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Hello and welcome to the Own Your Health podcast, I'm Cyndi Lynne and I can't wait to help you step into your health power. As today's title says, I've been caught. I have to chuckle at this one because it comes up periodically.
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I'm fortunate enough to have several clients who are mothers and daughters or husbands and wives, and very often they think they're calling me out. And it's for giving different advice about the same topic, most often about the same exercise or the same supplements, the same recommendations for starting or changing dosages on their vitamins.
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And these are things that I can provide additional information on. All of my clients make their own decisions about what they're going to take or not, but they come and they say, hey, what is this about? Why would we take this? How does this work? And we talk about all of these things.
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And this happens with husbands, it happens with wives. It happens with the parents occasionally of some of my clients. And I thought it brought home a really good message for you here today. So what I hear often is, hey, how come my husband only has to take his vitamin D and K once during the day?
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He can take it in the morning and be done with it. And you want me to take my vitamin D in the morning and my vitamin K in the afternoon? Or how come so and so my best friend gets to run three times a week and you tell me not to run at all?
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And we're the same age and we both like doing it and it's natural. Like, these are a couple examples, but people compare. And what I want you to take away from this is that we are all truly individuals, even if we are on identical dosages of things like supplements.
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Our bodies react and respond differently, which is one reason that there may be different timing or different suggested dosages on it. But how far we are along in our health and health ownership journey can make a big difference on what I can recommend for you and make a big difference about what you will be successful with when you read something new or when you see an idea that looks good.
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So let me break this down a little bit, talk about it a little bit more. Let's go back to the first example of the vitamin D and vitamin K example. Now, this is very common, huge, very common recommendation. I live in the north most of the time, as do my clients.
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There simply is not enough time to get sunlight during adequate temperatures with skin exposure, as well as a bunch of other factors, for us to get enough vitamin D, enough sunlight to make vitamin D.
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So, excuse me, most people where I live and that I work with in my office could use some help from supplementation. Now, vitamin D is a fat soluble vitamin, meaning that it's actually a hormone, but it's called a vitamin.
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Fat soluble vitamin, and you need to take it with some fat. Now taking it with some fat, for example, would mean having some peanut butter on your toast in the morning, or taking it with eggs, or taking it with just some kind of dietary fat.
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It doesn't have to be tablespoons of fat, but your body needs fat in order to use that vitamin D. The same is true for vitamin K. It also needs fat, it's a fat soluble vitamin, in order for it to be absorbed and used in the body.
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So in the case that I talked about earlier, the woman that I worked with has been taking supplements for some time. She's zeroing in, she's really trying to optimize. And my recommendation for her was to take vitamin D in the morning with some fat and then her vitamin K in the evening, maybe with dinner or afterwards again with some fat.
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Now, her husband was a different story. He was not so sure about supplements. He thought they were kind of a lot of bother. But he started to see some benefits in his wife. But there was no way that he was going to sign up for the vitamins she had chosen and the schedule she had chosen for herself.
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So my recommendation for him was that there are products and I provided a couple of names. There are products that combine the vitamin D and 3 and vitamin K2 in an oil based format. So you can take that. And in that case, although it's not optimized, it's potentially more effective because he will probably and has been taking it.
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So really no supplement will work unless you take it. Just like no dietary strategy, no exercise will work unless you implement it. If I were to give people complex recommendations or complex scheduling for the vitamins that they choose to take, they may not be compliant, it's kind of an odd word, but it's, it's used in the, in the medical community.
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They may not stick to that program, even if it's one they agree to because it can be too cumbersome, it can be too much, too much trouble. So as a practitioner, as a coach, I try very hard to meet people where they are with information they're ready to accept, tasks and recommendations they're ready to implement.
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So my assessment of this wife was very different than my assessment of this husband. And as it turned out, both are working really well. The same is true when it comes to exercise, and I see this often in groups of women who are great support systems for each other, who exercise together, who work out together and spend all kinds of time together, and they want to work on the same things.
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They want to go for a run together or they want to lift weights together, and that's fabulous. But not everybody can handle the same type of workout. Not everybody is suited for every type of exercise.
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And while running works moderately for some women, I can tell you now that in, in the age group of women that I work with, running is usually not the best idea. It's not a good idea from your thyroid standpoint.
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It's not a good idea from your cortisol standpoint. It's not a good idea from wear and tear on the joints. Now, there are people who love running. It is their mental health exercise, and that's fine. They can absolutely do what they want.
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And you know who you are. I'll continue to be here to help you with your knees and your hips after you run. But if people are asking for recommendations or if people are coming and saying, I used to be able to do this or I can't do this anymore, or, or this just doesn't feel good, or why am I having so much pain? When my girlfriend, who I always ran with or always worked out with, does just fine, what's wrong with me?
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Why am I falling apart? And that's their words, not mine. It's that your body can be in a very different place. You know, maybe you've had three children later in life and your running partner hasn't.
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Maybe you're built differently. Maybe your body type is a heavier, more solid body type. Maybe you're shorter in stature and more dense in body type, while someone who is longer and lanky has levers that predispose them for easier movement in a skill like running.
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So looking at body types, looking at past injuries, looking at where your overall health is, will make me give you very different recommendations than someone with different sets of criteria.
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And inevitably we get these people, like I said, husbands, wives, adult children, and then, you know, their parents saying, wait a minute, why did you change your mind? Why are you giving different advice? And it's because you're different people at different places in your life with different needs.
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Okay, fine. That's what goes on in my office. If you'd like to come and find out what goes on in the office, I'd welcome you. But the same thing goes on when you read an article in a magazine, when you run across a news story when you hear something on the radio or when you get invited to participate in some sort of event.
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And I want to invite you to ask yourself the questions. Is this the right activity for me now? Is this the right dietary change for me now? Is this the right supplement for me now?
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Excuse me, is this the way that my body works? And the point of these questions is just to help you realize that your body is going to work differently. It's going to work differently than it did 10 years ago, maybe even last year.
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It may react differently this month than it did last month. We have to continue to keep assessing both the information that we get in and the way that we apply it.
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And this is a key to owning our health and to getting confident in doing it. Now if I can help you with any of these things, absolutely reach out. The information is below. In the meantime, assess and let's go out and own it until next week.
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Bye, bye.
