Aloha. This is Emily Schram with another Meathead Hippie podcast. I have something really,

how do I say it? It's just like a little ding that I just want to dig into. I mentioned this in a

podcast formerly, not that long ago, about bidders and how it ties into our own hormone health.

And so I want to just read you this piece in this book that I'm in love with.

And I want to make you think.

And I also want to make you go get bitters and eat more bitters because we all need to do it.

It's like a big thing that is so much more about our own inability to look at our shadows

and only see pleasure and sweetness and this addiction to sugar and then our own depression

and our own cycles of staying in these places, feeling stagnant.

And then, of course, the manifestation of what that does to our body,

whether it's irregular cycles or heavy hormone bleeds or low sex drive,

like the millions of things that all of us are dealing with,

you know, from adrenal issues to brain health

to gut health. Like we all have something going on or we've all healed something or we know

somebody who's healing something. And so this was just a really basic approach that I just

can't stop thinking about. So I'm going to read it to you. And I hope you enjoy it. So this is

James Green. It's called

The Male Irbal, a beautiful book called Health Care for Men and Boys. And really it's herbal medicine

that is good for women is good for men, period, across the board. And making sure that men are

included in the conversation I think is so important. We talk a lot about healing our own masculine energy,

and that's definitely something that I am so obsessed with understanding about myself, this divine

masculine, this divine feminine. There's so much feminine rising, right? This awakening, this

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