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Speaker 1: Hey there, Hello, Welcome to Healthy Ish. This is your

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Speaker 1: well almost daily podcast from Body and Soul. I am

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Speaker 1: your host of Felicity Harley and joining me across the

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Speaker 1: table in the hot seed is our digital editor Holly Berkleman,

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Speaker 1: and as he sip drops on a Friday, we're going

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Speaker 1: to deliver you the hottest topics in the health and

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Speaker 1: wellness world this week.

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Speaker 2: Holly Gooday, Hello, how are you? Yeah, I'm good good.

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Speaker 1: Hey, you have to tell you something, tell me well

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Speaker 1: and new listeners. But I actually went to a funeral

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Speaker 1: on Monday.

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Speaker 2: Oh I'm sorry.

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Speaker 1: No, Well she was one hundred and four point eight.

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Speaker 2: Oh my god. Yes, that's incredible.

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Speaker 1: It was my auntie by marriage's mother and it was

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Speaker 1: an amazing celebration of her life. And I probably didn't

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Speaker 1: appreciate how like devoted.

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Speaker 2: To her she was. Yeah, what a legend. I've never

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Speaker 2: known anyone who's lived that long, neither I. It's incredible.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it was phenomenal. And let me just share a

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Speaker 1: few of her health tips that she did throughout her

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Speaker 1: whole life. Yes, her whole mantra for life was simplicity.

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Speaker 1: So she really was a meat and three vege of fish.

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Speaker 1: And three veg like just basic food.

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Speaker 2: Didn't over complicate things and something to be said for that.

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Speaker 1: Drank loads of water. Actually, my auntie was telling me

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Speaker 1: she would have a little tally system to make sure

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Speaker 1: she drank enough water each day.

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Speaker 2: She'd like cross the great idea. Actually, I should probably

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Speaker 2: do that, yep.

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Speaker 1: And also she did these leg raises every day where

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Speaker 1: she'd hold the bench, particularly when she got to about

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Speaker 1: one hundred and just raise her knees up.

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Speaker 2: Wow. Yeah, what a woman.

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Speaker 1: And then she did she did a lot of yoga

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Speaker 2: Okay, that's another thing I can probably start anyway.

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Speaker 1: I know I was there at the celebration and one

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Speaker 1: of her granddaughters she had great great grand child, Wow,

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Speaker 1: was talking about her health habits and I was like, oh,

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Speaker 1: I'm so going to tell tell your listeners about this

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Speaker 2: You're like, this is very up my ali. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Anyway over to you also going, well, my week's been great.

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Speaker 2: We have launched our dedicated Olympics hub on body insoult

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Speaker 2: I'm so proud of it. It's bodysol dot com dot

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Speaker 2: you Forward slash Olympics. It's got athlete profiles, breaking news,

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Speaker 2: and metal Tally will launch when it actually starts. We've

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Speaker 2: got a countdown at the moment. It's amazing exclusive video.

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Speaker 2: You should all go and have a look. It's great

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Speaker 2: and throughout the games we're going to have so much

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Speaker 2: more dropping on there. Okay, great everyone, Yeah, thanks everyone,

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Speaker 2: Just just plugging my own website.

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Speaker 1: But well share this the most intriguing story of the week.

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Speaker 2: So my pick for the week was a story by

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Speaker 2: Hannah vander Hyde, one of our contributors, and the headline

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Speaker 2: is our gen z aging faster than I love it

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Speaker 2: should be. It's a great story because this all launched

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Speaker 2: because a TikTok user said he posted a video of

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Speaker 2: himself and was like, I'm actually younger than Zendaya, but

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Speaker 2: looking at him, you'd be like, I would have thought

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Speaker 2: two main questions, which is our gen Z aging faster

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Speaker 2: than their predecessors and if so, why so? She looked

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Speaker 2: at a couple of different explanations, which include the first

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Speaker 2: one is stress. We all know that stress has a

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Speaker 2: tangible impact on your health, but from mental health reasons, burnout, etc.

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Speaker 1: Other factors. We're stress on your face exactly.

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Speaker 2: all pretty plausible, yea convincing explanations. So I guess awareness

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Speaker 2: is the first step to slowing that premature aging down.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, it got me thinking a look a lot

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Speaker 2: that's the correct answer. Thank you, good, good felicity. Just

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Speaker 1: Don't we Yeah that makes you fine with looking?

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Speaker 3: Completely feel a free and fantastically because you're so health

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Speaker 3: conscious exactly, But yeah, there are I guess also young

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Speaker 2: There's maybe a lot more hyper awareness about.

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Speaker 1: That is a really good point.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it's a good one.

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Speaker 1: I like this one.

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Speaker 2: I'm going to keep notes on how I'm prematurely aging.

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Speaker 2: Over to you for story two.

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Speaker 1: Okay, I want to share something. Look, it's vitamin patches,

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Speaker 1: which I want to talk about today. Now. These have

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Speaker 1: a story on this earlier in the year. I just

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Speaker 1: social media and claims that they can help us sleep better,

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Speaker 1: boost our immunity, relieve menopause symptoms, and even prevent hangovers.

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Speaker 2: So a cure all exactly.

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Speaker 1: I did a bit of a deep dive into these

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Speaker 2: Do you want to write for body and soul? Well?

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Speaker 1: I have done in parts and manufacturers claim they're easy

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Speaker 1: to use, convenient, and ethical when compared with other types

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Speaker 1: of vitamin products. So basically, what are they? I mean,

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Speaker 1: often square, Some have kit little drawings on the back.

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Speaker 1: They're designed to deliver vitamins and nutrients to your bloodstream

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Speaker 1: directly through your skin. You peel away the backing, you

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Speaker 1: have to place it with no hair in a hairless area,

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Speaker 1: and then the patches will release their vitamins over a

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Speaker 1: Are they better than a tablet? Not much evidence? Pretty

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Speaker 1: contains three milligrams of vitamin C. Now, in contrast, a

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Speaker 1: vitamin C tablet contains five hundred milligrams wow, yeah, okay,

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Speaker 1: and an orange contains fifty three.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so tablet real orange? Actually, well no, real food. First, no,

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Speaker 1: like lots and lots of vitamins concentrated. That's the word

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Speaker 1: I mean, we have got one of the toughest systems

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Speaker 1: And I know some people don't like that because it

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Speaker 1: Exactly now, just quickly before we go, give us a

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Speaker 1: quick rundown of the most clicked story of the week.

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Speaker 2: Most clicked story was how to Avoid Habitual Sex in

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Speaker 2: the Bedroom, which is by one of our writers, Ebony Lee.

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Speaker 2: So I'm sure everyone you know, everyone wants to have

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Speaker 2: a good sex life, and sex ologist Cody Baker says

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Speaker 2: that the most common cause of having more habitual, unexciting

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Speaker 2: have sex at different times of the day. I like it,

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Speaker 2: have sex in different locations. I like it, law allowing,

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Speaker 2: and then work on communicating your desires to your partner,

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Speaker 2: which is so simple, but I think can really go.

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Speaker 1: That last one always comes up when I interview sex

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Speaker 1: experts or relationship experts, and that is they see lots

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Speaker 1: of couples and that's just as a breakdown in communication.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the resounding feedback is say what you're into,

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Speaker 2: talk to your partner. You can read the rest of

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Speaker 2: the tips on what in soel dot com, dot are you.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, Holly, and of course my friends. If you

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Speaker 1: do want to read any of the above, I will

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Speaker 1: leave the links to those in the show notes. Anything else,

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Speaker 1: And until tomorrow, well next time you listen, stay healthy,