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There are seasons in life when you look in the mirror and think, I don’t feel like me lately. Maybe it’s mood swings, low energy, restless sleep, brain fog—or just a quiet sense that your hormonal balance is shifting and your emotions are changing faster than you can keep up. This is especially true during the transitions of perimenopause and menopause.

In this conversation with Liz Zwillinger, founder of Biologica, we talk about how to stop treating yourself like a collection of symptoms and start caring for the whole woman—hormones, brain, bones, heart, nervous system, and spirit. This isn’t about perfection or adding more pressure to your day. It’s about choosing one simple, consistent habit that helps you feel steadier, calmer, and more supported through life’s transitions.

If you’ve been overwhelmed by too many opinions, powders, and protocols, this episode will meet you where you are and offer a gentle path back to feeling like your best self.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

  • What’s really influencing your mood and energy during  perimenopause and menopause—and why these shifts are natural and common.
  • How to reclaim your hormonal balance using science-backed support that respects your body’s rhythm.
  • The power of one daily micro-habit to support your nervous system, sleep, focus, and resilience so you don’t feel out of alignment.
  • How to care for the whole woman—brain, bones, heart, and mental health—without the overwhelm of complicated protocols.

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This podcast is intended to educate, inspire, and support you on your personal journey towards inner peace. I am not a psychologist or a medical doctor and do not offer any professional health or medical advice. If you are suffering from any psychological or medical conditions, please seek help from a qualified health professional.

dear gabby #305 Feb 20, 2026 physical wellbeing

how to feel like your best self: simple habits for hormonal balance, mood & energy.

The following podcast is a dear media production. Hey there. Welcome to Dear Gabby. I'm your host GabbyBernstein, and if you landed here, it is absolutely no accident. It means that you're ready to feel good and manifest a life beyond your wildest dreams. Let's get started. Welcome back to Dear Gabby. Joining me today is a woman who decided that managing hormonal health shouldn't be a full-time job, and at times it can really feel like itis.I'm here with Liz Zwillinger and she's the founder of Biologic, and this is a company dedicated to helping women lead smart, powerful, and resilient lives through every single stage of life. Including perimenopause.Perimenopause was for me a very brutal time. This was a stage where I needed a lot more resources and I wish I'd had biologic. I really do, and this was a stage that was really confusing. It was very destabilizing and it was happening early for me, so I didn't actually have any information or any knowledge of what was actually going on.The mood swings can hit the brain fog. Oh my God. The brain fog. And suddenly you just start feeling like you wanna punch the dashboard. And it's alot. It's a lot guys, and I know that most of my listeners are either in Perry or in menopause now, and you're trying to fix your sleep. You have skin issues,you've got muscle mass issues, you're just gaining weight.It's a lot. Liz actually felt [00:01:00] that exact same frustration, and when her own hormones started impacting how she showed up for her family and herself,she realized that women were being treated like a collection of symptoms rather than complete human beings. And she wanted a really simple, clinically backed solution that didn't just balance hormones, but actually supported the whole woman, the brain, the heart, the bones, and all.And when she couldn't find it, she actually was like, I gotta just build this. And she went ahead and did it. And so in this episode, we're gonna talk about why perimenopause has been overlooked for so long. What's actually happening in our bodies, and how women can feel resourced instead of alone as they move through this transition.And if you've ever thought, what the heck is happening to me? Or you felt like your body was changing without the roadmap, this is your conversation my friends. Liz, welcome. thank you. It's great to be here. This is our conversation.'cause I know you, I recognize you in all of your, female hormonal light.
I've lived it. [00:02:00] We've survived. We're surviving together, right? We're surviving together. it blindsided me and it blindsides so many women.Thankfully it's so in the zeitgeist right now to support so many people, people like you are here creating products like this and just being trailblazers for this conversation.Um, I like to hear people's stories, like I imagine there was a shakedown for the breakthrough, and that obviously led to your desire to really support women.Yeah, so I have always struggled with the symptoms of my hormones. I was diagnosed with polycystic ovarian syndrome, PCOS in my late teens, and immediately went on birth control to try and help those symptoms.and I was always used to the familiar sense of irritability and anxiety that would come up right before my period. So I would have like two or three days of,irritability around that. But as I started to enter to my forties, those days got longer. And I, all of a sudden was feeling like my irritability was four[00:03:00] days, then five days, then six days, and all of a sudden it was a week of not feeling like myself.And for a year having very short fuse. Right. A very short fuse. and I was really snappy. And my husband, I have three school aged children, two senior dogs.There was a lot going on, right. And, I went to my ob, GYN, who was a wonderful physician, and she delivered two of my three children. And I said this to her.I said, the days are getting, they're the, they're more, more days. I'm feeling not like myself. And my husband is starting to notice it, and he's now tracking my period on his phone Yep. To know not to pick a fight with me. God bless him. I know right. To let things settle. And when I told her this, she said to me, shesaid, look, PMS is real.But it's also possible your husband's an asshole. Yep. Which I loved, but it alsodidn't help me solve this problem. So I found myself looking at other sourcesbeyond just switching birth control methods to help alleviate some of this[00:04:00] anxiety and the irritability that would come up for one week permonth.And. There were so many options. You know, improve your mood with thispill, improve your sleep with this powder, take this for, increased energy. thisfor increased metabolism. And I found myself in my pantry one day mixingseven different pills. Yeah, four different powders, making a mess and feelinglike this is not something I wanna do as my full-time job.
This is too much. Yeah. And my group text with my girlfriends was the samething. Everyone texted me, listen to this podcast about this particular ingredient.What about this thing? and everybody felt like there wasn't good enoughinformation. There was so much information and no one knew a good, trustedauthority.And I felt like if I'm just trying to treat some of the symptoms of my hormonesas they get worse through perimenopause. What about the rest of my body?What about my brain and how we know that for women, dementia is muchmore impactful for women than for men.What about my bones? Like I'm working on bone [00:05:00] strength. Andmuscle mass strength. You know, we all know we should be strength training,but like, what am I doing for my bones and my muscles? Um, and what aboutmy cardiac health, right? As estrogen is so protective. So as our estrogen dropsin perimenopause and then into menopause, what am I doing for my hearthealth?And if I'm just focusing on my hormonal symptoms, I'm ignoring the rest of thatbecause one person can only do so much. That's where biologic comes inbecause it truly is a elevated multivitamin that takes care of all of these needsthat are addressing the acute hormonal symptoms, but not at the expense offorgetting that, as you said earlier, like we are more than just.Our hormonal symptoms. We wanna live a long, healthy life, and I wanna be agrandmother that is on the floor with my grandkids and has the strength to standup and move around and, you know, live this fabulous life that I've beenbuilding for as long as possible. Yes, my friend. Beautiful. Well said. I am thatwoman that has drawers and drawers and then drawers for the drawers of the[00:06:00] supplements and the tinctures and the potions and this.Actually was really a one size fits all for me, thank God. particularly the,biologic of midlife essentials. I get all of the things I need and we're gonna getdeep into that. and I think that it can be really overwhelming too, because youdon't know what a trusted source is.Especially when you're, just trying to figure it all out and you've kind of got alittle bit of this and a little bit of that, and it's very, very overwhelming. why doyou think that perimenopause and these hormonal upheavals, whether it's per oreven post menopause, why is it when women need targeted support the most?
Is it, it's because of the estrogen drops, it's because of the progesteronedropping. Yes. And everybody experiences perimenopausal symptomsdifferently. Yeah. So personally for me, I'm noticing my periods are gettinglonger, right? Like right now, today I'm on day 31 of my cycle. Like I don'tknow, my period is coming tomorrow, or is it gonna be another five days?Should it have happened two days ago? And my symptoms are changing as aresult. And so some [00:07:00] women notice a change in their period lengthbefore they notice any hormonal symptoms. Some women, it's the opposite. So Ithink the most important piece about this time in our life is that everybody isdifferent.Yeah. And everyone is experiencing their symptoms differently, and so youreally do need targeted support that is particular for your hormonal life stage.Yeah. So at Biological, what we did was we did these very targeted focusgroups with women. We had groups of women in their thirties, groups ofwomen in their forties and fifties and sixties, and we did 'em across the country.And the insight was really interesting. What we found was that the symptomsthat women were experiencing within their hormonal life stage, whether they'rereproductive age in their thirties or perimenopausal in their forties, was reallysimilar within that group. But really different across the groups.So what women in their thirties were experiencing was very different than whatthey were experiencing in their forties, because truly where you are in yourhormonal cycle. So there are five hormonal cycles that we go through aswomen. Five stages. Where [00:08:00] you are in your stage is the biggestdriver of your overall health.So the five stages are infancy, puberty. Reproductive, perimenopausal andpostmenopausal. Those are like the medical terms, right? So we haveformulations for the three adult stages. So for reproductive, which is whenyou're in your cycling years, perimenopausal when your estrogen andprogesterone are fluctuating wildly and then postmenopausal when yourestrogen is in decline.Yes. And I think that the information's out there now, but when there, wasn't alot of information about it, it was very much like the Wild West. Like how dowe actually even know what's happening in our body? and even with all thisnew information and happening so much, so many people like yourself.
still people are kind of walking around blind. Right. yesterday I was with mymakeup artist who's 36 years old and she's having some symptoms and I waslike, take five packets of biological and put it into your handbag. And I wasliterally like, go do something. Yeah. Go start to prioritize even just yournervous system.And that's [00:09:00] actually why I love what you guys have done here somuch because one of the biggest effects for me. I really, I was hit with atsunami, truly. But, one of the biggest effects was just mood and anxiety andsleep. What I love about the midlife essential, the biological midlife essential, isyou've got Altheine, you've got the, gaba.Gaba, yep. You've got the calcium that we all need, and you've got Saffron. AndI wanna really dig into Saffron because It is this sort of like mystical remedybecause, it can be expensive when you put it into your food, but now you'vemade it, you've democratized saffron for us. So tell me a little bit about thebetter.I mean, there's a black market. If anyone's ever tried to buy saffron for cooking,you sometimes will get a certificate of authenticity to ensure that your saffron'sactually real because it's so expensive and it is a botanical, first of all. It'sbeautiful. The photos of what a saffron looks like.It's a stunning, It's been around for thousands of years and it's in a lot of cookingfrom coming out of Iran, coming out of India, [00:10:00] and, Spain and womenhave been using it for centuries. But the problem is that it's very expensive andthe clinical research shows that you need 28 milligrams of Saffron daily in orderto show improvement in mood.And because it's so expensive, other companies will put in far less than 28milligrams because then they'll make the claim, oh, we have saffron andimproves your mood, but not at the clinical dosages. So every ingredient that weinclude in biologic, including saffron. At the clinical dosages that have the datato show that this works for women in that particular life stage.So for me, saffron has been, without a doubt, the biggest game changer in mymood. I find that my fuse has gotten longer, I'm far less snappy, and I feel likein a 30 day month. I'm much more like myself across all 30 days, whereasbefore I had 21 days of [00:11:00] Liz and nine days of who the hell knows,whatever that person that was.
And I felt bad about that person, right? Mm-hmm. And so now I feel so muchmore like myself throughout that month. Yeah. Yeah. And I also reallyappreciate that you, are a trusted source for the full dose that we need becauseyou're right. I mean, because there's, a lot of lack of regulation withsupplements.I mean, there's, you really don't know what you're getting. And, this brand isreally sticking to. Being really above board and making sure that you're gettingexactly what you need and what take all. Yeah. We lean, leaned very much intothe science of every ingredient. Yeah. So in order to be included in biologic, theingredient had to be an under consume nutrient.Or a nutrient of public health concern that showed the majority of women wereunder consuming this nutrient. And the under consumption of that nutrient wasso critical that it was impacting the health outcomes of otherwise healthypeople. So that means we're not including ingredients that you can get a hundredpercent from diet?Yeah. Or [00:12:00] that you've heard about from your cousin who texted you, apodcast that she had listened to that talked about one hero ingredient. It truly is.all science backed, every ingredient is in there because it has. The clinicalbacking to show that it helps with health outcomes for women.Yeah, so there are a lot of other multivitamins like this that are in a powderform that make it, you know, some of them it's arguable whether they'redelicious or not. Like I really do stand behind the fact that biologic, it tastesgreat. And we can talk about why that's important, to keep up with consistency,but.There are other brands, other supplements that do this in a powder form, butthey're not made for women. They're made for everybody. And what's good fora 250 pound man Doing a triathlon is different than what works for 150 poundwoman who's just trying to feel like herself every day.Right, right. Absolutely. And I think that most women, the biggest thing thatthey would say is they need their mood supported, and that's what you canactually feel and notice, which is why I love the product so much because it'slike, yes, you could take calcium, you could take supplements, and you're like,well, I guess I'm doing the right thing.You don't notice it quite right [00:13:00] away, but when you actually havealtheine and saffron, you're like, whoa, I feel on, I feel calm. I feel more,
aligned. I'm an instant gratification kind of girl, so it works for me, so I lovethat. So Athene and gaba, which we have in our midlife product, you'll feelpretty much right away.Yeah, I mean within a few hours for sure. That along with our B complexvitamins and the electrolytes, you'll feel an energy boost and you'll feel thesense of calm focus from those ingredients. Saffron will take. Two to threeweeks for the typical person to really get into your system and start to feel, andso talking to women now who have been taking biologic for a month or two,that's when they're saying, okay, I just went through my first period on biologic,having taken it for a month, and I.felt like myself throughout that entire month. And so that is, saffron is aningredient that will take a few weeks. But as it starts to build up in your system,the, the sense of calm and balance that you feel in your mood is reallysignificant, really good for your brain.[00:14:00]Really good for your brain. Yeah. Okay. This is so great, and it's also what I likeis these micro habits because when we're in this stage of life or in any, hormonalupheaval, at any stage of life, we can feel like we, uh. Don't even know where tostart. And what you've created is like the first micro habit.You know, it's like, if you can do this one thing, I, I really believe in small rightactions to big change. And if you can do this one thing, you're, consciouslysetting up a ritual to be in this practice of self-care and also in this practice, it'sactually gonna give you great benefits.And it sounds like that was a big part of your mission when you were puttingtogether the product and also just creating this. path for women in this journey?Is that correct? Absolutely. Yeah. So we went out, you know, in our, we didthose focus groups I was talking about earlier, and we also did a thousandwomen study.And one of the details we got from that research was that women were either sooverwhelmed. With the options out there that they were buying, as you weresaying, all these supplements, and they had drawers and drawers [00:15:00] ofthem, and they were so overwhelmed they weren't taking them because nobodywants to mix seven pills and four powders together every morning.or they were so overwhelmed they were doing nothing, and then they felt bad.Like they, they were like, I wanna do something. Like you were saying, you'remakeup artist. I wanna do something. What should I do? Give me the one
simple daily habit that I can actually stick with. And we know withsupplementation, the most important part is consistency.Yeah. It's like you were saying, small daily habits that you can keep up withover time, whether it's through exercise or your meditation practice, or yourmindfulness or whatever it is. In life, we know that small changes that you canmake and keep daily are gonna be so much better than making this incrediblesmoothie that has 9 million things in it and only remembering to do it onceevery two weeks.Right. So it's really important we were formulating biologic that it was acomplex formulation in a really simple delivery that you could keep andmaintain on a daily basis. Yeah. So these sachets, biologic comes in, thesesachets that, you [00:16:00] can put in your purse, you can leave on your desk,whatever. Is gonna help remind you to take it.Yeah. We also put it in a really pretty tin, which for me was like so pretty. Whynot make, why not make everyday things beautiful? Right? Yeah. Like if youhave to look at it every day, let's make it pretty. Yeah. So. the strategy behindthat is leave it on your kitchen counter so that you look at it and you're like, oh,right, I forgot to take that today.Yeah, yeah. Um, similarly, because of the way that we formulated it, you cantake it first thing in the morning if you want, or you can take it, you know, on anempty stomach before breakfast. You could take it mid afternoon, you couldtake it, with your lunch. It doesn't really matter in terms of like you're gonnafeel.The benefits, regardless of when you take it. So that helps women not feel likethey have to take it with food or they have to take it first thing in the morning.You know, it's like we want you to fit biologic into whatever your daily routineis, and it's different for every woman. Yeah. Yeah, yeah.Absolutely. And I think that, um, people really want ease of use at this stagebecause a, a particularly women, and when the product's beautiful, it makes itreally nice. Our lives are already so [00:17:00] complicated. So complicated. Somuch demand on us. Yeah, yeah, yeah. In, you know, whether we're caregiversor work or friendships, like there's so much demand that I truly did not wannaadd to this.Health anxiety or this feeling like there's one more thing you have to do. Like Ithink women are already holding so much Yeah. Of that, but I wanted to make
this product feel like, do this one thing for yourself. It's easy. It doesn't take a lotof time, and it will really set you up to have a very good day without trying tobalance all these other ingredients yourself.Yep. Yeah. Yep. Love that. in this world now of, hormonal balancing andhormonal health, there's also big conversations around longevity. And I justwanna hear your take on what are the key ingredients that we wanna be thinkingabout when we're thinking about longevity? What are those, key, elements ofour, overall daily plan?I think longevity is critical for women to consider well before you start to feelthe symptoms right, of aging. So, the [00:18:00] things that we need to thinkabout, as I said earlier, your brain. Right. So we have choline in our product,which people are starting to recognize now. There's a bunch of research out thatcholine is now in prenatal vitamins because the research is showing that it reallyhelps with the development of the baby's brain in the first few years of, thebaby's life.If you take choline when you're pregnant, there's also benefits for choline forwomen who are not pregnant, right? So our cell membranes and our brain startto become more brittle, and they become damaged over time. And so. Cholinecan help with that. And it is 90% of Americans under consume choline. Reallyhard to get it in your diet.It's great to have in biologic. Second component, which we all know about iscalcium, right? So the calcium that we ate when we were younger as a teenager,like I have a almost 12-year-old daughter and I am on her, on calcium. thecalcium weight when we were younger was forming our bones. And so now inmidlife we really just need to protect.The bones, we've already built right on our teens. and [00:19:00] calcium iscritical and it's also important to have calcium with vitamin D three and vitaminK two because those two vitamins ensure the calcium gets into your bones. Notinto your arteries. So if you're just taking calcium without the D three and the Ktwo, it's not getting into the right places in your body.So we have the combination of you're three K two in there as well. Yes. Oh,God bless. Oh my God. Yeah. Yeah. I, so I mean, most women are deficient in,in D three and definitely in K two. Actually, it's an interesting statistic on Ktwo. It's like. It's impossible to consume that in your diet. K two is found infermented food like kimchi and brie, and you're just not gonna be able toconsume what you need, in your diet.
So calcium D three and K two is critical. Um, and the third is just we're allunder consuming magnesium as well. And magnesium is a part of 300biochemical reactions that happen in our body all the time. And so maintaininga level of magnesium. That is, you know, higher than what we're consumingthrough our food.It's so important to make sure that all of our systems are [00:20:00] workingthroughout as we age. So again, like longevity for women is not aboutbiohacking or protein maxing or trying to like make this something that's supercompetitive. We're trying to, you know, live the absolute longest.It's really to ensure that we have a really good quality of life that sets us up forsuccess when we're older. Yeah, and that's the part that I just didn't feel like wasreflected in other supplement brands. They felt so much like there was somecompetition about who can be the strongest, live the longest.You know, it's, it's really about making sure that our quality of life is wonderfuland maintained for as long as possible. Yeah. And also to your point earlier, it'slike, spot checking, like this thing and that thing, but having it all in one is sovaluable because you don't have to think, but also you can know that this, thewhole balance is happening.and the health anxiety is real for women. Yeah. Yes. I don't wanna add to that. Ireally wanted women to feel like if you take this, you're covering your bases.Yeah. Yeah. And then you can relax. You can take a deep breath. [00:21:00]Move on with your day to put your focus not on what you need to be doing foryour health.'cause you've taken care of that, at least on the supplementation part, right? Likeof course you still need the exercise and the strength training and a mindfulnesspractice. You know, other things that we know we need to really calm andcenter ourselves. But biologic can take care of all your supplementation needs.Yeah. And then you can go on with your day. Yep. Yep. I know everybodywants sort of a one and done. Ready to go. I know it. I know it. you know, yousaid that women are resilient, smart and strong, and we owe it to ourselves andto the world to stay this way. So how do you hope that your mission and thework that you're doing will really change the conversation around women'shealth and support in this, new movement that's happening around womentaking ownership of their wellbeing?
I think that this conversation is, there's three really wonderful side effects thatare happening as a result of women's health being at the forefront and peopleactually talking about perimenopause. No one knew what that term was 10years ago, right? Jesus. No. So, interesting fact, and as a side note is [00:22:00]my mother is an ob, GYN, right?She had a really illustrious career. She graduated from medical school in 1976.And she didn't know any of this. No. They didn't give them any of this training.None. She didn't have any of this training. She went through menopause herself.She was an ob, GYN. She, treated hundreds, thousands of women, right?Didn't know any of this, but there are, I think three really wonderful side effectsthat are happening as a result of this conversation. The first is that women arejust becoming more self-aware about their own health, their own sense of like,how am I feeling today? How does that compare to how I felt yesterday?How does it compare to how I felt this time last year? And that's both physicalhealth, but also mental health. Like we're tuning in much more to our mood.And women who felt potentially less comfortable to talk about mood swings orirritability or anxiety are now feeling more comfortable to, put their hand up andsay, this is me too.Like I feel this also. Yeah. And I feel different now than I did two years ago andnothing is changing in my life. That would explain that. [00:23:00] Yeah. Thismust be because of my hormones. Yeah. Interestingly, in our focus groups, wesaw a really big difference in. Women in their thirties were still blamingextraneous factors for how they were feeling.It's like in terms of, you know, I'm not sleeping 'cause I'm looking at my phoneright before bed. I'm getting too much blue light. I need to de-stress by doingmore Pilates classes. Whereas women in their forties were saying, it's nothingthat I'm doing, it's something that's happening inside of me. That I need to getcontrol over, but it's not like choices that I'm making.Yeah. It's things that are happening inside of me that aren't related to the choicesI'm making, which I think is a really useful way to think about this change inmidlife. Well, no amount of like take the pressure off, no amount of like redlight glasses. We're gonna help a woman through peri or post menopause.Right, right. Exactly. Through menopause like that, I, I kept thinking like there'sliterally no amount even meditation or spiritual practice that was gonna help me
through that. Full blown shape. Done. I needed, I needed a Dotty patch, Ineeded progesterone, I needed testosterone, I needed [00:24:00] all of it.You know, I needed to get really, really set up. I spoke at a conference in LAlast week and I was the mindfulness speaker, but all the other speakers were.Dr. Rhonda Wright, Mary Claire Aver, Kelly Casperson. And so I had lunchwith all the girls, right?And actually I'm speaking to them in a half hour. I'll talk to you about that at theend. and had lunch with these, beautiful women. And we just sat around and itwas like, you know, Kelly like handing me like DHEA cream over the table.She put this on your vagina, you know? And it was like this feeling of just suchliberation that we can actually Yeah.And community. Community liberation, talking about how great it feels tofinally have testosterone back in our body or to put in our vagina. You know,like we, can be in this dialogue or like, you know, Mary Claire being like, I'mputting my, vaginal estrogen all over my face, which I do too.so just, having these, Sister Lee Bonds and that these are the heroines of ourtime, right? women like yourself, there's these trailblazers that are, devoted tothe wellbeing of our sisters. [00:25:00] And so I just want to reflect that back toyou and say thank you because. The women who are making these kinds ofproducts, making this type of commitment, doing the research, listening to otherwomen, you guys are collectively changing the world because if mamas arehealthy and well, if women post menopause are healthy and well, and there's somuch that can change around us.So I just, I know that you know that impact. I can see it in your face, I can see itin your eyes, but I just want it to reflect it back to you. Thank you. I mean,deeply from the bottom of my heart. It makes this endeavor worthwhile when Iknow that I'm adding to this positive conversation. And you know, the otherpiece is like this awareness about mental health.Yeah. Is now women who never experienced irritability or anxiety before ordidn't feel comfortable talking about it openly are now starting to feel morecomfortable. And I think that is for sure a net positive. across so much[00:26:00] beyond perimenopause, beyond menopause, just this conversation oflike, it's okay put your hand up and say, I'm not feeling like myself, and that,yeah.
To be culturally acceptable and welcomed. Mm-hmm. Such a wonderful.progression in our culture. I think lastly, I do wanna mention that the increase indiscussion around perimenopause and menopause is also useful for men. Yeah.Well, and I think that one of the. A growth that I hope to see in the women'shealth movement is the inclusion of men.Because frankly, oftentimes you come to these conferences, you know, or you'rein these panels and it's all women speaking to an audience of all women, whichis wonderful. But I think we need to open the aperture a little bit wider andinclude men as well, because they, live with women who are going through this.Their empathy matters, their awareness matters, their raising girls and boys inthis kind of culture, right? I mean, right now I am hyper aware of raising, I have12-year-old twins. One's a boy, one's a girl. And even just the talk right now[00:27:00] around a period that's coming, right, the menstrual cycle's starting.It's like, it's not just about, oh, you know, she's gonna be so hormonal, just waittill she gets her period. Like those kinds of cultural conversations are reallytoxic for women, young girls, to be raised in a world where they feel like. Whenmy reproductive hormones start to increase, all of a sudden that's gonna makeme into like a monster four days.Yeah, totally. And we need men in that conversation as well too. And so I thinkthis is helpful to include men as well. I really appreciate you for saying thatbecause. I was saying to Mary Claire and Kelly Caspers in that group. I said,you know, I need to write a book and I don't have time to write it, but I need towrite it. And it's called, give This to Your Husband and Thank me later.Because you know, my husband didn't know anything that was going on. Hedidn't Google anything. He didn't, God bless him like we're working through it,but like, it was rough for me.And of course it was rough for him. Right, right. and they're trained, men aretrained through our culture to see. Hormones as just mood. As a, as a joke?Yeah, as a joke. Oh, she's so hor hormonal has become a synonym [00:28:00]for me. You're right. You're right. When really our, we're more hormones aremore than just our mood.They control all of our biological functions. Yeah. Most of our biologicalfunctions. So when use that kind of language. Around men, and it's the jokesthat are happening. it's detrimental for everybody. So including them in the factthat, look, here's what's actually biologically happening to our bodies.
here's what that means for us on a day-to-day basis, both in the short term interms of, you know, what's happening in our mood, what's happening with oursleep, what's happening with brain fog, but then also long term, yeah. Whathappens to our cardiac health and our brain health when we lose estrogen?I mean, that's significant. Yes, it's many need to know this too. Yeah. Yeah, and,I think that. The conversation has expanded so widely now, and, people areready to take the first step and you have created the best, most, delicious,actually and supportive first step. I think before even, just like I handed it toAlex, my makeup artist, it's like, start this now.Don't wait Right now, I know [00:29:00] that the women listening are likelysomewhere between 30 and 50 or 60, and you are definitely thinking about yourhormones.You're reading up about it. Or maybe you, you wouldn't be listening if youweren't thinking about it. But I also want you to think about your daughter. Sowe've got the primary product, which is age 18 to 40. And then we roughly to45, right? Roughly. So it's 18 to, you know, it's when you, the most importantthing is that it's for your cycling years. So it's when you're getting a consistent,regular period and you're not experiencing symptoms of perimenopause.Got it. Okay. And then we've got midlife, which is what I've been taking, andthat's 40 to 55. And that's when you are in, maybe deep in Perry, or maybeyou're newly in menopause. This is a time when you could take that one.Sounds right. Absolutely. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. And postmenopausal is obviously,you know, after you've had your last period, so. The most important way tochoose which formulation is best for you is what your symptoms are.So, for women who are still [00:30:00] getting irregular periods, they're in theirprimary cycle. We have a few different botanicals that are useful. So the first isChase Barry, which helps with the physical symptoms of PMS. So that is, youknow, menstrual cramps and breast tenderness. We also have saffron, which wetalked about earlier, which really helps with mood and irritability.the difference between the primary product and the midlife product is themidlife product. We focus on brain fog, so we have Athene and gaba, whichhelps with that calm focus to alleviate the symptoms of brain fog. We also havesaffron in that product too, because it is such a hero ingredient and helps withthe irritability, but also sleep.
So a lot of women in midlife talk about waking up at three o'clock in themorning and not being able to go back to sleep and that. Saffron, INE, and gaba,all three of those things together will help over time, even out to create a morerestful sleep. Yep. and so I think that's where, if you're not sure whether youshould take the primary product or the midlife product.I actually alternate between the two of them. Oh, cool. Because I do want thebenefits. The primary product also has this incredible, [00:31:00] and ourpostmenopausal has this incredible botanical called Pamela, which is atrademarked ingredient coming from pomegranate extract. Really good for skinradiance and skin hydration.So I really want that benefit. But I also love the lthe and gaba that comes withour midlife products. So I do one of each every day. but focus on, you know,whether you are experiencing the physical symptoms of PMS or more of theemotional symptoms, and that sort of will help determine whether you shouldbe taking primary or midlife.there's a lot of commonality of the nutrients, the fundamental nutrients. Like forexample, you have choline, which I talked about earlier, across all three. Ofcourse, we have calcium across all three vitamin D, three K, two magnesium.All of those are across all of them.and the one thing I forgot to mention that we have is probiotics and electrolytesin every single formulation. Yep. So that helps. I mean, bloating is such a hugeconcern for most women. and the electrolytes that are a lot of us have beentaking in the last few years have so much sodium in it. Yes, they do.They're like soft 'cause they're created for men who are, you know, again, like aman running a, a [00:32:00] triathlon Yeah. Needs a sodium intake that's totallydifferent than a woman who's 150 pounds. That's correct. So it's not great foryour blood pressure if you're taking these really high doses of sodium. So wehave a really good balance of sodium and potassium bicarbonatethat creates an effervescent fizziness in our beverage. It does, yeah. Whichmakes the vitamins more bioavailable. It gives you a little bit of boost in energy,but the dosages are formulated for women's bodies so that there isn't the damageto your heart that you're getting by taking these like very salty, high sodiumproducts.Beautiful. Well said. Well, you're the perfect spokesperson for this becauseyou've lived there. Oh, thank you. If you're living through it and, and you care
about it. So I just wanna thank you so much. So everybody head over tobiologic.com and pick out the stage that you're in right now, one of these threestages, and definitely make this micro habit a habit that's gonna really changeyour mood, your energy, your overall wellbeing, and give you everything thatyou need. There's a really good discount on the site.The discountis for, monthly subscriptions. Monthly subscription. Yeah. So it'sThe [00:33:00] largest discount if you sign up for a quarterly subscription. butthere's also still a discount for a monthly subscription. And the nice thing aboutthat, when we talk about ease.Right. When you sign up for a subscription, you don't have to think about it.Yeah, we'll ship every 30 days or we can ship it once every three months. Yeah,you have what you need. The nice thing about doing a quarterly subscription isyou can pick two flavors and so you can alternate flavors every day.The flavor development was extremely fun for me personally, but also reallyimportant because I wanted to make sure the flavors reflected. Sophisticated,elegant women, right? And so it's not mixed berry. It's not cherry, it's not theseflavors that remind us of children's Tylenol. They're really elegant flavors likeelder flower, lemonade.or black current elder flour or, passion fruit, black current, which really helpmake you wanna take it every day. Because we know in supplementation,consistency is the most important thing. So if you are actually excited abouttaking it every day. You'll do it, and then it feels like a treat's super sexyproduct.It's a really sexy product. you've really spoken to this elevated woman. I'mlooking at the products and I'm [00:34:00] realizing I have the midlife essential.I definitely need the post menopause essential because I am a year, I've hit myyear Mark 46.Amazing. Congratulations. Yeah, I know. It's actually quite easy because nowI'm easy to treat and it's, you know, it's like, it just Right what I need. Right.And I've checked my hormones every few months and in a good place. I'm inactually a much better place. So our post menopause essentials has one heroingredient called ho amine, which is incredible.
Okay. And essentially it is like an antioxidant on steroids. It's developed frombuckwheat, came out of a lab at Vanderbilt, and it's originates from buckwheat.And what it does is we learned in the nineties that like through antioxidantskilling. The oxidative process for cells actually isn't great, right?Like the way that I like to think about it is when you, you know, weightlift, youcreate these small muscle tears and so then as your muscle builds back, it buildsback stronger. Same thing with our cells. Our cells need to have some smallamount of damage so that it can build back stronger and more resilient.So an antioxidant completely wiping out that process isn't good. [00:35:00]Dopamine works downstream so that it lets the cell have that. Oxidative stressexperience, it grow back stronger. But then it removes some of the, byproduct,the negative byproduct that happens at the end of that process. So it allows likethe muscle to grow back builder, it allows the cell to grow back stronger, butthen removes some of the damaging effects.So, it's a really incredible cellular regenerative, botanical and wow. It's, I mean,it's an incredible product and my husband takes our post-menopausal essentialsbecause he really wants the benefit of ho amine. And I really encourage a lot ofwomen who, are in that post-menopausal phase of their life to consider it.Because, you know, as you were saying before, like filling strong and resilientwell into the later stages of our life is so important for our, you know, we'veworked so hard to get there, right? So let's enjoy it when we have it. Yes.Exactly. Exactly. Well, thank you for being such a beautiful influence on myown personal development journey as I go through my [00:36:00] postmenopause life here.And I, yeah, I just wanna say one last time, just what a big deal it is to bemaking the commitment to women and showing up in this way. And I reallyencourage people to take this first step, or maybe it's your 20th step, whateverstep it is that you're on right now, on your, hormonal journey.Definitely go to biological.com and there's beautiful discounts on the site rightnow if you are subscribing to the monthly. I always like that because I run outand then I don't know where to get it in. And then, yeah, you wanna make iteasy as possible.I'll take care of yourself possible. That's exactly right. Liz, you're so awesome.I'm so glad to be your friend. Thank you, Gabby. Likewise. So beautiful. Thank you.