March 12, 2025 • 21 mins
Welcome to Brain Power with Dr. Eko, where each week we explore ways to boost brain health through mind, body, emotional, and environmental well-being.
In this episode, Dr. Eko welcomes Dr. Ruth Odoi, a board-certified internal medicine physician and founder of Oasis Women's Functional Medicine. Together, they dive into the challenges many mothers face chronic stress, fatigue, and the health risks that come with them. Dr. Ruth shares how functional medicine helps women regain their energy, break free from chronic medications, and take charge of their health.
Tune in as they discuss practical strategies for busy moms, how small changes can lead to long-term wellness, and ways to bring the whole family along on the journey to better health.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to Brain Power with Dr Eko, where each
week, we discuss how your familycan boost brain health by
addressing mind, body, emotionaland environmental health.
Hi, parents, welcome to anotherepisode of Brain Power with Dr
Eko.
(00:20):
It's such a wonderful day,happy to have you here, and I
have another amazing guest foryou, dr Ruth.
It's such a wonderful day,happy to have you here, and I
have another amazing guest foryou, dr Ruth Odoi.
So, as usual, I'm going to haveDr Ruth introduce herself
because she can tell you allabout the fabulous work she's
doing.
So welcome to the show, dr Ruth.
Hi, thank you so much forhaving me, drko, I really
(00:43):
appreciate the honor to meetwith your community to talk.
So I am Dr Ruth Odoi.
I live in Rochester, new York.
I have three sons with a set oftwins.
Internal Medicine and I'm thefounder and CEO for Oasis
(01:05):
Women's Functional Medicine,which is located right here in
Rochester, new York.
Did I say I'm board certified?
Yeah, in internal medicine, andI work mostly with women who
want to increase their energylevels and really improve their
(01:26):
vitality, and my passion isreally to help people get off
chronic medications by helpingthem wean off of it safely and
also helping preventing themfrom even you know getting
diagnosed with a chroniccondition and having to take
(01:49):
medications.
So that's my passion and I'm sohappy to be here.
Yes, welcome.
I love that we're going to talkabout this because, for our
parents of children who haveeither children with ADHD or
autism or both or more diagnosis, they often find themselves
(02:09):
chronically stressed, which canlead to chronic illnesses, and
so I love the fact that you arefocused on helping women prevent
the chronic illnesses or evenget off of the chronic
medications or medication theyare on for chronic illnesses.
So tell us so you have this momcome to you saying I'm stressed
, I don't know what else to do,I don't have time.
(02:32):
I can get it right these kids Idon't.
I don't know what to do with mykids.
So where are you going to startwith this mom and can you walk
us through how you would explainit to her how important it is
for her to find how she couldfind time for herself and how
she can improve her health?
Yeah, I really.
(02:52):
You know, being a mother myself, I really start from a place
that you cannot pour from anempty place workplace.
So that's why it's so importantas a woman, or as a mother, to
really invest in your own healthand your wellness so that you
are able to actually be thereand pour into your children.
(03:14):
So that is the main reason,because what I noticed is that
women, with you know, late 30s,early 40s, they have young
children and some of them are,you know, at the top tier of
their careers or they havefinished school for the most
part.
So they are, you know, in thethick of their career years, and
(03:35):
then some of them may also haveaging parents.
So now they are in the sandwichyears.
And so, between you know, beinga wife, being a mom, being a
daughter, they just have littletime for themselves and over
time, the lack of sleep or thelack of rest just piles on and
(03:58):
it becomes fatigue and itbecomes exhaustion.
And then you have somethinglike chronic fatigue syndrome.
And because you don't haveenergy to work out now you are
gaining weight or you are notit's very hard for you to lose
weight, and what I know infunctional medicine is that
(04:21):
obesity sets up the ground forchronic inflammation.
And then the chronicinflammation is really the basis
of a lot of chronic conditionslike heart disease and high
blood pressure and even diabetes.
So you can see the connectionof you being a woman trying to
(04:41):
do the best that you can, takingcare of your children, taking
care of your parents, is slowlysetting women up where they get
to a place where now you knowthey've, you know, gotten a
diagnosis of either prediabetesor high blood pressure or
chronic fatigue syndrome.
(05:02):
And they are on differentmedications.
And you know, in conventionalmedicine we have, like the model
where there is a pill for everyill.
And what I want to add is thatthere is an ill for every pill
because these pills come withside effects and so once you go
on one, then there are sideeffects.
(05:23):
So then you need anothermedication to counteract the
side effects and guess what?
The main side effects for a lotof medications are Fatigue.
So now you know you're stuck inthis like cycle and I just
really feel passionate about it,really feel passionate about it
(05:47):
and I just want to help womenwho are stuck in this cycle to
break the cycle and really getto the root of the fatigue, to
get to the root of their healthconditions so they can be
healthy and poor from a fullplace and poor from a healthy
place.
And once you get into thepractice and you get some of
these things figured out.
It just trickles down to yourchildren and then you know you
(06:09):
are setting them up for success.
You know because they know thatwell, mom takes time for
herself to do X, y, z, so it'sOK for me to also take time for
myself to do these things thatwill help me be healthy.
I hope that answered thequestion very long, but I don't
know.
No, no, because all of thosethings are important.
(06:30):
And one question that popped upin my head was okay.
So somebody listening to thisand hears you sprinkle the word
functional, what exactly isfunctional medicine?
Yes, I'm glad.
Yeah, I'm really happy youasked that.
So functional medicine is reallya form of medicine where we
focus on the root cause ofdisease.
(06:53):
We look at what is causing yourdisease and it's more
personalized.
We do more advanced testingthat we don't get to do in
conventional medicine.
So for me, I come in with theknowledge of conventional
medicine.
I've spent a lot of yearsgetting that training.
(07:13):
So I come in with thatknowledge plus the knowledge of
functional medicine and togetherbe able to come up with a
personalized approach to yourcare and more getting to the
root of the problem.
So when I think of functionalmedicine and chronic disease,
I'm thinking of an overflowingsink, right, so you can approach
(07:39):
it one of three ways.
One, you can turn off thefaucet, which is like get to the
root of why the sink isoverflowing.
Or two, you can keep collectingfrom the sink so it doesn't
overflow onto the floor.
Or three, you can keep moppingthe floor, and I think
conventional medicine is reallyfocused on emptying the sink,
(08:03):
mopping the floor and notturning off the faucet.
And it's the analogy.
When I think of functionalmedicine, and I think it's very
important that you go to aphysician, because we come in
with additional knowledge interms of the actual physiology
(08:26):
and anatomy and pathophysiologyand more come at it from a
different angle.
So does that?
I've never had anyone describeit like that, like that is so
interesting.
Medicine is mopping off thefloor.
Well, yeah, because.
(08:48):
But he does say he has a symptom.
Actually, you're right, becauseI was actually trying to
describe it to anotherpediatrician today.
She's like what is integratedpediatrics?
And I was like well, so, forexample, if I see a child that
says a child with autism, thatsays and, and then the parent
says they're aggressive, myfirst question isn't here's some
(09:10):
risperidone let's give you,let's let's tap down your
aggression.
My first question are youconstipated?
Because so many studies haveshowed, when there's gut
disbalance and there's a lot ofbackup of constipation and
there's yeast overgrowth, thatchild most likely will become
aggressive.
And so if we deal with the gutissues, then there's yeast
overgrowth, that child mostlikely will become aggressive.
And so if we deal with the gutissues, there's an aggression
(09:31):
gone and there's no need forsuch a strong med like
Risperidol.
So, yeah, thank you for givingme a new way to explain it.
I appreciate it.
You're welcome.
So, yes, so back to this mommywho tell who you said all these
things to.
She says yes, yes, I agree.
So now, where do I find thetime to do the things you just
(09:52):
mentioned?
What are you going to tell her?
Well, that is a good question,and I will go back and remind
her that you cannot pour from anempty cup, you cannot pour from
an empty place.
So you know I work with ahealth coach, so we meet and we
come up with like a personalizedplan.
(10:14):
And you know they say that ajourney of a thousand miles
begins with a step, one sitting.
But there could be one thingthat you can do, or there could
be one thing that you can tag tosomething you are already doing
that will get you towards aplace of wellness.
(10:34):
So I would say, don't getoverwhelmed with like, oh my
goodness, now she's going totell me to exercise and and and
eat well, and and and.
No, we, we will look at yourschedule, we will look at your
life and really come up with aplan.
Where, where can we, what canwe do today to get you towards,
(10:55):
like, a good place, that, orwhere you want to be, to be the
person that you want to be?
Okay, wonderful, I love it,great.
So what are some practical waysthat moms or women, when they
are implementing this healthjourney, can bring their
families along with them?
Because we're women, right,that's how we are wired.
(11:18):
It's like, whatever we're doing, we are sharing it with all of
you and you're all in ittogether.
So how can they accomplish that?
So how can they accomplish that?
Well, I mean so simple thing asjust you know, if you are in
(11:42):
the kitchen with the kids or youknow you have to be around them
, you can take steps around theisland.
If you have an island in yourkitchen.
That increases the number ofsteps, like any movement, right,
if your kids love to dance, soyou can have a dance party.
And I do that with my sons andyou know my 10 year old is like
bye, I'm not doing it.
But the seven year olds arestill interested and they still
want to dance.
And you know we put on someafro beats or whatever upbeat
(12:06):
music we have and we dance and Iget to sweat it out and they
have fun and we all do it, youknow.
And another thing I do is likewhen my they fight, you know the
twins tend to, you know theyget into.
So I use that as an opportunityto do my breathing exercises,
(12:27):
because I call them in and I saylet's all sit down and breathe.
So then I turn on my app andI'm like, take a deep breath in.
So you know, while I'm, youknow, trying to, that's
wonderful Distress, like anaggressive situation.
(12:50):
I thought so breathing.
So you know, could that preventthem from fighting Because they
don't want to do this?
Maybe, but it also gives methat moment to say, okay, I
could do my deep breathingexercises now.
So there are clever ways toinject things in there here and
(13:11):
there, that you know works, thatI personally do that because
it's hard to find time to do allthe things you know and be all
the things that you want to be.
So you know, just beingcreative with the time goes a
long way.
Yeah, and I want to add,because kids learn more from
(13:35):
what you do than what you say.
So I know it's funny, but Ilove so clever how the two
fighting people have to come andsit down and suddenly be
breathing.
And yes, they're going to belike what, let's finish the
fight, but no, but really you'reteaching them a lifelong habit
that's going to help them.
And hopefully the 10-year-oldwe can find him somewhere and
(13:58):
rope him into this too.
But no, it's funny.
It sounds funny, but it'sactually very powerful because
they are learning from you.
They are seeing how calm youyou'll be coming, they're taking
note of all of that and there'sthere isn't any kid that likes
stress in their lives, reallyhonestly.
So so well done, mommy, and Ihope you hear this name, you're,
(14:18):
you're taking note because I, Ilove you.
I'm gonna try it on my.
My 12 year old and my sevenyearold love to get into it
together.
Yeah, I mean I'm like, okay, itlooks like you're upset, it
looks like you're angry, Come onin, let's sit down and let's
breathe.
And you know, one of them islike, oh, not again.
(14:40):
And I'm like, well, yeah, let'sdo it.
And so I turn it on and youknow, once the music is on, I'm
like, ok, you know, and then weall do the breathing together.
The gym, no, you can use fiveminutes to do something simple
(15:10):
and then find another fiveminute pocket to do another
something simple.
Or, and you know, if yourhousehold, you don't eat a lot
of whole foods, you don't haveto go from zero to seven days a
week.
You know, that would be like ashock to your system, your kids
and they will not engage.
(15:30):
But you can start, you know,one day out of the seven days
and do it for months, and thendo it another, you know, add
another day and do it for more,and so over time the kids get
used to it and they just acceptthat this is what we do here and
it's helping you, it's helpingthem.
(15:51):
Yeah, and something else abouthaving your kids cook with you,
because when they help there'sthat sense of pride and then
they're more likely to actuallyeat the thing versus Correct.
And we, our kids, we need toteach them how to cook, because
I think that's becoming a lostart in this day and age.
So the microwavable meals.
But if we want to really behealthy overall, we want to get
(16:14):
our kids back in the kitchen.
And it's such a great bondingtime because that's what kids
remember, not the fancy thingsyou bought them, it's the times
they spent with you, absolutely,and you have to cook anyway.
So why not help them too?
And they have, you know, thoselike kitchen utensils for kids
on Amazon.
So you can buy a kit and youknow, get them a stool and they
(16:37):
can cut the vegetables while youmake the salad and all of that.
And what I've also done with mykids is like I have a menu and
we sit down and make the menutogether and so when they read
what we are eating on the menu,I don't have to convince them to
eat anymore because, hey,that's what's on the menu.
(17:00):
I didn't do this, I didn't dothis, that's what's on the menu.
And we created this menutogether.
So, you know, I have like acouple of dishes in my head and
so I say, okay, these are thedishes we have.
What do you want to eat forbreakfast on Monday, lunch on
(17:23):
Tuesday and Thursday?
And you know, so we create.
And then my 10 year old writesit and then I put it on the
fridge.
So you know, there's nocomplaining.
So about mealtime, so thatreduces your fatigue.
And another thing that thatdoes it also reduces the
(17:44):
decision fatigue of, oh, whatare we going to eat for dinner?
You already have the menu, soyou know, you already know what.
So that will save you someenergy.
Yeah, no, I love that.
That's wonderful.
Yeah, that is so great.
Thank you for all the tips, sopractical, that you've shared
(18:05):
with us.
So if a mommy lives in the NewYork area and wants to reach out
to you, how can they find you?
Yes, so we have a website.
It's my practice, it's calledOasis Women's Functional
Medicine, o-a-s-i-s Women'sFunctional Medicine, and you can
(18:29):
reach me via email at Dr Ruth.
Dr is D-R and Ruth R-U-T-H K atOasisFunctionalMedicinecom, and
I'm also on Facebook with thesame practice name Oasis Women's
(18:51):
Functional Medicine.
So, yeah, I am all about momsand getting them energized and
strong and not tired.
Yes, because then we can'treally do the mom part correct.
All right, all right, wonderful.
(19:11):
And then you mentioned you alsohave a youtube channel where
you're gonna put lots of yes, ohyes, thank you for reminding me
.
Yeah, so I, I will have.
I have a youtube channel.
I'm going to be putting on alot of educational stuff.
Um, I'm going to be setting uplike a um, some you know, sets
(19:34):
of supplements that I thinkevery woman should be on that
they can just grab and take, umto start with you, okay, and, of
course, I'm taking new patients, so feel free to find me on
google, um, and, and come by andlet's talk, let's get you
(19:57):
feeling energized again.
Yes, wonderful.
And so for parents listening tothis, please share this with
whoever you think needs to hearthis.
If you have friends in the NewYork area, send them to Dr Rup.
You won't be, you won't.
I promise you.
You will not be what's the word?
Dissatisfied.
You will come out of therestronger, healthier and more
(20:19):
whole than you went in.
So thank you again, dr Rup.
Thank you, koiman.
Yeah, it's such a pleasure.
So have an amazing day everyone, take care, thank you.
Welcome to Brain Power with Dr Eko, where each
week, we discuss how your familycan boost brain health by
addressing mind, body, emotionaland environmental health.
Hi, parents, welcome to anotherepisode of Brain Power with Dr
Eko.
(00:20):
It's such a wonderful day,happy to have you here, and I
have another amazing guest foryou, dr Ruth.
It's such a wonderful day,happy to have you here, and I
have another amazing guest foryou, dr Ruth Odoi.
So, as usual, I'm going to haveDr Ruth introduce herself
because she can tell you allabout the fabulous work she's
doing.
So welcome to the show, dr Ruth.
Hi, thank you so much forhaving me, drko, I really
(00:43):
appreciate the honor to meetwith your community to talk.
So I am Dr Ruth Odoi.
I live in Rochester, new York.
I have three sons with a set oftwins.
Internal Medicine and I'm thefounder and CEO for Oasis
(01:05):
Women's Functional Medicine,which is located right here in
Rochester, new York.
Did I say I'm board certified?
Yeah, in internal medicine, andI work mostly with women who
want to increase their energylevels and really improve their
(01:26):
vitality, and my passion isreally to help people get off
chronic medications by helpingthem wean off of it safely and
also helping preventing themfrom even you know getting
diagnosed with a chroniccondition and having to take
(01:49):
medications.
So that's my passion and I'm sohappy to be here.
Yes, welcome.
I love that we're going to talkabout this because, for our
parents of children who haveeither children with ADHD or
autism or both or more diagnosis, they often find themselves
(02:09):
chronically stressed, which canlead to chronic illnesses, and
so I love the fact that you arefocused on helping women prevent
the chronic illnesses or evenget off of the chronic
medications or medication theyare on for chronic illnesses.
So tell us so you have this momcome to you saying I'm stressed
, I don't know what else to do,I don't have time.
(02:32):
I can get it right these kids Idon't.
I don't know what to do with mykids.
So where are you going to startwith this mom and can you walk
us through how you would explainit to her how important it is
for her to find how she couldfind time for herself and how
she can improve her health?
Yeah, I really.
(02:52):
You know, being a mother myself, I really start from a place
that you cannot pour from anempty place workplace.
So that's why it's so importantas a woman, or as a mother, to
really invest in your own healthand your wellness so that you
are able to actually be thereand pour into your children.
(03:14):
So that is the main reason,because what I noticed is that
women, with you know, late 30s,early 40s, they have young
children and some of them are,you know, at the top tier of
their careers or they havefinished school for the most
part.
So they are, you know, in thethick of their career years, and
(03:35):
then some of them may also haveaging parents.
So now they are in the sandwichyears.
And so, between you know, beinga wife, being a mom, being a
daughter, they just have littletime for themselves and over
time, the lack of sleep or thelack of rest just piles on and
(03:58):
it becomes fatigue and itbecomes exhaustion.
And then you have somethinglike chronic fatigue syndrome.
And because you don't haveenergy to work out now you are
gaining weight or you are notit's very hard for you to lose
weight, and what I know infunctional medicine is that
(04:21):
obesity sets up the ground forchronic inflammation.
And then the chronicinflammation is really the basis
of a lot of chronic conditionslike heart disease and high
blood pressure and even diabetes.
So you can see the connectionof you being a woman trying to
(04:41):
do the best that you can, takingcare of your children, taking
care of your parents, is slowlysetting women up where they get
to a place where now you knowthey've, you know, gotten a
diagnosis of either prediabetesor high blood pressure or
chronic fatigue syndrome.
(05:02):
And they are on differentmedications.
And you know, in conventionalmedicine we have, like the model
where there is a pill for everyill.
And what I want to add is thatthere is an ill for every pill
because these pills come withside effects and so once you go
on one, then there are sideeffects.
(05:23):
So then you need anothermedication to counteract the
side effects and guess what?
The main side effects for a lotof medications are Fatigue.
So now you know you're stuck inthis like cycle and I just
really feel passionate about it,really feel passionate about it
(05:47):
and I just want to help womenwho are stuck in this cycle to
break the cycle and really getto the root of the fatigue, to
get to the root of their healthconditions so they can be
healthy and poor from a fullplace and poor from a healthy
place.
And once you get into thepractice and you get some of
these things figured out.
It just trickles down to yourchildren and then you know you
(06:09):
are setting them up for success.
You know because they know thatwell, mom takes time for
herself to do X, y, z, so it'sOK for me to also take time for
myself to do these things thatwill help me be healthy.
I hope that answered thequestion very long, but I don't
know.
No, no, because all of thosethings are important.
(06:30):
And one question that popped upin my head was okay.
So somebody listening to thisand hears you sprinkle the word
functional, what exactly isfunctional medicine?
Yes, I'm glad.
Yeah, I'm really happy youasked that.
So functional medicine is reallya form of medicine where we
focus on the root cause ofdisease.
(06:53):
We look at what is causing yourdisease and it's more
personalized.
We do more advanced testingthat we don't get to do in
conventional medicine.
So for me, I come in with theknowledge of conventional
medicine.
I've spent a lot of yearsgetting that training.
(07:13):
So I come in with thatknowledge plus the knowledge of
functional medicine and togetherbe able to come up with a
personalized approach to yourcare and more getting to the
root of the problem.
So when I think of functionalmedicine and chronic disease,
I'm thinking of an overflowingsink, right, so you can approach
(07:39):
it one of three ways.
One, you can turn off thefaucet, which is like get to the
root of why the sink isoverflowing.
Or two, you can keep collectingfrom the sink so it doesn't
overflow onto the floor.
Or three, you can keep moppingthe floor, and I think
conventional medicine is reallyfocused on emptying the sink,
(08:03):
mopping the floor and notturning off the faucet.
And it's the analogy.
When I think of functionalmedicine, and I think it's very
important that you go to aphysician, because we come in
with additional knowledge interms of the actual physiology
(08:26):
and anatomy and pathophysiologyand more come at it from a
different angle.
So does that?
I've never had anyone describeit like that, like that is so
interesting.
Medicine is mopping off thefloor.
Well, yeah, because.
(08:48):
But he does say he has a symptom.
Actually, you're right, becauseI was actually trying to
describe it to anotherpediatrician today.
She's like what is integratedpediatrics?
And I was like well, so, forexample, if I see a child that
says a child with autism, thatsays and, and then the parent
says they're aggressive, myfirst question isn't here's some
(09:10):
risperidone let's give you,let's let's tap down your
aggression.
My first question are youconstipated?
Because so many studies haveshowed, when there's gut
disbalance and there's a lot ofbackup of constipation and
there's yeast overgrowth, thatchild most likely will become
aggressive.
And so if we deal with the gutissues, then there's yeast
overgrowth, that child mostlikely will become aggressive.
And so if we deal with the gutissues, there's an aggression
(09:31):
gone and there's no need forsuch a strong med like
Risperidol.
So, yeah, thank you for givingme a new way to explain it.
I appreciate it.
You're welcome.
So, yes, so back to this mommywho tell who you said all these
things to.
She says yes, yes, I agree.
So now, where do I find thetime to do the things you just
(09:52):
mentioned?
What are you going to tell her?
Well, that is a good question,and I will go back and remind
her that you cannot pour from anempty cup, you cannot pour from
an empty place.
So you know I work with ahealth coach, so we meet and we
come up with like a personalizedplan.
(10:14):
And you know they say that ajourney of a thousand miles
begins with a step, one sitting.
But there could be one thingthat you can do, or there could
be one thing that you can tag tosomething you are already doing
that will get you towards aplace of wellness.
(10:34):
So I would say, don't getoverwhelmed with like, oh my
goodness, now she's going totell me to exercise and and and
eat well, and and and.
No, we, we will look at yourschedule, we will look at your
life and really come up with aplan.
Where, where can we, what canwe do today to get you towards,
(10:55):
like, a good place, that, orwhere you want to be, to be the
person that you want to be?
Okay, wonderful, I love it,great.
So what are some practical waysthat moms or women, when they
are implementing this healthjourney, can bring their
families along with them?
Because we're women, right,that's how we are wired.
(11:18):
It's like, whatever we're doing, we are sharing it with all of
you and you're all in ittogether.
So how can they accomplish that?
So how can they accomplish that?
Well, I mean so simple thing asjust you know, if you are in
(11:42):
the kitchen with the kids or youknow you have to be around them
, you can take steps around theisland.
If you have an island in yourkitchen.
That increases the number ofsteps, like any movement, right,
if your kids love to dance, soyou can have a dance party.
And I do that with my sons andyou know my 10 year old is like
bye, I'm not doing it.
But the seven year olds arestill interested and they still
want to dance.
And you know we put on someafro beats or whatever upbeat
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music we have and we dance and Iget to sweat it out and they
have fun and we all do it, youknow.
And another thing I do is likewhen my they fight, you know the
twins tend to, you know theyget into.
So I use that as an opportunityto do my breathing exercises,
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because I call them in and I saylet's all sit down and breathe.
So then I turn on my app andI'm like, take a deep breath in.
So you know, while I'm, youknow, trying to, that's
wonderful Distress, like anaggressive situation.
(12:50):
I thought so breathing.
So you know, could that preventthem from fighting Because they
don't want to do this?
Maybe, but it also gives methat moment to say, okay, I
could do my deep breathingexercises now.
So there are clever ways toinject things in there here and
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there, that you know works, thatI personally do that because
it's hard to find time to do allthe things you know and be all
the things that you want to be.
So you know, just beingcreative with the time goes a
long way.
Yeah, and I want to add,because kids learn more from
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what you do than what you say.
So I know it's funny, but Ilove so clever how the two
fighting people have to come andsit down and suddenly be
breathing.
And yes, they're going to belike what, let's finish the
fight, but no, but really you'reteaching them a lifelong habit
that's going to help them.
And hopefully the 10-year-oldwe can find him somewhere and
(13:58):
rope him into this too.
But no, it's funny.
It sounds funny, but it'sactually very powerful because
they are learning from you.
They are seeing how calm youyou'll be coming, they're taking
note of all of that and there'sthere isn't any kid that likes
stress in their lives, reallyhonestly.
So so well done, mommy, and Ihope you hear this name, you're,
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you're taking note because I, Ilove you.
I'm gonna try it on my.
My 12 year old and my sevenyearold love to get into it
together.
Yeah, I mean I'm like, okay, itlooks like you're upset, it
looks like you're angry, Come onin, let's sit down and let's
breathe.
And you know, one of them islike, oh, not again.
(14:40):
And I'm like, well, yeah, let'sdo it.
And so I turn it on and youknow, once the music is on, I'm
like, ok, you know, and then weall do the breathing together.
The gym, no, you can use fiveminutes to do something simple
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and then find another fiveminute pocket to do another
something simple.
Or, and you know, if yourhousehold, you don't eat a lot
of whole foods, you don't haveto go from zero to seven days a
week.
You know, that would be like ashock to your system, your kids
and they will not engage.
(15:30):
But you can start, you know,one day out of the seven days
and do it for months, and thendo it another, you know, add
another day and do it for more,and so over time the kids get
used to it and they just acceptthat this is what we do here and
it's helping you, it's helpingthem.
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Yeah, and something else abouthaving your kids cook with you,
because when they help there'sthat sense of pride and then
they're more likely to actuallyeat the thing versus Correct.
And we, our kids, we need toteach them how to cook, because
I think that's becoming a lostart in this day and age.
So the microwavable meals.
But if we want to really behealthy overall, we want to get
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our kids back in the kitchen.
And it's such a great bondingtime because that's what kids
remember, not the fancy thingsyou bought them, it's the times
they spent with you, absolutely,and you have to cook anyway.
So why not help them too?
And they have, you know, thoselike kitchen utensils for kids
on Amazon.
So you can buy a kit and youknow, get them a stool and they
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can cut the vegetables while youmake the salad and all of that.
And what I've also done with mykids is like I have a menu and
we sit down and make the menutogether and so when they read
what we are eating on the menu,I don't have to convince them to
eat anymore because, hey,that's what's on the menu.
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I didn't do this, I didn't dothis, that's what's on the menu.
And we created this menutogether.
So, you know, I have like acouple of dishes in my head and
so I say, okay, these are thedishes we have.
What do you want to eat forbreakfast on Monday, lunch on
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Tuesday and Thursday?
And you know, so we create.
And then my 10 year old writesit and then I put it on the
fridge.
So you know, there's nocomplaining.
So about mealtime, so thatreduces your fatigue.
And another thing that thatdoes it also reduces the
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decision fatigue of, oh, whatare we going to eat for dinner?
You already have the menu, soyou know, you already know what.
So that will save you someenergy.
Yeah, no, I love that.
That's wonderful.
Yeah, that is so great.
Thank you for all the tips, sopractical, that you've shared
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with us.
So if a mommy lives in the NewYork area and wants to reach out
to you, how can they find you?
Yes, so we have a website.
It's my practice, it's calledOasis Women's Functional
Medicine, o-a-s-i-s Women'sFunctional Medicine, and you can
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reach me via email at Dr Ruth.
Dr is D-R and Ruth R-U-T-H K atOasisFunctionalMedicinecom, and
I'm also on Facebook with thesame practice name Oasis Women's
(18:51):
Functional Medicine.
So, yeah, I am all about momsand getting them energized and
strong and not tired.
Yes, because then we can'treally do the mom part correct.
All right, all right, wonderful.
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And then you mentioned you alsohave a youtube channel where
you're gonna put lots of yes, ohyes, thank you for reminding me
.
Yeah, so I, I will have.
I have a youtube channel.
I'm going to be putting on alot of educational stuff.
Um, I'm going to be setting uplike a um, some you know, sets
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of supplements that I thinkevery woman should be on that
they can just grab and take, umto start with you, okay, and, of
course, I'm taking new patients, so feel free to find me on
google, um, and, and come by andlet's talk, let's get you
(19:57):
feeling energized again.
Yes, wonderful.
And so for parents listening tothis, please share this with
whoever you think needs to hearthis.
If you have friends in the NewYork area, send them to Dr Rup.
You won't be, you won't.
I promise you.
You will not be what's the word?
Dissatisfied.
You will come out of therestronger, healthier and more
(20:19):
whole than you went in.
So thank you again, dr Rup.
Thank you, koiman.
Yeah, it's such a pleasure.
So have an amazing day everyone, take care, thank you.
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