25 – Real Talk - Invisible Stressors No One Talks About - Technology - Mindful Objective

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Welcome to Real Talk, the podcast where we get honest
about what's really going on in your body and how to take
control of your health. I'm your host, doctor Daniel
Sproule, integrative health practitioner professor.
And today we're diving into something that most people don't
think twice about technology. From the phone in your pocket to
the Wi-Fi in your home, the techwe use everyday is silently
shaping how we sleep, think, move and recover.

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In this episode, we're unpackingthe invisible stressors.
Blue light Emfs, non-stop notifications and how they're
training your energy, disruptingyour hormones, and quietly
affecting your health. We're all those here with me,
like on every podcast of Real Talk, and we're talking about
real life impacts and practical changes that really make a
difference. Hey everyone, yeah, I'm

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definitely guilty for being glued to the screen most of the
day. I think we all are.
Some of this stuff surprised me too.
I think a lot of us have no ideahow much tech is messing with
our nervous system until we actually start peeling back the
layers. Exactly.
And you won't hear this kind of conversation and mainstream

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health, especially all these cell phone providers, you think
they're going to mention anything about.
That absolutely not. They just there would just give
you the new. They would just give you the new
hottest iPhone out there or a newest Android.
Yeah, every year, a couple timesa year, a new device is coming
out and everybody's addicted. So if you're one of those, I
have to say it, idiotic drivers out there that are non-stop on

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your phone, get off your phone. Exactly.
And that's. Worry about our kids driving.
Yeah, and it's getting more popular, drivers driving with
their phone in their face while they're in traffic, that that
scares me and everyone in this on the road.
Yeah, I always think like not one person turns their head to
look to see if you're a cop. Absolutely not.

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And that's what to me, it's evenfor me.
I'm not even on my phone and I'mlike scanning why?
And I know I'm not speeding, butI don't know.
I'm just always looking for a cop to see if they're around.
Oh yeah, no, you have to pay attention to your surroundings
and that's what I do too. You never know who's going to
walk up on your car and stuff too.
But these people are so focused.Like soon as they get to a

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stoplight, you either get the ones that are non-stop on their
phone or they pull to a stop light and their first thing is
they grab their phone and put itright up into their face.
Yeah, just drive. No, I get it.
And people don't understand. And not to get off topic, but I
was saying before is when they do like driver's Ed and they do
rules of the road and stuff and they make you take the test,

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They should make the people say you take this quiz when you do
the permit. It should say if you drive and
you're texting and driving and you kill somebody, here's how
long you're going to be in prison.
That would be nice, that would give them an eye opening for
them to actually see what they can face.
Yeah, because they, I don't think people think about that or

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drinking and driving. So many people doing drugs and
driving right now and they don'trealize what happens if they
accidentally. Like you're seeing a lot right
now with people like running over people on their bicycles.
And some of these are young kidsbecause they're texting and now
they're in jail for 10 years or something.
And now we're seeing way more bikes now because most of them

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are electric bikes and they're and those things fly.
I'm going to say that right now I don't.
I want one just to cruise aroundthe neighborhood.
Yeah, that's scooters, right? You see a lot of electric
scooters. Scooters and the electrical
bikes, yeah. They're fast, but yeah, today
we're going to talk about how toreduce that digital overload.
So support your body naturally, reclaim your focus and energy in

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a tech driven world. And that's the new world we live
in. Let's do it.
And the quick medical disclaimer.
This podcast is for informational and educational
purposes only. We do not diagnose, cure or
treat any illness or disease. Excellently said, but yeah,
let's start with the basics. Most of us don't think twice

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about screen time right? Between phones, laptops, TV's,
tablets, screens are everywhere.But here's what we don't realize
is the constant digital input and putting low grade chronic
stress on your brain and nervoussystem.
And over time it adds up. I think we're seeing it more and
more now, especially if you talkto chiropractors and stuff too.
All the people with the neck pain and shoulder pain, it's
taking its toll. Yeah, and I could vouch for

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that. I used to think being tired at
the end of the day was just normal, but then I realized my
body wasn't tired from moving. I just been looking at stuff all
day. My eyes were strained, my brain
was foggy and almost felt jittery.
It wasn't physical exhaustion, it was more like mental.
Clutter. Yeah, it's, oh man, it's a

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different world we live in. You think how even 10 years ago
compared to today, the difference of what we're going
through? Are we talking about flip phones
or what are we talking about? Or are we talking about the
what? Is it the T the Nokia with the
snake games in it? Yeah, the real phones, but even
then it's like you see the big difference in technology and
stuff too. It's just it's addiction now and

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it's everybody's guilty of it. It's habit.
How many times do we look at Facebook or Instagram and we
just looked at a minute ago and there's nothing new and it's
stuff that we don't even care about and it's just like, why'd
I even pick up my phone? Information overload.
That's what it is, man. Yeah, it's like people got to
start to detox. Yeah, it's it's different world,

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right? There's a lot of digital
fatigue. So your brain is trying to
process way more stimulation than it's built for, right.
It's non-stop in our lives. Emails, texts, some news
headlines, ads, pop ups, videos.Your nervous system is getting
hit from every angle. The problem is you don't need to
feel stressed out emotionally for it to physical have a
physical impact on your health. And I'd say we're all guilty of

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it. But how many of us use e-mail
and stuff non-stop? And I have got to the point
where a lot of social media, I have all the notification stuff
disabled because I just don't need to every time whatever
person post something on the food they ate, I don't need to
pop up and grab my phone just because because of that.
Yeah, I've noticed that too. Like even when I think I'm

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relaxed, maybe watching a show or scrolling on social media, I
can still feel this weird fuzz after I can't wind down.
I used to think I was just caffeine or not enough sleep,
but now I'm realizing it's probably all the screen time.
Yeah, especially at least the woodworking get you away from

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kind of the screen, right? Absolutely.
Yeah. And that's exactly, and I feel
like that's exactly why I do it even more.
I love it, but it also takes me away from the social media, from
the scrolling. Yeah, it gets rid of that habit.
That's what people need to change their mindset to.
What if I have all this time to scroll?
What else could I be doing in life exactly?
That's not always about making money, but just, hey, I'm not at

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scrolling through our phones. And even now, when we go to
nature again, all guilty of it, we go in nature, we bring our
phones and take a picture of allthe nature now.
But to me, I like that, though I'd rather do that.
If I'm with the family and I seesomething that we all like, I'm
going to take a picture of it. But for me to be with the family
out for dinner and I'm just scrolling.
I want to enjoy the time that I have left with my kids and my

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family. Take in the moment.
Embrace these moments. Yeah, but I think people can
make that switch to IS maybe they put their phone away and
maybe they have a GoPro and thatwith the on their hat or chest
and just walk around. And exactly and capture every
single moment and it now cameras, even small body cameras
that for the for anyone they're almost not even noticeable.

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So they don't make them huge andwhat bulky anymore?
Oh yeah, for sure. And I think a lot of people
experience that wired but tired feeling and that's usually their
sympathetic nervous system, which is over stimulated.
And when this happens, it could throw off your cortisol rhythm,
mess with melatonin and impact how you recover at night.
And it's sneaky, right? Because it don't always feel
like classic stress and people always relate it to, hey, I'm

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having these issues and stuff because of stress at work and
stuff too. But Bones could be doing the
same thing. Yeah, that's wild.
I used to think screen screens helped me relax, but then when I
started tracking my sleep with with a wearable I noticed a
pattern. If I wasn't on my phone late,
especially scrolling, my sleep score would tank.

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Restlessness, light sleep, low recovery.
I thought I was winding down, but it was doing the opposite.
Yeah, and how many of us are guilty?
When I wake up in middle of night, you grab our phone to see
what time it is. Yeah, I'm getting better at
that. And even all like the I don't
want to say the name because I don't want them to answer me.
But the Alexa all my screens aresuper dimmed down I don't want

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to look at anything. If I could have it as dark as
possible I will do it. Yeah, and the such is key
insight when you're not alone. I'm not alone.
I think it's everybody we talkedto, everybody knows somebody
that's addicted to their phones or screens.
So a lot of clients do come in thinking they have sleep issues,
fatigue, anxiety out of nowhere.But we start going through their

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different kind of intake forms and stuff too and talking to
them more and we find out it's constant digital engagement.
It keeps their brain alert 24/7.Nobody's taking a rest anymore.
Nobody's getting a rest. No, and people don't realize
that even if you're still, you know that you're sitting still.
Your brain is not resting. It's working overtime to filter
through the noise, but it's not just what it's the pace of it

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all. The speed of social media, the
flashing graphics, the non-stop notification.
It creates this inner pressure we get used to, but it's not
normal. Yeah, not normal at all.
And I think it, like I said, we're all guilty of it.
So nobody's perfect. Especially nowadays.
Everybody lives and dies on their phone.
Everybody. It got to the point where nobody
helps each other when there's anemergency.

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They just record. Exactly.
You're having a heart attack? Let me take out my phone and
just record you instead of helping you.
Or how about when somebody gets to somebody's house instead of
knocking? Nowadays, I'll just send you a
text. Yeah, I'm here, I'm here.
Open the door, please. I'm guilty for that one.
Yeah, that prefrontal cortex right in the brain is
responsible for focus and decision making.

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And when we're doing this is constantly switching gears.
That contributes to fatigue, emotional burnout, and even poor
memory. So when you say why can't I
focus, it's not about willpower,it's about your environment and
being hijacked by stimulation. This sounds familiar to a lot of
people. Brain fog.
What's another one? Wired but tired tension that
won't go away, especially upper neck trapezius issues.

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This is reason why I'm mindful objective.
We use tools like organic acid tests and cortisol rhythm
testing to uncover how digital overload may be disrupting your
energy and stress response. Once we know really what's going
on, we create a clear plan to support your nervous system and
get you back into balance. And I think that's what
everybody needs. Rebalance that body.
Agreed, it's like tech tricks your brain into thinking you're

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doing something important but then comes out a bit more.
You come out of it more drained.I definitely had moments where I
check my phone for one thing and20 minutes later I don't even
remember what I picked it up for.
Do you use your phone in the toilet?
Guilty. Yes, I do.
Scrolling and scrolling, you hear everybody's, man, you've

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been in a toilet 30 minutes. And so I didn't even gauge just
on my phone how many people sit down like that too.
I imagine those workers, right? And different restaurants and
stuff too. It's Oh yeah, I've got to take a
break. And that's what they do and go
sit and it's just on their phone.
Who actually made a comment thismorning about making a podcast
about men taking excessive amount of time?

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My wife, she said. How come you guys don't talk
about that and why it takes men 30-40 minutes to go to the
bathroom and women go less than 10 minutes?
I don't know. Not all women, I know a few that
just they could be on the phone using the bathroom and be in
there for an hour just because they're talking to their family.
Yeah, again, this is not anybody's fault.

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This is by design, right? The tech is engineered to be
addictive, to grab your attention and hold it.
But from from a psychological standpoint, it creates micro
stretches that add up. It's causing an issue with all
of us. And it's if you never take
breaks, you're never allowing your nervous system to
downshift. And I think if you talk to
anybody, everybody says they have sleep issues nowadays.
Yeah, that's probably why peopleare more anxious than ever to

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just look around. People can't sit still, even
waiting in line, they're checking their phone.
Nobody's just rest anymore. No.
And you see, too, when you go toa restaurant again, I'm guilty
of a lot of times too, is you'resitting at the table waiting for
them to come around, take your order and everybody jumps on
their phones. Or do we do it to look more

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impatient so it gets the waiter like a sign, hey, those that
family has been sitting down because look, they seem bored or
that they're on their phones. Nah, But if you look around a
whole restaurant, it's just common practice nowadays.
And again, it goes back to habit.
I don't think people do it to beignorant, right?
Like you sit at the table. I don't think most people and at

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that table or when you're out toeat, they do it because hey, I
just don't want to listen to you.
But it's just that form of habit.
It's just like when you wake up middle night, you grab your
phone or you wake up in middle night and you think, man, I need
to pee. And is it because you really
need to grab your phone to see what time it is?
Or is it because you really needto pee?
Or is it because it's a habit? Now you make yourself pee or you

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make yourself grab that phone, and now you're make yourself
wake up at 3:33 every morning because your body's programmed
to that. At that specific time, at 3:30
or 3:00 AM, that's when you should be praying.
At that time, if you get woken up to go to the washroom, just
do a quick prayer before you go back to bed.
Yeah, prayer for sleep. That is true or slumber to your

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eyes. Yeah, but yeah, absolutely.
So here's the thing. Rest isn't just about sleep,
right? That's giving your body and your
brain that white space-time without input.
We need to slow it down at times.
And when we do sleep, that's when recovery happens, hormone
stabilize, and that's when clarity kicks in.
But if you're always consuming, you're not recovering.

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That's been one of the biggest shifts for me lately.
Even just a short walk without my phone or even taking a 10
minute sit outside. It's just, it's just like a
reset for me and enjoying the sun on my face.
That's what I like. Yeah.
So how do we actually reset our systems?
I think that's something we needto dig more in.

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What's behind blue light EMF's and why your nervous systems
more sensitive than you think? This is a stuff no one talks
about, but it's affecting everyone.
Let's get into it. Yeah, so let's dig into what's
really going on behind the scenes, right, Blue light Emfs
and why are these invisible forces have real impact on your
nervous system first, like they say, everybody's hearing about

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blue light, but what is it? It's high energy light emitted
from screens, right? Phones, tablets, T VS LED
lights. During the day, blue light can
actually be beneficial. It keeps us alert and awake, but
at night throws your biology completely off.
That's been a game changer for me.
I didn't even know what blue light was until you brought it

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up a while back. But once I started using those
blue light filters and glasses at night my sleep I would have
to say my sleep got way better. It's crazy how much just one
screen can affect your body switching.
Like switching your phone into the red light as well at night.
Yeah, I have. I keep the blue light filter

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under my phone all the. Time OK, you.
Guys have one too. For I don't know.
I don't know if iPhones have them or not.
Yeah, there should be a blue light setting in there and I
keep that blue light on. It makes your phone yellowish
with daughter and stuff. Wife complain that man, your
pictures look horrible because it's like a yellow tint.
But for me, I mean it's easier on the eyes, but same on the

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laptop computer screen stuff too.
I have the blue light filter on stuff.
Does it do anything? I don't know, but I have it on.
I do have those blue blocker glasses.
I don't know if they work or not.
I never warm long enough. I should, but rather than just
staying on the screen and addingblue blocker glasses, I now just
take more breaks. No, exactly.
Get away from the screen. Just go do something else.

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You're going to rest those eyes.Yeah, blue light suppresses
melatonin. That's the hormone tells your
body it's time to sleep. So when your brain sees blue
light at 10:00 PM, it basically thinks it's noon.
So instead of winding down, yourbrain stays alert.
That messes with your circadian rhythm, which effects
everything, energy, metabolism, mental clarity, and it's just
not helpful. And that rhymes and that rhymes

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already off off for most people.I used to stay up late watching
shows in bed scrolling and wonder why I woke up groggy.
Now I know my body never got thesignal for it to shut off.
So that's why some people will be on their phone and then
they'll just stay up even later.Oh, let me watch a video.
And then you go to the next video.

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And then you go to the next video.
And then by by the time you knowit, you were supposed to be in
bed by 10:30. Now it's 12:30.
Yeah, it's different. So then there's other invisible
stressors, right? You have Emfs or electronic
electromagnetic fields, so there's low level radiation,
Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, cell towers and wireless devices, but you

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also see it in the saunas and stuff like that.
So if people don't see them, youfeel them.
Feel them in your body. The invisible stressors and
that's the part that really blewmy mind because it's not
something you can touch or smell.
It's all over the place for us. It's how do I want to say it's
from the LED lights, it's from amicrowave, It's just several

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things. You got the router, you have
your phones in your pocket. It's just a handful of things
and that's not settle. No.
And think when too, not just at your home.
What about when you walk into a building somewhere?
What kind of devices do they have kind of EMF's out there.
And there are EMF detectors and stuff.
I have one too, because I want to test out the sauna, want to

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see how much. And same with the Wi-Fi and
stuff. And the Wi-Fi, I notice if I'm
really close to it, it's really high outside of that's within
the normal ranges. But they say never put a Wi-Fi
router and stuff in your bedroom, keep that away from
bedrooms. So EMS can interfere with
calcium signals in your cells, disrupt energy production and
cause your body not to repair correctly while you sleep.

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So some people are more sensitive than others.
And that's where you see now yousee all these 5G towers going
up, a lot of people having health issues.
So does it relate? Is it coincidental?
But I wouldn't want to live nextto 5G tower.
Absolutely not, and I think people don't want to believe
this stuff because it feels overwhelming.
What are we supposed to do, turnoff the Wi-Fi forever?
But honestly even making small changes made a difference for

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me. Like moving the router out of a
room, switching the airplane mode on my phone at night.
Didn't realize how plugged in I was even during the rest hours.
Yeah. And I don't think a lot of
people pay attention to that, right?
So that's the thing, it's not about being anti tech, right?
We're big into the tech industry.

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It's about you want to be intentional.
You can't avoid all Emfs. But what can we do?
Reduce exposure? I think that's more what we need
to focus on is how do we reduce that exposure.
And let's be real, when you're constantly exposed to blue light
and EMF, you, you don't just feel weird, you get edgy.
I felt irritable before, like mybrain couldn't settle.

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And it's not emotional stress, it's physical overload.
Not a good feeling at all man. Yeah, and people think it's just
that their health, right? And but is it their health doing
it or is it that EMF they're coming in contact too?
Everything you think of could cause issues, right?
They say I people smoke because they're going to get cancer
anyway or they're going to do this because of this or.

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What a way to live, huh? But it's everything, right?
So it's like identifying those stressors and stuff and then
working to live a healthier life.
So you just know, you just need to know the earphones produce
EMF and this blue light and all this.
What can I do to reduce exposure?
It's kind of the same what we'lljust say shampoo or conditioner
products. You could say, OK, I didn't know

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and they were utilizing junk conditioner, shampoo, getting a
lot of Gray hair, causing headaches, whatever, neck pain,
whatever. And then find out it has like
heavy metals in there causing all these health issues.
But one thing they need to do isjust learn to.
Once they understand that's the issue, then you just switch
product and you're just improving your health.
That's what you got to do. Absolutely.

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Yeah, different kind of stress can overload the body.
It can mimic anxiety. You trigger headaches, muscle
tightness, even heart palpitations some people.
It depends how sensitive your body is, and its sources are
invisible. So most people don't connect the
dots, just like we say with the shampoo, right?
They don't connect the dots of heavy metals, and that's where
it's coming from. But that's why we run functional

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labs, cortisol curves, neurotransmitter profiles, or
even organic acid tests. We often see signs of oxidative
stress and inflammation, and a lot of this is tied to
overstimulation. I remember on my oath test you
pointed out that those markers like the one showing stress in
the mitochondria, I never thought tech could have that

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kind of cellular effect, but thedata was there.
And that's what's nice about these testing is that you see
the data, right? We're not guessing.
We're seeing the data. And again, like I said, that's a
power of testing. It validates when people feel
what they can't explain. It's not in your head, it's in
your cells. Once you know what's affecting
your system, you can do something about it.

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Again, like we said before, without food tracking, would you
have been able to identify certain things or doing the food
sensitivity test? No, and I it all comes down to
testing and I know it gets repetitive, but it's if anybody
would ask me where would I start, I would start with
testing first. I know we've said this in
multiple podcasts in the past, but people will try to do it on

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their own and start loading up on supplements that they may or
may not need. So now they're wasting the money
when they could have avoided technically any wasted money and
then paid for the test and then get exactly what they need.
Yeah, because that's a big thingis a lot of people just blindly
take so many supplements and what's that doing to your
kidneys and liver and stuff too?I don't, I don't think people

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think of that. They just think, I don't know,
maybe they don't even think on the pharmaceutical side.
But just when you're taking blindly all these supplements,
do you really need them for one?And if you're taking something
that you don't know what it's doing to your body, is it
overloading? And a lot of people maybe they
take, oh, I need to take all these supplements.
I'm taking AB complex plus this.But are you getting B complex

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certain BS from foods? Are you getting ready from a
protein shake? Do you really need to take
additional supplement? That's what we can see with lab
testing if this is really needed.
But why waste the money? Like you said, supplements could
be expensive. Very expensive, yeah.
And they just blindly take and spend all this money and realize
it doesn't help and that there are people out there take
certain supplements or pharmaceuticals and it actually
damages their organs and leads to other health issues.

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And it's just something they're doing that they thought was
healthy, and it's not healthy. And that's the problem right
there that they think that they're doing it correctly and
they're getting and just becausethey're getting the supplements
overloading their body, they're taking, they could possibly
taking the wrong supplement. And then it kind of puts us in a
position of, oh, I tried the healthier route.

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I tried the supplements. They don't work out for me.
You weren't taking the right ones.
Whether it's screen light messing with your sleep or Emfs
frying your focus, these are things that you can actually
change. Even if you're not ready to
ditch devices, you could build it for like more protection.
Yep, absolutely. So what we're going to talk

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about next? In this next part, here we'll
cover real strategies, simple doable actions to create tech
boundaries which a lot of peopleneed, reduce exposure and
support your nervous system in the process.
Now let's get practical, becausenow that we know the whys, it's
time to figure out the how and. We help clients everyday with
such issues. Through targeted

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supplementation, adrenal supportprotocols, detox strategies, we
help the body adapt and recover.So if you're curious about what
your body might need, we got protocols that go far beyond
melatonin. And think of mainstream media
sells a lot of melatonin, but people don't really may not need
it. So now that we covered kind of
what screen time is about blue light Emfs, we're going to talk

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about what doing for your systemmuch needed solutions.
That's what we got to really harp on to a lot of people.
So it's not about fair, it's about function.
We do not toss your phone, throwit in the garbage, or live off
the grid. I wouldn't mind living off the
grid though. But what you need is a tech
detox strategy that actually works for your lifestyle.

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And some people CE OS of companies and stuff that live
and die by their e-mail and theycould lose multimillion dollar
deals. I understand, but our sense
sometimes they need downtime too.
Exactly. And that's the biggest game
changer for me. I didn't go, I didn't go for a
monk and unplug everything. But once I started setting up a
few simple habits, like cutting off the screens an hour before

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bed using blue light filters, I actually felt different, like
clear and calmer. That's the key, right?
It's not about perfection, it's about consistency.
So let's break it down. So what you want to do with at
least start with create a screencurfew, so no screen 60 to 90
minutes before bed. During that time your body

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should be shifting to parasympathetic mode, what we
call rest and digest. But screens, especially phones
and TV's, do the opposite. They keep your nervous system
alert. That's why it took me the
longest to ever get ATV in the bedroom again.
But some we did break it down, don't watch a lot of TV in the
bedroom. But I think that's why a lot of
people keep their bedrooms separate from devices.

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Their bedrooms made for sleep only and they don't other things
too but their main focus is going there to sleep.
That was hard at first, I won't lie.
I have always scrolled on the couch, Instagram, YouTube,
whatever but once I swapped it out for talking to God, my wife,

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prayer, sex, stretch, my sleep got deeper and it wasn't we and
I wasn't waking up groggy like before.
Now, and that's the thing, right?
So many of us wake up and feel like we didn't sleep at all.
And so we always wondered, did we sleep?
No, I already know my window nowlike I would.
I think my perfect window would have to be from like 9:30 to

(26:53):
10:00 and that gives me enough time to wake up by by 7:00 in
the morning or yeah, by 657 o'clock.
That gives me a good window. I don't know if that's 8 or 9
hours, but that's what I need ifI go to bed by 11:00 PM.
I'm not the best when I wake up in the morning.
Yeah, I'm not a morning person in general, but so another easy

(27:15):
one that people could do is write airplane mode at night.
Your phone doesn't need to be pinging data while you sleep.
Switch off Bluetooth if you're really into it going step
further and unplug your Wi-Fi router.
It cuts down an EMF exposure during the hours your body's
most focused on healing and hormone balance.
That I would say the downside ofwhy a lot of people can't turn

(27:38):
off the Wi-Fi is a lot of us have security cameras that run
on Wi-Fi I. Didn't think about that.
Yeah. So it's one of those things like
you, you could put on most advanced routers now you can put
time limits, you could put when they shut off and all that too.
And I thought about it, but thenI thought, I do have the other
cameras that are hard wired. I, I got those recording.
But most people still are going to have cameras and they're on

(28:02):
Wi-Fi and that's what it's goingto do.
Or the house alarm communicates via Wi-Fi.
Maybe they have backup options, backup communication options.
But that's why a lot of people do it.
So at least keep your Wi-Fi routers away from your bedrooms.
Yeah. So I do that now.
So I don't necessarily turn off the routers, but it's just no

(28:23):
one's using the Wi-Fi at 2:00 inthe morning.
So in my mind, it's like, why would anybody have them on?
But just like you said, the camera system, that's the main
reason why most of us have them still on.
But they're definitely not in the room.
They're away from US1 of ours isin the living room.
The second one's in the laundry room.
They're away from the our room and the kids room.

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Yeah, it's again, it's like partof our lives now, like.
We What do we? Do when our Wi-Fi or Internet
goes out? We freak out and we start trying
to and we become a caveman. Yeah, you got to think.
Cell phone providers the other day were out, couldn't send a
text, couldn't do anything. Did you have any issues?
I didn't have any issues, but I noticed that a lot of things

(29:05):
weren't logging on or yeah, trying to watch videos and what
not at work while I'm supposed to be at work.
But it wasn't much like I, I didn't care for it because I
wasn't, I would only work or I should say I would do one or two
blocks, sit down, take a mini break, pull my phone out.
But I've noticed that it's the more I do that, the more like

(29:27):
aggravated, not aggravated, but more tired I get for me it's
just more worship music, podcasting.
That's my biggest thing. Yeah, I don't think people
understand how stress and anxious everybody is nowadays.
But is it because our people? Do people have anxiety because
of chemical imbalance in their brain or people have anxiety
because of social media? Who?

(29:48):
A little bit of both. Yeah, you think how many people
nowadays you live in, you live non-stop on your phone, you're
risking your life while you're driving on your phone, you're
walking, you're on your phone and you're not paying attention
to your surroundings. You get robbed.
All these things happen just because a cell phone.
Yeah, exactly. Always be aware of your
surroundings. Yep.
And another EMF exposure. And I think you're guilty of

(30:11):
this. Is that the Bluetooth
headphones? Earphones.
Yeah, that's. Guilty on that one and it is
hard for me to switch over from an Airpod being in the ear to
the wired headphone. I don't know, it's just I feel
like a dinosaur when I wear those on how long they've been
around but I still have them. Those are technically my backup
ones, but I will switch over from the Bluetooth to the wired

(30:37):
headphones. Yeah, I used to.
I use wired all the time, especially if I'm on a computer
on a call. I never, ever hold my cell phone
to my head. I just can't.
It's just one the times I had toit's I either got a migraine
from it like within a minute or two, or the heat from the phone
made me have a migraine because of sensitivity.
It's just one of those things where some people are more

(30:59):
sensitive than others. But then I just always thought
of that risk because same thing I guess we touch on too is when
you're laying in bed, how far away are you keeping your cell
phone? Some people keep their cell
phone right next to their head. They leave it in their bed.
Some leave it. I the reason for me where I
don't put my phone on airplane mode, I got to start doing where

(31:20):
I want to configure. At least on Android you could
configure the do not disturb andI know Apple you could too.
But in that Do not disturb, you could still put it on DND, but
select certain people you could still get their messages and
phone calls from. Because the reason I won't turn
my phone on airplane mode is forin case of emergencies.

(31:41):
Somebody gets in a car accident at 2:00 in the morning or
something, you need to take thatcall or know about it and get
hear that coming in. And a lot of other people just
put their phone. They do turn it off or leave
notifications off. But what do you do in that
emergency? Because we don't have house
phones anymore. Nobody does.
So. There is no I'm sure we have
landlines, but they're very rarenow.
And, and just to add to yours, for the do not disturb, I

(32:06):
noticed that if I have it on andsomebody calls me once, it goes
straight to voicemail. But once the second call comes
in, it goes through. So I guess just knowing, all
right, this person might have the do not disturb at this time.
Let me call him again because I'm it's this is a real
emergency. Yeah.
So like on Amazon and not on Amazon on Android.

(32:29):
On Android you can put Do Not Disturb and I could pick whoever
I want to add to that group. And then if I add them to that
group, I could select on there if I want their messages to come
in text. If I want phone calls to come in
anybody outside of that, it goesto voicemail.
In my part of that group. You are a part of that group,
yeah. I was about to take out the

(32:50):
light detector test, yeah. Teaching yeah, we do have blue
light filters on our phones. A lot of phones do have night
modes. You could schedule those
automatically. I tried that and that's why I
did it before, but then during the day, the blue light was just
too bright for me and stuff. So I just again, when it comes
to people with migraines, our eyes are usually more sensitive.
So I don't take the risk. I don't do it based on schedule.

(33:13):
I just leave it on a blue light filter all the time.
But there's different apps and software out there for
computers, you know, but like Windows, I'm sure Apple does now
to have it built in, you can select option for computers.
You get different software. You could get physical blue
light blocking glasses. There's often, not often, but
there's different kind of products out there that you

(33:34):
could put over your screen, likeactual buy a product and put it
over on your phones too and stuff.
But. I got a pair of those.
I was skeptical at first, but then I, but then I really, but
they really helped them. At first I was like, man, is it,
is this like a trend? Are people doing it just to be
trendsetters? But they actually work.
Though to be honest, they actually work.

(33:58):
Yeah, it's that's just one more layer or protection that's we
look at all these different things we could do.
It's just making a little changeand seeing how your health
improves. But another one too would be
grounding. I did talk about that on
different episode and I know it sounds to some people, but it's
science. Physically connecting with the
earth, barefoot, walking, walking, sitting on grass can

(34:19):
use it to discharge built up electrical stress in the body.
There are even grounding mats you can use indoors while
working. Like I do have one that I put
under my desk so I can rest my bare feet on it.
But then there are bed sheets. There are grounding mats.
I have grounding mat. They could put on the bed and
stuff too and you could measure and see how it affects your

(34:39):
body. And some people like live and
die by the stuff. Have you ever tried one?
Not the mats. I've actually tried it in the
backyard with the family. We do go out there, we do step
on the grass, but and now that the days are getting nicer,
that's when we do it. That's when we thrive the most.
But it's like we see people in California that are living it
up, but that's because they havethe nice weather all year round

(35:01):
versus for us currently right now in the month of May, this is
our time to shine and thrive. And because once it becomes
cooler, fall time, you know how they say the seasonal depression
comes in, There's less sun outside.
Everybody's, their vitamin D levels are super low.

(35:21):
So now they feel off. But grounding is one of our
favorite things to do. Yeah, just don't get bit by
spiders. No, exactly.
That's why big thing, you take your socks off, walk out there
barefoot and it's. Oh man, I just saw the big
spider run across the grass. Even now on my route, customers
grasses don't get cut weekly. So now it's over my ankle and it

(35:45):
could be that I seen a tick video the day before or the
morning of and then I have it inmy head.
It could be that I felt something crawling on me and it
wasn't that it was. It could have just been my pants
grazing against my leg and that freaks me out just because I got
to take on me or not. Now you're itchy all day.
Exactly. Yeah.
But just enjoying that groundingin the yard.
That research. It recalibrates your nervous

(36:07):
system. And it doesn't have to be
complicated. You could also reach for tech
free talk walks, leave your phone at home when you run
errands or physical alarm clock.Remember those old alarm clocks?
I think this is when these trends do come back into play
is, oh, that used to be hot whenit was back then.
I think now if anybody comes up with a nice alarm clock, they're

(36:29):
going to come back in style. Yeah, like retro.
Exactly. So it's just nobody has one and
everybody, all the studies are now telling you, hey, keep your
phone away from your room, it disrupts your sleep.
So if somebody out there, it could be us, I don't know, we
come up with a pretty awesome red light alarm clock, simple,

(36:50):
clean, modern. For sure people will start
swapping out today. Yeah, funny thing is going to be
is my youngest daughter, she's asleeper, right?
She don't go to bed like last night she didn't go bed and
complain to her, but till 3:00 AM and then she sleeps in every
day. But I can't complain.
She's good kid. But it's going to be interesting

(37:13):
tomorrow because tomorrow she's volunteering at a like a Nature
Center and she has to be there by 7:45 AM and she usually
sleeps till noon, one O clock. So tomorrow's going to be very
interesting because you got to think she got to wake up at 6:00
AM plus travel. So she's going to have to have
that no tech night kind of thingto get her in that groove.

(37:35):
Just to think, not having an alarm clock to go to, to go, not
to have a schedule, to having togo to sleep and then have being
able to wake up whenever you want to wake up.
And that's beautiful. It's not, it's not putting
strain on your mental health on your body at all.
You just, I feel tired. I feel exhausted now.
We go to bed, we wake up whenever we're fully charged on

(37:58):
to the day. Yeah, and how many people, like,
know what a physical alarm clockis?
Do your kids ever see ya? You have one in the house.
Only Alexis. That's it.
But not a physical one where they have to get off and push
the button. Right now you'll.
Just be be. Right now for my oldest, no, I,
he'll just yell, he will yell atus like Alexa and just start to

(38:19):
turn off for snooze and that's it.
But back then having to get up or that's why they would have
him next to their night stand today, he just would reach and
just turn it off, snooze it, whatever.
But I've seen somewhere you haveto get off your bed and turn it
off. But for me, if I wake up
earlier, if I wake up 1/2 an hour earlier before my alarm,
I'll go do what I got to do, look around, make sure my house

(38:41):
is safe and take A and then takea 30 minute nap until my actual
alarm. I want all the sleep I can.
Oh yeah, no, yeah, neither sleep.
Yeah, but I even started doing something like no tech Sundays
with the family. It's like, and it just gets
easier with the days getting warmer, it's easier to do it.
Like my brain had space again, but it's just no tech.

(39:05):
With the family, you're more involved.
Getting out of the house, let's live our actual lives and set on
a computer. I agree.
Tech in general right? Phone, TV.
I'm not a big TV watcher. I don't know if you are but I
care less about TVI don't. I drive people crazy because oh
this is getting ready to happen What's the end of the show?

(39:25):
I could turn it off and never think twice what happened to the
ending. It just I care less.
I get it. Oh no.
And I'm like, and I'm the same way unless there's a show that I
really like or I really care about.
I think for me Max is 1 to I guess two to three episode is
like my Max. After the third episode, I'm

(39:47):
done. I don't want to watch anything.
I'd rather go do something creative, hang out, chill.
But the two, three episode mark is.
That's when I check out. Yeah, like for me, if I'm
watching like episodes like Blacklist, for example, Great
show. When I watch that, I could only
watch it like 1520 minutes at a time and I'm done.
OK, I'll pick it up next time orwhen we're eating lunch or

(40:09):
something and then I'll watch a little bit.
But I'll tell you that it's likeI'm not going to sit for hours
and watch a show. I just attention span.
I just lose interest. Even if it's a good show, I'll
just all right, I got other things to do or my brains
overthinking. I should be doing this, I should
do this, So I'm done. That's exactly how I am.
Yeah, having those days with no tech, that's powerful.
Reset changes are subtle, but they feel good, right?

(40:33):
And they will ultimately you keep doing that.
It'll show up on your lab testing, right?
I have clients seen drops in nighttime, cortisol, better
neurotransmitter balance, improve sleep latency, all just
from reducing digital load like you're doing.
So it's a great thing to do. And when you start feeling
better, you realize how much tech was training you.
It's not about giving up giving up the devices completely, it's

(40:57):
about reclaiming your energy. I still use my cell phone and
computer here and there, but nowI'm more in control.
Yeah, until your phone breaks and then let's see how much
anxiety you get. Personally, I would only get the
anxiety because if my wife couldget a hold of me, my kid could
get a hold of me. My music and all my photos,

(41:22):
those are my top concerns. So are you going to get the
implant? I have no.
Link if it's going to help me have a way better vocabulary, of
course. Definitely.
I would log in, I would hack into it and then just say
pretend. Have all these voices talking to
you. Let.
Me see do a voice right now, what would you say?
Yeah. Are you there?

(41:43):
Hey, why are you walking so slow?
Where's my mail? It's God.
Is this you talking to me again?Bruce Almighty or?
Yes, exactly. Yep.
Yeah, so it's about if you're listening and thinking, I'm too
busy for this, right? You see, a lot of people are,
right. They live and die by their
phones. It's small bills and sonar and
stuff like that too. You get guilty of it.

(42:03):
You can't live without your e-mail and stuff too.
But sometimes you got to realize, is this worth my
health? Is this really that important to
I can't answer it just like texting and driving.
Do I really need somebody said agood video.
So many people are just picking up their phone to look at
something stupid like that. Learn to put stuff down.
Does it matter? I think that's another thing
like we said, once your health important to you.

(42:24):
Maybe people got to take that instance to where did I need to
read this while I'm at a light like maybe they need to
categorize this is nothing or this is something right.
Hey, your cousin just had a heart attack.
The phone keeps ringing. OK, I understand now why they're
texting and people look at theirphone.
But yeah, for somebody to say, hey, yeah, great picture or

(42:44):
yeah, you look cute. Exactly did it but don't I
comment on yours? You're always telling me I look
cute and stuff, so you know, I just tell you.
Just make me a sign. Eventually we'll have video up
and then you guys will be able to see Dan's pretty face.
But even to go off of that, it'sthese past two weekends have
been the busiest for. Handsome.

(43:07):
Go ahead. They have been the busiest for
me because it's planter season for me.
So this is when I'm pumping themout like crazy.
But I'll be at work from 8:30 to4:30 and my phone will be
blowing up and everybody that would send me a message, I'm
replying to him instantly just because I don't know if I'm, I
don't know if I just have fear of missing that customer.

(43:29):
So I'm replying, I'm stopping what I'm doing.
I'm stopping in the middle of the block just to reply but then
it sometimes gets too much because now I'm stopping and
going a lot when I could just not response till after I'm
clocked out and I could give it my full attention.
But then I think about it and I rather give my full attention to

(43:50):
my family versus being glued to the phone.
Now it leads into ADHD and OCD too.
That's, I think a lot of people maybe develop that because of
cell phones, right, Because everything now is emergency,
everything I need to look at. I think we live such a
fast-paced environment where a lot of people don't really pay
attention to how it's affecting them until you take it away.

(44:10):
Exactly. Because you see a lot of the
kids that have like they're one,2-3 years old and they're ready
addicted to devices because their parents, Hey, I'm not
going to spend time with you, but I'll give you a tablet and
have you be on a tablet all day.All night.
Yeah. That's the new world we live in.
Exactly, Miss Rachel is taking care of him, but start small,

(44:36):
build on it. It doesn't need to be perfect,
just need. You just need to protect your
brain and your nervous system a little better everyday.
Wow, slow process. So now we'll talk about
something a lot of people overlook how different types of
screen time affect you differently, right?
Because it's not just how much time you spend on the screens,

(44:57):
but what kind of screen time is it?
Are you are you looking at something positive and gaining
knowledge or are you looking at porn all day?
Yeah, I agree. That one is going to surprise
some people for sure. Let's get it.
So here's something that gets overlooked.
Not all screen time is created equal.
We tend to lump all together white watching TV, answering
emails, editing videos, growing Instagram.

(45:19):
But how? Your screen matters just as
much, right? Of what you watch.
So if it's not, I think it matters probably even more on
more on what you're looking at and absorbing then how long
you're using a device. And I would say like for me, I'm
on different devices for longer and stuff because I might be
adding videos or working on websites or dealing with the
different health clients or looking at labs, stuff like

(45:41):
that. But I'm always one of those
persons that's like a constant learner.
So that's why I have 50 million certifications and stuff because
it's thought if I have 15 minutes to spare, rather than
going on instant Instagram, why can't I just do some webinar,
some certification and learn something else?
So again, it depends what you'reinto, but sometimes you have to

(46:02):
change those habits. And I think especially what they
say millions and millions of young women between ages of
1824, I can't recall the exact metrics, but 1824 or something
like 10 million are on only fans.
And would they have had that lifestyle if they didn't have a
cell phone or they didn't see social media and see, oh, you're

(46:25):
not beautiful unless you look like this?
Kind of thing. I wonder if both their fathers
are proud of them. I don't know, it's one of those
things like I understand people need to do what they need to do
to get by right life and they'restruggling, whatever.
And I think that's a quick buck and stuff too.
But their sight is if, say, there's 10 million, say, women

(46:46):
doing the TikTok are the only fans, how are they making money
by the subscribers? Yeah.
So that's who the people, maybe they need to look at their life,
reevaluate on that side to damage their cousin.
And because you wouldn't have clients if there's not
subscribers, there's too. Exactly, I used to feel totally

(47:09):
drained after some days and findon others if I spent the same
amount of time on screen I wasn't.
It wasn't the hours, it was whatI was doing.
Passive scrolling on social media wiped me out, but doing
creative work even for hours, I felt more clear afterwards.

(47:30):
Grateful for all my extra work right now this season.
Yeah, it like you said, so if. You're on there and you're
watching a video on how to buildsomething.
That's one thing. Now, if you're on there just
scrolling and scrolling like I just, we would just say shopping
for stuff that you have no planson buying or something.

(47:51):
Or the people that develop like shopping addictions because of
they're seeing so many ads and stuff and they're shopping and
shopping wasteless scrolling. You don't have the money.
So maybe you change that mindsetto something else.
And again, everybody's guilty ofit.
I'll go on. Look at property, look at cars,
look at all that stuff too. Then I think, OK, I just meant
to look at one thing because I saw some commercial or
something. I was like, oh, I'm going to

(48:11):
look at the specs for that. Next thing I know I'm on there.
An hour later I'm. Thinking, building it, picking
the color you're going to want. Yeah, you build it, spanking it
out. And then you think logically
it's I'm not paying $80,000 for a vehicle, $100,000 for a
vehicle. This is ridiculous.
And that's in, that's in normal now, I think what a basic car
right now, a nice basic car, 50 to 60, a nice car.

(48:35):
If it's nice, right? It's like Ng level nowadays and
that's how I said if you could get what brand car you want,
they're all same price. You want Tesla, BMW, Mercedes,
even Chevy, Ford, everything's beginning the same price.
So pick what you want, but there's no way I'm spending
twelve $1500 a month on a car payment.
I rather what I was just saying about this to my wife is what

(48:56):
I'll do for that is you know what I was looking at property.
I rather buy an acre of propertyfor 4050 sixty thousand and then
buy a car. Our cars work fine, paid off and
stuff, but you know what? I'm going to invest that 50
grand in an acre property or something or more somewhere else
that's I don't know. I see that as a value compared

(49:17):
to a car. Buying land is the IT.
That's definitely gold right there for a lot of people.
That's a lot of people are working their butts off right
now to get to that point. So now some gift ideas for your
kids, right? Find some cheap property
somewhere because at at some point everything's getting
purchased and bought up and all this farm fields are turned into
now residential places and there's nothing left in nature.

(49:41):
Nope, it's horrible. So passive consumption would be
endless. Scrolling, binge watching TV,
flipping between apps. I'm a binge channel flipper.
I don't watch TV but I'll go through a couple 100 channels
and then turn TV off. It drives people insane but it's
nothing good at so I just flip flip flip man.

(50:02):
That's how it is sometime for uswhen we're about to have dinner
and the kids are in the kitchen and we just want to take a
moment alone and we'll eat in the living room and we could
start dinner and I'm just flipping through Netflix or I'm
going through Peacock, or am I going through Apple and I'm just
going through all these different streaming and we might
start a show not even 5 minutes and we're already done eating

(50:25):
just because of the time it tookme to scroll to see what exactly
I wanted to watch. Yeah.
That's The funny thing. I was just going to say that is
sometimes by time your food's onthe table, you don't turn TV on
till after the food's there usually, and then you turn on
Netflix. I was like, man, it's taking
forever to load. And then once it loads, I don't
know what I want to watch. You flip through and the food's

(50:45):
gone already. You're like, all right, I'm
turning this. Off and I'm the same way.
Like for that specific topic or thing it could be late at night
and if I'm going to have cereal,corn, frosted flakes to be
exact. I guess this was the old meal.
I would want everything. Hey, tell the kids, do you need

(51:05):
anything? No.
OK. I told my and then I would ask
my wife, do you need anything? Nope.
All right, I'm going to pour my milk in my cereal because I want
to sit down and start eating it.I want soggy.
I like them crunchy. I do not like them soggy.
And my wife's the other way around.
She likes them soggy and it's. No, I want them crunchy and I
want to continue watching what Iwas watching or let's watch
something now. Yeah, it's I'm not getting up.

(51:26):
I got my cereal exactly. So I'm pouring this milk.
I'm not getting up. I'm going to enjoy this.
So yeah. So when you keep like endless
growing stuff like that too, youcreate a fragmented attention
loop. So when this happens, your brain
never fully engages in one thing.
It creates mental fatigue, emotional over stimulation
without any real satisfaction. Like we just talked.

(51:47):
It's man, I really wanted to watch something while I was
eating and now it's too late. Or you eat or something, or
you're on the phone and you're eating while you're watching.
You're not paying attention to your food.
Then you don't even enjoy the food.
Yep. And it kind of sneaks up on you.
You think you're just relaxing, but then you look and realize
you've been watching reels on Instagram, some on TikTok for

(52:09):
hours and you're not relaxed at all.
You're just foggy and maybe evenirritated.
How I get and this way. And This is why every time I
pick up my phone and I go into YouTube and is this video going
to bring value to me? And by I mean by that, it's what
am I learning from it and all myvideos and how to videos and

(52:30):
it's custom woodworking and so on.
To me, I guess I would always get upset when my kids would be
watching videos of kids playing.Yeah, technically I'm doing the
same thing. I'm watching somebody else build
something when I could be out there building, but they're
showing me a technique or a way to do it better.
Yeah, but that's what a lot of people didn't understand.

(52:51):
Instead of you playing Minecraft, why are you watching
somebody else play Minecraft? But sometimes it's just listen
to a podcast. You're listening to what they're
saying. Sometimes some people are funny
and stuff. Exactly.
We should have just got into Minecraft.
Back you know what mine craftingand.
Servers, yeah, exactly. So it becomes passive screen
time at this time it only spikes, it will spike your

(53:12):
dopamine usually. So this is a lot of people don't
know, but dopamine's your brain's reward chemical in
short, birds, it doesn't last. You create more hits.
That's why you keep scrolling and scrolling.
You never get deep satisfaction or clarity.
And there's no creativity there.That's why I would just say like
how we were talking before, how we said you stop at a light and

(53:33):
you pick up your phone right away just to have somebody click
like on your picture and you're like, oh, I got a notification
for like, I got to grab my phoneand look at it.
And it's time to prioritize what's important to you, just
like your health. And I think we need to do the
same, right We do with our foods.
You prioritize what you're goingto eat, but prioritize too is
the content you're taking in. And I think that's how a lot of
us did learn based if you have health issues, right?

(53:56):
How much did you learn from different good social media
people? Oh, good, IA good amount.
And then plus with you and obviously having my teacher,
I've learned a lot. I want to be called Sensei.
Sensei, OK. No.
So yeah, but you think of like people are consuming, but are
you consuming the right things? But that goes for friends too.
Do keep your circle small, right?

(54:17):
So do the same with your electronics, what you're taking
in. And if you're going to spend
time on a computer and stuff andyou're not, if you're just
endless scrolling, why not sign up for some kind of
certification? I'm sending Geraldo all these
certifications all the time saying we should do this, we
should do this, we should do this one.
Expand my mind even more and notto mention, like I, I'm not

(54:37):
plugging my company or anything,but me doing the whole planter
is using right now. Customers will get there and
they'll be like, oh, have you ever thought about doing a
Murphy bed? And those are the ones that kind
of look like a dresser and then you just pull down and it's a
bed And it's like I tell them right away, I have no time for
extra projects right now. I'm working on the ones that I'm
working on right now and I'm just, I'm just busy enough to

(54:59):
stay afloat at the moment. Yeah.
Are you ever going to think of building the house?
You ever going to think about? Exactly.
Yeah, all those. I'm going to make a little house
in my backyard. I'm going to make a chicken
coop. Jesus was a Carpenter.
He is my father, but to all that, all that makes sense.
On the flip side, when I'm actually building something in
the garage, as far as building planters, birdhouses,

(55:21):
organizing, listening to music or podcast, it's just I feel
better afterwards. Like I use my brain with
purpose. Yeah.
So it's active screen time when you're creating solvent problems
or engaging in meaningful interaction, your brains has
direction. That's why I say, hey, here's a
good topic. Let's do you know what, let's
learn this, right? Let's go over this, let's hear

(55:44):
something good. And there are times where I said
Geraldo like 100 reels or something and drive them insane.
But sometimes I'm scrolling to come across some good things and
send it and some are very stupid.
And I think, man, this is just so stupid.
I have to send it exactly. But it's one of those things
like all in good, right? We're not perfect.
Let's enjoy life too, but just learn what you're consuming.

(56:06):
It matters. Just like your friends around
you, right? You haven't friends that are
poor and complaining all the time is that the people you want
to hang with are drugs or theft,right?
You know that it's going to leadto that environment.
Same with people addicted to stuff all the time.
They're always on your phone, ontheir phone.
You're on your phone because yousee those, right?
Younger kids and teens and stuff, It's every single one's

(56:28):
on their phone for hours and hours.
Nobody puts it down. But then if you come in contact
with that one person that's not on their phone, usually their
groups, not really much on theirphone either.
So it all, all plays a part in our life, right?
It's the friends we keep. It's the things we look at,
things we hear, music you listento.
It all feeds into your brain. Exactly, and social media is a

(56:50):
huge one. Like I said, I started asking
myself before I open the app, amI here to create or just to
scroll If I don't have a reason to be there, I try not to open
it because those mindless scrolls always leave me feeling
like I lost a lot of time. And that's what I said earlier,
am I going to? I am always grateful and I like

(57:11):
to post what I'm up doing, but for me to just go on there and
this waste time, I rather spend it wisely somewhere else doing
something, creating something. Yeah, and that's a psychological
piece too, right? Social media creates comparison
loops. You're constantly taken in
images of other people's lies, bodies and accomplishments,
right? A lot of it's false.

(57:31):
A lot of its filters. And I have to say, for all the
people out there that are addicted to filters, just
please, just be normal. Like, sometimes the filters
drive me crazy. Like, just be the natural.
You see so many, say, girls out there, and you think, you know,
this is not her. This is not him.
They don't look like that or they live this fake life on
social media. It's just this is reality.

(57:52):
That's why you hear our podcast and stuff.
We have our lot of mistakes and it is what it.
Is did you say steak? Steak mistake.
I think I'm just hungry. I think it is.
It's lunchtime. No, it's one of those things
where people see too much low. It just causes you to have like
low mood, self doubt, attention,fragmentation.
It's one of the most common rootcontributors to anxiety and

(58:15):
especially my younger clients. That's a tough one.
I've definitely had days where Ilogged off feeling worse than
when I got on. Too much input, not time to
process. I know emotionally burnout often
ties back to poor neurotransmitter balance, gut
imbalance, or hidden nutrition deficiencies.

(58:37):
This is why I tell others to come to Mindful as we offer
testing and coaching that helps you get your life back on track.
Yeah, then that's what we do. So we have options.
Your brain does need that white space, moments of mental
stillness to integrate experiences and regulate mood.
Without it, you stay in the low grade fight or flight.

(59:00):
A lot of people are in the high grade flight or flight.
So when you're tiling between work, entertainment,
notifications, doom scrolling, there's no stillness, just over
stimulation. And I would say that's one of
the biggest reasons I tried to go to the gym everyday is the
where I tell you hot tub, sauna and stuff like that too.
Besides working out is just get away from things.
Just when I'm at the gym, I haveno thought process.

(59:23):
I do, I would say on the fate side, like when I'm in the sauna
stuff, I do pray and stuff like that too.
But it just gets me away from the hustle and bustle of our
daily lives. It's just too much going on and
we just need a break. And sometimes I'm in a hot
sauna, but I can't bring my phone with me.
I don't need my phone stolen either, so just go there, get
away. So again, even if I don't on

(59:43):
certain days when I don't work out, I still do that executive
workout, which is just hot tub and sauna.
I try to schedule what I call and a log time.
No screens, just music, podcast and working on stuff around the
house. It helps me clear static.
I even feel more creative afterwards as you see with my
woodworking business that I haveon Instagram under Ortega

(01:00:07):
Underworks. Do you want to spell it out to?
Yes, Ortega under score works WORK under score.
Yep, and then I'll put in the show notes too so people could
click directly on the link. It's excellent strategy.
One more tip I did forget is batch your screen time.

(01:00:29):
Instead of gazing on tech all day, have intentional blocks.
For example, check emails at 10 AM 3:00 PM, not every 10
minutes. It protects your brain's energy
and helps your nervous system stay balanced.
And if you're A and if you're a creator or content producer,
don't forget to schedule off time.
Just because you can be plugged in all day doesn't mean you

(01:00:52):
should. Burnout is real, even if you
love what you do. Beautifully said.
You can love tech and still haveneed boundaries.
It's not about being anti screen, it's about being pro
clarity. Exactly.
And now that we've talked about how and what of screens use,
let's take it one step further into the next segment.

(01:01:13):
We'll cover on how to listen to your body and recognize the
signs your system's been pushed too far.
Yeah, your body's always talking.
Let's try to hear what it's trying to say.
This brings us back to full circle, right?
We talked about digital overload, blue light, EMF's and
even type of the how the screen time drains you.
But now it's time to TuneIn because what?

(01:01:34):
Your body is giving you clues, right?
The question is, are you paying attention?
I wasn't for the longest time. I thought things like low
energy, restless leap, tight shoulders, or random headaches
were just part of life. I never linked them to tech
screened me being on the phone. But once I started making small

(01:01:55):
changes and those symptoms improved, it all clicked.
Yeah, here's the beauty of it. Your body isn't broken, It's
trying to communicate. So systems again like brain fog,
jaw tension. I think that's a big one right?
Air pain, light sensitivity, dryeyes, poor focus, anxiety, even
digestive shifts. They can all be related to the
nervous system over stimulation especially if they flare up.

(01:02:17):
Long days that people sitting attheir desk or heavy screen use.
I used to feel I I used to feel it on my upper back and neck
almost like my muscles were stuck.
It was low key uncomfortable, but never bad enough to stop
working. Now I know the signs.
My body was holding tension all day from sitting still and

(01:02:40):
staring at a screen. I think there was AI want to say
there's I have to look it up. I'm sorry.
Yeah, but I know when you're looking down it's almost
equivalent to. The poundage.
Yeah, it was a bowling ball, butto me, that's great.
I don't know, I just. Physically, I like 15 lbs if
your head's normal or 11 lbs. Then when you lean forward 30

(01:03:02):
lbs or something. Yeah, it's like crazy like that.
But that's why I'm talking to Tahara and them too, is what
pressure you experiencing on your neck.
How many people are you seeing in people's postures now?
You see everybody with their head downward and they're going
to get that hunchback and all that stuff too.
But again, we're guilty. How do we not do that?
How do we live proper? But it's in general, it's your

(01:03:23):
body saying, hey, I need movement, I need stillness, need
a break. Same with chronic fatigue or
feeling wired but tired at night.
So these are all classic signs of circadian rhythm is
disrupted. So as I tell people all the
time, your body isn't broken, it's just giving you signals.
So here at Mindful Objective, what we do is decode those
signals right through lab testing, give you a real plan.

(01:03:43):
So if you do have fatigue, fog or feeling off, we help you move
from frustration to clarity as you experienced.
Another one, people don't talk about enough mood swings.
I've had moments where I felt agitated or frustrated for no
reason. Turns out being over stimulated
was the reason and that just my nerve system was in constant

(01:04:08):
OverDrive. Yeah, that's and that goes based
on that it's time to put it down.
But that's what I said about before.
It's OK mood swings, right? Are you happy, anxious and stuff
because of stuff you're paying attention to and that stuff
you're consuming, right? Are you consuming if you're a
woman and your normal body and your non-stop scrolling and

(01:04:30):
seeing all these women that are cut up or using all these
filters or tons of surgery nowadays.
How does that go on psychologically on you as a
person, right. We see it on the guys side stuff
too. Oh, you have a dad bod versus
all these other people have thisand that.
It's some people, right, have health issues.
That's why their bodies look like they do.
And it's nothing that they're doing wrong.

(01:04:51):
It's just that's how they look and how they were built and
that's who they are. So that's one of those things
that's got to get out of that judgment zone and identify what
you're scrolling and doesn't matter.
And should you even be looking at that?
But same with that mood swings. Our Internet goes down, man,
We're angry. Or how is it now too?
Is that your Internet slow? No, yeah.
I want to. I want to break my computer.

(01:05:13):
No, I'm guilty of it too. It's like cut.
It only goes slow when I really need to do something.
Isn't it? Isn't it all the time like that?
It's like you. It's just even earlier we had
issues with connecting for us torecord the podcast and it's like
y'all couldn't do these updates when everybody's sleeping.
You had to do them right now in the in the middle of the day.
Yeah, we had a nightmare issue today.

(01:05:34):
It's wasted the hour of time, but it was just the application
we use kept crashing and kept having issues because they're
doing updates of course, when weneed to record.
So what we can do at my objective is we harp on all time
functional lab testing. We could reveal elevated
cortisol sluggishment, melatoninimbalance, neurotransmitters,
even markers for oxidative stress or mitochondrial

(01:05:55):
dysfunction, which is your energy.
This is all tied to overstimulation.
So it's not in your head, it's in your biology.
I remember seeing that on my labs the cortisol curve was
flat, I wasn't producing energy in the morning and I couldn't
wind down at night. But once I started addressing it
with better boundaries, sleep, and a few core supplements, I

(01:06:18):
felt better. Yeah, because a lot of times it
messes with your adrenals and stuff too, and that's where we
see cortisol levels in. A lot of times that relates to
not eating enough protein in themorning and limiting your carbs.
And there's different things howpeople say about carbs and all
that stuff too. But you need a good amount of
protein, 30 grams within 30 minutes of getting up.
But outside of that, they have that 123 on adrenal.

(01:06:40):
Depends on who you listen to. But they say a little bit of
carbs here, more carbs afternoon, more carbs in the
evening. And that's a lot of reverse
advice. Then you hear from mainstream
media says you got to get rid ofall carbs and stuff too.
So that's where each body's individualized.
Some people need a lot of carbs,some people do not need carbs at
all, but you got to do what works for you.
But at least if you're trying, hey, I never eat carbs or I'm

(01:07:02):
not eating enough protein. Maybe for you, you need to
change that up for a couple weeks and see how you feel.
So more protein in the morning and you should still get carbs
and stuff in there. Just the power of your body,
right? Power of responding to signal
instead of suppressing it. Let's be clear, tech isn't going
away. We're only going to see more
tech, right? We're seeing especially with AI
now and all our devices, AI and all our applications and our

(01:07:23):
banks and I, I guess the people we're going to talk to, right?
You get on the phone call, you're not even talking to
somebody, you're talking to AI person.
Now maybe I need some hire some AI integrative health
practitioners under me to do this work so I could just sit
back and just scroll. That's the end game right there.
Yeah, so your body doesn't need to suffer just because we lived

(01:07:43):
in a plug in world. You can support it.
So if you're listening to thinking that's me and that's
probably everybody out there, here's a few simple checkpoints.
Do you feel foggy or drained after screen time?
Do you rely on caffeine to push through mental fatigue?
I think everybody's addicted to caffeine right now too.
Do you sleep poorly despite being tired?
Are you irritable, anxious, restless, with no clear trigger?

(01:08:04):
Do you feel off when you spend all day indoors?
If you said yes to any of those,you're not alone.
I checked a few of those boxes on that list not too long ago.
But awareness was the first stepand honestly it was empowering
to realize I wasn't just burnt out, I was over stimulated.

(01:08:27):
Yeah, that's exactly it. Your body doesn't need
perfection, needs partnership. That's what we're here for, to
be your partner in that sense, right?
We want to be partners, but we're not partners.
No, where you and I are not. No partners, partners.
But yeah, we're not, we're not, not that there's anything wrong.
No, absolutely, exactly. We're business partners, but not
partners partners. Yeah, so your body doesn't need

(01:08:49):
perfection, needs that partnership.
And when you're listening to those whispers, before they turn
into screams, you take back control.
Even small shifts like unplugging the Wi-Fi box,
skipping the late night scroll, or taking a screen free walk can
change your entire day. Your body starts to feel safer,
calmer and sharper. Yep.

(01:09:10):
And just again, based on that phone, based on that phone,
based on that comment, you're going for a walk a lot of times
I would say still, you could bring your phone with you for
emergencies, right? Or you do need to take a picture
or something, but don't be on your phone while you're walking.
I see so many people walking around neighborhood, they're
just on their phones. What's the point?
That or the people that are like, oh, I need to exercise and

(01:09:31):
they're riding electric bicycles.
It I don't get it. But yeah, that's this whole
point of this episode, right? Tech isn't the enemy.
Unconscious tech uses not payingattention to what you're doing
and just doing non-stop scrolling and not paying
attention. That's right.
Yeah. So once you get intentional, you
stop reacting and start responding with clarity, purpose
and energy. And when you feel better,

(01:09:53):
everything works better. Your focus, your mood, your
health, it's all connected. Yeah, so take a moment today.
Check in, notice what your body's telling you.
You might be surprised how quickly it responds when you
listen. One better choice at a time.
If I can do it, you can too. Let's wrap this one up.
Yep. So again, thanks for tuning into

(01:10:15):
this episode of Real Talk. If you're feeling foggy,
anxious, over stimulator, just plain exhausted, you're not
crazy. Or are you crazy?
I think we are all a little crazy you.
Might just be digitally overwhelmed, right?
Over stimulated. Yeah, we're surrounded by device
and signals all day every day. And your body is trying to keep
up with it, right. You're walking.
There's all these millions of 5Gtowers now, so can never get

(01:10:37):
away unless you go into a real world area.
So that's why I wonder, like I'dlove to move to Switzerland
because of just having that natural landscape of health and
the earth and be I'm going to enjoy nature.
But what we shared today isn't ditch and tech all together.
Like we said, we need tech that's about using it
consciously. So make small changes, protect
your nervous system, your hormones, your sleep, your

(01:10:59):
mental clarity. Because when you support your
body against invisible stressors, you start to feel
like yourself again. Yeah, I have already implemented
some of these changes. You don't realize how much this
stuff adds up, but it does just.And just like that with anything
else, awareness is the first step.
Exactly. Start where you are.

(01:11:22):
Maybe it's blue light glasses, they're pretty cheap on Amazon.
Maybe it's phone free morning. Or maybe it's just noticing when
your body, your mind feels scattered after hours of
scrolling, right? Is is this what you need?
So whatever it is, your body's talking.
The more you listen, the more clarity you get.
One better choice at a time. Same message, new angle.
Take care of your body, even when it's tech that's wearing it

(01:11:46):
down. For sure.
So Reminder is podcast for information on educational
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(01:12:08):
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