Episode 312: The Menopause Reset
I'm excited to welcome an incredible superstar, Dr. Mindy Pelz. Dr. Mindy’s passion is educating women on keto, fasting, and diet variation to impact their hormonal health. She is here today to discuss menopause, and how she was inspired by what worked in her own life and in her practice that led to writing a book on the topic. What she has created has been incredible for menopausal women and she’s here to share her amazing tools with you today. You can find Mindy on her own podcast and YouTube channel and in her vibrant FB group, called the Resetter Collaborative.
More about Dr. Mindy Pelz:
Dr. Mindy Pelz, DC, is crazy passionate about helping families stay healthy. For the past 22 years, she has been in the health trenches with busy, overscheduled families. She has built one of the largest holistic health clinics in Silicon Valley with patients coming to her from all over the world for her customized ketobiotic, fasting, detox, and nutritional approaches. Her focus is to give families simple, science-based effective health tools that have all members of the family thriving.
Her bestselling book, The Reset Factor, was released in 2015, giving people all over the world access to a clear step-by-step path to creating a healthy, vibrant, energy-filled life free from disease and suffering. The launch of her book ignited a “Resetter tribe,” an online group of like-minded people all supporting each other, exchanging health ideas, and cheering each other on to better health. Once a month Dr. Mindy leads her Resetter tribe through a free Fast Training Week, where all community members practice different styles of fasting together.
Currently Dr. Mindy’s passion is educating women on how to do keto, fasting, and diet variation to impact their hormonal health. You can find much of her information laid out in a very simple and easy-to-approach, motivating manner on her youtube channel.
Show notes:
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Dr. Pompa:
Wait until this interviewer, Dr. Mindy Pelz. She’s one of the HCF Platinum Doctors. You’re going to see her energy come out in this one. Perimenopause, menopause, I take her through every lesson. We talk about all the myths that she believed. Oh, she was eating eight times a day. Wait until you hear her story, but also, what she did about it, her solutions.
She talks about her new book. The Resetters is a group that she teaches on—in what do you call it—Facebook is the word. Hearing it from Dr. Mindy, you’re going to love it. Such solutions she gives you to this massive problem of hormone dysregulation. Stay tuned.
Ashley Smith:
Hello, everyone. Welcome to Cellular Healing TV. I’m Ashley Smith. Today, we welcome one of our own superstar docs, Dr. Mindy Pelz. Mindy’s passion is educating women on keto, fasting, and diet variation to impact their hormonal health. She’s here today to discuss menopause and how she was inspired by what worked for her in her own life and in her practice. It led to her writing a book on the topic.
What she has created has been incredible for menopausal women. She’s here to share her amazing tools with you today. You can find Mindy on her own podcast and YouTube channel and her vibrant Facebook group, which I will link to in the show notes, as well as how to preorder her book. Let’s get started and welcome Dr. Mindy, and of course, Dr. Pompa to the show. Welcome both of you.
Dr. Mindy Pelz:
Thank you. I love this. I love being here. It’s like being back with family.
Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, well, listen, I’m going to start with a thank you because it’s funny, you may have started when you interviewed me with the same thing, but I’m flipping it because I could never reach the amount of women that you’ve reached because see, I wasn’t—I always say you have authority in what God gives you victory over. You were a menopausal, premenopausal mess, so therefore, you own it girl.
Dr. Mindy Pelz:
Yes, I was.
Dr. Pompa:
You own it. You can bring it to women more than I could ever.
Dr. Mindy Pelz:
Do you know that as I was writing this book, I’m like, I feel like I should be 25 years old, not a woman going through menopause? This is crazy. It’s a message that women need to hear.
Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, no, exactly. Look, they’re going to hear it from you because you’re going through it, been through it, the whole thing. It’s just like people that have unexplainable illness go, oh, I’m going to hear it from you because I know you had every symptom I had.
Take us back to the story because we have some funny stories, just like when you were sitting at my seminar. You had your bag of snacks. You’re always snacking away until one point, you’re looking around going, no one’s eating. It’s like no one’s eating, so you put it away.
Dr. Mindy Pelz:
No, you totally taught me that, yep.
Dr. Pompa:
It was funny. Anyways, take us through your evolution into this because I walked it out with you.
Dr. Mindy Pelz:
Yes, you did.
Dr. Pompa:
When you figure something out, man, you just take it to the masses. You’ve done it in such a beautiful way, so tell us.
Dr. Mindy Pelz:
Thank you. Yeah, I think that it started in my early 40s. When I hit 40, I was doing my lifestyle. I was eating breakfast, and having eight meals a day, and working out, and running long distances and marathons. I thought I was healthy.
Then when my hormones started to decline in my early 40s, my mental health was really the first thing to go. Depression, anxiety just kicked in a way that I had never experienced before. Then, insomnia; I think that was probably the thing that put me over the top the most was I just wasn’t sleeping.
I went searching for answers. It was like, take this pill or do this one magic thing. A lot of my friend group was like—who are a couple of years older than me were like, oh yeah, just buck up. Buck up little camper, this is menopause; get ready.
Dr. Pompa:
You’re going to need these hormones. Here’s my doctor.
Dr. Mindy Pelz:
Yeah, you’re going to need these hormones. You’re not going to make it through without an antidepressant. You might want Ambien. I got a lot of recommendations for Ambien for sleep. I was in disbelief that someone so healthy could have such a dramatic turnaround.
I’ve told this story before. I think my enlightening moment was when I meet a friend who was an OB. I asked her about my symptoms. She turned to me and said, “Mindy, I have a practice full of women like this. My medical textbooks have failed me. I have no idea what to do with them.”
That’s really when I found your work. It was like, okay, if every woman is suffering with this in their 40s or as they go through menopause, then what is it? There has to be a toxicity piece; there has to be an environmental piece. Something we’ve been taught has gone awry. That’s really what I’ve spent the last seven years with your help going through and figuring out.
Dr. Pompa:
I think you made a lot of the classic mistakes that we see. You learn from it, so let’s dig in. What did you actually do? Lesson One, let’s start there, Lesson One. I want you to express your failures and the things that—
Dr. Mindy Pelz:
Absolutely.
Dr. Pompa:
—this was a victory, so Lesson One.
Dr. Mindy Pelz:
Lesson One was I ate all day long. To your point, I got up and had breakfast. I never left the house without snacks. I had my snack pack everywhere I went, which is our joke because the first seminar I sat in at your place, I’m just eating around looking like why is—why aren’t we taking a lunch break? Why is nobody eating? Lesson Number One is I ate all day long.
Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, okay, yeah, solution? That’s easy: eat less often.
Dr. Mindy Pelz:
Yeah, here’s the funny thing on the solution is when I first learned—well, a, I was mad at you that we weren’t eating. I was like, what do you mean we’re not eating? Don’t you know that’s—breakfast is the most important part of the day? We should be eating to keep our metabolism up. I had all those beliefs.
When I first learned of intermittent fasting, my first thought honestly was, oh yeah, I could try that for a day. I could do that once. Let me try that.
I soon learned that there was a fasting window and an eating window. As soon as I shifted that and I really leaned into knowing that I needed to fast a certain amount of time and then I would open up my eating window, my energy went through the roof. My mental clarity, that was amazing.
Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, you taught your body, your cells, to start using your own fat instead of feeding the machine 24/7 with high insulin levels, which make your hormone levels worse and your glucose levels. All of it was just way up here, so obviously. Second mistake and second lesson?
Dr. Mindy Pelz:
Okay, well, the second one, and I see it now, was actually, I was a long-distance runner. I was a workout queen. I wonder if part of that contributed to the lead and toxicity coming out of my body. A lot of pounding on pavement.
I’ve since learned that our generational toxicity in my family is lead. Lead lives in the bones. As my hormones were shifting, I was also increasing the number of miles I was doing in my running shoes. I think that was really set my lead up through the roof.
Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, and just for a teaching moment, lead creates more hormone resistance, which made her feel worse, which made her—every symptom she described get worse driven by the toxins. You’re 100% right; lead comes out of bone during—as soon as you start entering perimenopause, you start losing bone, and you start losing lead because estrogen’s dropping, bone is remodeling, and outcomes the lead. Then you’re doing like you said, everything you were doing was creating even more of the lead to come out.
Dr. Mindy Pelz:
To me, the heavy metal detox is where I got my sleep back.
Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, this is still problem to, solution to, or lesson to, solution to.
Dr. Mindy Pelz:
This is still in the second one. I really had never known—I didn’t know anything about heavy metals. I didn’t realize. I did the Master Cleanse. I did the drink the gallbladder. What’s the cleanse where you drink the oil so that your gallbladder pushes out a bunch of stuff?
Dr. Pompa:
Oh, yeah, nasty.
Dr. Mindy Pelz:
Nasty, I did all of that, but I never did a heavy metal detox.
Dr. Pompa:
You never did it at the cellular level at all and using real binders, and chelators, everything that we teach, everything that we’re passionate about. Okay, Number Three. This is great. I just [00:09:30] going on. I can promise you we didn’t rehearse this.
Dr. Mindy Pelz:
Okay, Number Three, I’ll go in the order of as I learned it.
Dr. Pompa:
That’s right, yeah.
Dr. Mindy Pelz:
It was really the power of the microbiome. I was a very monoculture eater. I would eat the same foods all the time. Even when I first learned fasting and feast-famine cycles, when I would eat, I would always be eating the same foods. There’s two lessons in this one.
The first was that I would eat the—I would eat a lot of meat. I was paleo. I wasn’t eating enough diversity of vegetables, but I also was restricting carbs so much. I didn’t have any variation in my diet at all. It was the same meal over and over again. In fact, if you put that same meal on my dinner table today with my children sitting there, they’ll scream and run away because we would serve the same steak over and over again. That really tanked my hormones, eating that monoculture, one—similar foods all the time.
Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, and you picked up too the low carb too long, your discipline actually you realized worked against you. I remember looking at your hormone tests. It was a 24-hour urine hormone. I guess I looked at it—Andrea sent it to me. I said, “My gosh, Andrea, she needs feast days.” I just looked at your hormones and said, this girl needs some carbohydrates, periods of it. Do you remember that time?
Dr. Mindy Pelz:
Oh, I totally remember that. At that point, before I did my DUTCH test, I was the fasting queen. I went from eating all day long to keto and fasting.
Dr. Pompa:
You went [non-verbal].
Dr. Mindy Pelz:
Yeah, because that’s what I do, I’m extreme. I just jump in and let me just keep doing—let me just go all in. I was doing so much keto, so much fasting, but the symptom—the heavy metal detoxing had really helped with the sleep, so I was sleeping better. The fasting really helped with my energy. I had insane energy. I didn’t crash at 3 in the afternoon anymore.
Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, that’s why you were so dedicated because this is working.
Dr. Mindy Pelz:
That’s right. The symptom that showed up, and I don’t know if you’ve ever experienced this but women who have gone through menopause have, is there’s this level of anxiety when your progesterone—and I think you can get it with a lot of metals too where you cannot relax in your own skin.
Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, I had it.
Dr. Mindy Pelz:
I remember that the pivotal part was I was watching—we were on vacation. I was watching my kids play on the beach at sunset. There should be nothing to worry about. I had such levels of anxiety. I couldn’t get my body to relax. That’s when I ran the DUTCH test. All my hormones, estrogen, progesterone, testosterone were lower than a postmenopausal woman.
I gave it to you. You were like, you got to eat pasta. I remember you said something like that. Here I was—
Dr. Pompa:
Something really opposite, yeah.
Dr. Mindy Pelz:
I’m like, eat pasta? No, I’m gluten-free. It’s a good lesson for us all. I had my badge of honor like, no, I don’t eat pasta. Then you shared Merily’s story and how, Merily and I, we go to Europe all the time. She eats this. Now that I’ve dined with you guys several times, yeah, she goes to town. All of our docs, when we sit down, everybody goes into feast mode in a big way.
Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, yep, feasting is as important as famine. You know what’s funny is everyone has to learn it, especially us disciplined people that wow, I don’t beat myself up over the feast. It should be planned. You also learned the power of the five-day feast before the cycle.
Dr. Mindy Pelz:
Yes.
Dr. Pompa:
Talk about that variation because you found the weekly variations, but doing five days of feasting was transformational for you.
Dr. Mindy Pelz:
That was exactly what—you mapped out at that point, here, let’s look at the cycle. When does your body need estrogen? When does it need progesterone? In those moments, you’re going to have to come out of ketosis. You’re going to have to eat more carbs. You’re going to fast less. I started off with the week before my cycle. It took a couple of months, but I would—I started to do some research on okay, well, what foods should I be eating to raise progesterone?
Dr. Pompa:
You talk about that in your book too, right?
Dr. Mindy Pelz:
Yeah, I call it my 28-day hormone reset. How do you reset your hormones for your cycle?
Dr. Pompa:
By the way, I love how simple you make everything. You’re brilliant at that, honestly. You take my work and you just—you make it so absolutely easy to grasp. I so appreciate that. You have to agree with us. Go ahead, finish.
Dr. Mindy Pelz:
Yeah, it’s the lead. The lead has forced me to take things and make them simple so I can remember them.
Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, but it works for everybody. Go ahead. You had just restarted.
Dr. Mindy Pelz:
The week before my cycle, I would come out of ketosis. Now, it doesn’t mean I would go to eat bad food, but I would lean into things like beans, and squashes, and potatoes, and even citrus fruits and tropical fruits, things that really help you build progesterone. The first couple of months, I was a little nervous. A lot of people are really nervous, especially if you have weight to lose. I didn’t have that, but I was feeling so bionic in every other way with my keto that I was struggling to go okay, is this really the right thing to do?
I’ll tell you what, after about three months of following that, things—the anxiety stopped. My cycle normalized. That’s the other weird thing is that here at—that was about 47. I thought, oh, I’m definitely—I’m close to complete menopause. My periods were all over the place: spotting and then I’d miss them for two months. Since I added that in, it’s like my periods are almost more regular.
You can tell they’ve become shorter. They’re definitely moving towards that more menopause state, but that the craziness I had before, the spotting—the other thing with low progesterone is you hemorrhage. When you actually start bleeding, it’s horrible. It’s like you almost go, I shouldn’t leave the house. There’s so much blood coming out because the progesterone—you don’t have the progesterone to regulate all that. It really took me about three months. Then I just regularly did that, and wow, what a difference it’s been.
Dr. Pompa:
People have to understand that the chronic insulin spikes is no good. When you go through when you’re low carb like that, your insulin can get so low that you need that higher insulin to help make some of these hormone conversations. It transforms your hormones the rest of the month. You experienced it. I think it’s brilliant by even supporting it further by certain foods. You’re eating high carbs for five days before the cycle and then eating certain foods of high carbs. It’s a win-win.
Dr. Mindy Pelz:
You know what’s interesting too is I’ve talked to a lot of women about that, eat for your cycle. The first thing I would say is why don’t we teach girls this when they go into puberty? Why don’t we teach women in general that as you first—as your cycle first shows up, why don’t we teach women that hey, there’s certain times of the month; instead, we villainize on, oh, I have cravings, PMS cravings.
Dr. Pompa:
Oh, yeah, and I failed on my diet. I hear that all the time. Listen, I do good on my diet except for right the week before my period and the week right after. I’m like, no, your innate intelligence knows. Have a strategy with that.
Dr. Mindy Pelz:
That’s right.
Dr. Pompa:
Kick yourself off.
Dr. Mindy Pelz:
That’s right, but we—but that’s what we have been taught is that it’s this, it’s PMS. Then you go into perimenopause and you're taught, it’s just because you're perimenopausal. When you tap into your hormones and you understand them, that really made a big difference.
The other time I tapped into it, I don’t know if you and I have talked about this, I then started to look as I got closer to 50 how your skin dries out, and the wrinkles start showing up, and your hair maybe gets a little flatter, and mucous membranes are more dry. I even noticed that in my joints dry out when estrogens—at the time you’re supposed to be secreting estrogen, it’s like you feel this dryness. Estrogen’s supposed to kick in about Day 12, Day 13 of your cycle, so there’s a little two-day window there that I’ll up my carbs as well. That’s helped.
Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, no, absolutely. Feast-famine, our bodies—if you listen to your body, it really does—my wife’s dialed into it. She just knows. You’ll see her eat like a—well, the theory is she eats like a linebacker, so I’m not sure. That just means a lot, I guess.
Dr. Mindy Pelz:
It’s eerie.
Dr. Pompa:
Anyway, but she only does that—she has a really intuitive innate intelligence. She knows when to eat and she’s eating. There’s days where she just doesn’t eat; whereas, I have to think about it a little more. She’s down in.
Backing up maybe, but okay, so that’s the feast five days, as important as the fast. You talked about your love for fasting, but periodically, you do five-day fasts. What has that done for your health? How did you adapt with that in your schedule?
Dr. Mindy Pelz:
Yeah, I think to your point about Merily, now that I’ve tuned into my cycle—and it’s shifting. My cycle, you can feel it. I always say instead of it being raging mad as I finish off my years ovulating, I feel like we’re slipping into the sunset. It’s just slowly quietly going away.
When I want to fast, I usually do it around the—when I first start my cycle. Wow, it’s so much easier. It makes me get a little bit of an insight of maybe what it’s like for a man to fast. It almost feels effortless because when I do it at the right time with my hormones, it’s incredible.
It feel natural. I feel alert. I sleep well. For me, I use it for—I’ve used fasting a lot not only just for prevention, but I use it to heal musculoskeletal injuries. Anytime I have a knee or an ankle issue, just boom, go into the fast at the right time and it goes away.
Dr. Pompa:
I do it, too. Animals do it instinctively. It’s funny; I used to tell people, don’t fast during your cycle, the beginning of your cycle. I used to tell people that. You know what changed me? Reality.
I actually had a woman ask me. I’m like, well, normally, I don’t recommend it, but I had a woman, it’s the only time. Then she’s like, oh my gosh, it’s so much better. I heard that enough, I’m like, okay, I don’t know where I got that from. Old day, I think my education in the 90s. They were like don’t fast during the cycle. You’re weaker. I was like, okay, it was bad information.
Dr. Mindy Pelz:
I think you actually bring up a really valid point that women are taught once you start bleeding, that’s the time you go into nurturing. It’s the old red tent theory; you’re supposed to move away and nurture yourself, but there’s a lot that’s going on before that. Actually, you need more nurturing the week before you go into that phase then actually once your body is ready to shed.
Dr. Pompa:
Carbohydrates and food can be that nurturing.
Dr. Mindy Pelz:
It could be that nurturing. You never knew that—I never knew that a potato with beans on it could taste so good that week before.
Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, or that good old squash, or good old sweet potatoes, or yam. Come on, forget about it.
Dr. Mindy Pelz:
Yeah, amazing.
Dr. Pompa:
Load it up with butter.
Dr. Mindy Pelz:
The other funny thing I was thinking too is that now, here I am, a couple of years ago a little more than I do today, but here I am in my late—I’m 50 today, but in my late 40s, I’m tracking my cycle more than I did as a teenager so that I can eat for it and I can fast [00:21:58].
Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, well, you’re into it. I track things all the time, not even because I have to, just because I want to know.
Dr. Mindy Pelz:
I had to go to my teenage daughter and be like, what app do we use to track our cycle? It’s like okay, now, this is what you do if you want to eat for your cycle is you’ve got to track it.
Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, that’s awesome. Alright, is there a Lesson Four? Is that where we are, four? Yeah, we got stuck on three.
Dr. Mindy Pelz:
Okay, here’s the other one. Again, I don’t know if you and I have talked about this. What I realized is that, and this is one of my big messages to women going through this process, is we have to honor the fact that you literally have a major organ in your body that’s shutting down. Your ovaries are like I’m done. I’m not going to give you eggs. I’m not going to give you estrogen, progesterone, testosterone. I’m out.
You still need estrogen, progesterone, and testosterone, so it has to come from another organ. It hands it over to your adrenals. That was my last piece that I realized like, holy cow, what have I been doing for stress? How have I been managing my own self-care? We’ve talked a lot about adrenals not being an adrenal problem; it’s an HPA axis problem. I totally agree on that.
I think the things that women got away with when they were in their 30s and 40s, that rushing—Dr. Sonya taught me this, that rushing women syndrome where you’re just like go, go, go. It doesn’t really work so much as you go into menopause because your adrenals are like, what? I have to make sex hormones now? If your adrenals, that whole HPA axis isn’t working well, you’re going to suffer. That was me.
I really have had to prioritize downtime. I’ve had to really look at—force myself. It sounds silly, but force myself to go on vacation more. I’ve had to prioritize monthly massages. I had to change my workouts. I don’t run long distances anymore. I just had to go into a more self-care place.
Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, I was just going down solutions and other strategies. You started giving some there. I think being locked into this sympathetic drive that you did get away with in your 30s is a really important point. Do you have any other strategies you’ve learned and that you have in your book?
Dr. Mindy Pelz:
There’s some supplement—great supplement strategies. Thanks to you and Dr. Shane, Femicrine has saved me. I absolutely love to lean in on those supplements. Systemic has a great protocol. I actually use Fpms a lot more that week before to calm me.
I think the thing that really hit me the hardest was, awareness wise, was realizing that the lifestyle for a woman going through menopause has to be different than she had the rest of her life. I didn’t want to do HRT obviously. I didn’t want to do even bioidenticals. I really wanted to cure this with lifestyle. There are some supplements that have helped, but it’s that—the detoxing, the slowing down the rushing, the eating for my cycles, fasting long periods when it’s appropriate. All of that, it’s been game-changing. I feel healthier at 50 than I did at 43.
Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, no, I’m in my 50s and I would say the same, even in my 30s. You and my wife and many others in our group really tell the story opposite of what the world story is that, oh, you’re going to need hormones. You’re going to need this and that. You’re doing it without hormones. Again, I know it’s in vogue, bioidentical hormones, but I always say you just don’t win that game. It’s just like, oh, it helps, but it doesn’t. Then it’s doing this and then it does this.
You have a female group around you. Not the group that our group, outside of that, you have another group. How many are taking hormones at your age?
Dr. Mindy Pelz:
That’s a really interesting question. Bioidenticals you’re right are definitely in vogue. I know that there are several people in our group even that feel if you fix the cell and you do bioidenticals at the same time, that it’s—that can be a journey. That works for many women.
For me, again, I don’t like—I like to work with the intelligence of my body. I don’t want to mess it up too much with anything that could be synthetic or manipulative to especially hormones like you’ve said. It’s like a symphony. They’re so complicated. I just don’t want to mess them up.
I’ll tell you what we’re seeing in our Resetter group is that women either postmenopausal or women that are in the experience, they jump into fasting very much like I did. Their hair starts falling out. I had this too when I first started fasting; they get that thyroid storm where they get the really anxious and heart palpitation. They get insomnia.
They go into these states where I believe, I’m curious your thoughts, I believe the heavy metals reveal themselves. You and I talked about this where when you stimulate autophagy, the cell’s going to clean up, but then sometimes what ends up happing is the cell actually dies. Then those metals get released.
Dr. Pompa:
That’s right.
Dr. Mindy Pelz:
You taught me that. That I see across the board. Menopausal women jump into fasting. They love it, but they don’t want their hair falling out. Some of them actually gain weight because those metals get redistributed. They gain weight.
Dr. Pompa:
Absolutely; they message, Mindy, is, well, women with thyroid issues, or premenopausal, perimeno, they shouldn’t do fasting, or they shouldn’t do low carb. No, it’s not the truth. It’s just the fact that there’s this toxicity issue that plays a role that you need to just go upstream and look at that. Your Resetter group, I want you to talk about them a little bit because they’ve been—this is a large group of women mostly; there’s some men.
Dr. Mindy Pelz:
There’s men.
Dr. Pompa:
Thank you for the men.
Dr. Mindy Pelz:
Yeah, they make themselves known.
Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, exactly, but that really, we gain as a group a lot of information from. It’s like, well, try it out. Hey, I tried this. Just like I have a group that follows and we’re able to try and learn as a doctor group. Talk about the Resetter group.
Dr. Mindy Pelz:
You know what? I’m so happy that you brought that up because, as a practitioner, you understand the importance of seeing these theories across so many people. My takeaway from fasting—we have 27,000 in the Resetter group on Facebook, and then we have a 100 plus thousand, some people don’t like Facebook, so they go over to YouTube. They join us in our fast training week over there. Once a month we fast together.
There’s some clear observations that everybody has. One, we are incredibly mineral deficient. Everybody—or we’re incredibly toxic, one or the other. Everybody who goes into this fasting lifestyle, what I find is that if they do it too much, if they’re too rigid, their hair starts falling out, their anxiety goes up.
Again, like you said, they throw the baby out with the bathwater. They’re like, oh, this fasting stuff doesn’t work. Fasting reveals your imbalances. It shows you what you need to work on, which leads me to my next thing that I see so much.
I think the Number One organ outside the brain that needs to be healed for people is the liver. We have got so many people with toxic livers. Those are the ones whose pathways are just—they’re so closed. They’re getting rashes, and they holding onto weight, and they’re constipated. Again, same thing, then they see a video that says keto and fasting is no good. They just don’t realize that their detox pathways are really struggling.
Dr. Pompa:
The liver, it holds anger. The liver holds toxins. The hepato-biliary, so it holds bile; it makes bile. That holds toxins. It holds emotions; it holds physical toxins. Yeah, the liver is just—it is, it just gets abused. We have a lot of strategies there.
Dr. Mindy Pelz:
The liver and the gut break down estrogen as well.
Dr. Pompa:
That’s right; hormone conversations are there and how it breaks down toxic estrogen and all of it.
Dr. Mindy Pelz:
I don’t know if you’ve ever had this, but one of my first experiences with the longer fasts, I had so much anger coming out for no reason. I’m like, why am I so angry? Now, when I do it around my cycle or whatever glimmers of my cycle I’m getting, I don’t get that anger. Between that and the detox, anger does not—is not an emotion that shows up for me anymore.
Dr. Pompa:
The liver is a big player. On the mineral note, remind me, I’m experimenting with this amazing mineral product; can’t talk about it here because I’m still in experimental mode, but I need some other experimenters.
Dr. Mindy Pelz:
Send it my way because I’m literally convinced after all these people fasting that everybody is so toxic, everybody is mineral deficient, and the liver is just destroyed.
Dr. Pompa:
Think about it; I always say, look, when you have heavy metals, in particular, they actually take the place in and around your cells in all the key places in the body of where minerals actually should go. There’s a lot of people even taking minerals and they’re not getting the actual benefit from it. It’s because of the heavy metals blocking.
When we pull the heavy metals out, now we create mineral gaps and even autophagy will. Now, you have got these mineral gaps where it’s like, well, you better fill that with something because now you just pulled something away, but now you have to fill it with something. You’re right; it’s true.
Dr. Mindy Pelz:
That’s restless legs right there. That’s the other thing we see a lot. It’s just all that hormonal imbalance. That toxic load just reveals itself as you start to fast, but it really does it for the menopausal women. It’s a mirror as to what you need to work on.
Dr. Pompa:
Take us through your book a little bit, just what you’re taking people through.
Dr. Mindy Pelz:
Yeah, basically, it’s called The Menopause Reset. What I wanted to do was give women a lifestyle they could follow as they go through their perimenopause journey, their menopause journey, and even I’m really hoping that a lot of postmenopausal women will read that and go okay, I can go back and do this lifestyle now. One of my concerns for the world right now, especially for women, is as we lose those hormones, those hormones are protective. They’re protective against heart problems, dementia, Alzheimer’s. When they go awry, that’s—we’re seeing more disease in postmenopausal women than in perimenopausal women. If we could give women a lifestyle that they can live once they acknowledge, hey, you know what, my hormones are going down, we could save so many lives in that postmenopausal time period.
That’s what the book’s about is helping women understand their hormones, and then teaching them how to do fasting and keto for their time of life, teaching them how to detox and what toxins to look out for. We talk about the rushing women syndrome and things they can do to help their adrenals handle that overload. Like you said, I like to put it all together in steps. I’ve got steps at the back of every—
Dr. Pompa:
You’re great at it, yeah.
Dr. Mindy Pelz:
—so that people don’t get overwhelmed because this is totally different than we’ve been taught. We’ve been really taught you just ignore it. When the menopause symptoms show up, you medicate it. My concern is if we don’t change that conversation, then what’s going to happen is we’re going to end up with more disease in postmenopausal women.
We have a really cool opportunity to help women do menopause different. What we know about the body, it’s like literally two organs that were there for you all the time are done. You’re going to have to adapt to the fact that these two organs no longer work for you. How is your lifestyle adapting to that? That’s really what the book is about.
Dr. Pompa:
Awesome, and we have a link here, folks, to get a pre-order of that book. Thank you for that. What do you think if there’s—we know there’s many different causes of all these epidemics, hormonal epidemics today. What do you think the Number One, just one, the Number One, what do you think it is?
Dr. Mindy Pelz:
Toxicity. I had this thought the other day: we live in the most toxic time in human history. There is so much that has evolved in our modern world. Our phones have evolved, our computers, our technology has evolved, but we’re literally living in a body that was the same as it was in the caveman days.
What are we doing to adapt to that? How are we taking care of this differently because this—we don’t get a 2.0 version of this. We get the same version that the cavepeople had. We are going to have to change and adapt for this modern world. You’ve got to start with toxins. I think that’s the starting point.
Dr. Pompa:
If you had one tool, you could only use one? We have several. I teach them all through therapeutic approach, but you only have one. Every woman coming into your clinic, which one would it be?
Dr. Mindy Pelz:
Oh, God. I’m going to do the one that changed my life the most. That was heavy metal detoxing. That really gave me my sleep back.
Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, me, too. Yeah, changed my world.
Dr. Mindy Pelz:
Yeah, really changed my brain. That was really how I discovered you. Yeah, totally different person after going—understanding that process and getting that out of me.
Dr. Pompa:
One big thing in your life that happened that made you today, what was it?
Dr. Mindy Pelz:
The most recent was this experience. I don’t put up with poor symptoms in my body very long. I was pretty depressed, and anxious, and even suicidal. I felt like I can’t—I heard your story about the dread that you had at night. I was like that’s me. If this is how me is going to be for the rest of my life, I don’t want to do me. This doesn’t feel good.
That really launched me down finding you. Then the pain to purpose journey I think is so important for us all, whatever your pain to purpose journey is. When you are suffering and you pull yourself out of that suffering, it’s so important that we turn around and teach others because there’s more people suffering. For me, this was the most pivotal experience definitely of my adult life.
Dr. Pompa:
Andrea, who is one of the—the head coach for all our doctors says you and I are brother and sister in this mission. You are, nobody else is like my sister. You’re an amazing teacher. You teach with passion. Everything has come out of your own battles. Every time I watch you, I go, I just—I tear up to some degree because I just think gosh, she is bringing it. I could never do it without a Mindy I’ll tell you. Thank you.
Dr. Mindy Pelz:
I wouldn’t be here without you. You saved my life. Your story was what really helped me understand that I wasn’t going crazy. I’m just so grateful.
Dr. Pompa:
Now, your story. That’s what we’re doing here. We’re going to do better together. We’re going to bring this message to the world. Women are going to hear it better from you; I don’t what anyone says.
Dr. Mindy Pelz:
Again, I still go back to, wow, I’m in menopause. I feel like I should be 25 years old. That’s the whole gig about menopause is it sneaks up on you and you don’t realize that it’s there.
Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, that’s true.
Dr. Mindy Pelz:
Many women are suffering, so many women.
Dr. Pompa:
It’s unbelievable. This is a problem. I overhear conversations that often time I butt into because, in the conversation, the walk away is that every one of their friends are talking hormones. Every one of their friends get all of these symptoms. It’s just normal.
I always butt in and go, oh no, hold on a second. That’s common, you’re right, but it’s not normal. There’s something you can do about it. Go to my website.
Dr. Mindy Pelz:
No, that’s right. This is why we’ve got to—this is why we have to shout it because we’ve got to wake people up and teach them.
Dr. Pompa:
What my son just realized is the sun was going down. I had perfect light. It was getting darker and darker in here. It’s like [non-verbal].
Dr. Mindy Pelz:
That’s why you keep those Millennials around.
Dr. Pompa:
Oh yeah, the technical—anything like that. He was here to rescue me without even knowing he was here to rescue me. No, listen, I’m going to be interviewing Duncan. I need to cut up on Duncan, Dr. Duncan. He’s in our doctor group and one of the Platinum Doctors. He was like gosh, Mindy has her thing. It’s like, what’s mine? You gave him his.
Dr. Mindy Pelz:
I know.
Dr. Pompa:
What was it?
Dr. Mindy Pelz:
I told him, I said, the thing that is the most inspiring, the thing to do is teach what you have overcome, which you are a perfect example of that. He calls me up one day and he’s like, I figured out what—my message to the world. He’s like, I think I need to help old guys like me. I said, “You’re right.” Yeah, and he’s doing it.
Dr. Pompa:
Anyways, he does. He has a great message which we’re going to do that interview too because hey, Duncan is there, man. We’re not forgetting you old guys out there. We have a message for you with Dr. Bring It.
Dr. Mindy Pelz:
Stay tuned; the old guy podcast is the next episode of Cellular Healing.
Dr. Pompa:
We’re cutting on Duncan, but I’m going to bring this up. Maybe he’ll cut on you. He’s like, I didn’t realize I was that guy. I’m like, you’re that guy, man.
Dr. Mindy Pelz:
Yeah, you are that guy. Good friends let you know you’re that guy. Yeah, so I guess I’m that gal.
Dr. Pompa:
You are, yeah, you’re that gal.
Dr. Mindy Pelz:
Now that I’ve struggled through menopause, well, now I know. I’m super happy to change it for other people and save lives. We’ve got to help the postmenopausal women, too. Go back, redo your lifestyle. You can redo it. I’m sure you see this with fasting. I’ve seen women come out of menopause once they clean everything up.
Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, absolutely.
Dr. Mindy Pelz:
It’s never too late. You can go back, redo your lifestyle so that you don’t get the diseases that you see in your 60s, 70s, and 80s. That’s so important.
Dr. Pompa:
You give every woman hope, honestly. You had every symptom they had. You know what? You are a world-changer, Dr. Mindy. You are, you’re a world-changer. You were called for it. You were called to it. Most importantly, you answered the call. Some don’t, you did.
Thanks for being on Cell TV. Thank you for being in our group of Platinum Doctors at Health Centers of the Future. That’s no doubt what your health center is. Reach out to Mindy, follow her. She’s amazing.
Dr. Mindy Pelz:
Thank you. Again, I wouldn’t have figured out all those pieces without you and Cell TV. Originally, Cell TV was what gave me that light.
Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, absolutely.
Dr. Mindy Pelz:
Keep up this good work as well.
Dr. Pompa:
Giving back. Thanks, Mindy, bye.
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