Digital Social Hour - Optimize Hormones to Thrive After 35 (It’s Easier Than You Think) | Dr. Christine Boev DSH #1160

Episode Date: February 4, 2025

Unlock the secrets to thriving after 35 with Dr. Christine in this must-watch episode of the Digital Social Hour! Whether you're navigating menopause, looking to boost your energy, or optimize your hormones, Dr. Christine shares expert tips that will change the way you approach aging. From debunking myths about hormone replacement therapy to practical lifestyle hacks like strength training, infrared saunas, and gut health strategies, this episode is packed with actionable insights you can apply today. Discover how your hormones impact your mood, relationships, and overall well-being—and why taking control can help you feel better than ever at any age. Plus, learn how to clean up your diet, manage stress, and even tackle surprising topics like cold plunges and visceral fat. Don’t miss out on this empowering conversation that’s all about helping YOU thrive, not just survive! Watch now and subscribe for more insider secrets. Hit that subscribe button and stay tuned for more eye-opening episodes on the Digital Social Hour with Sean Kelly! #dhea #menopause #estrogendominance #antiaging #hormonetherapy CHAPTERS: 00:00 - Intro 00:35 - Hormones Overview and Imbalances 06:00 - Sponsored by Specialized Recruiting Group 06:49 - Hormone Testing: When and Why 07:55 - Average Testosterone Levels Explained 10:00 - Benefits of Infrared Saunas for Health 10:57 - Cold Plunging: Benefits and Tips 11:42 - Understanding Visceral Fat 13:38 - Effects of Nicotine on Health 15:00 - Marijuana and Its Health Implications 16:54 - Impact of Sports on Well-being 20:14 - Importance of Mobility in Daily Life 23:10 - Benefits of a Parasite Cleanse 23:50 - Individualized Health Prescriptions 25:57 - Feeling Better at 50 vs. 30 26:58 - Importance of Gut Health in Wellness 28:35 - Fasting: Benefits and Practices 29:40 - Finding Dr. Christine's Resources APPLY TO BE ON THE PODCAST: https://www.digitalsocialhour.com/application BUSINESS INQUIRIES/SPONSORS: [e-mail] GUEST: Dr. Christine Boev https://www.instagram.com/drchristineboev/ SPONSORS: Specialized Recruiting Group: https://www.srgpros.com/ LISTEN ON: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/digital-social-hour/id1676846015 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5Jn7LXarRlI8Hc0GtTn759 Sean Kelly Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/seanmikekelly/

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All right guys, Dr. Christine here and we are in Vegas. First time doing a podcast in Vegas for you. It is, but I get to do it with you. So thank you so much for having me. Yeah, I'm honored. How's the trip and treating you? Oh, it's been amazing. We had smooth travels.

We've got a great hotel. We're going to hang out and gamble. Nice. What's your game? Blackjack. Okay. That's one of the best ones to play statistically. I don't follow any of the rules.

Oh, you don't follow the book? No, so last night I was doubling down on 11 when the dealer had whatever, and I'm like, why wouldn't you double down on 11? I'm probably gonna get a 10. And it worked every time. Wow. It did.

Sometimes the people at your table get upset when you don't follow the book. I know, but luckily it was just my husband and I, and a very lovely dealer, so it was awesome. I love it. What else have you been up to lately? You know, just working really hard. Um, I'm a full-time professor, so I teach nurse practitioner students, pathophysiology.

So that's a big part of my life. And then I coach women on how to be healthy as they age and especially as they go through menopause. So that's been a big part of my work, is trying to help people not only survive during changes as you get older, but to really thrive, because there's a lot of negative that goes along with it. And there's so much positive that can be had.

Yeah, because the mental side of menopause must be really tough on women, right? It really is. It's the depression, the brain fog. You feel like you're a psychopath half of the time because your hormones are changing so much. And it not only affects you and your livelihood and your work, but it also affects

your relationships. And that's something I'm seeing a lot of with my clients and people I talk to is the changes in their hormones are impacting their desire for intimacy, their desire to be close, to have healthy sexual relations with their partners. And the consequences can really be devastating. So I'm really helping women to navigate through that

so that they can have strong, healthy, intimate relationships. Right, because a woman's hormone cycle is a full month, right? It's changing every day. Well, a woman's, yes, their menstrual cycle is, but once you turn 35, you're really starting down that pathway of perimenopause, which means the amount of estrogen that you make goes down

and estrogen is your dominant intimacy hormone. So once you turn 35, that starts to change and it impacts you in kind of a negative way if you don't incorporate lifestyle changes that are going to optimize your hormones. And so, and then once you're in full-blown menopause, you don't make any estrogen. Wow. It's horrible.

I didn't know that. Right. So, and there's, you know, a little bit of a backstory. There was a big study that was done in the early 2000s called the Women's Health Initiative. And it was a very flawed study. Everybody scientifically in the community has been like, wow, I can't believe they did that. But the sample was women predominantly older, 60s, 70s.

And they were giving them estrogen derived from horse urine. Whoa. Yeah. Well, guess what? A bunch of people got cancer and got really, really sick. And this went all over media, the television news, and it scared the crap out of women. And so pre-women's health initiative, 40% of women were on some sort of hormone replacement therapy.

Now, because of the women's health initiative, 1.8% of menopausal women are on hormone replacement. Wow. Even though we know, based on the research, it's safe. It is safe to supplement. And it's important so that you feel like yourself again, like you feel like a human again. So it's been really a disservice to women

that hormonal replacement therapy has been villainized. And even to this day, it's hard to get prescriptions for it. So- Yeah, it's like looked down on, right? It's looked down on, oh my gosh, I'm gonna get cancer, I'm gonna to get cancer. I'm going to have a stroke when in fact, what we know is it protects your heart.

It protects your brain and it has anti-aging potential. So I think that is something, you know, being on this sort of podcast, people need to understand that hormone replacement is actually incredibly beneficial. Yeah. Is that the only way to get your estrogen levels back to normal once you're a certain age? No, and there's a lot of other ways.

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So I think the earlier you get your hormones checked, the better. So you mentioned that you had your hormones checked when you were much younger because you were feeling sluggish. So if you notice any changes in your libido, in your energy levels, go ahead and get them checked because women's estrogen level starts to decrease when they're 35. And that's a lot sooner than people think. Some women are like, I'm going to hold off on having kids till I'm in my late 30s, but by then,

their reproductive hormones have really changed. So it's really better to be proactive when it comes to understanding what's going on with your own hormones and to get a baseline, right? So if you were 500 when you were 19, then that's your baseline. How can we work to increase your endogenous testosterone that your body makes? And there's lots of really easy ways to do that. But if you don't know there's a problem, then you don't know how to fix it. Right. And when it comes to testosterone levels,

you said it's also important for women to have decent levels too, right? Yeah. So testosterone is just as important for women as it is for men. Although our levels are a lot lower because I don't want to have like chin hair or in like a big jaw. But I started doing testosterone replacement

probably five years ago. I do a cream and I put it behind my kneecaps and I get my levels checked every six months. And I like to be in the 70s. That's where I look and feel my best. I have the best clarity in my mind. I feel like it helps with developing lean skeletal muscle mass, decreasing body fat percentage and really just overall feeling on and that's so important.

Yeah, you probably have hundreds of clients. Where are you seeing their testosterone and estrogen levels on average? Are they not enough or too high or? They're pitiful. Honestly, once people come to me, their testosterone and estrogen levels are so low and they're feeling like a shell of themselves.

So it's almost like you're starting over. It's not standard practice to go at the age of 30 and say, hey, I wonder what my testosterone is. It needs to be, and this is a whole cultural shift of really taking proactive care of our health and understanding where we're at. Right, and with our parents' generation and grandparents, they weren't dealing with this as much, right?

Right, so if you looked at your grandfather's testosterone, he was probably easily 12, 1500, right? Because he was probably out working, had normal circadian rhythms, wasn't eating a bunch of ultra-processed foods, and didn't have all of the plastics and things in our environment that are absolutely crushing us. Now, because of our environment

and the amount of endocrine disruptors, we're in big trouble as a society. So men are walking around, they call it hypogonadism. That's like the fancy word for low testosterone. And it's really epidemic in terms of what's happening to men in this country. Y'all are a lot more feminine than you used to be, right? And so we're dealing with erectile dysfunction. We're dealing with low sex drives. We're dealing with man-bobs and man-boobs and none of that is okay.

Yeah, that must be frustrating for your woman clients. I'm sure they're complaining about that. Well, it depends, right? If you're a woman who wants to be in charge, then this works out really well. But in my opinion, that's not how it's supposed to be. Right? I want my man to be my provider and my protector. If a lion comes in, I want you to go kick its ass. I don't want that kind of man in my life.

And our son is not going to be like that. What's your son's testosterone level? I don't know, but it's probably pretty high. He's 20. So it's probably pretty high. He's 20. Okay. So it's probably pretty high. He's very muscular. He works out every day. So my assumption is that it's pretty high.

Yeah. Yeah. The working out and sauna helped me probably get mine up a hundred points, you know? Yeah. Do you do infrared? Yeah. I do infrared five days a week. I haven't measured since I started doing infrared, but that might've done another boost or whatever. Yeah. So I, we have an infrared sauna in our house and I am in that thing every single day.

It gets up to 170 degrees for 30 minutes and the detoxification, the mental health, the clarity of your skin, and it decreases your blood pressure. To me, that is a game changer. You know, when you do extremes of heat and cold, that is very helpful in helping produce good stress in your body. So cold plunging is another temp extreme that I'm a big fan of. There's some controversy on should you cold plunge before or after your workouts,

but truthfully, if you just do it once a day, you're in much better shape than if you don't at all. Really? So I might have to incorporate that. Oh, absolutely. 100%. I got a pool at home. I could just jump in there in the wintertime.

You could. It's freezing these days. We live on a lake and I cold plunge in the lake. And it's amazing. It's God's cold plunge. Wow. Okay. I'm all about data. So I'll try it and I'll measure my results and see if there's a difference.

You know, well, they say that you shouldn't cold plunge right after a workout. So the best thing is like first thing in the morning and it wakes you up. It, the benefits are crazy. It helps with brown fat, which is good fat. It's thermogenic fat in your body. So there's a lot of great science around cold plunging. Interesting. I've never heard of brown fat. Oh yeah. You want that.

You want brown fat. White fat is the fat that makes you really sick. And that's, we gotta talk about this because I'm actually skinny like appearance wise, right? But I got an MRI done. I had visceral fat everywhere. And people don't realize that just because you're skinny doesn't mean you're healthy.

Yeah, you're skinny fat. Yeah. Right. So I had to burn all that off. Yeah. So visceral fat is the fat around your organs, around your pancreas, your liver, your small intestines, and it releases substances that cause heart disease. So even though you're not fat, you're still at higher risk for atherosclerosis,

which is when you've got plaque that builds up around your arteries that can kill you. So you want to be very vigilant about getting rid of that. Yeah. But sauna's great, cold plunging is great, and working out. Yeah, I'm proud to say I was able to get rid of most of it because I just got a Prunuvo scan done a month ago. And it was pretty much all gone, but it took about a year of just, yeah, hard work. What did you do besides sauna? Sauna, cardio, basketball leagues. I'm in two leagues. So that's, I guess, technically a HIIT workout.

And then I tried yoga. I don't know if that helped, but just diet mainly, I'd say. Mm-hmm. I stopped eating out as much because I love food. Yeah. I love restaurants. Being in Vegas, it's so tempting to just eat out all the time. And even when I do eat now, I cut out the seed oils.

Oh. I tell them not to use them. I was at a five-star steakhouse last night. I don't want to call them out, but I asked what you use. They're like canola oil. They spray it on the bread. They spray it on everything. I was like, this is a five-star steakhouse. But the fact that you knew to ask about canola oil

is really a testament to the knowledge that we're sharing, right? Because 20 years ago nobody talked about canola oil or inflammatory omega-6 seed oils, but truthfully if it's not olive oil or coconut oil or avocado oil you should not put it in your body. And then you heat it in a fryer to 150 degrees, oh my god, that fries the inside of the lining of your arteries destroys it and so it's bad enough to have the seed oil, but you you heat that stuff up and you are asking for major major problems Wow. Yeah, there's that viral clip of Dave Asprey's

He's like would you rather eat a french fry or smoke a cigarette? Yeah, he said cigarette cigarette any day right because it's it's more temporary Yeah, and there's some new it's more temporary. Yeah. And there's some new studies on nicotine. This is kind of controversial, but it's actually not that bad for you. Yeah, they call nicotine a nootropic, a smart drug. What worries me is the kids with the Zin

and they're in their system constantly where that didn't used to be a thing. So I think if there's a safe way to microdose nicotine, then you would be in better shape. The Zin, it worries me a little bit. It's pretty gross too. Yeah. Putting that stuff on your gums.

Yeah, it can't be good for you. But we don't know, cause it's so new, right? That's the thing with health, right? And the FDA is not quick enough to adapt. Yeah, exactly. Like they, I remember when jewels were popular when I was in high school, but it took them like, I don't know,

two, three years to fan them. Yeah, the mango flavor and bubble gum. By then the damage was already done. There was people dying. Crazy. All the lung issues. I mean, that can't be good for your lungs. No, I've actually said point blank to our children.

I would much rather you roll a joint with actual marijuana than vape. If you had to much rather you roll a joint with actual marijuana than vape. Like if you had to choose, just roll the joint. I love it. Are you anti marijuana? Because it's legal in Cali, right? So I live in New York and it's legal and I'm not anti marijuana.

I think you've got to know why you're taking it. Are you taking it to escape a reality that you've created for yourself that you hate, or do you just need something to take the edge off? But I think it's okay. I don't have any major issues with it. But for a lot of my clients, they'll do edibles and then they'll go raid the pantry. So that to me isn't helpful, you know?

So it depends on how you receive the drug. Yeah, edibles are a whole nother game. Oh. Oh. Oh man, I got some nasty edible stories. I thought I was going to die. I believe it, I believe it. But there's a lot of interesting, you know, things with psilocybin and psychedelics and microdosing

in order to try to, you know, escape and get rid of like PTSD and depression. And so the research and there's more funding around that. So that's really exciting. I'm a fan of microdosing psilocybin. Yeah, I have not tried it. The only time I was in college on a pizza and it did not go well.

On a pizza. I would never do it. It was horrible. That sounds weird on a pizza. It was awful, yeah. You ate the whole thing. I don't know what I ate. It was so bad and I was like, I will never do this again.

So perhaps if it was, yeah, and this was in the 90s, Sean. The 90s was a different time. I did in college too, but you know, that's different. The people you were with is important. Yes, I agree. I agree. You might've been around some bad energy or something. It was, and I just wanted it to go away and it didn't and it was horrible.

Damn one and done huh? Is it? Well microdosing you don't have any bad feelings or anything. Right so I would try it. I would try it if it was like somebody was like okay you need this dose and this you know and it's safe and that's what is exactly in there versus whatever the heck was on that pizza. Absolutely. I didn't know weed was legal in New York now. Wow. Oh yeah. When I was

growing up in Jersey it was super run down upon. Yeah they're finally opening dispensaries in New York. Very highly regulated tax you know. It's New York. But yeah it's very common. Is that where you teach your students too in New York? I do. Nice. Is the university up by you? Yep out of Rochester New York. Okay. Is the university up by you? Yep. Out of Rochester, New York. Okay. Is that upstate? Upstate, yeah. Good old upstate.

Beautiful out there. Go Buffalo Bills. Oh, that game yesterday. Did you see it in the snow? Of course I did. Holy crap. Yeah. We're huge fans. I can't believe they play in that.

My friend was trying to fly in, the whole flight got canceled. Oh really? He was trying to fly in for the game. Yeah. They had three to four feet. And we live an hour from there and we had nothing. Whoa. Like that's upstate New York for you.

You guess, any snow at all? We do, but Buffalo for some reason, because of Lake Erie, it just dumps right there. And for some reason it dumps right on Orchard Park, where the Bill Stadium is. And so this happens every year. It's absolutely insane. You think they would cancel the game though? No

No, they have people who volunteer they show up with their shovel They pay him 20 bucks an hour and they shoveled the what? Oh, yeah It's a thing. It's a thing. Bill's Mafia, right? Bill's Mafia. They're known to be like the craziest fans We're the we're the most loyal fans because we've been so bad for so long and we've never won a Super Bowl that like it's our time. This is our time. I hope you get one. You've been close. Yeah. You guys always make the playoffs recently at least and then I don't know first second round.

Stupid Chiefs. The Chiefs. Oh man, the Chiefs Raiders game. I was watching. You watch every game? Yes. And... That was crazy. They blew it. Fumble. Yeah. All they watching. You watch every game? Yeah, yes. And, um. That was crazy. They blew it. Fumble.

Yeah. All they needed was a field goal and they fumbled it. I know. Like that's mind blowing. I've never seen a game end like that. It was so anticlimactic. It really was. And the coach didn't get fired.

He should be soon. Interesting. Very soon. I didn't know you'd become sports. Oh. Football, basketball. Only football, not basketball. All in football.

Sorry, just football. Only football. Sorry. Just football. I am pretty sure, and my kids will say this, that I was part of the NFL in a past life. Or maybe I was. They're like, Mom, you need to be a ref in the NFL. I'm like, well, I think it's a little bit more complicated than that. But no, I am passionate about the Buffalo Bills.

Wow. Your parents must have been big fans and they pass it down to you. Yeah. My dad is a Dallas Cowboys fan. Oh I know they're everywhere. I know bless his heart. They're in Jersey, too Dallas they're everywhere. It's crazy. I know I remember growing up in Jersey You like yo, you should be a Giants fan or just fan. Why are you a Cowboys fan in New Jersey? Yeah There's only one New York team and it's the Buffalo Bills. You got the Yankees too Yeah, you don't like baseball? Too slow?

Not a big fan. It's, yeah, just doesn't catch my interest. La Crosse is fun. Yeah, but they don't really show it anywhere. Yeah, it's not a thing, but it's fun to watch. Yeah. Ice hockey's fun to watch in person, but not on TV. You can't even see it.

I love sports. I was a springboard diver in high school and in college. And so that's where, you know, I kind of got my passion for athletics. And I always identify myself like I am an athlete. And I hope to always do that, to be able to play sports with the kids and the grandkids and roll around and stay active and not really have any physical limitations. You mentioned yoga earlier. I think yoga is amazing.

Like it's such a great way to improve your mobility. You probably follow Peter Attia. He talks about the Centurion Olympics. And as you get older, just the ability to lay down and get up without any assistance is an important, you know, measurement of health or like grip strength, hanging from a bar. If you're a female, try it.

Male, 60 seconds, you should be able to just hang. Really? And that is a big longevity indicator. So that's a long time, 60 seconds. 60 seconds is a lot. 30 seconds is a lot too. You'd be surprised. I'm gonna test it tonight.

I got a pull-up bar at home. I just bought one because I have arthritis in my back actually. Oh really? I found out on the Peruvian scan. Yeah. Interesting. Back and neck. 27.

I have scoliosis, so that could have played a role. And my posture's always been, I slouch. So I got that bar to start hanging every day. Yeah, and they also have that inversion table where you can hang upside down and it pulls your vertebrae. Those are really fun too. That sounds good. But you'll have to message me let me know how long you got. Yeah 60 seconds.

60 seconds. Wow I didn't know that was the norm for men. That's the that's kind of the bottom. I couldn't do a pull-up all of high school. Really? How was that week? I was a twig. It was 140 pounds. Yeah a lot of females can't do pull-, but it's really important that you keep working. When I started really lifting, I could not do a pull up.

And now I can do 10. And I think that's pretty good. You know, to unassisted, 10 pull ups. So my goal is always to just up it a little bit more. And again, I don't believe in going backwards as you get older. You can just keep moving forward. Or dips, unassisted dips.

I always try to like up my number a little bit. Push-ups. My big thing is handstand push-ups. I love handstand push-ups. How many push-ups can you do? Probably 10, but my feet are kind of like, I'm not unassisted. You know what I mean?

So I'm like up against a door or a wall. But still, they're pretty hard. And that's yoga. Being able to do back bends and things like that. Keeping the mobility up will keep you young as you get older. That's impressive. I've never done a handstand pushup. We'll have to do it after this and film it.

Oh, let's do it. I'll do it with you against the wall. Okay, deal. I think I got you beat on regular pushups and sit ups. I hope so. But not pull ups. You got me beat on pull ups. Yeah. So I got some work to do. But I got you beat on regular push-ups and sit-ups. I hope so but not pull-ups You got me beat on pull-ups. Yeah, I got some work to do but I got long arms So I feel like because I've always had trouble benching because how much distance

Kind of holds me back. Yeah, but your height is a superpower. It's been basketball. Yeah and most sports I'd say it is Yeah, and your bone strength Arthritis is interesting. I don't know why you have that. Yeah. But that's inflammation. So it could be diet related as well. So as you clean up your diet, spend more time in the sauna, I think you might see that that starts to subside as well. I hope so. I got the infrared like a month ago. I'm going to do that. And I'm taking a parasite cleanse tonight. Ooh, what is that? What are you taking? I just got sent one. All sorts of natural herbs. Shout out to Chris Motley.

He's been on the show three times. He sent me a bunch of stuff. Cool. I'll be curious to see what comes out. I know. Well, every time I take them every year kind of, but anytime I feel like I'm craving sugar more than normal, I start taking one.

Cause I know that's a parasite thing. Yeah. Like people that have a sweet tooth, that's usually like a parasite thing. I think 94% of people have parasites, something ridiculous. Yeah, and that's what that Viome test will tell you as well. If there's any like bacteria, like what organisms are living in your gut.

Like you literally take a little scoop of your poop, you send it in the mail. It's crazy. That is crazy. The data that you get back is- I need to take that. Like in things that I should eat are not things that you should eat. Like raspberries is one of my super foods where yours might be

artichokes like and there's a whole list eat these don't eat these it's it's really fascinating because there's no one size fits all when it comes to gut health everybody's microbiome is different but if you can keep it happy like you won't get sick yeah I got one of those on my dogs. So you pluck their dog hair, you send it to them, they tell you what food they're alerted to. And it was really fascinating. I better do that for Lola. Yeah, they were alerted to like 40 things.

I was like, damn, I used to feed them that. Chicken was one of them. Palm trees, which there's like 40 in my backyard. One of my dogs is alerted to them and he would always itch. But now we know why. Fascinating. So yeah, I got to remember the name of that one. But yeah, those allergy tests are fascinating. Yeah. And I think it's the next kind of frontier of having like individualized prescriptions for

health. You know, what does your body need? What do your cells need in order to function better? Which I love because right now the doctors just follow a checklist. Right. They treat everyone like a system. Right. If a doctor looked at the stuff that I take, the supplements that I take, they'd be like, why? But they're very targeted. You know, I want my mitochondria to function at their highest level. So I take a lot of things that are like cofactors for aerobic respiration like if you ever took a science class you learned about the Krebs cycle and I take certain things that will help those work better

so I take methylene blue every day and that's part of the mitochondrial health and it's like Makes everything work better, you know, the mitochondria are the batteries of your cell if you can get those things You know, the mitochondria are the batteries of your cell. If you can get those things, you know, really firing, everything is going to feel better. Your eyesight's gonna be better. I don't have gray hair. I think part of it is because I take care of my cellular health. And the infrared sauna is amazing for cellular health. It, you know, helps with those heat shock proteins

and getting rid of crap that you accumulate in the environment. It's amazing. That's impressive. Yeah, you said earlier, I think you're 50 now, but you feel better now than you did at 30. Oh, 100%. Which is amazing. Yeah, I mean, when I was 30, again,

I didn't understand what my body needed. I didn't understand from a nutrition standpoint what I needed, I drank way too much. Because I thought that was what people do at the age of 30. And so now that I'm older and wiser, like I know how to take care of my body in a way that feels good and helps me perform. Because at the end of the day,

if you and I aren't performing well and our brain isn't working well, then none of this would be for anything. Yeah, it's exciting. Cause a lot of people fear aging. They fear like their forties and fifties, but you know, you're killing it. Well, it can be scary if you aren't proactive, right?

You know, your hormones change, your gut health changes, you become debilitated. That sucks. Like, I don't want that. I don't want that for myself. I don't want that for my clients. I don't want that for you. I want that for myself. I don't want that for my clients. I don't want that for you. I want to get better as I get older, period.

Yeah, gut health is super important, right? It's everything. It really is. It's your second brain they say. It is, it is 1000%. And so if you can keep your gut healthy, you can keep the rest of your body healthy. Yeah, and right now people's guts are being destroyed

by everything. Well, the ultra processed foods, you know, the chemicals, the glyphosate, it's all absolutely gutting us. Literally gutting us. I love that. Yeah, I had to do a gut detox. Mine was so messed up. Is this in addition to the parasite cleanse? Yeah, it was a different one but I had constipation my whole life so I had to like reset my whole gut. Yeah constipation is a big problem. I had it for years. You're supposed to poop twice a day. Yeah I was doing maybe twice a week yeah three times a week. And what happens is your poop just sits in there and it toxins get emitted into your system and it's really, really bad.

It's like 10 pounds of poop inside the average person, I think. Yeah, absolutely. So doing that to make sure that you're not constipated anymore. And for people that are constipated, an easy way to address that is to make sure you're taking enough magnesium. Magnesium is simple, it's effective, and most people are deficient. So if you just take a magnesium supplement every night, you're gonna poop, you're probably gonna sleep, your bones are gonna be happier. Like that's

kind of a no-brainer. I was deficient in that. I was deficient in zinc, vitamin D, vitamin C, so all the important ones. And then I started fasting and between all that, it went away. Yeah, Are you, do you fast now? I try to intermittent fast. I want to do another three day fast. I haven't done one in a while. Yeah. It's intense. It's tough. But then like after the first 12 hours, you're really not hungry anymore. It's just getting over that initial hump. And then all of a sudden you have this energy that comes out of nowhere and

you have this clarity. You could write a book when you're fasting. It's crazy. Are you big on it? I am. So I don't, I normally stop eating at about eight o'clock at night. And I tell my husband too, like the kitchen's closed. Stay out, right? Cause you gotta digest at night.

And then I wake up in the morning, I'll do coffee. So it's not technically fasting if you're having coffee, but then I work out. I don't normally eat an actual meal till around noon, and I'm just not hungry, and I get my best thinking done in the morning when I don't have any food in my system. And there's a lot to that. The minute I eat something, it's like,

okay, now I've gotta use that energy to digest, and it just slows me down. 100%. So that's how I address it and it works really well and I feel fine. I feel amazing. I love that. Well, Dr. Christine, it's been fun.

Where can people find you and potentially get advice and work with you? Yeah, so Instagram at drchristineboev and then my website is mastermenopause.com. Anybody can message me, send me a direct message and we can hop on a Zoom and I love to problem solve, you know, see you for a good fit. Yeah, yeah, we'll link below. Thanks for coming. Thanks for watching, guys. See you next time. Get ready for Las Vegas style action at BedMGM, the king of online casinos.

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