Nov. 17, 2018 - The Political Cesspool - James Edwards
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You're listening to the Liberty News Radio Network, and this is the Political Cesspool.
The Political Cesspool, known across the South and worldwide as the South's foremost populist conservative radio program.
And here to guide you through the murky waters of the Political Cesspool is your host, James Edwards.
Good evening, my friends.
Good evening, one and all.
This is Winston Smith sitting in for James Edwards.
It's my great pleasure and privilege to be with you tonight.
Hey, how about that first hour with Mark Weber?
Was that a great one or what?
Mark Weber is a great political cesspool guest.
He is well-spoken.
He is articulate.
He is well-read.
He is smart.
And it's always a pleasure to have him on the show.
So I'd like to thank Mark for taking time from his busy schedule to be with us tonight.
And I also want to welcome a friend of mine, a nice lady named Erin, and she is going to help me explore something that I've been thinking about for quite some time.
You know, as a political cesspool co-host, I enjoy playing the part of a pundit and a social analyst.
And I take seriously the responsibilities that I have in detecting and following the trends and movements that affect our people and in sounding an alarm when necessary.
And I hope that you good folks out there can use the information that I and the rest of the political cesspool crew provide you.
But with that in mind, I want to begin to narrow my focus and concentrate on practical things that we can all do every day to make our lives better and to make us better people.
And I want to research and develop ideas that will help our people be healthy, to make us able to help each other, to make us smarter, and to remind us of our spirituality.
And to begin this new focus, I have to say that I'm concerned, even worried, about the overall health of white people.
And on Facebook and in news items, I see pictures and video of white people whose physical appearance marked them as out of shape, unhealthy, and downright sick.
And I read about white men who claim to be ready and able to fight an upcoming civil or race war when I doubt that they can handle a brisk walk of a quarter mile without becoming winded and incapacitated.
Now, I know this might come off harshly, but my friends, I'm concerned about this.
I think we all need to be concerned about it.
We need to lose weight and get into better shape.
And to do so, I'm pleased to welcome my friend Erin, your friendly neighborhood nutritional therapist, who is with a project called Integrated Wellness Concepts.
Erin, we need your help.
Welcome to the Political Cesspool.
Well, thank you, Mr. Smith, for having me, and I'll do my best to help everyone out.
Am I correct in my assessment?
Absolutely.
And, you know, you're not the only one who's noticed this.
And I imagine you're kind of close to my age.
And you can recall back in elementary school in the early and mid-70s, maybe there was one, two overweight kids in the entire school.
Am I correct?
That is my recollection.
All right.
And so now, you know, over the years, what we're seeing now is the increase in obesity, you know, across the board, but especially for children.
And actually, the rate of obesity for children age 2 to 19 is just under 20%, which is frankly horrifying.
Now, Erin, before we get into any more meat of this, any more lean meat, I should say, of this discussion, I'd like for people to know a little bit more about you.
So could you tell us about your nutritional background?
Sure.
Yeah, I guess, you know, I've always been interested in nutrition, not specifically as far as body health, but as far as aesthetics, you know, as a teenager, I carried around a little more weight than I was happy with.
And so I was always trying the latest diets that came along.
The low-fat craze came out while I was in high school, and I managed to lose some weight on that, did that faithfully clear up into my 30s and actually did myself some harm.
I was also a vegetarian for a number of years.
What really sent me off onto the foray into nutrition as far as making sure that our bodies are healthy was my young daughter had an allergy to processed milk, which I detected when she was six.
And I found this by reading a book called Nourishing Traditions by Sally Fallon.
And that's really become a classic in the holistic health field.
And of course, I was often running after that and read book after book and website after website.
And so then when I was working with my husband online before we were married, he was saying, oh, well, Ms. Erin, you just know so much.
You need to write a book.
And I said, oh, come on.
There's people out there with all these letters after their names and they've got educations.
And I've just read a couple dozen books.
He says, no, really, really?
You know, you teach so well.
I'm learning so much from you.
And so I started looking around at the different holistic programs that were out there.
I didn't have the time or the money or the wherewithal to actually go to school to be a naturopathic doctor.
I was homeschooling my two small children at the time.
But over the years, I narrowed it down to the nutritional therapy program from the Nutritional Therapy Association in Seattle, Washington.
So with that, I signed up.
It was a nine-month course, and I graduated this past June.
And now I've gone to work at Integrated Wellness Concepts.
And we are excited to help people learn how to add more health span to their lifespan.
What is the difference between a nutritional therapist and say a registered dietitian or a nutritionist?
Well, that's interesting because a lot of people, after they've met me once, they'll come back and say, oh, you're the nutritionist.
And I have to say, no, no, no, no.
The nutritionist and the registered dietitians, first of all, they very jealously guard the legal use of that term.
And as far as I'm concerned, they can have it because that's their 4K.
Generally speaking, they're registered dieticians or nutritionists.
And, you know, there's some really holistic-minded ones out there, I do have to say.
You know, they probably go into those fields because they want to help people get healthy too.
But for the most part, they're trained to recommend pretty much a one-size-fits-all diet based on government guidelines.
So they'll see that all their clients get their registered, the recommended daily allowances of, say, vitamin C, 60 milligrams a day.
But, you know, your individual need for vitamin C may be more or less than mine, depending on your bioindividual needs and nutritional status.
For example, if your liver is struggling, and it's going to need a lot more help from vitamin C.
And, you know, let me just talk here a little bit about the RDAs for a minute.
They're the minimum amount deemed necessary to prevent the symptoms of deficiency.
But the optimal level to promote the best health is in all likelihood quite a bit higher.
I mean, after all, think about this.
Do you keep the absolute minimum in your checking account to avoid being overdrawn or the absolute minimum in your gas tank to avoid running out of gas?
I do not.
I keep a healthy checking account, and when my gas gauge starts getting close to the midpoint, I start filling up.
Right.
So, you're not going to let yourself be scraping the bottom of the barrel and getting by with the absolute minimum.
And so, that's the idea with we don't just go with the RDAs.
We take a detailed individualistic history from our clients and work with them with their individual needs to achieve their optimal level of health, whatever that may be.
All right.
Now, we began this discussion talking about obesity.
I'd like to return to that as soon as we come back from our break.
You're going to stick around, are you not?
Oh, I'm not going anywhere.
Excellent.
All right, my friends, stick around for the next segment.
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Welcome back, my friends.
Welcome back to this evening's broadcast of the Colin Cesspool.
I'm Winston N filling in for James Edwards, who is boot in a boot, as our Canadian friends would say.
And I'm talking with nutritional therapy consultant, Erin, who is involved with a project called Integrated Wellness Concepts.
You can find their Facebook page by doing a Facebook search, integrated wellness concepts.
And it's going to bring up a few pages by that name.
You want to go to the first one.
You want to look for a picture of a young girl picking daisies, I believe they're.
I'm not a flower guy, so I don't know what kind of flower she's picking.
But go to the one with the picture that makes you feel good.
Not to the one with the picture of the guy with the goofy-looking beard and all that.
That's just my way of selling Miss Erin's project there.
So let's continue where we left off.
Erin, I had asked you about the obesity epidemic, and I have been assured by my doctor that obesity is indeed an epidemic in every sense of the word.
Is he correct?
Oh, absolutely.
I mean, there's no doctor worth his salt, you know, who isn't going to agree with that.
I mean, they see that on a day-to-day basis.
Unfortunately, most of them don't really have the right training to have the tools necessary to approach that the way it needs to happen.
The latest statistics for obesity is that almost 40% of adults in this country are obese.
I think it's like 39.8.
And another third are overweight.
And so that tells you that the majority of people in this country are not at their ideal weight.
What are the definitions of obesity and overweight?
You made a distinction there.
I'd like to know what those definitions are.
Yeah, overweight, I didn't have a chance to look that one up.
There's different, I've come across different definitions, but the official medical definition of obesity is a BMI with a body mass index of 30 or above is the official definition of obesity.
I didn't get anything for Stephanie.
Okay, folks, I lost my feed for Stephanie there for a moment, so let's get back to where we were.
There has to be a cause for this.
This didn't just happen.
Why are Americans so obese?
Well, it's interesting that you should ask if there's a cause.
There's not a cause.
You know, those of us who know what to look for and even any person who does any kind of research and starts connecting the dots can see several causes in our past.
And you've got to kind of puzzle them together to get a good picture of it.
But interestingly enough, obesity statistics really held steady.
In 1963, adult obesity was 11%.
And that was the year they started keeping track of obesity in children, and that was 5%.
So 5% for children, 11% for adults in 1963.
And that held steady pretty much, wavering within one percentage point or so until 1976.
And something happened that year that caused the obesity rates to really start noticeably climbing.
And that was the FDA declared high fructose corn syrup to be GRAS, called grass, short for generally recognized as safe.
So in 1976, high fructose corn syrup was declared grass by the FDA.
And so it began to replace sugar as the main sweetener in soft drinks.
And that was one of the things that started the obesity rise leading to what we see today.
Now, I have to confess that several years ago, I kind of got out of shape.
And nothing too terrible, but it was enough that I was kind of ashamed.
And I started a nutrition and a exercise regimen, and it's worked very well.
I became an old school physical culturist and doing body weight exercises and working out with devices such as the Mace Bell and the Bulgarian workout bag.
It's a horseshoe-shaped thing that you swing around.
Very effective.
But I focused more on exercise than I did on diet.
And I learned that exercise, between diet and exercise, when it comes to fighting obesity, diet is far, far more important than exercise.
You can eat something, and it would take you hours of strenuous exercise to work off those calories.
Is that correct?
Yes, it is.
I mean, you know, in the past, it's been hard to say, well, which is more important because they both have their role.
But, you know, eating a crappy diet and then trying to exercise it off is kind of like running the air conditioner in July with all the windows and doors open in the house.
You know, it's counterproductive.
And the thing is, you can't outrun or out-exercise a bad diet.
You know, that's going to be your foundation, not only calorically, and this is one thing that we as nutritional therapists emphasize.
Food is so much more than just calories.
Okay.
It's a way to take in nutrients.
And unfortunately, in our society, we've been trained to look at food as something we want to get as cheaply as possible for the fewest number of calories possible to fill our bellies.
Well, you know, my position on that is if that's your only criteria, then dirt will work pretty well.
Ew.
I think most Americans have been trained or conditioned to think of food as recreation.
We live in a food society.
We get together, we eat.
We go to a cinema, we eat.
We go to church, we eat.
Everywhere we go, we're surrounded by food.
And it's kind of a testament to living in the so-called land of plenty.
You know, thank God we have this abundance of food.
But it seems like it's become both a blessing and a curse.
You have to, you can't look at food as recreation.
You have to look at it as nutrition.
Exactly.
I mean, I enjoy eating as well as the next person.
You know, I mean, food is more than just something for sustenance.
I mean, it defines our social activities and breaking bread with someone, bringing them into your home and sharing a meal with them has some meaning there too as far as culturally speaking.
But I'll just use myself an example.
I eat very few sweet foods or recreational foods.
I eat three meals a day and it's very filling nutrient-dense food.
And I think when you go for more for the quality than the quantity, I think it's much more satisfying.
And so, you know, I think a lot of people, when they're eating the processed, denatured foods, When they're eating a lot, I think maybe subconsciously their body's telling them, hey, I need more than just these calories.
I need some nutrients that's going to keep me healthy and help me renew cells and do repair and all these other things that go on.
So I think when you get less enjoyment from your food, you just do it mindlessly, you know, and it's just kind of automatic.
Now, is there a, are there common denominators between the way most Americans eat?
Is there a standard American diet, if you want to call it that?
Yes, the term the standard American diet came about after World War II.
You know, you kind of think of the TV dinners, you know, your meat and your in your protein, I mean, your meat and your potatoes and your two vegetables, you know, what's considered a, on paper anyway, a well-rounded diet.
That's kind of, you know, devolved into, we use it in the nutritional circles to be basically what people eat today.
And the standard American diet is really a lot of, as I said earlier, denatured processed foods.
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We got to go, we need you to hold that thought.
We're going to a break.
We'll be right back.
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Welcome back, my friends, to this evening's broadcast of the political cesspool.
I'm Winston Smith, filling in for James Edwards.
And I'm talking with my friend, nutritional therapist, Erin, who is with Integrated Wellness Concepts.
And we're talking about diet and obesity.
And we're going to get to some recommendations shortly.
But we're trying to find some root causes here.
You can't really deal with something until you know where it came from.
And when you want to know where it came from and how we got to where we are, then we can start fixing the problems.
And when we went to the break, Erin was describing the standard American diet.
So Erin, pick up where you left off, please.
Right.
These days, the standard American diet has basically come to mean quick, easy, cheap food, you know, eaten on the go.
At home, it's pretty much not cooking wholesome, nutrient-dense food from scratch, but just opening packages and bottles and assembling food.
You know, and it's a result of our hurrying society, hauling the kids here, there, and everywhere.
I mean, it's easy.
What can I say?
Unfortunately, whenever you outsource, you know, anything, and then you lose control over it.
And so you've given up control of your food supply to people who want to do it the cheapest, easiest way possible.
And in the process, you're losing nutrients.
You know, when you said that cooking has become just opening packages and assembling things, it reminded me of something I saw a few years ago in which a lady was describing how food preparation has changed.
And she mentioned one of our boxed cake mix makers.
I don't know if it was Betty Crocker or Duncan Hines, but she said they developed it so that all a woman had to do was to add water to it, stir it up, and bake it.
And women didn't like that because they didn't feel like they were really baking.
So they reformulated the stuff so that women could add an egg to it.
And that's when it started taking off because once they could add an egg to it, women began to feel like they were really cooking.
Now, that says two things.
They have some fabulous market research.
And second of all, women actually still want to feel like they're cooking.
Well, we do.
I mean, whether, you know, you can take your most die-hard feminist or career woman, and, you know, that may work for them.
But down inside, the way God gave us, you know, the hormone estrogen gives us that nurturing desire to hunker down and be domestic and take care of our families.
A lot of women spend a lot of time fighting against that, but that's just basic biology.
And so we do.
We take, you know, great pleasure in the simple things in life.
I mean, what could be more satisfying than three times a day contributing to the health and well-being of the people you love by feeding them nourishing, nutrient-dense food.
I mean, and when you think about the idea of hospitality and sharing meals, as I said earlier, to provide a hot, nourishing meal to someone is a very, you know, is a very intimate way to share a relationship or friendship.
And I myself, you know, supper time is at 7 here.
I go in the kitchen at 6.
I taught my daughter, she's 23 and lives with us still.
She's one who was homeschooled.
And I taught her, I said, you allow an hour minimum for supper prep, and you take out of the freezer what you need the night before so it can be thawed.
To run a house properly by cooking your things from scratch and sourcing your nutrient-dense foods, then it takes more than just throwing something in the microwave.
You want to know what statistics say how much time the average person spends on food prep per day?
Certainly.
How about 20 minutes for a total for three meals?
My gosh, that's terrible.
I mean, I cook, and I cook using open flame outdoors and cast iron.
I use Dutch ovens and all that.
And sometimes it takes me hours to prep because, you know, I've got to cut wood and I've got to get things arranged just right.
But 20 minutes, that just seems impossible to me.
Well, that's where you get a lot of just the microwaving, eating things on the run, grabbing a granola bar out the door.
And we think we're too busy to, you know, prepare wholesome food.
It may be that, but we spend our time on what we want to.
You know, when it comes right down to it, I believe we all do what we want to.
But what we're seeing here is we're coming up on three, possibly four generations of people who really don't know how to cook from scratch.
Let's talk about the effects of the standard American diet, which, by the way, I noticed the initials for that create the acronym SAD.
I think that's appropriate.
So let's talk about the effects of the standard American diet kind of quickly because I want the bulk of our remaining time to go towards recommendations on how we can improve our diet and thereby improve our health.
Sure.
Well, one thing that we're seeing is falling fertility rates.
They're at a 30-year low of 1.8 children, and their replacement rate at a minimum is 2.1.
And it's not just women choosing not to have babies.
Over the years, I've become increasingly aware of married women experiencing either primary or secondary infertility.
Then there's the issue of sperm density, which is measured in the milliliters.
In 1940, it was 160.
In 2000, it was 5.
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Okay, that means only one in 5 million actually reached the egg.
So we're killing ourselves, literally and figuratively.
And then some other things, there was chronic conditions at younger ages.
I didn't know anyone with diabetes or asthma or peanut or milk allergies when I was in school.
And now everyone and his brother, not to be facetious, has it.
Children with cancer and chronic conditions, it's heartbreaking.
And then, of course, there's the increased health care cost and prescription drug usage.
70% of Americans take at least one prescription medication a day.
The goal of Big Pharma and the medical industry is not to find cures, but to create customers for life.
And then the drugs are just simply symptoms of suppression.
These drugs don't cure the condition.
They merely suppress the symptoms of it.
But you still have the damaging condition going on in your body.
And then we've got lost work days.
And I mean, I mean, it can go on.
Lost days at school, all sorts of things.
One of the most insidious effects of the standard American diet that I see is the effect that it has on children.
Kids today are listless.
They're lazy.
They have no energy.
And they don't want to do things that kids have traditionally wanted to do.
They don't want to go outside.
They just seem like they have no soul almost.
I know that's not true, but they seem lifeless.
And that's got to tie into diet somehow.
Absolutely.
You know, the poor things have a double whammy because you and I are full grown.
And so our nutrients are going towards basically maintaining.
And then as we get older, hopefully, you know, staving off the effects of old age.
But children, you know, as we know, their bodies are growing, their cells are reproducing, they're laying down pathways and hormone production that's going to carry them way well into their adult life.
And so you don't give them the right nutrients.
You don't give them, you know, enough of the environment that enhances health, like fresh air, sunshine, running around so they sleep well at night.
Goodness, no kid when I was growing up even knew what sleep aids or antidepressants were.
We went outside, got dirty, hot, and sweaty, fell off the bike and out of the tree, came home, ate supper, and fell into bed because we were exhausted.
So there's a lot of things contributing to that, the children staying inside.
One thing you didn't mention is the short attention spans that we've seen these days.
You know, ADD is all over the place.
And yeah, it's a witch's brew of all these things, you know, diet, environment, computers, electronics.
Goodness, we could be here all night.
Let's move on to some of your recommendations.
We've talked a lot about causes and other things.
I think we've laid a good foundation.
What can we do to eat better, to get healthier via diet?
Well, you know, changing habits is hard.
Yeah, you know, changing habits is hard.
I mean, you know, we like what we like.
It's familiar.
It's maybe what we grew up with.
But when you put your mind to it, you know, you can at least learn new things.
And what I tell people in a nutshell, it's like, eat like your great-grandparents did.
You know, great-grandparents didn't have coffee make.
They didn't have Pop-Tarts.
They didn't have Pringles.
There wasn't McDonald's on every corner.
I don't know if you would have read The Little House on the Prairie books, but that's kind of a girl series.
But I read it.
And anyone who has read it.
Aaron, you can hold that thought.
We're going to go to a break.
All right, never mind.
Folks, it's about to get very interesting here, so stay with us.
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Winston Smith here, Winston Smith filling in for James Edwards, and I'm talking with nutritional therapist Erin from Integrated Wellness Concepts.
Go to that Facebook page, folks, integrated wellness concepts.
It's the one with a picture of a young lady picking daisies or some such flower.
You can probably identify it before I can.
We're in our final segment for my time on tonight's broadcast, and we're going to get to some recommendations now for how you can eat better and get healthy through your diet.
So Erin, you mentioned eat like your great-grandparents did.
Is that what you said?
Yes.
You know, that's really easy for people to visualize.
And, you know, it may be baby steps for someone who's used to eating the processed things.
If you're one of those people who eat, you know, who drinks half a dozen Pepsis a day, well, then for the next two weeks, replace one of those sodas with water.
And then the next two weeks, replace the next soda with water.
Making progress towards that goal.
Or maybe your next grocery shopping trip, go through the produce section and pick up something that looks unfamiliar and go home and figure out how to cook it.
Just be aware of, you know, if the food is not going to go bad, it's bad for you.
If the food can go bad, it's good for you.
That is an odd standard.
I've seen it before, but it makes perfect sense.
I think somebody said it differently.
It said, don't eat anything that doesn't have the ability to rot.
Right.
Or don't eat anything that has an expiration date stamped on it.
You know, same idea, exactly.
You mentioned eating what your great-grandparents ate.
Now, that might not be a good thing for me because my great-grandparents were hillbillies back in the hollers of Kentucky.
And I could tell you some of the things that they ate that would make your skin crawl.
But I got to say, groundtog is actually pretty darn good.
So I got that going for me, which is nice.
So what's next after eating like your grandparents did?
Another thing that people don't think about is how to optimize their digestion because digestion is ground zero for absorbing your nutrients.
Basically, it's not what you eat as much as what you can absorb.
And so, and this can be a whole other show we can talk about it because people are eating on the run and they're just gobbling their food down.
They're not paying attention to what they're eating.
And the thing is, digestion is a parasympathetic process.
It's the opposite of the fight or flight.
We call that the rest in digest mode.
And the old stories, you know, about making mealtime a nice, calm, enjoyable event and no fighting and you slow down and chew your food thoroughly.
Those all had some basis behind them.
And our ancestors knew that those were tactics to help optimize your digestion for free.
All you had to do was change a few ways that you ate and you could absorb more nutrients from your food.
Back in my Navy days, I read a lot.
I mean, when you're in a submarine, you have a lot of time to read.
And I got hooked on the old Nero Wolf series.
And that was a very quotable series.
And the descriptions of Nero Wolf were that he was a very large man.
I think his chronicler described him as having like an acre of back.
And he said one thing about eating.
He said after a meal, he likes to go read.
He said, a book is the best digestive.
It occupies the mind and leaves the stomach alone to do its work.
Yeah, that's a good idea.
You know, the whole thing of the most you might want to do after a meal is go for a leisurely stroll, which helps digestion with the gentle movement of the body and also helps prevent blood sugar spikes.
But yeah, you kind of want, you know, the body's busy.
It's kind of taking care of something there, and you don't want to put a big load on it by going out and playing soccer or something that's going to be a conflict as far as your body's energy requirements.
So far, we've got eat like your grandparents did and optimize digestion.
What's next?
One thing that people don't think a lot about is not burning the candle at both ends.
This comes into your cortisol production.
You know, we're such a busy society, and it's almost like, you know, we want stickers on our shirt for how busy we and the kids are.
There's really no honor in that because when you're running all over the place and, you know, some people think, oh, well, you know, sleep is a waste of time.
I need to stay up and do this or whatever the case may be.
Burning the candle at both ends is signing up for some big problems because cortisol is a hormone you do not want to have in excess.
That leads to what is called adrenal fatigue.
Our adrenals, you know, is what push out the adrenaline.
You know, the whole fight and flight reflex.
But that adrenaline, that cortisol is what also helps us push through the days, you know, so we can just do one more thing.
You burn out those adrenals, and let me tell you, the house will be on fire and you will not be able to get up.
So there's something to be said for knowing when to stop, knowing when to have some downtime, respecting our body's need to settle down and have some relaxation.
The environment in which I work is extremely busy.
It's high pressure and it's fast-paced and it's based upon events that are beyond the control of the people with whom I work, but we adapt and we have to be very aggressive in our daily business.
And some people see that as a badge of honor.
I remember back in the 80s, it was considered a badge of honor to be constantly working, to be constantly active, not to have any minute of the day that was not taken up with something.
Are we seeing the results of that today?
Oh, absolutely.
You know, a lot of our autoimmune diseases and other things that we're seeing in people that the medical profession has no idea what to deal with are because we've just overtaxed our bodies with our modern living and our modern pace, which you just discussed.
And yet, and we seem to not value anything unless we're doing something.
We just can't sit.
We're human beings, not human doings.
And even Jesus, as busy as he was, if he could make time to go apart in the desert and pray, I think lesser beings like us need to take that idea and say, you know, I don't always need to be racing around at warp nine.
That is a premier example.
I will remember that.
And I have to say, I've seen it in the writings of the likes of Charles Spurgeon before: how we need to force ourselves to get away from busyness and to meditate on scripture and to chew the cud of the Holy Spirit.
You're absolutely right.
We need downtime, and there is no shame in taking time to just let your body recover.
Exactly.
And I used a term that is really becoming more in use.
There's no shame in stopping.
I have a few health problems myself I'm still addressing.
I've had arthritis in my back since I was 40.
And actually, I'm laying here on a heating pad as I'm talking to you.
And I've learned, you know, I mean, I was Ms. Speedy Gonzalez when I was younger.
I come from a family of doers and shakers.
that I've had to learn to pace myself.
I do some and then I stop.
I do some and then I stop.
And we have to respect that our bodies can't be, you know, running around at top speed all the time and there is no shame.
And that kind of brings me into my next point of practicing self-care.
You know, my daughter is big on this because she's had to learn this with some issues she had from her childhood.
Taking the time to take care of yourself.
And it's not selfish to go get a massage, to lay down and listen to some nice music, whatever the case may be.
If you feel that's what you need to rest and recharge, by all means, go for it.
I mean, you're only going to be the better for it.
So here's what we've got so far.
Eat like your grandparents did.
Optimize digestion.
Optimize digestion.
That's something I'd like to revisit when you come on the show next time.
Don't burn the candle at both ends, meaning don't be so busy that you're not taking care of yourself.
Practicing self-care.
And that's a phrase that resonates with me.
We need wellness.
We need overall long-term wellness.
And that's not going to happen externally.
It's going to happen when we decide to do it for ourselves.
All right, what's next?
Just a few other things, just ideas I want to throw out for people to be thinking about.
EMFs are my big thing now.
Electromagnetic fields, you know, the Bluetooth, the Wi-Fi.
Oh, this 5G that's fixed and they get rolled out just has my hair standing on end.
That affects our bodies on a cellular level and not in a good way.
Blue light exposure.
I've got my yellow glasses on right now, even as I'm looking at the computer screen to block the blue light.
Messes with your melatonin levels, which is a hormone that regulates sleep, among other things.
Your water quality, that's another whole issue.
I mean, these are areas, unfortunately, holistic health care, it feels like you've got it coming at you from all areas, but it's kind of like, you know, once you've been awoke, you just can't go back.
My oldest daughter, and I think she's got my other two daughters turned on this as well.
She's got these lamps made out of some kind of big chunk of salt.
Have you heard of those?
Oh, the Himalayan salt lamps.
Yes, those are absolutely wonderful, too.
The ions in the air emitted from the salt, and then the orangish red light is the opposite of blue light on the spectrum.
So that's very good for you.
Erin, I'm sorry we can't get to your last point, which is move more, not exercise.
I want to thank you for being with us tonight.
It's good information.
And, you know, God bless you.
You're doing good work there.
Well, thank you.
It's been my pleasure, Mr. Smith.
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