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Eat Like You Respect Yourself – Not Just to Fill, But to Fuel. · The Road Doc Podcast

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Hello everyone, welcome back to my podcast, the Road Dog Podcast
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and today officially I am gonna launch season 3 Eat Smart
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series. So this season is going to be
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like, you know, 8 episodes and I will go each one in depth with
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my personal experiences and the patients I have seen from my
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clinical experience and so on and so forth.
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So before I dive into today's episode, eat like you, respect
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yourself. I would like to thank you all
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for your love and your time investing in listening this
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podcast. I am recording this on 23rd July
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2025 and by today we have listeners from five countries so
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far, India, United States, Russia, United Arab Emirates and
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Morocco. So I would like to thank you all
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for your time and efforts towards listening to my podcast.
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I am really, really very grateful for having such a loyal
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audience so far. So hopefully you keep supporting
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Absolutely like it, share it, comment or give any suggestions
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And let's do this, share this knowledge with everyone as much
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as possible so that hopefully someone gets enough knowledge to
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guide their own lives. Let's talk about this episode.
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Eat like you respect yourself. The season basically is all
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about, you know, fueling the mind and body with intention.
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Not about the diets or trends, but about eating, living and
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thriving smart from intermittent fasting to emotional triggers to
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sugar truths. So this is gonna be like, you
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know, the whole season is gonna be like 8 episode series and I
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will officially start eat like you respect yourself.
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Alright, let's dive into it. What I mean by eat like you
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respect yourself. Let's just take a moment, grab a
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cup of coffee, tea or whatever possible because yeah, of course
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I am gonna talk a little bit. So grab everything and relax
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your mind and listen to what I am trying to say carefully as
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much as possible so that you can understand what I am trying to
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say. So if you are eating junk every
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day and calling it a reward, I have got some news.
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That's not self love, that's self sabotage dressed in comfort
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food. Let's just pause here for a
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moment and think about what you are eating in 24 hours or let's
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just say for now what you had for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
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And then think about it. How much do you think its
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healthy? And do you think it's completely
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trashy food, junk food or? And after eating it, how you are
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feeling, your mood, your focus, everything else?
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We live in a world where eating healthy is considered as
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discipline and eating trash is normal these days.
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That's very funny, but that's the hard truth.
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But you know, our body is isn't a test win.
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So every bite you take is either medicine or poison depends on
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what you eat. You either eat to respect your
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body or you eat to escape from it.
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That that's the thing. Most people are, you know,
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eating whatever they want, whenever they want and ruining
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themselves. I know that.
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But yes, what self respect looks like on a plate.
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You know, respect is not about a fancy diet.
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It is about, you know, choosing real food over fake flavors.
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It is about eating when you are truly hungry, not when you are
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bored, stressed or scrolling reels like that.
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So let me explain you what I really mean from it, what I see
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on a real life scenarios and you will understand why I'm saying
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all this. We live in a cynical world right
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now. Like nobody is actually caring
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about what they are eating at this point of time.
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Everybody is like looking at the reels and stuff like that and
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running after the restaurants and going there, eating food at
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abnormal times and sleeping at abnormal times for a consistent
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period of time. And they eat all kinds of junk,
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but no physical activity, no exercising, nothing whatsoever.
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And people normalized it so much that they think this is normal.
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But trust me, because it isn't. And you will know when time
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comes. But before that the damage has
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been done. You are constantly ruining your
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gut. You are ruining your body and
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ruining everything else. You know, for example, if you
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are continuously eating trashy food, what just happens?
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You observe yourselves, give yourself say 24 hours time, or
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48 hours, or that 72 hours time. Try to eat consciously as much
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as possible real foods. You don't need any fancy foods,
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just real natural foods without unnecessary stuff.
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You will understand 90% of your problems are already gone the
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moment you start eating consciously.
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Because you know, while these days people are watching reels,
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people are watching television, people are watching something
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especially while eating. And even today I am very
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surprised to look at such habits, you know, because
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whenever you are eating something that should be purely
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from the point where you are really, really hungry.
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But these days now people are eating, just eating because they
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are poor, eating because they don't know what to do, eating
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because they are stressed. Tell you what, guys, food is not
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therapy. Food is only for survival.
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Keep that in mind if you try to eat a lot and lot and you think
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you are not gaining weight because of some reason tell you
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what you can be lean and you still end up diabetic.
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I would like to share one some experiences that I had in when I
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was working. So here we go.
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We had a patient female, 24 years old came for the surgery.
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So we are going through the history and we were so surprised
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to know that she is diabetic and since when she started diabetic
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from around 20 years old, which means four years before.
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And we asked like, what do you eat?
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They said we have all sorts of, you know, soft drinks and we eat
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outside and all trashy foods and all these things, but OK, fine.
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And guess what? She isn't even 25, and she
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doesn't look like, you know, overweight or something.
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No, she just looks very normal, very lean.
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But she takes medications for diabetes.
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And it's not genetic, by the way.
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So you can be lean and you can also develop it.
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And it became so surging these days because let's just go back
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into little bit of history, you know, from the industrial age or
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something. Diabetes was actually not so
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prominent until 1980s, if I'm not wrong.
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After 1980s to 2000, strongly rising and from 2000 to 2025
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boom. It's everywhere now because of
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may be added flavors, added foods and people opting for
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eating out more than ever. And nobody is cooking anything.
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Nobody has time to do it and all those things and people are not
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sleeping at all. Everybody is awake and nobody
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cares about themselves or health or, you know, the basic stuff.
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People left it out and nobody cares about their own body,
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mental health and about them basically.
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Now if you ask me why this is happening and why people are
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always tend to go for bad foods, we tell our patients
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specifically to eat good food. You can eat anything but good
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food, not the cool drinks or soft drinks or any other drinks,
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just normal drinks like water and may be some soup, something
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like that. Very normal, no added
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preservatives, nothing whatsoever.
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But you know what, even people after getting surgeries and
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stuff, right after that they bring some soft drinks and stuff
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like that and they will have it pure sugar.
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Don't know why. But yes, this is what is going
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wrong with people these days. And now I understood simple fact
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that people are so, so, so entangled with the concept of
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misunderstanding of what is health, healthy way of eating
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and what is not. So yeah, this is this is the
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reason why I wanna talk deeper about this topic.
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Because if you think you have still a lot of time to to undo
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by detoxing and stuff like that, I will give you a simple
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solution which doesn't cost actually anything.
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Don't eat unnecessary trashy foods.
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Simple eat only when you are hungry.
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That's all. And try to exercise at least two
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hours a day. Dedicate yourself to exercise,
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some sort of physical activity in your life.
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Try avoiding eating some foods, especially trashy foods, at late
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nights after 6:00 PM. Probably you should stop
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avoiding it so that your gut has enough time to recover and you
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will sleep well and you will recover well.
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Your mood will be good, your focus will be great.
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That is it. Now you people will have the
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questions like Oh no, what should I eat?
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Since you are telling what is the healthy, what is not so
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healthy. Simple analogy, I do not want to
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make anything complicated. Eat everything you wanted but
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eat during the daytime and try to burn so much colorless as
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possible by simply adding physical workouts, running,
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walking, going to gym. At least spend one to two hours.
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Something like that will definitely help you a lot.
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And trust me when you want to suddenly change.
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And if you already have some sort of health conditions then
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definitely I will all suggest you to consult your physician
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before taking any necessary actions because sometimes your
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physician or your concerned daughter kept you under specific
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diets for a reason. So what I am trying to say
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doesn't apply for everyone. It is all subjective to the
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people who are in different different aspects of their life
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in towards their health. But all I suggest for this will
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apply for is if you know you are eating trashy food consistently
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and you don't as much as you are not aware that you have any
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other health related problems. Then for those people try to cut
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out trashy food on a simpler basis.
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Like if you are eating a lot at night then stop eating slowly.
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Like keep a target for one week, start from day one.
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Initially it will be very very hard to change your habits, but
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slowly you will get used to it and you will enjoy not eating
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all the trashy foods. So takedown a pen and paper.
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Or if you are a tech guy like me and you like the technology as
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much as like me. So take your gadgets, open notes
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and write it down in 24 hours what I am eating and drinking
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and how I am feeling after every meal.
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Write it down and you know exactly where is the problem and
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try to solve it one at a time. Don't try to stop eating
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everything or stop doing whatever you are doing.
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No, no, don't do that. But slowly start with like stop
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eating after 6:00 PM, right? And try to practice it for one
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week and observe yourself, how you are feeling, your mood, your
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focus, your sleep, all those things and slowly extend it a
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little by little and cut down. Eating anything and everything
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before 6:00 PM will almost help everyone.
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I am saying almost because some people do night shifts and they
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need to eat at night. That's a special category.
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I am all talking about normal, average humans who works only 9
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to 5, stuff like that. This is for them that will help
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them to, you know, once in a while you can eat out.
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That's not the problem. I am not talking about once in a
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while kind of scenario. I am talking about consistent
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habits of eating at nights and stuff like that.
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So make very very, very tiny tiny changes towards your eating
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habits slowly, but consistency and your constant efforts will
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definitely help you avoid larger bills to for visiting you know
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hospitals and looking for solutions when it is too late.
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Now diabetes became a surging non disease or whatever you call
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it and people are now taking it very normal and people are like
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what is it's just diabetic, something like that.
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They are normalizing it. So if you don't want to end up
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in hospital and paying large pills, then definitely today is
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the right time to take the necessary first step.
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Because we have this thing called resolutions and stuff.
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Some people will never ever follow that because they always
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keep postponing. Like I will start tomorrow, I
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will start next week, I will start next month, I will start
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next month, next year. That is it.
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This is never going to happen. So if you listen to this right
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now, today, do this right now, that is it.
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That is how you can slowly change your life and take
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control of your eating habits slowly.
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Because I know this will be very, very, very, very, very,
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very difficult thing because a big industries are surviving on
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your eating habits. So definitely it is going to be
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very difficult on your side for sure, but start very, very
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small. Change one small thing and
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eventually you can take control of your own health.
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And these days almost everyone has unnecessary fats stored in
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their body because people are eating a lot more than they
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require. So don't follow these
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unnecessary trashy trends and all these things.
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Follow your body, follow your instincts, listen to your body
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very very carefully so you can understand what your body
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actually needs, then what you think your body might need.
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I hope you people are getting what I am trying to say here.
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So because on a simpler note, whatever you eat is what it
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reflects. Basically if I see a person
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with, you know, large belly and abnormal flats around face, neck
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and other parts of the body and it's not genetic or it's not any
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health related problem or any other thing, then you know I do
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not personally respect them at all.
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Because if a person cannot take care of their own body, can
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never able to take care of anything else in long term.
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So if you cannot control your own eating habits then trust me,
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you are the weakest human being on this planet, the most
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weakest. So if you are one of them all I
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suggest you to is you got to start somewhere and today is the
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day. Now is the right time to start
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it. My intention is not to blame
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anyone but to educate you in things you have no idea about
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and in habits you have no idea about and how it will ruin
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everything. Because once you start eating at
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late nights and late nights and late nights, trust me, in coming
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two to five years you will also end up having diabetes or any
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other complications related to health and it all interlinks to
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one another. And suddenly you end up in
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hospital paying large number of pills and all the physicians,
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doctors will say one fancy word called change your lifestyle.
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That's it. That's what they want to say,
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nothing else. They will prescribe you some
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medicines and stuff like that and they will say change your
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lifestyle. Kaboom.
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You are officially have no idea to what to do.
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So in order to prevent all these, I am trying to give my
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insights here so that you would not be in that category in
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future. So start from cutting out
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unnecessary sugars late nights, especially after 6:00 PM to 5:00
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AM. Try avoiding to eat in this
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period because the insulin spike is really, really aggressive at
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this point of time. Usually whenever we eat some
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food, it just you know, anything you keep on your tongue, the
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digestion starts and insulin spike actually starts and it
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goes up and reach its full potential and it falls down to
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normal. It just takes 3 hours
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approximately based on whatever food you are eating.
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But if you start eating at nights, especially after 6:00 PM
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to 5:00 AM kind of time period, guess what's going to happen?
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Your insulin spikes, spikes really very aggressively up, but
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it won't come down to its base level.
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It takes literally 8 plus hours to come back to normal or
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sometimes even more. And guess what we do?
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We will have breakfast with all the sugars and all other trashy
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foods and you will trigger the insulin again before it coming
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to the normal and you will have lunch and then dinner and then
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late night stuff. This cycle goes on and goes on
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and goes on and your insulin you will start developing that
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insulin resistance in long term and that is how you end up in
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having diabetes. So do you want that?
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If you do not then stop eating after 6:00 PM and I don't want
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to scare you all. Sometimes we all you know, our
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times are get messed up and we need to have our family time
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during weekends and stuff like that.
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There are that's OK. Once in a while your body can
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take care. But if it becomes a habit and
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you do it very consistently on those times, definitely you
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definitely need a good physician to treat your diabetes soon.
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So brace yourself and prepare yourself for a big bill you
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gonna pay in the future in order to, you know, take control of
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your life. You can take the simple steps
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like avoiding eating after 6:00 PM till 5:00 AM and having at
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least three hours gap between meal and no other snacks,
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nothing whatsoever in between because your body doesn't need
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snacks. These that and this much of
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food. No, not required.
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Especially I know most of the people are doing desk jobs or
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indoor jobs that doesn't require much of a physical activity or
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something. So for those people you don't
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need that level of food. Eating once or twice will be
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more than enough. So keep that in mind and treat
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your body like with utmost respect.
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I am not saying you should have a six pack abs and stuff like
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that, but at least you should be looking, you know, looking
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normal without unnecessary fats around your body.
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That's all I am saying. That's just a basic indication
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for your healthy body without any fancy diets or counting
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calories always that don't make it.
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Now you get you will all have this question like then how much
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I eat of everything. Simple analogy I will go and
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share with you guys. Take your right hand.
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I think most people use right hand to eat.
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Look at your palm, right? That is how much you need carbs.
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That is all that is how much you eat protein, fiber, that is
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enough. You do not need more than that
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simple analogy. Use your hand, use your palm.
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That is it. 1 palm of carbs, fiber, protein enough.
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And to be honest, you know that is more than enough for any
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human being, unless they have any other health complications,
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they need to eat more. That is a whole different
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scenario. But for a normal human being,
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that food is more than enough. So you do not need to eat more
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than that to be honest. So, and it is also important
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when you eat guys, if you consistently eat at the set
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time, trust me, you definitely need a good physician to treat
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your upcoming diseases. So you have to prepare yourself
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financially, brace yourself to pay big bills to the hospitals
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and doctors. I hope I am very, very clear in
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this episode. And yes, we are having seven
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more to come. And I will also talk about each
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one in depth as well. So yes, if you like this, then
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definitely share it with your friends, colleagues, family
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members and everyone else. I hope, I hope you people all
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understood why it's very, very, very important to be very
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mindful about what we are eating these days.
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If not, it's up to you, but at least you know where you are
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heading in your life. So yeah, eat like you respect
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yourself, not just to fill but to fuel.
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So fuel your body. That's all I am going to say.
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But don't eat for fun. Don't.
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I hope it's very, very clear and thank you all for tuning in.
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I am very grateful for you all people at this point of time,
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it's July 23, 2025. I would like to thank one more
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time we have audience from five countries, India, United States,
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Russia, United Arab Emirates and Morocco.
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Thank you so much for whoever listening from these countries.
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I am really really grateful for your time that you are investing
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to listen to my podcast. I hope you are all getting some
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useful knowledge to apply in your life so that you can change
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your bad habits or old habits that doesn't fulfill in your
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health journey. So thank you so much and keep
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supporting my podcast by sharing it, liking it, dropping
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comments, suggestions and you know, the usual stuff.
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So yes, thank you all once again and it's smart.
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This is Doctor M Rider AKA Doctor Mukund.
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Thanks for tuning in to the Road Dog Podcast.
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I'll catch you in next episode on coming Saturday, 6:00 PM
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Indian time. See you all.
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Bye.