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Empowering Your Health: From Fitness Challenges to Triumphs · The Diva Details

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Welcome to the Diva Details. Welcome to the Diva Details.
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Where bold, confident women embrace life unapologetically.
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Just fearless conversations to help you thrive. Let's dive in with Diva Mia and Diva Cat.
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Well, hello, Diva Cat. Hello, Diva Mia. How are you doing today?
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I'm good. It's been hectic morning, but it's good. It's good?
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Mm-hmm. Oh, hectic mornings sometimes can be good.
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Yes, I need that morning sometimes.
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Oh, I know, I know. Sometimes you do, and then sometimes you just want to stay
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in bed. Yeah, if I wake up and stay in bed, then I don't want to get out of bed that bad.
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Yeah, I think that sleep is very important. Oh, I love my sleep. I know.
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I think that sleep is one of the most important things. but beyond sleep,
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I think today we should talk about health. Yeah, let's do that. Yeah.
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So let's talk about health in your 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s. Yeah.
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And how it affects us differently.
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Yeah. I know for me, I have a lot of friends right now that if they're not suffering
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from an autoimmune, they have cancer or they've had issues with their blood
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count or they have joint problems like arthritis.
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It seems to be like when you hit 40, certain things in your body starts to break
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down. When you hit 50, a few other things.
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By the time you're 60, you're like, holy crap, I'm getting old.
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That's what I was going to say. I've heard so much about among our friends. Is it because of weight?
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I think a lot of his age. And a lot of it, I think as well, that people don't
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lift weights. They don't exercise.
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Well, I don't lift weights. Well, weightlifting is great for your bone strength,
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right? And muscle tissue.
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And it helps your metabolism. So when people don't lift weights,
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they get osteoporosis, their muscles break down, and their metabolism slow down.
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Long term, if you want to, you know, stay lean, weightlifting keeps your metabolism
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up. It also helps with hormones.
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I only do yoga. He did yoga. Yoga will keep you flexible.
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Yeah. And yoga is important even when you're lifting weights.
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But weightlifting is a requirement for all humans.
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It truly is. If you want to keep mobile long into your 90s and 100s and 110.
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Yeah, some of the moves that I've tried to do in yoga, like handstand,
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they do recommend I need to start lifting weights for like strong shoulders.
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Yes, yeah. I lift weights five days a week.
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I need to start. Weightlifting is fun, actually, when you get going.
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I actually can leg press 700 pounds.
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Holy crap. The veil. I know. I can hip press like 250 plus. We put my son on
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top. He's almost 100, so it's like 350.
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Oh, wow. Yeah. I actually have a video of that. You know, that's the side of
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the baby veil is only 120 pounds.
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I could hip press a baby veil then. Yeah.
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Don't mention about me, Diva Mia's guy. Deep and me has got some strong legs.
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Yeah, she's a leg press. You'd like 10 feet away.
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And everybody, I think, knows if they've listened to the podcast that I have an autoimmune.
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But because of that, when I lift weights, my joints tend to tear easily.
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So I get a lot of injuries.
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So I have to be careful when I lift because like right now I've got a torn rotator
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cuff. I've got a torn meniscus and I've got an issue with my hip.
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But it's all related kind of to the autoimmune. So, I have to balance weightlifting
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with being sure that I have an anti-inflammatory diet, things like that.
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Yeah. Yeah. But you eat good, though. I do.
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You always, like, all the supplements, you always do. I do. But,
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you know, I have to be extra sensitive and extra careful.
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And I only eat one meal a day, too. So, I do what's called OMAD, just one meal a day.
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Oh, I'll eat somebody else after one meal a day. No, I cannot.
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You'll eat someone else? Yes, because I'll be too hungry.
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Is his name your husband? Yeah.
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No, if I eat one meal a day, I would like heat up everything in my house.
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I'll be like, because I'm pretty used to it. For me, it's okay.
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When you're trying to lose weight, diet, actually, even when you're trying to
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gain muscle mass, diet is 80% of it.
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So exercise is one thing. Yeah. But diet is the main thing.
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We need to be careful when we're older is we still need to exercise,
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but we need to be cognizant, I think, of our joints. Mm-hmm.
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Actually, you probably get used to it. Like the Buddhist monk,
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they only eat once a day. They do. Yeah.
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It's actually healthier if you have diabetes. Yeah. I have very low glucose
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because I don't trigger my insulin because I only eat one meal a day. And I fast a lot too, so.
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I need to try. You should try. I need to try the IF thing.
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Intermittent fasting is IF, guys, just so you know, intermittent fasting. Yeah.
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It lasts me like two days. Day three, I'm like, okay, I'm done.
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You went three days on water? No, intimate fasting. I went three days.
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And then by day three, I'm talking about I did it for two days.
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That's it. And by day three, you know what? I eat everything for breakfast.
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See, that's not healthy either. That's what I'm saying. You can cause kidney stones from that.
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You can cause a gallbladder attack from that too. You got to be careful. Right.
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The idea, though, is I think when we're, as we get older, I think it's a good
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idea to get a trainer. Oh, yeah, definitely. Exactly.
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Because a trainer can help you, especially if you get a good one.
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Don't go get some 18-year-old guys. Just believe me on this one.
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But get a trainer that is a little bit older. Mine is 24. Should I get the tray
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up? I think you need at least somebody in their 40s personally.
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Okay. If they're still training at that age, they know kind of how to adjust
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with people that are older. I see.
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And, you know, you might have gotten away with not lifting weights when you
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were younger. but as you get older your bones are going to start to break down.
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Muscle building and lifting weights is the number one way to make sure you have strong bones.
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For sure because when I you know I have my joint problem and knee hurts one
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of the PT the most exercise was doing the squats instead of using your knees
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you need to use your cap muscle and your glutein.
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Yeah so it's basically where your knees when you squat where your knee position is.
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Yeah well here's the thing we've done I'm a personal trainer,
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right? You can hide it. But do you listen to them? Do you follow them?
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I do. Yeah. They always want me to eat more.
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I want to bite my tongue because I don't raise my money.
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Well, I have a trainer three days a week. I know how to lift weights because
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I've been lifting weights for a long time.
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However, I started with a personal trainer two and a half years ago,
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three years ago, because I wanted an accountability partner.
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Right. Because I know if I have a trainer at this set time, I will show up.
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Yeah. And what it did is it helped me get back into the healthy lifestyle habit.
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I'm the type of person that if I've got a bunch of work to do,
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I'll be like, oh, I'll get to my workout later. And by the end of the day,
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I'm too tired and I don't get it done.
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I have to work out in the morning to make sure I get it done because it's the
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most important thing is to work out. And then...
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Booked my trainer three days a week. Yeah. And that's how I started my healthy
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lifestyle journey back.
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You know, my husband starts 4 a.m. With a trainer?
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He wakes up at 4 a.m. every morning because he had a 5 a.m. with the trainer.
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That is wonderful. That is wonderful. So I highly recommend it and to do it
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in the morning and to get it consistent every like three days a week or two
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days a week or five days a week, same time. Yeah.
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So you don't have to question what day of week it is. Yeah.
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And the other thing is, is they're saying that muscle building can also help
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with Alzheimer's because it helps with your hormones and it does something with your metabolism.
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So when you lift weights, you're going to keep your mental acuity longer.
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Oh, wow. If you stop lifting weights, if you don't do any cardio,
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your mental acuity is going to suffer. I need to start.
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The other thing I heard was racket sports like pickleball, which I know.
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Oh, I love pickleball. I know you do.
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I play four hours a day. Well, there was a study done that people that play
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pickleball, tennis, those type of racket sports, or any type of racquetball,
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they tend to keep their mental acuity longer.
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You know what? That's so true. It starves off Alzheimer's. My cousin's husband, he is 67 now.
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Do you know he's 17 years older than his wife? But his wife is as old as he is.
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He swim, play tennis, now he play pickleball.
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So swimming also, it was on the list of one of those things that keeps with
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your mental acuity because it's a repetitive type of sport that you have to
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consistently, it constantly works your brain.
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Yeah. Now, walking on a treadmill, you can do almost unconsciously, right?
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But with swimming, especially if you're changing up the strokes,
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it's also good for mental acuity. Oh, wow. Yeah.
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I need to play more. I only play on Sunday afternoon. We should start playing.
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You should come down play. See, I don't do pounding things because of my joints.
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Oh, okay, okay. So I will do swimming.
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I will do walking.
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I will do weightlifting. I'll do yoga. I don't even do Pilates.
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I just don't do anything that I have to jump because I can tear my joint.
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Oh, I see, I see. Yeah, yes. Although the other day I turned my ankle.
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And it didn't fully turn, which makes me feel like my joints are starting to
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get a little stronger. Yeah.
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Because typically when my ankle turns even a little bit, I'm on the ground.
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But the other day I turned it a little bit and I was able to recover without wiping out.
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I was like, huh. I know a lot of people when they get out of a divorce or they
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have a death of a spouse, they go all in on self-care.
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Yes. they go all in to the point of possibly overtraining. Oh,
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yeah. You don't want to overtrain.
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We have a friend that may have an issue with overtraining that may have anemia because of it.
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And you have to be careful because if you're working out three,
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four hours a day, you're probably, especially in a row, you're not giving your
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body any time to recover.
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And the pounding, I guess, can cause what's called sports anemia.
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And you can become anemic from it. I know. I've read about it,
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and it's very common with, like, people who tend for Ironman, triathlon.
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Don't spot anemia. It's very common. It is. Very dangerous.
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It is very dangerous because a lot of people don't know they have it until it's
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too late. Yes. And then they go to the emergency room, and they can't figure it out.
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Just be careful because I think sometimes we go too far.
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We take ourselves to the—we push ourselves too far to the limit.
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Especially when you've come through a lot of hurt right
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if you went through a divorce or something like that or you
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lost a spouse and maybe you want to get back in
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the dating pool and you want to just refine yourself just
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give yourself some grace yeah don't beat
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yourself up especially in the 40s 50s you know what i mean your body just don't
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regenerate well and my acupuncturist says that you can also create internal
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stress so there's there's mental stress right there's stress from like work
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and there's stress from like kids and family etc and just driving in traffic creates stress but,
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When you overwork your body, and it could just be that you go from sauna to
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steam room to cryo to lifting weights to cardio, back to another cardio workout to swimming.
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If you do all that back to back to back, that's going to stress your body.
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Every day. Every day. You do stuff like that, it's going to create what's called internal stress.
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And that internal stress can cause anemia.
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It can cause autoimmune diseases. It can even lead to cancer.
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So you don't want to overwork yourself. Your body can only recover if you give it some time.
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Yeah. And the reality is that you lose weight and you gain the most muscle mass when you sleep.
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Oh, wow. People think it's from the workout, but it's actually from the recovery.
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That's why most of the supplements you take before you go to bed.
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You shouldn't take them right before you go to bed. You should take them a few
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hours before you go to bed because you also want your digestive system to relax
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and you want your liver to be able to process anything.
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So you actually invest time to do it a couple hours before and you didn't do
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it in the morning. And it depends on which supplements they are.
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Oh, I see. But your rest time frame is so important because like when you're
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lifting weights, what you're actually doing is you're tearing the muscle, right?
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You're making little tiny micro tears in a muscle, which then your body is going
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to send inflammation to and build it back. It's like scar tissue.
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You're getting a little bit of scar tissue around the muscle,
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but it makes it stronger.
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When you sleep, that's when your body repairs itself and makes you stronger.
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If you don't sleep and you just work out, work out, work out,
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your body starts to wither away and you start to cannibalize your own muscle.
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You're actually called, it's called overtraining. It's a very common thing that
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people do, especially in our age, too.
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I mean, I know there's a lot of high schoolers that do it in like sports,
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football, etc. At our age, it's another problem.
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So you got to be careful, very careful with overtraining. Yeah, it's in your mind.
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It becomes in your mind, especially you used to be, like to me,
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my own experience is very big. You know, that.
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Not that big, but I'm still big. But then no matter what, in my head,
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I still see myself big. Yeah.
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So that's when you see like, oh, I shouldn't eat this, I shouldn't eat that.
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That's why you start to train a lot more. Or maybe I didn't do enough cardio.
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Today, I didn't do my cardio. I gotta do it. You know, I think that's what it is.
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You know, there's also a book out there. I don't know if you've read it.
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It's called The Body Keeps the Score.
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And it's actually a really good book. It talks about emotional trauma that you
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keep in your body. So when you start exercising and losing weight,
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sometimes you release that emotional trauma too.
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That's so true. Last Friday in my yoga session, my yoga instructor start the word.
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You know, she always start with nice things, start word with enough.
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Yeah. She gets you are enough.
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So with all the Instagram pictures, everybody want to do the crazy posts,
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everybody want to do all this funky thing.
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She goes, just know that that's all your body protect and you are enough.
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Yeah. Isn't it? Yeah. Good saying. Yeah. I need to keep that in my mind all
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the time. I completely agree. I think we are too hard on ourselves.
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Yes. Sometimes we're a little too judgmental.
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Yeah. Yeah. It does create stress.
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It is for sure. I don't think that all of those. I shut up my Instagram, actually.
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I do have Instagram, but. You don't want to create stress because cortisol,
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if you get too much cortisol, you're going to gain weight.
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Yeah. It's a stress hormone and it triggers insulin and all of that stuff. You don't want to.
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And here's the thing. When you get divorced or you lose a spouse,
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that's going to be an emotional trigger all by itself. Well,
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then you also want to look good, too, don't you?
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Normally, people, after the divorce, they want to... And I encourage working out.
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I do not encourage working out four to five hours a day. Right.
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And if you have an autoimmune or if you have cancer or if you have some other
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type of disease, you have to be careful.
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Even those with high blood pressure have to be careful.
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Oh, yeah. People with any type of issue, just be careful.
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And don't do it back to back to back.
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It would be better to maybe lift weights in the morning, maybe do some cardio
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at lunch, and then maybe do yoga at night or something like that.
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Or switch it around a little bit. But don't do three hours or four hours of straight working out.
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It's exhausting. Your body has no time to recover. And we are older.
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Yeah. At this age, walking is the best. Yeah, I will tell you when I work out
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hard, when I lift weights hard, I usually still do about 30 minutes of like walking.
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Yeah, that's what it's like. But nothing too high paced.
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And then I come back and I'm tired and I take a nap. And when I wake up,
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I feel way better because I feel like I recovered.
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I'm so graceful with myself now that, honestly, the benefits of having an autoimmune,
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I call it an autoimmune health journey, is that I am taking care of me more
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than I ever have in my life.
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Yeah. Do you think napping helps you? I love napping.
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Yes. I think everyone should nap. Oh, I know.
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I love naps. Yeah. I am getting to the point, though, if you put me down for
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a nap, I might not wake up for three hours.
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Now, if you nap that much, would you have a hard time sleeping at night?
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Well, my autoimmune makes it hard for me to sleep at night anyway.
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Because at nighttime, I have puritis from my liver.
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So I have difficulty sleeping every night. So that's probably also why I love naps.
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Although there was a guy that made it really easy to sleep with. So, anyway.
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See? It's how you're next to. It's who you're next to sometimes.
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So, you have to be careful because you're going to have emotional triggers when you break up. Mm-hmm.
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And don't rebound into a crazy workout schedule.
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Yeah, but people consider the workout as just therapy. It is. And who knows?
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I personally want somebody that lifts weights in my future. Mm-hmm.
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I might meet him at the gym. That's what I'm saying, you know?
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Because God knows those dating apps are a little crazy. Yeah,
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well, I would prefer to meet the guy at the gym than at the bar, no, don't you think?
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Well, I don't drink, so yes. Yeah, so, see?
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You have to be careful, too, not to push too hard that you hurt your joints.
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So much stress, eventually the body breaks.
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And autoimmunes are often a trigger. Sometimes cancer's triggered because they
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say everyone's got cancer cells in them, you know. Yeah, I know.
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But they don't metastasize unless you have a trigger or some type of major stress
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or you're eating very unhealthy or something like that.
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So you have to realize that grief and loss can trigger autoimmune disease.
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So you need to be careful. I mean, that's what happened to me. Oh, yeah.
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The triggers, you have to be super careful not to damage your health further
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when you're coming back out of a divorce or out of, you know,
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loss of a spouse or a relative.
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Or even just super stress from work. I don't know.
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Like my friend, she died mostly with MS right after the divorce, too.
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Well, that's an autoimmune, too, right? Yeah. What happens with the autoimmune
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is first, you just start getting depressed.
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You might have hormone imbalances because it often happens when you have autoimmunes.
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And then you trigger your autoimmune.
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And then once your autoimmune is triggered, then your cell repair hurts.
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So that's also why I do NAD, which is an IV, to help with my mitochondria.
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So there's things you can counteract.
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But I will say turning off an autoimmune, which is what I'm working on right now, is a little tricky.
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Yeah it's a challenge it's it's not impossible it's
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just tricky because once you trigger it it's
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tough yeah and once if you have cancer that's tough too yeah every friend of
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mine so far has beat cancer i have three friends out there with cancer i am
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very blessed to know that every one of my friends has beat cancer and one of
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my friends had quite the challenge she's had multiple different kinds of cancer.
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And she beat them all without chemo. Wow.
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The reality is, is that if you keep pushing so hard, as you get older,
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your body doesn't repair itself like it used to.
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Yeah. And your body starts to break down. Now, some people turn to eating.
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I think that would be me. Well, some people do eat extra.
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And some people become anorexic or bulimic. Yeah.
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There's eating disorders on both ends of the scale, right? Some people overindulge
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and some people way underindulge.
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You just have to realize that a lot of it when you go through that trauma,
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it's emotional triggers that then causes you to change your behavior.
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So what we're just trying to say is, once you've gone through an emotional trigger,
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don't hurt yourself further by becoming anorexic or by binging or by overtraining.
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Take a look at your life.
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Figure out what you need fixed.
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And then put a plan in place that's not going to hurt you.
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Some people glow up, what they call, you know, you glow up after a divorce.
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And other people injure themselves. Yeah, for sure. And you don't want to do that. Yeah.
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Look at it. That's a wake-up call, right? That's what you're saying.
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If you have pain, it's a sign.
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Yeah. I can honestly say I'm one of those people that pushes through the pain.
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Yes. I always say no pain, no gain.
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I'm a two-nexer. I never see anybody who take that much pain like you do.
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Yeah, I don't even take pain pills.
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So I just push through it. I'm like, okay, I can do this. I am learning as I
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get older to stop pushing through the pain and to take the pain as a sign and
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try to relieve the pain when it's small. Because if you wait till the pain gets
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worse, it's a lot harder to fix.
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I went for a massage today, too, because I was having hip pain and she really
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worked out my hip. And I was like, that's nice. I need massage.
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Yeah. I've just been so tight everywhere that it's just like so wonderful to actually get a massage.
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No, it's a full-hand massage, just two hands. No, it was two hands,
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but she walked on me, so it was okay. It was okay. It was an hour and a half. Oh.
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Yeah. I'm at the point where I go for a massage every week. I need it.
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I know. It's part of self-care. Is it really?
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Self-care. Massage is definitely self-care. It also helps with lymphatic drainage.
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So when you get a massage, you're actually helping chemicals or like toxins
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and stuff move out of your body. I will tell that to my husband when he see the bills. Absolutely.
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Yeah. Yeah. I'll have to hook you up with my massage therapist. Yeah.
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You have to be careful because grief can make you sick. It can trigger all kinds
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of autoimmune diseases.
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Oh, wow. I know. So let's get back, though, to fitness. Okay,
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so a lot of people want to start a workout routine.
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Mm-hmm. One of the easiest and best ways to start a workout routine is to find
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a buddy. Mm-hmm. If you don't have a buddy, get a trainer.
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Yes. because they will help you get started. And honestly, getting started is half the battle.
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50% of the battle is just walking into the gym the first time.
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No, 50% of the battle is to get out of bed.
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Okay, 25% of the battle is to get out of bed. 50% is to get into the gym.
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Yes, that's more like it. Okay.
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So you have, it might be a midlife crisis too. Some people go to their midlife
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crisis and try to get their bodies back, too.
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Oh, I know for a fact. Yeah? This is an old guy at the gym. I think he kept
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looking at himself more than looking at me. And I'm a pretty woman.
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You are a pretty woman. I'm telling you. I know.
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There's a little over my head here. But this guy did not look at anybody else,
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not just me. You know, that's some hot girl.
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Even I can't stop looking at those girls.
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But he was not looking at them. He kept looking at himself in the mirror,
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like flexing. And he's older. Was he in good shape?
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He's a hot old man. I think he's about 70. Hot old man. Yes.
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You know, it's funny. I was thinking I needed to date younger,
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but I have been finding some good-looking men my age lately that are like, damn.
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Damn, I'm telling you. And they're single.
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Even better. You know, that's a funny thing. I don't know any married men that are in shape. No. Do you?
23:24
This sounds terrible to say. And that's for me.
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I want a man that's in shape. The reason I want a man in shape before I get
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married to him is I want them to work out with me going forward.
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Because I want to be the cute in shape couple.
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Yeah. In my last relationship, my ex never wanted to go to the gym.
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And I was a workout crazy fanatic when we got married. And it pulled me into
23:46
his reality, if you will.
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If your spouse doesn't work out and you want to be healthy and you want to work
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out, good luck with that.
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I'm telling you, there's two guys in my heated yoga, which is really advanced
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one, 75 minutes. They're older, but you still see the six-pack and the arm.
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Yeah. I'm actually attracted to those older men.
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And I feel like they, I think now they said, even I talked to them today in Aurora class.
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They're like, now it's time for me. It is. I need to stay fit and stay healthy
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longer because now because I have a young grandkid.
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There was an 82-year-old grandma doing pull-ups in this video.
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Oh, my God. And she was built like a 20-year-old.
24:30
Yes. And I was so... She had white hair. Uh-huh. But she was spry, ready to go.
24:35
She looked like she was mentally... Her mental stamina was as good as her physical stamina. Yes.
24:40
So if you want to live longer and live a quality of life... Yes.
24:45
You got to get the weightlifting in. Here's the thing.
24:48
Cardio... People think cardio burns fat. It doesn't. Cardio burns blood glucose. Okay.
24:54
It doesn't burn fat. If you want to burn fat. You have to lift.
24:57
You need to lift weights and you need to do a lower speed like a walk.
25:02
Walking burns fat, especially when you walk first thing in the morning on an empty stomach.
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So the best way to burn fat is go for a 30-minute walk as soon as you wake up
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before you eat anything.
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So I did the right thing. As soon as I wake up, I take the dogs out.
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Perfect. That is really good for burning fat.
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Now, it doesn't build muscle. I mean, it keeps your muscle fluid,
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but it's not going to strengthen it. But yeah, that's the best way to burn fat
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on an empty stomach is when you walk and you don't have to walk super fast.
25:30
The other thing is people think that you need to work out like really hard for
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two or three hours and then you can sit on the couch the rest of the day.
25:38
And you need to be stepping 10 to 15,000 steps a day if you want to stay healthy. You really do.
25:43
I know it's an arbitrary number, but you need to move.
25:46
Sitting at a desk for eight hours or in a sofa isn't healthy either.
25:50
Yeah. So you need to get up every 30 minutes and walk around the block.
25:54
I remember when I was in my 20s, I worked at an insurance company.
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We actually had a timer on the hour.
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Every hour, we would go take a walk around the block. Yeah, not done. I was in such good shape.
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Your wash will tell you, time to get up. Yeah, time to get up.
26:08
You can even set it. Yeah, there's task managers.
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There's fitness trackers that will do that. Yeah. So it's not hard.
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You just have to make the effort. Mm-hmm. You don't have to change everything
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in your life. Mm-hmm. You just have to start somewhere.
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Elevating your habits, it makes you feel better everywhere.
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It'll help your work. You might do better at work.
26:29
When you get older, you don't have the health issues that other people have.
26:33
You don't have the autoimmunes. You don't have the cancer.
26:35
You don't have some of the diseases that people are going through.
26:38
Arthritis. Dryness? Arthritis. Arthritis.
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Rheumatoid's tricky, but that's an autoimmune as well. So you have to eat a
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non-inflammatory diet.
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What's the problem? My jaw swells up. No, effect of rheumatoid arthritis.
26:55
What's the problem? I don't know. With arthritis, your joints have degraded.
27:00
And now they're causing inflammation because they've degraded,
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right? What you have to do is you have to rebuild the joint tissue.
27:08
So there's supplements for that. There's supplements to decrease inflammation.
27:12
And then there's supplements to help with your autoimmune. But you've got to hit it threefold.
27:17
Whereas a lot of the drugs that they put people on, they're just a patch.
27:21
It's like putting a Band-Aid over a cut.
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Yeah. It's like you got stung by a bee. you put a band-aid over it,
27:25
but the stinger's still in. Yeah. You're not actually fixing the problem.
27:28
You're just treating a symptom.
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Mm-hmm. And when you treat a symptom, you're not actually curing anything.
27:34
Mm-hmm. That was the thing when we were talking about my autoimmune before,
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because all they wanted to do was give me medication to treat the symptoms.
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Mm-hmm. But none of it would actually cure me. When you treat a symptom,
27:45
a lot of the times you're creating new side effects that you now have to treat.
27:49
Yeah. And then new side effects on top of that, with more medication you have to treat.
27:53
Right. And then you add a few more coupled pills in and now you got a whole
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20 pack of pills you got to take every two hours.
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Yeah, for sure. Which is called symptom treatment. And that's where modern medicine is.
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And I'm all about solving the problem.
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Okay. So you have to find out what's the root problem.
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Right? So I have primary bilinary cholangitis as an example.
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My bile ducts are blocked. That's the problem. The problem is not the autoimmune.
28:20
The problem is not. Well, the autoimmune is part of the problem.
28:22
The problem is not the inflammation.
28:24
The inflammation is because the bile ducts are out. Bile ducts,
28:26
yeah. So I've got to work on constantly flushing my liver,
28:30
constantly cleaning out my liver, and constantly working on rebuilding the tissue
28:35
of the liver, which I found, you know, I had that gallbladder issue. Yeah, yeah.
28:40
I found out because of that issue, which was a great thing to happen to me,
28:44
how to flush properly your gallbladder, which also flushes your liver.
28:48
And then on top of that, I've done some research on different supplements that
28:52
help with cirrhosis of the liver, which the doctors don't even tell you about. See?
28:57
Every problem, guys, you really need to look for the lesson in it.
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If you're in the hospital, what can you learn from it?
29:05
Do you need to make a lifestyle change? Do you need to take a supplement that's going to help you?
29:09
Do you need to find the root cause of the problem? Because the doctors tend to not go for that.
29:14
They just want to cut you open, take out your gallbladder.
29:16
They don't want to fix the root
29:18
cause of the problem I mean honestly if we went to a surgeon and we said
29:23
This joint hurts really bad. They're like, okay, we can replace the joint.
29:26
Right. But then all your other joints are still busted.
29:29
So let's fix the problem. And there's the other thing. You know,
29:32
you probably have some mitochondria issues. So you might want to look into NAD as a supplement. Okay.
29:37
There's, I mean, we could do a full analysis. And with AI, this is what makes me happy too, with AI.
29:43
Now I'm a geeking out, but the AI again. Okay.
29:46
You should be able to start creating a list of supplements that would help fix
29:50
rheumatoid arthritis. is.
29:52
Now, when I say fix, they call it remission.
29:55
They never say you're actually fixed. But if you never have it again, I think you're fixed.
29:59
I think you have to search for the word remission because I don't think AI will
30:04
tell you you can fix rheumatoid arthritis, but they can tell you how to get it into remission.
30:10
And you can do that with any autoimmune. I mean, for instance, cancer.
30:14
Let's talk about cancer for a minute. Cancer, many types of cancer have been
30:19
in remission In remission, yes. From water fasting.
30:22
There's been countless studies of people doing water fasting.
30:26
Now, it doesn't fix all cancers.
30:28
And, you know, there's, I'm not saying ignore your doctor's medical advice. Of course not.
30:33
Fasting, basically what fasting does is it's your body taking a scalpel to the
30:37
cells in your body that are bad.
30:39
And it's a wonderful way to help. So if you're doing chemo and you're pigging
30:44
out because you're like, oh, my days are numbered, you're probably hurting yourself.
30:48
But if you do chemo and you fast with it, you know, under doctor supervision, of course,
30:53
You might be able to knock this thing out in no time. I had a friend that fasted,
30:57
actually been juice fasting.
30:59
After they had the cancer removed, the doctors wanted to do chemo and radiation. They said no.
31:04
And then they fasted, did some intermittent fasting, and they did some juice fasting.
31:09
And they did some coffee colonics and things like that and some other types
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of ways to attack the cancer.
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And it's been, I think, a year and a half now, and they're cancer-free.
31:18
And the doctors said it was impossible. They always say it's impossible.
31:21
I don't know why doctors think they know.
31:23
So after the surgery, she doesn't go for chemo? No chemo? No chemo? No radiation.
31:29
She went to a place called Hope for Cancer in Mexico. Okay.
31:33
And they did a bunch of supplements, a bunch of herbs, a bunch of different
31:38
types of colonics to clean you out, as well as different types of fruits and
31:43
vegetables that help with inflammation.
31:44
Because, you know, cancer is an inflammation disease, too. It's not considered
31:48
an autoimmune, but inflammation is one of the reactions of cancer.
31:53
It causes major inflammation in the body. If you can treat that,
31:57
you might be able to help cancer too.
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Oh, wow. I've heard a lot that people go overseas to do the hope for cancer.
32:05
Hope for cancer, yeah. The real thing that's going on as we get older is we have challenges.
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Right. We have challenges to getting into the gym. We have challenges getting healthy again. Mm-hmm.
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I applaud you if you've gone from high school to now in your 50s or 60s and
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you've stayed fit and healthy the entire time. There are people that have.
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Yeah. Usually they're single. It's so true.
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Actually, I know one that's never married and he stayed pretty healthy. Yeah.
32:37
I will say when you have children and other responsibilities and you're working
32:40
full time, it's a challenge.
32:42
Yes. But I do applaud those of you out there that are listening that have stayed
32:45
fit and healthy your entire lives.
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You're going to have a much easier way to go about things in life as you get older.
32:55
Yeah. But for us that are coming back off of either a disease or an illness
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or getting overweight or losing muscle mass, just trying to,
33:04
you know, get our stress down, there's challenges.
33:07
But the nice thing is we live in a day and age where you can find the solution
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to every problem out there.
33:13
Yeah, that's true. I have to say, though, I'm in the best shape. Of your life? Right now.
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Not in my life. Right now, since my 20s.
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Since your 20s. Well, that's great. Yeah. So let's get you better than you were
33:26
in your 20s. That's right.
33:28
I think I look better already. My goal is to actually compete in a fitness competition.
33:33
I want to be in a fun role the day you compete. Awesome.
33:36
Cheer me on. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, don't say anything. Yeah. Don't you dare.
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No, I won't. Because I'll be like looking at you when I'm trying to pose.
33:43
I'm not doing anything. I'm just going to like. I'll be like,
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there's a cat. She's trying to mess me up.
33:48
I'm not even going to pull on my camera. How's that? No, you can do that.
33:52
Oh, okay. Yes. I will pose for as many pictures as you want.
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I think you should. You came along with it. Well, you see my vision board up there. I know.
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You know, you work very hard. And it deserves, you know, I'm a scientist.
34:05
It didn't happen if you don't document it.
34:08
Exactly. So every picture is caught. Yes. We fix the autoimmune. We fix the liver.
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We fix the body. I'm competing. Yes. Go for it. Everything comes in order.
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And you just have to give yourself grace.
34:20
Yes. And you have to realize your body changes a lot after 40.
34:24
And if you try to treat it like you're 20.
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Now, I know when I was in my teens and 20s, I was able to work out three or four hours a day.
34:34
I'd be tired and sore, but I could go from cheerleading practice to volleyball
34:40
practice to cheering that night in the gym. I saw that jump pictures.
34:44
I am a good jumper, let me tell you. But I could do it.
34:48
I could do karate class. I could do gymnastics. I could do swimming.
34:53
And then I could go back home and do aerobics with weights. I did that a few
34:56
times. Oh, wow. Remember the old aerobics where you jumped around? Yeah, yeah. Jane Fonda?
35:00
No, Jane Fonda. I did the firm aerobic where you lift weights at the same time
35:04
you're doing aerobics. Yeah.
35:06
But the body changes and our hormones change. And if you try to work out the
35:10
same way you did in your 20s, you're either going to burn out or you're going to injure yourself.
35:14
Yes. I am the perfect example because I've done it. I have now learned to give myself grace.
35:19
The most I will ever be in the gym is two hours straight unless I'm going for
35:22
like maybe a sauna after to relax or massage.
35:25
But I don't work out for more than two hours anymore.
35:28
Yeah. So if I'm going to go lift weights, maybe I'll follow it up by a nice
35:31
relaxing walk after, or I do swimming after.
35:35
Oh, the other thing is you need to remember, you should be lifting weights before exercise.
35:40
Is it really? Even if it's a light cardio, even if it's not something that fully
35:44
elevates your heart rate.
35:46
Because what happens is you're going to break down muscle tissue if you do cardio
35:49
first and then lift weights.
35:51
And you don't want to break down that hard-earned muscle. I see.
35:54
I see. I have to remember that.
35:56
I thought you had to warm up by walking first and go do your weight. You can warm up.
36:01
Yeah, but not for an hour. Not for an hour. Warm up for five minutes,
36:04
do a little bit of stretching, and then go lift some weights. I see.
36:07
There's other things you can do, though. You don't have to lift weights like
36:10
heavy like a man. You can do Pilates. Yeah.
36:13
You can do body weight training. Yoga, if you do it the right way, can help with strength.
36:18
It definitely helps with mobility and energy. Oh, and I know when I started
36:22
eight years ago, I couldn't touch the ground.
36:25
No, I could touch the ground. I think that as we get older, we lose flexibility.
36:29
Oh, yeah, definitely. I can almost do the splits again. Wow.
36:32
I know. I'm going to recreate that jump.
36:34
Somebody texted me and says, recreate that jump. Recreate it. Now and then.
36:38
I'm going to have pictures now and now and then. Let's do it.
36:41
Yes, let's do it. Right? My hair looks better now. Yes. It's not so crazy.
36:45
80s hair. I still love 80s hair though. I never get out of it.
36:49
Yeah. I think that the best part of working out is sleep. Oh, yeah.
36:53
Sleep is sexy. I love my sleep. I do too.
36:55
I think sex helps too. It's all about sex. Oh, sex does help too.
36:59
It keeps the hormones going. It does.
37:01
When I was younger, I'd want to go two or three times in a night.
37:04
Now, I just want to go to sleep after.
37:06
I don't know if I turn into an old man, but after I'm done and he's done, I'm ready to go to bed.
37:13
I don't need to go two or three more rounds. I don't know. I'm just saying.
37:17
Maybe if it was like middle of the day, I could go again. Yeah.
37:20
But I do like to sleep right after. I sleep better right after.
37:23
Yeah. I'm 60, so I don't want to know. Especially if you had a long workout
37:27
day and then you have sex. Yeah. You got to go sleep.
37:29
Yeah. I sleep for two days. Don't touch me. I'm good for the next two days. Don't come near me.
37:36
You only have sex every two days? Yeah, two or three days. I'm good.
37:39
I know. Don't come near me. I'm done. I didn't want my sleep. Go away.
37:45
Kat has sex and then sleeps for 48 hours. Yes, I'm old.
37:52
We're going to have to work on that one, Kat. I know, I know, I know, I know.
37:57
Just remember that when we talk health, it's not just exercise.
38:03
It's not just what you consume.
38:06
Make sure that you're getting adequate protein. Creatine and carnitine.
38:10
Creatine helps with muscle building and carnitine helps with recovery.
38:14
Those are things that people start supplementing with as they get old.
38:17
They do it when they're younger too, but it does help. I saw that in the gummies.
38:20
Yes, of course, the gummies. I love my gummies. In your sugar gummies. Yes.
38:25
That's going to blow your sugar content out. Yeah, life is so much better with sugars.
38:29
It is. But yeah, the problem is that if you get over 25 grams of sugar, it's just going to fat.
38:35
That's true. So you got to be careful of that too. And make sure your hormones
38:38
are balanced because I know a lot of us don't go to hormone doctors.
38:42
And then they wonder why they're not seeing the improvements they want in their
38:45
health because their hormones are messed up. Those are expensive.
38:48
Insurance doesn't come with money. I know, but it's important for longevity
38:52
and it's important for mental acuity and it's important for a healthy lifestyle. That's true. And sex.
38:58
Don't forget the sex. Don't forget the sex. Sometimes we talk a lot about sex
39:02
here. Yeah. It's all about the sex. It is.
39:05
Don't you think? Healthy sex life makes everything healthy. See?
39:08
It makes you less depressed. Yes.
39:10
It makes you want to work out more, even in the bedroom.
39:14
Yes. You're a big foodie. Oh, I love food. You love your food.
39:18
Part of your health and your mental health is trying different restaurants.
39:21
I love it. Part of mental health, too. So just remember, food's important, too.
39:25
Just the quality of the food and the variety of the food. Yeah.
39:30
Restaurant and the coffee house. You know, I love my coffee.
39:33
Yeah. I gotta go for my coffee and my sugar, you know?
39:38
Yep, that's all about my life. Coffee and no restaurant. Yep.
39:42
How about the releasing pressure to loops 25?
39:46
Well, you know what? I'm aging backwards, so I might get there.
39:50
Yeah. Plastic surgery helps too. I haven't done it yet, but I might.
39:54
That's in the bucket list. I'm doing it. Yeah, but I would say that there's
39:58
ways to internally make yourself so clean that your body feels like you're 25 again.
40:05
And if you feel 25, I don't care if you look it.
40:08
That's true. Thing in life is if you feel good, that's 90% of the struggle right there.
40:15
That's true. If you don't have your health and you're in your 40s,
40:17
50s, and 60s, you don't have anything.
40:20
Oh, yeah. I don't care if you're a millionaire. If you don't have your health,
40:23
if you have pain, chronic pain, if you have daily pain, if you're overweight,
40:27
if you've got a big old belly, if you can't see your toes, there's a problem.
40:33
Yeah. If you weigh more than 60 pounds overweight, you need to seriously take
40:38
this as the number one priority in your life.
40:40
Yeah, I know. I have a sister that she doesn't care. Yeah.
40:44
I think she's just giving up. Well, usually when people are overweight,
40:47
they're unhappy with other aspects of their life.
40:50
You tend to find people in marriages where one of the partners is thin and the
40:56
other partner is overweight.
40:57
And it's because the person that was overweight is really miserable,
41:02
even if they haven't actually acknowledged it yet. They are very unhappy.
41:07
They eat their feelings. For sure. It's self-love is what it is when you stay in shape. Yeah.
41:13
And you need to love yourself first.
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And when you let yourself go, you're not loving yourself. No, you don't.
41:20
And if you don't have your help, that's all I'm asking. Wake up.
41:23
Oh, please, God, Buddha, give me good health.
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That's all for me to get up. And I'm thankful every day to have what I have.
41:30
Every day. At the end of the day, you know, you say prayer before you go to bed.
41:34
You're thankful every day for what they give you. I'm just thankful I woke up
41:38
and breathed another day. Another day, you know?
41:41
And I made it through the day without any health issues, right? Yes.
41:44
So mindset, I think, is huge. So here's my nightly routine. It might be fun
41:49
for people to listen to. So we do prayer every night, me and my children.
41:53
But our prayer routine's a little different. So the first thing we do is we
41:57
say three things that went well today.
41:59
Each of us goes around as our three things. And then we do three things that we're grateful for.
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And we do three things that we would like to accomplish or achieve or have in our lives.
42:09
And then three things, one thing that really sucked. Okay. From that one thing
42:13
that really sucked, what did we learn from it?
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So you actually teach yourself and your children. You can do this by yourself if you're single.
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Learn from every problem, to learn from every mistake, to learn from things
42:26
that go wrong. And then we pray.
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It's become such a core part of our family.
42:31
That's awesome. It's a great way to reconnect with each other every night.
42:35
My kids now come down and say, it's prayer time, Mom.
42:37
I don't even have to bring it up because they're ready to go.
42:40
And they want to tell me about their day.
42:42
If you have a busy day, and I know a lot of people with families and chaos that
42:45
don't get time to spend with each other.
42:47
Even around the dinner table with all the sports and activities,
42:50
it's a way to reconnect every night. Yeah. And you do it right after you brush teeth. Yeah.
42:55
My son and I have our special bonding between 4.30 to 5.30. So just him and I.
43:01
Yeah? Yeah. Every day? Every day when you get up. Do you ever miss it? No.
43:05
Oh, that's nice. Mm-hmm. That's very nice. Well, except weekends.
43:08
Okay. Well, see, we do it seven days a week. Oh, wow. Yeah. Even on weekends. Yeah.
43:13
Weekend, you don't sit. You know, my son's a teenager. Weekends,
43:15
he sleeps till like noon.
43:17
Yes. I don't know how they do that. I never got to. Did you sleep that late as a teenager?
43:22
As a teenager, I cannot wait to wake up bright early to go run around outside.
43:27
Yeah, they kicked us out of the house. They said, don't come back till dark. Yes.
43:32
Now it's like they don't, I don't know about other teenagers,
43:36
but my son, he won't get out of bed till like, we went to the gym,
43:40
we come back, go do grocery store, Aaron, we back the house like 1230.
43:44
He just rolled out of bed. Yeah, they're too comfortable. Our kids are way too comfortable. Isn't it?
43:48
They're so spoiled. Yeah, super. So mental health is important too.
43:53
Oh, yes. We did talk on a couple different sessions about therapy and coaching.
43:59
It's not just important for like coaching is not just important for for physical.
44:03
It's also important for mental. I had a therapy session today.
44:06
Now, granted, I only go once a month now. OK, I used to go weekly when I had
44:11
just gotten out of my divorce.
44:12
I'm still going once a month because some months I don't even feel like I need to go.
44:17
Really? Yeah. Like to this month, it was like, what am I talking?
44:20
I feel great. I mean, I feel emotionally strong. Does that make sense?
44:24
But I don't know if I will next month. So I'm going to keep it going for another year or so.
44:28
I don't feel like there's a lot to talk about anymore.
44:31
And I don't want to go and say this was successful. This was great.
44:35
We had a few challenges, but we overcame them.
44:38
I mean, that's really what the session is. There's nothing she can offer me
44:41
anymore. It's different.
44:42
Right. I'm pretty much over my ex, which is nice. That's awesome.
44:46
I don't really have anything to talk to her about. Oh, wow.
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I'm still paying, and I'll still go for the rest of the year,
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but we're only going once a month.
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So therapy is good. I think even talking to friends can be therapeutic,
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especially talking to you, Kat.
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Yeah, this podcast has been, for me anyway, I don't know about you.
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Like the other day, I went home yesterday.
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I told my husband, I love him so much. I appreciate him so much.
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Yeah, so we did a podcast before about... Not to leave the toilet seat up.
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Well, that wasn't the only part of the podcast.
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We talked about more than toilet seats in the podcast, believe me.
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But it was about how, you know, what people deal with when they have bad relationships.
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And she realized she doesn't have a bad relationship.
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Yeah. So you need to have gratitude for that. I know. And I feel like I don't
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thank you enough, you know?
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Yeah. And it's great to have a spouse that cares for you the way you care for them.
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Yes. If you can find that, that's kind of what I think we're all looking for. I think so, too.
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I want someone to care for me the same way I care for them. Yes.
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Maybe not exactly the same.
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Mm-hmm. But when I show them care, they show me care back.
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If I text somebody and they don't text me for a day or two. Oh, no. Screw that.
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If I show somebody care, if I buy them a gift, they don't have to gift me back,
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but they have to at least be grateful for it. Right.
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Acknowledge it. You know, not forget Valentine's Day and care for each other.
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And I mean, even a quick text shows care.
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That's important, too. And the fact that you found that in your husband personally,
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Yes, he's amazing. You know, we did say before that, you know,
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the happiest people in the world are single women and the second happiest are married men.
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Yeah. If you are in a happy relationship, you might be happier than a single woman. Yeah.
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Or if you're in an unhappy relationship, you might be a married man who's not happy.
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You know what he said? He said, I'm the one who made everything happen in this
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household. So he gave you appreciation.
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Yeah. And he showed you how much he valued you. Yeah.
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Isn't he awesome? What a wonderful man. I know. I wish my son said that though.
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And then can you take it for granted. Oh, my youngest does.
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My youngest calls me every day and tells me how beautiful I am,
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even when he's with his dad. He's like, no, you're so beautiful.
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That's awesome. His nickname for me is Cutie Pie.
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Yeah, mine does that up till 13.
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Oh, so you're saying it's going to go away in five years? No, it might not.
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It depends on the kids. So let's talk about lifestyle, because that's part of
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mental health and kind of like your foundation.
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I think a clean house is a happy house. Oh, yes. And what do we have to do?
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We have to declutter, right?
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Declutter. Throw away everything. No, not everything. Because then you have
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to go rebuy everything on Amazon.
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No, no. I cannot say throw away everything. Throw away everything that do not fit.
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Yes, because Kat wants to come through my house and clean my house. Yeah.
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She's ready to declutter my house for me. I clean. I throw away everything except shoes and back.
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You know, my shoe is so old and I love them so much. I actually take it to a
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shoemaker to make the bottom.
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If the shoe that fits, don't throw away, ladies, no matter what anybody says.
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Yeah, see, you have a... I have tiny little feet. I know, you could walk to
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any store and find a shoe that fits you perfect.
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I haven't had shoe problems. You know, one of the things I'm doing is I'm getting
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rid of anything that's got rayon or polyester.
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I'm leaning more towards cotton and linen clothes because it just feels better on my skin.
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You should get that white linen dress. We should get it. I know.
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The one I sent you, yeah, I love that white linen.
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Well, here's the other thing, is that all the stuff around you,
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if it's too cluttered, like if
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you're stepping over stuff, besides like dogs, I have to step over them.
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If your house is like an obstacle course, that drains you. Feng shui your house.
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Feng shui your house. Yes.
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And know which side your door is facing. Did you know you're supposed to sleep
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with your head to the south?
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Because of the way the magnetic and the poles are if you sleep with your head towards the south.
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You get the best sleep if it's east it's okay if it's west it's okay but it's
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not as good as south and if it's north facing you're not going to sleep well
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huh to analyze it analyze which direction your bed with your bed yeah well and
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even if your bed is not on the right wall you can always sleep sideways on your
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bed if you have a king or a queen
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And you're not too tall. Yeah. Just a sidebar. You should also do cleansing rituals.
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You know, spring cleaning and fall cleaning is actually a good thing for you.
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Oh, talk about that. I have big projects.
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My robot is working very, very hard. I think it's exhausting. I have three.
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Oh, my God. But you also have three dogs. I get one for each dog. Yeah.
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People always say, why do you have a dog? I say, well, I am not getting rid
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of my dog. I know my house is full, but it's actually very well organized.
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Yeah, your house, it is organized. I know where everything is. Yes.
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And I don't have to go shopping on Amazon every time I can't find something
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because I know where stuff is.
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The problem for me was COVID. There were so many shortages where I lived at
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the time that it created a sense of scarcity.
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I think kind of like the people that went through the Great Depression where
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they couldn't buy anything.
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Because where I was living, COVID was a factor for two and a half years.
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It wasn't just a three or six month lockdown like in some places.
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Oh, my God. So for two and a half years, we couldn't find stuff.
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I need to have stuff on hand.
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Like, I still have, I don't know, a hundred rolls of toilet paper. Oh, my God.
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I do. Must say, kind of crazy.
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That's okay. I'm a little crazy. I could see the way you buy dog food and dog treats.
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Well, that's the thing. I've stopped. There was a dog food shortage during COVID. Uh-huh.
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When I moved into this house, I was stocking up on dog food again.
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I caught myself because there was a time when I had like seven bags of dog food.
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Oh, my God. Now, granted, my three dogs go throw a bag a week. Yeah.
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I don't need to do that because I can get it in two days. And I haven't bought
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toilet paper in a year. And I still have plenty. Awesome.
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I know walking on toilet paper is huge.
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I still have plenty of toilet paper. Well, I have to have the plush Charmin,
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and that's the thing. Yeah.
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Although lately I've been getting into the bamboo because there's no dyes and
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no colors and no chemicals in it. I use the cheapest one.
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That's cool, Brad. Yeah, no, not me. My butt is very precious.
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Oh, my God. Anyway, I need a soft plush.
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But the bamboo is nice, too, because it's chemical-free and dye-free,
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which is kind of nice. I use bamboo sun.
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I don't know how we got on toilet paper. Toilet paper.
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Anyway, so. Declutter, declutter. Yeah, declutter. Have less things. Yeah, creating ritual.
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As you're leveling up, as you're glowing up, as you're changing all aspects
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of your health and your mental health and your physical health and your maybe even financial health.
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Mm-hmm. Make sure that reinvention doesn't mean blowing up your life.
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Mm-hmm. Because a lot of people will go from one extreme of depression to blowing
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everything up and then have nothing left. So just be careful with that.
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See how you can grow without complete and utter destruction.
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Yeah. When you do utter destruction, other people are affected around you.
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That's quite hard to do, though. I don't think you have to escape your life
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when you're going through whatever trauma you went through.
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I think you have to reclaim it. I think it has to be a way of getting back to
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who you were Just a new modified version.
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Somebody that's changed for the better But is still you I like that Well to
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me I consider that yoga session Is that your reclaiming session?
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Yeah It's my reclaiming therapy rebuilt And all that above I loved it Five times
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a week Grow up it's just about what you see It's about how you feel from inside
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I think it is about how you feel.
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I think it's all about how you feel. Because your inside feels nice and clean and you glow.
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People will see you, oh, you're glowing because of how you feel inside.
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Yeah, I agree completely. Yeah.
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Glowing and growing is together. Right. Changing who you are.
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Yes. It's a beautiful thing. And people will say, you're getting old.
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You're not getting old. You're just getting started. I love that.
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To me, for me, I think I'm just getting started. In my younger years,
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you work a lot. You don't have time to worry about take care of your family, take care of yourself.
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Now, for the past two years, I don't work. Just focus on myself.
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That's the way to do it. Right.
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When you change, you don't have to make these enormous changes all at once. Right.
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Little, small changes over the course of a year will be huge. Huge.
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That's kind of the best way to change anyway because you're changing your habits then.
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Yeah, it is. And you're becoming a new person. Yeah. It took me eight years
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to not put sugar and cream on my coffee. Really? Eight years, yes.
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Okay, that would be one day for me. I said, really?
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Took me eight years. And then, you know what? I was silly enough to get a part-time job with Starbucks.
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Yeah. Here we go. My sugar addict again.
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Sugar addictions. Yes. You and your donuts, too. And my donuts.
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Oh, my God. And the sweet bread, the sweet croissant.
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I love those. I think the important thing is when you're going through these
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transitions in your 40s and 50s and 60s,
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whether it's just you're feeling your middle age and you're having a middle
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age crisis or you're in a divorce or you have a death of a spouse or a health crisis,
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I think it's important to remember you got this.
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Yeah. You are more powerful than you know.
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If you just breathe through it, do your own research, be your own advocate,
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take care of you first. I love this podcast.
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I do too. If you take care of you first, all things will fall into place.
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Yes, I agree. It's important. To all the listeners out there,
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really, really focus on yourself. Focus on yourself because you're the most
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important thing because without you, there's nothing.
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Yeah, for sure. All right, Diva Cat, I think we've covered it all today.
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I think so too. Yeah, we covered it all. Your body will tell you whether what you need.
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Listen to your body. Listen to your body. Listen to your heart.
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Yeah. And you'll find your way. That's right.
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All right, Diva Cat, signing off. This is Diva Mia. This is Diva Cat.
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Talk to you later. Take care. Take care.
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