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Winter Immunity Blueprint: 3 Simple Steps to Stay Well ⎸ Ep. 221 · Health with Hashimoto’s - Thyroid or Immune Education for Autoimmune Thyroid Disease

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It is the first week in October, and in the news today and the last couple days,
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people have been talking about the Russian plague.
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There have been rumors, there have been a lot of speculations.
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I do not know the future. I cannot say that we are in a, you know,
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February of 2020 time period. I don't know what's going to happen.
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But I do know that it's fall, and every single winter, influenza goes around,
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COVID goes around, GI bugs go around.
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Illnesses happen in the winter. So after recording,
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the episode last week or the week before, I mentioned my winter wellness workshop
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and I went back on the website and I polished it up and I made it free instead
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of a $27 event like I had last year.
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I made it free and it is available on my site. You can watch the video.
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You can see all of the slides. I try to make it really accessible.
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It's only 31 minutes long because I know that everybody is busy.
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So what I'm going to do today on the podcast is I am going to share the audio from that workshop.
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Because I am sharing the audio and not the full video, obviously you can go
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to the website and you can watch the video for free. So.
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If I reference something on the screen, obviously you won't be able to see that in the podcast.
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But I think, if I remember right, everything should be pretty understandable
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by listening to the podcast instead of watching it visually.
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The link for the full thing is down in the show notes, of course.
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And if you want to just head over there, go to healthwithhashimonos.com and
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then scroll all the way to the bottom.
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In the footer menu, I have a learning section where you can see all of the webinars that I have done.
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I have a webinar about menopause and hormones and GLP-1, and I have this webinar about winter wellness.
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So you can head down there or head to the link in the show notes and share it with a friend.
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This masterclass actually started probably 15 years ago.
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Every winter or every fall when I had that request to get a flu shot at work,
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I would formulate my response and refuse.
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And then I would often make a Facebook post about what I was doing to prepare
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for winter so that we could have the healthiest winter possible, myself and my family.
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And those fall posts were always pretty popular with my friends and my family.
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And so each year I would post it, each year I'd get feedback.
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I eventually turned it into a webinar and then refined it until it is what it
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is today. I hope it's super helpful for you.
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You will hear three layers of defense, things that you can do proactively.
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I also walk through what to do when you get sick or if you get sick.
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And we cover free things you can do and paid things you can do.
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Things, you know, body, mind, spirit, diet, environment. I try to incorporate
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all of the things like you expect from me while keeping it simple and sustainable.
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So enjoy this replay or head down to the show so that you can watch it visually.
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Maybe you got a prescription and a follow-up appointment for six weeks later,
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or maybe you got told that your
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numbers are fine for now and we're just going to keep an eye on things.
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Either way, your provider probably did not tell you that Hashimoto's is two things and not one.
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It's a thyroid that can't keep up because it's also an immune system that's attacking the thyroid.
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Medication can help handle the first, but the second one is all yours to work
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on. You are the CEO of your own health.
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You can start working on that immune system side before your labs say that you have to.
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Hi, I'm Esther Yunkin. I am a registered nurse. I've been a nurse for 25 years,
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and I am the host of the Health with Hashimoto's podcast.
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I am the nurse who helps you sort your Hashimoto's into thyroid or immune. Let's sort.
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Sick season, not you. This is your winter immunity blueprint. Welcome.
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Let's first talk about the cost of being sick. Of course, it's annoying.
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Nobody wants to be sick. There's an actual cost to being sick.
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And yes, sometimes it's money. It's lost wages at your job, lost productivity
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if you work for yourself.
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The getting sick costs money. It also costs time.
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That's one of the biggest things. It costs time. It zaps your energy quickly.
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Even sucks some of your joy. And as it's doing all of that, you get kind of irritable.
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And so one of the costs that we don't talk about much when we get sick can be
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the cost to relationships. We snap at each other. We argue more.
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We're just quick to pick fights because we feel so miserable.
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So what is the cost for you and for your family during the winter when you are getting sick?
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Write that down in your workbook. You should have gotten a workbook along with the link to this video.
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And here is how to get the most out of the masterclass.
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Basically, don't multitask. I know, I know, I'm a huge multitasker.
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I want to watch a masterclass while I'm doing something, while I'm cooking, while I'm cleaning.
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But to get the most out of this masterclass, print out the workbook and actually do just that one thing.
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Close the door, grab that workbook, grab your water, grab your favorite pen.
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Let's make this winter different.
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The winter reality is that we share more than cookies.
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We share illnesses in the winter. And there's some different reasons for it.
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We're all confined into one space. We're not outside as much.
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We share illnesses.
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Another winter reality is the medical establishments. They are understaffed
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and they're overwhelmed.
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That is just the nature of our broken system right now. Especially as an ER
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nurse, I know that they are so overwhelmed.
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I also know that it's really hard to get into clinics.
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The winter reality is that places are overwhelmed and understaffed.
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Hopefully that changes sometime in the future.
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But as for now, it is what it is.
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And the thing is, you just want overall health. You want to get through the
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entire winter without any of those costs of illness. You want to feel well.
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You want to feel well, body, mind, soul, everything, right? That's why you're here.
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So you're going to walk away from this masterclass with three simple layers
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that you can stack for unbreakable winter immunity.
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Number one, I'm going to teach you how to reduce the threats.
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Some of these are going to be basic, like washing your hands,
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things that you have heard before.
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Some of them are going to be new. I'm going to teach you how to support your
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immune system and also strengthen your defenses. Those are the three layers.
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We're going to talk about each one, and I will give you simple,
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sustainable, practical things that you can do for all three layers.
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Because it is sick season, not for you. This is your winter immunity blueprint.
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My name is Esther Yunkin. I'm a registered nurse. I'm also a holistic health coach.
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It is my mission to help women who feel broken and exhausted discover wholeness,
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energy, and peace so that they can experience life to its fullest.
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And I look at your health. I look at you through a whole person lens.
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And when I say whole person, I mean body, mind, spirit, diet, and environment.
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All together form the whole you. This is officially the name of my business.
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I also go by Health with Hashimoto's because that's my podcast.
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But this was the foundation of my business because I see you as a whole person
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and all five of these have different things that you can do to support your whole health.
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In the winter, we encounter several different common illnesses.
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COVID-19 will never go away. It's just going to come back more in the winters, just like influenza.
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We have cold and flu season. It's now cold flu and COVID season.
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RSV increases in the winter, croup increases in the winter, and then the common
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cold virus increases in the winter.
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Welcome to cold and flu season.
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Of course, please seek medical attention if you actually are truly sick and
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emergent. If you're having difficulty breathing or shortness of breath,
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you're having persistent pain or pressure in your chest if you're a woman,
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then also if you have it in your shoulder and arm.
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Keep in mind that that is a symptom of a heart attack in a woman.
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Also, if you have a new confusion, if you notice this in your kids,
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inability to arouse somebody, obviously a problem.
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If somebody's turning blue, please seek emergent medical care.
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Also, the FDA is particularly concerned. They don't want anybody to make claims about products.
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They don't want you to feel like something is claiming to cure,
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prevent, you know, any of this stuff.
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No claims. So, the statements in this workshop have not been evaluated by the
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Food and Drug Administration.
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None of these lifestyles, foods, or products are intended to diagnose,
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treat, cure, or prevent any disease.
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On the other hand, everything I say is rooted in research and in science.
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These things have been proven but they are not intended to diagnose treat cure
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or prevent any disease according to the FDA.
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Layer number one you want to reduce the threats
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it is the goal to make it harder for germs and bad guys to win we want to reduce
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the threats you know not let them in in the first place thank you to my kids
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for making this amazing lego castle,
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I get to use for all three layers. You'll notice that come back.
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When you're reducing the threats, of course, you're going to stay home when
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you're sick. And you're going to hope other people do too.
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That is one of the biggest ways we can reduce the threats, is not be exposed
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to the germs in the first place.
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Wash your hands. Wash your hands. Wash your hands. Wash your hands.
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Wash your hands before you eat. Wash your hands. And don't touch your face.
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We touch our face a lot. Don't touch your face. Don't transfer those germs.
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When you're going to cough or sneeze, cover up. A sneeze and a cough can travel.
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The germs from it can travel 200 feet.
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I don't know about you, but I am not aware of what's going on 200 feet away from me.
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Cover your cough, cover your sneeze. And also, this is personal preference.
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When I am out in public, I do not have an uncovered straw.
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I do not have something where the germs can land on it. And then I'm going to
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put that in my mouth. That is personal preference.
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You also want to reduce the threats to your immune system. You're going to,
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hopefully, limit sugar.
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When you have sugar, like one can of pop, the bad effects can last up to five hours.
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The sugar actually competes with your white blood cells, with those fighters,
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with your defense, and the sugar wins up to five hours to reduce sugar.
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Especially, I think about this in kids, If we feed them a sugary breakfast and
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then send them to school, their immune system is weakened for up to five hours.
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Well, then, of course, before that five hours is done, they're going to lunch
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and they're going to have some sweets.
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And then they get home and they're going to maybe have a snack and then they're
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going to have supper and they're going to have dessert.
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Do you see how limiting sugar is going to be huge in your immunity blueprint?
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Also, reducing the threats means don't smoke, don't vape.
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If you are doing those, you can contact me. I do holistic health coaching.
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We can help you stop, reduce other pollutants that are in the air and that you
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put on your body. Things like skincare, air fresheners, cleaning products.
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Obviously we need to clean, but you know how like two hours after you're done
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scrubbing down the bathroom, doing a deep clean and you can still smell the
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bleach? It's probably not a good sign.
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Let's reduce the pollutants in our environment. You also want to reduce the
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internal threats like stress.
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We're not going to take it all away, but you can decrease some stressors,
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you can banish some stress, and then you can manage what's left.
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One of the biggest ways that you can reduce your stress is what you watch and what you consume.
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Whether it's the news or social media, these breed fear and stress.
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How can you reduce your stress by limiting what you have on your phone,
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what you scroll, and what you listen to, and what you watch.
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It's a good question. I have personally been using an app called ScreenZen.
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It's completely free. I did not add it to my slides, but it helps me keep a
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better handle on how much I'm looking at my phone, better than the built-in
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controls, because I was just always swiping through, tapping through. Yeah.
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All right, back to the castle. Here is layer number two.
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Support your immune system. First, we're defending.
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Now, we're supporting our immune system. And the goal here is to give your body
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what it needs every single day.
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First, let's talk about the elephant in the room. Vaccination.
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I am not pro. I am not anti. I am pro science.
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And the thing about it is, every year, the influenza vaccine,
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the flu vaccine, is pushed a lot.
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As a nurse, I encountered this every single year when I was in the ER.
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And every single year, I told them probiotics and vitamin D are actually more
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effective than the flu shot. And they would look at me kind of crazy.
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I had the research to back it up.
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For the 24-25 flu season, we now have the data that said people who had the flu shot, guess what?
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They had a 27% higher risk of getting the flu than those who did not get the vaccine.
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I know that when you go to the doctor or pharmacy or you're watching the news,
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they say that a flu shot is going to decrease your risk of getting the influenza
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and it's going to decrease the symptoms.
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It doesn't always work. And sometimes, according to the data we have about the
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24-25 flu season, it actually makes you more susceptible to getting sick.
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Another thing, COVID vaccine, very, very, very controversial.
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The side effects are very real
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and they do include death and they include cancer. So that is what it is.
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The thing is, vaccines, they're only one strategy out of many,
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many things that you can do to keep yourself and others healthy.
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And whether we agree or disagree on all of the vaccination stuff,
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it's just one strategy. So let's talk about all of the other strategies.
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This one I love, it is increasing the love and gratitude in your life.
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And yes, those do actually support your physical immune system.
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Increasing the love in your life and how much gratitude you express,
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it increases, strengthens your immune system.
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One minute of anger impairs your immune system for the next four to five hours,
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versus one minute of laughter.
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It strengthens your immune system for the next 24 hours.
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Your mental health, what you think about, what you choose to do,
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how you choose to express things, It impacts your physical health.
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You can also support your immune system by sleep. When you are sleeping,
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that is when your body is repairing, cleaning up, healing, and growing.
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Are you getting quality sleep? Are you getting quantity? Are you getting enough hours of sleep?
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Both of these things matter, both the quantity and the quality.
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If you need help with sleep, I do have a workshop, a PDF that's called the Jumpstart
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to Refreshing Sleep and Rest, let me know. Send me a message.
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It is not, it's available in the Health with Hashimoto's school community right
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now, but I do have it available for PDF if you just want to get that.
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Also, we can support our immune system through exercise. When you are exercising,
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it increases the circulation of your immune cells.
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That's awesome. We want them to go throughout your body, seek and destroy what's
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not supposed to be there, repair what is supposed to be there.
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You have a lymphatic system that's like the garbage disposal system of your
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body. It takes things out. It also recycles things.
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And the lymphatic system does not have a pump like your heart.
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Your lymphatic system needs exercise. It needs your muscles to be contracting in order to move.
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So move your lymph. That is when we exercise.
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Also, when we sweat, that's when we excrete a lot of toxins through our sweat.
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Try to make sure that you're sweating at least once a day because you're going
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to help your body get rid of things. It will support your immune system.
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Layer number three, nope, sorry, still layer number two, but this one is specific
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to your gut because 70 to 80% of your immune system is in and around your gut.
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So we talked about the general stuff in the last couple of slides.
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Now let's talk about specifically the gut.
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You have something called the microbiome. That is everything that's like,
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it's the bacteria and things inside of your gut.
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You also have something called biofilms. You've seen biofilms.
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When you clean the sink and then you lift that off, that slimy stuff, that's a biofilm.
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That biofilm is also inside of you.
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You need to clean that off. When I'm cleaning my sink, I get the scrub brush, right?
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In your body, how do you get rid of it? Fiber. Fiber is like the toothbrush
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to your gut. It helps clean the microbiome.
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Make sure you're getting enough fiber every day. Also, fiber helps you poop.
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And where do you excrete a lot of the bad stuff?
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In your poop. So get enough fiber every day.
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You need water, enough water, in order for that fiber to not constipate you.
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So make sure you're getting enough water every day too.
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The standard formula for how much water to get is your weight in pounds divided
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by two, and that's how many ounces would be ideal for you in a day.
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So fiber, water, get enough.
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You also want to support your gut with probiotics. Probiotics are the good microbiome
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or the bacteria in your gut.
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Probiotics are very healthy. They're very good for you. You want them daily.
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You can get them through food. And if you're not getting them enough in your
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diet, that's when you supplement.
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So back in, I don't remember what year this was, 20, I can't figure out from the date of that.
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Anyway, there was a double-blind study, and they found that people who consumed
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probiotics, when they got a respiratory viral illness, it was shorter.
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The duration was shorter by two days, and also the severity was decreased by 34%.
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So by having probiotics on a daily basis, people didn't get sick as much.
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They got sick for a shorter amount of time, and they had less symptoms. I call that a win.
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They also missed two less days of school. I believe they did this on college students.
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Probiotics are a good thing. They are a fantastic part of your winter immunity blueprint.
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You can get them in your diet. There are probiotics in yogurt, kefir, kombucha.
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Not all sauerkraut and pickles. It has to be the refrigerated kind.
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If it's shelf-stable, no.
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Even in the grocery store, if it's shelf-stable, it probably does not have probiotics.
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You need to get the refrigerated ones.
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When you're looking at apple cider vinegar, it will say it has the mother.
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That means it has some probiotics in it, I believe, for apple cider vinegar.
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But I know all of these things on the screen have probiotics when you get the live version.
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If you're not getting enough in your diet, that's where supplementation comes in.
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So probiotics are fantastic.
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You also want to strengthen your defenses. The goal here is to turn on your body's built-in army.
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We all have a built-in army. We have an amazing immune system,
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and you want to strengthen it, help it do its job well.
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Because sometimes, like I said a while ago, you know, you have sugar and it
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competes with your white blood cells.
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Your white blood cells are some of your biggest defenders and then they can't work.
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We want to make sure that everything in your body is working well so that you
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can have very good health this winter.
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Vitamin D3 is so good for your overall health.
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When they have done studies, they found that increased vitamin D levels were
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associated with a significant two-fold reduction in the risk of developing acute
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respiratory tract infections with a marked reduction in the percentage of days ill.
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So just like we just covered with the probiotics, when people are getting enough
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vitamin D, they get sick less.
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It is effective for respiratory stuff.
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And influenza, COVID, the common cold, what are all of those things?
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They are respiratory things.
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So I want to make sure that everybody in my family, everybody that I love and
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care about has an adequate vitamin D level.
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What is an adequate vitamin D level? Good question.
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Researchers, you know, there's always different opinions on it,
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but the most credible research that I have seen, it says between 80 and 100,
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when you get your labs test, that's the best.
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That is optimal. So 80 to 100, in fact, during the peak of COVID,
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one of the protocols was to get your vitamin D level up to that level as fast as possible,
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because it is so effective for helping your body heal and stay healthy.
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Other things you can do to strengthen your defenses is getting enough vitamin C and zinc.
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These are especially important on the days when you're starting to get sick.
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They help your body fight something that's already there.
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Vitamin C and zinc can be found in foods. And again, if you're not getting enough
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from your food, that's when you supplement.
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The next thing is one of my favorite things and something you probably have
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not heard of before. It is beta-glucans.
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So that's a picture of a lockbox at a bank.
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The banker would have one key and you have the other. You come into the bank
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and you say, I want to access my lockbox.
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And so you insert your key after the banker puts in their key.
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It needs two keys in order to work.
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Beta-glucans are like the banker. It inserts that first key in your immune system
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so that when something happens, it's so much faster to respond.
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All you have to do is insert that other key.
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That's kind of the role of beta-glucans. They speed things up.
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They're the banker. They help your immune system work better.
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Beta-glucans are in some foods.
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I think oatmeal has a teeny tiny amount of beta-glucans. Quite honestly,
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if I am looking for beta-glucans, I look at supplements because that is where
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I find the most beta-glucans and I focus on those during times of illness.
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You can also strengthen your defenses with flavonoids. These are the colorful things in foods.
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They are found in elderberries, blueberries, quercetin.
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Quercetin is not a food, it is a component, but these are good things to look
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for when you are getting sick, when you're feeling run down.
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You can also strengthen defenses by looking at oxidative stress.
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Oxidative stress is like the browning of that banana. That's oxidative stress.
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On a car, we see it as rust.
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It's like fire. It's like fires burning things up.
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Inflammation, right? Oxidative stress leads to inflammation.
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And it's happening on a cellular level. Every single cell in your body has oxidative
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stress because what's part of the word oxidation, oxidative, is oxygen.
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And when you breathe oxygen and when your cells use oxygen, which they all do,
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they put off like an exhaust, and that exhaust causes the rust, oxidative stress.
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My favorite thing for this is something that is not a food.
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It is a combination of five herbs, and it helps your body fight oxidative stress.
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It is called Protandim NRF2. I'm going to talk about a couple different products
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during this masterclass because I want you to have the best resources.
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And this is the best thing I have ever found that helps your body fight what it needs to fight.
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On average, it lowers your oxidative stress in your body. So that's the rusting
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of your cells, brownie of a banana.
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On a cellular level, it's cleaning that up by an average of 40% in just 30 days.
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People who had more, you know, it got cleaned up more.
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An average of 40%. Let me zoom in on the benefits.
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So like I said, it reduces oxidative stress by 40% in just 30 days.
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It helps your body detoxify cells while preserving cellular function.
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It significantly reduces cellular stress.
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NRF2 is a pathway in your body. It supports your body's natural ability to repair
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its own cells. We all need that.
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And it helps neutralize more than 1 million free radicals. One blueberry neutralizes one free radical.
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So it's like eating a million blueberries, which you're never going to do in
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a day, much less every single day.
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This protanum NRF2 is amazing. It also helps regulate your survival genes.
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So these are the three different layers of your wellness blueprint.
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We want to strengthen the defenses. We want to support your immune system.
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We want to reduce threats.
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And we want to do this for you. And also, if you are a mom watching this,
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of course, you want to do it for your family too.
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And there are a lot of things I talked about that you can do on a practical level, right?
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Now, I said that there would be a couple products that I'm talking about.
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Her Tandem and RF2 is one of them.
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The other one is the other component of what is called the healthy edge.
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The Protanum NROF2 is a little tablet made up of five herbs.
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It has all of those benefits.
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And the other one is called P84. It is made of both one and two, the packets.
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And these two different products, the P84 and the Protanum, they help you dominate all three layers.
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All three of those. Strengthen defenses, support immune system,
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reduce threats, all in this healthy edge.
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And yes, you can do all of this through all of the dietary things that we've talked about.
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Sometimes you just want it easy, right? So the P84, that's the whole food phytopower
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one and two, it binds toxins and it starves bad bugs daily.
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This is layer number one. It's reducing the threats. The protandim NRF2 helps
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your body cut oxidative stress.
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It shuts down hidden inflammation.
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Essentially, your body becomes hostile territory for every germ,
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and we want that when we're reducing threats.
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Layer two, supporting your immune system. P84 is a microbiome system.
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It is helping your entire gut because 70 to 80% of your immune system is there.
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P84 contains 40 different rainbow whole foods.
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It has pinks, it has reds, it has purples, it has greens, it has oranges.
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It is a whole food supplement. It also contains 15 probiotic strains, over 20 billion CFUs.
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It also has digestive enzymes to help your gut work better and to eliminate things.
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It is so helpful for your microbiome.
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Layer three is strengthening defenses and the healthy edge helps that.
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So the protandum nrf2 turns on your antioxidant production.
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It increases SOD, which is an antioxidant that your body creates.
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It increases how much you're creating by 30%.
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Catalase is another antioxidant that you're creating. It increases that by 54%.
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I didn't put it on this slide, but if you've heard of glutathione,
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which is like the sticky fly paper for the toxins in your body,
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it just sticks to it and takes it out.
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Glutathione increases by 300% when you are using the protanum NRF2.
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The P84 adds in cellular repair and faster recovery.
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The Healthy Edge helps with all three layers of your immune health.
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It's one morning ritual. It's just those two products.
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The two products being the Protandim and the P84. Those are two stick packs.
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It covers all three layers every single day. I do this every single morning.
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And if you're wondering what it tastes like, so the two stick packs,
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the purple one, it tastes and smells really fruity. If you open up that stick
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pack and you smell it, it's almost like a grape.
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Not just grape. There's definitely a lot of different fruits in there,
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but it smells really fruity.
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And then the green one smells a bit more green. It doesn't smell like spinach
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or kale, but when I smell it, my brain interprets it as green.
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My husband thought that I was crazy.
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That's not how he felt like the green one smelled.
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And when I mix them together, it tastes kind of fruity. The aftertaste is a little bit green.
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And I know that's not a taste, but I hope you know what I mean.
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I like it. I have it every morning with my breakfast.
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What happens when you get sick? Here is your rapid response plan.
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Number one, you want to reduce the threats.
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You're going to stay home. You're going to wash your hands. You're going to
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do all that stuff that we talked about.
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You're going to support your immune system. You're going to have more vitamin
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D, vitamin C, zinc, the flavonoids, the elderberry, things like that.
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And you want to strengthen your defenses. Make sure that you're getting enough probiotics.
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Make sure that you're pooping every day. Make sure you're getting lots and lots
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and lots of water when you're sick.
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When you get sick, basically, you're doing all the same three things that we've
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talked about, the three layers, just faster and stronger.
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You're going to double down on your sleep and hydration.
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You know when a kid is getting sick, when they get really tired, right?
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If you're a mom, you've experienced that. You're like, oh, they're either growing
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or coming down with something. It's the same thing with adults.
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You can rest. You can sleep without guilt. That is what your body is asking
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for? Because when you're sleeping, that is when your body is healing,
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it's when it's repairing, it's when it's fixing things.
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Vitamin D, when taken at the first onset of symptoms, then it decreases the
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duration and the symptoms.
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You want to make sure that your vitamin D is always optimal and then especially
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take it at the onset of symptoms.
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Vitamin D you can overdose on. You don't want to get over 100 when you're doing
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your lab test, so don't take too much.
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When I'm getting sick, personally, I take about 10,000 international units on that one day.
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But as long as my everyday vitamin D intake is good, I don't remember being
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sick sick last winter or the winter before. Maybe I was, but I don't remember it.
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And then, of course, you want to do high-dose vitamin C and zinc when you get sick, if you get sick.
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Elderberry and warm liquids, always helpful if you are feeling sick. And rest without guilt.
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So that is your immune blueprint. I want to know what is your next step.
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You have space to write this in your workbook.
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When you write it down, and when you write it down in an I-will format,
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it helps your brain remember it and helps you prioritize what you are choosing to do.
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Here are some different ideas that you might want to implement maybe you are
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going to say I'm going to cut added sugar to under 25 grams per day this winter,
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maybe for you you're going to say I want that easy option I'm going to take
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the healthy edge every single morning,
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maybe you're going to get your vitamin d level tested this month you should
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be able to do that at your doctor you can also go to Ulta Labs I will try to
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have a link for you in the email so that you can order your own labs.
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The vitamin D lab, I think it's around $40.
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And when you order your own labs, you just go to a lab. It has a list of different places you can go.
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They'll draw your blood, send
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it to the company. The company will test it and email you with a result.
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So you can do vitamin D testing on your own. You do not have to do it through a doctor.
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Also, what about sleep? How about this one? I will go to bed by 10 o'clock p.m.
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At least five nights per week in the winter.
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I'll tell you, when the sun goes down early, it does make it easier to go to bed.
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At least I think so, but it still can be a struggle. So how about sleep?
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What about I will end my day with five minutes of gratitude?
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If you keep a gratitude journal, it impacts your physical health.
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These are some ideas on how you can implement what we have talked about in this masterclass.
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I went over things really fast because I value your time and I know that you
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don't have time to just sit through a whole bunch of stories.
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So here are two different ways that you can follow up.
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Obviously, number one is the healthy edge. We've talked about the P84.
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For. It is the world's most.
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The best thing you could do for your microbiome. It's 84 ingredients,
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feeds, diversifies, and detoxifies your gut every single day.
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And of course, your gut is where 70 to 80 percent of your immune system is.
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You want to take care of your gut.
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The Protandim NRF2 Synergizer activates your body's own antioxidant army.
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It tells your body to produce more.
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So this is one morning ritual, total coverage of all three layers,
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reducing threats, supporting you, and strengthening your defenses.
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I also have a simple habits program. The next one will be starting in January.
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This is a 12-week text-based system where I will send you texts every single
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week so that you can have one small sustainable action to build better health without burnout.
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And I'm limiting it to a text message so I can't overwhelm you with information.
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I'll send you one simple thing to do every week to build habits that help your overall health.
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It's about building momentum one step at a time so you can feel better for good.
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Stay connected with me at healthwithhashimoto's.com or I am on Instagram at
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health.with.hashimoto's.
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Thank you so much for coming to this masterclass. Let me know what you're going
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to do. Send me a message and tell me your I will statement.
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I hope that you have a fantastic winter, that you are staying healthy the whole time.
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That's it for today. If you are ready to sort your Hashimoto's into thyroid
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or immune, start with Hashimoto's Decoded, and then come talk about it in the free community.
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Both links are in the show notes. I'll see you next week.