Realfoodology - Transforming Women's Health with Biohacking + Lunar Connections | Aggie

Episode Date: June 28, 2023

152: I recently had the pleasure of sitting down with my good friend Aggie to discuss her incredible journey of biohacking, veganism, and women's health. As someone who was vegan for eight years, she shares her experience with the diet and the impact it had on her body. Together, we also explore the importance of synchronizing your cycle to the moon and your workouts, and Aggies journey with birth control, fertility, egg freezing, vitality, and acne. Topics Discussed 0:12:19 - Reversing Prediabetes With Consistent Lifestyle Changes 0:17:04 - Recovery for Weight Loss 0:26:01 - Birth Control and Women's Health 0:32:31 - Body Feedback and Biohacking 0:36:16 - Sinking Your Cycle and Workouts 0:41:59 - The Benefits of Cycle Tracking Apps 0:45:38 - Women's Hormone Cycles and the Moon Sponsored By: Honed Supplements livehoned.com  Use code REALFOODOLOGY for 15% off ARMRA Colostrum tryarmra.com/realfoodology enter REALFOODOLOGY to get 15% off your first order. Organifi www.organifi.com/realfoodology Code REALFOODOLOGY gets you 20% Off Check Out Aggie: Instagram Online + Supplements (use code COURNTEY) for a discount Check Out Courtney: Courtney's Instagram: @realfoodology www.realfoodology.com My Immune Supplement by 2x4 Air Dr Air Purifier AquaTru Water Filter EWG Tap Water Database

on today's episode of the real foodology podcast as if the men are the gold standard right as if penis is the gold standard so whenever you talk to women it's like oh it takes so long to come i'm like you mean longer than the full oh men so as if men is the gold standard and women are longer how about maybe women is the gold standard it might take much less time and maybe they should work on you know hi. Hi, friends. Welcome back to another episode of the Real Foodology Podcast. As always, I'm your host, Courtney Swan. And thank you so much for being here today.

Today's episode is a really special one for me. I got to sit down with my good girlfriend, Aggie, who I met through mutual friends here in LA. You guys may follow her already. You may know her from Instagram as Aggie. She was initially known for her travel content on Instagram and more recently has been opening up and sharing about all of her biohacking tips and tricks. She's the host of the podcast Biohacking Bestie. She also just released a line of supplements that are amazing. We talk about those at the very end, so stay tuned if you

guys want to hear more about them. She also just wrote a book that I believe is coming out in the next couple of months, but don't quote me on that. Make sure that you guys are following her along on Instagram so you can stay updated on all of that. She is such a great follow. I love following her. She's such an amazing person. So kindhearted, just really, really in her heart. And she really cares and her passion really shows through in this episode. So I'm really excited for you guys to hear it. We talk about her vegan diet. She was vegan, vegetarian for eight years. I believe it was vegan. We talk about the health effects

and what that really did to her body and her vitality and how she felt. And again, I like to remind people of this, that this is her own experience. She and I speak both to our own experiences, being vegetarian and vegan, but it is not meant to shame anyone. And if you're listening and you eat that diet, you live that lifestyle and you feel great and you're thriving, that's all that really matters. So we don't share

this to make anyone feel bad. We just share this to share experience in case someone is struggling and maybe they can resonate with the story and hopefully find some peace and resolve in whatever they're struggling with. So we talk about that. We also talk about syncing your cycle to the moon and syncing your cycle to your workouts. We also talk about birth control, her journey and coming off of birth control, what peptides she's taking for fertility. We also talk about egg freezing and her thoughts about egg freezing and overall vitality. Oh, and her acne journey too, which was really fascinating. So we covered a lot of ground in this episode

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I fell in love with you. And then I saw your account. I was like, oh my God, she's so cool. Like, I love you. Thank you. Same. I know we just randomly met at a friend's birthday and I was like, God, I just love her energy. She's so cool. And then same, I started following you on Instagram and I was like, yes, she's talking about all this stuff that I love to talk about, all the practices that I do in my everyday life. You're very big on biohacking and I want to like dive into all that. Yeah, let's do it. I'm so excited. Okay. So first of all, can you tell my audience a little bit about what was your journey and how did you get into biohacking? How did you discover all this? Yeah. So I was a travel influencer and a vegan for nine

years and then all of a sudden it's never really all of a sudden let's be honest both 2019 or 2018 and I went on a job to Bora Bora and I had this massive cut from coral and it didn't want to heal and it's been weeks and I had an upcoming trip trip to India and one day stop over at home in LA where I live. And I was like, I'll just go quickly to a doctor because it's really just getting infected and something is up. So I go there and he's like, I've never seen anybody heal so bad. Like, what's up? Like you're either cortisol levels off the roof or you have diabetes. I'm like, no, I don't eat any sweets. I'll be totally fine. So I don't know what's going on, but we need to fix it because I have a trip tomorrow. And so he ran my blood work and he said like, no, you're pre-diabetic. I'm like, it's impossible.

I'm 95 pounds. Like 95 pounds was my weight. I was like, there's no way I can be diabetic. Like I eat super healthy, but obviously as someone who is avoiding fat on a vegan diet, I basically ate a lot of sugar or hidden sugar that I didn't realize. And so, yeah, he's like, my dad had diabetes, so I obviously thought I would do anything possible to not get diabetes. And all of a sudden, here I am being told that I'm pre-diabetic. So obviously that didn't really convince me to change my diet too much. I was like, I'll just go even more raw vegan and eat even healthier.

But then my health issues started. And it started with me losing my hair in patches. You know, you can call it alopecia. You can call it just balding. But it was whatever it was, it was just making me feel super self-conscious. I had cystic acne all over my face. I had brain fog. I had chronic fatigue.

I put on a lot of weight, and I feel like I have been robbed of who I was in general. I was like, this is not the girl that I am. I'm energetic. I'm playful general I was like this is not the girl that I am I'm energetic I'm playful I'm fun and all of a sudden I'm like this was just not reflected at all in my energy levels and I was like I would I'd like to get myself back one way or another and I was listening to Dave Asprey and he's like you know you have to eat meat I'm like oh fuck the vespry I'll do anything but eat meat so I did that and it was like it was during the pandemic when I was like I'll start with beef organs being inspired by the work of Weston Price by the way he's like a dentist from the 1920s and 30s who was traveling around the world doing research on what's working what's not

working for a lot of people around the world and And so he's like, just start with beef organs and like organs in general. And I started that. It was absolutely awful. But then I started introducing and incorporating other principles of biohacking. And luckily, because of my audience and because of my passion,

I was able to connect with like the top experts in the world. And yeah, I had the unfair advantage of learning from the best directly in person. And so that has helped me really gain my health, get my health back and my vitality and my life force, my chi, my life force energy. And now I basically help women do the same. So I have, I'm still traveling, but my main focus is on helping women get into biohacking and off mainstream starvation diets that is keeping women small. Oh, that's so amazing. I love your story so much. I also love that you referenced Weston A. Price. I'm a huge fan of his work as well. He's done a lot of amazing things for

the health community and really helping people understand and decipher what really truly we need to be eating to be healthy. Yeah. And I love that he says there's not a single diet that's going to work for you. These diets all make sense depending on where you live, but eat real food. There's not a single diet that's fully vegan out there. And so it was really eye-opening. Yeah, and that's really fascinating. And this is something I think is really important for people to hear because people don't often think about this, but when you're eating a vegetarian or vegan diet,

primarily you're eating carbohydrates. Even the protein sources that people are eating, legumes, all the different beans like tofu, it still is pretty carbohydrate heavy. carbohydrates. What do they do? They convert sugar to the body. So no wonder you were having, you know, pre-diabetic, pre-diabetes. I also see this too with a lot of women with PCOS, we're seeing high incidences of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. It's all, it's all connected. Yeah. And my super dark circles that like just didn't make any sense. And they were all connected to my liver that was just working too hard. And so I did, you know, I wasn't really drinking, but I had the, like the non-alcoholic fatty liver, like early stages.

Man. Well, I'm so glad. So have you since reversed that or what? Absolutely. And so my fasting glucose is extremely good and just, you know, I wear the glucose monitor every six months. I don't wear it every day. I think it just makes you, makes me, like it's just projecting on other people, makes me too obsessed about like glucose in general. I think it's just like one of the markers of your health, not the marker. And I think it's just like, yes, it's been super popular. Um, thanks to Glucose Goddess. And I think it's, it's very important marker, but again, it's not the only marker of your health. And so sometimes you just get a little bit too obsessed when you keep checking and it's like, Oh, this

went up, this went down, but I do it every six months. And every six months, it's just a little bit more stable, a little bit more, um, a little lower six months and every six months it's just a little bit more stable a little bit more um a little lower is my fasting glucose and it's just like just for anyone listening uh thinking that oh no I have pre-diabetes like I'll never heal myself dang you well it's taken me three three years of consistent healthy diet and detoxing, but I'm back to normal. That's incredible. The CGMs, I think I tell people they're really great for a starting point because you can see in real time what foods are affecting you and what better things you can do as far as food combining goes, et cetera. And then you use that as a blueprint, but you don't need to be obsessively checking on it all the time you definitely don't need to worry i think it's super helpful and you know you can check your favorite

foods and your favorite um like restaurants you know like i had this my favorite you know whilst it was vegan was this pesto like gluten-free sandwich i was like great it's gluten-free it's good to be like it's like no and massive sugar spike i'm like fuck something's wrong i think my uh my readers are like i came back and it was like again and again. I'm like, okay, I get it. There's nothing I can do. You're like, I hear you, damn it. So what practices are you doing now

that you've really seen a difference in your health and your skin? And you were talking about your hair falling out. What have you been doing that's made a huge difference? Oh my God. Where do I start? Right from the beginning. I think the number one step for anyone or for myself was to understand what's going on, which is like testing yourself. I did a hair metal analysis, so checked my heavy metals, which were off the roof. And so many like mercury from having fish here and there, God knows from what. There were so many heavy metals that were off the charts.

It was really... I wonder why that is. Were you doing a lot of vegan protein powders? Because those are really notorious for being high in heavy metals. That would probably make a lot of sense. Because I had a lot of lead in me, which is like random. But I did. And so starting with that, then starting with real food,

I started lifting weights and sweating much more, which I think was really important for me to detoxify my body. I think the missing link that whenever I work with women is just understanding cortisol more. And I think that's the biggest difference between mainstream starvation diets and biohacking because mainstream starvation diets they all kind of go along the lines of like eat less aka be in calorie deficit and work out more and you'll be fine and if it's not working for you not trying hard enough you're probably cheating where's that chocolate I know what you're doing. Whereas in fact, biohacking understands like, well, no, like you need to detoxify your body. You need to understand like, what hormone disruptors are you exposing yourself to? Like whether it's the store receipt

that I know you also share with your audience, whether it's drinking from plastic bottles and you know, you have crazy levels of estrogen that your body isn't able to metabolize, right? Because your estrogen metabolizes in liver and gut. And so if you're struggling with the two, then obviously you'll just have, that will be a massive disruptor. And then third, cortisol. And it's super interesting. I love the work. Actually, I'm looking at the book right now, The Hormone Fix, explains about the hierarchy of hormones and how the number one hormone is oxytocin. It actually overrides all the other hormones. Then we have cortisol and only then sex hormones. So it's almost like your oxytocin will override cortisol and cortisol will override sex hormones,

which means that if you're stressed, it doesn't matter your insulin, you can eat, I guess, food that doesn't spike your glucose in theory, but if you have high cortisol levels, it will. And I have this incredible client that i have worked with uh and we have tried everything right and she said like she was um 40 45 pounds overweight and um so she was like about 200 pounds and she's like i've tried everything I work out all the time I barely eat lettuce you know and I there's nothing that I can eat less to to to see the results and one of the things she did with Sally was like I was like why don't you just do nothing for one hour a day no phone no working out and let's just try to see anything that would just make you happy, that would raise your oxytocin levels,

which is from hugging, from snuggling with a pet, and just lower down your cortisol. And she lost 25 pounds in three months from doing less, not more. So I think we are just beginning to understand that recovery is so important. I think biohacking kind of like understands that, but like incorporating that more for a lot of women. So that's why there's no like one size fits all. Cause for me, it might be a harder workout for me to see the results, but for someone else might be actually doing less. I'm one of those people doing less actually has a better impact on my body overall.

Oh, wow. Yeah. I have a similar story. So when you were telling this, I was like, oh my God, yes, I can still relate to this. I, for the longest time was doing soul cycle, like really intense workouts, berries. I would sometimes do two soul cycle classes in one day and I was never taking a break. I was going seven days a week. And by the end of it, I was so fatigued. I also like, I had kind of this just like bloating, like tire around my stomach that no matter what I did, I could not get rid of it. And I was eating so healthy and I was like, what am I doing? I'm sometimes working out two times a day. Like, why can't I get rid of this excess? Just like bloat. Like I was just

bloated all the time. Well, I finally hit a breaking point and it was kind of a combination of intuition and just so much fatigue that I could not keep doing this anymore. And I finally was like, no more. I'm going to challenge myself to just hike and just walk around my neighborhood for like a month and see what happens. I mean, all that bloating went away. I completely, like I look less inflamed. I just looked inflamed during that time. I looked like puffy and inflamed. And I was so worried that it was going to change my body, that I was going to gain all this weight. And then I was just going to feel really bad. And I mean, it honestly changed my life. And it was because I was not stressing, you know,

like these really hard, intense workouts actually create a lot of stress on our body and they release cortisol. And cortisol is one of the biggest reasons why we get that bloating and that kind of like tire around our stomachs. Yeah. And again, everything, it's this difference between the mainstream diets and biohacking. Because mainstream assumes, hey, if something is good for you, more of that is even better. And biohacking is like, no, if something is good for you, perhaps you don't need anymore. Right? And so working out is great.

A lot of working out combined with fasting, which is being more and more popular, combined with a very stressful job. You're doing a cold planche. You're doing sauna, all of these things are raising your cortisol. And so when you combine too many of them, like too much of a good thing is not a good thing. It's a bad thing. So just understanding that is actually really important. Yeah. Yeah. I'm so glad that you brought that up. So you talk a lot. I've seen a lot of this in your stories recently. You talk about your journey with acne and how you cleared your skin. Can we talk about, I know a lot, I've seen a lot of this on your stories recently. You talk about your journey with acne and how you cleared your skin. Can we talk about, I know a lot of it was, well, I'll just let you share, but I feel like a lot of it was not being vegan anymore too, right?

Unfortunately, yes. And again, like I totally understand if someone is still vegan and it's working for you. Awesome. It just wasn't working for me. It did at the beginning. And then it kind of like after three or four years um and just ended up you know whether it was acne I also um got off birth control at the same time so it's just like about that too yeah so I would love to talk about that uh and so just realizing that between the two I was yeah my body was really

struggling and and we often think of acne as well something is wrong with my skin but at the end of the day it's I don't want to say it's never about the skin because yes you need to cleanse and whatnot but it's also understanding that um a big part of your skin is just like manifesting what's going on on the inside And so regulating your hormones would be a great first step. And I am yet to meet a woman who has like perfect hormones and balance and doesn't have glucose spikes and doesn't eat sugar and still struggles with acne. It's true. There's a huge connection between what we're putting in our body. And like you said, it quite literally manifests on our skin. And I had a similar story. I had cystic acne. I had never struggled with acne until I went vegetarian.

And I had the craziest cystic acne that would not go away for four years. And the only reason it went away was when I started eating meat again. And I'm very careful every time I talk about this subject on my podcast, I always like to say that I want to be incredibly sensitive and honor the people that are vegetarian and it's working for them. I just like to talk about this and be open and honest about it because this is my journey and it was your journey too. And if someone's really struggling and they feel like they're trying everything, but they have not been able to figure it out yet, this might be the missing puzzle piece. Yeah. And I know, you know, one of my closest friends, she's been struggling with cancer for a very long time. And, you know,

she's like, I'm ready to try anything. I'm like, well, can you try eating meat? And, you know, and she's like, no, no, no, but I'm not ready for that. And I'm like, it's, it's literally your life against someone else, like another animal. But like, we just discussed on my podcast that there is no bloodless diet and ultimately vegan diet isn't bloodless either. Yeah, exactly. Modern farming, unfortunately, kills a lot of, well, we know that it kills a lot of bees from the pesticides.

Like almonds are notorious. That your vegan almond milk has a lot of bees every year. We need bees in order to pollinate 90% of our produce section. And you think about all the animals that get stuck in the tilling machines and the gophers and the snakes and they're uprooting their entire

ecosystem. And as a result, a lot of animals die for it, you know? So unfortunately, we just have to make peace with the fact that if we're going to live on this planet, that death is also part of life. Yeah. Yeah. 100%. Yeah. Okay. So I want to talk about your journey with being on birth control and then coming off of it and learning about your cycle and sinking and let's talk about that. Yeah. Oh my God. Amazing.

I think it's just like, again, like what you're doing with food and just being like a rebel and finding out your own way. I feel like this is another level of what we can do as women is to sink our cycle. And so I was on birth control. I always treated period as something that was just super annoying and embarrassing. And I just, just like grossed out about it. I almost would like apologize to my boyfriend. I'm like, I'm sorry, I'm on my period. Like, oh, like, let me like, make sure like no one gets to see it in this house. It was just like, I'll put a tarp down. Yeah. No, as in like, you know, like in the bathroom, it was just like all of like,

it was just like such a big embarrassment about that part of me. And it wasn't never a celebration was never something that I was just like super proud of. Um, and so when I got an opportunity to be on birth control, which I didn't get on for quite late in my life, but I was like, I felt like a real woman. I was like, Oh, I'm on birth control. And now I don't get to this fucking period. I can like, just do it. So like, I barely like have any like spotting, which by the way, it's not period, but like, it's like a spotting. And so I was like, super happy. I was like, this is it. I was like born to like, I was like the perfect candidate. I was like, fuck this period thing. And so, you know, I wasn't very regular. And then I got really depressed um and so I

then stopped and I did it again and it's like every time I would get on birth control I would just feel very uh withdrawn and yeah I feel like it was robbing me out of my um life force energy I would question who I was I really wasn't like fully myself um and I think a lot of issues that I had were connected to my birth control whether it was my acne putting on weight um and whatnot and I I still remember it was like a couple of days after my boyfriend's birthday and I I said to him like I don't think I want to live I have I haven't like I didn't really feel like I want to live anymore for like and I felt that for months and And he's like, you must be joking. You have the most incredible life.

I'm like, I know, but it's like, what's the point? Like, I couldn't understand. Like, it was just really depressing. I was like, I said to him, I would love to try to get off birth control and see if there's a connection. And so I did. And yeah, I got my life back.

And so I understand it might not be the reality for a lot of women. But sadly, if you watch the business of birth control by our friend Rikki Lake, who we love. We love her. Love you, Rikki. And it just explains the incredible impact that birth control has on us as women. And so when I started doing my biohacking courses for women and coaching women it was just very clear that it's one of the things that I need to mention that it's yes you can be on birth control when you're biohack but you're gonna get to a point in your biohacking journey that

you're gonna be like fuck I don't know if like how much of an impact it has on me and I think the step number one is why are we on birth control? Some people are because of endometriosis, which I 100% totally understand. Would love to invite you to talk to your doctor how we can actually get to the root of it. And I know there's no cure officially for endometriosis, but I also think it's all connected to glucose and insulin and and hormonal

issues um and and the other group of women are there because they want to prevent pregnancy which again it's it's it annoys me that that responsibility is put only on women where where it shouldn't where it shouldn't be only our responsibility to not get pregnant. And I think we just made it a little bit too convenient for men to take all of that responsibility off their shoulders. And it's coming at the expense of our health. What you just mentioned is a very common thing that happens to most women. It's like lockstep. A woman gets put on birth control and then is put on antidepressants soon after because she becomes so depressed. And why have we not been making this connection for women?

I mean, you're so lucky that you were able to make that connection, but a lot of women don't. I have a girlfriend who was on the pill for 10 years. When she finally came off of it, she goes, I had this depression cloud on me for 10 years that I did not even fully understand, like wrap my brain around

until I finally came off the pill. And it was like this cloud, this fog had lifted. It's honestly incredible. And I think what we don't really understand is like, it's basically telling women, basically when you're taking the birth control, you're not ovulating. And no one ever, not a single doctor ever told me what is like, what are the benefits of ovulation? It was always being presented as like, oh, at least you don't get pregnant. Do you want that? Do you want that doctor ever told me what is like what are the benefits of ovulation it was always being presented as like oh at least you don't get pregnant you want that you're going that super dragon you're like oh sure like no side effects I'm like even if you aren't depressed even if you're not suicidal even if you know you're not one of those many women that have died out of you know many from

the complications of birth control uh you're still like, you're guaranteed you're not ovulating. And so what are the benefits of ovulating? Like no one even talks about that. And, you know, from the, it makes our bones stronger. It helps our metabolism when we ovulate. It boosts our insulin sensitivity. It makes us, helps us with mental clarity also women that are ovulating are considered more attractive by men and so they have done studies between women that were on birth control and women that are ovulating and 100 times like 100 all the women that were ovulating were considered more attractive to men regardless of what they look like and they are able to pick up on the pheromones and hence being able to tell if the men is the right partner for them like these are some crazy

things these are just ovulation so it's like I'm like I'll take that over taking a pill that doesn't give me a period right and so I so I was like, I have never been, no one ever told me what are the benefits of ovulation. The only reason I know is because I started reading about it. I hired a medical team to help me write a book about it because I was just like, it was never been taught in school. Like, what's the benefit, right? It was just like, oh, you just get pregnant for three days. Like, that just sucks.

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actual products, which I love. If you want to try this hot cocoa from Organifi or any of their other products that I mentioned today, make sure that you go to Organifi.com slash realfoodology, and you are going to save 20% on your order. Again, that's O-R-G-A-N-I-F-I.com slash realfoodology. Isn't it wild that we take a pill or we, women on birth control, take a pill for every single day of the month, and there's only about a six to eight window period of time that we can get pregnant, but we are putting women on hormones for 30 days for the entire month. And on top of that, to go about the pheromones thing, I find this fact so incredibly fascinating. Women that choose a partner while they're on birth control oftentimes will be unattracted to them and their partner will smell differently to them when they come off the

pill. Which is when you decide to have a baby together and all of a sudden you're like, I hate this motherfucker. This happened to three of my girlfriends. So this is a real thing, you know, and I know those are anecdotal stories, but there's also studies now that are showing this. I mean, you think about like when you're dating someone and you're just like, oh my God, you're sweaty and you still smell amazing to me. Like that's because that is our chemistry. That's a primal, like our biochemistry telling us that this is like a good match for us but that's completely shut off when we're on birth control 100 oh or when you use like aluminum deodorants which I've it took me so long to get my boyfriend off it but he was like no I'm gonna sing I'm like I want you to sing and yeah at the beginning you do stink when you stop using it because you've been blocking all the like you

know like for set like sweat receptors but then you actually smell good like I don't use deodorant and yeah and I hope you don't smell so you're good same like I don't use it either so I'm like I'm sitting across from her right now and you do not smell so good but it's also like it's great feedback on the days I smell I'm like what what have I eaten that I can smell myself? Right. Like that's great feedback. It's like, it's, we stop ever understanding the, you know, like menstrual blood, like, am I healthy? Like looking at your own poop, like we flush it and we're just like, Oh, gross. But I'm like, what's actually the most incredible feedback? Like looking at your own poop can give you so much information. Am I digesting? Are there pieces of food in my poop? I'm like, well, I don't have

enough digestive enzymes or like I don't have stomach acid. So my chances of getting a parasite or candida are super high because my stomach isn't thriving. There's shit in my gut. Like, you know what I mean? Like there's so much you can learn just by looking at your poop, let alone like analyzing it. So anyway, so I basically help women get off birth control and kind of like understand like how beautiful is to like sync your cycle with moon cell and cool as well which is combining my biohacking uh fashion for biohacking and spirituality um and it all starts with the partner with a supportive partner that would, you know, you would go and say like, listen, I want to, I don't want to get pregnant, but I also

want to, I want, also want to be healthy. Can I have your support on this? It's my, uh, it might mean that for a hot second, we might not, you know, we'll have explored different ways of making love that doesn't involve penetration. And this is another one of my arguments that doesn't involve penetration and this is another one of my arguments that I absolutely love which is but statistically uh in heterosexual couples only 50% of women come and in homosexual couples men women come 85% of the times which is basically it's fair to say that mostly women don't come through traditional penetration so i'm

like how epic of nature to realize that okay for those five or six days you can't have penetrative sex which means it's going to be a woman-focused sexual practice when it does involve penetration when it's going to involve other ways of like pleasing your partner which will be beneficial for a woman anyways which is putting it's like a women-led, women-focused relationship versus penis-focused relationship, which is what it is right now, being available for sex 24-7. You know, like the way our society's design

is based on testosterone, not on progesterone, estrogen. And so I love it. I love that when I can't have penetration sex we can just explore other tantric ways of just connecting with each other even last night this is gonna be an overshare but even last night it was like we were just kissing because it's like it's like in long in long was like when relations for a long for a long time so long-term really oh yeah so in long-term relationships apparently the art of kissing is being lost because you

basically um yeah you just it's forgotten so yesterday we're just forward yeah yeah you know you know exactly what's going to make your partner come and you just go straight there and so yesterday we're just kissing for an hour without knowing that it's not going to graduate to anything serious. And we're just making out and we're so good. I was like, wow, kissing is amazing. But like now or back in the day, kissing meant that we're getting into sex. Yeah. Oh, I love that. This more like female focused sexuality and not be so concerned

and just like worshipping the penis all the time, you know, like we're here too. I think it's a great part of the conversation. So I want to talk about syncing your cycle to the moon and also like syncing your cycle around your workouts. Let's do it. So basically what research is proving these days is what our grandmothers probably would have told us if they got a chance uh but yeah it's we live in a society where um you know science and advancements being worshipped and you know um traditions and and the the ancient knowledge of our grandmothers is considered just meh and old school. But in reality, first of all, I think just from a pure standpoint of medical advice and biohacking research, it is recommended and it's what I

recommend a lot of women that I work with is to sync your cycles. It's important to sync your workouts to your cycle. So what does it mean mean that depending on where you are in your cycle and there are four main stages you should prioritize different kinds of workout and right at the beginning menstruation for the first few days and depending how you feel different research says different things the first couple of days like if you're feeling terrible like please honor that but then you're more than welcome to do heavy weights and heavy lifting. And that's up until like day 12, where you're entering your ovulation. And this is time for you to really push your fasting. This is time to do like a three day fast. Obviously, if you're fasting, don't do heavy weights. But if you're

not fasting, by all means, this is the time to really push yourself and lift heavy and really just push your limits. And then we have ovulation, which is kind of like we're going to slow down a touch. And this is, you're encouraged to eat more like fresh foods. Don't go too hard on your fasting. But, and sorry, in the first stage, I would just say like go keto, lots of fats. And because imagine your estrogen is on the rise. So your estrogen, she loves keto. She loves fats. She loves being supported by a heavy workout, good fats, good keto. And it's been promoted these days that this is the diet that works for a lot of women,

but it works to a degree. It works until we ovulate, then it's great to eat, your temperature goes up. So all the cooling foods that you can eat and usually fresh fruits and raw salads and whatever, that would be the best time to do it around your ovulation to support your hormones. And that's where we don't really push ourselves too, too hard. This is a good time for you to do a HIIT workout, but not too heavy. This would be a good time for you to do like a HIIT workout um but not too heavy uh this would be a great time for you to do yoga or whatever it might be uh then after ovulation you still have like a small window about five to six days where you can still push yourself harder this is like

I love this time because it reminds me like oh shit if I don't use that window that I can't push myself at all so it's like a very good motivation for me to actually really push myself at the gym. Again, go a little heavier with my workouts, do weights, do really intense HIIT workouts. And then about seven days before your menstruation, your progesterone is on the rise. And to support progesterone, and it's actually, we live in a society which doesn't really support progesterone's on the rise and to support progesterone. And it's actually, we live in a society where it doesn't really support progesterone. And your progesterone is like, she's the one that tells you to like cuddle up in bed. So your progesterone is the one that makes you, you know, just curl up on a couch and just take it easy. And I like to call this phase the being phase, right? So we live in a society that promotes the doing and that's better than anything else, where in fact, being is just equally as beautiful. So seven days to

eight days before your period, this is a time for you to really listen to your body. If you really don't feel like working out, then don't. Do yoga, do soft exercise, do stretching, go on walks, go on hikes, just like lower your cortisol focus on your body getting restored and this is where you do not fast at all and here's when the research kind of like splits because some people say like well you're very you're insulin sensitive so you shouldn't eat carbs but I also believe what Dr. Mindy says, Mindy Powell, is that we should trust our body's intelligence, that if we need healthy carbs, we should eat them. Progesterone needs fats to be metabolized.

It's just not about eating a tub of ice cream or a pizza or a pasta. That's our idea of what we do before our period, where in fact we just want to eat sweet potato, white rice, and all the healthy carbs that would support our progesterone. And we don't really push ourselves right before our menstruation, which is annoying me because no one ever gave you a day off five days before your period or three days before your period. They give you a day off while you have your

period but your period and the pmsing and all of that is actually makes it worse because you're not resting before your period so if if we had a female-centered society we would have something like they have in spain where they do get a day off depending on what they are in the cycle for like for female reasons. So if you got the last three days before your menstrual cycle off, a lot would change for women. Yeah. And it's so wild that we don't talk about this and that we are not taught this growing up, you know, and I'm so grateful for apps. So for people listening, maybe if this is like a lot and this is the first time you've heard it, I really recommend, are you familiar with Alyssa Vitti and her work? Yeah, yeah.

So she has an amazing flow app that you can download. It's FLO. And based on where you are in your cycle, she gives you tips and will say like, you know, you're probably going to have less energy. So maybe do lower impact and walk or take that day to rest. And then when you're, you you're in your various phases, you're going to have a lot of energy and focus on these kinds of foods. And coming back to what you said about really trusting the intelligence of your body, this is incredibly important. And as you notice, I found this in my own life, the healthier you get and the more in tune you

become with your body, the more you're able to just follow those signs without having to look in an app or really... For me, for example, before I even learned about this whole concept of cycle tracking, I was already intuitively eating a lot more like right before I was about to start my period and really like resting. And then once my period started, I was like having more energy. And it's also important to note too with the PMS, Alyssa Vitti talks about this all the time. PMS is common, but it's not normal. It's your body telling you that there is some sort of hormonal imbalance happening. Now it's not in all sale.

It's not to say that you should freak out and it's this whole big thing. It could be something as simple as rebalancing your estrogen and your progesterone, but it's definitely something to look at because it's a sign and symptom that something's going on. Yeah, 100%. And I think, yeah, just like realizing that PMS is not normal,

although it's common, is like a big aha moment that I was like, oh shit. Yeah. I don't deal with it really anymore. And that's not to say that I never do, but usually if I've been like really good on my diet and I really don't experience any PMS symptoms. Same, same. really good on my diet and I really don't experience any PMS symptoms you know same same but I do notice that I definitely prefer to have carbier meals and I prefer to go in wards

which is beautiful and I don't really judge myself for it anymore I used to be like oh fuck I'm weak I'm not like a guy I can't just go you know go go go every day uh but now I'm kind of like oh cool like this is like being is equally as beautiful as doing and so I love it I love that and you just said something so important that why is women are we always comparing ourselves to men as if the men are the gold standard right as if penis is the gold standard so whenever you talk to women it's like oh I take so long to come I'm like you mean longer than the full oh men so as if men is the gold standard and women are longer how about maybe women is the gold standard may take much less time and maybe they should work on you know I mean they should no I'm kidding obviously but you know of course yeah I love it but well but what about also just

honoring that women are different than men and honoring men for the things that make them men and honoring the things that make us women? There's beautiful things about both men and women and we work together so beautifully too. And we need both, right? But we need women as that reminder of slowing down, taking it slower, the resting and all the things that we love

and attribute to the more feminine side. Yeah, but sadly we live in the masculine world and so taking it slow or resting is considered weak and so we basically feel terrible about ourselves whenever we need some rest. I know I did. Whenever I would get weak or tired or sick, I was just like, oh, I'm the weakest thing.

I'm so weak. Like, I don't know. Like, I would just like judge myself for it. I know. I would too. I would too. I would compare myself often, especially like for the longest time

I worked in a very male dominated world. And I would compare myself to that often. But, you know, as women, we work on totally different hormone cycles than men do. Men have a 24 hour cycle. Women have 30 days. Yeah, which is exactly what the moon is, which I would love to talk about as well.

Let's talk about it. Yeah. And so I think it's beautiful that, you know, the everyday cycle is called the circadian rhythm, which I'm sure your audience have heard of, but there is something called infradian rhythm, which is the 30-day cycle or 28-day cycle to be precise. And happens to be the same cycle as the one of the moon aka the nature and if you travel to remote areas like I sailed across the pacific and I lived on super remote islands like to Hawaii and they

their entire community lived according to the moon cycle. Because like, oh, we always, you know, plant all our seeds at full moon and I don't know, right? And so I was like, wow, that's so interesting. But then as a sailor, I would know that the entire ocean, you know, just fluctuates depending on what part of the moon, you know, moon cycle it is. So I think if you are on the pill and you don't have a cycle and you would like to for example sync your workouts and you're like okay well like what about me I don't ovulate like I don't really menstruate what do I do I was like I would love for you if you have the opportunity

to sync yourself with the moon cycle and so step one it's basically so your first day of your menstruation should be on the new moon. And you think about it, it's the darkest night, right? Because the new moon is tiny. And this is for you, time for you to go inwards. It's dark. It's just, you know, introspective. This is the time for you to like, just reflect on everything that you have been going on

in your life. And then you want to sync your ovulation to the full moon which is um you know the story has it that the lovers would want to see their faces as they make love and so uh the the light of the moon would allow them to do that and so you're the most fertile during ovulation and so super interesting i have been trying to do that for the longest time and it was always the opposite. So always I would ovulate at new moon and then have my period on the full moon.

And I was like, fuck, how do I change it? I started researching and turns out that women that are, like there's obviously a tale, an old wife's tale, that women that are in the healer's positions or women that are there to healers positions or women that are there to support other women will change that cycle because from the perspective of nature the women that are not ready to give birth would switch the cycle so they can support other women that are ready to give birth and so if which is really interesting that they have been chosen to support

other women in their journey. And I was like, oh, wow, that's actually super beautiful. So if you are the opposite, I would be very curious to see if you're actually supporting other women in your journey. But yeah, that's basically the basic. And I guess it's like, okay, that's the idea, but how do you do it? I love it. This is how you want to do it.

But now, how on earth do you sync your cycle to the moon? Well, if you went on a remote island for a few months, it would just happen naturally because your body naturally would pick up the light from the moon and it would know when it's dark or it's lighter and it would do it automatically. Unfortunately, we have phones phones we have fluorescent light we have light from above you know after dark and so our body's completely confused on what time of the moon cycle it is

right because it's always bright and so there's nothing to really sink on. And so I love blue light blocking glasses and I wear them religiously. And I think this is the biggest hack for me to really sink my moon. So like if you combine the workouts that I mentioned, the food that I mentioned, the fasting, and then you combine it with wearing, blocking the blue light and using low lamps,

just try it for a month to see how you feel. See how you feel with reducing your screen time. And if you aren't reducing screen time, using really good blue light blocking glasses. Spending 30 minutes out in nature, in the dark, when it's actually the, you know, you can look into the sky and the stars. And something as simple as that would really make a difference. in the dark when it's actually the, you know, you can look into the sky and in the stars and something as simple as that would really make a difference. Oh, I love, I love the story behind that. I've actually never heard that. And it was really fascinating. Okay. So in the conversation of fertility, this is something that I'm really

interested in because I still really want kids and I'm a little bit older than most women are when they start having children. And you talk about this a lot in your journey as well. What are some of your biohacking tips as far as fertility goes? I know you've talked about peptides, if you want to share some of those. And what are your thoughts on egg freezing? Great questions. So I always wanted to freeze my eggs because I heard that it's such a great option

to extend the window where you can have kids. But the more I started biohacking, speaking to different doctors, it's kind of hard to do it anymore because the more doctors I speak to, they share with me that all the women that have frozen eggs before they enter the menopause in their early 40s because the body down regulates after egg freezing procedures and so turns out that like when I went to get to freeze my eggs it was presented to me as like a low impact low risk option for women who want to extend their window but turns out it's actually not. And so the amount of hormones that you're pumping yourself with ends up being quite problematic. Apparently,

a lot of women that have gone through egg freezing procedures haven't been able to get pregnant naturally or they struggled a lot. And so they ended up having to use, to use, you know, in vitro in their journey. And so I was like, okay, so what on earth are we supposed to do? So I started digging and turns out there are so many ways where you can extend your fertility naturally that no one really talks about it. I think it's just being presented to us as like something that is, you have a final number of eggs and which is also bullshit, don't you're it's not something

that you're born with and that's it you can actually produce more eggs and it's proven and there are a lot of supplements you know um m&m combined with tmg cert six you know david sinclair incredible doctor on longevity but as long as you're extending your telometers, you're extending your fertility as well. And so there are peptides like epitalin that you inject every six months for 10 days. And the doctor that I have on the challenge, she has had 100% success in fertility and healing fertility with her patient just using peptides and eating stuff like beef liver and supporting

women's cortisol levels as well as uh yeah just supporting with supplements which is fucking crazy because no one talks about it and just makes me a little angry because you know me being 35 i'm like i wish someone like told me like how to extend my fertility naturally. And I can, I have a say about it and that it's not only about, you know, just a freezing eggs, which it's, which is not neutral to your body. Unfortunately.

I'm so glad you're talking about this too, because I, I feel similarly. So this is all very new to me, what you just shared. And as someone, so I froze my eggs two years ago and I wish I had known this. Sorry.

Don't be sorry. No, no, no, this is really like a way for me to share. I mean, I was super close because you go to these clinics and these doctors are super lovely. The clinics are pretty and they're like,

there's no risk and na, na, na. And I'm like, okay, it makes sense, right? Like I don't have to stress about it anymore. Well, and I can tell you that I waited for a very long time to do it because my approach to all this kind of stuff is I really believe that injecting ourselves with these hormones is really bad. And I really didn't want to do it. And it's also why I've never really been on birth control my whole life.

Like I've always just been very conscious and aware of this. But this is a part of the conversation I've never heard. But I also want to share it too for people listening that have had their eggs frozen and are concerned about this I have a mentality in life and I choose um I choose whether or not to let that bother me yeah and I have this mentality of like I really truly believe that one of my soul's purpose is to be a mom on this earth so I'm not even gonna let that like affect me or like yeah or like keep me you know in living in fear of being like oh oh my God, what if that happens to me? I choose to not take that on, you know? And I think the biggest one is like,

whenever I speak to these doctors, like the cortisol is the number one reason why you're not getting pregnant. And the pressure, whether it's the cortisol from pressure of wanting to get pregnant with the cortisol is being told like, oh, you'll never get pregnant because I heard on the podcast.

So now I'm fucking stressed. And so it is proven. I mean, I had my auntie in Poland because now, you know, 70, but she couldn't get pregnant until 42 because she was trying so hard and she was like, fuck it. I'll never get pregnant. She let go and it happened. So it really is, you know, you're bringing a human to this world and it's always about how safe is it out there? If it's not safe, we're not getting pregnant. Yeah, it's so true. That's really important too, you know? And I think there's so much like shame and fear and just all these mixed emotions around it for good reason, right? But if we can release all of that and just trust that the universe has our back and that everything's happening for us yes then we're gonna live 100 and I think that is not to say you know like I obviously I don't treat patients I'm not a doctor these are just like what the doctors I have invited to my challenges have shared with me

and they're choosing alternative treatments and for me that was really mind-blowing because I didn't hear I've never heard of peptides up until getting into biohacking. So I was like, oh, interesting. Yeah. So do you know, have you heard anything about as far as like if someone has had their eggs frozen, will these peptides and- Yeah, 100%. It's basically, they ultimately extend your telometers, right? So these are like, imagine there's a shoelace and shoelace is your DNA. And at the end of a shoelace is the plastic part that's your telemeter so the longer they are the longer you're going to live that's just like a like a good marker of your longevity and so obviously your longevity is tied to your fertility right so it's like the longer you can extend your vitality in a way the longer you'll be able to uh reproduce hence it's also like you know why a lot of people

that like can reverse their biological age through peptides and other practices are able to like have their menopause in their 60s it's incredible yeah i'm claiming that for myself fuck yeah i'm here for it fuck yeah love it um okay so in time, I want to, let's talk about your supplements for a second before we go. Thank you. Tell us about your supplements. I'm so excited about them. I've been watching your stories and I'm like, okay, I need that one. I need the sugar one. I need the sleep one. They're coming to your house. You should just wait. So excited.

So yeah. So I basically, I do these biohacking challenges for women and I very quickly realized that, you know, they're always like, oh, but you know, Aggie, you use all of these supplements, which ones do you recommend? And a lot of times they were so full of crap. And so a lot of these mainstream supplements, there's no regulations because it's not FDA approved. Uh, and so it's probably the most unregulated industry in the world. And so a lot of supplement companies are just putting a lot of crap in there. So it's probably the most unregulated industry in the world.

And so a lot of supplement companies are just putting a lot of crap in there, a lot of fillers, silicon dioxide, just like binders and preservatives and whatnot. And sugar, like maltodextrin. Even like very big people that have their own supplements put maltodextrin in their supplements. I'm not going to mention names, I'll tell you later, but I was like heartbroken.

I think I know. And so I was like, why, why? Like it's really sucralose and all of the crap. So I was like, how hard would it be to create supplements? So I started asking in our community, we have a lot of friends in the community that have supplements. I was like, how do I just make a clean supplement that help women with the issues that women deal with right so I don't do

vitamins as of right now but you know we do a bloating which is our biggest bestseller and it's all natural all herbs I like to think I'm like this like you know the witch at the you know if we're a village like 2,000 years ago and I was just putting all the herbs and putting them in for you and just making you eat. I was like, this will heal you. I still see that for you. I love it.

Yeah, like crazy hair. And so I was like, okay, like how do I like, so we basically looked up all the studies and like all these natural herbs actually support bloating and water retention. So we put that and then these are digestive enzyme, but we realized that when people put eat a lot of digestive enzymes your body stopped

producing them so we put bitters so just just a little bit digestive enzyme to help you now but bitters to support the whole system and so I was able to work with an incredible doctor that has 25 years experience creating supplements for the biggest brands and we're able to create those supplements and I'm just really happy to put something out there that has 25 years experience creating supplements for the biggest brands. And we're able to create those supplements. And I'm just really happy to put something out there on the market that is clean and supportive. And we should give your audience like 20% off with your code Courtney so they can try it out.

And yeah, I feel really passionate because I feel like it would be really good to just bring some quality product on the market. And when you come up with your supplements, I'm here for it. Oh, thank you. It'd be amazing. Yeah. Like I said, I've been watching your stories and I watched this one the other day of your, you took your bloating supplement and you were like, I'm so bloated. And then you showed maybe an hour in and two hours in. And I was like, I need that. I need that. It's a really good one,

honestly. That's awesome oh I'm so excited for you and everything that you're working on right now um I want to ask you one more question before we go which is what I ask all of my guests what are your personal health non-negotiables so these are things that you do to prioritize your own health oh my god um I think good sleep I think this is like something I really, really prioritize over anything else. Drinking a lot of water. I think just a day without water just doesn't exist. Like I would get, like that's the first thing I prioritize over anything else when traveling. And

good quality food for sure. I think it's just the very basic, like fresh air. I need to be outside. I need to get outside in the first 30 minutes to just, yeah, just remember like I am nature. And yeah, the very basic stuff are the best biohacks, honestly. Yeah, just getting back to the basics

is what is the best. I have to share because she's our mutual friend, but our favorite Ricky Lake, when I asked her this question, she said, it's still to this day, my favorite answers I've ever gotten. And she said, my health non-negotiable is that I have to eat an edible with my husband and fuck the shit out of him every night before bed. That was like, that's a way better answer. I love that so much. Oh my God. We love you, Rikki. We love you, Rikki.

She's the best. Is there anything else you want to share before we go? No, I just, I'm very grateful for everything that you're doing and thank you for having me on the show. It means a lot. Thank you so much. Please share with everyone where they can find you, where they can find your supplements.

Yeah, so my account is Aggie, at Aggie, just my first name. And my supplements are at Biohacking Bestie. And you can find YouTube, podcast. That's also the name of my podcast, biohackingbestie.com. Thank you so much. Thanks for all the work. Thank you.

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It is not a substitute for individual medical and mental health advice and doesn't constitute a provider-patient relationship. I am a nutritionist, but I am not your nutritionist. As always, talk to your doctor or your health team first. Do you suffer from IBS or other digestive issues? Are you looking for a new podcast to listen to? From the producer of the Real Foodology podcast comes the all-new health and nutrition podcast,

Digest This, hosted by Bethany Ugarte. You may know Bethany as the face of the popular Instagram page, Lil Sipper, or you may have even read her book. Now you can find her wherever you get your podcasts. On Digest This, Bethany examines topics such as gut health, nutrition, the food industry, and highlights specific ingredients that can be beneficial or harmful to your gut health.

She also explores non-toxic options in beauty, home, and cooking essentials. If it has to do with your health, Digest This is talking about it. Each episode features an interview with health experts, doctors, and wellness advocates, and delivers you information that is, well, easy to digest. Bethany also delivers a weekly segment every episode called Bite of Knowledge, where she highlights an ingredient commonly used in food, skin care, household cleaning, you name it, and gives you the lowdown on the benefits or dangers that ingredient might have in your everyday life. From Botox, potassium, olive oil, and magnesium, all the way to those ingredients you can barely pronounce on the back of your cereal boxes, Bethany has you covered.

There's a reason why it debuted at number two on Apple Podcast Nutrition Charts. Check out Digest This on your favorite podcast app. New episodes every Monday and Wednesday. Produced by Drake Peterson and Resonant Media.