63. Survivor Science Soundbites: Fueling Recovery Insights …
Send us a text In this week’s Survivor Science Soundbite #5, I delve into Good Energy by Casey and Callie Means. This holistic guide to hea…
Nov. 26, 2024
63. Survivor Science Soundbites: Fueling Recovery Insights from Good Energy for Stroke Survivors
In this week’s Survivor Science Soundbite #5, I delve into Good Energy by Casey and Callie Means. This holistic guide to health and wellness offers valuable insights for stroke survivors, covering topics from anti-inflammatory foods to daily habits like mindful movement and improved sleep. While some advice may seem ambitious, it's essential to view the book as a long-term resource rather than a checklist for immediate action.
I'll share how my perspective has evolved over time, embracing small, incremental changes as part of the recovery journey. Recovery, much like health, is a marathon, not a sprint. Tune in for practical takeaways and a reminder that even small improvements can make a significant difference.
Additional Topics from Good Energy That May Interest Stroke Survivors:
- The importance of gut health and incorporating fermented foods.
- Tips for maintaining stable blood sugar levels for steady energy.
- Simple strategies for managing stress, like mindfulness and breath work.
- The role of sleep and hydration in recovery and overall wellness.
- So much more—definitely worth a read!
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What's up, everybody.
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Hope you had a great weekend.
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I'm back with another survivors island soundbite.
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This is number five.
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I don't know why I keep numbering them more.
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Poppy sat that at some point, but a.
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Yeah, it is the week of Thanksgiving, the Monday before.
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And I'm back with a new topic this week.
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I've been thinking about this a lot.
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This weekend.
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I rewatched a Joe Rogan episode over the weekend and I bought a book.
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And I've been digging into it.
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I think this is a timely topic.
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Uh, being that it's Thanksgiving week here in the states.
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And we talk a lot about stroke and stroke recovery and all the things you can do.
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Um, I was thinking about a lot of things.
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Like what can you do in the beginning, especially if you.
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Experienced paralysis.
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You're not able to walk.
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You're not able to be active in the beginning.
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There's lots of things you can do.
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I think we get overwhelmed with information.
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Health and recovery is, uh, you know, We've said it at nauseum.
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We've talked about it a lot.
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It is definitely a marathon.
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I know the all that is one step at a time.
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Sometimes that makes sense.
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Sometimes you get sick of that.
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I certainly did.
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The old, it takes time.
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We know that's true, even if you don't want to hear it, depending on where you're at in your stroke recovery journey.
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Things can be really hard to hear.
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Um, but the, it really all comes down to the fact that like, When you do have a stroke.
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No matter what health you were in before.
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What healthier in today, it can all be improved.
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Likely.
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Majority of stroke survivors need to make significant changes are S you know, I talked to, um, All fellows stroke, survivor who, uh, That episode will be out next week after Thanksgiving.
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It was a great conversation.
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Jason Lopes, if you know him from ticktock.
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Check them out on Tik, TOK and Instagram again.
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Really, these are episode.
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Of chatting together last week.
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Um, separately that pockets of out next week.
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Uh, so this week you'll be.
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Kind of mini Stuart episodes, given that it's a holiday, we.
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Anyways, back to the main thing I want to talk about this week is.
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A book.
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Um, I kind of came across these two Casey and Kelly means, uh, on the Joe Rogan podcast.
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Uh, you know, not.
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I know some people aren't fans.
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It's okay.
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It's a really good.
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Either way.
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I like hearing a wide ranging topics.
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I like hearing from are a lot of different people in a lot of different perspectives.
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Honestly, I'm trying to incorporate more of that on my show.
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That's why you earlier, or last night into this morning, I released an episode with Keith Ellis, which was fantastic.
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We talked about long COVID.
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Definitely worth checking that out.
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Um, again, great conversation, but, uh, back to this, I gotta try to stay on track with these shorter episodes.
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Okay.
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So, uh, Kelly and Casey, Casey and Kelly means, or a book called good energy and it's packed with a lot of advice.
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For really kind of examining your.
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Elva journey as a stroke survivor.
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You know, I think we all start in different place.
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Some of us were doing things really well before.
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Majority of us per probably.
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Have room for improvement.
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And I think I continue to have room for improvement and people always ask me.
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How I do things and why I do things.
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And it's because I'm endlessly curious, which we talked about last week.
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Um, And this is no different.
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I keep looking at how I can refine my health.
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What could I be doing better?
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What is.
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What are the right things from me when it comes to diet.
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And, you know, while I say me in this context, you should obviously apply to your situation because unfortunately, I don't know everybody that's listening.
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Certainly would love to.
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But it's also would be, uh, insanely overwhelming.
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Um, So again, the book is called good energy, and I think it's really worth the, you know, if you listen to it on all the bull, I think it's like 14 or 15 bucks.
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You can also get it on Kindle for around the same price.
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And then you get the hard copy as well.
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You give him, probably get a local library, although it is a fairly new book.
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So it probably would be on.
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You probably take some time to get it from the library.
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Um, but again, the book's great cause it's got a holistic approach that I really like.
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It's it's I think that what I realized, and I think it's silly, right?
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Cause I've been reading books for a long time.
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I'm a big fan of books and sometimes books can come off a certain way.
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And I realized, and this seems so stupid, but I realized today I was like, oh, wait, Sometimes when you're listening, they can sound preachy because you're listening.
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Right.
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And then sometimes you don't realize that somebody who's offering a book.
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They may only want to write one books.
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They may be trying to pack it with information.
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And I think.
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I had to remind myself that sometimes books can be a long-term reference and.
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Just because the author has tried to pack it full of information because they probably don't want to write a second book.
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Uh, I haven't written a book myself yet, but I imagine it's a difficult, long process.
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And unless you want to be an author for your entire life, um, which some people do and some people don't.
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It can come off a little preachy, but I do think, I think.
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I think that's not the intent.
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I think it's to give you all the information and then you, as the reader.
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Should take pieces and bits and think about what you want to refine.
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Again, this book, a good energy has a ton of information.
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It's honestly.
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Overwhelming.
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A lot of things, we probably know, like, Certain foods should be avoided.
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And again, what I like about this book is it's, it's, it's a little bit of things I honestly didn't realize or.
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Haven't paid as close of attention.
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I've been very focused on my diet and my health and my fitness and my emotional, all those things.
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Since I became a stroke survivor.
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And so.
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Again, this is sort of a comprehensive holistic approach.
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It's not just about diet.
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It's about.
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It's a diet, but it's about sunlight.
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It's about, um, you know, Um, Mindfulness meditation.
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It just kind of all the things I talk about kind of regularly as is chokes of our.
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And again, if you have other, uh, You know, some of the things where the term traumatic brain injury, whether you have Ms, like myself, uh, maybe some other auto-immune diseases.
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I think it's just a really good.
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Overall.
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High-impact book.
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Um, so some of the key highlights so far.
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And I'm not completely finished with it.
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I hope to finish it before.
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Recording Friday's episode, we're wrap things up.
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Big takeaways.
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Anti-inflammatory eating like we know sugar and processed foods are not good for us.
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If you don't know that you can learn that by reading this book.
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Um, Honestly, I didn't even know that for a long time.
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I think I've tried to get very good about food.
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Less ingredients the better.
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Um, if you haven't heard of the Yuca app, Y U K a, I believe.
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That's really good if you're shopping in the store and you don't want to read.
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Every detail of every label, because again, it can be exhausting.
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You can scan that app and they're pretty good, pretty reliable in terms of, uh, how healthy is it really for you?
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And again, the book, when you start reading it, you feel overwhelmed, but I think you have to, you owe it to yourself to just realize, Hey, I want to make changes.
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Uh, want to do better, want to eat better?
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Specifically around food.
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Just start making small incremental changes.
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If you.
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If, you know, you have a sweet tooth and you know, it's not good to eat.
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You know, we all know sugar is bad.
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You trying to cut that out, trying to cut that back.
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Cutting back is significant.
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Right?
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Even if you are not able to cut things out today.
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You don't have to be drastic.
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You can do things slowly.
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Obviously getting certain things out of your diet sooner than later is better.
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But again, Everything with moderation, everything safely.
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You know for you.
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If you eat like shit, it's very easy to see.
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You know, quickly turn that around.
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Um, Just not eating shit is better than eating.
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You know, Crap.
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Um, Again, there's a lot of practical tips.
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It's it's it's about blood sugar, steady energy.
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Gut health, uh, the role, the role that like some fermented foods splay.
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Considering getting some bread and, or, you know, again, not everybody's going to be able to get everything out of their diet right away, but it's just incremental changes I think is really important.
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And so making daily habits to just be better.
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Um, a lot of the book goes into movement and it's, you don't have to be a runner.
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You don't have to run 20 miles a day.
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Like my dumb ass.
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You know, uh, just consistently stretching.
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Actively moving.
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I like some of the things in the book.
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If you're a stroke Stover, and it's hard to move, you can get into breath work that can start to tend to.
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Breathwork is brought up in the book over and over.
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And you've heard me talk about it a lot on this show.
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Again, that was something I had no idea about until three years into my stroke.
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I didn't start taking it seriously.
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And Viva cell.
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I have moments like when I record a podcast, I forget to breathe through my nose.
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I forget to slow down.
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I forget to take, you know, Take a moment.
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Think what, what, you know, it's okay.
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When there's silence the world won't end because there's a little silence.
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Is that people love that.
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Some people hate that.
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I think it, it, it just depends on you.
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Again, more things in the book.
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Uh, sleep.
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It's about building routine.
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I've talked about sleep a lot.
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I've talked about it when I get on, on podcasts and bit of guests.
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I've talked about it here.
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Sleep have for me, I had sleep apnea.
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I didn't know I had sleep apnea and till my stroke.
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Doing the sleep studies are super important.
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I find sleep apnea.
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You know, I think I probably actually almost out of it.
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Honestly, if I got retested, uh, I just really.
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I love my sleep machine.
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I used to be a smoker.
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I used to be a drinker.
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I used to do everything completely wrong.
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And over the last five years, since my stroke I've really changed a lot.
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But it wasn't all at once.
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It was over time.
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My diet, you know, I ate like total crap prior to my stroke.
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So when I had my stroke is very easy for me to start kind of incrementally.
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Eating better.
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And over time, the better you eat, the more you want to eat better because you're like, oh, I feel better when I eat better.
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Like this isn't rocket science people.
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Don't tell you these things because they.
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I don't care what you eat.
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I just know.
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The less processed stuff, the less.
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The better I eat the better high, quiet, higher quality.
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I try to eat.
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I know that everybody can't afford certain things, but you'd be surprised when you start digging.
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And doing some research, like yeah.
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Maybe not everything, but you can start to make these changes and those changes start to take effect.
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You know, and again, being incremental.
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Really just being mindful of the choices you're making.
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I mean, again, I still don't eat everything great.
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Like I don't eat all organic.
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I don't eat all grass fed beef.
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I'd love to.
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Um, but I have a family of five.
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You know, we're a family of five.
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And so it's all about balance for me.
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It's about, uh, again, that.
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Small consistent, mindful action, whether it's food, whether it's movement, whether it's sleep, whether it's stress management, whether it's Warrick.
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All these little tiny steps, start to add up over time.
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And again, My journey so far has only been five years.
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Um, And I, you know, like I said, I think everybody's going to be different.
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I think.
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If you're not feeling great, there are lots of things that you can try.
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It's trial and error.
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Uh, some people don't like that approach.
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I like that approach.
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I like to figure out what works for me.
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What feels safe?
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We'll feel smart.
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What feels good?
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What doesn't feel good?
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Just this weekend.
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You know, I really have been concentrating on my diet this year just to find out what works best for me.
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And that's a big thing in this book.
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It can feel preachy, but don't take it as preachy.
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Take it as.
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And I'm sure Casey and Kelly meant it this way.
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When they wrote the book, it's like, okay.
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Learn about health at kind of a cellular level.
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Don't worry about the specific diet, whether you want to do keto or carnivore or Mediterranean or.
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Or whatever, like it's, it's about finding what works for you there.
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She says in the book.
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At least a several times.
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You know, I'm not a vegan guy, it's not a lifestyle choice.
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I want to take part in it.
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It's just not for me.
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I like meat.
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I feel good on meat.
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I like vegetables.
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So I sometimes deviate from carnivore.
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I'm not trying to do anything dogmatic.
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I'm trying to do what feels best for me.
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You know, I've, I've kind of improved.
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Again, over time, like in the beginning I just ate less crap than I was eating.
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Then that got into, you know, more protein, less carb.
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Slowly kind of morphed into Quito have explored carnivore.
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Um, I try not to go back and forth too much.
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But again, I try not to be too dogmatic at any particular point.
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I just kind of.
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Approach each week.
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Um, With an open mind, it'd be like, okay, what's been feeling good boat to work in.
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Like, you know, right now it's a lot of red meat, a lot of fish, a lot of eggs and a little bit of broccoli.
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I like some fiber in my.
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My diet.
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Uh, I've gotten away from refined grains, you know, but I've had plenty of keenwah.
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I think, again, it all depends on the quality, how you buy, where you buy it.
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And again, what works well for you?
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What are you feeling best on?
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You know, with the running, uh, you know, that daily movement is a big thing.
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Um, You know, I'm not running every day to try to lose weight.
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I really run every day because I honestly, at this point I've been running for about two years almost every day, and I just feel great when I run and I feel crappy when I don't run as much.
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Um, Now have incorporated.
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We training and kettlebells, and that's been a big change.
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You know, I'll probably talk about that later in the week.
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Kettlebell.
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I've got some interesting things on kettlebells because I've been a lifter.
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Uh, tra you know, trained quite for quite some time.
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Most of my life, actually, I lifted weights.
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I just got away from cardio severely in my thirties.
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Um, Obviously I'm back on the cardio.
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Bandwagon.
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But kettlebells have been a mess of improvement in the last two months.
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And again, I'll talk more about that later in the week, but, uh, I just want to encourage people to check out this book again.
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I have no affiliation.
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I don't, I don't care if you bought it or not.
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I just think kind of like breath by James nester.
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This is another big book that, um, That I think has a lot of good information from.
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Talking about pesticides that, you know, We use our foods compared to other countries.
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I think that's why you see a lot of.
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Other countries around the world, just kind of, they seemingly do a better job.
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And like you talk about, I lived in Italy, all of 2005 and.
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Are you fucking pizza every day?
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Which is carbs, but.
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Somehow, you know, obviously I wasn't driving as much.
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I was living in Rome primarily.
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Walking a lot more.
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Cause I had no choice.
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Uh, I had no access to, well, I did have access to cars and vehicles, but I just didn't use them.
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Or rarely.
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Um, But again, check out the book.
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Good energy.
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I think there's a lot of big, good takeaways.
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It's not a one-time checklist.
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You're not going to.
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You're not going to implement everything.
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You probably going to feel like me at times.
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It does feel a little yelly sometimes, especially if you're less than audible.
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I don't think that's intent.
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But again, recovery is not about being perfect.
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We talk about.
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Uh, a ton about it being a marathon.
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It really is.
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But it's a marathon you can win, um, over time.
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Uh, you know, not everybody agrees, but I think winning to me in stroke is like, okay, Am I.
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Am I the way I was before, maybe never.
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But I gotta be honest.
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I feel a lot better than the, probably the five years I felt before my stroke.
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So you don't on that sense.
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It is good.
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Everything I'm doing feels good.
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And, you know, long-term health is an investment.
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Uh, I do.
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Again, some of the big things here is that there are no dogmatic, um, diets don't one size fits all for anything just like stroke.
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I do like the approach of looking at the individual at the cellular level for some of these things, especially around diet and sunlight and.
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You know, I tried to today, I was like, you know what?
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I been getting up earlier.
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I've been working out earlier.
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I've been trying to, I just went up before I actually ran today.
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I just went outside and did a 45 minute walk in the sun and you know, that's different.
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I haven't done that before.
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Uh, genuinely, I mean, I've run outside for last couple of years.
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But I've been running inside more and I just saw, Hey, I need to get back out there and get more sunlight.
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I got a little off track back in September when rain every day.
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And so for me, You know, getting out there and getting some sun, even though it's a little cooler this time of year, um, Anyways.
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Lots to talk about.
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I will be back later in the week.
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Uh, I'm going to do a solo episode this week.
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I'm coming out Wednesday and then Friday, I'll back to recap.
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Hopefully I'll finish the book before then.
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If you can get the book before Thanksgiving, you get a chest.
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Digging into some of this, you can even probably ask T to give you a rundown of the book.
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Just some things to look into.
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Um, really interesting book, really interesting topics.
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Lots of good information.
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Things that'll help.
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Um, you know, and again, don't try that.
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Incorporate everything from the book in one week.
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But do give it a chance and a really explored, I encourage you.
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I think it's a lot of good stuff that can help.
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Be a good aid in recovery.
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So, um, So, yeah, I'll leave it there.
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And, uh, yeah, I'll be back later this week and, uh, hope you have a great week.
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Hope you have a good holiday.
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If I don't talk to you then before then, so.
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Uh, yeah, we'll leave there by.
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What's up, everybody.
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Hope you had a great weekend.
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I'm back with another survivors island soundbite.
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This is number five.
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I don't know why I keep numbering them more.
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Poppy sat that at some point, but a.
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Yeah, it is the week of Thanksgiving, the Monday before.
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And I'm back with a new topic this week.
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I've been thinking about this a lot.
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This weekend.
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I rewatched a Joe Rogan episode over the weekend and I bought a book.
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And I've been digging into it.
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I think this is a timely topic.
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Uh, being that it's Thanksgiving week here in the states.
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And we talk a lot about stroke and stroke recovery and all the things you can do.
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Um, I was thinking about a lot of things.
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Like what can you do in the beginning, especially if you.
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Experienced paralysis.
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You're not able to walk.
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You're not able to be active in the beginning.
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There's lots of things you can do.
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I think we get overwhelmed with information.
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Health and recovery is, uh, you know, We've said it at nauseum.
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We've talked about it a lot.
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It is definitely a marathon.
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I know the all that is one step at a time.
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Sometimes that makes sense.
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Sometimes you get sick of that.
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I certainly did.
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The old, it takes time.
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We know that's true, even if you don't want to hear it, depending on where you're at in your stroke recovery journey.
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Things can be really hard to hear.
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Um, but the, it really all comes down to the fact that like, When you do have a stroke.
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No matter what health you were in before.
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What healthier in today, it can all be improved.
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Likely.
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Majority of stroke survivors need to make significant changes are S you know, I talked to, um, All fellows stroke, survivor who, uh, That episode will be out next week after Thanksgiving.
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It was a great conversation.
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Jason Lopes, if you know him from ticktock.
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Check them out on Tik, TOK and Instagram again.
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Really, these are episode.
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Of chatting together last week.
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Um, separately that pockets of out next week.
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Uh, so this week you'll be.
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Kind of mini Stuart episodes, given that it's a holiday, we.
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Anyways, back to the main thing I want to talk about this week is.
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A book.
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Um, I kind of came across these two Casey and Kelly means, uh, on the Joe Rogan podcast.
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Uh, you know, not.
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I know some people aren't fans.
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It's okay.
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It's a really good.
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Either way.
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I like hearing a wide ranging topics.
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I like hearing from are a lot of different people in a lot of different perspectives.
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Honestly, I'm trying to incorporate more of that on my show.
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That's why you earlier, or last night into this morning, I released an episode with Keith Ellis, which was fantastic.
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We talked about long COVID.
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Definitely worth checking that out.
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Um, again, great conversation, but, uh, back to this, I gotta try to stay on track with these shorter episodes.
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Okay.
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So, uh, Kelly and Casey, Casey and Kelly means, or a book called good energy and it's packed with a lot of advice.
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For really kind of examining your.
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Elva journey as a stroke survivor.
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You know, I think we all start in different place.
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Some of us were doing things really well before.
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Majority of us per probably.
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Have room for improvement.
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And I think I continue to have room for improvement and people always ask me.
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How I do things and why I do things.
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And it's because I'm endlessly curious, which we talked about last week.
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Um, And this is no different.
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I keep looking at how I can refine my health.
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What could I be doing better?
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What is.
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What are the right things from me when it comes to diet.
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And, you know, while I say me in this context, you should obviously apply to your situation because unfortunately, I don't know everybody that's listening.
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Certainly would love to.
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But it's also would be, uh, insanely overwhelming.
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Um, So again, the book is called good energy, and I think it's really worth the, you know, if you listen to it on all the bull, I think it's like 14 or 15 bucks.
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You can also get it on Kindle for around the same price.
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And then you get the hard copy as well.
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You give him, probably get a local library, although it is a fairly new book.
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So it probably would be on.
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You probably take some time to get it from the library.
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Um, but again, the book's great cause it's got a holistic approach that I really like.
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It's it's I think that what I realized, and I think it's silly, right?
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Cause I've been reading books for a long time.
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I'm a big fan of books and sometimes books can come off a certain way.
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And I realized, and this seems so stupid, but I realized today I was like, oh, wait, Sometimes when you're listening, they can sound preachy because you're listening.
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Right.
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And then sometimes you don't realize that somebody who's offering a book.
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They may only want to write one books.
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They may be trying to pack it with information.
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And I think.
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I had to remind myself that sometimes books can be a long-term reference and.
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Just because the author has tried to pack it full of information because they probably don't want to write a second book.
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Uh, I haven't written a book myself yet, but I imagine it's a difficult, long process.
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And unless you want to be an author for your entire life, um, which some people do and some people don't.
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It can come off a little preachy, but I do think, I think.
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I think that's not the intent.
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I think it's to give you all the information and then you, as the reader.
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Should take pieces and bits and think about what you want to refine.
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Again, this book, a good energy has a ton of information.
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It's honestly.
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Overwhelming.
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A lot of things, we probably know, like, Certain foods should be avoided.
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And again, what I like about this book is it's, it's, it's a little bit of things I honestly didn't realize or.
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Haven't paid as close of attention.
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I've been very focused on my diet and my health and my fitness and my emotional, all those things.
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Since I became a stroke survivor.
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And so.
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Again, this is sort of a comprehensive holistic approach.
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It's not just about diet.
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It's about.
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It's a diet, but it's about sunlight.
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It's about, um, you know, Um, Mindfulness meditation.
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It just kind of all the things I talk about kind of regularly as is chokes of our.
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And again, if you have other, uh, You know, some of the things where the term traumatic brain injury, whether you have Ms, like myself, uh, maybe some other auto-immune diseases.
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I think it's just a really good.
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Overall.
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High-impact book.
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Um, so some of the key highlights so far.
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And I'm not completely finished with it.
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I hope to finish it before.
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Recording Friday's episode, we're wrap things up.
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Big takeaways.
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Anti-inflammatory eating like we know sugar and processed foods are not good for us.
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If you don't know that you can learn that by reading this book.
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Um, Honestly, I didn't even know that for a long time.
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I think I've tried to get very good about food.
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Less ingredients the better.
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Um, if you haven't heard of the Yuca app, Y U K a, I believe.
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That's really good if you're shopping in the store and you don't want to read.
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Every detail of every label, because again, it can be exhausting.
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You can scan that app and they're pretty good, pretty reliable in terms of, uh, how healthy is it really for you?
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And again, the book, when you start reading it, you feel overwhelmed, but I think you have to, you owe it to yourself to just realize, Hey, I want to make changes.
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Uh, want to do better, want to eat better?
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Specifically around food.
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Just start making small incremental changes.
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If you.
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If, you know, you have a sweet tooth and you know, it's not good to eat.
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You know, we all know sugar is bad.
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You trying to cut that out, trying to cut that back.
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Cutting back is significant.
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Right?
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Even if you are not able to cut things out today.
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You don't have to be drastic.
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You can do things slowly.
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Obviously getting certain things out of your diet sooner than later is better.
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But again, Everything with moderation, everything safely.
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You know for you.
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If you eat like shit, it's very easy to see.
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You know, quickly turn that around.
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Um, Just not eating shit is better than eating.
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You know, Crap.
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Um, Again, there's a lot of practical tips.
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It's it's it's about blood sugar, steady energy.
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Gut health, uh, the role, the role that like some fermented foods splay.
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Considering getting some bread and, or, you know, again, not everybody's going to be able to get everything out of their diet right away, but it's just incremental changes I think is really important.
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And so making daily habits to just be better.
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Um, a lot of the book goes into movement and it's, you don't have to be a runner.
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You don't have to run 20 miles a day.
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Like my dumb ass.
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You know, uh, just consistently stretching.
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Actively moving.
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I like some of the things in the book.
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If you're a stroke Stover, and it's hard to move, you can get into breath work that can start to tend to.
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Breathwork is brought up in the book over and over.
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And you've heard me talk about it a lot on this show.
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Again, that was something I had no idea about until three years into my stroke.
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I didn't start taking it seriously.
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And Viva cell.
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I have moments like when I record a podcast, I forget to breathe through my nose.
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I forget to slow down.
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I forget to take, you know, Take a moment.
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Think what, what, you know, it's okay.
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When there's silence the world won't end because there's a little silence.
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Is that people love that.
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Some people hate that.
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I think it, it, it just depends on you.
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Again, more things in the book.
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Uh, sleep.
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It's about building routine.
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I've talked about sleep a lot.
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I've talked about it when I get on, on podcasts and bit of guests.
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I've talked about it here.
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Sleep have for me, I had sleep apnea.
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I didn't know I had sleep apnea and till my stroke.
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Doing the sleep studies are super important.
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I find sleep apnea.
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You know, I think I probably actually almost out of it.
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Honestly, if I got retested, uh, I just really.
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I love my sleep machine.
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I used to be a smoker.
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I used to be a drinker.
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I used to do everything completely wrong.
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And over the last five years, since my stroke I've really changed a lot.
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But it wasn't all at once.
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It was over time.
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My diet, you know, I ate like total crap prior to my stroke.
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So when I had my stroke is very easy for me to start kind of incrementally.
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Eating better.
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And over time, the better you eat, the more you want to eat better because you're like, oh, I feel better when I eat better.
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Like this isn't rocket science people.
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Don't tell you these things because they.
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I don't care what you eat.
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I just know.
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The less processed stuff, the less.
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The better I eat the better high, quiet, higher quality.
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I try to eat.
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I know that everybody can't afford certain things, but you'd be surprised when you start digging.
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And doing some research, like yeah.
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Maybe not everything, but you can start to make these changes and those changes start to take effect.
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You know, and again, being incremental.
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Really just being mindful of the choices you're making.
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I mean, again, I still don't eat everything great.
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Like I don't eat all organic.
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I don't eat all grass fed beef.
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I'd love to.
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Um, but I have a family of five.
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You know, we're a family of five.
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And so it's all about balance for me.
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It's about, uh, again, that.
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Small consistent, mindful action, whether it's food, whether it's movement, whether it's sleep, whether it's stress management, whether it's Warrick.
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All these little tiny steps, start to add up over time.
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And again, My journey so far has only been five years.
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Um, And I, you know, like I said, I think everybody's going to be different.
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I think.
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If you're not feeling great, there are lots of things that you can try.
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It's trial and error.
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Uh, some people don't like that approach.
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I like that approach.
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I like to figure out what works for me.
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What feels safe?
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We'll feel smart.
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What feels good?
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What doesn't feel good?
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Just this weekend.
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You know, I really have been concentrating on my diet this year just to find out what works best for me.
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And that's a big thing in this book.
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It can feel preachy, but don't take it as preachy.
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Take it as.
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And I'm sure Casey and Kelly meant it this way.
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When they wrote the book, it's like, okay.
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Learn about health at kind of a cellular level.
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Don't worry about the specific diet, whether you want to do keto or carnivore or Mediterranean or.
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Or whatever, like it's, it's about finding what works for you there.
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She says in the book.
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At least a several times.
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You know, I'm not a vegan guy, it's not a lifestyle choice.
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I want to take part in it.
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It's just not for me.
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I like meat.
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I feel good on meat.
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I like vegetables.
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So I sometimes deviate from carnivore.
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I'm not trying to do anything dogmatic.
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I'm trying to do what feels best for me.
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You know, I've, I've kind of improved.
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Again, over time, like in the beginning I just ate less crap than I was eating.
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Then that got into, you know, more protein, less carb.
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Slowly kind of morphed into Quito have explored carnivore.
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Um, I try not to go back and forth too much.
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But again, I try not to be too dogmatic at any particular point.
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I just kind of.
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Approach each week.
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Um, With an open mind, it'd be like, okay, what's been feeling good boat to work in.
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Like, you know, right now it's a lot of red meat, a lot of fish, a lot of eggs and a little bit of broccoli.
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I like some fiber in my.
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My diet.
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Uh, I've gotten away from refined grains, you know, but I've had plenty of keenwah.
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I think, again, it all depends on the quality, how you buy, where you buy it.
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And again, what works well for you?
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What are you feeling best on?
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You know, with the running, uh, you know, that daily movement is a big thing.
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Um, You know, I'm not running every day to try to lose weight.
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I really run every day because I honestly, at this point I've been running for about two years almost every day, and I just feel great when I run and I feel crappy when I don't run as much.
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Um, Now have incorporated.
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We training and kettlebells, and that's been a big change.
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You know, I'll probably talk about that later in the week.
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Kettlebell.
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I've got some interesting things on kettlebells because I've been a lifter.
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Uh, tra you know, trained quite for quite some time.
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Most of my life, actually, I lifted weights.
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I just got away from cardio severely in my thirties.
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Um, Obviously I'm back on the cardio.
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Bandwagon.
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But kettlebells have been a mess of improvement in the last two months.
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And again, I'll talk more about that later in the week, but, uh, I just want to encourage people to check out this book again.
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I have no affiliation.
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I don't, I don't care if you bought it or not.
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I just think kind of like breath by James nester.
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This is another big book that, um, That I think has a lot of good information from.
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Talking about pesticides that, you know, We use our foods compared to other countries.
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I think that's why you see a lot of.
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Other countries around the world, just kind of, they seemingly do a better job.
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And like you talk about, I lived in Italy, all of 2005 and.
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Are you fucking pizza every day?
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Which is carbs, but.
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Somehow, you know, obviously I wasn't driving as much.
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I was living in Rome primarily.
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Walking a lot more.
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Cause I had no choice.
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Uh, I had no access to, well, I did have access to cars and vehicles, but I just didn't use them.
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Or rarely.
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Um, But again, check out the book.
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Good energy.
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I think there's a lot of big, good takeaways.
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It's not a one-time checklist.
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You're not going to.
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You're not going to implement everything.
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You probably going to feel like me at times.
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It does feel a little yelly sometimes, especially if you're less than audible.
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I don't think that's intent.
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But again, recovery is not about being perfect.
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We talk about.
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Uh, a ton about it being a marathon.
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It really is.
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But it's a marathon you can win, um, over time.
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Uh, you know, not everybody agrees, but I think winning to me in stroke is like, okay, Am I.
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Am I the way I was before, maybe never.
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But I gotta be honest.
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I feel a lot better than the, probably the five years I felt before my stroke.
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So you don't on that sense.
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It is good.
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Everything I'm doing feels good.
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And, you know, long-term health is an investment.
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Uh, I do.
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Again, some of the big things here is that there are no dogmatic, um, diets don't one size fits all for anything just like stroke.
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I do like the approach of looking at the individual at the cellular level for some of these things, especially around diet and sunlight and.
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You know, I tried to today, I was like, you know what?
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I been getting up earlier.
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I've been working out earlier.
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I've been trying to, I just went up before I actually ran today.
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I just went outside and did a 45 minute walk in the sun and you know, that's different.
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I haven't done that before.
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Uh, genuinely, I mean, I've run outside for last couple of years.
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But I've been running inside more and I just saw, Hey, I need to get back out there and get more sunlight.
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I got a little off track back in September when rain every day.
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And so for me, You know, getting out there and getting some sun, even though it's a little cooler this time of year, um, Anyways.
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Lots to talk about.
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I will be back later in the week.
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Uh, I'm going to do a solo episode this week.
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I'm coming out Wednesday and then Friday, I'll back to recap.
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Hopefully I'll finish the book before then.
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If you can get the book before Thanksgiving, you get a chest.
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Digging into some of this, you can even probably ask T to give you a rundown of the book.
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Just some things to look into.
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Um, really interesting book, really interesting topics.
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Lots of good information.
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Things that'll help.
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Um, you know, and again, don't try that.
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Incorporate everything from the book in one week.
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But do give it a chance and a really explored, I encourage you.
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I think it's a lot of good stuff that can help.
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Be a good aid in recovery.
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So, um, So, yeah, I'll leave it there.
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And, uh, yeah, I'll be back later this week and, uh, hope you have a great week.
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Hope you have a good holiday.
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If I don't talk to you then before then, so.
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Uh, yeah, we'll leave there by.
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