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Lydia Graham · Ageless and Timeless Podcast®

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Well, good morning everyone. This is Michelle Hughes from Ageless and Timeless.
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This morning, I have a really beautiful guest that I've been wanting to have
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on my show for quite a while, and just the timing and all our
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various busy schedules and logistics, we couldn't make it happen right away. But
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her name is Lydia Graham, and she lives actually here in Tiberan as well
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as in John and Carmel, so we get to see each other and talk
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to each other, and she, like me, is just a passionate advocate
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for health and wealth, health and fitness and beauty and all the things that
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we talk about on Ageless and Timeless. So Lydia, good morning and welcome.
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Good morning, Michelle. It's so wonderful what you're doing with your podcast,
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and I love your episodes. I'm learning so much, even even after
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all the study that I have to thank you. Well, that's pretty much.
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That's a pretty astounding compliment. Because you have spent all your life and
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you know very much influenced by your mother. I guess you told me,
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and just lucky that you were introduced to this way of living and discipline so
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early. In your life. So why don't you tell us a little bit
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about that. What were those early influences and hearts to get on the path
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and this journey to better living and better and also healthier living. Of course,
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thank you. Yes, well I was very lucky. I mean,
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first of all, because I grew up in the South, and you know,
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Southern food is not exactly that healthy, right, So but my mother
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was not a southern Southern cook. She she was in fact, she outlawed
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short called boral meads. There was no trans ats. It was like there
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were no hamburgers and hot dogs in our families. So in fact, my
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father used to have to sneak out and sneak potato chips. So it was
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how did she get influenced where she could be so knowledge and back then?
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You know, yeah, you know, I honestly don't know. She Um
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she was always she was a professor, so she loved to learn, and
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she was always just very key ton you know, she just and she had
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great instincts. So um, so I was very lucky you know that I
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wasn't raised on drunk food. I was very you know, I always hate
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healthfully and then in college, you know, it was even in college where
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everybody's eating junk food. I was like, we have to get healthier food
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on campus, and so I actually started, I actually started a little company
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to provide healthy food on campus. So yeah, so that was my first
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business venture. Yeah, where did you go to school? I went to
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University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. That's right, you get ting?
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Yeah, right, because North Carolina is not known for I mean, what
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is it, chitlands and all that. Well, I don't know. I
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wouldn't go that far. I mean Carolina insisticated areas well, No, yea,
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now they do. But growing up we were growing up like, yeah,
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quite as knowledgeable, and they do. They do, like their fried
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food. I would say, yeah, yeah, yeah. Now because my
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sister in the summer time, she has a place in North Carola and Lynnville,
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Yeah, in the Blue Ridge, so so you know, Asheville and
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Charlotte, you know, and then we just traveling around Boone and those areas,
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and you know, the food is mostly I even in this day,
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we try to always go to the healthy ones, but there's still a lot
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of Southern influence, like fried chicken. Sure does love fried chicken, but
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you know, you learn not to do that. So we'll trab with nutrition.
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So let's let's go over some of the basics that you believe are essential
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to good healthy eating. So let's let's start at like the ABC's of healthy
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eating. Well, it's a very personal thing, you know obviously, I
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mean, our bodies are all different, and there's some million diets out there.
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But just like to sort of level the playing field of things that really
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are right for everyone, I would say, first of all, sugar is
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not a good thing. You know, it's and it's a very hidden ingredient
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in so many foods, and we need to get smarter about how to read
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labels because it really the food company's really high sugar, you know, it's
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it's known by so many different names and there's just and so that's something I
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would really encourage everyone to do their research on. You can even just google
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it. You know, different names for sugar, and you can you know,
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you can identify these so that when you go to the store, you
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can read the labels. That's that's really the key, I think when we
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need to be informed shoppers, and we need to go to the store and
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read the labels. You know what we're buying. You just have to read
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them the first time because a lot of us, you know, we we
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buy repetitive products, which is another thing we should vary our diet obviously,
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But but once you know a product is okay, then you can buy it
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the next time. Right. So sugar is that is you know a lot
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of different experts you know, will vary their opinions on different topics, but
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sugar is really one thing that everybody agrees on. It's it's not good for
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us. It has so many delirious effects in our body that that you know,
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it raises our blood sugar. You know, it causes insulin resistance,
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it's it feeds cancer cells, which is really scary. Um and it contributes
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to eight premature age. So you know, it's I know you've had some
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other guests on your show, Michelle that you know, talk about really aging
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from the inside out right and the outside in right, but inside out sugar.
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If we cut out sugar, that's huge, right, but you have
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to do it slowly. I think for myself, I hardly ever eat sugar,
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but when I do, I use it as a treat, Like I
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love dark chocolate. So yeah, yeah, so that's like my sugar treat.
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But I try to avoid it as much as possible and use it as
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like just a special food. But if you're used to a lot of sugar,
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it's not easy to give up. I mean some people go through a
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little bit of withdrawal. So I would wean off it slowly, you know,
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don't don't go called turkey. But actually sugar is very addictive, which
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is why it is in so many foods, and it's been likened to actually,
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you know, in lab rats, the labs, the rats will actually
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it's more addict than even cocaine. I mean, they will continually hit the
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lever for the sugar. So I think that you know, we the we
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really have to be careful with that. Secondly, I think fried foods that's
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another one. Just like try to stay clear of those. You know,
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it's it's really better to saute your foods. It's better to steam your foods.
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A lot of people are into raw foods. You can mix it up,
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you know, and have a variety of that. But I would say
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if you're out in a restaurant, try to get the try to get the
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foods that aren't fried. That's that's a really big one, because that is
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just there's all kinds of chemical changes that happen when foods are deep fried,
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and it's just not good for us, and it can raise all kinds of
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it's very important to try to vary our dot in that way we get different
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nutrients. But I would say that also food allergies are really important, So
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that's something that I would encourage your listeners to really test for, you know,
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or and you can do that. You don't have to go to a
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doctor's office to necessary test for that. You can also do what they call
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elimination diets, so if you're feeling tired all the time or things like that,
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it might be interesting. In fact, this is how I'm gluten free
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myself, and this is how I found out that I had an allergic to
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gluten. Is that, you know, I just started giving up gluten and
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I felt so much better in my immune system was so much better. I
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used to get on an airplane and I catch every cold that was like anyone
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had. And I have to say, in the last probably ten years,
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I've had one or two flues since I gave up gluten. So you probably
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on an airplane right before that. That's usually how people like us get sick.
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It's nowhere around other people. It's not because we're not doing the right
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things. It's because we're exposed. And I know, the only cold I've
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had in ten years has been when I sat next to someone on an airplane
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in first class. Really really the the you know, frustrating part of it,
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but they were seazing and coughing. And yeah, five days after I
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got to Miami, I the worst cold i'd had. And you know,
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like I said, I hadn't been suing, So I totally agree with what
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you're saying on that. Yeah, so let's just sugar for a moment.
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Are what are the names of the other chemicals that are actually synonyms for sugar?
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What are the things like sorb at all and from Yeah, fuit terrorist,
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big one high corn syrup, aig uh dextros. Uh. There's so
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many, like I said, Michelle, Oh my gosh, there's like so
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many that I would just encourage every single person that's listening to this podcast to
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just google it and keep that lest handy when you go shopping, you know,
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hum, and there's and I would just encourage. You know, I'm
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not wild about the artificial sweeteners there. They have their own issues and some
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people have digestive problems with them. So I think if you can just maybe
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if you really need something sweet, just to have a little tiny bit of
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honey, or sometimes I sweeten my tea or something with a teaspoon of glycine
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um. So that's another option. But yeah, Manuka honey honey is actually
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supposed to have madicinal quality, so but not obviously not in the excess.
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But if you use a little like I have a teaspoon of honey, you're
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getting the digestive of it and the skin benefit um. And you know,
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but you have to buy the right Manuda does it does? They're just like
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olive oil, you know. It's like you have to be such a smart
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shopper to know what to buy. But you know, the Manuka honey,
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the best ones are from New Zealand, and the best ones are the higher
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uh if you look at the higher number on the on the bottle, that's
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the better brand. And then you want them to be like honey, raw
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and unpasteurized, right, if it's exactly it. Honey is kind of an
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interesting subject because it is in its pure form, you know, they like
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you said, in particularly the Manuka, it can be healthy. You know,
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it's still sugar there, yes it is. But but the issue of
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course with the bees these days and with the pesticides it's it's a bit tricky.
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So I think I think you knowed quite well. You have to know
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your sources, and that's true with everything you know with our food um.
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I would also say stay away from GMOs. I mean, that's am I
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loved your interview with doctor Nana. That was so fabulous and I know she
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did this research on you know, as an apple and apple when it's radiated,
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and I love that. It was just really interesting. So I think
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GMO is um is something we want to avoid. So that's another you were
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You raised a very important point here. That makes me wonder because in your
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articles she says, well, the EU and other countries forbid GMOs as an
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example, or there was one. I don't know there was another one that
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you were referring to. They they don't allow, but our country still allows.
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Why is it that our beautiful America, the most advanced country in the
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world, it's so far behind in those kinds of of changes that need to
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be done. I mean, I know, might follow the money answer.
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Well, that's a big subject. I know that. Uh, it's interesting.
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Mark Himan actually has a fascinating book out on called Food Fix. Yeah,
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that gets into the entire food ecosystem. So for people that are interested
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in that subject, that might be a good resource, you know, for
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that to look at. Yeah, it's a it's a it's a subject.
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Well, it's a subject you wrote an entire book about. So bad to
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your comment, Michelle, thank You're right on the money in terms of you
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know, the onus is really on each one of us to take care of
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ourselves and to find the resources you know that we need to do that and
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so um so, and that can take a team, and it can take
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some research and even aside from a team, um, you know, if
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money's tied or whatever, for folks about you know, there's so much you
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can learn on your own, you know, really. But I would also
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say that nutrition can be very personal, so that foods that might be good
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for me, it might not be good for you. And also diets.
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I was just one of the things that I've found in my life that has
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really served me well is the fact that I have always been I've always been
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sort of on the moderate path, right, and I don't go overboard on
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the extremes. You know, I've never done extreme sports. I stopped running.
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Actually, I used to be a huge runner. Yeah, long distance
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runner. I stopped that in my thirties because I just felt like it was
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too much pounding on my joints. Because I was saying all these older runners
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with new issues and hippishues and you know, so I still exercise like crazy,
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but I don't do the extreme sports. And same thing with diet.
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I found that for myself it works better if I stay sort of I do
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personally do more like a Mediterranean diet and I do you know, and I
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do my own personal version of that. You know, that works best for
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my body. I'm a high metabolizer, so it's it's something that you know,
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like keto, a total keto diost does not work for me. I
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would lose weight, which I don't need to do so, but for other
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people, you know, whom I need a jumpstart, you know, and
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like losing weight or things like that. So that's where it gets so personal.
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And and like there's even chests out there that you can do. You
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don't need a doctor to do them. Like biome is a great one for
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digestion, and you can actually they will give you if you do it a
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biomechest. You can do it at home, nil it in you know,
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they will actually give you a whole spreadsheet of foods that are good for you
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and foods that aren't, you know, for your digestion and how to heal
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your microbiot your good bio. How do you do that? You fill out
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an application or do you have to do It's just it's just a little poop
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test, you know, basically, and you just nail it in and they
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give you, you know, an entire Now, the only thing I will
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say about that is it changes over time, so what you get today may
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not be good tomorrow, right, so you have to, uh, you
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know, if you're going to do that, I would suggest testing every six
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to eight months, you know, eight months, maybe every year, because
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it's not a it's not it's a snapshot in time, but it's good for
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you know, enough time to heal your gut. Right, So so that's
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uh so that just is where and some the foods may surprise you. You
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know. They give you super foods and then they give you foods that are
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sort of minimize these foods and avoid these foods, you know. So yeah,
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you know, when I was reading your article, though, you had
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so much depths on the nutrition side, because even though I realized and you
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are correct, and it is personal. There are some broad brushes that we
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should all know about. One, let's talk about grass fed because that's a
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big confusion. I think in a lot of people's um, you know,
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shopping habits is what really should I buy? Like, I still want to
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eat some meat, I want the protein, or at least if I don't
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eat meat, I want to eat I mean red meat. I want to
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eat chicken or turkey or or fish or whatever. So we have all these
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um, you know, conditions that apply for each of those categories of poultry,
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of fish, and lets of meat. So we can take the three.
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Sure, yeah, you're in the store, just tell us when you're
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in you're in the whole food wherever you go, what do you ask for?
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Well, the first name of fish. You have to be very careful
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about mercury. That's you know, it's some people. They can be as
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healthy as can be, but maybe their bodies just love to suck up,
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you know, metals, right, So I think for people it's good to
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have your metals tested. That's a you know, that's a great thing to
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do. Um if you are you know, if you're if you're heavy in
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metals, then that's where you should see your practitioner to try to figure out
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a way to detox those. But fish is something that we have to be
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very careful with. So there's the large fish can be very heavy in mercury,
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like tuna, you know, that kind of thing. So so I
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would not there's a lot like I have a couple of friends or pescatarians,
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you know, and you have to be very careful that you don't owe d
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on fish, right, So that's that's you don't want to be eating at
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every meal because that is a good way to accumulate a lot of and plus
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our oceans are not exactly pure these days. So that's what I would say
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about fish. I did find a tuna actually that I love. It's called
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Safe Catch and they sell it um. I don't know if they sell it
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in Whole foods, but it is every single fish is tested for mercury,
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which is great. So that's I think I bought it at a group.
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It might be at Whole Foods, you can check. But I also found
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it at a grocery store in the Bay Area that I shot at called good
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Earth, so they know, they say yeah, And so that's you know
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that that's because I still love it, Tennessee. I love it Tuennisel And
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so that was a real fine I love that. So so that was that's
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what I would say, and I loved Actually there was a back to doctor
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Man again. I know she said it tuned with cilantro, which I thought
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was a great tip. Um, that's something I'm going to start doing,
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right, YEA eating cilantro can help your heavy metal exactly. Yeah, definitely
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fresh cilantro whenever you can exactly. So that that's a good, really good
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tip. Then also I would say for chicken, okay, chicken, you
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have to be very careful with chicken. I only eat organic chicken. I
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mean it's just the industrial farming with the meat. Even when I eat out,
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if I can't verify that it's organic or it's grass fed, grass finished,
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I just don't. I eat vegetarian when I go out. So and
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so I think with chicken you just have to be very careful that it is
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organic and um. And then also with beef. The interesting thing that beef
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is that you have you can have grass fed and grass finished. Right,
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it should be grass fed grass finished because what happens is they can feed,
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they can feed the grain you know, at the end, right, so
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instead of being like grass, it needs to be grass finished. So that's
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an organic, right, But you set that in your article, and that
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was news to me. I never had asked, you know, in a
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restaurant. If I'm going to have beef, I always just say is it
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grass fed? But now say is it grass fed and grass fins? Well,
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probably the waiter waitress isn't going to know that, yeah, you know,
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nor maybe even the chef you know who knows yeah you know. That's
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why you're right. It's probably better to only control what you eat by buying
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it yourself, and then the restaurant eat the safe things that are hopefully organic
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vegetables and salads. Oh and I'm glad you brought that up, Michelle,
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because here's another tip that's really good. Environmental Working Group every year puts out
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the fifteen they're they're they're fifteen foods that are most contaminated. And so that's
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a great little list to reference because when you eat out, you can actually
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avoid those foods if you're not sure that they're organic. So it's like strawberries.
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I love strawberries, but I every list that you ever see online like
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that working what's it called working environment that list I go to that or the
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other listener online and strawberry sore like at the top of the lift. That's
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because they're so porous, and even if they're organic, you don't know if
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the farm next door is not organic in the spraying and the wind is blowing
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onto the organic fund that has gone through all the headaches of getting certified,
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but still can't control what the nature does. So with what I tell everybody,
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all my friends, if you're buying strawberries, soaked them in a solution.
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You can use baking soda, you can use the spray that trigger Joe's
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cells is good. Great fruit seed oil is They sell it in Good Earth
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and you ca hep Foods. You buy a little bottle and then you just
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put a few drops. But you know you've got to hand not just wash
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the strawberry and think you've gotten rid of bad. Yeah, that's a great
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that's a great tip. You know. I would also say back to you
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know what what applies to everyone, you know in terms of food and shopping,
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it's really to avoid the seed oils. That's another one that's really it's
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almost like sugar. So it's anything that's like sunflower oil, safflower oil.
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You know, all of those seed oils are really inflammatory. They're very high
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in omega threes and omega sixes. I mean sorry, not omega three,
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omega six and nine, and so we want three. Yeah, but we
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want balance, you know, we want to balance, but we do not
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want an overdose of the inflammatory um omegas. So how do you brought up
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the oils because you had said one of your articles you were listing the oils
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to use for cooking, and you know whether it's a high flash point.
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So I want people to know that what those oils are, and let's go
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over that. So I know, I know that you know the best one
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of the best is coconut oil. But most people don't even think they should
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eat coconut oil because it's been such a bad rap. Just like with eggs.
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You know that they coconut oil is going to be too high cholestral.
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But so coconut oil and avocado oil can take the flash. Great seed oil
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can take the flash. Although that is a seed makes you know it,
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but it does seem to be one of the ones that gets through the you
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know, the barrier of being damaging. And then you mentioned ghee, which
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is butter a form of butter and use and said olive oil but everyone,
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but then you qualified it and said that if you're going to use olive oil,
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make sure you cook on a very low heat. And a lot of
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the people that have been on my podcast and that I've read, you know,
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other articles have said never use olive oil to cook. Only is it
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on your salads or on that's really the best way to Yeah, it's it's
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a good finishing oil, you know, like I put it on after I
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cook and uh, and then you and also I'm very big on California olive
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oil. You know, there's a lot of contamination ironically with the Italian olive
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oils, and it sounds good, right, you know, we always we
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all have this vision of Tuscany and you know you're Tuscany under the sun.
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But um, actually there's more control, you know, I think with the
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domestic olive oils. So if they're organic, yeah, I always try to
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buy California organic California olive oil. But first goal press and people don't often
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know what that means, but that means that that was the first olives that
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went through the process, and that makes you getting the best, not the
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one that's like five five times later. And you wanted to if you can,
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you want it to be um raw right organic? Organic? Yeah,
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organic, Yeah, you're so well informal show. Well, like I said,
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I think we're soul sister if we so similar, you know, not
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only not only our past and bringing us here, but what we believe and
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how we practice in the present. And you know, when you find someone
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that's a kindred spirit like that, you want to hang out with them because
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you know that you two are going to have so much to talk about because
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you ahead, well, I was just gonna say, because that way we
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could get the whole picture, right. There's so we learned from each other
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too. So if it would can't listen to Sandy Gooch, who's, you
27:41
know, one of my very closest friends. She's the founder of missus Gooches,
27:45
the health with store. You probably don't know it, but it was
27:48
the hear, yeah, it was. It was the biggest. It was
27:52
the first. She was the first woman in the grocery business. And then
27:57
she was also the first to start to health food supermarket and she got acquired
28:03
by Whole Foods. Many years ago. But but she's she learned because she
28:10
was ill and she was facing you know, not having answers, and she
28:15
was driving come and down the coast of California justifying a few things that would
28:19
help her illness. Oh my goodness. Yeah, I'm glad that she found
28:23
her way. That's yeah. Well she more than found her way because Whole
28:26
Food's acquired her and right happily ever after with lots of her activities. But
28:33
she still misses that. She still follows of course, and goes to a
28:37
lot of these conferences. So she's a great one. We will go hiking,
28:41
and you know, we're always talking about it. It's wonderful. So
28:45
okay, so let's go to sleep. Let's not you and me go to
28:51
sleep. Let's go to the subject. Okay, So tell us more about
28:56
what happened at that conference. Well, let me let me just preface it
29:00
with I am a great sleeper. So it was kind of ironic for me
29:04
to wind up doing this because the way I got into following sleep of course.
29:10
That I mean, everybody says sleep is, you know, important,
29:12
and you've got to have it, and it's absolutely true, right, it
29:15
is like a great it's the foundation of where we restore and and all of
29:19
that. But at the same time, I never really thought too much about
29:23
it because I'm such a great sleeper, so that my husband, on the
29:27
other hand, is a terrible sleeper. And so he went through all of
29:33
these different sleep clinic, sleep doctors, you know, all this stuff.
29:37
He was still struggling and then he met well actually at my conference, I
29:45
wound up him and doctor Bruce, and he is actually the only person that
29:48
was able to help my husband. So and he has an incredible book out
29:53
which I would encourage it everything to read, called The Power of When,
29:59
and it's just full of talk, full of information, and I learned so
30:03
much from him about sleep. We're not all equal, you know, in
30:10
terms of our sleep habits and how we sleep and when we sleep and when
30:14
our energy peaks. You know, our circadian rhythms are all different. And
30:18
he really gets into that, like he says, we have four chronotypes.
30:22
We have you know, there's the bears, which is like everybody society is
30:30
sort of built on the bears, you know. It's the people that go
30:33
to sleep at ten thirty, eleven o'clock at night and get up, you
30:37
know, and at seven go to work at nine, work till five,
30:41
you know, that sort of thing. And they're really lucky in a lot
30:44
of ways because society is sort of built around them. But then there's there's
30:48
a couple others that are not quite so fortunate in that respect, and that
30:53
is the dolphins, who are just really pretty much in zomniacs because they have
31:00
dolphins. I don't know if you know this, but they have one eye
31:03
that always is open and the other eyes closed, and so they all tonate
31:07
back and forth. But then there's the lions. The lions like wake up
31:12
at four o'clock in the morning and you know, five o'clock in the morning,
31:17
and they're the ones that the early birds, and you know, you
31:18
get to work and they've already sent you twenty emails in your inbox and then
31:25
but but the downside of being a lion is that I remember he told this
31:30
story about this this client that he had who was on a date and he,
31:34
you know, really wanted to take this girl out and he finally got
31:37
you know, got to the date, and then he fell asleep at dinner,
31:41
you know, and she's like, well, you know, it's just
31:44
like well, and then when he asked her again. She's like, well,
31:47
I guess you're not that interested in me because you fell asleep at dinner,
31:49
right, Yeah, it's like, yeah, said lions. You know,
31:53
they're great in the work environment because they're up before everybody else and you
31:56
know, they've got the key and everybody as to be aligned. But the
32:00
downside is they kind of fall asleep, you know, early in the evening
32:04
and when everybody's socializing, So that's a little bit of a problem. And
32:07
then there's the wolves, which I've had. I have some folks in my
32:13
family that are wolves. Like you know, they actually come alive at like
32:16
eleven o'clock at night, you know, and then they like get most of
32:20
their work done um from you know, like say they'll they'll go into the
32:24
mid morning, you know, like two or three in the morning, and
32:28
that's their natural rhythm. So the key is, I think on sleep,
32:32
is to determine what is your you know, what is your sleep type,
32:37
right, what's your chronotype? And then how can you maximize that um And
32:43
there's a it's you can maximize your energy by working with your chronotype, which
32:47
is very interesting, you know, so instead of fighting it, like if
32:52
you're a wolf. Don't try to be a bear. You know, it's
32:54
like get into a job that you can you can maybe like deck is full
33:00
of you know, the technology world is full of wolves, right, you
33:02
know that are like you know, it come a lot. They love to
33:06
work into the wee hours and things like that. So it's it's how do
33:09
you how do you fit your lifestyle into that? And then can I ask
33:15
a question God, not each other, but tickle a little deeper. Yeah,
33:20
what causes the different chronotypes? Yeah? Yeah, good question. It's
33:24
actually genetic. It can it can actually change a little bit over one's life.
33:30
For example, Um, teenagers kind of become wolves, you know,
33:35
in their in their teen years. If you've ever had teenagers in your household.
33:38
Um. But and as people become older, a lot of times,
33:44
you know, we sleep less and we wake up earlier, you know,
33:46
so it can change. But but our chronotype is basically our chronotype. So
33:52
it's it's your personal rhythm. And so one of the keys is to work
33:55
with your rhythm, you know, instead of fighting it, because it takes
34:00
so much energy to fight your rhythm, you know. Um, So that
34:06
that's that's one thing that was just really fun, you know, to learn
34:09
and uh, and it's a great party. It's a great party discussion.
34:14
Yeah, it's a great um like a social you know, interaction discuss like
34:20
like, what's your chronotype? Yeah, that's what your astrological sign is.
34:23
Now can chronotype is? So let's just say you know you are a wolf,
34:30
uh, but you want to go to sleep and being because they say
34:35
the healthiest time for recuvenation is around eleven to one. So if you go
34:40
to bed at ten or ten thirty or so, you're hopefully getting to r
34:45
M sleep by eleven and then you should have at least eight eight hours sleep
34:51
and if eight to nine hours better. So let's say you get up at
34:54
seven eleven to seven or or ten to s so something. But what those
35:01
are supposedly allegedly science that I've read articles about have said that's the healthiest sleep
35:08
cycle. But you're not that chronotype. Yeah, so so again it's healthy
35:15
because you're you're you know, you're up one in two and that's still working
35:20
in the morning when you should be rejuvenating well with your chronotype. You know,
35:25
Let's say if you were a wolf, I mean, you have your
35:28
own cycles, right, so your cycle you would go through the same cycle,
35:31
but you would just go through at a different time than like a bear,
35:35
right, for example. But there are certain things that apply to everyone.
35:38
I mean, I think, for example, it's very important to go
35:43
to sleep at the same time every night, you know, regardless of what
35:46
chronotype you are, so to try to get our bodies really like routine when
35:52
it comes to sleep. So if we you know, let's say you're a
35:55
bear and you go to sleep every night at ten thirty and you get up
35:59
every morn seven, and that gives you sort of that rhythm you know for
36:04
your body type, right, and so that's really critical no matter what chronotype
36:09
you are to go to bed and to get up at the same time.
36:13
So and that's true even on the weekends, you know. So it's just
36:16
when you get up at a different time or you oversleep, and that is
36:22
going to sort of not really help you with your energy level. Um.
36:28
The other thing is that in the and whenever you wake up, it's really
36:31
important to go out into the light and get some light because that will set
36:38
your you know, that will set your rhythm, that sunlight, you know,
36:43
our our eyes receive that light and that really works on our brains,
36:47
which works on our nervous system. You know, the whole thing's connected,
36:51
so it's it's UM, so that really is good. Now I'm lucky because
36:55
I have dog daty in the morning, so I have to get up like
37:00
the minute I get up, I have to take my dog out. And
37:04
that that's and I don't wear sunglasses, so it doesn't you know, don't
37:07
wear sunglasses when you go out. You know. Another thing that's really important
37:12
is not to you know, before before we go to bed. It's really
37:15
important to be off your devices for two or three hours, which is really
37:20
difficult for some people. I know for me at one point, I was
37:23
working with Asia a lot, some folks in Asia, and that was really
37:28
difficult because the time zone and I'd wind up like on the computer till like
37:30
eleven. So in those cases, UM, I would wear some blue light
37:37
blocking glasses, you know, that would help that. And same thing if
37:42
you're watching TV or things like that, it really helps a lot. Yeah.
37:46
Yeah. And even grounding, they say, you know they can buy
37:50
these grounding beds or grounding bags. How that helps you to get you know,
37:59
a better sleep because you're getting closer to the earth. Whatever the tempo
38:05
is that. Yeah, I don't do that, but I've heard that that
38:08
is interesting. The other thing I learned from from doctor Bruce actually, which
38:14
I think we all have our weaknesses, and I think one of mine is
38:17
hydrations. So I have to continually force myself to like drink, you know,
38:22
drink liquids and water. But he you know, I learned from him
38:25
that it's very important to always be hydrated. You know. So in the
38:31
morning, as we sleep, you know, we become dehydrated, and that
38:37
is something that when we wake up we should have at least fifty The first
38:42
thing you should do on your bed, on your bedside table is have fifteen
38:47
ounces of water or sixteen ounces of water on your nightstand and then just drink
38:53
that immediately when you get up, you know, to really replenish that.
38:58
That I think that, yeah, Lydy, I think that's the reason they
39:04
say lemon water, you know, have a couple of nice filtered water with
39:08
some fresh lemon squeeze into it, because lemon helps to alkaline alkalize you,
39:15
as they are tending to be more acidic, and particularly most people are for
39:21
some reason, I don't know why. Even if we eat alkaline diets.
39:25
It's also because we tend to get dehydrated, and particularly if you work out.
39:30
You know that that's the whole other thing is you know, should electrolytes
39:36
should you take? Well, I just use lemon water. I don't bother
39:40
with the electrolytes. We have ten minutes left, so let me ask you
39:44
somepod ended questions to get off the topical subject. So what for you this
39:50
is now going to you and your personal life and journey. What if you
39:53
found to be the most helpful idea or or company or you know, just
40:01
what has helped you to love in your health journey. Well, that's a
40:07
big question. I would say. I don't really look at it that way.
40:10
I really look at just every day, you know, a day.
40:15
It's like a daily thing for me, and every choice. You know,
40:21
it's really interesting, is like every time I go out to eat, you
40:23
know, or every day that I get up and you know, make a
40:29
decision what kind of exercise am I going to do? So I really take
40:32
it like day by day and I don't really look back, you know.
40:39
I think I would say this is very interesting about aging two. I think
40:44
it's very important to engage in lifelong learning. I think that's very key.
40:51
And one of the things I've noticed about the people that age well versus the
40:57
people that don't is that they remit they really remain engaged and they there they
41:01
stay curious, and they stay active with their minds and their bodies, you
41:07
know, and we do get to a point and older, older adulthood where
41:10
we can't, you know, maybe engaged so much with our bodies, but
41:15
but they're still engaged with their mind. I remember I met someone who was
41:21
ninety seven years old and he had been in the film industry and he was
41:27
already talking about the next book and the next film he was going to produce,
41:30
and I was like, wow, you know that is really that's really
41:36
great. And so I think that. But I will also go back to
41:42
the fact that in in aging um our bodies are you know, our physical
41:50
Our physicality is the baseline, you know, So the more that we can
41:53
take care of that and being a body, it's just it's a lot more
41:57
fun to be in a body that works right than one that doesn't. So
42:00
the more that we can take care of our physical bodies, the more energy
42:05
we have to develop our other areas of our life, you know, like
42:08
our learning, our community, our you know, our spiritual pursuits, whatever
42:15
those are for people. But it was I heard an interesting thing the other
42:21
day that the world the word health actually derives from an old English word which
42:27
means that which is whole into itself. So it's really you know, important
42:32
I think we have to approach aging and wellness and well being is really looking
42:42
at it from a whole, the whole. You know, what are the
42:45
pieces that we are strong and what are the pieces we need to sort of
42:49
bolster up? You know. It's like maybe we don't pay attention to our
42:53
home environment, you know, which has maybe many talks you know, maybe
42:57
we're using the wrong cleaning products or things like that, you know, or
43:00
you know, are we do we have healthy air in our homes? There's
43:04
things like that, or are we exercising enough? You know, things like
43:08
that, so we can't but balance, it's really I think balance is the
43:14
key, you know, and and making time and being really conscious of the
43:19
decisions we make in every moment. So I would say that's my that's what's
43:24
really helped think that may beautifully said because it really does bring it to less
43:30
of a scientific, you know, analytical endeavor and more to a qualitative because
43:38
it is all about choice. What you just describe is all it's choice,
43:43
every single moment of every single day. We don't even realize the choices that
43:49
that we are making so um and they add up. So that's the thing
43:53
that people don't realize to some total of all of our choices. And we
44:00
haven't don't forget love because we were getting into the spiritual realm or the emotional
44:06
realm. But you know, body, mind and spirit, and so you
44:09
know, I would say, having live, you know, a longer life
44:15
now than I did when I was twenty, I would say that I've learned
44:19
something very important, which is that as you as you get a little older,
44:23
your day gets consumed with more of those choices because you are more aware
44:30
than get you know, when your twenties, you just kind of take it
44:32
all for granted. But as you get a little older, you say,
44:36
oh, I got this little wrinkle under my eye. I didn't have that
44:39
yesterday or last year or whatever, and now what am I going to do
44:44
about it? Now you start reading all the articles about about wrinkles, right,
44:49
so now you're taking more time to investigate. And then you have the
44:53
internet. You know you had all the internet and some of them which is
44:58
on the internet, which is which is uh not to be believed or you
45:02
have to be cautious. But the internet does bring to us as information is
45:07
power. The Internet brings to us so much knowledge potential if we know how
45:15
to use it properly. And I would say, you know that it's wonderful
45:19
to have access all that access, But I think we also have to remember
45:24
we have to I think we're so consumed these days with so much information coming
45:29
at us that we have to turn that off and something, you know,
45:32
and just and just breathe, you know, just just be uh and and
45:39
there is It's interesting because I know I did this a little bit during the
45:45
pandemic, you know, where you just sign up for this course and that
45:47
course and this thing, you know, and and it's good to like slow
45:52
that all down and maybe just pursue one thing at a time and get good
45:57
at that, you know, and just but I will say one of the
46:00
great things, and I will probably the single one of the single biggest things
46:06
people can do to maintain their age or reverse age is exercise. And that's
46:14
a movement. So because we are in such a sedentary world these days,
46:19
and so um. One of the new things that I learned over the over
46:22
the pandemic was mobility training, which is really interesting and I know a lot
46:29
of athletes you know, have been doing that for years, but I had
46:31
never really done it, and it's fabulous, So I would encourage people to
46:37
look into it. How do you find It's really about, you know,
46:43
getting all the parts of your body sort of back to their natural state where
46:46
you have total flexibility and movement and um, and it's you know, it's
46:52
done. It's training. You need a trainer or you can probably access some
46:58
things on the internet, you know. And mobility it's a lot of stretching,
47:01
like holding stretches for a couple of minutes I would say two to three
47:05
minutes at a time, and different working different muscle groups in sequence. So
47:12
it's you know a lot of people think my ability, you know, they
47:14
think of you know, long term care facility and people wriggling their ankles or
47:17
something. You know, it's not that's not the ability training. So it's
47:22
uh. But when you see athletes, like if you're watching a football game
47:25
and you see how these guys just bounce off the field, you know,
47:29
that's kind of what you want, you know, you want that sort of
47:31
flexibility, So we tend to get less flexible as we get older. You
47:37
know, my team here in my house, I have that. I don't
47:39
know if you've heard of a power plate, but it's a vibration machine.
47:45
It's been, it was it was developed in Germany, you know typically you
47:50
know, very German in terms of the high check and very very very precise,
47:54
and it's basically machine that you get on and you do all kinds of
47:59
extra sizes. But because you're getting a vibration while you're on there, you're
48:04
accelerating the effects at the core at the atp of your cells, and so
48:12
your muscles are going to get a workout that you know, you don't even
48:15
have to work as hard to do, but all you do is your basic
48:20
workouts synops or pushops or whatever, leglifts, squads, but you're doing it
48:27
on vibration. So that that's another thing that I would ask suggest people might
48:31
want to look into. The one I bought was the original that's a big
48:35
clunker of a machine, is like twenty thousand dollars. But they now make
48:39
them that the same, maybe not as high tech but the same kind of
48:45
outcome with a much less expensive price tag. Anyway, that's that's another little
48:51
tip well before we have to say them, by which I knew, would
48:53
go buy some past you know, a video, I could talk to you
48:58
for our days. But so, what one thing would you like to share
49:05
with our audience just as a summary of what we've of what you who you
49:09
are, what you are, what you stand for? What would you how
49:13
would you summarize that? Well? I would say every step matters and think
49:21
about that as you go through your day, make choices that are either life
49:25
that are life affirming. You know, you can ask yourself is this life
49:30
affirming or is this life negating? Right? And that can be the sandwich
49:35
you eat, you know, it can be the exercise you do. It
49:38
can be the interaction you know with a co worker or a partner. Uh
49:45
so, and and I would say, also minimize your stress, you know,
49:50
is um that's really important? But I think it's a look at your
49:53
life as a whole, you know, and what are the areas that you
49:58
want to make improvements or change? There will be life affirming for you.
50:04
That's beautiful. That it's beautiful. And I know you wanted to probably didn't
50:08
think but to say sleep in there, sleep diet. I mean, all
50:13
those things we've talked about today, they all go into that macro picture of
50:17
Fabarraskot and you know, the ageless and timeless. Our mission is to through
50:24
the knowledge we gains where people like you to gain, to get a base
50:31
of what we can actually then take into action. So it's a base.
50:36
Knowledge is power, like we said, and then from that power, that
50:39
powerful place, we then can make changes, because change is really one of
50:45
the hardest things that people can do as they get older. So Lydia,
50:50
thank you so much for your all your insights and knowledge. And you know
50:53
what I love so much about you too, is that in like me,
50:58
we're neither one of us a doctor. We've practiced in a very um in
51:02
a very life experiential way, and so we can share with people not as
51:08
some medical doctor, but as a human being, and that has had both
51:15
the goods and the bad, because we all we all go down, get
51:17
in past, you know, and sort of life learned. We've learned from
51:21
our experiences. So well, thank you very much for being with us today,
51:25
and I wish you all the luck on your journey. And I just
51:30
I think Tony, maybe flashing your new website on our when we do our
51:36
live podcast on the distribution. Is that all right with you? Sure?
51:39
Yeah, that would be great. Thank you, okay, very good.
51:44
All right, well did you? Goodbye and have a beautiful weekend and thank
51:47
you show. Okay, take care all right, bye bye