Sjogren’s Syndrome: The Autoimmune Disease That Causes Dryness With Divya Dhawan

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slash contest. So my name is Divya Dhawan and

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I'm a certified integrative nutrition health

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coach. And I specialize in working with women

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who have Sjogren's syndrome. Sjogren's syndrome,

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not many people know what it is, although it's

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Very much present in US alone. There are 4 million

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people who are diagnosed with this syndrome every

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year. And 90 % of them are actually women. So

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I help women who have Sjogren's syndrome with

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their symptoms, which are dry eyes, dry mouth,

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joint pains, autoimmune -like symptoms. And I

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help them to go from disease to ease. And that

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is what I do. And Sjogren's syndrome, for all

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the listeners who don't know what Sjogren's syndrome

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is, it is an autoimmune condition in which the

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body's defense system starts attacking the library

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glands and all the wet glands in the body, which

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are present in the eyes, the mouth, the nose,

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even in the lungs and digestive system. And these

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are just primary symptoms. And these are also

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associated with many other symptoms, and it is

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a systemic disorder. It is also associated with

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rheumatoid arthritis. It can also be accompanied

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with lupus, fibromyalgia, which is a chronic

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fatigue syndrome, and many other autoimmune disorders

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as well, digestive issues, issues with the lungs,

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neuropathy, Raynaud syndrome, many other symptoms.

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So that is what Sjogren's syndrome is, and I

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help. And I'm really passionate about helping

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women with this condition because of my own journey

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with this condition. I was diagnosed with Sjogren's

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syndrome a couple of years ago, and it's been

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eight years now, and I'm happy to say that I'm

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in remission. And that is what fuels me to work

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with these women and help them. So I have a question.

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Is this possible? Is it possible for men to get

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this as well? It is possible, yes. 90 % of people

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who are diagnosed with Sjogren's are women, but

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the rest 10 % are men. So men do have it too,

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for sure. And what is caused by it? Is it like

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too much blue light from the computer screen,

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TV screen, et cetera, or not enough sleep? Yeah,

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sure. So all autoimmune disorders are caused

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because of one single reason, which is actually

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the intestines or the digestive system not working

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very well. And almost everyone who has autoimmune

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disorders has the condition called leaky gut,

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where the gut and blood barrier is compromised

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and because of which the immune system starts

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attacking. the toxins which enter the bloodstream

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from the guts. So that is really the main cause.

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But that can happen because of many reasons,

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which can be stress, which can be nutritional

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deficiencies. It can also be mold or chronic

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infections. And stress is also one of them. So

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there can be multiple reasons for. autoimmune

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disorders to start in any person. It can also

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be infections like some viral infections also

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trigger the autoimmune disorders. And the thing

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is, in every person, how the autoimmune condition

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manifests is different. And so there are so many

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different names of so many different autoimmune

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disorders. So how did you get into this? I know

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you said that you were dealing with it. as well

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but i mean just a first focusing on you but then

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uh then how come you were became so passionate

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about it sure yeah that's a very nice question

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because when i was able to heal myself at that

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point i did meet many other people who had autoimmune

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conditions and it almost every third or fourth

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person you meet has some autoimmune condition.

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And, you know, I started having this feeling

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that I have been able to heal myself. And then,

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so it is not something impossible. If I can do

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it, others can do it too. And, but the thing

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is everyone, you know, it's very nice when people

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have a guide or a coach to help them through

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this journey, because it can be a daunting journey.

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Healing is not. Healing your autoimmune condition

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is not so easy. And with the help of someone

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and a qualified coach who also has the experience

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in the same condition, it becomes so much more

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easier. And so I did feel that it's kind of my

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calling to help everyone who has autoimmune conditions

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to let them know that, you know, that is not

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a life sentence for them because the conventional

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medicine and the medical system only has one

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answer for all the autoimmune conditions. all

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the people who have autoimmune conditions, I'm

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sorry, that this is how it's going to be and

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we can only manage the symptoms and we cannot

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really have a cure for this. And this is a life

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sentence, really. And so that's what made me

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become a health coach. And so how does one heal

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that? Sure. Healing. is a long process. So it

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does take time. But the first step is to look

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at what we eat because from, you know, as Hippocrates

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has always, you know, we always hear what Hippocrates

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has said, let food be thy medicine. So food is

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really the medicine if taken in the right way.

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And so starting with changing your food habits

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is the first step to start your healing. You

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know, they always said, you are what you eat.

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You are what you eat, yes. I know for myself,

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I've been... I know for myself, I can't watch

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TV at night much anymore. I stopped my TV time

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around like... I can go until like, let's say

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830 ish. And then I'm, and then I'm like, okay,

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I'm done with TV or I'm done with social media.

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And then I'm calling it a night. Just because

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it just, the blue light kind of just gets to

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my eyes after a while. I wouldn't say I have

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any eye problems. It just. You know, since I

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work a lot online, my school's online because

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of COVID, I'm just like, you know, sure, why

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not? The only time when I use my technology at

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night, my computer, is that it has like a very,

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I put it on like super high blast. a blue light

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filter on my computer and it has it's like it's

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blue it's blue it's pretty much gold like gold

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light and so that doesn't bother my eyes but

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and it's really funny I just did this somebody

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on my podcast before or maybe it was when I was

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on a guest appearance and I was like why can't

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they put blue light filters And smart TVs now.

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And it's like, you think it would be some kind

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of setting in the menu of the TV? I was like,

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we have everything else on the smart TV. So I

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was like, we probably have the technology to

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do it. Yeah, yeah, I'm sure. I mean, I know how

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to put a black, blue light filter on my. phone

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in the nighttime. So I have that setting right

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after 8 .30 or 9. I switch that on if I'm on

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the phone. So actually the screen just becomes

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red and all the blue light is gone. So I'm sure

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that there must be some setting that we can use

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on the TV. I don't know that yet, but that's

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a great point you've brought up. if you ever

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find a setting like that please let me know because

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i'm i'm i've always been looking like we have

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all these smart devices and everything it's like

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why can't we invent something that's built in

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it's like we did it for our phones and computers

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the next thing i could see uh oh and you know

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gps has the night mode on it so why can't we

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have a night mode on tv come on yeah Yeah, absolutely.

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I understand. And I know there must be some hack.

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I just don't know about it. And if I do get to

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know for sure, I'm going to let you know. Because

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I'm definitely going to figure out, you're going

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to figure it out, or someone's going to figure

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it out. I'm surprised the billion -dollar companies

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haven't figured it out yet. They're so smart

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and everything, but we haven't come up with this

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technology yet. Come on. Yeah, I know. They should

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have a blue light filter as well. Because it

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really messes up with the sleep, the blue light.

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And then they have blue light filter glasses

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too. So get with the program here, guys. Google,

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So do you have any suggestions and tips for people

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to avoid this kind of disease? Yeah, I mean,

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the first thing is watch your stress levels because

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stress is really the reason for all autoimmune

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disorders. It's almost for every autoimmune disorder.

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That is what the doctor will also tell you. It

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is the stress that causes autoimmune disorders.

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And I know there's so much stress around us.

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It's not easy to do that. But having some mind

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and body practice in place, which you practice

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every single day, Really helps with managing

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the stress that we have. It's not going to take

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the stress away, but at least it will help us

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manage the stress in a better way so that it

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doesn't affect our bodies. And then starting

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with probiotics, because almost all of us are

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these days deficient in good bacteria in our

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microbiome, which help with maintaining good

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gut health. That is where I would suggest everyone

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to start. And I think that itself should help

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a lot. And for people who don't know about probiotics,

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could you list some? Even though I know what

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the probiotics are, maybe some people don't know.

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Yeah, sure. So in our bodies, more than our...

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we actually have bacteria and not just bacteria,

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in fact, many other microorganisms which contribute

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to the microbiome that we have. And they also

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help in almost every body function inside our

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bodies. And the most important body function,

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which is digestion, which regulates everything

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else in the body is also regulated by the microbiome.

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And there's a very delicate balance of good and

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bad bacteria. I would say the good guys and the

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bad guys rather than just the bacteria because

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there's so many other microorganisms. And that

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when we take the probiotics, we're actually adding

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on to the good guys inside our body, mainly the

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good bacteria, which help regulate every other

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microorganism and create that balance in our

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gut system. And so probiotics are... Really different

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forms of colony forming units of bacteria, which

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help with maintaining the gut health. And they

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are available off of Amazon. There are many supplements

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out there. But what I suggest is really taking

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real food probiotics, which means things like

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sauerkraut, kimchi, sourdough bread, even kombucha

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is very good and kefir. So kefir water or milk

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kefir also is very good. And the dairy can always

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be replaced by things like almond milk or coconut

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milk and things that don't hurt the body but

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still have the good bacteria in it. Is yogurt

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considered to be a good bacteria? Yes, yes, it

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is. Yogurt is considered good bacteria and a

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very good probiotic if you can tolerate dairy.

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You know, I'll tell you a quick story about how

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I got into eating yogurt. I used to watch a show

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called Burn Notice on USA Today Network. And

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it's about a spy who got burned and blacklisted

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and everything. But he always ate so much yogurt.

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And he always liked to say, he was pretty much

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every episode, he was eating some yogurt in the

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show. And I was like, and like pretty much his

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whole refrigerator is stocked with yogurt. And

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it's like, if I have my own house, I'm going

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to have just a refrigerator just full of yogurt.

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That's good. I mean, yogurt is definitely a very

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good source of probiotic. I'm glad that, you

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know, that show was able to inspire you to have

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yogurt. That's great. But, you know, the thing

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that you need to take care of is the store -bought

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yogurts might not be a very good choice because

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they have a lot of sugar and other chemicals

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in it, which actually defeat the purpose of probiotics.

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Because good bacteria cannot thrive in a medium

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which is full of sugar. So trying to make your

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own yogurt or at least getting plain yogurt,

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which doesn't have any sugar, might be the best

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option. The one I use for yogurt only has like

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four grams of sugar in it, but there's no added

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sugar at all, just a small amount of sugar. I

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mean, maybe it's not the best, but I mean, and

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this is not a better option. It's one of the

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better options. It's not like the, I would say

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maybe not the healthiest, but it's still something.

00:17:40.069 --> 00:17:43.970
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. I'm still searching.

00:17:46.730 --> 00:17:49.589
Kind of figure, just trying to figure out what

00:17:49.589 --> 00:17:52.970
my grocery store sells and it's not like super

00:17:52.970 --> 00:17:57.599
overpriced. Because, you know, super expensive

00:17:57.599 --> 00:18:00.859
doesn't mean super good and healthy. Absolutely

00:18:00.859 --> 00:18:06.339
not, yeah. I learned that the hard way. That's

00:18:06.339 --> 00:18:11.200
another story for another time. I would love

00:18:11.200 --> 00:18:19.420
to hear it. So for you, just out of curiosity,

00:18:19.720 --> 00:18:24.660
do you ever find yourself into... many stressful

00:18:24.660 --> 00:18:29.359
situations? Can you repeat that? I'm sorry. Do

00:18:29.359 --> 00:18:32.039
you ever find yourself in many stressful situations?

00:18:32.839 --> 00:18:35.339
Like what are some things that cause you stress?

00:18:36.980 --> 00:18:39.579
Yeah, I mean, we all have stress. Stress doesn't

00:18:39.579 --> 00:18:44.119
come selectively. It comes to everyone. We all

00:18:44.119 --> 00:18:47.059
have stress. I do have, I mean, I have kids who

00:18:47.059 --> 00:18:49.839
have grown up now, but when they were teenagers,

00:18:50.019 --> 00:18:53.819
it was stressful. And when they were young, it

00:18:53.819 --> 00:18:57.619
was even more stressful. And there are many sources

00:18:57.619 --> 00:19:00.480
of stress, actually. You know, for example, when

00:19:00.480 --> 00:19:03.059
the COVID started, I was highly stressed because

00:19:03.059 --> 00:19:05.519
I didn't know what's going on. And I was actually

00:19:05.519 --> 00:19:07.839
absorbing the collective stress that was going

00:19:07.839 --> 00:19:12.859
on in the world. And I had to really slow down

00:19:12.859 --> 00:19:16.640
and understand what is going on in my head and

00:19:16.640 --> 00:19:20.559
then, you know, calm it down. So stress is always

00:19:20.559 --> 00:19:23.819
there. You know, in everyday situations, stress

00:19:23.819 --> 00:19:27.099
comes up in some form or the other. It's how

00:19:27.099 --> 00:19:32.039
we manage it and how we work around with it that

00:19:32.039 --> 00:19:38.960
matters. Well, I know for myself, there was maybe

00:19:38.960 --> 00:19:42.680
like a week or two ago, beginning of this year,

00:19:42.859 --> 00:19:48.759
I was feeling a little extra stress. And I was

00:19:48.759 --> 00:19:51.299
stressed right around the beginning. COVID as

00:19:51.299 --> 00:19:55.960
well, because I was taking on a lot of news by

00:19:55.960 --> 00:20:00.880
all the COVID information. I was like, who's

00:20:00.880 --> 00:20:05.460
right? Who's wrong? And what's going on? Then

00:20:05.460 --> 00:20:09.319
eventually I just kind of just kind of, I wouldn't

00:20:09.319 --> 00:20:12.359
say I'm living under a rock, but I've limited

00:20:12.359 --> 00:20:17.900
my intake of COVID -19 news because I was like,

00:20:17.980 --> 00:20:21.660
I'll check maybe once a week. And that's it,

00:20:21.759 --> 00:20:26.859
because I still find it good to be informed on

00:20:26.859 --> 00:20:30.119
stuff. But then I'm like reading other stuff

00:20:30.119 --> 00:20:34.259
because there's only so much my brain can take

00:20:34.259 --> 00:20:38.839
in information. And because there's still a lot

00:20:38.839 --> 00:20:43.640
of that is unknown about COVID -19 and everything.

00:20:43.779 --> 00:20:48.639
I'm like, until they find something new. and

00:20:48.639 --> 00:20:51.579
something breaks through about it, I'm done listening

00:20:51.579 --> 00:20:55.559
at the moment. Yeah, and that's a great step

00:20:55.559 --> 00:20:59.819
because, I mean, believe it or not, all news

00:20:59.819 --> 00:21:02.380
is negative for some reason because that is what

00:21:02.380 --> 00:21:06.480
feeds the world. But, you know, especially with

00:21:06.480 --> 00:21:08.819
autoimmune conditions and for actually for everyone,

00:21:09.039 --> 00:21:12.460
there's only a limit to the kind of amount of

00:21:12.460 --> 00:21:15.460
negativity we can take in. So limiting that time

00:21:15.460 --> 00:21:18.490
definitely. Definitely helps. And I did that

00:21:18.490 --> 00:21:21.130
the same thing when this whole COVID thing started

00:21:21.130 --> 00:21:25.730
in 2020. And that helped me lower down my stress

00:21:25.730 --> 00:21:28.490
levels. So I think you're doing a good job in

00:21:28.490 --> 00:21:30.970
that. I am what you call an indie podcaster.

00:21:31.150 --> 00:21:34.470
If I run out of money, there's nobody backing

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00:22:59.740 --> 00:23:03.619
So thank you for all your support for the years,

00:23:03.819 --> 00:23:09.200
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00:23:20.829 --> 00:23:25.549
I've also been, and before we got into this podcast

00:23:25.549 --> 00:23:29.109
interview, I was telling you I was kind of sprinkling

00:23:29.109 --> 00:23:32.509
around my stuff with technology and everything.

00:23:35.529 --> 00:23:39.009
I've been putting I've been finding some all

00:23:39.009 --> 00:23:42.410
-in -one tools like I've used I'm using Notion

00:23:42.410 --> 00:23:49.009
to just help me keep track of just basically

00:23:49.009 --> 00:23:51.490
saving my everyday articles that I find like

00:23:51.490 --> 00:23:58.650
recipes and blog posts ideas podcast ideas etc

00:23:58.650 --> 00:24:02.890
in one place because you know when you have many

00:24:02.890 --> 00:24:07.299
I tell you I think I have like six or seven different

00:24:07.299 --> 00:24:11.839
email addresses. And each one comes with their

00:24:11.839 --> 00:24:15.160
own cloud storage and everything. Right. And

00:24:15.160 --> 00:24:18.220
when you have stuff all scattered all over the

00:24:18.220 --> 00:24:22.000
different cloud storages, it's like, I'm just

00:24:22.000 --> 00:24:24.339
wasting my time from going from one thing to

00:24:24.339 --> 00:24:26.779
another thing to another thing. And I was like,

00:24:26.859 --> 00:24:31.779
this is stupid. And one of my goals was to...

00:24:32.809 --> 00:24:37.210
2021 was just to go through all my email accounts

00:24:37.210 --> 00:24:42.230
uh and um and everything and put them in into

00:24:42.230 --> 00:24:46.349
an organized place where i can just okay here's

00:24:46.349 --> 00:24:49.910
my bookmarks that literally syncs across devices

00:24:49.910 --> 00:24:54.710
like in a second i save it on one device i turn

00:24:54.710 --> 00:24:57.549
around to my other computer it's already there

00:24:57.549 --> 00:24:59.670
and it's like i didn't have to wait for it to

00:24:59.670 --> 00:25:03.059
refresh it just literally i just open it up hey

00:25:03.059 --> 00:25:07.680
it's already there this is this is insane no

00:25:07.680 --> 00:25:13.319
i'm uh i don't know about it it's called notion

00:25:13.319 --> 00:25:16.460
it's like the it's it's like a it's literally

00:25:16.460 --> 00:25:21.559
a lights lifesaver for me uh because and i know

00:25:21.559 --> 00:25:24.440
someone might say something i could argue is

00:25:24.440 --> 00:25:27.900
like well when that kind of make you feel that

00:25:27.900 --> 00:25:32.250
um I'm going to make you feel very overwhelmed

00:25:32.250 --> 00:25:35.970
that stuff is all in one place. Well, if you

00:25:35.970 --> 00:25:39.190
have different pages and different groups, not

00:25:39.190 --> 00:25:43.670
necessarily. I also use this other one called

00:25:43.670 --> 00:25:46.990
a stack browser, which basically is kind of like

00:25:46.990 --> 00:25:50.109
a web browser, but I only put my most important

00:25:50.109 --> 00:25:54.869
websites I use every single day of the week.

00:25:59.230 --> 00:26:03.930
promoting my posts and podcasts all in one place

00:26:03.930 --> 00:26:08.009
because i don't find the web browser to be very

00:26:08.009 --> 00:26:12.049
productive because you could be instantly hey

00:26:12.049 --> 00:26:15.670
i'm gonna go to um let's say i don't know to

00:26:15.670 --> 00:26:20.619
to your website login let's say And then you

00:26:20.619 --> 00:26:23.339
could be thinking of some kind of, and then your

00:26:23.339 --> 00:26:26.220
mind just literally starts thinking about a YouTube

00:26:26.220 --> 00:26:28.559
video. And it's like, hey, let's get to YouTube

00:26:28.559 --> 00:26:31.059
real quick. And then you just type in YouTube

00:26:31.059 --> 00:26:35.000
and then you could either A, catch yourself and

00:26:35.000 --> 00:26:38.779
go back to the other tab that you have open,

00:26:38.859 --> 00:26:42.839
or you can continue to YouTube and waste your

00:26:42.839 --> 00:26:47.359
time on YouTube. And so I find this to be a very

00:26:47.359 --> 00:26:51.420
helpful tool because it's like, Well, I have

00:26:51.420 --> 00:26:53.319
all my stuff in one spot. I don't have to go

00:26:53.319 --> 00:26:56.240
searching on the web for each login and everything.

00:26:56.799 --> 00:26:59.279
Everything is right there. I don't have an excuse

00:26:59.279 --> 00:27:05.640
to not continue with my work. Yeah, that's definitely.

00:27:06.220 --> 00:27:08.680
I mean, getting on the web, it's very distracting.

00:27:08.859 --> 00:27:14.119
So that's a really good way to do things. I'm

00:27:14.119 --> 00:27:18.500
learning. And one more thing before. I've also

00:27:18.500 --> 00:27:25.259
been sorting through my emails. I've been getting

00:27:25.259 --> 00:27:28.759
a lot of speaking requests, particularly on different

00:27:28.759 --> 00:27:36.200
people's podcasts and convention invites. So

00:27:36.200 --> 00:27:38.839
what I've been doing, I've been putting all my

00:27:38.839 --> 00:27:44.799
shopping newsletters and some other newsletters

00:27:44.799 --> 00:27:49.460
that I get into. other tool called stoop inbox

00:27:49.460 --> 00:27:53.700
and what's kind of cool about it is is that um

00:27:53.700 --> 00:27:57.019
it it's kind of like having another email address

00:27:57.019 --> 00:28:02.000
uh well i mean it is but uh but what it what

00:28:02.000 --> 00:28:04.240
it does is it helps mask your privacy information

00:28:04.240 --> 00:28:08.980
so companies can't sell your uh information to

00:28:08.980 --> 00:28:13.519
other companies that's interesting and uh and

00:28:13.519 --> 00:28:20.359
once you unsubscribe from that list, you're totally

00:28:20.359 --> 00:28:22.640
unsubscribed. It's not like you're subscribed

00:28:22.640 --> 00:28:26.380
to 50 lists and you have to go through unsubscribe,

00:28:26.579 --> 00:28:30.119
unsubscribe, unsubscribe, unsubscribe. It's you

00:28:30.119 --> 00:28:35.400
unsubscribe. That's it. No more. And so I've

00:28:35.400 --> 00:28:38.660
been putting on my shopping ones and just all

00:28:38.660 --> 00:28:44.380
those other newsletters that the ones that most

00:28:44.380 --> 00:28:48.779
frequently offering me stuff in that tool and

00:28:48.779 --> 00:28:52.619
i don't mind newsletters it is i and i've been

00:28:52.619 --> 00:28:57.859
um saying to my family members is that it's not

00:28:57.859 --> 00:29:01.380
like that i hate newsletters it is i hate newsletters

00:29:01.380 --> 00:29:04.859
and emails in the same exact place because it's

00:29:04.859 --> 00:29:07.480
like well i just want my read my newsletters

00:29:07.480 --> 00:29:11.380
but when i'm missing when i can't find a certain

00:29:11.380 --> 00:29:15.279
link to a podcast like a Zoom link or some other

00:29:15.279 --> 00:29:18.720
tool that someone uses for their podcast. It's

00:29:18.720 --> 00:29:24.059
like, I can't find anything. My brain is cluttered.

00:29:24.059 --> 00:29:27.880
My inbox is cluttered. I don't like it. Yeah,

00:29:27.940 --> 00:29:32.160
yeah. I can totally relate to that. I know why

00:29:32.160 --> 00:29:34.119
the song is called Silent Night, because now

00:29:34.119 --> 00:29:37.619
when I don't have any emails, I'm like, I thought

00:29:37.619 --> 00:29:45.480
I was very popular. I'm happy it's clean. Now

00:29:45.480 --> 00:29:48.339
I'm not sure if it was just a bunch of clutter

00:29:48.339 --> 00:29:52.259
or I don't know. Yeah, I'll have to take a lot

00:29:52.259 --> 00:29:56.460
of notes from you for sure. So how do you manage

00:29:56.460 --> 00:30:02.319
your stress? Just out of curiosity. So the main,

00:30:02.339 --> 00:30:05.740
the first thing is to actually understand what

00:30:05.740 --> 00:30:07.920
is causing the stress, right? Because if you

00:30:07.920 --> 00:30:10.819
don't know the reason. that is causing the stress,

00:30:10.940 --> 00:30:15.000
it's almost impossible to eliminate it. And then

00:30:15.000 --> 00:30:19.339
just wrapping your head around the fact that

00:30:19.339 --> 00:30:24.640
and calming down and trying to not let the situation

00:30:24.640 --> 00:30:29.180
affect you is what I do. And then I also use

00:30:29.180 --> 00:30:32.099
a lot of mind -body practices like yoga, like

00:30:32.099 --> 00:30:37.279
meditation. And honestly, for most people doing

00:30:37.279 --> 00:30:39.839
things they love doing, It's just, you know,

00:30:39.859 --> 00:30:43.019
kind of like a meditation. So for me, gardening

00:30:43.019 --> 00:30:47.220
really helped. I love gardening. I love growing

00:30:47.220 --> 00:30:50.279
a lot of things in my backyard. So whenever I'm,

00:30:50.299 --> 00:30:53.839
you know, full of... I am what you call an indie

00:30:53.839 --> 00:30:57.539
podcaster. If I run out of money, there's nobody

00:30:57.539 --> 00:31:00.740
backing Crazy Fitness Guy. How you can support

00:31:00.740 --> 00:31:04.160
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00:31:04.160 --> 00:31:09.140
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00:31:14.019 --> 00:31:17.200
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00:31:25.940 --> 00:31:29.779
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00:31:43.230 --> 00:31:46.609
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00:31:46.970 --> 00:31:50.910
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00:31:50.910 --> 00:31:55.190
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00:32:00.849 --> 00:32:04.150
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00:32:04.150 --> 00:32:08.920
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00:32:08.920 --> 00:32:11.140
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00:32:14.980 --> 00:32:19.619
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00:32:19.619 --> 00:32:24.539
is up is $3 .99 and then $30 a year. So thank

00:32:24.539 --> 00:32:29.660
you for all your support for the years, and I'm

00:32:29.660 --> 00:32:33.140
looking forward to continue making content just

00:32:33.140 --> 00:32:36.140
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00:32:36.140 --> 00:32:39.079
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00:32:39.079 --> 00:32:43.759
and see which plan is right for you. My head

00:32:43.759 --> 00:32:46.779
is full of stress. I just try to release it by

00:32:46.779 --> 00:32:50.299
doing gardening. I love music. And so that is

00:32:50.299 --> 00:32:55.059
also one of the ways in which I remove the stress

00:32:55.059 --> 00:32:57.700
by listening to music because it just calms me

00:32:57.700 --> 00:33:00.759
down instantly. And of course, yoga and meditation

00:33:00.759 --> 00:33:03.640
are also there, which I use from time to time.

00:33:04.140 --> 00:33:10.960
And that is how I reduce my stress. Basically,

00:33:10.980 --> 00:33:13.539
anyone could literally find me every single day

00:33:13.539 --> 00:33:21.440
listening to music. Blessing some ACDC. And I'm

00:33:21.440 --> 00:33:23.380
surprised my next -door neighbor hasn't complained

00:33:23.380 --> 00:33:31.700
about my ACDC. It's not super loud, but somewhat

00:33:31.700 --> 00:33:35.829
loud. It's not like it's blasting it at night.

00:33:35.930 --> 00:33:38.970
I'm just playing it a little bit loud so I can

00:33:38.970 --> 00:33:41.609
mask my ringing in my ear when I don't wear my

00:33:41.609 --> 00:33:46.210
hearing aids. I usually wear my hearing aids,

00:33:46.269 --> 00:33:50.170
but after karate, sometimes I just like, do I

00:33:50.170 --> 00:33:52.289
feel like putting it back in when I have to go

00:33:52.289 --> 00:33:54.710
somewhere else and have to put my mask on? Because

00:33:54.710 --> 00:33:57.170
I have a bet that there's not a mask for hearing

00:33:57.170 --> 00:34:01.730
aids. Somebody needs to invent that. Not me.

00:34:04.930 --> 00:34:09.590
So before we wrap up, where can people find you?

00:34:11.170 --> 00:34:13.510
Sure, yeah. So people can find me on all the

00:34:13.510 --> 00:34:18.849
social media handles. I am present on Facebook.

00:34:18.989 --> 00:34:21.750
I'm present on Instagram. I'm also present on

00:34:21.750 --> 00:34:25.170
LinkedIn. But the best way to get in touch with

00:34:25.170 --> 00:34:29.230
me is actually going onto my website and... There's

00:34:29.230 --> 00:34:31.409
a tab called Let's Talk. So they can just hit

00:34:31.409 --> 00:34:33.130
that, get an appointment with me, and we can

00:34:33.130 --> 00:34:37.989
sit and discuss the best next steps for their

00:34:37.989 --> 00:34:40.570
healing journey and what's the best option for

00:34:40.570 --> 00:34:42.650
them. So that's the best way to get in touch

00:34:42.650 --> 00:34:46.789
with me. Also, I have a wonderful community of

00:34:46.789 --> 00:34:49.170
people who have Sjogren's on Facebook, which

00:34:49.170 --> 00:34:52.429
is a free Facebook group. And joining that also

00:34:52.429 --> 00:34:57.289
is another way of getting in touch with me. I

00:34:57.289 --> 00:35:00.030
would encourage all the listeners who think that

00:35:00.030 --> 00:35:02.469
they need help with their Sjogren's or autoimmune

00:35:02.469 --> 00:35:05.250
to get in touch with me and we can talk further

00:35:05.250 --> 00:35:10.849
about their condition. And just one more question

00:35:10.849 --> 00:35:16.570
before I let you go. How many years have you

00:35:16.570 --> 00:35:21.389
been helping people with this? I've been helping

00:35:21.389 --> 00:35:24.210
a lot of friends and I'm recently started my

00:35:24.210 --> 00:35:27.170
business. So I'm almost like eight to nine months

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into it, but I've been always helping my friends

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with different issues. And thanks for coming

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on crazy fitness guys, healthy living podcast.

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I hope you'd be willing to come back again for

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another visit. Yeah. Thank you so much. Thanks

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for having me, Jimmy. And let's stay in touch.

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