So if you're thinking, I want to use olive oil, I want to use something natural to kind of clamp down the food noise, help me improve my metabolism, will it work? And how does it work?

Yes, it has been scientifically proven to work.

And extra virgin olive oil, like when I say it's nature's GLP-1, it actually goes beyond how the medication works to stimulate our body's own natural GLP-1, because that's how the medication works.

It's And especially when we eat something that's going to include extra virgin olive oil, we are going to get that signal.

So our gut, when it's healthy, will work with us and it will create that natural signal, that incretin hormone, which is...

GLP-1 is one of them.

There's many others as well.

And those other things may seem like no big deal, but that's where it might be messing with your body and causing it to hang on to fat.

Sometimes you just wake up

puffy.

right and there's definitely like sleep diet yeah um there's also constitution so what one of the beautiful things in cosmetic acupuncture eastern medicine in this training to do it is that we look at the map of the face and if you have a lot of puffiness especially under the eyes it could be in chinese medicine a pattern called kidney deficiency and that you know does nothing wrong with your kidneys that we're working on so we work constitutionally on the body to help move it and then we can work locally to move the lymph.

Lymph is really a part of our immune system.

What is lymph? Yeah it's basically where all the junk goes that we're being processed in the body so you know you get like enlarged lymph nodes if you're fighting I know what a lymph node is, but is lymph like a liquid that's what the bloat is in your face? Yeah, it's the fluid.

So fluid balance, because if the veins are overwhelmed and what's getting processed through the body, it gets dumped into the lymph.

Oh.

That also helps with

But how does this work? And why is this something that you see Greek women

using everywhere? Yes, so great observation.

So the mesh bags are nice because if you're going to travel, And Susan talked to me about how she uses that.

She's an olive oil sommelier, and she takes it with her.

So you can use the soap, put it back in the mesh bag, let it dry, and reuse it.

Oh, so the bag is, which I thought the bag was used as an exfoliant.

It's a carrying case or both? Both.

You do? Yes.

We've talked about that a lot on the show that You know, some of the brands like Metagenics or things like that that are physician grade, you want to spend the extra bucks and get that.

Yes.

And personalization is definitely queen.

Yeah.

But, you know, definitely a good omega-3s from your diet.

This is where flaxseed comes into.

So sprinkling some flaxseed on our yogurt in the morning or on our salad, doing that every day can make a big difference.

What do

But women who are struggling with hot flashes, mood swings, all the other things, you're saying soy is actually something that's natural and could help you with those symptoms.

It not only can help with the symptoms.

Many studies have come out over the past two decades that show that soy, even consuming, there was a study that came out in Menopause Journal showing that just consuming a half a cup of soybeans, either in soups or salads, reduced hot flashes by 84%.

84%.

Yeah, so there were, you know, it's pretty incredible.

We've seen studies that range from anywhere between 20 to this study that was 84%.

And the good thing is because hormone replacement we know is not as dangerous as it used to be, but there's still a risk, especially when it comes to hormone sensitive cancers.

But if you are thinking about putting this into your diet on a regular basis, how does soy compare to, say, chicken? A lot of us are eating a lot of chicken.