Live Like a Girl with Dr. Mindy Pelz - Keys to a Blissful Menopause Experience with Dr. Mindy and Dr. Christiane Northrup

Episode Date: May 12, 2020

After forty, your life is not falling apart! The parts that need upgrading are just rising to the surface, which is happening to the entire planet right now. Christiane Northrup, M.D., is a visionary pioneer and a leading authority in the field of women's health and wellness, which includes the unity of mind, body, emotions, and spirit. Internationally known for her empowering approach to women's health and wellness, Dr. Northrup teaches women how to thrive at every stage of life. A board-certified OB/GYN physician, Dr. Northrup graduated from Dartmouth Medical School and completed her residency at Tufts New England Medical Center in Boston. She was also an assistant clinical professor of OB/GYN at Maine Medical Center for 20 years. In this podcast, we cover: What happens physically and spiritually to women after forty About the natural things we can do for menopause symptoms Why we can't stress in our forties How women can do intermittent fasting Where toxins play a part in our health Why age doesn't matter How to take advantage of our rebirth and the great awakening The big picture view of what happens physically and spiritually to women after forty: Ovulation slows down. Big swings of estrogen in your body. Estrogen will become an additional stress hormone. You'll get some progesterone, but not enough. Stress hormones increase. The body won't let you get away with eating sugar anymore. Insulin will increase. Spiritually, we find our voice after a lifetime of not feeling confident enough. After menopause, we become queens. The more we resist menopause, the more we suffer. If you don't resist menopause, then you won't suffer. What has society done to keep women's intuition down? Doctors have given women anti-depressants or removed their ovaries. What do we need to do instead? Dr. Northup says some straightforward things can be done for menopause symptoms: We need more iodine and magnesium in our diets. Natural progesterone will work. Try "the miracle herb" Pueraria Mirifica. Macha works for some women. Meditating twenty minutes twice a day will reduce hot flashes. We can't stress anymore after forty! However, the most stress in our lives happens in our forties. Our kids are going to college, and we start looking at our spouse differently. If you are being controlled by your job, mother, husband, or kid, then your body will respond. Your soul will come through your body in a big way. You need to let the new version of yourself emerge. Dr. Northrup says to avoid Provera AKA Medroxyprogesterone. This drug is not native to the female human body. In fact, it will give you menopause symptoms. Nobody has done what needs to be done. There are progesterone creams that can be purchased online, and it actually helps for premenstrual migraines.  The culprit of our problems is refined sugars. High fructose corn syrup is one of the worst! Any diet that keeps your insulin levels regular is going to be ideal. An intermittent fast is a simple health hack. When you don't eat breakfast, it's just so easy, and you don't have to think about it. Avoid white sugar, white flour, and anything too sweet. How do toxins play a part in our health? We need melatonin! Plus, we need a regular detox program as part of our daily life. Dr. Northrup uses a detox smoothie in the morning. There are also chemtrails in the sky that ionize heavy metals and aluminum. If someone gets a flu shot every single year, they will get aluminum straight into the brain. We are all doing our best to eat well and detox. However, we need to look at our state policies. This stuff didn't start until they brought all the explosives from WWII. The Baby Boomers are the last generation that didn't have all these toxic foods. Age doesn't matter! Don't pay any attention to what you are told about what menopause will be – you can change it at any time. We assign so much to someone's age. Stop with the age thing! Dr. Northrup doesn't even want to know her age. When you turn forty, the best years are still ahead. Stay tuned as Dr. Northrup speaks about rebirth and the great awakening.   ---------------------------------------- Dr. Christiane Northrup: www.drnorthrup.com Dr. Northrup's Books: https://store.drnorthrup.com/category/store-books Dr. Northrup's Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DrChristianeNorthrup

You put your whole self in, you take the excuses out, you let itophagy win while stem cells grow and sprout, you cleanse detox and couple balance hormones up yourself out. That's what resetting is all. I am super excited for this episode of the Resetter podcast because I get to bring you an interview with Dr. Christine Northrop. If you're not familiar with her work, she is in my. book, The Queen of Menopause. She came out with a life-changing book called The Wisdom of Menopause. It's like this thick and everything you need to know about menopause is in it.

She is a wealth of information. She has been writing books for decades on women's health. And I am super excited to bring to you this interview because it was such an honor for me to sit down with her and pick her brain on everything from menopause to immunity, to the situation going on in today's world and today's pandemic. It was just a heartwarming, warming, and enlightening interviews. So I'm super excited to share it with you. Resetters. So I have an incredible guest to bring to you.

And I am not only excited to share her with you, but I have a lot of questions I want to pick her brain on. So let me just start off by welcoming Dr. Christine Northrop to our resetter movement. and you have no idea how many motivated menopausal women are sitting behind me, Dr. Northrop, waiting to hear what you have to say. So welcome and thank you for being here. Oh, it's a pleasure, especially now. And I love your name, Resetters, because that's what it is, man.

It's electroshock therapy for the entire system. Yeah, yeah, it's a whole other, you know, there's a lot of talk about it being an Earth reset. And there's so many different resets. And in our tribe and why we use the resetter idea is that there's my feeling and what I know about the human body is there's there's always an opportunity to reset. The body was was really made to heal. And there's a moment that you can sit back and trust and honor it and allow the body to reset. So that's why we use that. But let's start off with this idea. So we are living in a really crazy time for everybody. But women have more physical, emotional, and chemical stress than ever before. And if you add this increasing load of stress to a woman going through the menopause process, it is causing women all over the world. I mean, I hear from them all the time about how they are struggling through menopause.

And they don't know where they are in the journey. They don't know what's happening to them. their hairs falling out, they're gaining weight, their divorces left and right, they can't sleep. Give us sort of a big picture of view of what is happening physically and spiritually to women after 40. Okay, what happens is that the ovulations kind of slow down. So you might skip some ovulations. And then you'll have other times where you have maybe two ovulations in a cycle, which is why twins are more common in women after 40,

or at least they certainly were before all the assisted reproductive technologies. And what that means is that you'll get big swings of estrogen and then some progesterone, but not enough. And progesterone is a calming, warming hormone. And when you're skipping ovulations and you have then all of the estrogen produced by the follicle, and then you don't have the luteal phase of the corpus luteum, then, which is the body where the egg comes out of, this little yellow cyst that produces progesterone when you don't have that. And you have a lot of stress hormones, cortisol and epinephrine, which you can get by simply turning on the news for two seconds.

Oh my gosh. And in the face of too much estrogen, not quite enough progesterone and stress hormones, the estrogen is metabolized down a pathway to become what's called a catacole estrogen. In other words, your estrogen becomes an additional stress hormone. And then that gets funneled down the metabolic pathway to the androgens. And that's why you get the hair on your face and no hair on your head with the hair falling out. And at the same time, you get to this point where the body says, hey, you've been dieting to get into that little black dress for about the past 20 years. That's done. We're not doing that anymore.

You've been getting away with eating too much sugar like we're all doing right now during this. Yeah. And we're not going to let you get away with that anymore. And so what happens is you come, I call it sort of the Bermuda triangle. It's a perfect storm of too much sugar, insulin it is high, metabolic changes as a result of that, too much estrogen, not enough progesterone. and the spiritual call, really, to find your voice after a lifetime of not trusting your voice, of being told like me, you call a spade, a goddamn shovel, you know, like stuff that I've always seen that needed to be said. So then the thyroid goes down. And so the very voices, okay, let me be very clear. who are the voices we need to hear right now?

It's midlife and beyond women who have not been bought, who have not been bought by darkness. That's my big overarching term. Okay. And we're the ones. In fact, somebody hosted something about what countries were doing the best with this current thing.

And every one of them, like New Zealand, was headed up by a woman president. So we need, these are the voices. that we need, like the grandmothers. But let me be clear, being perimenopausal or just after menopause, you're becoming a queen. You're not a crone.

A crone does not happen. I give it till maybe 80 or 90, all right? I love it. So, you know, this is not the end of being attractive or any of that stuff. But you do find your voice. You need to find your voice. And if you don't find your voice, you're going to have all kinds of symptoms because the body is desperately trying, the soul, the soul is desperately trying to get you to.

to find your voice. So if you know that, and also age 42, by the way, is the Uranus opposition. And it's also a time when the kundalini energy begins to rise from the root chakra up. And that kundalini energy, which has been seen as a snake or, you know, in the sphinx, that was a big snake coming over the head on the original sphinx until the Saracens shot it off in whatever century. But that's just kundalini energy, the rise of your energy. but it gets stuck in the areas of the body where you have unfinished business, where you need to integrate and move up. So where does it get stuck? Second chakra, sex, money, power, third chakra, self-esteem, personal power, sense of responsibility.

And those are called grunthies in the Hindu traditions grunthys. So you have to work through those because that kundalini coming up will make things worse until you pay attention. And I think that's what I want women to know. Your life is not falling apart. The parts that need to be upgraded are just coming up to be seen, which frankly, I think is happening on the entire planet right now. Oh, my gosh. Oh, my gosh.

So I've been saying, as I'm 50 now, and when I hit about 42, so I'm listening to you say that, I'm like, oh, my gosh, I started not sleeping. I started having like panic attacks that I never had before. I had depression. And so I went to all of my friends who were five, 10 years older than me. And I was like, what is this? And the general consensus in the world is like kind of that moment of like they put their arm around you and they're like, okay, buck up.

You're going through menopause. This is the beginning of it. And it's you got to suffer through it. And I felt like that I don't, what I knew about the human body, suffering was not an option for me. So I really like this. I always say menopause was my mirror. It was like this mirror.

staring back at me saying, do this, do this, do this, do this. That is exactly it. That's exactly it. And the more we resist, the more we will suffer. But if you don't resist, you don't suffer. Yeah, right. So the menopausal woman, let's say the perimenopausal woman, 45, 47 walks into her OB's office and says, my hair is falling out. I'm depressed. I'm anxious. And she walks out with the medication. Yeah, she gets some kind of SSRI, right? Right, exactly. She gets an antidepressant, which takes away her sex drive and makes her a little dopey.

Yeah, that's what we do. That's what we do. You know, let's just keep them down. I mean, you know, way back, they used to remove women's ovaries if they got too mouthey. And by the way, the ovaries are related to the tonsils. The ovaries are related to, you know, this up here is like the ovaries of the throat. So if you look at the history of women's medicine, what have we done to try to keep that intuition down? So SSRIs, removing the ovaries, any of those sorts of things.

So what you need to do instead, you just need to take a look at what's really happening. So there's some very simple things. One, most women need a little more iodine in their diet because it ameliorates, estrogen. And what is T3 and T4? That just refers to the molecules of iodine in thyroid hormone. So T3 has three and T4 has four. And you just do a little bit of that and you'll find that very often your body and your thyroid just gets far better. That's in short supply iodine and also as magnesium is. So the anxiety is often from really needing more magnesium. Here's the deal. The symptoms are real. They're pointing to sole choices. The treatments are pretty simple. So

magnesium, I always like the kind that Carolyn Dean came up with remag and remite, which are picometers of the minerals. So they're very, very well absorbed. Then also a little natural progesterone often works very, very well, or an herb that I like so well, I started my own little business with it from Thailand, Peraria Morifica, which has been called the miracle herb, because it has very high in a certain phytoestrogen called myrosterol. Maka works for some women and any of those things. And then the other thing is all those lifestyle things you've always meant to do, but you just didn't have to do.

This is the time. The meditation, we have studies from Herb Benson down in Boston, the Mind Body Institute, that meditating 20 minutes twice a day decreases hot flashes by 90%. Wow. No, I mean, most people look at me and they go, well, who has time for 20 minutes of meditation twice a day? At this particular time in history, many people do. Right.

Right now we have the time. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, I was sitting in a functional endocrinology seminar trying. So I'm 50 now. And at 42, my menopause symptoms just went awry. And I was trying to put the pieces back together for myself. And, you know, we do in the Resetter Tribe as well, we do some. fasting. So I tried intermittent fasting. I've been doing some keto. I've been doing keto variations.

I've done some detoxing. So I slowly put all these pieces back together. And then I was sitting in a functional endocrinology seminar. And the guy said, the instructor said, if a woman has had high stress as she goes into her 40s, she will deplete her DHA stores. And because it will go straight to cortisol and it'll just keep making cortisol and it won't make progesterone or testosterone. And it was like, boom, the lights went off for me. Right. But, oh, I get it. We can't stress anymore after 40.

No, because, you know, as you know, the DHEA from the adrenals is totally related to what happens in the ovaries. There's a whole like a feedback loop there. So, but what do we do? The most stress in our lives is often in our 40s because you're realizing, wait a minute, your kids are maybe getting ready to go off to college. You're looking at the person you might have married when you were in your mid-20s. And you're saying, God, this point of attraction, now I'm a different person.

And if each of you can deal with a new person being born, you'd be absolutely fine. But if you are being controlled in any way in a job with your mother, with your husband, with a kid, the body is going to say, oh, no, we're done. We are done. And the more you try to push that down, the worse it's going to get because the body is your soul coming through your body is really trying to get your attention in a big way. Yeah, I think that message has to be screamed from the rooftops. I mean, I feel like every place I went to have this conversation with women, it was suffer through it, medicate it. There was nothing given to me about let's let this new version of you emerge.

So I just, I love what you're saying because we do, I feel like if I could go to every 40 year old woman and like tap her on the shoulder and be like, hey, let me give you a little peek into what your 40s is going to happen. And if you adapt to that lifestyle and you allow, I love this emerging, your world at 50 will be so much different and beyond even. And I don't know if you see this in your community. I even see women that are 10 years past their post menopausal, 10, 20 years, and they still have the same symptoms that they had when they were going through the metapos.

That's very common to be still having hot flashes in your 60s. Unless you do this shift. It's like the body, the soul is patient. It'll keep trying. It'll keep trying, keep trying with another symptom. And you and I both know, the conventional approach is, You're broken after the age of 40 anyway, because who wants you after 40? You know, you can't have a baby.

Well, you can now, you know, till you're 60, whatever. Not that you would want to. But that's the approach. So there must be a drug to fix you. And so what you and I need to be doing in our mission here is to see if we can rescue the women who want to be rescued. because many, many, if their will has been taken over by the mainstream medicine or mainstream media, they're just looking for the next pill. And that's okay.

I mean, and anyone listening, by the way, if that's your mother or something, just love her, because I have not been, think of it, I've not been able in my career to change anyone's mind with data. It's almost like the soul has to be ready. That's interesting. That's interesting. So, okay, so let's speak to the 46-year-old woman, 47-year-old woman who is stuck in the thick of it. And I like to kind of give steps. So, like, what, I mean, you gave some good ones about iodine and maca.

But how do we help her? How do we, because it's one thing to hear our words. And then it's another thing to go, I'm drowning. Help me move from this place to what you and I are talking about. Okay. So one of the most important. important things she needs to do is get decent sleep. It will reset everything. And when you have hot flashes, you can't sleep. Yeah. So one of the things that I really recommend is this thing called a chillo.

You literally put water in this, you know, pillow thing and then put it in your, um, pillow case. But the water will stay cool. And then, you know, you can turn it over and you've got a cool thing. That really works well. So that's available online at chillo. Um, then you want to get rid of the hot flashes any way that you can. The chillo really helps. We do know that an estrogen prescription, and it should be a bioidentical estrogen, like what matches your body, is the gold standard for hot flashes. But I would try the herbs first.

I would try Pereira Morifica first and maybe Macca, one or the other generally. And then if that doesn't work, then I would go for an estrogen prescription, but you've got to stay away from Premarin. That's made from the urine of pregnant horses. It's cruel to horses. I have talked with veterinarians who that was their job to bleed the horse until it nearly fell or collect their urine.

And the horse just stands there for years and years and they take every foal and kill it to keep the horse pregnant. So the Premarin farms are horrific. And most women just don't want to go along with that. And then I would avoid, constantly avoid, medroxy progesterone acetate, which is provera. And in the Women's Health Initiative, which stopped abruptly in 1992, no, in 2002, I remember in the first edition of Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom, in 94, I said they're using the wrong drug at the same dose for everyone. They're not going to find out what it is.

they're trying to find out. And the deal was, if you take estrogen, it'll decrease your risk of heart attack. But they use the wrong stuff at the wrong dose. And they use Provera, Medroxy progesterone acetate, which is not native to the female human body. And it will give you menopause symptoms. It's associated with an increased risk of breast cancer. So if you go on a hormone of any kind, make sure that it's something that matches exactly what your body makes. Now, people need to know that formulary pharmacies have been vilified because the stuff does not come from big pharma. The formulary pharmacy, you cannot patent a drug or a substance if it's naturally occurring. Well, the estrogen in your body is naturally occurring.

The progesterone is naturally occurring. But what the drug companies have done, to their credit, is they have patented the delivery system of some of these things. So for instance, if I-Vel-Dodd or the estrogen patch, those are bioidentical estradiol, 17 beta-estridal, and the patch part is what's patented. Nobody yet has done what really needs to be done, which is a combination of bioidentical progesterone with bioidentical estrogen. But you can get the progesterone as a skin cream online. You just use one quarter to one-half teaspoon. And with many women, that takes away migraine headaches.

There's all this, this whole group that gets premenstrual migraines. And if you just use a little of the progesterone on the soles of your feet or on your hands, this will often get rid of that premenstrual migraine. So you start with those things to get a good night's sleep. Yeah, I was going to say, because that's what I hear people say is I'm not sleeping. Yeah, I'd love to get a good night's sleep. So how do I go there? What do you think lifestyle?

I mean, again, if we go back to this idea that it's, it's a mirror. I, you know, what, there's the slowing down. Are there foods we can eat? Like I said, we do a lot of fasting in my community. And we found that actually, fasting can help the woman as she, both pre and post-metapausal women really lose weight, but they can't fast too much. Like, there has to be some variation there.

That's really true. Because otherwise, like if they're on a two-day fast or something, their cortisol levels go up and it's just not good. So do you do like just like, say, the 12-hour fast so that all insulin levels are down to zero before you eat again. Yeah, my general rule is that if a woman still has a little bit of a cycle, the idea is that you can fast anywhere from like an intermittent fast, like 13 hours, 13 to 15 is where all the great research is on intermittent fasting.

And you might even be able to get up to a 24-hour fast where you can reboot intestinal stem cells. That's also some great research. and you can get away with that until your body's trying to make progesterone. And once it's trying to make progesterone, fasting does not, or the ketogenic diet does not work. And this is actually what I found. So in my 10-year journey, I started off with fasting being this really cool tool to be able to like keep my weight where I wanted and, you know, give me energy and better mental clarity. But then my progesterone tanked and my testosterone tanked.

And I couldn't relax in my own skin. And so my periods were going now 45 days, 60 days, sometimes 90 days. So I learned that if I could track as much as I could, if I could track right before I was about to have my cycle, if I could all of a sudden carb load, if I could pull out of fasting, if I could lean into things like squashes and beans and some really things that we know will build progesterone,

I did amazing. So I could have the best of both worlds. Yeah, I love it. I love it. I think that's fantastic. Just fantastic. Yeah, in general, we all know. What are the culprits?

It's refined sugars. I mean, it's just, period, end of story. You know, high fructose corn syrup being one of the absolute worst. You know, the work of David Ludwig in his wonderful book, Always Hungry. He points out that any diet that keeps your insulin levels, normal and keeps your blood sugar levels normal is going to be ideal. And so with many people, an intermittent fast is easy. Like for me, it's just easy. It's a, it's part of my lifestyle. It's easy. I like it a lot. And then when you don't eat breakfast, it makes the rest that it's

just so easy. You don't have to think about it. But it's not for everybody. There are some women that they wake up hungry and they really, you know, need something. But in general, the foods to avoid are anything white flour, white sugar, just too much, too many sweets. And some people are more susceptible than others. I mean, there are those women who really don't do well on bananas and mangoes and pineapple just because those are high sugar. But for most, that's not a problem. Yeah. I saw an interesting study showing that when estrogen goes down, insulin resistance goes up. Have you heard that? I have not, but it makes total sense because that's what you see. epidemiologically, right?

You see all these women, and this was always sort of my favorite thing clinically, I'd see women come in and they, you know, women who'd never had any trouble with their weight or with their size. And suddenly, you know, they had this muffin top and, you know, what's this about? And a lot of that was glycemic stress. For the past 20 years, they could get away with eating sweets and not having a problem. And over time, glycemic stress moves up. to insulin resistance.

And how you can track this is, let's say, in your 20s, you have a lipid profile done, and the HDL is, let's say, 55. And then you go through time, and the HDL will get lower and lower and lower, because it's related to blood sugar and lysemic stress in the blood vessels. Interesting, interesting. Okay, where do you think toxins fit into this? So that's the other thing. A part of my journey was just realizing if you go back and you'll,

look in the last 50 years, we've had like 87,000 toxins enter into our environment. We've got toxins in our clothes we're wearing. They're everywhere. And if you go and you look at the brain, the pituitary hypothalamus and pineal gland, they're not protected by a blood brain barrier. They're going to be very susceptible to toxins. And that's what controls hormones. So where do you feel like toxins plays a part in this? I think at this time in history, it's huge. They're huge. Like the pineal gland, the seat of the soul, cannot function well when it gets calcified. Well, what calcifies it? Fluoride in the water. So what you need to do, and this can also help with the sleep, is melatonin. Melatonin will really help clear up the pineal gland. But in general, we all need to have a regular

detox program as part of our daily life. And so for me, that would be maybe the medical mediums detox smoothie, which is wild main blueberries and cilantro, spirulina, barley grass juice powder, a little iodine, and, you know, with an orange and you just mix that up and have it in the morning. Because we know there are certain foods that just chelate heavy metals. I mean, let's look at these chem trails in the sky, that's ionized aluminum and ionized heavy metals. And we know that ionized aluminum goes right into the brain. It's associated with dementia. Then you look at somebody who, let's say, gets a flu shot every single year. And that has aluminum in it. And that goes right into the brain. So there are many sources of these toxins.

And the only way around it. And then, and then what else do we have now? Biofilm. You know, so that in our microbiome, in our bodies, we have, it used to be, okay, you got an antibiotic. It killed the main thing. You were good to go. Not anymore because nature always finds a way. So now we have all these antibiotic resistance strains of everything.

And they live in what's called biofilms. And a biofilm is kind of a goopy colony. that we have in our bodies where bacteria and viruses hide out. And a good way to get rid of biofilm is the juice of a couple lemons on an empty stomach every single morning. And that'll help with biofilm. Yeah. It's not like it used to be.

I mean, in the 50s, yeah, okay, you could get an antibiotic once in a while. But now women are living on antibiotics if, let's say they have acne and they're on tetracycline forever. So our microbiomes need to be recultivated too. Yeah. Yeah. And I mean, I think that was my root awakening on my journey again was I discovered heavy metals and that I was really high in lead, really high in mercury, even though I have no amalgam fillings. I don't get flu shots. Have you heard of generational toxicity that we pass the toxins down from mother to child?

And it's usually goes, yeah. So if you look at my family, it's been, you might find this interesting. My mom has really, really high lead. She has osteoporosis, which lead will bind to calcium and phosphorus. My sister has some thyroid and restless legs issue. And then I just had really bad insomnia and hot flashes going through my paramedopause years. And so much of that is just lead that gets passed down because lead will live in the bones. And at times of hormonal swings, it'll come out.

And it can go right up into the brain and start to affect the brain. Yeah. So I'm with you. I mean, we've done, we've done way too much stuff. GMOs are another deal. Yeah. You know, GMO foods. So, you know, there's two things. Your group, my group, you know, we're all doing our very, very best to eat well, to detox and all of that. But we also, I think, need to be looking at our state policies, government policies. I mean, this stuff didn't start until they brought all of the explosives from World War II and they didn't know what to do with them. And they made the nitrates into chemical fertilizers. And it made the plants grow twice as fast, but pretty devoid of nutrients. So, you know, the baby boomer generation is possibly the last generation that didn't have all these toxic foods and GMOs and 70 vaccines by the age of 18. all the, you know, fluoridated water and all the rest of it. Yeah.

Yeah. That makes so much sense because, you know, I asked my mom. I mean, what do you do when you're like going through menopause? You're like, oh, well, let me go ask my mom what her experience was. And she's in her 80s now. And she was like, yeah, it was easy. It was nothing. I didn't.

I barely had a, it was like one day I had my period and then it stopped and I was fine. And right? Like nobody says that anymore. And so much of that is because of. of this toxic load. Are you familiar with Dr. Zach Bush's work at all on the microbiome? I love his work. Yeah.

He's amazing. And I interviewed him right after when the coronavirus was first emerging a couple of weeks or what four weeks ago. And one of his thoughts, I'm curious to your thought on this, is that because we have sprayed so much with glyphosate and because we're such an antibiotic rich environment, what's happened is the bacteria have been beaten. down. And at the bottom of, and I'm not a microbiologist, but at the bottom of this, live the viruses. And it's that's why these viruses are emerging. Have you heard that? I have not, but anything

he says makes sense to me. And the other thing that I've heard that's very interesting from Dr. Cowan and Dr. Andy, what, Kaufman, Andy Kaufman, they make quite a case that the viruses are viruses are exosomes. They're partial DNA strands from cells that are poisoned. So the cells are poisoned by toxins, radiation, you name it. And what we're calling a virus is simply a poison removing coming out of the cell as a result of the environmental toxins. Oh my gosh. And that's an interesting, very interesting theory. Again, we're not going to know now what this was. I think that we may know, later. And so at the moment, what is our job is to keep our immunity as high as we can? And so some of the ways to do that are vitamin D. Every perimenopausal woman needs to get her vitamin D level checked.

One of the organizations I adore is grassrootshealth.net. And this organization started because the woman who started it, whose name escapes me, said, I don't think we should all have to wait 17 years before these studies that are really showing the value of this get into the medical literature because you and I both know when something's found out to be really helpful. It doesn't get into the mainstream for 17 years, even now, even now with the internet. And you can see why. I mean, here we have an argument about hydroquinone, whatever it is. Yeah.

Yeah. Clark Quinn, why are we having this political argument? It either works or it doesn't work. Just because a certain guy says, well, this is a good idea, or vitamin C. Linus Pauling talked about that. That's been used to treat polio way, way back. These things should not be political. Either works or it doesn't work. Yeah. Yeah. I absolutely agree. Absolutely great. Where do you feel like the menopausal woman? And I always kind of use menopausal as like, you know, quotes because it's like we don't have a really good term for the whole thing. It's like that's to me the parry, the in the middle and the post. But as I started to research for my own self, what I realized is that we are always so concerned about the 40-year-old that gets breast cancer because it's so young and ovarian cancer. But if you look at the statistics, over 70% of hormonal cancers happen post-menopausal. So at least the ones that I saw. So I'm curious, what happens to our immune system as we transition through this moment. And how does that relate to

disease and how does that relate to our current immunity with the virus? Okay, well, what's very interesting to me that, okay, so you know what you're taught as a doctor is, all right, age 50, right? If you haven't had your colonoscopy, you need one at age 50. If you haven't been getting yearly mammograms, you need them at age 50, as though age 50 is just one big cultural portal where, you know, if you're 49 and a half, no problems, but man, you turn 50 and then you got to sign up for all these things. You're not a statistic, so but these are all based on huge populations. It's like the age of 35. If you didn't have a baby yet, you know, your fertility plummets, but it doesn't. It just doesn't. And the vast majority of women get pregnant after that. I believe that what's happening is age 42,

the Iranis opposition, the wake up call. It's a big wake up call. You come to a, a crossroads. One road says grow, the other road says die. If you choose the road that says die, then you're a setup for all these so-called diseases of aging. And they're not. They're not. I always love to look at the curves and the points on a curve, because I remember this way back in residency, looking at the points on the curve for osteoporosis for bone density. And I would see 85-year-olds with the bone density of a 25-year-old. And I'd see 25-year-olds with the bone density of an 80-year-old. Interesting. And I would say, what's going on here. So what I would say to women, don't pay any attention, pay no attention to what you're told about what the course of this is. You can change it at any time.

And my other approach is because we assign so much to someone's age. Well, at this age, da-da-da-da-da, right? So I would just suggest stopping with the age thing. Like I don't even want to know my age. So if I have to go to the motor vehicle department, you know, I'll put down the birth date or the age and then, you know, put my hand over it and say this doesn't apply to me. I really don't want my body to know. Like when people say, how old are you? It's like I don't really know. And if I did, I don't want my body to know.

Yeah, I love it. And I use an elliptical trainer for years, for years. I've just put the word, you know, the age. to 40 in the elliptical trainer. Whenever I do an exercise machine, it's like 40. Because the algorithms that work those things are all set up to decline with increasing age. And that does not need to be the case. My friend Mario Martinez studied 700 healthy, healthy centenarians and wrote a book called the Mind Body Code. And he said, they all have the same thing in common. You asked them, when's the last time you saw a doctor? go, I don't know, my doctors are all dead.

You know, or you just ask them any of those questions. They don't, they don't, they're, they've stepped out of the paradigm, out of the portal. And that's what we all need to do. And this perimenopausal time is a perfect time to do it because all of the adverse programming, the ages programming is going to come and hit you between the eyes. And you will go through the dark night of the same. soul. You just do where you think, okay, that's it for me. I'll never be attractive again. If you're single, I'll never meet a man because all the man wants someone who's 20 years younger. These are all,

this is all fake news. None of it is true. None of it is true, but it's in the water. It's like in the culture, right? Oh, so true. And so what you have to do, and that's why I wrote the book Goddesses Never Age, you know, because I came to a milestone birthday that I didn't want to have and I thought this cannot be the end. I'm not going to do it. And at the time, you know, I was learning tango and I went to Buenos Aires dance tango. And again, I found that my dream, my hope, was correct, that there was this whole other life and that it wasn't over. And then that's certainly been my experience. So what I would say to the average 42-year-old, 44-year-old, 46-year-old, I'd say, honey, you are just getting started. The best years are all ahead. And they are. Yeah.

I mean, now at this point, you know, I have a pretty substantial social media following, and I'll say things that are controversial. And in the past, you know, if I had one troll, someone, you know, telling me, you know, that I was irresponsible and dangerous and all that stuff, now I laugh at it. In the past, it would have stopped me dead in my tracks because in your 20s and 30s, you're trying to fit in, you're trying to raise a family, you've got to keep the peace, you've got to do all that. But man, every decade after the 40s, you get more and more transparent and pregnant with your

truth. I love it. I love it. Oh, my gosh. I love that. So I turned 50 last year and my daughter just turned 20. And I feel like I'm still like my spirit age is 25. And I always tell her like, we're almost the same age.

Soon we'll be exactly the same age. And I think there's something really powerful about what you said about don't put your age into something as simple as your elliptical machine because you're just, yeah, amazing, amazing. And you, by the way, I just want my audience to know, depending on when we air this, but what you're doing with your Great Awakening series on Facebook right now is incredible. So I don't know what your intention is with that or what you're just, but it's, so what did you just? feel like you wanted to come out and just start speaking because we're all in quarantine? Or is there? Oh, this is funny. So here's what happened.

So I was on the cover of a local magazine called Maine Women's Magazine. And it was just, you know, I have had very few interviews in my own home state. But this was a wonderful interview. Very sweet. It wasn't one of those, you know, where they're trying to get me to be controversial or they want me to prove whatever I'm saying, which has been. my whole career, you know, really, like toes to the fire. How do you know what you know? You know, you know, are you a quack? That kind of thing. So this was just a sweet interview. But what happened

is I was very involved in the informed consent movement in Maine. And last summer, we gathered over 100,000 signatures of people who wanted to simply have the right to an individualized vaccine schedule or, you know, to, because that's just important. And so I went to the, my beloved is a PhD epidemiologist. So he knows this area. And he said, you should go, you should go up to the statehouse and testify. And I thought, okay. And I write up my little thing. And it's kind of, it's ironclad with all the peer reviewed literature and Maine got a 95% vaccination rate anyway, which gives you herd immunity, which isn't really a thing when you've been vaccinated, but we won't get into that.

But I go up there, right, to the Statehouse, which I've never done. I've never been political. I'm an independent. I don't care what they do. And there are three overflow rooms of parents with little kids, all these kids who were vaccine injured, and then I go into the hearing room, and I watch as the powers that be on the panel ignored what I was seeing as a physician.

I mean, it's women standing up there saying, I have one kid who started to have seizures two hours after the vaccine and then all the doctors ignored me. And now they want me to give 70 vaccines to my two-year-old and, you know, by the time they're five. And whatever the age is. And so I just, I'd like to individualize and maybe give one at a time very, very reasonable. And so I thought, well, this was all reasonable. And I've always listened to my patients. That's how I got to know what I know. And it just was shoved onto the table. Anyhow, and then for political maneuvering reasons, we lost the referendum because they put it on a Democratic presidential primary and not on a mainstream everyone election. And but there was this group of people that were just nasty. The, head of the Christian Civic League in our states that I've never seen the vitriol that this is brought up.

I've just sort of never seen it. And so, you know, we finished the campaign. But now, you know, we've got this wonderful group of people in our state. We're all kind of organized who love each other and we're for informed consent. It's just basic, hypocratic oath, informed consent. everyone should know what's being injected into yourself or your child, right? Simple stuff. Okay.

So that was that. Then I'm on the cover of Maine Women's Magazine. And the next thing you know, this group is boycotting Maine Women's Magazine and all over the internet with a local business saying that how could they have me on the cover at the time of this pandemic? I'm an anti-vaxxer. and I believe that the virus is a hoax and all this stuff. And then they did more than that.

They went to their own business page and announced, there's these terms that I'm learning. Virtue signaling, that's a term I'm willing. Virtue signaling. They are telling everybody that they are no longer going to advertise with Maine Women's Magazine because I am on the cover and they were so irresponsible to put me on the cover during this time of pandemic. And I should be in jail, you know, and all that.

And then that wasn't enough. They then called the magazine. It's kind of a new magazine. And they just do a wonderful job of trying to showcase a variety of women from every walk of life. But then they said, we are no longer going to advertise with them. And then they called all the people who advertise with them and told them that they should withdraw their advertising dollars. This is called, by the way, I just learned this one, cancel culture.

I heard that all one year of lives, yeah. Well, that's what it is. Okay, it means I don't think that I want to hear this. So I'm going to make sure that you don't hear it either, which is not, it goes against civil discourse, right? Yeah. So anyway, we're now in that situation where all of this stuff is out there. And so one of my friends who's an intuitive in Sedona, she goes, she says to me, here's the thing. We need people speaking the truth more than ever.

So this is not the time to retreat. It gives them too much power. This is the time to rise. And so I started on 444, the great planetary meditation day, when in fact, over a million people meditated and it changed the Schumann resonance of the earth, which is the electromagnetic field. And so I just thought, well, I'll just say something every day about this rebirth because we have to work with 3D. That's like your hormone levels. And then we have to work with 5D, which is what your soul's doing. And we have to integrate both of them now. And so I just started every

day saying a little thing about this great awakening. I mean, I'm a board certified obstetrician. I know how you attend birth. I know how to do it. And I know when it gets really hard, women want to leave. When they get like almost fully dilated in transition, I'm done, I'm out of here. And I thought, okay, it's my turn to maybe I can do something with my energy field as an old soul empaths, because old soul empaths just carry a lot of light, not because our ego is involved. It's because we've been on the planet so many times. We just carry light. So we're like, purifiers and I thought, all right, I'll just use this platform and see what happens. And every day, it has been so positive. Why? Because I'm articulating what so many people feel, but they have not

heard any kind of thought leader say it because mainly everyone's too afraid. Yes. If I say, guess how many millions of people probably have had the virus and recovered from it? What do you get in social media? There are people dying. You are being irresponsible. Like you're talking about that it's okay to go out and play. You could be killing someone. None of that is true.

None of that is true. When this is over, we will find out more stuff that people don't want to know. And I posted about the movie Out of Shadow, the official, which is astounding about Hollywood. So it's a time of revelation. But my one on cognitive dissonance, like how difficult it is to wake up and find out that the institutions you believed in

had your best interest at heart. And when you find out that they don't, and that includes your family members, by the way, the cognitive dissonance is so difficult. Well, what perimenopause is, is waking up and seeing things you couldn't have seen before because your brain wasn't ready. So remember, we go from alternating current to direct current. And your FSHLH stay up at the same level that they were at for ovulation,

but for the rest of your life. So I call it being maximally receptive to cross-pollination. And so it is women after the age of 40 who are actually waking up. Oh, my gosh. But there are some, you know, 18, 17-year-olds now, too, who are very awake. And that's just freaking exciting. Oh, my gosh. I started to do it.

I love you. And I love the way you think. And, yeah, absolutely agree. So where do people find you? I mean, I'm watching you on Facebook. So hopefully people continue there. But where do people find you? I know you're redoing your books.

Yep. Everything's on Dr. Northrop.com, a brand new updated version of women's body. women's wisdom. I call it my post-me-to version. In 1994, when it first came out, everyone thought my patients were crazy because I made a connection between their symptoms and their life. Now it's the post-me-2 era. So it sort of bookends my career. That was my first book ever. And so that's coming out in May and then I have a women's health course. So I can talk women through, hey, this is what your body's telling you and you can work with this. So that's in June. But you can find everything on Dr. Northerop.

And then I have an e-news that goes out every other week. So you can get stuff there. And then I'm on Instagram and Facebook. And I just do that every day. And by the way, it's interesting right now. I think so many of us are talking to each other with social media that I'll try to get those videos uploaded like five, six times before they actually go. So sometimes something that I recorded in the morning won't post until 10.30 at night. Oh, because everybody's putting their stuff on.

I think because everyone's putting your stuff on it. Yeah. Yeah. Well, we need you to keep screaming. So please, please keep doing it. And I adore you. And thank you so much. I mean, I don't know if I told you this. But when my, I really hit that low with my menopause, your book was where I went. I'm like, okay, let me pull the Bible out here. And even though it was written years ago, was still very applicable. So thank you for everything that you're doing. So grateful for you. Thank you. Thank you. cycle as types out that's what that's what resetting is all