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Your Very Own (Body) Organ Recital! · HER

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Pam Peeke, MD: Hi, I am Dr.
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Pam Peak, and This is episode number drum roll 550.
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Of the bold and brave Her podcast.
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Now, for all of you who've been following along for all the 549
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episodes, you know that every 50th episode, so now we're up to 550.
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I do a little solo thing, why do I do that?
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Because, well, I celebrate, I mean, I'm celebrating what I'm so.
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Blessed to be able to do this incredible podcast, the Bold And the
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Brave, her podcast with all of you.
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And so today we're gonna have a little interesting celebration.
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Alright?
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Now the first thing is.
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Everyone needs to practice gratitude, so I'm gonna start out with my gratitudes.
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Nothing would be possible for the her podcast if it weren't for
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the Incredible crew at Podcast Health, And that means Tim Sr.,
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Tim Jr.,
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Bill Klaproth, Aj.
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Oh my gosh, Aj, who runs every one of these episodes with me, along with
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every now and then, Brad and Luke, And then, oh, our intrepid producer, and
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that's Kat Canale and she is amazing.
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Keeps us on track so we don't mess this thing up.
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Big time.
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You can't do it without an entire team, and I wanna make certain that
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everyone out there in the podcast Health world knows how much I appreciate you.
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What?
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There's your big smack aoo.
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All right then.
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I appreciate all of you.
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Yeah.
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Every one of you in the audience, thank you for being there.
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I have a.
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Wonderful time with you, feeling a little lonely.
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Just, You know, dial me up.
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I'm here for you.
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And You know, something, I just love being with you.
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it makes me feel so great.
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And you know, as I've said so many times, the Latin derivation of the
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word doctor is dore, which means teacher, I can't help myself.
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I just teach a lot.
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I love to be able to do that.
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So that being said, how am I gonna celebrate today?
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Wow.
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550 episodes with some of the coolest guests.
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A lot of repeat offenders.
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'cause they're so good.
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and I thought, hmm, well I'm writing my next new book.
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Teaser alert.
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Teaser alert.
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And.
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I was thinking as I was writing it that we need to learn a little
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R-E-S-P-E-C-T for our body.
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And I also am sharing more these days.
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You know, when I was in training, I was taught never to talk about myself.
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It was always about the patient.
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Nowadays it's like, Hey, I took a walk this morning.
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How about you?
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So, you know, we can't inspire unless we perspire and share that with somebody.
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So that's what This is really all about.
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So I'm gonna teach you a little something about.
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Various parts of your body and throw myself in there.
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Like, how do I do this?
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What's going on after all?
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Okay.
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Ah.
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Alright.
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So what I'm going to offer you today is from the heart to the liver,
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to the spleen and beyond your own.
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Organ recital.
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That's right.
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Today we're gonna do an organ recital.
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I just love this.
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It's also in the book too.
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Shh.
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Don't tell anybody.
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Alright.
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So you know when we decide to do a little self-destructive things.
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What are we actually doing to our body and what's going on?
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you have to hold your body in awe, just like, oh my God, I
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had no idea the heart did that.
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You'll hear in a moment.
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At the same time, if you're taking good care of yourself, well then you know that
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your little organs are all happy, And that organ recital, it is looking really good.
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Okay, so let's.
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Dive right back in.
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Alright, how many organs do you have in your body?
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here's the answer.
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Mm.
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For a long time it was said there were 78 organs.
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I like you too much, to recite them.
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I'm not gonna do that.
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However of late, they've added a couple more that you'll hear about.
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So the organs of the body there are actually 80, believe it or not.
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And this just keeps expanding as they learn more and more
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and more about the body.
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So This is kind of cool stuff.
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So we've got 80.
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Organs working across 11 systems to regulate everything from whoa, metabolism.
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Yeah, that little hot metabolism of yours, circulation, waste removal Now.
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Here's a little quiz.
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What are the vital organs without which you can't live?
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Well, it's the brain, the heart, the lungs, the liver, And the kidneys.
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They're absolutely essential.
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For immediate survival.
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And meanwhile, what's really wild is the other organs, are not,
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needed for immediate survival.
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Now, check this out.
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The largest organ system in the body is.
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skin.
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Oh, yeah, skin, you're gonna hear a lot more about that in a second.
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So, skin, stomach, intestines, bladder and reproductive organs
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are not necessary for survival.
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The brain, the heart, the lungs, the liver, And the kidneys are, Hmm.
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Y'all take care of them, all of them.
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Very important.
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Okay.
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Now where did we come up with two more organ systems?
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There's this really amazing, Amount of tissue called the mesentary that connects
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the intestines to the abdominal wall, And this was recognized as an organ system in
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2016, so that brought it to 79 from 78.
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And then.
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Woo.
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Woo.
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Ooh, another one.
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The interstitium.
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A fluid filled network is sometimes called the 80th organ.
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It's kind of all over the body, so that's kind of wild stuff.
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So what do all these things do And, what's wild and crazy?
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Let's go through the vital organs, and again, I'm gonna do some sharing here.
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A little bit of sharing.
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So let's start with the heart.
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Check this out.
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It beats how many times a day.
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Now remember, you gotta take care of your heart for crying out loud.
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You know, put down that ultraprocessed food, you know what I'm talking
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about, and get up outta your little chair and move MOVE.
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Another four letter word.
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So the he beats over a hundred thousand times a day.
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It's a lot of work.
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Alright, now here's what's interesting if you're overweight or obese, the heart
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has to work even harder because what it has to do is pump out to more fat tissue.
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It is, almost like you have more subdivisions and you need more roads,
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you know, in a community, And so the heart has to work extra hard.
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That's why people who are quite obese oftentimes end up having heart failure.
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'cause a heart can only do so much.
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So that's why I want you to.
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Honor your heart.
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Okay.
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R-E-S-P-E-C-T.
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Honor that it pumps blood through what, 60,000 miles of blood vessels.
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Now, that's for a normal human being who?
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Who is abnormal weight?
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If you're overweight, it's even more.
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And if you're obese, it's way more than that.
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So, be kind, look down in your little heart and go, Hey, I'm here for you.
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I'm working it.
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it's a powerhouse and it produces enough pressure to literally, and you
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know, I did critical care, so I can speak to this, You know, in the trauma
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room it can squirt blood 30 feet.
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Whoa.
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Alright, that's some power and it's the size of a large fist and
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it weighs about nine to 12 ounces.
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What do I do for my heart?
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Oh heck, I'm doing my little extra high intensity interval training.
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My heart loves that.
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It says, bring it on.
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we were meant for challenge.
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We were meant to be able to, you continuously look
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for more positive stress.
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The body loves it because the.
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Body wants that, and it'll continuously adapt and adjust to that.
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So when I do high intensity interval training, and by the way, one
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of the, uh, methods I use is the four by four Norwegian method.
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So that's four minutes, you know, just killing it.
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Three minutes of bringing it down to a more of a moderate pace.
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Four minutes of killing it.
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Three minutes, you get the point.
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I do this four times, and of course I had a warmup to start with and a cool down.
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The whole thing takes about 40 minutes.
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Just do it once a week.
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If you wanna do it twice, you know, that's fine.
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No need to do it even more than that.
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That's how powerful it is.
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And then the body, the heart in particular will adopt to this
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and will love every single.
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Moment of this.
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This is called VO two MAX training, And what that means is what you're doing
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is you're taking yourself aerobically to the absolute max and training
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your heart to be able to handle that.
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One day you may be needing that.
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What if you had a run for your life?
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I just saying, right?
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Especially nowadays.
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So what if you had a run for your life?
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now you could do it because you've got a heart that can sustain it.
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I just can't tell you.
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VO two max training like This is highly associated with longevity.
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So if you are able to do, VO two max training, which is high intensity
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interval training on a routine basis, again, just once a week.
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Two times.
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If you feel like it, but no more is necessary, then you are going
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to be able to optimize your ability to get that high quality life,
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which is increased health span.
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So that's what I do for my little heart.
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I also don't load it up with garbage fats.
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Right.
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And I read labels and kind of, you know, I eat so simply.
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It's kind of ridiculous.
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so, once you kind of get in the know of it, you don't have
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to overcomplicate anything.
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So that's what I'm asking for, for your beautiful, wonderful pumping heart.
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I gotta tell you a story.
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One day I was up at Red Mountain Spa, resort.
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Which is in, St.
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George, Utah.
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And what was interesting was, I was looking, I was sort of scouting
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it, for big retreat I was gonna have, with my, wonderful peak performers.
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You know, we usually take a week and have an incredible experience, hiking
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and biking and doing all kinds of things, in beautiful natural settings.
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And the first-time I was there.
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I said, You know, I wanna go out and, you know, do some hiking.
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I wanna be able to see what some of these, the beautiful area out there is all about.
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It's Red Rock, magnificent.
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so my, guide showed up first thing in the morning, and it was a guy in his
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sixties a little evil part of me said, oh man, I could leave him in my dust.
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Uh, no.
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Actually, he almost killed me.
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and I was amazed.
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And as we finally, took a rest on a piece of rock, I looked at him and
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I said, tell me your story and how in heaven's name did you get so fit?
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Because he was quite fit.
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looked at me, he said I was a major corporate, vice
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president, for a huge, group.
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And for many years I sat on my ass and my belly got big and I wasn't exercising.
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And as soon as I.
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Retired, I said to myself, I wanna do something I've always dreamed of, which
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is to literally do what he's doing, which is to be a guide into, natural settings.
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so he showed up.
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And he started training immediately.
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He just worked and worked and worked at it, but he loved it 'cause he was
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outdoors And that was the thing that just got him more than anything else.
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And then he said, you know, one day, I mean there he was, his belly
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was gone, his legs were strong and he was leading the advanced hikes.
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he went up and down, you know, these mountainsides like a Billy goat.
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And then one day he got a call from his sister.
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Hey.
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You need to check in with a cardiologist and he said, whatcha
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talking about I'm having a time of my life doing what I'm doing?
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He said, no, no, you need to check in with the cardiologist.
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And he said, but why?
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He said, because you know, I just had an issue.
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I had like a little funky feeling and they went ahead and they did a full
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workup and they found out I have serious blockages And that we have a family
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history of this and I'm going to need surgery and you probably will too.
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He said, that's crazy.
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Said, I feel perfectly fine.
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I'm going up and down.
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She said, no, please, just for me.
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Would you just do me a favor?
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So he did.
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He went to the cardiologist and he said, blah, blah, You know, told the whole story
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And the cardiologist, decided just, you know, go ahead and just do an angiogram
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and, make sure everything's okay up there because they saw a couple squirrely
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things on his EKG and Sure to form.
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Here he was.
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Now he, you're awake during the angiogram.
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there were the cardiologists and there was a team in there, and they all looked up
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at the screen and there was dead silence.
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And of course, you know, this guy said, uh, hello, is everything okay?
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And one, And then his main cardiologist said, I have never
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seen anything like this in my life.
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And he said, This is unbelievable.
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And they were calling more people into the room to look.
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He says, you, you mind clueing me in since it's my flipping heart?
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And they said, yeah, yeah, let's, let's.
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Clue in.
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All right, so they did that, when he, was finally untethered from everything
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And what it showed was an almost complete block of his main arteries.
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He really should be dead, or at least would've had a major
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heart attack, maybe survived.
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What saved him was his fitness, And what he ended up doing was, and This
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is the extraordinary genius of nature of our body, his heart built up.
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All kinds of little side streets when the main freeway was all blocked, And so
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these were all detours and there were so many of them because he was so fit, it
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looked like an incredible thick spiderweb.
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And all of these side streets were keeping him alive.
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They're called arterials and capillaries.
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literally kept him alive as he was scampering up and down mountains.
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I just sat there on the rock and stared at him and saying, oh my God.
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And of course he had a coronary bypass he had all four vessels done.
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And because he was so fit, he was up and back on the mountain easily.
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Within eight weeks, he just couldn't wait to get back because he was so fit.
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And he just looked at me and he said, if anyone ever doubts that
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fitness can save your life, well y'all just have them talk to me.
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And after that I had.
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An incredible time with him.
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He became my, my major guide, as we eventually did
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all of our retreats up there.
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I just never forgot that story.
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And when I think of the heart, you know what I say.
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Rock on with your bad self heart for being able to save this incredible man's life.
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Cool story.
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Let's go to the brain.
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All right.
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Do you realize the brain is pain-free?
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It's pain-free.
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There are no pain receptors.
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It cannot feel pain at all.
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That's kind of a wild thing.
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Next cocktail party, tell someone that.
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They'll look at you strangely.
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I know.
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Now, here's what's really wild.
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You think you know how you always see that little cartoon with a electric
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bulb above the head, like you're having a really interesting thought.
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Well, turns out it's a little more true than we thought.
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Your brain generates 12 to 25 watts of electricity.
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Now that's enough to power a low wattage light bulb.
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That's pretty wild.
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The more I thought about that.
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Now I think of that light bulb above the head.
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And this, This is all, I think about 12 to 25 watts of
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electricity is coming out of there.
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Now your brain weighs about three pounds and it's 60% fat,
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making it the fattest organ.
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Okay, are you are with me on this one?
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I got a fat head.
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and there you have it.
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Now what am I doing for my brain?
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It couldn't be fitness again.
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Oh my goodness gracious.
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Yeah, it could be.
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Alright, so.
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What's wonderful is all the experiments that have been done showing that
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the more, fit you are, the more you get up and kind of, you know,
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assume the vertical and keep moving.
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The more brain cells, we call 'em, neurons, are generated and
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that's throughout the entire brain.
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And so what we find is that the fittest people of times have the largest.
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Hippocampus.
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Now, the hippocampus, what's that memory like?
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Hello.
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You remember me, Dr.
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Peak.
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So I want a bigger brain.
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How about you?
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You know, count me in.
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I'm gonna invest in that.
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I'm gonna go out there and, you know, walk my dog even if I don't have one.
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No, but I do my beloved German Shepherd.
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But walk your dog even if you don't have one and you're.
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Gonna grow a bigger brain.
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And it's actually true.
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Absolutely.
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Hands down, no question about it.
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So I thought that's cool.
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what's interesting here.
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Is that whenever you go out, especially in an outdoor environment,
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your brain loves, love, loves it.
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So you're all stressed out, funky things are going on in
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your life, And then what happens?
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You go out, say, I'm gonna take a walk, I'm getting outta
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here, and you take a walk.
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Hopefully in a green place.
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you know, in nature, And we actually have a whole science behind this.
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It's called ecos psychology.
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And what it means is that your stress hormone, which of course is necessary
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for life, your stress hormone is no longer way up there on the ceiling.
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It's calming down.
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And what you're doing is you're spending time literally absorbing, again the genius
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of nature and it's very, very soothing.
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And when you do that, you know, whenever you're stressed out,
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it's a pro inflammatory state that you're holding onto.
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You don't want that.
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You want an anti-inflammatory state.
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Don't want inflammation.
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It's the basis of all disease.
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So, here's where you can just sort of calm it all down.
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Now, the brain also, and This is, let's talk about me here for a second.
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I love to learn new things.
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I don't care how old you are.
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The brain says bring it on girlfriend.
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Right?
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Bring it on.
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So learn a new language.
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Keep reading, test yourself with all kinds of new material.
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Just keep learning all the way until well till the very end.
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And what's important here is as you do that, you keep refreshing
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all of those brain cells.
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Ooh, how else do you refresh it?
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It's called sleep.
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You remember that?
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So.
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Sleep is so important.
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I, here, I'm wearing my little aura ring And the aura ring.
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I love, I have nothing to do with the company, but other
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than saying how cool they are.
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the aura ring, you know, keeps me right on top of my sleep.
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So, It's a great piece of technology.
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I don't like wearing things on my wrist.
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it takes up very small real estate on my index finger and.
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What it does is it keeps me honest about my, sleep.
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How much REM sleep do I get?
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How much deep sleep do I get?
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What's my heart rate variability, which shows the flexibility of my heart And
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it's ability to handle stress, for instance, no matter what kind of stress.
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So.
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How cool is that?
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But sleep is absolutely paramount to optimal cognitive performance.
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So I absolutely, hold sleep in extremely high regard.
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And You know how it is.
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If you haven't had enough sleep, the worst.
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The worst because if you don't, you do stupid things like eat everything that's
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not tacked down when you get up in the morning because your appetite and hunger
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hormones have gone haywire with no sleep.
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there's like a, a whole domino effect here.
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So with the brain, I really try to stay right on top of that as best I can.
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I can't tell you how many more other things I do.
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I stay actively involved, engaged.
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Connected to other people.
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All of these things feed into the network in your brain, and it is, you
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know what's really cool about the brain?
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A feminine brain.
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Right, a woman's right.
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So turns out we have more interconnections between the two hemispheres, so that means
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they're talking to each other a lot more.
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It's another reason why if a woman has a stroke, her language and her
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ability to speak again, comes back.
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10 times faster than a man.
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Fascinating stuff.
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a little more cocktail chatter, but important for
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you to be kind to your brain.
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Oh my goodness gracious.
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Your liver is the next step and it's got a remarkable ability
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to fully regenerate itself.
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25% of your liver.
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Is all you need to regrow the entire organ.
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I mean, is that again, the genius of nature, our ability to be able to do that?
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it's like the body is so forgiving for all the little sins that we commit.
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So there's that.
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It's also a multitasker, Hey, we're women, we're multitaskers.
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We're proud of it.
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Alright, So, it performs over.
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Get this.
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500 functions including detox and bile production.
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Girls, when you drink way too much alcohol, you know I
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have done podcasts on this.
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I'm not wagging my finger.
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It's right down here.
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I'm hiding it.
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Right.
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But when you do that, you basically, You know, it's like pretty toxic to the
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liver 'cause it's gotta clear it and it's very difficult in certain circumstances.
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So, please be kind to the liver, if you are gonna have alcohol, sip it, sip it.
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And if you're an older woman, a woman who say is 60 and over.
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Read the new literature, and I've gone through this before as well, that
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shows the relationship between alcohol and dementia, especially as you age.
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just, it becomes more and more infrequent.
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I'm all for the celebratory whatever, but you know, when women are downing, half
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a bottle or a bottle every single night.
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No, the, yeah, the liver is screaming.
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You hear that?
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Screaming your liver guaranteed.
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All right, let's go on to the kidneys.
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They filter.
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When you think of kidneys, you think of filtering.
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Okay.
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So, it filters about 180 liters of blood every single
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day and each of those kidneys.
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Each of 'em contains about 1 million tiny filtering units.
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Those are the little cells.
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You know, those kidney cells called nephrons.
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And a person can live a completely normal life with just one functioning kidney.
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So I'm here to share.
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I know more about my kidneys than I ever cared to know.
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Why, because.
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Believe it or not, I had an interesting consequence due to fitness.
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I got dry, I got dehydrated.
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I kind of think maybe I'm the direct descendant of camels or something,
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you know, I've always had to remind myself to drink, drink, drink.
27:08
And during my, early days in triathlon when I'm out there in the sun and I'm
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like biking for miles and I'm also running and uh, apparently I was not
27:20
hydrated enough and I never knew.
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I found out the hard way.
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It's called a kidney stone.
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That's correct.
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Mundo.
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So, but I had a fabulous Urologist, um, at the Mayo Clinic, who
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made it very clear to me.
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It was just dehydration.
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So guess what?
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I keep near me at all times.
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That's right.
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A very tall canister of my wonderful, wonderful.
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Water or something watery, that refreshes me.
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I have never ever had such respect for hydration than that.
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So be kind to your kidneys no matter what you do.
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And then you got the lungs.
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Ah, take a deep breath.
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Okay, so when we're taking those deep cleansing breaths, You know,
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you're, you're getting that what we call a tidal volume, you know,
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your entire, lungs fill up with air.
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I've actually had my tidal volume, measured and it was way above
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normal, which is great, which means that all my years of fitness
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have really, had my lungs adapt.
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and adjust to the fact that I would need to breathe a lot of air, and really take
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deep breaths, with all my training.
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And so that's cool stuff.
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it's interesting, I never knew this, but a person takes over 20,000 breaths a day.
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So what are you actually breathing if any of you are still smoking or
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in a, in the presence of a smoker?
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Mm.
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Okay.
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You know, I'm telling you, smoking is.
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Deadly for a woman deadly.
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It's women who pick up chronic obstructive pulmonary disease,
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you know, like 10 to one over men.
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We just have delicate tissue there, and it doesn't do well.
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It doesn't do well.
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So it's so, so terribly important for you to honor those beautiful lungs of yours.
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How about, uh, oh, she's not talking about going outdoors and into nature again.
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Is she?
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She's going back to that again.
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Yes, she is.
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get out, smell some fresh air for crying out loud, and it's really,
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really, really important for you to be able to, say to yourself, I.
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The lungs have a surface area that's roughly the same as the tennis court.
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You have all those cells, those cazillion cells called alveoli, that are, working
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very, very much to be able to help, grab that oxygen and make certain it
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gets transferred all through the body.
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you need to remember.
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Where are you?
30:05
Well, when I see people, especially young ones vaping and oh, You know, I, it just
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breaks my heart because I'm just saying to myself, no, please don't do that.
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That's the worst thing you could possibly do.
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Alright, now when we return, I'm gonna continue this organ recital.
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And we're back.
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Alright.
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Oh my goodness gracious.
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So we have all kinds of other things to learn about the body.
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For instance, one of the things That is cool is to look at,
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Why the brain is considered the supreme organ of the human body.
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Well, we kind of went through a little bit of that, let's dive a little bit
31:56
deeper because I love this so much, right?
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So.
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It manages everything.
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It's a command central.
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So all movement actions, bodily processes, it also at the same time
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helps you with your circadian rhythm.
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And that's because when light hits your eyes, communicates with the brain, and
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it begins to tell you that there's a whole new cycle that's gonna start.
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First thing in the morning when you pop out of bed.
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Right?
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Bright and early.
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Well anyway, when you pop out of bed.
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and why is this so important?
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Because one of the things I've argued about for so terribly long
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is why don't we live a little bit more like cave women, right?
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why do I say that?
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Well, because our entire body.
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Is really geared, all of our genetics and everything is really geared
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to the 24 hour circadian rhythm.
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Meaning that when you get up in the morning, you know what
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gets you up in the morning.
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Hoho, here it comes and it's the brain.
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So the brain is squirting out some of this wonderful, precursors to stress hormone.
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As well as adrenaline.
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they're both, You know, cortisol and adrenaline.
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They're like besties little BFF action going on, and they're always together.
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they give you that alertness like, whoa, I'm awake now.
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There you go.
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And then off you go.
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And in the morning you say to yourself, and This is going to include
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all these vital organ systems now.
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As I'm taking care of the body, showing R-E-S-P-E-C-T is that in the morning
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your insulin functioning is most optimal.
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So if you're gonna have, You know, some carbohydrate, in the morning, you know,
34:06
say your whole grain cereal, if you're interested in that or whatever, however
34:11
it works, fruit, you know, on and on.
34:14
It's great to have it in the morning.
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All the way up until no later than mid-afternoon.
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but the optimal time is before noon, And then it starts to become a, the
34:29
insulin, sensitivity and function becomes a little less sensitive.
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And then after three o'clock or so, it's not as effective at all.
34:40
And of course that's when people are eating Mount St.
34:43
Pasta and, you know, whatever for dinner.
34:46
The worst thing you could do.
34:47
And you wonder like, why did I just gain five pounds?
34:50
No mystery here.
34:52
You're not hanging in with your circadian rhythm.
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Alright, so listen to your body And the body.
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Is geared to be able to handle a meal in midday, say around one,
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two, or even noon if you wanted to.
35:11
But as the day goes on, and if you really wanna know a great body hack, you eat.
35:17
Much less for dinner in terms of heavy stuff, but you could
35:22
have a monster salad with some great protein associated with it.
35:26
Fish, chicken, you know, red meat, totally.
35:29
Vegetarian, vegan, whatever turns you on.
35:34
That's all good.
35:35
That works like a charm.
35:37
Okay.
35:39
The key is try to upload in the, earlier part of the day, the
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breakfast hours, the early afternoon hours when you're gonna have your
35:51
other meals And the larger meals.
35:54
'cause your body can handle it.
35:57
nothing makes me crazier than watching women eat like a monster dinner.
36:02
'cause I, I know exactly where it's gonna end up.
36:05
I'm just giving you that.
36:07
So the brain is command central.
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For so much of this, the brain really holds the master clocks.
36:18
To be able to control circadian rhythm, yet every single cell in the
36:23
body has its own circadian clock.
36:26
And so they all have to work in harmony.
36:31
And when we do things like eat at 10 o'clock at night or have a monster meal
36:37
later on, or were not getting enough sleep, I mean the circadian rhythm.
36:43
Just goes to, to hell.
36:47
I mean, it doesn't work.
36:49
And then don't count on yourself to be able to, have an
36:52
optimal metabolic, metabolism.
36:56
Basically.
36:57
You won't have it.
36:58
You can't because your body is, dysfunctional at that point.
37:02
Now, here's the great news.
37:03
Remember the genius of nature in our body.
37:06
The body is highly forgiving.
37:09
So just get back on track, You know, as fast as you can.
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And by the way, for all of you beautiful, beautiful women out there who are
37:18
saying to yourself, mm, it's too late.
37:20
Nah, no, it's never too late.
37:23
Never, never, never, never, never.
37:24
You know, I've lived long enough, I have, You know, been a physician, for
37:30
many decades now, and I can tell you.
37:34
That I have seen absolute turnarounds at the age of 50, 60, 70, and 80.
37:42
I mean, just stuff that would just blow your mind, you'd
37:46
say no, there's like no way.
37:48
Nah, way.
37:49
So.
37:51
Does it make it a little bit harder as you get older?
37:54
Of course.
37:55
I mean, wipe the shock off your face.
37:57
So lay down the framework right now for all of this.
38:01
So terribly important.
38:04
You know, the brain also is all about consciousness and thought, and
38:10
you know, it's the seat of memory.
38:13
Like I said, emotion, intellect, defining human identity.
38:18
I also want to give a shout out here, And the shout out here is for so many of us.
38:27
So many of us, yours truly included, who've had trauma in our lives.
38:33
However, you define trauma.
38:35
Some people define trauma as you know, my parents divorced when I was three.
38:39
I mean, how could you even remember?
38:41
But the consequences thereof, right?
38:45
Other people had.
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Other kinds of trauma.
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I mean, that's just a huge range.
38:50
So what's important here is that when this kind of thing occurs when
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you're a child or an adolescent, Those are formative years for the brain.
39:04
And brain development.
39:06
And you may have a little bit of scarring there.
39:11
Genetic scarring is what we call it, from what happened.
39:15
But here's the great news genius of nature moment That is if
39:22
you, are able to work with.
39:26
What happened?
39:27
Maybe get therapy.
39:30
just work on it no matter what it was.
39:33
Stop the self-destructive habits that oftentimes pop out when you've had trauma.
39:39
Then, you're able to skirt around that scarring.
39:45
And you're able to move forward in life.
39:48
And the reason why I bring this up is because it affects
39:52
memory, emotion, and intellect.
39:56
It affects all of that.
39:57
So you've got to at some point address it.
40:00
You can't run away from it no matter what.
40:03
and getting help from a trauma-based therapist is
40:05
oftentimes exquisitely helpful.
40:07
And I bring this up because.
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Nobody else brings it up.
40:12
it's amazing.
40:13
I look at it as like a vital sign and it was, it was found, by accident
40:19
when one of my colleagues, Dr.
40:22
Felli.
40:23
with the Kaiser, group, just decided on a huge survey of thousands of
40:30
the Kaiser members, Hey, did you ever have trauma in your life?
40:33
He just decided to ask it only to find out one in three did.
40:38
And it just floored him, And that gave birth to the adverse childhood experience.
40:44
Quiz a CE, and you can Google that and take the quiz yourself because
40:51
it's important to know the effect of these experiences on your life
40:57
during formative years, And therefore, people who've had trauma of times.
41:05
Can be impatient and irritable and impulsive.
41:10
I call them the three eyes.
41:12
These are the three eyes that are usually controlled by the prefrontal
41:16
cortex or the CEO of the brain right behind your forehead and.
41:24
Many times, it is impacted by trauma and it causes a little problem with the
41:31
development, the full development of the abilities of that prefrontal cortex.
41:37
The prefrontal cortex, we thought for a long time, finished
41:41
developing by the age of 25.
41:44
Nope.
41:44
It turns out recent research shows by the age of 30, so.
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It takes a long time for this exquisitely important part of the brain to develop.
41:59
So much impacts this.
42:02
Sleep impacts it.
42:04
Stress impacts it, trauma impacts it.
42:09
That's why it's really important to sit down R-E-S-P-E-C-T, your brain.
42:15
Respect your brain and respect all of the experiences you've had in your life.
42:22
And This is where, oh my gosh, I'm such an advocate of prayer and
42:29
meditation both together in combination.
42:33
I don't care.
42:34
whatever turns you on, but just calm.
42:37
Down, get centered, mindfulness, transcendental meditation, prayer,
42:45
from whatever religion is absolutely integral to the healing process.
42:51
There's that genius of nature.
42:52
'cause the answer is.
42:54
You will heal you absolutely.
42:58
Hands down will heal.
43:01
So the brain, oh my gosh.
43:04
So important.
43:05
And then, the brain has a really high energy demand too.
43:12
despite its weight.
43:14
You know it's three pounds.
43:15
Remember I told you the brain consumes a significant portion of the body's daily
43:22
energy to maintain constant functionality.
43:26
Now the brain loves to function on glucose.
43:31
It can also function on fat.
43:33
having a really good balance of both is great.
43:39
This is why I beg you please, I know you, You know, when you say, oh, I'm just
43:44
gonna starve myself a little bit and I'm gonna drop some weight and feel so good.
43:49
Yeah.
43:49
Hello Brain.
43:51
It needs.
43:53
Energy, right?
43:54
It needs energy and a nice balance of carbohydrate,
43:59
clean, beautiful carbohydrate.
44:02
How about that orange?
44:04
How about those blueberries?
44:05
How about those?
44:07
Right?
44:07
So you need clean, wonderful carbohydrate also from vegetables,
44:13
which is a beautiful source in a big way, And then from healthy fats.
44:20
What about that?
44:21
Virgin olive oil, the avocado, oil.
44:25
There's so many wonderful things you could do out there.
44:28
You get fat from an avocado itself.
44:32
there's just wonderful, healthy, clean, nurturing, nourishing ways
44:39
to be able to keep that brain going.
44:41
we've all felt the wonkiness when we haven't eaten for quite some time.
44:46
It's like, oh my gosh.
44:47
And then look at our mood, we get hangry.
44:50
and it just gets weird.
44:52
Don't, whatever you do, please be as prepared as humanly possible
44:57
to bring it all together.
44:59
So what we've been doing right now is bringing, so much of this.
45:06
new knowledge that we have about our phenomenal body, our beautiful
45:12
body, I went through this little litany without even going through
45:17
so many of the other systems.
45:19
I just stuck to the vital organs because Those are the ones
45:24
you've got to keep optimized.
45:26
But, you know, we could spend another hour talking about the gut.
45:31
You know all those, friends with benefits in the microbiome, and it turns out
45:37
teaser alert for, an upcoming podcast.
45:41
The microbiome turns out to be its own command central because it
45:46
communicates directly with the brain.
45:49
That's where all your serotonin comes from.
45:51
Speaking of mood modulation.
45:54
Right, and at the same time, it communicates with your immune
45:57
system, so your microbiome.
46:02
Are those critters, the beautiful bacteria And the viruses And the wonderful little
46:08
inhabitants, all trillion of them in your microbiome, throughout your gut.
46:13
So whenever I eat, you know what I do is a joke.
46:15
I just look down at my little tummy and I say, Hey.
46:18
What do you want to eat?
46:20
What's up with you guys?
46:21
And then I say, I know what you need.
46:24
You need some prebiotics, some wonderful fermented foods and good stuff, you know?
46:29
How about this yogurt?
46:31
You like it?
46:31
Hmm?
46:32
Okay.
46:33
Make friends with your microbiome, all those friends with benefits.
46:37
And at the same time, every time you eat something that's trash,
46:42
you cause leakage from your gut.
46:45
And when you do that.
46:47
There goes that pro-inflammatory state, which we don't want.
46:52
We don't want gut leak, so what we want is a very happy microbiome
46:57
and all it takes is for you to remember, don't cheat the body.
47:06
What you wanna do is respect it instead, all of it, the vital organs And the
47:13
other, tissues throughout the body.
47:16
It's so terribly important to do this every single day that you can.
47:24
So I hope I've raised your awareness.
47:27
I've shared a few stories and at the same time.
47:32
Given you hope that no matter where you are on your journey
47:36
right now, you could turn it around on a dime, boom, just like that.
47:43
It just takes R-E-S-P-E-C-T.
47:46
Respect your body.
47:49
All right, now that we've done this, oh, I just love this.
47:54
I'm so, I'm just filled with gratitude and you know, one of the pieces of gratitude
48:00
I wanna give a shout out to was my.
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Former co-host and, former founder of the entire her podcast,
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and that's Michelle Wirth.
48:12
Michelle, is just one of my total besties in life.
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I just can't begin to express enough gratitude for our beautiful
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friendship And what we have grown.
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This podcast into.
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So major shout out there.
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49:49
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So please go on out there, seize the day, and respect your body.
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Thanks for listening.