 Oh, I see. I see what the problem is. What's going on here? OK, let's make sure you can hear me. Yes, you can hear me. All right, welcome. Welcome, everybody. I think it's all good now. This is very interesting. All right, so welcome, everybody. Let me give you guys a moment to get settled in. It literally looks like, from my end, that you can only see this side of my head, that you can't see my face. But I'm looking at YouTube, and it looks like you can hear me. So I'm grateful for that. So welcome, everybody. It's been a while since I have done a live in this capacity, and I'm so excited, happy to be here, happy to have you all join me. Where are you tuning in from today? Also, do you have a reproductive issue? And if you do, let me know in the chat or down in the description box what your reproductive issue is and what are the symptoms you are suffering from. When you give me this information, it helps me with future content so that I know how to serve you in the future. Welcome. Hey, Leah, I'm so glad to see you. So glad you can see me properly. I don't know what's going on on my live stream software, but we'll just take it. I'm glad you can see me. Next, today, we are going to be talking about constipation. And let me just tell you, I talked to so many women about vibrates, OK? And one of the main things, hey, Stephanie, welcome from Florida. One of the main things that I hear about is constipation. Or the other side of the coin is people are constipated and they don't realize they are constipated. So I'm going to talk to you about what constipation is. Hey there, Haley and Cindy, welcome. I'm going to talk to you about what constipation is, what causes constipation. And I'm going to give you about three tips on how to overcome it, because you really can overcome constipation. You don't have to live your life constipated and miserable. And I used to be the type of person that was so constipated. Let me just say this. Sometimes I didn't go for a week. And when I would go, even if I would go more than that, it would just be like a little bit would come out and it was just a miserable existence. But I was so used to it that I just thought it was normal. I remember being a little girl sitting on the toilet for what seemed like an eternity trying to poop when I was a little girl. So I had been constipated pretty much my whole life. I probably came out of the womb constipated. I know that sounds a little crazy, but it's very possible. So let's see. Hey, Teresa and Veronica. Hey, Veronica. See you in a while, Kay Robinson. Hey, Sherry. Hi, everybody. Welcome. So for those of you who don't know me, my name is Chelsea Knudsen. I am a certified holistic health coach, certified life coach, and I specialize in helping women to heal naturally from female-related conditions, such as fibroids, PCOS ovarian cysts, endometriosis, and the like using food as medicine. And also, before I forget, I want to tell you that the next 90-day Walk to Freedom from Fibroids group coaching program starts on Monday, April 12th. If you are interested in learning more about that program, my program, click the link in the description box below where it says to apply. So you can apply. And if you have questions, you can ask questions there. So let's go ahead and get into the topic. But before I do, let's see what's going on in the chat. Cindy says, suffering from fibroids, doctors said it's like a 5-pound baby bladder issues. It's like 5-pound baby bladder issues always leaking. You're imploded in large abdomen, painful intercourse. You crave bad foods. Yeah, I can understand that, Cindy. Well, the tips that I'm going to give about constipation will actually help you with that problem. So hey, Karen Tucker, Mary Barnor. I think that's how you say, hey, Felicia, I haven't seen you in a while. All right, let me go ahead and get into the topic. Oh, before that, sorry. We have three more days left to our fasting and praying. And if you are interested in joining us on the last three days, let me just tell you, we've been having a really good time in the prayer group. The link is down in the description box below to join. I would be excited to have you. All right, what is constipation? OK, most people don't know what constipation is. But let me just explain it to you this way. We eat typically, as Americans, at least three times a day. Maybe some people eat two big meals a day. And maybe you might poop once a day. Sometimes people will say to me, well, I poop once a day after I've had my coffee in the morning or after I drink a bunch of water. And then either they'll say they feel like the evacuation of the poop is it feels like everything came out or maybe they feel like maybe it's just not all out, but at least they got a poop in. So let me just say this. Whatever you put into your mouth, it needs to come out the other end, at least about 12 hours later. So if you eat three times a day, that means that 12 hours after each meal, you should be having a bowel movement. Most people are not doing that. If you're not doing that and you haven't been doing that your whole life, then you have some form of constipation. Some people, it's worse than others, but if you don't poop like three times a day, everyday solid poops, I'm not talking about going and sitting on the toilet and doing some squirts or having a little bit of diarrhea or just some weird pellet poops. I'm talking about full formed bowel movements, like just poop. It should be probably about this big, this big and round and probably about this long. Actually, you can use your elbow, your elbow to your wrist. That's how much poop should come out when you eat. Now, it doesn't have to be as thick as your elbow, but the lens should be. Now that lens could be broken up, but this is how much poop should come out when you take a poop. And if you're not doing that, there is probably some form of constipation going on in your body. So hopefully you have an understanding of what constipation is. We need to be getting this stuff out. And a lot of the reason why women develop vibrates and pain and inflammation and all that stuff is because there's all this excess fecal matter that is sitting in your intestines rotting and decaying and the nasties are being reabsorbed into your bloodstream and the body's got to store that stuff somewhere. So it will store it in your joints, store it in your abdomen, hence fibroids and cysts. It'll store it in your breast, hence cystic breasts or sore breasts in your groin, like boils in your groin area, underneath your arms, boils in your groin, underneath your arms, like it will store it wherever you needed to store. If it can't store it any more in your belly. So let's just, let's move on. So if you're constipated, it is contributing to the reproductive problem. So you've got to get your brows moving. So next on the agenda is what causes constipation. And typically it's the foods we eat, preferably the beige foods. The beige foods are things like rice and bread and processed foods and sugar. So like when that all is mixed up, flour when that is mixed up with some heavy meat and some fat, it is a huge combination for digestive problems for one, like IBS, irritable bowel syndrome, Crohn's that kind of stuff. But it's a recipe for constipation because there's no fiber in that stuff and it just sits there. So if you've got all that in your belly along with the heavy meat and it doesn't even have to be like beef, it could be chicken, it could be fish, it doesn't matter. But if you've got all of that combination in your belly, like that is a big huge recipe for constipation. So that's the first thing. The second thing is dehydration. Most of us do not drink enough water to actually hydrate the digestive system enough so that the stuff can move through and out of the digestive system even if you weren't eating enough fiber. We need 2.7 liters of water just a day, just for our organs and glands to work properly. Most people that I talk to, oh, I've had two bottles of water and I say, well, how much is those two bottles of water? You're talking like 16 ounces each. 32 ounces of water is not enough water for your organs to even do what they're supposed to do. So we're behind on that. So no wonder we're dehydrated. And the next cause of dehydration, I'm sorry, of constipation is stress. When you're stressed, it's herald in your belly. You ever notice like when you get nervous or scared about something, your belly will start to do flips or you might get butterflies in your stomach. Well, stress is held in your stomach and some of us are so stressed out that we've been stressed our whole lives and we don't even realize we're stressed because that's our natural state. So we gotta get rid of the stress. And the other thing, I mean, there are other things that contribute to constipation, but there's only one more that I really wanna mention that I think is a big contributor and that's medications, whether it is a prescribed medication or because you have so much pain in your body, you're popping, you know, ibuprofen, ibuprofen and aspirin and a leave all the time just to get rid of the inflammation feeling in your body. And that causes constipation in your digestive system and it also does damage to your liver. So I know this that it contributes to constipation because I used to pop ibuprofen like candy because I was so inflamed and my body ached so bad and it ached under my arms, under my breasts, in my groin, in those areas because I had so much inflammation. Karen Tyler, it's been amazing. Don't wanna be over in, oh, the prayer and fasting. Thank you, Karen. I'm so glad you feel that way. Well, let's just soak it all up over the next three days. We'll see what the Lord has, what he does. And Lindy, hey, Lindy, I haven't talked to you in a while. Tracy, hey, Tracy. So we've talked about what is constipation and what causes constipation. Now, I'm gonna give you three and a half tips. Three and a half tips to overcome constipation. Put these into practice, make it your job. If you're constipated, make it your job. All right, the first one is hydrate. And let me just say drinking any old water is not gonna get you hydrated. You want to drink your water in such a way where you actually absorb it. So my suggestion is that you drink the cleanest water you can find, try not to drink water out of plastic bottles because that is a hormone disruptor unless you can find a plastic bottle that is BPA free or find yourself some water and find yourself some water that doesn't have fluoride in it and chlorine. So one of the things you can do to help hydrate yourself is to drink the water with lemon or lime in it. You can drink green juices that is very hydrating. Watermelon juice is very hydrating. Grape juice is very hydrating. Like high water content fruit juices are very hydrating. Some people are scared of the fruit juice. If you're scared of the fruit juice then don't drink the fruit juice drink the green juice. Also herbal tea is hydrating especially if you add some lemon to it. And the other thing that is hydrating is eating actual fruit like melons, berries, citrus and grapes those things help to hydrate your body. So you want, so that's the first thing. In order for the poop to move through your food to move through your body so that you can poop it out there needs to be proper hydration in your digestive tract and these things will help you get hydrated. Now, let me say something about hydration. It doesn't happen overnight. Hydration comes from consistency, not like, oh, I'm gonna drink a gallon of water today and then don't drink but two bottles of water tomorrow and Thursday and then drink a gallon of water on Saturday like it doesn't work that way. You gotta be consistent every single day so that your cells, all of your cells in your body that need the water get hydrated. Okay, so here's the second part. Get rid of the foods to avoid. And if you don't know what foods you're supposed to avoid then go down in the description box and click the link to download the foods to avoid list because those foods that are on the foods to avoid list those are the ones to suck the hydration out of your body. Like the meat, the dairy, the bread, the processed foods the things like caffeine, all that alcohol it sucks the hydration out of your body. So go and download that list as fast as you can. If you've already downloaded the list and you can't find it in your email or something like that just email me at info at whatchelseaeats.com and I won't, I don't have any problems sending it to you you just have to give me some time to get to your email and send it to you because I have tons of emails in my box. So, the next thing is, and this is the half this is two and a half, eat from God's garden. God's garden is full of medicine and healing foods that will help to hydrate your colon and provide the necessary roughage so that it sweeps the colon so that you can poop regularly when you, as you eat and live your life. So that is eat as raw as possible. You don't have to be a 100% raw foodist but most of your food should be raw because when it's raw it has most of the water intact. So eat lots of leafy greens. You know, your vegetables like broccoli, cauliflower, Brussels sprouts, carrots, whatever kind of a full ripe vegetables you can find and lots of fruit, apples, oranges, berries, melons, anything that you like, mangoes, whatever you can get your hands on that you like eat it as much as possible. Drink smoothies, drink juices. Fill your body up with God's gardens of food and not only will you be, will the constipation be rectified but if you are dealing with digestive issues that will help you heal. Now so say you're somebody who maybe you don't have five boys or your reproductive system is not like in terrible shape where you need to go through my 90 day walk to freedom five boys group coaching program but you got a few issues that you need to address. Schedule a one-on-one session with me and I will do a health assessment with you and write you an herbal protocol and tell you which foods to eat and help you with how to get yourself healed from whatever that gut issue is because there's lots of people who have gut issues and as long as you have gut issues your life is gonna be miserable. You're not gonna heal from anything with gut issues or if you're not pooping the way you're supposed to poop you're not gonna even shrink five boys the way you want to or heal PCOS or reverse infertility or anything else for that matter. You have got to poop. So here's number three. All right, so there's two herbs that I feel comfortable talking to you about that will help you on the overcoming constipation. As you guys know, I don't freely talk about herbs and supplements because as soon as I say something you guys are going out to buy it and it might not even be for you. So I don't do that on a regular basis but the two herbs that I'm gonna talk to you about anybody can use and get a benefit from. So I'm just gonna go ahead and put it out there. These two herbs are two of the herbs that I usually recommend for people who have constipation. There's some other ones that I talk about but these two are the ones that I like and I feel comfortable about talking about today. The first product will cleanse and heal your entire digestive system. You need to take it for at least three months really probably longer if you've been constipated your whole life but let's just start there and wrap your mind around that. And don't buy the herbs if you're not gonna take them like just because they don't work if they're sitting in your cabinet. So that's the first one and you may need other things depending on what's going on with you but this is the one that I feel like I can talk about publicly but if you need further assistance then you probably need to schedule a coaching session with me to help dig deeper into your digestive issues but the product number two is a proteolytic full spectrum digestive enzyme that is mixed with a probiotic. This will clear the undigested food that is in your digestive tract as well as clear the viruses and bacteria sitting in your digestive tract that contribute to disease. It restores the gut health with the good bacteria helps to heal things going on in there. And this is a really good quality product and if you're interested in it the link is down in the description box but one thing I wanna say is do not take herbs thinking that it's gonna be your end all be all and you're still eating crap. If you're gonna eat crap, don't even waste your money. That's in every circumstance. Just don't even waste your time, you know what I mean? But if you plan to clean up your diet and you want something that is going to help you in that process, these are your products like they will help you with your healing protocol if you're going to follow what I'm saying. You can take the proteolytic digestive enzyme probiotic combination tablet ongoing. That's something that you can take your whole life to help keep your gut healthy with the good bacteria and just clearing out viruses and bacteria. And that's another thing that this particular product does in our day and age where we've got coronavirus running around and all that stuff trying to get people sick. This particular product combination will help build your immune system because a large part of our immune system is in our gut. And if our guts are a mess, our immune system is low. Low or I should say it's not, it depends on what else is going on in your body. So I can't make a huge blanket statement. So ladies, if you have some questions you can chat them and I'd be glad to try and answer them. And those of you who came in late, my next 90 day walk to freedom from fibroids group coaching program is going to begin on April 12th. If you're interested in learning more about it, you can click the link down in the description box below to apply and we'll see if we are a good fit for us to work together. Let us see, do we have any questions over here? It's down in the, the herb, the herb is down in the description box. So if you go down underneath the video, in a second, let me bring this over here so I'm not looking over here. If you go underneath the video, open up the description box. It says herbs mentioned in this video and it's the cleanse and the pure light. Those are the two names. And if you click the link, this will take you to the website to purchase these herbs. Let's see, was there another question? Cindy, suffering from fibroids, Dr. Seticis, okay, we read that one. Hey, Chelsea, I'm from South Africa. Just started following you on YouTube a few days ago. Well, welcome. Thank you for being so helpful. I'm learning so much, even though I'm still trying to find my way through. Yes, just keep on watching the videos and trying to try to apply the information. And if you find that you need help, I do have a 90-day coaching program that will teach you everything you need to know to help you shrink fibroids. It looks like some of my clients are here on this thread right now. Yes, there's at least. Let's see, one, two, three, four, five, six, maybe seven people here that are my clients. So welcome. Is this Portia that has been in the Facebook group? Is this the same Portia? Beautiful, Jules. Hi, good afternoon. Kay Romsen, you're welcome. Can you take it if you are trying to get pregnant? Oh yeah, so these, and that's another reason why I felt comfortable sharing with the views. These two particular herbs, they're not really herbs. One's, well, the first, the cleanse is an herb and the Proteal Limit Lettic Enzyme, I guess it has some herbs in it, but it is a probiotic and those are typically safe for people who are pregnant or trying to get pregnant. Actually, I think it would help like clear out the junk in your body so that you can actually get pregnant. Any other questions, ladies? You guys are quiet. Possibly because I haven't come on live in a long time and usually I used to come on like, I'm used to try to come on weekly, but my schedule has just been kind of busy, not kind of, it has been busy and I haven't had a chance to come on. But anyway, if you guys don't have any other questions, I'm gonna go ahead and go, but apply this information and not only will it help with reversing the constipation, but it will also help heal the fibroids, this information that I'm giving you. Veronica, I've gone through the 90 day, it is a good program, but you must stick to it, pack your patience in order to continue. Yes, you do. I have not started following you on Facebook yet. Maybe another part. Yeah, okay. Yeah, follow me on Facebook, Portia. The links are down in the description box. There's a prayer group and there is a foods to avoid group. And then Veronica, my program has changed tremendously since you have been in my program as well. Like it's not even the same program. I think you were in 2019, like summer or something like that if I'm remembering correctly. Yeah, okay. Sherry, would you recommend taking a probiotic or a prebiotic once or the three to four? So yeah, so a lot of people are, I think, confused about the whole probiotic, prebiotic stuff. The way I teach you to eat, I don't believe you need prebiotic because the foods that we eat, especially when you drink those smoothies and stuff like that, you don't need a, that is, that's your prebiotic. The probiotic is just to help you to repopulate the good bacteria that we lose just by attrition. But also this product, the pure life product that I'm referring to, that's something you can take forever. Like it's not like you have to stop. What I was talking about was the cleanse product. You can take that three to four months to cleanse your entire digestive system, small intestines all the way to the lower intestines. But the pure life is an ongoing product. Let's see, Leah, awesome. Awesome, Leah, thank you. Veronica, yes, 2019, I posted a question earlier. Should I retype it? Let's see, Veronica, I didn't see it. Let me see, what's the issue if the first elimination is the way you describe but the second and third aren't? Okay, so tell me what's going on with the second and third eliminations? Like, are they hard or are they smaller or did you have to strain or are they loose? Tell me about that. Did I miss anybody else's questions? I can say this, Veronica, sometimes... Well, first of all, if our bowel movements aren't full bowel movements, every time we go to the bathroom, there's something going on. Sometimes smaller, but the same consistency. Okay, so it just means that transit, it's transit time. So you probably still need to work on hydrating your colon a little bit more. And really, it depends on how much you've eaten. It wasn't were you snacking or did you eat three full milts? Did you drink juice or did you drink a... So let's just say for breakfast, you had a big bowl of fruit. For lunch, you had a big smoothie, like a 32 ounce. For dinner, you had a huge salad. So all three of those, depending on the size, those should be the next day, at least three full bowel movements. But if you drank juice for breakfast and you had smoothie for lunch and maybe you had a small bowl of fruit, then that juicing poop will be like small. The smoothie should be big and say the small bowl of fruit is like a smaller poop. I hope that makes sense. What's your view on? I think a lot of things are good. I'm not gonna get into the details of what I really think about colon cleansing right now in this video, but that's hard to say to answer that question because it really depends on what's going on with your body's violet blue. But I do think that they're good. They help to tone the uterus, I mean not the uterus, but the colon because it works the muscles as the water goes in and out. So that is helpful. But I can't answer your question fully because I don't know anything about you or anybody else for that matter who might be having that same question in their head. So I hope you forgive me, but what I've said so far is probably the best I can do without knowing more about you. Anybody else have any questions? All right, so I think there's probably like a 30 second lapse. Okay, I think the amount of food is it and water intake can increase for me even though I do both juicing and herbal teas. Thanks, violet. All right, ladies, I think we're good. And if there's a particular topic that you guys want me to talk about, feel free to post in the comment section about what you'd like me to talk about. And I will come as often as I can to do videos as I have time to because I love to interact with you and spend time with you here on YouTube. That's probably my first love actually YouTube as far as interacting with you all. Although the prayer group has been really, really good. All right, ladies. Oh, if you wanna join the prayer group, the link is down in the description box below. The foods to avoid list is in the down in the description box below. Click the link and download it. If you haven't gotten one since January of 2021, I have an updated list. So if you go to the website and you cannot download it, just email me and I'll send you the updated link info at whatchelseaeats.com. And the next 90-day walk to freedom from Fibroids Group Coaching Program is on April 12th. And I believe I'm gonna have two 90-day programs, two 90-day Fibroid programs in April so that I don't run out of space for people. Anyway, all right, ladies, I love you and I will talk to you soon. And if no one, no, this is what I wanna say. If no one told you that they loved you today, Chelsea in North Carolina loves you very much and I'll talk to y'all.