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Dr. Mindy Pelz on How to “Age Like a Girl” · To Your Good Health

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David Friedman, BS: Hello, this is Dr.
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David Friedman, host of Te Dugood Health Radio.
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Ladies, if you're in your forties, fifties, or beyond,
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have you ever found yourself wondering what is happening to me?
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Maybe you're dealing with brain fog, unexpected mood swings,
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relentless fatigue, or fading.
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Libido, you're not alone.
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For years, society has told women that menopause is the beginning of the end.
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A slow decline.
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You simply must accept.
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But what if everything you've heard is wrong?
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What if this phase of life is not you've falling apart, but
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ultimately being rebuilt stronger and more vibrant than ever?
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Imagine if those shifting hormones are rewriting your brain for greater
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clarity, confidence, and authenticity.
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Joining us is Dr.
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Mindy Pell's, author of the groundbreaking new book, age Like A Girl.
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She Believes Menopause isn't a slow fade, it's a powerful biological upgrade.
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If you're ready to discover what's really happening in your body and how
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to embrace this stage of life with energy, vitality, peace, and high
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velocity and momentum, I can be coming up with many, many, many things.
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Stay tuned.
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This inspiring conversation starts now.
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My next guest is a sought after keynote speaker, New York Times bestselling
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author and renowned woman's health expert.
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She's a pioneering voice in the science of women's hormones, fasting
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and longevity, and she's the hosts of the Hit Show, the Resetter podcast.
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She's helped millions of women.
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Think what's possible for their health at every age.
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Her groundbreaking books, including Fast Like A Girl and The Menopause
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Reset, have helped redefine how females can optimize their health.
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In her new book, age.
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Like A Girl, she takes on one of the most misunderstood chapters in a woman's life.
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Menopause.
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Today you're gonna learn why this transformation is
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happening for you not to you.
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Welcome to the show, Dr.
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Mindy PEs.
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Mindy Pelz: Oh, thank you, Dr.
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Friedman.
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I love that.
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That's quite an intro, so I appreciate all the kind words.
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David Friedman, BS: Yeah.
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It's so great to have you with us.
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You know, I first heard about your, about a year ago, a patient shared how,
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your health advice helped balance her hormones, regain her mental clarity,
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and I quote, bring her life back.
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So, let's, bring some listeners back to life First, share what
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inspired you to write your new book.
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Age Like a Girl.
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Mindy Pelz: you nailed it on the head when you said, this is the most mysterious
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time for a woman at not only her health, but her relationships, her identity.
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Everything starts to change.
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During this time, and I really wanted women to feel empowered.
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I wanted them to understand that this is the greatest time of your life if
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you understand what's going on with your brain, with your body, and what's
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gonna happen on the other side when you get into your postmenopausal years.
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So it was really about changing the way women are looking at menopause and
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seeing it through a more empowering lens.
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David Friedman, BS: Yeah, I know most doctors, they tell the, the
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female patients all the negative effects of menopause, just normal
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part of aging, you gotta live with.
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That, and you describe menopause as really an evolutionary
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upgrade rather than a decline.
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How can women start to internalize this new narrative
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pretty much in their own lives?
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Mindy Pelz: Yeah, so I love the word rewiring.
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If we could think of this in the most simple terms, what's happening as
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your sex hormones change, primarily estrogen going down is that hormonal
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shift initiates an incredible rewiring of the brain and the neurons in your
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brain that kept you addicted to people pleasing, that kept you addicted
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to everybody else's opinion of you.
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Actually go away.
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Those neurons are being pruned off and new neurons are starting to form.
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That actually allows a woman to finally stand in the most authentic
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version of her she may have ever seen.
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She starts to speak her truth.
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She starts putting herself first.
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Her brain becomes more focused.
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She gets more confidence.
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That is the brain rewire that's happening during this phase.
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David Friedman, BS: Great.
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I know you talk a lot about the powerful neurochemical changes during menopause.
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Can you explain maybe how things like the decline of estrogen, dopamine,
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serotonin, and oxytocin can set females up for greater clarity and resilience?
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Mindy Pelz: Yeah, so I found about 12 different neurochemicals.
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A few of them, I call 'em bonus molecules, but in general,
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there's 12 neurochemicals that.
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Estrogen stimulated and I like to lovingly refer to them as estrogen's, girl gang.
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And if estrogen was the popular hormone, the girl gang are
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like her little side posse.
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These are like the whim, the girls that hang out with her
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because she's the popular girl.
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And so when estrogen gets up and leaves.
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All of these neurochemicals are at jeopardy, so I'll
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explain a couple of them.
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dopamine is a big one, serotonin, acetylcholine, which helps with
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memory, gaba, which keeps us calm.
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Oxytocin, which makes us feel connected to others.
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Melatonin, which helps us sleep.
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Insulin, which helps us stay thin.
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All of these neurochemicals start to change.
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As estrogen goes down and this is even if you're doing HRT, these neurochemicals
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are in jeopardy and it is your lifestyle.
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It's what you do every single day that's either going to bring them
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back or accelerate their decline.
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David Friedman, BS: Right.
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I know I get so many female patients over 40.
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They complain.
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Mood swings, exhaustion, brain fog.
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I hear daily.
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What are a few steps they can take to start feeling like themselves again?
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Mindy Pelz: Well, I have to go back into my other work that has continued
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to serve women in, in incredible ways, and that's through the lens of fasting.
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if you're not a faster, sit tight with me for a second as I explain this.
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So the brain has two fuel sources.
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One is called glucose.
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And glucose we get when we eat food.
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So you're, when you hear blood sugar, the chemical name for that is glucose.
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When you eat something, your blood sugar goes up.
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When you don't eat, when you fast, at minimum 12, 13 hours, your metabolism
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actually switches over into what I call the fat burning metabolism,
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where you will burn fat to make a ketone when you go through menopause,
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when you start to lose estrogen.
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What happens is your brain is becoming less sensitive to glucose.
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I don't care how healthy you are, those neurons can't take in the
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glucose fuel source as well as they did when you were menstruating.
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So this other fuel source, this ketone becomes the hero for brain fog,
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irritability, anxiety, depression.
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Because when you train your body specifically to fast, what will happen is
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that you'll start to get these ketones.
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Your body burns fat, by the way, in order to make the ketone.
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And then that ketone starts to bring all these members of
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estrogen's, girl, gang back.
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You start to get more dopamine, more serotonin, you get more gaba.
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It kills your hunger.
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It's, it's like a, hybrid car.
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Like you're switching over into the electric vehicle and all of a sudden
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your brain is much more efficient, more powerful, and you will think and feel
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a whole lot better if you can start to learn how to access these ketones.
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And I promise you it is not that hard.
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It's just that we're not teaching women the power of ketones.
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David Friedman, BS: Right.
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Great benefits of fasting.
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What about when they're eating?
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There's so much conflicting advice on what to eat during menopause.
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Some say stay away from soy and flax seeds and chickpeas.
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I've seen stay away from red meat.
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It's off limits.
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Are there specific dietary restrictions that you recommend
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to help manage symptoms?
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Mindy Pelz: Yeah, so a couple things on the diet.
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When I put this book together, you know, we've been teaching women,
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millions of women how to eat and fast according to their cycle for years.
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And the one thing that I really see in women is they're tired of counting.
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They're tired of counting calories, they're tired of counting macros.
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They're tired of, living their life off the number on the scale.
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So I really wanted to make it simple.
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And so I came up with some really basic.
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Guidelines for women going through menopause to make sure that they
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master their food and here they are.
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So first we've gotta get off the ultra processed foods.
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So if you're still doing the inflammatory oils, the ultra refined sugars and
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flowers, your menopausal experience specifically, the way your brain will
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work is gonna be much more bumpy.
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So let's make sure that we get you off of the toxic food.
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Then we start to add in some real basic foods.
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So for starters, I'm a huge fan of, animal meat.
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I don't know if a lot of your listeners are vegetarians, but the reason that
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a animal meat is so important, is that it's a complete protein and it has.
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All the amino acids you need to be able to make neurotransmitters
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and be able to make hormones.
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So if you're not dipping into animal meat, and you're a vegetarian, we need to make
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sure you're getting a variety of proteins because protein brings amino acids.
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And amino acids help your neurochemical system.
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So the most important thing to start with is making sure every single meal
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you're having some form of clean protein.
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Preference is animal, if you're not doing animal, just make a good variety and
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get a good complete protein with plant.
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The second thing that is really surprising and really exciting
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and I found in all my research is that tubers, so tubers are sweet.
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Potatoes, potatoes, hickma, turnips.
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These are your root vegetables that are really yummy and a lot of
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people who went into the keto diet.
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Just shied away from these.
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And I wanna make sure that menopausal women are leaning into
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these because these are incredible for stabilizing your blood sugar.
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a lot of these tubers bring magnesium that will really help you make hormones.
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the really incredible tubers are incredible for your microbiome
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that will actually help you start to break hormones down.
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So the second category I would put is tuber And then the third category is
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sort of a broad one, which is fiber.
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We absolutely need to be eating more fiber as we go in through menopause into
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our post-menopausal years because fiber feeds the microbes and the microbes break.
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Hormones down.
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And if you don't break your hormone down, whether it's estrogen or
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even cortisol, your body will store those hormones as fat.
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And usually where it'll store it in is in your belly.
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and if there's one thing that women going through menopause, are trying to
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overcome, it's menopausal belly weight.
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David Friedman, BS: That's great.
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I love that you say you don't have to be a mathematician.
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Stop the counting.
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I love this saying don't count calories.
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Make your calories count.
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Mindy Pelz: Ooh, that's good.
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David Friedman, BS: I love that one.
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It's like everybody's like pulling out their calculator.
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That's not how our ancestors used to eat.
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What are we doing it now for?
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I love that.
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Lemme ask you this.
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There's so many supplements touted for helping women who
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are dealing with menopause.
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Everything from Black Co-Host the Evening, Primrose Oil, I've heard about Dong Quad.
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The list goes on and on.
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Is there anything that gets the Dr.
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Pell's seal of approval?
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Mindy Pelz: Well, okay.
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First let's talk about supplements as a, general idea.
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Supplements.
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We gotta break that word down.
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It's a supplement.
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You are supplementing a good diet, so there is no supplement that
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you can take that's going to pull you out of chronic stress and poor
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diet So don't waste your money.
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Let's get the lifestyle in order first.
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Second, for sure.
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I don't know how any woman makes it through menopause or even into her
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postmenopausal years without magnesium.
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Magnesium is the hero supplement because helps you make progesterone,
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helps you make estrogen, but it also helps relax muscles.
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It can help with your whole digestive system.
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so it's really good for calming.
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I love it for that.
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the new supplement, and you're probably seeing this in your practice that
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everybody's crazy about I would say with good reason is creatine.
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So estrogen helps stimulate natural creatine production in your own body.
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So when estrogen goes away, we need to add some creatine back in.
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Whether it's, I put a scoop of creatine in my coffee every morning, and what creatine
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does is it helps you with muscle power.
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It helps you keep those muscles strong, and it helps the greatest
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muscle in your body, which is sitting in your skull called your brain.
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So when we take creatine, it helps with cognition, it helps
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with muscle strength and estrogen naturally produced creatine for you.
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But as estrogen's gone away, now you're going to need to supplement or get a
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diet high in creatine rich foods, which is pretty much a animal based diet.
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David Friedman, BS: great advice.
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I know you probably hear the same thing.
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I hear the complaint from females over 40, how horrible sleep they get.
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They can't sleep.
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Is there anything you've discovered that can combat this hormonal nightmare?
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Mindy Pelz: Yeah.
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So in researching this book, one of the things I figured out was
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that estrogen actually stimulates the timekeeper in our brain.
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estrogen made sure that the body knew when it was night and you wanted to go
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to sleep, and when you were waking up.
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So without estrogen, that timekeeper doesn't know what time of day you're in.
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So it doesn't know when to make melatonin.
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So the greatest way to get the timekeeper back on track is light.
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So we need to see red light in the morning.
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Ideally, I'd want people to see it from the sun.
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course, there are great red light tools out there right now,
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but get up with the sunrise.
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Look outside.
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Let your eyes see that there's a red hue in the sky that will tell the timekeeper.
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Turn melatonin off in the middle of the day.
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Go out and go for our 20 minute walk without your sunglasses.
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Not only will that help make serotonin, 'cause we have receptor sites in
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our eyes for serotonin, but it also will tell the timekeeper, oh,
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see this full spectrum blue light.
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We are in the middle of our day.
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And then at the end of the day, take your dog for a walk around sunset.
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And tell the timekeeper, oh, see how the light in the sky is changing?
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This means we're gonna start to slow down and you need to make melatonin again.
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So without estrogen to anchor to our sleep wake cycle, we've gotta look
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at light in as many different ways as we can, but we've gotta start to
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train our body to use light as a cue of when to wake up and when to sleep.
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David Friedman, BS: I love that you're showing how to produce natural melatonin.
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I get patients that try the melatonin supplements and they're
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just groggy and they feel worse.
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And one thing I recommend, I've, been telling 'em to
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drink some tart cherry juice.
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It's, anti-inflammatory and it helps natural melatonin.
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And they've had good results.
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They wake up refreshed.
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it's simple.
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Just little six ounces before, you know, dinner time or a little after
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dinners a dessert really helps.
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Let me ask you another common complaint.
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A no, you've.
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Probably, been asked this a hundred times during menopause.
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Is the decline in libido?
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Are there strategies, whether hormonal, physiological, or
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lifestyle related that can help, you know, really reignite intimacy?
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Mindy Pelz: So there's two things.
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First, to realize is that testosterone has a precursor that it needs in
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order for your body to make testosterone, and that's called DHEA.
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And DHEA will help make cortisol, progesterone, and testosterone.
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So if you're in a chronically stressed state while you are going through your
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perimenopausal years, you may end up with your DHEA stores completely tanked
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because all that DHEA went to make cortisol and there's nothing left to
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be able to make testosterone, which is one of the reasons we're starting
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to see more and more women talk about.
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looking at HRT for testosterone or talking about this libido decline,
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they just don't have enough testosterone because they've been so stressed
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out and those DHA stores are tanked.
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So you could supplement with DHEA, the other thing, and, I've spent a lot of
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time on interviews for this book talking about marriage through this whole process.
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And one of the things I think that.
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As women, we don't quite grasp is that we are great stewards
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of pleasing everybody else.
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We are really good at making sure that we fix everybody else's problems, we
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take care of everybody else, but in that.
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What happens is we can get resentful.
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the very, very famous marriage, therapist, Julie Gottman, the
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Gottman's, have studied married couples more than anybody on the planet.
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I was with her last spring and we were talking about this exact topic
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and she said, here's what happens to women when they get into marriage and
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long-term marriages, and especially when they go through the menopausal
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process, is that the resentment builds when a woman is saying yes.
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To all the things she really wanted to say no to.
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and when she does that, she becomes more and more resentful so we can
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look at libido from a place of, okay, she's totally stressed out.
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Her DHEA stores need to be filled back up, which is a really valid thing to look at.
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But we also need to ask that woman.
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Where can we resolve some of this resentment?
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How can we get you starting to speak up for yourself?
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How can we get you living life on your terms?
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Because when you can heal the resentment, the libido will come back.
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David Friedman, BS: great advice.
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Yeah.
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I've been practicing now 35 years and I've had the, honor of watching many
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of my female patients journey from their twenties into their fifties, and
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one thing I've noticed I have to share is, they become extremely nervous and
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stressed during menopause, and I know the person, so I know they're not normally
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like that 'cause I remember them.
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I remember them 10, 20, 30 years ago.
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What can they do to dial down the worry and the stress button find ease again?
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Mindy Pelz: Yeah.
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the beautiful thing about menopause, and this was like the main
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concept I wanted to bring forward and age like a girl, is that.
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You are starting to hear your own desires more than ever before.
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So sometimes we're stressed because we've been doing too many things,
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and all of a sudden we hear a little voice inside our head that's like,
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I don't wanna do all these things.
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I need to free my schedule up.
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And so when you feel that stress, like you can't handle stress
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anymore, I think the first thing to ask yourself is what needs to go?
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What are you doing that you no longer want to do anymore?
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I can tell you for me, as I went through this transition,
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I finally got really clear.
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I only wanna work two days a week.
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I don't wanna work seven days a week like I did for two decades.
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And the minute I made that decision, I could feel my whole spirit lift.
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and some women, they don't wanna be the one that's cooking the
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meal every night for dinner.
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And so they let go of that and all of a sudden they can
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start to feel that stress lift.
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So don't lose the opportunity to start to let go of some of the
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things that are bringing you stress.
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Second thing is this is the era.
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Menopause and beyond is the era where you get to put your focus on you.
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So are you getting out into nature on a regular basis?
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Are you working out?
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Are you doing things that.
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Fill your soul, like maybe it's time to start to learn to draw, or to write,
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or to play a new musical instrument.
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I can tell you one thing I started doing just four months
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ago, and I'm 56 years old.
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I live in Santa Cruz, California, and I started surfing I'd had
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friends ask me to come out and surf before, but I never had time.
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I was always putting my family and work ahead it, and I just
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said, yeah, I'm gonna try this.
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And I fell in love with it and it's this strange thing I get to do every day.
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That's just for me.
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So the stress builds as you go through this process.
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You can use it as a mirror to start to see what you wanna start
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doing and what you wanna let go of.
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David Friedman, BS: I love that you bring.
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I just had a solo segment where I talked about that, you know, now that you're in
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menopause, you've got time for a hobby.
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You know, all those excuses you had, you had kids, you had this, you had husband,
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this, you had to work, blah, blah.
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Hey, now's the time for a hobby.
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Or like you said, surfing, skiing, do something, pottery.
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if you have bad hips or you know something, there's
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something that you could do.
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And, I think that creates new synapses in the brain and it makes life a.
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Last longer.
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It doesn't go by as quickly, which is so important.
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you mentioned something called the grandmother hypothesis as evidence
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that women are meant to thrive and lead after fertility ends.
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How do you see this evolutionary perspective shifting the culture of
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conversation around aging and menopause?
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Mindy Pelz: Yeah, so what was so interesting about the grandmother
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hypothesis is it really tracked with something I brought forward
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in fast like a girl, which is called the Thrifty Gene Hypothesis.
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And when we go back and we look at our hunter and gatherer ancestors, we start
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to see that the way they lived life, because they didn't know any better.
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Was in alignment with the human design.
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So fasting people started losing weight because all of a sudden we
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were accessing this other metabolism that was there the whole time.
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just, nobody taught you how to access it.
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With the grandmother hypothesis, what that states, and what is so exciting is that
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back in the hunter and gatherer days, what happened is when a woman stopped cycling.
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She was actually moved to a place of leadership within the clan because what
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the clan knew is that on almost every given day that the men were gonna go out
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for a big animal kill, and they would come back with food only about 3% of the time.
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So back home at the tribe.
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Was fertile women, women that were nursing, women that
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were pregnant, little babies.
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And that in order for our species to even exist and evolve, somebody
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had to feed those women and children.
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And it was the grandmothers that every single day went on a seven
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hour trek to go and find food.
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And this is where the tubers come in.
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Most of the time.
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They would go bring back tubers and they would cook 'em and
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they would feed the clan.
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So there's a belief system that actually as humans, we would not be here if it
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wasn't for the grandmother going and forging for food to keep us alive.
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So in some sense, postmenopausal women are, evolutionary heroines.
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they are the reason you and I are having this conversation right now.
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David Friedman, BS: So true.
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I know a common question I hear from women in their over 40 or fifties is they can't
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drink a glass of wine like they used to.
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It triggers these hot flashes, burning feed, some even get nausea.
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What's your take on wine during this stage of life?
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Mindy Pelz: Yeah, that's such a tough one because I mean, here's the thing is if
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you drink a glass of wine, you're signing yourself up for a poor night's sleep.
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Part of that is because it will change your core temperature and at two
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and three in the morning, your body all of a sudden has the temperature
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goes high and you start sweating.
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so that's the first thing that I would say.
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The second problem that we have with the glass of wine is that it's really
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hard on the liver and your liver is working really hard to break estrogen
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down, and you need as much estrogen as your body can naturally make.
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So we wanna be kind to the liver now.
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I will say there are areas in which I can see wine as a useful tool.
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and it's really in more of like a social setting, you know, a sitting at, a
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family dinner, pairing it with a meal.
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I can tell you, for me.
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I like the art of wine paired with food.
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We are a big foodie family and wine and food go together in our family.
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there are times in social situations where I think a glass of wine can be relaxing.
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It will temporarily, bring your cortisol levels down, and it can facilitate the
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journey and help put you into a state where you, feel like connecting with
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those around you a little bit better.
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But we also have to realize too much is hard on the liver and you're signing
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yourself up for a poor night's sleep.
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David Friedman, BS: Yeah, and too much wine can also hurt the bladder,
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making it be able to urinate.
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It's called Pinot more.
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You don't wanna drink any pee no more.
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Mindy Pelz: Yeah.
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David Friedman, BS: So those of you with bladder problems stay
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away from that time of mind.
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Mindy Pelz: Oh my God, that was good.
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That was good.
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David Friedman, BS: I wanna dive a little bit into brain fog.
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I know so many females over 50, they complain of what I call mental
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pause, that awful clouded memory.
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What causes this and is there any strategies to improve
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focus and mental clarity?
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Mindy Pelz: so the first thing is clean your diet up.
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Let's make sure you're not on the ultra processed foods, because when you eat
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something toxic, it inflames the brain and it leads to brain fog, so that would be.
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Like the low hanging fruit.
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first answer.
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Second thing is that we have to remember again, the brain is rewiring itself.
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So there are neurons, the people pleasing neurons that
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are starting to be sloughed off.
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They're starting to go away.
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And so there is a remodeling, I call it in the book, the Brain Remodel Project.
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And anytime you remodel anything, think about a kitchen remodel.
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There's dust.
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There's dirt.
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It's gonna be a little messy.
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So for a lot of women, this brain fog is just a temporary signal.
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That the brain is remodeling itself.
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So if you can look at it through that lens, sometimes that's a lot More helpful.
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and then the last thing, we're back at the ketone.
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I've watched over and over and over again, not only in my clinic, but
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we see it in our online community.
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That when you teach a, perimenopause or postmenopausal woman how to make
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ketones from the inside of her body, literally within a day or two, that
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brain fog is gone and will never return as long as she's dipping
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into ketones on a regular basis.
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David Friedman, BS: Wow.
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I know you, studied the topic of menopause.
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Is there one myth about it or aging in general that you most wish
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to see debunked in your lifetime?
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Mindy Pelz: Oh yeah, that, it's a process of suffering.
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It is not a process.
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Of suffering.
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You are on the path to deliberation.
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You are not about to head into a decline, invisible state.
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Your brain is rewiring itself so that you can live the happiest,
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most productive, most in alignment, authentic version of you.
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Of your life that you've ever seen.
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we have the idea right now that you're suffering, so stop suffering.
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But the idea here is that you're changing.
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You are changing into something better.
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Let's get to know this new version of you.
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David Friedman, BS: Well said.
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Time flew by man.
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I had so many things I wanted to chat with you.
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But I guess in the two or three minutes we have left, is there anything else you'd
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like to share that we didn't cover today?
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Mindy Pelz: I just want women to keep believing in themselves through this.
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it can be bumpy, but if you understand lifestyle tools, if you find a
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good doctor to work with, if you gather a really supportive community
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around you, you'll find that the experience is not just tolerable.
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But that actually, the closer you get to their postmenopausal
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years, you'll start to experience this brain that I'm talking about.
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David Friedman, BS: That's great.
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And I love how you, focus on lifestyle and everyone thinks it's all about,
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you know, diet and exercise, but it really is, like you said, lifestyle,
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staying connected, having a purpose.
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Right?
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Isn't that important when you're, I think people lose a purpose.
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It's like, oh, I'm retired.
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what am I waking up for?
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Find that purpose isn't that important?
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Mindy Pelz: right.
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purpose is a huge piece.
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I talk about that a bunch in the book because with purpose comes dopamine, and
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dopamine is one of the Girl gang members that you lose as estrogen goes down.
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So for a lot of women.
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The purpose may have been their kids or, maybe their purpose was their job,
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but they don't like that job anymore.
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So your purpose can be a lot of things, and it doesn't have to be big.
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Like a purpose moment could be.
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You decide every time you're out in public, you're gonna smile at people.
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Your purpose is to bring joy to people.
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You're gonna say hello.
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little purposes can have a same huge dopamine effect, but even if you find a
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big purpose or you start to volunteer, or you start to join a group of
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people who are walking or pickleball, like find that new thing that lights
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you up and dopamine will follow.
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David Friedman, BS: Fantastic information.
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I wanna thank you so much for joining us today and shedding some very
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needed light on this important topic.
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I'm sure many of our listeners took some great notes, but what Dr.
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Mindy shared today doesn't even touch the surface of the plethora
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of information you're gonna get from her book Age Like a Girl.
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Get your copy.
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