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Health & Fitness Redefined
Health and Fitness Redefined with Anthony Amen. Take a dive into the health world as we learn how to overcome adversity, depict fact vs fiction and see health & fitness in a whole new light.Fitness Is Medicine
Health & Fitness Redefined
Unraveling Metabolic Mysteries for Personalized Health Solutions
When Tiffany was diagnosed with Crohn's disease as a teenager, it seemed her health battle was just beginning. But through sheer determination and a holistic approach, she turned a corner in her autoimmune fight, becoming a beacon of hope and a functional medicine coach. We're thrilled to have her share her journey with us, revealing how she harnessed nutrition, fitness, and stress management to manage her symptoms and ultimately help others do the same. Her story is one of resilience and discovery, illustrating that sometimes the most profound healing comes from a synergy of mind, body, and spirit practices.
Investigating elusive health issues requires a detective's mindset, and that's precisely what we tackle in our discussion with Tiffany. She walks us through the meticulous process of uncovering root causes of metabolic chaos, using functional labs and deep-diving questionnaires. We unearth the critical difference between feeling just tired and the realities of chronic fatigue, discussing why it's essential to craft personalized treatment plans. The conversation weaves through the importance of considering all aspects of health, highlighting the often-overlooked mental, emotional, and spiritual facets that are integral to overall well-being.
Have you considered how the rhythm of the sun could affect your energy levels? In our eye-opening chat with Tiffany, we explore how simple adjustments to our daily routine, like soaking in the morning light or dimming screens at night, can have profound effects on our health. Listen as Tiffany shares client successes from these small yet impactful lifestyle tweaks and offers tips for making the most of the protein on our plates. We also look beyond nutrition to other natural health enhancements such as the quality of the air we breathe and the water we drink. Join us for a conversation that might just inspire you to reconnect with nature's rhythms and revitalize your health journey.
Hello and welcome to Health Fitness Redefined. I'm your host, anthony Amen, and we have another great episode for all of you today. So, without further ado, let's introduce today's guest, tiffany. Tiffany, it's an absolute pleasure to have you on today.
Speaker 2:Hi thanks, Anthony, it's great to be here.
Speaker 1:Coming all the way from London and being a world traveler. So, as we discussed a little previously in the show. Before we get into today's topic, though, why don't you explain to our listeners about how you got to where you are today and got to the coaching world?
Speaker 2:yeah. So my journey, um started when I was 17 and I was diagnosed with crohn's disease, um, so it's sort of thrust into the world of autoimmune and what that means for your life, um, which at the time so this was the 90s and all that meant was we have no explanation. Nothing you do changes it. I asked you know what? Is there something causing it? And they said no, it doesn't matter what you eat, it doesn't matter how you live, you just have to deal with this thing. We're going to give you medications. Probably you'll need surgery at some point. You're just going to manage the best you can for the rest of your life, which was not an easy thing to hear when you're 17. So, basically, though, that did send me on a journey of starting to think about health and fitness, because that wasn't something really that I grew up with. I didn't really understand anything around like healthy eating or, you know, specifically like trying to take care of my body and like a healthier lifestyle. So I started to explore that on my own, because it just didn't intuitively make sense to me that there was nothing that I could do that could help at least, you know, make me feel better. So, basically, though that just started the path for me and I always was really interested in health and wellness. I became a fitness instructor in college and, you know, just started to like look at nutrition, try different diets that would help, try to help like manage symptoms in between flares was basically like where I was at at that point.
Speaker 2:What happened over the course of that time is that, as autoimmune does, it starts to progress and then there's other diagnosis and you end up with multiple autoimmune does. It starts to progress and then there's other diagnosis and you end up with multiple autoimmune diseases typically, and that was the case for me. So ultimately I really started to understand like okay, there has to be more connection, right, like there's a reason why all these different systems, like what is the underlying issue? And so through the years of just exploring different healing modalities, different, you know, different diets, like I explore, you know, yoga became a big part of my life to help with the mind, body stuff and to help with my stress and anxiety, which definitely helped with the symptoms, but eventually it led me to functional medicine. So really I had gathered all these pieces, parts, and I had found bits of the bits of the solution, you know to the puzzle, but I hadn't, like, fully healed, I was still relying on medications. When I started to add like a holistic functional medicine approach to the other layers of what I was doing, then that was like the magic and I actually reversed all of them All.
Speaker 2:I had five diagnosis at the time, different autoimmune labels, and they're all clinically gone. So there is a difference, like they can see. You know, there was points during my journey where it was in remission and they can see what that. That looks a certain way. You know there's certain markers and it looks a certain way. Um, I did get to the point through this process where I was fully healed and clinically gone. There's no evidence that there ever were autoimmune issues. And so here I am. So I decided, you know, I ended up studying functional medicine for myself and then realized that I had a lot to share with others and to help them claim their health back as well. So that's what I do now. That's how I got there.
Speaker 1:Their health back as well. So that's what I do now. That's how I got there. I find it so interesting that everyone in our space has a very similar story. Yeah, I have yet to meet a person who's I got into functional medicine, personal trainer, whatever and was perfectly okay and it was wanted to do this.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I know, I know, I know it's like the healer. You know that the healers have become there because they've had to heal and um, but you know, I think that's what's so cool about it, is it's like well, you know, I'll tell you, actually, I did work with one doctor during my, during my journey, who was I agree with you and she was the one exception to that, which is that she was like, basically, has just grew up with people who were very holistic and healthy, had this and to like live that way, and so that was always part of her life, and she, she had never experienced any sort of like trials with her health at all, and so she was a brilliant doctor. But the piece that I realized was missing was that there wasn't any empathy for the process and the journey. You know, it was just like information, and so there was times when, like, at one point I had, I had healed significantly, but there were still some barriers.
Speaker 2:And you know, she basically was like, I think that's about, I think maybe we're just not going to achieve like full, you know, your full goals and your full outcome, like we just have to be like good with where we're at, and I was like uh, no, that's no, nope, nope, nope. That doesn't work for me. I want to feel even better. So, yeah, I think it's important. I guess is my point, like those of us who've gone through it, that's why we want to help people and that gives us the empathy and the passion to like do what we do yeah.
Speaker 1:I couldn't agree more. So what would be your advice to somebody who's suffering from XYZ? Where do you think the first place is to start? With individuals? Or if they come to you and they say hey, tiffany, I have x underlying condition, I don't have time to do my own research, it's too much, I get overwhelmed. What's one of the first things you look at with those individuals?
Speaker 2:well, that's a great point that you brought up. Is that? That's actually like exactly why I'm here is because it is overwhelming, right. There's so much information out there and it's hard to know where to start and it's hard to know which things can apply to you. So where I start, with people as I say, like okay, so first of all I'm going to remove all of that confusion and noise and dogma and having to worry about it, and so the first layer is like I'm going to help so that you can just focus on healing and I'm going to guide you. And I think, just like actually having some help is often that is really the best place to start is to ask for help and to ask somebody else who's been through it to guide you.
Speaker 2:And then where I start is we do like really extensive assessments. So you know, the thing with any symptoms is that it doesn't really matter the label and it doesn't really matter what symptom is showing up At the base. We do know that that's metabolic chaos. So the body, of course, is not disconnected and, like Western medicine treats it that way, like this part and that part, and you go to different doctors for all the different parts. But it's. That's not how it works, you know it's there's underlying issues in the system that are causing all of the systems to dysfunction actually. So what what my job is is to start doing a lot of investigative work and assessment, and so I spend a lot of time with people. We do really extensive questionnaires. I'm looking at everything. I'm looking at everything about their health history up to that point, what their current lifestyle is, anything they've tried or not tried, and then I also do functional labs to get to some of the big impact root causes. You know, we start to look at some of these things like a full gut assessment, hair tissue, mineral analysis. There's a bunch of tests that I can, that I can run. It just sort of depends on the individual. So I choose some functional labs that I think are going to give us a lot of good information to start, and then I take in all that information. But then really the place that we start after that is like once I've gathered all that information, because I consider myself like the health detective. That's why I tell them like you relax, you just have to share this information with me and I'm going to come in from my objective view and tell you what I see.
Speaker 2:But the first layer is to remove the stressors. So there's all these hidden stressors, right, and that we're all being exposed to the stressors. So there's all these hidden stressors, right, and that we're all being exposed to, and we think of stress as just like things that stress us out. But it's actually like there's so many stressors from our environment, from our foods, from, maybe, like well, we know, you know, ems and just different ways that we're living. And so I'm looking at like we're living and so I'm looking at like, how do we start to remove some of those stressors to allow the body to just like, settle down a little bit? So that's layer one, and I'm making recommendations on that.
Speaker 2:And then it's a matter of which inputs are going to make the biggest impact that we can put in so that you can start to feel better. So it's all about creating opportunity for the body to heal itself, because that's what the body does. It's so brilliant and it wants to come back to balance, and all of these things that it does is actually to try to get it back to balance. So it's a matter of finding, creating the right conditions for that to happen, and it's very individualized. So I'm looking at all the layers, like I'm looking at, like I said, food and you know, from a nutrition standpoint, from a movement standpoint, from a lifestyle standpoint. But there is also the other side of things, which is, you know, but there is also the other side of things, which is, you know, the what's the mental? You know, like mental, emotional, spiritual, like there's all these layers that actually, ultimately, are contributing to how your body's responding to things, and we start to look at all of that and see which ones maybe are making the biggest.
Speaker 1:What's the biggest?
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:You would have summarized and took everyone you work with what's the biggest. Yeah, you would have summarized. You took everyone you work with what's the number one condition you hear a lot from people.
Speaker 2:Number one condition is fatigue, I mean. So what?
Speaker 1:is fatigue. Yeah, I know what fatigue is, but what generally explain it?
Speaker 2:So I mean, there's a difference between being tired and being like fatigued, right. And so generally the way I explain it to people is like if a good night's sleep makes you feel better and that's all you needed to do was like actually get seven, eight hours of sleep and you wake up and you're like, oh, life is good, I feel better, I have energy all day, then, like you were just overly tired, Right. If you get sleep and you wake up and immediately you're just like you dragging, you're needing caffeine to get out of bed and get started, you're band-aiding throughout the day to keep your energy going, because maybe you're having ups and downs, fog. A lot of times. There's sort of a lethargy in the body, like kind of a heaviness, maybe even joint pain and stuff.
Speaker 2:If there's just sort of that like dullness and no matter what you do and you're reaching for all these things, right, like I said, different foods, caffeines, like maybe your workouts, you just can't get through them the way that you used to or they don't bring that sort of energy that they used to, then we're looking at fatigue and it's, you know, when it's chronic, like that, then you know I would say, of course, again, that tells us that like there's a major energy production issue in the body, there's energy leakage, and so I'm looking at that from like a deep layer of mitochondrial dysfunction. But I would say, you know, no matter what other symptoms people are coming to me with, like I don't think I've ever had one client that says, like actually my energy is great all day, but here's a lot of conditions cause fatigue.
Speaker 1:Like fatigue is a very, it's always a symptom of yeah.
Speaker 2:XYZ Right Well no, I don't think, it's always a symptom of X, y, z, right, well, no, I don't think it's that the conditions are causing the fatigue. I think that what happens is that actually this has been my experience with myself and with all my clients there have been symptoms going on for a really long time. The body, in its brilliance, has been trying to keep up and keep up and keep up and keep up, has been trying to keep up and keep up and keep up and keep up, and so, actually, by the time you start that heavy fatigue kicks in, it's that the energy system has been so taxed for so long that it is just at its max. So it's not that those other symptoms have caused it. It's that there was already an energy issue to begin with, but the body just kept cranking and cranking and cranking to try to keep you going until it just couldn't anymore.
Speaker 2:Does that make sense? Like, yeah, yeah. And so you know, ultimately, if you had to just boil it down, like every symptom going on in your body is an energy issue, every single one. Because if you think about like, every function in the body being not just energy in terms of like, I have the energy to get through my day, but does your body have energy to actually repair tissue and repair, you know, like, clean up the body. Can it run the hormone system? Like, can it run digestion, run digestion. If it doesn't have the, if there's mitochondrial dysfunction, which is ultimately where everything boils down to something's going wrong with the mitochondria in every symptom that shows up, we can make, we could really simplify it. I know it sounds like so, it's it's complex, but it's actually like that simple is that at a base level, that's what we need to focus on is supporting the mitochondria.
Speaker 1:And what do you think the one or two biggest reasons of fatigue are? For someone just listening to this, that's making to themselves yeah, I do feel really run down. Yeah, tired, fatigued. What's what do you think an underlying reason that they could help self self-access?
Speaker 2:yeah, so to figure it out um the the biggest reasons um are not connecting enough with being outside. I would say actually, like that is the number one reason I think that we are seeing such um a I I mean I don't mean to be like so extreme about this, but like I think fatigue is like the number one thing every you know, all these people are experiencing, and it's like it's our modern lifestyle and a complete disconnect from nature. And I'll tell you, it's like the one thing most practitioners aren't even talking about, which blows my mind. It's like they're immediately like let's do all these tests, these are the supplements, these are the fixes. Like you need nootropics, you need superfoods.
Speaker 1:I will chime in. Dog wants to chime in too. The last episode, we actually did an entire thing on Alzheimer's and dementia and one of the biggest things was sunlight exposure. Yes, Because if you were to look at all the underlying root causes of Alzheimer's, like we did and I recommend you go back and listen that sunlight exposure fixes most of that, Especially syncing up your circadian rhythm, which ultimately is going to make you sleep better feel better and you're not going to be exposed to just fake light like we do all day, every day, with LEDs and computer screens and TV screens and phone screen.
Speaker 1:Like when are we actually looking out? How much of a time are we spending looking outside? Yeah, not with the phone in front of our face.
Speaker 2:Yes, that's it I mean, and that's what I'm saying, I mean on a fundamental level level. If you just said to me, like what's the one thing that has to get fixed for every health issue? Sync yourself with nature and circadian rhythm, and if people can dial in their circadian health, um, they're going to substantially heal problems now, and then of course, the other things come in right. You do need to be eating the right kinds of foods and there are certain you know nutrients that can help. But, like, at a fundamental base level, that's what's causing our fatigue. We're exposed to blue lights all the time, artificial lights. Inside we're sedentary or if you do work out, you may be like you've got one hour, you go to a gym and then you don't go outside, you don't walk anywhere, you're never looking with your bare eyes on sunlight.
Speaker 1:I will make a bet with everybody right now, and I want you to chime in and comment on this. Take the next week, Don't change anything about your life and all I want you to do is take a stopwatch and every time you go outside, on up and measure how much time throughout that week actually spend outdoors. I guarantee it's under 20 minutes a day yes, I like that challenge yeah work nine to five in the morning.
Speaker 1:They wake up, make breakfast, do what they need to do. They get out to work. So they from there. Some people don't even walk out to their car, but walk out to their car in the sunlight. There's 20 seconds Drive, walk out 20 seconds work nine to five. So lunch break they're eating inside. Then, after they're done working, they get back in their car through the driving form. We're driving to the gym at this point, so you get another 20 seconds for each stop on that end and then by the time you get outside, it's most places night. Yeah, so that's done. I mean you're nowhere near 20 minutes, nowhere near.
Speaker 2:No, I know, I know, and you brought up the point about like you know the phones and the stuff, and it's like this, this is, you know, when people ask me like okay, well, where do I start? Right, like how do I even start? And I say like, start with your, start protecting your mornings and start protecting your evenings, and if you can just hone in on those two things right now, you're actually going to give yourself a lot more. You have a lot more flexibility during the day. You should be getting outside during the day. And I challenge people because they say like Well, I can't because I'm like well, but you probably could like make, if you can, you know, make some phone meetings where you know, instead of maybe sitting at your computer, like say, hey, let's do that meeting on a phone and then you go walk outside and you have that meeting. Or you know there's a lot of opportunities to make some little tweaks where you at least are getting 10, 15 minute bursts or something outside. But if you can get really dialed in on your morning, where you're disciplined about not looking at your phone right away, and even better, the first thing you look at is the sunrise and you give your eyes 10 minutes to take that in, because that sets your circadian clock and everything in your body for the entire day. So it's critical. It's actually that one habit will change so much in your life. And it's a nice routine, it's so lovely, like it's. It's a nice way to start your day. It also helps with, like, your mental perspective on the day. Just give yourself that space.
Speaker 2:And when you get in the habit, I think people start to find, like, even when they make excuses like well, I can't because my phone, I'm in this If they just commit to it, I tell my clients when they start with me that's actually where we start. So you ask, like, where do we start? I mean, we do all this assessment and stuff, but the very first thing that they start working on is this I'm like no, we're gonna get to the test, we'll look at your gut, we'll look at supplements, we'll look at food, but what you're going to start with is like some of these circadian principles and I need you to commit to it solidly for a week, no excuses, and I help them figure that out. You know, that's why I work with them. Like I understand, tell me what your schedule is like and I'm going to help you figure out how you make this work Never fails. One week in, always, I get the message like, oh my god, my whole life has changed. I'm never going back and I'm like, yes, that's what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1:Huge Drink a cup of coffee outside.
Speaker 2:Right, like it's not. You know just, and I'll tell you, like every I hear here's the excuses I hear, well, my alarm and my things and I'm like, okay, fine, I think you could have an alarm clock that's not your phone and put your phone in the kitchen. That's how I feel about it. But like, but okay, fine, fine, fine, fine, I'll like pick my battles, you can do a shortcut where you like, with three clicks you program this on your phone. You actually have to go into settings and program it, but then with three clicks you can turn your phone red. So what I have my clients do is, at night after sunset, they turn their phone red and then they're not allowed to turn it back to full spectrum until like after you've gotten past sunrise. And once you're past that, like first early morning light.
Speaker 2:What's beautiful about that is two things. One, it does reduce what at least removes the blue light from the phone that you're getting exposed to, which helps with sleep. But then it's less interesting and what they start to realize is like they could function. So you can do your alarm. You can actually answer emails and messages if you really need to. You can actually function. But it's not interesting. So it also helps them observe how much time they're actually just like wasting on their phone and doing stuff they don't need to do there's even more settings where you can track how much time you spend on your phone a week.
Speaker 1:Numbers blow your mind. Yeah, track it for one week. I set my phone automatically on sunrise and sunset it goes to a blue light filter and then, an hour before I go to bed, I make it go black and white. So it's even less interesting. Yeah, even if I have to sleep with my phone, blah, blah. And I love the excuses people give with their phones by their beds and how they need it, blah, blah, blah, blah. Into everything here and I always see the same one well, what if something happens? I was like, what did you do before? Cell phones, right, right, like you couldn't do anything. And I'm like, if you're really even worried, like I run two gyms and I still try to sleep without my phone in my bedroom.
Speaker 1:But if I have to, you can actually program it, so only certain calls come through or even to a point where the person has to call twice and then it will ring Right, which I've done many times, because in that case you tell people, hey, you have to call twice, then it will ring right, which I've done many times, because in that case you tell people hey, you have to call twice, then it will rain and I will answer it, and if someone's calling twice, it's probably an emergency as opposed to just hey, how's it going right, all right yeah that they think you're awake at 10 30 at night.
Speaker 2:I'm never awake no, and it's like we this is where this is, this is what I'm talking about. It's like we, we, this is where this is, this is what I'm talking about. It's like we, everybody's having dysfunction Not everybody, that's a generalization. Many people are having some sort of dysfunction and not living their optimal life right, like in terms of health and radiance and energy and vibrancy. And there's some simple solutions and you just have to be like, willing to have the discipline to say, like, actually, how I feel in my health is in my control and I, I choose that over this habit and this norm. I know it's so normalized, it's so normalized to everybody's like. Well, everyone else is doing it, well, but how's everybody feeling? If everybody was feeling great, great, that's a different story.
Speaker 2:But like, do you want to just be like everyone else who's also fatigued and not feeling their best, or do you like want to change that? And it's simple. I understand it's not easy, but some of these things are very simple and they will make dramatic shifts in how you're feeling. And so I just don't, I don't sugarcoat, it'm like well, do you want to feel better or not? I mean, it's just that simple. I can't. We are biological mammals who need sunlight and nature and fresh air and water and magnetism. We can't separate ourselves from those elements and when we do, this is what we're having is all of this dysfunction.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you pretty much nailed it, but I love that one. Is there anything else?
Speaker 2:you would add in that would help with fatigue. Um, well, going back to morning routine, so that's a huge one. And then getting protein first thing in the day is also huge and like, ideally, um protein before, like I, I'm I I love my coffee, but I will tell you that like, at least getting some protein before you put the coffee in generally helps with hormones, particularly for women. Um, we're seeing a lot of like leptin resistance in women and that's one like big change. When people make that change and they're doing more protein in the morning first thing within 30 to 60 minutes of waking, it's incredible the difference that will make in the energy throughout the day.
Speaker 1:I'm going to chime in because you just fired me up, Tiffany. Thank you.
Speaker 2:Okay, let's do it.
Speaker 1:It's an answer to fix fatigue. Pick a topic that was pissing me off yesterday. So I've been interviewing nutritionists and dieticians to bring somebody in to our gyms and I've done 45 interviews at this point and it's pathetic. The answers are pathetic about what I'm getting, because I ask them questions because I don't know what they're talking about, and one of the biggest things is what you just mentioned. This is one of my questions when is the best time of day to eat protein? And everyone always gives me the same answer that was thought about back in the 90s, like a half an hour after working out. That's it. I'm like no. And then I take all the studies that have been done and show them that and still doesn't change their mind. And the number one time to get protein in is right before bed, second by barely to right when you wake up. Yes, those are the two most important windows to get protein.
Speaker 1:In arguments with people about how well certain people are different and especially women that are trying to lose weight, having protein before bed is going to make them. It's not true. There's no evidence on that. Stop teaching these fallacies. It blows my mind Like protein before bed, protein waking up, why? Simply like you just put it right. There is the longest period of time you're not having protein and you need to keep protein in your body because your body needs a bio-vet bio-available to it. So you sleep in eight hours. That's an eight-hour window of no protein. You're not going to get up in the middle of the night to eat it. So right before bed, right when you wake up and you pretty much nailed it right on the head and you want to feel full. You want to feel full, you want to not be starving an hour in right having a straight carb breakfast.
Speaker 1:Right how many eggs?
Speaker 2:do you think I had this morning? Yeah, well, you probably six. I was gonna say six, I knew it, I knew you were gonna say six, yeah, six egg whites no eggs, right because the fat is also important yeah yeah, I'm sorry, you see.
Speaker 1:No, I love it I love it.
Speaker 2:We're so aligned and that is that's it. It's like eat it within 30, 60 minutes and people say, well, I'm not hungry. When I wake up, I'm like okay, well, we're back to the same question do you enjoy these energy crashes during the day? How are you feeling when that happens, and are you willing to make a change that's going to set up your body to feel better during the day? It's, it's, it's just. It comes down to that. It's like what's your why and are you willing to make the change?
Speaker 2:Once you get in the habit, then it's just a habit. You know, like just get up and I make like egg casseroles and things like that, so that it's easy. Like I'm not. You know, I'm trying to keep the lights low. I'm not going to whip up you know some eggs at 6am when I'm trying to keep the lights off until I look at the sunrise. But like I just keep hard boiled eggs or something like that, or like an egg casserole, or I have some bone broth protein if I need to supplement. But like you can find ways. You can like find excuses or you can find ways and it's like, if you want to feel better, these are some of the like really big impact things.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I love that. What's another one?
Speaker 2:I think you should hire me at the gym. Is this an interview? This?
Speaker 1:is how did you know If you were on Long? Island you'd have a job right now. Maybe that's an excuse to get you back to New York.
Speaker 2:Yeah, right.
Speaker 1:Yeah, what's another thing someone can do to help get through fatigue?
Speaker 2:Well, cleaning up your air and water is also huge. I would say, like you know, we, those are two big ways where you're getting a lot of toxins in that are adding more of those stressors to the body. So drinking filtered water and drinking mineralized filtered water so minerals is actually huge. I mean minerals are the building blocks for every energy process in the body and so when we're not getting enough minerals then you know the mitochondria can't do their job, they can't provide energy, they can't run the hormone system, they can't repair. So making sure your minerals, your mineral intake, is high and that you're drinking clean water that has minerals in it is is massive.
Speaker 2:And we could go further about water, because actually I don't. I'm sure you know about structured water and you know there's. There's like we're understanding so much more about the type of water you drink being really important for energy production. And then you know having like an air filter in your house and you know there's just a lot kind of that we're exposed to and so as much as you can kind of clean up these big things like air and water, like those are huge. I mean we don't necessarily connect that right. It's like, well, we always't necessarily connect that right. It's like well, we always immediately go to supplements, supplements, supplements. Like what am I? Oh, I just need this supplement added in and then I'm going to have energy.
Speaker 1:It might temporarily change A really free way to clear up air quality.
Speaker 2:What? Walk outside? Yeah, I know right. So we're back to the beginning. Just go outside, I know I walk inside. Yeah, I know right. So we're back to the beginning. Just go outside, I know, I'll tell you. That is actually one thing that I'm really loving about London is I don't have a car here and so I walk everywhere, everywhere. Even if I'm going to take the tube, I have to walk. You know, 15, 20 minutes to even get to that. I yeah. So it's like right, you're right. And and in your house, like open windows, even if it's winter, you should have some fresh air circulating. Like we just can't live in these like contained environments and expect we're going to feel natural health. We're living very artificial lives and then frustrated that we don't have natural health, and it's like there's a mismatch there. The more natural you can live, the more natural health you can be.
Speaker 1:Our bodies didn't have anything related to what we have now for thousands of years. We're talking like the 20s, 30s, hvacs and heat kicked in. So that's 1920. That's a hundred years. Maybe we've had certain things Predicting that, like thousands of years, and our bodies learn to adapt in those kinds of situations.
Speaker 1:A really interesting point, just kind of related. A really interesting point, just kind of related acute injuries. Acute injuries. We've always been taught implement the rice method.
Speaker 1:When someone has an acute injury, rest, ice, compression, elevation that's the rice method. Two years ago they said, oh shit, that's wrong. No, duh, you think that if we had an acute injury in our ankle, we had to prop it up, rest it and ice it? You think we had an acute injury in our ankle? We had to prop it up, rest it and ice it? You think we had access to ice. You think we had access to not being able to do anything? No, we died. So you think every acute injury, we would just either make it worse or just sit there and die if we just laid on the ground.
Speaker 1:No, our bodies had to learn how to heal in motion. We had to constantly move the areas. We needed the information. The information is bringing all that blood into the area to heal it. You don't want to get rid of it. So now they finally realized two years ago let's get rid of the rice method and make another method which includes exercise, which includes mobility, which includes avoiding anti-inflammatories. So don't take Advil or don't take anything. That's an NSAID. That's going to make information go down. Don't ice the area. You want the information, you need the information. So this kind of shows we're going back into. Hey, stop overthinking these solutions that our bodies, these problems our bodies have set up for thousands of years, like there are answers Of course there's things we need medicine for, of course.
Speaker 1:Like you have pneumonia, go get antibiotics, like little things like that we definitely definitely need. We've saved and increased our lifespan because of it, but simple things our body has fixed thousands of years ago. Stop complicating it. Just go back to the way we used to live, even in a cleaner, healthy environment. Now you're going to feel so much better.
Speaker 2:Yes, that's it. That's it we should wrap it up there.
Speaker 1:I'll take the porn out of my own bag. Tiffany, let's actually wrap this up anyway, because we're right at that. Mark the last two questions I ask everyone. First one is if you were to summarize this episode in one or two sentences, what would you take our message?
Speaker 2:Get outside Eat protein in the morning and before bed. I mean these are huge, but I would say yeah.
Speaker 1:Go outside and eat protein. Go outside and eat protein.
Speaker 2:Very good, go outside and eat protein.
Speaker 1:Male women doesn't matter. Go outside, eat protein. It's not different for you because of reason X. Okay, great. Second question how can people find you get a hold of you?
Speaker 2:My website's the best way to connect with me. Tiffanycagwincom and Cagwin is C-A-g-w-i-n? Um. From there, they can book a discovery call with me. Um, regardless of which path I think they should go, and they can work one-on-one with me. Um. There's a group coaching program launching, but I always like to meet with people one-on-one, discuss their goals, figure out where they're at and see like what's going to be the right fit. Um, and all my socials are on there. You can contact me through there, but I've got free downloads, all the goodies, so really just that's the best landing pad for anybody who wants to find out how I work and talk to me, and I'd love to help.
Speaker 1:I love it. Tiffany, thank you for joining us and thank you, guys, for listening to this week's episode about the fitness redefined. Don't forget, hit that subscribe button, share this with a friend. It's the only way we're going to grow this podcast. And remember, guys, fitness is medicine. Until next time, bye. Outro Music.
