Meli shares three biohacking practices for women: ditching toxic chemicals in personal care products, syncing workouts and nutrition with your menstrual cycle instead of fighting it, and building community for support. Mindset and positive self-talk shape both mental and physical results.
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Maybe you could share with our audience maybe 3 of just kind of your non-negotiables when it comes to biohacking. Are there certain things that— I know you're traveling right now, so maybe not everything is doable, but how do you remain in your potential and your purpose in terms of biohacking? How do you maintain your strength and a level of vitality when you're going through your day?
The first one is removing all these toxic things that a lot of people is putting in their skin. skin, like not putting any crap, with the permission of the word, right, in my hair, in my skin. Actually, it was a big process to say to myself, I'm beautiful like this. I don't need to be smudging toxic chemicals and toxic makeup in my skin to be beautiful.
Because your skin is your largest organ, and it's It absorbs things. And they say that women specifically could walk out of their house in the morning with over 200 chemicals on their body.
And thinking about how, oh, but I have to be pretty, my skin has to be all like a painting or something like this. And to really think, no, this health is beautiful, vitality is beautiful. It was an internal process for me to say, The natural is beautiful.
So saying reducing or eliminating those potential toxins that could affect your mind and your body.
Yes, exactly. Like we read the labels of the food, read the labels of the shampoo, the toothpaste, the cream, everything that we put in our skin. Exactly as you said. The second one is something that I learned a few months ago. I have to say, I didn't Pay attention to this. I didn't know this before, and it's been so powerful. And it is, as a woman, to respect the menstrual cycle phases, to know that I am not the same person in each phase of my menstrual cycle, and that it is okay to feel different and to do as much as possible to adapt my training and my activities and my food to these different phases. That we as women are different biologically. And there is a great power to do as much as possible to adapt to this menstrual cycle. And this is something maybe some— one year ago or something, I wouldn't have said, oh no, today I'm going— I'm going to take it very easy because— I'm in the premenstrual cycle. I would know, thought, oh, this is a secret. This is something that I should not say out loud because I'm even a little like embarrassed to say, no, I should not talk about this. And now I'm, oh, it's okay. It's part of my power too.
We've done a couple episodes on this where, you know, everyone's familiar with the 24-hour cycle, our circadian rhythm, but the 28-day cycle also. We had Lisa Vitti talk about it and also Dr. Stephanie Estima talk about that, that each You know, it could also, depending on your hormonal expression, you could take on certain activities that would be aligned in nature. I'll put a link again to those podcast episodes. And your third one that you're thinking about right now? And I know we could probably do 30 of them.
Jim, this is like a sigh of joy just to think about this, and it's to connect with the vitamin people, the community, to be able to learn from vitamin people, hug vitamin people, I mean, people help each other, put some hope in someone else's eyes, make someone smile, and get together in community. And this is why it is such a dream come true that, that the first biohacking conference in Spanish is coming to life so soon. This is the way that the Spanish-speaking community can get together and make sense of all this knowledge in our language, create the new neural networks, hug, make community, help each other.
Yeah.
Actually, Jim, like connecting with you and learning from you virtually before and now in person, I can feel the connection with the vitamin people that you are.
Meli, this has been amazing. I wanna make sure everybody has a takeaway here. You know, our internal voice is very powerful. And probably more powerful than we think. If we understood how powerful our words are in the language, you know, to our own mind or in our unconscious, we probably wouldn't say or think something we didn't want to be true. And it's that powerful. Not that you have one negative thought and ruins your life any more than just eating one donut will ruin your life, but it's the consistency of it. But, you know, what I really want to emphasize here from what you've shared is not just what you say, it's how you say it, you know, to yourself. Just simple distinctions. I think little Little things make a big difference. And I want to thank you for sharing those 2 strategies as well as some of your biohacking tips. And those biohacking tips are free, right? You know, you're doing less of the toxic chemicals or the toxic people, the toxic news, you know, and then also you're very conscious of your own rhythms, you know, biologically. And then also, you know, just being very conscious also of the power of community, that it's not just our neurological networks, it's obviously our social networks, because who we spend time with is who we become. So I want to thank you for spending time with us today.
