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Natural Remedies and Feminine Realities: Cannabis, Self-Care, and Periods
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What if we told you that the secret to navigating the chaos of life and maintaining our health lies in self-care, and cannabis could play an integral part in this?
Rolling into the more serious issues, we address the stress that often comes with the holiday season. Rather than succumbing to the pressures of gift buying and materialism, we offer a different perspective, emphasizing the importance of love and family, showing how these values transcend gender boundaries. Moreover, we extend our heartfelt gratitude to you, our listeners, journeying with us through the ups and downs of this tumultuous world.
Lastly, we engage in a frank conversation about the challenges women frequently encounter with menstruation, from physical discomfort to managing periods in male-dominated environments. We lift the veil on the topic of birth control and its role in managing periods. This is not just a discussion for women - it's a call to men to better understand and support the women in their lives. So, whether you're a man or a woman, this episode is guaranteed to enlighten and challenge your perspectives. Tune in and join us on this eye-opening journey!
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So when your best friend says you need to have a disclaimer in the beginning of your podcast Because the lawyer and her is scurremen, you do it. Here's my disclaimer I am not a doctor, I am not a therapist, I am not even an expert. I am you. I am bring in information to you as I see it, but don't take my advice. Make your own choices and make them good choices. On with the show.
Speaker 2:Welcome to the podcast where we talk about cannabis community violation.
Speaker 1:Hello. Second take two Hello and welcome to code green plant. I'm your host, kristi Chanel, and I'm here with Phoebe James. What?
Speaker 3:oh, my awkward intro, like always. Oh, I like your shirt. Thank you, super cute. I love this time of year.
Speaker 1:I know we, but we the funny thing is is in our last episode we both had on red and now we both have on green. We do black and white and green, yeah. So today we're here and we're gonna talk about Lady parts, which I think is so important, because we filmed this already a month or two ago and I never was able to use it because of the sound quality wasn't any good. So I want to make sure that we really give it the value and quality it deserves, because there are some people that may actually Listen and try some things based on our recommendations and we're not doctors, but we do know that some of these things really do work and they don't require a prescription, so you can get it yourself. Yes, but before we do that, I Thought because we have our new thing called burning topics, but I Didn't necessarily get a topic to talk about, but I did.
Speaker 1:I Want to talk about what I've been seeing in the. We use buzzsprout for our podcast. We use buzzsprout and we haven't had that I can notice any comments on Lord oh, um, so I pulled. Are you okay? I'm okay.
Speaker 3:I'm great, all right. Yeah, I'm learning to love the chaos in this room.
Speaker 1:So I don't have any. I don't have any. What?
Speaker 3:Jesus, sorry, my husband's popped in real quick. Yeah, uh-huh, okay, I'm done, Thank you. Okay, my bad. Oh god, we're not done yet, okay, okay, now you can see the room, and it's not had any progress since last week.
Speaker 1:Geez, phoebe's been a whole week Just getting. Yeah, we're in December, fine.
Speaker 3:You can turn the whole thing off. Oh yeah, I just leave it. Thank you, bye. Love you, kisses. Yesterday was our anniversary. Remember 10 years.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, 10 years. Man Did it fly by or what? No, I didn't think you were gonna say that in the aspects of my marriage, no, Now it's flew by.
Speaker 3:As far as my son getting, you know, growing up, that's flew by. But as far as being married, it feels like it's a bit Dragon on. I'm joking totally joking.
Speaker 1:Did you find out what the 10 year anniversary thing is?
Speaker 3:I Didn't even look, We've got a no. What we did our own 10 year?
Speaker 1:anniversary thing. I want to know what tradition says now.
Speaker 3:I got okay, Okay, okay all right.
Speaker 1:Why don't you look that up? We're not traditional people.
Speaker 3:So just, oh, I know, traditional 10 year anniversary gift, yeah, but A movie a movie I love, actually, and the lady said she was doing a toast at a wedding and she said life is short but marriage is long, so drink up and it'll go a lot quicker. I like that is so funny to me, it's so true, but marriage is long.
Speaker 1:So not drink up, smoke up.
Speaker 3:There you go, smoke up, and that's definitely something that's helped our marriage last 10 years. 10 or aluminum.
Speaker 1:Give him some tin foil to put in his bowl. Oh, oh, my god remember. Do you do that? Have you ever done that where you poke holes in tin foil and put it inside the bowl? No, I don't think so.
Speaker 1:Have? Have you ever Done? Have you ever taken a two liter, cut it in half, filled your sink with water and Put it in the? Yeah, I'm telling you I've done. I've done some stupid ass stuff, but I guarantee somebody that the smoker knows this. That's okay. Anyway, you cut a two liter in half, you put the top of the two liter in the water and then you put the tin foil inside the mouth of the bottle and then poke a Tiny, tiny whole toothpick holes in it, put some weed in there and then you light it up and then when you lift the tin foil off and then you lift it out of the water, it's like a bong, a huge, freaking bong. Makes sense, okay.
Speaker 1:Yeah or take in the sink. Inside the sink, they have that. Have like this straight like, not a strainer. In the inside of a sink with nozzle, they have this. You obviously don't know what I'm talking about. I obviously had to make things work without having the faucet, but inside the faucet, inside the faucet, there's this Like a screen, a screen. Have you ever taken it from the screen and use that in a bowl? Oh god, no. None of my nozzles, my none of my sink. My faucets had screens on them back when I was in 20, 20 years old.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I know.
Speaker 1:I, I'm telling you're more hardcore than me. I am hardcore. I'm telling you. It doesn't seem like I would be, but I know all the tricks. Okay, so what I wanted to talk about? Happy anniversary. First of all, I don't want to thank you, you're welcome problem. There will be some tin foil on your desk when you get to work. So I yeah, why not? It's tin foil probably expensive now to exactly that's what I'm saying Mm-hmm.
Speaker 1:So I don't have a Burning topic for today, but I did. I did want to bring up the fact that we use buzz sprout, which is we're not getting paid to say this, but I really think it's a great software that I use to upload our podcast to, and In there you're able to see your statistics for each episode. And so I go and I get really excited because I like to see the new areas that are listening or that have listened, and so I figured I'd pull some of that up and kind of give Um, anybody that's listening to us like a little mini shout out without knowing their names.
Speaker 3:We could at least say where they're listening shout out their country, that's awesome, yeah, yeah, or their city.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah. So I pulled up today's and I can see that we have the United States. Obviously is our biggest pull and that's 86% of the listeners are from the United States. But that's not the only country. Okay, we, we have Germany, oh Uh-huh. We have love it Not Netherlands Um United Kingdom. I like, love their accents.
Speaker 1:It's like these are all places I want to visit. Yeah, me too. I've never been out of United States. Australia, okay. No, they have some hot men, okay, I just want to put that out there. Imagine a hot Australian single man with that I don't.
Speaker 3:I don't know what the men look like. I just know they have like dingos and hyenas.
Speaker 1:This maybe keep going that that I thought that was dirty for a second Um I.
Speaker 3:Don't know, it's a dingo, a dog. It's like a wild dog, I think, but they're a little more hardcore than a dog. Like a coyote, I think they're like wide wild dogs in in Australia. Let me look this up, for I'm just Totally saying something from left field, but keep going though when else?
Speaker 1:Okay, okay. So, uh okay, australia Um India oh.
Speaker 3:Wow.
Speaker 1:I love it.
Speaker 3:It's so, shoutouts to India, all these countries, philippines, okay, mm-hmm, wow, hello, hello.
Speaker 1:I don't know their accent, but I bet you they're hot too. I'm single people. All right, just bear with me. Yeah, you're a little okay. I mean okay. So now here's some of the cities. So we've got, of course, dallas, we have Elgin, texas, arlington Texas, irving, texas, well, fort Lauderdale, florida, um.
Speaker 3:Frank Frankfurt. I know some really wonderful people from Germany, so shout out to Germany.
Speaker 1:I know, I know it's a place I definitely want to visit, for sure.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Florida. We have Miami, Miami, la latinos, I love. I've been down to Miami and I have a friend that lives in Miami. I it's probably who's listening but I uh really had a Hi, Christy's friend, Hi, Kevin, I think it's you. Um, and yeah, we've been friends since, uh, I think it's you, We've been friends since high school. We actually had to do a debate against each other and because we were in public speaking class together and he was a year older and we had to do a debate against each other, and it was why I said why women are better than men and he said why men are better than women. It was fun, Was there?
Speaker 3:a winner.
Speaker 1:There was a winner. Who was the winner?
Speaker 3:He was Okay, kevin, okay.
Speaker 1:I don't know that he would win that today.
Speaker 3:I think I'm just Respect for Kevin. Oh yeah, I've had a lot more as a woman. I have I don't think he'd know.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I don't know, maybe one day I can get him on the phone and I can do another thing. Do it again I want to do over Kevin. Um, then we have, uh, mansfield, texas, council Bluffs, iowa, kansas City, missouri, really, yep, yay, getting close to where I'm from, I know, um, sugarland, texas. Isn't that a band, a country band? Sugarland, I think it is. I would not know. I'm going to say 99.9% sure Sugarland is a band. No, I'm 100% sure. Okay.
Speaker 2:I'm going to go with 100.
Speaker 1:Daytona Beach, florida. Okay, um, etton North, brabant. So that's a country. It's from a another country. I don't know. Um then we got Riverside Park, new Jersey.
Speaker 2:Fort Worth, texas.
Speaker 1:Cedar Hill, texas, sanger, fort Worth, california, san Antonio, texas Island, New Jersey that's right where my hometown used to be, colonia, new Jersey. Um, colonia is not on here, but Island is San Francisco, california, phoenix, arizona, Aubrey, texas, maplewood, new Jersey, newark, new Jersey, oceanside, california, ashburn, virginia, Newark, delaware, burry okay, it's a lot of B's here Burry, borough of Burry, that's another country. Um, ocala, florida, with Ham, essex, that's definitely United Kingdom. Tanover, New Jersey, cannon City, colorado, durant, oklahoma, burlington, vermont, edison, new Jersey that's also by my hometown, austin, texas, melbourne, victoria, that's Australia. Uh, streeter, illinois, san Diego, california, new Delhi, national Capital, territory of Delhi, I think. That's India. Piscataway, new Jersey, bedford, texas, hiley, florida, lotzin, oklahoma, lexington, kentucky, manila, metro Manila, something like that. That's Philippines. Yeah, okay, so I'm going to go to the area north Carolina, bonita Springs, florida, richardson, texas, grand Prairie, texas, and lastly, vancouver, washington.
Speaker 3:Well, that's pretty cool. We got a lot like too many to name. That's so many.
Speaker 1:I know, but I wanted a name because we don't have their actual names. People that are listening and I wanted you to know we see you, mm-hmm, and we appreciate you and please keep listening. We do this show and we hope that it touches somebody in some way or it's funny. A lot of people think we're funny. We're not. We're not funny.
Speaker 3:Hey, don't.
Speaker 1:Don't it is, but I guess we are a little bit humorous because I had somebody left a comment. They're like I know you guys aren't comedians, but you're funny.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I would say to be interested. I don't know me, I shouldn't say that. But to be interested in cannabis you got to have a good sense of humor. Somehow, somewhere in there is a good sense of humor.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, and I think you know, hopefully you get to know us, I know for sure, like I was when I first started the podcast, I didn't. I knew I needed a co-host and knew I wanted somebody that I could, you know, just spitball with and just have like a normal conversation, because I want people to listen and just feel like they're part of a conversation, just right. You know, it doesn't really have any structure, it's just a conversation and when I, when you started, I was like, well, we'll see how, we'll see where this goes. It's really developed for me. I I'm I listen and I'm the one editing and I got to hear it a hundred times per episode and it's like the last episode I really didn't have much editing. It was that easy that you know. It was just pure conversation. It felt like, you know, anybody could just sit there and be a part of it. I'm sure some people were probably like, oh, I've heard that. You know just the thing we were talking about.
Speaker 1:You know you just talk to the TV or the radio or whatever. So I want to say I'm I'm so glad that you you became part of this, because it's it really is easy. It's so easy we don't even prepare half the time you know, we don't like Phoebe is literally actively during the episode pulling stuff up.
Speaker 1:you know, and I know that there's other episodes or other podcasts where they have somebody that's dedicated to that to answer those kind of questions and it's cool. Yeah, that's Phoebe here. She's the one who's kind of doing that, true, and mine's all right here. It's on a notepad, so I'm old school, oh yeah.
Speaker 3:I've done that a few times. I think it's just cuz we're real people, like we're just normal women, that you know moms go to work every day. So I feel like it's always better when we don't try to stage in and make it rehearsed and like prepa you know Read from a something we prep prepared. We seem to do better when it's just us, like you said, just talking and having a conversation.
Speaker 1:I know that we, you know we're in December right now. This episode will air in December. So I think it would be nice to just say a couple of things about this week, that people are listening and they're getting ready and they're in the hustle and bustle of life and trying to get things, you know, caught up. I know we live in an economy right now that is is Really hard and people are living paycheck to paycheck and this right here brings a lot of stress to some families and you know they just want to make sure that they have a gift to give their kids or, you know, a gift for their husband or their mom, and and it's hard and you know people are stressed out about it. I don't want you to be, you know I really don't.
Speaker 1:Everybody's going through it, it's.
Speaker 1:It's not just some people, I feel like everybody is feeling the pain in some way and you know I just I just want you to know that, like we're we're here, we're also feeling our own pain with it.
Speaker 1:You know, and and I and just remember that I know this sounds so cliche you have your health, but you have your family with you and that's really the most important part and somewhere in life, this kind of got away from us when it comes to this holiday. It became more about presence and material things instead of really what it's truly about, which is obviously a religious, religious holiday and not everybody is religious but you can turn it and just make it about love and make it about your family and try to hone in on that and do simple things that don't require a lot of money. Or Maybe get a family gift that you can play at the table as a game or something that you can do something with, just family, and so just know that you're not alone. I too stress Phoebe does stress as well and I haven't even started my shopping. So there's that I mean at this point I, okay, knowing this is airing December 20th, hopefully you're done.
Speaker 1:I mean, there's no telling.
Speaker 3:No, I know some people go the very last day, so some of you might still be having a shop. Hopefully I'm done by the hopefully.
Speaker 1:You're halfway done.
Speaker 3:I'm halfway done, but this is when it always gets to like the harder stuff and then I just keep putting it off, and then I still am scrambling at the last minute, like everybody.
Speaker 1:So I wanted to do that, but also because it's almost the end of the year, I do want to say thank you for tuning in and listening to us and our chaotic world that we live in and yeah, so thank you for that. Let's get on with the show, and we are talking about lady parts, which Most of us have. Last time we kind of talked about this, I said this isn't an episode for men and I apologize if you happen to be listening. Phoebe corrected me and said Do you remember?
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, no, it is for men too, because they all have women in their lives and they should be interested and want to know, and this I could help put their relationship with women, understand them a little more, make things easier, mm-hmm.
Speaker 1:I've, I Reminded me that you said that because I watched I think I don't know if it was on tiktok or on YouTube or whatever, but they like strapped up men in these Period simulator type things and yes they had them go from zero hundred and these men were freaking. I.
Speaker 3:Want to get one of those so bad and put it on my husband because I, when I had periods, they were so painful and they'll never understand what it feels like to have that. Just in general the whole thing related to it. But at least the pain if they could understand how bad that can be.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because another time it's like you know, being a female and a male dominated area corporations Specifically, you know to be a woman and to call out because you have, you know, period cramps that hurt really bad. Men are like whatever you know work. So we work through it, we go to work, we deal with that pain while we're sitting there dealing with customers and dealing with employees. And it's, it's hard, especially if you're on your feet, if you were server or you're doing something that requires you to walk around and do Things yeah, and you're in pain.
Speaker 1:Maybe I'm just weird, but and I'm not using Taylor Swift specifically because I know this will be like the fifth episode I brought her up. I guess I'm a swifty, I mean, if I brought up that much.
Speaker 3:I love it. With it, I fully support it.
Speaker 1:I do. I like her a lot. So when she's performing I see these things that are popping up and you see she's singing and she's in her sparkly boots and her sparkly outfit. I Actually stopped one time and like I wonder what she does when she has her freaking period. You know when she's in pain? Or you know any artist beyond, say, you know anybody that's up there that has to perform because they are required to perform in front of all of these people, and then they have menstrual cramps that are in pain. They're in pain or they're throwing up because it's so bad. I'm not saying they are, but there are women performers that go through that and they have to. I Mean I.
Speaker 3:That's such a great point. How do you even do that? Especially I don't know it's and how much you're moving around. Respect to those ladies, mad respect because it's like I Planned my.
Speaker 1:I did plan my life around that where I was like I can't go to do this.
Speaker 1:I'm I never used Okay, here's some teeth, here's some transparency here I did never use tampons. I Never used tampons. I've tried it a couple of different times, but I never, ever bought like a pack of tampons like my whole life. Okay, I'm a pad, I was a pad girl and I don't know why, but because of that I decided, you know, I couldn't go swimming, so I had to plan my whole freaking life around my period. So my friends would go to the pool and I'm like I can't, you know, and so I was. I had to not do a lot of things because of that, and I'm wearing white was not an option.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and I acted shocked, not because of that, but I am too. I I prefer pads, and most women I'm ponds.
Speaker 3:Yes, most women prefer tampons and I very rarely meet other women that use. See, now I'm not as extreme because I will go swimming and wear one if I have to, but just my daily preference it was pads, which was not always great because I had really really really heavy Me to be times of the month and at night it just not. It was really hard to manage it with pads, honestly, but I did figure it out. But, yeah, I was the same with tampons. They just were uncomfortable for me. I don't really know, I didn't yeah.
Speaker 1:I just in Christie. Yeah, I just I, you know.
Speaker 3:Oh, I don't understand. No, they don't. You even have to have this thoughts like how do you navigate that when it comes up that time of the month?
Speaker 1:like you have to plan, like you said, you have to plan around it my whole life I was planning around it and you know, even, just Even, like your pad showing through your pants and like I can't wear those pants today because it's too bulky and you know, wear longer shirts. So you know, can you see that your pad? Can you see?
Speaker 3:it, yeah, and always paying attention to when it's gonna come, to make sure you have one on you. Just with it starts when you're out in public or out at school, like so you don't have an accident, you got to get ahead of it. Mm-hmm, it's such a pain in the butt.
Speaker 1:It is, and luckily, one thing that I did have that was good it was that I was able to pretty much time out within a day of when I would get it, because I was very regular With my period. But you know you, you plan a vacation and you're like Dang it, cuz your day it moves, you know, because in the calendar year it moves a day or two that way, and so you may plan a trip in advance, and then it's like damn it.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:That's the beach time.
Speaker 3:So, and again, we're not doctors, but we are women. So I put that disclaimer before I say this. But did you know that in your, if you're taking pills, you can skip your period?
Speaker 1:What's what?
Speaker 3:Say that again. I just was thinking about that, like maybe that's something performers do somehow. If you're on birth control pills, yeah, you can utilize the pills to skip your periods and I've heard I heard back in the day that it was doctors would say it's safe to do that for three months consecutively but, like, at the fourth month you need to have a period.
Speaker 1:No, but I wish I did. I had. I was on the pill for a little while and oh yeah.
Speaker 3:So like how you were talking about planning, like you could have just planned to take it through there. I don't think most women probably don't know that. Yeah, I'm telling you now lots of interesting things about birth control If you might not know, but like, yeah, that's one that you just skip. You know how. You know how it's, you're on the cycle and it's like you take the pink ones and then what color is yours? And then there's the yellow, like the seven yellow or something. So what you do is you?
Speaker 3:just okay. So you skip the ones that change color. When it's your period of time. You skip them, you just jump to the next pack and start. You continue in the same color. You don't take because those peach ones are just placebo pills. That's what's going on there and they're just like reminder pills so you keep on track and keep taking them. But that's what's happening is the pill the peach pills or the majority pills are keeping you from having your period. And then you take, you get rid of them. Basically you stop while you are, you know, so you can have the period. It stops doing whatever hormone blocks it. So then you have it, get ready. You know you get it over with the. You start taking them again. So that's why. So if you just skip that little weeks worth and jump to the next pack, you'll skip your period. What?
Speaker 1:yes, so.
Speaker 3:Okay, like I said, I'm not a doctor. Look at yourself, look at up, talk to your doctor. But I used to do it back, yeah, back back in the day I took birth control in a super, super long time. So this is when I was young and dumb. So definitely look it up. You know I was an idiot back then. I don't even want to Google it. Maybe I just said something really bad.
Speaker 1:This is not a good experience. This is Phoebe's experience. This is a disclaimer. Do not, absolutely do not do this without talking to your doctor or looking it up and feeling comfortable yourself. I cannot believe that I here listen.
Speaker 3:I Google it okay so. I don't. I don't have to feel bad anymore. Okay, it's possible to delay or prevent your period with extended or continuous use of any combined estrogen Progestin birth control pill. Your doctor can replicate, recommend the best pill schedule for you. But generally you skip the inactive pills in your pill pack and start right away on a new pack and male ground breaking groundbreaking.
Speaker 1:Wow, you total. That is awesome. Do you know how many times I would have done that? Because I started taking the pill. This may be this may be controversial, but I started taking the pill when I was 16.
Speaker 3:Okay.
Speaker 1:I had a boyfriend for four years. My mom wasn't having it.
Speaker 3:Oh, my, oh, yeah, that's, but I'm sorry I got to read this real quick. Sure you didn't even know this. And it says here because I wanted to see if it's safe. You know before we released this out to everybody. And it says it's totally safe. It says if your doctor says it's okay for you to take the birth control, it's probably safe to use it to delay your period. Delay menstruation remains controversial, however. Even physicians who support the option may not mention it unless you bring up the topic. If you want to try delaying your period, ask your doctor which option might work for you and then it tells you the different options and everything and it says like for drawbacks of delaying it. The only drawback, it says, is breakthrough bleeding.
Speaker 3:Okay, which you were gonna bleed anyway, yeah it's crazy that though that that's a thing and you didn't know it, and then it says in this thing, unless you ask your doctor, they're not going to tell you, and like that's kind of part of the problem for women is the healthcare for us is just not not what it is for men. I mean, there's so many studies on that.
Speaker 1:That's a big deal. I mean, that's like groundbreaking. I am shocked right now that I had control of that and I, man, I don't have a period anymore, but when I did, that would have been wow, all right. I mean, because I wow, okay, I'm gonna take a minute, digest that information. That's incredible and you knew about it. How the hell did you know about it?
Speaker 3:I just know random facts. You know me, we got she's great at trivia procedure, well. And also I used to have friends that didn't like to have periods because you know they were fast, maybe.
Speaker 1:I should say that, but you know that's probably honestly, why I knew that.
Speaker 3:Okay, friends, but we didn't even cover that part yet. But did you know? Okay, this is another one I'm gonna drop and see if you know it. Maybe you know it. But did you know that you, if you, when you're on your period, okay, so you know how people have pheromones and they're attracted to the other sex, sex pheromones, and play a part in that?
Speaker 3:When you are on birth control, you don't have that. You're basically blocked. Your pheromone and your little radar is off. It's not not on On on the spot or you know it's your radar is off, your pheromone radar is off, and so it's best to get off of birth control before you really think about having a baby with someone or getting married to someone, because once you turn that receptor off, you may realize you don't have that same attraction to him when you're not on birth control Wait a minute, wait a minute like Birth control.
Speaker 3:So Pheromones are basically it's a way for us nature to kind of guide us to people were genetically compatible with. That's what it all does in it. So that's why it's just an underlying thing that attracts you to someone. You know it's the smell, I don't know what it is. It's fair. Yeah, it's a thing. Yeah, and yeah, when you're on birth control, you basically don't have that, and so you're you're gonna hook up with someone who you might not necessarily If you weren't taking it, and it's because you don't have that radar on, and that radar something you should really have on before you have kids to make sure you are, you know, getting the best genetic selection.
Speaker 1:I guess I was not even talking about my exes, please where you are in birth control and you met. I was not off, but okay so. But I thought pheromones are something that you admit for the other person, so that would make them attracted to you. So if you were cutting off your pheromones when they not be attracted, well, no, because they, they would have been attracted for you. I.
Speaker 3:I don't think it's like that for men. I think it's women, because we're the ones that carry the child, and but they're fair but we're attracted to their smell.
Speaker 1:So if they're smell, they don't cut their smell off.
Speaker 3:So Right, but we don't. We don't have receptors for this. We don't have, you know, our receptors are like receptors. Yeah, we're not able to okay, okay, receptors.
Speaker 1:So our receptors are like like this and so they the. The smell is like not having Okay, yeah, well, I could see that. So everybody get off your birth control. No, I'm just kidding, just kidding. Wow, you, yeah, you are spitting facts today. I'm loving this.
Speaker 2:I had no idea.
Speaker 1:Okay, so when did you go on birth control? Was it younger or older? I don't know what you would consider older or younger, I mean 16 for me, so my I was very young.
Speaker 3:I was probably about 16 or 17. Okay See, I feel like it could. Some people probably start younger than that. So that's where I'm like I don't know what we're gauging. I would say around then, because that's when I became sexually active Mm-hmm, 16, 17.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I was younger, but we don't have to get into that. But I was in a relationship for four years, not that anybody should have sex early like that. So I, you know, I had really, really horrible, horrendous periods, horrendous Prescription medicine, went to the hospital, took a trip, had to go to the emergency room, ended up having to come home early from the trip. It was bad. In high school I would have to go to the bathroom and I felt sick and my mom would have to leave work and come Pick me up. I mean, it was Horrible and the way, the only way I got rid of it was having a baby. So I had my first baby and Austin and I didn't have problems with my period ever again. So I'm not really sure why in some people it's it's really horrible and in other people it's not. I don't know why, what it is that makes one woman experience these horrible, you know, being nauseous and throwing up, and then other women they're just like huh, whatever.
Speaker 1:But I guess it would compare to like just being pregnant. Same thing Some people experience nausea and some people don't. I had perfect pregnancies. I did not ever get sick. So I guess it balanced out for me, because I had all the sickness when I had had my period, but when I was pregnant I didn't have any. So what about you? Did you have horrible periods or are they.
Speaker 3:I know I did, but it wasn't until later, later adulthood, when I started having bad ones. Mm-hmm, I was in my late 20s. Early 30s is when they and they were really bad. They were super duper, painful, just nothing really would dull the pain. So, but when I was younger I didn't. I was lucky I didn't have those issues until I was older now I know that some people that are experienced this experiencing this.
Speaker 1:There are some kind of remedies for that. I, you know that don't involve THC, which is the cannabinoid that gets you a high in your brain, you know, psychoactive. So there's CBD, which is really good for inflammation, and they make bath bombs. But I think that's something that's a very good to relax your body and ease that Inflammation and kind of bring down swelling in that situation. So a bath bomb I would recommend for anyone. And then you know they have like CBD topicals, that Same thing good for inflammation, that you can rub on your belly for, you know, aches and pains and Things like that. But those are the things that that do not involve THC. As you graduate in and pass through that, there are things that do have THC, which which is probably recommended for an adult. You had meant.
Speaker 3:We were talking about tampons, so yeah, I was gonna say. And then we Ironically neither one of us use them. But if I did, I sure would try these and I probably would try them, even if I. I would probably still try them if I Still had periods, because as bad as mine were.
Speaker 2:Mine were so bad.
Speaker 3:I had a procedure To make them go away and but they are, yeah. So a brand called day DAY e make CBD and nude organics tampons. So, like you were saying, ways to get the TH or the CBD there to the spot of the pain, to help get rid of it. You know various ways. You could take it as, rub it on, Take a tincture, take off you know all kinds of ways, but this one here gets it pretty much Right there where you need to spot, right to the spot. Yeah, but it's coated at 100 milligrams of 30% concentration, medical grade CBD.
Speaker 2:And.
Speaker 3:Incredible. I know I wish stuff like this would have been around, that I could have tried, do they?
Speaker 1:have any reviews that they they show. Curious what other people say they have regular and super.
Speaker 3:Yes, they do have reviews. They have four and a half stars. Okay, yeah, it says they're a hundred percent safe. Oh, some of the product reviews, based on 419 reviews, love this company. The products are great, comfortable and efficient. Great product, good bank, good brand, reliable delivery, fantastically high quality, hygienic menstrual products. So yeah, cbd infused tampons.
Speaker 1:Okay, that's something. If I had my period. If I use tampons, I would definitely, absolutely, give that a try.
Speaker 1:And I would say that my daughter was actually looking for a More natural product in pads my daughter's also a pad user, go figure and so she was looking for something that was a natural. You know she wasn't putting plastic there, you know all those little things, those chemical things that they're putting in products. She was looking for an all-natural. I don't I don't have one right here, but I know that she did order them. I need to ask her and maybe tell you the next episode. But, um, okay, yeah, there are alternatives to whatever's out there.
Speaker 3:If you're looking for something that's a little bit more natural, you know, that opposed to plastics and stuff and chemicals, and that's one of them the tampons, yep yep, these are 100% organic cotton and there's some reviews from actual OBGYNs that say that they use them and they would recommend.
Speaker 1:Man two day, two things I could have used when.
Speaker 3:I was younger, exactly.
Speaker 3:Could you imagine? Could you imagine? Well, luckily, I'm still in a stage where, you know, as women, we're constantly in some stage of our cycle, our life cycle, our menstrual cycle, yeah, yeah, and um yeah, I uh Am wondering if I'm getting to like the perimenopause stage. So why do you think so? Oh, I just have some of the symptoms. So it's hard for me to tell because I already don't have a period. I know that's one of the main symptoms people look for and that's never gonna be a symptom for me to know for sure.
Speaker 1:But why don't you have some of the symptoms?
Speaker 3:Why don't you have a period? I had an ablation. Okay, what is an ablation? They basically like Burn out the lining, I think, of your uterus, so you no longer Well build up the uterine walls, which is what you need to get pregnant. You know the uterine lining, that's what you shed when you have a period Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.
Speaker 1:So I don't why.
Speaker 3:Why, what? Why'd I get one? Yeah, what happened?
Speaker 3:Because the pain, my, they were so painful and heavy my periods, and I was just tired of dealing with them to where I was. It's 40 something, you know. I was 42, 43. I'm like I'm not, I don't want it. You know, I don't want another kid at this point. These are doing me no use. So they're then causing me a lot of pain, like they were so heavy and so painful, and so the doctor's like, yep, let's okay, there's options. So that's the one we did, and it it will either lessen your period, your flow and lessen the pain, or to Make it go away. It can do either, you know, either, or and for me I was lucky, it just went away altogether.
Speaker 1:Wow, okay, it's been great. Is that something that insurance would cover? Is it a very expensive?
Speaker 3:No, I'm sure it's covered it. I just had a copay because it was medic. I mean, you know, since I was in pain, it wasn't just like cause, you know, it wasn't just for the fun of it, it wasn't cosmetic, it was sure it was a medical reason because I wasn't so much pain.
Speaker 1:Mm-hmm, so you had that done. You don't any longer have a period, so it can be a little confusing when you reach this kind of a stage. What makes you think that you might be in peri-metapause?
Speaker 3:Well, some of the symptoms when you read them, but I I think it might have been you.
Speaker 2:One of my friends.
Speaker 3:I was having hot flashes and I'm just like I don't know why I'm having these freaking hot, like at night, and I would wake up gerenced and sweat and it wasn't even hot in the room and I'm like, what's going on? And thank you has said like, well, maybe it's. And I'm like, oh, I am getting about to that age. So I looked up, just the symptoms and yeah, what are the?
Speaker 3:symptoms and I'm like in that. You know I'm in the age range. So Symptoms, irregular periods, that's number one which, like I said, I don't have that gauge, but hot flashes and sleep problems have both of those. Sleep problems are often dude and hot flashes or night sweats, but sometimes sleep becomes unpredictable even without them. Mood changes, so mood swings, irritability, increased risk of depression, vaginal and bladder problems. So estrogen levels diminish your vaginal tissues and you may lose. You know there's issues there Decreased fertility, changes in sexual function you may have, changing your sexual arousal, loss of bone that one I don't know. Changing cholesterol levels I actually have had unfavorable changes in my cholesterol, so that even could be. Oh, but I have said like I don't necessarily want to say all of these cuz some of my life.
Speaker 1:Oh, you got that?
Speaker 3:Yeah, no, I was just reading the different ones and I have you know there's a few and I'm in that age, so it's like, okay, that could definitely be Be going on. How old are?
Speaker 1:you Phoebe right now.
Speaker 3:What you never ask a woman their age. Christie, I'm about to talk about mine.
Speaker 1:I'm 44, so yeah, okay and hey, just just since you brought that up, it's true, it is. It is something that you don't, you're not supposed to ask a woman. A man should never ask woman our age. But I'd like to just kind of dissect that for a second. Why not? Is it because it's supposed to be a bad thing for women to be older, and therefore they don't want people to know how old they are because it diminishes their value in some way, probably, and so I would like to wait for you.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I would like to wipe that away and never, ever Let anyone say don't ask a woman their age and this is obviously a new thing. I just thought of it Just when you say why not? Why can't we? And that's why? Because people feel diminished. And I'm challenging that because I myself am 50 and Just saying that causes me pain. So I'm trying to get past that for myself, and the way to do that is to eradicate other people Thinking it's a bad thing.
Speaker 3:I mean, I just am is a thing. So yeah, it is a thing and everything.
Speaker 1:So I'm gonna ask you again how old were you? I didn't hear what you said 44, 44, okay.
Speaker 3:I think I don't like to be asked because when you're asked. It makes you think of your own mortality. That's why I don't want to say my age, like that's fair, you know. That.
Speaker 3:I don't it's to me. It's not. I feel diminished, that's not it at all, because I'm proud to be this age, like hey, what beats the alternative? You know I'm glad to get this age, I want to see many more ages and years, but it also just makes you have that immediate thought of mortality. You know it's like, even if it's just a moment of flack of like you realize I'm getting closer to the end, that I am the beginning.
Speaker 3:I'm gonna do that kind of middle stage, you know, where you're kind of transitioning to the next phase of life, in a way.
Speaker 1:I know, and that's terrifying it's, and that's why it's good that we're talking about it because, like I said, it's been a year. In October it was a year that I haven't had my period, so that told me that really for years before that I was in peri metapause and didn't know it. So, yeah, I look back and I think about all the things that maybe I might have overreacted on and and then I rewind that I'm like was that due to extreme hormones and my lack of patience, or was that because it's real and and so what I've come to learn is all of it was valid and Maybe going through that pushed me quicker to make those decisions that maybe would have taken me longer had I been younger, you know.
Speaker 1:Yeah and, and one of them was leaving my last job. So that was right in peri metapause. Now that I think about it, I'm like I left a job for nine and a half years and said, no, I'm not gonna do this anymore. And I think some of it could have been peri metapause, not knowing it, and frustration and Less patience for things that I was very patient for before well, and that's definitely where I'm at.
Speaker 3:I mean, you know that, working with me right now, I am just up for the fight on everything and I I mean I've said before I'm a recovering people pleaser, so that's new for me to not just go along and like, alright, I'll give it a good try. And and now I'm like F this, like I'm picking fights with everybody At this point, like no, even if I don't win the fight, you're gonna hear me, you're gonna hear about it. Yeah so, and that could definitely be part of this, you know.
Speaker 1:It is. It is. So it's just really good to be self-aware and know where your core is, and the things that I've experienced with you I think are valid. I think that you have valid feelings and and your patience is less, which comes with peri metapause, yeah, so you had all this patience for things in the past that you don't have now, and that's coming out, and that is not a bad thing.
Speaker 3:I was just gonna say it's not a bad thing at all. No, when I think about some of the women that I'm like, oh bet, she's a badass, yeah, that's probably. She's probably passed that phase and she, the patience is gone. And those are women I want to be like, so yeah, I'm like when I was younger.
Speaker 3:You know, I had the phase I was rage, rage against everything. And then you kind of get to that weird middle stage where you just want to Build a good life and just go along with it. You know, it's just weird, don't want to rock the boat at all, because you just Try to attain something. And then you get to the point where you like, screw all this shit again.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think I'm still at rage against everything I don't know. I think that's it comes back it comes back.
Speaker 3:That's yeah, yeah, cuz you know we're never really went away.
Speaker 1:No, and and when we do a podcast, we really are forcing ourselves to look at things in our past, and so I know that for sure. The things I've chosen in life is because I like to go against the grain and that's just a Rebellious side, and I know you have it too, because I guess you come up with different ways to channel it, that's me I should say you still have it, you just channel it in other ways.
Speaker 1:Mm-hmm, yeah, but I can't tell you because I am an older, wiser person that it starts to feel like your color, like a peacock, like you know. Maybe your tail was down before and now it's up and it's spread and you're like I'm here, I'm ready, oh, and I'm gonna kick some ass and I want. I want that for women that may feel like oh my god, my birthdays come in and you had mentioned mortality and actually on the drive here I was thinking about mortality and what came to my mind was Time. That is a man-made thing time.
Speaker 1:Yeah do you know what I'm saying? I know that. Think about that for a second. Were you high when you came up with that? No, I'm just. I'm just a forward thinker.
Speaker 3:Well, yeah, time is. I mean, what is it? It's not a thing. Yeah, it's not a thing.
Speaker 1:So, really, age is not a thing. It's how long we've been walking on the planet. But time was man-made. So, yeah, that's why people live into 110, you know why are they living to 110? They drink Dr Pepper and smoke cigarettes. But this person over here is dying at 25. You know, that doesn't do that it it is Everybody's different and everybody has a mission on this planet and everybody has something that they're gonna be accomplishing, whether it's having a child, who's going to be the next president of the United States, or Discover something that will help cancer.
Speaker 1:We all have a mission here on earth and the age has nothing to do with that. And that that is what was coming into my mind. I'm like, yeah, I'm freaking 50. Yeah, I don't have a period. Thank God I don't have a period like I'm happy about that, I'm really happy about that, and I can wear what I want to wear anytime of the month and I'm not in pain anytime of the month, and I don't have to worry about buying pads, which are so freakin expensive, and insurance has just started covering stuff like that which just happened. So I it's been multiple years of not having paid and carried under insurance because women's Healthcare is not really a priority in this world, just saying and so yeah, I just I just wanted to put that out there because it was relevant. I think, and you know, our mission has nothing to do with our age, so we're not gonna die next year?
Speaker 1:We're not. No mission is just starting. It's just a fact. So that's what I wanted to say about that. Back to metapause, because I go on to my turn. Oh, I what, peter just did something funny.
Speaker 1:I wanted to bring something up because I don't know if I told you, but I found a. I was tested in elementary school. Have I told you that I don't know how? Tested for what? Well, I remember being tested in Second grade and I was going through a box, I was looking for something and I pulled out an envelope and it said to the parents of Christie Chapman, okay, which is my maiden name, and I open it up and it's the test. It's the test. It was a third-party test at the school and my parents thought I needed to be tested.
Speaker 1:Okay, I'm reading this and it's talking about Christie is a sweet, pretty, charming girl which has nothing to do with testing my brain, which kind of pissed me off. My daughter was raged by it. She's like why are they saying that you're pretty and charming? Right, nothing to do with this. I'm like I know, I know, hannah chill, it was back in 1980. Okay, and I'm reading through it and there's they're saying she is easily distracted. She's, she's a hundred percent easily distracted. She's gonna have trouble because Her biggest struggle and now you might know this as being my supervisor, this may help you a little bit is Verbal instructions, verbal directions. So whenever we gave Christie instructions that were one through ten. She struggled Because she needs to visually do it and see it and write it down, and that's why I always have a notepad and always have a pen. And so they said that she's easily.
Speaker 1:They were describing an ADD kit. Okay, which ADD wasn't even invented yet until 1987. So I it wasn't. It wasn't described as that, it was just saying how I was easily distracted. But it also said I was above above average in communication and above average in my vocabulary. They actually said this now, keep in mind I'm seven. They said Christie's above average in her vocabulary and her communication, but tends to fall back into baby language. I'm like, I'm seven, so I don't know so anyway.
Speaker 1:So I thought it was really ironic that you know all of those things were there, and so when my parents gave me the test back, they said Absolutely normal, there's absolutely nothing wrong with you. They never told me the test. They didn't want me to use it as a handicap, but they taught me things. So that's why, if you see me in a meeting and I say, okay, I'm gonna reiterate what you just said, it's because I've been trained as a child to repeat back what the instructions are so that I make sure I understand what you're saying, because it's all verbal. And that's also why when we were in those Monday meetings and I had all these people shooting questions at me, why it sent me into like a freaking panic, because I know that's a weakness for me and it's hard for me to retain it.
Speaker 1:So it's, it's. Yeah, I learned a lot about myself just by reading that test that I didn't know, that I'm just kind of impressed that I've been able to survive all this time and they gave me those skills at a very young age. So it also tells you if you get these tests for your kids and you're worried About your kids and you read these tests, it's just a piece of paper. You know it's what you as a parent give your children to get over that. That really really sends them through. And I only brought this up to Tell you that I'm ADD and I like to change subjects a lot.
Speaker 3:I was thinking I'm like Now we're on but all good stuff, I learned new stuff.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but that's my point. So that's why it may seem like and I hate, and I don't want people To think I'm stupid when I don't get something right away, but I have the brain to comprehend it. It's just the way I comprehend. It is completely different than the average person.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so yeah, so anyway, um, as we were getting off topic because I'm ADD, I wanted that to be a fact. Let's circle back to the Metapause. So okay, all right, I definitely am in it Because I have it. They say it has to be a year Of no period, so I know that I'm definitely a hundred percent in it.
Speaker 1:I Don't think I experienced a lot of those things. I I'm not sure why. I'm kind of waiting for the shoot, a drop, but I did have some night sweats. I did experience night sweats. It wasn't like months of it, though I feel like it was like very fleeting, it was like a week or two, and I Did have night sweats this week, though I Hmm this past week, and I'm wondering if it had to do with a cigarette smoke I don't know if quitting that it was coming Makes sense oozing from my skin or, sorry Dylan, my body.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you're going through with drawls, so yeah so I had some night sweats this past week over that.
Speaker 2:But again.
Speaker 1:I'm not sure if it's associated with menopause or not. I think I've kind of stabilized on my mood. I'm not really sure, but I do know if I get worked up, the first thing I want to do is to take a quarter of a gummy so that I know that I can calm myself down. Yeah, and so I use it for mood. Really, if I'm good, if I'm gonna use it, it's for mood for me. What about you? Have you experienced brain fog or anything like that?
Speaker 3:You know, fog is one and I've explained so many of them, yeah, huh. Yes, ma'am. Yeah, I was looking at some stuff online about like what can I do to help all this, and CBD did just keep popping Up different articles and different areas, for it treats so many different things related to, you know, these women's symptoms at all stages of our lives. Like we talked about tampons, but it's also things you can take and also I was gonna mention like that, yeah, but you said it for ADHD even it's something you can take for that. But, yeah, I did find articles that a lot of women are turned into cannabis now for menopause symptom relief and I think that's pretty awesome.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it is. It is and I know that. I Was reading articles last week and they were saying that a big, huge part of the market is being missed Because a lot of these products are not being aimed at women and they're just being aimed at men. And cannabis is Such a huge market over here, like Gen Z is one of the biggest up-and-coming women groups that are acknowledging that they're here and they're interested in cannabis, so I see a tide changing because if they don't change with it, they're gonna miss a huge monetary market right there.
Speaker 1:Whoopi Goldberg and her partner at the time back in I feel like it was 2020 Came up with a women focused cannabis brand for menstrual pain and all of the things that are associated with cramps and stuff. They did separate and go out of business or, you know, stop the brand. But I know whoopi Goldberg is coming back with another brand. I'm just not sure if it's gonna be women focused or not. But I would say that, man, if you're looking to have a cannabis brand, you really have a huge market here and women are. They have something to say. They need it.
Speaker 1:Yeah you know, yeah, was there anything, anything else on menopause for today that you wanted to talk about? I'm sure it's gonna be an ongoing subject because it's probably gonna be ongoing.
Speaker 3:Yeah, come up here and there and that's like we said. We're women, so that's we talk about stuff that we're going through and we relate to and and yeah, I just I was. I liked reading the different articles about, like I said, how women are looking to cannabis and then I feel like, okay, it's not, it is a thing and it's not you know, sleeping is a major problem when you have, when you're going through night sweats or anything like that, and they, you know Cannabis is known to help you sleep.
Speaker 1:Cbn CBN is a big player in the market when it comes to sleep.
Speaker 2:My dad's 70 years old uses it.
Speaker 1:I think that there's a lot of things that can help you Get through this. Just know, I feel like I might be on the other side of it and Phoebe is actually going through it or about to go through it, and Love her facial expressions. But it's cool on the other side, man, because now you don't have a period and You're you're able to do whatever you want and show your peacock feathers. So, with that I.
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