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148 // Holistic health guide for graduates [Graduation Gift Idea] · Health with Hashimoto’s - Thyroid or Immune Education for Autoimmune Thyroid Disease

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  Hey, welcome back to another episode of Health with Hashimoto's.
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  My name is Esther, and I am happy to welcome you to a very different episode.
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  First, I have an announcement about the summer schedule, and then I'm going
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  to tell you about the book I wrote, which is not about Hashimoto's.
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  So last summer, we did, we meaning you and me, we did summer shorts.
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  I know that schedules change in the summer and podcast listening habits often change as well.
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  So last summer, I tried to do episodes that are about 10 minutes or less,
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  and I heard really good feedback. So I thought we would do that again this summer.
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  And when I was trying to think of what we would do, one of my podcasting friends,
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  she mentioned that she did a wishlist episode.
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  And I was making a wishlist episode, just an outline, figuring out different
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  tools and modalities, things that people would put on a wishlist.
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  Everything from like super cheap, like a couple dollars, to super expensive.
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  Like, you know, a couple thousand dollars.
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  And I thought that would be a really fun series.
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  And then I was like, Oh, I could do that over the summer. So that is what we're
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  going to do over the summer.
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  Every week, I will have an episode about 10 minutes or less is my goal.
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  And we will cover different tools that you might want to invest in or put on
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  your birthday wish list.
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  I don't know if you still make one of those. I do. My husband and my kids like
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  to have a wish list for me.
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  They prefer, you know, easy Amazon wishlist where there's exact links,
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  or I tell them exactly what I want.
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  That's how my family runs. I'm not sure how your family runs,
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  but that's what we're going to do this summer.
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  If you have anything that you want me to cover during this series,
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  hop over to our community, Health with Hashimoto's, over on the school platform.
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  School is skool.com and search for Health with Hashimoto's, or just click the
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  link down in the show notes.
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  And that will take you probably to my link page where I have everything.
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  You know, I talk about different supplements and activators.
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  That's on the link page. I talk about the Fullscript store. It's kind of like
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  the Amazon of good quality supplements.
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  That link is on the link page. My different freebies are on the link page.
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  I've got a lot of different stuff over there. So check out that link and let
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  me know what you want to hear about this summer.
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  So here is what I have outlined so far. I thought maybe we could talk about
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  thyroid lab tests. There's a lot of places that you can get them online.
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  I thought we'd cover that in one episode because I don't know about you,
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  but that was on my wish list for a while.
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  I want to recheck my labs and I want to do all of the things.
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  Maybe grounding sheets.
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  People have asked me about coffee enemas. So I figured, you know,
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  kind of gross, but let's talk about it.
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  We will not be talking about red light therapy because that's going to be an
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  interview that I do in the fall, and that will need more than 10 minutes.
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  But early morning sunlight exposure, a guided prayer and meditation app.
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  Different things like that, I have already scheduled or, you know,
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  written down the idea. I have not recorded and scheduled it yet. It's only mid-May.
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  So let me know over in our Health with Hashimoto's community what you want to
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  hear about in the summer, and I will see how many different things I can work into our schedule.
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  As far as I can count, in June, July, and August, we have 13 Thursdays.
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  So 13 summer short episodes, and I will be calling those the Hashimoto's Health Lab.
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  So watch out for the beginning of June.
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  That will start. All right, let me tell you about the book I wrote.
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  So first, some background.
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  I have four boys, and they are getting older.
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  I told you in a couple episodes ago that I have one graduating this year.
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  But of course, that means for the last two years, I have had a lot of grad parties
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  because my kids have a lot of friends who are graduating.
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  And last year, maybe, oh, early spring, maybe late winter, I posted on Facebook
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  and I said, who has some ideas for graduation gifts?
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  I would like to make the gifts something that's personal and meaningful.
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  I don't want to just give money or towels or something useful.
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  I want to help these graduates grow as a person.
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  And one of my friends said, why don't you write a book? You would be great. I would read the book.
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  I'm like, oh, that's a really cool idea. Let me do that. So I did.
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  I wrote a book last year. Now I published it.
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  And it was fine. But my goal with the book was to price it really low so that
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  people who have a lot of graduation parties can buy multiple.
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  Like, you know, I wanted a small book, very short, because that's what the kids want to read.
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  They don't want a textbook. They don't want something big. They want something
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  super short and easy to read.
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  And I also wanted to keep it really cheap for people who are buying multiples.
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  Well, the platform that I used last year, the shipping ended up to be more than the book.
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  So, and I also discovered, well, not discovered, it re-pointed out to me that
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  I am really bad about delivering things.
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  For some of my customers, if you have ordered through my affiliate link for
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  the LifeVantage ProTandem and Activated Collagen, the MindBody system,
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  I most likely have a card written out for you.
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  I wrote those out in November and they are still sitting in a box because I didn't ever send them.
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  The same thing happened with the book. I had a couple people order and I was like, sure.
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  And I ordered for them so that we could save on shipping.
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  And then delivery was my hang up. There's one person who still doesn't have her books.
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  And do you think that I've forgotten about it? Absolutely not.
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  Do you think that that has like filled me with guilt every single time I think
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  about it, which is probably once a week since last spring? Absolutely.
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  Why don't I just put them in the mail if I haven't met up with her in person?
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  I don't know. That's a great question.
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  And I should probably dig into that because being eaten up with guilt every
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  single week when I think about these books is probably not healthy.
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  Anyway, I rediscovered that I don't do good with delivering things in person.
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  So this year, I moved to Amazon.
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  If you go to Amazon right now and you type in Esther Yunkin in the search E-S-T-H-E-R,
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  there is an H in my name, it is silent,
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  Esther Yunkin, Y-U-N-K-I-N, you will see my brand new to Amazon book.
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  It is called Wellness Wisdom for Graduates, Easy Hacks to Create holistic health after high school.
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  I'm so excited about this book. Let me tell you about it.
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  Like I said earlier, it has nothing to do with Hashimoto's. This is the book
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  that I wanted to write for my kids and for their friends. I wanted to help them
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  create better health, help them to create a.
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  I guess I wanted to help them shortcut the different lessons that we've all
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  had to learn through trial and error and failure.
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  So if I figured I could shortcut that in small, simple chapters, awesome.
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  All right, so the book covers all the five areas of health, the whole person health.
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  So you know the logo on the cover art for this podcast, in my website, everywhere.
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  It's a flower and it has five petals. Those five petals are body,
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  mind, spirit, diet, and environment.
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  So I have a chapter on each of those. And within each of those chapters,
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  I have very quick, doable tips.
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  They are things that are rooted in holistic health, not holistic as in woo woo,
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  but holistic as in everything is related to everything else.
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  You know, when you are in a bad mood, when you got up on the wrong side of the
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  bed, it's going to affect everything.
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  It's going to affect how you eat. It's going to affect your posture.
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  It's going to affect how you relate with others. It might affect your spiritual health even.
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  You know, if you wake up on the
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  wrong side of the bed, are you going to be talking to God more or less?
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  Are you going to be grumpy with your friends and then you feel guilt about that?
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  You know, everything impacts everything. And that's what I mean by holistic.
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  So this book has just very, very short chapters. The entire book is only,
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  I think, 49 pages. So very short.
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  And I try to get enough in there that the teenagers who are receiving this book,
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  they get some really practical tips.
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  So chapter one is spiritual health. And this is your warning that if you do
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  not want to give a book that is biblically based, this is not the book for you.
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  This book starts out with spiritual health because you are an eternal being.
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  Your body will die, your spirit will not, you will get a new body.
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  And if your spiritual health is not good, nothing else matters.
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  So that is why spiritual health is first. And I explain that in the book.
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  I say, it starts out, what is the most important petal of your whole health? It's not your body.
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  Your physical health is very important, but you will get a new body someday.
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  Your spirit is eternal. Your spiritual health determines your destiny after
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  your physical body dies.
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  As Paul wrote in 2 Corinthians, so we fix our eyes not on what is seen,
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  but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.
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  In the spirit chapter, I talk about prioritizing the important things.
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  Yes, I talk about Jesus and spiritual health and eternal life,
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  but I also talk about what is calling for your attention, what's calling for
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  your mental energy, and how to sort through there.
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  I love the Eisenhower matrix it
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  is two by two grid and things are
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  categorized between urgent and not urgent in the
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  columns and then in the rows important and not important so I walk the reader
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  through the Eisenhower matrix because I know that the kids going into college
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  or going off into their new jobs launching into adulthood they're going to have
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  a lot of decisions and for me personally,
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  this Eisenhower matrix was very impactful when I first learned about it.
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  When I feel very overwhelmed and I have a to-do list that is,
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  you know, really, really long, I throw it into this Eisenhower matrix and it
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  really helps me prioritize the things that I need to.
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  In the spirit chapter, I also talk about not following your heart.
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  The world, like messages from everywhere are constantly saying, follow your heart.
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  But we know if you have read through Proverbs and Psalms, you know that the heart can be deceitful.
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  So instead of telling the reader, the graduate, to follow your heart,
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  I say, instead of following your heart, follow God's heart.
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  And of course, I say, you know, I give the background, why would you not follow
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  your heart? I talk about how to find a good church.
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  That is the end of the spirit chapter.
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  The mind chapter, I talk about how your thoughts are powerful.
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  Your thoughts shape your emotions and drive your actions.
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  So we talk about mental health. Again, going back to focusing on what is important
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  to talk about what you focus on expands.
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  And then in this mental, in this mind chapter, we talk about exercise.
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  Because there is one thing that is more powerful and more effective than most
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  mental health medications available today, and it is exercise.
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  Researchers have looked at over 1,000 different studies,
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  and they have found that physical activity is one and a half times more effective
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  at reducing symptoms of depression and anxiety than either medication or therapy.
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  So we talk about exercise and staying active in the mind chapter.
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  In the body chapter, I talk about physical health.
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  I talk about breathing, diaphragmatic breathing a lot on this podcast.
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  So I teach the graduates in this book how to use diaphragmatic breathing to bust stress.
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  We talk about rest and staying active. You need both. And then good sleep.
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  And I tie it into better grades. I am assuming that a lot of the students who
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  read this book will be going on to college, but not everybody.
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  I think that this little tiny section is the only time I mention grades.
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  And I mention it because researchers at MIT discovered a 50% drop in grades
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  between students who averaged six and a half hours of sleep per night versus
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  those who averaged seven and a half.
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  50% drop in grades. That's huge. So we do cover sleep in there.
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  Chapter four is all about diet. Now I understand that most, you know,
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  19 and 20 year olds are not making the grocery budget.
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  They're not making the grocery list. They're not doing their own grocery shopping.
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  So I did not really focus on telling them what to eat.
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  Instead, I focused on how to eat.
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  Like, you know, skip the three G's, gobble, gulp, and go.
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  Let's skip those. Instead of gobble, gulp, and go, let's focus on our eating. Let's chew our food.
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  Let's be mindful while we eat.
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  And then I also talked about eating your veggies first, because the order that
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  you eat your food impacts your blood sugar.
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  When you eat your veggies first, the fiber helps your blood sugar stay stable.
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  When you eat your fat and your protein before your carbs, it also helps your
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  blood sugar stay more stable.
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  So we talk about the order that you eat.
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  Because again, the teens who read this book or who are given this book probably
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  are not going to be in charge of deciding what they're going to eat on a regular
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  basis. Sometimes, obviously, yes.
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  But on a regular basis, they're probably still living with family or they're in a college dorm.
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  They're doing something where other people are making the menu.
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  So instead of telling them what to eat, I'm covering how to eat.
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  I do cover some easy meal and snack ideas.
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  There's one page about that. And again, this is a super short book.
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  So one page is all it gets.
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  Then chapter five is about the environment. And that includes the things around
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  you that can be inside or outside. It can include things that you apply to your skin every day.
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  It can include things that are beyond your control, like the weather.
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  It also contains or it also includes what you view on your phone or computer.
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  So the environment is a big topic and
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  And I talk in this chapter about clutter, about who is around you,
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  and getting out in nature.
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  That is the book. There's a conclusion and there's a small list of additional
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  resources if they want to dig in further into any of those topics.
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  That is the book. So it's called Wellness Wisdom for Graduates,
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  Easy Hacks to Create Holistic Health After High School.
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  And again, I created it very short so that it is appealing to the graduates.
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  I priced it so that you can order multiple for all of the graduates in your life.
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  And also for yourself, if you want a quick, super short book on holistic health,
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  again, it's not covering Hashimoto's, but it's covering holistic health.
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  This is a great tiny little book. I am biased, of course, because I wrote it.
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  But honestly, our teens need encouragement and practical tools.
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  They have been called the most anxious generation.
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  The pressure on the graduating students and the teens and young adults right
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  now is greater than any time in history.
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  Our teens need encouragement and practical tools as they head into this new
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  season. So I hope that this book is one small way that you can support them.
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  If you grab a copy, I would love to hear what you think or who you're giving it to.
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  You can come over to our community at school, S-K-O-O-L, the Health with Hashimoto's
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  community, and let us know.
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  And if you are listening to this in real time in May of 2025,
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  I welcome you to start the Holistic Hashimoto's course.
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  Early spring is a fantastic time to do this program.
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  It's about four weeks if you do it all in a row, but it's self-paced.
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  So if you need more time, you have more time.
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  If you want to do it faster, you can do it faster.
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  Early spring, I find, is a fantastic time to do this type of thing because summer gets really busy.
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  Now, I don't know about early spring for you. It is kind of busy.
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  I've got graduation parties. We've got the end of the school,
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  different things at school.
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  My one homeschooler, he's doing projects.
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  My graduate, we're preparing for his graduation. I know that May is busy.
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  People call it Maycember, right? It's very busy. It's also a fantastic time
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  to figure out what's going on with your health and take charge.
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  So start the holistic health program right away.
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  Do it ASAP before the busyness of the summer derails or maybe the relaxation
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  of the summer derails your plans.
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  I don't know about you, but sometimes those summer days, I just want to relax
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  and you can relax better when your health is under control.
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  So join the Holistic Hashimoto's course. Again, all of the links are in the
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  show notes. You can go to Amazon and get the book.
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  That link will be there. You can go to school and give me ideas for the holistic,
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  what am I calling it? The Hashimoto's Health Lab series.
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  That is three different things. And I know for a podcast, I'm only supposed
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  to leave you with one call to action, one action to do.
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  And so I guess go down and click on that link in the show notes,
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  and then click on the one that's appropriate for you.
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  Because all of these things are helpful. You've got the graduation book,
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  Wellness Wisdom for Graduates.
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  You've got the Holistic Hashimoto's course for yourself for better health.
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  And then you have the link to our community where you can talk to others,
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  you can get support, and you can leave recommendations for the summer series.
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  All right, I will see you next week. I have one more interview for you before
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  we kick off that summer series, and I am so excited for you to hear it.
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  All right, I will see you next week on the Health with Hashimoto's podcast.
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  This podcast is for informational and educational purposes only.
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  Music.