Part II Transcript
00:00:00:00 – 00:00:19:09
Litha
Hey listeners, thank you for joining us again. We took a bit of a break. This is our first podcast, our first Marigold Brands podcast. And being the first one, I had a feeling I was going to screw something up and I totally did. I forgot to record the second half of our conversation, so a few days have gone by.
00:00:19:11 – 00:00:24:08
Litha
Hopefully we’re still warm on the topic. I have Becky back with me.
00:00:24:08 – 00:00:39:18
Litha
When we left off Becky, the thing you were talking about, which I found really interesting, was how you went through menopause early and your doctor was basically, if you have extreme problems, come back to me.
00:00:39:20 – 00:00:49:01
Litha
But then that was it. There was no educational piece around it. No what to expect. Do you want to talk a little bit more about that?
00:00:49:03 – 00:01:17:06
Becky
Sure. I think too, at that time, a lot of women really weren’t talking about menopause. I hope today that more women are, and that there’s more education, but, 15 years ago, when I started going through menopause, which was pretty early, I was 40, and I don’t think a lot of women started that early.
00:01:17:08 – 00:01:21:07
Becky
I only had met one, but there wasn’t a lot of conversation about it.
00:01:21:07 – 00:01:38:18
Becky
I did have a really great, ObGyn, and I did go to her and she ran some blood tests just wanting to make sure that there was nothing physically wrong, like thyroid issues, because menopause symptoms, she said, could mimic some thyroid problems.
00:01:38:18 – 00:01:47:11
Becky
So she did a blood test and basically said “if it gets horrible, come back, I’ll give you some meds” and just sent me on my way.
00:01:47:11 – 00:02:08:06
Litha
I think my experience was kind of the same. And that whole menopause thing, perimenopause started maybe around 47. There were a lot of things that happened to me that now I’m finding out are related.
00:02:08:07 – 00:02:28:13
Litha
My ObGyn never really talked to me about it. I never got the you may expect these other symptoms, like soft tissue issues. It took a lot of reading and going to different types of doctors to piece information together myself. And then once I asked him about it what I discovered, he said “oh yeah, those are known issues.”
00:02:28:13 – 00:02:46:03
Litha
I wish I knew sooner. I could have saved all those copays and avoided visits. If I would have just had a list that said, hey, here are some very common issues that you might be experiencing and here’s what to do about it and who to see. But I didn’t get that.
00:02:46:05 – 00:03:16:11
Becky
Yeah. In the last episode, we talked about how it would’ve been great to have some sort of a playbook. I very woman’s experience is vastly different but to have a guideline, a playbook that we can reference for all the different things that we could seek help for.
00:03:16:13 – 00:03:30:24
Litha
There’s probably enough commonalities. I mean, they tell you it’s the sleeping, the hot flashes, right? Things like that. But you never I never heard about the soft tissue stuff. Never.
00:03:31:01 – 00:03:33:02
Becky
What about soft tissue. Can you elaborate on that?
00:03:33:02 – 00:03:59:09
Litha
Yeah. Your joints, your muscles, and your cartilage. Your estrogen is key building block of the repair and the pliability of your soft tissues. And so as you age, when you have less estrogen, those things become less pliable and they’re more prone to tearing or ruptures, which can cause more issues later on down the line.
00:03:59:09 – 00:04:23:03
Litha
Also because they don’t repair as well, you can get more adhesions or scar tissue, which then also further impacts your soft tissue. Not everyone gets that but I’ve talked to a few women, since I started having these issues. A lot of them said have complaints about their joints, hip joints or shoulder joints. It sounds to me like it’s very, very common.
00:04:23:05 – 00:04:27:10
Litha
I just wish someone would have told me about that.
00:04:27:12 – 00:34:06:22
Becky
That makes a lot of sense with one of the symptoms I was having, which I thought was really bizarre. It just kind of dawned on me that it must have been after going through menopause. But my pain tolerance became extremely low. When I hit myself, by accident, like a foot or a hand, I jump through the roof with pain. I’ve always had a very high pain tolerance. I’m assuming that has to do with the lack of estrogen you’re losing in your muscles and soft tissue. I don’t know what else would cause something like that.
00:05:12:23 – 00:05:47:04
Becky
I was also experiencing anxiety and depression. I sought out a psychiatrist, which was a really great move because I needed therapy. This group was incredible. It was a women’s group in Chicago, Caldwell Springs. They prescribed me an SSRI, which I was also told will help with depression and anxiety, but they also help with the symptoms of menopause like hot flashes.
00:05:47:06 – 00:06:04:00
Becky
And it minimized a lot of the symptoms of perimenopause. I think I was really helped a lot with that drug. I was never offered an HRT.
00:06:04:02 – 00:06:24:06
Litha
With HRT, I think I mentioned this earlier, I have a lot of sisters-in-law, thankfully, and I asked them what they thought about HRT. They all pretty much said, they wished they would have taken it because now a couple of them have osteoporosis or osteopenia.
00:06:24:08 – 00:06:46:00
Litha
There’s so much more research now around HRT. One of the big things is they have you take progesterone to help keep your uterine lining healthy, which can counteract issues, from the other hormones, with your uterine lining and cancer. Of course, if you have BRAC I to BRAC II,
00:06:46:00 – 00:07:03:24
Litha
I don’t know if I’m pronouncing them right, but anyway, those are the cancer genes for breast cancer. You should not take HRT. That’s what I’ve been told. I got tested for that and I don’t have either gene so I take HRT. I’m still kind of low on estrogen, but I feel pretty good. It’s just hurt myself a lot.
00:07:04:01 – 00:07:36:10
Litha
Sometimes I’m at the gym lifting these little bitty 5 pound weights, which are not heavy for me. The next morning I wake up with pain that feels like I tore a ligament. One of the questions I wanted to ask you was has anything about your health care routine or your wellness routine changed because of menopause or being in your 50s?
00:07:36:12 – 00:08:04:06
Becky
Well, for work, I’m a dog walker. So I think walking, just walking has physically saved me. I’m taking a break right now from it and I still walk every day in nature. It’s just so uplifting. It helps me mentally, physically, even if I’m tired. Even if you’re in a bad mood, you always feel better after a walk, especially outdoors.
00:08:04:06 – 00:08:28:02
Becky
So that is something that I’m focused on. I need to focus more on stretching and yoga because I know a lot of women in their 70s that are still doing yoga and they feel incredible. So that’s one thing I want to start. I want to start more stretching and more yoga.
00:08:28:04 – 00:08:52:09
Becky
I take more supplements too. I take a fish oil, a vitamin D3, because most people are low on D3, I take a probiotic and a turmeric pill for anti-inflammatory support, things like that. Also flaxseed seed and collagen.
00:08:52:11 – 00:09:01:01
Litha
Have you noticed a change with any of those? Have you noticed any of the benefits you were seeking to gain?
00:09:01:03 – 00:09:16:20
Becky
I think the flaxseed, the collagen, and the fish oil, it helps your skin. I’ve noticed skin improvements. Also drinking a lot of water. I try to drink two liters a day.
00:09:16:22 – 00:09:41:18
Litha
I’m going to botch the name of this fluid, I think it’s called synovial fluid. When you were talking about walking and how it helps, I’ve been reading a book on aging and soft tissue. One of the things it talk about is that the synovial fluid leave your joints more as you age. It’s basically keeps your joints lubricated. It keeps everything flowing and moving.
00:09:41:18 – 00:10:11:24
Litha
Movement helps to reabsorb and protects your joints. I’m not a doctor, by the way, but that’s what I read. So I thinking what you said makes sense in terms of how walking from a physical state helps. And from a yoga perspective, the other thing I was reading is that one of the things that people get wrong as they age, especially with soft tissue, is that it’s not just about building muscle.
00:10:12:01 – 00:10:37:20
Litha
The joints support the muscles. If you don’t build strength with your joints, you could actually damage them, which will then lead to problems with building muscles. Time under tension is critical. Instead of trying to lifting the heaviest weights you can quickly be more intentional. Pick a weight that you can lift very slowly, three second on the up and 3 seconds on the down motion or three seconds pushing and three seconds pulling.
00:10:37:22 – 00:10:54:03
Litha
That time under tension helps to build the strength of your joints and that will then support building muscle. So I’ve just been trying to do all this reading to figure out how I’m going to stay healthy and strong when I can easily hurt myself. Even in yoga I hurt myself.
00:10:54:03 – 00:11:08:19
Litha
But yoga is actually great for building joint health because you do a lot of poses where you hold and that that helps your muscles but it really does help your joints and your bones as well. So you should definitely do yoga.
00:11:08:21 – 00:11:36:21
Becky
That’s the next step for me. Also next step is doing a little bit more research on our brain health. Maybe we could talk about this in the next episode, the aging brain. And that’s something that, I’m dealing with in helping my mother who has had a lot of memory loss in the last year or two.
00:11:36:23 – 00:11:51:17
Becky
We’re trying to figure that out. She’s seen her doctor and he just brushed it off and said she was doing okay for 86.
00:11:51:19 – 00:12:05:00
Litha
Yeah, I hate that. I feel like I hear that same experience from my mom or her friends. It sounds like a brush off.
00:12:05:01 – 00:12:37:05
Becky
It was a brush off. She’s really having a hard time remembering the names of simple items like a cutting board. Names are not coming to her. And it’s progressing. It’s progressing more. I just read a little bit about proton pump inhibitors that are causing dementia.
00:12:37:07 – 00:13:07:17
Becky
She’s been on one for about 20 years or 25 years. She was told though she’d have to be on it for a lifetime because she did have some severe gastro issues where her throat was closing. She couldn’t swallow. And that’s just, I think, the aging esophagus. She has an esophagus that is damaged.
00:13:07:19 – 00:13:17:24
Becky
So, anyway, brain health after 50 is something that is really on my mind.
00:13:18:01 – 00:13:38:19
Litha
Yeah definitely brain health would be an interesting episode. I was thinking the other day it would also be really interesting to do an episode on how the perception of time changes as you age. I’ve read about this as well. Part of it is, physiological changes in your brain.
00:13:38:21 – 00:14:03:02
Litha
But the other part is just you have more experience to measure every day against. I thought it’d be interesting to get somebody who specializes in that to come talk about it. It fascinates me. Last week went by so fast. I think I felt a little anxiety around it.
00:14:03:02 – 00:14:13:17
Litha
Do you have that, perception of time going by uncontrollably fast?
00:14:13:19 – 00:14:42:07
Becky
Yes, as the kids got older and I guess because I’m getting older. Yeah. That is one of the reasons I’m taking some time off. Because I think my idea of what happiness was, was before age 50, was to do it all. Just say yes to everything. Be busy.
00:14:42:07 – 00:15:07:22
Becky
I did enjoy that. But now after 50, with time moving so quickly, when my schedule is too packed, I’m not happy. I’m forgetting to live in the moment. I guess when you’re that busy, you’re not living in the moment so you can lose track of time.
00:15:07:22 – 00:15:19:12
Becky
I’m trying to slow down and really live in the moment.
00:15:19:12 – 00:15:36:05
Litha
I don’t know if I know how to do that. I don’t know what that means. I’ve asked my husband if time seems to go by really fast and he said “no, not really.” He’s said he never really thinks about it.
00:15:36:05 – 00:15:52:08
Litha
Is not thinking about time going by fast what it means to live in the moment? I think I’m living in the moment because I feel like I’m not always planning for my future. I thought that was an indicator that I live in the moment, but I don’t know.
00:15:52:08 – 00:15:56:08
Litha
What does living in the moment mean to you?
00:15:56:10 – 00:16:35:16
Becky
I think it’s a reflection, where you have to stop and almost come into a little bit of a meditative state. Where I’m going to slow down and I’m going to block out all the noise around me and enjoy just this time, this minute, this place. As Americans we’re conditioned to keep in that grind and especially in the workplace. Do more. If you’re not in on Saturday, don’t bother coming in on Sunday.
00:16:35:16 – 00:16:56:04
Becky
We’re conditioned to not take a break. It’s looked down upon if you’re not working seven days a week and if you’re not on call seven days a week. We’re so conditioned that we don’t know how to live in the moment.
00:16:56:06 – 00:17:15:15
Litha
I don’t know if I know how to live in the moment. I don’t even know what that is. Even as you’re talking about it now. If I take a break, I still feel like time goes by fast. I mean, maybe it’s part of what you were saying, being more introspective.
00:17:15:17 – 00:17:33:23
Litha
I think I’m introspective. I don’t know, maybe I not, but I just feel like time is going by so fast. And so to your point, and we talked about this earlier in our conversation, now that I’m over 50, what do I want the next 20 years to be like, I think about that too.
00:17:33:23 – 00:17:56:12
Litha
I have no idea how many more good years we have left. I know I’ve mentioned my dad. I thought he was going to be in great shape forever because the guy was singing and dancing every night with his pals up until about age 79. Then all of a sudden he took a sharp right turn and it all went downhill from there.
00:17:56:12 – 00:18:18:14
Litha
I wonder if it’s going to happen to me too. I want to make sure that I’m making the most out of what’s left with my partner, with my kid, with my friends, you and Monique. The reality is, if I only see you guys once a year and I die in ten years, that means we have ten more hangouts left.
00:18:18:16 – 00:18:21:23
Litha
That’s kind of a sad thought. It’s kind of depressing.
00:18:22:00 – 00:18:42:17
Becky
That is a sad thought. I was so busy because I had kids later in life, like you did. And so I was 50 with younger kids. But at 55, they went to college. That’s when it hit me really, really hard.
00:18:42:17 – 00:19:13:17
Becky
I woke up in a panic with a sense of urgency. I have 20 years. I’m going to be 75 in 20 years. So what do I have to do now? What do I have to do in five years? And honestly, I think a lot of people, especially Americans, taking time off, you feel really guilty for taking time off.
00:19:13:17 – 00:19:40:00
Becky
And we shouldn’t because it’s self-care and 100% necessary. So that’s something I have to keep reminding myself that, oh my gosh, I took four weeks out. It’s been four weeks. That’s too much. But no, it’s not. I mean, if I need to take four years, that’s okay too. Whatever you need to do is ok to fulfill your happiness at this point.
00:19:40:02 – 00:19:55:16
Litha
I took five weeks off a couple of years ago. I went and visited my mom, I think I saw you in Santa Barbara that time? Anyway, I was in California for a couple of weeks. Then I was in Paris, France for a couple of weeks.
00:19:55:18 – 00:20:16:04
Litha
Man, did that time go by fast. I took time off and it still went by fast. I have got to figure this out. If anyone out there is listening and you have some ideas, please post in in the comments. I would love to hear what ideas you have for slowing down, because I don’t know if I know what that is.
00:20:16:09 – 00:20:33:21
Litha
My mom says I was born in a hurry and I’ve lived my life in a hurry. I was born premature. So maybe that’s just my personality, my temperament, my internal clock. I don’t know. All right, I wanted to ask you another question about money. Let’s talk a little bit about money.
00:20:33:23 – 00:20:53:04
Litha
How has your relationship with money changed or has it changed from before you were 50 to now or maybe from 30 to 40? Or now, in your 50s, transitioning your relationship with money?
00:20:53:06 – 00:21:31:10
Becky
I think probably most recently, I’m wanting to save a lot more because what if my husband loses his job? What if I can’t work for a couple of years? I guess for a lot of things I’m asking myself if I really need to buy or own? No. And passing on a lot of things and trying to become a little bit more minimal and questioning what we actually need and what we actually want so that whatever we save, that directly goes into savings for retirement.
00:21:31:12 – 00:21:53:00
Litha
I’m on the exact same page with you. I think about ten years ago, not ten years, 20 years ago we started saving for retirement. But ten years ago, I was like, no, we really need to start saving for retirement. So now as much money as we can bear goes into our retirement accounts.
00:21:53:00 – 00:22:14:12
Litha
And I’m always looking at CD rates and trying to make sure I have any cash in the highest yield CD accounts. When I go to buy things I’m always asking if I am wasting my money. One thing that’s really interesting is I’ve always loved architecture and I’ve always loved looking at houses.
00:22:14:12 – 00:22:33:11
Litha
Especially since the era of Redfin and Zillow. I would spend multiple times a day just browsing through those sites, looking at homes and thinking about where I wanted to move next. I am not interested in that anymore. Now I think my mortgage is almost paid off. My neighborhood’s fine.
00:22:33:11 – 00:22:55:17
Litha
My house is comfortable. I don’t want a bigger mortgage. I don’t want a bigger house. If anything, I probably want to downsize. That’s a really big change for me. And sometimes I wonder where this new attitude has come from? I can see myself in the next ten years being a total money miser, reusing Band-Aids and things like that, because I don’t want to spend money.
00:22:55:19 – 00:23:14:08
Litha
I hope I don’t get to that point, but my relationship to money has definitely changed. And sometimes I think I’m saving all this money, what if I can’t even live long enough to use it? So that’s another facet of it, right? Because before it was save, save, save, save. Now I’m wondering what if I don’t live long enough to to use it?
00:23:14:10 – 00:23:31:07
Litha
So there’s all these stages that are changing my relationship to money and it’s constantly evolving. I’m not sure where I’m going to end up. Hopefully, I’ll end up with at least enough to be able to have a decent retirement.
00:23:31:07 – 00:23:59:09
Becky
Well, if anything happens to us, it rolls to the kids. All of our money is tied to the kids. So they will receive it all. One thing that we’ve talked about recently, which we really never have, is selling our house and maybe moving out of Los Angeles because the cost of living here is so extremely high.
00:23:59:09 – 00:24:10:20
Becky
The taxes are extremely high. We have a fairly small house and we’re at over $16,000 a year in taxes.
00:24:10:22 – 00:24:39:06
Litha
That’s interesting. I have been doing research on where would be the best place from a financial perspective for us to be. And California taxes, at your income rate, your retirement savings, your IRA account, your pensions, they all get taxed.
00:24:39:06 – 00:24:47:07
Litha
In Illinois, the state doesn’t tax them. There’s some other taxes too that California has that we don’t have.
00:24:47:07 – 00:24:55:20
Litha
So I’m starting to think about those things. Where can I make my money go the furthest? Maybe I should go live in another country?
00:24:55:22 – 00:25:02:16
Litha
But then I’m not going to be near family. Do I really want to risk that? Probably not.
00:25:02:18 – 00:25:11:10
Becky
Most people I know that have been retired have bought property and moved to Portugal.
00:25:11:12 – 00:25:12:14
Litha
Oh, really?
00:25:13:07 – 00:25:16:22
Litha
Without family over there?
00:25:16:24 – 00:25:18:24
Becky
Yeah.
00:25:19:01 – 00:25:30:07
Litha
That’s a consideration. I wouldn’t be opposed to that. I wouldn’t mind living somewhere where the ocean is gorgeous, the food’s amazing, and the cost of living is a lot less.
00:25:30:09 – 00:26:07:04
Becky
Right. Although there’s so many East Coasters, New Yorkers, that moved to Portugal, that, Portugal today is probably extremely expensive for us to move there, but, yeah, I guess you’re looking at all the different options. California, our insurance because of the fire zone, State Farm has left and most insurance companies won’t cover you in Los Angeles, so you have to be covered by the state.
00:26:07:04 – 00:26:15:20
Becky
We’ve been dropped by all of our insurance companies, so we have to pay the state and then a double insurance for wraparound for everything else.
00:26:15:22 – 00:26:45:03
Litha
It’s so crazy how the cost of living just squeezes out certain parts of the population. You know, it really shouldn’t be. I’m listening to Malcolm Gladwell’s book Revenge of the Tipping Point. He talks about monoculture, and although I haven’t gotten to the end of the book, just thinking and reflecting on some of the things he’s saying including how a community that is a mono community or homogenous is not resilient.
00:26:45:05 – 00:27:03:03
Litha
It’s not resistant to psychological or physical viruses. How different communities squeeze out and marginalize diversity when it is so important is shameful.
00:27:03:05 – 00:27:16:15
Becky
We have 11 billionaires that are coming into office.
00:27:16:17 – 00:27:17:23
Litha
Yeah.
00:27:17:23 – 00:27:33:08
Becky
How large that margin is going to be between the uber wealthy and the lowest income. I think there’s going to be a very, very large gap. That’s a good book to revisit. You want to mention the author again?
00:27:33:12 – 00:27:37:05
Litha
Yeah. It’s Malcolm Gladwell’s Revenge of the Tipping Point.
00:27:37:05 – 00:27:53:20
Litha
It’s a very interesting book. The examination of monoculture or small area variation is really interesting. Interesting read. And he’s an amazing storyteller. I am on the edge of my seat when I’m listening to the book.
00:27:53:20 – 00:28:04:23
Litha
I try to listen to it every morning. In general I listen to books in the morning before I start work. Sometimes I don’t want to stop but I have to switch on to work.
00:28:04:23 – 00:28:28:24
Litha
So the last question I wanted to ask you, we’ve got just about five minutes left, is we’ve talked about some of the challenges of the before and afters of 50. We’ve focused a lot on the 50s. I think you didn’t feel there was a big build up before 50 like I did. For me it was a lot of pressure.
00:28:29:03 – 00:28:54:07
Litha
You felt the pressure when you turn 55. By that point, I was pretty settled in. I guess we’ve both lived in our 50s for a while now. What, opportunities or adventures are you looking forward to embracing in your life? And what one piece of advice would you give women who are thinking about the transition from 40 to 50, which in reality is really about menopause, right?
00:28:54:07 – 00:29:02:16
Litha
That’s really the milestone that’s causing a lot of anxiety and change for women.
00:29:02:18 – 00:29:40:12
Becky
I think doing something you’re passionate about. Whether it’s in a career or a hobby or a lifestyle, continue that into your 40s. Into your 50s. I know raising kids and climbing the career ladder and getting to a point where you’re so busy that I think you stop doing things that you’re really passionate about or don’t pursue something that you’re passionate about.
00:29:40:14 – 00:30:06:22
Becky
That’s really important because I think it can hit you really hard to be at a point where you’re thinking about your mortality and aging and not being able to do the things that you’ve done in the past. So for me, I am thinking about a career change at this point, which would be hard, but not impossible.
00:30:06:24 – 00:30:38:04
Becky
Another thing is saying no more often. I think we get so caught up, especially in work and you were saying not living in the moment. The last two years, I was just solely focused on making money and I couldn’t really see anything outside of that. I just completely burnt out.
00:30:38:06 – 00:30:56:05
Becky
I stopped doing the things I was passionate about. I just didn’t stay true to myself. Say no and just slow down a little bit.
00:30:56:07 – 00:31:16:10
Litha
I echo what you’re saying about sticking with your passions. I think my passions have evolved over time, but I’ve always been very interested in the human experience and the human condition. Marigold Brands is part of that, what I want to explore from the vantage or the the perspective of women 50 plus.
00:31:16:16 – 00:31:35:07
Litha
So I 100% agree with you. The other thing I would say is I have to remember, and this has really helped me a lot, to stay adaptable and flexible. I can’t expect things to continue being the way they were yesterday and I have to be open to things changing and see that as a new opportunity.
00:31:35:09 – 00:31:41:07
Litha
That’s what has helped me stay sane through some of the changes I’ve gone through.
00:31:41:07 – 00:31:57:12
Becky
That’s good eye opening advice. And how do you stay adaptable? What are things that you do to feel that you’ve succeeded in being flexible and adaptable to change?
00:31:57:14 – 00:32:13:02
Litha
Well, the first thing for me personally is I have to stay physically active. And I’ve learned that I can’t just do the thing I love, which is cycling, all the time. I really have to mix it up. So now I swim multiple times a week. I cycle a couple times a week. I do yoga a couple times a week.
00:32:13:04 – 00:32:36:03
Litha
I lift weights a couple of times a week. I try to mix it up so that I’m not hurting myself but also so I’m getting that energy and that great feeling from being physical. And sleep. If you don’t believe sleep is important, wait till you hit menopause.
00:32:36:05 – 00:32:48:10
Litha
You’re going to learn how important sleep is. I feel great and I can think super well as long as I have eight hours of sleep. When I don’t have eight hours of sleep, I just feel shitty and it’s going to be a miserable day.
00:32:48:10 – 00:32:52:02
Becky
I agree.
00:32:52:04 – 00:34:06:22
Litha
Well, that’s a wrap for the two-part podcast. Shifting Expectations: Life After 50. We hope you’ve enjoyed the conversation and that it’s left you feeling inspired and connected to the incredible potential and, of course, pitfalls of this stage in life. We’d love to hear from you. Share your favorite moments, personal stories, or ask questions you’d like us to explore in future episodes by leaving a comment or review. Your feedback helps us grow and brings others into this vibrant conversation. Also, make sure to subscribe to the MarigoldBrands.com newsletter so you can keep up-to-date with the newest conversation and articles. Thank you again for listening and we’ll see you soon.
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