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guest today's question is going to be what are the key preventative measures any woman can take to move through

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menopause and that's going to be answered by Our Guest today Amita Sharma Amita is the co-founder of nourish doc

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which is a holistic Wellness platform focused on empowering women in per menopausal years and Beyond she has

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developed a culture sensitive affordable Innovative self-care app today we're going to be discussing per menopause and

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menopause enjoy the hello Amita welcome to True Hope cast how are you what is going well I am

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doing amazing thank you so much and what is doing well is beautiful sunshine that's cheering me up and and of course

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your podcast here wonderful I'm glad to hear that well today we're going to be discussing ways people can tame their

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mental health concerns and at the end of the podcast um what we're get what we're doing now for the show is we're offering

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some solutions to a specific question which we'll build up to and that question is going to be what are the key

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preventative measures um women can take to best improve um their experience through menopause but before we get

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there if you wouldn't mind giv us a little bit of an introduction to who you are and what it is that you do please

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sure I am a co-founder of a holistic Wellness platform called nourish do and it's

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helping women take care of not only their physical health mental health emotional health spiritual health you

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know what they're going through specifically in mid Ag and I felt the need to do it because I myself have gone

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through all this which uh you know where I felt unsupported so I want to take this subject out in the open and thank

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you so much for inviting me why did you feel why did you feel unsupported was there like is there not

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very good practitioners doctors out there who are familiar with um you know this this

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phase of life like I I'm interested to feel like why you felt unsupported and you had to kind of take take it into

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your own hands I guess it's not that I mean of course there's medical professionals everywhere in the world

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but the topic of peny menopause which is preceding the year to to when a woman

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becomes menopausal which is 5152 those are not very well understood

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even now because that's when and it can happen 7 to 10 years earlier than

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menopause and typically um in medical schools this topic is not being taught

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believe it or not a lot of gynecologists have told me now the things are changing

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and if you let's say go to a medical doctor and they typically end up giving you presb you medication which I was

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prescribed and I didn't want to be on the medication because it was not just one thing it was not just hot flash

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suddenly people talk about oh my God now your hot flight is coming you're in per manifa that's not the only thing that

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happens to like myself it was the outside stress the family stress the workplace stress

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you know the emotional uh thing that you're going on um not having to be able

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to concentrate at work there are so many things it's not just one pill was

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solving that issue what I was go having and at that time I hormonal therapy had

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a negative connotation which it has had in the last quite a few years

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so so it's there were a lot of things a lot of confusion in this topic is what I'm saying and I felt like I did not

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know where to go what to do I didn't if I did not want to take a

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pill it sounds like um when you came into that stage of Life

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there was no pre-education or like pre-warning about like what you might experience and

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you know I've not been in school for a long period of time but like I remember like biology class and I don't

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think I really learned anything in regards to what I'm actually going to experience as a man going through life

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um I think with women it's very different the the the hormonal fluctuations that come with you know

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being a woman is very very different but wasn't really prepared for that so I guess like just like growing up as as a

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man I think even just the idea of um understanding what like anger is and anxiety like what those biochemic what

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what biochemically is happening in the body if I was even at like I think my four-year-old can kind of understand

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that when he's getting angry and why he's getting angry and I talked to him about listen there's like chemicals in

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your body man that will you know that will make this happen and you've got the you've got strong abilities to be able

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to like deal with those and learn to deal with your anger and anxiety in like

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let's just say healthier ways but yeah we don't we're not really learning those things in school I don't know why I

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think that kids can can take on so much more more than we we we think but um I'd

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love to like take a little bit of a um a break and go back to the beginning in

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regards can you just educate us a little bit more about spec I think most people have got an idea about what menopause is

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especially women but like tell us a little bit about like what what's per menopause and how how it's different and

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how it connects yeah so there are three stages uh beyond the reproductive years

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for a woman uh P menopause which we're going to talk about menopause which is

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typically a one day right when the woman's hasn't had a period for one year and then she's technically in menopause

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and postmenopause now the per menopause could last 7 to 10 years before a woman

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reaches menopause which is 5152 the reason it is important that's when the hormonal fluctuations start to

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happen and the women start experiencing all different different type of symptoms for every woman now there are over more

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than 35 symptoms that recorded or maybe more for for any woman

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to go through a per menopausal symptoms and the reason it's important is that there is a strong link of diabetes if a

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woman is diabetic she could have a early menopause that is that could be very very actually uh alarming from a health

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uh Care Health Point of View right then also the cognition you know sometimes

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the mood swings and the brain fog um not that there is exact science that's linking to dementia but the lack of

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really care because that's when you start getting those little bit of brain fog and you know if you don't take care

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of your hormonal imbalance dementia is more common in women heart disease is

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more common in women if you're not taking care of your cholesterol your blood pressure you know these are the

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years when things are fluctuating because of your two female sex hormones going up and down so osteoporosis is

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another one because the bone loss we all experience bone loss whether men or women women uh starts going down it gets

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more accentuated because of these hormones the estrogen and progesterone so what I'm saying is that the really

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the in uh if women don't take care of themselves and change their lifestyle during the P menopausal years the

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chances of them having these chronic conditions postmenopause go up astronomically and we all know that

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the chronic conditions have been manifestation of lifestyle modifications

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and these are all lifestyle diseases they are not just that were invented you know a few years back nobody had even

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heard of these things what we are hearing now so that's why the reason is the per menopausal years when these

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fluctuations start to happen it's very important for women to change their entire diet to take care of so many

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other things to lower the stress I mean we can go into all the details after some time but that is the reason why per

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menopausal years are crucial for women to take care of themselves yeah I think

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that if you actually like sit back and look at the timeline of like a typical woman there are some incredible stages

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that require some incredible biology and I feel like if if you're not

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preparing yourself efficiently for that then people are going to struggle and

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have symptoms you know you can't you can't look at the stages of know where

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where a woman could become pregnant and not look at that because that body that body that person is like

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getting potentially prepared to like house a baby for like a long period of time and that

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potentiality involves a lot of like significant resource need a significant amount of

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different resources to be able to do that and it's always kind of like preparing for that on like a monthly

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basis for DEC for you know for decades so it makes a lot of sense to me that

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even when we see the changes within teenage women or teenage girls

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that preparing their body for those hormonal shifts those hormonal stages is very very important obviously we could

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talk we can talk about um exercise we can talk about nutrition we could talk about um Stress Management like all

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these different things that come along with that but just to recognize that the body goes through these for a woman

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especially goes through these incredible shifts and different requirements that

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we have to be thinking a lot more in regards of let's say prevention

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and taking care of steps before they could potentially manifest into you know symptomology and

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problems yeah absolutely and and that's what my when I made a point at the

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beginning is the years beyond the reproductive right the beyond the reproductive years for a woman's phase

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those stage of a woman's life after 35 uh is not very well researched in

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fact President Biden just signed a bill right last literally last week to to initiate the

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research on women's health because it's underfunded under research and women were not even part of the clinical trials up until few years back so so so

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specifically this phase is not very well research and there's barely any research around it now it's beginning to happen

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interesting and now we have strong data on the we know the chronic conditions have gone astronomically why The Chronic

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conditions have gone astronomically there has to be you know all this years of neglect and the

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lifestyle that is sedentary or whatever you want to call it leads to The Chronic

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conditions in the later years of life which we don't want to see as a society

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as a community as in the world for that matter what do you think um I mean you

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just mentioned that bill that's being passed there you know that'd be interesting to see how how that changes

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things I don't think personally the governments are super responsible with the money that we give them in regards

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to educating people I think that there are more benefit more benefits are going

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to come from like some of the amazing practitioners out there who are like on social media and have great websites and

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do do talks and educate like on an individual basis because a lot of them have actually gone through it themselves

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and they want to help educate people to you know have a better experience so I we're blessed that there's a lot of

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people out there who are um supporting people I wonder if you've got any opinions in regards to some of those

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professionals those hormone specialists around per menopause and menopause and postmenopause do you think that there

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are some maybe like some poor advice some negative advice um you know what do

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you think about that no no I think there there just absolutely not HRT has its

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own place um we are I'm just advocating an integrative approach and the and the

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first step approach is the prevention taking your holistic lifestyle and that natur healing but the absolutely H has

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its own place for women who get early menopause you know they get their hormones get depleted they need HRT

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otherwise The Chronic conditions we talked about that goes up and and of course some women needs hormones right

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because they cannot cope up uh with all the symptoms that suddenly you know bombard them right uh so so it has its

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place there's no negative thing HRT has become come a long way in 7 there was a

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lot bad press because the HRT was given to 60y old women and only one type of

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hormone was given so there was a whole fear of breast cancer and then for at

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least two decades or so maybe more than that there was no HRT that was available for women much older than me and now

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again um the hi has come back it has its own place like I said in UK it's very

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very common now us is not as common Canada I don't know uh but women are

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still a little bit hesitant I should say that because I've talked to thousands of women to really take at as the first

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step that that because of all the fear of the negativity that has been leading

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Us in the past but at has become more stable and it is more uh you know

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efficacy has been proven so yes it has its own place interesting and there's

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obviously some amazing things the medical community can bring into something like this but I Al always

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think back to like traditional medicine like we we've only had like our convential medicine for like you know

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hundred 100 or so years but human beings and women have been around for a lot

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longer than that so what what what do you think it is that we are maybe

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missing from those like traditional I want to say maybe not

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therapies but communities like I would expect that you know traditionally we would have a

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very different approach towards that period of time for women do you have any um do you have any insights in regards

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to like those more traditional methodologies for dealing with it yeah I mean when you're saying

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traditional you you mean like uh food as medicine is that what you mean like comp

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therapies or holistic therapies what have been around for years and year like Aura and traditional Chinese medicine

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precisely yeah yeah okay yeah so uh absolutely I mean you know we have been

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in existence mankind you know not in the last 100 years right for so many years

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and women probably didn't leave uh didn't live much longer you know if you look at the history but this topic was

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never discussed uh quite honestly this was never it was always part of the aging process for women and then and

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also remember that women were mainly stay atome right men were the bread

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winners and the bread earners who were going out and uh you know making a living and most of the women were

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staying at home it didn't matter whether you were in United States or anywhere in the world majority of the women I'm talking about so so I think the

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difference um I remember my grandmom using some kind of a holistic home

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remedies you know to take care of herself there was never any thought of oh I should go to the doctor now that

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I'm becoming menopausal now the way it is now right that I should go seek out

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HRT so I think a lot has to do in my opinion um is that Mo in the last if you

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look at last 20 30 years most more women have come into the workforce right we

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are financially independent along with the financial Independence which is great for all of us women out there but

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the stress has come up right the stress has been added which was not prevalent

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earlier in my mom mom's generation and our parents generation now when you add stress to a female body you know female

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body is not designed to take so much stress because of the complex biology

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out there and there's a lot of um evidence that relates that links stress

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to so many other chronic conditions so I I think stress is a big big uh Factor if

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you ask me now as versus few years back when you take simple home remedy from

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ayura or traditional Chinese medicines and you're okay and you're able to cope up and now you need a proper regimen to

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take care of yourself even if you go with the natural holistic therapies you it's not just one um ashwagandha or

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termic is going to fix the problems right yeah yeah I think that if we were

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to look back maybe a couple of generations ago or even further than that women had a little bit more time

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and space within the home to be able to like take care of themselves but now you know you're expected to you know not

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be off work for very long even just after having a baby you need to be get back out out there and working you know

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like if you're experiencing you know difficult menstration then you should be you should be at work and going going

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going and doing all these things and I kind of think back when I think of like traditional medicines I think back like

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you know thousands and thousands of years ago when there would be a lot more ritual and understanding and community

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based around that kind of that time for a woman and um we are so far removed

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from that today yeah yeah and I and it's I just I just

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wonder about like you know we've got like um HRT now as an option and they obviously didn't have that thousands of

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years ago what you know what are we missing and what can we possibly bring into our lives in 2024 from you know

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thousands of years of um you know tra traditional therapies you think there's

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anything we can kind of bring into our bring into all now absolutely so Aura

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right it has been around for 5,000 years plus traditional Chinese medicine has been around food has been around we know

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that so hypnotherapy so all these the the

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good part is there are clinical trials now that have uh you know that have been conducted for instance on yoga on

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breathing on meditation even food right so we have a we have research and evidence behind this even in ayur some

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of the herbs and supplements there is a research and the trials clinical trials and some of the acupuncture acupressure

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some of the traditional Chinese medicines taii we can bring it all you

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know we need to bring it all out and incorporate into our daily lifestyle or holistic lifestyle and that's exactly

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what we are trying to say at Nish do is Step number one no matter what kind of medication you can take you need to fix

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your your daily life you need to change your lifestyle right you need to make modifications absolutely you draw from

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all these traditional Eastern cultures including Western culture and blend it and take care of

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yourself yeah you know I have a I have a fear that um we as a culture we we're

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looking for quick fixes we're looking for drugs we're looking for hormone replacement therapy something we can

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just do and take on like a weekly basis or something that's going to deal with

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the problem rather than take a little bit more of a a broader perspective on

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things and thinking about like how we are living in the world what our relationship with stress is like what

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our relationship with food is like what our relationship with our friends and family because obviously everything is

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contributing energetically to your body in regards to you know fight or flight or rest and digest and how we how

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frequently we can get into those into those States when we need it so yeah I just I just feel um like pharmaceu schol

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companies for example looking for this amazing quick pill that's going to make menopause amazing for you and it's going

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to have no side effects until 10 years we figure out it was terrible so I just wonder like how do you think that we can

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help shift the perspective of you know I feel this way I've been feeling this way

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for a long time I'm going to go to the doctor and get something that's going to fix it like how do you think we begin to

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change the way we look at how we ultimately take responsibility for our for ourselves I I think it's already

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changing the Paradigm is Shifting to be honest with you with this whole movement of Whole Foods as an example you know 10

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15 years back when Whole Food started we all used to eat out of cans I mean most

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of us I should say that I never did but most of us would be okay we you know

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fast food canned food we never paid attention to eating whole grain organic or you know the quality of the food and

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thanks to Whole Foods educating us look the society is so much more um informed

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they are more uh empowered to make decisions of what kind of food they're eating now at Le I see that all over

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amongst the young youngsters amongst Our Generation so I I I seriously think that

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has already started 50% of the Americans are already using complimentary

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therapies you know in this country we use the word complimentary they should be mainstream they're already going to

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doing all these acupuncture acupress food as medicine they're already doing it it's just that I think there's a lack

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of um really uh awareness as to how it can with the science behind it with the

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research behind it how it can help women in this stage as well right so most of

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us in this age group 40 plus women are a bit confused because we at one part we

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say oh take HRT someone else take oh try cumin oil someone else said oh try

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whatever and then oh you don't know what what to do because you're so confused so I think this phase of a woman's life is

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not has not been very well understood and not I go back to our thing but now

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with the times I know women my age uh you know they are already seeking

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natural uh Alternatives U maybe the 20-some want a pill or something they

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don't have time but as women start getting uh mature and get into the Mage

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there's a whole introspection that comes in right not necessarily of your yourself but all your work what what is

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it that you want to do in life and spirituality comes into it look at the yoga yoga if you look at it most of the

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yoga um people who do yoga are women or 50 that's a data so what they're

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incorporating these spirituality into their life so I think it's a matter of bringing the right kind of product you

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know which has the research and evidence the way yoga has just taken over the Western World if you

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right rather than in India it's more popular here absolutely I think there's also I just I've got a bit of skepticism

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in regards to um let's say government health

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organizations opting for and and promoting things like yoga things like

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nutrition and supplements and all these things that don't really you know make pharmaceutical companies money but

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they certainly will prosper and help individuals grow and I think I think you're right in regards

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to the the the the point is shifting a little bit I think we've got a little

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bit more of awareness as parents and and that's going to help support their

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children and I think that I just think about how I got into nutrition and how literally everyone who I know now who

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works with natural health they went through like hard times in their 20s and

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their 30s and they got to a point where they couldn't continue down the same route and then they found like

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acupuncture or they found itic medicine or Chinese medicine or massage or whatever that might have been like a an

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alternative a complimentary route and that takes them through their stages

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of life in a a really positive way and then they can you know hopefully like influence people to do that but I just

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want to try and think about how we can help like those individuals in their 20s especially who leave home go to

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university they have their first real bundle of um Independence and you know there's

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obviously a lot of people who like go out there they party they drink and they have those experiences and it's only a very small amount of people who do find

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the Natural Health route and there's a lot more people who live their lives like they did when they were 20 and they

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go through their 30s 40s 50s 60s in in discomfort and in pain and I guess um

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the only real route in regards to changing that those stages is to support

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kids at quite a young age to help them understand the power of meditation the

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power of nutrition the power of yoga and we see it in countries like in in Japan

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and in India that this is a this is a very standard thing to be taught it's just like teaching soccer here at like a

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young age of four-year-olds they're teaching kids how to meditate how to sit still with their their body and have

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have a connection with their brain and that that helps program them equip them

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to go into their 20s in those those years with a little bit more awareness of like how they are feeling in their

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bodies and they and you're naturally going to be inclined to choose more natural routes if that's the state but

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we're a little bit different in our Western culture but I agree with you the it's shifting a little bit and I feel um

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I feel hopeful that hopefully within schools we can start to um help our

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young children and help them get to a stage where they don't even have to feel these discomforts because they they'll

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kind of feel them before they're there and they can work on preventional tactics yeah you're absolutely right I

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mean it has to start at a young age I mean I went through hell in my 20s and 30s I'll tell you that right so I think

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uh and then when I started having all these strange symptoms I needed to take

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control of my life and I was lucky at that that time I happened to go back to

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India you know home of ayura and yoga and and I was lucky because I had time

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and I had access to very affordable ayurvedic yogic practices that I could

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get massages and all these therapies done and so I was lucky but if I had

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been in a western country living at that time I would not have so much time nor the resources not the money to do it as

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often as I was able to do but to your point if we start this um entire

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education process when kids are younger and it becomes part of your day-to-day life which at that time I I studied in

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India and I forgot all about it when I came here right so I got you know my

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into Western World so to speak but if we take the best of both the worlds eastern

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and western and start teaching the kids about nutrition about simple yog yoga

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postures meditation so many things that that that exist that becomes part of

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their as they grow older they don't need to have an amazing party time and 20s and suffer in 30s that is a culture we

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are in unfortunately yeah I think those ancient cultures they they realize that they needed these practices in their

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lives yeah to to flourish and survive and thrive so we would be wild and crazy

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to not learn from literally thousands and thousands of years of

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um around per menopause and menop and I want I would love you to get love to get you perspective about um the role of

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nutrition let's say a thousand years ago when our soil wasn't horrific and we were actually getting the necessary

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nutrients uh vitamins minerals Etc from our food how do you think um people

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experienced peram menopause and menopause when they're actually getting adequate nutrition and time to rest no

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it's different right I mean if you don't nourish your body properly you are going

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to have I mean there's research definit research documented that the the

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symptoms you're going to have are going to be more severe so there is a correlation for example uh things like

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alcohol right caffeine uh you know sugar white stuff processed foods all these uh

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Foods if if in the western culture we used to having when we were in 20s we talk about that in even in 30s have a

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direct correlation of us feeling fatigued us feeling lethargic all those things right so so the the idea of a per

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forget about the per menopause right now idea of really nourishing your body with

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whole grains with the Whole Foods right uh with um you know plants and vegetables

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plant-based diet having a rainbow diet having a proper diet like your basic

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healthy plate what we call it you're a nutritionist you know that you know we don't even take care of that in the

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mornings like having your protein and carbon fat just having following that

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ritual itself I did that and I believe it or not in my 30s I used to feel so

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fatigued because I was eating wrong I was eating processed and all the things that I'm talking about and I did not

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know at much better at that time but the moment I've sh shifted my diet to really

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include what we talking about the healthy plate having proper nutrients in

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in my diet not skipping any means it is made the complete turnaround in my

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energy you can see my energy you know I don't feel fatigued I feel I can lift

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like 50 pound weights that I could not even lift at 10 pounds I mean it makes

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all the difference food is medicine food is so important the spices in the

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kitchen are healing so many spices we have nowadays from cinnamon to cumin to

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turmeric they all can be used as healing spices and they're all most of are

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coming from ayura talks a lot about these healing spices even traditional Chinese medicine so we need to in we can

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incorporate that on a on our daily cooking on a daily basis ginger garlic

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all these things right um and the idea of eating fresh food every single day AA

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also talks about eating fresh food and not uh actually consuming the food that is one day old which is very difficult

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nowadays specifically living in Western culture so it goes back to our lifestyle

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that we don't have time to cook every single day that that is a fact for each one of us and how do we handle all this

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to eating the right kind of in or nourishing ourselves with the right kind of nutrients fresh nutrients plant-based

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focusing on the plant-based diet Focus on the rainbow diet focusing on the healthy plate makes all the difference

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yeah and I think people um it'd be wonderful if we recognize that your medicine not who medicine your your

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spice rack is medicine and if you were to put cumin or turmeric or Rosemary

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into PubMed there's some incredible research now thousands of Articles especially around turmeric and Cuma like

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there's thousands and thousands of um research papers done on done on these so you're yeah every every day when you've

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got the ability to you know add spices into your food you've got the ability to like you know self self-medicate with

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ancient therapy so I think we should certainly remember that and look into that in regards to like when we're

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cooking I'd love to ask you a a little bit about um what PE what women could be

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looking at paying attention at when it comes around menopause like some of the key areas around their body and and

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their psychology that would be key areas to focus on and how we would give that attention yeah so menopause we talked

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about the female sex hormones are going down and it's actually a roller coaster right initially in the per menopausal

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time now what starts happening is the estrogen hormone can be dominant at

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quite a few times in the progesterone and if the estro estrogen is dominant women tend to put on a lot of weight

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around their abdomen the hips and the thighs and that's actually not good so

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so abdominal weight women should be looking out for if they're starting to put on abdominal weight that means it

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could be the something estrogen dominance is there happening thyroid is another one that women should be getting

34:38

themselves checked in um their gut health you know whether they're having a proper bowel movements because gut

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health we talked about just now is also um related with your mental health

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there's a lot of research on the Vegas nerve your gut health and mental health and 50% of women during this phase uh

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have anxi or depression so if they keep their gut health um good the chances of

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them getting anxious and depressed will go down so these are the things women should be uh really paying attention to

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like I said their weight you know their gut health is very important the abdominal weight itself the mood swings

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if they're suddenly feeling angry they're suddenly feeling erratic you know those hormone shifts are happening

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estrogen dominance is very very important sometimes the hair starts thinning right the you know a lot of uh

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mid-age women also start losing their hair these are something they need to be careful about just make sure the

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cognition whether they're able to focus or not sleep at night they're not able to sleep at at night properly and that

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if you're not able to sleep at night chances are next morning you're not going to function properly there's so

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many things right women have to make sure they're functioning overall functioning is perfectly fine but these

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are all these suddenly outside fact and relationships become very important

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because you can get very emotional during this yeah time of the phase of

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your life what do you think I could do as a husband to my wife going through this kind of kind of experience I think

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that um that time that time in a woman's life could potentially become like quite an

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isolating time and you might take that on on your own and I think that if men aren't educated a little bit about

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what's going on um that can that can pull things back and not move things

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forward so I just wondered do you have any advice for me as a husband for when my wife goes through that yeah I mean

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you're doing an amazing thing right interviewing me that you're understanding already what what your

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wife could go through whenever she gets through this face but being gentle being being really understanding and

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encouraging her to take some me time most of the women don't have me time you know it's so busy taking care of the

36:54

kids and the home and the work and the stress we talked about that you know women body is not designed to take so

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much stress uh so really U lowering down the stress levels and identifying what

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is causing stress and really um you know emphasizing the fact of me Time family

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time and her time and taking care of herself and maybe journaling and simple

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music and meditation and cutting down on some of the things that could are adding stress these are the things I think you

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could help her amazing and do you think I so what one of my motivating factors

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to eat well most of the time move my body every day is the fact I don't want

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to be relying on surgeries RI hit Replacements and drugs and Zimmer frames

37:45

when I'm in my 50s 60s 70s 80s and 90s and I also don't want to get dementia so

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like I choose my food very wisely I choose how I use my body weight and I'm 40 years old so I've got a long way to

37:58

go but a lot of those conditions especially Alzheimer's you know that can be building up for 20 30 years so there

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things like my wife now she's 29 there things you think she can do in her life now to like help her get through that

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period of time rather than I think a lot of women they like and a lot of and a lot of men as well like they'll just

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live and eat the same way for so so long and then something happens like par menopause for women and it's like it's a

38:24

big shock but do you think there are things that we can do even 20 30 years out that's going to

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provide our body with the ability to deal with these things better yeah so you know aayu witha has a

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very amazing principle called daily routine yeah um so what's talking about

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is really having your single every single day incorporating this simple simple daily routine in your life for

38:52

example um n mind nurturing your mind right meditation

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nurturing your body physical health yoga I'm doing some yoga then eating well then also um um massaging yourself with

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medicated oils right so I think incorporating a simple daily routine on

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on a daily basis and eating well eating well is one of the things but also nourishing your mind and body is very

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very important if especially if you're in your you know in late 20s or even 30s

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that can help you build the resilience as you start getting older and also weightbearing exercises right not

39:31

necessarily your cardio but also weightbearing exerise for women because the bone loss is going on we talked

39:37

about that a little bit and then massaging yourself you know using these different kind of oils whether it's for

39:44

your body oil your hair oil your face oil um those are very important and internal cleansing making sure your

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internal you're cleansing inside out right you're not accumulating toxin

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inside your body so cleansing yourself regularly whether I'm not suggesting

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juice cleanse I'm suggesting you know kit cleanse or Aura cleanse and having being on a mono diet so these are simple

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simple practices that young younger people you know in their 30s 20s can

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start incorporating a daily lifestyle of course there could be cheat days I'm not saying don't cheat and don't completely

40:21

go into a yogic diet it could be very difficult to that completely be off sugar completely of alcohol I mean you

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know when you're young uh it can be difficult but there could be set days okay couple of days a week I can have a

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whatever sugar or whatever your you feel like having don't what whatever your

40:41

Cravings are so that would be my suggestion that uh women are not caught

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by surprise which most of most of us are when we get into our 40s H Manus I'm

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like oh my God now I can't handle it and women think of quitting work because

40:58

they can't they're not able to handle and so many women I know are thinking of quitting work and they don't know they

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don't feel comfortable talking and talk Talking at work to their HR or whoever yeah I think the idea of of

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daily ritual around self-care is wonderful because obviously you're

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you're committing time and energy to taking care of yourself and your body your your physical body and your me and

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your psychological self will will get used to that care and

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it will step into a rest and digest phase easy easier in a more more

41:34

frequent Manner and your you know your nervous system is going to be a little bit more balanced and relaxed every single day you know like if I was you

41:40

know for a lot of people maybe they do something self-care is once a week yeah

41:47

maybe taking a bath with a glass of wine or something like that and it's just not it's just unfortunately it's just not enough in the stressful world you know

41:53

like we've got all these energies coming at us and it's you know 2024 is a stressful time so I think that's I think

41:59

that's really amazing advice thank you so much for that and I think for a lot of people men women whoever um just to

42:07

get through the stresses of life and to get out of that stressful State as frequently as possible taking um having

42:15

having stress reducing practices whether that is yoga or meditation or like going for walks or whatever that is music

42:22

there's so many different cheap free Avenues and also taking care of your

42:27

foundational nutritional requirements with like our um Flagship product here

42:33

at TR hope Canada is called Empower plus it's a broad spectrum micronutrient it's actually the most researched

42:38

micronutrient formula on the planet 35 peer rreview journals to its name so

42:44

it's an absolutely Sensational quality product but for people even if their digestion is compromised you're able to

42:50

absorb the nutrition and utilize that and I think every Everybody these days

42:56

whether they are consuming a really good diet or if they are just having a processed diet every single day they're

43:03

going to be deficient in in different in different ways our soil is just obviously not what it was and the

43:09

inflammatory um markers that come with consuming like processed processed oils

43:15

processed sugars Etc is very damning on the body so if you're able to take something every single day where you're

43:20

actually getting good quality nutrition you're putting your body in a in a particular place where it's able to

43:26

produce the necessary neurochemistry and physical chemistry to help you feel better and to help you feel like you've

43:32

got the ability to like cook a good meal and use those beautiful spices or go for a walk or um connect with friends you

43:39

know all these things are so vital to us as human beings that are so easy to forget in the chaos that is our human

43:48

existence at the moment so I think yeah being able to take a step back sit back and and recognize that we need to become

43:55

a little know we to bring that energy towards us a little bit more and putting those practices in is super super

44:01

important and I just want to finish off and asking you the uh question that we asked at the top of the show which is

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you know what are some of the key preventative measures a woman can take to best move through menopause there

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there are so much so so many different therapies that are available nowadays for women it you know that have research

44:22

and evidence behind it so for example hypnotherapy has a research that can

44:27

help women with hot flashes we talked about food as medicine I can't go over all the foods it depends on each and

44:33

every woman of course but food uh having a nutritious not cutting yourself not

44:38

craving and cutting off the processed food uh then we talked about yoga and breathing we talked about we can also do

44:45

taii you know simple restorative uh relaxing things then there is uh of

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course essential oils aroma therapy uh you know that helps to come down women

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then we talked a little bit about acupuncture acupressure Chinese medicine Chinese supplements Aura Aura has some

45:06

of the amazing her herbal supplements not the ones which has led but herbal supplements like ashwagandha so much is

45:14

already available it's just what works for each and every woman is different

45:19

that is what each woman has to understand that you are different than a second person around you or maybe Ash

45:27

for me might not work for her so really understanding your body composition what

45:32

works for you you know that is what women really need to understand that um

45:39

you know they need to pay attention to their own bodies and that's important

45:45

that's when they can always personalize and customize the holistic therapies as

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they work for themselves and that could be a really fun experimental place to to

45:57

be because yeah everyone's so unique and indifferent um not only in their requirements but also just their

46:03

circumstances around them and that's going to change things up as well and it could be quite an explorative F fun

46:10

experience so that's beautiful recommendations I really appreciate that Amita thank you so much just to finish

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up can you let us know where people can connect with you and learn more about your work yeah so we have created this

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holistic Wellness platform for women and w ww. nurish talk.com and uh if someone

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wants to reach to me hello at nurish talk.com and it's exactly a holistic

46:36

Wellness all research and evidence based personalized for each and every woman as they their needs are so thank you so

46:44

much for inviting me of course am well thank you so much and for um connecting with am I'll make sure that her websites

46:51

and social media accounts are connected in the show notes so you can just click away and connect with her but

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that is it for this episode of True Hope cast the official podcast of true hope Canada thank you again Amita for coming

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on to the show I hope you had a good time yes amazing thank you so much I really appreciate it it was a lot of fun

47:09

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that but other than that we'll see you next week have a beautiful day thank

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