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BalancedLifeChiropractic-EP244 Pelvic Floor · Back To The Basics In Healthcare

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  Speaker 1: Time now for back to the basics and healthcare with
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  Speaker 1: Balanced Life Chiropractic. We have doctor Harley joining and s
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  Speaker 1: hello doctor Harley.
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  Speaker 2: Hey John.
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  Speaker 3: We talked last week about TMJ.
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  Speaker 1: Today we're going to talk about a pelvic floor, and
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  Speaker 1: you said there's maybe even a little bit of a
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  Speaker 1: connection here.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and I know that sounds kind of crazier like,
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  Speaker 4: but they're completely opposite parts of my body.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe, Okay, let's explain to people where they are because
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  Speaker 1: I didn't know where either of these were right.
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  Speaker 4: So last week talked about TMJ the jaw, so that
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  Speaker 4: TMJ join is actually up underneath your ears, is where
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  Speaker 4: your jaw hinge is at.
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  Speaker 2: And then your pelvic floor something you might not realize.
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  Speaker 4: Women. I'm sure you're a little more familiar with this
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  Speaker 4: because this is really important after you have a baby,
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  Speaker 4: you know, working on your pelvic floor. So it's all
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  Speaker 4: the muscles down in our pelvis are hips that basically
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  Speaker 4: keep our abdomen where it's at, because if we didn't
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  Speaker 4: have that, you'd be falling out our pelvis.
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  Speaker 1: So we're talking about stuff that's in the downstairs and
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  Speaker 1: stuff that's in the upstairs.
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  Speaker 3: Can you say they're connected?
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  Speaker 4: They actually are connected, and it's all through fascia and
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  Speaker 4: fashia is all the connective tissue in our body.
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  Speaker 2: Now it might sound kind of weird. You're like, well,
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  Speaker 2: that's interesting. We'll think of planner fasciities. We were talking
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  Speaker 2: about this at your appointment.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I struggle with that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we have fashion in our hands.
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  Speaker 4: It's all like the underlying connective tissue and in utero
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  Speaker 4: when the baby is developing, that tongue and the jaw,
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  Speaker 4: all that connective tissue and fashion are developing at the
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  Speaker 4: same time as the pelvic floor. So think of our front,
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  Speaker 4: you know, abdomen, All of that connective tissue in.
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  Speaker 2: There is all like kind of one long connection.
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  Speaker 1: Nice, So would my planter fasci itis issue that I
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  Speaker 1: have that is that connected to my jaw as well.
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  Speaker 2: There you can actually google this.
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  Speaker 4: There are pictures showing like a dissected connective tissue, like
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  Speaker 4: from the tongue all the way down to the big toe.
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  Speaker 1: I thought, maybe it's because I put my foot in
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  Speaker 1: my mouth so much.
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  Speaker 2: You know, how do you would probably say that, yes, all.
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  Speaker 3: Right, sorry, it was in my brain. I had to
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  Speaker 3: shoot it out of my mouth. So that now that
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  Speaker 3: I'm done with that dumb stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Let's get back to the pelvic floor. Because again I've
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  Speaker 1: not really heard this terminology. But I don't know if
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  Speaker 1: you know this. I am not a doctor. I am
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  Speaker 1: just a radio guy. So how how do I know
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  Speaker 1: if I have an issue with my pelvic floor? What
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  Speaker 1: are the things that I would notice in my life?
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  Speaker 4: So it does tend to be more women, just as
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  Speaker 4: as I said with like pregnancy. You know you have
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  Speaker 4: that baby sitting on you know, pelvic floor gravity pulling
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  Speaker 4: down for nine months, and then you push this watermelon
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  Speaker 4: out your huha right. You know rite nice technical technical
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  Speaker 4: term there, right, and you know that's going to weaken
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  Speaker 4: those muscles even more. And I talked to patients now,
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  Speaker 4: like the younger patients, you know, their twenties thirties, that
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  Speaker 4: are having babies the first time around, they're like, oh, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: I've been talking with my doctor.
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  Speaker 2: I know about this.
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  Speaker 4: But you know the middle aged women that had babies
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  Speaker 4: twenty thirty years ago, they're like, you know, no one really.
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  Speaker 2: Talked to us about post birth.
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  Speaker 4: You know what we should be doing to help our
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  Speaker 4: body recover or even if they were jumping you ready
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  Speaker 4: to get to have another baby, you know, getting their
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  Speaker 4: body ready for that next baby, because it's it's a
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  Speaker 4: long haul, it's a long journey, and it's hard on
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  Speaker 4: the body.
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  Speaker 3: So are there things that I would be experiencing.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe I don't even realize it's my pelvic floor, but
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  Speaker 1: these are things that I'm experiencing that could be related
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  Speaker 1: to that, right.
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  Speaker 4: You tend to see you incontinence is a big one,
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  Speaker 4: you know when you talk about like you peel a
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  Speaker 4: little bit when you laugh, or you know, the rushing
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  Speaker 4: urge need to go to the bathroom because you just
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  Speaker 4: you can't hold or else you're gonna kind of dribble.
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  Speaker 4: You know, men can have it, that is possible, but
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  Speaker 4: it is a lot more common in women. And you
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  Speaker 4: asked last week about TMJ. With age, we see a
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  Speaker 4: lot more with pelvic floor and age. As you get older,
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  Speaker 4: you know, we start seeing more of that incontinence or
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  Speaker 4: inability to hold because those muscles are continually getting weaker
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  Speaker 4: and weaker and weaker.
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  Speaker 1: So if somebody does have an issue with that where
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  Speaker 1: they tinkle a little bit when they laugh, that's something
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  Speaker 1: that chiropractic might be able to help.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we can actually help with that. Think of you know,
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  Speaker 2: one of those muscles.
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  Speaker 4: Those muscles have nerve innervations, and those nerves are communicating
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  Speaker 4: with your brain. So if there's a misalignment, and usually
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  Speaker 4: it's kind of in the lower part of our back,
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  Speaker 4: of that lumbar spine, those nerves go to all of
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  Speaker 4: our digestive organs, reproductive organs, as well as the muscles
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  Speaker 4: in our lower body. So making sure that that brain
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  Speaker 4: connection is strong there's going to help with those muscles.
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  Speaker 4: And some of it too, is those we talk about
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  Speaker 4: muscles being really weak, Well it's not because they're loose.
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  Speaker 4: They're actually really tight. They're very you know, they're they're
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  Speaker 4: clenching too hard, and you know, like women, I was like, oh,
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  Speaker 4: I gotta hold it in, squeeze it in. We do keegeles,
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  Speaker 4: all that kind of stuff to restrengthen it. But the
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  Speaker 4: problem is we had to figure out why they're weak
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  Speaker 4: in the first place, and a lot of times it's
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  Speaker 4: because they're so tight. And I heard this at a
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  Speaker 4: seminar I was at a couple of weeks ago where
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  Speaker 4: the speaker was talking about this TMJ pelvic floor and like,
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  Speaker 4: you know, a lot of times I just tell my patients,
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  Speaker 4: it's okay to relax, relax your pelvic floor, and that's
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  Speaker 4: mind blowing to some people, Like, but we're always tolding
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  Speaker 4: you how to like, you know, you know, clench it.
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  Speaker 4: You talking about those keegels, So relaxing it can actually
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  Speaker 4: help with that loosening of those muscles so they're not
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  Speaker 4: quite so weak anymore.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, last week was TMJ, this week is TMI.
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  Speaker 1: I'm over here thinking of all this stuff where this
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  Speaker 1: might be the first time we've said some of these
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  Speaker 1: words on.
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  Speaker 3: This program.
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  Speaker 1: Talking about who has and anyway, if somebody listening, because again,
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  Speaker 1: in all seriousness, this is something people deal with. And
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  Speaker 1: I know I've had weird conversations because who would say
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  Speaker 1: something like that to me? But I've literally had people
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  Speaker 1: say because I made them laugh and They're like you
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  Speaker 1: just made me pee a little bit, And I'm like, okay,
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  Speaker 1: that is TMI. But if this is something you deal with, like,
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  Speaker 1: there are people who may maybe they don't realize that
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  Speaker 1: there's a way to fix this if they're just dealing
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  Speaker 1: with it, you know, there's maybe a better way to
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  Speaker 1: deal with it.
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  Speaker 3: How do you do that?
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  Speaker 1: Right?
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  Speaker 4: There are actually you know a lot of kind of
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  Speaker 4: misinformation out there, and the seminar went to really kind
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  Speaker 4: of open eyes because we do talk a lot about
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  Speaker 4: you know, tightening and strengthening versus it actually needs to
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  Speaker 4: be relaxed. And that is part of the problem is
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  Speaker 4: we hold on to tightly. We're so you know, between
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  Speaker 4: the TMJ and the peloplar, like, we just need to
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  Speaker 4: learn to relax more.
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  Speaker 1: If somebody would like some assistance with this and you
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  Speaker 1: can walk them through and without all my silly comments,
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  Speaker 1: how do they connect with you?
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  Speaker 3: What is the best first step?
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  Speaker 4: If this is something that you're learning about, you're like,
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  Speaker 4: I didn't, I didn't all this was not normal for me.
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  Speaker 4: You know, we always talk about that as you know,
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  Speaker 4: all those things that we talked about, this is part
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  Speaker 4: of life. Chiropractic can help with you know, those issues.
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  Speaker 4: So a simple way of getting started is give us
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  Speaker 4: a call. Our phone number is six zero five two
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  Speaker 4: to us on our Facebook page and we even have
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  Speaker 4: a book online button on our website.
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  Speaker 1: Very nice that website so easy to find out. Balanced
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