00:37:54,040 --> 00:37:56,200
Speaker 1: this probiotic strain or you know whatever.

830
00:37:56,000 --> 00:37:59,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, because I know from doing the bestual tests, like

831
00:37:59,520 --> 00:38:01,719
Speaker 2: we have a certain probotic now that I have to

832
00:38:01,760 --> 00:38:04,239
Speaker 2: go on, which is so fascinating, Like, depending on which

833
00:38:04,239 --> 00:38:07,800
Speaker 2: strain it is that you need, is crazy supplement wise

834
00:38:07,800 --> 00:38:10,680
Speaker 2: that you love. I know we've talked about armor, which

835
00:38:10,719 --> 00:38:14,120
Speaker 2: again is it's a very it's a pricey supplement. But

836
00:38:14,160 --> 00:38:16,880
Speaker 2: I'm telling you, I just like and I don't even do.

837
00:38:17,120 --> 00:38:19,720
Speaker 2: I did one ad for them, but I haven't since,

838
00:38:19,760 --> 00:38:22,359
Speaker 2: but i've that's how I found them, and I just

839
00:38:22,520 --> 00:38:24,439
Speaker 2: I always say that's the reason why I wasn't sick

840
00:38:24,760 --> 00:38:27,239
Speaker 2: for my wedding, because I just was like taken that closterrum.

841
00:38:27,280 --> 00:38:28,960
Speaker 2: But like, I don't even really know what it is

842
00:38:29,080 --> 00:38:31,080
Speaker 2: or how or why I like it so much. I'm

843
00:38:31,239 --> 00:38:33,400
Speaker 2: fatty fifteen. But what else do you recommend?

844
00:38:33,560 --> 00:38:33,799
Speaker 3: Yes?

845
00:38:33,920 --> 00:38:35,400
Speaker 6: Too, love armor, It's awesome.

846
00:38:35,520 --> 00:38:37,600
Speaker 1: Armor plays a big, really big role in the like

847
00:38:37,680 --> 00:38:41,160
Speaker 1: immune system function of our gut, so that's probably why

848
00:38:41,160 --> 00:38:42,960
Speaker 1: it was so beneficial for you in terms of not

849
00:38:43,000 --> 00:38:43,440
Speaker 1: getting sick.

850
00:38:44,000 --> 00:38:46,399
Speaker 2: What I guess what is the closterum is? Like from

851
00:38:46,520 --> 00:38:48,280
Speaker 2: I thought it was like parents your boobies.

852
00:38:48,560 --> 00:38:50,840
Speaker 6: Yep. Essentially, Yeah, you're spot on.

853
00:38:51,080 --> 00:38:55,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, it is super super nutrient dense. It just contains

854
00:38:56,000 --> 00:39:01,239
Speaker 1: a lot of very very healthy, essentially composeonents that are

855
00:39:01,440 --> 00:39:03,360
Speaker 1: you know you were spot on.

856
00:39:03,520 --> 00:39:04,440
Speaker 6: That's the first.

857
00:39:04,160 --> 00:39:06,799
Speaker 1: Thing that you introduce to the baby, like red after

858
00:39:06,840 --> 00:39:09,439
Speaker 1: birth when it comes from Yeah.

859
00:39:09,440 --> 00:39:11,600
Speaker 6: Yeah, hopefully hopefully that's the first.

860
00:39:11,360 --> 00:39:13,040
Speaker 3: Thing back to them postpartum loop.

861
00:39:13,239 --> 00:39:18,440
Speaker 1: Okay, it's because it's so nutrient dense and it boost

862
00:39:18,640 --> 00:39:21,439
Speaker 1: it boots up their immune system tremendously, So it really

863
00:39:21,560 --> 00:39:23,880
Speaker 1: is beneficial in that sense for like overall health, and

864
00:39:23,920 --> 00:39:27,640
Speaker 1: that's why people see so much dramatic improvement with things

865
00:39:27,719 --> 00:39:31,440
Speaker 1: like Armora claustrum. You said fatty fifteen, love fatty fifteen.

866
00:39:31,440 --> 00:39:33,840
Speaker 1: It's an essential fatty acid that's a little challenging to

867
00:39:33,880 --> 00:39:36,800
Speaker 1: get through food, but it is considered the best fatty

868
00:39:36,840 --> 00:39:39,879
Speaker 1: acid for anti aging and metabolic health. So it makes

869
00:39:39,880 --> 00:39:42,640
Speaker 1: a really really big difference in that front. Outside of

870
00:39:42,640 --> 00:39:45,000
Speaker 1: those two in terms of name brands, I have companies

871
00:39:45,040 --> 00:39:47,400
Speaker 1: I really like, but I just have general supplements I

872
00:39:47,440 --> 00:39:50,440
Speaker 1: recommend to people. Almost all of us are deficient in

873
00:39:50,520 --> 00:39:52,760
Speaker 1: vitamin D. We talked about this a little bit earlier.

874
00:39:53,600 --> 00:39:55,920
Speaker 1: Vitamin D three K two is huge. This is a

875
00:39:55,960 --> 00:39:57,759
Speaker 1: fat soluble vitamin, so you do want to have your

876
00:39:57,840 --> 00:40:01,200
Speaker 1: levels checked. But conventional meta and says thirty to one

877
00:40:01,280 --> 00:40:03,880
Speaker 1: hundred is normal. But you actually will not form adequate

878
00:40:03,880 --> 00:40:06,680
Speaker 1: memories if it's less than fifty. And so anyone who

879
00:40:06,680 --> 00:40:08,720
Speaker 1: tells you your levels are normal than less than fifty,

880
00:40:08,800 --> 00:40:11,480
Speaker 1: I personally would recommend a little bit higher and.

881
00:40:11,480 --> 00:40:12,800
Speaker 3: A different doctor and a different doctor.

882
00:40:12,920 --> 00:40:15,560
Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, and in all fairness, you know that's how

883
00:40:15,600 --> 00:40:19,320
Speaker 1: we were trained initially from the get go. But essential

884
00:40:19,320 --> 00:40:21,960
Speaker 1: fatty acids in general, like your omega threes are so

885
00:40:22,440 --> 00:40:26,319
Speaker 1: important as an anti inflammatory, boosting immune health. You know,

886
00:40:26,719 --> 00:40:28,759
Speaker 1: salmon is a really good place to get this, but

887
00:40:28,880 --> 00:40:31,960
Speaker 1: extra virgin olive oil that is pure is also a

888
00:40:32,000 --> 00:40:34,359
Speaker 1: really great way, as long as it's raw, not used

889
00:40:34,360 --> 00:40:37,319
Speaker 1: in cooking because that defeats the health benefits. And then

890
00:40:37,360 --> 00:40:40,600
Speaker 1: magnesium is the other one that I recommend. So many

891
00:40:40,680 --> 00:40:43,479
Speaker 1: people are deficient in magnesium. It's one of the top

892
00:40:43,480 --> 00:40:46,919
Speaker 1: things that people are deficient in when you talk about anxiety,

893
00:40:47,200 --> 00:40:50,719
Speaker 1: immune health, adrenal support. Just making sure you know it's

894
00:40:50,760 --> 00:40:54,360
Speaker 1: how we absorb vitamin D. It is so so crucial.

895
00:40:54,520 --> 00:40:58,000
Speaker 1: I also love to recommend people do like magnesium salt soaks,

896
00:40:58,239 --> 00:41:01,360
Speaker 1: like when you're pmsing rate for muscle health. So it

897
00:41:01,360 --> 00:41:02,839
Speaker 1: can be a really big game changer too.

898
00:41:04,440 --> 00:41:07,520
Speaker 2: One I've looked two more questions. I have an ultrasound

899
00:41:07,600 --> 00:41:10,880
Speaker 2: later today because I keep getting fibroids and sis.

900
00:41:11,040 --> 00:41:15,000
Speaker 3: Why does that happen in women? Is it hormone related.

901
00:41:14,719 --> 00:41:19,080
Speaker 1: Or yeah, So fibroids and endometriosis, I kind of categorize

902
00:41:19,080 --> 00:41:22,359
Speaker 1: them together because they form from the same problem, which

903
00:41:22,400 --> 00:41:27,520
Speaker 1: is estrogen dominance. Estrogen dominance is not that your estrogen's

904
00:41:27,560 --> 00:41:31,360
Speaker 1: crazy high, but that in relationship to progesterone, the ratio

905
00:41:31,520 --> 00:41:34,000
Speaker 1: is off, so you have way more estrogen than progesterone.

906
00:41:34,280 --> 00:41:36,320
Speaker 1: And this is also a really big reason why women

907
00:41:36,360 --> 00:41:39,080
Speaker 1: sometimes will struggle with infertility is low progesterone. You have

908
00:41:39,120 --> 00:41:41,440
Speaker 1: to have a certain amount of progesterone to sustain pregnancy.

909
00:41:42,360 --> 00:41:45,480
Speaker 1: But what happens with endometriosis in fibroids is that that

910
00:41:45,719 --> 00:41:50,720
Speaker 1: estrogen rich environment allows these estrogenic related conditions to develop.

911
00:41:50,880 --> 00:41:53,680
Speaker 1: So that's where you get things like fibroids, and then

912
00:41:53,719 --> 00:41:58,200
Speaker 1: even indometrios is specifically, it's such a vicious cycle. Endometrial

913
00:41:58,280 --> 00:42:01,560
Speaker 1: tissue also secretes estrogen, so you get a patient who's

914
00:42:01,640 --> 00:42:05,399
Speaker 1: estrogen dominant with indimetrial lesions, you do everything you can

915
00:42:05,640 --> 00:42:08,520
Speaker 1: to fix their estrogen dominance, but you're really fighting an

916
00:42:08,600 --> 00:42:12,440
Speaker 1: uphill battle because it's also secreting estrogen, so it can

917
00:42:12,480 --> 00:42:14,319
Speaker 1: be a really challenging thing to get on top of

918
00:42:15,040 --> 00:42:15,439
Speaker 1: for sure.

919
00:42:27,960 --> 00:42:30,800
Speaker 2: Can I ask you a personal question? Oh yeah, about fertility?

920
00:42:30,920 --> 00:42:31,680
Speaker 6: One hundred percent?

921
00:42:31,719 --> 00:42:37,120
Speaker 2: Okay, we've chatted in obviously the room you've been trying

922
00:42:37,200 --> 00:42:38,880
Speaker 2: How long have you been trying to have a baby?

923
00:42:39,560 --> 00:42:41,240
Speaker 6: About three years? Yeah?

924
00:42:41,520 --> 00:42:44,560
Speaker 2: Is it hard for you to know what you know

925
00:42:45,200 --> 00:42:47,400
Speaker 2: and then to feel helpless not to be able to

926
00:42:47,440 --> 00:42:49,600
Speaker 2: be like, like, you know all the ins and outs

927
00:42:49,600 --> 00:42:52,040
Speaker 2: of medicine and you know how to help so many people.

928
00:42:52,360 --> 00:42:54,160
Speaker 2: Is it hard for you to go why? Like how

929
00:42:54,200 --> 00:42:56,319
Speaker 2: can I not? Like what can I do? Or why

930
00:42:56,320 --> 00:42:57,640
Speaker 2: am I not doing this? And like what can you

931
00:42:57,640 --> 00:42:59,759
Speaker 2: say those people? Because a lot of people listening also

932
00:42:59,760 --> 00:43:02,800
Speaker 2: have in fertility issues and so what are you doing

933
00:43:03,040 --> 00:43:06,439
Speaker 2: to control also that, because that's got to be really hard,

934
00:43:06,440 --> 00:43:08,399
Speaker 2: Like you know everything, so it's like why then why

935
00:43:08,440 --> 00:43:09,320
Speaker 2: can you not be pregnant?

936
00:43:09,400 --> 00:43:09,520
Speaker 1: You know?

937
00:43:09,800 --> 00:43:11,440
Speaker 2: And I'm also like why can't she? Because I'm like

938
00:43:11,480 --> 00:43:16,240
Speaker 2: she knows everything I know? Yeah, so uh in here

939
00:43:16,560 --> 00:43:17,640
Speaker 2: just kind but I just want to.

940
00:43:17,560 --> 00:43:19,439
Speaker 6: Found out now I'm happy to talk about it.

941
00:43:19,520 --> 00:43:21,399
Speaker 3: And here was your switch to functional mines.

942
00:43:21,560 --> 00:43:23,319
Speaker 1: This is the whole reason. Yeah, this is why I

943
00:43:23,360 --> 00:43:25,680
Speaker 1: got into it. So the first time I had surgery

944
00:43:25,719 --> 00:43:27,840
Speaker 1: on my reproductive organs, I was in the seventh grade.

945
00:43:28,080 --> 00:43:32,080
Speaker 1: And that's when I was diagnosed with indometriosis. After so

946
00:43:32,400 --> 00:43:35,040
Speaker 1: many doctors telling me I was crazy, they told my

947
00:43:35,080 --> 00:43:38,080
Speaker 1: parents I needed to see a psychiatrist like all these things,

948
00:43:38,160 --> 00:43:39,920
Speaker 1: and all that was really happening is that I had

949
00:43:39,960 --> 00:43:42,920
Speaker 1: into matriosis. After that is when I found out I

950
00:43:42,960 --> 00:43:44,960
Speaker 1: had uterin fibroids. So it's really just kind of been

951
00:43:45,000 --> 00:43:48,400
Speaker 1: a downhill slope for my reproductive health since like middle school,

952
00:43:49,040 --> 00:43:52,400
Speaker 1: and it was not that long ago. I guess it

953
00:43:52,440 --> 00:43:55,600
Speaker 1: was the end of twenty twenty one, and I distinctly

954
00:43:55,600 --> 00:43:59,080
Speaker 1: remember talking to my doctor. My husband and I were

955
00:43:59,080 --> 00:44:01,719
Speaker 1: getting ready to do things like IUI so we could

956
00:44:01,760 --> 00:44:04,560
Speaker 1: try for you know, pregnancy, and I was like, what

957
00:44:05,239 --> 00:44:07,799
Speaker 1: can I do? There has to be something I can do,

958
00:44:07,880 --> 00:44:09,880
Speaker 1: Like how can I support my body to just stop

959
00:44:09,920 --> 00:44:13,120
Speaker 1: this from just getting worse? And she literally just said nothing.

960
00:44:13,520 --> 00:44:15,600
Speaker 1: She was like, maybe IVF, and not that I'm opposed

961
00:44:15,640 --> 00:44:18,080
Speaker 1: to IVF whatsoever, but you know, I'd love to try

962
00:44:18,120 --> 00:44:21,640
Speaker 1: other things first if that's possible, And that's exactly right.

963
00:44:21,719 --> 00:44:23,800
Speaker 1: That's how I got into functional medicine. I went home

964
00:44:24,040 --> 00:44:26,120
Speaker 1: literally that day and I just went to Google, and

965
00:44:26,160 --> 00:44:28,719
Speaker 1: I was like, what can I do for this? I

966
00:44:28,800 --> 00:44:31,160
Speaker 1: found the Institute of Functional Medicine. I found a ton

967
00:44:31,160 --> 00:44:33,640
Speaker 1: of resources. I learned that high dose spidamin D can

968
00:44:33,640 --> 00:44:38,160
Speaker 1: suppress things like uterine fibroids. I found out about estrogen dominance.

969
00:44:38,239 --> 00:44:41,520
Speaker 1: Realized I'd been suffering from estrogen dominance my entire life

970
00:44:41,600 --> 00:44:43,680
Speaker 1: and the only thing that they had done for me

971
00:44:43,760 --> 00:44:45,560
Speaker 1: was put me on birth control, which, so we're on

972
00:44:45,600 --> 00:44:47,799
Speaker 1: the same page, puts our hormones in a state of menopause.

973
00:44:48,080 --> 00:44:49,279
Speaker 6: So I've been in menopause.

974
00:44:49,360 --> 00:44:51,239
Speaker 1: My hormones had because I didn't have a cycle for

975
00:44:51,360 --> 00:44:55,320
Speaker 1: sixteen years because I was on continuous birth control. Wow,

976
00:44:55,320 --> 00:44:57,200
Speaker 1: And all my doctors were like, yeah, it's fine, because

977
00:44:57,200 --> 00:44:58,840
Speaker 1: it's controlling your endometriosis.

978
00:44:59,000 --> 00:44:59,880
Speaker 6: That is not fine.

979
00:45:00,080 --> 00:45:01,800
Speaker 1: You have to ovulate, you have to have a cycle.

980
00:45:01,800 --> 00:45:04,800
Speaker 1: That is what's normal, and that is how the body

981
00:45:04,840 --> 00:45:08,560
Speaker 1: is supposed to function. And so through all this I discovered, Wow,

982
00:45:08,880 --> 00:45:12,799
Speaker 1: like I there is so much more opportunity here. I

983
00:45:12,840 --> 00:45:16,320
Speaker 1: think for me personally, I'm backtracking quite a bit. I

984
00:45:16,360 --> 00:45:18,719
Speaker 1: also have a ton of scar tissue. So I've been

985
00:45:18,760 --> 00:45:22,040
Speaker 1: working with some other doctors like acupuncture and whatnot to

986
00:45:22,080 --> 00:45:24,800
Speaker 1: try and really get away from that as much as possible.

987
00:45:24,840 --> 00:45:26,880
Speaker 1: And I think that's my biggest issue, is like my

988
00:45:27,000 --> 00:45:29,640
Speaker 1: literal ability to implant. The inside of my uterus is

989
00:45:29,680 --> 00:45:31,680
Speaker 1: full of scar tissue unfortunately, so there's just not a

990
00:45:31,719 --> 00:45:32,960
Speaker 1: lot of viable tissue.

991
00:45:33,360 --> 00:45:35,400
Speaker 3: But have you got that scraped out because I had

992
00:45:35,400 --> 00:45:37,040
Speaker 3: scar tissue that had to be scraped out.

993
00:45:37,080 --> 00:45:39,279
Speaker 1: Well the last time I did in twenty twenty one. Yeah,

994
00:45:39,280 --> 00:45:43,120
Speaker 1: but I'm honestly probably do. But yeah, I think the

995
00:45:43,160 --> 00:45:46,720
Speaker 1: biggest thing is if you have things like horrendous PMS

996
00:45:46,719 --> 00:45:50,080
Speaker 1: symptoms or PCOS or whatever. First of all, birth control

997
00:45:50,120 --> 00:45:52,480
Speaker 1: is not the answer. But second of all, that is

998
00:45:52,600 --> 00:45:55,880
Speaker 1: just not normal. Like PMS is not normal. That is

999
00:45:55,920 --> 00:45:58,800
Speaker 1: a sign that you have estrogen dominance, super heavy bleeding,

1000
00:45:59,040 --> 00:46:02,080
Speaker 1: crazy cramping, feeling like you just you know, mood swings

1001
00:46:02,080 --> 00:46:04,560
Speaker 1: are all over the place. That is just not how

1002
00:46:04,600 --> 00:46:07,560
Speaker 1: it's supposed to be. And instead of suppressing it with

1003
00:46:07,600 --> 00:46:09,200
Speaker 1: birth control, the best thing we can do is figure

1004
00:46:09,200 --> 00:46:10,319
Speaker 1: out how to get on top of it.

1005
00:46:10,640 --> 00:46:12,279
Speaker 6: If you can get on top of it, you don't

1006
00:46:12,280 --> 00:46:14,160
Speaker 6: have to go through what I've gone through. I spent

1007
00:46:14,280 --> 00:46:17,759
Speaker 6: years being cut open and my hormone suppressed, thinking that

1008
00:46:17,920 --> 00:46:20,239
Speaker 6: was the way, and it was actually opposite and has

1009
00:46:20,280 --> 00:46:22,920
Speaker 6: significantly reduced my odds for fertility as I sit here

1010
00:46:22,960 --> 00:46:23,360
Speaker 6: at thirty.

1011
00:46:23,520 --> 00:46:26,399
Speaker 3: So what are your percentages of fertility now?

1012
00:46:27,080 --> 00:46:29,520
Speaker 1: So when they told me in twenty twenty one, they

1013
00:46:29,560 --> 00:46:32,560
Speaker 1: told me maybe like a thirty to forty percent chance. Says,

1014
00:46:32,640 --> 00:46:35,320
Speaker 1: I have pretty extensive endometriosis, Like it's on my bowl

1015
00:46:35,360 --> 00:46:37,040
Speaker 1: and it's like in my bladder and all that kind

1016
00:46:37,080 --> 00:46:41,040
Speaker 1: of stuff. But that's also because this entire time, I

1017
00:46:41,080 --> 00:46:43,120
Speaker 1: could have been doing stuff to get rid of my

1018
00:46:43,200 --> 00:46:46,600
Speaker 1: estrogen dominance, and I just had no idea. Like I

1019
00:46:46,719 --> 00:46:48,799
Speaker 1: had no idea that the plastic I was eating out

1020
00:46:48,800 --> 00:46:51,319
Speaker 1: of every single day was giving me plastic toxicity, or

1021
00:46:51,320 --> 00:46:54,319
Speaker 1: that my teflon pans were giving me heavy metal toxicity,

1022
00:46:54,960 --> 00:46:57,280
Speaker 1: or that how I was choosing to eat and support

1023
00:46:57,320 --> 00:47:01,160
Speaker 1: my body nutritionally, like not consuming progesterone rich foods for example. Like,

1024
00:47:01,200 --> 00:47:02,680
Speaker 1: I just had no idea all the stuff I could

1025
00:47:02,680 --> 00:47:05,200
Speaker 1: be doing. And if you're able to catch it on

1026
00:47:05,239 --> 00:47:06,960
Speaker 1: the front end, I think you can save yourself a

1027
00:47:06,960 --> 00:47:07,520
Speaker 1: lot of trouble.

1028
00:47:08,360 --> 00:47:10,960
Speaker 4: Well, that's why, So would you recommend? Because again, I

1029
00:47:10,960 --> 00:47:13,840
Speaker 4: have a thirteen year old daughter middle school, you know,

1030
00:47:13,960 --> 00:47:16,640
Speaker 4: started her period a couple you know, that's scary to

1031
00:47:16,760 --> 00:47:19,160
Speaker 4: think about, Like you don't go to the doctor, you

1032
00:47:19,200 --> 00:47:22,480
Speaker 4: don't have these things checked at this age, right, it's

1033
00:47:22,520 --> 00:47:25,080
Speaker 4: not until you know, a friend of hers could barely

1034
00:47:25,080 --> 00:47:27,319
Speaker 4: get out of bed that she finally was like you

1035
00:47:27,360 --> 00:47:29,560
Speaker 4: have to take all her labs, like something is not

1036
00:47:29,719 --> 00:47:32,720
Speaker 4: right here to figure out that her iron was extremely low,

1037
00:47:32,880 --> 00:47:35,520
Speaker 4: her vitamin D was dangerously low.

1038
00:47:35,600 --> 00:47:35,799
Speaker 1: You know.

1039
00:47:36,280 --> 00:47:39,120
Speaker 4: So it's like, what can people do? And I know,

1040
00:47:39,520 --> 00:47:42,480
Speaker 4: you know, we all want as moms to get healthy,

1041
00:47:42,560 --> 00:47:44,520
Speaker 4: but we also are moms who have to think about

1042
00:47:44,560 --> 00:47:47,400
Speaker 4: our girls, Like that's terrifying to think all this started

1043
00:47:47,440 --> 00:47:50,000
Speaker 4: at that age. Yeah, and how do we prevent that

1044
00:47:50,120 --> 00:47:51,360
Speaker 4: for our daughters?

1045
00:47:51,480 --> 00:47:51,800
Speaker 3: Yeah?

1046
00:47:51,840 --> 00:47:54,680
Speaker 6: Absolutely. I was placed on birth control when I was twelve,

1047
00:47:54,880 --> 00:47:55,960
Speaker 6: and it's definitely.

1048
00:47:55,680 --> 00:47:57,800
Speaker 4: Not because I was sexually I have so many friends

1049
00:47:57,800 --> 00:48:00,000
Speaker 4: that are like, when they're fifteen, they're getting on birth control,

1050
00:48:00,040 --> 00:48:03,600
Speaker 4: and I'm like, no, yeah, please don't do it.

1051
00:48:03,280 --> 00:48:07,920
Speaker 1: It's so detrimental to hormones. So what you can do.

1052
00:48:08,880 --> 00:48:10,839
Speaker 1: We've talked a little bit about it. But I think

1053
00:48:10,960 --> 00:48:14,520
Speaker 1: when it comes to estrogen dominance, specifically talks and exposure

1054
00:48:14,760 --> 00:48:18,080
Speaker 1: is huge in the world that we live in today.

1055
00:48:18,160 --> 00:48:20,239
Speaker 1: You have to go out of your way to really

1056
00:48:20,280 --> 00:48:24,520
Speaker 1: accomplish this. You have to find the glass containers for

1057
00:48:24,600 --> 00:48:27,799
Speaker 1: food storage. You know, Stanley's in the similar are really

1058
00:48:27,840 --> 00:48:29,719
Speaker 1: popular right now. You need to find brands that are

1059
00:48:29,719 --> 00:48:32,880
Speaker 1: not rich in things like heavy metals. You need to

1060
00:48:33,280 --> 00:48:35,919
Speaker 1: encourage them and this is something I was terrible about

1061
00:48:35,920 --> 00:48:37,880
Speaker 1: growing up. But you need to encourage them to have

1062
00:48:37,880 --> 00:48:39,680
Speaker 1: a well rounded diet, Like a lot of the stuff

1063
00:48:39,680 --> 00:48:42,680
Speaker 1: that we talked about earlier is so important. I always

1064
00:48:42,719 --> 00:48:45,799
Speaker 1: talk about the phido nutrient spectrum, which just means the

1065
00:48:46,000 --> 00:48:48,440
Speaker 1: more colorful the fruits and the vegetables, the more nutrient

1066
00:48:48,480 --> 00:48:50,239
Speaker 1: dense they are. You just want to have like the

1067
00:48:50,320 --> 00:48:52,399
Speaker 1: rainbow on your plate. And that's a really, really good

1068
00:48:52,400 --> 00:48:54,920
Speaker 1: way to support it. The other things that you can

1069
00:48:54,960 --> 00:48:58,360
Speaker 1: do is check out their stress. How are they coping

1070
00:48:58,400 --> 00:49:00,560
Speaker 1: with stress. I don't know about y'all, but when I

1071
00:49:00,600 --> 00:49:04,279
Speaker 1: went to school, it wasn't a great time. I had

1072
00:49:04,280 --> 00:49:09,360
Speaker 1: a stressful school experience for sure. Lots of bullying, you know,

1073
00:49:09,480 --> 00:49:11,600
Speaker 1: lots of things that we deal with as women lots

1074
00:49:11,640 --> 00:49:14,480
Speaker 1: of mean girl scenarios, and I think that played a

1075
00:49:14,480 --> 00:49:16,960
Speaker 1: really really big role in my mental health. And kind

1076
00:49:16,960 --> 00:49:19,440
Speaker 1: of like we talked about earlier, it can affect kids too.

1077
00:49:19,560 --> 00:49:23,200
Speaker 1: Those adrenals affect the thyroid, affect the sex hormones. You

1078
00:49:23,239 --> 00:49:28,440
Speaker 1: see girls, teenage girls in today's world get heavily affected

1079
00:49:28,480 --> 00:49:30,239
Speaker 1: by stuff like that and it really puts their mental

1080
00:49:30,280 --> 00:49:33,600
Speaker 1: state in a negative mindset, which can also perpetuate the

1081
00:49:33,760 --> 00:49:34,680
Speaker 1: estrogen dominance.

1082
00:49:35,080 --> 00:49:38,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, Nicole, thank you so much for sharing your story.

1083
00:49:40,080 --> 00:49:43,440
Speaker 2: It's obviously heartbreaking how you got into functional medicine, but

1084
00:49:43,480 --> 00:49:45,000
Speaker 2: thank you for what you do because you're helping a

1085
00:49:45,040 --> 00:49:48,680
Speaker 2: lot of people. Where can our listeners find you if

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Speaker 2: they have questions, like tell us, tell us all that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think the best place to find me is

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Speaker 1: through Instagram, So that's primarily my social media. My Instagram

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Speaker 1: is Nicole Stroup, which is st r p NP for

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Speaker 1: Nurse Practitioner, and any updates I have through my workplace

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Speaker 1: will always be through there and definitely the best way

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Speaker 1: to get in contact with me and schedule an appointment.

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Speaker 3: Awesome, Thank you Nicole so much.

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Speaker 6: Thank you.

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Speaker 3: Yi