Perimenopause Symptoms and Natural Solutions for Women's Hormonal Health with Amita Sharma

What if the natural transition of perimenopause could open doors to a more fulfilling life?  I chat with Amita Sharma, co-founder of Nourish Doc, who reveals her transformative journey from a high-stress corporate career to a passionate advocate for holistic wellness. With nearly 1 billion women experiencing the profound changes of perimenopause, Amita shares her personal struggles and triumphs, offering a beacon of hope and actionable advice for those navigating this often-silent journey. 

We unpack the overwhelming challenges women face when balancing work, family, and the onset of perimenopausal symptoms. Stress, poor diet, and a lack of self-care can exacerbate these symptoms, but Amita emphasizes the power of holistic habits to nourish the mind, body, and soul. She challenges the misconceptions that life ends after menopause, empowering women to rediscover joy and fulfillment, even if it means reexamining their career paths. The episode provides a roadmap to managing symptoms with confidence, showcasing the importance of reliable resources amid the noise.

About Our Guest: Amita Sharma is the co-founder of Nourish Doc, a global holistic wellness platform designed to bring awareness and education to women going through hormonal transitions. After experiencing her own challenging perimenopause symptoms while working in a high-stress corporate environment, Amita dedicated herself to creating evidence-based holistic wellness programs for women. Nourish Doc offers resources on 20+ topics and 20+ holistic therapies to help women navigate perimenopause and beyond.

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Chapters

• 0:00 Navigating Perimenopause
• 5:50 1 billion women effected worldwide with symptoms
• 9:50 Managing Perimenopause and Menopause Symptoms
• 19:22 Hormone Balance and Gut Health
• 27:52 Holistic Wellness Platform for Menopause
• 35:04 Embracing Self-Care and Wellness

Transcript

Rose: 0:00

There's a profound transformation happening in the lives of nearly 1 billion women worldwide, yet too many of us are navigating it alone. If you're in your 40s or 50s and experiencing unexplained anxiety, foggy thinking, disrupted sleep or wondering why your usual wellness routines just aren't cutting it anymore, you're not losing your edge and you're not alone. This is perimenopause. While every woman's journey is unique, over half of us feel unsupported and overwhelmed during this natural life phase. Ready to unlock your most vibrant, authentic self. Your journey to radiant wellness starts now. Welcome to Chat Off the Map.

Rose: 0:42

I'm your host, Rose Wippich, and I'm here to guide you on an extraordinary journey of feminine healing, energy, work and total wellbeing. Get ready to be inspired by authentic conversations with leading women practitioners, wellness experts and holistic healers who understand your unique journey. Subscribe to Chat Off The Mat wherever you get your podcasts and let's create magic together. Today on Chat Off The Mat, I welcome Amita Sharma. Amita is co-founder of Nourish Doc, a global holistic wellness platform. She's on a mission to bring awareness and education for women going through hormonal transition. Nourish Doc has designed evidence-based holistic wellness programs for self-care and prevention on 20-plus topics and 20-plus holistic therapies. Welcome.

Amita: 1:36

Amita, thank you. Thank you so much, rose. I really appreciate the work that you're doing and I'm super excited we're finally getting to meet each other and talk about this topic, which is so important for women.

Rose: 1:46

Very important. I've been really excited about this as well, and a lot of my audience have been asking for more information, more experts on this field of menopause and perimenopause. So I would like to start out by asking you about your personal journey and what got to, what got you to where you are today and helping others.

Amita: 2:05

Yeah, no, no. So I'm not a medical expert or a health expert. I was working in the corporate high tech, high stress, fast paced, all of these do you think I think of. Suddenly the I started getting these strange symptoms and I had no clue what was happening to my body and and I was still I barely had turned 40 at that time, right around that timeframe and and and it was like very embarrassing and and I was kind of I did not know where to go or turn to all those moments.

Amita: 2:38

I went through that for for a number of years. Right the Perimenopause the journey could be as long as 10 years, and at that time I just wanted to fix myself. And then the COVID time hit and that's when it came back to me that I wanted to do something for holistic health and I started digging into it and I finally found this we are. This whole topic is under research, underfunded, all all over the world, doesn't matter in America and we feel, as women, taboo to talk about it. I said someone has to come out, and I'm not the only one coming out now.

Amita: 3:13

I feel that so many women are coming out and talking about it. So that was sort of my giving back to women, that I want to give back in a way that they don't suffer the way I suffered, you know, and I want to present a credible, trustworthy information. Doing that, I interviewed about 3,000 holistic experts from all over the world on this topic, ranging from MDs, everything. So that's a little bit of my story, why I'm doing it, what I'm doing, and I really want to empower women at the core intent of what I'm trying to do.

Rose: 3:47

You're right, it's been taboo. Personally, I my mother passed away early, even before she went into menopause, so I wasn't able to have any kind of discussion or even compare how my journey was going through it. So there wasn't any resources for me and for a lot of women my age. So this is very important. So you said you stated that perimenopause can begin at 10 years prior to what are some of the symptoms that start to occur 10 years prior to menopause?

Amita: 4:22

So first symptom is menstrual. Your menstrual cycle is going to get irregular. It's going to get completely out of whack. So be prepared for this journey. Because of the menstrual cycle getting out of whack, you're going to start getting these strange hormone symptoms, like I started getting my mood swings. I'm very balanced and calm person. Suddenly, out of the blue, things are coming out of me.

Rose: 4:53

Like you know, in that movie you can't stop lying. I don't remember the name of it, but I know what you're saying. It's like uncontrollable urge to just say whatever we want in this, like craziness that we're experiencing at the time, uncontrollable that it's like it's not us but honestly, on a serious note, um, irregular periods, your heart flashes is typically first main symptoms, what we say night sweats.

Amita: 5:15

At night you start getting sweaty, you're not able to sleep in the morning, you're fra, you know, foggy, you're all fogged up, your brain is all fogged up. Anxiety, all these things. It's not just one symptom, it's like multiple symptoms. Suddenly they start blasting at you and you know, every woman is different. In my case it's a very common symptoms that women face and I did that and anxiety, you know. And then whole self-esteem can also go down, because now you're feeling, my God, I'm not able to be productive at work and for some of the women, they put on weight and the hair starts thinning. So all these things right, what is attributed to feminine beauty, so to speak, culturally, you know, like historically, starts changing, is what I'm saying.

Rose: 6:01

Yeah, no, I also wrote down here. Um, I also wrote down here. There's changes, the skin starts to occur, and then this all leads to, like you said, like well, the self-esteem, right. We start to wonder, like what's happening and how are people looking at us and how are we managing and our relationships and all that. So a lot of this gets interplays with that as well. So that's that goes for a long time, and managing these symptoms can be really difficult if you don't know where to turn to.

Amita: 6:33

Yeah, because you know. Ok, so a few things are going on, right. First of all, these symptoms five, six symptoms are coming together at you and there's not a single pill. Symptoms five, six symptoms are coming together at you and there's not a single pill. Well, sometimes you go to the doctor, they give you one pill and that might take care of one thing and not the other thing, and it's like complicated thing, right, they haven't been able to figure it out. So the other thing is, most of the doctors are not taught about menopause in their medical schools and nothing about perimenopause, and this has been told to me by so many doctors. So they themselves are not really clear. Like they might put you in a hormone therapy or you don't want to be. You know there's a lot of confusion, is what I'm trying to say. During this whole phase and managing this whole phase can be very challenging for a lot of women.

Rose: 7:21

Yeah, and some of these women can't take certain things, you know, and but but your estrogen? What's happening is that your estrogen starts to decrease and this is what's creating a lot of these, these symptoms, right, and then you go through the stage of menopause, which can also last for a while as well, because you're still experiencing a lot of these symptoms of hot flashes. Maybe you don't have your period anymore, but I think even in postmenopause you're still getting the hot flashes because your body is just I don't know, it's just, I think, still adjusting after even a period of time. What are some things that a person can do to eliminate or alleviate some of the symptoms? So the biggest symptoms we have are like sleep, right, hot flashes are probably the ones. And does everyone experience hot flashes?

Amita: 8:12

No, no, no, no. Not everyone. It's approximately. The data talks about about 80 to 85% of the women, which is significant, right, women experience hot flashes.

Amita: 8:21

Right and that's the most common symptoms that women will experience, and it's also different as per the ethnicity of the woman. For example, not many women understand this. Latin American and African American women generally have more aggravated heart flashes than a Japanese or an Asian woman. They don't get as many heart flashes because of the diet they are on, of the diet they are on the soy diet. They're on the soup-based diet for years and years and years, and so it depends on what you have been doing in your past life, how much suffering it can you know. I'm not saying it's directly proportional, but it depends on your lifestyle habits before. What kind of you know diet you're on, what kind of movement you're doing Depends a lot on that. The journey of the perimenopause Okay, this is great.

Rose: 9:13

Okay, so let's talk about that. So I know one of the things you want to do is make people more aware that there's this awareness of perimenopause right in the world of the doctors and what they need to do, but also a person doesn't understand that what they're going through and what they can do to help eliminate or alleviate some of these symptoms. So they need to look at lifestyle. So give us some ideas of some of the factors that contribute or can contribute to elevated symptoms and what they can do to either include something else that helps them or what they can do to eliminate certain things.

Amita: 9:50

Yeah, because earlier, if let's say, an average woman typically a 40-year-old woman, let's say an average has probably two kids, married. You know I'm talking of generalization here. And how much time would she have if she's working? You know I'm talking of generalization here. And and how much time would she have if she's working? You have two kids. You don't have time to take care of yourself and not eat healthy food on a daily basis. Sometimes you don't cook every day.

Amita: 10:15

So if you are, you know, leading a very high, stressful life with no time for yourself and not eating properly, nutrition-wise, and not moving properly and not, you know, nourishing yourself right, that is the lifestyle I'm talking about, which is common to so many of working women. That is so common that can aggravate their you know their symptoms as they enter the perimenopause, because the stress right we talk, the stress is a big factor into that. So that's one of the things. So now, um, you know, once you are in perimenopause and you, you are so kind of, you're not even functional, like what happened to me. In a way, I had to pause, right, in the sense, I had to take a break, otherwise I was not able to literally wake up and function and be productive. It happens to a lot of women.

Amita: 11:10

So what can you do, right? So the first thing to do is you have to change your daily routine. You have to change your lifestyle, your dietary modifications, before you get into these hrts and the supplements and the why all these things. You if, even if you start feeding your body with all these supplements which I started doing like a crazy person, it actually backfired on me until and unless I changed my entire daily routine to make sure like I'm nourishing myself properly, right when, when I use the word nourishing, it's not only the food mind, body and soul. You know everything, right? That is what is so important for women to understand HRT , no Hrt, vitamins, supplements no. You need to take care of your daily routine. You need to put yourself and, every single day, you need to have some kind of a routine that you follow and you need to embrace some kind of a routine that you follow and you need to embrace the holistic lifestyle or habits to do that on every single day basis.

Rose: 12:13

Yeah, I'm glad you said habits, because that's what they are and there's some of these habits are not good habits, so we need to replace them. But sometimes it's difficult because you know you're going along here for many, many years and you're doing the same things, and almost you're doing it without even realizing it, right. So we need to one be aware, like you know, if I continue to eat a lot of sugar and a lot of things like that, it's not going to help me because it inflames and then the liver is trying to detox this and the liver is responsible. For you know, according to Chinese medicine, the liver is more, most active during the middle of the night, when women mostly have hot flashes. So that's affected. So there's diet, there's sugar, there's, you know, other other factors alcohol, caffeine, those types of things Right, so starting to eliminate those things, but it's not an overnight thing.

Amita: 13:08

No, no, it doesn't happen overnight. You just need to keep going and then one day, suddenly you will notice that you are starting to feel more energetic. You're not getting fatigued. I had all these issues Even before 40s. I had in 30s like I used to get fatigued and no energy and all those things. But suddenly, if you start doing that, you will feel more energetic.

Rose: 13:30

Yeah, and you you know, Well, fatigue is, you know.

Rose: 13:34

I think it's an epidemic. Chronic sleep issues are an epidemic. You can't sleep because one, you're stressed, you're not eating, you may not be eating well, and there are people who may be eating great and they're still having a lot of symptoms, because everybody's unique and you're trying your best to create this new lifestyle and it may not be happening. So where can they go? Where can they get the happening? So where can they go? You know, where can they get the resources and the support that they need?

Amita: 14:10

Exactly that's exactly when I did my research right and, having been through millions of women are going through this I found exactly the same thing. I said where do I go? I have no place to go where I can find trusted information in one place. Someone is selling me oh, do this? Someone. I go here and they say, oh no, no, no, do this and do that and do this. I am so confused. Should I take HRT? Should I not do HRT? And then all kinds of reports.

Amita: 14:38

So that really was the idea that I thought that women need a place where it is trustworthy, unbiased, it's coming with the evidence, research and they can at least understand what to expect when they are going to enter this phase and how to handle this phase, manage it and then also moving forward menopause and the rest of the life we are in post-menopause, right.

Amita: 15:09

So all that, if you think about it, let's say, an average woman enters at age 40 and she's living till 85. I mean, there's a 45 years of your life is more than half of your life is going through this menopause, perimenopause as a woman, yeah, and you know some people think their life is over once they hit menopause. But it shouldn't be. You don't want to push yourself always in the corporate because I'm not saying there's anything wrong with working in a corporate world but the stress is what I'm talking about. Maybe you don't need to take that kind of a stress. Maybe you pause and do something else that gives you more joy and still give enough financial to make sure you can live a good life. Right At that time, most of us the kids are in college and hopefully the financial responsibilities are behind us. Right by the time, most of the women are entering menopause if they have kids is what I'm saying. So that phase of the life you can at least spend time for yourself and take care of yourself for yourself and take care of yourself.

Rose: 16:32

Yes, one of the issues I'm hearing a lot from women in their mid forties who do work is is work-life balance. You know, family life balance with little kids. But even if if a woman is at staying at home, there are responsibilities with raising children, and there could be that they have children with special needs or maybe their husband's traveling and they need to do everything by themselves. So there's, you know, or the aging parents that they need to take care of. You know they're taking care of their aging parents. They're going through menopause and it's tough and as women, as you know, we don't take care of ourselves first.

Amita: 17:01

And then hopefully our kids will take care of us, right, yeah?

Rose: 17:04

right, well, I'm hoping to take care of myself really, really well, so they don't have to. I always tell them that and that's why I have people like you on this on the show to talk about our health. But but our mental health gets impacted too, right? I mean, do you see women who are getting more depressed Maybe they weren't depressed before because of these changes that they just don't know what to do and they give up?

Amita: 17:29

No, you're absolutely right. Look at the data. Right the data talks about? In US and UK, 60% of the women who get divorced great divorce is on the rise are going through this perimenopause journey, and one of the other symptoms that can happen to quite a few women is loss of libido.

Amita: 17:46

And then, if you don't have an open communication with your partner, your, your relationships can also go down south, and so that is another one of the factors that could add to anxiety depression. Your relationships are so important and suddenly you've been going through this and suddenly a brick wall hits and you don't know what to do. Then there are so many factors, and emptiness is another one and which we didn't talk about. And then aging parents, and then job uh, if I don't want to use the word age discrimination, but you know you could feel age discrimination. That is a fact, fact of life here, everywhere. Actually, it doesn't matter here. And then, if you have forgot, you know you your open, not an open communication with your partner. So all these things can impact your anxiety depression. For sure you don't feel the worth that if, for whatever reasons, women are getting divorced, that that also can impact your emotional well-being, right?

Rose: 18:44

sure, yeah, but they don't feel. They may not feel understood or heard, or there's. Maybe they don't feel comfortable talking to their spouse or partner and their spouse or partner may not understand.

Amita: 18:56

Yeah, because we ourselves don't understand. And how can we expect men to understand what we are going through? Right, so many men have interviewed me and they said their wives or partners have been going through this and they like to understand it a little bit better, to make sure that you know there is an understanding between the two people what your partner is going through.

Rose: 19:17

Right, right, and so I want to talk about that. The low libido and also vaginal dryness that can occur too. Absolutely yes vaginal dryness.

Amita: 19:28

That can occur too. Absolutely yes.

Rose: 19:29

And treatments. So are there treatments for these type of issues that can be long lasting, you know, and you're in your 60s and you know it's really difficult or painful, and then you're thinking, oh my gosh, this is not the end to me. I still want to have pleasure in my life. What can we do? So give me some, give us some advice or direction on that.

Amita: 19:54

Yeah, absolutely so. I, like I said, I'm not a doctor, but I've talked to thousands of them, so I'm going to share whatever I've heard and researched. So there are a lot of things women can do. One of them is you know there is a meditation, what they call it orgasmic meditation, Believe it or not? A meditation. Orgasmic meditation. Okay, there's a difference between plain meditation and orgasmic meditation. Believe it or not, it has research on helping your you know that part of the body.

Amita: 20:26

And then you need to have some pelvic health, that pelvic health area. You need to have some pelvic health, that pelvic health area. You need to do some pelvic health strengthening. You know that really what you want is the, the blood to flow in that part of the region. So you need to do enough exercises for pelvic health area. And then there are obviously vaginal lubricants and stuff like that, but mainly uh, the other thing what you can do is balancing your hormones.

Amita: 20:49

See, all of these things that are happening because of the imbalance of hormones. We know that estrogen and progesterone are going down and sometimes, initially, the progesterone goes down first and the estrogen is still high and then estrogen goes like crazy. So they're not balanced right. Because of the imbalance of hormones, all these strange things are happening to us. So what you want to do is really balance your hormones, even if they're going down. We know that they're going down for everyone and they are going to stay like that, but make sure your hormones are balanced right. That's really the key to all these things. Now, how do you keep it balanced? You know that is, and also some of the phytoestrogens foods that you should start you could start taking that already have natural estrogen in it. For example, you know the broccolis, you know the cauliflowers, of the things, you know all these things you can start adding to your diet, right, the phytoestrogen, so that the natural estrogen is still there, and that's the one loss of estrogen is causing the vaginal dryness are down there. So if you increase the natural ways to take estrogen in your body by using these simple plant-based vegetables, then I think it can start improving.

Amita: 22:03

So, and also, when you are taking diet and nutrition, include all different type of taste. When I use the word taste, meaning you know salt, your your fermented yeah, exactly. Your spicy, your stringent that's what ayurveda talks about include all the taste. Your bitter, your bitter vegetables, right, like, we know that, as you know, like bitter gourd or some of the bitter vegetables, throw, throw it in there.

Amita: 22:27

So that's what I try to do in the mornings. You know, I'll cook a really big breakfast with egg and I put all kinds of veggies, like spinach and cauliflower, and all kinds of vegetables, onions, you know, even a little bit of tofu. So there's a huge big breakfast that's trying to include all the nutrients you know in the mornings, right? So so all these phytoestrogens if you have, if you start including this on a daily basis, you will feel the difference, you will see the difference. And, in addition to that, doing some exercises, like I said, different type of yoga poses, which I'm happy to share later on, and orgasmic meditation, you know, or vaginal, you know, lubricants and and stress, you know. You need to get rid of the stress.

Rose: 23:18

Yeah, yeah, yes, absolutely, and I also always encourage people with Qigong because it moves the energy and it helps with the connective tissue. It's a great complement to yoga. But yeah, so you're saying you know you have to balance your hormones, but how do we know? How do we know that our hormones are imbalanced? I'm sure they are imbalanced because you're in perimenopause, but what's high, what's low, what's not? What's? What do you need? These are things that, as a woman, you need to go and get a blood test. Am I right and say I you know cause they're not going to do this test? You go for your physical. They're going to just look at your vitamin D and say and your cholesterol, and try to give you medication for that. But we need to ask, we need to go to our gynecologist or a functional medicine doctor and say look at our hormone levels and let's talk about that.

Amita: 24:15

That's a whole different conversation. Understand that. That's a problem that the ob-gyn doesn't tell you that you should do. I mean, that's what the holes are in the system here. Uh, you know everywhere, for that matter. So dutch test is the, the, the holy grail for hormone testing, and that's like dried urine test. That's what they do. It's not even blood test, and that's the test that is given most of the time if they want to see the entire your hormone levels. Now, the other problem is if you're in petty menopause, they are so erratic you don't even know what the baseline is. You almost need to have a baseline when you are younger, or well, let's say we missed the board there, we didn't get the dutch test didn't get it

Amita: 24:52

forget it now. Get the dutch test and see if, if the hormones are balanced or not. That you know, and then make sure. What is it that you can do to balance the hormones? Other things you can use flax seeds. You know flax seeds in the morning. I do that every day in the morning. It's a great hormone balancer. And the flax seed also has know flax seeds in the morning. I do that every day in the morning. It's a great hormone balancer. Flax seed also has estrogen and some of the seeds in the morning they have natural estrogen. So try to include as many foods as possible on a daily basis and get your hormones tested the Dutch test, like I said, and then see how you know. What's it called a dutch test, e-u-t-s-c-h. Dutch test. It's, it's you. You google it. There's a company called dutch test. I mean it's. It's a bit expensive, but I think there's a way you can find it a bit cheaper. I think the dutch test company charges about 400, 500 or something like that. But if you you go say you know-.

Rose: 25:51

You need to go to a doctor. Yeah, you need to talk to your doctor about this and then pursue the test along with them so that they can read the results. But what you said before, I think it's really important. I want to repeat that Get a baseline. Okay, it's too late for me to get a baseline, but if you're in your 30s, get a baseline. Yeah, if you're in your 30s get a baseline, and I'll tell you why. Also because I was diagnosed with cancer at the age of 48 because it was high estrogen.

Amita: 26:18

Now I would have known if I had a test, I would have known they would have known I had high estrogen and maybe done something to reduce it to help me, maybe not get cancer. High estrogen has a direct relation to the cancer and if these kind of measures are put in place, when you, let's say, you were in 40 and somebody told you, hey, get your hormone testing done, you make sure your hormones are balanced. You don't want high estrogen because in the pain, like we were talking about, progesterone goes down and estrogen is still high up there. So it's very common, the estrogen uh dominance for amazing a lot of women. But nobody tells you, hey, make sure these balance is there, so you don't get into all this right and that's.

Amita: 27:02

That's the holes I'm pointing out. You need to have it at earlier so that women don't end up getting all kind of strange cancers.

Rose: 27:11

We need to also understand how our gut, the health of our gut, and how that also relates to hormonal health. Can you talk about that a little bit?

Amita: 27:21

Yeah, yeah, absolutely. Ayurveda talks about everything originates. All the diseases, in fact, originate because of imbalance of gut health issues, right? So your gut health is fundamental and we know that there's a connection of the vagus nerve from gut health issues, right? So your gut health is fundamental and we know that there's a connection of the vagus nerve from gut health to your mental. So if your gut health is not, you know, ideal, then you are going to get anxiety. So there is a direct connection.

Amita: 27:45

So gut health is absolutely one of the most important things in the hormone. So you need to make sure, like I was talking earlier, that to maintain your gut health, you need to feed your gut microbiome enough, right, so that you include all the different tastes. We were talking about that earlier. Your gut microbiome changes when you're going into the perimenopause menopause area, so you want to make sure you feed your gut on a daily basis enough of these nourishing ingredients, right? And and also, you are pooping every single day. Absolutely, that's important.

Amita: 28:22

A lot of women during this phase of perimenopause get constipated, um, the very common constipation. You want to make sure you're not constipated. You're feeding your gut every single day what it needs to be fed and you are having evacuation bowel movements, regular bowel movements. This is very, very important. Otherwise, again the same issue all your inflammation gets, you know, kind of piled up and now your body's inflamed. There's another problem, right, because you're not doing a bowel movement on a daily basis. So, absolutely, gut health is a simple. Most and most of the women during going through this phase have inflammation inside their body.

Rose: 29:05

A lot of inflammation.

Amita: 29:07

A lot of inflammation, not only because of the gut health, but also because of the makeup, because of the kind of food that they have been taking household products so many things right If you think about it so many things.

Rose: 29:18

Environmental right, Stress, environmental Yep.

Amita: 29:22

So you have so much inflammation inside your body and if you're not doing regular bowel movements, you can imagine you're growing a toxin factory inside your thing. It's in your body and you're not detoxification right. It's so fundamental and that's one of the things Ayurveda, even traditional Chinese medicine, talks about regularly in a year cleansing your body inside out, not outside in. You need to cleanse it right so you are getting rid of these stupid toxins, so you can function. It's very, very important.

Rose: 29:58

Yeah, but you need to do it safely and I'm a huge advocate of Ayurveda. I learned about Ayurveda years ago when I was having gut issues and a yoga teacher of mine said go to this doctor, ayurvedic doctor, and he cured me. I didn't have any more issues with my gut and you know, he gave me supplements. But do it wisely. Don't start, you know, randomly taking supplements. Go to, you know, go to a certain food store and just buy things off the shelf because they can have an adverse effect.

Amita: 30:35

Absolutely. I started doing that, I started buying all kinds of supplements oh my God, and I started. It started having adverse effects. So you need to go seek a proper, you know, functional medicine doctor, Ayurvedic physician, even traditional Chinese, whatever gives you, you know whatever resonates yeah.

Amita: 30:54

Yeah, it resonates with you. I personally have done a lot of Ayurveda, but that is because you know I feel comfortable with that, even acupuncture, I do that a lot, but it is important for you know there is a lot of simple detoxification processes, but if it's done under the guidance of an expert. But even simple things like medical detoxification processes, but if under if it's done under the guidance of an expert, but even simple things like medical detoxification is being done here, or a simple cleansing of what they call is a mono diet for x number of days that cleanses your system, so that this is a complete, brand new, new topic. Detoxification is a huge, huge, but just for this podcast. It's important to cleanse right, to cleanse yourself at least twice a year. And I'm not talking about juice cleanse here, I'm talking about cleanse. It could be medical detoxification or a simple monodiet cleanse. That maybe you could do it safely, but it's important to talk to someone.

Rose: 31:55

So a lot of this gut and toxin removal that we're talking about, this gut health, can also help eliminate some of that excess weight that women are feeling, that middle belly, you know, which is hormonal. But they don't have to carry that forever right. They can exercise and eat the right things and do the proper routines that help to eliminate that, Because that seems to be a sore spot for women. You know that exercise.

Amita: 32:21

Yeah, absolutely. It's mainly because of the hormone imbalance. I had it for years and years. Oh my God. I just had to change my diet and all those things and now it hasn't gone away a hundred percent, but still it's not as pronounced.

Rose: 32:35

And you feel better, because a lot of it could also be bloating, which is a huge indication that you're maybe not eating properly, at the right time or the right foods, and you can help eliminate that. So I know diet is really important in lifestyle. So I know diet is really important in lifestyle in an approach to helping you feel better overall. Let's talk about what Nourish Doc, which is you co-founded, and what it offers. Your role, you know. Just take the floor and let us know everything about Nourish Doc and how it helps people, how it helps women.

Amita: 33:11

Well, the whole intention of Nourish Talk is really to build a holistic wellness platform for women, specifically in the mid-age women beyond the reproductive years, when they're entering the perimenopause, all the way to postmenopause, and I also wanted to make it affordable. I didn't want women to say, oh my God, the Dutch test is 500 and this is 1,000, and that's that. So what we are doing is we put together a simple app that would be only $10 a month so that women can go in and get credible information about what is this whole journey going to be and also have managing this journey using holistic therapies. That's really what we have done is created this amazing platform so that women feel, okay, I just need to learn and I can spend 10 bucks. Everybody has 10 bucks.

Amita: 34:03

Then the next level could be the expert guided care, which would be a little bit more affordable, but still you get to hear from different experts from all over the world what you could do. And then the third could be one-on-one. You know like, you get your touch test, you get your whatever and you have a naturopathic doctor or whatever you know. So these are the three tiers. What we have created so that women feel that they are taken care of, there's credible information and they feel safe that they can come and talk about any kind of taboo topics. You know they don't feel like, oh my God, I can't talk about my sexual health, it's going down the tube or whatever. So the idea is to create a complete, comprehensive, holistic wellness platform for women going through perimenopause, menopause and postmenopause.

Rose: 34:55

Is there anything else that you wanted to add, amita?

Amita: 34:57

before we wrap up the episode no, I just want to encourage all women for self-love. You know self-care, self-worth. You are worth it. You owe it to yourself. You have been caring for everyone else all these years. You know now you care for yourself, and that's what I like to leave it with.

Rose: 35:19

Perfect, beautiful. Yes, don't ignore yourself, take care of yourself Right and and. And. Please use resources like Amita and Nourish Doc, because it's a safe environment that you can go to and you know she's done the research. And not only has done the research, but you have lived through this and lived it and have experienced it and are here to share your expertise and passion. Thank you so much for being here today, avita. Thank you, thank you for joining me on Chat Off The Mat. If you're ready to transform your energy and step into your fullest potential, I'd love to work with you. As an energy alchemist, I help women release blocked energy and reclaim their vibrant essence. Visit rosewipichcom to explore working together and discover free resources for your journey. Love today's episode, subscribe wherever you get your podcasts, leave a rating and share your biggest takeaway with me on Instagram at Rose Wiippich. Remember wellness warriors. Your energy is precious. Nurture it wisely.