August 25, 2024 • 37 mins
Ever wondered how stress could be silently undermining your health? Join us on Nutrition Nutz as we welcome Dan Chapman, CEO and founder of Redd Remedies, to uncover the hidden impacts of stress and explore innovative herbal solutions to manage it. Inspired by his mother's remarkable health transformation through alternative medicine, Dan founded Redd Remedies to offer well-crafted formulas that tackle health issues more effectively than single ingredients. His journey, from his family's pioneering health food store, Sunrise Health Foods, to the creation of Redd Remedies in 2005, provides a fascinating backdrop for our discussion on the evolution of stress understanding and management.
Throughout the episode, we delve into the unique benefits of adaptogenic herbs for different stress types. Dan introduces us to targeted formulas like True Energy for low energy, At Ease for emotional stress, and In-Joy for low mood. We also dive into the specifics of products like At Ease PM, which helps achieve restful sleep without sedatives, and the importance of expert formulation in ensuring the effectiveness of these products. Whether you're a caregiver or just someone battling daily stress, this episode promises practical insights to help you maintain a balanced, focused mind. Tune in to understand how to manage stress effectively and reclaim your health.
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Jim Wilk (00:00):
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Welcome everyone.
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Thank you so much for joiningus today on Nutrition Nuts.
I'm your head nut, Jim Wilk,here and I've got a good show
today with a buddy named DanChapman.
He has an interesting story,family history of problems,
especially his mom back in the50s with conventional medicine,
and they tried a different routeback then, which is highly
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unusual and found out that shestarted getting better with a
lot of her health issues and sheand her husband started a
little health food store calledSunrise Health Foods back in
1961.
And Dan, our guest today, whois the founder and CEO of Redd
Remedies, and we'll talk aboutsome of their great products
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with Dan.
He decided to get involved inthe business and manage the
store, but he wanted something alittle bit more out of the
stuff that was available in thestores back then and so he
started a company called ReddRemedies.
Now this is R-E-D-D and reddmeans to put in order.
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I'm not sure where the wordcomes from.
I have to look that up.
As far as the roots of it right,but they really saw a need in
the industry to put thingstogether to keep your health in
order.
Got it, because when yourhealth is not in order, then
that becomes really the focus ofa person's life.
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So they used plants used intraditional Chinese medicine and
Ayurvedic medicine and allthese wonderful European herbals
and vitamins and minerals andextracts, and they went by a lot
of different types of clinicaltrials to get these formulas and
they've become very successful.
So we're going to talk aboutsome of the things that they
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make, but probably mostly we'regoing to concentrate on stress
and Dan has a good perspectiveon that.
So stay tuned for Dan Chapman,ceo and founder of Redd Remedies
.
All right, and on the phone Ihave Dan Chapman.
Thank you, dan, for joining ustoday.
Really appreciate it.
Dan Chapman (02:53):
Always good to be here with you, Jim.
Jim Wilk (02:55):
Thank you so much.
I was telling the folks outthere about your little bit of
history, about your family andstarting a health food store.
Wasn't many health food storesaround 1960, were there?
Dan Chapman (03:06):
Yeah, you know that is true for sure.
If you had a health food storein the early 60s, you were in it
for a really serious reason.
My mom was one of those.
She was unfortunately a younglady who was not well in the
late 50s and early 60s butreally transformed her life by
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changing diet, integrating someherbs, nutrition, and so I may
be grateful for the challengesshe had, because I've been
blessed by them over my life tobe able to kind of grow up
within this natural foodindustry and natural food world.
So it's been wonderful for me.
Jim Wilk (03:43):
Yeah, yeah.
I wonder if you could talk to acouple of my kids that didn't
follow in my footsteps there.
Dan Chapman (03:50):
Yeah, I'm trying to do the same with my kids, you
know.
Jim Wilk (03:55):
No, most of them are good, Some of them aren't, but
you know it is what it is.
It's natural to rebel,sometimes against your parents.
I don't know.
Get your own footing in theworld, maybe.
Dan Chapman (04:05):
Yeah, there's always a little bit of that, but
I've got some good kids, so I'mreally grateful for that too.
Jim Wilk (04:12):
Sure, sure.
So you worked in a health foodstore and you helped run that
one, the Sunrise Health Foodsbut you saw something in there.
You saw something that maybeyou thought you could improve,
or that you thought to besomething that's missing out of
what you were selling in thestore there.
Dan Chapman (04:30):
Yeah, when you do something for a long time and
Jim, I know you know this istrue, right, because you have
done the same in Howie Hill forhow many years now but you talk
to not just one or two or 10 or100 customers, but you start
talking to thousands andthousands of people and you
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start to see patterns.
And that really is kind of whatwas the genesis of Redd
Remedies when I started thiscompany in 2005.
2005, and very specificallydecided that I wanted to have a
supplement company that wasformula based, because I had
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really come to believe in thepower of a well-crafted formula
to solve a health challenge,rather than this ingredient or
that ingredient and having acustomer trying to put that
together themselves.
And so that was really thebeginning of why I wanted a
formula company in Redd Remediesand why we do that.
But there's also another patternthat I definitely saw and
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that's, I think, predominantlyour topic for today, and that's
the impact of stress on people'slives and in their health.
And I'll tell you, 20 years agoit took a lot of work to get
people to understand how stressimpacted the body.
But in the last couple of yearseverybody understands that
there is stress and I don't meethardly anybody today that
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doesn't very quickly and readilyunderstand that stress actually
impacts their health well, andso people are very, very willing
to listen today, which is good.
Jim Wilk (06:08):
So have you?
Your personal lives have had todeal with stress for different
reasons and things Like.
I always wonder what makes astressful person.
What is causing that?
Is it something that theirreactions to whatever's going on
in the world, or is it justsomething that happens once in a
while?
I'm always curious aboutsomething like that.
Dan Chapman (06:27):
Yeah, and so really , when I think about stress, I'm
not just thinking about ouremotion, because certainly there
are different personalities,right, that's, one of the joys
of the world is that we get tointeract with all kinds of
people, and so you do meet thosepeople that are high stress and
you get those people that arejust very even keel, you know,
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and you get those people wheretheir stress might be more
melancholy or low.
But when I'm talking aboutstressors, it includes that, but
it's also just the stressors ofthe world that we live in.
I mean, we live in a toxicworld.
The air that we breathe and thewater we drink, and the food
that we eat, and the cleaningsupplies around us, and the
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clothes, the material theclothes are made out of it, and
on and on and on.
We can list all of that.
And those are stressors, youknow.
They disrupt the balance in ourbody, they disrupt hormones and
that creates stress.
And then you know thatcertainly, in addition to that
is you know again, what are thecircumstances that you live in.
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Are you in a situation that ishigh stress or do you manage
stress relatively well?
And that certainly has been theimpact the last couple of years
on people's emotions with thepandemic and so forth and
isolation, and what I found iseven individuals that say, okay,
I handle stress really well,yes, that was hard, but I'm okay
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.
Oftentimes they don't fullyrecognize the impact of that
stress in the body.
And so really, what I say ingeneral about stress is that it
amplifies any potential healthissue that you have, and so if
you are susceptible to thyroidissues, for example, under
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stress, that thyroid problem ismany times worse.
If you struggle with someimmune type issues under stress,
your immune system reallystruggles to keep up.
If you struggle withcardiovascular issues, no matter
what it might be, under stress,that cardiovascular issue is
many times worse, even simplethings like joint pain or muscle
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pain.
Under stress, pain is worseBecause most people think that
pain is a response to maybephysical damage, think that pain
is a response to maybe physicaldamage, and they don't
recognize that pain is actuallyan emotional response.
And that's why, if you do havea problem with a knee or
something, for example, the painis always worse at night after
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a long, hard day, and it'sgenerally better after a good
night's rest, and a lot of thatjust simply has to do with how
stressed is your body becausestress amplifies.
So again, like, no matter whatit is, stress amplifies and
there certainly are manysituations where it's not just
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the amplifier but it's also thecause.
And I see this in a lot ofplaces, maybe most specifically
digestive issues.
You'll have somebody come inyour store and they're like you
know, I've got heartburn or I'vegot, you know, bloating or gas
or just whatever it may be, andso a lot of times our normal
response in the health foodstore is to give them a
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probiotic or to give an enzyme,and those are great solutions.
I'm not suggesting that weshouldn't do probiotics and
enzymes we should.
But if we don't recognize that,it's very likely that stress
caused that issue in theirdigestive system in the first
place.
It's almost like the enzyme ofthe probiotic is a Band-Aid
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because stress is still going tocause it.
And so let me just unpack thatone thing a little bit to give
you an understanding.
So under short-term stress, ourbody naturally overproduces acid
.
Stress, our body naturallyoverproduces acid.
And so somebody has kind of thatacid stomach, or certainly
somebody's giving a publicspeech and they're nervous about
going up front.
You can even be like, so tied upwith that stress you can throw
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up and vomit and have an upsetstomach.
I mean, that's the result ofshort-term stress in the body.
But then when that stress turnslong-term or chronic, the
digestive system actually haskind of an opposite reaction.
It goes into, instead ofoverproducing enzymes, it
underproduces enzymes in thebody and so now we can get
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experiences like heartburn orpoor digestion or gas or
bloating, and again we can havesome level of help from a
probiotic or an enzyme.
But if it's stress that'scausing that, that isn't going
to fix the problem.
You're going to need theprobiotic or the enzyme tomorrow
and next week as well, whereasif we can modulate that stress
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response in the body, we canactually fix the digestive issue
from a core level.
So in that understanding,stress actually changes the
microbiome and so if we can comeback to a place of balance on
that stress response, themicrobiome will go back to where
it belongs without even theneed necessarily in every case
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for a probiotic to fix it.
Jim Wilk (11:29):
Well, you make a good point when you say between the
chronic and more acute, becauseI think you do need some stress
in your life.
That's how things get done andwe've had stress the old
saber-toothed tiger at the caveback in the day, but it
dissipated very quickly, thequick stress responses.
But what you're talking aboutis more of a chronic thing where
they can have an effect,because wouldn't you agree that
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some stresses might be apropos?
Dan Chapman (11:54):
Absolutely.
Actually, I appreciate youbringing that up because you
know, without stress, ourmuscles don't grow, our joints
and our tendons and ligamentsare weak.
So, yes, we do need stress andeven emotionally it is a
stressor or a thing that maybefrustrates you in your life,
that gets you to act and dosomething different or better.
So, yes, I absolutely agreethat we need to and it's good to
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have different types ofstressors in the body.
But, like everything in life,there's a balance to that and
for most of us, we're living inthis place where the types of
stressors and the amount ofstressors that we have are
significantly more than what ishealthy and we don't tend to do
anything about it.
Like, stress is not generallythe thing that you look at to
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say oh, that's why I have highblood pressure or sugar issues,
so instead a drug is used, andso forth.
Jim Wilk (12:51):
Right, you can't smell it or see it.
It's not like a rash.
Those are maybe some of theoutcomes, but the underlying
cause of it.
I have to admit I don't thinkof that and it's something
because you can't see it.
It's put under the table there.
But you're so right about that.
The outcome can be thatstress-related, Just like
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inflammation, can cause a lot ofdisease and people don't really
see that inflammation going onin the body right?
Dan Chapman (13:15):
Well, absolutely, and stress is actually a cause
of an inflammatory response.
Now there's a lot of others aswell, right, but stress again in
that idea that stress amplifiesif you're already doing things
or have inflammatory thingshappening within your body,
stress will amplify theinflammation, and so that's
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really kind of my main messagethat I think people need to
understand is that no matterwhere you're at in your health
journey, no matter what healthissue that you might be
struggling with even if you say,well, I don't know, I don't
really have a health problem,dan, I'm relatively healthy All
of us can do something tomodulate that stress response
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and no matter where you're at,life will absolutely get better.
And that's the power of some ofthese different herbs and
formulas that we put together tohelp people deal with stress,
to reduce the amplification, tohelp you live a healthy, long,
kind of stable, full life.
Jim Wilk (14:16):
Right.
So what are some ingredientsthat can help somebody?
I know there's a big interestin adaptogenic herbs these days.
Would you consider that to be aprime objective there?
Dan Chapman (14:28):
Oh, absolutely Actually.
So the group of adaptogen herbsis definitely primarily what I
would use in this case, and soI'm assuming you know you've got
listeners that have beenlistening to you for a long time
.
I'm sure they have an idea ofwhat adaptogens are.
But you know, just real quickly, an adaptogen is a small class
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of herbs, so there's just ahandful of herbs that we would
classify as true adaptogens,just real simply, adaptogens are
basically your herbal answersto chronic stress, and while all
adaptogens are going to do anamazing job of protecting your
brain and your body from thenegative impact of stress, each
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adaptogen will have somethingthat it's kind of particularly
good at.
And so that's where I've lookedat stress and basically what
I've kind of found, and again,this comes after like thousands
and thousands of peoplerealizing that there's a part of
me that doesn't like to put usin like general buckets, but I
do see very clearly there's kindof three different places that
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people tend to go when it comesto stress, and I kind of call
them your stress type, and so ifI can go over those real
quickly, the first stress typeis that individual who says I'm
generally healthy, my life isfull, I'm very active, very busy
.
Yes, there's a lot of stressgoing on, but that stress just
kind of robs me of energy.
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So I might be a bit tired,right, and so certainly the
number of these energy drinksthat are being consumed today is
good proof that there's a wholebunch of people in this camp.
So high stress is low energy.
We have a formula called trueenergy that I use for people
that are in that kind of stresscamp.
The next one is that individualwhose stress tends to cause more
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emotion, so it might be theanxious, the worry, the fear,
the ADHD, the focus issues, sothat may be somebody who carries
the weight of the world ontheir shoulders.
And for that individual we havea formula called at ease that we
use.
And then the last camp is thatindividual whose stress really
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kind of pushes them down, sothey feel low, melancholy, they
may not even honestly want toget out of bed, go out of the
house, get off the couch, almostto feel like I just don't even
care, I don't want to try againtoday.
And for that individual we needto provide some emotional
strength and support and we usea formula called Enjoy for them.
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And all three of these formulasare adaptogen-based formulas.
So it kind of goes back to wehave adaptogens that are expert
at physical and mental energy weuse those in true energy.
We have adaptogens that aregreat on that emotional stress
we use those in at ease, andother adaptogens that are great
at building emotional strengthand lifting the spirit, and we
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use those adaptogens in joy.
Jim Wilk (17:26):
Well, I know these days I see a lot of people.
These days I see everything.
These days have people lookingfor energy and I've always been
a big believer in things likeginseng and some rhodiola, that
type of Siberian ginseng, andsome cordyceps, and I see your
True Energy formula has a lot ofthose in there.
Those are all excellentadaptogens.
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I know you guys do things for aspecific reason and the
formulations you do.
They kind of complement eachother, correct?
Dan Chapman (17:55):
Yeah, absolutely so .
You know, you've talked to, youknow, Stacey Littlefield, our
master herbalist here at ReddRemedies, and that's one of the
things that really makes usunique as an herbal supplement
company is the fact that we havea master herbalist, you know,
on staff that works with usevery day, day in and day out,
and Stacey leads our formulationprocess.
She also is the one that willlook for the specific herbs that
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we want and approve theingredients that are in our
formulas.
And you might think that mostherbal companies have an herbal
expert on stuff and, oddlyenough, it's remarkably rare,
and so I do consider these likethey are expertly crafted
formulas, kind of like going andhaving a meal at a five star
restaurant where you know thatchef is well educated and knows
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exactly the right ingredientsand spices and combinations and
the amounts to put in.
You know that that meal thatyou're having are herbal
formulas of the same way.
So for energy, yes, it'srhodiola, and we use two
different types of rhodiola intrue energy the rosea and the
crinolata.
We combine that with Asian,also known as panix, ginseng and
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cordyceps, and those adaptogensdo an amazing job of helping
physical and mental energy,strength, stamina, focus,
clarity and then some otheringredients that kind of nourish
the stamina, focus, clarity,and then some other ingredients
that kind of nourish theadrenals, thyroid and liver, and
so it's adaptogen-based.
But we know that if we want toprovide positive energy for
people, we also need to nourishand support your adrenals, your
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thyroid and your liver.
Those are essential for well,just for energy production
within the body, and so that'show that formula is put together
.
Jim Wilk (19:33):
Well, and again, I think most people get their
energy from caffeine correct, soit's so cool to have something
that you can take on a dailybasis that doesn't have any kind
of stimulants in there, so tospeak Absolutely.
I think we have to reallystress that to people.
Pardon the word stress.
We have to stress that topeople to see that this is not
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like an instantaneous type of aproduct Though if you're really
lacking, it might be somethingyou can feel.
But when taken on a daily basis, adaptogens adapt to what your
needs are and if it's energy, itmight behoove you to take this
for a little while to really getthe benefits out of it.
Dan Chapman (20:15):
That's exactly right, you know.
The only thing I would correctis that I know people say, well,
I get my energy from caffeine,and I would just simply correct
and say, no, you get yourstimulation from caffeine.
It actually robs your body ofenergy, forcing you to need more
caffeine, and that isdefinitely the opposite approach
that we have with true energy.
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There's no stimulants in hereand what's amazing is that a lot
of people will sometimes think,okay, well, if there's no
stimulant, like, am I going tofeel it today or is this going
to take a month to actually work?
Right.
But most people using trueenergy, because they're so
depleted because of all thestimulants that they've been
using, they will actually feelthat product work today or
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tomorrow.
But the feeling is different,right, the feeling is not
anxious, jittery, like you getfrom stimulation.
What you feel is high level,stable energy, physically and
mentally.
So you know, I say sometimesit's just like that, one day
that all of us remember at somepoint in our life where we
actually woke up in the morning10 minutes before the alarm went
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off and we hopped out of bedand we're like man, I feel
pretty good today.
I must have slept really welland we go through the day and
it's a good day, and it's threeor four in the afternoon and I'm
still thinking and makingdecisions and getting stuff done
and you know, nighttime comesand because I wasn't on any
stimulants, I can just go to bedwhen it's appropriate to go to
bed at night.
That's what you ought to feeland that's kind of what true
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energy is after.
Is that high level, stableenergy from morning till night?
Jim Wilk (21:46):
That sounds good to me , guy.
That's excellent.
And you also talked about theEnjoy and folks, that's
I-N-J-O-Y Enjoy.
It's an award-winning formulatoo.
And what's the main ingredientin the Enjoy?
That helps with physical andemotional kinds of things going
on in the body.
Dan Chapman (22:06):
Yeah.
So the adaptogen herbs that weuse in Enjoy is schizandra,
which is your adaptogen foremotional stressors, and then we
marry that with holy basil,which is an adaptogen for
emotional strength.
It lifts the spirit kind of,creates that emotional
resilience in the body.
And then the other ingredientsthat we put around those two
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adaptogens in ENJOY are workingto create balance with the
neurotransmitters.
So we're using some B vitaminshere, we're using vitamin D,
we're using 5-HTP and L-tyrosine.
That whole combination are thebuilding blocks necessary to
start that chain of reactions,necessary so we can produce
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healthy and balanced amounts ofserotonin, dopamine,
norepinephrine.
So we know for that individualwe need to help balance and feed
the brain right, because asyour brain goes, so goes your
emotions, and so Enjoy has thewonderful adaptogens along with
those ingredients to bringbalance to brain function and
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kind of bring that happy backinto the brain.
Jim Wilk (23:14):
Yeah, and people tend to maybe in your experience, too
overeat at times when they'reunder emotional stress, correct?
I was wondering if this couldhelp that along as well there.
Dan Chapman (23:26):
Actually, that's a great point.
One of the things that so oftenwe don't really fully
understand is you know, why isit that under stress I just want
a snack and I do tend toovereat.
And that's one of the thingsthat happens under chronic
stress is your body actuallystops producing the hormones
that make you feel full orsatiated.
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And so, you know, you just keepeating because you don't have
that signal that says I'm full.
And the other thing thathappens under stress is your
body says, hey, I'm going tohang on to all of the energy
that's in your fat cells rightnow because I don't know what's
going to happen tomorrow or nextweek, and I want to make sure
that I save that energy so youcan survive.
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And so your body tells yourbrain go eat food right now
because we still need energy,but I don't want to let you use
what you already have inside.
I want you to go eat more.
And so we have that feeling ofstress to go eat, and when we do
, we don't know when to stop,and because we're again
modulating that stress responsein that term.
What I mean by that is it'sessentially protecting you from
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that negative impact of stress.
So now your body says oh hey, Irealize there's some stress,
but it's going to be okay.
I'm going to produce thehormones that tells you not to
overeat and I'm actually goingto let you use that stored
energy in your fat cells todayso you can eat later.
You don't need to eat right now.
You just had a snack an hourago, you don't need another one.
Jim Wilk (24:54):
Gee goodness.
Yeah, I think that's a bigproblem out there.
I'm glad that there's companieslike you that are addressing
that.
That's a different approachthan most people think of when
they're thinking of I got tolose some weight or I overeat
too much.
It really can make a bigdifference in someone's life, so
I'm glad you do that.
Also, there's another productcalled At Ease that you have and
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there's like a morning andnighttime formula.
So explain those to me.
Dan Chapman (25:19):
Yeah.
So At Ease is the stressformula for those that are
feeling again kind of that angst, that worry, fear, focus,
concentration issues or againfear, focus, concentration
issues or again kind of theweight of the world.
So the adaptogen that we useprimarily in that ease is
Shazandra.
It's the same one I mentionedfor Enjoy.
It's your adaptogen foremotional stress.
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And then we partner thatadaptogen with another herb
called Bacopa.
Bacopa is actually notclassified as an adaptogen,
although it's veryadaptogen-like.
And the reason that we useBacopa in our AddEase formula is
it does two primary things.
One it's excellent for focus,concentration, just the ability
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to think and make decisions andremember concentration, just the
ability to think and makedecisions and remember.
But it also is really wonderfulto help the kind of calm, the
physical, that goes along withangst.
So your blood pressure might beup a little bit, your heart
might be racing, your musclesmight feel like they're tight
and tense and tied in knots kindof.
You know that feeling that youget when somebody's going to
have to give a speech for thefirst time ever in front of
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people and we're really, reallynervous.
It just kind of quiet, thephysical that goes along with
that emotion.
And what I love about the copais it won't put you to sleep.
It's a wonderful herb to useduring the day.
It just kind of quietsappropriately that feeling that
you have, and so that's the kindof the herbal foundation of at
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ease and so that's the kind ofthe herbal foundation of just
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need to quiet it.
And what we find is when Iquiet the brain I actually have
a significantly better abilityto be focused and to concentrate
, whereas the enjoy the brain islow and I need to bring it up
to balance.
Add ease is taking that brainthat's way up high and bringing
it down to balance.
So different ingredients tobring a brain down than we use
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to bring a brain up, but we wantthat brain in the same spot
right.
Right, exactly we want the brainto be focused, concentrate, to
be able to experience happinessand joy and not feel like, oh my
goodness, what's happening inmy world at the moment?
Well, I so add ease does andnot feel like oh my goodness,
what's happening in my world atthe moment.
And so Addies does that very,very nicely.
Jim Wilk (27:49):
I noticed the Addies also has the GABA in there,
which also is great for stress,but it also helps you focus at
the same time.
I know a lot of children thatactually use GABA because some
of the drugs that are out therethey go to the same receptor
sites in the brain that the GABAnutrient does, so that's
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excellent that you put thatalong.
Dan Chapman (28:11):
That's exactly right.
Yeah, I'll tell you, at ease,as far as a formula that younger
folks will use of the three, atease is the formula that I have
lots of teenagers and20-somethings on, just because
of the way that it supports theangst feeling and their brain's
ability to focus and concentrateand study and do the things
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that they need to do today.
So, yeah, at Ease is definitelythat product.
I also consider that thecaregiver formula, so that
individual who's taking care ofothers you know, you can think
about a lot of mothers in thiscase, right, or any caregiver
for that matter at ease is goingto just kind of quiet that
weight of the world that theyfeel on their shoulders so they
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can accomplish the things theyneed to get done today.
Jim Wilk (28:58):
Right, exactly, and I noticed that there's some
theanine and again the 5-HTP inthere.
These are all help with calmingdown all the messengers in the
brain and just getting to thatpoint, and you also use that in
your PM formula.
But I think people have tounderstand right that they're
not sedative.
So if you take it during theday it doesn't mean you're going
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to fall asleep.
But if stress is keeping you upat night then it's a good idea
to take the at ease PM atnighttime, right?
Dan Chapman (29:25):
That's exactly right.
You idea to take the Addies PMat nighttime right, that's
exactly right.
You know Addies during the daywe don't.
Just because you're anxiousdoesn't mean you need a sedative
.
That's actually not what youneed.
So there's no sedatives at allin Addies.
But then we also realized thatreally for any one of these
three stress types, butpredominantly the angst, so the
Addies individual, we have aformula called Addies PM and
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it's a sleep product and itpartners very nicely with Addies
Daytime, but it also canpartner really nicely with True
Energy or Enjoy if you're in oneof those other stress camps,
and it is a formula that'sdesigned to quiet that racing
brain, right.
So we need to quiet that brain.
We don't want our brain to wakeup at 11 o'clock at night when
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it's time to fall asleep.
And then the herbs that I usein that formula are California
poppy hop and lemon balm andI'll tell you, those three herbs
together do an amazing job ofquieting that brain and the body
, helping you get in that deepsleep and stay there through the
night, and they won't cause anyof the grogginess that you
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might get with the melatoninthere is, by the way, no
melatonin in at East PM.
I'm not an advocate of usingmelatonin.
It's a hormone, so what we doinstead is we use 5-HTP, which
is an amino acid that is thedirect precursor to serotonin
production, and once we have ahealthy amount of serotonin,
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serotonin actually converts tomelatonin, and so it's a healthy
, safe way to help you regulatenot just your melatonin levels,
but serotonin as well, and sothat's our ADD-E's PM formula.
Jim Wilk (31:03):
Yeah, you also don't notice there's no valerian in
there, which you see in a lot ofsleep form.
Is there a reason for that?
Dan Chapman (31:09):
Great question.
You know I love valerian, it'sa fantastic herb but I do find
that there's a fair number ofindividuals that, for whatever
reason, seem to have a negativefeeling from valerian.
Nightmares are one of theprobably the primary things that
I've heard and I haven'tpersonal experience, but many
people I know have and so weleft valerian out simply so we
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won't have that issuepotentially for anybody.
And I'll tell you in thisformula the California poppy
hops and lemon balm.
It does everything that we need.
This one also has the GABA,some magnesium, l-theanine,
other ingredients that you'vementioned here a few moments ago
, just to quiet that brain andthat body.
Jim Wilk (31:53):
How great is theanine?
I mean it's been around so long, only heard good things with it
.
Great product naturally foundin green tea.
I mean I don't know how truethis is, but that's the theory
that people can drink a lot ofgreen tea around the world and
things.
Because of the theanine contentit all kind of offsets the
caffeine.
In fact, when I have a cup ofcoffee, I usually take a
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theanine along with it.
Dan Chapman (32:16):
Yeah, and that's exactly right.
L-theanine is an amino acidthat's pretty prominent in green
tea, so that's the sourcing forit, and it does a wonderful job
of relaxing the brain, which isamazing.
So it can quiet that anxiousbrain and at the same time, it's
helping my brain functionbetter, and so I refer to it as
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alert relaxation, and atnighttime, when my brain is
relaxed, it will allow you tofall asleep.
So when my brain is balancedand my body is not full of angst
, you will fall asleep, andthat's what this formula is
designed to do.
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It's kind of our wholephilosophy at Redd Remedies is I
want to help your body do whatit was created to do.
I don't want to do for yourbody something your body isn't
capable of, ready to do in thefirst place, which is why I
don't use sedatives, it's why wedon't use melatonin, it's why I
don't use stimulants, eventhough you can get all of those
things from seemingly naturalsources.
I think a much better approachis to nourish your body, support
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the systems involved in whatwe're targeting and work to
restore balance, because nowyour body is just simply doing
what it was designed to do.
Jim Wilk (33:34):
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There you go, Dan.
This is the biggest question ofall I know, red.
I never knew the definition ofuntil your company I was
introduced to many years ago.
How did you come up with thatword?
Because it's not used in ourlanguage too much these days.
Dan Chapman (34:16):
Yeah, that's actually.
I appreciate the question.
It's a great story.
Redd does mean to put an orderor to tidy up.
It's a word we don't reallyobviously use in common language
today, but you would use it ina sentence like hey, go right up
your room or go right up thekitchen, meaning go clean it up,
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go tidy it up, go put it backin order.
And that's our name, becausethat's also our mission is, if
you think about what the naturalfood industry does, what a
health food store does is theyhelp people put their lives in
order as it relates to health,and so we kind of made that our
name of the company.
It's Redd Remedies, and sowe're designing perfectly
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crafted formulas to help putyour body back in order.
And that kind of gets back tomy mom's story and it's not just
my mom, but it literally is thethousands and thousands of
people that I've talked to overthe years.
I find that most people willthey'll resonate with this.
Truth is that I just don't feelas good as I want to.
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It's very difficult to knowwhat to do and it's very
difficult to fully achievehealth, and we know that part of
the reason we feel that way isbecause we're experiencing
stress.
It amplifies.
We have toxins in this worldthat we live in.
The food that we eat today islacking nutrients, and all of
that is causing a problem in ourbodies, which is the reason
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that we need these well-craftedherbal formulas to help me feel
better.
And so that was my mom's story.
It's been the story of whatwe've been doing at my family's
health food store since the 60sand at Redd Remedies for 19
years now.
Jim Wilk (35:59):
Yeah, and I appreciate you being in the field, out
there, so to speak, in theretail outlets, and seeing
what's kind of out, what'smissing in a lot of the
ingredients that are on theshelves and coming up with
formulas that just it's a it's amany prong approach to to
health, and I love the idea thatthat you seek out things like
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you're testing for pesticides,for glyphosates and all these
GMP-fully areas in the things.
Everything you do seems to havea purpose behind it, that
purity thing that I think youtalk about on your website.
Dan Chapman (36:36):
Yeah, thank you very much.
I'm really proud, honestly, ofour history and the work that
the team here has done at ReddRemedies, and I tell you what it
energizes me every day to beable to get up and help another
person feel better.
Jim Wilk (36:50):
Dude.
You do a great job, Dan.
I appreciate it.
Let's do this again real soon.
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Dan, thank you so much forbeing on today.
It was a pleasure, as always,and keep up the great work.
Dan Chapman (37:21):
Yeah, thanks so much, Jim.
It's always great to talk toyou.
Have a great day.
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Thank you so much for joiningus today on Nutrition Nuts.
I'm your head nut, Jim Wilk,here and I've got a good show
today with a buddy named DanChapman.
He has an interesting story,family history of problems,
especially his mom back in the50s with conventional medicine,
and they tried a different routeback then, which is highly
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unusual and found out that shestarted getting better with a
lot of her health issues and sheand her husband started a
little health food store calledSunrise Health Foods back in
1961.
And Dan, our guest today, whois the founder and CEO of Redd
Remedies, and we'll talk aboutsome of their great products
(01:31):
with Dan.
He decided to get involved inthe business and manage the
store, but he wanted something alittle bit more out of the
stuff that was available in thestores back then and so he
started a company called ReddRemedies.
Now this is R-E-D-D and reddmeans to put in order.
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I'm not sure where the wordcomes from.
I have to look that up.
As far as the roots of it right,but they really saw a need in
the industry to put thingstogether to keep your health in
order.
Got it, because when yourhealth is not in order, then
that becomes really the focus ofa person's life.
(02:14):
So they used plants used intraditional Chinese medicine and
Ayurvedic medicine and allthese wonderful European herbals
and vitamins and minerals andextracts, and they went by a lot
of different types of clinicaltrials to get these formulas and
they've become very successful.
So we're going to talk aboutsome of the things that they
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make, but probably mostly we'regoing to concentrate on stress
and Dan has a good perspectiveon that.
So stay tuned for Dan Chapman,ceo and founder of Redd Remedies
.
All right, and on the phone Ihave Dan Chapman.
Thank you, dan, for joining ustoday.
Really appreciate it.
Dan Chapman (02:53):
Always good to be here with you, Jim.
Jim Wilk (02:55):
Thank you so much.
I was telling the folks outthere about your little bit of
history, about your family andstarting a health food store.
Wasn't many health food storesaround 1960, were there?
Dan Chapman (03:06):
Yeah, you know that is true for sure.
If you had a health food storein the early 60s, you were in it
for a really serious reason.
My mom was one of those.
She was unfortunately a younglady who was not well in the
late 50s and early 60s butreally transformed her life by
(03:27):
changing diet, integrating someherbs, nutrition, and so I may
be grateful for the challengesshe had, because I've been
blessed by them over my life tobe able to kind of grow up
within this natural foodindustry and natural food world.
So it's been wonderful for me.
Jim Wilk (03:43):
Yeah, yeah.
I wonder if you could talk to acouple of my kids that didn't
follow in my footsteps there.
Dan Chapman (03:50):
Yeah, I'm trying to do the same with my kids, you
know.
Jim Wilk (03:55):
No, most of them are good, Some of them aren't, but
you know it is what it is.
It's natural to rebel,sometimes against your parents.
I don't know.
Get your own footing in theworld, maybe.
Dan Chapman (04:05):
Yeah, there's always a little bit of that, but
I've got some good kids, so I'mreally grateful for that too.
Jim Wilk (04:12):
Sure, sure.
So you worked in a health foodstore and you helped run that
one, the Sunrise Health Foodsbut you saw something in there.
You saw something that maybeyou thought you could improve,
or that you thought to besomething that's missing out of
what you were selling in thestore there.
Dan Chapman (04:30):
Yeah, when you do something for a long time and
Jim, I know you know this istrue, right, because you have
done the same in Howie Hill forhow many years now but you talk
to not just one or two or 10 or100 customers, but you start
talking to thousands andthousands of people and you
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start to see patterns.
And that really is kind of whatwas the genesis of Redd
Remedies when I started thiscompany in 2005.
2005, and very specificallydecided that I wanted to have a
supplement company that wasformula based, because I had
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really come to believe in thepower of a well-crafted formula
to solve a health challenge,rather than this ingredient or
that ingredient and having acustomer trying to put that
together themselves.
And so that was really thebeginning of why I wanted a
formula company in Redd Remediesand why we do that.
But there's also another patternthat I definitely saw and
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that's, I think, predominantlyour topic for today, and that's
the impact of stress on people'slives and in their health.
And I'll tell you, 20 years agoit took a lot of work to get
people to understand how stressimpacted the body.
But in the last couple of yearseverybody understands that
there is stress and I don't meethardly anybody today that
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doesn't very quickly and readilyunderstand that stress actually
impacts their health well, andso people are very, very willing
to listen today, which is good.
Jim Wilk (06:08):
So have you?
Your personal lives have had todeal with stress for different
reasons and things Like.
I always wonder what makes astressful person.
What is causing that?
Is it something that theirreactions to whatever's going on
in the world, or is it justsomething that happens once in a
while?
I'm always curious aboutsomething like that.
Dan Chapman (06:27):
Yeah, and so really , when I think about stress, I'm
not just thinking about ouremotion, because certainly there
are different personalities,right, that's, one of the joys
of the world is that we get tointeract with all kinds of
people, and so you do meet thosepeople that are high stress and
you get those people that arejust very even keel, you know,
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and you get those people wheretheir stress might be more
melancholy or low.
But when I'm talking aboutstressors, it includes that, but
it's also just the stressors ofthe world that we live in.
I mean, we live in a toxicworld.
The air that we breathe and thewater we drink, and the food
that we eat, and the cleaningsupplies around us, and the
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clothes, the material theclothes are made out of it, and
on and on and on.
We can list all of that.
And those are stressors, youknow.
They disrupt the balance in ourbody, they disrupt hormones and
that creates stress.
And then you know thatcertainly, in addition to that
is you know again, what are thecircumstances that you live in.
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Are you in a situation that ishigh stress or do you manage
stress relatively well?
And that certainly has been theimpact the last couple of years
on people's emotions with thepandemic and so forth and
isolation, and what I found iseven individuals that say, okay,
I handle stress really well,yes, that was hard, but I'm okay
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.
Oftentimes they don't fullyrecognize the impact of that
stress in the body.
And so really, what I say ingeneral about stress is that it
amplifies any potential healthissue that you have, and so if
you are susceptible to thyroidissues, for example, under
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stress, that thyroid problem ismany times worse.
If you struggle with someimmune type issues under stress,
your immune system reallystruggles to keep up.
If you struggle withcardiovascular issues, no matter
what it might be, under stress,that cardiovascular issue is
many times worse, even simplethings like joint pain or muscle
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pain.
Under stress, pain is worseBecause most people think that
pain is a response to maybephysical damage, think that pain
is a response to maybe physicaldamage, and they don't
recognize that pain is actuallyan emotional response.
And that's why, if you do havea problem with a knee or
something, for example, the painis always worse at night after
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a long, hard day, and it'sgenerally better after a good
night's rest, and a lot of thatjust simply has to do with how
stressed is your body becausestress amplifies.
So again, like, no matter whatit is, stress amplifies and
there certainly are manysituations where it's not just
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the amplifier but it's also thecause.
And I see this in a lot ofplaces, maybe most specifically
digestive issues.
You'll have somebody come inyour store and they're like you
know, I've got heartburn or I'vegot, you know, bloating or gas
or just whatever it may be, andso a lot of times our normal
response in the health foodstore is to give them a
(09:38):
probiotic or to give an enzyme,and those are great solutions.
I'm not suggesting that weshouldn't do probiotics and
enzymes we should.
But if we don't recognize that,it's very likely that stress
caused that issue in theirdigestive system in the first
place.
It's almost like the enzyme ofthe probiotic is a Band-Aid
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because stress is still going tocause it.
And so let me just unpack thatone thing a little bit to give
you an understanding.
So under short-term stress, ourbody naturally overproduces acid
.
Stress, our body naturallyoverproduces acid.
And so somebody has kind of thatacid stomach, or certainly
somebody's giving a publicspeech and they're nervous about
going up front.
You can even be like, so tied upwith that stress you can throw
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up and vomit and have an upsetstomach.
I mean, that's the result ofshort-term stress in the body.
But then when that stress turnslong-term or chronic, the
digestive system actually haskind of an opposite reaction.
It goes into, instead ofoverproducing enzymes, it
underproduces enzymes in thebody and so now we can get
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experiences like heartburn orpoor digestion or gas or
bloating, and again we can havesome level of help from a
probiotic or an enzyme.
But if it's stress that'scausing that, that isn't going
to fix the problem.
You're going to need theprobiotic or the enzyme tomorrow
and next week as well, whereasif we can modulate that stress
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response in the body, we canactually fix the digestive issue
from a core level.
So in that understanding,stress actually changes the
microbiome and so if we can comeback to a place of balance on
that stress response, themicrobiome will go back to where
it belongs without even theneed necessarily in every case
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for a probiotic to fix it.
Jim Wilk (11:29):
Well, you make a good point when you say between the
chronic and more acute, becauseI think you do need some stress
in your life.
That's how things get done andwe've had stress the old
saber-toothed tiger at the caveback in the day, but it
dissipated very quickly, thequick stress responses.
But what you're talking aboutis more of a chronic thing where
they can have an effect,because wouldn't you agree that
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some stresses might be apropos?
Dan Chapman (11:54):
Absolutely.
Actually, I appreciate youbringing that up because you
know, without stress, ourmuscles don't grow, our joints
and our tendons and ligamentsare weak.
So, yes, we do need stress andeven emotionally it is a
stressor or a thing that maybefrustrates you in your life,
that gets you to act and dosomething different or better.
So, yes, I absolutely agreethat we need to and it's good to
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have different types ofstressors in the body.
But, like everything in life,there's a balance to that and
for most of us, we're living inthis place where the types of
stressors and the amount ofstressors that we have are
significantly more than what ishealthy and we don't tend to do
anything about it.
Like, stress is not generallythe thing that you look at to
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say oh, that's why I have highblood pressure or sugar issues,
so instead a drug is used, andso forth.
Jim Wilk (12:51):
Right, you can't smell it or see it.
It's not like a rash.
Those are maybe some of theoutcomes, but the underlying
cause of it.
I have to admit I don't thinkof that and it's something
because you can't see it.
It's put under the table there.
But you're so right about that.
The outcome can be thatstress-related, Just like
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inflammation, can cause a lot ofdisease and people don't really
see that inflammation going onin the body right?
Dan Chapman (13:15):
Well, absolutely, and stress is actually a cause
of an inflammatory response.
Now there's a lot of others aswell, right, but stress again in
that idea that stress amplifiesif you're already doing things
or have inflammatory thingshappening within your body,
stress will amplify theinflammation, and so that's
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really kind of my main messagethat I think people need to
understand is that no matterwhere you're at in your health
journey, no matter what healthissue that you might be
struggling with even if you say,well, I don't know, I don't
really have a health problem,dan, I'm relatively healthy All
of us can do something tomodulate that stress response
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and no matter where you're at,life will absolutely get better.
And that's the power of some ofthese different herbs and
formulas that we put together tohelp people deal with stress,
to reduce the amplification, tohelp you live a healthy, long,
kind of stable, full life.
Jim Wilk (14:16):
Right.
So what are some ingredientsthat can help somebody?
I know there's a big interestin adaptogenic herbs these days.
Would you consider that to be aprime objective there?
Dan Chapman (14:28):
Oh, absolutely Actually.
So the group of adaptogen herbsis definitely primarily what I
would use in this case, and soI'm assuming you know you've got
listeners that have beenlistening to you for a long time
.
I'm sure they have an idea ofwhat adaptogens are.
But you know, just real quickly, an adaptogen is a small class
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of herbs, so there's just ahandful of herbs that we would
classify as true adaptogens,just real simply, adaptogens are
basically your herbal answersto chronic stress, and while all
adaptogens are going to do anamazing job of protecting your
brain and your body from thenegative impact of stress, each
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adaptogen will have somethingthat it's kind of particularly
good at.
And so that's where I've lookedat stress and basically what
I've kind of found, and again,this comes after like thousands
and thousands of peoplerealizing that there's a part of
me that doesn't like to put usin like general buckets, but I
do see very clearly there's kindof three different places that
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people tend to go when it comesto stress, and I kind of call
them your stress type, and so ifI can go over those real
quickly, the first stress typeis that individual who says I'm
generally healthy, my life isfull, I'm very active, very busy
.
Yes, there's a lot of stressgoing on, but that stress just
kind of robs me of energy.
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So I might be a bit tired,right, and so certainly the
number of these energy drinksthat are being consumed today is
good proof that there's a wholebunch of people in this camp.
So high stress is low energy.
We have a formula called trueenergy that I use for people
that are in that kind of stresscamp.
The next one is that individualwhose stress tends to cause more
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emotion, so it might be theanxious, the worry, the fear,
the ADHD, the focus issues, sothat may be somebody who carries
the weight of the world ontheir shoulders.
And for that individual we havea formula called at ease that we
use.
And then the last camp is thatindividual whose stress really
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kind of pushes them down, sothey feel low, melancholy, they
may not even honestly want toget out of bed, go out of the
house, get off the couch, almostto feel like I just don't even
care, I don't want to try againtoday.
And for that individual we needto provide some emotional
strength and support and we usea formula called Enjoy for them.
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And all three of these formulasare adaptogen-based formulas.
So it kind of goes back to wehave adaptogens that are expert
at physical and mental energy weuse those in true energy.
We have adaptogens that aregreat on that emotional stress
we use those in at ease, andother adaptogens that are great
at building emotional strengthand lifting the spirit, and we
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use those adaptogens in joy.
Jim Wilk (17:26):
Well, I know these days I see a lot of people.
These days I see everything.
These days have people lookingfor energy and I've always been
a big believer in things likeginseng and some rhodiola, that
type of Siberian ginseng, andsome cordyceps, and I see your
True Energy formula has a lot ofthose in there.
Those are all excellentadaptogens.
(17:48):
I know you guys do things for aspecific reason and the
formulations you do.
They kind of complement eachother, correct?
Dan Chapman (17:55):
Yeah, absolutely so .
You know, you've talked to, youknow, Stacey Littlefield, our
master herbalist here at ReddRemedies, and that's one of the
things that really makes usunique as an herbal supplement
company is the fact that we havea master herbalist, you know,
on staff that works with usevery day, day in and day out,
and Stacey leads our formulationprocess.
She also is the one that willlook for the specific herbs that
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we want and approve theingredients that are in our
formulas.
And you might think that mostherbal companies have an herbal
expert on stuff and, oddlyenough, it's remarkably rare,
and so I do consider these likethey are expertly crafted
formulas, kind of like going andhaving a meal at a five star
restaurant where you know thatchef is well educated and knows
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exactly the right ingredientsand spices and combinations and
the amounts to put in.
You know that that meal thatyou're having are herbal
formulas of the same way.
So for energy, yes, it'srhodiola, and we use two
different types of rhodiola intrue energy the rosea and the
crinolata.
We combine that with Asian,also known as panix, ginseng and
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cordyceps, and those adaptogensdo an amazing job of helping
physical and mental energy,strength, stamina, focus,
clarity and then some otheringredients that kind of nourish
the stamina, focus, clarity,and then some other ingredients
that kind of nourish theadrenals, thyroid and liver, and
so it's adaptogen-based.
But we know that if we want toprovide positive energy for
people, we also need to nourishand support your adrenals, your
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thyroid and your liver.
Those are essential for well,just for energy production
within the body, and so that'show that formula is put together
.
Jim Wilk (19:33):
Well, and again, I think most people get their
energy from caffeine correct, soit's so cool to have something
that you can take on a dailybasis that doesn't have any kind
of stimulants in there, so tospeak Absolutely.
I think we have to reallystress that to people.
Pardon the word stress.
We have to stress that topeople to see that this is not
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like an instantaneous type of aproduct Though if you're really
lacking, it might be somethingyou can feel.
But when taken on a daily basis, adaptogens adapt to what your
needs are and if it's energy, itmight behoove you to take this
for a little while to really getthe benefits out of it.
Dan Chapman (20:15):
That's exactly right, you know.
The only thing I would correctis that I know people say, well,
I get my energy from caffeine,and I would just simply correct
and say, no, you get yourstimulation from caffeine.
It actually robs your body ofenergy, forcing you to need more
caffeine, and that isdefinitely the opposite approach
that we have with true energy.
(20:36):
There's no stimulants in hereand what's amazing is that a lot
of people will sometimes think,okay, well, if there's no
stimulant, like, am I going tofeel it today or is this going
to take a month to actually work?
Right.
But most people using trueenergy, because they're so
depleted because of all thestimulants that they've been
using, they will actually feelthat product work today or
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tomorrow.
But the feeling is different,right, the feeling is not
anxious, jittery, like you getfrom stimulation.
What you feel is high level,stable energy, physically and
mentally.
So you know, I say sometimesit's just like that, one day
that all of us remember at somepoint in our life where we
actually woke up in the morning10 minutes before the alarm went
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off and we hopped out of bedand we're like man, I feel
pretty good today.
I must have slept really welland we go through the day and
it's a good day, and it's threeor four in the afternoon and I'm
still thinking and makingdecisions and getting stuff done
and you know, nighttime comesand because I wasn't on any
stimulants, I can just go to bedwhen it's appropriate to go to
bed at night.
That's what you ought to feeland that's kind of what true
(21:41):
energy is after.
Is that high level, stableenergy from morning till night?
Jim Wilk (21:46):
That sounds good to me , guy.
That's excellent.
And you also talked about theEnjoy and folks, that's
I-N-J-O-Y Enjoy.
It's an award-winning formulatoo.
And what's the main ingredientin the Enjoy?
That helps with physical andemotional kinds of things going
on in the body.
Dan Chapman (22:06):
Yeah.
So the adaptogen herbs that weuse in Enjoy is schizandra,
which is your adaptogen foremotional stressors, and then we
marry that with holy basil,which is an adaptogen for
emotional strength.
It lifts the spirit kind of,creates that emotional
resilience in the body.
And then the other ingredientsthat we put around those two
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adaptogens in ENJOY are workingto create balance with the
neurotransmitters.
So we're using some B vitaminshere, we're using vitamin D,
we're using 5-HTP and L-tyrosine.
That whole combination are thebuilding blocks necessary to
start that chain of reactions,necessary so we can produce
(22:51):
healthy and balanced amounts ofserotonin, dopamine,
norepinephrine.
So we know for that individualwe need to help balance and feed
the brain right, because asyour brain goes, so goes your
emotions, and so Enjoy has thewonderful adaptogens along with
those ingredients to bringbalance to brain function and
(23:12):
kind of bring that happy backinto the brain.
Jim Wilk (23:14):
Yeah, and people tend to maybe in your experience, too
overeat at times when they'reunder emotional stress, correct?
I was wondering if this couldhelp that along as well there.
Dan Chapman (23:26):
Actually, that's a great point.
One of the things that so oftenwe don't really fully
understand is you know, why isit that under stress I just want
a snack and I do tend toovereat.
And that's one of the thingsthat happens under chronic
stress is your body actuallystops producing the hormones
that make you feel full orsatiated.
(23:47):
And so, you know, you just keepeating because you don't have
that signal that says I'm full.
And the other thing thathappens under stress is your
body says, hey, I'm going tohang on to all of the energy
that's in your fat cells rightnow because I don't know what's
going to happen tomorrow or nextweek, and I want to make sure
that I save that energy so youcan survive.
(24:09):
And so your body tells yourbrain go eat food right now
because we still need energy,but I don't want to let you use
what you already have inside.
I want you to go eat more.
And so we have that feeling ofstress to go eat, and when we do
, we don't know when to stop,and because we're again
modulating that stress responsein that term.
What I mean by that is it'sessentially protecting you from
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that negative impact of stress.
So now your body says oh hey, Irealize there's some stress,
but it's going to be okay.
I'm going to produce thehormones that tells you not to
overeat and I'm actually goingto let you use that stored
energy in your fat cells todayso you can eat later.
You don't need to eat right now.
You just had a snack an hourago, you don't need another one.
Jim Wilk (24:54):
Gee goodness.
Yeah, I think that's a bigproblem out there.
I'm glad that there's companieslike you that are addressing
that.
That's a different approachthan most people think of when
they're thinking of I got tolose some weight or I overeat
too much.
It really can make a bigdifference in someone's life, so
I'm glad you do that.
Also, there's another productcalled At Ease that you have and
(25:16):
there's like a morning andnighttime formula.
So explain those to me.
Dan Chapman (25:19):
Yeah.
So At Ease is the stressformula for those that are
feeling again kind of that angst, that worry, fear, focus,
concentration issues or againfear, focus, concentration
issues or again kind of theweight of the world.
So the adaptogen that we useprimarily in that ease is
Shazandra.
It's the same one I mentionedfor Enjoy.
It's your adaptogen foremotional stress.
(25:41):
And then we partner thatadaptogen with another herb
called Bacopa.
Bacopa is actually notclassified as an adaptogen,
although it's veryadaptogen-like.
And the reason that we useBacopa in our AddEase formula is
it does two primary things.
One it's excellent for focus,concentration, just the ability
(26:04):
to think and make decisions andremember concentration, just the
ability to think and makedecisions and remember.
But it also is really wonderfulto help the kind of calm, the
physical, that goes along withangst.
So your blood pressure might beup a little bit, your heart
might be racing, your musclesmight feel like they're tight
and tense and tied in knots kindof.
You know that feeling that youget when somebody's going to
have to give a speech for thefirst time ever in front of
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people and we're really, reallynervous.
It just kind of quiet, thephysical that goes along with
that emotion.
And what I love about the copais it won't put you to sleep.
It's a wonderful herb to useduring the day.
It just kind of quietsappropriately that feeling that
you have, and so that's the kindof the herbal foundation of at
(26:46):
ease and so that's the kind ofthe herbal foundation of just
(27:11):
need to quiet it.
And what we find is when Iquiet the brain I actually have
a significantly better abilityto be focused and to concentrate
, whereas the enjoy the brain islow and I need to bring it up
to balance.
Add ease is taking that brainthat's way up high and bringing
it down to balance.
So different ingredients tobring a brain down than we use
(27:34):
to bring a brain up, but we wantthat brain in the same spot
right.
Right, exactly we want the brainto be focused, concentrate, to
be able to experience happinessand joy and not feel like, oh my
goodness, what's happening inmy world at the moment?
Well, I so add ease does andnot feel like oh my goodness,
what's happening in my world atthe moment.
And so Addies does that very,very nicely.
Jim Wilk (27:49):
I noticed the Addies also has the GABA in there,
which also is great for stress,but it also helps you focus at
the same time.
I know a lot of children thatactually use GABA because some
of the drugs that are out therethey go to the same receptor
sites in the brain that the GABAnutrient does, so that's
(28:10):
excellent that you put thatalong.
Dan Chapman (28:11):
That's exactly right.
Yeah, I'll tell you, at ease,as far as a formula that younger
folks will use of the three, atease is the formula that I have
lots of teenagers and20-somethings on, just because
of the way that it supports theangst feeling and their brain's
ability to focus and concentrateand study and do the things
(28:34):
that they need to do today.
So, yeah, at Ease is definitelythat product.
I also consider that thecaregiver formula, so that
individual who's taking care ofothers you know, you can think
about a lot of mothers in thiscase, right, or any caregiver
for that matter at ease is goingto just kind of quiet that
weight of the world that theyfeel on their shoulders so they
(28:55):
can accomplish the things theyneed to get done today.
Jim Wilk (28:58):
Right, exactly, and I noticed that there's some
theanine and again the 5-HTP inthere.
These are all help with calmingdown all the messengers in the
brain and just getting to thatpoint, and you also use that in
your PM formula.
But I think people have tounderstand right that they're
not sedative.
So if you take it during theday it doesn't mean you're going
(29:19):
to fall asleep.
But if stress is keeping you upat night then it's a good idea
to take the at ease PM atnighttime, right?
Dan Chapman (29:25):
That's exactly right.
You idea to take the Addies PMat nighttime right, that's
exactly right.
You know Addies during the daywe don't.
Just because you're anxiousdoesn't mean you need a sedative
.
That's actually not what youneed.
So there's no sedatives at allin Addies.
But then we also realized thatreally for any one of these
three stress types, butpredominantly the angst, so the
Addies individual, we have aformula called Addies PM and
(29:47):
it's a sleep product and itpartners very nicely with Addies
Daytime, but it also canpartner really nicely with True
Energy or Enjoy if you're in oneof those other stress camps,
and it is a formula that'sdesigned to quiet that racing
brain, right.
So we need to quiet that brain.
We don't want our brain to wakeup at 11 o'clock at night when
(30:08):
it's time to fall asleep.
And then the herbs that I usein that formula are California
poppy hop and lemon balm andI'll tell you, those three herbs
together do an amazing job ofquieting that brain and the body
, helping you get in that deepsleep and stay there through the
night, and they won't cause anyof the grogginess that you
(30:29):
might get with the melatoninthere is, by the way, no
melatonin in at East PM.
I'm not an advocate of usingmelatonin.
It's a hormone, so what we doinstead is we use 5-HTP, which
is an amino acid that is thedirect precursor to serotonin
production, and once we have ahealthy amount of serotonin,
(30:51):
serotonin actually converts tomelatonin, and so it's a healthy
, safe way to help you regulatenot just your melatonin levels,
but serotonin as well, and sothat's our ADD-E's PM formula.
Jim Wilk (31:03):
Yeah, you also don't notice there's no valerian in
there, which you see in a lot ofsleep form.
Is there a reason for that?
Dan Chapman (31:09):
Great question.
You know I love valerian, it'sa fantastic herb but I do find
that there's a fair number ofindividuals that, for whatever
reason, seem to have a negativefeeling from valerian.
Nightmares are one of theprobably the primary things that
I've heard and I haven'tpersonal experience, but many
people I know have and so weleft valerian out simply so we
(31:33):
won't have that issuepotentially for anybody.
And I'll tell you in thisformula the California poppy
hops and lemon balm.
It does everything that we need.
This one also has the GABA,some magnesium, l-theanine,
other ingredients that you'vementioned here a few moments ago
, just to quiet that brain andthat body.
Jim Wilk (31:53):
How great is theanine?
I mean it's been around so long, only heard good things with it
.
Great product naturally foundin green tea.
I mean I don't know how truethis is, but that's the theory
that people can drink a lot ofgreen tea around the world and
things.
Because of the theanine contentit all kind of offsets the
caffeine.
In fact, when I have a cup ofcoffee, I usually take a
(32:14):
theanine along with it.
Dan Chapman (32:16):
Yeah, and that's exactly right.
L-theanine is an amino acidthat's pretty prominent in green
tea, so that's the sourcing forit, and it does a wonderful job
of relaxing the brain, which isamazing.
So it can quiet that anxiousbrain and at the same time, it's
helping my brain functionbetter, and so I refer to it as
(32:40):
alert relaxation, and atnighttime, when my brain is
relaxed, it will allow you tofall asleep.
So when my brain is balancedand my body is not full of angst
, you will fall asleep, andthat's what this formula is
designed to do.
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It's kind of our wholephilosophy at Redd Remedies is I
want to help your body do whatit was created to do.
I don't want to do for yourbody something your body isn't
capable of, ready to do in thefirst place, which is why I
don't use sedatives, it's why wedon't use melatonin, it's why I
don't use stimulants, eventhough you can get all of those
things from seemingly naturalsources.
I think a much better approachis to nourish your body, support
(33:26):
the systems involved in whatwe're targeting and work to
restore balance, because nowyour body is just simply doing
what it was designed to do.
Jim Wilk (33:34):
Gotcha Amazing folks.
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products and remember that'sR-E-D-D.
There you go, Dan.
This is the biggest question ofall I know, red.
I never knew the definition ofuntil your company I was
introduced to many years ago.
How did you come up with thatword?
Because it's not used in ourlanguage too much these days.
Dan Chapman (34:16):
Yeah, that's actually.
I appreciate the question.
It's a great story.
Redd does mean to put an orderor to tidy up.
It's a word we don't reallyobviously use in common language
today, but you would use it ina sentence like hey, go right up
your room or go right up thekitchen, meaning go clean it up,
(34:37):
go tidy it up, go put it backin order.
And that's our name, becausethat's also our mission is, if
you think about what the naturalfood industry does, what a
health food store does is theyhelp people put their lives in
order as it relates to health,and so we kind of made that our
name of the company.
It's Redd Remedies, and sowe're designing perfectly
(34:59):
crafted formulas to help putyour body back in order.
And that kind of gets back tomy mom's story and it's not just
my mom, but it literally is thethousands and thousands of
people that I've talked to overthe years.
I find that most people willthey'll resonate with this.
Truth is that I just don't feelas good as I want to.
(35:20):
It's very difficult to knowwhat to do and it's very
difficult to fully achievehealth, and we know that part of
the reason we feel that way isbecause we're experiencing
stress.
It amplifies.
We have toxins in this worldthat we live in.
The food that we eat today islacking nutrients, and all of
that is causing a problem in ourbodies, which is the reason
(35:44):
that we need these well-craftedherbal formulas to help me feel
better.
And so that was my mom's story.
It's been the story of whatwe've been doing at my family's
health food store since the 60sand at Redd Remedies for 19
years now.
Jim Wilk (35:59):
Yeah, and I appreciate you being in the field, out
there, so to speak, in theretail outlets, and seeing
what's kind of out, what'smissing in a lot of the
ingredients that are on theshelves and coming up with
formulas that just it's a it's amany prong approach to to
health, and I love the idea thatthat you seek out things like
(36:22):
you're testing for pesticides,for glyphosates and all these
GMP-fully areas in the things.
Everything you do seems to havea purpose behind it, that
purity thing that I think youtalk about on your website.
Dan Chapman (36:36):
Yeah, thank you very much.
I'm really proud, honestly, ofour history and the work that
the team here has done at ReddRemedies, and I tell you what it
energizes me every day to beable to get up and help another
person feel better.
Jim Wilk (36:50):
Dude.
You do a great job, Dan.
I appreciate it.
Let's do this again real soon.
Okay, we got folks.
They have a full, extensiveline of things their sinus
formula I'm very familiar withtheir bone formula, their
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So just check out the linethere at reddremedies.
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(37:12):
com and get your 15% off.
Dan, thank you so much forbeing on today.
It was a pleasure, as always,and keep up the great work.
Dan Chapman (37:21):
Yeah, thanks so much, Jim.
It's always great to talk toyou.
Have a great day.
Jim Wilk (37:25):
Please subscribe to the channel so you can get our
latest episodes, and if you wantto contact me with any
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Thanks again, thank you.
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