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Painful Periods Are Not Normal: A Man's Fight for Women's Health || Archie Frimpong || Masterminds EP100 · Masterminds Podcast

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SPEAKER_00: My wife was diagnosed of PCOS and fibroid.
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SPEAKER_04: What is PCOS?
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SPEAKER_00: The saddest part of all this was when doctors told us my wife cannot conceive.
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SPEAKER_00: Previously, many doctors felt a woman must have a cyst on her ovaries for her to have PCOS.
0:14
SPEAKER_00: And it's the leading cause of infertility in the world today of women.
0:18
SPEAKER_00: Who are you to not believe the doctor?
0:20
SPEAKER_00: It was until we took our own destiny into our own hands and we felt no, something was wrong.
0:25
SPEAKER_00: We had to now challenge the doctors and now they realize they were making the mistake.
0:28
SPEAKER_00: I think there's a grand agenda against women in the world.
0:31
SPEAKER_00: Because imagine women using sanitary pads for all of these years, but guess when actual menstrual blood was tested on the sanitary pad.
0:39
SPEAKER_00: You can Google and see 2023.
0:41
SPEAKER_00: But which, if I had a lot of money, I would probably print a lot of billboards in a car or in Ghana or in the whole world and have the inscription on it.
0:48
SPEAKER_00: Painful periods are not normal.
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SPEAKER_04: So why do we normalize it?
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SPEAKER_04: Before we go into the conversation, I wanted to take time to thank you.
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1:30
SPEAKER_04: Welcome to the Masterminds podcast.
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SPEAKER_04: My name is Richie Menta, and I am your charming and ever good looking tour guide on this exciting journey to sharpen your most powerful tool, your mind.
1:42
SPEAKER_04: Now, this episode of Master Minds is Topsy Tervy because today we are going to have two gentlemen advocating for women's health.
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SPEAKER_04: I know, right?
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SPEAKER_04: My guest here has a personal story which he was he's going to share and help us understand women's health and how to help them in their journey.
2:02
SPEAKER_04: So please help me welcome Archie Frimpond.
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SPEAKER_00: Archie, how are you doing?
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SPEAKER_00: I'm very good, thank you.
2:06
SPEAKER_04: And you I'm awesome like that.
2:08
SPEAKER_04: Thanks for accepting the invitation.
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SPEAKER_00: Thank you too.
2:11
SPEAKER_04: Before we jump into it, let me let people understand who you are and everything so that they understand why two people with their beard are coming to talk about women's health.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay.
2:21
SPEAKER_00: I mean, first of all, thanks for the opportunity.
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SPEAKER_00: Um it's it's a privilege to sit in front of someone like you.
2:27
SPEAKER_00: Small boy like me.
2:28
SPEAKER_00: Small but mighty to be having a conversation um with you.
2:33
SPEAKER_00: So thanks for the opportunity.
2:35
SPEAKER_00: Um before who I am, I I would say first, I was years back, I was just a normal boyfriend looking for a better life for himself and his girlfriend.
2:47
SPEAKER_00: Um fast forward, I got married to the same girlfriend on the 1st of May 2021.
2:53
SPEAKER_00: It was a beautiful day.
2:54
SPEAKER_00: Um, friends were happy, family was excited.
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SPEAKER_00: Myself and my missus were much more happier.
3:00
SPEAKER_00: But behind the laughter, the happiness was a diagnosis.
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SPEAKER_00: My wife was diagnosed of PCOS and fibroids.
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SPEAKER_00: She had symptoms like irregular cycle, painful and heavy periods, bloating issues, weight fluctuation, insomnia, severe constipation, she had acne.
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SPEAKER_00: I mean, just to name a few.
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SPEAKER_00: Um, doctors had put her on contraceptive pills, tranazamic acid, steroids.
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SPEAKER_00: She had been taking these things for so many years, but nothing really worked.
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SPEAKER_00: Um, and we we kept wondering what was going on.
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SPEAKER_00: It's like her body was fighting against her.
3:35
SPEAKER_00: And the the saddest part of all this was when doctors told us, my wife cannot conceive.
3:41
SPEAKER_00: Oh yes, but it's a good part of the story.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay.
3:45
SPEAKER_00: Um, God being so good.
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SPEAKER_00: Fast forward, today my wife is a mother, not just a mother, she's a mother of one or two.
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SPEAKER_00: Um, so basically, what we went through is what helped us.
3:56
SPEAKER_00: We we researched, we learned, we relearned, we unlearned certain things we knew.
4:02
SPEAKER_00: Okay, we did a lot of studies, and what we went through is what we put together today to have a product called Stellar Supplements.
4:12
SPEAKER_00: It's from our journey, it's from our own experience with hormonal imbalance issues, and it hasn't been an easy journey, but God has been good to us.
4:19
SPEAKER_00: Please clap for Dockers, clap for Dockers.
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SPEAKER_00: Ducas is the wife, by the way.
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SPEAKER_00: Yes, yes, I have for Dockers.
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SPEAKER_04: First of all, explain because when you say PCOS, you know, most people, somebody's Googling right now, what is PCOS?
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SPEAKER_00: Yes.
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SPEAKER_00: Before that, let's clap for Dockers again.
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SPEAKER_00: And and and let's let's also clap for all women who are watching this because I believe this this episode should speak to a lot of women.
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SPEAKER_00: And after we are done with this episode, many women will feel seen, will feel heard, will feel listened to, and a lot of the misdiagnosis would stop.
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SPEAKER_00: So PCOS is a chronic, it's it's a metabolic issue, it's an inflammatory issue.
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SPEAKER_00: In simple terms, the the name PCOS is polycystic ovarian syndrome.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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SPEAKER_00: The name was changed in May to PMOS.
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SPEAKER_00: So polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome.
5:08
SPEAKER_04: They made it more complicated.
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SPEAKER_00: It's even better that way because previously many doctors felt a woman must have a cyst on her ovaries for her to have PCOS.
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SPEAKER_05: Okay.
5:17
SPEAKER_00: So there's a reason why today in the world there are about 70% of women who are working around the PCOS, but they don't need to have PCOS because they went to the doctor.
5:24
SPEAKER_00: The doctor told them you don't have a cyst on your ovaries, so you don't have PCOS, and that is wrong.
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SPEAKER_00: So in diagnosing PCOS, there are three criteria.
5:39
SPEAKER_00: What's a normal cycle?
5:40
SPEAKER_00: A normal cycle is any cycle within 21 to 35 days.
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SPEAKER_00: Anything below 21, anything above 35 days, something is wrong somewhere.
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SPEAKER_00: But that alone is not PCOS.
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SPEAKER_00: She needs to meet another criteria.
5:50
SPEAKER_00: What's the other criteria?
5:52
SPEAKER_00: Is there any evidence of elevated testosterone levels in hair?
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SPEAKER_00: How do we know this?
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SPEAKER_00: Does she have hair on the chin?
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SPEAKER_00: Does she have hair on the chest?
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SPEAKER_00: Does she have hair on the nipple?
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SPEAKER_00: Does she have excess bodily hair on the hands or legs or does she have acne?
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SPEAKER_05: Okay.
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SPEAKER_00: Once a woman has these signs, that combine it with the irregular cycle is PCOS.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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SPEAKER_00: There's a third criteria as well, where an ultrasound is done to see if there are any follicles around the woman's ovaries.
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SPEAKER_00: If there are follicles around their ovaries, that combine it with any of the first two symptoms signs I mentioned, that's also PCOS.
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SPEAKER_00: But the difficult part is where many women go to the hospitals and a doctor does the ultrasound and there's no cyst, you don't have PCOS.
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SPEAKER_00: And many women go back home thinking they don't have PCOs, but they have hair on their chin.
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SPEAKER_00: They have an irregular cycle.
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SPEAKER_05: Okay.
6:38
SPEAKER_00: So in the case where there's no ultrasound, an AMH test can be done.
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SPEAKER_00: So that's anti-malarian hormone, where it's a test to know a woman's ovarian reserve, the number of eggs you have.
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SPEAKER_00: So when the woman has a lot of eggs, it's not normal.
6:52
SPEAKER_00: Let's say a woman is 40 years, a lot of eggs, something is wrong somewhere.
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SPEAKER_00: That's a sign of that combined with something else could lead to PCOS.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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SPEAKER_00: So it's a lot of factors coming together.
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SPEAKER_00: But you also realize what we see today is a woman has acne, she goes to a dermatologist, she's been given something to treat it.
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SPEAKER_00: The acne goes, but as soon as she stops using it, the acne comes back again.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_00: Someone may have hair on the chin, she may be going to do laser treatment or so after a while, it comes back again.
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SPEAKER_00: But she's not tackling the issue from the root cause.
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SPEAKER_00: A woman is not having her cycle every month, she goes to the hospital, the doctor gives her a contraceptive pill.
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SPEAKER_00: Now she's seeing blood every month.
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SPEAKER_00: She thinks it's okay, but the damage is still being caused.
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SPEAKER_00: And also, PCOs affect 15% of women globally.
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SPEAKER_00: 15% cause of infertility in the world today of women.
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SPEAKER_02: Interesting.
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SPEAKER_00: So if you pick 10 women, two of them are likely to have PCO.
7:46
SPEAKER_00: So if you sample 10 women today, we'll have two of them having PCO.
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SPEAKER_00: That's how damaging it can be.
7:50
SPEAKER_04: Wow.
7:51
SPEAKER_00: Yes.
7:51
SPEAKER_04: And first of all, do you think this is something that we have created a safe space for women to even be able to talk about or ask questions about?
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SPEAKER_00: We haven't.
8:00
SPEAKER_00: Even myself, I didn't know what it was.
8:01
SPEAKER_00: So it was until my wife was going through the science she was going through.
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SPEAKER_00: I thought, no, this doesn't make sense.
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SPEAKER_00: Let's read about it.
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SPEAKER_00: Because my wife was born in the UK.
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SPEAKER_00: She's lived her whole life in the UK.
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SPEAKER_00: She went to hospital several times.
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SPEAKER_00: They did all kinds of tests and whatever.
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SPEAKER_00: We were reading, we knew she had PCOS.
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SPEAKER_00: When we were just dating, but doctors kept saying, you don't have PCOS because you don't have a cyst.
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SPEAKER_00: And who are you to not believe the doctor?
8:26
SPEAKER_00: It was until we took our own destiny into our own hands and we felt no, something was wrong.
8:31
SPEAKER_00: We had to now challenge the doctors and now they realize they were making the mistake.
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SPEAKER_05: Okay.
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SPEAKER_00: And that's how come we had to stop whatever they had given my wife and now work on lifestyle, um, changing our diet and a lot of things, using the gym as well and all of that to now focus on tackling the issue from the root cause.
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SPEAKER_04: Interesting.
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SPEAKER_04: You mentioned that so a woman with PCOS is likely to have high testosterone during certain.
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SPEAKER_00: So there are three criteria.
8:56
SPEAKER_00: If let's say Amma has a regular cycle with the hair on the chin, yeah, or acne or hair on the chest, that's Amma's sign to diagnose them with PCOS.
9:06
SPEAKER_00: But not everyone will have that hair, someone will have um follicles around her ovaries combining with the regular cycle.
9:13
SPEAKER_00: So she doesn't have the chin.
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SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
9:14
SPEAKER_00: The chin hair.
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SPEAKER_00: So she may think I don't have PCOS, but I don't have chin hair, but she has follicles on her ovaries and irregular cycle.
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SPEAKER_04: No, so my question was leading towards the acne.
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SPEAKER_04: Yes.
9:24
SPEAKER_04: Are you saying so?
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SPEAKER_04: Is it that most of the time the presence of acne in women is because of elevated levels of testosterone?
9:33
SPEAKER_04: Simple.
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SPEAKER_04: I never knew that.
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SPEAKER_00: So what is causing the acne?
9:36
SPEAKER_00: That's the question we should be asking.
9:37
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
9:38
SPEAKER_00: And it's we if you want to know what's causing the acne, let's come back to what you are putting into your body.
9:43
SPEAKER_00: So I wake up, I'm eating carbohydrates.
9:45
SPEAKER_00: In the absolute, I'm eating carbohydrates.
9:47
SPEAKER_00: In the evening, I'm eating carbohydrates.
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SPEAKER_00: What are you doing to your body?
9:49
SPEAKER_00: Carbohydrates converts to glucose.
9:52
SPEAKER_00: Now, your body, through your pancreas, releases a hormone called insulin.
9:56
SPEAKER_00: The role of insulin is to get the glucose to your cells in your body to convert to energy for you to use.
10:02
SPEAKER_00: The more you keep eating carbs, the more you keep taking insulin through that process, insulin is going to be high.
10:07
SPEAKER_00: When insulin is high, it triggers the ovaries to produce more testosterone.
10:13
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
10:13
SPEAKER_00: It's as simple as that.
10:14
SPEAKER_00: And when testosterone, now you know.
10:17
SPEAKER_00: And when testosterone is high, acne can pop up, hair on the chin can pop up, hair on the chest can pop up, even hair on the nipple can pop up.
10:26
SPEAKER_00: Some women even lose hair.
10:27
SPEAKER_00: So they'll be combing their hair and they see a lot of hair being lost.
10:29
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
10:30
SPEAKER_00: So every woman is different.
10:31
SPEAKER_00: It shows up in different women in different ways.
10:33
SPEAKER_00: And that's why, for instance, as a brand, my wife and I, we are advocating for, let's say, doctors to look at it from a holistic general point of view.
10:41
SPEAKER_00: Don't just treat the regular symptom, the regular cycle, because the woman came with a regular cycle.
10:46
SPEAKER_00: Ask questions.
10:47
SPEAKER_00: There could be um hair on the chain, she went to do laser the previous day before coming.
10:52
SPEAKER_00: And once you ask questions, you can combine all of these symptoms to diagnose the woman of PCOS.
10:57
SPEAKER_02: Okay.
10:58
SPEAKER_02: Wow.
10:58
SPEAKER_02: This is interesting.
11:00
SPEAKER_00: I'm being schooled right now.
11:02
SPEAKER_00: And it's not just women, even many women don't know.
11:05
SPEAKER_00: So she doesn't know.
11:06
SPEAKER_00: She goes through life, the doctor says she's fine.
11:09
SPEAKER_00: Now she gets married, she can't conceive.
11:11
SPEAKER_00: And she's blaming witches and wizards.
11:14
SPEAKER_00: My family people.
11:15
SPEAKER_00: It's it's it's it's science.
11:17
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
11:17
SPEAKER_00: If it had been detected early, this could have saved many women from ending up in um fertility hospitals and clinics.
11:24
SPEAKER_00: But because it wasn't detected early, she went through life thinking it's not just even imagine what we call painful period.
11:30
SPEAKER_00: She starts her cycle, it's painful.
11:32
SPEAKER_00: Her mother is telling her, Oh, that's what we all went through.
11:35
SPEAKER_00: That's what makes you a woman.
11:36
SPEAKER_00: And it comes back to being how women we choose wives.
11:38
SPEAKER_00: Can she cook?
11:39
SPEAKER_00: Can she clean?
11:40
SPEAKER_00: So the whole idea of a woman is she's supposed to endure pain, go through suffering, and the woman think it is normal, it's not normal.
11:47
SPEAKER_00: And that's why some of these conversations are very important.
11:49
SPEAKER_04: So you've gone to painful periods.
11:51
SPEAKER_04: So for those the ladies watching right now who are going through very severe pains, yes, are you saying it could possibly be PCOS?
12:00
SPEAKER_00: Which, if I had a lot of money, I would probably print a lot of billboards in a car or in Ghana or in the whole world and have the inscription on it.
12:07
SPEAKER_00: Painful periods are not normal.
12:09
SPEAKER_00: Because we think we seem to have normalized it for so long.
12:12
SPEAKER_00: True.
12:12
SPEAKER_00: Any pain that is causing you to not go to school, to not go to work, um, to stop you from going to the party which he is doing at home because you're on your cycle, it's not normal.
12:22
SPEAKER_00: So why do we normalize it?
12:24
SPEAKER_00: Again, it comes from, and I feel there's a grand agenda against women in the world.
12:28
SPEAKER_00: It's something I was telling my wife this morning because I feel there's a lot women go through which is not normal, but we have normalized it.
12:35
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
12:35
SPEAKER_00: And it's not just a painful period alone, there's there's heavy periods.
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SPEAKER_00: So the amount of blood a woman is supposed to lose during her cycle, the quantity of blood she's supposed to lose is so let's say three to five day period.
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SPEAKER_00: She's supposed to lose three to five tablespoons of blood.
12:48
SPEAKER_00: But is that what women are losing?
12:49
SPEAKER_00: Many women are losing more than that.
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SPEAKER_04: Did you say three to five tablespoons?
12:52
SPEAKER_04: Tablespoons of blood.
12:53
SPEAKER_04: Many women are losing much more.
12:54
SPEAKER_00: Someone losing just that in a day.
12:55
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
12:56
SPEAKER_00: And something is wrong somewhere.
12:57
SPEAKER_00: And that's why we need to have a lot of these conversations.
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SPEAKER_04: Do women feel like they are being supported enough to have these conversations?
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SPEAKER_04: Because I see a lot of women, and if they're going through something, you know, when they raise it, then the entire society will say, Oh, oh, forget about it.
13:14
SPEAKER_04: Oh, your pain, who cares?
13:17
SPEAKER_04: Every woman went through it.
13:18
SPEAKER_04: Yes.
13:19
SPEAKER_04: Are we creating that space for them?
13:21
SPEAKER_04: Because we need to.
13:22
SPEAKER_00: I don't think we are not.
13:23
SPEAKER_00: So even I spoke to a lady three two weeks ago, and she the lady has painful periods, heavy periods, lower back pain during her cycle, pain during sex, pain when she's using the toilet, pain when she's peeing.
13:37
SPEAKER_00: She's been to the hospital several times and she's been told she has fibroids.
13:40
SPEAKER_00: And I said, You don't have just fibroids, it goes beyond fibroids.
13:43
SPEAKER_00: You have endometriosis.
13:45
SPEAKER_00: So that's that's another thing we have.
13:47
SPEAKER_04: Let me Google that.
13:48
SPEAKER_00: And so endometriosis.
13:49
SPEAKER_00: Please spell that for me.
13:54
SPEAKER_00: N D O.
13:54
SPEAKER_00: Oh, there it is.
13:55
SPEAKER_00: Endometriosis.
13:56
SPEAKER_00: So it's a condition where cells I've come to school.
13:59
SPEAKER_00: I'm enjoying today.
14:00
SPEAKER_00: It's a condition where tissue similar to the line on the uterus.
14:04
SPEAKER_00: So every month a woman has her menses, there's a line of the uterus that comes up.
14:08
SPEAKER_05: Okay.
14:08
SPEAKER_00: So this is a condition where tissue similar to the line of the uterus grows outside the uterus and it can go anywhere.
14:14
SPEAKER_00: It can go around the ovaries, the fallopian tube, anywhere in a woman's body.
14:20
SPEAKER_00: And there's some of the symptoms are painful periods, heavy periods, um pain during sex.
14:26
SPEAKER_00: So if a woman is having pain when there's deep penetration during sex, that alone is not endometriosis.
14:31
SPEAKER_00: But all of these factors coming together is endometriosis onto proving otherwise.
14:35
SPEAKER_00: Wow.
14:35
SPEAKER_04: So I totally think intense and severe cramping during periods, lower back pain, chronic pelvic aches, discomfort during or after sexual intercourse, and pain went wow, it's a lot.
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SPEAKER_00: And and I suspect there are so currently 10% of women in the world are going to endometriosis.
14:52
SPEAKER_00: These are those who have gone to the hospital and they are 10%.
14:54
SPEAKER_00: Yes.
14:54
SPEAKER_00: So if you pick 10 women, one is.
14:57
SPEAKER_00: So that means we all know someone or someone who knows someone who may be going to an endometriosome.
15:01
SPEAKER_00: But they don't know they are going to be.
15:02
SPEAKER_00: Don't even know.
15:03
SPEAKER_00: Even this 10% are those who have gone to the hospital to be diagnosed.
15:06
SPEAKER_00: True.
15:06
SPEAKER_00: So just imagine the number of women you know who have painful periods, heavy periods coming together, pain during sex, pain when they are using the toilet, and all of these things coming together.
15:15
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
15:16
SPEAKER_00: And it's not a disease or something you can see on a scan unless it's diagnosed through a surgery.
15:22
SPEAKER_00: Can you imagine?
15:22
SPEAKER_04: It's diagnosed through a surgery.
15:24
SPEAKER_00: Oh, because they have to go in and check.
15:26
SPEAKER_00: And that's why doctors need to combine all of these symptoms coming together to make sure you diagnose the person early.
15:32
SPEAKER_00: Because that's what that's the second leading cause of infertility in women.
15:36
SPEAKER_02: Interesting.
15:37
SPEAKER_00: Yes.
15:38
SPEAKER_04: So the only diagnosis is through surgery.
15:41
SPEAKER_04: Yes.
15:41
SPEAKER_04: But the symptoms can guide you to sort of have an idea.
15:45
SPEAKER_00: If someone is having painful and heavy periods, lower back pain during her cycle, pain during sex, pain when she's using the toilet, pain when she's peeing, that's syndrometrios proven otherwise.
15:55
SPEAKER_04: So how about other body pains and stuff, even if it's not maybe the back pains on the arm and all those things?
16:01
SPEAKER_00: No, that's that's different.
16:02
SPEAKER_00: That's different.
16:03
SPEAKER_04: So what can cause some things?
16:04
SPEAKER_00: No, but also the the issue is we seem to have made these issues gynaecological issues.
16:10
SPEAKER_00: So the moment you you tell me it's a gynaecological issue, you're focusing on just the vagina, the reproductive parts, but it's a whole body issue.
16:18
SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
16:18
SPEAKER_00: Many women are waking up extremely tired.
16:20
SPEAKER_00: They've not gone to do any masonry work, but they are very tired.
16:24
SPEAKER_00: Many women are struggling to sleep when they have some of these conditions.
16:27
SPEAKER_00: Many women are depressed.
16:29
SPEAKER_00: They have no one to talk to.
16:31
SPEAKER_00: Some are bloated, some it's it's it's it's sad.
16:36
SPEAKER_00: And some of these things always get me depressed.
16:38
SPEAKER_00: That's why I'm saying I think there's a grand agenda against women in the world.
16:42
SPEAKER_00: Because imagine women using sanitary pads for all of these years.
16:46
SPEAKER_00: But guess when actual menstrual blood was tested on the sanitary pad, you can Google and see 2023.
16:51
SPEAKER_00: But yes, just 2023.
16:54
SPEAKER_00: You are joking.
16:55
SPEAKER_00: I'm telling you, let me Google this.
16:56
SPEAKER_00: So it was always water being poured on the sanitary pad to test.
17:00
SPEAKER_00: So how do you test every period?
17:04
SPEAKER_04: What?
17:09
SPEAKER_00: Just 2023.
17:11
SPEAKER_04: In August 2023.
17:13
SPEAKER_00: That actual menstrual blood was tested on the sanitary pad.
17:17
SPEAKER_00: And and it's amazing to also know women were only added to research in just 1990.
17:22
SPEAKER_00: Yes.
17:22
SPEAKER_00: That one I read.
17:23
SPEAKER_00: That is only 1990.
17:25
SPEAKER_00: 1960, 1970.
17:27
SPEAKER_00: Things that were produced for women, what was it tested on?
17:30
SPEAKER_04: On men.
17:30
SPEAKER_00: The contraceptive pill was produced in 1960.
17:34
SPEAKER_00: For women, so who was tested on?
17:35
SPEAKER_04: Well, that one was tested on animals.
17:37
SPEAKER_04: But are animals the same as women?
17:39
SPEAKER_04: Yes, on different genders.
17:41
SPEAKER_04: Usually different species.
17:42
SPEAKER_00: Even you know when someone is to collapse and you're doing CPR, the whole CPR training was used, a man was used, not a woman.
17:49
SPEAKER_00: You know, women have breasts, they are not the same as a man.
17:51
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
17:52
SPEAKER_00: So everyone who has gone through that training has been trained using a man's body, not a woman's body.
17:56
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
17:57
SPEAKER_00: Why?
17:58
SPEAKER_00: True.
17:59
SPEAKER_04: So how do we fix things like this?
18:01
SPEAKER_04: Because you see, I've I've been to the hospital with a friend or something like that, and I've noticed that when it comes to women's health, when it comes to anything that is not a general thing, it's specific to women, doctors don't seem as concerned.
18:19
SPEAKER_04: Yes, I want to use my words carefully to not insult anyone out there.
18:23
SPEAKER_04: Sorry, but they don't seem as sharp on it.
18:25
SPEAKER_04: It seems more like, oh, this one, oh, this one.
18:29
SPEAKER_04: And I get worried when I hear those kinds of things.
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19:03
SPEAKER_04: What can we do to let the medical industry take women's health a bit more serious?
19:10
SPEAKER_00: That's why some of these conversations are very important.
19:12
SPEAKER_00: I mean, imagine had I not been in the life of my wife, I'm sure the two kids wouldn't have been possible.
19:19
SPEAKER_00: You should see me in the hospital, literally fighting doctors.
19:22
SPEAKER_00: I remember when we had our first child, it was a very difficult pregnancy.
19:26
SPEAKER_00: So doctors say my wife cannot conceive.
19:28
SPEAKER_00: Now she gets pregnant.
19:30
SPEAKER_00: And the very first scan we did, eight, nine-week scan, doctors are telling us the fetus will not survive.
19:37
SPEAKER_00: And I was there with my wife, and I'm like, How?
19:39
SPEAKER_00: The same doctor said she cannot conceive.
19:41
SPEAKER_00: Now she's pregnant.
19:42
SPEAKER_00: You are coming to say the fetus will not survive.
19:44
SPEAKER_00: It was a very difficult pregnancy.
19:46
SPEAKER_04: Doctor Doom.
19:47
SPEAKER_00: We had the ambulance in our house about three, four times every week.
19:50
SPEAKER_00: Luckily for us, we lived in the UK, so it made things much more easier.
19:53
SPEAKER_00: And at 25 weeks, my wife was bleeding so much that the doctors wanted to take the baby out.
19:57
SPEAKER_00: I insisted and said no.
19:59
SPEAKER_00: Because at that point, baby's not fully developed.
20:01
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
20:01
SPEAKER_00: Same as 28 weeks.
20:02
SPEAKER_00: We had our firstborn, Stella, at 33 weeks.
20:05
SPEAKER_04: Oh, so that's where the name of the supplement came from.
20:07
SPEAKER_00: Yes, and even that day, doctors saying, Oh, let's try and push it to 37 weeks.
20:12
SPEAKER_00: I'm like, no, let's save mother and child.
20:14
SPEAKER_00: Because I've seen what she's going through, what her body is going through.
20:17
SPEAKER_00: I don't want us to lose one.
20:19
SPEAKER_00: We might as well save one now and save the two of them.
20:21
SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
20:22
SPEAKER_00: And I remember how the black nurses were very happy those times when I was always advocating for her.
20:28
SPEAKER_00: And it comes back to how we tell women to live their life when they are going through pain, we've normalized pain.
20:35
SPEAKER_00: So women feel, oh, pain is normal.
20:38
SPEAKER_00: If you don't go to just even imagine the comp the comparison between natural birth and CS.
20:42
SPEAKER_00: So someone feels because one woman didn't do natural birth, she's not a woman enough.
20:47
SPEAKER_00: But did the CS bring out this scap, this mark, or it brought out a human being?
20:52
SPEAKER_00: So it comes back to having more of these conversations.
20:54
SPEAKER_00: And I'm happy a lot of women are speaking up now.
20:56
SPEAKER_00: Many women are talking about their issues now.
20:58
SPEAKER_00: I think some weeks back, Ira Star released an album where she talked about how she's been diagnosed with endometriosis as well.
21:04
SPEAKER_00: Oh, she's going to do a surgery as well.
21:06
SPEAKER_00: So if you have people who have the voices like her, your yourself talking about women's issues, it goes a very long way.
21:12
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
21:13
SPEAKER_00: And let's and also women should learn how to advocate for themselves.
21:16
SPEAKER_00: Today we have Chat GPT.
21:17
SPEAKER_00: If you're not well, type in your symptoms.
21:19
SPEAKER_00: They will tell you what is wrong with you.
21:21
SPEAKER_00: Before you go to the doctor, know why you're going to the doctor.
21:24
SPEAKER_00: If you feel your symptoms are PCOS and the doctor tells you you don't have PCOS, tell the doctor, no, in diagnosing PCOS, this is the criteria.
21:32
SPEAKER_00: I'm experiencing XYZ.
21:34
SPEAKER_00: I think I have PCOS.
21:36
SPEAKER_00: And I'm sure the doctor will listen to you.
21:38
SPEAKER_04: I think the problem there is that women are trained, and it's a global thing.
21:43
SPEAKER_04: Women are trained to believe that they are meant to endure pain.
21:46
SPEAKER_00: Exactly.
21:47
SPEAKER_04: You know, it's like both men and women, and there's some wrong indoctrination that they give us.
21:52
SPEAKER_04: They make men feel that we are supposed to endure suffering to provide.
21:58
SPEAKER_00: Yes.
21:58
SPEAKER_04: And women are supposed to endure.
22:00
SPEAKER_04: Pain to survive.
22:01
SPEAKER_00: Exactly.
22:02
SPEAKER_04: So when a woman is going through pain, she doesn't feel comfortable to share it.
22:07
SPEAKER_04: Look at the difference between when a man is sick and when a woman is sick.
22:10
SPEAKER_04: Yes.
22:10
SPEAKER_04: When a man is sick, we turn into babies.
22:13
SPEAKER_04: It's like I'm sick.
22:15
SPEAKER_04: I'm not going to.
22:16
SPEAKER_04: I was watching this guy who was talking about the fact that women don't make enough noise about their period pains.
22:23
SPEAKER_00: They are going through a lot, Reggie.
22:24
SPEAKER_04: Because he said if he woke up one day and he was bleeding from his private part, he's not going to work.
22:30
SPEAKER_04: Exactly.
22:32
SPEAKER_04: Exactly.
22:33
SPEAKER_04: Because a man can wake up with a flu and that's the end of the world.
22:36
SPEAKER_04: But a woman doesn't feel comfortable in making that call to say, I'm in severe pain.
22:43
SPEAKER_04: I can't move.
22:45
SPEAKER_00: Especially black women.
22:46
SPEAKER_00: They have even endured it more.
22:48
SPEAKER_00: So a black woman's pain threshold can be, they'll tell you they have a high pain threshold.
22:52
SPEAKER_00: What she comes experiencing is nine over ten, but she's telling you, Oh, it's not painful.
22:57
SPEAKER_00: And she creates an impression as if it's one over ten or two over ten.
23:00
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
23:00
SPEAKER_00: And talking about indoctrination, you took my mind to something.
23:02
SPEAKER_00: So I when I relocated from Ghana to the UK, you know, in Ghana, men provide.
23:07
SPEAKER_00: Now I get to the UK and okay, monthly bills, I'm providing.
23:10
SPEAKER_00: My wife is like, no, here, we don't do it like that.
23:13
SPEAKER_00: I help and you also help.
23:14
SPEAKER_00: And I'm like, hey.
23:16
SPEAKER_00: That was the biggest cultural shock.
23:18
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
23:18
SPEAKER_00: Because where I'm coming from, a man is supposed to do everything money.
23:21
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
23:21
SPEAKER_00: But a woman is telling you, Oh, no, I give some, you also give some.
23:24
SPEAKER_00: Because I love to cook, I do every other thing.
23:26
SPEAKER_00: But I I just felt, let me also cover the whole bill.
23:29
SPEAKER_00: But there's a woman telling me, yeah, we don't do it like that.
23:32
SPEAKER_00: I help you also help.
23:33
SPEAKER_00: So it comes back to the training we get from home, what we see our fathers and mothers do, and and they all inform what we become when we grow up in the future.
23:42
SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
23:43
SPEAKER_04: Okay, let's talk about the supplement.
23:45
SPEAKER_04: So, how does the supplement help with PCOS?
23:49
SPEAKER_04: And let me see if I'm pronouncing it right.
23:50
SPEAKER_04: Endot endometriosis.
23:52
SPEAKER_00: You're just like my wife, she can't pronounce us.
23:54
SPEAKER_04: Shall we endometriosis?
23:55
SPEAKER_04: Wait, wait, wait.
23:56
SPEAKER_04: Let me look at the endometriosis.
23:57
SPEAKER_04: Endometriosis.
23:58
SPEAKER_04: How does the stellar supplement help?
24:00
SPEAKER_00: So, first of all, the supplement is not a replacement for surgery.
24:04
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
24:04
SPEAKER_00: So, for instance, someone has fibroids.
24:07
SPEAKER_00: Um, so fibroids are not non-cancerous growth that grow in the womb or outside the womb.
24:12
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
24:12
SPEAKER_00: And they feel okay, let me go and get stellar supplement.
24:15
SPEAKER_00: The fibroids will leave.
24:16
SPEAKER_00: First of all, what is causing the fibroid in the first place?
24:18
SPEAKER_00: What's making the fibroid grow bigger?
24:20
SPEAKER_00: What's causing new fibroids to come up?
24:22
SPEAKER_00: So, fibroids, endometriosis, there's another condition called adenomyiosis.
24:26
SPEAKER_00: So that's like the best friend of endometriosis where the same tissues, um, tissues that go, tissue similar to adenomyosis, adenomyosis.
24:36
SPEAKER_00: ADE.
24:37
SPEAKER_00: Oh, there you are.
24:38
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
24:38
SPEAKER_00: So it's the best friend of endometriosis where tissue similar to the line of the uterus goes within the walls of the uterus.
24:45
SPEAKER_00: Oh, okay.
24:46
SPEAKER_00: And it presents similar symptoms like endometriosis.
24:48
SPEAKER_00: So painful periods, heavy periods, lower back pain, pain during sex, pain when you're using the toilet, pain when you are peeing.
24:54
SPEAKER_00: There are women who can have adenomiosis, have endometriosis, have fibroids.
24:58
SPEAKER_00: Right.
24:58
SPEAKER_00: And even have PCOs as well.
25:00
SPEAKER_00: So just imagine what they are going through.
25:02
SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
25:03
SPEAKER_04: Being attacked from all.
25:05
SPEAKER_00: A lot of this pain is still normalized.
25:08
SPEAKER_04: Oh, it's normal.
25:09
SPEAKER_04: Everybody goes through it.
25:12
SPEAKER_00: It is well, it is well.
25:14
SPEAKER_04: Wow.
25:15
SPEAKER_04: And endomyosis.
25:17
SPEAKER_04: Adenomyosis.
25:18
SPEAKER_04: Adenomyosis.
25:21
SPEAKER_04: I am being taught things that I had no idea.
25:23
SPEAKER_04: Yes, I was.
25:23
SPEAKER_00: I was talking about fibroids, adenomyosis, and endometriosis, all being um conditions which are influenced by estrogen dominance.
25:30
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
25:31
SPEAKER_00: What do I mean?
25:31
SPEAKER_00: Let me explain.
25:32
SPEAKER_00: So let's talk about a woman's cycle.
25:34
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
25:35
SPEAKER_00: Um there are two hormones, main hormones responsible for a woman's cycle, estrogen, progesterone, which I'm sure you may have heard of.
25:42
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
25:42
SPEAKER_00: At the start of a woman's cycle, first of all, a woman's sex hormones come from cholesterol, the same cholesterol we all know.
25:49
SPEAKER_00: From cholesterol comes a hormone called pregninolone.
25:52
SPEAKER_00: From that comes progesterone, and progesterone serves as a precursor for estrogen, testosterone, adrenal hormones, and progesterone as well.
26:00
SPEAKER_00: So at the start of a woman's cycle, and let's assume the average length of a woman's cycle is 28 days.
26:06
SPEAKER_00: Estrogen and progesterone are key hormones here.
26:08
SPEAKER_00: Estrogen is low, progesterone is low.
26:10
SPEAKER_00: By day seven, estrogen begins to rise, but progesterone is low.
26:13
SPEAKER_00: By day 13, 14, estrogen is at the highest in a woman's body.
26:18
SPEAKER_00: This is the time a woman is ovulating, um, the uterine lining is coming up, an egg is being released, and all of that.
26:25
SPEAKER_00: And at this point, estrogen is causing massive cell growth in a woman's body.
26:30
SPEAKER_00: Um, it's causing cell proliferation as well.
26:33
SPEAKER_00: After day 14, estrogen is supposed to fall, progesterone takes over.
26:37
SPEAKER_05: Okay.
26:37
SPEAKER_00: Progesterone is more like it can come into putting the finishing touches.
26:42
SPEAKER_00: At this time, a woman is feeling more for sex and all of that.
26:45
SPEAKER_00: At day 26, if there's no pregnancy, both hormones are dropping.
26:48
SPEAKER_00: Day 28, both hormones are fully dropped, and she sees her menstruation.
26:52
SPEAKER_00: Okay, that's how the cycle works.
26:54
SPEAKER_00: Are we seeing what I just described in many women today?
26:56
SPEAKER_00: The answer is no.
26:57
SPEAKER_00: What are we seeing?
26:58
SPEAKER_00: We are seeing a situation where at the 40, nestrogen is high.
27:01
SPEAKER_00: Estrogen is done with its duty, it's calling on progesterone.
27:05
SPEAKER_00: Please come and take over.
27:06
SPEAKER_00: Progesterone is nowhere to be found.
27:08
SPEAKER_00: So we are having many women having bodies that are estrogen dominant.
27:11
SPEAKER_05: Okay.
27:12
SPEAKER_00: When a woman's body is estrogen dominant, what happens?
27:14
SPEAKER_00: Like I said, it causes massive cell growth.
27:17
SPEAKER_00: We'll see fibroids come up, we'll see endometriosis come up, we'll see literally mood swings and all of those things can come up.
27:23
SPEAKER_00: Mood swing is not normal.
27:24
SPEAKER_00: So a woman is having her period, she's all moody, she doesn't want to talk to anyone, she thinks it's normal after the normalize it.
27:30
SPEAKER_00: It's not normal.
27:31
SPEAKER_00: Your hormones are not balanced.
27:34
SPEAKER_04: So this means majority of women's um health problems comes from hormonal imbalance.
27:41
SPEAKER_00: Exactly.
27:41
SPEAKER_00: Hormones are basically chemical messengers in our body.
27:44
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, um, if there's more or less of a particular hormone or some hormones, it leads to what we call hormonal imbalance.
27:50
SPEAKER_00: So, what is causing you to be that way?
27:52
SPEAKER_00: What is causing one one common thing I notice around is bloating.
27:56
SPEAKER_00: So many women are bloated, their tiny is bloated, they think it's normal, it's not normal, something is wrong somewhere.
28:02
SPEAKER_00: Wow.
28:03
SPEAKER_00: I never knew.
28:04
SPEAKER_00: And all of these things come from your hormones not being balanced.
28:07
SPEAKER_00: So, what's causing the bloating in the first place?
28:09
SPEAKER_00: As I said, you if you keep eating a lot of carbohydrates, you are causing your pancreas to release insulin.
28:15
SPEAKER_00: Insulin is to get the glucose out of your blood stream, take it to your cells to provide energy.
28:20
SPEAKER_00: The woman doesn't exercise, she's living a sedentary lifestyle.
28:23
SPEAKER_00: The the glucose or the sugar got from the blood needs to be stored somewhere.
28:28
SPEAKER_00: The liver converts that into fat.
28:30
SPEAKER_00: And what does it store it?
28:31
SPEAKER_00: Around your organs.
28:33
SPEAKER_00: So it's the most dangerous fat in any humans, but not just women, even men as well.
28:37
SPEAKER_00: If your tummy is bloated, you need to work on it because that fat is called visceral fat.
28:42
SPEAKER_00: It's very dangerous, it's around your organs.
28:44
SPEAKER_04: Interesting.
28:45
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
28:46
SPEAKER_04: So right now, in the beginning, we spoke about PCOS, which had the effect of increasing test um testosterone levels.
28:53
SPEAKER_00: Not just that, it's it's affecting a woman's metabolic health, it's causing inflammation, it's causing insulin resistance.
29:00
SPEAKER_00: So there are women who have PCOS who can be today, they are big, tomorrow they are small, they're with fluctuate and all of that.
29:06
SPEAKER_00: It's causing bloating, it's causing depression.
29:09
SPEAKER_00: It literally affects the woman's whole body.
29:11
SPEAKER_00: She's losing hair on her hair, it's causing hair to appear on the chin.
29:15
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
29:15
SPEAKER_00: And it's affecting her ovarian reserve.
29:17
SPEAKER_00: Like I said, it's the leading cause of infertility in women.
29:20
SPEAKER_04: And then we have endometriosis on the other side, which is increasing the estrogen um levels.
29:26
SPEAKER_00: No, so estrogen dominance leads to some of these conditions.
29:31
SPEAKER_00: So it thrives, fibroid thrives when there's estrogen dominance in a woman's body.
29:34
SPEAKER_00: What is causing the estrogen dominance in the first place?
29:36
SPEAKER_04: That's the question I was going to ask.
29:38
SPEAKER_00: Okay, so let me answer you.
29:39
SPEAKER_00: So if your insulin is high, can push estrogen to be high.
29:43
SPEAKER_03: Okay.
29:43
SPEAKER_00: The same estrogen that was pushing the testosterone can push estrogen to be high.
29:48
SPEAKER_00: If a woman is using a lot, is doing a lot of hair relaxing, what's in the chemicals used for the hair relaxing?
29:54
SPEAKER_02: Interesting.
29:54
SPEAKER_00: Yes.
29:55
SPEAKER_00: So these are chemicals you introduce into your body and it causes or it's termed as endocrine disruptors.
30:03
SPEAKER_00: So it disrupts the natural way your body is supposed to work.
30:06
SPEAKER_00: And these chemicals mimic the estrogen produced in the ovaries.
30:11
SPEAKER_05: Wow.
30:12
SPEAKER_00: So that's another way a woman's body can become estrogen dominant.
30:17
SPEAKER_00: Not just hair relaxing, the wigs they wear.
30:19
SPEAKER_00: I thought the wigs come from Brazil and Piruan and just wear it.
30:22
SPEAKER_00: But when it goes to a whole chemical processing.
30:24
SPEAKER_04: So it's right here.
30:25
SPEAKER_04: So the chemical hair relaxes contain endocrine disrupting chemicals.
30:30
SPEAKER_04: Perfect.
30:31
SPEAKER_04: That interfere with the body's hormonal and metabolic system.
30:35
SPEAKER_00: Yes.
30:35
SPEAKER_00: Not just the hair relaxing, the wigs they wear, the dyes they use.
30:39
SPEAKER_00: These are all things that have chemicals in there.
30:41
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
30:42
SPEAKER_00: It comes into your body, it disrupts your endocrine system.
30:46
SPEAKER_00: It will produce things in your body that mimics how estrogen is supposed to work.
30:50
SPEAKER_00: What causes a chicken to be fully developed in five weeks?
30:53
SPEAKER_00: If the chicken is being fed with growth stimulants, it comes into your body.
30:58
SPEAKER_00: Same thing.
30:58
SPEAKER_00: Estrogen will be high in your body as well.
31:01
SPEAKER_00: The use of the contraceptive pill.
31:02
SPEAKER_00: So a woman has sex today, she doesn't want to get pregnant, she goes to the pharmacy, buys whatever pill to prevent the pregnancy from happening.
31:09
SPEAKER_00: The contraceptive pill was made in 1960.
31:12
SPEAKER_00: Initially it was just estrogen in it.
31:14
SPEAKER_00: Later I was realized estrogen was causing cancer and also causing many women to have miscarriages.
31:20
SPEAKER_00: So now it was agreed progesterone is added to the pill.
31:23
SPEAKER_00: But these are synthetic hormones that are being produced.
31:27
SPEAKER_00: It comes into your body.
31:28
SPEAKER_00: What happens?
31:29
SPEAKER_00: Like I said, estrogen was already high.
31:31
SPEAKER_00: Now you are introducing something with estrogen again into your body.
31:35
SPEAKER_00: Why don't we advise men to pull out?
31:38
SPEAKER_00: But we tell women to go take the pill after the sex.
31:40
SPEAKER_04: I've always wondered why don't we have any pill that a man can take?
31:45
SPEAKER_00: You know that would actually be because it's a male.
31:48
SPEAKER_00: I think it's again, it comes back to my point of I feel women are there's an agenda against women in the world.
31:53
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
31:53
SPEAKER_00: Because everything, because if you look at how come we don't have a solution for PCOs and all of these conditions, something like a man having erectile dysfunction doesn't affect a lot of men.
32:04
SPEAKER_00: It affects few men, very few men.
32:05
SPEAKER_00: And there are so many solutions that the the part of the industry that makes so much money.
32:13
SPEAKER_00: Exactly, because men love their ego to be to be pushed high, and we don't really care about women.
32:19
SPEAKER_00: That's why that's why I believe.
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32:56
SPEAKER_04: Do you think it's also about the commercial value?
33:01
SPEAKER_04: When I say the commercial value, do you think that the pharmaceutical industry and the medical industry are caring more about making money than they are about solving problems?
33:11
SPEAKER_00: That's very good.
33:12
SPEAKER_00: That's a very good point.
33:13
SPEAKER_00: I didn't even think about it, but that's a very good point.
33:15
SPEAKER_00: And yes, I think women like to buy more than men.
33:18
SPEAKER_00: So if women like to buy, it makes sense.
33:20
SPEAKER_00: Let's not produce a solution, let's get them to buy more from us.
33:23
SPEAKER_00: So, yes, that's a very smart one.
33:27
SPEAKER_03: Okay.
33:28
SPEAKER_00: So there are a lot of things that causes, and also if someone is eating foods that are GMO, or foods that had a lot of genetically modified foods, okay, or food that had a lot of um pesticides, and we decide to go happen on the farm or spray happen on the farm, they eat that kind of food, it comes back into their body, it causes the same estrogen to be high again, it will lead to fibroids, it will lead to um endometrios and all of these conditions again.
33:54
SPEAKER_00: So the key thing is keep estrogen in check.
33:56
SPEAKER_00: Estrogen is like a slave.
33:59
SPEAKER_00: You need a slave, but you need to keep the slave in check.
34:01
SPEAKER_00: It's just like fire.
34:02
SPEAKER_00: You need fire to cook.
34:03
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
34:04
SPEAKER_00: But the same fire can burn your house down, it can burn you down as well.
34:07
SPEAKER_00: So estrogen must must be in check.
34:09
SPEAKER_00: If not, it will be like this, we're just trying to be like this.
34:11
SPEAKER_00: And you have all kinds of issues.
34:13
SPEAKER_04: So, what I'm really hearing is that if we take women's health, the biggest concerns are hormonal.
34:21
SPEAKER_04: And the hormones are being affected consistently by our lifestyle choices.
34:26
SPEAKER_04: Ideally.
34:27
SPEAKER_04: Because all these things that we are discussing are the day-to-day things that we do.
34:30
SPEAKER_04: When we're talking about the sugar, the GMO, these are things that the hair relaxing.
34:35
SPEAKER_00: So, you know, funny enough, I I always wondered why my daughter goes to nursery.
34:40
SPEAKER_00: My daughter is four, she goes to nursery, comes back home, and her hair is all dry.
34:44
SPEAKER_00: So I was blaming my wife and thinking you don't do her hair well.
34:47
SPEAKER_00: So I said, Let me do it myself.
34:48
SPEAKER_00: I did the hair, I did the washing, relaxing.
34:51
SPEAKER_00: She went to nursery, came back, it was still dry.
34:53
SPEAKER_00: So I had to we had to get a um a family friend, Lorraine.
34:56
SPEAKER_00: She she's into natural hair stuff.
34:58
SPEAKER_00: Lorraine came home to educate us on how to keep a black woman's hair.
35:01
SPEAKER_05: Okay.
35:02
SPEAKER_00: So based on what Lorraine taught us, you wash the hair at least once a week, or if you can do twice, perfect.
35:06
SPEAKER_00: You wash it once a week.
35:08
SPEAKER_00: Make sure you don't wipe the water off.
35:10
SPEAKER_00: You apply a good living conditioner, very natural one, and you apply a moisturizer, and you apply any oil you have onto the hair.
35:18
SPEAKER_00: And the next morning, if you wake up, just apply normal water.
35:21
SPEAKER_00: We've been doing this for the past few months and it's been working.
35:24
SPEAKER_00: So I asked Lauren, so why do black men relax their hair?
35:26
SPEAKER_00: And she said, it's to black women want to straighten their hair.
35:29
SPEAKER_00: Why do you want to straighten your hair?
35:31
SPEAKER_04: Because we've been taught that that's beauty.
35:32
SPEAKER_00: No, because Obonnie's hair is straight.
35:34
SPEAKER_00: Yes.
35:34
SPEAKER_00: We've been taught that.
35:35
SPEAKER_00: Who defined that as beauty?
35:36
SPEAKER_04: It's been defined for us that the concept of beauty is a white woman with long hair.
35:42
SPEAKER_04: So for a black woman to be beautiful, she also wants to have long, straight hair like the bike.
35:47
SPEAKER_00: That's a wrong, that's a wrong education.
35:49
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
35:50
SPEAKER_00: And you want indoctrination, yes.
35:52
SPEAKER_00: And you wonder why black women have more fibroid cases.
35:56
SPEAKER_00: So by 40-50, 80% of women are having fibroids.
36:00
SPEAKER_00: And black women are the highest on the list.
36:03
SPEAKER_00: And I I strongly believe it's linked to the reason, the reason is because they do more hair relaxing.
36:07
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
36:08
SPEAKER_00: Because hair relaxing is linked to about 20% risk of getting fibroids.
36:12
SPEAKER_00: There's always a connection somewhere.
36:14
SPEAKER_00: So we need to tell black women to stop the hair relaxing.
36:18
SPEAKER_00: Take care of your natural hair.
36:20
SPEAKER_00: It's not difficult.
36:20
SPEAKER_00: If you're washing your hair at least once a week, if you are not sleeping on um cotton pillow, because you know cotton absorbs heat.
36:28
SPEAKER_00: So ideally, you should use silk.
36:30
SPEAKER_00: You know, they have this hair bonnet thing they wear.
36:32
SPEAKER_00: You can have a silk one, it keeps so the key thing with black women's hair is dryness.
36:37
SPEAKER_00: If you find ways dry.
36:39
SPEAKER_00: No, it shouldn't.
36:39
SPEAKER_00: The problem is dryness.
36:41
SPEAKER_00: Oh, so find ways of keeping it moist or keeping water in.
36:44
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
36:44
SPEAKER_00: That's why you need to apply the oils in there.
36:47
SPEAKER_00: The oil holds the water for long.
36:48
SPEAKER_00: That's the key to keeping their hair.
36:50
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
36:50
SPEAKER_00: But I guess I'm a man.
36:51
SPEAKER_00: I can't speak about black women's hair.
36:53
SPEAKER_04: I mean, they're going to attack us right now.
36:55
SPEAKER_04: Somebody's in the comments saying, Please don't understand the hair.
36:58
SPEAKER_04: You don't know.
36:58
SPEAKER_04: But I I've watched this guy who's going around, who's telling black women to keep their hair and like preserve black beauty.
37:07
SPEAKER_04: And he's being attacked.
37:08
SPEAKER_04: And I don't understand why he's being attacked.
37:11
SPEAKER_04: Because I look at all these things and I always say that it's like African beauty is being eradicated.
37:17
SPEAKER_04: Yes.
37:17
SPEAKER_04: Everything which is African, which is natural, which has always stood for beautiful, is being made to look inferior.
37:25
SPEAKER_04: And they make it seem difficult.
37:27
SPEAKER_04: Like I hear the excuses of things like, do you know how difficult it is to it is to keep natural hair?
37:33
SPEAKER_04: Do you know how difficult it is to this?
37:35
SPEAKER_04: And I get that and I empathize.
37:36
SPEAKER_04: I understand it's difficult.
37:38
SPEAKER_04: But I see women handle more difficult situations.
37:42
SPEAKER_01: Yes.
37:42
SPEAKER_04: I see a woman go through the pain of period, like you are talking about, consistently and keep a smile on their face.
37:50
SPEAKER_04: But and now to find out that it's possible that the hair relaxing is what is causing that other.
37:59
SPEAKER_00: It's a direct relationship.
38:00
SPEAKER_00: Oh my God.
38:00
SPEAKER_00: So I'm I'm wondering, so would you prefer to have fibroids or endometriosis or some of these conditions?
38:07
SPEAKER_00: And yeah, you do your hair and get these conditions and go through these things for the rest of your life?
38:12
SPEAKER_00: No.
38:12
SPEAKER_00: And it doesn't even end when you are 30-40.
38:15
SPEAKER_00: When you hit menopause, by the time you hit menopause, if your estrogen levels were higher than your progesterone levels, you end up having hot flashes, fatigue, and tiredness.
38:24
SPEAKER_00: They still have the hormonal issues during menopause, even though menopause hormones drop.
38:28
SPEAKER_00: So it's something that lives with a woman literally for the rest of her life.
38:33
SPEAKER_00: And it's it's good.
38:34
SPEAKER_00: Like I said, we're having some of these conversations.
38:36
SPEAKER_00: Those who will listen will listen.
38:37
SPEAKER_00: Those who practice will practice.
38:39
SPEAKER_04: Somebody's insulting us right now.
38:40
SPEAKER_04: You, I see you.
38:41
SPEAKER_04: I see that comment you're typing.
38:43
SPEAKER_04: Delete it.
38:43
SPEAKER_04: I see you insulting us.
38:45
SPEAKER_04: Me, I'm I'm personally of I'm the type of person who doesn't like chemicals in general, touching my body, touching my hair.
38:54
SPEAKER_04: Look, I wish I could be all natural all the time completely.
38:58
SPEAKER_04: I remember this situation.
39:00
SPEAKER_04: I always talk about it.
39:01
SPEAKER_04: I remember um years ago, I think like 20 years ago or 18 years ago or something, I started having, I started getting dandruff in my hair.
39:10
SPEAKER_03: Okay.
39:11
SPEAKER_04: And when I would get dandruff in my hair, my Baba was be like, I needed to use this particular shampoo.
39:16
SPEAKER_04: Then he was like, Because the cream, I think I wasn't using cream consistently or something.
39:22
SPEAKER_04: So the shampoo was supposed to interact with the soap or something.
39:26
SPEAKER_04: Like there was this whole long thing where it's like the soap I'm using is causing the cream to lose out to use the shampoo.
39:31
SPEAKER_04: So I just asked a weird question.
39:33
SPEAKER_04: What if I don't use any of them?
39:35
SPEAKER_04: Uh-huh.
39:36
SPEAKER_04: So I stopped.
39:37
SPEAKER_04: I stopped putting soap in my hair, I stopped putting cream in my hair, I stopped putting shampoo in my hair.
39:45
SPEAKER_04: And since then, 20 years, perfect set of hair.
39:48
SPEAKER_00: Simple.
39:48
SPEAKER_00: So you know the body is always looking for the right balance.
39:51
SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
39:52
SPEAKER_00: But how does it get it?
39:53
SPEAKER_00: Provide the atmosphere for the body.
39:55
SPEAKER_00: So for instance, my wife having fibroids, five fibroids, as at last month, we did a scan.
40:01
SPEAKER_00: Three are nowhere to be found.
40:02
SPEAKER_00: Why?
40:03
SPEAKER_00: No surgery.
40:04
SPEAKER_00: But why are the three?
40:05
SPEAKER_00: We worked on our lifestyle.
40:07
SPEAKER_00: If you are living natural, if you come to my home, you wouldn't find rice, you wouldn't find bread, you wouldn't be finding juice in the fridge and all of that.
40:14
SPEAKER_00: Because we try as much as possible to focus on our high protein diets, healthy fats, eating all the right things to help our body find my kids ever get close to Coke or Fanta or any of these soft drinks, never.
40:28
SPEAKER_04: So the high carbohydrates, especially the sugar.
40:31
SPEAKER_00: It's causing a lot of damage.
40:32
SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
40:32
SPEAKER_00: I mean, insulin in your ovaries is technically PCOS, generally.
40:36
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
40:37
SPEAKER_00: Insulin in your in your blood is diabetes.
40:41
SPEAKER_00: Because insulin being high is high blood sugar.
40:43
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
40:43
SPEAKER_00: Insulin in your heart is technically hypertension.
40:46
SPEAKER_00: So it's I wouldn't say it's bad.
40:49
SPEAKER_00: But you know your body can your body can actually live without carbohydrates.
40:52
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, true.
40:53
SPEAKER_00: There are people who live on who do ketogenic diets, they eat just protein and fat, and they are living there fine.
40:58
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
40:58
SPEAKER_00: Some have been able to reverse a lot of these issues going ketogenic.
41:02
SPEAKER_00: I mean, sometimes you can eat small carbs here and there, but let's not focus.
41:06
SPEAKER_00: I know in Ghana our meals are largely carbohydrates, but you can balance it off on the plates.
41:10
SPEAKER_00: If on the plates protein is more, fat is more, and carbs is just a little, your body prefers it that way.
41:16
SPEAKER_00: Or even if you want to eat carbs, eat protein before 30 minutes or 20 minutes before the carbs.
41:21
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
41:21
SPEAKER_00: It's not the same thing.
41:22
SPEAKER_00: Don't eat carbs on an empty stomach.
41:24
SPEAKER_00: If you are eating carbs on an empty stomach, you are spiking your glucose level.
41:27
SPEAKER_00: And someone will tell you breakfast is the most important meal of the day.
41:30
SPEAKER_04: The biggest scam in the world.
41:31
SPEAKER_00: It's actually marketing.
41:32
SPEAKER_00: So when Witabix launched in the US, they had to find a way to market their product.
41:36
SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
41:36
SPEAKER_00: And that's where the term came from.
41:38
SPEAKER_00: It's not scientific, it wasn't coined by doctors.
41:40
SPEAKER_00: So we all wake up, cereal.
41:42
SPEAKER_00: That is largely processed food, that is carbohydrates.
41:45
SPEAKER_04: You know, I was going to chip in that most of our lifestyle choices are based on marketing and we don't even understand like the fact that we consume so much sugar.
41:55
SPEAKER_04: I was I was reading this and I was so amazed when in the 60s or the 70s, when a research came out that proved how harmful sugar was.
42:06
SPEAKER_04: So when that happened, the sale of anything sugar related started to drop because people started seeing that sugar was harmful.
42:14
SPEAKER_04: So what the industry did to fix it, because the damage has started being done, what they did to fix it was they just edited the research.
42:23
SPEAKER_04: So the research was talking about sugar fat.
42:26
SPEAKER_00: Wow.
42:26
SPEAKER_04: So they just said concentrate on the fat part and change the conversation to how bad fat is for the body.
42:35
SPEAKER_00: But your body actually loves fat.
42:36
SPEAKER_00: Your brain is literally fat.
42:38
SPEAKER_04: You see what you're saying, right?
42:42
SPEAKER_04: Most people think fat is harmful for the body.
42:46
SPEAKER_04: And that's because that's how the research was persistent.
42:49
SPEAKER_04: Because they realize if you say that sugar is bad for the body, then there are so many products which are being marketed to us which will have to leave the shelves.
42:56
SPEAKER_00: And you know the funny thing?
42:57
SPEAKER_00: The funny thing is if you go to the hospital today and you have a high cholesterol level, yeah, the doctor gives you a cholesterol-oline medication and tells you to cut fat.
43:05
SPEAKER_00: But what causes cholesterol?
43:06
SPEAKER_00: How is cholesterol produced?
43:08
SPEAKER_00: It's largely from carbohydrates.
43:10
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
43:10
SPEAKER_00: Your body needs more carbs to produce that cholesterol than fat.
43:13
SPEAKER_00: So is it the butter on the bread or the butt the bread on the butter?
43:16
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, it's not the butter on the bread, it's the bread on the butter.
43:21
SPEAKER_00: We have a long way to go.
43:22
SPEAKER_04: We have a long way to go.
43:23
SPEAKER_04: And I hope the person watching us is actually understanding because you see, we keep using the word indoctrination.
43:29
SPEAKER_05: Yes.
43:30
SPEAKER_04: Most of us don't understand that all the ideas we have, all the lifestyle choices, all the things we do have been taught to us.
43:38
SPEAKER_04: Yes.
43:39
SPEAKER_04: So you could be doing so many things wrong, and you've normalized it because that's the way of the world.
43:44
SPEAKER_04: And when I say this, I don't even say it from a sinister point of view.
43:48
SPEAKER_04: I don't even think maybe somebody meant something bad by doing it.
43:52
SPEAKER_04: They are just honestly marketing their products.
43:55
SPEAKER_04: And maybe they've not done the research long enough.
43:58
SPEAKER_04: Like maybe they know.
44:00
SPEAKER_04: Maybe let's let's pretend we we think let's take when Kellogg's was pushing the whole concept of breakfast is the most important meal of the day is the most important meal of the day.
44:10
SPEAKER_04: Maybe they genuinely felt oh, if people eat more, it's good for them.
44:15
SPEAKER_04: They hadn't done the research for 40 years, 50 years to actually realize that what you guys don't know is a human being shouldn't be eating more than once a day.
44:24
SPEAKER_04: It's actually healthier to eat once a day.
44:27
SPEAKER_04: Some even say eating once every two days when you're able to go on intermittent fasting.
44:32
SPEAKER_04: Like when your body is able to go without food for 72 hours, the body starts to heal itself.
44:39
SPEAKER_04: A lot of people don't know that.
44:40
SPEAKER_00: So you know, as you do that, your body naturally produces GLP.
44:43
SPEAKER_04: Exactly.
44:44
SPEAKER_00: But we don't tell people this.
44:46
SPEAKER_00: Yet we prefer the we prefer they take Monjaro or Zempek or injections and they slim down drastically.
44:53
SPEAKER_00: We are not talking about the effects of that.
44:54
SPEAKER_00: Yes, it's it's a it's a sad word.
45:01
SPEAKER_04: Is most people don't know food is an addiction.
45:04
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, okay.
45:05
SPEAKER_00: But it depends on the type of food you are eating.
45:07
SPEAKER_00: So you know, like I said, if you start your day with carbohydrates, for instance, you're gonna have a lot of cravings in the day.
45:12
SPEAKER_04: Do you know the restaurant bread trick?
45:15
SPEAKER_00: No.
45:15
SPEAKER_04: Oh, it's a beautiful trick.
45:17
SPEAKER_04: So you see, when you go to most high-end restaurants, the first thing they do is give you bread.
45:23
SPEAKER_04: Bread.
45:24
SPEAKER_04: Ah.
45:24
SPEAKER_04: So when they give you the bread on an empty stomach, it's gonna make you feel hungry.
45:28
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, it's going to make your levels spike, your insulin levels spike.
45:32
SPEAKER_04: Okay.
45:32
SPEAKER_04: And what that does is that when your insulin levels drop within like 30-40 minutes after you've had your meal, you will need another spike.
45:40
SPEAKER_04: So you are more likely to order desserts.
45:43
SPEAKER_04: So the bread they give you is actually a marketing strategy to hopefully get you to order desserts.
45:49
SPEAKER_00: You think they're giving you free bread?
45:52
SPEAKER_04: So you get free bread and you say, Oh, can I have tiramisu?
45:56
SPEAKER_00: For 600 cities.
45:59
SPEAKER_00: It's it's a sad one.
46:00
SPEAKER_00: So you know, you eat the carbs, you're gonna have cravings the whole day.
46:03
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, but what about you start your day with protein or fat?
46:07
SPEAKER_00: So when I wake up, if I want to eat breakfast, I go to the gym, come back, I can fry about six, seven eggs together with the yolk.
46:14
SPEAKER_04: You understand, you understand.
46:16
SPEAKER_04: Avocado on the side.
46:17
SPEAKER_00: I mean no eat again the whole day.
46:19
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, because fats, the body takes longer to break down fats and protein, so you don't feel hungry easily.
46:24
SPEAKER_00: Yes.
46:24
SPEAKER_00: That's what I've been doing.
46:25
SPEAKER_04: So that's what I was talking about with the not eating consistently.
46:28
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, I learned that one of the most stressful processes to the body is digestion.
46:35
SPEAKER_04: Yes, the body takes a lot of energy to digest food.
46:40
SPEAKER_04: So when you eat at 9 a.m.
46:43
SPEAKER_04: and your body is struggling to digest it, and then you eat again at 12 o'clock, you've put extra stress, and then at 5 o'clock you eat again.
46:50
SPEAKER_04: So now your body is stressed the whole day.
46:52
SPEAKER_04: So a lot of the diseases that we are facing is because the body is on overdrive, trying to digest.
46:58
SPEAKER_00: So imagine a woman with PCUS, and PCUS is a condition which is which loves insulin.
47:04
SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
47:04
SPEAKER_00: So the more insulin or the more carbs come into your butt, but the more you become insulin resistant.
47:11
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
47:11
SPEAKER_00: And the more your PCUS gets worse.
47:13
SPEAKER_00: So why are doctors not telling women, oh, don't eat the carbs or focus more on protein?
47:17
SPEAKER_00: They wouldn't.
47:18
SPEAKER_00: But you know the worst part of it.
47:20
SPEAKER_04: I can imagine a woman who is having PCOS also now craving the carbs because you know when you are not well, you crave a reward.
47:30
SPEAKER_04: So it's like, let me just eat this comfort food.
47:34
SPEAKER_00: And that's why many of them end up taking JLP.
47:36
SPEAKER_00: So if you if you take the GLPs and the Monjaro and the Ozempic, it cuts your cravings.
47:40
SPEAKER_00: It doesn't make you feel hungry.
47:42
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
47:42
SPEAKER_00: That's how they're able to slam down.
47:44
SPEAKER_00: So they wouldn't even feel hungry to eat it.
47:46
SPEAKER_00: But the danger there is you are losing muscle mass.
47:48
SPEAKER_00: And that's dangerous.
47:50
SPEAKER_00: You can train your own body by eating the right things to not have the same cravings again.
47:55
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
47:55
SPEAKER_00: And that's what we did in my wife's case when we're trying to reverse um her symptoms with the irregular cycle and there.
48:01
SPEAKER_00: My wife wasn't even ovulating.
48:03
SPEAKER_00: So that simply means an egg was not even released.
48:05
SPEAKER_05: Wow.
48:05
SPEAKER_00: And that's why you cannot get pregnant.
48:07
SPEAKER_00: So the sperm is coming in.
48:08
SPEAKER_00: So there are many women out there.
48:09
SPEAKER_00: Not everyone having her menstruation is ovulating.
48:12
SPEAKER_00: Many women think because they saw their blood, they ovulated.
48:15
SPEAKER_00: No.
48:15
SPEAKER_00: Ovalation is an egg being released.
48:17
SPEAKER_00: So an egg may not be released, but you you have your menstruation.
48:20
SPEAKER_00: How do you know if you're ovulating?
48:22
SPEAKER_00: Breast tenderness, cervical mucus, they feel some feel more for sex around that time.
48:27
SPEAKER_00: So let's say if a woman has a 28-day cycle, in the middle of the cycle, that's when she's ovulating.
48:32
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
48:32
SPEAKER_00: But many women don't know this.
48:34
SPEAKER_00: I speak to many women every day and we're always educating them.
48:37
SPEAKER_00: So as a brand, what we what we do is we have a consultation system in place where if a woman reaches out on social media, we just do social media.
48:45
SPEAKER_00: So we don't go through, we are not in pharmacies.
48:48
SPEAKER_00: It's very deliberate.
48:49
SPEAKER_00: Because many, many of these women are women who have lost their confidence, they have they have no self-esteem.
48:55
SPEAKER_00: Because the doctor told them, Oh, because of this condition, you cannot conceive.
48:58
SPEAKER_00: There are women in not just Ghana, women across who are fibroids and they go to the hospital, and their guy is telling them, hurry up and go and conceive.
49:05
SPEAKER_00: Is conceiving like buying tomatoes for the market?
49:08
SPEAKER_00: It's a lifelong decision.
49:10
SPEAKER_04: The number one prescription when you get fibroids.
49:12
SPEAKER_00: No, but it's it's a lifelong decision a woman has to make.
49:15
SPEAKER_00: You don't just tell a woman because of fibroids.
49:17
SPEAKER_00: Why is it around pregnancy?
49:19
SPEAKER_00: Why are we not looking at the pain she's getting?
49:21
SPEAKER_00: Why are we not looking at the depression she's getting from the fibroid or whatever condition she has?
49:26
SPEAKER_00: But why are we focused on just pregnancy?
49:28
SPEAKER_00: Are women just born to give birth?
49:29
SPEAKER_00: Is that the value of women?
49:32
SPEAKER_04: That's what the world puts on women.
49:36
SPEAKER_00: It is it is it is well.
49:38
SPEAKER_04: Wow.
49:39
SPEAKER_04: How do we help fix some of these situations?
49:41
SPEAKER_04: I know the conversations are good, but the problem with the conversations is yes, we are bold to sit here and talk about this.
49:48
SPEAKER_04: But the woman talking, watching this right now, feels like after this conversation, where can she go?
49:55
SPEAKER_04: Because when she still goes to her doctor tomorrow, the doctor is still going to say, Oh, it's normal.
50:01
SPEAKER_00: Before you go to the doctor, like I said, there's chat GPT today.
50:04
SPEAKER_00: I I was reading about a robot um hospital in China somewhere.
50:07
SPEAKER_00: Maybe we should be doing more of that because it looks like clearly the health people are not listening to women enough.
50:13
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, they are misdiagnosing women, they are dismissing women.
50:16
SPEAKER_00: Because how can you tell a woman the pain you are feeling is in your head?
50:22
SPEAKER_00: She's going through pain.
50:24
SPEAKER_00: She's sitting in front and you're telling her the pain you are feeling is in your head.
50:26
SPEAKER_00: That doesn't make sense.
50:27
SPEAKER_00: So, you know, women's health is like a woman who has cataracts.
50:31
SPEAKER_00: That's the most common form of blindness.
50:33
SPEAKER_00: She goes to 20 optometrists, those who are responsible for the eye.
50:38
SPEAKER_00: And each time she goes, she's being told it's in your head.
50:40
SPEAKER_00: She can't see.
50:42
SPEAKER_00: That's how women's health is.
50:44
SPEAKER_00: It's a very uh difficult area in medicine.
50:47
SPEAKER_00: And unlike the other areas in medicine, a lot of research is still needed for a lot to still be known.
50:53
SPEAKER_00: And that's why many women still have to go through some of these conditions and have to endure.
50:58
SPEAKER_00: But like I said, women are speaking up now.
51:00
SPEAKER_00: Today I saw in the news where in the UK, menstrual health is going to be added to the curriculum for people going to secondary school, which is fantastic.
51:08
SPEAKER_00: Because we all went to school and no one ever taught me cycle.
51:11
SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
51:12
SPEAKER_00: I didn't know anything about women.
51:13
SPEAKER_00: Even women didn't know their cycle.
51:16
SPEAKER_00: Had it not been for what I went through with my wife, I wouldn't have known what a woman's cycle looks like.
51:20
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
51:20
SPEAKER_00: Or what hormones are responsible for what or how to tackle issue, what issue from which angle.
51:25
SPEAKER_00: So it's good we start from the educational system.
51:27
SPEAKER_00: When women know what a normal cycle looks like, when women are told what how your cycle is supposed to make you feel, when you're getting what kind of pain, what it means, women will be able to advocate for themselves.
51:39
SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
51:39
SPEAKER_04: You know, I'm going to say something, and my doctor friends are going to get angry with me.
51:44
SPEAKER_04: But I think part of the problem too is the arrogance of medicine.
51:47
SPEAKER_00: Yes, yes, yes.
51:49
SPEAKER_04: There's something I've noticed about doctors.
51:52
SPEAKER_04: A doctor cannot admit they don't know.
51:55
SPEAKER_00: That's true.
51:56
SPEAKER_04: They must always know.
51:57
SPEAKER_00: So you know, I spoke to a doctor.
51:58
SPEAKER_00: Funny enough, like I said, we do consultation, we keep a database.
52:02
SPEAKER_00: So let's say our customers in Ghana will be about 3,000 something.
52:05
SPEAKER_00: So every day, I go through the database and I notice all my team.
52:09
SPEAKER_00: So my team can spend about five, ten minutes with you when you reach out on social media.
52:12
SPEAKER_00: Sometimes tell me, sometimes one hour, based on the issue you have, they are not diagnosing medically, but they are listening to you.
52:17
SPEAKER_00: That's what they are doing.
52:18
SPEAKER_00: That's their job.
52:18
SPEAKER_00: Just listen to the woman.
52:20
SPEAKER_00: You need to tell them to go to the hospital, tell the person to go to the hospital.
52:23
SPEAKER_00: And I noticed one particular customer, the symptoms are irregular cycle, facial hair, hair on the chest, acne.
52:32
SPEAKER_00: She was clear.
52:33
SPEAKER_00: And yet she says the doctor has told her you don't have PCOS.
52:36
SPEAKER_00: So I picked my phone, I called the person at 10 p.m.
52:38
SPEAKER_00: And I said, Where did you go to?
52:40
SPEAKER_00: I actually met a doctor.
52:41
SPEAKER_00: She said, Oh, yes, I've gone to two guy's in this Accara.
52:44
SPEAKER_00: I said, please go back and tell them you have PCOS.
52:46
SPEAKER_00: Go online, read the symptoms of PCOS, the criteria, and go and challenge them.
52:50
SPEAKER_00: Tell them you have PCOS.
52:52
SPEAKER_00: So imagine this woman, she's just 25 years old.
52:54
SPEAKER_00: She's going to walk around.
52:56
SPEAKER_00: Had I not called her, she's going to think, Oh, I'm okay.
52:59
SPEAKER_00: I'm normal.
53:00
SPEAKER_00: Women with PCOS have a lot of eggs, but the quality of the egg declined very quick.
53:05
SPEAKER_00: She'll get to 30, she can't conceive.
53:07
SPEAKER_00: And she'll end up in a fertility hospital.
53:09
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
53:10
SPEAKER_00: But it comes back to the diagnosis.
53:12
SPEAKER_00: Had it not been for the two gynees telling her she's fine, she didn't know she wasn't fine.
53:18
SPEAKER_04: I'm going to share a story of mine which showed me the arrogance of medicine.
53:22
SPEAKER_04: Right?
53:23
SPEAKER_04: For a long time in my life, I had to deal with anemia.
53:28
SPEAKER_04: Okay.
53:28
SPEAKER_04: I kept getting you're giving iron tablets.
53:32
SPEAKER_04: So I kept getting anemic and they would treat the anemia.
53:36
SPEAKER_04: But one thing I had learned from my research is that anemia is not a disease.
53:40
SPEAKER_04: Anemia is a symptom of something.
53:43
SPEAKER_04: Yes.
53:43
SPEAKER_04: If I'm anemic, I must have something which is causing the anemia.
53:48
SPEAKER_04: And if you check the things that cause anemia, they are the very serious diseases which I have none of.
53:56
SPEAKER_04: So it's not any of that.
53:57
SPEAKER_04: So whenever I get anemic and I go to the hospital, then they'll just treat the anemia.
54:02
SPEAKER_04: They'll give me iron tablets or they'll give me total or something like that.
54:06
SPEAKER_04: And I kept asking the doctors, but what is making me anemic?
54:10
SPEAKER_04: Then they'll say, Oh, it's normal.
54:12
SPEAKER_04: I was like, that's not normal.
54:13
SPEAKER_04: I know women can get anemic in their period from losing blood and everything.
54:18
SPEAKER_04: But for a man to be consistently getting anemia, something is wrong.
54:22
SPEAKER_04: Something is wrong.
54:22
SPEAKER_04: So what is wrong?
54:23
SPEAKER_04: Oh, it's normal.
54:24
SPEAKER_04: Oh, it's normal.
54:25
SPEAKER_04: So it was my mom who did the research and told me about G6P.
54:30
SPEAKER_04: Your mom is not a doctor.
54:30
SPEAKER_04: She's not a doctor.
54:31
SPEAKER_04: She did the research and told me about G6PD deficiency, which is apparently common in one-third of African men.
54:39
SPEAKER_04: Oh, okay.
54:40
SPEAKER_04: And G6PD deficiency is just a deficiency, so you treat it by eating the right things and not eating certain things.
54:47
SPEAKER_04: So she said, So Richie tried this.
54:49
SPEAKER_04: Then she just gave me a diet for me to try it.
54:52
SPEAKER_04: And I tried it years ago, about 10 or 12 years ago.
54:56
SPEAKER_04: And since then, I've never been anemic.
54:59
SPEAKER_04: Never gone to the hospital.
55:00
SPEAKER_04: Like now I can donate blood easily, all those kind of things.
55:04
SPEAKER_04: And I keep thinking about the doctors thinking, so what's wrong with them?
55:07
SPEAKER_04: And I realized they didn't know.
55:10
SPEAKER_04: So because they didn't know, they didn't know to question it.
55:13
SPEAKER_04: It's not that they don't know about G6P, but maybe it's not something they deal with on the regular.
55:19
SPEAKER_04: So then they don't even know to check it.
55:21
SPEAKER_04: But medicine is so arrogant that your doctor cannot say, I don't know.
55:27
SPEAKER_00: Yes.
55:27
SPEAKER_00: And I think it's also about how they are more about treatment and not the preventative.
55:34
SPEAKER_00: Because if someone goes to the hospital and the first thing is if I have a headache, and the first thing is parasitamol or panador.
55:41
SPEAKER_00: True, maybe but headache could be my blood pressure being high.
55:44
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
55:44
SPEAKER_00: That can also give me a headache.
55:46
SPEAKER_00: So you realize it comes back to the same woman health.
55:49
SPEAKER_00: So woman with a painful period, very painful period, she's being made to take painkillers.
55:53
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
55:53
SPEAKER_00: If the prostamo is not working, they go to advils and other things and more stronger ones.
55:58
SPEAKER_00: There are women who are taking um traumador every month to be on their cycle.
56:02
SPEAKER_00: But the pain is very painful.
56:03
SPEAKER_00: Something is wrong in their body.
56:04
SPEAKER_00: For how long would they want to be taking that painkiller?
56:06
SPEAKER_04: True.
56:07
SPEAKER_04: And you're actually right because I know someone who had to go to the hospital, discussed period pains, and they said it's normal.
56:15
SPEAKER_04: But this is what you can do to prevent it.
56:18
SPEAKER_04: Take this painkiller before your period, during your period, and after your period.
56:23
SPEAKER_04: Something is wrong.
56:25
SPEAKER_00: She needs, she needs to.
56:26
SPEAKER_00: So you realize if that one you have a conversation with her, you realize she may have heavy periods as well, pain during sex, and you connect the doctors and you realize it could be endometriosis or something else.
56:34
SPEAKER_00: And that's why it takes nine to fourteen years for endometriosis to be diagnosed.
56:38
SPEAKER_04: Wow, nine to four to those.
56:40
SPEAKER_00: So imagine the number of doctors Amma or Abna or that woman would have seen from year one to nine to fourteen years.
56:48
SPEAKER_00: There's a popular lady in Ghana, Talata, who has done 21 surgeries for endometriosis for 17 years or so.
56:55
SPEAKER_00: She's been in pain.
56:56
SPEAKER_02: Ah, Charlie.
56:57
SPEAKER_00: Her womb is taken out.
56:59
SPEAKER_00: You can imagine what she's going through.
57:01
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
57:01
SPEAKER_00: And that's what women go through on a daily basis.
57:04
SPEAKER_00: And that's why we need to champion more of these conversations.
57:07
SPEAKER_00: Women need to speak up more.
57:09
SPEAKER_00: No one is going to take them.
57:10
SPEAKER_00: She usually don't speak up.
57:12
SPEAKER_00: It may not happen to you.
57:13
SPEAKER_00: Speak up about this.
57:14
SPEAKER_04: Not Lindsay Clancy.
57:15
SPEAKER_00: Speak up about this.
57:17
SPEAKER_00: So you know, you know, like the doctors say medical statistics do not make sense until it happens to someone close to you.
57:23
SPEAKER_00: So you hear of hypertension, diabetes, PCS, whatever.
57:25
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
57:25
SPEAKER_00: You think, oh, it's normal.
57:26
SPEAKER_00: Sounds like it's it happens to someone, it happens to you or someone close to you.
57:30
SPEAKER_00: Realize, okay, this thing's actually serious.
57:33
SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
57:33
SPEAKER_04: And that's the thing about health, too.
57:34
SPEAKER_04: I always say it's when you have a health problem that you realize nothing in the world matters more than health.
57:41
SPEAKER_00: That's true.
57:42
SPEAKER_00: That's true.
57:43
SPEAKER_04: All those things that was a big deal.
57:45
SPEAKER_04: Oh, my rent, oh my job, all this.
57:47
SPEAKER_04: When you have a health problem, you realize nothing matters.
57:50
SPEAKER_00: Yes, yes, yes.
57:52
SPEAKER_04: Oh my god, we need to find a way to really send this message across more.
57:57
SPEAKER_04: Guys, let this episode trend okay.
57:59
SPEAKER_00: We should we should probably cut a part of the message which says painful period are not normal and just be posting that part.
58:04
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
58:04
SPEAKER_00: Because many women think it is normal.
58:06
SPEAKER_00: They've endured it's heavy periods.
58:08
SPEAKER_00: That's where my that that part's because I feel looking at our database, the number of people on our stellar data is a very small brand.
58:15
SPEAKER_00: Number people on our database, I can confidently tell you about 50% of people on our database have painful and heavy periods.
58:22
SPEAKER_00: That is telling us something.
58:23
SPEAKER_00: Even that 50%, if you dig further down, about 30% are having pain during sex.
58:27
SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
58:28
SPEAKER_00: 20% are having pain when they're using their the toilet or using the loot during their cycle.
58:33
SPEAKER_00: That is pointing to endometriosis.
58:35
SPEAKER_04: Because you can't tell me it's normal.
58:37
SPEAKER_04: When I have a headache, I know it's not normal.
58:39
SPEAKER_04: If I have a severe headache, I know it's not normal.
58:41
SPEAKER_04: So how can you tell me you are in pain for five days and it's normal?
58:46
SPEAKER_00: And these are women who have gone to the hospital, they've been told they are fine.
58:49
SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
58:49
SPEAKER_00: But they know they are not fine.
58:51
SPEAKER_00: The number of women I speak to and they cry on the phone, Richie.
58:54
SPEAKER_00: Just because they are women, Abba.
58:57
SPEAKER_04: Oh, it's fine.
58:57
SPEAKER_04: You'll be okay.
58:59
SPEAKER_04: This is what our mothers also went through.
59:01
SPEAKER_00: For the first time, I spoke to someone last week.
59:03
SPEAKER_00: She's 28 years, and she said, Thank you, Archie.
59:07
SPEAKER_00: For the first time in my life, I feel loved.
59:09
SPEAKER_00: Oh.
59:10
SPEAKER_00: That broke my heart.
59:11
SPEAKER_00: Charlie.
59:12
SPEAKER_00: 20, a whole 28-year-old, because of what I explained to her on the phone and told her to go to the doctor and tell the doctor in the hospital that what she's going through is not normal.
59:21
SPEAKER_00: At least, I haven't taken the endometriosis she has away, but she knows what she's going through now.
59:27
SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
59:27
SPEAKER_00: She now feels seen, she now feels heard, she now feels listened to.
59:31
SPEAKER_00: Instead of being told it's in your head.
59:33
SPEAKER_00: She thought she was going crazy.
59:35
SPEAKER_00: She's not crazy.
59:36
SPEAKER_00: Women are, I don't think anyone is crazy in this world.
59:38
SPEAKER_00: Women are not crazy, they are very fine.
59:40
SPEAKER_00: So, doctors, please listen to women.
59:42
SPEAKER_04: Oh, Charlie, it's not easy.
59:45
SPEAKER_04: It's not easy.
59:46
SPEAKER_04: In fact, it's not the women who should be watching this episode, it's the doctors.
59:49
SPEAKER_00: And also men as well.
59:50
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
59:51
SPEAKER_00: Because you realize men have no clue when it comes to women's health.
59:54
SPEAKER_04: Not at all.
59:54
SPEAKER_00: Why?
59:55
SPEAKER_00: It comes back to how we are raised.
59:57
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
59:57
SPEAKER_00: So the man is raised, the man knows I'm supposed to just provide money.
1:00:00
SPEAKER_00: Um, I just leave the house, the woman will take care of the rest.
1:00:03
SPEAKER_00: Because that's what we saw our fathers doing.
1:00:04
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
1:00:05
SPEAKER_00: No, but a man can also cook.
1:00:07
SPEAKER_00: A man can also clean.
1:00:08
SPEAKER_00: So if you're a man and you look for a woman because she can cook and clean, the man now makes money.
1:00:13
SPEAKER_00: He buys a washing machine, he can afford to cook.
1:00:15
SPEAKER_00: What becomes the use of the woman?
1:00:19
SPEAKER_04: That's sad.
1:00:20
SPEAKER_04: That's what most women have been reduced to over a long period of time.
1:00:23
SPEAKER_04: Yes, yes.
1:00:24
SPEAKER_04: They're supposed to be bonuses, not duties.
1:00:27
SPEAKER_00: Exactly, exactly.
1:00:28
SPEAKER_00: So let's encourage more of these conversations, and women will be fine.
1:00:33
SPEAKER_04: Oh my ladies, you've been suffering.
1:00:36
SPEAKER_04: You know, I didn't even know about PCOS myself.
1:00:38
SPEAKER_04: I Googled it before you came for the this conversation.
1:00:41
SPEAKER_00: Now you know.
1:00:42
SPEAKER_00: And and it's sad.
1:00:44
SPEAKER_00: 70% of women having PCOS don't know they have PCOS.
1:00:47
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
1:00:47
SPEAKER_00: They are walking around.
1:00:49
SPEAKER_00: And the 15% who know are those who have been diagnosed.
1:00:53
SPEAKER_00: So just imagine.
1:00:54
SPEAKER_00: So if if we don't have some of these conversations and we were quiet about it, many women would have entered the infertility zone.
1:01:01
SPEAKER_00: Because with PCOS, most women are not, about 80% of them are not ovulating, and egg is not being released.
1:01:08
SPEAKER_00: Some are not even having their cycle.
1:01:10
SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
1:01:10
SPEAKER_00: And some are just putting on weights.
1:01:12
SPEAKER_00: Meanwhile, okay, there are those who are also lean as well.
1:01:14
SPEAKER_00: And also that's another point.
1:01:16
SPEAKER_00: Many doctors feel because this woman is lean, she doesn't have PCOS.
1:01:19
SPEAKER_00: Yet the woman has a regular cycle, she has acne.
1:01:21
SPEAKER_00: That is PCOS.
1:01:24
SPEAKER_00: But she'll be misdiagnosed or she'll be dismissed.
1:01:27
SPEAKER_00: She walks around thinking she's fine, but she's not fine.
1:01:29
SPEAKER_04: So this means, like you mentioned, even the mood swings and everything.
1:01:32
SPEAKER_04: Nothing is normal.
1:01:34
SPEAKER_04: So that that woman who comes to work and she's very upset, she's in pain and she's screaming on people, could be going through a problem and it's not normal.
1:01:43
SPEAKER_00: From hot flashes, mood swings, bloating, weight fluctuation, acne, hair on the chin, hair on the chest, hair on the nipple.
1:01:50
SPEAKER_00: You know how we we tend to say a woman with hair on the legs is nice, it's beautiful.
1:01:54
SPEAKER_00: Excessive hair on the legs, something is wrong.
1:01:57
SPEAKER_00: And also, one thing many doctors also don't understand is they'll do a test.
1:02:01
SPEAKER_00: You don't need a blood test to diagnose someone of PCOS.
1:02:04
SPEAKER_00: So they do the test, they'll tell you, oh, your testosterone is fine on the test.
1:02:08
SPEAKER_00: In the diagnosis, there's no high testosterone on the test, elevated signs of androgen or testosterone levels.
1:02:15
SPEAKER_05: Okay.
1:02:15
SPEAKER_00: So the hair on the chin and all of those ones can be there.
1:02:18
SPEAKER_00: But your testosterone on the lab will show as being normal.
1:02:21
SPEAKER_04: Interesting.
1:02:22
SPEAKER_00: Yes.
1:02:23
SPEAKER_04: So how are they supposed to be able to test for it?
1:02:25
SPEAKER_00: Three criteria: irregular cycle or cycle regularity.
1:02:29
SPEAKER_00: Is it regular or not irregular?
1:02:31
SPEAKER_00: Second one is elevated signs of testosterone, like the hair on the chin, hair on the chest or nipple or hair loss, acne.
1:02:39
SPEAKER_00: The third one is um follicles around the woman's ovaries, not cyst.
1:02:45
SPEAKER_00: Follicles.
1:02:46
SPEAKER_00: Many doctors till today think it is cyst on the ovaries.
1:02:49
SPEAKER_00: That is false.
1:02:50
SPEAKER_00: If a doctor cannot read or know about the follicles on the ovaries, that doctor can do an AMH test.
1:02:56
SPEAKER_00: That's when a woman anti-malarian hormone.
1:02:59
SPEAKER_00: So it's a test that shows a woman's number of eggs she has.
1:03:02
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
1:03:02
SPEAKER_00: If it is more, it gives you a clue.
1:03:04
SPEAKER_00: That alone is not a diagnosis for PCOS.
1:03:07
SPEAKER_00: That giving you a clue, you can look for the other indicators as well.
1:03:11
SPEAKER_04: Wow.
1:03:12
SPEAKER_04: We need this message to be shared.
1:03:14
SPEAKER_00: Exactly.
1:03:16
SPEAKER_04: Please, let's talk about the stellar supplement.
1:03:18
SPEAKER_04: So how is the stellar supplement supposed to be taken?
1:03:22
SPEAKER_00: So um, it's taking us about five years.
1:03:25
SPEAKER_00: This is a journey that started in 2021.
1:03:28
SPEAKER_00: Um, when my wife sent himself and like I didn't know anything about women and their health.
1:03:32
SPEAKER_00: It's only seeing the one you love go through some of these things, it exposes you to what women worldwide actually go through.
1:03:40
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
1:03:40
SPEAKER_00: And it makes you appreciate how important women are.
1:03:44
SPEAKER_00: Imagine me going to the theater for the first time on the 24th of April, during the birth of Stella, our firstborn.
1:03:49
SPEAKER_00: So it's named after our firstborn, Stella.
1:03:52
SPEAKER_00: And it was around 10 a.m.
1:03:53
SPEAKER_00: in the morning.
1:03:54
SPEAKER_00: It was an emergency CS.
1:03:55
SPEAKER_00: So my wife was bleeding.
1:03:56
SPEAKER_00: We rushed in and see us.
1:03:57
SPEAKER_00: And as you stand there as a man, and you see what a woman's body goes through.
1:04:01
SPEAKER_00: At that point, we had no cord parents, no one knew we were there, and your wife is being cut open.
1:04:06
SPEAKER_00: I was just shaking.
1:04:07
SPEAKER_00: Stella is taking out.
1:04:09
SPEAKER_00: Me, I was there taking pictures, and the blood is wiped off, Stella.
1:04:12
SPEAKER_00: I'm holding baby Stella.
1:04:13
SPEAKER_00: My wife is still lying there lifeless.
1:04:15
SPEAKER_00: She couldn't even look at Stella.
1:04:17
SPEAKER_00: And now she was being closed up.
1:04:19
SPEAKER_00: At that point, I became humble.
1:04:21
SPEAKER_00: And I think from that point I became more emotional.
1:04:24
SPEAKER_00: So there's this McBrown movie on YouTube I watched.
1:04:27
SPEAKER_00: Is it Greater Mighty or so?
1:04:29
SPEAKER_00: And we're watching the movie Pregnant Woman, similar situation.
1:04:32
SPEAKER_00: The husband was not around and she was bleeding, and I began crying.
1:04:36
SPEAKER_00: So I realized what I'd gone through is now affecting me.
1:04:40
SPEAKER_00: And I think I have a soft spot for women now.
1:04:42
SPEAKER_00: I don't know why, but in my team, I'm the only man.
1:04:46
SPEAKER_00: It's a team of about eight, nine people.
1:04:48
SPEAKER_00: I'm the only man on to recently.
1:04:50
SPEAKER_00: We had to bring a guy on board.
1:04:51
SPEAKER_00: Even the guy is just doing data stuff.
1:04:53
SPEAKER_00: Because I feel we should just employ women, no man in the team.
1:04:55
SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
1:04:56
SPEAKER_00: Because I I women go through a lot, Richie.
1:04:59
SPEAKER_00: Women go through a lot.
1:05:00
SPEAKER_00: So all of this is what pushed me, kept pushing me and my wife to read more, find out what we should do to help women, not just you, my wife.
1:05:09
SPEAKER_00: So we started as looking for help for my missus, and now it turned out to be help we found for a lot of women out there.
1:05:15
SPEAKER_00: It has 11 ingredients: magnesium, folic acid, zinc, macarot, sage leaf, green tea, nocy, flaxseed, a probiotic, and a prebiotic, and vitamin B6.
1:05:24
SPEAKER_00: These are all nutrients, which is well researched.
1:05:26
SPEAKER_00: Anyone can go online, read about them.
1:05:29
SPEAKER_00: We know it works.
1:05:30
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
1:05:31
SPEAKER_00: Why are they not being prescribed in the hospitals for doctors to patients who have some of these conditions?
1:05:35
SPEAKER_00: No one is saying come and buy Stella, but if you read about these things online, you can take them yourself and it will work for you.
1:05:41
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
1:05:42
SPEAKER_00: That's how we we came out with some of these things.
1:05:44
SPEAKER_00: We reached out to UK Research Facilities and they helped us a lot.
1:05:48
SPEAKER_00: They were always wondering, are you a doctor?
1:05:49
SPEAKER_00: Are you a pharmacist?
1:05:50
SPEAKER_00: I would say no.
1:05:51
SPEAKER_00: It's just my wife going through pain, and we came up.
1:05:53
SPEAKER_00: And they're always shocked it's actually going to work based on their testing and everything they've done.
1:05:57
SPEAKER_00: And we launched last year.
1:06:00
SPEAKER_00: In the UK, after two, three years of trials.
1:06:03
SPEAKER_00: So once we we knew it was going to work, we said, let's try for a second child.
1:06:08
SPEAKER_00: And mind you, in the theater for the first child, we were warned not to have a second because we can't have a second.
1:06:13
SPEAKER_00: I remember the doctor's words carefully.
1:06:15
SPEAKER_00: Looking at how your wife, your wife's womb, looks, you can't have a second child.
1:06:18
SPEAKER_00: Don't even try.
1:06:19
SPEAKER_04: But they said the same ones who said you can't have the first child.
1:06:23
SPEAKER_00: Stella is four years.
1:06:24
SPEAKER_00: Our second born ages one and a half years.
1:06:26
SPEAKER_00: Wow.
1:06:27
SPEAKER_00: So we tried for a second, and that was the smoothest pregnancy ever.
1:06:30
SPEAKER_00: My wife could go for concerts in her pregnant state.
1:06:33
SPEAKER_00: In the first pregnancy, she couldn't even leave home.
1:06:35
SPEAKER_00: She was mostly bedridden, or she was just home.
1:06:37
SPEAKER_00: I had to stop my work, or I had to stop working for four good months and take care of my wife in that first pregnancy.
1:06:43
SPEAKER_00: Second pregnancy, everything was so smooth.
1:06:46
SPEAKER_00: Dockers were so fine.
1:06:47
SPEAKER_00: And I'm sure we'll keep having more kids till we don't want to have again.
1:06:52
SPEAKER_04: Archie, you're doing you're doing an amazing job.
1:06:55
SPEAKER_00: I remember recently last month we we did a scan.
1:06:58
SPEAKER_00: The doctors were shocked.
1:06:59
SPEAKER_00: When they realized three fibers were nowhere to be found, and all her PCOS symptoms are literally taken away.
1:07:05
SPEAKER_00: They were wondering what was wrong.
1:07:07
SPEAKER_00: And we told them we are founders of a hormone balance supplement.
1:07:09
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
1:07:09
SPEAKER_00: And they now understood where we're coming from.
1:07:11
SPEAKER_00: So she's your living testimony.
1:07:13
SPEAKER_00: Oh, yes, yes, yes.
1:07:14
SPEAKER_00: And we have receipts.
1:07:14
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, receipts are the toolkits.
1:07:18
SPEAKER_04: Oh, you're doing a great job.
1:07:19
SPEAKER_04: You're doing a great job.
1:07:20
SPEAKER_04: Thank you.
1:07:21
SPEAKER_04: I I think more people need to be able to support this.
1:07:24
SPEAKER_04: Yes.
1:07:24
SPEAKER_04: Because I feel a lot of women are alone when it comes to their health.
1:07:30
SPEAKER_04: They may be surrounded by people, but they can't open up.
1:07:33
SPEAKER_00: You know, Richie, talking about a woman being alone, I so on our database, we collect where you came from or how you heard about us.
1:07:40
SPEAKER_00: And you you realize about 99.9% of the 3,000 and something people from Ghana, about 1,000 and something from the rest of the world, it's always the women coming by themselves.
1:07:52
SPEAKER_00: You find just a few men who have seen something online.
1:07:55
SPEAKER_00: Oh, let me reach out and get it for my wife.
1:07:57
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
1:07:58
SPEAKER_00: I can count the number of men.
1:07:59
SPEAKER_00: It's always the woman, women.
1:08:00
SPEAKER_00: So who are the men?
1:08:01
SPEAKER_00: You're living with the woman, they are going through issues, the men just don't know, or the women are not telling the men.
1:08:05
SPEAKER_00: Or when they tell the men, the men don't care.
1:08:07
SPEAKER_00: So they won't even tell the men.
1:08:09
SPEAKER_04: Or they won't they won't respond in the right way.
1:08:12
SPEAKER_04: So she's not going to be able to do that.
1:08:13
SPEAKER_00: Or they'll gaslight the woman's feelings.
1:08:14
SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
1:08:16
SPEAKER_00: It is what it is.
1:08:17
SPEAKER_04: The most painful sentence is the oh, it's normal.
1:08:20
SPEAKER_00: Oh, yes, yes, yes, yes.
1:08:22
SPEAKER_00: You know, recently, um, was it last week?
1:08:24
SPEAKER_00: A guy posted on Facebook about how his wife lost.
1:08:27
SPEAKER_00: I think the wife died when going to give birth at Ridge Hospital.
1:08:30
SPEAKER_04: Yes, I saw that post.
1:08:31
SPEAKER_00: I went through the comment section.
1:08:32
SPEAKER_00: I think one guy commented instead of you telling your wife to go and do natural, she went to do CS.
1:08:39
SPEAKER_00: At that point, I was like, hey, you have no feeling.
1:08:41
SPEAKER_04: Someone's wife.
1:08:44
SPEAKER_00: So I went to the guy's wife, and oh yeah, the guy clearly lives in Ghana, and I could I could tell it's it's from the upbringing.
1:08:51
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
1:08:51
SPEAKER_00: Because he's in his head, he's been indoctrinated.
1:08:53
SPEAKER_00: I'll use your own words, he's been indoctrinated to think a woman should only do natural bed.
1:08:57
SPEAKER_00: But there's a reason for the CS.
1:08:59
SPEAKER_00: I don't think doctors just wake up and say, I'm I do CS.
1:09:03
SPEAKER_00: And it's it's sad.
1:09:04
SPEAKER_00: It's hard.
1:09:08
SPEAKER_04: Right now, me, I'm emotional.
1:09:10
SPEAKER_04: Actually, I need you to do something for me.
1:09:12
SPEAKER_04: Okay.
1:09:12
SPEAKER_04: The people out there are watching you.
1:09:14
SPEAKER_04: Okay.
1:09:14
SPEAKER_04: Right.
1:09:15
SPEAKER_04: Imagine it can drop a mindset into the mind of the person who's watching that can help them understand how all of us can support women and women's health, all that woman.
1:09:30
SPEAKER_00: Pain is not normal.
1:09:31
SPEAKER_00: Painful period, it's not normal.
1:09:34
SPEAKER_00: Whenever you have any pain that is causing you to not go to work, not go to school, not go to an outing or a party, that should tell you something.
1:09:43
SPEAKER_00: Rush to your doctor.
1:09:44
SPEAKER_00: Whenever you're having pain during sex, especially when there's deep penetration, it's not because the man is big.
1:09:50
SPEAKER_00: Something is wrong.
1:09:51
SPEAKER_00: If a baby can come out of the same hole, a man should be able to also go into the same hole.
1:09:56
SPEAKER_00: Go see your doctor.
1:09:57
SPEAKER_00: If you are having your cycle and you're having lower back pain, pelvic pain, pain when you're using the toilets, pain when you are peeing, something is wrong.
1:10:07
SPEAKER_00: Go see your doctor.
1:10:08
SPEAKER_00: Now, when you get to the doctor, because we know some of them, not all of them, some of them can tell you it is normal.
1:10:14
SPEAKER_00: Go prepared.
1:10:15
SPEAKER_00: There's Chat GPT, there's Google.
1:10:18
SPEAKER_00: Google your symptoms.
1:10:20
SPEAKER_00: Don't normalize it.
1:10:21
SPEAKER_00: Don't think because Amma or your mom or your auntie or your grandmom is telling you, oh, that's what we all went through.
1:10:26
SPEAKER_00: It is not normal.
1:10:28
SPEAKER_00: Please go to the hospital.
1:10:32
SPEAKER_04: Archie, thank you.
1:10:33
SPEAKER_04: Thank you so much.
1:10:34
SPEAKER_04: I think this is been a very valuable conversation.
1:10:37
SPEAKER_04: Yes.
1:10:37
SPEAKER_04: For both the women out there who need the help and the men out there who need to understand this so that they can be of help.
1:10:45
SPEAKER_00: And this month happens to be PCO's Awareness Month.
1:10:47
SPEAKER_00: So I'm I'm happy we are doing this around this time of the month as well.
1:10:51
SPEAKER_04: Nice.
1:10:51
SPEAKER_04: I really want that every help that you need to be able to keep pushing this message out there.
1:10:56
SPEAKER_04: You receive that help so that you can actually get the message there properly.
1:11:00
SPEAKER_00: People should follow us on social media, sell our supplements everywhere, share whatever we are doing, and let's get to more people.
1:11:07
SPEAKER_04: But everybody in the studio, but for him.
1:11:12
SPEAKER_00: Wow.
1:11:12
SPEAKER_04: Thank you so much for you're welcome.
1:11:14
SPEAKER_04: You're welcome.
1:11:15
SPEAKER_04: We are here to support you in any way that you need.
1:11:18
SPEAKER_04: And to the person watching, you've had a very we've had a very valuable conversation that I hope you are taking seriously.
1:11:26
SPEAKER_04: I hope you can let this message sit in so that you become the mastermind that you deserve to be and support the women that need your supports.
1:11:35
SPEAKER_04: Thank you.
1:11:37
SPEAKER_04: Thanks for watching throughout this video.
1:11:39
SPEAKER_04: The fact that you're still here tells me you're somebody who is dedicated to learning and you see things through to the end.
1:11:46
SPEAKER_04: Now, let me ask this favor of you don't just watch, don't just listen, and don't just take in what we've said.
1:11:53
SPEAKER_04: You need to practice everything that I'm trying to teach you into your real life because the journey of becoming a mastermind is not just about knowledge, but it's also about putting it into practice.
1:12:05
SPEAKER_04: And let's grow the community, let's build a community of masterminds who are ready to shape the world into what we know it should be.
1:12:13
SPEAKER_04: Of course, share this, like it, and let me know in the comments if there's anything that you want me to talk about, if there's any guests that you want me to have a conversation with so we grow together.