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Happy Hour #167: Concerned and Confused · Stuff Mom Never Told You

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Speaker 1: Hey, this is Annie and Samantha.
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Speaker 2: I'm welcome to Steff I never told you production by
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Speaker 2: Hurt Radio.
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Speaker 1: And welcome to another happy hour where I am confused.
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Speaker 1: So I'm just gonna ask some questions and you're gonna
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Speaker 1: help me debunk my thoughts an maybe listeners you can
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Speaker 1: send us your thoughts and advice content warning. We are
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Speaker 1: going to mention Peta aging all the anxieties. But before
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Speaker 1: we start in this happy hour, of course, if you're
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Speaker 1: partaking of anything, do so responsibly. Annie, are you partaking
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Speaker 1: of things?
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Speaker 2: Yes?
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Speaker 1: What's your partaking?
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Speaker 2: Red wine? But I have to say I wasn't planning
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Speaker 2: on doing it today, but we've had some technical difficulties
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Speaker 2: and I just thought, you know what, any day.
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Speaker 1: We help we're struggling here. Yes, I am drinking some
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Speaker 1: bubble water and coffee because I need an upper. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: because things have been happening and that makes me want
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Speaker 1: to shut down JK. Of course, if we are talking
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Speaker 1: about any brands or such anything specific, No that it's
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Speaker 1: not currently sponsored. Who knows? Am I changed? Yep, it's
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Speaker 1: but there are things that we like are please us.
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Speaker 2: I feel like that's pretty clear. And certain episodes like
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Speaker 2: it's true.
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Speaker 1: It's true. Okay, So I went through today because I
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Speaker 1: was I was thinking about some of the things that
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Speaker 1: I wanted to talk about. And as per usual, I uh,
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Speaker 1: I am always in some kind of identity crisis. And
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Speaker 1: whether it's aging, whether it's blah blah blah, whether it's
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Speaker 1: my identity as an Asian person, or it's my identity
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Speaker 1: as a Southern adoptee, all of those things are happening.
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Speaker 1: And right now there's some things I'm like, what are
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Speaker 1: there things that I can do to prevent the aging process,
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Speaker 1: to prevent like memory loss, all these things. So I
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Speaker 1: am in full gear as well as the fact that
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Speaker 1: is there things I can do to prevent loss. I
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Speaker 1: have been stuck and like spiraling into fantasies. Not fantasies,
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Speaker 1: but like the day dreams we've talked about before, you know,
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Speaker 1: where we make up the scenarios of people's deaths and
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Speaker 1: we start grieving way early. And so that's kind of
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Speaker 1: gotten me into the spiral of like trying to prevent
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Speaker 1: my own death or what do I need to do,
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Speaker 1: to the point that my partner's like, I really don't
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Speaker 1: want to talk about this, but what we need to.
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Speaker 1: I mean honestly, we need to. And so, like these
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Speaker 1: are some thoughts process and I'm going down the different
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Speaker 1: types of rabbit holes that can be pipelines. We've talked
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Speaker 1: about this into the conservative media conspiracy theories and even
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Speaker 1: like the left conspiracies that I'm like, all right, I'll
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Speaker 1: calm down, you know, like some of these things and
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Speaker 1: so I'm trying to debunk some of them might be
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Speaker 1: not true. So I need people to help me, cause like,
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Speaker 1: for one thing, I'm desperately clinging to my aging dog
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Speaker 1: in that like we all know, I love Peaches, and
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Speaker 1: I can't handle pet deaths very well. I mourn my
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Speaker 1: first dog so hard that I still cry about him
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Speaker 1: today when I start thinking about it. And so and
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Speaker 1: then my neighbor went through her pet loss and I cried,
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Speaker 1: I had to leave the room, like I still cry
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Speaker 1: about it now. And then I kind of transfer those
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Speaker 1: thoughts onto my current dog, Peaches. So I'm having a
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Speaker 1: lot of moments. But the thing is, so I'm trying
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Speaker 1: to figure out is there a natural pathway to get
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Speaker 1: my dog treated without having to take her to the vet,
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Speaker 1: because like, because my dog, I don't know if have
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Speaker 1: I ever explained this on Mike that my dog is
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Speaker 1: so bad at the vet. She is so anxious ridden,
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Speaker 1: she hates everything, and she has remembered all of her
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Speaker 1: past trips that she loses it and won't let anybody
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Speaker 1: touch her and then like jumps in like cause us
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Speaker 1: up pretty dangerous situations for the vet and for her,
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Speaker 1: not necessarily like she she does snap at them. But
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Speaker 1: that's actually my least worries because she doesn't bite, bite,
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Speaker 1: but what she does is jerk and jump around. So
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Speaker 1: they can't handle her to do any like medical stuff,
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Speaker 1: so we have to sedate her. But she is awful
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Speaker 1: with sedation to the point that it takes her twenty
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Speaker 1: four hours to fully wake up, Like to the point
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Speaker 1: that she will who is very well trained, rarely has accidents,
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Speaker 1: won't even wake up to go to the bathroom. So
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Speaker 1: it really really concerns me. Her heart rate goes back
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Speaker 1: at one point. I think they had to use Narcan
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Speaker 1: to wake her up because they gave her too much.
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Speaker 1: So like and to the because like I've heard stories
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Speaker 1: of people going in for routine stuff and they just
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Speaker 1: did not handle the sedation well. And y'all have cried
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Speaker 1: prevent appointment just the fear of that. So I'm looking
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Speaker 1: through I'm like, Okay, I'm reading all of these things
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Speaker 1: and willing to Like I got chastised this morning because
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Speaker 1: I paid a ridiculous about four additives that are supposed
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Speaker 1: to help my dog. Just so I'm trying whatever I can.
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Speaker 1: And I know, Annie, you're not a scientist, but you
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Speaker 1: do look at a lot of foods research, and you
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Speaker 1: probably don't do this in relation to like dogs and animals,
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Speaker 1: but like, are there valid nutritional things that can help
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Speaker 1: my dog not die?
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Speaker 2: Wow, you're putting me on the spot. Okay, real all
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Speaker 2: not vet. I just want to put that out there.
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Speaker 2: I will tell you that there are things from the
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Speaker 2: food podcast research I have done, there's plenty of history
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Speaker 2: of things that do work. But the issue is a
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Speaker 2: lot of times people and I'm going to assume pets
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Speaker 2: don't consume them in a medicinal amount, and you shouldn't
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Speaker 2: unless you get like no, that's okay. And so there
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Speaker 2: are things that can like help, especially dietary things, but
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Speaker 2: they're not gonna I don't know they'll slow down the
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Speaker 2: aging process or make it better, but yeah, it's mostly
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Speaker 2: like you're gonna get rid of you're not gonna consume
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Speaker 2: enough to really make a difference, and if you do,
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Speaker 2: you're probably just gonna peek.
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Speaker 1: Only that's that's And then this leads to me to
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Speaker 1: the fact that, yes, I'm also doing this for myself. So,
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Speaker 1: like I've talked about it before, I'm like, I'm always exhausted.
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Speaker 1: It's gone to point that at least a week out
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Speaker 1: of the month, maybe it's around my like where it
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Speaker 1: would be my period, but I don't know because I
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Speaker 1: am on an IUD and wonderfully my period has stopped.
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Speaker 1: I still PMS. I can I can tell you when
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Speaker 1: I kind of PMS and it doesn't feel like it's
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Speaker 1: correlated that. But I am so exhausted that it feels
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Speaker 1: like I literally cannot wake up, or I cannot move
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Speaker 1: off the couch or like my like I will stand
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Speaker 1: up and I get so dizzy so quickly that I'm
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Speaker 1: about to pass out, like those moments that I've had
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Speaker 1: and I've looked at POTS. TikTok has told me I
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Speaker 1: might have POTS, so that I'm like, but I don't
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Speaker 1: have any of the other symptoms, so I don't know.
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Speaker 1: But anyway, God, social media has ruined me. I actually
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Speaker 1: started looking that out. I was like, have social media
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Speaker 1: ruined me? But like recently they're talking about like all
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Speaker 1: these vitamins are great and all, but you're just peeing
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Speaker 1: it out. It's just expensive. P Like, so wait, is
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Speaker 1: there no supplements that we can take that? Like does help?
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Speaker 1: Is this all lies? Annie? Am I being lied to?
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Speaker 2: Okay? Once again, I'm not an expert, but based on
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Speaker 2: the research I have done for the show Saver, you
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Speaker 2: should go check out.
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Speaker 1: They're not advertisement for your.
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Speaker 2: I didn't know this was gonna happen to me. I
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Speaker 2: literally had no idea. They're not all lies. And I know,
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Speaker 2: especially like in some instances I have had doctors actually
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Speaker 2: tell me to take B twelve specifically for me. But
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Speaker 2: I think it's very specific. Human bodies are complex, yeah,
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Speaker 2: and I again, a lot of us just can't intake
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Speaker 2: the amount of whatever is in X Y Z vitamin
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Speaker 2: and so yeah, you are, it's just like your body
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Speaker 2: can't absorb it that quickly. I think things like this
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Speaker 2: is going to sound silly, but I remember for a
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Speaker 2: while I was getting really dehydrated. I just put lemon
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Speaker 2: in my water. Maybe it was a placebo effect, but
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Speaker 2: that's supposed to help, and I did feel like it helped.
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Speaker 2: So I feel like the vitamin itself is like too
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Speaker 2: much to absorb, but the the like source of it
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Speaker 2: of like vitamin C. Yeah, if you can get that
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Speaker 2: more in your diet, if you can incorporate that more naturally,
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Speaker 2: preferably with food usually. But yeah, so it's not like
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Speaker 2: all wise, it's just I think they kind of sold
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Speaker 2: like you need this much.
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Speaker 1: I mean that we definitely have talked about that as
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Speaker 1: a beauty brand and how they really like the whole
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Speaker 1: Vita trend. Oh my god, I forgot what that was.
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Speaker 1: In the nineties, my mother and my sister both sold
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Speaker 1: it and would have like ten thousand pills that they
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Speaker 1: would have to take every day. And I was like,
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Speaker 1: that looks like vomit because I have a hard time
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Speaker 1: digesting and my stomach is super sensitive to all of that.
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Speaker 1: So I'm like, I have to eat a lot and
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Speaker 1: make sure I have have that pill in between the
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Speaker 1: mill so that it's not the last thing I had,
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Speaker 1: or like all these things. So I have started taking
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Speaker 1: B twelve. I've also found an iron gummy that I've
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Speaker 1: been chewing on, thinking that that might help because those
10:13
Speaker 1: two things seem to be like this helps with energy.
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Speaker 1: You might be deficient of these things. Yes, I need
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Speaker 1: to go to a doctor, but all of my blood
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Speaker 1: works when everybody had blood work done are typically good.
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Speaker 1: That's the other part that I don't understand. Maybe I
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Speaker 1: need more work with extra things. But like from what
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Speaker 1: I can gather, like, it doesn't seem anything abnormal. So
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Speaker 1: I'm like, well, maybe I'm just a weird person. They
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Speaker 1: can't function. Who knows.
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Speaker 2: You might just be sad just to be sad.
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Speaker 1: That's the other question.
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Speaker 2: I do have that.
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Speaker 1: But is this or like when we were talking about
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Speaker 1: that poem from our Feminis around the World, it's like,
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Speaker 1: am I sad? Or control pills? Like yeah, definitely one
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Speaker 1: of those things, dude, Like am I am I sick?
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Speaker 1: Or am I just sad? Like this level? And then
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Speaker 1: like I've been trying to add more fiber because I
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Speaker 1: actually really do love vegetables. It's just like keeping them
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Speaker 1: and then hoping that it doesn't ruin and you don't
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Speaker 1: want to buy it and waste all of these vegetables
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Speaker 1: because it can so quickly. So you're like, uh, and
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Speaker 1: I'm trying to do that because now the back and
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Speaker 1: forth of like you need more protein. I'm like, maybe
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Speaker 1: I'm missing protein, so I added protein shakes, and then like, oh, no,
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Speaker 1: you're missing more fibers, So like, okay, maybe I need
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Speaker 1: more fiber. I'm going to add more of that. It
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Speaker 1: seems like a back and forth, and I'm like, am
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Speaker 1: I actually just adding more junk to my body that's
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Speaker 1: just going to be fleshed out? Or am I actually
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Speaker 1: doing something good for myself?
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Speaker 2: Yeah? I think an important thing to note here too,
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Speaker 2: is a lot of our diet industry has been influenced
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Speaker 2: by like this sugar industry basically paid a lot of
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Speaker 2: people to say fat was bad, right, and so for
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Speaker 2: years we believed that, and so it's hard to know
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Speaker 2: what's the truth in that sense, and we do go
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Speaker 2: back and forth all the time, like actually maybe this
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Speaker 2: is good, maybe it's the worst thing.
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Speaker 1: Number one, they're great, they're bad, They're great, they're bad.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, exactly. But I think it does go back
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Speaker 2: to the point of bodies are complicated. If you're really
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Speaker 2: lacking in something, which it sounds like you're not. But
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Speaker 2: for people who are, it's better to I think, try
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Speaker 2: to have the iron gummy and maybe pee a lot
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Speaker 2: of it out and that sucks. But like if it's
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Speaker 2: like a real serious deficiency, but bodies are complicated, so
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Speaker 2: it's hard to know.
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Speaker 1: And that's again like also going back to Peaches my dog,
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Speaker 1: I've found so many more lumps on her and that
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Speaker 1: freaks me out. And I've had lumps checked on her.
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Speaker 1: She had a pretty big surgery in removing one giant
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Speaker 1: lump from her side, not because it was tumorous or anything,
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Speaker 1: but because they're afraid of a gonna hurt her hips
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Speaker 1: directly on her hip, so it was gonna affect her
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Speaker 1: movement and it was big, and think good as everything
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Speaker 1: was good, and she's doing a lot better because she
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Speaker 1: was limping at one point, like oh no, and they
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Speaker 1: thought that was what was pressing. And now I've found
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Speaker 1: more lumps and it's only on one side of her body,
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Speaker 1: and I'm like, what is this? So more panicking, y'all,
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Speaker 1: more panicking. And also again but I also dread taking
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Speaker 1: her to the vet. And don't get me wrong, I
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Speaker 1: love the vets. They are wonderful. It's her it's her
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Speaker 1: reaction to the vet that I have the problem with.
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Speaker 1: Like our vet is wonderful. Vets are very underestimated and underappreciated.
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Speaker 1: And I know that some of the highest rates of
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Speaker 1: like burnout and then some and like mental health stuff
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Speaker 1: is within the vet community and they are not loved enough.
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Speaker 1: We love you, but my dog is a dick and
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Speaker 1: she does not do well. So I have these things.
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Speaker 1: So between myself my own body, I'm like, what is
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Speaker 1: wrong with me? And then between her and I'm like,
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Speaker 1: I have to stop focusing on all these things. But
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Speaker 1: at the same time, if I can prevent something, I'm
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Speaker 1: more likely to believe the bs that I see on TikTok,
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Speaker 1: which is I mean again, when I tell you have
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Speaker 1: I officially made the Korean carrot salad that's been trending. Yes,
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Speaker 1: do I love it? Yes? But is it actually retinal?
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Speaker 1: That's what they keep advertising it to me as I.
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Speaker 2: Think that's a Oh no, I think that's a myth.
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Speaker 2: I did that too, because when I was losing my
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Speaker 2: eyesight and I was like, maybe that's not the same thing.
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Speaker 2: But no, actually don't help your eyesight. They help your
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Speaker 2: night vision.
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Speaker 1: But my night vision is not great either.
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Speaker 2: Well I don't even know if that's true. I just
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Speaker 2: know that I found out later that it's not your vision,
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Speaker 2: it's your night vision. And I was like, well, what
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Speaker 2: have I been doing eating these bags of charts every day?
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Speaker 1: So retinal for like for your skin. That's that's like,
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Speaker 1: is that true? Is it true? It does contain beta caroteene,
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Speaker 1: which can convert, it says, but they're not directly actually
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Speaker 1: related to this. I'm sure we have some people who
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Speaker 1: are experts are gonna be like, oh smait that. Let
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Speaker 1: me tell you about this. So if you have that,
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Speaker 1: let me know. Because don't get me wrong, though, I'm
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Speaker 1: excited to eat keras and y'all. I added serrano peppers.
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Speaker 1: It is so spassy that it makes me very happy,
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Speaker 1: like the level because that you know, sometimes serranos are
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Speaker 1: like kalapenos where it tastes like belt peppers or is
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Speaker 1: it extra. I got the extra spassy and it's delightful.
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Speaker 1: It is burning my face off in an amazing way.
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Speaker 1: I have to take breaks and take deep ruts because
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Speaker 1: it's so spicy, but I love it. But all of
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Speaker 1: that to say is like, I absolutely believe all of
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Speaker 1: that is great, like anything with digestion, because it has
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Speaker 1: the sesame oil and the rice vinegar so great. But
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Speaker 1: I'm like why y'all telling me this is eat your
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Speaker 1: retinal This seems weird, This doesn't This doesn't seem right.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's the thing is like a lot of
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Speaker 2: a lot of stuff like that. It is not correct,
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Speaker 2: but you are I mean, carrots are good for you.
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Speaker 2: You can overeat on anything. I will tell you something, right,
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Speaker 2: you can turn orange. But you can get all kinds
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Speaker 2: of like beezors and stuff from eating too much of something,
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Speaker 2: not carrots, but but there are examples of things like that.
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Speaker 2: So to reiterate, if eating your carrots, that's great. If
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Speaker 2: you're doing it for health reason that you're not sure of,
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Speaker 2: that's fine, but don't do it medicinally at a level
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Speaker 2: because it actually could backfire and actually could put you
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Speaker 2: in the hospital. And we are not experts.
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Speaker 1: We are asking if this is real. We're not telling
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Speaker 1: you it is. That's definitely not. Because I'm like, this
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Speaker 1: feels again, it feels like a pipeline to being like
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Speaker 1: a lot of disinformation that we see that will like
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Speaker 1: when people do those cleanses or carrot like you know,
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Speaker 1: you eat this one diet thing and like no, none
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Speaker 1: of that's helpy. This cad Like I feel like that
17:08
Speaker 1: same thing with like the carnivore diet Atkin diet that
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Speaker 1: everybody's freaking out on. I'm like, that seems very obvious,
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Speaker 1: Like you're gonna have a heart attack. This is not
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Speaker 1: a great idea.
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Speaker 2: I feel like the most obvious thing is Maybe I'm wrong,
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Speaker 2: but I feel like the most obvious thing to me is,
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Speaker 2: you know, have a buried diet where you're eating your
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Speaker 2: proteins and I don't know, like, don't focus on one
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Speaker 2: right thing.
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Speaker 1: All. It's all about like portions and consumption, amount of
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Speaker 1: amounts and such, going overboard on anything, whether it's extremely
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Speaker 1: one way or the other, like not eating at all
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Speaker 1: or eating all this It's not great, like anyway, like
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Speaker 1: having some type of balances is great. I think a
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Speaker 1: part of this is though, like what can I do?
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Speaker 1: Because is this going to help my bones? Is this
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Speaker 1: gonna help my joy? That pop every time I move
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Speaker 1: that like literally if I lay too long on one side,
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Speaker 1: it goes numb. Like what can I do? I woke
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Speaker 1: up with dark circles under my eyes. That's the first
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Speaker 1: time for myself. Who don't I like I will have
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Speaker 1: little bags in the lines. That's I'm used to the
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Speaker 1: circles was new. I was like, oh, where did that
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Speaker 1: come from? So of course immediately put on I cream
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Speaker 1: and I have I have caught I've told the story
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Speaker 1: many times. I've gotten caught up in like buying products
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Speaker 1: that people are like, no, this is absolutely amazing, and
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Speaker 1: then you're like, oh, this is very unethical. Yeah, like
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Speaker 1: within three months too and they were like it's amazing.
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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it's unethical. Don't use that? Not effective?
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Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, and that's the thing too, is like a
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Speaker 2: lot of that stuff, even if it was effective, I
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Speaker 2: don't think a lot of people stick with it. No,
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Speaker 2: so it's not you have to do it for a
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Speaker 2: long time.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. I think that's the other part is like I
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Speaker 1: understand maybe I'm jumping too quickly.
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Speaker 2: M hmmm.
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Speaker 1: I will say the product that I recently have loved,
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Speaker 1: and I know we've already done the ad and we've
19:14
Speaker 1: already been sponsored, and I'm just saying this as like
19:18
Speaker 1: a consumer. Now, I guess that merit like a makeup
19:23
Speaker 1: stick is delightful.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's very like I.
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Speaker 1: Think they got me, our own sponsor got me.
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Speaker 2: Sometimes anyway, it happens.
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Speaker 1: Sometimes, you know, I sit here really getting caught up
19:48
Speaker 1: usually I can tell the bs and sometimes again, like
19:51
Speaker 1: I said, the salad I'm okay with because it is
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Speaker 1: delicious and I will eat that and I'm very happy
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Speaker 1: because it's so simple. But like I I wonder, like,
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Speaker 1: at what point is this right? Is you know, the
20:04
Speaker 1: whole like when it comes to holistic things, I'm very
20:08
Speaker 1: wary anyway, But they can't all be alie, can't it? No?
20:14
Speaker 2: Well, like I said, I mean, it's kind of the
20:15
Speaker 2: flip side of what we were talking about earlier. It's
20:18
Speaker 2: just when people get in it to make money, right.
20:21
Speaker 2: I think there's a history of things being used medicinally
20:24
Speaker 2: in having a medicinal use, but it's it's just most
20:29
Speaker 2: of us are not consuming them in that way. And
20:33
Speaker 2: I can't say it enough. Do not consume anything medicinally
20:37
Speaker 2: in an amount of medicinal amount unless you've talked to
20:39
Speaker 2: a professional first. Yeah, but it's not like the core
20:43
Speaker 2: of it is right, no truth to it, right.
20:46
Speaker 1: It's not a fixed all. I mean, peppermints helped my
20:48
Speaker 1: stomach when I'm upset, yeah, exactly. It doesn't cure stomach aches.
20:53
Speaker 2: Yes, exactly. And I do think that there's you know,
20:57
Speaker 2: now that we're entering kind of a real misinformation disinformation
21:04
Speaker 2: thing with our health in the US, and I think
21:08
Speaker 2: there's like a big area for not great actors to
21:12
Speaker 2: swoop in and be like, well, you could try this
21:17
Speaker 2: and it'll fix it.
21:18
Speaker 1: I've already seen it. And this is what kind of
21:20
Speaker 1: was worrying me, is like people are capitalizing. Oh man,
21:26
Speaker 1: you better get this, you better get because like I
21:28
Speaker 1: was thinking about that with coffee, like you can't. Really
21:30
Speaker 1: you can, but if you actually like good coffee, sounds
21:34
Speaker 1: so snobbitch right now to buy it and then put
21:37
Speaker 1: it in the freezer or store it. It ruins, right,
21:40
Speaker 1: part of the taste. Sure it'll say it was, Sure
21:42
Speaker 1: you'll have it, but it ruins part of the taste
21:45
Speaker 1: of it. And I feel weird about like do I
21:48
Speaker 1: want to buy bulk because it's spots to go up exponentially.
21:52
Speaker 1: There's no way I can do that with avocados, Like
21:54
Speaker 1: I guess you could raise everything, but even then it's
21:56
Speaker 1: still expires. Same thing with like chicken, it's still expires.
22:00
Speaker 1: And then also I'm very fearful of the chicken, and
22:02
Speaker 1: I'm now getting more fearful of the milk and the
22:06
Speaker 1: eggs because of the amount of bad players as well
22:11
Speaker 1: as no oversight, Like the oversight is pretty much gone,
22:14
Speaker 1: it seems, and you better hope that you get way
22:18
Speaker 1: you can. But like, there's so many things that I'm like,
22:20
Speaker 1: so what do we trust? Are these good things? Are
22:24
Speaker 1: these bad things? Are these the truth? Are these conspiracy theories?
22:27
Speaker 1: There's so much Like That's why I'm like pinpointing looking
22:31
Speaker 1: at things like is this true?
22:32
Speaker 2: Is this not.
22:35
Speaker 1: Us as creators who have to like who are trying
22:38
Speaker 1: to make sure that we are giving accurate information?
22:40
Speaker 2: This is getting hard, it is, and it's always been
22:44
Speaker 2: murky in the health industry. I would say, you know, also,
22:51
Speaker 2: just do your even if you're not sure, try to
22:53
Speaker 2: do some baseline research because I know, like mushrooms are
22:56
Speaker 2: they're having a moment of like this mushroom can heal this.
23:01
Speaker 2: Some mushrooms like chittake, if you don't cook it, you
23:03
Speaker 2: can get really sick. So just look into stuff like that. Also,
23:07
Speaker 2: I think you've touched on a anxiety A lot of
23:11
Speaker 2: people have, including me, where it's almost like I don't
23:14
Speaker 2: want to go to the doctor because then I'll have
23:16
Speaker 2: to admit something is wrong, right, And the fear of
23:21
Speaker 2: like I, okay, I don't know if I can fix this.
23:23
Speaker 2: Is this just it's because you want to be preventative,
23:26
Speaker 2: but it's also like, oh, I'm going to ask to
23:27
Speaker 2: actually face something. And on top of that, I've told
23:31
Speaker 2: this story before my dad when he was diagnosed with cancer.
23:36
Speaker 2: They're like, you should have come in earlier, and he's like,
23:38
Speaker 2: I come in every year. I do the test every year. Yeah,
23:41
Speaker 2: And so it's like frustrating when it's like you got.
23:45
Speaker 1: To weigh your.
23:48
Speaker 2: How how long am I going to wait between visits?
23:51
Speaker 2: Because I don't want to find out? But I also
23:53
Speaker 2: do want to know, right.
23:54
Speaker 1: I mean, honestly, my my own family who went through
23:58
Speaker 1: something of like trying to figure out their diagnosis diagnose themselves,
24:03
Speaker 1: and that pushed I was very proud of them, advocated
24:05
Speaker 1: for more testing. They were like, well, you don't have
24:08
Speaker 1: tom know, we want to so they were able to
24:10
Speaker 1: catch things, but they're still having to do testing even
24:12
Speaker 1: since like it's been six seven months, but they're still
24:16
Speaker 1: like having to do some testing and they're having to
24:17
Speaker 1: still advocate for themselves because something doesn't feel right to
24:21
Speaker 1: them and they were right. But all of that to
24:23
Speaker 1: say is also I'm scared that not only are they
24:25
Speaker 1: going to tell me, but then because of the way
24:27
Speaker 1: our medical system works, I'm about to go into a
24:29
Speaker 1: medical debt. But on top of that that they're going
24:32
Speaker 1: to start saying you have to go to this specialist
24:33
Speaker 1: and this specialist and this specialist. And then because of
24:36
Speaker 1: the way our healthcare system is set up, that next
24:39
Speaker 1: year my insurance is going to go way up because
24:42
Speaker 1: I've been diagnosed and now I have a pre existing
24:44
Speaker 1: condition as the next year.
24:47
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you know too much. We try to like
24:52
Speaker 2: it's funny to be that we at many companies are
24:56
Speaker 2: own included. There's like a incentivizing factor to get like
25:00
Speaker 2: a test and it's like a hundred bucks or something like.
25:03
Speaker 2: It does add up. But I've like, right, maybe.
25:10
Speaker 1: After your deduction, which is significant about I'm like, good god,
25:14
Speaker 1: what is this the way our healthcare system sucks? Everything's
25:17
Speaker 1: the worst. Help me. But to end this segment in
25:22
Speaker 1: my confusion, I would love to hear from y'all listeners
25:25
Speaker 1: about some of the things that you have discovered. Some
25:27
Speaker 1: of the things that you're like, no, this is bs,
25:28
Speaker 1: don't do this, some of the things that you might
25:31
Speaker 1: think is actually helpful. I think that's something that we
25:34
Speaker 1: would do want to talk about. Also, yeah, if you
25:37
Speaker 1: have like a brand or a company that you trust,
25:41
Speaker 1: let us know because we want to keep that in
25:43
Speaker 1: tabs of our list of future things like these are
25:45
Speaker 1: the trusted companies, these are good people that have good intentions,
25:49
Speaker 1: all of these things, because I think that's something we
25:52
Speaker 1: need more of, is being able to have reliable resources.
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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, Okay, well this was fun. Sorry, I
26:07
Speaker 2: didn't know what we're going to be talking about this.
26:09
Speaker 1: I told you I had questions.
26:10
Speaker 2: You did what they know I have.
26:13
Speaker 1: It's a happy hour. This is where I keep you
26:15
Speaker 1: on your toes. We have to have a discussion.
26:17
Speaker 2: Annie. Wow, you definitely surprised me with this one, so
26:22
Speaker 2: thank you. As always, once again or reminder, I am
26:26
Speaker 2: not ansert. Please do not yell.
26:29
Speaker 1: At me, look on my advisors.
26:33
Speaker 2: Because Savor we talk about these kinds of things.
26:36
Speaker 1: So, yes, we also to do a great researcher. So
26:39
Speaker 1: I know you've taken the time to when you say
26:41
Speaker 1: a statement, I know you've researched it pretty thoroughly.
26:44
Speaker 2: Well, it's almost always like more researchers needed. Bodies are complicated,
26:49
Speaker 2: usual and it changes MM hmm yep. Well listeners. If
26:55
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