Miss Understood No. 37 critiques Joe Biden’s invitation of TikTok influencer Dylan—dismissed as a shallow "bathing suit dancer"—over more credible voices like Blair White, then ties mental health crises to UK’s 50% drug surge among youth (28% unsupported), blaming secularism and poor coping skills while warning of MDMA’s serotonin depletion. They pivot to Alzheimer’s prevention, endorsing vitamin C and nootropic foods (leafy greens, blueberries) over unproven pharmaceuticals, citing Harvard Health’s Mediterranean diet. Drew Barrymore’s anti-plastic surgery stance contrasts with Kardashian’s conformity, while Sharon Maxwell’s "fat positive" anorexia diagnosis sparks debate on normalizing disordered behaviors. The episode ends questioning whether calorie counting or fasting could redefine eating disorders, framing health as personal responsibility amid polarized standards. [Automatically generated summary]
Hello and welcome to Misunderstood, the show for the culturally and politically misunderstood lady, gent, or non-binary nipple owner.
We are your hosts.
I'm Nat.
And I'm fat.
Today we're talking about health, the good, the bad, and the ugly, when it comes to mental health, Alzheimer's disease, and body image.
Hello.
But first, our patented culture shock moment of the week.
And take it away, Nat.
It's actually nerd.
Tee dee doo wor nert.
Alrighty, so Joe Biden had a trans TikTok influencer join him in a conversation at the White House to discuss girlhood and transness.
So we just wanted to show you a clip from that.
Do you think states should have a right to ban gender-affirming health care?
I don't think any state or anybody should have the right to do that.
As a moral question and as a legal question, I just think it's wrong.
Do you think it's funny that Dylan all of a sudden is like super serious?
And like, do you think that the state should have a right?
Like, who?
When did you ever care about rights and states and children ever?
No, it's such a good point.
And that's something that they actually addressed in a video precursor video before Dylan met with the president.
She was like, or he was like, I know I'm always so silly and it's hard to take me seriously.
But now, guys, now it's time to take me seriously.
And you're like, as you're wearing the trans flag as an outfit.
And by the way, your outfit was very out of style.
Just for the record.
I really didn't like that.
Well, that's how Dylan is.
Yeah.
This individual dresses like a caricature of a woman.
Yeah.
And I was listening to Stephen Crowder's take on it earlier, and he was mentioning how it's like, they tried to, remember when they tried to make Barbie fat?
Because they're like, oh, you don't want to be a fan.
Exactly.
You don't want to have like a caricature of what a woman should look like.
But it's like, but then we're going to send this literal caricature to the White House.
Like, who cares?
Do I care that they go to the White House?
No, I'm not American.
I'm never going to get invited there.
Even if I was, I wouldn't.
Probably one day.
We're very famous.
That's true.
But like, it's sort of weird that this person who is silly on TikTok and literally like dances in a bathing suit and is like, I'm a girl.
All of a sudden, they're the White House expert.
Yeah.
Because that's the only person they could ask.
Like, I don't know, maybe call in Blair White.
But that would be a lot of people.
Yeah, no, yeah.
Because she's a person who's certainly lived as a woman for many years.
Yeah.
Like an actual transgender individual, but they're conservatives.
Right.
And it's also like, is Dylan really equipped with the knowledge to be able to tackle these sorts of issues?
Like, sure, they're trans, but that doesn't mean they know what's actually going on in America.
It's a big country.
It is a big country.
And yeah, exactly.
Like, for going from dancing in a bikini to now talking about policy, it's like you've shown no interest in this at any point, but now all of a sudden you're an expert.
They're an expert.
Even though there are actual trans people like Blair White who have talked about these issues for a long time.
Yeah.
It's just, it's embarrassing that Joe Biden, I think, would invite this person.
It is embarrassing.
The whole thing is embarrassing.
Talk about girlhood.
Anyways, anyway.
Anyways, shut up, Dylan.
Okay.
That's what I have to say about that.
Woman face, am I right?
Okay.
All right.
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Speaking of mental health issues.
Yeah.
Anne Hathaway.
I was so stressed out.
She reveals she missed great moments at the start of her career because she was worried about messing up.
Yeah, it's just crazy how powerful fear is.
Yeah, it is.
So crazy and how stifling it is and how, how it can really impact your entire life because you're too afraid to, you know, take that leap of faith, or to go to the party, or to talk to the person, or to audition for the thing like it's.
It's crazy how it can literally ruin your life if you let it.
Yeah, and even though it didn't ruin her life, she obviously is like super successful and beautiful and talented.
It's interesting how she's like looking back now in her younger years, and it's like I didn't even enjoy any of that because I was so caught up in my own head and it's so sad, like it is sad.
It's the like the prime of her life and her career is the prime of her life and and it's over, you'll never get it back and hindsight really is 2020.
Yeah, I wanted to mention that.
This reminds me, you know, when people talk about mindfulness, and it's like the most annoying thing on the planet and i'm going to talk about mindfulness right now so annoying.
So i'm taking this hypnobirthing class to prepare me for giving birth painlessly.
That's right um, and they talked about mindfulness and I was like, but I didn't really understand what it is, and it's actually quite simple.
It's literally just bring using matter.
It's it's using a trick to bring yourself into the current moment, so not worrying about the fear of the future or the stressors of the past, which you cannot change.
Um, and there's like some um tips that they give you in order to like stay in the moment.
So perhaps if Ann Hathaway had like been aware of like how to do this when she was younger, she could have just been like, i'm, i'm doing this, i'm good, i'm like you can do it exactly.
So there are a couple tips that I learned, um, you can stare at something visually and just be like, oh, i'm looking at a red ball, this red ball right here, it's shiny, it's red, whatever.
So you're just like focused, exactly focusing on something currently in the room with you.
You can do it audible, audibly where you're like, what sounds am I hearing?
I'm hearing the fan.
I'm hearing the buzzing of the lights.
I'm hearing Nat's beautiful voice, whatever it is, and then there's also touch.
I can touch Nat's hair.
I can feel the fluffy softness of it, like there are ways to bring yourself in.
And it sounds silly.
And the word mindfulness really irks me.
Yeah, it's better than if you, if you find yourself like for me, I wake up in the night because I can't sleep and i'm like, oh, like this and this and this and this.
I'm sure it happens to all, a lot of people.
Lately i've been like, listen to the fan, like the sound of the rotating things, like counting sheep, exactly.
Yeah, you're just focusing on something and it's actually hard at first but it gets easier and easier.
So, Heller And Hathaway, you're welcome.
Yeah, and I think one thing too, like i'm a naturally anxious person and my mom always describes me as a fatalist, but I think one thing that's also helped set me free from that, even though I still have days where I get super anxious and you know, I can't, I can't reconcile that it's not the end of the world.
Yeah, I found.
I find that my faith has really helped me in this because, like the Bible like, is very clear on this, like his yoke is easy and his burden is light that's talking about Jesus and like you can cast your burdens on him, like he wants to carry that for you, and that's something that's really helped me.
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Yeah, so I mean, I think, just having faith, like i've i've talked about this before I used to have a lot of anxiety as well, and since I became a Christian, like for me, becoming a Christian is literally just like in my own heart.
I was like I feel, like I believe in god.
Now I feel like these are things that I, these are things I want to live by and like um yeah, it's definitely a heart thing.
Exactly, I haven't read the whole Bible, so it's like it takes a long time.
It takes a long time, but very long, but it has completely eased my anxiety and that's for me personally.
I can't attest to that.
No, So everywhere, absolutely.
But I just can't imagine going through this life without it.
Because life is terrifying.
It's so hard.
Life is hard.
Which takes us to our next article.
Yeah, yeah.
This is a really sad article.
Yeah, this is very sad.
So this comes from Vice.
Young people are taking more drugs now because life sucks.
Now, again, even just in the article title, it's like, okay, whoever wrote this article has no faith.
Yeah.
You can tell you can tell.
The whole article is written.
Exactly.
Exactly.
Because there's nothing you can do.
Life just sucks.
Oh, the climate, all this and that, like cost of housing.
Yeah, those are all, I mean, climate.
But like, there are real stressors in the world.
Yeah.
But these poor kids, like, you don't know how to cope.
They don't know how to cope.
And I mean, we can get to that later, like, what's the solution here?
But we'll just maybe talk about some of the data.
So this is based in the UK.
So new research from a youth charity called The Mix recently reported a 50% rise in the number of young people taking drugs since 2021, with one in three, ages 16 to 25-year-old, using drugs in the past year.
One in five are primarily using substances to escape problems in their lives.
So these kids are literally self-medicated.
Yeah, 50% increase, and that's only from 2021 to now.
So it's almost 2023, so it's like almost two years, but like people have been doing drugs for a long time.
This is not like a little, it's not like, oh, the 50% increased since 1920.
It's like since 2021.
That's absolutely, it's been a day.
It's absolutely terrifying.
It's so terrifying.
And it's scary that these kids are not equipped with the tools to be able to cope with everyday stressors in their lives.
And it's like, who's to blame here?
I'm not sure.
Is it because they're the generation where parents just kind of affirmed their emotions and didn't teach them how to like reconcile them?
Or is it like, is it society?
Is it because a lot of kids have turned to the internet to parent them?
Or is it secularism?
I don't know what it is, but it's there's something here and it's it's a crisis.
It's literally a crisis.
In the article they mention at the end where it's like climate change, the pandemic, cost of living are all to blame.
One of the things that I found very interesting was like, it says that the housing crisis, reasons, blah, blah, blah.
Sorry, it says mentions the looming climate crisis as a reason for people to be so depressed.
And I'm like, did you accidentally write climate crisis instead of like nuclear war?
Like the looming climate crisis?
Like any day now, the climate might kill us all.
It might incinerate us.
It's like if there's a looming crisis, it's literally nuclear war.
But anyways, that's what I'm saying.
Which is so sad because it's just propaganda is making these kids terrified for their lives.
So they're unable to cope.
So they're turning to substances.
And then like in one hand, you'll have someone, like exactly what you're saying, like propaganda.
You'll have one article being like, oh, the climate crisis is going to kill us all.
And they're like, these poor kids, they can't make no sense.
Well, especially.
Especially because Vice refers to the pandemic and lockdowns and stuff.
And I'm not, I don't know.
I don't read Vice every single day, but I have a feeling they were kind of more on the pro-lockdown side, given that was the more liberal side.
So it's like, okay, lockdown is why these kids have turned to abusing these substances.
Yet, like, yet they're saying these poor children, they're all addicted to drugs.
It's like, it's literally you're part of the problem, Vice.
You're part of the problem.
Yeah.
So one of the stories, they have fake names here.
This one girl, there's one named Sasha who's 20 and uses ketamine regularly to escape her problems.
One of the things that they write is that, hold on.
You can't control your emotions.
Yeah, hold on.
I actually wanted to talk with Emily, the other one.
So she talks about how she can't meet Ends Meet and the cost of housing is so high in the UK, which is very valuable.
It's a valuable insight.
It's valid, yeah.
Valid insight.
Exactly.
But they say that she had to take out a thousand pound loan just to meet ends meet.
And it's like, so you're taking out money to buy drugs because you can't afford your life, which is horrifying.
And also the same girl, she admits to doing MDMA.
She does ketamine regularly and she does MDMA at least once a week.
And I looked into, so I've done MDMA and I did it like multiple times in a row when I was in college.
And I did experience what I'm about to talk about, which is your inability to create your own serotonin.
So MDMA causes greater release of serotonin and neo-research how to say this word.
Neo.
Damn it.
It's a brilliant word.
So it increases your levels of serotonin and basically it makes your body in a, it gives it an inability to create its own serotonin.
So that causes depression and anxiety.
It's the highs and lows.
Exactly.
But you only, like after experiencing such a high from MDMA, you only experience lows.
And this girl is saying she uses MDMA to escape her life because she has so much depression and anxiety.
And it's actually causing it.
It's causing it.
And it's so sad because only maybe only some nerdy doctor will tell her that.
But it's like, it needs to be more commonly known.
It's like, the fact that she only started doing this drug in like 2021.
So she's one of these during 50%.
Exactly.
So during the pandemic, during lockdown, she gets depressed.
She starts taking drugs.
It makes her brain literally unable to produce the happy chemicals that make us feel good and feel relaxed.
Especially at that age, though, like why this article is so depressing isn't that these young people are turning to drugs, although that's terrible.
It's that like, like what's even worse about it is that they're in the prime of their life and they feel hopeless already.
Like when I was 22, I mean, you go through the ups and downs and the trials of being in your early 20s, but good Lord, I wasn't hopeless.
I was not hopeless.
Like you're literally just fresh out of high school or fresh out of university.
You have like the whole world should be your oyster.
And yet you're like, oh crap, I don't know how to cope.
With adults, I would argue that the 20s are not the prime of your life.
Like I'm way happier in my 30s.
No, for sure.
Like you're more insecure.
Exactly.
But like still, you could do whatever you want with your life.
Like there's so many choices available to you.
Especially if you're living in life.
That's scary.
Oh, for sure.
And there are scary parts of growing up.
And like for me, leaving college or leaving university and not knowing what I was going to do next, like that was a low for me.
Oh, of course it would be because you were like, oh, crap.
I'm an adult now.
I know.
But imagine if I had gone down the road of ketamine.
And I'm not above it because I've done drugs in my life.
So it's like I was exposed to it and I enjoyed doing drugs.
And it's like, I could have just gone down that road and been like, I'm taking out money now to pay for my ketamine addiction.
And it's a permanent addiction.
I guess to answer your question from earlier, it's like, I blame the parents maybe.
I kind of do too, because it's like maybe, you know, parents should invest more time in not only educating their kids about drugs and the safety of drugs and stuff, but also like, you know, this is what you can do once you go out of university.
These are the options for you.
This is maybe if you don't want to, you know, go in this industry, I don't know, like just better equip kids maybe and prepare them for the culture shock that is becoming a member of society.
Yeah, it is a shock, but everyone has to do it.
And that's, it's just like waking up in the morning.
It stinks, but we have to do it.
We have to move forward.
It's so true.
Okay, so one of the other things the article says is according to the mix report, only 28% of young drug users who have experienced issues with substance use have access any support or services, meaning that over 2.2 million young people who are struggling are struggling without help.
Like it's so heartbreaking.
What's going to become of these people?
They're the future of society.
Like it's literally, it comes down to them.
Like what's going to happen if we just have a bunch of drug addicts running around or people who just don't know how to cope.
Yeah, that's that's the scary part.
They don't know how to cope.
And it's funny because you have Joe Biden sitting down with a transgender person talking about like, oh, girlhood.
Yeah, girlhood and like how important it is to for genuine care for children to get spliced and dice.
Yeah.
But meanwhile, you have actual, I mean, this is in the UK, but I'm sure it translates to the United States.
And even in Canada.
And in the UK, you have these young kids.
Like just another one happened today where they threw mashed potatoes on a, what was it, a painting?
It wasn't a Picasso.
It was a Van Go or something, something.
Right.
Like, what are we doing here?
We have, we obviously have the resources to help these kids, but we're pouring them into like climate change propaganda and fear mongering.
Yeah.
And like, and like fear mongering about COVID and fear mongering about like, oh, trans kids aren't allowed to.
It's misguided.
It's so misguided when we actually have a problem in front of our faces and it needs a solution.
And we're like, oh, but the climate.
Yeah.
It makes me put on a tinfoil hat a little because I'm like, is this all contrived?
Like, is the government just want these people to become addicted to substances so they're easier to control?
Because I mean, if kids are throwing, you know, tomato soup at priceless paintings, I mean, in the name of climate change, like something's clearly gone very wrong.
Someone told them to do that.
They're easy to influence.
They're easily influenced, right?
They're under the control of the propaganda, I guess.
I don't know.
Yeah.
It's like, we're supposed.
Yeah, I could go on her.
We could go on about this.
This article is just a good article to read.
It's so sad.
Even though vice comes at it from a point of view where it's like, oh, what can we do?
There's nothing.
The world sucks so much.
It's like, well, if they, like, talking about faith like before, if they had a little bit of religion in their life, maybe it doesn't work for everybody.
But I would argue that even the most hollowed out, lowest person would benefit from a little faith.
It's so true because that's where your hope is found.
Like, my hope is in eternity.
I'm like, this earth, it's crappy.
It sucks.
I mean, there's many blessings that come with being alive and stuff, but you need to look beyond the tangible.
You know, it's like, okay, great.
That's what faith is.
Like, they're like, oh, I can't see it.
So I can't trust it.
But it's like you take the leap of faith knowing that things are going to be okay.
And that even if you suffer in this life, you're not going to suffer in the next.
And it's, and it's, there will be amazing things that come that are tangible on earth from professing your faith and giving your life to Christ.
So anyway, anywho, Jesus loves you.
Anyway, speaking of sad, Kendall Jenner recalls putting up walls after middle school friends began asking to come over to appear on her family reality show.
And so she basically just talks about she also said in an interview in 2018 that she talked about feeling really lonely during her childhood.
And I mean, yeah, it's like kind of like, all right, Kendall, whatever.
But it's also kind of sad that you can have everything and nothing at the same time.
That's what makes it sad.
You know, and also I think just the fact that Kylie and Kendall, when the Keeping Up at the Kardashians launched, they were so young and they did not have any idea that their lives were going to blow up like that.
And the problem is now, no matter what they do, they can't escape this life.
Like they're trapped in this life.
Yeah.
It's kind of sad.
It is sad.
I remember one of the Hadids, Bella maybe, was posting Instagram videos of her crying.
Yes.
And while I think it's healthy to like show that not your whole life isn't glitz and glamour, it's like, what are you so sad about?
Yeah.
Like, come on.
No, it's so true.
And a lot of times it's like they make up problems.
And it's like, if you're crying that often, like something's wrong in your life.
Like crying is healthy, but to cry like consistently all the time is like you, I feel really bad for you.
Yeah.
Like, no, these people are empty.
Yeah.
They're empty and it's so sad.
It makes me sad.
Yeah.
As an outsider.
The Power of Diet00:14:22
Anyway, don't exploit your kids for fame.
Yeah.
All right.
Speaking of sad.
Yeah.
So we're going to talk about Alzheimer's.
And it's like, why?
Sorry, what are we going to talk about?
Oh, she forgot.
That was a bad joke.
We all forgot.
Yeah.
I actually forgot.
No, I literally forgot to.
Yeah.
Great.
Okay.
Well, if we are suffering from Alzheimer's, maybe we should take a little bit more vitamin C. Wait a minute.
You mean to tell me that there are natural ways to prevent vicious diseases?
No.
No.
No, it's just, you're totally wrong.
It's only pharmaceuticals, only medicines prescribed by your doctor.
That's it.
Well, you know what's interesting about that, Nat, is that there is no pharmaceutical that claims to prevent Alzheimer's.
Oh.
But there are studies that prove that food and vitamins and exercise and lifestyle changes.
So a healthy lifestyle can prevent Alzheimer's.
Ermigers.
Yeah, so it's a win for the good guys.
That's great.
This article is from something called the Dr. Rath Foundation, and it's a meta-analysis supports vitamin C supplementation for prevention and treatment of Alzheimer's disease.
So I'm sure everyone knows what Alzheimer's is, but just very quickly, it's a progressive neurodegenerative disorder with an average survival time of less than 10 years following diagnosis.
Alzheimer's disease results in memory loss, functional impairment, and a host of psychiatric symptoms such as apathy, agitation, psychosis, and depression.
It's super sad.
I have not personally seen anyone with Alzheimer's, but if you talk to anyone who has witnessed someone they love going through Alzheimer's, it's like one of the worst ways to watch someone decay.
And really, so there are genetic things, like markers that you can have that you can be tested for to see if you're susceptible to it.
But most of the time, it's not even genetics, though.
A lot of these diseases, like even like cancer, like apparently 90% of cancer cases, cases are caused by lifestyle, not genetics, despite the fact that the trend we hear is that, oh, everything is genetics.
You can't fight it.
You can't prevent it.
So you can't even cure it.
Eat corn pops and you'll be able to do it.
Exactly.
There's this guy who wrote a book called Crispy Cancer, and he discussed his journey because he was 26 years old when he was diagnosed with colon cancer.
And it was like, what's it called?
Third stage?
He was in stage three, colon cancer, sorry.
And so they took out part of his colon.
And then when they were all done, he was like, so are there any foods I maybe shouldn't eat?
And they're like, no, you're fine.
No, and then they were like, oh, you should do chemo.
He's like, well, if I do chemo, are there foods that I should, you know, should I try to eat a healthy diet?
They're like, no, because it's just like they pitied him.
They're like, no, I eat cheeseburgers, fries, and all that stuff.
And so when he controversially decided to forego chemo and eat an exclusively raw diet and then cure himself, he's still cancer-free.
I've heard of that.
calls him like a like a crazy person and it's like for taking his health into his own hands and not being a like a drain on the medical system.
Exactly.
And so it's just, it's crazy that we've been lied to so much about the beauty of just taking care of your body to prevent these things and cure them even.
I don't know.
Controversial.
Probably going to get in trouble for this one.
I don't know.
Just a side note.
No, that's a really, there are so many stories like that.
I've met people who say exactly that.
And then I've also heard stories where it's super unfortunate someone gets diagnosed with cancer.
They do all the right stuff and then they still die.
So this is not like a solve your, it's not a one size fits all.
Yeah.
There's everybody is different.
But I'm just saying if people you're increasing your chances at survival if you take your diet and your lifestyle into your own hands.
And we can move past this particular article, but I just want to mention that like vitamin C, if you Google, so they'll tell you that 75 milligrams is enough vitamin C for daily intake, but that's like very little.
And I'm not a doctor, so I'm not going to tell anyone how much to take.
But do a little research, do a little digging, because you can take a lot more than that.
Yeah.
And you should.
Yeah.
You should.
Especially in the winter if you live in Canada.
And they also say B1, B6, B12, and E also may contribute to the development of the disorder if you don't have enough of those vitamins as well.
So guys, take care of your bodies.
Just take care.
Care of us are depleted of critical vitamins.
Like, and we all know this probably by now, but like 80% of COVID patients in the ER, not the ER, sorry.
In the, yeah, maybe.
Yeah.
Anyways, they were all 80% of people hospitalized for COVID were deficient in vitamin D. Super important.
You can't say that.
No, you can't.
There's a really good resource on all this.
Dr. Mercola, I highly recommend him.
He has been in so much trouble from the mainstream media and big pharma because he has all these like natural remedies.
So his articles have to be taken down after 24 hours unless he's sued.
So it's, you can't really go back and read all this stuff, which is unfortunate.
But if you subscribe, go to his website, Dr. Mercola, you'll find so much interesting stuff.
It's almost overwhelming.
Yeah.
How much stuff?
It's like, oh, God.
It's just so sad, though, that our doctors don't like know they don't care about nutrition.
It's like you're just a well, some of them do, and then they get sued.
Right, exactly.
That's the thing, though.
It's not the, it's not the mainstream anymore.
It's just like, okay, I'm going to give you these drugs and I'm going to get money from these drugs because of big pharma and all this stuff.
It's just, it's horrible that our health care is not health care.
And I think the pandemic was health prevention.
Exactly.
And I think the pandemic was so beautiful and wonderful in that way because it exposed so much of this to us.
And I think there's so much more that we could even uncover.
But anyway, we'll move on.
Yeah.
So we can actually like talk about both these articles at the same time because there are so many overlapping things here.
So there's this guy named Matt Lugavare.
He was on Joe Rogan recently, which is how I found out about him.
He has, so his mother had not Alzheimer's, but a degenerative mental disorder like Alzheimer's.
Right.
Dementia.
A really, really rare, aggressive form of dementia.
But this, this article is about 11 powerful nootropic memory-enhancing foods.
So a nootropic is something that is used to enhance your memory and cognitive functions.
So there are supplements and drugs that you can take to improve like that are nootropic.
However, Matt Lugavare insists, who is, I'll just say, he's a top health podcaster, wellness journalist, filmmaker, and author.
He has a list of foods that he says are better than any supplement or drug you can take.
Which makes sense because God was like, hey, you're going to need these.
And so he gave us these naturally occurring foods and exactly.
And when you eat something that's just for one thing, like if you take, oh, I'm taking this nootropic drug, like the things on this list, the foods, are going to give you a whole other slew of health benefits that you're holding on.
Oh, yeah.
Exactly.
So run through them.
Eggs, leafy, dark greens, dark chocolate, coffee, green tea, extra virgin olive oil, broccoli sprouts, blueberries, turmeric, fatty fish, and water.
Not water.
Yeah.
Water.
No, yeah.
It's just a life source.
Yeah.
Surprising, it needs to be on the light.
Yes, it really does.
Well, yeah, even mild dehydration can cause brain dysfunction.
Yeah, which makes sense because I get pretty grumpy when I'm in the middle of the day.
Oh, yeah, me too.
I get like angry and sleepy and mean.
And the reason I wanted to mix that in with this other article, which is from Health Harvard, is because so many of the things that they say to this article is about how to prevent Alzheimer's disease.
So basically, it's just taking care of your body.
Exactly.
And the things that they mention on here are pretty much the exact same foods.
Yeah.
Plus wine.
Plus, plus plus.
Plus wine.
It's the Mediterranean diet that they call it.
But then there's other things on the list.
Of course, like sleep and exercise.
Exactly.
And also social connections.
Exactly, which I was like, hmm, hello, lockdown.
Hello.
Yeah.
No, it totally makes sense because even like my Sebastian's grandmother, my husband's grandmother, she is like 80-something and she is so sharp because she gets up every day and she goes to work for like a few hours and she does her little things.
And then she goes home and she does her little things and like doing those kinds of things like not only is she seeing someone, but she's actually doing work with her brain it just keeps you so much like longer.
That was another one on the list.
Yeah, Learning new things or constantly doing things creates, like, keeps neural pathways.
When you're like retired and you just sit at home and watch TV all day, your brain is just going to turn it off.
It literally deteriorates.
Yeah.
So it's like you got to stay active in your old age.
So you're never really retiring.
Jokes, unfortunately.
And the reason that I wanted to bring this up now is like, yeah, sure, we're young, but you might be young, but you can start.
You should be concerned about preventing this now.
Yeah, you only get one body.
Exactly.
We have my mom is, my parents are in their 60s.
Like, these are important things to share with people that you love because it's like you want the best for them.
So it's never too early to start eating high-fat diet.
No.
Yeah.
And avoiding processed food and sugar and getting enough sleep and exercise and taking care of your brain.
Yeah.
The cancer Chris guy, Chris Beat Cancer, he said that if it's made by a man, don't eat it.
So what about God?
Well, he's not a man.
Okay, true.
Yeah.
But yeah.
So much more.
But anyway, okay.
Let's move on.
Yeah, we'll move on.
So body image.
Drew Barrymore shuns plastic surgery.
Says, I don't want to fight nature.
So yeah.
So she says, I'm raising two daughters and we were raised in an industry where it was desired to drink off the fountain of youth and I just never subscribed to it.
She continued per express.
I think men just need to let women know aging is safe and awesome.
Yeah, it's so true.
And it's so refreshing to see a celebrity come out and say this.
And I saw someone post about this on Twitter too, about how like everyone who gets plastic surgery now literally just looks the exact same.
So you've basically erased all individuality, which is one of the most beautiful parts about being an individual.
You're you.
There's nobody like you.
Nobody has your beauty.
And it's like so sad that we're erasing that.
By the way, to please men, because it's like, this is what we think men want.
Men want a Kim Kardashian.
We don't want, yeah, true.
Or we don't want other women being like, oh, look at her wrinkles.
Right.
As women, we need to stop talking like that altogether.
It's so true.
Yeah.
I also think it's interesting that, like you just said, it reminded me of like when people start getting plastic surgery, they all start looking the same.
And it's like, you almost start looking like your family.
Yeah.
Like, I look like my mom and my dad.
Yeah.
And sometimes that's not a great thing.
But at the end of the day, like when I die, I would like to look like a Krazenowski.
I want to look.
Exactly.
I don't want to look like some pin-nosed, big-lipped Kim Kardashian.
Yeah.
I'm not a Kardashian.
Like, it's okay.
It's okay to look like that.
They don't really look like that either.
But like, it's okay to, like, you should be proud of your heritage and how you look like your mom and your dad.
And, you know, if you're adopted, you're not going to look like the people that raised you, but like, you're going to look like yourself.
You're going to look like yourself.
And that's beautiful.
And there's nothing wrong with doing things to enhance your features to make you feel more beautiful or more comfortable in your own skin.
I'm just saying, like, you don't need to look like her.
You are you.
Like, you're enough.
You're beautiful enough as you are.
Yeah.
Like, you know, like taking good care of yourself, eating well.
Eating well.
And even if you want to get a little Botox to like maintain beauty that you have, good, gun sweet.
I'm not against it at all.
I just don't think it's empowering for women to get plastic surgery to look like other women.
It's like to look like one specific woman.
Exactly.
Which is what everyone seems to be doing.
I don't know.
Yeah.
It's not cool.
Also, she also, in the same article, Drew Barrymore talks about how she hasn't had sex in years.
Yeah.
Because she has young daughters at home and she realized that sex is not love.
It's an expression of love.
And the next time she has sex, she wants to be in love with someone.
She's setting such a good example.
Such a good example.
I had no idea.
She was so bass.
Yeah.
No, I mean, she's been in Hollywood a long time.
She seems shit.
So I respect that.
Respect to Drew Barrymore.
So our next.
Speaking of respect.
Yeah.
This one.
So this is a fat positive.
Sharon Maxwell talks about her atypical anorexia nervosa diagnosis.
And Tess Holiday shows her support.
So we've talked about Tess Holiday in a while.
Oh, yeah.
And she's super anorexic.
Whatever.
Anyway.
Let's talk about atypical anorexia.
Yeah.
Basically, is all the symptoms typically associated with anorexia nervosa, but some of these include binge eating, vomiting, dizziness, dehydration, and fatigue.
And apparently, it first appeared in 2013 because healthcare providers saw a rising number of patients who all exhibited signs of anorexia, except none of them were significantly underweight.
Yeah.
I have a few issues with this.
Do you have any issues with this?
I have mixed feelings on this.
Me too.
Okay, so I don't know.
If you're calling yourself anorexic and then someone who's like genuinely like starving themselves looks at someone like her who's calling herself anorexic, I feel like that will probably stir up more body dysmorphia.
It's like, oh my God, we're both anorexic.
Yeah, that's a good point.
I know.
I've never thought about that.
And also, what I don't like about it is that she's anorexic, but she's fat positive.
And it's like, okay, you can suffer from this, but that doesn't mean it's okay to be overweight either.
Like, it's not healthy to be overweight as well.
So I take issue with that because if you're suffering from this, I sympathize, but don't call yourself fat positive either.
Yeah, that doesn't make any sense.
Because it's like both are bad.
Both are unhealthy.
That's my take.
So upon reading this, I was like, oh, I had an eating disorder, I guess, because when I was in high school, I used to do all these things.
Oh, yeah, me too.
All of them.
Yeah.
And it's like binge eating, calorie counting.
Yeah.
I didn't vomit.
No, like I never did.
You know, I would look into diet pills.
Like, I took diet pills at one point, didn't last because they were expensive and did nothing and made me feel sick.
But there are things that I did that would definitely be like, oh, I was anorexic, but I was heavier than I've ever been except for right now.
Yeah.
No, I'm the exact same guy.
I actually, I just kept gaining weight.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Because I would literally starve myself all day at school.
Yeah.
Literally eat.
I'd eat one apple and then I would go home and binge eat on ice cream and chips because I was so delirious and starving.
And dinner had passed because I was like, I'm not hungry.
Yeah, your tummy talks.
Exactly.
So I do understand how you could be overweight and have an eating disorder.
But then at the same time, someone in the comments on this article actually pointed out they're like, if calorie counting and skipping a meal counts as anorexia, like 90% of women would literally everyone.
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Exactly.
Yeah.
Like I, when I'm, before I was pregnant, I intermittent fasted.
Yeah, me too.
I did.
And it's the best way for me to maintain my weight.
And it's like, oh, so I'm anorexic?
Yeah.
Because I'm concerned about my weight.
Like, it's the, it's, I don't know quite how to feel about it because I do empathize with this woman who has a terrible relationship with her body.
Yeah, no food.
It's hard.
Something's going on there.
So it's not like, oh, you're fat, you're fine.
No, no.
It's almost like you're super overweight.
You obviously have some messed up relationship with food.
Yeah.
And call it what you want.
It's so easy to have a terrible relationship with your body as a woman, I feel like, because of these expectations that are thrust upon us at such a young age.
Yeah.
But I don't know.
Like just, it just, it irks me.
It's really just the fat positive thing that really bugs me.
It's like you, you should embrace all bodies are different.
That's cool.
And people come in shapes and sizes.
Yeah, and she might be struggling on the inside.
Totally.
Like she might go home and vomit every day and still be fat.
Like I empathize with that.
But don't try to encourage people to be fat.
Exactly.
And she's also kind of glamorizing anorexia.
Yeah.
Because like you said, it's like a person who's like 80 pounds and is actually starving themselves to death is going to see that and be like, okay, well, you're not like, I need to go harder.
Yeah, exactly.
I just think it's really dangerous to normalize this.
Yeah.
I don't know.
I don't know.
And I, it is, I'm, there's mixed feelings.
I have mixed feelings about you.
Anyway, but Tess Holiday is very anorexic.
That's what I took away from that.
All right, we got one going on.
I don't know if it's sugar or something going on.
We got one more for you.
Speaking of something going on, Chloe Kardashian details the plastic surgery procedure she wants to get.
So while filming a confessional for the popular show, she shared her wish to get breast augmentation because she wants to be more like her sisters.
So surprise, surprise.
Super sad.
Yeah, it's extremely sad.
I do appreciate that she's honest.
Yeah, I appreciate that she, I didn't know this, but she has admitted to her one nose job.
Yeah.
Which makes me think that she's had a lot of other work.
She's had more.
Have you seen, like, we should throw up a side-by-side job?
Yes, honestly.
Yeah.
But at least, because I'm pretty sure Kim recently said she hasn't.
Yeah, I mean, Kim is just a bundle of mysteries.
She's just a complete liar.
Like, I saw a picture, someone posted on Reddit a picture of her when she was like 13, and she has a completely different nose.
Like, she had a nose job, but it was probably really young.
Yeah.
Like, before she was famous, because like if you look back a couple years, like, that's not that different.
When she was a little girl, she was a gorgeous little boy.
She was so unique.
She's a face.
Oh, yeah.
And she's stunning.
Anyways, the point is they've all had a lot of work done.
At least Chloe is like, yes, I've had a nose job.
I'm thinking of getting my boobs done.
But they've all done that.
And they'll lie about it.
Well, and I also heard a rumor about how Kim actually had her implants removed because it's like, I guess she's trying to be really skinny now.
Yeah.
She's so tiny.
But I'm just like, so it's also sad because it's like the trends change.
Yeah.
And you don't need to, you don't need to try to meet them or fit into that mold.
Just wear a different purse.
Like get a little cute bag that's in style and then be trendy and wear like a fuzzy bucket hat.
Just get a nice little day.
Yeah.
You know, change your eyebrow game up a little bit.
Like to change your actual body for trends.
Right.
And the thing is, if let's say women are getting breast implants because Kim Kardashian got them, whatever.
And then now Kim's like, no, I'm not going to do that.
I'm going to get them removed.
No, never afford to.
No, exactly.
Like, it's like we will never be able to, it's never enough.
The goalpost keeps moving.
It's like Doug Ford's Ontario, you know?
So it's just, don't try, don't play the game.
Don't even play the game.
I think that's the sure, I guess.
Do you have any thoughts?
My wrote one thought is that this is so dumb about Chloe Kardashian.
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So that's a great point.
Yeah.
I think that's the sure.
I think that's the sure.
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