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How To Be Healthy For The Holidays, Oat Milk & More · Beyond Limits With Olivia Marie

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  SPEAKER_01: Well, hello everyone, and welcome back to another episode of the podcast.
• 0:05
  SPEAKER_01: This one was really fun.
• 0:06
  SPEAKER_01: It was like a live podcast that I did on Zoom.
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  SPEAKER_01: I took questions.
• 0:11
  SPEAKER_01: We just hung out.
• 0:12
  SPEAKER_01: It was a lot of fun.
• 0:13
  SPEAKER_01: There have been quite a few many updates since my last episode.
• 0:19
  SPEAKER_01: I moved.
• 0:20
  SPEAKER_01: I have a puppy.
• 0:21
  SPEAKER_01: I am adjusting to puppy life, which basically means I don't sleep and I'm up every two hours.
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  SPEAKER_01: So she's currently at my feet now, sleeping.
• 0:31
  SPEAKER_01: I take this time when she sleeps and naps to like get some work done because otherwise I'm running around after her, making sure she doesn't eat anything or chew anything that she's not supposed to.
• 0:41
  SPEAKER_01: Basically, kind of like having a baby, especially because I've been getting up every two hours to take her outside and kind of like potty train her, crate train her, etc.
• 0:51
  SPEAKER_01: So it really is kind of like having a baby.
• 0:53
  SPEAKER_01: So there's a lot going on, a lot of adjusting.
• 0:56
  SPEAKER_01: Um, kind of a bit overtired naturally.
• 0:58
  SPEAKER_01: It's only my third night into it.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um I got her three days ago, and although I'm used to her routine and like taking her out every two hours, the lack of sleep is kind of like catching up to me.
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  SPEAKER_01: So I might actually even take a nap after I record this intro while she's napping, kind of like use that time to take a nap myself.
• 1:16
  SPEAKER_01: I think that's what they say, even to like new moms, like, oh, sleep and baby sleeping.
• 1:20
  SPEAKER_01: Um that's what it's like.
• 1:21
  SPEAKER_01: She's like, my my little baby, her name is Akasha, um, which is like a Sanskrit for the word sky or ether.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's also kind of like after the Akashic records, etc.
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  SPEAKER_01: So she is quite the adorable angel.
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  SPEAKER_01: I have a whole highlight of her on my Instagram if you want to see what she looks like.
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  SPEAKER_01: She's a golden retriever, and she is quite the angel, but she is exactly what you would think a puppy.
• 1:44
  SPEAKER_01: She will, you know, run around and then tucker out for a bit and then run around again.
• 1:49
  SPEAKER_01: She even, like, anytime I'm trying to work out as well on the floor, I basically get, you know, attacked with puppy cuddles, which is amazing, but also not as productive as I usually am.
• 1:59
  SPEAKER_01: Also adjusting to like my life revolving around something or like someone else, because obviously everything revolves around this little angel right now.
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  SPEAKER_01: So I am exited, like I am excited for her.
• 2:10
  SPEAKER_01: Like I love her, but yeah, she's been quite the handful, and we are adjusting.
• 2:15
  SPEAKER_01: And of course, moving is also a thing, getting everything organized, um, you know, finding furniture.
• 2:20
  SPEAKER_01: I still haven't found a kitchen island that I like.
• 2:22
  SPEAKER_01: I have to order a desk still and all that for the new year.
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  SPEAKER_01: So adjusting, lots going on, lots coming in the new year as well.
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  SPEAKER_01: So, yeah, that's my little update from me.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, enjoy this episode.
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  SPEAKER_01: We get into it all.
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  SPEAKER_01: We talk about everything from oat milk to Akashic Records to how to be healthy for the holidays.
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  SPEAKER_01: So many good little tips in here.
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  SPEAKER_01: So enjoy this episode.
• 2:44
  SPEAKER_01: Welcome to the Live Well Podcast.
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  SPEAKER_01: This podcast is designed to help you live well, body, mind, and soul.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm your host, Liv, a natural health and wellness expert, and each week you will walk away with the insights, tools, and tips to truly live your best life.
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  SPEAKER_01: If you are looking to live well, you are in the right place.
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  SPEAKER_01: A new episode starts now.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, um, I want to first talk about like healthy over the holidays.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because I know with holidays coming up, everyone is always more like, well, depending on even where you are in the world, I think right now, like your home or your holiday situation is gonna be vaguely different.
• 3:22
  SPEAKER_00: So we're gonna run through some like tips, both if you're staying home, but also things that like if you are actually seeing family, like things you would use if you're having a family gathering.
• 3:31
  SPEAKER_00: So if you were watching my stories yesterday, then you know um the first tip I'm gonna give, and that is not going to like events hungry.
• 3:38
  SPEAKER_00: So with the common thing is always for people to like, I'm gonna wait all day to eat so that I can eat like a big family Christmas dinner, holiday dinner, etc.
• 3:47
  SPEAKER_00: But the problem is that that can actually lead to like either like binge episodes or like episode just not feeling in control around food because you want to inhale everything.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's because your blood sugar basically tanks all day from you not eating.
• 4:02
  SPEAKER_00: So you're actually better able to like you're supposed to have a snack beforehand more than like going into it starving because you're gonna feel more in control around the food, and then you can actually make more rational decisions based on something.
• 4:15
  SPEAKER_00: So if you eat a cookie, if you eat this, it's not coming from a I need to inhale everything hangry kind of standpoint, and it's more coming from a I actually want to enjoy this, this is nostalgic, this is like my mom's famous, you know, pecan cookies or whatever it is.
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  SPEAKER_00: So that's tip number one.
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  SPEAKER_00: Tip number two is protecting your energy.
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  SPEAKER_00: So this I think is true any year, but especially this year, protecting your energy is huge, especially with everyone's differing opinions, where they stand on different things, it's just a lot going on, and we're all susceptible to other people's energies.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's why you can sometimes get like feelings when you go into a room.
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  SPEAKER_00: You can feel like, oh, like I'm picking up on this energy.
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  SPEAKER_00: And with everyone's different energies, that can be bombarding to your system.
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  SPEAKER_00: It can leave you drained, exhausted, also leaving overly emotional because you're also picking up everyone else's energy.
• 5:08
  SPEAKER_00: So if other people are anxious or sad or upset, you're probably picking that up, especially because I'm an empath and I know I attract a lot of empaths to my content and my podcast, my Instagram.
• 5:19
  SPEAKER_00: A lot of you guys are empaths, and so you internalize all of these emotions.
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  SPEAKER_00: So it's very, very important to like protect your energy.
• 5:26
  SPEAKER_00: And one of the biggest things that I like to do is simply like wrapping a bubble around yourself.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I honestly do this whenever I just leave the house.
• 5:33
  SPEAKER_00: It's good to do because you're even in like weird energy in the grocery store nowadays, you never know.
• 5:38
  SPEAKER_00: So like you literally start at your feet and you imagine like an imaginary bubble coming up and like wrapping around you and protecting you as a bubble around.
• 5:46
  SPEAKER_00: And that's kind of like you know, but anything that comes at you afterwards, you're kind of just like bouncing it off, like it's gonna bounce off of you and protect you and protect your energy, so that like when Uncle Joe has his either political opinion or you know, health opinion or whoever it is coming in at you, you're not being bombarded by all these different things, leaving you feeling overwhelmed.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then honestly, when we're feeling overwhelmed and we're feeling everyone else's emotions, those emotions might actually make us turn to food.
• 6:15
  SPEAKER_00: And then, so like you kind of see how it's actually even wrapped up in nutrition because a lot of us, you know, for you know, the holiday times for comfort, we you know, it's a habit to go to food.
• 6:25
  SPEAKER_00: So you're surrounded by all this like comforting a salary food, plus Uncle Joe and your mom have all these opinions and the energy is crazy for the holidays, and it's basically like a recipe for chaos.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, you know, things like having a snack and protecting your energy are two really great places to start.
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  SPEAKER_00: If a bubble doesn't resonate you or with you, um, another one I do is a protection pyramid.
• 6:45
  SPEAKER_00: So it's just like basically a different shape, and it's just a pyramid around you, um, which everyone kind of resonates more, whether it's a bubble or whether it's putting yourself in a pyramid.
• 6:54
  SPEAKER_00: Um that's like the best way to go.
• 6:58
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, um, question how did you discover Akasha readings?
• 7:02
  SPEAKER_00: Well, actually it was my friend, one of my friends, Ashley, um recommended that I get an Akashic reading from one of her friends.
• 7:08
  SPEAKER_00: And I was like, sure, why not?
• 7:10
  SPEAKER_00: I basically had hit a spiritual plateau.
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  SPEAKER_00: I wanted to evolve, I wanted to get to the next level.
• 7:15
  SPEAKER_00: I was meditating every day, but I felt like stuck.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I was like, okay, I need something to break through or someone to help me because I couldn't do it on my own because everything I was reading online or doing, there's like wasn't enough.
• 7:27
  SPEAKER_00: So um, what I did was I got a reading and it basically blew me out of the water, and I was like, oh my gosh.
• 7:34
  SPEAKER_00: And I felt like someone had had basically seen me for the first time and had understood me because in the records, like, and if you had a reading for me, I'm in you, I'm in your soul.
• 7:45
  SPEAKER_00: So I understand you and feel you because I'm in you, for lack of better terms.
• 7:50
  SPEAKER_00: So um, that's how kind of I discovered it.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then from there, I actually learned that apparently one of my gifts is like reading the records, which was really cool.
• 7:58
  SPEAKER_00: Um, so from then I was taught like, okay, this is how you read the records, and I've kind of just leaned into that gift.
• 8:03
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I started doing it for friends back in like early summer and everything like that.
• 8:08
  SPEAKER_00: And now, yeah, I kind of just do them.
• 8:10
  SPEAKER_00: But they're honestly, they're really magical.
• 8:12
  SPEAKER_00: I actually just did one um before this call, and it's so interesting because everybody is so different, right?
• 8:17
  SPEAKER_00: Because all through all the readings, I think I've done ooh, like over 50 by now.
• 8:23
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and everyone honestly feels so different, and everyone is slightly different, which is really crazy, but that's normal because everyone is different, everyone's soul is different, but to feel everyone differently on an energetic level is so so crazy.
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  SPEAKER_00: So if you're feeling called, I always encourage you.
• 8:38
  SPEAKER_00: Or if you have questions, let me know.
• 8:39
  SPEAKER_00: Kelsey's gotten one.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um It was amazing.
• 8:42
  SPEAKER_00: If you want to get one, do you think blown every single time I do one?
• 8:47
  SPEAKER_01: It was so much fun, honestly.
• 8:49
  SPEAKER_00: And like just the crazy specific information that can come through.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like, for example, the one I just did, she asked me, like, oh, like what are some of the names of my guides?
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  SPEAKER_00: And the first one I got without a doubt was James.
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  SPEAKER_00: And she's like, No way.
• 9:01
  SPEAKER_00: Like, James is the name of my grandfather who died before I passed away.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I always felt him.
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  SPEAKER_00: I always felt a strong connection to him, and I always felt his love.
• 9:09
  SPEAKER_00: And I was like, Well, of course you did.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's your guide.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, like, it's crazy that like that was the first name I got, and like out of all the names in all the world, the fact that I got James, and that's the name of her grandfather, who she's always felt connected to, is like insane.
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  SPEAKER_00: So that's a kind of example, like the random, crazy information that can come through during these readings that are like, there's no way I'm doing this.
• 9:28
  SPEAKER_00: This is definitely channeled, you know.
• 9:31
  SPEAKER_00: Um, well, that's a good question.
• 9:33
  SPEAKER_00: What are my favorite holiday recipes for sharing with others?
• 9:36
  SPEAKER_00: My honestly favorite ones are ones that are like you wouldn't think that are healthy, that are made with healthy swabs.
• 9:43
  SPEAKER_00: So, for example, like a risotto that's made with cauliflower rice, and they're not gonna know.
• 9:47
  SPEAKER_00: Like peppermint chocolate cookies, like you don't need to tell them that it's made with almond flour and you know, like healthy fats like coconut oil.
• 9:55
  SPEAKER_00: They're not gonna taste that it's like, you know, flourless or it's not made with white flour or white sugar.
• 10:00
  SPEAKER_00: And like my favorite ones are the ones that you don't even tell them necessarily that it's that it's healthy, and you just let them experience and taste it for themselves, and then they can like really, you know, see how delicious like healthy eating can be.
• 10:13
  SPEAKER_00: Um, but of course, like desserts are always like a good popular thing around the holidays, and so I think even experimenting with you know healthier holiday desserts, like another one of my favorites are my pecan bars, which I need to film.
• 10:23
  SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna be filming a whole dedicated video to it.
• 10:26
  SPEAKER_00: I think tomorrow morning.
• 10:27
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, tomorrow's Friday.
• 10:29
  SPEAKER_00: And they're so delicious, and it's like a pecan pie in a bar form.
• 10:33
  SPEAKER_00: And honestly, like they're make your knees we kind of good.
• 10:36
  SPEAKER_00: And I just love like showing people that like make some few swaps, like swap white sugar for coconut sugar, you know, use almond flour instead of white flour, and you can make healthy, delicious desserts.
• 10:47
  SPEAKER_00: All your holiday recipes can be made to still be equally delicious and healthy and satisfying and nutritious and everything like that.
• 10:54
  SPEAKER_00: So um, thoughts on the upcoming energy portal on 1221.
• 10:59
  SPEAKER_00: Oh my gosh, I know there's a lot of different theories on what is coming up on 1221.
• 11:04
  SPEAKER_00: I feel like with the winter solstice, it's always like there's always a lot of energy, but with everything this year, I know there's a lot of like theories that it's going to be a very culminating portal.
• 11:13
  SPEAKER_00: And I know starting, I believe it's the 14th, I know you're asking that the energy this week.
• 11:17
  SPEAKER_00: I feel the energy is shifting, but starting the 14th, like from December 14th to the 21st, crazy energy is going to be like resonating.
• 11:25
  SPEAKER_00: If you look at the the residence charts, you keep seeing people post things where it's going off the charts and it's launching and it's like on a different level than we've ever experienced before.
• 11:35
  SPEAKER_00: And I really think it's because more and more people are waking up, more and more people are getting curious about this.
• 11:41
  SPEAKER_00: Um, you know, even me, like I've only been doing this like a year now.
• 11:45
  SPEAKER_00: So if you told me like a year and a half ago that I'd be into this, I would have thought you were crazy too until you know I got a record reading.
• 11:52
  SPEAKER_00: So um in terms of like my energy, I really feel like it's been kind of like steady, but I think going up to like I can feel that there's something big coming between the 14th and the 21st, especially the 21st, but also like as like a witch, um just a solstice is always kind of like fun.
• 12:12
  SPEAKER_00: It's always a fun day, and there's always so much energy to be played with at the solstice.
• 12:15
  SPEAKER_00: So I feel like it's always gonna be a high energy day, but because of the the events of 2020, it's just gonna be who knows really what to expect.
• 12:24
  SPEAKER_00: You know, I don't know.
• 12:26
  SPEAKER_00: Recommended practices for that time and spiritual practices.
• 12:29
  SPEAKER_00: Um number one, I'm gonna start with getting grounded because when the energy is shifting, when the energy is all over the place and it's going off the charts and you're not used to it, it can feel overwhelming.
• 12:42
  SPEAKER_00: And it may not, you may not even know you're feeling it.
• 12:45
  SPEAKER_00: It may be simple things like you're very tired, you're extra tired, or you're having trouble sleeping, or you know, things like that that you may not think has to do with like the energy or the energetic field around you, but it does, and those can be signs.
• 12:58
  SPEAKER_00: So getting grounded and really like grounding to like mother earth and like picture, and I know a lot of people with grounding picture your feet being like going into the earth and like the roots coming down from your feet, but I actually always recommend kind of the opposite.
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  SPEAKER_00: I always recommend Mother Earth coming out from the earth and grabbing onto your feet and pulling down.
• 13:19
  SPEAKER_00: That way it becomes less about you having to root in and more about her grabbing and holding onto you.
• 13:26
  SPEAKER_00: And that also feels more grounding and supported.
• 13:28
  SPEAKER_00: Because think about when someone grabs onto you and holds you, you feel secure.
• 13:33
  SPEAKER_00: You feel more secure if someone's holding onto you than if you're just pushing down and holding onto there.
• 13:38
  SPEAKER_00: You feel that security around you, and that's why with grounding, I always recommend coming up and holding onto your feet and pulling you down.
• 13:46
  SPEAKER_00: And that can be something as simple as like even taking a couple deep breaths, like three slow deep breaths in and doing that three times, picture it grounding, and that's like even even magic.
• 14:01
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, right, Elise.
• 14:02
  SPEAKER_00: Like it's just something I think more grounding, more comforting, and also if you don't have a lot of experience grounding and you feel like it's tough to be grounded, you might be too airy fairy, too up and down for you to put your roots in because you have to then put your roots into the ground versus someone else rooting you down.
• 14:21
  SPEAKER_00: Hopefully that makes sense.
• 14:23
  SPEAKER_00: Well, those are those are really good questions, guys.
• 14:29
  SPEAKER_00: Um, any other questions?
• 14:31
  SPEAKER_00: Let me know.
• 14:32
  SPEAKER_00: We can move on back to more of my holiday recommendations for healthy over the holidays.
• 14:35
  SPEAKER_00: So we went over having like a snack or something before meals.
• 14:39
  SPEAKER_00: We went over protecting your energy.
• 14:41
  SPEAKER_00: Another thing that I like to do to protect my energy is to wear black tourmaline.
• 14:45
  SPEAKER_00: Um, it's a crystal, it's a very powerful like protector crystal.
• 14:48
  SPEAKER_00: I wear it on my left arm because left is what's coming into your body.
• 14:52
  SPEAKER_00: So on your left side, that's all the energy you're picking up from the universe.
• 14:56
  SPEAKER_00: The right is what you're putting out.
• 14:57
  SPEAKER_00: So if you were to wear it on your right, you would be protecting what is coming out of your body versus with the left, it's coming like into your body.
• 15:06
  SPEAKER_00: So you're protecting anything you're picking up.
• 15:08
  SPEAKER_00: Um, the cat, the cacao doesn't have caffeine, but it has theobromine, which is a stimulant.
• 15:13
  SPEAKER_00: So for some people, it can be quite stimulating, but um depending on you or how sensitive you are, if you're sensitive to caffeine, like I have a friend, actually, I have a friend named Lauren, who is very sensitive to caffeine.
• 15:26
  SPEAKER_00: And so she's finds cacao quite stimulating.
• 15:30
  SPEAKER_00: I can have cacao and go to sleep.
• 15:32
  SPEAKER_00: So it depends on how quickly you methylate and how quickly you move through stimulant.
• 15:37
  SPEAKER_00: So that will vary from person to person.
• 15:38
  SPEAKER_00: You can always start with it during the afternoon as opposed to at night and kind of see how you feel.
• 15:43
  SPEAKER_00: Um, but yeah, that's what I would recommend, Lauren.
• 15:46
  SPEAKER_00: Um, okay, so back to healthy for the holidays.
• 15:49
  SPEAKER_00: So other things, like I said, making like healthy ingredient swaps.
• 15:52
  SPEAKER_00: And if you guys ever need help for swaps, just send me a DM and being like, what can I swap for this?
• 15:56
  SPEAKER_00: But like swapping cow milk for almond milk, white sugar for coconut sugar, normal rice for cauliflower rice, you know, in stuffing.
• 16:04
  SPEAKER_00: If you're having turkey, using a gluten-free bread, or you know, making a rice stuffing, that's like a good alternative.
• 16:11
  SPEAKER_00: Um, you know, using arrow powder in your like gravy to thicken it instead of flour, like anything that you can make, there's always like a healthy and delicious swap for it, if that makes sense.
• 16:24
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and another thing in terms of being healthy over the holidays is slowing down, like really actually taking that time.
• 16:31
  SPEAKER_00: And I feel like with everything going on, we're not going out as much, we're not going to all these office parties, holiday parties, friend parties, and use this time as a gift to really relax, recharge, and that energy you would put out to other people that you would normally spend, like giving to everyone else, give that to yourself and use that as time to like come home to yourself and give yourself love, give yourself nourishment that you would normally, you know, give to others.
• 16:57
  SPEAKER_00: A lot of us like to overextend ourselves and say yes to every social gathering because we feel like we can't say no during the holidays.
• 17:05
  SPEAKER_00: Well, now we can say no.
• 17:06
  SPEAKER_00: Now we have like the perfect excuse to say no.
• 17:09
  SPEAKER_00: So using that time to really come back to yourself, giving yourself love, and you know, take baths, do a face mask, watch, you know, a Christmas movie on Netflix and Drinks with Cacao, color, draw, read that book that's been like waiting for you for the past year that you haven't had time to read.
• 17:25
  SPEAKER_00: Do all things like that.
• 17:27
  SPEAKER_00: Um, what do you eat since you're paleo?
• 17:30
  SPEAKER_00: Just curious.
• 17:31
  SPEAKER_00: Um, do you mean for like holiday dinners?
• 17:33
  SPEAKER_00: If you mean for holiday dinners, like also eat like turkey, sweet potato, Brussels sprouts, you know, um like the gravies I've always had at holidays were never flour-based.
• 17:44
  SPEAKER_00: They were always like an au jus, like an au jus based.
• 17:46
  SPEAKER_00: So they were kind of um clear.
• 17:48
  SPEAKER_00: So like gravy on the turkey, you know, mashed potatoes, all of that.
• 17:52
  SPEAKER_00: Um, all of that is basically paleo.
• 17:54
  SPEAKER_00: And then I always bring um to holiday gatherings, I always used to bring a healthy dessert of myself um just because I didn't want to have like fruit growing up because I feel like I was always, if I didn't bring a healthy dessert, then I was always given fruit as like a gluten-free thing, which is like totally fine.
• 18:08
  SPEAKER_00: I understand, but also that's kind of not as fun.
• 18:10
  SPEAKER_00: So like I would make something healthy, like paleo, and I would bring it for everyone else.
• 18:14
  SPEAKER_00: And then everyone else is like, oh my god, this is healthy, this is paleo, this has no refined sugar, this is no gluten, and then they get exposed to it and they learn that, like, oh, it's possible, and you start to expand other people as well.
• 18:25
  SPEAKER_00: So I would encourage like a potluck situation.
• 18:28
  SPEAKER_00: You can always bring a dish.
• 18:29
  SPEAKER_00: Um, you know, salads are also all always, you know, paleo and gluten-free too, but always like bringing a dish that you like, that you can have and that other people can enjoy too.
• 18:38
  SPEAKER_00: I I would never bring things like just for myself, like whip out like my Tupperware and like be eating it at a holly gathering while everyone else is eating everything because that would feel I would feel FOMO, I would feel weird, and that doesn't feel very inclusive.
• 18:50
  SPEAKER_00: But when you make it inclusive for everyone else by you participating, that kind of changes the dynamic.
• 18:56
  SPEAKER_00: I find almond milk a bit bitter.
• 18:58
  SPEAKER_00: Is there any other substitute for milk that actually tastes good?
• 19:01
  SPEAKER_00: Um, there's caching milk.
• 19:02
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I also find it depends on the brand of almond milk.
• 19:05
  SPEAKER_00: Here, I'm beside my fridge, so I can whip it out.
• 19:08
  SPEAKER_00: Um, this brand of almond milk is very creamy and it's not bitter at all.
• 19:13
  SPEAKER_00: And there had there's no um like kerragenin or gums or anything in it.
• 19:17
  SPEAKER_00: I find the big carton ones, if you put those almond milks like in coffee, it tastes like cardboard, but this one it doesn't.
• 19:25
  SPEAKER_00: So I really feel like it depends on the brand.
• 19:28
  SPEAKER_00: What's your favorite nut-free, vegan, and gluten-free recipe?
• 19:31
  SPEAKER_00: My family has a lot of allergies.
• 19:32
  SPEAKER_00: So if your family has allergies for nut free, you can always go for cassava or cassava flour or tiger nut flour, even though it says tiger nut, it's actually not a nut.
• 19:42
  SPEAKER_00: Um, so I would use those.
• 19:43
  SPEAKER_00: Like my um shortbread cookies can be made nut-free by just using cassava flour.
• 19:49
  SPEAKER_00: I have like pancakes that are made with cassava flour, you can do that.
• 19:53
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I have like cinnamon buns that are made with cassava flour, you can do that.
• 19:56
  SPEAKER_00: So really cassava is a really good flour to use if you're nut free and you also want to be gluten-free.
• 20:02
  SPEAKER_00: Um, it's also very similar to white flour in the texture.
• 20:06
  SPEAKER_00: So even if you're not using it from one of my recipes and you feel like you find a normal, I'm gonna use normal in quotations, recipe that uses white flour, you can use cassava flour very interchangeably because the texture is identical.
• 20:21
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, oat um coconut milk, yeah, whatever Lauren said, those are also um good ones.
• 20:26
  SPEAKER_00: What are my thoughts on oat milk?
• 20:28
  SPEAKER_00: Ooh, I was you know it's so weird.
• 20:30
  SPEAKER_00: I actually got a download this morning and like somebody's gonna ask about oat milk or oatmeal.
• 20:34
  SPEAKER_00: Like, I knew oat milk was gonna come up because I don't know why.
• 20:37
  SPEAKER_00: I just felt like it was gonna come up.
• 20:38
  SPEAKER_00: So this is the important thing.
• 20:40
  SPEAKER_00: This is a good title for the the podcast because I feel like this is a very popular question that I get often.
• 20:46
  SPEAKER_00: The thing to understand about oat milk, number one, most oat milks have other harmful additives.
• 20:52
  SPEAKER_00: So the the popular one, the minor figures ones, has rapeseed oil.
• 20:56
  SPEAKER_00: Rapeseed oil is another word for canola oil, which is a very inflammatory, high omega-6 oil.
• 21:03
  SPEAKER_00: Bad.
• 21:04
  SPEAKER_00: We do not want inflammation in the body.
• 21:05
  SPEAKER_00: That's how you get IBS, IBD, brain fog, joint issues, gut pain, anxiety, depression, and all that stuff.
• 21:12
  SPEAKER_00: We want to be avoiding these oils.
• 21:13
  SPEAKER_00: They're very triggering, very bad.
• 21:15
  SPEAKER_00: So that's a common additive.
• 21:17
  SPEAKER_00: I know it's in minor figures, it's in a couple other ones as well that are the popular barista brands of oat milk.
• 21:23
  SPEAKER_00: So that's something you have to look out for with oat milk, along with all the other additives.
• 21:27
  SPEAKER_00: A lot of them are like 15 ingredients long.
• 21:30
  SPEAKER_00: So you want to look at the other gums and everything else that they're adding to it.
• 21:34
  SPEAKER_00: You also have to keep in mind that not all oat milks are certified gluten-free.
• 21:38
  SPEAKER_00: So there is a chance that your oat milk has gluten in it.
• 21:41
  SPEAKER_00: And as we know, gluten is very damaging to your gut lining.
• 21:44
  SPEAKER_00: Your gut type junctions that are like this, gluten basically separates them and allows food particles, bacteria, and other toxins to get in.
• 21:51
  SPEAKER_00: When your gut becomes leaky, that's when you start getting reactive to like everything on the planet.
• 21:56
  SPEAKER_00: Avocados will make you bloated, you know, grapefruits will make you bloated.
• 22:00
  SPEAKER_00: Everything will make you bloated at that point because your gut is leaky.
• 22:03
  SPEAKER_00: So that's the issue with gluten, and because the cross-contamination and oat milk, gluten can also be an issue.
• 22:08
  SPEAKER_00: So we have the issue about the high omega-6 oils like the canola oil, rapeseed oil, sunflower oil.
• 22:14
  SPEAKER_00: Then we have the issue about the gluten because the oats are normally not cross-contaminant free.
• 22:20
  SPEAKER_00: And then we have, let's say hypothetically, that it is certified gluten-free oats and it doesn't have rapeseed or canola oil in the oat milk.
• 22:30
  SPEAKER_00: It's important to understand that the oat milk spikes your blood sugar as much as Coca-Cola.
• 22:35
  SPEAKER_00: So when people think about oats, because it's derived from a grain and it's made into a milk, there's like no fiber in it.
• 22:41
  SPEAKER_00: So it's kind of like when you juice vegetables and you remove all the fiber.
• 22:45
  SPEAKER_00: When you milk almonds, which is a weird thing to think about milking almonds, you remove the fiber.
• 22:49
  SPEAKER_00: So it ends up spiking your blood sugar.
• 22:51
  SPEAKER_00: What happens when it spikes your blood sugar is it causes an insulin release.
• 22:55
  SPEAKER_00: And if you're familiar with some of my episodes, you know insulin is a fat storage hormone.
• 22:59
  SPEAKER_00: So it will A make you store fat, but also when the insulin spikes, what goes up must come down.
• 23:05
  SPEAKER_00: So if it's going up this high, it has to go down just as low in order to balance that out.
• 23:11
  SPEAKER_00: So what happens is not only does that make you hungrier, because now we're low, you're gonna get shaky, you're gonna get hangry.
• 23:17
  SPEAKER_00: And what does your body then want?
• 23:19
  SPEAKER_00: Your body then wants that quick glucose spike again.
• 23:22
  SPEAKER_00: So that's when you're gonna crave the high carb, you know, sugar, cakes, cookies, you know, um, foods in order to get that blood sugar back up.
• 23:31
  SPEAKER_00: Does that make sense?
• 23:31
  SPEAKER_00: So hopefully that makes sense in terms of like the insulin thing.
• 23:34
  SPEAKER_00: And then we also have to think about insulin from a perspective of PCOS.
• 23:38
  SPEAKER_00: So if you have hormonal issues or PCOS, having something like insulin going up and down like a roller coaster is gonna cause insulin resistance.
• 23:46
  SPEAKER_00: Because anytime we're having a lot of insulin in our body, our body's gonna become resistant to the insulin that's too much that's circulating within it.
• 23:53
  SPEAKER_00: So this is what happens with oat milk.
• 23:55
  SPEAKER_00: So when we're having like our giant grande oat milk lattes that has all that sugar, we're causing these spikes, and that's gonna do a lot for your hormones.
• 24:03
  SPEAKER_00: So if you have PCOS or any kind of PMS issues, which is like bloating, cramping, fatigue, acne, all of this, you know, acne is also tied to sugar.
• 24:11
  SPEAKER_00: You have to think about insulin is sugar, you're breaking out, that's a sugar response.
• 24:15
  SPEAKER_00: Oat milk is high in sugar, so you have to think about that aspect as well.
• 24:18
  SPEAKER_00: So it's tied to the hormones, it's tied to that.
• 24:21
  SPEAKER_00: It's also tied to things like diabetes.
• 24:23
  SPEAKER_00: So if your diabetes runs in your family or you're known to have like high blood sugar, you know, oat milk is gonna do that.
• 24:30
  SPEAKER_00: They've actually done, like they've measured having Coca-Cola.
• 24:34
  SPEAKER_00: And while Coca-Cola does have other bad things in it, if we're talking strictly from a sugar perspective, the sugar and oat milk and the sugar in Coca-Cola, it does the same thing insulin-wise.
• 24:44
  SPEAKER_00: Because your body doesn't know the difference between the glucose in um oat milk and the glucose in Coca-Cola, so it's gonna do the same thing to your blood sugar, but other blood sugar-related issues are you know, brain fog and concentration issues.
• 24:56
  SPEAKER_00: That's why you get that crash is because your blood sugar goes down.
• 24:59
  SPEAKER_00: So if you feel like you had your oat milk latte and you were good and you were energized, and then you have this crash at like 2 p.m., 3 p.m., well, that's from the fact that you had your blood sugar sore and then you went down.
• 25:10
  SPEAKER_00: So, in terms of oat milk, we have the canola oil issue, we have the gluten-free oat issue, and then we have the insulin issue.
• 25:18
  SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna scroll because I feel like I just went on a really long tangent about oat milk.
• 25:21
  SPEAKER_00: Um, so I'm gonna scroll.
• 25:23
  SPEAKER_00: Can you explain the filler ingredients like gargum?
• 25:26
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, sure.
• 25:26
  SPEAKER_00: So gums are irritating, whether it's gargum or xanthanum gum, but a lot of the other ones are things like potassium sorbate or monosodium glutamate, like all these weird chemical names that are preservatives.
• 25:40
  SPEAKER_00: Now, like for example, in the in the milk one, you don't actually need anything.
• 25:44
  SPEAKER_00: The only ones in this one are filtered water, organic almonds, and Himalayan salt.
• 25:48
  SPEAKER_00: So you actually don't even need all of those ingredients and all of those stabilizers in order to actually like have a good quality milk.
• 25:57
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I do know that milk does make an oat milk.
• 26:00
  SPEAKER_00: So if there's you know ever a time where you want like a as a treat, you know, you're aware, okay, I know about the sugar issue, um, but you want like that little something, at least go for like a oat milk that doesn't have the rapeseed or canola oil that has gluten-free oats and it only has like a few ingredients, but it's also, you know, being aware, okay, now you know that it's gonna do that to your insulin.
• 26:23
  SPEAKER_00: So how can you mitigate that at your next response?
• 26:25
  SPEAKER_00: And how can you at least make an educated, informed decision?
• 26:28
  SPEAKER_00: I always like people to at least have all the information and at least they know then and they understand what's gonna be what's gonna happen when they have it.
• 26:38
  SPEAKER_00: I try to stay away from sugar, but I crave it a lot, so that's why it causes me to gain weight.
• 26:41
  SPEAKER_00: So the more sugar you eat, the more you crave it.
• 26:44
  SPEAKER_00: And it's honestly, it's not even your fault.
• 26:46
  SPEAKER_00: It has nothing to do with willpower.
• 26:48
  SPEAKER_00: It is literally a biochemical reaction in your body.
• 26:51
  SPEAKER_00: Sugar is eight times more addictive than cocaine.
• 26:54
  SPEAKER_00: Like in your body, if you were to have sugar and you were to have cocaine, your brain response finds sugar eight times more addictive.
• 27:01
  SPEAKER_00: So it's no wonder so much of the world and so much of a struggle with like sugar addiction and craving it's because yeah, it's actually meant to be had more.
• 27:09
  SPEAKER_00: And because they add it to so many things, you become conditioned to want it more and more.
• 27:13
  SPEAKER_00: So the less you eat it, the less you're going to actually crave it.
• 27:17
  SPEAKER_00: And I know like it can be hard at first of the first few days or the first week, but then your taste buds will change and you will get to the point where having like two or three raw blueberries, you find that incredibly sweet.
• 27:29
  SPEAKER_00: Like for now, like right now, having like a handful of blueberries to me is like the sweetest thing in the world.
• 27:33
  SPEAKER_00: Like, I couldn't have like a peppermint mocha at Starbucks.
• 27:36
  SPEAKER_00: Like, I would just be like, oh my god, that's a lot of sugar.
• 27:40
  SPEAKER_00: So in terms of nutrient label, any insight you can give as to what to watch for and avoid.
• 27:46
  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
• 27:47
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, you need to watch for green washing.
• 27:50
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm gonna say, like, I'm explaining with green washing.
• 27:52
  SPEAKER_00: So green washing is when companies make you believe something is healthy when it's not.
• 27:57
  SPEAKER_00: So they're getting really good now with buzzwords, and they're putting like gluten-free, sugar-free, this all on the label to make you think that, like, oh yeah, it's really good for you.
• 28:07
  SPEAKER_00: But when you turn it over and you read like the package, you know, the actual ingredients, it's actually something different.
• 28:13
  SPEAKER_00: They're also getting sneaky where they'll list the ingredients and then they'll have a separate little paragraph that says other ingredients, and it'll be like natural flavors, blah, blah, blah, this, this, this, and that.
• 28:23
  SPEAKER_00: Um, a really great example is RX Bar.
• 28:26
  SPEAKER_00: I know Rx Bar was very popular for an amount of time.
• 28:28
  SPEAKER_00: They had like, you know, their bar and they would list like all the things on it, like three dates, one egg, white, this, you would turn it over, and then you'd see other ingredients, and there's five or six more other things.
• 28:39
  SPEAKER_00: So that's a perfect example of greenwashing that you can't always trust what's marketed for you on the actual front of the label.
• 28:46
  SPEAKER_00: Um, so that's something to be um aware of.
• 28:50
  SPEAKER_00: And I would say, like, always turning it over and looking at that, but also looking at the serving size.
• 28:55
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, so when they say, like, for example, oh, one gram of sugar per serving, okay, how many servings are in a box or in a bag though?
• 29:03
  SPEAKER_00: So does that mean if you ate the whole bag, it's 12 servings, so it's actually 12 grams of sugar.
• 29:08
  SPEAKER_00: So that's important to look at when you're looking at the nutrition of something, is okay, what is actually a serving size?
• 29:13
  SPEAKER_00: Because that may mean something different.
• 29:15
  SPEAKER_00: So, like for a bottle of kombucha, for example, you know, it might have um 12 grams of sugar, but that's normally for like a half bottle.
• 29:24
  SPEAKER_00: A lot of like I'm using kombucha as an example because I've known I've seen this commonly.
• 29:28
  SPEAKER_00: The serving size is for a half bottle.
• 29:30
  SPEAKER_00: So if you're having a whole bottle of that synergy, then you need to double that whole amount.
• 29:35
  SPEAKER_00: So a lot of the time, like you think a serving when you buy those individual ones is one serving.
• 29:40
  SPEAKER_00: No, you need to be aware of necessarily that actually could be two quote unquote servings.
• 29:46
  SPEAKER_00: So those would be the top things that I would say look for that.
• 29:48
  SPEAKER_00: And then I would also look at fiber content.
• 29:50
  SPEAKER_00: So, fiber thing is another great thing to look at because when you're looking at sugar, make sure you know that fiber cancels out the sugar.
• 29:57
  SPEAKER_00: So when you see the sugar or the carb content, you see the fiber, you can subtract the fiber from that to let you know actually how much sugar.
• 30:04
  SPEAKER_00: Because if something is really high in fiber, it's gonna not do as much for your blood sugar, it's gonna be a lot more filling, satisfying, and better for you if it's loaded with fiber.
• 30:12
  SPEAKER_00: So I would look at fiber, always look at like the other ingredients and look at serving sizes.
• 30:18
  SPEAKER_00: Making your own almond milk is really good.
• 30:21
  SPEAKER_00: Like if you if you want to make it, go ahead.
• 30:23
  SPEAKER_00: Like it's really good for you.
• 30:24
  SPEAKER_00: There's no gums.
• 30:25
  SPEAKER_00: Um, egg can just be like a bit tedious to remove the skins.
• 30:29
  SPEAKER_00: I do find it's worth it to remove the skins, um, but it can be a bit tedious.
• 30:32
  SPEAKER_00: And I find um in order to get the same ratio of milk, which is a really nice, creamy, rich almond milk, it takes a lot of almonds.
• 30:41
  SPEAKER_00: That's the only thing.
• 30:42
  SPEAKER_00: You would have like I when I make my own almond milk to get the same consistency as milk, I end up spending the same amount on almonds as I do on the milk.
• 30:50
  SPEAKER_00: So I just like buy the milk, if that makes sense.
• 30:52
  SPEAKER_00: But definitely, if you want to make your own, go ahead.
• 30:55
  SPEAKER_00: It's really good.
• 30:56
  SPEAKER_00: If you can find like a good source of almonds that isn't expensive, go ahead.
• 31:00
  SPEAKER_00: You just might have to remove the skins if you want it to be really like nice and creamy.
• 31:04
  SPEAKER_00: Um, another thing I'm gonna note about my favorite, I swear, guys, this is not sponsored by milk.
• 31:08
  SPEAKER_00: I swear, like maybe 2021, let's manifest a sponsorship by milk, but then, but for example, like one cup of mulk is not that I count calories, but a hundred calories.
• 31:16
  SPEAKER_00: And if you compare that to the normal like carton almond milks, those are normally like oh 30 calories per serving.
• 31:23
  SPEAKER_00: So it's a much denser, like higher quality, richer milk.
• 31:27
  SPEAKER_00: Um, so which that's something that you can also do at home if you make your own.
• 31:30
  SPEAKER_00: You can make a nice, like more richer, decadent, creamy almond milk that's gonna taste a lot more delicious in your recipes that doesn't have any of the gums or the stabilizers.
• 31:41
  SPEAKER_00: I have taken Bollardi and it helps with sugar withdrawals.
• 31:43
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, if you have candida or anything like that, that will help.
• 31:46
  SPEAKER_00: Are natural flavors actually natural?
• 31:49
  SPEAKER_00: Um, depending, it can be natural, but also natural is relative, and natural is a very loose term that unfortunately isn't regulated, so they can call almost anything like natural and get away with it.
• 32:02
  SPEAKER_00: Um, yeah, if that makes sense.
• 32:04
  SPEAKER_00: Like, and that can encompass like thousands of things, and they can also hide hundreds, if not thousands, of ingredients in the word natural flavor.
• 32:12
  SPEAKER_00: So natural flavors can mean like 50 more things that are in that item that you may not know.
• 32:18
  SPEAKER_00: On labels, what do they mean by natural flavors?
• 32:20
  SPEAKER_00: What is natural flavor?
• 32:21
  SPEAKER_00: So, natural flavors and products, like I was saying, can literally be hundreds of thousands of things.
• 32:26
  SPEAKER_00: Where you naturally never know what the natural flavors mean unless you reach out to the company and it's like, hey, what are the natural flavors in your product and where do you source them from?
• 32:36
  SPEAKER_00: And what is it unless they say you're honestly never gonna know, and they can get away with pretty much hiding anything in the natural flavors.
• 32:45
  SPEAKER_00: Is added sugar necessarily worse than the natural sugar, or are they basically the same?
• 32:50
  SPEAKER_00: That's actually a really good question.
• 32:51
  SPEAKER_00: Um, so with natural sugars, of course, there are more benefits to natural sugar.
• 32:56
  SPEAKER_00: So if we're comparing, like if they add white sugar versus if they use like dates in their bar, well, dates have things like iron, potassium, they have lots of minerals, so you're getting those benefits.
• 33:07
  SPEAKER_00: You're getting the glucose, yes, but you're getting those benefits versus the white sugar, you're not getting the benefits, and you're just getting the refined.
• 33:15
  SPEAKER_00: Also, natural means less refined, so anything that's not refined is always better at their most natural state.
• 33:21
  SPEAKER_00: Your body also understands it more.
• 33:24
  SPEAKER_00: So while it does break down to the same thing, your body doesn't respond because it understands, like, oh, this is a date, this is food.
• 33:32
  SPEAKER_00: Your body doesn't actually know what the powdery white stuff is.
• 33:36
  SPEAKER_00: Does that make sense?
• 33:37
  SPEAKER_00: So there's a difference in terms of like how your body understands how to break it down, and then you also get the benefits with the natural sugars, though they do, yes, both have glucose at the end of the day.
• 33:48
  SPEAKER_00: How much kombucha should you have a day?
• 33:50
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I wouldn't say there's like a much you should have in terms of like when I think of things as should have, that's like very medicinal to me.
• 33:56
  SPEAKER_00: Like you should have two liters of water.
• 33:58
  SPEAKER_00: I don't think there's any amount people should have of kombucha, but if you mean more of like a maximum, I would keep it to like half a bottle of like those synergy ones per day or a small glassful, like um, because I still have my cacao.
• 34:12
  SPEAKER_00: When I buy it, I have about like this much at a time in a glass.
• 34:16
  SPEAKER_00: I typically don't drink like a whole synergy in a day.
• 34:21
  SPEAKER_00: Hopefully that answers the question, Lauren.
• 34:23
  SPEAKER_00: Take a sip.
• 34:24
  SPEAKER_00: These are all fantastic questions, guys.
• 34:29
  SPEAKER_00: Any other things?
• 34:30
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, hi Elise.
• 34:33
  SPEAKER_00: Um, any other questions you guys have about the holidays or anything like that?
• 34:37
  SPEAKER_00: Any fun ideas for alcohol substitute during the holidays?
• 34:40
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, that's a fantastic question, Claus, because I do this all the time.
• 34:43
  SPEAKER_00: So I'm gonna near my fridge.
• 34:46
  SPEAKER_00: So I'm gonna show you guys.
• 34:47
  SPEAKER_00: I like these daydream drinks, they're like adaptogen drinks and they feel fun.
• 34:51
  SPEAKER_00: This one has Shizandra, Moringa, and ginseng.
• 34:55
  SPEAKER_00: Like, this is really fun.
• 34:56
  SPEAKER_00: They have so many of these like trendy drinks.
• 34:58
  SPEAKER_00: You can get things like La Croix and like muddle some like fresh cranberries and some LaCroix, put a sprig of like either mint or rosemary with some cranberries and la croix, and like you can have that, and other people can like spike their version.
• 35:13
  SPEAKER_00: You can always make like a basic drink, um, and then have like some people spike it and you not spike it.
• 35:19
  SPEAKER_00: You know, plain cranberry juice is actually really good.
• 35:22
  SPEAKER_00: It's not high sugar if you get plain cranberry as opposed to the cranberry concentrate, and it's actually quite tart.
• 35:30
  SPEAKER_00: You can add that in with some sparkling water, you know, put some cranberries on the top, put something green in it, like mint or rosemary, and you have this fun festive cocktail.
• 35:40
  SPEAKER_00: Um, you know, you can even like you can have a dairy-free eggnog, and then some people can spike it, and you have yours plain with just some like cinnamon on the top, um, you know, other alcohol substitutes.
• 35:52
  SPEAKER_00: There isn't actually an alcohol brand um called Seed Lip, which makes alcohol-free that tastes like alcohol.
• 35:59
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I don't have it often.
• 36:00
  SPEAKER_00: I honestly go for more just like having La Croix with fruit in it or cranberries, but they do have like, for example, vodka that is actually alcohol free that tastes like vodka or gin.
• 36:11
  SPEAKER_00: I know they have a gin option.
• 36:12
  SPEAKER_00: So if you're looking for more of like a true alcohol taste without the alcohol, those are really good, like an official brand by Seed Lip that obviously anyone can buy because it's alcohol free.
• 36:24
  SPEAKER_00: Um, you can do other things like a sparkling, you know.
• 36:29
  SPEAKER_00: I think also more like in terms of like the cocktail, is also making it in a fun glass.
• 36:34
  SPEAKER_00: So, for example, my friends, when they have wine or they have champagne in their wine glass, I put my kombucha, like I'll normally bring a kombucha to an event, like have a kombucha, or put some daydream or put some sparkling water with whatever it is in the wine glass as well.
• 36:48
  SPEAKER_00: And I cheers with them and I put it in a fun glass, so I'm not missing out with like a plain glass of water like this, like when everyone's cheersing.
• 36:56
  SPEAKER_00: Like, no, that's not fun, like that's not a vibe.
• 36:59
  SPEAKER_00: Who wants that?
• 37:00
  SPEAKER_00: So I make it fun.
• 37:01
  SPEAKER_00: So I have the glass with them and I put something in there, you know.
• 37:04
  SPEAKER_00: I have a fun drink that's cool and that's good and that feels good to me.
• 37:08
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and that way it's more of an experience, you're not even noticing the fact that you're not having alcohol per se.
• 37:14
  SPEAKER_00: Or, like I said, I think the a great thing to do is always having like the basis, and then people can spike their version if they want, but there's also a non-spiked version.
• 37:25
  SPEAKER_00: That's such a good question.
• 37:26
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, kombucha having a wine glass just feels nice.
• 37:29
  SPEAKER_00: Do you always avoid alcohol or do you have it occasionally?
• 37:31
  SPEAKER_00: Um, personally, I maybe like five times a year I have it, or like a wedding or a champagne, but like I would never like drink alone.
• 37:39
  SPEAKER_00: Um, usually it's like a special occasion champagne or like a wedding or a very big celebration.
• 37:46
  SPEAKER_00: Um, but that's because personally my liver um doesn't react to alcohol well.
• 37:50
  SPEAKER_00: And if I have like two drinks, I basically feel like hungover and sick.
• 37:54
  SPEAKER_00: Um that's just because I don't metabolize alcohol well personally.
• 37:57
  SPEAKER_00: So I tend to have like half a glass at max.
• 38:00
  SPEAKER_00: Um, but if you are someone who like obviously does metabolize it well and doesn't react to it like I do, I would always suggest like having a glass of water in between.
• 38:08
  SPEAKER_00: And something I actually started in my well-nourished program, which I'll briefly talk about now, is like the idea of conscious cocktails.
• 38:15
  SPEAKER_00: So making a conscious decision about it, like, do I want this?
• 38:19
  SPEAKER_00: Is this coming from a place where I want to escape?
• 38:22
  SPEAKER_00: I want to numb, or am I just having one glass intentionally, consciously, and bringing awareness?
• 38:28
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and then afterwards, like having, you know, a fun drink in a wine glass, etc.
• 38:35
  SPEAKER_00: That's always like I think about it.
• 38:36
  SPEAKER_00: I think about like conscious cocktails.
• 38:39
  SPEAKER_00: Best way to detox after drinking, activate charcoal.
• 38:42
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I actually would recommend charcoal before you even start drinking.
• 38:45
  SPEAKER_00: So two capsules of charcoal before you even start drinking will help you not even get to the point where you are hangover.
• 38:51
  SPEAKER_00: Um, so I always do two before.
• 38:53
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and I honestly use this like in university.
• 38:56
  SPEAKER_00: I actually used to drink a lot more in my undergrad.
• 38:59
  SPEAKER_00: So I would use this then.
• 39:00
  SPEAKER_00: So I can say for a fact it does work on more alcohol.
• 39:03
  SPEAKER_00: Um, it's only recently that I cannot metabolize it well.
• 39:07
  SPEAKER_00: So charcoal is really good, or Nux Valmica, which is a good homeopathic remedy.
• 39:11
  SPEAKER_00: If you put three pellets of that under your tongue um afterwards, that one's a good one.
• 39:15
  SPEAKER_00: But water is also good.
• 39:17
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and I would say those are the two main things activated charcoal, nox valmica, and water, but also like how much are you drinking that you need to do a big detox?
• 39:28
  SPEAKER_00: Does that make sense?
• 39:30
  SPEAKER_00: What made you become paleo?
• 39:32
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, that's a really good question.
• 39:33
  SPEAKER_00: So I was reacting to everything under the sun.
• 39:37
  SPEAKER_00: Um, when I first had severe leaky gut, I was intolerant to 180 foods.
• 39:42
  SPEAKER_00: Like I did the test, guys, and 180 things came out red.
• 39:45
  SPEAKER_00: Like I was left with potatoes, green vegetables, and like meat.
• 39:50
  SPEAKER_00: So, like that's basically my gut was so bad that I needed to heal that.
• 39:54
  SPEAKER_00: So I needed to remove all of those other things that made me feel shitty, that made me get bloated, that made me do all that kind of stuff.
• 40:01
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and once like I did that, I know, oh hey, I'm feeling better.
• 40:06
  SPEAKER_00: I'm not lethargic all the time, I'm not bloated all the time, I'm not tired all the time, I'm not anxious all the time.
• 40:12
  SPEAKER_00: Like I used to struggle a lot with anxiety.
• 40:14
  SPEAKER_00: Like I would, I was crying all the time.
• 40:16
  SPEAKER_00: Like anyone who knows anxiety knows that like it feels literally like your world is ending and you can't control it.
• 40:22
  SPEAKER_00: And it feels like basically you're dying.
• 40:24
  SPEAKER_00: And it's crazy that food can do that, but that's also because the food we eat now isn't the food our grandparents used to eat, unfortunately.
• 40:32
  SPEAKER_00: So I don't really like labels as paleo.
• 40:35
  SPEAKER_00: I just I label things so other people know that it's paleo, or people know my videos, my recipes that it's paleo, so they know okay, it's free of all these things.
• 40:42
  SPEAKER_00: But I think about it more as like not putting things in your body that would cause it harm, if that makes sense.
• 40:49
  SPEAKER_00: So unfortunately, like that is paleo, but I don't think that should be just food.
• 40:53
  SPEAKER_00: Like to me, there shouldn't be like, oh, you're paleo, you just oh, you just eat food for health.
• 40:59
  SPEAKER_00: You know, even like I was in the grocery store, and I always think about this when I'm in the grocery store, at least in like the big box stores.
• 41:05
  SPEAKER_00: If you don't go to Whole Foods and you go to more of the big box, there's like everything else, and then there's like the the health food aisle or the natural food aisle.
• 41:14
  SPEAKER_00: Like, why is this like the how why is it not all the health food aisle?
• 41:18
  SPEAKER_00: Why is it not all the natural food aisle?
• 41:20
  SPEAKER_00: Like, what the hell is everything else in this store?
• 41:23
  SPEAKER_00: Like, that really makes you like aware that, like, oh my god, if it's probably not in these like two aisles, then like what is it?
• 41:30
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
• 41:31
  SPEAKER_00: Um, in terms of like the packaged area, obviously the produces and all those, but in the terms of the packaged aisle, like, okay, what is everything else then?
• 41:37
  SPEAKER_00: If this is the health food and this is the natural food, everything should be like natural and health food.
• 41:43
  SPEAKER_00: There should just be that's what food is, because food is medicine.
• 41:46
  SPEAKER_00: Food has the power to turn on and turn off genes.
• 41:49
  SPEAKER_00: It can heal you or it can harm you.
• 41:51
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and so that's kind of my two cents on that.
• 41:55
  SPEAKER_00: Is gluten bad for all people and thoughts on grains?
• 41:57
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, Kelsey, you have so many good questions.
• 42:00
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I could go on a riff about gluten for like 20 minutes.
• 42:03
  SPEAKER_00: So I am gonna direct people and I'll list it in the description.
• 42:06
  SPEAKER_00: I have a whole episode on gluten and grains, so I'm gonna direct people there.
• 42:11
  SPEAKER_00: Um, but basically, studies have actually proven that whether you are celiac, whether you are intolerant, or whether you are the people who tell me I don't react to gluten, like they they say they have no reaction, when you look at it on a biological, physiological level, they end up reacting.
• 42:27
  SPEAKER_00: So when you look at the cells and they've looked at the cells, it causes leaky junctions on everybody, on everyone.
• 42:33
  SPEAKER_00: You're not special.
• 42:35
  SPEAKER_00: It's not like, oh, some people it'll make it leaky, but some people it won't.
• 42:38
  SPEAKER_00: But there is a degree to like some people get it quicker than other people.
• 42:42
  SPEAKER_00: So when you think about, oh, Uncle Larry smoked cigarettes for 10 years and then didn't uh get cancer and like until you know he was about to die, but someone who was smoking for two years did, that's how I think about gluten is like, sir, some people will get sick faster.
• 42:56
  SPEAKER_00: Like I, you know, got sick in my undergrad.
• 42:58
  SPEAKER_00: Some people may not feel it so they're 50, but it still causes the damage.
• 43:02
  SPEAKER_00: And other people also tend to forget that you can react to gluten but not have digestive symptoms.
• 43:08
  SPEAKER_00: You can have depression, anxiety, brain fog, joint pain, all these other things that aren't gut systems.
• 43:15
  SPEAKER_00: So when people think, oh, I'm not bloated, I'm like, okay, but do you have any of these other things?
• 43:20
  SPEAKER_00: So um, yeah, go back and listen to that episode, I would say, on gluten, but that's why gluten is a big no-no.
• 43:25
  SPEAKER_00: What made you start a podcast?
• 43:27
  SPEAKER_00: Because I feel like Instagram stories are too short, and I could ramble, like I've been rambling for the past 43 minutes, and how I ramble in my other ones on so many health topics.
• 43:35
  SPEAKER_00: And like, you know, I've gone to, I did a degree in psychology, I've gone to med school for four years.
• 43:39
  SPEAKER_00: I have so much knowledge that is just way too much to share on Instagram stories, or people get like they just don't tune in for that many stories.
• 43:48
  SPEAKER_00: Like stories are 15 seconds long, right?
• 43:50
  SPEAKER_00: Like, no one's gonna sit there for half an hour and watch that many stories.
• 43:52
  SPEAKER_00: So this allows me to go on riffs and tangents, and also because I seem to get the same questions over and over and over again.
• 44:00
  SPEAKER_00: So it allows me to explain these things once.
• 44:02
  SPEAKER_00: And then when people DM me being like, oh, what is it about gluten?
• 44:06
  SPEAKER_00: I just copy and paste in the podcast episode.
• 44:08
  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, here, listen to this.
• 44:09
  SPEAKER_00: Or like hormones.
• 44:10
  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, okay, go listen to this.
• 44:12
  SPEAKER_00: Sugar, okay, go listen to this.
• 44:13
  SPEAKER_00: And it gives you guys a lot of information in a way that like you can listen to it when you're doing dishes or on the way to school or work or when your kids are around, everything like that.
• 44:23
  SPEAKER_00: And you get all this information in a really easy way.
• 44:26
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, me too.
• 44:28
  SPEAKER_00: What made you become interested in health and nutrition?
• 44:30
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I've actually always been interested in health.
• 44:32
  SPEAKER_00: I used to have this book called The Big Body Book when I was little.
• 44:36
  SPEAKER_00: I was like seven years old.
• 44:37
  SPEAKER_00: I remember this.
• 44:37
  SPEAKER_00: It was one of those giant books.
• 44:38
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know if you guys remember those.
• 44:40
  SPEAKER_00: They were big, giant books, and I was always interested in anatomy and health, and I wanted to become a doctor.
• 44:44
  SPEAKER_00: So I was like, gonna become an MD.
• 44:47
  SPEAKER_00: I wrote the MCATS, um, I applied to med school.
• 44:50
  SPEAKER_00: Um, but through my own health issues, I just felt so dismissed by all MDs.
• 44:55
  SPEAKER_00: I went there and like they ran tests.
• 44:56
  SPEAKER_00: They're like, you're normal, you're fine.
• 44:58
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm like, okay, but I'm having heart palpitations, my gut health is horrible, I do not have enough energy to get out of bed in the morning.
• 45:06
  SPEAKER_00: And in undergrad, like, you need energy to get through exams, let alone to get out of bed.
• 45:10
  SPEAKER_00: And then I didn't feel listened to.
• 45:11
  SPEAKER_00: And then a friend recommended I went to go see a naturopath.
• 45:14
  SPEAKER_00: And so I was like, you know what?
• 45:15
  SPEAKER_00: Like, I tried everything.
• 45:17
  SPEAKER_00: I'm being dismissed by my normal family doctor.
• 45:19
  SPEAKER_00: I don't have anything to lose at this point.
• 45:21
  SPEAKER_00: And I went in and it felt like somebody listened to me.
• 45:25
  SPEAKER_00: They didn't spend 15 minutes with me telling me I'm fine and shoving me out the door.
• 45:28
  SPEAKER_00: They sat with me for that hour.
• 45:30
  SPEAKER_00: They not only listened to me, but told me like what you were experiencing is real, and I can help you, and I can get to the bottom of this, and we can do something about it.
• 45:39
  SPEAKER_00: And that's what made me being like, I felt like the clouds parted, and I was like, I cannot go to med school.
• 45:44
  SPEAKER_00: Like, this is the kind of doctor I want to be.
• 45:46
  SPEAKER_00: I want to be a naturopath because I want to help people like not only feel heard and understood, but also like get to the issue of what the thing is.
• 45:54
  SPEAKER_00: Versus, you know, if you go to an MD when you have a headache, they're like, oh, here, here's some neuroxin, take that.
• 45:59
  SPEAKER_00: But I want to be like, okay, but why are you getting the headache?
• 46:01
  SPEAKER_00: Like, let's stop the headaches instead of you just taking the proxin, which is gonna be hard in your liver, destroy your gut, and lead to a whole bunch of other things.
• 46:09
  SPEAKER_00: So that's kind of how I became interested and kind of why I went into it.
• 46:13
  SPEAKER_00: Favorite type of alternative medicine you've tried?
• 46:17
  SPEAKER_00: Ooh.
• 46:18
  SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna say energy, I wanna say energy medicine, but I don't feel there's so many different streams of energy medicine.
• 46:25
  SPEAKER_00: Like I like Reiki.
• 46:26
  SPEAKER_00: I do love actually, no, I have to say acupuncture.
• 46:29
  SPEAKER_00: Acupuncture has a special, special place in my heart.
• 46:33
  SPEAKER_00: I really adore acupuncture.
• 46:35
  SPEAKER_00: Um, it kind of to me combines the physical with the energetic because in acupuncture, you basically put the needle in until you find the qi channel, which is like your qi, your life force.
• 46:46
  SPEAKER_00: Um, but it also combines physical because it's a physical needle going in.
• 46:49
  SPEAKER_00: So I think it's the best combo of like Eastern theory and Western kind of put into one because you can do acupuncture for things like muscle release and like you know, put it in your traps and you you feel the muscle release, but you can also do it for like your liver, your digestion, and everything like that.
• 47:06
  SPEAKER_00: Um would you recommend CCNM?
• 47:11
  SPEAKER_00: Ooh, Elise, I feel like we should.
• 47:13
  SPEAKER_00: I don't like to say negative things on my podcast, so I feel like we should have a separate conversation about that.
• 47:19
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I recommend naturopathic medicine.
• 47:24
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I'm gonna leave it at that.
• 47:26
  SPEAKER_00: We can talk about the school I went to in another one.
• 47:29
  SPEAKER_00: Um, yeah, we'll talk about that in a separate one.
• 47:32
  SPEAKER_00: What was something memorable you learned during your time that wasn't in class?
• 47:37
  SPEAKER_00: I feel like the most memorable things that I learned, I probably wasn't in class.
• 47:41
  SPEAKER_00: It was from doing my own research, my own research in PubMed, my own um I think, you know, the most memorable thing is when I had patients, and I feel like it had come full circle because I had had a patient come back to me and we were fixing her thyroid naturally, and she just started bawling and she's like, Thank you for listening to me.
• 48:04
  SPEAKER_00: She's like, I feel seen, I feel heard.
• 48:07
  SPEAKER_00: The doctors were dismissing me and told me there's nothing that they could do for me that I just had to live this way with the because she was hypothyroid with the fatigue and the weight gain and everything like that.
• 48:15
  SPEAKER_00: She's like, and now I'm not tired and I'm losing weight and I feel amazing and I can run around with my kids.
• 48:20
  SPEAKER_00: And I was like, wow, like this is memorable because this has come full circle.
• 48:23
  SPEAKER_00: Like, what?
• 48:24
  SPEAKER_00: I was her sitting there, and now I've gone through this program.
• 48:27
  SPEAKER_00: I sat with a patient, and now it's her, and it was about to me, and I still remember her face, and I'll always remember her because it was like I have now brought her full circle.
• 48:35
  SPEAKER_00: So I think that was honestly the the most memorable experience.
• 48:39
  SPEAKER_00: Um, in your well-nourished program, could you do the program even if your lifestyle is vegan?
• 48:43
  SPEAKER_00: Yep.
• 48:43
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I think there's th two or three vegans who have one vegan in the program and two of them who have been through the program that's vegan.
• 48:51
  SPEAKER_00: It's actually really good if you're vegan because it teaches you how to get proper um amino acids and proper protein.
• 48:57
  SPEAKER_00: A lot of the time when people go vegan, they end up um just eliminating protein and going things like just eating pasta and everything like that.
• 49:04
  SPEAKER_00: And unfortunately, you do need protein for like essential amino acids for hormones, gut health, and everything like that.
• 49:09
  SPEAKER_00: So I would say you actually learn how to become a healthier vegan because you learn how to get all your essential amino acids.
• 49:16
  SPEAKER_00: My first time as a functional medicine doctor, I was shocked that she wanted to have a two-hour convo.
• 49:21
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it's because you need the full puzzle picture, right?
• 49:24
  SPEAKER_00: You need all of that.
• 49:26
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, guys, we're gonna bring this to a close.
• 49:29
  SPEAKER_00: It was fun getting to chat and like answer live questions.
• 49:32
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I'm gonna do more of these in the future.
• 49:34
  SPEAKER_00: There was kind of like a technical mishap.
• 49:36
  SPEAKER_00: The email didn't go out to everyone, apparently.
• 49:39
  SPEAKER_00: Um, so that's why like everyone didn't get the email to come tonight.
• 49:43
  SPEAKER_00: So, but I'm glad we have this small, kind of short, intimate group, and that you guys came and hung out.
• 49:48
  SPEAKER_00: And if you have any questions, you can always ask me in the DMs.
• 49:50
  SPEAKER_00: You guys ask a lot of good ones, but yeah, my DMs are always open.
• 49:53
  SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna finish my cacao.
• 49:54
  SPEAKER_00: I actually have another reading in 10 minutes, another cost of reading.
• 49:58
  SPEAKER_00: Um, so yeah, I really appreciate all your guys' support and coming and asking questions and just being just being awesome.
• 50:05
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm gonna host, I know a lot of you guys wanted another cacao ceremony.
• 50:09
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I don't know if I can squeeze one in for the new moon.
• 50:14
  SPEAKER_00: So I for the full moon, that can I can definitely do, but for the new moon, I don't know.
• 50:18
  SPEAKER_00: Um actually I can announce it because by the time you're hearing this, this will go out.
• 50:22
  SPEAKER_00: But I'm getting a puppy on Saturday.
• 50:24
  SPEAKER_00: So because the new moon is Monday and I'm becoming a fur mama on Saturday, I don't want to commit to knowing how to have a puppy and run a like a cacao ceremony at the same time.
• 50:35
  SPEAKER_00: So I want to adjust to like puppy life and then have a cacao ceremony.
• 50:39
  SPEAKER_00: So that's why um the new moon might be a bit difficult, but yeah, I appreciate oh, a golden retriever, guys.
• 50:46
  SPEAKER_00: She's so she's adorable.
• 50:48
  SPEAKER_00: Like I've been, I've wanted a puppy since I was seven years old, and I've been waiting until well, A, you know, puppies are expensive, but B, a big enough house for her because I didn't want to put her in a small, like one-bedroom apartment and have her basically not be able to run around.
• 51:03
  SPEAKER_00: She is a larger dog, obviously.
• 51:05
  SPEAKER_00: So it's not like I'm getting a small dog, which would be okay in like a one-bedroom.
• 51:08
  SPEAKER_00: So I wanted her to have room.
• 51:10
  SPEAKER_00: Um, so yeah, I'm really excited because I've I've wanted one since I was seven years old, ever since Full House.
• 51:14
  SPEAKER_00: I really think it was full house that made me want a golden retriever.
• 51:17
  SPEAKER_00: So it was on my vision board all year, and I feel like it's really coming true in 2020.
• 51:20
  SPEAKER_00: So I'm really excited.
• 51:22
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, actually, I was talking to Nicole from Health Not Nutrition like about puppies like a couple days ago, about like essential oils around puppies.
• 51:29
  SPEAKER_00: I actually bought the pet food that she uses because I asked her about pet food.
• 51:33
  SPEAKER_00: I basically asked her five million questions, even though she has a newborn and she's really helpful.
• 51:37
  SPEAKER_00: So yeah, I love Nicole.
• 51:39
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, guys, thank you so much for hanging out.
• 51:41
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I really appreciate it.
• 51:42
  SPEAKER_00: I appreciate each one of you.
• 51:44
  SPEAKER_00: And um, oh yeah, okay, sure.
• 51:46
  SPEAKER_00: DM me about essential oils around pets because I feel like it's conflicting information.
• 51:49
  SPEAKER_00: But yeah, I appreciate that, Lauren.
• 51:50
  SPEAKER_00: So please do.
• 51:51
  SPEAKER_00: Oh yeah, thank you guys for hanging out, and I will talk to you guys soon.
• 51:55
  SPEAKER_00: Bye.