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Speaker 1: Hello, this is Healthy Ish, your daily podcast from Body

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Speaker 1: and Soul. I am your host for listening, Halley. Now

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Speaker 1: for some extra midyear inspiration. This week we're dropping our

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Speaker 1: most popular episodes so far of twenty twenty four. Back

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Speaker 1: in February, Australia's health and fitness Quay Michelle Bridges joined

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Speaker 1: us in the studio to speak candily for the first

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Speaker 1: time about her experience with perimenopause and menopause. You're like

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Speaker 1: this chat and also if you do want more from

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Speaker 1: Michelle listening to extra Healthy Ish, where she discusses the

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Speaker 1: best workouts for menopause symptoms and perimenopause symptoms. You can

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Speaker 1: catch that wherever you get your podcasts. Michelle Bridges, Hi,

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Speaker 1: how are you?

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Speaker 2: I'm very well. I just love looking across you face.

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Speaker 1: Likewise today we met.

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Speaker 2: It's never changed.

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Speaker 1: God, what was that decades ago? Which actually is quite

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Speaker 1: fitting with our conversation today around Perry and menopause. We've

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Speaker 1: seen each other go through all the life cycles. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: we have absolutely a moment. It is definitely is the

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Speaker 1: fitness industry responding to this.

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Speaker 2: That's a really interesting question because I don't know, I

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Speaker 2: don't know how they're responding to it. Look, I actually

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Speaker 2: don't think there has been a lot of discussion in

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Speaker 2: the fitness industry, if I'm honest. Yeah, I mean sure

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Speaker 2: there'd be lots of personal trainers out there that are

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Speaker 2: training menopause or women. Are they well versed in menopause?

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Speaker 2: Some might be, some might not be. I don't think

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Speaker 2: there's been a huge discussion in the fitness industry.

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Speaker 1: So well, that's probably telling really that we need the

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Speaker 1: discussion healthy. It need to happen.

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Speaker 2: It does, it really does like it. You know, I

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Speaker 2: was saying to you earlier, I'm in the health industry,

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Speaker 2: fitness industry. You know, I thought I knew a bit

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Speaker 2: about menopause. You know, I was clearly clueless. Now that

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Speaker 2: I've dove right in and worked with some incredible experts

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Speaker 2: on my new program, and I thought, well, if I

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Speaker 2: am as clueless as I clearly was, then what he

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Speaker 2: has everybody else got that doesn't even work in the

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Speaker 2: health industry, if you know what I mean. Yeah, there's

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Speaker 2: a lot of ladies out there that don't know a

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Speaker 2: lot about this topic. So the idea of being able

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Speaker 2: to talk about it more, and there's a lot of

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Speaker 2: other ladies out there now, not in the fitness industry,

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Speaker 2: more in the health industry that are starting to talk

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Speaker 2: about it, which is great because it has had definitely

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Speaker 2: a shame, a taboo, a shielded in secrecy. If I

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Speaker 2: admit it, I'm admitting that I'm old, and it's like,

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Speaker 2: what on earth?

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Speaker 1: It's crazy talk. It's really only in the past six

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Speaker 1: months to a year. It's almost like we've had a

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Speaker 1: menopause revolution in many aspects. How has it been for.

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Speaker 2: You, Well, you know, the reason I did the program

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Speaker 2: was because I had so many ladies asking me about

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Speaker 2: it for years. Actually, so it's been in my mind

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Speaker 2: and been kicking around in my mind for a couple

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Speaker 2: of years. And then hello, I'm sitting in the middle

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Speaker 2: of it. So it feels it feels authentically right for

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Speaker 2: me to be talking about it, doing something about it,

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Speaker 2: and sharing with what I've learned. I kind of had

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Speaker 2: an inkling that something was going on when my period

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Speaker 2: started going all over the place. So they were heavy,

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Speaker 2: they were light, they were early, they were late, and

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Speaker 2: I thought, Hm, okay, this could be and then you know,

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Speaker 2: I remember one morning throwing myself on the bed and

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Speaker 2: bursting into tears and sobbing uncontrollably and it hasn't even

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Speaker 2: hit eight am yet. Wow.

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Speaker 1: Okay, not the usual a A.

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Speaker 2: In practice, there's been many times that kind of rollout

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Speaker 2: has happened. And then you know, I noticed a change

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Speaker 2: in my body shape, particularly around the middle, and I

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Speaker 2: was like, okay, well this is clearly you know something,

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Speaker 2: and so I talked about it with my GP, and

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Speaker 2: then I started doing a little bit more research and

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Speaker 2: then I started learning more and then I just thought, okay,

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Speaker 2: I really should do a program on this. I think

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Speaker 2: night sweats were the big ones for nights. Yeah, I

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Speaker 2: had night sweats, hip pain. Both of those things will

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Speaker 2: keep me awake at night. And then when I'm away a.

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Speaker 1: Long period, are they still going? Not as much now, okay,

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Speaker 1: but that was was Oh my god.

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Speaker 2: I'd wake up and I'm, you know, perspiring like I've

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Speaker 2: done a workout. And then of course then you then

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Speaker 2: that has a knock on effect with your sleep. So

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Speaker 2: then you wake up when you finally get to sleep,

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Speaker 2: maybe maybe not. The next day is a mess. Then

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Speaker 2: you know, you don't don't particularly if you'll energize to

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Speaker 2: go for a workout, even though I know that training

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Speaker 2: is great during these time of our life. Absolutely so, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: there was certainly a few symptoms for me, but I

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Speaker 2: feel very blessed that my symptoms haven't been extraordinarily severe.

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Speaker 2: I know some ladies have that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a rule. It's a rollercoaster, isn't it. I

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Speaker 1: mean for a huge spectrum. I think you might have

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Speaker 1: mentioned to me a year or two two ago. I mean,

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Speaker 1: you've always been known for your hard ass hit sessions

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Speaker 1: and out there lifting strong, and I mean you've been

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Speaker 1: an inspiration that in that respect. But I remember you

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Speaker 1: saying that you've got more into yoga and pilates and

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Speaker 1: this softer dare I call it the side of fitness?

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Speaker 1: How has your approach to exercise and working out change

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Speaker 1: since you've hit Perry.

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Speaker 2: I think it was starting to change as I was

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Speaker 2: going through my forties. It's just you're just your body

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Speaker 2: is different. You know, you don't have the capacity that

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Speaker 2: you're used to and I wasn't. I'm no longer working

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Speaker 2: as a full time fitness professional back when I was

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Speaker 2: doing that. You sort of have a much bigger capacity,

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Speaker 2: and you've got a reason to get up in the

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Speaker 2: morning because youve got you know, thirty forty fifty people

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Speaker 2: waiting for you to turn up to teach a class.

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Speaker 2: So my training is definitely changed when I stopped being

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Speaker 2: full on, full time fitness professional and then gradually over

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Speaker 2: the years. You know, I have trained extremely hard in

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Speaker 2: my lifetime, but it just you want you need to

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Speaker 2: sort of change it in order to have longevity. Like

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Speaker 2: I want to be training into my sixties, seventies and

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Speaker 2: eighties because I know the benefits.

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Speaker 1: So I don't.

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Speaker 2: You're trying to sort of keep yourself free from injury

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Speaker 2: and the kinds of like for example, I don't run

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Speaker 2: the way I used to anymore, like I used to

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Speaker 2: run half marathons. I don't really think I've got a

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Speaker 2: half marathon in me anymore. Maybe if I trained for it, sure,

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Speaker 2: but I want to make sure that I have got

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Speaker 2: that longevity, and I just treat you train a little

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Speaker 2: bit smarter. You do what you know is good for

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Speaker 2: you and works for you, and you work around niggles

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Speaker 2: and injuries.

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Speaker 1: You just have to have been challenging in the mind,

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Speaker 1: you know, to push past of But I probably shouldn't

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Speaker 1: do this workout, Perhaps I should do this one instead.

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Speaker 1: Is that or has it been an easy easy thing

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Speaker 2: Well, No, I still do those workouts, but I just

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Speaker 2: don't do them as ball tearingly hard as I used to. Like,

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Speaker 2: I still do body attack, but I'm not like doing

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Speaker 2: it as all out as I used to. I still

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Speaker 2: do pump body punk classes, and I'm still on the

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Speaker 2: weights that I used to use when I was a trainer,

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Speaker 2: So I'm very happy about that, but I don't do

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Speaker 2: as many. I don't do as many classes. Yeah, you know, so, yeah,

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Speaker 2: I still do it. I still I still do spin classes,

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Speaker 2: but I might not turn that dial up quite as

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Speaker 2: high as I used to, you know. Like, so I

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Speaker 2: still do it, you just dial it back a.

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Speaker 1: Little, take it easy. No, No, still push yourself. Still

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Speaker 1: give it a push.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, still give it a push. But you still have

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Speaker 2: to challenge yourself, you know. You still have to challenge

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Speaker 2: your heart and your muscle in order to future proof

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Speaker 2: your body. So I'm training for different reasons now I'm

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Speaker 2: training for Like in my twenties, I was probably training

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Speaker 2: to look great in a pair of jeans in my thirties,

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Speaker 2: probably still the same. Now I'm training because I've got

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Speaker 2: an eight year old son. I want to be around

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Speaker 2: longer I don't want to have osteoporosis when I get

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Speaker 2: to my sixties and seventies and eighties, which is a

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Speaker 2: real thing. I want to have independence when I get

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Speaker 2: into my older age. I don't you know that no

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Speaker 2: one's got a crystal ball, but there are a few

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Speaker 2: things that you can do as an intro RN's policy.

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Speaker 1: I like that. I like this newbas your bridgets. Oh hey,

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Speaker 1: thanks for coming Unhealthy is you welcome? Thanks for tuning

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Speaker 1: in to this midyear best of series. We will be

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