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Helo pawb, cyn i ni ddechrau ar yr episod heddiw, roeddwn i eisiau rhannu gyda chi'r codi anodd arbennig rydw i wedi'i greu ar gyfer Cymdeithas Neurodiversi yn yr wythnos hon.
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Felly mae gennym 20% o'r holl arian os ydych chi'n defnyddio'r codi ND Week 20. Dyma ND Week 20 ac mae hynny'n niferau.
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Byddwch chi'n gallu gysylltu â'r holl arian i mi, gan gynnwys fy nherfys system arbennig newydd i'r cwrs.
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Mae gennych hynny ar y diwrnodau karma, y cwrs audio, llawer o'r gweithgareddau arbennig.
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Mae gen i hefyd llawer o arian gyfrif hefyd.
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Rydw i wedi cyflwyno fideo EFT arbennig a rheoli ADHD, a gallwch ei ddewis ar hyn o bryd. Mae'n am 5 neu 7 munud.
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Mae'n ysgrifennu i chi sut i ddefnyddio EFT i helpu i ddewis a rheoli ar hyn o bryd pan fyddwch chi'n teimlo'n anhygoel neu'n anhygoel.
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Gadewch i'n wefan, byddwch chi'n cael unrhyw gysylltiad o hormônau i'r RSD, i'r anxiaeth, i ddechrau i'ch pŵer, i ddewis i mewn i'r anhygoelau o'r ADHD.
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Rydw i'n ceisio adeiladu'r gysylltiad hwn i chi, felly os ydych chi ar y diwrnod hwn o ddatblygu eich hun, os ydych chi'n arwain at diagnosiaeth, neu os ydych chi wedi cael diagnosiaeth a'ch teimlo'n anhygoel,
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os ydych chi wedi cael diagnosiaeth a'ch teimlo'n anhygoel, rydw i'n creu'r ysgolion hyn, felly rydych chi'n gallu tyfu i mewn i gael y help, y cefnogaeth, y llawysgrifio,
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ond ar hyn o bryd, nid ydyn ni'n cael llawer o'r gwasanaethau, yn enwedig yma yng Nghymru.
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Felly mynd i'n wefan, sy'n adeiladu www.adhdwomenswellbeing.co.uk.
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Rydyn ni'n cael y cod, yn ddiwedd 20, ac rydyn ni hefyd wedi cael llawer o ysgolion gwreiddiol.
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Felly, gadewch i ni ddysgu amser heddiw.
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Cymraeg i'r adroddiad adroddiadwy o adnoddwm ymddygiadwyr ADHD.
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Fi yw Kate Moore-Yusuf, ac fi yw gyffredinwyr addysg a byddwys,
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ymddiriedolaeth tyfu,
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llawer o blaenau i'r mamau,
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ac yn ffodus i helpu mwy o ddynion i ddeall a chael eu mhrif bryderau ADHD.
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Ar ôl siarad ag llawer o ddynion, fel fi, ac efallai i chi,
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rwy'n gwybod bod angen mwy o gefnogaeth a chymorth bywydol ar gyfer dynion newydd adnoddwyd gyda'r ADHD.
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Yn y sgwrs hyn, byddwch chi'n ddysgu o gwestiynau sylfaenol,
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clywed newydd ddynion a ddysgu amgylcheddau pwysig ac ymddygiadwyr bywydol
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er mwyn eich bod chi'n byw eich bywyd mwy cyflawniadwy,
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ymddygiadwy ac amgylcheddol,
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bob le rydych chi ar eich ffwrdd ADHD.
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Dyma'r episod heddiw.
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Heddiw, rydyn ni'n siarad am rhywbeth rwy'n clywed,
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llawer iawn, ac mae hynny'n amgylcheddau pwysig.
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Rydw i wedi siarad amdano ar y podcast yn gyntaf,
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ond rydyn ni ddim wedi mynd ymlaen i mewn i'w gwneud,
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ac rydw i wedi ei ddysgu,
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ac rydw i wedi dod i mewn i gyfarwyddwr anhygoel
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sy'n helpu i ni ddeall pam y bydd amgylcheddau pwysig ychydig mwy,
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rwy'n credu, i'r cymuned ADHD, yn enwedig ar gyfer dynion.
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Felly, rwy'n eisiau cyhoeddi Diane Ducam,
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ac mae hi'n gyfarwyddwr ar gyfer amgylcheddau,
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yn enwedig, mae hi'n gyfarwyddwr ar gyfer amgylcheddau.
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Ac mae ei ddewis unigol yn cyfathrebu'r gwyddoniaeth anhygoel
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o wyddoniaeth Chymdeithasol Trafodol,
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a fydd e'n clywed yn y sgwrs heddiw,
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gyda'r technoleg cyffredinol
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i ddatblygu'r rhan fwyaf o amgylcheddau
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sy'n cael eu hysbysu ar gyfer genetig.
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Mae Diane wedi'i ddysgu,
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ac mae'n rhaid i ni ddysgu'r rhan fwyaf o amgylcheddau
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o amgylcheddau sy'n cael eu hysbysu ar gyfer genetig.
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Mae Diane'r meddwl anhygoel ac anhygoel
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ar gyfer broblemau cyffredinol
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yw'r hyn sy'n ei alluogi i ddarparu
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y rhan fwyaf o amgylcheddau,
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sy'n canolbwynt i'w energia.
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A byddwch chi'n clywed o'r sgwrs hwn,
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ei ffasiwn, ei gwybodaeth,
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Ychydig yn ôl hefyd.
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Dwi ddim yn gobeithio rhannu'r episod hwn gyda chi,
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felly os oes unrhyw un wedi mynd trwy hyn
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eu bywyd eu bywyd,
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a ddim yn eithaf ddeall
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lle y gallai'r amgylcheddau hyn
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a gallu cysylltu'r nodau
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rhwng amgylcheddau a'r ADHD,
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Dwi'n mynd i roi'r holl faterion
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ynghylch yr adroddiadau hefyd.
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oherwydd mae hi'n ymddiriedol iawn
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i ymgyrchu'r myfyrwyr hwn o'r amgylcheddau.
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Felly mae'r podcast yn
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a mae'r cymdeithas yn ei hefyd yn ei gyflawni
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o'r ffordd anhygoel hwn
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i'r gyrfa amgylchedd
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Gadewch i ni alluogi'r podcast hon.
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diolch i chi i'r podcast.
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Mae'n hyfryd i chi fod yma.
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Dwi wedi bod yn edrych ar y cyfan hwn.
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Dwi'n ddiddorol iawn
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i gael y sgwrs hwn,
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oherwydd dwi'n gwybod
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bod llawer o ffyrwyr
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rydw i'n gweithio gyda nhw
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yn siarad gyda nhw
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ond hefyd, yn anhygoel,
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maen nhw'n gwrando at y podcast hon
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ac maen nhw'n gallu sylweddoli
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myfyrwyr gyda myfyrwyr.
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Felly roeddwn i eisiau
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gallu eich rhoi i chi
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oherwydd dwi'n gwybod
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eich bod chi'n gweithio gyda llawer o
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patientau gyda myfyrwyr.
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Felly, a ydych chi'n gallu
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ysgrifennu ychydig o
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yw mewn gwirionedd
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sy'n gallu dechrau
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sy'n gallu dechrau yn
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yn dechrau cael myfyrwyr
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eu bod ganddyn nhw
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ADHD ar hyn o bryd.
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Felly, beth wnaeth
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Felly, beth fyddech chi'n
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os yw rhywun yn dod i chi
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y byddech chi'n dechrau?
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Rwy'n gysylltiedig
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ond rwy'n cymryd pobl
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all of the symptoms
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So people will come to me
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which are absolutely
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and so omnipresent
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And so what I'm doing
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is I'm asking the body,
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What do you want to
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Where does it hurt?
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And so we talk about
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numbness in the sensation,
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numbness in the arms,
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waking up at night.
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having very painful
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clots in menstruation.
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Like, what are all of
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the symptoms going on?
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then I meet with them
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and I have an hour,
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up to three hours,
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and explain to them
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this is what is going
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This is the domino effect
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it can be a mother
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with her daughter,
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it can be a grandma.
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Like, they start to
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for the first time
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after they've seen
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a lot of neurologists
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and a lot of medications,
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sometimes 40 years
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I understand what's
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And then what I do
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is I put things on a nap
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and I'm not trying
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They know they have triggers.
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I just inform them
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they missed a few.
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And we'll talk about
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some triggers for ADHD,
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you might be surprised about.
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two systems at a time.
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it would be broken
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into those details
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we talk about headaches,
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but a migraine is different.
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I know when you're
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a migraine sufferer,
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it's like a headache,
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it's like a scrape
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like catastrophic bang.
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What age typically
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do these migraines start?
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it's 5% of boys and girls
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because it's a genetic predisposition.
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And then the incidence
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is going to triple
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also later in life,
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up until I've seen women
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having their first migraines
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responsible for migraines.
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The genetic intensity
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they've pushed themselves
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in life is also different.
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the migraine will come as,
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something absolutely debilitating.
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So really incapacitating them
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to participate in life.
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They're not dying,
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but they're also not living.
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So it's a horrendous,
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a horrendous condition
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that's going to put people
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right in bed for days
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and having to give up
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a lot of their situations.
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Very, very hard to go by.
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when I can see in people,
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their root causes for migraines
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is exactly the same.
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And this is what I'd love
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to engage with you on today.
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So tell me a little bit about that
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because I'm, in my head,
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I'm already starting to think
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about certain people I know
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who've suffered continuously
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and what I suspect.
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is definitely a nervous system
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dysregulation going on.
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But what I would love to ask you
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is like, what are you noticing
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with ADHD and migraines?
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So let's start with
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three pools of people
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that did their analysis
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There's traditional Chinese
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Western scientists,
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Let's start with the Westerners.
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In Western science,
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we know about the Godwin axis
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now for about 15 years
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and we're passionate about it
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and we realize how important
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And it was quite revolutionary
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because we always thought
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the brain was commanding everything.
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And now we were realizing,
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It turns out I have neurons
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Now this was on the back
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of finding the vagus nerve
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which is this massive tree,
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you're referring to nerves,
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this massive tree in my body
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that is going to plant its root
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around each of my organs
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It's going to plant its
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around my stomach,
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which we're going to talk about.
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It's super important.
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around my small and large intestine.
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And this massive nerve
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is going to be the chief of orchestra
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for the hundred billion nerve cells
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And it's going to go
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as a big, big root
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and it's going to form
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a trunk in my neck
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and it's going to plug into my brain
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a bit like a Tesla
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with a lot of mystery.
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And so from the Western perspective,
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this is where we get
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is how does that massive cable
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plug into the brain?
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And so we start to try to do MRI
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and observe what is Theo feeling
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when he has a bit of ADHD?
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How does his brain manifest?
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But we do that from an MRI perspective.
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And so from a Western science perspective,
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because of that vagus nerve
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that was stubbed on,
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now we realize it goes both ways.
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And we understand a lot
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but we have a few areas of unknown.
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Traditional Chinese medicine doctors,
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the gut-brain axis
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is really, really old news
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and the vagus nerve
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has the foundation for acupuncture.
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It's a very sort of old, old stuff.
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And when you tell them,
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oh, it's cutting edge,
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they're like, no, it's not.
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And if you really insist,
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they're going to say, look,
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have you looked at your body?
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How could your brain
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not be connected to your gut?
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it's not a starting point
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It needs to circulate.
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all of that notion
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is really, really old
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and a notion of a good microbiome.
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There's a third group of people
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who did their analysis
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on the vagus nerve
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and these are children.
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And you have four of them
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in your household,
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Have you ever seen
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eat an ice cream super fast,
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slap on their forehead,
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and go brain freeze?
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this incredible discovery
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which is super relevant to ADHD.
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He's going to make the discovery
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eats an ice cream super fast
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and that ice cream
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lands on their stomach,
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which technically is down,
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they're going to feel
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the frozen of the ice
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in their forehead.
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And so they're going to make
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the first connection
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on their vagus nerve
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and experience their vagus nerve
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sending that frozen signal
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to their forehead.
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And in traditional Chinese medicine,
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links the stomach spine
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exactly to that forehead.
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And this is the bed for ADHD.
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So people who suffer
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from a precursor of ADHD
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coupled with migraine
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and then can get exacerbated with life
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will have more forehead migraines
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and they will more have a tendency
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to vomit when they have a migraine
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top of the head migraines,
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behind the head migraines,
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migraines moving along
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the trigeminal nerve.
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So here we're going to start
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usually in the forehead
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and with vomiting.
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That's so interesting.
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So you're saying the forehead
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and the vomiting type of migraine
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is more likely to be connected to ADHD?
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Yes, more likely to be connected
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to a system called the stomach spleen
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in traditional Chinese medicine.
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is linked to that part of the brain
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which is just below the forehead.
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And that part of the brain
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allows us to control our thoughts
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and not go into overthinking mode,
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and also allows us
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to fall asleep easily
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but also to muscle easily.
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I speak seven languages
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and it's almost like I speak two.
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and in West if you say stomach
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you mean that little part
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that welcomes the food first
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That's just what you mean.
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But if you say pee way in Mandarin
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you actually don't mean that.
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You mean the ability, yes,
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to have digestive enzymes
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and to break down your food.
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the ability to focus
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and concentrate your thoughts,
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but also to extract
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really small substances in food
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to benefit parts of your body in particular.
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So the ability to be really, really firm
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and also to nourish your kidney system
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who is in charge of stress.
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And so if you have
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those gastric juices,
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that stomach's been weak
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for a number of years,
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your ability to extract
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these really fine nutrients
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is going to be depleted
[15:22]
your kidney system
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who's in charge of many things,
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resilience to really large diseases
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is going to over the years
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And so the more you're going to have
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that imbalance of the stomach screen
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which is going to lead over time to ADHD,
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the more your kidney system
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is going to be weak
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and you're going to be prone to stress.
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And the more you're going to be
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the more you will be stressed.
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The more you will be stressed,
[15:47]
the more your kidney system
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is going to be weak
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and the more that kidney system is weak,
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the more you're stressed.
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Does that make sense?
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So there's interdependencies
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among all different systems.
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And this is something
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that we really fail to understand
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in our allopathic medicine.
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such as if they were
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forming their own music
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without having an orchestra.
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And so once my stomach screen system
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I'm going to have a domino effect
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that's going to go on in my body
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that's going to make me have
[16:23]
more and more symptoms over time.
[16:25]
And so ADHD is going to be one of them.
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But if it's not addressed properly
[16:30]
and if people don't take
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the active engagement
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and learn on your podcast
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and how to circumvent it,
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how to reverse it,
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then the domino effect is going to go on.
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And one of the first dominoes
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that is going to fall
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is the kidney system domino,
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which is in charge of stress management.
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This is fascinating
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because we normally hear about ADHD
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with regards to sort of like
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from a neurological perspective,
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we think it's only just happening
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here in the brain.
[17:02]
I do quite a few podcast episodes
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with lots of different specialists
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who talk now a lot more
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about nutrition and gut.
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But what you're helping us connect
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with the Chinese traditional medicine
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is the actual organs
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and how the effects on those organs
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can show up with the ADHD symptoms.
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So what food, I'm thinking,
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is normally we hear a lot of
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this is what you shouldn't be eating.
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It's like take out gluten,
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take out caffeine,
[17:33]
take out all sorts of different things,
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what should we be adding?
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I mean, it's actually really nice to hear
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that sometimes it's not about
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like restriction, restriction.
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Obviously, everything's moderation.
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But what are those foods
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that you suggest that people eat more of?
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Before I get into it,
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I want to add just one to your list,
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if I may, of restriction.
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It's any sparkling water
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or carbohydrate drinks.
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So if you think of the role
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of the stomach spin,
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imagine a police officer
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that welcomes the food in the body,
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and he's the first port of call
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for the rest of the digestive tract.
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And he's going to separate the food
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into small colored T-shirts.
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And he's going to say,
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all of the black T-shirts
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who come over here,
[18:22]
we're going to nourish the kidney system.
[18:23]
All of the red T-shirts
[18:25]
we're going to nourish
[18:26]
and increase the blood.
[18:27]
All of the blue T-shirts
[18:29]
we're going to go into the liver
[18:30]
because you are toxins.
[18:31]
All of the yellow T-shirts,
[18:32]
you are parasites and allergens,
[18:34]
and I'm going to neutralize you.
[18:35]
Now, the sparkling water
[18:37]
or carbohydrate drinks,
[18:39]
they're going to lift the energy up
[18:42]
And they're going to start
[18:44]
with that first port of call.
[18:45]
So if you drink sparkling water
[18:52]
this is maybe the first change you can make.
[18:55]
And don't go cold turkey,
[18:57]
just ease into it.
[18:58]
And little by little,
[18:59]
go towards just water.
[19:01]
And same for carbohydrate drinks.
[19:02]
So I'll just mention that one in passing.
[19:04]
Now, what can you add?
[19:06]
I think there's a lot of books
[19:07]
that are, first of all,
[19:09]
on why it's so important to sleep.
[19:11]
And I think another book
[19:13]
that has never been written.
[19:14]
It's like, why is it important
[19:16]
Throughout evolution,
[19:17]
the teeth are really part of,
[19:20]
and they change as we grow,
[19:22]
and they've evolved over the years
[19:24]
depending on what we eat.
[19:25]
If you look at any animal,
[19:26]
you can tell what they eat
[19:29]
Mastication is really important.
[19:31]
And so the first part to make the job-
[19:34]
if people don't know what that means,
[19:40]
I'm a French speaker.
[19:44]
before we even go into what to add,
[19:47]
is like the chewing
[19:49]
is going to be really important
[19:50]
to help the police officer
[19:53]
do a really thorough job.
[19:55]
Then the temperature of the food
[19:57]
is also important.
[19:58]
Those digestive enzymes,
[19:59]
that police officer,
[20:02]
And so if I'm going to eat
[20:08]
I prevent him from doing his job.
[20:10]
And we're going to talk about
[20:11]
why it's a really big problem
[20:13]
Or a compounding problem,
[20:15]
a problem that becomes
[20:16]
bigger and bigger.
[20:17]
And so masticating.
[20:22]
what is a smoothie,
[20:23]
a really complex one,
[20:25]
is one where we blended
[20:27]
a lot of different foods,
[20:29]
and they're arbitrarily packed
[20:31]
into maybe there's
[20:32]
two red T-shirts with a black,
[20:34]
and there's one blue
[20:36]
And there's no mastication.
[20:39]
which is a sensory organ
[20:41]
that sends to the brain
[20:42]
what food is arriving,
[20:44]
so that the brain can send
[20:46]
the right gastric juices
[20:47]
and the right police officers
[20:48]
to the stomach spleen,
[20:51]
And so all of that process
[20:53]
is going to be really important.
[20:54]
Then in terms of food specifically,
[20:56]
it's really, really, really
[20:59]
not what you would expect necessarily.
[21:01]
Starches are actually
[21:05]
I'm not talking about gluten.
[21:06]
For example, millet.
[21:08]
If we talk about millet.
[21:09]
You know, we say one apple a day
[21:11]
keeps the doctor away.
[21:12]
Well, they have millet
[21:13]
as their staple food.
[21:15]
It's really part of their day-to-day.
[21:18]
a massive number of nutrients
[21:25]
and has the ability
[21:29]
It's going to be forced
[21:30]
to go through a police officer.
[21:32]
Now, if I eat a fiber only,
[21:37]
my digestive enzyme redundant
[21:40]
doesn't really get digested.
[21:43]
Does that make sense?
[21:44]
So that's why we like fiber
[21:46]
because the more we're constipated,
[21:48]
especially if we have ADHD later in life,
[21:50]
we tend to be constipated,
[21:51]
so we tend to eat a lot of fibers.
[21:53]
The fiber goes through.
[21:55]
It makes the police officer,
[21:56]
no, I don't need your help.
[21:58]
I don't need to be digested.
[21:59]
I'm just passing by.
[22:01]
And so the more we're going
[22:02]
to eat these really important,
[22:04]
really important fibers,
[22:06]
the more we're making
[22:07]
that police officer redundant.
[22:08]
So good quality starch
[22:11]
is actually helpful
[22:14]
and to stimulate the production
[22:16]
of digestive enzyme.
[22:18]
Now, the king of all preparation
[22:22]
is I don't know if you've ever seen
[22:23]
a white rice and millet congee.
[22:27]
You know, it's a preparation
[22:28]
where you have half rice,
[22:30]
half millet that is soaked into water
[22:32]
and then is cooked with too much water
[22:37]
like a mushy form of whitish.
[22:40]
Not very appetizing
[22:43]
for a Western person.
[22:46]
I'm going to try to make it appetizing
[22:48]
And that is a load
[22:51]
that will only be digested
[22:54]
by producing digestive enzymes.
[22:58]
you can completely reboost
[23:01]
the stomach's clean system
[23:02]
and completely address ADHD
[23:06]
Anything you have for breakfast
[23:09]
because you break the fast.
[23:10]
You're arriving on an empty gut.
[23:12]
So when you have these,
[23:14]
you're going to do
[23:15]
the exact opposite as a fiber.
[23:16]
You're going to say,
[23:17]
dear police officer,
[23:18]
I love you so much.
[23:21]
We're going to work today.
[23:23]
And so when you see that woman
[23:24]
that she can eat everything she wants
[23:26]
and she never puts on weight,
[23:28]
well, she has a really good police officer.
[23:30]
And so by having really good starch
[23:34]
that are well prepared,
[23:36]
and well hydrated,
[23:38]
I'm going to boost
[23:40]
the number of digestive enzymes.
[23:42]
Now, let's imagine I do the opposite.
[23:45]
In ice cream, I have dairy,
[23:47]
which is sweet and which is cold.
[23:49]
I damage my police officer.
[23:51]
Is that a big deal?
[23:52]
No, it's not a big deal
[23:54]
as long as it's not too recurrent.
[23:56]
Do you see what I mean?
[23:58]
And so here I'm going to have two foods
[23:59]
and one is going to damage it
[24:01]
and one is going to promote it.
[24:04]
And so in my biome,
[24:06]
because it's such a population
[24:07]
that embraces diversity
[24:15]
it's okay to have a bit of naughty stuff
[24:16]
as long as you have some good stuff too.
[24:20]
So you're noticing
[24:22]
by adding something like the millet
[24:27]
Congee, yes, of white rice and millet.
[24:30]
So you're noticing it
[24:31]
and could that help reduce
[24:34]
the amount of migraines
[24:36]
just by adding that to your diet?
[24:40]
So if you take a child,
[24:42]
especially if you take a child,
[24:43]
there's not a thousand reasons
[24:44]
why a child can have migraines.
[24:46]
And I really implore
[24:48]
because when you start in life
[24:51]
and you have migraines
[24:52]
and you have no choice but to medicate
[24:55]
and you go to the nursery every day
[24:57]
and you receive medication,
[24:58]
you're going to damage your organ liver
[25:01]
and your system liver massively,
[25:03]
leading to many more migraines in your life.
[25:07]
if you have a child with ADHD and migraines
[25:10]
or just ADHD, quite frankly,
[25:12]
you can give them a bit of congee.
[25:13]
And the way I negotiate with my kids
[25:15]
is once a week and afterwards,
[25:17]
you can have whatever you want
[25:18]
because I'm just about saying,
[25:20]
hey, let's just fire up that police officer
[25:22]
and then let's still keep the pleasure in.
[25:26]
And so it's a small bowl.
[25:27]
There's not a lot of taste.
[25:29]
It's just warming up that friend and saying,
[25:32]
hey, please be by my side for this week
[25:35]
and we're going to be good
[25:36]
and we're going to be naughty.
[25:39]
So how do you make it palatable?
[25:44]
My favorite way is to add peanuts,
[25:48]
like real fresh peanuts
[25:50]
that I roast with a bit of salt and pepper.
[25:53]
And then I find it just makes it a bit more crunchy.
[25:56]
It adds a bit of texture.
[25:57]
We're not used to a slimy texture.
[26:00]
You can also add a bit of meat.
[26:02]
I would not necessarily add sugar.
[26:04]
Like people are tempted to add sugar or honey.
[26:07]
I would try to refrain from that
[26:08]
and maybe keep it savory.
[26:10]
I think that would be better.
[26:11]
And if you're a woman
[26:13]
and you also want a bit of extra collagen,
[26:15]
then you take for rice,
[26:17]
you take glutinous rice
[26:18]
and that's going to give you that extra collagen
[26:22]
that is going to also be absorbed
[26:24]
quite easily by your body.
[26:26]
It's really interesting
[26:28]
I'm sort of thinking about the different people.
[26:30]
I don't suffer from migraine,
[26:32]
but what I did suffer from a lot
[26:34]
was what I would call very hormonal headaches.
[26:39]
And so a few days before my period,
[26:41]
I would get an absolutely excruciating headache.
[26:45]
But I've never called it a migraine before
[26:47]
because I've never felt sick.
[26:48]
I've never had the way I can't see properly.
[26:51]
And when my friends have talked about their migraines,
[26:54]
there's no way I can call that a migraine
[26:56]
because I would take very strong medication
[27:01]
And it would only happen
[27:03]
probably once or twice a month maximum.
[27:06]
Now that I'm on HRT,
[27:08]
I don't get that at all.
[27:09]
I don't get these hormonal headaches.
[27:11]
So for me, that was like, oh,
[27:13]
along with the other things that it's helped sort,
[27:16]
it's not, I don't get these headaches.
[27:18]
However, my daughter, my eldest daughter,
[27:20]
has suffered with migraines
[27:24]
it's more on my husband's side of the family,
[27:26]
they have a lot of migraines,
[27:27]
like her cousins and my mother-in-law.
[27:30]
And when she's had migraines,
[27:32]
she's just had to,
[27:33]
I've had to pick her up from school.
[27:35]
She's had to miss quite a lot of school.
[27:37]
She's had to go to bed.
[27:39]
And I see there's a pattern,
[27:41]
definitely hormonal.
[27:43]
She's been diagnosed with ADHD
[27:45]
and it's typically around
[27:49]
if she's a bit more stressed or a bit more anxious.
[27:52]
It doesn't have to be a huge amount of overwhelm.
[27:55]
It's the combination of hormones
[27:59]
and maybe slight pressure,
[28:01]
external pressure going on.
[28:03]
And then that's it.
[28:08]
And maybe I can give a bit of color
[28:10]
on what you were feeling,
[28:11]
which is different to what she's feeling.
[28:13]
But I just want to start on you
[28:15]
because that type of migraine
[28:17]
was related to some extent to ADHD.
[28:21]
So just below the stomach spleen system,
[28:23]
you have another system,
[28:24]
which is super important,
[28:25]
is your liver system.
[28:27]
Now the liver system is going to manage.
[28:30]
So if I say liver again,
[28:31]
in the Western language,
[28:32]
I always designate that piece of flesh
[28:34]
just sitting below my right rib cage.
[28:36]
But if I say liver again in Chinese,
[28:39]
what I'm referring to is my liver,
[28:42]
a lot of my brain.
[28:43]
We're not in the forehead anymore.
[28:44]
We're in the temple.
[28:45]
We're in the top of the head.
[28:46]
We're across the eyebrows.
[28:49]
I'm going to refer to all of my female hormones,
[28:56]
and all of my tendons.
[28:58]
And so leading up to my menstruation
[29:00]
is a time when women can have
[29:01]
a lot of excruciating migraines.
[29:04]
It's probably statistically the highest amount.
[29:08]
And what happens is that
[29:09]
before the menstruation,
[29:10]
the blood's going to gather, gather
[29:12]
in the liver before it gets flushed.
[29:14]
And so all of the toxins are accumulating.
[29:17]
Now, what we do know from the West,
[29:19]
even we don't know exactly
[29:20]
how the Vicks nerve plugs into the brain
[29:22]
like with a lot of precision.
[29:24]
We do know that if I intoxicate my brain with alcohol,
[29:28]
And that's universal.
[29:31]
So if I get a hangover,
[29:32]
I feel in my brain.
[29:33]
I'm not doing a brain freeze.
[29:34]
I'm like going like, oh,
[29:36]
like with a helmet on my hands,
[29:38]
on my head thinking,
[29:40]
it hurts almost everywhere.
[29:42]
Now, if I'm before my menstruation
[29:45]
and all of those toxins are gathered
[29:47]
before they get flushed in my menstruation,
[29:49]
I also have that inflammation
[29:52]
around my liver system.
[29:54]
Then that inflammation is going
[29:56]
through my vagus nerve
[29:57]
and has two ends inflamed,
[30:00]
one in my brain and one in my liver.
[30:03]
And so at that moment,
[30:05]
Now, if I have my liver
[30:07]
who has intoxication or inflammation,
[30:10]
what it's going to do
[30:11]
is that the gallbladder
[30:12]
is going to put bile up.
[30:14]
And so instead of the juice
[30:16]
and the food going down,
[30:19]
now the bile is going up.
[30:20]
It's going to go up
[30:21]
and annoy the stomach spleen
[30:23]
and change the pH of that chemical,
[30:26]
that beautiful chemical reaction
[30:28]
that needs to happen.
[30:29]
And that's going to weaken
[30:31]
my stomach spleen system,
[30:32]
which is going to increase ADHD-like symptoms
[30:36]
or that for that matter.
[30:38]
Do you see what I mean?
[30:40]
And so that's the interrelation of both.
[30:42]
And this is where it can also start
[30:44]
from another place.
[30:46]
So many women are listening
[30:48]
to this podcast now
[30:49]
and are getting these light bulb moments,
[30:51]
are able to connect the dots
[30:53]
through our conversations,
[30:54]
but then left helpless
[30:56]
because the expertise,
[30:58]
the specialism isn't there.
[31:00]
What would you say to women
[31:01]
who are getting these realizations now
[31:04]
and they've suffered
[31:05]
for decades of their life?
[31:08]
Your intuition is always right.
[31:11]
And also your body
[31:13]
is a really smart system.
[31:15]
So each time it took a different turn,
[31:19]
it was in order to protect you
[31:21]
and it was rational.
[31:24]
When the body has a problem,
[31:26]
it's going to try to disperse the problem
[31:29]
and make it very small in many places.
[31:31]
It's going to prefer to have
[31:33]
a lot of small problems
[31:34]
than a really, really big one.
[31:36]
If it has a really, really big one
[31:38]
in a single place,
[31:39]
it can't function anymore.
[31:41]
So I'd love to take the example
[31:43]
of the endometriosis.
[31:44]
And when I speak with people,
[31:47]
I still onboard everyone.
[31:49]
And sometimes, yes,
[31:50]
it takes me three hours
[31:51]
to explain to someone
[31:55]
And I really want to link
[31:57]
endometriosis and ADHD for a minute
[32:00]
because I don't think that's a link
[32:01]
that has ever been established.
[32:03]
And I also want to talk
[32:04]
about antibiotics now
[32:05]
because I'm sure that also
[32:07]
has never been linked,
[32:09]
but I want to link it too.
[32:10]
So if your stomach spleen
[32:12]
is not functioning,
[32:13]
the food still goes down.
[32:16]
So it still goes down.
[32:18]
I don't know if your kids
[32:19]
want to save the planet
[32:20]
and they also want to play with slime.
[32:21]
I don't know about yours.
[32:22]
That's what I'd want to do.
[32:25]
if you want to save the planet,
[32:26]
stop making a mess in my kitchen
[32:29]
that I can't put in the organic bin.
[32:34]
So your food is going to go down
[32:37]
in your microbiome,
[32:38]
in your small and large intestine
[32:41]
and it's going to look like slime.
[32:43]
And your small intestine might go,
[32:46]
maybe, maybe, what's this?
[32:48]
We have red T-shirts
[32:49]
which we need to extract.
[32:50]
We've lost a lot of blood
[32:51]
during menstruation.
[32:52]
We need to replenish.
[32:53]
We have a lot of black T-shirts
[32:55]
and we've been really stressed.
[32:56]
We need to extract it.
[32:57]
But it's all mushy
[32:58]
and mixed with blue T-shirts
[33:01]
It hasn't been properly digested.
[33:03]
even there's a parasite.
[33:05]
And so it's going to have
[33:06]
a couple of ways to cope.
[33:08]
One way is flush this,
[33:12]
So then we're going to start
[33:13]
to have what is called
[33:15]
So I'm going to eat something
[33:16]
and immediately the food goes.
[33:18]
And that's going to be
[33:20]
because I'm not absorbing
[33:22]
and I'm retaining water.
[33:24]
And so my microbiome starts
[33:26]
to be more and more damp.
[33:29]
Or I can sometimes
[33:31]
get really constipated
[33:32]
because the body is like,
[33:34]
Yeah, put it on the side.
[33:35]
It might always serve one day.
[33:36]
But we're going to try
[33:38]
to extract that stuff
[33:39]
but it's really hard.
[33:41]
of those two pathways
[33:42]
that the body decides to take,
[33:44]
there's going to be
[33:45]
a lot of what is called dampness.
[33:47]
So dampness, imagine mucus,
[33:49]
that is going to go
[33:51]
and it's going to start
[33:52]
to permeate through
[33:53]
the lining of the gut
[33:55]
to the endometrium.
[33:57]
And it's going to surround
[33:59]
and it's going to start
[34:00]
to really annoy it.
[34:02]
The body, why does that?
[34:04]
it's trying to spread
[34:07]
and he's trying not to have it
[34:08]
concentrated too much
[34:09]
otherwise it becomes
[34:12]
And so it's going to start
[34:15]
and if you've ever seen
[34:16]
what an operation is,
[34:19]
operates from an endometriosis
[34:20]
he's going to go through
[34:22]
to respectfully not scar you
[34:23]
and then it's going to
[34:24]
take almost a spoon
[34:26]
and scoop out mucus.
[34:28]
When he does that,
[34:30]
because the body is not flat,
[34:31]
he's going to need to cut
[34:33]
very small vessels
[34:36]
But when he does that
[34:37]
he makes the whole part
[34:39]
of that body weaker
[34:42]
maybe I get really lucky
[34:43]
and I can get pregnant
[34:44]
on the back of such an operation
[34:48]
that region is so weak
[34:51]
can accumulate easily.
[34:53]
And the body can't
[34:54]
defend itself as much.
[34:57]
the more that biome
[34:58]
is going to be bad,
[35:00]
the more my digestive enzymes
[35:04]
to get back on their feet.
[35:06]
So it's a little bit
[35:07]
that the police officer
[35:08]
let a few gangsters,
[35:14]
because that's what they do.
[35:16]
And then there's a bit of a gang
[35:17]
organized in my microbiome
[35:20]
is taking over the police
[35:21]
which is upstream.
[35:23]
And so then I get into
[35:24]
that really vicious circle
[35:25]
where I'm bloated,
[35:26]
I have a distension
[35:27]
of the belly area,
[35:28]
I can easily have eczema
[35:30]
or I have athlete foot
[35:32]
or I can have repetitive UTIs.
[35:34]
If I have repetitive UTIs
[35:36]
I'm going to take antibodies.
[35:37]
If I take antibodies
[35:39]
it's going to make my biome
[35:41]
and it's going to make
[35:45]
my ADHD even stronger.
[35:47]
And so I just want to link
[35:49]
because you mentioned
[35:51]
they're going to complain about that.
[35:55]
from which it's really,
[35:56]
really, really hard
[35:59]
And so I want to express
[36:03]
I had a really successful career
[36:05]
until five years ago
[36:07]
when I decided to stop it.
[36:08]
I made these discoveries
[36:10]
for people who were suffering
[36:12]
lifelong journeys of migraines
[36:15]
because of my uncle
[36:16]
who died from a brain tumor.
[36:23]
and I've dedicated
[36:24]
that massive purpose
[36:27]
but to people's health
[36:29]
we're really headed
[36:30]
in the wrong direction here.
[36:31]
And so every penny I've made
[36:34]
and completely bootstrapped
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the app that I now have
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to help people faster
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with a lot of accuracy
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and just adding foods
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and so re-diversifying
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so that they can thrive
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and do the small and large things
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that they want to accomplish in life
[36:53]
which is sometimes
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just being a loving mum
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present for her child
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when he comes back from school
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really really matter in society.
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I was going to ask you
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the question of where
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this kind of passion came from
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this kind of purpose.
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working in the health industry
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you were already doing this?
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No, I studied at Harvard Business School
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I have an engineering background
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management consultant
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and so I was more in boardrooms
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and other things like that
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but I had had a skiing accident myself
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I had lost half of my blood
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and shrunk a kidney
[37:40]
and had never been transused
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and it took me 12 years
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to get over it fully
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and when I got over it fully
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a traditional Chinese medicine doctor
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who recommended foods
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and I was back to who I was
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before that accident
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and I really thought
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like why are we struggling so much?
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What's wrong with the system?
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and my colleagues said
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and I really thought to myself
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guys this has nothing
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to do with placebo
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we're way beyond placebo here
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it's extremely efficient
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no pharmaceutical company
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and I kept on bringing people
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and he supported me
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throughout this journey
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pulling miracles off
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and then I thought
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oh I'd love to create
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a food as medicine AI
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or something that people
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can have in their pocket
[38:30]
and it's really simple
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I fabricated today
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massive imposter syndrome
[38:39]
and then my family
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that I would change career
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to medical school right
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I think there's a lot of gaps
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and I want to fill those gaps
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are really suffering
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and I think when I met
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who were suffering
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I fell in compassionate love
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with how much pain
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these women were experiencing
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for years and years
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and years of their life
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these stories are crazy
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I would listen to people
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and so I started to do
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and I thought you know
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maybe no one's interested
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just on board someone
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with all of these people
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turned out to be women
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their life has been
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is just disgraceful
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it's great that we aim
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that are in touch with you
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I don't think it's ok
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it's not ok with me
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we're going through
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they've not been able
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suppress themselves
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everything that you see
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what keeps me going
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days in and days out
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shopping for clothing
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and just thinking that
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you have 4 children
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was a lot more modest
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really really important
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don't get me wrong
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it's also very simple
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make the full child
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the man is a factory
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and the woman is a factory
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sometimes circulating
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like a man's brain
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and there's a button
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and a woman's brain
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that's a reflection
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developed these medications
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if you've ever heard
[43:48]
of that medication
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it was this medication
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than 10,000 children
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as you can imagine
[44:13]
and for these mothers
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brought up together
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scientific community
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for the right reasons
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and for loving reasons
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of clinical trials
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really really dangerous
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they might be pregnant
[44:29]
they might become pregnant
[44:30]
or they might not know
[44:32]
and so this is really
[44:33]
dangerous for society
[44:35]
unintended reasons
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tend to be male rats
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there's a lot of data
[44:48]
that are unexplainable
[44:49]
and I think the brain
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who, she was having, she had migraines for 30 years, and her migraines were going down,
[45:05]
down, down, down, down. And at some point, they really climbed up. And I look at her data,
[45:09]
I can't understand it. I look at her food, I'm like, did I make any mistakes? I can't understand
[45:13]
why the pain is suddenly spiking back up. And so I call her and I say, what's the context,
[45:20]
what's going on? And then she said, my daughter tried to commit suicide. And this was the least
[45:26]
thing I was expecting. And so what I try to mean is, as her daughter was in pain,
[45:30]
the mother felt the pain. So it adds to the complexity of the system, because the Chinese
[45:36]
are going to say, not only is your gut-brain axis connected, your emotions can also impact
[45:41]
your gut and your organs, and your organs can impact your emotions. So that makes the woman
[45:45]
hyper-complicated. Now, if you look at the medicine, ancestral medicine,
[45:50]
the women were able to reproduce a population, a healthy population. And so they were front
[45:56]
and center of medicine. So whereas in the Western science, because of the way we do the science,
[46:02]
and because we want a one-to-one relationship and causality, something very clean, very neat,
[46:07]
very scientific-based, the way we do our clinical trials, we had to exclude women.
[46:12]
And there's a lot of variables that we're unable to explain. And these traditional Chinese
[46:17]
medicine, such as Ayurveda, or Chinese medicine, or Kampo, that was developed by the Japanese,
[46:24]
women were front and center of medicine. When you say health in Mandarin, the character is a woman
[46:31]
under a roof. And health means, if you provide security for the woman, you have provided health,
[46:38]
and also means safety, and therefore you have kept your population safe. And I think that's
[46:44]
something we've completely lost in Western science, because there's so many symptoms that
[46:49]
we can't explain, because we don't understand systems, because our language is also very
[46:57]
directional. Like when we say heart, we can only mean heart. And when we say liver,
[47:01]
we can only mean liver. We struggle to express ourselves with systems. Even when we say IBS,
[47:08]
or leaky gut, we designate the gut or the bowels as the problem. But the problem doesn't come from
[47:14]
them. They're on the receiving end of another system not doing their job. But because we call
[47:20]
them that way, we sometimes tend to look in the wrong place. And so yes, I do feel what you feel,
[47:28]
women are completely misguided, ghastly, etc. And I think what happens in that first onboarding call
[47:36]
is they really feel, oh my god, now I completely understand that is so logical. I'm making sense.
[47:46]
Yeah. And so from there, they have that massive hope that it's actually everything's sort of
[47:51]
reversible if you take it one at a time. And so that conversation is really a symbolic 30
[47:58]
US dollars, in the sense that I need people to show up. I have children, I have a husband,
[48:03]
I have a household, I can't have people not showing up. But I give the money back if people
[48:07]
join or don't join. It's really not about the money. It's about people understanding,
[48:11]
okay, I'm not crazy, I'm making sense. And there's a way forward.
[48:16]
So then where does the app come in? So you have the onboarding call, and then are they then given
[48:23]
the opportunity to use the app as guidance? What I'm trying to do is I'm trying to make
[48:28]
their life really, really easy. I bet the people who are listening here, they're really busy,
[48:33]
they have to cook for their children and fold the laundry and do the grocery shopping and cook
[48:39]
and work. Life is extremely busy. So part of my job is to make it very simple and very actionable.
[48:48]
And so the best way to access someone on a daily basis is through an app. And so in that app,
[48:54]
there's two sections of foods, and it's going to tell the given person, for example, hey, Kate,
[48:59]
in your section A, we're going to boost your gastric juices, increase the number of digestive
[49:05]
enzymes that you have. In your selection B, we are going to nourish your kidney system to overcome
[49:10]
that anxiety that you experience. And these are all of the symptoms that you experience, how your
[49:15]
body manifested this, which is a combination of a bit of genetics, a bit of epiDNA, you know,
[49:21]
what went wrong along the way and how it's manifested for you. And these are all of the
[49:25]
foods that will do the job. And then there's, you know, over five years, I realized you have
[49:31]
to do things in a certain order. And that order is going to differ person by person. You have to
[49:36]
take, it's a bit like you unpeel an onion. You can't start by peel five or six. You have to start
[49:42]
by peel one or two. And then what I've done is in the app, there's also a tongue image AI. So
[49:48]
your tongue is your only internal organ that you can see externally. And it's a gem of information
[49:54]
because it's connected to your vagus nerve. And so it's a little bit like it's a mirror of what's
[49:59]
happening in your brain, what's happening in your main organs. And so you could give me 10 tongues,
[50:04]
Kate, and I would actually be able to tell you who are the three people with ADHD from just looking
[50:10]
at that. Oh, my God, that's incredible. It's incredible. And what it allows me to do is not
[50:15]
only know where to start. So where's your body crying the most? And then it allows me to see how
[50:23]
fast your gut is absorbing the foods. How well is it doing the job? Where is it putting the food?
[50:29]
I'm giving it food, you know, is it put in the right place at the right speed? And then this
[50:37]
is where women will have less and less migraines, but they will also say, I just had one yesterday.
[50:42]
And she said, Oh, my God, she had received three rounds of IVF. She was about to do a fourth one
[50:47]
when I met her. And I said, Whoa, whoa, whoa, your body is crying left, right and center. These are
[50:52]
all of the reasons why your body does not want to get pregnant. Very rightfully so. Let's correct
[50:57]
all of that. And so yesterday, she was texting and she said, Oh, my God, I've had my first what I
[51:01]
think is a normal menstruation and feels amazing. It was smooth, the blood was red. It was just
[51:07]
gorgeous. And at the same time, I had another woman from the US texting me and said, You know,
[51:12]
I expelled so many blood clots in the last few days, some of which were the size of a baseball.
[51:18]
And she wrote that. And you know, I had that moment of Oh, my God, we just dodged a bullet,
[51:23]
you know, like this stuff couldn't stay in her body until her migraines were rightfully during
[51:29]
her menstruation complaining about something happening internally. And so if you're left
[51:35]
with only one message, it's just your body is a beautiful machine. It's wired to reproduce,
[51:44]
and it's wired to love and do these incredible things and to learn and to love and, and when
[51:51]
it's struggling, it's going to do its best to cope. You know, so it's your best friend and listen
[51:56]
and don't let don't let sort of paper documents with a lot of data come in between you and your
[52:02]
body use your intuition to Yeah, so if someone's listening to this now, and they may not suffer
[52:10]
from migraines, but they suffer from heavy periods, and they suspected endometriosis,
[52:16]
maybe they've not had the diagnosis, you know, PMDD, anything sort of like hormonal,
[52:21]
do you still do that? Or is you specifically migraines? I can still do that. I in practice,
[52:27]
I'm really focusing on migraines. However, migraine is a genetic fire alarm. So it's
[52:33]
completely possible to do the same for someone who doesn't suffer from migraines. Yes.
[52:37]
Okay. Well, I think, you know, this conversation alone is going to help a lot of people
[52:42]
just that knowledge. Maybe they can find themselves a traditional Chinese medicine
[52:47]
practitioner near them. And they can get some, you know, some advice, or they can speak to you.
[52:53]
And yeah, I'm going to be sharing all your information on the show notes. But can you
[52:57]
just tell people how what's the website called that they can get in touch with you through?
[53:02]
So the website is called My Nectar Health, Nectar, like the plant, the flower, and you go
[53:08]
on the website and you can take the test. We are also putting together a triggers test just to,
[53:13]
you know, help people with triggers already, because sometimes there's stuff that they
[53:17]
haven't really thought about. And yeah, and then from there we meet, you can also just contact me
[53:22]
from the website if you have a question exactly like you have something really specific, and
[53:26]
you're not sure if I can help, I reply very candidly. And I would be the one replying and I
[53:32]
look, I really care. I think it's not okay, what's happening is really not okay,
[53:36]
neither for us nor for our children. And so I really want to thank you for the platform that
[53:42]
you allow, you know, to give advice to those women, and, you know, to educate them so that
[53:48]
they can feel empowered to take care of their health. Yeah, thank you. And that is exactly what
[53:54]
this podcast is for, for women who haven't got access to all these different, you know,
[53:59]
specialists and experts, and they can have a conversation and do some digging themselves,
[54:03]
and maybe, you know, speak to you or find someone locally to them. It just helps. It just helps with
[54:10]
that validation that I think is so important to know that it's not in our minds. And actually,
[54:18]
it's not okay to suffer. It's not okay to be in pain and to live a terrible quality of life
[54:24]
because of our health. So thank you so much for this amazing conversation, Diana. Thank you.
[54:33]
I really hope you enjoyed this week's episode. If you did, and it resonated with you, I would
[54:38]
absolutely love it if you could share on your platforms, or maybe leave a review and a rating
[54:44]
wherever you listen to your podcasts. And please do check out my website,
[54:48]
adhdwomenswellbeing.co.uk, for lots of free resources and paid-for workshops. I'm uploading
[54:56]
new things all the time, and I would absolutely love to see you there. Take care, and see you for
[55:01]
the next episode. I hear from so many of you every week that this podcast has helped you
[55:16]
immeasurably. And if that is the case, and it really has helped you understand and validate
[55:21]
yourself and your experiences, as well as giving you options and ways to move forward positively,
[55:27]
I finally believe that you can thrive at life with more insights, more guidance.
[55:31]
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