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If you ain't trying to get well, you're in the wrong place.

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You're listening to Only the Best Herbs with Ryan Boulder.

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Hello and welcome to Only the Best Herbs, the podcast where we dive into the world of

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natural remedies and explore the power of plant-based healing.

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My name is Ryan Boulder, your guide on this journey through the fascinating world of herbal

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medicine.

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Today's episode is particularly timely as we navigate the festive cheer and the occasional

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stress of the holiday season.

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We are focusing on a topic that resonates with many – migraines.

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Yup, the unwelcome guests that often choose the worst times to visit.

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However, here's some uplifting news.

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We'll explore how these cost-effective natural remedies are making a significant impact and

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why they might just be the perfect gift for your well-being this holiday season.

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Now, getting back to our story about migraines.

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Migraines are more than just a headache.

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Often, the pain is accompanied by nausea, vomiting, light sensitivity, and even sound

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sensitivity.

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Chronic migraines can be disabling and may prevent many, especially women, from contributing

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to the working life or their own working life.

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Still, it often takes a long time for migraine patients to find a treatment that works well

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for them.

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Researchers at the Norwegian Center of Heddeck Research, quote, unquote, Norhead, have used

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data from the Norwegian Prescription Register to look at which medicines best prevent migraine.

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Professor Martin Helen Bejork at the Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Bergen,

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says, there has now been done a lot of research on this subject before.

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This may weaken the quality of the treatment and increase the cost of treatment for this

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patient group.

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Three medicines had better effect than the first choice of medicines.

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Researchers used the National Register data from 2010 to 2020 to estimate treatment effect.

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They measured this by looking at the consumption of acute migraine medicines before and after

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starting preventative treatment, which they also investigated how long the people with

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the migraine used different preventative treatments.

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A total of over 100,000 migraine patients were in the study.

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100,000.

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When the withdrawal of acute migraine medicines changed little after starting preventative

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medicine or people stopped quickly on the preventative medicines, the preventative medicine

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was interrupted as having little effect and discontinued.

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The preventative medicine was used on a long uninterrupted period and we saw a decrease

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in the consumption of acute medicines.

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We interpreted that as the preventative medicine was having a good effect.

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As a rule, these so-called beta blockers are used as the first choice to prevent migraine

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attacks, but the researchers found that especially three medicines had better preventative effects

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than these.

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The CGRP inhibitors and a tryptoline and Symbastium.

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I'm not sure how popular those are here in America, but the two latter medicines are

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also established medicines used for depression, chronic pain, and high cholesterol.

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Respectively, while the CGRP inhibitors are developed and used specifically for chronic

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migraines.

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Another topic that we have is for epilepsy.

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This one hits home for me because I have had epileptic seizures before and I haven't

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had a seizure in a while, but this one really does resonate with me.

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This is from the American Academy of Neurology.

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For people with epilepsy, doing yoga may help reduce feelings of stigma about the disease,

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along with reducing seizure frequency and anxiety.

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According to a new research published in November 8th of 2023, the online edition of the Medical

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Journey of American Academy of Neurology.

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People with epilepsy often face stigma that can cause them to feel different than others

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due to their own health condition.

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And that can have a significant impact on their quality of life.

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Said study anchor Manjari Tripathi, MDVM of all India Institute of Medical Science in

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New Delhi.

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This stigma can affect a person's life in many ways, including treatment, emergency

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department visits, and poor mental health.

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Our study showed that doing yoga can alleviate the burden of epilepsy and improve the overall

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quality of life by reducing this perceived stigma.

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And I completely understand and I completely get what they're saying with this because

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I felt this way.

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This is exactly how I felt because you feel different.

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You're like, why me?

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Why do I have to have this disease or why do I have to have this condition that makes

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it so that I have no control over my body?

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My brain can at any moment spaz out and I won't have any idea what's going on.

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I've crashed a few cars as a result of these seizures and I honestly shouldn't even be

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here.

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That does throw you into a depression and makes you not understand.

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It makes it scary to do anything because you're not in control.

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So I understand.

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I get where there comes from where other seizure patients would feel that way.

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Yoga does seem like it would be a good alternative.

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I can't say that I do yoga, but I do meditate.

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I sit there and I reflect and I'm very conscious and I go through things in my head and I visualize

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and I guess maybe it's not a type of yoga, but I am practicing on my breathing.

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I am visualizing and seeing and making goals and evaluating things I've done in the past.

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Practicing mindfulness has been very beneficial to me having the seizure condition because

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when you have one there's no reason to look back in the past and look back on it and be

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mad about it because there's absolutely nothing you can do.

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After you had a seizure it feels like you got your ass beat.

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You're confused.

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Now you can't drive all of a sudden.

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You have no idea why.

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Now you can't drive.

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Everyone's concerned about you.

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Starts pissing you off because everyone's asking how you are and you're fine.

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You just had a seizure and you don't know why.

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Then I get it.

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Practicing yoga, I would definitely, yoga or some type of meditative practice would

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be good because I think that also even helps train your brain, the synopsis in your brain.

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Maybe you can calm them down a little bit with some breathing exercises and getting

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some oxygen to your brain and whatnot.

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Again, I'm not a doctor, I'm not claiming to be a doctor, but I do know some things

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and I try to give my opinion the best I can.

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If you agree with it, then agree with it.

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If you don't, then I'm dumb.

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I can't really do any better than that.

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But I do know I have some valuable information when it comes to seizures because that is

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something I have had to deal with a lot in my life.

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Stars are always in line sometimes because this is a very key part of my life.

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That's just sad to say, but it did take over my mind for years because I didn't know how

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to cope with it, I didn't know how to deal with it.

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That started a lot of negative things that happened in my life.

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Yeah, seizures does.

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It does diminish your mental health and your quality of life until you can get a hold on

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that and it is not easy.

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Let me be the one to tell you, listen to my voice, listen if you are having seizure issues,

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if you know somebody who is having seizure issues, in any way, practice mindfulness with

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them.

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Calm, be calm, talk about your thoughts, close your eyes.

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A very long healing process because the more often you have a seizure, the better chance

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there is of you having another one.

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You've got to keep it under control, medications.

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This is going to sound counterintuitive to what we talk about, but this is nothing to

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play around with.

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Seizure medications, if you are on a seizure medication, stay on your seizure medication.

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Withdrawal effect from these medications is that you will have a seizure if you discontinue

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taking your seizure medications.

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I found that out the hard way.

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You cannot take your seizure medication and then abruptly stop.

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Even if you think, hey Ryan, I want to get off of this man-made prescription and transition

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to something else, don't do it.

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Don't do it right now.

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Talk to your doctor, talk to a physician, explain to them what you want to do, tell

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them I'm doing this, I need your help, please guide me, please give me some tips or something.

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A lot of doctors will probably not tell you to just stay on your medication.

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If it's working, it's working.

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However, if you are having problems, that is probably when you might want to take this

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approach or add something in or start working with your doctor.

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I am in the process right now of working with my doctor to try to get off of this prescription

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right now.

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But there's a lot of tests they have to do.

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You got to go through a sleep test to make sure that you're not having seizures in your

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sleep.

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There's an observation.

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There's so many things you need to go through to make sure you can safely and comfortably

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switch to more natural medications or substances or plants.

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It is a long process, but you have to be patient.

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You are in control.

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If you got time under your belt and not having to seizure, for example, and you want to take

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the next step, I'm rooting for you.

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I'm not telling you to do it, but if you do it, be safe.

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Be safe and mindful, every decision you make can impact the rest of your life no matter

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how big or how small the decision you think that is.

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Be careful.

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Getting back to this article, the stigma can affect a person's life in many ways, including

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treatment, emergency department visits, and poor mental health.

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Our study showed that doing yoga can alleviate the burden of epilepsy and improve the overall

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quality of life by producing this perceived stigma.

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For the study, researchers looked at people with epilepsy with an average age of 30 in

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India.

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I would qualify for that in India, being 29.

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Researchers measured stigma based on participants answered to questions such as, do you feel

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other people discriminate against you?

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Do you feel like you cannot contribute anything in society?

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Do you feel different from other people, all of which I imagine I would answer yes to those

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questions up until I started my business and I started this podcast.

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I would have answered yes to all three of those questions.

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Researchers then identified 160 people who met the criteria for experiencing stigma.

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Participants had an average of one seizure a week and on average took at least two anti-seizure

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medications.

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Researchers then randomly assigned participants to receive yoga therapy or sham yoga therapy,

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which I am not 100% what sham yoga therapy is.

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Yoga therapy included exercises in loosening muscles, breathing, meditation, and positive

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affirmations.

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Here we go.

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Sham yoga consisted of exercises that mimic the same yoga exercises, but participants

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were not given instructions on two key components of yoga believed to induce a relaxing response.

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Low and synchronized breathing and attention to the body movement and sensations during

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practice.

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Each group received seven supervised group sessions of 45 to 60 minutes over three months.

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Participants were also asked to practice sessions at home at least five times a week for 30

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minutes.

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They tracked seizures and yoga sessions in a journal.

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After the three months of therapy, participants were followed for another additional three

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months.

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This is extensive.

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Researchers found when compared to people who did sham yoga versus people who did yoga,

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they were more likely to reduce their perceived stigma of the disease.

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People who did yoga had an average score of seven at the start of the study and an average

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score of four at the end of the study.

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While people who did sham yoga had an increase from an average score of six at the start

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of the study to an average score of seven at the end.

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Researchers also found that people who did yoga were more than four times likely to have

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more than a 50% reduction in their seizure frequency after six months than the people

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who did sham yoga.

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Sham yoga is basically a sham.

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It's like half-assed yoga, probably something close to what I do.

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What I was talking about earlier is probably what I do.

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Doing yoga the right way that solicits these responses and these sensations truly does,

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at least in all accounts of this study, had a noticeable effect at reducing seizures after

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six months.

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That's incredible.

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That isn't even substance-related, herbs or anything.

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That's just doing mindful breathing exercises and just being grounded.

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That's what a lot of these products, we focus on.

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That's what they do.

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They bring you to that balance.

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However, the balance of yoga is doing it without herbs.

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This is completely all-natural and you're getting your body in that way consciously.

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That's what they do.

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They help balance your body out.

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The herbs are the first step.

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Second step is getting into a mindfulness routine.

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Yoga would be a mindfulness routine, in my opinion, and that's what they're saying as

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well.

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People who did yoga were more than seven times more likely to no longer have seizures

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than those who did sham yoga.

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We are now going to get to the next part of our season two storyline.

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It would be our conception, how CBD surgeons and how surgeons came to be what it is now

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from the last episode.

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I ended off mentioning the mushroom community that I had gotten into and started to create

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with one person.

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There was the other person, which became a little strange because I really had a good

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relationship with them for a solid month or two and then we had a stop talking.

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However, that person did invite me to a group that I had mentioned.

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I really like now that I'm there and had been there.

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That was the first mushroom group that I had ever joined.

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That person ended up, we had just lost contact.

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They brought me, they pointed me in the direction to go to this community.

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I'm pretty stoked to be there.

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I'm feeling it out, I'm there, not looking around, but I'm trying to figure out who is

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who and how things work.

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Quickly, I got the feeling that not that certain people weren't my biggest fans, but doing

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what I'm doing, coming into a new community, coming into a new community, I could understand

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why people would be annoyed, I guess.

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I don't want to say intimidated because that's a really crappy word to use.

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I would say concerned.

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People who are concerned of me coming in are really what my intentions were.

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I can understand that.

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I would be the same way, and the best thing I knew how to do was I'll just try to prove

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myself a little bit, not that I need to, but I teamed up with this awesome person and learned

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more about them and their story and what they had been through and started doing some content

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a little bit with them and created a pretty good relationship, I thought, in my opinion,

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with this person in the mushroom community.

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You'll never hear me come on my podcast and talk negative about anybody, or even in person

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or in real life.

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I never talk bad about anybody because they get that straight.

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Everyone I've worked with and everyone that you've seen me work with publicly or anything

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like that, I have the utmost respect for them, and I really appreciate everybody in this

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process.

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You'll never hear me say anything bad about anybody.

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That's why you're listening to this and see what I'm going to say if I'm going to see

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something completely off the wall about somebody.

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It's not going to happen.

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I've thought about it, but I've had to do that with a lot of people.

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Just because of this story doesn't really go my way a little, or the way I wanted it

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to go doesn't mean I'm going to come on here and start spewing a whole bunch of nonsense.

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That's a little bit of context for you, how I feel about the situation.

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Obviously, not exactly thrilled about it, but create this community with this individual.

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Things are going good.

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The group grew insanely fast.

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I couldn't even tell you the numbers on it.

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I have screenshots of it, but it was like, wow.

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A couple of weeks that I'd gotten up to 250 or so group numbers, I was like, wow, this

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is pretty, that's awesome.

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This group is going to do really well.

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Throughout this whole process, I'm talking with this person I created the community with.

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From the beginning, I said, you're going to build this and it's going to be yours.

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I just want to be here and help build it because at the end of the day, only one person can

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truly own a Facebook community.

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They have the complete control over it.

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There's always one person who has complete control.

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Going into that, I wanted to build this community.

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In return, I would help build my own community aside from it, which is only the best herbs

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was podcast.

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I needed to get a community going.

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On my end, I wanted to help educate people not only just to mushrooms, but I wanted to

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take a completely natural approach that would not cause too much attention or the name wouldn't

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raise any flags or wouldn't be looked down upon.

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I couldn't name the group mushroom central or something like that.

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I couldn't name it something crazy.

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I wanted to go with only the best herbs and I wanted to focus on other things too, like

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cannabis and all the other things that we've been talking about, but specifically cannabis

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because I deal with hemp extracts in my company and mushroom medicine is my next thing on

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my to-do list to bring awareness to, but people who did not want me to continue doing this

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for whatever reason.

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That's okay.

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I was a little confused on what all of the negativity was about, but I could tell that

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this person no longer wanted to do this or doing this was a joke or something or it was

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funny or something.

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I was like, okay, if it's so funny, then I'm just done.

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I'm done with it.

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That's that and I'll just focus on my stuff and then I will go back to what I was doing.

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I go back and I'm going to make this clear.

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It's not easy.

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It was 100% not easy to give up on.

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I didn't give up because I don't want to look at it that way as giving up because I really

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didn't.

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I was more forced to stop doing it because of, it just gets to a point where it's like,

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all right, I have to maintain my integrity about this and if it's just going to be a

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giant joke, then I'm not going to do it and I'll focus on something that clearly is not

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a joke and I'll do it and we'll do it better.

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So I was, it really personally did hurt my feelings and that's another thing with business

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and just life in general, just being able to separate that.

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My boundaries suck.

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Getting into the mushroom community and seeing how people were, I was like, wow, this is

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so different.

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I kind of feel like I wanted to be here, but, you know, and I felt like I could act differently

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or like the way that I wanted to versus what the reality of the situation was.

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Like I thought, you know, we're building this community together, but in all reality, it

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was just like, you're an idiot.

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So I went and was an idiot somewhere else and that's kind of like where we end up right

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now is like, I'm in this community with some awesome people who've helped a little bit

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or at least like shown some kindness and that's it.

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You know, we just did this giveaway for the holiday season, which brings me to that point

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and it went really, I'm like blown away with how many people signed up for the giveaway

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or how much participation there was in the giveaway.

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By the way, like that, I don't, I think there's 80, 80 different people, possibly more who

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signed up for this giveaway.

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If my calculations are correct or my math, but that's kind of how we end up to where

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we're at now.

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And I wanted to get all this on a podcast season, everything that's happened up until

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this point, I wanted to get it on a podcast because I am planning on making some content

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about it, like some video work about it, or maybe just some visuals to go along with the

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podcast possibly, but there's going to be just like a better version of it being made

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and I know how people are and want to like profit off of things that have happened in

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my life and claim them to be their own or something like that, which was going on with

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this independent film producer that I had mentioned and we had a talk about it.

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It was a really strange talk and I'll talk, I'll tell, we're going to revisit some things,

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but to kind of close off the podcast a little bit at the end, maybe like maybe one of the

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last episodes, revisit some things that are really messed up that is important to note

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going forward.

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But there are people who, I don't know how to explain it, but we're going to end that

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this week.

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Right now it's the day after Christmas, I started filming this the day before Christmas,

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or on Christmas Eve and I'm finishing it the day after Christmas, so Merry Christmas, Happy

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New Year, I'm going to try to get one in for the new year, should be able to get one in,

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I'm going to start working on it here in the next couple of days.

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Visit our website, surgeonsolution.io, where you'll find only the best.

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Until next time, this is Ryan Boulder with Only the Best Herbs, and you'll talk to me

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soon.

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If you have what it takes to be only the best, send us an email, operations at surgeonsolutions.org.