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What is the State of Your Mental Health- Want to Feel Better? Meds, Therapy or Both? · Wellness Uncensored

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Speaker 1: Any health related information on the following show provides general
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Speaker 1: information only. Content presented on any show by any host
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Speaker 1: or guests should not be substituted for a doctor's advice.
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Speaker 1: Always consult your physician before beginning any new diet, exercise,
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Speaker 1: or treatment program.
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Speaker 2: Hey, good, afternoons. Welcome to another episode of Wellness Uncensored.
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Speaker 2: My name's doctor Patty G. I'm your host here today
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Speaker 2: for this episode, and we are here to talk about
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Speaker 2: things all considered mental wellness, mental health, how to be
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Speaker 2: your best self and have you ever wondered, you know,
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Speaker 2: what can you do to change your thinking? How can
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Speaker 2: we work on our own self improvement? And how do
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Speaker 2: you see better results faster? How do you track how
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Speaker 2: you're doing? How do you track is your brain improving?
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Speaker 2: There's lots of things that we can do. There's lots
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Speaker 2: of things to consider, and you know, sometimes it's important
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Speaker 2: to take take a look at your mental scorecard, if
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Speaker 2: you will, and if things just don't seem as fun
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Speaker 2: or as engaging, or your sleep just doesn't seem to
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Speaker 2: be as crisp and clear and deep, maybe it's time
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Speaker 2: to give yourself a little check up and then take
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Speaker 2: some of the things that we talk about today as
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Speaker 2: ways to try to tune up to see if you
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Speaker 2: can't lift your spirits, lift your mindset, and kind of
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Speaker 2: give yourself a reset. A lot of the things that
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Speaker 2: we do in mental health and psychiatry are really like
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Speaker 2: a coach, you know. Our job is to figure out
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Speaker 2: what's going on. You know, we listen to examples of
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Speaker 2: things that maybe have been going on in your life,
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Speaker 2: and then we talk about ways how to help. Sometimes
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Speaker 2: it's through medicaid, sometimes it's through coming in regularly and
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Speaker 2: talking through problems and issues. But a lot of times
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Speaker 2: it's to give you a plan, a treatment plan, and
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Speaker 2: a prescription, if you will, not specifically just for medication,
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Speaker 2: but for ways to really do things differently. You know,
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Speaker 2: the saying, as it always goes, if you want to
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Speaker 2: get different results, you can't keep doing the same things
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Speaker 2: over and over again. And if you feel like you
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Speaker 2: are either stuck, you're in a mindset, you haven't been
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Speaker 2: able to get better or different results, have you really
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Speaker 2: changed anything that you're doing in your life. I often
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Speaker 2: will sit down and go through questions with patients and
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Speaker 2: I ask them a lot about you know, how are
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Speaker 2: you sleeping, what are you eating? What do you do
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Speaker 2: throughout the day. And it's funny because sometimes people will
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Speaker 2: tell me, well, you know, the usual, and there really
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Speaker 2: is no usual. And so if you feel like you're usual,
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Speaker 2: perhaps maybe you are more unusual. Then you think if
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Speaker 2: you can't really articulate what you do each day, what
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Speaker 2: your general theme is for the day, what you gravitate
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Speaker 2: to for food, What is a good part of your
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Speaker 2: daily routine that helps you to feel good, feel clear,
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Speaker 2: like a daily walk or go into the gym. You know,
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Speaker 2: some people don't even shower every day, but yet I
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Speaker 2: find when you can shower even if you don't, you know,
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Speaker 2: want to dry out your hair and wash your hair
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Speaker 2: every day, a nice brisk shower, you know, first some
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Speaker 2: warm water to kind of loosen things up, and then
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Speaker 2: maybe some cool water to kind of shut things down
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Speaker 2: and really invigorate you. It's a stimulus for the body
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Speaker 2: and it can really get you in a better mood.
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Speaker 2: Don't you find out you get a shower, you're kind
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Speaker 2: of ready to do things. So why not rinse off
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Speaker 2: every day? You know, it doesn't cost that much to
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Speaker 2: run a shower for about five or ten minutes, even
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Speaker 2: if it's a quick one. So you might even just
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Speaker 2: start there. We have lots of tips and tidbets of
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Speaker 2: stuff that we do at Magnoia Behavioral on Us. We've
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Speaker 2: got books, We've got supplements, I've got patches that you
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Speaker 2: can use to help really stir up some of your
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Speaker 2: stem cell formation in your body. And all these things
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Speaker 2: do are really helped to turn things on and to
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Speaker 2: ignite your body. There's lots of books. I'm going to
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Speaker 2: be talking about several different books today of things that
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Speaker 2: I recommend to some of my own patients. And you
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Speaker 2: can get these things on Amazon. You can get some
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Speaker 2: of the things on my website. But these are things
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Speaker 2: to help you help yourself. And what better way than
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Speaker 2: today to start Today is I guess nearly the second
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Speaker 2: or third longest day of daylight for the year, So
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Speaker 2: you've got plenty of daylight hours to finish whatever it
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Speaker 2: is you're doing. Maybe you're at work, maybe you're on
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Speaker 2: the way home from work, maybe you're going into work,
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Speaker 2: and you still have some time to get some things done.
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Speaker 2: Maybe you need to sit down and grab a journal,
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Speaker 2: grab something to write on and start making a list
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Speaker 2: of things. But you do need to start with a
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Speaker 2: plan and That's one thing that I find Folks often
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Speaker 2: don't take the time to make a plan. They start
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Speaker 2: the day, and then the day takes hold and the
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Speaker 2: day get gets ahead of you. And we don't want
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Speaker 2: to have the day get ahead of you where you
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Speaker 2: look back earlier today, or you look back at yesterday
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Speaker 2: and go, you know, what did I really accomplish? I
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Speaker 2: think it's so important if you have things that you
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Speaker 2: have on your checklist to do, you know, I was
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Speaker 2: just sharing with Rebel one of the things that I've
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Speaker 2: been trying to get accomplished. I have a list of
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Speaker 2: a couple things, but one thing in particular was one
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Speaker 2: of the books that I've written. I wanted to get
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Speaker 2: it in an audio format, and it's taken me quite
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Speaker 2: a while. Thought it would have been done, and I
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Speaker 2: looked back on the calendar nearly a year ago and
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Speaker 2: finally that's coming to fruition. But it's things like that
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Speaker 2: that if you don't make the time to make a plan,
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Speaker 2: if you don't write things down, then you're really not
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Speaker 2: going to be able to check things off or even
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Speaker 2: give yourself a sense of accomplishment of getting things done.
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Speaker 2: And so start there, grab a you know, grab a notebook,
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Speaker 2: you can grab a journal, you can grab all kinds
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Speaker 2: of things, and I have to say journals are very important.
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Speaker 2: One they're a way of notating good things that are
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Speaker 2: happening in your life. But they're also a way of
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Speaker 2: taking the negative things that happen in your life and
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Speaker 2: writing them down, getting them out of your head. And
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Speaker 2: so one of the first things you can do is
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Speaker 2: just start to write down some of the negative things
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Speaker 2: and then quickly start to write down some of the
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Speaker 2: positive things that have happened in your life. Why this
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Speaker 2: is so important, it's because again you take the negative
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Speaker 2: stuff out, but then you highlight the positive stuff. And
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Speaker 2: what an opportunity to reflect on really what went well
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Speaker 2: in the last six, eight, ten, twelve or twenty four hours.
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Speaker 2: You know, we always can remember what what didn't go well,
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Speaker 2: but we often don't take the time to really look
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Speaker 2: at some things that we really could be grateful for.
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Speaker 2: You know. One example is if you go on Amazon
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Speaker 2: and you type in gratitude or thought journal, you will
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Speaker 2: get things that have pre written pages. And I like
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Speaker 2: the pre written pages because if you're not really what
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Speaker 2: I would say as a writer, I often find people
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Speaker 2: will say, well, you know, I just I can't write
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Speaker 2: things down. I don't know what to say, I don't
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Speaker 2: know what to write. But in some of these prefilled
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Speaker 2: journals they've got little things like today, I'm grateful for
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Speaker 2: looking forward to today. You could change that to what
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Speaker 2: am I looking forward to tomorrow? Maybe you want to
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Speaker 2: plan ahead things that make me happy, things that are
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Speaker 2: getting better each day, And then you can write down
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Speaker 2: in the other section, it's got my challenges, things to
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Speaker 2: let go of tomorrow I will do X, and then
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Speaker 2: a thought of the day. So maybe you fill in
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Speaker 2: some of the blanks. Maybe you fill in all of
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Speaker 2: the blanks, but it's really important to get something that's
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Speaker 2: going to start making your brain more accountable to you.
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Speaker 2: And here's the other part you don't think about. Because
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Speaker 2: we do these things oftentimes breathing our heart, beating, grabbing
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Speaker 2: our keys, going to our car, getting in the car,
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Speaker 2: turning it on, putting it in rivers or putting it
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Speaker 2: in drive, and going about our day, why and how
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Speaker 2: do we do those things so well? To think back,
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Speaker 2: do you remember when you first started to learn how
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Speaker 2: to drive? Do you remember how you were so focused,
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Speaker 2: hyper fixated, and you would say things over and over
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Speaker 2: in your head, like put foot on brake, turn car on,
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Speaker 2: look in rear view mirror, look inside mirror. And you know,
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Speaker 2: we do these things all the time. How many of
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Speaker 2: you pulled out a parking spot. You literally need twelve
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Speaker 2: sets of eyes because you got to look behind, you
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Speaker 2: got to look right and left. Then you have to
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Speaker 2: check again because as soon as you look somebody could
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Speaker 2: come tearing down the aisle. And it's fascinating because we
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Speaker 2: get into such a routine of doing things, we don't
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Speaker 2: even think about it anymore. And that's that's much like
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Speaker 2: you know, learning how to drive. So when you write
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Speaker 2: in a journal, you're taking purposeful moments to really put
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Speaker 2: things down on paper, and you'll develop the habit and
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Speaker 2: the mindset of how to write things down so that
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Speaker 2: it becomes more reflective, more from memory. And this is
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Speaker 2: a stimulating activity for your brain. And we all talk
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Speaker 2: about losing cognition, losing brain cells, wanting to have better memory.
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Speaker 2: What better way than playing a memory game, reflecting on
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Speaker 2: what went well today, writing down some of the things
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Speaker 2: that didn't go well, so you can really just try
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Speaker 2: to clear out of your head. So journaling is one way.
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Speaker 2: Some of the other things that I think are really
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Speaker 2: important to do in trying to change habits. Write down
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Speaker 2: a list of all the things you've eaten, at least
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Speaker 2: for the last twenty four hours. See how far back
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Speaker 2: you can go. Can you go back a full five days?
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Speaker 2: I really don't think I could, but I could try.
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Speaker 2: But I often don't really remember what I had prior
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Speaker 2: to the day before. So I really gave it some thought,
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Speaker 2: and I don't think i'd be able to remember everything,
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Speaker 2: but make a game of it. The other thing you
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Speaker 2: need to do or write down goals, even if you
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Speaker 2: have two or three goals. One of mine was to
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Speaker 2: get this book to audio. That was I guess not
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Speaker 2: inten put on my long term to do list, but
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Speaker 2: nonetheless it's now in process. Some of the shorter goals
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Speaker 2: things that you needed to make, some phone calls, maybe
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Speaker 2: things that you needed to do. And while those are
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Speaker 2: all tasks, it's really important to put things down, either
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Speaker 2: in your calendar, in an appointment so that you get
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Speaker 2: it done. For important visits, doctor visits, hair visits, put
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Speaker 2: that you're going to go, and you know, do an
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Speaker 2: activity for self care, maybe it's a yoga class. If
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Speaker 2: you don't put it down somewhere where it's important. How
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Speaker 2: many of you have missed things right, Like I'll put
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Speaker 2: things down even to go go to the gym or
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Speaker 2: go to Orange Theory. If I don't book the class
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Speaker 2: in advance, it's very easy for me to wake up
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Speaker 2: that day and go. You know, I don't think I'm
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Speaker 2: going to go today, and what happens one day turns
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Speaker 2: into two, two turns into a week. So this is
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Speaker 2: how you create change in your life. You've got to
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Speaker 2: make it important, you've got to make it a priority,
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Speaker 2: and you've got to be able to put it in
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Speaker 2: front of you in something that you can refer to
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Speaker 2: to hold yourself accountable. And that's kind of part of
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Speaker 2: what we want to talk about today, how to improve
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Speaker 2: your mental wellness. You can only be your best self
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Speaker 2: if you hold yourself accountable, if you let yourself off
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Speaker 2: the hook every day and you don't stay true to
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Speaker 2: putting your vitamins out in front of you, making a
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Speaker 2: protein or an energy drink, having something that you can
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Speaker 2: scoop up your stuff so that you really stick to
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Speaker 2: your routine. People often ask, how do I stay so
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Speaker 2: strict with making sure that I get my supplements and
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Speaker 2: my protein and all those things. It's because I couldn't
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Speaker 2: find a way to remember at the last minute or
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Speaker 2: go somewhere throughout the day to get those things right.
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Speaker 2: Like if you have your vitamins on a shelf at home,
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Speaker 2: when you're on the way to work, or you're at
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Speaker 2: your desk at work or wherever you might be out,
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Speaker 2: you're like, yeah, I guess I'll have to get those
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Speaker 2: when I get home. And now instead of taking in
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Speaker 2: the morning, you might take them at night, or you'll
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Speaker 2: probably like most people, go I'll start tomorrow. We don't
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Speaker 2: really want to start things tomorrow. We want to start
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Speaker 2: things today. And so if while you can, while there's
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Speaker 2: plenty of daylight left, start the things today that you
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Speaker 2: really want to improve on. You know, when our show
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Speaker 2: is over, sit down and write some things down of
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Speaker 2: what you want to change. That's the first step. The
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Speaker 2: other part to this whole concept of improving your mental
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Speaker 2: wellness and your overall you know, well being is to
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Speaker 2: really look at the areas that you find that you
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Speaker 2: struggle with. Do you find that you have a lot
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Speaker 2: of anxious thoughts? Do you find that you worry about
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Speaker 2: things a lot? Do you find that your mood is
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Speaker 2: low and sad. If so, those thoughts are the things
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Speaker 2: that you want to write down so that you can
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Speaker 2: address them with positive thoughts. And that's where journaling comes in.
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Speaker 2: So do a self assessment. Write down things that are
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Speaker 2: important to you. Write down things that you might worry about,
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Speaker 2: write down things that you might be sad about. Write
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Speaker 2: down anything your mind that stops you from feeling your best.
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Speaker 2: And when you look at the list and you think
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Speaker 2: of all the reasons maybe you can't do something, or
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Speaker 2: you won't do something, or just not sure if you're
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Speaker 2: going to do something, then you also need to write
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Speaker 2: on the next side of those those sentences that you
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Speaker 2: wrote or words, how can you change that? You know,
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Speaker 2: if I say that, you know, I just don't have
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Speaker 2: time to write in a journal, well the next that
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Speaker 2: I have to put something that I could do to
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Speaker 2: work on that, and I might get a journal that's
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Speaker 2: pre filled out. I might take the journal and put
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Speaker 2: it with a pen, maybe where I have my morning coffee,
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Speaker 2: or better still, how many of you struggle with insomnia,
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Speaker 2: Put it next to your bed and start tonight when
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Speaker 2: the sun goes down and you just want to start
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Speaker 2: a habit today, put your journal by your bedside, and
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Speaker 2: I can assure you that as you start writing and
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Speaker 2: you think and you think, and you think, it'll probably
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Speaker 2: help you to get a little tired, a little sleepy,
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Speaker 2: and then you just slide the journal over and put
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Speaker 2: your head on the pillow. To that point, I did
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Speaker 2: want to mention a couple of books today. There's a
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Speaker 2: lot of books people ask me about, and well, I
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Speaker 2: think I'm underway getting started on one of my own
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Speaker 2: new books. I have two that are written. One is
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Speaker 2: They Call Me Harriet, and that particular book we've got
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Speaker 2: it at the bottom of the screen is all about
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Speaker 2: the things that most people did not want to hear
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Speaker 2: or were free to ask during the pandemic. So I
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Speaker 2: put that out there just that this is a great book,
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Speaker 2: and especially now with what Senator Ron Johnson is doing
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Speaker 2: asking for testimony from people who have had experiences during
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Speaker 2: the pandemic that they feel that their care was questionable,
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Speaker 2: that they were forced to do something. So again that's
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Speaker 2: just a little bit of an aside. But that book
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Speaker 2: They call Me Harriet, it's out there for you. You
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Speaker 2: can get it on my website, Magnoliabewellness dot com. It's
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Speaker 2: on there and that's also at the bottom of the
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Speaker 2: screen Magnoliabewellness dot Com. So that's one of the things
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Speaker 2: the other book I wrote about is frozen shoulder, and
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Speaker 2: frozen shoulder really can become something very idiopathic. And idiopathic
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Speaker 2: you're not sure of the term means that it could
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Speaker 2: really happen without any particular reason, but sometimes there's usually
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Speaker 2: a reason. We just can't quite figure out which one
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Speaker 2: or one's is the trigger. There can be autoimmune issues,
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Speaker 2: there can be issues from diabetes, there can be issues
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Speaker 2: from hormone changes and fluctuation, but there also can be
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Speaker 2: reasons from trauma or stress. And anybody who knows me
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Speaker 2: knows I've had my fair share of stress, and it
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Speaker 2: just seems very coincidental that each one of the three
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Speaker 2: that I sprung on myself over the years, I had
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Speaker 2: one in twenty fourteen, one in twenty seventeen, and one
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Speaker 2: in twenty twenty three. So if those years ring true
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Speaker 2: for anyone listening, it was just very challenging times in
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Speaker 2: my life. But frozen sh shoulder because of how it
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Speaker 2: manifest and how it attacks the body. If you've had
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Speaker 2: a really tumultuous or traumatic experience in your life, past
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Speaker 2: or present. When we bottle up our feelings and emotions,
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Speaker 2: a lot of times it can manifest in the body.
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Speaker 2: So hence frozen shoulder is one of those ailments. For
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Speaker 2: some people, it's headaches. For other people, it could be
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Speaker 2: digestive issues. If you've got anxiety and you've got heartburn
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Speaker 2: or acid reflux. If you have anxiety and you have
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Speaker 2: trouble with crampiness, irritable bowel, or elimination issues, chances are
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Speaker 2: it's being triggered through that anxiety or through that past
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Speaker 2: trauma or past hurt. So I talk about that in
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Speaker 2: my book of Frozen Shoulder, but other books that I
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Speaker 2: wanted to kind of clue you all in to kind
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Speaker 2: of If you develop your own little library of self
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Speaker 2: help books and put them at bedside, one of the
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Speaker 2: things you're going to do is help yourself to learn
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Speaker 2: more about yourself, how to provide greater self care to you,
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Speaker 2: but also to say good night to insomnia. I share
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Speaker 2: this book with you because it's a fabulous book that
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Speaker 2: I share with many of my patients. It's written by
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Speaker 2: Greg Jacobs, and you can get this on Amazon and
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Speaker 2: Greg if you're out there I'd love to have you
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Speaker 2: on my show. But he's got a nice little toolkit
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Speaker 2: of ways to basically naturally and organically reset your sleep clock.
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Speaker 2: And if you have anything where you utilize sleep aids
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Speaker 2: or benzodiazepines or unisom or night quill, trazodone, alcohol, did
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Speaker 2: I say alcohol? You know, while we all think those
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Speaker 2: types of things will help us to get to sleep,
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Speaker 2: the problem is they don't keep us asleep. And so
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Speaker 2: if you can come clean off of many of those
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Speaker 2: medications and over the counter remedies and we'll just say
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Speaker 2: home remedies of perhaps you know your wine or mixed drinks,
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Speaker 2: your brain thinks that there's something wrong because you get
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Speaker 2: into that sedative type sleep and then it jolts your
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Speaker 2: weight because it's really a depressant. It's not it's not
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Speaker 2: a way to stay asleep. But in Greg Jacob's book,
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Speaker 2: he talks about different things that I've actually recommended to
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Speaker 2: patients to do. Like after I had COVID, my sleep
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Speaker 2: wake cycle was off and I was asleep during the
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Speaker 2: day and I was awake at night. Don't know how
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Speaker 2: or why that happened, but it did. And one of
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Speaker 2: the things you can do is get up every morning
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Speaker 2: before the daylight and then stand outside and watch the
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Speaker 2: daylight rise. It's one of the things he talks about.
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Speaker 2: He also talks about doing some journaling, which is what
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Speaker 2: we just talked about. He talks about keeping your stomach
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Speaker 2: kind of light, don't need a heavy meal. So there's
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Speaker 2: a lot of good things in the books. Say good
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Speaker 2: night to insomnia and for future shows, and if you
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Speaker 2: have any questions or comments today, feel free to ask
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Speaker 2: your questions about fatigue, insomnia, or trouble sleeping. The other
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Speaker 2: thing that you can do in addition to here, And
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Speaker 2: he does have some of the tips of some supplements
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Speaker 2: in the book. But I'm a big fan of Gaba,
19:08
Speaker 2: not Gaba Penton, but Gaba the supplement and again different things.
19:15
Speaker 2: If you go on to Magnoliabywellness dot com, you can
19:18
Speaker 2: look under the tab for products and down at the
19:21
Speaker 2: bottom you will see full scripts and there's a link
19:24
Speaker 2: to full scripts. When you go on full scripts, you
19:27
Speaker 2: sort of become a patient to request and ask questions
19:31
Speaker 2: of me for supplements, and there you can get a
19:34
Speaker 2: variety of supplements from a probably close to one hundred
19:37
Speaker 2: and fifty different third party tested vitamin manufacturers and suppliers,
19:43
Speaker 2: and we give you twenty percent off, so we're not
19:45
Speaker 2: wedded to any one company, which is really cool. And
19:48
Speaker 2: we have products that are very well tested, but Gaba,
19:52
Speaker 2: and you can take Gaba alone, or you can get
19:55
Speaker 2: blends of products. One is called Zensleep and that's got Gaba,
19:59
Speaker 2: melotone and fannine in it. If you take that at night,
20:02
Speaker 2: it should help you to naturally fall asleep, because gabba
20:07
Speaker 2: is something our body makes. It's the natural neural transmitter
20:10
Speaker 2: to make your brain sleepy, make you tired at night.
20:12
Speaker 2: And sometimes people who have a very awake brain produce
20:16
Speaker 2: too much glue to me. And so if you're really
20:19
Speaker 2: your brain goes ninety miles one hundred miles an hour
20:22
Speaker 2: at night and you just aren't producing the gabba, you
20:24
Speaker 2: can supplement it with the Gabba supplement. So that's my
20:29
Speaker 2: little too for Say good Night to Insomnia by Brick
20:32
Speaker 2: Greg Jacobs. The other book, and this one is so
20:35
Speaker 2: well worn. I use it. I've highlighted it and shared
20:38
Speaker 2: it with so many patients. If I have one, I
20:41
Speaker 2: must get two to three new patients a day that
20:44
Speaker 2: come into my office or I see on telemed and
20:47
Speaker 2: they tell me I can't concentrate, I can't focus. I
20:50
Speaker 2: just can't get anything done. I'm forgetful. I've web md'd myself,
20:54
Speaker 2: and I think I've got ADHD. Finally Focused James green Blat,
21:00
Speaker 2: Doctor Greenblat's a psychiatrist. We all work on integrative psychiatry.
21:05
Speaker 2: Doctor Greenblat's got a couple of good books. I'm going
21:07
Speaker 2: to share this one and another one with you today.
21:10
Speaker 2: But Finally Focus really helps you to understand the true
21:13
Speaker 2: essence of ADHD. And while yes, there can be some
21:18
Speaker 2: medication used to help, I've talked to you before about
21:21
Speaker 2: doing TMS transgreenal magnetic therapy another great way to get
21:26
Speaker 2: some real help for a variety of symptoms that are
21:29
Speaker 2: not optimized in your brain. Finally Focused talks about supplements,
21:34
Speaker 2: talks about how to eat better, how to move better,
21:38
Speaker 2: and some of the things that are in there. It's
21:40
Speaker 2: a little spice I call lithium oriitate. Lithium oriitate is
21:45
Speaker 2: a supplement. It's not the medicine, and we have lithium
21:48
Speaker 2: ooritate in the water in the soil, but it's been
21:51
Speaker 2: so depleted we often don't get enough of it. And
21:54
Speaker 2: so if you pick up James Greenblat's book again on Amazon.
22:00
Speaker 2: He really talks about things that contribute to cognition and
22:03
Speaker 2: focus problems. You know, if you're not sleeping, well, it's
22:06
Speaker 2: no wonder you can't think. It's not because you have
22:09
Speaker 2: a true diagnosis code of attention deficit where your brain
22:14
Speaker 2: is not functioning correctly. It's not functioning because you're not sleeping,
22:18
Speaker 2: So that could be one symptom. There's a lot of
22:21
Speaker 2: things he talks about in here too, about food allergies
22:25
Speaker 2: and truth to be told. We talked a little bit
22:27
Speaker 2: about this last week, I believe. But when your body
22:30
Speaker 2: is inflamed, it creates this film, right, or this layer
22:35
Speaker 2: of inflammation, and that impedes your ability to think clearly
22:40
Speaker 2: because it doesn't just stop at the neck. So keep
22:43
Speaker 2: that in mind when you're looking at reasons why you're
22:46
Speaker 2: having trouble with co cognition and focus. It was about
22:50
Speaker 2: to create a new word. When you're having trouble with
22:52
Speaker 2: cognition and focus, Look into your diet, Look into your nutrition,
22:56
Speaker 2: Look at things that you eat that may be giving
22:59
Speaker 2: you symptoms of it inflammation. You may feel inflamed, you
23:02
Speaker 2: may feel puffy, you may feel watery, you may feel
23:06
Speaker 2: that it's harder to form words and sentences because of
23:09
Speaker 2: the inflammation it's occurring in your mucasal membranes. You may
23:13
Speaker 2: have diarrhea, you may have constipation, you may have indigestion
23:18
Speaker 2: or heartburn. Those are all pretty good signs of inflammation
23:22
Speaker 2: and possibly a food allergy. So lots of good information
23:27
Speaker 2: on here as well the other book I wanted to share,
23:29
Speaker 2: I may as well. I'll just share his other book
23:31
Speaker 2: that I really like for people if you struggle with
23:35
Speaker 2: not just anxiety, but more of a depressive side. I
23:38
Speaker 2: have patients that come often and they tell me, well,
23:40
Speaker 2: you know what, my family's all depressed. Lots of family
23:44
Speaker 2: history on issues of sadness, depression, addiction, alcoholism. It doesn't
23:50
Speaker 2: have to be the cycle. So his new book that's out,
23:53
Speaker 2: it's called Finally Hopeful, but it's a personalized approach and
23:58
Speaker 2: it's a whole, you know, head to toe plan to
24:02
Speaker 2: find the root cause of depression. And he's got a
24:06
Speaker 2: lot of great stuff in there. He also leans into
24:09
Speaker 2: vitamins and minerals. He talks a lot about you know,
24:12
Speaker 2: the stuff that we do in integrative psychiatry is more interventional.
24:18
Speaker 2: You know, we don't just stamp medication and send people
24:21
Speaker 2: on their way. I must get I don't know how
24:23
Speaker 2: many patients a week, and they absolutely are stunned how
24:27
Speaker 2: much we go over and how many questions we ask
24:30
Speaker 2: because most of the time, if you've ever been to
24:32
Speaker 2: like a routine psychiatric appointment before, they'll ask you know,
24:36
Speaker 2: a few questions, and you're in and out in ten, fifteen,
24:39
Speaker 2: twenty minutes. If you do get an extended session for
24:42
Speaker 2: your first visit, which hopefully you do get, your follow
24:45
Speaker 2: ups are really very short. And while I understand that
24:48
Speaker 2: you know we're kind of going after maintenance and you
24:52
Speaker 2: doing the work, we still should be following up with
24:55
Speaker 2: some pretty organic questioning about your daily life, how you're moving,
25:00
Speaker 2: how you're eating, how you're sleeping, and if in fact
25:03
Speaker 2: you're doing anything to work on your self care, you know,
25:06
Speaker 2: and the other piece to that that's so important when
25:09
Speaker 2: you go and you get medication, medication is meant to
25:13
Speaker 2: be the tool to help you with your psychiatric journey
25:18
Speaker 2: of therapeutic intervention my behavioral change, either behavioral change through
25:24
Speaker 2: cognitive improvements or with workbooks and tools and little tip
25:31
Speaker 2: sheets what we call dialectic behavioral therapy or additional trauma
25:37
Speaker 2: work or different types of skill building. But if you
25:41
Speaker 2: just come to psychiatry for a medication, you're only getting
25:45
Speaker 2: a band aid, and it's a band aid that one
25:47
Speaker 2: eventually it's going to erode and wear off, but two
25:50
Speaker 2: it's going to leave you with probably some kind of
25:52
Speaker 2: side effect which is going to lead to further need
25:55
Speaker 2: for treatment, perhaps another medication, and then perhaps you may
25:59
Speaker 2: even have more work to do. You know, you may
26:01
Speaker 2: gain weight, you may have digestive issues, you could develop
26:06
Speaker 2: a side effective insomnia, you could develop a side effective fatigue.
26:10
Speaker 2: Because most of these medications, the way they neuromodulate you,
26:14
Speaker 2: they're not going to leave you without an alternative effect.
26:17
Speaker 2: Like they do have benefits, but they're also meant to
26:20
Speaker 2: be generally short term. So if you're going to get
26:24
Speaker 2: on medication, try to do so with an end goal.
26:28
Speaker 2: And it doesn't have to be in stone, but it
26:31
Speaker 2: should be a goal. Goals are meant to be achieved.
26:34
Speaker 2: They're also meant to be adjusted and moved. But you've
26:38
Speaker 2: got to get some goals going in your life. So
26:40
Speaker 2: those are two great books by doctor James Greenblatt, and
26:45
Speaker 2: he's got a couple of good things on his website.
26:47
Speaker 2: So two other books I want to share. I think
26:50
Speaker 2: you'll find them equally fun, easy to read, and one
26:54
Speaker 2: of them is a podcaster. But Joseph NuGen wrote the
26:57
Speaker 2: book Don't Believe Everything You think, and look how tiny
27:01
Speaker 2: it is so for a white sized treat to really
27:05
Speaker 2: dive into some things that for folks that overthink we're
27:08
Speaker 2: wary or you know, you really internalize a lot. It's
27:13
Speaker 2: just a nice little what I call a nice little
27:16
Speaker 2: journal to read of why you don't need to worry
27:20
Speaker 2: so much about thinking or thinking about what other people
27:24
Speaker 2: think about you. You know, it's ways to think about
27:27
Speaker 2: life with a different lens. You know, what does love
27:30
Speaker 2: look like in peace? How to be present in the
27:32
Speaker 2: moment with joy even if we've got circumstances in our
27:36
Speaker 2: life that are really tough. Again, I'm here to help
27:40
Speaker 2: motivate you. I get it. I get there can be
27:44
Speaker 2: dark days. I get that you could be in the
27:46
Speaker 2: middle of a really bad situation, to be in a
27:49
Speaker 2: really traumatic situation. You could be in a really upsetting,
27:54
Speaker 2: hurtful situation. But the book is great because it helps
27:57
Speaker 2: you to talk about anxiety, self dealt sabotage, how to
28:01
Speaker 2: let go of self destructive habits, so, how to develop
28:06
Speaker 2: a superpower, how to be okay not knowing something, and
28:10
Speaker 2: how to be okay with living life with some uncertainty.
28:15
Speaker 2: So don't believe everything you think by Joseph NuGen, great book.
28:19
Speaker 2: Joseph loved to have you on the show too. Same
28:21
Speaker 2: thing for doctor Greenblatt. Hopefully one day I'll be able
28:24
Speaker 2: to get him on there as well working with him.
28:27
Speaker 2: The last book I wanted to mention is the one
28:29
Speaker 2: called Let Them by Meil Robbins. Fascinating. I struggled to
28:35
Speaker 2: appreciate some of the things that I initially heard and
28:38
Speaker 2: read from her, because when I think of psychiatry and
28:40
Speaker 2: I think of mental health and wellness, I think of
28:43
Speaker 2: clinical experts. But she, actually, being an attorney, has studied
28:48
Speaker 2: a lot of things in different fields, and she has
28:51
Speaker 2: done a lot with human performance and human behavior. So
28:55
Speaker 2: her book is really good. It's called Let Them, and
28:58
Speaker 2: again more of the self help minds. But the concept
29:02
Speaker 2: is what if somebody doesn't like the way you act?
29:06
Speaker 2: What if somebody doesn't like the way you do your hair?
29:08
Speaker 2: What if somebody always questions your opinion? The answer is
29:11
Speaker 2: let them developing your own self worth and self confidence.
29:15
Speaker 2: I just can't overstate enough, because life's too short. If
29:20
Speaker 2: we have to worry about what other people think and
29:22
Speaker 2: say in do of us, you know again, people will run,
29:26
Speaker 2: you run your life, and you'll have spent a lifetime
29:29
Speaker 2: listening to, pleasing and following someone else's rules and directions. Well,
29:34
Speaker 2: who gets to tell them what to do?
29:36
Speaker 1: Right?
29:37
Speaker 2: And again within reason. Perhaps you're someone who needs guidance,
29:41
Speaker 2: Perhaps it's something that you have someone who's helping you
29:44
Speaker 2: through a difficult time, or you know, you might be younger,
29:47
Speaker 2: you might not quite be an adult yet, or you
29:50
Speaker 2: might be a new or adult, and I always welcome,
29:53
Speaker 2: I appreciate. I've had a few folks that you know,
29:55
Speaker 2: they're not they're just out of high school, but they
29:57
Speaker 2: really they're not quite sure what's going on on in
30:00
Speaker 2: life for what to do. And I call them like
30:03
Speaker 2: ninth graders in adulthood. And so if you can think
30:07
Speaker 2: back to when you were in ninth grade, you were
30:10
Speaker 2: so glad, you were excited to get out of the
30:12
Speaker 2: grade school, middle school, elementary kind of routine, and you thought,
30:15
Speaker 2: I'm going to high school. And then you hit high
30:17
Speaker 2: school and the whole peer pressure thing hit stress, worry, anxiety,
30:21
Speaker 2: and then you looked at the juniors and seniors and
30:23
Speaker 2: they looked at you. They looked like giants and they
30:26
Speaker 2: were intimidating. Maybe some of them bullydoo, but it's so
30:31
Speaker 2: important to look at yourself as a new young adult,
30:34
Speaker 2: as a ninth grader. Be open to learning, be open
30:37
Speaker 2: to asking questions. Don't think you have it all figured out,
30:41
Speaker 2: and you know that ninth grade can kind of go
30:44
Speaker 2: up through me, maybe aged twenty five. In some cases,
30:47
Speaker 2: I've seen some twenty eight and thirty year olds who
30:50
Speaker 2: they're really stuck in that ninth grade mentality. So if
30:52
Speaker 2: you're not quite the full adult, be open to learning,
30:56
Speaker 2: be open to change. I had a girl that was
30:58
Speaker 2: in my office today and she's the right old age
31:00
Speaker 2: of eighteen. She was so reflective and so heartfelt and
31:05
Speaker 2: came to such realizations through the help of some treatment,
31:09
Speaker 2: that we were providing a really good group of friends
31:12
Speaker 2: that she had been kind of sharing life with at church.
31:16
Speaker 2: She's pressed into her faith and she came in today
31:20
Speaker 2: and it was almost bittersweet and a little bit of
31:22
Speaker 2: funny how she said, I just can't believe how long
31:25
Speaker 2: it's taken me to come to the realization that I've
31:28
Speaker 2: been really lying to myself and almost in a way
31:31
Speaker 2: of masking that I'm better than I really am, and
31:34
Speaker 2: that I really do have things I have to work on.
31:36
Speaker 2: And I said, well, let me tell you. If you
31:38
Speaker 2: haven't hit your nineteenth birthday yet and you figured this out,
31:41
Speaker 2: you are probably way far ahead of the majority of
31:46
Speaker 2: adults that are out there, including myself. You know, I
31:50
Speaker 2: hit some milestones in my twenties, I hit more in
31:52
Speaker 2: my thirties, and when I was in my forties, I
31:55
Speaker 2: finally made some life changes and discoveries. And you know,
31:58
Speaker 2: when you get beyond that kind of look back and
32:00
Speaker 2: go ooh should a koda? Would a wish I did?
32:04
Speaker 2: And I have a do over. Don't know that I'd
32:07
Speaker 2: want to do over everything. But you know, we only
32:10
Speaker 2: get the dash. We only get that time between birth
32:14
Speaker 2: and death, and we don't know after a born when
32:17
Speaker 2: that dash is going to come to the end. So
32:21
Speaker 2: that's why we talk about all these things so you
32:24
Speaker 2: can get an opportunity to go. You know what, I
32:27
Speaker 2: have got to make some changes in my life for
32:30
Speaker 2: the better. How do I start, well, Patty at Wellness
32:33
Speaker 2: uncensored and said, get out the notepaper, put it by
32:36
Speaker 2: my bed, grab a book, do some reading, make a plan,
32:41
Speaker 2: put some things down in my calendar or my journal,
32:44
Speaker 2: to make myself a priority. And if you start doing
32:49
Speaker 2: these things, you're going to start finding you feel better.
32:52
Speaker 2: So let's shift in a little bit, because we've talked
32:54
Speaker 2: an awful lot about you know, nutrition and hydration, and
32:58
Speaker 2: if you're working on sleep and you're getting better or sleep,
33:00
Speaker 2: if you're taking good notes and you're starting to journal,
33:03
Speaker 2: if you're holding yourself accountable. Now you've got a fuel.
33:07
Speaker 2: And we talk about fuel for a lot of reasons,
33:11
Speaker 2: because your brain is your motherboard, and so many people
33:15
Speaker 2: don't understand. They'll put things in their body. How many
33:19
Speaker 2: of you put microwave meals in the microwave and then
33:23
Speaker 2: you grab a plastic fork and you peel back the
33:26
Speaker 2: plastic container that you eat out of the plastic bin
33:30
Speaker 2: into your body. The plastic alone has chemicals that as
33:35
Speaker 2: you nuke it and cook it seed or leach into
33:38
Speaker 2: the food. And even though they say microwaves safe, it
33:42
Speaker 2: doesn't say necessarily human grades safe. But let's leave it
33:46
Speaker 2: for that. But then you put the processed foods in
33:49
Speaker 2: all those foods. If you took those foods and left
33:52
Speaker 2: them in your freezer for six months, they would probably
33:55
Speaker 2: look the same, probably not taste quite as good, and
33:58
Speaker 2: they might have freezer burn. But those products are meant
34:01
Speaker 2: to last a lifetime, and while they may not taste
34:05
Speaker 2: as good over time, these products are so self preserved.
34:09
Speaker 2: Imagine what goes into them. And I think if you
34:12
Speaker 2: knew half of what went into them, you would really
34:15
Speaker 2: reconsider putting them into your body. Here's the test that
34:18
Speaker 2: I've always done. Say you get one of these box
34:21
Speaker 2: or bagged or something processed, and I'm not just talking
34:25
Speaker 2: frozen meals. I'm talking when you go to the fast
34:27
Speaker 2: food places, anything that is pre made or fast made
34:32
Speaker 2: or anything like that. After you eat it, how do
34:35
Speaker 2: you feel? Do you feel like running? Do you feel
34:39
Speaker 2: like writing a letter? Do you feel like jumping up
34:42
Speaker 2: and down? Or do you feel like sitting down from
34:44
Speaker 2: in it and closing your eyes? Many of you do,
34:47
Speaker 2: some of you don't, But that's okay. You know, you
34:49
Speaker 2: got to be honest with yourself. But try for a week,
34:53
Speaker 2: even try for two days. You should notice a difference,
34:55
Speaker 2: But try it. For a week. Only put things in
34:58
Speaker 2: your body that is either or that you prepare or
35:02
Speaker 2: that it's not pre cooked. If you do go out
35:05
Speaker 2: to a place to eat, make sure the food is
35:08
Speaker 2: not pulled out of the freezer, that it's freshly prepared,
35:11
Speaker 2: and try to eat leading with a protein, a vegetable,
35:17
Speaker 2: then a grain, then a fat, and a carbohydrate. Carbohydrates
35:20
Speaker 2: really are fillers. There is some immediate energy given from them,
35:25
Speaker 2: at least the better ones, but you really should be
35:28
Speaker 2: leading your day and your diet with protein. Protein is
35:31
Speaker 2: like liquid gold to the brain, and you know, nothing
35:35
Speaker 2: stops here. So whatever you put in your body, it's
35:38
Speaker 2: going to go through the blood brain barrier, typically speaking
35:42
Speaker 2: in one form of another as it breaks down in
35:44
Speaker 2: your body for nutrition and whatever else is not nutritious,
35:49
Speaker 2: it is going to leave the body one way or
35:52
Speaker 2: another through elimination. So like you take vitamins, if you've
35:56
Speaker 2: ever taken a B complex capsule, you'll notice that your
36:01
Speaker 2: urine becomes a very bright yellow. So it's kind of
36:03
Speaker 2: a good indicator to say, oh, I put that in
36:06
Speaker 2: and I see that it comes out. We can't do
36:08
Speaker 2: that with processed food, but generally speaking, you can look
36:11
Speaker 2: at the content right, or the context or the consistency
36:16
Speaker 2: of elimination, and you know, keeping it as simple and
36:20
Speaker 2: clean and not sound in too gross. But you know,
36:23
Speaker 2: when you look at what's in the in the bowl
36:25
Speaker 2: after you eliminate, it's very telling of your diet. It's
36:29
Speaker 2: very telling if you've got enough of the fibers, if
36:33
Speaker 2: you've got enough fluid. Because the elimination that you do
36:37
Speaker 2: have in the bowl, it should have a consistency to it. Okay,
36:41
Speaker 2: it should be firm but not loose. It should be
36:43
Speaker 2: moist but not liquidy, and it should be you know,
36:48
Speaker 2: in a formation that is very similar to your digestive track. Right,
36:53
Speaker 2: if it's peavily or if it's loose, or if there's
36:57
Speaker 2: not much of it after you've had a meal a
37:00
Speaker 2: couple of hours before, or at least half of a
37:02
Speaker 2: day before, you're probably not getting rid of everything that's
37:06
Speaker 2: in your in your polon or in your small intestines.
37:11
Speaker 2: And think about that when you think about processed foods
37:15
Speaker 2: and if you leave food out and it spoils, what
37:19
Speaker 2: do you think is sitting creating a toxic wasteland in
37:22
Speaker 2: your body? And when you think about the elimination process.
37:26
Speaker 2: You know, when you pass gas pass air and it
37:30
Speaker 2: goes through your intestines, if you have a very dynamic
37:35
Speaker 2: aroma to it, chances are you've got a pretty good
37:38
Speaker 2: toxic wasteland brewing inside of you. If you've ever noticed,
37:43
Speaker 2: the healthier you are, the less aromatic things become when
37:48
Speaker 2: they leave the body. If they're very strong and aromatic,
37:51
Speaker 2: there is a level of impurity or a level of waste.
37:55
Speaker 2: It's not healthy. I don't want to say, you know
37:58
Speaker 2: your body is a toxic wasteland. But we eliminate toxins, right,
38:02
Speaker 2: so we want them to get out of our body.
38:03
Speaker 2: But when you eliminate and they're really strong or harsh
38:07
Speaker 2: and that aroma, it's a very good indicator of your
38:10
Speaker 2: digestive health or lack thereof, So keep that in mind.
38:14
Speaker 2: I must be hitting a core because I don't see
38:17
Speaker 2: a question in the box today, So you al must
38:19
Speaker 2: just be fascinated with some of the points that I'm
38:23
Speaker 2: sharing today. So that's great. But so eating is important,
38:28
Speaker 2: Hydrating is important. And a rule of thumb that I
38:31
Speaker 2: often pass on to folks is you need to be
38:34
Speaker 2: able to take half your body weight. Okay, we'll make
38:37
Speaker 2: it easy math. If you're one hundred pounds, you need
38:41
Speaker 2: fifty ounces of good hydration daily. Now these are about
38:46
Speaker 2: ten ounces. Oh no, these are a little bit bigger.
38:49
Speaker 2: These are sixteen ounces. So I've got like two eight
38:52
Speaker 2: ounces in here. If I needed fifty ounces, Okay, I've
38:57
Speaker 2: got to have at least three and a half of
38:59
Speaker 2: these bottles. And for some people, most of us are
39:02
Speaker 2: more in excess of one hundred pounds. For a lot
39:05
Speaker 2: of people, I have people that don't hydrate, but more
39:08
Speaker 2: than maybe one bottle a day. Okay. When you don't hydrate,
39:12
Speaker 2: think about your body. And this is some stuff probably
39:15
Speaker 2: from some basic seventh or eighth grade science. Your body
39:19
Speaker 2: is seventy percent fluid. We say seventy percent water, but
39:23
Speaker 2: it's fluid, right, And of that fluid, if you don't
39:27
Speaker 2: keep putting enough fluid in your body, your body gets dry.
39:32
Speaker 2: And here's what happens. When it's dry. We get aches
39:35
Speaker 2: and pains and cricks and cracks and things tend not
39:39
Speaker 2: to be as moist. So when you think about if
39:42
Speaker 2: you talk and you feel like you have dry mouth
39:44
Speaker 2: or cotton mouth, if you go to the bathroom and
39:47
Speaker 2: your elimination is difficult, uncomfortable, small, and very firm. You're
39:53
Speaker 2: not hydrating enough. So you can use the process of
39:57
Speaker 2: when you eliminate to really evaluate does it look like,
40:01
Speaker 2: you know, I'm hydrated enough. Also, when you urinate, you know,
40:05
Speaker 2: urine should be very clear or straw in color unless
40:08
Speaker 2: you're taking some supplements. But you should also be able
40:11
Speaker 2: to produce a good five hundred to one thousand c
40:14
Speaker 2: seeds of urine, you know, in maybe one or two
40:18
Speaker 2: sessions each day. So urinating is an important fact and
40:23
Speaker 2: important point in your body to have good elimination and
40:27
Speaker 2: good detoxification. So keep that in mind. It's really important
40:34
Speaker 2: to look at your urine, look at your stools. Oh,
40:38
Speaker 2: Kim's got a good question. When we talk about elimination,
40:42
Speaker 2: when I use the term pebbles, it just means that
40:45
Speaker 2: you've not got a very long, soft, formed stool. A
40:49
Speaker 2: lot of times if we pop out little tiny what
40:52
Speaker 2: I call stones or pebbles, if it's really not a
40:55
Speaker 2: formed you know, looking like your digestion or your life
41:00
Speaker 2: the nation tracked and you've got little little pebbles that
41:03
Speaker 2: sit in the bowl, that means you're really not get
41:06
Speaker 2: enough refuge and you're probably very dry you're not hydrating enough.
41:11
Speaker 2: And good point too, Yes, Ben If if you're sweating,
41:15
Speaker 2: you are dehydrating your body, which is good in some ways,
41:19
Speaker 2: right because we want to sweat. That's a great way
41:21
Speaker 2: to get out on toxins. And it's a really good
41:24
Speaker 2: point that I hadn't thought to mention for the show.
41:26
Speaker 2: But sweating is also important to do because if you
41:30
Speaker 2: just hydrate and eliminate both urine and stool, sweating helps
41:35
Speaker 2: to clean out not just your pores, but it helps
41:38
Speaker 2: to clean out your organs. So important important fact with sweating.
41:43
Speaker 2: If you sweat and you find that you're not urinating
41:46
Speaker 2: as much, that's another good sign that you need to hydrate.
41:50
Speaker 2: So if you're outside cutting the grass, if you're outside
41:53
Speaker 2: walking around on a hot day, if you're actually doing
41:55
Speaker 2: exercise and running, if you're in a hot yoga class,
41:59
Speaker 2: you really only have to hydrate. You almost in fact
42:02
Speaker 2: have to overhydrate, so that number goes up. So if
42:05
Speaker 2: you're one hundred pounds and you take fifty ounces of
42:07
Speaker 2: fluid in every day, kind of is a mental math.
42:10
Speaker 2: If you're working out sweating in your one hundred pounds,
42:14
Speaker 2: you probably want to push that needle to not fifty ounces,
42:18
Speaker 2: but seventy five to one hundred ounces, and it's kind
42:20
Speaker 2: of like a cycle. So if you take it in
42:23
Speaker 2: and then you urinate it out, and if you're sweating
42:26
Speaker 2: and you're not urinating so much, make sure you really hydrate.
42:29
Speaker 2: I also will often recommend some of these IV nutrition
42:33
Speaker 2: shops where you can go get an IV. I know
42:36
Speaker 2: some people don't like needles, but I often will get two, three,
42:41
Speaker 2: sometimes four in a month, and there they can put
42:43
Speaker 2: in some basis of amino acids, some magnesium, some good vitamins.
42:50
Speaker 2: I'm a big fan of NAD nucleotinamide adenosine NAD for short.
42:57
Speaker 2: It's a really great way to turn on the mitochondria
42:59
Speaker 2: in your body and give yourself some energy. Fun fact, Lenny,
43:04
Speaker 2: great question, floaters. Floaters of a stool indicate a healthy stool.
43:11
Speaker 2: So if you have a stool that floats, it indicates
43:15
Speaker 2: that you've got some good elimination and that your stool
43:18
Speaker 2: technically is healthy. Now, if you don't, it doesn't mean
43:22
Speaker 2: you're unhealthy. But there's a there's a book. I probably
43:26
Speaker 2: had it on the show a few years ago. I'll
43:28
Speaker 2: bring it in next week. But if you do have
43:30
Speaker 2: a stool or two that floats, it indicates good, good
43:33
Speaker 2: stool health. And then Pauline asked, can you take and
43:38
Speaker 2: take too much water? Yeah, you know, the flip side
43:41
Speaker 2: is true, and it is. It's possible. It's it's harder
43:46
Speaker 2: to take in too much fluid, but it is possible.
43:49
Speaker 2: And in order to do that, let's just say, if
43:51
Speaker 2: we're going to do some of the mental math, and
43:54
Speaker 2: I'm holding up my bottle of vitamins and nutrients that
43:57
Speaker 2: I'm drinking here this afternoon. But if if you're supposed
44:00
Speaker 2: to get if you're one hundred pounds and you're supposed
44:02
Speaker 2: to get fifty ounces of fluid to day, as a
44:04
Speaker 2: general rule, if you double or triple that, it could
44:08
Speaker 2: be it could be a little too much. How will
44:11
Speaker 2: you notice, Well, sometimes you will have a feeling of
44:14
Speaker 2: fullness in your stomach and in your gut. You may
44:17
Speaker 2: feel bloated, your skin may be puffy. And there's actually
44:23
Speaker 2: some people that do have different types of metabolic or
44:27
Speaker 2: clinical conditions that they're not digesting, they're not taking in
44:34
Speaker 2: food and fluids in a beneficial way, and their body's
44:38
Speaker 2: not pushing out fluids. So if some people do have
44:42
Speaker 2: like what we call congestive heart failure, kidney failure, those
44:47
Speaker 2: kinds of things you do have to be careful of
44:49
Speaker 2: the fluid balance. Right, if we had someone who's in
44:54
Speaker 2: heart failure or kidney failure, they're not going to be able.
44:57
Speaker 2: If there're a hundred pounds, they're going to have a
44:59
Speaker 2: hard time tolerate reading one hundred or fifty ounces of fluid.
45:04
Speaker 2: So generally general health, reasonably good health, no medical indications
45:10
Speaker 2: of a fluid balance issue. You will have your body ounces.
45:15
Speaker 2: If you exercise or sweat, that number will go up.
45:19
Speaker 2: Usually what I tell people is they talk about skin
45:22
Speaker 2: skin turger. If you pinch your skin and it goes
45:25
Speaker 2: right back, you're pretty well hydrated. So good thing. I
45:29
Speaker 2: hadn't done this before. But if it was sluggish and
45:32
Speaker 2: it stayed stuck like this with my hands gone, and
45:35
Speaker 2: it was slow to go back down, that would show
45:38
Speaker 2: that you're perhaps dehydrated. But if your body is fluid
45:42
Speaker 2: and has the right amount of fluid in there, your
45:44
Speaker 2: skin's going to be elastic. It's going to be rebounded.
45:48
Speaker 2: If your skin's dry, if your mouth, your sinuses, if
45:52
Speaker 2: it feels dry, if it's pasty, if it feels like
45:56
Speaker 2: cotton in your mouth, then chances are not very well hydrated.
46:01
Speaker 2: So great questions. I appreciate you guys asking. I would
46:05
Speaker 2: be remiss if I didn't share this because I know
46:07
Speaker 2: my show is one of those where it's very uncensored.
46:10
Speaker 2: But if you really want to have fun, there is
46:13
Speaker 2: a journal that might motivate some of you. And I'm
46:17
Speaker 2: not exactly sure, but I think you can find it
46:19
Speaker 2: on Amazon. It's called a gratitude Journal and it's by
46:24
Speaker 2: the company called Crazy Tired, and instead of the Bitch,
46:29
Speaker 2: it's beat b E T c h E S. But
46:35
Speaker 2: it's a really funny one and it's it's bleep this
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Speaker 2: SIH show. And it's so funny because it's a gratitude journal.
46:43
Speaker 2: There's one that I have here for women. I think
46:45
Speaker 2: there's one for men, but it's a hysterical journal. And
46:49
Speaker 2: so if you really want to have a little fun.
46:51
Speaker 2: Seeing that it's the end of our show, I just
46:55
Speaker 2: wanted to pass this on because like some of the
46:57
Speaker 2: comments on here are who's the bleephole of the day,
47:02
Speaker 2: And I'm proud I didn't, I'm happy I did. I'm
47:05
Speaker 2: lucky to have And then today's s I T H
47:09
Speaker 2: list people, places or things. One of the little quote
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Speaker 2: comments and here is I'm smiling because I know Karma
47:17
Speaker 2: will bleep slap you eventually and let that Siith go.
47:23
Speaker 2: So if you want to have a little fun and
47:25
Speaker 2: you want to order a journal that might jump start
47:27
Speaker 2: you into motivation, get the bleep this s I T
47:30
Speaker 2: H Show and you can get it from Crazy Tired
47:34
Speaker 2: b E E T c h E S. But I'm
47:38
Speaker 2: pretty sure it's on Amazon as well. I want you,
47:41
Speaker 2: guys to have fun. I want you to know that
47:44
Speaker 2: the more fun you have, the more you can laugh
47:48
Speaker 2: at yourself and at life and things, the happier you
47:52
Speaker 2: will be, the less stressed you will be, the more
47:55
Speaker 2: you will enjoy each and every moment of the day.
47:59
Speaker 2: And it's a gift. It really is a gift. You know.
48:02
Speaker 2: We don't realize sometimes what we have in front of us.
48:05
Speaker 2: And when you start marinating, truly marinating in the good
48:09
Speaker 2: parts of your day, you will find the bad will
48:13
Speaker 2: be less, the hope will be more, the sadness will
48:17
Speaker 2: be lower, the anxiety will decrease, and you will start
48:21
Speaker 2: to really enjoy a whole lot more about you and
48:24
Speaker 2: around you. Cut out the nonsense, cut out the drama,
48:29
Speaker 2: cut out the negative people, friends or family. Start having
48:34
Speaker 2: fun when you journal. Pick up a few books that
48:37
Speaker 2: can help you with your mindset and some of your
48:40
Speaker 2: stressors and challenges sleep, focus, sadness, anxiety, all those things
48:48
Speaker 2: and in between, and don't believe everything you think. So
48:52
Speaker 2: take a look. Grab those books off of Amazon. I
48:55
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48:57
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49:16
Speaker 2: lot of fun with you guys. Thanks so much for
49:18
Speaker 2: the questions and I'm so pleased you guys took some notes,
49:22
Speaker 2: a lot of good stuff for you. We'll see you
49:23
Speaker 2: next week. Take care and have a wonderful week, and
49:26
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