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Natural Fixes for Frequent Headaches, Hormone Imbalance, and Infertility

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Josh

I want to get off my birth control, but when I do, my hormones go all over the place. Yes, this is exactly what happens. How can I balance my hormones after having kids? My teenage daughter is dealing with really severe cramps. Do you have any suggestions that aren't pills? The more stress, the more severe the cramps. What are your thoughts on the HPV vaccine?

Josh

Here's the reality that I want to share with you right now. Should women do different exercises depending on the stage of their cycle? Yes. Hey, everyone. Welcome to the show. I am Dr. Josh Axe. I'm a graduate of Johns Hopkins University. I am the founder of draxe.com, Ancient Nutrition, and leaders.com. And this podcast is all about helping you grow into the greatest you.

Josh

And on today's episode, I'm answering your questions regarding women's health. Now, men, if you're watching this, I don't want you to turn it off. Here's what I want to tell you is that Women's health. Think about what a great husband or boyfriend or friend you can be if you know how to care for your woman that's in need.

Josh

We're going to talk about everything from balancing your hormones to naturally curing frequent headaches to my thoughts on the HPV vaccine and more. Let's dive in here to the first question. Here it is. I have frequent headaches. How can I heal them naturally? If you're getting ongoing headaches, what I've seen to be is it's either typically a biochemical issue or a structural issue.

Josh

If it's biochemical, you may have a food sensitivity, okay? And your body is reacting to something you're eating on a regular basis. What I would do is take a period of time and do what I call an elimination diet, or what a lot of people call an elimination diet. And that is, there are certain foods you cut out, you add each one back in and see if there's something that's causing headaches.

Josh

Now, some of the most common culprits could be gluten, could be dairy. You might also go in to get a food sensitivity test done to see if you have a high sensitivity to a certain type of food, but that is really, really frequent.

Josh

The other thing could be, it could be structural where your shoulders and your traps and your neck are getting too tense, and that's going up in the back of your head and compressing some of those muscles, and it's causing a headache. And if that's the case, seeing a chiropractor can often help.

Josh

Sometimes getting even a shoulder massage or neck massage can help, but I would say chiropractic care or osteopathic care can be a really, really great Remedy for frequent headaches. They can kind of reduce any sort of tension up there, help with your structure.

Josh

One of the things that happens actually with headaches, sometimes people get this condition, it's called forward head posture, where their head starts going way out in front of their body and that puts more tension on the traps and necks. And so, then you start to get headaches.

Josh

And so, if you go to see a chiropractor that also does a form of physical therapy, they oftentimes can retrain your body, your and put a curve back in your neck, and that can really, really help headaches. Now, from a supplement standpoint, magnesium is the most commonly prescribed mineral for headaches. You typically want to do probably about 500 to 600 milligrams at a time.

Josh

I would do a magnesium, um, uh, chelate. You could also do a threonate or a citrate powder. Most forms of magnesium can help headaches because they all have a relaxation effect. But that's what I would do. There's a few others as well. Feverfew and butterbur are a couple others that are often prescribed for headaches. Those are sort of like natural herbal remedies you could try.

Josh

But I think those are some of the most important. The other big one with sometimes with headaches is hydration. What I would do is get an electrolyte powder, add it to water, and drink some more electrolytes and more water during the day, because you'd be surprised how many headaches are due to improper hydration. I think sometimes people think hydration is just drinking water. It's not.

Josh

It's hyd— it's water plus electrolytes. That is what will actually keep you hydrated. So that's another thing I would recommend there, uh, for, uh, for headaches. Um, and again, going back, you, you can't overlook the food sensitivities. This is very, very common cause of regular headaches. Next question here.

Josh

I have estrogen dominance, low testosterone and progesterone, and I'm already eating Very clean. What should I do? Okay. So, if you're estrogen dominant in Chinese medicine, I'm going to hit on that view first, the Eastern medicine idea, then I'll hit on it from a Western perspective. But, from the Eastern medicine perspective, your body is too yin and you're lacking yang. Okay.

Josh

So, yin means you're doing a lot of things that are feminine, which can be great, right? So, that could be Yoga. And, by the way, what I mean feminine, because estrogen is seen though as that more feminine hormone to, let's say, testosterone or progesterone on the other side, specifically testosterone. But, but, but there are certain things that will cause more estrogen dominance.

Josh

And so, um, uh, certain foods that are, that are more yin dominant, which means they're more moistening to the body, that will make things worse. So, flaxseeds wouldn't be good or bananas or yogurt or milk. Anything that creates more mucus or fluid in the body will increase estrogen dominance.

Josh

What will help with that are foods that are— and so, that's going to be a lot of fruit and foods that are, again, moistening. Again, I mentioned milk, dairy, those sort of things. All those will make estrogen dominance worse. Soybeans. That'll make it worse too. Some of the foods that will help are foods that support testosterone, which would be doing more meat.

Josh

So trying to get about 30 to 50 grams of meat per meal. Um, so breakfast could be a protein powder, maybe collagen and a plant protein. And then for lunch you do a, a, you know, chicken. And then for dinner you do wild salmon or, or, or a grass-fed beef. Okay. But you wanna make sure that's your main, you're focusing on protein during your meals. You're also getting some healthy fat.

Josh

And there are some herbs and things that actually support progesterone, like I believe sage and thyme are herbs you can take as well for testosterone. Fenugreek tends to be really, really good. And so, you may supplement with those as well. And then, milk thistle. Milk thistle helps your body as an herb get rid of extra estrogen.

Josh

So, if you're estrogen dominant and have too much, take milk thistle or drink milk thistle tea on a regular basis to help rid your body of the excess estrogen that you currently have going on. But I would say here are the remedies. One, for testosterone, you want to start doing some weight training. Do some weight training and interval training rather than something like yoga. Okay?

Josh

From a dietary standpoint, loads of protein, a lot of green vegetables, and then I would say spinach, steamed vegetables. And then again, I would do some herbs like fenugreek. I would do Vitex, I would do cinnamon, and I would do thyme. Okay, I would do some of those herbs there. And then, you might also look into peptide therapy.

Josh

You could find a functional medicine physician who does peptides and they could help work on balancing out the hormones that way as well. And, I think if you do those things, you're going to see good results. The other thing, again, milk thistle. It's going to get rid of that extra estrogen for you or at least some of it.

Josh

Or, or a liver cleanse-like supplement, dandelion, which I don't like dandelion all the time, so milk thistle's probably better for you, or burdock, something like that. But that, that's what I would do. All right, next question here. Uh, I'm nervous about doing hormone replacement therapy. Are there, are there any other options? Yes, this is where I really like peptide therapy. Okay, peptides.

Josh

And you can go— what I would do, here's what I would do. I would go online to your area, wherever you are. Let's say you lived in Nashville, okay, where I'm located.

Josh

You could go, and maybe you're in Brentwood or maybe Franklin, but somewhere in the Nashville area, and you do a Google search for peptide therapy Nashville, Tennessee, or peptide therapy for hormones Franklin, Tennessee, and just do some research and find somebody that does peptide therapy. But that's what I would do. So I would do peptides. I would also do herbs and spices.

Josh

So for instance, if I had a woman come into me who Uh, who, who was, who was having some of these, who was having hormone issues. Okay, what I would do is I would have them, rather than putting them on hormone replacement, I would say, okay, let's look at your diet. Here's the foods you should eat.

Josh

These are the ideal foods for estrogen or progesterone or testosterone or thyroid hormone or whatever it is, because there are different foods for each. If you've got a thyroid issue, you want to do a lot of rice and berries and wild fish. But if you have an issue with low testosterone, you want to do a lot of Red meat and steamed spinach and herbs like fenugreek, cinnamon, and ginger.

Josh

So it actually— the foods you eat, food is medicine. And food, it— depending on your condition, certain foods will serve you a lot better than others. I know we tend to think, well, a salad is healthy for everybody, or vegetables are healthy for everybody. It's not actually true. Every person, every woman, every man is incredibly unique.

Josh

And what foods that might completely heal a friend of yours may actually be terrible for you. So going and finding a doctor who can tell you, or somebody saying, these are a personalized custom diet for you based on what you have going on. Now, sometimes you can do self-research. So again, as I mentioned earlier, if you're too estrogen dominant, you wanna consume more yang foods.

Josh

If you're low in estrogen, then we need to start having you consume more of those yin foods. If you are— so, so you can do research and maybe discover this if you're savvy yourself. If not, go and see a good— health coach or functional medicine doctor or somebody who knows what they're doing, a nutritionist, somebody knows what they're doing nutrition-wise. Um, but here's what they would do.

Josh

Again, most doctors, they should work on your diet, they should prescribe certain supplements and herbs and then peptides, and then maybe even other exercises, things to reduce stress. But that's— you want to really focus on healing your body via a protocol, not one thing. There's not one pill.

Josh

There's not— I mean, that's even the problem with hormone replacement therapy, there's so many things that you should probably be doing to bring harmony to your body. And most doctors are like, here's a supplement, here's a medication, here's an injection. That's not the way that you truly heal. You tend to need to work on the diet, the supplements, the herbs.

Josh

There are things like peptides, there are lifestyle factors in order to truly create balance. Next question. I want to get off my birth control, but when I do, my hormones go all over the place. Yes, this is exactly what happens. How can I get off of it without these challenges? And what is the best type of— what type of natural birth control is best? One, know that that's normal, okay?

Josh

You're likely going to have some of that where your hormones are going to be all over the place after getting off birth control. So one, just accept and know it might be hard, but then it's going to get easier and easier and easier over time. So just know that you're going to have a challenge for several months, and that's, that's the way it is.

Josh

What I would say is one of the most important things to do is take a high dose of probiotics. Okay? You want to take maybe even 2 brands. I, I would take an SBO probiotic and another diverse strain of probiotic, cuz that's what yeast overgrowth is. One of the first things that happens when women get off birth control. So you wanna make sure your diet is mostly, is very, is not gonna feed Candida.

Josh

So you wanna do a lot of meat, vegetables, cranberry juice would be good. Uh, a little bit of rice. That should be the basis of your diet. Meat, vegetables, little rice. You could do some berries, cranberries. That's, that's kind of the ideal diet there for you.

Josh

Um, and then I would also say, I mentioned this earlier, but I think this can be good for women getting off birth control, doing a little bit of milk thistle, doing a little bit of, uh, an anti-Candida, uh, Candida tea, something that has something like cinnamon or ginger, even like a chai tea would be really good. So you want something to really keep your blood sugar balanced.

Josh

One of the keys I think is keeping insulin as balanced as possible. When you get off of birth control. And outside of that, just keep stress down. Um, I like red light therapy. I think that can help doing that infrared light. I think there's some benefits there, but I think also just knowing it's just gonna take a little bit of time. Okay.

Josh

Um, and then you might go and see a functional medicine doctor after you've been off a month or two, go and do a micronutrient test and get tested for your vitamin D levels, your nutritional levels to see where you're at. And then take some supplements specifically for where you're deficient. That should also help bring some balance there once you're off.

Josh

Now, in terms of, you know, the best type of natural birth control, listen, I, I'm, I'm gonna share, share with you, I mean, you know, what, what Chelsea and I have done for years. We've had 2 methods. One, we use a condom, and the other one is we have something called the Lady Comp. Okay?

Josh

I don't, we, we don't have a deal with them, but it's like this, uh, this is, uh, uh, little, um, Very little device, and basically it tells Chelsea when she's ovulating. You know, green says go, red says no, okay, in terms of getting pregnant. And so what I would say is look into that device. It's called the Lady-Comp. Lady, L-A-D-Y, Comp, C-O-M-P. Lady-Comp.

Josh

And there's probably different versions of it, but, but that's what we've used. Um, there's also a mucus test that you can, you, you, you can do on yourself, um, to, to see what your mucosa is like in the the thickness of it, that can tell you, uh, that's the forms of natural family planning. I've written an article on this as well.

Josh

If you go online and search Dr. Axe, uh, Dr. Axe natural family planning. Okay, so Dr. Axe natural family planning, and I've written an article. You can read more there. But, but I think those, those are, are some good solutions. And hey, any women that are watching this, I would love to hear, hey, have you ever used the Lady-Comp?

Josh

What are some of the things you do for I know we have a lot of wise women who might share their thoughts on here on social media or on YouTube as well. Another question, how can I get in optimal shape to conceive in my late 30s? Okay. So, what I would do is, again, I would have a multi-pronged approach here if you're looking at conceiving.

Josh

And, in Chinese medicine, conception is based on the health of your adrenals and kidneys and reproductive organs. So, think about it like this. Let's say you, let, let's say like on your, on your phone here, you got a battery, uh, between 0 and 100. The reason why women typically can't conceive, now this isn't 100% of the time, but this is probably 90% of the time. Okay?

Josh

Almost all the time when women can't conceive, it's because this battery, okay, like on your phone here, it's too low. Okay? So the battery for your adrenals. So if you're in a fight or flight state too much, or you're too stressed, or you don't have certain nutrients to where, like, like a lot of it's tied to kind of your energy and your vitality.

Josh

Now, having a miscarriage is a very different thing, by the way. Miscarriage is— there's a weakness around your spleen and your pancreas and your insulin levels and holding something. It's very different than conception. So, again, with carrying, you want to actually do something a little bit more different.

Josh

It would be things like cinnamon and sweet potato and beef and things like— think about Thanksgiving meal, sitting by a warm fire, cozying up. That's for caring, but for conceiving, you want to strengthen up— you want to really think about those adrenals. And so, I would take some adrenal supplements. I would take something like an ashwagandha. Uh, reishi mushroom is another great one.

Josh

So, things to really strengthen up that sort of— those adrenal areas. Also, it may be hormone balance, that it could be an estrogen-progesterone imbalance. If that's the case, Vitex as an herb is very effective. But I would say, generally speaking, a good diet would be, again, a good amount of meat, a lot of vegetables, berries, and rice.

Josh

These all feed in Chinese medicine called your water element, which is tied to conception. And so that's what I would focus on there. But you really wanna focus on just taking care of yourself. Here, here's the thing. You gotta keep stress levels low and you gotta build a lot of peace and fun in your life. Okay?

Josh

So if you're constantly worrying and thinking you have fear in, in some way that's constantly going, or you're overthinking stuff, overanalyzing all the time. Or worrying about, okay, I'm in my late 30s, I, I gotta do this before 40 or before 45. You, you know, you're, that's very stressful. So what I would say is you need to get in a state of mind that's, that's building peace.

Josh

And the best way to do that is not just to say, okay, I'm gonna try and de-stress. It's to schedule things you love to do, schedule things that bring you joy, schedule things that help relax you. Read novels, go for walks in the park, do lunch with a best friend, go to church service, praise and worship. Do, do things that are going to reduce stress. In your body.

Josh

And in addition, eat a clean diet. Do— don't over-exercise and don't under-exercise. You know, if you're doing CrossFit for 3 hours a day, that's typically not ideal. But if you're going for an hour a day and you're generally pretty healthy, that's great. You know, so, so that's, that's my best advice for, for increasing your fertility is eat incredibly healthy. There are some good things.

Josh

I really— I do like red light therapy, um, for, for sort of anti-aging there as well. Yeah. Um, I think could be a good thing if you get an infrared, one of those infrared lights. There's a couple brands there. There's like Joovv and BonCharge are a couple I know that are really good, um, for, for those, those infrared light. Um, are there any natural treatments for low platelets during pregnancy?

Josh

Well, I think this is contraindicated, so I don't even know if I'm going to say it. Well, if typically if people have low platelets, um, papaya leaf historically is very good, but that might be contraindicated, and I don't have that in the back of my head. I used to know, but I don't now. So you need Yeah. Go and look up papaya leaf. If not, here's what you need to do.

Josh

You need to get a lot of red meat, okay, and green leafy vegetables, and do— I like beetroot juice powder, okay? You can do a lot of things to kind of help build the blood, okay? But red meat is ideal. Now, this is also contraindicated in the United States, but in Europe they do it all the time, is women will eat some liver, okay?

Josh

And I think that sometimes there's a concern about the vitamin A and iron level. Getting too high. But, but, but I think if you're doing a small amount or dose of organ meat, I do think that there are tremendous benefits there for platelets. But I would say focus on doing red meat for most of your meals. I mean, every lunch and dinner, a lot of red meat, beetroot juice. Okay.

Josh

As a supplement, getting a little bit of cinnamon and ginger. Those herbs are very good for platelets, cinnamon especially. So if you're having, let's say, something in the morning, like a little bit of oatmeal, Or let's say a little bit of smoothie or some applesauce, add some pumpkin pie spice in. Okay. Or cinnamon. So add about a 4th of a teaspoon, you know, get some cinnamon and ginger.

Josh

Those will help. But my best advice to you would be herbs, cinnamon, and ginger. Um, and then, uh, the other thing I would do is a lot of red meat, beetroot juice, you know, steamed spinach, some of those steamed green vegetables. Uh, those are, those are some of the best things you can do naturally to help elevate your, uh, elevate your platelets. All right, next question here.

Josh

What are the best postpartum supplements to take while breastfeeding? You have to build your blood after you give birth. There's been a lot of blood loss. Okay. And did you know, do you know what breast milk is primarily made up of? Blood. Blood. So when women are breastfeeding, they need to really focus on building blood.

Josh

I, I— you'll see this with a lot of— like, like if you look— if when I looked at Chelsea right after she gave birth to Arwen, for the next month her skin was a lot more pale, okay? Or, or the days afterwards. And so I knew, I said, okay, we really have to go build your blood. And this is known across the board in Chinese medicine that after women give birth, you've got to build blood.

Josh

This is why that oftentimes, uh, what we'll do with Chelsea is we'll encapsulate her placenta and have her start taking that, because the placenta is almost all blood. It's blood and Collagen. That's like a— if you— when you take your own placenta, you're getting like a blood collagen mineral supplement. That's, that's what it is.

Josh

And, um, and so, uh, that's, that's, that's one of the first things you should do is encapsulate your placenta and do that afterwards. Uh, and then, uh, what I would do is, again, I really like organ meats. And so I would say liver, or you can take liver capsules or an organ capsule that has multiple organs together. I would do that. Um, and then very similar thing to the last person, actually.

Josh

You just want to really build your blood. Okay, now platelets are a little different, but they're very similar. It's going to be similar food. So beetroot juice, a lot of grass-fed beef and bison and lamb. Um, cinnamon is another really good one to have, uh, postpartum. But that, that's what you want to do.

Josh

You really want to do everything you can to really build and strengthen the blood postpartum. That'll lead by far to the fastest healing. And acupuncture, I think, is really good as well. If you want to get acupuncture, I'd really like that for, uh, for, for, for, for helping. But supplements and organ supplement, organ blend, uh, and then maybe, and then a blood builder.

Josh

So you can get a blood builder, uh, whether it be Floradex or, uh, there's a number of them out there, but I would do something to help, help build the blood. Um, how can I balance my hormones after having kids?

Josh

You know, I, I, I think, you know, there, there's some overlap with some of these questions, but I would say with, with, with this one, um, get more healthy fats and don't overconsume carbohydrates. I think that's one of the biggest things I see is when a mom, it's like, well, you're feeding your kid this, so you're gonna eat that.

Josh

And it's just that there starts to be, you know, kids can handle more carbohydrates. I look at our 3 and a half year old and it's like she could eat like a banana and an orange and a fruit, like, and she's just fine. Right? And I was like that as a kid and I would never get tired. So for you, I would go high protein, moderate fat, low carb, generally speaking.

Josh

So when you're eating a meal, get lots of protein and lots of meat, lots of vegetables. Berries are great. You can do some rice, sweet potato. You know, sweet potato traditionally is actually very good for hormones as well. So sweet potato or yam, I think, are very good. Now, now, now, there are a lot of herbs that I'm going to recommend now too.

Josh

If you know you're a little bit higher on that stress level, which a lot of women are, they go and get into more of that fight-or-flight state because even that maternal instincts of being the protector for their children and cautiously watching out, you got your mom radar on and you know when there's about to be a kid falling off a countertop, you're in a fight-or-flight state.

Josh

So, ashwagandha and adaptogenic herbs that kind of help lower those cortisol levels can be extremely beneficial. So, I would say ashwagandha would be number 1 on my list. In addition to that, I would say astragalus. It's immune-related, but also it's hormone-related. I like Vitex a lot.

Josh

Vitex is an— or chasteberry, it's also named, is also kind of helps bring balance to those hormones after having kids. And, you can take an adrenal blend. There's another one called Rehmannia, R-E-H-M-A-N-N-I-A.

Josh

NNIA, Rehmannia, that isn't really popular in the US, but I think it's very good for— it's really popular in China, one of the top 5 most prescribed herbs in all of Asia, but we just don't use it here that often. But it's a really good one for female hormones after birth, and if you feel like you're a little fatigued and you need to, you know, and stressed and you, and you need help there.

Josh

Um, and then Dong Quai, that's known as, uh, female ginseng, but it's Dong Quai. So those would be my top ones there, I would say. For hormones after kids, let me just give you my— ashwagandha first, dong quai, and vitex. Those are the 3 I would take: ashwagandha, vitex, dong quai. What are your thoughts on the HPV vaccine?

Josh

Here's the reality that I want to share with you right now, is that I can't actually tell you what I want to tell you about my views on this because this video will be banned. So what I can tell you is our daughter Our daughters, uh, Arwen and the one that's about to be born here any day now, uh, won't be getting it.

Josh

Um, but I, I can't tell you what, what you should think about it, but I can tell you our family, uh, won't be giving that to our, our kids. All right, a couple more questions. My teenage daughter is dealing with really severe cramps. Do you have any suggestions that aren't pills? I'm still going to give you a An herb, but I am going to tell you some things you can do. It tends to be due to stress.

Josh

Okay, uh, so the more stress, the more severe the cramps. So everything you can do to help your daughter just lower those stress levels, you know, I think, um, knowing that maybe where she's deficient— let's say she's a worrier— help her with worry.

Josh

Maybe, maybe you spend some time as a family reading the Bible together, and you and your, you know, if you're married, your husband, you, you talk through some, some things that, uh, you need to do to help her with whatever unhealthy emotion she's experiencing. But I think there's a lot of emotions that are tied to, um, cramps.

Josh

And, um, from a dietary perspective, you want to do a, you know, you want to do very similar diet I've talked about a lot. You want to do a lot of meat, a lot of vegetables, a lot of fruit, and then things like sweet potatoes and rice. That's sort of the ideal diet. Okay, if she's eating a lot of like cheese or anything she's allergic to, it's going to make it much worse.

Josh

Uh, you know, dairy products, especially when we're looking at cramps, or wheat or gluten. So staying away from those. Um, from a, uh, from a supplement standpoint, cramp bark. It's literally called cramp bark. It's a Chinese medicine herb called cramp bark. It's the herb that's been prescribed for thousands of years for cramps. Uh, so that would be one I would recommend. Vitex is the other one.

Josh

And then if she is maybe excess estrogen, Milk thistle's the other one. So those are the herbs I would recommend. These are also— can be very effective sometimes for acne for, for young women. So that, that's what I would recommend. And if she's also losing some excess blood, she can do dong quai. Another big one is magnesium.

Josh

Okay, I would really recommend magnesium before she has her cramps coming on. Have her start supplementing with magnesium days before she knows her cycle's starting and take it throughout. So that would be another big one. But milk thistle, Vitex, cramp bark. And if you also know she's got, uh, maybe excess estrogen, then milk thistle.

Josh

That's what I would— and by the way, I know those are kind of pills. Hey, if you don't want a pill, take those as a tea, okay? You can get, uh, teas or a powder magnesium. So, all right, next question. I'm curious about working out and training throughout different stages of my cycle. Some days I feel way more ambitious and excited to work out than others.

Josh

Should women do different exercises depending on the stage of their cycle? Yes, the answer is yes. And so, uh, by the way, my, my wife and I, we've actually talked about this. This was years ago on a podcast we did, and, and, and I've, I've actually looked into the science of this.

Josh

I've interviewed women in the past about this, uh, uh, um, hormonal experts, uh, an endocrinologist, and, and basically Listen to your body. When you know you're going through that stage of your cycle where you're going to feel strong, do your leg day, do your butt day, lift heavier weights, do more HIIT training, do those things.

Josh

And on days where you just feel weak and depleted, do a lighter exercise, you know, do, do lighter weights, do bodyweight stuff, go on walks, do yoga, do Pilates, do barre. Now, by the way, I'm not saying Pilates and barre are easy. By the way, I think that sometimes they're less Physiologically taxing because you aren't doing as many reps with, let's say, like a sometimes a bigger muscle group.

Josh

But if you're doing very intense yoga and barre, then that can also be too depleting, uh, or, or barre or Pilates. Uh, so, so I would say that yes, think about it, be strategic about doing more heavyweight training and interval training, CrossFit, those sort of workouts on those days where you feel like you have the most energy.

Josh

On the others, Go for a light 20-minute Peloton, you know, go for a walk, do a yoga class. I definitely think there is wisdom in doing that, 100%. Um, hey, for all the women out there who've been watching this, hey, let me know what your biggest takeaway was from the podcast and other questions or episodes you want me to cover in the future.

Josh

And for men, hey, I hope you listened in on the needs of your women. So the next time your, your woman has a headache, You know what to do for her. If she has questions about her cramps, well, maybe you can be a little bit more sensitive and maybe, hey, even recommend some cramp bark.

Josh

You know, maybe you just come in as a hero there and show up with some, you know, some with cramp bark, Vitex, or, or Dong Quai, and, you know, be the, be the hero of the day. So all that being said, hey, I appreciate everybody. Thanks so much for the comments. And listen, if you're not subscribed, make sure to subscribe here to the show.

Josh

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Josh

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