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What are schools and communities doing to bring healthy play to children?
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- Segment Number 2
- Audio File healthy_talk/1510ht4b.mp3
- Featured Speaker Rusty Keeler, Author and Designer
- Book Title Natural Playscapes: Creating Outdoor Play Environments for the Soul
- Guest Website Earth Play Design
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Guest Bio
Rusty Keeler is an author, designer, and speaker who works to inspire and collaborate with communities to create beautiful outdoor environments for children.
He has designed and built natural play spaces around the world and is the author of the book, Natural Playscapes: Creating Outdoor Play Environments for the Soul (Exchange Press: 2008).
His favorite project in the world that he helped start is the "Hands-on-Nature" ANARCHY ZONE at the Ithaca Children's Garden... a place filled with loose parts and adult playworkers where kids are free to climb trees, dig in the dirt, build forts, cook over fires and more. -
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RadioMD Presents: Healthy Talk | Original Air Date: March 5, 2015
Host: Michael Smith, MD
Anti-aging and disease prevention radio is right here on RadioMD. Here's author, blogger lecturer and national medical media personality, Dr. Michael Smith, MD with Healthy Talk.
DR MIKE: The benefits of risky play for kids. My guest is Rusty Keeler. This is the second time he's been on. I wanted him to come back and talk a little bit more about this idea of risky play. He's a designer, author, speaker. He really works to inspire and collaborate with communities to create beautiful outdoor environments and I've seen some of his videos. It does look pretty cool. He has designed and built natural play spaces around the world and is author of the book, Natural Playscapes: Creating Outdoor Play Environments for the Soul.
Rusty, welcome to Healthy Talk.
RUSTY: Thanks, Mike. Glad to be here.
DR MIKE: So, last time we were on, I don't think we were able to spend enough time with this idea of risky play and what that really means. As a matter of fact, Rusty, I had a listener who was listening to that original time you came on and they were questioning this idea of risky play because it sounded really bad to that person—that listener.
RUSTY: Okay.
DR MIKE: So, I pulled up a definition of risky play by a Dr. Sandseter. I don't know if you've heard of him. He wrote a book, apparently, about risky play and did a lot of research.
RUSTY: Okay.
DR MIKE: And, he does define it as "a thrilling and exciting activity that involves a risk of physical injury". Come on. That's just going to scare most parents today, right? I mean, what is this risky play business?
RUSTY: That's right. That's right. Well, you know, just right away the first thing I think of is climbing a tree and so many of our listeners would say, "Well, that's great. Kids should climb trees and they would have their own memories of climbing trees," and you're connecting with your body and you're making decisions and choices, but there's the risk that a branch could break or that you'd fall.
I conked my head one time falling a little bit out of a tree. Yet, it's something as simple as that. It's like the chance for children to climb trees and do that kind of risky play where they have some control over their environment and they're making choices. Maybe they're feeling like they're trusted by their parents but also that they actually have the opportunity to test their limits and their world.
DR MIKE: Isn't that really the key point with risky play about exploring boundaries and when you do that, you learn about yourself, especially when you do it in free play right? With a bunch of other kids. That helps you to develop socially. Aren't there a lot of benefits to this type of free play or what you'd call "free-range kids"? Aren't there a lot of benefits to this?
RUSTY: Absolutely. Absolutely. So, whether you're thinking about children growing up and having vacant lots and playing and making up their own games, suddenly, there this social collaboration going on and you're having social skills being built up. But then, if it's risky play and you're playing with loose parts, a lot of times, there's construction play and there's all these problem-solving skills that are built up because it's not just a piece of fixed play equipment where everything's kind of solid and there. You can't change it.
There's kind of a new movement of playgrounds where it's loose parts and kids are working together to build their own playground or build their own forts or dens. So really, you get a chance to just kind of change your own world and problem solve and be creative. Then, you kind of get this idea of flexibility. You talk about brain development and stuff and the idea is not having something that's fixed; that every day you come to the playground and it's the same every single day, but that there's this playground that you can change or children are changing or in their back yard and it's different depending on the weather.
DR MIKE: Right. Now, Rusty, please forgive me. I don't know if you sent this to me or if I just found it doing some research, because you know, I research my guests coming on. I found a video about this type of adventurous playground. I'm not sure what you're really calling it, but it looked pretty cool. I mean, there were parts of this playground where there was gardening; there were parts where they were building forts out of tires. All of the kids were very dirty. I mean, maybe some parents wouldn't like that, but it did—it looked...I guess it wasn't really a playground, it was more of an adventure time for these kids.Is that the type of playscapes you're talking about?
RUSTY: That's exactly right. Yes. Yes. So, instead of the kind of playground equipment that you might think of at a kids' school or park, these environments are just like kind of wild landscapes that are filled with loose parts. The one that's in the video is here in Ithaca, New York, and it's a place called The Hands-On Nature Anarchy Zone. It's just a place where kids can climb trees and dig in the mud and build forts and cook over fires and what makes it work, really, is that parents who have their children come there, they want that for their children. They want their children to have the opportunity to kind of use their minds and creativity and get into things. But then, there are also these trained play workers, these adult play workers that are on site, that aren't leading the play, but they're just kind of there around the edges. Just like you said, the kids are just kind of getting into it and doing their own stuff and changing their spaces.
DR MIKE: I think, and correct me if I'm wrong. I'm going to kind of speak for you just for a moment, Rusty. You're not saying that we need to do away with organized sports or organized play. We're not saying that. There are benefits to being on a team and playing baseball and what have you.
RUSTY: Yes. Yes. Yes.
DR MIKE: But, that's about all kids do today, right? I mean, they're either inside playing video games, or they're doing a very organized sport and they're missing out, maybe, on some of this type of adventurous play where they're not really challenging themselves physically. They're not, as some of the doctors talk about, exploring those boundaries. What's the problem with that, though? I mean, what if I just want my kid just to play organized sport? Is my kid going to miss out on something by not engaging in more free play?
RUSTY: Actually, yes. The idea of free play is really a chance for children just to have their own space to do what they want to do. Maybe, at first, if they're not used to it, if they're going to sports, if they're going to violin lessons and language lessons and stuff, they're used to just having a really tight schedule, but what children really need is a little bit of looseness in the schedule to kind of make their own decisions and then, if they have time and space and material, to start to have some of these adventurous play opportunities in there. So, they can kind of just take a breath and start to use their own imaginations and creativity.
DR MIKE: And, I think we both agree. We're not saying organized sports is...I mean, I actually played baseball. I learned a lot by doing that.
RUSTY: Sure.
DR MIKE: But, when I was growing up, we didn't have the video games yet. I think we had PacMan. That was like the big one that you had to go to the 7-11 and play it. We didn't have it at home or anything.
RUSTY: That's right. Yes.
DR MIKE: So, we had the organized sports, but we were also doing just a lot of this type of adventure. Now, we didn't have formal playscapes, the neighborhoods were playscapes.
RUSTY: Yes.
DR MIKE: We just went in people's back yards and did this. Funny story, Rusty. I was just recently with my sister who has some kids, 9, I think, 11, 13. They have phones now, of course. Every kid has phones and the 11-year-old has like a "to-do" list on her phone and I was thinking to myself, "I don't even have "to-do" lists. I mean, should I have "to-do" lists?" Here's an 11-year-old kid...So, I think that's what we need to maybe step back a little bit from, right?
RUSTY: Yes. To have a "to-do" list that might just say "play".
DR MIKE: Play. Right. Or, at least, put that in the "to-do" list, right?
RUSTY: Right. At least get it in there. That's right. That's right.
DR MIKE: Put the phone down and go play. So, Rusty, we only have about 40 seconds left, is there a website you would like to send my listeners to?
RUSTY: Sure. Yes. EarthPlay.net. EarthPlay.net.
DR MIKE: EarthPlay.net. Pretty simple. I'm sure your book, Natural Playscapes: Creating Outdoor Play Environments for the Soul is also on that website as well?
RUSTY: That's right. Yes.
DR MIKE: Okay. When we come back, we're going to move more into talking about kids today versus kids yesterday and I want to talk about The Anarchy Zone that you've developed.
This is Healthy Talk on RadioMD. I'm Dr. Mike. Stay well. - Length (mins) 10
- Waiver Received Yes
- Host Mike Smith, MD
What are four characteristics of an aging immune system and how can you restore a youthful immune response?
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- Segment Number 1
- Audio File healthy_talk/1510ht4a.mp3
- Organization Life Extension
- Guest Website Healthy Talk MD
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Transcription
RadioMD Presents: Healthy Talk | Original Air Date: March 5, 2015
Host: Michael Smith, MD
Healthy Talk with Dr. Michael Smith, MD. And now, here's the country doctor with the city education. Dr. Mike.
So, let's talk an immune boosting strategy for living longer. We're going to reverse what's called immunosenescence. Most of my career as a natural medicine doctor is really focusing on helping people be healthy right now; to prevent disease. But there's nothing wrong with trying to add some good years to that as well. So, working with Life Extension, I'm able to see a lot of the current research into living longer. But, I agree with you. I think it's about living healthier longer. I think that's an important point.
Conventional drugs, today, conventional approach, conventional medicine, what we call allopathic medicine, has increased longevity. People are living longer. Now, there are other reasons for that: cleaner water, running water, cleaner cities. But, the chemical prescriptions have played a role. I mean, antibiotics, for instance.
So, conventional medicine is helping us live longer, but it's going to be depressing, but go to like a general practitioner's office or a family doctor's office or an internal medicine doctor's office and just kind of look around the waiting room. What you see is, yes, you see older people—people living longer, but they don't look good. So, conventional medicine has maybe played a role in helping us live longer, but I don't necessarily think it's healthier. So, really, the focus here is, and it's my focus, it's not just about adding years, but healthy years. I mean, what's the point of living 2 or 3 more years and you can't move? You're stuck in a wheelchair. I mean, maybe some people think that's fine.
Personally, not me. That's not for me. So, I like to talk about and discuss and educate on things that you can do now that will add years to your life, but good years—years that you can now maybe take a second trip out to Europe or a 3rd trip or maybe go to China or someplace you've never been before. That's what I'm talking about. In order to do that, we need to talk more about the immune system. We talk a lot about antioxidants, which is important. We talk a lot about hormones and living longer—living healthier longer. That's important, too.
We talk about DNA, your genetics, the anti-aging genes, the sirtuins. I've talked about that several times and that's all important. But, if you don't strengthen your immune system and do things to help it function at an optimal, peak level throughout your life, a lot of those other things you're doing just aren't going to have as much of an impact as they could. So, I know that I want to talk more about the immune system. I'm going to try to make it sexy and fun as best I can, but it's hard because it's the immune system.
Well, there's this concept called immunosenescence. All that means is, an old, dying immune system. The word "senescence" just means "death" basically.
So, immunosenescence. It's just an old, dysfunctional, lack luster, not very sexy, immune system and it's one of the reasons why we eventually pass. We eventually die because our immune system is not strong. What we have found is that there are four components, or maybe I should say, four things that happen to an immune system as it gets older—immunosenescence, okay? What we need to do is, we need to reverse those four things and there are some ways to do that. I'm going to share that with you.
The four things that happen in immunosenescence, an old, aging, dying immune system, number one is you lose a group of cells called natural killer cells. These are your patrol cells. Natural killer cells are awesome. These are the types of cells you want floating around in your blood all the time. They fight cancers that develop quickly, viruses, bacteria, harmful yeast. I mean, anything that gets into your system that shouldn't be there, they're able to recognize very quickly as foreign, attack it and get rid of it. So, you want a lot of natural killer cells. Well, one of the first things that happens to an old, dying immune system is we lose those cells—the natural killer cells. That's the first thing. So, we've got to reverse that.
The second thing that happens is, we lose the production of brand new immune cells, what are called naïve cells. These are cells that are produced in the bone marrow. Some of them will mature in the bone marrow. Some will mature in the thymus.
That's where you get your B-cells, your T-cells. When they haven't been exposed to a certain foreign bacteria or something, they're called "naïve" and as we get older, we just don't make many of these brand new naïve immune cells, the bone marrow and the thymus, they just kind of pooter out a little bit.
The third thing that happens is we build up old memory cells. Now, having memory in your immune system is very powerful, right? The fact that you can remember, I mean, the whole vaccine industry is based on this concept. The fact that if I am attacked by chicken pox virus as a child, my body will develop cells—memory cells—that remember chicken pox.
So, if I get hit again, I have this robust immune response right away. I'm able to take care of it and I'm not even affected at all by it. It's amazing when you think about it. So, we want memory cells, but the problem is, some of those memory cells are never used again and they just sit there decade after decade after decade and they start causing problems. As a matter of fact, the older the memory cell gets, at some point, it's really not a memory cell any more. It's not going to respond to chicken pox anymore. That's why sometimes with vaccines, you have to get boosters, right? So, the memory cells, basically, stop being memory cells, but they're still there and they still have the ability to produce what are called "cytokines". These are pro-inflammatory proteins. I think one, in particular, we've found that old memory cells produce is interleukin 6, a very powerful inflammatory marker. So, you've got these old memory cells that really can't offer you any immune protection any more, yet they're driving inflammation which is the common denominator of all age-related disorders.
Then, the fourth thing that happens in immunosenescence is we lose what are called "helper cells" and we gain what are called suppressor cells. So, your immune system is kind of like a light-switch. Sometimes you turn it on, but once the infection is taken care of, you've got to turn it off. So, you have helper cells that turn on the switch; turn on the light; turn on the immune response, but then, you have suppressor cells that help to control it and then when you need the immune response to go away, it turns it off. You need a nice balance between helper and suppressor cells, but as we get older, we lose the ability to turn on the immune system, we lose the helper cells, but we gain a bunch of suppressor cells. So, as we get older, we have a suppressed immune system. It's compromised. So, those are the four components of immunosenescence.
Loss of natural killer cells. Now, number one, how can you reverse that? How can you get more natural killer cells? I like reishi mushroom extract. That will boost NK cell (natural killer cells). Also, I've talked about before, modified rice bran, enzymatically modified rice bran, is another great way to boost natural killer cells. So, that's one or two suggestions right there to reverse the first part of immunosenescence.
What about boosting naïve cells? Having your body make more young immune cells from the bone marrow or the thymus? There's an herb known as the ginseng of the dessert called cistanche. Taking that in an extract form has been shown to boost those naïve, brand new immune cells. So, we're going to be able to respond to brand new infections better.
What about getting rid of the old memory cells? Well, cistanche will help to get rid of those old memory cells that don't work anymore. Reishi can all play a little bit of a part in that as well. So, a nice extract of cistanche, the ginseng of the dessert, with reishi mushroom, you're going to help to boost natural killer cells; you're going to boost brand new cells and you're going to get rid of old memory cells. So, that's very helpful. Then, it also turns out that cistanche and reishi can improve that helper to suppressor ratio as well.
So, reishi, cistanche. Awesome for immune protection.
This is Healthy Talk on RadioMD. I'm Dr. Mike. Stay well. - Length (mins) 10
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- Audio File healthy_talk/1510ht3e.mp3
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RadioMD Presents: Healthy Talk | Original Air Date: March 3, 2015
Host: Michael Smith, MD
It's time for you to be a part of the show. Email or call with questions for Dr. Mike now. Email: AskDrMikeSmith@RadioMD.com or call: 877-711-5211. What are you waiting for? The doctor is in.
Once again, that's 877-711-5211. Maybe you have a question that you always wanted answered. If you haven't learned about me, I try just to be straightforward with it, you know? I don't beat around the bush with my answers. If I don't know, I'll tell you and we'll find the answer together. Maybe you have a question that might stump me. Hmm? 877-711-5211 or AskDrMikeSmith@RadioMD.com.
Alright. So, let's go on to a question about alcohol use.
"Is alcohol good for us or not? And, if so, which kind?"
I think, yes. It is good for us. It is. Alcohol itself—ethanol. ETOH. That's the chemical abbreviation. It's good for you. Yes. But, of course, there's a level of diminished returns. Alright? How often have I said, whether it's a drug, whether it's alcohol, whether it's supplements, everything has an appropriate dose and if you stay within that appropriate dose range, you get great benefit with very, very little side effect but then the minute you go out of that dose range, especially on the higher side, benefits drop, side effects go up and we all know, I think most adults in this country understand the concept of diminished returns when it comes to ethanol (alcohol).
So, what is the appropriate amount then? I've got tell you, I don't think anybody's really worked this out. The standard doctor answer that I'm supposed to give you—so, sometimes I put on my official doctor hat—"Well, a man can have 2 drinks a day and a woman 1." That's the standard answer.
Now, what kind of drinks? Well, a 12-ounce beer. Maybe I should say it this way: an average 12-ounce beer because beers can be brewed different ways and some of them can be really strong. Some of them are a little bit weak, but just a standard 12-ounce beer, a standard shot. What is it an ounce or so? I'm not sure what a standard shot is, but a standard shot glass of a spirit, whether it's a clear spirit or the darker ones. Whatever. Hard liquor. And, a 5-ounce glass of wine. They all, pretty much, assuming standard brewing techniques, they all pretty much have the same alcohol content. So, a man can have a couple beers, a couple shots, a couple glasses of wine and a woman can have 1. I know. It's not fair. That's the standard answer.
I think you have to take into account, when you're talking about dose. That's what we're talking about here just like with supplement and drugs, you've got to look at the size of the person, their metabolism. I mean, all that plays a role, so they're might be some people out there, some women, that can do 2 or 3 drinks and have that benefit and maybe some men 4 or 5. I don't know. Some not. Maybe there are some women that have a half a glass of wine and that's all they need. That's the benefit for them. Above that, they're losing the benefit and just getting drunk. So, yes. Alcohol is good. Two servings of that for men, 1 serving for women a day and that's the 12-ounce beer, the shot or the 5-ounce glass of wine. It's all the same amount of alcohol.
Be careful with the beer—especially the beer. Because some beers are brewed in a way where they concentrate the alcohol. I mean, there are some beers out there that are upwards of 10-12% alcohol. That's way above the normal standard beer which I think is around like 4% or something. Four percent alcohol which would be the same for the shot and the same for the glass of wine.
Now, with all that said, I enjoy my alcohol on occasion and I like red wine. I'm lucky. I really am lucky because red wine is really good for you, too. So, I'm not only getting the benefit of the ethanol, I'm also getting the benefit of the red, deep, dark grapes which have a lot of the stilbene compounds that I've talked about before, like resveratrol. So, out of all of that, your best bet is a 5-ounce glass of red wine or 2 or 3. No. No. That's enough. One or two.
So, there's your answer. What are the benefits of ethanol? Well, there's been, let's see, some studies showing—I'm just talking about the ethanol now, the alcohol part—benefits to the cardiovascular system. Benefit to cognition, believe it or not. At that 1 or 2 drinks a day, it actually improves cognition, mood, sleep, digestion, all that. It has been shown to be beneficial from ethanol. Nothing conclusive, but those are the benefits that we know of pretty much at this point. Just don't do too much because then you lose the benefits.
The red wine, though, is different, right? The antioxidants in red wine like resveratrol and many more benefits, sugar metabolism, maybe even weight, resting metabolic rate—how many calories you burn at rest—seem to go up with these red wine antioxidant, anti-aging genes. There are genes in your body called sirtuins that are activated by the red wine antioxidants called stilbenes like resveratrol. So, red wine takes it to a whole other level than just the ethanol. So, that is probably the best bet: red wine. Okay. Good. Watch the sugary wines. I'm not talking about the ports and stuff like that. I'm just talking about a standard dry, young, red wine. Okay? Alright.
Moving on. Next question. "I found a blog of yours titled Black is the New Green Tea." I do remember that. "Do you really think black is better than green?"
Well, no, but that wasn't what the blog was about. The blog's not about whether black is better than green, the blog is more about black should up there, should be on the forefront of our minds, just like green tea. That's all. That's what I meant.
Gosh, that was many years ago I wrote this blog. I don't remember the specifics of it, but I remember thinking that maybe black tea was going to become more popular in this country, but it really hasn't. But, black tea in other places has always been more popular. But, yes, black tea has a group of chemicals called theoflavins and there are two broad types of theoflavins and it's real simple.
There's theoflavin 1 and there's theoflavin 2 and most of the research, if I remember—don't quote me on this—but if I remember right, it's the theoflavin 1s that are really good at easing inflammation, having some cardiovascular benefit, specifically, and maybe with, good cholesterol, raising HDL.
So, no, I don't think black is better than green. I don't think green is better than black. I think they're both awesome. By the way, whether it's green, black or white tea, it all comes from the same plant. It's just white tea is the young plant, green tea is the ripe plant and then black tea is when it is picked and it is laid out and exposed to air and it becomes oxidized. I know a lot of times when we think of oxidation, we think of bad things. That's not always the case and when you go from the young tea leaf to the ripe tea leaf to the oxidized tea leaf, that's white, green black, the composition of antioxidants change. White tea probably has the most different types of antioxidants, but at the lowest levels. So, white tea is going to give you a nice array of antioxidants, but at lower levels and it's a little bit sweeter. Green tea, ultimately, is the EGCG, that's the very potent antioxidant and it's just so good for your body in so many ways. EGCG is really concentrated in the ripe green tea leaf.
You'll still get some of those other antioxidants that you get in the white tea, but it's just concentrated now in the EGCG. Then, when you oxidize it, it's the theoflavins that come up. So, that's white, green, black. It's all the same plant, just different ways to handle it and process it. No. I don't think it's any better. Personally, I like black tea better. I'm not a fan of green tea. I'm sorry. I had green tea ice cream. Does that count? That was good. But, I prefer the deeper flavor of black tea. I do enjoy a glass or two. Not every day. Maybe a glass or two a week. I should try to increase that.
Well, this is Healthy Talk on RadioMD. I'm Dr. Mike. Stay well. - Length (mins) 10
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- Host Mike Smith, MD
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- Audio File healthy_talk/1510ht3d.mp3
- Organization Life Extension
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Transcription
RadioMD Presents: Healthy Talk | Original Air Date: March 4, 2015
Host: Michael Smith, MD
RadioMD. It's time to Ask Dr. Mike. Do you have a question about your health? Dr. Mike can answer your questions. Just email: AskDrMikeSmith@RadioMD.com or call now: 877-711-5211. The lines are open.
So, the first question is about the health of the nails. It's an interesting question because I did an article a long time ago, actually, and I think it was published by Life Extension. It was more like a blog, so it was online and it had one of the largest number of shares and stuff. People are very interested in this and how hair, nails, and skin can really reflect overall health, even the oral cavity like the tongue. Even your eyes. How that can reflect what else might be going on in your body. So, here's the question:
"I have had ridges in my nails--my thumb and ring finger--for years. A friend said that I should see my doctor. Is that true?"
Well, you know, it kind of depends. I think if there is a ridge, and usually a ridge is perpendicular to your finger. That's what a ridge usually is and if it develops quickly, then, yes. I think that's something you want to check. If it's been there a long time and you don't have any other symptoms, I don't know.
I'm not sure how to answer that. It wouldn't hurt. There are some things your doctor can check, but, definitely, if it's something that develops pretty quickly and you have other symptoms, like you feel tired, constipated, or maybe you're having some hair issues, like brittle hair--not just brittle nails, but brittle hair as well—those could be signs of hypothyroidism. So that would be one thing that I would check.
So, again, if the ridges develop quickly, yes. Definitely go see your doctor and your doctor is probably going to want to do a thyroid panel and maybe check your B12 status. One thing about the thyroid panel, too. When I say "panel", I mean, panel. I think too many times conventional doctors only check something called TSH—thyroid stimulating hormone. That's not enough. TSH is just not very sensitive at picking out hypothyroidism. It's weird, the higher the TSH, the lower the thyroid production. So, the higher the TSH means hypothyroidism—low thyroid production. The problem is, is most conventional doctors allow a TSH to get up above 4 on a test and that can test too high.
I think an optimal TSH that reflects probably optimal thyroid health is probably around 1 or 2. But, I think you should do more than just a TSH. If you have ridges in your nails that develop quickly, go get a thyroid panel. That would include TSH, but also a total T4. T4 is the hormone that's actually made in the thyroid gland and then a free T3. See what happens is, the thyroid gland produces T4. That travels out to the tissues and it's converted to T3. T3 is really the active form of the hormone. So, a thyroid panel really should be looking at TSH, total T4 and a free T3.
You might also throw in there some antibodies to make sure you don't have something called "Hoshimoto's". So, maybe ask your doctor for a Hoshimoto's check and they're going to look for thyroid antibodies. Hoshimoto's is the most common cause of low thyroid in this country and it's an autoimmune disorder. So, you might want to check that as well. So, do a thyroid panel.
Also, look at your B12 level. B12 is a little bit tougher because in many cases, if you absorb B12 really well, even just eating fruits, your B12 level can shoot way up and a lot of doctors will look at that and they'll be like, "Oh, my gosh. What are you doing? How much B12 are you taking?" and it doesn't really mean you're overdoing it with a supplement or food, it just means you absorb it really well. B12 is very transient in the body. It goes up and down really quickly. On the flipside of that, some people have really low levels which might be a sign that they're not absorbing B12 really well. So, what we're really looking at in the case of ridges in the nail is that low level and you might want to consider having a B12 level checked. But, if it's high, don't worry about it. If it's low, that might be an indication that you're having ridges.
Now, you can't just take B12 if it's low because what's probably happening is B12 requires something called the "intrinsic factor". It's a protein in the gut to absorb into your bloodstream. So, a lot of people with low B12, you could do all the B12 supplements you want. You can eat all the B12 food you want, but you just don't have that intrinsic factor to absorb it. So, what you need maybe is a shot of B12 or a sublingual B12 that dissolves under your tongue. That would be better than doing a standard supplement. So, check your thyroid. Check your B12. That's definitely for acute ridges.
Now, this question though, is about this person saying they've had ridges in the nails for years. So, it wouldn't hurt, maybe, to check these things so, maybe I'm going to change my answer. Yes. If you get ridges in the nail, whether acute or not, yes. Just go get a thyroid panel. Check your B12. Try to hydrate the cuticles with essential oils. That can help a little bit. If that helps, without doing anything else, then it's probably not your thyroid or not B12, but why not just go get a thyroid panel and B12 check?
Okay. So, yes. I changed my answer. So, the question is, "Should I see my doctor?" Yes. If you've got ridges in your nails. Go see your doctor and have your doctor look at a thyroid pane. and a B12 level and then try some essential oils.
Okay. See, even doctors are allowed to change their mind right in the middle of an answer. How's that?
Okay. We're going to go to a question about acetaminophen. Acetaminophen is an anti-pain, anti-inflammatory. The most common brand name—I'm going to say it. It's okay.—is Tylenol. Just so everybody knows what I'm talking about. So, acetaminophen, the most common brand is Tylenol.
So, the question is: "New research said the dangers of acetaminophen are 'underestimated'. That concerns me because I use it and give it to my kids. Should I stop it?"
Yes. So, there was a report at Life Extension, as the senior scientist, I have the fortunate benefit of seeing a lot of current news stories—health news stories. You know, we produce a daily newsletter and one of my jobs here is to approve the content that's used in that newsletter. I don't think it's daily any more. I think we went to weekly.
So, I'm constantly receiving from the writer of the newsletter, whose name is Dana Dye. She's been with Life Extension for like 30 years. She sends me all this, almost on a daily basis, like, "Here's some ideas. Here's some things I want to write about," and I actually saw this. I saw this, I guess I want to say a couple of days ago, where now a lot of doctors are concerned that we're not teaching people enough about the dangers of acetaminophen. The real danger to this drug is the liver.
What happens is acetaminophen can deplete an important antioxidant for the liver called glutathione. And when the liver loses glutathione, that's really bad because that one antioxidant, glutathione, it's an intrinsic antioxidant. Your body makes it. It's one of the most potent antioxidants known in the human body. It's pretty much used by the liver and when the liver doesn't have any, the liver becomes more prone to damage from all the toxins that it's trying to detoxify. So, glutathione is incredibly important to the liver. Acetaminophen knocks out glutathione levels. There's the problem.
Now, it's all about dose, though, and that's the answer to this question. "Should I stop it?" That's what she's saying. No, I don't think you have to stop it. I just think you have to be aware of how much you're using and here's the problem: acetaminophen is in so many other products. You might get Tylenol that's just pure acetaminophen and then you also get an anti-fever or a cold product that also has some acetaminophen in it that you don't even know about, that you're not even reading the label.
So, it's just really important when it comes to these over the counter drugs, you've got to look at the label and make sure you stick to the suggested dosing of acetaminophen. Don't be mixing it from other products. That's the key thing. And, take some glutathione. That would help.
This is Healthy Talk on RadioMD. I'm Dr. Mike. Stay well. - Length (mins) 10
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- Host Mike Smith, MD
Even though you may be stuck at work, there is a way to get in a small (yet effective) workout.
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- Audio File healthy_talk/1510ht3c.mp3
- Featured Speaker Kim Dolan Leto, Fitness Expert
- Book Title 10 Steps to your F.I.T: Faith Inspired Transformation
- Guest Website Kim Dolan Leto
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Guest Bio
Kim Dolan Leto has been called one of the most photographed models in history, graving the covers of top publications like Fitness, Fitness Life, Oxygen, and more.
A fitness expert and speaker with a passion for leading women to experience faith-inspired transformations that affect their physical, mental and spiritual wellness, she recently released 10 Steps to your F.I.T: Faith Inspired Transformation (Jan 1, 2015).
She is the director of family health and wellness for the International Sports Sciences Association (ISSA), holds a degree in business and is a certified fitness trainer and nutrition specialist.
Kim is devoted to Christ and desires to make His name famous in the world of fitness. She resides in Scottsdale, Ariz., with her husband and their beautiful children. - Length (mins) 10
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- Host Mike Smith, MD
Even if you've never been someone who has loved exercise, it's never too late to start.
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- Audio File healthy_talk/1510ht3b.mp3
- Featured Speaker Kim Dolan Leto, Fitness Expert
- Book Title 10 Steps to your F.I.T: Faith Inspired Transformation
- Guest Website Kim Dolan Leto
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Guest Bio
Kim Dolan Leto has been called one of the most photographed models in history, gracing the covers of top publications like Fitness, Fitness Life, Oxygen, and more.
A fitness expert and speaker with a passion for leading women to experience faith-inspired transformations that affect their physical, mental and spiritual wellness, she recently released 10 Steps to your F.I.T: Faith Inspired Transformation (Jan 1, 2015).
She is the director of family health and wellness for the International Sports Sciences Association (ISSA), holds a degree in business and is a certified fitness trainer and nutrition specialist. Kim is devoted to Christ and desires to make His name famous in the world of fitness.
She resides in Scottsdale, Ariz., with her husband and their beautiful children. - Length (mins) 10
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- Host Mike Smith, MD
Should you consider taking a daily multivitamin?
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- Audio File healthy_talk/1510ht3a.mp3
- Organization Life Extension
- Guest Website Healthy Talk MD
- Length (mins) 10
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- Host Mike Smith, MD
There's never a more important time to be in optimal health than prior to conception and during pregnancy.
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- Segment Number 5
- Audio File naturally_savvy/1510ns3e.mp3
- Featured Speaker Rea Frey, Author
- Book Title Detox Before You're Expecting: A Cleansing Program to Prepare Your Body for Pregnancy
- Guest Website Rea Frey
- Guest Twitter Account @nashfitfam
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Guest Bio
Rea Frey is an award-winning author, nutrition specialist, and International Sports Sciences Association certified trainer. She is the author of Detox Before You’re Expecting: A Cleansing Program to Prepare Your Body for Pregnancy, Power Vegan: Plant-Fueled Nutrition for Maximum Health and Fitness and The Cheat Sheet: A Clue-by-Clue Guide to Finding Out If He's Unfaithful. Her work has been featured in Oxygen, Fitness, Ladies’ Home Journal, and Whole Living. She lives in Nashville with her husband and daughter.
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RadioMD Presents: Naturally Savvy | Original Air Date: March 4, 2015
Hosts: Andrea Donsky, RHN & Lisa Davis
Guest: Rea Frey
Whether you are new to the living healthy lifestyle or a healthy living veteran, this is the place for the honest answers to your questions. Naturally Savvy with registered holistic nutritionist Andrea Donsky and health journalist, Lisa Davis on RadioMD.com.
LISA: Hi. I’m Lisa Davis. So, glad you’re listening to Naturally Savvy on RadioMD. Andrea is off today. We’ve all talk about detox and heard about detoxing, but what about detoxing before you’re expecting?
Well, Rea Frey joins us. She is the author of Detox Before You’re Expecting: A Cleansing Program to Prepare Your Body for Pregnancy.
Hello, Rea. Welcome back.
REA: Thank you so much. Nice to be here.
LISA: It’s so nice to have you on. When our show first came on, you came on to talk about Power Vegan and Plant Fuel Nutrition for Maximum Health and Fitness.
REA: I did.
LISA: And now, you’re here to talk about detoxing before expecting. I know that you like to use whole food detoxing. Jump right into this and tell us how if you’re trying to get pregnant; what if you’re already are pregnant. So, I guess that’s not before, right? But, what do you want to do for both situations?
REA: Yes. So, detoxing is not a new concept. It’s been around for quite some time, but I find that a lot of the detoxes that are out there with fasting, using the herbal cleanses, the juice cleanses, they’re not really sustainable and they’re not safe. So, I really wanted to kind of devise a plan for people who could do this kind of year round and do it in a very safe way using whole, unprocessed foods. There’s never a more important time to be at the optimal level of health than before conception. I think, a lot of times, we just kind of use pregnancy as this time to eat whatever we want and to kind of gain weight and, of course, you’re going to gain weight, but you want it to be the right kind of weight. You want to go into pregnancy at the absolute best level of health that you can get and cleansing the body prior to that is one of the greatest things that you can do.
LISA: You know, I totally agree with what you’re saying about women. Kind of giving them a pass, in a way.
REA: Yes.
LISA: “Oh, I have a craving. I have to eat 4 chocolate cakes,” and so, you know, I’m not saying you have to be completely strict, but it’s not like a free for all, right?
REA: It’s not a free for all. Yes.
LISA: So, you definitely want to take care of your body.
REA: Absolutely.
LISA: And, I know that you write about something called toggling calories. Am I saying that right? Toggling?
REA: That is. That’s right. Yes. That is right.
LISA: What does that mean?
REA: So, a really cool way to kind of reset your metabolism and kind of jumpstart your metabolism and cleanse naturally is this idea of toggling calories. So, not everyone wants to count calories. I’m not really a calorie counter, but if you take a little bit of time to do this, it can absolutely change your life and change your body. So, what you have to do is basically find your baseline caloric intake which, all that means is, the number of calories that you’re ingesting where you don’t gain weight and you don’t lose weight. A lot of us are probably there right now. I give a way, in my new book, to figure this out. You can get your lab work done and do it that way, or there’s a cool calculation where you can find out what that is. But, say your baseline is 1800 calories and this is the calories that you consume where you won’t gain weight and you won’t lose weight. All you’re going to do is reduce calories by 25% for 2 or 3 days and that’s it. You can do this every 3 weeks and then, you go back up to that 1800 calories. By reducing it by just 2 or 3 days, you’re not adapting to that new number. So, what happens when we do a diet, right? We go down to that 1200 calories or 1300 calories or 1500 calories even and we stay there for a long period of time. So, our bodies naturally adapt to that lower number. So, any time we’re going out to eat and we eat 1800 calories or 2000 calories a day, then we’re in a surplus and we’re going to gain weight. That’s why diets are not effective and they don’t work, but when we toggle calories and we only reduce those calories for 2 or 3 days, we’re just jumpstarting the metabolism. We go right back up to where we’re comfortable with the calories and we haven’t adjusted to that new number. So, we can kind of shed weight, shed toxins without it being dangerous and it’s just a really, really cool way to kind of jump start that metabolism every 3 or 4 weeks.
LISA: Now, these calories that you’re toggling, you want to be doing the whole food detox during it or is this just when you’re back to your regular healthier eating? Give us a little bit.
REA: Yes, you can do it, actually before you do detox, like right before you do detox. You can actually do it during the detox, if you want or after. It’s a very safe thing to do just, obviously, you don’t want to do it while you’re pregnant or nursing, but other than that, it’s really safe to do at any point.
LISA: Alright. So, take us through the detox.
REA: Sure. So, in the book on this detox before you’re expecting, I have 3 different levels of detox. I think that’s really important because we’re not the one size fits all with the way that we eat or our food sensitivities, so I have a beginner detox for people who really just eat fast food; they drink sodas; they just don’t really know what healthy food is. There’s an intermediate detox for people who eat healthy about 50% of the time; and then, there’s this super advanced detox for people who eat incredibly well, but still need a little bit of help. So, each program has a different set of criteria, different rules to follow, and different food suggestions for them and they’re each for different lengths of time, so you can really kind of pick and choose where you want to be, but you are using all whole, unprocessed foods. It’s mostly plant-based for the beginner detox. A lot of people are not going to give up meat which is completely fine, but there are just really good suggestions for healthy swaps along the way.
LISA: Oh, great. Share some of those swaps with us. For example, I am very much Paleo, so I’ll have a ginormous salad with tons of vegetables, an avocado and olive oil and then I might have a little grass-fed beef on the side and maybe a little bit of a yam, so I am, you know, very vegetable focused but I do like my meat as long as it’s grass-fed. But, I know it’s still meat, but anyway, it’s all good.
REA: Yes and, again, meat, as long as you know where it’s coming from.
LISA: Sure.
REA: The thing with Paleo what’s kind of happened is, the Paleo diet is actually based on a moderate protein consumption. It’s not this crazy high protein and I feel like we’ve really gotten out of control with it and that’s what we’re focusing on. The focus should really be more on kinds of vegetables and things like that. But with Paleo, or anything when you’re excluding whole food groups, you can still kind of miss out on some important nutrients, so it’s really good to vary the way that you eat. That’s something that I talk about as well. We reach for the same 5-10 foods on a consistent basis and it’s very, very important to change up the way that you eat. So, if you’re eating grass-fed beef, for instance, maybe try some fish. If you’re eating kale every single day, let’s try some Swiss chard. You’ve got to change it up because our bodies can actually become allergic to the foods that we’re eating even if they’re really healthy foods. So, that’s just very, very important.
LISA: Now, what about people who are not just sensitive to gluten, but maybe whole grains? They just don’t agree with them for whatever reason.
REA: Don’t eat them. Yes, don’t.
LISA: Okay. But, they are part of your detox, correct?
REA: Well, not all of them.
LISA: Brown rice or quinoa. Not all of them? Okay.
REA: That’s suggested for people who can absorb and digest grains. You know, I do always suggest to soak and sprout grains whenever you can because it’s the phytate selectins in certain foods. Those are what really messes with people and the nuts as well. So, if you can soak and sprout your nut seeds or grains, that really helps a lot of the time, but really looking for things…You know, if you’re not going to do grains, if you can do root veggies, if you can do sweet potatoes or things that you’re still getting a little bit of those complex carbs in there because our bodies do need that energy. We can’t just be all meat and all veggies all the time. We need a little bit of variation.
LISA: No, I agree. I make a smoothie that I love with a little bit of mango and a lot of like 5 different types of grains. I actually learned about something new: tatsoi. T-A-T-S-O-I. Do you know what that is?
REA: Oh, I don’t actually.
LISA: I’ve got this like green blend. Oh, anyway, and then I put an avocado in there and an orange and it’s delicious. We’re already out of time, Rea. This goes so fast.
REA: Oh, my gosh!
LISA: Tell us how…I know…Tell us how we can learn more about you.
REA: Sure. You can go to my website. It’s ReaFrey.com. I kind of have updates, my books are on there, where they’re sold everywhere. Yes. And that’s kind of the easiest way to get in contact.
LISA: Well, you’re a fabulous guest.
REA: Oh, thank you so much.
LISA: You always have such good information. I’m so glad you came back. I want to thank you.
Thanks everyone for listening. Like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter @YourRadioMD and @NaturallySavvy. I hope you all have a great day and stay well. - Length (mins) 10
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Some people give you energy, some people zap your energy.
Additional Info
- Segment Number 4
- Audio File naturally_savvy/1510ns3d.mp3
- Featured Speaker Cornell Thomas, Author & Motivational Speaker
- Book Title The Power of Me
- Guest Website Power of Positivity
- Guest Twitter Account @cornellthomas
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Guest Bio
Cornell Thomas is a basketball coach, trainer, life coach, motivational speaker, and author. Through his program Crossroads Basketball he has helped hundred of kids in the last nine years reach their goals. For the last four years Cornell has been inspiring and motivating people of all ages through his own motivational quotes and blog site at www.powerofpositivity.net
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RadioMD Presents: Naturally Savvy | Original Air Date: March 4, 2015
Hosts: Andrea Donsky, RHN & Lisa Davis
Guest: Cornell Thomas
Your organic search is over. Here’s Naturally Savvy with health experts Andrea Donsky and health journalist, Lisa Davis.
LISA: Hi. I’m Lisa Davis. Andrea is off today. You know, some people give you energy. Some people zap your energy. Today, we’re going to talk about how to handle energy vampires with our fabulous friend, Cornell Thomas.
He’s a basketball coach, trainer, life coach, motivational speaker and author and he joins us now.
Alright, Cornell, let’s jump in and what is an energy vampire?
CORNELL: An energy vampire. We use this term a lot in sports. It’s someone that just sucks the life out of the team, so when I go and speak I talk about energy vampires in terms of people that we have in our lives that just kind of suck the life out of our day. You know, like we all have that person who is just a drama bomb. You know, everything is going good and you’re like, wanting to talk about your new promotion and as soon as you talk to them, there’s like this big, dark cloud over therm. It’s just like, “Well, this is what happened today and this is terrible,” and “this sucks” and it just kind of takes all your energy away. So, I try to stay away from energy vampires. I don’t have too many of them in my life and I think that’s just good advice for everybody. Try to be aware because no matter how good your day is going, they can suck the life out of it.
LISA: Now, what if you love someone who’s an energy vampire and you care about them and you want to approach this with them and say, “Hey, I really care about you, but I feel like sometimes your energy brings me down,” or like what would you say? Have you had that happen or is it just these people that are on the periphery of your life, so it’s not that big of a deal?
CORNELL: Well, I have this happen pretty much every day where there’s someone that comes up to me and talks to me and they’re just super negative at first and especially if you love someone, Lisa, you should be able to have that open communication. So, if I have a friend of mine that is just super negative, I’ll just approach them and be real with them. Like, “Look. What you think, you attract. So, if every day you wake up, you’re in a miserable mood and everything’s going wrong and the sky is always falling, you’ve got to think about that. Like why is that happening every day? Because it’s what you’re thinking. You’re attracting it into your life. You’re manifesting it into your life.” And that’s the conversation I have with people and it’s hard for people to see things that are right in front of them. Things like energy, you can’t really just see it in front of you, so it’s hard for people to understand that, but that’s what I write about. I mean, that’s what I talk about. It’s just what you think, you’re going to attract it. So, if you’re negative all the time, usually, negative things happen. If you’re positive all the time, usually good things happen to you.
LISA: Now, sometimes when you’re positive, negative things can still happen, but it’s how you handle it, right?
CORNELL: Yes. Yes. Life is 90% of, you know, to me, how you handle adversity, I really do believe it. The 10% is what happens to you. Ninety percent is how you handle it. I mean, if you have a flat tire, you can do two things: you can sit on the side of the road kicking your car or you can try to fix it. It’s either…You only have two options there. There aren’t a lot of things you can do. It’s like, even though I’m a super positive person, I’m human. There’s days where I’ll wake up and things are not going the right way and that cloud is starting to form. The key is, when I see that cloud forming, I just take out my umbrella. I don’t sit there and cry about it.
LISA: Oh, I like that. Yes. You know, I injured my leg and I’ve been kind of down because I can’t be as active and, quite frankly, it really flippin’ hurts, you know?
CORNELL: Yes.
LISA: I can’t bend my knee without pain. I can’t get comfortable sleeping without pain and I can see where if you’re dealing with like a chronic pain situation or there are certain people where, I feel badly because I can understand why they’re an energy vampire and then maybe they need to talk to someone. Do you know? Like there are certain circumstances that make it tough.
CORNELL: Yes.
LISA: I mean, I’m hoping I’m not an energy vampire.
CORNELL: Definitely not.
LISA: But, I just feel lately like I’m not quite myself, right? Because it’s hard to deal with things that are…Or, if you constantly have things going wrong in your life all the time. Big things, like people dying or you divorce.
CORNELL: Yes, for sure.
LISA: Not like, “I stubbed my toe,” or something, right?
CORNELL: Yes.
LISA: So, you have to have tools.
CORNELL: Yes.
LISA: So, you yourself, Cornell, went through a pretty big change in your life where you were going to be a professional athlete and you were injured and how did you--for people who don’t know your story, tell us about that. How were you able to handle this situation?
CORNELL: Well, I was two weeks away from playing professional basketball in Europe. I was going to go to Portugal and I blew my Achilles tendon and if you want to talk about an energy vampire, for that first couple days, that would be me. I was in my room. I didn’t want to talk to anybody. I didn’t want to see anybody. I was just miserable and I told myself that this is transitory. It’s eventually going to pass and it’s up to me to either work towards getting back to where I was, or I could sit there and just whine about it and be miserable. Me being miserable, sitting in my room just looking at the four walls really wasn’t doing anything, so I just turned it around. I seriously looked at people that have it worse than me. You know, we all have aches and pains, if we’re working out, we all have injuries that happen and you have to look at it…I look at it in terms of yoga. You know, I’m there shaking like leaf. My whole entire body’s hurting in a pose. My yoga teacher’s always saying, “Cornell, this will pass. You’ll go to the next position.” And, I’m like, “When is that next position going to ever come?” but you know that eventually it will and that’s the same thing in terms life. Eventually, that storm’s going to pass. You just have to fight it out until that happens.
LISA: That’s true. Well, talk to us about The Power of Me. Your first book is The Power of Positivity: Controlling Where the Ball Bounces. This is The Power of Me: Army of One. Tell us about it.
CORNELL: Well, The Power of Positivity, the first book, was my story and I wanted to tell people how I dealt with adversity. The Power of Me is really, I look at it in terms of a workbook. It’s to help you. It’s all about the reader. So, The Power of Me just talks about positive self-awareness and self-belief even when things are happening in your life that don’t make you feel very confident. And, the difference between this book and the first book, another difference is, there are worksheets in there and there are actual drills you can do to be more positive and to believe in yourself. So, that’s what people were asking me after my first book. “Well, how do you do this and what are some of the things I can do to fix my negative mindset?” Now, I have them in this book, so there’s really no excuse now.
LISA: So, give us an example. There’s no…You’re like, “No excuses!” Give us an example of one of these things in the book that we can actually do. I love that.
CORNELL: Okay, so one of the examples, one of my favorite ones is the chapter called, “I will” and in this chapter, it basically is just me saying just different positive affirmations. Like, you know, “I will accomplish what I set out to do. I will overcome adversity. I will be great.” What I have you do in this drill is every morning, I want the person to look in the mirror and say they will do something that’s on their goal list. So, say for you, it’s like, “I will be on Oprah one day.” You know? You’re going to look in the mirror. You’re going to look yourself right in the eye. It doesn’t matter if you have your make-up on or not, you’re going to say, “I will be on Oprah Winfrey.” Or, “I will have a national television show.” And, I think when you say it, it might not hit your conscious all the time, but it’s hitting your subconscious and that is so powerful and so much more powerful when it hits your subconscious because it doesn’t go anywhere. So, that’s one of the drills that’s my favorite one. I actually wrote down today--I was in the middle of shoveling and I just wrote down some more affirmations that I want to tell myself every day. And, that’s what I say in the mirror every single day I wake up.
LISA: Now, are you saying you’re going on Ellen? Is that one of them? Because that would be so awesome and you have to take me with you.
CORNELL: That’s one that’s written down. Me and Ellen have a date. She doesn’t know it yet, but I’ve already put it out there. We have a date and when me and Ellen do have this date, I’m going to come on the show and I’m going to say, “Remember when we were talking about me being on Ellen?” And you’re going to be like, “Yes, Cornell. That’s great. I was on Oprah yesterday.” So, I mean, we’re going to go back and forth for a very long time.
LISA: I think it’s so cool because having these affirmations, again, you have to believe in yourself and that’s The Power of Me.
Cornell, I just love everything that you do.
You can find out more about Cornell. Your website is PowerPositivity.net.
CORNELL: Yes.
LISA: And, you can follow Cornell @CornellThomas and he joins us here once a month on Naturally Savvy and I’m just so grateful. I think—has it been a year? Or, I think it’s been a year and a half since we met. So, it’s been…
CORNELL: I think it’s been a year and a half.
LISA: Fabulous.
CORNELL: Our anniversary’s coming up soon. I’m pretty excited.
LISA: Oooh! Alright, we’ll have to do something special. Well, I want to thank you, Cornell.
CORNELL: Thank you.
LISA: And, thank you, everyone, for listening. Be sure to like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter @YourRadioMD and @NaturallySavvy.
I hope you all have a great day. Write down your affirmations. Look in the mirror, make up or not and believe in yourself just like Cornell and stay well. - Length (mins) 10
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- Audio File naturally_savvy/1510ns3c.mp3
- Featured Speaker Lisa & Ron Beres, Certified Green Building Professionals
- Book Title Just GREEN It! Simple Swaps to Save the Planet + Your Health
- Guest Website Ron and Lisa: The Healthy Home Dream Team
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- Guest Twitter Account @RonandLisa
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Guest Bio
Ron and Lisa Beres are Certified Green Building Professionals, Building Biologists and published authors of several books including, Just GREEN It! and the children's book, My Body My House. In addition to testing the health of homes, their consulting business includes celebrities and Fortune 500's. They are award winning television media experts and have appeared on The Rachael Ray Show, The Suzanne Show, The Doctors, Fox & Friends, The Today Show with Matt Lauer, NBC’s Nightly News with Brian Williams, Discovery’s Greenovate and Chelsea Lately on E!
- Length (mins) 10
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