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Speaker 1 (00:05):
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So we're still enjoying pretty decent weather. Had a phenomenal
heat wave last week that of course was damp in
just a bit literally and figuratively by the downpour on
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but we managed to survive it. With big bags of
candy surrounding us at all times, you can pretty much
survive anything. And now you get all the Halloween stuff
about ninety nine percent off, and it seems to have
gone instantly from Halloween to Christmas. And that's okay. I'm
a huge fan of the Christmas stuff. I never get
tired of it even enough to you know, when you
finally get to the last minute of Christmas planning December
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twenty fourth, and they're still blurring the Christmas music. You've
got some people, you hear them and they're very funny
on social media. They're ready to go postal by that point.
Not me, bring it on. I love the Christmas music.
It's impossible to be in a bad mood when you're
hearing Christmas music. That's the new stuff or the old stuff,
somewhere in the middle stuff. I could do without all
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of the Mariah Carey Christmas stuff. That is the only
genre of Christmas music I've kind of peared down on
to make the world a better place. Nothing against miss Mariah.
She's a wild talented young lady. I just find that
her particular talent doesn't lend itself well to Christmas music.
Just my two bits right there, you know, just putting
it out there for discussion, talk amongst yourselves. And now
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we're going to be all over the place with subject
matter again today. But a handful of people sent me
information on this. It's stuff that's in the news headlines.
And when you guys are sending me this, I'm going
to talk about it. You guys know how much I
love talking about living a fabulous life without all of
the huge numbers of pharmaceuticals out there. Some people benefit
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greatly from pharmaceuticals with regards to whatever anything going on,
any hiccups going on. They have a place in our life.
But when we're talking about alternatives to pharmaceuticals that can
do the job just as well, when we're talking about
managing high blood pressure or hypertension or whatever it is,
I am not on any pharmaceuticals right now. I don't
know a lot of people who are. Well, that's not true.
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I do know a good handful of people who are,
and they're always looking for alternatives that work just as well,
whether it's for you know, guys talk about how their
nerves feel shot once in a while. People are always
feeling like they'd like to lose a couple of pounds.
And a couple people sent me this and it finally
grabbed my eye. A lot of people are raving about,
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because you know how much I love my coffee. There's
this incredibly they're calling it healing and surprisingly slimming twist
on a Starbucks latte. So once you said Starbucks and
had that coffee avenue, I'm in. It's called Golden Milk,
and it's this drink. You look it up and it's
featured in hundreds of thousands of social media posts, and
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it's made by actually stuff that I actually have in
my house, coconut milk, which I thought was totally hippy
until I tried it. That stuff's pretty darn good. You
mix it up with these chai spices and this great
dose of something else I have in my cupboards, which
I'm so glad I can tie this all together, Tumeric.
You guys know that every weekend I'm doing something in
my crockpot, and this time of year it's usually chilly.
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It's easy. It's ground beef and all this tomato sauce
that Victor grew in the garden that I cooked up,
and then we put in a bunch of cuman turmeric
and some chili powder, some salts and pepper, very simple stuff.
Science is now proving that that ingredient. Tumoric has these
unbelievable powers attributed to it, and it started with ancient healers.
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Here's all the things that people are talking about. This
is not for me. This is from our listeners and
it's backed up by science. It eases joint pain, which
I'm sorry to say I'm starting to complain about already.
It improves diabetes. I don't have it, but I know
a lot of people who do. It stimulates brain function,
which in all seriousness, with the touch of humor around
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the edges, I could use a little bit of that.
It ends fatigue and all these other things as well.
There's this doctor I'm going to butcher the name Suhas Kishagar,
author of the Hot Belly Diet, and he's writing, you know,
whether it's turmeric in your recipes, in this golden milk,
if it's added to food, or even as a supplement,
and I have tumoric as a supplement. It delivers benefits
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quickly and especially on the scale. And they're talking about
people when they increase their tumoric intake, whether it's from
adding something to your food or taking it in supplement form,
people are shedding up to fourteen pounds in fourteen days
with tumoric while they totally revitalize their health. And it
doesn't require a pricey, fabulously expensive new pharmaceutical thing to
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add to your repertoire. And I love it for all
those reasons. So if you guys have never seen this
raw tumoric root, and I go to Walmart, I go
to regular grocery stores, this stuff is basically everywhere, so
it's going to be close to where you are. It's
similar to fresh ginger. You guys know what ginger ale
smells like. It smells a lot like that, and when
it's dried, it turns into this bright yellowy powder and
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it develops. It's a nice It's like an earthy, sweet taste.
A lot of people add it to herbal tea. I'm
not an herbal tea gal. I'm more of a coffee gal. Well,
so I add it to chili, I add it to
other things and you can't even taste it. It's just
a nice, subtle spice. Now here's the cool thing. If
you're doing this with meat like I do with the chilies,
there's a huge advantage to pairing tumoric like I put
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in my chili recipe. With black pepper and healthy fat.
Now I add black pepper and there's healthy beef fat
in all of my chili recipes, So I love this.
Both of these ingredients help your bodies to absorb about
one thousand percent more kerkcumin. You've heard all these words before.
Kirkcumin is the active compound in tumoric, and the more
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curkcumin you absorb, the more transformative the tumoric becomes. Are
you ready for this? Turmoric burns fat in every single
study out there, and thanks to all the modern day
lovely factors like stress and pollution and all the highly
processed food the best of us you know, tend to eat.
Most of us have this ongoing hidden immune response within
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our body that scientist called inflammation. We've all heard inflammation.
You want to stop inflammation, and people love their anti inflammatories.
It's all about shutting down inflammation and tumoric when you
add it, this inexpensive, fabulously accessible. I've never heard any
story of anyone being allergic to it. It's just bonus, bonus, bonus.
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Tumoric has been proven to reduce inflammation by about sixty percent,
and as a direct result, your joints feel better, people's
headaches are disappearing, and fat is released. There is a
super happy trifector right there. And when you have less
inflammation in your cells, it frees up your metabolism. That's
why a lot of us have shut down metabolisms. Stress
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increases inflammation, poor nutrition increases inflammation. Being on a lot
of pharmaceuticals oftentimes can increase inflammation. So when you start
introducing this tumoric into your dishes, your diet, sprinkled on
your food, it's reducing inflammation. In fact, this doctor talking
about recent research shows tumor compounds spiking your fat burn
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by over five hundred percent, which is divine because I
can I tell you something. I'm in my fifties now,
and when I used to diet, I could easily drop
five pounds a week in high school, whatever else. Now
it's maybe a pound a week if I'm super disciplined.
So if I can spike my fat burning by five
hundred percent with this kind of a compound, I'm totally in.
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So I'm going to start doing this. Give me your
opinion as well. If you're going to start doing this too,
I want to hear from you and Apparently that's just
the beginning fattening conditions, for lack of a better word,
caused or worsened by inflammation. And I'm talking about pre
diabetes and regular diabetes and type with thyroidism, which are
phrases you hear. You know, everybody talking about these days.
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They're all going to be helped by tumoric, especially if
you're adding it to a you know, somewhat more healthy diet.
Throw a couple of Eggland's Best eggs in there, shameless
free plug. I have Egglin's Best in my refrigerator all
the time. I love it. Start adding it to foods
like that, salmon or veggies and healthy fat. You start
adding it to these various dishes, and before you know it,
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you've added a teaspoon every day, which is pretty much
what people are recommending. In this case. Here's a real
life story. I got to get this in before the break.
This lady Bridget Davis was turned on too tumoric. This
is great. I love these stories. While looking for ways
to ease her father's arthritis, and she read such great things,
she added it to her diet too. She's a cookbook
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author and so adopting an anti inflammatory diet loaded with
turmoric tea and tumoric crackers and tumoric spiced curries. When
she was cooking, her body let go of fifty five
pounds in sixteen weeks. And this lady's close to my age.
So this is where I'm getting very excited about this.
And she's talking about how she's tried so many different diets,
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and she's generally a pretty healthy cooking person anyway. She
doesn't really indulge in a lot of horrible foods. None
of us really do. And yet by adding tumoric, that
was the one thing she did. It's inexpensive, it's available
obviously without a prescription. There's some humor right there, and
the benefits that it's helping people achieve is really quite astonishing.
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And I love this information in this magazine that was
sent to me and the author of this book that
they were talking about with tumoric, if you have any
of that going on, you want to lower some inflammation levels,
you want to lower some fat levels. You're thinking at
this point, my gosh, at this age, whether you're in
your twenties, you're one hundred and twenties, anywhere in between,
there could be a good sweet spot. If you add
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some tumoric to your diet, I'm going to start doing it.
If you want to start doing it too, let me know.
Find me online Brilliantprugalliving dot Com. From there you can
share anything. Find me on Facebook, find me everywhere. I'm
getting yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. Tony's given me the wrap
it up, so I will guys more in just a minute.
You all stay tuned not to the best of all,
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and we are back with the Christian Agopian Show. And
I've been looking so forward to our next guest because
as we celebrate World Mental Health Day this month, the
National Alliance on Mental Illness reports that are you ready
for these numbers? Guys? One in five US adults experience
mental distress each year, with one in twenty US adults
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experiencing serious mental distress each year. In addition, Nammy NAMI
National Alliance on Mental Illness is found that one in
six adolescents is going to experience a mental health condition
at any given time. And these are numbers that we
can work with. Knowledge is power, and the connections between
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mental and physical health are many. We know this and
have been unscored by the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention CDC recent statement you might have heard this Mental
and physical health are equally important components of overall health.
We know this. For example, depression at any age increases
the risk for many types of physical health problems, particularly
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long lasting conditions like diabetes, heart disease, stroke, all the
things that we want to avoid. Similarly, the presence of
chronic conditions can increase the risk for mental illness. Okay, again,
knowledge is power, and with the prevalence of mental health
issues and their strong connection to overall physical health being
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of utmost importance. Here to break it down for us
is doctor Robert Murray, Bob Murray, chief medical officer at
next Gen Healthcare, here to discuss the widespread nature of
mental illness in the US and what we can do
to combat it.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Doctor welcome, Thank you so much for having me.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
It's our pleasure. I've been looking forward to connecting with
you because we all experience stress, you know, we all
experience at tens day once in a while, sometimes we
have these peaks, these valleys. Traffic is never anybody's happy bought,
all these various things swinging around us here. Some people
and professions, by their very nature experience things even more intently,
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we think about our law enforcement officers, firefighters, you know, teachers,
all that. So if you would please break it down
for us in smaller, bite sized pieces, you know, when
does it get more serious and you know, more impactful.
Talk to us a bit about the symptoms and the
signs of what could be more clinical anxiety and depression.
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What are you seeing out there.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
It's a very good question, and many of the signs
and symptoms are not necessarily more severe or fundamentally different
than those symptoms of stress or anxiety or just feeling
a little bit down. So let's review those and then
we can go into kind of when they may have
crossed a line and need some help. But the symptoms
of stress and anxiety or depression can be physical. As
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you said, mental health and physical health are linked, and
so those physical symptoms, they might be just pain. They
might be a racing heart rate, sweating, trembling. They could
be trouble sleeping, trouble concentrating. They could be fatigue, abdominal pain.
Many many kinds of physical symptoms can actually be influenced
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or even have a cause from a mental health issue.
Mental health can also affect your mood right, It can
make you feel anxious. It can have a sense of
doom that something is really wrong or something terrible is
going to happen. It can make you feel sad. It
can make you feel hopeless or worthless, or that you're
not enjoying life. And then these things together can affect
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your life. Right, you might come across to others as
being irritable or frustrated. You might find yourself crying for
quote no reason. You could be angry, and so these
things are common. But if that it becomes your dominant mood,
or you find that those things are affecting your relationships,
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your work, your FAI, family life, your home life, your
experience with your community. That is where it's at least
worth having a conversation for maybe this is something serious
and maybe I can feel better, maybe I should look
for some help.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
It's so true, and you touched on something important there.
Because a lot of times people go into their doctor's
office and it's even the nicest doctors in the world.
You're going to clam up. You're going to clam up
a bit about talking about symptoms. Oh, I'm sure it'll pass.
What am I doing here? This is silly? How can
you have more effective conversations with your healthcare provider about
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mental health? It does seem to be the third rail.
People kind of clam up, what do we do about it?
Speaker 2 (15:37):
That is a terrific question, and I'm glad that you asked.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
So.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
I am a practicing family physician, and I can tell
you we always like it when folks bring in notes
about what they're going to talk about, because you know,
clamming up or forgetting something is an important thing that happens,
but specifically around mental health. I would want you to
do a couple of things. I want you to be
straightforward and honest with your provider. Say, you know, I
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think I might be having a problem with anxiety or depression.
I'm not sure. Remember that that person is your partner,
and just like it was a physical issue, they're going
to help you figure that out. Beforehand, go ahead and
think about and jot down some notes on your mood,
when is it happening, how often do you feel this
way or that way, any kind of physical symptoms that
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you feel may or may not be related. And then,
perhaps most importantly, think about in jot down notes on
how is this affecting your life, your family? Your friends,
your career, and with that information and having that honest
conversation with your provider, you would be surprised that person.
As a family doctor, probably half of what walks through
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my office all of our offices, are things that are
related to mental health. We're very experienced and well versed
in helping people figure it out and recognize, yes, it's
a problem, Maybe it's a problem. What treatments are available,
how effective are there, and what would be the next step?
Speaker 1 (17:04):
I love that, and the time is flying, so I
want to make sure we touch on this next subject matter,
especially because I myself am the proud owner of a wonderful,
gorgeous nineteen year old and a wonderful, gorgeous sixteen year old.
And one of the studies coming out here is talking
about how, you know, age group eighteen through twenty nine roughly,
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with all that's going on in the world, they seem
to be the demographic that is experiencing the higher percentages
of anxiety and depression. And it breaks your heart because
you know, back, you know, in the dark ages, when
I was that age, we had enough going on. But
now we've got so many other headlines that are vuying
for their attention to what do we do about that
to help address it, maybe to help stop it, help
reverse it, to help get it back on a good trend,
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and protect these most valuable resources of ours, our kids.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
Isn't that? I mean, that's so striking And I'm right
there with you. I've got two of my kids are
in that age range, and it is. It is a shame,
but it probably forty percent according to the CDC, of
US adults under thirty or having symptoms of anxiety and depression.
I don't think any of us know exactly why, but
the pandemic I'm sure had something to do with it. Right,
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It's a time in their lives where they're supposed to
be establishing and building relationships with friends and co workers,
and a lot of that was taken away from them.
And toss in the economy and maybe some social media,
and I think you have a recipe for a lot
of anxiety and depression. And you mentioned something that's important. Right,
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we may be looking back on our youth think that
it was a wonderful time and why are they feeling
this way? They should be happy. It's a common thing
to realize in mental health that you don't get to
choose how you feel. Right, there's not a reason necessarily
that you're anxious or depressed, but you still feel that way.
It's still having symptoms, it's still affecting your health. And
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that is why that conversation with your primary care provider
can be so important and really change things for you.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
Outstanding, and I knew the time fly. You've got people
listening here coast to coast, two hundred stations, so many
great people. They're listening and they're realizing now is the
time to take it to the next step. Where do
we send them to? Where should we have them?
Speaker 2 (19:10):
Look, well, start with your primary care provider, but even
before that, maybe think about going to CDC dot gov
slash mental health. And if you don't have a primary
care provider, then look for a community health center near you.
They can see you and that's a great place to start.
But do reach out because you can feel better and
treatment is effective.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Doctor, you're the best. Thank you so much for your
reassuring words. You got an open mic anytime, please join
us again, and you Ken.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
I would love to thank you so much for having me.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
And we'll be right back gang right after this.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
Not to.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
And we are back with the Christ Nagopian Show. And
you guys already know how much I love our medical
because knowledge is power. And here's some knowledge for you here, guys,
the CDC recommends hepatitis B vaccination for previously on vaccinated
adults ages nineteen to fifty nine. Okay, Beginning in nineteen
ninety one, just a few moons ago, hepatitis B vaccination
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became standard of care as part of the routine childhood
vaccination series. You know that whole long shots we got
that was a one of them in the list, was
for this. And that's why if you were born before
nineteen ninety one, hello, you're likely not vaccinated against the
HEPBE virus. Okay, So HEP B for those you've heard
the phrase, what is it exactly? It's a serious liver
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infection caused by the hepatitis B virus, and for most people,
hepatitis B just clears on its own, god bless. Approximately
forty percent of patients with chronic HEPBE virus may develop
liver cancer, cirrhosis, other liver complications. There's no way of
knowing who's going to clear the virus and who will not,
and nobody wants to take that kind of chance. Treatments
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are available, but no cure exists. So the best way
to prevent HEPBE is by being vaccinated, and that's why
the CDC is recommending previously on vaccinated adults ages nineteen
to fifty nine get caught up, and people who have
never been vaccinated. I'm going to say that even louder. Okay, Now,
the good news is that the vaccination is a highly
effective way to prevent infection against it. So I love
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these kind of segments and joining us to break down
the current status of this virus and how we can
use today's medical advances to our advantage. Pharmacist Bonnie Hugh
Callahan is here to discuss the hept BE vaccine options
and the importance of vaccination, as well as answer a
few questions for us. Doctor welcome, Thank you so much
for having me. So I've been looking so forward to
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this because on our show, we're a huge fan of prevention.
You know, we talk a lot about money, we talk
a lot about you know, projects at home. Whatever. Prevention
is a fantastic thing. It saves you money, it saves
you time. Preventative measures can save you a bit of
sanity and in this case, preventative measures can literally save
your life. Talk to us a bit about the current
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CDC recommendations for have BEE vaccinations for adults and why
it's so important. Yes, absolutely so.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
Just last year, the CDC updated its recommendation to promote
universal adult hepatitis B vaccination for all previously unvaccinated adults
ages nineteen to fifty nine. Treatment is available, but there's
no cure that exists today for hepatitis B. So the
best way to prevent hepatitis B is by being vaccinated,
which is why I'm so pleased to partner with Dynavacs
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on this important initiative to educate and encourage unvaccinated adults
to visit their pharmacy to learn more about how they
can get caught up with their hepatitis B vaccine today.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
Break it down a little bit more for us, if
you would, as to why it's so important for adults
of all ages, whether you've been vaxed before or maybe not,
why they should be vaccinated against HEPBE for.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
As hepatitis B. You know, it's it's important because it
is a serious liver infection. It's caused by the hepatitis
B virus. For many people hepatitis B, the virus itself
will clear on its own. But for those who don't
clear the virus, it puts us at risk for liver cirrhosis, cancer,
or even death, as you mentioned previously. And the thing
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is that there's no way of knowing whether our bodies
will clear the virus or not, and so that's why
it's so important to get ahead of it to prevent
infection in the first place, and that's through vaccination.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
Talk to us a bit because people, you know, there's
so much news author doctor, it's all noise, you know,
we try to turn it down, get a couple of
minutes to ourselves. Sometimes the news headlines, especially medical news headlines,
kind of get lost in the fog, and we don't
hear about some of these breakthroughs. But this head of
vaccine's been around since nineteen ninety one. Talk to us
a bit about the advances that have maybe been made
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in B vaccines. What have we had in the last
decade or so.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
Yeah, So when it comes to getting protected against hepatitis
B virus, your vaccine choice matters. There's several adult hepatitis
F vaccine options available, but only helpless OUTB gives you
the protection you need and just two doses in one month.
And I don't know about you, but given our busy schedules,
the opportunity to be protected against hepatitis B virus with
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just two doses in one month can be really beneficial
for many adults. Helpless OTB is for adults ages eighteen
and older for the prevention of hepatitis B virus. If
you've had a prior severe allergic reaction or anaphylaxis after
a prior dose, don't take helpless at B. And not
all patients may develop a response to hepless at B,
but the most common side effects just to watch out
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for are pain at the injection site so a sore arm, tiredness,
and fatigue. And of course that's not an inclusive list
of safety information, so to learn more about that, you
can go to helpless avb dot com.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
But talk to us a bit if you would. What
you're finding out there, What can happen if people are
not vaccinated against the HEBE virus of any age? Say,
you know, they didn't hear about it. They turned down
the volume, they kind of glossed it over. They had
a million other things to do. They didn't get the vaccine.
Talk to us a bit, what could happen if people
are not vaccinated against this virus.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
Yeah, so, you know, right now, two point four million
Americans are living with chronic hepatitis B, and unfortunately, many
who are infected don't even realize they have it, so
they're unknowingly spreading it to others. And if you do
get infected with the virus, you know, and your body
doesn't clear it on its own, and you're not protected
with the vaccine, then that can lead to cirrhosis, it
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can leave to liver cancer, it can lead to even death.
What's interesting you mentioned nineteen ninety one. Starting in nineteen
ninety one, the hepatitis B vaccine actually became the standard
of care for infants as part of their routine childhood
vaccination series, which means that, you know, making it made
it the first vaccine that they got right after birth,
before even leaving the hospital. But if you're born before
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nineteen ninety one, like myself, you likely have not received
the hepatitis B vaccine. And now that the CDC recommends this,
you know, versal be vaccination for all adults ages nineteen
to fifty nine, it's so important to really to for
your listeners to know that if you haven't been previously
vaccinated before, and likely if you're born before nineteen ninety one,
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that may be the case for you to really speak
with your pharmacist about protection with hepless ov B, which
is the only adult hepatitis B vaccine that gives you
protection in just two doses in one month.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
That's fantastic. There are very few things you can get
vaccinated against or be protected against with just two small shots.
That is another great validation of the great times we
live in. Where can people go You know, they're listening
to you and they're saying, you know what, thought about
getting it before, decided against it. Now I'm hearing this
great doctor talking about this, maybe it's time to do this.
Where do people go to take that next step to
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get their B vaccine? Do they go to their local
drug store? Do they talk to their doctors? What's the
best way to get them to do this?
Speaker 2 (26:49):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (26:50):
Either or so you can typically get vaccinated at your
local pharmacy or your doctor's office. And you know, I
would encourage you to visit heplss app dot com to
find a medical professional who can and ad Minister helpless
o FB and to find important safety information as well.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
Good stuff. And now I know this is probably something
that would be tough to come by, but if anybody's
going to hear these things, it's going to be you
a doctor. But do you ever hear from people who
maybe had a family history of this, or they knew
people in their family tree that had this, and now
they've got a generation that's all had this vaccine and
they're enjoying the first generation ever where they've never had
someone in their family tree with this. You're hearing any
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good success stories out there. It's tough with the vaccine
because when you don't get it and you're not being
cured from it, the story's never come out there. But
do you hear from anybody out there who's saying, I'm
really glad I did this?
Speaker 4 (27:37):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (27:37):
Yes, absolutely. I mean we touched on it earlier about
the advances that the heptat is the vaccine. But with
these vaccinations, we are now able to prevent infection in
the first place, and so we don't have to deal
with the resulting health complications that I mentioned earlier around
cyphosis and cancer and death right and there's opportunity now
to be vaccinated, and in particular with helpless OTB and
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just too in one month. So certainly there's a lot
of success stories out there through the with vaccination that
is preventing the spread of the disease.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
Brilliant, and we need more interviews like this. We really
need to get the word out. I'm thinking again, you know,
you and I may be close to the same age,
and we live in these very blessed times. I don't
know about you, but I've got these two dynamic, amazing
grandmothers and they've just they were incredible role models for me.
They've since passed, bless them. But one of the things
they talked about a lot was what things were like
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when they were growing up, right, And my grandmother who
was just this unstoppable tornado of energy and just an
incredible life story. She lost her little sister back in
the twenties from whooping cough before there was a vaccine.
And when I had my own two kids, I still
had my grandmothers around when I first when I first
brought a home from the hospital the kids, and the
first thing they said was make sure they get their vaccinations.
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You know, you and I live in this world that's
incredibly blessed. There's a vaccine for just about anything, even
the scariest things that come down on the pike, and
they're just there, so we think to ourselves, all will
always be there. We're not really at risk, you know,
not so long ago. There was a time where everybody
was at risk for some of the scariest crowd out there.
The vaccines came along, and now they're not. And here
we have another vaccine, and I just urge everybody out
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there to heed the good doctor's advice and get this
taken care of. Doctor. I knew the time would fly.
Where can our listeners go for a little more information
on this.
Speaker 3 (29:22):
Yes, I would encourage you to visit helpless apb dot
com to find out more information about how you can
get protected with helpless that be the only adult Heppetite
is the vaccine that could get to protected with just
two doses in one mind.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
Fantastic doctor, pharmacist Bonnie Callahan, you're the best. I knew
the time would fly. Thank you very much for your
time and please join us again when you ken.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
Thank you so much, appreciate your time.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
Have a great day. You bet you too, and we'll
be right back in right after this.
Speaker 4 (29:51):
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Speaker 5 (30:02):
As I just gotta learns to recall.
Speaker 4 (30:25):
I'm that sheep. Understand I'm just a cot fast person
in love my life.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
Excuse my shoes.
Speaker 5 (30:35):
They don't quite fit.
Speaker 4 (30:37):
They're specials of.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
And we are back. And now we've got we all
had fun. There's still tons of candy around the house.
Maybe you've tapped into your kids or your grandkid's dash.
Who knows. You know, what happens at home stays at home.
Maybe you have supplemented it back with all of the
ninety percent off Halloween candy. You know, your private life
is your own. But now we got we got all
the huge holidays coming up. We got Thanksgiving coming up,
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We've got Christmas and Hanika coming up. And we will
talk about financial ways to handle all those various things
coming up in an upcoming episode. But what I'm thinking
about right now is the fact that we're about to
have more family in our homes than ever. We're starting
to ratchet up a whole bunch of you know, you
got a huge to do list that comes with the
holidays coming up. And one thing, and this started to
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really grab me when people were sending me notes. It's
something that's kind of affecting our household as well. And
we're talking about we're going to start decorating the house,
and we're going to start cleaning, and we're going to
start doing all the you know, getting the rooms ready
for people who are going to be heading our way.
And one thing that happened in our house last year
when we were doing this, one of us who shall
remain unnamed, really throughout our back and it's something where
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you make a joke about it. Oh, it's funny, haha.
If you've got somebody in your house that has back pain,
those people are debilitated. They are they want to get
up and help, they want to be helpful, and you
want them to feel better. It can shut down the
activity of any household. And a lot of people have
back pain in their houses, whether it's their kids, their parents, themselves,
their spouse. So when I saw this article talking about
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again inexpensive ways to handle back pain, because by the
time you get into your thirties, forties, fifties, sixties, seventies
and beyond back pain, you just want it gone. You've
got too much of a busy to do list. You
don't have time for some crazy hokey pokey. I don't
have time to do this or that, or spend a
year and a half at a chiropractors you feel like
it doesn't do any good. Chiropractors. I'm actually a big
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fan of those, but that's a story for another day.
In short, this is the season where back pain is
going to start coming into play. If your household is
anything like ours, and if you want to steer clear
of the pain pills or the more expensive remedies. I
love this article sent to me. Here where do we
get this from? Let's see a k e klusnik. We
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have this info from them, but don't even know if
it's a man or a woman. Thank you for the info.
And if you've got pain pills that you either don't
want to be shelling out a lot of money on
them or they're just not helping you're aching back. There's
this new Harvard Medical School report that drugs like a
seed to minifin that kind of thing relieve back pain
no better than a placebo, which shocked me. So what
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is science proven to work? According to this article? Three
simple natural tips? So I love this it's inexpensive, it's
highly effective, and it's something that all of us can
do without breaking the bank. Number one they're talking about,
and again it's annoying, but it's true walking around the
block or just getting your legs active. I talked in
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an earlier segment about my I sound like such an
Oprah's when I mentioned this, But it's so effective, this
tiny trampoline that I have, just those small sized trampolines.
I've got one. I use it every day. It is divine.
I adore it. So when they're talking about walking around
the block, I would recommend jumping on one of these
as well. The simplest prescription for back pain, taking a
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twenty minute walk, just a few times a week. And
I know how crazy busy you are. I get your
notes and your emails and your texts. I understand you've
already got a to do list the size of Nebraska.
Can you add something to it? You know what I'm
telling you, Yes you can, because this is for you.
This is for you to take better care of you,
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so that you can take even better care of all
the people who rely on you. Take a couple minutes
to yourself, twenty minutes a few times a week. Honestly,
that's all I do on this little dinky trampoline, and
it works fantastically. Back pain usually caused by muscles being
tight and shortened when we're all sitting at our desk,
or we're sitting doing some work, or we're sitting doing
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work for other people, and when you walk, or in
my case, when I'm doing this jumping around on this
rebound or this little tiny trampoline, it not only stretches muscles,
it strengthens the back and the abdominal muscles. I've got
to have abdominal muscles somewhere in there. I'm convinced they're
still there somewhere, and they, in all seriousness, those back
muscles and abdominal muscles support the spine, so they're far
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less likely to seize up. So, in fact, there is
this big studied published in the journal Clinical Rehabilitation that
found walking just that short amount every other day or
so to be as effective at eliminating back pain as
some forms of inoffice physical therapy. So if you're like
me and like a gazillion other people out there who
have back pain, take twenty minutes to yourself, give yourself
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permission to take a short walk twenty minutes every other
day and you might find it helps a lot, or
you want to go with my plan and get on
your one of these little tiny trampolines. I have been
loving it. It's fantastic for that very same reason. Next up,
back pain kicks off this crazy cycle, so it triggers
the body to tense up, which I'm tensing up just
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thinking about the last time my back was out, which
in turn ratchets up the pain even more. So people
think they need a painkiller. But there's the new research
that finds that ten minutes of a simple relaxation technique inexpensive, easy, effective,
breaks the cycle and causes what they call pain scores
to plummet. So muscle relaxation and easy process in which
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you deliberately gently tense up a group of muscles as
you breathe in, and then you relax those muscles as
you breathe out. Take a couple minutes to yourself. It
eases physical tension responsible for that horrible back pain. Okay,
so look this up, Google it, YouTube it if you
want to two of those things. Taking a twenty minute
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walk every other day and then do that tense and
release now here's the next thing. This one grabbed me.
British research is revealing that anybody out there are men
and women who rubbed what they call a comfrey cream
on their backs decreased the intensity of their pain by
ninety five percent in five days, oftentimes beating out pharmaceutical drugs.
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It's a variety called trauma plant. Trauma plant. Google it.
It's so powerful that research has shown it to be
even more effective than expensive pain medications. So I love
this all right now according to this this is from
doctor Titelbaum, who advises choosing a trauma plant free of
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these alkaloids they're talking about. So google it, look up
trauma plant, find out the one that would be most
effective for you. Some now hear they're talking about there
are some of these varieties which can be toxic to
the liver. So talk to either a health food specialist,
or talk to someone at the health food store or
the nutritional supplement store, or look for it at your
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local grocery store. Google it, research it, talk to your
doctor about it first to get her or his take
on it. But I love the idea of an all
natural type of any kind of a remedy that has
proven to be ninety five percent effective within five days. Again,
that's the kind of thing that busy, hard working taking
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care of everybody around them people need to have when
their back seas is up. So think about that supplement,
the Tenson release and the walk around the block. Talk
with your doctor first, of course with each one of those.
But I love these remedies that I hear from people,
and it works when it works and it doesn't break
the bank that is working with the Capitol W I
absolutely love it, and I want to hear your ideas
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as well. Back pain stress, all the things that can
kind of come up and jump on is right as
the holiday season ratchets up, you want to have some
good go to remedies ready to go, especially if they're
not expensive, they're easy to do, and they benefit you. You, guys,
are so important to me, and that way you can
benefit the people around you all the more. Everyone's a winner. Guys.
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The time has flown, and until next time, save those
pennies and pay with cash and you all stay frugal
out there.
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So we're still enjoying pretty decent weather. Had a phenomenal
heat wave last week that of course was damp in
just a bit literally and figuratively by the downpour on
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but we managed to survive it. With big bags of
candy surrounding us at all times, you can pretty much
survive anything. And now you get all the Halloween stuff
about ninety nine percent off, and it seems to have
gone instantly from Halloween to Christmas. And that's okay. I'm
a huge fan of the Christmas stuff. I never get
tired of it even enough to you know, when you
finally get to the last minute of Christmas planning December
(01:28):
twenty fourth, and they're still blurring the Christmas music. You've
got some people, you hear them and they're very funny
on social media. They're ready to go postal by that point.
Not me, bring it on. I love the Christmas music.
It's impossible to be in a bad mood when you're
hearing Christmas music. That's the new stuff or the old stuff,
somewhere in the middle stuff. I could do without all
(01:49):
of the Mariah Carey Christmas stuff. That is the only
genre of Christmas music I've kind of peared down on
to make the world a better place. Nothing against miss Mariah.
She's a wild talented young lady. I just find that
her particular talent doesn't lend itself well to Christmas music.
Just my two bits right there, you know, just putting
it out there for discussion, talk amongst yourselves. And now
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we're going to be all over the place with subject
matter again today. But a handful of people sent me
information on this. It's stuff that's in the news headlines.
And when you guys are sending me this, I'm going
to talk about it. You guys know how much I
love talking about living a fabulous life without all of
the huge numbers of pharmaceuticals out there. Some people benefit
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greatly from pharmaceuticals with regards to whatever anything going on,
any hiccups going on. They have a place in our life.
But when we're talking about alternatives to pharmaceuticals that can
do the job just as well, when we're talking about
managing high blood pressure or hypertension or whatever it is,
I am not on any pharmaceuticals right now. I don't
know a lot of people who are. Well, that's not true.
(02:55):
I do know a good handful of people who are,
and they're always looking for alternatives that work just as well,
whether it's for you know, guys talk about how their
nerves feel shot once in a while. People are always
feeling like they'd like to lose a couple of pounds.
And a couple people sent me this and it finally
grabbed my eye. A lot of people are raving about,
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because you know how much I love my coffee. There's
this incredibly they're calling it healing and surprisingly slimming twist
on a Starbucks latte. So once you said Starbucks and
had that coffee avenue, I'm in. It's called Golden Milk,
and it's this drink. You look it up and it's
featured in hundreds of thousands of social media posts, and
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it's made by actually stuff that I actually have in
my house, coconut milk, which I thought was totally hippy
until I tried it. That stuff's pretty darn good. You
mix it up with these chai spices and this great
dose of something else I have in my cupboards, which
I'm so glad I can tie this all together, Tumeric.
You guys know that every weekend I'm doing something in
my crockpot, and this time of year it's usually chilly.
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It's easy. It's ground beef and all this tomato sauce
that Victor grew in the garden that I cooked up,
and then we put in a bunch of cuman turmeric
and some chili powder, some salts and pepper, very simple stuff.
Science is now proving that that ingredient. Tumoric has these
unbelievable powers attributed to it, and it started with ancient healers.
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Here's all the things that people are talking about. This
is not for me. This is from our listeners and
it's backed up by science. It eases joint pain, which
I'm sorry to say I'm starting to complain about already.
It improves diabetes. I don't have it, but I know
a lot of people who do. It stimulates brain function,
which in all seriousness, with the touch of humor around
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the edges, I could use a little bit of that.
It ends fatigue and all these other things as well.
There's this doctor I'm going to butcher the name Suhas Kishagar,
author of the Hot Belly Diet, and he's writing, you know,
whether it's turmeric in your recipes, in this golden milk,
if it's added to food, or even as a supplement,
and I have tumoric as a supplement. It delivers benefits
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quickly and especially on the scale. And they're talking about
people when they increase their tumoric intake, whether it's from
adding something to your food or taking it in supplement form,
people are shedding up to fourteen pounds in fourteen days
with tumoric while they totally revitalize their health. And it
doesn't require a pricey, fabulously expensive new pharmaceutical thing to
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add to your repertoire. And I love it for all
those reasons. So if you guys have never seen this
raw tumoric root, and I go to Walmart, I go
to regular grocery stores, this stuff is basically everywhere, so
it's going to be close to where you are. It's
similar to fresh ginger. You guys know what ginger ale
smells like. It smells a lot like that, and when
it's dried, it turns into this bright yellowy powder and
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it develops. It's a nice It's like an earthy, sweet taste.
A lot of people add it to herbal tea. I'm
not an herbal tea gal. I'm more of a coffee gal. Well,
so I add it to chili, I add it to
other things and you can't even taste it. It's just
a nice, subtle spice. Now here's the cool thing. If
you're doing this with meat like I do with the chilies,
there's a huge advantage to pairing tumoric like I put
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in my chili recipe. With black pepper and healthy fat.
Now I add black pepper and there's healthy beef fat
in all of my chili recipes, So I love this.
Both of these ingredients help your bodies to absorb about
one thousand percent more kerkcumin. You've heard all these words before.
Kirkcumin is the active compound in tumoric, and the more
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curkcumin you absorb, the more transformative the tumoric becomes. Are
you ready for this? Turmoric burns fat in every single
study out there, and thanks to all the modern day
lovely factors like stress and pollution and all the highly
processed food the best of us you know, tend to eat.
Most of us have this ongoing hidden immune response within
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our body that scientist called inflammation. We've all heard inflammation.
You want to stop inflammation, and people love their anti inflammatories.
It's all about shutting down inflammation and tumoric when you
add it, this inexpensive, fabulously accessible. I've never heard any
story of anyone being allergic to it. It's just bonus, bonus, bonus.
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Tumoric has been proven to reduce inflammation by about sixty percent,
and as a direct result, your joints feel better, people's
headaches are disappearing, and fat is released. There is a
super happy trifector right there. And when you have less
inflammation in your cells, it frees up your metabolism. That's
why a lot of us have shut down metabolisms. Stress
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increases inflammation, poor nutrition increases inflammation. Being on a lot
of pharmaceuticals oftentimes can increase inflammation. So when you start
introducing this tumoric into your dishes, your diet, sprinkled on
your food, it's reducing inflammation. In fact, this doctor talking
about recent research shows tumor compounds spiking your fat burn
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by over five hundred percent, which is divine because I
can I tell you something. I'm in my fifties now,
and when I used to diet, I could easily drop
five pounds a week in high school, whatever else. Now
it's maybe a pound a week if I'm super disciplined.
So if I can spike my fat burning by five
hundred percent with this kind of a compound, I'm totally in.
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So I'm going to start doing this. Give me your
opinion as well. If you're going to start doing this too,
I want to hear from you and Apparently that's just
the beginning fattening conditions, for lack of a better word,
caused or worsened by inflammation. And I'm talking about pre
diabetes and regular diabetes and type with thyroidism, which are
phrases you hear. You know, everybody talking about these days.
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They're all going to be helped by tumoric, especially if
you're adding it to a you know, somewhat more healthy diet.
Throw a couple of Eggland's Best eggs in there, shameless
free plug. I have Egglin's Best in my refrigerator all
the time. I love it. Start adding it to foods
like that, salmon or veggies and healthy fat. You start
adding it to these various dishes, and before you know it,
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you've added a teaspoon every day, which is pretty much
what people are recommending. In this case. Here's a real
life story. I got to get this in before the break.
This lady Bridget Davis was turned on too tumoric. This
is great. I love these stories. While looking for ways
to ease her father's arthritis, and she read such great things,
she added it to her diet too. She's a cookbook
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author and so adopting an anti inflammatory diet loaded with
turmoric tea and tumoric crackers and tumoric spiced curries. When
she was cooking, her body let go of fifty five
pounds in sixteen weeks. And this lady's close to my age.
So this is where I'm getting very excited about this.
And she's talking about how she's tried so many different diets,
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and she's generally a pretty healthy cooking person anyway. She
doesn't really indulge in a lot of horrible foods. None
of us really do. And yet by adding tumoric, that
was the one thing she did. It's inexpensive, it's available
obviously without a prescription. There's some humor right there, and
the benefits that it's helping people achieve is really quite astonishing.
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And I love this information in this magazine that was
sent to me and the author of this book that
they were talking about with tumoric, if you have any
of that going on, you want to lower some inflammation levels,
you want to lower some fat levels. You're thinking at
this point, my gosh, at this age, whether you're in
your twenties, you're one hundred and twenties, anywhere in between,
there could be a good sweet spot. If you add
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some tumoric to your diet, I'm going to start doing it.
If you want to start doing it too, let me know.
Find me online Brilliantprugalliving dot Com. From there you can
share anything. Find me on Facebook, find me everywhere. I'm
getting yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. Tony's given me the wrap
it up, so I will guys more in just a minute.
You all stay tuned not to the best of all,
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and we are back with the Christian Agopian Show. And
I've been looking so forward to our next guest because
as we celebrate World Mental Health Day this month, the
National Alliance on Mental Illness reports that are you ready
for these numbers? Guys? One in five US adults experience
mental distress each year, with one in twenty US adults
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experiencing serious mental distress each year. In addition, Nammy NAMI
National Alliance on Mental Illness is found that one in
six adolescents is going to experience a mental health condition
at any given time. And these are numbers that we
can work with. Knowledge is power, and the connections between
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mental and physical health are many. We know this and
have been unscored by the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention CDC recent statement you might have heard this Mental
and physical health are equally important components of overall health.
We know this. For example, depression at any age increases
the risk for many types of physical health problems, particularly
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long lasting conditions like diabetes, heart disease, stroke, all the
things that we want to avoid. Similarly, the presence of
chronic conditions can increase the risk for mental illness. Okay, again,
knowledge is power, and with the prevalence of mental health
issues and their strong connection to overall physical health being
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of utmost importance. Here to break it down for us
is doctor Robert Murray, Bob Murray, chief medical officer at
next Gen Healthcare, here to discuss the widespread nature of
mental illness in the US and what we can do
to combat it.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Doctor welcome, Thank you so much for having me.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
It's our pleasure. I've been looking forward to connecting with
you because we all experience stress, you know, we all
experience at tens day once in a while, sometimes we
have these peaks, these valleys. Traffic is never anybody's happy bought,
all these various things swinging around us here. Some people
and professions, by their very nature experience things even more intently,
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we think about our law enforcement officers, firefighters, you know, teachers,
all that. So if you would please break it down
for us in smaller, bite sized pieces, you know, when
does it get more serious and you know, more impactful.
Talk to us a bit about the symptoms and the
signs of what could be more clinical anxiety and depression.
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What are you seeing out there.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
It's a very good question, and many of the signs
and symptoms are not necessarily more severe or fundamentally different
than those symptoms of stress or anxiety or just feeling
a little bit down. So let's review those and then
we can go into kind of when they may have
crossed a line and need some help. But the symptoms
of stress and anxiety or depression can be physical. As
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you said, mental health and physical health are linked, and
so those physical symptoms, they might be just pain. They
might be a racing heart rate, sweating, trembling. They could
be trouble sleeping, trouble concentrating. They could be fatigue, abdominal pain.
Many many kinds of physical symptoms can actually be influenced
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or even have a cause from a mental health issue.
Mental health can also affect your mood right, It can
make you feel anxious. It can have a sense of
doom that something is really wrong or something terrible is
going to happen. It can make you feel sad. It
can make you feel hopeless or worthless, or that you're
not enjoying life. And then these things together can affect
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your life. Right, you might come across to others as
being irritable or frustrated. You might find yourself crying for
quote no reason. You could be angry, and so these
things are common. But if that it becomes your dominant mood,
or you find that those things are affecting your relationships,
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your work, your FAI, family life, your home life, your
experience with your community. That is where it's at least
worth having a conversation for maybe this is something serious
and maybe I can feel better, maybe I should look
for some help.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
It's so true, and you touched on something important there.
Because a lot of times people go into their doctor's
office and it's even the nicest doctors in the world.
You're going to clam up. You're going to clam up
a bit about talking about symptoms. Oh, I'm sure it'll pass.
What am I doing here? This is silly? How can
you have more effective conversations with your healthcare provider about
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mental health? It does seem to be the third rail.
People kind of clam up, what do we do about it?
Speaker 2 (15:37):
That is a terrific question, and I'm glad that you asked.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
So.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
I am a practicing family physician, and I can tell
you we always like it when folks bring in notes
about what they're going to talk about, because you know,
clamming up or forgetting something is an important thing that happens,
but specifically around mental health. I would want you to
do a couple of things. I want you to be
straightforward and honest with your provider. Say, you know, I
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think I might be having a problem with anxiety or depression.
I'm not sure. Remember that that person is your partner,
and just like it was a physical issue, they're going
to help you figure that out. Beforehand, go ahead and
think about and jot down some notes on your mood,
when is it happening, how often do you feel this
way or that way, any kind of physical symptoms that
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you feel may or may not be related. And then,
perhaps most importantly, think about in jot down notes on
how is this affecting your life, your family? Your friends,
your career, and with that information and having that honest
conversation with your provider, you would be surprised that person.
As a family doctor, probably half of what walks through
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my office all of our offices, are things that are
related to mental health. We're very experienced and well versed
in helping people figure it out and recognize, yes, it's
a problem, Maybe it's a problem. What treatments are available,
how effective are there, and what would be the next step?
Speaker 1 (17:04):
I love that, and the time is flying, so I
want to make sure we touch on this next subject matter,
especially because I myself am the proud owner of a wonderful,
gorgeous nineteen year old and a wonderful, gorgeous sixteen year old.
And one of the studies coming out here is talking
about how, you know, age group eighteen through twenty nine roughly,
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with all that's going on in the world, they seem
to be the demographic that is experiencing the higher percentages
of anxiety and depression. And it breaks your heart because
you know, back, you know, in the dark ages, when
I was that age, we had enough going on. But
now we've got so many other headlines that are vuying
for their attention to what do we do about that
to help address it, maybe to help stop it, help
reverse it, to help get it back on a good trend,
(17:46):
and protect these most valuable resources of ours, our kids.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
Isn't that? I mean, that's so striking And I'm right
there with you. I've got two of my kids are
in that age range, and it is. It is a shame,
but it probably forty percent according to the CDC, of
US adults under thirty or having symptoms of anxiety and depression.
I don't think any of us know exactly why, but
the pandemic I'm sure had something to do with it. Right,
(18:11):
It's a time in their lives where they're supposed to
be establishing and building relationships with friends and co workers,
and a lot of that was taken away from them.
And toss in the economy and maybe some social media,
and I think you have a recipe for a lot
of anxiety and depression. And you mentioned something that's important. Right,
(18:32):
we may be looking back on our youth think that
it was a wonderful time and why are they feeling
this way? They should be happy. It's a common thing
to realize in mental health that you don't get to
choose how you feel. Right, there's not a reason necessarily
that you're anxious or depressed, but you still feel that way.
It's still having symptoms, it's still affecting your health. And
(18:52):
that is why that conversation with your primary care provider
can be so important and really change things for you.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
Outstanding, and I knew the time fly. You've got people
listening here coast to coast, two hundred stations, so many
great people. They're listening and they're realizing now is the
time to take it to the next step. Where do
we send them to? Where should we have them?
Speaker 2 (19:10):
Look, well, start with your primary care provider, but even
before that, maybe think about going to CDC dot gov
slash mental health. And if you don't have a primary
care provider, then look for a community health center near you.
They can see you and that's a great place to start.
But do reach out because you can feel better and
treatment is effective.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Doctor, you're the best. Thank you so much for your
reassuring words. You got an open mic anytime, please join
us again, and you Ken.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
I would love to thank you so much for having me.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
And we'll be right back gang right after this.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
Not to.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
And we are back with the Christ Nagopian Show. And
you guys already know how much I love our medical
because knowledge is power. And here's some knowledge for you here, guys,
the CDC recommends hepatitis B vaccination for previously on vaccinated
adults ages nineteen to fifty nine. Okay, Beginning in nineteen
ninety one, just a few moons ago, hepatitis B vaccination
(20:16):
became standard of care as part of the routine childhood
vaccination series. You know that whole long shots we got
that was a one of them in the list, was
for this. And that's why if you were born before
nineteen ninety one, hello, you're likely not vaccinated against the
HEPBE virus. Okay, So HEP B for those you've heard
the phrase, what is it exactly? It's a serious liver
(20:38):
infection caused by the hepatitis B virus, and for most people,
hepatitis B just clears on its own, god bless. Approximately
forty percent of patients with chronic HEPBE virus may develop
liver cancer, cirrhosis, other liver complications. There's no way of
knowing who's going to clear the virus and who will not,
and nobody wants to take that kind of chance. Treatments
(20:59):
are available, but no cure exists. So the best way
to prevent HEPBE is by being vaccinated, and that's why
the CDC is recommending previously on vaccinated adults ages nineteen
to fifty nine get caught up, and people who have
never been vaccinated. I'm going to say that even louder. Okay, Now,
the good news is that the vaccination is a highly
effective way to prevent infection against it. So I love
(21:22):
these kind of segments and joining us to break down
the current status of this virus and how we can
use today's medical advances to our advantage. Pharmacist Bonnie Hugh
Callahan is here to discuss the hept BE vaccine options
and the importance of vaccination, as well as answer a
few questions for us. Doctor welcome, Thank you so much
for having me. So I've been looking so forward to
(21:44):
this because on our show, we're a huge fan of prevention.
You know, we talk a lot about money, we talk
a lot about you know, projects at home. Whatever. Prevention
is a fantastic thing. It saves you money, it saves
you time. Preventative measures can save you a bit of
sanity and in this case, preventative measures can literally save
your life. Talk to us a bit about the current
(22:07):
CDC recommendations for have BEE vaccinations for adults and why
it's so important. Yes, absolutely so.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
Just last year, the CDC updated its recommendation to promote
universal adult hepatitis B vaccination for all previously unvaccinated adults
ages nineteen to fifty nine. Treatment is available, but there's
no cure that exists today for hepatitis B. So the
best way to prevent hepatitis B is by being vaccinated,
which is why I'm so pleased to partner with Dynavacs
(22:34):
on this important initiative to educate and encourage unvaccinated adults
to visit their pharmacy to learn more about how they
can get caught up with their hepatitis B vaccine today.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
Break it down a little bit more for us, if
you would, as to why it's so important for adults
of all ages, whether you've been vaxed before or maybe not,
why they should be vaccinated against HEPBE for.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
As hepatitis B. You know, it's it's important because it
is a serious liver infection. It's caused by the hepatitis
B virus. For many people hepatitis B, the virus itself
will clear on its own. But for those who don't
clear the virus, it puts us at risk for liver cirrhosis, cancer,
or even death, as you mentioned previously. And the thing
(23:17):
is that there's no way of knowing whether our bodies
will clear the virus or not, and so that's why
it's so important to get ahead of it to prevent
infection in the first place, and that's through vaccination.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
Talk to us a bit because people, you know, there's
so much news author doctor, it's all noise, you know,
we try to turn it down, get a couple of
minutes to ourselves. Sometimes the news headlines, especially medical news headlines,
kind of get lost in the fog, and we don't
hear about some of these breakthroughs. But this head of
vaccine's been around since nineteen ninety one. Talk to us
a bit about the advances that have maybe been made
(23:49):
in B vaccines. What have we had in the last
decade or so.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
Yeah, So when it comes to getting protected against hepatitis
B virus, your vaccine choice matters. There's several adult hepatitis
F vaccine options available, but only helpless OUTB gives you
the protection you need and just two doses in one month.
And I don't know about you, but given our busy schedules,
the opportunity to be protected against hepatitis B virus with
(24:13):
just two doses in one month can be really beneficial
for many adults. Helpless OTB is for adults ages eighteen
and older for the prevention of hepatitis B virus. If
you've had a prior severe allergic reaction or anaphylaxis after
a prior dose, don't take helpless at B. And not
all patients may develop a response to hepless at B,
but the most common side effects just to watch out
(24:34):
for are pain at the injection site so a sore arm, tiredness,
and fatigue. And of course that's not an inclusive list
of safety information, so to learn more about that, you
can go to helpless avb dot com.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
But talk to us a bit if you would. What
you're finding out there, What can happen if people are
not vaccinated against the HEBE virus of any age? Say,
you know, they didn't hear about it. They turned down
the volume, they kind of glossed it over. They had
a million other things to do. They didn't get the vaccine.
Talk to us a bit, what could happen if people
are not vaccinated against this virus.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
Yeah, so, you know, right now, two point four million
Americans are living with chronic hepatitis B, and unfortunately, many
who are infected don't even realize they have it, so
they're unknowingly spreading it to others. And if you do
get infected with the virus, you know, and your body
doesn't clear it on its own, and you're not protected
with the vaccine, then that can lead to cirrhosis, it
(25:28):
can leave to liver cancer, it can lead to even death.
What's interesting you mentioned nineteen ninety one. Starting in nineteen
ninety one, the hepatitis B vaccine actually became the standard
of care for infants as part of their routine childhood
vaccination series, which means that, you know, making it made
it the first vaccine that they got right after birth,
before even leaving the hospital. But if you're born before
(25:51):
nineteen ninety one, like myself, you likely have not received
the hepatitis B vaccine. And now that the CDC recommends this,
you know, versal be vaccination for all adults ages nineteen
to fifty nine, it's so important to really to for
your listeners to know that if you haven't been previously
vaccinated before, and likely if you're born before nineteen ninety one,
(26:12):
that may be the case for you to really speak
with your pharmacist about protection with hepless ov B, which
is the only adult hepatitis B vaccine that gives you
protection in just two doses in one month.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
That's fantastic. There are very few things you can get
vaccinated against or be protected against with just two small shots.
That is another great validation of the great times we
live in. Where can people go You know, they're listening
to you and they're saying, you know what, thought about
getting it before, decided against it. Now I'm hearing this
great doctor talking about this, maybe it's time to do this.
Where do people go to take that next step to
(26:44):
get their B vaccine? Do they go to their local
drug store? Do they talk to their doctors? What's the
best way to get them to do this?
Speaker 2 (26:49):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (26:50):
Either or so you can typically get vaccinated at your
local pharmacy or your doctor's office. And you know, I
would encourage you to visit heplss app dot com to
find a medical professional who can and ad Minister helpless
o FB and to find important safety information as well.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
Good stuff. And now I know this is probably something
that would be tough to come by, but if anybody's
going to hear these things, it's going to be you
a doctor. But do you ever hear from people who
maybe had a family history of this, or they knew
people in their family tree that had this, and now
they've got a generation that's all had this vaccine and
they're enjoying the first generation ever where they've never had
someone in their family tree with this. You're hearing any
(27:25):
good success stories out there. It's tough with the vaccine
because when you don't get it and you're not being
cured from it, the story's never come out there. But
do you hear from anybody out there who's saying, I'm
really glad I did this?
Speaker 4 (27:37):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (27:37):
Yes, absolutely. I mean we touched on it earlier about
the advances that the heptat is the vaccine. But with
these vaccinations, we are now able to prevent infection in
the first place, and so we don't have to deal
with the resulting health complications that I mentioned earlier around
cyphosis and cancer and death right and there's opportunity now
to be vaccinated, and in particular with helpless OTB and
(27:59):
just too in one month. So certainly there's a lot
of success stories out there through the with vaccination that
is preventing the spread of the disease.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
Brilliant, and we need more interviews like this. We really
need to get the word out. I'm thinking again, you know,
you and I may be close to the same age,
and we live in these very blessed times. I don't
know about you, but I've got these two dynamic, amazing
grandmothers and they've just they were incredible role models for me.
They've since passed, bless them. But one of the things
they talked about a lot was what things were like
(28:31):
when they were growing up, right, And my grandmother who
was just this unstoppable tornado of energy and just an
incredible life story. She lost her little sister back in
the twenties from whooping cough before there was a vaccine.
And when I had my own two kids, I still
had my grandmothers around when I first when I first
brought a home from the hospital the kids, and the
first thing they said was make sure they get their vaccinations.
(28:53):
You know, you and I live in this world that's
incredibly blessed. There's a vaccine for just about anything, even
the scariest things that come down on the pike, and
they're just there, so we think to ourselves, all will
always be there. We're not really at risk, you know,
not so long ago. There was a time where everybody
was at risk for some of the scariest crowd out there.
The vaccines came along, and now they're not. And here
we have another vaccine, and I just urge everybody out
(29:14):
there to heed the good doctor's advice and get this
taken care of. Doctor. I knew the time would fly.
Where can our listeners go for a little more information
on this.
Speaker 3 (29:22):
Yes, I would encourage you to visit helpless apb dot
com to find out more information about how you can
get protected with helpless that be the only adult Heppetite
is the vaccine that could get to protected with just
two doses in one mind.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
Fantastic doctor, pharmacist Bonnie Callahan, you're the best. I knew
the time would fly. Thank you very much for your
time and please join us again when you ken.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
Thank you so much, appreciate your time.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
Have a great day. You bet you too, and we'll
be right back in right after this.
Speaker 4 (29:51):
Small not too the best of all. Circu use my hands.
Speaker 5 (30:02):
As I just gotta learns to recall.
Speaker 4 (30:25):
I'm that sheep. Understand I'm just a cot fast person
in love my life.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
Excuse my shoes.
Speaker 5 (30:35):
They don't quite fit.
Speaker 4 (30:37):
They're specials of.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
And we are back. And now we've got we all
had fun. There's still tons of candy around the house.
Maybe you've tapped into your kids or your grandkid's dash.
Who knows. You know, what happens at home stays at home.
Maybe you have supplemented it back with all of the
ninety percent off Halloween candy. You know, your private life
is your own. But now we got we got all
the huge holidays coming up. We got Thanksgiving coming up,
(31:06):
We've got Christmas and Hanika coming up. And we will
talk about financial ways to handle all those various things
coming up in an upcoming episode. But what I'm thinking
about right now is the fact that we're about to
have more family in our homes than ever. We're starting
to ratchet up a whole bunch of you know, you
got a huge to do list that comes with the
holidays coming up. And one thing, and this started to
(31:28):
really grab me when people were sending me notes. It's
something that's kind of affecting our household as well. And
we're talking about we're going to start decorating the house,
and we're going to start cleaning, and we're going to
start doing all the you know, getting the rooms ready
for people who are going to be heading our way.
And one thing that happened in our house last year
when we were doing this, one of us who shall
remain unnamed, really throughout our back and it's something where
(31:50):
you make a joke about it. Oh, it's funny, haha.
If you've got somebody in your house that has back pain,
those people are debilitated. They are they want to get
up and help, they want to be helpful, and you
want them to feel better. It can shut down the
activity of any household. And a lot of people have
back pain in their houses, whether it's their kids, their parents, themselves,
their spouse. So when I saw this article talking about
(32:13):
again inexpensive ways to handle back pain, because by the
time you get into your thirties, forties, fifties, sixties, seventies
and beyond back pain, you just want it gone. You've
got too much of a busy to do list. You
don't have time for some crazy hokey pokey. I don't
have time to do this or that, or spend a
year and a half at a chiropractors you feel like
it doesn't do any good. Chiropractors. I'm actually a big
(32:36):
fan of those, but that's a story for another day.
In short, this is the season where back pain is
going to start coming into play. If your household is
anything like ours, and if you want to steer clear
of the pain pills or the more expensive remedies. I
love this article sent to me. Here where do we
get this from? Let's see a k e klusnik. We
(32:57):
have this info from them, but don't even know if
it's a man or a woman. Thank you for the info.
And if you've got pain pills that you either don't
want to be shelling out a lot of money on
them or they're just not helping you're aching back. There's
this new Harvard Medical School report that drugs like a
seed to minifin that kind of thing relieve back pain
no better than a placebo, which shocked me. So what
(33:18):
is science proven to work? According to this article? Three
simple natural tips? So I love this it's inexpensive, it's
highly effective, and it's something that all of us can
do without breaking the bank. Number one they're talking about,
and again it's annoying, but it's true walking around the
block or just getting your legs active. I talked in
(33:40):
an earlier segment about my I sound like such an
Oprah's when I mentioned this, But it's so effective, this
tiny trampoline that I have, just those small sized trampolines.
I've got one. I use it every day. It is divine.
I adore it. So when they're talking about walking around
the block, I would recommend jumping on one of these
as well. The simplest prescription for back pain, taking a
(34:03):
twenty minute walk, just a few times a week. And
I know how crazy busy you are. I get your
notes and your emails and your texts. I understand you've
already got a to do list the size of Nebraska.
Can you add something to it? You know what I'm
telling you, Yes you can, because this is for you.
This is for you to take better care of you,
(34:24):
so that you can take even better care of all
the people who rely on you. Take a couple minutes
to yourself, twenty minutes a few times a week. Honestly,
that's all I do on this little dinky trampoline, and
it works fantastically. Back pain usually caused by muscles being
tight and shortened when we're all sitting at our desk,
or we're sitting doing some work, or we're sitting doing
(34:45):
work for other people, and when you walk, or in
my case, when I'm doing this jumping around on this
rebound or this little tiny trampoline, it not only stretches muscles,
it strengthens the back and the abdominal muscles. I've got
to have abdominal muscles somewhere in there. I'm convinced they're
still there somewhere, and they, in all seriousness, those back
muscles and abdominal muscles support the spine, so they're far
(35:08):
less likely to seize up. So, in fact, there is
this big studied published in the journal Clinical Rehabilitation that
found walking just that short amount every other day or
so to be as effective at eliminating back pain as
some forms of inoffice physical therapy. So if you're like
me and like a gazillion other people out there who
have back pain, take twenty minutes to yourself, give yourself
(35:31):
permission to take a short walk twenty minutes every other
day and you might find it helps a lot, or
you want to go with my plan and get on
your one of these little tiny trampolines. I have been
loving it. It's fantastic for that very same reason. Next up,
back pain kicks off this crazy cycle, so it triggers
the body to tense up, which I'm tensing up just
(35:52):
thinking about the last time my back was out, which
in turn ratchets up the pain even more. So people
think they need a painkiller. But there's the new research
that finds that ten minutes of a simple relaxation technique inexpensive, easy, effective,
breaks the cycle and causes what they call pain scores
to plummet. So muscle relaxation and easy process in which
(36:16):
you deliberately gently tense up a group of muscles as
you breathe in, and then you relax those muscles as
you breathe out. Take a couple minutes to yourself. It
eases physical tension responsible for that horrible back pain. Okay,
so look this up, Google it, YouTube it if you
want to two of those things. Taking a twenty minute
(36:36):
walk every other day and then do that tense and
release now here's the next thing. This one grabbed me.
British research is revealing that anybody out there are men
and women who rubbed what they call a comfrey cream
on their backs decreased the intensity of their pain by
ninety five percent in five days, oftentimes beating out pharmaceutical drugs.
(37:00):
It's a variety called trauma plant. Trauma plant. Google it.
It's so powerful that research has shown it to be
even more effective than expensive pain medications. So I love
this all right now according to this this is from
doctor Titelbaum, who advises choosing a trauma plant free of
(37:20):
these alkaloids they're talking about. So google it, look up
trauma plant, find out the one that would be most
effective for you. Some now hear they're talking about there
are some of these varieties which can be toxic to
the liver. So talk to either a health food specialist,
or talk to someone at the health food store or
the nutritional supplement store, or look for it at your
(37:41):
local grocery store. Google it, research it, talk to your
doctor about it first to get her or his take
on it. But I love the idea of an all
natural type of any kind of a remedy that has
proven to be ninety five percent effective within five days. Again,
that's the kind of thing that busy, hard working taking
(38:01):
care of everybody around them people need to have when
their back seas is up. So think about that supplement,
the Tenson release and the walk around the block. Talk
with your doctor first, of course with each one of those.
But I love these remedies that I hear from people,
and it works when it works and it doesn't break
the bank that is working with the Capitol W I
absolutely love it, and I want to hear your ideas
(38:22):
as well. Back pain stress, all the things that can
kind of come up and jump on is right as
the holiday season ratchets up, you want to have some
good go to remedies ready to go, especially if they're
not expensive, they're easy to do, and they benefit you. You, guys,
are so important to me, and that way you can
benefit the people around you all the more. Everyone's a winner. Guys.
(38:42):
The time has flown, and until next time, save those
pennies and pay with cash and you all stay frugal
out there.
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