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Wednesday wellness- 10 things you MUST do and 10 Things you MUST stop doing - HEALTHY girl era with naturopath Tash Meirs 🥬🍵💧 · She Rises with Ashy & Tijana

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Speaker 1: Appogie production, Grow and Glows Twelve Days of Christmas. Hello everybody,
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Speaker 1: welcome back to Grow and Glow Twelve Days of Christmas.
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Speaker 1: We've got another amazing guest on. Welcome Tash to the podcast.
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Speaker 2: Thank you so much for having me. I'm excited to
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Speaker 2: be here.
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Speaker 1: I love anything health, so I was so excited you're
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Speaker 1: going to come on board. We've got so much to
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Speaker 1: jam pack in twenty minutes. But before we get started,
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Speaker 1: do you want to do a little intro as to
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Speaker 1: who you are, what your passions are and what you do. Yeah?
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Speaker 2: Absolutely so.
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Speaker 3: My name's Tash and I am a clinical netchpath so
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Speaker 3: I have a virtual clinic that I see patients out of,
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Speaker 3: so meaning I treat people all across Australia and New
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Speaker 3: Zealand too. I have a special interest in women's health.
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Speaker 2: Just because we are so fascinating.
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Speaker 3: We have such a delicate hormonal cascade.
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Speaker 2: And yeah, I really love supporting women. I also see
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Speaker 2: me in but.
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Speaker 3: Mostly in a sense of fertility treatment, and also love
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Speaker 3: treating children too, being a mum and then also having
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Speaker 3: a background and working with kids with like ASD and ADHD.
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Speaker 3: That side really interests me and I love supporting parents
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Speaker 3: and children through their health and bits and pieces.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, must be so rewarding. Helping not only women and men,
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Speaker 1: but children through their health as well in a really natural,
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Speaker 1: holistic way that you know is benefiting their bodies. And
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Speaker 1: there's no like long term effects like other I suppose
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Speaker 1: medical drugs could have.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, And I find that children genuinely have a
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Speaker 3: really quick response because their conditions haven't been chronic.
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Speaker 2: Over years and years and years.
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Speaker 3: So generally, yeah, we see really good results really quickly
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Speaker 3: with children.
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Speaker 2: So it's so amazing, so good.
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Speaker 1: All right, let's get straight into it. So when I
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Speaker 1: went to Tash, I was like, I would love you
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Speaker 1: to talk about ten things that we need to stop
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Speaker 1: doing and ten things that we should start doing.
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Speaker 2: Cool. Number one is stop under sleeping.
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Speaker 3: So sleep is so so important when it comes to
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Speaker 3: our health. And not many people know that we have
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Speaker 3: something called a glymphatic system, and much like our lymphatic system,
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Speaker 3: it's kind of like a waste clearance.
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Speaker 2: So the lymphatic system is a waste.
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Speaker 3: Clearance from like tissues in our body, whereas the glymphatic
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Speaker 3: system is a waste clearance for our brain and spinal cord.
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Speaker 2: So when we're sleeping. This is what's happening.
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Speaker 3: Our glymphatic system is clearing out waste, and you know
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Speaker 3: this is going to reduce inflammation in the brain and
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Speaker 3: support our mental health to reduce you know, depression, anxiety,
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Speaker 3: also reduce you know, cognition decline over the years. So yeah,
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Speaker 3: I feel like it's really important to stop under sleeping.
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Speaker 3: Stop kind of like scrolling on your phone at night
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Speaker 3: time and then you know, missing out on some really
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Speaker 3: important deep sleep.
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Speaker 1: So important sleep is. I always say it's just the
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Speaker 1: foundation for everything. If I get a bad night's sleep,
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Speaker 1: it throws my eating off, my mood's off, like I
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Speaker 1: just I can't function out my best self. It is vialidation.
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Speaker 2: It's totally as right.
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Speaker 1: Number two.
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Speaker 3: So number two and something that we've probably all heard before,
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Speaker 3: and it's stopped drinking coffee first thing in the morning
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Speaker 3: on an empty stomach. So yeah, ideally we want to
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Speaker 3: be waiting like at least ninety minutes if we can,
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Speaker 3: because you know, when we're having coffee first up in
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Speaker 3: the morning, it is going to pick our stress hormones
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Speaker 3: like cortisol and you know, override other hormones like important
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Speaker 3: reproductive hormones. So you know, if you're experiencing hormonal imbalances
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Speaker 3: and you're someone who consistently drinks coffee first thing on rising,
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Speaker 3: it's definitely something to consider. Also suppresses our appetite, and
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Speaker 3: then it can also just regulate our blood sugar, and
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Speaker 3: that again is really important when it comes to hormone
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Speaker 3: or regulation. And when I say hormonal regulation, I don't
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Speaker 3: just mean reproductive hormone and you know, like hormones that
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Speaker 3: influence our immune systems, so you know, if we're getting
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Speaker 3: sick often in bits and pieces, something really important to consider.
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Speaker 2: So yeah, waiting that little.
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Speaker 1: Bit, I love that number three.
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Speaker 3: Number three is kind of like a flow on to
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Speaker 3: that is we don't want to train fasted in the morning. Yeah, yeah,
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Speaker 3: particularly as women, like we are built different, so I
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Speaker 3: know it's a controversial kind of topic, but as women,
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Speaker 3: I think it's really important that we don't train fasted,
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Speaker 3: and particularly we don't go to the gym in the
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Speaker 3: morning with just a coffee because training itself is like
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Speaker 3: a huge stresser on the body and we want to
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Speaker 3: be having you know, just some like small simple carbohydrates
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Speaker 3: to give our body fuel, so we're not increasing those
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Speaker 3: stress hormones even more so, just a little bit for
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Speaker 3: fuel is fine, but just yeah, I recommend don't train faster.
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Speaker 2: In the morning.
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Speaker 1: Oh I'm glad you've said that, because I do you
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Speaker 1: train fast. I used to have half a banana and
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Speaker 1: then I don't know why I stopped, but I don't
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Speaker 1: have anything, so I'm going to start putting the banana
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Speaker 1: back into my routine. Yeah, I think you should, okay, cool.
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Speaker 1: Number four.
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Speaker 3: Number four is stop throwing away money on topical treatments
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Speaker 3: to fix your chronic skin concerns. So if you are
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Speaker 3: someone that has experienced, like you know, ecne over the
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Speaker 3: years or chronic xmus thrisis frosation, you really really want
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Speaker 3: to be looking internally and looking at your likes of
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Speaker 3: your gut health. So your skin is your biggest organ
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Speaker 3: and it's a direct reflection of what's happening internally. So yeah,
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Speaker 3: I would definitely look at your gut health.
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Speaker 1: So true. I said this in a previous episode as well.
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Speaker 1: One of my girlfriends was having massive reactions like Sarias's
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Speaker 1: x smart acne breakouts, and she was buying all the things.
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Speaker 1: I said, Oh, why don't you just try beef tallow
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Speaker 1: something really simple and easy, and she said that really
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Speaker 1: clear everything out.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, totally, yeah, keep it simple.
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Speaker 1: Yes, but it all starts within the guard. Hey, it's
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Speaker 1: like our second brain.
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Speaker 2: It's just so importantly does Yeah, totally.
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Speaker 1: Number five, We're up to number five.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, stop self prescribing supplements. So, I know a lot
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Speaker 3: of people, particularly with you know, social media, TikTok things,
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Speaker 3: you're blasted with all these supplements and bits and pieces,
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Speaker 3: and it can be overwhelming and.
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Speaker 2: They can get you at your pain point.
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Speaker 3: And you know, you just buy all these supplements, but
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Speaker 3: you know you might not need them for one and
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Speaker 3: particularly over the counter supplements. So if you're going into
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Speaker 3: like you know, your chemist and your health food shops,
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Speaker 3: some of the over counter ones aren't necessarily the best
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Speaker 3: because they don't have the most bioavailable kind.
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Speaker 2: Of ingredients in them.
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Speaker 3: So yeah, and also they could have like a lot
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Speaker 3: of like excipients, so other bits and pieces that fillers
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Speaker 3: and stuff that's not needed in there, just kind of
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Speaker 3: like cheap additives to make you know the supplement.
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Speaker 2: Again, if you're buying.
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Speaker 3: Supplements from overseas like America, they are not regulated like
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Speaker 3: we are in Australia and Australia we have something called
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Speaker 3: the Therapeutic Goods Administration and you know it goes through
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Speaker 3: rigorous testing all the supplements and bits and pieces, So yeah,
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Speaker 3: i'd be mindful of where you sauce it, you know,
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Speaker 3: the active ingredients in it. I would literally just go
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Speaker 3: and see a practitioner and get supplements that are benefiting you,
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Speaker 3: because you might be wasting so much money on a
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Speaker 3: bunch of supplements that when your body's not absorbing two
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Speaker 3: you don't even need. So yeah, just pay the money
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Speaker 3: to you know, chat to someone or to chat to
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Speaker 3: you know, someone at the health food shop before you
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Speaker 3: go and waste your money on, yeah, a bunch of supplements.
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Speaker 1: I think it's so important for us to just get
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Speaker 1: our bloods done so often and checks any deficiency. So yeah,
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Speaker 1: you can actually get exactly what your body needs because
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Speaker 1: you might see someone on socials like I took this
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Speaker 1: for my hormones or for my gut or for my
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Speaker 1: skin or whatever, but you get it. Your body needs
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Speaker 1: completely different things. That's such a good point.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I totally agree with that.
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Speaker 1: Number six.
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Speaker 3: Number six is stop using plastics where you can, or
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Speaker 3: like minimizing your plastic use. You know, we know it,
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Speaker 3: and then you kind of get at a bit of
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Speaker 3: a rut and you're just you know, use bits and pieces, right,
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Speaker 3: but particularly like heating your food and plastic plastic chopping boards,
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Speaker 3: because yeah, microplastics are.
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Speaker 2: Getting into our food and then we're consuming.
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Speaker 3: Them, and it's really scary to think that actually microplastics
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Speaker 3: have been found in human placenters.
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Speaker 1: So yeah, really.
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Speaker 3: It's extentive microplastics in our world. So you know, babies
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Speaker 3: are developing in a woman's uterus next to a placenta
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Speaker 3: with microplastics in it. So just think about what the
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Speaker 3: impacts of you know, the future generation health, you know,
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Speaker 3: is how that's impacting them. So consider that when using plastic.
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Speaker 1: I love that. Just changed my chopping boards like only
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Speaker 1: like a month ago to wooden, and then I've got
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Speaker 1: this other like stainless steel one. And even all my
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Speaker 1: pots and pans, pots and pans and spatulas and what
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Speaker 1: do you call them, kitchen tools, I've changed them, got
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Speaker 1: rid of all the plastic ones. So that's like a
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Speaker 1: small thing they could do straight away for sure.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, totally.
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Speaker 3: It's just bit by bet you know, when you need
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Speaker 3: to replace something, changing it out, Yeah, not all at once,
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Speaker 3: because it can be really costly.
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Speaker 1: Yes, definitely, thank you. Number seven.
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Speaker 3: Number seven is ladies stop wearing synthetic underwear.
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Speaker 2: Bamboo bamboo, organic bamboo.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, there's actually a really beautiful local Gold Coast James.
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Speaker 1: Yeah them now too, the best.
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Speaker 2: They are the best. Yeah. So being bamboo, it's moisture wicking,
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Speaker 2: so it's going to draw the moisture out.
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Speaker 3: Where is synthetic fibers draw that moisture in, and that
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Speaker 3: is like a breeding ground for pathogenic overgross and you know,
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Speaker 3: a vagina we have a microbuying of its own, and
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Speaker 3: we want beneficial bacteria, not the pathogenic bacteria. So that
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Speaker 3: environment of having good fibers down there is so important.
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Speaker 1: And it is a little bit more expensive to buy
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Speaker 1: these underwears, but like, gosh, when you understand how good
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Speaker 1: it is for your vagina and they're actually so comfortable
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Speaker 1: and you actually feel I feel like it's just breathing
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Speaker 1: down there, because if they ever were like you know
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Speaker 1: those they like silky seamless ones. Yes, they look great
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Speaker 1: under tight clothing, but like, yeah, it's just not as nice. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Moisture yeah, yeah.
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Speaker 1: Grows, but yeah.
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Speaker 2: Number eight, Number eight is something that you've probably all seen.
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Speaker 2: Stop drinking tap water.
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Speaker 3: So yeah, here in Australia, the contaminants in our water
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Speaker 3: are crazy, you know, anywhere, from bacteria, pisticides, chlorine, heavy middles.
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Speaker 3: So filter your water, and I wish I could just say,
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Speaker 3: you know, use this particular filter, but it really depends
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Speaker 3: on where you're living. If you're in you know, a
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Speaker 3: long term house, your financial situation, whereas you could get
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Speaker 3: like a on the counterfilter, an under the bench filter,
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Speaker 3: a whole house filtration system. But if you're someone with
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Speaker 3: like a skin condition like exma, I would really really
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Speaker 3: highly recommend getting a shower filter because you know, the
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Speaker 3: heavy metals and bits and pieces can really affect skin
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Speaker 3: conditions as well.
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Speaker 2: So yeah, look at your water quality.
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Speaker 1: I am in number nine.
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Speaker 2: Number nine is stop drinking water with your meals.
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Speaker 1: I've heard this recently.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, so a lot of people don't realize that when
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Speaker 3: drinking water with meals, it actually dampens down our digestive secretions,
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Speaker 3: so yeah, making it harder to judge these foods. So
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Speaker 3: we want to ideally be paving water fifteen to thty
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Speaker 3: minutes prior to our meal and then waiting the same
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Speaker 3: amount of time after our meals to really optimize digestion.
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Speaker 3: But yeah, I think a lot of people are still
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Speaker 3: under the impression that you know, was shift food down
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Speaker 3: with water, right, Yeah, but no, it can really affect digestion.
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Speaker 3: So if you're someone that already kind of struggles with digestion,
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Speaker 3: I would yet avoid water with your meals and even
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Speaker 3: consider like a diluted apple statued vinegar prior to meals
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Speaker 3: to like prime your digestive system.
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Speaker 1: Love that to number ten, last one to stop doing.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, so NIP ten is just simply stop.
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Speaker 3: I know, like we're so plugged in to text messages,
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Speaker 3: phone calls, social media apps and yeah, it's so hard
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Speaker 3: sometimes to just sit with yourself and not reach for
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Speaker 3: some sort of stimulation.
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Speaker 2: But I urge you to just stop. Go outside, go
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Speaker 2: for a walk, like sit with your thoughts and.
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Speaker 3: It can be really hard and confronting, but it is
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Speaker 3: so good for your health.
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Speaker 1: Yes, it's such an important one. So what I'm glad
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Speaker 1: you put that in there. Just stop. Yeah, all right,
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Speaker 1: let's move on to the things that you want us
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Speaker 1: to start doing. I'm so excited to hear these, and
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Speaker 1: says there's some new ones that I can pop into
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Speaker 1: my routine.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: So number one is just start prioritizing yourself. So I know,
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Speaker 3: as like a mother and bits and pieces that I
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Speaker 3: can prioritize my kid's health all the time, and sometimes
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Speaker 3: we can, you know, be pushed back a little bit.
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Speaker 3: And I know for you you can probably resonate with
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Speaker 3: this that sometimes it can take a health scare to
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Speaker 3: really make you prioritize your own health and really assess
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Speaker 3: what's important. So booking those health appointments, book in that dentist,
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Speaker 3: that skin check that pets me, or go to your
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Speaker 3: doctor for some blood tests, or your holistic healthcare professional
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Speaker 3: for some functional gut tests, and yeah, start prioritizing your health.
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Speaker 1: Love it so important.
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Speaker 2: So number two is going back to that quality sleep.
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Speaker 3: So if you have some sleep onset issues, maybe you
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Speaker 3: need to start looking at, you know, optimizing your circadian rhythm,
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Speaker 3: so your internal body clock.
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Speaker 2: So my first suggestion.
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Speaker 3: Would be to get up in the morning and look
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Speaker 3: at some natural sunlight, go outside within those first couple
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Speaker 3: of hours.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, you're doing that.
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Speaker 1: I love it. First five minutes straight outside, Yeah, yeah,
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Speaker 1: it's so good.
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Speaker 3: It's like telling your body, hey, it is daytime, we're
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Speaker 3: going to suppress that melatonin and then your body notes
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Speaker 3: to naturally increase that at night time. So it's going
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Speaker 3: to make going to sleep a little bit easier. But
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Speaker 3: if you're still struggling with you know, sleep on set
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Speaker 3: and it's due to like a busy mind, that mental
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Speaker 3: load that to do list, I would suggest you know,
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Speaker 3: even doing a little brain dump to get that off
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Speaker 3: your mind.
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Speaker 2: And if you're still struggling, I.
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Speaker 3: Would suggest looking at some herbs and nutrients to really
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Speaker 3: calm your body, calm your brain, your nervous system to
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Speaker 3: help with that sleep onset. So things like magnesium, althianine,
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Speaker 3: or particular herbs like passion, flower, lavender can all be
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Speaker 3: really really nice. So I would talk to someone about, yeah,
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Speaker 3: introducing some things to.
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Speaker 2: Help with that.
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Speaker 3: And then if you are waking up during the night,
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Speaker 3: so say you're waking up between like one and three am,
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Speaker 3: for instance, in traditional Chinese medicine, this is kind of
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Speaker 3: a sign that your liver is under pressure or it's burdened.
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Speaker 3: So maybe you've got a hormonal imbalance that needs to
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Speaker 3: be addressed, So you know, consider looking deeper and finding
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Speaker 3: out what's really going on support that sleep. The next
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Speaker 3: one is number three, Hydrating your body properly, And yes,
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Speaker 3: I mean water, but I also mean supporting your body's
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Speaker 3: hydration at a cellular level.
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Speaker 2: So things like.
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Speaker 3: Electrolytes so you're magnesium, potest calcium can really help the
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Speaker 3: way that your body absorbs water into its cells. And
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Speaker 3: then also sexual forts is like amiga threes. They really
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Speaker 3: help the integrity of all the cells within your body,
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Speaker 3: so they really help your body's ability to hold onto
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Speaker 3: that water. So drinking enough water, having electrolytes and amiga
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Speaker 3: threes is really important to really hydrate your body at
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Speaker 3: that cellular level. So if you want, you know, plump
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Speaker 3: hydrated skin, I would make sure you're doing all of
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Speaker 3: those things.
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Speaker 1: So cool, and I think that's spoken about enough. People
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Speaker 1: think when they think like hydration, it's just pure water,
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Speaker 1: but there's actually more to it.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, and it can be you know, coconut water,
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Speaker 3: natural electrolytes, or one of my favorite little like cocktails
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Speaker 3: is coconut water, a bit of lime and a bit
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Speaker 3: of Celtic sea salt.
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Speaker 2: In that is just ideal.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: I have coconut water in my smooth every day now
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Speaker 1: and I put a little bit of Celtic sea salt
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Speaker 1: and you can't even taste it, No you can't.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, love that.
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Speaker 3: So number four or another kind of foundational health thing
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Speaker 3: to really assist is your diet, so it seals your
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Speaker 3: protein intake and fat intake because yeah, that's so important
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Speaker 3: when it comes to health, and a really big emphasis
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Speaker 3: on protein at breakfast time. So we want to be
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Speaker 3: aiming for like twenty five to thirty grams of protein
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Speaker 3: in the.
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Speaker 2: Morning, which can be a lot.
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Speaker 3: And I say to my clients, you know, you can
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Speaker 3: break it down into you know, for your first two meals,
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Speaker 3: So let your breakfast in your morning tea because it
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Speaker 3: can be really hard and particularly if you're someone that's
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Speaker 3: skipping breakfast or having caffeine, it can be a really
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Speaker 3: tough transition. So it's really important to you know, really
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Speaker 3: support those digy sub secretions if you're someone that's not
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Speaker 3: eating protein currently in the morning, to you know, ease
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Speaker 3: your way into doing that, because yeah, when you're eating
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Speaker 3: enough protein in the morning in particular, you'll notice a
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Speaker 3: huge difference in your overall health.
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Speaker 1: Oh you do I have every day, like a protein
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Speaker 1: smoothie and then three eggs with some chopped up ham
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Speaker 1: and I just feel so full and so satisfied. And
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Speaker 1: since I like increasing amount approaching I have in the morning,
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Speaker 1: it just makes you feel so much better.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, and you're not getting those crashes and cravings and
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Speaker 3: bits and pieces.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, so important. Number five is another foundation to health.
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Speaker 3: Start moving your body daily and don't commit to a
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Speaker 3: movement that you hate. And if you find a chore
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Speaker 3: and like, you know, just because everyone else is doing it,
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Speaker 3: do something like for yourself.
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Speaker 2: And it doesn't need to be big. It can just
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Speaker 2: be like a ten minute walk or a stretch.
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Speaker 3: But people really underestimate moving your body for health, and
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Speaker 3: it can really impact your digestion and your circulation, your
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Speaker 3: cardiovascular health. So yeah, find something that you love. It
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Speaker 3: could just be even dancing with your kids or something,
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Speaker 3: but just stick to it and move your body.
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Speaker 1: You'll never stick to it if you hate it, for sure, exactly.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: So number five is another really important foundation to health,
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Speaker 3: and that is your mental health.
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Speaker 2: To start prioritizing your mental health.
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Speaker 3: Because you can eat all the healthy food, do all
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Speaker 3: the exercise, take all the supplements, but if you don't
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Speaker 3: have control of your mind, your whole body will feel
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Speaker 3: the impacts your fixed psychological stress has on your body
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Speaker 3: is huge, and it can be very different person to person,
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Speaker 3: Like it can affect your immune system, so you know,
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Speaker 3: you could be frequently sick.
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Speaker 2: It can affect your hormonal health.
19:25
Speaker 1: And so on.
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Speaker 2: So definitely check and on your mental health.
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Speaker 1: It's so important. Oh my goodness, it really does affect everything.
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Speaker 1: If you're not emotionally regulated and getting back to your
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Speaker 1: center and being in control of your emotions, it affects everything.
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Speaker 1: Like it's always hard to function in your day to
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Speaker 1: day living if you're not taking care of your mindset.
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Speaker 3: It really is, and it is a missing piece that
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Speaker 3: I find a lot of my clients aren't doing about
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Speaker 3: like I'm doing this, I'm doing this, I'm doing this,
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Speaker 3: and you know, it might work short term the supplements
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Speaker 3: and the bits and pieces, but long term, if you
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Speaker 3: don't have control of like they're inner critic or you know,
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Speaker 3: all the things going on in your head, then it's
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Speaker 3: really not going to be a sustainable health journey.
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Speaker 1: It is one of the most important things every single
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Speaker 1: person needs to focus on.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, totally.
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Speaker 3: Number six is start consuming enough fiber. So the amount
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Speaker 3: of people that I see in clinic.
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Speaker 2: That don't have enough fiber in their diet is actually wild.
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Speaker 3: And everyone puts a huge emphasis on probotics when it
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Speaker 3: comes to gut health, but probotics aren't like beneficial if
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Speaker 3: you're not having your fiber and your probiotics. So a
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Speaker 3: type of fiber, like probiotics, is a fuel for probiotics. Right,
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Speaker 3: So if you're taking a probiotic capsule, it's entering your
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Speaker 3: digestive system and it will only stay there for about
20:46
Speaker 3: a week or so, right, you need to feed it
20:48
Speaker 3: to establish a really healthy gut microbiome. So I think
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Speaker 3: fiber is really overrated, and things like slow cooked apple
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Speaker 3: or so stewed apple are really good, green bananas, there's
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Speaker 3: fibers and lots of different foods, but just increasing those.
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Speaker 1: In general love it.
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Speaker 3: So number seven is practice mindful eating. When we're stressed,
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Speaker 3: blood is diverted away from our digestive system throughout our body.
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Speaker 3: So if we're sitting down to eat our lunch in
21:21
Speaker 3: front of our laptop or replying to emails and bits
21:24
Speaker 3: and pieces, then our digestive system isn't primed to eat food.
21:29
Speaker 3: So if you're someone that's getting bloated and you know,
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Speaker 3: struggling with digestion, and you're not sitting down being mindful
21:36
Speaker 3: and actually thinking about the food in front of you,
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Speaker 3: smelling it, really priming your digestion, then definitely consider there
21:43
Speaker 3: and start practice mindful eating.
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Speaker 1: Love thatitly not spoken about it enough, is it?
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Speaker 2: No?
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Speaker 3: And even just chewing your food properly, Like you know,
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Speaker 3: if we're in a rush and you're in the car
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Speaker 3: and you've got to be somewhere, if you're not actually
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Speaker 3: breaking it down properly in your mouth, how's it going
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Speaker 3: to break down properly in your stomach?
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Speaker 1: I feel like full mush in your mouth.
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Speaker 2: Hey, like yeah, it should be almost liquidized. Yeah, yeah.
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Speaker 3: So number eight is start noticing how food makes you feel.
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Speaker 3: So getting to know your body is a really powerful tool.
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Speaker 3: And I find in clinic when I ask clients about
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Speaker 3: their food, and you know, if particular foods make them
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Speaker 3: feel a certain way, they just have no idea. And
22:23
Speaker 3: you know, when you become in tune with your body more,
22:26
Speaker 3: then we can kind of identify what's going on. So,
22:29
Speaker 3: for instance, if you're someone that has like a cheeseboard
22:33
Speaker 3: with some girlfriends, you're having some age cheeses, some cured meat,
22:37
Speaker 3: but you find that the next day you're always getting
22:39
Speaker 3: headaches and you're not even drinking alcohol. Then it could
22:42
Speaker 3: be a sign that your body is really struggling to
22:44
Speaker 3: break down histamine.
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Speaker 2: So it's, you know, some work that needs to be
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Speaker 2: done in the guts.
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Speaker 3: So you're getting really nauseous after high fat foods, could
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Speaker 3: be a sign that your liver is not producing enough
22:56
Speaker 3: fial to break down foods.
22:57
Speaker 2: So if you're able to kind.
22:59
Speaker 3: Of identify these bits and pieces, then you're able to
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Speaker 3: kind of find out what's going on and we can
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Speaker 3: work to ward's optimizing your body and how it functions.
23:08
Speaker 1: So interesting.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, number nine is start switching up your personal care
23:15
Speaker 3: products and your cleaning products. And yet just when you
23:18
Speaker 3: run out making the switch, because like I mentioned earlier,
23:22
Speaker 3: microplastics are everywhere, into crime disrupting chemicals are everywhere. So
23:27
Speaker 3: I feel like deodorants a big one. I feel like
23:30
Speaker 3: you need to make the switch to a natural deodorant
23:32
Speaker 3: if you're not doing that already, and it can be
23:36
Speaker 3: a tough switch. If you're someone that's used a conventional
23:40
Speaker 3: deodorant for years on end, your sweet glands are essentially
23:44
Speaker 3: been blocked with chemicals, so that transition, you're probably going
23:47
Speaker 3: to be a lot sweatier, a lot smellier. You need
23:51
Speaker 3: to push paths that transition period, which can last a
23:53
Speaker 3: couple of weeks, and there are things that you can
23:56
Speaker 3: do to support it. So particular binders like being tonight
24:01
Speaker 3: clay and things are really useful if you pop it
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Speaker 3: on at night time. There's even like particular like if
24:06
Speaker 3: you google a detox yodorant, you can wear it at
24:11
Speaker 3: nighttime and it might have ingredients like the benternightclay draw
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Speaker 3: out the toxins and then when you wake up you
24:16
Speaker 3: can expol it really well and then put on your
24:19
Speaker 3: natural deodorant.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, natural doodants are all.
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Speaker 3: Very different, so I would recommend trying one that suits
24:25
Speaker 3: you and your body before you disregard them completely.
24:29
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're hard to find, that's for sure.
24:31
Speaker 2: Number ten.
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Speaker 3: The final one is trust your gut and trust your intuition.
24:36
Speaker 2: So if you feel crap, you go to.
24:39
Speaker 3: The GP, they run some bloods and they come back
24:42
Speaker 3: with everything is normal, everything's within range. Please know that
24:47
Speaker 3: these general ranges are based off the general population, so
24:52
Speaker 3: these within ranges, So the general population includes people that
24:57
Speaker 3: are unwell, So if you are, you know within this
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Speaker 3: range shad at the lower end, it could be suboptimal,
25:03
Speaker 3: and because people function very differently, some people don't function
25:08
Speaker 3: well with those suboptimal ranges. So I would suggest pushing
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Speaker 3: for more tears, going to see someone else for a
25:16
Speaker 3: second opinion, and trust your gut. Don't just think, oh,
25:20
Speaker 3: they've said I'm okay, I'm okay when you know deep.
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Speaker 2: Down that you're not.
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Speaker 1: And a mother's intuition is so on, whether it's for
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Speaker 1: yourself or for your kids, it is. I feel like
25:29
Speaker 1: it's your body, like waving a red flag. You know, Yeah,
25:32
Speaker 1: really got to listen to it. I feel like every
25:34
Speaker 1: time we don't listen to our gut, something happens and
25:36
Speaker 1: we look back and be like, damn it, I really
25:38
Speaker 1: should have done that, Like something told me to not
25:40
Speaker 1: go there, or to ask more questions, or to get
25:42
Speaker 1: that test, you know exactly. Yeah, there's so many cool takeaways.
25:47
Speaker 1: So for everyone listening, like you can always rewind, write
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Speaker 1: things down, take more notes. But thank you so much.
25:53
Speaker 1: That was so informive. I'm definitely going to add in
25:56
Speaker 1: my bananam for my workout. Where can we find you?
25:58
Speaker 1: And you obviously work with like a lot of people online,
26:01
Speaker 1: can they see you face to face?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, so I predominantly you can find me on Instagram.
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Speaker 3: So my Instagram handle is bloom dot Wellness dot Collective
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Speaker 3: and so, like I mentioned, I've got a virtual clinic
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Speaker 3: only at this stage, so I can see anyone across
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Speaker 3: Australia and New Zealand just you know, different time zones
26:21
Speaker 3: and bits and pieces.
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Speaker 2: And then also I'm doing some retreats next year, in
26:28
Speaker 2: person retreats.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, so I love seeing people in that seating as well.
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Speaker 1: Oh that'd be awesome. If you guys love a treats,
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Speaker 1: definitely go up and check that out on Instagram. That's
26:36
Speaker 1: so exciting. Yeah, well, thank you so much for joining us.
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Speaker 1: I hope you have a beautiful Christmas and I'm sure
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Speaker 1: we cross.
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Speaker 3: Thank you, thank you, Thanks Sae