 Yay, I think I'm live. Yes, I am live. Welcome everybody. I am excited about this session because people don't really talk too much about the young coconuts. At least I don't see people talking about them. I see people drinking them on social media a lot but young coconuts are amazing. And I'm gonna get into why they are amazing for helping to heal reproductive issues. There are some of you who live in places where you have a tree in your yard and there's coconuts. I wish I had a tree, a coconut tree in my yard where I could drink coconut water all the time, fresh coconut water. But anyway, I don't have that. So I have to rely on the good old fashioned grocery store. But welcome to what Chelsea eats. Thank you so much for joining me today. And today we're gonna talk about the benefits of young Thai coconuts specifically for helping to heal fibroids, PCOS, endometriosis or variances, heavy bleeding, whatever your reproductive issue is. So tell me what reproductive issue are you struggling with? Have you started to change your diet? And if so, how's it going? If not, why not? Why haven't you started to change your diet? And if you haven't downloaded the free foods to avoid list, please download it, the link for the foods to avoid list for helping you to get well from reproductive issues is down in the description box below. Tell me where you're tuning in from. And if you have questions, please chat them in. I am happy to answer any kind of question that you have about reproductive health while I'm on live with you. And also, even if you leave me a comment, if you're watching the replay, I'm happy to answer those questions as well. But in the description box below, you will see some videos that I have done in the past about coconut, like a coconut, a blueberry yogurt crunch recipe that I did and I absolutely love. This recipe is easy, as quick as something you can do. Like you can make several of them up in advance, take them to work with you or just have them for dessert, wonderful. So there's the blueberry yogurt crunch link down in the description box. There's a link on how to open a young coconut, these, how to open them if all you have as a knife. I have also a cocoa jack, which is the thing that cuts the big hole in it easily. And if you can see this little hole, I'm not sure what this one is called, but I have like this little thing where I take a little rubber like mallet and poke a hole in it. And let me show you, then I can drink right out of it with a straw. So I have those too, but I don't have videos for those yet, but there is a video down below on how to open a young coconut. And my most favorite video of all, which I think is probably one of the most important things that you can do with the coconut meat is make coconut yogurt. And the video that I did, it is a combination of making almond coconut yogurt. You can make just plain coconut yogurt, you can make coconut walnut yogurt, you can make whatever kind of yogurt you want, just when you watch the video, just replace the almonds with whatever kind of raw nut you have on hand and you can make that kind of yogurt. But you can leave the nuts out altogether and just make the coconut yogurt. So those links are down in the description box. But let me get into the topic, but let me introduce myself. If you're new here, welcome. I'm so glad you landed on my channel. My name is Chelsea Knudsen and I am a certified holistic health coach, a life coach and a detoxification specialist. And I help women to shrink fibroids and heal reproductive issues naturally using food, herbs, and God's word is medicine. There is a link down in the description box where you can find out more information about me or you can just watch the videos on this channel. Also, be sure to subscribe and hit the notification bell so you never miss an episode. And so I'm very excited to talk about this topic. Oh, before I forget, the Anemia workshop happens tonight. There's still time to join, there's space in the group. There is a link down in the description box below. But today we're talking about the benefits of the young Thai coconut for shrinking fibroids, healing PCOS, endometriosis, and ovarian cyst. First of all, I'm not referring to the coconut water that you find on the shelf in the grocery store. That has some merit to it, but it's not what I'm referring to for this video, for these purposes. Those products are pasteurized and they don't give you the same benefits as the fresh young coconuts. I'm talking about these coconuts, if you just joined me, the young coconuts. This is what I'm referring to. There are a few companies though that sell the water straight from these coconuts. That's not pasteurized. It's rare to find them. I think harmless harvest is one, but I don't really like theirs because, I mean, most of the time when you see it on a shelf, the coconut water has turned pink. And if you have gotten one of these and you've opened it and the water inside is pink, I think that's rotten. That's my opinion. The harmless harvest people will say, oh, it's the natural occurring electrolytes or some reason they give you for why it's okay to drink the pink coconut water. I just don't drink it. I think it's rotten. That's my opinion. I have no absolute proof about that. I'm just not drinking it. So there are some you can buy in the bottle and if you do buy them in the bottle, they're usually in the refrigerated section and they say on the bottle, not pasteurized. They also say on the bottle that you must keep it refrigerated. I typically don't buy those unless I'm like traveling and I just wanna have some coconut water or something like that. But these are the ones that I purchase. Now I'm gonna tell you how I get these in large quantities for a little bit cheaper. So you go to the grocery store, you probably see these on the shelf and they're like four or five or $6 depending on where you go. And I'm sorry, that's a lot of money for one coconut. But anyway, let me tell you what the general benefits of the young coconut water is. It's very hydrating. It's a great thing to drink first thing in the morning or after exercise because it is full of electrolytes like calcium, magnesium, phosphorus, potassium, things like that. And lots of people will drink things like Gatorade, which Gatorade is absolute garbage. It's just junk. I would not drink that. If you are drinking Gatorade and you're trying to heal reproductive issues, please stop drinking it. I would choose this young coconut over Gatorade. You can even use a regular bottled coconut water on the shelf that has been pasteurized that's gonna be, it's gonna be better than Gatorade. I still don't recommend drinking those like as like, you know, on a regular basis. I mean, it's not gonna hurt you to drink it. The healing properties is the young coconuts that are not pasteurized is where the healing properties are. I'm gonna talk about that in a minute. Give me a second. But let me continue on and just tell you what the benefits of these coconuts are. It's excellent for your kidney health. And the reason this is important is because women with fibroids have usually a lot of stress in their lives. And there's this little gland that sits on top of the kidneys called the adrenal glands. And if you find yourself really tired all the time and just can't like, you know, you just can't, you just no get up and go. That's really a sign that it's possible that you have adrenal fatigue. And adrenal fatigue comes from you being stressed all the time and the adrenaline is always trying to rush through your body to manage, to help you manage that stress. At a certain point your body is like, look, I can't do that. I just can't do any more. And so the adrenals get, they get fatigued and they just sometimes they quit working altogether. That's extreme adrenal fatigue, but it happens. But the kidneys get a beating because they are the thing that has to help filter all the junk that we eat on a regular basis. So when we drink, when we drink the coconut water, it helps to soothe the kidneys. It helps to clean out the kidneys. So that's why this is important. The coconut water is also good for your skin. If you're somebody who is prediabetic or you're diabetic or insulin resistant, it helps lower your blood sugar. It can even help lower blood pressure. And I find from working with lots of women that with reproductive issues, a lot of them are either, they either have high blood pressure or their borderline on getting high blood pressure. So the coconut water helps to balance all that out. It also gives you energy. It's a low calorie drink. Like it doesn't have a whole lot of calories in it. So if you drink it, you can drink as much as you want and not have to worry about it affecting you in a negative way. It also helps to boost your brain. Have any of you experienced brain fog? A lot of women I work with, they say, oh, how do I get rid of this brain fog? Well, coconut water is not the 100% answer to that problem but it does help boost brain function. It also helps relieve constipation because it is so hydrating. All these benefits are great. And if these were all the benefits that these little coconuts had, it would be perfect. I mean, it'd be worth drinking it every day or adding it to your diet on a regular basis, right? But that's not even it. So let me get a sip of water. So a few weeks ago, or it could have been like last week, I can't remember exactly when I did it. But I did a video on how to survive a difficult menstrual cycle. And one of the things that I talked about in that video was hydration and the water that I recommend to hydrate. If you haven't seen that video, when you're done with this one, go watch that one. It'll fill you in on what I'm about to talk about. So we need hydration in the worst way. Everybody needs to be hydrated. The foods we eat, especially when we eat a lot of cooked foods, a lot of beige foods like starchy foods, things like that, our bodies get really dehydrated. And if you have fibroids or some type of reproductive issue, it means that you need hydration in your body so that you can release this stuff that's stuck in your body. First of all, fibroids in themselves, they're hard. They're hard and viscous. So we need hydration to help break that up. There's also stagnant lymph in your lymphatic fluid in your pelvis if you have fibroids or a reproductive issue. And lymphatic fluid, the lymphatic system is the sewer system of the body. So what happens is that sewage, when I say stagnant lymph, that sewage that is in ourselves, it just sits because there's not enough hydration to push it out. And also some of us don't exercise so we don't push it out that way. And the food we eat, if our bodies cannot eliminate it, it just gets stuck in the body and a good place for it to settle is the pelvic region. That's why a lot of us get the reproductive issues. So we need to hydrate in order to shrink the fibroids, move the lymph, cleanse our bodies in general but drain cysts, move inflammation out, break down scar tissue. Like we need hydration at the cellular level in order to make this happen. All right, so what does that have to do with a coconut? Well, coconut water, the water from the coconut is another way to hydrate your body in a way where your body can receive the hydration that it needs so that it can use it to cleanse out the toxic waste. And the reason why this coconut is a good option for that is because of the way it's structured. The way it's structured is when we drink this, our cells are ready to receive the liquid. You ever drink like a lot of water and it just kind of floods right through you and you still feel dehydrated? Well, if you drink coconut water, what happens is when you drink it, your body absorbs the water, accepts the water from the coconut and it actually hydrates you at a cellular level. So that means our little cells in our skin, in our organs are receiving the water and it's hydrating us in a way that when our body needs to get rid of something, it helps to sweep that away because the water actually was received by our cells. So we might be drinking a whole lot of water, but we might not be receiving it and doing anything with it when we drink it. And the important thing about hydration is that's what we need our bodies to do. And the reason I mentioned that last video I did about how to survive a difficult menstrual cycle is because I talked about this topic and the type of water that I recommend drinking in order to do that. And coconut water is another way to make that happen. So in a lot of ways, I think this drinking this is better than drinking like your regular water or the water that I recommended in that video. So go back and watch it when you get a chance. Now the problem here with these coconuts, unfortunately, they can be very expensive. I don't want you to think that if you can't drink young coconuts every day that you're not gonna get hydrated and that you can't heal because that is not true. This is drinking coconut water. It's just another tool in your toolbox. That's all it is. So consider it another tool. If you can drink it every day, great. If you can't and you can just get them every once in a while, great, that's fine. I'm just giving you information. All right, I just wanna be clear on that because I don't want anybody to say to themselves, I hear this all or nothing thing. Well, I can't drink all coconuts and get the coconut from the coconut, the real coconut, the young coconuts. So I guess I better just go to McDonald's because I'm not gonna heal anyway. Do you understand? Don't have this all or nothing attitude about that because it's really not true. So where I live, I can buy the coconuts by the case. I live in North Carolina and I have a local Asian grocery store. It costs about $30 for nine coconuts. So three coconuts equals about four cups of coconut water. So a liter of coconut. So out of a case, I can get three liters of coconuts, coconut water. Now you might say that's expensive and I think it is expensive but when you put it in perspective, it may not be expensive, it may not be expensive for you. You might, excuse me, you might be willing to do that. So if this thing is, what is it, $30? $30 and got my little calculator here. Divided by nine is $3.33 per coconut. So if I need three coconuts, it's $10, is about $10 for a liter of coconuts. It's about $10. Wait, where's my spot? Where did I get, I lost my, one second. Okay, there you are. I forgot, I lost my camera there for a second, sorry. So it's about $10 for a liter of coconut water. That's like one of these filled, okay? Now some of us will go to Starbucks and buy a $6 coffee that's not even a liter. I mean, it's like, what, 20 ounces, 24 ounces, I don't know. And we do that every single day. So if you took some of your coffee money and you put it towards coconuts, you probably be able to have yourself a liter of coconut. I mean, a liter of coconut water a day. I'm not telling you how to spend your money or anything. I think we just have to shift our priorities. Like, is it important for us to have coconut water or not? Maybe your answer is yes, and then you're gonna do what you need to do to sacrifice to get the coconut waters. Maybe it's not, and that's okay too. And then you just don't buy coconut waters. But maybe you're like, okay, sometimes I can go get some coconuts. Also, be sure to put your questions in the chat if you haven't been doing that already because I'm looking forward to answering any question that you have about any topic here about healing reproductive issues. I'm glad to answer those. But some people ask me, like, well, what do you do with the meat? Most of the time I do nothing with the meat because I just, sorry, I just want the water in it. But I have a friend who scrapes the meat, puts it in her freezer and she adds it to her smoothies sometimes or makes ice cream, nice cream out of them. I don't recommend doing too much coconut meat because when you do it, if you're on the healing journey and you're eating all that fat, because the meat that's inside these coconuts is very fatty. And so you want to keep your fat intake low when you're trying to heal. So that's why I just pretty much most of the time I throw it away. But there's other things you can do. Like, as I mentioned earlier in the videos, you can make yogurt out of the coconuts. And there's nothing wrong with that. Make your coconut yogurt. It's the cleanest kind of yogurt you can make. The recipe for doing that is down in the description box. I think I have a coconut almond yogurt recipe. And if you don't want to use the almonds or any nuts at all, just use the coconut. Just drop that out of the recipe. But that's what I wanted to say about, that's all I wanted to say about the coconuts. It is about hydration on a cellular level so that you have enough hydration in your body that while you're trying to heal these fibroids and heal the reproductive issues, that your body is hydrated enough to move those toxins out of your body. And fresh coconuts is a way for you to do it. It's not the only way. And you don't need this to heal, but you do need to hydrate your body. And if you've been somebody who has had a hard time hydrating your body or hard time drinking water or whatever, this is a really good option for you. Okay, so that's all I wanted to say about that. If you are somebody who is struggling with anemia, my anemia workshop is happening tonight at 7 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. If you can't make it live, there will be a replay. So you'll get all that information if you join. But the information to join is down in the description box below. So I wanna answer your questions if you have any. So glad you're here today. Foodia, I think I'm, I hope I'm saying your name right. Foodia, welcome your carrots and your hearts. All right, so I love coconut water. I need to find those coconuts. Most people, it is like if you live and I don't even wanna say like a major city, but if you're in a city where there's an Asian market, you usually can find the coconuts. They might not, there might not be the coconuts out like right where you can get them. What I ask is the produce manager, hey, do you have these in the case? And usually that's how you can get your coconuts. Okay, Chelsea, good to see you. My question is where and how do I get the coconuts in bulk? So I love it, but they're so expensive and the grocery store is true. So I just talked about that, Ms. Mary, if you can find an Asian market, sometimes an Indian market, sometimes they will have them too. My local Sprouts, I forgot about this, so I'm gonna mention this. So Sprouts Farmers Market, if you have Sprouts Farmers Market in your area, you can ask the produce manager to order you a case. And Sprouts, the last time I did it, they were 250 each, but that's been about a year and a half ago since I asked that question. So they may be a little bit more. So yeah, that's where I would go. Also, if a store, if you see them in the grocery store, ask your produce manager if they can give you a case price. I mean, any grocery store, like if you see it at Harris Teeter or Kroger or wherever you shop and you just see one or two on the shelf or whatever, ask them, hey, can I get a case price? How much would you charge me for a case? See if they'll do it. Sometimes they'll order it for you. So hopefully that is helpful. Okay, good day, Ms. Chelsea. I finally caught your live coconut water as pricey, but I will definitely do it, at least what it is pricey. I hear you, Ms. Pearl, it is pricey. The fatigue you spoke about is me. Right now, my right side gives me a draining pain sometimes, I'm sorry. Have you, Ms. Pearl, have you started to change your diet? That's gonna be the biggest thing that's gonna help restore your energy, ladies. If you are having that extreme fatigue like that, and I know how it feels is so horrible, but if you haven't started to change your diet, please do that and try to stay consistent. Okay, Ms. Pearl, where am I? My husband is texting me. Okay, can drinking freshly juiced cucumber and apple juice give you good hydration just like drinking coconut water? It's not the same, but yes, it will hydrate you. Absolutely, cucumber apple juice is hydrating for sure. Can somebody tell Kenneth Knudsen to stop texting me while I'm doing my live? Anyway, yes, juicing is hydrating. It is like, it's better than water. It's absolutely better than water. Coconut water is different than juicing just because of its chemical, not chemical makeup, but it's natural makeup. Like there's this story, and I don't know where the story came from, but I researched it years ago and I used the story. A lot in my coaching practice, but there was, it was back in one of the wars. I can't remember whether it was World War I or II. There was a hospital where there was all these wounded people and they were in an area where there were coconuts and they ran out of water in the hospital before they got their supplies and they just started putting coconut water in the IVs and people started getting well. They started getting up off the stretchers and started healing before they even got their new water supply. Cause you know, whenever you're in a hospital, they give you like a saline solution hydrating you with electrolytes, but coconut water has its natural electrolytes in it. But I want you guys to hear me when I say this, you do not need coconut water to hydrate. It's an option. It's a great option. If you can't get access to coconuts, okay, that's all right. There's no coconuts, do you know what I mean? So, and drink your coconut, I'm sorry, your cucumber apple juice, that's going to hydrate you. So just hear that. Foodia loves coconut water. Foodia, do you have any coconut trees near you? You answered my question. Thank you, good. All right, Chelsea, good point about the water quality. I often felt bloated and not hydrated after drinking lots of water. That's exactly what's happening is because your body is like, what am I supposed to do with this? I don't know what to do with this. So anyway, today I caught you live. I was waiting for you. I'm so glad, Foodia, that's so sweet. Thank you for saying that. And thank you so much for always counting on all my videos. I see those comments all the time. Ms. Pearl, do you eat regular peanuts or are your clients to you? So peanuts, unless you can find some really good quality peanuts, I really wouldn't even eat them. Like there's this place in North Carolina that makes, that grows peanuts and they sell them to my local Whole Foods Market. But what they do is they blanch them. They don't boil them, they don't cook them. So they're very quick. They're close to, as close to raw as you're gonna get. And you can buy the unsalted variety of them. But even so, if I eat them, it says a condiment. I'm not sitting there snacking on peanuts. I don't recommend that anybody snack on nuts because what you do is you end up eating too many nuts and then that's too much fat and then you're slowing your detox down. So, but anyway, if you can't find like a really good quality peanut, I would just leave them alone all together. Maybe try organic and use them as a condiment. Hey there, Sierra. Welcome. Okay, I have been drinking coconut water for a few months. I've been buying one liter nine-pack Costco own brand, but 100% cartons. I know it's authorized, it's okay, alternative. Marlene, hey Marlene, hey there. So it's not helping you. I mean, when it's pasteurized it, I mean, one, you need to watch the label. Look at the label and see what's in it. But sometimes they actually add some extra sugar in it. But it's not doing, it's not really doing, it's not healing. So, but I can't say that it's hurting you either as long as it's a good brand and it doesn't have any junk in it. But I mean, for me, to me it doesn't even taste the same when you drink the pasteurized versus the real coconut. But if you're drinking the pasteurized and you feel okay drinking it, then drink it. I don't think it hurts, but it's not giving you the benefits that the coconut is, the raw coconut is. Because the raw coconut is not only just hydrating you, it has healing benefits. Just like as if you were drinking a therapeutic juice that you pressed in your juicer at home. I'll check sprouts, you're welcome. Okay, also when I'm in Jamaica, I drink the coconuts there. Is there a big difference between this and Thai coconuts? You know what? I don't know the answer to that question, but you know what? If I could get a coconut off the tree and drink it, like yeah, I would say yeah, drink it. Now I do know there is a difference between the coconuts that come from Thailand and the ones in Florida. I was at Hippocrates in October and they would have this guy come bring us fresh coconuts on Wednesdays. And I could taste the difference immediately. I was like, these must be Florida. I think they were Florida coconuts, but they almost had like a bitter taste to them. I'm like, what is wrong with these coconuts? So I didn't drink them. So the young coconuts from Thailand always taste really fresh to me. I wanna drink them. And they feel like they're actually doing something in my body, like I can feel the difference when I drink those versus other drinks. So I don't know the answer, but if you could get it right off the tree and you know it just came off the tree, drink it and see what happens. It's pearl. I mostly eat fruits and vegetables. Good for you. Excellent. All right, what iron supplement do you recommend to raise iron levels quickly? I have hard time with fatigue. First of all, change your diet, but my bye-bye anemia tea, I'm not trying to sell my tea, but I have had so many people say, I used to be anemic. I'm not anemic anymore. It's what I used herbs instead of iron supplements to get my iron levels to where they needed to be. So I hope that helps. You can just go to my website, whatchelceathes.com. Was meant to say 100% coconut water, nothing added, but I hear you. Okay, yeah. All right. Thank you, Merlene. It's so good to see you. All right. Well, I can't see you, but you know what I mean. All right, ladies, if there's no more questions, I'm gonna go. I'm so glad that I got to be here with you all today. Remember, if you are struggling with anemia, I'm doing my anemia workshop tonight, 7 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. The link is down in the description box below. If you want to join, you are welcome. And I'm gonna go ahead and end this broadcast. I love you all. I pray that God would heal you inside and out. Let's see, there was a question that just popped in. Let me see. My mother had purchased a Nutra Bullet for me since I had been diagnosed, and I see a big difference in how I'm healing. Yay, good for you. Congratulations. I'm so happy to hear that, Marley. All right, ladies, so I speak life and blessings over you, healing over you, and I will talk to you all soon. Lots of love. Take care.