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In our Going Deep segment, we'refeaturing doctor Wendy Roberts, a prominent
Board certified dermatologist and dermatopathologist. DoctorWendy specializes in cosmetic, generational dermatology and
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beautiful Tri State area. You're listeningto a Moment of Zen right here
on seven to ten. WR TheVoice of New York iHeartRadio. I'm your
host, Zen Sam's up next inour Going Deep segment, We're featuring doctor
Wendy Roberts. She's a prominent Boardcertified dermatologist and dermatopathologist. Doctor Roberts specializes

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in cosmetic dermatology, generational dermatology,and ethnic skin of color. She's well
equipped by the rigors of her StamfordMedical School training, surgical and dermatology residences,
and pathology fellowship. She is thefounding director of Dermatopathology of Loma Linda
Division of Dermatology. She's tackled intriumph over a comprehensive range of skin problems,

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diseases, and conditions, using innovativemethods that have earned her national and
international recognition. Generational dermatology is apractice she's very passionate about which imparts education
and science to help treat patients fromthe generational boom worldwide. As chairperson of
the first Summit on Generational Dermatology,she's introducing new approaches to treating the evolving

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aging patient. Now you're probably notused to thinking of skin as an organ,
but it's actually the largest organ ofthe body. It has a myriad
of functions and is a big contributorto overall health. Skin of color requires
some special attention to keep it healthyand attractive. It's prone to some conditions
which are not typical of white skin, such as hyperpigmentation or the risk that

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skin cancers tend to be more advancedat the time of diagnoses. So what
are the best ways to take careof darker skin? Many people of color
struggle to find good products for theirskin, or they get bad advice from
people who aren't as experienced in treatingskin of color. Luckily, today I'm
joined by the amazing doctor Wendy Roberts. She's here to date to chat anti
aging, beauty innovations and the latestand dermatological skincare welcoming down to the show

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is the awesome doctor Wendy Roberts.Welcome Stunner Ollo. Thank you, what
an introduction all those deeds. I'min the presence of a trailblazer. I'm
so excited to chat with you.Christmas is in just a few days,
and what a treat it is tohave you here today. So doctor Roberts
is one of the first dermatologists torecognize the potential of carboxy therapy. Can

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you share what specific aspects of thistherapy impressed you the most. Yes,
you know when I first used thiscarboxy therapy, and actually yeah, I
was the first dermatologist in the nationto use it, I immediately because of
my years of experience, I knewthat there was something different. This product
was a game changer. It hadattributes of things that I had never seen

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before. You know, we callour toolbox, right in dermatology, We've
got this, We've got steroids,We've got all kinds of things in our
tool box. But this was different, and it was different because of the
science, and it really used thescientific principles that had been yet to use.
We call it the board principle.And it really brings you know,

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oxygen to the tissues, brings lifeto the tissue. And you know,
oxygen brings life, and oxygen also, you know, quenches toxins. It
brings blood supply. And blood supplyis so amazing because blood supply gives life
to our skin. Right. Weknow, when our skin doesn't have any
color in it, we look dead. We looked dead, right, So

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blood supply brings life, but bloodsupply also takes away toxins. And there
was never any product on the marketthat had this kind of attribute, and
I knew the first time I usedit and saw the results on my patient
was a game changer and started usingit for a host of different disorders.

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It's for so many things. It'squite proprietary. Here a one thousand percent
right, and when CO two isused alan or in conjunction with other procedures,
CO two lift increased skin hydration bymore than one hundred and seventeen percent
compared to baseline with these improvement,with these specific improvements lasting up to three
weeks. So the physiological effects,you know, also include increases in tissue

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oxygenation which you just mentioned, flowrate, and vascodilation and this all contributes
to an incredible neo angiogenesis. Sowe're looking at the science. It backs
it up, and you are onehundred percent right to use it because now
you set precedence. So the founderof CO two lift has praised your ability
to think outside the box, DoctorRoberts, can you give an example of

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how this mindset has influenced your approachto germatology and skincare innovations. Yeah,
you know, I've always been passionateabout aging and I never quite could understand,
you know, why we had toage, and back in about two
thousand and seven, I'm just like, you know, what is going on
with my patients? Why are theyaging? And why we have to do

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this? So, you know,thinking about it, and you talked about
it earlier about the skin being anorgan, think about like an organ,
and with my background of pathology,I said, no, let's treat the
skin like any other organ. Let'sget proactive, you know, let's get
heart smart, let's get skin smart. Why are we waiting for brown spots
to occur when we know that ifyou live like I do in sunny southern

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California, you're going to have brownspots on your skin. Let's get ahead
of it. So that thinking outof the box started this whole movement in
my specialty of generational dermatology, whichnow is every day right, we all
know proactive of baby botox, youknow all the things we do that the

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CO two lift, making sure aboutour skin is hydrated, making sure that
our barrier is great, so wedon't age, because we really are a
sum of our environment. And theearlier we s start, the better this
skin is going to be. Becauseskin aging doesn't happen overnight and it catches

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up. It catches up, wakesup, and you're like, I have
all these shrinkled Yeah, you know, glowing skin. I always look by
three mottos. Glowing skin is alwaysin. Filters are great, but great
skin is better, and it's fullythe bad vibes. So now we have
all heard of the of the clisonicbrush. So let's go back for those

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for those of you listening and watchingthat are too young to know of the
clarsonic brush. But the clistonic isone of the brands that pioneered people taking
care of their skin, not justwhen they had a problem, but proactively
and being involved in the in thedevelopment of the cliosonic brush, Doctor Wendy
Roberts, you were one of thefirst involved. What parallels do you see

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between the impact of that tool andCO two lift treatment on the skin?
I mean, with the rise ofat home skincare devices, what advice you
give to patients looking to incorporate theseinto their routine. Yes, well,
you know, the clarotonic brush wasfirst in class. There'd been no rotary
brushes that ever, and the idea, the concept that came from the toothbrush

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right, and the concept that youwould take the science of a rotary toothbrush
and apply it to the skin wasnew and had never been done. And
that the power behind the clarosonic brushis because of the pores on our skin.
Flexing and the pores on our skin. Flexing actually exercises the pores,

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and like a muscle, when youexercise something, it doesn't get flabby and
poores on our face, pours onour nose, or it's basically flabby,
flabby skin, flabby pores. Soyou exercise the pores, the pores are
toned the muscle and you can keepsmall pores. So now we go to

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the bat to the CO two liftand it has that same type of like
hard science basis working not on thesurface of the skin but underneath. And
that's what's really happening. Now weare working in the lower layers, layers
of the skin to get these resultsthat we see, you know, glowing

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skin, smooth skin, you knowairbrush looking skin. It doesn't start from
outside in, it starts from insideout. I love that it starts from
inside out. You're one hundred percentright now, given your extensive experience,
what trends do you currently see indermatological treatments that excite you with the future
of skin health. Yeah, youknow the mask again, amazing treatment,

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and we're going to see it formore and more things. You know,
we're using it for hydration, we'reusing it for exuma, for all kinds
of things. For wound healing.Woond healing is really important because if you
can't heal your wound scratches and cuts, then you're going to have problems.
So we're working a lot on gettingthe fibroblasts and the key cells that make

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tissue, getting them repped up andreturning them to normal. So you're gonna
see a lot of non invasive youknow, it's really all non invasive.
Now nobody wants down time and nodowntime. Yeah, no, because we're
busy. We're too busy doing everything. We don't have time for it,
and we're not busy, we don'tnecessarily want to be, you know,

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taking care of our faces. Sothe new trends are cold therapy is going
to be something that's increasing where everythingwhere it used to be everything was laser
laser hot. Now you're going tosee things cold, cold, coal,
and that's a new trend. Stemcells, stem cell therapy, PRP,
and exisomes and all of those thingsagain you know that work under the skin

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and create young skin from within.Those are the new trends that are coming.
And let's not forget about hair,right, Hair is huge. Hair
is like fall hairs, the newlip. You know, nobody wants to
lose their hair, but again,you know for their viewers, you can't
start, you know, in yourfifth decade to think about your hair,

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your hair growth. Really you've gotto start keeping an eye on it in
your third decade because from that generationalstandpoint and that lens that I see everything
through, you need to check inwith the dermatologists in your thirties and just
get just get a take on whereyou know your hair way ahead of the
game. Yeah, that is we'regoing right, because you don't want to
wake up one day and have allthese wrinkles and be bald. So we

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definitely so we definitely want to beahead of that one. Now, are
there any specific skin conditions or concernsthat you find carbon dioxide therapy for the
skin to be particularly effective for carbwhat we call carboxy therapy gel, Yeah,
yes, there are, so it'sI love it. In the second
decade, for you know, ourtwenties, it's great because it really helps

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that barrier and get you set upin a good way for future skin care.
So I highly recommend it in thatvery young group. The mask is
great, keeps you hydrated. It'sgreat after you have a beach vacation,
you know you've done your skin itand even skiing too. You know,
the sun is harsh and it's greatfor after skin, so it's great for

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that. I love it any typeof dry skin for my patients that suffer
with eczema and dry skin condition Idon't know if you know this, but
dry skin is the root of mostof our tough skin disorders. And if
you can get the skin conditioned andhydrated with the carboxy therapy mask, that

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right there is a game changer.I've used this mask on eczema patients and
I have been used any other prescriptionmedications and they've been cleared. Wow.
Yeah, it really is. Andwell that goes back to what you said.
It increases the presence of wounded pairfactors and growth factors which help cells

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turnover faster, reducing the appearance ofaging and scars, stretch marks, and
more. And then you add stimulatingcollagen and elastin production which promotes elasticity and
helps retain hydration. And then yougo one step further, and you go
you go even further in that absorption, improving local metabolism and elimination of waste
products which then helps the body heallocalize damage such as scars or acne or

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hyperpigmentation. So you know the regeneratingand repairing factors, You know of the
of the damage tissue to help clientsachieve better looking skin and feel good about
themselves. Is everything in this mask. I could not agree with you more.
Well, we are out of time. This was a fantastic conversation.
Thank you so much for coming on. You're full of knowledge and I love
that you go deep. Thank youfor having me. Absolutely. That was

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our Going Deep segment brought to youby co two lift dot com. That
was the amazing Doctor Wendy Roberts.She's a preeminent Board certified physician, dermatologist
and Board certified dermatopathologists. Now DoctorWendy Roberts, she specializes in everything cosmetic
dermatology, generational dermatology, and ethnicskin of Color. You could head directly
to her website at Wendy ROBERTSMD dotcom, or you can check her out

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about ADHD. That's attention deficit hyperactivitydisorder. It's a neurodevelopmental disorder, meaning
it relates to the development of theneurological systems and brain, and the disorder
is identified by patterns of excessive andongoing hyperactivity, impulsivity, and inattentiveness.
You've all heard of it. ADHDsymptoms typically begin in childhood when it's diagnosed,

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and can continue into adulthood in aboutfifty percent of the cases. However,
if a person is not diagnosed asa child because the disorder is overlooked
or left unrecognized, they can stillbe diagnosed as an adult and then it
gets really hard to unwand sometimes adiagnosis in childhood could be missed when the
individual symptoms are less severe in theiryounger years, or when they work to

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compensate for these symptoms so others don'tnotice. But here to break it all
down for us is our pharmaceutical expertand our weekly contributor Phil Kelly. Welcome
back, superstar. Hey, thankyou. This is a great one.
But we have to move fast becausepeople with ADHD, we lose their attention,
so we'll have to really dive intoit. All right, let's go
here, we're going, let's talkabout let's talk about trends in ADHD and
diagnosis. So over the last twodecades, we've observed a significant rise in

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ADHD diagnoses, filled with national surveysindicating an increase from six percent to over
ten percent between nineteen ninety eight andtwenty and eighteen. What factors do you
believe have contributed to this major surgein diagnoses. Well, there's a few
things that we have to look at. First, is the observance of it.
So it used to be if youweren't twitching in your seat and your

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teacher wasn't grabbing on to you andputting you back, that you didn't it
because you didn't have the hyperactive component. But then we saw such a large
rate of failure amongst certain genetic groups, especially families, and we noticed that
when we started treating the attention side, they started to succeed more, which
then led to even a higher rateof how and what we are looking at
for ADHD. And then as adults, it's funny the number of people that

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come in as adults to me asfar and they're telling me all their symptoms
and like, have you ever beeneven looked at? And I said no,
my dad just said I just neededto work harder, and they never
even looked at the attention component ofit. So diagnostics have changed a lot.
More adults are going in now.And then you also always have to
remember ADHD shows up when you're understress. So some people do really well

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in middle school, grammar school,at school and even high school, but
once you at college levels, it'sharder, so then you stress it and
then the genetic disorder underneath starts toshow. It's interesting because the statistics they
don't lie. More than three hundredand sixty six million adults worldwide have ADHD,
and that's as of twenty twenty.In around six and ten US children

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with ADHD also have at least oneother mental or emotional or behavioral condition,
such as anxiety and depression. Sothis has to be nipped in the bud
early on. Because an estimated seventyseven percent of US children diagnosed with ADHD
receive treatment, while we have ahuge population close to twenty five percent that
they don't receive any treatment pill.So this is it's scary as a mom

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to see that this could go notonly undiagnosed, but untreated, which brings
me into the next topic, medicationshortages. So the US has experienced ADHD
medication shortages in recent years. Couldyou elaborate on the underlying causes of these
shortages and what measures have been takento address them. So there's a couple

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of days I find super interesting.The first one is we have things that
are called quotas by the FDA.The FDA says you can bring in so
many kilograms of each substance in theUnited States to be able to even manufacture
inside the United Stance States, andeach year it's August. August twenty third
is the day they release it.You expect this increase in medications like methyl
fenadate or you know, your mixedamphetamine salts. But the last four years

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in a row, even though there'sbeen shortages inside the United States, those
quotas have not been raised. Sowe don't even have the potential of bringing
in the substance to make more ofboth these medications. The FDA has stopped
that, which means our dependence onforeign sources will continue to be there because
we can't even allow our manufacturers todo it. But if you look at

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different manufacturer sutch As Teva or Tiva, depending on which way you want to
say it, you know they're aJerusalem based company. So every time there's
any sort of conflict over in Jerusalem, and then we have c reduction in
numbers of all of our ADHD medicationsbecause we are dependent upon them. So
not only is it the number ofpeople using it, but we can't even

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produce it here in the United Statesif we wanted to. So we are
continually rely upon foreign sources, andyou know they're great partners until they have
crisises of their own. I hadno idea. Now research shows, and
this is interesting because I was researchingfrom the millennial mom's perspective, but ADHD
is more common in males than females, so I was trying to figure out
what the ratio difference was. Butit's interesting because females who do struggle with

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ADHD typically exhibit more inattentiveness symptoms ratherthan hyperactivity and impulsive symptoms like you were
alluding to earlier on and there isfar less research on ADHD and females,
and females may even go underdiagnosed,partly because their hyperactive impulsive behaviors show up
differently than they do in boys,which requires further study. But I do

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think to your point there's practitioners needto be able to truly identify this at
an early stage. Now, let'stalk about impact of long term medication use.
So ADHD medication use has lasting positiveeffects on the brain, according to
findings from brain imaging studies. Researchalso that leaving ADHD symptoms untreated carries far

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greater risks, including unemployment and substanceabuse, than does lifelong medication use.
Now, a recent study highlighted apotential link between long term ADDHD medication use
and increased cardiovascular disease risks. Sothis is a conflicting finding. What aspects
of these medications might contribute to suchhealth risk. Most of the medications we're

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speaking about, there are a couplethat aren't. There are stimulant medications.
And the thing about a stimulant medicationis our brains. Right now, who
have ADHD they're lacking a few tcomponents like your neu up and effort and
your dopamine, and by using stimulantswe're able to increase or help maintain both
the nor up and efferent and thedopamine. However, when you take a

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pill, it doesn't just go straightto the brain and stay there. It
also goes to the cardiovascular system,so it makes our heart rate go up,
it makes the vascularity itself constrict andcauses more stress on it. So
you have both sides going on allof the time, and it should be
expected. It's like opiates. Youtake opiates, you get used to it
in one way, but the constipationnever goes away. It's the one that
won't go await well. With stimulants, your heart rate will always be increased

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and the stress on your cardiovascular systemis higher. This leads to the thing
I always tell everybody though, omegafatty acids are the best way. So
Triquertra makes this fantastic new omega fattyacids so it doesn't taste like fish.
And when you're taking an omega fattyacid, it helps reduce heart risk almost
to the same ray as This studyindicates that it may be there. And

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Omega fatty acids are the first thingI tell Grady take if you have ADHD
if you're trying to naturally help supplementit a little bit, so there are
ways around it. And like Isaid, the tri Quers new brand of
Omega fatty acids the one I firstlean to, just because it doesn't taste
like fish. And you get allof the EPA and DHA. Fascinating.
I love it that you have acure for pretty much everything. That's why
you are America's favorite pharmacist. FilledNow let's go back a little bit here,

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experts, I'm an pinpoint to theexact cause of ADHD. Although we
know that genetics are suspected to playa huge part, and three out of
four children with ADHD have a relativewith the disorder too, and this is
according to APA. Now, environmentalfactors are also suspected to have a hand
in causing ADHD, and the factorscan include brain injury, exposure to lead

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as a baby or child, prematurebirth, extreme stesturing, pregnancy, smoking
and alcohol use well pregnancy, andso so much more. But Phil,
where do you think that the causationis coming from? If you have to
take one educated guess. I thinkthat there was a time where ADHD was
actually beneficial in nature. I thinkthat those people with ADHD, they kind

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of have these superpowers in some way. Once they decide to hook onto something,
holy cow, nobody can stop them. They're fantastic of what they're doing
at that moment, but they're missingout on everything else. They're also really
great in certain jobs vocations they actuallydo really well. I think that the
ADHD crisis, as you'd call it, has a lot more to do with
how society has now regulated who doeswhat and how, and so I think

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that now that you have to sita cubicle, there's a lot of people
who's ADHD becomes a weakness because ofhow they have to work, and I
think that's where it comes from.I don't think I think it's been with
us from the beginning. And Ithink that we're all very good at what
we should be doing all of thetime. It's just not all of us
are good about sitting and answering phonesall days. It's just not what we
were made to do. And thatrequires now to look at ADHD in a

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different line. Yeah, because who'sto say what ADHD is or isn't.
I mean, my daughter is atheater baby. She couldn't sit still even
if she tried. But she's ahuge you know, musical theater child and
actor and on television. And she'seight years old, and you know ADHD.
If you put her, you know, if you put her in the
confines of a classroom and tell hershe can't move for eight hours straight,

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well maybe she will exhibit certain ADHDsymptoms. Right, So I question a
lot as a mother, now,concerns about control substances. So let's go
back. So given that many ADHDmedications such as adderall and you know,
some of the methyl feti dates areclassified as Schedule too controlled substances, what
should parents consider when these drugs areprescribed? You know, the one drug

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I really love for when it comesto when somebody gets it saying whether or
not its efficacious or not, arethe add meds. So if I were
to take an add med because Idon't have ADHD, and I know this,
if I took it, my heartrate would race. I would be
all over the place. I wouldlook like a squirrel that's drinking coffee,
Like you could not keep up withme. But my son he's a squirrel

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with that, with drinking coffee beforeI give him his pill and everything goes
smooth. In fact, we usedto give him high we had two eye
of adults, and he would zombieout. So you'll know immediately whether or
not this is something you need toworry about by giving it, like you'll
know the first day. And soit works the same as adults. He's
had a little mom come in andshe was so resistant to want to try
it, and I'm like, youhave four kids and you're telling me you

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can't keep track of anything and thatlife is stressful, and she said yes,
and then she's I said, wellwhy don't you try it? For
which she came in and she said, I can get everything done. I
go to s time. Everything's great. So when you come to controlled substances
with the ADHD meds, watch theperson and if it settles them down they
actually don't love it, you'll giveit to them and the kids will fight
against it. Whereas if somebody takesit and you're using it in order to

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stay up later to do more,they start using it as a crutch in
order to succeed. Those individuals,you won't see that, so I love
it because if you talk to thepatient, you know exactly what's going on,
and then you can reduce your riskbecause at that point you know who
really needs it. Very nicely saidmister pharmaceutical experts, And you've convinced me.
Now, interestingly, some of themost significant increases in ADHD diagnoses has

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been observed in adults. So nowwe're seeing that increase. But what are
some common signs in the workplace thatmight indicate an adult has ADHD? And
I kind of feel like this questionis a double edged sword after the monologue
I just gave, But what's yourtake on this? So I find productivity
is the most important thing. You'llfind people who are just frustrated with their

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own productivity, not because they're beinglazier or anything else. They start a
project and they can't finish it,and sudden they have five or six projects
in front of them, each donereally well, seventy percent of the way
done. And then they come backand so what they're finding is their inability
to complete those tasks become very detrimentalto their job and they're therefore their lives
and it really frustrates them severely.Also, quite often a lot of people

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will say I think I have anxietyfor some reason. Anxiety is that thing
that we can have and we don'tfeel like it's a deficit or something wrong
with us. So people who sayI can't get anything done, I feel
anxious all of the time. Thosetwo are the keywords that I look at
when I start talking to somebody aboutADHD. And then you start digging into
more. Once you find something,do you hyper focus on it? When

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you have a task, you putit off for two weeks and then in
twelve hours do a wonderful job,but you can't even think about it.
You set it out of mind.So look at how well you're producing,
look at your anxiety level, andthen look as you're hyper focusing once you
do finally grab onto something. Thoseare the three key signs, and Millennials
are the first generation to really say, you know what, I don't need

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to put up with this. Ineed to figure out what's wrong so I
can be productive. So that's whyI think we're seeing it into the adults.
With that we are officially out oftime. Thank you so much for
coming on, Phil. It's alwayssuch a pleasure doing these segments with you,
not only do I learn something,but I know that everybody listening in
on Almost Christmas Eve is definitely benefitingfrom this conversation. Well, I talk

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to you all day long, theyjust won't. You know, only have
fourteen minutes, So let's we canstop with the radio program. I'll chat
with Zen with you all day.I love it. This is so much
fun. I love it too.Guys, you definitely have to check out
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Beyond Training, Boundless Fit Soul,Boundless Cookbook, Endure, Boundless Parenting,
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achieve their goals and improve their qualityof life. Today, we're chatting about
health hacks that will get you throughthe holidays enjoyably, the craze behind holiday
weight gain, and why statistics showit's more overblown than you think now.
For decades, the conventional way hasbeen that most people gain about five pounds
between that first forkfull of Thanksgiving stuffingto the greasy egg breakfast on your's day.

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While good news is that the fivepound pile on is a lot like
what you hear about holiday weight gainoverblown. The New England Journal of Medicine
published a study of adults showing thatthe average holiday weight gain was just under
a pound, and more than halfthe people in the study stayed within just
over two pounds of their weigh ins. Here to chat Health tax and weight

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gain. Fats that will take yourmind off the pounds and put it on
enjoying time with your friends and family. Is the awesome Ben Greenfield, Welcome
to the show, Superstar. SoZen, you got me drooling with that
greasy egg comment. Jeez, feellike going off for breakfast? Now?
Yeah, let's talk of a confusion. If even if the scale says you

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put on five pounds, you probablyhaven't. And now stats Ben are showing
that a lot of the scale readsof what the scale is reading is more
water weight gain than fat gain.And I assume eating more starchy foods hello
sweets and dinner rolls and more saltthan usual leads to water retention and bloat
and the scale often picks this upimmediately. What do you say to this
illusion? Carbohydrates carry about four timestheir weight and water, which is why

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a lot of people, you know, if we look at the flip side
of this, will get on alow carb diet and lose a bunch of
weight, and then when that stallsout, once they've shed a lot of
their water weight, they get alittle depressed that their dyeing isn't working anymore.
The concept of increasing carbon intake fromall the sugars and starches and cookies
that you mentioned is nearly unavoidable duringthe holiday season. But you're right.

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When you get on the scale,a lot of times what you're seeing is
an increase in waterweight. This iswhy I also think is important to not
just look at weight myopically. Youshould look at body fat percentage. There
are scales now that will tell youyour body fat percentage or the total pounds
of body fat that you actually have. And a lot of times, as

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you've astutely eluded to, a gainin weight can just be sodium related gain
or water related gain from carbohydrates andnot necessarily you know, you getting all
porky from extra fat. You know, it's interesting because my hacks it's always
load up on veggies first, becauseit's actually not better for at least me
and anyone to show up to aholiday meal is super hungry, you know,

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with your turkey pants on, andwhen you're starving. You know,
we eat quicker and enjoy less foodmindfully and overstuff ourselves. So I say
eat some veggies as a pre dinnersnack, and of course eating veggies also
first ensures you can enjoy any foodsyou want, but you're still getting in
the nutrients your body needs. Butlike you're right, you have to start
pacing yourself here. So this bringsme to my next question. You're highly

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unlikely to break even by exercising moreduring the holidays. Now, this type
of food exercise math is always faulty. I'm one hundred percent pro exercise for
its much needed mood boosting benefits.Plus it can be an escape from a
too much family together in this moment, but it does not cancel out the
stuffing and eggnog. Weight loss isaround eighty percent which you put into your

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body and twenty percent what you sweatoff. There's also the risk that thinking
of what you deserve, say anotherwedge of pecan pie, which is about
five hundred calories because you power walkthat morning and burnt off about one hundred
and eighty calories in that half hour, is the right way to think about
this. I mean, we allknow how that story ends, So what
do you recommend? You're right,Paying attention to the total number of calories

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that you eat is more important thaneating as many as you want than trying
to exercise it off. Now,muscle helps you to sock away extra carbohydrates.
It helps you to lower your bloodglucose, and it can keep your
metabolism slightly elevated. So if there'sanything to focus on, it would be
some type of weight training or resistancetraining routine, or even if you're traveling,

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a body weight routine paired with sometype of high intensity cardio, because
high intensity cardio will keep your metabolismelevated for a few hours afterwards, but
it does not burn as many caloriesas many of us would like to believe,
Hence the need to adopt strategies likeyou just describes in eating vegetables before
the meal, perfect example to lowerthe blood sugar and keep you from stuffing

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your mouth with other calories that mightseem a lot more palatable when you're less
full from the vegetables. You know, you mentioned hacks, and there are
newer things out there that can beexcellent for controlling the appetite prior to holiday
meal. Collagen or gelatin or aminoacids are very satiating and these can be
found in supplements. There's another brandnew kind of like form of appetite satiating

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liquid called ketones, and you candrink ketones on a very busy day for
which you might be exposed to alot of food, or a day in
which you want to keep your appetitesatiated. And this is stuff used by
like tortifront cyclists in the military tokeep soldiers or cyclists going for long periods
of time without food. And itmakes you less likely to eat, eating
mindfully and with people slowing down,chewing each bite twenty five to forty time,

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talking with people not being on devicesor distracted while you're eating. Love,
love those hacks. That's great.Now, It's even something as simple
as trying healthier versions right of yourfavorite holiday foods, Like you don't have
to stick to the exact mashed potatorecipe you make every year, or buy
frozen pie crust instead of doing ityourself right. When planning holiday meals,

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I always say opt for homemade overprocessedfoods, and yes, buying from a
local bakery or takeout from a healthierrestaurant counts for you, non chefs,
but also identify where you can addmore nutrients into the foods you love,
like you just so eloquently put now, you're also unlikely to make up for
overdoing it quickly, even if youdye it in January. So if you

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were boozing and sugaring it up,you might not have an easy time going
cold. Turkey sweet beget sweet,and once you start mainlining it, you
want it and a salad no longerlooks good. What are your hacks around
this? You mentioned substitutes, andyou're right, I mean simpletes like instead
of I don't know, marshmallows onthe sweet potato cast or you can use

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a lower calorie coconut whipped cream.Or instead of having you know, full
fat eggnog, you can use likecinnamon and nutmeg and spices and put that
into like froth coconut milk or almondmilk. You can even use certain like
healthier substitutes, like say cauliflour mashinstead of like a white potato mash.

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So once you start to look aroundfor alternatives, they're out there. It's
just a matter of kind of checkingout the ingredients and finding some of the
healthier options. And there are greatwebsites you know that show you healthy substitutes
for a lot of different foods.Yeah. In fact, I like the
one of four rule bread Booze dinnercarbs like rice or potatoes, and dessert

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at any meal. I say youpick just one or two if you must,
but skip the others. And eatinga breakfast with filling protein, drinking
lots of water, eating veggies andlean proteins, and not showing up to
food centric events ready to gnall yourown arm off will also help you avoid
those extra holiday pounds. Now,you're a public figure, and one can

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argue even you're an expert when itcomes to fitness and health given your career.
Now as a mom, I lovecoconut water because it's truly proprietary in
its health benefits. Potassium, calcium, and magnesium. Those are all the
important electrolytes and they play key rolesin helping maintain heart health, liver and
kidney health, even digestive functions andhealthy blood sugar levels. I could go

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on and on muscle and nerve functionsand so much more. But I specifically
started drinking coconut water after my radiationwhile I was battling thyroid disease, and
I typically now use it as acure all for everything, even hangovers.
How does proper hydration impact your performanceand can you share any instances where coconut

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water has made a significant impact onyour training or recovery. Yeah. I
think people hear proper hydration and theydon't understand that not all water is created
equal. There's some really interesting researchby a University Washington professor named doctor Gerald
Pollock that goes into the idea thatwater that's in what's called a structured form
tends to be more satiating and morehydrating. Where do you find that.

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You typically get it from water filledproduce like say cucumbers, pumpkins, melons.
I tend to go for more ofthe plumpy, hydrating vegetables than I
do the fruits, just because thefruits you have a little bit more sugar.
But that and then adding different mixesof salts and electrolytes to your water

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can also give it a little bitmore of that structured type of feel.
Now, coconut water is a perfectexample of something that's gotten natural amount of
structuring in. It's got a naturalalmost like thick gel like consistency if you
notice when you drink it. Now. I used to raise Ironman triathlons.
I've done thirteen Ironman triathlons. Ihad horrific recovery and it turned out I
needed to get up to six gramsof sodium per day, balance with potassium

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and calcium and magnesium, and alsoreally step up my water and take it.
As soon as I did that,I started racing better and I started
hydrating better. And it was earlyon that journey that I learned that the
electrolyte composition of coconut water very closelymatches that of human plasma, and so
it's almost like the perfect hydrating anelectrolyte mix. And people who heard us

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talking about weight gain in response tosodium intake might raise an eyebrow at this,
but the idea is what we're talkingabout is isolated sodium chloride like you
find table salt. If you geta good mix of hydrating electrolytes, you
actually don't see the same issues thatyou see with high salt intake. And
coconut water is a really good exampleof that. I love that example.
I have to pair you with mygood friend filled my pharmacist. He trends

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really well. You guys speak thesame scientific language when you answer questions.
I love it because now you justgave us not just the personal reason behind
why you love it with your recoverystory. But you just gave us a
very sound, valid scientific reason thatmakes total sense. So for the people
out there that are weighing the statisticsand the research, there you go.
Ben Greenfield just pointed you in theright hydration direction. Now, intermittent fasting

(44:08):
has landed on the dieting scene asa way to cut calories without cutting your
favorite foods, so to speak.And this eating style only limits the hours
you're eating rather than what you're eating, allowing you more flexibility in your weight
loss plan. So if you tendto backload your calories late in the day,
intermittent fasting might be a solid optionfor you. But then comes the

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big question, Ben, how doyou pick a schedule that's right for you?
So you have the sixteen eight schedule, the fourteen ten schedule, the
whole day fasting, the alternate fasting, just guide me all those alphabet soup,
O, MAD, FMDIFD. Soyeah, intermittent fasting a few quick
rules. It turns out that itappears to be better to front load morgar

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calories early in the day than laterin the day. So if you're able
to resist having dinner or have dinnerat an earlier time. That's better.
I realize that can sound societally restrictive. You don't have to do that every
day of the week, but doinglike a breakfast lunch appears to be better
than doing like a lunch dinner.Now you can eat three square meals per

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day, but the idea with intermittentfasting is you're compressing them all into a
feeding window. Typically it's called likean eight to twelve hour feeding window.
And when you do that, it'sjust harder to eat as many calories as
you would eat if you were eatingwhat's called ad labeatum at whatever points you
want throughout the day, spread outover a longer cycle. And so a
big part of the magic of intermittentfasting is that it's just harder to eat

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a lot of calories in that windowthat you've limited yourself too. So what's
the window in most men and inpostmenopausal women a twelve to sixteen hour period
of time each day that you gowithout eating, and obviously a big part
of that could be overnight. Ispretty good. In premenopausal women, especially

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lean athletic premenopause women, that appearsto cause endocrine and fertility disruption and a
shorter fasting window is appropriate for premenopausalwomen, like ten to twelve hours.
So I do this almost every dayof the year. I'm very competitive with
it, meaning like when I finishdinner, I'll literally just like, look
at my watch, see what timeit is. Let's have finished eight Then

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I know I won't be eating againuntil at least eight AM, and I
tend to go more like fourteen hours, So I typically finish dinner sometime around
eight PM or so if you countdessert or something it might be having after
dinner, and then I won't eatagain until about ten am. I'll usually
have an exercise session in the morningat some point before I've eaten to mobilize

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fat stores, sometimes combined with acold soak or cold therapy, which further
mobilizes fat stores. And that's generallya kind of an overview of how the
intermittent fasting work. Last question,why do you think once upon a coconut
brand has taken off as quickly andsuccessfully as it has. I meant Waters
coconut water, But why are allthese VIPs and celebrities like yourself major endorsers?

(47:05):
Does get coconut water? What Imean by that Primarily the appealing part
to me is the inner lining ofthe can doesn't have a lot of metals
and VPA in it, which isa really common issue in the canned or
packaged beverage industry. Anyways, theyhave really good sourcing, and they got
flavors like pineapple and the caffeinated oneand plane and then oh my gosh,
chocolate morning that morning smoothie when youbreak your intermittent fast, Oh my gosh,

(47:30):
little chocolate coconut water, some ice, some protein powder. Blend that
all up top with some bee pondand cacaan nabs. You got yourself like
a nice little morning superfood smooth Ittastes like chocolate ice cream for breakfast,
guilt free, guilt free. Well, we are out of time. Thank
you so much, Ben for comingon. We've gone over the fourteen minutes.

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But of course we could talk foreverbecause I just love your commentary.
Just thank you so much for comingon. Thanks then making me hungry.
That was our hydration with heart Steed, brought to you by Once Upon a
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