304 – SYNCPodcast – 2024 Mashup

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[00:00:58] Jenny Swisher: Welcome friends to this episode of the Sync Your Life podcast. Today we are giving you the best of 2024. Yep. We are giving you short clips from all of my favorite interviews on the Sync Your Life podcast from this past year. We have had such great guests cover topics like diet culture and the vaginal microbiome, endocrine disruption, perimenopause, and so much more.

[00:01:19] Jenny Swisher: If you like what you hear, you’ll love diving deeper in the interviews themselves. As we wrap up another year, I just have to say, I am so grateful to each of you for continuing to listen to the show. Not a day goes by that I don’t get a message from someone thanking me for the content and the knowledge shared here on this podcast.

[00:01:35] Jenny Swisher: And that makes my heart so, so happy. I am all about hormone literacy and self advocacy. So if this show empowers you to learn more about your body and advocate for yourself, then it is doing exactly what we intended it to do. I’m grateful for you, for our guests and for being in this space that I truly believe is making a difference in the world of hormone health.

[00:01:53] Jenny Swisher: Without further ado, let’s dive into the best of the best from 2024. Okay.

[00:01:58] Jen Delvaux: You know, when you have no estrogen and like you were saying, I want to go back to what you’re saying about testing and the importance of that. So, you know, I’m almost, it’ll be four years in February since my diagnosis and you, I feel the difference of not having estrogen in my body. Right. And there is so much, you, you see it all over.

[00:02:18] Jen Delvaux: Like it is in our faces 24 seven about everybody should be on HRT and I, and I think that there You know, a lot of people should be, and I’ve even thought about it. And I’ve talked with, um, some doctors, I’m not going to mention any names, but they’re like, yes, you’re safe to do this 100%. And then I’m like, but really, am I like, like if I would’ve, I just think back to, again, if I would’ve just listened to that one doctor who was like, oh my gosh, yes.

[00:02:45] Jen Delvaux: You should be on total HRT hormone replacement therapy. I’m like, even after my ERP or positive breast cancer. Yes. Had I not done this testing and I trusted this doctor, I would be on it. I’m sure with, uh, with another diagnosis, that’s insane. And now I know, okay, my body does not like estrogen. I do not methylated.

[00:03:07] Jen Delvaux: I don’t, I don’t, it goes down the wrong pathway.

[00:03:10] Jenny Swisher: So they would come in wanting to cycle sync and they would say, well, I’m on the birth control pill. How can I do this? Should I just rest on my period? And I’m like, no, you don’t actually have a cycle. Like you don’t because you’re not ovulating. So I like ovulation is the fifth vital sign. Once we start understanding that our body’s ovulating and producing proper hormones, then we can really start to leverage that energy and understand our cycles.

[00:03:34] Wendy Strgar: Isn’t that incredible? It is those same women. I just want to say 57 percent of women cannot identify their anatomical parts of their vagina and their labia, right? They don’t even know what it is. And then we could take that to sex. And we could say, you know, the percentage of women that don’t know if they orgasmed who actually did orgasm is equal to the percentage of women who think they orgasmed when they actually did not.

[00:04:02] Wendy Strgar: So. It’s like our ability to know ourselves and feel our body and, and, and, and be able to name and identify what’s happening for us. Like, it’s like, we never get to learn that. Think about the stuff they teach you in sixth grade. They don’t teach you anything about that

[00:04:22] Jenny Swisher: or

[00:04:22] Wendy Strgar: what it is to like, even like have a real relationship.

[00:04:26] Wendy Strgar: Right. And so like all the ways that we think that this kind of education is dangerous for our children or whatever the hell people are thinking, it’s like, no, like, this is so vital, right? If we would start teaching girls about how their bodies actually worked, they would start to ask real questions.

[00:04:46] Wendy Strgar: Earlier, right? Um, but this is all the ways like, you know, I’m old and so I’m sort of jaded now, but I just want to say that in, there’s a way in which this has been very much planned, right? We, we don’t want women to be strong and to be able to stand up for themselves historically. And even now this backlash about a woman should be home and, you know, not producing and working and fulfilling her life goals.

[00:05:13] Wendy Strgar: Like it’s like, No, actually, you know, yeah. Oh my gosh. So we just became best friends.

[00:05:19] Jenny Swisher: So when it comes to, you know, you’ve touched on obviously mass cell activation syndrome, what does that look like for people? And obviously it could be different, but can you give us a little bit of. Um, and I think it’s, you know, specifics on what that can, what

[00:05:40] Dr. Meg Mill: that can manifest as. So what to for mass activation syndrome, we have to like look at the immune system.

[00:05:47] Dr. Meg Mill: So again, we talked about the mass cells are a part of our innate immune system. So they’re looking, so think you have an innate and an adaptive immune system. So your innate immune system is just looking for anything. It’s like, what is, what invader is coming? I’m just, Now your adaptive immune system is going to target things.

[00:06:04] Dr. Meg Mill: So it’s going to put a tag on it basically and say, okay, we’re allergic to peanuts and we don’t like peanuts because peanuts have been tagged. So we’re going to react there. But the innate immune system is just an overall watched. So the mast cells are part of that first line. And so what starts to happen is when we get We get an overload of toxins, of potential viruses, infections, we get parasites, yeast, mold, all of these things build up, we start to get an overactive immune system.

[00:06:39] Dr. Meg Mill: So your mast cells start to degranulate inappropriately. So you start to get reactions to things that are safe, that aren’t dangerous. So basically, you’re saying like, your body’s saying, okay, too much. You’re my, my mast cells are angry now and now I just have to release it. Like release. histamine and other substances whenever we’re having anything.

[00:07:01] Dr. Meg Mill: So you start to get this, like I said, overreaction, hypersensitive. So you start to be more react. You say mass activations in general, you tend to have, you know, more than one body symptoms. So multiple systems are usually affected and you start to feel more of that. Like, okay, I’m hypersensitive. We need to do the same.

[00:07:21] Dr. Meg Mill: things that we do for histamine intolerance, but also one really important thing for mast cell activation syndrome is also nervous system regulation. Because what’s going on here is that your body is saying, okay, I’m used to reacting to this. So I like to use this example. So if you have a rose, like if you hand someone a rose and you smell it and it’s like, Oh, that’s pretty, that’s nice.

[00:07:42] Dr. Meg Mill: You have a good feeling from it. And then you hand it to them again and you say you have to touch a hot stove. So every time you touch the rose, you have to touch the hot stove and you have to do this over and over again. That feels uncomfortable. I mean, who wants that? You don’t like it. So then you take the stove away and you give them back the rose.

[00:07:58] Dr. Meg Mill: When they smell the rose, are they going to feel good? No, they’re going to feel uncomfortable. You’re going to remember. Oh, I react to that. So. You start to build these neuropathways that are used to reacting. So we actually have to work on neuroplasticity and brain retraining a lot of times to create that sense of safety because we need to take away the things that are causing the mast cell activation syndrome.

[00:08:21] Dr. Meg Mill: So we need to look at, you know, are you living in a moldy environment? Do you have underlying gut, you know, infections? Do you have viruses? That’s, you know, at the pandemic, we saw this really go up because of the vibe, you know, the virus, the viral load. So we need to look at all the things that could be activating your mast cells, take them out, but then also often retrain the nervous system that you are safe, that you don’t have to react.

[00:08:46] Dr. Meg Mill: So I think that’s an important piece, really, and that. People don’t always want to look at because it’s like, okay, we want to look at, okay, what supplements we need to take, what do we need to do, but do we, we can change our diet. People can get so hung up on the diet, but not want to do the nervous system work.

[00:09:01] Dr. Meg Mill: And I think that’s an essential piece.

[00:09:03] Jenny Swisher: That is such an essential piece. And I actually am glad you mentioned that because I think in working with you, that was one of the biggest things that helped me.

[00:09:10] Thomas Hans-Richter: So the issue is that Americans test at 25 to 1 inflammatory. What does that mean? Every time a cell breaks down in your body, no matter where, it turns out to be 24, 25 to 1 inflammatory. So the inflammation never gets turned off. And that is basically the root cause for chronic inflammation. So again, we grew up on a hunters and gatherers diet, and that brings us to a close to 1 to 1 ratio of omega 6 to 3, so inflammation versus anti inflammation.

[00:09:58] Thomas Hans-Richter: Everything in nature is balanced, right? So if you look at the tai chi yin yang symbol, It’s all about balance. So we need inflammation. So when you have an accident or an injury, you basically need massive inflammation to combat infections and start the healing process, platelets, you name it, but then it needs to be turned off and that’s no longer the case.

[00:10:23] Thomas Hans-Richter: So once we started farming 15, 000 years ago, our ratio of inflammation to counter inflammation went up and up and up and up and up.

[00:10:34] Jenny Swisher: So it really does start with sort of like deconditioning the goal and saying, okay, yes, what is your goal? But then does that make sense? Or is that just the conditioning that you’ve been a part of anything you want to say there?

[00:10:53] Miriam Jacobsen: Yeah. Oh my God, all the things I want to say there. But I, you know, I think that’s such an important conversation.

[00:10:58] Miriam Jacobsen: Cause I hear that time and time and time again, where it’s like, Oh, I want to lose the weight. And I’m like, I actually won’t take on patients anymore who will, who only want to lose weight because that’s, That’s doesn’t mean anything, right? Like that’s such an external marker for our health. And when we can really connect with how we want to feel inside of our bodies, I find that to be even more motivating because what happens when you have a strict meal plan, right?

[00:11:26] Miriam Jacobsen: You follow it and you’re like, I’m doing really good. I’m doing good. Right? We like, we love to label food. I dialed it in. I’m dialing it in. Yeah, exactly. I’m on the wagon, you know, and so when you like eat a cookie, right, you should be able to eat a cookie if you want a cookie, you know, people feel really shamed and really feel guilty and then they like go off the other end, right?

[00:11:47] Miriam Jacobsen: And so it becomes a feast or famine. Um, and we begun, we begin to demonize food and demonize our bodies, which is honestly just a massive distraction for what else is happening in our lives, you know, um, it ends up pulling us out of our emotions and out of our work, and I really think that, you know, There’s a much larger conversation there in terms of, like, the patriarchy and, you know, how women are valued.

[00:12:16] Miriam Jacobsen: Right. Um, but I do want to say that I, um, was a member of a gym, like, pre COVID. But I remember going into the gym, and they’re like, Oh, you ha It was a very high end gym. And they were like, Oh, you have, you know, a free few sessions with this trainer. And I was like, Great, you know, it’s free. I’ll meet with the trainer.

[00:12:33] Miriam Jacobsen: And they start and they have you like talk about your goals. And I was like, Oh, well, I’m really, I’m hyper mobile. I really want to work on my joint stability. Um, and I just want to make sure that like, I get to age 80 and I can play with my grandkids, you know, like that’s my goal in my life. And she put me on her scale and she’s like, Oh, but you need to lose five pounds.

[00:12:52] Miriam Jacobsen: And she wouldn’t let it go. And so even unfortunately, like the health professionals and the people guiding these conversations are impacted. And. By that as well. And so I think it’s really important to have those conversations around like, what even are your goals, right? Are they motivating? Are they based on someone else’s standards for how we think we should look?

[00:13:14] Miriam Jacobsen: Or is it really how we want to be living our lives and how we want to be feeling as we move through the day? And I think that is the core conversation that needs to happen before any changes, any lifestyle food changes happen.

[00:13:28] Dr. Paige Gutheil: I always say that menopause is kind of a fork in the road, and I don’t say that to, like, scare anyone, but depending on, you know, how we handle that hormonal transition, it can either kind of, uh, put the chips on our, on our side when it comes to aging well, or we can really be set up for an increased risk of What we’ve seen a lot of people in our family suffer from a lot of women suffer from frailty, osteoporosis, heart disease, um, Alzheimer’s and so we really want women to have the up to date information that many.

[00:14:17] Dr. Paige Gutheil: Family dot fill in the blank family doctors, endocrinologists, gynecologists, people that we have always like, admired for their hormonal expertise. Unfortunately. Aren’t necessarily up to date with kind of a more modern view of menopause and how women deserve to age. Um, so that’s what we’re diving into.

[00:14:38] Jenny Swisher: Yeah, yeah, so let’s just bridge this together for everyone. So this. You guys, I read a statistic recently that only 3 percent of practitioners and doctors are knowledgeable in menopause health and hormone health. 3%! But yet we have millions of women entering perimenopause and menopause right now, in the next few years.

[00:14:57] Jenny Swisher: So there’s a huge difference. What’s happening as a result are women are going into their doctor’s offices. I like to say their check engine lights are flashing. They feel really off. I hear a lot. I have stories in my inbox today of things like I’m having anxiety attacks. I’ve never had anxiety attacks before.

[00:15:12] Jenny Swisher: I’m dealing with brain fog. I can’t sleep. Like I, my husband is super annoying, right? Like all these different things that are happening, uh, in, in this era, as we keep calling it. And they go into their doctors and their doctors might run some lab work, might not, but. Regardless, most of the time kind of just tell them, well, everything’s normal.

[00:15:28] Jenny Swisher: Like, this is just part of aging. This is just part of perimenopause. And then I hate to say it, but women are left to suffer. And so, um, 84 percent of women will say that have said that they have felt gaslit in their doctor’s office, which to me is unacceptable. Um, when I launched my SYNC course in 2020, the whole purpose behind it was for me to empower women to step into self advocacy, to ask the right questions and to ultimately find the right doctor.

[00:15:54] Jenny Swisher: So let’s talk more about, you know, um, Cause I know, you know, in college you were into kinesiology and like physical health and that’s sort of been in your background. So I’d love for you to tell us more about sort of like, you know, why we do like if, if we purge or if we restrict, you mentioned we, our pendulum can swing in the opposite direction.

[00:16:17] Jenny Swisher: It can kind of go toward the, you know, the binging side of things. So tell us more about that from maybe a more biological perspective or how you think about it.

[00:16:25] Emily Yates: Yeah, I mean, it’s again, it’s kind of like that biological need, right? There’s a reason that Maslow’s hierarchy of needs food is like at the base of it, right?

[00:16:35] Emily Yates: We need this. And so, um, there’s this thing called the dieting dilemma or, you know, the diet culture cycle, and it starts with. wanting to be thinner, right? Then we go to, okay, I’m gonna, I’m gonna hop on this diet. We usually feel pretty good. Like, all right, I’m, I’m doing my thing. I’m, maybe I’m seeing some results, but again, that restriction, we can only be in that window for so long before our biological, our cravings, our desires start to kick in.

[00:17:11] Emily Yates: We fall off of it. Um, we usually then feel a lot of guilt and shame. What’s wrong with me? I can’t do it right. Um, then we typically gain the weight back and then we’re back wanting to lose the weight, right? So we’re always in, in this cycle, um, again, until we leave diet culture. And I think one of the biggest, this was super eye opening for me recently, you know, Denver’s a very big dog place.

[00:17:41] Emily Yates: Everybody has dogs. And You know, when I talk to my clients and they’re like, well, I had a, I had a really big dinner, so I feel like I shouldn’t eat breakfast. And I’m like, would you do that to your dog? And like, or would you do that to your kid? Do you know what I mean? And so like, or, um, you know, being able, I think it’s, so it’s a great way to step back and be like, how am I treating myself?

[00:18:05] Emily Yates: Like, is this actually what I want to be doing or what I want to be showing my kids, or would I be doing this to my kiddo? Like, you know, would you be like, no. You know, you need to walk two miles before you eat breakfast or puppy you, you, you would never do that. Right. And so it’s like, we’re treating our dogs with more compassion and more respect than we do ourselves when we’re always striving for that weight loss or that diet culture or that, that beauty standard.

[00:18:35] Emily Yates: And so I think that’s a really good way of like, would I do this with my kid or would I do this with my dog? Likely the answer is no, you know.

[00:18:43] Jenny Swisher: We are talking about longevity. We’re talking about what women need to be able to be healthy for the longterm. I’m no longer interested in helping you get six pack abs. That might be a nice by product if it happens, but that’s not the goal. So we are not going for what works to sell a program. We’re going for what works to get you results.

[00:19:14] Jenny Swisher: with a program. So Kelsey, talk to us about, I mean, she’s got the arms out for you guys tonight too. So if she just, we thought maybe she brought you, I hope you guys have tickets. Um, but tell us more about just hypertrophy and tell them how you train.

[00:19:28] Kelsey Lensman: Yeah. I love it. So Actually, you hit on such a good topic there because we have so many women come in that, you know, do all the sweat drenching workouts and you’re still going to sweat in this.

[00:19:37] Kelsey Lensman: You’re going to get after it and be like, okay, it feels like a good workout. But they come to us and like, Kelsey, you’re telling me to not train and do high intensity or middle intensity, um, cardio five, six days a week. And they, they are very fearful of that for a second. They’re like, Ooh, I don’t, I don’t know if I can actually get results that way.

[00:19:53] Kelsey Lensman: And there’s a little bit of resistance there. But they finally buy in and I have them really scale back a lot of their cardio and have them be very intentional like Jenny also talked about it’s like the muscle hypertrophy type of programming and just the rec scheme and all that and little do they realize they are bought in and their body’s actually able to thrive instead of just survive.

[00:20:15] Kelsey Lensman: And so that is exactly what we’re talking about here with that muscle hypertrophy. That is actually, if you, if you look at it, it’s reps eight to 12. So if we want to be a muscle hypertrophy, that’s actually reps how many you do eight to 12. It’s not 15 plus, it’s not only two or three. Right. And so when we really want to talk about, like, we always say work smart is for women, they need more muscle on their body.

[00:20:38] Kelsey Lensman: And we’re not talking about beefing up like the whole, but really quality muscle tissue, because she’s also talked about this. That is such a regulator of your metabolism and really the biggest endocrine organ of your body. Right. And so when you have more quality muscle tissue, that’s where the quote unquote toneness comes in.

[00:20:54] Kelsey Lensman: A lot of women are, they, they do the cardio and this is where you might hear the term like skinny fat. Like I’m doing all the things, but I’m still not getting the body composition that I really want and then take a level deeper probably not the internal health at what they want either, right? They don’t have enough muscle tissue on their body to see the lean physique that they want to see.

[00:21:11] Kelsey Lensman: So I tell all our women now, and I’m not amazing, right? Like I still go through my own journey. But I am able to give a lot less effort now, but still maintain a physique, not just because, you know, of my age, but because I have a lot of muscle tissue and women that we’ve had 50s, 60s, even 70s, when they build that muscle, they’ll, they’ll be able to see it better, but also feel better, more energy, sleep better in the short and long term.

[00:21:36] Kelsey Lensman: So reps eight to 12 was what we’re really trying to target on. Um, but also a good amount of weight to actually challenge those muscles in that rep scheme. So it’s not 12 reps. Okay. I can just, you know, nothing is really hard and I’m just able to drop that weight real quick, but really challenging in those eight to 12 reps where you don’t know if you can do another rep.

[00:21:55] Kelsey Lensman: And that’s exactly what we’re looking for in this.

[00:21:57] So there’s so many different angles, so many different questions I have here, but I do want to make sure that before we get too far, that we talk about this. I movement with neck stretches piece. This is something new that I’ve not heard of. So I’d love for you to share that. Okay. Okay. So in one of my somatic certification courses, we learned a lot about the fluid that needs to flow between the spinal cord and the brain.

[00:22:26] And this is an area that gets very blocked up. So if you think about it. Thriving in our cars, carrying heavy bags, children on our phones, the way we hunch and the way we, we create all of this tension. Most people’s shoulders are raised up towards their ears. If they’re not thinking about it and consciously relaxing.

[00:22:46] So this area has all this muscle tension. So if you’re, you know, anyone who’s listening right now, if you just slowly lower your chin towards your chest, I bet you feel a pull or a strain in the back of your neck, maybe kind of going out on diagonals towards your two shoulders, you might feel. feel it pull all the way down back behind your shoulder blades.

[00:23:08] So these knots, this tension in the muscle, it blocks that flow of the cerebrospinal fluid and everything that the signals that need to be sent from the brain to the nervous system. So when we can open up this area, we allow that fluid to circulate. to flow more freely. It helps with bringing nutrients and things to the brain.

[00:23:30] It helps with carrying toxins out of the brain, out of the body. It helps with signaling, signaling being sent throughout our nervous system. That’s going to our lungs. It’s going to our heart. That’s traveling the vagus nerve. You know, the vagus nerve runs from your gut to your brain. It’s traveling right through that path.

[00:23:48] So it’s all these important life giving signals. And when that area is. locked up. It’s very hard to truly regulate your nervous system because things can’t flow. So one of the ways we learned to open it up is when you move your eyes, it actually creates stretching. So there’s three ways to do it. And the first one, you want to interlace your fingers and you want to bring them behind your head and cradle The base of your head and then try to open up your elbows as much as you can.

[00:24:22] And your hands are there for the purpose of keeping your head straight ahead. So you don’t want to turn your head, take your gaze straight in front of you, and then take your eyes only and look to the right. So while you’re doing this, just keep looking to the right. Try to relax your shoulders down your back.

[00:24:42] Try to breathe. And as you’re looking to the right, just keep your head straight forward, but your eyes to the right. What you’re waiting to feel is some kind of release, so you’ll often feel the need to yawn, you might swallow, that’s the nervous system letting go, or you might feel a sigh, which is when you take, you’re taking an inhale, and you feel the need to almost double inhale, it’s not forced, but it’s kind of like a yawn.

[00:25:10] Yawn. Yawn. Like an extra breath and then bring your eyes back to center and then you take them to the opposite side. So you always want to be even. So then you’re going to look to the left and generally you want to hold this for about 30 to 60 seconds and you just try to breathe and relax. Your nervous system might not let go.

[00:25:31] Maybe you’re already in a very relaxed state. Maybe you’re just holding on and you can’t quite find the release. But usually in 30 to 60 seconds, you’ll either yawn, swallow or sigh. And that’s when you get the release. So then you always bring your eyes back to center. The other two add ons to this are, you can take your right ear towards your right shoulder, and then you take your eye gaze up to the top left corner.

[00:25:58] And it’s the same thing, you’re just sitting up nice and straight, your right ear is towards your right shoulder, and your eye gaze is up to the top left corner. And again, you just breathe. Since I’ve started practicing this, it used to take me about a minute, sometimes more, to find that release. Often I’ll get it in less than 20 seconds.

[00:26:21] Now, then you always bring your eyes back to center before you raise your head and then you do the other side. So the left ear goes to the left shoulder. This is always my tighter side. And then I look up to the right. When I look to the right, I feel the stretch intensify. So if you’re conscious of it, you might notice.

[00:26:41] It moves the stretch out of just my neck and into my jaw. Sometimes I feel my ear open up, and

[00:26:55] then bring your eyes back to center and your chin back to neutral. And the third option is essentially the same, but when you take your right ear to your right shoulder, now you’ll actually look down towards that shoulder. So your eye gaze will go down to the right corner. And then when you take it to the left, you’ll look down to the left corner.

[00:27:15] So it’s either a head straight ahead, look right and left, drop your ear and look towards that shoulder or to the opposite corner, and then just do both sides.

[00:27:24] The doctor didn’t just ask, what was this one thing you’re doing to body? He started asking about our whole lifestyle, right? He started asking about our diet. He started asking about, um, the chemicals in our environment. What are you putting on your body? And it really kind of dawned on us. It’s a combination of what you put on in and around your body because a high percentage of what you put on your skin gets absorbed into your bloodstream and we hadn’t really thought about that.

[00:27:54] I was putting on the most toxic. I had the most toxic armpits in the world because I had all these heavy metals. I mean, it literally stained my skin. I hadn’t thought about what is that doing to my overall health, you know, Jenny and I talked about this and just like I was rubbing these hormone creams on my legs getting my blood, but Levels tested the next day and my hormones had spiked.

[00:28:14] And so not fully realizing like, Oh, these products actually, everything I’m putting on my skin actually can impact my hormones. Yeah. I mean, think about the pain patch or the nicotine patch. You put it on your skin and within moments, you know, there’s relief from whatever you’re dealing with. And so that was like, Oh, wow.

[00:28:29] So if we’re putting good things on our body, that can be helpful. If we’re putting bad things that can really undo all the other things we’re trying to do. I mean, you can speak to this, Jenny. I mean, thyroid, right? That regulates your weight. Yeah. Too, too much, too much fat, not enough, right? Um, and if that gets out of whack, no matter how much diet and exercise you do, you can’t, you can’t get to optimal health, right?

[00:28:50] And there are a lot of things in our environment that start chipping away at our overall health. So that, that was when we looked at this and said, all right, everybody’s body is unique, but there are certain foundational principles that everybody needs. Right? If we can focus on the bedrock principles, how can we help people get improved sleep?

[00:29:11] Right? How can we help people improve their hydration? Our endocrine system and our overall bodies, if we’re under hydrated, you can’t get the inflammation reduction. And that led to the next one. How can we reduce inflammation and improve overall, uh, you know, health in that regard? And then the last, another one, I shouldn’t say the last one, there’s so many topics, but how can we reduce stress?

[00:29:32] Stress plays a deep, puts a deep impact on our body. People who are stressed have high cortisol levels. High cortisol levels are correlated with, uh, poor circulatory, high blood pressure. Also, belly fat, for example. It puts weight on because your body is afraid that it’s not going to be able to survive.

[00:29:48] And so it starts doing things that have a negative health consequence. So our products are designed to really attach to these pillars. Some of the products have a two or three pillars covered. Some of them are specific. Some of them, you know, are a little more general, but it’s all about that idea of on in and around and simple health principles that we all need to get a foundation for our bodies to have a chance to take care of themselves.

[00:30:14] Jenny Swisher: And there you have it, my friends. Those are just some clips from episodes we had this year, interviews held here on the show. And like I said, 2024 was a fantastic year, but I am so looking forward to 2025. The lineup we have on deck for you, not only in guest interviews, but in topics themselves. I really think it’s going to rock your world.

[00:30:32] Jenny Swisher: So thank you for being a listener, for being a subscriber. If you haven’t taken time yet this year to leave a review, we would love for you to head to wherever you get podcasts. Leave us a review. That helps us in the ratings. It also helps us bring amazing guests to you. So thank you so much. As always, my friends, let’s head into the new year strong.

[00:30:49] Jenny Swisher: I will see you again soon. Take care. Bye bye.

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