Latest / The You Project / #1918 Hormones Are A F****r - Amelia Phillips
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Good, your bloody champions, welcome to another installming that you
- 0:02Speaker 1: projeck Tiffany and Cook's been away. She's been just wrapping
- 0:06Speaker 1: up awards all over, winning prizes, putting on frocks.
- 0:11Speaker 2: Very out of character.
- 0:13Speaker 1: Will come to the lovely Amelia in a moment, but
- 0:16Speaker 1: quickly we'll say hello, tiv, Hello.
- 0:19Speaker 3: Hi, and we're read high heels. Don't forget those bad
- 0:22Speaker 3: boys like a real woman.
- 0:24Speaker 4: I know, Hell, did you?
- 0:29Speaker 2: How did you feel in all of it?
- 0:30Speaker 1: How did you feel getting out of your boxing gloves
- 0:32Speaker 1: and your bloody, sweaty, stinky gym ware into a frock
- 0:37Speaker 1: and high heels.
- 0:38Speaker 4: I couldn't get enough of it. In the end, I
- 0:42Speaker 4: wore some sequins as well.
- 0:45Speaker 2: Fucking now, I'll call the cops and did you you
- 0:48Speaker 2: were looking for? You were looking for.
- 0:50Speaker 1: A cocktail dress? Did you end up going for a
- 0:53Speaker 1: cocktail jumpsuit or something?
- 0:55Speaker 3: Yeah? I wore the jumpsuit that I had for my
- 0:58Speaker 3: previous event. Because it's very stressful shopping.
- 1:01Speaker 4: Amelia, Is it stressful for you? Shopping?
- 1:04Speaker 5: It's such a shit job it is. I hate it.
- 1:07Speaker 6: I absolutely hate it, and I always end up ordering
- 1:11Speaker 6: too much stuff and half of it doesn't fit, and
- 1:14Speaker 6: then it's such a house sort to send it all back.
- 1:16Speaker 5: But I do love a jumpsuit.
- 1:18Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a good little silky black one. Thanks.
- 1:22Speaker 5: Yeah, they work well.
- 1:23Speaker 4: I have a complaint. Three buttons on the back of
- 1:25Speaker 4: your neck like a little chocol You've got to undo them.
- 1:28Speaker 3: To have wi Yeah, they have this little bit of
- 1:31Speaker 3: you can't.
- 1:32Speaker 4: I've had other people, strangers in the bathroom spending fifteen
- 1:37Speaker 4: minutes trying to de robe me so I can have WII.
- 1:40Speaker 6: Yeah, that's a little leakage accident waiting to happen, isn't it.
- 1:44Speaker 5: Oh my god, I'll be back.
- 1:46Speaker 1: I'll just go get a coffee, Like if anyone needs me,
- 1:50Speaker 1: I'll be in the hammock.
- 1:51Speaker 2: Don't let me get in the way.
- 1:53Speaker 5: Don't worry.
- 1:54Speaker 6: We're going there early, Craig, and we ain't we ain't
- 1:57Speaker 6: coming back.
- 1:58Speaker 1: Don't you two, Like for the first time in your life,
- 2:00Speaker 1: don't you too? Just wish you could, you know, just
- 2:03Speaker 1: zip down something at the front and for doush. Yeah,
- 2:06Speaker 1: and then so much easier, so much, so much, yeah,
- 2:10Speaker 1: so much easier.
- 2:11Speaker 6: Especially after four children. Gosh you really yeah, after four children,
- 2:16Speaker 6: the time between needing to go and actually going diminishes,
- 2:21Speaker 6: and so you got to know where those bathrooms are
- 2:23Speaker 6: and don't make me laugh too hard whatever you do.
- 2:26Speaker 2: Oh jeez, now now I'm going to be thinking about
- 2:29Speaker 2: that now.
- 2:30Speaker 1: Wow, I'm going to be honest to me, a jumpsuit
- 2:35Speaker 1: seems kind of like fancy overalls.
- 2:38Speaker 4: Yeah, it's cheating, but everyone thinks it's a dress. Oh,
- 2:41Speaker 4: you're not nice in your black dress. I'm not not
- 2:44Speaker 4: a dress winning.
- 2:46Speaker 1: Well and and they and will get to you emelily.
- 2:51Speaker 2: You probably think. And why the fact did they ask
- 2:53Speaker 2: me on this show. They haven't asked me a question.
- 2:56Speaker 6: If you want me for fashion advice, I'm just going
- 2:58Speaker 6: to hang up now because that's definitely not my area
- 3:01Speaker 6: of expertise on my zone of genius.
- 3:03Speaker 1: And now, tif you did? You did emty yourself in
- 3:06Speaker 1: a little slam. It's not slam poetry. It's kind of
- 3:11Speaker 1: almost like slam storytelling story slam.
- 3:15Speaker 2: Yeah, and of.
- 3:16Speaker 1: Course representing team Fatty Harps and Team Roll with the
- 3:20Speaker 1: Punches and Team TIV.
- 3:22Speaker 2: Of course you brought home the bacon.
- 3:24Speaker 4: Look, I'm partial to winning anything that I entered. I
- 3:27Speaker 4: went in strong. I do love a bit of competition.
- 3:31Speaker 1: Did you backstage just look at everyone else and go,
- 3:34Speaker 1: fuck you.
- 3:35Speaker 2: Did you just walk? Do you have a bit of
- 3:36Speaker 2: that energy? Yeah?
- 3:37Speaker 3: And I was like, I don't know if you're aware,
- 3:39Speaker 3: but I punched people in the face so it doesn't
- 3:42Speaker 3: go my way. And the prize was a solid chocolate microphone.
- 3:46Speaker 3: So these steakes got risen real high.
- 3:50Speaker 2: Oh god, do they know? Do they know that you?
- 3:52Speaker 2: Do they know about your addiction?
- 3:56Speaker 4: Yeah?
- 3:56Speaker 2: Exactly, the world knows. Are you competitive, Amelia?
- 4:00Speaker 6: Yes, Oh my gosh, and like really competitive even with
- 4:04Speaker 6: my own children, Like I won't let the three year
- 4:07Speaker 6: old win, you know what I mean.
- 4:10Speaker 2: I'm pretty still that's child abuse. I didn't know that
- 4:13Speaker 2: that's great parenting.
- 4:15Speaker 5: I disagree with you.
- 4:17Speaker 6: I think it's raising really resilient kids. My husband pointed
- 4:21Speaker 6: out to me, I can.
- 4:22Speaker 5: Turn anything into a competition.
- 4:24Speaker 6: Like I'll literally be all right, ear all in the bath,
- 4:27Speaker 6: I'll be okay. The first person out of the bath
- 4:29Speaker 6: gets the big dry bath towel. The rest of you
- 4:32Speaker 6: have to get the wet but small wet butt.
- 4:35Speaker 2: A game child abuse? How old are your kids? What's
- 4:39Speaker 2: the range?
- 4:41Speaker 5: I've got four their age between.
- 4:42Speaker 6: I got a twelve year old, a ten year old,
- 4:46Speaker 6: a nine year old and are now seven year old.
- 4:49Speaker 1: Well that's I mean, at least they're all kind of bundled.
- 4:52Speaker 1: I mean, what's that a five year four?
- 4:54Speaker 6: Yeah? I had four and five years and that was
- 4:58Speaker 6: kind of I don't know what I was thinking at
- 5:00Speaker 6: the time, but I just kind of we ripped the
- 5:02Speaker 6: band aid off and just got them all out. And
- 5:04Speaker 6: it's nice because we're in the sweet spot. We're in
- 5:06Speaker 6: the golden period.
- 5:07Speaker 5: I call it.
- 5:08Speaker 6: We've got no unpredictable toddlers, we've got no moody, stinky teenagers.
- 5:13Speaker 6: I feel like this is as good as it's going
- 5:15Speaker 6: to get. I reckon, it's downhill from here, Tiff.
- 5:18Speaker 2: I feel like you were screwing up your face then.
- 5:21Speaker 3: I was just going to say, I think, Amelia, actually
- 5:23Speaker 3: I think I'm in the golden period.
- 5:25Speaker 4: I put a cat and the dog.
- 5:26Speaker 6: Oh yeah, yeah, true mate, No matter what. Yeah, No,
- 5:32Speaker 6: you're so right. The problem with children is once you
- 5:36Speaker 6: realize it's too late, there's a no returns policy.
- 5:41Speaker 2: To Lord Smith, that's true. You probably No, you can't, Tiff.
- 5:47Speaker 1: Did you hear Doctor Bill the other day talking about toxoplasmosis.
- 5:51Speaker 4: Yeah, I edited that and I turned half an ear away,
- 5:54Speaker 4: so I didn't have to listen and think about that.
- 5:56Speaker 4: I knew you'd bring this up with me and try
- 5:58Speaker 4: and ruin my cat life.
- 6:00Speaker 1: Well, I'm just saying hashtag get rid of the cat,
- 6:04Speaker 1: that's all. Oh my goodness.
- 6:08Speaker 2: Do you know that? Do you know Amelia that?
- 6:11Speaker 1: Well, they don't know exactly, but minimum thirty, maybe fifty
- 6:14Speaker 1: percent of people in the world have this parasite in
- 6:16Speaker 1: their body that once it's in your body, you never
- 6:19Speaker 1: get rid of it. And it's from cats. It's from
- 6:23Speaker 1: a few sources, but mostly cats. Shout out to our
- 6:25Speaker 1: cat listeners. I'm not saying don't love your cat, everyone,
- 6:29Speaker 1: I'm not saying get rid of your cat. I'm just
- 6:31Speaker 1: reporting the sign, says per doctor Bill Sullivan. Yeah, so
- 6:35Speaker 1: are you an animal person?
- 6:37Speaker 5: We have a dog?
- 6:38Speaker 6: Yes, I love animals, don't I must say? We don't
- 6:41Speaker 6: have a cat, although I did have one growing up,
- 6:43Speaker 6: So I'm sure that I'm probably riddled with this horrible
- 6:46Speaker 6: sounding thing.
- 6:47Speaker 2: Yeah, probably not.
- 6:49Speaker 1: All right, tell us about a little bit about you,
- 6:52Speaker 1: so for my audience, don't know you. What's your job,
- 6:57Speaker 1: who are you? What's your background? The Amilia give as
- 7:01Speaker 1: much or as little as you want.
- 7:03Speaker 6: Oh well, I'm a big fan of yours, Craig, so
- 7:05Speaker 6: thank you so much for having me on the show.
- 7:07Speaker 6: And I know we kind of share a lot of
- 7:09Speaker 6: the same values, although you might swear a little bit
- 7:11Speaker 6: more than me.
- 7:12Speaker 2: But try harder, try harder.
- 7:16Speaker 6: I've been in their health industry for twenty six years.
- 7:19Speaker 6: I'm an exercise scientist by trade and a nutritionist. I've
- 7:24Speaker 6: got a master's of Human Nutrition. I was the co
- 7:28Speaker 6: founder of the Michelle Bridges twelve week Body Transformation, so
- 7:31Speaker 6: that was kind of my main business for ten years.
- 7:34Speaker 6: Prior to that, I owned a gym in Sydney in
- 7:37Speaker 6: the city and I was a personal trainer for thirteen
- 7:39Speaker 6: years way back, starting when I was seventeen. But then
- 7:43Speaker 6: in about twenty sixteen, I really pivoted and.
- 7:48Speaker 5: Got super excited about.
- 7:51Speaker 6: Technology and technology in health, so kind of starting with
- 7:54Speaker 6: wearables and when Apple Watch first came out, because I
- 7:57Speaker 6: started to see how achnology and understanding our bodies better
- 8:02Speaker 6: was really unlocking some of the.
- 8:03Speaker 5: Most stubborn behavior change.
- 8:05Speaker 6: So since yeah, since then, I've been really working in
- 8:10Speaker 6: more of a functional health space.
- 8:12Speaker 5: So I partnered with the.
- 8:13Speaker 6: Most amazing integrative GP Dottyesmina detic Haagan. She's a functional
- 8:18Speaker 6: medicine doctor, and so we now run online programs. I've
- 8:21Speaker 6: kind of taken a lot of my learnings from, you know,
- 8:24Speaker 6: running these big twelve week programs from twelve WBT, these
- 8:28Speaker 6: these you know, big you know, thousands and thousands of people,
- 8:32Speaker 6: and I've re taken that learning and then applied functional
- 8:36Speaker 6: testing and longevity strategies, and I run these programs with
- 8:41Speaker 6: dottyasmine and now using a lot more.
- 8:43Speaker 5: Biofeedback, and it's just awesome.
- 8:46Speaker 6: Like I never thought that I could get more excited
- 8:50Speaker 6: about the work that I do. But just as as
- 8:53Speaker 6: we evolve and as technology changes, and we just can
- 8:57Speaker 6: learn so much more about our bodies.
- 8:59Speaker 5: And I see that with everyday people.
- 9:01Speaker 6: They learn more about themselves and then suddenly that stubborn
- 9:03Speaker 6: behavior change actually is achievable for people. So like I'm
- 9:08Speaker 6: tracking my sleep. I saw what alcohol was doing to
- 9:11Speaker 6: my sleep, so I'm just not going to drink, And
- 9:13Speaker 6: suddenly not drinking becomes a lot easier than if they
- 9:17Speaker 6: didn't have that buyo feedback.
- 9:20Speaker 1: Yeah, it's really interesting the intersection between psychology and biology
- 9:24Speaker 1: and technology, right, and the who's I talking with this morning.
- 9:29Speaker 2: Oh that's right. I was doing a coaching session.
- 9:31Speaker 1: With a guy and I was talking about the idea
- 9:36Speaker 1: of listening to your body, like your body is a
- 9:38Speaker 1: buyer feedback machine, essentially, it's always telling you stuff. But
- 9:42Speaker 1: I feel like, in you Know, twenty twenty five that
- 9:47Speaker 1: a lot of us, anyway, not all of us, but
- 9:49Speaker 1: a lot of us have really disconnected from the wisdom
- 9:52Speaker 1: that is our body, you know, And like your body
- 9:56Speaker 1: knows when it needs food, it knows when it doesn't
- 9:58Speaker 1: need food, It knows when it needs to hydrate it
- 10:00Speaker 1: and knows when it needs to sleep.
- 10:02Speaker 2: It knows when it.
- 10:03Speaker 1: Needs more of this and less of that, Like it's
- 10:05Speaker 1: it's incredibly intelligent. But because we have, like never ever
- 10:12Speaker 1: before in the history of humanity, we have so much
- 10:17Speaker 1: access to so much shit that we can just press
- 10:20Speaker 1: a button either literally or metaphorically, and get something that
- 10:24Speaker 1: tastes good, that's high sugar, high fat, high taste, low nutrition,
- 10:29Speaker 1: and just press that dopamine button and bibdy Bobby boo.
- 10:32Speaker 1: I feel amazing. And then I opened my eyes. And
- 10:35Speaker 1: I've been doing that for ten years, and now my
- 10:38Speaker 1: immune system's fucked and I'm unhealthy and I'm not in
- 10:41Speaker 1: a shape or a condition that I want to be.
- 10:44Speaker 2: And so I think in.
- 10:46Speaker 1: Terms of tech, I really see tech as a way
- 10:49Speaker 1: for people to help reconnect with the wisdom of their
- 10:53Speaker 1: body and understand, well, what does it? What's heart rate
- 10:57Speaker 1: variability mean?
- 10:58Speaker 2: Like? What is what? Even even you know? Like what
- 11:02Speaker 2: are micros and macros for the average person?
- 11:04Speaker 1: You know? What is like just trying to understand if
- 11:07Speaker 1: I have six hours sleep versus eight hours sleep for me,
- 11:10Speaker 1: for my body, not the population, but for me, what
- 11:13Speaker 1: are the different outcomes?
- 11:15Speaker 2: Like what is that two hours more? What does that
- 11:18Speaker 2: do for me?
- 11:18Speaker 1: And I think, yeah, I'd so wish that we could
- 11:22Speaker 1: get back in touch.
- 11:23Speaker 2: With our body.
- 11:24Speaker 1: And I think that you know, some of the appsent
- 11:27Speaker 1: trackers and tech, I think that's a way to do it.
- 11:30Speaker 6: It's so funny you say that, because I couldn't agree more.
- 11:33Speaker 6: And it's almost counterintuitive because it's like, well, hang on,
- 11:36Speaker 6: isn't someone could be listening and thinking, well, doesn't tech
- 11:40Speaker 6: take us away from that you know, much more connected
- 11:44Speaker 6: approach towards our body? But I actually find it almost
- 11:47Speaker 6: does a full circle strategy where Okay, we're so distracted
- 11:54Speaker 6: and we're so hijacked by all these external factors in
- 11:58Speaker 6: our modern world, be it artificial light, be it you know,
- 12:03Speaker 6: dopamine hits, as you said, be it you know, sugar,
- 12:05Speaker 6: fat salt, that we have disconnected and so then we
- 12:10Speaker 6: need these devices or these this technology to help us reconnect.
- 12:15Speaker 6: But then it's really interesting because you then layer that
- 12:19Speaker 6: technology with how you feel. So like a real life
- 12:22Speaker 6: example I'll give you is wearing a CGM, a continuous
- 12:25Speaker 6: glucose monitor. That might be an experiment that you do once,
- 12:28Speaker 6: so you do twice. You wear this thing on the
- 12:30Speaker 6: back of your arm for two weeks. And the feedback
- 12:35Speaker 6: I get from people is that they understand now when
- 12:39Speaker 6: they're having a hypo glycemi episode. So when their blood
- 12:43Speaker 6: sugars are dropping so low, they go, oh, that's what
- 12:47Speaker 6: that jittery, spaced out feeling means. And I really noticed
- 12:51Speaker 6: that when I'm in that low state, that's when I'm
- 12:53Speaker 6: really craving those you know, high carb, high sugary foods.
- 12:57Speaker 6: And so once a once a CGM come off, they're
- 13:01Speaker 6: now much more connected with how they're feeling. So it's
- 13:04Speaker 6: almost like a scaffolding that helps you understand your body
- 13:07Speaker 6: better and reconnect with some of these sensations and feelings
- 13:12Speaker 6: that are happening inside you.
- 13:13Speaker 5: So I think it's pretty cool.
- 13:15Speaker 2: Yeah, me too.
- 13:15Speaker 1: I mean there would have been a time where I
- 13:17Speaker 1: kind of went fuck all that because I'm a dinosaur,
- 13:19Speaker 1: I'm a t rex and a T shirt, right, But
- 13:22Speaker 1: I really think, you know, like you were saying with
- 13:26Speaker 1: a CGM right, for example, so somebody gets a number
- 13:29Speaker 1: or some data and then they can correlate that piece
- 13:32Speaker 1: of information on that bit of tech with how they're feeling,
- 13:37Speaker 1: and then eventually, over time, you just know, when I
- 13:40Speaker 1: feel like this, my number is that or the you know,
- 13:43Speaker 1: the tracker says that or whatever it is. But it's
- 13:46Speaker 1: understanding that you know, when I feel this way, this
- 13:52Speaker 1: is probably what's happening in my body. When I have
- 13:54Speaker 1: that symptom, this is probably what's happening in my body.
- 13:58Speaker 1: And I mean on a very fundamental level. Back in
- 14:01Speaker 1: the day, when I opened my first PT center, which
- 14:04Speaker 1: was nine a ninety so thirty five years ago, all
- 14:08Speaker 1: of my clients wrote everything down so this is pre apps, right,
- 14:12Speaker 1: So they literally wrote, you know what time they went
- 14:15Speaker 1: to bed, what time they got up, you know what
- 14:16Speaker 1: they ate when they ate it, you know, booze, coffee, tea, water,
- 14:20Speaker 1: hydration sets, reps, volume runs, distance, time, heart rate, blah bah.
- 14:26Speaker 1: And we were tracking stuff back then, and people the
- 14:30Speaker 1: average punto who didn't really understand anatomy or physiology or
- 14:34Speaker 1: you know, any of any of the stuff that we're
- 14:37Speaker 1: talking about. Now, within six months they knew their body intimately,
- 14:42Speaker 1: and they knew what what stimulus created, what response in
- 14:46Speaker 1: their body, and what that meant. And so they would
- 14:49Speaker 1: end up telling me, I only had six and a
- 14:52Speaker 1: half hours sleep, and so this is how I feel,
- 14:54Speaker 1: but I know exactly why I feel this way. So
- 14:57Speaker 1: tonight I'm going to fix it by or I'm going
- 14:59Speaker 1: to at least try and compensate by doing XYZ. Or
- 15:03Speaker 1: you know, I've only had a lead of water today,
- 15:06Speaker 1: so of course I've got a fucking headache, or my
- 15:08Speaker 1: energy is lower, my brain doesn't work, or so people
- 15:11Speaker 1: start to correlate these different factors with these different feelings
- 15:16Speaker 1: or physiological states.
- 15:17Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 15:18Speaker 6: Absolutely, and you can kind of put it into main
- 15:21Speaker 6: buckets where you've got you've got the technology that is
- 15:26Speaker 6: giving you real time feedback, which is some of the
- 15:28Speaker 6: stuff we've just been talking about. Now, whether it's you know,
- 15:31Speaker 6: you're wearable or stuff that you're tracking on every day.
- 15:36Speaker 6: And I like this concept of you need to measure
- 15:38Speaker 6: it to manage it. If you're measuring it, you're going
- 15:40Speaker 6: to be managing it a lot better. But then the
- 15:42Speaker 6: second bucket is also much more focused on long term health,
- 15:47Speaker 6: on longevity and on health span, and that is taking
- 15:50Speaker 6: a more proactive approach to your health and aging, where
- 15:54Speaker 6: you're getting tests done ahead of time so that you
- 15:59Speaker 6: can ward off some of the you know what we
- 16:02Speaker 6: like to what Peter Ettia likes to call the four horsemen,
- 16:05Speaker 6: which are the four biggest killers of the Western world.
- 16:08Speaker 6: And so I like the two buckets where you got
- 16:10Speaker 6: the everyday stuff and you dip in and out of that,
- 16:12Speaker 6: and you sometimes you just throw your watch away and
- 16:14Speaker 6: you're like, you know, fuck all that. I don't want
- 16:16Speaker 6: to track all that. But the second bucket is super
- 16:19Speaker 6: important because all.
- 16:21Speaker 5: Those diseases, the four biggest.
- 16:23Speaker 6: Killers of the Western world, which is cardiovascular diseases the
- 16:27Speaker 6: first one, so think heart attack, stroke, Then you've got
- 16:32Speaker 6: neurodegenerative diseases, Alzheimer's, dementia, then you've got metabolic diseases, mainly
- 16:40Speaker 6: type two diabetes and then you've got cancer. They're the
- 16:43Speaker 6: four horsemen. Now they doos don't appear from nowhere. You
- 16:48Speaker 6: can be testing and looking for those early warning signs.
- 16:53Speaker 6: And that's the other type of technology that I'm also
- 16:57Speaker 6: pretty fuzzy about. And you know, I really want to
- 17:00Speaker 6: make sure that most of our members are doing all
- 17:03Speaker 6: those tests as well ahead of time, not waiting for
- 17:06Speaker 6: the doctor to say, oh, you've got type two diabetes.
- 17:09Speaker 6: But hey, hang on a minute, I was insulin resistant
- 17:12Speaker 6: for fight for the last five years and you never
- 17:13Speaker 6: even told me because you weren't measuring the right markers.
- 17:18Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 17:18Speaker 1: I think that finally, maybe, and Melia, the ships starting
- 17:23Speaker 1: to turn, that people are starting to be more proactive
- 17:28Speaker 1: and not reactive. It's like, so for so long, so
- 17:31Speaker 1: many people basically waited until something broke. Yeah, you know,
- 17:36Speaker 1: Oh I'm sick, I should do something. Well, how about
- 17:39Speaker 1: you do something before you're sick, and maybe you won't
- 17:42Speaker 1: get sick, or maybe we'll push that sickness back a
- 17:45Speaker 1: decade or two, you know, And let's like, what even
- 17:49Speaker 1: though you're relatively functional and operational, now, let's have a
- 17:54Speaker 1: look at your diet and you sleep, and your lifestyle
- 17:56Speaker 1: and your habits, and you're you know, blah blah blah
- 17:58Speaker 1: blah blah. Let's look at all those variables and it's
- 18:01Speaker 1: not about self loathing, it's about self awareness. But what
- 18:03Speaker 1: can we do to take you from being a seven
- 18:06Speaker 1: out of ten to nine and a half? You know,
- 18:09Speaker 1: And let's do something before we have to so to speak.
- 18:13Speaker 6: Yeah, Well, a great example like our flagship program, which
- 18:16Speaker 6: is called Inner Vitality, and we measure fifty five key
- 18:19Speaker 6: biomarkers and we call it the Sleep Well at Night
- 18:23Speaker 6: Measurement because we're measuring things that are silent, like inflammation,
- 18:28Speaker 6: like inflammatory markers, like kidney function, and like you know,
- 18:33Speaker 6: some particular hormonal markers and so often these are silent,
- 18:38Speaker 6: or we measure for insulin resistance. We have a special
- 18:41Speaker 6: score called your homer IR score, which is kind of
- 18:43Speaker 6: a calculation of a bunch of other metabolic markers. These
- 18:47Speaker 6: can all be simmering away beneath the surface and you
- 18:51Speaker 6: don't have those signs, those early warning signs. But you
- 18:55Speaker 6: can get these measurements done and go, oh, actually I
- 18:57Speaker 6: have got some chronic inflammation. Know why don't I just
- 19:01Speaker 6: make a few little tweaks while I'm younger, rather than
- 19:04Speaker 6: wait till disease sets in MMM.
- 19:07Speaker 1: And so within kind of your You're exactly right, it
- 19:10Speaker 1: makes great sense within the middle of your kind of
- 19:15Speaker 1: your model, but also just more broadly your.
- 19:18Speaker 5: Philosophy, right, I guess, yeah.
- 19:21Speaker 1: Obviously I saw you had Paul Taylor on the other day,
- 19:24Speaker 1: by the way, love Paul the great man. And so
- 19:28Speaker 1: we're both doing or he's just handed. I think he's
- 19:30Speaker 1: just submitted his But I'm also doing my PhD in
- 19:34Speaker 1: psych and I'm about three or four months behind him.
- 19:36Speaker 1: But QUI, yeah, thanks, Yeah, we're both obviously very interested
- 19:42Speaker 1: in well, the role of the mind, you know, the
- 19:46Speaker 1: relationship between the mind and the body, and you know,
- 19:49Speaker 1: managing our thoughts and managing our choices and managing our
- 19:52Speaker 1: actions and reactions and what you're thinking about that. What's
- 19:56Speaker 1: the you know? And I know it's very much. It's
- 20:00Speaker 1: not so much in the stuff that we can see
- 20:02Speaker 1: in poke and measure, but the role of the mind
- 20:06Speaker 1: in all of this for you.
- 20:09Speaker 6: Oh so so important. But I guess where I've become
- 20:13Speaker 6: a little more nuanced, and I don't have the answers,
- 20:17Speaker 6: and I'm definitely not a psychology expert. But is the
- 20:22Speaker 6: chicken or the egg? Because if I have to be honest,
- 20:25Speaker 6: I think I've switched a little bit where I was
- 20:28Speaker 6: always like, oh, it's the mind that drives the body,
- 20:31Speaker 6: and you get the mind right and the body will follow.
- 20:34Speaker 6: But as I'm going through perimenopause, and I don't know, tif,
- 20:38Speaker 6: you look way too young to be anywhere near this.
- 20:41Speaker 6: But as I'm going through perimenopause, and as I'm learning
- 20:45Speaker 6: a lot more about I guess biochemistry, I'm realizing how
- 20:51Speaker 6: much our physiology impacts our mood and our mindset.
- 20:56Speaker 5: And so I'm a.
- 20:57Speaker 6: Bit confused if I have to be honest right now
- 21:00Speaker 6: at chicken or egg? Because I have so many ladies
- 21:03Speaker 6: on my program that when we get their physiology right,
- 21:05Speaker 6: we measure that. We measure all the mark a whole
- 21:07Speaker 6: bunch of markers that are you know, particularly relevant for
- 21:12Speaker 6: cognition and mood. You know, ferotant, vitamin D for example,
- 21:17Speaker 6: and thyroid markers, and we see them really low and depleted.
- 21:23Speaker 6: We measure cortisol. We do what's called a car test,
- 21:26Speaker 6: which measures a quartersole throughout the day. When you rebalance
- 21:29Speaker 6: those and you get those levels at least normal and
- 21:33Speaker 6: not insufficient or deficient. Suddenly their mood improves. So I
- 21:38Speaker 6: really think it's this delicate synergy. And you can have people,
- 21:42Speaker 6: say obviously going through perimenopause, who suddenly, you know, get
- 21:45Speaker 6: strike the right balance with their HRT and suddenly that
- 21:49Speaker 6: brain fog lifts, or that you know, those really depressive
- 21:52Speaker 6: symptoms or the rage just dissipates. It's so important, it's
- 21:58Speaker 6: so so important your thoughts. So you like, mind drives
- 22:02Speaker 6: a body, body drives the mine or are you.
- 22:03Speaker 1: Kind of will let TIF talk in a minute too,
- 22:06Speaker 1: because she's gone through some stuff. But I think you're
- 22:09Speaker 1: exactly right. I think it's an integrated two way system.
- 22:13Speaker 1: And I think there are different times when you know,
- 22:16Speaker 1: it's like the whole oh, you know, just get your
- 22:18Speaker 1: mind in the right place. It's like, no, fuck you,
- 22:21Speaker 1: my body's my body's running the show at the moment,
- 22:24Speaker 1: so sticky positive. Yeah, yeah, yeah, just try harder, Brian,
- 22:29Speaker 1: try harder, Sally. Yeah, fuck you jump in my body
- 22:32Speaker 1: for ten minutes and you'll change. So yeah, I mean,
- 22:36Speaker 1: I mean, I think I'm fortunate in that I've trained
- 22:40Speaker 1: hundreds of women over the years who've been going through
- 22:42Speaker 1: menopause or perimenopause, so as much as a man can
- 22:45Speaker 1: understand it, which is obviously not like you two can.
- 22:49Speaker 1: But I've been around it a lot, and I've had
- 22:52Speaker 1: thousands of conversations about it ten with people, and so,
- 22:55Speaker 1: I I mean, your body can totally hijack your brain
- 22:59Speaker 1: and mind, you know, And it's like it can. If so,
- 23:04Speaker 1: you've been going through your own stuff lately.
- 23:06Speaker 3: How are you, mate, I'm in the middle of the
- 23:09Speaker 3: perimenopausal car crash, amelia.
- 23:12Speaker 5: It is if that's a great just script up, it
- 23:16Speaker 5: is shit.
- 23:18Speaker 3: Are you rolling with the punches or even rolling with
- 23:20Speaker 3: the punches but they are landing and the bell is
- 23:24Speaker 3: not ringing.
- 23:26Speaker 5: What's going on for you?
- 23:27Speaker 3: Oh?
- 23:28Speaker 4: Just energy?
- 23:29Speaker 3: Like I just hit a wall with the ability to
- 23:32Speaker 3: recover from training right now, I've gotten all point where
- 23:36Speaker 3: cardio has been put completely out of the equation. I'm
- 23:39Speaker 3: just tired all the time, and moments of anxiety over
- 23:44Speaker 3: nothing like anxiety in my body with no relevance to
- 23:48Speaker 3: anything like lots of yeah, lots of.
- 23:50Speaker 6: Stuff unexplained as well as and you're kind of like,
- 23:54Speaker 6: who is this person?
- 23:55Speaker 5: Because I'm tough, I'm resilient. This wouldn't have.
- 23:57Speaker 6: Bothered me before, but now I'm getting this almost like
- 24:00Speaker 6: palpitation in have you ever woken up in the morning
- 24:04Speaker 6: and you're kind of in that like daisy as you
- 24:08Speaker 6: dazed out? You just wake up, You're like, Okay, what
- 24:10Speaker 6: year is it?
- 24:10Speaker 5: What day is it?
- 24:10Speaker 6: Oh?
- 24:11Speaker 5: My god? What have I got on today?
- 24:12Speaker 6: And you get this feeling of like I don't know
- 24:15Speaker 6: if I'm going to be able to get through my day,
- 24:17Speaker 6: Like I get do you get that anxiety?
- 24:20Speaker 3: Yes? Yes, And it's like so it's so it really
- 24:24Speaker 3: challenges everything you think or thought you know.
- 24:28Speaker 4: About who you are. I'm like, why, Like where's that
- 24:32Speaker 4: girl gone?
- 24:33Speaker 2: Yeah?
- 24:34Speaker 4: What's this?
- 24:36Speaker 6: I am so with you? And look, everyone's journey is unique.
- 24:41Speaker 6: But can I just say that what has been a
- 24:43Speaker 6: game changer for me surprisingly this year and also now
- 24:49Speaker 6: because I'm so fusy about it, I've been getting a
- 24:51Speaker 6: lot more of our members on it is Creating.
- 24:54Speaker 4: Oh I'm on it, You're on it has helped.
- 24:57Speaker 3: You've been on that for quite a while, so before
- 25:02Speaker 3: this really ramped up as well.
- 25:03Speaker 6: Okay, so you were on it before it ramped up,
- 25:06Speaker 6: because yeah, and I feel like with Creating, I feel
- 25:10Speaker 6: like for PERI women, it's just worth trying, and you're
- 25:13Speaker 6: on it for six to eight weeks and if you
- 25:15Speaker 6: notice a big difference, keep taking it. If you don't
- 25:17Speaker 6: notice a big difference, maybe your body's natural saturation levels
- 25:21Speaker 6: were good, but mine must have been depleted because I
- 25:24Speaker 6: have had so many great benefits from that.
- 25:27Speaker 5: But you know, depending what stage of.
- 25:30Speaker 6: Perimenopause, there's early stage, there's late stage, and then there's
- 25:33Speaker 6: the menopause transition. Depending on what stage you're at, you know,
- 25:38Speaker 6: different treatments are available and can work.
- 25:41Speaker 5: Have you started experimenting?
- 25:43Speaker 6: Are you at the point yet where you want to
- 25:44Speaker 6: go and get some whether it's progesterone or yeah.
- 25:47Speaker 3: So I a year ago went and started got a
- 25:51Speaker 3: prescription for HRT, and then I had to go get
- 25:54Speaker 3: whole breast exams and stuff to get the clearance, and
- 25:57Speaker 3: then I I just got my sleep in order and
- 26:02Speaker 3: I hadn't. I started taking it for like a week
- 26:04Speaker 3: and then I had stopped have those tests and got clearance.
- 26:07Speaker 3: But then I just didn't go back on it until
- 26:09Speaker 3: a couple of months ago and I went back in
- 26:11Speaker 3: this is not it's frustrating, and I went to a
- 26:13Speaker 3: menopause specialist doctor that I'd searched for and got recommended,
- 26:17Speaker 3: And I went in yesterday and said, I need another
- 26:19Speaker 3: prescription for that, but also I want to look at testosterone.
- 26:24Speaker 3: And she said we need to take a blood test.
- 26:25Speaker 3: And then as we were sitting there waiting, I said,
- 26:27Speaker 3: what was my testosterone last time? And she said, I
- 26:30Speaker 3: didn't test it. We don't test that till we need
- 26:32Speaker 3: to it. I am dumbfounded how a woman can go
- 26:35Speaker 3: to a menopause specializing doctor and say, my hormones are tanked?
- 26:41Speaker 4: Can you test them?
- 26:43Speaker 3: And they don't think that testing all three is relevant? Like,
- 26:46Speaker 3: I'm so infuriated by this process.
- 26:49Speaker 6: Yeah, and also this is this whole concept of why
- 26:53Speaker 6: wait till it's broken before you test and track it.
- 26:57Speaker 6: I say to a lot of my members, we do
- 26:58Speaker 6: this a lot in bone density and women as young
- 27:00Speaker 6: as forty and forty five for bone density scans. I'm like,
- 27:04Speaker 6: I don't care if it comes back perfect. I'm glad
- 27:06Speaker 6: because there's a healthy baseline now we can track over
- 27:08Speaker 6: the next twenty years. You've got that healthy baseline, your
- 27:11Speaker 6: testosterone comes back tickerty boo. That's amazing. This is that's
- 27:15Speaker 6: proactive health. This is true biohacking. That's unfortunate. And the
- 27:20Speaker 6: thing is where I understand that that's not medicare rebatable
- 27:23Speaker 6: because we go broke.
- 27:25Speaker 5: As a nation.
- 27:26Speaker 6: But at least, like, I'm happy to dip in my
- 27:29Speaker 6: pocket and pay for that test because I want to
- 27:31Speaker 6: be able to track a healthy baseline and track those
- 27:35Speaker 6: changes over the years. So yeah, we have a long
- 27:37Speaker 6: way to go, don't we.
- 27:38Speaker 3: And then when they do get the results, like with
- 27:40Speaker 3: the other hormones they're tested, they were like, oh, you know,
- 27:44Speaker 3: like you're in normal range, but that doesn't mean anything,
- 27:46Speaker 3: so we'll do this anyway. And I'm like, well, why
- 27:48Speaker 3: do I have to jump through seven hoops that you
- 27:51Speaker 3: then don't actually reference at all anyway, which I am
- 27:55Speaker 3: guessing will happen with the testosterone. They'll go, it's within
- 27:58Speaker 3: this range, but the symptoms are what we go by.
- 28:01Speaker 3: Oh good, So you just wanted me to have seven
- 28:03Speaker 3: more appointments in the meantime.
- 28:05Speaker 6: Yeah, and you know you're a highly educated, health focused individual.
- 28:10Speaker 6: Imagine if you weren't, and trying to navigate that that's
- 28:14Speaker 6: why we get so many women. I call it the
- 28:17Speaker 6: missing middle that fall through the cracks. But I think
- 28:21Speaker 6: if you're listening to this and you're going through perimenopause,
- 28:24Speaker 6: or you know someone who is and they're just their
- 28:27Speaker 6: mood is down and they're lacking in energy, at least
- 28:32Speaker 6: go and get the fundamentals measured. So, like I said,
- 28:35Speaker 6: you're vitamin D, your iron levels, your inflammation markers, your
- 28:39Speaker 6: metabolic markers, because if even one of those comes back
- 28:43Speaker 6: in sufficient or deficient, then you've got some quick wins.
- 28:46Speaker 6: You've got something to work with. And then, yes, hormone
- 28:49Speaker 6: tracking is a lot more complex, and the blood tests
- 28:52Speaker 6: don't always show what you know. It's tricky and complicated
- 28:57Speaker 6: because there's just not enough research on women in that
- 29:01Speaker 6: stage yet. But that's why you do try to find
- 29:04Speaker 6: yourself the best women's health practitioner or a doctor that
- 29:07Speaker 6: you can to help navigate it.
- 29:09Speaker 5: And even then it takes time.
- 29:10Speaker 6: It does take time, and it might not work and
- 29:12Speaker 6: you might need to change your doses around. But there's
- 29:14Speaker 6: lots of options that do make a difference. And I
- 29:17Speaker 6: think you know, the big resounding message of hope and
- 29:22Speaker 6: it is a good news story compared to what women
- 29:25Speaker 6: you know, our parents' generation were going through, is there
- 29:28Speaker 6: is so many options out there.
- 29:29Speaker 5: So it is a good news story.
- 29:32Speaker 6: We've just got to do a little bit of the
- 29:34Speaker 6: work to find that balance.
- 29:39Speaker 2: And I'm back.
- 29:39Speaker 1: I just got out of the jacuzzi. I don't know,
- 29:44Speaker 1: have you two been good? I mean, I've just been
- 29:46Speaker 1: gone for ten minutes to have.
- 29:47Speaker 2: A good time.
- 29:48Speaker 4: We've been, say most right through menopause. Now you took
- 29:51Speaker 4: that long to come back.
- 29:53Speaker 1: No, I love no, thank you. That was actually really
- 29:56Speaker 1: good to listen to both of you. I appreciate you
- 29:58Speaker 1: being that honest. Hormones are a weird thing, right, And
- 30:03Speaker 1: I'm not an expert anyone in hormones.
- 30:06Speaker 2: I know a fair bit about it, but I'm definitely
- 30:08Speaker 2: not ago in that.
- 30:09Speaker 1: But it's just it's so funny that, like, especially when
- 30:14Speaker 1: it comes to testosterone for both men and women, you'd
- 30:19Speaker 1: think you'd think you were asking for heroine the way
- 30:22Speaker 1: they all rick, Oh.
- 30:23Speaker 2: We don't what what I'm like, Well, you know, it's
- 30:26Speaker 2: a naturally occurring hormone in men and women. I don't
- 30:30Speaker 2: want cocaine or dope or speed or crack.
- 30:35Speaker 6: That fine significantly with age that the tanks run and low.
- 30:41Speaker 1: And we also know that there are very real, sometimes
- 30:45Speaker 1: serious physiological consequences.
- 30:48Speaker 2: It's funny.
- 30:48Speaker 1: We have a guy on Amelia, doctor Jeff you know
- 30:54Speaker 1: doctor Jeff Tip from Las Vegas.
- 30:56Speaker 2: Ye, and he's great. He's on I don't know, once
- 30:59Speaker 2: mon or something. And last time it was on, I said,
- 31:03Speaker 2: can I ask you what you take? Like this is alive?
- 31:06Speaker 1: He's like sure, and he just reeled through everything and
- 31:09Speaker 1: he's like, I think he takes a bit of growth,
- 31:12Speaker 1: he takes a bunch of peptides, takes a bunch of vitamins.
- 31:15Speaker 1: He's like TRT buth blah blah blah blah, right just
- 31:19Speaker 1: in there like there's no there's no shame, there's no
- 31:22Speaker 1: He's like, well, why wouldn't you, Like he's like a
- 31:24Speaker 1: sixty year old dude. He's like, well, why wouldn't you
- 31:27Speaker 1: you know? And I said, Wow, in Australia, you will.
- 31:31Speaker 1: You most will just try and get heroin. It's easier,
- 31:34Speaker 1: you know, because over here. I think a lot of
- 31:38Speaker 1: people think that I've said this before, but like when
- 31:44Speaker 1: men or women using testosterone, the picture they have in
- 31:48Speaker 1: their mind as bodybuilders who look like freaks and take
- 31:52Speaker 1: a million milligrams of everything, and then that's people's idea
- 31:57Speaker 1: of what it is to take testoster and people don't
- 31:59Speaker 1: understand like therapeutic application and benefits. And I still think
- 32:04Speaker 1: it's unfolding.
- 32:05Speaker 2: We're still getting educated.
- 32:06Speaker 6: In I'm again, of course, I'm not a doctor, and
- 32:10Speaker 6: everything we talk about today needs to be taken up
- 32:12Speaker 6: with your medical professional of choice. I probably am a
- 32:17Speaker 6: little bit more conservative where because I come from that
- 32:21Speaker 6: functional medicine and functional health background. I like to really
- 32:25Speaker 6: focus on the complete picture, where medications or you know,
- 32:30Speaker 6: hormone therapy supplements definitely a part of the picture, but
- 32:35Speaker 6: they're not a silver bullet. And you know, even me
- 32:38Speaker 6: mentioning CREA team before and you know how amazingly it's
- 32:41Speaker 6: worked well with me, all my other levers are being
- 32:44Speaker 6: pulled at the same time. It's not like I'm sitting
- 32:46Speaker 6: on the couch eating junk food. I'm exercising, I'm doing
- 32:49Speaker 6: all the things as well. So this for me, I'm
- 32:51Speaker 6: in that category of probably a lot of your listeners
- 32:54Speaker 6: you call the two percenters. You know, we're already pulling
- 32:56Speaker 6: lots of health leavers and we're doing pretty well. So
- 32:59Speaker 6: that's where that's where these other interventions you know, can
- 33:04Speaker 6: really help. But I am a big fan again of
- 33:07Speaker 6: measuring to manage. So don't just blindly go and take
- 33:10Speaker 6: your supplements or go and take your vitamins unless you
- 33:16Speaker 6: are able to measure, and not all of them you can,
- 33:19Speaker 6: so creatine, for example, unless you want to go and
- 33:21Speaker 6: have a nice, painful muscle biopsy and find some lab,
- 33:24Speaker 6: you can't. There's no way of knowing what your muscle
- 33:27Speaker 6: saturation levels are. But other nutrients you can, you know,
- 33:32Speaker 6: like a whole bunch of micro nutrients, you can measure
- 33:35Speaker 6: and know what they are. So at least start with
- 33:37Speaker 6: what you can track.
- 33:39Speaker 1: Creatine's getting a bit of air time at the moment,
- 33:42Speaker 1: isn't it.
- 33:42Speaker 2: It's every second. Maybe it's just my feed.
- 33:45Speaker 6: But it's like everyone you're right, And isn't that funny
- 33:48Speaker 6: from us dinosaurs who were in the fitness industry in
- 33:51Speaker 6: the nineties. Don't you remember when it had its time
- 33:54Speaker 6: in the nineties.
- 33:55Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, well I worked for the guy. There was
- 34:00Speaker 1: a couple of guys who started massashe you remember.
- 34:03Speaker 5: Massage, Yeah, yeah, total.
- 34:05Speaker 1: And I'm also I've been sponsored by Maxes, so Paul
- 34:11Speaker 1: and Keith who owned Maxes for one hundred years. And yeah,
- 34:14Speaker 1: I've been using creatine since before people even knew what
- 34:17Speaker 1: creatine was.
- 34:18Speaker 2: Probably you too, but yeah, and I.
- 34:21Speaker 6: Never touched it because it was always for the bros
- 34:24Speaker 6: and US ladies because of the potential of water retention.
- 34:29Speaker 5: But back in the day, all the research was.
- 34:31Speaker 6: Around muscle and performance in strength and explosive and so
- 34:38Speaker 6: US ladies just were like, nah, not for us. We
- 34:40Speaker 6: don't want to feel like we're retaining fluid. But of
- 34:43Speaker 6: course the more recent research around cognition mood is why
- 34:47Speaker 6: it's having its moment. And I was, in fact, someone
- 34:52Speaker 6: mentioned it like eighteen months ago and I was like,
- 34:54Speaker 6: oh no, yeah for the bodybuilders, and then suddenly started
- 34:57Speaker 6: to look into it and I was like, oh no,
- 34:59Speaker 6: there's some really interesting emerging research outside of the gym.
- 35:03Speaker 2: So I got my dad on it. I got my
- 35:05Speaker 2: dad on it, eighty five year old Ron.
- 35:07Speaker 1: I'm like, get this into your on because and I
- 35:09Speaker 1: mean there's been it's the most researched supplement in the world,
- 35:13Speaker 1: you know, and it's and like you said to merely,
- 35:16Speaker 1: it doesn't some people, it's like really really significantly great
- 35:23Speaker 1: and for other people that aren't, it doesn't do a lot.
- 35:25Speaker 1: But I think for the majority of people, they'll feel
- 35:29Speaker 1: some benefit for me. The main benefit for me is
- 35:33Speaker 1: just cognitive function is clarity, is mental acuity as memory
- 35:37Speaker 1: is just like and I take about I take about
- 35:41Speaker 1: fifteen grams a day, which that's not a recommendation.
- 35:45Speaker 6: Higher than the recommend Yeah, I'm about ten grounds a day,
- 35:47Speaker 6: which is a little bit higher than the recuity you do.
- 35:51Speaker 4: I do a little bit higher as well.
- 35:53Speaker 3: Someone actually this morning sent me one of my friends
- 35:57Speaker 3: sent me a little real that was talking about benefit
- 36:00Speaker 3: cognitive benefits of taking higher than the recommended dose. Yeah.
- 36:06Speaker 1: I think, Look, there's and again everyone has merely said,
- 36:09Speaker 1: go chat to somebody who's not us. None of this
- 36:12Speaker 1: is advice or recommendation or prescription, Bud. There's quite a
- 36:16Speaker 1: few smarty pans professors getting around, I mean actual scientists,
- 36:20Speaker 1: not bro scientists on fucking the interwebs, but suggesting fifteen
- 36:25Speaker 1: to twenty grams a day for optimal kind of cognitive function.
- 36:28Speaker 6: But again, I got no kidney issues, and you've got
- 36:31Speaker 6: no other health issues. There's very little downside except for
- 36:35Speaker 6: the cost. And it is actually very affordable. It isn't affordable,
- 36:39Speaker 6: it's easy to produce. So I just think it's worth
- 36:42Speaker 6: experimenting with for six weeks, and honestly, the proofs in
- 36:46Speaker 6: the pudding for me. I noticed that in three main areas.
- 36:50Speaker 6: The first one was in the gym and performance. I
- 36:54Speaker 6: do CrossFit, and I'm very consistent. I kind of know,
- 36:58Speaker 6: I can you know in a ward you got burpies
- 37:01Speaker 6: in your wad. I know, I get to about six
- 37:02Speaker 6: or seven burpies and that's when I start to feel
- 37:04Speaker 6: the labor kicking in, and that's when I start to
- 37:07Speaker 6: slow down. And then I you know, know how quickly
- 37:09Speaker 6: I usually have to recover if I'm doing you know,
- 37:12Speaker 6: keeping pull ups or something like that. And I just
- 37:14Speaker 6: was noticing I was get to six or seven burpies
- 37:17Speaker 6: expecting that to kick in, and I just kept going.
- 37:20Speaker 6: And it wasn't until I was getting to twelve or thirteen,
- 37:23Speaker 6: but I was starting to and the same with the
- 37:25Speaker 6: kiping pulls. And then I was noticing I was getting
- 37:27Speaker 6: sour after strength in a good way, so I was
- 37:30Speaker 6: able to go heavier in my dead lifts. And then
- 37:33Speaker 6: the second thing I noticed was my focus. I have
- 37:37Speaker 6: to do a lot of writing and a lot of hard,
- 37:41Speaker 6: deep focus, hard work, and I get distracted, and I
- 37:45Speaker 6: was just noticing I was like kind of coming out
- 37:48Speaker 6: probably a bit like U the PhD.
- 37:49Speaker 5: I was coming out of like two hours of being.
- 37:52Speaker 6: Just deep in the in the focus bubble, going wow,
- 37:56Speaker 6: like that's unheard off for me. And then the third
- 37:59Speaker 6: area was my mood. You know, I was having a
- 38:01Speaker 6: bit like you, Tiff, Like I've always been such an
- 38:04Speaker 6: optimistic and can do kind of girl, and I was
- 38:06Speaker 6: having these really depressive sundays where I was teary and grumpy.
- 38:10Speaker 6: And it was tim My hubby that said to me, geez,
- 38:14Speaker 6: you've been in a good mood the last few weeks.
- 38:15Speaker 6: You haven't had any of those really tiery, moody, grumpy sundays.
- 38:20Speaker 5: So yeah, that's why I was like, Okay, I like
- 38:22Speaker 5: this stuff.
- 38:24Speaker 1: I'm getting so to see bring you breakfast in bed
- 38:26Speaker 1: and it's a cup of cretane.
- 38:33Speaker 5: I should thank it in my brownies.
- 38:36Speaker 2: You know what?
- 38:37Speaker 5: Some pancakes.
- 38:40Speaker 1: There's you said a sentence or a phrase that's never
- 38:43Speaker 1: been said in nearly two thousand episodes of The You Project,
- 38:47Speaker 1: and that he's burpies in your wad. Oh now, seventy
- 38:51Speaker 1: percent of our listeners are like, what the fuck does
- 38:54Speaker 1: burpies in.
- 38:55Speaker 2: Your word mean? Stiff?
- 38:57Speaker 1: Knows, I know, but it sounds like like a parasite
- 39:00Speaker 1: in your poo.
- 39:02Speaker 5: In my wad.
- 39:02Speaker 6: Yeah yeah, yeah, oh yeah today.
- 39:07Speaker 1: Yeah god, the one I was leaning over the ball
- 39:11Speaker 1: and I had a burpies in my wad.
- 39:13Speaker 6: Oh god, oh my god, no, Creig.
- 39:17Speaker 5: Work of the.
- 39:18Speaker 2: Day, yes, so burpies. Everyone.
- 39:21Speaker 1: You know that exercise and ward stands for workout of
- 39:24Speaker 1: the day, which is happens. Hey, you're great, We love you.
- 39:30Speaker 1: Just one or two questions before we go, just because
- 39:32Speaker 1: what I'm interested. Tell me to fuck off if if
- 39:35Speaker 1: this is stepping over the line.
- 39:37Speaker 2: How old are you?
- 39:38Speaker 6: If you don't mind mouse, No, of course, I'm forty
- 39:40Speaker 6: six years young.
- 39:42Speaker 2: Wow you look young? You do? Look you look away.
- 39:45Speaker 2: I'm not just saying that, Oh you look young.
- 39:48Speaker 5: You it's my day.
- 39:49Speaker 2: I'm coming back if you do. I don't know. Maybe
- 39:51Speaker 2: it's the filter. Maybe you look shit in person, but
- 39:53Speaker 2: from here I've got.
- 39:54Speaker 5: The young I've got the young filter.
- 39:56Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 39:56Speaker 2: No, you definitely you don't look shit anywhere. I'm sure.
- 39:59Speaker 1: No, you look very young. So good work you. Just
- 40:03Speaker 1: I like knowing what the experts do. Just how often
- 40:08Speaker 1: do you do cardio?
- 40:09Speaker 2: What is it? How intense? How much, how often? What type?
- 40:13Speaker 5: Okay? So I train five days a week.
- 40:17Speaker 6: I do one longer run between ten and fifteen k's
- 40:22Speaker 6: my prozac, my mental health runt.
- 40:25Speaker 5: I do that one day a week and then and then.
- 40:29Speaker 6: I actually do run on all five days, but my
- 40:33Speaker 6: three CrossFit days I run for twenty five minutes.
- 40:35Speaker 5: Before the CrossFit class. So I will do that.
- 40:39Speaker 6: So yeah, I run five days, one really long run,
- 40:43Speaker 6: three shorter runs just before CrossFit, and then I do
- 40:46Speaker 6: one kind of mid you know, seven to ten k run,
- 40:50Speaker 6: and then I do CrossFit three days a week.
- 40:52Speaker 2: Great, And do you not that you need to but
- 40:55Speaker 2: all your strength stuff, all your strength needs get met
- 40:57Speaker 2: in CrossFit correct? Yeah?
- 40:59Speaker 6: Yeah, So we'll do in cross fit one or two
- 41:02Speaker 6: strength moves very heavy, usually like Olympic lifting, so squats,
- 41:07Speaker 6: front squats, deadlifts, bench, and there's period at periodized program.
- 41:13Speaker 5: And then twice a year I do smaller of Junior.
- 41:15Speaker 6: I don't know if you've ever if you've heard of
- 41:16Speaker 6: the smaller program, it's a great app So like last year.
- 41:21Speaker 5: I did squats and deadlifts.
- 41:23Speaker 6: My goal is to deadlift double my body weight and
- 41:25Speaker 6: I got there last year, and to deadlift my yeah,
- 41:28Speaker 6: my body weight ten times, so I use smaller if
- 41:31Speaker 6: I need to kind of get over a strength plateau.
- 41:34Speaker 6: That's a three week program. Yeah, and yep, and I
- 41:39Speaker 6: love I love that. You know you could do I
- 41:42Speaker 6: could always do some more strength training, but I've got
- 41:44Speaker 6: four kids and run a business, so you've only got
- 41:47Speaker 6: so many hours in the week.
- 41:49Speaker 1: Well, there's someone else on this call who does reps
- 41:51Speaker 1: on sixty kilos on the bench and it's not me.
- 41:55Speaker 5: So wow, TIF so serious.
- 42:00Speaker 6: Inching your body weight or you know thereabouts? Pretty excited,
- 42:04Speaker 6: respect my friend.
- 42:08Speaker 5: That's amazing. That's so incredible, Amelia.
- 42:13Speaker 2: Great to talk to you.
- 42:14Speaker 1: And I genuinely feel today like I was the third
- 42:17Speaker 1: wheel in this conversation. So we should extract me next time.
- 42:22Speaker 1: Just leave it to you two girls. We'll call it
- 42:23Speaker 1: the You Project. I'll intro and outro and then you
- 42:25Speaker 1: two can.
- 42:26Speaker 6: Just I did admit I was fangirling around Tiff before.
- 42:32Speaker 6: So yeah, sorry, Craig.
- 42:33Speaker 5: Yeah, we love you.
- 42:34Speaker 2: Too, whatever, whatever, too power.
- 42:39Speaker 1: Oh she got bloody stopped at the airport by a fan.
- 42:43Speaker 2: Ah. I love it.
- 42:46Speaker 5: I hope you got a selfie.
- 42:47Speaker 4: Shout out to Adrian, by the way, shout out to Amelia.
- 42:52Speaker 1: Where can people connect with you, find you, follow you
- 42:56Speaker 1: and find out all about you?
- 42:58Speaker 6: Oh look, Instagram's the best, So underscore Amelia, underscore Phillips.
- 43:03Speaker 6: I've got a blue top on in my profile pick.
- 43:06Speaker 6: I'm pretty good on DMS and I put lots of
- 43:08Speaker 6: free stuff and education up there, all around health, longevity,
- 43:13Speaker 6: health span, lots of tips and tricks, so you can, yeah, visit.
- 43:18Speaker 5: My podcast healthy her Craig.
- 43:20Speaker 6: I'm sorry it's kind of for women, but you're more
- 43:22Speaker 6: than welcome to come and fig around in.
- 43:25Speaker 5: We're actually going to get you on in a couple
- 43:26Speaker 5: of weeks, so I'm excited. I'm excited to get on.
- 43:30Speaker 2: I'll tell you, ladies, what's up. Don't worry about that.
- 43:33Speaker 5: You're going to put you in the hot seat, my friend.
- 43:35Speaker 2: I might have to borrow I might have to borrow tips, jumpsuit.
- 43:39Speaker 6: And ready hells, Oh my gosh, I would pay to
- 43:44Speaker 6: see it.
- 43:45Speaker 2: I'll tell you what.
- 43:46Speaker 1: You're not the only one I will say goodbye fair
- 43:48Speaker 1: But Amelia, you're great. We appreciate you, and I look
- 43:53Speaker 1: forward to coming to have a chat with you on
- 43:54Speaker 1: your show.
- 43:55Speaker 5: It's been fun. Thanks guys,