June 13, 2023 • 26 mins
Many women will spend one-third of their lives in a stage of menopause. Related symptoms and severity can vary greatly depending on factors like lifestyle, diet, race, and genetics. Hosts Rachel Ash and Melissa Crispell go in-depth to look beyond the symptoms with tips for managing those through lifestyle changes and ways you can be more in tune with your body’s changing dietary needs. Not sure which nutrients you need most to help with gut health, cardio, joint pain, or energy? Melissa suggests “test don’t guess” as she shares her checklist of probiotics, vitamins, calcium, and omegas that can be beneficial to women at different stages of menopause.
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Welcome to Living on Doctor, sponsoredby Pure Essentials. I am Rachel ashe
your hosts. We are here onw R seven ten am every Sunday from
five to five thirty pm. Formore information, I'm Pure Essentials. You
can go on their website www dotpure hyphen Essentials dot com. That's p
U r E hyphen E s sE n tis dot com, or on
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Facebook or Instagram at shop pure Essentials. I'm your host, Rachel Lash,
wellness consultant and healthy living expert.I'm joined by my co host, Melissa
chris Bell, who was trained asa natural path and nutrition specialist. She
has a whole host of other wellnesscertifications to include uricular acupuncture for detoxification and
relaxation, yoga and natural healing.A self proclaimed wellness warrior advocate, Melissa
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is on a mission to teach youhow to reclaim your health and live your
best life undoctored. Today, we'regonna be talking about menopause, misinformation,
fear, modesty, the tons ofreasons people don't talk about it, what
nutrients are needed and why. AndI'd say one of the things that we
found a study show that many menopausalwomen aren't getting any treatment, and they
often don't even talk about it withtheir doctors. We wanted to share more
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about why this stage of life isfrequently ignored and what we can do about
it. So Melissa, let's talkabout it. Why don't more people talk
about menopause? You know, Ireally believe that it's just a topic that
people don't feel comfortable talking about openly. I mean, we're talking about bodily
functions, we're talking about stages oflife. Some people might feel embarrassed,
some people might feel ashamed, youknow, to talk about their experience.
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It's a transitional phase of life thatmost people will spend most women will spend
a third of their life in Thisis important stuff to talk about. Some
women experience early menopause and maybe they'reconfused by what's happening. You know,
they might have a grasp of oh, this is the beginning of menopause.
And I read and a study thatthe number of post menopausal women is expected
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to rise to one point one billionthat's billion with a B by twenty twenty
five. That's just in two shortor a year and a half, eighteen
months, one point one billion peopleare going to be in this stage of
life. So I think our topicis timely here. Yeah. Yeah,
And some women just don't feel themselvesand they don't know why. So I
think the information to nameless is justreally important. Yeah. You know,
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there are a bunch of studies thatreveal how women that live in environments that
negatively perceive menopause can experience stronger physicaland mental symptoms. There are non Western
countries that believe menopause is just beautiful, it's just a transition, it's just
your next phase. But Western countriesgenerally associate menopause with negativity and its anti
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aging and its loss of sexual vitality, and it's just this host of symptoms
that have such a negative connotation surroundingthem. So I think that plays a
part in why people don't want totalk about it. So there's a negative
connotation. A lot of this canbe debunked, and obviously it is focused
on our Western culture of having thoseperceptions. But who experiences menopause? What
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are the average ages? Menopause transitionmost often begins between the ages of forty
five and fifty five. It lastsIt can last seven to ten years,
upwards of fourteen years for some people. The length of the symptoms or the
duration can really depend on lifestyle.We have to look at you and I
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were just having a conversation about this. We have to look at the lifestyle
factors. Let's look at the food, Let's look at where people live.
Let's look at other factors. Issomeone smoking how long? When did it
start for them? That can determinehow long. There are many factors that
play into this race, ethnicity,there are certain groups that experience different symptoms
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than other people. So you know, like we say all the time,
every body is different. I knowwe were talking about it before off a
show, and you know we weretalking about symptoms including anxiety, changes in
moods such as low mood or irritability, changes in skin conditions, you know,
dryness or increase in oiliness, adultonset acne difficulties, sleeping, discomfort
during sex, feelings of loss ofself. There's a whole host of components
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that are symptoms of menopause. Ithink to Melsta, it's important for our
listeners to know what exactly is menopause, What are the phases of menopause?
Is their progression? Well overall,menopause is a stage of life that women
go through and it's divided into threestages, so perimenopause, menopause, and
post menopause. During this time,the ovaries begin to atrophy. They start
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to kind of shrivel, think ofraisins. This causes the decline in the
production of hormones. So it's theovaries that we're stimulating and making that hormone.
They're not doing it as much asthey used to. So the menstrual
cycle changes, estrogen changes, progesteronechanges. Perimenopause is the period before the
menopause. That's the premenopause. Youknow, they're talking about people that are
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pre diabetic. Now you're premenopausal.Now during perimenopause, your estrogen levels,
which is the key hormone to makewomen, that key hormone is starting to
decrease. There are signs and symptomsthat happen as a result of that decreased
estrogen. We'll talk about that ina minute. Menopause is the time that
marks the end of menstrual cycles.So that diagnosed or labeled after you've gone
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twelve solid months without a menstrual period. So twelve months, ladies, start
the clock. And I can rememberexactly when I started the clock it's the
craziest thing when those things hit yourbrain. Post Menopause is the time after
menopause. So, ladies, you'renot alone. I am in that stage
with you. I'm done. It'sover. It's post menopause. This is
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when you haven't experienced a period forover a year. Post menopause, you
will not get another one. It'sover. So what are some signs and
symptoms to be on the lookout for? Signs and symptoms of menopause. Things
that you can be on the lookoutfor are irregular periodsinital dryness, hot flashes,
chills, night sweats, sleep problems, mood changes, weight gain,
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slow metabolism. I'm starting to soundlike a pharmaceutical commercial. There are lots
of signs and symptoms to be onthe lookout for it. And let me
just go ahead and tell you everybody. Hot flashes are no joke, and
not everybody gets them. You know, it's not mandatory, it's not a
checklist that you are absolutely going toget them. But if you do,
you know them. Your body justgets so hot you want to peel your
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skin off and let some cold airin there. That's what a hot flash
is. So are there symptoms ofpost menopause too, or it's it just
all over once it's over. Wedon't get that lucky. I'm laughing,
but I'm in it too, youknow, we just don't get that lucky.
I'm laughing because I'm able to embracethis. It's just a phase.
You know. It's no different thenwhen you're on the opposite side of it
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and you're a preteen, you know, and you're looking forward to shaving your
legs and wearing makeup and waxing youreyebrows. You know, it's just another
phase of life to look forward toand to learn how to navigate. But
symptoms of being postmenopausal, yes,ladies. We still get those hot flashes,
We get irritability, we get moodswings, we get insomnia, the
vagina gets dry, that's just whathappens. You get difficulty in concentration,
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you know, you get a brainfog that you didn't have before. There's
some incontinence could be part of itwith some people. Osteoporotic symptoms. Some
people experience depression, some people experienceheadaches, some people experience insomnia. Some
people experience blood pressure type issues,bazo dilation kind of issues. It's different.
For everybody. And just because welist all of those symptoms, I
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want to say two things, Rachel. I want to be very clear for
everybody. The things that we talkabout are not meant to be healthcare for
you. We are not here todo that for you. We are here
to help you learn. We arehere to educate you and to help you
live a better life. Here tohelp give you some home remedies and to
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help you live your life undoctored.But that doesn't mean that you don't ever
go to a healthcare provider. That'snot what we're saying here. And I
can't wait to get to the HomeRemedies Park because there's a lot of relief
and there's a lot of things thatyou can do, and I know working
with Pure Essentials, there's a lotof things that you recommend to your clients.
But before we get to the remedies, can you just let us know
how long do these symptoms last?Well, considering that once your postmenopausal,
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you're in this stage for the restof your life. It does not mean
that you're going to have the hotflashes, night sweats, insomnia, depression,
all of those things for the restof your life. It means you
can, and you may want topay attention to the remedies section while we
get there. Okay, so let'sgo to the remedies. Okay. Thankfully,
the days of skin tight gens ofmy late teens early twenties are gone,
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So it's okay to wear loose clothingthese days, because that's one of
the remedies is don't constrict your body. Don't wear the supertight clothing that just
keeps everything bound up. Wear somelight clothing. Keep your bedroom cool at
night. It's okay for your bedroomto feel like a mausoleum and to reduce
that temperature. Warn your partner that'swhat's going on, and they can put
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an extra set of socks or sweatpantsor something on. But keep your bedroom
cool at night. You can takea cool shower, you can use a
fan, drink some cold water.I'm sure that my husband probably thought I
was a little bit nuts, butwhen it first started for me, I
went skinny dipping in the pool everysingle solitary night at ninety five ten o'clock,
once it was dark outside, Iwas out there skinny dipping, and
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that helped me sleep through the nightbecause it cooled my body. Down.
I take you don't have neighbors.I didn't care, and I hope that
they didn't either, say I'm surethey enjoyed it. Getting back to the
nutrition part, Melissa, especially inintegrative health, we talk about gut house,
brain health and all the interrelatedness ofit. But does dut health play
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a part in menopause? Absolutely?Absolutely so. We have microorganisms, as
the technical term, we have goodbugs and we have bad bugs. The
good bugs helped to metabolize the estrogen, so it helps break it down,
the estrogen and the progesterone. Butas those two start to decline when you
get to this stage, the bacteriaand the other microorganisms that we're working together
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to create this whole environment for you, those start to decline as well.
When that happens, you have lessdiversity in your system, which then can
translate to digestive disruptions like maybe youcould eat this one thing once upon a
time, no problem, all ofa sudden, it doesn't work well for
you. Why is that? Youknow? Like I was saying, your
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gut helps you to regulate your hormonelevels, helps you to regulate your mood,
your weight. You can improve yourgut health during menopause without menopause.
You know this is for everybody bytaking probiotics. Probiotics are the good bugs.
Prebiotics, probiotic fibers, if you'veheard that term, are the food
for the bugs. So those dogo hand in hand. Eating more fermented
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foods. Saurkroud, sauerkraud, kimchi. Yeah, those are fermented. You
can ferment those at home now.So fermented foods help that reducing your intake
of sugary foods. That's going tobe key. It's not popular opinion.
People are not gonna like hearing that. But the sugar doesn't give their right
foods, so we need to reducethe sugar and reduce the processed foods.
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And I know Melissa too. Withyour clients, you recommend the lactodophlis by
Pure Essentials or talking about probiotic,you want to talk a little bit about
that product. Lactodophilus is Pure Essentialsprobiotic. It is formulated with ten strains
of probiotic. Those strains are nondairy cool fact, they are also freeze
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dried, so they are in suspendedanimation, which sounds very star treky.
It's a way to make sure thatyou are getting the most potent form of
probiotic possible probiotics. They're resilient littlebuggers, but there are some forms of
them that don't survive for very long. They also don't survive in a moisture
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situation. So when you're able toextract them in a freeze dried, suspended
animation type formula, they'll survive thefirst pass of digestion, which is once
they hit your stomach and they'll landin the intestine where they need to go
to work. We also have GIsupport, which is the prebiotic fiber,
So that's a prebiotic fiber from Glucamannonthat is going to feed those bugs once
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everything gets down into the intestine,so they have the tools they need to
get to work for you too.So the Pure Essentials GI support and the
lactodophilis would be the two supplemental remediesthat you use most of your clients.
Two of the list. I'm yourhost Rachel Lash living on Doctor sponsored by
Pure Essentials, joined by my cohost Melissa Chris Bell was trained as a
natural path a nutrition specialist. Wewere talking about research it's found that gut
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microbiome, digestive health can play arole in a wide range of conditions,
including arthritis, obesity, depression,and cardiovascuer disease. Yeah, we know
that host menopausal women are at anincreased risk of what's known as cardio metabolic
syndrome. So if we break thatdown, cardio is your heart metabolic,
how you metaboli. So together we'relooking at heart disease and we're looking at
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type two diabetes risks. Type twodiabetes is preventable. It is a result
of someone's lack of exercise, foodchoices. Stress is a culmination. You
know, we talked about IBS anddoctor Ash's work with IBS and how IBS
itself isn't a thing. It's aculmination of a bunch of symptoms. And
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that's I feel the same way aboutthe type two diabetes. So, you
know, because of the changes insomeone's body that accompany the decrease sex hormone
production, someone is at a higherrisk for you know, the cardiometabolic syndrome.
And we were talking to you thepeople with this cardiometabolic syndrome, they
risk factors including slip disruptions, elevatedcholesterol, weight gain, increased blood sugar,
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high blood pressure, Yeah, becauseof the decrease in the estrogen and
the progesterone during menopause, that bacteriaand those microorganisms that we were talking about
that normally metabolize those hormones, theybecome depleted and that results in the decrease
diversity of the gut microbiome. So, you know, looking at lacto,
looking at the Lactodophilus bipure essentials andthe GI support the pre biotic fiber,
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you know, you can help supportyour gut through menopause and through other situations
as well. And for our listeners, for the lactodophilis which is the probiotic
and the GI support which is theprebiotic fiber. This can both be found
on the Pure Essentials website which iswww dot prep u R E hyphen Essentials
E S S E N T Ia ls dot com. And I know
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there's a whole host of information aboutboth those products on the website. You
can also call our office Monday throughFriday from nine two five pm at two
one two seven five eight thirty twohundred that's two one two seven five eight
three two zero zero and people wouldbe happy to answer questions for you or
take an order. So the lactodolphlist which is the probiotic, and the
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GI support which is the pre bioticfiber. And those are just two supplements
on the list. There or more. There's a whole host of supplements as
our bodies changed that are great forwomen in menopause. What would you suggest
if we're looking at other supplements,combination of supplements and food if you can
get enough of the supplement from food. Magnesium is a big one, and
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I'm hearing about magnesium all over theplace as far as athletes go and sleep
and such, Magnesium is huge.It is essential. Your body has to
have it. Vitamin A, vitaminsB six and B twelve for energy for
methylation, those are both great.Vitamin K, vitamin C, calcium,
vitamin D, and eu omegas.That would be my list. That would
be, you know, if Iput together a menopausal pack, this would
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be your checklist of what you need. What your bodies needs are number one
and what can be beneficial for thesymptoms that you're experiencing. So it's magnesium,
A, vitamin B six, Btwelve, vitamin K, see calcium,
vitamin D, and omegas. Goodto know, good to know and
I know calcium is a huge topicfor women, and I also know that
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as our bodies works sdemically, sometimesif we're not properly absorbing magnesium, no
matter how much calcium we take,we're not going to get it in our
system. So can you talk alittle bit about how much calcium we need
and how that works with our body. Yeah, the RDA is a great
starting point. It's a guideline.Our D is recommended daily allowance. Correct.
The RDA is the base that youneed to avoid death. But each
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human life form needs more or needsless based on what they're going through.
So if we just use the baseguideline, the recommended daily allowance, you're
looking at about a thousand milligrams ofcalcium daily and that's before menopause. After
menopause, you probably want to bumpthat up to about twelve hundred milligrams.
But keep in mind Vitamin D isvery important. Vitamin D and magnesium are
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very important for the absorption of thatcalcium and your vitamin D. Traditional labs
are saying thirty to fifty is whatyour score would be on your vitamin D
test. Functional labs, functional medicinedoctors are saying fifty to eighty. I've
even seen up to hundred. Recently. I was taught fifty to eighty,
you get up to one hundred.I think the best way to go is
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to test. Don't guess, don'tmess around with your health, just test.
Balance that against how your body feels. Are you feeling exhausted? What
are the symptoms of vitamin D deficiency? You know, you can look at
that and then decide how much vitaminD you need from that point. But
looking at magnesium and vitamin D tohelp the calcium be absorbed is very important.
And speaking of vitamin D, vitaminD testing is coming to Pure Essential
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and we have two vitamin D products, and would you like to talk about
the specifics of those vitamin D productsas it is important for our listeners to
know the distinction. Yeah, I'mvery excited about the two products coming out.
So the first one is the vitaminD tincture. It is vitamin D
three as colacalcupperall, which is therecommended form of vitamin D and MCT oil.
There are no flavorings, no otheradditives. This is a vitamin D
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liquid tincture. So it'll be ina dropper and you can just drop that
onto your tongue, drop it ontoa spoon. You don't have to shake
it through any kind of nozzle,so it's really convenient to use. We
also have a more I guess comprehensiveis the better way to put it,
a more comprehensive Vitamin D soft gaelcoming out. It has vitamin D three,
vitamin K two, and vitamin Aaltogether in it. So if you
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note the list that we just mentionedearlier, that knocks out three of those
items on that list of recommended supplementsfor this particular situation. So it'll be
a one cap knocks out three.So with the vitamin D in the MCT
oil and then the D three Ktwo in a yeah, So two separate
D products, two different options foryou and where you are in whatever stage
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of life. And let's talk aboutthe other supplements. Also, the B
twelve. Yeah, in the laterstages of menopause, B twelve is super
beneficial. A deficiency could cause anemia. This is part of what we were
talking about earlier. The recommended dailyallowance or dietary allowance of B twelve is
two point four micrograms daily, andthat's for women fourteen and older. You
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can meet this requirement during an aftermenopause by taking a B twelve supplement and
B twelve foods. This is goingto be important for vegans. They're going
to take exception, and we cantalk about that offline, or we can
do another show about that. Butit is very, very difficult to get
the amount of B twelve that youneed from a plant based diet without supplementation.
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You can get it from meat,fish, and dairy. And you
want to pay attention to the medicationsthat can deplete your B twelve. So
someone taking over the counter medications likeprilosec or zantec that can deplete your B
twelve level. So if you area menopausal you run the risk of being
deficient in B twelve to begin with. But say you're getting some acid reflux
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and such and you're taking an overcountermedication, you may also be experiencing depletion
of your B twelve because of that. Metformin and tetricycling. They also decrease,
yes, yes, so there arepharmaceuticals that will decrease the amount of
your B twelve as well. Soit's almost like this which came first,
the chicken or the egg adult acneis a perimenopausal symptom. So if you
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go into an office and you've gotadult acne and they prescribe tetracycline for that
acne, which came first the chickenor the egg, are you having perimenopausal
symptoms and that's the source of theadult acne and then you're going to take
a prescription on top of it,and then you're going to decrease your B
twelve And you're already in a situationwhere your B twelve is decreasing, and
it can become such a conundrum thatyou really have to sort through. And
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speaking of the B twelve testing,Pure Essentials does have a methyl melonic acid
which is a urine test coming outsoon. Wellist when is that going to
be out? And can you talkabout that a little bit. We should
have that in stock by July,and certainly you can email client services at
Pure Essentials pure dash essentials dot comand get on the waitlist for that so
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that we can make sure we canship that one out to you. But
it's going to be very simple.It's just a small, I don't know,
six inch clams that's going to comewith a urine test kit. All
of the instructions are in there.You'll drop the urine onto this little measuring
stick and then it's going to getsent off to the lab. The lab
will send you your results and yourinstructions on which B twelve product in Pure
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Essential's line to take. We havea B twelve product and we have a
B six B twelve full late combinationproduct. So you'll get the results,
you'll know which product and how muchto take, and that all comes directly
from the lab. And let's talkabout magnesium because I know, even outside
of metopause, magnesium just seems tobe having a moment right now. But
how does it help getting back toour topic of metopause, how does it
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help during menopause? Magnesium helps outsideof menopause. It helps every human life
form. It is important for improvingheart health, reducing blood pressure, decreasing
the risk of diabetes, combating osteoporosis, and in particular, if you're taking
magnesium citrate, it can help easesome of the bowel issues that you may
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be having during menopause because it's notuncommon to face some const a patient from
time to time. So the magnesiumcitrate that form specifically can help with that.
It helps all issues that happen toincrease during menopause. Magnesium glycinate that
can help with calming anxiety, easingjoint pain. Ladies, if you're in
this stage, you know that jointpain, the hip pain, the lower
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back pain that you didn't have beforecan be helped with magnesium glycinate. Magnesium
glycinate can help improve sleep. Itcan help hot flashes as well as cold
flashes. Believe it or not,in this stage of life, you do
get a cold flash and it's seventyfive degrees outside and you see someone put
a sweatshirt on. It happens.You're not alone. Pure Essentials win a
step further. Pure Essentials new magnesiumcoming out has been formulated to also include
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magnesium malate. Benefits include being ananti inflammatory. Inflammation is a big deal.
It helps to alleviate depression. Itcan it helps with the decrease ability
to tolerate exercise. Some ladies duringthis phase of life can't tolerate exercise.
You know, maybe they were runnersbefore or zoombo or you know who knows
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something that was higher impact and theirbody just doesn't seem to be able to
do it. Like it once did. It hurts and it's sore, and
it sticks around a little bit longer. This form of magnesium can help with
that. And we also have magnesiuma score bait in our magnesium formulation,
which is a buffered form of vitaminC and that helps with the immune system
support. So a four form magnesiumso that you're getting any form that you
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might need. And I know toothat Pure Essentials also has a new omega
coming out. Yes, I loveour new omega. It might seem counterintuitive
to have a vegan shell for anomega, because omega is fish, it's
not vegan, but we do thatto avoid having bovine as the gelatin,
and we do that with all ofthe Pure Essentials products. We have a
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vegan shell, whether it's a capsuleor a soft jail. The Pure Essentials
omega is an omega three. It'sdeep fresh water cold water fish that has
cold pressed lemon essential oil with itas well. So as far as our
fish oil goes, everything is extractedunder a nitrogen blanket to reduce the possibility
of rancidity, because we don't wantpeople to get that nasty, fishy burt
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back kind of experience. So that'sthe way the pure essentials OMEGA is formulated.
So well's getting back to menopause.Why do you think a lot of
women aren't seeking treatment? I knowwe were talking about having that stigma in
the Western world, or it's justpart of life. Why do you think
that women aren't talking about it,they're not seeking treatment. The first thing
I want to say is not everyoneneeds treatment. Not everyone needs treatment for
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their menopausal symptoms. Some women endup chasing the solutions for their symptoms,
and they end up in a bunchof different doctor's offices, and they aren't
necessarily they and the doc aren't necessarilyputting two and two together that these are
menopause related symptoms. Unfortunately, sometimesladies are being dismissed. They're being told
that their symptoms aren't important. Theymight be told that symptoms aren't bothersome enough
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to be managed. And that's verysad and I'm sorry if that's happened to
you. Unfortunately, there is somethingcalled medical gaslighting. There are ladies that
have heard you know, your painis manageable. Now, your symptoms aren't
that bad. You've got to expectthis at your age. You're too young
to be feeling you know X yZ fill in the blank. I've seen
quote. This is a quote.I've seen patients in much worse situations than
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yours, and I'm sorry if that'shappened to you. But that's exactly why
we're here. We're here to helpyou, and lest have thank you for
that. I always think it's bestto find an integrative doctor that you're comfortable
with, that listens to you,helping you make a decision for yourself out
of an empowered state of fear,a full state. Always think that's fear.
Ever, not comfortable, seek asecond opinion, ask around until you
find somebody or comfortable with. Supersuper important to not give your power away
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like that. And again, thankyou for choosing this topic for the show.
It's something that needs to be alittle more normalized in regular conversation and
just a lot of helpful information forwomen. We're here every Sunday on WR
seven ten am from five to fivethirty pm. If you'd like more information
on your essential as you can goon the website www dot Pure hyphen Essentials
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dot com. That's p U RE hyphen e S S E n t
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I hope you all have a wonderful, wonderful weekend. Check out the
products. There's tons of information andlooking forward also to the gen X tests
and test that we have coming up. Melissa, thank you again. I'm
your host, Rachel Lash joined bymy co host Melissa Chris Bell, Living
on Doctor, and we will seeyou next Sunday at five pm here on wr
Welcome to Living on Doctor, sponsoredby Pure Essentials. I am Rachel ashe
your hosts. We are here onw R seven ten am every Sunday from
five to five thirty pm. Formore information, I'm Pure Essentials. You
can go on their website www dotpure hyphen Essentials dot com. That's p
U r E hyphen E s sE n tis dot com, or on
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Facebook or Instagram at shop pure Essentials. I'm your host, Rachel Lash,
wellness consultant and healthy living expert.I'm joined by my co host, Melissa
chris Bell, who was trained asa natural path and nutrition specialist. She
has a whole host of other wellnesscertifications to include uricular acupuncture for detoxification and
relaxation, yoga and natural healing.A self proclaimed wellness warrior advocate, Melissa
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is on a mission to teach youhow to reclaim your health and live your
best life undoctored. Today, we'regonna be talking about menopause, misinformation,
fear, modesty, the tons ofreasons people don't talk about it, what
nutrients are needed and why. AndI'd say one of the things that we
found a study show that many menopausalwomen aren't getting any treatment, and they
often don't even talk about it withtheir doctors. We wanted to share more
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about why this stage of life isfrequently ignored and what we can do about
it. So Melissa, let's talkabout it. Why don't more people talk
about menopause? You know, Ireally believe that it's just a topic that
people don't feel comfortable talking about openly. I mean, we're talking about bodily
functions, we're talking about stages oflife. Some people might feel embarrassed,
some people might feel ashamed, youknow, to talk about their experience.
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It's a transitional phase of life thatmost people will spend most women will spend
a third of their life in Thisis important stuff to talk about. Some
women experience early menopause and maybe they'reconfused by what's happening. You know,
they might have a grasp of oh, this is the beginning of menopause.
And I read and a study thatthe number of post menopausal women is expected
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to rise to one point one billionthat's billion with a B by twenty twenty
five. That's just in two shortor a year and a half, eighteen
months, one point one billion peopleare going to be in this stage of
life. So I think our topicis timely here. Yeah. Yeah,
And some women just don't feel themselvesand they don't know why. So I
think the information to nameless is justreally important. Yeah. You know,
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there are a bunch of studies thatreveal how women that live in environments that
negatively perceive menopause can experience stronger physicaland mental symptoms. There are non Western
countries that believe menopause is just beautiful, it's just a transition, it's just
your next phase. But Western countriesgenerally associate menopause with negativity and its anti
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aging and its loss of sexual vitality, and it's just this host of symptoms
that have such a negative connotation surroundingthem. So I think that plays a
part in why people don't want totalk about it. So there's a negative
connotation. A lot of this canbe debunked, and obviously it is focused
on our Western culture of having thoseperceptions. But who experiences menopause? What
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are the average ages? Menopause transitionmost often begins between the ages of forty
five and fifty five. It lastsIt can last seven to ten years,
upwards of fourteen years for some people. The length of the symptoms or the
duration can really depend on lifestyle.We have to look at you and I
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were just having a conversation about this. We have to look at the lifestyle
factors. Let's look at the food, Let's look at where people live.
Let's look at other factors. Issomeone smoking how long? When did it
start for them? That can determinehow long. There are many factors that
play into this race, ethnicity,there are certain groups that experience different symptoms
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than other people. So you know, like we say all the time,
every body is different. I knowwe were talking about it before off a
show, and you know we weretalking about symptoms including anxiety, changes in
moods such as low mood or irritability, changes in skin conditions, you know,
dryness or increase in oiliness, adultonset acne difficulties, sleeping, discomfort
during sex, feelings of loss ofself. There's a whole host of components
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that are symptoms of menopause. Ithink to Melsta, it's important for our
listeners to know what exactly is menopause, What are the phases of menopause?
Is their progression? Well overall,menopause is a stage of life that women
go through and it's divided into threestages, so perimenopause, menopause, and
post menopause. During this time,the ovaries begin to atrophy. They start
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to kind of shrivel, think ofraisins. This causes the decline in the
production of hormones. So it's theovaries that we're stimulating and making that hormone.
They're not doing it as much asthey used to. So the menstrual
cycle changes, estrogen changes, progesteronechanges. Perimenopause is the period before the
menopause. That's the premenopause. Youknow, they're talking about people that are
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pre diabetic. Now you're premenopausal.Now during perimenopause, your estrogen levels,
which is the key hormone to makewomen, that key hormone is starting to
decrease. There are signs and symptomsthat happen as a result of that decreased
estrogen. We'll talk about that ina minute. Menopause is the time that
marks the end of menstrual cycles.So that diagnosed or labeled after you've gone
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twelve solid months without a menstrual period. So twelve months, ladies, start
the clock. And I can rememberexactly when I started the clock it's the
craziest thing when those things hit yourbrain. Post Menopause is the time after
menopause. So, ladies, you'renot alone. I am in that stage
with you. I'm done. It'sover. It's post menopause. This is
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when you haven't experienced a period forover a year. Post menopause, you
will not get another one. It'sover. So what are some signs and
symptoms to be on the lookout for? Signs and symptoms of menopause. Things
that you can be on the lookoutfor are irregular periodsinital dryness, hot flashes,
chills, night sweats, sleep problems, mood changes, weight gain,
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slow metabolism. I'm starting to soundlike a pharmaceutical commercial. There are lots
of signs and symptoms to be onthe lookout for it. And let me
just go ahead and tell you everybody. Hot flashes are no joke, and
not everybody gets them. You know, it's not mandatory, it's not a
checklist that you are absolutely going toget them. But if you do,
you know them. Your body justgets so hot you want to peel your
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skin off and let some cold airin there. That's what a hot flash
is. So are there symptoms ofpost menopause too, or it's it just
all over once it's over. Wedon't get that lucky. I'm laughing,
but I'm in it too, youknow, we just don't get that lucky.
I'm laughing because I'm able to embracethis. It's just a phase.
You know. It's no different thenwhen you're on the opposite side of it
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and you're a preteen, you know, and you're looking forward to shaving your
legs and wearing makeup and waxing youreyebrows. You know, it's just another
phase of life to look forward toand to learn how to navigate. But
symptoms of being postmenopausal, yes,ladies. We still get those hot flashes,
We get irritability, we get moodswings, we get insomnia, the
vagina gets dry, that's just whathappens. You get difficulty in concentration,
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you know, you get a brainfog that you didn't have before. There's
some incontinence could be part of itwith some people. Osteoporotic symptoms. Some
people experience depression, some people experienceheadaches, some people experience insomnia. Some
people experience blood pressure type issues,bazo dilation kind of issues. It's different.
For everybody. And just because welist all of those symptoms, I
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want to say two things, Rachel. I want to be very clear for
everybody. The things that we talkabout are not meant to be healthcare for
you. We are not here todo that for you. We are here
to help you learn. We arehere to educate you and to help you
live a better life. Here tohelp give you some home remedies and to
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help you live your life undoctored.But that doesn't mean that you don't ever
go to a healthcare provider. That'snot what we're saying here. And I
can't wait to get to the HomeRemedies Park because there's a lot of relief
and there's a lot of things thatyou can do, and I know working
with Pure Essentials, there's a lotof things that you recommend to your clients.
But before we get to the remedies, can you just let us know
how long do these symptoms last?Well, considering that once your postmenopausal,
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you're in this stage for the restof your life. It does not mean
that you're going to have the hotflashes, night sweats, insomnia, depression,
all of those things for the restof your life. It means you
can, and you may want topay attention to the remedies section while we
get there. Okay, so let'sgo to the remedies. Okay. Thankfully,
the days of skin tight gens ofmy late teens early twenties are gone,
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So it's okay to wear loose clothingthese days, because that's one of
the remedies is don't constrict your body. Don't wear the supertight clothing that just
keeps everything bound up. Wear somelight clothing. Keep your bedroom cool at
night. It's okay for your bedroomto feel like a mausoleum and to reduce
that temperature. Warn your partner that'swhat's going on, and they can put
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an extra set of socks or sweatpantsor something on. But keep your bedroom
cool at night. You can takea cool shower, you can use a
fan, drink some cold water.I'm sure that my husband probably thought I
was a little bit nuts, butwhen it first started for me, I
went skinny dipping in the pool everysingle solitary night at ninety five ten o'clock,
once it was dark outside, Iwas out there skinny dipping, and
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that helped me sleep through the nightbecause it cooled my body. Down.
I take you don't have neighbors.I didn't care, and I hope that
they didn't either, say I'm surethey enjoyed it. Getting back to the
nutrition part, Melissa, especially inintegrative health, we talk about gut house,
brain health and all the interrelatedness ofit. But does dut health play
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a part in menopause? Absolutely?Absolutely so. We have microorganisms, as
the technical term, we have goodbugs and we have bad bugs. The
good bugs helped to metabolize the estrogen, so it helps break it down,
the estrogen and the progesterone. Butas those two start to decline when you
get to this stage, the bacteriaand the other microorganisms that we're working together
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to create this whole environment for you, those start to decline as well.
When that happens, you have lessdiversity in your system, which then can
translate to digestive disruptions like maybe youcould eat this one thing once upon a
time, no problem, all ofa sudden, it doesn't work well for
you. Why is that? Youknow? Like I was saying, your
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gut helps you to regulate your hormonelevels, helps you to regulate your mood,
your weight. You can improve yourgut health during menopause without menopause.
You know this is for everybody bytaking probiotics. Probiotics are the good bugs.
Prebiotics, probiotic fibers, if you'veheard that term, are the food
for the bugs. So those dogo hand in hand. Eating more fermented
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foods. Saurkroud, sauerkraud, kimchi. Yeah, those are fermented. You
can ferment those at home now.So fermented foods help that reducing your intake
of sugary foods. That's going tobe key. It's not popular opinion.
People are not gonna like hearing that. But the sugar doesn't give their right
foods, so we need to reducethe sugar and reduce the processed foods.
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And I know Melissa too. Withyour clients, you recommend the lactodophlis by
Pure Essentials or talking about probiotic,you want to talk a little bit about
that product. Lactodophilus is Pure Essentialsprobiotic. It is formulated with ten strains
of probiotic. Those strains are nondairy cool fact, they are also freeze
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dried, so they are in suspendedanimation, which sounds very star treky.
It's a way to make sure thatyou are getting the most potent form of
probiotic possible probiotics. They're resilient littlebuggers, but there are some forms of
them that don't survive for very long. They also don't survive in a moisture
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situation. So when you're able toextract them in a freeze dried, suspended
animation type formula, they'll survive thefirst pass of digestion, which is once
they hit your stomach and they'll landin the intestine where they need to go
to work. We also have GIsupport, which is the prebiotic fiber,
So that's a prebiotic fiber from Glucamannonthat is going to feed those bugs once
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everything gets down into the intestine,so they have the tools they need to
get to work for you too.So the Pure Essentials GI support and the
lactodophilis would be the two supplemental remediesthat you use most of your clients.
Two of the list. I'm yourhost Rachel Lash living on Doctor sponsored by
Pure Essentials, joined by my cohost Melissa Chris Bell was trained as a
natural path a nutrition specialist. Wewere talking about research it's found that gut
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microbiome, digestive health can play arole in a wide range of conditions,
including arthritis, obesity, depression,and cardiovascuer disease. Yeah, we know
that host menopausal women are at anincreased risk of what's known as cardio metabolic
syndrome. So if we break thatdown, cardio is your heart metabolic,
how you metaboli. So together we'relooking at heart disease and we're looking at
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type two diabetes risks. Type twodiabetes is preventable. It is a result
of someone's lack of exercise, foodchoices. Stress is a culmination. You
know, we talked about IBS anddoctor Ash's work with IBS and how IBS
itself isn't a thing. It's aculmination of a bunch of symptoms. And
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that's I feel the same way aboutthe type two diabetes. So, you
know, because of the changes insomeone's body that accompany the decrease sex hormone
production, someone is at a higherrisk for you know, the cardiometabolic syndrome.
And we were talking to you thepeople with this cardiometabolic syndrome, they
risk factors including slip disruptions, elevatedcholesterol, weight gain, increased blood sugar,
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high blood pressure, Yeah, becauseof the decrease in the estrogen and
the progesterone during menopause, that bacteriaand those microorganisms that we were talking about
that normally metabolize those hormones, theybecome depleted and that results in the decrease
diversity of the gut microbiome. So, you know, looking at lacto,
looking at the Lactodophilus bipure essentials andthe GI support the pre biotic fiber,
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you know, you can help supportyour gut through menopause and through other situations
as well. And for our listeners, for the lactodophilis which is the probiotic
and the GI support which is theprebiotic fiber. This can both be found
on the Pure Essentials website which iswww dot prep u R E hyphen Essentials
E S S E N T Ia ls dot com. And I know
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there's a whole host of information aboutboth those products on the website. You
can also call our office Monday throughFriday from nine two five pm at two
one two seven five eight thirty twohundred that's two one two seven five eight
three two zero zero and people wouldbe happy to answer questions for you or
take an order. So the lactodolphlist which is the probiotic, and the
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GI support which is the pre bioticfiber. And those are just two supplements
on the list. There or more. There's a whole host of supplements as
our bodies changed that are great forwomen in menopause. What would you suggest
if we're looking at other supplements,combination of supplements and food if you can
get enough of the supplement from food. Magnesium is a big one, and
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I'm hearing about magnesium all over theplace as far as athletes go and sleep
and such, Magnesium is huge.It is essential. Your body has to
have it. Vitamin A, vitaminsB six and B twelve for energy for
methylation, those are both great.Vitamin K, vitamin C, calcium,
vitamin D, and eu omegas.That would be my list. That would
be, you know, if Iput together a menopausal pack, this would
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be your checklist of what you need. What your bodies needs are number one
and what can be beneficial for thesymptoms that you're experiencing. So it's magnesium,
A, vitamin B six, Btwelve, vitamin K, see calcium,
vitamin D, and omegas. Goodto know, good to know and
I know calcium is a huge topicfor women, and I also know that
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as our bodies works sdemically, sometimesif we're not properly absorbing magnesium, no
matter how much calcium we take,we're not going to get it in our
system. So can you talk alittle bit about how much calcium we need
and how that works with our body. Yeah, the RDA is a great
starting point. It's a guideline.Our D is recommended daily allowance. Correct.
The RDA is the base that youneed to avoid death. But each
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human life form needs more or needsless based on what they're going through.
So if we just use the baseguideline, the recommended daily allowance, you're
looking at about a thousand milligrams ofcalcium daily and that's before menopause. After
menopause, you probably want to bumpthat up to about twelve hundred milligrams.
But keep in mind Vitamin D isvery important. Vitamin D and magnesium are
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very important for the absorption of thatcalcium and your vitamin D. Traditional labs
are saying thirty to fifty is whatyour score would be on your vitamin D
test. Functional labs, functional medicinedoctors are saying fifty to eighty. I've
even seen up to hundred. Recently. I was taught fifty to eighty,
you get up to one hundred.I think the best way to go is
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to test. Don't guess, don'tmess around with your health, just test.
Balance that against how your body feels. Are you feeling exhausted? What
are the symptoms of vitamin D deficiency? You know, you can look at
that and then decide how much vitaminD you need from that point. But
looking at magnesium and vitamin D tohelp the calcium be absorbed is very important.
And speaking of vitamin D, vitaminD testing is coming to Pure Essential
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and we have two vitamin D products, and would you like to talk about
the specifics of those vitamin D productsas it is important for our listeners to
know the distinction. Yeah, I'mvery excited about the two products coming out.
So the first one is the vitaminD tincture. It is vitamin D
three as colacalcupperall, which is therecommended form of vitamin D and MCT oil.
There are no flavorings, no otheradditives. This is a vitamin D
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liquid tincture. So it'll be ina dropper and you can just drop that
onto your tongue, drop it ontoa spoon. You don't have to shake
it through any kind of nozzle,so it's really convenient to use. We
also have a more I guess comprehensiveis the better way to put it,
a more comprehensive Vitamin D soft gaelcoming out. It has vitamin D three,
vitamin K two, and vitamin Aaltogether in it. So if you
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note the list that we just mentionedearlier, that knocks out three of those
items on that list of recommended supplementsfor this particular situation. So it'll be
a one cap knocks out three.So with the vitamin D in the MCT
oil and then the D three Ktwo in a yeah, So two separate
D products, two different options foryou and where you are in whatever stage
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of life. And let's talk aboutthe other supplements. Also, the B
twelve. Yeah, in the laterstages of menopause, B twelve is super
beneficial. A deficiency could cause anemia. This is part of what we were
talking about earlier. The recommended dailyallowance or dietary allowance of B twelve is
two point four micrograms daily, andthat's for women fourteen and older. You
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can meet this requirement during an aftermenopause by taking a B twelve supplement and
B twelve foods. This is goingto be important for vegans. They're going
to take exception, and we cantalk about that offline, or we can
do another show about that. Butit is very, very difficult to get
the amount of B twelve that youneed from a plant based diet without supplementation.
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You can get it from meat,fish, and dairy. And you
want to pay attention to the medicationsthat can deplete your B twelve. So
someone taking over the counter medications likeprilosec or zantec that can deplete your B
twelve level. So if you area menopausal you run the risk of being
deficient in B twelve to begin with. But say you're getting some acid reflux
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and such and you're taking an overcountermedication, you may also be experiencing depletion
of your B twelve because of that. Metformin and tetricycling. They also decrease,
yes, yes, so there arepharmaceuticals that will decrease the amount of
your B twelve as well. Soit's almost like this which came first,
the chicken or the egg adult acneis a perimenopausal symptom. So if you
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go into an office and you've gotadult acne and they prescribe tetracycline for that
acne, which came first the chickenor the egg, are you having perimenopausal
symptoms and that's the source of theadult acne and then you're going to take
a prescription on top of it,and then you're going to decrease your B
twelve And you're already in a situationwhere your B twelve is decreasing, and
it can become such a conundrum thatyou really have to sort through. And
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speaking of the B twelve testing,Pure Essentials does have a methyl melonic acid
which is a urine test coming outsoon. Wellist when is that going to
be out? And can you talkabout that a little bit. We should
have that in stock by July,and certainly you can email client services at
Pure Essentials pure dash essentials dot comand get on the waitlist for that so
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that we can make sure we canship that one out to you. But
it's going to be very simple.It's just a small, I don't know,
six inch clams that's going to comewith a urine test kit. All
of the instructions are in there.You'll drop the urine onto this little measuring
stick and then it's going to getsent off to the lab. The lab
will send you your results and yourinstructions on which B twelve product in Pure
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Essential's line to take. We havea B twelve product and we have a
B six B twelve full late combinationproduct. So you'll get the results,
you'll know which product and how muchto take, and that all comes directly
from the lab. And let's talkabout magnesium because I know, even outside
of metopause, magnesium just seems tobe having a moment right now. But
how does it help getting back toour topic of metopause, how does it
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help during menopause? Magnesium helps outsideof menopause. It helps every human life
form. It is important for improvingheart health, reducing blood pressure, decreasing
the risk of diabetes, combating osteoporosis, and in particular, if you're taking
magnesium citrate, it can help easesome of the bowel issues that you may
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be having during menopause because it's notuncommon to face some const a patient from
time to time. So the magnesiumcitrate that form specifically can help with that.
It helps all issues that happen toincrease during menopause. Magnesium glycinate that
can help with calming anxiety, easingjoint pain. Ladies, if you're in
this stage, you know that jointpain, the hip pain, the lower
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back pain that you didn't have beforecan be helped with magnesium glycinate. Magnesium
glycinate can help improve sleep. Itcan help hot flashes as well as cold
flashes. Believe it or not,in this stage of life, you do
get a cold flash and it's seventyfive degrees outside and you see someone put
a sweatshirt on. It happens.You're not alone. Pure Essentials win a
step further. Pure Essentials new magnesiumcoming out has been formulated to also include
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magnesium malate. Benefits include being ananti inflammatory. Inflammation is a big deal.
It helps to alleviate depression. Itcan it helps with the decrease ability
to tolerate exercise. Some ladies duringthis phase of life can't tolerate exercise.
You know, maybe they were runnersbefore or zoombo or you know who knows
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something that was higher impact and theirbody just doesn't seem to be able to
do it. Like it once did. It hurts and it's sore, and
it sticks around a little bit longer. This form of magnesium can help with
that. And we also have magnesiuma score bait in our magnesium formulation,
which is a buffered form of vitaminC and that helps with the immune system
support. So a four form magnesiumso that you're getting any form that you
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might need. And I know toothat Pure Essentials also has a new omega
coming out. Yes, I loveour new omega. It might seem counterintuitive
to have a vegan shell for anomega, because omega is fish, it's
not vegan, but we do thatto avoid having bovine as the gelatin,
and we do that with all ofthe Pure Essentials products. We have a
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vegan shell, whether it's a capsuleor a soft jail. The Pure Essentials
omega is an omega three. It'sdeep fresh water cold water fish that has
cold pressed lemon essential oil with itas well. So as far as our
fish oil goes, everything is extractedunder a nitrogen blanket to reduce the possibility
of rancidity, because we don't wantpeople to get that nasty, fishy burt
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back kind of experience. So that'sthe way the pure essentials OMEGA is formulated.
So well's getting back to menopause.Why do you think a lot of
women aren't seeking treatment? I knowwe were talking about having that stigma in
the Western world, or it's justpart of life. Why do you think
that women aren't talking about it,they're not seeking treatment. The first thing
I want to say is not everyoneneeds treatment. Not everyone needs treatment for
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their menopausal symptoms. Some women endup chasing the solutions for their symptoms,
and they end up in a bunchof different doctor's offices, and they aren't
necessarily they and the doc aren't necessarilyputting two and two together that these are
menopause related symptoms. Unfortunately, sometimesladies are being dismissed. They're being told
that their symptoms aren't important. Theymight be told that symptoms aren't bothersome enough
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to be managed. And that's verysad and I'm sorry if that's happened to
you. Unfortunately, there is somethingcalled medical gaslighting. There are ladies that
have heard you know, your painis manageable. Now, your symptoms aren't
that bad. You've got to expectthis at your age. You're too young
to be feeling you know X yZ fill in the blank. I've seen
quote. This is a quote.I've seen patients in much worse situations than
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yours, and I'm sorry if that'shappened to you. But that's exactly why
we're here. We're here to helpyou, and lest have thank you for
that. I always think it's bestto find an integrative doctor that you're comfortable
with, that listens to you,helping you make a decision for yourself out
of an empowered state of fear,a full state. Always think that's fear.
Ever, not comfortable, seek asecond opinion, ask around until you
find somebody or comfortable with. Supersuper important to not give your power away
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like that. And again, thankyou for choosing this topic for the show.
It's something that needs to be alittle more normalized in regular conversation and
just a lot of helpful information forwomen. We're here every Sunday on WR
seven ten am from five to fivethirty pm. If you'd like more information
on your essential as you can goon the website www dot Pure hyphen Essentials
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dot com. That's p U RE hyphen e S S E n t
i a LS dot com, oryou can call our office. We're open
every Monday through Friday from nine amto five pm at two on two seven
five eight thirty two hundred. That'stwo on two seven five eight three two
zero zero, or check us outon Facebook, Instagram at shop Pure Essentials.
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I hope you all have a wonderful, wonderful weekend. Check out the
products. There's tons of information andlooking forward also to the gen X tests
and test that we have coming up. Melissa, thank you again. I'm
your host, Rachel Lash joined bymy co host Melissa Chris Bell, Living
on Doctor, and we will seeyou next Sunday at five pm here on wr
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