Burn Fat Like A Girl + Q&A with Dr. Mindy Pelz

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Okay, YouTube. Dr. Mindy here and I am back with my 400 pm Pacific time live with you all. So, um, as we're sort of

getting settling into this, um, I just want to go through some logisticy stuff first. tell me where you are, where you

first. tell me where you are, where you live, because I'd love seeing who's following us, uh, where our audience is at. So, you can put that in the chat.

at. So, you can put that in the chat.

Um, I also I have another interesting question for you all since we're here on YouTube. Um, I'm curious what you

YouTube. Um, I'm curious what you notice, what of the videos I've been doing recently, what are you resonating with the most? And the reason I asked

this is I'm going to I'm going to fill you in on a little secret, which is the uh I spend all day Monday researching,

sometimes Sunday as well, researching and uh writing out scripts and doing my videos and and we do them based off of

uh what we see trending and what you guys are looking for. So, I've been doing a lot recently on Ompic because so many people are asking us what diet

would go with Ompic. Uh what how to not lose muscle with Ompic. Um you got you all have some deeper uh questions around fasting now that the world has been

fasting for a while. Um, and so I just I'm just honestly curious um because I want you I I want to always be giving

you videos that are incredibly helpful.

Um, I'm also in the same curious place.

Uh, would love to know what you want more videos of. Um, because I literally follow the breadcrumbs. I follow the videos that have have more views, have

more comments. We read your comments um,

more comments. We read your comments um, and we look at them. And so we are really always trying to customize this channel for you. So I'm just kind of curious what you're looking for. Okay.

So there's that. Now I am going to answer your questions. Don't worry. Um

but I have to go through something that my brain can't put down right now. Um

and I I think I don't know if I've told you all this, but um I'm a pattern watcher and I was raised by a math teacher. And uh my mom used to show I

teacher. And uh my mom used to show I mean everything in in life was a mathematical equation. So we would drive

mathematical equation. So we would drive around everywhere uh doing math. Um uh

my mom would set up all these random math questions that we would look my sister and I would look out into the world and look for the patterns and how they all uh come together. And I as I fell in love with the human body uh in

my adult life and studying the human body, I realized that the human body is quite mathematical that um it it has a lot of patterns and once you understand

the patterns of its behavior, then you know how to take better care of it. And

so one of the patterns that I have seen about the feminine body that I think is really important and I want to bring up today is that the female body more than

the male body. The female body will respond to every single environment that it is put in. So let me explain myself.

If I put if we put the female body in a stressful environment, it will start to change in bad ways. So

if it's under chronic stress, the reproductive system will go down. The uh

nervous system will get locked into a state of fight or flight. Uh the

emotional system becomes unregulated.

uh from even just one negative environment, we see changes in microbes and those are the microbes that are giving you like these GLP-1 hormones.

And so then those microbes start to change. Um and we see watch the immune

change. Um and we see watch the immune system change. This is like uh uh

system change. This is like uh uh autoimmune conditions where all of a sudden you get an overactive ammune system. And so in in Eat Like a Girl, I

system. And so in in Eat Like a Girl, I tried to create a a picture of it because I'm a I'm a visual learner. And

it's called the disregulation loop is the way I looked at it. Is that one system because of the environments we put ourselves in over and over and over

again. We start to see one system fall

again. We start to see one system fall and then we see another system fall and then another system fall. And I there were six systems that I identified in

eat like a girl that once they all start falling it becomes this loop. So

metabolic system is number one. This is

why I spend so much time here on YouTube trying to help you all with metabolic health because if your metabolic health goes down, everything else in the body goes down. This is your it's your energy

goes down. This is your it's your energy system. And so if if you're not if your

system. And so if if you're not if your body doesn't know how to take food in and convert it into energy or it doesn't know how to heal itself when it's

fasting, if that metabolic switch is off, then the whole energy of the system goes down and now you're ending up with all kinds of problems. This is why I've

written so many books on this on metabolic health because we've I always tell my academy members, I told my patients this for years. We've got to dial in metabolic health first. And my

big beef on these weight loss drugs is if you're on them, you have pharmarmacologically changed. You have

pharmarmacologically changed. You have not physiologically changed. You're

those drugs have only worked for you if once you get off of them, you hold that new weight. And they've only worked for

new weight. And they've only worked for you if if you're preserving muscle. And

we're not seeing that happen. This is

again why I'm trying to help you all with a diet that will match that weight loss. um that you're getting perhaps

loss. um that you're getting perhaps from these drugs. Okay, so we have the metabolic system. Then we've got your

metabolic system. Then we've got your nervous system. So if you if a woman's

nervous system. So if you if a woman's body gets locked in fight or flight because she's stressed over and over and over again, then what ends up happening

um is, you know, infertility rates are through the roof. And a large reason for that is the women's reproductive system has completely shut down. And once it

shuts down because the environment is so stressful, it's really hard to get it back going again to actually become fertile. And so we we you know that's an

fertile. And so we we you know that's an example of the nervous system now affecting the reproductive system. Or

those of you that are let's go back to weight loss. Those of you that are

weight loss. Those of you that are trying to lose weight, a lot of you what happens is that you come in to lose weight and you can't lose weight because the body's stuck in its nervous system

is stuck in fight or flight. And so you can't seem to to move in any direction.

So, um, we've got to get your nervous system relaxed before we can start to lose weight. So, we've got the nervous

lose weight. So, we've got the nervous system. The third one is the microbial

system. The third one is the microbial system. If you've been on rounds of

system. If you've been on rounds of antibiotics over and over and over again, if you've been in environments of high stress, if you've been eating the wrong foods, you've decimated your gut

microbes. And those microbes are making

microbes. And those microbes are making you neurotransmitters. are making you um

you neurotransmitters. are making you um the GLP-1 hormone. They're pivotal for your health. Once those go off, now we

your health. Once those go off, now we see the immune system go off. So now

once the immune system is off, you're either catching colds all the time or you have an autoimmune condition. And

then we see the endocrine system going off and all of a sudden your thyroid problem has become a menopausal problem and then we see our emotions completely

spiraling. Any anybody resonating with

spiraling. Any anybody resonating with this? Like one system goes off, then the

this? Like one system goes off, then the follows the next system, and then the next system, and the next system. So

here's my thing. We need a systems approach to healing. We as women need a complete package when we heal. We don't

do well with this little shiny object that somebody puts in front of us and says, "Hey, you should start fasting and your whole life will change." I haven't said that. I said fasting is a tool.

said that. I said fasting is a tool.

It's a part of a of a toolbox and it's a really powerful tool. Or somebody's

going to come to you and be like, "Here's this supplement. This one helped me sleep overnight. It was like a miracle." And the next thing we all go

miracle." And the next thing we all go running out for for the supplement and we take it and we're like, "Ah, shoot.

It didn't work." And we all of a sudden think it's us. And then all of a sudden, we become emotionally unstable. We

become really reactive to everybody around us. And then we think it's we

around us. And then we think it's we think it's our husband's fault or we think it's our kids' fault or we think it's our the you know somehow we're feeling really shitty because of you

know the a political leader we didn't agree with. Do you see where I'm going

agree with. Do you see where I'm going with this? That women need a systems

with this? That women need a systems approach to healing which is why we can't just take one healing tool and

expect it to change our whole entire body. We need a whole systems approach

body. We need a whole systems approach to it. And so if you're resonating with

to it. And so if you're resonating with this, a just file that in your brain as you're starting to put tools together. I

kind of think of it like you're creating your own toolbox where you're like, "Yep, I like that 12-hour fast, but I don't want to go bigger than that. But

that tool is going in my box." And then I I don't I was on a call today with our reset academy where somebody's like, I love the carnivore idea. Okay, I'm going to take that tool and I'm going to use

it for the carnivore diet and I'm going to put it in here and that will be a tool and like I'm I've found I don't like working out in the gym. I like

working out in nature. So, I surf in the morning and hike in the afternoon. Okay,

I'm going to take that tool that's my workout tool and put it in there. And we

need to create our own healing system.

Nobody has ever taught us how to create our own healing system that is unique to us. And as women, that is way more

us. And as women, that is way more important than living in a male body because our body has so it's so sophisticated and it's so in tune with

all the environments that we put it ourselves in. Does that make sense? So,

ourselves in. Does that make sense? So,

if you're missing that system, just when you when one tool might not work, like maybe you don't like skipping breakfast, you just take that tool out of your box

and you put it down and you go, "Okay, I'm I'm going to eat breakfast and you bring that tool in and you put it back into your box." So, this is the complete

learning system I'm trying to teach people around health. I hope it'll help you look at my videos a little different because they're all just here's a tool for you. What do you think of that?

for you. What do you think of that?

Here's a tool for you. What do you think of that? And you and that's literally

of that? And you and that's literally what I'm doing with these videos is giving you some tools and then your job is to take the tool and go, do does that

work for me? Do I like that tool or does that not work for me? So look at my YouTube channel that way. If you are trying to put your own system together,

I am doing something for the first time that I've never done before and I'm over the moon excited about. I'm doing an in-person live event here in California

in June at 14:40. I believe it's June 11th, 12th, and 13th. My team will put a a link in here and we are going to help

you build your toolbox. We meaning my team and myself. I will be there for the whole time. We are literally rolling up

whole time. We are literally rolling up our sleeves and helping you create your own systems toolbox so that when you walk out of this retreat, you will have

an action plan that's unique to you that isn't shiny object syndrome. It is a complete package. So, if you're if

complete package. So, if you're if you're open for that, you want to come and get your own custom system, join me in June. I'd love to hug you. I'd love

in June. I'd love to hug you. I'd love

to be with you. But more importantly, I'm really trying to hope you're seeing that I'm trying to pull people out of what's happening with with health on

social media, which is us being like a dog chasing its tail where we're like, "Oh, I want that system. I want that tool." And then we go and we watch

tool." And then we go and we watch somebody and we're like, "Wait, wait, that person says I shouldn't be doing it. Okay, well, it was working for me.

it. Okay, well, it was working for me.

Let me put that tool down." And we It's crazy making. Do you I is am I the only

crazy making. Do you I is am I the only one that sees this? It is absolute crazy making. You need to customize your

making. You need to customize your systems. So anyways, I just so as I move forward and I answer questions, I want you to think about that. I'm you ask me

a question and it sometimes I don't know your whole life, but I'm trying to put it through the lens of here's here's a tool that you get to put into your toolbox and then and into a health

system for yourself. Make sense? Okay,

great. Thank you for letting me get that out of me. Um, okay. First question. Uh,

where can freshly mil sourdough fit in?

I'm usually using organic ancient grapes. Um, okay. This is a good

grapes. Um, okay. This is a good question because I did a I did a video that you all seem to have loved on sourdough bread and there is some really

interesting research on the fermentation of of different grains. And so freshly

mil sourdough has a very specific um uh bacteria that it makes that is not only great for serotonin production, not

only great for uh dopamine, so the the ones that make us happy, basically sourdough makes you happy. Um that

bacteria can help you make the happy hormones. Let's just put it there. So

hormones. Let's just put it there. So

when we ferment different grains, what happens is that the byproduct of that is good healthy probiotics. Just like when

we ferment cabbage, the byproduct of it is a new probiotic. But what's so fascinating about sourdough is the byproduct are these happy these happy

neurotransmitters that make you happy.

Anybody eaten sourdough felt a little more joyful? you thought you might have

more joyful? you thought you might have thought it was because the taste, but it there's actually some bacteria in there that will will be able to make you dopamine and serotonin.

Second thing that I really want to point out because I've been I've been um really interested in this idea around food noise. So, I put in the comments if

food noise. So, I put in the comments if you've had really bad food noise before because one of the things that Oh, shoot. I lost your comments. There we

shoot. I lost your comments. There we

going to have to find them again for me.

Um, one of the things that I, um, I've been really researching food noise because I think we never heard of food noise before. We haven't really talked

noise before. We haven't really talked about in our society about food noise.

And so, one of the things that I know is that there are 12 different contributors to food noise. So, when you hear people say, I went on the weight loss drugs and

all of a sudden the food noise stopped.

I stopped thinking about food. if there

were one if not multiple reasons, 12 different reasons. And I will be doing

different reasons. And I will be doing more videos on this for you all on what these 12 reasons are. And so what we want to make sure is that you're that

you're minimizing these 12. Well, one of them, this goes back to sourdough, one of them is uh glyadin. So, glyadmin is a

component of gluten and the research shows that people who eat gluten consume over 400 more calories a day than people

who do not eat gluten. Now, the reason for this is a very specific component of gluten called glyadin. Glyadin is an

amino acid that that gluten breaks down into. It goes up into the brain and it

into. It goes up into the brain and it tells your brain you want more fib. But

what's really beautiful about fermented breads is that the gluten gets fermented off and this giadin component is

literally gone. So let's use myself as

literally gone. So let's use myself as an example. I have been gluten-free. I'm

an example. I have been gluten-free. I'm

56 and I have been gluten-free since I was diagnosed back in my 20s with chronic fatigue syndrome. I had really bad candida, really high levels of

Epstein bar virus. And the first food change a holistic doc did for me over 36 years ago is to take gluten out of my

diet. And once I took it out, it was

diet. And once I took it out, it was like a game changer. Put in the comments if if that's you. So we have to start looking at bread with a new lens because

sourdough it's fermented doesn't have m as much gluten which is amazing. So it's not going to have glyadin and it may has a

probiotic it that it will make a good bacteria that will help me make serotonin and dopamine.

Okay.

Does that make it an unhealthy food? I'm

kind of curious what you all think. Does

that make it unhealthy or is it healthy?

I I I wish I could um I wish I could see them bigger. I don't know how to see it

them bigger. I don't know how to see it bigger. Um so so think about that

bigger. Um so so think about that because when the keto movement came into effect, one of the things that we saw was

everybody was like, "Oh, carbs are bad.

No more carbs." And then we went into this, this is what we do as a culture.

We get so excited about something that we're like, "This is good and this is bad." So, we were like, "No, it's so

bad." So, we were like, "No, it's so bad. Everybody stay off of carbs." And

bad. Everybody stay off of carbs." And

then everybody got off carbs. And what

happened? We lost weight. We we got our mental clarity went up. Uh we may have gotten more energy. Um our hunger went down and everybody was like, "Oh my god,

carbs are amazing."

But then what ended up happening is pe you can't go that long without carbs.

You need carbs. Like you like for things like serotonin. People are like, "Well,

like serotonin. People are like, "Well, I have a great me memory and mental clarity, but I'm depressed all the time." And so all of a sudden we as a

time." And so all of a sudden we as a culture came back and said, "Okay, where do where do carbs fit in? Is it possible that carbs are good?" And that's where

we sit right now is this we're in this nutritional concept right now where we're looking at hey maybe there's some good ways to do carbs and those could be

um in form of fermented breads. So for

me even though I haven't been eating bread uh gluten bread for over 30 years because it really helped me with chronic fatigue syndrome. It's okay. Um, I then

fatigue syndrome. It's okay. Um, I then uh I I started getting into some fermented breads and I can do fermented breads because the gluten has been fermented off and I still get those

added probiotics. Okay, does that make

added probiotics. Okay, does that make sense? So, and and this is the pattern I

sense? So, and and this is the pattern I want you to all watch. Now, what do we do with health trends? We are like a new shiny object comes up and we're like, woo, [cheering] I'm going to try that.

It works for us and we're like, this is amazing. And then we start to find the

amazing. And then we start to find the holes in it. Give it a moment. Give it a hot moment. We find some holes and then

hot moment. We find some holes and then people either go, "Well, that trend's horrible." And the trend falls apart. Or

horrible." And the trend falls apart. Or

it morphs into something new. So carbs

are morphing into something new. The

carb conversation is there are good carbs and there are bad carbs. And for

women, there is a time to eat carbs and there's a time to not eat carbs. So, we

have a new a new part of that conversation that's starting now. This

is what I think is happening with the weight loss drugs. We've gone from, "Oh my god, I could I could take a shot and I could drop weight instantly and we've

been in this love affair with these weight loss drugs, but now we're starting to have some questions. We're

starting to wonder, wait, is muscle loss a problem? That's not good. If I lose 30

a problem? That's not good. If I lose 30 pounds on Ozmpic and 10 of that is muscle and within a year of going back onto uh getting off Ompic, I'm going to

gain all that weight back, but I don't gain the muscle back. Not good. This is

not good. We also have some questions right now on the weight loss drugs about it kills desire. It kills desire for food in some people. It kills desire for

for success. It can kill desire in

for success. It can kill desire in relationships. We're there's a a big

relationships. We're there's a a big conversation going around like what's going to happen if we have a desireless world walking around that's thin with no

muscle. And so out of that is coming new

muscle. And so out of that is coming new lifestyle tools. So again, I'm trying to

lifestyle tools. So again, I'm trying to get you to see how to read the whole conversation that's that's going on out there so you can start to pick up on

what is working for you and what's not.

Okay. Um, okay. Olivia, what are some blood tests that are a must for pmenopausal women? Okay. So, I'm going

pmenopausal women? Okay. So, I'm going to tell you my number one blood test that is always the first thing I look at with I I get um blood uh work done at

least two sometimes four times a year.

Um I do it with my OB. We do it before we look at my medications, my my hormones. And what I'm only on that's

hormones. And what I'm only on that's the only medication I'm on is my [clears throat] HRT. And what do we need to do? So the very first number is

to do? So the very first number is hemoglobin A1C. If your metabolic health

hemoglobin A1C. If your metabolic health is off, your hormonal health will be off. You want your hemoglobin A1C to be

off. You want your hemoglobin A1C to be closer as close to 5.0 as possible. If

it's over 5.5, then you are moving towards pre-diabetes. I think they say

pre-diabetes. I think they say pre-diabetes is about 5.8. But you are moving into a place where your metabolic health is disregulated over 5.5.

And if it's disregulated, how did I start this off? All those other systems are going to be disregulated. So I I I've always thought like I have a dream

like if you could take every 30 year old, every 38y old, every 36 year old and say, "Look, around this time you're losing progesterone, your hormones are

starting to to really fluctuate. Let's

make sure by the time you get to 40, your hemoglobin A1C is at 5.0."

We the we would we would blow the menopause conversation apart. People

would be like I don't have any problems through menopause because we would have fixed the single most important marker for menopause which is hemoglobin A1C.

Second most important marker for for Perry and I know you said Perry. So I

when I say menopause sometimes I put it all together. So for perry menopause as

all together. So for perry menopause as you're going into that experience the second most important marker is your vitamin D levels. You want your vitamin

D to be above 50. So somewhere between 50 and 70. A lot of experts will tell you 70, but you want it in that range

because vitamin D is critical for hormone production and your hormones are already starting to decline. I think of

hormones as like you're baking bread. If

you are going to bake bread and you only and the recipe calls for two cups of flour and you only have a cup, how good

is your bread going to be? Not so good.

You don't have enough of the ingredients. So, how you're going to

ingredients. So, how you're going to maybe you try, but the bread's going to be sloppy. It's not going to taste good.

be sloppy. It's not going to taste good.

That's the same thing with your hormones. If your vitamin D is low, you

hormones. If your vitamin D is low, you don't have the ingredients to make enough of that hormone. I I obsess on my vitamin D, and I'm like one of those

strange people that I can't really take it orally, so I have to go to my local IV clinic to get injections of vitamin D to get it up. It's just a weird thing

about my body. So, vitamin D and and um and uh hemoglobin A1C are the are the most important. Okay. Now there are

most important. Okay. Now there are other ones I would look at. So liver

function, A, ALT, um, Billy Rubin, these are all indicators of how well is your liver functioning. And the liver is

liver functioning. And the liver is really important because it's where we start to make hormones. It's where we break hormones down. You're it's where

we burn fat. So, you want to make sure that I'm not going to give you numbers, but I'm just going to say in general, we want to look at all of those liver markers and make sure your liver is

working and and performing the way that you want it. Okay. Second, the the next thing you want to look at is CRP, C reactive protein. This is an indicator

reactive protein. This is an indicator of inflammation in your body. If your

inflammation is high, your pmenopausal symptoms are going to be a bit bumpy.

So, we want to make sure that your inflammation levels are low. So, CRP

being high means you have high levels of inflammation. So, you could just go look

inflammation. So, you could just go look at your blood work, go look at the reference range and see where CRP is. Is

it closer to the high end? Is it closer to the low end? Let's let's look at that. Look at all of those together.

that. Look at all of those together.

Okay. Next thing you you asked. I'm just

going to keep going. Next thing, uh look at your thyroid. 50% of women going through pmenopause, they start to um experience thyroid problems. So, let's

But thyroid isn't just about measuring TSH. You want to measure TSH, T4, uh,

TSH. You want to measure TSH, T4, uh, free, total T4, free T4, total T3, free T3, reverse T3. Um, there, uh,

antibodies. You want a complete thyroid

antibodies. You want a complete thyroid panel so that you can keep a target, keep an eye on that thyroid doing. Okay,

that is a that's a the thyroid is a key one. Thyroid and liver. Okay, let's talk

one. Thyroid and liver. Okay, let's talk about cardiovascular system. So yes, you when estrogen goes down, we know that

total cholesterol can go up. We know

that we will see things like um like LDLs go up, but we also want to see if your HDLs are going up. HDLs are a a

key, those are the happy cholesterol.

That's what's protective. And LDLs are the unhappy ones. They'll kill you. And

so, but total cholesterol is no longer the gold standard. We need to dive deeper in and look at LDLs and HDLs and we need to look at your triglycerides.

We need a complete approach and there is a new marker that is really becoming popular right now which is LP little A which is a cardiovascular marker that can show up during menopause that is

genetic. I personally have it just found

genetic. I personally have it just found that out. Um and that can lead to

that out. Um and that can lead to cardiovascular problems without uh without any lifestyle influence. So

there's a lot there. Um, we need to look at the cardiovascular system, the thyroid system. We need to look at the

thyroid system. We need to look at the liver. We need to know metabolically

liver. We need to know metabolically what's going on with you. And we need to know what inflammatory situation is happening. And once you have that, you

happening. And once you have that, you can you can kind of know which lever to pull. So the actual estrogen,

pull. So the actual estrogen, progesterone, testosterone levels, they're good, but they flex they can fluctuate every day. So sometimes I look

at my lab work and I'm like, "Well, that's what it was yesterday." So, um, maybe maybe tomorrow it's different because remember, the female body is

always adapting to every environment she puts it in. So, I might have put myself in an environment before the day of the blood test that was really nourishing

for my hormones. So, I walk in and I get a great reading in my hormones from my blood work. Whereas the next time I put

blood work. Whereas the next time I put myself in a really stressful environment before I go into uh measure my hormones and my hormones are tanked because the

female body doesn't do well with stress like that. It's going to shut down those

like that. It's going to shut down those reproduction or those sex hormones.

Okay, hopefully that helped. That was a lot. But I but really important that you

lot. But I but really important that you see it through a system. This is the this is the theme of the of this Q&A is your system. the system. We have to get

your system. the system. We have to get away from just focusing on one thing but looking at the whole ecosystem. Okay.

Hope that helped. So, okay. Uh I give all tools I truly at least a year or two. Oh my god, Michelle, I love this.

two. Oh my god, Michelle, I love this.

Keto carnivore Atkins. Yeah, for more than a year with a with few results.

Yeah. Awesome. Okay, so here's Michelle.

Michelle, I just want to say, you know, good on you for giving them two years.

That's really, really cool. And I, you know, you're you're preaching to the choir to me. I I I used to do I mean, I

spent how many years? I spent about 20 years in practice before I found fasting where I was really seriously working on

my patients diets. We were a lifestyle medicine clinic, like from the get-go, from when that wasn't even a term. And

so I noticed that there were just a subset of people that it did not matter what diet I threw at them that they wouldn't their weight wouldn't budge.

But once we got them fasting and then we combined that diet with fasting, everything changed because you have two metabolisms. One that gets turned on when you eat food and one that gets

turned on when you fast. And if you're over here just playing the game of changing your food, changing your food, changing your food style, and you never

come in here and change when you eat, not only what you eat, but when you eat, you you've missed a whole 50% of your metabolism.

So, I love this. And I'll tell you what I do and maybe you all can put in the comments what you do. But I I whenever I a new diet comes out, I'm I I'm like,

let me try it. I do it exactly like it's meant to be done. And then usually when I get to the my trial period, I always give it at least 90 days. I I can say that I like and that I don't like. And

then you pull a piece out of it and I put it in my toolbox. So um anyways, I loved your comment, Michelle. Thank you.

Okay. Uh,

let's see what's next. Um,

one.

Nope. I see Michelle's still, but I'm gonna read the comments.

Sorry.

Um, uh, Dr. M. So, did you remove Yeah, I did my I removed gluten from my diet.

Um, I I actually do this now. I have a gluten budget. So, I will do some And if

gluten budget. So, I will do some And if I do gluten, it will only be sourdough.

I won't do I won't do straight gluten.

So, I might have a piece of sourdough once every couple of weeks. Um, and then I and then I go off of it. But if I had I' I've been gluten-free for, like I

said, like 35 years. If I decided to go back to gluten um every day, I I I almost want to do that so you can see me. [laughter]

me. [laughter] My husband says no. So, you can see what it would look like. You would watch me gain weight. You would watch me start

gain weight. You would watch me start searching for words. You I would be bloated. Um it it's not pretty. I don't

bloated. Um it it's not pretty. I don't

I if you want to know like one major diet change you can make, get off gluten for 30 days and try it. Try it and see how you feel. It's crazy. Okay. Okay.

Dr. Bindy, can you please explain enhanced protein hydrayzeed collagen peptides is the same. Yeah. Yeah. This

is a good uh So, Cat is asking this peptides and collagen peptides. Okay,

let's have a little peptide conversation.

So, what you're seeing in those collagen peptide uh pow powders, that's just collagen. Peptides has become an a

collagen. Peptides has become an a buzzword. So, don't get lured in to

buzzword. So, don't get lured in to thinking that because it says peptides, it's some has some super capability to

it. So, what it is is that the collagen

it. So, what it is is that the collagen peptides, it's just collagen. Peptides,

let me back up. What are peptides?

Peptides are amino acid sequences. So,

you you put these amino acids together and they in a certain sequence and they are now called a peptide. So collagen is

is comes from animal anything with animal that we get animal like meat or or bone broth or powder like this animal

meat has amino acids in it. So the amino acid makeup in a certain order that it that if and I don't even know what the order is but let's say you have 12 amino

acids that make up collagen. We would

call that a collagen peptide. and it's

put in powder form. I think those are great. I think they're very helpful. Uh

great. I think they're very helpful. Uh

a lot of people are especially menopausal women are noticing changes in joint. Their joints feel more uh

joint. Their joints feel more uh lubricated. They can see changes in

lubricated. They can see changes in their skin. Um and and that's great. But

their skin. Um and and that's great. But

it is not peptide therapy. It is it is just collagen powder. Peptide therapy is actually um what some people are doing

which they all have weird names like BPC157 is the most um uh popular one for gut

health. BPC157

health. BPC157 is a chain of amino acids that when put these amino acids in the proper order,

it will speed up healing. And so all of a sudden you get an amplified healing effect. Um, another really popular

effect. Um, another really popular peptide that I think is great is GHK- CU. It is the amino acid sequence that

CU. It is the amino acid sequence that helps you make collagen so that it affects skin and hair. Now, I'm going to

put all of these peptide things in in context of put it into a system like I did with Ozmpic.

Peptides are so massively import right now. But why right now? Why why are they

now. But why right now? Why why are they the shiny object of the moment? And I

think it's it's again because we're not getting enough nutrition. GLP1 hormone

by the way, ozic, uh, wgo, some of mandaro, those those are built off of a peptide called tisepatide.

So, what is happening to our peptides, people? Why are our peptides going down?

people? Why are our peptides going down?

And now all of a sudden we need medication. We need powders and we need

medication. We need powders and we need shots to be able to get these peptides back into our body that are these naturally occurring things our body

already makes. Well, let's go back to

already makes. Well, let's go back to what amino acids are. Where do they come from? Amino acids come from animal

from? Amino acids come from animal products. So, if you are eating animal

products. So, if you are eating animal meat and you're doing a variety of it, you're most likely going to be getting some of these amino acids that will make

you these peptides.

So, we don't and if you're not eating meat, then I always recommend you take a amino acid supplement. My favorite is per perfect aminos. Uh we can put a link

in here where you can um you can you can order them if that interests you. But my

point is these new trends we have to go wait why wait why is our body not making that anymore? What did we do in modern

that anymore? What did we do in modern living? Oh, we're not we're not eating

living? Oh, we're not we're not eating enough protein. Oh, okay. Well, so we

enough protein. Oh, okay. Well, so we don't have enough amino acids to make these peptides. So now we have to inject

these peptides. So now we have to inject them. We have to powder them up because

them. We have to powder them up because we're not doing what we're supposed to be doing with our lifestyle. It's just

like the weight loss drugs. Oh, now we need the weight loss drugs because we're not making enough of this tepatide peptide because and we're not making

enough GLP-1 hormone. There's a combo there and because we killed the microbes that are supposed to make that in our gut. So now we got to come in with a

gut. So now we got to come in with a drug. Now I'm not saying don't do them.

drug. Now I'm not saying don't do them.

I'm just saying do them and understand why. Like like I'm such a fan of Okay.

why. Like like I'm such a fan of Okay.

Like I do peptides, but I do them when I do them occasionally. I don't do them all the time. When I do them, I'm like, what lifestyle tool did I miss? What

lifestyle tool do I need to make up for so that I don't need to rely on this peptide? It's the same thing with

peptide? It's the same thing with vitamin D. If I could figure out how to

vitamin D. If I could figure out how to get enough sun for vitamin D or eat enough sardines, I would not be shuttling my butt down to the IV clinic to get injected. But my lifestyle

obviously hasn't provided me enough opportunity or I can't seem to get enough sardines in my mouth to be able to bring my vitamin D levels up. So, the

reason I I put it in this system for you all is because I think it's important for us to be aware of why these trends are popping up. They're not just popping

up randomly. They're popping up because

up randomly. They're popping up because there is a deficit in our modern world, in our lifestyle, in our modern world

that is not providing us with some key component to health. So now we needed a fancy new medication or biohack to be

able to solve that problem. It's like

red light. I love red light. I have some really cool red light bulbs in my house.

Um why do we need red light? Well,

because we're not getting enough exposure to sunrises and sunsets. So

then we got to back fill in with that.

Okay, I could go I could give you a thousand examples, but I I hope you under I hope are you I'm try I'm trying to give you a way to think. Are you guys catching that? Like I so that you can

catching that? Like I so that you can see it for yourself. I'm I'm really my whole YouTube channel is to teach you how to think so you can start to make

the choices for yourself is so important. And there's plenty of people

important. And there's plenty of people who want to make the choices for you. I

don't. I want to show you how to make the right choice for you. Okay. And I

have the conversion for you on this one.

Okay, Patty. Um, Dr. M, I recently started wearing a CGM and I'm surprised how low my blood sugar is. Should I be concerned? It dips below 4.2.

concerned? It dips below 4.2.

It's down to 60.

Okay, 60.

It's not going up much.

Okay. Post meals. Post meals it goes no higher. Okay. So, this is a good Hold

higher. Okay. So, this is a good Hold on. Let me get some

on. Let me get some up to 100 postal.

Okay. We have 72 trillion cells and in each side in each one of these cells um lives many different mitochondria and the mitochondria are the battery of the

cell. And so one of the things around

cell. And so one of the things around these mitochondria is that when they are sick and they're not doing well, they can actually start to throw off

performance of the human body. And when

they throw off performance of the human body, one of the things they'll first do is throw off metabolic health. How would

you know if your mitochondria are needing some love and are actually affecting your metabolic health? Well,

how you would know is that you would either have very very high glucose numbers that won't come down or you would have very very low glucose numbers

that won't come up. They are the same problem.

with a little different twist in the solution. So, what I like to do is look

solution. So, what I like to do is look at the at the um at the rules of the mitochondria.

So, if I could go into each cell and look at this little tiny mitochondria, it has some rules it wants you to play by. The number one rule is the outer

by. The number one rule is the outer part of this mitochondria has a bi-pid membrane just like the outer part of your cell has a bi-pid

membrane. So I don't know your whole

membrane. So I don't know your whole health history but the the first thing I'm going to ask you to do is to be make sure that you are eating good oils and

not bad oils.

So, let's like make sure you've swapped your oils and so that you because if you have are eating the bad oils, canola oil, cottonseed oil, corn oil, what will

happen is that little mitochondria will swell up and become inflamed and it can't do its job. So, one of its jobs is regulating your blood sugar. And so,

it's not able to regulate your blood sugar. So, that's the first one. The

sugar. So, that's the first one. The

second thing that I don't know, but I I I'm assuming is that you are making ketones because one of the fastest ways to heal the mitochondria is to get a

daily dose of ketones. This is why I'm obsessed with fasting because it is the best way to get some ketones. So, when

you're fasting, let's make sure that you are getting uh you know, you're getting a splash of ketones every single day.

Otherwise, you might try some exogenous ketones. Might be helpful, especially

ketones. Might be helpful, especially when you go into a fast. If your blood sugar keeps dropping, I would try some exogenous ketones and see see what you

think of that. Okay, so that would be the second thing. The third thing the mitochondria wants is the same thing we keep talking about over and over again here, which is amino acids. So, make

sure you're getting enough protein, at least 30 grams with every meal. Ideally,

you want one gram of body weight uh ideal body weight or one pound of ideal body weight. I don't know what it is in

body weight. I don't know what it is in kilograms. Um to uh for every gram gram of protein. So, let's let's up your

of protein. So, let's let's up your protein. And then the last thing that

protein. And then the last thing that can really tank the uh people's blood sugar or spin it into other into either

too high or too low is toxins. And so,

um, look at your beauty products, look at your plastics, look at, um, you know, te have your water tested, see if it has lead in it. Those kind of things can be really sneaky. Make sure you don't have

really sneaky. Make sure you don't have mold in your house. Those kind of things can be really sneaky, and that's a whole another conversation. So, if you think

another conversation. So, if you think you have a toxic issue, you can come in our reset academy. We have a whole course on on toxins. Um or you or or

even like um uh the menopause reset, my my my first menopause book. Um it

actually has a whole chapter on toxins that's like straight and to the point.

So this was like my my little baby menopause book that is packed with so much information. So you could check

much information. So you could check that out, too. Okay.

Are you are you handpicking these for me today?

Okay. Um, wow. Okay. What are my thoughts on iron? This is my husband picks the questions. He's over here in the corner. And um, this is my new

the corner. And um, this is my new obsession. So, we picked this one. Uh, I

obsession. So, we picked this one. Uh, I

have a friend whose doctor keeps saying she needs more iron. What's a tool for iron? Do you don't want to go upstairs

iron? Do you don't want to go upstairs and grab my iron out of the refrigerator?

Uh, sure.

Okay.

Okay. I'm going to answer the question and then I'm going to show you what I'm doing with iron. So, uh, really interesting and and normal for women when they go through menopause to lose

iron. So, one of the of the, um, ways we

iron. So, one of the of the, um, ways we lose it is I don't know about you all, but um, some people, uh, start really hemorrhaging and bleeding a lot, and

that can cause you to lose iron. So, you

definitely need to have all your iron tested before you take an iron supplement. So the first thing you want

supplement. So the first thing you want to do is look at all of your iron levels, but it's more than just total

iron. So one of the key markers is

iron. So one of the key markers is ferotin. And feritin is stored iron. It

ferotin. And feritin is stored iron. It

is your iron reserves. And for

menopausal women, we would like our iron reserves to be over 75.

So, what happens to a lot of women with iron deficiencies is that they get a blood test and they look at that and they're like and they basically see, oh,

my saturation percentage is fine, my total iron is fine. Um, but they don't really recognize that their feritin is

low. Um, because once it dips down into

low. Um, because once it dips down into underneath 75, it means your stores are being depleted. And what you will see,

being depleted. And what you will see, thank you. What you will see, you're

thank you. What you will see, you're reminding me I haven't even taken my iron today. Um, what you will see is

iron today. Um, what you will see is that uh several things can happen. We

tend to think of it as uh anemia and we tend to think of it as fatigue, which would be extreme iron loss. Um, but

actually there are two other major things that start to happen when your um feritin stores specifically when that storage of iron goes down. Um, and that

is depression. It's a big big part of

is depression. It's a big big part of depression is low iron stores. And

something that I've been trying to crack is uh restless leg syndrome. It can

cause start to cause restless leg syndrome, which also is just an inability to relax. So the first thing you want to do is test your iron and you want to look and say okay not only at

the total iron amount not only at the saturation rate and you want your saturation rate weight rate rate to be above 30 way well well above 30 but you

also this feritin is key because it's the storage and when that starts to go down that's when things become difficult. So it needs to be above 75.

difficult. So it needs to be above 75.

So look at that. So once you've identified if you need it, then you want to look at what you would take for an iron supplement. There are a lot of

iron supplement. There are a lot of different ways to do iron. I think the first way is make sure you're getting more red meat. That's one of one of the key components to getting enough iron

in. If you don't do that, then the

in. If you don't do that, then the second way is if your iron stores are really low, this is where you would want an iron IV. Um you you'd have to show

them your iron stores in order to get that. um and you might have to shop

that. um and you might have to shop around for them or you can take an iron supplement. One of the challenges with

supplement. One of the challenges with some iron supplements is they can be hard on your gut. So, this is the one that I have been taking. I have not measured my feritin levels since I

started taking it. So, I can't tell you if it's brought it up, but I can tell you that I can feel a lift in my moods and I can feel a little bit of a decline

in my restless legs. So, it's called Fmax Iron Tonic Phytoinist.

I can't I can't even believe I just pronounced all that. Femax iron tonic fire synergist phyto synergist put out

by standard process. They also have one called ferafood. Um that's really good.

called ferafood. Um that's really good.

But I've been trying and they have a dosage here on the front and I've been taking this iron on on a regular basis.

Um, but then I will go recheck my and remember then I'll go recheck my blood and if if those feritin stores go back up, I'll get off iron. So, okay, that's

those are my thoughts. Um, yeah. And

yeah, there you go. I think I answered all that. Okay, next question.

all that. Okay, next question.

You got about 10 minutes left, so I'm gonna uh let you pick or if you wanna um

Yeah, I don't know. Uh I mean I can see some some of them in here. Um uh

somebody says is it is it possible to reverse type one diabetes? Um I will tell you I had a really interesting case in my clinic with a type 1 diabetic that

we actually fasted. Um and we started to see her insulin levels the requirement for insulin levels go down. Um also uh

go look into Walter Longo's work. uh he

did something called the fast mimicking diet where he had there was a reduction in calories and protein for five days that produced stem cells that he did

once a month for three months and it started he started to see the beta cells in the pancreas regrow for in type 1 diabetics. It's called the fast

diabetics. It's called the fast mimicking diet and it was it was researched on type 1 diabetics and I I don't know if complete reversal um but

it uh but it will help with overall insulin use and and it can absolutely

stabilize type one. So um okay um and going back up and looking for ones that I skipped over.

How can one reverse? This is

interesting. Jennifer wants to know, "How can one reverse high creatine and protein in the urine?" That's kidney.

Um, I'm assuming you tested that. I

would do some kidney support. Um,

yeah, I would do some kidney support.

Asparagus is really good for kidney support. Um, but yeah, that but I just

support. Um, but yeah, that but I just want to say I would look at your kidney levels on that one. Um,

I found this one. This is

a gallbladder question related to rapid weight loss.

Oh, gallbladder. Um, okay.

Okay. Um,

okay. Uh, I just saw another one here on the end I want to answer. What does

rapid weight loss cause cholesterol to be released into the gallbladder leading to gallstones?

Does this mean that losing weight through fasting could increase the risk of developing gallstones? Um, so

what is fat?

Let's start there. What is fat? Um, fat

is all the things your body didn't know what to do with the gluc the glucose, the toxins, the hormones, um, all the things it didn't know what

to do with, so it stored it in fat. So

when you start to lose that fat, all of that stuff has to now get filtered through the liver and the liver gets overloaded. And when the liver is

overloaded. And when the liver is overloaded, it needs a it needs a sidekick. It needs something that's

sidekick. It needs something that's going to help it. And that's the gallbladder. The gallbladder is like um

gallbladder. The gallbladder is like um you know, the liver, let's put it this way, the liver is Batman and the gallbladder is Robin. It's it it's the

support system for the liver. And so

when the liver is trying to detoxify everything, it what it will do is it'll start to push it into the gallbladder as a storage pantry for all of those toxins.

If you've been living in a body that's had a lot of toxins, that pantry might be a little full.

So, think about it like, have you ever had a closet in your house that you're like folded some towels and you put it in and then you shut it really quick and you're hoping somebody else will open it next and then somebody else goes in and

opens it and everything comes out. It's

a little bit what happens with an overloaded gallbladder and then all of a sudden you start to lose weight and all of these toxins and this extra glucose and these hormones come pouring into

your system. And for some gallbladders

your system. And for some gallbladders that can be overwhelming. So losing

weight very very quickly is not a great idea. Sustained weight that we don't I

idea. Sustained weight that we don't I mean this is another problem with the weight loss drugs is if we are dropping weight too quickly we are detoxing too

fast and some organ systems can can be um in jeopardy. Same thing with fasting.

The only difference is the way I teach you all with fasting is to cycle your fasts so that you don't drop weight super fast. People tend to drop hundreds

super fast. People tend to drop hundreds of pounds if that's what they need with fasting, but they do it in a slower and methodical way. If you know that you

methodical way. If you know that you have a gallbladder issue, there are two things I would tell you when you go into a fasted state or if you're on the

weight loss drugs. One is really get prime your gallbladder before you go into some of the long longer fasts and that's castor oil packs. Go get organic

castor oil. You can find it online uh

castor oil. You can find it online uh with a flannel pack. Make sure it's organic. Put it around your liver and

organic. Put it around your liver and gallbladder three times a week. sleep

with it on and and it will open up something called the common bile duct which allows all of the toxins to come out so they don't sit in the liver and

the and the gallbladder area. Second

thing you can do is oxile salts. Oxbile

salts goes into that gallbladder and it breaks down some of those kid those gallbladder stones. It breaks down some

gallbladder stones. It breaks down some of the sludge in there that's getting congested that makes it difficult to be exit out of there. So, those two can be

incredibly helpful for just making sure that your your gallbladder is ready to lose weight. But the answer is yeah. Um,

lose weight. But the answer is yeah. Um,

you can, you know, gallbladder can be stressed from losing weight too quickly in any fashion, but you also have the control to keep loving on your

gallbladder and making sure that you're preparing it for the the dump of toxins that are about to happen.

This last question, okay, uh, is one that we don't get often. How

do you gain weight?

Okay, great. Uh, my mom is in her 60s and her nervous system went crazy three months ago. I'm sorry. She lost weight

months ago. I'm sorry. She lost weight like crazy. She eats Whole 30. Okay.

like crazy. She eats Whole 30. Okay.

Yeah, I like the Whole 30 to reduce inflammation and wants to gain weight.

Can she use fasting to heal and gain?

Okay. So, how do you gain weight? Uh,

the first thing that we need to make sure your mom is doing is eating enough protein.

So, um, this is a case where I would have her measuring her protein every single day, and she needs to be close to

that one gram of protein for every pound of ideal body weight. So, let's make sure her protein is up. Okay. Second

thing, I would have her fast, short fasts, like 15 hours, 12 to 15 hours.

Why? Why do that? Because it is an incredible way to get growth hormone. If

she can do 15 hours every day, she's getting a little dose of growth hormone.

And growth hormone builds muscle. It

slows aging down. Um and it actually stabilizes all the other hormones in her body. So at 60, that would be helpful.

body. So at 60, that would be helpful.

And so then, um when she goes back into food, she needs to do protein, protein, protein, protein. So she's getting all

protein, protein. So she's getting all of those amino acids in her so that she is has enough nutrients to be able to make hormones and neurotransmitters and

all and muscle and all that kind of thing. Third thing at 60 um I don't know

thing. Third thing at 60 um I don't know why her nervous system went crazy. I'm

assuming maybe some kind of stress situation but this is where I would have her take like have heavy weights um in her house like we have them up by

upstairs in our kitchen. um that has a view and and we'll just hold do those heavy weights while we're sitting like in between cooking. We'll just do them.

Um I'm a big fan of wrecking vests. At

60, she should put down put on a wrecking vest and go for a walk so she can build muscle. So short fasts for growth hormone, lots of protein to build

muscle and lots of lifting weights to build muscle. That is where I would go

build muscle. That is where I would go in her situation. And then as I wouldn't do anything extreme because her nervous system is went crazy. So this is not a

pushthrough moment. She might even try

pushthrough moment. She might even try some yoga or something where she's doing body weight. But but I want to make sure

body weight. But but I want to make sure she doesn't take these tools and start to overdo them. Um have fun with them.

Be curious about them. Um and don't feel like it I don't want to put another have to on her because she needs to rehab her nervous system. So, okay, hopefully uh

nervous system. So, okay, hopefully uh that was helpful. Um, again, I appreciate coming to you all live and your questions. Um, those of you who

your questions. Um, those of you who want a in-person experience with me, come join me in June at 14:40 in Northern California. We're going to

Northern California. We're going to we're going to have a blast and we're going to get your toolbox ready for you and um and just get to know each other.

So, um, but most importantly, just keep just don't give up on yourself, please.

The the it's a really weird world in wellness right now. There's a lot of shiny objects. The big pharma wants to

shiny objects. The big pharma wants to keep you medicated. Like, there's so many new fancy ways to get well. The

biohacking world wants to tell you there's shortcuts. Um, and I'm gonna

there's shortcuts. Um, and I'm gonna continue to here to be the PR spokesperson for your body to tell you that your body has everything it needs

right now. It has everything it needs to

right now. It has everything it needs to be healthy, to be free from weight, to be happy. You've just got to go find

be happy. You've just got to go find those tools in your lifestyle that support it. And you know, everything I'm

support it. And you know, everything I'm trying to do through my books and my videos here is give you those tools. But

the most important thing is that you don't give up on you. I really want you to not give up on you. And I'm not, if you're on these medications, this is not a shaming. Um, just match a lifestyle

a shaming. Um, just match a lifestyle with it because someday you might not need those medications. Um, and my goal for every person on this planet, but especially women, is that you feel

powerful in your body, that you understand what your body's capable of, that you're in a relationship, a positive relationship with your body.

That's the most important part of health. So, whatever path gets you

health. So, whatever path gets you there, do that. So, okay. With that,

appreciate you all and I'll be back next Tuesday. Have an awesome day.

Tuesday. Have an awesome day.