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Speaker 1 (00:00):
So without further ado, let's bringing on Cindy Dorkie are
first being going to talk about the medical side of menopause.
Hm hm Hi. I'm Cindy Zarowski. I'm a nurse practitioner.
I would work locally. I come from a clinic in Plainfield.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
That's how I met Maya. She's one of my patients.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
So it is an extraordinary thing to go through menopause.
Most women don't even know that it's happening, but they
do notice other things, like may I explain. So I
remember being eleven years old, knowing that the dreaded period
was gonna come right and your mom.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Kind of warning like this may happen luckily if her
mom's explained it to us.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
My mom did. She made it very fearful for me,
and I remember it was a summer day and I
was going to babysit that night and I.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Went to the bathroom. I was like, oh my god,
this is what she was talking about it.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
What am I to do? You know, you handle it
that way. But I think from the time I was
a little girl, because my mom mentioned it, I thought
about it a lot, like I'm getting to that age, what.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Is it gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
What is gonna happen? All right, it happened. I'm a
woman now, right. Oh, it's so exciting abrest our throw
and you feel a little bit more, you know, towards boys.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
It's kind of exciting.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
But as our wife goes through that journey, we get married,
maybe we start to think about having children. All that
stuff happens naturally. We don't. Most people don't have to
plan it, right, the maturing of becoming a woman. But
nobody ever told me it's gonna be taken away from
(01:41):
me like that. So I decided that the day I
got my lamps back that I was in menopause, I
cried because I thought about that little girl that was
so fullfull to start her womanhood and it was over.
It was just over. And I thought, well, all I
had really have to look forward now is grandkids or
(02:01):
watch my girls go through the same thing. So it
isn't talked about enough. We don't know enough about it
because there's more symptoms we can never go through. But
when does menopause actually start? So there's three phases. The
first phase harry menopause. Most women don't even know that's
a thing. But why does it start happening. So men know,
(02:26):
we know a lot of men that when they're in
their fifties ish, their testosterone level goes down because it's
a natural occurrence. We weren't meant to have children into
our sixties and seventies. Yell the children human.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
We all know I couldn't handle the baby right now
in my life if I wanted to.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Still, men do that dip and they can just go
to the doctor and get a shot and they're back
back in business. But most women go to their gynecologists.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
And they say, I just don't feel right.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Do you do you think it's Do you think I
could be going through the shape? Well, yes, But most
doctors say, don't worry about it. It's natural, it's gonna happen.
Don't be concerned. But do you know I can just
do a simple blood test for anyone and tell you
where you're at. And it's that easy. And why don't doctors,
especially male doctors, why don't they go, sure, let's dry blood,
(03:18):
let's take a look, let's see how this is gonna happen.
They don't because they don't have to deal with it.
They don't know what to say, they don't know how
to fix it. So our ovaries produce estrogen pagesterone the
things that we need to be womanly. Right, we're starting
to mature, the estrogen starts to fade away as our
(03:39):
ovaries start to age.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
So now we're dry everywhere, our skin.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Gets itchy, we don't sleep through the night, we're grouchy,
and your husband's like, what's wrong with you? I don't
even know I'm a gy and I don't know why.
So all those things, it's as easy as a simple
blood test. That's it. We check your paget level, YOURSTDREA level,
your FSH level, thoughtful stimulii normale I can tell you
where you're at your journey, so it's an easy fixed.
(04:10):
What actually happens, right, Perimenopause starts anywhere from six to eleven.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Years before your pariod is going to stop.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
During that time, that's the dreaded We don't know what's
really happening to ourselves. And then one day your period
just stops and you're like, oh, I guess this is it? Okay,
And then three months later it comes back again and
you're like, I thought this was over. No, So you're like, okay,
no period again for maybe seven months it's back and
(04:40):
you're like, how is this possibly happening to? So menopause
does not happened until you have not hit a period
for one full year. It doesn't count until the year
is full. So then once you have that, most your
symptoms are not really going away. It's gonna take a
little bit of time. I noticed probably about three years ago.
(05:01):
I'm fifty by the way, I'd wake up in the
middle of the night because I was freezing and I thought,
there's all of my sheets were soaked. It's because I
just had one of those great hot fleshes that everybody
talks about. So why do hot fleshes happen? Because estrogen,
the hormone that we produce in our ovaries, is what
(05:23):
regulates our hypothalmos plant hypothalness gland is your temperature gauge
in your body. So once the estrogen starts to disappear
your body, I don't know what to do. So it's
I read that it's a point four degree change in
temperature and that's it. So from ninety eight point six
(05:44):
to ninety nine, and it's very short and it happens quickly.
That's why they're in there. Output the symptoms you know woldtat.
I don't know if anyone's gone through it, but it's
not fun and everyone's in a while. I'm at work
and everyone's the younger girls are their sweaters and they're
holding their TV and they're freezing, and I'm like, what
are you guys doing.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
I'm dying.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
I'm going outside in the snow like please, And then
they all look at me like you're old.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Okay, because I work with a bunch of twenty five
twenty six year olds.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
So at my clinic, we are an integrated clinic. We
do a lot of everything. We're good at most things,
but we're really great. That's hormone replacement therapy. So before
we can decide if you want to go down that
road for hormone replacement therapy.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
You gotta do labs. See where you're at.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
So what are the women that can't get.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Hormone replacement therapy?
Speaker 3 (06:41):
Is it?
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Anyone? Anyone have an idea? Okay? So anyone that has
a history personally on breast cancer or ab normal menstrual
bleeding that we have to you got to go see
the down in colleges and see why. It's a very
low percentage. It's ten percent of people that have vaginal
(07:03):
bleeding that's abnormal, most likely at cancer, but that's ten percent.
So don't ignore signs that don't seem normal. So hormone
replacement therapy for us. If you came in to be
a patient, I look at your estrogen level, I look
at your focal stimulating normal, and we can implant the tiny,
tiny little pellet and put it right in the fattier
(07:26):
toush and then we prescribe you a pogesterone to take
at nighttime. So all the women that don't sleep well anymore,
pagesterone is what is keeping you from not sleeping. Replace
the pogesterone, sleep like a baby. Get your estrogen. So
all those awful symptoms. Nobody talks about this painful And
of course anybody here I know they're pelic. But it
(07:50):
happens because you're so dry down there. It's painful. Why
does that happen? Because the estrogen, it keeps the thickness
of our reproductive parts. The skin gets very thin, the
capillaries come to the surface, it gets red, it gets itchy.
Some people even experience urinary track sometimes and they're like,
(08:14):
I gotta have an UNTI again, this is crazy how
it's actually not. It's just the estrogen loss irritation of
the urethra. Some people can't control their urine anymore when
they cough or laugh or sneeze, or walk up the
stairs or carry a big bag of groceries or anything
that you're doing. And you're like, so, I'm here to
(08:37):
tell you all there is a fix for that too.
I personally went to my Guidephalgisus sat I'm so tired
of this happening. I can't, I can't take it anymore.
I had a urythraw lift. So if anybody's curious, it
is a possibility. It does happen, and it changed my
life completely. Now I can laugh, and I can carry
(08:57):
groceries off the stairs and into the kitchen. Have you so?
And I haven't been my fans anymore. It's really good.
So that is worth it if anyone's interested. So inside
the folders, not the top one. I'm the second folder,
the blue folder. One of the great things that we
do on our clinic is not only hormone replacement therapy.
(09:18):
We have an IV clinic. Our IV clinic replaces all
the nutrients that we don't get in the food that
we need every day. I gave every single one of
you a voucher for a free IV. It should be
on the right hand side, so all you need to
do is policy. I got this great voucher. I want
to pumme in for an ID. It's really great. Our
clinic is very welcoming. We see lots of people, lots
(09:39):
of people going through the exact same things, so take
advantage of the IV. But if you decide you want
to keep doing it, we're the only clinic in Illinois
that does it under your insurance. So you don't have
to go to the IV bar and pay two hundred
and fifty dollars for an ID because all of us
have something wrong. So I figure it out, we get
the insurance to cover it, and you can feel great.
(10:00):
We have a stretching program. We do vein treatment for
anyone fair close veins or spider veins that they're dealing with.
We have physical therapy, We have chiropractic care. We do
IBIG treatments, we do diabetes treatments.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
We do a lot of really great stuff.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
So besides all that, I left some weight loss information
in there, how to manage your protein intake, so you
know all of these little components. You're stiff, you're sore,
you're not sleeping while you're peeting your pants. Life is miserable.
But there's so many things we can do to get
you feeling better. Can be energy back throughout your day.
(10:44):
I personally take all the services there. I'm not doing
the weight loss one right now. I'll be honest. Semiro
tide turns epetide. It works. You will lose weight, you
will be nauseous, most likely you will want to throw it.
But at least once a week. I'm not into that.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Did that all right?
Speaker 1 (11:00):
I'm done? So I love my body. I love what's
happened to my body. I think I'm just about dumb it.
When I drew my labs, it's.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Over for me.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
I haven't had a period of years. I probably went
through it a little bit earlier than most people. But
like I said, it was almost like I mourned it,
like my my piece of womanhood was gone. But what
did I do to fix it? I do Marmoner place
in therapy, and I feel great. I'm not try My
life can keep moving on the way that I wanted to.
(11:33):
So some of those things, you know, if you don't
feel well, every day. How can we be successful? So
I'm here to answer questions. Anybody have any questions, Yeah,
go ahead, you know my aunt. I'm sending you one now.
Speaker 5 (11:46):
My aunt died answered you told me or to die,
not get.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
Did she have any previous care a life. I'll tell
you what my mother personally, and she was around my age.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
She was on hormone replacement therapy because she was tired
of all the side effects.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
At that time, they were contributing putting people on provera.
I don't know if anyone's heard of it. She had
a heart attack, but why most likely because they only
gave her the pogesterone. They didn't give her the estrogen.
It passed to be balanced, and if it's not balanced,
you're going to run into trouble. You can run into
(12:31):
cardiac trouble. You can run into cancer trouble. Not just
cancer and your ovaries, your uterus rust cancer or anywhere
it could metastasize. But it is important that if you
ever decided to go forward with hormone replacement therapy, that
we go through a thorough health history to see if
(12:54):
there's anything lurking in the corners that could cause you
some trouble. We also along with that place where we
add testosterone because women, believe it or not, women need
testosterone just as much as men. It improves our libido,
are sleeping, our energy. Like if you work out, you're like,
this is ridiculous. I'm working out all the time and
(13:15):
I'm not building any muscle. It's because we don't have
any testosterone. No woman wants to look like a powerhouse.
Some do, but most don't. Most just want to feel well.
They want the clothes to look good when they get dressed.
They want their skin to look glow like we're happy. Right,
All those things that we don't realize are going to
happen because there are a lot of women that are
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taking control and they're doing the hormone replacement there and
they're they're working out and it makes a difference. So
when they go to work, they're not as grouchy because
they got a full night's rest. I'm here for more questions.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Yes, I had the virtues.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
You can't believe they're any more.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
No, nor I goten take them out years ago.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
He said, you'll have your period and whatever time. I
never got never.
Speaker 6 (14:08):
No, So I'll assuming maybe I'm the mimphouse and so okay,
I send my back room message on my chart that
just looked up.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Yeah, because I remember what he said.
Speaker 6 (14:20):
But I said, can I have a blood test to
determine if I'm if I don't know sure?
Speaker 1 (14:28):
And he said no, he said, he said, culturally don't
do blood tests to diag dealt fenopause. Wow, that's the
very first thing I said. Yeah, And it's just I
hate to say it, but it's especially the mails doctors
and want to deal with it. Yeah, another hysterical woman
with all these problems and if I just ignore her,
(14:50):
it will go away. So I just thought I could
come in and get some blood work and you can
find out where you're at.
Speaker 7 (14:56):
You.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
Yeah, it's yeah, actually, and almost it should happen sooner
than later.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Now, if you've been.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
In menopause, let's say for fifteen years, I wouldn't start
it then because that's a whole new change for your body.
But start thinking about it before menopause it actually sets in.
Remember that's a year with no period, or within a
few years of it happening. Because I think if you're
fifteen years out, you're like, screw it, it's over right, Yes,
(15:31):
you should.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Still. No, it's not I have I was done in pieces.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
No, I believe it.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
You wouldn't take my I want to take you find
me after.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
Which you should have done in the first place, right,
I asked him to do in the first place. As
long as you're down here and I guess, mm hmm,
I don't know. If everything is over and you still
have one ovary, you're a menopositive.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Okay, so then that was.
Speaker 4 (16:13):
Fine.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
You're fine. It's still appropriate. Yeah, that's nothing we can
cannot Yeah, so canon can't with gastric bypass usually has
to do with absorption in the gut. So you should
be fine. Yeah, absolutely, So you were talking about dryness everywhere.
(16:34):
Uh huh, So what do you recommend people who are
really dry? So there is areas as well as like
so there's a product called where plans if anyone's failier.
But you know, it's nothing like your natural obri can right,
it's never going to be quite the same, but it's
gonna work. But the keita is staying moist. Motion has
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to happen within five minutes out on the shower. That's it,
or oil, whatever you want to use. But if you
use the I hate to say better products you're gonna
use like hand motion that's like a dollar ninety nine
from Lobberies. It's not gonna do probably anything. I use
the survey that comes in the tub and I get
(17:19):
it at Costco and it comes with two big tubs
and I use lots and it really really helps. So
that but down here they can they can give you
estrogen suppositories. I have heard more nightmares about that because
it's like, okay, you do. Now you're kind of gooch
and your spouser partners like all right, let's get to business,
(17:43):
and you're like, oh god, it still kind of hurts,
and it's gushy and they want to touch and possibly other.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
Things, and you're like, this kind of ruins the whole experience.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
So I think, if you could do it a different way, awesome,
But if you can't, I mean, they gotta do what
you gotta do. But the bad part is a lot
of people that are experiencing intercourse problems sometimes starts to
blend over into the marriage problems, like what do you
mean you don't want? Yeah, I don't want to because
it hurts. It hurts. It always hurts. You got a headache,
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you know, you hear all that stuff, but there you
obviously have to be interested in wanting to do it.
But there are ways that we can get you more comfortable.
You know. It's a shame that we have to go
through all that and they don't go through anything. They
just get a shot and they're ready to roll. So
(18:38):
we do hormone replacement therapy for men too, but it's
only testostero, so we get them at a normal level.
They can live their lives and work out and feel
like But women, it's an art. We have to carefully
get you right where you need to be without feeling
crazy like you're a sixteen year old. Didn't you want
(18:59):
to have all the time because you can't work like
that either, it doesn't work very well. That help, Okay?
Any other questions?
Speaker 6 (19:09):
Yeah, sure protein or is there a certain amount of
protein women should happen?
Speaker 1 (19:14):
Okay, so here here's the biggest piece of protein women
that are dieting. You hear all these people that are
on ozombic, Right, what happens when a aal zemic? You
don't want to eat, You don't want to eat at all,
but you have no appetite, you know, like most people
are overweight because they constantly are thinking about food, whether
it's emotional or it's usually emotion. The problem is, if
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you don't eat, you lose all your muscle. The only
way to protect your muscle is to eat lots and
lots of protein. You have to Otherwise every muscle in
your body's weak. You're very tiny. You know. I can
fit back in a size ten, you know, but you
have no energy, you can't do anything. So protein replacement typically,
(20:02):
I'm not gonna say for everyone, but typically goes close
to the amount of you weigh. So if you weigh
two hundred pounds, you're looking at close to two hundred
lolograms of protein. That easy, No, that's why that conversion
chart is kind of easy. It is a great I
didn't make logans brands protein. So it's not just meat.
(20:25):
There's streams, there's shapes, there's bars, there's for people that
don't like milk, there's like almost like a fruit pond
or grape or orange. You can find those mostly athletics
store nutrition places. You can find that really good stuff.
But if you don't do.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
It, you're gonna ruin all your muscles.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
Then you're gonna be wi Me.
Speaker 7 (20:46):
Can you talk about to notice this conversation is about
inside out the most markets and you know right now
menifaest is such a hot topic, right everybody's marketing something
from you.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
They're focusing more about on the outside and not how
the inside. And that's the part of understanding. It's the nutrition.
Is what you're fueling your body with, which is going
to help you read pricefully. One of the things that
I think is important in genetic in protein because we
always hear the word of collegen all the time. The
women always so collagen with hair skin announced, I have
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types of collagen and those all our colleges actually work
on the livements, intendens and your joints. So what people
don't realize is that you often get have piss and
all the back pain and just think all its oxritis.
But if you're not actually getting at collagen, you're not
replenishing which your body is naturally losing. So I would
sell people you know before you think something is falling apart.
(21:37):
This is why doing the seminar are so important to
understand who here takes collegen. Actually, that's awesome, that's good
to hear. Are you getting off prize with it? You
brought me to know who we're finding. You didn't consider
because there's something focused and specifically on skinned hare nails.
The other ones worn't on your pens and joints. So
you may be thinking you're having as britis and I'm
really smith and it might be because you need to
(21:59):
start taking college. The only piece of this puzzle is
just like she talked about, the internal accessing or you're
vagiinat actors. You muscle do the same thing. If you
don't use them, you will lose them. Who has noticed
that you've gotten older and the way your body looks
is different than it looks like about five or ten
years ago.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
That's you weigh the same, but you.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
Weigh the same. The muscle toness dead.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
All shifts, it goes back the bat.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
This fitness people understand you need to become active, whether
it's walking, picking up a five pound weight you stretching.
Stretching is a big deal. Is the thing that helps
keeping those ten infolds muscles stretched out. That's why when
people get older they don't do anything. They're kind of
like this.
Speaker 7 (22:36):
They're sore and so they can't move because if you
don't move, you will lose it. So we're sitting at
this age right now while becoming physically fit. I'm not
saying being a general, that's not what I'm saying, but
incorporating some form of fitness.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
Into your life is important. So they just taking the
stairs instead of an elevator every once in a while,
and yeah, you know, getting at least maybe thirty minutes.
It is, you know, rocking your steps, you know, just
simple things. Most people are smart watch they doing. So
the other thing is you're right, Collagen is important, protein
is important. You know what else is important? Water? So
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if you're a working person and if you drink a
ton of water, what do you got to You gotta
go to the bathroom hall they're long, right, so that
you gotta find creative ways to get the water in moisture.
Anything without caffeine is considered liquid, right, so soop even
anything that's liquid that goes into your body that's not caffeinated.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
Your joints will hurt more if you're not you know, hydrated.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
Everything You're gonna be dryer if everything is not hydrated.
So that is something. No, I'm not saying to drink
two gallons of water a day. I'm saying too and
not even the help people say, calf yours body weight
like this is kind of extreme, but it is like
maybe it would be more appropriate to think like sixty
ounces of fluid it or forty eight ounces of fluid.
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But some people don't drink anything. They drink coffee all
day lost and every part of them hurts. So that's
a big piece of the puzzle too. And as we
get older, nobody wants to go to the bathroom because
they got to get up and go to the bathroom
and mountain time. And that's that's one reason why our
elderly folks they get really dehighted, they get urine.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Air track infections because they don't want to get up
and go to the bathroom.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
I don't blame it with like we gotta do it
any other questions. Yeah, rum So for someone who like
the tind of had a period in four or five years,
did the whole hot slash thing, they went away and
I was like, well, you know good. Yeah, then probably
after about six months, get the belly weight and then
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the hot flashes wait for pay dungeons.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
Lack of sleep, So what like what causes that fluctuation
or just.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
When you're in the clear what you're not, all that
you're not in. We don't ever typically know how long
it's going to take dig it completely through it. It
can take a good few years, four or five years
after your parients staff to say it's like really dumb.
So keep an eye on your symptoms. And I think
my I talked about this earlier. Some of the symptoms
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that we experience every day. We have no idea that
those are really connected to menoplaus. Right, you wake up
a couple of times a night and you're like, I
wait for it now, it's because your forrmals are completely
off in your body. So there was another question.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
So I have forty one.
Speaker 4 (25:33):
I haven't had got since I was forty. I had
the meat, but periods like you don't, but it's super
heavy and I'm so annoying with my husband. Yes, yes,
I've gained bags. I've been stay home mom like ten years,
(25:54):
but I started working and I was actually like wayed
last year that I was a stay home mom.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
I don't know what's going on.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
I know that's something.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
It is definitely time.
Speaker 5 (26:06):
Now.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
Here's the one thing anything that any iu d's that
would admit hormones will throw those blood tests off, So okay,
do you mind sharing? But it does have.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
Hormones, it does Okay, that can that can throw everything off,
and it will completely tell us that your estrogen is
kind of looking okay.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
But it's still okay to get a blood test.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
It's still just let's keep track of what's going on
and see where you're at.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
Yeah, that's why I got an iu D. And when
I got my i V. The first year was awful.
I thought what did I do to myself? But after
that I even had a period now and forever. But
I asked my doctor should I take the IVY out?
And she said no, it will help with your menopause symptoms.
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So I'm leaving mine in there until I think it
falls off on its own. I don't know, I'll be
walking one days. You never know. One behind. One question.
Speaker 5 (27:16):
I had my only child at thirty eight. Oh okay,
and the doctor told me, but I said up. They
said we're gonna take everything because you had five bars.
So anyway, I've never had menopause. They would last these two,
telling me I wouldn't have known, But I said, that's
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not true.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
I'm seventy one. I've never gone through menapause. You had
a hysterect to me at thirty eighty eight, and they
didn't leave any over its leave me. They tell me
they were taking everything yours was like instance, And remember
when Maya said three out of four people experience, yeah, menopause.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
But I'm thinking, okay, is it because they died?
Speaker 1 (27:57):
Is it?
Speaker 7 (27:58):
She could?
Speaker 2 (27:58):
But that is one know and me.
Speaker 5 (28:00):
I do it every day now seven what they said,
you've been going through it last it's chance I have
to take at seventy one that will show something.
Speaker 7 (28:10):
Yeah, absolutely we could see it. So some of the
somethings you mentioned I have and some of my don't.
You know, I don't have a lot of stings. But
what I noticed is I did this little challenge that
did a Beacon challenge for last year, okay, and I
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felt amazing, but I didn't eat.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
So I was like, you know, I didn't have more
energy and all that stuff.
Speaker 7 (28:38):
So that's I think what they put it in. Now
what you gonna said, Oh, so I I like the
way I felt and I'm good you too. So I
I'm trying to monitor because I was like, my mom
is a My mom was telling me, oh, I'm.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
Not my life. It's always good for you know, that
kind of stuff. So two hours old and.
Speaker 5 (29:03):
Every brother loves to fredom, you know.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
Yeah. But I was like, I'm gonna here how long?
So I started kind of testing my body.
Speaker 7 (29:10):
So I'm like, I do I know the difference between
menopause and that is stuff and just stuff because it meat.
So I didn't have any meat for about six months.
Felt the same way I.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
Reintroduced me, like, oh, you know what, I feel like I.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
Could be separate me today.
Speaker 7 (29:28):
I'm gonna do this those chicken wings or I'm gonna
have a piece of that steak or whatever those somethings.
So then I was like, I get rid of the meaning, right,
I get the roteine and I can't have like fish
or whatever. But I noticed that some of the symptoms
that I thought were men across it were related because
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of the meat.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
Was everybody's different. Every meat that you need is different, right.
I remember when I was a kid, my mommy liver
and I was like, that's like you're being punished. Why
are you Here's the thing sounds it sounds like that
guy and something that natural blood tests blood test. Yeah,
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but here's the only thing with being vegan or not
getting anything, and you know, I don't like, I don't
like what it makes me feel.
Speaker 8 (30:17):
But I wouldn't call myself okay because you were like
leather shoes and stuff like vegans anything than that, I
just you know, I was seizing.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
But so the only problem I see with people that
don't need any meat is we really have to make
sure you're not an em right because we don't get enough.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
Sure, I'm.
Speaker 9 (30:47):
That's really hot right now, you know, m I actually
at one point from scratch.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
That don't have.
Speaker 9 (31:00):
Actually so like because we like it over, there's an
able make it from the records in the days like
uh you know lung fruit like did face of sugar
or no sugar or like a like these is possible,
but lines consumption.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
Because like actually at one point then that in.
Speaker 9 (31:19):
Burds like the coming on with the plane being an
ibetic and my children will be when I cope. Believe
when we introduced the sugar and everything else, they automatically redact.
But that's because a lot of the the precommable actually
call the simation and the stuff. But he is a
visit by takee too, so it's I mean, I mean
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and for her that there couldn't get.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
I agree. Something else they do at the fantasm is allogies. Yes,
we do allergy testing, and it's reminded me that's a
good thing to know. I developed all the makes you
off the all done with graphica couple years ago. It's
spin riding seas could write out my permit it and
rave them. And it got worse, and I went to
the doctor. They want to put me on meditation. They
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put me on docent thing which I seen answer depressive,
but it's also a bat and that actually worked. I
had taken and I didn't take a steroid. It was
not gonna stop. So I went to go see and
actually this was the segue about doctor Morris. This is
not why I seemed to do that with path doctor.
Someone has said go see this person because they helped
me figure out what was wrong with me when I
was spoken. So where I go. And it does seem
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a little weird. That's testing, that's a little unconventional.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
That's okay, there's some science to it.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
Yeah, she gave me this report that it was like
this huge report to test me for one hundred and
eighty different things. Do you know that I was actually
a word to and did.
Speaker 5 (32:40):
No very mirror.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
So it turns out I was alertic to artificial speakers,
specifically splendor the miror equal because I was using a
lot of it because I love sugar. So I was like, okay,
I'm not using sugar, st not using this. You know,
my numbers were off the chart. I can use stavia
or trivia because the ribs of sugar. So it turns
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out I was actually allergic and didn't realize it that
artificials were here, and it got to the point that
that's how it was manifesting itself. So this is why
sometimes giving different types of opinions about things, because natopathic
doctors will get things there about understanding why something is happening,
not just fixing it. I'm oh, here, take this. But
you don't know why.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
We do a full panel of food allergy testing in
our clinic.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
So not only environmentally bragley dogs and cats, packlenches, all
of those crazy things, but food, all the meats, vegetables, food,
so you can get a good idea.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
Of what you're eating is making you sick.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
It's interesting. There's one last thing that I want to mention.
I learned this recently drinking alcohol. Does anybody in the
room drink alcohol of any kind? Okay? Along with those people,
are any of the people in the room that drink
any kind of alcohol worried about their weight? Drinking alcohol
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will stop fat production, burning calories for a full four days,
So it's you. Yes, if you drink on Friday Saturday
and you go work out on Monday and Tuesday, it's avoided.
It's a total void. So just keep that in mind. Actually,
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one of the doctors I work with told me he
stopped drinking Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday. He drinks on Friday
and Saturday because he works out all week long. And
he's like, this is stupid. I'm working out so hard
and it's not doing anything for me. I think that's
super information. So I want you all to know that
alcohol stops bad for leaving your body, and it's all
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through the liver. It's how that works. But all right,
thank you everyone. It was an absolute pleasure to read.
Speaker 9 (35:04):
Vision.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
But yeah, fine, okay, So
So without further ado, let's bringing on Cindy Dorkie are
first being going to talk about the medical side of menopause.
Hm hm Hi. I'm Cindy Zarowski. I'm a nurse practitioner.
I would work locally. I come from a clinic in Plainfield.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
That's how I met Maya. She's one of my patients.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
So it is an extraordinary thing to go through menopause.
Most women don't even know that it's happening, but they
do notice other things, like may I explain. So I
remember being eleven years old, knowing that the dreaded period
was gonna come right and your mom.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Kind of warning like this may happen luckily if her
mom's explained it to us.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
My mom did. She made it very fearful for me,
and I remember it was a summer day and I
was going to babysit that night and I.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Went to the bathroom. I was like, oh my god,
this is what she was talking about it.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
What am I to do? You know, you handle it
that way. But I think from the time I was
a little girl, because my mom mentioned it, I thought
about it a lot, like I'm getting to that age, what.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Is it gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
What is gonna happen? All right, it happened. I'm a
woman now, right. Oh, it's so exciting abrest our throw
and you feel a little bit more, you know, towards boys.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
It's kind of exciting.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
But as our wife goes through that journey, we get married,
maybe we start to think about having children. All that
stuff happens naturally. We don't. Most people don't have to
plan it, right, the maturing of becoming a woman. But
nobody ever told me it's gonna be taken away from
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me like that. So I decided that the day I
got my lamps back that I was in menopause, I
cried because I thought about that little girl that was
so fullfull to start her womanhood and it was over.
It was just over. And I thought, well, all I
had really have to look forward now is grandkids or
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watch my girls go through the same thing. So it
isn't talked about enough. We don't know enough about it
because there's more symptoms we can never go through. But
when does menopause actually start? So there's three phases. The
first phase harry menopause. Most women don't even know that's
a thing. But why does it start happening. So men know,
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we know a lot of men that when they're in
their fifties ish, their testosterone level goes down because it's
a natural occurrence. We weren't meant to have children into
our sixties and seventies. Yell the children human.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
We all know I couldn't handle the baby right now
in my life if I wanted to.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Still, men do that dip and they can just go
to the doctor and get a shot and they're back
back in business. But most women go to their gynecologists.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
And they say, I just don't feel right.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Do you do you think it's Do you think I
could be going through the shape? Well, yes, But most
doctors say, don't worry about it. It's natural, it's gonna happen.
Don't be concerned. But do you know I can just
do a simple blood test for anyone and tell you
where you're at. And it's that easy. And why don't doctors,
especially male doctors, why don't they go, sure, let's dry blood,
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let's take a look, let's see how this is gonna happen.
They don't because they don't have to deal with it.
They don't know what to say, they don't know how
to fix it. So our ovaries produce estrogen pagesterone the
things that we need to be womanly. Right, we're starting
to mature, the estrogen starts to fade away as our
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ovaries start to age.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
So now we're dry everywhere, our skin.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Gets itchy, we don't sleep through the night, we're grouchy,
and your husband's like, what's wrong with you? I don't
even know I'm a gy and I don't know why.
So all those things, it's as easy as a simple
blood test. That's it. We check your paget level, YOURSTDREA level,
your FSH level, thoughtful stimulii normale I can tell you
where you're at your journey, so it's an easy fixed.
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What actually happens, right, Perimenopause starts anywhere from six to eleven.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Years before your pariod is going to stop.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
During that time, that's the dreaded We don't know what's
really happening to ourselves. And then one day your period
just stops and you're like, oh, I guess this is it? Okay,
And then three months later it comes back again and
you're like, I thought this was over. No, So you're like, okay,
no period again for maybe seven months it's back and
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you're like, how is this possibly happening to? So menopause
does not happened until you have not hit a period
for one full year. It doesn't count until the year
is full. So then once you have that, most your
symptoms are not really going away. It's gonna take a
little bit of time. I noticed probably about three years ago.
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I'm fifty by the way, I'd wake up in the
middle of the night because I was freezing and I thought,
there's all of my sheets were soaked. It's because I
just had one of those great hot fleshes that everybody
talks about. So why do hot fleshes happen? Because estrogen,
the hormone that we produce in our ovaries, is what
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regulates our hypothalmos plant hypothalness gland is your temperature gauge
in your body. So once the estrogen starts to disappear
your body, I don't know what to do. So it's
I read that it's a point four degree change in
temperature and that's it. So from ninety eight point six
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to ninety nine, and it's very short and it happens quickly.
That's why they're in there. Output the symptoms you know woldtat.
I don't know if anyone's gone through it, but it's
not fun and everyone's in a while. I'm at work
and everyone's the younger girls are their sweaters and they're
holding their TV and they're freezing, and I'm like, what
are you guys doing.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
I'm dying.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
I'm going outside in the snow like please, And then
they all look at me like you're old.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Okay, because I work with a bunch of twenty five
twenty six year olds.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
So at my clinic, we are an integrated clinic. We
do a lot of everything. We're good at most things,
but we're really great. That's hormone replacement therapy. So before
we can decide if you want to go down that
road for hormone replacement therapy.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
You gotta do labs. See where you're at.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
So what are the women that can't get.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Hormone replacement therapy?
Speaker 3 (06:41):
Is it?
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Anyone? Anyone have an idea? Okay? So anyone that has
a history personally on breast cancer or ab normal menstrual
bleeding that we have to you got to go see
the down in colleges and see why. It's a very
low percentage. It's ten percent of people that have vaginal
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bleeding that's abnormal, most likely at cancer, but that's ten percent.
So don't ignore signs that don't seem normal. So hormone
replacement therapy for us. If you came in to be
a patient, I look at your estrogen level, I look
at your focal stimulating normal, and we can implant the tiny,
tiny little pellet and put it right in the fattier
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toush and then we prescribe you a pogesterone to take
at nighttime. So all the women that don't sleep well anymore,
pagesterone is what is keeping you from not sleeping. Replace
the pogesterone, sleep like a baby. Get your estrogen. So
all those awful symptoms. Nobody talks about this painful And
of course anybody here I know they're pelic. But it
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happens because you're so dry down there. It's painful. Why
does that happen? Because the estrogen, it keeps the thickness
of our reproductive parts. The skin gets very thin, the
capillaries come to the surface, it gets red, it gets itchy.
Some people even experience urinary track sometimes and they're like,
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I gotta have an UNTI again, this is crazy how
it's actually not. It's just the estrogen loss irritation of
the urethra. Some people can't control their urine anymore when
they cough or laugh or sneeze, or walk up the
stairs or carry a big bag of groceries or anything
that you're doing. And you're like, so, I'm here to
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tell you all there is a fix for that too.
I personally went to my Guidephalgisus sat I'm so tired
of this happening. I can't, I can't take it anymore.
I had a urythraw lift. So if anybody's curious, it
is a possibility. It does happen, and it changed my
life completely. Now I can laugh, and I can carry
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groceries off the stairs and into the kitchen. Have you so?
And I haven't been my fans anymore. It's really good.
So that is worth it if anyone's interested. So inside
the folders, not the top one. I'm the second folder,
the blue folder. One of the great things that we
do on our clinic is not only hormone replacement therapy.
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We have an IV clinic. Our IV clinic replaces all
the nutrients that we don't get in the food that
we need every day. I gave every single one of
you a voucher for a free IV. It should be
on the right hand side, so all you need to
do is policy. I got this great voucher. I want
to pumme in for an ID. It's really great. Our
clinic is very welcoming. We see lots of people, lots
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of people going through the exact same things, so take
advantage of the IV. But if you decide you want
to keep doing it, we're the only clinic in Illinois
that does it under your insurance. So you don't have
to go to the IV bar and pay two hundred
and fifty dollars for an ID because all of us
have something wrong. So I figure it out, we get
the insurance to cover it, and you can feel great.
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We have a stretching program. We do vein treatment for
anyone fair close veins or spider veins that they're dealing with.
We have physical therapy, We have chiropractic care. We do
IBIG treatments, we do diabetes treatments.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
We do a lot of really great stuff.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
So besides all that, I left some weight loss information
in there, how to manage your protein intake, so you
know all of these little components. You're stiff, you're sore,
you're not sleeping while you're peeting your pants. Life is miserable.
But there's so many things we can do to get
you feeling better. Can be energy back throughout your day.
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I personally take all the services there. I'm not doing
the weight loss one right now. I'll be honest. Semiro
tide turns epetide. It works. You will lose weight, you
will be nauseous, most likely you will want to throw it.
But at least once a week. I'm not into that.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Did that all right?
Speaker 1 (11:00):
I'm done? So I love my body. I love what's
happened to my body. I think I'm just about dumb it.
When I drew my labs, it's.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Over for me.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
I haven't had a period of years. I probably went
through it a little bit earlier than most people. But
like I said, it was almost like I mourned it,
like my my piece of womanhood was gone. But what
did I do to fix it? I do Marmoner place
in therapy, and I feel great. I'm not try My
life can keep moving on the way that I wanted to.
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So some of those things, you know, if you don't
feel well, every day. How can we be successful? So
I'm here to answer questions. Anybody have any questions, Yeah,
go ahead, you know my aunt. I'm sending you one now.
Speaker 5 (11:46):
My aunt died answered you told me or to die,
not get.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
Did she have any previous care a life. I'll tell
you what my mother personally, and she was around my age.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
She was on hormone replacement therapy because she was tired
of all the side effects.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
At that time, they were contributing putting people on provera.
I don't know if anyone's heard of it. She had
a heart attack, but why most likely because they only
gave her the pogesterone. They didn't give her the estrogen.
It passed to be balanced, and if it's not balanced,
you're going to run into trouble. You can run into
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cardiac trouble. You can run into cancer trouble. Not just
cancer and your ovaries, your uterus rust cancer or anywhere
it could metastasize. But it is important that if you
ever decided to go forward with hormone replacement therapy, that
we go through a thorough health history to see if
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there's anything lurking in the corners that could cause you
some trouble. We also along with that place where we
add testosterone because women, believe it or not, women need
testosterone just as much as men. It improves our libido,
are sleeping, our energy. Like if you work out, you're like,
this is ridiculous. I'm working out all the time and
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I'm not building any muscle. It's because we don't have
any testosterone. No woman wants to look like a powerhouse.
Some do, but most don't. Most just want to feel well.
They want the clothes to look good when they get dressed.
They want their skin to look glow like we're happy. Right,
All those things that we don't realize are going to
happen because there are a lot of women that are
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taking control and they're doing the hormone replacement there and
they're they're working out and it makes a difference. So
when they go to work, they're not as grouchy because
they got a full night's rest. I'm here for more questions.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Yes, I had the virtues.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
You can't believe they're any more.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
No, nor I goten take them out years ago.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
He said, you'll have your period and whatever time. I
never got never.
Speaker 6 (14:08):
No, So I'll assuming maybe I'm the mimphouse and so okay,
I send my back room message on my chart that
just looked up.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Yeah, because I remember what he said.
Speaker 6 (14:20):
But I said, can I have a blood test to
determine if I'm if I don't know sure?
Speaker 1 (14:28):
And he said no, he said, he said, culturally don't
do blood tests to diag dealt fenopause. Wow, that's the
very first thing I said. Yeah, And it's just I
hate to say it, but it's especially the mails doctors
and want to deal with it. Yeah, another hysterical woman
with all these problems and if I just ignore her,
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it will go away. So I just thought I could
come in and get some blood work and you can
find out where you're at.
Speaker 7 (14:56):
You.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
Yeah, it's yeah, actually, and almost it should happen sooner
than later.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Now, if you've been.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
In menopause, let's say for fifteen years, I wouldn't start
it then because that's a whole new change for your body.
But start thinking about it before menopause it actually sets in.
Remember that's a year with no period, or within a
few years of it happening. Because I think if you're
fifteen years out, you're like, screw it, it's over right, Yes,
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you should.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Still. No, it's not I have I was done in pieces.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
No, I believe it.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
You wouldn't take my I want to take you find
me after.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
Which you should have done in the first place, right,
I asked him to do in the first place. As
long as you're down here and I guess, mm hmm,
I don't know. If everything is over and you still
have one ovary, you're a menopositive.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Okay, so then that was.
Speaker 4 (16:13):
Fine.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
You're fine. It's still appropriate. Yeah, that's nothing we can
cannot Yeah, so canon can't with gastric bypass usually has
to do with absorption in the gut. So you should
be fine. Yeah, absolutely, So you were talking about dryness everywhere.
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Uh huh, So what do you recommend people who are
really dry? So there is areas as well as like
so there's a product called where plans if anyone's failier.
But you know, it's nothing like your natural obri can right,
it's never going to be quite the same, but it's
gonna work. But the keita is staying moist. Motion has
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to happen within five minutes out on the shower. That's it,
or oil, whatever you want to use. But if you
use the I hate to say better products you're gonna
use like hand motion that's like a dollar ninety nine
from Lobberies. It's not gonna do probably anything. I use
the survey that comes in the tub and I get
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it at Costco and it comes with two big tubs
and I use lots and it really really helps. So
that but down here they can they can give you
estrogen suppositories. I have heard more nightmares about that because
it's like, okay, you do. Now you're kind of gooch
and your spouser partners like all right, let's get to business,
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and you're like, oh god, it still kind of hurts,
and it's gushy and they want to touch and possibly other.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
Things, and you're like, this kind of ruins the whole experience.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
So I think, if you could do it a different way, awesome,
But if you can't, I mean, they gotta do what
you gotta do. But the bad part is a lot
of people that are experiencing intercourse problems sometimes starts to
blend over into the marriage problems, like what do you
mean you don't want? Yeah, I don't want to because
it hurts. It hurts. It always hurts. You got a headache,
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you know, you hear all that stuff, but there you
obviously have to be interested in wanting to do it.
But there are ways that we can get you more comfortable.
You know. It's a shame that we have to go
through all that and they don't go through anything. They
just get a shot and they're ready to roll. So
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we do hormone replacement therapy for men too, but it's
only testostero, so we get them at a normal level.
They can live their lives and work out and feel
like But women, it's an art. We have to carefully
get you right where you need to be without feeling
crazy like you're a sixteen year old. Didn't you want
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to have all the time because you can't work like
that either, it doesn't work very well. That help, Okay?
Any other questions?
Speaker 6 (19:09):
Yeah, sure protein or is there a certain amount of
protein women should happen?
Speaker 1 (19:14):
Okay, so here here's the biggest piece of protein women
that are dieting. You hear all these people that are
on ozombic, Right, what happens when a aal zemic? You
don't want to eat, You don't want to eat at all,
but you have no appetite, you know, like most people
are overweight because they constantly are thinking about food, whether
it's emotional or it's usually emotion. The problem is, if
(19:38):
you don't eat, you lose all your muscle. The only
way to protect your muscle is to eat lots and
lots of protein. You have to Otherwise every muscle in
your body's weak. You're very tiny. You know. I can
fit back in a size ten, you know, but you
have no energy, you can't do anything. So protein replacement typically,
(20:02):
I'm not gonna say for everyone, but typically goes close
to the amount of you weigh. So if you weigh
two hundred pounds, you're looking at close to two hundred
lolograms of protein. That easy, No, that's why that conversion
chart is kind of easy. It is a great I
didn't make logans brands protein. So it's not just meat.
(20:25):
There's streams, there's shapes, there's bars, there's for people that
don't like milk, there's like almost like a fruit pond
or grape or orange. You can find those mostly athletics
store nutrition places. You can find that really good stuff.
But if you don't do.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
It, you're gonna ruin all your muscles.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
Then you're gonna be wi Me.
Speaker 7 (20:46):
Can you talk about to notice this conversation is about
inside out the most markets and you know right now
menifaest is such a hot topic, right everybody's marketing something
from you.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
They're focusing more about on the outside and not how
the inside. And that's the part of understanding. It's the nutrition.
Is what you're fueling your body with, which is going
to help you read pricefully. One of the things that
I think is important in genetic in protein because we
always hear the word of collegen all the time. The
women always so collagen with hair skin announced, I have
(21:17):
types of collagen and those all our colleges actually work
on the livements, intendens and your joints. So what people
don't realize is that you often get have piss and
all the back pain and just think all its oxritis.
But if you're not actually getting at collagen, you're not
replenishing which your body is naturally losing. So I would
sell people you know before you think something is falling apart.
(21:37):
This is why doing the seminar are so important to
understand who here takes collegen. Actually, that's awesome, that's good
to hear. Are you getting off prize with it? You
brought me to know who we're finding. You didn't consider
because there's something focused and specifically on skinned hare nails.
The other ones worn't on your pens and joints. So
you may be thinking you're having as britis and I'm
really smith and it might be because you need to
(21:59):
start taking college. The only piece of this puzzle is
just like she talked about, the internal accessing or you're
vagiinat actors. You muscle do the same thing. If you
don't use them, you will lose them. Who has noticed
that you've gotten older and the way your body looks
is different than it looks like about five or ten
years ago.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
That's you weigh the same, but you.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
Weigh the same. The muscle toness dead.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
All shifts, it goes back the bat.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
This fitness people understand you need to become active, whether
it's walking, picking up a five pound weight you stretching.
Stretching is a big deal. Is the thing that helps
keeping those ten infolds muscles stretched out. That's why when
people get older they don't do anything. They're kind of
like this.
Speaker 7 (22:36):
They're sore and so they can't move because if you
don't move, you will lose it. So we're sitting at
this age right now while becoming physically fit. I'm not
saying being a general, that's not what I'm saying, but
incorporating some form of fitness.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
Into your life is important. So they just taking the
stairs instead of an elevator every once in a while,
and yeah, you know, getting at least maybe thirty minutes.
It is, you know, rocking your steps, you know, just
simple things. Most people are smart watch they doing. So
the other thing is you're right, Collagen is important, protein
is important. You know what else is important? Water? So
(23:15):
if you're a working person and if you drink a
ton of water, what do you got to You gotta
go to the bathroom hall they're long, right, so that
you gotta find creative ways to get the water in moisture.
Anything without caffeine is considered liquid, right, so soop even
anything that's liquid that goes into your body that's not caffeinated.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
Your joints will hurt more if you're not you know, hydrated.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
Everything You're gonna be dryer if everything is not hydrated.
So that is something. No, I'm not saying to drink
two gallons of water a day. I'm saying too and
not even the help people say, calf yours body weight
like this is kind of extreme, but it is like
maybe it would be more appropriate to think like sixty
ounces of fluid it or forty eight ounces of fluid.
(24:03):
But some people don't drink anything. They drink coffee all
day lost and every part of them hurts. So that's
a big piece of the puzzle too. And as we
get older, nobody wants to go to the bathroom because
they got to get up and go to the bathroom
and mountain time. And that's that's one reason why our
elderly folks they get really dehighted, they get urine.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Air track infections because they don't want to get up
and go to the bathroom.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
I don't blame it with like we gotta do it
any other questions. Yeah, rum So for someone who like
the tind of had a period in four or five years,
did the whole hot slash thing, they went away and
I was like, well, you know good. Yeah, then probably
after about six months, get the belly weight and then
(24:48):
the hot flashes wait for pay dungeons.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
Lack of sleep, So what like what causes that fluctuation
or just.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
When you're in the clear what you're not, all that
you're not in. We don't ever typically know how long
it's going to take dig it completely through it. It
can take a good few years, four or five years
after your parients staff to say it's like really dumb.
So keep an eye on your symptoms. And I think
my I talked about this earlier. Some of the symptoms
(25:16):
that we experience every day. We have no idea that
those are really connected to menoplaus. Right, you wake up
a couple of times a night and you're like, I
wait for it now, it's because your forrmals are completely
off in your body. So there was another question.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
So I have forty one.
Speaker 4 (25:33):
I haven't had got since I was forty. I had
the meat, but periods like you don't, but it's super
heavy and I'm so annoying with my husband. Yes, yes,
I've gained bags. I've been stay home mom like ten years,
(25:54):
but I started working and I was actually like wayed
last year that I was a stay home mom.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
I don't know what's going on.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
I know that's something.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
It is definitely time.
Speaker 5 (26:06):
Now.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
Here's the one thing anything that any iu d's that
would admit hormones will throw those blood tests off, So okay,
do you mind sharing? But it does have.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
Hormones, it does Okay, that can that can throw everything off,
and it will completely tell us that your estrogen is
kind of looking okay.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
But it's still okay to get a blood test.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
It's still just let's keep track of what's going on
and see where you're at.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
Yeah, that's why I got an iu D. And when
I got my i V. The first year was awful.
I thought what did I do to myself? But after
that I even had a period now and forever. But
I asked my doctor should I take the IVY out?
And she said no, it will help with your menopause symptoms.
(27:03):
So I'm leaving mine in there until I think it
falls off on its own. I don't know, I'll be
walking one days. You never know. One behind. One question.
Speaker 5 (27:16):
I had my only child at thirty eight. Oh okay,
and the doctor told me, but I said up. They
said we're gonna take everything because you had five bars.
So anyway, I've never had menopause. They would last these two,
telling me I wouldn't have known, But I said, that's
(27:37):
not true.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
I'm seventy one. I've never gone through menapause. You had
a hysterect to me at thirty eighty eight, and they
didn't leave any over its leave me. They tell me
they were taking everything yours was like instance, And remember
when Maya said three out of four people experience, yeah, menopause.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
But I'm thinking, okay, is it because they died?
Speaker 1 (27:57):
Is it?
Speaker 7 (27:58):
She could?
Speaker 2 (27:58):
But that is one know and me.
Speaker 5 (28:00):
I do it every day now seven what they said,
you've been going through it last it's chance I have
to take at seventy one that will show something.
Speaker 7 (28:10):
Yeah, absolutely we could see it. So some of the
somethings you mentioned I have and some of my don't.
You know, I don't have a lot of stings. But
what I noticed is I did this little challenge that
did a Beacon challenge for last year, okay, and I
(28:30):
felt amazing, but I didn't eat.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
So I was like, you know, I didn't have more
energy and all that stuff.
Speaker 7 (28:38):
So that's I think what they put it in. Now
what you gonna said, Oh, so I I like the
way I felt and I'm good you too. So I
I'm trying to monitor because I was like, my mom
is a My mom was telling me, oh, I'm.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
Not my life. It's always good for you know, that
kind of stuff. So two hours old and.
Speaker 5 (29:03):
Every brother loves to fredom, you know.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
Yeah. But I was like, I'm gonna here how long?
So I started kind of testing my body.
Speaker 7 (29:10):
So I'm like, I do I know the difference between
menopause and that is stuff and just stuff because it meat.
So I didn't have any meat for about six months.
Felt the same way I.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
Reintroduced me, like, oh, you know what, I feel like I.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
Could be separate me today.
Speaker 7 (29:28):
I'm gonna do this those chicken wings or I'm gonna
have a piece of that steak or whatever those somethings.
So then I was like, I get rid of the meaning, right,
I get the roteine and I can't have like fish
or whatever. But I noticed that some of the symptoms
that I thought were men across it were related because
(29:48):
of the meat.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
Was everybody's different. Every meat that you need is different, right.
I remember when I was a kid, my mommy liver
and I was like, that's like you're being punished. Why
are you Here's the thing sounds it sounds like that
guy and something that natural blood tests blood test. Yeah,
(30:10):
but here's the only thing with being vegan or not
getting anything, and you know, I don't like, I don't
like what it makes me feel.
Speaker 8 (30:17):
But I wouldn't call myself okay because you were like
leather shoes and stuff like vegans anything than that, I
just you know, I was seizing.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
But so the only problem I see with people that
don't need any meat is we really have to make
sure you're not an em right because we don't get enough.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
Sure, I'm.
Speaker 9 (30:47):
That's really hot right now, you know, m I actually
at one point from scratch.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
That don't have.
Speaker 9 (31:00):
Actually so like because we like it over, there's an
able make it from the records in the days like
uh you know lung fruit like did face of sugar
or no sugar or like a like these is possible,
but lines consumption.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
Because like actually at one point then that in.
Speaker 9 (31:19):
Burds like the coming on with the plane being an
ibetic and my children will be when I cope. Believe
when we introduced the sugar and everything else, they automatically redact.
But that's because a lot of the the precommable actually
call the simation and the stuff. But he is a
visit by takee too, so it's I mean, I mean
(31:42):
and for her that there couldn't get.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
I agree. Something else they do at the fantasm is allogies. Yes,
we do allergy testing, and it's reminded me that's a
good thing to know. I developed all the makes you
off the all done with graphica couple years ago. It's
spin riding seas could write out my permit it and
rave them. And it got worse, and I went to
the doctor. They want to put me on meditation. They
(32:06):
put me on docent thing which I seen answer depressive,
but it's also a bat and that actually worked. I
had taken and I didn't take a steroid. It was
not gonna stop. So I went to go see and
actually this was the segue about doctor Morris. This is
not why I seemed to do that with path doctor.
Someone has said go see this person because they helped
me figure out what was wrong with me when I
was spoken. So where I go. And it does seem
(32:28):
a little weird. That's testing, that's a little unconventional.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
That's okay, there's some science to it.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
Yeah, she gave me this report that it was like
this huge report to test me for one hundred and
eighty different things. Do you know that I was actually
a word to and did.
Speaker 5 (32:40):
No very mirror.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
So it turns out I was alertic to artificial speakers,
specifically splendor the miror equal because I was using a
lot of it because I love sugar. So I was like, okay,
I'm not using sugar, st not using this. You know,
my numbers were off the chart. I can use stavia
or trivia because the ribs of sugar. So it turns
(33:12):
out I was actually allergic and didn't realize it that
artificials were here, and it got to the point that
that's how it was manifesting itself. So this is why
sometimes giving different types of opinions about things, because natopathic
doctors will get things there about understanding why something is happening,
not just fixing it. I'm oh, here, take this. But
you don't know why.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
We do a full panel of food allergy testing in
our clinic.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
So not only environmentally bragley dogs and cats, packlenches, all
of those crazy things, but food, all the meats, vegetables, food,
so you can get a good idea.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
Of what you're eating is making you sick.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
It's interesting. There's one last thing that I want to mention.
I learned this recently drinking alcohol. Does anybody in the
room drink alcohol of any kind? Okay? Along with those people,
are any of the people in the room that drink
any kind of alcohol worried about their weight? Drinking alcohol
(34:11):
will stop fat production, burning calories for a full four days,
So it's you. Yes, if you drink on Friday Saturday
and you go work out on Monday and Tuesday, it's avoided.
It's a total void. So just keep that in mind. Actually,
(34:34):
one of the doctors I work with told me he
stopped drinking Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday. He drinks on Friday
and Saturday because he works out all week long. And
he's like, this is stupid. I'm working out so hard
and it's not doing anything for me. I think that's
super information. So I want you all to know that
alcohol stops bad for leaving your body, and it's all
(34:56):
through the liver. It's how that works. But all right,
thank you everyone. It was an absolute pleasure to read.
Speaker 9 (35:04):
Vision.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
But yeah, fine, okay, So
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