On Menopause

Hey, so it's Nick here, and tonight we're going to be talking about menopause. Okay, so I'm assuming if you're on this little webinar seminar thing, You're someone who has an interest in that. So I'm going to, I'm going to just quickly go over what menopause is and you know how it comes about first of all, and why, why it happens in women. So basically, when you're born as a woman, you're given about 400 eggs, and those are stored in the body. Body, and every time when it's that time of the month, it releases an egg. And, you know, it's around about 400 eggs. That's why some people go into menopause earlier than other women, because they start earlier with their menstrual cycle. Some of them start later with their menstrual cycle. So when those 400 eggs are up, that's it. You done and you would think, okay, great. So now it's good times and we, you know, we can go and party now and it's going to be fun. And it's actually not the case. So what starts to happen then is because the ovaries think they now have nothing left to do, they start to— they don't produce the hormones that they're meant to produce, which is the estrogen progesterone and testosterone, which are the sex hormones, and those drop in the body. So you would think that, okay, so now the ovaries are not working anymore, that's catastrophic. But it actually isn't if you've been treating your body well up until that point and you have a strong adrenal system. So your adrenal glands then take over and start to produce the hormones that are necessary to keep you going. So like your progesterone gets produced by the adrenal glands, your estrogen gets produced by the adrenal glands, and the testosterone. All the sex hormones can be produced by the adrenal glands plus others. But these are the main ones that we want to talk about. So the problem is that it doesn't produce as much as the ovaries are doing. So there's going to be a drop in certain urges and body functions when you go into menopause. So when the ovaries stop working, you go into menopause, there's going to be a drop in certain functions, but it doesn't have to be as severe as it is in modern times. So, I mean, it's like you hardly meet anybody that's gone into menopause And has had a good time of it. You know, so this this video I'm going to give you some pointers on you know how to how to I wouldn't reverse it is impossible, but how to make the damage and the effects of menopause minimal so that you don't have the strong effects like the massive hot flashes, the fatigue, the bone atrophy. Muscle atrophy and these types of things. So what I would just like to, you know, talk about is the estrogen levels and the testosterone levels and so on. So these hormones, I'm going to get into what is the number one thing in your body that is absolutely needed for any of these hormones to be produced. Without it, You are, you're in trouble, man. You have to have this in your body to produce these hormones. If you don't, it's— there's going to be a— you're going to have a lot of trouble with, um, with menopause. But firstly, let's have a look at how much estrogen production drops in the body when you go into menopause. It drops by 50%, so you stop producing 50% less estrogen. So you think, oh, that's why I'm progesterone— why I'm estrogen dominant. Well, not really. So progesterone drops 70 to 90%. So the production of progesterone, which they supposed to level each other out and be a balanced hormone in the body, progesterone drops. So that's why you hear a woman saying you've got to take some progesterone cream and you rub it on the back of your knee or whatever you you use it however yours is used, but progesterone really drops. And that's why it looks like someone is estrogen dominant, but they're not actually estrogen dominant, they're progesterone deficient. Okay, so the— what I'm going to go into is how you can minimize this damage that is being done in your body, because— Let's just go into you know, what menopause is. So menopause, you know, it's often accompanied by like a range of symptoms like hot flashes, night sweats, vaginal dryness, decreased libido, anxiety, depression, fatigue. There's like so many things that this— I mean, I'm so glad I'm not a woman, you know. I mean, this is like— Such a bad design, and respect to all of you. Honestly, it's just I don't know how this came about. But anyway, these symptoms are generally attributed to a decline in ovarian function and associated with a drop in the sex hormones. So you know, but evidence suggests that the symptoms are not inevitable. You can you you can. make it not normal to do that. You can— there's aspects of menopause that you can't kind of really get around, but it is a result of imbalance of hormones, and it's particularly due to an insufficient amount of cholesterol in your body and adrenal function. So these 2 things If they are not in good shape, if your adrenal glands are not in good shape and you're on some kind of statin or some doctor has put you on some kind of drug that reduces cholesterol levels, you're going to be in trouble because cholesterol— these hormones are made from cholesterol. So your adrenals that make the hormones Have to be in good shape, and you have to have the precursor, which is cholesterol, to make these hormones. So I'm going to explore the connection between cholesterol and adrenal health and menopause symptoms, and also going to highlight, you know, the dietary strategies for symptom management. Okay. Okay, so you know during during menopause ovarian hormone production decreases and sometimes becomes zero depending how healthy the ovaries are when this happens. You know, but the backup system is the adrenals, and they need to be obviously in good health because they can produce like I said earlier, they can produce the estrogen and the progesterone and the testosterone. To compensate for the declining ovarian function, you know. So additionally, the adrenals also produce other essential hormones, you know, including cortisol and various other ones. There's one that needs to be taken for bone health because that's another thing that happens with women who go into cholesterol— go into cholesterol— go into menopause. is they have bone atrophy, so their bones become brittle, osteoporosis sets in and these types of things. And also muscle atrophy, because if the adrenals are now overworked because the person has gone into menopause, the adrenals start to rob the muscles, the biggest muscles in the body, of protein. And it turns it into glucose, which then makes the woman put weight on around her waist, and it makes her butt get smaller and her thighs get smaller. So you often find menopausal women with thinner legs, thinner butt than they used to have premenopause. So most of this lecture is going to be about cholesterol and the importance of it in in menopause and why you mustn't mess around with your cholesterol levels. One thing that you have to know about cholesterol is that only 25% of it, if that, comes from your diet. The rest of it your cells make and they produce it at the rate of injury to the body. So it's there to One of them is to make hormones, as a precursor to making hormones, and the other is to fix damaged parts of the body, like internal artery issues and heart valve issues and so on, which is why you shouldn't be eating anything that damages the inner walls of the arteries and the heart valves and so on, because cholesterol acts as a plaster, and if you continue to eat something or drink a lot of alcohol or a lot of coffee or whatever it might be, that cholesterol is going to pack up on those arteries and then it's going to get the blame for your bad health. So, you know, so, so, all right, so cholesterol is involved in hormone synthesis where cholesterol is the precursor for adrenal and sex hormones. And then cholesterol is also essential for synthesizing vitamin D, and that's a critical nutrient for bone health and immunity and mood regulation. So you have to have cholesterol for vitamin D synthesis. So if you're lacking in cholesterol, you're going to have trouble with vitamin D synthesis, which means you're going to start losing bone density, your immune system is going to start taking a pounding, and you're also going to have mood problems. So cholesterol also aids in the production of bile and bile salt production. So it enables the digestion and absorbing of fat-soluble nutrients. So if you don't have cholesterol— so when you find people having gallstones and and problems with their gallbladders, it's usually a lack of bile. And often people who are on cholesterol medication have this problem because it has to have everything balanced in order to make a free-flowing bile. If you don't have a free-flowing bile and you get a sticky bile, as I was saying, you don't digest or break down your fat-soluble vitamins So that you can absorb them in your through your small intestine and so as nutrients. One of those fat soluble vitamins. So you got the A, D, and E. You also have vitamin K two. So vitamin K two, and then you have K one as well. So K one is is something that helps your blood coagulate. So you know when someone Starts, you know, starts bleeding and is a bleed what they call a—I forget the name of it now—but it's someone when they cut themselves, they bleed. They lacking in K1. Basically, most bleeds are as a result of a lack of K1. But K2 is the interesting one here because when you're lacking in K2, which is so you get you got to like follow me here. So you've got your vitamin D, which has to be some percent. Vitamin D helps in the absorption of calcium as well. Vitamin K2 puts that calcium in the correct areas in the body, like in your bones. That's where it's needed. It's not needed in your inner ear or in your kidneys or in your pineal gland. It's not needed there. It's needed in your bone. But if you're lacking in K2 as a result of having low cholesterol, Because, and that causes low bile. You don't have K2, you start to lose bone density and you start to get arthritis. And like I said, you know, kidney stones and so on. All right, so the other thing is cholesterol also makes up 25% of the density of the brain. So the brain is made of 25% cholesterol. So can you imagine What happens to a person when they have a statin and it lowers their cholesterol levels? So my dad is a prime example, was a prime example. So he passed away from Alzheimer's. He was on statins for ten years before that, and I watched him decline. He was told that he had high cholesterol, and you know that probably wasn't the case because they probably never tested his. Cholesterol properly. So I'm going to get into that a little bit later in this talk on how you— what you should be looking for as far as cholesterol levels go. So, all right, so now you've got 75% of cholesterol which is produced by the body and the cells, and the rest is from dietary sources. Okay, the importance of cholesterol Is its absence in plant-based oils. So, you can be taking lovely olive oil and all of these things, but they don't have cholesterol, they don't have cholesterol-making bodies in them. You'll get it from your animal fats and oils and proteins. Okay, so, the other thing as well is, The LDL, which is the low-density lipoprotein, so it's a protein, is the one that is needed by the adrenal glands to make your hormones. So it's the cholesterol that the adrenal glands use, so your LDL. So they can't— so you're often told that your LDL is too high, that's the bad one. So That's not altogether true. The thing with LDL is, is that it's just a smaller particle of the large HDL particles. So they're the same kind of thing, floating proteins in a shell that float around in your blood. There's another one called small density lipoprotein. So it's the small low density lipoprotein or the very small density Lipoprotein. Those are the ones that are the would be a problem, and and also you know if you're eating the wrong foods, they're a problem. If you're eating the right foods, they they're not really because this is how it works. When you're eating bad food, your your artery walls, the inner the inner walls of your arteries start to become irritated. So so sugar, which is what bad food turns into, and the sugar sugar. sugar. It's not— there's not different kinds of sugar. Sugar is sugar. So whether you're eating rice, whether you're eating white bread, it turns into the same sugar, glucose, in your blood, and it goes through it, and high amounts of it irritates the inner walls of your arteries, and it causes it to crease and harden and all of these things. And then the very small lipoprotein comes along and it tries to fix it, and it gets caught up in these little cracks that have been formed from this swelling and inflammation on your inner artery walls and it packs up there. So the very low density lipoprotein, the VLDL, is the only one that is small enough to do that, to pack up in the artery wall. So, and it sounds like I'm just talking about cholesterol here, and it's pretty much I am, because this is probably the most important thing when it comes to menopause. So you go to a doctor if you have been told about cholesterol and your cholesterol's off the charts or whatever. You go to a good doctor who knows cholesterol, not a diagnose and prescribe kind of doctor. Don't do that. Go to a doctor who understands cholesterol properly and does all the correct tests on cholesterol and isn't fooled by this, what we call a blockbuster drug thing, where, you know, there's nothing ever cured. You're just on this thing for life because you have high cholesterol. Okay, so all right then. So the impact of lowering cholesterol is obviously you're going to have a lack of sex hormones, so that's going to cause a lower libido, that's going to cause your hot flashes, that's going to cause your bone atrophy, your muscle atrophy, problems with your cognitive function, have anxiety. It's horrible. You're also going to get lots of muscle pain. So statins block the production of a coenzyme called Q10, and this is necessary For muscle energy production, and if it if you have if you're having these statins, you start to become fatigued because this Q10 has been taken away. So you so you know this is what you've got to look at when you when people are trying to bring your cholesterol down is that it's going to just worsen menopausal symptoms, and you're going to have obviously your. immune dysfunctions. You know, it's, uh, if you have higher cholesterol and it's the right cholesterol, you have a strong immune system and general good overall health. So do your research on cholesterol. What I'm going to do is, unfortunately, I should have actually started off with this— not unfortunately, fortunately. So my son, who's normally my wingman on these seminars, he always puts up the links and he sets everything up for us. His wife had a little baby this morning at 5 o'clock, so he's not available. So I'm doing this on my own. But what I will do is we're going to— anybody who's on the podcast or who had registered for it, I'll send out these references that we normally put the links for. Yeah, so I'll send out references to you on menopause so that you have it in writing and you can read through it yourself. All right, so then how do you manage this with diet? How do you manage menopausal symptoms with using a diet? So, to increase dietary cholesterol, so that's the 25% of the cholesterol that comes from diet, so you should be having grass-fed butter, egg yolks, fatty cheeses like brie, And they'll provide high-quality cholesterol. Consume organ meats like liver and seafood for additional nutritional support. All right, reduce carbohydrates. I mean, that's my mantra. So reduce carbohydrates. You don't need— if you're down to weight and you don't need to lose any more weight, you don't need to eat more than 50 grams of carbohydrates per day. That's a lot of carbohydrates, actually. I eat less than 20 grams of carbohydrates a day and I function quite well. So, following low carbohydrate diets, it ensures the dietary fat is utilized effectively without promoting harmful LDL forms like the VLDL and the SLDL. Avoid combining fats with high sugar. or high carbohydrates. Don't do that. That is going to mess with your triglyceride levels and it's going to mess with your cholesterol levels, going to give you the bad, the very, very bad cholesterol, which is actually, it's seldom that people have that one high, but they do get it high. And that's how you mess with cholesterol levels. And that's when cholesterol becomes dangerous, is when you are eating sugar with your protein. Sugar with your fat or high carbohydrates with your fat and your protein. So, you must incorporate a nutrient-dense food regimen. So, foods that are rich in fat-soluble vitamins like raw cream and eggs, and they will also enhance the hormone production. Ensure that you get adequate protein. Intake as well. So my suggestion here is, because also as people get older, they do produce less bile. There's all sorts of different dietary issues that come up. You can't process protein as well as you used to. So you couldn't take a piece of meat and break it down into the essential amino acids that's needed to make the proteins that build the body. So, that's what your body does, is it takes your piece of meat, it extracts the amino acids, and from that, it makes the different kinds of proteins for the brain and the skin and the bones and all of that kind of thing. And it becomes harder to do that as you get older. I suggest you find yourself a very good amino acid blend. We're about to release one in the US, probably. It's taking longer than we thought, but it's going to be in February. to be this month. But anyway, there are others there that you could start using. Take that because they're in free form. So that means your body doesn't— your liver doesn't have to extract those amino acids from the piece of meat to make the protein. It already is done for you. All right. And then, you know, do your— and this is, this is again all to do with menopause, you know, so I'm not, I'm not going off the subject here. So use digestive aids if necessary. So, you know, use a lipase like a pancreatic enzyme type of lipase that will help break down fat particles in conjunction with bile salts. So if you have purified bile salts, it'll help the digestion of fat. So if you're wondering how that mechanism works, it's very simple. So, it's just like your small intestine is like this long sock that has pores, it's porous, it has holes in it, and they're a specific size, and the fat goes in your digestive system and it gets broken down, kind of like dishwashing liquid breaks down the fat on the plate into small enough particles for it to be washed off. That's what the bile does, it breaks it down into these small enough particles so that it can be absorbed through the the intestinal walls and it can be used as nutrients in the body. If you don't have enough bile and you don't have enough pancreatic enzymes, it doesn't do that. It doesn't break them down into small enough fat particles. So purified bile salts, pancreatic enzyme, and also definitely a vitamin D3, K2 combination. So make sure you have those. In South Africa, we're very lucky we get these patches that you can stick on. I've looked in the US, I can't find them, but they're patches that you stick on, so they're transdermal, and so they go straight into the system instead of being absorbed through your intestinal tract. And that works very well. So stress, During menopause increases the body's demand for cholesterol, so particularly LDL. So chronic stress can further strain adrenal function, and I'm sure that if you're listening to this, you're probably perimenopausal or postmenopausal or in the middle of it or whatever, and you know what I'm talking about. Yeah, so all these things start happening. You don't understand what's going on with yourself and why there's got these Mood changes and why you're annoyed and all these kinds of things. So that's putting more strain on the adrenal glands, and it's causing this like vicious cycle of like more strain on the adrenal glands, more stress, more strain on the adrenal glands, more stress. It's like droop, droop, droop, and it just gets worse. All right, so if you can, you know, reduce your stress somehow. You'd be able to get your adrenal glands to the point where they're producing these hormones at a better rate and in more of a balance. You're never going to have your hormones at the same level as you did when you were 16, 17, or even when you were 40. But you can at least minimize this to the level where it's— you're having a good life again. And you're not, you know, you're not putting on weight that you don't know why. And, you know, and all of these other symptoms, why you're always tired and fatigued. And, you know, so if you want to do this, you've got to change your diet. You've got to cut out the bad food. You've got to also— things like know, if you're not eating organic or pasture-raised meat and eggs and organic vegetables, you've got to stay away from anything GMO, anything. It's— don't think just because the meat tastes good, uh, it— that there's not things inside there that are going to make you— that it's going to mess with you. There are these things. And, and the thing with glyphosate, which is your Monsanto herbicide, pesticide, fungicide. It mimics estrogen. So you already have more estrogen than progesterone in the body. You don't want anything to make it worse. That's why it's also extremely important to do dairy and, you know, grass-fed dairy or cheeses. And goat's cheese is best. Sheep's cheese, sheep's milk is better than cow's. You know, I use cow's cream for my coffee, and I use— but other than that, we never drink milk in this house. So milk is not a thing. All right, so then let's have a look at bone health, because this is something that also is a major thing when women have gone through menopause. And I'm sure you know about it, is you start to you start to get this osteopenia, which is like the beginning stages of osteoporosis. And, you know, you can avoid that if your bones are absorbing the calcium the way they should do, then you can avoid that and you can keep your bones nice and strong. And I'm going to go through how you can do that because this is a very important part of you know, getting older. You know, you don't want to be having brittle bones that don't mend if you have one fall. You know, that's also, I suppose, a joke. It reminds me of a joke that I once heard about, you know, you know you're getting old when people stop laughing when you fall down. You know, it's like when you were young, everybody would laugh. And when you get old, you fall down and people are like, are you all right? Anyway, back on the subject. All right, so maintaining bone density is crucial. You know, estrogen levels naturally decline, and, um, your bone— and that will accelerate bone density loss, and it leads to conditions like, like I said, osteopenia and osteoporosis. You know, however, there are several effective strategies to to support and preserve your bone health. If you're experiencing osteopenia, you should be taking something called DHEA, about 10 milligrams per day. So, we have a kale shake every day, kale and blueberries and some mint, and we mix it all up. And we always put our DHEA in there because it's also very good for testosterone levels in men and hormone balancing in women. And you should check with your doctor before you do this. It is a bit of a controversial way of doing things, but it works. I've recommended it to lots of people and it's absolutely worked. You know, I often have people who come on my program who are in their mid-50s and once they get onto this DHEA, their sex life improves. You know, like one guy said to me, look, I feel like a teenage boy. What do I do about this? You know, I said, well, you know, put your wife on the program and we can make her feel like a teenage girl. So, you know, that's— and when you have good testosterone levels, it's good for male and female, you know, keep your muscle density, keep your bone density, keeps you young, keeps you strong. All right. So here's some tips on how to keep your bone density. So you should be doing— and again, I'm not a doctor, so My recommendations here, run them by your doctor first. So vitamin D3, it's essential for calcium absorption. You have to have it for calcium absorption, and it helps improve bone mineral density. So you should be taking at least 10,000 international units per day, and that's the optimum amount to ensure your body can efficiently utilize calcium and maintain strong bones. So the recommended daily allowance of vitamin D is something like 400 to 800 international units. I'm talking about 10,000 units. I sometimes take 30,000 to 40,000, even 50,000 international units of vitamin D. I read a study of a guy who's like the vitamin D guru, and he's a very smart guy, and he was asked the question, you know, Have you ever had someone who's had vitamin D toxicity? And he said, never. He's never seen that. He's never, he's never seen it. So, you know, again, vitamin D is crucial to body health, crucial to body health. That's why the powers that be are telling you to only have 400 to 800 international units per day, because there's something else that they want to sell you. All right. So then vitamin K2, the MK-7 form is the best one to have there. So you have like 100 micrograms per day and that's vitamin K2. It helps directly with getting calcium into the bones and away from soft tissues like arteries. So you don't have calcification of the arteries or the pineal gland. So the MK-7 form is a form of K2, is particularly effective. at ensuring calcium is deposited in the bones, helping improve bone strength and preventing calcification in blood vessels. So you don't want that. Consume organic grass-fed dairy, which is what I was talking about before. So you'll get a very good form of calcium in organic grass-fed dairy. You won't get it from just the junk that you buy at the grocery store. You need to find the right stuff here, like organic grass-fed dairy. And you can get it from products like milk or cream, yogurt, a good cheese. They provide like a bioavailable calcium that supports bone strength. Right. And then what we are big on on this program is have your dark leafy greens, your kale, your spinach, your broccoli. And then people are going to go, oh, but there's low oxalates and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Okay, so your vitamin D and your K2 will deal with the oxalates. And that's only really in the spinach. Spinach is high enough. That's just fake news that kale is high in oxalates. So, and the other thing is, if you are having— and we don't recommend this on our program if you're trying to lose weight, The cream and all the heavy dairy and that because you won't lose weight if you're having that. So if you're down to weight, you will. But the dairy will deal with the oxidants. So don't worry too much about oxidants. You have to have a lot of vegetables for it to be dangerous. So those vegetables are rich in calcium and they're rich in vitamin C. So that's both important for bone health. So when you have the vitamin C complex, not just the acid, which just goes straight through you, which I'm sure you've experienced. then it becomes bioavailable to the body and it helps build all kinds of healthy tissue in the body, bone, soft tissue, and so on. So it's crucial for the formation of collagen as well, which is key in the structural components of skin, bones, organ health, so on. Then This is something you need to do when you get older, and especially when you've been in, been through menopause or with menopause. And if you, if you are going into menopause, this is something you need to start doing now, is weight-bearing exercises. So running is a good one. It's, you know, it's got a lot of jarring and it builds, it builds bone. But walking, if you can't run, resistance training, in other words, pushing weights, weightlifting, and then they will all stimulate bone formulation and strengthen your bones over time. So you've got to do regular weight-bearing exercises, and they've proven to reduce the risk of bone loss and fractures. So, you know, I always do this when I'm a cyclist and As a cyclist, I normally, you know, you don't have a lot of impact on your bones like you do when you're running or when you're walking. So cyclists tend to— bones become very brittle. So it's common practice among cyclists to do some other form of weight-bearing exercises to build your bone. You have to put that pressure on the bones to build them again. This is extremely important for menopause. The other, and then also obviously you're building lean muscle mass. So when you have lean muscle mass and you have strong bones, you have less body issues in general and you'll live longer. It's just common knowledge that. So work on that. You're not just going to get rid of menopausal symptoms by just sitting at home on your butt worrying about things. You've got to get out there and actually do something about this. And this stuff that I'm talking to you about really works. So the other thing that you can do is you can— you should— well, not can, you should be doing is taking trace minerals, and particularly copper, manganese, and zinc. So they're essential for collagen formation. So you have— I think you might be starting to get how this works in the body. So you have You have a hormone imbalance and you have some doctor who comes along and says, oh, we'll just give you that hormone. And then that hormone actually had a whole bunch of precursors and a whole bunch of steps that it had to go through before it became that hormone. Now, those things are not in the body anymore and the hormone doesn't exist. So they give you the hormone and these things exist even less. So So it makes you completely dependent on that hormone replacement therapy. So it's best to try to get your body to make these hormones yourself because that's the healthiest way of doing it because you need all these things for other stuff too. So like for instance, a deficiency of manganese can cause weird things like Parkinson types and type symptoms, you know, like weird twitches and so on. Not necessarily Parkinson's, but weird twitches in the jaw or in the hands or something like that. It's a manganese deficiency and a zinc deficiency, and you need copper, manganese, and zinc to make collagen. So they're all precursors, and you need collagen to maintain bone strength, and you need cholesterol To make the hormones so that your bone strength doesn't deplete in the first place. You understand? So there's a whole little toolbox of things that you can do here to to make these symptoms less. So trace minerals are they often overlooked, and they play an absolutely critical role in bone health because to be quite honest with you, calcium is not the only. The bones are made of. They're made of those minerals. So, get yourself a good trace mineral complex and make sure that you're getting enough of it. And again, eating your dark leafy greens, eating your cruciferous vegetables, eating your organ meats. And I know people hate organ meats, but find a nice recipe that makes liver Edible, you know, or kidneys or whatever, the heart, you know, eat the heart. And you can even get, you know, dried versions or, you know, dehydrated versions of the heart and kidneys and liver and so on in capsules that you can take. So if you look around, you'll find that as well, and they're very good. All right, and then the other one is boron. You know, you shouldn't overlook boron. Boron is a mineral that supports bone health and growth. And also helps with metabolism and helps absorption of nutrients like calcium, magnesium, and vitamin D. So again, we, you know, we— it's the cycle of needing all of these elements in the body for proper hormone balance. You've got to have your vitamin D so that this can be absorbed, and then when that's being absorbed, you need your vitamin K so that it doesn't get absorbed in the wrong places. And in the first place, if you want your vitamin D to work, you need to have this and that and this and that, you know. So you've got to realize that it's not just a pill thing. A pill isn't going to just help you like one pill. You've got to eat what the human body is supposed to eat. And I keep saying that not even just for menopause. It's like the human body is meant to eat certain foods. And it's not like, oh, well, why is it supposed to eat broccoli? You know, broccoli— it's because broccoli has those nutrients in it that the body needs, or part of the nutrients. But then so does liver. So you have to have that, or red meat, and eggs have this in it. And when you're eating all the right food and you're not eating the wrong food, your body starts absorbing all this right food and it becomes a happy body, you know. And when you eventually hit menopause, then it's the effects of it, sometimes nothing. I mean, I watched my wife go through menopause and the symptoms were minimal. I hardly noticed that it was going on. So, okay, so incorporating any of these tips is going to help you. And you must do it routinely, and it will significantly improve your bone health, your muscle health, brain health, cognitive function, improve your mood. And, you know, the combination of the vitamin D and the K2 and the minerals and the proper nutrition and regular exercise, they'll all help you maintain a strong body, reduce symptoms of menopause. And give you healthy bones. So you're probably already following some of these things, but try and get all of them in because menopause doesn't have to be you know this horrible thing that you know all women have to go through at some point. It it can be it can also be something different. You know, it can be something. pleasant, not unpleasant. And I'll send the references to all of you via email, and I'll just quickly, I'll just quickly go through the questions that we've got here. So, where does one get those patches in South Africa? You get them at Dis-Chem or Wellness Warehouse. You'll get those patches. They normally sell them at point of sale. They're in a little like cardboard slip box. Don't we get enough vitamin D3 from the sun, from being in the sun 20 minutes a day? Is it necessary to supplement in hot places like South Africa? So that's a good question because I know you're in England now. You're definitely not getting enough. You know, the funny thing is England has a whole lot of weird illnesses. And it's purely because of the vitamin D deficiency. So it also depends on the intensity of the sun. So at the moment where you are, not much sun going on there. South Africa, we do get a lot of sun. However, most people have some kind of issue with vitamin D receptors in their bodies where their bodies don't process the vitamin D at the rate that it should do. Sometimes it's because of viral infection, sometimes it's— there's various things that cause that. So my successful action is these patches that I put behind my ears. You're supposed to put one on, I put 2 on because there's 10,000 on each patch. It lasts for 24 hours. So I put one behind each ear. And they work perfectly for me. So another thing that— here's an interesting thing— is that if you have lower back pain, try this. Try vitamin D, like large amounts of vitamin D. Like put the vitamin D in there, man, like 20,000, 30,000 international units, and you'll find your back pain improve if it's not obviously a structural thing. But if you have joint pain, If you have arthritic type symptoms, it's very, very often a vitamin D deficiency. And you can be going, yeah, but I take a lot of vitamin D, you know, or I get a— I'm in the sun. I'm in the sun a lot. I'm in the sun at least 2 hours in blazing sun. I ride my bike at about 10 to 11 AM, and then it goes on right through midday in the blazing sun here at like 36 degrees Celsius. And I have a problem with vitamin D receptors because of this underlying virus that I can't get rid of. So it's the Epstein-Barr virus, which is very smart, and what it does is it messes with your vitamin D receptors because it knows that if you have enough vitamin D in the system, it messes with the virus and it can kill the virus. So the virus is very smart and it messes with your immune system, and that's one of the ways that it does this. It's like trying to listen to music with earmuffs on, not headphones, earmuffs, so that you can't hear the music properly. You just get a little bit of it. And that's what it does to your vitamin D receptors. So that's that. And then I don't understand what leeches calcium from the body. What leeches calcium from the body? I don't understand that. Yeah, so you just clarify that and then I'll answer it. So, so, okay, so the deal is with menopause is you need to, um, make sure that your adrenal health is right. So, you know, you can take stuff like ashwagandha. Ashwagandha will help with adrenal health. Ashwagandha lowers cortisol levels and helps Support the adrenal glands. Am I like maybe just here? Okay, so so it'll help the it'll help the adrenal glands and chill out, and then they can start producing hormones at the rate they should do. Make sure that you have your cholesterol levels. If you're worried about cholesterol, have your correct cholesterol levels checked. I'll like I say on these references after the After this podcast, I'll we'll get I'll get Seb to send them out to everybody tomorrow. I think he should be home tomorrow with his new little baby, and I'll send all the references out to you. They they nice references that'll kind of what I just spoke about, and this will help you with this with menopause. You know, this will help you. But but again. The main thing is to make sure that you're eating a healthy diet. If you're gonna if you're gonna try all these things, but you're skipping that, it's not gonna work. You've got to have a healthy diet. If you're not having if you're having like like for instance, the ovaries hate carbs and sugar. They hate it. That's why you get PCOS. PCOS, it's a high carbohydrate, high sugar diet. That's it. That's why you get polyps on your ovaries or in your uterus. And all of these ovarian uterus type things are caused by high sugar, high carbohydrate type diets. Not what I say, it's not an opinion that I have, it's proven. It's proven science. So, um, You know, get off that stuff and you'll live a long and healthy life. You don't have to be tempted by the rubbish that's put out there and marketed and pushed in your face every time you go to the mall or every time you go to some kind of event. Okay, cool. So I would like, you know, if you want, if you want to have some kind of a subject spoken about on the, on this webinar, Let me know. I want to know what you want to hear about. You know, I think menopause was a great subject to talk about, and I hope you got something out of it. I think, you know, I did a lot of research in menopause, and I learned a lot about it. And, you know, I absolutely have sympathy for women who go into menopause. I'm glad I'm not a woman. So, you know, let's make it easier for you. and do these things that I talked about. So like I say, you'll probably get those emails tomorrow. And I'll send you all the references so that you have them. I'll also put them on our website, and you'll be able to look at them if you get the link. So I'll see if we can get them on the website before tomorrow, then I'll just send you the links. All right, cool. So thank you very much for listening and joining us. And I hope you got something out of it. If you have any more questions, let me know. So So, Ellen is saying, I'm interested in knowing about what food choices, how to avoid bad stuff and pesticides. Okay, good. So, that's a great subject. So, what I'll do then, if everybody wants to hear about that next week, I'll talk about food labels and how to read food labels because it's actually an art. And it's like I can give you a little map on how to navigate the minefield of the food labels, because there's— it's definitely a skill, because big food companies, man, these guys, they're in for profit, you know, and they find loopholes. And, you know, I'll be able to tell you what to avoid and how to avoid them. So how to know that they're in your food, what they're called, and so on, so that you can, you know, you don't— these things don't sneak into your diet. Like, for instance, on our program, we often have people who, you know, have a bit of trouble, and, you know, and I try to pull the string and pull the string and pull the string until eventually something comes out that there's an ingredient in one of their foods which may just have a Code, or it may have been called something nice like bioengineered. Bioengineered—that's GMO. And then you've got another one called biosolid, biosolids. You know, biosolids. Wow, biosolids! That sounds great. Biosolids are literally sewage from a sewage farm that they have nothing else that they can do with. So that's what biosolids are, and you get them in food. You know, so I mean, there's things like that that you need to know. You don't want to be eating someone else's poop. All right, cool. So I hope you got something, and I'll speak to you, and it's probably going to be about food labels. I think it's a great— I think it's a great subject. So we'll do something about food labels and ingredients and what they do and why, you know, it's like, but I only have like a little bit. of that in this, you know, why do I, you know, not have to— why should I— do I need to avoid it if there's such a little bit in it? You know, I can go into that and what the reasons are. All right, cool. So thank you very much for joining me. 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