Let's get into it.

Yeah, so I've recently been on a lecture circuit talking about the three big harms to humanity, which are glyphosate, microplastics, and EMF.

And how can we offset those with food as medicine as well as intentional lifestyle? And first of all, if you have to unpack the mechanism, anytime you're trying to balance something out or rebalance it, you have to understand what's the insult and injury from it.

So in the world of EMF, we're looking at The radiofrequency, which may disrupt us on a cellular and DNA level, likely drives oxidative stress, and oxidative stress is the root cause of inflammation, toxins, mold, virus, all of that.

The mechanism of action is oxidative stress, and thus it depletes our antioxidant status.

So...

As we're all being, whether people, I mean, of course, I have lectures where we look at the actual frequency levels.

And so how did that start, first of all?

Now, Allie,

start the show for us.

So I would say the nuance in all of this, and I'm interested to hear Christine's perspective after our conversation, but my answer would be that perimenopause is real, but it's not linear.

Right.

And that we can have fluctuating hormones for a period of 10 to 15 years.

You know, in my story, actually, so I'm sitting here at 41.

Today, I am in a more optimal hormonal state than I was at age 27 when I had to go on bioidentical progesterone.

Um, Why don't you break down the HPA access for listeners too? Because that's really important for them to understand what that is and how that plays into the perimenopause and the menopause discussion.

Mm-hmm

... to your point, many different attribution methodologies, many different buying interfaces, varying degrees of kind of quality and trust around what those metrics are showing.

And so kind of going back to the roots of what Instacart does uniquely well is everything is digital by nature.

So not only do we have the receipt, we have the actual basket-building details.

We have how did a consumer actually build the basket.

We have, um, you know, substitution preferences that they might be expressing to us if a product may not be in stock.

They have, um, you know, all kinds of, you know, true competitive sets that they're essentially inferring to us based on what they're searching and what they're choosing from.

That's correct.

So what's... where, where should kids be?

So protein is so key, first and foremost, because of the prefrontal cortex impact.

And we've seen research that supports that there is better concentration and focus, there is better impulse control, there is better advanced socialization and critical thinking when we're fueling with higher protein as opposed to higher carbohydrate.

We know, of course, protein plays a role with amino acids that are going to be building blocks for our neurotransmitters, for mood stability as well, and like Becky alluded to, immunologically.

In, in able to make an antibody, we need ample protein.

So we aim for one gram per pound of actual weight, not muscle weight.

So one gram per pound of actual weight if a child is healthy and well.

Mm-hmm.