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Mental Health Matters- Mind without Medication · Wellness Uncensored

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Speaker 1: Any health related information on the following show provides general
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Speaker 1: information only. Content presented on any show by any host
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Speaker 1: or guest should not be substituted for a doctor's advice.
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Speaker 1: Always consult your physician before beginning any new diet, exercise
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Speaker 1: or treatment program.
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Speaker 2: Hey, good afternoon, and welcome to another episode of Wellness Uncensored.
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Speaker 2: My name is Dr. Patti G. I am your host
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Speaker 2: here today. I'm a psychiatric nurse practitioner, and we are
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Speaker 2: here to talk about all things about you, for you,
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Speaker 2: and a little bit of everything in between about your
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Speaker 2: mental health, your physical health, how they're all interrelated. And
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Speaker 2: this is right smack in the Mental Health Awareness Month,
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Speaker 2: but it's primarily focused on suicide prevention. So keeping that
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Speaker 2: in mind, anyone that you know or love, this doesn't
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Speaker 2: sound right, might need a shoulder to cry on, or
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Speaker 2: just doesn't quite seem themselves. Always remember, you can always
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Speaker 2: share the number 988. That is a national crisis line
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Speaker 2: that anyone who's under stress, duress, just doesn't know where
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Speaker 2: to turn, doesn't feel like there's anyone they can or
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Speaker 2: want to talk to. it's a really great place to
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Speaker 2: call and talk if you feel like you just can't
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Speaker 2: handle things. So 988, I thought was very well popular
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Speaker 2: and shared over the last decade, but I'm still finding
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Speaker 2: so many people don't know about that. So just know
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Speaker 2: that not 911, but 988, it's a mental health crisis line.
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Speaker 2: And it's really important to have that somewhere, maybe on
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Speaker 2: your phone, saved somewhere. You never know the time when
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Speaker 2: you're going to you need to share that with somebody
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Speaker 2: or maybe even use it yourself. Um, but on a
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Speaker 2: more positive mental health note, um, let's talk about what
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Speaker 2: we can do to optimize you. So I'm on day
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Speaker 2: 46 of the 75 day hard challenge. And, um, I
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Speaker 2: brought my little, little journal just to share, you know,
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Speaker 2: it's a work in progress.
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Speaker 1: Okay. 75 days.
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Speaker 2: Um, it's a great place to start, especially if you
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Speaker 2: are somebody who just really needs some guidance, needs some
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Speaker 2: general rules and wants to just start to take charge
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Speaker 2: of making yourself feel better, feel more focused, feel more engaged,
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Speaker 2: and you don't really need to do anything more than
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Speaker 2: get yourself in and start taking the steps to, um,
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Speaker 2: being a better you and what the journeys involve. We've
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Speaker 2: got the 75 day hard journal. We've got the 75
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Speaker 2: day soft and soft is just that maybe you're just
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Speaker 2: not quite ready to launch into a day of two workouts,
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Speaker 2: a gallon of water, 10 pages of a nonfiction book,
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Speaker 2: no alcohol the entire time. And just a real awareness
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Speaker 2: of making sure that you're eating healthy and lean and clean.
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Speaker 2: The soft version is more of an adaptation of trying
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Speaker 2: to get out for a walk daily, reading a few
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Speaker 2: pages of a good nonfiction book, more of a self-help
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Speaker 2: or self-motivation book, hydrating for at least a half a
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Speaker 2: gallon of water every day, and making sure that you
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Speaker 2: are eating well and trying to avoid alcohol, except maybe
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Speaker 2: if there's a social event coming up, you could celebrate it.
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Speaker 2: So the soft version is just that it's a gentler
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Speaker 2: way to really get in the focus. Why do I
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Speaker 2: bring that up? You know, I see patients every day
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Speaker 2: and every day there's really a common theme. People want
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Speaker 2: some type of help or support or assistance and they
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Speaker 2: don't really know where to begin. They also feel like
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Speaker 2: things have kind of rattled a little bit out of
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Speaker 2: control or they just need help or support. And then
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Speaker 2: there's also folks and, you know, you may be at
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Speaker 2: that point at some point in your life where you
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Speaker 2: feel like you can't do it alone. You feel like
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Speaker 2: you can't get enough of a lift. You feel like
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Speaker 2: you can't pull up the sadness or calm the anxiety.
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Speaker 2: And of course, yes, there's always ways of using some
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Speaker 2: type of medication. There's ways to use supplements, but it
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Speaker 2: has to start with you. And so each week we
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Speaker 2: talk about a variety of different things and What I
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Speaker 2: wanted to focus on, there's so many different things that
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Speaker 2: really affect people's thoughts, mentation. What makes one person want
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Speaker 2: to get up and seize the day and another one
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Speaker 2: wake up and not really want to get out of bed?
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Speaker 2: And if you're on the latter side and you feel
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Speaker 2: like every day is a struggle, you really need to
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Speaker 2: start with a self-assessment. And in that self-assessment, it's really
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Speaker 2: important to identify what What are the things that are
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Speaker 2: really bothering you or stressing you? Are these things that
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Speaker 2: you can change or are these things that we just
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Speaker 2: have little to no control over? It might be something
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Speaker 2: like you've got bills that are just mounting. It could
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Speaker 2: be a job that's just overwhelming and just not supportive.
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Speaker 2: You could be in a really stressful, toxic environment. It
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Speaker 2: could be a number of things. It could be a spouse,
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Speaker 2: a boyfriend, a girlfriend. It could be children or it
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Speaker 2: could be your parents. You could be a teenager, an
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Speaker 2: adult and struggling, whatever those things might be. You know,
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Speaker 2: really let's start to do a self-assessment and make a
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Speaker 2: list of those things, things that you can't change, but
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Speaker 2: you have to deal with. And then make a list
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Speaker 2: of the things that perhaps you do have the ability
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Speaker 2: to make some changes. And in looking at that, try
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Speaker 2: to see what things you can push out that you
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Speaker 2: don't have to spend a lot of time with. And
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Speaker 2: then look at the things that you absolutely have to prioritize.
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Speaker 2: Like there are things that we have to do every day.
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Speaker 2: Does that mean we have an attention deficit because we
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Speaker 2: can't get those things done or accomplished every day? It's possible.
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Speaker 2: But a lot of times folks confuse the fact that
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Speaker 2: they're 30, 40, 50, or even 60 years old and they're,
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Speaker 2: They struggle to get certain things done and organized throughout
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Speaker 2: the day. You could be a person who's more involved
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Speaker 2: with putting off the challenging things, putting off the things
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Speaker 2: that you don't like, or you could be someone who procrastinates.
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Speaker 2: They're both sort of one in the same, but if
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Speaker 2: you don't like doing something, the likelihood of you doing
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Speaker 2: it grows lesser and lesser over the day and into
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Speaker 2: the week, as opposed to just doing the stuff that
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Speaker 2: you don't like and get it done. It could be laundry.
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Speaker 2: It could be paying the bills. try to start the bills,
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Speaker 2: get them out the first of the week, maybe do
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Speaker 2: it on a Sunday. And then if it's something that
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Speaker 2: is just, it's daily, maybe it's the dishes, maybe it
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Speaker 2: is the laundry, maybe it's going to work every day,
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Speaker 2: then you've got to do something on the flip side
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Speaker 2: of that, that is actually something you wanna do or
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Speaker 2: something fun. I know it sounds a little silly as
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Speaker 2: adults to want to reward ourselves But really, isn't that
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Speaker 2: the best thing you can do is find a positive,
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Speaker 2: find a recognition. So rewarding yourself is probably one of
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Speaker 2: the best things you can do each day. It could
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Speaker 2: be as simple as, you know, getting a nice hot
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Speaker 2: shower or getting a bath. If you only often make
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Speaker 2: times for a shower, it could be, you know, indulging
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Speaker 2: in a treat, you know, not that we can't have
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Speaker 2: sugar occasionally, but maybe you've earned a treat because you've
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Speaker 2: been working out for five days. Now me, when I
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Speaker 2: work out, I tend not to want the treat because
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Speaker 2: then it's like, well, what's the point of doing all
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Speaker 2: the workouts? So, but it could be any number of
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Speaker 2: a one of those types of things. The other part
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Speaker 2: to consider too is what is it that is taking
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Speaker 2: up so much of your mental space? You know, have
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Speaker 2: you ever thought about all the things that you think
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Speaker 2: of in a given day? And really how much time
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Speaker 2: do you allow for something to take up the rent
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Speaker 2: in what you have to do or what you want
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Speaker 2: to think about? And that takes us into worry and
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Speaker 2: anxiety and overthinking. You know, I think it's very helpful
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Speaker 2: and important to know that we can use some medications
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Speaker 2: to help with those things, but we also have to
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Speaker 2: look at what things do we actively do to try
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Speaker 2: to correct things that we don't necessarily like, right? Like
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Speaker 2: if you don't like worrying and you don't like feeling
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Speaker 2: this uptight and anxious, we can help guide you to
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Speaker 2: get there, to think of these things less. By using
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Speaker 2: some medications or by using some good supplements. But why
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Speaker 2: do you allow yourself or even go with me on this?
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Speaker 2: Why do you punish yourself? If you know you are
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Speaker 2: worried about something today, yesterday, and you're probably going to
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Speaker 2: worry about it tomorrow. Can you change it? And if
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Speaker 2: the answer is no, then you just need to put
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Speaker 2: it over here on your shoulder or put it on
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Speaker 2: the shelf, as I call it. Let it sit there.
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Speaker 2: And see how long you can keep it on your
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Speaker 2: shoulder and go about your day doing the things that
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Speaker 2: you need to do and the things that you want
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Speaker 2: to do. It's still there. And if you want to
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Speaker 2: make a good representation of it, let's just take this clip.
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Speaker 2: We're going to put this clip here for the whole show.
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Speaker 2: And during the show, I want to see, does this
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Speaker 2: clip move or change? This is your anxiety. Okay. And
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Speaker 2: while we go through, we talk about different tips and
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Speaker 2: tidbits and different ways to help you improve your mental well-being.
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Speaker 2: We'll see if our anxiety changes. OK, or if the problem,
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Speaker 2: this is your problem, this is your anxiety. This is
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Speaker 2: this is the thing that you don't like. And we'll
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Speaker 2: see where we get to. Now, let's talk about things.
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Speaker 2: We talk about this a lot. You know, how many
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Speaker 2: of you really optimize your hydration? Why do I go
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Speaker 2: over hydration so often with everybody? Because when you look
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Speaker 2: at living being creatures, it's almost an instinctual thing with creatures,
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Speaker 2: you know, the fish in the sea, the animals out
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Speaker 2: in nature. Even if you look at your pets, typically
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Speaker 2: your dogs and cats, they're going to go get water
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Speaker 2: from the water bowl when they're thirsty. They're going to
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Speaker 2: usually be in pretty good condition unless you have a
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Speaker 2: pet that's sick or ailing. Generally speaking, dogs know when
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Speaker 2: they need water. And if that water bowl is not full,
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Speaker 2: what happens? I don't know if you have pets that
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Speaker 2: will let you know, but mine sure do. And they'll
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Speaker 2: clang on the bowl, they'll flip the bowl. Our bodies
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Speaker 2: are telling the same thing when we're dry. We don't
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Speaker 2: have a bowl to flip, but our body will produce
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Speaker 2: different feelings and thoughts and symptoms to say, hey, I'm
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Speaker 2: not feeling so good. I'm drying up inside. And those
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Speaker 2: thoughts and feelings will come in the form of, anybody
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Speaker 2: want to guess? Anxiety, low mood, fatigue, irritability. Not only
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Speaker 2: with hydration, but how many of you out there ever
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Speaker 2: get really hangry? I really do get hangry. And I
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Speaker 2: try not to let myself get hangry because then everybody
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Speaker 2: around me knows how hangry I am. And the folks
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Speaker 2: at one of the offices I work, they know if
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Speaker 2: I have to go all day on a Friday and
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Speaker 2: I can't get a turkey sandwich, when I'm signaling out
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Speaker 2: that I got to get a turkey sandwich, they know
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Speaker 2: how hangry I am. So it's kind of a standing joke.
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Speaker 2: So find where you are in your world of hangry
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Speaker 2: and hydration. But why it's so important is because let's
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Speaker 2: look at your day. How many of you out there,
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Speaker 2: you go from start to finish. There's not a stitch
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Speaker 2: of time to sit down. There's not a stitch of
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Speaker 2: time to run and get a drink. And most of you,
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Speaker 2: you probably don't bring all of your nourishments to and
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Speaker 2: from wherever you go. You know, when we were kids,
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Speaker 2: how many of you have those great little lunch boxes?
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Speaker 2: There's metal lunch boxes. Oh my gosh. I can remember,
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Speaker 2: you know, some of them with the little, the little,
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Speaker 2: characters on them and all different things, right? And we
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Speaker 2: had to take our lunch to school. Well, we should
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Speaker 2: be taking our lunch or our bag with us pretty
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Speaker 2: much everywhere we go. At least pop a bottle of
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Speaker 2: water in something that you can carry around. And there's
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Speaker 2: a lot of great things you can use. I'll often
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Speaker 2: just grab a bottle of water and I'll put my
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Speaker 2: nutrients in it or I'll carry around because we're doing
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Speaker 2: the 75 day challenge. I have to drink at least
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Speaker 2: two of these a day. Right now, I probably could
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Speaker 2: use a a strap around it, but I usually put
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Speaker 2: it in my bag. And then throw in some other things.
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Speaker 2: Do you ever get hungry or feel like a snack?
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Speaker 2: And because you didn't bring anything with you, do you
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Speaker 2: run into the gas station? Do you run and grab
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Speaker 2: something extra at one of the fast food restaurants? What
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Speaker 2: are you putting into your body? Probably not the healthiest stuff.
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Speaker 2: So if you organize yourself to put a little bag
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Speaker 2: of nutrients and hydration together, I set mine up sometimes
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Speaker 2: the night before. but usually the morning of. And then
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Speaker 2: I carry it around with me throughout the day. It
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Speaker 2: goes in and out of my car. It goes with
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Speaker 2: me into the office. If I'm doing other things, when
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Speaker 2: I go to the gym, I've got another bag. I
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Speaker 2: feel like the bag lady sometimes, but, and what's the
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Speaker 2: worst thing when you, I have so many different bags.
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Speaker 2: There are times when I will grab my bag and
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Speaker 2: I'll get to the car and I'll have left my
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Speaker 2: keys in another bag. And that makes me crazy because
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Speaker 2: then I have to stop, go back. Right. And what
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Speaker 2: happens when those unexpected surprises happen in our life, right?
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Speaker 2: We get frustrated. We get mad. We're like, oh, I'm
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Speaker 2: going to be behind. We're running late. So it happens
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Speaker 2: to all of us. But what you have to remember
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Speaker 2: is you've got to set yourself up for success. And
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Speaker 2: we can find all the reasons not to be successful
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Speaker 2: in our health and in our journey. But why not
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Speaker 2: flip the coin? Let's start looking at today and planning
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Speaker 2: for tomorrow and as a way of making your day
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Speaker 2: a better, healthier, more mindful day. So it really does
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Speaker 2: start with the hydration and the nutrition. Now, if you
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Speaker 2: have questions, feel free, certainly text in if you've got anything.
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Speaker 2: The bigger piece to all this too is how do
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Speaker 2: we put it all together? You know, you get up,
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Speaker 2: you've got kids, you get up, you've got work, you've
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Speaker 2: got all these responsibilities. Many of us, you know, if
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Speaker 2: you don't get out of work on time or after work,
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Speaker 2: you're tired. Where do you fit in the time for you?
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Speaker 2: You know, where is that self-care? And I have been
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Speaker 2: right there with many of you. Well, after work, all
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Speaker 2: I want to do is rest. That's fair. But can
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Speaker 2: you set yourself up to give yourself a little rest, 20,
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Speaker 2: 30 minutes, and then commit, commit to movement? And maybe
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Speaker 2: it's not so easy that you can't just get up
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Speaker 2: and go run on the treadmill or run around the block.
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Speaker 2: But can you commit to getting up, walking and stretching?
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Speaker 2: And this is where all those fabulous YouTube videos come
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Speaker 2: in that I talk with you guys about. You know,
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Speaker 2: how many of you out there don't want to go
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Speaker 2: or don't have time or have all kinds of reasons
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Speaker 2: why you can't go to the gym? I know who
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Speaker 2: you are. I have many of you in my office,
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Speaker 2: I think. And people know there is not much you
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Speaker 2: can give me an objection to that I can't find
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Speaker 2: a solution. And if you want to be better, if
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Speaker 2: you want to feel better, if you want to take
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Speaker 2: control of your life, The only person who's going to
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Speaker 2: let you do that is you. And the only person
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Speaker 2: who's going to stop you is you. Now there are
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Speaker 2: other people that will get in your way, but you know,
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Speaker 2: just like this, you know, this 75 day challenge, you know,
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Speaker 2: I have lots of people that mean well, and so
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Speaker 2: many of them, oh my gosh, they they'll call, they
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Speaker 2: need something. Oh, so many people have had crises lately.
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Speaker 2: Family members will want to go out because, you know,
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Speaker 2: we love to get together, but How many times do
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Speaker 2: I have to remind them? I got to get my
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Speaker 2: second workout in for the day. Oh yeah, that's right. Okay,
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Speaker 2: you go do that. Well, it's because I made a
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Speaker 2: commitment to myself. There have been a number of days
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Speaker 2: on this journey that it would have been so easy
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Speaker 2: to just go, you know what? I am going to
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Speaker 2: just skip that second workout. And I almost did a
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Speaker 2: couple of times. I'll be honest, because when you're tired sometimes,
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Speaker 2: and my family has seen me tired, it always feels
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Speaker 2: good to give yourself a break. But sometimes, should you
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Speaker 2: give yourself a break? Should you give yourself that opportunity
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Speaker 2: for the excuse? Only you know the answer to that. Now,
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Speaker 2: it doesn't mean you always have to be hard on yourself,
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Speaker 2: but I think many of you do a really good
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Speaker 2: job of being hard on yourself more so than you
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Speaker 2: are good to yourself. So with today's episode, the whole
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Speaker 2: goal is When are you going to start taking yourself seriously?
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Speaker 2: When are you going to make a commitment to you
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Speaker 2: to take care of yourself first so you can be
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Speaker 2: better for everybody else around you? And it doesn't have
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Speaker 2: to be hard. You know, let's look around. I just
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Speaker 2: shared like different things. We hydrate. We've got it with
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Speaker 2: us in the workspace. We've got nutrients. We've got some
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Speaker 2: good stuff here. I can't really do a whole lot
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Speaker 2: of movement here, but what I can do when I
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Speaker 2: close up my work, I can just switch over to
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Speaker 2: a YouTube channel and I can push the chair away.
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Speaker 2: And I virtually could either stand here and do some
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Speaker 2: stretches and some lifts, or I could jump over to
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Speaker 2: my walk pad and I could get on my walk
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Speaker 2: pad and I could do some, what I call mindless movement.
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Speaker 2: You know, many of you have very physical jobs and
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Speaker 2: I know that, you know, Even a massage therapist will
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Speaker 2: tell me, oh yeah, you know, I'm moving around all day.
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Speaker 2: And it is, it's extremely hard physical work, but it's
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Speaker 2: focused work and you're paying attention. You're lifting boxes, you're
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Speaker 2: doing all kinds of things. And those kinds of things
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Speaker 2: are not really giving your muscles and your cardiovascular system
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Speaker 2: the opportunity to kind of languish in the moment and
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Speaker 2: stretch and release and feel good and pump up the iron,
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Speaker 2: get the heart moving. So you do need to start
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Speaker 2: working on giving yourself 15 to 20 minutes a day
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Speaker 2: of something where you can just zone out and look
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Speaker 2: at nature, zone out and look at a screen and
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Speaker 2: just follow what they tell you to do in terms
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Speaker 2: of movement. I'm telling you, if you don't do the
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Speaker 2: 75 day challenge, you're not ready for the 30 day challenge.
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Speaker 2: I really hope that you're up to try a week.
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Speaker 2: Let's go for a week. You know, tomorrow's Friday. What
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Speaker 2: a great way to start on a Friday with some
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Speaker 2: new goals. you get the weekend to really practice, play
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Speaker 2: with it, hardwire it, take some steps. Now you could
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Speaker 2: end up like many of the folks that I see, right?
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Speaker 2: And I see them in the office and they come
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Speaker 2: in and they just don't know where to start. And
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Speaker 2: not only do they not know where to start, maybe
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Speaker 2: like some of you, they'll give me every reason why, well,
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Speaker 2: I just, I can't do that. I'm not ready to
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Speaker 2: do this. And You know, I don't know. And then
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Speaker 2: I stop and I ask him and I'm going to
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Speaker 2: ask all of you. So what do you want for yourself?
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Speaker 2: What do you want to do? You know, where do
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Speaker 2: you see yourself? Do you like your haircut? Do you
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Speaker 2: like how much you weigh? Do you like how you
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Speaker 2: feel after you indulge and eat certain foods? Do you
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Speaker 2: like that you're not someone who really likes to go
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Speaker 2: outside so much and maybe you're more socially isolated, but
19:40
Speaker 2: now you've been inside and you're really kind of just
19:44
Speaker 2: out of tune. So all these things you can do
19:47
Speaker 2: in a relatively short period of time in the day
19:50
Speaker 2: throughout the day, and you can do it pretty much
19:52
Speaker 2: in the comfort of your own home. So first you
19:55
Speaker 2: have to make the commitment. And this is where I
19:58
Speaker 2: often will tell folks, get yourself a little journal. You know,
20:02
Speaker 2: now you can grab journals anywhere you can grab. I
20:04
Speaker 2: got an extra one of these, the 75 day hard challenge.
20:08
Speaker 2: You know, this is just a great little tool to
20:10
Speaker 2: be able to give yourself a checklist of things each
20:12
Speaker 2: and every day of what you need to be doing.
20:16
Speaker 2: And it can become something that you, you work by,
20:19
Speaker 2: you live by and do it for a week. Okay.
20:23
Speaker 2: And it doesn't have to be a hard one. It
20:24
Speaker 2: can be the softer one. It can be a week of,
20:28
Speaker 2: I'm going to be committed to hydrating more and I'm
20:30
Speaker 2: going to walk more. And those two things right there,
20:33
Speaker 2: you're going to feel better. Um, I often talk about this.
20:37
Speaker 2: So today I brought it over to the show so
20:39
Speaker 2: you guys could see it, but I, I can't tell
20:41
Speaker 2: you enough about what a branch chain amino acids will
20:44
Speaker 2: do to help your mood and to help you feel better.
20:48
Speaker 2: This is one particular brand. This is one of my favorites.
20:53
Speaker 2: It's from NutriShop and you can get them online. It's
20:56
Speaker 2: N U T R I shop NutriShop. Um, but you
21:00
Speaker 2: can get them anywhere for the most part. You can
21:02
Speaker 2: get them at Walmart. It's, it's a tub of powder.
21:05
Speaker 2: And you take the powder and you sprinkle it in
21:08
Speaker 2: a water bottle and you drink it. If you do
21:10
Speaker 2: nothing else, this is going to provide great nutrients to
21:15
Speaker 2: your brain and to your body. So start there. Start
21:18
Speaker 2: there and let's keep it simple. I wanted to spend
21:21
Speaker 2: a little bit more time, too, talking about different things
21:25
Speaker 2: that give us such stress and to talk a little
21:28
Speaker 2: bit about anxiety and depression and What is trauma? What
21:32
Speaker 2: does trauma look like? Trauma comes in a lot of
21:35
Speaker 2: different shapes and sizes. Why does anxiety get to us?
21:39
Speaker 2: And everything that we've kind of talked about up to
21:42
Speaker 2: this point, you know, what you do internally and how
21:46
Speaker 2: you move and how you sleep will affect how resilient
21:51
Speaker 2: or how beaten down you are. And so let's just
21:53
Speaker 2: take it if you are really not feeling good and
21:56
Speaker 2: you're not liking the medications you're taking, you're not liking
21:59
Speaker 2: just about anything. You've got to make a commitment to
22:02
Speaker 2: try to do something different, right? Because otherwise you're doing
22:05
Speaker 2: the same thing and you know where that gets. I
22:07
Speaker 2: appreciate Rebel and the team. They've got my books up there,
22:11
Speaker 2: The Frozen Shoulder and They Call Me Harriet. You know,
22:13
Speaker 2: I have written two different books. You can get them
22:16
Speaker 2: on the magnoliabwellness.com site. You can also get them on Amazon.
22:22
Speaker 2: That barcode will get you there as well too, or
22:24
Speaker 2: the scan code. Frozen Shoulder, comes from a variety of
22:29
Speaker 2: different mechanisms, but frozen shoulder can come from deep emotional challenges.
22:36
Speaker 2: Mental health manifests in your body so many different ways,
22:40
Speaker 2: in physical forms. And frozen shoulder, specific to folks that
22:45
Speaker 2: have undergone a lot of duress, traumatic events, recent events,
22:51
Speaker 2: it's usually more within the timeframe of When you develop
22:54
Speaker 2: the shoulder, usually it's something that's happened within six months
22:58
Speaker 2: to two years prior that you've just buried into your being.
23:03
Speaker 2: And it manifests with your shoulder kind of locking down,
23:06
Speaker 2: clamping and coming sort of disjointed because your scapula, when
23:13
Speaker 2: you look at your back in the mirror, one will
23:15
Speaker 2: become higher and kind of shifted to the side. It's
23:18
Speaker 2: literally like how we tense up our shoulders. So if
23:21
Speaker 2: you sit there like this for a minute, and I've
23:22
Speaker 2: got my shoulders tensed up, how long can you sit
23:25
Speaker 2: like this without getting very fatigued and probably very sore?
23:29
Speaker 2: So much if you did this for most of the
23:31
Speaker 2: day today, tomorrow you would be like, why is my
23:35
Speaker 2: neck and my shoulder, everything's so sore? It's because you
23:38
Speaker 2: were like this all day yesterday. So why would you
23:41
Speaker 2: be like this? Well, maybe you had a really tough
23:43
Speaker 2: day at work. Maybe the stressors, maybe things at home,
23:47
Speaker 2: maybe everything. You name what your reason is, your stress,
23:50
Speaker 2: your challenge, your trigger, right? We can't shake it out.
23:54
Speaker 2: So frozen shoulder becomes sort of a disease process. It's
23:59
Speaker 2: an anomaly. It's a pathology where the shoulder just kind
24:03
Speaker 2: of dries up and locks down. And once the process starts,
24:07
Speaker 2: you can't stop it. You can try to accelerate it.
24:09
Speaker 2: We've had some really good results. On prior shows, we've
24:12
Speaker 2: talked about how you can really facilitate healing with peptides,
24:17
Speaker 2: platelet-rich plasma injections, cryotherapy. So there's a ton of things.
24:21
Speaker 2: And if you tune in, we've got several prior shows
24:23
Speaker 2: we've done over the years. Just go into iHeartRadio and
24:26
Speaker 2: look up wellness uncensored with Patty G and you'll be
24:29
Speaker 2: able to find some of the episodes on frozen shoulders specifically.
24:33
Speaker 2: But all the tips and tools, they're in my book.
24:36
Speaker 2: But trauma, let's talk about trauma and mental health symptoms.
24:42
Speaker 2: We can create physiological, physical problems in our body by
24:47
Speaker 2: holding on and not dealing with and resolving and lifting
24:51
Speaker 2: our mood and putting ourselves in a better place. Trauma
24:54
Speaker 2: specifically because it's years and years of buildup, of holding
24:58
Speaker 2: on to past hurts, emotional pain, dysregulation. And a lot
25:03
Speaker 2: of times our body's coping mechanisms find different ways to
25:07
Speaker 2: settle it out in our body. And a lot of
25:09
Speaker 2: folks who have trauma or have had trauma find that
25:13
Speaker 2: they really struggle with some type of hip, somewhere in
25:16
Speaker 2: the hip, the whole hip area, hip pain, lower back pain.
25:21
Speaker 2: And then often too, it's the shoulder pain. It's funny
25:24
Speaker 2: how it comes to the joints. I haven't heard a
25:26
Speaker 2: lot about like knee pain specifically for trauma, but it's
25:30
Speaker 2: usually shoulder or usually hips, lower back, and then it
25:35
Speaker 2: can manifest as a frozen shoulder. So trauma is something
25:40
Speaker 2: that if we don't spend time really acknowledging it, dealing
25:45
Speaker 2: with it, and facing it and then putting it in
25:48
Speaker 2: a place of recovery. It will always have a way
25:51
Speaker 2: of repeating in our daily lives. So getting help and
25:55
Speaker 2: support for things that may have happened in your life.
25:58
Speaker 2: You know, some of us have more than one or two,
26:01
Speaker 2: maybe some are more fortunate. They've not had trauma, but
26:05
Speaker 2: trauma can be very real and debilitating to you. And
26:08
Speaker 2: so whatever your issue is, it's real. And it's how
26:11
Speaker 2: we can help you work through that. Similarly, You know,
26:15
Speaker 2: anxiety and depression, many of the symptoms of anxiety and
26:18
Speaker 2: depression will fall into categories of not just low mood
26:23
Speaker 2: and low motivation, but then it becomes procrastination, disorganization, concentration, focus,
26:33
Speaker 2: losing things, poor memory. And what's fascinating about that is
26:39
Speaker 2: those symptoms overlap. My favorite reason people come in to
26:43
Speaker 2: see me I'm really struggling. I'm in my late 30s,
26:47
Speaker 2: early 40s, early 50s. And I'm pretty sure I've done
26:52
Speaker 2: one of those self-care charts where my friend told me,
26:55
Speaker 2: I've got attention deficit and I need to get on
26:57
Speaker 2: a stimulant. I share that because if anyone takes a stimulant,
27:03
Speaker 2: you're going to notice something. Most of the times you're
27:05
Speaker 2: going to notice that you're like, you got jet fuel
27:08
Speaker 2: going and can you get a lot of things done? Absolutely.
27:11
Speaker 2: Will you drive more focus and concentration to the things
27:14
Speaker 2: at hand? Most likely. Now, not everybody can handle a
27:18
Speaker 2: stimulant either because it does really rub your heart. So
27:21
Speaker 2: people that are sensitive, it doesn't mean they can tolerate it,
27:24
Speaker 2: but they may have physiological symptoms. But here's the thing
27:28
Speaker 2: I want you guys to realize and understand. I get folks,
27:32
Speaker 2: they'll tell me how they've got all these symptoms and
27:34
Speaker 2: it must be focus and attention. It must be ADD.
27:38
Speaker 2: How have you gotten to wherever you are in life
27:41
Speaker 2: whatever it is you're doing, without some level of adaptation
27:45
Speaker 2: and coping skills. So why don't we look at what
27:48
Speaker 2: created your adaptation and coping skills? And so many times
27:55
Speaker 2: what we find with adults, there's a lot of underlying dysfunction.
28:00
Speaker 2: There's a lot of poor communication or poor coping skills.
28:04
Speaker 2: And there's also a lot of buried things that were
28:06
Speaker 2: either repressed, depressive thoughts, repressed self-esteem, repressed anxiety and uncertainty.
28:17
Speaker 2: And when we can address to help the individual become
28:20
Speaker 2: more confident, calmer, thoughtful, approaching things from an organized fashion
28:26
Speaker 2: and expressing or exposing how they've been feeling throughout their life,
28:33
Speaker 2: guess what falls into place? Anxiety goes down, depressive thoughts
28:38
Speaker 2: lift and move out, Things become clearer. People become more positive,
28:43
Speaker 2: more motivated. They get more things done. You've lifted the
28:46
Speaker 2: wool blanket off of them. And we've not done anything
28:50
Speaker 2: for their attention deficit belief. So I don't know if
28:54
Speaker 2: that makes sense to everybody, but I wanted to really
28:57
Speaker 2: go over that because you're feeling the way you are.
28:59
Speaker 2: The other thing you have to consider too is let's
29:02
Speaker 2: get some lab work done. You all know that as
29:05
Speaker 2: things change, as you go across the continuum, Our bodies change.
29:10
Speaker 2: And so if you're not making and producing things the
29:13
Speaker 2: way you did, right? Like if you're not 18 or 20,
29:16
Speaker 2: you notice changes. The body changes. The body slows in
29:20
Speaker 2: some ways. It doesn't mean you have to come to
29:22
Speaker 2: a grinding halt, but it does slow in some ways.
29:26
Speaker 2: And so with that, it's important to keep in mind,
29:29
Speaker 2: you know, what things are you doing to protect it?
29:32
Speaker 2: Like our body makes NAD. It's nucleotinamide adenosine. And it's
29:39
Speaker 2: part of the because. chain. Your body produces it, but
29:42
Speaker 2: after the age of 25, it starts to go down.
29:46
Speaker 2: And I often tell people to get this as a supplement.
29:49
Speaker 2: I prefer, um, an injectable or getting an IV versus
29:54
Speaker 2: a tablet, but you can start out with a tablet
29:57
Speaker 2: or a capsule. Um, Obviously, they're easier to ingest, although
30:02
Speaker 2: a lot of people don't like to take so many capsules.
30:05
Speaker 2: But you can try it out and you'll see some
30:09
Speaker 2: subtle improvements of energy and mood. It takes about three
30:12
Speaker 2: to four weeks. But NAD is really good. It's part
30:16
Speaker 2: of like the ATP and the Krebs cycle. So those
30:19
Speaker 2: are the powerhouse areas of your cell. When your cells
30:22
Speaker 2: are charged and they feel energized, it's going to give
30:25
Speaker 2: you a natural lift. Okay, so we're not talking medicine here.
30:29
Speaker 2: When you take it in a different form, either a
30:31
Speaker 2: little sub-Q injectable or you get it in an IV,
30:34
Speaker 2: you're going to feel it. You'll feel it. It'll be
30:36
Speaker 2: a little intense, warm heat feeling. It feels a little
30:40
Speaker 2: bit like a, I don't know, prickly pear, but it
30:43
Speaker 2: goes away in a few minutes. And then for the
30:45
Speaker 2: next 24 to 48 hours, you find that you're pretty active, mobile, clear, cognizant.
30:51
Speaker 2: You get things done. It is a great supplement to
30:54
Speaker 2: introduce into your life. The other supplement that I talk
30:57
Speaker 2: about a lot is You know, these are buried in
31:00
Speaker 2: the layers of how your cells build and break down.
31:03
Speaker 2: But besides NAD, there's NAC, it's N-acetylcysteine. N-acetylcysteine is made
31:09
Speaker 2: in your body anyway. But again, we tend to make
31:12
Speaker 2: less of it or not as consistently producing it effectively.
31:16
Speaker 2: So it's not a bad thing to take as a supplement.
31:19
Speaker 2: These nutrients are meant to be used with the body.
31:22
Speaker 2: So you want to be able to make sure you're
31:24
Speaker 2: doing things like getting protein drinks and adding branch chain
31:28
Speaker 2: aminos to your water, things like that. Because then the
31:31
Speaker 2: supplements and the nutrients tend to work better. It's like
31:34
Speaker 2: putting things into a well-oiled machine. But NAC is what
31:38
Speaker 2: builds to create glucothione. It's the precursor. And what is glucothione?
31:44
Speaker 2: Glucothione is your master detoxifier of your body. And so
31:48
Speaker 2: if your body is not making enough glucothione, what do
31:51
Speaker 2: you think happens? Your body then tends to build up toxins,
31:56
Speaker 2: not feel so good, feel sluggish. Maybe you don't have
32:00
Speaker 2: as much good urination. So those kinds of things are
32:04
Speaker 2: super important. Oh, I was making a joke. Prickly pear,
32:09
Speaker 2: like when you take NAD, they had a question. When
32:13
Speaker 2: you take NAD, if you take it by a capsule,
32:17
Speaker 2: it's very subtle. You won't necessarily feel any skin tingling
32:20
Speaker 2: or flushing. But when you do an NAD injection or
32:24
Speaker 2: an NAD in an IV, like IV therapy, you will
32:28
Speaker 2: feel this warmth and sort of prickliness on your skin.
32:32
Speaker 2: And it just lets you know it's working. Um, I
32:36
Speaker 2: think it's pretty cool because when you do try the
32:39
Speaker 2: supplement NAD, and I challenge you guys to go find
32:42
Speaker 2: a nice place where they do these IV supplements, um,
32:46
Speaker 2: you know, check them out for yourself. Many places are
32:49
Speaker 2: very reputable, but NAD is used in like an IV
32:52
Speaker 2: solution and it's the powerhouse of your ATP Krebs cycle
32:58
Speaker 2: where it's going to be energizing, but your body will
33:01
Speaker 2: feel it when it's infusing in. And sometimes people get scared,
33:05
Speaker 2: but this was a game changer for me when I
33:08
Speaker 2: came home from the hospital on oxygen, I couldn't tell
33:11
Speaker 2: you how, how poorly I felt and, But I couldn't breathe,
33:16
Speaker 2: couldn't take a deep breath. It was awful. And when
33:18
Speaker 2: I got the NAD IV, it took a while for
33:22
Speaker 2: it to infuse because it can be slightly uncomfortable, especially
33:26
Speaker 2: if you are, let's just say, recovering from something. But
33:31
Speaker 2: when you are recovering from something or if you try it,
33:34
Speaker 2: the NAD, it's fascinating. You will feel it throughout your
33:37
Speaker 2: body where your body has the most breakdown or need
33:41
Speaker 2: for cellular repair. And so when I had the IVs,
33:47
Speaker 2: where do you think after coming home from COVID, did
33:50
Speaker 2: I feel this prickly, kind of prickly pear burning and pressure?
33:55
Speaker 2: All in my chest, throughout my lungs, tops of my shoulders,
34:00
Speaker 2: up the back of my head, the front of my
34:02
Speaker 2: head and my sinuses. And believe it or not, a
34:05
Speaker 2: little bit in the tops of my thighs. Now, why
34:08
Speaker 2: is that? Oh, and my stomach felt uncomfortable too. All
34:11
Speaker 2: these major areas is where I had the greatest inflammation
34:14
Speaker 2: from COVID and I had the greatest damage. And so
34:18
Speaker 2: it's just a really cool phenomenon. NAD goes to the
34:21
Speaker 2: parts of your body that need the most cellular help.
34:24
Speaker 2: So keep that in mind. How do you get it?
34:27
Speaker 2: Where do you get it? NAD, you can get the
34:32
Speaker 2: capsules a lot of places online. On our website, themagnoliabewellness.com,
34:38
Speaker 2: Under products, you can go on to our full scripts.
34:42
Speaker 2: And when you sign in there, you can actually type
34:44
Speaker 2: in under the search box NAD. If you want to
34:51
Speaker 2: do injectables, you can either reach out to us. You
34:54
Speaker 2: can text us at 904-377-1196. The number's at the bottom.
34:57
Speaker 2: But you can text us 904-377-1196. And we can help
34:58
Speaker 2: you to get it sent to you. injecting it is
35:09
Speaker 2: not hard. If any of you ever have done like
35:11
Speaker 2: a topical or a sub-Q injection, we can provide the
35:15
Speaker 2: information how to do it, or you can go to
35:16
Speaker 2: a place. It's N as in Nick, A as in Apple,
35:21
Speaker 2: D as in David, N-A-D. Just in case some of
35:25
Speaker 2: you aren't sure, but N, Nick, A, Apple, D, David.
35:30
Speaker 2: It's very easy to inject it subcutaneously. It means you
35:33
Speaker 2: take a little needle that you find like a diabetic
35:36
Speaker 2: needle or a TB needle And you're just tapping it
35:39
Speaker 2: into the top layer of your skin. And you really
35:43
Speaker 2: can't mess it up. And usually you put it in
35:45
Speaker 2: your thigh. It's a big, big, chunky, meaty area. But
35:50
Speaker 2: it's very easy to teach somebody how to do that.
35:52
Speaker 2: But if you prefer, a lot of the IV places
35:55
Speaker 2: will also do the injections. So if you want to
35:58
Speaker 2: try it out, you can do like 50 milligrams or
36:00
Speaker 2: 100 milligrams. And when they inject it, you will feel
36:04
Speaker 2: a little blushy, prickly feeling. for about five, seven, 10
36:09
Speaker 2: minutes at the most, if that. And it's just, I mean,
36:12
Speaker 2: you know, you take something, you want to know it's working, right?
36:14
Speaker 2: It's kind of cool because that's the indication that it's
36:17
Speaker 2: going to work in your body. What you'll feel after
36:20
Speaker 2: those five to 10 minutes is just an increase in energy,
36:26
Speaker 2: mental alertness. I find that after I get the NAD
36:30
Speaker 2: injections or I do an IV, I'm pretty good for
36:33
Speaker 2: two to three days. The house gets cleaned really good.
36:36
Speaker 2: I multitask and do 20 different things. It powers up
36:40
Speaker 2: my 75 day workouts. So it's just a really good
36:43
Speaker 2: little energizer supplement. If you don't want to inject it
36:49
Speaker 2: yourself and if you want to do it, like I said,
36:50
Speaker 2: there's lots of places that are popping up probably in
36:53
Speaker 2: your local area, but you can always reach out to
36:55
Speaker 2: us and we can help you to refer you or
36:57
Speaker 2: we can get you some of those supplements as well.
37:01
Speaker 2: whether it's a capsule form or if it's a sub-Q,
37:05
Speaker 2: we can help you with all those things. So, but
37:07
Speaker 2: that NAD is phenomenal. NAD is one supplement. NAC, which
37:14
Speaker 2: is Nancy Apple Cat, NAC, that is short for N-acetylcysteine.
37:22
Speaker 2: And that is another supplement that your body actually makes,
37:26
Speaker 2: like a peptide your body makes. And NAD, it's where
37:30
Speaker 2: it starts to build and form different chains to create glucothione.
37:34
Speaker 2: These are all made in your body, but we've created them.
37:37
Speaker 2: I haven't, but the manufacturers have, and we can simulate
37:42
Speaker 2: increasing them in your body. So as time goes on
37:44
Speaker 2: and you know, your body doesn't produce them as well,
37:47
Speaker 2: you can add some and it will really help you
37:50
Speaker 2: with overall cognition, decreasing mental fatigue, energy, alertness, all kinds
37:57
Speaker 2: of stuff. I mean, I have to attribute the fact
38:00
Speaker 2: of all the different things that I use daily is
38:02
Speaker 2: what has allowed me for the first time this year
38:05
Speaker 2: to get these two workouts in, work about 12 to
38:08
Speaker 2: 14 hours a day and still have time to relax,
38:11
Speaker 2: get other things done and have that energy. So I
38:15
Speaker 2: do use these products myself, but they're out there. You
38:19
Speaker 2: can get them. They're all over the counter. It's not
38:21
Speaker 2: anything that you have to prescribe to. NAD injections are,
38:26
Speaker 2: you know, through suppliers, through prescription. Um, but the IV, um,
38:31
Speaker 2: like if you go to a, a prime IV, or
38:34
Speaker 2: if you go to, um, restore IV, those are just
38:38
Speaker 2: two chains or franchises that I can generally tell you
38:42
Speaker 2: are out there in the community. Um, they all have
38:44
Speaker 2: both the NAD injection and the NAD IV therapy, but they're,
38:49
Speaker 2: they're great. And, you know, they're not habit forming, but
38:52
Speaker 2: once you do one, you'll want to do another one. Um,
38:56
Speaker 2: I have found that mental and physical wellness has become
39:00
Speaker 2: a way of life for me. That's the path I've chosen.
39:04
Speaker 2: So do I choose to spend the money to buy,
39:06
Speaker 2: you know, different supplements, different injectables? Yeah. Cause I feel good.
39:12
Speaker 2: Another really good one. I'll just kind of tell you
39:15
Speaker 2: this like in a little blister pack, but rhodiola is
39:19
Speaker 2: another supplement. And, you know, we always tell you at
39:22
Speaker 2: the beginning of the show about, you know, always check
39:24
Speaker 2: with your personal physician or provider. But if you haven't
39:28
Speaker 2: found and you're not going to someone who does functional
39:31
Speaker 2: medicine or functional psychiatry in those categories of study, we
39:37
Speaker 2: are really trying to optimize supplements, nutrients to maximize how
39:42
Speaker 2: you feel with the least minimal or no medications. So,
39:48
Speaker 2: you know, I would say, and it's fair game out
39:51
Speaker 2: there today, but, you know, there's a lot of different
39:55
Speaker 2: wellness providers out there. A lot of them have spent
39:58
Speaker 2: a lot of time studying and training. So because their
40:02
Speaker 2: methodology is different from what I consider traditional old school medicine,
40:08
Speaker 2: you get to decide which you prefer. And I often say,
40:11
Speaker 2: try it on. If you try it on and, you know,
40:15
Speaker 2: you feel as good as I do, That's why I
40:18
Speaker 2: like to share with people the things that have worked
40:19
Speaker 2: for me. And in the book, if you happen upon it,
40:24
Speaker 2: I think it's a really good personal journey and a
40:26
Speaker 2: personal story. You know, I've been doing this for four decades.
40:30
Speaker 2: And in those four decades, why I wrote that book,
40:32
Speaker 2: they call me Harriet. I grew up as a very
40:36
Speaker 2: well-schooled medical model person going to the top academies in
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Speaker 2: the United States. I graduated from Penn and Wharton. And
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Speaker 2: I was all about the textbook medicine. As I grew
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Speaker 2: in my career, and I watched and I learned and
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Speaker 2: I listened and I tried things on myself, I came
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Speaker 2: to find that my best health care was well care
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Speaker 2: and wellness. And I didn't find that all the things
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Speaker 2: that we did necessarily in other frames of medicine really
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Speaker 2: made me feel better, or did they keep me feeling
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Speaker 2: not so good. So in my choice, my path I
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Speaker 2: have found to do things to optimize my health and wellness.
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Speaker 2: And I think that's where you have to decide what's
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Speaker 2: working for you. And so if you tune in here
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Speaker 2: every week, what we talk about, we're doing things that
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Speaker 2: take us to the next level that keep us feeling good,
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Speaker 2: help us feeling healthy. In the book, they call me Harriet.
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Speaker 2: It's a pretty personal journey of taking someone like myself
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Speaker 2: who was really in good physical form, exercise, working, living life,
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Speaker 2: doing stuff and getting down to the brass tacks of
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Speaker 2: pure survival. I never thought I'd see myself in an
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Speaker 2: ICU and I never thought I'd see myself planning for
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Speaker 2: my death and having my husband having to take on
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Speaker 2: that task of planning what to do with this, planning
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Speaker 2: what to do with that, not taking no for an answer.
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Speaker 2: And the steps that we started to take, I decided
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Speaker 2: I was leaving the hospital and I didn't know how
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Speaker 2: long I had. But when I left the hospital, I
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Speaker 2: got home. And in the story, I share a lot
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Speaker 2: of this. I sat there. And I was all alone
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Speaker 2: in our living room because I couldn't make it up
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Speaker 2: the stairs. I was tethered, literally tethered to a long
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Speaker 2: tube of oxygen and a tank. And I just, I said,
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Speaker 2: you know, I can't, I just can't give up. And
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Speaker 2: so my favorite old movie, Rocky was on. And while
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Speaker 2: I was watching Rocky, the original, apparently it was a series.
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Speaker 2: And what else was I to do? So I watched
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Speaker 2: every Rocky show that day until my husband came home
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Speaker 2: from work. And then we watched This was the last one.
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Speaker 2: And I made a decision that I was going to fight.
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Speaker 2: And so I will tell all of you, you will
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Speaker 2: never change my mind. How important it is to take
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Speaker 2: not just your physical, but your mental health with just
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Speaker 2: such care and guarding that you don't let anyone else
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Speaker 2: make decisions for you. It's that important. And if you
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Speaker 2: have a chance to heal and fuel your body with
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Speaker 2: really good nutrients and You know, this is regular water.
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Speaker 2: You know, it may not be the best because it's
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Speaker 2: in a plastic bottle. I get the rest of my
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Speaker 2: water out of my filter in my fridge, but I'm practical.
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Speaker 2: And if you put supplements in, if you start including
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Speaker 2: your branch chain amino acids, if you go check out
43:25
Speaker 2: and get yourself some NAD, some NAC, and throughout the
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Speaker 2: show and some of the older shows, you can tune
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Speaker 2: into them. Lots of really good supplements, a little energy
43:36
Speaker 2: with rhodiola, you're going to feel a lot better. And again,
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Speaker 2: you don't have to go this journey alone. Find yourself
43:43
Speaker 2: a good functional medicine or psychiatric functional practitioner, and we'll
43:49
Speaker 2: help you. We'll get you on your journey. But mental
43:53
Speaker 2: health becomes an illness when you just don't know where
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Speaker 2: to start and you don't know how to repair. So
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Speaker 2: start here. Tune in every week at three o'clock and
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Speaker 2: we'll Eastern time. And, and we go through different tips
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Speaker 2: and tidbits. I will tell you, I'm super excited because
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Speaker 2: it's been six years in the making, but in two Mondays,
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Speaker 2: we are headed to Washington, DC. We're going to be
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Speaker 2: standing in the Senate building and we're going to be
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Speaker 2: sharing testimonies of people who have really had some struggles, trials, tribulations,
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Speaker 2: loss of loved ones, um, All the things that have
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Speaker 2: happened during the pandemic will be speaking up and speaking
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Speaker 2: out and sharing our stories. Well, not everyone will be
44:37
Speaker 2: chosen on September 28th. All of us will have one voice.
44:42
Speaker 2: And that one voice is to be there for everyone
44:46
Speaker 2: who's ever encountered someone making a choice for them and
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Speaker 2: taking things and taking risks and not letting people have
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Speaker 2: the basic foundations of water, food, loved ones around them,
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Speaker 2: to help make personal choices in their life and for
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Speaker 2: their mental health and their physical health. And the things
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Speaker 2: that I experienced during those several years, not just as
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Speaker 2: a patient, but as a healthcare executive, was just some
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Speaker 2: of the most gut-wrenching and horrible things that I had
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Speaker 2: to experience. And that's how the show got started. I
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Speaker 2: started Wellness Uncensored because I wanted to speak out, share
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Speaker 2: the truth, and share ways for you to stay healthy.
45:27
Speaker 2: and fight yourself, not just mentally to be prepared and
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Speaker 2: be strong for things that come against us, but to
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Speaker 2: physically stay strong. So the book, I think, is a
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Speaker 2: pretty good read. It's out there on Amazon, and you
45:38
Speaker 2: can also get it on our website and on the
45:41
Speaker 2: QRS code that we had posted. But I really encourage
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Speaker 2: all of you to find ways to become your best self.
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Speaker 2: We're here for you. We're here to help you. We're
45:50
Speaker 2: here to give you ways to try different things. And
45:54
Speaker 2: I love when you guys text in because If any
45:56
Speaker 2: of you have had any success with some of those
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Speaker 2: things too, text in, tell us what things have worked.
46:01
Speaker 2: Tell us what things you struggle with. Again, remember it
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Speaker 2: is National Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Month this month.
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Speaker 2: Reach out to your loved ones, give them an extra hug,
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Speaker 2: let them know you care. And we will be here
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Speaker 2: for you. I will see you guys next Thursday, same time,
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Speaker 2: same channel. And I will be bringing on someone to
46:21
Speaker 2: share the benefits of dimethyl, sulfur oxide. It's a great healthy,
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Speaker 2: I know I'm saying it incorrectly, but it's a chloride.
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Speaker 2: And there's lots of things that we can use that
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Speaker 2: are created in nature. So tune in next Thursday. We'll
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Speaker 2: have a special guest, lots of holistic healing. And I'm
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Speaker 2: so glad you guys tuned in today. Take care of yourself.
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Speaker 2: Be well, be healthy, hydrate, and I'll see you next week.