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Is Your Nervous System Stuck in Overdrive? · Wellness Wednesday Activation Podcast

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  SPEAKER_01: Welcome to Wellness Wednesday.
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  SPEAKER_01: We are so happy that you are joining us tonight.
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  SPEAKER_01: If this is your first Wellness Wednesday ever, welcome.
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  SPEAKER_01: You are going to be in for a treat.
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  SPEAKER_01: What Wellness Wednesday is all about is for over the last three years, we show up here on Wednesday night and we ask a different health expert to come on and discuss a different health topic because we believe that knowledge is power.
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  SPEAKER_01: And we also believe that we have to be advocates for our own self.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so having that knowledge can help us be better in our health.
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  SPEAKER_01: My name is Shauna, and I've been a wellness warrior for almost 10 years now.
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  SPEAKER_01: And honestly, I live in the Midwest and health knowledge hasn't always come easy to me.
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  SPEAKER_01: I didn't grow up in a family who had all the answers or actually even knew a lot.
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  SPEAKER_01: We just went to the doctor and did what we were, you know, were told kind of thing, but we never really asked questions.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so I got really curious about 10 years ago and I continued to ask questions every single day to learn more and do better for my, for my family and for generations to come.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so we are so thrilled that you're here.
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  SPEAKER_01: Tonight we're gonna talk about an important topic, the nervous system.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so much has like come out over the last couple years, I would say, about the nervous system and how important it is to our overall health system.
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  SPEAKER_01: And but it's still a system that I don't think a lot of people pay attention to.
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  SPEAKER_01: And it can be so powerful for our overall health as well.
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  SPEAKER_01: So I'm excited to have my good friend Dr.
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  SPEAKER_01: Brett on the call with me tonight.
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  SPEAKER_01: He is no stranger to health.
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  SPEAKER_01: He is no stranger to the nervous system.
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  SPEAKER_01: He has so much knowledge because he has so much experience.
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  SPEAKER_01: His experience started when he was young, but he's been practicing for a long time in the functional medicine world and nutrition world and chiropractic world.
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  SPEAKER_01: So he helps people with this every single day.
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  SPEAKER_01: So, Dr.
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  SPEAKER_01: B, welcome to the call.
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  SPEAKER_01: All about the nervous system.
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  SPEAKER_01: Tell us a little bit about your background and why this topic you think is so important.
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  SPEAKER_00: So good to see you, Shauna.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's funny, I actually met somebody the other day from Nebraska.
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  SPEAKER_00: I got another another day from Nebraska.
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  SPEAKER_00: I was like, oh, some people that are in that wonderful cold place.
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  SPEAKER_01: You know, it's not always cold.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, no, I'm just joking.
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  SPEAKER_00: I've been there when it wasn't.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I'm gonna tell you something.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like, I this is what you don't do in a day, okay?
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  SPEAKER_00: You don't start patients at 7:30, take a half-hour lunch break, go to six, barely get done with somebody, you squeeze it at the end, it's calm.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's the worst thing you can do for your nervous system.
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  SPEAKER_01: Well, we're happy, we're happy you're pausing your nervous system reset here to help.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna ask you guys all do the little nervous system reset with me.
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  SPEAKER_00: And one of the easiest things to do is to breathe.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like, so if you just always gotta put your hand in your belly button and just focus on breathing while you feel your tummy go in and out.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like, at the end of the day, the stuff I'm gonna tell you, like, don't worry about the stuff I'm gonna show you, too.
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  SPEAKER_00: So just as you kind of put your hand in your belly button, take a deep breath in.
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  SPEAKER_00: Four or five seconds, breathe all the way out, four or five seconds, hold it out, breathe in four or five seconds, hold it in for four or five seconds, breathe it out for four or five seconds.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, so throw in the chat how many of you feel a little more calm now than you did just 30 seconds ago.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like just throw one, like, wow, that wasn't that bad.
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  SPEAKER_00: What happens?
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  SPEAKER_00: So your nervous system's job, and again, I'm a chiropractor, so I'm 100% biased on this whole thing, is as chiropractors, we're taught we believe the body heals itself.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's what we learned early early on, is our philosophy.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're also taught that the cause of dis-ease, or what we call dysfunction or disharmony, is this state of not having the nervous system be in balance.
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  SPEAKER_00: We call it a state of disease or disease, dis ease, lack of ease.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, how many of you ever felt by number by number two in the thing that you've ever felt like your body was not in balance?
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  SPEAKER_00: Like you just felt dysregulated.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like it's like you got upset too easy, you just had a hard time going to sleep at night, like you couldn't let go of something that's happened that day, or it's just like your mind kept racing, or it's just almost like anytime you relax, it's like you just jump back up.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like, I can't relax, I can't relax.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's a dysregulated nervous system.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the fascinating thing about the body is it wants to heal.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like your cells want to, your nervous system, but your nervous system coordinates and control of this.
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  SPEAKER_00: So your whole experience of your life, like what you see, what you taste, what you touch, what you feel, what you hear is all modulated through the through the nervous system.
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  SPEAKER_00: It is.
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  SPEAKER_00: And there's a couple different parts that I want to just talk about.
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  SPEAKER_00: We call one's called the autonomic nervous system, and there's that that part of it is basically the automatic part.
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  SPEAKER_00: You can't tell it what to do.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's either stress, we call it fight, flight, or freeze.
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  SPEAKER_00: So in the chat, if you relate to fight, flight, or freeze, say me.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like, I know what that is.
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  SPEAKER_00: Fight, flight, or freeze.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's just like you feel like that's kind of that's your MO.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like, you just feel like, man, I feel like I'm gonna fight.
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  SPEAKER_00: I feel like I'm always flighting or running, or I feel like I freeze.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm stuck.
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  SPEAKER_00: Right now, unfortunately, that's a lot of the human population.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, the other one is what we call rest and digest or at ease.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like if you if that if that's you, if you're like R, put R in the chat.
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  SPEAKER_00: Where you feel like, hey, I just yeah, my normal is like, I'm pretty chill.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm R ⁇ R, I feel R and R.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's not you don't look R because there's people that look rested and relaxed, but when you talk to them, you're like, whoa, yo, like you're not R.
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  SPEAKER_00: So here's what I want you to know about this whole thing about within the nervous system, and and this is why it's so important is that in order for your body to be in a healing state, it needs to be an R.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like that's where we're in a healing state.
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  SPEAKER_00: What we call that the parasympathetic state.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's your rest and digest, your rest and relaxation state.
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  SPEAKER_00: So if you're in that state more often, your body's gonna be your nervous system being more of a normalized state.
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  SPEAKER_00: But here's why that matters that's when your nervous system can actually recognize what's going on, identify where the problems are, and then actually focus the nervous system or body detention on, hey, we need to work on this.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like that that's the that's the job of the nervous system.
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  SPEAKER_00: But if you're in a fight, a flight or a free state, the nervous system really is having a hard time like deciding what's important to pay attention to.
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  SPEAKER_00: And you'll know if you're in that or not by how you like feel.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like, you are you short of breath?
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  SPEAKER_00: Are you like feel like relaxed and calm?
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  SPEAKER_00: Because the opposite of relaxed and calm is tight and tense.
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  SPEAKER_00: So if you're TT, right, tight and tense, then you're in more of what we call the sympathetic dominant state.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, how many of you like your normal world has a lot of TNT?
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm not saying dynamite, but just has a ton of that.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like it's just like it feels like I'm always in this constant, I'm pull this direction or pulled that direction, or I I just there's I know what's going on in Iran, I know what's going on with my neighbor.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like, I mean, I'm on Instagram and I don't look like that cool guy on Instagram.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm too fat, whatever it is.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like your nervous system is partly always being pulled away from the its present state.
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  SPEAKER_00: Anybody relate to that?
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  SPEAKER_00: So that's that's why nurses is so critical, is understanding that it is basically always on, but it isn't on a state of like, hey, I'm in a rest repair state, or am I got too much TNT?
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  SPEAKER_00: So I'm on a fight flight or freeze state.
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  SPEAKER_01: So when we think about like all the time, no matter if you're talking to a health expert or talking to a friend, right?
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  SPEAKER_01: We hear the word stress all the time.
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  SPEAKER_01: Like, are you stressed?
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  SPEAKER_01: You need to keep your stress low.
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  SPEAKER_01: You need to keep right because stress is overall so bad for overall health.
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  SPEAKER_01: Is that because stress, like true stress, like mental health stress, physical stress, all of that stress really affects the nervous system?
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  SPEAKER_00: The answer is yes.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that and again, stress is adaption.
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  SPEAKER_00: So people hear this word stress, and they're like, well, what is what is that?
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  SPEAKER_00: So understand that it's stress is not good or bad.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's like, you know, like I know that if if I want to build muscle, I have to put resistance on my muscle, and then it that's stress.
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  SPEAKER_00: So is the stress able to be a healthy type stress or an unhealthy type stress?
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  SPEAKER_00: And now the way I define stress is this is your ability to adapt smoothly.
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  SPEAKER_01: You sound like my husband.
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  SPEAKER_01: If people don't know, my husband is a mental health therapist and he always says stress isn't the problem, it's how you handle the stress that is the problem.
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  SPEAKER_01: So adapting to the stress, yes.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so when it comes to adapting to stress, if that's a if I'm just holding this up, for instance, if I hold it out with a straight arm, that's that's not the best way to hold something back because it can go heavy.
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  SPEAKER_00: If I hold it in like this, it's obviously less stressful.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know, if I set it down, it's not heavy at all.
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  SPEAKER_00: So when you think of a mental stress, it's the same weight, but how you hold that stress or don't hold that stress is totally about how much energy it takes to actually handle the stress.
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  SPEAKER_00: And like I love, I mean, I'm not a therapist when it comes to mental health therapists, but like I think that way.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so remember your nursing regulates all these things.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, and what I do as a chiropractor and a functional medicine guy, like we really are we we say we solve the health, solve the health puzzle with the six steps of wellness by identifying the interferences that don't allow the body to do as it designed to do.
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  SPEAKER_00: And one of those is emotional stress, others are physical stressors, other are chemical stressors, others are toxicities.
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  SPEAKER_00: So there are some of these things that you don't have control over.
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  SPEAKER_00: Right?
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  SPEAKER_00: You may not have control over like what your air quality is all the time, but you do have control over like how in which you breathe the air, like how you what you do in your house to regulate that or what nutrients you give your body in order to limit the exposure.
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  SPEAKER_00: So there's always ways you can allow your body to regulate better.
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  SPEAKER_01: Absolutely.
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  SPEAKER_01: So let's talk about that.
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  SPEAKER_01: So the overall nervous system, would you venture to say, I have no idea what your answer is gonna be to this, would you venture to say that if your nervous system is not regulated and if it's out of balance, likely overall health, you like you're not gonna have a good job healing?
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  SPEAKER_01: You're not necessarily gonna be healthy.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, you you're gonna have a harder time like regulating if you're dysregulated.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so and think of it like juggling is that if you're in a state, so here's the easiest way to to to kind of identify this.
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  SPEAKER_00: When was the last time you've truly felt calm?
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  SPEAKER_00: Like you calm, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: When you woke up, you felt alert, you felt rested, you felt at peace.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's a calm nervous system, that's a regulated nervous system.
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  SPEAKER_00: And when you were exposed to a stress, let's just say it's a family member, so we all have those.
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  SPEAKER_00: Maybe the family member is kind of like not super calm.
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  SPEAKER_00: Once you weren't with that individual, or that individual said it's something dumb, how long did it help you, how long did it take you to get back to calm?
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  SPEAKER_00: If it took you a long time to get back to calm, that tells you how unregulated your thermostat is.
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  SPEAKER_00: But the same thing is true with the environmental pollutants.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like if you're exposed, so somebody say, Well, I never used to have food allergies.
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  SPEAKER_00: And now I have all of these allergies, I react to everything.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, your nervous system has probably been dysregulated for so long that now you're you're that you actually have physical damage to your intestinal tract to where or you're easier breathing in foods, now your body doesn't adapt like it used to.
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  SPEAKER_00: But it all goes back to please on the nervous system, then everything that you do, well, what better?
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  SPEAKER_01: Is there a way to know, like besides just feeling, is there a way?
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  SPEAKER_01: Like, is there a test?
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  SPEAKER_01: Is there a way to know that your nervous system is out of balance?
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, there's a couple, I say symptomatic.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna give you a couple just so you kind of know.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: This happens kind of thing.
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  SPEAKER_00: Number one, that feeling of calm.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like, how long, like, if can you do when you lay down and go to sleep, you go to sleep next day, sleep all night?
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  SPEAKER_00: That's a pretty decent indicator.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hard variability variability, like all these cool little devices people can wear, they actually measure sympathetic, parasympathetic tone.
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  SPEAKER_00: They allow you to actually see, is my system in a state of calm?
• 13:15
  SPEAKER_00: Like those are they're not expensive tests, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: But I see this a lot.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you stand up and get lightheaded, like quickly, that's to me a pretty good indication.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're in a situation where your nervous system is not balanced.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then, like, when you get when you have stress, physical, mental, emotional stress, how quickly do you get back to your normal state?
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  SPEAKER_00: And the other way I tell people, like, if you I mean, I'm sure you've seen this, Shauna.
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  SPEAKER_00: When you're around certain people, like, whoa, man, they buzz them.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like, they just whoa.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like they're just they're ramped up, and you you just feel kind of like on the inside.
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  SPEAKER_00: So you can feel this in other people too.
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  SPEAKER_00: So those are a couple indicators, but probably like sheer ejective testing, heart variability is some of the best.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's far in there simple.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, some people are wearing all these watches and uh things that'll actually tell you like, are you in a sympathetic dominant state or not?
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  SPEAKER_00: And by the way, if you look at somebody and they appear calm, it doesn't mean that they their nervous system is balanced.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I personally look calm, but I do very I have to do very specific things to regulate because I'm around my job is I'm around a lot of people who come in a heightened state of awareness.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I can't feel that.
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  SPEAKER_00: So understand if you are those individuals that you feel people's stuff, and these are moms, moms feel it all the time.
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  SPEAKER_00: Just because you feel it doesn't need to be to fix it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like just because you feel something's not your job to fix it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_00: But you you'll you'll want to have intentional practices to allow yourself to set that thing down.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, so let's talk about that.
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  SPEAKER_01: So, are there things that you should be doing every day, just like little quick things?
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm guessing you're gonna say breathing, because you already had us do that, right?
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  SPEAKER_01: That's a simple little thing to do.
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  SPEAKER_01: But are there a few other little things that we could be doing on the daily to help regulate our nervous system?
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  SPEAKER_00: I yeah, I hope everybody records what I'm gonna tell you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, and you practice this the rest of your life, and you teach all your kids and grandkids this this these two techniques, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: If you'll do these two things, you'll unfortunately this will cut into Sean's husband's paychecks, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: Because if you can learn to regulate your nervous system, you won't need other help that the same way you have.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, I'm all for help.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like, believe me, I I love what he does.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm so glad he does it.
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  SPEAKER_00: But there's a lot of us haven't been taught that one, the nervous system is important.
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  SPEAKER_00: You guys think it's more important to brush your teeth than regulate your nervous system because dentists have done a better job of the chiropractors.
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  SPEAKER_00: And if you can't regulate that, it's hard to come anything down.
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  SPEAKER_00: So here's one that's called the box breathing, which is what I just had you do.
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  SPEAKER_00: You basically breathe in the five to ten seconds, hold five to ten seconds, breathe out five to ten seconds, hold, five, hold, and then you breathe back in, hold, and breathe out, hold.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's what they teach the Navy SEAL guys.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's what they teach them to handle the most stressful environment they'll ever be in, whether it's in boot camp or maybe t-trane or in the middle of a major assault.
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  SPEAKER_00: Is that control the breathing, nervous symptoms stress heightened state so that they can adapt and respond?
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  SPEAKER_00: That's one.
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  unknown: Right.
• 16:30
  SPEAKER_00: Can we guys play a little game with me?
• 16:32
  SPEAKER_00: You gotta play a little game, huh?
• 16:33
  SPEAKER_01: I love games.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're all gonna look weird here in a second.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_00: So close your eyes real quick, just for fun, kicks and giggles.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I want you to I want you to imagine a place you love to be.
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  SPEAKER_00: Anywhere in the world.
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  SPEAKER_00: It can be the mountains, it can be the beach, it can be anywhere in the world.
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  SPEAKER_00: And just as clearly and as crypt as you can, like describe it.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I'm gonna play with Shauna here since she's listening.
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  SPEAKER_00: So we're doing it close.
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  SPEAKER_01: I am in Cape Town, South Africa.
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  SPEAKER_00: Tell me what you see.
• 17:06
  SPEAKER_01: I see the ocean, I see the mountains, I see rocks, I see waves, I see.
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  SPEAKER_00: What do you hear?
• 17:14
  SPEAKER_00: What do you hear?
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  SPEAKER_01: I hear the ocean coming against the rocks constantly.
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  SPEAKER_00: What do you smell?
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  SPEAKER_01: I smell salt water, beach.
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  SPEAKER_00: What what does it feel like?
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  SPEAKER_00: What do you feel?
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  SPEAKER_00: Like what's the temperature?
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  SPEAKER_00: Is it moist?
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  SPEAKER_00: Is it dry?
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  SPEAKER_00: Is it windy?
• 17:36
  SPEAKER_01: It's warm with slight breeze coming off the water.
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  SPEAKER_00: So when you're in this space now, and you've been there before, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: What what does that feel like?
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  SPEAKER_00: What does your body feel like, your mind feel like peace?
• 17:52
  SPEAKER_00: Peace.
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  SPEAKER_00: So peace, calm.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like you can feel your muscles relaxed.
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  SPEAKER_00: Mm-hmm.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, I want you to shift now to something that's stressful.
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  SPEAKER_00: Maybe it's an in-law.
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  SPEAKER_00: Maybe it's like you don't have to tell me what it is.
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  SPEAKER_00: It can be why are you laughing?
• 18:06
  SPEAKER_01: Sorry.
• 18:07
  SPEAKER_01: Sorry.
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  SPEAKER_01: No, mm-mm, never.
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  SPEAKER_00: So something stressful, whatever it is, what first thing pops in your mind?
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  SPEAKER_00: Sometimes like it's this situation, it's just stressful.
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  SPEAKER_00: Where do you feel that in your body?
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  SPEAKER_01: My jaw.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, so touch your jaw and the other hand lay across your forehead.
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  SPEAKER_00: So if this is you guys and you're feeling if something's stressful, wherever you feel in your body, touch, and then touch your forehead.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we're gonna do that for like five to ten seconds.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, what do you feel is feeling happen as you do that?
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  SPEAKER_00: What happens with the tension in your jaw?
• 18:41
  SPEAKER_01: It it almost feels like it's releasing just a little bit.
• 18:44
  SPEAKER_00: It is, it will.
• 18:45
  SPEAKER_00: Don't worry about why.
• 18:47
  SPEAKER_00: Yes, it will.
• 18:48
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, both hands down, eyes closed.
• 18:50
  SPEAKER_00: Think about the same thing you just thought about.
• 18:52
  SPEAKER_00: Whatever is it with a person or a thing or a situation.
• 18:55
  SPEAKER_00: Where do you feel it in your body?
• 18:59
  SPEAKER_01: Ah, now I feel it in the back of my neck.
• 19:02
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, touch your neck with one hand and the other one on your forehead.
• 19:06
  SPEAKER_00: You don't judge where you feel it, guys.
• 19:07
  SPEAKER_00: Like you you we all know we feel stress different times, different ways, right?
• 19:17
  SPEAKER_00: So in there, feel it.
• 19:18
  SPEAKER_00: Don't want to feel it.
• 19:19
  SPEAKER_00: Like just feel whatever you feel.
• 19:22
  SPEAKER_00: And you'll you know just focus on your breathing and do that for five to ten seconds.
• 19:27
  SPEAKER_00: Now if you're driving, don't do this.
• 19:31
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, go hands down again.
• 19:33
  SPEAKER_00: Think about that same situation, whatever it was.
• 19:37
  SPEAKER_00: Where do you feel it?
• 19:38
  SPEAKER_00: Or do you feel it the same, or do you feel it at all anymore?
• 19:42
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know that I really feel it anywhere now.
• 19:45
  SPEAKER_00: But you you could the situation still happen, right?
• 19:48
  SPEAKER_01: Mm-hmm.
• 19:49
  SPEAKER_00: But it's not the same charge.
• 19:51
  SPEAKER_01: Mm-hmm.
• 19:51
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 19:52
  SPEAKER_00: Eyes open.
• 19:53
  SPEAKER_00: Now, so just briefly why this works.
• 19:55
  SPEAKER_00: So when you experience life, whether it's a positive experience or a difficult experience, your nervous system records it.
• 20:03
  SPEAKER_00: Now, unfortunately, our nervous system is more programmed to look for danger and re-look for dangers because when we avoid danger than it is to program to relive and re-look at those things that were positive and uplifting and calming.
• 20:18
  SPEAKER_00: Now, you can choose what you play a lot in your playlist, just like your phone.
• 20:23
  SPEAKER_00: You can play whatever you want to play in your phone all and over again.
• 20:26
  SPEAKER_00: I would encourage you to play the playlist like we had Shauna do and she's out of Cape Town.
• 20:31
  SPEAKER_00: When you're like in a state, well, I'm just wanting to get ready for bed, so I want to think about this experience.
• 20:36
  SPEAKER_00: Now, your nervous system when it comes to an experience was hard or difficult, like how many of you have like honestly, like by a show of like a 10 in the chat, there's some stuff that happened years ago that you didn't think about and you're still mad about, or upset about, or hurt about.
• 20:49
  SPEAKER_00: Like, still, we're talking about years later.
• 20:50
  SPEAKER_00: You're like, no, I'm still gonna get pissed off at that person.
• 20:53
  SPEAKER_00: Right?
• 20:53
  SPEAKER_00: Still.
• 20:54
  SPEAKER_00: Do you know that person doesn't even care?
• 20:57
  SPEAKER_00: Like it doesn't remember, doesn't realize that it's affecting you still.
• 21:00
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, if you'll choose to do this exercise and allow yourself to, because when something we don't like, we try not to think about it, we try to push it out of our mind, that doesn't work.
• 21:09
  SPEAKER_00: Allow your system to like, okay, let me just call it pull it up on my brain.
• 21:12
  SPEAKER_00: Where do I feel in my body?
• 21:15
  SPEAKER_00: Touch where you feel it, touch your forehead.
• 21:17
  SPEAKER_00: Now, if you don't see anything, but you feel the tension, that's all you need to do.
• 21:20
  SPEAKER_00: When you touch these points on your head, you guys have all heard of this whole vagus nerve reset.
• 21:25
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, vagus nerve is a what's called a parasitic nerve.
• 21:30
  SPEAKER_00: It's an R nerve.
• 21:31
  SPEAKER_00: When it's active, it's called rest and digest when it's working right.
• 21:36
  SPEAKER_00: So when you touch these points, this is actually cradle nerve five, which is also a parasitic nerve.
• 21:40
  SPEAKER_00: You touch this point, it will naturally allow you to say, like stress, de stress, stress, de-stress.
• 21:47
  SPEAKER_00: And we're training the body to move the emotions through the experience.
• 21:52
  SPEAKER_00: So I tell people that this technique or just the idea of allowing yourself to process stress, and again, I'm we're talking about multiple.
• 22:00
  SPEAKER_00: The stress that affects most humans is emotional based or psychological based, right?
• 22:06
  SPEAKER_00: Emotions are like food.
• 22:08
  SPEAKER_00: If you eat food, you're gonna poop it out.
• 22:12
  SPEAKER_00: If you don't poop it out, it's called constipation, and that really is painful.
• 22:16
  SPEAKER_00: And if you don't poop it out, you can't eat and you will actually get super sick.
• 22:20
  SPEAKER_00: Unfortunately, a lot of us as humans are trying not to process emotions because it hurts, or we haven't been taught a way to do it.
• 22:29
  SPEAKER_00: So I call that emotional constipation.
• 22:33
  SPEAKER_00: Now, if you if you keep talking about it, that's called emotional vomiting.
• 22:39
  SPEAKER_00: Now it's super disgusting.
• 22:41
  SPEAKER_00: What I'm saying is understanding emotions aren't good or bad.
• 22:44
  SPEAKER_00: They allow you to allow you to find a way to process it.
• 22:48
  SPEAKER_00: And this is important.
• 22:49
  SPEAKER_00: Like if you just if you just did those two techniques to breathe and that, and you start applying this to your kids that are struggling with tests or that are struggling with like a friend thing, right?
• 22:58
  SPEAKER_00: It's not about fixing it.
• 23:00
  SPEAKER_00: It's about let me process through it so I can choose how I'm gonna how I'm gonna reflect upon it and allow it to either make me stronger or more resilient or have a different way of adapting, or pretend like I can't do it.
• 23:13
  SPEAKER_00: It's all a choice and how we choose to view it.
• 23:15
  SPEAKER_00: Now, I'm not saying that not real mental health.
• 23:17
  SPEAKER_00: I'm just saying, like, if this is a skill set you've never done, what if you did this, you learned this, and this became a normal part of your life?
• 23:22
  SPEAKER_00: Guess what?
• 23:23
  SPEAKER_00: You need more relaxed and calm, and you you probably need me less, which is bad for my, you know, business, but it'd be great for you in the world.
• 23:31
  SPEAKER_01: Absolutely.
• 23:33
  SPEAKER_01: I love that.
• 23:34
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, those are two.
• 23:35
  SPEAKER_01: Put a put a seven in the chat.
• 23:38
  SPEAKER_01: That's a lucky number.
• 23:39
  SPEAKER_01: If you are like, yeah, I could do those two things on a regular basis to help myself calm my own nervous system on a daily basis, but also be able to adapt to stress a little bit more, right?
• 23:50
  SPEAKER_01: That's just some really great.
• 23:52
  SPEAKER_01: Thank you for sharing those, Dr.
• 23:53
  SPEAKER_01: B.
• 23:54
  SPEAKER_01: I think that those will help a lot of people.
• 23:55
  SPEAKER_01: Look at all the sevens coming in the chat.
• 23:57
  SPEAKER_01: I love this.
• 23:58
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, so one step further.
• 24:00
  SPEAKER_01: Are there other tools or modalities that you would suggest that you find very effective that goes one step further than those basic daily So I'll tell you what I do.
• 24:11
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, this is what I do because stress is most stressful when you're not prepared for it.
• 24:17
  SPEAKER_00: It just is.
• 24:17
  SPEAKER_01: Hold on, say that again.
• 24:19
  SPEAKER_01: Stress is most stressful when you're not prepared for it.
• 24:22
  SPEAKER_01: That's perfect.
• 24:23
  SPEAKER_01: I love that thought.
• 24:24
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 24:24
  SPEAKER_00: But like a test is is you say some really smart things, Dr.
• 24:28
  SPEAKER_01: B.
• 24:29
  SPEAKER_00: Well, you know, sometimes I get lucky, but I'll take it.
• 24:33
  SPEAKER_00: But yeah, I'll quote myself on that.
• 24:35
  SPEAKER_00: That's a good one, right?
• 24:36
  SPEAKER_00: Um but what I'm saying is if you're not prepared for a test, it's more stressful.
• 24:41
  SPEAKER_00: Right?
• 24:42
  SPEAKER_00: If you've never had a hard relationship breakup and you and you haven't you don't have a good support system around you, it's more stressful.
• 24:49
  SPEAKER_00: If you try to do it alone, it's more stressful.
• 24:51
  SPEAKER_00: And what I mean more stressful, it's a heavier, more difficult process of it just because you haven't learned to do it yet.
• 24:57
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 24:57
  SPEAKER_00: So for me, my prep work, okay, and it comes down to the foundation of how do I eat, how do I sleep, and how do I prepare my body.
• 25:06
  SPEAKER_00: So again, simple tools like I don't eat fake food.
• 25:10
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, I eat, drink, I drink water, or other what I call brain-based.
• 25:14
  SPEAKER_00: So most of the emotional stress deals with brain.
• 25:16
  SPEAKER_00: So I'm going to support the organs and the glands and the tissue that are that are responsible.
• 25:20
  SPEAKER_00: So for me personally, what am I drinking right here?
• 25:22
  SPEAKER_00: I'm drinking a nootropic called axial.
• 25:24
  SPEAKER_00: So I want my brain to have the nutrients to be able to perform their tasks.
• 25:28
  SPEAKER_00: So I put nutrients into my body daily to make sure that my ability to adapt is high.
• 25:35
  SPEAKER_00: So for me, that's again, we know we both kind of represent life advantage, but like to me, that's the key activation of I want to make sure my body handles oxidative stress.
• 25:43
  SPEAKER_00: We do that by activating pathways in our body.
• 25:45
  SPEAKER_00: So if I have a better ability to produce antioxidants, that's why I take proteatom nerve two.
• 25:52
  SPEAKER_00: If I have, if my cells can make more energy, that's why I take proteatom nerf one.
• 25:56
  SPEAKER_00: If my cells can communicate more effectively, that's why I take the tricinoder and AV, I do that foundationally.
• 26:03
  SPEAKER_00: So the nutrients in my body are in my body every single day.
• 26:07
  SPEAKER_00: So when stress comes, whether it's a lot or a little, I've prepared my body to be ready.
• 26:12
  SPEAKER_00: So that's my foundation.
• 26:13
  SPEAKER_00: Like I have, and so all the nutrients that I take, that I take barely are to be preventatively.
• 26:19
  SPEAKER_00: And whereas actually I say it's not only preventatively, but it's performance.
• 26:23
  SPEAKER_00: I want it, I want to build perform.
• 26:25
  SPEAKER_00: So that's foundational.
• 26:26
  SPEAKER_00: So please, the food you eat, the nutrients you put in your body, allow you to adapt the level you currently are.
• 26:33
  SPEAKER_00: And then it comes into because what I've learned is like I could be 100% with that.
• 26:37
  SPEAKER_00: Like I can put this stuff in my body 100%.
• 26:39
  SPEAKER_00: Now, do I always remember to hold my forehead?
• 26:41
  SPEAKER_00: No.
• 26:42
  SPEAKER_00: Like, do I always get phenomenal sleep at night?
• 26:44
  SPEAKER_00: No.
• 26:45
  SPEAKER_00: Do I have four kids?
• 26:46
  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
• 26:46
  SPEAKER_00: Do I run a business?
• 26:47
  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
• 26:47
  SPEAKER_00: So there's some of those things that are variables.
• 26:49
  SPEAKER_00: The variables I can control are what I put into my body daily.
• 26:54
  SPEAKER_00: And for me, too, that's exercise.
• 26:56
  SPEAKER_00: Like exercise is a non-negotiable for me because I'm just a nicer human when I exercise.
• 27:01
  SPEAKER_00: Another thing that is chiractic.
• 27:03
  SPEAKER_00: I am 100% biased on this, I know, but I get adjusted regularly because if I can have somebody physically reduce the tension in my body, then I can I don't have to do it on my own.
• 27:15
  SPEAKER_00: You know, there's things like that I do regularly, so I can have some way to nurse them.
• 27:19
  SPEAKER_00: I even do some neural some neural feedback stuff that I do routinely too.
• 27:23
  SPEAKER_00: It's just a way that it's like meditation, but I don't do well with meditation.
• 27:26
  SPEAKER_00: It's called sleep.
• 27:27
  SPEAKER_00: But I can use different technologies that allow me to like relax my brain and help it learn to be calm.
• 27:33
  SPEAKER_00: So there's things like that I'd say foundationally is the nutrients you take and the activators.
• 27:38
  SPEAKER_00: I take key activators.
• 27:40
  SPEAKER_00: And then also understanding your imbalances.
• 27:43
  SPEAKER_00: Maybe some maybe your family history is such that your microbiome is not great, or you know, went through some stuff where you need to reset your microbiome because you had antibiotics or high stress, or maybe you know, you've had an autoimmune process going on.
• 27:55
  SPEAKER_00: So there may be other things that I would add in on top of that to support that process so I can regulate my nervous system.
• 28:02
  SPEAKER_00: So there's that's kind of such powerful information.
• 28:06
  SPEAKER_01: I will tell you guys when I started learning about this information and I just started applying the basic things that Dr.
• 28:13
  SPEAKER_01: B, I and I'm not perfect.
• 28:14
  SPEAKER_01: I am a work in progress, right?
• 28:16
  SPEAKER_01: 10-year work in progress of getting better at my health.
• 28:19
  SPEAKER_01: But here's what I can tell you.
• 28:20
  SPEAKER_01: I've just started implementing these basic things, like, you know, trying to eat better, like trying not to eat the fake foods near as much as I used to, because I just didn't know better, right?
• 28:30
  SPEAKER_01: And now that I know better, I choose to do better.
• 28:33
  SPEAKER_01: The water, the activators that Brett said on a daily basis.
• 28:36
  SPEAKER_01: And I've implemented those that I try and get a good night's rest, right?
• 28:40
  SPEAKER_01: I do the breathing techniques because I have a therapist's husband, right?
• 28:44
  SPEAKER_01: You know, I do those basic things.
• 28:46
  SPEAKER_01: And here's what I will tell you all of it works because I believe absolutely what you said.
• 28:52
  SPEAKER_01: When you prepare your body to handle the stress, the body can handle the stress, right?
• 28:56
  SPEAKER_01: For example, my family of four hasn't been, hasn't had an illness that sent us to need a physician in over seven years, which is profound when I think about it.
• 29:09
  SPEAKER_01: I have two daughters, right?
• 29:10
  SPEAKER_01: One in high school, one in college.
• 29:12
  SPEAKER_01: My husband and I, like, of course, we get a common cold and those kind of things, but our body can handle it appropriately because we put it in a position to be able to handle the stress that comes our way.
• 29:24
  SPEAKER_01: And I think that that's what the world is hoping for, right?
• 29:26
  SPEAKER_01: That's all we can ask for, is that our body, we put our bodies in a position that we are healthy.
• 29:33
  SPEAKER_01: And when something goes wrong or our body comes under attack in some way, our body can fight and heal like it's supposed to, right?
• 29:39
  SPEAKER_01: So I am so thankful that you continue to educate all of us on topics like this.
• 29:45
  SPEAKER_01: So all of us can choose to do better.
• 29:47
  SPEAKER_01: But you guys, if you came here tonight and you took some information away, please, please help your friends and share this information with them because that's the only way we continue to help people put their own bodies and their own families in this type of position.
• 30:05
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• 30:10
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• 30:19
  SPEAKER_01: Dr.
• 30:19
  SPEAKER_01: B, thank you so much for taking your time after a full patient day and helping it, helping all of us and everybody else.
• 30:27
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• 30:30
  SPEAKER_01: We really appreciate you.
• 30:31
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