The Dr. Josh Axe Show - Why Men and Women Shouldn’t Eat the Same Way

Starting point is 00:00:00 Let me ask you a question. Do you think men and women should be eating the exact same thing, taking the exact same supplements, doing the exact same exercise? Today we'll be exploring the differences between men and women and what they should be doing differently in terms of diet, supplementation, and so much more. Welcome to the Dr. Josh Jack's show. Here's the truth. Men and women in many cases have very different nutritional needs.

Starting point is 00:00:42 You know, for instance, women experience monthly cycles of estrogen and produce. which impact metabolism, nutrient absorption and cravings. They also have menstruation and blood loss. Women lose iron and other minerals through their monthly bleeding, increasing their need for iron, vitamin B12 and folate. During pregnancy and breastfeeding, women require more nutrients like calcium, chlorine, dh, and iodine to support fetal development and milk production. And even when we see shifts during menopause and perimenopause, there's an increased risk of osteoporosis.

Starting point is 00:01:15 Women need more calcium, magnesium, vitamin D, and other nutrients. So the reality is men and women are very different. And we even see this with the diseases and illnesses women in men face. For instance, women are much, much more likely to develop autoimmune diseases and thyroid conditions, while men are at higher risk of heart disease and type 2 diabetes. There's body composition differences. Men typically have more muscle mass, increasing their need. for calories, for protein, for zinc to support testosterone and recovery.

Starting point is 00:01:50 There are metabolic differences where men usually have a higher basal metabolic rate, meaning they burn more calories at rest and may need more macronutrients. So as you can see, men and women are very different in their nutritional needs. Now, when it comes to women, here are the most common nutritional deficiencies in what women need to be aware of. The first is low levels of vitamin D. Now, across the board for men and women, vitamin D is insufficient. Okay, 94% of people are vitamin D deficient today.

Starting point is 00:02:21 So getting vitamin D for women, especially for bone health. Remember, vitamin D is a pro hormone. You need it for hormonal health. So that is number one. And then iron. Due to menstruation, iron deficiency is the most common or one of the most common deficiencies in women today. The symptoms can include fatigue, brain fog, shortness of breath. If you're a woman and you're tired all the time,

Starting point is 00:02:43 Or here's another way to know. Stick out your tongue and if it's a pale pink and if it's not a bright pink or a red, it tends to mean you have something called blood deficiency and you are iron deficient. So you can take an iron supplement. By the way, to absorb iron properly. You want to make sure you get a food-based iron or else it can also bother your stomach. And you want to make sure it has vitamin C with it. You also want to be doing things like eating beets, green leafy vegetables, and grass-fed beef,

Starting point is 00:03:10 and even better organ meats like liver. You can take that in a tablet or a capsule, but that addresses iron in a pretty incredible way. And then the next one for a lot of women is magnesium. This is especially true if women are having PMS symptoms or perimenopause or chronic stress sort of issues. Magnesium helps relax the body, but a lot of women are deficient magnesium.

Starting point is 00:03:33 And iodine, this is especially true for thyroid health, taking kelp or eating seaweed or eating or, organic strawberries. Again, only organic because the conventional is the probably the most sprayed with glyphosate. So you want to make sure you're doing organic if you're going to have those. And for a lot of women, you need more B vitamins and also B vitamin derivatives. And so that's going to be everything from chlorine to folate to vitamin B12. Now, this is especially important during reproductive years. It supports fetal and brain development and liver health. So really important for there as well. And then also for women, considering things that build strong bones with the

Starting point is 00:04:16 magnesium, taking the vitamin D, those together, vitamin K2 should be with your magnesium there. And really, those are the biggest deficiencies most women have today. Now, for men, zinc is at the top of the list. Zinc is essential for testosterone production, sperm quality, and immune health, and even prostate health. So you need it for all things, reproduction and prostate for men, zinc, typically 30 milligrams a day. Pumpkin seed or taking pumpkin seed butter is a great food-based therapy there for men. And then also for men doing vitamin D. We mentioned this. This is important for both sexes. And then magnesium, also important for men. But a few other nutrients. These are less coming. These are as much micronutrients, but they are nutrients nonetheless for men. One is coenzym Q10. This is important for heart health.

Starting point is 00:05:08 sperm health, metabolic health, and mitochondrial health. This is found in large amounts in organ meats, especially heart glandular. So men taking a multi-organ supplement that has heart and liver especially. Now, another thing I like for men to do is you can buy meat by forces of nature, ground beef, and it has heart and liver in it. So consuming that on a regular basis, you can buy beef sticks from lineage provisions or Berski. that's B-E-R-S-K-I. Those also have heart and liver in them.

Starting point is 00:05:43 Major benefits there. And for heart health, for building muscle, for mitochondrial function. So that's great. But for men, really, organ meats and sardines are going to be great sources of coenzyme Q-10 as well. And then creatine. This is naturally found in red meat. Supports muscle strength and brain health, especially in aging men. Typically, five grams daily or something.

Starting point is 00:06:06 so is what you want to do. Now, that's not to say that if a woman has immune deficiency, she shouldn't be supplementing with zinc, or if a woman is having brain issues or needs to build muscle mass, she shouldn't take creatine. But we look at them side by side what you need the most. Women need more, you know, certain B vitamins, iron and the such, okay, iodine, selenium. Where men need more of what we talked about with co-Q10 zinc and creatine is, more needed. Now, there are also herbal recommendations for men versus women. And for women, doing more what we call yin building adaptogenic herbs and blood building adaptogenic herbs. So for women, I love don quai. This is one of the most prescribed herbs in Chinese medicine. It's great

Starting point is 00:06:56 for menstruation. It's great for menopause. But don quai is at the very top of the list, followed by Ashwaganda. Now, aschwaganda helps lower cortisol levels, which a lot of women have high cortisol, and get anxious. So Ashwaganda is very good for that. Makaru is another one I love for women. And then another favorite you might have not even heard of yet, but Chattavri, also in Ashadavari, but Chitavri was used in Ayurvedic medicine to help regulate hormone production. I'd also say Vitex. Vitex supports estrogen and progesterone balance in the body. So for women, those adaptogens like Ashwaganda and Chitavri

Starting point is 00:07:38 and Donquire Gray, along with those hormone balancers that we talked about like Vitex. And then also there's a difference between premenopause and menopause. When you're going through menopause, women, you need more estrogen and more progesterone production, increasing those. And that's where I really like taking black cohosh, wild yam, red clovers, are going to be at the top of the list for those herbals. Now, I also want to mention for women during their cycle, during hormone fluctuations, you need more and less of certain nutrients during different times of the month. So right before and going into that early part of your cycle, you want to really build your

Starting point is 00:08:21 blood, okay? If you have any sort of bleeding at all, you really want to make sure you build back your blood as much as possible. Now, by the way, this is also very important for breastfeeding or post-pregnancy. You know, your body actually sort of uses some blood to produce breast milk. So a lot of women also get sort of a level of depression post birth. Part of it, I think, is due to blood deficiency. So we really have to build a blood backup.

Starting point is 00:08:45 That's why one of the ancient therapies for women post-pregnancy has been consuming placenta. Their placenta because it's a lot of blood. It's a lot of those nutrients that they lost during pregnancy. They actually get to take back. Then my wife, Chelsea, did this. after giving birth, both our daughters, Arwin and Aelin, we encapsulated her placenta, had her start doing that. We also had her consume a diet of mostly soups, a lot of red meat, a lot of goji berry,

Starting point is 00:09:13 a lot of dates, a lot of things to start to build back her blood over the next three months and during, really, you know, especially when she's doing more heavy breastfeeding, we're really focusing on building her blood as much as possible. So for women, that early phase of your cycle, you want to focus on. building your blood. And then you want to keep carbs not too high, but a lot of blood building foods, the beets, the green leafy vegetables, the grass-fed beef. Then as your estrogen starts to increase and get to the top there, you want to increase

Starting point is 00:09:43 your carbohydrates, especially with sweet potatoes and rice. Two of the best there for supporting that, the carbohydrates. Oatmeal can be okay as well, doing more fruit like berries and apples, those. And then when you're coming down, we really want to start focusing. on then detoxifying in your liver. So more steamed cruciferous vegetables, getting rid of any excess estrogen in your system that can sort of throw things off as well. And you can take herbs like milk thistle then.

Starting point is 00:10:12 But for women, not only are there very specific nutrients you want to take, you also want to focus on eating different foods and supplements during your cycle. And I did an entire podcast on this in the past. And you could look up, you know, Dr. Axe, women's hormones and go and watch that one on women's cycles. and what to eat in terms of the right seeds, right nutrients, right foods on your cycle. So women, as you're going through perimenopause and menopause or postmenopause, there are some very specific foods you want to start eating.

Starting point is 00:10:41 Because what starts to happen is you have major estrogen loss and to a degree, some progesterine as well after menopause. And it can affect everything from your brain health to your collagen production. So how young you look, your mood, your sleep. So nutrition exercise become more important than ever. And for those women in Chinese medicine, they would say you want to do something called building yin, which is this. It's moisture and coolness. Your body, this is why you get hot flashes.

Starting point is 00:11:07 This is why you get night sweats. Is your body, because of the lack of estrogen and projection, your body can't create enough fluid and cool itself. This is also why sometimes there's dryness vaginally as well or dryness of skin. Your body isn't moistening itself very well, so it's not cooling itself either. So there are foods in Chinese medicine called yin producing foods. That's YIN. You could look this up online, yin producing foods. But you want to consume a lot of those foods that support building moisture to help bring those hot flashes down, balance your hormones and keep your skin younger.

Starting point is 00:11:42 Foods that do that, one would be eggs like egg yolks, especially duck eggs or even better. Foods rich in omega-3 fatty acids, wild-caught salmon, seabas, sardines, halibate macarole, all. good fish. You want to get more of those omega-3s. You also want to do things like yogurt, coconut yogurt, A2 yogurt, sheet milk yogurt or goat's milk yogurt or kefir, but doing some of those fermented dairy products with some flax seeds or flax meal. Flax is very estrogen supporting. It would be a great choice as well for you. Sweet potatoes, very yin, very supporting of the body. But those are some of the foods you want to incorporate. You could look at yin producing foods. A lot of steamed vegetables would be wonderful.

Starting point is 00:12:28 as well. Now, I also want to mention during menopause is when the most vitamin D is lost. It's the most important. So supplementing with vitamin D or really getting more sunshine or getting a vitamin D lamp as much as possible is going to be very helpful. So you really want to focus on increasing vitamin D, magnesium, vitamin K, those things that really support bone strength and health are very important there as well for women going through that phase in life. Also, I want to mention this. the condition that is more common in women than men by far is autoimmune disease like Hashimoto's, lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, 75 to in some cases, 80% of women are responsible for autoimmune disease or those cases. So women are much, much more prone to autoimmune disease than men.

Starting point is 00:13:20 And I think there's quite a few reasons for that. One, autoimmune disease is where your body is getting in this inflammatory response. This tends to happen when cortisol gets elevated. Okay. So if cortisol gets too high where your body gets in a fighter flight state where you get more anxious or worrying about things, that's another major factor. Another one is not dealing with past trauma. Men team to kind of get hit and move on more often and sort of let go with things. You know, ever ever see the old sort of idea where sort of men will fight it out and be over it a few minutes later and not remember.

Starting point is 00:13:56 it, whereas women will tend to sort of hold on to it much longer. If you're holding on to a grudge, to unforgiveness, to resentment towards your partner, if you're just remembering things constantly, that actually causes autoimmune disease. It's sort of the self-affliction where you're remembering something negative over and over, or if you're very hard on yourself. I see this with a lot of women, too. Your mom said something to you one time or a coach or a teacher, and you're just, You're beating yourself up. I'm not pretty enough or I'm not enough good enough wife or I'm not doing it. Like you feel like you need to do more and more and more.

Starting point is 00:14:31 You need to look perfect on the outside. It's a form of self abuse. You need to break the cycle and live in a state of God loves you. You're protected. You're secure. Right? So I think having the right mental frame. You know, my mom used to love this pastor, female pastor watching her online at Joyce Meyer.

Starting point is 00:14:51 And she has a book. And it's, I think it's one of the top five selling Christian books over the last 50 years. And I think it's called something like battlefield of the mind, something like that. But I think that's really popular because I know a lot of women struggle with this, with negative thoughts and thinking about themselves. And this causes autoimmune disease. And it causes nutritional deficiencies. So going and actually addressing those things and saying, you know what, like focusing on building your esteem and value via biblical knowledge and being around other

Starting point is 00:15:22 positive encouraging women not knowing you don't have to be perfect it's okay uh we we make mistakes it makes us human so so dealing with that is very important with that i just wanted to get to the root there too because there's nutritional deficiencies there's also deficiencies of things that aren't per se nutrients their uh their their virtues like love you know oh yeah we've all heard this right men want to women want to feel loved men want to feel respected if you have a lack of love that's going to lead to a deficiency that leads to autoimmune disease that can lead to miscarriage actually according to chinese medicine it can lead to depression anxiety it can lead

Starting point is 00:16:03 all kinds of health issues and so also making sure and being in relationships where you are loved or nourished and your spouse isn't doing that just let them know because sometimes you you don't say it so you want to you want to share that and do everything you can to to deal with those deficiencies Here's a few other things. Depression and anxiety. Estrogen plays a role in serotonin regulation. Women are more likely to deal with those conditions, especially during PMS and during menopause.

Starting point is 00:16:33 So women deal with these health conditions more than men. Women also deal with more insomnia, but also need to sleep more, especially during perimenopause and postmenopause, when fluctuating hormones and stress can disrupt sleep. One in four women, this is really high. One in four women experience insomnia. I mean, this is really chronic, chronic sleep issues. Thyroid disorders.

Starting point is 00:16:56 Way more prevalent in women, especially after pregnancy or if they've taken contraceptive drugs. One in eight women will develop thyroid problems during their lifetime. Risk factors for these conditions in women. Listen, there is an element of epigenetics here, of those genetics, which is getting turned on, postpartum, immune shifts that can happen in hormonal shifts, chronic stress, inflammation, poor gut health, hormone fluctuations, history of trauma and emotional stress like we talked about and holding onto those longer. And certain nutritional deficiencies like we've talked

Starting point is 00:17:31 about. And then let's talk about men, what you're more susceptible to. Higher rates of cancer like prostate, liver, bladder, colorectal and stomach cancers, lung and prostate cancers are also more common in men. Type 2 diabetes. You know, the insulin resistance and blood sugar issues. One in five men will develop diabetes. Many more than that will have insulin resistance. Here's another big killer of men. One in four men die of heart disease. I've experienced this in my own life with, you know, one of my best friends and father-in-law dying early from this. It happens, it happens so frequently. So men dying early from these chronic conditions. Again, heart disease, and it's not just, it's heart disease generally, but it's poor circulation, high blood pressure, damaged blood vessels, myocarditis, you know, obesity, smoking and alcohol abuse, low testosterone, which reduces sex drive, erectile dysfunction, and even takes years off your life, cause you to age more fast quickly if testosterone's too low.

Starting point is 00:18:38 Men tend to be much more on certain medications, especially blood pressure meds. And the other big one for men is low testosterone, which reduces sex drive and erectile dysfunction. But not just that. It actually causes men to age more quickly, taking years off their life with low testosterone. And it's sex drive, but it's also motivation. I mean, when men have low testosterone, they don't feel like a man. I mean, it just changes their personality. And that's the other thing about hormone imbalance is when your hormones change, a lot of times it affects who we are or who we feel like we are.

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Starting point is 00:21:07 I want to talk about more differences between men and women. One of these has to do with fasting, okay? I've worked with tens of thousands of patients. And across the board, generally speaking, men tolerate fasting better than women, especially if they have improved insulin sensitivity and they're not too overweight. But the big thing, there's insulin sensitivity, okay? I've seen a lot of men do very well with intermittent fasting women. Your hormones are up and down and changing constantly. So not eating or if you have hypothyroidism or something else as well where there's a stressor, fasting is a type of stress.

Starting point is 00:21:43 Now, sometimes stress can be good, a little bit of it, right? That's not too much for the body. But if you're sick or ill, you don't want to be too aggressive in fasting. You want to do more of a 12-12 fast where you don't eat for half the day. So maybe eat breakfast around, you know, 7 or 8 a.m. And you eat dinner early like 5 o'clock, okay, or a 14, 10 eating window. That's okay. Women do great with that.

Starting point is 00:22:04 Men can do great with that as well. But generally, if you want to do intermittent fasting, men tend to do better. But women, if you get yourself in the right state physically, you can do it. as well if you want to do that sort of stress on the body that allows sort of repair and regeneration of certain organs or greater levels of autophagy if you're interested there. But overall, I think for most men and women, even though men do better with fasting, your overall best doing a 1410 window or or 12, 12 window where you're still getting in three meals a day is ideal for most. Now, here's another one that's important. Women usually need more sleep than men. Women's brains,

Starting point is 00:22:43 require more recovery time due to more multitasking and greater use of prefrontal cortex functions such as planning and decision making leading to a higher need for sleep on average about 20 more minutes per night now some of you might laugh at this already just by hearing hearing what i just shared is that like it always amazes me like chelsea is always doing multiple things at home she's got arwin on her hip she's making bread she's watching a television show and she's texting her mom and having our daughter, Arwin, memorized, recited Bible verse back to her at the same time. And there's two or three people talking to her. She's doing all this at the same time.

Starting point is 00:23:22 I can't do it. Okay. I can focus on one thing. And also, again, if you're a woman, you're married, you're going to appreciate this too. Or maybe a female in general. But, you know, like when I'm doing something, I am so locked in. I don't even know anything else going on. So I'll be on the computer writing something.

Starting point is 00:23:41 And Chelsea will be talking to me and she'll say, Did you hear anything I said? And I'll say, no. I did not hear a single word you said. Versus if she was doing the exact same thing. She's filling out like right now we're updating our passports. I'll say something to her almost to catch her off guard. And she'll repeat verbatim what I just said to her for the past five minutes.

Starting point is 00:24:03 So she's able to do that. I am not. Women can do that. Men can't. And therefore, you need 20 more minutes. Maybe we need more than that even. But you need at least 20 more minutes of sleep per night because your brain is so much more active. Do you know your brain utilizes more ATP and more energy than any other organ in your body?

Starting point is 00:24:26 In fact, I want to say it's like 25 percent. One quarter of all of your body's energy goes towards your brain. That's a lot. And so that's why you need more sleep. Okay. The other thing is it's just, you know, more of these hormone fluctuations constantly also can affect your sleep. Okay. And demanding deeper sleep. There's actually a medical journal that dove into this as well. The other thing that happens to women is they tend to have more fragmented sleep.

Starting point is 00:24:52 Now this is especially during the ludial phase of their cycle, of course, also during pregnancy and breastfeeding, but also during menopause. And so when you're getting sort of those chunks of broken up sleep, that also means you typically need a little bit more sleep as well. You know, studies show that sleep deprived women experience more cognitive and mood impairments than men, suggesting this sort of greater sensitivity to poor sleep as well. Now, I'm also amazed that my wife stays up with our one-year-old or gets up a couple times a night and she functions as well as she does. Okay.

Starting point is 00:25:23 And I think part of that also has to do with women being a little bit more typically calm spirited and emotionally sensitive to others. But there's no doubt that when you are disrupted in your sleep, it can cause mood to fluctuate. Now, I want to talk about the differences between men and women in ancient forms of medicine like Chinese medicine. Traditional Chinese medicine says heart chi is more vulnerable in women, especially mothers, which can lead to insomnia when depleted. And men are more susceptible to something called kidney yang. Now, heart chi refers to this sort of emotional and mental state that's also tied to the health of your blood.

Starting point is 00:26:08 And it's not your physical heart. It's your spiritual heart. In women, this heart, she is more depleted due to emotional labor, caregiving, and blood loss. You know, I think for women, again, you're more attuned to the needs of those around you. Okay, that's how God wired you. But it's emotionally draining. Okay, when you're more aware of those things, aware of all of the emotions of all the people around you constantly, it can be depleting. And this is why for women, one of the biggest things you have to be depleting.

Starting point is 00:26:37 And this is why for women, one of the biggest things you have to be aware of is, listen, it's okay if you're depleted, if you're then nourished. Okay. It's okay. It's okay if you give, if you then get. Okay. But too many women go through the day and it's work and work and work and work and do all these different things and serve everyone else around them. And then they never have any time to recover. And so for women, another need is we've got to do things to recover.

Starting point is 00:27:00 And for men, here's another thing for you. women need to probably are created to receive more and men are created to give more. And so for men out there, if you feel depleted, sometimes for you, it's not about doing less. It's about doing the right things more and pursuing your wife more. Even if you maybe don't, you know, even if your testosterone is not where you want it to be and you don't feel like it in a sense. when you're created to do it sometimes doing the thing gives you more energy you ever done that you're in a work like god i don't feel like being here this is sort of a drain and then all of a sudden you get 15 minutes in you're like okay and then you have a great workout okay it's that similar thing men

Starting point is 00:27:43 buy your spouse roses or your girlfriend roses get her those nice chocolates make sure it's dark right no you know none of the artificial stuff in there either uh you know take her out on a date night schedule something that she loves like do that thing like get excited about pursuing your spouse and going after her. Do those things. Making her dreams come true. And then women, when your husband does it, reward him, acknowledge it, receive it, do all those things. Because if you want it had to happen again, I mean, you know, guys, you know, both men and women work like this.

Starting point is 00:28:19 Again, reward that behavior. Listen, if he does the dishes, you know, be grateful for it. Even if you're thinking your head, let me give an example. This can happen. Okay, he's only done it once this month. Well, you know, maybe he'll do it more if you say thank you. Okay. So I think, you know, going back and forth with sort of men pursuing your wife and women receiving well and being grateful in that way will cause him to do that more.

Starting point is 00:28:47 But again, there are needs that women have. There are needs that men have. There are dietary needs. There are supplemental needs. There are emotional needs. And being aware of those for yourself and for your spouse. and communicating on those is incredibly healing. Now, for women, as we talked about these sort of heart foods,

Starting point is 00:29:07 there are nutrients and foods for that. So in Chinese medicine for women, it's a lot of blood-building foods. It's beets. It's dates. It's beef bone broth. It's calming or it's mushrooms like rishi mushroom. It's camomile tea. It's doing a lot of things to sort of calm your body and nourish your heart.

Starting point is 00:29:27 Okay. those are all good things. For men, it's known as kidney chi, which is really testosterone boosting foods. It's herbs like ginseng, it's rhodiola, it's deer antler, it's Tangad Ali. It's we mentioned zinc as in nutrients. It's red meat.

Starting point is 00:29:43 It's organ meats. It's like pumpkin nut butters and almond butter that has arginine. It's a lot of, again, it's nut butters, it's salmon. It's red meat. It's organ meats. A lot of foods that are more yang building and strengthening there for men are the best. And so remember women, in addition to the nutrients, you need to feel love, you need to feel chairs, you need to feel protected and safe. I remember when Chelsea was, when we were talking about

Starting point is 00:30:08 getting, having our first child, getting pregnant, she said, I don't want to run a house anymore. I want to own a house. And I said, okay, well, I was all for it, but I asked her why. And she said, her answer was, uh, I'm nesting or I'm getting ready to nest. And I was like, okay, what does that mean? You know, and she explained, I said, and I said, Okay, yeah, makes sense. Okay, let's do it. So we went and bought a house. So about all that being said, because she wanted to have a house that was her own.

Starting point is 00:30:37 And again, it's safety and security. She wanted to feel that and she wanted to feel loved. And me doing that acknowledging, say, hey, we're going to do that for you. She felt more protected and more love doing that. And for men, again, more respect, you know, feeling disrespected or powerless actually affects testosterone and mental health. In men, according to this day, there's so many men today with low testosterone and poor mental health. It's really, really a tragedy for both men and women. Okay.

Starting point is 00:31:02 And so focus on healing using food as medicine, lifestyle medicine, but also that emotional medicine. And if you don't have those people in your life pursue those types of relationships. I think it's very important that you're conscious of it so you can actually go and pursue that. You know, one study analyzed data from over 300,000 individuals and they found that stronger relationships increased the likelihood of health and survival by 50%. So again, you have a lot of. nutritional needs, but you also have emotional needs and you don't want to overlook those. Okay. So remember this. There's a difference between men and a difference between women in all of their needs both nutritionally and emotionally. I want to sit down today and think about what are your

Starting point is 00:31:43 needs based on what I shared with you. Okay. Write those down. What are the needs of if you're married, your spouse or your significant other or a boyfriend or girlfriend or girlfriend or maybe your kids? Think about what those needs are. You know, one of the things that I know that I try and do with my daughters right now is make them feel secure, make them feel safe, make them feel loved, right? Lots of hugs, lots of kisses, you know, daddy daughter date nights, those sort of things as well. So this is even for your other family members as well, knowing there's a difference between men, there's a difference between women, those energies, and we want to do everything we can to support those.

Starting point is 00:32:19 I want to say thanks for tuning in here to the Dr. Josh Jack show, where each and every week we're diving deep into the science and principles on how you can heal physically, mentally, and spiritually. Make sure to subscribe, like, and share, and I'll see you on the next episode.

The Dr. Josh Axe Show - Why Men and Women Shouldn’t Eat the Same Way

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