Empowered Healing: LeAnn Rimes’ Health Journey Update

Dr. Mindy  

On this episode of The resetter podcast, I bring you Grammy Award winning musical phenom as what I’m gonna call her Leann bribes. Now, if you’re not familiar with LeAnn Rimes, you need to rush out and start downloading some of her music, especially her current music is off the hook. Or if you love chance, she has incredible chant albums. But she is well known as starting off her career as a young teenager as a country music star, and has completely morphed into this incredible musical artist that, in my opinion, seems to sing all different types of songs and has a voice that will pierce your soul. But what’s really special about Leanne for me is she walked into my life two and a half years ago, wanting some support around her health, specifically around her Hormonal Health. And we did a whole podcast that you can go back and listen to about what she experienced from a young child growing up in this surreal world and how it impacted her health. Everything from physical to emotional to chemical toxins. We did that podcast over a year ago. So go back and listen to that, because her life has been quite incredible. And what’s really special about this podcast is we have an update, we have been deep in the health trenches, putting her health puzzle back together for the last two and a half years. And it has been one heck of a ride. And she has some really exciting health news to share with you all that you will hear her talk about. But from your lens. What I’m hoping you will hear in this conversation is that when you are sitting in a place where you are not enjoying your health, and you have a goal of where you want to go, it takes many pieces to put together. It’s like a puzzle that you put together along that journey. And it takes many people throwing many different types of health pieces at her everything from supplements to detox to fasting to cycling food to mindset work to some of the greatest bio hacks that you will hear throughout this whole episode. And I really want you to listen to this conversation and think about your own health journey. What are the pieces you can learn from this because I know Leanne’s heart. And I know she shows up to do a podcast like this so that others will be inspired. And it’s really profound what she has done with her health. This woman is one of the most hardworking, focused, loving humans that was desperately looking for a new path with her health and was willing to do anything she could do to get her health back on track. And it worked. And I’m hoping that you will gain some inspiration for your own health journey. I’m so excited to have bring bring this discussion to you all. I adore this woman and I feel so honored to call her my friend. And I can’t wait to share this episode with you. So I hope you gain a tremendous amount of insight for your own journey from this incredible woman’s inspiration and words. So here you get out LeAnn Rimes enjoy.

Dr. Mindy Pelz  

Welcome to the resetter podcast. This podcast is all about empowering you to believe in yourself again. If you have a passion for learning, if you’re looking to be in control of your health and take your power back, this is the podcast for you.

Dr. Mindy  

Okay, welcome to the resetter Podcast. I’m super happy to have you here. And I don’t invite very many guests back. Oh, very honored.

LeAnn  

Yeah. Thank you.

Dr. Mindy  

So I’m super happy. You’re here. Yeah.

LeAnn  

I mean, there’s, it is interesting. We’ve been on this journey together now for what? Two and a half, three years and so I think there’s there’s an update. There’s enough there’s an

Unknown Speaker  

update. Yeah, good. Yeah.

Dr. Mindy  

Just a world. No, you’re I mean, you when I met you, you were like, the this is the way I looked at it. So take this with love. You were like the poster child for mental health.

LeAnn  

Yeah, I’ve talked about it a lot. And you know, I even in my discussions about it and how open I’ve been about it. I still struggled significantly. I found things to mask and help but I didn’t really I don’t think I found anything to really like move the needle. Yeah. Because I think there were so many other components that were you know, that were contributing to depression and anxiety that were physical yeah own it’s that we’ve I addressed and that eventually really started moving the needle for me. You

Dr. Mindy  

know, it’s interesting, I used to say to my patients all the time that I feel like mental health, I look at it like a pie graph. And like 25% of it is the circumstance. So it’s like, what what’s going on in your life right now and how you’re reacting to it. 25%. And then this is my opinion, this is not based off science, just so the listeners are really clear on this 25% is based off of the way you’ve been modeled, or your traumas, and like what’s happened to you and your life. And 50% of it is physiological. And I think with you that was one thing that was really interesting is that I kept looking through that lens when we first started working together of like, which, what’s showing up here, and we just dove right into the 50%. That was physiological. And then I feel like that changed. The other percentages.

LeAnn  

Yeah, no, I definitely did. I think one of the biggest pieces was removing toxins from my system. I used to eat a lot of sushi, and I had a buildup of mercury. And I think that, especially when it came things comes to anxiety, like that was a big trigger for me. Yeah, I don’t I literally I keep track every day of my anxiety level, my sleep, like all those different things. So we can always refer back to like, if there was an issue if we had a bump in the road, like what was what was causing it. But I, I find myself, like getting to anxiety and going hard and have any today are like the normal typical, like, you know, a little bit, but I don’t even consider that. Like, I haven’t had like anxiety attacks or anything along those lines. And

Dr. Mindy  

so how much of your life did you have anxiety attacks? Probably

LeAnn  

more than I realize, I probably I think my depression and anxiety started much earlier than I realize, but I just I mean, I can definitely, I can clock it starting around 29

Dr. Mindy  

Oh, so your teenage years you didn’t have a lot of I had, I

LeAnn  

would say I’d have more depression in my teenage years than I did anxiety. Yeah. I mean, I grew up my mom was severely depressed. And so I think it kind of, and then of course, like just growing up in front of the world, right? All this stuff. I went through my parents getting divorced. And yeah, like all the things that you don’t think affect you at that time, because you’re so young, but then you realize that they definitely did. But my anxiety really kicked in around 29. Yeah.

Dr. Mindy  

And I think, you know, one of the things that I find really intriguing about you is you’re and I love this about you is like your willingness to be so transparent. And to give back, like I you know, I think when we first started working together, there was a lot of top discussion around your mental health. And you were so generous with just showing up to the world and saying, like, Yeah, this is who I am, this is how it’s been. And I think a lot of people get stuck in that they get stuck in their, the labeling of their condition, because it’s almost like they own it. And while

LeAnn  

it does become a piece of you, if you allow it, you know what I mean? It really does become a part of your personality. Yeah. I mean, truthfully, I didn’t see a way out. I know, you saw a way out for me. But I mean, we’d have these discussions and over and over again, that you would, you know, coach me through what you saw for me. But there’s, you know, when you’ve been in that state for so long, like you don’t really know that there’s an open door?

Dr. Mindy  

Because it’s so close. Yeah, I think this is about health in general. I, even for me, like I have people that I go to when I’m just like, I can’t solve my own health puzzle, I need you to look at this. Because I think we’re so close to it, that it’s really hard to navigate your own way out of it. And one of the things I want to do today is really talk about all the pieces we put together. Because the other thing that I think happens to people is that they think there’s one way

LeAnn  

Yeah, no, that’s the that’s the thing that I’ve learned is it’s very, it’s very personal for you very personal and what people claim works for them may not work for you, and something that you know, in vice versa, like, there might be something that’s like not working for other people, but all of a sudden, it’s like the thing that works for you. So I think you really I mean, I find myself I’m a guinea pig for I’ll try mostly everything once I’m up for it. Like it’s going to, you know, move the needle on my health and yeah, let’s let’s try it. Yeah. Which

Dr. Mindy  

is, which is beautiful, because not everybody’s willing to do that. So and that’s why as we

LeAnn  

go read some grades and stuff. We’ve tried some.

Dr. Mindy  

Now, you know, as we go through all the things you tried, and I want to try to put it in a formula for people so that they can walk away from this conversation and pull out what they need to do for their own house. But I want to go to that moment when you decided like I need some help. I’m not doing well, because I use you didn’t work. Like before you and I started Yeah, I mean,

LeAnn  

I’ve done plenty of mental health work and therapy and different different kinds of therapy. And I’ve just really I’ve never looked at the physical component of, of my mental health, which there is a huge component as we discussed. So I really think it was recognizing that I was something was, I’d been struggling for a while, like maybe three years. I probably went started going into perimenopause earlier than I realized I had gotten off the pill and pink and I had no idea where my hormones were anything at that moment, and I found your book. And then that kind of opened my eyes up to everything I did not know about what I was about to go through as a woman. And so I figured, now’s the time to start getting this, you know, in order, so I’m not miserable, even more miserable. Right? Right. We

Dr. Mindy  

all go through some form of misery with menopause. Yes, we do.

LeAnn  

But, but it could be a lot worse, like, the challenges that I have now. I really do stop and think about that. Often. If I wasn’t doing all the things that I’m doing now, how bad it would be. Because yeah, I definitely like no one. No one tells you about menopause. And the only thing that you hear about menopause, I heard from my mother and it was like it’s miserable. You hate life. Like it was just all the negativity. Yeah. Which there’s plenty, you know, plenty of negative things to be said about it. But there’s just we’re just not informed. And so I had to start informing myself in order to take control of my health.

Dr. Mindy  

Did you think so? You were you were 39 When we first started working together, did you think you were in perimenopause?

LeAnn  

I think so. Yeah. I had for like, probably two and a half, three years had had just like, was struggling with energy, brain fog, like just just so many different like, even I feel like my personality changes, like things that would really irritate me that out of the way, it just wasn’t normal.

Dr. Mindy  

Like you were observing your personality.

LeAnn  

My personality was changing. Yeah, I just, I just didn’t feel as vibrant. And I think I think I definitely once I got off the pill. That was all my hormones were just kind of they didn’t order the land.

Dr. Mindy  

How old? were you when you got off the pill?

LeAnn  

Maybe 37?

LeAnn  

I think it was around 37? Yeah. Yeah.

Dr. Mindy  

A lot. You know, a lot of doctors encourage people to stay on the pill forever, because they don’t have another thing on the other side of it. Did you have any adverse reactions to get off the pill? No,

LeAnn  

I don’t think I did. I mean, but then, like I said, my homeless didn’t know where to land, because I’d been on it for so long. And that’s when I was like, okay, something once I heard all the information you had in your book, I was like, Okay, I think I’m going through whatever this is, I’m starting to. And so I need help. Yeah, yeah.

Dr. Mindy  

So when I look at like, one, I always like to put the health health in some kind of formula, because there’s so many pieces, I mean, and we’re gonna go through some of the craziest things that we’ve done. And some of the things that really worked, and maybe some of the things that didn’t work. But I always think there’s this moment, a crisis moment where there’s something inside you that goes enough, like I’m done, I can’t think these thoughts can’t live in this body, I’m not going to do it this way anymore. And so in that moment, you get real clarity as to what you want to feel like because it’s usually like the opposite of wherever you’re at. But but to go from the crisis moment, to feeling optimal. There’s this huge gap. Most people literally do not make it through that gap. 

LeAnn  

mean, I There were moments where I felt like I was not going to make it through and there’s still moments where you have to remind me that healing is not linear.

LeAnn  

We’ve figured this out my heart, I do all these things. So I don’t feel this way. And you still do. I

LeAnn  

mean, it’s just it happens, you know, and just, I mean, I find hormones so fascinating. Like, that’s me, just when I think I’ve got my estrogen patch, right? Yeah, it’s like, oh, I need a little more estrogen now. Right? I mean, like, it’s just constantly shifting, constantly evolving.

Dr. Mindy  

And that’s where you recently I was telling you I feel like we’ve gotten to this place and this is where a lot of people will get to when you do hit the place of Ah, okay, I’m feeling better. Now the goal becomes how do you adapt to your environment like as the environment changes like you go out on tour, the environment becomes more stressful and then when you come back now we have to like work on well what did what tax the body how do we help it so build those reserves back up? Which I think is why when it comes to hormones, just when we get them right?

LeAnn  

I go on tour. It is a heartbreaking because my life is you know, there’s there’s like two very, two very different lives sometimes like I’ve been home for the last six weeks and my sleep is amazing. My Orings not yelling at me like I I’m getting relaxed, and I’ve actually rested. And, you know, it’s a different life than when I start up in travel because then I’m in between time zones. And I’m, you know, I’m not getting as much sleep as I normally would. And I’m eating different foods and I have more stress. And like all it really is like a complete black and white, very different.

Dr. Mindy  

And then you have to build yourself back up. Yes.

LeAnn  

And then I come home and I crash. And then I don’t know how to rest anymore, because I’ve been working so much. And the way to revisit that and build me back up with I mean, we have now we have such a toolbox of building of how to build me back up and which has been really helpful to find. Yeah, all the things all the thing,

Dr. Mindy  

when we first met, one of the first things that I remember is that you were really big on calorie counting calories. Do you remember that? I

LeAnn  

still do. Oh, you do? Oh, my God, you just keep it I still do. No, no, I

LeAnn  

just I just like, I keep track of what I eat. But But I but some days, like some weeks, I’m like, maybe we’ll like look at my food, like maybe three times. But sometimes when I’m on the road, and I’m just eating random stuff, like, that’s when I kind of like to keep track of it. Because just for me, like, sometimes you can put a gazillion things in your body that you’ve done it. That’s usually more when I keep track of it. When I’m home, I’m pretty much in a routine of like, I kind of eat similar things. And I have my kind of routine and home of food. But But yeah, when I’m on the road that’s keep track of it. But it’s not like I’m doing it to like, lose weight or like any of the like making it a list. This is a problem. I enjoy my list. See, I keep all my anxiety list and my sleep lists and I have all the apps for everything I do. I do a lot of lists. And I enjoy it. It’s like the what I get up in the morning as part of my morning routine is like, how did I feel? It’s kind of you know, do you take stock? And like how your day work? Yeah, I

Dr. Mindy  

mean, if you’re gonna make a list, you might as well make a post about things that are important to you. Definitely good. Okay, so But why don’t I know you remember this? The one of the first things we did did is put the continuous glucose monitor. Yeah. What do you think? Because that’s a big thing for my community, I really deep in my heart feel like we would change the metabolic mess that the world is in, if we put one of those continuous glucose monitors on everybody.

LeAnn  

Yeah, I mean, it was eye opening to see, you know, what my body was doing? And I haven’t had one in a while, but I feel like I got to know like, what foods triggered it? What didn’t? How to say, you know, if I was fasting, like, what not to what not to do in that fasting window, like, you know, did the cream in my coffee, like spiking too much that kind of thing? So, yeah, I was, I think it really helps me understand how to eat to, especially when I was fasting as much as I was at the time to really kind of understand what that does to my body.

Dr. Mindy  

Do I think it internally motivates people to like, I could have told you all the right things to do. And and there’s a point I think that you can reject the information, because it’s difficult or it’s just like confusing, but when you actually see it real time. Now you’re in ownership over your food because you you eat something you can eat what I recommended you can fast the length I recommended and then you actually see it. Yeah, real time. But I want to talk about what happened to you when you fasted because I think we don’t I don’t talk about this enough. I’m a lemonade Gao, I like to like, let’s go to the lemonade. Let’s talk about the upside of everything. But I think it’s really important because so many people that listen to this podcast fast. And not everybody’s had a great experience. And you were one of them.

LeAnn  

I definitely fasting talk about something that brings on anxiety, fasting for long periods of time. Well, for me a long period of time, because of how I react to it is like, you know, a 16 hour fast is a long battle for me. Because around 13 hours, I’ll start to get anxious. So whenever my body flips over into ketosis, for some reason, I start to have this like body anxiety, and it’s uncomfortable. And so I get anxious about having that feeling. In fact, the last two days is the first time I’ve gone 16 hours in a while and I I’ve had a different experience this time around which may be contributing or like everything we’ve done for my health may be contributing to that different experience. But yeah, I would, it was a very uncomfortable feeling. And I, I wasn’t hungry wasn’t about like no food or anything. It was just even with my glucose monitor my I would have a spike in I would have a spike in my blood sugar when I started to flip over into ketosis. But then I would check my ketone. So my ketones would be completely fine. Like I was still in ketosis. So it was really interesting how my body reacted to that. Yeah,

Dr. Mindy  

that you were you the experience you had based off your numbers did not match what No, it did not be. Yeah. So I where my brain went with this. And then again, I think this is helpful for people who have that same experience is, at first I thought maybe you have to eat too much adrenal stress, maybe your life is too stressful. And so now we’re adding this Other stressor on and so the anxiety is coming because progesterone stores are low cortisol levels are high. And so we put you into this fasted state and it raises cortisol even more tanking progesterone now you’re anxious. That that does that sound right? I mean,

LeAnn  

that could be possibly one of the issues. I mean, the other issue that I was having was my B vitamins. Were not like, my B vitamins basically, like weren’t actually going into the cell. Yeah. And that possibly was contributing also. Yeah, I mean, there’s so we were we still haven’t really figured out what it is what it was. Yeah. But that I have over these past couple days, had a different experience, which is great. So in

Dr. Mindy  

so this is why I think this, that part of the story is really interesting, because here we are two and a half years later, and you you are like, Okay, I went and tried it again. And it and it and now it’s different. Yeah. So because we’ve done so much repair work. And one of the things that I always say is that fasting is for everyone. And I get so much criticism on that. And why?

LeAnn  

Why do I get credit? Yeah. Or why do i No, no, no, no. Why do you get criticized

Dr. Mindy  

because people say I tried fasting, it’s not working. It’s taking my thyroid. My doctor told me not to do it. I mean, you can give me every reason why somebody shouldn’t fast, and I’ve got it, I’ve got an explanation for it. To me, fasting is a healing state you put your body in, it’s like sleep. Sleep is good for everyone. But just because you can’t, but not everybody can sleep. I mean, talk to a few menopausal women, I tell you. So it’s a training. And it’s a it’s a it’s a way of getting your you have to figure out what blocks it and why your body’s not going there. So the B vitamins, we

LeAnn  

know that the fasting is a natural extension, I’ll be able to go to but that’s right. Clearly something’s blocking that if it’s not working,

Dr. Mindy  

that’s right. Got it. So then your work becomes to figure out what’s blocking, right? So that’s what we did is like I thought about stress and what we can talk about that in a moment. But we also looked at the gut. And we tried all kinds of things with the gut. Do I’m curious what what do you think was the big thing that changed the gut?

LeAnn  

I don’t know. I don’t. It’s funny. That’s the one place that I’m still like, because we’ve tried, we’ve done probiotics that me and a bunch of different things. And it actually bloats me, yeah, still to this day. So that’s one thing that hasn’t, like really change. I don’t What do you think changed my gut? Well, remember,

Dr. Mindy  

we ran blood work on you. And you had Pernicious anemia, like you weren’t getting and so that’s why the B 12 shots and everything were helping. I think the LDN helped. Yeah, quite possibly. That was a big turn. And for people who don’t know what that is low dose. Now, that was really interesting, because you were happier. That was like one of those there was a few needle movers that I’m like, Whoa, like, I saw a different side to you. And that was one of them. That

LeAnn  

was definitely one of them. Yeah, I would say that that’s been a huge thing. As far as like, my mental state, oxygen has been a huge thing. Yeah, hyperbaric and then I feel like I feel like Eboo really changed a lot of things for me. Yeah,

Dr. Mindy  

we’re gonna go into though, because I think that was like huge and methylene

LeAnn  

blue. Oh, yeah. Like methylene blue. Is this so great. Like it’s been? I feel like it’s great for my brain. I know. It definitely helps with the uptake and serotonin, which I definitely know, I’ve been deficient in my life. So taking that I feel like helps with energy and it helps. It helps my mental health. Yeah, I mean, those are some pretty big things of Yeah.

Dr. Mindy  

And again, everything’s compounding because we would do one thing. And then I would watch how your body respond and then we switch and do something else. And you know, by the time we got to Eboo, which it for people listening, we’ll explain what that is because that was the such a big needle mover that I want to really emphasize it so people know it as a resource. But I think everything just started to come to build on itself and then you got momentum. And as you got momentum, you’re like, Okay, what else can we try? What else can we try? So I think that really work the thing that didn’t give you psychological momentum, but I think if we look back now that was really great. Was the heavy metal detoxing. Yeah,

LeAnn  

but I think that’s what I don’t like a slow burn. And that was what I felt like like the suppositories and things like that. We were doing like, Everything felt like a slow burn, and that’s why I loved Eboo is like, get that out of Yeah, because that seems like because for me with the anxiety of fasting and then also how much anxiety came with stripping heavy metals from my body. Yeah, I mean, those 24 to 48 hours after, you know, like

Dr. Mindy  

really stirring that up inside of me I’m like, Oh my God, I want to kill the world. Yeah.

LeAnn  

So to be able to find something like Hebrew which was more of a direct shot was super helpful because I feel like between fasting what wasn’t working at the time and and trying to get these you know, met paddles out of me, it was a lot of I was I was really tired a lot like, you know, like we had to find pockets of time in my schedule to be able to actually take me through that process because it was. Yeah, it was very debilitating. Yeah.

Dr. Mindy  

I although I do think it was necessary was

LeAnn  

I think it started the process. Yeah. And I think it also allowed us to see just how much was there.

Dr. Mindy  

Do you remember what the first symptom was? Because when you what my recollection was fatigue, anxiety, depression? No, I don’t think focus was an issue. No, but

LeAnn  

brain fog brain log?

Dr. Mindy  

Do you remember what the first one that went away? The first of those major symptoms that went away?

LeAnn  

Probably the brain fog. Okay. Yeah.

Dr. Mindy  

And what what do you think the anxiety was close to be? No, I

LeAnn  

think the anxiety was probably the last thing. I think it was kind of hanging on to the anxiety. Like, yeah, I mean, you were like, you were saying, you’d be kind of becomes a part of who you are. And I, not until recently was I filling out like, my anxiety list and whatever. And I’m like, Hmm, I probably should start putting that I really didn’t have anything today, because I really didn’t, I’m just so used to, like, putting that there was a low grade level of anxiety. But if I really stopped to think about it, I’m like, No, I’d really didn’t, I wasn’t anxious today. So that’s like a new, it took a moment for me to actually stop making that a part of my life.

Dr. Mindy  

I think that is so well sad, because we forget that our symptoms become part of us. Ma can be everything from your wait to I can’t do this, because I’ve got it becomes an excuse, we get attention for it. And I will tell you just in the time, I’ve worked with really, really sick people. And sometimes that’s the hardest piece is, what will life be like when you don’t have that anymore? And of course, the natural answer is, Oh, it’ll be amazing. But you got to think this through because people might not give you as much attention. You’re I mean, you were the mental health poster child, like, you’re not going to be that anymore. Like you are going to be a different version of you, which might in the

LeAnn  

healthy version of the mental health post.

Speaker 1  

Yeah, so you can make that happy, happy version.

LeAnn  

I mean, look, I still struggle, I have my moments of that, you know, but it’s, it’s transitory, where in the past, it wasn’t transitory. It was just like, a constant state. Right. So but I think that’s as human, we forget that, like, we’re this, we have these, you know, we’re a vast landscape of emotion. Yeah, you know, that we bounce in and out of like, all day long. And so we can’t always be happy. No. For me, letting go of those pieces. Sometimes I feel like it’s the it’s been in the past, the only way I can get rest is if I can show people like I’m exhausted from I’m depressed or I’m, there’s got to be like something, there was always something attached to rest for me. The only way in my, in my, in my early childhood that I’ve been working, like the only way to get rest was to be sick. And so I definitely had that correlation of the two things for a long time. So I know I would come off the road and make myself sick. Like I literally would just, it was very, it was unconscious, but it was I was I was good at it. Yeah. And I had to when I became aware of that, like, start to unwind that cycle. And that’s why I think anxiety was last to go is because it’s just been one being a part of me for so long.

Dr. Mindy  

Okay, so this is a really interesting concept. Because I think, in when we want to rest before a crisis has hit our body, we don’t get a lot of sympathy or empathy from others. I recently had this exact thing happened to me where I was, like, done with traveling, I was done promoting fastonic A girl, like, I just wanted to rest. And I had to cancel a couple of really important events that got very little sympathy, sympathy from the person who I canceled on. And I kept saying to my team, I was like, if I had a cancer diagnosis, if I had COVID If I had something, and I called them up, and I was like, Hey, this is going on with me. They would be like, Oh, my God, I totally understand. But instead, what I was saying to the people that I had to cancel on was, I have hit burnout. I can’t get on another plane. I need to just reckon I got nothing.

LeAnn  

Because no one else knows how to rest. Do you know what I mean? Like they don’t know how and so we’re all you know, and when someone when someone asks for that, it’s funny. We were going I’m going to Australia soon and I was we’re talking to this ivy company. And they’re like, Oh, well you know, the first depart when you’re there in February all our nurses are gone for vacation. And I’m like, if this was America, nobody would shut down and that’s a thing like we’re so used to continue it could Didn’t you go go go? That nobody nobody else knows how to rusty there and people can’t see burnout? Like, you know, I mean, I’ve, I’ve had, you know, EBV for an off and on, like, that’s lived in my system for a long time, and I’m exhausted sometimes, like, people can’t see how tired you are really like, and so I don’t know, and everybody else is tired. That’s the thing. Everybody’s tired. And so like, I’m exhausted. Well, so am I like my real buddy has any empathy for that, you know, to do you think you’ve been burned out before? Oh, many times. Yeah. Yeah.

Dr. Mindy  

And how do you know when you’re burnout?

Unknown Speaker  

Oh, I feel

LeAnn  

I just have no desire to do anything. Yeah. Like, I when I really burn out, I have no desire to get up and wash my face. Brush my teeth. Like, that’s when? Yeah, I’m like, really done? Yeah, yeah.

Dr. Mindy  

And here’s the challenge with burnout. Because I’ve also been thinking about this lately. I feel like I hit it. Like, in December, I was like, I don’t care anymore. I’m withdrawing the thing. That’s what happened. And so I was telling my therapists, this, I was like, I just think I’m gonna need to just withdraw. Like, I don’t really care about putting out a good product. I don’t care about anything. Is that burnout? And she said, Well, you have to, you know, we started to had this conversation about what burnout meant. And I said, here’s the challenge. And I don’t know if this is a woman thing. I don’t know if it’s just an American thing. But every time I’ve hit burnout, I always find this place inside of me to dig deeper and push through it. I don’t think I’ve ever truly honored a burnout moment. Have you?

LeAnn  

Yeah, I think I mean, I think there’s been parts of me that have always had to push through something. But I, I really started to feel burnout at the end of this past year. But I knew that that was gonna happen. And I had planned on nothing, you know, like, for good, like four to six weeks? Yeah. So I think I’ve learned how much I can handle. Before that gets there. Talk to

Dr. Mindy  

me a little bit about the brain scan that you got from Amen. What did you looking back on that? Do you feel like, I know, you were like, really nervous to go get it? Do you feel like it was helpful? Do you feel like you? Yeah,

LeAnn  

I think to see how sleepy my brain actually is, is was helpful. Because I feel that yeah, you know, I’m on I take Vyvanse, which is, which is a stimulant, I’m on a very, very low dose of it. But I can tell like that wakes up my brain and he actually took a scan with without Vyvanse and with Vyvanse. And how it as he kind of says, pumps up my brain in certain areas that it just lightens it, and it definitely, it definitely helps.

Dr. Mindy  

So do you feel like having that kind of test was really helpful for you to understand, right?

LeAnn  

It was just nice to to understand myself, because there’s, I feel like sometimes it’s we can give them these are for me, at least I can kind of shame myself around certain things by every woman, right? Like, my daughter was, you know, this kind of sleepy brain for me. It just made a lot of sense. Like when I actually saw it, I was like, Oh, I don’t have to all the things that like I didn’t know that about myself. And so now like the other things that I feel like sometimes I could shame myself over like, oh, that just it’s actually happened. Like, I can see it. It’s fuzzy, because it physiologically like has it.

Dr. Mindy  

Yeah. And it’s so I wanted to point that out, because I think sometimes testing is really helpful. Yeah, sometimes I fear some tests because you can become you find yourself attached to it or becomes part of who you are like with the Epstein Barr Virus. I was really nervous for you to get an Epstein Barr Virus test because I was like, Oh, I don’t want you to walk around saying I have Epstein Barr. I have Epstein Barr. But sometimes those tests can like I thought your brain scan looked really good. Yeah,

LeAnn  

no, I was it did look good. But like I said, it was nice to see, like, the things about my personality that I that I sometimes can can be harsh on myself about was right there in front of my eyes. And I was which was great to see. Yeah, yeah, the EBV thing is, I mean, I’ve had mono when I was 16. And worked through it for like three and a half years, it didn’t even show up in on my test. So and that was like, in the height of everything that I was doing. I was working so much and so to work through that kind of exhaustion the way I was, and then you know, after I had COVID In the beginning of 2020 or 2021 I think 22 Something like that. What do you want after that? Yeah, I after that I I really struggled with with with energy exhaustion, even more so than usual. And that’s when we finally decided we needed to test EBV again, and and then when we started to try when we worked with Eboo for for that reason. I feel like it’s really changed my energy levels.

Dr. Mindy  

So so let’s talk about EB I want to talk about Eboo and methylene blue because those two were the ones that I feel like really shifted your energy then I NAD

LeAnn  

also Oh, NAD. That’s right. My kind of my protocol with the is using I’ll usually do like maybe one if I’m really busy to IVs of 500 milligrams a month and then I started supplementing every every day when I’m busy or every other day when I’m little. You did this. I do this depositories. Yeah. And they all act it all acts very different in my system. So the, the 500 milligram IV like definitely is a boost of energy for probably a solid like four or five days after the shots just kind of keep me keep me going. And I do find that my sleeps better with an ad. And then the small stories. I feel like the suppositories really helped with my REM sleep. Oh, that’s, that makes sense. Yeah. And so those I’ll do if I’m, if I’m busy, I’ll do that and the shot like maybe a couple times a week. Yeah. That

Dr. Mindy  

and just to fill everybody in. NAD stimulates the mitochondria. And so it nourishes it. So the mitochondria can detox the cell, but also can make ATP, which is energy. The IVs have a protocol where you do for a day or four in a row. And then you can do them after that and more space. Yeah. Which

LeAnn  

I did that my first. Yeah, my first round was, I think it had been within 10 days. I did like a Yeah, like four, four. Yeah, yeah.

Dr. Mindy  

And those can be painful. Do you remember them being painful? Yeah,

LeAnn  

once I got a, I think the highest I’ve ever done was 757 or 50 milligrams. And that was that took me a little longer, though. There was a little bit more pain and nausea, like that kind of thing involved. But if I stick around 500 milligrams, I’m pretty good. Yeah. But uh, yeah, you just have to get used to the feeling of it. And then the great thing about that is with Abby, like you can control how you can how fast or how slow you’re going. So

Dr. Mindy  

yeah, can make it stop for sure. And I also just want to point out for people listening that will leave links for all this stuff, because I think it’s, it’s really interesting when we look at the puzzle that we put together, when the, if we looked at like, I love puzzles, by the way, so if you look at like a puzzle, you know, there’s like a certain color in the right corner, and then down in your puzzle is like energy was up here, like depression was over here. Anxiety was here. And when we got to the corner on energy, again, the three things that I saw really changed was NAD, and methylene, blue and Eboo. So I’ll leave links for people so they can look at that as a resource. Yeah, methylene blue. That

LeAnn  

was I’ve got all my friends on methylene blue. I’ve literally all my girlfriend’s are Yeah, legit on methylene blue again,

Dr. Mindy  

and it’s easy. Everybody can have access to it. So I will I will leave a link for that for people. How often do you take it?

LeAnn  

I take it daily? Yeah, just because I know, I feel like it does a lot of great things for my brain, like my girlfriend, who’s had a lot of brain fog recently just started it. And she’s like, Oh, my God, I can think again, like it’s, it really is, for me just I feel like mood wise, it really has helped my mood. Yeah,

Dr. Mindy  

I did. I don’t know, if he listened to the interview, I deal with John. So I know I have it. Because he’s, he’s such a wizard that half the time I didn’t even know what he’s talking about. He has a thing called the blue spot of the brain. And that there’s a part of the brain that that gathers all the information from the day. And then at night, when we go to sleep, it takes that information and puts it in our limbic system in the hippocampus and stores it for memory. And so there’s like a download of information that happens. And methylene blue helps. So this is not just moods and energy, but it helps with cognition, because you’re ending up with brain parts that are working more efficiently so that the blue spot can download the information. And then a dumpster dumps it, and then it’s fresh and ready to go for the next day. So we did a whole interview on it, which I think you know, yeah, but I have to listen guys should go listen to it, because it was pretty good. So okay, and then we got we got to talk about eBay. So eBay will explain the process so people can visualize it.

LeAnn  

Yeah. So basically, you get hooked up to two IVs. And they take out about I don’t know it’s a tube that’s about yay big and about this belong and they take out some blood. And once that tube fills up, they then oxygenate your blood. Yep. And as that’s going on, and goes right back into the other arm, and I guess what, by the end of the treatment, which is about an hour long 89 90% of your blood is clean and re oxygenated. And my first my first three rounds of that were I got tired after for a while it was really kind of, you know, for 24 to 48 hours after was kind of rough. Yeah, it was felt like a detox reaction. It’s like the second or third third time. Maybe my body was just really kind of like we talked about getting to different layers of toxicity, maybe just pulling like a really deep layer out and then now I do it once a month, especially when I’m traveling. And I find that I get this kind of euphoria with it most of the time, and I feel great Like, I feel like my body I feel like it’s clean. I do feel clean after and like I can access a little bit more energy, for sure.

Dr. Mindy  

And do you feel like it’s compounding? Like everything else I get? Yeah, it gets easier. I do. Yeah, for sure. Yeah. And again, I’ll leave links for I think Dr. Yoshi is one of the best. Oh, he’s amazing. Yeah. Really incredible. And he’s got a very nutrient system and stuff going on. Yeah,

LeAnn  

the whole IP that they give you before vitamin C, magnesium B vitamins, a whole deal that since he started that before the treatment that’s actually really helped with the after. Yeah, so Yeah, amazing.

Dr. Mindy  

Okay, one last thing we’ve talked about, and then I want to go into menopause. And I want to go in here Yeah, we’re gonna we’re gonna go into what menopause feels like for you. Oxygen was also a big week, we can’t leave that out. And, and that was really about your, where we really amped that up was with your vocal cords.

LeAnn  

Yes. So I injured myself from coughing too hard that end of last year, and I was on waist rest for several weeks. And I was like, I’ll dry anything other than surgery. Because I know my at one point, my doctor wanted to inject a steroid in my vocal cords and possibly go in and laser off this, this little vein that was now on my vocal cord. And like, I’ll try anything other than that. So that’s really when we kind of amped up oxygen to see what that would have, if that would have any effect on the healing. I don’t know if it has on I can’t tell you that. It’s like, because you we haven’t looked at that camera. But I, I now I’m just like, I get up every morning. First thing I got to do is get an oxygen, oxygen. Yeah, I just feel like I was tired the other day. And I got it for a second time during the day, because I was just like, if I give myself an hour of oxygen, I’ll feel better. And I did like it definitely helps with just mental clarity. Like if I haven’t had a lot of great sleep. And I get in it. It definitely kind of wakes up my brain.

Unknown Speaker  

Yeah. Yeah, I agree.

Dr. Mindy  

I agree. It’s a beautiful, it’s an incredible tool. And when I look at like the reason I wanted to walk you through all those tools, I feel like they all were really necessary. Now not everybody has the financial resources to get those tools, which is why I think something like the methylene blue, it’s like, it’s not very expensive. And yet it really can be powerful and fasting, like there’s a lot of other tools that are but when at your level, your performance, your history, what you’re trying to do with your body, those became very, very important. And so, and there was so many of them, so that we needed to do so. Yeah.

LeAnn  

And there’s, I mean, we really had to like I was afraid. I mean, there’s something so funny, I was really afraid to do and ID and then I was like was your thing. But now it’s like my go to I mean, those are the things that fill me back up, like, especially when I’ve been traveling so much an ad I’ll do an ad on the road. And then Eboo when I get home. Yeah. Those are the kinds of things that we really have to use to fill me back up.

Dr. Mindy  

Menopause. Perim I’ll call it Mark Perry. Yeah, I’m not there. Yeah. What it What would you how would you describe it? Like, how do you feel about it? Are you? Are you anxious? Yeah. How do you feel about what’s coming down? I actually have

LeAnn  

a lot of grief around it. Oh, no, I do. There’s something I mean, I’ve I’ve never had children on my own. Yeah. And so like to think that that’s a piece of me that I could be you know, that is why knock down? Yeah, it’s not in Yeah, not done yet. But it’s winding down. Like I just, I don’t know, it’s it’s it’s not something I’ve AM. So I’m like I can I’m dealing with the grief of it. It’s not like it’s changing my mind to go and have my child. Can you imagine I’m a child right now.

Unknown Speaker  

We’ve talked about that.

LeAnn  

I can there’s a part of me that would, I would absolutely love it. Yeah. And at the same time, like, I know that my whole life would change. And I would throw myself into that. Yeah. That’s what’s so great about having stepsons is like I never really had to be that way. I always got to be like, chill, and like, it’s your kid. I let you handle it. And I was always I’m here for you if you need me. You know, my God definitely witnessed him. I did. I got the best of all the worlds but I definitely would not be that way,

Dr. Mindy  

though. Oh, yeah. But I can imagine that, you know, I can imagine there’s a there’s a grief. I mean, I even went through I think I’ve told you this before that I hit a point in my Peri menopausal years that I was just like, so frustrated, and I couldn’t find the door out. I think that’s the problem about menopause is sometimes you can’t mentally find the door out. And I was meditating and I had this thought, like, stop being so mad at my ovaries like my own. Do they ever do that to me like every single month they’ve shown up and released an egg. And they’ve done it very rhythmically and now they’re going into retirement and they produced to two beautiful children for me. So there but there was like this real you know, if you think about men, men don’t have an organ inside them that stops working right?

LeAnn  

Well, I’m not thing there is a bit of death that goes along with it. Like there’s there’s a real reason why grief shows up I think and yeah, I’m I’m, I don’t think I’m afraid of it. I just makes me a little sad. Yeah.

Dr. Mindy  

Are you scared of aging?

Unknown Speaker  

Now? Not really

LeAnn  

your most annoying thing right now? Is the the five pounds that I can’t seem to move? Yeah, yeah, I’m like where did this come from? Because I, you know, I when I started, we did start me on a low dose estrogen patch and and since then I’m like, oh my body’s changed a little bit and but we had

Unknown Speaker  

this conversation last night of like, why you’re wanting to

LeAnn  

go Arabic because I’m doing a fitting for the show that I’m about to do and I’m like, it’s like, I have to get over the fact that like, my body’s just shifted a little bit. It’s not like drastic where everybody like, you know, it’s just it shifted for me. And but my mind. I’m not, you know, I don’t have as many challenges when I ovulate or you know, there’s there was all these things I was dealing with, with my cycle where it was just I would have these like three or four days here and there that were just like really intense. And ever since we’ve started with estrogen. My I’m much more even keeled and not as biting I’m not as bidi. And like, I’m sure my husband’s excited about that. And so you know, you, for me, like just mentally being able to be clear and a little more stable. has, you know, give up a couple pounds. Yeah, right.

Dr. Mindy  

Right. Yeah. I mean, I think we’ve talked about this. I think this is a really big challenge when we’re doing the bioidenticals. Especially it’s like, Okay, do I want mental health? And yes, I would take mental health over any other health, you know, any given day, but am I willing to carry these extra five pounds in places that don’t feel good? And

LeAnn  

a couple of years ago, I would say I would not? You and yeah, I would have been like, oh, no, I’m not let me off this patch.

Dr. Mindy  

Yeah. What about What about like wrinkles have do you have you thought about doing Botox? I actually

LeAnn  

I have an amazing facialist that like zaps my face into submission. And yeah, like I am not. Thank you. I have not put Botox in my face. And which I did a long time ago. Way too young. Yeah, it was just, you know, because I’m was afraid of getting wrinkled. But now like, I like my face to move and be expressive. And it’s not to say that I won’t like I don’t know. I’m not against it. I just don’t I don’t that’s not the path for me right now. Yeah,

Dr. Mindy  

yeah. Yeah, I think that we it’s just there’s too much on the toxic load that we just don’t know, about. It’s so true.

LeAnn  

And that’s when you really think what you’re putting in your body. And I found other ways to be able to work with this. So until that stops working, and we need to find a new path. No, that’s, I’m clean.

Dr. Mindy  

Yeah. Okay. And what about your breast implants? Yes, literally, they’re still there.

LeAnn  

Yeah. What have you thought about what for though? I liked them. You liked them? They’re like, we’re happy with them. Exactly.

Dr. Mindy  

We’re happy. Yeah, I was telling you, I was like, looking at myself after the shower

LeAnn  

and realized, like, I don’t even recognize that they’re there anymore. No, we’ve talked about this, like we that’s the one thing. It’s a big commitment to being committed. Yeah. And I’ve, I have, I’ve just, I haven’t been willing to go there yet. And not that I’m not willing to talk about it. Because we’ve actually had a lot of discussions about this. Yeah. But that’s, you know, like, you’ve always told me, that’s a big commitment, if we can take out, let’s see where we get without that. And then if there was any toxicity from that, I think ebos definitely helped. I have never found like, I’ve heard I’ve looked, I’ve done my research on it. I’ve had a lot of women talk about the issues that they’ve dealt with, and I don’t find myself relating to those. And if if there wasn’t anything there, like I said it within we found ways to clean my system. So I it’s not to say that I’m won’t ever take them out because at some point, I’m going to have to either, I’m gonna have to figure out what to do with them because they do expire at a certain point. Yeah, we’re coming up to that in the next few years. So I’m gonna have to figure out what I want to do and if there’s another there’s another way to remove these then yeah, I’m open what you what blew me

Dr. Mindy  

away with you on the breast implants and why I want to bring it up to my audience is that I think there’s a lot of messaging out there that like breast implant illness, you got to get them out, you got them, get them out, and I would say I was in that camp until I walked your health journey. Because in the back of my mind, I was like, Can I literally was asking myself like, Can we do this without cleaning up your mouth and clean it and taking breasts out like and just taking every toxin out of the body? And we have I mean, we Eboo was such a hero there and everything we did, but we’ve been able to do it without so the reason that toxins become symptomatic it because the body can’t adapt anymore. And so it’s like overloaded because there’s way too many, but we pulled so many toxins out that the body is regulating and adapting. If those are still toxic issues for

LeAnn  

Yeah, no, it’s only? Yeah, no, I haven’t. Like I said, I’ve done a lot of research on it. It’s definitely a conversation we’ve had. And it’s not something that I’m, I’ve shut the door to at all. But I haven’t noticed the symptoms that most women talk about. Yeah, if I did, and I was, that was something that I definitely, you know, related to than I, it would be a major accomplishment for

Dr. Mindy 

Sure. Yeah. It’s just a big process. Yeah. Do you? Do you take the week before your period and try to just chill out?

LeAnn  

Huh, yes. When I’m home? Absolutely. When I’m home, you know, it’s, you’ll find me on my couch. Most days, when I’m home, no matter if I’m right before my period or not. But when I’m on the road, I mean, sometimes it’s just my, my schedule just doesn’t lend itself

Dr. Mindy  

to that. I keep wanting you to map your schedule around your home, then

LeAnn  

my burial will start like three days early. And then. Yeah, yeah, yeah, then I end up with the show somehow, on you know, my period, but but if I am, you know, I will let my body rest all day until I have to. But when I’m going in to do this thing in Australia, and like my first four days of shooting, which are like 15 hour days, I will be on my period, on

Dr. Mindy  

your period I will be that’ll be okay. The on your period won’t be as bad as

LeAnn  

it’ll be. It’s like that. It’s like two days before and the train is the two days before that. Avoid the war. So yeah,

LeAnn  

well, I’m not gonna be there. I know that and I feel sad for jetlag. It’ll be great.

Dr. Mindy  

Okay, talk about what you’re gonna do. Because this Yeah, this may have been this may be the greatest

LeAnn  

hack human experiment of all time. Yes. Talk about it, because I think we’ll have an update. Yeah. So I am Yes, we will. So I’m

LeAnn  

actually going to film the voice, I’m going to be a coach on The Voice in Australia, and also in the UK. At the same time, as you’re

Dr. Mindy  

an overachiever, I

LeAnn  

am I mean, the if I was going to do it, I was, I was gonna go big. So one of the UK and Australia overlap by five days during this one period of time, and then I go back to from Australia, and then I don’t go actually to film the rest of the UK until May. So the show may 8 at the oh two and and then after that, then I stay and then filmed the rest of it. But there is this one overlapping week. So I’ll be flying from LA to Sydney for 10 days, Sydney, to Manchester, by way of Dubai for five days. And then back to Sydney for like two and a half weeks, and then home for two weeks. And then back to Sydney and

Dr. Mindy  

then home. So it’s I’m gone for like six weeks,

Dr. Mindy  

but it’s literally the biggest jetlag quagmire I’ve ever seen. So you’ve been doing a lot of research, I’ve been doing some research, what what are you going to use what’s like some of your big hack? Well,

LeAnn  

let’s see, I mean, a lot of things you just mentioned, obviously, I’ll be taking my NAD and my methylene blue. And I’ll be doing any D stuff before I’m doing a before. But I’m also utilizing light to help reset my body clock. So I’ve forgot what the glasses are called. They’re called thing timer, timer, timer glasses, I that are supposed to give their give off blue and green lights, you just put them on for like, and they’re supposed to help your new adjuster body clock, I have my blue light blocking glasses, which I’ve actually started using now at home, like a couple hours before bed. And I do find that that helps me sleep grounding mat grounding. I was just about to say about my grounding mat, which I’ve been sleeping on at home with the grounding pillow, which I love. I am going to be taking that with me. I’m still trying to figure out how to do that on the plane. We’re going to figure that out. And what else am I doing? The light is one of the biggest things and trying to adjust like, I’m going to try to adjust probably like five, six days out where I kind of go to bed a little bit late. I

Dr. Mindy  

have an app that use up my belt.

LeAnn  

Yes. What’s that app called? Time? No. Time?

Speaker 2  

And if time should I’m sure Yeah, after that. Yeah.

LeAnn  

Okay, which is super helpful. Yeah, you just put in all your information or your flights, and it’ll break it down. But that only breaks it down for about two days before they started to tell you I’m I’m thinking I need a few days before. Yeah. And we’re also going to try the hacker food. Yeah,

Dr. Mindy  

I was gonna say because there’s a whole circadian rhythm to the microbiome. So we’re going to try using food timing to get the microbes. I spent actually a whole day down this this path. And it’s like, which came first the chicken or the egg? Do the microbes control our circadian rhythm? Or does our circadian rhythm control the microbes? Yeah, I think I came to the conclusion that the stimulation the microbes controls the circadian rhythm. It’s feedback loop for sure makes sense. So but that’s kind of where I where I where I went to. So So yeah, so can people follow you like we be posting on Instagram? Definitely.

LeAnn  

I have like a whole kit that I that I have put together. I’ve like, I mean, I’m down to like the right sleep masks to the earplugs to the everything. So yeah, I’ll definitely be showing a little bit of my, my journey. We’ll see what happens. I mean, it’s gonna it’s gonna be a lot. I mean, I think there’s especially when there’s the all the time from Sydney to Manchester, and I’m only there for five days, and it’s literally the time is inverted. Yeah, so, of course timezone change. That’ll be challenging. Yeah, but I mean, I’m rolling with it.

Dr. Mindy  

Yeah. And so if if you find something you like, I think, hopefully we’ll post it. Oh, yeah. Like our

Dr. Mindy  

website or something. Yeah. So people can know what worked for sure. So because I think that’ll be you may you may have. I feel like if anybody needs to solve the jetlag hack, it’s LeAnn Rimes.

LeAnn  

Yeah. I mean, we’ve got we’ve got melatonin suppositories, we’ve got we’ve

Unknown Speaker  

got all this. Yeah, it’s gonna be it’s gonna be good. As long

LeAnn 

as I’m there. And I’ve given my all and I’ve, you know, I’ve helped people on their journey, then. Yeah. And

Dr. Mindy  

you end the whole thing in London. So if people and you’re doing a big show there, so if people want to see you there, yes,

LeAnn  

we’re doing we’re playing the otoo arena, on May 8, which I’m very excited about. Awesome.

Dr. Mindy  

Yeah, that’ll

LeAnn  

actually be my first show this year. Awesome.

Dr. Mindy  

Okay, here’s my last question. This is what I’ve been asking everybody this season. What is health to you like it? We look at it like it’s a destination, but what does health mean to you? And what’s your next health goal?

LeAnn  

Well, health,

LeAnn  

I think, for me, is consistency. Like when I can string together days that are consistent, and I’m waking up finding joy in my days, and I’m not struggling, where I have energy. I think the biggest thing for me what I equate health to is to be vibrant, and have had the energy Yeah, to do what I want to do. Yeah, you know, with life, whatever that may be. So I think for an I think I go back to that consistency piece. It’s like, how will I guess my goal is like, just more consistency, like your I mean, like, consistency mean, good day. Yeah. Makinson the

Unknown Speaker  

good days. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Especially

LeAnn  

as I go deeper into the menopausal journey, like, you know, I look at.

Unknown Speaker  

I mean,

LeAnn  

I think the all the things that I do now, if I didn’t do what I’m doing, and have control of my health, the way that I do now, I mean, I really do think I wouldn’t be in a very, very different place. And so, yeah, just consistent good days, as long as, as long as we keep on that path. Like that feels good to me. Yeah.

Dr. Mindy  

You know, that was the goal of the menopause reset was to give 40 year old women like, Hey, this is where you’re going. This is what’s going on. Here’s a lifestyle tool, and then you have a little more consistency in that turbulence. So what Okay, outside of jet lag. I know you’re gonna say jet lag, Concord, jet lag. what’s your what’s, uh, what’s like the next mountaintop of health that you’re focused on?

LeAnn  

Hmm, I don’t know. That’s a good question.

Dr. Mindy  

I don’t even know if I know for you. Yeah, I think it will be just as you go through your 40s making it a smoother ride.

LeAnn  

Yeah, I think that’s definitely yeah,

Dr. Mindy  

I think that that

LeAnn  

would be what they’ll be about my pancakes situation I talked about, everybody knows that. They’re completely normal. I

LeAnn  

know, I was making these mock up pancakes, which are so good for my progesterone that I needed at the time. And I flipped out when they weren’t coming out that was using different flowers than normal and, and they just were thicker than I wanted them to be. And I literally thought the world was ending. And I

Dr. Mindy  

baked a vegetable box or a box. Vox Medina was like, Oh, I

LeAnn  

think I just had one of those moments that you speak of. Yeah. That you speak of a woman speak up where I literally thought the world was just sending over pancakes. And I was like, I’m having Eddie like helped me. I’m like any? Have you got it? He’s like, why are you so stressed? Like, I don’t know. But you really have to help me right now. So yeah, and then it like really made me anxious for several hours after I had to reset myself because I but it’s funny because I I realized that I was doing it. Like I saw myself. I was watching myself as I was doing it, recognizing, oh, this is one of those moments, which is kind of helpful when you when you know what you’re going through, as opposed to as opposed to just thinking you’re losing your mind. Yeah, so I hadn’t had one of those before. That was my first experience. I had a hot flashes, like a few months ago during the day, which I’d never had before. Which I did think I was I thought I was dying for a moment. Yeah.

Dr. Mindy  

Experience. Yeah, but it’s

LeAnn  

kind of like it’s like getting your period. I’m like, Oh, my God, I hadn’t read first. Yeah. Oh, my God.

Dr. Mindy Pelz  

I like what I want to say is like, welcome, Young. Welcome to the menopause. We’re on. It’s a thing. Yeah, it’s a thing.

LeAnn  

So as long as I can, like, as long as we can navigate those moments where they’re not like taking over my life, I think I’m doing pretty good. I’m

Dr. Mindy  

just going to close by saying that Is that I adore you, thank you. I just I love your heart, I love your soul of who you are. I also love that you’re so transparent. I think somebody in your position deserves privacy. And you are, you know, at a moment when hormones are changing, everything’s changing. You’re so out there and showing what you’re doing. And I have,

LeAnn  

because I think it like, the more we have these discussions. I mean, I just talked about, you know, I had some abnormal cells removed from my cervix. And it was the first thing I want to do is go tell people about it, which is like not normally that thing but it would just reminded people of, hey, get checked, you know, get your checkups and like, make sure you’re taking care of your health because it’s something as women, we can put on the backburner. So many people are afraid like it’s so uncomfortable to go into the gynecologist and you know, it’s there’s your cervical cancer doesn’t have symptoms. And like, we just we don’t talk enough about these things. And so like I said, was the first thing I wanted to talk about to remind people and it was crazy. The amount of feedback that I got from women who thank you for the reminder, like, I need to go do this, or I the all the different stories I heard from different experiences people had around the same procedure. Yeah. And so yeah, I feel like we just need more discussion around health and because I have a platform to be able, you know, to speak on things and that people listen, I’m always wanting to discuss it, it makes me feel less alone to get oh, yeah, I’m sure you know, it’s like, yes, I want my privacy, but at the same time, like, Hey, I’m human, and we this is just, you know, they were just talking about human beings and that’s really important to me,

Dr. Mindy  

but at a time when so many women look at other women on social and compare themselves and feel less than Yeah, you know, it’s really easy. Again, somebody in your position to for people to project on to Yeah,

LeAnn  

and every time you are authentic, just so liberating,

Dr. Mindy  

but not just for you, I think really free other other women and I just I appreciate you for that. Appreciate you fill out thing but I love how you use your platform to just show me they

LeAnn  

get so good. We’ll have more updates.

Dr. Mindy Pelz  

Thank you so much for joining me in today’s episode. I love bringing thoughtful discussions about all things health to you. If you enjoyed it, we’d love to know about it. So please leave us a review, share it with your friends and let me know what your biggest takeaway is.