December 21, 2023 • 24 mins
Embark on a journey to digestive enlightenment with us as we unwrap the '12 Days of Better Digestion,' just in time for the festive season. Wave goodbye to bloating and discomfort with our expert guide to navigating holiday feasts without sacrificing gut happiness. From the benefits of natural foods to the art of meal timing for optimal nutrient absorption, our guide is your ticket to a happy tummy. Discover how simple actions, like savoring your food one chew at a time, can transform your digestive process, and why those innocent-looking snacks could be the secret culprits behind your digestive woes.
With the holiday sparkle in the air, we don't just stop at food. Dive into the realm of caffeine's complex effects on your body and learn why tuning into your internal health compass is vital in making informed choices for your well-being. Our guest, Janine, shares her transformative experience with our food processing approach, illuminating the path to not just surviving but thriving this holiday season. We spill the beans on maintaining your calm in the festive rush and extend an invitation to explore more culinary and wellness wisdom. So, let your mealtimes be an oasis of tranquility, and join us for a harmonious holiday season and a healthier, happier you.
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Renee (00:11):
Welcome everybody.
Welcome to the Tommy Whispererpodcast.
I'm your host, Renee Barish,with a lovely name.
I'm KarenBarish-Towler-Schimmie.
I thought it was reallyfascinating today.
I didn't even know that we areon episode number 12, but we are
on episode number 12.
Of course, I have prepared forus the 12 days and ways to eat
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better and improve yourdigestion.
I just thought we'd giveeverybody some reminders of
things they can do while we'reapproaching eating season,
holiday season, and the thingsthat people already know that
they feel like they should do.
But this is just a gentlereminder and things that you can
try to step into.
If it's just one thing or twothings you're going to improve
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on, that, Do it for 12 days,Give yourself a 12-day mark and
then add something else in ifyou can.
Let's start off with the firstthing.
The first thing I have for waysto improve your digestion,
improve your health, is tryingto choose foods that are closer
to nature, not so much bagged,refined, processed stuff.
(01:15):
Yes, you need a little cookie,here and there you need to have
something sweet, but can youalso have something sweet with a
little square of chocolate andhalf a banana?
Or having what I like to havefor a sweet snack is half a
banana, some sunflower seedbutter and I want a little
chocolate, some of thoseallergen-friendly.
What does it enjoy?
Life chocolate chips.
There's barely anything inthere so good.
(01:37):
That totally takes care of acraving.
Things closer to nature areless refined.
If you need something, findhealthier things to put in your
piehole.
Stuff of less ingredients onthere, that's number one.
Number two, and I think I'mgoing to get shot for this.
Everybody overly snacks theytalk about.
People say eat more often tostabilize your blood sugar.
That actually doesn't stabilizeyour blood sugar.
(02:00):
That actually causes moreroller coaster with your blood
sugar.
You really want to try to giveyour body a break in between
meals.
Ideally it's four hours, but ifyou can do three, that's even
better.
So for those of you that eatbreakfast in the morning, which
I do I have a little hard boiledegg on, maybe a little like
chickpea flour tortilla withsome sprouts and a little like
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vegan cheese or something.
As an example, I'll have two ofthose and maybe the pear or
something, and then that'sanywhere between seven, 30 and
nine, and then I try to not haveanything for three to four
hours afterwards.
The trouble is when you starthaving a little something.
Sometimes you can't stop.
I'll just have a cookie, I'lljust have a banana.
I need some chips.
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Oh, I need some tea.
Oh, now I want some mango.
And you write, do you?
Janine (02:48):
sound familiar?
Yeah, I purposely.
I only go grocery shopping oncea week and I order my groceries
online.
So I don't go, because if I'min the actual grocery store is
when I'll start loading stuff inmy cart that I don't like, the
accountability for me it'shelpful if I use an app like
Instacart or Shantor, whatnot,because otherwise it's like a
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free for all.
Renee (03:09):
Yes, yes, and staying busy too, not thinking about if
the hunger strikes, what are yougoing to do.
Being prepared for that alsocomes in line with trying to
snack less, having beingprepared.
That's like part two of part ofnumber two.
And if you're going to chooseto snack, definitely choose a
lower sugar items.
You don't want to just havefruits by itself.
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If you want, like an apple,have some sunflower seed butter
or some almond butter on there,something that's going to not
bother you.
I would choose fat for a snackover sugar or protein, so it
could be seeds, it could beveggies and hummus.
You like your meat sticks,leftover chicken bits in the
refrigerator from last night'sdinner.
Those are great alternatives Ifyou're home and if you're
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traveling around and you needsomething.
Just make sure something youcan find, something that's easy
to open and going to be a goodprotein or fat snack for you, so
you don't dip and spike yourblood sugar, and for the
holidays too.
Janine (04:03):
really quick, they started selling pumps, which is
like the organic, the grass fedbeef Chumps yes, target.
So like when you check out,like it's in that aisle, so like
, literally, if you're shoppingall day, you're running around
on the holiday season and you'relike what am I going to stack
on?
Like I was able to grab thatand it was a way better.
It was better than a sneakersbar.
(04:23):
Yeah, I'm like, yeah it'sdefinitely better.
Renee (04:26):
Those are like high proteins there's got.
They have those paleo valleythings.
Some of those things can behigh in histamine too.
So watch, you don't want toomuch of it.
But if you need something quickand something to satisfy that
craving, definitely don't go fora Snickers.
It's just too sugary and toogenetically engineered.
They actually put on the labelthat we talked about the last
time.
They put on the Snickers labelmade with genetically modified
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ingredients.
Oh, I'm sorry, made withbioengineered ingredients.
Janine (04:52):
That's sexy.
Renee (04:53):
Who does that?
Who's going to eat that?
I know that, as I know oneperson.
My husband was craving it theother day and just threw it off.
He told me he had a Snickers.
I'm like honey.
At least get a Hershey's bar ifthat's all they have at the gas
station, because it does notsay made with bioengineered
ingredients or like darkchocolate doesn't have all that
other crap in it, right, likepure dark chocolate.
(05:14):
Even if you can't get somethingyet, a gaseous sheet you can get
, like a Hershey bar withalmonds.
It's not ideal, but it's betterthan a stickers or any.
Anyway, not promoting Hershey's, but okay.
Number three guys, chewing yourfood.
And I could take my own advice.
Everybody eats fast.
Nobody takes time to chew theirfood because they waited too
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long to eat and they gotta getit down the throat right.
So chewing you don't have tocount your chews where you're
like I'm gonna chew 80 times,but chewing your food till it's
a paste and then down the hatch,taking your time, just chewing
it, enjoying it, just puttingsome energy into really actually
tasting it and not just gettingit down so you can get the next
mouthful in.
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So number three is chewing.
Number four water.
Not an overconsumption of water, I would say most people don't
consume enough water, butideally you wanna drink your
water in between your meals.
You need water to make properdigestive juices, your
hydrochloric acid and your chimeand your digestive stuff to
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break your food down.
If you're dehydrated you're notgonna make enough hydrochloric
acid and enough digestive juices, so you're gonna have poor
digestion.
If you drink your water at mealtime, you can also dilute a
little bit of your stomach acid.
So if it's a choice of I onlydrink water at meal times,
otherwise I'm not gonna drinkwater then fine, drink your
water, but be aware of trying todrink some water in between
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meals.
I always have a little lug withme.
I've got some chamomile tea inhere right now and I've
sweetened it with maple syrupinstead of honey.
Honey's like way too sugary andthere's a lot of health
benefits from honey.
But on maple as well too, itjust depends on what your palate
calls for.
So, chewing, chewing and waterin between meals for proper HCL,
all right.
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Number five and this is a bigone, and this just doesn't have
to do with the holidays butreally trying to manage your
stress levels.
I don't know that we all try tomanage our stress levels.
I think a lot of us are onautopilot and we're just going
with the flow.
Right?
I see you smile.
You're like, yep, I'm guilty.
Janine (07:17):
I want to freak out and do something.
What do you mean?
Stress?
I don't know what you'retalking about.
I know what stress.
Renee (07:24):
What?
Who has that?
I don't know anybody that hasthat.
What?
Trying to at least manage it bydoing something, whether you're
taking a deep breath in andjust going okay, I'll just get
to this in a minute Pausing,just by pausing.
Pausing can help manage yourstress levels or find what works
for you Breathing meditation.
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I've talked about that before.
I use my Stop Breathing andThink app for just a two minute
breathing break.
Right after a meal is ideal.
Morning time, if you're crunchedand trying to get everything
done for the day, find a minute,just make a minute to do it,
otherwise your health is goingto make a minute for you in a
place that you don't want to bejust saying All right, movement.
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Number six movement walking,stretching, whatever floats your
boat.
Your movement could besomething as simple as lymphatic
breathing, where you're justeven raising up your arms,
inhaling up, chin up and exhaleand down.
That's movement.
You've actually opened up yourrib cage.
You've made room with yourdiaphragm, you've made room with
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your stomach to actually breakyour food down.
Those organs need room, guys.
They need room to perform.
So when they're all crunched inand you've got bad punch,
you're all stressed, you're inthe computer and they go.
My God man, you're all what?
Take a step back, take a breath, relax, breathe and move.
You can move in your house.
You don't have to get yourshoes on and go out in the
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middle of winter.
You can breathe at home.
Janine (08:55):
You can, unless you're at Lorda, where you're.
Renee (08:57):
Unless you're.
I don't mean to Sorry, she hada rubbing in our face.
Guys, I know it's cold here,but not that bad.
It's in the 40s today.
But any kind of movement,anything.
It doesn't have to be yoga, youdon't have to be a yogi.
It could just be raising yourarms at one time, whatever feels
good, putting some movement inthere.
Janine (09:16):
That really does help, renee, it really does for
digestion.
It's been a game changer for mejust even after, because
typically when I would eat Iwould sit and just stay seated,
whereas after you eat that'swhen you need to at least
stretch or have some kind ofmovement to where you're.
That's why people always wouldwalk after a meal like a light
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walk.
A light walk is very healthy.
Renee (09:38):
Yes, that or the breathing, even just raising
your arms up if you can'tbecause you have shoulder issues
, trying your shoulders head up,relax and exhale.
So inhale exhale, relax theshoulders and it feels so good
because it takes the tension outof your shoulders, whatever you
can do to stop all those brainsynapses from walking you into.
(10:00):
I got to get the dishes done, Igot to get the dog walked, I
got all the things and just keepyour body get break.
Okay.
Okay, number seven, and I knowit's going to be hard for some
of you guys because he has likea nice glass of wine but
limiting alcohol and not sayingnot to have it on.
Janine just shot daggers.
I mean, did you guys didn't seethat?
I was just saying.
Janine (10:19):
No, I didn't.
I swear Good, except last night.
I had two espresso martinis andI was out.
I was done.
Renee (10:26):
Oh yeah, and some of those martinis are so good.
But again, I'm not saying don't, I'm saying limit.
Don't have three, have one andsip it slowly and enjoy it and
not have one every day.
It's, I'm telling you, alcoholembalms you, it turns into
formaldehyde, turns your, or itdoes.
(10:47):
Alcohol turns into formaldehyde.
Janine (10:48):
So if you want to drink formaldehyde, it's in that way
If you, when you're dead, yes,they embalm you with
formaldehyde, that's awesome, oh, I had.
Renee (10:58):
So why?
Janine (11:00):
Yeah, explain that to me a little bit.
Why Alcohol?
Renee (11:04):
how alcohol converts.
Yeah, yeah, there's a chemicalcompound of the breakdown of
alcohol that turns formaldehyde,some of the constituents of
formaldehyde.
That's actually what aprofessor taught told me one
time that I Glastening, anyway,I know.
Again, a half a glass of wine,fine, it's fermented, maybe okay
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.
But choose wisely, guys, andlimit.
So we talked about alcohol.
Number eight limiting caffeine,big one.
I've been doing this, jenine,for coming up on 19 years Now.
She gave me the daggers, guys.
She's definitely eyeballrolling here.
Can you see me?
Her eyes are stuck up in hercranny and mirror top of her
brain.
Caffeine is one of those thingsthat I've been I hear the story
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for years.
I do not drink coffee, butbecause I can't tolerate the
caffeine, the caffeine.
But people say I need something.
I cannot get out of bed, Ican't start my day.
I need something to just wakeme up.
It's fine to have some, butlimiting it.
Now, if you're having two cupsof coffee, have one.
If you have a one cup a day,have a half, do less, because
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the caffeine really does jack upthe system.
And if you need something toget you moving in the morning,
then you're doing somethingwrong on the back end because
you're not able to get out ofbed in the morning, and it's
causing-.
Janine (12:17):
How does it jack up the system?
Because I'm a calf, I don'tdrink coffee anymore, but I use
other forms of caffeine, likeI'll drink Celsius.
Renee (12:26):
Yeah, it's just a drug.
It's that ideal.
It messes with yourneurotransmitters and it messes
with your hormones.
Caffeine can Now, for somepeople, coffee can be beneficial
Like my husband does well withit and it can be protective
health protective, depending onif you've had genetic testing
and how you know how youregulate caffeine and all that
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other stuff.
It is just good to regulate itand lower it Because the
caffeine, like I said it, spikescortisol, causes hormonal
destabilization, causes fatigueon the back end.
We're on the front end, wemanage it and do less, and that
way you give your adrenals alittle chance to be healthier so
that you can have better sleepand wake up in the morning not
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feeling like you need four morehours of sleep and a whack in
the head with a mallet to getyourself on a bed.
I'm off my soapbox on caffeine.
Guys, don't shoot the messenger.
You guys already all know thisanyway.
This is not new news for peoplewho love their coffee.
Janine (13:23):
But what's so messed up is and granted, I know what one
of your, like the 12th one, isgoing to be I will say that
there's so much misinformationout there as to, on one moment
they'll say to do this, onanother moment they'll say to do
that.
It's always they telling youthis and that and the other.
It's like where's all thismisinformation and what can you
(13:44):
trust?
Renee (13:44):
as far as because I don't trust the what you hear.
Yeah Well, you would see, youwould be those, you would be
that I would worry about that.
Listen, I'm Dalgo PP.
I'm totally with you.
I don't trust any of it either,and I will tell you that you
have to be your own advocate.
The day is there to do whateverthey do, sell you this, sell
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you that, turn your mind intowhatever you want to turn to.
You have to be your ownadvocate.
You have to understand and doyour own research and experiment
in your own body to feel what'sright.
So if they say something's goodand you want to try it, I'm all
for that.
There's limitations.
We won't get political here,but right, but be your best
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advocate.
I'll tell you a quick story.
I was on the phone with a clienttoday who she had to take an
antibiotic for a horrible E coliinfection that she had
vaginally and she was juststruggling and she did the
antibiotic.
She did well with it and I justchecked it on her to see how
she was doing and she said notsure if I should start back on
this.
Prophetic, what do you thinkshe says?
I'm holding the bottle in myhand next to my stomach.
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What do you think she asked me?
I said what do you think shegoes?
I don't know.
I still get quiet and just askyourself hey, what do I feel
like when I hold this bottle inmy hand?
Does it make me feel happy ordoes it make me feel like, no, I
don't need it?
And she's like, yeah, just likeI didn't need it I said.
Then there's your answer.
So that's what my point is.
If you hear something and youwant to try something, get quiet
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first and check in with yourintuitive self.
Everybody has intuition andeverybody has their, that part
of them, that kind of spinysense that knows right, that
knows that either something'swrong or something's good.
And if people tapped into thata little bit more, they could be
a great advocate for themselvesabout what to try and what not
to try.
And then honoring yourselffirst for trying if you want to
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try something is not wrong totry something, and if it doesn't
work for you, on to the nextthing Does that make?
Janine (15:39):
sense 100%.
It's listening to yourintuition and how you feel, and
not just taking something totake it because someone told you
to do it, but really feelingyour body and understanding your
body and everyone's sodifferent and really knowing,
hey, you know what, probablyshouldn't take this or meet and
hey, only you know your body.
Renee (15:59):
Just trusting your intuition.
Again, everybody's got theirspiny sense.
How many times have you heard Idon't like that person.
I've never met him, but I justdon't like him.
Whatever horrible, that's notfair to that person.
But it's your intuition, yourvoice, your intuitive side
letting you know hey, good, ormaybe not so good.
So that's my answer for that.
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Okay, number nine choosing foodsrich in nutrients.
Our soils are overly farmed.
They're depleted.
Choosing foods that have goodminerals in them, trace minerals
, vitamins, essentials that weneed fruits, vegetables.
If you don't like fruits andvegetables, there's a reason why
(16:40):
you don't like fruits andvegetables and then it's time to
supplement.
But choosing nutrient densefoods are helpful and again, I
made a post about this onFacebook.
You've heard the word superfoodsright, it's all over.
It's been all over and I hatethat word.
It's like superfoods.
It's so overly marketed and getthis superfood.
Avoid anything that sayssuperfood.
Just if it says superfood, itmeans it's rich in something,
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but some of those superfoods arealso high in oxalate or high in
histamine and not ideal.
So just something that'shealthy from the earth, not from
a package.
I think that could be morehelpful as well.
We talked about water and thiscould have been part two of
water, but drinking your waterroom temperature or warmer room
temperature or warmer Ice water,not ideal for digestion,
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metabolism.
You really want to have yourwater room temperature or warmer
, number 11.
Let's see, I switched the orderof this.
Yeah, don't watch the news.
No, no, don't watch the newswhile you're eating dinner, guys
, literally, it's just.
Janine (17:41):
It's so distracting and so unnerving and don't watch
anything that you don't likeReally and it will raise your
cortisol and then you won'tdigest anything.
Renee (17:47):
Your cortisol and your blood pressure and then you're
aggravated Right, and this isthat's also part.
This is number 12.
The last thing and they gotogether is making mealtime
ceremonies.
Make your meals a ceremony.
My teacher, dr Loomis, alwayssaid that he said mealtime
should be, and he also said tonot watch the news.
Mealtime should be a ceremony.
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It should be time for you to begrateful for the food on your
table that you're about to eat.
Take some time to really somepeople say a prayer before they
eat, some people just get quiet.
Having just a minute ofgratitude for thinking about the
farmer that grew your food, howit got to your table, but had
to go through several stepsbefore it got to you and it
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didn't get there magically.
So, having some gratitude forthe food that you're about to
consume and having gratitudeevery day.
It's important to havegratitude for many things, but
having some gratitude, makingmealtime a ceremony, I think, is
one of the biggest things youcan do to help your body with
better digestion.
So just to reiterate, guys,I'll just go through them
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quickly so that you're like wait, what was number six?
Number one was start to removeprocessed foods.
Try to eat foods that arecloser to nature.
Number two try to snack lessand if you are going to snack,
choose foods that are a littlehigher in fat and protein.
Number three chewing your food.
Number four water in betweenmeals for proper hydrochloric
acid production and stomachdigestion.
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Number five try to manage yourstress levels by incorporating
breathing or meditation orwhatever you like to do to help
manage your stress levels.
If you don't know what to do,you can pick any app.
You can go on YouTube and we'rejust at a sound bowl healing
last week, mark, and it wasamazing and there's just a
million different apps you canuse, for you can pick some bowl
meditation and you can getbeautiful.
(19:37):
I'm going to find it before weend here so people can hear what
sound bowl sounds like.
In fact, hold on and then I'llfinish the list.
Sound bowl meditation yeah,here we go.
According to very well-known assinging bowls or Himalayan bowls
.
Janine (19:49):
Yes, and singing bowls are said to promote.
Renee (19:51):
relax.
Play them in a minute.
Okay, so sorry about that, guys.
Number six movement, walking,stretching, some kind of
movement for your body to helpthe energy flow, help you with
digestion, get some bloodcirculating to your organs, to
your digestion, so your body canbreak your food down more.
Number seven limiting alcohol.
Number eight limiting caffeine.
Number nine choosing foods thatare rich in nutrients, not just
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filler foods.
Number 10, room temperature orwarmer water to drink.
Never drink ice water, ever.
Only drink water that's roomtemperature or water or warmer.
And also I'm going to add alittle bit to that.
Adding a tiny little bit of saltor minerals to your water is
very helpful.
Some kind of mineral.
I like the Redmond's salt orsea salt.
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Stay away from pink Himalayansalt.
It's got a lot of heavy metalsin it.
So Redmond's, but adding alittle bit of salt.
And if we're worried about bloodpressure, guys, it's not.
It's blood pressure from otherthings, not necessarily too much
salt.
People are deficient in salt.
So if you crave salt, you needit.
So that's.
And then don't watch the newswhile you're eating and making
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meal time ceremonious and havingsome gratitude for your food,
for how it got to you taking amoment just to pause and if you
need some help doing that, I'm avisual person but I also like
to hear things put on somethingto distract you so you're not
thinking about a fight you justhad with a neighbor or a client
or a spouse.
So I found the singing bowlsand I'm going to put this on so
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people can hear.
And I just googled it.
I have singing bowl a YouTubehere and you can hear what they
sound like in just a second.
So here we go and it got stuck.
Janine (21:30):
We've hit the ball, Guys.
I love this because I reallydon't hear anything.
Renee (21:36):
Hold on.
She's letting the bowls kind ofgo.
So you look at you, you're alldone.
That is just a singing bowl.
I just googled and that's whatshowed up, and there's also
here's a sound healing crystalbowls.
Let me see, this one probablysounds a little bit different,
so here we go.
I love this Isn't this great.
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It just brings your vibrationinto such peace.
Everybody gets the idea it's alittle sad.
Janine (22:05):
I don't know what that modality does, and everyone has
like healing modalities thatwork.
They all seem to be helpful,right, like alternative medicine
, healing modalities, whatnot,but sound bowls just seem like
you're doing a sound bath.
It just seems to hit me in theright spot where I just I'm like
putty, I'm like, yes, I'll doevery alternative.
(22:27):
It's like some feeling thatwhen people would get a massage
to relax them, that would workfor me because I'm too tense.
But with the sound bath I justI go into my body.
Renee (22:38):
Yeah, sound is wonderful.
It just down, regulates yournervous system.
It helps everything be in tune.
It's vibrational therapy right,and the sound translates down
all the way through your centralnervous system and just out
through your everything.
That's why it feels so good.
But that's I'm saying for thoseof you I can't meditate, I
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don't.
I hear you.
That's me.
I'm not a big, I have to reallyforce myself, but I put these
sound bowls on and I'm like, ohyeah, I'm totally stoned.
For sure For sad, so I'm glad wedid this today.
I want to just go through thesewith you guys.
Hopefully they'll be helpful.
You can gravitate toward acouple of these things, that
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kind of help increase your no,your help, decrease your stress
levels and increase your healththrough this holiday season and
for a long time after that too.
We shouldn't just make holidaysa time where we're trying to be
healthier.
This is an everyday for therest of your life, for however
long you're here.
So, as always, if anybodyanybody has any questions, you
(23:43):
can always find me atthetummywhisperercom and, janine
, you take the back part of thesearch.
This is your jam, and thank youeverybody for participating
today and we'll see you in twoweeks.
Janine (23:53):
Yes, and please follow, share, subscribe to
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She is unbelievable.
Schedule a consultation withher.
She has been instrumental inchanging the way I process food
(24:17):
in my own life.
I've gone through our system.
It is extremely helpful.
I recommend her to anybody.
Renee (24:23):
Thank you, janine.
Take care, guys, we'll see youin two.
Welcome everybody.
Welcome to the Tommy Whispererpodcast.
I'm your host, Renee Barish,with a lovely name.
I'm KarenBarish-Towler-Schimmie.
I thought it was reallyfascinating today.
I didn't even know that we areon episode number 12, but we are
on episode number 12.
Of course, I have prepared forus the 12 days and ways to eat
(00:33):
better and improve yourdigestion.
I just thought we'd giveeverybody some reminders of
things they can do while we'reapproaching eating season,
holiday season, and the thingsthat people already know that
they feel like they should do.
But this is just a gentlereminder and things that you can
try to step into.
If it's just one thing or twothings you're going to improve
(00:54):
on, that, Do it for 12 days,Give yourself a 12-day mark and
then add something else in ifyou can.
Let's start off with the firstthing.
The first thing I have for waysto improve your digestion,
improve your health, is tryingto choose foods that are closer
to nature, not so much bagged,refined, processed stuff.
(01:15):
Yes, you need a little cookie,here and there you need to have
something sweet, but can youalso have something sweet with a
little square of chocolate andhalf a banana?
Or having what I like to havefor a sweet snack is half a
banana, some sunflower seedbutter and I want a little
chocolate, some of thoseallergen-friendly.
What does it enjoy?
Life chocolate chips.
There's barely anything inthere so good.
(01:37):
That totally takes care of acraving.
Things closer to nature areless refined.
If you need something, findhealthier things to put in your
piehole.
Stuff of less ingredients onthere, that's number one.
Number two, and I think I'mgoing to get shot for this.
Everybody overly snacks theytalk about.
People say eat more often tostabilize your blood sugar.
That actually doesn't stabilizeyour blood sugar.
(02:00):
That actually causes moreroller coaster with your blood
sugar.
You really want to try to giveyour body a break in between
meals.
Ideally it's four hours, but ifyou can do three, that's even
better.
So for those of you that eatbreakfast in the morning, which
I do I have a little hard boiledegg on, maybe a little like
chickpea flour tortilla withsome sprouts and a little like
(02:22):
vegan cheese or something.
As an example, I'll have two ofthose and maybe the pear or
something, and then that'sanywhere between seven, 30 and
nine, and then I try to not haveanything for three to four
hours afterwards.
The trouble is when you starthaving a little something.
Sometimes you can't stop.
I'll just have a cookie, I'lljust have a banana.
I need some chips.
(02:42):
Oh, I need some tea.
Oh, now I want some mango.
And you write, do you?
Janine (02:48):
sound familiar?
Yeah, I purposely.
I only go grocery shopping oncea week and I order my groceries
online.
So I don't go, because if I'min the actual grocery store is
when I'll start loading stuff inmy cart that I don't like, the
accountability for me it'shelpful if I use an app like
Instacart or Shantor, whatnot,because otherwise it's like a
(03:08):
free for all.
Renee (03:09):
Yes, yes, and staying busy too, not thinking about if
the hunger strikes, what are yougoing to do.
Being prepared for that alsocomes in line with trying to
snack less, having beingprepared.
That's like part two of part ofnumber two.
And if you're going to chooseto snack, definitely choose a
lower sugar items.
You don't want to just havefruits by itself.
(03:30):
If you want, like an apple,have some sunflower seed butter
or some almond butter on there,something that's going to not
bother you.
I would choose fat for a snackover sugar or protein, so it
could be seeds, it could beveggies and hummus.
You like your meat sticks,leftover chicken bits in the
refrigerator from last night'sdinner.
Those are great alternatives Ifyou're home and if you're
(03:50):
traveling around and you needsomething.
Just make sure something youcan find, something that's easy
to open and going to be a goodprotein or fat snack for you, so
you don't dip and spike yourblood sugar, and for the
holidays too.
Janine (04:03):
really quick, they started selling pumps, which is
like the organic, the grass fedbeef Chumps yes, target.
So like when you check out,like it's in that aisle, so like
, literally, if you're shoppingall day, you're running around
on the holiday season and you'relike what am I going to stack
on?
Like I was able to grab thatand it was a way better.
It was better than a sneakersbar.
(04:23):
Yeah, I'm like, yeah it'sdefinitely better.
Renee (04:26):
Those are like high proteins there's got.
They have those paleo valleythings.
Some of those things can behigh in histamine too.
So watch, you don't want toomuch of it.
But if you need something quickand something to satisfy that
craving, definitely don't go fora Snickers.
It's just too sugary and toogenetically engineered.
They actually put on the labelthat we talked about the last
time.
They put on the Snickers labelmade with genetically modified
(04:48):
ingredients.
Oh, I'm sorry, made withbioengineered ingredients.
Janine (04:52):
That's sexy.
Renee (04:53):
Who does that?
Who's going to eat that?
I know that, as I know oneperson.
My husband was craving it theother day and just threw it off.
He told me he had a Snickers.
I'm like honey.
At least get a Hershey's bar ifthat's all they have at the gas
station, because it does notsay made with bioengineered
ingredients or like darkchocolate doesn't have all that
other crap in it, right, likepure dark chocolate.
(05:14):
Even if you can't get somethingyet, a gaseous sheet you can get
, like a Hershey bar withalmonds.
It's not ideal, but it's betterthan a stickers or any.
Anyway, not promoting Hershey's, but okay.
Number three guys, chewing yourfood.
And I could take my own advice.
Everybody eats fast.
Nobody takes time to chew theirfood because they waited too
(05:36):
long to eat and they gotta getit down the throat right.
So chewing you don't have tocount your chews where you're
like I'm gonna chew 80 times,but chewing your food till it's
a paste and then down the hatch,taking your time, just chewing
it, enjoying it, just puttingsome energy into really actually
tasting it and not just gettingit down so you can get the next
mouthful in.
(05:57):
So number three is chewing.
Number four water.
Not an overconsumption of water, I would say most people don't
consume enough water, butideally you wanna drink your
water in between your meals.
You need water to make properdigestive juices, your
hydrochloric acid and your chimeand your digestive stuff to
(06:18):
break your food down.
If you're dehydrated you're notgonna make enough hydrochloric
acid and enough digestive juices, so you're gonna have poor
digestion.
If you drink your water at mealtime, you can also dilute a
little bit of your stomach acid.
So if it's a choice of I onlydrink water at meal times,
otherwise I'm not gonna drinkwater then fine, drink your
water, but be aware of trying todrink some water in between
(06:39):
meals.
I always have a little lug withme.
I've got some chamomile tea inhere right now and I've
sweetened it with maple syrupinstead of honey.
Honey's like way too sugary andthere's a lot of health
benefits from honey.
But on maple as well too, itjust depends on what your palate
calls for.
So, chewing, chewing and waterin between meals for proper HCL,
all right.
(07:00):
Number five and this is a bigone, and this just doesn't have
to do with the holidays butreally trying to manage your
stress levels.
I don't know that we all try tomanage our stress levels.
I think a lot of us are onautopilot and we're just going
with the flow.
Right?
I see you smile.
You're like, yep, I'm guilty.
Janine (07:17):
I want to freak out and do something.
What do you mean?
Stress?
I don't know what you'retalking about.
I know what stress.
Renee (07:24):
What?
Who has that?
I don't know anybody that hasthat.
What?
Trying to at least manage it bydoing something, whether you're
taking a deep breath in andjust going okay, I'll just get
to this in a minute Pausing,just by pausing.
Pausing can help manage yourstress levels or find what works
for you Breathing meditation.
(07:46):
I've talked about that before.
I use my Stop Breathing andThink app for just a two minute
breathing break.
Right after a meal is ideal.
Morning time, if you're crunchedand trying to get everything
done for the day, find a minute,just make a minute to do it,
otherwise your health is goingto make a minute for you in a
place that you don't want to bejust saying All right, movement.
(08:09):
Number six movement walking,stretching, whatever floats your
boat.
Your movement could besomething as simple as lymphatic
breathing, where you're justeven raising up your arms,
inhaling up, chin up and exhaleand down.
That's movement.
You've actually opened up yourrib cage.
You've made room with yourdiaphragm, you've made room with
(08:30):
your stomach to actually breakyour food down.
Those organs need room, guys.
They need room to perform.
So when they're all crunched inand you've got bad punch,
you're all stressed, you're inthe computer and they go.
My God man, you're all what?
Take a step back, take a breath, relax, breathe and move.
You can move in your house.
You don't have to get yourshoes on and go out in the
(08:52):
middle of winter.
You can breathe at home.
Janine (08:55):
You can, unless you're at Lorda, where you're.
Renee (08:57):
Unless you're.
I don't mean to Sorry, she hada rubbing in our face.
Guys, I know it's cold here,but not that bad.
It's in the 40s today.
But any kind of movement,anything.
It doesn't have to be yoga, youdon't have to be a yogi.
It could just be raising yourarms at one time, whatever feels
good, putting some movement inthere.
Janine (09:16):
That really does help, renee, it really does for
digestion.
It's been a game changer for mejust even after, because
typically when I would eat Iwould sit and just stay seated,
whereas after you eat that'swhen you need to at least
stretch or have some kind ofmovement to where you're.
That's why people always wouldwalk after a meal like a light
(09:36):
walk.
A light walk is very healthy.
Renee (09:38):
Yes, that or the breathing, even just raising
your arms up if you can'tbecause you have shoulder issues
, trying your shoulders head up,relax and exhale.
So inhale exhale, relax theshoulders and it feels so good
because it takes the tension outof your shoulders, whatever you
can do to stop all those brainsynapses from walking you into.
(10:00):
I got to get the dishes done, Igot to get the dog walked, I
got all the things and just keepyour body get break.
Okay.
Okay, number seven, and I knowit's going to be hard for some
of you guys because he has likea nice glass of wine but
limiting alcohol and not sayingnot to have it on.
Janine just shot daggers.
I mean, did you guys didn't seethat?
I was just saying.
Janine (10:19):
No, I didn't.
I swear Good, except last night.
I had two espresso martinis andI was out.
I was done.
Renee (10:26):
Oh yeah, and some of those martinis are so good.
But again, I'm not saying don't, I'm saying limit.
Don't have three, have one andsip it slowly and enjoy it and
not have one every day.
It's, I'm telling you, alcoholembalms you, it turns into
formaldehyde, turns your, or itdoes.
(10:47):
Alcohol turns into formaldehyde.
Janine (10:48):
So if you want to drink formaldehyde, it's in that way
If you, when you're dead, yes,they embalm you with
formaldehyde, that's awesome, oh, I had.
Renee (10:58):
So why?
Janine (11:00):
Yeah, explain that to me a little bit.
Why Alcohol?
Renee (11:04):
how alcohol converts.
Yeah, yeah, there's a chemicalcompound of the breakdown of
alcohol that turns formaldehyde,some of the constituents of
formaldehyde.
That's actually what aprofessor taught told me one
time that I Glastening, anyway,I know.
Again, a half a glass of wine,fine, it's fermented, maybe okay
(11:25):
.
But choose wisely, guys, andlimit.
So we talked about alcohol.
Number eight limiting caffeine,big one.
I've been doing this, jenine,for coming up on 19 years Now.
She gave me the daggers, guys.
She's definitely eyeballrolling here.
Can you see me?
Her eyes are stuck up in hercranny and mirror top of her
brain.
Caffeine is one of those thingsthat I've been I hear the story
(11:48):
for years.
I do not drink coffee, butbecause I can't tolerate the
caffeine, the caffeine.
But people say I need something.
I cannot get out of bed, Ican't start my day.
I need something to just wakeme up.
It's fine to have some, butlimiting it.
Now, if you're having two cupsof coffee, have one.
If you have a one cup a day,have a half, do less, because
(12:08):
the caffeine really does jack upthe system.
And if you need something toget you moving in the morning,
then you're doing somethingwrong on the back end because
you're not able to get out ofbed in the morning, and it's
causing-.
Janine (12:17):
How does it jack up the system?
Because I'm a calf, I don'tdrink coffee anymore, but I use
other forms of caffeine, likeI'll drink Celsius.
Renee (12:26):
Yeah, it's just a drug.
It's that ideal.
It messes with yourneurotransmitters and it messes
with your hormones.
Caffeine can Now, for somepeople, coffee can be beneficial
Like my husband does well withit and it can be protective
health protective, depending onif you've had genetic testing
and how you know how youregulate caffeine and all that
(12:48):
other stuff.
It is just good to regulate itand lower it Because the
caffeine, like I said it, spikescortisol, causes hormonal
destabilization, causes fatigueon the back end.
We're on the front end, wemanage it and do less, and that
way you give your adrenals alittle chance to be healthier so
that you can have better sleepand wake up in the morning not
(13:08):
feeling like you need four morehours of sleep and a whack in
the head with a mallet to getyourself on a bed.
I'm off my soapbox on caffeine.
Guys, don't shoot the messenger.
You guys already all know thisanyway.
This is not new news for peoplewho love their coffee.
Janine (13:23):
But what's so messed up is and granted, I know what one
of your, like the 12th one, isgoing to be I will say that
there's so much misinformationout there as to, on one moment
they'll say to do this, onanother moment they'll say to do
that.
It's always they telling youthis and that and the other.
It's like where's all thismisinformation and what can you
(13:44):
trust?
Renee (13:44):
as far as because I don't trust the what you hear.
Yeah Well, you would see, youwould be those, you would be
that I would worry about that.
Listen, I'm Dalgo PP.
I'm totally with you.
I don't trust any of it either,and I will tell you that you
have to be your own advocate.
The day is there to do whateverthey do, sell you this, sell
(14:05):
you that, turn your mind intowhatever you want to turn to.
You have to be your ownadvocate.
You have to understand and doyour own research and experiment
in your own body to feel what'sright.
So if they say something's goodand you want to try it, I'm all
for that.
There's limitations.
We won't get political here,but right, but be your best
(14:27):
advocate.
I'll tell you a quick story.
I was on the phone with a clienttoday who she had to take an
antibiotic for a horrible E coliinfection that she had
vaginally and she was juststruggling and she did the
antibiotic.
She did well with it and I justchecked it on her to see how
she was doing and she said notsure if I should start back on
this.
Prophetic, what do you thinkshe says?
I'm holding the bottle in myhand next to my stomach.
(14:49):
What do you think she asked me?
I said what do you think shegoes?
I don't know.
I still get quiet and just askyourself hey, what do I feel
like when I hold this bottle inmy hand?
Does it make me feel happy ordoes it make me feel like, no, I
don't need it?
And she's like, yeah, just likeI didn't need it I said.
Then there's your answer.
So that's what my point is.
If you hear something and youwant to try something, get quiet
(15:11):
first and check in with yourintuitive self.
Everybody has intuition andeverybody has their, that part
of them, that kind of spinysense that knows right, that
knows that either something'swrong or something's good.
And if people tapped into thata little bit more, they could be
a great advocate for themselvesabout what to try and what not
to try.
And then honoring yourselffirst for trying if you want to
(15:33):
try something is not wrong totry something, and if it doesn't
work for you, on to the nextthing Does that make?
Janine (15:39):
sense 100%.
It's listening to yourintuition and how you feel, and
not just taking something totake it because someone told you
to do it, but really feelingyour body and understanding your
body and everyone's sodifferent and really knowing,
hey, you know what, probablyshouldn't take this or meet and
hey, only you know your body.
Renee (15:59):
Just trusting your intuition.
Again, everybody's got theirspiny sense.
How many times have you heard Idon't like that person.
I've never met him, but I justdon't like him.
Whatever horrible, that's notfair to that person.
But it's your intuition, yourvoice, your intuitive side
letting you know hey, good, ormaybe not so good.
So that's my answer for that.
(16:20):
Okay, number nine choosing foodsrich in nutrients.
Our soils are overly farmed.
They're depleted.
Choosing foods that have goodminerals in them, trace minerals
, vitamins, essentials that weneed fruits, vegetables.
If you don't like fruits andvegetables, there's a reason why
(16:40):
you don't like fruits andvegetables and then it's time to
supplement.
But choosing nutrient densefoods are helpful and again, I
made a post about this onFacebook.
You've heard the word superfoodsright, it's all over.
It's been all over and I hatethat word.
It's like superfoods.
It's so overly marketed and getthis superfood.
Avoid anything that sayssuperfood.
Just if it says superfood, itmeans it's rich in something,
(17:03):
but some of those superfoods arealso high in oxalate or high in
histamine and not ideal.
So just something that'shealthy from the earth, not from
a package.
I think that could be morehelpful as well.
We talked about water and thiscould have been part two of
water, but drinking your waterroom temperature or warmer room
temperature or warmer Ice water,not ideal for digestion,
(17:24):
metabolism.
You really want to have yourwater room temperature or warmer
, number 11.
Let's see, I switched the orderof this.
Yeah, don't watch the news.
No, no, don't watch the newswhile you're eating dinner, guys
, literally, it's just.
Janine (17:41):
It's so distracting and so unnerving and don't watch
anything that you don't likeReally and it will raise your
cortisol and then you won'tdigest anything.
Renee (17:47):
Your cortisol and your blood pressure and then you're
aggravated Right, and this isthat's also part.
This is number 12.
The last thing and they gotogether is making mealtime
ceremonies.
Make your meals a ceremony.
My teacher, dr Loomis, alwayssaid that he said mealtime
should be, and he also said tonot watch the news.
Mealtime should be a ceremony.
(18:09):
It should be time for you to begrateful for the food on your
table that you're about to eat.
Take some time to really somepeople say a prayer before they
eat, some people just get quiet.
Having just a minute ofgratitude for thinking about the
farmer that grew your food, howit got to your table, but had
to go through several stepsbefore it got to you and it
(18:30):
didn't get there magically.
So, having some gratitude forthe food that you're about to
consume and having gratitudeevery day.
It's important to havegratitude for many things, but
having some gratitude, makingmealtime a ceremony, I think, is
one of the biggest things youcan do to help your body with
better digestion.
So just to reiterate, guys,I'll just go through them
(18:53):
quickly so that you're like wait, what was number six?
Number one was start to removeprocessed foods.
Try to eat foods that arecloser to nature.
Number two try to snack lessand if you are going to snack,
choose foods that are a littlehigher in fat and protein.
Number three chewing your food.
Number four water in betweenmeals for proper hydrochloric
acid production and stomachdigestion.
(19:15):
Number five try to manage yourstress levels by incorporating
breathing or meditation orwhatever you like to do to help
manage your stress levels.
If you don't know what to do,you can pick any app.
You can go on YouTube and we'rejust at a sound bowl healing
last week, mark, and it wasamazing and there's just a
million different apps you canuse, for you can pick some bowl
meditation and you can getbeautiful.
(19:37):
I'm going to find it before weend here so people can hear what
sound bowl sounds like.
In fact, hold on and then I'llfinish the list.
Sound bowl meditation yeah,here we go.
According to very well-known assinging bowls or Himalayan bowls
.
Janine (19:49):
Yes, and singing bowls are said to promote.
Renee (19:51):
relax.
Play them in a minute.
Okay, so sorry about that, guys.
Number six movement, walking,stretching, some kind of
movement for your body to helpthe energy flow, help you with
digestion, get some bloodcirculating to your organs, to
your digestion, so your body canbreak your food down more.
Number seven limiting alcohol.
Number eight limiting caffeine.
Number nine choosing foods thatare rich in nutrients, not just
(20:14):
filler foods.
Number 10, room temperature orwarmer water to drink.
Never drink ice water, ever.
Only drink water that's roomtemperature or water or warmer.
And also I'm going to add alittle bit to that.
Adding a tiny little bit of saltor minerals to your water is
very helpful.
Some kind of mineral.
I like the Redmond's salt orsea salt.
(20:37):
Stay away from pink Himalayansalt.
It's got a lot of heavy metalsin it.
So Redmond's, but adding alittle bit of salt.
And if we're worried about bloodpressure, guys, it's not.
It's blood pressure from otherthings, not necessarily too much
salt.
People are deficient in salt.
So if you crave salt, you needit.
So that's.
And then don't watch the newswhile you're eating and making
(20:57):
meal time ceremonious and havingsome gratitude for your food,
for how it got to you taking amoment just to pause and if you
need some help doing that, I'm avisual person but I also like
to hear things put on somethingto distract you so you're not
thinking about a fight you justhad with a neighbor or a client
or a spouse.
So I found the singing bowlsand I'm going to put this on so
(21:20):
people can hear.
And I just googled it.
I have singing bowl a YouTubehere and you can hear what they
sound like in just a second.
So here we go and it got stuck.
Janine (21:30):
We've hit the ball, Guys.
I love this because I reallydon't hear anything.
Renee (21:36):
Hold on.
She's letting the bowls kind ofgo.
So you look at you, you're alldone.
That is just a singing bowl.
I just googled and that's whatshowed up, and there's also
here's a sound healing crystalbowls.
Let me see, this one probablysounds a little bit different,
so here we go.
I love this Isn't this great.
(21:57):
It just brings your vibrationinto such peace.
Everybody gets the idea it's alittle sad.
Janine (22:05):
I don't know what that modality does, and everyone has
like healing modalities thatwork.
They all seem to be helpful,right, like alternative medicine
, healing modalities, whatnot,but sound bowls just seem like
you're doing a sound bath.
It just seems to hit me in theright spot where I just I'm like
putty, I'm like, yes, I'll doevery alternative.
(22:27):
It's like some feeling thatwhen people would get a massage
to relax them, that would workfor me because I'm too tense.
But with the sound bath I justI go into my body.
Renee (22:38):
Yeah, sound is wonderful.
It just down, regulates yournervous system.
It helps everything be in tune.
It's vibrational therapy right,and the sound translates down
all the way through your centralnervous system and just out
through your everything.
That's why it feels so good.
But that's I'm saying for thoseof you I can't meditate, I
(22:59):
don't.
I hear you.
That's me.
I'm not a big, I have to reallyforce myself, but I put these
sound bowls on and I'm like, ohyeah, I'm totally stoned.
For sure For sad, so I'm glad wedid this today.
I want to just go through thesewith you guys.
Hopefully they'll be helpful.
You can gravitate toward acouple of these things, that
(23:19):
kind of help increase your no,your help, decrease your stress
levels and increase your healththrough this holiday season and
for a long time after that too.
We shouldn't just make holidaysa time where we're trying to be
healthier.
This is an everyday for therest of your life, for however
long you're here.
So, as always, if anybodyanybody has any questions, you
(23:43):
can always find me atthetummywhisperercom and, janine
, you take the back part of thesearch.
This is your jam, and thank youeverybody for participating
today and we'll see you in twoweeks.
Janine (23:53):
Yes, and please follow, share, subscribe to
thetummywhisperer.
We are on YouTube, apple,spotify, iheart, amazon Music
all the big ones and leave afive star review for Renee.
She is unbelievable.
Schedule a consultation withher.
She has been instrumental inchanging the way I process food
(24:17):
in my own life.
I've gone through our system.
It is extremely helpful.
I recommend her to anybody.
Renee (24:23):
Thank you, janine.
Take care, guys, we'll see youin two.
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Does hearing about a true crime case always leave you scouring the internet for the truth behind the story? Dive into your next mystery with Crime Junkie. Every Monday, join your host Ashley Flowers as she unravels all the details of infamous and underreported true crime cases with her best friend Brit Prawat. From cold cases to missing persons and heroes in our community who seek justice, Crime Junkie is your destination for theories and stories you won’t hear anywhere else. Whether you're a seasoned true crime enthusiast or new to the genre, you'll find yourself on the edge of your seat awaiting a new episode every Monday. If you can never get enough true crime... Congratulations, you’ve found your people. Follow to join a community of Crime Junkies! Crime Junkie is presented by audiochuck Media Company.
Ridiculous History
History is beautiful, brutal and, often, ridiculous. Join Ben Bowlin and Noel Brown as they dive into some of the weirdest stories from across the span of human civilization in Ridiculous History, a podcast by iHeartRadio.