May 6, 2026

The Hidden Health Gremlins: How Chronic Stress Quietly Wrecks Metabolism, Mood, and Retirement Plans

The Hidden Health Gremlins: How Chronic Stress Quietly Wrecks Metabolism, Mood, and Retirement Plans
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Season 2

Chronic stress doesn’t just affect your mood—it can quietly mess w/ your long-term health thru inflammation, hormonal disruption, & metabolic slowdown that makes things like weight loss feel impossible. Neuro-nutrition specialist Jana Jamail explains the gut–brain connection, why nervous system regulation matters, & the early warning signs your body is running on empty. You’ll walk away with practical “health investments” you can start now to protect your energy, your wallet, & your future.

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as well as a focus on health and wellnent. Now,

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let's join your host, Anita bell Anderson, as together we

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start with Asking Good Questions.

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Hello, and welcome to the Ask Good Questions Podcast. I

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am your host, Benita bell Anderson. I'm so happy that

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you are here today with us. Today we are going

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to have a wonderful conversation today about I believe everyone

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should be listening to this because this is going to

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apply to everyone who has a body. And so with that,

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I'd like to invite my guest to the podcast stage.

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Her name is Jenna Jamile is a Jamile, Jamail, Jamail Jamail,

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and Jana.

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Welcome, Thank you, thank you so much for having me.

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Yeah, so let me tell you a little bit about

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this girl. She's a certified nutrition specialist with a clinical

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focus on functional nutrition, applied neuroscience, and the gut brain connection.

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We have got some really amazing things to talk about today.

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Her work centers on complex chronic health concerns including neuroinflammation, inflammation,

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digestive dysfunction, environmental exposures, and immune related conditions where nutrition

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can play an important adject role alongside conventional care. So

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she brings research and clinical perspectives to the table and

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including she's done some work on get this transcranial photo bimodulation.

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Now I would not have known before that that was

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red light therapy because I have done some red light therapy,

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and so I'm really interested to hear what she has

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to say about that. And there's some potentials there for

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mental health support, which is interesting. Her approach emphasizes practical,

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evidence informed strategies set that consider the nervous system, detoxification pathways,

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gut health, and you know, just a lot of different

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things that She's also a parent of AUDHD child. I

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don't know, Jenn if i'd ever heard of that. I've

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heard of, you know, the other like autism stuff, but

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that was interesting to you know, so you've you've got

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in home practice with all of this stuff as well.

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So so she provides clinical professional consultations designed to help

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listeners and to help people better understand potential root contributors,

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which I think is what I really always am looking

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at to find is what's the root cause. So with that,

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I'd like to just say, is there anything else you'd

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like to add to that?

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If that's really hard to remember for the audience, I'm

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a neuro nutritionist. You can just walk away with that knowledge.

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And before I met j I didn't. I didn't even

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know there was such a thing. But I think that

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is like so important. So so you you know, in

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our title we talked about hidden health Gremlins, and I

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think of the movie Gremlins and these little guys, you know,

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running around just causing mischief all over the place. That's

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kind of how I feel about that. Our in our body.

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So why do you see that could be categorized as

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a gremlin in our body that sabotages our health without

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you even realizing it.

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Okay, So you know how in the Gremlin movie they

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say don't feed the gremlins after midnight and don't get

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the gremlins wet. Okay, So I feel like there's kind

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of that applicability to our life as well, where it's like,

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don't eat all the processed foods, don't eat a ton

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of sugar. So I feel like that's kind of the

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correlation there with the same thing with the gremlins. But

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the the reason that is is it's not necessarily the

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body can't handle those things. It's what is the body

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having to go through and do in order to process

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those things, and is it diminishing other areas of your health?

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So if it's focusing on processing all of like the

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chemicals and processed foods, what's going on with your immune

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system on the other side, and what do those chemicals

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do in the body. So it's kind of like a

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twofold effect where you eat the processed food, you get

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the grumlin wet. Then they turn crazy now on the

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immune system.

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So we're going to talk a lot about chronic stress

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and weight loss, and that's something that I've personally been

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interested in. And so what's the biggest mixed misconception around

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you know, the whole thing around stress and people feeling

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stuck when it comes to weight loss.

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So I think the first thing with chronic stress is

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people don't really understand how much they're stressed. I think

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it's kind of like a frog and a pot where

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the stress builds and you get to a place where

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you're so overly stressed you don't even notice how stressed

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out you are. And it can take kind of like

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a huge difference in your entire mental health to be like, oh,

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there's something going on here, maybe I need to make

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some changes in my life. And it can take a

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long time to get out of stress. But what a

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lot of people don't understand is when you're in chronic stress,

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you have a spike in a hormone called cortisol. Most

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people have heard of cortisol. Cortisol is great actually for you.

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When it's low, it helps you fall asleep. When it

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gets higher, it helps you wake up. When it gets

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really high, it puts you into fight or flight. It

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helps with adrenaline that your focus, you can protect yourself

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when you're in chronic stress. You're constantly spiking that adrenaline

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in fight or flight. And what people don't know is

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that actually triggers neuroinflammation, because when you have too much

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cortisol in the brain, you're actually creating an inflammatory environment

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for your brain cells, and so that can lead to

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more depress that can lead to more anxiety, that can

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lead to changes in gut health, and it can also

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weaken your immune system. And so a lot of people

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get to a place where they're watching the news, they're

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doomscrolling social media, they're just ingesting too much visually. That

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is stressing them out, and their nervous system is going

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haywire because we're not really designed to be that connected

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and seeing that much action. In all of that, our

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cortisol is supposed to be really sensitive for really scary moments,

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and we're we can expose ourselves to a lot of

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scary moments without completing the anxiety loop of I'm okay,

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I'm safe. All of that can come down. So it

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has a multitude of effects, but it definitely affects your gut,

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your brain, and your immune system.

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So you're basically saying that we can be running on

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stress hormones and not even know it.

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Oh, absolutely, and most people do think about it this way.

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So if you're gaining weight all the time and you

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have no idea that you're stressed, it's going to change

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your blood sugar regulation, it changes your hunger hormones, it

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changes that you're going to seek out certain types of

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food to calm yourself. Typically, people who are chronically stressed

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or reaching for something in high fat or high sugar,

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they don't even know they're doing that. They just think,

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I really like the taste of this. Actually, you're self

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soothing your nervous system and you don't even know it.

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And then at the same time you're causing more inflammation.

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So once we have that inflammatory like blood sugar spiking

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happening from that cortisol being out of balance, that's when

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all that weight gain happens. And then it stays that

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way because the body thinks I got to hold onto this.

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I'm going to be in a really terrible situation soon

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because I wake up every day and I'm in this

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terrible situation. So it's really hard to lose that weight,

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and so some people will come to me as a

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nutritionist and say, I want to lose weight, But if

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you don't address your mental health, there's really not a

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whole lot I can do to downright regulate your nervous

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system unless it's are you eating enough? Are you eating regularly?

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If you're putting yourself in chronic stress, we're going to

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continue that cycle. But a lot of people do under

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eat in this situation as well. And when you're under eating,

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you're underfueling, you have too high cortisol. Typically these people

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are over caffeinating themselves and they're like, I'm just gonna

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drink coffee and that's all I'm gonna get energy, all right.

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It creates this cycle that people are stuck in.

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Well, walk us through what chronic stress does to metabolism? Yes,

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well what really? What changes first in the body?

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Oh, that's kind of a chicken and egg question because

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it's were you born into chronic stress or did chronic

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stress enter your life later? Early childhood trauma has a

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huge impact on your metabolism. Typically, people who have early

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childhood trauma lean heavier in their weight, or even obese

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people who have trauma later, they may start gaining weight

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as a defense mechanism, especially women who have been assaulted.

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So it can be one or the other. It's not

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always the same thing. It depends on the individual. But

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what can happen. So when you have a lot of cortisol,

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it's going to spike your blood sugar all day. You

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don't want your blood sugar to spike. You want a

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slow rolling wave. So that's why you hear nutritionists say

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you want enough protein, you want complex carbohydrates, because what

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we're doing is we're blunting that blood sugar. If it's

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constantly up and down all day, what happens is you're

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releasing insulin all day. Well, your body isn't going to

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be as sensitive to that insulin over time, and so

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you're going to need more of it and more of it.

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And so what we call it in our world is

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insulin resistance. And so then you're going to see weight gain,

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you're going to see higher cholesterol. Also a nutrition world,

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when we see higher cholesterol, we're wondering is the body

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protecting itself from something because it doesn't happen in a vacuum.

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And then you're going to see high glucose and you're

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going to also see that chronic stress. So it becomes

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this cycle that people get stuck in and the body

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gets stuck in. But it can happen from exposure in

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utero to stress, early childhood trauma, trauma during the lifetime.

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It typically you're kind of there's there's a trigger sometimes

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and sometimes it's not in your control.

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Right. Well, let's say you've got two people that are

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eating the same, they feel, you know, like they're exercising

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the same, but the chronically stressed person is complaining about,

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you know, I can't I can't lose any weight. So

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is that that's that's because they're in this loop, right?

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It can be genetics plays a role as well, because

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you can have a chronically stressed person that is more innerrexic, right,

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and then they're not getting any nutrientts so they're not

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gonna put on any weight. So typically it's not like

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I'm seeing two healthy people and it's just chronic stress

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that's contributing to this. There's layers to it. There's learned

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behaviors to cope. Typically one of those people is binge

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eating in the evening because they've come down after a

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huge day and they're like, oh my gosh, I'm starving

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and then they start comfort eating and that soothes them.

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So we're seeing that in that person. Also, you mentioned

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they're exercising the same If this person's a woman or

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a man and their hormones are off, say they're chronically

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stressed and they have low testosterone, low estrogen, well that

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exercise actually might contribute to their chronic stress and could

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actually increase their cortisol. So there's a lot of layers

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to looking at an individual. It's really hard to be

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like we have twins their side by side, they live

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the exact same life, because what we've actually seen in

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research is people have done that, they've been through the

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exact same thing, and their body is different. And it's

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just what genes turn on. Because stress turns on different genes,

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it turns off different genes, so everybody everyone's a little

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bit different with it.

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Well, let's talk a little bit about sleep, right.

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I love sleep and I do too.

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I love sleep too, but sometimes I have a hard

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time going to sleep mm hmm, because my brain is

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just like you know, I just won't stop. And and

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it seems like there can be a sleep and blood sugar.

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well what what would you address first?

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it's are you stressed? Do you have allergies? Do you

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have nasal congestion? After you eat dinner? Do you get

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really itchy? Do you so? Because there's multitude of things,

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is called evening rumination, where you cannot turn your brain off,

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you cannot calm down. Typically for that, we recommend box

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breathing for people because it starts down regulating your nervous system.

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the middle of the night. We also recommend box breathing,

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and then at that point we recommend maybe you want

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to talk to a therapist because something might be going on.

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But if we're in the other category of constant nasal congestion,

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it ginus after meals, Well, then I'm looking at a

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histamine response, and then I'm going you're going to have

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a hard time falling asleep because your histamine is going

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to get up higher and higher as you're falling asleep,

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because that's when it rises, and then you're always going

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to wake up between one and three in the morning

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because that's when histamine spikes. So then I'm looking at,

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do we need a nasal spray, what allergies are you

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exposed to? Do we need to do a food allergyen test?

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Or you allergic to something that you know about? So

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then we get into deeper environmental things to see if

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something else is going on.

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Wow, so it seems like it seems like there's you know,

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I think you would basically take one thing at a

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time and eliminated to figure out what's going on with you.

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Absolutely as you can see, I'm like, well, it kind

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of depends on the individual because that's really no blanket

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statement for everyone. And that's something we've kind of focus

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on nutrition and neuroscience, is what's going on individually with

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you because some people they really do have that high anxiety,

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some people have ADHD, they have a really hard time

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going to sleep at night. So then we're looking more like, okay, mentally,

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how do we calm that nervous system? And then some

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people are like I had COVID nineteen and I have

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had nasal congestion for years. So now we're looking out,

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we got to clear out your nose because that is

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actually a place where the immune system repopulates histamine. So

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then we have to address that. So it's looking at

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everybody individually.

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You know, it seems like sometimes the combination of things

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that are going on when people go through menopause is

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just not fair.

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wake up in the morning and you want to just

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murder everyone, yeah, I under yes, you you should feel

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like that.

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So what would you what would you tell somebody that's

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that's just you know that says, oh, I'm going well,

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and you know that they're going through menopause.

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can be the hot flashes, which that is such a

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kind word for what it is. It is. I mean,

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you're sleeping in a pool of sweat. You are miserable there,

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like you want to live in an ice cube. There's

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no other way. So a flash is adorable. I think

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anyone who's gone through this knows this is not a flash,

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Like this is overwhelming your whole system. So there's that,

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and then there's it's it is disruptive to your sleep.

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All of those hormones are changing. There's a histamine element

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with that as well, where now all of a sudden

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you have migraines too. There's a whole change in histamine

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that's leading to migraines in this population. And then there's

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also you're constantly fluctuating hormones all day long, where it's

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estrogen might be really high. Oh, now that's crash the

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next thing. Now progesteronees really high. Oh and now we've

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crashed that, and now testosterone. So it's constant fully fluctuating.

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So if someone's going through this, Number one, I would say,

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all of your symptoms are real, believe them. Don't ever

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let anyone gaslight you and tell you it's not happening.

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Number two, the rage will pass. You will not want

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to murder everyone at all times. That is also real though,

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Like if you're looking at your partner and you're like,

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I cannot stand how you eat, that will go away.

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Those will not be forever. But and then for some

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women who are afraid of HRT because they've seen old research,

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if you are struggling, I would highly recommend talk to

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your doctor about bioidentical HRT. It's different it's not synthetic.

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It's more like a cream, so the body is processing

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it differently. But it can be really protective for the heart,

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it's anti cancer for some women. It's really protect for

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the brain, especially depression, and it can be up to

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twenty years of protection. So I would say, don't be

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afraid of bioidentical HRT and definitely talk to your doctor

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about it. If you're if you have that daily rage,

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maybe talk to your doctor about it.

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Well, I was very intrigued by the whole neuro nutrition

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and neural inflammation idea gut brain connection. Actually mean for

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somebody that's dealing with anxiety and cravings and brain fog,

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maybe they're not very motivated, you know, so talk to

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us about that gut brain connection.

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Yeah. So in nutrition and neuroscience, we consider the gut

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the second brain. So there is a connection between the

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gut and the brain called the vegus nerve and they

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talk all day long. True, Like surgeons have actually cut

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the vegus nerve in some people and these people are

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out of their minds afterwards because there is so much

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talk going on between the two. So in the gut

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there so you have your own immune system, and the

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gut and the brain they have different cells and those

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talk to each other. Your gut also creates neurotransmitters, so

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hormones you've heard of, dopamine, serotonin. The gut also creates

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those as well as the brain. And then we for

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those who don't know, we have tons of bacteria in

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our gut. They're fantastic, We love them. You have about

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three pounds of bacteria that live in your gut. They

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do tons of different things. They affect your metabolism, they

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affect your mental health. Well, now we're looking at there's

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probably actually bacteria living in the brain as well, So

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instead of a gut microbiome, now we have a brain

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microbiome and they're talking to each other. So it's sometimes

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with anxiety, it can be you do have anxiety and

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you're worried about something and now your stomach is hurting,

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or you have a gut infection and you don't feel

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well and it's creating anxiety and you're like, I'm sitting

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on the couch, nothing is happening, my stomach is killing me,

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and I have so much anxiety. Same thing can happen

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with brain fog. Typically there's something going on in the

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gut when you're having brain fog. Hormones can definitely play

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a role as well, but normally that's what we're seeing.

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The other thing that's interesting is if for neuroinflammation, So

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if anyone isn't familiar with this, neuroinflammation is when your

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immune system in your brain is overactivated and so all

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of these cells are turned on. They're trying to fight

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an infection in your brain. So in some ways we

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think of like the brain kind of being on fire.

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A lot of disorders, so depression that is a neuroinflammatory disorder, autism, ADHD,

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schizophrenia all neuroinflammatory, so a lot of and a lot

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of that also has to do with there's a difference

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in the gut bacteria going on in those disorders as well.

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So typically if someone comes to me and they have

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depression and they're like, it just won't go away. I

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am so miserable. I'm like, are you eating enough? What's

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going on in your gut? We start there and then

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typically the first thing that lifts is the brain fog

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and they're like, oh, wow, I haven't been able to

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focus in the afternoon in a year or so. And

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then we just kind of keep going and see, you know,

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is there a mineral deficiency, is there a vitamin D deficiency?

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What are we looking at? And then slowly their mental

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health can improve a lot of psychiatrists and psychologists are

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now starting with nutrition with patients who are coming in

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with depression and anxiety, to see is there something going

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on in the gut?

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First, wow, well, how does neurow inflammation show up in

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real life? Then you know, just what's what's one of

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the you know, I can see people dismissing symptoms just

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because they're not really aware, But what is it? How

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can it show up for people?

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So it's on a spectrum. So on the low end,

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it's going to be ability, mood swings, anxiety, depression that

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keeps coming back. You get into the more advanced issues,

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then you're looking at blind rage, with blacking out, you're

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looking at violence. You're looking at obsessive compulsive disorder. A

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lot of people think obsessive compulsive disorder is I have

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to wash my hands twenty times a day. Typically, obsessive

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compulsive disorder is an internal thing, so they have this

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really intrusive thought that's really scary. So it's you know,

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I'm going to hurt someone with a knife, So they

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believe that so deeply they will never touch a knife again.

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They won't even go near it in a kitchen. That's

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typically what you start seeing. You start seeing an overreaction

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to things, and then ticks show up, so itching, scratching,

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weird coughing going on. So it can get to a

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much higher degree, and then you can also get into

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like mobility and balance issues as well. So so neuroinflammation

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can progress. Typically when it's in that bucket of more

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advanced and extreme, the immune system is now in a

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malfunction and you're in an autoimmune situation where the immune

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systems now attacking your brain and that's creating the inflammation.

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You make me think of the really bad Grimlin. I

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remember the guy that was like really terrible, terrible, terrible.

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He was like twenty times worse. Yeah. Oh why so,

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well you work with chronic, complex chronic cases, right, yes,

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So do you see things that people overlook?

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Oh my gosh, all the time. People ignore their gut

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health the most. They think constipation is just a way

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of life, It's just what it is. They've always had this. No,

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that is no, that's not normal. People have diarrhea all

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the time, and they think that's just fine. I'm just

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getting older. I'm just sensitive to foods. No, this is

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also not normal. Some people don't know they're not detoxing well.

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They just think I've just always had bad skin, or

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I just have a really hard time drinking alcohol and

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I just don't feel good the next day. It's things

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that people just get used to and when they come

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to me. And most of the time people come to

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me and they're like, oh, I think I just want

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to lose ten pounds, but I also have all these

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other things. And we go through a laundry list and

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I'm like, yeah, this has nothing to do with your weight.

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We've got some systems we've got to fix over here

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that we're just not addressing.

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Because the weight is not going to release until after

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you fix the systems, is.

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My absolutely not. I mean, if you're constipated, you are

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not going to be able to lose weight. Your metabolism,

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you are circulating toxins. I mean, there's a host of

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things happening in your body that you just think, I'll

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just take some metamucil and I'll be fine, right, And

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why is this happening? Is a question I normally like

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to ask and then help answer and solve.

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Well, I have I'm just like true confessions here. Over

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the course of my adult life, I've done these like

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weight loss challenges, nothing ever changes. Why do you think

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that you know these uh you see these things online

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and common de mark challenge, Well, a lot of times

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it feels like nutrition plans, they just nothing ever changes, right,

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And that's probably because of what you're talking about. There's

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some root causes that are not being addressed that.

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And I think there is this common misconception that everyone's

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going to look the same. Everyone has this expectation that

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there we're all going to be size two, size zero,

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size four, We're all going to live in that world.

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We're all like we could all eat the exact same

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food every day and we would all look completely different,

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none of us would be the same size. So I

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think there's also that and then a lot of those

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different weight and like nutrition plans in there. You're eating

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like twelve hundred calories a day, which to someone listening

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that's probably no big deal. That is what a toddler

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eats a day. Yeah, we're full grown humans, like we

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are creating hormones on a different look. We are doing

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completely different things, and so we're needing more food than that,

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more calories than that. And so when you go to

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those really low levels and then you start eating again,

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well typically you gain baun two times what you just lost. Yeah,

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so it's and then so then it becomes a balance

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of what are you eating to help keep your hunger

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00:26:32.720 --> 00:26:36.559
levels lower and more normal for you? And then are

460
00:26:36.599 --> 00:26:39.480
you get like what's your activity level, what's your stress level?

461
00:26:39.640 --> 00:26:42.160
What is all of those things? And a lot of

462
00:26:42.160 --> 00:26:44.279
those things aren't addressed when you're doing like a weight

463
00:26:44.319 --> 00:26:47.759
loss plan for like weight Watchers or something like that.

464
00:26:47.960 --> 00:26:51.960
Right, right, Well, do you have some favorite fast ways?

465
00:26:53.279 --> 00:26:57.319
That's just the nervous system. I mean, I'm sitting here

466
00:26:57.400 --> 00:27:02.559
kind of laughing to myself because it's like none of

467
00:27:02.599 --> 00:27:05.279
those things out there that are like, you know, do

468
00:27:05.359 --> 00:27:08.759
this and you're gonna lose weight. You know. The latest

469
00:27:08.759 --> 00:27:12.640
thing that I'm seeing is those patches that are burbering and.

470
00:27:12.759 --> 00:27:15.279
Don't do that, don't do that, don't do that.

471
00:27:15.680 --> 00:27:20.400
Well, they're terribly they're terribly you know. The ads are

472
00:27:20.440 --> 00:27:24.559
like you go from like this to this, and it's

473
00:27:24.640 --> 00:27:26.000
like that's just not normal.

474
00:27:26.519 --> 00:27:30.759
No, but burbine is an anti microbial just for people

475
00:27:30.839 --> 00:27:33.319
out there, So it's literally like taking a very high

476
00:27:33.440 --> 00:27:36.960
level antibiotic at all times, so you will destroy your

477
00:27:37.000 --> 00:27:41.400
gutlining if you do burberine around the clock. People don't

478
00:27:41.400 --> 00:27:45.640
know that botanicals are very powerful supplements, So if you

479
00:27:45.680 --> 00:27:49.559
see something like that, I would just ask first someone

480
00:27:49.599 --> 00:27:51.079
who knows what they're doing.

481
00:27:51.440 --> 00:27:54.319
Probably a related question or you know, is you go

482
00:27:54.400 --> 00:27:57.119
out and research something and then all of a sudden

483
00:27:57.119 --> 00:27:59.400
it seems that's all you see on your phone is

484
00:27:59.440 --> 00:28:03.079
because they getting you start getting served up all these

485
00:28:03.119 --> 00:28:06.240
things which are very hard. So okay, so I was like,

486
00:28:06.279 --> 00:28:09.799
that's a little bit on the side. Fast ways is

487
00:28:09.839 --> 00:28:12.720
there the fast way to downshift the nervous system?

488
00:28:13.039 --> 00:28:15.799
There are? So with food, you actually want to make

489
00:28:15.839 --> 00:28:19.319
sure you're eating regularly. This is going to balance your cortisol.

490
00:28:19.400 --> 00:28:21.720
So eating within an hour that you're waking up. You

491
00:28:21.759 --> 00:28:25.400
want to have complex carbohydrates in protein. You don't want

492
00:28:25.400 --> 00:28:27.400
to overeat fat that can be really hard on the

493
00:28:27.440 --> 00:28:30.480
nervous system. You just want to eat regularly throughout the day.

494
00:28:30.519 --> 00:28:34.319
Skipping meals is really stressful for the body. Getting enough fiber.

495
00:28:34.599 --> 00:28:37.039
A lot of people do not get enough fiber. You

496
00:28:37.079 --> 00:28:39.640
need about twenty five to thirty grams of fiber a day,

497
00:28:39.720 --> 00:28:43.519
which can feel like a lot. So adding in beans

498
00:28:43.599 --> 00:28:46.680
to your meal, making sure you're getting enough fruits and vegetables,

499
00:28:46.799 --> 00:28:51.119
getting the like brown rice, keene wall, whole grain pasta,

500
00:28:51.480 --> 00:28:54.680
whole wheat, whole spreaded wheat bread. Those are really great

501
00:28:54.680 --> 00:28:59.039
ways to get enough fiber. Protein is definitely important, but

502
00:28:59.160 --> 00:29:02.359
some people are eating too much protein right now, so

503
00:29:02.440 --> 00:29:06.480
getting enough protein for your actual activity level is really important.

504
00:29:06.880 --> 00:29:12.680
Those are nutritionally easy ways. Neuroscience, now, this is my

505
00:29:12.720 --> 00:29:15.880
favorite way to down regulate the nervous system. So, okay,

506
00:29:15.960 --> 00:29:18.960
you cannot be in anxiety if you are being creative.

507
00:29:19.440 --> 00:29:21.359
So my favorite thing to do with clients when they

508
00:29:21.400 --> 00:29:22.880
come on with me and I can tell they've been

509
00:29:22.920 --> 00:29:25.480
on a hamster wheel all day. They are just exhausted.

510
00:29:25.839 --> 00:29:28.640
I'm like, okay, we're just gonna take ten seconds. I

511
00:29:28.680 --> 00:29:31.960
want you to imagine your favorite place you've ever been.

512
00:29:32.559 --> 00:29:34.720
Just like hold it in your head. What does it

513
00:29:34.759 --> 00:29:39.680
smell like? Is it the beach? Does it smell like salt? Okay?

514
00:29:39.680 --> 00:29:41.799
What does it feel like? Is there a wind? Is

515
00:29:41.839 --> 00:29:45.200
the breeze? Is it like warm? Is it cold? What

516
00:29:45.240 --> 00:29:47.480
does the sand feel like? Is that cold or is

517
00:29:47.519 --> 00:29:47.960
it warm?

518
00:29:48.039 --> 00:29:48.359
Still?

519
00:29:48.519 --> 00:29:50.960
Is that warm? Pitting your back and like if you

520
00:29:50.960 --> 00:29:54.359
put your hands down, what are you feeling. Does it

521
00:29:54.359 --> 00:29:58.640
feel grainy? Does it feel warm? And then typically by

522
00:29:58.640 --> 00:30:00.319
the time we're done with this, whole exerss as their

523
00:30:00.359 --> 00:30:03.960
nervous system has calmed down, because you cannot create can

524
00:30:04.039 --> 00:30:09.000
be an anxiety. Ah, and you can do this anytime.

525
00:30:09.599 --> 00:30:11.920
One of my one of my favorite things. One my

526
00:30:12.039 --> 00:30:14.079
one client loved to bake, and I was like, what

527
00:30:14.160 --> 00:30:17.000
is the most beautiful cake we could possibly bake? And

528
00:30:17.039 --> 00:30:19.839
we went through an entire process of what would it

529
00:30:19.880 --> 00:30:23.480
look like, what would it smell like? Heaven? Yeah, and

530
00:30:23.519 --> 00:30:27.839
she's a musician, absolutely. And then for people who were like, Okay,

531
00:30:27.839 --> 00:30:30.039
but I'm chronically in this and I can't just daydream

532
00:30:30.079 --> 00:30:35.559
all day getting into art projects, going for walks, listening

533
00:30:35.640 --> 00:30:38.480
to a favorite podcast, maybe this one, but putting your

534
00:30:38.599 --> 00:30:42.920
phone down, getting off your phone. So I've had a

535
00:30:42.960 --> 00:30:46.599
couple of clients recently start knitting and crocheting. It's literally

536
00:30:46.680 --> 00:30:50.559
like meditating and you're creating something you love. So kitting

537
00:30:50.599 --> 00:30:52.680
into and if you're if you're sitting here listening like,

538
00:30:52.799 --> 00:30:54.319
I don't know what I like. What did you like

539
00:30:54.359 --> 00:30:57.000
to do when you were a kid. Did you like dinosaurs?

540
00:30:57.079 --> 00:30:59.599
Did you like space? Did you like to color? Did

541
00:30:59.720 --> 00:31:02.039
what you like to do? And then I tell people

542
00:31:02.119 --> 00:31:06.160
pick one of those things. So for a client who

543
00:31:06.400 --> 00:31:09.079
needs to downregulate, I do. There's a couple rules I

544
00:31:09.079 --> 00:31:10.720
give them. Number one is you have to have a

545
00:31:10.759 --> 00:31:13.759
cutoff no matter what. Work ends at seven, work ends

546
00:31:13.759 --> 00:31:15.680
at eight, I don't care what it is. We are

547
00:31:15.720 --> 00:31:18.720
all done for the day. Your body has to know

548
00:31:18.759 --> 00:31:21.359
when it's going to end. It's a big indicator for

549
00:31:21.359 --> 00:31:24.400
the nervous system. The second thing is you have to

550
00:31:24.400 --> 00:31:27.519
do whatever you love after that cutoff, So going for

551
00:31:27.559 --> 00:31:31.160
a walk, playing with your dogs, starting a craft, cooking dinner,

552
00:31:31.759 --> 00:31:33.920
I don't care what. Listening to music, I don't care

553
00:31:33.960 --> 00:31:36.640
what it is, but it's for you and you have

554
00:31:36.720 --> 00:31:40.440
to do only for you until bedtime. And then I

555
00:31:40.519 --> 00:31:42.960
always tell people take a shower before you go to bed.

556
00:31:43.279 --> 00:31:45.799
It's going to drop down your temperature, which will help

557
00:31:45.839 --> 00:31:48.839
tell your body it's time to sleep. And then off

558
00:31:48.839 --> 00:31:51.000
to bed you go. Some people have a hard time

559
00:31:51.039 --> 00:31:53.960
still downregulating, and I say, like, do you like ocean sounds?

560
00:31:54.279 --> 00:31:56.920
Do you like rain putting on a sound machine to

561
00:31:56.960 --> 00:31:59.960
help start bringing down your nervous system. That will all

562
00:32:00.079 --> 00:32:02.559
so help. So those are like my little neuroscience tricks

563
00:32:02.799 --> 00:32:03.680
I help for people.

564
00:32:04.000 --> 00:32:07.799
Well, you talked a little bit about like phones. I

565
00:32:07.839 --> 00:32:11.279
think digital overstimulation is a little bit of a problem.

566
00:32:12.240 --> 00:32:13.480
You think.

567
00:32:14.240 --> 00:32:17.160
I wish everybody could have the old school blue Nokia

568
00:32:17.240 --> 00:32:20.240
brick phone again, like, yeah, go ahead, play Snake and

569
00:32:20.359 --> 00:32:22.960
Tetris and that's all you can do and then we're

570
00:32:22.960 --> 00:32:23.359
all done.

571
00:32:24.119 --> 00:32:30.200
Yeah, yeah, yeah. My daughter, who's in her mid forties,

572
00:32:31.240 --> 00:32:34.359
she was telling me that she was talking to some

573
00:32:34.559 --> 00:32:38.880
you know, some kids at church and some they were

574
00:32:38.960 --> 00:32:42.880
doing this one of those guessing games, and she it

575
00:32:42.920 --> 00:32:47.000
was like mister Rogers, mister Rogers neighborhood. None of them

576
00:32:47.119 --> 00:32:51.359
knew who mister Rogers was. And she knows me. She said, Mama,

577
00:32:51.480 --> 00:32:52.559
I feel so old.

578
00:32:53.240 --> 00:32:55.400
Did they know who Daniel Tiger is? Because that's like

579
00:32:55.559 --> 00:32:59.000
modern day mister Rogers. I know, I know, it's like

580
00:32:59.240 --> 00:32:59.920
oh my god.

581
00:33:00.240 --> 00:33:03.400
But digital you know, and the doom scrolling is like

582
00:33:03.599 --> 00:33:07.599
oh my So I think that a lot of the stress. Yeah,

583
00:33:07.680 --> 00:33:13.440
the constant notifications that's contributing, isn't it.

584
00:33:13.480 --> 00:33:17.240
To keeping up. It's the notification. It's how colorful your

585
00:33:17.279 --> 00:33:19.720
phone is, because it makes you want to look at it.

586
00:33:19.759 --> 00:33:22.960
Almost every app is colorful. If you put gray scale

587
00:33:23.000 --> 00:33:24.880
on your phone, you're not going to care about it anymore.

588
00:33:25.400 --> 00:33:28.799
It's not enticing to look at. Yeah, you could turn

589
00:33:28.839 --> 00:33:30.839
all of that off. The other thing, you know, I

590
00:33:30.880 --> 00:33:33.039
have found the people who are most addicted to their

591
00:33:33.079 --> 00:33:36.640
phones are people sixty to seventy five. The amount of

592
00:33:36.640 --> 00:33:39.519
time I've seen people just sitting there in a coffee

593
00:33:39.559 --> 00:33:41.559
shop on their phone the whole time, and I see

594
00:33:41.640 --> 00:33:45.000
younger people reading, and I see this age group on

595
00:33:45.039 --> 00:33:47.400
their phone. I'm like, what has happened to the world?

596
00:33:48.359 --> 00:33:51.839
What you do? Yeah, they're fascinated by it.

597
00:33:52.720 --> 00:33:55.599
Yeah. So yeah, the doom scrolling that's going to keep

598
00:33:55.599 --> 00:33:59.000
you in your anxiety spiral. And then you're telling your

599
00:33:59.039 --> 00:34:02.799
brain I'm not safe constantly because you can't. Once you

600
00:34:02.920 --> 00:34:05.319
if you don't put the phone down and the news

601
00:34:05.400 --> 00:34:09.239
story never ends, well, then your anxiety spiral never ends

602
00:34:09.280 --> 00:34:11.159
and then you go to sleep like that. But if

603
00:34:11.199 --> 00:34:13.480
you actually put it down and you're not connected to

604
00:34:13.519 --> 00:34:15.679
the news all day, you're not like the TV's off.

605
00:34:15.760 --> 00:34:17.400
That's another thing we got to turn the TV off.

606
00:34:17.440 --> 00:34:19.119
We do not need to have the TV on all day.

607
00:34:19.440 --> 00:34:22.519
If that's all off, well then your body can complete

608
00:34:22.559 --> 00:34:25.119
an anxiety spiral and go, oh, this is really scary,

609
00:34:25.320 --> 00:34:28.000
but we're gonna be okay, and then you can go

610
00:34:28.039 --> 00:34:29.559
do something else. Right.

611
00:34:30.639 --> 00:34:34.559
Well, you know, I've been a financial advisor for a

612
00:34:34.599 --> 00:34:38.519
good part of my adult life, and more and more

613
00:34:38.599 --> 00:34:41.840
as I've gotten older, I've been like, health is the

614
00:34:41.840 --> 00:34:45.239
first wealth, you know, and if you don't have your health,

615
00:34:46.400 --> 00:34:50.039
then you could be really successful financially. But if you

616
00:34:50.079 --> 00:34:53.159
don't have your health, it's like what you know, you

617
00:34:53.199 --> 00:34:58.599
can't do anything. So you've said that heart disease and

618
00:34:58.719 --> 00:35:01.719
chronic illness can become a tax on retirements.

619
00:35:01.800 --> 00:35:02.639
I mean, we've.

620
00:35:03.880 --> 00:35:06.480
What I'm kind of talking about is the whole idea

621
00:35:06.599 --> 00:35:11.159
of health being it's part of your retirement plan. So

622
00:35:11.280 --> 00:35:15.199
I would just say about you know, heart disease and

623
00:35:15.400 --> 00:35:19.239
chronic stress and all that being at tax on on retirement.

624
00:35:20.360 --> 00:35:24.920
So if you're not thinking about health in a way

625
00:35:25.079 --> 00:35:26.920
like a lot of people take health for granted, right

626
00:35:26.920 --> 00:35:29.159
because when you have it, you don't think about it.

627
00:35:29.199 --> 00:35:31.480
When you don't have it, it's all you think about.

628
00:35:31.639 --> 00:35:35.079
Health and it's really hard to plan for that because

629
00:35:35.239 --> 00:35:37.800
you don't know what's going to happen. Right, So, but

630
00:35:37.880 --> 00:35:40.559
what most people don't know is how expensive it is

631
00:35:41.159 --> 00:35:44.519
to be unwell. That dementia can cost up to half

632
00:35:44.559 --> 00:35:47.719
a million dollars, and at that point in time, that's

633
00:35:47.760 --> 00:35:52.800
mostly you're oh right, and your family is doing that.

634
00:35:52.840 --> 00:35:55.559
And then heart disease can be you know, again, almost

635
00:35:55.599 --> 00:35:59.039
half a million dollars, and so people are thinking, I'm

636
00:35:59.119 --> 00:36:01.639
saving this, I'm going to have a great retirement and

637
00:36:01.679 --> 00:36:06.239
then bam, your health changes and all of that investment

638
00:36:06.400 --> 00:36:08.639
is now going to your health and not the thing

639
00:36:08.679 --> 00:36:10.880
you wanted to go to. And a lot of people

640
00:36:10.920 --> 00:36:14.800
don't know that heart disease, dementia, a lot of these

641
00:36:14.880 --> 00:36:19.519
later illnesses they actually start in your forties. And so wow,

642
00:36:19.679 --> 00:36:22.079
it's almost like you tell people to start planning for

643
00:36:22.119 --> 00:36:24.800
retirement early, right, you want them to start putting that

644
00:36:24.840 --> 00:36:27.519
money away. Well, I want you to start eating correctly

645
00:36:28.000 --> 00:36:31.199
early because I want to mitigate what could happen down

646
00:36:31.199 --> 00:36:33.519
the road. And I also want to make sure you're

647
00:36:33.559 --> 00:36:36.719
not passing that down to your kids either.

648
00:36:36.920 --> 00:36:37.079
Right.

649
00:36:37.400 --> 00:36:41.679
That's also a huge stress on children where they're watching

650
00:36:41.679 --> 00:36:43.599
this happen to their parents. They don't know it's going

651
00:36:43.639 --> 00:36:46.880
to happen. That is a huge stress. So if you're

652
00:36:47.400 --> 00:36:50.280
burnt out like you did that, I feel like there's

653
00:36:50.360 --> 00:36:52.320
this common idea that like, I'm just going to work

654
00:36:52.360 --> 00:36:54.679
so hard and I'm going to kill myself to work

655
00:36:54.760 --> 00:36:56.159
so hard, and I'm going to make that money and

656
00:36:56.159 --> 00:36:58.679
I'm going to have it later. There's a tax, there's

657
00:36:58.719 --> 00:37:00.800
a health tax to that later that almost none of

658
00:37:00.840 --> 00:37:04.559
us get out of. And so typically when we talk

659
00:37:04.599 --> 00:37:09.280
about finance finances an investment, I really want people to

660
00:37:09.400 --> 00:37:12.039
invest in their own health, Like, go to the doctor regularly,

661
00:37:12.239 --> 00:37:14.679
don't ignore your symptoms. They're not going to go away.

662
00:37:14.760 --> 00:37:19.239
They will start compounding later. Start really investing in that early,

663
00:37:19.360 --> 00:37:21.519
because if you do that early, you are going to

664
00:37:21.599 --> 00:37:23.960
have a better retirement later. You're gonna able to play

665
00:37:24.000 --> 00:37:26.559
with your grandkids on the floor much longer, which some

666
00:37:26.599 --> 00:37:28.719
people don't value that yet. I promise you you're going

667
00:37:28.800 --> 00:37:32.079
to value that later. And so and just like the

668
00:37:32.159 --> 00:37:34.559
aches and pains that you would experience where you're like,

669
00:37:35.039 --> 00:37:38.239
my mind feels completely different than how my body feels,

670
00:37:39.079 --> 00:37:41.840
that is a little bit slower as well, and so

671
00:37:41.920 --> 00:37:43.880
it doesn't come as big of a shock, like the

672
00:37:44.000 --> 00:37:47.000
changes are slower and then you're not having to invest

673
00:37:47.000 --> 00:37:53.079
how much in extra health years that you didn't want to. Sorry? Probably,

674
00:37:56.199 --> 00:37:56.679
how do.

675
00:37:56.679 --> 00:38:02.679
You help people reframe? Like so supplements and doing testing

676
00:38:02.840 --> 00:38:07.119
and nutrition support is a long term strategy, you know,

677
00:38:07.199 --> 00:38:12.159
without them freaking out about overspending or chasing trends. I mean,

678
00:38:12.199 --> 00:38:15.280
I think that's it's hard not to do.

679
00:38:15.960 --> 00:38:18.639
Okay, So, I know we're kind of in this weird

680
00:38:19.039 --> 00:38:23.639
time period where we're not trusting doctors researchers, We're not

681
00:38:23.880 --> 00:38:28.639
trusting all of our scientists, and I would say you

682
00:38:28.679 --> 00:38:32.480
can trust us number one, like we're we really really

683
00:38:32.559 --> 00:38:36.000
want to help you. That's literally what we do. And

684
00:38:36.079 --> 00:38:39.519
we also know people are trying to do their own research.

685
00:38:40.079 --> 00:38:43.400
So what I tell clients is go ahead and do

686
00:38:43.440 --> 00:38:46.000
your research, but please understand if you don't know how

687
00:38:46.039 --> 00:38:49.199
to create research, if you don't know what parameters are

688
00:38:49.199 --> 00:38:51.920
in place, if you don't know how to run statistical analysis,

689
00:38:52.119 --> 00:38:55.320
if you don't know what patient population should be reviewed,

690
00:38:55.679 --> 00:38:59.079
if you don't know what correlation means, or causation means,

691
00:38:59.199 --> 00:39:01.840
or what limitation are, I need you to trust me.

692
00:39:02.440 --> 00:39:03.440
So that's how.

693
00:39:04.000 --> 00:39:07.719
Doctor Google doesn't know everything, go to PubMed.

694
00:39:10.719 --> 00:39:13.880
But there, So there's that because I see a lot

695
00:39:13.960 --> 00:39:16.079
of clients doing their own research and then they're on

696
00:39:16.239 --> 00:39:18.559
like twenty supplements and I'm like, do you even know

697
00:39:18.639 --> 00:39:21.480
what you're taking and why are you doing? They have

698
00:39:21.599 --> 00:39:24.800
no idea. And so if you go somewhere and they

699
00:39:24.800 --> 00:39:28.840
want to give you tons of supplements, run that is

700
00:39:28.880 --> 00:39:33.079
not what we're doing here. Two, if you come say

701
00:39:33.119 --> 00:39:35.199
and people do know how to do research, I'm not

702
00:39:35.239 --> 00:39:37.559
saying they don't. If they come and they have research,

703
00:39:37.760 --> 00:39:39.920
I'm happy to look at what comes to me, and

704
00:39:39.960 --> 00:39:42.320
then I love to go. This is why I think

705
00:39:42.400 --> 00:39:45.079
this doesn't apply. This is something we should look into.

706
00:39:45.440 --> 00:39:48.960
If you have someone who is just one hundred percent

707
00:39:49.000 --> 00:39:53.920
ignoring you or one believing everything, be cautious of that

708
00:39:54.000 --> 00:39:57.199
because you want us to be critical. And so a

709
00:39:57.199 --> 00:40:00.280
lot of people will go they see things on Insta,

710
00:40:00.360 --> 00:40:03.960
they see influencers. I'm not on Instagram. I'm not an influencer.

711
00:40:04.000 --> 00:40:07.280
I'm a neuro nutritionist. Like, you shouldn't listen to me

712
00:40:07.400 --> 00:40:11.239
on Instagram. That lowers my credibility. Yeah, so a lot

713
00:40:11.280 --> 00:40:14.519
of us are not in those spaces. And because we

714
00:40:14.599 --> 00:40:17.239
are credible and like many of us are published. We've

715
00:40:17.239 --> 00:40:19.239
had to what many people don't know is to get

716
00:40:19.239 --> 00:40:22.360
published in research, we have to go through a long

717
00:40:22.480 --> 00:40:25.239
list of our peers. And I can't tell you the

718
00:40:25.280 --> 00:40:27.559
amount of times people have told me I'm stupid for

719
00:40:27.639 --> 00:40:30.360
some of my ideas. As an adult, I have been

720
00:40:30.400 --> 00:40:32.519
told this. But this is what we have to go through,

721
00:40:32.559 --> 00:40:34.559
and we have to rethink things. And I know that

722
00:40:34.599 --> 00:40:36.519
my research might be wrong later and then I'll have

723
00:40:36.599 --> 00:40:41.000
to rethink everything. So there's that piece. If anyone's doing

724
00:40:41.079 --> 00:40:43.519
their research and you don't trust scientists, please trust us.

725
00:40:43.599 --> 00:40:45.239
We are not trying to lead you a straight like.

726
00:40:45.400 --> 00:40:48.679
Our whole goal in life is to help you. But

727
00:40:48.880 --> 00:40:54.440
supplements following trends. Trends change all the time. The wellness industry,

728
00:40:54.519 --> 00:40:57.199
I think it's now a trillion dollar industry. It is

729
00:40:57.280 --> 00:41:01.159
a huge industry, you think. I mean, it's in some

730
00:41:01.199 --> 00:41:04.960
ways it's as big as big pharma. So if you're

731
00:41:05.000 --> 00:41:08.519
worried about pharmaceuticals, you should be just as worried at

732
00:41:08.519 --> 00:41:13.079
the wellness industry because there's no oversight on supplements. I mean, people,

733
00:41:13.239 --> 00:41:15.639
you can buy anything on Amazon. We don't know what's

734
00:41:15.639 --> 00:41:19.000
in that, so right, so you were.

735
00:41:18.880 --> 00:41:21.960
Just talking about burberine. That's the first time I've ever

736
00:41:22.000 --> 00:41:24.960
heard you know, I'm seeing all this these stupid little

737
00:41:24.960 --> 00:41:27.280
things where these you know, and I'm like, wow, I

738
00:41:27.320 --> 00:41:31.920
didn't know that about that particular ingredient.

739
00:41:32.239 --> 00:41:35.480
Well, well, people think plants, like burberine is from a

740
00:41:35.519 --> 00:41:40.079
plant that's from Oregon. People think plant it's healthy. Botanicals

741
00:41:40.079 --> 00:41:43.679
are just as potent as pharmaceuticals. So you want someone

742
00:41:43.679 --> 00:41:46.480
who knows what they're doing. Dosages really do matter. We

743
00:41:46.559 --> 00:41:49.920
really do research on this with people to ensure safety

744
00:41:50.039 --> 00:41:53.679
because if you over do it on burbering, oh my gosh,

745
00:41:53.719 --> 00:41:55.320
you're the gut pain you're going to be in and

746
00:41:55.400 --> 00:41:58.760
the misery you're going to be in. But you know,

747
00:41:58.800 --> 00:42:01.880
the supplement industry is just like the marketing industry. They

748
00:42:01.920 --> 00:42:04.000
want you to buy more. They never want you to

749
00:42:04.000 --> 00:42:06.639
get off it. They write so like pill caddies are

750
00:42:06.639 --> 00:42:10.039
getting to twenty supplements and I'm like, what is in there?

751
00:42:10.280 --> 00:42:10.960
Do you have it?

752
00:42:11.199 --> 00:42:14.400
And then they're never taking off anything. I mean, if

753
00:42:14.440 --> 00:42:16.960
you work with a nutritionist or even a doctor, a

754
00:42:17.000 --> 00:42:18.639
lot of the time we tell you we want you

755
00:42:18.679 --> 00:42:21.840
on this much vitamin D for this long and then

756
00:42:21.880 --> 00:42:24.480
we're going to reevaluate, right, and we don't want you

757
00:42:24.559 --> 00:42:28.440
to live on these things. Yeah, so then with labs,

758
00:42:28.440 --> 00:42:35.079
it's kind of the same. There's yeah, blood highly recommend. Yeah,

759
00:42:35.280 --> 00:42:38.320
but some people like, if you have gut issues, you

760
00:42:38.440 --> 00:42:42.639
might need a gimp. Not all gastroine testrologists, they not

761
00:42:42.719 --> 00:42:44.880
all of them like that. They don't think it's that valuable.

762
00:42:44.960 --> 00:42:47.239
It's really valuable for my job because I can see

763
00:42:47.239 --> 00:42:51.199
how you're actually utilizing your nutrients. And so it can

764
00:42:51.239 --> 00:42:55.480
be different with each practitioner, but overall, we typically all

765
00:42:55.559 --> 00:42:58.400
value the same thing. We all value blood labs. We

766
00:42:58.679 --> 00:43:02.960
all valuemone labs. We really think those are beneficial, and

767
00:43:03.039 --> 00:43:06.079
so do not be afraid to get your blood work done.

768
00:43:06.199 --> 00:43:08.679
We highly recommend staying on top of it. It's one

769
00:43:08.679 --> 00:43:10.840
of the greatest ways to stay on top of your health.

770
00:43:11.400 --> 00:43:18.239
Right. Well, this time always goes so fast. What would

771
00:43:18.239 --> 00:43:21.440
you say to kind of start wrapping this all up?

772
00:43:21.800 --> 00:43:25.079
What would you say would be a realistic seven day

773
00:43:25.159 --> 00:43:32.119
reset look like for stress and metabolism. What would you

774
00:43:32.199 --> 00:43:35.679
tell someone if they were like, Okay, she's convinced me,

775
00:43:36.159 --> 00:43:38.880
I'm gonna I'm gonna, you know, start with something. What

776
00:43:39.199 --> 00:43:41.280
would you say would be realistic to start with.

777
00:43:42.280 --> 00:43:46.320
So I like very simple things because typically if you're

778
00:43:46.400 --> 00:43:49.840
in this place, you can't handle a huge overhaul. So

779
00:43:50.199 --> 00:43:53.880
I literally just say, change one thing on your plate. Yeah,

780
00:43:54.119 --> 00:43:57.840
add blueberries to your plate. Add dark leafy greens. Add

781
00:43:58.159 --> 00:44:00.920
she has seeds if you want. But just add one

782
00:44:01.400 --> 00:44:04.320
new thing and then just do that for a week,

783
00:44:04.639 --> 00:44:06.599
and then the next week. If that worked out well

784
00:44:06.599 --> 00:44:08.400
for you, maybe add another new thing.

785
00:44:09.039 --> 00:44:09.280
Right.

786
00:44:09.360 --> 00:44:12.280
But a lot of people overhaul every like people just

787
00:44:12.320 --> 00:44:14.880
go all in and then they're burnt out, like no

788
00:44:15.119 --> 00:44:17.920
energy to go all in. This is a slow build

789
00:44:18.119 --> 00:44:20.960
and change. So if you're like I love having chips

790
00:44:21.000 --> 00:44:24.159
in the afternoon, maybe we swap that for some crackers

791
00:44:24.159 --> 00:44:27.559
and hummus or some carrots and hummus. If that sounds awful.

792
00:44:27.840 --> 00:44:30.559
Maybe just add again a cup of blueberries or something

793
00:44:30.639 --> 00:44:33.719
like that. But just really simple changes.

794
00:44:34.039 --> 00:44:36.719
Simple. Maybe turn the phone off.

795
00:44:36.639 --> 00:44:40.280
At oh yeah, if you accidentally dropped your phone into

796
00:44:40.280 --> 00:44:42.000
a body of water, that might be the best thing

797
00:44:42.039 --> 00:44:46.440
that ever happens to you. Or just like I do,

798
00:44:46.599 --> 00:44:50.360
I do tell people go on a news fast where like, yeah,

799
00:44:50.480 --> 00:44:54.320
do not pay attention to the news. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday,

800
00:44:54.360 --> 00:44:57.599
Thursday Friday, maybe you can look at the headlines and

801
00:44:57.599 --> 00:44:59.239
then you don't get to look at it again because

802
00:44:59.440 --> 00:45:02.159
they're changed all week long anyway, and then you're just

803
00:45:02.199 --> 00:45:04.880
going on a roller coaster. So maybe pick one day.

804
00:45:05.400 --> 00:45:07.360
What I do with my husband because I struggle, is

805
00:45:07.400 --> 00:45:09.679
I tell him I'm not going to look at the news.

806
00:45:09.920 --> 00:45:12.440
Tell me if anything significant happens at the end of

807
00:45:12.480 --> 00:45:13.679
the week, and then I walk away.

808
00:45:15.000 --> 00:45:18.880
And usually it's just been all week long anyway.

809
00:45:19.559 --> 00:45:21.840
Yeah, And it's meant to do that, right because then

810
00:45:21.920 --> 00:45:24.159
you're addicted to it and you're set on it and

811
00:45:24.199 --> 00:45:25.960
you're anxiety. So you're like, I have to know what

812
00:45:26.000 --> 00:45:29.119
happens next, what's going to happen next? But if you

813
00:45:29.199 --> 00:45:31.760
look outside, everything's okay right now.

814
00:45:31.840 --> 00:45:37.960
Yeah, Well, we have to wrap this up. So what

815
00:45:38.039 --> 00:45:40.400
I want to make sure that everyone knows is there's

816
00:45:40.400 --> 00:45:45.119
gonna be a little information sheet about what you do,

817
00:45:45.519 --> 00:45:47.960
and that'll be on my website for people to be

818
00:45:48.039 --> 00:45:51.039
able to find you. Is there anything else on me? Oh,

819
00:45:51.320 --> 00:45:53.800
why don't you mention your website because it's a little

820
00:45:53.800 --> 00:45:57.039
bit you would think it's not your name, what's your website?

821
00:45:57.119 --> 00:46:00.280
Yes, So my company is called Rose and Ginger new trition.

822
00:46:00.559 --> 00:46:03.480
The end is a plus sign. But my website is

823
00:46:03.639 --> 00:46:08.920
Roseginger dot com. And if you're like I might want

824
00:46:08.920 --> 00:46:10.920
to do this, I don't know. I have a blog

825
00:46:10.960 --> 00:46:14.559
and I write about tons of different things, different health topics,

826
00:46:14.639 --> 00:46:16.480
things that may or may not relate to you. If

827
00:46:16.480 --> 00:46:20.360
you're curious, there's videos about how I've helped other people.

828
00:46:20.400 --> 00:46:22.440
There's case studies if you want to know. You can

829
00:46:22.480 --> 00:46:24.480
read my research on there if you want to know.

830
00:46:24.800 --> 00:46:26.639
So it has all the things.

831
00:46:27.320 --> 00:46:30.760
Sounds awesome. Well, I've you know, I think that we

832
00:46:30.840 --> 00:46:33.079
have asked some good questions today.

833
00:46:33.239 --> 00:46:33.800
I think so.

834
00:46:33.920 --> 00:46:37.800
I think that my goal is always to give some

835
00:46:37.800 --> 00:46:42.760
some actionable, you know, something that people can do as

836
00:46:42.800 --> 00:46:45.960
they as they leave the podcast. And so with that,

837
00:46:46.679 --> 00:46:51.920
thank you so much for joining us today. Appreciate, appreciate

838
00:46:51.960 --> 00:46:55.880
everything you're doing because it's so important to the health

839
00:46:55.920 --> 00:47:00.480
and longevity of everyone that's listening. So with that, we're

840
00:47:00.480 --> 00:47:02.679
gonna have to wrap this up. Thank you so much

841
00:47:02.719 --> 00:47:06.199
for joining the Ask Good Questions podcast, and we will

842
00:47:06.199 --> 00:47:07.840
see you next time.

843
00:47:12.280 --> 00:47:15.920
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844
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845
00:47:20.280 --> 00:47:24.000
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846
00:47:24.239 --> 00:47:28.440
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847
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848
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