Speaker 1: You're listening to I Choose Me with Jenny Garl. Welcome
Speaker 1: back to I Choose Me. For my guest, Brooke Burke,
Speaker 1: choosing herself meant finding ways to take care of her
Speaker 1: health that she actually enjoyed, because working out doesn't have
Speaker 1: to suck. She shared some of her Brook Borke body
Speaker 1: tips and tricks with me. So let's get right into it.
Speaker 1: Brooke okay, and need to help us find our feel good?
Speaker 1: What is the very first step? Especially for those who
Speaker 1: say they don't like to work out, how can we
Speaker 1: make ourselves work out?
Speaker 2: So I hear this all the time, So I created
Speaker 2: the Baby Body app for people that don't like to
Speaker 2: work out, don't have time to work out, don't want
Speaker 2: to drive to a class, and don't want to spend
Speaker 2: the money on a class. So if you're to think
Speaker 2: about this one class that you're spending maybe I don't know,
Speaker 2: twenty five thirty bucks, depending on where you are, you
Speaker 2: can get the out for an entire month. If it's
Speaker 2: a dollar a day, I know we're worth a dollar
Speaker 2: a day. And maybe maybe it's a walk. Maybe you're
Speaker 2: listening to a meditation, maybe you're doing one of my
Speaker 2: live streams. Maybe you're choosing one of the twelve minute workouts,
Speaker 2: and I'm not kidding you. I used to laugh at that.
Speaker 2: You can do a five minute ad commitment if you
Speaker 2: want to target tone certain areas of your body. Just
Speaker 2: doing some things better than doing nothing. Starting small will
Speaker 2: help you feel good. It's like oxytocin. You can feel good,
Speaker 2: pop of that hormone that makes you want to do more.
Speaker 2: And I always tell people, forget about an hour or
Speaker 2: forty five minutes. If you don't like working out, you've
Speaker 2: already failed. Decide how much time you want to spend.
Speaker 2: Maybe it's ten minutes. Listen to a meditation, that's a
Speaker 2: walking meditation. You could listen to one of my interviews.
Speaker 2: It's still wellness, it's still going to reap your brain.
Speaker 2: And then you could sort of pick and shoot. So
Speaker 2: I have all these bite size burns that make it
Speaker 2: really doable for me.
Speaker 1: Bite size burn.
Speaker 2: Everybody wants to work out, and if it's not fun,
Speaker 2: you're never going to do it again.
Speaker 1: That's right, you gotta but you'll feel good if you
Speaker 1: do it and you commit to it.
Speaker 2: The other side of it, you're going to feel good,
Speaker 2: So just do it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it's just the truth. You guys deal with it.
Speaker 1: So we all heard about the castor oil and the
Speaker 1: belly button thing. You did it? I did it, and and.
Speaker 2: What did you see? I liked it.
Speaker 1: I didn't get I was like, I don't think that
Speaker 1: did anything.
Speaker 2: Did you sleep with it? Yes? Okay, So I try
Speaker 2: it because I review like all these things, and I'm
Speaker 2: always honest. I'm like, is it to god be messy?
Speaker 2: Is it going to be leaky? What the hell business
Speaker 2: about to research after it? Truth? Sorry, castor oil people,
Speaker 2: it doesn't have to be castor oil, by the way,
Speaker 2: it can be anything that's an oil that's warmth. I
Speaker 2: think part of it is the intention of doing it,
Speaker 2: and it heats up the belly, which creates comfort in
Speaker 2: the gut, floating and all of that. The oil makes
Speaker 2: your skin feel better. That we know is true. So
Speaker 2: the heat and the softness of the oil makes everything
Speaker 2: just feel better. So that's that. Actually like it. But
Speaker 2: I also kind of paired it with a little bit
Speaker 2: of lymphatic and abdominal kind of massaging. It's weird, but
Speaker 2: I like it.
Speaker 1: I I went so far as to get like the
Speaker 1: special pad the sticker that's like shaped like a heart.
Speaker 2: Oh you did? He was too cute. One was this
Speaker 2: big ugly Scott was like, what are you doing? Just
Speaker 2: you're gonna like it if it's work.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh. Yeah, the things we do.
Speaker 2: It's mask on Billy. He's like, this is really sexy.
Speaker 1: You are hot. Yeah, you just say it all pays off.
Speaker 1: Don't worry. So okay, I like I said, I love
Speaker 1: your smoothies. I see you making them, putting the whole
Speaker 1: lemon in there. Game changer again.
Speaker 2: I like these weird things.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I like it that you like weird things.
Speaker 2: Charlene who is the founder of SymbioticA. He is a biochemist.
Speaker 2: He's freaking brilliant. Or in my lemon or sure, I'll
Speaker 2: speak really fast and fast track this. He's like, do
Speaker 2: you drink lemon water. I'm like, of course they drink
Speaker 2: lemon water. Everybody drinks lemon water. He goes a bitch
Speaker 2: to have lemon a way, don't you? Of course I
Speaker 2: have lemon way. It goes take the whole lemon skin,
Speaker 2: the seeds of the pulp, the whole thing. I don't
Speaker 2: even cut anything. No, I put in my blender with water.
Speaker 2: There is there are so many valuable properties in the
Speaker 2: raine of the lemon. You gotta wash it because there's wax.
Speaker 2: That's why our lemons look so pretty. Get an organic lemon,
Speaker 2: wash it, pop it in the blender with water. The
Speaker 2: key to this is nothing else, No mint, no celery, nothing,
Speaker 2: Drink it first thing in the morning. Gut breath, vitamin seed, detoxification, minerization.
Speaker 2: But there's all of these incredible properties in the rhine,
Speaker 2: and so I'll want to jump it. It'll last me
Speaker 2: a few days.
Speaker 1: Just the water, just the lemon. Only water, hot water,
Speaker 1: cold water, warm water matter.
Speaker 2: I don't drink it too cold, but I'll actually make
Speaker 2: it and then keep it for the next morning as well. Yes,
Speaker 2: everybody should do that. In Mother Nature did not tell
Speaker 2: us to throw the good stuff away, So you know,
Speaker 2: there's all of these natural properties that we have. It's
Speaker 2: the same thing with the pineapple Bramlin. You can go
Speaker 2: buy these really expensive pineapple tea bags that supposedly are
Speaker 2: like us like healing diuretic. They're like thirty dollars, or
Speaker 2: you can go buy pills. No, you just ticked pineapple.
Speaker 2: Cut off the butt, cut off the thing. I have
Speaker 2: a button butt in the think carve it, wash it,
Speaker 2: take all the skin, throw it in a picture of water,
Speaker 2: if you were healing, if you had doneal work, if
Speaker 2: you had any kind of surgery. Is if you have information,
Speaker 2: your money, the Bramlin pure natural, amazing properties, pineapple skin.
Speaker 1: Like yeah, these are things you don't think of. You
Speaker 1: think of like I need a pill, I need medicine,
Speaker 1: but there's just so many natural remedies. What's your favorite
Speaker 1: recipe for a smoothie right now?
Speaker 2: I'm pretty much a creature of habits into my smoothies.
Speaker 2: I never did that before. My body needs it now
Speaker 2: in my fifties, I'll do organic on sweet and almond milk,
Speaker 2: cinnamon because I love the fall flavor. I love the
Speaker 2: smell of anti inflammatory. I'll do a half a banana,
Speaker 2: frozen blueberries, fiber, and then I'll do two scoops of
Speaker 2: my Superfood blend because it's got everything in their fla seed, macha,
Speaker 2: sustainable energy, cacao, all of these antioxidive properties, almond milk.
Speaker 2: I don't even put almond butter or peanut butter in
Speaker 2: there anymore. I use raw walnuts, brain food, raw food.
Speaker 2: It's the best. You know.
Speaker 1: When I was pregnant. My mother in law at the
Speaker 1: time told me, every day, eat a handful of raw
Speaker 1: almond walnuts, grain food, and your baby will be so smart.
Speaker 2: And my kids are smart, they're smarter, way will be
Speaker 2: really smart if we do that.
Speaker 1: My god, Yeah, they think of what.
Speaker 2: You spend on almond butter and peanut butter and all
Speaker 2: these other things that are not really that great for us.
Speaker 2: So I just do a handful of raw so unsalted,
Speaker 2: unroasted raw walnuts.
Speaker 1: Amazing, Okay, love it, gonna do it, Okay. Any newest
Speaker 1: biohacking routines that you're trying out right now, I'm up
Speaker 1: for anything right now.
Speaker 2: Besides my red light therapy masks. I love that one,
Speaker 2: and I have one that's red and blue and then
Speaker 2: a combo of both. Anything new. I do all kinds
Speaker 2: of weird stuff.
Speaker 1: Let me ask you. I just bought a thing, a bed,
Speaker 1: like an infrared thing you lay in. Yeah, like it's
Speaker 1: like a little mummy suat as.
Speaker 2: I do those when I'm in other biohacking places because
Speaker 2: they're very expensive. They're amazing because you get the whole
Speaker 2: body anti inflammatory and circulatorid benefits. I'm a big believer
Speaker 2: in it. You know, it's kind of a new thing,
Speaker 2: so worth researching. There is one free thing that I'm
Speaker 2: doing that's kind of interesting.
Speaker 1: Free.
Speaker 2: Yes, my daughter having this. So you wake up in
Speaker 2: the morning, first thing in the morning. Yes, you're gonna
Speaker 2: have your lemon water now, but even before then, and
Speaker 2: you just jump up and down for one minute and stupid.
Speaker 2: It's a limit. It's drainage, it's circulation, it's waking up
Speaker 2: the body. It's it's it's creating some signals, and it's
Speaker 2: time to wake up, in time to move, inflammation, all
Speaker 2: kinds of things get moving in your body. You just
Speaker 2: hop not crazy, just like jumping up and down, not
Speaker 2: like jumping jacks, not cardio. You're literally just hopping. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you're shaking everything out. It feels really good. And then
Speaker 2: you get like that body, that energetic body buzz. So
Speaker 2: I'm doing that. It's fun.
Speaker 1: I've just was watching Oh no, I was sounding like
Speaker 1: a spell a lot of time on Instagram. I was
Speaker 1: just this morning, instead of putting my red light therapy
Speaker 1: on and instead of meditating, and instead of drinking my
Speaker 1: lemon water, I was watching Instagram and saw someone talking
Speaker 1: about this and doing it. I was like, ooh, I
Speaker 1: want to try that.
Speaker 2: It's so easy. It sounds really silly. My daughter does it.
Speaker 2: She's always finding all these cooky things to do. It
Speaker 2: feels good.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I've been pumping my my glands lately, my lymph nodes,
Speaker 1: like doing all the places pumping them.
Speaker 2: Try this because this is probably going to help you
Speaker 2: just get like a little activation. And it's just the tummy,
Speaker 2: the weird tummy cast for real. Thing you do kind
Speaker 2: of have to work through certain areas that are holding on.
Speaker 1: I think, mm hmm. Yeah. Self massage, Yeah, we forget
Speaker 1: to do it. It's important though, I think, you know
Speaker 1: sometimes just the act of going in the bathroom taking
Speaker 1: all that time. You know, for yourself, it's a good hour,
Speaker 1: but the bath and the scrub and the facial and
Speaker 1: the hair mask and then you know, the exfoliation and
Speaker 1: then the lotion of it all, Like it takes me
Speaker 1: a long time.
Speaker 2: I'll put my hair mask in before I go to
Speaker 2: hot yoga. I'll do my meditation while I have my
Speaker 2: red light therapy mask on.
Speaker 1: Okay, you're double it up.
Speaker 2: And then I do my limit. Yeah, I mean, and
Speaker 2: I've got the coffee machine prepared the night before I
Speaker 2: go to bed. Yeah, we have to be efficient times.
Speaker 1: True, there's just so many things. I know that you
Speaker 1: are a cancer survivor, yes, And I know that there's
Speaker 1: so much that people can be doing, new technology, new things,
Speaker 1: new biohacks that they can be doing. And I know
Speaker 1: that there's also that you know, always that element of
Speaker 1: worry in the back of your mind. Once you've had
Speaker 1: something that like that, like life threatening threatening, how do
Speaker 1: you handle it? How do you not let it consume you?
Speaker 1: The worry, the fear.
Speaker 2: I feel like we have access to so much right
Speaker 2: now with technology. We can learn so much about our
Speaker 2: body and the responsibility that we have, especially as women
Speaker 2: at every age, by the way, is to have a
Speaker 2: baseline of where you are currently. So I'm a big
Speaker 2: believer in examining the blood and doing a panel. There
Speaker 2: are incredible biohacking and functional medicine facilities now everywhere. Next
Speaker 2: Health being one of them. Find a functional medicine doctor
Speaker 2: that's willing to take your blood work and really evaluate
Speaker 2: it so you can learn about your body scans like
Speaker 2: perneuvo I did that. What is the other one called
Speaker 2: the gallery test? I believe where you can go and
Speaker 2: tests for like, I don't know five hundred different things,
Speaker 2: but I'm a big believer and I want to know
Speaker 2: where I am right now so that I can evaluate
Speaker 2: that year to year to know where what's changed in
Speaker 2: my body, so I don't really skip ever that yearly
Speaker 2: physical that's expensive and time consuming consume. I know our
Speaker 2: healthcare system isn't super supportive of all of these amazing
Speaker 2: things access to learn so much about our body, especially
Speaker 2: hormonally check my hormone levels. You know, I manipulate my body.
Speaker 2: I believe in HRT. That's for me. But being a
Speaker 2: cancer survivor, I have to do regular checkups right, and
Speaker 2: I have to continue to learn my body. And I'm
Speaker 2: also a little bit of a geek, you know, and
Speaker 2: then it comes to bio hacking, so I'm always trying
Speaker 2: word things. I did the plasma exchange where I took
Speaker 2: my blood out when vein you know when IVY in,
Speaker 2: when IVY out, and did like a plasma exchange wild Wow. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm just always curious. And I used to vulnerable share
Speaker 2: because I have a lot of automobuve challenges and you
Speaker 2: wouldn't know it because I really manipulate my body and
Speaker 2: biohack my body, and I take very good care of
Speaker 2: myself on most days. Most days. But I used to
Speaker 2: think that, you know, maybe I'm going to live to
Speaker 2: be mid seventies or eighty because I got all these
Speaker 2: things happening. Now I feel like I'm going for a
Speaker 2: hundred because we love that. We have so many things
Speaker 2: that we could do to live longer and stronger. Cellular repair,
Speaker 2: iiO hacking, the regeneration, and a lot of it really
Speaker 2: is lowering your stress levels and managing the variety, rewiring right,
Speaker 2: and regulating your nervous system to where wellness comes into play.
Speaker 2: The app is not just for fitness. It's mindfulness, it's meditation,
Speaker 2: it's still it's yoga. Lower your stress levels and you'll
Speaker 2: live longer.
Speaker 1: Yes, No, I wanted to talk about your app before
Speaker 1: we go. I think that there's just a lot there.
Speaker 1: You have a great app, you designed yourself. How does
Speaker 1: it work? And where can people find it? And where
Speaker 1: can people find out about your retreats? And you're smooth
Speaker 1: all the things. I'm sure it's all in one place.
Speaker 2: As seeing that. I mean, the app is for anybody
Speaker 2: at every agent stage of your life, even if you
Speaker 2: don't love working out. The first week is free, so honestly,
Speaker 2: if you're thinking about doing something, try it for a week.
Speaker 2: If you don't like it, forget about it. You can
Speaker 2: literally spend seven days with me for free and see
Speaker 2: what I do to activate energy and how to find
Speaker 2: my feel good. Everything's on brookbrook dot com. My retreats
Speaker 2: just quick online events. You can sign up for the app.
Speaker 2: You can do it free trial. And one of the
Speaker 2: things that's different about it than most fitness apps is
Speaker 2: it's really got that community component. So I do a
Speaker 2: meeting every Monday for free. I literally do a zoom
Speaker 2: every Monday with the entire community just to be like, hey, this,
Speaker 2: what's coming up, how are you doing, what are you
Speaker 2: working on? What do we want more of? And I
Speaker 2: love it and people like why do that? I do
Speaker 2: because it's a community that's really strong and they show
Speaker 2: up and they support each other. So fitness yes, yoga yes,
Speaker 2: but all kinds of other things. And it's seven days free, Like,
Speaker 2: who cares?
Speaker 1: I want to have seven days free with you? That
Speaker 1: sounds like great, thank you?
Speaker 2: I would love that.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, okay, I do want to Just remember
Speaker 1: you talked about the light mask and I want to
Speaker 1: make sure people know what the heck that is and
Speaker 1: why it's beneficial, because some people might not know.
Speaker 2: The red light therapy mask. So I review all kinds
Speaker 2: of stuff. I like the wreaky Wreaky rik.
Speaker 1: Way Wreaky Wreaky It's.
Speaker 2: Called Wreaky Ricky and I like that one because it
Speaker 2: has blue. If you have acne or blemish it, it's
Speaker 2: got red for stimulation, circulation collegen. It has a combo,
Speaker 2: and it's got one for inflammation. I also have a
Speaker 2: blue one that's called higher Dose. It's blue, it has
Speaker 2: red light. So there's a a lot of them out there.
Speaker 2: Are their price. I really do believe that they work.
Speaker 2: And like I said, you can tumbleway on me. It's
Speaker 2: a ten minute uh practice. Yeah, how to get your
Speaker 2: prayer and visualize your day. Just slow down, just to
Speaker 2: have ten minutes to be with yourself while you're getting
Speaker 2: your vanity in.
Speaker 1: Yes, it's so smart. That's the best thing I've ever heard.
Speaker 1: I think I'm definitely doing it tomorrow. Yeah, how do
Speaker 1: you get protein? I'm a vegan, so I know a
Speaker 1: lot of times, like if I were to join your app,
Speaker 1: like I need specific how do I get my protein
Speaker 1: as a vegan?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, My daughter's vegan as well now, so it's
Speaker 2: been an incredible learning curve for me. Do you do
Speaker 2: plant based proteins? You do? Okay? Great?
Speaker 1: So I don't actually like, I don't recommend, I don't
Speaker 1: love and I don't recommend that people do like the
Speaker 1: fake meats and stuff.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the fake gigs, and you know, no judgment for everyone,
Speaker 2: but if anybody can really just keep it natural and
Speaker 2: eat the colors of the rainbow and try to get
Speaker 2: what you need, I mean, there's so much controversy related
Speaker 2: to protein. In fact, I'm part of Golden Hippo and
Speaker 2: High Impact Protein and doctor Gundry and Amazing. You know,
Speaker 2: he's part of that lineup as well, and I'm always
Speaker 2: picking his brain about protein. And he's one of three
Speaker 2: doctors that actually doesn't believe, you know, all of these
Speaker 2: stats of how much protein you need. Some pay say
Speaker 2: a gram per pounds, some say a gram per kilo.
Speaker 2: What is somebody like you do who's vegan, be on
Speaker 2: tofu and all these other things. But I recently, in
Speaker 2: my fifties, I add two scoops of protein to my
Speaker 2: smoothie and that can be way, that can be plant based,
Speaker 2: that can be anything. But here's the kicker. If you
Speaker 2: can't digest the protein, there's no reason to put the
Speaker 2: protein in your body. So you have to get high
Speaker 2: quality protein. You need vitamin D to help you break
Speaker 2: it down. You need to be able to digest it,
Speaker 2: and you need a leucine like you need all the
Speaker 2: essential amino acids. So it's really complicated. You've got to
Speaker 2: have a high integrity product. Make sure there's not too
Speaker 2: much sugar in it, make sure that it's FDA approved.
Speaker 2: Read your labels proteins. I don't like that dirty. I
Speaker 2: want to I would like to eat everything I can
Speaker 2: for mother nature. But it's almost impossible to get what
Speaker 2: we need, especially if you're trying to maintain and forget
Speaker 2: about building muscle. So I put two scoops of high
Speaker 2: impact protein. It's easy to find in my instagram in
Speaker 2: my smoothie, which is mostly superfoods. Right, you think your
Speaker 2: smoothing is packed with protein and you're using almond milk,
Speaker 2: it's really just expensive water. There's like no protein and
Speaker 2: almond milk everyone, So you use water, get some superfoods,
Speaker 2: get some fiber, some fruit. You know your flax seeds,
Speaker 2: your chance or whatever. But I'm using protein now because
Speaker 2: I don't have time in the day. I'm not going
Speaker 2: to wait five eggs. I don't want to eat chicken
Speaker 2: meal like And you must be struggling too as a vegan.
Speaker 1: It's really hard. And I talked to my friend doctor Parcone,
Speaker 1: who says every day that you're not getting your amount
Speaker 1: of protein, you're aging, and I went into a full
Speaker 1: body panic because I'm like, oh my god, there's not
Speaker 1: one day in my week that I get enough protein.
Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure almost any expert that you ask will
Speaker 2: give you a different formula. And the truth is, there's
Speaker 2: not a universal theory. And I've done so much research
Speaker 2: in this space because it's one of the most common questions.
Speaker 2: It depends on your activity level and your goal. Are
Speaker 2: you building, are you training, are you maintaining? Are you
Speaker 2: losing muscle mass as we age as women? Yes, the
Speaker 2: answer is yes, So how can we just fuel our
Speaker 2: body to maintain that? And we also need we need
Speaker 2: to reserve for healing. We need collagen for our brain.
Speaker 2: It's not just hairskin and nails. We need it for
Speaker 2: our gut. So I really like this new brand, and
Speaker 2: I like it because it's because it has all these
Speaker 2: other things in there. And some scientific research showed that
Speaker 2: your vitamin D with protein, something magical happens and you
Speaker 2: could absorb it. It's called high intact protein. So I'm
Speaker 2: loving that. It's great and I'm just completely manipulating the
Speaker 2: world around me. It's my own body.
Speaker 1: You're like a hero, honestly, Like, I love it that
Speaker 1: you yet you put the effort into finding the ways,
Speaker 1: and I think that that's so cool and it's really
Speaker 1: beneficial for people like me that just want to get
Speaker 1: the information from you instead of going out and finding
Speaker 1: it myself. So everybody, you must must check out Brook's
Speaker 1: website and her app Body. You say it, I want
Speaker 1: to mess it up.
Speaker 2: The app is Brooke Brook Body, but he's body dot com.
Speaker 2: You can sign up there. You can find her Retriaque
Speaker 2: can connect with me. I have blogs, I have an
Speaker 2: amazing community. Yes, spend seven days with me.
Speaker 1: It's great, great, I love it.
Speaker 2: Leave out for seven days.
Speaker 1: Yeah, seven days that I'm out. Thank you so much,
Speaker 1: Brooke for spending the time with us today and giving
Speaker 1: us all this great info. You are an inspiration to
Speaker 1: so many women, and I'm one of them.
Speaker 2: Thank you. And I've been watching you for so many
Speaker 2: years and i'm a fan, and I love what you're
Speaker 2: doing and I love that you're living with purpose. So
Speaker 2: thanks spending the time and being thoughtful, and we should reconnect.
Speaker 1: I would love it. I would love it.
Speaker 2: Your guests, thank you.
Speaker 1: I'm always here cheering you on.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much.
Speaker 1: Bye, bruh, thank you.
Speaker 2: Okay, we'll speak soon, see you soon. Gooyde Bye