Vitamin B12, PCOS, Facial Hair in Women, Swollen Legs | Dr. Janine

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[00:03:44]This is something that a lot of people actually do need to supplement with um if you have that deficiency and there's certain situations that can put you in that um you know state of being low in that B12 and we're going to go through all of those common symptoms. We'll also talk about facial hair in women and how that's related to the hormones and PCOS and something that we can do for lower leg swelling. Okay, so I'm going to go through my tips for that as well. It's going to be a great show. Let's get started. Please hit that share button and if you're new here, please make sure that you are following, that you hit that subscribe button. Uh it's always great to have new people here tuning in.

[00:04:22]All right, so let's talk a little bit on vitamin B12. This is our vitamin spotlight. Okay, for this show, you're going to see this trend in the next few shows going forward. We're going to focus in on different nutrients, but vitamin B12, your body could be telling you. So, maybe you've had blood work done, maybe not, but vitamin B12 deficiency is super common. Let's look at some of the most common symptoms of being low in that B12. Okay, so you could have canker sores in your mouth.

[00:04:49]Those little sores inside your mouth, they come and go. They could be chronic for a lot of people. and inflamed mucous membranes. Burning in the tongue can be related and redness in the tongue can be related to a low B12. Paleness in the skin. Uh a lack of energy is going to be a big one. So usually this is the first telltale symptom of being low in that B12 is that fatigue. It could be mood swings, depression even related to low B12. Uh differences in changes in your blood work. So anemia, immuno deficiencies, your immune system is now suffering as well. Neuralas, neuropathies, the our when I'm going to take a look, I'm going to show you this really quickly. So our nervous system, all our neurons, they have something called myelin. Now myelin is like a waxy fatty coating on our neurons. And if you are lacking in enough B12, then there will be a breakdown of that proper myelin coating and now your nerves will not be firing and communicating as well with one another. So that is a really big thing because when we look at some of these symptoms related to your nerves and your nervous system, it could be neuralgas, neuropathies, it could be tingling in the hands and feet.

[00:06:08]Unsteadiness in terms of your ability to keep your balance can be related to low B12 as well. Even paralysis can be related to low B12. So, making sure that we're tending to our neurons and making sure we're maintaining our proper B12 levels becomes very important.

[00:06:25]Maintaining that proper myelin coating.

[00:06:27]Uh we also see muscle weakness, muscle tremors, cramping in the muscles as well can be related to that low B12. Remember the biggest one that we see most commonly of course is the fatigue, lack of energy, low mood, can't get up and go in the morning. It's something that's super super important. I see um you know chronically for people as well is the cankeraurs is a big one and you know you may not know why you have cankeraurs in your mouth but it's a chronic thing and it keeps coming back related to low B12.

[00:07:01]All right, now here's the thing. How do we get our B12?

[00:07:05]Vegetarians historically are low in B12.

[00:07:08]If you eat, you know, a more vegetarian, you're not eating a lot of animalbased foods. But even if you are eating animal-based foods and products, if it's not always grass-fed, so I think about beef and burgers and steaks and things, if it's not always a grass-fed beef, then you can still be lacking in that B12. It's just not in that animal product. The other thing is that if you're not getting enough natural sunlight exposure on most of your skin, then that will really compound the issue of the B12 deficiency because B12 is actually modulated by the light. And we always think of sunlight exposure, vitamin D, right? And that's what I've talked about a lot. But B12 is modulated by sunlight exposure as well. And it sort of helps to recycle itself when you get enough sunlight exposure. So, how many of us are in this situation? Even if we live I mean I we have people from all over the world here. Uh Kaiik in California for instance, not everybody gets out into the sun as much as we're supposed to. And this is why, you know, we can have a lot of these vitamin deficiencies. That sort of compounds the effect that maybe we're not getting it in our diet and now we're not getting the sunlight exposure. So now we have this overt deficiency. Now, a lot of people like to then supplement or you've been recommended to take a B12 supplement. Here's the scary thing. A lot of B12 supplements are synthetically derived, most of them anyway, and they have a toxic component in them. So, I'm going to get to that when we go through my list now. So, what should be we looking for in a good B12 supplement?

[00:08:43]Let's go through some of my favorite things to make sure that if you are going to take B12 that it contains these things. Okay. Number one, a B12 supplement should have whole food ingredients. What does that mean? That means there's something in there that's going to help with the proper absorption of that B12. Maybe it has a bit of the methylcobalamin or densel cobbalamin that is naturally occurring. Sort of a key ingredient here would be something like chlorella, a blue green algae, which has some natural whole food ingredients within it. It's loaded with nutrients in trace amounts that can help with that proper absorption of your B12.

[00:09:20]Okay, another thing, here's the big one, the adenosylcobalamin and not something called cyanocobalamin.

[00:09:28]Cyanocobalamin, I'll spell it out later for you. Um, cyanocobalamin starts with a C, has cyanide in it and it's the most commonly used and prescribed type of vitamin B12. It's found in multivitamins in, you know, B12 supplements, B complex supplements.

[00:09:45]Cyanocobalamin has cyanide in it. Okay?

[00:09:47]So, it's not my preferred type of B12 supplement to be taking. I much prefer the adenosylcobalamin which goes right into your mitochondria.

[00:09:57]And the mitochondria produces energy. It does a bunch of other things for us, but it go helps to produce our energy. And that's why when you're taking it in this format in a whole food complex with the adenosylcobalamin, it really boosts your energy and can pull you out of you know some situations with low mood and depression and all these things. It really does have that boosting effect.

[00:10:17]So that's really important. Okay, number three on my list is making sure it doesn't have magnesium steroid. Okay, so you've heard me talk about this. If you're new here, welcome. Thank you for following Leila G in Australia. Great to have you here. Um, Kenzie, we will be talking about facial hair in women. So, that is coming up. So, please stay tuned for that. This is the magnesium steroid that I have talked about uh on, you know, so many other episodes. I have specific videos on social media that show why you should not be ingesting this in your supplements, but it's in most supplements out there. and it's a flow agent and it's never been properly tested for humans to be safe uh in terms of consumption, especially if it's in, you know, a few supplements that you're taking and you're ingesting this every single day. It hasn't had the proper testing done in terms of safety and it coats, it goes on top of the raw materials to make them more slippery on machinery so that you know it speeds up production times for the supplement companies that are using this. But it's not something that I recommend because of safety concerns. Plus, it can also decrease the absorption. Think about it.

[00:11:24]It's coating. It's going on top of the raw materials and it can decrease the absorption of the nutrients that or vitamins that it's going on top of. So, it just to me it doesn't make sense to be ingesting this in our supplements.

[00:11:36]So, if you're learning something new today, um please give me a thumbs up and thank you so much for tuning in today.

[00:11:43]Also, make sure that you are following your subscribers and if you could share today's live, I would appreciate that as well. Zahi and Ley, thank you so much for following today. It's great to have you here for the first time. We're going to be having some quiz questions coming up, so stay tuned for that. All right, continuing on. There's no micro crystalline cellulose in the supplement as well. So, a good supplement will not contain the filler. So, they basically just use this to fill up the capsules and to make more volume of capsules. So, really, you're kind of being duped when you're buying supplements and you're thinking, "Oh, I'm getting, you know, 60, 12, and 120 capsules in a big bottle, whatever, for a low price."

[00:12:18]Well, yeah, it's filled with this stuff.

[00:12:20]All right. And that's going to dilute the efficacy of all the raw materials that they should be putting in which have, you know, the therapeutic benefits and effects. All right. So, make sure there's no microine cellulose or any type of added, you know, cellulose in the mix. They can also use as other fillers. There's a bunch like rice bran, um, and other types of grains and things that they'll put in there just to fill up the capsules. Okay. Number five is making sure that your supplement uh especially with a B12 is in a GMP facility and is number six third-party tested. So, it's gone through some testing to make sure that you know it's not contaminated with bad bacteria, that it actually has the viable ingredients in there, um and it's gone through, you know, other tests in terms of toxicity.

[00:13:09]So that's super super important and when you're purchasing any supplement that it is of the highest caliber especially with B12 and remember not that cyanocoalamin if you want just remind me at the end of the show and I'll write it out on the board what to look for the bad one the cyanocoalamin somebody has to remind me to do that all right so I want to call it our viewer spotlight and this is from one of our viewers Deborah Visali thank you so much for saying this definitely feeling grateful to follow Dr. Janine Bing, a healer whose knowledge and spirit remind us that nature itself is medicine. Well, thank you. Thank you. Thank you so much for saying that. It is so great to have such positive feedback from all of my followers and, you know, continue to share the love. I love it when I read, you know, such great comments on whether it's my videos or when we come live.

[00:13:59]Thank you so much for all your support over the years as well. Well, like I like I said at the beginning of the show, there's so many of you that tune in um you know, show after show and we've been doing this what over probably five, six years now, uh the Dr. Janine show. So, thank you to everybody who's been tuning in. I appreciate you all and it's great to have you all here every time that uh I go live. All right, don't forget we do have some quiz questions coming up. And are we at our first quiz question already? Let's see. Oh, no.

[00:14:27]First, we're going to talk about some tips to improve your energy. Now, this is really important because I get this question all the time. Okay, you want some quick hacks. There are no quick hacks. Okay, yes, caffeine and sugar can boost up your energy temporarily, but it's not really doing something for your actual energy. And of course, our energy comes from our mitochondria and how well our mitochondria are actually working on our behalf to actually use metabolism to actually create ATP, to create energy.

[00:14:55]So, my tips now, I'm going to go through seven tips to improve your energy. These tips are things that you're doing daily on the daily. All right? And I do mention caffeine. So, yeah, that's a good part, but it's how we use that caffeine that makes a difference. All right? Let's go through my seven tips to improve your energy. Okay, tip number one. If you're new here, uh get used to seeing this a lot in my content, right?

[00:15:20]This is so important for circadian biology. If you've been with me for a while, there's no surprise that we start with number one. Wake up with the sun.

[00:15:29]So, waking up with the sun means getting up close to or just before sunrise so you can see the sun rising. Even if you can't see it on the horizon where you live, maybe it's blocked by trees or homes or buildings or whatever. As long as you get outside. If you can't get outside and be grounded, at least open a window. You need to have that direct contact with that full spectrum light.

[00:15:52]And that's going to set your biology, set up your clock mechanisms. We have the main one in our brain, the rest in our peripheral tissues and our organ systems. They all have clock mechanisms.

[00:16:03]And that is regulated by that sunrise and the first light of the day. So wake up with the sun. It's going to help you to make your melatonin for good sleep later in the day. All right? And of course, we know with good sleep, we have better energy. So, this all is part and parcel of having that great energy for the day. You've got to wake up with the sun. Tip number two. All right, I promised caffeine would be in here. Yes, caffeine. But the timing of your caffeine matters. So, maybe not having it between 7 to 9 a.m. Like, I'm talking a big dose of caffeine here, like a a coffee. Um, you know, I I still like to have a bit of tea in the morning, and that that's just my routine. But if you're going to and that's my only caffeine for the day. However, if you have multiple caffeines throughout the day, maybe you don't want to do it first first thing in the morning. And the reason being is that your cortisol spike for your hormones is happening at that time anyway. So, and most people are a little bit more alert first thing in the morning. And then you can extend that.

[00:17:06]So, maybe have your caffeine a little bit later in the morning. That would be a great time for your caffeine so that you can sort of get an added little boost. Some people like to have it around, you know, late morning for instance, just around noon time for a second little boost. But naturally, your cortisol is higher in the morning. So boosting that up with more caffeine in the morning may not be the best thing.

[00:17:28]So just you can even play with your own caffeine timing yourself. If you're used to just waking up with that cup of coffee every morning, all I'm saying is maybe just try to delay it. Especially if you have low energy and you're trying to do something to improve your circadian rhythms and your energy, maybe just delay it a little bit into the little bit later morning and allow your natural hormones, your cortisol to spike you up in the morning. Okay. Number three is to block that light after dark.

[00:17:56]So after the sun has set, remember for your circadian rhythms, after the sun has set, we want to make sure that we do not then tell our brain and tell our entire nervous system that it is the middle of the day by having lights on.

[00:18:11]And that's why you wear your blue light blocking glasses after dark. You turn off lights. Don't have lights shining from above your head at night time cuz that's to your brain and your body.

[00:18:21]That's like the sun is out. You don't want to do that. that messes up your melatonin secretion as well for sleep.

[00:18:26]So, you got to block that light after dark. Have your lo lights lights sort of lower to the ground if you can. Uh, number four is try to go to the bed at the same time every night. So, this is again part of your circadian biology or melatonin secretion. Try to get to bed on time. That's going to go a long way to help with your energy levels, of course, the next day. Okay. Number five is to eat food according to the sun. So, eating food in season. This is something that I've talked about in my latest book in the lost medicine. If you haven't yet picked up your copy, check it out. Um, and this is important again for the timing of your clock hormones and in terms of your metabolism being able to read and actually metabolize the food that you're eating based on the season, based on how much light you're getting.

[00:19:15]So, that changes from season to season.

[00:19:17]It depends on where you live on the planet as well. So closer to the equator, you have a more uh stable light cycle compared to someone like myself who lives in Canada where you know further away from the equator and of course we have the four seasons and not as much you know strong sun exposure especially through our colder winter months. So it depends on where you're at but eating that food that's available to you around you where you live becomes very important in terms of boosting up your energy levels. Okay. So eat your food according to the sun. Uh typically that's going to mean in for instance in a colder climate more keto in the winter and you know less fruits and things. Uh definitely in the summer season that's the time to eat the fruits that are in season like the berries and the you know blueberries and things that glow grow locally for me. Um so that season is coming and I'm very excited. All right, number six is no snacking. All right.

[00:20:15]So, snacking does a number on your digestion, but on your energy levels as well. So, food is called a zitgabber.

[00:20:22]It's a time giver. It tells your body in terms of circadian rhythms when you should, you know, be eating and not eating, but it tells your body what time of day it is every time you eat. So, when you're snacking all the time between meals, you're spiking your insulin. That can mess up your leptin signaling as well. So, you don't want to be snacking between meals. So, usually two to three meals per day and have those on a regular cycle within the window of when the sun is out is how you're going to optimize your energy levels. And number seven, getting enough vitamin D. So, of course, natural sunlight exposure is going to help to maximize your vitamin D levels. And of some people do need to supplement depending on where you live as well, but maximizing that vitamin D by getting enough natural sunlight. All right, so we came full circle. 1 to 7 sun. It starts with sun and it ends with the sun. All right, are we ready? It's quiz question number one time if you're just tuning in. All right, thank you for all the thumbs up that were coming in. Thank you so much for everybody tuning in today. All right, we are playing for the vitamin B12 from our great sponsors, Vitetry Nutritionals, the sponsor of our show. And let's go on over here. So, you're going to have 30 seconds up on the clock when that question goes up to answer the question. This one should be fairly simple, I think. If you're just tuning in, just, you know, just try your best. All right, you're going to answer in the comment section. Here we go. Quiz question number one. Name a symptom of low vitamin B12. Okay, get your answers in now. You got 30 seconds.

[00:22:14]All right. How are we doing? 10 seconds left.

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[00:22:21]Good job. Yes. Yes. Yes. Okay. I knew a lot of people would say that one. Oh, Raina had how many answers? 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 nine.

[00:22:33]Raina, star of the show, has put in nine answers. Amazing. Good job. Uh, and Kathy. Okay. As well, Kathy had multiple answers as well. Amazing, Kathy. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven.

[00:22:49]Yeah, great. Kathy and Raina. All right.

[00:22:52]Good job. Good job. Okay, everybody got your answers in? Okay. Of course, all the B12 deficiency symptoms when you're low, red and burning tongue, prone to canker sores, loss of taste and smell, osteoporosis, muscle weakness, fatigue, mood swings, depression, dizziness, heart palpitations, shortness of breath, nerve problems, numbness, tingling, difficulty walking as well as that's related to low B12. All right, so yeah, it's very very important to ensure that you are optimizing your levels. All right, let's continue on and I want to announce last time's winner, okay, of the Vitator Tree stress and sleep formula. Congratulations to Jill Bean 2626. Yay, you won. So, please make sure that you are following at team Dr. J9 so that my team can uh of course reach out to you, get your address and send you your prize. Thanks for participating and you can win again. So, we have some winners who have won multiple times. So, make sure that you know you still participate in all the quiz questions and we have a few more coming up. All right. Now, I'm going to share some tips for facial hair for women that is coming up. First, I wanted to answer a question about swelling in the lower legs. And I'm just going to go through this really quickly, a lot of the causes of lower leg swelling. Of course, it could be multiffactorial as to why you have chronically, you know, swollen legs, but here are the most common causes. So of course it could be a heart issue. So congestive heart failure is number one on the list. Um number two is chronic venus insufficiency. So yeah just your damaged leg veins like you know we know that with the varicose veins spider veins that blood is pooling and causing that edema. Number three on the list is deep vein thrombosis. So, a blood clot, of course, not a good situation. And these are all the scary ones that I started off with in terms of that leg vein swelling. Sometimes it's just poor circulation in general and things aren't moving. Um, number four is nefertic syndrome. So, again, loss of protein in the urine. Um, and that's going to lower your plasma encotic pressure and causing fluid leakage into the tissues. All right. So, issues with the kidneys. Okay. Number five is cerosis of the liver. So again this is a unfortunately it's a common thing um and so that can lead to overall edema.

[00:25:21]Number six is lympadeema which is very common and that's just poor lymphatic flow and there's an accumulation of your lymph fluids uh in the lower extremities. Um and I do have lymphatic drainage techniques. So if you if this is you and you know that you have lympadeema um and sluggish lymphatics then please check out my 10step protocol. I have a video on that which is really really helpful for removing the lymphatics.

[00:25:49]Okay. Number seven is hypothyroidism can related to an accumulation something that we've talked about before um of mucopolysaccharides in the tissues and that can lead to swelling and edema. All right, number eight is cellulitis. And that's an infection that we know can cause that inflammatory response and lead to and that that's like these are the serious ones, probably the most serious uh least serious. Uh let's go to number nine. Uh pregnancy is very common as well. And number 10 is of course medication induced edema. So things like is like your headache medication that you're taking over the counter and says uh calcium channel blockers, cardiac meds, they can all cause swelling. So depends why you have the swelling.

[00:26:40]Usually it's just going to be a lack of proper circulation. That's why I'm going to give you now my five tips to help with lower leg swelling. So we're going to come on over here really quickly. And of course you can screenshot the list at the end. So, whoever was asking this uh question, the truth 11:44, thank you for sharing today's live. And for everybody else who followed today and you hit that share button, uh me and that's probably not how you say it, but I I got you. Thank you for for the follow. It's great to have so many new people here today and tuning in. All right, let's go through my five tips for lower leg swelling. Okay, number one, of course, determine the cause. We just went through a bunch of them. Usually it's poor circulation. It could be medications. It could be heart issues, kidney issues, liver issues. So your major organs. Um so determining the cause becomes very important. Number two is to follow mother nature's prescription. Okay. What does this mean?

[00:27:41]This means sunlight exposure. Grounding.

[00:27:44]The things that I talk about in my latest book in the lost medicine. This is what becomes really important. And grounding has been shown in in the research to actually help to lower inflammation, help with that proper circulatory response, helps you to discharge any positive charge and inflammation that your body's holding on to. So doing that grounding with, if you don't know what grounding is or earthing, taking off your socks and shoes, standing out on the earth, on the beach, in the water to make sure that you are connecting with the earth's electrons and that's going to go a long way to help even with lower leg swelling. And that's something you should be doing every single day.

[00:28:20]Ideally, around sunrise, this would be great to be grounding. Take off your socks and shoes, go out to a field or the grass or somewhere um and ground yourself, and that's going to help with that circulatory response. All right.

[00:28:31]Number three, there are specific herbal medicines that I love together in combination that help with again improving that venus blood flow, helping with edema, helping with things like cellulite even. Uh so for the aesthetic reasons for that for getting that circulation going which is amazing my favorites are horse chestnut gocola butcher's broom and hesperidin and diosin which are citrus boflavonoids that helps to strengthen leg vein walls.

[00:29:01]So that combination is amazing and I promise next time we'll have a slide to show you what exactly what uh those herbal medicines are and how we can take them in combination. We can continue this. Maybe we'll talk next in the next show about varicose veins. All right.

[00:29:17]Cuz I know in spider veins we'll talk a lot about that. And uh yeah. All right.

[00:29:21]Amazing. Okay. Number four is exercise. So ensuring that we are exercising to get that circulation going is going to go a long way to help with lower leg vein swelling as well. And number five is yoga. So specific yoga postures are fantastic. So all you need to do at the end of a long day is to lie down and just put your legs against a wall. So find it could be the door of your bedroom or wherever anywhere that you can get your legs up. So just lie flat on your back. Put your legs up and allow for that blood to flow back towards the heart. That can be really great. There's another posture in yoga called waterfall. So basically you're lying again on your back. You hold your arms and your legs. So if I were lying I don't know if I can show you this. Okay.

[00:30:16]Imagine the this is I'm lying on this is the floor behind me. So you just basically have your legs I can't do both obviously but you have your legs and your hands above you and it's called waterfall and that really just helps with draining all of that fluid and can really help with that lower um leg swelling. All right, so there you go.

[00:30:39]Five tips for lower leg swelling. I hope that helps. If you want to screenshot that really quickly and it's something that um can really really help. All right, we are at quiz question number two time. All right, is everybody ready?

[00:30:53]So, we are playing for the vitamin B12 from our great sponsors at Vitry Nutritionals, Whole Food Vitamins. And this is a true or false question. Are we ready? Even if you're just tuning in now, I think you'll be able to get this.

[00:31:07]Let's see. All right. True or false?

[00:31:08]Swelling in the legs can be caused by low thyroid. Okay, get your answers in now. You have 30 seconds.

[00:31:38]All right. How are we doing? Got 5 seconds left. Let's see.

[00:31:44]Okay, most of us are getting it right.

[00:31:46]Love this. Love this. Good job.

[00:31:52]Okay, good job, everyone. Okay, everybody's got their answers in. All right, let's reveal really quickly. Yes, the answer of course is true. So, good job. And Barbara is watching. Hello, Behe who I always call Beich all the time, but it's it's Barbara. Thank you for tuning in, Barbara. Great to have you here. All right, let's now continue.

[00:32:14]And I did get this question about facial hair in women. So, usually, you know, the number one cause of this is polycystic ovaries, so PCOS. And there is a squelli of what usually happens and how women develop polycystic ovaries.

[00:32:31]And one of the symptoms of course is the darker hair growth uh especially on the chin area in women which you need to go and get laser treatments for a lot of you or you're trying to pluck them out and you can't get this under control.

[00:32:44]But usually this starts from a leptin problem. So leptin resistance which then can follow up with insulin resistance and now there's hyper androgenism it's hard to say that word more androgen so testosterone DHT and that can affect now ovulation which becomes irregular and of course the symptoms of having too many of those androgens so that can cause more of that and what is actually happening in the hair follicle is that there's a conversion to DHT. So there's an enzyme called five alpha reductase and that is in the hair follicles which converts your testosterone into dihydrotestosterone DHT. Now DHT is going to bind those receptors and in certain hair follicles you have more of these um these bindings happening and that is often in the chin hairs. uh it can be in the upper lip area as well, sometimes in the chest for some women. So, you're getting that, you know, extra binding.

[00:33:50]And so, what's happening here is that you start to see those little chin hairs, and I'm exaggerating, as we know, they can happen here on the upper lip as well, and in the chest area as well, but you're starting to see those darker hairs, and they're darker um because of that binding and that conversion to that dihydrotestosterone.

[00:34:12]Um as well as now the third I'm just waiting for here.

[00:34:19]The third thing that's happening okay we have a stall. All right is that um those you know what were once you know the softer type of they're called vellis hairs um they turn into the darker and thicker terminal hairs as they're called and now there's a longer growth phase for those darker hairs as well. So, it's like you can't win, right? Because they're just uh taking over. And that's why a lot of women I know um go and have laser therapy to eliminate them. And this area tends to in the chin area tends to be more sensitive to the androgens to so to the testosterone, the DHT. And there's uh higher enzyme activity um here. And that's why we're having that conversion over to the DHT more so than other parts, let's say, you know, up here on the face in terms of the facial hairs. So that's how it's happening. Now more importantly, you know, what can we do about this in terms of balancing the hormones and really helping with, you know, making sure that we are optimizing our hormonal balance.

[00:35:26]Uh first, I want to say thank you though to all my super fans who tune in every week. It's so awesome to always have you and you know, you tune in week after week. It's so great um to to have you all here. Gary's Hunter, thank you so much for the donation. Uh it's so great, you know, to have you here and of course tuning in. Amazing. Amazing. All right, so let's go into the beauty set. Now, I just want to share some of my tips for facial hair in women. And the first one is something that maybe you haven't really heard about before. Maybe if you've read my book, you know about this whole leptin thing. But the first tip is to fix your leptin resistance. All right. So, what happens with leptin resistance is that we're always hungry.

[00:36:12]We're craving a lot of food. We're putting on extra weight. We that translates, remember, into the insulin resistance. So, we're going to talk about that. But with that increased food intake because you're hungry all the time because you've got the leptin resistance now that it causes an inflammatory response that happens and that's going to further block that proper leptin signaling in the hypothalammus and then you're hungry again. And then you so your body is really never getting the proper signal of that leptin that the fact that you have enough body fat. So it just keeps it always thinks that you're in that starvation mode. It keeps making you hungry. You keep putting on the fat. You keep secretreting more leptin. It's not it causes more inflammation. Shuts down the thyroid at a certain point too. And now it's that entire cycle that is you know happening. And that translates then into the insulin resistance with this inflammation thing happening. Um that's going to affect other hormonal uh balances and your cortisol levels and then something called pregnenolone steel and now you're always in this vicious cycle of your insulin and your leptin being resistant. Okay, your body's not reading the proper signals of these very important hormones and this can then lend itself into the insulin problem and then the PCOS and then the hair growth.

[00:37:29]All right. So, you've got to fix the leptin resistance. I have all the tips in different videos. So, if you're new to my content, check out my videos on leptin resistance. I have all the tips in my book as well. You have to educate yourself on the leptin resistance. All right. Okay. Tip number two is to of course limit your carbohydrates. So, too many carbohydrates are going to make the insulin problem much worse. So, that's important as well. Tip number three is to okay get more natural sunlight exposure. That's going to help with your leptin signaling. That's going to help with your insulin uh insulin resistance as well. So your body uses the your carbohydrates much more efficiently when you're getting some natural sunlight exposure. So that's going to be really key here when you have that chronic facial hair and your androgens are out of whack in terms of you know the PCOS.

[00:38:19]Okay. Number four is to consider some full body detox. So making sure that we are addressing our internal organs. So our liver, kidneys, lungs, skin, lymphatic system, blood, and really doing some good cleansing. And I, you know, love certain herbal medicines together in combination to help to do that. At least once per season, do a good internal cleanse of your organs.

[00:38:45]Okay, here's my great, you know, favorite combo. So dandelion, beroa, chlorella, milk thistle, horsetail, parsley, cascara, barberry. I take this all together in one product. Doing that a few times a year makes all the difference in terms of, you know, leptin, in terms of insulin, in terms of just, you know, energy levels, helping to balance the hormones. Super super important. Okay. Um, and that can help with the PCOS and of course that that facial hair in women as well. All right.

[00:39:16]So, there you have it. And okay, Mary Moore has a question. Does thyroid med help with it? With what? Um, with energy levels or are we talking about PCOS? Uh, are we talking about I'm not sure what the question was specifically. Thyroid medications can sort of or with the leptin resistance. Me were asking about the leptin resistance. thyroid medication if it's a traditional medication unfortunately can offset um you know the actual proper signaling of your thyroid. So it's not really it's sort of like a downstream effect on making you feel better, making your blood work look better, but it's not actually fixing the leptin problem.

[00:39:59]So you're still going to have a leptin problem. You'll always have a thyroid problem as long as long as you don't, you know, you're not fixing the leptin issue. So fix the leptin resistance.

[00:40:06]It's going to go a long way to help with your thyroid as well. and doing it naturally. And again, all those tips for fixing your leptin resistance is something that I talk about in my shows.

[00:40:14]I also have a lot of that info on other videos and in my book in the lost medicine as well. Okay, continuing with our list. Another great thing for PCOS is spearmint tea. So, just two cups a day helps to lower the DHT levels. So, just finding a natural organic spearmint tea, drinking two cups a day can really help with the facial hair growth as well. Okay, number six is your omega-3 fatty acids. Now, this was actually a study and they talked about a few different nutrients, but you can actually look this up and uh it was all about nutritional and herbal interventions for PCOS and they talked about dietary approaches, macronutrient impact, herbal medicines as well. So among the different micronutrients, vitamin D, omega-3s, which we're talking about, and anositol, which I'll get to in just a second, helped in the treatment of PCOS induced oxidative damage, hyper hyperandrogenism.

[00:41:09]I tried to say that um earlier. It's easier when I'm reading it. And infertility, that's a big word. All right. So, yeah. So, our omega-3 super super important. We know that they're natural anti-inflammatories.

[00:41:20]So that can really really be helpful for you know the PCOS symptoms any PCOS symptom not just you know the facial hair in women. Okay number seven on my list is to and some of the other nutrients that they talked about in the research were folate. So not folic acid folate which comes from green leafes.

[00:41:39]Okay. Um and spirulina will have it. We also have folate in things like um chlorella which is a blue green algae.

[00:41:48]So natural folate, vitamin B12, which we, if you're just tuning in now, we talked about this earlier, vitam and what to look for in a good quality B12 supplement, always avoiding that cyanocobalamin, which I I will write it out for you, what to look for to avoid.

[00:42:02]And the calcium and zinc as well from the study were found to be really helpful for the symptoms of PCOS and for the facial hair growth, okay, because of the DHT. Okay, and number eight, this is an interesting nutrient, inositol. So, who's heard of anositol? Put one in the comments if you've heard about this. Um, yes. So, this is a sugar alcohol that's produced by the body, but it's in small amounts in some foods. Now, some of the foods that tend to be higher in the inositol are cantaloupe. Uh, so the melon, the cantaloupe, citrus fruits, so your oranges, grapefruit, lemons, peaches have anositol as well. So, this can be helpful. It helps to decrease the DHT. Um, pumpkin seeds also help to decrease DHT. So, you can buy a pumpkin seed butter. I didn't put that on my list, but that would be helpful as well.

[00:42:51]And, you know, this is something um that you can definitely, you know, and that's always my goal is to give you some practical and natural tips that you can use daily that are all natural from mother nature to help with your symptoms and hopefully to reverse what's happening in terms of your hormones. But remember, getting back at number one, probably the most important, fixing that leptin resistance is going to go a long way to help with the PCOS and the facial hair in women. All right, so thanks for everybody tuning in today. It's so great to have you here. We have another quiz question coming up right now. So, I want you to all participate. All right, even if you're new here, thank you Joanna Ingred and Blackman, thank you for tuning in. Um, girl of many talents one, thank you for the follow. So many great uh and new people here today. Thank you Zule for sharing today's live and C for sharing today's live as well. G for following the host. Okay, are we ready?

[00:43:47]We are going to be playing for the B12 uh whole food vitamins of course from Vitri Nutritionals, the sponsor of our show. Are we ready? Here we go. Quiz question number three. Here we go.

[00:44:00]You're gonna have 30 seconds once we see the question. Okay. The primary cause of PCOS is probably blank resistance.

[00:44:08]We've talked about this a lot in the last couple of minutes, so please do your best. I will be very proud of everybody who gets this answer answered correctly. Good job, everyone.

[00:44:19]Got to go.

[00:44:25]All right, 15 seconds.

[00:44:30]10 seconds left.

[00:44:32]How we doing here?

[00:44:35]5 seconds. Let's see how many Oh, I'm so happy.

[00:44:39]Good, good, good. Yeah, Nikki, you corrected yourself. That's funny. Good job. Good job. Good job. Good job. Yay.

[00:44:47]So many great students here and paying attention. I love the fact that you're learning and that we're using the word leptin because like your doctor probably has never heard of it or doesn't know um a lot about it. even your endocrinologist, they just they're just they just don't know. They haven't studied um and they don't they don't know about this whole connection and how it's so related and interconnected with everything thyroid, everything hormones, everything. We've got to, you know, get that sorted out. Your leptin resistance.

[00:45:17]Yes. All right. So, I've already said it. It is leptin resistance. I know a lot of you put um insulin resistance partially true as well, but this is what I was looking for based on our discussion as well, the primary cause.

[00:45:30]Usually, it starts with the leptin issue first before the insulin resistance. All right. So, congratulations to everybody who participated today. Hopefully, you'll be our winner next time when we come back live for the next Dr. Janine show. Um which is going to be Tuesday, June 9th. I've got a lot going on between now and June. So, June 9th will be our next Dr. Janine show. So, mark that in your calendars to come back and we'll announce our winner at that show.

[00:45:54]That's going to be at 11:00 a.m. Eastern Standard Time. If you're just tuning in right now, we're talking about B12 um and what to look for in a high quality B12 supplement. We also talked about the tips for facial hair in women. Uh we talked about lower leg swelling and what we can do for that and some of the different causes of that as well, which was amazing. And okay, I promised to write out the word really quickly. Can I have the the chalkboard or the whiteboard or whatever? Um, oh, is a question came in. Is spearmint and peppermint tea, are those the same thing? No, they are not. So, yeah, spearmint is a different plant than the peppermint. So, look for spearmint tea.

[00:46:34]Sometimes they're actually together, spearmint and peppermint together in the same blend of a tea. Uh, but you can buy spearmint leaf uh like the loose leaf tea. That would be better. more specific to the PCOS and the and the chin hair growth. Okay, cyano. So, the bad B12, just so that you remember this, okay, so you can screenshot this. Hopefully, you can read my penmanship. So, the bad B12, the one that's not good. You're not going to buy this one. It's called cyanocobalamin.

[00:47:02]Cyano cyanide cobalin.

[00:47:09]I think I got that right. All right. So, that's the one that you do not want to be ingesting. All right. Um, I prefer a dental cobbalamin in a whole food complex, but that's the bad one, the cyanocobalamin. We didn't have that up on the board for you earlier. All right.

[00:47:25]So, there you have it. Well, thank you to everybody who tuned in today. What a great show. Uh, it was so great to have you all here. And we will be coming back, like I said, Tuesday, June the 9th for the next Dr. Janine show at 11:00 a.m. Eastern Standard Time. Now, between now and then, you will see me going live uh in a few different instances. So, stay tuned for that. Make sure you've got your notifications on if you're a new follower. Um there's something, you know, always fun and natural happening with Dr. Janine. So, yeah, I love to educate. Um you know that I talk about Whole Food Vitamins a lot as well. So, we have some live shopping events happening uh between now and then. And I have some live in-person, you know, events happening as well. So please stay tuned so that especially you know if you love the content that you're learning um make sure that you are tuned in and yeah you'll get always get the latest updates. It's great to have had so many great new people here today. So thank you for tuning in Nikki. You're so welcome and um oh you Raina wants to see really quickly the slides how to fix the swelling. Um the first two the first slides about how to fix the swelling in the legs. All right, cuz maybe you want to screenshot this one. Okay, perfect.

[00:48:42]So, um, determine the cause and mother nature's prescription. If you're just tuning in right now, the veins and circulation, the herbal medicines, uh, in combination. So, that's horse chestnut and I promise we'll talk about varicose veins in our next uh show in June. So, horse chestnut, go-kola, butcher's broom, and diosin. So your citrus bioflavonoids that combination phenomenal for uh circulation and um you know getting the the swelling um eradicated great for cellulite as well. So yeah that combination we'll talk about that next time in the next show exercise and the yoga. So either legs up the wall, so basically lie on your back and put your legs up the wall or the waterfall posture, you can look that up even uh is fantastic as well for lower leg swelling. All right, there you have it. Okay, you're so welcome. I'm glad to have answered your question and I know that Okay, um somebody's asking where to get the detox supplements. So Pamela, I'll have my team try to answer your question. And another question came in about Arcade. Do we have the recording? Yes.

[00:49:51]So, wherever you watch longer form videos, there's a couple of um places that we've streamed this as well other than the network um that you're watching from or the platform that you're watching from. So, wherever you would, you know, just, you know, search today's show, Dr. Janine, and you're going to find it. Um and all of our previous episodes as well. So, you can kind of like really learn about the Dr. Janine sort of protocols and what a lot of what I talk about in uh a lot of my content there's a theme right and it's based a lot in most recently at least in the last couple years on the content in my latest book. So if you really want to learn more and my protocols they're all in the book in the lost medicine all about hormones and weight loss and energy and mitochondria and everything that you need to know to really you know live a long and healthy life. You're going to learn about that in the book.

[00:50:42]All right. So, I hope that you'll be able to find it. Um, yeah, great. And I love Thai massage. So, uh, Aragorn Bond, love having Thai massage. It is amazing.

[00:50:54]So, I have someone who comes and professionally does that for me. And yeah, love it. Love it. It's intense.

[00:51:00]Anybody's had a Thai massage before? It is intense. It's super painful. I think I cried um multiple times in my last session. It's painful, but it's a good pain. If if that's if that's a good thing, right? you know, you know what I'm talking about when you work out uh some of that tension that could be there. Rama, thank you for the rose.

[00:51:17]Thank you Karen for all the support as well. Karen Caldwell is number one as a supporter today on one of the platforms.

[00:51:25]So, thank you so much. I love all the love and um greetings from Soul Korea.

[00:51:30]Thank you so much. Oh my goodness. And Maryanne is asking how to increase uh testosterone levels. That would be a good one. So, this this would be um a great topic for next time as well. And the herbal names. Okay, Pritsy wants the herbal names. Please tune in the next time because I'll write out all the herbal names. Or do you want it right now? Do we have a couple minutes?

[00:51:52]I don't know. I'm going to ask my producer if I can write out the names of the really quickly for the her for the leg vein swelling. Yes. Okay, let me do it really quickly. Okay. So we have horse chestnut gocola diosmin and hesperidin which is your citrus bioflavonoids.

[00:52:25]Maybe my team can put it in the comments cuz there is a product that I I take that has all of these in it. Uh, butcher's broom is the other herbal in here.

[00:52:37]All right. So, they are all together in one combo. The way that I that I take this, I got them all right. Yeah. Um, so that combination for the veins is amazing. All right. Uh, for circulation, for cellulite as well, just helps to get blood flowing, strengthens the vein walls, remarkable for varicose veins, spider veins, which I promise we're going to show you this. um in our next show on in June. All right, it was June the 6th or 9th. I can't remember now.

[00:53:05]June the 9th. June the 9th. We'll be back um for the Dr. Janine show. Thank you so much. I do have to go. Thanks for everybody who tuned in today. What a great show. You made it fun for me as well. Great questions coming in as well.

[00:53:16]Thanks for all the support and check out my content in the meantime and have a healthy day. We'll see you all next time. Bye.