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On this episode of the Resetter

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Podcast, we are going to talk

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about a really cool

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food that can be

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hormonal medicine. So let me give you

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a little idea of what you're about

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to listen to. So

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I want to introduce you to

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Yasmin and Kaya. They are the

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co-founders of Bia. It's their company.

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It's a wellness company that is

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helping women overcome hormonal imbalances using

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natural food-based solutions.

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And they have a deep education

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around the impact of lifestyle on

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body health, which hopefully

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you all know is a big

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message of mine is let's use

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lifestyle to heal ourselves. And

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they started a company, this company

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that does seed cycling. So if

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you haven't heard of seed cycling,

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it's been around for some time.

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I call it an ancient healing

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strategy where you eat certain seeds.

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You're going to hear the four seeds here. They

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are flax. They are pumpkin. They are sesame. And

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they are sunflower seeds. And we break each seed

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down and what they do and what part of

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the cycle. So cycling these

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seeds in at different parts of

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the menstrual cycle to help balance

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hormones. Now for my

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menopausal women, don't jump off

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because there was so much discussion in

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here about how seeds

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can balance specifically estrogen

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and progesterone. If

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you are a menstruating woman, there is

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a cycle to do that with. And

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seed cycling can help you not

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only produce hormones, help you break

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down hormones, but help keep this

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balance of estrogen and progesterone intact.

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If you are menopausal or postmenopausal,

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we already know progesterone and estrogen

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are out of balance with each

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other. It's part of the nature

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of these hormones on their decline.

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So using something like seed cycling

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can be really. says,

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but there's really not a long list

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of people. Yeah. Why not

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during pregnancy? Because if it's just food, you

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just don't want to mess the hormonal rhythm

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up that's... Yeah, there's so much going on

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with your hormones already when you're pregnant. There's

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so much to think about. I use it

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right now being pregnant. I'll use it as

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extra source of fiber in my smoothies here

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and there. I'll just add it to things.

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But there's not a cycle to regulate at

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that point. There's just this huge production

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of hormones happening all at once. So

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you don't necessarily need to cycle something

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when you're not cycling. There you go.

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But post... We can add

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it in, you know, at... You can add

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it in here and there. Some people are

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weary about hemp when they're pregnant, depends on

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the person. Post

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pregnancy, postpartum, it's been so

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critical for me when I got my period back.

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It was one of the things that really helped

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get my hormones back in balance that I

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recommend to everyone who, once you get

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your period back after you've given birth,

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it can be so crucial. What

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do you... What about people with the oxalates

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and lectins piece of the

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conversation? I

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had a really interesting discussion with Stephen Gundry on

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this because my feeling around

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the oxalates and the lectins are

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if you have gut dysbiosis, then

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yes, you could have a reaction

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to a toxin that's in something

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that nature has provided us in,

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vegetable or seeds or nuts. But

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actually, if you have a healthy gut, you

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actually are fine to

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be able to lean into some of these. Stephen

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actually agreed with me. He's like, yeah, everybody thought

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it was like an absolute. I'm

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like, well, you are the guy that created

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the plant paradox. But

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I think this is something that we do with

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nutrition that is a

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disadvantage to us is we take each

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nutritional idea and we become zealots for

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it. We think it's an absolute and

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then we struggle because it wasn't the

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thing that like...