[00:00:00] Hey, guys, it's Danielle. Welcome back to another Pure Root Wellness podcast, the show that discusses natural and holistic approaches for optimal health. So join me down the path towards finding the roots to your personal wellness. Hello, you guys. Welcome back to another Pure Root wellness podcast. I am stoked to be talking about our topic today of menopause and weight gain and how we can naturally calm this down, get back control of our hormones from a holistic perspective, and really halt, if not lose weight during the peri or menopause time frame. Okay, so I chose this topic because I have a lot of clients that are coming in, and this is a big deal for them. They're hitting their transition of menopause or perimenopause, and they want to know really naturally, how can I calm this down? How can I rebalance my hormones so I'm not all over the place, so my hot flashes aren't keeping me up at night, and I can get a good night's sleep, but mainly, how can I stop driving weight gain during this physiologic transition in a female's life? So this is, I think, very important for a lot of my female listeners and clients because it can help you really get back that control that maybe you feel you've lost with your hormones during perimenopause or menopause, which is really kind of a fire under the butt feeling, because a lot of times people sit there and go, oh, this is just what happens. You have to accept it. Just kind of go through it, and good luck to you. It doesn't have to be that way. You can physically utilize natural nutrition, natural supplements, natural herbs, natural lifestyle changes to combat excess weight gain that can sometimes happen for a lot of females during the perimenopause and menopause time frame. So why does this happen? All right, this is kind of the big loaded question right off the clip, and we know that really between the ages of 45 and 55, we find, despite our best efforts, we slowly start to gain some weight. Someone had termed this phenomenon the middle age spread. Okay? And it's common, but it doesn't have to be inevitable. We don't have to accept this and just go on with our lives not wanting optimal health and really finding ways to keep our weight under control, maintained, and if not, lose weight during this period. Okay? At perimenopause, it is true that we produce fewer hormones in the ovaries, but unfortunately, we still continue to produce small amounts of estrogen in our fat tissue. And that's just how, again, going back to the physiology of our body, that's how it's kind of developed. We still need estrogen throughout our system, and our fat cells really like to hang on to a lot of these hormones to, as a female, kind of keep us nice and squishy and have that womanly kind of figure that we all strive to have. But these fat tissues and these fat cells really like to hang on to these hormones to grow, okay?
[00:03:37] This ultimately causes us as females to be estrogen dominant, which is what contributes to fat increase, really around the middle, in our belly, on our bottoms, on our thighs, and on our arms. And again, this is a protective mechanism for being the creatures that have the children and need to have excess weight to be able to have hormones that are circulating appropriately. But unfortunately, when we hit that perimenopause menopause time frame, we don't want those hormones really flooding the system because we're not preparing for the babies anymore.
[00:04:15] We've kind of transitioned out of that physiologic time frame, and we would prefer to either maintain or continue to lose weight, especially around the middle, the bottom, the thighs, and the arms.
[00:04:29] At this same time, this period in our transition or life, our muscle mass actually starts to decline, which is crappy. That sucks because muscle mass is what actually helps keep our metabolism up and our body burning fats and carbohydrates and all these things as fuel. But our muscle mass unfortunately starts to decline, and this decreases our metabolic rate. And it is usually at the time of life, this transition time, where our career, our family commitments, they're at our highest, right? Our stress is high, our cortisol is high. All of these contribute into the pot of weight gain. So how do we combat this? How do we put a halt to all of this during the perimenopause menopause time frame? Okay? Because we've got a lot of things coming at us hot in an essence of things going against us to gain weight.
[00:05:27] How can I counteract that? Let's jump right into the best diet and nutritional approach for perimenopause menopause transition. It always is. And I will sound like a squeaky wheel. I'll come right out and say it. I'll call myself out. But a whole food plant focused approach is always going to win when it comes to rebalancing your hormones, getting inflammatory processes down, and giving your body back. All of the compounds, the antioxidants, the nutrients that your body needs to be able to handle a lot of the hormonal shifts that are happening during perimenopause or menopause. And what does this look like? Because I've had a lot of clients sit in my office and go, so you're telling me you want to be vegan or vegetarian or something? No, that is not what a whole food plant focused plate looks like, okay? It doesn't look like Keto. It doesn't look like paleo. It doesn't look like whatever kind of diet is the cool, hip thing to do. It's not a diet. It's a mentality. It's a way of looking at food from a whole food plant focused approach, okay? So very different. And again, using food as a way of healing and organizing all of the processes, the metabolic processes that need to happen in your body and giving your cells, the raw material to do exactly what it needs to do to function the right way. That's what the whole food plant focused approach is. That is the best diet, okay? If you want to get these hormones back in check and keep the weight down. Now, that has to be catered to each individual. So when I work with specific clients, doing one on ones, I'm catering to what works best for their body, what works best for their hormones, and really looking at the personalization of that. But if you wanted a big picture, whole food plant focused is your way to go. It's a good place to start if you're someone who is starting to notice you're gaining some weight during your perimenopause or menopause time frame.
[00:07:43] Now, approaching this, what foods can combat the entity of gaining weight during menopause? Okay, one food group in particular is a group of foods that have a compound called phytoestrogens in them. These are going to be your friend, and I don't want you to freak out because you heard the word estrogen in the food. Don't freak out, okay? Because these phytoestrogens will actually bind to the estrogen receptor to block any extra estrogen floating around. This is huge, you guys.
[00:08:22] Directly, this will reduce fat accumulation by stopping the life cycle of something we call adipocytes. So the fat cells, we've blocked them from being able to produce and enlarge or even increase in not only size, but increase in quantity.
[00:08:43] And these phytoestrogens have the ability to have an appetite suppressing property. To them, that is a double bank for your buck. Phytoestrogens are really what you need to be looking for when you're going through this transition period. So what type of foods, what specific foods have phytoestrogens in them?
[00:09:06] Ground flaxseeds are always my number one, you guys. And I say this because truly, ground flaxseeds have the ability to just hit so many different checkboxes when it comes to overall health and wellness. And what I mean by that is not only do they have these wonderful phytoestrogens instilled in them, they have fiber, they have antioxidants, they have all of these other properties in them, nutrients that can truly drive optimal health and well being in addition to helping you transition through the perimenopause menopause zone. Okay? So ground flax seeds are number one. You got to grind them up. You can buy them whole if you want. You can also buy them already ground up, but don't eat them with the seeds on. You've got to buy a coffee grinder, or like I said, just make sure they're ground up. Sprinkle them on salads, put them in smoothies. I bake with them. People don't know that they're even in what I'm baking.
[00:10:10] They're just truly a good universal. I think of it as a superfood. I know superfoods don't exist, but I think of it as a superfood. So start with some ground flax seeds. Beautiful thing every day. Soybeans soybeans are another phytoestrogen that have gotten a lot of flak in an essence with are they healthy? Are they not? Should people be eating soybeans when people are thinking this is going to increase your estrogen and cause breast cancer or some other issue, you need to know that food this is the big picture here, guys.
[00:10:47] Food that has phytoestrogens in it are a completely different compound than actual exogenous estrogen that someone would give you to take. There's alpha, there's beta, there's different isomers. These phytoestrogens look differently to the body, especially when they come in food form. So it does not fit the same receptor to drive estrogen up, in essence, where people sit there and go, well, won't this increase my risk for breast cancer? It's not one and the same.
[00:11:23] Phytoestrogens are not the same as exogenous estrogen. And your body knows what to do with the natural form of phytoestrogens. Okay, so hang with me here. Soybeans.
[00:11:35] Good quality, non GMO, organic soybeans. This looks like tofu this looks like Edamame.
[00:11:42] There's a lot of different foods that have a soybean context in them. The quality of soybean is what I want you to focus on, okay? But enjoy them. They help block that receptor. They chill out the life cycle of the fat cells morphing around. They can help suppress appetite. All good things, okay? Legumes. Legumes are very good in an essence of doing what phytoestrogens do, but keeping you full. So these are beans and peas and lentils, all of the good plant based proteins that some can actually have a full amino acid profile where you're getting all the amino acids without the saturated fats that maybe an animal protein would give you. So incorporating legumes, very important. They keep you full super long, which is always a benefit. And you're getting the protein you need to really gain the muscle mass, reduce the fat and drop the weight. There you go. Garlic. Garlic. I slather it. I put it on everything. If you're not a garlic fan, you got to learn to be a garlic fan if you can, okay? It doesn't have to be fresh stuff. Maybe already buy it, minced, put it in anything you can. When you're cooking all the time, it feeds the gut microbiome, so your gut bugs get a nice little prebiotic there. But garlic is also considered a good hearty phytoestrogen that can really give you these good properties for healthy hormonal control. Celery, carrots, sweet potatoes, apples, all good phytoestrogens that naturally get in the system and again, stop the cycle of these adipocytes help appetite suppression. Double bang for your buck. I saved the best for last because you guys are going to love this coffee.
[00:13:41] Good quality coffee. Okay? I hate to be a coffee snob, but we got to be a coffee snob, you guys. We don't have to do it all the time. But you got to understand, coffee can have tons of mold, can be heavily pesticide ridden. So choosing a good organic coffee is very important. If you want your cup of Joe, do it the right way so you know you're getting the good antioxidant properties and not the pesticide properties and not the mold properties. Okay?
[00:14:12] So think of that. Think of good quality coffee, but another hearty phytoestrogen that can be your friend during this transition of perimenopause and menopause.
[00:14:24] Okay? Now that we know what foods we should be sprinkling in, really, throughout the diet, what should we avoid?
[00:14:33] We should be avoiding foods with exogenous hormones added in them.
[00:14:39] What this means is there are certain foods and food groups that have tons of hormones in them, exogenous hormones that came from and I'll spoiler alert came from animals, okay?
[00:14:56] And it's not maybe what was innately in that animal, but what was also added hormonally to that animal to grow fatter quicker and produce more meat or more dairy for human consumption. So commercial animal proteins are a big no no if you are trying to get your hormones back in balance. What do I mean by commercial animal proteins? I start with dairy. Dairy. I will sit on this soapbox till I'm 125. You guys.
[00:15:30] Adults and dairy, they don't go hand in hand. And specifically, I'm going to pick on specifically, cow's milk. Okay? Adults after the age of two should not be drinking cow's milk. Why?
[00:15:50] It has hormones up the wazoo in it.
[00:15:55] But our body has lost the capability of breaking down cow's milk, period.
[00:16:03] A fair majority of us, I want to say, like, 90% of us, no longer have the enzyme to break down cow's milk. Now, some people don't get symptoms from that. The gas, the bloating, the cramping, all the stuff that can come down the pipe from drinking milk, and you not having that enzyme to break it down.
[00:16:21] But you have to understand, cow's milk is just not milk milk. The milk itself is actually a milk sugar. So when you drink cow's milk, I want you to know you're just drinking sugar at this point, okay?
[00:16:35] Along with the sugar, you're going to get the estrogen, you're going to get the testosterone, you're going to get all the other hormones they put in this cow. You're going to get the antibiotics that they needed to get to keep that cow healthy so it wouldn't die, so they could make money. Okay? You see where I'm going with this a little bit, but you're also getting anything else that that cow ate that it shouldn't have been eating. So the corn or the grain feed that they're feeding it, which cows should not be eating corn or necessarily a certain type of grain. They have four stomachs for a reason. They need to be eating grass. Right? But beside that, let's say the grain that they were given was a dwarf wheat that had tons of pesticides I E Glyphosate on it. It becomes that cow. The glyphosate, the pesticide becomes that cow meat, and you have now ingested that cow meat. So I know it's kind of, again, I joked myself a crunchy way of thinking about it, but when I truly say you are what you ate and what your food ate, that is the truth, okay? So you have to understand that putting in these extra hormones in your body, especially during this time period, is not going to optimize your hormones if you're adding additional hormones from a food context. Okay? Just thinking of it that way. So I tell people, really, avoid dairy is number one. If you're drinking cow's milk, it's got to go. Let's find a nice little almond milk, cashew milk, hemp milk, oat milk. Make your own. There's tons of good stuff out there that we can substitute to make our coffees taste good, to make our I don't condone a lot of cereal, but cereals taste good to bake with. Truly, you got to get off the cow's milk kick, okay? That's my only soapbox. I'll kind of hang on the other dairy. Again, on my one on one clients, I talk about, you know, what, cheeses and eggs and stuff that has its own little kind of sidebar. But you got to stop drinking the milk if you're drinking the cow's milk. The next food that I tell people to truly avoid if they can, and I'm going to throw you guys for a loop. I'm going to freak you out a little bit here is chicken, okay? Chicken. I know everyone always tells me if I had a nickel for every time a client comes in and says, I cleaned up my diet, I got off the red meat, and I started to transition to chicken. I have chicken every day, and I'm cleaning it up a little bit. And internally, I cringe. I cringe because the chicken that we know now as chicken is not a quality based product. Now you can find quality based chicken products organic, free range, actual legit, free range chickens that haven't been, again, injected with hormones and given all this kind of crappy feed and what have you or antibiotics, it does exist out there. There is good quality chicken that does exist if you're consuming that type of chicken and not consuming it on a regular basis.
[00:20:02] Okay, very good. But I think we really need to look at the quality of what we're eating. And again, what did our food eat prior to us? And truth be told, the research and the evidence does show us even like, the chicken skin itself has higher saturated fat content than even red beef. Okay, so we're looking at it wrong. We're missing it. You guys. The evidence is there. The research is there. I think we need to step back and really look at how our body handles some of these extra hormones that are coming in and all this other kind of garbage and stop wondering why our bodies are all kind of out of whack and out of balance. This is why this is one of the root core issues that I think we're starting to see.
[00:20:54] So dairy, no, no, chicken. It's got to be good quality stuff. Don't pummel it every day. Incorporate some other healthy, wild caught fishes and stuff. Then I go to Beef. Then I pick on beef. Okay? So really, dairy, chicken, beef are the top three that I try and tell people during this transition. We got to be choosy.
[00:21:16] Quality is going to be our friend during this time frame, big time. So those three are where I kind of start with with people, obviously.
[00:21:25] I kind of go down the pipe, eat your wild fish, eat your plant based protein. Don't forget about your plant based protein, right? Try maybe some different types of animal protein products.
[00:21:35] Maybe more turkey, more wild fish. Maybe try some wild game. Some people are down to try some of the organ meats, which can really don't have as much kind of garbage throughout them. But again, you've got to be picky. Quality is going to be your friend.
[00:21:55] So nonetheless, my point is, when you're looking at commercial animal proteins, they have all these hormones in them, and I've kind of beat this already to death. But you're looking at growth hormones. You're looking at the estrogens, the prolactin, the oxytocin. It has adrenaline in it, you guys. It has prostaglandins, which are part of your inflammatory process. Okay? It even has melatonin in it. These animals were once living beings that have some of the same hormones and chemical processes that we have as well. And if we are constantly bombarding our system with exogenous hormones, and our hormones are trying to say, whoa, you're eating a lot of those hormones. Maybe I don't need to produce some of your own hormones, or maybe I need more because you're not giving me it gets all sorts of confused. So if you can take out of the equation to really take a look at what your animal protein consists of, is it good quality, what's in it? What did my food eat? And really adapt that into your mindset. Things start to change a little bit for a lot of people as far as they're a little more pickier about the types of foods they choose and why they choose them, and they start to see really benefit from that when it comes to, again, rebalancing the hormones, how you feel, how your body is able to really work the right way. And optimally. All right, so that's where I kind of stand on that. That is the nutrition aspect. What should we be eating, really? What should we be avoiding to combat that weight gain during menopause perimenopause period?
[00:23:39] My other question that clients come to me is, well, what's the best activity that should I be doing during this time frame? What's really going to make the pounds melt off and fall off. What should I be doing? The evidence shows this is it. You're going to squash it right off the clip. You guys, weight bearing exercise is 100% superior than cardio, than hit for weight loss during and after menopause pick up the weights. Ladies, do not fear the weights because it is going to be what is going to get you to the next level of keeping the weight off during this time frame, okay? You want to increase your muscle mass. When you increase your muscle mass, you increase your metabolism. The more muscle you have, the more capability you have to rev up the metabolism and burn. I'm doing burn and air quotes because we don't burn fuel. We breathe it out or we don't burn fat. We breathe it out. But you increase the muscle mass you have, your metabolism starts to really crank up. Okay? And what this looks like is a total body conditioning approach, all right? It doesn't have to be heavy weights. This doesn't have to be you and the big boy gym lifting the crazy weights and grunting and doing all the things, okay? This literally can be small weights. It can be your body weight, your own body weight, but you got to get some of that resistance in. You got to get that weight bearing exercise in. It can be with the straps, the bands and stuff like that, where you're getting that resistance. That's what I'm talking about. Now, if you do this, three to four days per week of weightlifting, weightlifting again, weight bearing exercise, and maybe only a day or two of cardio or like a hit workout or something where you're just moving and grooving and kind of getting your heart rate up. From a movement standpoint, this is going to be the best to truly melt off the weight and prevent it from getting you gaining weight in the menopause zone. Okay.
[00:25:54] And just so you know, and this is what the data is actually showing, persistent high intensity workout is actually starting to reveal suboptimal health outcomes in regards to stress put on the body. So if you are constantly hammering your body thinking this is the only way back in the 80s, right? Seventy s. Eighty s. If you didn't do the Jane Fonda and get things really revved up and sweating with cardio and all this kind of crazy stuff, that's not a thing. It's long gone are the days where you're going to lose the weight with that. You guys, it's actually we're finding it suboptimal in regards to extra stress put on the body. It's too much stress. You're bombarding the system where you've overhit a threshold of how your body will respond to beautiful exercise and revving up the metabolism. Okay? So get the weight bearing exercise in. We know research, it's going to get you where you need to get from a weight loss perspective.
[00:26:56] So let's get into supplements and vitamin approach all right, there are three, maybe four. I'm going to say four, four big categories that will support you. Support the whole body in an essence during menopause perimenopause. And I'll say them all kind of out right now. The first one is supporting your adrenal function. We'll talk about that. Supporting your thyroid nose shocker there, right? This one might shock you, though. Supporting your liver. We forget about our liver and I'll tell you why a little bit. And supporting our gut health. That's always a part of a foundation of health period. Supporting your gut health.
[00:27:36] So let's go back up to the top. How do I support my adrenal function during this time frame? Stress is a big part of this. The adrenals and stress, the stress and adrenals, the cortisol, that's the hormone that all kind of communicates within the system. There are other stress hormones that kind of can get out of whack during this time frame. But how do I support my adrenal function naturally? There are a few herbs and compounds that can help with this, licorice being one of them. Passion flour, lemon balm, all of these natural herbs and remedies support the adrenals, support the nervous system. To kind of tell your body again, just slow down. I don't need a huge cortisol response. Just tame it down, calm it down. I don't need this much cortisol floating through the system.
[00:28:26] And I know a lot of you have heard or used personally the two herbs that I talk about, the ashwagandha and the rodiola, again, these herbs assist your stress threshold and really help calm everything down directly. What ashwagandha or rodiola can do, it's kind of a different way of thinking about it. It actually increases your body's ability or your threshold to handle stress. So if it took you a level eight before you hit your stress threshold and you were like, I can't take it, my cortisol is going through the roof. I've had enough.
[00:29:05] What Ashwagandha and Rodeola do is even bring that threshold higher. So now you're maybe at a 15, it takes 15. And I'm just quantifying using numbers. There's no level per se, but you see what I'm saying? It raises your threshold. So it's going to take a lot more kind of compounded stress to get to that cortisol release, to get to that adrenal response for you. That's how ashwagandha and rodiola work. Okay, very cool. Support the adrenals. Big part of it dropping down to supporting your thyroid. All right, we all know the thyroid is a big proponent of how all of our hormones work, how our metabolism works.
[00:29:49] We're finding more and more that people, they're struggling with their thyroid health. More people younger and younger are coming into my office and they're in full blown Hashimoto's or Hypothyroidism.
[00:30:06] They're going through and having a bunch of symptoms because we have not been able to support our thyroid correctly.
[00:30:14] Some general kind of minerals and vitamins that help support your thyroid are iodine, selenium, vitamin D. These are big boys when it comes to keeping the thyroid happy, healthy, and working for you the right way. Okay? And the majority of multivitamins have a lot of these properties in it. The iodine, I usually don't suggest people to take as kind of in supplement form only because we do get some through food and through dietary means. I tell people, don't add a lot of iodinized salt on things.
[00:30:53] Choose a better salt property. Besides, that more of a Celtic salt or a Himalayan sea salt or something which doesn't have iodine in it. But I tell people, go have some sushi. Go eat a couple of nori sheets. Go have some seaweed. Boom, you're good. You got it. And you've got a healthier version of some healthy omegas that are coming in there as well. But a good quality multivitamin can really do wonders for supporting the thyroid health. And then obviously, if you're already struggling with hypothyroidism or actual autoimmune process with the thyroid, we have to hone in a little bit more and get a little bit more specific on how we can support the thyroid.
[00:31:36] Step three, support your liver. All right, we forget about this one, you guys. The liver does so much for us, and we don't give it the credit it deserves. We cannot live without our liver. We just can't. If you physically it's one of the organs where if you took it out, you better have another one on the back end, because you won't survive. And when our liver is not functioning well, our entire body cannot function well. It cannot detox. It cannot get rid of all of the toxins, all of the schmutt. I call it from the environment, from food, from heavy metals, from pollution, from all the garbage that we kind of pummel at the liver.
[00:32:22] If it's not functioning well, it's just we're not going to be in an optimal state of health. Okay, so supporting our liver, how do we do this?
[00:32:31] I'm going to sound like a squeaky wheel here. We need to be cautious and cognizant of our animal protein we are consuming. Okay?
[00:32:42] Again, our liver does a big physiologic breakdown of a lot of the kind of crappy animal protein that we put in our body. So I think it benefits us to, again, look at the source. Where is it coming from? How much am I eating? Because the liver has to do a lot of cleaning up when we eat, again, kind of poorly crappy animal type protein meals. Okay?
[00:33:11] NAC or milk thistle, anacetylcysteine or milk thistle is a very good natural way to support the liver, kind of help with the process of cleaning up all of the oxygen species, reactive oxygen species that our body really comes in contact with. Glutathione. I cannot say enough about glutathione here in the office, I do glutathione injections, whether that be im injections or IV. Glutathione, and it just acts as this beautiful, free radical, just scavenger. And our liver makes this. And truly, if we keep bogging down our liver with all of this schmutt, I always say the schmutt, we can't produce enough glutathione to clean up the rest of the body in the system. And that's when health ailments start coming down the pipe, you guys. That's when our body says, listen, I've had too many insults. I can't help clean up anymore. We are straight in protection mode.
[00:34:16] I can't help anymore. So supporting your liver is a beautiful way to take it away from the organ and sit there and say, I got you. I'm going to give you all the raw material you need to function properly so you can help function my body to work properly, okay? And something else we offer here lipotropics. lipotropic nutrients are a beautiful way to give good B vitamins back into the system that the liver can use. We use three compounds called choline, inactatol and methionine, which is an amino acid that when I say it cleans up the liver, it cleans up kind of the biliary system it does. Some of my clients, when I start them out on lipotropics, you can really tell who's maybe had more of a metabolic fatty liver because they start, for lack of a better word, they start pooping like a duck, okay? And they're literally purging all of the fatty components that have gummed up the liver from food choices, from environmental toxins, from heavy metal stuff that's been hanging around. It's a pretty cool way to see if your body has if your liver has been taking on kind of some excess fatty deposits from us just not treating it well. So support that liver, ladies. Last kind of supplement vitamin holistic approach to, again, focusing back on weight gain and perimenopause menopause. Support your gut health. Again, another foundation of what health needs to be when you support your gut health, when you support these gut bugs, the gut microbiome, these bugs work, basically. They can help us or not help us, okay? And what we feed them is how they then get the opportunity to be able to help us. So by supporting them, giving them the right foods, giving them the right type of fiber that they need, fiber is a big one. My magical 30 grams number of fiber a day is truly beneficial for the majority of people who are looking to optimize their health, understanding that a good quality probiotic is a good thing, and it depends on what type of probiotic you're looking at and maybe symptoms. If you have some GI symptoms, you're going through.
[00:36:49] But incorporating either foods with good probiotic kimchi, kefir, some yogurts, not the real fruity, fruity yogurts, right?
[00:36:59] Using these foods or supplementing with, again, a good quality probiotic and giving them the fiber because that's what they eat, right? These bugs eat a majority of fiber. They eat the food we eat to break them down.
[00:37:13] It only benefits us to keep these bugs happy, healthy, and working for us the right way.
[00:37:21] So let's get into and we're going to kind of hone in here, guys, and really kind of wrap up the big picture here. But let's get into the natural menopause symptom relief. Okay? What naturally can I use? And we're looking at the big picture now of perimenopause menopause. All right, what can I do to calm down the hot flashes, get some sleep, rebalance the hormones and just really chill out the system because there's a lot of stuff kind of going on in the background. And you're feeling it. You're feeling it from a symptom standpoint. So the first one, again, I go back to blocking that estrogen receptor, right? So phytoestrogens, there's actually the dispensary that I use on full scripts. On my website, there is a phytoestrogen herbal on full scripts that includes a lot of these natural vitamins and minerals and herbal properties that naturally block this estrogen receptor. But isoflavins genenstein is a good and that's a soy kind of based compound. This is a compound that's found in soybeans is genosine. But isoflavins also natural ways again, to block that receptor, kind of tone everything down and not allow those adipocytes to fluctuate and move around and help with some appetite suppression. One product that, again, is available on full scripts, Dispensary, is beautiful. They are doing some serious research on this estravera. So, er, two big E, big R, little R 731 is what it's actually called. But estravera, it is a natural herbal supplement, and Rhubarb is actually the primary source of this estravera. But this is a highly researched product that acts to reduce menopausal symptoms. So we're talking hot flashes, we're talking mood swings, we're talking anxiety, irritability, any sexual issues that have unfortunately, kind of come down the pipe with, again, the way our body is transitioning and some of the physiologic processes that are happening. Very cool product. A lot of females are having very good results with this estrovera. Something to really look into and consider, if that interests you as well. And I will put in the show notes the link to my Dispensary. If that's something you want to purchase on my Dispensary, you always get 10% off of any full scripts order, every single order. But it is a way for you to have access basically to professional pharmaceutical grade products, not specifically for menopause, but for any health ailment, you get access to that good quality product. Okay?
[00:40:26] So this really is the gist of things. Okay, guys, this is the big picture. This is the information that can, again, ultimately change how your body transitions into the next really beautiful period of your life. It doesn't have to be miserable and dreadful and just irritable all the things that maybe you think about when you're like, oh, man, I don't want to go through this transition. It doesn't have to be stamped to be chaotic and crazy. You can use a lot of natural ways through food, through lifestyle, through herbal and natural remedies to help, like I said, calm the system down, keep the hormones balanced, kind of regulate what hormones are coming in and where it's going. And you can have that easy, simple transition to ultimately improve all the symptoms that may be coming down the pipe for you, especially weight gain, okay? The dreaded weight gain that we're all trying to prevent. So I hope this podcast was helpful for all my ladies out there that are going through the Perimenopause menopause kind of transition. You can do this gracefully, you can do this naturally. I promise you all good things. So if you have any questions, any comments, put them down in the show notes down below. Like subscribe. Share this if you know somebody is going through kind of that transition and they want some more natural approaches to getting through perimenopause and menopause, I hope this all was helpful for you guys. And always thank you for listening to the Purit Wellness Podcast. I hope you guys are well and be well.
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