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Dr Vaidya-Tank Discussing All Things Health, Our Foods and Caring For Our Bodies · The Erica Show

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  It's the Rakas Show. iHeartRadio. I'm so honored to be with doctor Vadia
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  today, who is just an encyclopedia of all things knowledge. And we're talking
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  about kids and ADHD medicine. Fifty percent of our kids are on medication.
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  This is crazy, right, Like our life in America has evolved into something
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  nuts, Like it's we're going into this rat race. We're working hard,
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  we just want medication to focus, then medication to sleep, and then we're
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  putting our kids on medication. And it's so sad. Our kids have so
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  much stress in their lives. I mean, what is this. Your children
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  should be enjoying their lives and playing and going to school and learning something and
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  not having to like sit on a desk and focus and learn something. And
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  you know, this is a kid, and honestly, it's not his fault
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  or her fault. It's probably the food. It's probably the environment and probably
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  the stress. Like we were just talking about kids in like Europe or Sweden
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  and like they don't have all this. They don't even have grades to a
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  certain Oh they don't. I didn't realize. Yeah, they don't even grade
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  them and they're so happy. The depression anxiety and the amount of mental health
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  there is so much lower. And they just go to school. They enjoy
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  themselves, they play, they learn how to interact with each other, and
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  they're not any less successful. The last time we visited, people seemed happy,
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  they seemed fulfilled, and it's safe, right, there's nobody shooting people
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  up. Yeah, you know, what is America coming to? So it's
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  the doctor that sees all types of families. What advice do you give them
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  when they say, hey, my kid is hyperactive, I need medication.
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  How do you advise them without overstepping because obviously you can't force things on people.
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  I wish I could things. Yes, well, I wish I could
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  go into their house. I wish I could eliminate. I'll let you come
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  in to mind and be like, here, fix all of these things.
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  I'm happy with that. But you can't do that. I know. I
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  get very personally involved, like I can't help it. I take it personally.
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  I'm like, what are you eating? You know you can need this,
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  you can't eat that, Like this is real. The food thing is
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  a real thing. Okay, you can't eat crap. You got to take
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  the crap out of your life. You got to take the crap out of
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  the kid's life. Okay, if you see somebody with add and they're eating
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  like all this, like cereal which is colored, and oh it's horrible,
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  Oh my god? Is that part of the reason why the kids do And
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  I'm noticed with my daughter because she's she's extra, she's on the next level.
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  And I think it has to do with what she's eating. But like
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  a bowl of cheerios in the morning, she'll just take in a little bag.
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  That's bad because it's not putting the right nutrients in her mouth, and
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  then she acts out afterwards. Yeah, I mean, they do need protein,
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  and they need fiber, and they need a good breakfast, right,
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  And you know, we've accustomed to everybody to eating cereal, which is the
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  worst thing you can eat for breakfast. I mean bad, it's bad,
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  there's nothing good about it, right, and then they have food coloring in
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  it. I have no idea like and again that's a lobby. You know,
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  General Mills, and what's the other cereal company. I don't know,
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  Kellogg's, Kelloggs, General Meal. They're really rich families and they have a
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  lot of money. I wonder if they eat cereal too. Absolutely not absolutely
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  not. They won't eat that crap. But yes, they're feeding our children
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  that and that's horrible. They should be they should be held liable for causing
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  all this chronic disease. But we also it's allowed here now in other countries.
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  Are they eating cereal? Because that's not something when you're traveling, I
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  don't go. I don't see it. Do you see it? Like you
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  see musli? What is that? I don't even know what that is.
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  It's like high fiber with nuts, you know, all this stuff. It
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  doesn't taste like this this stuff that we eat over here. It's not sweet,
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  right, but it's really good. You know, you eat yogurt,
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  fruit, you know, right, eggs. I don't know, like they
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  eat stuff like that. They do eat meat, but I mean there is
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  a very big difference in the type of produce and meat they eat their versus
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  here. It kind of makes me want to move because, I mean,
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  this is all we have access to. It feel I think we need to
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  take our health in our own hands and do something about it. You know,
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  we do have access here. We do have smaller farms, We do
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  have like co ops, We do have places we can get stuff from.
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  It may be a little more expensive. We do need to find those places.
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  We also need to start cooking, because it's just it's like this,
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  if it's easily available and fast, we're going to do it. That's what
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  we Also, our jobs are so demanding, right, we have to be
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  at work at a certain time and we have to work like crazy. And
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  we many people are doing to do jobs, especially now because life is so
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  expensive. They have to work two jobs. Yeah, which leaves your other
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  family members to fend for themselves and get whatever's easy and cheap. I know.
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  Look when I grew up, my parents were both doctors and we didn't
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  have like I grew up out of here. I grew up in Bahrain.
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  We didn't have like all this, like food that was easily available. I
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  had to learn how to cook when I was six. So it is possible.
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  You just have to teach your kids. It just seems really big and
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  really impossible, but it's not, I promise you. And you have really
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  fought so you've really tried to go against the odds in so many different ways,
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  like for hormones and things like that. Yes, where can somebody start
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  putting their voice out there because you you've had you know, a platform,
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  but you had to really fight hard. I had to really fight hard to
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  practice the way I do because I mean, honestly, there are so many
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  unhealthy things in medicine that are allowed. Hormones is the is very simple,
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  it is very natural, and it's something that is so controversial, right,
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  Like I think you knew this that many years ago. Patient complained and to
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  the medical board, and the medical ward was like, why are you doing
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  hormone replacement? And for anybody that doesn't know exactly what does hormone replacement mean?
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  Because not everybody I know we have hormones, yes, but they don't
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  know what replacement means exactly. So as you get older, your hormones change.
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  Your hormones also, you when you go through menopause or anthropause, you
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  lose certain hormones that are you normally had when you were younger, like estrogen,
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  progesterone, testosterone. You can replace those hormones and feel like a normal
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  self, okay, And replacing hormones can help you in many ways. They
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  can help you with your dementia, like people can develop dementia. They can
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  help with heart health, they can help with bone health, they can help
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  with so many different things, and in different parts of the world, it's
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  absolutely normal and a given right, and it's covered by insurance. In America,
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  you know, for women, biodentical hormone replacement is not covered. I've
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  helped a lot of people with hormone replacement. I'm on hormone replacement. I
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  think hormone replacement can really save a lot of people. Can you know when
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  you're in your forties as a woman, and I know hundreds, if not
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  thousands of women who feel this way, you feel like something changes, and
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  many of us will go to their doctor or primary care and say that,
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  hey, I don't feel like myself, and then you're told, well,
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  everything checks out your homemon it's look fine. Well the range is like from
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  here to there? You know, what do you mean? I feel?
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  What do you mean it's fine? You know, don't just take that for
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  an answer, Look further, dig deeper. There's there's more to it than
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  just that. How does the hormone replacement? So say you are a woman
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  in your forties and you've started to feel just blah, and you don't feel
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  yourself, you have no energy. What is the first steps if somewhere to
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  someone were to come in to see you to start the process. How does
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  it all begin hormone replacement. There's different things, Like I mean, when
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  you're in your forties, and as women, we are the caregivers. We
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  do the most amount of work for everybody, right, we take care of
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  the whole family. We're sleeping the least, we're doing the most work.
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  We're the most stressed. We're probably working. Most women work plus take care
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  of the family. You know, we're taking putting ourselves last. So our
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  hormones are going to get affected because our sex hormones are governed also by the
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  adrenal glands, which is also governed by stress, so they're going to get
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  affected. So in integrative or functional medicine, we believe that our progesterone,
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  which is the hormone that helps us sleep, helps us relax, that goes
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  down in your forties, and when you're more stressed, it goes down even
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  more. So therefore your sleep, your stress, all of it gets affected.
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  So that's what most women in their forties they feel. They're coming to
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  me and they're like, I'm just crabby, I'm irritable, i feel tired
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  and wired all the time. I'm not sleeping very well. I'm gaining weight,
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  you know, I don't know what's wrong with me. There's something wrong,
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  and it's usually like, I think something's wrong with my thyroid. Then
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  I check the thyroid. The thyroid's okay, it's probably their sex hormones,
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  you know. And then I have no libido. I have no libido.
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  I'm like, yes, you have no libido because you're so tired and you're
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  exhausted, and you're stressed, and your progesterone is in the dumps, you
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  know, and so we need to normalize all these hormones. We need to
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  get your stress levels back to normal so that you feel like yourself. And
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  you're probably insulin resistant because you eating crap, you're not sleeping, you're putting
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  so much stress on your body. And you're not superwoman, right, you
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  know, and a lot of superwoman, yes, yeah, And you can't
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  fix everything and do everything and be everywhere. You have to take care of
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  yourself in different cultures and in different parts of the world. We have that
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  as a backup. You know, when you have children, you have a
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  month where you're at home, you have somebody at home taking care of you.
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  Over here, you're back at work. I feel like in our society
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  now too. They make you feel guilty for trying to take care of yourself,
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  like you're selfish. Yes, you don't take care of yourself. You
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  can't help those around you. And it takes a village, right, But
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  we are like that. We have this thing. Oh, it's a nuclear
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  family and we're all working and we're just going to be everywhere and we're I'm
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  gonna look great and I'm going to be thin and skinny, and I'm going
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  to look after my kids and I'm going to make one hundred thousand dollars and
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  I'm gonna You can't do all this, and then your mental health is in
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  the in the dumps, right. And I'm on a medication for anxiety,
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  and then I have a medication for add and then I have to sleep because
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  I'm on add medicine, I can't sleep, So I'm going to be on
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  ambient. This is this is the normal person. No, I have many,
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  many girlfriends. Yeah, it's the same thing. And then when I
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  come back from work, I'm so stressed, So let me have a drink.
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  Yeah, and as that X, that's a horrible sign. It's a
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  horrible cycle. I don't take all of the medications I will take adderall to
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  stay focused because I packed the day so tight tight that there's not one second
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  of breathing. I still like to take care of myself. Yes, you
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  can see over the years many women like at what I could do five years
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  ago. It's really much harder to do now because the body has been pushed
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  so much. So what do we do? We have to stop putting ourselves
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  through all this because it's not humanly possible and we're shortening our lifespan right.
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  You know, in anti aging, we are actually able to live one hundred
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  and beyond. It is totally possible, especially if you're in your thirties and
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  forties, to say that I am going to live two hundred, one hundred
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  and twenty, But that means putting the work in right now. You cannot
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  put your body through this and expect to live that long. It's forty.
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  So if you're forty and you've really pushed your body to the limits, is
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  it too late to reverse No aging, No, it's not too late.
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  Okay, but we cannot do this to ourselves and to our body because we're
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  completely prematurely aging ourselves and putting all these medications in us and pushing ourselves.
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  You need to take You need to give your body time to recover. You
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  need sleep, you know, shortening your your sleep to like six hours less
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  than six hours, you're shortening your lifespan, right, remember that when you're
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  doing this. Okay, so sleep is very important, mutt your body very
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  important. And then not trying to be the superwoman to rush and do all
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  things, yes, which in our world it's hard to say that you can't
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  do it all and you have to stop caring what other people think. Yeah,
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  that's another big one. Yeah. The people who live the longest,
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  you know, the people in the Blue zones, most of them. It's
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  really not about like the supplements they're taking. Supplements are important, the food
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  is important, yes, but it's also your mindset, right. And the
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  Blue Zones. By the way, they did a special on Netflix. Yeah,
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  I was recently introduced to the Blue Zones and I was like, wow,
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  yeah, I want to know more about these people because they're living healthier,
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  which they're trying to take away from the Blue Zones where they build resorts
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  and stuff on these as. You know, they're trying to make money there.
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  You really think that going to a resort in those blue zones. Is
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  it's going to make you live longer. No, it's also their mindset,
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  right, Yeah, their mindset is that they don't care what people think.
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  Right, Like a lot of them. There's this woman who's like, I
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  don't have a man. That's that's the reason I'm living longer. It's also
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  she doesn't have the stress. And they don't have like these luxury things.
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  Some of them were living in little huts. Yeah, washing their clothes by
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  hand. Yes, but they seem so happy and fulfilled, which was just
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  it's an eye opener to see when we have all of these things and spirituals
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  ourselves for like spirituality, having focus, meditation. You know, your mental
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  health is so so so important. The people with the best mental health actually
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  live the best and the longest lives. Yeah, you know, because your
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  mind is so much it is definitely you know, your gut, your mind
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  is all connected, do you believe in? So I try to have a
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  very optimistic outlook on life, and so I feel like a lot of good
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  things happen in my life, which you know, people are like, oh,
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  you're so lucky, But I look at it as the way you think,
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  Really, that's the energy you're putting out into the world. Yeah,
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  to receive that back. And so like if somebody has cancer and feeling like
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  doomsday, I feel like those that succeed over so much, so much.
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  I mean as a doctor too, I you know, look, my sister
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  went through cancer recently, like last year. She's a doctor herself. She
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  lives in London, and the experience she had was horrible. Okay, she
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  went to her doctor and it was so scary. You know, she was
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  young, she had breast cancer and the way they treated her, the way
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  the doctor was like, just scared her. She never felt safe. She
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  always she just felt like I just take this cancer out of me. That's
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  how she felt like. She had a double mastect To me, she felt
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  she wasn't taken care of right. And to her, it was just like,
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  get everything out of me, get all these cells out of me,
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  Give me as much chemo as you can so I never have to worry about
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  this. So my daughter has a mom That's really all she was worried about.
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  But as a doctor, you have a responsibility to your patient to be
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  a healer, and just giving them a medication isn't healing them right. It
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  is so much of a spiritual mental thing too, and you can absolutely heal
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  them that way. My father is a physician and this is his belief.
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  This is how he treats his patients. And I definitely believe that if you
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  feel that way and if you communicate that way to your patient, you will
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  heal them. And Yeah, I know this sounds like some mumbo jumbo,
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  you know whatever, but it's true for so many cases, real cases in
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  like medical literature that have been like, there's this one patient. There was
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  a case written about this where this patient got the wrong pathology slides, like
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  her biopsy got mixed up with someone else, so she had cancer. Her
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  biopsy slides got mixed up with someone else. She was given the wrong information.
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  She was told that you don't have cancer, your biopsy was negative.
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  She was so happy. She went about living her life normally. Then several
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  months later they realized their mistake. They bring the patient back, and I
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  think Deep Chopra talks about this in one of his talks. They bring the
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  patient back and they're like, hey, you know, we really messed up.
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  But the patient was fine and was she healed by that point because she
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  was basically she was living a happy life. All these natural endorphins. See,
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  your body makes natural endorphins, serotonin, dopamine. These are natural chemicals.
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  They're healing chemicals. Their body makes them naturally. Like why do you
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  think we like when we have an injury or like a serious accident, right,
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  we get this like sudden energy to do something. It's your body making
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  those chemicals. What if, like a mom has to save her child,
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  okay, from a big accident or something, She's going to find the energy
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  somehow to do it right. Anyway, So patient is told that you don't
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  have cancer. She goes around living her life, cancer doesn't progress, nothing
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  happens. She actually gets scans, The scan shows nothing. Then many months
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  later they realize their mistake. They're like, oh my god, we messed
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  up. They break the patient back and they tell the patient that, hey,
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  you know what, we messed up. Patient's devastated. Then they re
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  scan the patient. The cancer has appeared again. So like, really,
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  honestly, there is truth to this. Okay, that gives me chills because
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  it's true. Crazy how that happens, but it's so true. But that's
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  the power of prayer, that's the power of like positive thinking. I mean,
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  it really is you know you and it's the power of your good doctor,
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  right, you know, if you have a doctor who is just not
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  interested, who is like completely exhausted with his work, you know, which
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  unfortunately is not the doctor's fault. Okay, it's this whole industry. It's
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  really hard to be a doctor. I'm sure they don't go into it and
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  go to medical school for eight plus years to just hand out. You want
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  to heal, you want to heal, you want to help people, but
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  the world, the world is like then you're getting fifteen minutes and then you
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  have to do all this other crap, you know, report to this and
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  write twenty notes and you know, do you think they will over ever overcome
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  that the way? I think we all have to fight for it. Yeah.
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  I think we all as collectively, you know, as people, need
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  to say, hey, we don't want this type of insurance. We want
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  the doctor and the patient to just take all these insurance companies out of the
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  mix, right and say we're just going to deal directly with each other.
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  Yeah, that's what happens in the rest of the world. We can do
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  that here too, you know. It does shouldn't cost exorbitant amount of money
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  to have good health care. Really it shouldn't. The amount of money that
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  people are spending in regular health care is so much more than like what we
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  charge in integrated medicine. It really isn't that much. And people complain too,
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  because you have those that can't afford insurance that may get the same care
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  as if somebody paying tons and tons of money, which I think everybody is.
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  If you're sick, get help, you know, like I don't.
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  I don't know those allusions to that, but I wish that everybody can have.
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  I wish that's care. And then everybody's fault too, Like, look,
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  stop being litigious, you know, stop suing for everything. Stop saying
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  that like, oh well, now if I get cancer and I smoke and
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  you didn't tell me, I'm going to sue you. No take responsibility of
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  the fact that you knew this. That happened to me too. Patience told
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  me that I'm going to sue you because you didn't tell me that smoking is
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  bad for me, and I'm like, I think I did and I had
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  it documented, which was great, but like, come on, a lot
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  of things that doctors have to deal with that prevents them from giving the best
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  care. Sometimes, Yes, so Where do people go if they want to
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  learn about hormones or how to live healthier, how to live to one hundred
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  and twenty, how to live like the people in the blue zone. Where
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  can they go to reach out to you, to set up an appointment?
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  They can, they can call it ReGenesis. We have amazing people at ReGenesis,
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  amazing people and that's for Genesis MD dot com. It's not that expensive
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  to go there, I promise you. We really do try to keep it
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  affordable, but we have amazing people who care, who really love what they
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  do. Secondly, if you can't afford it, if you can't go there,
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  if whatever reason, educate yourself. There is so much information out there,
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  you know. Look, YouTube is an amazing resource. Oh we are
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  learn how to fix tryers off of YouTube, whatever it may be. You
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  know. Yeah, I learned so much on YouTube and TikTok. I love
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  it so Yes, educate yourself, go online. Please. Thank you so
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  much to doctor Vadia, the expert on so many things when it comes to
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  our health. Check her out today. Regenesismd dot com.