Speaker 1: Step into a journey where every step is packed with purpose, insight,
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Speaker 1: Genevieve Wisdom. Walk with Wisdom is a dynamic podcast series
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Speaker 1: please welcome the host of Walk with Wisdom, Genevieve Wisdom.
Speaker 2: Good afternoon everyone, Jennevieve Wisdom, host of Walk with Wisdom Podcasts,
Speaker 2: a lifestyle show on youthful aging. What is youthful aging?
Speaker 2: You say, it is looking good and feeling amazing as
Speaker 2: we age. Now, everyone, this is a new show, and
Speaker 2: I'm so grateful to those of you who have come
Speaker 2: back week after week. How many weeks it's our third
Speaker 2: week already. Can you imagine Yay Clapp in the chat.
Speaker 2: Those of you have been here for three weeks and
Speaker 2: we are going to have an exciting, exciting show today.
Speaker 2: I have a guest today with us, but before I
Speaker 2: introduce him in depthly, his name is Bruce Pollock. I
Speaker 2: am going to set up what the show is about today.
Speaker 2: So last week we talked about a few things. The
Speaker 2: podcast is primarily for groups forty and over. However, younger
Speaker 2: people find a lot of the information that we talk
Speaker 2: about very useful because it's the stage before you get
Speaker 2: to the stage, you know what I mean. So a
Speaker 2: lot of the things that Bruce and I will be
Speaker 2: talking about today will be invaluable to you. Couple of reminders,
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Speaker 2: And please, please please don't forget to make your comments
Speaker 2: because in the comments I get ideas, and so will
Speaker 2: Bruce today. As to what we can talk about further, now,
Speaker 2: without further ado, let me talk about what we're talking
Speaker 2: about today. The show is called Menopause. Menopause, and I
Speaker 2: am going to read Remember I mentioned to you that
Speaker 2: if you're looking for a perfect podcast, you have come
Speaker 2: to the well, this is a podcast on life. I
Speaker 2: still try to find the perfect life. You know, we
Speaker 2: just have to live it. So I make notes and
Speaker 2: sometimes I will look down, but that way keeps me
Speaker 2: on track for you and especially Bruce. So first things first,
Speaker 2: I'll do Bruce. I'll do the intro to the show,
Speaker 2: then Bruce's formal introduction. So today, menopause, menopause. If you've
Speaker 2: been searching for real talks and real solutions around hormonal
Speaker 2: disruption in middle age, you're in the right place today
Speaker 2: because we're taking a different approach when we talk about
Speaker 2: menopause and menopause. Remember, we never leave the men out.
Speaker 2: Most of us jump straight too. Hot flashes, brain fog, anxiety,
Speaker 2: poor sleep, stubborn weight gain, and mood swings sound familiar. However,
Speaker 2: what if I told you the real starting point for
Speaker 2: hormones and hormonal disruption is the gut. Yes, the gut,
Speaker 2: gut health. What does it have to do with menopause?
Speaker 2: You're probably asking get ready for mind blowing connection. You
Speaker 2: may not have considered. Your gut is your foundation and
Speaker 2: it's foundational to your body. And you know from the
Speaker 2: last shows that I like foundations because we stack, we
Speaker 2: stacker health right, and so foundationally the gut is the
Speaker 2: root of everything, an analogy we wash the car before
Speaker 2: we polish it. I have a lot of mentors who
Speaker 2: have all these little tidbits that will help us remember things,
Speaker 2: and so that means we need to start up the
Speaker 2: root of hormonal disruption, which is the gut. And unhealthy
Speaker 2: gut doesn't just lead to digestive issues. It fuels high
Speaker 2: cortisol or LI detalks brain inflammation, nutrient efficiencies, making your
Speaker 2: body symptoms worse. If your gut isn't working, you're definitely
Speaker 2: going to experience some of those symptoms we talk about.
Speaker 2: They're also hormonal players in gut health or gut disruption.
Speaker 2: I will let Bruce talk about those. So let's dive in.
Speaker 2: If you're tired of feeling sluggish, overwhelmed, and out of balance,
Speaker 2: this episode is your first step in reclaiming your vitality.
Speaker 2: Get ready for breakthrough insight expert, additional wisdom from Bruce,
Speaker 2: and practical steps that will have you saying why didn't
Speaker 2: I know this before? So without further ado, I will
Speaker 2: introduce formally or guest today, mister Bruce Pollock, Hi Ruth,
Speaker 2: thank you so much for joining us. So I am
Speaker 2: going to let those who have never met you out
Speaker 2: there hear what not just myself, but many that I
Speaker 2: know think of you. So again, I made a quick
Speaker 2: note on Bruce and his background. He just wanted it
Speaker 2: to be quick. So I think Bruce is a health
Speaker 2: translator extraordinaire on this episode of Walk with Wisdom. Bruce
Speaker 2: a seasoned homeopath, a businessman, a natural health expert with
Speaker 2: decades of experience in the wellness space. Bruce has a
Speaker 2: gift for taking the complicated and making it simple, breaking
Speaker 2: down the science of health into easy, actionable steps. He's
Speaker 2: passionate and I know this firsthand. Verse He's passionate about
Speaker 2: helping people take control of their well being. His insights,
Speaker 2: his additional wisdom added to mine, and practical tips for
Speaker 2: living gives a most health a more healthy and balanced life.
Speaker 2: Get ready for a conversation that will inspire, educate, and
Speaker 2: empower you, and closer to the end of the show,
Speaker 2: I'll have Bruce's contact because the whole idea of being
Speaker 2: on this show is to be able to be able
Speaker 2: to talk to the guests, my valued guests. Afterwards, Thank
Speaker 2: you Bruce for being here. How are you feeling today?
Speaker 3: Doing good? Gennevieve, thanks for having me. I'm excited about
Speaker 3: the show.
Speaker 2: Absolutely absolutely, And Bruce, as I mentioned, this show is
Speaker 2: a show about life. It's I call it youthful aging,
Speaker 2: which in the world of anti aging, we all age,
Speaker 2: wouldn't you say, Bruce from We're Born.
Speaker 3: We all do?
Speaker 2: Absolutely, absolutely, So I didn't want to go with an
Speaker 2: anti aging platform. It's youthful aging. And you, Bruce, are
Speaker 2: so pivotal, You're foundational as our guest here or inaugural guest,
Speaker 2: and so let's have a conversation. I made some questions
Speaker 2: to ask you. I mentioned to Bruce everyone that show
Speaker 2: is going to be about men posmoopause, and again, Bruce
Speaker 2: does those things that are just so foundational. I go
Speaker 2: to him often with many questions, and so talking about
Speaker 2: menopause and menopause. Yes, however, the gut is foundational, which
Speaker 2: is what Bruce reminded me. So, Bruce, why is the
Speaker 2: gut foundational as we age, especially in the context of
Speaker 2: menopause and menopause.
Speaker 3: Wow, that's such a big question, you know, the gout
Speaker 3: course is digestion. We absorb our nutrients through digestion and
Speaker 3: eliminates the toxins. That's that's the beginning. But eighty percent
Speaker 3: of our immune system comes from a healthy gut. The
Speaker 3: healthy gout also creates the neurotransmitters glutamate, GABBA, serotonin, dopamine,
Speaker 3: which are all mood transmitters. So to have a good
Speaker 3: mood and be healthy, you need a healthy gut.
Speaker 2: Excellent, excellent. Now, the newer transmitters will talk about because
Speaker 2: in the context later on where we'll go deeper about
Speaker 2: hormones or mood is off and off. But if we
Speaker 2: think about automatically getting something to deal with the mood
Speaker 2: and not taking care of the gut, it's not really
Speaker 2: gonna help, is that what I heard?
Speaker 3: So what you heard? Interesting fact Actually why we're talking
Speaker 3: about this is people with IBS are twice more likely
Speaker 3: to have anxiety and depression than people without and it's
Speaker 3: just because of that healthy gut isn't there with them.
Speaker 3: So it's a really in your face fact that we
Speaker 3: need a healthy gut to have a healthy mind.
Speaker 2: Wow, that's amazing, And I've heard this about the gut.
Speaker 2: I'm sure you all have Please comment on that. I
Speaker 2: see some of the comments coming in and that's great.
Speaker 2: Please keep them coming. What is it, Bruce? What are
Speaker 2: the main factors that cont tribute to one onhealthy gut?
Speaker 2: Is that the way I should ask the question at all?
Speaker 2: The healthy gut? Or do we want to talk about
Speaker 2: it in the context of what contributes to a healthy gut?
Speaker 2: You let me know?
Speaker 3: I think first, yeah, first we should talk about what
Speaker 3: a healthy gut is. So most of us heard that.
Speaker 3: Most of us have heard the term microbiome. But we're
Speaker 3: actually talking about is microorganisms living in our gut system.
Speaker 3: And there's trillions and trillions of them. Some people say
Speaker 3: there's up to six pounds worth of these micro in
Speaker 3: our gut. Sorry about that, tripping over my tongue. So
Speaker 3: ideally we have a balance. There's always a balance in
Speaker 3: the gut. The question is is it balanced the healthy
Speaker 3: side or the unhealthy side. If it's bounced the healthy side,
Speaker 3: then your gut is able to make these neurotransfers we
Speaker 3: talked about, it's able to fight off the viruses and
Speaker 3: things that are trying to get into the bloodstream. They
Speaker 3: do this by building a wall between the gut lining
Speaker 3: and the virus or the microbe that's trying to get
Speaker 3: into the bloodstream. If you don't have that, then these
Speaker 3: viruses can go straight into bloodstream and cause a lot
Speaker 3: of trouble. They also eat fiber. You've heard fiber is
Speaker 3: a good diet, good for the diet. Well, fiber not
Speaker 3: only helps you eliminate toxins as well as lowerer cholesterol
Speaker 3: by absorbing the bio but the micro organisms eat the
Speaker 3: eat the fiber, and the byproduct is short chain fatty
Speaker 3: acids which contribute to my fusil immune system in the
Speaker 3: in the in the gut, which is your very first layer,
Speaker 3: after the after the layer of the of the gut.
Speaker 3: So it's really really important to have these these things
Speaker 3: built up. When we don't have them, then we're not
Speaker 3: making the neurotransmitters, we're not fighting off the viruses, we
Speaker 3: don't have the immune system. How many people do you
Speaker 3: know say I get the first cold, I'm the first
Speaker 3: one you get a cold every time. The odds are
Speaker 3: they don't have a good, a good solid gut foundation.
Speaker 2: That's really interesting, Thank you, Bruce. And do you know
Speaker 2: everyone I have these stories, Bruce that everyone is probably
Speaker 2: used to buy now. And by the way, everyone I
Speaker 2: know Bruce, I know Bruce personally, and you know that's
Speaker 2: how I know. Just his wealth of information is really
Speaker 2: really super helpful. And when you hear all these buzzwords,
Speaker 2: like you've heard microbiome, which Bruce touched on, he ties
Speaker 2: in everything together as well. So one of those little
Speaker 2: things that I've heard in the past my stories that
Speaker 2: people know that I talk in is if you fix
Speaker 2: your notes, you hear your toes. So you've talked about microbiome,
Speaker 2: got immune system. It all is intertwined, interlaced, isn't it. Bruce?
Speaker 3: Absolutely, And then you can go further and start telling
Speaker 3: it into the hormonal system as well down the road
Speaker 3: in our conversation because everything is everything.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, Remember folks, one of Genevieve's little stories about her mentors.
Speaker 2: I have had many, many incredible people mentor me and Bruce.
Speaker 2: I don't know if you know this, but I consider
Speaker 2: your mentor because I think I have a gift as well.
Speaker 2: You know, people come to us, they have questions. It's
Speaker 2: very very complex. They have it with all the medical
Speaker 2: jargon and they don't quite get it. How does it
Speaker 2: work for me at my level? So we take that
Speaker 2: and we make it simple. And so yes, you're one
Speaker 2: of my mentors as well. So if you fix your nose,
Speaker 2: you hear your toes. Bruce, I'm gonna go to the
Speaker 2: next question about God because remember everyone got is foundational.
Speaker 2: You didn't think about God in menopause. Menopause, well, Bruce
Speaker 2: and I are here to tell you one hundred percent
Speaker 2: connected and you need to start there. So the next question,
Speaker 2: and God is got is how does stress impact gut health?
Speaker 3: All right, that's a really important question because dress is
Speaker 3: actually one of the main contributors to poor digestion as
Speaker 3: you get high cortisol, and high cortisol is a stress
Speaker 3: reaction to being under stressed. So in the days of
Speaker 3: the sabertoothed tiger, the sabertooth tiger would pop up, adrenaline
Speaker 3: would hit you. You'd run the first one hundred yards and
Speaker 3: now it's tracking you. You need more energy to keep going,
Speaker 3: so cortisol would come in and keep you moving. And unfortunately,
Speaker 3: this is the flight flight reaction, and this is what
Speaker 3: we get into when we get stressed, is this fight
Speaker 3: or flight, And so we fill up with cortisol, which
Speaker 3: lowers our progesterone, thus hormones, which we'll go into a
Speaker 3: little more detail later. But the high cortisol actually does
Speaker 3: a number of things to the gut. One, because your
Speaker 3: body feels it's under this flight flight, so it has
Speaker 3: to run from the sabertooth tiger. It puts all its
Speaker 3: energy into running, so it's not putting anything to digestion.
Speaker 3: So you're getting all sorts of undigested food dropped into
Speaker 3: your lower digestion track, which causes hyperfermentation, which causes leaky gut,
Speaker 3: and down the road these other chronic digestion diseases as well.
Speaker 3: On top of that, it actually changes the microbiome from
Speaker 3: healthy to unhealthy because again it's not concerned about digestion,
Speaker 3: it's concerned about survival. And then finally it works with
Speaker 3: the proteins that control the access between the gut and
Speaker 3: the bloodstream. The gut has to open up at times
Speaker 3: to let the nutrients through. The problem is is once
Speaker 3: you get the high cortisol, these onnulins, which are the proteins,
Speaker 3: they open up all sorts, and they open up too much,
Speaker 3: so now you're getting all the viruses and the bacterias
Speaker 3: and feces. If you would being dropped into your bloodstream.
Speaker 3: So now you're going into huge inflammation from all this
Speaker 3: stuff going into your bloodstream as well as your body's
Speaker 3: working over time trying to clear it out.
Speaker 2: Wow to the question, Okay, yes you did. Actually, Now
Speaker 2: everyone you see how this is a cascade. One of
Speaker 2: the words that I love because again going back to
Speaker 2: if you fix your nose, you hear your toes. Bruce
Speaker 2: just told us so many different things happen with a
Speaker 2: healthy or unhealthy gut. When things open up and we
Speaker 2: get what we don't want in the bloodstream, how is
Speaker 2: that going to affect us when we go through the
Speaker 2: change which we're coming up with. When your bloodstream is
Speaker 2: already filthy, things are not really getting from your gut
Speaker 2: where they need to get to. Your digestion isn't working properly,
Speaker 2: so there's no way your hormones are going to work properly.
Speaker 2: And remember this is a walk. We're going going to
Speaker 2: walk with wisdom, so we talk about these questions. Bruce,
Speaker 2: you're doing a phenomenal job doing a foundational explanation.
Speaker 3: Folks.
Speaker 2: This isn't easy. I know, menopause is all over the place.
Speaker 2: You haven't heard of menopause, Bruce and I are going
Speaker 2: to touch on that later, but you haven't heard of
Speaker 2: it this way. And that's why a lot of clients
Speaker 2: that I've seen in my life coaching practice Bruce has
Speaker 2: seen in his counseling and coaching practice on health and nutraceuticals,
Speaker 2: we don't get the results because we're not dealing with
Speaker 2: the root cause we're not treating the body as a car. Bruce,
Speaker 2: you may have missed this, but one of the stories
Speaker 2: I told last week was one of my mentors a
Speaker 2: wise man, and I said, the wise man is sometimes
Speaker 2: a wise woman. Often a wise woman said, if you
Speaker 2: fix your nose, you heal your toes. So that's why
Speaker 2: we're talking about all the digestive issues first, so that
Speaker 2: when we deal with the symptoms of menopause and menopause
Speaker 2: that we run to you guys will understand. And then
Speaker 2: if we fix your nose, we're going to fix the gut. Foundationally,
Speaker 2: we'll be able to get answers from these hormones. Bruce,
Speaker 2: we're going to be taking a short break and so oh,
Speaker 2: I think what we'll do is ask a question after
Speaker 2: the short break. But until then, folks, please make your
Speaker 2: comments and what I wanted to let you know is
Speaker 2: if you wanted to reach out to me specifically, because
Speaker 2: you know, when we're on the open media, it's great.
Speaker 2: We're one big family and I want you to be
Speaker 2: a part of the Walk with Wisdom family. But maybe
Speaker 2: you have specific questions, don't hesitate to email Wisdom at
Speaker 2: Walk with Wisdom dot ca. Wisdom at Walk with Wisdom
Speaker 2: dot Ca. I'll double check with Bruce on his best
Speaker 2: contact later on. And right now, everyone, we're going to
Speaker 2: take a short break so that or sponsors can give
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Speaker 2: Come hi, everyone, Welcome back to Walk with Wisdom. I
Speaker 2: am Genevieve Wisdom, your host, and today we have Bruce Pollock.
Speaker 2: Bruce is incredibly knowledgeible on how we get to move
Speaker 2: through things that affect us as we go through useful aging,
Speaker 2: useful aging, looking good and feeling amazing as we age.
Speaker 2: I invited him here to talk to us about hormones, menopause, menopause,
Speaker 2: and then Bruce in his true incredible style, because here's
Speaker 2: the thing we can talk about, a thing we can
Speaker 2: throw supplements and many many different kinds of modalities to
Speaker 2: a thing like menopause. Menopause, but if we're not getting
Speaker 2: rid of the result, it's for not. Bruce is incredible
Speaker 2: at saying great, we'll get there. That's the symptoms. Let's
Speaker 2: do the foundation. So we started out talking about GOT
Speaker 2: right verus absolutely absolutely, So the GOT is foundational to
Speaker 2: what we're gonna talk about next. So I have another
Speaker 2: question here for you, Bruce, what is the connection you
Speaker 2: mentioned cortisol and cortisol is one of those hormones, So
Speaker 2: if you can explain to the audience what it is
Speaker 2: which you've been doing phenomenally, what is the connection between
Speaker 2: cortisol and gut health?
Speaker 3: I touched on that briefly in my last answer, but
Speaker 3: cortisol directly affects the gut in a numerous, numerous, numerous ways.
Speaker 3: Just to go over it quickly again, it changes a
Speaker 3: microbiome from healthy done healthy. Assume you add healthy microbiome
Speaker 3: to begin with, So now you're not breaking down foods properly.
Speaker 3: It stops digestion from working correctly, so you're getting undigested
Speaker 3: food into the lower digestion track, causing hyper fermentation, which
Speaker 3: is causing leaki gut. Ironically enough, Leaki got causes inflammation
Speaker 3: and information causes high cortisol, because cortisol is an anti inflammatory.
Speaker 3: So you get leaki gut which comes first, the chicken
Speaker 3: or the egg? Which comes first? The cortisol or the
Speaker 3: leaky gut? Right, it doesn't matter which. At some point
Speaker 3: you have to deal with both of them, because you
Speaker 3: can fix the gout all you like, but if you've
Speaker 3: got high cortisol, you're still going to have leaky gut.
Speaker 3: So it's one of those things you have to fix
Speaker 3: both of them to have a healthy digestion track, of course.
Speaker 2: And Bruce, thank you so much for that. Okay, I
Speaker 2: ask some of the things that I know you're thinking,
Speaker 2: and I'm seeing your comments. Thank you so much. Keep
Speaker 2: those comments coming, and remember to share the live with
Speaker 2: your friends, family, call all your cohorts that are out there,
Speaker 2: because we're new and getting your feedback on the topics
Speaker 2: that you'd like to hear, especially with learned minds like Bruce,
Speaker 2: is very invaluable to the show. So Bruce, like a
Speaker 2: lot of you, we've heard about cortisol. We've heard about
Speaker 2: of course, gut health and leaky gut. Can you dive
Speaker 2: a little bit more into what leaky gut really is
Speaker 2: I know you talked about tight junctions, et cetera. Can
Speaker 2: you go back around speaking specifically about that term leaky
Speaker 2: gut that's been thrown around recently.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, and it is a relatively new term if you
Speaker 3: think about the whole history of health, So our gut,
Speaker 3: as I said earlier, it has to open up to
Speaker 3: let the nutrition nutrient through into the blood stream at
Speaker 3: some point. So in a healthy gut, you have the
Speaker 3: food coming in. It gets broken down the acid bath,
Speaker 3: it gets dropped into the small intestine where it gets
Speaker 3: absorbed into the body at that point, then it moves
Speaker 3: into the large intestine where it starts getting moved out
Speaker 3: of the body from there. So in the small intestine
Speaker 3: it's very premarable because that's how the nutrients get into
Speaker 3: the get into the body, get into bloodstream. The problem
Speaker 3: is is when you get high cortisol or you get
Speaker 3: under stress, which causes high cortisol or you start eating
Speaker 3: foods that well, one of my mentors called them non foods,
Speaker 3: the highly processed foods. Right, you start playing with the zonulins.
Speaker 3: The ziolins are the proteins that open up that control
Speaker 3: the tight junctions where the gout actually opens up to
Speaker 3: the blood stream, and so it just spos to open
Speaker 3: up a tiny bit just to let the nutrients through.
Speaker 3: But once things go bad, it starts opening wide up.
Speaker 3: Now again, you think about the things that are in
Speaker 3: our digestion track. They're not all good, right. We have
Speaker 3: we have food that hasn't been broken down. We have
Speaker 3: viruses that haven't been killed by the by the micro microorganisms.
Speaker 3: We have pathogens in there, and and we have feces
Speaker 3: down the road in the big colon or in the
Speaker 3: smallt story the big testine. So all these things can
Speaker 3: get into the can get into the blood stream if
Speaker 3: we don't have a healthy gut, because the god's opening
Speaker 3: up too much and it's letting all these things through. Now,
Speaker 3: when I say this, don't pitch your bread crumbs. Be
Speaker 3: careful with with what you're what you're thinking about. We're
Speaker 3: talking about molecules things on a molecular level. We're not
Speaker 3: talking bread crumb size holes in your gut or anything
Speaker 3: like that. But it's enough to let the bad stuff in.
Speaker 3: And now once you let the bad stuff in your bloodstream,
Speaker 3: now you've opened up Pandora's box when it comes to
Speaker 3: health and especially healthy agent.
Speaker 2: Absolutely absolutely, Bruce, thank you so much. That was a
Speaker 2: very very it was a visual explanation, and thank you
Speaker 2: for explaining to others like when we're talking and we're
Speaker 2: talking on the molecular level, but enough to cause some
Speaker 2: serious health effects and affect us as we age youthfully. Now,
Speaker 2: next question, how does poor gut health affect the liver?
Speaker 2: And I thought we would bring the liver in because
Speaker 2: I know you're going to tie it all into menopause
Speaker 2: and menopause. How does poor gut health affect the liver? Bruce?
Speaker 3: Okay, So the liver's job is to clean the bloodstream,
Speaker 3: and now you're dumping all this stuff into the bloodstream
Speaker 3: that doesn't belong, So you're going to overburden the the liver,
Speaker 3: which wasn't really designed to pull that kind of stuff
Speaker 3: out of the bloodstam So you've got the liver that's
Speaker 3: getting congested because it's pulling all this stuff that's a
Speaker 3: leaky gout is putting the bloodstream the liver's trying to
Speaker 3: clean out, Plus it's trying to remove all the hormones
Speaker 3: that your body is no longer using. So you've got
Speaker 3: an excess of hormones, especially through menopause, and you've got
Speaker 3: a congested liver through all these things that are going
Speaker 3: into the bloodstream through the leaky got So with this
Speaker 3: congestion happening, you're not removing the old hormones and you're
Speaker 3: not removing the jump from the liver either, So you're
Speaker 3: causing quite a problem and a toxic again, a toxic
Speaker 3: body if the body, the liver is not able to
Speaker 3: move this stuff through it. So you're causing a bit
Speaker 3: of a problem that point.
Speaker 2: Absolutely. Now I know a lot of you. And by
Speaker 2: the way, I always take a moment to thank you
Speaker 2: for your comments. I love it when it's really active.
Speaker 2: And again, if you want specific questions answered, please don't
Speaker 2: hesitate to email me directly Wisdom at with Walk with
Speaker 2: Wisdom dot CAA, Wisdom at Walk with Wisdom dot ca A,
Speaker 2: and that's my email. You can definitely go go ahead
Speaker 2: and email me there. And also Bruce if you wanted
Speaker 2: to talk to Bruce more specifically personally based on what
Speaker 2: he said, because Bruce does consultations, pardon me one on
Speaker 2: one consult His email is Bruce b R U C
Speaker 2: Underscore Pollock po l A C K AT yahoo dot
Speaker 2: ca A Bruce Pollock at Yahoo dot ca A. So, Bruce,
Speaker 2: we're gonna keep going on the liver, Okay, all of
Speaker 2: you your comments, stop me talking about the liver, Bruce.
Speaker 2: There's so much stuff about the liver, and we talked
Speaker 2: about the gut and the liver connection. Now you mentioned
Speaker 2: that if the gut is leaky, and you talked about
Speaker 2: leaky gut, then it's more things for the liver to
Speaker 2: have to filter. Is that correct?
Speaker 3: Correct? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Perfect, Bruce. I'm not hearing you there. I look like
Speaker 2: you said correct, but I didn't hear you. Can you repeat?
Speaker 3: Just make sure we haven't.
Speaker 2: Yes? Perfect, you said correct, excellent, And so so you
Speaker 2: know how you said before, what came first, the chicken
Speaker 2: or the egg? Is it leaky gut? Because and the
Speaker 2: reason why I'm talking about the liver a little bit
Speaker 2: more so, I have a further question to that is
Speaker 2: what happens when the liver becomes congested? And I'm wondering
Speaker 2: if you could kind of tie that back into the gut.
Speaker 2: What came first? Is it the leaky gut that causes
Speaker 2: congested liver or is it some the liver that causes
Speaker 2: leaky gut? And then it's a two part question. And
Speaker 2: then really in the context of youthful aging and hormones, breaking.
Speaker 3: Down the hormones, so the leaki gut tends to come
Speaker 3: first before the congested liver because that's what causes the
Speaker 3: congested liver. So you get the leaky gut and you
Speaker 3: get all this stuff going intor bloodstream. The liver has
Speaker 3: to work over time to try to get rid of it,
Speaker 3: and it gets congested. Now the question was what happens
Speaker 3: once your liver becomes congested. Well, that's a wide and
Speaker 3: varied question because there's just so much that can happen
Speaker 3: because think about now, you're not moving the toxins from
Speaker 3: your body. So what's a cyst in your body? It
Speaker 3: doesn't matter where the cyst is, but what's a cyst.
Speaker 3: It's toxins that aren't being removed from body, right, So
Speaker 3: you have this toxic build up and it can take many,
Speaker 3: many different forms. Cysts is just one of them. That's
Speaker 3: an example, as well as skin problems because again you're
Speaker 3: not removing toxins. They've got to go someplace. The skin
Speaker 3: is one of your cleansing areas because toxins get pushed
Speaker 3: out the skin. So you have skin issues, you can
Speaker 3: have Oh it just goes on and on. But definitely
Speaker 3: high inflammation as well. There's there's no way around that.
Speaker 3: If you if your lyrics congested, you're high inflamed as well.
Speaker 2: Excellent, Oh wow, Bruce, And again everyone that's listening, you
Speaker 2: see these themes keep coming back through our discussion with Bruce.
Speaker 2: Everything is interrelated. If you fix your nose, you hear
Speaker 2: your toes. We're gonna start foundationally, which is why Bruce,
Speaker 2: in his eloquent way and in his wisdom wink wink said, Genevieve,
Speaker 2: let's talk start with gut health before we go into
Speaker 2: all the symptoms of menopause. And of course, folks, we're
Speaker 2: going to have some amazing ways to fix it. However,
Speaker 2: today we have to start foundationally, get to know one
Speaker 2: another and see what came first, the chicken or the egg.
Speaker 2: So going back a little bit more here, so again
Speaker 2: everyone remember the context of menopause. Menopause, one thing that
Speaker 2: happens is of course brain disruptions like you know, sleep,
Speaker 2: et cetera. So Bruce mentioned the gut has a major
Speaker 2: role that it plays in Neuer transmitters, which I never
Speaker 2: heard of that you think of your brain, you go, oh, well,
Speaker 2: everything has to do with your brain, and oh, Bruce,
Speaker 2: I have heard of Let me ask you. I thought
Speaker 2: of another question everyone, because Bruce does this to me,
Speaker 2: My brain just fires because you know so much. So
Speaker 2: what does the gut have to do with newer transmitters
Speaker 2: and brain health in general?
Speaker 3: Okay, well, you can't have a healthy brain if you
Speaker 3: don't have a healthy gut. Just period. We've covered earlier.
Speaker 3: I mentioned that that the brain actually makes the ninety
Speaker 3: eight percent of neurotransfer Sorry, the gut makes ninety eight
Speaker 3: percent of the neuro transmitters. If you think about the
Speaker 3: neurotransmitters and actually put a label on them, what they do.
Speaker 3: Glutamate for example, memory and cognition, mood regulation. So if
Speaker 3: you don't have a good memory or your cognition is
Speaker 3: that you're not your brain isn't firing one hundred percent,
Speaker 3: it could be glued tomate gabba. It produces a commune effect.
Speaker 3: It's very good against anxiety, stress, and fear. So if
Speaker 3: you're an anxiety, stress and fear all the time, it
Speaker 3: could be a GABA issue. Serotonin digestion, nausea, sexual desire,
Speaker 3: even is serotonin. Dopamine gives you a feeling of pleasure
Speaker 3: and satisfaction and motivation helps controlling the memory, mood, sleep
Speaker 3: and learning, and concentration. So those are a few things.
Speaker 3: So if you've got a gut that isn't healthy, you're
Speaker 3: not making the neurotransmitters, you don't have that healthy brain.
Speaker 3: But you can also go further and go with the leak.
Speaker 3: Go back to leak you gut. Where you get all
Speaker 3: these pathogens being leaked into bloodstream, Well, many of them
Speaker 3: cross the blood brain barrier, the us of by brain barrier.
Speaker 3: They cause an inflamed brain. If they cause an inflamed brain,
Speaker 3: then your your your neurons aren't your your brain isn't
Speaker 3: firing properly. If it's not firing properly, then the microglia,
Speaker 3: this is the anti brain I call it. It comes
Speaker 3: along and trims your brain because it thinks your brain,
Speaker 3: these these things are supposed to be firing. It thinks
Speaker 3: they're not working properly, so it trims them off. And
Speaker 3: so you get this inflame brain and you're getting your
Speaker 3: brain trimmed off by by by the self defense mechanisms
Speaker 3: in the brain. So you have a very sluggish brain.
Speaker 3: And then if you have high cortisol, you have low pgesterone,
Speaker 3: which again we'll get into and pagestones are calm calming hormone,
Speaker 3: and so if you don't have that to calm the
Speaker 3: brain down, now you're firing on all cylinders the fight
Speaker 3: and flight reaction that we're talking about earlier. So you're
Speaker 3: firing your adrenals to kick more cortisol up, which causes
Speaker 3: more leaky got, more inflammation, and less progesterone. So the
Speaker 3: less progesterone, your brain is now in flight mode even further,
Speaker 3: kicking your dreanals up, causing more ports all, less progesterone,
Speaker 3: more leaky gut. So you've got this whole circular thing happening,
Speaker 3: and you're trying to think properly. Well, it's hard to
Speaker 3: think without enough neurotransmitters, without progesterone, and with an inflamed brain. Right,
Speaker 3: And as you keep saying it's all connected, it's all connected,
Speaker 3: There isn't there any isn't any of this that isn't
Speaker 3: connected to the other part of it.
Speaker 2: Wow, Bruce, I'm telling you, and I know from more
Speaker 2: valued listeners on the live. Remember everyone share the live,
Speaker 2: so everyone gets some of walk with wisdom today as
Speaker 2: Bruce brings just so much knowledge to this area of
Speaker 2: menopause and menopause and just talking about how the gut.
Speaker 2: Who would have thunk it? I mean, normally we just
Speaker 2: think these symptoms are happening and we don't go to
Speaker 2: the root cause, which is really the gut. Is that
Speaker 2: what I mean? And Bruce is that the root cost
Speaker 2: to a lot of these symptoms which we'll talk about later,
Speaker 2: that happens in menopause and menopause.
Speaker 3: There's absolutely there's two of them. And again the chicken
Speaker 3: of the egg, stress and gut, because stress is the
Speaker 3: other cause, because even if you had a perfect gut,
Speaker 3: if you go under stress, it will destroy your gut.
Speaker 3: So those are the two. And also stress of course
Speaker 3: plays havoc with your hormones as well. Directly, it plays
Speaker 3: havoc with your hormones by creating the cortisol, which lowers
Speaker 3: your progesterone. And if you take the cascade, you go
Speaker 3: from the DHA and it goes to either progesterone or
Speaker 3: then it goes down to testosterone, and and those ones
Speaker 3: on that side, including the thyroid. Well, if everything is
Speaker 3: going to the progesterone because you're a fight flight mode
Speaker 3: and your body believes it has to survive. Then nothing,
Speaker 3: not nothing, but very little is going the other way.
Speaker 3: And this is why often I see I see people
Speaker 3: being prescribed T one or T three, T two, T
Speaker 3: three the thyroid medication when they're really stressed out. It's
Speaker 3: because they're not getting the DH where it needs to
Speaker 3: go through the hypothema's peturitary access. So you've got all this,
Speaker 3: all this, all these hormones going to the progesterone to
Speaker 3: feed the cortisol because your body bleaves, it has to
Speaker 3: fight or flight, so it's in this run mode all
Speaker 3: the time, and you're not feeding the estrogen and testosterone
Speaker 3: on the other side, or the or the thyroid. So
Speaker 3: stress causes the high high cortisol, causes leaky gut. Leaky
Speaker 3: gut causes high cortisol, which throws out your So they're both,
Speaker 3: they're both part of the same animal. If you would.
Speaker 2: Perfect perfect, they're both bookends and not a perfection for us.
Speaker 2: Thank you Bruce for that. We're going to take a
Speaker 2: short break everyone and we'll be right back. Bruce is
Speaker 2: going to give us more knowledge around this incredible topic
Speaker 2: starting foundationally so we can get some relief in menopause
Speaker 2: and menopause. We'll be right back. Hi, everyone, welcome back
Speaker 2: to Walk with Wisdom. I'm Genevieve Wisdom, your host, and
Speaker 2: I have the amazing Bruce Pollock here today. And Bruce
Speaker 2: is explaining to us why when we hear the word
Speaker 2: menopause or menopause, or when we're at that stage, we
Speaker 2: don't just run to symptoms and hormones, We run to
Speaker 2: our guts. Have you ever heard such a thing? But
Speaker 2: when Bruce explains it, and by the way, everyone please
Speaker 2: share the life and here Bruce's wisdom. Bruce, I can't
Speaker 2: help but saying, you know it's your wisdom to add
Speaker 2: to my wisdom. You see how that works. And here
Speaker 2: Bruce's wisdom on this because it totally makes sense. If
Speaker 2: you ever wonder why we those of us who are
Speaker 2: going through it, don't get relief, can you see my finger,
Speaker 2: don't get relief? Is possibly because we are attacking it
Speaker 2: in a very very different way. Bruce. When you say
Speaker 2: kind of the backwards way, it's counterintuitive how we need
Speaker 2: to attack the stage of menopause and menopause isn't it.
Speaker 4: Well, you think when you're putting out of a fire,
Speaker 4: you don't. You don't throw water on the upper flames,
Speaker 4: you put it on the fire below, right, So you
Speaker 4: need to you need to hit the cause of these things,
Speaker 4: not just the symptomology of them.
Speaker 2: Love that, Bruce, I love that. I love analogies, and
Speaker 2: that was a great way for us to think about,
Speaker 2: you know, putting out this hot flash that's happening, having
Speaker 2: one right. Yeah, So Bruce, continue on your questions. So
Speaker 2: you mentioned cortisol, and cortisol is a major hormone. Everyone
Speaker 2: I know we're doing the big picture. Bruce is phenomenal
Speaker 2: at tying it up, bringing it back and tying it
Speaker 2: all up. So we talked about cortisol. You've probably all
Speaker 2: heard about cortisol, the hormone. Bruce explained, Bruce, if you
Speaker 2: can just repeat another mentor another word of wisdom. Repetition
Speaker 2: is the mother's skill. I got that from one of
Speaker 2: my mentors. You might all recognize that one. And so, Bruce,
Speaker 2: if you could please repeat what the cortisol hormone does,
Speaker 2: specifically how it affects the gout or the gut affects it,
Speaker 2: and then tied in to sleep and anxiety because we
Speaker 2: kind of left off on brain fight or flight, et cetera.
Speaker 3: All right, so quick review. High cortisol disrupts the microbiome,
Speaker 3: which stops the neuro transmitters from being made. So this
Speaker 3: throws mood into the issue. But high courtisol also there's
Speaker 3: some side effects of high courtisol that we haven't talked about.
Speaker 3: When is anxiety and when is wake you up in
Speaker 3: the middle of the night. So if you have high curtisol.
Speaker 2: Wait, I have that. Sorry, Bruce, I had to jump
Speaker 2: in and say I have that, and those of you
Speaker 2: who know me, no, I don't sleep, so forgive me, Bruce.
Speaker 2: High cortisol does that really, So.
Speaker 3: What generally happens is you get given something for anxiety
Speaker 3: and you get given something for sleep instead of something
Speaker 3: for your drenals which is producing all this cortisol, and
Speaker 3: also something to calm your brain down to stop the
Speaker 3: fight flight reactions going to your dreanals, which is again
Speaker 3: causing the cortisol. So when you think about high cortisol,
Speaker 3: you think about bad digestion, you think about newer transmitters,
Speaker 3: you think about inflame brain, you think about anxiety and
Speaker 3: waking up in the middle of the night. It's a
Speaker 3: multifaceted thing. And as I said, you don't even have
Speaker 3: to be under stressed have high courtosol. You just have
Speaker 3: to have leaky gut. But if you're under stress, it
Speaker 3: doubles and triples this. And I've had people come to
Speaker 3: you all the time saying I need something to sleep,
Speaker 3: Give me something to help me sleep, and it in
Speaker 3: fact what they need is something to support their dreanals
Speaker 3: so that the cortisol levels lower down.
Speaker 2: Wow, Bruce, have I come to you and say I
Speaker 2: need something to sleep? That sounded like me?
Speaker 3: Is he talking about?
Speaker 2: I'm not the only one, Bruce and everyone. That's why
Speaker 2: we're doing this show. Walk with Wisdom is really about
Speaker 2: just us having a talk at this level in our
Speaker 2: extraordinary lives. We hear the doctors and the stars and
Speaker 2: all these people talk about it, but this is like
Speaker 2: just being, you know, at home in your living room
Speaker 2: with a friend. For us to become friends and talk
Speaker 2: about these things and talk about it so real, so natural,
Speaker 2: not in a perfect way, you know. As you know,
Speaker 2: if I take about a minute to get ready, one
Speaker 2: of the reasons is because I don't sleep and I've
Speaker 2: gone to Bruce asking him for something to sleep, and
Speaker 2: he's going, well, let's talk about the adrenals, Bruce. I
Speaker 2: want to jump in for a moment, just for a
Speaker 2: guest who probably have never heard of the adrenals in
Speaker 2: the way that you're talking. Can you talk about the adrenals?
Speaker 2: What is the adrenals? Exactly?
Speaker 3: There are two organs. They sit on either side of
Speaker 3: your body, just above the kidneys, I believe actually, and
Speaker 3: they're really there to keep you alive when you're in
Speaker 3: a state of panic and shock. Again, adrenaline is a
Speaker 3: wonderful thing when you have to go run in and
Speaker 3: pull your child up a burning building, right or you
Speaker 3: have to you have to outrun that saber toothed tiger,
Speaker 3: Adrenaline is a wonderful, wonderful thing. Quota's all is a
Speaker 3: wonderful thing. When you're in that blizzard and you still
Speaker 3: have to walk ten miles to get to the nearest
Speaker 3: cabin where it's warm. You need that extra energy. You
Speaker 3: need this pumping into you, and you don't need digestion
Speaker 3: at that point. You need survival. So these things are
Speaker 3: are wonderful tools for us. The problem is with modern
Speaker 3: if you think about life modern we're designed to go
Speaker 3: what fifteen kilometers an hour, but we hop in our
Speaker 3: car and we drive one hundred kilometers an hour. We
Speaker 3: don't think about it, and we have all this world
Speaker 3: whipping by our eyes at one hundred kilometers an hour
Speaker 3: when we're designed to go fifteen. That stress. If you're
Speaker 3: watching TV and you watch a commercial, you count every
Speaker 3: three seconds they slice to another scene in a commercial.
Speaker 3: So you've got that coming at you, and you've got
Speaker 3: normal life coming at you, apparently, And I'm going to
Speaker 3: misquote this, so don't quote me on this, please, no
Speaker 3: bad comments. Forty years ago, we had like forty four
Speaker 3: thousand bits of information come at us a day. Now
Speaker 3: it's five hundred thousand bits of information coming at us
Speaker 3: a day because of our phones and because of computers. Well,
Speaker 3: you think about that. That's not what our brain and
Speaker 3: our bodies were designed to deal with. So we've got
Speaker 3: all this coming at us. We're driving at one hundred
Speaker 3: klometers an hour, we're designed to go fifteen. We watch
Speaker 3: TV and the cut cut, cut, cuts, and all this
Speaker 3: our brain is keeping up with. We've got all this
Speaker 3: information on our phones that our brain is keeping up with.
Speaker 3: We've got all these communications that our brain is keeping
Speaker 3: up with. This is all stress. This isn't something our
Speaker 3: bodies were designed to do. So you don't even have
Speaker 3: be a stressful person. You're just living in a stressful world.
Speaker 3: And it doesn't matter how calm you are, you're still
Speaker 3: you've still got all this information coming at you. So
Speaker 3: if we tie this back to cortisol and adrenals, it's
Speaker 3: very easy to fall into the fight flight because our
Speaker 3: body doesn't have eyes, right, it doesn't know what's going on.
Speaker 3: It only knows what the brain is telling. And the
Speaker 3: brain is saying we're under stress, were under stressed, were
Speaker 3: under stressed. Well, in the old days, that meant we're
Speaker 3: gonna die, right, it didn't mean that. You know, I've
Speaker 3: been dropped as a friend on my Facebook. This is
Speaker 3: we're gonna die. So that's what the that's what the
Speaker 3: body says when we're under stressed, is we're gonna die.
Speaker 3: We need we need to survive high cortisol, we need
Speaker 3: to get out of the situation. So this high cortisol
Speaker 3: just keeps coming at us and keeps coming as keeps
Speaker 3: coming at us because we're always stressed, and this is
Speaker 3: what's causing this and the gut are the root of
Speaker 3: ninety nine percent of all our problems, and it's just
Speaker 3: I think I believe it's that simple. Hopefully I made
Speaker 3: it simple.
Speaker 2: Absolutely well, you know everyone, and thank you for your comments. Bruce.
Speaker 2: We're getting some really great comments on everyone, you know,
Speaker 2: because you're actually giving a foundational explanation to hormones in
Speaker 2: the way that we've never heard it. And it's the gut,
Speaker 2: it's stress, and you know, we can talk further about it.
Speaker 2: But you did take a very complicated scenario and make
Speaker 2: it simple, right, folks. He's really good at that. That's excellent.
Speaker 2: Now I want to move on to a couple more things,
Speaker 2: and these are probably you know, everyone, we're touching on this.
Speaker 2: As Bruce says, you know, it's a big picture. So
Speaker 2: we're painting the big picture right now, and then we'll
Speaker 2: go deeper. So Bruce, you're probably gonna have to come
Speaker 2: back to go deeper because everyone, please send your questions
Speaker 2: directly to me, how it affects you personally, questions you
Speaker 2: may want us to ask. Bruce, could you come back.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna come and say am to come back for
Speaker 2: that would be awesome, Bruce, because then we can go deeper,
Speaker 2: and then we can stack. Remember everyone stacking. We start
Speaker 2: foundationally and we stack what we need to do to
Speaker 2: get better results faster. So along those lines, Bruce, just
Speaker 2: one more. We've talked about just so many things. Back
Speaker 2: to the gut. How does poor digestion contribute to weight gain?
Speaker 2: And the reason why I bring this up is in
Speaker 2: the context of menopause. Menopause because that's one of the
Speaker 2: symptoms we talked about. You know early in the intro.
Speaker 3: If the gut is not healthy, it can't break the
Speaker 3: minerals out from the from the food that's in the body,
Speaker 3: that's in the digestion track. If you can't break the
Speaker 3: minerals out, then your body is not going to function
Speaker 3: correctly and even dealing with the excess with the fats,
Speaker 3: the sugars, the oils, because it can't it's not healthy
Speaker 3: enough to do that, and so it stores it. So
Speaker 3: you get all this stuff being stored in your body
Speaker 3: because it can't deal with it correctly. And this is
Speaker 3: what the gut's supposed to do is deal with these
Speaker 3: things correctly. This is assuming we have somewhat of a
Speaker 3: healthy diet, because you know, you need supplements supplement a
Speaker 3: healthy diet. They don't supplement to McDonald's diet. Right, So
Speaker 3: if you're eating a healthy diet but you're still your
Speaker 3: gut's not functioning, you're still not going to utilize all
Speaker 3: that stuff. And so it's going to store it and
Speaker 3: it's going to start it till future, hoping that in
Speaker 3: future be able to utilize it. And this is where
Speaker 3: the weight gaing starts to happen. And then again with
Speaker 3: the liver being congested, you can't move stuff out of
Speaker 3: the body. Your toxins aren't being removed either, and the
Speaker 3: body has to deal with all the toxins and in fat.
Speaker 3: In fact, fat actually stores much much toxins. That's why
Speaker 3: when people do cleanses they tend to get headaches and
Speaker 3: skin issues and all that sort of stuff because a
Speaker 3: lot of the toxins are being released from the fat cells.
Speaker 3: So it's quite a Again, it's all connected to the
Speaker 3: beginning one to the ending of the subject. But we
Speaker 3: touched on it, if you don't mind me going off
Speaker 3: topic just a minute here, we touched on inflammation and
Speaker 3: I had a client coming and said I have a
Speaker 3: sore wrist, And I said, is there anything else, and
Speaker 3: she said, on my shoulders. Now you mentioned it, I've
Speaker 3: got tennis albow. My shoulder is sore, my knees are sore,
Speaker 3: and my hips are sore. And instead of doing the
Speaker 3: classic which we give her Kurkuman, which is antium anti inflammatory,
Speaker 3: I actually put her in a cut protocol and in
Speaker 3: one month all these pains had gone away because it
Speaker 3: was inflammation caused by leaky gut. So when we talk
Speaker 3: about inflammation, it's not just bulking up, it's not just
Speaker 3: being inflamed. It can actually cause physical problems. And this
Speaker 3: is what she was actually receiving with these physical problems
Speaker 3: in the joints. But it wasn't a joint problem. It
Speaker 3: was a gut problem. So there's more to this than
Speaker 3: just oh it causes inflammation, which causes high cortisol. It
Speaker 3: actually can cause problems in the body.
Speaker 2: Right, Thank you Bruce for that and everyone in the
Speaker 2: context of menopause menopause, as we get older or younger
Speaker 2: as I like to call it, so for those of
Speaker 2: us forty and over all, these inflammatory responses stack up
Speaker 2: and that's why is that why we get more pains
Speaker 2: and aches as we get older, because now we had
Speaker 2: a god issue, possibly for a long time. Bruce, I
Speaker 2: just want you to touch on this quickly for the
Speaker 2: younger audience because I actually have a lot of people
Speaker 2: who want to walk with wisdom in their youth, and
Speaker 2: I encourage that. I encourage the perry stage of everything,
Speaker 2: which means before we get there, what could we do
Speaker 2: to make when you get there easier? So you talk
Speaker 2: about pain, you talk about inflammation. What what is it
Speaker 2: that the younger audience could do. Potentially, let's just give
Speaker 2: one general diet tip that they could do to help
Speaker 2: with leaky gut, prevention of leaky gout, something along those lines.
Speaker 2: Is it, for instance, doing more alo. We've heard about alo.
Speaker 2: Is it like adding alo to a good diet? And
Speaker 2: you talked about diet being foundational, So if we had
Speaker 2: a good diet, is it adding alo? And that's for
Speaker 2: us to forty and over. But if you're trying to
Speaker 2: kind of prevent that inflammatory pain, like Bruce gave us
Speaker 2: the example, what could we do for a healthy gut
Speaker 2: dietarity just one thing? Because you're coming back, we need
Speaker 2: to go deeper.
Speaker 3: Yeah, most people are gonna hate me for this, so
Speaker 3: forgive me. But if you want to do one thing
Speaker 3: to really help moving into metapause to make it easier,
Speaker 3: give up alcohol. All calls art on the liver, and
Speaker 3: the liver is where all the hormones are being moved
Speaker 3: out of so if they congested, it causes much more
Speaker 3: difficult with menopause as well as it disrupts a microbiome
Speaker 3: and the gut and causes leaky gut, so it causes
Speaker 3: all that inflammation we've been talking about. That would be
Speaker 3: not necessarily give it up, cut it way back, and
Speaker 3: I actually can see the difference in a lot of
Speaker 3: my clients, the ones who really enjoy wine and the
Speaker 3: ones who have wine once in a while. The metopause
Speaker 3: is much easier for the ones to enjoy why once
Speaker 3: in a while as opposed to drink wine regularly. So
Speaker 3: that would be one easy tip just to make life
Speaker 3: life easier on you as you're going into the menopause stage.
Speaker 3: But really, liver and gut, those are the two big ones.
Speaker 3: Take care of those and metopause will be easier and
Speaker 3: stress so liver, gut and stress.
Speaker 2: Of course, of course, Bruce, that was really phenomenal. Thank
Speaker 2: you so much for those tips. So everyone, this again
Speaker 2: is in the context of menopause. Menopause, we started with
Speaker 2: the big picture, but the big picture is really starting foundationally.
Speaker 2: Bruce was here today with us to really let us
Speaker 2: know that we have to start with the gut. And
Speaker 2: with the gut he built, he stacked the different things
Speaker 2: we needed to do. We all get there. It's a
Speaker 2: gift to get there and what we want to do,
Speaker 2: which is why I have Bruce here to help us
Speaker 2: to do it with wisdom. Now, everyone remember to share
Speaker 2: the link. Bruce had such incredible information. We're not going
Speaker 2: away just yet, but I just wanted to kind of
Speaker 2: wrap up everything that he said in this last segment
Speaker 2: because Bruce, just to let you know to and the
Speaker 2: audience is commenting, you really have a lot of knowledge,
Speaker 2: and you do delineate it overall. Start big, but it's
Speaker 2: such a big topic, isn't it. It's a big time.
Speaker 2: So you start big and you actually put it in
Speaker 2: bite sized pieces so that we can really understand it.
Speaker 2: So everyone, again, I'm just going to wrap up a
Speaker 2: little bit and then we will come back. So Bruce digestion,
Speaker 2: leaky gut, giving up alcohol or cutting way back to
Speaker 2: make it easier on that gut and digestion and that
Speaker 2: will just help the body ease those symptoms because it
Speaker 2: will take the stress of the liver which breaks down
Speaker 2: or hormones and or food and all those menopausal symptoms.
Speaker 2: When I introduce the show today, everyone menopause, menopause, and
Speaker 2: the reason why we say menopause is because the men
Speaker 2: go through it. To what I heard, and we'll talk
Speaker 2: about this again, Bruce. What I heard is that men
Speaker 2: go through the actual manopause stage with that decrease in testosterone.
Speaker 2: We always look at tests maybe about a decade after
Speaker 2: women and it's a range of years, so we'll talk
Speaker 2: about that as well. Everyone, We're going to do a
Speaker 2: short break for sponsors. Thank you so much for joining us.
Speaker 2: Don't go away, come back right after this short break.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Thank you everyone for joining us today. Genevieve Wisdom,
Speaker 2: host of Walk with Wisdom. Bruce Pollock has been our
Speaker 2: guest today and Bruce has given us incredible information about menopause,
Speaker 2: menopause in the context of gut health. Bruce, we're gonna
Speaker 2: have to have you back. It's so much information and
Speaker 2: we really want our valued listen listeners to take notes,
Speaker 2: do a check as to where they are and come
Speaker 2: back to us next week next Friday for more results. Bruce,
Speaker 2: can you just give us like a thirty second wrap
Speaker 2: up again as to how the gut is foundational to
Speaker 2: menopause menopause.
Speaker 3: Specifically, healthy gut bounces the body. If the guts not balance,
Speaker 3: the body won't be balanced. It's just that simple. And
Speaker 3: we've been through at the leaky gut, the information, the cortisol, progesterone,
Speaker 3: the neurotransmitters. You need a healthy gut. If you don't
Speaker 3: have healthy gut, you don't have a healthy body. It
Speaker 3: doesn't matter how much you exercise, it doesn't matter how
Speaker 3: much you drink water. It just without a healthy gut,
Speaker 3: you won't be healthy. It's just that simple. It controls,
Speaker 3: it controls and is part of every option of the body.
Speaker 2: Fantastic, Bruce, Thank you so much everyone. What I want
Speaker 2: to bring on this show and my valuable guests like Bruce,
Speaker 2: is you may have heard these terms. Everybody's talking about it.
Speaker 2: A lot of us are going through it, a lot
Speaker 2: of us are preparing to go through it, but you
Speaker 2: may not have heard it this way. And what we
Speaker 2: want to do is have results fast, and we want
Speaker 2: to have results lasting. So when Bruce came to me,
Speaker 2: I've known him again many for many years, and he
Speaker 2: came to me with the gut connection to menopause menopause,
Speaker 2: I thought, that's it. We have to start there. It's foundational.
Speaker 2: That's Walk with Wisdom. You may have heard the terms,
Speaker 2: but you may not have heard it just this way.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much for joining us this week. I
Speaker 2: invite you to come back next week four pm Eastern,
Speaker 2: one pm PSD, and Bruce will be with us again
Speaker 2: next week. Thank you for joining us on Walk with Wisdom.
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