Welcome to fit to be real and a little extra. I don't know if you know this, but winter is coming
It's it's kind of already here. Yes, it's got cold. I mean every other day is different which is part of the problem
If you're on the East Coast
It really is that transitional season of not knowing to put coats away or
Bring them out or put your shorts away. I know your sandals cuz some days it's 70 and some days it's 45
Yeah, it is still that season
That trips us all up and the cold start coming and the flu start coming and all of the kids little germs
Bring them home and then you're down for the count for a week
So we are gonna talk about how to boost your immune system up and prevent all of that from happening. I'm into it
I
Victoria hey guys, I'm Carly
I've been practicing. I was really good
I took a little step back and I lowered it a little and then I went through my nose more than my chest voice
And I worked on there's a lot of thought there's a lot of thoughts because usually it's like hey guys, I'm Carly
Yeah, I thought we get away for one. That was really good. I'm impressed
So the immune system right it's there I found an article that that broke down things and like remember those
Yellow books computers for dummies. Yeah, so I found an article that really dumbed it down for me
So I'm gonna share that with all of you and hope it resonates like it did for me
How do you feel that you have turned into our aunt Vicki? I read an article. That's how you started your sentence. I'm so proud Vicki
So proud I'm reading all the articles. I'm watching all the documentaries
read an article once
That the immune system is the body's surveillance system. Hold on the immune system is like a ring camera. Okay, I like that
Yeah, cool, cool, and it works 24 seven to identify and eliminate
Viruses and bacteria so it's looking for crime. Okay in the body. This is something that I can get behind
Your description I can I I'm here now. I'm awake. I'm here. I'm into it
I lied before when I said I was into it now. I'm really into it. Let's talk about
crime fighting bodies
Well crime fighting bodies
Pain paining yes, so the immune system
Is the ring camera for our bodies where we live, right?
So we have to take care of it
So the whole point of having a ring camera if it the batteries are out. What's the point?
There's no point to it. Yeah, if it you know can only survey
One area of your entrance to the house. Well, there's a whole dark side that anything could happen
I have eight doors to my house. Okay. I need eight ring cameras
Okay, we're talking about the body. I know I know I know but there's so many doors to my house
There's so many doors to my body, right? Yep. Okay, the mind is one of them. Yes, it's true
You have to make sure that this immune system this surveillance system is
up to par
Which is really like hard if you're not fully taking care of yourself ie me mm-hmm ie you ie
Everyone when life gets too busy, right? Especially right now right now in the beginning of the holiday season these seeds this it's the same
It's the same every year October to November November to December if it's crazed. It's like feels wild
Yeah, it feels wild looked every single year and the last thing we do to take care of ourselves is take care of
That's like bottom of the list. Well, we'll figure it out on December 26, which is what I usually do
I sometimes get so
Crazy busy don't do anything
Right for myself don't eat well don't sleep well and then on Christmas morning. I feel horrible. Yeah. Yeah, you know
It's just like I miss it because I'm exhausted
I haven't been eating right didn't have enough water and I'm like oh my gosh. I'm like a zombie on Christmas morning
Yeah, it's so true and I think well it for me
It's all the time but some people could feel like that Christmas morning slump all the time. Yeah all the time and that is
Doable to change you can do it and there are ways to do it
There are natural ways to do it and then there's supplemental ways to do it and we're gonna talk about all that yeah
No, I definitely like all the drugs so oh my god. So tell me about what I can buy
That's unnatural we're gonna start my way okay, so we're gonna go on that you're out
Just to break down the immune system one brief little section more is it's the skin
It's our corneas mm-hmm our lymphatic system our respiratory system and our gastrointestinal system and
If you know we're not gonna break all those things down
Hopefully you know what your skin is the gastrointestinal system alone if that's out of sync
Then everything's out of sync mm-hmm like that is if you're not feeling well digestively or things are kind of like
Weird there, maybe they've always been like that
There's something wrong and you have to you have to look into that because if that's not okay
Nothing else in your body can be okay. I believe that that's good because it's science
And it's fact I I I can stand behind that's good. That's good. It's not really a belief system, but this okay
That's good. So if all of those things are not doing well, and you're not taking care of yourself
It's due to poor diet lack of sleep
high stress and or like a medical condition you already have and
That can weaken all those things together or individually can weaken your ring camera. Okay, okay?
I'm gonna keep it. Yeah, I'm gonna keep it. I'm gonna keep it carly fight. Uh-huh. So
What can you do here are seven eight nine here are ten ways?
He's ten ways that we already know like I'm not gonna tell you anything right now that you've never heard before
This isn't gonna be like aha moments
This is the wake-up call and the kick in the pants that maybe you just need to hear right now that you don't even know that
You need to hear so that you go make some changes or
Start maybe you buy a multivitamin or maybe you go out to the grocery store and you buy better foods for yourself
This is just a sign. I am putting it out there for you to
Say things you've already heard since you were little and you wanted to ignore your mom because you didn't want to eat the orange
All right, maybe you just want to listen to me have that aha moment
And you should keep listening and hopefully I'll get there
So there's that to look forward to isn't in the ring camera. I don't have one
But you can press the siren if someone is like approaching your house that shouldn't be there
It seems like if you can talk to them and Carly's just pressing sirens at all time
But she's like ignoring them, but you're also pressing them
Ten ways first one go get your flu shot could be controversial if you are not into vaccines totally and and there is no judgment
Here's what the flu shot is right. It is something that promotes herd
immunity
HRD so by doing
Your little part for the people around you it helps yes yourself, but it helps the people that can't do it
So those six-month-old babies the the little ones running around that are allowed to get them or the people that have no access
Just the people in your part of the world
That's what it does. So it doesn't spread. It doesn't get worse now if you're an anti-vaxxer. That's fine
Skip this little section fast forward, but if it's something that you're like, well, I just always forget to do it
I have nothing against it. I I need to go. I'd that's me. I'm busy
I can't get to CVS or right aid then get the flu vaccine
You could be the pinnacle of health you eat everything. Well, you exercise like you are perfect on paper
The flu's common for you like it will still somehow get there if your world
Around you right isn't also trying to protect you right wash your hands
I know like I mean this is all stuff we learned during the pandemic when COVID was really
Rapid and it was like funny when they were like wash your hands everyone
No, really wash your hands. There are there's a world if you could microscope
Your fingernails. There's a whole colony living under there stop
I don't want to talk about I see I don't like stuff like this in your cuticles. You don't like you don't like
What I don't like to know I don't like to drink coffee and know things I like
To pretend that it there's not a colony on my finger in an ostrich and and they should all just be killed off
I'm kidding. Don't kill any animal. So wash your hands 20 seconds sing yourself a song
I'm not getting into wash your hands. Just wash your hands. It's a big part of your immune system
Steph infection lives on our skin just naturally. So
Don't put your fingers in your mouth
Hands on doorknobs like you have to just kind of use your brain and think wash your hands
Do we want to talk about that for a second or are we gonna get into that later? Hmm the staff infection. Oh, yeah
Yeah, sure. I just had staff infection. So I learned that staff infection. I didn't have MRSA. There's two different kinds
I did not have MRSA. Thank God. That's the staff. Yes. Okay. I had the other one
Staff are caucus on a monocle
Whatever it's called. I love that one. That's a super popular fun one. So fun to sit in your Vegas nerve
Oh my god, get out of my house
So we live a staff infection on our skin naturally
It's just a matter of how it can get internalized
So any type of wound or cut or if you pick your cuticles those are open
doors
for a criminal to get past your ring camera
Okay, so I because I sweat so much I tend to break out and I think it just got into one of them
I don't have any cuts on my hand. So I had a really bad stuff. It was bad. It was very I mean down for the count
Could not move. Yeah, Carly and
Carmella forced me to call the doctor to the because I couldn't jump up and down like it was really bad
Yeah, so in any case take it from my experience. You do not want staff infection
I was lucky enough to catch it before I got hospitalized because any type of staff infection
I'm gonna say it again that lives on our skin naturally all of the time
Could kill you and hospitalized you okay. She was
What 24 hours from going to the hospital? I mean it was a bad staff infection
Yeah, that we were she was just trying to blow off. So also don't blow off those little things. Yeah
Take care of yourself
Do as I say not as I do
So wash your hands. Okay. Be very vigilant be vigilant
Humidify it's keeping the air clean. Yeah, right like you breathe in
The air is really basic simple knowledge. So there are some viruses that stay in moisture in the air
And then that's how they kind of like circulate around you and then they get in
Yes, I mean that's why also it also clears up your sinuses as you're sleeping
I mean like any infant if you have a kid
They say if they are stuffy and they couldn't take you can't take medicine yet because they're so small put a humidifier
Yeah in the room. I mean, that's just I guess we think maybe it's basic knowledge, but some people don't know
Yeah, that's true. And I always bought that mom. Yeah bought us humidifiers one year
Well, it was shaped like a frog it was shaped like a fun and we were in like out of college at this point
And now that I think about it like I would really like to have that frog humidifier right now
So it was Victoria is shame on you. It was also a Christmas present. So she wrapped it up and
Tried to pass it off as like a Christmas gift and it was this humidifier shaped like a frog for babies
I will say parents or just people that love their people
You don't have to have children at college and up who like kind of need it and care those ages
Carmella gives us baskets of health products
Yes, she gives us dayquil and nightquil and cough lessengers. I'd be profan
I'd be profan band-aids the things that you like need and sometimes don't have in your house because you're like
Oh, I'll get that next time and then you never get it and right now the world is expensive
So like it's actually a really good really good gift not something you really want to open on Christmas morning
But no, but when you're down for the count, you're like, oh my gosh, I have that
That's I don't have to go make a trip and feel horrible. Very true
Sleep haha shocking. Oh my god
But here is
Here's my I had a few aha moments because I listened to the Mel Robbins podcast
Mel Yarr
Oh, Melly are was that girl?
That's our girl one of her recent
I did not write this down to give you really good facts like a good podcaster should so look it up
But it's about sleep and she has this
Renowned sleep study
ologist they just made that up who's talking about it and breaks down the phases of sleep the importance of sleep
Really the wise like the wise as to why sleep matters and it's not just so you're not tired
There are so many things that happen to our brain when we're sleeping and if we do not allow for that time to happen
There's no way our bodies functioning properly even if you feel okay, and you're only getting four hours of sleep
And you're like this is all I need it you're there's so much more that could be happening for you
So what I took away just to talk about today is that in one of the stages of sleep and it's in the early stages
What happens in our brain is like a Zamboni on ice that I can see
What does the Zamboni do after a game where all of the ice gates have like really ripped up the ice and has all the like ice
Residue and you just want like a clean slate the Zamboni comes around and it cleans it all off
And now it looks glossy and it's smooth and all of the bad things on the ice
So let's pretend like that's true are gone. Well, that's what happens
We have like a clean sweep system in our brain and it gets rid of all the bad that happened during the day to build up all
The toxins all of the things that can
murk our brain what that can
That can muddy our brain there you go things murky
I'm gonna get the pronunciation of this wrong, but cytokines cytokines
It's a protein and it releases in our brain during sleep and that plays a role in fighting all infections in the body
So if you're not sleeping and I can't tell you what stage of sleep that those proteins are created
But if you don't get to phase a and then you won't get to be and then you get to see if you don't get that a
It's not like you can skip a and go to see
Got it the possible Zamboni may never happen and that's an issue because over time
There's so much going on up there that you haven't cleaned out. Mm-hmm
And so sleep is super and super super important. It's also super super super hard to get
Yes, but that just comes with your priorities
Well, here's my thing
So last night I did go to bed at 9 30. I was done
Mm-hmm. I got up at 12 to go to the bathroom
Mm-hmm. I got up at 3 30 because I was like, oh, it must be six looked over
It was 3 30 and then I got up again at five for the day. Mm-hmm. So my sleep gets interrupted not always
Because I want it to just because that happens, right?
So I have to figure out how to not do that. We're gonna talk about that today
Because I think there's a lot in the multi vitamins and the things that your body is missing and all of us are missing
I'm missing so much because I don't eat a lot of things and I'm I need supplements. Yeah
Like magnesium for you is probably one of them. So there are ways to fix that and that is also like a
Just like meditation. It's a practice. So like one bad night doesn't mean you're never gonna sleep well, right?
But there are ways that like you may have to find the perfect cocktail
Right, just it now. I don't necessarily even mean like things to take in and ingest
The cocktail of like the specific time you need to go to bed to not have to wake up
Right when's the last time that you can have water before you go to bed?
You know all those I mean I chugged a 40 ounce Stanley before I went to bed, right?
So like there's factors. It's not just like my brain doesn't let me sleep sometimes when you wake up. Yeah, you're you're done
Like you're up. Yeah
But they're health wise
Immunity wise there are ways that I think
Obviously, you're not you're not doing. Yeah, yeah, no, not number five
Drink water
Yeah, but not right before bed. No, no, you still want that sleep. So drinking water. What does it do? It flushes toxins and
It keeps the mucus. Yeah in our respiratory system thin
because the thicker the immucus gets the more
Basically particles and bacteria and things get stuck in there and that becomes like an upper respiratory infection, right?
So the thinner your mucus
Sounds so gross. I know I love it any type of nurse doctor thing. I cannot look at nurse doctor thing. Yes
my brain doesn't go that way
but
Mucous doesn't really bother me
So the the thinner that is water will help doing that obviously water will help a lot of other things
I think it's one of the catalysts of all of it
Yeah, if I mean and just like we said the air is getting colder. We're drinking less water
Yes, it's so hard to drink
Wooder fatty when it's cold. Yeah, I don't want to do it. I know I know
Um, I don't know that I say suck it up
And I'm saying that to myself as well
So I got up suck it up but a cup
I know I've been doing I've been actually bucking up and just doing it even though I'm shivering while I'm doing it
Wait, you've been bucking up and then sucking up buttercup. Mm-hmm. Cool. I'm having a great time
But I I went to the re like there's so many obviously
Hydration for your skin, which remember is a part of the immune system. Yeah, there's so many good things with water
I went to the respiratory system because that's usually what we feel in October November December and those shifts
so the reason our mucus thickens is to fight off the bad guys and
You want to keep it thin so that you can get it out?
Like you've ever stuff, you know, is you're like nothing's coming out. Yes, it's because it's so thick
It's fighting off the infection that you have keep it thin drink the water
I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Keep it thin. Yeah drink the water. Yep. Love it talking about the mucus
Okay, that clear keep it thin
Good nutrition. You just have to eat well eat well don't clean. Yes, don't eat processed foods
Don't eat the things that are going to really it's like throwing
Bad things at the ring camera and now the ring camera can't see through the lens
So like it's not capturing all the things that wants to fight off
So all the bad guys are getting in because there's nothing there's no one telling you that those bad guys coming
So you have to eat cleaner
Um, it's yes, it's hard the holidays are coming. There's parties. There's events. There's cookies. There's alcohol. There's
Breads and all that kind of stuff and we're not saying you can't have that but if you eat clean
90% of the time
Then it's fine. Yeah, because your body will be used to it and it'll it will fight it off
But you can't eat poorly all the time and expect the camera to see yeah
Thank you for getting on board with the camera. I mean, that's the only way I'm understanding today. I know
So yeah eat well
it just keeps the whole body functioning properly and fighting off it's like your your body has like little little ninjas and
If they're too sleepy from all the sugar and all the bad carbs not good carbs
They're not gonna fight you're gonna be like guys get up. Let's go. Mm-hmm alarm
Work for me like fight off the bad guys and they'll be like, oh no, no, I'm just gonna sit on the couch
Do you know that's how I tell the kids about sugar?
We don't talk about weight or anything or like anything like that my very small kids
We don't do that. But what we say about sugar is it makes you slow. You're very young kids. Yeah, what did I say?
Small I just mean. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah mean that they're young
Yes, I have very young kids that don't need to know anything about weight at all ever until later. Yeah, right
What we say to them about sugar is it makes you slow too much sugar makes you slow
Yeah, do you want to run fast on the soccer field?
Do you want to run?
Do you want to do karate really well then the less sugar the faster you'll be we don't so if you want to talk to your kids about it
Say that and they they understand that melody is like, oh, I don't want to have that right before my soccer game
Because it's gonna make me slow. Yeah, and that's a way better way than being like it's bad for you
Well, they don't understand that and then all of the coaches give them pretzels after they I know it's great
Regular exercise
Shocking it helps physical it helps mental and it boosts blood flow and circulation
Which is mainly for the white blood cells. What are white blood cells because I don't know. Yeah, I just know the name
They're part of the immune system that is the body's like first line of defense
It's the first thing that the criminals are gonna come up against and if they get past the white blood cells
Then there's more things that are gonna try to fight but the front line front line is white blood cells
so a proper exercise routine keeps those white blood cells at the ready and
Red to go and a lot of them read to go. I'm so many of them. They travel around white blood cells travel around our body
Looking for intruders. Oh, they're looking for them. Okay, which is like fungus virus bacteria
Parasites like the things that you know are bad
The white blood cells are like
They're not just standing there waiting, right? They're they're hunting. Yeah, gotcha
So the less white blood cells we have
Not that's not great. Yeah
Exercise boosts the circulation of blood throughout the body
So it constantly keeps them moving keeps them growing keeps them healthy and that's that's what you need
It's right now while it's super busy and you are going to be run down. I just posted this the other day to our Instagram
Yes, you can start in January. Some people are like, oh my gosh, I can't I'm just too busy to work out right now
I'll start over in January. Mm-hmm. How hard it's going to be for you in January if you don't stick to your
Exercise routine now. Yep, it's gonna help you in so many ways not just because we want you to come to class
Sure, but we it just for that reason. Yeah, if you stick to your routine, you will not crash
You will not get slow. You will not have a really tired Christmas morning. Yeah stick to your routine. That's true routines are really important
Spend time outdoors, which if you're on the East Coast, yes, it gets chilly. Okay, so it's not necessarily
Samahina face. She's giving me the upper lip curl of like, hmm. Thanks for the thanks. Here's why
Open a window. Okay. All right, fine
It doesn't have to mean go out and hike and bundle up
Which is something that I would do and some people are nature people. What's up, Jackie?
And you hike all the time and you get out in nature and you I'm telling you those people and getting outside even in the colder months
It's a revitalizing feeling that you can't experience unless you do it and
Stop looking at me like that. She's not buying it. I am buying it, but I was just thinking how
On Halloween we were trick-or-treating and I saw one of our see-fitters who had just come to like one of our weight classes
And then we went out trick-or-treating. She was doing it was cold. It was 7 o'clock at night
She was doing a hot girl walk because she likes to get outside. Yeah, and I was like, are you trick-or-treating?
She's like, no, I'm on my walk. I like to get outside Christine. Yeah, it was Christine
I was so proud of her it's but that it's like a thing you always say don't walk the dog
You don't have to walk the dog that long like it's for me. Yeah, it's guess it's for the dog
But it's for me like it's my time to just like breathe air that's not indoors and like
To me, I don't know it matters and now I have an article telling me that it really does matter
So vitamin D comes from the Sun and we need vitamin D and we don't get it a lot in the darker winter months because
Yeah, the Sun is not out as bright, but just getting out with a cloudy
Day in a cloudy sky just like on a beach day. Yeah, you're still getting Sun
So the vitamin D helps for a lot of reasons being cooped up in heated buildings
Just recirculates the same air over and over through each vent of
How many different people breathing into that air?
and so that's the number one way in like office buildings and cities and
Not necessarily your house because you are in control of what's in your house
But but no you're not because your kids are coming home and they're bringing stuff into the house. That's true
Yeah, that's true, but that's how viruses spread. So those that humidifier airborne stuff. We were just talking about
We put the heat on we shut the windows and we are in like cages. It's like my heaven. Oh my god. Oh my god, okay
That's a good one manage stress. Oh super easy
I have one thing written down because we're not getting into all of this. Okay state of mind affects health
Yeah, end of sentence. I'm learning
from this podcast called fit to be real that
You do what makes you happy and that is how you manage your stress and your life and the things in your life
Just do you yeah, that was our first real tip you do you boo boo?
Melody says it to me every night before bed. Oh my god. I love it. We always say I love you
She's like you do you boo boo. I was like you too boo boo. Oh my god. I'm obsessed. Oh, yeah, I
Avoid stimulants and it's the most controversial one because nobody wants to do it. What is that? What is it you ask?
Great sounds like the real extra tip
Sounds like something you're gonna have absolutely no chill with you're not gonna like this one
Hmm energy drinks excessive caffeinated drinks or sodas meh nicotine alcohol. Yeah
Right, so let me here's here's my what I'm gonna say to all of you that are just naysay to all of that because you're like
I like what I like I'm gonna manage my stress this way. You're not managing your stress with caffeine alcohol smoking
That's not managing it. It's exacerbating it. It's making it worse. You just don't know it in the moment
It's one of those like you have a burnt out breakdown
Months after the stressful thing happened because it just stores in the body. So these
stimulants
Help that happen. So while they feel good in the moment, it's like the lasting effects that makes it the problem
Smoking suppresses all of your antibodies
Smoking is suppressing it was depressing, but I said suppressing. Yeah, we get it
Okay, smoking suppresses and
Depresses the antibodies and
Antibodies fight cold and flu. So if you are a smoker, there's so many other reasons why smoking is harmful to yourself
We're not gonna get into all of that and also you do you but at the same time
Know that what you're doing for yourself is not very hard. It's so politically correct. I don't care
alcohol leads to weight gain and leads to a lot of other issues but weight gain in terms of the body and health and immune system
It's super taxing for the immune system
inflammation and fat cells
Make all of those ninjas work harder. It's like they're working through molasses or peanut butter
Yes, and they can't get to the front lines because there's so much holding them back and
And alcohol is a big catalyst for that. It also is like, you know, it blows your fingers out, you know that feeling
Oh, yeah, I mean after I drink Victoria does not drink. I know I don't drink
Yeah, I have cut down my drinking a lot recently since COVID. Yeah, yeah, and I
Only do it every so often and I notice that when I
Do do it? Mm-hmm. I wake up at 2 3 a.m. With my heart racing
Yeah, I have like anxiety sleep and I know there are other people that have that too
I've talked to some people about this and it is very hard to go back to sleep and guess what happens when you don't sleep
Your body gets shut down. It gets run down. It gets horrible. It's horrible sleep. You feel horrible in the morning
I'm not saying don't drink this set of void stimulants. It doesn't say eliminate
So choose your drug. Check out. No
no
Check out and and cultivate some awareness on how much caffeine you drink throughout one day and then one week and then a month
Like just think about the how it adds up like that and see if you need that morning coffee and the 2 p.m
And maybe the 5 o'clock right you we don't need those last two
There's ways to change those for yourself and keep it healthy where you're only having a little bit every day
I will not get rid of my car. I drink coffee every day. No, I know you do but I
I also know that the effects of caffeine in ample amounts is really bad
so it just says to cut this stuff down not cut it out and I
Mean just like what you said I stopped drinking last Thanksgiving
I had a half a glass of wine last Thanksgiving 2022 and
I have not had anything since right it's now become I don't I don't crit like I just don't want it
I don't want anything. I don't think there's anything wrong with
Drinking in social settings or holidays or anything like that. I all of the social events we've had since last Thanksgiving
I was just like, I don't know. I've gotten this far. I want to see how far I can go
It's it's turned into this like game or challenge. Yeah, and I don't
Have any FOMO when everyone's sitting around the table with wine that I do like like predator wine is like my favorite wine
I don't sit there going God. I wish I could because then it turned that's like a different game, right?
It's a different thing that I'm restricting and then it becomes like why do I need that so badly?
Why do I want that? So we're not gonna get into all that but with that said I gained a lot of weight this year
So alcohol and we can do go together, but it's not the only thing
Okay
So wait, I do want to say this last thing
About coffee because I drink a lot. I think I've had five cups before nine o'clock this morning
I do get up a problem. Yeah, that's definitely a problem
But and to the point where I go to the chiropractor for my everyone knows I'm having an ankle injury and the first thing
He checks is my draw every week and he says to me every single week
You got to cut your coffee down. You're grinding your teeth at night. I'm like, but I'm here for my ankle
He's like I don't care. No, you're drinking too much caffeine. I can tell yeah, and I'm like, okay, I'll change next week
Did you go last? No
Well, that's on you. Yeah, I just sound like take all my money. I'm not gonna stop drinking coffee doctor
He's not saying he's not drinking coffee. He's saying cut it down. Just take all my money cut it down take all my money
So a couple ways to boost your immune system one we know vitamin C
Vitamin C is the easiest way oranges citrus fruits of all kinds
They're all vitamin C based and it increases the white blood cells that we were talking about that are on the front lines
Doing all the the dirty work for you. Our bodies don't produce vitamin C and we don't store it
That's something I didn't know until I looked all this stuff
We don't store it and we don't produce it now, but we need it. Yes
so we take it in and
That helps boost the system which is why everyone's like, oh, you're about to get sick drink
Go drink some orange juice. First of all, don't do that. Aren't juices a joke, but we we need it and
If you don't have it daily, then you're there's nothing there. I can't tell you the last time I've had vitamin C
Yeah, well, there's other there's other foods that boost the immune system
And you don't need to just have because I don't like oranges neither, but emergency packet
Oh, yeah, yeah, you put an emergency packet in your water
Which might help you drink water because it gives it a little bit of flavor now
I think there is a little bit of sodium and sugar in emergency packets
But it's the least of all the evils of all of the liquid IVs and stuff that are out there for those same purposes
It's literally called emergent dash the letter C. Go check it out
It's a really good supplement away if you are not a grapefruit
orange
Lemon all the things
Foods that boost the immune system that aren't citrus fruit sweet
Red bell peppers broccoli garlic ginger spinach yogurt almonds
sunflower seeds turmeric green tea papaya kiwi
poultry and shellfish
Everything healthy for you. Yeah, which ties into have some good nutrition in your routine, right? So they are all boosting
Here's one that I just like saying cool elderberry
elderberry
It's a dark purple berry from a
Specific tree and I was like well, I'm not writing this down, but then later in the article is like oh, I need to write that down
It's a European or a black elder tree
Different than the American elder flower flower not the same thing. So yo I've seen elder flower tea
Yeah, and that's not the same thing. This is usually in like a syrup because it's a berry and it's a European tree thing
It has antioxidants to support the immune system to fight
Common cold flu all the same things as vitamin C. It contains you
highest amount of fiber and potassium it's like eating a banana. I will get this yeah potassium iron and vitamin C and
It promotes all of your health by reducing cell damage
So all of those white cell I'm making this out. I actually don't know if this is true
But this is gonna sound really good all of those white blood cells are at the front lines
Okay, they're fighting for you. They are winning the battle, but they got a little bit injured
Yeah, a little bit mm-hmm because they're working so hard for you elderberry nurses them back to health gotcha
Elderberry is the nurse. Yes on the front line on the front lines
They are doing the work. Yes, and it tastes really good. I do have a syrup mom mom got me in that Christmas basket
Oh my god an elderberry
Daily syrup you can drink so it is it's tasty
There's I'm gonna post the article in the show notes of how if you want to get your own elderberries and cook it yourself
There's a lot of ways that it could be bad for you
There's like you can't touch the leaves you can't do all these things
So I don't know much about that, but it's in there read about it. Maybe just buy it
I'm probably just gonna buy a bottle of it
Yeah, go to martindale's if you're local go to the health food store the natural health food store
They definitely have it speaking of natural health food stores. Thank you so much for saying that I'm so good at this
a good way to get are you I
Thought we would just let me go let me go let me ride this wave a
good way to
Get the supplemental nutrients that like just like we were saying vitamin D if you can't get outside
In the winter you are not a cold person
You want to stand there, but you're shaking and you just hate it and it's just this is not you doing you
There's a way to to take in a supplement of vitamin D that you don't have to necessarily like do all of that
So, you know what I was just thinking hmm during COVID
We were shut down
And we went virtual our classes, but we did outdoor classes four times a week
Yeah, and we worked out
I mean our loyal seafitters came out four times a week until it was snowing and we actually worked out in the snow one time
We never got sick. Nope. We never got sick. Nope. How about that? I did that that was guys
It took me this long, but I just had my aha moment
Amazing, but we didn't know we weren't in the herd of bad immune systems of spreading it to other people and getting it from other people
We had the time to take us specifically Carly and I specifically took the time to eat better and change our diets of
Healthier healthier foods, which involves everything. We just talked about. Mm-hmm. We got outside in
I mean it started in March, so we got outside to December the whole time
For two years and people were getting outside in their backyards more because they were stuffed up in the house
Right because people wanted to get outside and get out of their stuffy indoors, right?
What they weren't in buildings at work, but remotely working you're still stuck inside, right?
And people were getting outside all of this is basically what we just our sleep was better
We drank a lot of water. Yes, we ate clean. We stopped drinking. Yeah, well, we stopped drinking
We did everybody else was doing those like challenges where you
Knocked on somebody's door and you chugged the beer and then you ran away and we were like, please don't come to our house
Oh my god, you'll waste your money. Yeah, but we were yeah, COVID we took really good care of this house
And we worked out outside five times four to five times a week and never got sick. Yeah, we never got sick
I'm just thinking about that. I was wearing like a beanie a sweatshirt sweatpants. We were working out
Carly and Sherry ended up taking their sweatshirts off. You were in like t-shirts
Yeah, and we were in we were in tank tops with a ski hat on and it was snowing and we were doing hit
Yeah, a hit class outside. Anyway, that was my aha moment. Maybe I do need to get outside guys
I'll do it my aha moment with this
Why was this not what the news was telling us to do during COVID?
Like the the basic. Yes, the basics. Hey, do all of this to keep wash your hands stay away from other people quarantine
All those things that like we needed to do but also and you know push the vaccine
Don't push the vaccine. It was like all of this fighting. No one got on the TV and said
Change your diet
Eat healthy get these foods in your kitchen drink water. Nobody did the basics. Yeah
So I know that there are like you should take a multivitamin and fish oil and like there's so many nutrients
micronutrients that yes, you can get from food
But if your diet isn't like, you know, the perfect culmination of like a blue zone diet then
It's you need to get them in somehow. So a multivitamin
Is a great way to do it. Which one do you pick? Yeah, like there's so many
I that's where I stop I get so overwhelmed at the store where I'm like that looks good
But I just like the label right and I heard of this brand name before but that doesn't mean that they're good
I just picked the multivitamin. That's a gummy because it tastes like a fruit sugar. Yeah
So there's probably like 50% health and 50% sugar in that
But you know what if it gets it in there you do it
Yeah, but you do you booboo you do you booboo best real tip we've ever had
I found an article that said the what your multi multivitamin should contain
And of course this article breaks down the exact like milligrams per right pill that it should be but just
rattling off the basics number one vitamin D
Remember that conversation we had vitamin D
immune system boost bone and hair loss
Yeah, I like that. I like that
magnesium
calms the nervous system
and eases sleep
So I'm into that we're into that
calcium
strong bones and teeth and I don't drink milk. So like I know I'm calcium. I don't drink milk either. I don't have dairy anymore. So
I know we're deficient in that. Yeah, I'm deficient in everything I've said so far
Zinc
Zinc supports the immune system and helps the body use the proteins the fats and the carbohydrates that we eat for energy
Mom used to make us take zinc pills in grade school. Yep
I remember that being like like it was part of the vitamin pack
She had us take every day in eukonacea and eukonacea
I loved taking pills and I would just I'd be like mom. Can I have another one? Mom? Can I have another one?
It's a separate episode we'll get there
And Carly hates taking pills. I hate oh my god
I think I was in seventh grade and my mom still had to open my mouth with her hands and put it down my throat
I still have a hard time taking pills
That's why I do the crack cocaine. Oh my god
That's another episode too
Okay, so we got zinc then we need iron
which increases energy
helps with brain function
and red blood cells
so
Yay all around. Yeah
Fall late or folic acid
So this one people are like well
I'm not pregnant
And because it's the pregnant one. It's one for um, yeah, I took those fetus development and
Like to kind of ward off birth defects, you know stuff like that
But it's the same
Folic acid for growing your nails and your hair and your skin. Yes. I took all those. Yes. It's a prenatal
Yeah, it's it's called prenatal if you're gonna do it by itself. I did that for the first two kids
Oh
for Dean
But it also fights depression
Fall late or folic acid it fights depression and it fights inflammation
So like none of these are a one pill for one thing. Yeah
They all cover a lot of bases that we need
But what I'm rattling off can all be in one multivitamin. Oh, I was gonna say are we at the age where we need that pill box with like the 97 pills?
I mean, we're there. I just bought one. We're there. Not gonna lie
But all everything that's what I said in the beginning what you need in one multivitamin
This is the list vitamin d magnesium calcium zinc iron
Folic acid or folate if you're gonna look at the label and then the last one is vitamin b12
Okay, and like a vitamin b12 shot. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, like when you go to your your juicer
You know, yes, your street your street juicer. Yeah, your little street juicer dealer
The the wow for $27,000 you can get a one ounce bottle of some sort of immune booster
But it's usually a b12 shot. Yeah, so when I was on tour
They used to have a nurse come in because tour is exhausting
You're living on a bus in a hotel and people were getting run down left and right a doctor would come in and give us
B12 shots an actual shot in our arm. Isn't that crazy?
I think a lot of art like artists touring artists like do that too so that I remember that and I haven't done it since
Do you know what b12 is though?
A shot we got in our arm to make us happy cool to make us happy no no no to make us not get sick
I think that's called crack cocaine. I did that too. Now. I'm just kidding. I never never did the crack cocaine
Just the way you say it we all know that that's a fact crack is lack crack is lack carly's lack. Thanks whitney, uh
okay, so vitamin b12 for the
vitamin b12 for dummies book
Uh, this is not my idea or thought process, but I understand it. It's a factory of eight workers
uh, so
lame is type
No, not lame is a rob. No
An industrial factory and a line of assembly right of eight workers
and they
Are broken down like each has a different job
Of creating and sustaining the body's energy in different ways. So worker number one to worker number eight
create and sustain our body's energy
And supply it to the body. So one maybe creates it the next one
distributes it and then
A couple of them in different ways break down all of the nutrients we just rattled off. Oh
That's their they break down the boxes. Wow. Okay. That's just vitamin b12. Okay eight eight guys
Eight guys. So you need that. Yeah, I don't do it. Yeah, like I am so deficient in this entire episode
I mean, who wouldn't want eight workers working on you all the time. Yeah, that's just the b12 though
That doesn't even add in the vitamin d the magnesium the calcium the you know, all the rest
I'm going to the grocery store right after this. I'm gonna buy me some workers, right? I
Should buy I Provably ansom a worker man for my body. That's a different episode
I'm thinking it's a brothel I am deficient in a lot of things
Does your b and B12 stand for brothel. Yes my dr 002 yeah
Yes well
is what your multivitamin should consist of if you are also someone that looks at the aisle
of bottles and goes, but which one? So the article that I've posted in the show notes has
like three options of specific brands and bottles that you could purchase. But if you go to, you
know, a GNC or a vitamin shop or even Martindale's, which for us is in the area, but it's just like
a specialty health food store, they can help you. Yeah. I mean, ask somebody. Yeah. And also,
consult with your doctor for all of this first. We do that little tag for the legal stuff at
the end of our episodes, but it's completely legitimate. Consult with your doctor of what
maybe your body is deficient in. Everybody needs these differently. So like, I might need more iron
and vitamin B12 than you do, where you might need more magnesium, you know, like no one's the same.
Right. So don't just take what we're saying and being like, Oh my gosh, I'm going to do all of
these things. Look into it. You got to look into it. You got to do your homework. Tis the season to
get on top of the cold and flu season. It just now is the time and it's only going to get more
hectic, unfortunately, if you are someone who kind of lives the season like that. And it's only
going to get colder if you're on the East Coast. So be vigilant. Your body is a working machine.
And we don't take care of it enough. It's very similar. If you want to get a little spiritual
with me for a moment, but in a way that Carly can understand spirituality, we are having an
experience to live in this vehicle. So like, our body is a car. You bought this car, it's a brand
new car. And you only get this one life to live in this car. You may get another chance to buy a
different car. You know, if you want to believe in that, but we won't get down that path. This is
a vehicle. You have a BMW. You're living in a BMW. You got to change the oil. You got to put gas in
the car. Why are you looking like that? Because I'm thinking of my car and being like, there's
peanuts all over the bottom and there's I run on E all the time until I get to the gas station
at the very last minute. And how frustrating is that? There's coffee cups all over my car. I'm
thinking about how horribly I treat my car. Right. And now, but you don't talk about your car that
way. We talk about the vehicle we live in. We talk about our bodies like, Oh my God, I hate my body.
Oh my God, I want to change it. Oh my God, I do all these things. But our car is fine and we can
trash it. But the vehicle that we're living in is the one that's going to get us through this life.
And we do not take care of it the way that we should. And we only get, if you want to believe
that we only get this one life, you only get this one body. If you want to believe that you get more
than one life, it's a different body every time. But you got to take care of it. You just have to.
And I'm saying all of this really yes for you, but really for me as well, because I'm not,
I'm right now not taking care of my vehicle. Yeah. My temple, whatever you want to call it,
a BMW, a temple, a church, I'm not taking care of it. I'm going to go with a lot of people
are with you on that. I mean, I'm firmly believe that. Yeah. Oh, absolutely. I mean,
you can tell when you're not, I mean, in many myriad of ways, you can tell that you're not
taking care of yourself, whether it's mental, if it's physical, check out your hair, check out your
skin around your nails. Like these are the simple, easy ways that we kind of bypass and we're like,
oh, I have to get my nails done. Why do you have to get your nails done? Right. Ask the question,
why? Oh, I have to get my haircut. Why? Yes, I've waited too long to get it done. But why is it
fraying and like horse straw that early after you get it done? I mean, my mind is falling out
right now. Why is your hair falling out? You know, it's the stress and not no sleep. No, I mean,
I know why, right? But the fixing it is got to be a priority. Get on top of taking care of
your, I'm going to keep calling it a vehicle before you lose a tire and need to call AAA.
Because that gets expensive, that sets you back. And you know that that's true. When that happens,
you're like, oh my gosh, I was on my way to go somewhere. I need to be doing something else.
This is taking forever. How long do I have to wait? How expensive is this going to be?
Put that into your body. Like think about that in terms of what you live with, wake up with,
go to sleep with every day. And I think that's like the game changer that we need. Yeah, that's
the aha moment. Me included. This year has been a year of like fully trashing myself to rebuild it.
Right. Sometimes it happens. That's life. Ups and downs. We talked about that Hills and valleys,
but like you try not to trash yourself. But try not. Try not to fully wreck the car. Yeah. You
don't want to do that. We don't want to get a new car. Yeah. No one has time for a breakdown.
Nobody has time to be on the highway broken. Right. And like a little lost. Yeah. But then when
you're there, this is what I meant in the beginning where this is like the kick that you need or the
sign that you need. Because once you're there and you're at that moment and you kind of understand the
step by step way that you can get yourself back on the road. Sometimes you just need to hear it.
Like yeah, vitamin C. It's not shocking. Sometimes you need someone to be like, hey,
you should do that now. Like you should do that right now. Should I do it?
I saw the sign and it opened up my eyes. I saw the sign. Oh my gosh. Nothing's gonna drag you up.
So get into the life where you belong. Oh, no, no, no. Tune your vehicle.
You need to tune up. It needs to go into the shop because I'm not taking care of myself.
And my voice is just not there today. This is the season that everyone's like dragging. Yeah.
But why? Is it really because you're partying too much or is it because the previous season of
summer into fall getting here, we did not take care of ourselves? Right. It's sick local.
Stop trashing yourself. Check out the show notes. Read these articles or skim them if you're not a
reader. But I highly suggest to start making a little bit of change now so that Christmas and
your holiday season can be joyful and not exhausting the way that it probably usually is.
I'd like that. If you're anything like this and like us, you are fit to be fried.
You're fit to be exhausted and you're fit to be just worn out. So we hope you that you are
learning and changing and making little, little tiny changes for the bigger purpose to be fit to
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For all of your health, wellness, fitness and self-care needs, please refer to the medical
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