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Speaker 2: What is going on Hurdlers Emily Abadi Here, You are

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Speaker 2: listening to episode two hundred and eighty two of Hurdle,

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Speaker 2: a wellness focused podcast where I talk to inspirational people

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Speaker 2: essential tips on how to live a healthier, happier, more

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Speaker 2: My goal through these discussions is to empower you to

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Speaker 3: Of course have some fun along the way.

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Speaker 2: We're back with the Day four of the Turning the

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Speaker 2: Talking to me about doing things like whole thirty and

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Speaker 1: of time. Some of those things might now be in

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Speaker 1: the past. In addition, somebody who's on anxiety medications might say,

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Speaker 1: you know, I feel really good and I've made these

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Speaker 1: changes in my life or my relationships in a stable place,

443
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Speaker 1: or I'm exercising regularly really good, and then working with

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Speaker 1: a doctor to again, I'll use that word tight trait

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Speaker 1: or slowly lower. We never want to stop these medications

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Speaker 1: on our own, and we never want to stop them overnight,

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Speaker 1: and so at Parsley we work with people all the

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Speaker 1: time to help them, when appropriate, get off these medications.

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Speaker 1: In fact, our data shows that we help twenty five

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Speaker 1: percent of patients who are on anxiety and depression medications

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Speaker 1: get off. And it might not be a goal of yours,

452
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Speaker 1: by the way, to get off the medication. You might say,

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Speaker 1: this medication is working great, and I'm feeling really good,

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Speaker 1: and I want to keep that up. Awesome, But I

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Speaker 1: do hear a lot people say, you know, things have shifted.

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Speaker 1: I don't want to be on this medication forever. And

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Speaker 1: too often our medical community is resistant to stopping medications,

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Speaker 1: and that's something that's really different about Parsley. We're here

459
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Speaker 1: to put you on the right meds that you need,

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Speaker 1: but we're also here to take you off of meds

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Speaker 1: that you don't need, and so we will supervise and

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Speaker 1: support some of these titrations off of medications pretty routinely. Because,

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Speaker 1: as we all know, we're dynamic humans. You're not the

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Speaker 1: same as you were three years ago, or five years

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Speaker 1: ago or ten years ago, and you might need new

466
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Speaker 1: medications now, you might not need the medications now you

467
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Speaker 1: might be ready to ditch the supplement graveyard start with

468
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Speaker 1: some new stuff. Right. So doing that reevaluation in partnership,

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Speaker 1: I think is so important.

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Speaker 2: As I'm setting here drinking my ag one speaking of

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Speaker 2: being in different phases at different times. A question that

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Speaker 2: came in now that I'm getting older, are there preventative

473
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Speaker 2: things that I should be doing that are good for

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Speaker 2: my health? A broad question, I know, but I feel

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Speaker 2: like you've got a couple of thoughts starters.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, preventive things. Number one, build lean muscle mass.

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Speaker 1: If you have not been doing any sort of resistance

478
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Speaker 1: training weight training. When we look at long term blood

479
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Speaker 1: sugar weight, cognitive function, bone health, Alzheimer's risk, you name it.

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Speaker 1: Doing not just exercise, but weight training, resistance training which

481
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Speaker 1: so more than your own body weight. So using resistance fans, machines,

482
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Speaker 1: what have you has been shown to be incredibly powerful

483
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Speaker 1: for your longevity and for your cognitive function and for

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Speaker 1: preventing all of these diseases. So huge, And the best

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Speaker 1: thing about WA training is that you can do it

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Speaker 1: for fifteen minutes A few times a week, Like, cardio

487
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Speaker 1: drives me nuts personally because I'm like on there forever

488
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Speaker 1: and I'm so bored and like, no matter how good

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Speaker 1: my playlist is, I'm just like, Okay, it's been half

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Speaker 1: an hour. Can I just stop this thing? You know?

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Speaker 1: So it's just like not my jam. But wa training

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Speaker 1: is quick, and I like things that are quick.

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Speaker 2: Well, we know that to be true about exercise in

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Speaker 2: general as well. Finding things that excite you or really

495
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Speaker 2: pique your interest or stay of off boredom, you're more

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Speaker 2: likely to stay with that type of movement.

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Speaker 3: Right. So, maybe you don't love cardio.

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Speaker 2: You're not someone that's going to go for a five

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Speaker 2: k run outside, but you do love going to a

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Speaker 2: dance cardio class with your girlfriends on a Thursday night.

501
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Speaker 2: So finding whatever feels right for you in your body,

502
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Speaker 2: no matter what anybody else is doing, that is a

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Speaker 2: trick of the.

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Speaker 3: Trade to sticking with something long term.

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Speaker 2: Yes, other preventative things that someone can do as they age,

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Speaker 2: aside from resistance training.

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Speaker 1: Yes, So there's really interesting data on both saunas and

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Speaker 1: cold plunges and getting cold. Right, So we've thought of

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Speaker 1: some of these things that have a real place in

510
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Speaker 1: other cultures. Right in other cultures, sauna in the Nordic

511
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Speaker 1: cult cultures and jumping in a cold plunge are pretty

512
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Speaker 1: like normal for things for people to do. They're less

513
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Speaker 1: typical in America, but that's changing. And what's great about

514
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Speaker 1: both of these is that they in summary, activate a

515
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Speaker 1: bunch of proteins in the body that go into cleanup mode.

516
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Speaker 1: So it allows your body to go into the cleanup

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Speaker 1: mode of dead and damaged cells. The heat turns on

518
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Speaker 1: something called heat shock proteins. The cold, because of the

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Speaker 1: impact on blood flow throughout the body, also activates to

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Speaker 1: different proteins and mechanisms in our bodies that clean up deata,

521
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Speaker 1: damaged cells, and that is overall anti aging and healthy.

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Speaker 1: So sauna three times a week long enough that you're

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Speaker 1: really sweating, and then you're rinsing that sweat off, because

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Speaker 1: that's also how we detoxify our heavy metals that get

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Speaker 1: into our bodies and other chemicals that get into our bodies,

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Speaker 1: A lot of them we can get rid of through sweat,

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Speaker 1: so that deep sweating a few times a week. Obviously,

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Speaker 1: there may be some people, if you're pregnant, view a

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Speaker 1: very high blood pressure, if you have certain conditions, you know,

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Speaker 1: talk to your doctor about if sauna is okay for you.

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Speaker 1: But for most people, sauna can be really powerful and

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Speaker 1: really healthy. And then same a couple times a week.

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Speaker 1: If you don't have a cold plunge and you're not

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Speaker 1: like willing to fill your bathtub with ice water or whatever,

535
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Speaker 1: which I am, I am not. You know, a couple

536
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Speaker 1: of minutes in a very cold shower, right can like

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Speaker 1: activate some of the same mechanisms. But what I love

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Speaker 1: about these is that they're they're accessible to most people,

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Speaker 1: affordable to us people, and they're leveraging our bodies natural

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Speaker 1: and inherent healing mechanisms to create longevity and health and

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Speaker 1: well being. And so I think sometimes we forget that

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Speaker 1: our bodies have all the tools, we just have to

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Speaker 1: unlock them.

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Speaker 4: infrared versus a classic sauna.

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Speaker 3: Is there anything that someone should know between the two?

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Speaker 1: You know, people debate this and talk about the power

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Speaker 1: of infra red light. I think they're equally good. The

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Speaker 1: research on sauna has mainly been done in the traditional saunas,

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Speaker 1: not the infrared. That doesn't mean that the infrared aren't

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Speaker 1: as good. It just means that they're not the ones

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Speaker 1: that have been studied because they're newer. Right, So I

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Speaker 1: look forward to the data eventually being equivalent between the two.

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Speaker 1: Right now, at the end of the day, you're getting

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Speaker 1: hot and you're sweating, and that happens in both places.

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Speaker 1: So let's not overthink this one either. I think would

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Speaker 1: be really powerful.

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Speaker 2: All right, last two audience questions and then I'm going

589
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Speaker 2: to go back into a little review with you. The

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Speaker 2: first question here, I can't believe I'm saying this. I'm premenopausal.

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Speaker 2: What should I know?

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Speaker 1: Totally okay, don't you're okayone's okay, everyone's okay. So, first

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Speaker 1: of all, menopause is an era, not a condition. It's

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Speaker 1: not a disease. It's an era of your life. There's

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Speaker 1: nothing wrong with you, and you can have an incredibly healthy, positive,

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Speaker 1: low symptom to no symptom menopause. Now, number one, I'm

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Speaker 1: in perimenopause. That means my periods haven't been gone for

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Speaker 1: a full twelve month. But I'm kind of in this

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Speaker 1: place where my periods are irregular. I'm having some spotting.

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Speaker 1: I don't know really know what I'm going to get

601
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Speaker 1: it anymore. I'm maybe starting to have some symptoms like

602
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Speaker 1: sleep changing, metabolism's changing, maybe a hot flash here and there,

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00:31:59,080 --> 00:32:03,560
Speaker 1: maybe some vaginal dryness or pain with sex. Right, maybe

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Speaker 1: just my periods just feel wonky and different than they

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Speaker 1: used to. Right, These are all normal symptoms. Typically, you

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Speaker 1: don't start hormone replacement therapy until your period is actually

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Speaker 1: gone for that full twelve month. So we are in menopause.

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Speaker 1: So in our perimenopausal time, what can we do well?

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Speaker 1: First of all, we can start progesterone, and we often

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Speaker 1: recommend starting oral progesterone one hundreds to two hundred milligrams

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Speaker 1: at bedtime. It helps with sleep and it helps balance

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Speaker 1: out some of the symptoms of menopause. In addition, there's

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Speaker 1: some really beautiful, helpful natural supplements that are plant derived.

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Speaker 1: I really like feminessnce harmony. It just helps the body

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Speaker 1: balance the hormones as you're going through this time. There's

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Speaker 1: also lots of things you can do. You might not

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Speaker 1: be ready for full hormone replacement therapy, and you may

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Speaker 1: never be ready for that. Not everybody wants that or

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Speaker 1: needs that, but we can do things like there's lots

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Speaker 1: of different hormonally based either DHA or estrial vaginal suppositories

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Speaker 1: that can help with the dryness. And then, believe it

622
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Speaker 1: or not, how we move and how we eat dramatically

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Speaker 1: impacts our menopause. And so you might have been the

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Speaker 1: type of person you know your teens, your twenties or

625
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Speaker 1: thirties or forties are like, I kind of do what

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Speaker 1: I want. I'm kind of good. I don't really think

627
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Speaker 1: about this stuff cool, not if you're listening to Emily's podcast,

628
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Speaker 1: but maybe someone who's someone else right, and now you

629
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Speaker 1: might be finding that the things that used to work

630
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Speaker 1: for you aren't working for you. That's totally normal, and

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Speaker 1: what happens is our bodies actually though, respond exercise is

632
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Speaker 1: a really great way to help balance our hormones. Whenever

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Speaker 1: anyone's having really about PMS issues with pcos or regular periods,

634
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Speaker 1: which is often a blood sugar issue, we're really diving

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Speaker 1: into how do we use regular movement resistance training. You'll

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Speaker 1: hear me talk a lot about it's really good for bones,

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Speaker 1: and as our bone health becomes more of an issue

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00:34:00,480 --> 00:34:03,160
Speaker 1: as we get into that menopausal time, getting our resistance

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00:34:03,200 --> 00:34:06,240
Speaker 1: training going that can also help balance our hormones and

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00:34:06,320 --> 00:34:11,160
Speaker 1: improve our sleep. And then a diet super rich in

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00:34:11,320 --> 00:34:14,360
Speaker 1: lots of brightly colored plants and fiber. It's going to

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Speaker 1: help move our estrogens through our bodies better. It's going

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Speaker 1: to help us with antioxidants and other phytochemicals that our

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Speaker 1: bodies use to process our hormones more effectively. So all

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Speaker 1: of those things, and then there's a group of supplements

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Speaker 1: I can get into if we had more time. But

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Speaker 1: there's a lot you can do and what you need. Again,

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Speaker 1: I'm shameless plug for Parsley, but all of our providers

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Speaker 1: at Parsley are menopause literate. Not only are we doing

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00:34:39,760 --> 00:34:42,880
Speaker 1: the right testing of your hormones, we can guide you

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Speaker 1: through the foods, the supplements, the behaviors, the tests that

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Speaker 1: you need. Okay, now we're almost fifty. Have we gotten

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Speaker 1: our colonoscopy yet? People? Please, please, please, you're forty five,

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Speaker 1: get your colonoscopy. This is a life saving screening. My

655
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Speaker 1: grandmother died far too young because she didn't get a lenoscopy.

656
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Speaker 1: It's part of the one of the reasons I went

657
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Speaker 1: into medicine. So this is a time to really invest

658
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Speaker 1: in your health, to invest in yourself, and to get

659
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Speaker 1: some partnership from a menopause literate provider who's not just

660
00:35:12,960 --> 00:35:15,520
Speaker 1: an HRT machine. Right, there's a lot of services nowadays

661
00:35:15,560 --> 00:35:19,320
Speaker 1: that are prescribed you HRT on the internet. That's okay,

662
00:35:19,640 --> 00:35:22,560
Speaker 1: that's maybe a step forward, right, at least we have

663
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Speaker 1: some of these resources. But menopause isn't an HRT deficiency.

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Speaker 1: Not everybody needs HRT, And there's all these other things

665
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Speaker 1: going on with your health that we want to address

666
00:35:32,360 --> 00:35:36,160
Speaker 1: in concert with figuring out is hormone replacement right for you,

667
00:35:36,320 --> 00:35:38,479
Speaker 1: wrong for you? Maybe it's not now, but it's later

668
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Speaker 1: and so forth.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, thanks for sharing that. You know.

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Speaker 2: I feel as though the older that I get, the

671
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Speaker 2: more that I am in that camp where things are

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Speaker 2: just different than they used to be, which is fine,

673
00:35:52,120 --> 00:35:54,960
Speaker 2: and it requires a certain amount of grace with yourself

674
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Speaker 2: knowing that it's different and I'm still capable of doing things.

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Speaker 2: It might just look a little again differently than it

676
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Speaker 2: did that far.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I'm forty two, I have three kids, and

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Speaker 1: this year I noticed that around my period, I was

679
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Speaker 1: getting a lot of breast tenderness and cysts in my

680
00:36:12,680 --> 00:36:14,759
Speaker 1: breasts that were totally new. I had just had not

681
00:36:14,920 --> 00:36:17,920
Speaker 1: had that issue since I was like in my twenties.

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Speaker 1: It was like, sometimes things also revisit you. I feel

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Speaker 1: like when I talked to a lot of patients in

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Speaker 1: their forties and fifties, they're finding things that they had

685
00:36:25,320 --> 00:36:27,400
Speaker 1: like at a spell early in life, or like the

686
00:36:27,440 --> 00:36:30,880
Speaker 1: ghost of Christmas past. It's like coming back. And I

687
00:36:30,960 --> 00:36:33,279
Speaker 1: noticed that. And one of the things I did was

688
00:36:33,320 --> 00:36:36,120
Speaker 1: I actually have my coffee consumption. So I was actually

689
00:36:36,160 --> 00:36:38,800
Speaker 1: two double espressos a day. I went down to one.

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00:36:38,960 --> 00:36:40,759
Speaker 1: And you might say, well, what does coffee have to

691
00:36:40,760 --> 00:36:44,120
Speaker 1: do with breast tenderness. When you're drinking too much coffee,

692
00:36:44,160 --> 00:36:47,560
Speaker 1: it actually slows down an enzyme, a liver enzyme that's

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Speaker 1: helping you break down your estrogens and breast tenderness and

694
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Speaker 1: cistic breast is a sign of maybe you're not processing

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Speaker 1: your estrogens very well, or you have a little bit

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Speaker 1: of what's called estrogen dominance. And so I'm now having

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Speaker 1: my double espresso every morning. Do not take it away

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Speaker 1: from me. It is my life's blood. I'm not having two.

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Speaker 1: And since I went cut down from two to one,

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Speaker 1: the breast tenderness around my cycle has gone away.

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Speaker 2: I love hearing that you're reminding me that it's time

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Speaker 2: for my second cup of regular coffee.

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Speaker 3: That's what you're reminding me.

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Speaker 2: Okay, last audience question before we go in to this reflection.

705
00:37:25,680 --> 00:37:28,920
Speaker 2: I feel swamped all the time and overwhelmed, but I

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Speaker 2: know that I want to prioritize my health. What is

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Speaker 2: one thing that I can do to shake things up

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Speaker 2: that will be good for me in.

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Speaker 3: The new year.

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00:37:37,760 --> 00:37:41,040
Speaker 2: Now, you cannot answer resistance training, although I know that

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Speaker 2: you would listen.

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Speaker 1: I think that how you end your day defines how

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Speaker 1: you start the next day. And so for people who

714
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Speaker 1: are feeling really overwhelmed and like, gosh, I have too

715
00:37:51,960 --> 00:37:55,480
Speaker 1: much going on, let's reset how we end our day.

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00:37:56,440 --> 00:37:59,480
Speaker 1: Let's get to bed by ten, ten, fifteen, ten thirty max.

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Speaker 1: So that we avoid that late night cortisol spike. Let's

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00:38:03,800 --> 00:38:08,440
Speaker 1: put our phone in a lock box after eight pm

719
00:38:08,560 --> 00:38:11,480
Speaker 1: or after nine pm, because we all know that we've

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Speaker 1: been doom scrolling the gram or TikTok or whatever your

721
00:38:14,560 --> 00:38:19,120
Speaker 1: poison is before bed and how that disrupts sleep. And

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Speaker 1: take like twenty minutes before bed, take an epsom salt bath,

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Speaker 1: do a meditation, do a little yoga stretch, do your

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Speaker 1: just like your regular stretching. If yoga is not your thing, whatever,

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Speaker 1: I'm a yoga nerd, but I recognize deeply that most

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00:38:32,320 --> 00:38:35,920
Speaker 1: people are not. It's okay, Rea meditate, listen to a

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Speaker 1: guided meditation. You know, my friend Dave Gandleman has a

728
00:38:39,000 --> 00:38:42,040
Speaker 1: number of great sleep podcasts and meditations on inside Timer.

729
00:38:42,120 --> 00:38:44,279
Speaker 1: There's lots of versions of that on inside Timer and

730
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Speaker 1: other platforms. But just end your day really well. I

731
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Speaker 1: promise it's going to set you up for a new

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Speaker 1: and different and better next day.

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Speaker 3: We love it.

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Speaker 2: A new and different and better next day starts with

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Speaker 2: a good routine the night before. Let's talk about a

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Speaker 2: new and better and perhaps upgraded new year. Talk to

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Speaker 2: me a little bit about your twenty twenty three. What

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Speaker 2: would you say your proudest moment from twenty twenty three

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Speaker 2: was Robin.

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Speaker 1: Hands down, going in network for ten million people, more

741
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Speaker 1: than ten million people actually in New York and California.

742
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Speaker 1: So one of my dreams and starting Parsley Health, which

743
00:39:23,680 --> 00:39:26,400
Speaker 1: was to make root cause medicine right, functional medicine, this

744
00:39:26,480 --> 00:39:28,879
Speaker 1: idea that you spend time with your doctor who's really

745
00:39:28,880 --> 00:39:32,560
Speaker 1: literate and nutrition and supplements and fitness and mental health

746
00:39:32,560 --> 00:39:35,960
Speaker 1: in addition to all the good conventional medicine stuff. Make

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Speaker 1: that accessible. It hadn't been accessible to folks. And we

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00:39:39,960 --> 00:39:42,600
Speaker 1: went in network this year, meaning people can use their

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Speaker 1: health plan and use their benefits, making Parsley so so affordable,

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Speaker 1: and that happened in Q one of twenty three. We've

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Speaker 1: seen the number of people using their health benefits for

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00:39:55,040 --> 00:39:58,120
Speaker 1: Parsley grow two hundred and fifty percent in twenty twenty three,

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Speaker 1: and it's just really gratifying because that's why I started

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Speaker 1: the whole company.

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00:40:03,080 --> 00:40:05,000
Speaker 3: Yeah, wow, what a big statement.

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Speaker 2: I remember that we recorded right before that happened at

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Speaker 2: the beginning of twenty three, and what an exciting moment

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Speaker 2: for all of you. I can't even imagine as an entrepreneur,

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00:40:14,800 --> 00:40:16,120
Speaker 2: how that feels for you?

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Speaker 1: It feels so good. And also, it took a lot

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Speaker 1: of freaking work working with health insurance companies to recognize

762
00:40:24,680 --> 00:40:27,359
Speaker 1: this medicine and to go in network the right way. Right,

763
00:40:27,400 --> 00:40:30,080
Speaker 1: there's no button that you click to negotiate with them.

764
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Speaker 1: You've got to get to the right people and then

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Speaker 1: make sure they understand the value of what you're doing,

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Speaker 1: et cetera, et cetera. So it was a real process.

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Speaker 1: And by the way, we've got many more on the way.

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Speaker 1: We're in process with lots more health plans, and so

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Speaker 1: we hope by mid to late twenty four we've got

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Speaker 1: more announcements on the way.

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Speaker 2: Personally or professionally. What would you say was your most

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Speaker 2: difficult moment of the year.

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Speaker 1: I look back on twenty twenty three, and to be

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Speaker 1: honest with you, it was challenging, and I think it

775
00:40:58,560 --> 00:41:03,640
Speaker 1: was challenging for everyone. Interest rates were crazy high, the

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00:41:03,680 --> 00:41:09,720
Speaker 1: market was really weird. Our bank failed as a company

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00:41:10,000 --> 00:41:14,759
Speaker 1: in March of twenty twenty three. That's a weekend. I

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00:41:14,800 --> 00:41:18,120
Speaker 1: will never forget thinking that all of Parsley's capital was

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00:41:18,640 --> 00:41:24,360
Speaker 1: locked up and gone perhaps forever. And yeah, I definitely

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00:41:24,400 --> 00:41:26,680
Speaker 1: like lost a year of my life from the stress

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00:41:26,719 --> 00:41:30,440
Speaker 1: of that weekend. You know, there was there was a

782
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Speaker 1: lot of stressors. There was two worse, many worse around

783
00:41:34,120 --> 00:41:37,520
Speaker 1: the world. There was political strife, right, and so I

784
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Speaker 1: think for everyone twenty twenty three. I don't know about you,

785
00:41:40,560 --> 00:41:43,600
Speaker 1: but everyone I talked to, it just felt like a

786
00:41:43,719 --> 00:41:50,040
Speaker 1: hard year. And the thing that I realized though in

787
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Speaker 1: all of that as I start twenty twenty four this

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Speaker 1: week is it was a reminder in resilience. And I

789
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Speaker 1: just think the amount of resilience I showed in my

790
00:42:02,200 --> 00:42:06,880
Speaker 1: own life, that my team showed that, you know, our

791
00:42:07,000 --> 00:42:10,560
Speaker 1: culture has shown getting through some of these really challenging

792
00:42:10,600 --> 00:42:14,880
Speaker 1: and hard things gives me hope And I'm just I

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Speaker 1: don't know, I feel really good vibes for twenty twenty four.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, twenty first share that I share that with you.

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Speaker 2: Ietting all of those things you listed certainly not on

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Speaker 2: our Bengo carts or twenty twenty three. I cannot even

797
00:42:26,680 --> 00:42:30,760
Speaker 2: imagine the anxiety that goes hand in hand with wondering

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00:42:30,760 --> 00:42:32,640
Speaker 2: what happens to all of your money.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that was a fun weekend. I was I went

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Speaker 1: to dinner, like the first day, it was like a

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00:42:37,239 --> 00:42:41,360
Speaker 1: Thursday night and I was with some of my favorite

802
00:42:41,360 --> 00:42:44,799
Speaker 1: friends in like the health and mamas world, and they

803
00:42:44,840 --> 00:42:46,680
Speaker 1: were just and I kept getting up from dinner and

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00:42:46,719 --> 00:42:49,200
Speaker 1: I was getting on phone calls and I was just

805
00:42:49,239 --> 00:42:52,040
Speaker 1: like frantically texting, and everyone was figuring out what was

806
00:42:52,080 --> 00:42:55,880
Speaker 1: going on. And my friends at this dinner none of

807
00:42:55,880 --> 00:42:58,840
Speaker 1: them are run like startups, right, so they're just in

808
00:42:58,880 --> 00:43:01,880
Speaker 1: a different world. They all were just like what is

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00:43:02,080 --> 00:43:05,000
Speaker 1: going on? And I was trying to explain it to them,

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00:43:05,040 --> 00:43:07,560
Speaker 1: and I was just like, you know, I give up,

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Speaker 1: Like I just I don't even know how to explain

812
00:43:09,960 --> 00:43:12,200
Speaker 1: this situation. This is so crazy. Who is is?

813
00:43:12,200 --> 00:43:12,640
Speaker 3: How it is?

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Speaker 1: Though, So there was just a lot of moments like that,

815
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Speaker 1: and I think for all of us, there was moments

816
00:43:18,440 --> 00:43:20,719
Speaker 1: like that this year where you just felt like the

817
00:43:20,840 --> 00:43:26,600
Speaker 1: universe is throwing you curveball after curveball, and yet some

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00:43:26,680 --> 00:43:31,080
Speaker 1: of them we dodged and like that one wow. And

819
00:43:31,400 --> 00:43:35,600
Speaker 1: you know, but like many companies, we were borrowing money

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Speaker 1: from our investors in real time that weekend to make

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Speaker 1: sure we could make payroll on Tuesday. I mean, it

822
00:43:40,400 --> 00:43:45,319
Speaker 1: was really scary. And so like that curveballs came through

823
00:43:46,320 --> 00:43:48,520
Speaker 1: some of them. We got hit, some of them we dodged,

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00:43:49,040 --> 00:43:51,479
Speaker 1: but were still standing. And it was a deep year

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00:43:51,560 --> 00:43:55,840
Speaker 1: of learning and growth and foundation setting. And so I

826
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Speaker 1: think that's what makes me so optimistic.

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Speaker 2: So am I hearing you say that resilience is your

828
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Speaker 2: theme from twenty twenty three?

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Speaker 1: Yes, I mean I think resilience is a theme. Accessibility

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Speaker 1: is a theme. So a big, big focus for us

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Speaker 1: at Parsley is continuing accessibility. So we just launched the

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Speaker 1: past couple of days with a couple of major employers

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Speaker 1: around the country. We have a few more coming. We've

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Speaker 1: got hotel groups and airlines and laboratory companies and telecoms

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Speaker 1: and school systems and food service delivery companies. It's honestly amazing,

836
00:44:34,520 --> 00:44:38,000
Speaker 1: all paying for Parsley services on behalf of their employees,

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Speaker 1: which is just insane. We're working on some big partnerships

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00:44:42,280 --> 00:44:45,680
Speaker 1: with health insurance companies, which, again, you know, I'm an

839
00:44:45,719 --> 00:44:48,640
Speaker 1: impatient person, so this whole thing of trying to get

840
00:44:48,680 --> 00:44:50,560
Speaker 1: stuff done and this world is really hard for me,

841
00:44:50,640 --> 00:44:55,480
Speaker 1: but it just moves slowly. But the opportunity to work

842
00:44:55,520 --> 00:44:58,880
Speaker 1: with these huge health plans and for people to be

843
00:44:58,920 --> 00:45:01,839
Speaker 1: able to use their benefit through their employer or through

844
00:45:01,880 --> 00:45:04,760
Speaker 1: their plan for Parsley is literally the dream to come true.

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Speaker 1: So that's kind of our theme for this year is

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00:45:07,520 --> 00:45:10,319
Speaker 1: just increasing accessibility everywhere we possibly can.

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Speaker 3: We love that.

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Speaker 2: If you had to choose a person of the year,

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Speaker 2: who is your person of the year?

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Speaker 3: Robin?

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00:45:19,640 --> 00:45:21,880
Speaker 1: You know you kind of touched on the topic earlier,

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00:45:21,920 --> 00:45:25,000
Speaker 1: which is so funny. So my person is Oprah Ah

853
00:45:25,360 --> 00:45:29,000
Speaker 1: and you know, no Shane on Taylor Swift. She's amazing.

854
00:45:29,120 --> 00:45:32,000
Speaker 1: I just watched the Eras movie with my six and

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00:45:32,040 --> 00:45:35,759
Speaker 1: a half year old, which is super fun. But you know,

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00:45:36,080 --> 00:45:40,520
Speaker 1: she really this year made health topics a big part

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00:45:40,520 --> 00:45:43,040
Speaker 1: of her agenda. She really spoke out this year around menopause.

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00:45:43,520 --> 00:45:46,200
Speaker 1: She spoke about weight as a health issue through her

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00:45:46,200 --> 00:45:49,080
Speaker 1: work with weight Watchers. And not a lot of people

860
00:45:49,120 --> 00:45:51,759
Speaker 1: know this, but back in my twenties, before I went

861
00:45:51,760 --> 00:45:53,480
Speaker 1: to med school, I worked for Oprah for a year,

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00:45:53,520 --> 00:45:55,520
Speaker 1: and I wrote worked for Harpo Productions, and I was

863
00:45:55,560 --> 00:45:58,360
Speaker 1: the producer for Doctor Oz's first ever year of his

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00:45:58,440 --> 00:46:01,760
Speaker 1: first ever radio show on Oprah and Friends satellite radio

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Speaker 1: with Gail King and all these people. And at that era,

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Speaker 1: Oprah had her show still and she was doing a

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Speaker 1: lot with like doctor Az and doctor Film and health

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00:46:12,239 --> 00:46:14,440
Speaker 1: and wellness was like a big focus for her, and

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Speaker 1: then intervening years like she's continued that somewhat, but she's

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Speaker 1: also focused elsewhere. And I really love that, you know.

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Speaker 1: I think we need these big figures, cultural figures like

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Speaker 1: her speaking about these topics like menopause, like women's health,

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00:46:30,560 --> 00:46:33,399
Speaker 1: like weight as a medical issue in a way that's

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Speaker 1: just so empowering to so many people and brings it

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Speaker 1: out of the confines of the medical world and into

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Speaker 1: our day to day. So for that, I choose her.

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Speaker 2: This year, I choose Oprah Person of the Year. Controversial question,

878
00:46:46,080 --> 00:46:48,560
Speaker 2: what do you think about people giving Oprah flack for

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00:46:48,640 --> 00:46:51,800
Speaker 2: speaking out about being on ozembic.

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00:46:53,000 --> 00:46:56,600
Speaker 1: I don't really understand the flak. Right. Ozembic and GLP

881
00:46:56,760 --> 00:46:59,200
Speaker 1: ones I wrote an article about this recently, both for

882
00:46:59,280 --> 00:47:03,560
Speaker 1: Parsley and for or My newsletter are another tool in

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00:47:03,600 --> 00:47:07,799
Speaker 1: our toolkit. They're not right for everyone. They're not a long,

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00:47:07,800 --> 00:47:11,279
Speaker 1: long term solution. They can be game changing for some

885
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Speaker 1: people and some I have patients who do all the

886
00:47:16,960 --> 00:47:21,440
Speaker 1: right things and have morbid obesity and are have despite

887
00:47:21,480 --> 00:47:25,600
Speaker 1: that and have mental and emotional and behavioral health issues.

888
00:47:25,640 --> 00:47:28,120
Speaker 1: That lead to binge eating disorder, that lead to them

889
00:47:28,160 --> 00:47:30,440
Speaker 1: being obese, that lead them to be unable to breathe

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00:47:30,440 --> 00:47:34,680
Speaker 1: at night, and on a CEPAT machine. Listen, for some people,

891
00:47:34,760 --> 00:47:37,239
Speaker 1: we really just need more tools in our toolkit than

892
00:47:37,280 --> 00:47:41,000
Speaker 1: the ones that we've had. That said, there's some challenges

893
00:47:41,040 --> 00:47:44,960
Speaker 1: and side effects and risks with these medications. I don't

894
00:47:44,960 --> 00:47:47,480
Speaker 1: believe that people should just be buying them for themselves,

895
00:47:47,480 --> 00:47:49,960
Speaker 1: willing nilly off the internet and not really working with

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Speaker 1: a doctor who understands all aspects of their health. And

897
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Speaker 1: so we prescribe goolpie ones at Parsley, we deprescribe and

898
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Speaker 1: get people off of gvlp ones at Parsley, do the

899
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Speaker 1: right test to figure out, Hey, you have hypothyroidism. You

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00:48:04,040 --> 00:48:07,200
Speaker 1: don't need a GLP one, you need your thyroid issue addressed. Right,

901
00:48:07,560 --> 00:48:09,920
Speaker 1: So we do that right testing, and not all always

902
00:48:09,960 --> 00:48:13,000
Speaker 1: assuming that just because we have a hammer, everything is

903
00:48:13,000 --> 00:48:16,200
Speaker 1: a nail, right, And so I think that it's a

904
00:48:16,280 --> 00:48:20,080
Speaker 1: nuanced and complex issue. But I believe in using the

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Speaker 1: right tool at the right time for the right person.

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Speaker 1: And I just think golp ones are another thing in

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Speaker 1: our basket.

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Speaker 3: Man.

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Speaker 2: Just because I have a hammer, not everything is a

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00:48:29,280 --> 00:48:34,280
Speaker 2: nail robin with all of these great sayings today.

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Speaker 3: I love them. I absolutely love them.

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Speaker 2: Okay, last question here, what is something you want to

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Speaker 2: do more of in twenty twenty four.

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Speaker 1: Saying no? Twenty twenty three was a big year for

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00:48:47,480 --> 00:48:50,560
Speaker 1: me of saying yes and having fun and traveling. And

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Speaker 1: I had this like really rich and texture year alongside

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00:48:54,880 --> 00:48:57,279
Speaker 1: or in part of having also a very challenging year.

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Speaker 1: So it was both and I loved that. By the

919
00:49:00,360 --> 00:49:02,839
Speaker 1: end of the year, I realized, though, that one thing

920
00:49:02,880 --> 00:49:06,200
Speaker 1: that's so important, I was saying yes across the board

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00:49:06,239 --> 00:49:07,719
Speaker 1: to too many things, and I was saying yes to

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Speaker 1: things that were depleting me, not serving me, and actually

923
00:49:11,840 --> 00:49:14,640
Speaker 1: preventing me in some ways from operating at my highest

924
00:49:14,680 --> 00:49:16,799
Speaker 1: And so I said earlier, I really, you know, I'm

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00:49:16,800 --> 00:49:19,760
Speaker 1: doing my morning ten minute just breathing and gratitude because

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00:49:20,400 --> 00:49:22,879
Speaker 1: I really want to show up in full this year

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00:49:22,920 --> 00:49:26,040
Speaker 1: for my kids and my family and my company and

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00:49:26,120 --> 00:49:29,640
Speaker 1: my personal word of the year. The theme at Parsley

929
00:49:29,680 --> 00:49:33,279
Speaker 1: is accessibility. The theme for me or my word of

930
00:49:33,320 --> 00:49:36,719
Speaker 1: the year is greatness. And I think to have I

931
00:49:36,800 --> 00:49:40,160
Speaker 1: think greatness is as greatness does, and to do greatness

932
00:49:40,280 --> 00:49:42,080
Speaker 1: or to live or act in a way that is

933
00:49:42,120 --> 00:49:46,840
Speaker 1: Greatness will require me to say no to some things

934
00:49:47,239 --> 00:49:49,360
Speaker 1: so that I'm not just like stretched tooth in and

935
00:49:49,360 --> 00:49:51,680
Speaker 1: deplete and to the point that like I, like we

936
00:49:51,760 --> 00:49:55,560
Speaker 1: all do freak out, feel overwhelmed and can't show up.

937
00:49:55,680 --> 00:49:59,160
Speaker 1: So just a lot of saying yes again like twenty three,

938
00:49:59,680 --> 00:50:02,040
Speaker 1: but more strategic and intentional.

939
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Speaker 2: Say now, you and I have the same word of

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00:50:05,080 --> 00:50:09,279
Speaker 2: the year, which is so funny because there's so many

941
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Speaker 2: words in the English language. You know my theme of

942
00:50:11,520 --> 00:50:13,959
Speaker 2: last year, and I decided consciously to bring it into

943
00:50:13,960 --> 00:50:16,319
Speaker 2: this year because I feel like I'm finally ready to

944
00:50:16,440 --> 00:50:20,440
Speaker 2: embody it is good to great right, and this idea

945
00:50:20,520 --> 00:50:23,520
Speaker 2: that for so long I have been okay with good,

946
00:50:23,920 --> 00:50:29,080
Speaker 2: I have been happy with what good gets me. But now,

947
00:50:29,400 --> 00:50:33,839
Speaker 2: for a multitude of reasons, I feel truly prepared and

948
00:50:33,880 --> 00:50:38,480
Speaker 2: truly capable of stepping into great of leveling up not

949
00:50:38,640 --> 00:50:43,120
Speaker 2: only personally but professionally, going after opportunities that maybe before

950
00:50:43,239 --> 00:50:46,960
Speaker 2: really intimidated me. Now I am ready for greatness because

951
00:50:47,040 --> 00:50:50,160
Speaker 2: I am doing things like you so well articulated, owning

952
00:50:50,200 --> 00:50:53,640
Speaker 2: my no, because I am putting myself first. In the morning,

953
00:50:53,760 --> 00:50:56,919
Speaker 2: I too am on the breathwork and meditation train. I

954
00:50:56,960 --> 00:50:59,799
Speaker 2: am at a point now where I am ready for

955
00:51:00,480 --> 00:51:04,160
Speaker 2: and saying that out loud, even just in this moment

956
00:51:04,360 --> 00:51:08,040
Speaker 2: feels exciting, exhilarating, and it really geeks me out over

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00:51:08,080 --> 00:51:09,239
Speaker 2: what's to come in twenty.

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Speaker 1: Four My gosh, So calling that in for you and

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00:51:12,120 --> 00:51:14,040
Speaker 1: so exciting for you, that's awesome.

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00:51:14,400 --> 00:51:16,719
Speaker 2: Only if I'm getting in on this, like next, check

961
00:51:16,719 --> 00:51:21,360
Speaker 2: in with your five friends about the goal. Well, like

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00:51:21,440 --> 00:51:25,080
Speaker 2: I said, make sure you dm over at Hurdle Podcast

963
00:51:25,200 --> 00:51:27,799
Speaker 2: the word goals and your email and I will send

964
00:51:27,840 --> 00:51:31,200
Speaker 2: you this pdf and these questions from Robin. Robin, anything

965
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Speaker 2: else you want to leave us with going into the

966
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Speaker 2: new year before I let you go, I.

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Speaker 1: Don't know we've covered it all. Thank you so much

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Speaker 1: for having me today. It's so wonderful to start the

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Speaker 1: new year off with you. I love that we have

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00:51:43,040 --> 00:51:46,520
Speaker 1: the shared goal of greatness. Yes you know. Sign up

971
00:51:46,520 --> 00:51:49,359
Speaker 1: for our newsletter at Parsley Health. We share so much

972
00:51:49,440 --> 00:51:52,680
Speaker 1: of the tips and health and wellness and medical advice

973
00:51:52,719 --> 00:51:55,399
Speaker 1: that I shared her today. We share every single week

974
00:51:55,400 --> 00:51:58,960
Speaker 1: at our Parsley newsletter. It's free. You can also get

975
00:51:59,000 --> 00:52:03,640
Speaker 1: my newsletter which is dot com so you get double

976
00:52:03,680 --> 00:52:07,440
Speaker 1: the goodness essentially, and yeah, keep stay on our journey.

977
00:52:07,480 --> 00:52:10,520
Speaker 1: And if you're out there and you're you know, I've

978
00:52:10,520 --> 00:52:14,040
Speaker 1: been saying that the best resolution we can make is

979
00:52:14,080 --> 00:52:16,439
Speaker 1: just to get some help and work with it. Work

980
00:52:16,440 --> 00:52:20,200
Speaker 1: with us at Parsley, work with another provider who can

981
00:52:20,280 --> 00:52:23,280
Speaker 1: help you get further than you can get alone, because

982
00:52:23,280 --> 00:52:24,960
Speaker 1: we can't do it just by ourselves.

983
00:52:25,239 --> 00:52:26,880
Speaker 3: We can't do it by ourselves, Robin.

984
00:52:26,920 --> 00:52:28,799
Speaker 2: For those that don't follow you yet, how do they

985
00:52:28,880 --> 00:52:30,440
Speaker 2: keep up with you on social.

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00:52:30,840 --> 00:52:34,000
Speaker 1: It's just Robin Urson MD on all the things and

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Speaker 1: Parsley help on all the things, and Parsley is like

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Speaker 1: way more prolific.

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Speaker 3: So fell yourself short, Robin.

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00:52:44,040 --> 00:52:47,239
Speaker 1: Yeah, I do what I can overhear people, but you know,

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Speaker 1: follow Parsley do amazing.

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00:52:50,000 --> 00:52:52,480
Speaker 2: I'm over at Emily a Body and at Hurdle Podcast.

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Speaker 2: Another Hurdle Conquered. Catch you guys next time,