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Wellness Check from October 28th, 2025 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

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  Speaker 1: All right, well, let's uh, let's get Elena on the phone.
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  Speaker 1: Is she there? She is, Elena Wood is right there,
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  Speaker 1: Nightingale by Nightingale College, Lena Wood, good morning.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, good morning.
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  Speaker 1: I uh, we want to talk about improving our quality
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  Speaker 1: of life and help mitigating the risks of cognitive illness.
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  Speaker 2: You mean dementia, yeahs as one for sure.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, well let's yeah. I don't want that, so tell
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  Speaker 1: me what I need to.
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  Speaker 2: Talk you out of it. Okay. My first recommendation is
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  Speaker 2: to go to the dentist as well as do other things.
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  Speaker 1: Wait a minute, Wait a minute, health. What is the
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  Speaker 1: dentist going to work on my brain? He works on
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  Speaker 1: my team.
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  Speaker 2: You know, oral health has been tied to improved brain
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  Speaker 2: health as well as improves overall physical well being.
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  Speaker 1: And why do we have to then, why do we
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  Speaker 1: have to have a separate dental insurance plan? Lady doesn't
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  Speaker 1: know that. I am sorry. I want to go to it.
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  Speaker 1: I want to go to a dentist who's also a
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  Speaker 1: brain surgeon.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my goodness, that would be interesting for one there.
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  Speaker 1: But but good, but good dental health. It does it's uh,
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  Speaker 1: it's important for your uh not all health. Not getting
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  Speaker 1: the getting the Alzheimer's always carry it to Yeah, what
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  Speaker 1: else do we have here?
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  Speaker 2: The next recommendation is to get enough sleep. While we
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  Speaker 2: are sleeping, our brain goes through a process that helps
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  Speaker 2: to remove the toxins and protein build up, and so
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  Speaker 2: sleep is absolutely crucial for our brain health as well
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  Speaker 2: as our mood and overall well being.
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  Speaker 1: I wish I could get more sleep, but there you go. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I know. Focus on relationships. What's that got to do with?
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  Speaker 1: You know?
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  Speaker 2: Some of our best cognitive outcomes are associated with strong
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  Speaker 2: social groups. So the more friendships we have, the deeper
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  Speaker 2: connections that we have, the longer our brain is going
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  Speaker 2: to stay healthy and active.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I would suggest scouting like Scouts, Boy Scouts and
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  Speaker 1: Girl Scouts. Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts. Do that? Those
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  Speaker 1: are good strong associations.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I love my time in Girl Scouts for sure.
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  Speaker 1: Then focus on relationships, yes.
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  Speaker 2: Like as in the Boy Scouts and the Girl Scouts.
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  Speaker 2: And then of course moving our body, so taking walks,
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  Speaker 2: lifting weights, any kind of movement, in particular cardiovascular movement
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  Speaker 2: can help to improve our brain function and it also
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  Speaker 2: helps to delay the onset of dementia and Alzheimer's.
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  Speaker 1: My mother in law was sharp as attack for her
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  Speaker 1: all of her life, and she was quite scrupulous about
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  Speaker 1: lifting weights, even in her old days. It's particularly good
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  Speaker 1: for women actually weightlifting. And I mean she just had
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  Speaker 1: these little little weights, but she you know, like five pounders,
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  Speaker 1: but she used them I think almost every day.
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  Speaker 2: I love that. Yeah, every little bit helps. You don't
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  Speaker 2: have to be like Olympic powerlifting for it to have
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  Speaker 2: an impact. You can even just use your body weight.
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  Speaker 2: But if you are able, adding those extra weight can
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  Speaker 2: be really helpful to.
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  Speaker 1: You don't have to grunt to have it be successfully.
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  Speaker 1: I've grount when I get up out of the chair.
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  Speaker 1: Though I know you do. We all know you do.
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  Speaker 1: What's next?
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  Speaker 2: My next recommendation is to keep track of your health metrics,
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  Speaker 2: and by this I mean going to your doctor, checking
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  Speaker 2: your blood pressure, cholesterol levels, blood sugar, all of those things,
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  Speaker 2: because these metrics really have an impact on our cognitive
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  Speaker 2: health and they can help us. If we're going to
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  Speaker 2: the doctor regularly, that doctor can help us to find
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  Speaker 2: any early warning signs that they all miss. All right,
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  Speaker 2: what's next next is to find a balance between stimulus
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  Speaker 2: and rest our brain and our body. Both need times
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  Speaker 2: when we're active, when we're engaged, when we're doing things,
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  Speaker 2: as well as times of rest and relaxation, and try
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  Speaker 2: and view our resting without our phones, maybe even without
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  Speaker 2: our televisions when possible.
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  Speaker 1: It's you know, it's a little difficult because I've I've
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  Speaker 1: discovered art. I've just found that it's gotten to the
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  Speaker 1: point where I can't discern whether I'm resting or whether
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  Speaker 1: I'm being stimulated.
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  Speaker 2: Can't tell.
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  Speaker 1: Your phone.
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  Speaker 2: That makes a lot of sense.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know whether I'm being stimulated or whether I'm resting.
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  Speaker 1: I just if it all feels the same.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, no, you need a good meditation retreat.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I do. Really that would be helpful. And
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  Speaker 1: then what's the next one?
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  Speaker 2: Finally, eat a balanced diet, so we need things like
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  Speaker 2: carbs and healthy fats to help keep our brain healthy.
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  Speaker 2: And one of those things, of course, is going to
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  Speaker 2: include like whole grains, fruits, vegetables, fish, oils, things like that.
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  Speaker 1: I had fish for dinner last night. I had orange
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  Speaker 1: orange orange. I don't know why they call it orange. Well,
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  Speaker 1: did you see it with its body on it? No?
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  Speaker 1: You did it? Is it orange?
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  Speaker 2: I believe I don't know, like the colors salmon, right,
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  Speaker 2: I know the skin has an oriente prepared for me.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what today, Elena, I was doing the
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  Speaker 1: right thing, having fish for dinner, right, and you know
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  Speaker 1: what I'm I'm going to be strong to the finish
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  Speaker 1: because I always eat my spinach.
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  Speaker 2: Oh good, yes, yes, for sure. Those big biceps pop out.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and you wish and then and then and then
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  Speaker 1: what have we got? Oh? That that's it. They eat
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  Speaker 1: a balanced Those are the things.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, just try and find balance in your life overall.
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  Speaker 1: In dementia. People think of that as being old, old,
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  Speaker 1: older people dementia or Alzheimer's, but it's happening in younger people.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it is. It is. It used to be more
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  Speaker 2: of an older age on set, and we're seeing younger
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  Speaker 2: and younger folks being afflicted with it, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: hopefully some of these scenes can kind of helps stave
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  Speaker 2: that off.
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  Speaker 1: If you want to find out more about this, what
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  Speaker 1: do you do?
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  Speaker 2: You can learn more about this by visiting Nightingale dot Edu.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, Elena Wood, Nightingale College. Thank you, thank you,
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  Speaker 1: thank you.
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  Speaker 2: I had a good time.
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  Speaker 1: Bye. She's always so nice. Yes,