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Speaker 2: Hello everyone, I'm Genevieve Wisdom, host of Walk with Wisdom,
Speaker 2: your lifestyle show on youthful aging, which is looking good
Speaker 2: and feeling amazing as you age. Thank you again everyone
Speaker 2: for coming on with us. We have an amazing guest
Speaker 2: again this week. It's the great mister Bruce Pollock. I'll
Speaker 2: do a reintroduction shortly, but we're gonna jump right into
Speaker 2: the show. I had so many great comments about menopause, menopause,
Speaker 2: and what it really means. So we're gonna jump right
Speaker 2: in because we appreciate your time. One thing, don't forget
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Speaker 2: thank you again, and here we go. Bruce, listen to
Speaker 2: where we're going this week. Menopause and menopause. What's really
Speaker 2: happening to your body? Menopause and menopause, which is often overlooked,
Speaker 2: and it's the main equivalent, which is called andropause, marks
Speaker 2: significant hormonal chifs that impact everything from energy levels to digestion, mood,
Speaker 2: and joint health in men and women. Menopause specifically occurs
Speaker 2: when estrogen and progesterone decline in women, and it brings
Speaker 2: on those symptoms you know, the ones we hate, like
Speaker 2: hot flashes and night sweats, mood swings and anxiety, sleep disturbance,
Speaker 2: is weight gain, bloating, yeah, joint pain, muscle loss, digestive
Speaker 2: issues like ibs, constipation and diarrhea. Yach. But I know
Speaker 2: us girls, we know manopause, and Bruce won't probably agree
Speaker 2: to what he knows with the men on these Manopause,
Speaker 2: which is Andrew pause, affects men as testosterol levels drop,
Speaker 2: leading to fatigue and low motivation, decreased muscle mass and strength,
Speaker 2: increase belly fat, poor sleep and irritability, lower libidio and
Speaker 2: performance issues, joint pain, and slow recovery. But here's the thing,
Speaker 2: many of these symptoms aren't just about hormonal changes. It's
Speaker 2: your gut health, inflammation, and stress levels that play a
Speaker 2: major role. And we want to thank Bruce for this
Speaker 2: because Bruce gave us the foundational steps that we need
Speaker 2: to take for healing these symptoms. And I thought this
Speaker 2: week with him agreeing to come back with tied in.
Speaker 2: Now let's meet Bruce. Hi, Bruce, I am looking for
Speaker 2: you there. You are looking handsome and young as ever
Speaker 2: as your youthful age. Let me introduce you. Introduce you
Speaker 2: to the audience. I know what you're thinking. So meet
Speaker 2: Bruce paullat the health Translator extraordinaire. That's my little caveat
Speaker 2: for Bruce. But he's phenomenal because of what he knows
Speaker 2: and how he delineates his knowledge. So on this episode, Bruce,
Speaker 2: a seasoned homeopath, a businessman, and a natural health expert
Speaker 2: with decades of experience in the wellness space. Bruce has
Speaker 2: a gift for making the complicated simple, breaking down the
Speaker 2: science of health into easy, actionable steps. Like myself, He's
Speaker 2: passionate about helping people taking control of their well being.
Speaker 2: He here to share insights, wisdom, and practical tips for
Speaker 2: living healthier and more balanced life. Get ready for a
Speaker 2: conversation that will inspire, educate, and motivate you to youthfully age.
Speaker 2: Thank you Bruce for joining us.
Speaker 3: Oh it's my pleasure to be here.
Speaker 2: Seneviev, thank you so much. And you know, Bruce, we
Speaker 2: started off last week. You set an incredible foundation for
Speaker 2: really dealing with this stage of life that we all
Speaker 2: go through. If we get there, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: And so many people actually reached out and we're really
Speaker 2: surprised that the gut health is where you actually start.
Speaker 2: So thank you for that. Because I talk about foundations
Speaker 2: here in the podcast, everyone knows that we start with
Speaker 2: the foundation and then we stack things because we want
Speaker 2: to get better faster, sooner. So thank you Bruce for
Speaker 2: giving us that foundation. We're gonna just jump right into
Speaker 2: the questions, if I may, is.
Speaker 3: That Okay, absolutely, let's start.
Speaker 2: Perfect and so so really we're telling and everything we
Speaker 2: talked about last week into the context now of men
Speaker 2: a pause menopause. So could your gut be making menopause
Speaker 2: or menopause worse? Oh?
Speaker 3: I talked about absolutely without Without a healthy gut, you're
Speaker 3: just not making everything you need to make, as we
Speaker 3: talked about the neurotransmitters and that sort of thing. But
Speaker 3: it may be easier if we have a picture to
Speaker 3: look at. And so I've brought a couple of slides
Speaker 3: and maybe we'll go straight into them. And the slides
Speaker 3: start the reverse. It starts the hormonal cascade and goes
Speaker 3: to the gut. But it all is interconnected as we
Speaker 3: talked about last week. So why don't we turn on
Speaker 3: slide number one and take a look at it first
Speaker 3: and go from there. Here we go. It's a simple slide.
Speaker 3: So cholesterol is the top of the hormone cascade, and
Speaker 3: then everything turns to priang alone and then as you
Speaker 3: can see to the left, it goes for gesterone and
Speaker 3: then down to all desterone. This is the this is
Speaker 3: the part that we have problems. When cortisol comes up.
Speaker 3: We'll discuss that later, but right below the priyank loan
Speaker 3: is the DHA, testosterone and estrogen. So this is a
Speaker 3: view of a healthy hormonal system. This is the perfect cascade.
Speaker 3: Now if we go to slide number two, you can
Speaker 3: see here now that we've got the cortisol in the picture.
Speaker 3: Now we're in stress situation. We're in fight and flight
Speaker 3: mode and it's becoming a chronic situation. So you can
Speaker 3: see the prank alone is feeding the pgesterone, which is
Speaker 3: feeding the cortisol. And over on the left hand side,
Speaker 3: you know the al desk drone is not being fed anymore,
Speaker 3: and down below the DHA is not being fed as
Speaker 3: well either. So here's the beginning of the problem. And
Speaker 3: if we move to the next slide, and this will
Speaker 3: be the final slide. Down here we have the cortisone
Speaker 3: and then below that we have leaky got on one
Speaker 3: side and insulin resistance on the other side, which we
Speaker 3: didn't talk about last week, but instance resistance is all
Speaker 3: so another thing that comes with cortisol, and that's another
Speaker 3: reason we get that belly fat and with the weight gain.
Speaker 3: But the aldestrone, it controls the sodium potassium regulation in
Speaker 3: the body through the kidneys, and once it stops being fed,
Speaker 3: we fill up with sodium and we start putting water weight.
Speaker 3: And you hear that all the time, Oh, I'm putting
Speaker 3: on this water weight and I don't know why. Well,
Speaker 3: this is the reason why is because the aldestrone's not
Speaker 3: being fed properly from the progesterone, because again everything is
Speaker 3: going into the fight flight mode, and so if you're not,
Speaker 3: if everything's going progesterone to cortisol, and then the side
Speaker 3: effects is the leaky got the insulin resistance, and the
Speaker 3: weight walk, the weight gain. And then on the other side,
Speaker 3: below the prying loan, we have the DH not being fed,
Speaker 3: so the testosterone's not being fed and that's your sex
Speaker 3: drive in women as well, by the way. And then
Speaker 3: below the estrogen you have low estrogen, but you're still
Speaker 3: etched in dominant because you don't have the progesterone to
Speaker 3: balance with it. So we have low sen low testosterone,
Speaker 3: yet you have estrogen dominance and low progesterone. And this
Speaker 3: is where everything starts causing major problems. And so as
Speaker 3: I say, down the bombs of leaky gut, but you
Speaker 3: can start with the leaky gut and go the other
Speaker 3: way as well, and the same cascade happens. It doesn't
Speaker 3: matter which direction, whether you start with the hormones and
Speaker 3: stress or you start with leaky gut. This is the
Speaker 3: picture and this is what we want to avoid. Wow.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Bruce, and I'm sure everyone. By the way, everyone,
Speaker 2: thank you for your comments. Continue to make your comments
Speaker 2: and share the link because this is great information. I
Speaker 2: love how you gave us the picture. So now we
Speaker 2: have the overall picture as how hormones are tied into
Speaker 2: leaky got and cord is all which we hear so
Speaker 2: much about, how it's tied into stress and how it
Speaker 2: affects all the symptoms that normally people start treating but
Speaker 2: not really knowing how it works. By the way, I
Speaker 2: just want to add a aviat here everyone that we're
Speaker 2: just here talking. It's a lifestyle show. So of course
Speaker 2: you know, talk to your healthcare practitioner, your primary care practitioner,
Speaker 2: but here we're just people talking about the things that
Speaker 2: maybe a little bit complicated. And Bruce, the great man
Speaker 2: at taking the complicated making it simple, is here to
Speaker 2: help us through menopause. Menopause. Next question, leaky gut, the
Speaker 2: hidden reason behind your hot flashes, joint pain, and mood swings.
Speaker 2: Did I hear that right?
Speaker 3: I'm so sorry. We're just having a small earthquake here.
Speaker 3: The house is shaken, so you're just I missed the question.
Speaker 2: Wow, we are in the okay, Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, can you rephrase a question for me again? So sorry?
Speaker 2: Absolutely, absolutely, I was wondering what the hidden reason behind
Speaker 2: hot flashes, joint pain, and mood swings are and I
Speaker 2: thought one of the reasons you mentioned talking about that
Speaker 2: is leaky gut. Could that be the real reason behind that?
Speaker 3: Absolutely? So, if you have the leaky gut, it causes
Speaker 3: high inflammation. High inflammation causes cortisol, cortisol, cortisol. Everything goes
Speaker 3: from pogesterone to cortisol. So now you have a low
Speaker 3: progesterone because your body's in flight flight mode. Again, the
Speaker 3: perlangolone in our diagram earlier was feeding the pagesterone, not
Speaker 3: the DHA and down to the the estrogen and the testosterone.
Speaker 3: And with low estrogen you get the hot flashes. With
Speaker 3: low progesterone, you get the bad sleep. So right there
Speaker 3: you've got you've got the problems, and then with the
Speaker 3: inflammation you start getting joint pain with the inflamation that
Speaker 3: comes with the leaky gut. So it's all interconnected again
Speaker 3: and directly connected.
Speaker 2: Of course, of course, And Bruce, I have to acknowledge
Speaker 2: just you know, if everyone's out there going, oh, they
Speaker 2: just kind of went right over that, you know, it
Speaker 2: seems like everything is okay, Bruce would let us know.
Speaker 2: So thank you everyone for staying with us here. And remember,
Speaker 2: one thing that I love about our podcast, or Walk
Speaker 2: with Wisdom, is if you're looking for a perfect podcast,
Speaker 2: you've come to well, you've come to a place where
Speaker 2: we're just living life. Things happen and we roll with it, baby.
Speaker 2: So thank you Bruce for rolling with that. Thank you
Speaker 2: for that explanation. Now, with the leaky gut, is there
Speaker 2: a simple fix for leaky gut that also helps the
Speaker 2: hormonal balance?
Speaker 3: Absolutely, If you can fix the leaky gut, you're on
Speaker 3: your way to fixing the hormonal balance. But there's there
Speaker 3: is a simple way. It's really a three step process.
Speaker 3: Start with a glutamine and it's a powder you buy
Speaker 3: in a big tin. And if you do a scoop
Speaker 3: of glutamine first thing in the morning, you wait twenty
Speaker 3: minutes before you eat anything. This will really help bring
Speaker 3: your cells together, plus the mucosal layer of the cells,
Speaker 3: so you're building the really the base of the gut
Speaker 3: with that. And then there's a product called eglicerated licorice
Speaker 3: and it's a chewable product. And what it does is
Speaker 3: it does it puts down a muco layer that is
Speaker 3: supposed to be there, but we wear off, and we
Speaker 3: wear it off by eating foods that aren't appropriate, by
Speaker 3: drinking drinks that aren't appropriate, and basically eat stress and
Speaker 3: life in general. So it replaces that. So you've got
Speaker 3: the cells coming together. Now, you've got the mucosal layer now,
Speaker 3: and then in the evening, take a really good quality probiotics.
Speaker 3: You can start rebuilding that microbiome. And I've seen within
Speaker 3: a week, I've seen major differences in IBS symptoms. I've
Speaker 3: even seen differences in crone symptoms. Now, trones you don't
Speaker 3: heal this way, but you can help the symptomology with it. IBS,
Speaker 3: you can clear it up. Assuming you've changed your diet
Speaker 3: that's causing the problem, right, because if you're still eating
Speaker 3: the highly prefabricated foods and that sort of thing, you're
Speaker 3: going to have to do this rest of your life.
Speaker 3: But if you eating a healthy diet, this will certainly
Speaker 3: heal your gut. You can do this for six weeks,
Speaker 3: a couple of months, and you'd be amazed at difference
Speaker 3: for the next couple of years.
Speaker 2: Wow, that is awesome, Bruce and everyone I know. This
Speaker 2: is a lot of information. You can reach Bruce directly
Speaker 2: through his email which is Bruce Underscore Pollock po l
Speaker 2: A c K there it is at Yahoo dot ca.
Speaker 2: A phenomenal and also myself as well. I'm a life coach.
Speaker 2: I help to interject life where all these things happen,
Speaker 2: so you can also reach me as well. We'll continue
Speaker 2: to talk about that. Bruce. Now you're talking about seeing
Speaker 2: the gut and the microbiome. You know, Bruce and I
Speaker 2: know everyone out there. Microbiome is like one of those
Speaker 2: words that's buzz buzz bus. Can you quickly go over
Speaker 2: again what the microbiome means, what's a healthy microbiome? And
Speaker 2: then that will lead into our next question about probiotics.
Speaker 3: All right, so the microbiome literally means you've got trillions
Speaker 3: of microbes in your digestion track, You've got good ones,
Speaker 3: you've got bad ones, you've got neutral ones. To have
Speaker 3: a good microbiome, you need healthy microbes. And these are
Speaker 3: we catch phrase them as probiotics, but they're the ones
Speaker 3: that build the walls between the gut lining and the
Speaker 3: pathogens that are trying to get through the bloodstream to
Speaker 3: do us harm. They also they also create short chain
Speaker 3: fatty acids by eating fiber, which lays down the mucostal
Speaker 3: immune system, which again is part of our immune system.
Speaker 3: And I've said last week that are immune, that our
Speaker 3: immune system is made up of eighty percent of our microbiome.
Speaker 3: So if you have a healthy microbiome, not only does
Speaker 3: the acid kill viruses and things, but so do the
Speaker 3: so does the microbiome itself if it's healthy, and also
Speaker 3: if it can't kill it, it'll put a layers. It
Speaker 3: builds up layers between the gut lining and the pathogen
Speaker 3: that's trying to get through the bloodstream. So this is
Speaker 3: in basic terms. And if you have a bad microbiome,
Speaker 3: now you've got more bad things and good things, And
Speaker 3: now you've got things going into the bloodstream that just
Speaker 3: shouldn't be there. The pathogens, the viruses, the unbroken down food.
Speaker 3: All this sort of thing is getting into the gut
Speaker 3: because you have nothing to stop it. You don't have
Speaker 3: that layer of a positive biome to stop the viruses
Speaker 3: and pathogens to get through.
Speaker 2: That's one of the best explanations of microbiome that I've heard.
Speaker 2: I don't know about you all. I appreciate your comments
Speaker 2: on that, and it's saying yes to a lot of
Speaker 2: people because it does get complicated. And this is Bruce
Speaker 2: like me, We love to take the complicated and make
Speaker 2: it simple. So how does that tie into probiotics? So
Speaker 2: my specific question is do cheap probiotics help the microbiome
Speaker 2: and in turn does that help the menopausals and menopausal symptoms?
Speaker 2: So it's a two part quest.
Speaker 3: Okay, you know what difficult. Yeah, the there are a
Speaker 3: lot of probiotics out there that are not well studied,
Speaker 3: so we honestly don't know what they're doing. And this this,
Speaker 3: this means that potentially they don't do any good. You
Speaker 3: need well studied probiotics. The next thing is is they say, oh,
Speaker 3: you need intert coded probiotics. Well, the problem with an
Speaker 3: intert cod coded probiotic is it breaks down six eight
Speaker 3: ten feet into the small intestine. But it's the first
Speaker 3: two feet that you need the floral to make these
Speaker 3: hormones and the neurotransmitters we've been talking about. So if
Speaker 3: you have an enterra coded probiotic, it's breaking down past
Speaker 3: the place where you really need the floral. So mostly
Speaker 3: I say make sure they're really well studied, and there's
Speaker 3: documented studies and published studies and third party published studies.
Speaker 3: There's one group I was working with and they actually
Speaker 3: give theirs two universities and they say, no matter what
Speaker 3: you find, publish it. So if it's good, it's bad,
Speaker 3: it's ugly, publish it. We don't care. We want to
Speaker 3: know the truth about our probiotics. There's other ones that say, oh,
Speaker 3: this strain has been studied, but it was actually someone
Speaker 3: else's and the strain was the same, but the actual
Speaker 3: the actual type, the actual type of probotic was the same,
Speaker 3: but the strain was different. It's for example, there's dogs,
Speaker 3: and if you've got a dog sled, you don't want
Speaker 3: a bunch of chiahuas pulling it. But they're dogs, so
Speaker 3: you can say Lactus bacillis. The studies say it does this,
Speaker 3: but it was Lactus bacillis something something something, and so
Speaker 3: this other Lactus bacillis probably will do nothing for you.
Speaker 3: So you're looking for well studied probiotics. And if you
Speaker 3: get a well studied probiotic, you're going to have to
Speaker 3: pay a little bit more for it because you're paying
Speaker 3: for these studies. And as you know, probiotics don't have
Speaker 3: big drug companies behind them that have millions and millions
Speaker 3: of dollars. But there are well studied probiotics. Just if
Speaker 3: you're looking at a study, make sure the strain they're
Speaker 3: talking about is the strain you're buying, because there's many
Speaker 3: people who use other people's studies that don't really agree
Speaker 3: with the strain they're actually selling you. So back to
Speaker 3: the question and inexpensive probiotic. I haven't seen good studies
Speaker 3: on That doesn't mean they're not there. Just make sure
Speaker 3: you're looking at well studied probiotic before you buy it.
Speaker 3: And if you go to someplace where some some reputable
Speaker 3: vitamin store or pharmacy where they know what they're talking about,
Speaker 3: they can show you these things. They're they're available.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, thank you, Bruce. And the reason why I brought
Speaker 2: that up is with respect to microbiome. Probiotics help to
Speaker 2: give you that good balance in the microbiome, and that
Speaker 2: will help relieve the symptoms of menopause and menopause correct.
Speaker 3: Which which which also absolutely because if you have if
Speaker 3: you're taking the right probiotics and they're florrowing your gut,
Speaker 3: they're adding to that microbiome. Then you're adding to that
Speaker 3: that defensive mechanism to stop everything going through to your
Speaker 3: to your bloodstream. So you're you're going to kick down
Speaker 3: the inflammation, which will keep down the cortisol, which will
Speaker 3: keep up the progesterone, which will keep right. So again,
Speaker 3: it's that whole cascade. So absolutely. Now people also kind
Speaker 3: of worry about how much probiotics, like they say, oh,
Speaker 3: fifty billion, that's that's way too strong a probiotic. But
Speaker 3: if you think about it, they say, there's about six
Speaker 3: pounds of microbiome. Six pounds of these microbes make up
Speaker 3: our microbiome.
Speaker 2: That's a lot.
Speaker 3: The fifty billion is a little little capsule, right. So
Speaker 3: the only the only problem with some probiotics if you
Speaker 3: get bloated in gassy it's just because you're there. They're
Speaker 3: killing the bad microbes, and the bad microbes are are
Speaker 3: dying off and they're they're creating gas and stuff, and
Speaker 3: this is why you would get gases gas gas. You
Speaker 3: might get a little bloating, you might get a little
Speaker 3: pain for short term if that does happen. Pick up
Speaker 3: some DGL which we talked about earlier, dichlosoid licorice and
Speaker 3: just eat it and that'll help soothe all that away.
Speaker 3: Why you're why you're killing off the bad things, but
Speaker 3: you actually want that that killing off to happen because
Speaker 3: you don't want those bad microbes there to begin with.
Speaker 2: Fantastic, fantastic, Bruce, incredible in every one. Thank you for
Speaker 2: listening intently and making the comments. And again, Bruce, you
Speaker 2: can reach him at Bruce Underscore Pollock at Yahoo dot
Speaker 2: ca A. He's available for counseling and consulting on the
Speaker 2: things that we've talked about, and myself also Wisdom uh
Speaker 2: WI walk with Wisdom dot ca that's the best email
Speaker 2: Wisdom at Walk with Wisdom dot ca A. We're going
Speaker 2: to go into the next section, and remember everyone, we
Speaker 2: started this last week. Now we're putting it all together
Speaker 2: and Bruce is now going to talk about stress, sleep
Speaker 2: and hormones. So feeling more anxious and stressed than ever
Speaker 2: here's why take it away, Bruce.
Speaker 3: Okay, So if we go back to that, go back
Speaker 3: to that diagram we had, and we're talking to the cortisol,
Speaker 3: that's your that's your dress chemical, and high courtisol will
Speaker 3: cause anxiety, thank you, will cause anxiety, and it will
Speaker 3: also cause you to wake up the middle of night.
Speaker 3: Oftentimes people will say, I wake up at two o'clock
Speaker 3: every single night. This is cortisol. It's coming into your system.
Speaker 3: Cortisol's supposed to come into your system first thing in
Speaker 3: the morning, when the sun comes up. And if it's
Speaker 3: coming into your system middle of the night, it's because
Speaker 3: your drenals are out of whack and they're putting into
Speaker 3: the cortisol when it's not supposed to be there. But
Speaker 3: high court as all as I say, it causes anxiety
Speaker 3: and it causes sleeplessness. So that's high courtisol. But when
Speaker 3: you get to stage where your body's actually not producing
Speaker 3: enough cortisol again, you have problems. This time instead of
Speaker 3: waking up and a high cortisol personal wake up in
Speaker 3: the morning, they'll feel really good and they'll have lots
Speaker 3: of energy because their body be full of cortisol. But
Speaker 3: about three o'clock, four o'clock the afternoon, they crash because
Speaker 3: they've run out. If you have low cortisol, then every
Speaker 3: morning is Monday morning. And those people when you say
Speaker 3: to them, when you wake up in the morning, is
Speaker 3: it like money morning every day? And they say, oh, yes,
Speaker 3: you have to drag your butt out of bed every morning.
Speaker 3: Oh yes, this is low cortisol. And it's the same issue.
Speaker 3: It's just further down the hormonal line. You've you've done
Speaker 3: your adrenals under Now now they're not producing enough cortisol.
Speaker 3: So now you really need to peek your cortisol, pick
Speaker 3: your adrenals up so that they get back up to
Speaker 3: working order. So there's two there's two symptoms of the
Speaker 3: same problem.
Speaker 2: Right. Wow, But Bruce, thank you again. You broke it
Speaker 2: down for us, took the complicated and made it simple.
Speaker 2: And I like to say, you know, you're tired but wired.
Speaker 2: That's very very common with menopausea and menopause and that
Speaker 2: has to do with cortisol. The next question, should you
Speaker 2: fix your guts then before taking hormones or trying to
Speaker 2: fix your hormones.
Speaker 3: That's a very good question. Now, if we're talking about
Speaker 3: going to adopt and a doctor gives you. It gives
Speaker 3: you hormones to take take them. Fix your gut while
Speaker 3: you're doing it, you know, because you're obviously in needer
Speaker 3: they wouldn't be giving it to you if you're trying
Speaker 3: to fix them alone. Well, fixing your gut is part
Speaker 3: of fixing your hormones. So I always suggest because I
Speaker 3: like to be I like to know what we're giving
Speaker 3: the client is working. So I like to say what
Speaker 3: is worse. Is your digestion worse or is your sleep
Speaker 3: and anxiety worse? And based on that, for the first month,
Speaker 3: we'll work on the first one until it's under control,
Speaker 3: then we'll work then we'll work on the next one
Speaker 3: while still dealing with the first one. Because if you
Speaker 3: start taking a bunch of things, a bunch of supplements,
Speaker 3: you never quite know what's working. You never know what
Speaker 3: you're supposed to be feeling. But for example, if we're
Speaker 3: working your drenals, we expect your sleep to get better,
Speaker 3: we expect your anxiety to go down, and we expect
Speaker 3: your stress levels go down. That's an expectation. If we're
Speaker 3: working on your gut, we expect digestion get better, we
Speaker 3: expect your bowel movements get better, and we expect inflammation
Speaker 3: to go down. That those are expectations. But once we're
Speaker 3: getting one where you're noticing the difference, then I like
Speaker 3: to move on to the next one. I don't like
Speaker 3: to do them both at once because it's just way
Speaker 3: too much stuff to take, and people get a little
Speaker 3: frustrated and they've been taking a bunch of things for
Speaker 3: five days, they're not feeling anything. Because you remember, these
Speaker 3: problems are taking you years to get to, so it's
Speaker 3: going to take It's going to take time to fix.
Speaker 3: It's not going to take five days. And if you
Speaker 3: have to take a cupful or a bowl full of
Speaker 3: supplements every day and you're not feeling any difference, then
Speaker 3: you're really going to get, you know, not excited about
Speaker 3: taking them. So I really do think that you need
Speaker 3: to heal your gut to get your hormones under control.
Speaker 3: Do you need to do it right away? Not necessarily,
Speaker 3: but you have to do it within a month or
Speaker 3: or two months of starting to heal your home or
Speaker 3: gett your hormones in alignment. You have to worry about
Speaker 3: your gut. And if you worry about your gut within
Speaker 3: a month or two of getting your gut in alignment,
Speaker 3: you have to worry about your dreanals and your hormones
Speaker 3: because again they're all connected.
Speaker 2: Fantastic, And Bruce, everyone who's getting to know me know
Speaker 2: that I like to talk about wise people that I've
Speaker 2: met in my life. You are one of the wisest.
Speaker 2: I've been very, very blessed to have crossed many wise people.
Speaker 2: And one of my teachers actually was a pharmacist who
Speaker 2: believed in integrative medicine, and he said, if you fix
Speaker 2: your nose, you hear your toes. And that's what Bruce
Speaker 2: is talking about everyone, is how everything is interconnected. Now
Speaker 2: you mentioned the adrenals, could you just because everyone with
Speaker 2: Bruce's wisdom wink wink. One of the things that I
Speaker 2: want him to really help to take the complicated and
Speaker 2: make it simple. It's all the buzzwords we've heard out
Speaker 2: there about menopause, menopause symptoms and so on. So we've
Speaker 2: heard a lot about adrenals, adrenal fatigue, all of that.
Speaker 2: How does that tie into the hormonal cascade you talked
Speaker 2: about and fixing the menopausal menopausal symptoms.
Speaker 3: Well, I really believe that the adrenos are at the
Speaker 3: root of most of the hormonal problems, not going into metopause,
Speaker 3: but the imbalanced hormonal problems. I believe the adrenals are
Speaker 3: a lot at the root. I mean, as we age,
Speaker 3: when we go into metopause, are progesterone drops And that's
Speaker 3: nothing to do with adrenals. That just is reality. And
Speaker 3: we can do things to keep the progesterone up for sure,
Speaker 3: But the adrenals, the adrenals, when they get stressed they
Speaker 3: kick off or when you get stressed, they kick off
Speaker 3: the cortisol, which we talked about, well, that progesterone feeds
Speaker 3: the cortisol, so it's on. If you have high cortisol,
Speaker 3: you're gonna have low pgesterone. If you have low progesterone,
Speaker 3: you're not going to have that calming of your mind
Speaker 3: because that's what progesterone does. If you don't have the
Speaker 3: calming of the mind, and you're sending the fight flight
Speaker 3: messaging to the drenals so you can have more cortisol.
Speaker 3: And again, if you're pregraying alone, back to that that
Speaker 3: that slide we had, if you if you're praying alone,
Speaker 3: is just feeding the pigesterone to feed the cortisol because
Speaker 3: it leaves your running for your life. You're not feeding
Speaker 3: the d g A, which isn't feed the testosterone or
Speaker 3: the estrogen or the thyroid. So it's all it's it's
Speaker 3: all interconnected in your in your drenals really have to
Speaker 3: be healthy to go through healthy menopause comfortably.
Speaker 2: Fantastic. Thank you Bruce for taking that complicated explanation and
Speaker 2: making it simple. Now, the next area everyone, when Bruce
Speaker 2: came and talked about foundational things, the next area that
Speaker 2: really came up was the gut relationship to inflammation, joint pain,
Speaker 2: and aging, which is menopause menopause. And by the way, Bruce,
Speaker 2: you said something very important, which is things happen with
Speaker 2: life as we age, but we can start earlier to
Speaker 2: take care of the adrenals, take care of this hormonal
Speaker 2: cascade with a lot of the things that you've talked about,
Speaker 2: like keeping our gut healthy so we don't go through
Speaker 2: those issues as hard, as strong, as brutal, that's probably
Speaker 2: my word, as we do. So thank you for that. Now, inflammation,
Speaker 2: joined ping and aging, what do you why pardon me?
Speaker 2: Do your joints hurt more as you age?
Speaker 3: Generally because our inflammation is going up in the body.
Speaker 3: And when inflammation goes up, it attacks, It affects the joints,
Speaker 3: and that can be for several reasons, but again leaki
Speaker 3: guts the primary one. You have leaki gut inflammation goes
Speaker 3: way up in your body and your joints. Heard I
Speaker 3: talked about when my clients last week, you came in
Speaker 3: chad so our wrists or hips or knees or elbows,
Speaker 3: and just doing a quick gut process, which is what
Speaker 3: I talked about earlier, with the DGL and the probiotic
Speaker 3: and the glutamine. That's all I did for one month
Speaker 3: and all her joint pains went away. So you can
Speaker 3: stomp the information, no problem. But there's some other supplements
Speaker 3: that maybe we should touch on that are very useful,
Speaker 3: and I'd like to bring up magnesium as the very
Speaker 3: first one. We all hear about magnesium. You should take magnesium,
Speaker 3: But why should you take magnesium? Well, magnesium, for one,
Speaker 3: it helps relax the body. So if you're getting if
Speaker 3: you're getting knots and you're waking up with with your
Speaker 3: pains and your muscles and they're all nodding up, you
Speaker 3: have to get and stretch them that kind of thing.
Speaker 3: Magnesium really helps with that, but also helps with minor anxiety.
Speaker 3: It also helps with with high blood pressure, and it
Speaker 3: also has one hundred and forty eight other purposes in
Speaker 3: the body, and generally it's one of those those who
Speaker 3: are very low on Now there's several types of magnesium,
Speaker 3: magnesium site trates, very popular, magnesium glysinate you've heard of.
Speaker 3: If you're going to take magnesium, it's better to take
Speaker 3: the magnesium absorbs the best, and magnesium glysnate absorbs far
Speaker 3: better than sit trade because what happens with sit trade
Speaker 3: as it goes through the acid bath of your gut,
Speaker 3: it separates the magnesium from the site trade and there's
Speaker 3: very few receptors for magnesium in the lower digestion track,
Speaker 3: so it ends up going to the colon, which helps
Speaker 3: you go to the washroom, which is great, but we
Speaker 3: need to absorb that magnesium as well. Magnesem glysinate doesn't separate.
Speaker 3: Now this is simplified. There's a whole science behind this,
Speaker 3: of course, but magnesum glysnate doesn't separate in the gut,
Speaker 3: and there's thousands of receptors for glycinate. So as the
Speaker 3: glycinate gets absorbed into bloodstream, it takes magnesium with it,
Speaker 3: so you get this high absorption of magnesium. And if
Speaker 3: you're using it to go to the washroom for vowel movements,
Speaker 3: just to keep increasing magnesem glycinate, because if it's not
Speaker 3: helping you the first night, it's because your body is
Speaker 3: so low on magnetes um. So you increase it, and
Speaker 3: you increase it and increase it till you get the
Speaker 3: bowel movement and then generally cut it back. One dose
Speaker 3: is what you do. And once you hit that point,
Speaker 3: generally that will be the amount of magnesium you need
Speaker 3: to take every day for the rest of your life.
Speaker 3: It doesn't change unless you get sick or ill or something.
Speaker 3: But once you're at that point where you're going to
Speaker 3: wash them every day, which we need to do, by
Speaker 3: the way, and we'll pause and talk about that for
Speaker 3: a moment. If you're not going to wash them every day,
Speaker 3: the feces build up in your colon and the toxins
Speaker 3: actually go through the colon into the bloodstream and this
Speaker 3: can cause headaches, this can cause migraines, to cause all
Speaker 3: sorts of things skin issues as well. So we need
Speaker 3: we need to be moving these tuxins every day out
Speaker 3: of our body, and magnesiums are great to do it.
Speaker 3: We just need to take enough that what magazine does
Speaker 3: it when it gets into the colon nexis orbs moisture,
Speaker 3: and so it brings moisture into the colon, which naturally
Speaker 3: softens the stools so you can get out of your body.
Speaker 3: So that's one product that pretty much everybody could be
Speaker 3: on without any problems at all. Magnesium glyconate. And then
Speaker 3: to help stop the messaging and to help calm the brain,
Speaker 3: theenane is another good product and el theenine is actually
Speaker 3: naturally found in matcha green tea, and this is why
Speaker 3: people can drink watcha green tea and not get their
Speaker 3: brain wired like coffee does. It still has caffeine. Don't
Speaker 3: fool yourself. You shouldn't be drinking before bad, but it
Speaker 3: doesn't wear the brain because the theening keeps your brain calm.
Speaker 3: And so I watched this brilliant woman, doctor h She
Speaker 3: is just a brilliant woman, and she said that everybody
Speaker 3: should be taking two hundred milligrams of theening in the
Speaker 3: morning at night just because life is so stressful. Now
Speaker 3: I'm not recommending that thing. This is what she said.
Speaker 3: And because life is stressful, are you still there?
Speaker 2: Yes? You cut out for all.
Speaker 3: Yeah, life is so stressful that we could use the
Speaker 3: theening and it just helps again to stop the fight
Speaker 3: flight messagings to the brain, helps calmmun downs. You sleep better.
Speaker 3: It's not a sleep pill, it's not a calm pill,
Speaker 3: but it just helps. This is the natural thing that
Speaker 3: theenine does. So magnesium and theening are two easy things
Speaker 3: that you can take which don't have huge side effects
Speaker 3: and are very very helpful to the body.
Speaker 2: Fantastic Bruce, My goodness everyone. I know that I learned
Speaker 2: something about the difference in differences in magnesium, definitely about theorine.
Speaker 2: And I know again we've all heard about supplementation, but
Speaker 2: what is really happening, How is it working? And is
Speaker 2: less is more as Bruce mentioned in some cases, so
Speaker 2: that we know what's working. And so thank you Bruce
Speaker 2: again for taking that complicated that topic on just magnesium
Speaker 2: and theanine alone and making it simple. Now I will
Speaker 2: ask one more question and then we're just gonna do
Speaker 2: a wrap up on everything we've talked about, just so
Speaker 2: that everyone kind of puts everything that you talked about
Speaker 2: together today because it was a wealth of information. So
Speaker 2: we're again talking about everything in the context of menopause.
Speaker 2: Menopause to everyone, are you talked about magnesium? Does magnesium
Speaker 2: help muscle crams, headaches, anxiety? And is the deficiency because
Speaker 2: I think you mentioned that we're all deficients deficient on
Speaker 2: magnesium specifically, Could that be the reason why with the
Speaker 2: hormonal changes we get muscle crams, headaches, anxiety.
Speaker 3: It's definitely part of it. Muscle cross specifically, you can
Speaker 3: pretty much align with lack of magnesium headaches, depending the
Speaker 3: type of headache. Because the muscles behind your neck and
Speaker 3: up through your head. We have muscles going to strap
Speaker 3: our neck into our skull and around our skull. If
Speaker 3: they get really tight, you'll get a headache. Magnesium helps
Speaker 3: to keep them relaxed. So definitely, definitely it can help
Speaker 3: with with with headaches. Will it be the cure? Not necessarily?
Speaker 3: Will it help with headaches? Absolutely and helpless sleep because
Speaker 3: it is a muscle relax and if you take enough
Speaker 3: of it, in the appropriate amounts of it, I should say,
Speaker 3: if you take the appropriate amounts of it, it will
Speaker 3: help your muscles relax. So at least your body is
Speaker 3: relaxed when you go to bed. We can't and we
Speaker 3: can't say that it'll help you sleep, but it will
Speaker 3: help your muscles relax so you can sleep better. It's
Speaker 3: the way I would phrase it. And there you know again,
Speaker 3: if you're low and progester and your your brain is
Speaker 3: not going to slow down. So no matter how relaxed,
Speaker 3: your body is right. And it does help with minor anxiety. Again,
Speaker 3: not major anxiety, you're not. Magnesium's not going to help
Speaker 3: an anxiety attack, but if you have minor anxiety, you
Speaker 3: will certainly help with that.
Speaker 2: Fantastic, fantastic, Bruce. It has been a wealth of information
Speaker 2: how you tiding the hormonal cascade, starting with foundational things
Speaker 2: like the gut stress cortisol. Now everyone I know this
Speaker 2: was a lot of information, but great information, and really
Speaker 2: thank you again for your comments, Bruce. Which is how
Speaker 2: you lay it all out. It's a big topic, no doubt,
Speaker 2: and how you lay it all out, it's just made
Speaker 2: it a little bit more palatable having just us extraordinary
Speaker 2: people get together and talk. Now, Bruce, is there a
Speaker 2: wrap up that you can do with all of this?
Speaker 2: From your end as far as menopause, menopause, gut health,
Speaker 2: magnese Ldnin. Is there a wrap up you can do?
Speaker 3: Yes, I'd like to. I'm just sorry, I'm looking for
Speaker 3: the right words. You've got to look at You've got
Speaker 3: to look at things as a whole. Our body as
Speaker 3: a whole unit. It's not separate pieces. And in order
Speaker 3: to look at as a whole, you have to look
Speaker 3: at the root issues. You can't look at just the
Speaker 3: symptoms and try to put the deal with the symptoms.
Speaker 3: You've got to deal with the optual problem. And the
Speaker 3: problems always lie within hormonal balance, stress, gut and moving
Speaker 3: the toxins out of your body, which is liver and colon.
Speaker 3: And in order to do all that you've got to
Speaker 3: you've got to approach it on a whole level basis.
Speaker 3: That doesn't mean that there's anything wrong with taking hormones
Speaker 3: that the natural path or a doctor is giving you. Absolutely,
Speaker 3: but don't stop there. Think about your drenals because progesterone
Speaker 3: and thyroid products help progesterone and thyroid, they don't help
Speaker 3: your adrenals. You've got to think about your gut because
Speaker 3: they don't help the gut either. What they do to
Speaker 3: you though, is stop sending the fight flight messages to
Speaker 3: your adrenals, which gives you time to heal them and
Speaker 3: gives you time to heal your gut. So I'm all
Speaker 3: in favor of all these different modalities or ways of
Speaker 3: approaching it. Just don't stop with one. Think about it
Speaker 3: as a whole picture, and think about the inflammation as
Speaker 3: well as part of that picture because of the gut.
Speaker 3: But menopause itself is low hormones, so you need to
Speaker 3: deal with your hormones and keep them at a healthy level.
Speaker 3: But you have to deal with all the side effects
Speaker 3: that affect those hormones. And this is where you get into,
Speaker 3: as I said, the cortisol, the gut, the brain, the inflammation, digestion,
Speaker 3: all of these, all of these things affect it. So
Speaker 3: you can't just stop by doing well, I'm just going
Speaker 3: to take some progesterone and all feel better. You will
Speaker 3: feel better, but you haven't solved the problem. All you've
Speaker 3: done is up to your progesterone. So think about the
Speaker 3: body as a whole, and it's just so important that
Speaker 3: your body will not function unless all of it's working
Speaker 3: well together.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, Bruce, that was phenomenal, and everyone that's where Bruce
Speaker 2: and I come in a lot of information. If you
Speaker 2: want to reach Bruce directly, his email is Bruce Underscore Pollock.
Speaker 2: They're at Yahoo dot ca Bruce Underscore Pollock po la Ck.
Speaker 2: You can see there on the screen at Yahoo dot Ca.
Speaker 2: And I'm just going to do a last minute wrap up. Bruce,
Speaker 2: thank you so much. Don't go away just yet. So basically,
Speaker 2: the wisdom tips for today, based on the amazing Bruce
Speaker 2: Pollock is menopause and menopause. It's more than just dropping
Speaker 2: hormone levels. We go through gut health issues and stress
Speaker 2: and inflammation, and that's at the root of many of
Speaker 2: the symptoms. But the good news is that through gut repair, quality,
Speaker 2: nutrition and stress management and some of the supplementation that
Speaker 2: Bruce has mentioned, we can help to feel energized and
Speaker 2: phenomenal and really once we're in the stage of menopause
Speaker 2: and menopause traverse that much easier. Bruce was an amazing
Speaker 2: wealth of information, and thank you all so much for
Speaker 2: your comments. Please if you have any specific questions, because
Speaker 2: that's how we come in. You go to your primary
Speaker 2: care practitioner, you get the hormones and the supplements and
Speaker 2: then you take it home and off and you're going,
Speaker 2: now what email Bruce, Bruce Underscore Pollock at Yahoo dot ca,
Speaker 2: or myself Wisdom at Walk with Wisdom. And next week
Speaker 2: because remember I like foundations and stacking, we're going to
Speaker 2: continue on the churn on the theme of menopause. Menopause,
Speaker 2: but now we're going to talk about nutraceuticals, so I'll
Speaker 2: have a nutraceutical expert that's going to tie everything that
Speaker 2: Bruce started with. We know it inside out and we're
Speaker 2: going to take it to the next level. Thank you
Speaker 2: all for joining. Send me an email, send Bruce an email,
Speaker 2: and on till then think about your gut health. Genevieve
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