Latest / PHLV Radio / Fabulous at 50 on 50/50 with Annvi featuring Gwen Gotangco-Kornblau
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Hi there, I'm Gary Valenciano. And you know, for decades,
- 0:03Speaker 1: I've sung for Filipinos across the world. And behind every
- 0:07Speaker 1: OFW journey is a story of faith, hope, and love
- 0:11Speaker 1: for family. Well, together with Send Wave, we are launching
- 0:16Speaker 1: Between Here and Home. It's a campaign dedicated to honoring
- 0:20Speaker 1: the heart and resilience of overseas Filipinos everywhere.
- 0:26Speaker 2: Between here and home, send money.
- 0:33Speaker 1: That keeps life moving.
- 0:56Speaker 3: Someone told me that life winds down after 50.
- 0:59Speaker 4: They were wrong. This is 50-50.
- 1:03Speaker 3: 50 years now and 50 more.
- 1:06Speaker 4: Brought to you by PHLV.
- 1:09Speaker 3: Here, we talk about reinvention, wellness, romance, money, creativity, newfound courage,
- 1:16Speaker 3: and purpose. From new grandparents launching businesses to couples finding
- 1:21Speaker 3: love again to dreamers who are just getting started. This
- 1:27Speaker 3: isn't just a show. It's a community of doers, visionaries,
- 1:30Speaker 3: and believers. Your best years are not behind you. They're
- 1:34Speaker 3: happening now and still ahead. Welcome to 50-50.
- 1:43Speaker 2: What F-word is always associated to being 50?
- 1:48Speaker 4: Can you guess?
- 1:50Speaker 2: It's fabulous! A very common birthday tagline we always hear,
- 1:56Speaker 2: 50 and fabulous!
- 1:59Speaker 4: Kamusta po!
- 1:59Speaker 2: I am Anvy Fuller, aka Mrs. F, and welcome to 50, 50,
- 2:04Speaker 2: 50 years now and 50 more! Today is a fabulous
- 2:09Speaker 2: episode because we have a true-to-life 50 and beyond fabulous
- 2:14Speaker 2: guest who will show us that the key to living
- 2:17Speaker 2: our golden years is balance. Syempre, nung younger tayo, wala
- 2:22Speaker 2: naman tayong concept of work-life balance, right? Or balanced lifestyle.
- 2:27Speaker 2: Noong college ako, it was a mix of school, party, work, party, family, party, party, school, party, party, party.
- 2:34Speaker 2: So you can tell the story now. So palagi akong puyat,
- 2:37Speaker 2: in other words. And I don't remember sleeping in or
- 2:41Speaker 2: taking long breaks. palaging may ganap. Especially, I was in
- 2:47Speaker 2: a performing group, so aside from school, we had shows
- 2:51Speaker 2: and events to stage. Keeping an active lifestyle now in
- 2:56Speaker 2: my 50s includes a whole lot of self-care, adventure trips, socials, business.
- 3:03Speaker 2: It is very important that we maintain balance in all
- 3:06Speaker 2: of these aspects that All of our movement is always
- 3:10Speaker 2: intentional because we don't want to be wasting time on
- 3:14Speaker 2: things that do not add value to ourselves or in
- 3:18Speaker 2: our lives, right? Online, I read an article from Harvard
- 3:22Speaker 2: University School of Public Health website. Gilia or Julia Cambieri,
- 3:28Speaker 2: she published an article in October 2025 that suggests that
- 3:32Speaker 2: strong social connections could boost healthy aging. So aside from,
- 3:36Speaker 2: you know, matching it, you match this with a healthy lifestyle,
- 3:40Speaker 2: healthy way of eating, exercise, mindfulness. These all contribute to longevity.
- 3:48Speaker 4: Did I say it right? Longitivity.
- 3:50Speaker 2: It makes a lot of sense, to be honest, because
- 3:54Speaker 2: these activities help prolong our lifespan. Now, I'm a very
- 3:59Speaker 2: big fan of individuals in their golden years and beyond
- 4:03Speaker 2: who really take care of themselves and keep this balance.
- 4:08Speaker 2: They're doing what they love. They are people. They're with
- 4:11Speaker 2: people who they love. They're well put together and they
- 4:14Speaker 2: are healthy. And of course, that's a bonus if you're
- 4:17Speaker 2: physically fit, right? So you know what? I've always been
- 4:20Speaker 2: a firm believer that staying fit and healthy shows that
- 4:24Speaker 2: you truly care for yourself. Because everything follows. You can
- 4:29Speaker 2: take care of others, your business, school, or whatever project
- 4:33Speaker 2: that you're working on. Because you're healthy, strong, and you
- 4:36Speaker 2: have a happy disposition. Remember, dopamine, or what we call
- 4:41Speaker 2: happy hormone, that increases when you exercise.
- 4:44Speaker 4: So let me bring in our True to Life.
- 4:46Speaker 2: Fabulous 50 guest. She is an advocate for wellness and fitness,
- 4:52Speaker 2: a businesswoman, and a philanthropist. Please welcome Gwen Gotanko Karnblau. Yay!
- 4:59Speaker 4: Hi! Hello, friends. Hello, everyone.
- 5:04Speaker 5: How are you?
- 5:05Speaker 6: 50-50.
- 5:05Speaker 5: 50 and fabulous.
- 5:09Speaker 2: That's what you are.
- 5:12Speaker 4: So let's catch up real quick. Saanong province mo sa Philippines?
- 5:17Speaker 5: Well, we are from Nueva Ecija, which is the north
- 5:22Speaker 5: part of the Philippines.
- 5:23Speaker 4: Okay. Tagalog.
- 5:24Speaker 5: Tagalog.
- 5:25Speaker 4: Greet naman natin sila. They can hear us.
- 5:27Speaker 1: They can watch us.
- 5:28Speaker 5: Kamusta na po kayong lahat. Kamusta na po kayo. healthy
- 5:33Speaker 5: by you John.
- 5:37Speaker 2: Tell us when did you turn 50.
- 5:41Speaker 5: Oh wow that's a big question I would say I
- 5:46Speaker 5: didn't turn 50 I leveled up.
- 5:49Speaker 2: You love oh I love this is you I love
- 5:52Speaker 2: that term leveling up to 50 yeah.
- 5:54Speaker 5: Yeah I celebrated with amazing person, enjoyed great music, healthy lifestyle,
- 6:05Speaker 5: and just enjoying life. That's when I turned 50.
- 6:11Speaker 4: That's nice.
- 6:12Speaker 2: That's good to hear.
- 6:14Speaker 4: You know what?
- 6:15Speaker 2: That's the perfect way to celebrate a milestone like that
- 6:18Speaker 2: is with people who really matters to you.
- 6:22Speaker 5: Yes.
- 6:23Speaker 2: That moment that you realize that, oh, I did this
- 6:26Speaker 2: to myself because I have these people around me.
- 6:29Speaker 5: And then also, when you turn into that age... You
- 6:34Speaker 5: want to be more intentional with what you do, with
- 6:38Speaker 5: your goals, with your projects. Like, everything that you do
- 6:42Speaker 5: should be intentional to the people you love, the community
- 6:47Speaker 5: you love. And I guess that's when I turned 50.
- 6:53Speaker 4: Yes. Good, I mean.
- 6:55Speaker 2: Intentional is the word at our age.
- 7:00Speaker 5: But don't worry because I'm going to say when. I
- 7:05Speaker 5: always feel that when I get asked, like, when did
- 7:09Speaker 5: I turn 50? I mean, it depends on who's asking me.
- 7:15Speaker 4: Okay.
- 7:18Speaker 5: Because I just feel I don't want to brag that
- 7:25Speaker 5: Maybe I look young or, you know.
- 7:28Speaker 4: I think you should. Because you look amazing.
- 7:33Speaker 2: So if you tell me, just knowing or learning that
- 7:39Speaker 2: you're over 50 and you're like that, you look strong,
- 7:42Speaker 2: you're healthy, you just look amazing.
- 7:45Speaker 4: You're fabulous.
- 7:46Speaker 5: Well, we just have to pray a lot.
- 7:49Speaker 4: Well, you know what?
- 7:50Speaker 2: That's so true. That really adds to the glow.
- 7:53Speaker 5: The glow.
- 7:54Speaker 2: The golden glow.
- 7:55Speaker 4: Yes.
- 7:56Speaker 5: Because we don't own our health.
- 7:59Speaker 4: That's true. That's true. Well, okay.
- 8:02Speaker 2: So tell me about your activities. What does your day
- 8:06Speaker 2: look like?
- 8:07Speaker 5: So my day is a lot of little different things. Okay.
- 8:16Speaker 5: Between my workout, of course, and then the charity organizations
- 8:22Speaker 5: that I am involved in, family time, friends time. it
- 8:30Speaker 5: comprises with all those things in a day. So it's
- 8:34Speaker 5: different every day.
- 8:35Speaker 4: That's nice.
- 8:36Speaker 2: Very exciting. We have some videos here we want to show.
- 8:40Speaker 2: So I think this is one of you at the gym.
- 8:42Speaker 4: Tell us about this. How much weight is that? So
- 8:45Speaker 4: I am lifting, I think, 105 pounds there.
- 8:47Speaker 5: And that's what you call deadlift.
- 8:56Speaker 2: Wow.
- 8:58Speaker 5: And this is the pinnacle of strength. Like, this is
- 9:02Speaker 5: a very good exercise. Like, if you can't do anything else,
- 9:05Speaker 5: do deadlift. Because it works on all your muscle core,
- 9:11Speaker 5: your muscle group, like your hamstrings, your quad, your glutes,
- 9:18Speaker 5: your back, your spine, your arms. So it's a really
- 9:22Speaker 5: good exercise. And it builds muscles.
- 9:25Speaker 4: Oh, I can see. I can tell.
- 9:26Speaker 2: And of course, you also, what's this video? Oh, you
- 9:31Speaker 2: play golf.
- 9:32Speaker 5: I also play golf. So here's the thing. COVID came.
- 9:37Speaker 5: And of course, a lot of people are very sad
- 9:41Speaker 5: about COVID. And it changes the dynamics of life on Earth, basically.
- 9:51Speaker 5: But what it did, To me, there's a positive thing
- 9:55Speaker 5: that it did to other people and to me especially.
- 9:59Speaker 5: I learned to play golf because there's nothing to do
- 10:02Speaker 5: at that time.
- 10:02Speaker 2: And you're alone in that space.
- 10:05Speaker 5: Yeah, and then you're just by yourself and then I
- 10:07Speaker 5: don't need to wear a mask.
- 10:11Speaker 2: Right.
- 10:11Speaker 5: So I learned to play golf five years ago.
- 10:14Speaker 1: That's nice.
- 10:14Speaker 5: But I would not say I'm... expert or professional, I'm good.
- 10:20Speaker 4: I'm okay.
- 10:22Speaker 5: I can play.
- 10:23Speaker 4: That's all.
- 10:23Speaker 2: Yeah, you seem very confident. And you know what? The
- 10:26Speaker 2: best thing is that you're out there. You know, you
- 10:29Speaker 2: didn't stay in. You didn't, you know, coop in.
- 10:32Speaker 5: Yes. And one good thing is because my husband loves
- 10:35Speaker 5: to golf.
- 10:36Speaker 4: Okay.
- 10:37Speaker 5: So we enjoy, like, traveling together and then we can golf.
- 10:42Speaker 5: together that's so that's one good thing that we do
- 10:45Speaker 5: together yes i love.
- 10:47Speaker 4: That love that this one i can't um Very scared
- 10:51Speaker 4: to watch.
- 10:53Speaker 5: I love skiing, and my son loves skiing.
- 10:56Speaker 7: Okay.
- 10:57Speaker 5: I never thought I'm going to learn to ski growing
- 11:00Speaker 5: up in the Philippines. We don't have snow.
- 11:02Speaker 2: No, we don't. Nothing.
- 11:05Speaker 5: And I learned to ski when I was 27 years old.
- 11:08Speaker 4: Okay, so you're so good now.
- 11:11Speaker 5: And I just enjoyed it.
- 11:13Speaker 4: Wow.
- 11:14Speaker 5: I would say the reason why I learned fast is
- 11:18Speaker 5: because I know how to skateboard when I was young.
- 11:23Speaker 5: Or not skateboard, you know, the roller skate.
- 11:26Speaker 4: Roller skate, okay. Yeah, the roller skate.
- 11:28Speaker 5: When I was young. And once you know that, you
- 11:30Speaker 5: can easily ski.
- 11:33Speaker 4: Yeah, the same for me.
- 11:34Speaker 2: You can see I actually snowboarded once. And I knew
- 11:40Speaker 2: how to do it because I knew back then when
- 11:42Speaker 2: I was younger, I knew how to skateboard. So when
- 11:45Speaker 2: the instructor told me, I told the instructor, I could skateboard.
- 11:49Speaker 2: She said, oh, you can do this easily. But I
- 11:51Speaker 2: never really liked the snow. Like, look at you.
- 11:55Speaker 4: I don't like the speed. I don't like feeling the speed. Oh,
- 11:59Speaker 4: my goodness.
- 12:00Speaker 5: Well, I can actually go down to the Black Diamonds. Like,
- 12:06Speaker 5: I don't have fear, which is why sometimes I am
- 12:09Speaker 5: impressed in myself that, oh, wow, I look down and
- 12:14Speaker 5: you can't even see. But then what I do, it's
- 12:16Speaker 5: not like I go down really fast. I go side
- 12:20Speaker 5: by side, slow. But I will say, oh, yeah, I
- 12:24Speaker 5: can go to the Black Diamond.
- 12:26Speaker 4: You definitely did. That is so impressive. That is so impressive.
- 12:30Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 12:31Speaker 4: And then I think we have this.
- 12:33Speaker 2: Oh, I know you love hiking. Is this one of
- 12:35Speaker 2: your adventures? You were crossing a log?
- 12:40Speaker 5: You know, I would say this to your viewers. Hiking
- 12:45Speaker 5: is a very good therapy. Nature is a very good therapy.
- 12:49Speaker 5: So even if you're by yourself, just make sure that
- 12:53Speaker 5: you are going hiking safely. Just be safe. But to
- 13:00Speaker 5: be in the middle of nature, it's just very therapeutic already.
- 13:05Speaker 5: I love that. It's just that and then breathing fresh air.
- 13:09Speaker 7: Yes.
- 13:10Speaker 5: Or like that cold breeze on your face.
- 13:13Speaker 2: Yes.
- 13:13Speaker 5: It's just refreshing.
- 13:15Speaker 7: That's true.
- 13:15Speaker 5: So hiking, if you can't do any other activities, hiking
- 13:20Speaker 5: is a very good one. Yeah.
- 13:23Speaker 2: I remember one time we drove to.
- 13:25Speaker 4: Where did we go? Valley of Fire?
- 13:27Speaker 5: Valley of Fire.
- 13:28Speaker 4: Isn't it?
- 13:29Speaker 5: We had a good time.
- 13:30Speaker 4: We did. I totally enjoyed that trip.
- 13:33Speaker 5: That was really... The.
- 13:35Speaker 4: View is magical. Oh my God. That was magnificent.
- 13:38Speaker 5: Yeah. I would say anyone who hasn't been to Valley
- 13:41Speaker 5: of Fire... you should go there because we had an
- 13:44Speaker 5: amazing time. We did.
- 13:46Speaker 4: We should do that again.
- 13:48Speaker 5: I still have those pictures.
- 13:49Speaker 2: I still do.
- 13:50Speaker 4: I still do. Yes.
- 13:52Speaker 2: Yes.
- 13:54Speaker 5: Like picturesque. Yeah. It's really, you know, it's like a
- 13:59Speaker 5: little place of a paradise.
- 14:02Speaker 2: That's true. Yeah.
- 14:03Speaker 5: That's true.
- 14:04Speaker 4: I love that place. And I love that trip. I
- 14:06Speaker 4: really like that hike. Yeah.
- 14:07Speaker 5: Do that again.
- 14:08Speaker 4: Yes.
- 14:09Speaker 5: And here in Vegas, you know, the... The mountains, the rocks,
- 14:13Speaker 5: there's an energy that you can get from the rocks.
- 14:17Speaker 5: Remember when I told you, let's take off our shoes
- 14:20Speaker 5: and let's do grounding.
- 14:22Speaker 2: So you get all.
- 14:24Speaker 5: The energy and then it goes into your body and
- 14:27Speaker 5: it's just really, I believe it's helpful. So you should
- 14:31Speaker 5: try that.
- 14:32Speaker 2: That must have been my very first time to ever
- 14:34Speaker 2: try grounding.
- 14:36Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 14:37Speaker 2: Because after that, in the backyard, I started doing that.
- 14:42Speaker 4: When I meditate in the backyard, I take my shoes off.
- 14:45Speaker 5: Right, even on the grass, on the soil.
- 14:48Speaker 4: I learned from you.
- 14:49Speaker 5: Yeah. Anywhere, on the rocks, on the mountain. So whenever
- 14:54Speaker 5: I go hiking with my friends... I tell them, let's
- 14:58Speaker 5: take off our shoes.
- 15:00Speaker 2: Let's do grounding.
- 15:01Speaker 4: Yeah, that's a good exercise. And then there's this one.
- 15:05Speaker 4: This is amazing, Gwen.
- 15:07Speaker 5: Oh, you know, my sister Grace is a very good surfer.
- 15:13Speaker 5: And she lives in Bel Air.
- 15:16Speaker 4: Yes.
- 15:18Speaker 5: So whenever I go back to the Philippines, we go surfing.
- 15:24Speaker 5: And it's hard in the beginning. It's hard, but it's
- 15:30Speaker 5: so adventurous. It's actually very nice. You just feel good
- 15:35Speaker 5: about yourself that, oh, wow, I can stand on this board.
- 15:39Speaker 4: Yeah. And balance on top of it.
- 15:42Speaker 5: Yes, yeah.
- 15:43Speaker 4: I tried that. I'm scared.
- 15:46Speaker 5: You know, as we grow older, we lose our balance.
- 15:49Speaker 2: That's true.
- 15:51Speaker 5: But there's... a way to keep your balance, you just
- 15:55Speaker 5: have to keep, um, the yoga is very important.
- 15:58Speaker 4: I love doing yoga. Yes.
- 16:01Speaker 5: Meditation. The exercise is doing, is very important. You have to, like,
- 16:05Speaker 5: try to, like, just stand on one leg sometimes and
- 16:09Speaker 5: then see your balance.
- 16:10Speaker 2: Mm-hmm.
- 16:10Speaker 5: Because when we lose our balance, I think that's the
- 16:13Speaker 5: beginning of aging.
- 16:14Speaker 4: Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
- 16:16Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 16:16Speaker 2: And it all comes in together because the physical and
- 16:19Speaker 2: the mental. Yes.
- 16:20Speaker 4: Everything, they just, They're tied up together.
- 16:23Speaker 5: So you really have to take care of both.
- 16:27Speaker 4: I love all of these activities. That's why I'm such
- 16:30Speaker 4: a big fan of yours.
- 16:31Speaker 2: Because you encapsulate everything.
- 16:36Speaker 5: I just try my best.
- 16:37Speaker 2: That kind of a person, of a woman that I
- 16:42Speaker 2: really look up to. And I really wish a lot
- 16:46Speaker 2: of you youngsters or fellow golden gals like me, you know,
- 16:50Speaker 2: try to do that too. Because there's really no limit
- 16:52Speaker 2: to the physical activities that we can do. Sure, like
- 16:56Speaker 2: old age, whatever, we get sick.
- 16:59Speaker 5: But I will say, look at, it's now Winter Olympic, right?
- 17:05Speaker 5: I know there's a lot of young people over there.
- 17:08Speaker 5: But when you look at it, our bodies is a machine.
- 17:13Speaker 5: If you train your body the way you want it
- 17:16Speaker 5: to be, you can achieve it.
- 17:19Speaker 2: Yes.
- 17:20Speaker 5: Like, don't be lazy. Yes, you know, move.
- 17:24Speaker 4: Move.
- 17:24Speaker 2: That's the key. It's like, you know, the.
- 17:35Speaker 5: What was this, the centennials? The centennials of the world?
- 17:42Speaker 5: They went around and then find centennial people, centenarians of
- 17:47Speaker 5: the world.
- 17:47Speaker 4: The key is moving and walking. Yeah.
- 17:57Speaker 5: They just like walk up, you know, walk down.
- 18:00Speaker 4: It's part of their lifestyle.
- 18:04Speaker 5: And gardening because you go, you know, you squat and
- 18:07Speaker 5: then you sit down. down and then up and then
- 18:10Speaker 5: sit down and up yeah that is one good thing
- 18:13Speaker 5: for healthy body.
- 18:15Speaker 2: Mm-hmm because yeah you know when they when you do
- 18:19Speaker 2: that you keep your cells healthy that was your brain
- 18:22Speaker 2: cells are healthy you see that's when it starts deteriorating
- 18:26Speaker 2: it whatever is in your mind yeah if it's not
- 18:28Speaker 2: healthy if the cells itself and the things that you
- 18:31Speaker 2: think of and all of that but they deteriorate at
- 18:34Speaker 2: the leg you will Age faster than you should be.
- 18:38Speaker 5: Yeah. Like if you put it in your mind, it
- 18:41Speaker 5: will happen.
- 18:42Speaker 4: Exactly.
- 18:43Speaker 2: That line, I listened to this meditation.
- 18:47Speaker 4: Bob Proctor.
- 18:48Speaker 2: There's a guided meditation that I hear.
- 18:53Speaker 4: I listen to it every day.
- 18:54Speaker 2: There's a line that says, If you can see it
- 18:57Speaker 2: in your mind, you can.
- 18:59Speaker 4: Hold it in your hands.
- 19:00Speaker 2: Like if you can create it in your mind, your
- 19:03Speaker 2: body can do it. It will physically appear.
- 19:08Speaker 4: It will happen. You can make it happen.
- 19:09Speaker 5: Yeah. You say it, you hear it, it stays. Yes.
- 19:14Speaker 4: I love that. Okay, so great.
- 19:16Speaker 2: So with all of these physical activities, what do you eat?
- 19:23Speaker 2: Or do you do any meal prepping? Anything special for
- 19:26Speaker 2: your way of eating?
- 19:29Speaker 5: Well, I don't deprive myself, I will say. First of all,
- 19:34Speaker 5: when I wake up in the morning, my routine is drink.
- 19:40Speaker 5: A big warm cup of, I mean, warm water, lemon
- 19:44Speaker 5: warm lemon water lemon water okay lemon water.
- 19:47Speaker 2: Okay warm lemon water.
- 19:49Speaker 5: Yeah in an empty stomach okay every day religiously i do.
- 19:53Speaker 4: That okay you know for.
- 19:55Speaker 5: Whatever reason they say it's good and i feel good
- 19:59Speaker 5: like sometimes we get dehydrated at night when you sleep
- 20:03Speaker 5: especially here yes yeah you lose that you know water
- 20:07Speaker 5: yes you know at night so i hydrate like by
- 20:11Speaker 5: waking up in the morning and then drinking lemon water
- 20:14Speaker 5: okay in in the morning and then i only eat
- 20:19Speaker 5: Two meals a day.
- 20:20Speaker 4: Which is actually all we need, to be honest.
- 20:23Speaker 5: Yes.
- 20:23Speaker 2: We're not prescribing this, whatever meal plan you're into, but
- 20:27Speaker 2: this is what we're talking about here.
- 20:29Speaker 4: So let's listen some more.
- 20:31Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 20:32Speaker 5: Like, if I'm going to have a hard workout, I.
- 20:39Speaker 5: Either eat like a half a banana or an egg.
- 20:43Speaker 2: Half lang talaga.
- 20:43Speaker 4: Hindi ba talaga buong banana? Nakakainis ka.
- 20:50Speaker 5: Or like a little bit of yogurt.
- 20:52Speaker 4: Okay.
- 20:53Speaker 5: So an hour before my workout.
- 20:55Speaker 4: Okay.
- 20:56Speaker 5: But if I'm not going to have a workout, then
- 20:59Speaker 5: I don't eat until lunchtime.
- 21:02Speaker 4: Okay.
- 21:03Speaker 5: And then I love eating early for dinner. Okay. Like
- 21:08Speaker 5: at least five or six.
- 21:09Speaker 4: Five or six, yeah.
- 21:10Speaker 5: Five or six. And I like the idea of intermittent fasting.
- 21:16Speaker 4: I was going to say very intermittent fasting.
- 21:18Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 21:19Speaker 4: I love that.
- 21:19Speaker 2: The 16-hour.
- 21:21Speaker 4: Yes.
- 21:22Speaker 5: And once you start it, you'll get used to it.
- 21:26Speaker 4: That's true.
- 21:27Speaker 5: Yes. And you won't even notice that, oh, my God,
- 21:30Speaker 5: I haven't eaten.
- 21:30Speaker 4: Oh, I'm hungry.
- 21:31Speaker 5: Like it doesn't, it just. automatically reset your body yes
- 21:36Speaker 5: your cravings that in the morning if you eat uh
- 21:41Speaker 5: your last meal is at seven your next meal should
- 21:44Speaker 5: be 11 so you're 16 hour you know 7 to
- 21:47Speaker 5: 11 or if it's 6 then 11 it's easy yes
- 21:52Speaker 5: yeah it's not like you know i mean do you
- 21:55Speaker 5: big eat big breakfast I mean, I don't. I can't
- 22:00Speaker 5: eat breakfast.
- 22:01Speaker 2: I can if I need to, if I think I'm
- 22:02Speaker 2: going to have a long day and I won't eat
- 22:04Speaker 2: all day. But big breakfast is what? Two eggs and
- 22:11Speaker 2: a piece of bread? Yeah.
- 22:13Speaker 4: Or maybe a... a slice of avocado.
- 22:16Speaker 7: Yes.
- 22:17Speaker 5: But the, the, um, the trainers will tell you, it's
- 22:22Speaker 5: like you have to eat three times a meal, but
- 22:24Speaker 5: these trainers are always training.
- 22:26Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 22:27Speaker 5: So you really have to, you have to eat, but
- 22:30Speaker 5: it really depends on your activities.
- 22:32Speaker 6: True.
- 22:33Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 22:33Speaker 2: There's one book that I've been reading, Kevin Azadi, uh,
- 22:37Speaker 2: you know, metabolic reset or metabolic.
- 22:40Speaker 4: Power or something.
- 22:40Speaker 2: Um, And it makes sense what he said, because from
- 22:44Speaker 2: the researches then, existing researches also, is that our bodies,
- 22:49Speaker 2: it's like a machine. So if you keep feeding it,
- 22:53Speaker 2: your digestive system will keep working, will keep working. And
- 22:57Speaker 2: that's why you need to give it a break. That's
- 22:59Speaker 2: why intermittent fasting is important. really good because it's like
- 23:02Speaker 2: a car. What is a machine?
- 23:05Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 23:06Speaker 2: When you do the intermittent fasting, you give your digestive
- 23:08Speaker 2: system a break. Let it do, let it digest everything
- 23:12Speaker 2: that you ate properly. Yes. Distribute the nutrients and hopefully
- 23:16Speaker 2: you're eating nutritious food.
- 23:18Speaker 7: Yes.
- 23:19Speaker 4: And then from there, actually, if it does.
- 23:22Speaker 2: That properly, if it works properly, you won't actually feel
- 23:26Speaker 2: hungry because it's distributed properly. Your protein, your body's using
- 23:30Speaker 2: it up, your carbohydrates, everything, your nutrients, your body is
- 23:34Speaker 2: consuming it properly. And by the time that you're ready
- 23:38Speaker 2: to eat again after 16, 14 hours for others, 16
- 23:41Speaker 2: or 18 hours for others, your body is ready again.
- 23:45Speaker 4: To, oh, I'm going to work again and I rested,
- 23:48Speaker 4: you know, I'm going to.
- 23:49Speaker 2: Digest this next set of food. It's like us when
- 23:52Speaker 2: we go to sleep. Yes.
- 23:54Speaker 5: Well, I read something about this Japanese doctor who said
- 23:59Speaker 5: that if you starve yourself, but not really like starve yourself,
- 24:06Speaker 5: like when you're starving, your body works in a way
- 24:09Speaker 5: that your cells, like it's autophagy. Like when your cells,
- 24:18Speaker 5: it beats the cancer cells. It eats the cancer cells.
- 24:22Speaker 4: It eats the cancer cells, yeah.
- 24:24Speaker 5: Yes. So when you're starving, your body knows what to eat.
- 24:29Speaker 2: Right.
- 24:29Speaker 5: So it's kind of interesting. It is. I still have
- 24:33Speaker 5: to read more about it.
- 24:35Speaker 2: Yeah, no, that's why I'm all about it into all
- 24:38Speaker 2: of these books. In fact, I think the other page is...
- 24:42Speaker 2: It was mentioned in that book of Ben Azadi. I
- 24:44Speaker 2: just can't remember exactly what he said. But that is
- 24:47Speaker 2: so true because even our diets can actually heal us
- 24:51Speaker 2: or whatever.
- 24:52Speaker 5: Yes.
- 24:53Speaker 4: It can potentially. I'm not, again, we're not suggesting.
- 24:56Speaker 5: We are not doctors.
- 24:58Speaker 4: We're not doctors.
- 24:58Speaker 2: I am not a doctor.
- 24:59Speaker 5: It's true.
- 25:00Speaker 2: What you eat can potentially, it can make you healthy.
- 25:06Speaker 2: When you eat it, that will make it more, it
- 25:09Speaker 2: will maximize the nutrients that you're your nutrients.
- 25:13Speaker 5: But you're right if you keep eating constantly your your
- 25:18Speaker 5: yeah your digestive system is non-stop working you gotta give
- 25:23Speaker 5: it a rest yes you gotta give it a rest
- 25:25Speaker 5: yeah we need to slow down we need to rest.
- 25:29Speaker 2: Yeah um so other activities i see you mentioned and
- 25:34Speaker 2: i've seen you in one of the events.
- 25:35Speaker 4: When i was working as an event manager for the St.
- 25:39Speaker 4: Jude Foundation.
- 25:40Speaker 2: I see that you're serving them right now as a co-chair.
- 25:43Speaker 4: What are you doing? Tell us what you're doing.
- 25:44Speaker 5: So I'm one of the chair for auction committee in St.
- 25:48Speaker 5: Jude Children's Research Hospital. When I was, because I am
- 25:54Speaker 5: retired now.
- 25:56Speaker 2: Love it retired I love that word okay you know
- 26:01Speaker 2: like when do you retire right anytime I want to.
- 26:05Speaker 5: So so whenever I say it's like I'm retired now
- 26:08Speaker 5: what you're so young to be retired oh okay so
- 26:12Speaker 5: when I was like looking to do something because life
- 26:16Speaker 5: is not just about being retired and then doing nothing
- 26:20Speaker 5: or just focusing on yourself you also have to focus
- 26:23Speaker 5: on your purpose like you wanted to also give back, right?
- 26:28Speaker 5: And then I am looking for a charity organization that
- 26:32Speaker 5: is legitimate, that the donations goes to the charity because
- 26:38Speaker 5: there's a lot, a lot of charity organizations here. especially
- 26:43Speaker 5: here in our community, that we really don't know what
- 26:47Speaker 5: they do. They can say, you know, they're helping this
- 26:51Speaker 5: and they're helping that, but they ask for your donation
- 26:55Speaker 5: or your help or your support, but we really can't
- 26:58Speaker 5: see or you don't know, right? And I've known St.
- 27:03Speaker 5: Jude for the longest period of time, and we know
- 27:07Speaker 5: that they help a lot of children who have cancers,
- 27:12Speaker 5: And it doesn't stop with just one person when you help.
- 27:17Speaker 5: It is a long-term help for the humanity because they
- 27:21Speaker 5: do have a research program for finding cures for these cancers.
- 27:28Speaker 4: Cancer for children.
- 27:39Speaker 5: They focus on. So if you go to Memphis, they
- 27:43Speaker 5: have a huge facility there with hospital, with their research building. And, like,
- 27:48Speaker 5: it's so impressive. And they are the first, they are
- 27:55Speaker 5: the pioneer of proton therapy.
- 27:58Speaker 4: Okay.
- 27:58Speaker 5: You know, where they treat, you know, specifically to the
- 28:02Speaker 5: cancer cell.
- 28:02Speaker 2: Yeah, kill cancer.
- 28:04Speaker 5: With precision.
- 28:04Speaker 1: Uh-huh.
- 28:05Speaker 5: So they are the first one to do that. And
- 28:09Speaker 5: then their survival rate is high. I think it's up
- 28:14Speaker 5: to 80% survival rate.
- 28:15Speaker 4: Wow.
- 28:16Speaker 5: You know, when you take your child with cancer. And
- 28:20Speaker 5: then also the donation, your donation, 90% of your donation
- 28:28Speaker 5: goes to the charity. So, like, you see that.
- 28:32Speaker 4: Right.
- 28:33Speaker 5: You see the development.
- 28:34Speaker 2: You see the fruits, yes.
- 28:34Speaker 4: Yes, yes.
- 28:35Speaker 2: You see where it goes.
- 28:36Speaker 5: So it just doesn't stop with one. It goes on.
- 28:39Speaker 5: Even when I'm gone, you know, you help this organization,
- 28:44Speaker 5: and it's still going. You're still helping because they have
- 28:47Speaker 5: the cure, you know. So, and then now I serve
- 28:52Speaker 5: as co-chair for auction. It's one of the committee that
- 28:56Speaker 5: raises money.
- 28:57Speaker 2: I know that is because I was an event coordinator
- 29:00Speaker 2: for one of those.
- 29:01Speaker 5: So last year, we hit a $ 1 million mark.
- 29:05Speaker 4: Wow.
- 29:06Speaker 5: We reached $ 1 million last year. It was an amazing achievement.
- 29:12Speaker 5: for all of us in the executive committee.
- 29:16Speaker 2: Congratulations.
- 29:17Speaker 5: So we were so happy and proud.
- 29:19Speaker 4: So right now, are you.
- 29:20Speaker 2: Preparing for the next one? You're welcome to.
- 29:23Speaker 4: Plug it in if you want to mention.
- 29:24Speaker 5: Yes, we are preparing for the next one. We have
- 29:27Speaker 5: a big gala. It's usually end of September. I think
- 29:32Speaker 5: it's 25-26. September 25-26 in Red Rock Hotel and Casino.
- 29:40Speaker 5: Resort and Casino. So, yeah, we have that gala to
- 29:45Speaker 5: fundraise again. And we're hoping to... race 1.1. Wow.
- 29:51Speaker 4: I mean, just a little.
- 29:54Speaker 2: Over the record of last year.
- 29:57Speaker 5: We have to move upward.
- 29:59Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 30:00Speaker 2: I remember you guys say that was at one of
- 30:02Speaker 2: the galas where we saw the Durango, right?
- 30:04Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 30:05Speaker 2: Yes where we you saw me I was running around I.
- 30:09Speaker 4: So wanted to say hi to you guys yeah and I.
- 30:12Speaker 2: Mean I mean I know it's so many movements but
- 30:14Speaker 2: the live events that I got I know me actually
- 30:18Speaker 2: though and then and then we have our next guest
- 30:20Speaker 2: in our my my speech coming up my performer right
- 30:27Speaker 2: but that was that was a really nice event and
- 30:29Speaker 2: you know I'm pretty sure our viewers are You can
- 30:33Speaker 2: definitely visit their website, St. Jude's Foundation. Yes, St.
- 30:41Speaker 5: Jude Children's Research Hospital. Please Google it. You'll see it.
- 30:47Speaker 5: And then I'm sure some of you are already contributing
- 30:52Speaker 5: or donating to St. Jude Foundation. Because you've seen all
- 30:55Speaker 5: of their advertisements on TV.
- 30:57Speaker 7: Yes.
- 30:58Speaker 2: I remember, like, my first time, since I moved here,
- 31:01Speaker 2: I started receiving the envelopes in our name, the labels, like,
- 31:08Speaker 2: as if they were a gift for us. main labels
- 31:10Speaker 2: that you can use for your household.
- 31:13Speaker 4: But yeah, it's.
- 31:15Speaker 2: Been long in the industry, or not industry, but in
- 31:19Speaker 2: the community, they've been giving back for so many years.
- 31:23Speaker 5: If you know Danny Thomas, Danny Thomas is the founder
- 31:27Speaker 5: of St. Jude, where he said that no child dies
- 31:31Speaker 5: in the dawn of light.
- 31:32Speaker 4: I remember that.
- 31:33Speaker 5: That's why, yes. That's beautiful, yes. That's why he started
- 31:36Speaker 5: doing that in, I think, in a small restaurant. He was, like,
- 31:41Speaker 5: putting together. And then it started from there. Wow. And
- 31:45Speaker 5: then a lot of people came in. And then now
- 31:49Speaker 5: it's just a big organization of helping. It's not only
- 31:52Speaker 5: in the U.S. It's globally.
- 31:54Speaker 2: It's global, yes. Yes. Yes, that's true.
- 31:56Speaker 5: It's globally, yeah. Wow. Like, even in the Philippines. Like,
- 31:59Speaker 5: last year we had... patients from the Philippines.
- 32:03Speaker 2: They are helping different patients from different races, different nationalities.
- 32:10Speaker 2: That's their beautiful program. How long have you, when did
- 32:14Speaker 2: you start joining them?
- 32:15Speaker 5: So this, I joined like, wow, I think it's four
- 32:18Speaker 5: years now.
- 32:19Speaker 2: Wow. So when I saw you, when I managed the event,
- 32:25Speaker 2: were you part of the.
- 32:28Speaker 5: So I believe that event is not St. Jude, but
- 32:35Speaker 5: I think it's Clark County Medical Society Alliance. That's a CCMSA.
- 32:41Speaker 5: This is another organization that right now the current president
- 32:45Speaker 5: is co-president. of that organization. My very best friend, Karen Booker,
- 32:52Speaker 5: and she's one of the presidents. Yes, and what they
- 32:57Speaker 5: do is they help all charity organizations, which they picked
- 33:03Speaker 5: Children's Heart Foundation this year. So everything that they raise...
- 33:08Speaker 5: They give it to Children's Heart Foundation.
- 33:11Speaker 4: I see.
- 33:12Speaker 5: So they are going to have another announcement.
- 33:15Speaker 2: Yeah, go ahead.
- 33:17Speaker 5: They have a luncheon gala on April 2nd in Durango
- 33:23Speaker 5: Resort Casino.
- 33:25Speaker 4: Ah, yeah, that's the one I remember.
- 33:27Speaker 5: Yes, that's the one. So they are going to do
- 33:30Speaker 5: that again and then fundraise again. And then all your
- 33:33Speaker 5: donation goes towards Children's Heart Foundation.
- 33:36Speaker 2: Wow.
- 33:37Speaker 4: And you're going to be part of that? You're attending
- 33:39Speaker 4: the event?
- 33:40Speaker 5: I am not because CCMSA is a group of doctors
- 33:45Speaker 5: and spouses of doctors. So you have to be related
- 33:49Speaker 5: to a doctor or a doctor to be part of it.
- 33:52Speaker 5: But most of my friends belong into that. organization and
- 33:57Speaker 5: I have a lot of friends there. So I kind
- 34:00Speaker 5: of just help them.
- 34:01Speaker 4: Okay.
- 34:01Speaker 5: Yeah. You know, promote or fundraise or anything that.
- 34:06Speaker 2: I can do. That's really what you're calling for now
- 34:09Speaker 2: is to give back, be part of these foundations.
- 34:14Speaker 5: Yes.
- 34:14Speaker 2: Give your time to them.
- 34:16Speaker 4: Give my time, you know, have a purpose. Yes.
- 34:19Speaker 5: At least I feel, you know, you feel that you
- 34:22Speaker 5: are giving back and you're helping.
- 34:24Speaker 4: I love that. I love that for you.
- 34:26Speaker 5: Aside from health and wellness.
- 34:29Speaker 4: Aside from inspiring people like me.
- 34:31Speaker 5: Yes, yes.
- 34:32Speaker 4: So right now, are you running any business?
- 34:36Speaker 5: So I did like, you know, after COVID, I kind
- 34:39Speaker 5: of like did a little bit of business here and there. But,
- 34:44Speaker 5: you know, I kind of, oh, maybe it's easier if
- 34:48Speaker 5: I should just focus on family. And I know my
- 34:51Speaker 5: husband needs family. Needs me to focus on him because
- 34:55Speaker 5: he works hard. He really works hard. So I just
- 34:57Speaker 5: focus on him and then family and then my activities.
- 35:04Speaker 5: So no business right now.
- 35:06Speaker 2: Just really focus on the husband, but focus on your activities.
- 35:12Speaker 5: Yes, the organizations, my support. And I have also another
- 35:18Speaker 5: Facebook group, but it's not for profit. Okay.
- 35:22Speaker 2: Is that the one I'm part of?
- 35:23Speaker 6: Yes.
- 35:23Speaker 5: Oh, yes. The infinite glow.
- 35:26Speaker 7: Yes.
- 35:26Speaker 4: Oh, I've been a part of that since the start.
- 35:29Speaker 4: I know.
- 35:29Speaker 5: That was like my whole idea with that is just,
- 35:33Speaker 5: you know, try to help others. Especially women, you know,
- 35:38Speaker 5: you can read anything about, you know, have a knowledge
- 35:42Speaker 5: or idea about healthy lifestyle, about cooking, about DIY, you know,
- 35:48Speaker 5: about hiking or even travel, fashion, you know, anything under
- 35:54Speaker 5: the sun that you can, that is beneficial to you.
- 35:58Speaker 4: Right.
- 35:59Speaker 5: I post it there.
- 36:00Speaker 4: Yes.
- 36:01Speaker 2: I so know that because, you know, When you started
- 36:05Speaker 2: that and then you were posting about this book, about
- 36:09Speaker 2: the way of eating.
- 36:11Speaker 5: Oh, Paradox. Yes. Gun Paradox.
- 36:13Speaker 2: Yes.
- 36:14Speaker 5: With Dr. Gundry.
- 36:15Speaker 7: Yes.
- 36:15Speaker 4: Nakita ko yun. Sabi ko, ah, bibilin ko nga tong...
- 36:18Speaker 4: You know, she's.
- 36:20Speaker 2: Not selling the books, but of course I saw she
- 36:22Speaker 2: posted about it and she was talking about it. So
- 36:24Speaker 2: I said, I'm going to buy a copy and read this.
- 36:26Speaker 4: And from then on.
- 36:27Speaker 2: I still have it. I've read it maybe two times already.
- 36:31Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 36:32Speaker 4: Because it's really, it's very insightful and makes a lot
- 36:36Speaker 4: of sense.
- 36:37Speaker 5: Tomato is not a vegetable. It's a fruit.
- 36:40Speaker 2: And it's not the healthiest fruit but yeah those are
- 36:47Speaker 2: the things I love that infinite glow keep posting on that.
- 36:50Speaker 5: I keep posting that whenever I read something that's very
- 36:55Speaker 5: interesting I post it there like for example rice we
- 36:59Speaker 5: love rice but which one is really nutritious or which
- 37:07Speaker 5: one is really good for you So I posted there
- 37:11Speaker 5: white rice, I mean brown rice, because people are saying
- 37:15Speaker 5: it's more nutritious, but it has high arsenic. It's like
- 37:20Speaker 5: more arsenic in brown rice because of the bran. They
- 37:25Speaker 5: did not mill it.
- 37:26Speaker 4: Yeah, not milled off.
- 37:27Speaker 5: So it's more nutritious, but more arsenic. White rice, it's
- 37:33Speaker 5: less nutritious, but less arsenic. So you really have to
- 37:37Speaker 5: just choose your battle. Yeah. You know, so if you
- 37:41Speaker 5: don't want to deprive yourself, I eat like a little
- 37:44Speaker 5: bit of white rice.
- 37:45Speaker 4: I eat white rice.
- 37:46Speaker 5: Yeah, I eat white rice. I still, like, we are Filipinos.
- 37:49Speaker 1: Of course.
- 37:50Speaker 5: We cannot, like, take that out of our.
- 37:52Speaker 4: I don't know how else.
- 37:54Speaker 5: Yeah, I know. Where is your rice cooker?
- 37:57Speaker 4: Yeah. Well, I don't have a rice cooker, but, you know, mano-mano.
- 38:01Speaker 2: Because I don't really prepare or I don't really like cooking. Yeah.
- 38:07Speaker 2: But when I do, konti-konti lang, and it's not like
- 38:10Speaker 2: I eat rice every day, but there are, like, really sometimes,
- 38:14Speaker 2: kailangan talaga may rice yung.
- 38:16Speaker 7: Ulam na yun.
- 38:16Speaker 5: Yeah, carbs is good. It's not bad.
- 38:19Speaker 4: Yes.
- 38:19Speaker 5: But it depends on what time you are going to
- 38:22Speaker 5: eat the carbs. Especially, like, if you're going to do
- 38:26Speaker 5: a lot of activities or workout, then carbs is good
- 38:30Speaker 5: because you burn that.
- 38:31Speaker 2: Mm-hmm.
- 38:32Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 38:32Speaker 4: I've learned, too, from reading a keto.
- 38:38Speaker 4: I can't remember.
- 38:39Speaker 2: But there's a keto book that I read a long
- 38:43Speaker 2: time ago about resetting... Tapos may carb cycle reset in
- 38:50Speaker 2: your process where, let's say, two weeks kang naka-low carb
- 38:54Speaker 2: or naka-keto. Pagka-hit mo ng second week, mag-carb load ka.
- 39:01Speaker 4: And then the next day.
- 39:02Speaker 5: Oh, this is like about the hormones, yes.
- 39:04Speaker 2: Yes.
- 39:05Speaker 4: Tapos ma-feel mo talaga yung... I can feel it. Yung
- 39:07Speaker 4: tummy ko flat.
- 39:10Speaker 2: Oh, because I ate sushi. You know, nag-carb. nagpasta ako
- 39:15Speaker 2: yesterday the next day talagang ah ito pala secret pag
- 39:20Speaker 2: kailangan tummy ko flat the next day.
- 39:21Speaker 5: Magkakarbload ako because the carbs when you eat it at
- 39:24Speaker 5: night it turns into sugar and then it becomes fat
- 39:29Speaker 5: right But if you eat carbs, which is why I
- 39:35Speaker 5: always walk after eating.
- 39:37Speaker 4: Yes.
- 39:37Speaker 5: Important yan.
- 39:38Speaker 4: So, yeah, go walking.
- 39:40Speaker 5: Even if it's just like 15 minutes walk or 30
- 39:43Speaker 5: minutes walk after eating. Because you burn your sugar. It's
- 39:47Speaker 5: not going to turn into fat. Yeah. So after eating,
- 39:51Speaker 5: I go, honey, I'm just going to go walk. And
- 39:53Speaker 5: then I walk or I walk with my dog.
- 39:55Speaker 4: Yes.
- 39:56Speaker 5: So that's good. But if you eat carbs and then
- 40:00Speaker 5: you go to bed right away, it turns into sugar.
- 40:04Speaker 4: Yeah, it's going to rest with your body.
- 40:05Speaker 5: And then it becomes fat.
- 40:07Speaker 4: And then, you know, your digestive system.
- 40:09Speaker 2: Is going to work really hard overnight. Well, supposedly, it's
- 40:14Speaker 2: also part of being able to sleep well. Because, again,
- 40:18Speaker 2: sleep is very important in our fitness.
- 40:22Speaker 5: It's very important for longevity.
- 40:25Speaker 2: Yes.
- 40:27Speaker 5: Sleep is actually, like, when you sleep, it's the time
- 40:34Speaker 5: when it heals your whole body.
- 40:37Speaker 2: So when you.
- 40:37Speaker 5: Don't sleep, it doesn't heal at all.
- 40:40Speaker 4: Yes.
- 40:40Speaker 5: You know? So they said, like, oh, how many hours
- 40:43Speaker 5: do you need to sleep? As long as I want.
- 40:45Speaker 5: Like Brian Johnson said, it's nine hours. You know Brian Johnson?
- 40:49Speaker 5: The one who, the man who wants to live forever?
- 40:53Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 40:54Speaker 5: He said nine hours sleep, but then you have to
- 40:56Speaker 5: sleep because that's the time that your body recuperates, your
- 41:00Speaker 5: body heals. And they said that if you have less sleep,
- 41:08Speaker 5: chances are it, takes away some years.
- 41:13Speaker 2: Some years yeah yes yes i just read that yes
- 41:17Speaker 2: yes yes one of the uh things that uh ben
- 41:20Speaker 2: azadi mentioned is that if you young quality of sleep
- 41:25Speaker 2: really affects the length the span of your life yes
- 41:28Speaker 2: and part of that that's why i connected it to
- 41:30Speaker 2: eating carbs at night is that When you do that,
- 41:35Speaker 2: yung quality of sleep mo talaga is not that good
- 41:38Speaker 2: because you're making your body work while your mind, your
- 41:43Speaker 2: brain is trying to sleep.
- 41:45Speaker 4: So parang nagko-contradict sila. Yes.
- 41:48Speaker 2: This one is trying to sleep, pero ito, nagwo-work.
- 41:51Speaker 5: Yes, nagwo-work pa rin. So you're still... You know, loading
- 41:55Speaker 5: a lot of work in your body. But then also,
- 41:58Speaker 5: one important thing to remember is alcohol is not good
- 42:02Speaker 5: for you. Oh, but I love my line.
- 42:05Speaker 4: Oh, my goodness. I'm sorry to say this, Anvi.
- 42:09Speaker 5: But no matter what they say, alcohol.
- 42:13Speaker 5: There's really no benefit in alcohol.
- 42:17Speaker 4: I just tell myself we have antioxidants in wine, but.
- 42:21Speaker 5: Yes, like even if you say, oh yeah, the wine
- 42:24Speaker 5: has antioxidants or this, but it really just damages the
- 42:28Speaker 5: lining of your gut. It damages the enzymes of your liver,
- 42:33Speaker 5: you know, and it destroys your sleep.
- 42:37Speaker 2: It does.
- 42:38Speaker 5: So sometimes you think like, okay, I'll just drink and
- 42:41Speaker 5: drink and then... And then you sleep, you wake up
- 42:44Speaker 5: in the middle of the night. And then you can't
- 42:46Speaker 5: go back to sleep. And then you're dehydrated. Yes. And
- 42:50Speaker 5: then you have, you have a, what's this, hangover.
- 42:54Speaker 4: May hangover, yes.
- 42:56Speaker 5: Yes, yes.
- 42:56Speaker 4: But I just do one or.
- 42:59Speaker 2: Two glasses of wine.
- 43:00Speaker 4: Yes, yes. And these things like, okay, drink it hours
- 43:06Speaker 4: before you go to bed. It's like eating also.
- 43:08Speaker 5: You eat.
- 43:08Speaker 4: Yes.
- 43:09Speaker 2: Your last meal has to be at least three hours
- 43:12Speaker 2: or four hours before you go to bed. And then
- 43:16Speaker 2: because it's wine, because I really love my wines.
- 43:19Speaker 4: It's diuretic. So you really have to drink water. Like
- 43:23Speaker 4: I pre-hydrate before I drink wine.
- 43:25Speaker 2: Or after that I drink.
- 43:27Speaker 5: Drink water, you know. Alongside In the middle Yeah In
- 43:31Speaker 5: between Yes.
- 43:32Speaker 2: Which is actually Good practice Especially if you're A red
- 43:34Speaker 2: wine drinker Because it really It washes your teeth You
- 43:37Speaker 2: know It removes the stain And it's That's the best
- 43:40Speaker 2: way To do that.
- 43:41Speaker 5: I read something about When you eat When you drink
- 43:45Speaker 5: An ounce of alcohol You have to drink Eight ounces
- 43:50Speaker 5: of water To To.
- 43:55Speaker 4: Recover the water Yeah Yeah To.
- 44:00Speaker 5: What do you call that?
- 44:01Speaker 4: Rehydrate.
- 44:04Speaker 5: Can we stop that?
- 44:05Speaker 1: It's okay.
- 44:06Speaker 5: It's okay?
- 44:06Speaker 2: Go ahead, yeah.
- 44:06Speaker 6: Yeah.
- 44:07Speaker 5: Like, para ma, oh my God, I'm blanking. It's okay.
- 44:15Speaker 5: I'm blanking.
- 44:15Speaker 2: Tagalog.
- 44:16Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 44:17Speaker 5: You know, to, like, to recover your body. Okay. Para ma,
- 44:24Speaker 5: it starts with D. It starts with D.
- 44:28Speaker 7: Digest digest to digest like oh my gosh okay like
- 44:33Speaker 7: to digest the alcohol you have to drink eight ounces of.
- 44:38Speaker 2: Water per ounce of alcohol this is 12 ounces.
- 44:53Speaker 4: Yeah. So about... 16 ounces.
- 44:55Speaker 5: So it's like up to here.
- 44:57Speaker 2: Okay. So a glass.
- 44:58Speaker 4: A glass of water.
- 44:59Speaker 5: That's true. A glass of water.
- 45:01Speaker 4: You know. That's really recommended.
- 45:03Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 45:03Speaker 5: To digest the alcohol. So imagine if you drink like
- 45:09Speaker 5: this much, you have to drink a gallon of water.
- 45:13Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 45:13Speaker 2: I don't think I can drink that much.
- 45:15Speaker 4: But we don't know. I can't tell you.
- 45:17Speaker 6: Well, no.
- 45:18Speaker 5: This is just two glasses of wine.
- 45:21Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 45:21Speaker 6: Two.
- 45:22Speaker 2: True.
- 45:22Speaker 5: But, you know, I am not a doctor. You can
- 45:26Speaker 5: always drink your wine. I will. And then a lot
- 45:30Speaker 5: of people sometimes they find drinking wine to relax.
- 45:35Speaker 4: That's me.
- 45:35Speaker 5: To calm down.
- 45:37Speaker 4: Yeah, that's really me.
- 45:38Speaker 5: It's like you go home and then you open a
- 45:40Speaker 5: bottle of wine and then you drink, you know, wine.
- 45:43Speaker 5: But then there's also another option. So I found this
- 45:48Speaker 5: out with my husband. It's CBD gummies.
- 45:53Speaker 4: Oh, okay.
- 45:54Speaker 5: So there's CBD gummies that there's a calm to make
- 46:01Speaker 5: you calm. And then there's to keep you asleep. There's
- 46:06Speaker 5: just to relax. These are all CBD. So it's not drugs.
- 46:12Speaker 5: It's healthy.
- 46:13Speaker 4: And it's not alcohol.
- 46:15Speaker 5: And it's not alcohol. So what we do is we
- 46:18Speaker 5: take it before we go to bed. And I find
- 46:21Speaker 5: it keeping me asleep.
- 46:25Speaker 4: Gives you quality sleep, you mean? Yeah.
- 46:28Speaker 5: Gives me quality sleep.
- 46:29Speaker 4: Oh, that's a good tip.
- 46:30Speaker 5: Yes, yes.
- 46:31Speaker 4: I haven't tried that. Yeah, I don't think I've ever
- 46:35Speaker 4: tried CBD. Maybe CBD cream.
- 46:38Speaker 5: I'll give you some.
- 46:40Speaker 2: You try more.
- 46:43Speaker 4: That's good.
- 46:43Speaker 2: Yeah, those are really good tips. But yes, and true
- 46:47Speaker 2: about the alcohol. Because when you're healing, the alcohol really
- 46:52Speaker 2: impedes the ability of your cells to to recuperate.
- 46:56Speaker 4: That's true.
- 46:58Speaker 2: Yes.
- 46:58Speaker 4: I just want to drink wine.
- 46:59Speaker 5: But then also, like, the Gen Z these days, do
- 47:05Speaker 5: you know, did you read that, that the alcohol company
- 47:09Speaker 5: lost billions of dollars because The Gen Zs don't drink
- 47:15Speaker 5: a lot of alcohol.
- 47:16Speaker 4: Yeah, I've heard of that.
- 47:18Speaker 5: So they are more into health and wellness.
- 47:22Speaker 2: Juices.
- 47:23Speaker 5: Working out and juices. So it's refreshing to know that
- 47:31Speaker 5: the young people now loves to exercise and be healthy
- 47:36Speaker 5: than drinking and doing drugs.
- 47:39Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 47:40Speaker 2: Ibang-ibang from, like, my generation. Ang partying namin.
- 47:45Speaker 5: I know. Yeah. I don't know about you, Anvi. I
- 47:50Speaker 5: think I was so boring back in the day.
- 47:53Speaker 2: Hey, I was a good girl. Because I remember, like,
- 47:59Speaker 2: me and my cousins or me and my friends, when
- 48:03Speaker 2: we try to party with, like, my nieces, ganyan. Ako
- 48:07Speaker 2: pa yung nagsasabi, here, drink some more. And sila, I
- 48:10Speaker 2: don't want to drink anymore. Like, okay lang ako.
- 48:14Speaker 4: Okay. Iba yung requirements sila to party.
- 48:17Speaker 5: Peer pressure, too, sometimes is, you know, people, when you
- 48:22Speaker 5: say no, they.
- 48:25Speaker 5: They pressure you to drink.
- 48:26Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 48:27Speaker 5: You know. But then when you think about it, it's because, like,
- 48:31Speaker 5: who really cares what's in your cup?
- 48:33Speaker 2: Right.
- 48:34Speaker 4: As long as you have a pint.
- 48:36Speaker 5: So, basically, they probably care more on what's in their
- 48:40Speaker 5: cup and what's in your cup. You know, because you
- 48:44Speaker 5: are not drinking and they are drinking. Mm-hmm. you know
- 48:48Speaker 5: so they're saying like maybe they're thinking that hmm she's
- 48:53Speaker 5: trying to be healthy and I am not so maybe.
- 48:56Speaker 2: You know so how about no judgment.
- 48:59Speaker 5: Yes no judgment and you care about what's in your
- 49:02Speaker 5: cup right.
- 49:04Speaker 2: Okay so well tell me so all of these we
- 49:10Speaker 2: talked about great great tips how important is it for
- 49:14Speaker 2: you to practice a balanced lifestyle.
- 49:17Speaker 5: Well, a balanced lifestyle is very important. It's very important
- 49:21Speaker 5: to me. I think we should all have a balanced lifestyle. Like,
- 49:27Speaker 5: we should be able to, like, stop, slow down, rest.
- 49:32Speaker 5: It's kind of like if you don't have a balanced lifestyle,
- 49:34Speaker 5: it's heavier.
- 49:35Speaker 2: Uh-huh.
- 49:36Speaker 5: You know? It's like everything is in chaos. Yeah.
- 49:40Speaker 2: Oh, I love that.
- 49:41Speaker 5: Yeah. So so like having like finding the balanced lifestyle
- 49:46Speaker 5: is not about a perfect life.
- 49:49Speaker 4: No, no.
- 49:51Speaker 5: You just have to know when, you know, when to
- 49:54Speaker 5: do a certain thing. And you also have to know
- 49:57Speaker 5: when to say yes. No, and when to say yes
- 50:01Speaker 5: and prioritize. Right. Prioritize what's important in a family to
- 50:06Speaker 5: yourself too.
- 50:07Speaker 4: What makes you happy, what sparks you joy.
- 50:10Speaker 5: Yes, what makes you feel good about yourself.
- 50:13Speaker 4: Yes, that's true.
- 50:15Speaker 5: So balanced lifestyle is very important. So we should all
- 50:19Speaker 5: find a purpose that's included in the balance. And then
- 50:26Speaker 5: also I... believe that we have to nurture our faith
- 50:31Speaker 5: and our belief in God, and then we have to
- 50:35Speaker 5: pray every day. We wake up that we are lucky,
- 50:39Speaker 5: that we are alive, and we have another chance in life,
- 50:44Speaker 5: and we are healthy, and we have family. And we
- 50:48Speaker 5: have people who loves us.
- 50:49Speaker 4: That's beautiful. That's a beautiful message.
- 50:52Speaker 2: On that note, I just remembered one of the videos
- 50:54Speaker 2: you showed me. I just wasn't able to upload it,
- 50:58Speaker 2: I think. You're pretty active at your church.
- 51:02Speaker 4: What activities do you guys do?
- 51:04Speaker 5: So in our church, we have children's ministry.
- 51:07Speaker 4: Okay.
- 51:07Speaker 5: So I am Christian. And when the people go there,
- 51:13Speaker 5: they're like youngsters, like young kids there. We take all
- 51:17Speaker 5: the kids, and we have from kindergarten to grade five,
- 51:24Speaker 5: and then we divide them and teach them Bible studies.
- 51:28Speaker 6: Okay.
- 51:28Speaker 5: So that's one thing that I enjoy, and I feel
- 51:32Speaker 5: also giving back. And I remember when I was growing up,
- 51:36Speaker 5: because when I was growing up, we lived close by church.
- 51:41Speaker 4: Okay.
- 51:42Speaker 5: And my mom takes us to Sunday church.
- 51:46Speaker 4: Senueva Ecija.
- 51:47Speaker 5: Senueva Ecija.
- 51:48Speaker 6: Okay.
- 51:48Speaker 4: Yes.
- 51:49Speaker 5: And I did the Sunday children's church, Sunday school over there.
- 51:59Speaker 5: So it kind of reminded me of that. you know,
- 52:02Speaker 5: and then reading, you know, all the Bible stories and
- 52:05Speaker 5: also singing. So it's nice.
- 52:08Speaker 2: Ang ganda ng collection of activities mo, church, foundations, and then,
- 52:14Speaker 2: you know, all of these, some fitness and wellness. Ang
- 52:18Speaker 2: ganda nung, actually, I find the balance. I can see,
- 52:21Speaker 2: you know, how it's, as you said, it's not balanced.
- 52:26Speaker 2: Living a balanced lifestyle is not perfect, but all these
- 52:28Speaker 2: things that you have in your life right now, It shows.
- 52:32Speaker 5: Oh.
- 52:32Speaker 2: You're happy and you're content and you're so calm.
- 52:38Speaker 5: Well, the number one killer in the world is stress. Yes. Yes. Yes.
- 52:46Speaker 4: Stress.
- 52:47Speaker 5: It's not like, you know, we don't have stress at all.
- 52:50Speaker 5: We have stress. You know, we have stress. But we
- 52:53Speaker 5: try to not be stressed. And then right now that
- 52:58Speaker 5: I do all these things, at least when I get
- 53:01Speaker 5: stressed or pressured, it doesn't affect my livelihood.
- 53:04Speaker 2: Right.
- 53:05Speaker 4: And it's because you know how to manage it.
- 53:07Speaker 5: Yes.
- 53:07Speaker 2: That's, I guess, the wisdom that entails is that.
- 53:12Speaker 5: And then the wisdom that only comes with age.
- 53:16Speaker 2: Aha, you nailed that, right? Because you can bombard us
- 53:21Speaker 2: with all of these stressful things, but we know how
- 53:24Speaker 2: to handle it.
- 53:26Speaker 4: Like you said, nothing's perfect.
- 53:28Speaker 2: We're not at all near any perfection, but we've learned
- 53:33Speaker 2: through the years.
- 53:34Speaker 5: Right, right. And then this year is a big year
- 53:37Speaker 5: for me because I'm turning 60. I can't believe it!
- 53:43Speaker 4: You guys... You guys should check her out.
- 53:47Speaker 2: Her legs are more toned than mine. Oh, my gosh.
- 53:51Speaker 5: What?
- 53:55Speaker 4: 60.
- 53:55Speaker 2: Amazing. That's why I'm an idol. So tell me, if
- 53:59Speaker 2: you look back, like in your 20s or your 30s,
- 54:03Speaker 2: which aspect of your life then would you think that, oh,
- 54:08Speaker 2: I should have improved that part back then?
- 54:11Speaker 4: Anything that you could recall, reflect on?
- 54:14Speaker 5: Maybe because when you were young, like especially back in
- 54:17Speaker 5: the days in the Philippines, right? Like you get, like
- 54:22Speaker 5: I said, the peer pressure. So probably more on, I
- 54:27Speaker 5: probably should did like more healthy.
- 54:31Speaker 2: Healthy choices.
- 54:33Speaker 5: Healthy choices back in the day, you know. But if
- 54:37Speaker 5: I'm going to improve, I think. I've achieved it.
- 54:41Speaker 2: Okay.
- 54:43Speaker 5: I did the improvement.
- 54:44Speaker 4: So, you redeemed yourself.
- 54:45Speaker 2: Yes, yes.
- 54:46Speaker 4: But I've learned, you know.
- 54:48Speaker 5: So, everything that I did, like, in the past, I'm
- 54:51Speaker 5: thankful because of all the mistakes I made, I learned
- 54:56Speaker 5: from it, and I improved it. And, yes, that's... it is.
- 55:03Speaker 2: Well that's awesome good for you so what do you
- 55:06Speaker 2: look forward to in the next 50 years and beyond
- 55:11Speaker 2: 50 more years i hope i will live 50 more
- 55:15Speaker 2: years oh my god i'll be lucky if i have
- 55:17Speaker 2: 30 more years right you know i'll be i mean
- 55:28Speaker 2: We don't know.
- 55:29Speaker 5: Only God knows.
- 55:30Speaker 4: Yes.
- 55:30Speaker 5: Only God knows.
- 55:31Speaker 2: With how you're taking care of yourself.
- 55:33Speaker 5: But like I said, it's like health is him. It's his.
- 55:38Speaker 4: Yes.
- 55:39Speaker 2: Everything is his.
- 55:39Speaker 5: So even if we do whatever we can do, we
- 55:44Speaker 5: can do our part and he will do the rest.
- 55:47Speaker 4: Beautiful. Yes.
- 55:49Speaker 5: So I look forward to being agile still in my life.
- 55:56Speaker 5: you know in my 70s in my 80s i wish
- 55:59Speaker 5: i can still do what i can do.
- 56:01Speaker 2: Yes but we can yeah because like.
- 56:06Speaker 5: Muscle is very important it holds us together.
- 56:08Speaker 2: True once we lose the.
- 56:10Speaker 5: Muscle like it we're very very prone to accidents risk
- 56:16Speaker 5: risk yeah of injuries so so it's important that we
- 56:21Speaker 5: lift weights we have our muscles So that we can
- 56:27Speaker 5: grow older together.
- 56:29Speaker 4: In one piece. Strong in one piece.
- 56:34Speaker 5: That's great.
- 56:35Speaker 2: Is there anything else that you want to remind our
- 56:38Speaker 2: viewers or anything else.
- 56:40Speaker 4: That you want to.
- 56:42Speaker 2: Share, especially to those who are scrambling to live in
- 56:47Speaker 2: balance right now?
- 56:48Speaker 5: Well, all I can say is do the best you
- 56:53Speaker 5: can to take care of you. And find some time
- 56:59Speaker 5: to have peace of mind and find some time to
- 57:05Speaker 5: exercise yourself. Even just a few minutes.
- 57:11Speaker 4: Walk.
- 57:12Speaker 5: Just walk. Walking is really healthy for you and beneficial
- 57:17Speaker 5: for you. So all I can say is a balanced life.
- 57:22Speaker 5: I know it's probably very hard for others to do.
- 57:29Speaker 5: But you can if you just allow yourself.
- 57:33Speaker 4: Agree. I totally agree. And you know what?
- 57:36Speaker 2: If you really, really want to live a balanced lifestyle...
- 57:38Speaker 2: You can do it. It's not difficult at all. It's
- 57:41Speaker 2: just in your mind.
- 57:43Speaker 5: Yes.
- 57:44Speaker 2: So you see, my fellow Golden and Beyond Club, you
- 57:50Speaker 2: want to live longer? Live a balanced lifestyle. So thank
- 57:54Speaker 2: you so much for your time, Gwen.
- 57:56Speaker 4: I really appreciate all of the tips that you shared.
- 57:59Speaker 4: It's so amazing. You inspire our listeners to live longer.
- 58:02Speaker 2: You inspire me to live longer and healthier.
- 58:05Speaker 4: Pero may wine pa din.
- 58:07Speaker 2: And happier.
- 58:08Speaker 5: We can have our glass of toast. We can toast
- 58:12Speaker 5: the wine. I would love that.
- 58:15Speaker 2: But yeah, you truly.
- 58:17Speaker 4: are fabulous.
- 58:19Speaker 2: I really, really appreciate your time here with us.
- 58:21Speaker 5: Thank you so much, Anvi, for inviting me. Thank you
- 58:24Speaker 5: for Kuya Johan.
- 58:25Speaker 4: Kuya Johan, thank you. Thank you.
- 58:28Speaker 5: And this is my first radio show.
- 58:30Speaker 4: And not the last. Thank you so much.
- 58:33Speaker 5: I'm really happy that I was able to experience this
- 58:37Speaker 5: with you, you know, and we have to go back.
- 58:40Speaker 2: I really thought that I would be perfect for this.
- 58:43Speaker 7: So there.
- 58:44Speaker 2: And as we reach our golden years, we will be
- 58:47Speaker 2: challenged and tried, starting with, of course, natural causes like aging, diseases,
- 58:53Speaker 2: and our vulnerability to depression due to the social, physical,
- 58:58Speaker 2: and even economic adjustments. We can't stop all of these,
- 59:03Speaker 2: but we sure can go through them gracefully. So how
- 59:07Speaker 2: do we do that? Eat well, sleep well. well, exercise, meditate, pray,
- 59:12Speaker 2: pray a lot. Nurture strong relationships and do the activities
- 59:18Speaker 2: or work that are fulfilling to you. Many, if not
- 59:22Speaker 2: all of us, didn't really have a balanced life, didn't
- 59:26Speaker 2: really think of this. What is this balanced lifestyle? You know,
- 59:29Speaker 2: when we were younger, we never thought about this. And
- 59:32Speaker 2: that's what sets us, golden gals and guys, apart from
- 59:36Speaker 2: the younglings. We simply know better now.
- 59:40Speaker 4: And so for our next episode here on 50-50.
- 59:44Speaker 2: Being active after 50 doesn't have to mean running a
- 59:49Speaker 2: marathon or climbing a mountain.
- 59:51Speaker 4: It can be sure if that's your trip, go ahead.
- 59:54Speaker 4: Or doing something extreme.
- 59:55Speaker 5: It can mean walking.
- 59:59Speaker 4: Dancing, just playing pickleball, eto na yun.
- 1:00:03Speaker 6: Swimming, hiking, traveling, shopping nga eh, ano na yun, workout
- 1:00:08Speaker 6: na yun kasi if you walk for three hours, right?
- 1:00:11Speaker 6: Or trying a new sport, or yes, even free diving
- 1:00:16Speaker 6: it's it's good because it just keeps everybody active you
- 1:00:20Speaker 6: can see.
- 1:00:21Speaker 4: All walks of life in pickleball.
- 1:00:24Speaker 2: May mga fudgy may mga tall may mga short matanda
- 1:00:28Speaker 2: bata they're all enjoying themselves and they're all playing out
- 1:00:31Speaker 2: there so I think it's a really good thing thank
- 1:00:34Speaker 2: you all for listening and watching I hope you enjoyed
- 1:00:37Speaker 2: today's episode as much as I did thank you PHLV
- 1:00:41Speaker 2: and Kuya Yo for all the guidance once again And
- 1:00:44Speaker 2: if you are in your 50s and up or preparing
- 1:00:47Speaker 2: for Golden Year, get on the show to share your story.
- 1:00:51Speaker 2: I assure you, someone out there will be inspired. So
- 1:00:55Speaker 2: send us an email and we can feature you. phlvradio
- 1:01:00Speaker 2: at gmail.com and anvi.fuller at gmail.com. Being 50 and beyond
- 1:01:07Speaker 2: only means one and one thing. We are much valuable
- 1:01:11Speaker 2: now than ever. That's why we're golden. So let's be
- 1:01:14Speaker 2: proud and keep improving ourselves. Remember, when you add value
- 1:01:18Speaker 2: to yourself, you add value to the world. Till the
- 1:01:21Speaker 2: next time on 5050, take care of yourself.
- 1:01:24Speaker 5: Bye.