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She is sure, she is sure, she is strong, she
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is true, is true, she is brave, she is she
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is you. She is you, she is she is sure,
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she is true, she is strong, she is straw, she
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is true, is true, she is brave, is bray, she
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is she is you.
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Hello, everyone, welcome to today's Word of Mom Radio. Here
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on the Word of Mom Media Network. I'm your host,
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Dori Di Carlo, and you know we are here week
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after week, show after show breaking those myths that morepreneurs
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and business women, especially those of us building our businesses
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from home, that were just dabbling in between bake sales
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and getting our nails done. We're not We are smart,
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we are savvy, and we are sharing the wisdom of
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women in business and in life. And I'm looking forward
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to bringing today's guest into our Healthy Habit show. Amita
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Sharp is the co founder of nourishdoc, a global holistic
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wellness platform for women to manage their hormone transition from
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PMS to postmenopause. Inspired by her perimenopausal journey and working
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in the high tech world, Amita felt unsupported and a
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need to bring the taboo topic of perimenopause at the
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workplace out for an open discussion. With her personal experience
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of going through perimenopause and keeping it a secret, it
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added more stress to her perimenopause state. Amida is on
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a mission to make this taboo topic be a part
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of DEI health equity at work for women in their
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forties who feel that they cannot discuss this with HR
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or their colleagues. It really is such a ridiculous thing
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that this is such a taboo subject because every woman
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is going to go through it if you live long enough. So,
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with all this being said, Amita, welcome to Word of
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Mom Radio.
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Thank you, Thank you so much. You guys are doing
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incredible work, you know, talking about all kinds of topics
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that we are so scared to bring it out and open,
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this being one of them. So I am really excited
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to share my journey and also hear your journeys and
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maybe share some laughs and then you know during.
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The show, absolutely, and you know what, I think it
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is so important. It is twenty twenty five. Women should
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not feel embarrassed humiliated about the natural things that go
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on in our bodies every month and then as we
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age going through the change. It's amazing. So I would
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love for you, Amita, to take us on your journey
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and share one in spine. You to start this business
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and this huge venture, and you know kind of some
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of the lessons that you learned along the way.
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Yeah, you know my journey. I at the time when
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the perimenopause started, I was in my early forties, and
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to be honest with you, I had no clue what
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perimen of pause was until I started this business. It's like,
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you know, an average educated wrooman does not know what
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Perryman it was, is right, And I went through this
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whole perimen of our journey in silence and suffering, thinking
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that God knows what's happening with me, you know. And
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I go to my obgi N I get medication, and
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my body doesn't react good to these strange medications, you know,
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on a regular basis. So I started turning to holistic
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and I experimented, and that's not the way we should do,
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you know, now, I look back, right. And then on
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top of that, at work, I'm getting heart flashes, and
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I'm getting I'm not sleeping well at night, and at
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work I'm not able to focus, and I'm like, oh
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my god, the age discrimination it's and I'm so scared
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to go talk to etch her with not that they
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don't know my age, but but I'm scared, like, oh,
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they might judge me, right, that they might tell my
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manager or you know, she might is not able to
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focus keep an eye on her. Things like that right
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in my head. I'm sharing what's going on in my
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head at the time, and I'm like so stressed out,
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so with anxiety, anxiety. Just wanted to get through this
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whole phase of my life and it took ten years.
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So that's the point I'm trying to make is perty
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menopause is a state, a transition for women. She words
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the menopause, which happens when you're fifty one fifty two
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on an average, and that stay stage and state could
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last up to ten years or maybe more or some
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less for some women. For me, it was a long
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drawn out anxiety, stress, all kinds of strange things happening,
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and women don't feel that they can't talk to anyone.
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I felt that and it impacts their livelihood financial which
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it impacted me as well, because you know, I ended
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up putting jobs after every year and a half and
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taking up some consultings and taking breaks in between because
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I could not function like the pressure of a full
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time corporate job. Because I couldn't, I was not able
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to manage my symptoms properly, is what I'm saying. And
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I'm sure the story is of millions of women out
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there even today, every day.
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It's amazing because each of us, let's face it, every
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woman is different.
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I had horrible periods. I had two dncs because of hops.
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first Friday of the month at five o'clock, I'd go
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to the book. Okay, in the afternoon, I go into
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the bathroom, put out a pad, and go on with
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my day. And so August of my I was going
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to be fifty eight in November. That August got my period. September,
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we're camping out. I didn't get my period, and I'm
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sitting there and all of a sudden, I went, oh,
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my gosh, I think I'm having a hot flash. And
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my daughter looks at me and she goes, you are
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a freak of nature.
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She's like me.
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Her boss had been going through menopause since she was forty.
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The peridich and hot flashes and everything. I had my
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first hot flash at fifty eight years old and serious, yes, furiously.
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It literally just was like, oh okay, And but I
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can't even tell you that. My friend one time we
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were watching football game and here she is in her house.
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She had on sweatshirt, pants, everything. All of a sudden,
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she's going hot flash. Look over, she's in her underwear
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because she had soaked through.
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So there is such extremes that women go through. And
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while you're in business and you're working, you were saying
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about switching jobs and things. How do you hit those
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significant hurdles that you're dealing with in this very meenopausal
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state where you are so losing focus and everything else? Yeah,
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how did you handle things like that? Amita?
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I you know I resorted to holistic. To be honest
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with you, I'm a big but I was always having
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a big believer of iureda ecupuncture. So the way I
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had dealt with that, I started going regularly for acupuncture practice, right,
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and it helps, It helps you know there is evidence.
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And then I started getting regular are you wethic practices therapy?
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No?
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Things like Shirodhar. I don't know if you're familiar with
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these terms, I will explain you in a minute, things
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like a younger things like some of the other supplements,
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you know. So I resorted to these therapies. It comes
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to me naturally. I changed my entire diet. I changed
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my entire exercise regimen. I cleaned up like you won't
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even believe my diet, you know, no alcohol, very little
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alcohol once a month, no caffeine, like really cleansing. And
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then I started cleansing my system very systematically. Every two months,
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I'll go on a very mono diet, you know, for
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two three days, like a plain, very simple soup kind
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of a diet, right, so it cleanses my system. So
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I went on that. I had to go on that
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because otherwise I was not able to function. And then,
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you know, in the last two three year years, when
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I was researching into you know, wanted to do something
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in wellness, and this suddenly, like a tube light came
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back to me and I interviewed like about three thousand
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experts from all over the world, most of them women
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mid age forty something, and they all talked about the
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you know, issues they were having, and I said, oh
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my god, I had the same issues, and they were
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all talking about menopause. I'm like, we, you know, why
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don't I just you know, dip my toes here in
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menopause and see if there is anything in it.
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That's kind of how this whole started thing started. I
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started talking to people and they say, yeah, oh my god,
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you're kidding me. I have the same thing.
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That's you know, amito. We say it all the time
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on this show. Women start with why basic something they're
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going through it, and then they start to realize, wait
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a minute, I'm going through this. I can't be alone.
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There have to be other women that are willing with
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this too.
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Yeah, And it really is the most frustrating part of
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it is that we still feel embarrassed.
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Yes, don't discussed.
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It's crazy, it really is. It's absolutely crazy that at
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this time of life, and at this time of our
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evolution as a species, that women still have to feel
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so ashamed and everything else of something that I'm sorry,
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it creates life. We are life givers. So going through
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menopause is the end of that, and TV the real
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beginning of our tremendous wisdom. And you know, as somebody's
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looking at it holistically, you know, That is why other cultures,
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the women who now have gone through menopause and are
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no longer using that part of themselves. That is who
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the elders are. That is who they are, the most
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respected women. That's who you look to for healing and
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energies and everything else. And it's only in this country.
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And then you know in our culture that we're meant
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to feel like uh now, uh huh, we need to
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step into our power. We really need and I think
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it's really important, you know. And it's as you were
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talking about doing things holistically. That's me and everybody on
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the you know, who listens to the show regularly knows
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that I ate a lot of soy. I ate a
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lot of at amammy the whole time that is going through.
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When I found I would get like hot flash clusters,
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you know, and then I wouldn't get them for weeks,
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and then I get enough handfuls of otamammy just eating
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the soy and stuff like that, trying to make sure
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that I'm keeping my I didn't want to take my
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gynecologists went to give me these horse formone pills. I'm like,
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I don't think so, you know, I can't see putting
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that stuff in my body. But that's me, you know,
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it has to take their wellness journey there their right.
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No at charty, of course, the traditional at charity eat
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tablets or whatever they are with the horses urine right
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that that's how they have been made, and it works
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with some women. I'm not that I'm against personally against
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taking any medication or a charity and doesn't work for
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some other women. And I personally believe more believer in
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like you are saying, of supplementing with phytoestrogens, foods that
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are containing natural estrogens, like soil, like eat a mammy
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like you know, I eat broccoli and you know these
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cauliflowers of the way and the seeds, you know, things
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like that, and maybe some supplements that have a natural
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astronm in it, you know, to supplement my body of
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the receding hormones that's happening right for all of us.
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So I think women, what I felt is that as
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a woman, women don't even understand I'm talking about an
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average woman, not like you and me. They don't even
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understand what's going to what's happening or what's going to
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happen in their bodies and how It's going to impact
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not only their physical we're talking in the physical sense,
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but also their careers, you know, their their intimacy with
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their partners, the relationships, right, I mean we we're not
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even scratching that surface. Right, It can impact everything around you.
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That's what women don't understand and they need to understand that.
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Right notes, I want to come back to talk about that.
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