#680: Ancestral Nutrition: Glandulars for Women’s Hormones & Vitality

I did an episode called Glandulars 101.

We'll link to it in the show description just to talk about organ supplements.

This is part two of that ancestral nutrition series.

There will be a men's version coming right after this one, and then I'll do a liver version as well because the most popular organ supplement is liver.

But I wanted to get the women's and the men's one out first because the first ingredient in both is a liver glandular, and I thought it might make sense for you to be able to kind of understand all three and see what makes the most sense for you.

Now, this is not a folklore thing.

It's real biochemistry.

I'm going to explain why it makes sense, but it is very much a traditional ancestral thing.

If you've ever listened to guys like Paul Saladino, you'll hear about nose-to-tail eating, these types of things.

The women's formula and the men's formula, when I found out that these existed from Ancient Nutrition, a brand that I've trusted for a long time now, I got pretty excited about it because back in the day when I was a kid selling supplements, and we're talking back in the day, like thirty, forty years ago, there were women's and men's glandular formulas on the market.

They were pretty typical, and we sold a lot of them.

And frankly, back then, I didn't really understand it that well.

I was, you know, far less well-versed in this stuff as I am now.

But as times evolved and the supplement industry evolved, these things kind of disappeared, and now they're back, and I want to give them their proper due, and that's why we're going to do this show.

So when it comes to glandulars, if you want to understand the basic concept, and we'll talk a little bit about it here, go back to that first ancestral episode, which I said is going to be linked.

I'm not going to repeat myself too much here.

But let's talk about why a female-specific blend might make sense, and I want to specifically couch this in why it makes sense to talk about it to you from my point of view right now because Jen and I, my sweet wife, we've been working on hormone balance for the last two-plus years.

That's been our primary focus, as you probably heard on other episodes of the show.

I just did a show with Dr. Jaban Moore on his podcast, um, all about this and detoxification of the endocrine system and the liver and making sure that the chemicals that are fighting against our proper hormone production are handled.

But we don't talk as much yet about supporting those systems from a nutritional standpoint as we have detoxifying those systems, and that's really what this is about.

And so the combination of support and detoxification is, of course, really dials, dials down all the way down to my basic philosophy, which is if you give the body the material that it needs and you remove from the body the things that are damming up the works, then you give the body permission to do what it's supposed to do in the first place, which is support and protect you and bring you back to optimal health.