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Speaker 1: Beyond the Beauty is a production of I Heart Radio.

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Speaker 1: I'm your host, Bobby Brown. Guys, I know this is

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Speaker 1: as hard a time for you as it is for me,

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Speaker 1: as it is for everybody. I think it's probably the

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Speaker 1: most important thing right now is to stay connected and

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Speaker 1: be connected and not just be by yourself. The podcast,

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Speaker 1: I'm going to continue to get a lot of good

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Speaker 1: information and good guests things that I want to know.

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Speaker 1: There's also so many other ways to reach your friends.

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Speaker 1: Please reach out. But in general, I'm pretty much, you know,

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Speaker 1: working on my mental state every day. I wake up

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Speaker 1: in the morning and it takes a second to remember

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Speaker 1: what day it is. And I'm so used to jumping

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Speaker 1: little extra time, and honestly, that's okay. I am certainly

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Speaker 1: spending more time. I'm on social media, feeling connected. I'm

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Speaker 1: spending more time with my family cooking meals, which is

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Speaker 1: a good thing. Honestly, I'm not staying up very late.

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Speaker 1: By by the time ten o'clock comes, I'm pretty much shot.

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Speaker 1: I've been getting up a little bit earlier and going

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Speaker 1: most unbelievable time. And my advice to you is the

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Speaker 1: same as I tell my best girlfriends and my children,

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Speaker 1: which is one thing we haven't had, and we haven't

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Speaker 1: had a lot of time, and that's what we all

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Speaker 1: complained about. Guess what, now we have the gift of time,

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Speaker 1: So take it and do something positive with it. Whether

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Speaker 1: whether it's putting music on and dancing, whether it's coloring

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Speaker 1: not very pretty. I did it. I feel accomplished. So

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Speaker 1: whatever it is, I just hope that you could just

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Speaker 1: use your positive energy and just keep your spirits up

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Speaker 1: so you can help everyone around you keep theirs up

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Speaker 1: and to help us all stay calm. I wanted to

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Speaker 1: introduce you to someone that helps me personally stay calm,

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Speaker 1: my doctor and my friend, Dr Frank Littman. I have

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Speaker 1: so many questions about what we can actually do to

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Speaker 1: stay healthy during this pandemic, and I know you guys

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Speaker 1: do too. Dr Littman is a leader in functional medicine.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, guys for listening. Dr Littman, thank you so

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Speaker 1: much for being here today. Thank you for having me.

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Speaker 1: How are you doing? Let's start with that. I'm doing well,

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Speaker 1: you know, like you. My family is hunkered down here.

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Speaker 1: I'm lucky enough to be with my daughter and my

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Speaker 1: your look like right now? So after my daughter feeds

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Speaker 1: we do the four to seven um sessions. So I'm

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Speaker 1: and I meditate, and then I um go online and

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Speaker 1: So it's actually been a healthy way to start my day.

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Speaker 1: And and what about food, what are you eating? Well,

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Speaker 1: I mean, everybody right now, is you know, having orange

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Speaker 1: I'm not sure you prevent it, and I'm not prepare

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Speaker 1: wiping down, clean services, social distancing or essential. In addition

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Speaker 1: So there's so much we can all, do you know,

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Speaker 1: are they really worried about? Well, everyone's worried about, you know,

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Speaker 1: And honestly, Dr Littman, you always calm me down. You

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Speaker 1: always do. It's a pleasure. And thank you for all

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Speaker 1: see that beautiful baby A hears all right, Thanks, Thanks Bobby,

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