June 11, 2025 • 17 mins
We spend a lot of time wondering whether we’re normal, whether the things that we’re experiencing are normal, or if our test results are normal. I think you should aspire not to be normal. Today we’ll talk about several ways I think being abnormal will put more years lived in good health into your future. Let’s not be normal together.
As Jiddu Krishnamurti once said “It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”
email me: healthcouragecollective@gmail.com
My Website: www.healthcouragecollective.com
Are you ready to give your cells their best chance to not have to stop living before they die by allowing them access to physiologic levels of hormones, but aren't sure how to even get started? Join the waitlist for my new beta program here and help me figure out how best to help wonderful women like you get the hormone care they deserve!
Come visit me: www.healthcouragecollective.com
email me: healthcouragecollective@gmail.com
As Jiddu Krishnamurti once said “It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”
email me: healthcouragecollective@gmail.com
My Website: www.healthcouragecollective.com
Are you ready to give your cells their best chance to not have to stop living before they die by allowing them access to physiologic levels of hormones, but aren't sure how to even get started? Join the waitlist for my new beta program here and help me figure out how best to help wonderful women like you get the hormone care they deserve!
Come visit me: www.healthcouragecollective.com
email me: healthcouragecollective@gmail.com
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
We spend a lot of time wondering whether we're normal,
whether the things that we're experiencing are normal, or if
our test results are normal. I think you should aspire
not to be normal. Today we'll talk about several ways.
I think being abnormal will put more years lived in
good health into your future. Let's not be normal together.
As Jidu Christiana Murdi once said, it is no measure
(00:23):
of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly society.
You're listenings to the Healthcareage Collective Podcast, episode two hundred
and six, Don't Be Normal two point zero. Welcome to
the Health Courage Collective Podcast, the show for women who
are too busy to slog through hours of generalized and
(00:44):
applicable and often contradictory health information, but too smart to
ignore that a few minutes of focused attention now can
prevent years of suffering in the future. I'm your host,
Christina Hackett, a pharmacist who doesn't want you to live
on prescriptions, a certified coach specifically to maximize your potential,
and a compulsive learner obsessed with preventative, cutting edge, holistic
(01:06):
and integrated medicine. I'm on a mission to increase your
physical and mental resilience so you can fearlessly look forward
to your next forty plus limitless years. Your time is down.
Let's go see Henny. Welcome to another episode. How are
you today? I hope you've had a great week. How
is your homosystem? I doubt that you've had time to
(01:29):
get it checked in the past seven days, But I
hope that understanding what it tells you about your risk
of cardiovascular diseases and or dimension and all the other
things helps you live a more powerful life by knowing
what it means next time you get your blood tested.
It's not a normal fix it any way you can
and your life gets better kind of risk markers. So
(01:50):
that's what makes it tricky, But it does give you
power over your future health if you approach it correctly. Okay,
today's episode two hundred and six. That's true two hundred
and five times that I've ended a podcast episode by saying,
don't be normal. I hope it makes sense to you
that I want you to be abnormal by not having
to stop living before you die, or spend all of
(02:12):
your retirement time and money managing the common diseases of
aging that are widely considered to be normal parts of aging,
or thinking about menopause, or aging in general the way
most people do. Podcast episode three is named Don't Be Normal,
and I thought it might be time for a Don't
Be Normal two point zero, a little refresher on the
(02:34):
ways we need to be vigilant to not do what
everyone else does or think the way everyone else thinks.
If what we want for ourselves is to live and
give more as we get older, rather than less, I
find reminders helpful to keep me on track, so I
hope you do too. In episode three, I shared one
of my favorite quotes of all time by Djudu Krishna Murdy.
(02:56):
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted
to a profoundly sick society. As far as our health
is concerned, we don't want to be normal in the
eyes of Western society. According to what I've been able
to find. Here are some statistics about normality. The United
States is ranked thirty fifth out of one hundred and
sixty nine countries measured for the health of this population,
(03:20):
but it's number one in health care spending by a
very large margin, so we spend way more than all
of them. But we are sicker than thirty four of them.
Seventy five percent of health care spending in the US
is spent treating preventable chronic diseases. The average American over
age sixty five is on more than five prescription medications.
(03:43):
Eighty percent of Americans over age fifty have at least
one chronic illness, and over fifty percent have more than one.
Seventy one percent of Americans have not properly saved for retirement.
The average American couple, if neither of them have to
go to a long time from care facility, will spend
about two hundred and ninety five thousand dollars on health
(04:04):
care costs during their retirement. The mean body fat percentage
of American women over age sixty is forty two percent.
Sixty percent of a typical American citizen's daily calories come
from ultra processed food sixty percent. Oh my gosh. A
twenty sixteen study by the Mayo Clinics showed that less
(04:26):
than three percent of Americans meet the basic qualifications for
living a healthy lifestyle. What do you think about those?
His statistics don't make you totally zone out. Here are
a few more seventy eight point two percent of American
women over age sixty have cardiovascular disease, and ninety one
point eight percent of women over age eighty have cardiovascular disease.
(04:49):
That's pretty huge. The risk of having a stroke is
eight percent for women over age sixty and seventeen percent
for women over age eighty. Women over age six sixty
five have a lifetime risk of developing dementia of nineteen percent.
For men, it's only ten point nine percent. Sixty six
percent of women over age sixty have osteopenia and one
(05:14):
in ten have osteoporosis. As you know, osteopenia and osteoporosis
greatly increase your risk of breaking a bone. Of women
who break their hip, only twenty five percent make a
full recovery. I mean seventy five percent do not. That
is devastating. Sixty five percent of Americans over age sixty
(05:35):
five experience pain, and thirty six percent suffer from chronic pain.
One in three women will develop cancer and one in
six will die from cancer. Here's one that I found
kind of shocking and kind of not. According to a
health information group called Helio, one point eight percent of
(05:56):
menopausal women report using hormone replacement therapy. If you really
know and understand all of your options and are offered
hormone help, should you want it and choose not to
use hormone replacement therapy, then I think that's great, but
that's not why ninety eight point two percent of women
don't use hormone replacement therapy. I was listening to one
(06:18):
of my favorite doctors named Peter Etia talked to another
doctor named Rachel Rubin the other day. It was so awesome.
I'll put a link in the show notes to their
conversation if you want to hear it. Doctor Rachel was
saying that less than six percent of obgyn, internal medicine,
and family practice physicians received just one hour of menopause
(06:39):
education during their medical training. Those are the exact practitioners
we would see about menopause. Obigyn's, family practice doctors and
internal medicine doctors. Ninety four percent of them don't get
a single hour of education about menopause. Peter and Rachel
both said that they received exactly zero minute of training,
(07:01):
but they were both told that hormones are dangerous. How
was it given that fifty percent of the population goes
through menopause and it affects their risk for a whole
host of preventable illnesses, and even more importantly, the way
their organs and body systems function and respond to treatment.
This is a travesty. It's like, really really bad. But
(07:22):
of course we're all taught to be good patients and
put our full trust in the medical system just the way.
It is. A medical system that is absolutely marvelous at
treating diseases that can kill you quickly. It's really great,
but one that tries to use all of those same
wildly successful strategies in attempting to treat diseases that kill
(07:44):
you slowly, and that does not work. It's normal to
be a passive patient who looks for something outside of
themselves to come fix them. A pill for an ill
and magical surgery. It does work great when you break
your ankle, gits strep throat, get into a skateboarding accident,
or come down with flesh eating bacteria. But while that
(08:05):
framework is still the normal way to deal with preventable
chronic illnesses that we are told are normal parts of aging,
it is definitely not putting more years lived and good
health into our futures. It's normal to wish we didn't
have to suffer. It's normal to think that the only
way to achieve that is to not get old. It's
normal to worship and admire and long for youth, and
(08:28):
to detest and dread old age. That's what all of
society and media does. It hangs on every word a
twenty one year old athlete mutters and ignores the hard
won wisdom offered to us by the aged. It's normal
to have a vague wish for our future, and abnormal
to have a specific plan for our future. I would
(08:49):
say it's even abnormal to know exactly what you want
to be able to do as an eighty year old
or a nine year old. Most people don't have a
concrete idea specific about what you want to be able
to do in the future. Is what informs what you
work on and what you ignore today. What little preventive
medicine there is today is usually based on whether your
(09:11):
lab data is quote normal. But what is normal for
lab data is what is common among the population, not
what is optimal. You don't want to be normal. You
don't want your physiology to function the way the majority
of the populations does. If you want to be able
to do things in your nineties that most people in
(09:33):
their nineties aren't able to do. Your biology needs to
be functioning optimally, not normally. You don't want normal sixty
year old kidney and liver function when you're in your sixties.
You want average sixty year old kidney and liver function.
When you're in your late nineties. You don't want normal
insulin levels. You want optimal insulin levels. There's a difference.
(09:56):
You don't want good medical treatment for your hardened arteries.
You want to event or drastically delay athosclerosis. In the
first place. It's normal to get overwhelmed with the sheer
volume of healthy things we think we should be doing,
and to be rate ourselves for not doing them. All
abnormal to start the plan of what we're actually trying
(10:17):
to create for our future, fully understand what is statistically
most likely to prevent that from happening, and then only
work on the one action at a time that we're
reasonably confident is the highest leverage action we can take
to tip the odds in our favor. It's abnormal, but
it works. And when you ignore all the other nonsense
and focus on learning how to fall in love with
(10:39):
your highest leverage action. What's best for your health and
what's most enjoyable to do become for you the same.
It's not normal to live more as you get older,
rather than less, but with a few carefully made choices,
now it's possible. It's not normal to live in your
(10:59):
seventies and eighties without several chronic diseases, especially cardiovascular disease
like high blood pressure, plaque in your arteries, heart attacks, strokes,
et cetera. As you age, your risk of neurodegenerative diseases
like dementia also goes up, as do your risk of
cancer and mobility limitations and chronic pain. And all of
those chronic diseases are fueled by less than optimal metabolic health.
(11:25):
That means that having high insulin levels, which after a
while leads to high glucose levels, which after a while
leads to pre diabetes and then eventually to Type two
diabetes increases your risk of all of the major chronic
diseases of aging, and having good metabolic health with low
insulin levels and proper blood glucose levels decreases your risk
(11:47):
of those things. It's not normal to be physically strong
in your eighties and nineties. Especially for women. To be
able to carry things, climb stairs, and get up from
the floor in your nineties takes a lot of a
advanced preparation. You have to be very strong and have
a lot of muscle mass right now to be able
to do those things in your nineties. It's not normal
(12:10):
to age according to an intelligent plan that specifically aims
to prevent or drastically delay all of the things that
are statistically most likely to kill you. This means knowing
what is most likely to put an end to the
years you live in good health, and what exactly to
do today to prevent or drastically delay those things from happening.
(12:30):
Having a plan is something you have to do for yourself,
with the input of professionals to help you, but it
makes everything way easier and less overwhelming. No more scattered
health advice coming at you from all directions, or feeling
like you have to do a ton of different things,
or hoping that someone else, like a primary care doctor,
is doing right by you. It's not normal to get
(12:52):
what you actually need from the healthcare system. Sad but true,
because it's really a sick care system and it's pretty
great at that, which is awesome. We need that, but
if you're actually after wellness and increasing your health span,
you'll need to be more proactive and more informed than
almost everyone else. The standard of care is not for
(13:14):
you act accordingly. It's not normal to know and track
the metrics that actually provide valuable data about your health span.
It takes all the drama and worry out of aging.
It's just a data game, which is pretty cool if
you think about it. It's not a popularity contest. It's
not about who has the most money. It's not even
about who has the most will power, the biggest ability
(13:36):
to deny themselves pleasure, or the most supportive family that
all live for kale smoothies and two hundred mile bike rides.
There are a few key measurements that will give you
a ton of information about how likely you are to
stay in good health, and that will tell you whether
any actions you're taking are working or not working to
(13:56):
keep you in good health. That's it. All you have
to do is try out something you can reasonably fit
into your current life and measure to see if it's
doing what matters to put more years lived in good
health into your future or not. It's all there is
no drama. Send me a message at Healthcourage Collective at
gmail dot com if you want a list of metrics
(14:17):
that I think matter. Hey, it's not normal to be
metabolically healthy, so your mitochondria can work correctly to produce
enough energy to make you feel really good and to
keep your risk of chronic diseases low. Like we talked
about earlier, it's not normal to eat real food. That
makes me really sad, but it's true, and you can
(14:37):
do a lot to improve your future by being abnormal
and eating actual food, the real food that your body
is marvelously designed to thrive on, the kind of stuff
your great grandma would have eaten. It's not normal to
understand your female hormones, how they function before menopause, what
(14:57):
happens to them during perimenopause, and mentimp and the role
that that all plays in your longevity. Even most doctors
don't really get it. Hormones influence so much, and doing
the work to understand them a little better gives you
a better appreciation of how much they matter, and it
gives you a leg up on your longevity. Whatever you
decide to do about whether you want to replace them
or not, It's not normal to be able to confidently
(15:21):
dismiss lots of the healthy actions you're told you need
to do. When you know exactly what you're trying to
make happen, what assets you need to accomplish it, and
the only action you're focusing on right now to move
that plan forward, you can actually make progress. We all
have a limited channel capacity, and trying to do everything
wastes our precious resources, and way worse, it makes us
(15:44):
feel like we're failing ourselves. Knowing the one thing we're
working on, why it matters, and what exactly we need
to do today puts more years lived in good health
into our future. It's not normal to feel the peace
and joy of living in alignment with your highest values.
(16:05):
When you teach yourself that you are capable of consistently
doing what your higher self most wants you to do,
you experience joy and freedom. Not normal to hold yourself
to a high standard and still be incredibly kind to yourself.
It's a skill that we probably all need to learn
to improve. When you can do it, you improve your
(16:27):
ability to drive your life forward. Lastly, it's not normal
for the things that are best for you and the
things that are most enjoyable for you to become the same.
But with deliberate work, it is possible, and it's pretty
freaking fun. I would love to help get you there.
Jody Foster once said, normal is not something to aspire to,
(16:50):
it's something to get away from, So let's do it.
I'm so glad that you don't want to be normal,
because I know that the world is a better place
when you're engaged with it and operation at your best.
Thank you so much for being awesome and for being
here today. Next week we're going to talk about magnesium.
It's estimated that around eighty percent of the American population
is magnesium deficient, so it's definitely not normal to have
(17:13):
optimal levels of magnesium. Until then, don't be normal. Thank
you so much for tuning into the Health Courage Collective podcast.
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enormous compliment of your time and attention. I would be
so grateful if you would share this podcast with someone
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(17:33):
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We spend a lot of time wondering whether we're normal,
whether the things that we're experiencing are normal, or if
our test results are normal. I think you should aspire
not to be normal. Today we'll talk about several ways.
I think being abnormal will put more years lived in
good health into your future. Let's not be normal together.
As Jidu Christiana Murdi once said, it is no measure
(00:23):
of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly society.
You're listenings to the Healthcareage Collective Podcast, episode two hundred
and six, Don't Be Normal two point zero. Welcome to
the Health Courage Collective Podcast, the show for women who
are too busy to slog through hours of generalized and
(00:44):
applicable and often contradictory health information, but too smart to
ignore that a few minutes of focused attention now can
prevent years of suffering in the future. I'm your host,
Christina Hackett, a pharmacist who doesn't want you to live
on prescriptions, a certified coach specifically to maximize your potential,
and a compulsive learner obsessed with preventative, cutting edge, holistic
(01:06):
and integrated medicine. I'm on a mission to increase your
physical and mental resilience so you can fearlessly look forward
to your next forty plus limitless years. Your time is down.
Let's go see Henny. Welcome to another episode. How are
you today? I hope you've had a great week. How
is your homosystem? I doubt that you've had time to
(01:29):
get it checked in the past seven days, But I
hope that understanding what it tells you about your risk
of cardiovascular diseases and or dimension and all the other
things helps you live a more powerful life by knowing
what it means next time you get your blood tested.
It's not a normal fix it any way you can
and your life gets better kind of risk markers. So
(01:50):
that's what makes it tricky, But it does give you
power over your future health if you approach it correctly. Okay,
today's episode two hundred and six. That's true two hundred
and five times that I've ended a podcast episode by saying,
don't be normal. I hope it makes sense to you
that I want you to be abnormal by not having
to stop living before you die, or spend all of
(02:12):
your retirement time and money managing the common diseases of
aging that are widely considered to be normal parts of aging,
or thinking about menopause, or aging in general the way
most people do. Podcast episode three is named Don't Be Normal,
and I thought it might be time for a Don't
Be Normal two point zero, a little refresher on the
(02:34):
ways we need to be vigilant to not do what
everyone else does or think the way everyone else thinks.
If what we want for ourselves is to live and
give more as we get older, rather than less, I
find reminders helpful to keep me on track, so I
hope you do too. In episode three, I shared one
of my favorite quotes of all time by Djudu Krishna Murdy.
(02:56):
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted
to a profoundly sick society. As far as our health
is concerned, we don't want to be normal in the
eyes of Western society. According to what I've been able
to find. Here are some statistics about normality. The United
States is ranked thirty fifth out of one hundred and
sixty nine countries measured for the health of this population,
(03:20):
but it's number one in health care spending by a
very large margin, so we spend way more than all
of them. But we are sicker than thirty four of them.
Seventy five percent of health care spending in the US
is spent treating preventable chronic diseases. The average American over
age sixty five is on more than five prescription medications.
(03:43):
Eighty percent of Americans over age fifty have at least
one chronic illness, and over fifty percent have more than one.
Seventy one percent of Americans have not properly saved for retirement.
The average American couple, if neither of them have to
go to a long time from care facility, will spend
about two hundred and ninety five thousand dollars on health
(04:04):
care costs during their retirement. The mean body fat percentage
of American women over age sixty is forty two percent.
Sixty percent of a typical American citizen's daily calories come
from ultra processed food sixty percent. Oh my gosh. A
twenty sixteen study by the Mayo Clinics showed that less
(04:26):
than three percent of Americans meet the basic qualifications for
living a healthy lifestyle. What do you think about those?
His statistics don't make you totally zone out. Here are
a few more seventy eight point two percent of American
women over age sixty have cardiovascular disease, and ninety one
point eight percent of women over age eighty have cardiovascular disease.
(04:49):
That's pretty huge. The risk of having a stroke is
eight percent for women over age sixty and seventeen percent
for women over age eighty. Women over age six sixty
five have a lifetime risk of developing dementia of nineteen percent.
For men, it's only ten point nine percent. Sixty six
percent of women over age sixty have osteopenia and one
(05:14):
in ten have osteoporosis. As you know, osteopenia and osteoporosis
greatly increase your risk of breaking a bone. Of women
who break their hip, only twenty five percent make a
full recovery. I mean seventy five percent do not. That
is devastating. Sixty five percent of Americans over age sixty
(05:35):
five experience pain, and thirty six percent suffer from chronic pain.
One in three women will develop cancer and one in
six will die from cancer. Here's one that I found
kind of shocking and kind of not. According to a
health information group called Helio, one point eight percent of
(05:56):
menopausal women report using hormone replacement therapy. If you really
know and understand all of your options and are offered
hormone help, should you want it and choose not to
use hormone replacement therapy, then I think that's great, but
that's not why ninety eight point two percent of women
don't use hormone replacement therapy. I was listening to one
(06:18):
of my favorite doctors named Peter Etia talked to another
doctor named Rachel Rubin the other day. It was so awesome.
I'll put a link in the show notes to their
conversation if you want to hear it. Doctor Rachel was
saying that less than six percent of obgyn, internal medicine,
and family practice physicians received just one hour of menopause
(06:39):
education during their medical training. Those are the exact practitioners
we would see about menopause. Obigyn's, family practice doctors and
internal medicine doctors. Ninety four percent of them don't get
a single hour of education about menopause. Peter and Rachel
both said that they received exactly zero minute of training,
(07:01):
but they were both told that hormones are dangerous. How
was it given that fifty percent of the population goes
through menopause and it affects their risk for a whole
host of preventable illnesses, and even more importantly, the way
their organs and body systems function and respond to treatment.
This is a travesty. It's like, really really bad. But
(07:22):
of course we're all taught to be good patients and
put our full trust in the medical system just the way.
It is. A medical system that is absolutely marvelous at
treating diseases that can kill you quickly. It's really great,
but one that tries to use all of those same
wildly successful strategies in attempting to treat diseases that kill
(07:44):
you slowly, and that does not work. It's normal to
be a passive patient who looks for something outside of
themselves to come fix them. A pill for an ill
and magical surgery. It does work great when you break
your ankle, gits strep throat, get into a skateboarding accident,
or come down with flesh eating bacteria. But while that
(08:05):
framework is still the normal way to deal with preventable
chronic illnesses that we are told are normal parts of aging,
it is definitely not putting more years lived and good
health into our futures. It's normal to wish we didn't
have to suffer. It's normal to think that the only
way to achieve that is to not get old. It's
normal to worship and admire and long for youth, and
(08:28):
to detest and dread old age. That's what all of
society and media does. It hangs on every word a
twenty one year old athlete mutters and ignores the hard
won wisdom offered to us by the aged. It's normal
to have a vague wish for our future, and abnormal
to have a specific plan for our future. I would
(08:49):
say it's even abnormal to know exactly what you want
to be able to do as an eighty year old
or a nine year old. Most people don't have a
concrete idea specific about what you want to be able
to do in the future. Is what informs what you
work on and what you ignore today. What little preventive
medicine there is today is usually based on whether your
(09:11):
lab data is quote normal. But what is normal for
lab data is what is common among the population, not
what is optimal. You don't want to be normal. You
don't want your physiology to function the way the majority
of the populations does. If you want to be able
to do things in your nineties that most people in
(09:33):
their nineties aren't able to do. Your biology needs to
be functioning optimally, not normally. You don't want normal sixty
year old kidney and liver function when you're in your sixties.
You want average sixty year old kidney and liver function.
When you're in your late nineties. You don't want normal
insulin levels. You want optimal insulin levels. There's a difference.
(09:56):
You don't want good medical treatment for your hardened arteries.
You want to event or drastically delay athosclerosis. In the
first place. It's normal to get overwhelmed with the sheer
volume of healthy things we think we should be doing,
and to be rate ourselves for not doing them. All
abnormal to start the plan of what we're actually trying
(10:17):
to create for our future, fully understand what is statistically
most likely to prevent that from happening, and then only
work on the one action at a time that we're
reasonably confident is the highest leverage action we can take
to tip the odds in our favor. It's abnormal, but
it works. And when you ignore all the other nonsense
and focus on learning how to fall in love with
(10:39):
your highest leverage action. What's best for your health and
what's most enjoyable to do become for you the same.
It's not normal to live more as you get older,
rather than less, but with a few carefully made choices,
now it's possible. It's not normal to live in your
(10:59):
seventies and eighties without several chronic diseases, especially cardiovascular disease
like high blood pressure, plaque in your arteries, heart attacks, strokes,
et cetera. As you age, your risk of neurodegenerative diseases
like dementia also goes up, as do your risk of
cancer and mobility limitations and chronic pain. And all of
those chronic diseases are fueled by less than optimal metabolic health.
(11:25):
That means that having high insulin levels, which after a
while leads to high glucose levels, which after a while
leads to pre diabetes and then eventually to Type two
diabetes increases your risk of all of the major chronic
diseases of aging, and having good metabolic health with low
insulin levels and proper blood glucose levels decreases your risk
(11:47):
of those things. It's not normal to be physically strong
in your eighties and nineties. Especially for women. To be
able to carry things, climb stairs, and get up from
the floor in your nineties takes a lot of a
advanced preparation. You have to be very strong and have
a lot of muscle mass right now to be able
to do those things in your nineties. It's not normal
(12:10):
to age according to an intelligent plan that specifically aims
to prevent or drastically delay all of the things that
are statistically most likely to kill you. This means knowing
what is most likely to put an end to the
years you live in good health, and what exactly to
do today to prevent or drastically delay those things from happening.
(12:30):
Having a plan is something you have to do for yourself,
with the input of professionals to help you, but it
makes everything way easier and less overwhelming. No more scattered
health advice coming at you from all directions, or feeling
like you have to do a ton of different things,
or hoping that someone else, like a primary care doctor,
is doing right by you. It's not normal to get
(12:52):
what you actually need from the healthcare system. Sad but true,
because it's really a sick care system and it's pretty
great at that, which is awesome. We need that, but
if you're actually after wellness and increasing your health span,
you'll need to be more proactive and more informed than
almost everyone else. The standard of care is not for
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you act accordingly. It's not normal to know and track
the metrics that actually provide valuable data about your health span.
It takes all the drama and worry out of aging.
It's just a data game, which is pretty cool if
you think about it. It's not a popularity contest. It's
not about who has the most money. It's not even
about who has the most will power, the biggest ability
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to deny themselves pleasure, or the most supportive family that
all live for kale smoothies and two hundred mile bike rides.
There are a few key measurements that will give you
a ton of information about how likely you are to
stay in good health, and that will tell you whether
any actions you're taking are working or not working to
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keep you in good health. That's it. All you have
to do is try out something you can reasonably fit
into your current life and measure to see if it's
doing what matters to put more years lived in good
health into your future or not. It's all there is
no drama. Send me a message at Healthcourage Collective at
gmail dot com if you want a list of metrics
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that I think matter. Hey, it's not normal to be
metabolically healthy, so your mitochondria can work correctly to produce
enough energy to make you feel really good and to
keep your risk of chronic diseases low. Like we talked
about earlier, it's not normal to eat real food. That
makes me really sad, but it's true, and you can
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do a lot to improve your future by being abnormal
and eating actual food, the real food that your body
is marvelously designed to thrive on, the kind of stuff
your great grandma would have eaten. It's not normal to
understand your female hormones, how they function before menopause, what
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happens to them during perimenopause, and mentimp and the role
that that all plays in your longevity. Even most doctors
don't really get it. Hormones influence so much, and doing
the work to understand them a little better gives you
a better appreciation of how much they matter, and it
gives you a leg up on your longevity. Whatever you
decide to do about whether you want to replace them
or not, It's not normal to be able to confidently
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dismiss lots of the healthy actions you're told you need
to do. When you know exactly what you're trying to
make happen, what assets you need to accomplish it, and
the only action you're focusing on right now to move
that plan forward, you can actually make progress. We all
have a limited channel capacity, and trying to do everything
wastes our precious resources, and way worse, it makes us
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feel like we're failing ourselves. Knowing the one thing we're
working on, why it matters, and what exactly we need
to do today puts more years lived in good health
into our future. It's not normal to feel the peace
and joy of living in alignment with your highest values.
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When you teach yourself that you are capable of consistently
doing what your higher self most wants you to do,
you experience joy and freedom. Not normal to hold yourself
to a high standard and still be incredibly kind to yourself.
It's a skill that we probably all need to learn
to improve. When you can do it, you improve your
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ability to drive your life forward. Lastly, it's not normal
for the things that are best for you and the
things that are most enjoyable for you to become the same.
But with deliberate work, it is possible, and it's pretty
freaking fun. I would love to help get you there.
Jody Foster once said, normal is not something to aspire to,
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it's something to get away from, So let's do it.
I'm so glad that you don't want to be normal,
because I know that the world is a better place
when you're engaged with it and operation at your best.
Thank you so much for being awesome and for being
here today. Next week we're going to talk about magnesium.
It's estimated that around eighty percent of the American population
is magnesium deficient, so it's definitely not normal to have
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optimal levels of magnesium. Until then, don't be normal. Thank
you so much for tuning into the Health Courage Collective podcast.
I am truly honored that you have paid me the
enormous compliment of your time and attention. I would be
so grateful if you would share this podcast with someone
you know and subscribe so you never miss an episode.
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including Christina Hackett and producers disclaim responsibility for any possible
adverse events by use of information contained hearing. If you
think you have a medical problem, consult a licensed positions
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