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Frank: 00:01 Hey everyone, and welcome to unconventional wellness radio a powerful and inspiring podcast set to revolutionize and disrupt healthcare. It’s trying to put you in the driver’s seat and be the force of change necessary for the lifestyle you’ve always wanted.
Frank: 00:16 Hey, what’s going on everybody? It’s frank and I am here with unconventional wellness radio. And uh, before I start today, even though we’re going to talk about maintaining healthy cholesterol levels, what I want to talk to you about is the program that we are getting ready to launch, hopefully within the next, I’m going to put myself on the spot right now. My goal is roughly four to six at the absolute worst eight weeks. I’ve realized that by recording all of the material that I want to bring for unconventional wellness is that unfortunately there’s so much material that I want to make sure that I get it done the right way and it’s just been like morphing into this thing that’s like just in awesome.
Frank: 01:01 I mean, honestly, I’m not just saying that, uh, I’ve been doing it with a couple of friends in terms of bouncing off ideas and bouncing off content of them and they actually think it’s a really great thing. So bear with me, I am frantically recording the videos, getting the materials together. I’m going to have printable PDFs that are going to have notes on there. We’re going to have some action plan steps and things like that that you’ll be able to follow. And quite honestly, I really feel that this is going to be a pretty amazing thing for you to be able to step into the wellness lifestyle that you have always desired. We’re going to talk about the core for a, I don’t want to give out a ton of secrets, but we’re going to talk about foundational things and I’m going to describe them in such a way to where it will hopefully be nice and super straight forward to you.
Frank: 01:52 So we’re going to talk about different nutritional pathways. We’re going to talk about functional pathways of movement. You know we’re going to talk about some of the more popular ways of working out and then really just honestly, if you just want to stay active, how does that look? We’re going to talk about how to get better sleep, how to help remove stress out of your life to reduce stress or be able to manage your stress more effectively. And then I also talk about toxicities of various different foods that are out there, different problems with our water supply and really just things that might be resonant in our household that were completely unaware, aware of that could be actually harming us. So I am getting really, really excited about it. We’re going to start referring to ourselves as wellness warriors. I am super unbelievably excited about what is in store for the program of unconventional wellness.
Frank: 02:40 So please, please, please go to unconventional-wellness.com sign up by putting your email in there. You will get newsletters from us from time to time. I promise I won’t spam your inbox with a bunch of crazy information, but it is just to simply make sure that you stay abreast of what is happening new with unconventional wellness. Matter of fact, that way you don’t think that I’m going to span you. I still have not even actually sent an email out yet. So, um, if you already have subscribed to the newsletter, don’t worry, you have not missed anything because I don’t believe in spam and I don’t want to spam anybodies inbox for, for craziness. I want to make sure that you’re getting real, usable, verifiable data and content that way you can live that wellness lifestyle that you’ve always wanted. But what were you going to talk about on today’s podcast is going to be cholesterol, maintaining cholesterol.
Frank: 03:34 First of all, we’re going to start off by talking about what is cholesterol and what are the historical pieces of data that we actually have about cholesterol and how have we really missed the mark about our understanding of cholesterol. To give you a backstory about how I am, I come from an Italian household, okay. Uh, folks around the Mediterranean have actually been seen genetically to have a predisposition to actually having high cholesterol. But when I coupled that with our standard American diet, which you’ll hear me refer to it as the sad diet because that’s not only the acronym, but it really is a sad diet that I was really skyrocketing in my cholesterol panel numbers. And we’ll dive into that in a second about what those mean and how do we interpret that data and all that kind of stuff as well. But that is really the only thing that I’ve always had to battle with.
Frank: 04:27 So knock on wood, I’ve actually had just that focus of mine for really most of my adult life. I, I didn’t necessarily even realize that it was something that was happening in my life. And so I started putting the pieces together and everything like that. And now that I have become pretty aware of that situation, in that story in my life, I’ve been able to actually really dive into it and be able to actually focus on how I can ensure that I am maintaining healthy cholesterol levels. And I would love to share that with you. So let’s first start off by talking about what is cholesterol anyway. Okay. So lots of studies from the food and Drug Administration, uh, have specified since say about the 1960s, even 1970s, uh, really with a lot of research happening in the eighties and nineties in reference to cholesterol. And what are the ramifications of cholesterol with a person’s overall cardiovascular health?
Frank: 05:25 Well, if you are aware or if you are a child of the eighties and nineties, such as I was, we at that time were being told that eating cholesterol was a bad thing. I remember, uh, the egg white industry like skyrocketed because all the cholesterol is in the yolk of the egg. And so egg beaters and some of those other companies, you’re welcome for the shout out. They ended up putting products on the shelves about people who wanted to watch having the whole egg and only wanted the egg whites. Egg White Omelets became popular. And then one of the thing that happened was fat free foods. And these my friends have been some of the cornerstone of poor health and poor food for a very long time. We’re talking decades worth. So the thing about the fast, or excuse me, the fat free fad, which unfortunately is not so much a fat as you can still see fat free foods that are currently on our shelves.
Frank: 06:22 But what we found out, or what I should say is that what manufacturers of foods found out was if we remove the fat, we’re removing the flavor. And so therefore now we have to put a bunch of preservatives and additives and sugar into these foods to make them actually taste better. And so you’d be sitting there munching on a box of fat free cookies, not realizing that you were consuming like just grams and grams of carbohydrates and processed sugars in the process. And so people were wondering, why am I not losing weight? And now while all of a sudden do I possibly have this situation where I’m dealing with diabetes. So we were trading, we were that, that typical kind of robbing Peter to pay Paul Concept. And thankfully now a lot more research has come out and a lot more diet nutritional plans have actually demonstrated the importance of healthy fats in our diet in order to be able to have that particular cardiovascular lifestyle that we’ve always wanted.
Frank: 07:22 And so what we are looking at now is demystifying the things that have been surrounding cholesterol. And I’m here to tell you that you are not alone in your battle with cholesterol and that I want to help you understand what cholesterol is about and how can you utilize it to make sure that you are living a very healthy lifestyle. So first and foremost, let me give a quick disclaimer, make sure that you are following with your healthcare provider and that their health care providers ordering at least something basic called a lipid panel. But there is a friend of mine and if you go back to our previous episodes, he does a great job of explaining some of these laboratory tests about the different types of things that we should be looking for in our blood to determine how healthy our bodies currently our, his name is Dr Jack Wolfson.
Frank: 08:16 You can see them on the website, thedrswolfson.com he is a cardiologist, he is a board certified cardiologist and both he and his wife are a practicing providers, him being the cardiologist, his wife is a chiropractor and they are fantastic folks to follow the from the wonderful state of Arizona down in the southwest of the United States. And they’re doing wonderful, great and good things with helping people understand how to achieve wellness as well. And so, you know, starting with an Olympic panel is the first thing, but then there are other labs that we should be definitely doing in order to determine where do we sit in terms of our actual fitness level, our actual health level at that time. Okay. Check out his book. He does a really great job of showing the top 20 laboratory tests that he recommends for most people who are starting the Paleo lifestyle and want to get a more heart, healthy life.
Frank: 09:12 So please check out his book. It’s the Paleo Cardiologist, but enough about that. So what I do is I started it off with my lipid panel. Now this is what cholesterol means. It breaks down the liquid panel into a couple of different things. There is your total cholesterol, there is what is called your LDL. It breaks it down into your HDL and depending upon the type of panel you have, you might get a ratio involved in that or you can end up also seeing what your triglyceride levels aren’t. So what I’ll do is I’m going to break down each one of those values, but of course their age specific and things like that. But I want to explain what each one of those values or I should say what each one of those categories represent. So total cholesterol is going to be exactly just what it sounds like.
Frank: 09:56 It’s going to look at every type of cholesterol currently in your blood. And the vast majority of folks fall into the, up to about 199. Uh, what is recorded as 199, uh, within a deciliter of blood, those particular cholesterol units, if those are found, if you’re above one eight, nine, one 99, that is considered high. Okay. That’s total cholesterol when you dropped down and you look at Ldl, that stands for low density lipoproteins, but it doesn’t really stop there. We’ll talk about some other different types of lipid proteins that are available or that I should say are seen instead of the blood as well. But anyway, your LDL or low density lipoproteins, think of that as the bad cholesterol that is, the cholesterol is big, it’s fluffy, it does a really great job of becoming sticky when there’s uh, an injury on the inside of one of your blood vessels.
Frank: 10:48 And then those are the types of things that can really help start this plaque formation inside of your blood vessels that could eventually lead tor cardiovascular compromise and eventually other issues as well. More significant life threatening issues as well so that his LDL, HDL cholesterol stands for high density lipoproteins. So these are sort of like what I considered to be the pacman and the blood. They’re job is to go around and actually help regulate the forms of bad cholesterol in the blood. Okay. Those types of, uh, cholesterol molecules are what we’re shooting for. The reason why is because those at a certain level, for most men, it’s over 60. I believe for women it might be over 70. I might be a little wrong on that. Like I said, check with your healthcare providers, but at a certain level of HDL being present in your blood, uh, research has shown that that can be actually cardioprotective, meaning that it can actually help with the, uh, with the chances or decrease the chances of a cardiovascular problem.
Frank: 11:51 Okay, so that’s HDL. The last thing is something called triglycerides. It’s a particular form of how we kind of store fat and move that around in the body. Okay. Long story short is that it’s fats with sugar. That’s really what that if you break down the word triglyceride, that kind of was what it means. There’s the word try in there, which means three. Um, so therefore it’s just to describe the type of molecule that is being created inside of the movement and also storage of fats along inside the body. The thing about having a high triglyceride number is that it actually can lead to problems with a person’s pancreas. Okay. So that’s why it’s important to take a look at triglycerides, especially those that consume alcohol. They have a better chance of having elevated triglycerides and that is pretty much your lipid panel in a nutshell.
Frank: 12:40 Well, let’s break it down just a wee bit further and let’s talk about what is cholesterol, cholesterol folks. Bottom line, it’s not a terrible thing as much as it’s being touted that it actually has cholesterol ends up being the backbone of a lot of the hormones that are currently circulating in our body. It is the backbone of estrogen. It is the backbone of progesterone. It is the backbone of Vitamin D. It’s the backbone of a number of very important molecules in your body. Additionally, cholesterol is found in every single cell wall inside of your body. If we did not have cholesterol, we would, for all intents and purposes be a pile of Goo. The reason why is because we would essentially dissolve ourselves because we would not have that wonderful fat layer surrounding ourselves and being able to create that wall that a lot of the magic of metabolism in the line of the magic of metabolism happens within.
Frank: 13:36 And so cholesterol is essential to life. We need cholesterol. That’s the reason why our bodies in the liver actually create cholesterol. We create cholesterol usually while we’re sleeping and were very unaware of it. And so cholesterol is crucially important to our health and we want to make sure that we’re actually eating the appropriate right sources of cholesterol, having a healthy, active lifestyle, staying well hydrated, doing all of the other things, getting plenty of sunshine in order for our bodies to be able to adequately manage the type of cholesterol that we truly need to be able to be healthy. Let that sink in for a second. Folks, we need cholesterol for life. And so what happens here is we have to ask ourselves what sources of cholesterol are we in fact getting? Are we eating a diet that is super high in regular, terrible fats? Which means that could be directly related to terrible cholesterol levels as well.
Frank: 14:41 Or are we eating grass fed quality meats? Lots and lots of organic vegetables or vegetables that are grown in our local environments by farmers who are following organic practices, avoiding pesticides, avoiding insecticides, avoiding herbicides and getting out and getting plenty of sunshine. That’s a great start for anyone if they want to start managing their cholesterol in a much better way. There are some different things that I can offer to you on this podcast that you can start doing besides getting yourself on a great diet protocol, eating the right types of foods, and then getting out and maintaining a healthy lifestyle. By the way that a healthy lifestyle folks does not need to have any type of science behind it. You absolutely should stay active for at least 20 minutes per day. Go out and do something that you enjoy. Go walking, go bike and go hiking.
Frank: 15:34 Play with your kids, do something that will elevate. I mean, you can even get a great workout if you clean your house. Not only will it make you feel better because of the fact that a place where in which you’re living in is decluttered and clean and it’s really great for your health anyway. Uh, we’ll save that for another podcast because of all the different chemicals that are present within our homes. But it is also fabulous because it will get your heart rate up if you actually do it vigorously enough. So buying these expensive memberships to different gyms and stuff like that, if that’s your cup of tea, great. But the fact of the matter is, is getting at least 20 minutes of exercise every single day. That’s what the American Heart Association recommends, is that you get at least a hundred to 125 minutes of actual exercise every single week and that will significantly help you.
Frank: 16:26 Okay, then, well, let’s take a look at some of the foods that we can be eating. Well, we need to be eating a diet higher in fiber. Okay. Dietary fiber has been shown clinically to reduce or should say, to help reduce blood cholesterol levels. Okay. And help maintain those within the, uh, the normal ranges. Okay. So therefore we should be looking at, once again, different ways we can consume fiber. You can get plenty of fiber through a plant based or a plant foundational based Diet. Okay. Be eating lots of vegetables, minimize the fruits, but when you eat fruit, eat the skin. The skin is one of the most importantly beneficial, nutritious parts of the entire piece of fruit itself. So eat the skin when you can. Just make sure that you get it from a very good source. That way it’s not full of stuff like pesticides or insecticides or other sprays that people put on these things in order to make them look good.
Frank: 17:25 You know, I always jokingly say you should be eating ugly fruit. We usually, the reason why I say that is because if you think about it, you take a nice fresh organic or organically grown a payer or something like that and stick it next to one that is like, who knows how it was processed except for the fact that it may have been painted. There could be a wax on it. There could be things done to it even before it’s picked and it usually looks extremely pretty. The thing is though, is that I know that that ugly fruit was handled in a much more sustainable way. Then usually that extremely pretty looking fruit that you could probably put it on Instagram or something like that. Okay. I adore ugly fruit. I really, really do. Okay. But anyway, so we want to look at dietary fiber.
Frank: 18:11 We’ve got to boost that. Okay. The next thing is is that we want to make sure that we have adequate vitamin D levels. I did not know this until Dr Wolfson explained it to me, but it makes perfect sense since the backbone of cholesterol, or excuse me, since the backbone of vitamin D is cholesterol, it makes sense. Go out and get sunshine, and the reason why is because you’ll soak up a bunch of that extra cholesterol because your body wants to convert it into vitamin D. Vitamin D is crucial for very many different types of metabolic functions within the body. It acts as a cofactor in quite a bit, a different metabolic functions. Okay. And so it actually makes perfect sense that we should go out and get plenty of sunshine. That way we can increase our vitamin D levels. Vitamin D levels have been shown to really help boost our immunity.
Frank: 18:54 It’s fantastic for healthy bones and teeth and it is just crucial to life as well. It’s a really, really wonderful vitamin to have and it also helps regulate your cholesterol levels healthy as well. There’s another podcast that I’ve done about super foods. Super Foods are wonderful. Those were really great way to help boost your metabolism, help boost your abilities to have a very healthy lifestyle. So please check out previous podcast episodes. I can’t remember what number it is. It might be like in the tens or something like that, but please check out superfoods as well. Okay, so those are some of the foods that we can do. All right. Then you want to go ahead and look at what are some like different kinds of supplements, if you will. Now, if you’re doing all of this foundational stuff, you should be, you know, I mean I can’t put a percentage on it, but I’d say you’re doing at least half of everything that you could be doing in order to help improve your cholesterol levels.
Frank: 19:48 Okay. But what I’ve done in addition to is I take a couple of supplements that I know that are going to be very beneficial for helping reduce and maintain the cholesterol levels where I would like end to end up being. Okay. And one of those is that I take something called Red Yeast Rice. Red Yeast Rice has the same capability as one of those expensively kind of heavy side effect medications that’s out there right now, which is known as a status. Okay. All Stat and medications are great at helping with cholesterol levels. The thing is though is that there are some known side effects with sentences. So therefore I personally do not want to take status. And so what I take is I take a supplement called red yeast rice, which is a natural form of something that acts very similar to like what the consumption of a stat would be like in the body.
Frank: 20:39 And so I enjoy taking red yeast rice. I will either take red use dice with something with co Q 10 cause code you 10 is extremely important in the body because that also helps with the regulation of fat metabolism and otherwise metabolism in the body as well. And so I really like it with either that or even nattokinase and I know kinase is a really fabulous fermented type of Tofu. It mainly comes from Japan. All right? That’s how we learned about the technology and I just don’t even know if I could speak enough benefit about nattokinase. It is probably one of the healthiest versions of food that you could probably eat. I really love it. So I had to get ready to use rice with cocuten added or red research with um, nattokinase and then just add the you attendance at separate capsule. Okay. So that’s what I do for myself.
Frank: 21:26 Additionally, I made sure, of course I’m taking plenty of really good high quality fish oil. Okay. Me Personally, because of the fact that I’ve got some genetics that I got to go against, I usually take double the amount of what you should, which is normally the standard that I’ve seen in vast majority of literature is at least 1000 milligrams. But make sure you get yourself a nice high quality sustainable version of fish oil and follow the directions. The other big component is take a look at the EPA and Dha. I’m not even gonna try to pronounce either one of those types of, um, healthy fats, if you will, but make sure that you get a good high quality one, um, in order to be able to make sure that you’re getting plenty of high quality Omega threes. Okay. Additionally, of course, eat seafood, right? So like your fatty fishes.
Frank: 22:15 So they think tunas and mackerel and Salmon make sure that they’re sourced really, really well, so they’re not full of a bunch of mercury and stuff like that. But those types of fishes are really great too for being able to help boost really great omega three fatty acids. Omega three fatty acids are really wonderful for, um, being like really great to help inflammatory levels. And so, um, it has been shown through research that Omega Three’s actually benefit, uh, the, the appropriate healthy levels of inflammation in the body, uh, more so than Omega sixes. But it is a nice blend that you want to get between Omega threes and Omega sixes. But I’ll make it, the rays are showing a lot of really great promise when it comes to, uh, helping maintain a very healthy cardiovascular system. That’s really the two largest ones that I actually take.
Frank: 23:00 Um, yes, I do in fact also use some essential oils and this is not meant to sell you essential oils, but there are some essential oils that I really appreciate. Uh, lemon grass is one of them. Uh, I love cinnamon because that helps maintain healthy blood sugar levels and blood sugar and a and, and healthy cholesterol levels. Um, kind of run hand in hand. Usually if one is out of whack, the other one could be also at a wack, not to say that they’re directly correlated, but if you have both conditions of both high cholesterol and high blood sugar, it absolutely skyrockets your risk for having a cardiovascular event. So, um, it’s very important to also consider managing good, healthy blood sugar levels as well. And so that’s reason why I really liked cinnamon is that it helps regulate those blood sugars in a very good, healthy way and it keeps those within the healthy limits as well.
Frank: 23:52 Um, some of the other essential oils that I love taking Frankincense, I take that every single day. It’s really great for just overall just overall healthy wellness lifestyle and it’s really great for us cellular vitality. And so I absolutely adore frankincense cause it’s a great, it’s also known as the great, the great enhancer if you will. Uh, it’s also the king of essential oils and so like it actually will help promote the ability of other essential oils. So that’s why I absolutely love taking that, um, that essential oil or using that essential oil every single day as well. But that’s pretty much guys, what I do. I just make sure that I foundationally, I get great sleep. I eat right, I maintain a healthy lifestyle exercise, and then I consider those supplements. Not to say go out there and go break the bank and buy a bunch of supplements in essential oils, but start off by getting those labs first.
Frank: 24:47 Speak with your healthcare provider. Let them know your intentions, let them know that you want to start trying to manage these things and the natural way in order to be able to see what those lab values are so you can tweak as you go along. I am like a big advocate of making sure that if I do something new, I follow it up with my healthcare provider to make sure like what I did was actually useful and beneficial. Okay, but that’s all I’ve got for today. I hope that this was a value to you as always, always. I really love receiving those comments from you guys, those ratings and reviews from you, so please subscribe to this channel. That way you can stay abreast of all of the natural things that I’m going to bring to you on unconventional wellness, as well as whenever I finally can get that program a hundred percent squared away because I’d love to get that out to you guys as well.
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Intro: 00:09 Welcome to essential oil healthcare radio. I am frank. I am a certified physician assistant and I’m Jackie Ritz. I’m an herbalist and lover of essential oils and we would love to bring to you this podcast about herbs, essential oils, supplements, all these ways that you can live a natural life. So stay tuned and listen to us and we’ll be bringing to you lots of content on essential oils using herbs, using natural remedies to take care of yourself in your family.
Intro: 00:37 Hey and welcome to today’s episode where we get to talk about something kind of edgy, but that’s okay because that’s just how we roll. This is essential oil healthcare radio and I’m frank. This is Jackie and we are going to talk about how to spice up your life. This episode is dropping at a and during the same week, actually a Valentine’s Day. So you may want to look for some ways to help impress your significant other in ways that you know, only you can, but anyway, we wanted to give you guys some additional tips and things that we haven’t talked to with many folks and also kind of came up with ourselves over the course of the time that we have used, you know, nutrition, essential oils and some of the other great herbs and supplements and things like that to really make sure that although I’m 40, I’ll be honest with you, I still feel like I’m in my teens.
Intro: 01:31 So I think Jackie would be happy to also
Frank: 01:34 echo that. So. But anyway, without further ado, let’s talk about spice up your love life. So first and foremost, let’s start off with talking about the foundational reasons behind why we want to talk about what we want to talk about. And that would be a discussion on Libido, right? So like libido is huge in terms of, and as a terrible pun by the way, Libido is, but so living in quite a few of those will have a very punny podcasts. That’ll be awesome. Listen to this episode of your kids are in the car. Absolutely. This is an 18 and older, although we’re not going to use any profanity. We’ll have some innuendos. Uh, but. But anyway, so loss of Libido happens for a bunch of different mental and physical reasons with men. I’m just speaking for myself with, with this. I’m going to just open up and say this, that when we were trying to conceive our first little one, I was trying so hard to make it right that it ended up actually causing me a lot of problems in the bedroom and I could not perform because it was all in my head, right?
Frank: 02:42 There was nothing wrong with me. I’m even though I like I went and actually talked to a doctor and said, am I running low on stuff? Is there something that I’m missing? What’s going on here? Come to find out it was absolutely all in my head. So once I chilled out, started reducing that stress and realizing that I just need to relax and let things happen. You know, now we’re blessed. We’ve been blessed with plenty of wonderful kids.
Jackie: 03:07 I think a lot of the problems are in your head, right when it comes to the loss of Libido.
Frank: 03:12 Yeah. I mean the number one cause of the loss of libido is stress or just being physically exhausted.
Jackie: 03:17 I’ve always said to frank, I’m so happy that I’m a woman because I don’t have to get hard and perform. I, you know, and I can’t imagine as a man you know, having to have that always looming before you. So
Frank: 03:31 there’s pressures for both pressures, pressures for both sides, but needless to say is the number one cause is going to be stressed or exhaustion. Number two is going to be, are you feeling depressed? You know, like obviously if emotionally you’re not there then physical, you’re not going to be there either there or there might be some other physical symptoms. Like sometimes you have an underactive thyroid gland, sometimes you’re around menopause, which is something called Peri menopausal. There are different types of medications that actually will drive your libido down. We know this as a side effect. Men could have low testosterone. Okay. And then of course there could be marital problems, which I will say about half of those that we discussed, we can actually improve by having a better relationship because having a better relationship will increase sexual intimacy between any couples. Okay. So what are some of the health benefits then of having a good sex life?
Frank: 04:23 Well, obviously it’s a stress reliever, right? Surprisingly enough, researchers have also found that it also does in fact lower your blood pressure. It helps do things like boost your immunity. It obviously burns calories. So guess what? You can lose some weight if you have enough of it. Excuse me. It’s really good for a gentleman for improving their heart health. It gives you a better sense. A big gives you a better self esteem. It actually helps sometimes with inflammation and it helps with intimacy between you and your partner. And then you know, what’s kind of cool is stronger pelvic floor muscles. That’s always nice. So you can actually have sex and not worry about having to do a thousand key goals a day. But then of course, also at least
Jackie: 05:04 for the men to say they’ve never had a baby pushed out of their vagina. And then five years later I tried to go to the trampoline park.
Frank: 05:13 Oh yes. There has been some incontinent episodes. Has, they’re not. But which are always fun to giggle about. But anyway. And then the last round it out would be better sleep. Okay. So there are a couple of things that we’re going to discuss. We’re of course going to dive right in and talk about different ways to sort of naturally support a very healthy libido.
Frank: 05:32 So I want to talk to the women and you know, we go through a lot, lots of life changes that fluctuate and change our hormones and this can impact so many areas of our life, including our sex drive in our libido. And so it’s really important that we get some very vital nutrients that are going to be used to just create that vitality and enhanced, enhances our emotional and our physical wellbeing and in particularly to women, but can boost fertility. So some of these things I want to just, you know, if you’ve been around our podcast for awhile, you know, that whoever we really aren’t just about essential oils. Um, I was just talking to frank and I was like, maybe I should have named it something else, but, um, I think uh, essential oils is a really big part of it. It’s just a, you know, like a fourth of the Pi Square Pie Circle Not Square and could be cornbread, cornbread that is true or Brownie batter.
Frank: 06:37 Nice. And you know, I’ve definitely seen, I’ve definitely seen squarish things for birthdays and stuff like that. It’s whatever, circle square, whatever. Anyways, but, um, but yeah, it’s really important that we get some very key things instead of just sitting thinking that you can slap some oils on and you’re going to be okay. Slept oils. I did. Wow. Should we do sound effects? All right. So let’s talk a little bit about some key things that we need in our diet as women. Um, one thing I want to just really tell you guys is that there are some foods that are like really high in carbohydrates that what these do is these actually prevent energy peaks and can really cause hormonal fluctuations. So if you’re a woman and you know, if you are eating a lot of grain, you know, just think about that. Okay, I’m trying to come off of it a little bit limited or use just really good high quality grain and I always recommend if you’re going to eat grain to eat soaked grain or sprouted grain and you could buy, I mean all the has sprouted bread now so you can buy that without actually having to do that yourself.
Jackie: 07:52 Which is a really complicated process. I’m also, for women, probiotics is very, very important. This helps to not only just boost immunity, but it also has a really good effect on the neurotransmitter Serotonin, which is a mood stabilizer. This is produced in our gut. And so if our gut is in check and good by taking, you know, healthy probiotics are eating live foods like Kimchi, Sauerkraut, drinking Kombucha, even, you know, tempeh or Miso that has been fermented properly, all of that can help to regulate our emotions and to release that serotonin which is going to give us and help us to increase our libido and our sex drive. Um, another really important thing, and I think frank is going to explain this one a little bit better than I can, but it’s vital estrogens. This is very, very important for women as well because, um, this helps to, these have, there’s foods that have these plant hormones in it and this is like dark green leafy vegetables. So mustard greens and Broccoli and cabbage and Kale. These not only are a very high source of free radical fighting and I oxidants, but it also works in a similar way as it does in the plant. It’s a natural estrogen that is produced by the body and therefore it helps to make off make up for the loss of estrogen that occurs around the time of menopause. And so this is really important for women going through that, those menopausal symptoms?
Frank: 09:33 Yeah, absolutely. Estrogen, estrogen. Okay. So let me, let me just quickly talk about kind of two or three different types of estrogens, if I May, is that you have body produced at Estrogens, then you have which are called endogenous estrogens and then you have xeno estrogens and then you have phytoestrogen. Okay. Obviously we are shooting for to be as natural as possible. We want to create a, you know, these endogenous or or released inside of the body estrogens. Right. Problem is though, is that with all these hormone disruptors that are happening, know with different types of molecules and compounds and whatnot in our drinking water and food and all that kind of stuff. We’re in ingesting an alarming amount of Xeno estrogens now and so the purpose of a phytoestrogen is to sort of help offset that battle that’s going on where the Zino estrogen has a really good affinity. It’s really strongly looking for the receptors and it fights for those receptors in a woman’s body. Well, by having the phytoestrogens around, it sort of makes the natural estrogens more capable of being able to actually go and hit those receptors instead. So it’s a really great way to balance your hormones and a very natural way by making sure that you’re getting plenty of vegetables chock full of really wonderful final estrogens.
Jackie: 10:51 And there’s also some foods that are high in these fertility boosting estrogens like nuts and seeds. So these provide those estrogens that help to regulate your mood and you can also find them in Omega threes. So I’m oily fishes such as salmon or mackerel, very, very high in that and very, very great for boosting fertility. Um, another really good one is full fat raw dairy. This is, um, has some incredible fertility boosting benefits because of the cholesterol that’s in it. It’s aids, the progesterone production. So this is a key fertility hormone that helps, you know, increase that hormone in your body, which helps you get pregnant, helps regulate your libido, all of that. So think about adding some of those things to your diet. I’m another really cool thing I want to talk about was some herbs that can help just, you know, normal health, so things that women can take when they’re going through different periods of their life.
Jackie: 11:58 One of my favorite ones is skullcap. I love recommending that one. This is not only great for the pre menstrual period and you know right before you’re going to start your period, but it’s also really great for easing tension. It enhances different mental and emotional wellbeing, things that you’re going through. I love chaste berry as well. Chasteberry berry, you can buy all these herbs dried so you don’t have to grow them yourself if you’re not able to. Although it’s fun to actually have your own little medicinal medicinal herb garden, but chasteberry is a. it’s a really good tonic for women in a tonic means that you can take it all throughout different periods of your life. It’s safe to be taken every single day. If you’re pregnant, you want to make sure before you take anything new. Any herb that you talked to your primary care physician, okay, don’t forget that, but chasteberry is a tonic.
Jackie: 12:52 It tones are tissue in our body and it helps to balance hormones and so this is also a really great one during pms time, but it also can help to lessen the impact of menopause in your later life. Another great herb, an oil, so it comes as both and we’ve grown to really love it. It’s yarrow. This is an antispasmodic herbs, so it really helps to balance blood flow during that time of the month. And it really just helps those years. A uterine, how do you say, uterine or uterus tissue. It helps to really help your body when you’re regulating your period and when you’re going through that time of the month. But those are just some of the things that I wanted to mention for, um, for women’s health and just as a basic foundation.
Frank: 13:44 Yeah. And then let’s go ahead and hop into men’s health as well because quite honestly, our bodies, although we have different chemistries, let’s face it, we’re still both human beings, right? So like where a woman is estrogen dominant men, a man will be, uh, you know, testosterone dominant. But here’s the deal, there is actually testosterone in women and there’s estrogen in men, so we still are essentially cut from the same mold. So men, a lot of these different things actually will be able to be applicable to you. So please listen up. One of the things that I do is I definitely make sure that I’m getting a really great quality multivitamin. The reason why is because a lot of those metabolic processes that happen even with us not even thinking about them, they need those precursors in order to be able to handle those processes.
Frank: 14:33 So it’s extremely important. The other thing is, is that of course we want to make sure that we take care of our prostate, right? So there are a bunch of different types of ways that we can, um, you know, naturally boost testosterone as well as look at being able to really help find the balance with our prostate health. Well, one of the things that I make sure that I do is I try to get that vitamin supplementation that actually is specifically designed for men. Um, I pay attention to things like co Q 10 and Reservatrol and Berberine. These are some of the most important ones that I really like. Chlorella, chlorella, and Spirulina, or fantastic superfoods. Matter of fact, I did a podcast on superfoods, 10 of the most popular or should say most beneficial superfood. So please check that out on a previous episode.
Frank: 15:20 But anyway, it’s important to take care of prostate health. Okay. Then there’s some different things that you want to make sure that you’re getting, which is plenty of vitamin D, plenty of vitamin C. You want to make sure that you’re also getting that as well. The last couple of things I don’t want to talk about is, you know, ensuring that you naturally are going to get symptoms of an enlarged prostate. Unfortunately, as men get older, it happens. You’ll find out I’m going to the bathroom more frequently when I go to the bathroom. I don’t feel like I empty my bladder completely. I might go and go to the bathroom and then unfortunately once it starts getting a little bit more pronounced, you may start dribbling. Okay, so these are the things that you want to watch out for and make sure that you pay attention to those types of symptoms because that might require you to go in and go talk to a physician and figure out what may be going on for your prostate.
Frank: 16:14 Okay. So it’s super important to make sure that you consider prostate health. Well, let’s switch gears for a little bit because we just wanted to talk men and women’s health kind of in a, in a quick nutshell if you will, but let’s continue on with our intimacy talk. Alright, so how important is aroma? Oh my gosh. To intimacy, right? So important. So like you, we. The first thing that we do is we want to make sure that we do the old sniff check and I’m not talking about the sniff check down there. I’m talking about like have I taken a shower actually today, right? Because that would be an aroma, that problem we would turn anybody off. That’s obvious. Let’s talk about the legitimate source of aroma, right? It arouses the old factories system which arouses the brain. Okay. Obviously Libido, like we said, has a huge component in the mental arena. Okay. It also helps improve your desire. It does a really great way of like lowering inhibitions when it comes to seeking out sex, if you will. And then in addition to, it actually has an environment that actually increases your pleasure. So diffusers are a great topical uses of essential oils are absolutely fantastic with a Roma. Do you want anything to add? Anything that.
Jackie: 17:28 No, I love that. So, um, let’s talk about boosting libido and boosting intimacy. Okay, perfect. And I have some irb recommendation and we’ll close out with some essential oils, some essential oils. I think you guys understand that the foundational aspect of this is really important. It’s diet and supplements and you know, taking care of yourself. Obviously, I know I feel sexier when I’m cleaner on my armpits are shade. You don’t want to look at my legs right now because it is winter and we are in the polar vortex right now getting slammed. Not as bad as our friends up north, but anyways, I, you know, when you’re, you’re just cleaned up, you feel sexier. So that’s like the first thing for women, you know, get yourself cleaned up, treat yourself well, get a new body butter, you know, or get a new sugar scrub for the bathtub, but do something nice for yourself and you’ll feel so much better.
Jackie: 18:22 So let’s talk about some herbs that you can use that will boost libido in some oils as well. And just so you know, it’s common to experience times of low libido depending on what you’re going through in your life. If you’re tired or stressed out, obviously after you have a baby, you’re exhausted. So it’s completely normal. But some herbs that I love is the one that I really love is called Damiana. Okay. D A, m I a N A and I use this. It’s in my brand new book, the home apothecary in one of my aphrodisiac tea recipes. But this herb is just a very well known traditional aphrodisiac. It’s used for just energizing and uplifting and it just helps to reignite desire. So the best way to actually use Damiana is to drink it as a tea. So if you could find some dried Damiana, a lot of the Aphrodisiac t’s on the market that are premade habit in it, but this is a really, really great herbs that you can use that will help boost your libido. So what do you want to. Do you want to talk about some other essential oils?
Frank: 19:31 Absolutely. Let’s jump right in. So the oils that have been known to really help are going to be like a little bit more. We’ll start off with some hot slash spicy oils, right? Why don’t we talk about hot and spicy first? Okay. So black pepper by the way. So it warms, it strengthens and it helps ignite flames of passion, right? Cinnamon is great for real lighting a fire in kind of like improving sexual desire. Okay. It is warming. Alright. So if you’re already going to consider using it as like a massage oil or something like that, realize that you want to test out this before you decide to jump right in. Make sure you use a carrier oil because it absolutely is a warming law. There is a really great blend that doesn’t necessarily utilize him in, but it has a lot of really great massage style or that end and that is known as aroma touch. I really love aroma touch. I love the basil. Uh, I absolutely love the Cypress. It helps improve blood flow and it just really helps heightened that sort of feeling that you can have on your skin when you use it. A sandalwood is really great. It actually has a really wonderful smell to it. It helps increase your emotional openness, which I did not know that it actually does, but it also of course increased the sensuality.
Jackie: 20:47 Yeah, it’s really great for men because of its subtle earthy aroma that it has. And in particular in men, it helps to strengthen sex drive.
Frank: 20:54 And then of course I got to say my cheesy Pun, I’m so sorry, but you along, you along, you love taught long time, right? Because you along, you along it. What’s surprising is that I may have strolled down a, an aisle at a, uh, at a grocery store or something like that and saw some of those synthetic massage oils. If you will, and guess what, they’re starting to put in it, what it is actually one of them, so along you along is huge. It’s, it’s, it’s wow. That’s really funny that I’m. The sexual innuendos are terrible right now guys, but it’s a very powerful aphrodisiac. It actually improves the attraction between people and it actually helps create a more sensual experience while you’re actually doing the hippity activity.
Jackie: 21:41 So it’s good to diffuse that one. Absolutely. Or even use it topically. It’s a wonderful frequently grab that one know at night and so some of the other ones that I really love is coriander. You wouldn’t believe it, but coriander is very warming and very toning oil. It can be used to help relieve like different held intentions that you have, which can dampen your libido obviously, and it helps to clear the mind. So my favorite way to recommend coriander is not just there eating it. Massage. Okay? So use this as a massage oil on. You can do it on your partner before you guys are going to have sex. It’s a great way just to, you know, foreplay and just warm things up a little bit because we all know us women are diesel engines and take a little bit of time to get goers. We men are bottle rockets. Yeah, unbelievable. But another really classic Aphrodisiac is Jasmine. This is a very sensual, exotic aroma and it’s very uplifting and very relaxing. And so this is another good one that you can use in the diffuser or just to apply topically as well. So what about some foods like oysters and stuff?
Frank: 22:56 Yeah, so oysters, I mean, Gosh, if you, if you have ever had an oyster, yes, there’s different aphrodisiac properties in oysters and things like that. That’s in it. It’s beet juice is supposed to be apparently. I don’t know if I would recommend drinking beet juice before you go on a date or something like that, but take care of yourself with, you know, mood impressing types of foods, right? Make sure you’re eating a lot of good omega three fatty acids. These are the sorts of things that will help boost your mood as men and be able to have you overcome. Some of these physical and emotional slumps that we just really don’t like to talk about. I mean, we’re pretty, we’re pretty guarded with this kind of stuff, so that’s really good for us to consider.
Jackie: 23:40 Another thing is zinc. I mentioned zinc is an oyster is very high in
Jackie: 23:45 zinc, but zinc helps to boost blood flow all around your body. Okay. Even down there. So zinc is recommended for men who are having a hard time with testosterone levels. Did you know that? I had heard about that and helps to improve sperm count. And what about women too? Because obviously increased blood pressure, increased area to that. Increased blood flow to that part of the area that yes, absolutely helps stimulate as. Absolutely. So zinc is really a great take it by itself or eat foods that are high in zinc, but goji berries as well helps to, um, protect your testosterone levels as well. So I need to start being more go goji berries because I’m 40 now. Our delicious by the way. And my favorite way to actually take them as we throw them in our hot tea. Yup. And you know, what’s funny is that ginger that we didn’t talk about is also a really great additive to go Goji Berries.
Jackie: 24:41 We actually have a green tea, ginger, Goji Berry tea that is actually phenomenal. Yeah. And Walnuts as well are really high in zinc and different amino acids. Um, you know, like frank talked about how important some supplements are in amino acids, but specifically l carnitine. It’s supports that blood flow and can help boost your, you know, sexual function. So, you know, walnuts are really high end, both zinc and some amino acids that are really going to help improve circulation, which is very important for especially men. Okay. So let’s switch it up even more. Let’s talk about different ways that we can improve intimacy inside of the bedroom between partners, right? So like let’s talk about quickly massage or even using reflexology. So there are different points that unfortunately I don’t have a graphic that I can really show you right now, but if you simply Google reflexology points, there are reflexology points that correspond to the reproductive organs in both a man and a woman.
Frank: 25:42 And so you can consider doing something like that, like grab that aroma, touch chat. Pretty much if you rub a woman’s foot, it’s gonna. Make her very happy. Maybe I don’t need to focus on just one second. Thank you. Need to pretty easy. If you just grab our feet. We’re, we’re, we’re going to touch. Physical touch is huge guys. And what I mean by physical touch is just like what Jackie said is about getting intimate into the bedroom. Don’t just rush to actually doing things like take your time, enjoy it, and be able to actually work yourself into being able to have those types of relationships with your partner.
Frank: 26:19 Yeah. So let me give you guys some blends. Okay. That you can make up. And this is for women. Frank has some awesome blends that he’s gonna recommend for men. So let’s call this one the seduction blend. This, you want you to make a roller bottle of it. You can add it to a massage oil, you can make it into a blend however you want to use it, use it because it smells amazing. So three drops of wild orange, four drops of Lang Lang or elong elong, and then four drops of rose or Geranium. Geranium is like the poor, poor man’s rose. And Trust me, I had that for years and years before I had my real rose. So once again, three drops of wild orange, four drops of Lang Lang and four drops of rose or Geranium rubbed this on your body, you know, take a bath with some of the oils from it, use it in a diffuser. Just it really is an invigorating and seducing blend.
Frank: 27:26 And then one of the ones for men is I love ylang ylang and Sandalwood. So honestly we can actually have one more. We’re going to call it, you know, I don’t know. Let’s just call it something like enhancing the arousal if you will, of a man. I don’t know. I’m not, I’m not good with ladies. Are you going to be able to ride that? I’m not good with blend names. Call it what you want, but essentially think ginger, elong, elong, and probably either sandalwood or aroma touch or something like that. But what I literally like is this. I do about one or two drops of the sandalwood. I’ll do about three to five drops of belonging, long ad it’s a fractionated coconut oil. It’s really great for putting it on those different, you know, emotional spots if you will, like wrist and the back of the neck and over the heart or you can diffuse it as well. Or put it wasn’t fractionated coconut oil and use it as a massage. Don’t put it down there. Yeah. No, not at all because we don’t necessarily care for it being down there like, like, like deep blue down there. Any other hot oil? Not necessarily. Not necessarily so.
Jackie: 28:25 No, but you could totally apply them onto your reflex points, your risk. Put it throughout your hair. Ladies, I’m going to give you guys one more blend. This one we’ll call just the libido blend for women. It’s very similar to the seduction blend that I just shared with you. Take one drop of Ylang Ylang, one drop of Rose Geranium, one drop of lavender, and one drop of Sandalwood. You want to use this as a perfume, so put it in a roller bottle because every single day you’re not going to want to open up for different bottles, print maker, perfume for yourself every morning, but, but may get into a savvy. You can do that as well, or even just diffuse it. It’s such a great way to use your oils because so much of our emotions in libido is tied together,
Frank: 29:15 so that’s it guys. I mean, I hope that we covered as much as we possibly could. Hope that you are looking forward to spending some quality time with your significant other. I hope that you were able to get something out of this. We are always wanting to spread the message, so please let us know if you have any ideas for future podcasts, especially make sure that you subscribe. If this is the first time listening, we have a lot of really back episodes that we would love for you to go check out. Leave us a review, leave us a comment. We absolutely love those as well. I hope you guys have an amazing Valentine’s Day with your loved ones or just by yourself or by the way, we are still going ahead and letting this next week before our yarrow and palm giveaway, so go on there, give us a, you know, a comment or something like that and we will go ahead and pick the person in a couple of weeks to be able to receive that yarrow palm. But thank you so much guys for absolutely everything and for all of your support.
Jackie: 30:16 Happy Valentine’s Day.
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Most of the time, we never do. We assume all is well becuase we don’t ask the questions. Well, I want you to know: YOU ARE WORTH IT. You deserve to life a long and happy life.
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