Speaker 1: Welcome. Well we are back. The Little Things is back
Speaker 1: the season five? Can you believe that in the weeks?
Speaker 2: Not really. I mean I think for Eric question, it's fabulous,
Speaker 2: but I'm just like from the seed of why did
Speaker 2: we do this? I think this would be a really
Speaker 2: good idea to season five.
Speaker 1: It's just crazy, I know, And we've still got so
Speaker 1: many things that we want to talk about. But before
Speaker 1: we get onto that, maybe we should have a little
Speaker 1: bit of a talk about what we got out of
Speaker 1: season four and actually what kind of impact it has.
Speaker 1: Mail I thought it was a slightly philosophical season actually,
Speaker 1: you know, between various people, I think we had we
Speaker 1: had grief.
Speaker 2: I got a lot out of that episode. I don't
Speaker 2: know if I'm abnormal, but I got a lot out
Speaker 2: of that episode.
Speaker 1: Doctor Denise Quinn, and I thought was an incredibly special person,
Speaker 1: and I just love the way that she talked about
Speaker 1: learning to love without somebody by your side. We had
Speaker 1: wonderful reaction to that. It just felt like that was
Speaker 1: a helpful episode, you know, and it's just sitting there
Speaker 1: waiting for you when you need it. It might not
Speaker 1: be something that you gravitated to last season, but I
Speaker 1: think everyone that listened to it. I mean so many
Speaker 1: people just kind of reached out and went thank you
Speaker 1: so much.
Speaker 2: It was personally helpful for me on a number of levels.
Speaker 2: I don't know if it's her, it's an Irish letter,
Speaker 2: isn't it total that also helped.
Speaker 1: Yeah, No, that that was it. That was key. Okay,
Speaker 1: Producer Carrey, get some more Irish guests song that'll do
Speaker 1: the track. Interestingly, this season, you know, we're going to
Speaker 1: talk about something else which is quite difficult, and so
Speaker 1: many families are going through, and that is dealing with dementia.
Speaker 1: Because that doesn't just happen to an individual, also happens
Speaker 1: to a family and everybody has to deal with that.
Speaker 1: We're going to cover that off this season. Look, there
Speaker 1: were a couple of episodes which kind of were connected
Speaker 1: that really had an impact on me. Obviously, our very
Speaker 1: first episode last season with Lara Bryden the net Path
Speaker 1: on our Metabolism was just a perfect way for me
Speaker 1: to start the season, and in a way, combined with
Speaker 1: our conversation with doctor Will Bolschwitz, who was the gastroentrologist
Speaker 1: and researcher who talked all about our guts, I think
Speaker 1: what I got from last season was so much more
Speaker 1: appreciation for what my body does and so much more
Speaker 1: compassion for how I should treat it, you know, like
Speaker 1: I just, I just it is extraordinary. We just learned
Speaker 1: so much about how our bodies work and how our
Speaker 1: guts work. And I also have the way we seem
Speaker 1: to have these guests who kind of are able to
Speaker 1: put subjects sort of make them quite romantic. Do you
Speaker 1: remember that Will was talking about how we've got thirty
Speaker 1: eight trillion microorganisms and our larger testine and if you
Speaker 1: took every star in the galaxy and put them all
Speaker 1: into a ball and your in testines, you'd have to
Speaker 1: do this three hundred and eighty times with tearim I'm
Speaker 1: talking about this, and I just love this sort of
Speaker 1: people are just talking about our bodies in a different
Speaker 1: way and trying to get us to get our head
Speaker 1: around how absolutely extraordinary they are. You know, you've got
Speaker 1: three hundred and eighty trillion galaxies with the stars in
Speaker 1: your gut. But the point being it has definitely meant
Speaker 1: that I have tried to be more consistent. I'm nowhere
Speaker 1: they're perfect, but sheltering more from alcohol and processed food
Speaker 1: and sugar. And I hate to say it, but it's
Speaker 1: a pretty simple way to feel better, to sleep better,
Speaker 1: have more sort of consistent energy and all those things.
Speaker 1: It's absolutely work in progress, even three four months down
Speaker 1: the line, I'm still working on it very much, but
Speaker 1: I've just i it has been a bit of a
Speaker 1: game changer for me.
Speaker 2: I think I think that's perfect three four months down
Speaker 2: the line because if you if you'd made a huge
Speaker 2: amount of overnight changes, they may not have been sustainable.
Speaker 2: And that's the whole thing, you know, you know how
Speaker 2: I like consistency franchise just a little bit one percent
Speaker 2: every day or whatever they say. Yeah, but I don't
Speaker 2: think I appreciated Laura until until we spoke with it,
Speaker 2: because I hadn't purchased the book at that point that
Speaker 2: I have now, and I think it would be a
Speaker 2: bit like your your book, just full of little notes
Speaker 2: and things. It's not one you can read and then
Speaker 2: give away. You've got to keep it, and then.
Speaker 1: Again it takes a while to get through. So this
Speaker 1: season we are going to do a bit of a
Speaker 1: deep dive and have that conversation about alcohol though yes
Speaker 1: we are, which I know everyone will be really excited
Speaker 1: about and you know, we've been and talking about sort
Speaker 1: of our guts and being more compassionate to our bodies
Speaker 1: and things as well, and how we keep ourselves in
Speaker 1: good working order. We thought we'd talk about supplements this season,
Speaker 1: because not all supplements are equal.
Speaker 2: Right, It's right, and there is a lot of talk
Speaker 2: about them, and as you know, I like to get
Speaker 2: the information from the horse's mouth, so I'm looking forward
Speaker 2: to that. The other thing I liked about last season
Speaker 2: was the people that we talked to just about life.
Speaker 2: I really enjoyed talking to Holly Wayne Wright from Mamma
Speaker 2: Mia in Australia. I liked having that trans tastement sort
Speaker 2: of conversation about just conversations about midlife, but.
Speaker 1: Also trying to put a little bit more of a positive, optimistic,
Speaker 1: yeah slant on things. Oh totally, there's nothing to feel.
Speaker 2: I mean, obviously, at times are hard thing, it's difficult,
Speaker 2: we're coping with a number of different things. But really,
Speaker 2: and I think Oliver also taught us this is that
Speaker 2: things are not always good.
Speaker 1: They are what they are, they are. Let's get on
Speaker 1: with that, right, Yeah, yeah, yeah, no, I agree. I
Speaker 1: really enjoyed Oliver Berkman and Holly Wayne Wright. But Julie
Speaker 1: Kathy Duffy had an impact on you.
Speaker 2: She's high on my list.
Speaker 1: She's high on the list.
Speaker 2: Absolutely. She lit a fire under me and reminded me
Speaker 2: that physical goals and perior menopause and postmenopause, you know,
Speaker 2: are totally attainable. So I have entered an event. I
Speaker 2: have entered a pretty ragged, bloody marathon and the mountains
Speaker 2: of way out in Victoria and Australia. So that is
Speaker 2: going to be a hoop and Francisca's going to coach me.
Speaker 2: So that's look, the coaching has begun. Well it's a
Speaker 2: hoop for me and I just get to sit there
Speaker 2: and put you three faces. It's pretty My hard work
Speaker 2: is done. I've done the program and I will say
Speaker 2: it's not as enjoyable for me without a running partner.
Speaker 1: Well yeah, look, we'll get there. We'll get there. But
Speaker 1: I do I'm quite intrigued that you picked one in
Speaker 1: Australia that I can't. I'm not. I mean, we're never
Speaker 1: going to really know who you did it or not,
Speaker 1: are we? I mean, who would know?
Speaker 2: I'm not quite sure what that was about. Kathy was
Speaker 2: Australian and she was. We were talking about it and
Speaker 2: I think it just it just tickled something in me,
Speaker 2: but you know, she was, she was really, really with them.
Speaker 1: And so on that note, we're going to talk about
Speaker 1: iron and fatigue, which is something you might want to
Speaker 1: get on top of. We're going to talk about that
Speaker 1: with Dr Libby this season as well. So lots of
Speaker 1: really great stuff coming up this season. I'm really looking
Speaker 1: forward to it. We're going to kick off on the
Speaker 1: second of August. Make sure you're join us. We look
Speaker 1: forward to your company