January 30, 2025 • 36 mins
In this episode of the Aging Well Podcast, we explore the topic of metabolic health with Jane Durst-Pulkys, PhD—holistic nutritionist, weight-loss expert, and USA Brand Ambassador for Metabolic Balance. Jane is the author of the upcoming book, The Metabolic Balance Kitchen: Deliciously Satisfying Recipes to Reset Your Metabolism, Fight Inflammation, and Lose Weight. With her extensive expertise, Jane empowers individuals to achieve metabolic health using natural, whole-food approaches that are both accessible and sustainable. Jane shares insights from her book, explore the science of metabolic health, and reveal practical tips for improving your well-being and… aging well. (CAUTION: The audio is less than ideal at times.)
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Welcome to the Aging Well podcast, where we explore the
secrets of thriving in every stage of life.
In today's episode, we're divinginto the critical topic of
metabolic health, a cornerstone of aging well.
Did you know that over 93% of Americans are not metabolically
healthy? This pervasive issue accelerates
the risk of developing chronic diseases and impacts our quality
of life. To help us navigate this complex
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yet vital subject, we are joinedby Jane Durst Polkies, PhD,
Holistic nutritionist, weight loss expert, and US Brand
Ambassador for Metabolic Balance.
Jane is the author of the upcoming book The Metabolic
Balance Kitchen. Deliciously satisfying recipes
to reset your metabolism, fight inflammation, and lose weight.
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With her extensive expertise, Jane empowers individuals to
achieve metabolic health using natural, whole food approaches
that are both accessible and sustainable.
Today, Jane will share insights from her book, explore the
science of metabolic health, andreveal practical tips for
improving your well-being and aging well.
Jane, welcome to the Aging Well podcast.
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Can you share your personal journey and what kind of led you
to focus on metabolic health? Oh boy.
Well, I grew up with eight brothers and sisters, and I was
always fascinated by nutrition. My mom had a farmer bring fruits
and vegetables to our house. So as a young child, I started
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to experiment with making my ownyogurt, making my own bread,
making my own shampoo. Until one day I decided to make
shampoo and store it in the reallemon bottle in the in the
refrigerator. And then she decided that she
was going to use that on the fish on a Tuesday night.
And there was soap. Everywhere.
So she. Said, you know what, you need to
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go and study nutrition. So I went off to university, got
a degree in nutrition, subsequently got a holistic
degree and then finished my PhD last year.
So it's been a long journey. I've been doing this since 1980.
It's been amazing. But I was introduced to
metabolic balance in the year 2013 where Doctor Wolf came to
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Canada and I was just like mesmerized by the science of
metabolic health and became a metabolic Bounce coach and now
am the US ambassador for Metabolic Bounce.
I've sold over 1200 of these plans.
I have been witness to complete transformation in people's
health, whether it's fatty liverdisease, high cholesterol, you
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know, uric acid problems, you name it, we're able to deal with
it. And then I decided that, you
know, I think one of my clients were always asking for books or
recipes rather. So then I went on the journey
and I put together a Metabolic Balance Kitchen cookbook, but
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also explained the science of the program which gets released
today. So it's a 3 1/2 year project and
we're so excited to have it out because I really do believe that
metabolic syndrome is clearly, you know, affecting so many
people, but people don't understand what that actually
means. So metabolic syndrome is a name
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given to a clusters of disorderssuch as high blood pressure,
high fasting glucose, high triglycerides, high blood
pressure, which is going to create inflammation in the body.
And inflammation as we know is responsible for 98% of people's
problems. So that's kind of my story in a
nutshell. And I'm looking forward to many
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more years of working with clients and with metabolic
Balance all across Canada and United States.
So I'm very excited for where it's going right now.
Well, congratulations on launching the book and we will
make sure that we have links to how the listeners and their
viewers can actually access thatbook in our kind of description
notes. But why is metabolic health so
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critical of an issue? And what are some of the most
the biggest misconceptions around that the people have?
I'd say that first of all, we have a global obesity problem.
We have then to help people understand this, you have four
types of fat in your body. You've got brown fat, white fat,
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subcutaneous fat, and visceral fat.
So the brown fat is the fat thatpeople turn on when they jump in
the lake so they can burn calories and boost their immune
system. The white fat provides extra
energy. The subcutaneous fat is when we
find at our side of our waist. We don't like it, but it doesn't
hurt us. But the most dangerous fat of
all is the fat that lies behind your belly button.
That's called visceral fat. And visceral fat accumulates
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there because we are having our insulin levels too high for too
long. The problem with this visceral
fact though is it puts out theseinflammatory cytokines into the
system, creating inflammation throughout the body and creating
biochemical problems. So this again leads to high
blood pressure, type 2 diabetes,heart disease, cardiovascular
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problems, you name it. The problem is, is because we
live in a world where Burger's the King and dairy's the Queen
and we have 5 new food groups, frozen, fast fried, junk and
processed and we really truly are not supposed to be eating
something that has to pass the chemistry lab on the way to our
mouth. So with the inactivity, with the
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amount of chemicals in the environment and in the food,
with people's lifestyles, it's creating problems with people
where we're just gaining weight.Now.
When you and I went to school, there were no people.
There was only one child in my entire school of 800 kids that
had a weight problem. But now you just can see that
it's it's becoming rampant and most people want to turn to
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medications. Most people don't really want to
take the responsibility, but food truly is the answer.
And that's what Metabolic balance does.
Because you see what Metabolic Balance does is it takes a look
at the client's 36 blood values,their personal health history
and gives them a unique, individualized and customized
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program that is designed for their body to lower
inflammation, to balance out thehormones, to help to lose weight
safely and naturally and only with food.
So if you have a high inflammation marker, which is
called your CRP, and this is thebig test that we do for
inflammation, then they will geta very low inflammatory program.
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And this is what we want people to be on.
But again, it comes back to lifestyle.
It comes back to, you know, people just grabbing things on
the run. And if it's beige, it's probably
not food. And if you look at what most
people are eating, cookies, croissant, bagels, doughnuts,
French fries, pancakes, Eggo waffles, these are all beige
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foods which are really playing havoc on your, your immune
system, playing havoc on your, your insulin.
And we need to get the insulin levels down as quickly as
possible and eat Whole Foods because the plan gives people
exactly what they need to eat toachieve their health goals.
So what are some of the core principles of the metabolic
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balance program and how does this differ from other diet
plans? Well, first of all, it's
individualized. So we take the 36 blood values
and we and food is chosen based off its biological value and the
glycemic index or the glycemic load.
It also has 8 core rules that you must follow 1 you have to
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have three meals a day. Now if you skip meals.
Or if you do intermittent. Fasting, you're going to have
problems with maintaining propermetabolism.
So we have to have three meals aday #2 we want to wait five to
seven hours between meals. And that allows for insulin
levels to drop very low. When insulin levels are dropping
low, then we can get into fat burning as opposed to fat
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accumulation. Now, when I graduated in 1980
from university, they did say tous eat 6 meals a day.
Science now tells us that if we eat more than three times a day,
we're going to spike insulin. We're going to get into the
weight gaining part of it. Another rule is we want to start
the meal with two bites of protein.
And when you eat 2 bites of protein, first you stop the
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release of insulin in your digestive system and you release
a different hormone called Glucagon.
So Glucagon is an antagonist of insulin.
Another rule is we have one protein at a time.
Now why do we do that? Because let's take for example,
the biological value of an egg is 100%, which means your body
can utilize it very rapidly. The biological value of a milk
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is 91%. When you mix 2 proteins
together, you're going to lead to overassification.
Your body will take the food with the lowest amount of amino
acid, which is the milk. And that's going to create acid
creation of acid. It's very difficult to lose
weight. Another rule is we have to that
will only have the the yeah, oneprotein at a time, have to have
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an apple a day, drink lots of water and no food after 9:00.
But I would say the biggest ruleand the difference for all these
is waiting the five to seven hours between meals.
By doing that again, you're really trying to change the way
insulin works in your body. And insulin is a fat storage
hormone and we it's necessary towork adequately.
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But once we start eating all thetime or people taking a shake
and they make a shake in the morning and they sip on from
9:00 to 12:00, well, there are insulin levels that spike for
three hours. We want to eat the meal within a
one hour window and then complete the meal.
So that's what makes it different are the 8 rules and
the close attention to food chosen for their body and also
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to lower the inflammation and tobalance out the hormones and to
lose weight. Now many people do this just to
feel good. They don't necessarily have to
lose weight with the program, they just want to feel better.
So what are some of the foods that one would expect to eat on
this diet? Oh, I follow it so breakfast
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might be full fat. Yogurt with mango or.
Two eggs, avocados, strawberries, rye bread.
We only use 100% rye bread or rye Vita crackers because the
rye Vita crackers and the rye bread have a very high
biological value and the glycemic index is low, which
means it's going to stay in yourstomach for a long time.
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You might also have oatmeal for breakfast.
Lunch might be chicken, vegetables, fruit and bread, or
it might be a chickpea salad with avocados, mango bread, or
it might be a piece of meat. So it's everything, Jeff that
you could find at your grocery store.
There's nothing on it that is difficult to find and nothing
drives me more crazy is looking in a recipe book and go, I don't
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even know what that is. So I'm not even going to make
it. This is all natural foods and
the apples we choose, interestingly enough, are the
non sweet version. So it's not like a it's not like
a Fiji or a honey crisp. It would be like a roll of Gala,
Red Delicious, a Granny Smith. These are all low in sugar and
have a huge amount of phytonutrients and also lower
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uric acid and cholesterol. And how would this work with
individuals of you said it's individualized, How does it work
with individuals of like a wide variety of ethnic backgrounds
and diets and things like that? Well, Metabolic Balance has
coaches in 45 countries around the world.
So the food list, I also am the license holder for it in Hong
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Kong. So we have a different food list
in Hong Kong versus India versusJapan versus Brazil.
Everybody has their own unique food list that has been
scientifically examined to see what the nutrients are and the
interaction with the different diseases.
So they Metabolic Balance. Germany creates that list and
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then matches it up with the country.
So what about, like in the United States, where we tend to
be a pretty broad ethnic mix and, you know, one day I might
want to eat Italian, the next day I want to meet eat Greek,
Next day I want to eat Polish. Well, you got a problem.
There, don't you? Well, you can use your spices
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and you mean you could do whatever you want with the food
within reason. Because after the two week
cleanse on the program where we omit the oil, you can cook it
however you want with all your spices to make it like that.
For instance, I can make easily a Greek salad on my plan by
taking the vegetables from my list.
I could also make some bruschetta on my plan because I
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could use basil and tomatoes andand and garlic and oil.
I could also make, well, maybe there wouldn't be so many Polish
different versions, but you you could adapt it the way you're
cooking is by just using the foods that they've given you.
So it almost sounds like this issomething that somebody goes on
the metabolic health plan, they're tied to a coach for
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eternity. No, no, they most coaches will
provide the client with approximately 8 sessions and
they at the end of that have really learned how to eat the
way that they should be eating. So they don't really need any
coaching, but they have their plan forever so they always know
what foods are going to be good for them.
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Now I have clients who come backand have one this afternoon.
She did the plan in 2017. She's had some other health
problems. Crop up.
So we're going. To do a new plan today.
But you have your plan forever. And you, you always, if you
gained the weight or you feel like you need a little bit of a
push, you just jump back on the rules again and you jump back on
the food plan and you'll notice significant changes.
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Because what's unique about metabolic balance is we do a 2
day cleanse where the client has.
Either fruit. Vegetables, potato or rice on
day one and day 2 after they clean out their bottle and they
can and then they cook with no oil for those first 16 days.
And. Here's a good part for lots of
people, bad part for other people.
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There's no exercise for those first 16 days.
We want the body to be in rest to lose weight.
The average weight loss in the 1st 16 days of being on
metabolic balance is between 5 and 20 lbs, which is quite
significant. And why is because the
inflammation marker starts to drop, the body starts to shed
the weight and they're also drinking a lot of water.
Post 16 days is 2 lbs a week. So if a client's looking to lose
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60 lbs, we can say five months for six months depends on, you
know, how much exercise they do and incorporate after day 16.
Someone might walk, someone might do a hot yoga class, and
you might find that they their their differences are that, but
the weight loss is pretty significant across the board.
But it's safe and it's never where you look gaunt.
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As a matter of fact, Jeff I. Take a photograph of.
The client, when they begin the program and when they finish the
program, their faces look completely different.
They radiate the eye sparkle because they've been drinking so
much water. And that is the big problem in
our society today is that peopledon't drink water.
They they depend on soda pop or too much coffee, too much tea
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and and they're lacking the water.
So what about the person who really isn't interested in
losing weight, they just want tokind of reset their metabolism?
So then when I enter the plan into the metabolic bounds
portal, I put no weight maintenance and I have a client
doing this right now. She.
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Will lose. Weight for the little bit but I
increased. Their portion sizes.
So that they don't lose the weight.
So someone looking to reduce inflammation and improve energy
levels, what's the first steps that you would recommend to that
individual? Well, they first of all want to
find a coach to get them started.
That coach then would set up. Lab work for the person.
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So the lab work would be ordered, then that coach would
pull the lab work from the the the site, they would enter the
data to the computer and then the client would get their own
customized plan. But if they want to start ASAP,
I would just say start using these.
Rules because these rules will significantly change people's
lives. And.
This is one of the great things.About this book, You could pick
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up this book. You can read it.
You can start incorporating. The rules and you will.
Definitely lose weight without even really changing much.
I always believe it's not about what you're doing, it's what
you're missing. What you're missing is the
apple. What you're missing is the
water. What you're missing is taking
the time in between meals. For digestion to become
optimized. Because if you're always eating,
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your digestion is always an OverDrive.
Doesn't really get a chance to really eliminate the toxins at a
cellular level versus when you're on metabol balance
because we do have that opportunity to really metabolize
the food between. Meals so they can find a
coaches. Coaches all over Canada, all
over the United. States.
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And. You know, I think now that the.
Book is out, people. Are going to be really looking
for it because you know, the problem is we have so many of
these. Drugs out there, we know that we
don't. We don't know the long term
effects of things that goes epic, we don't.
I personally believe it doesn't teach you anything.
It's not really teaching you howto eat properly.
What I love about metabolic balance is.
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I can help you. Lose 50 lbs and then send you on
a cruise and not worry that you're going to come back saying
to me, I gained it all back again.
Because what happens to people when they start following this
program? They feel so good the minute
they go get those French fries and gravy feel terrible so or
their pain comes back or their headaches come.
Back or their migraines come back.
Or. You know they're constipated
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again. So they start to experience what
it really feels to feel good, and they will stop eating that.
I also really believe, like I'm going to be 66 next week.
And I really believe that no matter how old you are, your
energy should be quite high. And I can tell you that I have
10 out of 10 energy every day, all day.
For my entire life. And I really believe that it's
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by eating whole. Fresh foods that provides that.
Energy for the body because I'm not going to get any energy from
a food. That comes in a bag.
Box pick up window vending machine or you know, in some
cases have a barcode I need to eat whole life food that you can
throw back into the ground that's going to you know.
Regrow. Things like cookies don't do
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that. Things like.
Muffins don't do that. French fries don't do that.
We, we are. We are so far away from eating
Whole Foods. And it yet it's so readily
available to all of us. And we all know that we should
be eating fruits and vegetables,but what we don't do is really
take. The time to make a salad or to
make something that's going to provide the body with the
nutrition. That we need at a cellular
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level. Well, as we're recording this,
we're kind of heading into the Christmas season, holiday
season. How does this work for somebody
in this season of the year when they're going to be facing
family parties, dinners, business events and all those
types of things? Easy.
So after 16 days on the plan, every person once a week.
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Can have what they call a treat meal so they can eat and drink.
Whatever they want, one meal a week, so they'll save.
Their treat meal for Christmas Eve, let's say, or Christmas Day
now. Those other meals?
They will. Be very careful.
They will know what to eat so they won't have to worry about
it. I encourage people though, going
through the holiday season, if they want to go out and, you
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know, socialize and do all that,that the days that they're doing
that maybe perhaps increase yourexercise.
If you did an hour, maybe you doan hour and a half just.
To keep it kind of under the radar, but the portion size is
because. One thing I met about balances,
we do have to weigh the food. So you become accustomed to
looking at the quantity of food you're supposed to eat.
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If you've been on the plan for awhile, you're going to look at
your plate going. That's way too much food for me.
So you will be your own kind of liquor Control Board.
You'll know what to eat and you'll have some fun.
But and if you fall off the wagon, you just get back on the.
Wagon the next day, fully committed and weighing all your
food again. Until you, you know, achieve
that optimum, I don't think it'sa problem for people.
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I personally never worry about it because I make sure the.
Days that we're out that I'm doing, I mean, I'm, I'm addicted
to hot yoga, so I might do, you know, yoga class and a walk on
those days. But oddly enough, even during a
buffet, when you've been eating this way, you gravitate towards
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the food. So I personally will look for
the chicken or the fish or the avocados on those buffet tables,
then not be sort of turned on by, you know, things with lots
of sauces on it. I just, it doesn't make me feel
good. I mean, I do like to taste it,
but I don't really feel good. So you become more used to to
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knowing exactly what to choose in those situations, because you
won't feel good if you eat the wrong stuff for sure.
OK, so in the book you also emphasize besides just Whole
Foods, avoiding supplements and special equipment.
Why is this approach so effective?
I'd say it's so effective because it's customized for the
individual because of the blood values.
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So for instance, let's say somebody comes in with high uric
acid. We know with high uric acid.
This could lead to gout. There are foods.
That increase the uric acid. In the body, so metabolic.
Balance. If the uric acid levels are
high, they immediately take foodout that will promote uric acid
in the body and help to get rid of it.
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Same thing with the CRP which stands for C reactive protein,
which is the level of inflammation in the body.
There are foods that are inflammatory.
So for instance, I had a client last week, he ate 30 eggs a
week. He was so full.
Of pain and inflammation. When I gave him his plan, they
gave him two eggs a week. Within two days of being on the
program, he felt like a completely different person.
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So he has a plan that's designedfor his body to lower that CRP.
CRP should be around .1 to five.In his case it was 25.
So that's extremely high. So you want to get those numbers
down quickly. So that's what's unique about it
because it's customized for the person based on their health
history and. Their blood chemistry.
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Now many clients come to me, I do their blood work and they say
to me I'm totally fine. Then we find they have a thyroid
problem, or then we find out they have a cholesterol problem,
or then we find out that they have what else?
Maybe low white blood cell countor they have low potassium where
they have something on there. So all food is matched up to
bring those those those numbers on your blood values back to
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normal again. And again, people have gone off
their blood pressure medicationswith their doctor.
They've gone off their. Type 2 diabetic medications,
I've had three clients with fullon fatty liver disease, so we
can see. That.
Through, through the liver enzymes and they, they're so
impressed with that that I've actually had a doctor, a
gastroenterologist just call me and say, what the heck did you
just do? It's like we just made sure that
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the food that he got lowered theinflammation and again, fatty,
non alcoholic. Fatty liver disease and some
levels are too high, so we got aprogram that has.
Food with very low glycemic index and a low glycemic load,
so you're not hungry. There is fat in this diet.
It's not like you're eating low fat, high fat, high protein.
It's not like that at all. It's just normal food.
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It's like chicken, vegetables, fruit, bread.
And surprisingly, most people have three fruits a day because
fruit also contains a lot of fiber, a lot of healing
properties, and a lot of antioxidants.
And we need antioxidants to prevent free radical scavenging.
But they are. Providing free radical
scavenging body because we live in a world that's got, you know,
so much electromagnetic radiation and our bodies are
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subjected. To so many things, we want to
have those. Fruits that provide the free
radical scavengers. So what about for the the
athlete or the person who's training for performance or
muscle hypertrophy and those types of things?
How does it work in the diet forthem?
Personally worked out with the client and the coach because
they obviously are going to needmuch more calories, but not
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necessarily. We one thing we do with that is
we don't just increase the protein, we increase everything
equally amount. So let's say the client has 160
grams of chicken at dinner and 145 of vegetables.
We increase both of them by the same amount.
It might be 45 grams because an athlete has way higher
nutritional demands on the body and energy.
So we have to increase that and work with them.
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And if they need the snacking, we'll provide the snacking with
them too, but providing them with a protein type of snack
followed with some sort of vegetable or a fruit.
So a snack for us, it would be apiece of cheese and an apple
because we want, we still want to have the protein first
because we want insulin levels to be stabilized.
So you don't want to go and havea bag of carrots.
You want the protein. You could have the carrots with
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Bahamas, but you have to eat Bahamas. 1st to keep them to
keep. The bottom.
Well, how does this work like inthe case of when you're
intensively training and there are high carbohydrate needs
following that training? Yeah.
So typical recommendation from an exercise standpoint would be
to have your high carbohydrate and, you know, fast absorbing
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protein surrounding a workout period.
How does the diet accommodate for that?
Metabolic balance doesn't particularly work with athletes
per SE, but there are some metabolic balance coaches who
are athletes themselves, so theyknow exactly what to give the
person in those amounts. Again, you do have to increase
the quantity of food for each person, but that's going to
depend on each individual, so I can't say one-size-fits-all.
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That coach would have to work itout with the client because it
may be 200 lbs and it might be 100 lbs, but it's very doable to
increase the carbohydrates so that they have those glucose
stores for sure, the glycogen stores.
So does this work better for somebody who is in a disease
state as opposed for somebody who is in a more healthy state,
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particularly with metabolism? Say that it definitely would
work better in a healthy state. That's not to say that somebody
in a disease state cannot benefit because sometimes the
disease states, they are on different types of medication or
chemotherapy which can affect appetite and digestion and
elimination. So it's certainly extremely
beneficial for both people. But again, that coach would
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work, you know, really work one-on-one with that person to
help them and knowing what the nutritional requirements are of
these different disease states. But isn't the primary goal of
the metabolic health diet to reverse the diseases that come
along with obesity and metabolicsyndrome and so on?
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Yeah. But if we're talking about like
high cholesterol and and diabetes, those are easy things
to to eradicate in the body. If we're talking about cancer,
that's a little bit different ofa situation.
But metabolic that is primarily used to help a person to reduce
the inflammation, to bounce out those hormones, to help them to
lose weight. But don't forget it takes into
consideration the biochemistry. So if I'm coming in with
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rheumatoid arthritis, if I'm coming in with migraines or I'm
coming in with what's my client had this morning, Hashimoto's
disease. These are all disease states,
but these are very the foods that are selected for them are
very different than the average person too.
Yeah. Can you share a few examples of
recipes from the Metabolic Balance Kitchen that listeners
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might find easy and transformative?
I. Would say if you started with
3.8% fat yogurt in the morning, about 195 grams is approximately
a cup and around 145 grams of mango with some ground flax
seeds in there and even a tablespoon of flaxseed oil.
That would be amazing. Or you could mix some avocados,
chickpeas, green onions, tomatoes if you don't have any
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inflammation. Olive oil and balsamic vinegar.
That's a favorite lunch of mine.Dinner might be a piece of fish
with grilled vegetables, some strawberries and the rye bread.
Or even a lot of people like to take the 100% rye bread, cover
it with avocado, cook a couple of fried eggs on top of that,
and have an apple. So very satisfying food, very
colorful food because we want every meal that we're eating to
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be an array of colors. And you'll always find that with
this program, there's nothing all beige.
We don't have any pasta. We don't have any rice.
Potatoes are eaten only with eggs, believe it or not, it's
the combination between the egg and the potato and the
vegetables gives the person the right protein, fats and
carbohydrates. Another meal choice that we have
a lot of people have, this is 3 tablespoons of almonds, 2
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tablespoons of raw sunflower seeds.
You soak them in water overnightand then in the morning you wake
up, you drain the water off, andthen you put them in a little
chopper with an apple, like a raw gala.
Add some cinnamon to that and it's called Mandolate.
It's a favorite. It's a German product and it
makes a lot of food. So one complaint I get is
there's too much food on this plant.
Most people are going to find themselves eating way more food
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than normal and they do have to eat it all, but they're they're
full. We don't have to eat the bread
and they don't have to have the third fruit that day.
So how does the program support anti aging and promote physical
and mental vitality? Because you know, you're, you're
getting the antioxidants, you'regetting the minerals, you're
getting the fiber, you're getting the property
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elimination, you're getting the,the energy from the food, which
increases your ability to exercise.
Because you know, part of anti aging is also to incorporate
exercise. Now I as a coach will only get
my clients to do what they like to do.
I push exercise a lot. But I also think it's important
that people exercise with what they want to do, not they don't.
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I don't want them going to join the gym if they hate going to
the gym. So we'll get them to find
something that is compatible with them.
Sometimes it's just walking, sometimes it's swimming,
sometimes it's that. Many clients join my hot yoga
studio and I'm a big performanceof that.
I find that extremely anti agingtoo, with the metabolic balance
and because you're detoxing witha sweat, which is great.
We want people to sweat. So what are your hopes for how
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the book and the Metabolic Balance Excuse me program will
impact the way people think about health and aging I.
Think that this book is so necessary in our world today
because it's a multi billion dollar industry for weight loss,
but it doesn't have to be complicated.
Metabolic Balance is a simple program that is customized for
each person so that they can achieve their optimal health,
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optimal energy, and never have to worry about what they're
going to be eating again. And the food is available to us.
We just don't often go and eat these types of things because
we're in a hurry. But if clients with a lot of
clients will do is they'll prepare their food on Sundays so
they'll make their food and theyfeel totally satisfied.
And the cravings for salt and sugar pretty much diminish once
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they start eating it. Why?
Because we add 3 tablespoons of oil beyond day 16 when you have
this good oils in your body's olive oil, coconut oil, flaxseed
oil, evening primers oil. Once you have all these oils in
your system, your fat metabolismis working better and you start
to lose your cravings for sugar,for salt.
That's a very common thing that happens to people and even pop
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is something that we might frownupon because it's definitely not
a food group and it's going to age you because it's very acid
forming. And that's the other thing about
metabol balance is it's a very alkalizing program with a lot of
fruits and vegetables that are alkaline.
So this is something. That we need to do.
To stay healthy. Is to provide the white.
And of course drink good clean alkaline water too.
That's important. OK, so in addition to the
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metabolic health diet and the hot yoga, what else are you
doing to age well personally? I really focus on, I think it's
important to have self-care in place.
So I read, I spent time with my grandkids, isn't I need to make
sure that I have time for myself.
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I try to be with people that areonly positive.
My personal philosophy for anti aging is you have to help me
grow or you have to go with this.
Like I want to be around happy people.
And so therefore I've had to do a little bit of a cleanup over
the years. I think it's important about
relationships, about being socially engaged, about
exercise, about, you know, personal self-care and also
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personal self talk is critical too.
So negative, no negative self talk because that will yourself
will hear that and they will respond the way you're talking
to them. So really about empowering the
body and believing in, you know,not being so hard in yourself
too, because you know, if I say feels awful, then everybody else
is going to or you know, the common thing is I'm so tired.
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You know, you hear that all the time.
Well, yourselves hear that and they respond and then you start
to look tired, you start to feelbad.
So really a lot, a lot of positive self talk.
I try to eliminate the seven deadly words can't, should, if
must or need. And in Canada, we have another
one. We all like to apologize.
Sorry, sorry to bother you. Sorry, I need to go to watch it.
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We don't do that and all the other ones try.
So I'm going to try to make it, you know, I'm going to try to
eat this healthy. No try means you get A50
percentage of that happening or not happening.
So let's just do it. Let's just start the plan.
I had three clients yesterday. They're like, should I wait till
after Christmas? I said, no, let's just start now
because you're coming in here feeling, you know, no energy,
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can't sleep, brain fog, you know, you, you've got all these
different health problems. Let's just start now because
there's no better time. And there's always going to be a
birthday party, a Christmas party, Easter party, a bathroom.
There's always going to be that.We need to learn how to navigate
those situations no matter wherewe are because you know, we have
to be envy kind to ourselves andto be kind to other people
because Mt aging is a big one. Also, I do believe in taking
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minerals and antioxidants and supplementation for myself
personally. If a client wants them, I will
encourage them to take it. But I do believe that this is
really important for that too. So you still making your own
shampoo? No.
No. You know, there's a funny story.
I've always been a swimmer and when I was in high school,
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someone told me that eggs are really, really good in your
hair. So I went, swam a mile in the
pool, got out in the, you know, got out, got into the shower,
took an egg, cracked it on my head, but the water was so hot
it started to cook the egg. Never ever made no shampoo after
that egg. But it's like now I have cooked
egg in my hair. It's like, OK, I'm done with
that. I heard egg on the face is good
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too. Yeah.
We've all had an egg. So if one of our listeners or
viewers want to learn more aboutthe program or learn more about
you, how can they connect with you?
Where can they find the book? Is there a website Social media
dot? Com change healthcoach.com and
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they can order the book right there and if they ordered the
book today or even in the near future, they also get 5 free
gifts. One of those gifts is a book
that I wrote several years ago called the Book of Confidence to
get a whole thing on the 8 rulesof metabolic balance.
And they'll also get everything you need to know about medical
balance. And there's a few extra gifts
that they can get. And as of today, the books will
be start delivered, be delivered.
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I've had clients today who already got their book today,
which was amazing because today was the release date.
So they're very excited, but they just need to go to
janehealthcoach.com to get the book and they can e-mail at
janehealthcoach.com. Anything I want to add, I'd say
no. As I say, in yoga, you're never
too old, never too bad, never too unfit to start something
new. So, you know, if you really,
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truly want to make a change, then just start.
Because making small changes canimpact your health on so many
different levels. And it is your birthright to
feel good and to look good. Right?
Until our last days. I really truly believe that and
I encourage you to, you know, add some of these things into
your own life and see how it seehow it works for you.
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Thank you for listening. Hope you benefited from today's
podcast. Until next time, keep aging
well.
Welcome to the Aging Well podcast, where we explore the
secrets of thriving in every stage of life.
In today's episode, we're divinginto the critical topic of
metabolic health, a cornerstone of aging well.
Did you know that over 93% of Americans are not metabolically
healthy? This pervasive issue accelerates
the risk of developing chronic diseases and impacts our quality
of life. To help us navigate this complex
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yet vital subject, we are joinedby Jane Durst Polkies, PhD,
Holistic nutritionist, weight loss expert, and US Brand
Ambassador for Metabolic Balance.
Jane is the author of the upcoming book The Metabolic
Balance Kitchen. Deliciously satisfying recipes
to reset your metabolism, fight inflammation, and lose weight.
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With her extensive expertise, Jane empowers individuals to
achieve metabolic health using natural, whole food approaches
that are both accessible and sustainable.
Today, Jane will share insights from her book, explore the
science of metabolic health, andreveal practical tips for
improving your well-being and aging well.
Jane, welcome to the Aging Well podcast.
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Can you share your personal journey and what kind of led you
to focus on metabolic health? Oh boy.
Well, I grew up with eight brothers and sisters, and I was
always fascinated by nutrition. My mom had a farmer bring fruits
and vegetables to our house. So as a young child, I started
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to experiment with making my ownyogurt, making my own bread,
making my own shampoo. Until one day I decided to make
shampoo and store it in the reallemon bottle in the in the
refrigerator. And then she decided that she
was going to use that on the fish on a Tuesday night.
And there was soap. Everywhere.
So she. Said, you know what, you need to
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go and study nutrition. So I went off to university, got
a degree in nutrition, subsequently got a holistic
degree and then finished my PhD last year.
So it's been a long journey. I've been doing this since 1980.
It's been amazing. But I was introduced to
metabolic balance in the year 2013 where Doctor Wolf came to
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Canada and I was just like mesmerized by the science of
metabolic health and became a metabolic Bounce coach and now
am the US ambassador for Metabolic Bounce.
I've sold over 1200 of these plans.
I have been witness to complete transformation in people's
health, whether it's fatty liverdisease, high cholesterol, you
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know, uric acid problems, you name it, we're able to deal with
it. And then I decided that, you
know, I think one of my clients were always asking for books or
recipes rather. So then I went on the journey
and I put together a Metabolic Balance Kitchen cookbook, but
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also explained the science of the program which gets released
today. So it's a 3 1/2 year project and
we're so excited to have it out because I really do believe that
metabolic syndrome is clearly, you know, affecting so many
people, but people don't understand what that actually
means. So metabolic syndrome is a name
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given to a clusters of disorderssuch as high blood pressure,
high fasting glucose, high triglycerides, high blood
pressure, which is going to create inflammation in the body.
And inflammation as we know is responsible for 98% of people's
problems. So that's kind of my story in a
nutshell. And I'm looking forward to many
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more years of working with clients and with metabolic
Balance all across Canada and United States.
So I'm very excited for where it's going right now.
Well, congratulations on launching the book and we will
make sure that we have links to how the listeners and their
viewers can actually access thatbook in our kind of description
notes. But why is metabolic health so
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critical of an issue? And what are some of the most
the biggest misconceptions around that the people have?
I'd say that first of all, we have a global obesity problem.
We have then to help people understand this, you have four
types of fat in your body. You've got brown fat, white fat,
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subcutaneous fat, and visceral fat.
So the brown fat is the fat thatpeople turn on when they jump in
the lake so they can burn calories and boost their immune
system. The white fat provides extra
energy. The subcutaneous fat is when we
find at our side of our waist. We don't like it, but it doesn't
hurt us. But the most dangerous fat of
all is the fat that lies behind your belly button.
That's called visceral fat. And visceral fat accumulates
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there because we are having our insulin levels too high for too
long. The problem with this visceral
fact though is it puts out theseinflammatory cytokines into the
system, creating inflammation throughout the body and creating
biochemical problems. So this again leads to high
blood pressure, type 2 diabetes,heart disease, cardiovascular
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problems, you name it. The problem is, is because we
live in a world where Burger's the King and dairy's the Queen
and we have 5 new food groups, frozen, fast fried, junk and
processed and we really truly are not supposed to be eating
something that has to pass the chemistry lab on the way to our
mouth. So with the inactivity, with the
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amount of chemicals in the environment and in the food,
with people's lifestyles, it's creating problems with people
where we're just gaining weight.Now.
When you and I went to school, there were no people.
There was only one child in my entire school of 800 kids that
had a weight problem. But now you just can see that
it's it's becoming rampant and most people want to turn to
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medications. Most people don't really want to
take the responsibility, but food truly is the answer.
And that's what Metabolic balance does.
Because you see what Metabolic Balance does is it takes a look
at the client's 36 blood values,their personal health history
and gives them a unique, individualized and customized
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program that is designed for their body to lower
inflammation, to balance out thehormones, to help to lose weight
safely and naturally and only with food.
So if you have a high inflammation marker, which is
called your CRP, and this is thebig test that we do for
inflammation, then they will geta very low inflammatory program.
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And this is what we want people to be on.
But again, it comes back to lifestyle.
It comes back to, you know, people just grabbing things on
the run. And if it's beige, it's probably
not food. And if you look at what most
people are eating, cookies, croissant, bagels, doughnuts,
French fries, pancakes, Eggo waffles, these are all beige
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foods which are really playing havoc on your, your immune
system, playing havoc on your, your insulin.
And we need to get the insulin levels down as quickly as
possible and eat Whole Foods because the plan gives people
exactly what they need to eat toachieve their health goals.
So what are some of the core principles of the metabolic
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balance program and how does this differ from other diet
plans? Well, first of all, it's
individualized. So we take the 36 blood values
and we and food is chosen based off its biological value and the
glycemic index or the glycemic load.
It also has 8 core rules that you must follow 1 you have to
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have three meals a day. Now if you skip meals.
Or if you do intermittent. Fasting, you're going to have
problems with maintaining propermetabolism.
So we have to have three meals aday #2 we want to wait five to
seven hours between meals. And that allows for insulin
levels to drop very low. When insulin levels are dropping
low, then we can get into fat burning as opposed to fat
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accumulation. Now, when I graduated in 1980
from university, they did say tous eat 6 meals a day.
Science now tells us that if we eat more than three times a day,
we're going to spike insulin. We're going to get into the
weight gaining part of it. Another rule is we want to start
the meal with two bites of protein.
And when you eat 2 bites of protein, first you stop the
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release of insulin in your digestive system and you release
a different hormone called Glucagon.
So Glucagon is an antagonist of insulin.
Another rule is we have one protein at a time.
Now why do we do that? Because let's take for example,
the biological value of an egg is 100%, which means your body
can utilize it very rapidly. The biological value of a milk
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is 91%. When you mix 2 proteins
together, you're going to lead to overassification.
Your body will take the food with the lowest amount of amino
acid, which is the milk. And that's going to create acid
creation of acid. It's very difficult to lose
weight. Another rule is we have to that
will only have the the yeah, oneprotein at a time, have to have
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an apple a day, drink lots of water and no food after 9:00.
But I would say the biggest ruleand the difference for all these
is waiting the five to seven hours between meals.
By doing that again, you're really trying to change the way
insulin works in your body. And insulin is a fat storage
hormone and we it's necessary towork adequately.
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But once we start eating all thetime or people taking a shake
and they make a shake in the morning and they sip on from
9:00 to 12:00, well, there are insulin levels that spike for
three hours. We want to eat the meal within a
one hour window and then complete the meal.
So that's what makes it different are the 8 rules and
the close attention to food chosen for their body and also
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to lower the inflammation and tobalance out the hormones and to
lose weight. Now many people do this just to
feel good. They don't necessarily have to
lose weight with the program, they just want to feel better.
So what are some of the foods that one would expect to eat on
this diet? Oh, I follow it so breakfast
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might be full fat. Yogurt with mango or.
Two eggs, avocados, strawberries, rye bread.
We only use 100% rye bread or rye Vita crackers because the
rye Vita crackers and the rye bread have a very high
biological value and the glycemic index is low, which
means it's going to stay in yourstomach for a long time.
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You might also have oatmeal for breakfast.
Lunch might be chicken, vegetables, fruit and bread, or
it might be a chickpea salad with avocados, mango bread, or
it might be a piece of meat. So it's everything, Jeff that
you could find at your grocery store.
There's nothing on it that is difficult to find and nothing
drives me more crazy is looking in a recipe book and go, I don't
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even know what that is. So I'm not even going to make
it. This is all natural foods and
the apples we choose, interestingly enough, are the
non sweet version. So it's not like a it's not like
a Fiji or a honey crisp. It would be like a roll of Gala,
Red Delicious, a Granny Smith. These are all low in sugar and
have a huge amount of phytonutrients and also lower
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uric acid and cholesterol. And how would this work with
individuals of you said it's individualized, How does it work
with individuals of like a wide variety of ethnic backgrounds
and diets and things like that? Well, Metabolic Balance has
coaches in 45 countries around the world.
So the food list, I also am the license holder for it in Hong
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Kong. So we have a different food list
in Hong Kong versus India versusJapan versus Brazil.
Everybody has their own unique food list that has been
scientifically examined to see what the nutrients are and the
interaction with the different diseases.
So they Metabolic Balance. Germany creates that list and
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then matches it up with the country.
So what about, like in the United States, where we tend to
be a pretty broad ethnic mix and, you know, one day I might
want to eat Italian, the next day I want to meet eat Greek,
Next day I want to eat Polish. Well, you got a problem.
There, don't you? Well, you can use your spices
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and you mean you could do whatever you want with the food
within reason. Because after the two week
cleanse on the program where we omit the oil, you can cook it
however you want with all your spices to make it like that.
For instance, I can make easily a Greek salad on my plan by
taking the vegetables from my list.
I could also make some bruschetta on my plan because I
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could use basil and tomatoes andand and garlic and oil.
I could also make, well, maybe there wouldn't be so many Polish
different versions, but you you could adapt it the way you're
cooking is by just using the foods that they've given you.
So it almost sounds like this issomething that somebody goes on
the metabolic health plan, they're tied to a coach for
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eternity. No, no, they most coaches will
provide the client with approximately 8 sessions and
they at the end of that have really learned how to eat the
way that they should be eating. So they don't really need any
coaching, but they have their plan forever so they always know
what foods are going to be good for them.
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Now I have clients who come backand have one this afternoon.
She did the plan in 2017. She's had some other health
problems. Crop up.
So we're going. To do a new plan today.
But you have your plan forever. And you, you always, if you
gained the weight or you feel like you need a little bit of a
push, you just jump back on the rules again and you jump back on
the food plan and you'll notice significant changes.
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Because what's unique about metabolic balance is we do a 2
day cleanse where the client has.
Either fruit. Vegetables, potato or rice on
day one and day 2 after they clean out their bottle and they
can and then they cook with no oil for those first 16 days.
And. Here's a good part for lots of
people, bad part for other people.
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There's no exercise for those first 16 days.
We want the body to be in rest to lose weight.
The average weight loss in the 1st 16 days of being on
metabolic balance is between 5 and 20 lbs, which is quite
significant. And why is because the
inflammation marker starts to drop, the body starts to shed
the weight and they're also drinking a lot of water.
Post 16 days is 2 lbs a week. So if a client's looking to lose
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60 lbs, we can say five months for six months depends on, you
know, how much exercise they do and incorporate after day 16.
Someone might walk, someone might do a hot yoga class, and
you might find that they their their differences are that, but
the weight loss is pretty significant across the board.
But it's safe and it's never where you look gaunt.
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As a matter of fact, Jeff I. Take a photograph of.
The client, when they begin the program and when they finish the
program, their faces look completely different.
They radiate the eye sparkle because they've been drinking so
much water. And that is the big problem in
our society today is that peopledon't drink water.
They they depend on soda pop or too much coffee, too much tea
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and and they're lacking the water.
So what about the person who really isn't interested in
losing weight, they just want tokind of reset their metabolism?
So then when I enter the plan into the metabolic bounds
portal, I put no weight maintenance and I have a client
doing this right now. She.
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Will lose. Weight for the little bit but I
increased. Their portion sizes.
So that they don't lose the weight.
So someone looking to reduce inflammation and improve energy
levels, what's the first steps that you would recommend to that
individual? Well, they first of all want to
find a coach to get them started.
That coach then would set up. Lab work for the person.
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So the lab work would be ordered, then that coach would
pull the lab work from the the the site, they would enter the
data to the computer and then the client would get their own
customized plan. But if they want to start ASAP,
I would just say start using these.
Rules because these rules will significantly change people's
lives. And.
This is one of the great things.About this book, You could pick
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up this book. You can read it.
You can start incorporating. The rules and you will.
Definitely lose weight without even really changing much.
I always believe it's not about what you're doing, it's what
you're missing. What you're missing is the
apple. What you're missing is the
water. What you're missing is taking
the time in between meals. For digestion to become
optimized. Because if you're always eating,
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your digestion is always an OverDrive.
Doesn't really get a chance to really eliminate the toxins at a
cellular level versus when you're on metabol balance
because we do have that opportunity to really metabolize
the food between. Meals so they can find a
coaches. Coaches all over Canada, all
over the United. States.
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And. You know, I think now that the.
Book is out, people. Are going to be really looking
for it because you know, the problem is we have so many of
these. Drugs out there, we know that we
don't. We don't know the long term
effects of things that goes epic, we don't.
I personally believe it doesn't teach you anything.
It's not really teaching you howto eat properly.
What I love about metabolic balance is.
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I can help you. Lose 50 lbs and then send you on
a cruise and not worry that you're going to come back saying
to me, I gained it all back again.
Because what happens to people when they start following this
program? They feel so good the minute
they go get those French fries and gravy feel terrible so or
their pain comes back or their headaches come.
Back or their migraines come back.
Or. You know they're constipated
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again. So they start to experience what
it really feels to feel good, and they will stop eating that.
I also really believe, like I'm going to be 66 next week.
And I really believe that no matter how old you are, your
energy should be quite high. And I can tell you that I have
10 out of 10 energy every day, all day.
For my entire life. And I really believe that it's
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by eating whole. Fresh foods that provides that.
Energy for the body because I'm not going to get any energy from
a food. That comes in a bag.
Box pick up window vending machine or you know, in some
cases have a barcode I need to eat whole life food that you can
throw back into the ground that's going to you know.
Regrow. Things like cookies don't do
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that. Things like.
Muffins don't do that. French fries don't do that.
We, we are. We are so far away from eating
Whole Foods. And it yet it's so readily
available to all of us. And we all know that we should
be eating fruits and vegetables,but what we don't do is really
take. The time to make a salad or to
make something that's going to provide the body with the
nutrition. That we need at a cellular
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level. Well, as we're recording this,
we're kind of heading into the Christmas season, holiday
season. How does this work for somebody
in this season of the year when they're going to be facing
family parties, dinners, business events and all those
types of things? Easy.
So after 16 days on the plan, every person once a week.
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Can have what they call a treat meal so they can eat and drink.
Whatever they want, one meal a week, so they'll save.
Their treat meal for Christmas Eve, let's say, or Christmas Day
now. Those other meals?
They will. Be very careful.
They will know what to eat so they won't have to worry about
it. I encourage people though, going
through the holiday season, if they want to go out and, you
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know, socialize and do all that,that the days that they're doing
that maybe perhaps increase yourexercise.
If you did an hour, maybe you doan hour and a half just.
To keep it kind of under the radar, but the portion size is
because. One thing I met about balances,
we do have to weigh the food. So you become accustomed to
looking at the quantity of food you're supposed to eat.
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If you've been on the plan for awhile, you're going to look at
your plate going. That's way too much food for me.
So you will be your own kind of liquor Control Board.
You'll know what to eat and you'll have some fun.
But and if you fall off the wagon, you just get back on the.
Wagon the next day, fully committed and weighing all your
food again. Until you, you know, achieve
that optimum, I don't think it'sa problem for people.
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I personally never worry about it because I make sure the.
Days that we're out that I'm doing, I mean, I'm, I'm addicted
to hot yoga, so I might do, you know, yoga class and a walk on
those days. But oddly enough, even during a
buffet, when you've been eating this way, you gravitate towards
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the food. So I personally will look for
the chicken or the fish or the avocados on those buffet tables,
then not be sort of turned on by, you know, things with lots
of sauces on it. I just, it doesn't make me feel
good. I mean, I do like to taste it,
but I don't really feel good. So you become more used to to
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knowing exactly what to choose in those situations, because you
won't feel good if you eat the wrong stuff for sure.
OK, so in the book you also emphasize besides just Whole
Foods, avoiding supplements and special equipment.
Why is this approach so effective?
I'd say it's so effective because it's customized for the
individual because of the blood values.
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So for instance, let's say somebody comes in with high uric
acid. We know with high uric acid.
This could lead to gout. There are foods.
That increase the uric acid. In the body, so metabolic.
Balance. If the uric acid levels are
high, they immediately take foodout that will promote uric acid
in the body and help to get rid of it.
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Same thing with the CRP which stands for C reactive protein,
which is the level of inflammation in the body.
There are foods that are inflammatory.
So for instance, I had a client last week, he ate 30 eggs a
week. He was so full.
Of pain and inflammation. When I gave him his plan, they
gave him two eggs a week. Within two days of being on the
program, he felt like a completely different person.
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So he has a plan that's designedfor his body to lower that CRP.
CRP should be around .1 to five.In his case it was 25.
So that's extremely high. So you want to get those numbers
down quickly. So that's what's unique about it
because it's customized for the person based on their health
history and. Their blood chemistry.
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Now many clients come to me, I do their blood work and they say
to me I'm totally fine. Then we find they have a thyroid
problem, or then we find out they have a cholesterol problem,
or then we find out that they have what else?
Maybe low white blood cell countor they have low potassium where
they have something on there. So all food is matched up to
bring those those those numbers on your blood values back to
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normal again. And again, people have gone off
their blood pressure medicationswith their doctor.
They've gone off their. Type 2 diabetic medications,
I've had three clients with fullon fatty liver disease, so we
can see. That.
Through, through the liver enzymes and they, they're so
impressed with that that I've actually had a doctor, a
gastroenterologist just call me and say, what the heck did you
just do? It's like we just made sure that
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the food that he got lowered theinflammation and again, fatty,
non alcoholic. Fatty liver disease and some
levels are too high, so we got aprogram that has.
Food with very low glycemic index and a low glycemic load,
so you're not hungry. There is fat in this diet.
It's not like you're eating low fat, high fat, high protein.
It's not like that at all. It's just normal food.
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It's like chicken, vegetables, fruit, bread.
And surprisingly, most people have three fruits a day because
fruit also contains a lot of fiber, a lot of healing
properties, and a lot of antioxidants.
And we need antioxidants to prevent free radical scavenging.
But they are. Providing free radical
scavenging body because we live in a world that's got, you know,
so much electromagnetic radiation and our bodies are
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subjected. To so many things, we want to
have those. Fruits that provide the free
radical scavengers. So what about for the the
athlete or the person who's training for performance or
muscle hypertrophy and those types of things?
How does it work in the diet forthem?
Personally worked out with the client and the coach because
they obviously are going to needmuch more calories, but not
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necessarily. We one thing we do with that is
we don't just increase the protein, we increase everything
equally amount. So let's say the client has 160
grams of chicken at dinner and 145 of vegetables.
We increase both of them by the same amount.
It might be 45 grams because an athlete has way higher
nutritional demands on the body and energy.
So we have to increase that and work with them.
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And if they need the snacking, we'll provide the snacking with
them too, but providing them with a protein type of snack
followed with some sort of vegetable or a fruit.
So a snack for us, it would be apiece of cheese and an apple
because we want, we still want to have the protein first
because we want insulin levels to be stabilized.
So you don't want to go and havea bag of carrots.
You want the protein. You could have the carrots with
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Bahamas, but you have to eat Bahamas. 1st to keep them to
keep. The bottom.
Well, how does this work like inthe case of when you're
intensively training and there are high carbohydrate needs
following that training? Yeah.
So typical recommendation from an exercise standpoint would be
to have your high carbohydrate and, you know, fast absorbing
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protein surrounding a workout period.
How does the diet accommodate for that?
Metabolic balance doesn't particularly work with athletes
per SE, but there are some metabolic balance coaches who
are athletes themselves, so theyknow exactly what to give the
person in those amounts. Again, you do have to increase
the quantity of food for each person, but that's going to
depend on each individual, so I can't say one-size-fits-all.
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That coach would have to work itout with the client because it
may be 200 lbs and it might be 100 lbs, but it's very doable to
increase the carbohydrates so that they have those glucose
stores for sure, the glycogen stores.
So does this work better for somebody who is in a disease
state as opposed for somebody who is in a more healthy state,
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particularly with metabolism? Say that it definitely would
work better in a healthy state. That's not to say that somebody
in a disease state cannot benefit because sometimes the
disease states, they are on different types of medication or
chemotherapy which can affect appetite and digestion and
elimination. So it's certainly extremely
beneficial for both people. But again, that coach would
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work, you know, really work one-on-one with that person to
help them and knowing what the nutritional requirements are of
these different disease states. But isn't the primary goal of
the metabolic health diet to reverse the diseases that come
along with obesity and metabolicsyndrome and so on?
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Yeah. But if we're talking about like
high cholesterol and and diabetes, those are easy things
to to eradicate in the body. If we're talking about cancer,
that's a little bit different ofa situation.
But metabolic that is primarily used to help a person to reduce
the inflammation, to bounce out those hormones, to help them to
lose weight. But don't forget it takes into
consideration the biochemistry. So if I'm coming in with
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rheumatoid arthritis, if I'm coming in with migraines or I'm
coming in with what's my client had this morning, Hashimoto's
disease. These are all disease states,
but these are very the foods that are selected for them are
very different than the average person too.
Yeah. Can you share a few examples of
recipes from the Metabolic Balance Kitchen that listeners
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might find easy and transformative?
I. Would say if you started with
3.8% fat yogurt in the morning, about 195 grams is approximately
a cup and around 145 grams of mango with some ground flax
seeds in there and even a tablespoon of flaxseed oil.
That would be amazing. Or you could mix some avocados,
chickpeas, green onions, tomatoes if you don't have any
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inflammation. Olive oil and balsamic vinegar.
That's a favorite lunch of mine.Dinner might be a piece of fish
with grilled vegetables, some strawberries and the rye bread.
Or even a lot of people like to take the 100% rye bread, cover
it with avocado, cook a couple of fried eggs on top of that,
and have an apple. So very satisfying food, very
colorful food because we want every meal that we're eating to
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be an array of colors. And you'll always find that with
this program, there's nothing all beige.
We don't have any pasta. We don't have any rice.
Potatoes are eaten only with eggs, believe it or not, it's
the combination between the egg and the potato and the
vegetables gives the person the right protein, fats and
carbohydrates. Another meal choice that we have
a lot of people have, this is 3 tablespoons of almonds, 2
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tablespoons of raw sunflower seeds.
You soak them in water overnightand then in the morning you wake
up, you drain the water off, andthen you put them in a little
chopper with an apple, like a raw gala.
Add some cinnamon to that and it's called Mandolate.
It's a favorite. It's a German product and it
makes a lot of food. So one complaint I get is
there's too much food on this plant.
Most people are going to find themselves eating way more food
(29:08):
than normal and they do have to eat it all, but they're they're
full. We don't have to eat the bread
and they don't have to have the third fruit that day.
So how does the program support anti aging and promote physical
and mental vitality? Because you know, you're, you're
getting the antioxidants, you'regetting the minerals, you're
getting the fiber, you're getting the property
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elimination, you're getting the,the energy from the food, which
increases your ability to exercise.
Because you know, part of anti aging is also to incorporate
exercise. Now I as a coach will only get
my clients to do what they like to do.
I push exercise a lot. But I also think it's important
that people exercise with what they want to do, not they don't.
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I don't want them going to join the gym if they hate going to
the gym. So we'll get them to find
something that is compatible with them.
Sometimes it's just walking, sometimes it's swimming,
sometimes it's that. Many clients join my hot yoga
studio and I'm a big performanceof that.
I find that extremely anti agingtoo, with the metabolic balance
and because you're detoxing witha sweat, which is great.
We want people to sweat. So what are your hopes for how
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the book and the Metabolic Balance Excuse me program will
impact the way people think about health and aging I.
Think that this book is so necessary in our world today
because it's a multi billion dollar industry for weight loss,
but it doesn't have to be complicated.
Metabolic Balance is a simple program that is customized for
each person so that they can achieve their optimal health,
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optimal energy, and never have to worry about what they're
going to be eating again. And the food is available to us.
We just don't often go and eat these types of things because
we're in a hurry. But if clients with a lot of
clients will do is they'll prepare their food on Sundays so
they'll make their food and theyfeel totally satisfied.
And the cravings for salt and sugar pretty much diminish once
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they start eating it. Why?
Because we add 3 tablespoons of oil beyond day 16 when you have
this good oils in your body's olive oil, coconut oil, flaxseed
oil, evening primers oil. Once you have all these oils in
your system, your fat metabolismis working better and you start
to lose your cravings for sugar,for salt.
That's a very common thing that happens to people and even pop
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is something that we might frownupon because it's definitely not
a food group and it's going to age you because it's very acid
forming. And that's the other thing about
metabol balance is it's a very alkalizing program with a lot of
fruits and vegetables that are alkaline.
So this is something. That we need to do.
To stay healthy. Is to provide the white.
And of course drink good clean alkaline water too.
That's important. OK, so in addition to the
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metabolic health diet and the hot yoga, what else are you
doing to age well personally? I really focus on, I think it's
important to have self-care in place.
So I read, I spent time with my grandkids, isn't I need to make
sure that I have time for myself.
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I try to be with people that areonly positive.
My personal philosophy for anti aging is you have to help me
grow or you have to go with this.
Like I want to be around happy people.
And so therefore I've had to do a little bit of a cleanup over
the years. I think it's important about
relationships, about being socially engaged, about
exercise, about, you know, personal self-care and also
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personal self talk is critical too.
So negative, no negative self talk because that will yourself
will hear that and they will respond the way you're talking
to them. So really about empowering the
body and believing in, you know,not being so hard in yourself
too, because you know, if I say feels awful, then everybody else
is going to or you know, the common thing is I'm so tired.
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You know, you hear that all the time.
Well, yourselves hear that and they respond and then you start
to look tired, you start to feelbad.
So really a lot, a lot of positive self talk.
I try to eliminate the seven deadly words can't, should, if
must or need. And in Canada, we have another
one. We all like to apologize.
Sorry, sorry to bother you. Sorry, I need to go to watch it.
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We don't do that and all the other ones try.
So I'm going to try to make it, you know, I'm going to try to
eat this healthy. No try means you get A50
percentage of that happening or not happening.
So let's just do it. Let's just start the plan.
I had three clients yesterday. They're like, should I wait till
after Christmas? I said, no, let's just start now
because you're coming in here feeling, you know, no energy,
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can't sleep, brain fog, you know, you, you've got all these
different health problems. Let's just start now because
there's no better time. And there's always going to be a
birthday party, a Christmas party, Easter party, a bathroom.
There's always going to be that.We need to learn how to navigate
those situations no matter wherewe are because you know, we have
to be envy kind to ourselves andto be kind to other people
because Mt aging is a big one. Also, I do believe in taking
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minerals and antioxidants and supplementation for myself
personally. If a client wants them, I will
encourage them to take it. But I do believe that this is
really important for that too. So you still making your own
shampoo? No.
No. You know, there's a funny story.
I've always been a swimmer and when I was in high school,
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someone told me that eggs are really, really good in your
hair. So I went, swam a mile in the
pool, got out in the, you know, got out, got into the shower,
took an egg, cracked it on my head, but the water was so hot
it started to cook the egg. Never ever made no shampoo after
that egg. But it's like now I have cooked
egg in my hair. It's like, OK, I'm done with
that. I heard egg on the face is good
(34:33):
too. Yeah.
We've all had an egg. So if one of our listeners or
viewers want to learn more aboutthe program or learn more about
you, how can they connect with you?
Where can they find the book? Is there a website Social media
dot? Com change healthcoach.com and
(34:54):
they can order the book right there and if they ordered the
book today or even in the near future, they also get 5 free
gifts. One of those gifts is a book
that I wrote several years ago called the Book of Confidence to
get a whole thing on the 8 rulesof metabolic balance.
And they'll also get everything you need to know about medical
balance. And there's a few extra gifts
that they can get. And as of today, the books will
be start delivered, be delivered.
(35:14):
I've had clients today who already got their book today,
which was amazing because today was the release date.
So they're very excited, but they just need to go to
janehealthcoach.com to get the book and they can e-mail at
janehealthcoach.com. Anything I want to add, I'd say
no. As I say, in yoga, you're never
too old, never too bad, never too unfit to start something
new. So, you know, if you really,
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truly want to make a change, then just start.
Because making small changes canimpact your health on so many
different levels. And it is your birthright to
feel good and to look good. Right?
Until our last days. I really truly believe that and
I encourage you to, you know, add some of these things into
your own life and see how it seehow it works for you.
(35:57):
Thank you for listening. Hope you benefited from today's
podcast. Until next time, keep aging
well.
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