Ep 165 Surviving Perimenopause: 5 Tips to Rock Post Menopause Like a Badass

This episode is packed with tips Slayer wishes she would have known before the 2017 "300 pound ball of misery" aka her perimenopause, soul-banging-on-the-walls era. Having spent the year with Dr. Mindy Pelz' coaching course, Slayer is here to share 5 keys areas to focus on to rock menopause and beyond. 

Get excited for your transformation ahead and inspired to dive into your future self, the badass that has rocked this transition. 

In this episode:

• 5 Lifestyle Changes - Small Steps
• Managing Menopausal Symptoms
• The Importance of Reducing Toxic Load
• Embracing the Transition to Postmenopause
• The Role of Ketones and Fasting
• Practical Tips for Fasting
• Postmenopausal Health Strategies
• Empowerment and Vision for the Future

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 The perimenopause, menopause, postmenopause episode you've all been anxiously awaiting for because we get anxious in menopause. Before we dive into what's going on in the bodies, what are the things we can do to set ourselves up to have a better experience, I want to just do a little recap.

If you didn't listen to last week's episode, I talked about the hormonal hierarchy. And this is the, I would say concept or idea, but It's also, it's fact, right? It's the science of how our hormones work and are layered on top of each other. So at the base, at the bottom, you have the sex hormones, everything that's changing in menopause, right?

This is your testosterone, estrogen, progesterone. That's the bottom level and your thyroid hormone, we also link in here. So thyroid issues, things like that, right in alignment with that sex hormone at the base of the hormone hierarchy. And then right above that is insulin and above that is cortisol and above that is oxytocin.

So you think of this, of all of these things at the top needing to be balanced for the one at the bottom being in alignment. So as we look at things like hormone replacement therapy and some of the bioidenticals coming out to where we can supplement ourselves losing these hormones. And maybe not to the level where we used to be before when we're 25, but to help ease some of that burden.

It's really important that we look at these other ones in our lifestyle or else we're going to lose weight. Thank you. Live a longer, healthier life full of longevity and less suffering, right?  So just if you didn't get a chance to listen to that episode, I think there's a lot of value in that too. And for my part, I got a lot of oxytocin in this week.

It really brought that into focus for me. I walked the lazy river with my daughter on Tuesday and we just had a great time chatting and laughing and just being present without our phones or a show or anything like that. Walks with your friends, do that, phone calls, I, my yoga teacher training class, I really noticed it's a big part why I signed up to do something outside of work where I'm with other people engaging in an environment that is positive, right?

And along the alignments of things I'm interested in. And how many of us in this group, they're 20s and 30s and we're all just there for the same reason to be around other people. And I think with COVID, we had a lot of separation, right? We got used to being these hermits and getting back out and finding These people in your world to get this.

And I do get this from my online groups, my Sunday coaching group where we've missed a couple Sundays. Everyone's just been busy this summer and I miss that. I mix, miss my oxytocin from being with these women, right? Engaging. I went with a girlfriend to happy hour Friday night and we just had the best time just talking and getting deep those moments, super important.

And I really saw myself in that moment. Do that this week and be more aware of my cortisol because if we're not moving that cortisol through our bodies, it's going to the fat. That's where it's getting stored, right on your gut. So if you're experiencing that gut fat that you didn't have a few years ago, listen, I got so much fat on my body right now.

can't even tell you where's what, but if you're one of those people with the little pooches,  it's probably cortisol. So work on your cortisol and then figuring out insulin and insulin resistant. A lot of what I do here is related to weight loss. So we will talk about that today and the menopause as well.

But just for a little recap. And my qualifications to share any of this with you, I'm not a doctor. I have no affiliation with that at all. I'm just a lifelong learner. I took a course from Dr. Mindy Pelz, who is the Resetters Podcast. And she wrote Fast Like a Girl, Eat a Girl, Menopause Reset, all of these books.

And I went to take this course really to get my own health and alignment. I was just, 

So I took this coaching course and oh my God, you guys, it was this PhD in hormones that I wish I would have had at 40. So my perimenopausal years and my transition year would have been, you much easier. So I want to make sure I share it here with you to help ease any of it. Even if you pick up one little thing from here, I'm going to talk about five things in your lifestyle.

You can look at addressing to make this time easier. easier and you might do some of these you might do all of them already or maybe none just take it easy and maybe come back to this episode over and over again if you're in this phase of life and really want to set yourself up and honestly If you're way before that phase of life, I know I've got a lot of 30, maybe early 40s.

This is when you want to start addressing these things. And even earlier, we don't care when we're 20,  we're invincible, right? Okay. Without further ado, let's dive in. What is going on in your body in perimenopause? First of all, it's a turbulent time, so give yourself some grace as we all like to say if you are feeling this because absolutely you should be.

You're being rewired, you're going through this big hormonal shift just like puberty, but we don't get rewarded for this one, right? It's not like people even talk about it. So just know you're not alone. It's part of the process and I'm going to give you a few things to hopefully help ease some of the burden for you.

So usually around 40, we're just going to use this age marker. Everyone's a little bit different. Can start as early as 35, but as you start to head into your forties, your ovaries are starting to sense they're losing the eggs. And this this is communicated to the brain, right? The loop, it loops the brain in because your brain and your ovaries talk to each other.

And so you have less  neurochemicals going on in your brain's Oh, what, what is going on? We, this isn't right. We should have all these other chemicals coming in, right? So what happens is called the hormonal handoff. So your brain notices this, Oh boy, the ovaries are stopping. And so your adrenals take over.

So your adrenals have are like now, like what I've been creating cortisol forever. And now you want me to make sex hormones too? No frigging way. It's shut the fuck down. Oh my God. You guys, I wish I would have known this in my 300 pound ball of misery. I can see. see so clearly the stress load I had, the lack of oxytocin, the probably insulin resistance I was experiencing.

Add to that my high stress job and my adrenals now having to take over the load for the hormones. Are you effing kidding me? No wonder I felt like, Oh my God, I'm going to die. Someone please help me. That's all I remember thinking and I got up to seek and I called it my soul banging on the walls. But now I know it, yes, it was her,  but it was also these frigging hormones.

Like my brain is what is going on? Because it's being rewired. It's being ripped apart. As you go through this, Dr. Mindy Powell's has a good book for this called the menopause reset. A lot of what I'm going to share with you here today is in this book. So you could go grab her book and she also wrote fast like a girl.

She's got a new one coming out, eat like a girl. These are really valuable for us at this time. We're not being studied as women, right? There's very little. studies about us. It's just starting to happen because of these amazing women looking out for the rest of us. So I would highly recommend going to grab that, but I'm going to share a lot from this with you.

So as you're being rewired, your body is learning to navigate the loss of two hormones, right? Estradiol, which is a part of estrogen and progesterone. What's happening is you're in and out of estrogen, right? You're like going up and down with estrogen and progesterone is steadily declining. That's not going anywhere, right?

That's just declining. And so these hormones stimulated these eight neuro chemicals, right? Things like your oxytocin, your serotonin, all of these would get stimulated and BDNF. This is the one that helps us hold info. This is why. I'm like, Oh my God, I can't remember anything anymore. These are neurochemicals that are stimulated by these hormones.

So this is going on. It's one of these times where you, your brain is being rewired as your hormones are being changed. This process can take up to 10 years as your brain is getting used to not having this estradiol that we talked about a little bit. Last week, I believe, when we got into the hormones a little bit.

So astrodial, she's the party girl of the estrogen, right? Astrodial is the one that was brought to the party because she's the one that made us want to have sex, right? The body's genius. The eggs come out, you get estrogen, testosterone, because so like oxytocin, all of that happens at the same time during your cycle, during ovulation.

So that we would make babies and now our bodies are saying, okay, we don't need you to make babies anymore. It's time to wind down, but we don't want to completely wind down our lives without the feeling of these hormones. And there's things we can do to help us live longer and healthier and feel engaged and powerful while we're doing it.

So with that being said, these are the five. things that you can do to really prepare yourself to heading in menopause. And I'm going to go over briefly why, but I'm going to have to do another follow up episode. There's just too much information. So next week, or maybe the week after, depending on how my week's going, I am going to also get in here about the power of fasting and metabolic switching.

Why understanding your glucose and your fat burning systems and fasting in general can be such a powerful tool for you. We'll get in a little bit here, but there's much more that needs to be. It shared with you to fully if you're like me I like to know the whys and have it click in my brain and then i'm like, oh my god It's like I can see what my body is doing.

As i'm fasting I can see it repairing my gut my microbiome  I'm anti aging my Skin clears, like all of these things will happen. So that's the first one I'm going to share with you, of course, is to start fasting. What fasting does, the biggest relief it's going to give you immediately is it is it crea When you generate ketones, which happens when you get into the fat burning phase, where they,  we talked about this last week, about little insulin goes and gets the glucose cell and tries to put glucose in your cell, right?

So when insulin isn't needed to do that, and when you're not feeding your body, you don't have all this sugar running around in there, body says, Oh, I'm hungry. Oh, you know what? I've got all that stored energy. Let me go get some of that. And that's what the ketones are, right? And that's why you want them because then you're burning your fat stores.

Does that not make so much sense? So if you're not in and out of fat burning and sugar burning, You're not using the fat on your body, but that is not the biggest benefit when you're looking at menopause to fasting. That's more of a weight loss benefit, if you will, right? This ketone goes to your brain and will mock estrogen.

It gives you that same feel good feeling. And this is why when we start fasting and get into these Phases where we start to experiment with this and we notice, Oh my gosh, I have less faint brain fog. I can focus. I've got attention That it can just be such a relief during this time, but it's also Clearing up your microbiome, which is really important at this time clearing up helping you process things through your body because you can't handle the toxic loads like you used to.

Your brain is not able to withstand all these chemicals that are all around us. So I'll talk about that here in a second. But so fasting, starting a fasting and understanding it, which is why I need a follow up episode. I've talked about fasting on here before. I'm But I really want to share with you about the metabolic switching and the why's behind it.

And then the understanding a high carb, low carb in how to cycle in and out of that. Because, I think about like eating OMAD where we eat one meal a day and you'll see this as a real popular diet out there, right? And it works great for six months. You see all these great phenomenal results or if you fasted for a long time yourself and then all of a sudden you like hit the wall and women for a lot of times have a lot of hormonal issues, things like that because we're not meant to fast all the time and we're also not meant to feed all the time.

There's an art to this knowing when to carb load and knowing when not to. So if you are in perimenopause, let's say. say, which you probably a lot of you are, right? And you don't have, but Addie, I don't have a real cycle. I don't know how the fast, like a girl cycle works, how Dr. Minnie is sharing. It goes with our hormones are those 10 days before you bleed are when you need to really pay attention to your progesterone.

And your progesterone is, I always think of it like just heavier, like earthy, like you want to have the. potatoes and more of nature's carbs are going to get loaded at this time. And how do you know if you need this? If you aren't in a cycle, you will not be sleeping well at night. You will have more anxiety.

These things can be key that your progesterone  is low. It needs you to rest and to feed and to honor, start honoring your body. If you start to honor your body in these. cycles, you will start to notice this hormonal balance within yourself. And so let's look at the counterpart to that, estrogen.

And if you are experiencing hot flashes are a real sign that your estrogen is screaming here. And eating a more ketobiotic diet, fasting at this time, these things can benefit your a low estrogen. And why? Because it's also going to help mock that those neurochemicals that went to your brain and made you all happy and feel so frigging good, right?

So just remember that. If you are having trouble. Sleeping anxiety. Progesterone, eat the potatoes, eat more of this nature's carbs, right? And if you are feeling hot flashes a little bit heavier, right? Like you're not having trouble sleeping, maybe you're a loss of energy, concentration, things like that.

Fasting. and  ketobiotic, right? So next week, what I want to talk about is that art of flash,  going in and out. But these are things to really look at for yourself, fasting, understanding that, understanding  switching between high carb and low carb and not being scared of these carbs, understanding when and how your body needs them and processes them.

And the third thing to really start paying attention to is your microbiome. You have this bacteria in your gut called astrobalone. This bacteria breaks the estrogen down so that you can use it and process it. So it's very important. And we have so fucked up. up our microbiomes, you guys, and this is what the Viome gut health test can do for you.

If you've been listening to the podcast for a while, you've heard me talk about this, and you could search other episodes on here for gut health, fasting, and anywhere, really. Just look up a Viome test and you can see the state of your mitochondria. your bacteria in your gut. Like this is science now, right?

And learning what foods can feed it. You can start simply for yourself. Let's say you can't afford a biome test or you're not interested or whatever. Just starting with getting some pre and probiotics in there. We call it the three Ps. And these are probiotics, prebiotics, and polyphenols. So this might look like sauerkraut, kimchi, yogurt, pickles, things like that.

Prebiotics, onions, Jerusalem artichokes, garlics, leeks, there's like tons of these, chicory root, dandelion greens, polyphenols being artichoke hearts, broccoli, brussels, cinnamon, cumin, blueberries, cauliflower. One of my favorite things to do for this is coconut yogurt. And then I take blueberries and I get hemp seeds and some flax seeds.

Those are prebiotics and So good, right? But I got, you got to get the yogurt, the cocoa yogurt with the cultures in it, but also doing like sauerkraut and avocado. It really getting into those crowdy things, right? And guess what you guys, red wine is a polyphenol.  There's so many adverse reactions in my body to all of that, but just so you know.

So that's a simple thing to start changing and looking in your diet is when you're breaking your fast, breaking it with the polyphenols, feeding your gut, your healthy gut bacteria. And a biome test can really help you with that. So again, let's recap the first three. Starting to fast, so you're giving your gut a little break, you're allowing yourself to clean some things up because your body will heal itself and you can clear out things, right?

And then high carb, low carb, understanding this metabolic switching in your hormones and starting to pay attention to, Hey, am I tired or am I anxious or, and how is what you ate playing into that? and then the power of your microbiome. So that's the first three that you really want to look at to set yourself up for a smoother menopausal transition, right?

It's not going to be totally smooth, but these are things that would, should be done.  before, in my opinion, or in conjunction with your HRT, right? Like you want to do these simultaneously so that you are going to come out the other side shining. The fourth thing is your toxic load. So because you are not able to handle as many of these, and did you know that we release these toxic chemicals and things like that through our blood?

So as you start stop bleeding more as you're not producing these chemicals that help us process it's now being stored as toxins and Looking for other ways out of your body So that's something to really start looking at heavy metals all of those things We're gonna make a difference and then the fifth one is stop being the rushing woman  Slow down, we talk about this a lot on this podcast because I have been very in my masculine energy, very type a like the whole nine yards, pretty much my entire life.

That it's overachieving driving to myself to all ends of the earth and not getting in.  grounding and in a state of peace and just allowing myself to be. And this is just yet another reminder. And it's coming from a doctor that's saying, Hey, you need to do these things to process this hormonal change.

And this is what this time in our life is meant for. They're going to work in different ways. We are stepping into a greatness that we have yet to even really, you're not, you have, you're not defining it for yourself until you're on the other side of this, right? It's it's that big of a change. So as you're going through perimenopause, you guys, you're going to hit a point where you come into this transition year where, you've got 90 days, six months, you're almost to a year.

Like you have to be a full year without a cycle to be considered. postmenopause. And that's when your estrogen has stopped altogether, right? And remember, your body is slowing down here, right? Estrogen is, it stimulates dopamine, serotonin, glutathione, oxytocin, all of these neurochemicals, it's been stimulating, and the production of this is slowing down, right?

So this is like tearing your armor, your hormonal armor down, and it can feel like mental suffering, right? And this is why we talk so much about mental health. And I think I shared in last episode, but I'm going to share it here again, because I think it's so powerful for the woman out there that is hearing this in the throes of it.

And the, the stat, and you can go just even Google it, you can see the stat that the highest suicide rate among women is between 45 and 55. And I think there is no the correlation of that age and what we go through in those years is pretty significant. What happens is this is your longest time in this transition year without estradiol.

This is the party girl, right? This is the one that brings these neurotransmitters to the party. And it affects your workload. It can cause depression. You start to experience more ADHD  symptoms you can't recall old memories like you used to be able to, and you're like, Oh my God, what is wrong with me?

And it's just like this time. of turmoil for us, right? And it, again, this is a 10 year rewiring process we're going through, right? Very similar to puberty. And the only other time we really have a big hormonal shift like this is possibly pregnancy and postpartum, again, your brain being ripped apart so you can care for a human.

Now it's being ripped apart. So you can, I think, be the matriarch of the society and really lead others to where we're we wanna go next because we have the capacity to hold space. Our empathy increases on the other side of this. So does our reason and our lo logic. And so we become the leaders, the wise women, the crone, if you will, and how do we want to share that?

What do we want to bring to this next era of our lives? There's this doctor that shared on one of the resetters podcast and I am blanking on her name right now, but she shared this grandmother theory and this was back in the day. I was just sharing this with Millie because some. stuff came up in one of her classes about this, but back in the day, hunter gatherers day, the men would go off to hunt and the women would all be back at camp while their younger women are taking care of the babies or having babies or taking care of the kids.

And it was up to the elders. It was up to the crowns to really run shit. We made sure that there was food that was gathered forage. So if the men came back without a kill, we were still eating. We made sure that the whole place was running so that everyone could survive. And if you think about it, that's so much what us women do in today's day and age, right?

The men are still out there hunting, it's that testosterone versus what we're stepping into, which makes us such great leaders too. And so I just think that's so fun to think about that all this rewiring. is setting you up to come out the other side. And when you get used to not having this estradiol, as you start to adjust to this into, Oh my God what can I become?

What can I create in this world? How can I help others? We get this like driving passion for it. If we do these things to set ourselves up to be able to come out the other side of it, if we're not shoving it down with, Food, wine, Netflix, all my vices of choice, you guys. So our big hero here, our big hero during this time, I'm going to say it again, are ketones.

And this is why fasting feels so good to us. And Dr. Mindy tells us this as coaches, right? She's okay, if you get a client that's in this state, in this phase. And you don't quite know where the periods are. And we already talked about that, right? Knowing when to have someone eating more of carbs and doing more of fasting.

But if we're in this phase, we want to get them more ketones because that's going to supercharge the brain. It's going to help supplement those Neurochemicals you are missing. So if you're in this phase, if you're in this transition year and even beyond menopause, we have more capacity to Fast beyond menopause now, we should never fast like men.

We are not men, you know they like to study us like that though, right but  We want to pay more attention to our hormones and when we need to fast Feast. And when we need to rest our bodies and feasting, I don't mean like I'm upside down in a pizza and Oreo cookies. I'm not going to say that hasn't happened this year, but that's not where we're talking about feasting, right?

We're talking about really getting into more squashes and sweet potatoes, all of those things. Getting into 24, 48, 72 hour fast really not only helps clean up the microbiome, gives you more energy, helps you get Become more insulin sensitive if you've built up some resistance and it just feels so friggin good.

We were talking on my live on Facebook. A couple of people were chatting with me on there. Hey, Deb. Hey, Hippie. Love you guys. I'm glad you guys can see me when I go live. So I was just talking about how fasting is just so easy. It's just so much easier. Once you learn to fast, it's all I have to do is ride the little hunger wave and then it goes away and I'm totally fine.

The only thing that distracts me is my brain. And if I have something scheduled, it's like super easy. For example, yesterday I had yoga teacher training. It's a perfect fasting day for me. I get up, do my stuff. I have a bulletproof coffee. I dirty fast. That's what we call like having a bulletproof coffee.

It doesn't take you out of ketosis. But it gives you, it's coffee, butter, MCT oil, grass fed butter. So I had one of those and then I'm in yoga teacher training for six hours. Easy, right? I just made sure I had a lot of sparkling water. I had an element tea, which is electrolytes. That's one thing like people that are fast.

will say they feel foggy or just hazy. It's usually a lack of those electrolytes. So I always just like to have one just in case I don't always need one, but it is possible, especially if you're drinking lots of water and stuff that you're flushing out some of those electrolytes that you need in your body.

And it can even work just taking some salt in some water and getting that sodium back in your body. Okay. So this is your transition year. And then I'm going to wrap up real quick with us post menopausal women. And then next week we'll jump into the fasting and metabolic switching and a little bit more of how would you implement that and what would it look like?

So in these post menopausal years, remember this is a full year without your sleep. cycle. And this can be surgical or natural, but usually for women over 35. So the ideal age we want to go into this, you want to keep estradiol as long as possible. I used to want to wish myself out of having a period too.

And now that I know all of this, I tell Lexie and Millie all the time, I'm like, bleed as long as you can. You're getting rid of all those toxins. It's so good for your brain. It's good for your bones. It's good for everything, right? Okay. So it doesn't mean we're broken and we're going to fall apart.

You guys, we got this, but, and I went, I was in menopause. So that 300 pound ball of misery that I'm pretty sure was perimenopause. I was 46, right? So I finished right around 40. I've been in a menopause. I've been post menopausal for I'm 52 this year. So for at least five, six years, right? The healthy, the greatest time to go, or the time they see it's most popular,  spit it out Addie is between like 52 and 55.

So that's about a normal average age. So if you're early like me, I just worry about for myself, like the brain and the hormones and. All of that. And I try to not get into worry about it, but more, okay, what can I do knowing that I don't have this? And how can I just start to slowly learn more and adapt myself to living a longer, healthier life?

And with insulin, and I think I'm I might've forgot to mention last week when I was talking about insulin and when your body can't store insulin in the system, cell. And so it's storing it as fat on your body, right? Because it's not able to burn it. So it's like storing it for fat for later.

And when it runs out of space on your body, it stores it in your organs and then it stores it in your brain. And this is what Alzheimer's is. You guys are calling it type three diabetes. It's glucose of the brain. It's sugar being stored up there because your fat is maxed. You're, Organs are maxed and now the brain's going to take it because our bodies are ever efficient, right?

So just things like that is like really what  I'm thinking about being post menopausal right and using things like longer fast to get more ketones, right? Like it feels so good. Like it feels so good right now, but I also know I can't  Overfast like it's it doesn't work for me You If I continuously fast, there's times I need to have I'm eating breakfast and I'm cycling that more.

Understanding that has been really a game changer because sometimes I'm like, why can't I fast like I was? And sometimes you're just not meant to and getting to know your body to know, Oh, you know what? I need some progesterone right now. I need to mimic this hormone at least. So your insulin system and your sex hormones are, Very important here and they've been completely jacked up.

You're hormonally depleted, right? If you're not getting like a lot of oxytocin,  managing the cortisol, these things are so important, especially post menopause. But also, Our brains are much better than they were in the turmoil. We've learned at this point to live without estradiol and we figured out other ways we are compensating for this, right?

Our brain has just grown through this. And like I said, into this other space of what am I becoming? And then we step into that and I feel like I'm still in that place and this makes so much sense to me as we're is I'm even sharing on the podcast. I'm thinking about this. Okay, it's been six years It's ten years to a complete rewiring.

I can totally see that crone face coming I've talked about all these things I've been learning together and I'm picking up these nuggets of knowledge and I know I'm here to share with my voice and it's always my goal when I sit down to a podcast, how can I inspire, educate and entertain?

Those are like my goals when I show up to record for you. I don't want you bored  and I want you to take away a nugget for yourself. One little nugget and feel good about yourself doing it. I don't ever want someone to show up and listen to one of my podcasts and not feel good. And I'm like what does this mean heading into this next  half of my life?

What can I create with that? And now that I know my brain's in this place where I have so much empathy, I am so rational. I'm so powerful. And how can I share that with the world? How can I help other women coming up behind us? I think it's such a beautiful place to be, you guys. So if you are in this perimenopause, the transition year in post like me, think about that.

Think about how. Whoever created these amazing friggin bodies, I just had anatomy at yoga and I'm like, Oh my God, I am blown away by how fabulous our bodies are. And by the way, I'm inspired on another level to take care of mine. And this is why I always learn. You guys, if you are called to take a class for something, Go take it.

What are you waiting for? Go do that thing because it's in us seeking these new things that we find out what this crone in us is here to do. This also came up on my Facebook live today that creating our visions, right? We just had one of our sisters in the hood, Deb, who sent her youngest off to college.

She just put off to college. I'm seeing this in my news feed. feed a lot right now. My friends checking all their kids in the dorms and the empty nesting is beginning. And I'm like, okay, awesome. What is this part look like just for you? And it took me back to the visioning episode and that's episode one 60.

So if you're trying to create this vision of this crone, you're going to become like, no, you are going to get through this time where you are being ripped apart. All these hormonal changes, you've got some things you can do now to make it easier. If you are having hot night sweats, eat more ketobiotic and try fasting.

If you are having trouble sleeping and you're experiencing anxiety, those kinds of things step into the looking at the progesterone, eating the higher carb stuff. And I'll try to get into the more of that metabolic switching next week when we meet back for the podcast here. But meanwhile, you guys just take one little thing.

So the five things, let's recap again, fasting, Understanding your microbiome. And that could look something like getting a Viome test, you could start to just do the free stuff for now, getting the three Ps in doing the high carb, low carb, looking at your toxic load, maybe you change one little thing this week, getting rid of metal pans, or you get rid of that shampoo that's got all those phthalates in it or toxins or whatever or your laundry detergent.

Maybe you start looking where you're getting toxins in. Maybe you just slow the frick down. Maybe you just allow yourself to be the rested woman. Maybe you work on processing cortisol and your stress load so that you can affect everything else. You can better take care of your insulin and your sex hormones.

All of these things play in together. So I hope you guys enjoyed both of these and it helps you understand what you're going through a little bit more and what's on the other side of it. So next week we'll dive into the metabolic switching. and fasting and why a little bit more just so you have the education.

You do you, but there's a reason why these things are so powerful for you. And there's so much study behind it. I know previously I've talked a lot about Dr. Fung, Jason Fung. He's phenomenal. He wrote the obesity code, Dr. Mindy Pals. Dave Asprey, there's so much out there and there's so many studies now about fasting and the effects on our body.

I would hate for you to lose it, just speak or miss out on it just because you're like me and  eating and drinking every emotion, especially at this time. It can really help you to not shove all that stuff down and understand and be really intentional with how you eat and care for yourself. So just one little thing, you guys, it doesn't have to be all of it.

Try to tackle one of those five this week. And why don't you do your girlfriends out there a favor and share this episode with someone else that's coming up on perimenopause, menopause, even your older children. Like this is the stuff I tell my daughter Lexi. I'm like,  And I'm telling you, she is so much farther ahead because of it.

Like the things I see her doing because I'm sharing these things I'm learning cause we don't talk about women's bodies and it's really important. So share this episode to someone that you know is coming up on this and help give her some of these tools too. And the resetters podcast with Dr.

Melanie Pals is an amazing resource for you. all things related to us women in our health. And I don't talk about this stuff on here all the time. So if you want more of that, I would definitely add her to your playlist too. All right, you bad ass witches and bitches, here's to creating the next second half of our bad ass real life.

Get some plenty of oxytocin, manage that cortisol and I'll see you next week. Slayer out.