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Hormone Health: Fatigue & Healing Naturally with Brittany Cano | Ep 23 · Two Girls and a Cup of Wellness

• Crissy Florio: Hello everyone and welcome back for another Two Girls in a Couple Wellness podcast interview. This is Chrissy. And I'm Marie. And today we have the lovely Brittany Cano. Welcome Brittany. Brittany Cano: Thank Ladies, it's so good to be here with you. Hey everybody who's listening. Crissy Florio: Yeah, I'm very excited about this interview and conversation more so. It's never really an interview, I guess, but conversation because Brittany and I go way back. ⁓ It's been a really long time since we first met, probably like 12. Brittany Cano: Yeah, I think around 12 years. You came to my first, when I first became a trainer, you were always so loving and came to my classes and were so supportive. was like, ⁓ good, a friendly face is always so nice. So it's been over 10 years. Crissy Florio: Aw. Yeah, yeah. And so, and I've been on, you know, kind of been on your end doing a little chatting about my journey. And we are just honored for you to come on and talk about your journey a little bit and, you know, what's going on in the world of Britney. So let's kind of just back up a little bit. Why don't we give our audience just a little background of who you are and, you know, what you do now, what got you to the place of being able to be on our show with us and being so interesting and amazing. Brittany Cano: So my name's Brittany Cano. I would describe myself as a small town girl with big dreams. And the reason I say that today is because on Sunday with my mom, we found all these old journal entries that she saved from when I was a teenager. And just like reading through those were hilarious. I'm from a town of... Crissy Florio: Aww. Brittany Cano: maybe 30,000 in the neighboring town, but in my high school, like 45 people, I always had this big dream. I live in New York City. I'd be this city girl and I'm not a city girl. Like I love to travel, but I'm so not a city person. I finally embraced that in my twenties. After I moved to Florida, my background is in nursing. I always knew I wanted to be in a caring slash wellness field, but when I got into nursing, it wasn't quite as wellness focused as I had hoped. So that really led me to start my business, which is so focused on lifestyle medicine, helping people live well, feel well. And it wasn't only inspired from my background working in ICU and seeing people there who... were there a lot of people in my ICU at the time were there for preventable disease. was also inspired to start my business because I used to just have so many ailments mentally, emotionally, physically, and I didn't really know how to get out of my own way until I discovered life coaching. And so once I learned, I... and the co-creator of my life, everything changed for me and I wanted to help other people who wanted to learn how to harness the power of their mind and their actions do the same. So now I'm in the wellness space, I'm married, I've been married, we just had our 10 year anniversary and we love to travel and we're really into this thing called hyrox right now, which is a metabolic conditioning race. Crissy Florio: Congrats. ⁓ wow. Tell us about that. I've never heard of that. Brittany Cano: So fun. So it's eight kilometer runs and split up in between our different stations. like a ⁓ sled push, sled pull, like wall balls, the row machine, the ski, or eight different stations and it's timed. But it's a international race. It originated in Germany, I believe back in 2017. But now they're like all over. the rural and so we just did Miami, we're gonna do Tampa in October and maybe we'll do one internationally next year, but it's so fun, so fun. Crissy Florio: so fun and you do it together. Yeah. Sorry. Brittany Cano: Well, I thought we were doing it together. He pulled me up and was like, our friend Brandon signed us up for this. And I looked it up and I'm like, oh, I can't believe he signed us up for this. How cool is that? Not realizing he signed Brandon and him up, not me. So I was like, oh, I'm doing this thing. And so that led me, they did it as partners, doubles, and that led me doing singles by myself. So. Crissy Florio: Yeah. Brittany Cano: They did the dispartners, I was by myself. And my husband's asked me if I wanted to do it with him for the next one, but you have to do the men's weight, which is way heavier than the women, and I don't think I'm going to do I don't think I want to do that. Crissy Florio: How much running do you do in between? Brittany Cano: I run like, I did have marathon this year, but typically I only run around like five miles at a time. It helps to be a runner with that. It's a lot of running. Like I've definitely got strength for it. You don't have to be. There's people that aren't runners and do it, but it's a lot of running. Crissy Florio: Mm-hmm. Yeah. That sounds intense. The intensity. Yeah. Wow. That's pretty impressive. Good for you guys. Brittany Cano: It's one of my favorite broad jobs. So I'm working on my mindset of like, ⁓ I can do these. These are hard, but I like it because it's, Yeah, exactly. Crissy Florio: Yeah. Intense, right? The challenge. So tell us about what's going on in the coaching world and what you're kind of seeing today, in today's time, of what are some of the common denominators of, or common factors, I guess you could say, of... like why they're coming to you? What are they seeking? What are some of the underlying types of- So symptoms or why patients are coming to you? I can't talk today apparently. Brittany Cano: I work a lot with women. I have a few fellows I work with. I primarily work with women who are at this crossroads a lot of times where whatever they've been doing isn't working. Most of them have been in a caregiver role, whether it's they've been so focused on their career or so focused on their family that as a result they've kind of lost their own personal identity and neglected their own health, which can be easy to do. You don't even realize you're doing it a lot of times. At least that's been my experience in the past. Crissy Florio: Yeah. Brittany Cano: And so they want to focus on their health and they also want to focus on how they feel emotionally and mentally. There a lot of women who come to me personally are very self-critical and want to change that relationship with themselves. back in the summer, I started seeing that what a huge need there was for metabolic health. A lot of the people that I work with as a result of working a lot, taking care of family, our American lifestyle, right? Our food quality isn't... that great, it's easy to be sedentary and I think people are, you know, receiving a huge toxic load just from living in a modern society and stress is high. So I was seeing a lot of people struggling like with energy, brain fog, hormonal disruption, gain, stubborn weight gain, difficulty sleeping, like all of these like symptoms. So I brought peptides into my practice, which has been a great tool as well. So usually that's the... the reason people come to me either for their physical health, like things aren't working how they used to be, or they're at that crossroads and really in this identity place of like, wait, who am I now that the kids are out of the house or I'm kind of getting fed up with my job or I retired. Crissy Florio: Yeah. New season of life, right? Trying to figure out who you are. So what are, if you look at, I guess like a common theme, what are the pillars? Like you said, nutrition, sleep. Do you have like an, a wheel of what you focus on with your patients? Brittany Cano: Yeah. I do. I focus a lot on mindfulness. That's a huge piece of the work I do with people is mindfulness of bringing presence, right, to whatever they have going on and loving presence, bringing that curious mind. And under mindfulness is really self-compassion because like I said, of us are really critical. so self-compassion is such a huge, beautiful piece to not only change our relationship with ourselves, but how we create our habits, how we navigate the world, how we see the world. I love self-compassion. I could speak on that the rest of the podcast, but it really does, I believe like self-compassion is a superpower. makes the world a better place when we have that self-compassionate approach, because a lot of women are already compassionate to other people, not so much to themselves. So that's a piece of it. Another piece is nervous system regulation. I find that, Crissy Florio: That's a huge one. Brittany Cano: when you're dysregulated, if somebody, most of the people that come to me will be like in sympathetic nominance, so they're in that survival mode, fight, flight, go, go, go, go, go, and then crash, kind of like their patterns. And so when that is, you know, we have a lot of unprocessed trauma, that dysregulation makes everything hard. And I learned that during the pandemic, like it's really hard to create healthy habits and have them stick, like it's no wonder. Crissy Florio: Mm-hmm. Brittany Cano: I'll start on Monday, I'll start on Monday, becomes a theme when you just don't have the capacity from a biological standpoint when the nervous system is so dysregulated. So nervous system regulation. And also you mentioned nutrition, nutrition movement. Like those I think are essentials, right? You have to move your body and nutrition really plays such a huge role in our overall wellness and sleep. And then looking at relationships too. I usually will work, I work with Crissy Florio: Mm-hmm. Brittany Cano: usually. I work with people through my holistic models of biopsychosocial spiritual. So we look at the physical piece of health, mentally, emotional, social, which would be relationships, work, hobbies, and then spirituality, however people define that for themselves. Crissy Florio: Mm-hmm. And I would think that with nutrition and movement, that's probably the easiest for people to kind of start to connect to rather than, I mean, not like, it's not just, well. No, is. like, I mean, I think that nutrition is so simple, right? Because I eat healthy all the time, but. Brittany Cano: What? Crissy Florio: maybe coming into this space, like your space, Brittany, those people are willing to put the work in, but in like a primary care setting, to get them to change their diet I mean more so instead of thinking about the self-compassion, like that to a lot of people may be a harder concept to grasp. know, people hear all the time, ⁓ we gotta eat right, we gotta move our bodies. They are kind of, that overall theme is more common and Right. Talked about a lot more rather than self-compassion, which is so important, right? But we are starting to hear more about like the nervous system regulation. We hear that a lot now. And then now we're starting to hear a lot about like the hormone. And it may be because we are women of a certain age that are entering into that era, right? Of the perimenopause talk, the menopause talk, the hormonal changes, the belly bloat, all of the things, right? we're starting to hear that more and then the peptides word is so popular right now. think people are getting more aware of the chemical exposure because that's a big hormone disruptor as well. So I hope at least. Yeah, yeah. And it all matters. But yeah, that was just my thought of like for people to grasp the idea and understanding like I got to change my eating habits and I need to move my body. Most people understand that more so. Is it easy? No. because change in itself is not easy. But I love how you look at everything as a whole, right? And you're like looking at all of these specific themes of what make us who we are, right? To today and what's gonna be easier for change. So you're kind of hitting on all of the things that's so important for that change to actually occur and then stick. Brittany Cano: No, yeah, I think it's hard for her. In the beginning, was like, okay, exercise nutrition. And then I realized, ⁓ there's a huge gap. A majority of people have an idea of what to do, but to actually put it into practice is where they have a really hard time. so was right now, know, nutrition education, this was before chat GBT, it's so much easier. So it took a lot of time and you know, we're coming up with these. Crissy Florio: Yeah. Brittany Cano: plans and people were like, yeah, I'm not doing it. So that's where I was like, oh, hold on, I'm missing a big piece of the puzzle here. So I think that's where life coaching mindset, all of that motivational interviewing, understanding what makes somebody tick and get them inside their own head. Like what's going to work for them is so important because while it's simple, like you said, it is also super hard for so many people. Crissy Florio: Yeah. It's super hard. But thank you. I can't, I've written out so many meal plans and I was like, if I type this darn smoothie one more time and I'm like, okay, chat, bring in my blueberry cherry smoothie with spinach and this person doesn't like salmon and it will do a great meal plan. Brittany Cano: It's insane how great the public can be, but it's so great to have the background that both of you have, right? can look and say, hold on, this is kinda weird. This doesn't make sense. Crissy Florio: Right, right, right, right. I needed the information. All right, so let's talk about peptides. know, I mean, I've done GLPs in primary care for weight loss, but I don't know much about them other than copper for my skin, which I put on with some estrogen cream, but I don't know a lot about it. And I feel like it's such kind of a scary for me. It's overwhelming. It's scary. know patients want it from me and I'm such a, I need to take class. need a certification. I need to see all the research, you know. Brittany Cano: Yeah, I'm going to make it simple because there's so many peptides and there's new peptides all the time. I'm going take it to the basics and then talk about things that are essential that people listening, if they're even considering looking into peptides and top things that they need to be aware of and know because it is a emerging field in many ways and there are a lot of nuances. Crissy Florio: What is peptide? Yeah, what does a peptide do? Brittany Cano: So let me begin. So there's short chain amino acids, which were made up of amino acids. And there's specific ones that turn on messengers, like message healing mechanisms in the body. You mentioned the GLP-1s, they've been around, you we've known about them for a long time now. Yeah, they've been widely studied. And so that, the GLP-1, for example, works to stabilize blood sugar, works to keep you fuller longer, works to... ⁓ Crissy Florio: Forever, yeah. Brittany Cano: that craving mechanism, there's like so many other things, kinds of things. And now they're always like, feel like they're identifying new peptide chains all of the time. So they have specific healing mechanisms. The way I look at it is a lot of people come with symptoms, so they have different symptoms. I look at peptides as a tool. You need to be optimizing all of the other foundations, your nutrition, your sleep, your stress, your hydration, your movement. Crissy Florio: Mm-hmm. Brittany Cano: decreasing toxic load, not drinking alcohol and smoking all the time in order to really get the best from this. I think they can be great tools. Like I'm sure you've probably seen this on so many. Crissy Florio: Mm-hmm. benefit. Right. Well, same with the GLP-1. If you're not going to stop eating Chick-fil-A, please don't inject yourself with Wigovia every week. You what I mean? You have to get through. Right. Right. Brittany Cano: Right, it's a tool, but it's not creating an environment. It's only going to do so much. And so that's how I really look at them. And then here's the thing with peptides. Some of them don't have human studies. So that's another thing, a of the practitioner that you want to be aware of. some of them, like most of them, I think you can be, are safe. Like generally speaking, most peptides are safe when given within these recommended ranges. Crissy Florio: Mm-hmm. Brittany Cano: Now, we don't know how safe they are when you're 12 different peptides at the same time, right? People do stacks, I'll take multiple. So I really think, like, my train of thought is make sure they're medically supervised, that you're working with a medical provider. Because in the peptide world, you can get research-grade peptides that are made in a lab, but a lab could be a greenhouse. A you don't know. Crissy Florio: No, you can get them. I know. Yeah. And that's what makes me worried. And people are like, oh, I'm taking this peptide and I'm buying it from China. And I'm like, who's prescribing it? And they're like, just ordered it online. I think, oh my goodness, that makes me nervous. Yeah. Brittany Cano: Here's the thing that I find a lot too, because people will come to me, you've been doing that and I want to, you know, okay, I think I should do this, not as a supervised, I think I should make sure I'm doing this safely. When it comes to like reconstitution, a lot of people are like, I take 50 units, which that doesn't tell me anything, right? That you know that. As a medical student, 50 units could be one milligram, it could be 40 milligrams, it could be 100 milligrams. What is... Crissy Florio: Mm-hmm. Right. Yep. Right. Brittany Cano: units and people don't even understand a lot of times if they don't have the background in medication or haven't read up to know the dosing. So that is I think a really big area where people could run into potential issues. So making sure you're supervised is important. Making sure you have lab work within the past year because some of the peptides like BPC157, I'm going to talk more about like some of the things. Crissy Florio: Mm-hmm. Yes, I've heard about that one. have heard about that one. ⁓ Brittany Cano: Great, that's why I got into peptides. It's like so great for recovery. It helps with the gut. It's good for any injuries. When combined with TB 500, it helps with neuro protection. But we don't have a lot, I don't even know if have any solid human studies. And so in how it helps with recovery, if you have a recent cancer diagnosis, my medical providers are not gonna clear somebody. But then we have. Crissy Florio: Mm-hmm. Brittany Cano: You know, and it might be okay if you just don't have the research, but we have a lot of people who don't even know that that is a potential area you might want to avoid taking BPC because they've ordered it from the lab potentially. And so maybe there's probably a huge amount of people who've had cancer within the last five years and are taking this. And we don't know at this point what the long-term effects are. It could be okay, but we still just don't have the research. So that's why. Crissy Florio: Yeah. Mm-hmm. Brittany Cano: I'm a big advocate that it needs to be medically supervised. So you have your lab work review, you have your medical history reviewed. know what you're taking and why you're taking it. You know your dose is Yeah, your dosing is safe and that you're getting it at least from a compounding pharmacy that's accredited and has high standards. Crissy Florio: Mm-hmm. And you can look at all of the contraindications, right? Yes, very, very important. Third party tested accredited. Brittany Cano: Right. So that's something for people to know, like just off the top, right? There's, is a lot of gray area. can get, I've saw peptide pricing that I'm like, this is like cheaper than buying supplements from Walmart, like a bottle of like vitamin C, like the prices were so low, but you just don't really know what you're getting. And most peptides are going be injectable. There are some that you can take orally like Crissy Florio: Right. I was just about to ask that question. Are they injectable or? Brittany Cano: The BPC 157, if you're taking it for gut repair, you can take that one orally and it works really well. But a lot of them are going to break down in the GI tract and you're not going to get the same benefits. So you're injecting yourself. there is another, I mean, higher risk there potentially. again, why you want to make sure what you're doing is safe. It's, you know, regulated. It's under supervision. Crissy Florio: in it. Brittany Cano: And so, yeah, I can go through. Do you guys have any questions so far? Crissy Florio: fascinating. didn't realize, you know, I mean, I think when when the peptides talk started to come out, it was all about weight loss, right? And you started to see so many people doing them. And, know, you could tell right away. And that was like all the rage. But now realizing that there's so many other benefits to heal some of the symptoms that people are experiencing is really fascinating. Brittany Cano: they're amazing. I do think that they'll be the future. think it will take quite a while for research to, you know, catch up and for it to become really more regulated and safe, safe in that we have the research to back it up. Like I said, generally speaking, I think most peptides don't carry a ton of a ton of side effects. And when taken in what we've found these protocol Crissy Florio: Right. Brittany Cano: dosing are safe, generally speaking. Of course, there's always outliers and we still don't have. Crissy Florio: Yeah, I'm sure they're gonna continue with the research and I'm sure there's gonna be more more findings coming out and shifting and changing things, especially because it's new, even though they've been around forever, but it's kind of becoming a newer thing. Newer, it's, Yeah. Brittany Cano: Yeah, it's not a big one in mainstream because when I started talking about it, I was meeting people who were telling me they'd been taking peptides, injecting peptides for 10 years, different ones. Wow, I'm late here. Where have I been? But it did take me a while to actually bring them into my practice because, the research and there is still, you know, it's still emerging with all of the data and access to them, those kinds of things. Sometimes they're Crissy Florio: Yeah. Brittany Cano: available, sometimes they're not available. So yeah, the essential things are Crissy Florio: Yeah, that's confusing to me too because you can buy them from someone at the gym. I don't understand how that all works because it's so gray market, I guess. Brittany Cano: And it depends some states. You can get them and some states you technically can't. So there is a lot of information and nuances and it seems to be changing. It's always changing trying to, yeah. The reason I got into them was because of BPC 157 and TB 500 and just how great it is for recovery and for gut health. Crissy Florio: Mm-hmm. A lot, yeah. It is fascinating though. Brittany Cano: I was finding great reports from people post-op and athletes using them and that kind of thing. And the chiropractor, one of the chiropractors I worked with, he was interested in having it available for his patients. And so that's kind of really what put peptides on the map for me in combination with the GLP-1s, of course. And so I feel like those are one of my favorite peptides because really no side effects and... the way it helps people recover and reduces inflammation is amazing. Crissy Florio: And I heard, I read some reports that's really good for back pain, which is huge as you know, everybody has back pain. Brittany Cano: I had somebody who was different. Of course, I'm not making any medical plans. Everybody's different. But I had somebody who had done all the things for his back pain. And quickly after starting it, his back pain went away. I had another guy who had a rotator cuff tear. I'm sure he still has a degree of tear there, but his pain drastically decreased. I had tennis elbow. It completely went away. Some of my injuries from hiking and my knees definitely helped with the. Crissy Florio: Mm-hmm. Brittany Cano: inflammation reduction on that. I like my workouts, I just, somebody who's always sore, I've worked out now for a long time, but always super sore. Like my recovery time was so much better when I take it. Here's another thing to note with peptides is, and that I appreciate about it, is they don't have to be on them forever, typically. Some people will be on a GLT-1 forever. They have pathologic syndrome. They've been, you know, overweight or obese majority of their life. Like maybe they have Crissy Florio: Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm Brittany Cano: some chronic issue that they may be on a microdose or be on it inevitably. A lot of people won't be on it forever. But with the other peptides, you cycle through them. So you may be on them like eight to 12 weeks. You take two to four weeks off. You may decide to do another round or two. But generally speaking, you're not gonna just call instantly beyond peptides. Some people might. Like I said, there's some people who take 15. And I think to each their own. Crissy Florio: interesting. Yeah. you Brittany Cano: Mindset of like a lot of times less is more and when you start bringing in too many different things at once it's hard to say What's working? Interacting I think overall because the body recognizes them that like interaction isn't necessarily gonna be a major issue But there are peptides that do very similar things and so this is another thing if you're not working with somebody who's You know medically supervising Crissy Florio: What's working. Yeah. I up to patients all the time. Start slow. Brittany Cano: Or like there's people who are not medical and know way more about peptides than I do. Like I said, I've been on them for 10 years. I've studied them in depth. And so they may know, right? Like there's multiple ones that work with the growth hormone. You don't want to be on three or four different peptides that are targeting the growth hormone at the same time in different ways typically. So. ⁓ Crissy Florio: Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. How does peptides work with, like when you're talking about healing and recovery, how does it work with like the fascia? I know that BPC works with like 157. BPC-157 works with ligament repair. And I found that really interesting. So I gotta imagine it's somehow working with like the fascia as well in the connective tissue. Brittany Cano: It does work with the ligaments. There's like a whole cellular process. I've read about it. I've listened to it, but for me to restate like all the ways it works on the cellular level, I'm not really good at, you know. Crissy Florio: Yeah, yeah. Yeah, no, no, no, that's fine. just was as I was sitting here listening to you talking about like recovery and because I suffer from back pain, I've herniations and all that. ⁓ And it just it sparked to me of like, ⁓ the fascia and just how I understand the fascia system, you know, pretty well. But how that would help it would be interesting. I might do some research. Brittany Cano: Now, the BPC-500, which is a lot of times combined with the BPC, it's not always, it works on angiogenesis, so it does work on blood vessels in the hand, yeah, stimulating at the site of injury. Some people will give, like with that combination, they'll give it locally to the site of injury, and then some people are like, doesn't matter, it knows where to go with that. I can talk more about some other peptides too, because I know you mentioned GHKCU. Crissy Florio: that's stimulating. Brittany Cano: copper, pepsi. Crissy Florio: ⁓ I love it. I put on my face every night with estrogen. Yes. Yeah. ⁓ I need some of that. That's good. I need some of that. I need some help. Brittany Cano: Yeah, that way you can put on your skin and it's great for collagen, it's great for your hair, your skin, your eyebrows. Yeah, you can take that one by injection as well, or you can put it on. I did a round of it. I didn't notice that you were taking one round, but I think sometimes it can take multiple rounds. It's good if somebody has slow wound healing as well. Crissy Florio: I haven't tried that yet. Mm-hmm. Brittany Cano: GHKC you can be really weird for that. Or like if somebody's on a GLP-1 and they're losing rapid weight, which ideally we want you to lose slow, gradual weight. Not rapid weight. But if you know the skin changes that happen with weight loss, GHKC you can do one to combine with that. Another one that's really ⁓ popular, at least with the clients I work with, is Cermorallin. Crissy Florio: Yes. Right. Because you're going to lose. Mm-hmm. Brittany Cano: and it works on the pituitary gland to release growth hormone. And as we age, our growth hormone decreases. So people will report much better sleep. That was great for recovery as well. ⁓ Building muscle. They have like just better like able to build muscle like from their workouts and notice the difference in body composition and more. And I like that as opposed to taking growth hormone, just taking growth hormone because you're Crissy Florio: Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Brittany Cano: levels of growth hormone can go through the roof if you're taking growth hormone. But with peptides, it's stimulating this natural process to continue in your body. So there's more of a natural checks and balance that happens with peptides when taken safely, as opposed to just taking an external source of growth hormone. So that's one that's like very, very popular. NAD is not a peptide, it's a coenzyme, but it gets... lumped into the peptide group. Have you guys taken it? you guys have people on it? Crissy Florio: you No, but I've heard of NAD and I actually listened to a podcast interview a while back and I felt I found it fascinating also, but I have not dug into any of that myself, but I do hear, isn't that somewhat okay in the cancer world? Brittany Cano: think it depends which oncologist you ask to be honest. It's a coenzyme, it works on the mitochondria, it works on the energy center of the cell. It also helps repair DNA, lengthen telomeres. And like I said, it's involved in 500 different cellular processes. As we age, it decreases. So a lot of times people with brain fog, low energy, ⁓ really like NAD. It also has the anti-inflammatory effect, like a detox effect. Crissy Florio: Yeah. Yeah. Brittany Cano: So it can be good for people who need support with detox pathways. It's one like it can be given. I give it sometimes IV or intramuscular, but it's one of those that you really want to start slow. If you started too high intramuscularly or IV, people can get some pretty gnarly side effects of it because it's uncomfortable in higher doses, but also like rapid detox effects. So you want to be careful with it, but Crissy Florio: Hmm, interesting. Brittany Cano: A lot of people really enjoy the difference in their energy levels, their sleep, brain fog, focus. I even had somebody who was doing it, had chronic fatigue and she was like, I can see brighter colors after doing it as a couple doses IV. So it's really popular, I think again, we're still getting the research to back up all of these things with it. NAD. Crissy Florio: Wow. Wow. Hmm. Brittany Cano: I like to cycle people through it. think, you know, if you take it all the time, what I've read is that your body can start to just depend on that one. So it's good not to take it all the time long-term. can do cycles. Crissy Florio: Right, because our body actually produces it, right? But certain things, if you... remember one thing in particular, like the moment you have a drink, even just one beer, you completely deplete your NAD. Brittany Cano: Yeah, more than one, your testosterone and your growth hormone drop too, which is like discouraging for people. I think if you care about, know, long-term effects of that. I learned that on vacation once. I was like, Bummer. Yeah, and any, some people say they stick it orally, but most oral doses are really not doing a lot. You wanna do an M, M, N if you're gonna do a. Crissy Florio: Mm-hmm. Yeah. Yeah. Right. Brittany Cano: the NAD oral form, it's not exactly NAD, but the body's gonna use it better in NMN form versus the NAD oral. Crissy Florio: Mm-mm. So interesting. It's interesting. Yeah. OK. So people who are on the fence of peptides or no peptides, first of all, find a good provider, a medical person who has the knowledge, has the backgrounds, has the certifications to help you navigate it. Don't just go online and do your right and just buy them from anybody. Brittany Cano: You can also just be like, oh, I need this, I need that. Because there are so many benefits and people really rave about peptides. Now that you've never heard about peptides, you're going to see so much stuff about peptides and you're going be like, go down the peptide rabbit hole. Crissy Florio: Yeah. Well, it's the same thing as supplements though, too. When you really think about it, there are so many amazing supplements out there. But if you don't understand how your body processes them or detoxes them or receives them, absorbs it, then you could be just wasting money away and your body's not really getting the good benefit of it. Or there can be some contraindications and you're taking something, maybe you're taking two at the same time and they just work against each other, right? So it's the same thing with supplements. People should be really having somebody kind of help and guide them and educate them. The quality is a lot the place with supplements. the same thing with other gummies, you're just getting some good sugar and gelatin. When they test those and do trials and it's like the Berberine was one recently, a company did a white paper on it and the top five sellers of gummies and Berberine didn't even have. Brittany Cano: quality of the access supplements. Crissy Florio: the levels that they stated on the bottle. Just a nice gummy bear. Yeah. And they're tasty. They are. They're delicious because they're candy. So what other things do you have going on in your world? I know you have retreats that you do as well. you do a lot of Brittany Cano: I believe it. And that was the thing. That is true. Yeah. Oh, my goodness. Crissy Florio: You do a lot of amazing events around our area. But do you ever do anything like any of those events online? Because we have a lot of people, a lot of listeners all over. Brittany Cano: That is on the radar to do more online. I did a biohacking class a couple weeks ago online and I think I'll start to do more. We have a retreat next week. We don't have any other retreats planned this year. I would put a pause on it. I'm really focused on... this longevity metabolic reset programs that I'm working with people on now. So that's really my focus as far as work goes. Because like we talked about with peptides, I just really want people, whether you're on a GLP-1, thinking about getting on a GLP-1, interested in peptides, I know I already said this, but we just cannot ignore the essentials of lifestyle medicine. And I think that that we do. have the research on, look at the blue zones, you look at the places in the world where people are healthy, they're living 100 plus with quality of life, they're not taking peptides, of course their lifestyle is different than, know, the modern American, but they have these essential lifestyle pieces in that do add to our quality of life. And so that's something that I'm just so passionate about supporting people with. ⁓ If they... want to work with peptides or not that lifestyle medicine piece and how to live well and live long. I saw this 80 year old on a YouTube video the other day. She's doing triathlon and the interviewer was like, do you want to stop? And she was like, ⁓ I'm not going to stop. And so I was thinking about her because I have this idea, like I'm 40 now. I told you all about the high rocks and I'm going to do another one. Crissy Florio: Yeah. So great. Brittany Cano: in October and I'm like maybe after that maybe I should stop because normally this higher intensity workout might not be the best for my hormones and I'm like should probably just see how my body continues to respond. Here we have this 80 year old running 26.2 miles swimming I don't know how long and the bike ride is super freaking long and she's training every single day. It's incredible. Crissy Florio: Yeah. Wow. That's awesome. I love that. I know. There's nothing that makes me happier than driving around town and seeing, you know, older people walking or going to the gym and coming to yoga and all of these things. It makes me so, so happy. You have to move. just... Brittany Cano: Really, and what a blessed time to be alive and that we are living longer and we can have that quality of life. So I think that that's just, I think that's so awesome. And I think most people want that, but like, kind of like we touched on with eating well and exercising being hard to do. I think for a lot of people, it can be a challenge, but I really hope to be the bridge to make it simple, especially when you just stay consistent over time. Crissy Florio: Yeah. Brittany Cano: You're not going to start off obviously. ⁓ Crissy Florio: Yeah. Well, you just have to keep on doing what you're doing, Brittany, because research shows that when you have health coaches in your life, you will be consistent. Like that motivation, you know, keeps people going. That accountability is an accountability. accountability and... Brittany Cano: That's what got me going. I think that's how building a good job and somebody help you use your mind on a deeper level to draw out the desire, right, to like live long and live well and to get below, because we're so wired for survival and comfort, right? Like our brain is always going to be like, do the comfortable, easy thing. And if we just take it as like, ⁓ that's just the fact, that's just the news, we're going to just do the easy, comfortable thing. Crissy Florio: It's me. Yeah. Brittany Cano: I think you guys know, right? You're doing a podcast and that's not easy and you have your families and you have your wives and your careers, but you are able to like use your mind in a powerful way and say like, no, there's a bigger purpose. There's a bigger vision here. This is why I'm doing it. Even though I don't feel like it today, this is how I show up. You guys are both like epitome of health. So, you know, like that way that we can use our minds. I think coaches, we're good at helping you. Crissy Florio: Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Brittany Cano: get beyond the surface mind so that you can access your potential, which we all have. Crissy Florio: Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. It's just, yeah, shining the light on it, shining the light on everybody's light and that we all have a purpose here and that we also all have stuff too, right? Like you said, kind of under the surface, there's a lot of subconscious stuff that is holding us back from truly living the lives that we all are worthy of. And you're doing such a beautiful job of helping to bring that to light to so many people and just, you know, give them the permission, the space, the the platform to be able to move through some of that, heal some of that stuff, and then move into the newer versions and have that concept of longevity. We all want to live long, but we want to live long, like healthy and strong and happy and not just live long, just to live long, right? But live long in a very beautiful way. Blue sun. Yes. In Palm City. Brittany Cano: It's potentially can do it. Yeah Crissy Florio: Yeah, yeah, Marie's really like thinking about trying to do it. Brittany Cano: friend who's local and wants to do that I need to pair you two up. Crissy Florio: We should all get together and have like a Blue Zone planning meeting. Let's do it. Yes, I think we do. How old was the lady I met at church the other day? 108. 108 at church. They sang Happy Birthday to her and right after Mass, it ran up. I said, I got to take your picture because I think my oldest patient was 103 and he worked with Walt Disney. How cool is that? Yeah. Brittany Cano: Yeah, she was really one of the potential here with some of our communities who created a bulls-eye. ⁓ okay. My husband's grandpa lived in like a hundred and one he was going to collect his paycheck in town and Got like because he was still working at a hundred and one he was like a stubborn old man and somebody like bumped him and he fell and ended up with a TBI but like Living his life going to work doing this little thing Crissy Florio: That's awesome. It's having purpose, right? Having something to show up to life for, right? Whether that's people or work or volunteering or something, just having something to show up for is what's going to keep you living and thriving along with everything else that we on and talked about. Brittany Cano: Yeah, ⁓ yeah, the purpose is huge. Crissy Florio: Mm-hmm. Well, keep showing up in this world and living out your purpose because you do such a beautiful job and you always make everyone feel comfortable and seen and your knowledge is felt, right? It's like, feel when you're talking to us about all of these things. And it's not just education, it's not just schooling, but you have like this true, just energy about you that makes people feel really comfortable and seen and you know, just it's a gift. So thank you for sharing your gift with us. Brittany Cano: Thank you. I appreciate you. It's been so nice being here with both of you. Crissy Florio: Thank you, Brittany. Yes, thank you, my love. All right, until next time, guys. Thank you. Bye. Brittany Cano: Thank you.