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088 // Improve Your Health Today with These 5 Simple Foundations of Health · Health with Hashimoto’s - Thyroid or Immune Education for Autoimmune Thyroid Disease

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  Welcome back to the Health with Hashimoto's podcast. Every single episode,
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  I strive to give you simple and sustainable things that you can do so that you have better health.
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  Health, whether or not you have Hashimoto's, and obviously, since you're listening
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  to this, you probably have Hashimoto's or somebody that you love has Hashimoto's.
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  Today, I wanna talk about the absolute foundations of health because we all need that.
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  And I touched on it in the last episode about what we have learned from COVID,
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  and I realized it's probably time to go through an episode about what are those foundations.
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  And so that's what we're going to cover. And again, like always,
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  I will give you simple and sustainable things that you can do,
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  because if it's not simple, you're probably not going to do it and you're not going to sustain it.
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  And then if it's not sustainable, then it doesn't really matter that you tried,
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  right? So welcome to the podcast.
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  I am Esther. I am a registered nurse. I'm a holistic health educator.
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  I absolutely love what I do. I love helping people figure out how they can take
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  control of their health.
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  I was doing this when I was working up in Alaska in a teeny tiny medical center
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  where we did everything from, the nurses did everything from dispatch ambulances
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  to take x-rays to run the clinic and the emergency department and the outpatient.
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  Place, all with one person, or maybe two. During clinic hours, we had two nurses.
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  Otherwise, you know, it was just one person doing all of those roles.
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  It was phenomenally wild.
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  And then when I was working in the emergency department all throughout the United
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  States, again, I loved helping people take control of their health.
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  Of course, in the emergency department, we're there to save lives.
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  And I love that part too, like helping somebody not die. That was so incredible.
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  What a gift to be able to give to somebody, like literally saving their life,
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  standing by their bed, pushing medications, keeping them alive from one second
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  to the next. It is, it's wild.
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  And then now I also get to continue doing that and helping people kind of save
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  their life, not in an emergent situation.
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  I'm not telling you how to stay alive in the next 30 seconds.
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  I'm not giving you medications.
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  What I'm telling you are simple and sustainable things that you can do to cause
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  a ripple effect and improve your health overall, and hopefully improve your
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  lifespan, but also your health span.
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  One researcher scientist that I heard, he said something along the lines of
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  people are living too short and dying too long. And how powerful is that, right?
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  We want to live healthy our whole lives. We don't want to have a very long end of life.
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  So that's what I hope that you can implement from this episode.
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  So following the logo, which is like a Venn diagram flower with five petals.
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  It is my logo. I love it because, well, because I'm a nerd and I love Venn diagrams.
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  And I thought when I was creating this company and this business,
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  I thought what a perfect encapsulation of the whole you.
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  Your health is made up of five areas. So I made a little flower out of a Venn diagram.
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  It doesn't quite look like that anymore. Now it's got a little butterfly in it.
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  But anyway, those five petals are body, mind, spirit, diet, and environment.
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  I'm going to give you one simple thing for each of those five areas.
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  And you can choose right now, are you going to implement one thing or multiple things?
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  Now, overall, I want you to keep it simple and sustainable.
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  So if right now all you have like bandwidth for is one thing,
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  then just implement one thing.
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  If you feel like two or three of the things that I talk about are simple for
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  you to do and maybe you're already doing them maybe they just need a little
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  touch-up or something then maybe implement two or three but whatever you do
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  choose your next steps based on what is going to be both simple and sustainable for you.
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  Now let's talk about the foundations of health.
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  The foundations of health are not fun. They're not sexy.
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  They're not like marketable because they're just foundational.
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  There are things that you do day in and day out. It's not a magic potion.
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  It's not, you know, supplement.
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  It's not something that people can sell you. It's the things that you do.
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  And they're basic things like sleeping. Are you sleeping well?
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  Are you drinking drinking enough water? Are you moving?
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  These foundations are things that we just have to do.
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  And when you're doing them, you are creating a foundation, just like I said, for better health.
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  Everything builds on these. And if your foundation is not secure,
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  then everything that you build on it is not going to be secure.
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  I don't know if you grew up attending Sunday school and if you ever sang the
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  song about the parable that Jesus told about the wise man built his house on
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  the rock and then the foolish man built his house on the sand and then the rain
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  came down on both of them and the house on the rock stood firm.
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  The house on the sand went splat.
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  Well, that's kind of like your health too. You want to build your health on
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  firm foundations, on solid foundations.
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  So let's talk about those five.
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  First of all, we're going to start with the body and how can you build a foundation
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  of health in that element of your body?
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  The biggest one is to make sure you're moving. there
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  is now push to call being
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  sedentary like smoking was back in
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  the you know 60s 70s and 80s we knew
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  at least when i was growing up we knew that smoking was bad the messaging had
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  gotten so that everybody knew that now it was just working on getting people
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  to stop smoking and we made huge strides and now people are vaping and going
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  backwards but set being sedentary is like that.
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  It is just as damaging to your health, if not more, to be sedentary as it was to be a smoker. So...
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  Get up and move. For you, I don't know how you want to incorporate that.
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  If you have a sedentary job or if you just find that you're sedentary a lot,
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  how can you incorporate more movement?
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  Now, I'm not saying like go and work out 50 times a day, but what I am saying is maybe set an alarm.
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  You can do those Pomodoro timers that have an alarm about every 25 minutes and
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  it helps you get up and move for just five minutes and you get back to work.
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  And actually you are more productive. productive, most people are more productive
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  when they do that, because it gives their brain a break, it gets their blood
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  flowing, and then things are working again.
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  So something like that, maybe you're going to get up and move,
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  maybe you're going to schedule in a walk during your lunch,
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  or maybe you make it part of your routine that you go outside and exercise or
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  take a walk after lunch, or I mean, after supper.
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  Or maybe, you know, you work out in the morning, and then then you're going
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  to take multiple short little walks around your house or up and down a flight
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  of stairs or something just to get moving.
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  So number one, body, let's move. Let's be less sedentary.
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  Movement, gentle movement is a foundation of health.
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  So the second category of the whole you is your mind.
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  If you have been listening to this podcast for any length of time,
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  you probably know what I am going to talk about for your mind, and that is stress.
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  Stress is so so impactful for your health. And when you have a lot of stress,
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  you have less health because stress impacts your immune system.
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  It impacts your sleep, which then impacts your immune system.
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  It impacts your blood sugar, which then impacts your immune system.
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  And also blood sugar seems to impact cancer.
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  There's so many things that are impacted by stress.
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  So we want to mitigate stress. stress.
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  So lowering it as much as we can, getting rid of what we can,
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  reframing things so that they're not as stressful.
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  One of my boys, I was getting after him today because it seems like every single
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  thing that happens, you know, he spells a word wrong and immediately like he
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  gets so stressed out and angry about it.
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  And he's developing more of a victim mentality.
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  I was It's like, this is not okay. We need to figure out how to go forward from
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  here because we're not setting you up for success.
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  So figure out stress. And I have a lot of episodes about stress.
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  You can just search for stress or head back to the beginning.
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  And I think it's episode seven and eight.
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  I talk about stress and then there's, it's probably like every 10 episodes I talk about stress.
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  All right. And then the third aspect of the whole you that we're trying to help
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  build foundations of health is your spirit, body, mind, spirit. You are one.
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  All of those things are, they're all related to each And when you have more
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  or better spiritual health, you're going to have better physical health,
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  you're going to have better mental health. They all go together.
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  Now, if you are a religious person, like I am, I have a personal relationship
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  with Jesus, and I hope you do too.
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  If not, please let me know if you are interested in learning more,
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  and I can tell you more. But if you're a religious person, then you know that
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  prayer, talking to Jesus and listening, it is a huge thing in your life.
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  And research shows that people who pray are healthier physically and mentally and spiritually.
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  And then if you're not a religious person, then you can look at the spiritual
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  health as the dividing between love and fear.
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  And when you are living in fear, that is spiritual dishealth or ill health or
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  whatever you want to call it.
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  You are designed to live in love.
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  Every single cell in your body does better when you are living in love.
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  And I don't mean like you're feeling in love with somebody.
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  I mean that love and fear are opposites. And when you are working in that love section.
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  Everything works better. In fact, your cells are more open and can receive nutrients
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  better just when you are living in love instead of fear.
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  So that is spiritual health. And what is something super simple that you can do? How about a hug?
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  I am not a hugger. And I say that maybe a hug as like maybe something that I should do.
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  In fact, when I was having Hashimoto's flare up a while ago,
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  I told my husband, I said, I will not seek out a hug. So I need you to help me.
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  Because one thing that I would like to do for my health is I would like to have
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  a 60 second hug every day. But I will forget.
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  And even when I remember, I won't prioritize it. So will you help me with that?
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  And he was very agreeable, because he wants to help me with my health.
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  And And that's one way, it's like 60 seconds, literally 60 seconds and connection.
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  And so of course, he was going to help me out in my health in that way.
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  So is there somebody that you can hug?
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  Or maybe if the hug is not the right thing for you, maybe you spend some more time in prayer.
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  Either way, figure out a simple and sustainable thing that you can do to improve
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  your spiritual health because it does improve your physical and your mental health.
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  And then also it impacts your diet and your environment.
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  When you make a change in any one of these areas, it really does impact the other four.
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  It is just kind of blows your mind when you dig down deep and look at how everything is connected.
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  So we talked about body, mind, and spirit. Let's talk about diet.
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  But before we do, let me remind you, if you have not left a rating and review
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  for the show, will you take a couple seconds and do that today?
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  It means so much to me as somebody producing this podcast because other people
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  find the podcast based on how much Apple and Spotify and whoever they think
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  that this podcast is worthy of being shown to others.
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  Now, of course, you could also find the podcast by searching for it and by word of mouth.
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  Those are fantastic ways that people find it. But one simple thing that you
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  can do is help the show get pushed up in the algorithms rhythms by leaving a rating and review.
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  I would appreciate it so much if you do that and just scroll down in the podcast
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  and you should be able to do that.
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  All right, so talking about diet, there are so many things that you can do and
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  there are so many complicated things that you can do.
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  So let's talk about something that is super simple and that is maybe looking
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  at how many colors you you eat?
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  Can you add more colors each day to what you eat? And I do not mean Skittles and M&Ms.
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  I am a big fan or used to be a big fan of candy.
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  I don't really eat very much anymore, but that was always my go-to.
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  If somebody said, eat more colors,
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  I'd be like, okay, I can have some Skittles. No, they do not count.
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  They are artificially colored. And even if they're naturally colored,
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  they are not the colors that I'm talking about.
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  I am talking about, let's get it away from beige and white foods.
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  When you have a plate and it is all browns, beiges, and whites,
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  that is not the most healthy plate.
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  How can you incorporate more colors? How can you add more greens,
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  more purples, more reds, more yellows?
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  How can you increase your health by adding colors to your plate?
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  Within the Holistic Hashimoto's course, one of the modules actually has a section
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  about a colorful plate challenge.
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  And I tell you in that PDF or in that module, like what the different colors
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  are going to do for your health, what foods contain them, how to incorporate them.
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  And then there's a fun little challenge of how can you increase the colors that you eat.
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  That is within the the Holistic Hashimoto's course, that is the paid course.
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  And as of right now, it is still on sale.
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  I told you at the beginning of 2024 that I was offering a discount until 20
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  people enrolled, and I have not had 20 people enroll yet.
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  So if you hop over there right now, you will get that huge sale.
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  I anticipate based on how numbers are going, as far as how many people are enrolling,
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  I anticipate that it will be available through April, but I cannot guarantee
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  that because of course it's based on how many people enroll.
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  So head over there. The link will be down in the show notes,
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  of course, and take advantage of that.
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  The Holistic Hashimoto's course is going to take you by the hand and help you
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  figure out exactly what to do for your root causes.
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  It starts out with the free mini course that's available on the app,
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  and that is Hashimoto's Decoded.
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  So that that goes through like, why do you have Hashimoto's?
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  Why do people get Hashimoto's? And why do you have Hashimoto's?
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  And then what can you do about it?
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  And then you can either just take that mini course and go implement,
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  or you can say, okay, I really want to be led by the hand and I want to know exactly what to do.
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  And then you enroll in the holistic Hashimoto's course.
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  And I take you through exactly what to do. And it is a fantastic course that you can implement.
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  So that you can improve your health with Hashimoto's. And like I said,
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  one of the things we do in when we're talking about the diet is we talk about
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  colorful foods, because it's something fairly simple.
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  You can glance down at your plate and say, oh, I don't really have any colors,
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  or, oh, I have only had, you know, one orange today, or I have only had corn,
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  which is pretty much straight sugar.
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  And so it's yellow, it's kind of, you know, not super colorful.
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  When you're looking at your plate, it's going to blend into the browns and the whites and the beiges.
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  So how can you add some color? That is a simple thing that you can do for your diet.
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  And the more colorful foods that you add to your plate, you know,
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  if you eat a big salad, you're not going to have as much room in your stomach for other things.
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  Sometimes you create better habits by filling in and adding more things,
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  and then those will naturally push out some of the less healthier things.
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  And also, So maybe if you're working so hard to eat healthy,
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  you're like, I really don't want to have a huge dessert because I just ate really healthy.
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  And why would I want to? Or maybe you're like, I just ate really healthy,
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  so I deserve a dessert. I don't know how it is in your brain.
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  But either way, you can work on having more colors in your diet.
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  That is one simple thing, and it's sustainable.
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  All right, so that leads us to environment. We've gone through body,
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  mind, spirit, diet, now environment.
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  What is one simple thing you can do? you? Well, a simple thing that you can do.
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  It creates a healthy environment for every single cell in your body and it is from the environment.
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  It's water. What's your water like?
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  Now, most people have chemicals in their water, whether their water is fluoride
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  from, has fluoride from the city, if they're on city water or chlorine or something.
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  Water is one area where we can do better.
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  Most of us can do better. Maybe you just need to increase how much water you're
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  drinking and maybe you're drinking tap water and that's all you can do right
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  now. At least you're getting more water.
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  And maybe for you, you're like, I am already drinking water and I can clean it up. You know what?
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  I need to change the filter on my water filter.
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  So maybe you're going to go do that as soon as you listen to this podcast.
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  Or maybe right now you're like, oh, I am just multitasking in the kitchen.
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  I'm going to take out that water pitcher or the filter on our fridge and change
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  that right now as I listen.
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  Maybe that's it for you. You're going to change the filter so that you have
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  cleaner, fresher water that is healthier for you.
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  Or maybe you have some sort of water filter in your cart on Amazon,
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  or you have looked online and you're looking at reverse osmosis or a distilled
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  water system or something like that.
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  If you're doing either of those, they give you phenomenal water,
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  like it cleans it out, but then you do need to add the minerals back in.
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  So make Make sure that you are looking at how to get your minerals.
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  Because if you strip the water of all of the minerals, then...
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  It can actually just go right through you instead of into you.
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  Water follows minerals into your cells. So you have to have enough minerals.
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  And naturally, there are minerals in our water.
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  So make sure that you are drinking clean water and getting enough minerals.
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  But just make sure you're getting enough water. That is one simple thing you
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  can do. And it is absolutely sustainable.
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  And if you forget one day, like if you don't hit your goal, it's an easy one
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  to put back tomorrow because it makes such a difference.
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  Did you know that when you're even a tiny bit dehydrated, like you don't even
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  feel dehydrated yet, it causes more brain fog and it causes like mood problems?
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  Did you know that? Water makes such a difference for everything,
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  mind, body, spirit, everything.
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  Those are five simple things that you can do today to improve your health and
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  to build better better foundations for a healthier tomorrow, a healthier future.
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  And again, body, it was to move.
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  Mind, I said lower stress, but I never told you the simple thing. It was laugh.
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  When you switch into laughter, it automatically lowers your stress.
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  So find something to laugh at today. Share a funny gif, a funny meme,
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  something, a joke, just get into laughter with somebody ideally.
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  Ideally. So that was the second one, mind.
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  Three was spirit. Find somebody to hug.
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  Four, diet. Add some more colors. Five, environment.
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  Work on more or enough clean water.
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  Thank you so much for listening and being part of this community, the podcast.
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  I really appreciate you for downloading this episode and for listening.
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  And again, thank you in advance for leaving a rating and review.
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  You. It really does mean a lot.
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  I'll see you next week on the Health with Hashimoto's podcast.
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  This podcast is for informational and educational purposes only.
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  Please be sure to discuss any concerns and plans with your trusted healthcare professional.
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  Music.