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Mental Health Awareness Month - Postpartum, depression, anxiety, wellness · Wellness Uncensored

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Speaker 2: Hey, good afternoon and welcome to another episode of Wellness Uncensored.
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Speaker 2: My name is Dr. Patty G and I am your
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Speaker 2: A lot of the things we talk about, you are
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Speaker 2: like yourself, that oftentimes just don't ever get picked up
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Speaker 2: or noted. And they do a lot of great work.
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Speaker 2: And there's a lot of things that we can do
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Speaker 2: of us are working hard every day. And just trying
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Speaker 2: to stay on top of some of the latest things
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Speaker 2: that we may or may not hear about. But we
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Speaker 2: have had some really great folks in terms of guests
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Speaker 2: in the past couple of weeks. And Dr. Braun has
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Speaker 2: been a wonderful guest. He's been on a couple of
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Speaker 2: shows and we hope to get him back soon. But
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Speaker 2: he shared a little bit with us about some of
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Speaker 2: the ways to stay healthy. And hopefully in the coming weeks,
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Speaker 2: we'll get him back as well as a few other folks.
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Speaker 2: But I wanted to take some time now to talk
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Speaker 2: to you a little bit about what September represents as
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Speaker 2: Mental Health Awareness Month. And it's actually Suicide Prevention Awareness Month.
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Speaker 2: And we often mention it. We talk about it. We
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Speaker 2: don't necessarily know people. Some of us do. It's such
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Speaker 2: a widespread just trend. sad topic to talk about, but
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Speaker 2: yet how many of us really know what is going
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Speaker 2: on inside the hearts and minds of people that we
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Speaker 2: may work very closely with or people that we just
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Speaker 2: come in contact and offer a quick, hi, how you doing?
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Speaker 2: Or it could be a very close family member that
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Speaker 2: we just don't know what to say or do. And,
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Speaker 2: you know, oftentimes I will get these calls randomly and
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Speaker 2: urgently how to help someone. And just this morning, I
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Speaker 2: had a call right in between patients of someone who
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Speaker 2: wanted to ask help and guidance what to do because
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Speaker 2: there's a flip side to suicide. And that's something we
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Speaker 2: even more probably don't talk about. And that's homicidal thoughts.
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Speaker 2: So we'll mention that. We'll talk about that as well.
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Speaker 2: But today is a great time for open discussion. If
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Speaker 2: you have thoughts of just not feeling your best, not
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Speaker 2: knowing what to do, you feel anxious, overwhelmed, stressed, your
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Speaker 2: mood's low, you're not motivated to do anything, you just
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Speaker 2: can't get a jumpstart on the day, maybe the day
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Speaker 2: has already taken hold of you and what do you
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Speaker 2: feel that you have accomplished. For all that and a
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Speaker 2: many number of things, you know, you could be experiencing
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Speaker 2: symptoms that we need to figure out how to best
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Speaker 2: optimize your body and give you a boost. And it
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Speaker 2: doesn't always require medication, but sometimes it could. And I
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Speaker 2: seem to have quite a mix of patients recently that
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Speaker 2: have recently given birth. We've all been hearing and listening
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Speaker 2: to what the verdicts and the outcomes of this CLAN-C
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Speaker 2: trial have been. And we often have heard and we're
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Speaker 2: talking about who did what, who didn't do enough. So
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Speaker 2: no quarterbacking here, but I'm here to help today to
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Speaker 2: kind of give you some ways to really look at
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Speaker 2: your own mental wellness, how to optimize your health, pay
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Speaker 2: respect and understanding because A few times in September over
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Speaker 2: the last four years this show has run, we've come
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Speaker 2: across a tragedy and a story of someone who's taken
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Speaker 2: their life. And sadly, just this week, a young man
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Speaker 2: in Jacksonville, a restaurant owner, was found having committed suicide
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Speaker 2: in his restaurant and really seemed to have come without warning.
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Speaker 2: I don't know much about the details, but our hearts
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Speaker 2: and prayers do go out to him and his family.
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Speaker 2: Because again, these people, everyone around you, you never really know, right?
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Speaker 2: I mean, how would you know? People keep these thoughts
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Speaker 2: very private to themselves. And because it is Suicide Prevention Month,
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Speaker 2: I wonder how many of you know, if you ever
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Speaker 2: in a crisis and you don't feel safe or comfortable
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Speaker 2: talking to someone, you can always dial the national hotline number,
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Speaker 2: which is 988. That's 988. And a person will get
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Speaker 2: on the line and they will talk with you. Nothing
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Speaker 2: scary will happen. No one will come to your door.
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Speaker 2: But if you just don't feel like you have a
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Speaker 2: voice or someone that you can speak with, that's the
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Speaker 2: number to call. And maybe give yourself that opportunity. If
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Speaker 2: in fact you really feel like life's stressors, life events,
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Speaker 2: whatever it might be, really get in your way and
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Speaker 2: you just don't think there's any other option. It's really
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Speaker 2: hard to understand what folks are thinking at the time.
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Speaker 2: Sometimes I think, They have that moment where they're just
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Speaker 2: not thinking clearly. And then it's almost too late, depending
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Speaker 2: on the methods that they choose. So not to sound
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Speaker 2: too dark or sad or morbid, but there's always an
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Speaker 2: opportunity to change your mind. And so I do hope
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Speaker 2: that that's something that if anyone's out there and knows someone,
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Speaker 2: give someone a chance to help talk you through things.
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Speaker 2: As much as today I had someone call because they
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Speaker 2: have a very close family member they live with, they
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Speaker 2: now don't feel safe. They do have a diagnosable mental
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Speaker 2: health illness. And they reached out. They kind of already
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Speaker 2: knew what to do, but they weren't sure. They needed
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Speaker 2: another person outside of their friends and family, someone who
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Speaker 2: has some professional experience to help them understand when you
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Speaker 2: really feel to the point that things are scary, not safe,
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Speaker 2: you're afraid for that person, you're afraid for yourself. This
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Speaker 2: particular individual had verbalized some pretty intense things And you
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Speaker 2: hear it in the news all the time and it's
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Speaker 2: usually after the fact. So I shared a story with
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Speaker 2: this person this morning and I said, you know, it
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Speaker 2: was probably October a year ago that a homicidal event
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Speaker 2: took place. And while the person did take steps to
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Speaker 2: provide safety and notify folks, they didn't notify them that
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Speaker 2: it was more than going to the home to do
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Speaker 2: a wellness check and to help someone leave the facility,
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Speaker 2: leave the home. And what happened there was a tragedy
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Speaker 2: where the person took the other person who came to
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Speaker 2: the door's life as well as their own. And so
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Speaker 2: my goal for you all today is to not to,
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Speaker 2: not to react in fear. Okay. But we want to
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Speaker 2: learn to respond, not react. And in responding, it's very
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Speaker 2: important to speak with a knowledgeable professional, get good guidance,
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Speaker 2: get good advice, and then you can make a decision
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Speaker 2: what's best for you. And see, that's the problem of
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Speaker 2: what we all lost. Many of us during the pandemic,
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Speaker 2: our knowledge, our voice, questioning the science, questioning how our
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Speaker 2: family members were treated. We really just, we were kind
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Speaker 2: of locked in, right? We were locked in. We were,
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Speaker 2: you know, sheltered. We didn't really get to have our
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Speaker 2: best cohorts and colleagues and collaborative support. And what I'm
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Speaker 2: afraid is happening now is people have a lot of
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Speaker 2: self-doubt in decisions they make today. So it's any wonder, right?
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Speaker 2: Why you might feel anxious, why you might feel sad
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Speaker 2: and low, why you're not sure what the world looks
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Speaker 2: like to you today. What do I do? And many
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Speaker 2: of the feelings that most folks express, when you talk
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Speaker 2: it through with them, they really are pretty good about
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Speaker 2: coming up with their own choice. And a lot of
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Speaker 2: times the things that you suggest and recommend, I find
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Speaker 2: most folks had already known they just needed someone who's
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Speaker 2: sort of unbiased just to talk it through. And think
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Speaker 2: about this for a minute, if you will. I'll be
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Speaker 2: on my proselytizing soapbox for you all today. And please
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Speaker 2: feel free to text in questions. That's what we're here
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Speaker 2: for today. It's just completely open dialogue. But with the
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Speaker 2: focus of when you're just not sure, AI cannot answer
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Speaker 2: all of your questions. And I struggle that AI has
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Speaker 2: the intelligence that it appears to because it does provide
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Speaker 2: a lot of provocative, very helpful information. But nonetheless, remember,
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Speaker 2: it's still computer generated. And even though that generation comes
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Speaker 2: from a lot of sources, Nothing, absolutely nothing replaces human
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Speaker 2: contact and human connection. And I challenge all of you
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Speaker 2: as human beings, right? We are meant to interact. We
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Speaker 2: are meant to engage. We are meant to provide emotion.
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Speaker 2: We are meant to provide the senses, if you will,
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Speaker 2: of comfort, love, trust, reassurance, stability, steadfastness, all of that.
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Speaker 2: And when you rely on an inanimate machine. It's really
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Speaker 2: tough to get a hug. It's really tough to get
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Speaker 2: a smile. It's really tough to make the connection. And
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Speaker 2: facial expressions are so important. In my book that we
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Speaker 2: just had up, I wrote two, one is on frozen shoulder.
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Speaker 2: The other one is they call me Harriet. I wrote
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Speaker 2: sort of a little poetry prose in there about the
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Speaker 2: mask and what the mask does, because if you can picture,
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Speaker 2: if you will, and you see people still, some people
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Speaker 2: still put masks on. And that's their personal choice, right?
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Speaker 2: If you want to wear one, it's your personal choice.
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Speaker 2: If you feel it protects you, no judgment here. But
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Speaker 2: when you put a mask on, you really lose the
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Speaker 2: entire facial expression of an individual. And try it. You know,
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Speaker 2: I spent a number of years in the operating room
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Speaker 2: working behind a mask. And so I wrote this little
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Speaker 2: story about it. And the whole concept is when you
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Speaker 2: lose the facial expression, it's very difficult to hear emotion,
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Speaker 2: read emotion, body language. So it's very important to get
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Speaker 2: yourself face to face, or at least to have a
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Speaker 2: verbal communication with someone. Because you can even tell, right?
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Speaker 2: Like even as I'm talking. I'm pretty sure I have
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Speaker 2: a sense of gravity and a sense of urgency in
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Speaker 2: my tone today. And I share that because your emotions
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Speaker 2: are vitally important. How you feel is critical. And no thing,
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Speaker 2: no object, no computer can really replace the connection to
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Speaker 2: help you. Believe it or not, I've got a couple
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Speaker 2: of patients that now rely so heavily on chat GPT.
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Speaker 2: They will come in and they will talk to me
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Speaker 2: and tell me what chat GPT recommended for them to do.
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Speaker 2: And it's very filled with tasks and direction. And what
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Speaker 2: I worry is sometimes the tasks and direction may not
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Speaker 2: really be what that person needs or what if the
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Speaker 2: person can't complete the tasks or direction, especially somebody with OCD.
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Speaker 2: So keep that all in mind. So let's talk a
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Speaker 2: little bit today. You know, being again, it's a mental
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Speaker 2: health awareness month. It's suicide prevention month. What things weigh
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Speaker 2: heavy on you? What things do you do to help
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Speaker 2: yourself or find ways to help and get connection to
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Speaker 2: help others. Because postpartum anxiety, postpartum depression, postpartum psychosis have
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Speaker 2: become a little bit more paramount. I want to just
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Speaker 2: touch on that for a minute because I'm sure we
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Speaker 2: have a lot of folks out there that you know
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Speaker 2: are either pregnant, delivering a child or have just delivered
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Speaker 2: or maybe even a year or two having had their first, second,
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Speaker 2: third or another child. And the emotions that run with
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Speaker 2: a postpartum period after the baby's delivered, it's just an
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Speaker 2: influx and a depletion of hormones, rapidly moving. And so again,
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Speaker 2: leaving the testimony and the trial kind of in another place,
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Speaker 2: I'm not here to really get into that. But knowing
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Speaker 2: that those emotions can fluctuate, it's really, really, really important
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Speaker 2: to know that it is somewhat normal But it's the
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Speaker 2: imbalance that we try to minimize. I have a hair
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Speaker 2: in my eyeball. It's the imbalance that we try to
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Speaker 2: minimize so that we can help someone really feel close
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Speaker 2: to their best self. It does tend to level out
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Speaker 2: over time, but it's very different for a lot of people.
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Speaker 2: So what may feel okay for one and someone comes
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Speaker 2: through pregnancy and there's no challenges or issues or trauma
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Speaker 2: with the delivery, nothing unusual. They may not experience these
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Speaker 2: things or They may have had a perfectly normal delivery.
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Speaker 2: And then a couple of days or a week or
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Speaker 2: a month goes by and some of these symptoms crop up.
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Speaker 2: The psychosis piece is truly more rare. So I'm just
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Speaker 2: going to talk generally about the anxiety and the depression.
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Speaker 2: And when you do have those mood swings and shifts,
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Speaker 2: it's important to have a good support system. It's important
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Speaker 2: to make sure that you're fueling your body. We talk
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Speaker 2: about this often. You can't live off of carbohydrates and
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Speaker 2: sweets and think that you're going to feel okay. Do
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Speaker 2: we want to feed into a craving? You can have,
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Speaker 2: you know, some sweets, but if you're not foundationally working
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Speaker 2: on nutrition, you are going to have some symptoms. And
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Speaker 2: while that crosses all of the mental health arenas for
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Speaker 2: postpartum type issues, you really do want to pay attention
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Speaker 2: to fueling, nourishing your body and hydrating during that postpartum time. One,
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Speaker 2: because if you are breastfeeding, you need to make sure
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Speaker 2: you have enough fuel and nutrition to feed the baby.
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Speaker 2: But two, for yourself, it's kind of a leveling out.
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Speaker 2: So it's really important. And there's so many things we
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Speaker 2: can talk about if anybody has any specific comments or
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Speaker 2: questions about what to eat, what to do, what to
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Speaker 2: fuel with. But I'm going to give you some basic information.
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Speaker 2: And I'm even going to let you know too, much
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Speaker 2: of what we're going to touch on today I do
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Speaker 2: have specific episodes that I've talked about some of these things.
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Speaker 2: So you can always scroll back into iHeartRadio. And if
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Speaker 2: you look under prior shows for Wellness Uncensored with Patty G,
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Speaker 2: you'll be able to listen to some of them and
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Speaker 2: get some really good specific stuff. But for postpartum specifically,
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Speaker 2: we generally have you get your body weight in grams.
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Speaker 2: And post-pregnancy, you can probably add about 15% increase in
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Speaker 2: grams to that, maybe even 20%. because you're producing enough
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Speaker 2: fuel to really help maintain yourself to get back to
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Speaker 2: your pre-pregnant state and you're providing nutrients to the baby.
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Speaker 2: If it's not postpartum, we always talk about how do
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Speaker 2: you really improve your overall mood? It's by getting your
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Speaker 2: goal body weight in grams with each day of protein.
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Speaker 2: So if you're 150 pounds and your goal is 125,
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Speaker 2: you definitely need 125 grams of protein a day. So
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Speaker 2: keep that in mind. Hydration is a little bit different.
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Speaker 2: Hydration is whatever your current body weight is. You need
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Speaker 2: half of your current body weight in ounces. That's what
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Speaker 2: you use to preserve your cells and to keep your
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Speaker 2: body moving and well hydrated. So it's really important. And yeah,
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Speaker 2: kind of what we're touching on today. Harris is asking
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Speaker 2: a great question, you know, with all of our bodies
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Speaker 2: being different, how do we figure out what works best
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Speaker 2: for each one of us? And this is where we
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Speaker 2: kind of have some similarities in terms of frame frames
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Speaker 2: of reference. You know, when I talk about protein, you
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Speaker 2: have to decide based on, you know, your clinical indicators.
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Speaker 2: If your goal body weight is a hundred pounds, your
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Speaker 2: goal body weights, 150 pounds. If your goal body weights,
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Speaker 2: 200 pounds, that's the number of grams you need to
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Speaker 2: fuel your body and to maintain a good, healthy body
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Speaker 2: mass and maintain your muscle structure. If you're trying to
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Speaker 2: lose weight, you have to look at what your goal
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Speaker 2: body weight is. But in terms of hydration, the body
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Speaker 2: being 70% fluid, water-based, you need half of your current
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Speaker 2: body weight in ounces. And for many of us, if
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Speaker 2: you're 150 pounds, that's 75 ounces of fluid a day.
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Speaker 2: That's over half a liter. That seems like a lot
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Speaker 2: for some people. I'm still doing my 75-day fitness, hardcore
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Speaker 2: fitness challenge. I'm on day 41, going strong. And I
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Speaker 2: will tell you, if you try one of them, you know,
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Speaker 2: there's the 75-day hard challenge. There's also the 75-day soft challenge.
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Speaker 2: But I have a couple patients that that number 75
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Speaker 2: scares them. Why don't you just start with one week
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Speaker 2: of a challenge? See how you can meet your goals
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Speaker 2: with hydration, with protein, and with fitness and sleep. and
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Speaker 2: maybe some journaling for the next five days. Start there.
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Speaker 2: And if you can do it for five days, then
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Speaker 2: set yourself up with a little journal and do it
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Speaker 2: for 30 days. You know, you don't have to go
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Speaker 2: guns ablaze. I'm going guns ablaze because I've been doing
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Speaker 2: fitness and nutrition stuff for a while. And I just
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Speaker 2: wanted to have some kind of a crazy challenge for myself.
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Speaker 2: And that 75 day hard challenge is no joke. What's
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Speaker 2: funny is people forget that I'm so committed to it.
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Speaker 2: And when I tell them, well, you know, I have
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Speaker 2: to leave dinner early. I have to make sure my
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Speaker 2: body can accommodate a workout in the evening. I'll even
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Speaker 2: work out before I go out and do stuff or
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Speaker 2: I'll work out at the end of the day. There
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Speaker 2: have been times I will do my outdoor workout at
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Speaker 2: 10 o'clock at night. It's got a super supportive family,
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Speaker 2: but I am strongly committed to making it work. And
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Speaker 2: I've even traveled. And when I've been out of traveling
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Speaker 2: out of state, If I'm at a hotel, I'll make
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Speaker 2: sure I do it in and outside of the hotel.
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Speaker 2: And there's usually a place I can go to do
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Speaker 2: an indoor workout, but the outdoor one's a little tricky.
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Speaker 2: But it's a fun challenge. And so I encourage you all,
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Speaker 2: if you really want to put yourself to the test
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Speaker 2: and improve your mental stamina, commit to it. Commit to something.
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Speaker 2: What I find most people tend to do is they
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Speaker 2: come in and they want a pill to fix everything.
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Speaker 2: And I promise you this, we're talking about wellness. We're
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Speaker 2: talking about mental health. It's not easy to correct. And really,
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Speaker 2: if any of you understand, mental health is not solved
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Speaker 2: by medication or medication alone. Psychiatry is the study of
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Speaker 2: mental health, but it's also how to create a change
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Speaker 2: in your behavior and what things go into behavior. It's choices, right?
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Speaker 2: It's what do you choose to do? What do you
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Speaker 2: have the willpower to do? What do you have the
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Speaker 2: mental stamina to do? And what if you have disruptions
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Speaker 2: to that? This is where anxiety, depressive features, psychosis, insomnia,
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Speaker 2: personality beliefs, personality behaviors, it is all behavioral based with
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Speaker 2: some biochemistry mixed in, right? So yeah, we can give
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Speaker 2: you a pill, but how many people, I could tell you,
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Speaker 2: and maybe there's some of you out there, how many
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Speaker 2: have been on medications for 10, 15, 20, 25 years?
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Speaker 2: How many of you have been on medications? And I
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Speaker 2: know you're out there. Yeah, I've been taking Adderall for
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Speaker 2: 20 years. Yeah, I've been taking Xanax for 20 years. Okay.
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Speaker 2: How optimized do you feel? How good do you feel?
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Speaker 2: Do you still have struggles? Do you eat well? Do
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Speaker 2: you exercise? Do you sleep well? If you answered no
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Speaker 2: to any one of those questions, perhaps we should find
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Speaker 2: a way to work on you and your self-care so
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Speaker 2: you can safely taper down and get off those medications.
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Speaker 2: I've had folks that have been on Xanax, Klonopin, Valium, Ativan,
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Speaker 2: those types of meds, Ambien, sad to say, Um, there's
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Speaker 2: a couple others. I'm just getting the list. Um, but
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Speaker 2: they've been on them so long. When I get people down,
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Speaker 2: they start to notice some more mental clarity. And when
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Speaker 2: I get them off and then we get through the
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Speaker 2: weaning period and there's no, no residual, um, kind of
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Speaker 2: hangover effects, they talk about how much better they feel.
21:00
Speaker 2: And truth be told, many of these medications, they're not
21:03
Speaker 2: only their habit forming, but your body, your cells, your
21:07
Speaker 2: tissues tend to crave them. And when they crave them,
21:11
Speaker 2: it's not like you really want to take them, but
21:13
Speaker 2: you know, if you don't, or if you actually try
21:15
Speaker 2: to just figure it out yourself and taper down, people
21:18
Speaker 2: really struggle. Now there's also antidepressants that have some of
21:22
Speaker 2: these side effects that it's so uncomfortable to come off of.
21:26
Speaker 2: So what do we do? We just crash back on
21:28
Speaker 2: them and that's fine. You know, again, this is about choices,
21:32
Speaker 2: personal choices. We're here to help you feel your best,
21:35
Speaker 2: feel your best self. And I can tell you, um,
21:39
Speaker 2: Getting through things sometimes, you know, trauma, years of hurt,
21:43
Speaker 2: years of, you know, challenging life events, life relationships. It's
21:48
Speaker 2: not a one and done and it's not easy. And
21:50
Speaker 2: sometimes it takes more than weeks and months to really
21:53
Speaker 2: recover and repair. But there are ways to do it.
21:56
Speaker 2: And that's why I offer you these tips and these suggestions,
21:59
Speaker 2: because wherever you are, you know, there's lots of things
22:02
Speaker 2: that we can do. Um, there are supplements, you know,
22:05
Speaker 2: I don't know if many of you have heard, but
22:07
Speaker 2: like one of the supplements that's really up and coming
22:09
Speaker 2: and has very positive effects for depressive symptoms is saffron.
22:14
Speaker 2: Saffron comes from a plant and that's one of the
22:16
Speaker 2: things that you can take daily. Um, the directions are
22:20
Speaker 2: usually very well included on the package. Um, if you
22:23
Speaker 2: go onto our website, um, magnolia bee wellness.com, there's a
22:28
Speaker 2: tab under products and you can scroll down. And if
22:31
Speaker 2: you link into, um, Fullscripts. Fullscripts is not there to
22:37
Speaker 2: spam you or sell you products, but it's a really safe,
22:39
Speaker 2: protected site. And when you go on to Fullscripts, they've
22:42
Speaker 2: got a variety of manufacturers that are third-party tested. So
22:46
Speaker 2: you can pick five different types of B-complex. You can
22:49
Speaker 2: pick lithium orotate. You can pick inositol. And you can
22:54
Speaker 2: compare different vendors, different vitamin companies, to pick the best
22:58
Speaker 2: one for you based on price, based on ingredients. And
23:03
Speaker 2: so it's not that they're trying to get you to
23:05
Speaker 2: buy their products. They want you to be able to
23:06
Speaker 2: make a smart decision based on what you find important.
23:10
Speaker 2: Price is always a factor. Limited ingredients is always a factor.
23:14
Speaker 2: But I utilize that site on my webpage so that
23:17
Speaker 2: you can make some healthy choices to purchase some supplements
23:21
Speaker 2: versus having to just relegate yourself to all kinds of
23:25
Speaker 2: medication when certain supplemental deficiencies in your body once you
23:30
Speaker 2: start replacing them, you can feel better in three to
23:32
Speaker 2: four weeks. And we can always talk about them. So
23:35
Speaker 2: you can either text into 904-377-1196. We can set you
23:41
Speaker 2: up with an appointment and we can talk about supplements
23:44
Speaker 2: and what might work best for you. You can give
23:46
Speaker 2: us your health history. Again, just a great opportunity to
23:50
Speaker 2: really help you to optimize yourself and to do so,
23:55
Speaker 2: you know, with good nutritive supplements. That's really the key.
23:58
Speaker 2: I take several myself and Usually you'll see me with
24:01
Speaker 2: some of the things that I drink and take. I'll
24:03
Speaker 2: share them when we're talking. I'm a huge fan of
24:06
Speaker 2: branched chain amino acids. And if you're talking anxiety, you're
24:10
Speaker 2: talking depression, you're talking ways to feel better if you
24:15
Speaker 2: are detoxing from anything really, alcohol, marijuana, a medication, branched
24:22
Speaker 2: chain amino acids really get in and they fill the
24:25
Speaker 2: cell with really good precursors to protein and they provide
24:31
Speaker 2: those amino acid nutrients to really kind of level things
24:34
Speaker 2: out and, and help you feel less bad. So they,
24:38
Speaker 2: they optimize you. I put them in my water throughout
24:40
Speaker 2: the day. I will use them and some other supplements to, um,
24:44
Speaker 2: to do a pre-workout or a workout drink, but it's
24:47
Speaker 2: just a great substance to use and definitely make sure
24:50
Speaker 2: you get one without caffeine because you don't want to
24:53
Speaker 2: drink caffeine throughout the day. We got a couple of
24:55
Speaker 2: great questions. Kelly was asking, how long does it take
24:59
Speaker 2: the body to get back on track and in order?
25:01
Speaker 2: You know, it really depends on what you're getting back
25:05
Speaker 2: on track and in order from if it's, if it's
25:07
Speaker 2: coming down off of some of these medications, it depends
25:10
Speaker 2: on the dose of the medication and how long it
25:13
Speaker 2: takes us to taper off. But let's just say if it's,
25:17
Speaker 2: if it's a quick one and we're tapering you down
25:20
Speaker 2: and off, and this is just general, but if it's
25:23
Speaker 2: a medication that's low dose, but it's got some side effects,
25:26
Speaker 2: it's got some withdrawal symptoms and say you're tapering down
25:29
Speaker 2: and off in like three or four weeks. Again, I'm
25:32
Speaker 2: not giving a dose because higher doses do take longer,
25:35
Speaker 2: but say it's three to four weeks and you're trying
25:37
Speaker 2: to come down off of them after that three or
25:40
Speaker 2: four weeks. If you've been including the branch chain aminos,
25:43
Speaker 2: you're getting better with your protein drinks. You're getting better
25:46
Speaker 2: with some of the other supplements. Maybe you're adding something
25:49
Speaker 2: like saffron to keep your mood lifted. Um, In about
25:53
Speaker 2: two to four weeks, you should really be feeling great.
25:56
Speaker 2: And then if you already are exercising or already moving,
25:59
Speaker 2: say it's, you know, you're just walking, you should have
26:03
Speaker 2: a little more pep in your step. Your mood should
26:05
Speaker 2: be calmer. You really should be feeling better. With the
26:08
Speaker 2: postpartum stuff, it is a little bit more complex because
26:11
Speaker 2: we've got this shift and fluctuation of hormones that is
26:15
Speaker 2: not regulated out. You know, it can kind of be bumpy. Okay,
26:20
Speaker 2: I'm kind of giving you a wave. Because postpartum really
26:23
Speaker 2: more as a wave. So we'll just say that specifically,
26:27
Speaker 2: it depends on your symptoms, depends on your diagnosis. And
26:30
Speaker 2: with medication tapers, it really depends where you are in
26:34
Speaker 2: the taper. But the goal is using supplements and hydration
26:38
Speaker 2: and nutrition, sleep and good movement. In about two to
26:43
Speaker 2: three weeks, you should be noticing some changes, positive changes.
26:46
Speaker 2: And generally in four to six weeks, you're feeling way better,
26:50
Speaker 2: almost maybe your best self. And then we can reevaluate.
26:53
Speaker 2: You know, it's really important. It should be an ongoing
26:57
Speaker 2: dialogue with whomever you partner with. There are some great
27:01
Speaker 2: folks out there that are more, you know, kind of
27:03
Speaker 2: like myself. I do a lot of integrative and interventional
27:07
Speaker 2: psychiatry because I don't just prescribe. In fact, I try
27:10
Speaker 2: to prescribe medications less than more. I try to use
27:15
Speaker 2: more interventional stuff along with supplements. You know, I've talked
27:19
Speaker 2: about some of the magnetic therapy that we do And
27:22
Speaker 2: you can find it across the United States, but generally speaking.
27:26
Speaker 2: So hopefully that kind of gives you an idea, but Kelly,
27:29
Speaker 2: you can be well on your way. If you just
27:31
Speaker 2: start to do some balancing things of hydration, nutrition, and
27:35
Speaker 2: start out with some simple new nutritive type things, we
27:38
Speaker 2: can kind of talk about them. I'll give you just
27:40
Speaker 2: a couple, you know, branch chain amino acids are great
27:43
Speaker 2: to add to water. Your protein should be your goal
27:47
Speaker 2: body weight in grams daily. And if you don't have
27:50
Speaker 2: an appetite or you're not hungry, that doesn't mean you
27:53
Speaker 2: don't fuel. People often make that mistake and they'll eat
27:56
Speaker 2: later in the day, or they won't eat enough, or
27:59
Speaker 2: they won't eat at all. Have to fuel your body
28:01
Speaker 2: just like you fuel a gas tank. And then continue
28:05
Speaker 2: on with that and start some gentle, subtle movement. Work
28:08
Speaker 2: up to some more fast-paced movement. Work up to some
28:11
Speaker 2: low to moderate weight lifting. And do these things three
28:15
Speaker 2: to five times a week. You will be and impressed
28:19
Speaker 2: how much better your mental health feels. And we can
28:22
Speaker 2: definitely help you with that. So keep that in mind.
28:26
Speaker 2: Let's see who else has a question. Arnie has asked,
28:29
Speaker 2: what about enemas and colonics to clean out and regulate
28:32
Speaker 2: the colon? You know, I have to say, I don't
28:35
Speaker 2: think they're a bad idea. I haven't utilized them in
28:38
Speaker 2: my practice, but I know folks that have. And I
28:42
Speaker 2: would say within, you know, a moderation to utilize if
28:46
Speaker 2: you feel that's a path you want to take, I
28:48
Speaker 2: found them to be often more helpful than not. And
28:52
Speaker 2: I think if you're working with a practitioner to do them,
28:55
Speaker 2: you want to maintain a safe balance and they can
28:58
Speaker 2: guide you. I think there's so many things, folks, that
29:02
Speaker 2: you just don't realize. There is a lot of truth
29:05
Speaker 2: to some of the supplementation and the alternative medicine treatment
29:09
Speaker 2: to a lot of the ailments and diseases that we encounter.
29:13
Speaker 2: And we'll try to spend a day on that. I've
29:15
Speaker 2: got a couple of folks lined up that I would
29:16
Speaker 2: love to have more time talking about things like recovery
29:19
Speaker 2: from cancer and different things like that. But there's a
29:22
Speaker 2: lot you can do by fueling the body. And so, yeah,
29:26
Speaker 2: the colonics, I think, are something to keep in mind.
29:28
Speaker 2: For me personally, you know, I guess you could call
29:32
Speaker 2: me a weak link. I haven't felt the need to
29:34
Speaker 2: do it. However, I have done and I do often
29:38
Speaker 2: do different cleanse that you can ingest safely. And maybe
29:44
Speaker 2: we'll take time. That's a good point. We'll take an
29:45
Speaker 2: episode to talk about the different cleansing agents out there
29:48
Speaker 2: because some of them are like benonite clay. Others are
29:52
Speaker 2: more like healthy greens, but there's several. And so you
29:56
Speaker 2: can cleanse from that path as well. Chance has asked
30:02
Speaker 2: how much caffeine is too much during the day. You know,
30:05
Speaker 2: I'll give you a couple of quick tidbits on caffeine
30:09
Speaker 2: and it's just my personal kind of professional guidance. I
30:14
Speaker 2: love a good cup of coffee, but you have to
30:16
Speaker 2: remember if you've got any cardiac issues, you have to
30:18
Speaker 2: be careful with coffee. I also will tell you if
30:21
Speaker 2: you've got heart issues, you really need to pay attention
30:25
Speaker 2: to how you balance your resting heart rate. So if
30:28
Speaker 2: you love coffee, decaf's your answer. If you love the caffeine,
30:33
Speaker 2: you really do need to talk to your provider who
30:36
Speaker 2: is managing your heart and your cardiac health. But for
30:38
Speaker 2: the general, you know, run of the mill, the whole
30:41
Speaker 2: caffeine thing, it's important to utilize caffeine at safe levels.
30:46
Speaker 2: And you will find the energy drinks, the stimulant type
30:50
Speaker 2: over-the-counter products with really high doses of caffeine, they don't
30:55
Speaker 2: come without risks. So When it comes to anything more
30:58
Speaker 2: than a cup to two cups of coffee a day
31:02
Speaker 2: of caffeine, I would say you really need to be careful.
31:05
Speaker 2: You should be working with a practitioner who is maybe
31:08
Speaker 2: managing that with you. I know that a lot of
31:11
Speaker 2: times if we're working with folks in sports and nutrition
31:14
Speaker 2: and training, sometimes they will use those types of products
31:18
Speaker 2: that have caffeine in it. So that's kind of where
31:20
Speaker 2: I stand on that. You all probably will notice if
31:24
Speaker 2: you have caffeine, the more you have the jitterier, the
31:28
Speaker 2: more anxiety you may have, that you'll get focus, but
31:33
Speaker 2: you also might get some irritability. So caffeine is one
31:36
Speaker 2: to just use in a protective way. I really wouldn't
31:39
Speaker 2: go over one to two cups of coffee. And that's
31:41
Speaker 2: if you have no diagnosis of any kind of cardiac issues.
31:45
Speaker 2: And if you do utilize someone that you can talk to, again, individually,
31:50
Speaker 2: I could talk more specifics, but since we reached such
31:53
Speaker 2: a broad brush, just utilize caffeine in a very careful
31:57
Speaker 2: careful manner and always get some good medical advice because
32:01
Speaker 2: without seeing you, I will go into this too quickly. Stimulants.
32:06
Speaker 2: If I've had one, I've had a hundred people this
32:09
Speaker 2: past six months come in and let me know how
32:12
Speaker 2: much they need a stimulant. They need Adderall. They need it.
32:16
Speaker 2: Absolutely need it. I can't get my work done without it.
32:19
Speaker 2: I'm so much more productive with it. My response is
32:23
Speaker 2: God bless you and God love you. Anyone can do
32:26
Speaker 2: better on rocket fuel, okay? I actually, there's a psychiatrist
32:30
Speaker 2: I used to work with and she told me, and
32:32
Speaker 2: I just looked at her with crazy eyes, Patty, I
32:35
Speaker 2: think everyone would benefit from a little stimulant. I completely disagree. Why?
32:41
Speaker 2: Because the older you get, the harder it is on
32:44
Speaker 2: your body. And remember this, okay? Because this is well
32:47
Speaker 2: beyond the caffeine. Stimulants, Adderall, Vyvanse, Bocalin, Methylphenidate, you name it, Ritalin,
32:55
Speaker 2: they all work the heart and the kidneys rapidly. There's
33:00
Speaker 2: sort of a general document somewhere that speaks to what
33:03
Speaker 2: it does to the body. It will accelerate the age
33:07
Speaker 2: of your heart and kidneys five years for every year
33:10
Speaker 2: that you're on a stimulant. So I don't know about you,
33:13
Speaker 2: but I'm working darn hard to keep my cardiac fitness
33:16
Speaker 2: in shape, okay? I just ran two and a half
33:18
Speaker 2: miles this morning. I got probably another two and a
33:21
Speaker 2: half to three to go to do my outdoor workout today.
33:24
Speaker 2: And when you talk about heart rates, cause I do
33:27
Speaker 2: orange theory. So those of you that know orange theory,
33:29
Speaker 2: when I'm running at 7.2 miles an hour, 7.4 miles
33:32
Speaker 2: an hour, I don't go above the green. My heart
33:34
Speaker 2: rate does not go above 135. So that's a well-conditioned heart.
33:39
Speaker 2: I'd like to think it's because I'm trying to do
33:41
Speaker 2: the right things for my body, but you have to
33:44
Speaker 2: realize what stimulants do. And for the ladies out there,
33:47
Speaker 2: and maybe some of the guys, if you're on a stimulant,
33:50
Speaker 2: Be prepared for your face to start showing it because
33:53
Speaker 2: stimulants drain your body. Hear me loud and clear. Stimulants
33:57
Speaker 2: drain your body of biotin and collagen. So if you're
34:01
Speaker 2: wrinkling up and your skin's drying up, all the injectables
34:05
Speaker 2: you do is not going to stop the drain of
34:08
Speaker 2: the internal ingredients that your body needs to keep that
34:12
Speaker 2: collagen and biotin level high. So if you're going to
34:15
Speaker 2: do biotin and collagen, don't waste your money on a stimulant.
34:19
Speaker 2: And I had somebody come into my office yesterday, 52
34:21
Speaker 2: years old, and she knows because her child has attention deficit,
34:26
Speaker 2: who's an adult. Her sister has an attention deficit and
34:30
Speaker 2: is an adult. She has to have it because she
34:32
Speaker 2: can't focus and concentrate. My question is, attention deficit disorder
34:38
Speaker 2: is a diagnosis code. If you have been living your
34:41
Speaker 2: entire life and you feel like you struggle with focus
34:44
Speaker 2: and concentration, okay, how have you gotten to where you are?
34:48
Speaker 2: Maybe it's a struggle, but why wouldn't you want to
34:52
Speaker 2: optimize your overall health and wellbeing? Like we just talked, nutrition, fitness, sleep,
34:58
Speaker 2: some tools and some toolkits, right? To get you on
35:02
Speaker 2: a better path. Why would you want to just throw
35:04
Speaker 2: some jet fuel on your body? And truth be told,
35:07
Speaker 2: you know, another little disclaimer, when you come in and
35:09
Speaker 2: you tell a provider, I tried one of my friends
35:13
Speaker 2: or family members stimulants. Y'all know that's illegal, right? I
35:18
Speaker 2: get it, but please, please, please be very careful. You
35:23
Speaker 2: never know when something like that could go wrong in
35:26
Speaker 2: your body. And then what do you do? Who knows
35:29
Speaker 2: you took it? How do you get treated in the
35:31
Speaker 2: emergency room? If by chance it revs your heart up
35:34
Speaker 2: too much. And again, why does Patty go into these
35:38
Speaker 2: things with you? Because I've got really good examples. So
35:41
Speaker 2: I've had five people now come in since January and they've,
35:45
Speaker 2: either been on or wanted to be on a stimulant, Vyvanse, Adderall.
35:49
Speaker 2: I've had a 19-year-old college baseball player, Division I, want
35:53
Speaker 2: to get back on Vyvanse. I always want you to
35:55
Speaker 2: get your heart checked. I need an EKG. He came
35:58
Speaker 2: in with bundle branch block. That means there are certain
36:01
Speaker 2: types of blockages and pauses, if you will, of the
36:04
Speaker 2: heart does not beat rhythmically effectively. And you jack it
36:09
Speaker 2: up with a stimulant, that's a recipe for sudden death.
36:13
Speaker 2: And we wonder why some of these athletes fall over.
36:16
Speaker 2: Make no mistake, a lot of people out there that
36:18
Speaker 2: use stimulants to jack up performance. It may be a benefit,
36:22
Speaker 2: but it's also a risk. And if you have a
36:24
Speaker 2: family member, you need to make sure they know these things.
36:28
Speaker 2: Can we induce performance? Absolutely. Do you want to? That's
36:33
Speaker 2: up to you. And if you have such a need
36:36
Speaker 2: in your life for the stimulants to get your work done,
36:39
Speaker 2: to get your housework done, to take care of the kids,
36:43
Speaker 2: to run a spreadsheet. I don't care what it is.
36:45
Speaker 2: Be very careful. You know, the risk benefit and, you know,
36:49
Speaker 2: they can be used in such a way that you
36:51
Speaker 2: only use them on the days that you really have
36:53
Speaker 2: to get something accomplished. I prefer when a patient uses
36:57
Speaker 2: it four or five times a week versus every day. Okay.
37:00
Speaker 2: If you like how you feel on it, there's a reason,
37:03
Speaker 2: but maybe it's not the best reason to be on
37:05
Speaker 2: it or stay on it. So keep that in mind.
37:08
Speaker 2: A great question. So hopefully that helps you with your
37:10
Speaker 2: caffeine question. Um, When you sit all day for work,
37:13
Speaker 2: Sally asks, would walking on the weekends help at all? Absolutely, absolutely.
37:19
Speaker 2: You know, do I want you to just walk on
37:21
Speaker 2: the weekends? No, but I can tell you, like I'm
37:25
Speaker 2: sitting here now and when I am back to back
37:28
Speaker 2: with patients, the company that I work for three days
37:30
Speaker 2: a week, I literally don't even get to get out
37:32
Speaker 2: of the chair sometimes for 12 hours unless I run
37:36
Speaker 2: away to go to the bathroom and I hate it.
37:38
Speaker 2: But what do I do sometimes and what you all
37:40
Speaker 2: can do and should do definitely get up, try to
37:43
Speaker 2: get up, stand in place, stretch your legs, lift your
37:46
Speaker 2: knees up. If you can, get on the floor, lay
37:49
Speaker 2: down on your back, stretch your arms, reach, do a
37:51
Speaker 2: couple of stretches. Try to do that every hour if
37:55
Speaker 2: you can. I don't do the best of it, but
37:58
Speaker 2: I also have a really cushy donut to sit on
38:00
Speaker 2: because if you're sitting all day, not only is it
38:03
Speaker 2: not great for your body and your mental health, as
38:06
Speaker 2: you get older, you can start having things where your
38:09
Speaker 2: hip doesn't allow the blood flow to really get to
38:11
Speaker 2: where it needs to. And you can end up with
38:13
Speaker 2: hip issues or blood vessel issues and nerve issues in
38:17
Speaker 2: your hip and lower back. So try to get one
38:20
Speaker 2: of those gel pads, sit on a gel pad, sit
38:23
Speaker 2: on one of those, you've probably seen them, the balls.
38:27
Speaker 2: It's a chair, but it's a ball that you sit on.
38:29
Speaker 2: It really allows your hips to displace appropriately and not
38:32
Speaker 2: put pressure on your blood vessels and your nerves. So
38:35
Speaker 2: if any of you are experiencing back pain, lower back pain,
38:38
Speaker 2: hip pain, Get a big gel cushion for your sacrum
38:42
Speaker 2: or get one of those ball chairs. I always tell people,
38:44
Speaker 2: Google the ball chair on Amazon. You do need a
38:48
Speaker 2: pump to blow it up. That ball chair is quite comfortable.
38:51
Speaker 2: So I highly recommend it. So if you are sitting
38:54
Speaker 2: at the very minimum, get out on the weekends. And
38:57
Speaker 2: then I'll tell you what, Sally, grab a couple of
38:59
Speaker 2: hand weights, two or four or six pounds. Use them
39:02
Speaker 2: while you're walking. Sweating is fabulous for the body. If
39:06
Speaker 2: you hate it, the better you do. The more you
39:09
Speaker 2: do by sweating because you're detoxing your body and you're
39:13
Speaker 2: getting good movement of cellular breakdown. We need the body
39:17
Speaker 2: to build, repair and break down, build, repair and break down.
39:21
Speaker 2: If you're not getting it, your body is sluggish. Your
39:24
Speaker 2: mood is going to be low. Your anxiety might creep up.
39:27
Speaker 2: Your depression is going to be higher. movement really is
39:33
Speaker 2: it's magic for the brain it is magical for your
39:36
Speaker 2: mood movement and here's the other tip you guys are
39:40
Speaker 2: listening in some of you are watching you know y'all
39:43
Speaker 2: know youtube right instead of scrolling on social media Get
39:47
Speaker 2: yourself up on the screen, either your laptop or your TV.
39:51
Speaker 2: Put up a couple YouTube videos. Start out easy. Do
39:54
Speaker 2: a stretch video. There are tens of thousands, if not
39:58
Speaker 2: hundreds of thousands of videos. You don't have to leave
40:01
Speaker 2: the comfort of your home. And I will tell you,
40:04
Speaker 2: I'm spoiled now because I invested in a Peloton treadmill.
40:07
Speaker 2: I'm glad I had it because in order to keep
40:09
Speaker 2: up with this 75-day hard challenge, if I don't get
40:12
Speaker 2: to Orange Theory, and even when I do... Part of
40:15
Speaker 2: my evening workout is I'm out in the garage on
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Speaker 2: that treadmill at 95 degrees with the fan blowing on
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Speaker 2: my back to make sure I get my workout in.
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Speaker 2: And man, do I sweat. But here's the best part.
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Speaker 2: If you put on a YouTube video, you're in the
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Speaker 2: comfort of your home. There is no excuses. There is
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Speaker 2: no time. There's no driving. There's no traffic. There's no
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Speaker 2: social anxiety. It's you and the screen. And how many
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Speaker 2: of you have put off working out, moving and stretching
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Speaker 2: because you've got excuses? There's no time like now. If
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Speaker 2: you're listening to me, watching me, start listening and pick
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Speaker 2: something on YouTube. Just Google fitness, Google yoga, Google stretch.
40:55
Speaker 2: And while you're in there Googling, we have wonderful videos
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Speaker 2: to help you with our fitness and with our mental
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Speaker 2: health journey. I want you all to know while we
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Speaker 2: are a weekly show and while many of you aren't
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Speaker 2: able to tune in or meet up with me for
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Speaker 2: a private session, you can do a lot of stuff.
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Speaker 2: self-care by finding ways to do some self-help there's great
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Speaker 2: videos on there for anxiety depression trauma sadness grief loss
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Speaker 2: you name it bullying and the videos i found by
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Speaker 2: and large most of them are really good i've not
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Speaker 2: really found a bad one so look at them go
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Speaker 2: through your mental wellness journey utilize youtube be very cautious
41:34
Speaker 2: with social media we'll talk about social media another day
41:38
Speaker 2: and then let me just make sure i've hit everybody
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Speaker 2: yancey you have a question Do you wear some sort
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Speaker 2: of machine as you're running to know all this information? Yeah,
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Speaker 2: you know, you can. There's a lot of fitness tools
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Speaker 2: out there. And I'll be honest, when I shared my
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Speaker 2: story in the book I wrote, They Call Me Harriet,
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Speaker 2: I talk about how I really repaired myself from start
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Speaker 2: to finish being very debilitated in 2020 after having COVID.
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Speaker 2: I was in ICU. It was not a very good prognosis.
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Speaker 2: I managed to stay stable enough and got out of ICU,
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Speaker 2: but from where I was to where I am now,
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Speaker 2: you wouldn't have even recognized me. I couldn't speak without oxygen.
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Speaker 2: And even with oxygen, I was winded. My lungs were
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Speaker 2: very damaged and no one really had a plan for Patty.
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Speaker 2: And so if any of you have been tuning in
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Speaker 2: and you kind of know a little bit about me,
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Speaker 2: and maybe now you can appreciate why I've taken on
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Speaker 2: the 75 day hard challenge. There is nothing like the
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Speaker 2: will to live and the commitment to fight back. And
42:36
Speaker 2: so if you want to manage and train I recommend
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Speaker 2: starting out with something as simple as a Fitbit or
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Speaker 2: one of the Apple watches or Hume. Hume has H-U-M-E.
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Speaker 2: But there's all kinds of fitness trackers you can use.
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Speaker 2: There's so many. Again, I would say kind of Google
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Speaker 2: which ones come out top rated. When you go to
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Speaker 2: places like an Orange Theory or some of the fitness places,
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Speaker 2: they provide the ability to get a heart rate monitor.
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Speaker 2: But here's what's really cool. If you want to just
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Speaker 2: get really simple and down to basics, You get a
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Speaker 2: heart rate monitor. Some of them do have a pulse
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Speaker 2: oximetry built in, but if they don't, when I did
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Speaker 2: my fitness training to repair, I had the heart rate monitor,
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Speaker 2: I had a pulse oximetry on, and I would look
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Speaker 2: at my heart rate as it was connected to the
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Speaker 2: screen showing how many beats per minute. And I was
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Speaker 2: watching my respiratory rate. And it's fascinating to see what
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Speaker 2: your respiratory rate is when you go from like 100
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Speaker 2: or 99, when you're exerting yourself I'd be curious to
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Speaker 2: see how low some of you go. I know for myself,
43:42
Speaker 2: I was on oxygen and I was walking and my
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Speaker 2: heart rate or my respiratory rate dipped into the 80s.
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Speaker 2: I had to turn up my oxygen. I had to
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Speaker 2: lower my pace. And I really had to train myself
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Speaker 2: really in that cardiopulmonary fashion. It's kind of the concept
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Speaker 2: of cardiac rehab. But I did it myself because back
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Speaker 2: in 2020, there was no soldier out there to help me.
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Speaker 2: And I was not going to die and I was
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Speaker 2: not going to be debilitated. And now I think my
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Speaker 2: best time, I ran one mile in seven minutes, 17 seconds.
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Speaker 2: I did that in August for a race. So if
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Speaker 2: I can do it, you can do it. And maybe
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Speaker 2: you don't want to get that fit. That's okay. But
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Speaker 2: you want to get a little fit. You want to
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Speaker 2: get better. Do you want to improve your mental health? And, oh,
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Speaker 2: I didn't even realize, folks, we are so close to
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Speaker 2: wrapping up. I apologize. But let's talk this. Mental health month,
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Speaker 2: I appreciate all the questions. We are here to help
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Speaker 2: you be your best self. And if by at all,
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Speaker 2: please take the time to let someone know how you feel.
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Speaker 2: It's really that important. And today can be the first
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