WEBVTT - Dr. Mindy Pelz 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:02.400 Holy Human with Leanne Rhymes is a production of I 0:00:02.520 --> 0:00:15.480 Heart Radio. Welcome my friends to this very special and 0:00:15.600 --> 0:00:19.080 pretty personal But who am I kidding because pretty much 0:00:19.079 --> 0:00:24.760 every episode is personal of Holy Human. I am so excited, 0:00:24.800 --> 0:00:26.640 of course, to be here with all of you and 0:00:26.720 --> 0:00:29.680 to introduce you to my guest today because she has 0:00:29.680 --> 0:00:34.360 had such a tremendous impact all my life. I saw 0:00:34.880 --> 0:00:39.640 her on a podcast and her energy was so infectious 0:00:40.040 --> 0:00:43.239 and I was so blown away by what she was 0:00:43.280 --> 0:00:45.839 speaking of when it comes to hormones and health, and 0:00:46.320 --> 0:00:49.600 I was like, I must know this woman. So she 0:00:49.760 --> 0:00:51.960 has been a part of my life now for I 0:00:52.000 --> 0:00:56.400 guess the last four months and has changed my life 0:00:56.720 --> 0:00:59.880 completely and is still walking me through the process of 0:01:00.080 --> 0:01:05.520 detoxing and hormone balance and nutrition. She's just an amazing woman. 0:01:05.840 --> 0:01:08.920 And who I'm speaking of is the wonderful doctor Mendy Pelts. 0:01:09.640 --> 0:01:13.640 She is a renowned holistic healer, practitioner, and expert on 0:01:13.680 --> 0:01:18.240 the benefits of fasting. Her revolutionary book, The Menopause Reset, 0:01:18.319 --> 0:01:21.800 with her five step approach, has empowered hundreds of thousands 0:01:21.840 --> 0:01:24.880 of people around the world to harness their body's own 0:01:24.920 --> 0:01:30.400 healing abilities and overcome hormonal issues anxiety and depression. Her 0:01:30.520 --> 0:01:35.040 informative YouTube videos have garnered over fifteen million lifetime views. 0:01:35.240 --> 0:01:38.200 You guys have to go watch her. She's hysterical and 0:01:38.240 --> 0:01:41.920 in short, Dr Mendy is a powerhouse. She truly is 0:01:42.440 --> 0:01:46.080 of information and innovation when it comes to understanding and 0:01:46.080 --> 0:01:49.240 harnessing your body's potential, and she is on a mission 0:01:49.240 --> 0:01:56.520 to inspire us all into optimal health. On today's Holy Humane, 0:02:18.440 --> 0:02:21.400 Dr Mendy, thank you so much for coming on my podcast. 0:02:21.560 --> 0:02:25.720 I'm so excited. I talked to you daily. This is 0:02:25.800 --> 0:02:29.400 just like an extension. It is I have never had. 0:02:29.880 --> 0:02:32.960 I've never had someone who's been by my side in 0:02:33.160 --> 0:02:35.160 my health the journey when it comes to you. I've 0:02:35.160 --> 0:02:38.120 had wonderful people by my side with mental health and 0:02:38.200 --> 0:02:42.560 that you really encompass all of it from mental, spiritual, emotional, physical, 0:02:43.040 --> 0:02:46.240 But I've never had someone for my physical health like 0:02:46.400 --> 0:02:50.639 really be as in as all in as you are. 0:02:50.800 --> 0:02:54.720 And I'm just so so grateful You've changed my life. 0:02:55.080 --> 0:02:59.640 Thank you. It's truly the pleasure is mine and the 0:02:59.720 --> 0:03:04.440 way you take information and you apply it without hesitation 0:03:04.560 --> 0:03:08.440 is just profound. So the joy is equal on my 0:03:08.560 --> 0:03:11.040 side as well. It's the journey has been really fun. 0:03:11.240 --> 0:03:13.919 Thank you. I don't know if I would have been 0:03:13.960 --> 0:03:16.480 able to take that information and apply it and have 0:03:16.560 --> 0:03:20.280 the desire that I have for my physical health at 0:03:20.320 --> 0:03:22.560 any other point in my life. But at thirty nine, 0:03:23.280 --> 0:03:26.160 I came across your book them in a pause reset 0:03:26.480 --> 0:03:28.519 just to give people some backstory. You know, I'm thirty 0:03:28.600 --> 0:03:30.360 nine years old, and I was like, Okay, I'm about 0:03:30.400 --> 0:03:34.000 to hit I'm going I think I'm in perimenopause. I 0:03:34.040 --> 0:03:35.720 remember one of the first questions I asked you was like, 0:03:35.800 --> 0:03:41.560 am I imperimenopause? It's the million dollar question. Yeah, exactly. 0:03:41.840 --> 0:03:44.040 I'm looking into my forties and I know a lot 0:03:44.080 --> 0:03:45.720 of people who listen to this podcast are in the 0:03:45.720 --> 0:03:49.600 same boat. And I'm wanting to feel good as I 0:03:49.640 --> 0:03:52.480 shift into a different stage of my life. And when 0:03:52.480 --> 0:03:57.280 it came across your book, I started to recognize the 0:03:57.320 --> 0:03:59.520 things that I was going through at the time, mood 0:03:59.600 --> 0:04:04.000 swings in my cycle, like really having these bouts of 0:04:04.080 --> 0:04:08.040 anger and sensitivity to sound and light, just so many 0:04:08.080 --> 0:04:11.800 different things. Depression, anxiety like could that be coming from 0:04:12.120 --> 0:04:14.720 other places that I had yet to touch upon? And 0:04:14.800 --> 0:04:17.680 so finding your book was this eye opener for me 0:04:18.160 --> 0:04:20.800 to be able to see a different future. And it's 0:04:20.839 --> 0:04:23.240 taken you know, we've worked together now for about three months, 0:04:23.279 --> 0:04:25.280 and it's I'm just now starting to wrap my head 0:04:25.279 --> 0:04:29.880 around the possibility of a whole different life. And that's 0:04:29.920 --> 0:04:33.279 what I want to introduce women, and I mean everyone 0:04:33.360 --> 0:04:36.240 to to what could be going on in their bodies, 0:04:36.400 --> 0:04:39.480 from toxicity to how we go into menopause, to all 0:04:39.520 --> 0:04:45.120 the things. So, which is my favorite saying, and I 0:04:45.320 --> 0:04:47.960 my favorite thing about you is you have this powerful 0:04:48.000 --> 0:04:50.719 mission and I would just love for you to introduce 0:04:50.720 --> 0:04:53.120 people to what that mission is and how you kind 0:04:53.120 --> 0:04:56.800 of stumbled upon your deep desire for for your mission. 0:04:58.400 --> 0:05:04.839 You're you're going deep first, Uh, it's become a mission 0:05:04.960 --> 0:05:09.839 because it was uh some painful years for me. After 0:05:10.000 --> 0:05:13.400 forty um or, I really hit a wall with my 0:05:13.480 --> 0:05:18.159 health and it kind of sideswiped me. I the story 0:05:18.200 --> 0:05:21.600 that I always tell is that at forty I had 0:05:21.680 --> 0:05:24.760 one goal and one vision for my health, and that 0:05:24.800 --> 0:05:28.279 was to fit into my skinny jeans. And I actually 0:05:28.320 --> 0:05:30.280 the funny part of that story is I always wanted 0:05:30.279 --> 0:05:32.760 to fit into a pair of Hudson jeans because they 0:05:32.760 --> 0:05:35.560 had the little like flaps on the back. Um, but 0:05:35.600 --> 0:05:38.240 my booty didn't really look good and um so anyway, 0:05:38.320 --> 0:05:41.240 So I had that goal, and so at forty I 0:05:41.279 --> 0:05:43.560 did everything I could to be in shape, and I 0:05:43.640 --> 0:05:46.800 hit it. At forty three, I was a different person. 0:05:47.279 --> 0:05:50.560 I still fit into my skinny jeans, but I was 0:05:50.600 --> 0:05:54.160 waking up at night and sweating so bad that I 0:05:54.240 --> 0:05:57.600 had to actually get my husband out of bed and 0:05:57.920 --> 0:06:00.640 I had to change the sheets. I got to a 0:06:00.640 --> 0:06:03.640 point where it was so habitual that by the end 0:06:03.680 --> 0:06:06.320 of the night I would actually put a sleeping bag 0:06:06.560 --> 0:06:08.320 and sleep in the sleeping bag and just get the 0:06:08.320 --> 0:06:12.160 sleeping bag drenched and just like wash that. The next day, 0:06:12.360 --> 0:06:15.440 I had depression so bad. I had never really understood 0:06:15.440 --> 0:06:18.360 what depression was. I always say that I came from 0:06:18.400 --> 0:06:23.040 a lemonade family where we made lemonade, lemonade out of lemons. 0:06:23.440 --> 0:06:25.880 That was what I was trained. But I would be 0:06:26.040 --> 0:06:30.000 like driving to my office just crying, just crying, and 0:06:30.080 --> 0:06:33.440 I didn't really understand why, Like I just didn't get it, 0:06:33.560 --> 0:06:38.400 and then anxiety kicked in, and then honestly, um that 0:06:38.560 --> 0:06:41.240 like suicidal thoughts. I got to a point where I 0:06:41.279 --> 0:06:43.720 was like, I can't live in this body. I can't 0:06:43.760 --> 0:06:45.880 live in this mind. I don't know what's going on 0:06:46.000 --> 0:06:49.080 with me. So I started asking around to try to 0:06:49.120 --> 0:06:51.320 figure it out, because I was doing all the things, 0:06:52.000 --> 0:06:55.880 and um, I felt like one am I missing? And 0:06:55.960 --> 0:06:57.840 everybody I talked to, you know. I went to my 0:06:57.920 --> 0:07:01.760 closest friends and they were like, oh, buck up, little camper, 0:07:01.920 --> 0:07:05.840 because this is very menopause and this is the hell 0:07:05.960 --> 0:07:09.039 we've been going through. And I went to my mom, 0:07:09.080 --> 0:07:10.840 who said I didn't have any of those things. I 0:07:10.880 --> 0:07:14.240 went to my big sister, who said, yeah, you should 0:07:14.280 --> 0:07:17.400 probably get on antidepressants. And I didn't really want to 0:07:17.440 --> 0:07:19.960 do that. And so one day it was at the 0:07:20.040 --> 0:07:22.800 science fair at my kids school and I was standing 0:07:22.840 --> 0:07:25.600 next to, you know, another mom who was an o B. 0:07:26.360 --> 0:07:28.120 And I turned to her and I was like, I'm 0:07:28.520 --> 0:07:32.280 so sorry to talk shop right now, but I'm struggling 0:07:32.400 --> 0:07:35.920 and I really need some help, and I'm wondering what 0:07:36.000 --> 0:07:37.960 you would do with these symptoms. And I told her, 0:07:38.520 --> 0:07:40.840 and she turned and like looked right in me in 0:07:40.880 --> 0:07:42.720 the eye, and there was something the way she looked 0:07:42.760 --> 0:07:46.440 at me, and she said, mindy, I have a practice 0:07:46.520 --> 0:07:50.920 full of women like you, and my medical textbooks have 0:07:51.080 --> 0:07:55.480 failed me. And I don't know what to do, and 0:07:55.520 --> 0:07:57.440 what are you doing? Then she flipped it on me, 0:07:57.480 --> 0:07:59.560 what are you doing for the women in your practice? 0:07:59.800 --> 0:08:03.280 And I left that night the Science Fair and I thought, 0:08:03.280 --> 0:08:06.080 if it's happening to every woman, there must be something 0:08:06.160 --> 0:08:09.000 environmental I'm missing. There must be something I'm missing. And 0:08:09.080 --> 0:08:12.040 so the mission was really born that night to find 0:08:12.040 --> 0:08:17.160 a solution for myself. And once I found that solution, 0:08:17.200 --> 0:08:19.640 and there were really five things that I started to 0:08:19.720 --> 0:08:22.760 unwind in my life that weren't working for me. Once 0:08:22.800 --> 0:08:25.840 I identified that mission, I started to feel better. I 0:08:25.960 --> 0:08:29.360 just thought, every woman needs to know this, and the 0:08:29.440 --> 0:08:32.440 thing about you and being thirty nine and coming to 0:08:32.480 --> 0:08:34.440 me at thirty nine and what I think is such 0:08:34.480 --> 0:08:39.560 an interesting manifestation. The way this all worked out was 0:08:40.080 --> 0:08:42.040 once I wrote the book, once I put it out, 0:08:42.080 --> 0:08:45.000 Once I heard so many women in their forties going 0:08:45.040 --> 0:08:48.000 through problems I heard. So I've heard so many women 0:08:48.000 --> 0:08:51.040 in their fifties that still they've been in menopause for 0:08:51.080 --> 0:08:54.840 a decade or longer and they're still having the symptoms. 0:08:55.320 --> 0:08:57.520 I was like, I gotta scream this from the rooftops. 0:08:57.720 --> 0:09:01.680 And so the mission is to give people hope and 0:09:02.280 --> 0:09:05.480 give women their power back. We give our power away 0:09:05.520 --> 0:09:10.959 all the time to people, to drugs, to doctors, and 0:09:11.520 --> 0:09:14.199 my mission is to teach people how powerful their body 0:09:14.280 --> 0:09:17.720 is and that they can be in control of their health. 0:09:18.320 --> 0:09:21.240 They just have to figure out their own path. And 0:09:21.240 --> 0:09:24.480 it's a unique one, which is the hardest, and you're 0:09:24.520 --> 0:09:28.880 experiencing that for sure. Yeah, it is unique and so 0:09:28.960 --> 0:09:32.360 intricate at the same time too, and it's you have 0:09:32.400 --> 0:09:35.439 to be patient, and it's like, you know, for me, 0:09:35.520 --> 0:09:37.920 it's like learning myself on a whole new level. And 0:09:38.400 --> 0:09:40.240 you know, when it comes to menopause, you know the 0:09:40.320 --> 0:09:42.719 things that I was told and my mom still tells me, 0:09:42.760 --> 0:09:45.079 it's like once you hit forty, like everything goes downhill 0:09:45.120 --> 0:09:48.439 from there basically. And it's like, wait, like you're saying 0:09:48.920 --> 0:09:51.960 you feel powerless. You're like, okay, so I'm just supposed 0:09:51.960 --> 0:09:56.440 to succumb to aging and all the things that I 0:09:56.480 --> 0:09:58.520 think for me when I think of that that come 0:09:58.559 --> 0:10:01.800 along with that, like less of a woman. I'm not 0:10:01.880 --> 0:10:05.480 going to be worth anything anymore because I'm older and 0:10:06.080 --> 0:10:09.040 I can't produce like I mean for me that there's 0:10:09.040 --> 0:10:11.240 so many levels to that production piece that you know, 0:10:11.240 --> 0:10:15.000 I can't produce anymore, and you know what happens after that. 0:10:15.080 --> 0:10:18.440 And I think there's just been so many the stories 0:10:18.480 --> 0:10:21.640 around menopause and the stories around aging, especially for women, 0:10:22.200 --> 0:10:25.360 are so negative, Like it's just there is no hope, 0:10:25.760 --> 0:10:29.320 you know, not until I've found your book and your 0:10:29.360 --> 0:10:32.400 take on everything that I I think that there was 0:10:32.440 --> 0:10:34.800 any hope. I kind of and I think a lot 0:10:34.840 --> 0:10:37.679 of women out there just you almost like you don't 0:10:37.679 --> 0:10:39.360 want to face it. You kind of put it off, 0:10:39.520 --> 0:10:41.319 you know, at thirty, and I'm like, I still don't 0:10:41.360 --> 0:10:42.840 want to look at the fact that I want my 0:10:42.880 --> 0:10:45.320 mom to be wrong. I think she's wrong about a 0:10:45.360 --> 0:10:47.560 lot of that, and at the same time, I think 0:10:47.559 --> 0:10:50.160 she's right about a lot of it. And so it's 0:10:50.160 --> 0:10:52.600 something that we all at my age, I think want 0:10:52.640 --> 0:10:54.880 to we don't want to have to look down that barrel. 0:10:55.400 --> 0:10:59.720 But it's right there. Yeah. I I feel like what 0:11:00.040 --> 0:11:02.200 happens to a lot of women in their forties, I 0:11:02.280 --> 0:11:07.640 call it an extreme sport. My forties was an extreme sport, 0:11:07.160 --> 0:11:09.920 and my twenties and thirties were so gone. Yeah, well, 0:11:10.000 --> 0:11:12.040 let's see, this is why we're doing the work now, 0:11:12.200 --> 0:11:14.520 so your forties don't have to be Because I can 0:11:14.559 --> 0:11:18.439 tell you fifty rocks like, now that I've done done 0:11:18.440 --> 0:11:21.920 all the work on my own self, I like, I really, 0:11:21.960 --> 0:11:24.640 at fifty two feel happier than ever. But but it's 0:11:24.640 --> 0:11:26.920 because of the work I did in the forties. But 0:11:27.040 --> 0:11:30.960 to your point about not having answers and women bitching, 0:11:31.280 --> 0:11:35.640 that's what I found. And I, you know, as much 0:11:35.679 --> 0:11:37.840 as I joke about my friends who were like five 0:11:37.920 --> 0:11:40.520 years older than me, saying oh yeah, you're finally hear 0:11:40.600 --> 0:11:44.480 you now know why we've been all crazy? Um um, 0:11:44.520 --> 0:11:47.760 I just couldn't accept that as an answer. I didn't 0:11:47.800 --> 0:11:50.440 feel like I was supposed to go downhill at forty. 0:11:50.480 --> 0:11:52.800 If if you look at how the human body was made, 0:11:53.240 --> 0:11:58.040 it's designed to thrive until twenty. So are we meant 0:11:58.080 --> 0:12:01.559 to go, you know, start falling apart at forty? Are 0:12:01.600 --> 0:12:03.920 we meant to go be depressed like this for the 0:12:03.920 --> 0:12:07.160 rest of our life? And the answer is no, So 0:12:08.080 --> 0:12:10.679 my heart, this is a large reason why I'm trying 0:12:10.679 --> 0:12:14.199 to reach as many women as possible, because I think 0:12:14.240 --> 0:12:18.079 about how many divorces happen. I think about how many 0:12:18.200 --> 0:12:22.520 relationships fall apart. People change jobs because their women are 0:12:22.559 --> 0:12:26.000 not in their best self, They're not in their best place. Um. 0:12:26.000 --> 0:12:29.320 So it impacts everything for women once they hit forty. 0:12:29.640 --> 0:12:32.480 You mentioned earlier there were five components of your life 0:12:32.520 --> 0:12:35.280 that you started to unwind. Can you talk of a 0:12:35.320 --> 0:12:38.200 little bit about what those five pieces were? Yeah, So 0:12:38.400 --> 0:12:42.920 the first one was, of course fasting. I went and 0:12:42.960 --> 0:12:46.480 started looking at hormones, and so I looked at what 0:12:46.600 --> 0:12:51.800 happens to estrogen um as we go into the perimenopausal years, 0:12:51.920 --> 0:12:55.000 and estrogen does this wild ride, like she goes up 0:12:55.040 --> 0:12:59.560 and down and up and down. And when estrogen goes low, 0:13:00.160 --> 0:13:04.280 we become insulin resistant, which means a k A. We 0:13:04.320 --> 0:13:07.439 start gaining weight, like we're eating the same foods, were 0:13:07.480 --> 0:13:11.160 exercising the same amount, and we're gaining weight. I started 0:13:11.160 --> 0:13:14.200 to look at what we're ways to help with insulin control, 0:13:14.720 --> 0:13:17.559 and that's when I stumbled upon intermittent fasting. And I 0:13:17.640 --> 0:13:19.320 don't know if I've ever told you this story, but 0:13:19.400 --> 0:13:21.480 you might find this funny now that you know me. 0:13:22.320 --> 0:13:25.440 The first time. The first time I found intermittent fasting, 0:13:25.559 --> 0:13:29.120 I literally had to study the science forever and I 0:13:29.160 --> 0:13:31.040 had to look at it. I'd wrapped my head around it, 0:13:31.440 --> 0:13:34.680 and then one day I decided, Okay, I could do 0:13:34.720 --> 0:13:40.200 this for a day. Let me try it for a day, right, 0:13:40.480 --> 0:13:42.800 And so I did, and I was like, look at me. 0:13:42.840 --> 0:13:46.320 I did thirteen hours for a day. And then I 0:13:46.360 --> 0:13:48.640 went back and looked at what everybody was doing and 0:13:48.679 --> 0:13:52.560 I was like, oh, we do it every day. Shoot, 0:13:52.960 --> 0:13:56.360 we gotta do this every day. So um, but what 0:13:56.480 --> 0:13:59.319 I found with fasting that was my that was my principal. 0:13:59.400 --> 0:14:03.319 Number one was that three pm energy crash that I 0:14:03.360 --> 0:14:06.840 would have. And in my clinical practice, three pm was 0:14:06.880 --> 0:14:09.320 like when the families poured in. It was like the 0:14:09.360 --> 0:14:12.320 busiest time and I literally just wanted to go into 0:14:12.320 --> 0:14:15.560 my office and take a nap. And what I found 0:14:15.720 --> 0:14:18.960 was just after two weeks of intermittent fasting, my my 0:14:19.080 --> 0:14:22.840 three pm energy was incredible. The other piece that I 0:14:22.880 --> 0:14:27.760 found with fasting was memory and mental clarity. So my 0:14:27.960 --> 0:14:30.640 the joke and my family was that I would always 0:14:30.680 --> 0:14:33.120 stop in the middle of a conversation and my family 0:14:33.120 --> 0:14:37.600 would say, we're still listening, Like we're still listening, why 0:14:37.640 --> 0:14:41.720 are you not finishing this story? And it was because 0:14:41.760 --> 0:14:45.640 I couldn't remember what I was saying. And um, so 0:14:45.960 --> 0:14:48.400 intermitting the first one is inter fasting, and it was 0:14:48.480 --> 0:14:51.400 really it gave me my mental clarity back, and it 0:14:51.440 --> 0:14:54.600 gave me my energy back, and then of course from 0:14:54.640 --> 0:14:58.800 there I became a fasting fanatic at that point. So 0:15:00.160 --> 0:15:02.240 as you're learning, well, let's go down that road of 0:15:02.320 --> 0:15:05.920 fasting um for a moment. So why don't you explain 0:15:06.240 --> 0:15:08.520 so intermittent fasting. I've been intermittent fasting with you now 0:15:08.600 --> 0:15:10.920 for about three months. My husband did it for a 0:15:10.920 --> 0:15:14.280 while years ago, and I was like, this fasting thing. 0:15:14.360 --> 0:15:16.560 I love food too much. There's no way I could 0:15:16.600 --> 0:15:19.480 ever fast for twenty four hours like I could by 0:15:19.480 --> 0:15:21.240 the way which I did my first twenty four hour 0:15:21.320 --> 0:15:27.560 fast yesterday. But the way that you've taught me how 0:15:27.640 --> 0:15:30.760 to fast has been really amazing because I think there's 0:15:30.760 --> 0:15:33.920 so many misconceptions around fasting. I thought there was only 0:15:33.960 --> 0:15:36.240 one way to fast. You basically go without food for 0:15:36.360 --> 0:15:39.280 however many hours, and that's called fasting. There's so many 0:15:39.320 --> 0:15:41.640 more layers to that. There's different types of fast you 0:15:41.640 --> 0:15:45.320 can do. Like yesterday, I did fasting snacks which were 0:15:45.360 --> 0:15:48.920 actually really good. I had almond butter and bone broth 0:15:49.280 --> 0:15:51.960 to help repair my gut yesterday and I didn't feel 0:15:52.160 --> 0:15:55.520 I didn't feel hungry, which was amazing. So can you 0:15:55.600 --> 0:15:57.920 start to explain an unwind for us, like a bit 0:15:57.920 --> 0:16:01.840 of science behind fasting and why why it's so important 0:16:01.960 --> 0:16:05.960 for someone like me, someone who is heading into perminopause 0:16:06.000 --> 0:16:09.880 and menopause and and wanting to live their best life. Yeah, 0:16:09.920 --> 0:16:12.680 that's a loaded question. Um, so I'll give the I'll 0:16:12.680 --> 0:16:17.000 try to give the concise answer, which which is if 0:16:17.040 --> 0:16:19.520 the best way to understand fasting is to go back 0:16:19.520 --> 0:16:23.440 and look at how the cave women cavemen did food 0:16:24.120 --> 0:16:31.080 and what we did, our cave people ancestors did. Oh, 0:16:31.120 --> 0:16:33.120 I gotta love that. I'm gonna start using that our 0:16:33.160 --> 0:16:36.680 cave friends. What our cave friends did is they would 0:16:36.680 --> 0:16:39.320 come out of the cave and they did never refrigerator, 0:16:39.360 --> 0:16:41.800 they didn't have a pantry, they didn't have door dash, 0:16:41.920 --> 0:16:44.680 and so what they would do is have to go hunt. 0:16:45.320 --> 0:16:49.040 And in order to survive, they had to tap into 0:16:49.040 --> 0:16:52.320 another energy source. And we call that energy source the 0:16:52.400 --> 0:16:56.000 keytogenic energy source. I like to lovingly call it the 0:16:56.000 --> 0:17:00.520 fat burning system. And when the when you go without food, 0:17:00.680 --> 0:17:05.800 these neural chemicals kick in that supercharge you. And it's 0:17:05.880 --> 0:17:09.520 all because we were made for survival. So they had 0:17:09.560 --> 0:17:12.040 to go hunt, they had to go find food and 0:17:12.080 --> 0:17:15.520 so as they tapped into this fat burning system, they 0:17:15.560 --> 0:17:19.920 made keytones. They got growth hormone, they got gabbo which 0:17:20.000 --> 0:17:24.080 calmed them, they got dopamine, like all the things, all 0:17:24.119 --> 0:17:28.280 the wonderful neurochemicals. They got all the good things so 0:17:28.359 --> 0:17:31.080 that they could go hunt and make a kill and 0:17:31.119 --> 0:17:34.439 then come back and then they would feast. This is 0:17:34.480 --> 0:17:38.439 how we're designed. Were genetically designed this way for feast, famine, 0:17:38.480 --> 0:17:42.000 cycling in and out of sugar burner, fat burner. But 0:17:42.080 --> 0:17:44.520 if you look at what we're doing every day, we 0:17:44.560 --> 0:17:46.720 eat all day long. I mean I was the breakfast 0:17:46.760 --> 0:17:48.560 is the most important meal of the day. I was 0:17:48.600 --> 0:17:51.520 the person that carried the snacks. This this is pretty 0:17:51.520 --> 0:17:54.080 funny because now if you if I go anywhere, I 0:17:54.119 --> 0:17:57.639 go without anything, I'm like, oh just fast, um. But 0:17:57.760 --> 0:18:00.800 I literally had like a bag of snacks with me everywhere. 0:18:01.040 --> 0:18:06.920 I'm not there yet. You're not there yet. Yeah, yes, 0:18:09.240 --> 0:18:11.840 I mean I think that that is It's amazing to 0:18:12.080 --> 0:18:14.159 hear because we're not taught that. We're not taught that 0:18:14.200 --> 0:18:17.119 this this is genetically what we're made for. We're taught 0:18:17.240 --> 0:18:19.640 to get the big mac with the biggest drink possible 0:18:19.720 --> 0:18:22.439 and to eat you know constantly. I don't even know 0:18:22.480 --> 0:18:25.760 if any of us know when we're hungry anymore, because 0:18:26.640 --> 0:18:28.639 do you know what I mean? Because oh yeah, I 0:18:28.760 --> 0:18:32.240 noticed yesterday my twenty four fast. I noticed when my 0:18:32.240 --> 0:18:35.160 body was hungry, because I did get hungry at some point, 0:18:35.320 --> 0:18:37.560 and that's when I had my little bit of snacks 0:18:37.560 --> 0:18:41.359 here and there. But at around three thirty in the afternoon, 0:18:41.359 --> 0:18:44.720 I was having to make a really big decision, and 0:18:45.040 --> 0:18:47.800 all of a sudden, I wanted to reach for everything 0:18:48.000 --> 0:18:51.119 to put in my mouth, to eat, drink, whatever it was. 0:18:51.160 --> 0:18:53.479 I was like, I need something, and it was just 0:18:53.560 --> 0:18:59.440 interesting to see how emotionally driven I was for something 0:18:59.480 --> 0:19:01.800 to in jel best in order to soothe me. I 0:19:01.880 --> 0:19:03.600 know I could have gone and reached for arm and better, 0:19:03.640 --> 0:19:05.480 I could have reached for whatever it was at the time, 0:19:05.480 --> 0:19:07.560 and I stopped myself because I'm like, I'm not hungry. 0:19:07.640 --> 0:19:10.439 I finally started to see where my real cues of 0:19:10.640 --> 0:19:13.840 hunger were, which is huge because I think we all 0:19:14.080 --> 0:19:16.520 do it. We all emotionally eat, and we're it's all 0:19:16.560 --> 0:19:19.560 on the spectrum of some of us really lean into 0:19:19.640 --> 0:19:23.359 that to suite ourselves, and sometimes some of us do 0:19:23.480 --> 0:19:26.760 it in a way that it's not as obvious, and 0:19:26.880 --> 0:19:30.000 so yesterday it was for me. I was obvious that 0:19:30.080 --> 0:19:31.719 I was like, oh I need that to soothe. So 0:19:32.440 --> 0:19:35.399 fasting for me has been really interesting to learn my 0:19:35.520 --> 0:19:41.280 actual cues of hunger. All right, we're going to cut 0:19:41.280 --> 0:19:43.840 away for a quick breath, but we'll be right back 0:19:43.920 --> 0:19:53.480 with more. Dr Mendy. All right, everyone, Dr Mindy and 0:19:53.480 --> 0:19:56.679 I were just diving into the multifaceted topic of hunger 0:19:56.840 --> 0:20:00.920 and what it represents. Yeah, I say, it's a mirror. 0:20:00.960 --> 0:20:04.520 It helps you see what you need, what your relations right. 0:20:04.560 --> 0:20:07.400 And in many ways, I mean, you're a great example 0:20:07.440 --> 0:20:10.399 of when we fast you, we see a lot of 0:20:10.440 --> 0:20:14.960 things and that show up and that's for everybody. So 0:20:15.440 --> 0:20:18.879 our relationship with food, what we don't realize is that 0:20:18.920 --> 0:20:22.639 it's a state changer. It's a dopamine rush. And to 0:20:22.680 --> 0:20:25.280 your point of we don't we're out of touch with 0:20:25.720 --> 0:20:28.560 even when we're hungry or even what foods we should eat, 0:20:28.640 --> 0:20:31.960 Like we've completely lost touch with that. But this is 0:20:32.000 --> 0:20:33.840 where if you think about it, like think about what 0:20:33.880 --> 0:20:35.640 you were taught as a little kid, Like you get 0:20:35.720 --> 0:20:38.560 up and it's like okay, eat breakfast. You get home 0:20:38.600 --> 0:20:41.520 from school, Okay, eat, eat again, like your mom is 0:20:41.520 --> 0:20:45.000 constantly there with snacks, or you're constantly told when to eat. 0:20:45.359 --> 0:20:47.600 It's dinner time. If you don't eat dinner now, then 0:20:48.000 --> 0:20:50.960 you know there's no more dinner. So we get from 0:20:50.960 --> 0:20:55.439 an early age tuned out of our own innate sense 0:20:55.680 --> 0:20:58.719 of hunger. And you know, if there was one thing 0:20:58.760 --> 0:21:01.040 I could do for the young your generation, it would 0:21:01.080 --> 0:21:04.800 be to really help them see their intuitive sense of 0:21:04.840 --> 0:21:07.160 when they're hungry and when they're not, because that gets 0:21:07.200 --> 0:21:11.399 beaten out of us. Yeah, it does. It's amazing that 0:21:11.440 --> 0:21:12.840 you put it that way of beating out of us 0:21:12.840 --> 0:21:16.520 because literally, like that has been, yeah, the case for 0:21:16.560 --> 0:21:19.640 a lot of people. I remember when I've discovered fasting. 0:21:20.119 --> 0:21:22.919 One day, I was chasing my son out the door. 0:21:23.000 --> 0:21:25.120 He was in ninth grade, and I was like, your banana, 0:21:25.240 --> 0:21:28.760 you're yogurt, Like you can't leave without food. And then 0:21:28.800 --> 0:21:31.120 I came back inside and I'm like and he wouldn't 0:21:31.119 --> 0:21:32.760 take it. And I came back inside and I'm like, 0:21:32.840 --> 0:21:35.400 what what am I doing wrong? Like I went into 0:21:35.480 --> 0:21:37.160 I must be a bad parent because I can't get 0:21:37.160 --> 0:21:40.040 my ninth grader to eat breakfast. And so when he 0:21:40.080 --> 0:21:43.640 came home that night, I said, are you hungry, Like 0:21:43.800 --> 0:21:46.000 I feel like maybe you're not hungry in the morning. 0:21:46.040 --> 0:21:47.920 He said, no, I'm not. And I'm like, well, when 0:21:47.960 --> 0:21:51.280 do you get hungry? And he said ten o'clock. I'm like, okay, 0:21:51.480 --> 0:21:53.920 how about we make sure you have good food at 0:21:53.960 --> 0:21:56.919 ten o'clock. And that's what we did, and then I 0:21:57.440 --> 0:22:00.200 it changed everything, and he was intermittent fasting without even 0:22:00.240 --> 0:22:04.960 knowing he was intermittent fastening. So the haf for me was, gosh, 0:22:04.960 --> 0:22:09.360 do we not know our own internal like sense of 0:22:09.480 --> 0:22:12.560 food and even what good food is? And how should 0:22:12.600 --> 0:22:15.880 we feel after a meal like we are because we're 0:22:15.920 --> 0:22:18.800 told three meals a day breakfast is the most portmeal 0:22:18.840 --> 0:22:21.880 a day, eat dinner or the kitchen's clothed like all 0:22:21.920 --> 0:22:25.400 those things seemed to permeate so many households. Yeah, for sure, 0:22:25.520 --> 0:22:27.199 I was that way as a as a kid, like 0:22:27.280 --> 0:22:29.120 I didn't want to eat breakfast at all in the morning. 0:22:29.119 --> 0:22:32.040 In fact, I didn't eat, and I hated school lunch 0:22:32.200 --> 0:22:34.439 like I didn't like soggy sandwiches, and my mom packed 0:22:34.480 --> 0:22:37.560 like and so I actually I really fasted my whole 0:22:37.640 --> 0:22:40.520 childhood until like three o'clock world around, and then my 0:22:40.520 --> 0:22:44.120 my mom would go get me awful drive through um. 0:22:44.160 --> 0:22:45.919