 Hello, everybody. Hello. Welcome to what Chelsea eats. I'm so glad to be here today. I am going to be sharing with you about heavy bleeding and fibroids or whatever kind of wound issue you have and what you need to know about it. Let me know where you are tuning in from. Say hello in the chat so I know who is joining me. Some of you I remember from over the years. Some of you are new and I'm grateful that you're here. Let me introduce myself. My name is Chelsea Knudsen. I am a fibroid healing and life transformation coach. I help Christian women heal wound issues and emotional traumas using food, herbs, God's word and prayer as medicine. If you are struggling, please let me know. If you're struggling with wound issues of any type, let me know in the chat. And also if you have questions about this topic or any topic, go ahead and put those in the chat too because I'll spend some time answering your questions at the end of what I want to teach on today. I also wanted to let you know that I have opened the doors to my new group coaching program. It's called the Fibroid Detox Collective. And don't let the detox fool you. It's not about going on a detox. It means just really detoxing your life in general and allowing your body to heal. And the collective means is that there's a group of women who are like-minded together doing this with the same goal in mind. It's one of the things that I found when I was on my journey, especially in the beginning, is I felt very alone because nobody understood what I was going through. And it would have been helpful to have a group of women that I could move through that with. And also the other thing that would have been important for me is to not have to figure it all out and to have somebody to guide me. So that's why I called the group coaching program the Fibroid Detox Collective. And if you want to know more about it, there is a link down in the description box. And you can also ask questions in the chat or you can shoot me an email at info at whatchelsieats.com. All right, but let's get into what we're going to talk to you about today. It's heavy bleeding and fibroids and what you need to know. Do you experience heavy bleeding or are you anemic? Please let me know that in the chat as well. I would like to know that. Also, I want to be clear. I am not a doctor. I'm giving you information based on my own personal experiences and the experiences of my clients. So if you need doctors advice, I suggest you contact your healthcare provider because I am not a doctor. I'm a certified holistic health coach. I'm certified. I'm a certified life coach. And I have worked with women with their health for quite a while since 2017. So I know a little bit, but I'm not a licensed like medical professional such as a doctor or an NP, what is it? NP, nurse practitioner. And I'm not a physician's assistant. So just wanted to get that out there right now. But healing, I'm sorry, heavy bleeding is brutal. It's brutal. It takes a toll on the body. And remember, blood or blood, the Bible says life is in the blood. And that heavy bleeding feels like the life is just being drained out of you. I know this because I have experienced it personally. And I was sick for a long time because of it. And the healthcare establishments that I was associated with it when I had that experience really chalked it up to, oh, let's just give you an iron infusion. Oh, let's just give you a blood transfusion or oh, we don't know what to do about it. Here's some birth control pills or here's this pill. Here's that pill. Let's give you this surgery. Those are the only answers that I got. And I just knew that there was something else that you could do about it. It's like, why am I bleeding? Where is this coming from? Why do I have this heavy bleeding? My sister didn't have all this heavy bleeding. She was probably bleeding more than she probably should have, which I'm going to tell you about what that means in just a minute. But she didn't experience that. My friend over here didn't experience that. Why didn't they experience it? And I'm experiencing that. What's going on here? So let me just say this though, the vagina is an eliminative organ and stress is a major factor as to why heavy bleeding happens. And I could sit here and tell you all that right now, but I'm not. That's a whole nother class in itself is to why stress contributes to heavy bleeding. And I'm not going to get into that right now. I do teach that in my group program so that people can understand where that comes from. But I want to say that if you are a heavy bleeder, you do need to deal with the stressors in your life. Really, that means you need to get down to the spiritual situation as to why you've got stress in your life like this that's causing you to bleed. Like what what do you have going on in your life? Is God telling you to do something that you just won't do? Do you have relationships you need to cut off? What kind of job are you in? Is it stressful to the point where you need to change jobs? Like what's going on? Is it your environment? But it also comes from what you eat, what you drink, what you think, which is part of the stressor category and what you put on your body. And are all of these things or any of these things toxic? Think about that. Are any of the things that I just said eat, drink, think, put on your body environment? Are any of those toxic? And if so, if you're struggling with heavy bleeding, you need to change it so that you can stop bleeding your guts out. Okay? You cannot do things that keep causing the problem if you want it to stop. Does that make sense? Like you got to stop doing the stuff that's causing it so you said that it can stop. So let me just explain like what my background is with heavy bleeding just so you know that I'm not just this is not just lip service. I even have videos from back in probably 2015 where I talked about some of my heavy bleeding experiences when I was actually going through that process. You could go back there and watch them if you want to. But yeah, I have experience with it. So I know what it's like to have heavy, heavy, heavy periods. Like it looks like a crime scene in your underwear. You go to sleep. The bed is covered with blood because you're bleeding your guts out. Long periods, clots, like coming out what bleed blood coming out like a faucet, having heart palpitations, thinking you're going to die like your heart's going to stop because your blood is so low. Weakness, weakness to such a degree where I couldn't do anything except lay on the couch and sit there or like had no energy, extreme fatigue. Weakness, my skin was pale. How is a dark skin person pale? Well, that'll happen if your blood is low. Extreme anemia, I think one time I had gotten my hemoglobin checked and it was like a six and they were telling me I needed to get an iron infusion or whatever. And I didn't even go back for like three weeks. And then I finally got the thing. And I'm sure that at that time it was even lower than the six. I couldn't work consistently because I was so drained and just tired because of how much I was bleeding. You know what I mean? So I know some of you understand that experience. And so after that, after telling you that, I hope you understand that I know what it means to bleed and be anemic and like experience this. Because I think when people tell me that they're experiencing it, sometimes they're like, oh, you don't know. Oh, yes, I do know. I know because I've been there and it's not fun. And the doctors did not help me come out of it. I'm going to tell you that right now. As a matter of fact, what happened to me is I ended up getting an iron infusion. I got that iron infusion and I remember feeling horrible from the iron infusion because it was toxic. So I felt a little bit better because my iron was up a little bit after the iron infusion. But I also felt like there was this haze over me from getting the infusion. Who knows what was in that infusion? And so at the time, I remember we had, my husband and I had this in our health insurance was like one of those high deductible plans. And it cost like $1800 for the regular iron infusion. And this was some years ago. So that's been, you know, so almost 10 years ago when I got that infusion. And then there was, that was the regular iron infusion. And then the generic iron infusion, which took, like it took all day for me to have, it was a little bit cheaper. So I got the generic. I don't know if it was the same product, something inferior. I don't know. But I either won. I know that it wasn't good for me because I, because it was just iron being put in my body like that. And so anyway, I don't mean to get off on a tangent about that. But, and I'm not saying that you didn't hear me. I'm not saying that if you're in that situation that you should not get an iron infusion. I'm telling you about my experience and how like they told me I needed to get it. And I went on and got it. But what happened was, is my iron in three months was right back where it was in from the get go. So it's like, I don't know why I got this iron infusion because they didn't address the problem. They didn't address why I had, why I needed the iron infusion in the first place. That's why it went right back. That's why I'm always getting women in my inbox saying, I got an iron infusion and you know, I'm still, I'm back, you know, now my iron is low again. Like this is like a cycle. It keeps you in a cycle. It doesn't, it does getting an iron infusion, a blood infusion is a stopgap. Like it's something to hold you over until the next one, so to speak. And so what ended up happening with me is that third month, I went and got my blood drawn again. And I'm like, why has my blood down again and all that? I didn't understand what I know now. So I decided I went, I got in my car and I prayed and I was like, Lord, there has got to be something else for me to do to get my blood right. Because this, they're not helping me. I'm spending thousands of dollars at the hematologist. And they're not helping me. They're testing me for all kinds of cancers and all this stuff. And I don't have any of that. Like stop it. Stop. It's a business. You know what I mean? So I never went back. I never went back. I cut my relationship off with the hematologist. I cut my relationship off with my regular gynecologist. My regular physician, I just stopped going back. But before I get into what I changed and what caused and helped me to heal, let me just say this. It is not normal to bleed like that, to have a heavy cycle. As a matter of fact, I did a video on my channel here explaining exactly what a normal period should look like. And you could go and search in my on my channel page and say what's a normal period supposed to look like in the video will come up. But just so you know, in short, a normal period is only supposed to be two to three tablespoons of blood for the entire period. Yes, you heard me right. Two to three tablespoons of blood for the entire period. And so think about this. When you why do you get a period? It's so that you can shed the lining of your uterus because it wasn't implanted. An egg wasn't implanted when you got pregnant. You didn't get pregnant. So the egg wasn't implanted. So it sheds. Your uterus is about the size of your fist. The way some of us are bleeding, it means our uterus is like this big. It's like a gallon coming out, it seems. Although I don't think it's a gallon coming out. But that's what it feels like when you're bleeding your guts out like that. So it's like, why are we why are we bleeding so much? But anyway, let me let me move on because I don't want to make this video way too long. So before I go into what you can do about this, I want to explain a little bit about how blood is replaced in the body. So first off, we lose blood cells every month, just because blood cells die like cells only have a certain lifespan. So they die and our body excretes it through the lymphatic system, through our feces, it just whatever wherever dead waste goes, it goes away. So we lose blood cells because of that. We also lose blood because of our menstrual cycle. And we're supposed to be able to keep up with that. Our bone marrow is where blood is made and we're supposed to be able to keep up with that. But if we are losing our normal amount of blood cells because they have reached the end of their life cycle, we've had this heavy, heavy, heavy, heavy period. And we still need that blood, like we need, we still need the blood that's coming out too much. Our bodies are on overdrive, trying to make up for all the blood we lost from our bone marrow. And it can't make as much blood as we lose. That's why we are in a deficit and our iron is low, and a hemoglobin is low, because your bone marrow can't keep up with it whenever you are a heavy bleeder. So two to three tablespoons is the goal. But most of us are not there at all. And if we, and if we are fantastic, I'm happy for you. That's what what you're supposed to be doing. So I just wanted to quickly talk about that. And I do, I can teach more on the specifics of that, but that's not important right now. All right, so let me tell you what I did to get well. The first thing I did is I stopped going to the doctors and letting them suck my blood out all the time. That's another thing. If you are bleeding your guts out, and you're losing, you know, cells because they died because of the life cycle, and you're getting all those valves taken at the doctor's office. No wonder you're anemic. No wonder you can't handle it. Like your body is like, what do you expect me to do? I don't have enough blood in here to do what you want me to do. So the other thing that happens is when you are anemic, it seems like your body is even bleeding even more. You would think your body will hold on to the blood, but it's not. And one of the reasons why you bleed more when you're anemic is because your toxic and your vagina, like I mentioned, is a, in a limited of organ. Your body is like trying to push out the toxins to stop poisoning the blood. So that's why more blood comes out when you are on your cycle because it's trying to get rid of toxins. So that's why what I'm about to tell you is so important. That's why this diet change is important. You cannot straddle. If you are in this position and you're straddling the fence, some days I eat well, some days I don't. If you have this problem, you need to stop it now. And if you're struggling and you cannot stop, you need to ask God how to stop. What can you do? Can he help you? Because it's like you can't just eat salad and I'm just using salad as an example. You can't just eat salad on Monday and Tuesday, Monday through Friday and on the weekends eat whatever you want and expect the heavy bleeding to go away. It almost will never happen. So you have to make a complete mind shift, diet change, eat lots of greens, lots of smoothies, lots of green juices, lots of salads, things like that. And if you have not already downloaded my free foods to avoid list, then go ahead and download that and put that stuff into play right now. The other thing I did was I stopped worrying about what my iron level was and I just don't. I didn't get any more blood drawn. I stopped caring because it wasn't helping me. Caring about the iron infusions was adding so much more stress. I'm sorry. Caring about the iron levels was putting so much more stress on my body. I think it was contributing to me even being bleeding even more. So I just stopped everything. I didn't go back to the doctors to get my blood drawn. I didn't even go get a physical. I didn't care. I just stopped. I just, what I did was I put my, I changed my mind and I started eating what I was supposed to be eating and eventually one day I decided, I felt like I was like, wow, I'm not fatigued anymore. Wow, I have energy to do something. Wow, I'm not pale anymore. Wow, look at this. My skin is changing. Look at that. Like everything started to shift. The next thing I did was hydrate, hydrate, hydrate, hydrate. And I know that when you have fibroids, they sit on top of your bladder and they make you have to go to the bathroom every five seconds. But stop using that as an excuse not to drink water, y'all. In order to shrink the fibroids or to heal the wound issues, you need water. That's the bottom line. And so what if you have to go to the bathroom every five seconds? What are you going to do? Get fired because from your job, if you have to go to the bathroom, that would be discrimination. Seriously. You can't work here because you have to go to the bathroom too much. I'm sorry, I have to, I have to go to the bathroom. So don't use that as an excuse. It's like, do you want to get well or not? I took herbs, lots of them. And I formulated the herbal blends that are in my store right now for the herbs that I, what I'm trying to say is the herbs that I took then are in the formulations that I made that I have now in my herbal blend store. And I've also added things that I have learned in my process. That's what I'm trying to say. So if I was anemic now, what would I take? I would take the womb healing tea so that I can heal my wound of all the junk that's in the womb, whether you have fibroids, cysts, ovarian cysts, whether you have endometriosis, polyps, whatever you have, I would take that. Then I would take the bleeding formula so that I could slow that bleeding down. The bleeding formula is a product that is, like, it's not meant to take forever. It's not meant to solve the problem. What it's meant to do is to help you not to bleed your guts out while you're in the healing process. That's what the bleeding formula is. But it also has lots of minerals in it. So it is going to help build your blood as well. But that's not the point of that herb. The point of that herb is just to stop that emergency bleeding and to, you know, slow the bleeding down so that you give your body a chance. The bye-bye anemia is the thing that you want to take to help build your blood. And let me just tell you, it takes time for your blood to build. It just does. It takes time for your blood to build. Like, it's not an overnight thing. It takes time. You can't take even iron pills. Like, if you dust what you want to take, that takes time. It's not going to do it in two seconds. And also, if you're going to check every month that you're getting your blood drawn and you're getting your blood drawn every month, that's like not helping you. Give yourself some time. Like, if you just got to get yourself checked, put your head down and focus on doing all the right things for your body and then get checked in, like, six months. Try that. And if you can stretch it to a year, that's fantastic. And then, so I would take the bye-bye anemia because it is full of iron-rich herbs that help to build all your iron stores. It helps to get that iron saturation up for you over time. It will put iron in your blood like this. But over time for your body to absorb it and actually it to be a part of your stores, you need to give it some time to do that. And that's anything. And also barley grass juice powder. The one that I sell in my store is fantastic. It's very high quality. It's very potent. Use that in your green juices, in your green smoothies, in your water, whatever, however you want to get it down. But those particular herbs are the best for bringing. This is what I would do if I was in this situation today. The links for those are down in the description box below this video. Now, what did I want to tell you? I think that was pretty much it. Let me just make sure. I wrote some notes here. Oh, yes, that's the other thing. The other thing about iron is you need to deal with your gut. And I talked a little bit about that yesterday in the constipation video. So if you missed that, go back and watch that. Now, that video is not all about gut healing in that. I'm going to teach about gut healing in my coaching programs. If you want to know about that, then you might want to join the coaching program. But you do need to deal with your gut. And the reason you need to deal with your gut is for absorption. So changing your diet and taking herbs and all that stuff takes time to take effect because normally when we are in these situations where we're bleeding so bad, our guts are in such a mess that we need to take steps to heal the gut so that all of this can heal. And lots of people like to say that the fibroids are just the fibroids and it's not. If you got yourself in a situation where you got fibroids and you're bleeding heavy, your body is unhealthy. Let me just say that right now. It is unhealthy and you need to focus on getting healthy. And the medical establishment just kind of brushes it off like it's nothing but it is something. Getting fibroids is like a siren going off in your body saying, help me, help me, help me. So anyway, let me stop talking. I want to answer your questions. Please put your chat, your questions in the chat for sure. And I just also want to remind you that the doors are open to my new group coaching program. The Fibroid Detox Collective, there's a link down in the description box below this video for more information. So let's see. Looks like I only have one question, well one comment today. So hopefully this video, hello, Rickette, Rickette Simmons, welcome. So hopefully this, wait a minute, am I not seeing my comments? Ladies, are you putting comments in here and let me just check really quickly. I just want to make sure that I'm not missing questions. No, you guys didn't have any. Hi Veronica and Bernadette and Monica, do you all have any questions? Hey, Facianne, Bernadette. Yes, it is very true. I think it's at the root of it, but there's spiritual stuff going on too. I am not doing the 90-day program, Denise. I think that, Denise, I like that pronunciation, but it is a new program. It's down in the description box. It's similar to the old program, but it is definitely different. If you want to go and click the link down in the description box of this video and, I'm sorry, I got distracted, go look at the link down in the description box of the video and then there's information if you have questions you can ask me. Let's see. Yes, on here for motivation as I prepare to restart my plant-based journey. Excellent. That's Esther and waiting till I can buy herbs in bulk. Wait a minute. You can't buy herbs in bulk where you live, Esther. I'm recommending some young ladies to your wisdom. Thank you, Veronica. I appreciate that very much. Speaking of young ladies, I don't know that if when I really needed this when I was in my 20s, I don't know that I could have heard this message, but I wish that somebody would have at least tried. You know what I mean? Shipping. Yeah, I hear you. How much does the spiritual aspect play in having fibroids? That's a really, really good question. I have seen people do very little to change what they were eating and drinking and all this stuff and deal with the spiritual side and have way more results than somebody who just did the physical side of things. I think it is probably one of the biggest culprit. There's things in your bloodline. There's things, our own sin, like stuff we're doing that is contributing to the problem. We really, really, really need to deal with those issues. That was a really good question. Esther, I guess also customs probably charges a bunch in your country when you bring stuff in, I imagine. Can someone take the healing tea while nursing a baby? That's a really good question. There are herbs in that tea that are good for a baby, but then there's herbs in there that are known to break down tumors so they can be a bit harsh, but I don't know that for a fact they would hurt the baby. So I cannot answer that question. I know that I definitely would not take it if I was pregnant. I don't know the answer to whether or not you should take it if you're nursing. I wish I could give you that answer. I think probably asking God what you should do in that case, and then follow that instruction. You're welcome. Okay, yeah, customs. Yeah. All right. All right, ladies. So I'm going to go ahead and let you all go. I will be here tomorrow. I think I'm going to be talking about, let me just tell you what I'm going to talk about tomorrow. I'm going to be, I think I'm talking about infertility tomorrow. Yes, infertility tomorrow. That's what I'll be discussing. Is there such a thing of taking too many herbs to get rid of fibroids? So you could, like that, I mean, it really depends on where you're coming from with that. You could take too many herbs, but I guess I would probably need to know a little bit more about what you're doing. I think more than that, you could be taking too many supplements. Supplements can be too much. There are some supplements that women need, contrary to like some of the healing teachers, they talk about like they will say things like you don't need supplements because all you need is to heal your detoxify your body and your body will do exactly what it's supposed to do. And that is true to a large degree, but there are some things just because of the world that we live in. And I have experienced it myself, some things that we need. There just is. But I do think that we can get over over supplement it for lack of a better term in some cases. So yeah, I would just try to take exactly what I need. And to answer your question effectively, I'd probably need to talk to you. Let's see, Veronica, some women are taking birth control pills that drastically changes the reproductive cycle. Yes, do you think this contributes to issues down the road that they aren't told? Oh my goodness. Let me tell you something, Veronica. Thank you for bringing that question up. The answer to your question is absolutely yes. I think, so when I was 14, they put me on birth control pills because my period was a little bit like wonky. It wasn't coming the way it was supposed to. And I was on birth control pills on and off throughout my teenage years, and I believe that it contributed to everything that I went through reproductively throughout my 20s, 30s, and 40s. Absolutely. Right off the top of my head, I can't remember anything specific, but I do remember citing it over the years. This is because I took these pills. And not only that, from my own experience, I watch it happen with the women that I work with. I watch it happen with now some of them that could get pregnant, can't get pregnant. I watch it with some of them who, after they took the birth control pill because they were bleeding too much, now their periods are a mess. Now they're off the birth control pills. Now they're having all the side effects that they say in the small print on the birth control pills. So yes, yes. And they don't tell us because I don't even think they bother asking. I don't think they look at our health history before they give us these pills. The only way that I think they even stop and do anything different is if we start going in there and asking questions. So yeah, that's a good one. Any other questions, ladies? Okay. All right, ladies. Well, thank you so much for joining me today. I look forward to seeing you all tomorrow. Yes, it is a good topic, Veronica. Yeah, I'll look at that. Thanks so much for joining me, ladies. I look forward to seeing you all tomorrow. Lots of love. Take care.