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  • Dr. Kahn’s Weekly Health Buzz: seed to lower blood pressure, 4 foods to prevent heart attack and more

    Dr. Kahn’s Weekly Health Buzz: seed to lower blood pressure, 4 foods to prevent heart attack and more

    Check out this week’s health buzz and find out which common seed lowers blood pressure, should you eat quinoa or not, the 4 pantry foods to remove plaque naturally and reverse or prevent heart disease. Also check out what new research just came out on dairy and its link to cancer, especially prostate cancer.

    Dr. Joel Kahn is a founder of the Kahn Center for Cardiac Longevity in Michigan and the owner of GreenSpace Cafe. He is a Summa Cum Laude graduate of the University of Michigan School of Medicine and Clinical Professor of Medicine at the Wayne State University of Michigan. His specialty is the prevention and reversal of heart disease (heart attacks, stroke) using lifestyle therapies. He is the author of over 150 scientific articles, hundreds of health articles, and 5 books. His first book is a national public TV special, Your Whole Heart Solution. His latest book is a #1 Amazon seller, The Plant-Based Solution.

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  • Does Cryotherapy really work? My personal experience and results

    Does Cryotherapy really work? My personal experience and results

    Written by Reena A Jadhav

     

    What you need to know before you do cryotherapy also known as cold therapy.

     

    Can you lose weight, kill inflammation, look younger and reverse pain from just three minutes in the freezer? The theory behind Cryotherapy is that by bringing your body temperature down by exposing it to typically –200°F for two to three minutes, you can improve arthritis, asthma, depression, and chronic pain, soothe sore muscles, boost metabolism, along with many other health benefits.

    That’s the promise of Cryotherapy, but what’s the reality? Scientific studies are great, but nothing beats personal experience. I did Cryotherapy for 90 days and this is what happened.

    WHY DID I CRYO?

    Health has become my top priority since September 2016 when I slid from super healthy to super sick with 28 symptoms and no diagnosis. Well, the diagnosis according to a dozen specialists was “idiopathic something, something,” translation, “we really don’t know what’s causing your crazy symptoms, including extreme weight loss.” I decided to own my health, and eighteen months later I had reversed all my symptoms. In fact, I emerged healthier than I had ever been my whole life.

    Going through a radical health transformation lit inside me a hunger to try out various natural healing modalities. I started reading emerging research from the most brilliant minds of our times and watching every TEDTalk on health and wellness.

    Curious by nature, simply reading or listening to the trailblazers wasn’t enough, I wanted to test these modalities on myself. First came the hyperbaric oxygen chamber, then infrared sauna and glutathione injectables. I even flew to Florida to do stem cell therapy with the renowned Dr. Kristin Comella who I had interviewed on my podcast. 

    I had heard about Cryotherapy from some of my guests on HealthierPodcast.com but hadn’t felt compelled to seek out a local cryo experience. That was, until I saw multiple Groupons for cryotherapy, all featuring angelic beauties inside a heavenly chamber, smiling. The promotion made it sound like the “new cure” for all that ails us. There was an option 2.3 miles away for three sessions of Cryotherapy for just $99. The cost of cryotherapy didn’t seem prohibitive like that of stem cell therapy. That was all the incentive I needed to try this biohack on myself.

    By the end of the month, I had tried cryotherapy in a neck down liquid nitrogen chamber at a sports gym, at a chiropractor’s office, and at a health spa. I then tried full-body cold room cryotherapy at a local wellness spa called US Cryo, one of a chain of wellness spas featuring state of the art cryotherapy room, IFR sauna, water massage bed and a whole host of neat machines to whip you back into youth.

    HOW IT WORKS:

    There are two types of Cryotherapy experiences:  one features a single person metal container that freezes you with liquid nitrogen up till your neck and you can choose to keep your arms out, the other features a room analogous to a cold freezer and doesn’t use liquid nitrogen.

    • Full Body Chamber

    This cryotherapy involves first stepping into a cool down prep chamber followed by the cold freeze chamber where the temperatures are somewhere around -200 F. Check out my prep video below and scroll down for all 8 benefits I experienced:

     

    You can choose to wear your own clothes or swap out for the shirt and shorts supplied by the wellness-spa. You can wear your own clothes as long as there is no metal element in your clothing and no moisture. You also must remove all jewelry, put on socks, shoes, gloves, ear muffs, head beanie, and a face surgical mask. The extra precaution is because in this chamber your face is also exposed to the cold. You are literally walking into a freezer.

    After preparation, you are ready to walk into the cooling chamber for 15 seconds, followed by entering the freezer for another 2 to 2.5 minutes.

    cooling chamber & freezer room:

    The goal is to get your body temperature down by 30 to 40 degrees

    Here I go into the chamber and THIS is how I keep from freezing my delicate parts!

     

    At US Cryo, where I tried the full-body immersion cryo for the first time, they have the option of selecting your favorite music to freeze to! I chose Highway to Hell, which I thought captured the essence of my experience.

    As I moved the first time from the prep chamber into the freezer,  I felt a way of cold fog engulf me. A sense of panic rose up. I start to breathe faster. I wanted to run out the door screaming. I could see the attendant watching me like a hawk, but with a warm smile still playing on her face. She made a gesture to say ‘one’, that could be either I had finished a minute or had a minute to go, I was too frozen to care.

    Wait, where did I feel exactly like this before? Ah, yes, Bikram Yoga! The first time I did hot yoga, I had to bribe myself to not run out. If I recall rightly I ate a massive ice-cream as a treat for not running out of that room.

    So, back to Cryo, my first time, the only way I figured I would make it was if I danced. My soul is that of a dancer, and as the music pulsed through the freezing walls, I started jumping and running around the room. I made up an entire routine, circling left, then hopping in the center to the chorus, then circling right, counting the lights on the wall, twirling around the center and back to circling the room.

    It seemed to take forever.

    Then, the lights blinked and my 2.5 minutes were over.

    I ran out shivering, hopping, swearing like a lady into a warm welcoming room. I continued to hop and jump to warm up, frantically rubbing my hands for a few minutes and then …..something like crazy laughter rolled up my spine till I was engulfed in sheer euphoria.

    Adrenalin. Joy at being alive. The thrill of not being frozen meat.

    That euphoric feeling of:  “I can run a marathon without food!” stayed with me for about 7 hours. Every cell felt alive. I felt alive.

    That first day I couldn’t sleep till 11 pm as I had so much energy. It was literally bursting from each pore.

    I crashed the next day. I slept like a baby at noon for 30 minutes. After that, I decided to do cryo only before noon so as to burn off the power surge by 10 pm.

    • Neck Down Chamber:

    In the case of the liquid nitrogen chamber cryo, you undress completely, put on a robe, a warm pair of socks, slippers, and gloves before walking into the chamber for 3 minutes. Once in the chamber, you remove your robe and get ready to be blasted with cold nitric oxide air. They can adjust the chamber to be at your neck level to ensure you keep your face outside as the gas itself is toxic.

    A friendly attendant watches you while your chamber cools from room temperature to about -140 degrees. You can choose to watch an entertaining Bruno Mars music video, as I did, or chat nervously with your attendant till your time is up.

    The experience in this chamber starts gently and ratchets up till you feel your insides freezing. It ends rather quickly so you’re only truly freezing for the last minute.

    Once it’s over, you put on your robe back on and head back to put on your clothes and depart. 

    The entire experience is about 15 minutes, depending on how fast you are with your dressing skills.

    You can measure your body temperature drop after each therapy to track how you react to changes in temperature. In my case, after each 3-minute treatment, I would drop about 30 degrees.

    WHICH IS BETTER:

    There are many similarities: 

    1. Both ultimately cool you down dramatically 
    2. In both cases, the attendants watch you like a hawk and keep you entertained if necessary 
    3. I dropped about the same degrees in both chambers 
    4. Both take about the same amount of time
    5. I don’t think one is safer than the other
    6. In both cases, they measure your temperature before you go in and once you come out

    The differences are primarily around personal preference and other services being offered by the Cryotherapy provider. 

    1. I prefer the freezer as it also cools down my face, giving me some anti-aging skin benefits
    2. I also am not a fan of the nitric oxide gas being used to cool the air in the neck down cryo and hence prefer the freezer
    3. I love the additional services offered by US Cryo including the IFR sauna, the water bed massage, and so many other machines. 

    On a more personal note, I have discovered a love for dancing the entire 2.5 minutes in the freezer. It’s my personal time to let go! Seriously, you don’t know what you’re missing untill you try it. So if you do try cryotherapy, I dare you to pick your favorite dance tunes and let loose in the cold.

    MY RESULTS:

    Each of us has a unique body blueprint, so my experience is unique to me. Please keep that in mind as you read my results below. I would love to know how you felt after doing cryotherapy, so please share your own experiences in the comments.

    • Feel the rush

    I stopped drinking caffeine, including green tea, about three years ago. I typically stay even-keeled and steady paced during the day. Cryo picks me up and throws me on top of an energy curve very akin to caffeine but without the jitters and acidity. I feel exhilarated, alert, ready to take on anything and everything. It lasts for about 6 to 8 hours!

    • Feel the cheer

    Since I meditate daily, I’ve also developed a sense of calm that rarely gets too ruffled. With Cryo I get pushed towards the spectrum of giddy and joyful, and it lasts for hours. I love the extra dose of joy that cryo gives me.

    • Feel the chill

    My body temperature swings between heated up to chilled, depending on the time of the month. With cryo, I don’t get heated up as much but do tend to stay chilled as my circulation isn’t that great. I’ve developed a new ritual of hot steaming macadamia or hazelnut milk (homemade in Vitamix with cinnamon, cloves and honey) to warm up my insides once I come home. I love it!

    • Feel the burn

    Cryo marketing states it can burn hundreds of additional calories due to the metabolism boost. I have found that it definitely does boost up the burn, but it also increases hunger. I starve within a few hours if I haven’t carefully managed my post cryo feed. As long as I load up on some good fats and some carbs I feel fine, otherwise, I find myself binging on everything in sight.

    • Feel the tone

    I have definitely become more toned since I started doing cryo. I actually don’t like weighing myself and rarely hop on a scale. I find that the more I track my weight, the more I stress eat. So I stopped weighing myself decades ago but instead use how my favorite pair of jeans fit as my measuring tool. My clothes do fit better when I do cryo.

    • Feel the youth

    Cryo has definitely helped my skin look and feel better. It’s more youthful and “springy”.

    • Feel the heal

    Cryo does help accelerate healing of wounds and does decrease pain. I ended up bruising my leg and within 2 days the bruise had disappeared along with the pain. So, if you have a specific injury or surgery, cryo could help.

    • Feel anti-inflammatory benefits 

    For two years I was a hot inflamed mess. Rashes, hives, irritability and more. All that went away after I followed my own healing protocol. However, my CRP levels stayed around 2.5 mg/L, which are considered on the edge of normal. After 90 days of cryo I had my CRP tested again and it was down to 1.2 mg/L! It did decrease this inflammation marker in my case.

    CRYO TIPS:
    1. Remove all metal, (that includes underwire bras, ladies) as you don’t want cold metal giving you freezer burns. I wear leggings and long-sleeved cotton t-shirt instead of shorts and short sleeve t-shirt as I prefer to protect my knees, legs, and elbows. Most men I see go in with no shirt and just a pair of shorts, not me! Don’t be a hero, find your comfort zone in the freezer.
    2. Eat about an hour before you go as you will feel less cold but it won’t impact temperature drop.
    3. It is best to do cryo by noon as the energy rush is insane and might keep you up half the night if you do a late session. Of course, not everyone experiences that rush, so you will have to test and track how you react to it.
    4. Pick a fun song that you love and dance away! Don’t stare at the attendant or count minutes, it’s much worse that way. The goal is to give your mind something fun to do other than trying to race out the door.
    5. You will freak out the first 3 to 4 times. Your heart will race, you’ll want to run out screaming, your teeth will chatter, and your mind will scream, “you idiot, what are you doing to me?”. Then something remarkable will happen, your body will get used to it and stay calm, even as your body temperature drops to below 40. Don’t give up, stay with it, if you are interested in seeing benefits.
    6. Drink something warming with cloves, cinnamon and spices to warm up your insides after your therapy. No, I do not recommend any caffeine after cryo. You’re already feeling a high, the last thing your body needs is more nerve stimulating acid. I would steer clear of caffeine the entire day so you can experience how your body reacts to cryo.
    WARNINGS:
    1. Try doing cryo after sauna for a one-two punch but not the other way round. It is not recommended to do cryo and then go into the sauna. 
    2. If you have any medical conditions, please check with your doctor before you try it. Cryo clearly has a noticeable impact on the body, so you want to make sure you’re strong enough to deal with heart rate rush and lowered body temperature. 
    3. If at any point you start to hyperventilate or feel you can’t breathe, come out, don’t be a hero. Try another day.

    I am grateful for all the amazing scientific studies that help us with deep insights but nothing replaces personal experience. If you are suffering from aches, pains, wounds, post-surgery issues etc., it’s worth trying cryo about three times to determine whether it’s for you or not. I have decided it’s definitely going to remain a part of my weekly health regimen for life.

    Ask me about my cryo or other biohacking experiences at www.HealCircles.org.  I’m always excited to hear from readers!

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  • Dr. Stephen Cabral shares his healing story

    Dr. Stephen Cabral shares his healing story

    By Dr. Cabral

    Dr. Stephen Cabral shares his healing story

    Each week we feature an inspiring story of healing. This week we are featuring Dr. Stephen Cabral, a Naturopathic doctor, who has written a great book

    “The Rain Barrel Effect: How a 6,000-Year-Old Answer Holds the Secret to Finally Getting Well, Losing Weight & Feeling Alive Again!” 

    Watch this video to learn more about his health crisis and how he reversed them all.

     

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  • Dr. Kahn’s Weekly Health Buzz: Keto diet, Lectins, Sexual libido and meds, fruit juices, the China Study, Prolon Fasting Mimicking Diet and more.

    Dr. Kahn’s Weekly Health Buzz: Keto diet, Lectins, Sexual libido and meds, fruit juices, the China Study, Prolon Fasting Mimicking Diet and more.

     

    Check out this week’s health report with leading Cardiologist Dr. Kahn on the great keto debate, lectins, libido, bacon, fasting, ProLon diet, fruit juices, pumpkins, keto and more! Each week he helps you figure out what health news to believe and which to blow away.

    #1 LECTINS, BEANS & HEART HEALTH
    #2 HOW TO UP YOUR LIBIDO AND SEXUAL PERFORMANCE?
    #3 FRUIT JUICE – WHY THE BAD RAP?
    #4 WHAT’S UP WITH PUMPKIN?
    #5 IS BACON GOOD AGAIN?
    #6 HOW NOT TO HAVE BERNIE SANDER’S HEART DRAMA
    #7 THE GREAT KETO DEBATE
    #8 PROLON AND FASTING MIMICKING DIET

    Dr. Joel Kahn is a founder of the Kahn Center for Cardiac Longevity in Michigan and the owner of GreenSpace Cafe. He is a Summa Cum Laude graduate of the University of Michigan School of Medicine and Clinical Professor of Medicine at the Wayne State University of Michigan. He specialty is the prevention and reversal of heart disease (heart attacks, stroke) using lifestyle therapies. He is the author of over 150 scientific articles, hundreds of health articles, and 5 books. His first book is a national public TV special, Your Whole Heart Solution. His latest book is a #1 Amazon seller, The Plant-Based Solution.

     

     

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  • How Juicing and Weight Loss Supplements Made Me Sick

    How Juicing and Weight Loss Supplements Made Me Sick

    By Kevin Pereau

    Juicing made me lose weight but…

    Weight loss pills made me lose weight but…

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  • 5 Crazy Things Intermittent Fasting Did to Me (and how I got through them!)

    5 Crazy Things Intermittent Fasting Did to Me (and how I got through them!)

    By Reena A Jadhav

    I love snacking! Grazing all day on nuts, Ferraro Rocher, Nutella, cookies dipped in tea …give me little sweet treats (like a child) all day long and I’m blissed out.

    Well, then this happened.

    In 2017, I almost ended up dying, 28 symptoms attacking me daily, and had to figure out an exit strategy from the grave.

    After a mini PhD in healing, I decided to embark on intermittent fasting with 2 large meals and herbal tea the rest of the day.

    I wanted the promised land of reduced inflammation, gut healing, mitochondrial recovery, organ rejuvenation, mental clarity, sleep through the night and beating away of sugar cravings.

    I could almost envision the new me through the shimmering mirage, all healed and rash free. No more swollen fingers like stumps or big hives on my cheeks. No more funky black lines on my palms or bathroom runs 10 times a day!

    I was so ready to get my life back. To heal.

    So I deeply thought through which day to commence my march to super health (I didn’t want vacations or parties to interrupt my carefully crafted design back to health). March 1 seemed like a great day for new beginnings.

    So it was that on March 1, 2017, I began an intermittent fast (IF) that would take me through an adventurous rocky road of recovery. A topsy-turvy roller coaster …did I mention hate scary rides?

    Here are the 5 crazy things I wish someone had told me when I first started! Why? Because any challenge can only be won with preparation. You can’t go into a battlefield without a plan and resources. Knowing where the mines are will get you to the end goal of not eating for 14 to 18 hours. I stumbled around for months before getting into the rhythm of a dinner by 7 pm and lunch at 12 pm. Here’s how I did it!

    5 crazy things about intermittant fasting no one tells you (and how to get through them!)

    So here are my top tips for ‘body maintenance’ and to your body thriving!

    1. Cravings -this fasting is NOT helping!
      They tell you IF kills cravings. What they don’t tell you is that fasting first pumps up the cravings and only if you defeat the dragon do they go away. My first week of IM was actually not so bad the second week of not eating after 7 pm brought out the sugar beast in me like never before. I would wake up with the strangest cravings for Baked Alaska and Chocolate Halwa, delicacies I had not devoured in decades. I got worried I was pregnant! My family freaked out and there were many times when my husband would restrain me while my daughter quickly grabbed the cookie box/chocolate bag/ice-cream carton out of my hands and hid it or threw it away. It got very ugly. It turns out the hormone ghrelin is the troublemaker here. When you start any kind of fasting it rises and rises and rises, creating that sense of desperate hunger. But it soon settles down into the new norm. To get through the rough few weeks of my battle with ghrelin I adopted the “honey on tongue” trick- I would put a dab of raw organic honey on my tongue and savor it till the desire to eat an entire cake would vanish. Another trick that worked was herbal cinnamon tulsi tea with monk fruit sweetener. So get ready to find your “honey on tongue” trick that will get you through the ghrelin spikes.
    2. Binges – food frenzy coming on!
      Apparently, IM should shrink our stomachs so we eat less. Clearly, my stomach didn’t get that WhatsApp alert. Till today, my daughter is horrified at how much I eat at, what I call, “feeding time”. Ever gone to a zoo and watched animal feeding? See how all the animals get so excited and eat voraciously, without stopping to breathe, until all the food is gone? That’s the new me. At 12 pm sharp I eat everything in sight. I always ate like a bird, according to my family. Now I eat like an elephant. It’s almost like my body knows there’s no food coming for 14+ hours and its time to hoard. The first few weeks I would eat less and be starving within an hour. My digestive juices were trained to wake up every hour on the hour due to my grazing habits. They were so confused when no little snack would show up. They would go nuts, demanding something to digest. It was quite an exercise in willpower! Which I really didn’t have much of those first few months- I was constantly in the pantry eye worshiping what I would eat at the next meal. It was quite comical for my family to watch, as they tell me. Then I got smart and started overeating and adding heavier proteins that would take longer to digest. Another great addition was psyllium husk that bulked up the meal. It took almost a month to retrain my digestion to only wake up at 12 pm and 5 pm but it eventually worked!But I still eat for about 1.5 hour each meal in quantity and variety that continues to horrify my 14-year-old!
    3. Chirpings – wake up at 4:30 am!
      I’ve never been a morning person, I love hitting snooze, snuggling in deeper and getting just a “few more minutes” of sleep. IF killed that indulgence, fast! Within 3 weeks I would wake up at 4:30 am like an alarm, without an alarm, and be wired without caffeine or sugar. I would try to get back in the dream state only to have my mind fully awake and ready to rock and roll. Something truly magical happened to bring my body into a balance that it hadn’t had since my middle school days. I had so much energy that I would go for a run and come back singing ready to get to work! No caffeine or banana chocolate chip muffin needed.With my dinner ending by 7 PM, I learned the trick that if I went to bed by 10 PM I would miss the hunger cycle. But if I was up at 11 PM I was back in the pantry starving and binging. So I changed my night owl routine just to stop myself from raiding the pantry. This one small change, I believe, kickstarted my tsunami of healing. It turns out that our body is naturally designed to wake up at dawn but in order for it do that it needs to work through the complex clean up and rejuvenation cycle. Which requires us to be in bed by 10 PM. Ayurveda also recommends finishing dinner 4 hours before sleep time to allow the body to focus on rejuvenation instead of digestion at night. So, if you want to sail through your IF transition then schedule bedtime at 10 PM and you’ll see amazing results!
    4. Feelings – anger, sadness, fatigue, cold, hot
      I’ve always been an even-keeled, low key, stable emotions kinda woman. No throwing things or wanting to ram into cars on the road. That all changed with IF. The first month I felt a gamut of emotions I had never experienced before. From road rage to sobbing for brownies…from freezing to melting …it was all very confusing. And painful enough to make me want to give it all up. My body was fighting the change with all its might. There’s science that supports emotional healing as the body heals, which means lots of deep down hurt wells up and then disappears.My family was fighting the change with all their might. They just wanted the old “Mom and Wife” back; this new one was a firecracker. The cause of all this mayhem? A combination of low blood sugar, blood flowing to fat stores, dehydration, hangry hormones and more. It was all very touch and go for a while. But I’m not known to give up, no matter how tough the climb. So I persisted with constant deep breathing and meditations. Something called Tranquil Mind herbal helped tremendously. So did baking, not working out and cutting down my commitments.  Recently, I interviewed Susan of Brightline Eating on my HEALTHIER podcast and she shared the science behind willpower as well as recommending not working out during fasts and transitions. So if you’re going to embark on a successful IF protocol long term, skip the exhausting gym visits and slow down your pace the first few weeks or months…or till your body settles into the new rhythm.
    5. Rumblings – shouldn’t my digestion be better?
      I remember the first week facing off with the loud sounds my belly made all the way from 8 am till 12 pm. Until I fed it, it made a fuss like a child!I hoped it was just a few days of drama but it lasted several weeks. Annoying and a little embarrasing frankly.My digestive reset took close to a month and gave me everything from bloating to constipation, both known side effects of IF.  Constipation I resolved through psyllium husk which also kept me bulked up between long meal breaks. Funky cramping tummy I fixed through herbal mint and tulsi teas. So there you have it! You have been informed of the perils that lie ahead in your journey to an IF lifestyle as well as simple tips remedies. Overall the benefits outweigh the drama and justify the upheavel this change inevitably brings with it. But …IF not for everyone and certainly not forever. So, 3 to 4 days a week I tell my body when to eat and the rest of the days I listen to what it wants! For me, its become a happy celebration of health and indulgence. How about you? I would love to hear your IF stories, so do share with me on social media or in comments below!

    Finally, get the MTFHR test done to determine if your liver could use additional support.

    If you already have a chronic illness, prioritizing detoxing is critical. Our body cannot restore and rebuild if it’s fighting off invaders. What’s amazing is that the moment your body is free of toxins it literally blossoms! Your energy will go through the roof, your skin will glow, you’ll see better, you’ll smile more, you’ll poop at least twice a day effortlessly. (Yep, you wanted to know about the pooping, right?)

    More importantly, you’ll know you are on the path to being disease free!

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  • Diet for Health

    Diet for Health

    This is Step 6 of the article I wrote, 7 Step New Health Pyramid, which you can read on this Page >>

    By Reena A Jadhav

    We truly live in the best of times – and the worst of times.

    We have never had so much abundance and variety available. Mounds of delicious, addictive, affordable foods from all over the world are tempting us 24/7/365.

    But the price of this abundance and excess is, guess what? Obesity and chronic disease.

    Think about how the animal kingdom eats – horses eat hay, birds eat seeds, bees eat pollen. You don’t see bees chomping down hay or horses licking pollen off flowers. They instinctively know what their bodies need and are happy eating just those foods. (Have you ever seen an obese bee?)

    We have the same innate intelligence… however, we also have a problem: a brain that fears starvation and wants us to stock up. Our brain also loves dopamine rushes which – unfortunately – food provides in abundance. This creates a deadly combination of addiction and overindulgence (for me it was sugar, chocolate, flour, and butter).

    Living in our world of rich Starbucks aromas and cheap Krispy Kreme donuts we are all paying a heavy price for overindulgence.

    So you need to ask yourself, “is this food my fuel – or my funeral?”

    And there’s a bigger, hidden issue. (Yes, another problem.) We don’t know what’s healthy and what isn’t. Do we?

    One day coconut oil is good for you, another day it isn’t. Yesterday eggs were causing cholesterol but today they don’t. It’s enough to make us all throw up our hands in confusion as the so-called “experts” change their minds.

    Fake health news is everywhere. Companies fund studies (with top researchers of course) to support the “health” benefits of their poisonous products. Greed has beaten integrity and it’s impossible to know the real truth around research any more. No, a glass of wine daily is not healthy (not that you want to hear that!).

    And then there are the thousands of additives, chemicals, and GMOs, plus of course glyphosate, which all lace supposedly healthy foods with poison. It’s like having an evil stepmother at every store, feeding us their poisoned apples with a smile. Berries may seem like manna from heaven – but only if they don’t come gift wrapped in glyphosate which will obliterate your microbiome and create disease.

    False advertising is rampant, tricking us into thinking we are eating healthy. There is nothing natural about “natural flavors”. Packages have big bold words about health – and tiny print that reveals toxic chemicals (like carrageenan). Eating healthy can feel like a lot of hard work.

    Foods created in a lab – designed to be addictive – are everywhere. Addictions drive so many of our daily food habits. From that morning Starbucks run to the packets of chips you just can’t put down, we don’t stand a chance against all this masterful manipulation!

    As if that’s not enough, we’re not all the same. One person’s medicine is another person’s poison. An apple a day may keep the doctor away for you but it creates inflammation for me (fact – per my FIT test). Our bodies actually tell us quite clearly when something doesn’t agree with them, but we’ve lost touch and no longer listen to their whispers. At least, not until they start screaming out loud – and then we take pills that we’ve confused with “cures”.

    Eating out of season is yet another confusing experience for your body. Our physiological needs change with the seasons – yet we eat exactly the same all year round. We fly in blueberries from Mexico and lychees from China. We eat pumpkin in summer and plums in winter. Worse, we eat complex, heavy, hard to digest meals as the norm rather than the exception as they are so easy to procure. What would have taken half a day to cook (and hence only cooked weekly or monthly) is now available any time, anywhere.

    Take a moment to read those points again. Then pause to consider this: your right to healthy food has actually been taken away from you.

    If you want to eat to create health, you are going to have to break out of your current state of acceptance and trust. How many of these dangerous beliefs do you have?

    • Believing that all fruits and vegetables in the grocery store are equally healthy (they are not, buyer beware!).
    • Believing that the newest fad diet (right now it’s Keto) must be the cure-all because so many famous people are touting it. (It never is – just yet another marketing ploy to sell more of something.)
    • Believing the claims of the labels on your food (no, you can’t trust them – you need to read the fine print and ingredients list).
    • Believing that manufacturers have your best interest at heart (of course not – they care about their profits and bonuses way more than your health).
    • Believing that your doctor knows about nutrition and has the answers to everything (there are still MDs out there saying that nutrition has nothing to do with cancer).

    Are you wondering if I’m a conspiracy theorist who made all this up? Let me assure you that what I’m sharing was distilled from the 75 interviews I conducted with renowned MDs on the Healthier Podcast. From Dr. Mark Hyman to Dr. Zach Bush to Dr. Joseph Mercola, these doctors are all desperately trying to get this message out: buyer beware of your food choices today!

    If you are overwhelmed with what to do next, here’s my very simple plan that I started following two and a half years ago. I completely reversed all my symptoms (28, remember!) and experienced food as medicine first hand. Ok, ready to eat to heal? Here’s how you do it!

    1. Get Personal
      Figure out which foods are medicine – or poison – for your body. (It doesn’t matter what works for anyone else!) The shortcut for this is food sensitivity tests. I’ve done Viome, FIT, ALCAT and the common insurance covered food allergy test. The harder way is to keep a food diary and start with an elimination diet. Then as you add food items back in, see which ones make you lethargic and tired or symptomatic (gas, bloating, rashes, headaches). Exclude those completely.
    2. Buy Quality
      Eat only what’s grown organically, locally and in season, at least five days a week. There are wonderful local farmers’ markets in each town and that’s a Saturday morning date I never break. Once you start eating local produce you’ll never go back to packaged grocery store produce – it just doesn’t taste the same, not even the organic produce. It’s harvested too early, coated with wax and has been sitting around for a month before you buy it. Freshly plucked vine-ripened foods have a whole different taste and texture that you will crave once you try them. (This is a healthy craving!)
    3. Cut the Packages
      Eat less than 10% of your daily food out of a package. If it’s bought in a package it’s been processed. If it’s processed it’s not creating health. See how long lettuce lasts when not packaged vs packaged. There is something that’s added to packaged organic foods that makes them last so much longer. Because adding chemicals, that sounds like a great idea, right? And I’m not putting that inside me if I have an option.
    4. Cut Down
      Eat less. Give your body 4 to 6 hours of breaks in between eating meal. Time to process your food. To clean out the junk. To take some rest and recover. Overeating is an epidemic – portion sizes in America are out of control. Restaurants have been using larger portions to attract more customers and the outcome has been obesity and addiction. No one needs a venti latte or a “supersize” meal. We are not exactly running marathons daily. (More likely sitting in the car or on the couch.)
    5. Get Fasting
      Fast one day a week to help your body “reset” itself. Traditionally, most cultures used some kind of fasting. Now we all seem to be eating non-stop! But science now supports intermittent fasting as a path to longevity. Really, we shouldn’t need science to tell us that eating less (but high quality) food will make us live longer! It’s common sense – which we have all but given up on (preferring to worship at the altar of research, letting some ‘expert’ tell us what to think).
    6. Go Simple
      Eat simpler meals. Don’t combine too many different foods in one meal – instead, eat larger quantities of fewer types of food. Make it easier for your body to digest what you’re eating and you’ll feel a surge of energy after meals instead of looking for a pillow.
    7. Go Raw and Natural
      Try to eat half your meal as raw salads and fruits which have structured water to charge you up. In winter eat more warming soups, in summer more salads.
    8. Read, Read, Read
      If you’re going to buy packaged food, read the ingredients list first. If you can’t pronounce it, or it sounds like a chemical, take a breath – and put the package back. It takes a little getting used to but then it becomes a habit. My 13 year old doesn’t buy anything without first reading the label. Now we’re so efficient that in an instant she knows whether to even read the label or not – she just looks at the number of ingredients and puts it back on the shelf!

    Your diet should be a priority, not an afterthought. What you eat creates your reality. Your joy – or misery – is linked to your food. So why not eat to LIVE – to create a longer happier healthier life?

    It’s worth the time and money.

    You’re worth it!

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  • Detox for Health

    Detox for Health

    This is Step 6 of the article I wrote, 7 Step New Health Pyramid, which you can read on this Page >>

    By Reena A Jadhav

    Every second that we are alive we are being (in)toxicated! Think about it: we’re living in a toxic soup of chemicals. In our food, in the air, in the stuff we touch and even in what we hear, see and feel. When you suddenly want to accelerate and ram into the car in front, that’s a toxic thought that creates a cascade of chemical reactions.

    The simple math for health is this: what goes in must come out. Our bodies are giant processors that take stuff in, suck out the nutrients we need, and throw out what’s harmful or unwanted. Your body is a brilliant self-cleaning machine (like some kind of super robot – only, you know, wetter) with a whole system of outputs – sweat, breath, urine, and poop. Most of our critical organs such as the liver, kidneys, lungs, lymph, skin, and the digestive system passionately scrub and squirt and clean all day long.

    Even the trillions of bacteria in the gut have the fun job of gobbling up whatever comes hurtling down the tube and digesting it into a waste matter that gets pooped out.

    Without such efficient cleaning, we would be a large stinky swamp! And sometimes we are…

    From bad breath to smelly gas, sour sweat, and weird growths, we have all experienced bouts of toxicity without realizing that’s what it is.

    Trouble really begins when crap starts to build up. And up. And up.

    And what goes in sometimes, somehow gets stuck. (Lovely!)

    This trouble is called toxicity and it’s the root cause of chronic illness and most disease according to Ayurveda (an ancient science of health from India). Ayurveda calls this toxicity Ama and recommends a serious 7-day program called Panchakarma to rid the body of toxicity from all layers.

    All layers?

    Yes, toxicity builds layer by layer. Initially, the toxins sit superficially ‘on the surface’ (a bit like a coat of paint) but with time, the toxins move into organs and then cells, disrupting normal cellular function and creating havoc. Like a car engine can’t function with residue, nor can your body function with toxins circulating all over.

    I had colon cancer at 35 years and an autoimmune crisis at 45 years – yes, that was my party of 28 symptoms. After months of research, I was able to self-diagnose myself with the MTHFR gene mutation (which afflicts a significant number of Asians) which makes it hard for the liver to do its job. When the liver is backed up you end up basically dying, little bit by little bit. That was me, with my deluge of symptoms coming from auto-intoxication and a gut that no longer digested anything properly. I had SIBO (small intestinal bacterial overgrowth – sounds delightful, right?) and gut dysbiosis adding to my toxic overload. My sugar addiction didn’t help. It took me 15 months to clean out the toxins that had been layering on for decades.

    But I had asked my doctors on multiple visits about my mild annoying symptoms from indigestion to bloating to fatigue – only to be told to take some Tums and get more sleep. This drives me crazy. Guess what? There’s no test for toxicity. MDs are NOT trained to notice the subtle signs of toxicity that don’t show up on regular tests. These can be addressed pretty easily with minor changes and regular maintenance. (Yes, like a car.) In fact, I have begun writing an anthology called Deceived: what you don’t know and your Doctor isn’t telling you to reveal more such information and actionable tips from World’s leading doctors.

    12 TIPS TO KEEP TOXINS OUT

    So here are my top tips for ‘body maintenance’ and to your body thriving!

    1. Got Gas?
      If your guts are gurgling at you, or you’re bloated like a balloon, it might sound funny but take it seriously. It’s creating the worst kind of toxicity that causes disease. Find the root cause and fix it! The root cause could be food intolerance (you can get tested for that), low stomach acid (take a supplement with each meal), stress (don’t eat while working), low enzymes (you can take a supplement for this with your meals too), overeating (eat smaller portions), SIBO or Candida, and fix your Leaky Gut with Restore.
    2. Take Time…
      To keep your body’s cleaning mechanisms working, eat your meals at least 4 hours apart. Don’t snack as that interrupts the complex digestive process kicked off when you eat a meal. Don’t eat after 7 pm or 8 pm latest, as your body’s overall cleaning is done at night and if there’s food to be digested that process stops.
    3. … and Take a Break
      Fasting once a week is a cultural tradition that makes a lot of sense to me now! It’s the quickest way to cleaning out any crap and giving your body a day off to recover. Intermittent fasting of 16 hours daily is also a proven way to address everything from obesity to diabetes.
    4. Boost Your Body
      Dry brushing your entire body and then oiling it before hopping in the shower will transform your daily ritual into a cleansing one. A weekly bath with Epsom salts or dead sea salts is another great way to pull out toxins sitting close to the skin.
    5. Heat it Up
      Sauna is my fun way to detox! Your skin is your largest organ for cleansing, so take advantage of it. Even the ancient Romans did it religiously. Join a gym or buy one for your home. A weekly sauna can be the easiest way to pull out toxins hanging out in fat cells and tissues.
    6. Breathe, Baby
      Deep breathing first thing in the morning or Zach Bush’s Nitric Oxide Dump workout are simple ways to push out toxins via the lungs. Most of us are shallow breathers and the culprits are technology and stress. You have to train yourself to take slow, deep rejuvenating breaths all day long. In fact, one of the reasons we yawn while sitting for long periods is carbon dioxide build up. So mindfully breathing correctly all day is another simple way to keep your body humming.
    7. Touch It…
      Massages are another fun way to get the circulation system working correctly and get the toxins out.
    8. …Move It!
      Our lymph system is the only design that’s a bit flawed (in case God is accepting input on Human 2.0). It doesn’t work without movement. Trampoline is a great way to get all the toxins stuck in our lymph moving out of our body. A lymphatic massage is another fun way to deal with the sludge.
    9. Sponge It, Baby
      There are some great food options such as Chlorella, Spirulina, and cilantro that literally pull out toxins from our gut. Supplements such as milk thistle and magnesium can also be critical to supporting the body’s detox efforts.
    10. Are What You Eat
      Imagine trying to clean your home without a powerful vacuum… yup, total nightmare! Cleaning our body can be so much simpler with nature powered vacuum, which comes in the form of fresh herbs, fruits, and vegetables. Add a couple of these daily to have a spotless interior: Lemon/Lime, Broccoli Sprouts, Spirulina, Chlorella, Alfalfa, Wheatgrass, Kale, Olive Oil, Brussel Sprouts, Sauerkraut, Ginger, Turmeric, Coriander, and Fennel. Or take a shortcut and try this Detox tea!
    11. Switch Off
      Do a digital detox daily or weekly – or at least monthly. Shut down all notifications and schedule a short time interval to check and respond to messages. Turn off all technology an hour prior to bedtime and don’t touch your tech in the morning until after (healthy) breakfast.
    12. Switch Out
      Do an emotional detox where you identify people that trigger you negatively and disconnect from them for a day or a week. Give your emotions a break from negativity and schedule time to build positive emotions through gratitude journaling or watching cat videos (or whatever makes you giggle!).

    Finally, get the MTFHR test done to determine if your liver could use additional support.

    If you already have a chronic illness, prioritizing detoxing is critical. Our body cannot restore and rebuild if it’s fighting off invaders. What’s amazing is that the moment your body is free of toxins it literally blossoms! Your energy will go through the roof, your skin will glow, you’ll see better, you’ll smile more, you’ll poop at least twice a day effortlessly. (Yep, you wanted to know about the pooping, right?)

    More importantly, you’ll know you are on the path to being disease free!

    If you need help, we’re are always here with a Health Program for you!

    Click here to read my next post Step #7: DIET>>

     

     

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  • Book Summary “Bright Line Eating” By Susan Peirce Thompson, Ph.D.

    Book Summary “Bright Line Eating” By Susan Peirce Thompson, Ph.D.

     

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    Susan Peirce Thompson, Ph.D. is a New York Times bestselling author, an Adjunct Associate Professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at the University of Rochester, and an expert in the psychology of eating. She is President of the Institute for Sustainable Weight Loss and the Founder and CEO of Bright Line Eating Solutions, a company dedicated to helping people achieve the health and vibrancy that accompany permanent weight loss. Her program utilizes cutting-edge research to explain how the brain blocks to weight loss and every day she teaches people how to undo that damage so they can live Happy, Thin, and Free.

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  • How to Eat Out Yet Lose Weight?

    How to Eat Out Yet Lose Weight?

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    Liliana Partida has been in the health and fitness industry for over 25 years. She began her career early in life with a focus in fitness and sports, and in the track and field category, won the 400 meter run California State Championship in 1978. These formative years contributed to her future academic and professional pursuits in the healthy lifestyle and fitness industries.

    After graduating with a major in physical education and a minor in psychology at Yuba College, she developed and co-owned one of the most successful all women’s health clubs in San Rafael, California followed with a similar project in Los Angeles before pursuing international opportunities in fitness and health club developments. Certified by the Aerobics and Fitness Association of America, American Council on Exercise, and the Institute of Aerobic Research, she has been active in training development programs for fitness instructors throughout the United States. Lectures and guest speaking programs on nutrition and weight loss have been presented in the United States, Mexico, Spain, Switzerland, Indonesia, Singapore, and Malaysia. As Staff Nutritionist at Center For New Medicine, she presents on-going educational programs on Nutrition, Metabolic Syndrome, Weight Loss, Diabetes and Cancer.

    With over 25 years of professional experience, continuing education, and advanced certifications, I have developed a total body, anti-aging, disease prevention, and optimal health program designed to empower participants to improve their overall immune system, health and appearance. Integrating leading research, advanced diagnostic technologies with science based nutritional guidelines; it is pleasure to share this body of work with individuals seeking a nutrition program that will contribute to a lifetime of good health.

    Education and Certifications

    Ms. Partida is certified in Nutritional Microscopy, Clinical Nutrition, Advanced Bio Energetic Testing, Kinesiology, and Destination Coaching and is continually involved with on-going research in nutrition and diagnostic technologies. She has also completed courses in weight loss resistance, detoxification, stress management, age management, functional blood chemistry, homeopathy, Reiki, tai chi, and meditation.

    • Graduated from Yuba College, California in 1973
    • Certified Aerobic and exercise specialist from Institute of Aerobic Research, Dallas, Texas
    • Certified Personal Trainer with ACE, the American Council on Exercise
    • Certified Kick-boxing Instructor AFAA, Aerobics and Fitness Association of America
    • Certified Nutritional Microscopist with Plan It Health, San Diego, California
    • Certified Nutritionist – Institute of Healing Arts, Encinitas, California
    • Certified Bio-Meridian and Advanced Bio-Energetic Specialist, Biomeridian International, Utah
    • Certified Meditation and Stress Management – Brahma Kumars Association, Seal Beach, California
    • Destination Coaching, Telos Center, Yorba Linda, California

    TRANSCRIPT:

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    [00:01] REENA JADHAV: Hey everyone its Reena Jadhav with the health bootcamps and the live longer podcast and today we have Liliana Partida who is amazing and who’s going to tell us how you can stick to the weight loss bootcamp meal plan and still eat out which is so important otherwise these things just fall apart. Liliana what’s the trick how do we stay true to ourselves to the new menu that we’re working on and yet go out and hang out with friends?

    [00:28] LILIANA PARTIDA: Well you know that’s a really great question and one of the things that I’m a really a firm believer of is that we don’t want to give up labor, ritual or social when it comes to a lifestyle plan because really those things make us very happy. And we’re happy we actually lose weight a lot better as well but navigating a restaurant can be challenging especially when you’re with people really who are all in the same protocol that you are following. And so I always tell everyone to really call ahead of the time look on the internet what do they have that’s on that menu so that you’re not stumbling when you’re reading the menu and people are paying attention to what’s going on with her why she taking so long and so forth. And navigate that menu before you go and because there’s always going to be a protein whether it’s going to be fish chicken or turkey that you can order and then there’s always going to be vegetables and salad. Now naturally when most of these mostly at times they going to ask you if you want to have either rice or potatoes or some sort of a starch and all you just do is say I’d love to just have extra vegetables can you just leave out the starchy carbohydrate. And I think pretty much most restaurants because most women are a little concerned about their waistline; so I tell patients don’t be afraid to speak up okay, at the same time we don’t want to put limitations on those people that are around us as well. So when the bread basket comes that’s very tempting now one of two things is you can just if they’re all into the same protocol as you just tell the waiter when it comes you know don’t waste it we’re not going to be eating that bread. So if it’s just you and your husband going out or family member makes it really easy when you’re when you’re with other people you have to be mindful, you have to recognize why am I doing what I am doing right. And so course sight-seeing we always get cravings but a lot of times what I do is I just take the bread and I sniff it right and I just get all those endorsements to my brain and it sounds like I tap on something I really want that food. Well I could give all the sensation without really having to eat that and so again we wanted to make sure we navigate the menu prior to going and a lot of times too is maybe you’re going to an event at a restaurant and it’s all pre-planned or it’s an official event. So I always say be on the safe side and make sure you have your approaching check before you go and just don’t have any carbohydrates just protein powdered almond milk and a little bit of fiber so you’re already three-quarters of the way full. And so that will make you not want to be indulging in things because you’re starving and it’s only pasta, lasagna, and things like that that they’re offering. And so again there’s always usually going to be a salad that you can have so that you can be full so either know that you are going to an event that potentially you not going to have what you want; so eat a little something before you go and think of protein take it because it’s really simple, it’s not heavy and it’s something that is easy and you don’t have to spend too much time in the kitchen. And so that we can always ask for substitutes and if you grill, if you boil and you bake those are going to be poaching is always going to be good. Don’t order anything that’s battered because that’s going to have gluten flour on it we don’t want anything that’s fried we are going to have Franken-stat our bodies won’t know what to do with those fats right. Stick them up against your atria wall and so again watch for sauces. So I would stick with the fat sauce off like a Bernese sauce rather than something that’s going to have a lot of ketchup or sweet sauces or things that are kind of oriental dishes have a lot of sugar in them. And so I always say you know, better to kind of avoid those sweet sauces or those salads that are like the Chinese chicken salad because they are going to have noodles and sugars in them as well. So again oftentimes I just even ask for a little bit of olive oil and vinegar and I use that as a dressing so that I know that I’m not going to be exposed to any food sensitivities that could also cause water retention as well.

    [04:32] REENA JADHAV: Those dressings can be upwards of 500-600 calories just in the dressing and so such a good point where you don’t keep even if you get a salad to ask for dressing on the side where you can take a tablespoon and douse your salad in it instead of what they do where there might be a half a cup of dressing in just a little salad. Your salad has now suddenly more calories than if you had a burger for example.

    [04:57] LILIANA PARTIDA: Right exactly and again we’re going to be talking about fat, in fact, does it make you fat but the Franken fats or the bad fat they will definitely because your body does not know how to use them. So to be on the safe side order an oil and vinegar red rather than a creamy ranch or a thousand islands or balsamic because those are going to be more sugar and you don’t know what might be in those that may cause you a little bit of water retention.

    [05:26] REENA JADHAV: You know the other thing, Liliana, that I did it because I was as you know on a fifteen months meal plan and that’s hard to do that’s pretty long. In order to get my health back and I got completely healthy but it was extremely hard and early on what I did is I just didn’t go out because it was just too tempting and I knew I didn’t have the willpower and I had huge cravings. And for this, we are going to talk about cravings on the next video so everyone out there interested in how to handle your cravings makes sure you watch that one. But I’m so I knew I didn’t have the willpower if I went out and we’re going to have brownie sundae I was going to get into that brownie sundae with my family. So within about three months or so I think I was able to just completely re-architect my taste buds and my body was very used to getting extremely healthy foods so my cravings were not as intense. But one of the things that I started doing is actually taking my food with me because even when I would go I would just worried because I had been so sick I would worry that even if they’re saying that its poster baked there’s no gluten what if there is because it’s a restaurant. We don’t know what kind of what… whether they’re putting in the thing that they’re basting something on poaching. I even actually take my own food with me.

    [06:40] LILIANA PARTIDA: And I’ve been known to do that myself as well.

    [06:43] REENA JADHAV: Yeah and you know what the restaurants were very accommodating. So I would call in advance and say look I’m on this very special diet you mind if I bring my own food and would you mind plating it for me. And I’d say eighty percent of the restaurants said yes including the very high-end ones and so what I would do that take my food I would give it to the server and they would bring it, plate it with everybody else foods. So it wasn’t like I was taking out my Tupperware although I’ve been known to do that too and I would make sure that I had made a yummy meal for myself. So there was a nice wild Atlantic salmon with a salad etcetera so my meal didn’t look dramatically different from everybody else’s meal but I knew exactly what was in that meal. So that’s the other thing that I would share with you as Liliana you have said in your earlier interview be a vocal stand for yourself, stand for your health. Don’t be shy, don’t be embarrassed, don’t worry about what the restaurants are going to say take a little extra. So that’s what I started doing I just started taking a little more knowing that because I hadn’t eaten an order. The total bill was last but I would tip as if I had ordered as well so that makes up to the server in terms of the fact that hey it’s third or half of the folks in this room didn’t order anything but yeah mate that’s another option that worked great for me. And that yes I was able to go out on Friday night and Saturday night and be completely gluten-free.

    [08:07] LILIANA PARTIDA: Excellent now it’s very important to be mindful and when we’re realizing that we’re doing this for the long haul we learn how to adjust and we don’t have too much emotional breakdown about it especially in the next video we talk about cravings and the symptoms that we have. We start realizing we eat these foods that are really not aren’t our highest interests what happens we don’t feel good right.

    [08:30] REENA JADHAV: Exactly and we are also picking the right restaurant don’t go to Thai food, don’t go to Chinese it’s very difficult. It’s going to be impossible to your point even their salad is Chinese chicken salad which as we all know is very delicious and very sweet, fried noodles it and so other options. Liliana thank you so much and for everyone else out there make sure you tune into the next one on cravings and we hope we’re going to see you on the weight loss bootcamp brought to you by Liliana Partida.

     

     

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