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Teddi Shares Her Story · Two Ts In A Pod with Teddi Mellencamp and Tamra Judge

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  Speaker 1: This is Teddy Tea Pod with Hey guys, welcome to
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  Speaker 1: this week's Teddy Tea Pod. I am excited to talk
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  Speaker 1: to you guys. It's you know, it's always great to
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  Speaker 1: have Instagram and be able to share things, but it's
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  Speaker 1: a lot different to share things via a caption or
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  Speaker 1: you know, an ends the story that runs out in
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  Speaker 1: fifteen seconds. So I'm grateful that you guys tune in,
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  Speaker 1: that you listen, and I hope that you know, by
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  Speaker 1: being sharing and me being vulnerable, that you're able to,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you know, either feel like you're not alone,
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  Speaker 1: or feel like, oh my gosh, that's happening to a
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  Speaker 1: friend of mine, or oh I really want to hear
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  Speaker 1: this information, but regardless. Later on in the episode, I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to have on Dr Abe Malcolm he Um is
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  Speaker 1: the founder and medical director of Concierge m d l A,
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  Speaker 1: a home based concierge medical practice, and he's supposed to
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  Speaker 1: be an incredible doctor, and I'm going to bring him
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  Speaker 1: on to ask him, you know, all of the questions
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  Speaker 1: that I had and then also I saw so many
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  Speaker 1: different kind of questions and thoughts and theories in regards
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  Speaker 1: to what happened to me on Saturday. UM. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if you guys have all seen it it, UM,
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  Speaker 1: but as a long story short, I well, a while back,
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  Speaker 1: I had COVID, and UM, I didn't really talk about
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  Speaker 1: it because I was just really focused on making sure
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  Speaker 1: that I was healthy and my family was healthy, my
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  Speaker 1: husband was healthy, and you know, we were doing the
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  Speaker 1: best that we could. UM. And you know, I learned
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  Speaker 1: a lot of things in the process. UM. I was
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  Speaker 1: vaccinated UM and my husband was not, which he has
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  Speaker 1: since realized, like what a big mistake that was, UM,
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  Speaker 1: and really, like, you know, in his mind, he's just like, well,
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  Speaker 1: your vaccinated, We're good. I'm staying in the house. You know.
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  Speaker 1: He had all those justifications that I know a lot
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  Speaker 1: of people out there have. But what ended up happening is,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we both had COVID and we had to
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  Speaker 1: quarantine from our family, and we're actually from each other
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  Speaker 1: because at first, UM he tested positive first, so he,
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  Speaker 1: you know, was quarantined and then I had a feeling,
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  Speaker 1: so I just quarantined myself as well into another room
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  Speaker 1: until I ended up testing positive. And both of our
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  Speaker 1: reactions to COVID were very different. UM. I got through it.
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  Speaker 1: Quicker like I was probably only six sick for like
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  Speaker 1: six days, where his was a full you know, fifteen UM.
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  Speaker 1: But and you know, total mind games. Some days you
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  Speaker 1: think that you're good and then the next day you're
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  Speaker 1: having these intense sweats and then you know, you have
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  Speaker 1: my chest really hurt, and then ribs and then for
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  Speaker 1: Ed when he was super weak, and just it was
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  Speaker 1: so many different things, and it really was a great
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  Speaker 1: reminder how important it is, you know, to get vaccinated.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, if people are saying wear a mask,
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  Speaker 1: wear a mask, you know, do whatever you can, because
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  Speaker 1: I can say how extremely difficult it was to not
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  Speaker 1: be around my kids and to be you know, so
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  Speaker 1: worried of giving it to them, you know, especially because
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  Speaker 1: Slate has an autoimmune disease. And I just it was
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  Speaker 1: a lot, and I wasn't really ready to talk about it.
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  Speaker 1: But now here we are, UM and and really what
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  Speaker 1: what triggered me talking about it is what happened to me,
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  Speaker 1: you know, much later, which was this past Saturday, UM
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  Speaker 1: during COVID. The entire time when I had it, I
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  Speaker 1: I my biggest thing that I was feeling was what
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  Speaker 1: I called vertigo. I'm not a dot. After I don't
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  Speaker 1: know what it is, but I would feel like I
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  Speaker 1: was laying on a waterbed, and then when I'd get up,
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  Speaker 1: I'd feel dizzy. And it kind of lingered with me
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  Speaker 1: even post COVID and had been continuing to happen, but
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  Speaker 1: nothing so severe, but enough so that like anybody that
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  Speaker 1: follows me s, he's like, I used to run like
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  Speaker 1: eight miles a day. I haven't been doing that. Like
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  Speaker 1: I've been much more, you know, a bike or walk
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  Speaker 1: or do a little jog or whatever it may be.
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  Speaker 1: But my lifestyle has had to shift a little bit
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  Speaker 1: because of this lingering, you know, kind of dizzy feeling
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  Speaker 1: that I was getting um. But you know, enough time
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  Speaker 1: had passed that I'm like, this shouldn't be you know,
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  Speaker 1: they shouldn't be from from having COVID before. What could
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  Speaker 1: this be? I don't really know, but I was putting
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  Speaker 1: it to the back, like I was putting it in
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  Speaker 1: as part of the back burner. But then a wake
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  Speaker 1: up call happened. Um. You know, I'm not someone who
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  Speaker 1: loves to go to the doctor, to be perfectly honest,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm not someone, you know, but who wants to
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  Speaker 1: complain about not feeling well and all of those things.
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  Speaker 1: You know, when it comes to my mental health, I'm
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  Speaker 1: pretty open and vulnerable when I'm struggling. But when it
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  Speaker 1: comes to my physical health, I've always had anxiety around
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  Speaker 1: seeing doctors. Um. But uh so yeah. On Saturday night,
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  Speaker 1: I went to sleep around like I always do. UM
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  Speaker 1: and one and I both fell asleep. Cruise was in
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  Speaker 1: our room, but like he has his own little bed
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  Speaker 1: at the end of the end of our bed where
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  Speaker 1: he sometimes sleeps. And um Slate was having a sleepover
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  Speaker 1: with her best friend. And I had been told, you know, there,
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  Speaker 1: UM is a chance that you know, she may wake
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  Speaker 1: up in the middle of the night and want to
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  Speaker 1: come home. If that happens, UM, just give us a
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  Speaker 1: call and we'll come get her. I thought, you know
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  Speaker 1: nothing of it. My kids wake up in the middle
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  Speaker 1: of the night all the time. You know, it is
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  Speaker 1: what it is. You know, the girls really wanted to
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  Speaker 1: do this, and you know they love each other so great. Um.
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  Speaker 1: At four am, Uh, I hear mom, mom, and I
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  Speaker 1: jumped up like fast and ran into the room. And
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  Speaker 1: by the time I got there, I just I couldn't
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  Speaker 1: even get my bearings. I couldn't my whole like eyes
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  Speaker 1: went black and I fainted, and I remember feeling I
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  Speaker 1: don't even really remember, like I just remember fainting and
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  Speaker 1: then just worrying about like I hope the kids are okay,
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  Speaker 1: what's going on? And then I tried to quickly pull
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  Speaker 1: myself up, which I have since learned you're not supposed
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  Speaker 1: to do. And when I did that is when I
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  Speaker 1: really fell hard and like crashed into my lip and
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  Speaker 1: my I have you know, a bit of a black
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  Speaker 1: eye and my cheek and you know, I have a
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  Speaker 1: lot of makeup on now, but either way, it's it
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  Speaker 1: was really painful, and it was dark in the room.
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  Speaker 1: But then I somehow managed to just you know, kind
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  Speaker 1: of lay there, and so it's like, Mom, are you okay?
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  Speaker 1: And I'm like, oh, yeah, I'm fine, honey, you know,
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  Speaker 1: because you just you go into fight or flight mode
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  Speaker 1: and you just want your kids to feel safe. And I,
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  Speaker 1: you know, asked her friend, are you okay, and she's like, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I just was wondering if you could be in here
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  Speaker 1: for a little bit because I was having a hard
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  Speaker 1: time sleeping. So like they didn't really understand the magnitude
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  Speaker 1: of what was going on, and it's like kind of
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  Speaker 1: just like handing me a blanket and I laid on
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  Speaker 1: the floor in the room. And then when I came
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  Speaker 1: to really in the morning and like you know, hobbled
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  Speaker 1: into the room with Edwin, He's like, what is what happened?
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  Speaker 1: And you know, my face and my lip everything was bleeding.
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  Speaker 1: Luckily I cleaned myself up before you know, the kids
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  Speaker 1: had to fully see what was going on. Um, but
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  Speaker 1: it was a really scary experience and um, I still
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  Speaker 1: felt really foggy and you know, just not like myself
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  Speaker 1: ever since. And you know, but I'm one of those
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  Speaker 1: people that when something happens, I am diligent about wanting
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  Speaker 1: to understand why it happened on wanting to you know,
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  Speaker 1: first my first priorities making sure the kids were okay.
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  Speaker 1: They were fine, you know, they were like that, how
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  Speaker 1: did that happen? Did you stand up too quick? You know,
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  Speaker 1: like we all kind of tried to laugh about it.
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  Speaker 1: I tried to cover my face and like, you know,
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  Speaker 1: explain that it hurt, and then asks like, you know,
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  Speaker 1: in the future, if this ever happens to mommy, please
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  Speaker 1: go get daddy. So you're just they're helping me by yourself,
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  Speaker 1: just like, oh, I didn't want to wake up Cruise,
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  Speaker 1: and you seemed okay, you asked for a blankie. So
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  Speaker 1: like it, you know, all of these things, um, you know,
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  Speaker 1: really really hit me. And you know, so part of
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  Speaker 1: it is my own anxiety about not wanting it to
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  Speaker 1: happen again, but also just trying to understand where this
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  Speaker 1: is coming from and something that I've learned by you know,
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  Speaker 1: things that I've looked at and so far, I've seen,
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  Speaker 1: you know, a chiropractor. I've seen you know, had somebody
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  Speaker 1: do them. Now I'm gonna blank on the name, but
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  Speaker 1: I'll ask the doctor when he's here. Like that. There's
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  Speaker 1: a method that you do that's supposed to help I
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  Speaker 1: an appointment book with an E and T. I. Um,
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  Speaker 1: I'm getting my blood work today actually as soon as
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  Speaker 1: I'm done with this podcast, because I want to rule
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  Speaker 1: out all things. But something that I have heard is
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  Speaker 1: this is a lingering effect post COVID, So it's something
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  Speaker 1: that I want to understand. I want to ask all
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  Speaker 1: of the questions about what's going on with COVID right now,
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  Speaker 1: how we can protect ourselves, what we should be doing,
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  Speaker 1: if there's any sort of supplements or vitamins or what
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  Speaker 1: I need to do to make sure that this, you know,
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  Speaker 1: doesn't happen to others. And you know, so that's really
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  Speaker 1: what I wanted to do this podcast about. I'm sorry
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  Speaker 1: that it's not like more fun in nature. Originally I
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  Speaker 1: was like, oh, we'll talk about why you know, forties
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  Speaker 1: birthday rager. But you know, I think that this is
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  Speaker 1: much more pressing and I really just want to provide
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  Speaker 1: you guys with as much info as you can so
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  Speaker 1: you can protect yourselves in your family. So, UM, let's
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  Speaker 1: take a little break and then when we come back,
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  Speaker 1: I'll bring on Dr Abe Malcolm. Hi, Dr Malcolm, how
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  Speaker 1: are you? I'm great, Thank you, thanks so much for
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  Speaker 1: joining us. I did your intro already, and you know
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  Speaker 1: everyone's excited to get started and hear from you. Um
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  Speaker 1: to give you, oh I'm okay, you know, to give
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  Speaker 1: you a little backstory. A while back, I had COVID
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  Speaker 1: and one of the lingering things that has been happening
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  Speaker 1: with me has been what I have assumed is vertigo.
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  Speaker 1: Have you heard that That's a common thing to happen.
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  Speaker 1: So there's so many long haul effects of COVID, vertigo
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  Speaker 1: is definitely one of them. If you think about. You know,
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  Speaker 1: covid at its core really just caused inflammation in the body.
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  Speaker 1: And whenever you have inflammation, you can get uh fluid production,
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  Speaker 1: and the cause of vertigo essentially is fluid in the
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  Speaker 1: inner ear that messes up the alignment of the bones
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  Speaker 1: and other structures in the inner ear, so you feel
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  Speaker 1: like you're moving even when you're not moving right. So,
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  Speaker 1: any inflammation or fluid build up or whatnot can cause vertigo.
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  Speaker 1: So that's very common with and how long do you
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  Speaker 1: think it does? It just depend on the patient, because
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  Speaker 1: you know, I had it a while ago. Why is
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  Speaker 1: it still affecting me now? Yeah, So it really depends
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  Speaker 1: on your body's response to inflammation. So women tend to
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  Speaker 1: have more of a severe post infection reaction to covid
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  Speaker 1: because they just generally have more inflammatory state in their body,
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  Speaker 1: which is why they tend to get more blood cloths,
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  Speaker 1: more complications symptoms like vertigo. So I'd say women more
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  Speaker 1: than men, tend to be more affected. And then anyone
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  Speaker 1: who generally speaking, is more prone to inflammation will have
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  Speaker 1: a worse time with COVID than someone who and purely
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  Speaker 1: these are just genetic factors. Some people are more prone
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  Speaker 1: to inflammation than others. I mean, the part that was
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  Speaker 1: a little bit wild to me was, you know, back
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  Speaker 1: when we did have COVID, my husband had COVID as well. Um,
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  Speaker 1: I was vaccinated, and I seemingly felt like I moved
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  Speaker 1: through COVID pretty quickly and he was not, which is
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  Speaker 1: you know, obviously he's like that was an ignorant choice
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  Speaker 1: that I made, Like I regret that I didn't, you know,
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  Speaker 1: but he had a much more severe case in the moment,
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  Speaker 1: Like every day for him was, you know, worse and
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  Speaker 1: worse and worse. We're like, I had a couple of
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  Speaker 1: days where I was like, what's going on? You know,
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  Speaker 1: but his was just have you seen that as well?
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  Speaker 1: But what's the difference between you know, vax and anti
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  Speaker 1: vax sure, And so he was actual wasn't He wasn't.
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  Speaker 1: I was and he was not. So that really comes
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  Speaker 1: down to your primary immune system's your secondary immune system.
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  Speaker 1: So let's say you encounter someone who's sick and you're
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  Speaker 1: not vaccinated, So your your body has B cells, which
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  Speaker 1: helped prevent infection. They fight initially fight infection to help
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  Speaker 1: you not get a severe infection. Once you've gotten vaccinator,
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  Speaker 1: once you've had an infection, your body now has what's
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  Speaker 1: called T cells. They essentially remember the virus or the
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  Speaker 1: infection and then have antibodies to fight it. So in
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  Speaker 1: your initial response to a to an infection, when you're
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  Speaker 1: not vaccinated, that's your B cells, your primary immune system.
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  Speaker 1: In your case, you had a T cell response, a
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  Speaker 1: secondary response from your secondary immune system. So your husband
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  Speaker 1: just might have a stronger B cell primary immune system
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  Speaker 1: than you, and that's why he had an easier time initially.
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  Speaker 1: But then in the long term, you know, once his
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  Speaker 1: secondary immune system is pulled in, he may not have
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  Speaker 1: as good of a secondary immune response as you. That's
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  Speaker 1: a differentiating factor between different types of OFFCT. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I'm hearing about this a lot. How would you describe
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  Speaker 1: to to people right now that are not wanting to
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  Speaker 1: get vaccinated, how important that it is because what people
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  Speaker 1: are seeing now is vaccinated and unvaccinated people are getting COVID.
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  Speaker 1: So how is an edge CATERD way to explain to
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  Speaker 1: somebody listen, you know, because and you know, I just
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  Speaker 1: know I'm passionate about it. I'm like, no, you need
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  Speaker 1: to be vaccinated because we need to protect you know,
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  Speaker 1: our community and ourselves. But then people will say, well,
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  Speaker 1: you know, especially like people that will follow me on
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  Speaker 1: Instagram or whatever, but they'll be like, well, people that
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  Speaker 1: are vaccinated get it, So what does it matter? So
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  Speaker 1: analogy is like a like air bag in the car,
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  Speaker 1: So it's not going to stop you from getting into
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  Speaker 1: the accident, but when you get into the accident, you
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  Speaker 1: have an air bag to essentially lessen the load that
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  Speaker 1: you of the impact that you feel from that car accident.
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  Speaker 1: So what the vaccine does is it lessons that that
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  Speaker 1: response that you get to COVID and diminishes it because
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  Speaker 1: your body already has circulating antibodies, so you may not
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  Speaker 1: see as high an amplitude of an effect from getting
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  Speaker 1: the virus as someone who's unvaccinated. Um And you can
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  Speaker 1: use that analogy of the air bag to to essentially understand,
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  Speaker 1: like the impact still happens, you just don't fuel the
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  Speaker 1: impact as much because you have an air bag there.
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  Speaker 1: And that's the vaccine. Okay, I like that. I'm using it.
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  Speaker 1: Um And and kind of going back to the vertigo
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  Speaker 1: a little bit. What are some so so far for me,
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  Speaker 1: I have done acupuncture, I've done that. I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: pronounce it wrong effortly method, Yeah, definitely, yeah, really maneuver
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  Speaker 1: and I'm getting blood work and I'm also going to
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  Speaker 1: an e n T. But like, what are some remedies
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  Speaker 1: to help ease the symptoms? So, if it's being caused
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  Speaker 1: by fluid in the inner ear, which is very possible,
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  Speaker 1: you want to try to decongest as much as possible.
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  Speaker 1: So I would use some flowing as you know, twice
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  Speaker 1: a day in each nostril, maybe a nettie pot. I
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  Speaker 1: don't if you've used one of those before. You kind
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  Speaker 1: of pour fluid and one side of your nose, it
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  Speaker 1: goes through and comes out the other. And the idea
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  Speaker 1: that as you want to really flush out all the fluid,
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  Speaker 1: you could also perhaps go to a steam room to
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  Speaker 1: help get steam therapy to help loosen up some of
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  Speaker 1: the mucus and the congestion in your inner ear and
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  Speaker 1: your sinus passages. Whatever you can do to clear out
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  Speaker 1: gung schmutz fluid in your inner ear, cavity and pathways
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  Speaker 1: will help you a lot. And I have you noticed that,
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  Speaker 1: you know, regardless of covid or not, when it comes
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  Speaker 1: to vertical like some of the people that we're writing
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  Speaker 1: in we're saying, like I've been struggling with this for years,
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  Speaker 1: Like how come some people, you know, you can do
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  Speaker 1: those things and it'll go away, and some it sticks
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  Speaker 1: with you. Yeah, it's really a matter of again, your
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  Speaker 1: body's lingering inflammatory effects, so some people tend to just
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  Speaker 1: be in a pro inflammatory state. Things that enhance inflammation
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  Speaker 1: in your body, stress, toxins, lack of sleep, caffeine, these
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  Speaker 1: things all lead to a pro inflammatory state. So for anyone,
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  Speaker 1: you know, whether you have verigo or not, and you're
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  Speaker 1: concerned about your your your your risk of COVID, I
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  Speaker 1: would say, do things to lower inflammation. So meditate, get
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  Speaker 1: good sleep, reduced toxins, eat a diet that's low in
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  Speaker 1: inflammatory foods, like things like spicy foods, alcohol, toxins like
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  Speaker 1: that will cause inflam inflammation in your body. Um so
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  Speaker 1: for you, for sure, because of the symptoms that you're having,
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  Speaker 1: but even for anyone whether or they have COVID, those
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  Speaker 1: are all really important factors to help diminish any possible
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  Speaker 1: effects of COVID. And do you think there's like a
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  Speaker 1: certain way that you should be getting up so that
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  Speaker 1: you don't aren't prom you know, I I felt dizzy
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  Speaker 1: in my life before. But I've always been able to
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  Speaker 1: catch myself. So the fact that I wasn't, I didn't
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  Speaker 1: even have that like ability is what scared me and
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  Speaker 1: now why I'm in my own head about it. Right.
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  Speaker 1: I think for most people, your body's compensatory effect when
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  Speaker 1: you stand up is to recalibrate. And your body can
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  Speaker 1: recalibrate normally just fine in your case, because you've essentially
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  Speaker 1: shifted the very very tight alignment of bones and fluid
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  Speaker 1: and the inner ear. That's why you're, you know, exhibiting
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  Speaker 1: these effects. Uh. So for for you, for sure, you know,
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: decongest as much as possible, you know, using those methods
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: that we talked about, uh and then try other methods
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: to help produce inflammation in your body relating to your diet,
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: your sleep, to your stress, and other factors that really
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: affect that. So you think stress can add to Certainly,
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: stress increases cortisol. Cortisol directly increases inflammation in your body.
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: You know, we take it for granted, but that's a
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: very common reason people's immune systems are diminished. Um, they're
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: more prone to infection, the more prone to adverse reactions
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: from getting infection. That's a really big, you know, prognostic indicator.
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: It's really good to know. And then now that there
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: is the delta variant, have you noticed a difference and
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: the lasting effects from COVID nineteen versus the delta variant,
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: or how do you know which one you've gotten, or
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: any of those types of things. You know, in the community,
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: there really isn't a lot of testing around delta. It's
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: we just assume people get delta when they're when they've
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: been vaccinated, just because the vaccines so uh susceptible to
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: the delta variant. Um that being said, I certainly am
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: seeing diminished symptoms and those who are vaccinated versus those
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: who are unvaccinated. In terms of the length of a sickness,
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: it's relatively mild so far. What I've seen in most
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: people who are vaccinated, you know, two to three days
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: of symptoms, really feeling completely better within five days, versus
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: those that are unvaccinated, you know, symptoms ranging from a
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: week to fourteen days. And then would you say that
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: there's a different way that people should be protecting themselves
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: if they're unvaccinated versus vaccinated currently, because I mean, right now,
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: the delta variants out with a vengeance, right, I mean,
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: you know, sadly, for those that are unvaccinated, it's really
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: going back to the things we were doing in December
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: and January, so really masks all the time, social distancing,
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: avoiding large groups. Uh, those are all the things that
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: that show still should be in place for people who
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: are unvaccinated. And then what about for vaccinated you know,
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: I think it's it's this is a you know, balance
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: between living your life and living with the risk of COVID.
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: You know, given that for most people who have vaccinated,
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: the risk of severe consequences is extremely low. You know,
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: it's really a personal voice. Getting COVID for someone who's
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: vaccinated is most likely not going to be worth any
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: worse than getting the flu. So whether is so assuming
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: you don't have underlying conditions and you're not at health
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: risk otherwise, you know, I think you should take, you know,
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: reasonable efforts to avoid getting it. But I still think
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: people need to be able to live their lives and uh,
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: if they are vaccinated, they can do so in a
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: fairly normal fashion. And then do you think that currently
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: it's spreading faster in LA than anywhere else in the
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: United States? I think l a is just such a
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: unique population where we have a lot of people who
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: are working in fact in factories and other places where
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: they have to go to work and cannot work remotely,
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: that whenever we see a spike, we see a spike
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: in those populations, and that trails down to the rest
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: of the rest of the population. In other cities where
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: it's more remote workers and uh, you know, more farmland
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: and things like that, it doesn't seem to spike quite
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: as quickly in those places. However. I mean, we do
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: testing all over the country and we're seeing spikes in
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: New York and Florida, Washington and really all over the country.
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: And what would you say is what type of symptoms
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: should you be having when like you know, now you
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: need to like go to the hospital or you need
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: to go to the doctor. Because you know, we have
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: a friend who also somebody that was unvaccinated who got COVID.
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: I don't know if it's a delta variant or this,
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: I'm not sure, but um who's hospitalized and like very
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: very ill and didn't go for a long time because
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: you know, Grant and Barrett, I'm gonna get through it.
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: And then you know, really having a hard time breathing,
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: like it has the tubes everything, So like, how do
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: you how do you know when it's time. I'm sorry
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: to hear that that your friend is going through that.
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: I think to uh, you know, relatively easy things to
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: track at home would be your temperature and your oxygen saturation.
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: So I think fevers you know, in the hundred and
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: one ange are relatively normal for COVID. Once it's getting
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: up to a hundred three hundred four, it's really hard
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: for your body to maintain its homeostasis and it's hydration
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: status at that level. So that's that's the time you
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: should really think about going to the hospital. In terms
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: of auction level, you know, your body's normal auction levels
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: around if it's if you're struggling a little bit, it
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: could be down to you may not feel it, but
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: if it's lower than three range, that's when you should
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: consider going to the hospital. And then just final question
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: to leave it on like a more of a positive note,
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: what are some things that we could be doing to
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: like boost our immune system right now that you know,
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: either supplements or you know, like I know that just
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: me being in sunshine and you know, having freasure, I'm
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: going on a walk and meditating help. But what what
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: else could we be doing? Yeah, and I'm sure we've
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: all heard these over the last year, but I'll reiterate.
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: You know, first of all, sleep is super important. I
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: try to get eight hour to sleep at night, and
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: I know for not everyone everyone that's not possible, but
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: really trying to get to that is really critical. Your
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: body repairs itself when you sleep. It's really important for
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: your immune system. In terms of your diet, you know,
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: people do tend to eat a lot of toxins in
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: their diet, and a lot of people don't even know
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: necessarily that they're bringing food into their body which is
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: causing inflammation. So you know, if you want to get
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: a food sensitivity test and find out if you have
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: small sensitivities to shellfish or nuts or other toxins, and
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: that's really helpful. Cutting down an alcohol and other toxins
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: can be helpful too for people. I know a lot
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: of people resorted to drinking during helse to do, but
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: you know, hopefully now they can get outside and and
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: go exercise. What you mentioned is another really important way
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: of maintaining your immune system, maintaining your health, and and
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: really trying to stay in your tip top health. Uh
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: you know, mindfulness and meditation whatever that means for you.
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: For me, when I go running, I zone out and
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: it really is helpful for me. Other people do yoga,
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: other people meditate. So those are some really important things
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: you can do to maintain health. Well, I love this.
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: Thank you so much for sharing with us. And where
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: do people if they want to come to your concert, Like,
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: where do they find you? So even better, we will
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: come to you. We do house calls all over Los
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: Angeles um At Concierge m d l A. That's the
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: name of the clinic. We do ID therapy, COVID testing,
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: other in home services all over the country through drip hydration.
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: So we we really try to bring the services that
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: you would get at the urgent care directly to your house. Well,
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: now you're in trouble because now I've got your info.
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: So thank you so much for taking the time, my pleasure,
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: Take care. Bye. So we're gonna take a little break
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: here and then we're going to open up the phone
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: lines and see if we have time for a caller too.
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: Hi Gina, Yeah, Hi, thanks for calling in. How's it going?
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: It's on? Wow? Thank you. How are you doing. I'm
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: hanging in, hanging in, happy to be here. I don't
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: really know any backstory on you. I just know that
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: you're calling in something in regards to COVID, and I
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: would love to hear your story, if you don't mind
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: sharing it with our listeners. Yeah, no, of course. I
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: I got COVID last February. Um, if you, And actually
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: it was my uh somebody, I think it was. My
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: husband was asymptomatic, and so I got it, and luckily
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: my I have two boys, and luckily they didn't get it.
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: And I saw my mom the day that I was
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: feeling all these I just felt really crummy and felt
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: really like my body ached everywhere and horrible abdominal pain.
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: But I went to go see my mom and thank
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: god I wore a mask because I was with her
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: inside for a while and um, and then I went
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: home and got super sick that night, just with like
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: full body aches, like just chills. Um. And then I
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: lasted for like three weeks where I was literally in
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: bed and um, couldn't you know, could barely sleep. It
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: felt like my muscles would being torn apart and um.
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: And then I had residual for two and a half.
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: I had residual for two and a half months, um
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: and uh. And then I had my first VISOR shot
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: when I was able to get it, and I still
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: had horrible pains. And then after my second visor shot,
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: everything went away, all my pains, everything went away. So
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: it's like saved me. But well, that is a huge
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: that that's an excellent story to share for anybody out
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: there who you know has already had COVID and they're like, oh,
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: I don't need to get vaccinated for it. Just recently,
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: just a week ago, my brother came back from l
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: A with his family and to his son and his
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: wife got the Delta variant and they both been vaccinated.
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: She got the Johnson and Johnson vaccination and she is
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: horribly ill still. And the son had VISOR and he
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: has he's positive, but he doesn't have any symptoms. But
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: he went around and saw my mom too, and thank
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: god he wore a mask because he would have killed her.
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: So we're just you know, mask, mask work, back work,
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: and you can still get it even if you have
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: been vaccinated. I know I feel the same way. I mean,
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: right now, you know our kids are in you know,
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: outdoor sports camp type things, and you know, some some
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: of the moms have been like, oh, I don't want
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: our kids to have to wear a mask, and I'm like, truthfully,
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: my kids they're at the point they don't even say anything,
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: they don't even notice. It doesn't bother them, Like, and
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: I just think it's so important for us all to
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: remember that, like, the you know, the more we do
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: to protect the people in our lives, the better that
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: everybody's gonna in our community and other kids, because especially
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: like something happens and then like the whole pod will
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: shut down or then the championships. Yeah, I mean my son,
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: I've once on that eleven, so he can't get a
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: shot yet, and so people, you know, then you just
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: have to worry about him around people because you know,
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: people who aren't vaccinated aren't wearing masks, so you gotta
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: it's gotta mask work. I mean, I literally almost killed
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: my mom and my brother almost killed my mom, so
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: and we were wearing masks around her, thank god, And
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: she never got anything, no, thank god. And she's eighty
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: two when she's got long issues and so I was,
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: I mean, it was like it would have been horrible.
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: So well, Gina, I can't thank you enough for sharing,
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: and this is just a really good reminder to all
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: of us, you know, wear a mask especially, or get vaccinated,
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: and so we can be done with this. Yeah, let's
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: move on. Let's let's get back to you know, different
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: types of conversations, having fun, being healthy, and you know,
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: I appreciate you coming on to share with us today.
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: And yes, well, thank you, thank you, and bless you
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: for wearing that mask and taking care of your mom. Yes,
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: thank you, thank you, stay safe. Thanks all right, bye bye.
• 28:54
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• 28:57
  Speaker 1: I know parts of it were a little heavy, but
• 28:59
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• 29:02
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• 29:07
  Speaker 1: voice because I think it can you know, things can
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: be lost in translation via via things written out. So
• 29:15
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• 29:19
  Speaker 1: I hope that some of the things that you heard
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: today will help you guys and will help resonate. Um,
• 29:26
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• 29:28
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• 29:32
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• 29:39
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