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It All Adds Up!
Ever wondered how your work habits, nutritional intake, or even your standing and sitting postures could be affecting your health? Our deep dive into the subtle complexities of aging will provide you with a whole new perspective. Together with Marie and Jocelyn, we bring you the inside scoop on how to age gracefully by listening to your body and making wise health decisions. We also explore the role of nutrition and underline the importance of a diet that suits you, rather than chasing after the latest fad diets.
For More Information visit awakenedwellness.life or marieknoetig.com
Ever wondered how your work habits, nutritional intake, or even your standing and sitting postures could be affecting your health? Our deep dive into the subtle complexities of aging will provide you with a whole new perspective. Together with Marie and Jocelyn, we bring you the inside scoop on how to age gracefully by listening to your body and making wise health decisions. We also explore the role of nutrition and underline the importance of a diet that suits you, rather than chasing after the latest fad diets.
For More Information visit awakenedwellness.life or marieknoetig.com
Good afternoon and welcome to your health, your future, your choice. My co-host, ms Maria, is here to educate us to open our minds, to give us the tools to make decisions about ourselves, to not always be running around making an emotional decision totally trusting someone that you really don't know a lot about, but it's the easier thing to do. So today's show is it All Adds Up.
Speaker 2:I love that title.
Speaker 1:It all adds up Ooh the light goes on Talking about lifestyle, the work habits, your work habits, my work habits, the nutrition, wishful thinking. Don't we all do that? How to create balance in our chaotic world. The world is chaotic, but each one of us have another giant piece within that, so it's almost like we have concentric circles of stress and imbalance and almost on a mouse wheel and we don't know how to get off. We just keep running and running and running and hoping that answer is going to be there next. So talk to us about lifestyles and what is doing to us.
Speaker 2:Well, first we're going to recap.
Speaker 1:Oh, sorry, we need to recap. I keep forgetting that.
Speaker 2:So comments from previous shows and what people are thinking and learning, and telling you All right From the show Connecting From Within that was our last stuff they were shocked that they could feel their own energy. Oh yeah, that was pretty cool. That is really cool, but they can't seem to feel that there's a connection. Just because they can do this. How does that affect their health?
Speaker 1:Oh, that's a really good observation.
Speaker 2:I like that. Right, it doesn't make sense. So, as we get deeper into ourselves and we keep learning and we ask to see what we need to see, with that meditation on my website you'll start to get and then we'll start to do certain things along the way. But I do have stuff on my website to bring you more in line with that as well. But it really does all connect together because you can learn about yourself pretty deep and start running energy and using those lines of energy to heal your body.
Speaker 1:Again, listen and listen from within.
Speaker 2:Like I said, these aren't like I learned and I'm good. These are. People are processing. That's what we need.
Speaker 1:We need processing, and even once you've learned it, you're still evolving and learning more. It's not finite. You can never learn at all.
Speaker 2:You can never learn at all.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:The show from Methods or Madness. Methods or Madness. Okay, they seen them the cell flying into quick fixes and empty promises. Oh, now they're watching other people do it, so now they're preaching to them.
Speaker 1:I love it and any of these shows you can go back and find. We tell you the title so you can go back and watch that show again and it'll help.
Speaker 2:They realize when they're sitting there and their friend's talking about a diet, you know, and the friend's going what? Because they always jumped on the bandwagon.
Speaker 1:I want to know all about that. Let's go buy that, let's do this yeah.
Speaker 2:Feet first Fear-based medicine.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they're realizing it's not just medicine that's fear-based for them, Because now that they've looked at it from a medicine standpoint like we talked about in the last show everyday products, how our food is packaged, what they sleep on they're having a hard time enjoying life because now they only see the negative and not the positive and everything Right. That's easy Sometimes and a lot of people do it now yeah.
Speaker 1:It's like you said it's fear-porn everywhere.
Speaker 2:But you know, there's some reasoning for it, because we are killing our planet and we are doing things we shouldn't do that affect our health.
Speaker 2:But, that's where connecting inward and asking to see what you need to see every day. When you go to grab something that isn't good for you, you're gonna think twice about it. You don't have to fear everything around you. Correct, there's only certain parts of it. So the more you become in tune, you're gonna know better what you wanna put in your space or not, and what you wanna recycle or not, and those kinds of things. To do your part.
Speaker 1:What you wanna do, that you don't have to live and fear everything. Yeah, you can be conscious of and again make decisions, but don't flat out say no and run the other way. And it's hard. It's hard Cause some of the stuff out there is sounds really scary.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Cool. All right, those are great great recaps. Yeah, these are smart people.
Speaker 2:I mean really the fact that people are watching and listening is very cool.
Speaker 1:Well, they're waking up and they're not afraid to take a couple of side steps and say wait a minute, is that really for me? Is that person really helping me? And I think for the longest time? Oh, that's selfish. You have to do it for the greater good or you have to do it because it you know you don't wanna hurt somebody's feelings and that was coming into it. So I'm liking this very much that people are willing to listen and watch and not just kind of and willing to admit it.
Speaker 1:That's even bigger To say that is, I mean. What a giant step forward.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's why I love it.
Speaker 1:I love that you're making these differences. Awesome. Well, we are Okay, we are, we are. You're bringing it. You're teaching me too. I'm not. I'm learning a lot, it's like everybody else. I'm just maybe a couple of steps ahead of everybody else because I started with Marie before you guys did. So how do we get to it all adds up. I mean, this just sounds like okay. That's why we have nursing homes right.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's kind of like when we did the show on the blue zone, where those people don't need nursing homes. They legitimately don't have them in their communities and don't need them, and they don't have dementia and they don't have, you know, their bodies failing the ways ours are.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's a big deal. Yeah, those really wonderful places in the world that I kind of like to disappear to.
Speaker 2:Well, you could go there, but your habits are still Right.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you need to create it in your own space and in your own community.
Speaker 2:Plus once you go there, you're going to feel deprived and you're not going to it's. You have to grow in it, not walk into it. Walk into it. Good point, yeah, all right. So the first one I'm going to talk about is lifestyle Stress, exercise, computer time, self care, all of those things. So how often are you stressed and what does stress do to your body when you're stressed?
Speaker 2:Inflammation cortisol levels go up, you can get your body. You see some people that they're just always thin, no matter what their body is consuming itself because of how they internalize and do things. Exercise can that be detrimental? It can be balanced or you cannot do enough or you can do too much, too much. Right computer time. Again. You need it in your lives because that's the way society is. But some people don't do enough of it and are completely lost on what's going on in the world.
Speaker 1:And some people do too much, Do too much. Again, balance Balance yep, self care.
Speaker 2:People do not do enough of it in general.
Speaker 1:I think that's a pretty fair observation. They lose themselves in something else, so they don't have to take care of themselves, and then they're surprised when something goes wrong and they have to maybe change something.
Speaker 2:I had somebody say to me the other day that they love the yoga they're doing but it's hard to find the time and I go well, just do it at bedtime because you have time at the end of the day. No, I'm done at seven o'clock. I don't do anything after seven o'clock. I go. So when do you fit it in? She goes, I try to fit it in between nine and 10 or 11 and three on that day, and I'm like oh Lord, so there's stress right there, exactly.
Speaker 1:So how are you enjoying your yoga?
Speaker 2:And then I got to be done by this time and I got to yeah, and you're not present with your body because you're too stressed on your scheduling.
Speaker 1:You're just there. Okay, I got 15 minutes for yoga, let's go. Wow, that was relaxing and really so what?
Speaker 2:happens. Okay. As we age, these things add up. So ageing gracefully comes from being aware that these things are happening to you and then doing things to mitigate the damage, because when you're sitting here, your body's healing and repairing constantly, but if it's in a stressful state, it never does.
Speaker 1:Correct. That's kind of like eating at eight o'clock at night and you're really not sleeping and your body's not repairing. It's busy digesting and not doing what it's supposed to do.
Speaker 2:Right. So when do you build and repair? Age gracefully, If you're always in the breakdown state, when do you ever build and repair?
Speaker 1:Not so you're in constant injury.
Speaker 2:That's why people don't age well is because they never backtrack to see the damage they're doing and mitigate that to make sure their body's strong enough to repair the damage and heal its regular stuff on a daily basis.
Speaker 1:They're just continually adding. So if you just add You're continually adding and dysfunction Fixing and yeah.
Speaker 2:Never assessing, never thinking what can I do differently? Nothing.
Speaker 1:Interesting, yeah, interesting. I've noticed personally in my life with this last round of PT that I'm going through that. How I build and repair, age, gracefully, pick up items Something as simple as how do I pick it up. I've been compensating and actually causing another injury because I'm so worried about not hurting myself doing this, and so I've had to relearn and just be like okay, just take a minute, you don't have to be Superman, you don't have to rush it. So I mean, you're absolutely right, don't keep adding on insult to injury, as they say, and we do, okay.
Speaker 2:So let's look at what habits. If somebody sits at a desk all day, your lumbar is going like this Compressing, compressing.
Speaker 2:There's your digestion, your gait patterns, everything. Okay. You're just crushing your spine over time. If you get up every day and do core spine lengthening exercises, you'll go whatever it is. You can mitigate that damage and never get that compression. Five years go by and you've never mitigated the damage. You start to calcify and get arthritic in there. 10 years go by, 15 years go by. Now that stuff doesn't budge Right now you can't fix it.
Speaker 2:So I see the big quick fix. Everybody goes get an inversion table. They think because they're stretching their spine they're doing themselves favor. But if you don't strengthen the muscles around it they're still gonna just suck right back down Right, because it's all gonna be willy-willy-nilly. Those little muscles are supporting it Because it's a quick fix how you have to do it and lay on that for five minutes and then you're done.
Speaker 1:It makes your spine longer but it doesn't matter.
Speaker 2:You need muscles to hold it, it can help, yeah, you still have to be part of the process in C.
Speaker 2:So the more you connect inward to your body within, the more you can ask your body what you need. And you're gonna start finding those things and then you're gonna do them and you're gonna feel what's happening when you do them, versus just trying to find an answer. That just works enough that you can say I handled it. You don't wanna just say I handled it, you wanna know that you've handled it. You wanna be part of the handling.
Speaker 1:That sounds like an awful lot of honesty.
Speaker 2:Standing all day. I've seen people that work like at cash registers, things like that. So what happens is your legs get tired and as they're getting tired all day, you grab and turn whichever way you can. So now your knees are out of alignment, your ankles, your low lumbar, you got this side turn whatever it is.
Speaker 2:Well, if you don't go out and get a normal gait pattern after that, you're just gonna keep adding onto that If you don't strengthen after that. So the best thing you can do is know that that's happening to you all day. What do you need to add to your life to change that? Otherwise, five, 10 years, you need a knee, then you need a hip, then you need the opposite, and it just keeps going on because you haven't done anything to fix the damage you've done.
Speaker 1:Wow.
Speaker 2:Happens to all of us every day. We never think about what we're doing and we just blow through to another day.
Speaker 1:Just get to that next hour, that next thing yeah yeah, that's like people that drive for a living, I would think.
Speaker 2:Trucking is the unhealthiest occupation on the planet. If you listen to Dr Radio, I think it's once a month. They used to do a whole special because of how hard it is on their bodies. They've got people out there showing them how to get out of the truck. Do pushups against the truck, do different things because it's so detrimental to their health.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I was talking with a gentleman and he was saying the same thing and he really messed up his back literally doing nothing. And the doctor said what do you do for work? And he told him that I drive a truck and he goes. Do you stretch before you get in?
Speaker 2:Do you do a few little exercises. That's a good doctor.
Speaker 1:That's a good doctor, and you drive and then, when you get out, you need to stretch, you need to, and then go whatever you need to do with the truck, but make sure that every single time you stop, you stretch doesn't matter, just something to undo that sitting position for that extended amount of time.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we always have to look in the mirror or we're not gonna age gracefully.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's the biggest thing.
Speaker 1:Well, some people just turn mirrors around.
Speaker 2:Nutrition, nutrition, food. There is no one right diet for anyone. You gotta figure out what works for you.
Speaker 2:I mean there's a balanced diet. You know meat, potato, vegetable but you gotta figure out what foods are best for your body, which ones you run best on. I think for me. I see a lot of people eating the foods that cause major digestive issues. So you're literally in there poking holes in your stomach and your intestines constantly and you don't think anything of it because it goes away for a week and then you do it again. It goes away for a week, you do it again, but your colonoscopy is gonna show that you did that. So you're gonna end up with diverticulosis. You're gonna end up with irritable bowel syndrome. You're gonna end up with all these things over time because you just keep hammering the damn thing over and over again.
Speaker 1:And it never heals. You just get it a little tiny vacation Because because.
Speaker 2:But it all adds up, is my point. So when does the madness stop? And when do you say I love myself enough to not keep hitting myself with the hammer and I'm gonna stop, I'm gonna let it heal and I'm gonna find a way that I don't have to hit it anymore, because that's what's gonna keep you out of a nursing home. Wow, not money, not supplements. No, because people take supplements to override doing those things. It doesn't work Right, you've got to put the hard work in.
Speaker 2:You have to put the hard work in. There's no easy way around it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, wow. And quite frankly, I mean, even though you read the labels on food, they're pretty honest with what the ingredients are. You just got to know what those ingredients are and go. Yeah, I don't think so. And try, try to eat healthy, don't be crazy, but try Mm-hmm. And I mean it gets harder and harder. Things get more and more expensive and it's the balancing of the. I find difficult the fruits and vegetables, and not that I don't like them, and not that I don't like to prepare them, but I find it very difficult because they bring fruits and vegetables from all over the world and they're not technically seasonal. So you're getting stuff all year long. And what was it there?
Speaker 2:Yeah, but that's part of our evolution. I wouldn't buy it too much. No, it is.
Speaker 1:But what I find?
Speaker 1:is that I was. There was a month this summer that you couldn't find tomatoes. And then there was another month. There weren't any carrots. And I found myself going oh, where are the tomatoes, where are the carrots? Because we're so used to having all those things, because they're brought in, don't panic. And I had to say to myself oh, for Pete's sakes, you're losing your mind because there's no tomatoes, because in your head you've got to have tomatoes in your salad. And then I figured out oh, you're being ridiculous. So the nutrition is according to what you can get, to what you can afford and what your body. What I found was because of that, I felt better not eating so many tomatoes.
Speaker 2:See, there you go. Maybe they were there, not there just for you. I think so. So when does your body get to heal and repair all of that? Because as long as it's healing and repairing that, it doesn't have any extra energy to just heal and repair.
Speaker 1:Because it's using it up on all the damage you're doing.
Speaker 2:So you're going to not age gracefully if you never have that abundance to heal. I mean, that's a big key factor on how I work with my clients when they come in. If their body changes every time and they move a step ahead, they're doing everything right. If their body doesn't change at all, something's not right. It doesn't have the energy to make changes, Because in order to make changes of your musculoskeletal break-up, scar tissue reline, it has to have energy beyond what it takes you to run on a daily basis.
Speaker 1:Okay, that makes sense. I'll have to think of it. I have to illustrate that in my head. But no, that makes sense, that you just don't want to eat it all up and have nothing left over. So your body's actually eating itself, it's destroying itself because it doesn't have extra.
Speaker 2:Okay, Wishful thinking.
Speaker 1:I have no idea what that is. Everything's wonderful it really is.
Speaker 2:It's great, everybody wants it to be the way they want it. So they fight so hard against what is they can't fix what's wrong Did.
Speaker 1:I say that right.
Speaker 2:Did I say that right?
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'm trying to wrap my head around that. Say that again.
Speaker 2:They try to make it so like you're allergic to dairy and they fight so hard about being allergic to dairy. They're going to try to find something they can eat to replace that dairy. And then they're going to go places and people are eating dairy and they don't want to go without. So they got to have that dairy, no matter what it does to them.
Speaker 1:I have to participate. I got to do what they're doing, Right.
Speaker 2:So what are you thinking? You are allergic to dairy. Get over it. What do you need to do now to make yourself healthier? What's a good substitute? What has the nutrients that you need? That's all it is. Move on, move on Pretty much.
Speaker 1:That wasn't for you. That was in general, that's usually my attitude. But it's kind of hard too because there's that whole guilt part.
Speaker 2:But guilt of what.
Speaker 1:But I really like my ice cream.
Speaker 2:But ice cream is better than your colon and your stomach and your skin. Apparently, apparently we don't think that way. It's more important than you Poison is more important than you because it's legitimately poison to your body To your body if you're allergic to it. Yeah, it's more important than you is what you're saying.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, I can attest I've never drunk milk in my life and the few times I did, it wasn't pretty.
Speaker 2:You got to put it into perspective I'm not going to lose sleep because I can't Good for me is not good for someone else, so someone might be able to eat, it's okay.
Speaker 1:It's okay. Don't we always say we're unique and we're different and we're human?
Speaker 2:So why?
Speaker 1:do we keep trying to?
Speaker 2:paint ourselves the same. Mcdonald's answers that question yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:I can't tell you. The last time I said it and like I said, they're always very regretful of what they can't.
Speaker 2:They never see what they can. You know, my husband and I entertain, of course, and I never tell anybody. It's gluten and dairy free, and they rave about it, and then I tell them and then they go. What?
Speaker 1:I didn't know this could even taste good.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, those are the comments. I didn't know it could be gluten free and taste good. I didn't know it could be dairy free and taste good. And then someone will say you know, I've always had a problem with gluten. I should probably get rid of it because I get really sick every time I eat it, but I still eat it anyway because I didn't think it could taste good. Oh, this is like all the time. Wow, people do it all the time.
Speaker 1:Wow, because they have it in their mind it's all garbage.
Speaker 2:They're not doing the stuff on the shelves. It probably is, but you've got to learn how to prepare things. So they taste good, I don't try to serve them sourdough bread. That tastes like regular bread, gluten free.
Speaker 1:I'm not going to feed them that, yeah, sourdough is never going to taste like regular bread anyway. Yeah, you can't do that.
Speaker 2:So you can't try to mimic what you're missing in order to replace it, because it's never going to be the same Right.
Speaker 1:You just serve it, you just imagine something else, you just move on. And that's funny. I moved to sourdough and it's made a big difference. So where do you think? Joint?
Speaker 2:replacements come from Joint replacements, misaligned joints right yeah, why is it?
Speaker 1:misaligned Inflammation.
Speaker 2:Sitting wrong, crooked your whole life on your back while you're working your jobs. I mean, you obviously see what a sheet rocker's hip looks like Overcompensation of the job all the time. So if you're mitigating these things, are you going to have as many replacements?
Speaker 1:No, no, you're not, because you're trying to keep everything in alignment and you're trying to work with the whole body. Keep not overcompensating, and you know when you're off.
Speaker 2:So you're going to correct it, so it never gets to the in your strengthening where you're weak.
Speaker 1:Right, oh man, so it will heal and repair. As I stop leaning to the left. This is terrible. You should be here. I have to sit right all the time, so I'm not saying you have to give up your life and only take care of yourself.
Speaker 2:But I have this on my website. It's a free e-book.
Speaker 1:Oh nice, you are your own healer.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and it's just a daily check-in that you do for yourself and you just go through the list and there's some little links that go off to other things. I've seen those, yeah, and it's just learning how to assess. So every day, if you just do a little check-in, do you feel energized throughout the day? Do you have low energy or could you focus? And then it tells you if you're suffering from this, what you could do. How do you feel physically today? Assess your body, just take the time before bed, maybe 20 minutes, and just assess. And what do you need to do to reverse anything that's happened? And just those little changes, believe it or not, can make a huge difference in your quality of life.
Speaker 1:Well, you're identifying and you're listening. And I mean 20 minutes to just sit quietly, lay quietly and listen to what your body's telling you and, if nothing else, just sit quietly.
Speaker 2:But the thing is, if you don't take the time for yourself, you're never going to know that anything's off and you're never going to know to correct it.
Speaker 1:Well, that would make sense to me, because then something's wrong. You go running to the doctor. Fix me, fix me.
Speaker 2:Well, you only go to the doctor.
Speaker 1:When it's at the extreme Right, Well, don't something's wrong.
Speaker 2:I mean, you're not going for the knee replacement until you can't walk on the knee and it's so crooked the ankle's out, the foot's out, the hip's out, the back's out.
Speaker 1:You want to get there before all that happens, and you can't do that unless you're sitting with yourself, and it's nothing woo-woo about it. People Take five minutes, take 10 minutes, start with five. Ten's a lot when you're just starting. Start with five minutes. Believe me, I know Just like. Sit there and just ask for what you need.
Speaker 2:Well, even if you're not at times Genetic, you know some great, the more you ask to see what you need to see. It's almost annoying because when you get it now, you're like ugh, yep, because it comes. The more you do it, the more it comes and the more you actually bring it out in front of yourself and you know things and now you start getting mad at it. I don't want to know that today. I just want to be stupid.
Speaker 1:That's okay.
Speaker 2:This is for one day, but tomorrow back on that treadmill but then your conscience says well then, if I'm stupid, what am I going to do? And then I'm going to have to repair it after, and then I'm going to have to.
Speaker 1:It's that little guilt voice that are way back in the day. Your grandmother said your grandmother used to use us, but your own body will do it for you.
Speaker 2:And it will help you stay the straight and narrow, because you got to ask yourself is it worth the damage you're doing? Because I personally don't want anybody caring for me. I want to. When I'm ready, I'm going to lay down and go.
Speaker 1:Yep, I'm not going to have somebody taking care of me.
Speaker 2:I have to. That does not interest me.
Speaker 1:And people say you're crazy, you can't choose that, and I'm like.
Speaker 2:I've seen it over and over again with aging clients. When they become in tune, they die a very peaceful death and they do not burden their families. When they have gone with it and connected, they get the messages, and when it's time they go. So I'm not telling you something that I haven't witnessed over and over and over again that you can be your own master.
Speaker 1:Well, that's what we were designed for.
Speaker 2:If you believe it, if you know it, there's a difference. People believe all kinds of things, but when you start to get to know and really have that knowing that that's who you are, you go to a whole different level inside yourself and nobody can budge you from there because they can't take it from you, because you know that it exists, you know that you can do these things.
Speaker 1:I agree, I'm getting there slowly, I'm climbing up that mountain I'm getting there slowly. It's a learning experience. It's different. You question yourself a lot.
Speaker 2:Well, yeah, because we're not bred that way, but it is who we are.
Speaker 1:Everything we need is here.
Speaker 2:And we have a bunch of tools we've been creating over time for us. When it is too much of a burden, we can use the medicine, we can use the supplements, we can use, you know, whatever we need, it's here. But everything should start at home. Everything should be nutrition first, exercise, stretching all of that and, once you've got in stress levels and balancing yourself every day, and then go to the medicine. I'm not saying you shouldn't, because there are times we all need it. You have to, yeah.
Speaker 1:But it's just, it has to be in its right time and for the right reasons. As always, another fabulous learning lesson and class on what we need to do that we've all forgotten over the years. So tell us one more time again the name of your book and how people can go to your website.
Speaker 2:The missing piece to Health and Age and Gracefully Free Notigcom K-N-O-E-T-I-G and this free e-book is under my free resources on the top menu on this free free e-books that you can do and they're just self-help books that you can download and learn about yourself and click some links to bring you to other things.
Speaker 1:And follow through. I love it. Well, thank you again. I can't wait till we do this. Make sure that you join us next time. It's the last Wednesday of every month and you can always go back and find our shows and also go on your website and find the shows. They're all there for you to watch over and over again. Thanks for joining us. I hope you have a fabulous rest of your day.