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Speaker 1: Well.

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Speaker 2: Hello, healthy Ish listeners, you have tune into the daily

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Speaker 2: podcasts from Body and Soul. Of course, I am Felicity

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Speaker 2: Harley and joining me well as it's a Friday EP

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Speaker 2: is our fabulous digital editor Holly Berkelman, and we are

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Speaker 2: talking about the three hottest topics in the health and

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Speaker 2: wellness world this week. Holly, welcome back to healthy Ish.

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Speaker 2: How are you?

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Speaker 1: Hello? Hello, I'm well. How are you going.

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Speaker 2: I'm not feeling I'm feeling the ish today, not the healthy.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, she's not feeling well at all.

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Speaker 2: Actually, no, no, and you know how we just around

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Speaker 2: and we just do it. I'm actually okay. I just

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Speaker 2: you know, when you're on that verge of getting sick.

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Speaker 2: But I think I'll be okay. But you're not quite sure.

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Speaker 2: How you wake up in the morning.

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Speaker 1: Yes, Oh, it's the worst feel everyone's going down at

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Speaker 1: the moment.

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Speaker 2: I know. It's been the bad sickness. It's been the

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Speaker 2: unhealthy winter. Let's call it that, but it has let's

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Speaker 2: talk about something, well, perhaps is it healthy? I shall

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Speaker 2: not share with us your top pick of the week.

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Speaker 1: So my top story for this week is a first

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Speaker 1: person piece written by Alexandra Costa, one of our contributors,

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Speaker 1: and the headline is, please stop complimenting me on my

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Speaker 1: weight loss. So this piece kind of talks about how

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Speaker 1: when we give people a compliment, particularly women, it's so

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Speaker 1: often underpinned by a comment on weight. So she opens

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Speaker 1: the piece by saying, for myself, the times when people

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Speaker 1: have said I've looked great have always correlated with my

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Speaker 1: body being smaller. But as a perpetual size fourteen to sixteen,

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Speaker 1: weight loss in my life has rarely been a good thing.

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Speaker 1: In fact, it's often been synonymous with some of the

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Speaker 1: worst periods of my life. So one of those times

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Speaker 1: that she talks about she lost a bunch of weight

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Speaker 1: because her sister was really sick, which you can imagine

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Speaker 1: would be really stressful and upsetting period of time. And

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Speaker 1: then another one was when she had an ovarian sis,

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Speaker 1: so she's actually unwell and she lost this weight, which people,

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Speaker 1: you know, even still in twenty twenty four, deemed to

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Speaker 1: be a positive thing, but it was actually the result

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Speaker 1: of her going through these really challenging times. So I think, yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's kind of an ongoing discussion which off the back

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Speaker 1: of the time where weight losses really come back into

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Speaker 1: the cultural consciousness. And she mentions this twenty twenty three

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Speaker 1: report from the Butterfly Foundation as well, with ninety percent

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Speaker 1: of young people have some concern about their body image.

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Speaker 1: And this piece delves into like what it means when

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Speaker 1: complementary language is always tied to like being smaller, and

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Speaker 1: the message that that's sending to women in particular. And

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Speaker 1: so she kind of ties up the piece by saying,

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Speaker 1: when only one version of ourselves is complemented in praise,

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Speaker 1: what's the message being sent to that larger version of ourselves,

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Speaker 1: the version of myself who's worked to unlearned diet culture,

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Speaker 1: feeling bad about eating certain foods or smaller portion sizes.

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Speaker 1: It's a really great piece, and I think something that

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Speaker 1: like women in particular, will really be able to relate to.

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Speaker 2: I love this, Holly so well done on commission it.

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Speaker 2: I think getting these sorts of pieces out there and

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Speaker 2: reminding us all not to do this, because often I mean,

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Speaker 2: I don't do it. I learned I remind myself many

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Speaker 2: years ago that I never want to comment on well,

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Speaker 2: not just wait, but appearance. I think, yeah so much.

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Speaker 2: I noticed, you know, for years I was on television

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Speaker 2: and it was amazing when I come off and I

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Speaker 2: get text messages or people would say, oh, you looked

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Speaker 2: amazing today, and I thought, what about what I said?

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Speaker 1: Was that? Not? Well? What about my mind?

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Speaker 2: And I think that for me really shifted. When I

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Speaker 2: see someone and I just remind myself I want to

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Speaker 2: comment on what they've done or who they are as

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Speaker 2: a person, not what they look like. So, but we

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Speaker 2: do need reminders, and I think this is a fabulous one.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree. I do think it's something that we

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Speaker 1: really have to unlearn because it's baked into our way

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Speaker 1: of communicating from such a young age. So it's often

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Speaker 1: and we say it with the best of intentions, but

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Speaker 1: it does feed into that really in scarce and toxic

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Speaker 1: diet culture. So I think this is a great piece.

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Speaker 1: It's definitely worth a read.

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Speaker 2: Everyone, well, thank you. I like that one. Now I

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Speaker 2: wanted to share something I came across. I don't know

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Speaker 2: if you've heard of this or seen it across TikTok Instagram.

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Speaker 2: It's this whole notion of cortisol face. Have you seen this, Holly,

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Speaker 2: I definitely have. And my goodness, is cortisola hot topic

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Speaker 2: at the moment. Oh, I know everyone is talking about cortisol. Well,

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Speaker 2: these online influencers are claiming that the stress hormone cortisol

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Speaker 2: can actually change your face. So they're blaming their round,

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Speaker 2: puffy faces on high levels of cortisol. Now, just a reminder,

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Speaker 2: it's the hormone produced in response to physical and mental stress.

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Speaker 2: So hundreds of lifestyle and beauty influencers are actually saying

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Speaker 2: that they've transformed their look. They've gone from having a

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Speaker 2: shouldn't say nice, this is, in their words, a contoured,

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Speaker 2: lean jaw line. And they're saying it's because they've reduced

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Speaker 2: their levels of cortisol well and stress. And of course

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Speaker 2: on top of that, they're selling products like homone balancing

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Speaker 2: tees and programs and things that you can do to

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Speaker 2: get a slimmed down appearance. I mean, it's blind extraordinary.

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Speaker 2: I actually went into a hole watching Oh yeah, stop

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Speaker 1: So the question, yes, it's so easy to do. You

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Speaker 1: get sucked in, don't you.

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Speaker 2: And you're like, what have I done with the last

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Speaker 2: ten minutes?

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Speaker 1: Twenty?

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Speaker 2: What am I doing?

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Speaker 1: Get off this?

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Speaker 2: So the big question is does cortisole face actually exist? Well,

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Speaker 2: the experts I found commenting through media throughout the media

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Speaker 2: are skeptical and are basically saying it's another snake oil. However,

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Speaker 2: some rare cases, it is true that chronically high levels

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Speaker 2: of cortasol can affect your appearance. But for the rest

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Speaker 2: of us, no.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I have to say, I think my puffy faces

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Speaker 1: or when I wake up with a puffy favor's generally

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Speaker 1: because I've had too many martinis the night before or

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Speaker 2: And yes, that is true. So cortosole levels, you know,

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Speaker 2: they naturally fluctuate throughout the day, and they obviously spike

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Speaker 2: can response to stress. But our body has this great

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Speaker 2: way homeostasis of rebalancing ourselves out and of course, as

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Speaker 2: you said, Holly, too much alcohol or lack of sleep

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Speaker 2: for me. You know, when you stay out your face

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Speaker 2: the next morning and you think, wow it maybe perhaps

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Speaker 2: it is a little bit parffier than all, but he cares?

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Speaker 2: Who cares?

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Speaker 1: Who cares? This is a little bit to do with

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Speaker 1: that story warned in a few weeks ago about where

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Speaker 1: the gen Z is aging faster, which a lot of

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Speaker 1: that just comes down to we're spending so much time

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and I think this is it's I mean, I

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Speaker 2: find this really concerning in some ways that you know,

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Speaker 2: you can look at yourself that much, you know, in

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Speaker 2: your phone take photos, you know, I mean we've all

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Speaker 2: been there. When we take a selfie, we end up

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Speaker 2: taking twenty because we want the best one, don't we?

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Speaker 1: Oh?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and then we get hypercritical. And again I think

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Speaker 2: this also, you know, this is probably feeding back into

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Speaker 2: die culture and the way we perceive ourselves and perhaps

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Speaker 2: just being happy. We're finding that happiness in how you look.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, it's a grim time, Fliss.

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Speaker 2: It is okay, have you gone uplifting ending for us?

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Speaker 2: Fill us in my God? Do I my top click?

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Speaker 1: Sorry? From the week was this popular sex position is

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Speaker 1: surprisingly dangerous? Have you got any guesses? Flis?

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Speaker 2: And you know I haven't read this, and I didn't

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Speaker 2: read no purpose because I want to be amazed or horrified.

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Speaker 1: Perfect Well, the surprisingly dangerous sex position is shower sex,

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Speaker 1: which I'm not sure we can say really is a

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Speaker 1: sex position, but I guess it's you know, an environment,

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Speaker 1: a sex environment, but it's sex in the shower because

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Speaker 1: hot showers are linked to vasovague or simcope, which is

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Speaker 1: a drop in blood pressure that can cause lightheadedness and faintings.

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Speaker 1: So if you've ever been in like a really hot

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Speaker 1: bath or hot shower and you start feeling a bit dizzy,

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Speaker 1: that's because vagus nerve, which regulates heart rate and blood

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Speaker 1: vessel constriction, temporarily loses normal regulation due to overstimulation. So

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Speaker 1: the blood vessels widen, blood pressure drops, and the present faints.

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Speaker 1: So unless you want to faint during sex, it may

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Speaker 1: be better to keep it in the bedroom.

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Speaker 2: Guys, beware be where the shower for sex. Just keep

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Speaker 2: exactly a little bit of full play in there, perhaps.

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Speaker 1: For sure, I think, get things started in there and

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Speaker 1: then relocate just so you don't, you know, end up

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Speaker 1: in a dire situation. But for more information about that,

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Speaker 1: you can head to Body and Soul that comes to

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Speaker 1: you and the experts can tell you why in more detail.

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Speaker 2: Well, Hally, thank you for uplifting my mood. I am

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Speaker 2: You're so welcome that one, and I'll see you next week.

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Speaker 1: I'll see then, buy.

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Speaker 2: Well, beware next time you step in the shower with

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Speaker 2: your partner. I don't know. It's a good place to

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Speaker 2: mix it up, isn't it. Just jump in the shower,

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Speaker 2: have a bit of fun and if you're feeling a

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Speaker 2: little bit lightheaded, well take it out to the bedroom. Okay,

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Speaker 2: if you do, I'll leave it at that. If you

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Speaker 2: do want to read any of those stories, of course

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Speaker 2: I will leave links to them in the show notes,

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Speaker 2: and of course a link to TikTok's quartersol a face.

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Speaker 2: If you have anything for us to talk about, share

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Speaker 2: with us at Body and Soul, or you can DM

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Speaker 2: me at Felicity Harley on Instagram. Anything else, head to

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Speaker 2: social media. Until next time you listen, Stay healthy,