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Welcome to the Well Fed Women Podcast. This is episode number 282.

I am your host Noel Tarr of Coconuts and Kettlebells.com. I'm a

nutritional therapy practitioner and a certified personal trainer. I am

so happy you're here and I'm happy that I get to spend some time with you today because on this show we're going to do a deep dive into a highly requested topic and that is solving period problems and cycle sinking with my guest Barry on Barry who is a holistic

menstrual health educator and practitioner.

Before I introduce Barry, this is going to come up in this episode,

so I'm just going to preface this here. You need magnesium, especially right now because it is20 and one of the things that greatly

depletes it that is greatly depleted during times of stress is magnesium

unfortunately you guys know we've talked about this a lot, but soil degradation has dramatically decreased

magnesium in our food supply, and so the majority of people are deficient in it specifically women because pregnancy tends to deplete

magnesium and women just tend to be more stressed because we have more things to juggle. I'm just going to be honest.

Magnesium is not just critical for supporting the stress response.

It's also the catalyst for over 300 reactions in the body that connect to different functions like detoxification and energy production

and even digestion and so this magnesium besides Vitamin D, magnesium is one of the few supplements that I recommend.

Almost everyone consider and not all supplements are created equal.

There are different types of magnesium and different types of magnesium have different benefits as

Steph and I have talked about a lot in your body can actually benefit from

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