September 10, 2025 • 23 mins
Are you stuck in an infinite workday — where the emails, pings, and meetings never stop? Research shows it takes 20 minutes to recover from just one interruption, and most professionals are interrupted dozens of times a day. No wonder so many feel like their sanity and energy are slipping.
But here’s the deeper truth: burnout doesn’t just affect your mind. It rewires your metabolism. Those creeping lab results — high cholesterol, stubborn weight gain, elevated blood sugar — aren’t just “aging.” They’re the fingerprints of stress.
In this episode of The Burnout Resolution Podcast, Dr. Mylaine Riobé — integrative physician and OB-GYN— blends science with a soulful perspective. You’ll learn how to flip the script on interruptions and turn them into micro-recovery cues that protect your mind, body, and soul.
✨ In this episode, you’ll discover:
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Why constant interruptions silently hijack your brain and metabolism
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The hidden cost of the “infinite workday” on your labs and health
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The science of micro-breaks, ultradian rhythms, and pattern interrupts
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How the struggles we’re living through now are signs of a greater shift toward authenticity and joy
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Simple resets that can protect your energy and vibe in just 2–3 minutes
👉 Take the Burnout Risk Assessment to discover your risk score and get a personalized report — so you can start protecting your mind, body, and soul to carry you into your passion and joy.
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(00:08):
Hey, Wellness Warriors.
Welcome back to theBurnout Resolution Podcast.
I'm your host, Dr. Mylaine Riobé,and today we're talking about
something that you've probablyfelt: the infinite workday.
Maybe you're waking up to slackmessages, text messages, tons and tons
of emails all under time crunches.
(00:28):
Maybe you're trying to mix that withraising a family, being in relationships,
and even on weekends, your braindoesn't ever get to shut off, and by
the time Monday rolls back around,you felt like you never had a weekend.
Microsoft's research confirms that theaverage employee gets over a hundred
emails a day and gets interrupted onan average of once every two minutes.
(00:53):
Given that we have research since the1990s, that tells us that one single
interruption takes the average person20 minutes to recover from and refocus
on the assignment or the task they weretrying to do before they got interrupted.
If the average employee is gettinginterrupted once every two minutes,
(01:14):
that pretty much trashes theentire workday, which causes the
workday to spill in to free time.
Hence the infinite workday.
No wonder so many peopleare drained and in burnout.
Most of the headlines about the infiniteworkday point to one conclusion,
(01:35):
corporate culture must change.
And that's true, but for those ofus who've dealt with corporations,
we understand that's a tall order.
Here's the problem.
It can take corporations years to change,and while we wait, that leaves millions of
people suffering each and every day stuckin survival mode, wondering how they're
(01:59):
going to make it through the next day.
So today I want to giveyou something different.
How to protect your sanity, your health.
Your soul right now.
Interruptions are constant.
Seems like we can't even go to thebathroom without being interrupted,
and that leaves us exhausted becauseyou keep having to regroup your
(02:21):
thoughts to remember what you weretrying to achieve before you got
interrupted two, three and four times.
Given the solid research that everysingle interruption breaks your focus
and takes you 20 minutes to recoverfrom this, leaves us with very, very
little time for deep true focus.
(02:42):
Most people think burnout is just aboutprotecting their sanity, their mental
health, so they think that managingtheir stress, taking a vacation, or even
sometimes changing jobs will fix it.
I think maybe if they meditate alittle more, that'll also help.
But here's what gets overlooked.
Burnout, leaves fingerprints in yourmetabolism, in your biology, and
(03:04):
isn't just mental, that cholesterolthat's creeping up, that blood
sugar level that isn't quite normal.
The creeping blood pressurethat's sometimes going too high
and even sometimes too low.
Causing dizziness and perhapsthat stubborn weight gain or that
inflammation you can't get rid of.
These aren't just signs of aging likemany of my clients believe, they're signs
(03:27):
of metabolism pulled off track and outof balance due to stress and burnout.
Your body wasn't designedfor survival mode.
It was designed as a vehicle toexperience love, joy, and fulfillment.
I had to learn the hard way that I wasn'tjust here to survive and earn a paycheck.
I thought that having my ownpractice would be my ticket to
(03:48):
freedom, that I could controlmy own hours and do what I want.
And to a large extent, that wastrue, but I started suffering from
the infinite workday as well as asolo practitioner or a solopreneur.
I was my own officemanager for certain times.
I was managing all of my staff andof course, managing care for my
(04:11):
clients, managing their experience,managing the services that we were
offering, and it seemed like my daynever ended and I ended up in burnout.
I had promised myself that wouldnever happen again because I ended up
in burnout when I was going throughmy medical residency and training.
And so I made a radical decisionseveral years ago, and that was to
(04:34):
never work five days a week again.
I made a mental choice to take atleast one full day off I could rest.
Sleep in, go to the park, I coulddo whatever I wanted to do, go go to
the beach, and slowly but surely, Igot myself out of burnout yet again.
And through that process and throughhelping thousands of clients get out of
(04:57):
burnout, I developed a method that I'veused with now hundreds of my clients
called Dynamic Metabolic Typing®.
And although I didn't know it at the time.
This was a method I used subconsciouslythrough my own knowledge of traditional
Chinese medicine in getting myself outof burnout and during the pandemic, it
(05:18):
started to crystallize in my mind thatI could do this remotely and not have to
see clients in person, because at the timewe were forced to see clients remotely.
I was forced to come up with a methodologythat would be consistently effective.
That would still help my clientsthrough their fatigue symptoms
and whatever other things.
(05:39):
Sometimes they would come inwith joint pains on top of their
exhaustion or sleep difficulties,anxiety, depression, weight gain.
And what I realized is through DynamicMetabolic Typing®, which is based in
traditional Chinese medicine theory,I could very quickly determine
the pattern that was actually underlyingand tying their symptoms together.
(06:02):
And this helped me guide them withlifestyle recommendations through what
I call the four pillars of wellness.
Eat, move, rest, and detox.
What we learned together, my clientsand I, is that even without testing,
I could determine with them what theirDynamic Metabolic Type® was and give
them customized nutrition, exercise,sleep, and detoxification recommendations
(06:27):
based on that Dynamic Metabolic Type®.
What's so powerful about DynamicMetabolic Typing® is that it tells
you where your metabolism is stuck andwhat happens with stress and burnout.
You get these physiological changes inyour body in response to that stress
that's chronic and unrelenting, and itcreates a pattern in your metabolism that
(06:51):
is an abnormal adaptation or what we calla pathological adaptation in traditional
Chinese medicine or pathological balance.
That means we're making two wrongs equala right, so that the body can keep going.
This creates this pattern.
There's a way that your body respondsand adapts where it sets itself in
(07:12):
this imbalanced state so that itcan still keep going despite having
for example, lack of nutrientsor toxin buildup or inflammation.
So it'll find its way aroundall these obstacles, and we
call that pathological balance.
A Dynamic Metabolic Type® tellsyou where your body is stuck
(07:32):
in these abnormal adaptations.
Once you know that, you know your way backout because you just reverse engineer it.
And that's the beauty ofDynamic Metabolic Typing®.
Once you know why you're burntout, you also know how to reverse
your burnout and actually recover.
Your body has a natural blueprint itwants to follow all the time, but it also
(07:55):
has within it a way to adapt in case itcan't follow that blueprint to the letter.
It can adapt and skirt aroundsome minor issues with no problem.
You won't even know it's doing it.
It's all subconscious.
It's all in the background, and thebody is well adapted for that, but
when the stress is unrelenting to thepoint where it's becoming burnout.
(08:16):
Your body has to keep findingmore and more alternate routes
around obstacles and problems.
This is where it becomes anabnormality, and you might see some
hints of it in your blood work.
So you might see your cholesterolcreeping up, your blood sugar creeping up.
Your liver function might gooff the rails for a while.
Your weight might creep up.
(08:36):
Your blood pressuremight fluctuate wildly.
It might be too high, it might be too low.
You might have a high resting heartrate, and now that we have our
wearables and we can measure our heartrate variability, you might see that
your heart rate variability is lowlike in the twenties or thirties.
Which is not normal.
So burnout is not a mental thing.
It's also a physical thing.
(08:57):
And because mental things are physicalthings, it's just the mental things
are going on, confined in the brain,but the brain is a physical structure
and the brain, whatever's going on inthe brain, it's going to be relayed
into the body on a physical level.
And so, although you won't find anydiagnosis of burnout with your blood work,
like there's no blood test to tell youyou are in burnout, there will be signs.
(09:21):
So I'll have some clientswho know they're in burnout.
They know they're exhausted.
They, try to maybe exercise more, orthey'll do intermittent fasting because
sometimes it's just convenient, right?
They're so busy, it's better not to eat.
So they just get into this intermittentfasting, and by the time they come to
see me, they're even more exhausted.
(09:43):
When we do their Dynamic MetabolicType®, what we usually find is
that they were going against theirDynamic Metabolic Type® and not.
With it.
So they weren't rebalancing the body, theywere making it even more out of balance.
And it's hard to know if something isgoing to work or backfire on you if you
don't know your Dynamic Metabolic Type®.
(10:04):
And so for example, if you are ahot deficient, and you start to eat
really spicy food and do intermittentfasting, and you start exercising more.
You're actually going to makeyourself worse because when you're
depleted, you don't want to fast,
you need to actually eat more whenyou're depleted, not less, and so if
(10:25):
you're eating less, when you're alreadydepleted, it makes sense that you're
going to become even more depleted.
Also, if you're too hot andyou're eating hot, spicy food,
you're going to get hotter.
The problem with becoming too hot is thatcreates a lot of acidity in the body.
The body hates being acidic.
That can interfere with metabolism.
(10:47):
It can interfere with circulation.
And so all this causes people tospiral further down into burnout.
Same thing if you're too cold.
If you're cold deficient and you decideto become a raw vegan, for example,
you are going to make yourself colderbecause raw food is cooling by its nature.
The body hates being too cold, somepeople will be running around with a
(11:08):
body temperature that's too low allthe time, and they feel cold, but they
don't realize that's not normal becausethat's just how they've always felt.
But the body needs to be 98.6 degrees.
If you feel cold, or even the opposite,if you feel warm all the time.
That's not normal, and your body istelling you that it had to set itself in
(11:30):
an abnormal place just to keep the peace.
That's what that means.
It doesn't mean that it's normal.
It means that it'spathologically balanced.
We're making two wrongs equal aright, and this is what Dynamic
Metabolic Typing® identifies so thatyou know exactly what to do from
there because you do the opposite.
So if you're too hot, you want tocool yourself down with nutrition.
(11:53):
If you are too cold, you want towarm yourself up with nutrition.
Keeping yourself physically warm as well.
So heating pads, infrared therapy mightbe beneficial for someone who's too cold.
For example, if you're an excess, DynamicMetabolic Type®, then you want to move
more, not less, if you're excess and youhave a lot of inflammation or toxins in
(12:13):
your body, you need to mobilize thosetoxins so that they leave your body.
So if you, stagnant, if you're sittingand working all the time and you're
not able to get your exercise in.
You're going to feel worse andyour fatigue and burnout will be
because of the accumulation ofthe inflammation and the toxins.
And so you want to do the opposite.
(12:34):
So for people that have an excessdynamic metabolic site, those people
may benefit from a gentle guidedcleanse, which we do in our Wellness
Warrior 9-Week Transformation Program
I've learned to support my clientswith Dynamic Metabolic Typing® over
the years, I created a system usinga burnout assessment where you can
(12:54):
determine your own Dynamic MetabolicType® and get some easy tips and tricks.
In our seven day challenge, we'regetting amazing results in our challenge.
People are sleeping better, losing weight.
They're reversing their abnormalblood sugars, feeling much more
vibrant, less achy, all in justseven days, simply because as soon
(13:15):
as your body has what it needs, itwill immediately start to use it.
So as soon as you're flowing withyour metabolism and not against
it, your body will start to find abetter way to be more efficient with
its metabolism and its functions,and you don't have to do anything
to your body to force it to do that.
We just need to know what theDynamic Metabolic Type® is and
(13:39):
build our lifestyle around that.
How we eat, how we move, how we rest,and how we detox, and then the body
will take it from there, and that's whatwe're seeing in our seven day challenge.
It's so exciting.
When I created the seven DayChallenge, I wanted to give people
a little taste of what the nine weektransformation program would be like.
And, it really exceeded my expectations,and I never ceased to be amazed at how
(14:04):
resilient the human body actually is andhow miraculous a machine it actually is.
This is what happens when you realignwith the body's natural blueprint.
Once you know how it's.
Out of balance.
You know exactly what to doto get it back into balance.
Now let's talk about those interruptions,because those seem to come, no matter
how well we eat, how well we move, howmuch sleep we get, and how well we detox.
(14:27):
Interruptions are unfortunatelypart of our lives.
One thing I've learned to do is toflip the script on interruptions.
Normally, interruptionsare very draining, right?
We have to stop what we're doing,the flow comes to a grinding halt.
We have to suddenly change ourattention and focus on something else.
(14:47):
Then we have to try to go back tothe thing we were doing before.
So what if we use that as a recovery cue?
Almost like a little tap on the shoulderthat says, Hey, now's your opportunity to
recover from this burnout, prevent thisburnout if you're not quite there yet.
So every ding ping and, vibrationfrom the phone with a text
message can become a cue to reset.
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For example, when your phone suddenlyrings and you have to pick it up.
Before you actually pick it up, takethree slow HeartMath breaths just
to reset and break the interruption,and get yourself grounded again
before you pick up the phone.
Same with a text message thatcomes in before you respond.
Use it as a cue to takea few sips of your water.
(15:33):
For example, when you get a slack messagethat pops up in a notification, take
that as a cue to stand up and stretch.
Maybe do a couple jumping jacks orwalk around the room a little bit,
keep the circulation going, andthen look at your slack message.
These are what we callpattern interruptions.
They're science backed ways toretrain your brain and your body
(15:56):
to recover instead of collapsingunder pressure over time.
As you use these as opportunitiesinstead of just distractions.
They're a great, easy wayto restore your energy.
Raise your vibe.
Soothe your soul.
I've been using these patterninterruptions for years now, and
I can vouch for them for sure.
(16:18):
I'll sometimes recommend tomy clients that they literally
set alarms on their phones,
you're going to get interrupted anyway.
Why not have it be a purposefulinterruption from yourself?
A reminder to take some breaths, areminder to stand up and stretch,
a reminder to drink your water.
These are science backed waysto keep yourself out of burnout.
To help you recover if you'vegone down that slippery slope.
(16:41):
And this isn't just based on commonsense science backs two to three
minutes of calm, deep breathing asan amazing tool to calm the nervous
system and retrain the brain.
HeartMath breathing has been shownto increase heart rate variability.
In fact, the Institute of HeartMath out ofCalifornia was instrumental in the early
(17:03):
research on heart rate variability that'snow been validated in multiple labs.
Breaking up sedentary times whereyou're just sitting at your desk.
Grinding is great for mood and clarityand improves your circulation, and
your brain has a natural rhythmthat's about 90 minutes long.
It cycles between high focusand low focus every 90 minutes.
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If you don't honor that rhythm, ifyou go against it, just like if you
go against your Dynamic MetabolicType®, if you go against this natural
rhythm of your brain, you're going toget more fatigued and more burnt out.
If you go with the rhythms, with thenatural cycle of your brain that we
call Ultradian cycles, you improve yourfocus, mood, energy, and raise that vibe.
(17:50):
In reality, we're all highvibrating beings, when we go
against our natural blueprint, wedampen our vibration, so to speak.
So just taking those few secondsmakes all the difference.
And making sure you takeplenty of sips of water.
If you just took a couple sips ofwater for every interruption, you'd
probably be extremely well hydratedand dehydration is a massive problem.
(18:15):
Your body needs to beproperly hydrated to function.
If you're exercising and sleepingand eating, but you're not drinking
enough water, you're undoing a lotof the work that you're putting in.
We're 99% water by molecule,70% water by weight.
Water is a massive major ingredientfor our proper body function.
(18:37):
The nervous system requires waterto transmit signals, and the insides
of our cells also require a lot ofwater to perform their functions.
And then of course, the water thatmakes up, our blood circulating in
our blood vessels is an importanttransportation tool that takes oxygen
and nutrients throughout our entire body.
(18:59):
If we're dehydrated, there willbe pockets of our body where
the blood vessels collapse.
because there's not enough pressure to getthrough to get to the tissues and cells.
Learn to flip the script on thoseinterruptions and make sure you're
getting soul recovery for everyinterruption that comes your way.
Make sure you've got yourwater bottle with you.
(19:21):
Another tip for water is to puta pinch of Himalayan sea salt in
your water to remineralize it.
Many people have demineralizedwater from the filtration processes
that keep our water clean.
The minerals get stripped out throughthis process, so you want to remineralize
your water, make sure that you havea safe brand of Himalayan sea salts.
(19:44):
Unfortunately, because heavy metalsare everywhere, they're also in the
sea salts, and so you can do someresearch to find a safe sea salt.
One that I use, based on myown research is Celtic brand.
The body needs mineralizationto retain its hydration.
A deep spiritual truth is thatour body is a vehicle for us to
(20:06):
experience joy, love, and fulfillment.
But when we look around,we see the opposite.
People trapped in fear, trapped inthese infinite work days that never end
trapped in false beliefs and exhaustion.
This is what we think is normal.
People think burnout is a rite of passageto success, but that's simply not true.
(20:27):
What we're currently witnessing,there's so much chaos, is the
downfall of these false beliefs.
Our newer generations have made it clear.
They're not tolerating the BS anymore.
The struggles we see now, burnout,chronic illness, mental health disorders
are the birth pains of something new.
(20:47):
The change we've all beendesiring is very possible.
To live authentically, to be creative,to bring joy back into our lives
is where we're headed, and it'sup to us to create that world
that we desire instead of blindlyrepeating the one that we inherited.
And that starts by choosing differentlyeach and every day in our own lives.
(21:10):
Protecting our energy, flipping the scripton interruptions, honoring our vibe.
And listening to that still quiet voice,deep down in our souls, it's important
to have that stillness built into yourday, even if it's just five minutes
or even three minutes of HeartMath,where you're completely still, and
just breathing and listen to that quietvoice and check out what it's saying.
(21:35):
That's where clarity comesfrom, and that's how we rebuild
from a state of burnout.
Into a state of joy and fulfillment.
While corporate culture may beslow to change, we don't have to
sit here and wait because yourbody and your soul can't wait.
Every interruption is a choice point.
You can let it drainyou or flip the script.
(21:57):
Use it to realign with yourtruth, your joy and your soul.
If your labs are creeping out ofnormal range, if your energy feels
flat and your vibe is off, and youdon't have the passion you feel you
should, don't just chalk it up to aging.
Burnout's not just in your mind.
It leaves a fingerprint on yourmetabolism, your labs, and your life.
(22:20):
The good news is thathealing's around the corner.
Take my free burnout riskassessment tool and find out where
you are on the burnout spectrum.
See what your next steps can beto get yourself out of burnout now
so you can start protecting yourmind, your body, and your soul.
Go to awakenedwellnessnow.comto take our assessment today.
(22:43):
And remember, burnout isnot a rite of passage.
It's your body talking to you andasking you to choose differently.
The question is, will you?
I hope you found thispodcast to be useful.
Please like and subscribe to our channel.
Please share this with anyone you know whomight be experiencing an infinite workday.
(23:04):
And remember that the infiniteworkday isn't just for an employee.
There are millions of moms alsoexperiencing an infinite workday at home
who could benefit from this as well.
Please share with them too.
Thanks for listening, and untilnext time, many, many blessings.
Thank you.
Hey, Wellness Warriors.
Welcome back to theBurnout Resolution Podcast.
I'm your host, Dr. Mylaine Riobé,and today we're talking about
something that you've probablyfelt: the infinite workday.
Maybe you're waking up to slackmessages, text messages, tons and tons
of emails all under time crunches.
(00:28):
Maybe you're trying to mix that withraising a family, being in relationships,
and even on weekends, your braindoesn't ever get to shut off, and by
the time Monday rolls back around,you felt like you never had a weekend.
Microsoft's research confirms that theaverage employee gets over a hundred
emails a day and gets interrupted onan average of once every two minutes.
(00:53):
Given that we have research since the1990s, that tells us that one single
interruption takes the average person20 minutes to recover from and refocus
on the assignment or the task they weretrying to do before they got interrupted.
If the average employee is gettinginterrupted once every two minutes,
(01:14):
that pretty much trashes theentire workday, which causes the
workday to spill in to free time.
Hence the infinite workday.
No wonder so many peopleare drained and in burnout.
Most of the headlines about the infiniteworkday point to one conclusion,
(01:35):
corporate culture must change.
And that's true, but for those ofus who've dealt with corporations,
we understand that's a tall order.
Here's the problem.
It can take corporations years to change,and while we wait, that leaves millions of
people suffering each and every day stuckin survival mode, wondering how they're
(01:59):
going to make it through the next day.
So today I want to giveyou something different.
How to protect your sanity, your health.
Your soul right now.
Interruptions are constant.
Seems like we can't even go to thebathroom without being interrupted,
and that leaves us exhausted becauseyou keep having to regroup your
(02:21):
thoughts to remember what you weretrying to achieve before you got
interrupted two, three and four times.
Given the solid research that everysingle interruption breaks your focus
and takes you 20 minutes to recoverfrom this, leaves us with very, very
little time for deep true focus.
(02:42):
Most people think burnout is just aboutprotecting their sanity, their mental
health, so they think that managingtheir stress, taking a vacation, or even
sometimes changing jobs will fix it.
I think maybe if they meditate alittle more, that'll also help.
But here's what gets overlooked.
Burnout, leaves fingerprints in yourmetabolism, in your biology, and
(03:04):
isn't just mental, that cholesterolthat's creeping up, that blood
sugar level that isn't quite normal.
The creeping blood pressurethat's sometimes going too high
and even sometimes too low.
Causing dizziness and perhapsthat stubborn weight gain or that
inflammation you can't get rid of.
These aren't just signs of aging likemany of my clients believe, they're signs
(03:27):
of metabolism pulled off track and outof balance due to stress and burnout.
Your body wasn't designedfor survival mode.
It was designed as a vehicle toexperience love, joy, and fulfillment.
I had to learn the hard way that I wasn'tjust here to survive and earn a paycheck.
I thought that having my ownpractice would be my ticket to
(03:48):
freedom, that I could controlmy own hours and do what I want.
And to a large extent, that wastrue, but I started suffering from
the infinite workday as well as asolo practitioner or a solopreneur.
I was my own officemanager for certain times.
I was managing all of my staff andof course, managing care for my
(04:11):
clients, managing their experience,managing the services that we were
offering, and it seemed like my daynever ended and I ended up in burnout.
I had promised myself that wouldnever happen again because I ended up
in burnout when I was going throughmy medical residency and training.
And so I made a radical decisionseveral years ago, and that was to
(04:34):
never work five days a week again.
I made a mental choice to take atleast one full day off I could rest.
Sleep in, go to the park, I coulddo whatever I wanted to do, go go to
the beach, and slowly but surely, Igot myself out of burnout yet again.
And through that process and throughhelping thousands of clients get out of
(04:57):
burnout, I developed a method that I'veused with now hundreds of my clients
called Dynamic Metabolic Typing®.
And although I didn't know it at the time.
This was a method I used subconsciouslythrough my own knowledge of traditional
Chinese medicine in getting myself outof burnout and during the pandemic, it
(05:18):
started to crystallize in my mind thatI could do this remotely and not have to
see clients in person, because at the timewe were forced to see clients remotely.
I was forced to come up with a methodologythat would be consistently effective.
That would still help my clientsthrough their fatigue symptoms
and whatever other things.
(05:39):
Sometimes they would come inwith joint pains on top of their
exhaustion or sleep difficulties,anxiety, depression, weight gain.
And what I realized is through DynamicMetabolic Typing®, which is based in
traditional Chinese medicine theory,I could very quickly determine
the pattern that was actually underlyingand tying their symptoms together.
(06:02):
And this helped me guide them withlifestyle recommendations through what
I call the four pillars of wellness.
Eat, move, rest, and detox.
What we learned together, my clientsand I, is that even without testing,
I could determine with them what theirDynamic Metabolic Type® was and give
them customized nutrition, exercise,sleep, and detoxification recommendations
(06:27):
based on that Dynamic Metabolic Type®.
What's so powerful about DynamicMetabolic Typing® is that it tells
you where your metabolism is stuck andwhat happens with stress and burnout.
You get these physiological changes inyour body in response to that stress
that's chronic and unrelenting, and itcreates a pattern in your metabolism that
(06:51):
is an abnormal adaptation or what we calla pathological adaptation in traditional
Chinese medicine or pathological balance.
That means we're making two wrongs equala right, so that the body can keep going.
This creates this pattern.
There's a way that your body respondsand adapts where it sets itself in
(07:12):
this imbalanced state so that itcan still keep going despite having
for example, lack of nutrientsor toxin buildup or inflammation.
So it'll find its way aroundall these obstacles, and we
call that pathological balance.
A Dynamic Metabolic Type® tellsyou where your body is stuck
(07:32):
in these abnormal adaptations.
Once you know that, you know your way backout because you just reverse engineer it.
And that's the beauty ofDynamic Metabolic Typing®.
Once you know why you're burntout, you also know how to reverse
your burnout and actually recover.
Your body has a natural blueprint itwants to follow all the time, but it also
(07:55):
has within it a way to adapt in case itcan't follow that blueprint to the letter.
It can adapt and skirt aroundsome minor issues with no problem.
You won't even know it's doing it.
It's all subconscious.
It's all in the background, and thebody is well adapted for that, but
when the stress is unrelenting to thepoint where it's becoming burnout.
(08:16):
Your body has to keep findingmore and more alternate routes
around obstacles and problems.
This is where it becomes anabnormality, and you might see some
hints of it in your blood work.
So you might see your cholesterolcreeping up, your blood sugar creeping up.
Your liver function might gooff the rails for a while.
Your weight might creep up.
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Your blood pressuremight fluctuate wildly.
It might be too high, it might be too low.
You might have a high resting heartrate, and now that we have our
wearables and we can measure our heartrate variability, you might see that
your heart rate variability is lowlike in the twenties or thirties.
Which is not normal.
So burnout is not a mental thing.
It's also a physical thing.
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And because mental things are physicalthings, it's just the mental things
are going on, confined in the brain,but the brain is a physical structure
and the brain, whatever's going on inthe brain, it's going to be relayed
into the body on a physical level.
And so, although you won't find anydiagnosis of burnout with your blood work,
like there's no blood test to tell youyou are in burnout, there will be signs.
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So I'll have some clientswho know they're in burnout.
They know they're exhausted.
They, try to maybe exercise more, orthey'll do intermittent fasting because
sometimes it's just convenient, right?
They're so busy, it's better not to eat.
So they just get into this intermittentfasting, and by the time they come to
see me, they're even more exhausted.
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When we do their Dynamic MetabolicType®, what we usually find is
that they were going against theirDynamic Metabolic Type® and not.
With it.
So they weren't rebalancing the body, theywere making it even more out of balance.
And it's hard to know if something isgoing to work or backfire on you if you
don't know your Dynamic Metabolic Type®.
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And so for example, if you are ahot deficient, and you start to eat
really spicy food and do intermittentfasting, and you start exercising more.
You're actually going to makeyourself worse because when you're
depleted, you don't want to fast,
you need to actually eat more whenyou're depleted, not less, and so if
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you're eating less, when you're alreadydepleted, it makes sense that you're
going to become even more depleted.
Also, if you're too hot andyou're eating hot, spicy food,
you're going to get hotter.
The problem with becoming too hot is thatcreates a lot of acidity in the body.
The body hates being acidic.
That can interfere with metabolism.
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It can interfere with circulation.
And so all this causes people tospiral further down into burnout.
Same thing if you're too cold.
If you're cold deficient and you decideto become a raw vegan, for example,
you are going to make yourself colderbecause raw food is cooling by its nature.
The body hates being too cold, somepeople will be running around with a
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body temperature that's too low allthe time, and they feel cold, but they
don't realize that's not normal becausethat's just how they've always felt.
But the body needs to be 98.6 degrees.
If you feel cold, or even the opposite,if you feel warm all the time.
That's not normal, and your body istelling you that it had to set itself in
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an abnormal place just to keep the peace.
That's what that means.
It doesn't mean that it's normal.
It means that it'spathologically balanced.
We're making two wrongs equal aright, and this is what Dynamic
Metabolic Typing® identifies so thatyou know exactly what to do from
there because you do the opposite.
So if you're too hot, you want tocool yourself down with nutrition.
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If you are too cold, you want towarm yourself up with nutrition.
Keeping yourself physically warm as well.
So heating pads, infrared therapy mightbe beneficial for someone who's too cold.
For example, if you're an excess, DynamicMetabolic Type®, then you want to move
more, not less, if you're excess and youhave a lot of inflammation or toxins in
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your body, you need to mobilize thosetoxins so that they leave your body.
So if you, stagnant, if you're sittingand working all the time and you're
not able to get your exercise in.
You're going to feel worse andyour fatigue and burnout will be
because of the accumulation ofthe inflammation and the toxins.
And so you want to do the opposite.
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So for people that have an excessdynamic metabolic site, those people
may benefit from a gentle guidedcleanse, which we do in our Wellness
Warrior 9-Week Transformation Program
I've learned to support my clientswith Dynamic Metabolic Typing® over
the years, I created a system usinga burnout assessment where you can
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determine your own Dynamic MetabolicType® and get some easy tips and tricks.
In our seven day challenge, we'regetting amazing results in our challenge.
People are sleeping better, losing weight.
They're reversing their abnormalblood sugars, feeling much more
vibrant, less achy, all in justseven days, simply because as soon
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as your body has what it needs, itwill immediately start to use it.
So as soon as you're flowing withyour metabolism and not against
it, your body will start to find abetter way to be more efficient with
its metabolism and its functions,and you don't have to do anything
to your body to force it to do that.
We just need to know what theDynamic Metabolic Type® is and
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build our lifestyle around that.
How we eat, how we move, how we rest,and how we detox, and then the body
will take it from there, and that's whatwe're seeing in our seven day challenge.
It's so exciting.
When I created the seven DayChallenge, I wanted to give people
a little taste of what the nine weektransformation program would be like.
And, it really exceeded my expectations,and I never ceased to be amazed at how
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resilient the human body actually is andhow miraculous a machine it actually is.
This is what happens when you realignwith the body's natural blueprint.
Once you know how it's.
Out of balance.
You know exactly what to doto get it back into balance.
Now let's talk about those interruptions,because those seem to come, no matter
how well we eat, how well we move, howmuch sleep we get, and how well we detox.
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Interruptions are unfortunatelypart of our lives.
One thing I've learned to do is toflip the script on interruptions.
Normally, interruptionsare very draining, right?
We have to stop what we're doing,the flow comes to a grinding halt.
We have to suddenly change ourattention and focus on something else.
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Then we have to try to go back tothe thing we were doing before.
So what if we use that as a recovery cue?
Almost like a little tap on the shoulderthat says, Hey, now's your opportunity to
recover from this burnout, prevent thisburnout if you're not quite there yet.
So every ding ping and, vibrationfrom the phone with a text
message can become a cue to reset.
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For example, when your phone suddenlyrings and you have to pick it up.
Before you actually pick it up, takethree slow HeartMath breaths just
to reset and break the interruption,and get yourself grounded again
before you pick up the phone.
Same with a text message thatcomes in before you respond.
Use it as a cue to takea few sips of your water.
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For example, when you get a slack messagethat pops up in a notification, take
that as a cue to stand up and stretch.
Maybe do a couple jumping jacks orwalk around the room a little bit,
keep the circulation going, andthen look at your slack message.
These are what we callpattern interruptions.
They're science backed ways toretrain your brain and your body
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to recover instead of collapsingunder pressure over time.
As you use these as opportunitiesinstead of just distractions.
They're a great, easy wayto restore your energy.
Raise your vibe.
Soothe your soul.
I've been using these patterninterruptions for years now, and
I can vouch for them for sure.
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I'll sometimes recommend tomy clients that they literally
set alarms on their phones,
you're going to get interrupted anyway.
Why not have it be a purposefulinterruption from yourself?
A reminder to take some breaths, areminder to stand up and stretch,
a reminder to drink your water.
These are science backed waysto keep yourself out of burnout.
To help you recover if you'vegone down that slippery slope.
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And this isn't just based on commonsense science backs two to three
minutes of calm, deep breathing asan amazing tool to calm the nervous
system and retrain the brain.
HeartMath breathing has been shownto increase heart rate variability.
In fact, the Institute of HeartMath out ofCalifornia was instrumental in the early
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research on heart rate variability that'snow been validated in multiple labs.
Breaking up sedentary times whereyou're just sitting at your desk.
Grinding is great for mood and clarityand improves your circulation, and
your brain has a natural rhythmthat's about 90 minutes long.
It cycles between high focusand low focus every 90 minutes.
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If you don't honor that rhythm, ifyou go against it, just like if you
go against your Dynamic MetabolicType®, if you go against this natural
rhythm of your brain, you're going toget more fatigued and more burnt out.
If you go with the rhythms, with thenatural cycle of your brain that we
call Ultradian cycles, you improve yourfocus, mood, energy, and raise that vibe.
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In reality, we're all highvibrating beings, when we go
against our natural blueprint, wedampen our vibration, so to speak.
So just taking those few secondsmakes all the difference.
And making sure you takeplenty of sips of water.
If you just took a couple sips ofwater for every interruption, you'd
probably be extremely well hydratedand dehydration is a massive problem.
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Your body needs to beproperly hydrated to function.
If you're exercising and sleepingand eating, but you're not drinking
enough water, you're undoing a lotof the work that you're putting in.
We're 99% water by molecule,70% water by weight.
Water is a massive major ingredientfor our proper body function.
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The nervous system requires waterto transmit signals, and the insides
of our cells also require a lot ofwater to perform their functions.
And then of course, the water thatmakes up, our blood circulating in
our blood vessels is an importanttransportation tool that takes oxygen
and nutrients throughout our entire body.
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If we're dehydrated, there willbe pockets of our body where
the blood vessels collapse.
because there's not enough pressure to getthrough to get to the tissues and cells.
Learn to flip the script on thoseinterruptions and make sure you're
getting soul recovery for everyinterruption that comes your way.
Make sure you've got yourwater bottle with you.
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Another tip for water is to puta pinch of Himalayan sea salt in
your water to remineralize it.
Many people have demineralizedwater from the filtration processes
that keep our water clean.
The minerals get stripped out throughthis process, so you want to remineralize
your water, make sure that you havea safe brand of Himalayan sea salts.
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Unfortunately, because heavy metalsare everywhere, they're also in the
sea salts, and so you can do someresearch to find a safe sea salt.
One that I use, based on myown research is Celtic brand.
The body needs mineralizationto retain its hydration.
A deep spiritual truth is thatour body is a vehicle for us to
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experience joy, love, and fulfillment.
But when we look around,we see the opposite.
People trapped in fear, trapped inthese infinite work days that never end
trapped in false beliefs and exhaustion.
This is what we think is normal.
People think burnout is a rite of passageto success, but that's simply not true.
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What we're currently witnessing,there's so much chaos, is the
downfall of these false beliefs.
Our newer generations have made it clear.
They're not tolerating the BS anymore.
The struggles we see now, burnout,chronic illness, mental health disorders
are the birth pains of something new.
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The change we've all beendesiring is very possible.
To live authentically, to be creative,to bring joy back into our lives
is where we're headed, and it'sup to us to create that world
that we desire instead of blindlyrepeating the one that we inherited.
And that starts by choosing differentlyeach and every day in our own lives.
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Protecting our energy, flipping the scripton interruptions, honoring our vibe.
And listening to that still quiet voice,deep down in our souls, it's important
to have that stillness built into yourday, even if it's just five minutes
or even three minutes of HeartMath,where you're completely still, and
just breathing and listen to that quietvoice and check out what it's saying.
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That's where clarity comesfrom, and that's how we rebuild
from a state of burnout.
Into a state of joy and fulfillment.
While corporate culture may beslow to change, we don't have to
sit here and wait because yourbody and your soul can't wait.
Every interruption is a choice point.
You can let it drainyou or flip the script.
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Use it to realign with yourtruth, your joy and your soul.
If your labs are creeping out ofnormal range, if your energy feels
flat and your vibe is off, and youdon't have the passion you feel you
should, don't just chalk it up to aging.
Burnout's not just in your mind.
It leaves a fingerprint on yourmetabolism, your labs, and your life.
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The good news is thathealing's around the corner.
Take my free burnout riskassessment tool and find out where
you are on the burnout spectrum.
See what your next steps can beto get yourself out of burnout now
so you can start protecting yourmind, your body, and your soul.
Go to awakenedwellnessnow.comto take our assessment today.
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And remember, burnout isnot a rite of passage.
It's your body talking to you andasking you to choose differently.
The question is, will you?
I hope you found thispodcast to be useful.
Please like and subscribe to our channel.
Please share this with anyone you know whomight be experiencing an infinite workday.
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And remember that the infiniteworkday isn't just for an employee.
There are millions of moms alsoexperiencing an infinite workday at home
who could benefit from this as well.
Please share with them too.
Thanks for listening, and untilnext time, many, many blessings.
Thank you.
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