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Ep.6 Peppers and Perimenopause · Health and Homestead Pod

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SPEAKER_00: Welcome to Health and Homestead with Laura and Allie.
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SPEAKER_01: Disclaimer: This podcast is for educational and entertainment purposes only.
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SPEAKER_01: The content of this podcast is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment.
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SPEAKER_01: Do not avoid or delay obtaining medical advice based on the shit that we say.
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SPEAKER_01: Thanks.
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SPEAKER_01: Hi.
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SPEAKER_01: Welcome to episode six.
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SPEAKER_01: Six episodes for you today.
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SPEAKER_01: We got peppers and perimenopause.
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SPEAKER_01: Both spicy.
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SPEAKER_02: Both are spicy.
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SPEAKER_01: But you're going to get started.
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SPEAKER_00: We got some corrections.
0:46
SPEAKER_00: Yes, we got some corrections.
0:48
SPEAKER_00: So um last week when I was talking about uh canning, it had come up about lemon juice.
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SPEAKER_00: And I said that I use lemon juice from a bottle more so than lemon juice from like an actual lemon, only because it's standardized.
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SPEAKER_00: Like the acidity is definitely what you need to kind of kill the botulism and all that stuff.
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SPEAKER_00: So it is best to use lemon juice from a bottle.
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SPEAKER_00: That's just more of a clarification.
1:08
SPEAKER_00: I think I said that, but not in so many words.
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SPEAKER_00: Um, and just a side note, too, that vinegar needs to be 5% in order to kill botulism spores.
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SPEAKER_00: Um, it's possible to get 4% now, just cleaning vinegars and stuff.
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SPEAKER_00: They are available, so just be sure that when you're getting it for canning purposes, that it is 5% because that's what you need.
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SPEAKER_00: To kill the botch.
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SPEAKER_01: Oh, the botch.
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SPEAKER_01: 5%.
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SPEAKER_01: Okay.
1:31
SPEAKER_01: Um what's new?
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SPEAKER_01: Oh, new from last week, mom.
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SPEAKER_01: Mom and make it with mama.
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SPEAKER_01: My new stake.
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SPEAKER_01: Facebook human of life.
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SPEAKER_01: She so far we made biscuits and cinnamon rolls, and people are loving it.
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SPEAKER_01: Like, she we went into a diner the other day, and there were three tables that were like, Judy, I made your cinnamon rolls today.
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SPEAKER_01: Like, she was just doing her rounds around that little diner.
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SPEAKER_01: It was hilarious.
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SPEAKER_01: Everyone knows her anyway, but yeah, that's she's so adorable.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah, anyway, she's loving it.
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SPEAKER_01: I've been getting pictures of like biscuits and cinnamon rolls and keep sending them because she loves them.
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SPEAKER_01: Um every shape, every side, every color.
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SPEAKER_01: This week we're making apple pie.
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SPEAKER_01: Great time for Thanksgiving.
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SPEAKER_01: Perfect.
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SPEAKER_01: Um, she's gonna show you how to make pie pastry, which she freezes and just uses again and again.
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SPEAKER_01: So it's something you have to watch too, the the pastry making.
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SPEAKER_01: So that will be make it with mama.
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SPEAKER_01: So it's gonna be it's live on my Facebook page.
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SPEAKER_01: Um, but if it's also on Health and Homestead Pod on YouTube.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah, so if you want to subscribe to the YouTube channel, if I don't have you on Facebook, I'm not great at Facebook.
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SPEAKER_01: Um, but Health and Homestead Pod, just subscribe and it'll tell you when there's new things posted.
2:42
SPEAKER_00: Um so we gotta dive, we get a dive right here.
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SPEAKER_00: We do.
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SPEAKER_01: This is gonna be a full action-packed episode because perimenopause is gonna take me long.
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SPEAKER_00: So yeah, no, so I'm gonna start with peppers um only because it's I'm gonna just kind of speed, not speed through it, but speed through it.
2:58
SPEAKER_00: Um, only because, yeah, the perimenopause part is very important and it's a lot of people have been asking for it.
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SPEAKER_00: It's been a requested, unrequested topic.
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SPEAKER_00: So um, so yeah, I'll just kind of go over peppers a little bit.
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SPEAKER_00: Peppers is something that I have in my garden every year.
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SPEAKER_00: I'm sure a lot of people grow them every year.
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SPEAKER_00: Uh, did you know that peppers are a fruit?
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SPEAKER_00: I did not know how the vegetable they have um they come from flowers, like the the plant flowers, and then that's where the fruit comes from, and they have seeds in them.
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SPEAKER_00: So technically they are fruit.
3:27
SPEAKER_00: Don't put them in a fruit salad.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah, really.
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SPEAKER_00: Like tomatoes.
3:30
SPEAKER_00: Oh, yeah.
3:31
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
3:32
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_00: Uh so there's a couple different, I mean, when it comes to to um peppers, there's sweet, there's heat, there's there's all of the all of the above.
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SPEAKER_00: Um, there's a scale that they kind of go by, which is not important.
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SPEAKER_00: But sweet peppers is usually the staple that I have in my garden.
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SPEAKER_00: I did try to go branch out, branch out a little bit um into hot peppers this year.
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SPEAKER_00: They're actually very low on that scale.
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SPEAKER_00: So they're very not spicy, but they did grow a little different.
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SPEAKER_00: So very important to know these things, and I'll talk about that.
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SPEAKER_00: First thing you should know when you are planting peppers is kind of have an idea what you're gonna do with them and how many you need.
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SPEAKER_00: Because how many do you have?
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SPEAKER_00: 7,000.
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SPEAKER_00: 7,000 12 peppers is how many I've ended up with.
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SPEAKER_00: So you kind of have to get an idea of what you're gonna do.
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SPEAKER_00: Like just have a little bit of a plan for okay, this is what I'm gonna do.
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SPEAKER_00: You can always scale up or scale down based on the amount, but for the love of God, have a plan.
4:24
SPEAKER_00: There's a million different things you can do with them.
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SPEAKER_00: You can pickle them, uh, you can dry them because I like to dry things and just make powders and just give a little more intense pepper flavor.
4:32
SPEAKER_00: Um, whether it be, whether it be the sweet peppers or the um the heat peppers.
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SPEAKER_00: What I'm doing right now actually is dehydrating a whole bunch because I have so many of them, sweet peppers, and I'm making mason jar kind of cup of soup.
4:46
SPEAKER_00: Is that still a thing?
4:47
SPEAKER_00: That was from our yeah, yeah, like Mr.
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SPEAKER_00: Noodles almost, but just with like noodles, um, dehydrated noodles and vegetables and stuff.
4:55
SPEAKER_00: So you just had to put hot water in it and some homemade chicken bouillon, which is a lot of.
4:58
SPEAKER_00: Oh, bouillon.
4:59
SPEAKER_00: The bouillon.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay, yeah.
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SPEAKER_00: So you can also freeze them, which thank God, because I'm probably gonna end up freezing a lot of them.
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SPEAKER_00: I have two milk crates for a full of peppers in my, and some are like the small ones, the small hot peppers.
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SPEAKER_00: So there is a lot of peppers in my kitchen right now.
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SPEAKER_00: So chances are I'll just be freezing a lot of them to deal with uh at another time.
5:17
SPEAKER_00: Um, but yeah, so the other big thing when it comes to peppers, and something I learned this year was not all peppers come to fruit fruit tuition.
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SPEAKER_00: Fruit at the same time.
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SPEAKER_00: So any information that you get in general about peppers is usually about bell peppers because that's the one that's the most um most used.
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SPEAKER_00: So we start them when we start seeds.
5:39
SPEAKER_00: I say we, me and dad, we we plant our stuff at the same time.
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SPEAKER_00: Um, we start the seeds indoors.
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SPEAKER_00: Um in his garage, he has a he has a furnace, like a wood stove, and a fan on them at all times.
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SPEAKER_00: So that kind of helps to get rid of any any disease or anything, keeps things moving in there.
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SPEAKER_00: Um and then when they grow too, it actually puts a little bit of resistance on the stalks.
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SPEAKER_00: So it makes them um a little more muscular.
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SPEAKER_01: When the fan's on them?
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SPEAKER_01: When the fan's on them.
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SPEAKER_01: It's like yoga for peppers, something like that.
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SPEAKER_00: Strength training, which I'm gonna get into later with perimetaphones.
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SPEAKER_00: Exactly.
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SPEAKER_00: So um about eight to ten weeks before you want to put them in the ground, that's when you should be starting them.
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SPEAKER_00: So what you should do is read the label because I just did all the peppers, like hot peppers and not pepper.
6:21
SPEAKER_00: What?
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SPEAKER_00: Hot or not?
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SPEAKER_00: Are you hot or not?
6:25
SPEAKER_00: Jesus.
6:25
SPEAKER_00: Um, I did all of them the same.
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SPEAKER_00: So I I put them all like this.
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SPEAKER_00: I started them all from seed, but about eight to ten weeks before uh I wanted to put them in the ground.
6:33
SPEAKER_00: You have to put them in the ground after the last frost.
6:35
SPEAKER_00: There is an old wives tale that says after the last frost is usually um after the last full moon in June, which I mean, whatever.
6:43
SPEAKER_00: It worked for it worked for the olden, the olden days.
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SPEAKER_00: Um, but yeah, so starting whether you're starting from seed or from seedlings, there's no shame.
6:51
SPEAKER_00: There's no shame in buying them already kind of in the seedling state.
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SPEAKER_00: There's nothing wrong with that.
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SPEAKER_00: Um, but you do have to kind of it's obviously a little more work when you start them from seed.
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SPEAKER_00: You have to repot them when they're when they're so big.
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SPEAKER_00: Usually when you buy the seedlings, that part's already done.
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SPEAKER_00: And then you have to do something called hardening them off.
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SPEAKER_00: So that just means what what dad does because they're in the garage, he just puts them by the door.
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SPEAKER_00: He'll open the door for a few hours of the day and close the door back down at night.
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SPEAKER_00: So he's just kind of like climatizing them almost when it gets closer to when it's going to be going outside.
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SPEAKER_00: So you don't just take them from a nice warm garage and put them in the ground, and then Mother Nature doesn't fuck with them as much, I guess.
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SPEAKER_00: So hardening them off is you do that with a lot of different plants.
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SPEAKER_00: Um, you usually do that about late May.
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SPEAKER_00: So when you're starting them indoors eight to ten weeks, that's usually like mid-February, March, like first of March is when you would start them.
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SPEAKER_00: However, however, these hot ones I should have put in earlier because it is now October 7th, and I just harvested um and they're not quite ready yet, like not quite ripe, uh, some of the hot peppers.
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SPEAKER_00: So I should have started them a lot earlier.
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SPEAKER_00: And had I read the package, they probably would have told me to do that, but I just did them all the same because I didn't know.
8:02
SPEAKER_00: Um instructions are for losers.
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SPEAKER_00: Instructions are for losers, except when you want um peppers to to grow, you should probably read the instructions.
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SPEAKER_00: Uh and then I mean when you're once you're planted them, you just have to take care of them normally in the um in the feet in the field, in the crop.
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SPEAKER_00: And yeah, when you're when you're planting them, give them about a a foot or two just so it'll it'll give them some room to grow.
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SPEAKER_00: Hot peppers, I also found, have need a little bit more space to grow to.
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SPEAKER_00: So they need closer to three feet than two, but that's just kind of a trial and error thing.
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SPEAKER_00: And actually, probably says on the pack.
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SPEAKER_00: It probably would give you that instruction for sure.
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SPEAKER_00: Yep.
8:40
SPEAKER_00: Um, so that's just the the nitty and the gritty about peppers.
8:43
SPEAKER_00: Like I said, it's it's a huge staple in our in our diet, and I am gonna I am gonna do stuff with them.
8:47
SPEAKER_00: I just gotta get I just gotta get there, and there's so many.
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SPEAKER_00: It's overwhelming, but when things are overwhelming when you're harvesting, just throw them in the freezer, ma'am.
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SPEAKER_00: Throw them in the freezer and deal with it later.
8:56
SPEAKER_00: I have a whole bunch of tomatoes too that I have to get back to, but so freezer, freezer will be there.
9:02
SPEAKER_00: Okay, freeze and freeze and do later.
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SPEAKER_01: Or go to the fella in Stellerton and just buy pepper plants and put them right in the ground because he does all that hard work for you.
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SPEAKER_00: Exactly.
9:11
SPEAKER_00: He has fans going, probably.
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SPEAKER_00: They're all right strong because you can get them, they can get kind of laggy if you don't do that.
9:16
SPEAKER_00: And what that means is just they they'll just topple over.
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SPEAKER_00: So they need that little bit of oomph, that little bit of resistance to get strong.
9:24
SPEAKER_00: So a pepper is a pepper.
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SPEAKER_00: A pepper is a pepper, and perimontipaws fucking socks.
9:29
SPEAKER_01: All right, right into it, right into it.
9:32
SPEAKER_01: Um, so very, very much in the thick of it at my house.
9:35
SPEAKER_01: I have a 13-year-old daughter and a 41-year-old myself.
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SPEAKER_01: So there is hormones raging, and my poor husband is like in the thick of it all.
9:46
SPEAKER_01: He's not home a lot, and I know why.
9:48
SPEAKER_01: I know why.
9:49
SPEAKER_01: Anyway, I'm like, what may the best, may the strongest hormones win between me and her.
9:54
SPEAKER_01: Anywho.
9:55
SPEAKER_01: Um, perimenopause.
9:57
SPEAKER_01: This is a request.
9:57
SPEAKER_01: This is my friend Jenna requested to me to do some hormones and perimenopause because this is we're we're there.
10:04
SPEAKER_01: It's important stuff.
10:05
SPEAKER_01: We're there.
10:06
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
10:07
SPEAKER_01: Um, so perimenopause, what is it?
10:09
SPEAKER_01: I love a good definition.
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SPEAKER_01: Perimenopause is the transitional phase between when you're reproductive and childbearing to when you are menopausal.
10:19
SPEAKER_01: So if you are 12 consecutive months without a period, you are in menopause.
10:24
SPEAKER_01: The time leading up to that, when your cycles go crazy and your hormones go nuts, that's perimenopause.
10:28
SPEAKER_01: But great news, all.
10:31
SPEAKER_00: Oh my god.
10:32
SPEAKER_01: When will it happen?
10:34
SPEAKER_01: Anytime between the ages of mid-30s to mid-50s.
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SPEAKER_01: So huge window.
10:39
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
10:43
SPEAKER_01: Floor to ceiling.
10:45
SPEAKER_01: Oh my god.
10:45
SPEAKER_01: Window, yeah.
10:46
SPEAKER_01: So it could happen anytime.
10:47
SPEAKER_01: And it could last that whole time.
10:50
SPEAKER_01: Or the average length of perimenopause symptoms is six to eight years.
10:55
SPEAKER_01: But when I when I read about it, it's like it could last months, it could last decades, and that makes me want to throw up in my mouth.
11:01
SPEAKER_01: Makes me want to punch my husband in the face.
11:03
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
11:03
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
11:03
SPEAKER_01: Do you feel like you hate your husband, but you know you don't?
11:06
SPEAKER_01: Do you not want to be touched at all, ever?
11:08
SPEAKER_00: Ever.
11:09
SPEAKER_01: Do you feel like a random inconvenience or one certain sound will throw you right over the edge?
11:14
SPEAKER_01: I do.
11:15
SPEAKER_01: Most days.
11:16
SPEAKER_01: Gonna send you to a grippy soft location right quick.
11:19
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
11:20
SPEAKER_01: But estrogen's a bitch.
11:21
SPEAKER_01: Estrogen's a bitch that we have when we're younger, we lose it when we're older, and that's pretty much what menopause is.
11:28
SPEAKER_01: The when it will happen to us, no one knows.
11:33
SPEAKER_01: No one knows.
11:35
SPEAKER_01: But when some things that can predict when you're going to start perimenopause and actually reach menopause is family history.
11:43
SPEAKER_01: So if you ask your mom, our mom had a medically induced menopause because she had a full hysterectomy.
11:51
SPEAKER_01: Um, so we don't actually know when she would have gone through natural menopause.
11:54
SPEAKER_01: But if your mom, it's around the same time your mom or your grandmothers may have gone through menopause, it gives you like an idea of when you might be.
12:01
SPEAKER_01: But a couple things too.
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SPEAKER_01: Smoking, if you if you're a smoker, you can go through menopause or perimenopause about one to two years earlier than someone who does not smoke.
12:11
SPEAKER_01: If you've had cancer treatment, like radiation to the pelvic region, can affect your ovaries, estrogen production, all that stuff.
12:19
SPEAKER_01: So, and of course, if you have a hysterectomy, if you have a full hysterectomy where they take your ovaries and your uterus, we call that like medically induced menopause.
12:27
SPEAKER_01: So you are in menopause immediately.
12:29
SPEAKER_01: If you have a hysterectomy and they only take your uterus and they leave an ovary, you're still producing estrogen.
12:36
SPEAKER_01: A lot of times that's what they'll do if they can.
12:38
SPEAKER_01: So perimenopause, though, it's gradual.
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SPEAKER_01: It doesn't all happen at once, unless you know, if you have a hysterectomy, it can't happen all at once.
12:47
SPEAKER_01: But you'll start to notice these symptoms, and then the symptoms will change over time.
12:50
SPEAKER_01: I want to say I probably started the like after reading the symptoms.
12:55
SPEAKER_01: I'm like, uh, maybe like when I was 39.
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SPEAKER_01: That seemed like the type, but night sweats are new.
13:00
SPEAKER_01: That's a fun, that's a fun one that we're having now.
13:03
SPEAKER_01: But I'm gonna go through the symptoms of menopause, perimenopause.
13:08
SPEAKER_01: And what I want you to do.
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SPEAKER_01: Put a finger up if you put a finger up, take a take account of how many of these symptoms you have.
13:16
SPEAKER_01: And I want to say, too, this isn't a bad idea to play this for your partners, for your spouses.
13:21
SPEAKER_00: And your children, if you don't mind hearing the the cuss words.
13:25
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah, exactly.
13:26
SPEAKER_01: Because the symptoms are broad, they change.
13:30
SPEAKER_01: Uh it can be decades, like it can be a decade of your life that you go through this.
13:33
SPEAKER_01: So we want, you know, your support system in there because sometimes you just can't help if you want to throat punch somebody.
13:39
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and sometimes you can't have to do it.
13:41
SPEAKER_01: But perimenopause, um, people often ask me, can you test your hormones if you're to see if you're in perimenopause?
13:48
SPEAKER_01: And the answer is no, because perimenopause is not estrogen depletion.
13:52
SPEAKER_01: It's when your estrogen is going up and down and up and down.
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SPEAKER_01: Fluctuating.
13:56
SPEAKER_01: And progesterone's going up and down and up and down.
13:58
SPEAKER_01: So it's not uh, it's not diagnostic of you know, if your hormones aren't going to only tell you something.
14:05
SPEAKER_01: But symptoms, start your counters, ladies.
14:09
SPEAKER_01: As your estrogen starts to fluctuate, number one thing, changes in your period.
14:14
SPEAKER_01: So there might be longer, they might be shorter, they might be less frequent, they might be more frequent.
14:19
SPEAKER_01: So if you're bleeding twice a month instead of once a month, that fucking sucks.
14:23
SPEAKER_01: But it irregular periods is definitely symptom number one.
14:27
SPEAKER_01: Hot flashes and or night sweats.
14:31
SPEAKER_01: Do you ever wake up and feel like there's like the chalk outline, like a crime scene in your bed, but it's actually sweat?
14:37
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
14:38
SPEAKER_00: No, what are you talking about?
14:39
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, no, not one time.
14:40
SPEAKER_01: So that's not fun.
14:42
SPEAKER_01: Um get cotton sheets, polyester blends, but it doesn't it doesn't matter though.
14:47
SPEAKER_01: The cotton, yeah, anyway.
14:48
SPEAKER_01: So those are a bitch.
14:51
SPEAKER_01: Insomnia, so not being able to fall asleep or stay asleep, anxiety, which we all love, anxiety, irritability, fatigue, so being tired but not being able to sleep, brain fog, an increased risk of depression.
15:07
SPEAKER_01: And I want to highlight here that you will have an increased risk of mood changes, depression if you in your younger years experience PMS, PMDD, like postpartum anxiety or depression.
15:21
SPEAKER_01: Those are hormone changes that can affect your mood.
15:24
SPEAKER_01: So you're more likely to experience mood changes when you're having these fluctuations in estrogen.
15:29
SPEAKER_01: Um and vaginal dryness.
15:33
SPEAKER_01: So oftentimes it can be like a burning when you're peeing, it can be painful sex.
15:40
SPEAKER_01: So lubrication.
15:43
SPEAKER_01: Men, if you're listening to this, if they're if you're laid out.
15:48
SPEAKER_01: And get you some lube, maybe some KY jelly, but if you use it one time, I guarantee you're going to need it every time.
15:54
SPEAKER_01: Okay?
15:55
SPEAKER_01: It's not just a one-time thing, it should always be offered.
15:59
SPEAKER_01: Um, because yeah, my lady.
16:06
SPEAKER_00: Can you get them with a pump?
16:08
SPEAKER_00: Oh, yeah, right.
16:10
SPEAKER_01: Not in this phase of the life.
16:12
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, well, but yeah, vaginal dryness is a real thing.
16:15
SPEAKER_01: There's some treatments we can look at, which I'm going to get into later, but yeah, it's there's that can be that can be remedied.
16:23
SPEAKER_01: Um, but very normal.
16:25
SPEAKER_01: That's very normal when estrogen drops.
16:27
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
16:27
SPEAKER_01: Vaginal symptoms are very normal.
16:29
SPEAKER_01: And sometimes I've read, I've never experienced this, but that some people can have like an increase in sexual desire.
16:36
SPEAKER_01: Most of the time it's a decrease.
16:38
SPEAKER_01: A man wrote that.
16:39
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
16:40
SPEAKER_01: Scientists are all men.
16:42
SPEAKER_01: But those are the obvious symptoms.
16:44
SPEAKER_01: So those are the ones that we see that we feel that we like people around us notice.
16:49
SPEAKER_01: Some of the invisible symptoms of perimetopause that we don't often think about is bone health.
16:54
SPEAKER_01: So as our estrogen levels, estrogen is very protective for our bones.
16:58
SPEAKER_01: So when estrogen starts to decrease, our bone loss increases, and usually our bones can like like reproduce, like they can replace after they after they're lost.
17:10
SPEAKER_01: They don't do that as fast when your estrogen levels are down, so it can increase your risk of osteoporosis.
17:15
SPEAKER_01: So calcium-rich foods and healthy diet is in my treatment plan later on.
17:21
SPEAKER_01: And cholesterol.
17:22
SPEAKER_01: So when our estrogen depletes, your cholesterol, your LDL or your bad cholesterol can increase, and your good cholesterol, your HDL, can decrease, which overall increases risk of heart disease.
17:36
SPEAKER_01: Oh my god.
17:37
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
17:38
SPEAKER_01: So I said my sweet spot at work.
17:40
SPEAKER_01: I love 40 to 60-year-old like men and women because that's the age.
17:44
SPEAKER_01: You're like taking care of everyone else.
17:46
SPEAKER_01: That's when you really have to focus on like your own blood work, your own blood pressure, all these things because your heart health is so important at that age.
17:54
SPEAKER_01: So those are symptoms.
17:55
SPEAKER_01: There's there's more too, but those are kind of the main ones.
18:00
SPEAKER_01: Um treatment.
18:03
SPEAKER_01: So treatment of menopause symptoms, perimenopause symptoms.
18:07
SPEAKER_01: We often hear of hormone replacement or hormone therapy as they're used interchangeably now, which is estrogen, progesterone generally.
18:17
SPEAKER_01: Um, there is different types of HRT, and I'm gonna use HRT throughout this because that's much easier for me to say, but there's systemic HRT, which is uh the the way it works is it goes into your bloodstream, it delivers estrogen, like all these hormones to the different parts of your body.
18:35
SPEAKER_01: Um that's that's superior for hot flashes and night sweats and and those types of things.
18:40
SPEAKER_01: So the systemic version, so if you get an estrogen pill, like a low-dose birth control, um gels, creams, patches, they're they're all systemic.
18:50
SPEAKER_01: So they all work by getting estrogen into your bloodstream to travel around your body.
18:56
SPEAKER_01: Uh always, always the lowest dose you need uh for the lowest duration.
19:01
SPEAKER_01: And the risks of hormones I'm gonna get into in a little bit, but uh it not one size fits all.
19:07
SPEAKER_01: Just because it works for your friend doesn't mean it's gonna work for you.
19:09
SPEAKER_01: You may have to increase, decrease the dose depending on how you feel.
19:12
SPEAKER_01: And everyone's different, and that's okay.
19:15
SPEAKER_01: Hormone replacement therapy is estrogen and or progesterone.
19:19
SPEAKER_01: If you have an intact uterus, you need progesterone in addition to estrogen.
19:25
SPEAKER_01: So either that comes in a combination pill, an estrogen and a progesterone separately, and there's also cyclic progesterone treatment.
19:32
SPEAKER_01: So you take estrogen every day, and then like five to seven days of a month, you take a progesterone.
19:39
SPEAKER_01: The reason we do that is because progesterone estrogen itself can increase cell production in your uterus.
19:45
SPEAKER_01: Without the progesterone, it can increase your risk of uterine and endometrial cancers.
19:50
SPEAKER_01: So progesterone, think of it like a protector.
19:53
SPEAKER_01: Like progesterone is a protector.
19:55
SPEAKER_01: Okay.
19:55
SPEAKER_01: So if you have a uterus, you need progesterone.
20:00
SPEAKER_01: Um P for the V.
20:02
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, get the P for the V.
20:04
SPEAKER_01: That's right.
20:05
SPEAKER_01: Taking hormones systemically can decrease bone loss, decrease your risk of osteoporosis, it can decrease perimenopausal and menopausal symptoms, but there is risks.
20:16
SPEAKER_01: It can increase risk of blood clots, it can increase risk of stroke, it can increase risk of breast cancer, which we're gonna get into in a bit.
20:23
SPEAKER_01: Um, talk to your doctor though.
20:24
SPEAKER_01: It's always risk versus benefit.
20:26
SPEAKER_01: Uh, anything you ever treat yourself with is what's the benefit to me and what are the risks to me?
20:31
SPEAKER_01: Because everyone's different.
20:32
SPEAKER_01: Um and quality of life matters.
20:35
SPEAKER_01: Absolutely.
20:36
SPEAKER_01: So that's systemic.
20:37
SPEAKER_01: So that's if you take a pill or put a patch on, that's how it gets delivered.
20:40
SPEAKER_01: There's also vaginal estrogen products.
20:43
SPEAKER_01: So if there's a cream, a tablet, and a ring that you insert vaginally, usually it's a couple, you know, a couple weeks every day and then just twice a week.
20:52
SPEAKER_01: Like it's it's a it's not an everyday thing.
20:55
SPEAKER_01: That is only distributed to vaginal tissue.
20:58
SPEAKER_01: Maybe small amounts are absorbed, but for the most part, it stays locally in the vagina.
21:04
SPEAKER_01: Um most helpful for vaginal symptoms.
21:08
SPEAKER_01: So vaginal dryness, if you're having painful intercourse, and if you're having bladder symptoms, it can actually decrease your risk of UTIs if you're you know having a lot of bladder symptoms with perimenopause.
21:21
SPEAKER_01: Those are hormones.
21:22
SPEAKER_01: Um, there's also like bioidenticals, which I'm not really getting into because that is a whole different science to it.
21:28
SPEAKER_01: But antidepressants with mood changes, with hormone changes, sometimes antidepressants are needed.
21:36
SPEAKER_01: Look into my sister here pulling up my sleeves.
21:38
SPEAKER_01: Sometimes changes in antidepressants during this time are needed.
21:41
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and there's nothing wrong with that.
21:42
SPEAKER_00: It sucks, but there's nothing wrong with that.
21:44
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, right.
21:47
SPEAKER_00: Hormones suck.
21:49
SPEAKER_01: And I mean, there's there's a lot of antidepressants that have been shown to decrease, like the mood changes and things with perimenopause, but also things like effects are they they've been used to decrease or like hot flashes and things like that.
21:59
SPEAKER_01: So There is some evidence otherwise for some antidepressants as well.
22:05
SPEAKER_01: Over-the-counter things.
22:07
SPEAKER_01: So black kohosh is not easy to find.
22:12
SPEAKER_01: And I I say that because when I'm at work, I've only, you know, Sobey's Lottins, but there's only ever like one or two brands of it on the counter.
22:20
SPEAKER_01: But it can be very beneficial for hot flashes.
22:23
SPEAKER_01: There's a lot of evidence that say like it can reduce your um instant, like the amount of hot flashes.
22:30
SPEAKER_01: Not completely get rid of them, but if it can reduce your risk by 50%.
22:34
SPEAKER_01: So if you're having five a day and you only have two, a lot of people expect miracles with these things though, and to say, like, oh, I still get hot flashes.
22:41
SPEAKER_01: Like, yeah, but you were getting 10.
22:42
SPEAKER_01: Like, if you're getting five, then that's better.
22:45
SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
22:45
SPEAKER_01: Um, you might be able to leave the house without being a puddle.
22:48
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, maybe.
22:49
SPEAKER_01: But maybe don't expect them to work miracles.
22:51
SPEAKER_01: And you know, we're looking for reduction, we're not looking for complete resolution.
22:56
SPEAKER_01: There's also red clover, and I want to say the brand name is Pro Mensal, but that's estrogen-like.
23:02
SPEAKER_01: So there is some links that that may actually increase risk of breast cancer.
23:07
SPEAKER_01: Evidence is wishy-washy with that.
23:09
SPEAKER_01: Most natural health products are.
23:11
SPEAKER_00: Can I chew on it?
23:12
SPEAKER_00: Because I have some in my kitchen dried.
23:14
SPEAKER_00: Of course you do.
23:15
SPEAKER_00: Of course you do.
23:16
SPEAKER_00: From my backyard.
23:17
SPEAKER_01: Anyway, it's estrogen-like.
23:19
SPEAKER_01: So you know, it I don't know what the dose of it is, but anyway, go go for it.
23:24
SPEAKER_01: Go juice and throw it in your smoothie.
23:26
SPEAKER_01: Why not?
23:27
SPEAKER_01: Um, over the counter, too, lubricants and moisturizers.
23:30
SPEAKER_01: So there's moisturizers like replens, um, which you use a couple times a week to help obviously moisturize vaginal tissue.
23:38
SPEAKER_01: Lubricants, like we talked about.
23:40
SPEAKER_01: Just important that when you pick a lubricant, you want to make sure it's water-based.
23:43
SPEAKER_01: Make sure there's no glycerin, and make sure there's no parabens.
23:47
SPEAKER_01: So KY jelly is the one that comes to mind.
23:50
SPEAKER_00: Parabens are smells, right?
23:51
SPEAKER_00: Like parabens is is the smell of stuff, isn't it?
23:54
SPEAKER_01: Uh it parabins can be in fragrances, but they're they're um what's that word?
23:59
SPEAKER_01: Preservatives?
24:01
SPEAKER_01: Sure.
24:03
SPEAKER_01: No, forever comes.
24:03
SPEAKER_01: Is this real?
24:04
SPEAKER_01: I don't know.
24:05
SPEAKER_01: Um diet and exercise.
24:08
SPEAKER_01: Again, the D for D, which I wish it was easy.
24:12
SPEAKER_01: It's not, but diet.
24:13
SPEAKER_01: So a high um calcium-rich diet, high fiber, low fat is best.
24:22
SPEAKER_01: I mean, you're gonna get it's just unfortunately makes you feel better when you eat better.
24:27
SPEAKER_01: Exercise.
24:28
SPEAKER_01: Annoying.
24:31
SPEAKER_01: So 30 minutes of exercise most days, so four to five days a week.
24:35
SPEAKER_01: Um, decreasing your use of alcohol and caffeine.
24:39
SPEAKER_01: Caffeine can actually stimulate hot flashes and increase your incidence of hot flashes.
24:44
SPEAKER_01: And doing stress-reducing activities like yoga and meditation can help reduce the symptoms.
24:49
SPEAKER_01: Like a nice warm yin! Oh, back to nice warm yin.
24:52
SPEAKER_00: Warm yin.
24:53
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
24:55
SPEAKER_01: Um that's really all for treatments I'm gonna go over.
24:59
SPEAKER_01: So this is kind of the this this is the the juice of what we're talking about.
25:05
SPEAKER_01: The safety, safety profile of hormones, because there's a lot of evidence out there that's outdated.
25:12
SPEAKER_01: There's a lot of things out here.
25:15
SPEAKER_00: Do your research people, do your research.
25:16
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, but don't do research on Google.
25:18
SPEAKER_01: Like this is where Chat GPT, Chat GPT is not a source of medical information.
25:24
SPEAKER_01: No, um but the safety of hormone therapy, so depends.
25:28
SPEAKER_01: It always depends.
25:30
SPEAKER_01: Your situation risk versus benefit is kind of it's it's always a conversation with your healthcare professional.
25:37
SPEAKER_01: It's always to there has been links to increase in breast cancer because of the women's health initiative.
25:44
SPEAKER_01: There was a big study that was done.
25:45
SPEAKER_01: If you're over the age of 50 and take uh estrogen and progesterone for over five years, there's a slight, slight increase risk of breast cancer.
25:56
SPEAKER_01: Enough to not take it for 10 years and potentially feel better and have a better quality of life, talk to your doctor.
26:03
SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
26:04
SPEAKER_01: But certain risk factors do increase the risks in some people.
26:08
SPEAKER_01: So if you've had a history of breast cancer, especially receptor-positive breast cancer, that's when estrogen kind of feeds the cancer.
26:16
SPEAKER_01: It's probably not, you're probably not going to get a systemic type of hormone.
26:20
SPEAKER_01: Maybe a vaginal estrogen, though.
26:21
SPEAKER_01: I've seen people with a history of breast cancer have vaginal estrogen for symptoms.
26:26
SPEAKER_01: Maybe better than nothing.
26:28
SPEAKER_01: It's not systemic.
26:29
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
26:30
SPEAKER_01: And actually, in the in the states, the FDA, there was always a black black box warning for hormone replacement therapy that it can increase risk of breast cancer.
26:40
SPEAKER_01: They actually took the black box warning off in 2025 because the benefits in the quality of life, the benefits of bone health outweighed the risks for a lot of people.
26:50
SPEAKER_01: So that's no longer a black a black box warning.
26:56
SPEAKER_01: That is hard to say.
26:58
SPEAKER_01: Okay.
26:59
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
27:00
SPEAKER_01: Um, so in this studies, in the studies that they did, the combination estrogen plus progesterone slightly increased your risk of breast cancer.
27:11
SPEAKER_01: Higher doses, definitely more chance than lower doses.
27:15
SPEAKER_01: So again, where it's so important to only be on the lower dose, that controls your symptoms.
27:20
SPEAKER_01: It can also increase the density of your breasts.
27:24
SPEAKER_01: So sometimes mammograms.
27:26
SPEAKER_01: I don't have any.
27:27
SPEAKER_01: Whatever that is, you don't have to do that.
27:29
SPEAKER_01: Whatever tissue, if you if you're a lucky one that has tissue in your breasts, I don't.
27:33
SPEAKER_01: I'm at risk.
27:34
SPEAKER_01: Laura is not.
27:35
SPEAKER_01: My little A cup is not uh no risk there.
27:39
SPEAKER_01: But taking these can actually increase the density.
27:42
SPEAKER_01: So there has been recalls from mammograms because mammograms can be harder to read.
27:47
SPEAKER_01: So just kind of keep that in mind.
27:52
SPEAKER_01: Funny, that's combination.
27:54
SPEAKER_01: So in these studies, the people that took estrogen only, so those that do not have a uterus, there was actually lower risks of breast cancers in some groups.
28:04
SPEAKER_01: But but, and then you're like thinking, like, oh, why don't I just take estrogen then?
28:08
SPEAKER_01: Because if you have a uterus, you gotta protect that uterus with the pea, with the pea.
28:12
SPEAKER_01: Um, so even though it may increase or may decrease risk of breast cancer, it's gonna increase your risk of endometrial and uterine cancer.
28:20
SPEAKER_01: So tip for 10.
28:21
SPEAKER_03: Tip for tip for 10.
28:22
SPEAKER_01: Tip for 10.
28:24
SPEAKER_01: Anywho, um, if you have a history of breast cancer, I kind of reviewed that already.
28:28
SPEAKER_01: That's a conversation for your doctor.
28:30
SPEAKER_01: Because it might not be the right thing, but maybe if you're miserable and have all the symptoms that I listed, and quality of life, man.
28:37
SPEAKER_01: Some people would prefer a risk, a quality over the chance of it.
28:41
SPEAKER_00: And it's not uh like 100% you're gonna get, it increases your risk.
28:45
SPEAKER_01: So whereas when screening becomes so important, so book your mammograms.
28:49
SPEAKER_01: I have mine booked for next week.
28:50
SPEAKER_01: There you go.
28:51
SPEAKER_01: There you go.
28:51
SPEAKER_01: Yep, so you turn 40.
28:53
SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna actually grab a pen if you want, because I'm gonna give you the phone number.
28:56
SPEAKER_01: Nova Scotia has a breast screening program, and you can call yourself as long as you're over the age of 40 and aren't having any symptoms that could be associated with breast cancer, like pain or discharge or whatever.
29:07
SPEAKER_01: Um, you can book your own mammograms and then you'll be in the system and you'll get reminders every year to two, whatever they recommend.
29:14
SPEAKER_00: Is it yearly normally?
29:16
SPEAKER_00: Or is it a year if there's an issue?
29:18
SPEAKER_01: I think it's a year if there's yeah, it's every two years, I believe.
29:21
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
29:22
SPEAKER_01: Um, quick little plug for gender-affirming care, though, because there are transgender women who are assigned male at birth to take estrogen for hormone therapy.
29:34
SPEAKER_01: If they take estrogen for longer than five years, they should be getting mammograms too, if they're over the age of 40.
29:40
SPEAKER_01: Because they can have increased risk of breast.
29:42
SPEAKER_01: There's there's breast tissue.
29:43
SPEAKER_01: Estrogen makes your breast tissue grow.
29:45
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, they increased risk over cisgender men.
29:48
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
29:49
SPEAKER_01: So just kind of a little plug.
29:50
SPEAKER_01: Everyone should be screened.
29:52
SPEAKER_00: Um so what about transgender men?
29:55
SPEAKER_01: Well, transgender men, so if they're assigned female at birth, they take testosterone.
30:02
SPEAKER_01: Right.
30:02
SPEAKER_01: So the the estrogen risks wouldn't really apply, but I mean you don't mean mammograms for testosterone.
30:08
SPEAKER_01: No.
30:08
SPEAKER_01: Other testing that should be done, though, is like blood work and things like that.
30:11
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
30:11
unknown: Okay.
30:12
SPEAKER_01: Um bottom line.
30:15
SPEAKER_01: Bottom line is lowest dose, lowest duration, if you want to treat.
30:21
SPEAKER_01: It it it's all it's up to you.
30:23
SPEAKER_01: It's risk versus benefit.
30:24
SPEAKER_01: It's talk to your doctor.
30:25
SPEAKER_01: Some doctors may be completely against it.
30:28
SPEAKER_01: Um if you do the research, we made the joke earlier.
30:33
SPEAKER_01: Like, if one men had these hormone issues that women had for one year, it'd be cured.
30:38
SPEAKER_01: It'd be cured and then we'll take it back.
30:40
SPEAKER_01: Like it's unbelievable.
30:42
SPEAKER_01: Take it, cure it, give it back.
30:43
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah.
30:44
SPEAKER_01: Or keep it.
30:45
SPEAKER_01: I mean, it's cured, keep it.
30:46
SPEAKER_01: It's if it's not one thing, it's another.
30:48
SPEAKER_01: Honestly, this whole this whole life.
30:50
SPEAKER_01: This whole women thing, being a woman.
30:52
SPEAKER_01: Screening is so important.
30:53
SPEAKER_01: Mammograms, um, find like looking for things that are abnormal in your body.
30:58
SPEAKER_01: So important to note too, if you're menopause if you hit menopause, if you've had 12 consecutive months without bleeding, and then randomly you start bleeding again.
31:09
SPEAKER_01: That's not normal.
31:10
SPEAKER_01: Like that, that is when somebody brush it off.
31:12
SPEAKER_01: Don't brush it off.
31:13
SPEAKER_01: It there's fibroids, there's cancers, there's um infections.
31:18
SPEAKER_01: Infections, yeah.
31:19
SPEAKER_01: There's disorders that can be going on.
31:21
SPEAKER_01: It could be something underlying.
31:22
SPEAKER_01: So make sure you get that checked out.
31:24
SPEAKER_01: The breast screening program in Nova Scotia.
31:27
SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna give you the phone number because this is a great program we have.
31:30
SPEAKER_01: They're open 8 to 5, Monday to Friday.
31:32
SPEAKER_01: It is 1-800-565-0548.
31:37
SPEAKER_01: And you call and you give your health card and they'll book you in.
31:41
SPEAKER_01: It's it's very easy.
31:42
SPEAKER_01: So you don't have you don't need a health provider to do that.
31:46
SPEAKER_01: Um, anyone over the age of 40.
31:48
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, do it when you turn 40.
31:50
SPEAKER_01: Give yourself your own birthday present at 40.
31:52
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, that phone call.
31:53
SPEAKER_01: Get your tits squeezed.
31:54
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, exactly.
31:56
SPEAKER_01: That's the quickest overview of perimenopause.
32:00
SPEAKER_00: There's that was that was good though.
32:02
SPEAKER_00: I learned a lot.
32:03
SPEAKER_00: I learned a lot from that.
32:04
SPEAKER_00: That's I learned that I'm probably in paired.
32:06
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, we're all impaired.
32:07
SPEAKER_00: I learned that today.
32:08
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah.
32:10
SPEAKER_00: I just turned 37 a couple weeks ago.
32:13
SPEAKER_00: Fuck.
32:14
SPEAKER_01: Perimenopause is like the uninvited guests.
32:16
SPEAKER_01: Like, you don't know when they're coming, you don't know how long they'll stay, you don't know when they're leaving.
32:21
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, you're annoyed the whole time they're there.
32:24
unknown: Yeah.
32:25
SPEAKER_00: The drug passenger.
32:26
SPEAKER_00: She's a bitch.
32:27
SPEAKER_00: It's just one, it's just something that like it's so frustrating because this is a women, and obviously this happens with women.
32:33
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
32:34
SPEAKER_00: And women-based things are not always studied as as much as men-based things.
32:39
SPEAKER_00: So it is very important to advocate for yourself.
32:41
SPEAKER_00: You know if something's going on, you know if something's wrong.
32:44
SPEAKER_00: Um even with me with my med changes, I knew something was going on.
32:48
SPEAKER_00: Fuck could just be pyramid pause.
32:51
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, but I mean, going through this stuff and dealing with it, yeah, there's and even if you get to a point in your life and you're like, no, I've never had I've never had medication before.
33:00
SPEAKER_00: Okay, that's great.
33:01
SPEAKER_00: You're not gonna get a trophy for doing this with a snap.
33:03
SPEAKER_00: Snaps for you! Snaps for you, babe.
33:06
SPEAKER_00: Um, and I mean, I'm not saying you have to be on medication, but oh there's no shame in being on something that is going to help you live your best life.
33:15
SPEAKER_00: Especially if you get to a point where you're in your in your 40s or whatever, or in my case, in your late 30s.
33:20
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
33:21
SPEAKER_00: You just it's life is too fucking short to not live it the best way you can.
33:25
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
33:26
SPEAKER_01: So I want to mention too, a lot of people are like, why do I gain weight in my midsection when I'm when your hormones are changing?
33:33
SPEAKER_01: There is reasons.
33:34
SPEAKER_01: It's not just because you're it's not you.
33:36
SPEAKER_01: So increase in belly fat because when we lose estrogen, our metabolism decreases.
33:42
SPEAKER_01: So we have a natural loss of muscle tone.
33:45
SPEAKER_01: Um, sometimes feel a little bit more saggy.
33:47
SPEAKER_01: When we're childbearing, too, like your when our estrogen levels are up, we carry weight in the lower half.
33:51
SPEAKER_01: So we carry it in our hips and our thighs with a childbearing hips.
33:54
SPEAKER_01: Is that what it's for?
33:55
SPEAKER_01: To like it's to help maintain, yeah.
33:58
SPEAKER_01: And uh helps all the all the lower body do what it's supposed to do.
34:03
SPEAKER_00: I was made for pregnancy.
34:05
unknown: Really, I'm not.
34:06
SPEAKER_00: That's another episode.
34:09
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah, sure did.
34:10
SPEAKER_01: Um, but yeah, as as our estrogen decreases, the fat storage shifts towards your midsection.
34:15
SPEAKER_01: Also, like insulin sensitivity.
34:17
SPEAKER_01: So when our estrogen decreases, we become less sensitive to insulin.
34:22
SPEAKER_01: So we become basically become less efficient at processing sugar.
34:26
SPEAKER_01: So it accumulates in the midsection.
34:28
SPEAKER_01: Yep.
34:29
SPEAKER_01: Our estrogen our insulin doesn't work like it's like it usually did.
34:33
SPEAKER_00: Well, that's very good to know for a diabetic educator like myself who did not know that.
34:37
SPEAKER_01: And cortisol, that bitch.
34:39
SPEAKER_01: Yes, cortisol can increase because of our mood changes and our lack of sleep, and cortisol levels go up.
34:45
SPEAKER_01: Because our husbands try to whisper that mine's downstairs.
34:51
SPEAKER_01: But yeah, that can all increase belly fat too.
34:53
SPEAKER_01: So there is like actual science behind it.
34:56
SPEAKER_01: It's not just like, oh, you know, I turned 40 and I I got a muffin top.
34:59
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
35:00
SPEAKER_01: No.
35:00
SPEAKER_01: Your body's like your body's like, nah, you don't need it, you don't need it in your hips anymore.
35:04
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, just put into your belly.
35:05
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
35:06
SPEAKER_01: But take care of yourself because things change.
35:10
SPEAKER_01: It's funny because people are like, have kids later in life.
35:13
SPEAKER_01: And I waited till I was 28 and now I got pre-pubertal.
35:19
SPEAKER_00: Well, I have a toddler and I'm 37, so that was good.
35:23
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, that was good timing.
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SPEAKER_00: Fucking good timing on my part.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_00: But anyway, so it's fine.
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SPEAKER_01: Let your husbands listen because shit goes on, man.
35:33
SPEAKER_01: And there's it's it's hard.
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SPEAKER_01: A lot of things can happen just from hormones fluctuating.
35:38
SPEAKER_01: And then one day it's good, and then one day your estrogen's in the toilet.
35:40
SPEAKER_01: And sorry about that.
35:41
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, sorry about sorry about that throat punch.
35:43
SPEAKER_01: Sorry about that.
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SPEAKER_01: I didn't feel stabby.
35:45
SPEAKER_01: It's been one day since I was stabby.
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unknown: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_00: We have that on a dryer ace because it changes often.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah.
35:52
SPEAKER_01: But congratulations.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_01: If you're here with us.
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SPEAKER_01: Congratulations, you're a woman.
35:56
SPEAKER_01: If you're here with us, we might be together for the next 20 years for Jesus' sakes.
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SPEAKER_01: But yeah.
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SPEAKER_01: Anyway, that's it for today.
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36:07
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36:14
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36:17
SPEAKER_01: Um, Health and Homestead One on Etsy because Allie was wearing my face on her chest earlier today.
36:25
SPEAKER_01: And you too can have an AI generated face on your chest or on a mug.
36:31
SPEAKER_01: I got mugs delivered today and they're pretty freaking cute.
36:34
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
36:34
SPEAKER_01: Um, great Christmas gifts for people that you want to just, it's it's great.
36:39
SPEAKER_01: Go gag.
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SPEAKER_01: Just something, something that yeah, yeah.
36:41
SPEAKER_00: Someone who's do you have somebody on your list who's impossible to buy thorn?
36:44
SPEAKER_00: I bet they don't have one of these.
36:46
SPEAKER_00: I am 100% guarantee they do not have one of these.
36:49
SPEAKER_00: But yeah, that's it for today.
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SPEAKER_00: Um yeah, if you and if you have any questions about anything, just like email, maybe we'll do a QA or something.
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SPEAKER_00: Oh, yeah, that'd be fun.
36:58
SPEAKER_00: And maybe yeah, if you have any for mom, oh my god.
37:01
SPEAKER_00: If you have any questions for mom, she would be she'll come to your house.
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SPEAKER_01: She'll come to your house and explore.
37:05
SPEAKER_01: She'll like knead the dough with you and make sure you know how it feels.
37:08
SPEAKER_01: Oh god, love her.
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SPEAKER_01: Okay, that's all for today.
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SPEAKER_01: TGFN.
37:18
SPEAKER_01: TGFN.
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37:22
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