#4 - Menopause/Manopause Part 2

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in because we appreciate your time. One thing, don't forget to share the link because remember this is a podcast. It's on YouTube, it's all over the place where you can get all the podcasts like Spotify, Apple, etc. So thank you again, and here we go. Bruce, listen to where we're going this week. Menopause and menopause. What's really

happening to your body? Menopause and menopause, which is often overlooked, and it's the main equivalent, which is called andropause, marks significant hormonal chifs that impact everything from energy levels to digestion, mood,

and joint health in men and women. Menopause specifically occurs when estrogen and progesterone decline in women, and it brings on those symptoms you know, the ones we hate, like hot flashes and night sweats, mood swings and anxiety, sleep disturbance, is weight gain, bloating, yeah, joint pain, muscle loss, digestive

issues like ibs, constipation and diarrhea. Yach. But I know us girls, we know manopause, and Bruce won't probably agree to what he knows with the men on these Manopause, which is Andrew pause, affects men as testosterol levels drop, leading to fatigue and low motivation, decreased muscle mass and strength, increase belly fat, poor sleep and irritability, lower libidio and performance issues, joint pain, and slow recovery. But here's the thing,

many of these symptoms aren't just about hormonal changes. It's your gut health, inflammation, and stress levels that play a major role. And we want to thank Bruce for this because Bruce gave us the foundational steps that we need to take for healing these symptoms. And I thought this week with him agreeing to come back with tied in. Now let's meet Bruce. Hi, Bruce, I am looking for you there. You are looking handsome and young as ever as your youthful age. Let me introduce you. Introduce you

to the audience. I know what you're thinking. So meet Bruce paullat the health Translator extraordinaire. That's my little caveat for Bruce. But he's phenomenal because of what he knows and how he delineates his knowledge. So on this episode, Bruce, a seasoned homeopath, a businessman, and a natural health expert with decades of experience in the wellness space. Bruce has a gift for making the complicated simple, breaking down the

science of health into easy, actionable steps. Like myself, He's passionate about helping people taking control of their well being. He here to share insights, wisdom, and practical tips for living healthier and more balanced life. Get ready for a conversation that will inspire, educate, and motivate you to youthfully age. Thank you Bruce for joining us.

to get better faster, sooner. So thank you Bruce for giving us that foundation. We're gonna just jump right into the questions, if I may, is.

talked about last week. So why don't we turn on slide number one and take a look at it first and go from there. Here we go. It's a simple slide. So cholesterol is the top of the hormone cascade, and then everything turns to priang alone and then as you can see to the left, it goes for gesterone and then down to all desterone. This is the this is the part that we have problems. When cortisol comes up. We'll discuss that later, but right below the priyank loan

is the DHA, testosterone and estrogen. So this is a view of a healthy hormonal system. This is the perfect cascade. Now if we go to slide number two, you can see here now that we've got the cortisol in the picture. Now we're in stress situation. We're in fight and flight mode and it's becoming a chronic situation. So you can see the prank alone is feeding the pgesterone, which is

feeding the cortisol. And over on the left hand side, you know the al desk drone is not being fed anymore, and down below the DHA is not being fed as well either. So here's the beginning of the problem. And if we move to the next slide, and this will

be the final slide. Down here we have the cortisone and then below that we have leaky got on one side and insulin resistance on the other side, which we didn't talk about last week, but instance resistance is all so another thing that comes with cortisol, and that's another reason we get that belly fat and with the weight gain.

But the aldestrone, it controls the sodium potassium regulation in the body through the kidneys, and once it stops being fed, we fill up with sodium and we start putting water weight. And you hear that all the time, Oh, I'm putting

on this water weight and I don't know why. Well, this is the reason why is because the aldestrone's not being fed properly from the progesterone, because again everything is going into the fight flight mode, and so if you're not, if everything's going progesterone to cortisol, and then the side effects is the leaky got the insulin resistance, and the

weight walk, the weight gain. And then on the other side, below the prying loan, we have the DH not being fed, so the testosterone's not being fed and that's your sex drive in women as well, by the way. And then below the estrogen you have low estrogen, but you're still etched in dominant because you don't have the progesterone to balance with it. So we have low sen low testosterone, yet you have estrogen dominance and low progesterone. And this

is where everything starts causing major problems. And so as I say, down the bombs of leaky gut, but you can start with the leaky gut and go the other way as well, and the same cascade happens. It doesn't matter which direction, whether you start with the hormones and stress or you start with leaky gut. This is the picture and this is what we want to avoid. Wow.

not really knowing how it works. By the way, I just want to add a aviat here everyone that we're just here talking. It's a lifestyle show. So of course you know, talk to your healthcare practitioner, your primary care practitioner, but here we're just people talking about the things that maybe a little bit complicated. And Bruce, the great man at taking the complicated making it simple, is here to

help us through menopause. Menopause. Next question, leaky gut, the hidden reason behind your hot flashes, joint pain, and mood swings. Did I hear that right?

low progesterone, you get the bad sleep. So right there you've got you've got the problems, and then with the inflammation you start getting joint pain with the inflamation that comes with the leaky gut. So it's all interconnected again and directly connected.

So thank you Bruce for rolling with that. Thank you for that explanation. Now, with the leaky gut, is there a simple fix for leaky gut that also helps the hormonal balance?

with that. And then there's a product called eglicerated licorice and it's a chewable product. And what it does is it does it puts down a muco layer that is supposed to be there, but we wear off, and we wear it off by eating foods that aren't appropriate, by drinking drinks that aren't appropriate, and basically eat stress and life in general. So it replaces that. So you've got

the cells coming together. Now, you've got the mucosal layer now, and then in the evening, take a really good quality probiotics. You can start rebuilding that microbiome. And I've seen within a week, I've seen major differences in IBS symptoms. I've even seen differences in crone symptoms. Now, trones you don't heal this way, but you can help the symptomology with it. IBS,

you can clear it up. Assuming you've changed your diet that's causing the problem, right, because if you're still eating the highly prefabricated foods and that sort of thing, you're going to have to do this rest of your life. But if you eating a healthy diet, this will certainly heal your gut. You can do this for six weeks, a couple of months, and you'd be amazed at difference for the next couple of years.

know everyone out there. Microbiome is like one of those words that's buzz buzz bus. Can you quickly go over again what the microbiome means, what's a healthy microbiome? And then that will lead into our next question about probiotics.

do us harm. They also they also create short chain fatty acids by eating fiber, which lays down the mucostal immune system, which again is part of our immune system. And I've said last week that are immune, that our immune system is made up of eighty percent of our microbiome. So if you have a healthy microbiome, not only does the acid kill viruses and things, but so do the so does the microbiome itself if it's healthy, and also

if it can't kill it, it'll put a layers. It builds up layers between the gut lining and the pathogen that's trying to get through the bloodstream. So this is in basic terms. And if you have a bad microbiome, now you've got more bad things and good things, And now you've got things going into the bloodstream that just shouldn't be there. The pathogens, the viruses, the unbroken down food. All this sort of thing is getting into the gut

because you have nothing to stop it. You don't have that layer of a positive biome to stop the viruses and pathogens to get through.

ten feet into the small intestine. But it's the first two feet that you need the floral to make these hormones and the neurotransmitters we've been talking about. So if you have an enterra coded probiotic, it's breaking down past the place where you really need the floral. So mostly I say make sure they're really well studied, and there's documented studies and published studies and third party published studies.

There's one group I was working with and they actually give theirs two universities and they say, no matter what you find, publish it. So if it's good, it's bad, it's ugly, publish it. We don't care. We want to know the truth about our probiotics. There's other ones that say, oh, this strain has been studied, but it was actually someone else's and the strain was the same, but the actual the actual type, the actual type of probotic was the same,

but the strain was different. It's for example, there's dogs, and if you've got a dog sled, you don't want a bunch of chiahuas pulling it. But they're dogs, so you can say Lactus bacillis. The studies say it does this, but it was Lactus bacillis something something something, and so this other Lactus bacillis probably will do nothing for you.

So you're looking for well studied probiotics. And if you get a well studied probiotic, you're going to have to pay a little bit more for it because you're paying for these studies. And as you know, probiotics don't have big drug companies behind them that have millions and millions

of dollars. But there are well studied probiotics. Just if you're looking at a study, make sure the strain they're talking about is the strain you're buying, because there's many people who use other people's studies that don't really agree with the strain they're actually selling you. So back to the question and inexpensive probiotic. I haven't seen good studies on That doesn't mean they're not there. Just make sure you're looking at well studied probiotic before you buy it.

And if you go to someplace where some some reputable vitamin store or pharmacy where they know what they're talking about, they can show you these things. They're they're available.

it's that whole cascade. So absolutely. Now people also kind of worry about how much probiotics, like they say, oh, fifty billion, that's that's way too strong a probiotic. But if you think about it, they say, there's about six pounds of microbiome. Six pounds of these microbes make up our microbiome.

pain for short term if that does happen. Pick up some DGL which we talked about earlier, dichlosoid licorice and just eat it and that'll help soothe all that away. Why you're why you're killing off the bad things, but you actually want that that killing off to happen because you don't want those bad microbes there to begin with.

started this last week. Now we're putting it all together and Bruce is now going to talk about stress, sleep and hormones. So feeling more anxious and stressed than ever here's why take it away, Bruce.

the morning, when the sun comes up. And if it's coming into your system middle of the night, it's because your drenals are out of whack and they're putting into the cortisol when it's not supposed to be there. But high court as all as I say, it causes anxiety and it causes sleeplessness. So that's high courtisol. But when you get to stage where your body's actually not producing

enough cortisol again, you have problems. This time instead of waking up and a high cortisol personal wake up in the morning, they'll feel really good and they'll have lots of energy because their body be full of cortisol. But about three o'clock, four o'clock the afternoon, they crash because they've run out. If you have low cortisol, then every morning is Monday morning. And those people when you say to them, when you wake up in the morning, is

it like money morning every day? And they say, oh, yes, you have to drag your butt out of bed every morning. Oh yes, this is low cortisol. And it's the same issue. It's just further down the hormonal line. You've you've done your adrenals under Now now they're not producing enough cortisol. So now you really need to peek your cortisol, pick your adrenals up so that they get back up to working order. So there's two there's two symptoms of the same problem.

is worse. Is your digestion worse or is your sleep and anxiety worse? And based on that, for the first month, we'll work on the first one until it's under control, then we'll work then we'll work on the next one while still dealing with the first one. Because if you start taking a bunch of things, a bunch of supplements, you never quite know what's working. You never know what

you're supposed to be feeling. But for example, if we're working your drenals, we expect your sleep to get better, we expect your anxiety to go down, and we expect your stress levels go down. That's an expectation. If we're working on your gut, we expect digestion get better, we expect your bowel movements get better, and we expect inflammation to go down. That those are expectations. But once we're getting one where you're noticing the difference, then I like

to move on to the next one. I don't like to do them both at once because it's just way too much stuff to take, and people get a little frustrated and they've been taking a bunch of things for five days, they're not feeling anything. Because you remember, these problems are taking you years to get to, so it's going to take It's going to take time to fix.

It's not going to take five days. And if you have to take a cupful or a bowl full of supplements every day and you're not feeling any difference, then you're really going to get, you know, not excited about taking them. So I really do think that you need to heal your gut to get your hormones under control. Do you need to do it right away? Not necessarily, but you have to do it within a month or or two months of starting to heal your home or

gett your hormones in alignment. You have to worry about your gut. And if you worry about your gut within a month or two of getting your gut in alignment, you have to worry about your dreanals and your hormones because again they're all connected.

is talking about everyone, is how everything is interconnected. Now you mentioned the adrenals, could you just because everyone with Bruce's wisdom wink wink. One of the things that I want him to really help to take the complicated and make it simple. It's all the buzzwords we've heard out there about menopause, menopause symptoms and so on. So we've heard a lot about adrenals, adrenal fatigue, all of that.

How does that tie into the hormonal cascade you talked about and fixing the menopausal menopausal symptoms.

nothing to do with adrenals. That just is reality. And we can do things to keep the progesterone up for sure, But the adrenals, the adrenals, when they get stressed they kick off or when you get stressed, they kick off the cortisol, which we talked about, well, that progesterone feeds the cortisol, so it's on. If you have high cortisol, you're gonna have low pgesterone. If you have low progesterone, you're not going to have that calming of your mind

because that's what progesterone does. If you don't have the calming of the mind, and you're sending the fight flight messaging to the drenals so you can have more cortisol. And again, if you're pregraying alone, back to that that that slide we had, if you if you're praying alone, is just feeding the pigesterone to feed the cortisol because it leaves your running for your life. You're not feeding the d g A, which isn't feed the testosterone or

the estrogen or the thyroid. So it's all it's it's all interconnected in your in your drenals really have to be healthy to go through healthy menopause comfortably.

and aging, which is menopause menopause. And by the way, Bruce, you said something very important, which is things happen with life as we age, but we can start earlier to take care of the adrenals, take care of this hormonal cascade with a lot of the things that you've talked about, like keeping our gut healthy so we don't go through those issues as hard, as strong, as brutal, that's probably

my word, as we do. So thank you for that. Now, inflammation, joined ping and aging, what do you why pardon me? Do your joints hurt more as you age?

and the glutamine. That's all I did for one month and all her joint pains went away. So you can stomp the information, no problem. But there's some other supplements that maybe we should touch on that are very useful, and I'd like to bring up magnesium as the very first one. We all hear about magnesium. You should take magnesium, But why should you take magnesium? Well, magnesium, for one,

it helps relax the body. So if you're getting if you're getting knots and you're waking up with with your pains and your muscles and they're all nodding up, you have to get and stretch them that kind of thing. Magnesium really helps with that, but also helps with minor anxiety.

It also helps with with high blood pressure, and it also has one hundred and forty eight other purposes in the body, and generally it's one of those those who are very low on Now there's several types of magnesium, magnesium site trates, very popular, magnesium glysinate you've heard of.

If you're going to take magnesium, it's better to take the magnesium absorbs the best, and magnesium glysnate absorbs far better than sit trade because what happens with sit trade as it goes through the acid bath of your gut, it separates the magnesium from the site trade and there's very few receptors for magnesium in the lower digestion track, so it ends up going to the colon, which helps you go to the washroom, which is great, but we

need to absorb that magnesium as well. Magnesem glysinate doesn't separate. Now this is simplified. There's a whole science behind this, of course, but magnesum glysnate doesn't separate in the gut, and there's thousands of receptors for glycinate. So as the glycinate gets absorbed into bloodstream, it takes magnesium with it,

so you get this high absorption of magnesium. And if you're using it to go to the washroom for vowel movements, just to keep increasing magnesem glycinate, because if it's not helping you the first night, it's because your body is so low on magnetes um. So you increase it, and you increase it and increase it till you get the bowel movement and then generally cut it back. One dose

is what you do. And once you hit that point, generally that will be the amount of magnesium you need to take every day for the rest of your life. It doesn't change unless you get sick or ill or something. But once you're at that point where you're going to wash them every day, which we need to do, by the way, and we'll pause and talk about that for

a moment. If you're not going to wash them every day, the feces build up in your colon and the toxins actually go through the colon into the bloodstream and this can cause headaches, this can cause migraines, to cause all sorts of things skin issues as well. So we need we need to be moving these tuxins every day out of our body, and magnesiums are great to do it.

We just need to take enough that what magazine does it when it gets into the colon nexis orbs moisture, and so it brings moisture into the colon, which naturally softens the stools so you can get out of your body. So that's one product that pretty much everybody could be

on without any problems at all. Magnesium glyconate. And then to help stop the messaging and to help calm the brain, theenane is another good product and el theenine is actually naturally found in matcha green tea, and this is why people can drink watcha green tea and not get their brain wired like coffee does. It still has caffeine. Don't fool yourself. You shouldn't be drinking before bad, but it doesn't wear the brain because the theening keeps your brain calm.

And so I watched this brilliant woman, doctor h She is just a brilliant woman, and she said that everybody should be taking two hundred milligrams of theening in the morning at night just because life is so stressful. Now I'm not recommending that thing. This is what she said. And because life is stressful, are you still there?

and theanine alone and making it simple. Now I will ask one more question and then we're just gonna do a wrap up on everything we've talked about, just so that everyone kind of puts everything that you talked about together today because it was a wealth of information. So we're again talking about everything in the context of menopause. Menopause to everyone, are you talked about magnesium? Does magnesium

help muscle crams, headaches, anxiety? And is the deficiency because I think you mentioned that we're all deficients deficient on magnesium specifically, Could that be the reason why with the hormonal changes we get muscle crams, headaches, anxiety.

Will it help with headaches? Absolutely and helpless sleep because it is a muscle relax and if you take enough of it, in the appropriate amounts of it, I should say, if you take the appropriate amounts of it, it will help your muscles relax. So at least your body is relaxed when you go to bed. We can't and we can't say that it'll help you sleep, but it will help your muscles relax so you can sleep better. It's

the way I would phrase it. And there you know again, if you're low and progester and your your brain is not going to slow down. So no matter how relaxed, your body is right. And it does help with minor anxiety. Again, not major anxiety, you're not. Magnesium's not going to help an anxiety attack, but if you have minor anxiety, you will certainly help with that.

people get together and talk. Now, Bruce, is there a wrap up that you can do with all of this? From your end as far as menopause, menopause, gut health, magnese Ldnin. Is there a wrap up you can do?

You've got to deal with the optual problem. And the problems always lie within hormonal balance, stress, gut and moving the toxins out of your body, which is liver and colon. And in order to do all that you've got to you've got to approach it on a whole level basis. That doesn't mean that there's anything wrong with taking hormones that the natural path or a doctor is giving you. Absolutely,

but don't stop there. Think about your drenals because progesterone and thyroid products help progesterone and thyroid, they don't help your adrenals. You've got to think about your gut because they don't help the gut either. What they do to you though, is stop sending the fight flight messages to your adrenals, which gives you time to heal them and gives you time to heal your gut. So I'm all in favor of all these different modalities or ways of

approaching it. Just don't stop with one. Think about it as a whole picture, and think about the inflammation as well as part of that picture because of the gut. But menopause itself is low hormones, so you need to deal with your hormones and keep them at a healthy level. But you have to deal with all the side effects that affect those hormones. And this is where you get into, as I said, the cortisol, the gut, the brain, the inflammation, digestion,

all of these, all of these things affect it. So you can't just stop by doing well, I'm just going to take some progesterone and all feel better. You will feel better, but you haven't solved the problem. All you've done is up to your progesterone. So think about the body as a whole, and it's just so important that your body will not function unless all of it's working well together.

Pollock is menopause and menopause. It's more than just dropping hormone levels. We go through gut health issues and stress and inflammation, and that's at the root of many of the symptoms. But the good news is that through gut repair, quality, nutrition and stress management and some of the supplementation that Bruce has mentioned, we can help to feel energized and phenomenal and really once we're in the stage of menopause

and menopause traverse that much easier. Bruce was an amazing wealth of information, and thank you all so much for your comments. Please if you have any specific questions, because that's how we come in. You go to your primary care practitioner, you get the hormones and the supplements and then you take it home and off and you're going, now what email Bruce, Bruce Underscore Pollock at Yahoo dot ca,

or myself Wisdom at Walk with Wisdom. And next week because remember I like foundations and stacking, we're going to continue on the churn on the theme of menopause. Menopause, but now we're going to talk about nutraceuticals, so I'll have a nutraceutical expert that's going to tie everything that Bruce started with. We know it inside out and we're going to take it to the next level. Thank you all for joining. Send me an email, send Bruce an email,

and on till then think about your gut health. Genevieve Wisdom Walk with Wisdom.

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