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Katie: Good day and welcome to the Wellness Mama podcast. I’m Katie from wellnessmama.com. And this episode is with one in every of my expensive private buddies and it’s all about back-to-school well being routines and stress administration for the entire household. And I’m right here with Tina Anderson, who you may need heard from earlier than. I’ll hyperlink to her earlier episodes within the present notes, however she is, like I mentioned, a pricey private pal and somebody whose work I respect deeply.
Her journey into the well being world was fairly distinctive. She really started her profession as a trial lawyer who specialised in settling circumstances by bringing each side collectively, which is a private ardour of hers. However as soon as she had children, she realized that was actually excessive stress for her household. And so she was ready to make use of her authorized abilities to level her profession in a route because the in-house counsel for a household firm in prescribed drugs. However what she noticed there made her change route once more, as a result of she was pissed off by lots of the abuses she noticed within the pharmaceutical business. And she or he turned towards the sphere of pure well being and located her life’s work and function.
And she or he started to analysis all she may about illness prevention and good well being upkeep and obtained deeply into intestine well being and the way related the intestine is for total well being. And so to share all of this info with the world, she and her husband created a complement firm largely primarily based round probiotics. And so they now have a complete line of actually impactful dietary supplements that my household takes.
However on this episode, we go deep on the subject of preparing for again to high school. We speak about parenting, mindset, together with a implausible technique that her dad used that helped form her constructive mindset. We speak about her life mantra that I realized from her. After which we go deep on key components for good intestine well being, the most important myths about probiotics, what to know when searching for a probiotic, how 90% of serotonin is produced within the intestine, what psychobiotics are, and a lot extra. It’s at all times a pleasure to speak to Tina. So let’s be part of her now. Tina, welcome again.
Tina: Thanks, Katie. I’m so excited to be right here with you.
Katie: It’s at all times a pleasure to speak to you. We’re very a lot actual life buddies and I additionally think about you want one of many folks I am going to for recommendation. You’ve obtained children who at the moment are grown and who you’ve superior relationships with. And I like having you as a sounding board and a pal. And I’m glad that right this moment I get to ask you a few of those self same questions and we get to file it and let others share the dialog as effectively. So I’m very grateful that you simply’re right here.
And for this episode, we wished to deal with the theme of again to high school. I do know I’m gearing up for that with my children proper now. Lots of different households in all probability are as effectively. And you’ve got not less than greater than 18 years of expertise of this together with your children and their numerous completely different ages. So I really feel like it is a subject that could possibly be a complete sequence of episodes each on the bodily well being facet, the psychological well being facet, the stress aid facet, the group, the getting again in a routine. There’s so many issues we may cowl. However to start out broad, I’d love to listen to when you guys had any type of traditions, routines or something in your loved ones across the again to high school time.
Tina: Yeah, , I feel what I simply have such fond reminiscences of is simply the entire going again to high school buying. You understand, they beloved getting their faculty provides after they had been little and, , we’d at all times exit for ice cream afterwards and simply sort of make it sort of enjoyable, just a little custom. And so, after which we’d do, , the opposite enjoyable half was like discovering on the market’s a instructor, , after they return to high school they usually discover out their instructor and it will, it will, we’d all go collectively and it will be this unveiling. And it was simply, it was enjoyable. There was stress concerned in it as a result of we’re like, oh, what in the event that they don’t get a pal that they need of their class and all that. But it surely was, it was at all times, we at all times tried to make it actually enjoyable.
Katie: I like that. I feel my expertise is just a little completely different with homeschooling, though we do nonetheless the varsity buying half. However for us, it’s like gearing up for the sports activities they usually nonetheless have very lively social lives, however normally via their actions versus via faculty. However one factor I do know that may be a concern for lots of households is, and particularly with youthful children, that again to high school part and reintroducing with a much bigger group of individuals tends to even be typically just a little little bit of an immune system problem. Plus we have now all through, as we undergo the autumn, the climate cools down, we’re getting much less vivid gentle and daylight, extra indoors, extra all these items that may type of construct as much as sort of take successful on our immune system.
And so one factor I take into consideration rather a lot this time of 12 months is we’re shifting into that’s what are among the issues we will proactively do to maintain our our bodies, our immune methods and our bodily well being optimum, even whereas we’re placing much more inputs into it? So do you’ve any methods for that, for conserving our immune system robust, for conserving from getting sick as a lot as doable as we return into the varsity, the varsity sort of routine?
Tina: Properly, I feel you hit the nail on the top with not being exterior as a lot and never seeing the brightness and the sunshine. I feel we have now to be extra prescriptive about being exterior within the solar and getting an honest quantity of sunshine through the day, even within the winter months and the autumn months, such as you talked about. I feel we’re, and these children are simply sitting down all day. In the summertime, they’re working round, enjoying, shifting their our bodies far more than they’re through the faculty 12 months. And I feel simply attempting to get them to be shifting extra. And I feel as dad and mom, we simply, I imply, the errors I made, I feel was with my oldest, particularly, I’d be like, oh, we obtained to get good grades and we have to deal with this.
And, , now, my God, now I see a lot extra clearly and understand that there have been so many, there have been so many different necessary issues to be specializing in, like getting the daylight and getting, and never being so harassed, placing a lot strain on our children with grades and, and the way you, , what you probably did on this report and simply focusing extra on well being and wellness. And I feel I did that extra with my youngest. I used to be way more consistent with attempting to get him exterior extra and being out in nature. So I feel that may be one space to start out together with your immune system, simply attempting to get some extra exterior sunshine and be extra lively as a result of we simply develop into so sedentary after we had been again to high school.
Katie: That’s so true. And also you’re positively one in every of my inspirations on this as a result of I’ve gotten to journey with you a number of occasions and seen your routine. And also you’re so good about getting morning daylight, which I do know I’ve talked about on right here so many occasions and the way necessary that’s for our circadian well being. And in addition you might be like such an inspiration in going for walks exterior. I do know we’ve had conversations the place we went for a stroll, even in some sort of attention-grabbing areas like downtown New Orleans at completely different occasions.
However I really feel like that is perhaps one in every of many causes that you’re such a ball of power is that you simply make time, intentional time for motion and time exterior, which it’s humorous that we’d like science to remind us of this, however the research simply preserve sort of displaying up about why these issues are so necessary. And I really feel such as you’re such a very good instance of that.
Tina: Yeah, effectively, thanks. I beloved it. And I’d stroll my children to high school. I used to be in a neighborhood that allowed us to try this. And I feel that when you can stroll your children to high school and you’ve got the flexibleness to do it, I used to be lucky. I labored from residence. I used to be in a position to stroll them to high school, however simply getting them began out, strolling is so necessary. I feel, after which simply, after which, , even in highschool, , a whole lot of children are driving going again to highschool and it’s, and I simply assume attempting to get them to only be lively and transfer extra and simply empowering them with that. I feel that’s the opposite factor as dad and mom.
I’ve realized is which you can’t simply inform them one thing, , it’s good to present them the analysis and it’s a must to present, like have them watch a documentary a few subject that you simply need to train them about simply because that’s how they actually begin to empower themselves and actually then they’re going to make the adjustments. They’re not going to make the change. They could make the adjustments quickly whenever you inform them, however when, , they’re empowered by the data and understanding of what’s happening within the analysis, they’re going to start out making higher adjustments.
Katie: I agree. And that’s a recurring theme, I feel, when anytime we speak about parenting on this Podcast can also be, to your level, the significance of modeling. And I feel it’s so true that that saying that mentioned in many alternative methods to many alternative folks, the concept what we are saying is necessary they usually’ll typically hear, however they’re going to pay much more consideration to what we do, even when they fake they’re not or if they struggle to not, that’s what’s going to stay within the long-term.
And so I feel as mothers, particularly, such as you mentioned, that is what helps us to maintain that focus of us modeling the factor is definitely the factor that’s going to profit them essentially the most. That is in all probability why we see that statistic {that a} mother’s train and health degree really has a dramatic affect on her children. It’s as a result of I consider that modeling and them seeing it, which by us doing it, it really provides them permission to prioritize it as effectively. And so I really feel like that is one in every of my core type of parenting rules is perhaps converse much less and mannequin extra.
Tina: Sure, yeah, I like that. I completely agree with you.
Katie: What about any ideas for, so my oldest are simply now within the teenage years, any ideas for conserving good traces of communication and good relationship together with your children as they undergo the teenage years and into maturity? As a result of I do know from interacting with your loved ones, you’ve an superior relationship with all your children and a really shut, each fast and prolonged household. And I feel that’s so stunning. So any ideas for nurturing that?
Tina: Yeah, thanks. I imply, it’s what I’m most pleased with in my life is my household that we constructed and the connection that I’ve with my children. And , it’s so humorous, so many individuals have requested me this. And I feel one of many issues I bear in mind when my children had been in highschool and , perhaps they weren’t partaking within the actions that different folks had been so far as, , perhaps the behaviors they weren’t purported to be doing. My children had been like, oh, I don’t need to do this.
And, and other people would say like, how did you’ve your children not do this at that age? And I’m like, I don’t, I don’t actually know apart from I simply made residence a really secure place. Not, not simply secure. All of us need to make our residence secure, however extra like comfy that it’s okay that it’s Friday evening and also you’re a sophomore in highschool and also you don’t have plans. Like that’s okay. Simply hang around with us and be at residence with us.
And I by no means, like I’d by no means be like, oh, what are your mates doing? You understand, why aren’t you going out? And effectively, can’t you discover any plans? Or I’d at all times simply make it like, oh, what do you, what are we going to do Friday evening? What would you like for dinner with, , dad and I? And so I’d, it was extra about, , making it regular that they had been residence with us and never like it’s a must to be observe the social norms of like doing issues.
They did loads of social actions in highschool, however , all of them undergo levels the place buddies perhaps begin to change and teams begin to change. And I simply assume it’s necessary that we make it regular that hang around with us. And for us, I imply, that’s simply the way in which we love hanging out with one another. And I feel that was actually necessary. And never being so strict. I feel the much less strict we’re, and I imply, children want boundaries. I’m an enormous proponent of that. I feel children, particularly in youngsters, positively want boundaries, however simply, , not being so judgmental about perhaps they made a mistake they usually made a selection that they shouldn’t have made, however not judging them on a regular basis and making them really feel unhealthy about issues. I feel that has actually helped us be very open about issues.
Katie: That’s such an awesome level, particularly in these cases the place they make a mistake as a result of they’re in all probability going to study sufficient from that lesson from having made the error and doubtless be more durable on themselves than we could possibly be. And so I really feel like if we will allow them to preserve the possession of that, not take it away from them by judging them externally and never having to have them justify it and defend, which I feel then places extra power into the motion itself. I like that method.
And I feel additionally you touched on one thing beneficial, which is it doesn’t matter what age they’re, we will’t, I overlook who mentioned this, however we will’t make them and we will’t repair them. Like all these issues have to return from within them. And so if we will view it as how can we assist them in these classes and be the secure place they will study these classes with out judgment, I feel that actually helps that relationship. And I additionally love, it looks as if you do that so effectively in your house, of being the place the place not simply your children, however anyone can go and it’s a spot of unconditional love. And that was what I at all times actually wished to goal for. And it appears to be enjoying out with my youngsters is I wished to be the place the place they at all times felt comfy having their buddies, the place all people was at all times welcome. I’ll feed anyone’s child who’s in my home and hopefully they at all times really feel that there’s unconditional love there. I feel that’s like an intangible that we will’t put a worth on, however one which like hopefully actually helps that relationship for our complete lives with our children.
Tina: Yeah, and I imply, you’re a full mannequin of that. I imply, I bear in mind being over and having all these children round and simply everybody having a lot enjoyable and being lively. And it’s actually necessary to have your house be that method for everybody. I additionally assume like to the touch upon grades, I feel that’s one of many largest classes as a mother or father I realized. I imply, I used to be so completely different parenting my oldest than my youngest. And I feel we have now to only deal with studying. I’m positive you speak about this on a regular basis, Katie, I do know you do, however it’s like, , the grade is just not, I simply really feel prefer it’s nearly irrelevant.
You understand, I imply, what I deal with, particularly my youngest is in faculty now, I’m like, simply deal with studying. I simply need you to study. The grade, your GPA means nothing to me. It means it ought to imply nothing to you. It’s like, and , typically whenever you’re studying and also you’re actually specializing in studying, no matter it’s, the grades fall into place. However I feel we simply get so caught up, particularly in highschool with, , finding out for, attempting to get into faculties and all the social patterns that we’re purported to observe. I simply would warning all people to only have your deal with studying. Attempt to get your little one to like to study no matter subject it’s and in no matter method it’s. It doesn’t must be within the classroom. It could possibly be Ted Talks, it could possibly be no matter it’s.
Katie: Completely. That’s a ability that can serve you your complete life and that hopefully all of us as adults are nonetheless doing on daily basis in some type. However you’re proper. I feel I didn’t study that lesson till maturity. I very a lot was so apprehensive about grades in highschool and I feel I connected elements of my identification to how effectively I did at school. And it was an awesome factor to love un-pattern and like go off later in life. But it surely’s one thing I’ve been conscious of with my children of attempting to by no means assist or not like sort of facilitate a mindset the place they really feel like their price is connected to their efficiency in any space, whether or not it’s sports activities, whether or not it’s faculty, however to deal with the core rules of curiosity and studying and connecting the dots and having enjoyable and overcoming challenges as a result of these are the abilities which are going to truly translate into grownup life and no matter they find yourself selecting, which could not be one thing within the educational discipline, however these are the extra like delicate abilities which are going to serve them in any facet of life.
And I feel that’s an ideal springboard additionally into the mindset dialog, which is one other space the place you might be positively a supply of inspiration for me. And I do know folks have heard me say down right here, the road I obtained from you, which is that the whole lot will work out completely for me. And you might be such a supply of positivity and also you convey that power to any group that you’re in. And so I’d love to listen to, I do know we’ve talked about this just a little bit in our different podcasts, however what had been a few of your huge type of sources of inspiration or studying in mindset and in crafting that mindset?
Tina: Yeah, effectively, thanks, Katie. That’s fairly a praise coming from you. So, yeah, mindset is a large a part of my life. My father really used to wake me up within the morning and inform me I’m getting higher and higher on daily basis in each method. And it was, it was, and I assumed, , God, that’s so bizarre that my dad does this on a regular basis. And little did I do know what it did for me for my, the remainder of my life. And he simply taught me about how I, , you create your future, you create your life and it’s the phrases that you simply use. You ought to be very cautious with the phrases that you simply use.
That, , I talked to him and I’d say one thing like, oh my God, I’m loopy. I can’t consider I did that. And he’d say, cancel, cancel. Such as you don’t say that. You understand, don’t ever name your self loopy. Like don’t say that even when it’s simply in a joking method. Simply taught me the facility of phrases and the power that you simply convey to any state of affairs. He used to again within the day, my God, , I imply, it was a very long time in the past. He wished to have books on tape earlier than books on tape had been a factor. So he would have me dictate Wayne Dyer’s guide right into a tape recorder. And I’d examine or learn Wayne Dyer. And naturally I used to be not paying consideration as a result of I used to be like, I don’t care about this, however I feel subconsciously that was all ingrained in me.
And so then Wayne Dyer turned an enormous instructor to me and is the inspiration of our firm. It’s the inspiration of so many issues in my life and the choices I’ve made in I do really feel that, , we actually, we have to do our life’s work. We have to, we may create our future by the, the, the way in which we reside our life. I feel forgiveness is a large facet of it. That’s one of many cool issues that Wayne Dyer talks about rather a lot. And I’ve coached different family and friends members on forgiveness that I feel they’ve had life altering outcomes about. I’m not a coach or something like that. I simply, it’s only a private ardour of mine.
And I like, yeah, I simply assume our phrases are actually necessary and our power that we convey to any state of affairs is basically necessary. And, and as , my well-known mantra that I at all times say is the whole lot works out completely for me. And I feel what’s necessary about that, folks assume that’s such a daring assertion to say, however the whole lot works out completely for me simply implies that it’s figuring out completely for me on this state of affairs. And it’s not the way in which I essentially wished it to work out, however I do know that it’s figuring out completely for me. And I’ve to belief that I’ve to belief that, , the universe is offering for me or God is offering for me.
Katie: Yeah, I’ve that assertion on my wall really in my bed room now too. And it’s actually really helped me undertake a few of that mindset as effectively. And to your level, it’s not that the whole lot works out how I would like it to work out, however a whole lot of us can in all probability look in hindsight at even issues we thought had been very troublesome throughout no matter level we had been going via them and that we’d haven’t essentially chosen. However then years later, see how that actually shifted the course of our life or offered a lesson that was actually mandatory for one thing in a while and see that it actually did work out completely, simply not how we thought completely was going to look.
And now trying again, I may even have a look at the toughest moments of my life and have like deep overwhelming gratitude for them. Regardless that I wouldn’t have chosen them, I can see now I wouldn’t have gotten to go on a few of these journeys I’ve been on had I not had these experiences. And in order that’s one thing I preserve high of thoughts with my children too, is to hopefully assist them have the body of reference to be current in no matter view it as occurring completely, even when it’s not nice or pleasurable on a regular basis, and to search for the lesson or to search for the wonder in it, even when it’s one thing that perhaps is troublesome or arduous.
I additionally love that you simply introduced up forgiveness. I learn the quote years in the past that forgiveness is setting the prisoner free and realizing that the prisoner was your self. And that’s actually at all times stayed with me as a result of I feel typically we expect, oh, I can forgive them in the event that they do that, or if solely they might apologize, if solely they might make it proper. And I feel these are two separate issues. Forgiveness is an inner course of that we get to have full freedom over after we select. Making amends is a complete separate factor and that does contain the opposite individual. However I feel if we will separate the forgiveness piece and understand that we at all times have the power to forgive, it doesn’t matter what the opposite individual does or doesn’t do, there’s a lot freedom in that. And so it sounds such as you’ve helped folks attain that time rather a lot, which is gorgeous.
Tina: Yeah, it’s superb. What occurs is that it opens up their lives. You understand, I’ve one explicit pal who had a difficulty together with his father and impulsively he began forgiving his father and all of those different issues. His profession began taking off. Like his relationships had been even higher than they had been earlier than. So I imply, it’s superb what occurs whenever you forgive and it’s so arduous. And it’s not like I’m saying, oh, forgive sooner or later, you forgive. It’s a course of. However when you simply see that it opens up a lot in your individual life and as unhealthy as somebody has handled you, as horrible as one thing that somebody has finished to you, when you may get to some extent of forgiveness, you’ll actually begin seeing nice issues occur in your life.
Katie: Yeah, and other people have in all probability heard me speak about this earlier than as effectively, however for years I used to be doing all of the bodily well being stuff that I knew the right way to do and dealing with all of the docs and had spreadsheets for the whole lot, attempting to repair all my bodily well being issues. And it wasn’t till I additionally addressed that internal emotional facet and adjusted my mindset that each one the bodily stuff began working. And it actually highlighted for me how not solely are the thoughts and physique related and you’ll’t view both one in isolation, but in addition how highly effective the internal work is for even shifting our bodily well being.
And I feel we perhaps can all consider examples of somebody who simply continues to have well being issues perhaps, however they’ve a mindset that’s type of like manifesting of their bodily well being or folks such as you who’ve this the whole lot works out completely for me mindset and who like appear to be thriving and limitless power. And I feel that not at all times is {that a} trigger and impact relationship, definitely by any means, however that these are actually beneficial components to recollect it’s each/and, not both or relating to these items.
Tina: Properly, completely. And I, , I’m clearly interviewed on fairly a number of podcasts about intestine well being, and I’m at all times speaking about the truth that we have to meditate, we have to do deep respiration or acupuncture, therapeutic massage, no matter it’s that calms you down. We must be doing these items to be caring for our intestine well being. After which the reverse is true. You understand, it’s good to be caring for your intestine well being to ship indicators again to the mind. And, , it’s like we have now to do not forget that what’s happening mentally is affecting us bodily and vice versa. What’s happening bodily might be affecting us mentally. However they each precisely, they’re each working collectively.
Katie: And also you additionally talked concerning the phrases that we are saying being so necessary. And I like this level as effectively. I’ve tried to concentrate to rather a lot, particularly any phrases that come after the phrases I’m, as a result of I really feel like that’s actually highly effective for what we’re telling our brains and our our bodies. However I’ve realized slowly and this was a course of as effectively. However the internal discuss particularly that I had in the direction of myself had a direct affect on my mindset and on my bodily well being as effectively. And also you talked about one saying that your dad would use with you. I’m curious in case you have every other ideas for type of nurturing a constructive mindset towards oneself, as a result of it looks as if for many individuals that’s really essentially the most troublesome to beat. Like we may be type and the way we converse to our children and our companions and our buddies, however typically studying to talk kindly to ourselves may be the most important impediment.
Tina: Isn’t that the reality? I imply, and I work at this on daily basis and I feel it’s nonetheless arduous for me, , I feel one of many issues that has helped me is simply doing each day morning affirmations. So I’ve my affirmations and it simply units the day trip to start out out on a very good be aware and saying phrases which are affirming the way in which that you simply need to reside your day and your life.
So I feel constructive affirmations and the opposite factor is like I’ll discover myself beating myself up as a result of I mentioned one thing like, oh, , God, these pants are tight on me. After which I’m like, why am I consuming like a pig? Or, , I say one thing like, I’m like, oh my God, Tina, higher than to speak like that to your self. And and I’m like, OK, now I can’t beat myself up about it both. So I feel like acknowledge that you simply do. All of us do this. We are saying issues that we shouldn’t be saying. However I and that’s what’s helped me is saying, would I say that to my daughter? You understand, would I say that to my mother? Would I say that to a pal? And no, I imply, if I’m not going to say it to them, like, by how can I say it to myself? And we have now to remind ourselves of that.
However I feel saying the morning affirmations is so highly effective to start out your day trip. Simply consider one thing like I’m good well being or I’m I’m wholesome. I really feel good. I look good. No matter it’s that you simply’re engaged on and the way you need to set your intentions for the day. I’ve a number of. I alter them up. I’ve one which’s like enterprise associated, one which’s private associated, one which’s well being associated. So no matter it’s, I attempt to use these mantras, some that I’ve mentioned for in all probability 10 years. So I feel it’s simply necessary to phrases are highly effective. And I do consider our unconscious thoughts absorbs these phrases. And so be very prescriptive concerning the phrases that you simply say to your self.
Katie: I like that recommendation. And I like that we obtained to get into the mindset facet first, as a result of I actually do consider, like we’ve talked about, that it is a actually big key, even relating to bodily well being, and that usually it’s ignored or typically it feels insurmountable. And I feel any, even small child steps make an enormous distinction in that space. And so I like that we obtained to the touch on that.
However I do know that you simply even have a ton of experience within the bodily well being facet and particularly in intestine well being. And I feel that is additionally essential presently of 12 months particularly, not simply because typically when folks return to high school, their meals can change just a little bit as a result of a whole lot of occasions you’re consuming in school now or packing lunches, but in addition as a result of like we talked about, gentle’s altering, your immune system is altering and its inputs at that time, perhaps sleep is altering since you’ve obtained children have extra homework they usually’re up later. There’s a lot happening there.
And it looks as if we’ve heard sufficient a lot from all these research about intestine well being being completely linked to all features of well being, that something we will do this helps our intestine well being really has constructive ripple results into all areas of well being, from sleep to emphasize to after all, digestion to pores and skin and on and on and on. So I do know that this is sort of a life’s work and a ardour for you and that you’ve put in a whole lot of hours into determining one of the best options for intestine well being.
However I’d love so that you can begin broad and stroll us via what are among the core rules of fine intestine well being, whether or not it’s issues which are higher to keep away from, issues which are nice to devour, whether or not it’s stress components, what are the large needle movers relating to intestine well being?
Tina: Properly, to begin with, I’m so glad that you simply talked about that the truth that intestine well being has to do with nearly each facet of our total well being. And naturally, 80% of our immune system is present in our intestine. So we’re attempting so arduous to love ramp up our children and ourselves, our immune system as we head into fall and winter. And we have now to recollect, we’ve obtained to deal with our intestine well being as a result of it’s actually dictating each facet, nearly each facet of our total well being and primarily our immune system. So you might be completely proper to say that.
So among the issues I feel to keep away from, , sadly, the world we reside in is so detrimental to our intestine micro organism. You understand, our intestine is comprised of all these useful microorganisms, primarily micro organism. And we all know that we live on this world that’s so offensive to our intestine well being. So one of many largest issues is antibiotics. So we all know now to keep away from antibiotics and as a lot as doable, however they’re present in animal merchandise, they’re present in our meals provide. So we have now to attempt to be very conscious of the meals that we’re consuming that wouldn’t have antibiotics in them.
Additionally with Glyphosate, which is the lively ingredient in Roundup, and it’s sprayed throughout our produce. And that’s so detrimental to our intestine well being. Lots of family and private care merchandise are very detrimental. Lots of shampoos, toothpaste, which is why I’d clearly advocate all people take, , use Wellnesse as a result of I imply, to begin with, it’s so good for our hair anyway. I like the way in which it makes my hair really feel. My dad now loves it. It’s so humorous. So I positively assume we have now to be conscious of our private care merchandise, too, as a result of they’re simply loaded with all of those toxins.
So there’s chemical substances and toxins throughout our, , the world that we’re residing in. And so we actually must be specializing in caring for our intestine well being. Sadly, the soil that we’re consuming off of doesn’t have a whole lot of the microbes that we actually had been used to getting our ancestors used to get. So we, , it’s good to eat fermented meals. Undoubtedly would advocate fermented meals, simply not as a substitute for a high quality probiotic. That’s the place I feel the large mistake is made, is folks assume fermented meals is a substitute for a probiotic. It has tons of vitamins. It’s very supportive of your intestine well being, however it’s not a substitute for a probiotic. It doesn’t as a result of the large… , facet of probiotics, after all, is survivability. And the spore-based probiotic strains that we work with really, we all know survive and get to the intestines alive.
So I’d actually deal with avoiding, like antibiotics, avoiding Glyphosate, which is the lively ingredient in Roundup, and deal with consuming natural meals, definitely consuming fermented meals, after which taking a high-quality probiotic can be, , actually supportive of your intestine well being, and doing issues like meditation, strolling in nature, being exterior, getting within the daylight. All these issues are actually necessary for our intestine well being.
Katie: And we did a complete episode about this, so I’ll hyperlink to it within the present notes. Folks can go actually deep. But additionally I really feel like there’s a whole lot of myths surrounding probiotics. So I like that you simply touched on that fermented meals and probiotics, each necessary however separate, they don’t exchange one another. We’d like the fiber and the enzymes and the whole lot that comes with fermented meals. And in addition there’s issues particular to probiotics that aren’t essentially simply going to be in fermented meals. However I really feel like there’s many extra myths past that. And plenty of of them are nonetheless quite common, like issues round refrigerated probiotics or what strains are finest and in the event that they survive within the intestine or not.
And so I’d love so that you can break down a few of these myths as effectively and discuss concerning the distinction between spore primarily based probiotics and different probiotics. As a result of this was new info to me after I first met you.
Tina: Yeah, so the most important fantasy is the refrigeration fantasy. You understand, so many, even docs will say, oh, with a purpose to be a very good probiotic, it must be refrigerated. And the explanation why they mentioned that was as a result of, , you want a reside microorganism with a purpose to even be outlined as a probiotic. So a probiotics definition is a reside microorganism that confers a profit onto the host, which is the physique. So that they’re pondering, oh, effectively, with a purpose to be alive, it must be within the fridge. However when you consider it, if a probiotic pressure must be alive, to, they will’t even face up to the room temperature of the shop shelf. It must be within the fridge to remain alive. What on the earth will occur when it goes into your physique, which is 98.6, a lot hotter than the room temperature of the shop shelf? And the reply is that they’re gonna die.
And let’s say the temperature doesn’t even kill them. By the point they get to the abdomen, which may be very acidic and meant to be the gastric barrier, nearly all of strains available on the market are simply killed off by that temperature, the physique temperature, in addition to the acid within the abdomen. So this concept of a probiotic needing to be refrigerated with a purpose to be a very good probiotic might be one of many largest myths on the market. And it nonetheless must be debunked. The factor with the strains that we work with, they’re really dormant. They’re not reside, like within the bottle, they’re not alive. They’re really dormant. After which after they get to the intestines, so that they make that journey out of your throat via the gastric system. And after they get into the intestines, that’s after they take their spore shell off. And that’s after they go into their reside vegetative cell, reside vegetative cell state. And that’s after they begin doing the magic within the microbiome.
So we have now to recollect, a probiotic doesn’t must be alive within the fridge. A probiotic must be alive in your intestines. And that’s one of many largest myths. So we actually wanna guarantee that the probiotic is alive within the intestines.
After which I feel one of many different huge myths out there’s that you simply want a excessive depend, a excessive CFU depend. So CFU is Colony Forming Items. You’ll see that on the entrance of the bottle. It’ll say 50 billion CFUs, 250 billion CFUs. Now you see one thing with 500 billion CFUs. And there’s really no research. There aren’t any research behind displaying extra is best. In reality, there’s research displaying now that like typically when you’ve numerous completely different strains and many completely different excessive variety of CFU really may trigger some points and we may go into that later.
However the necessary factor to know is of these three billion or nonetheless many billion CFUs you’ve at a product, what sort of change are they making within the intestine? And one of many first research we did was one thing referred to as a intestine mannequin examine. And we solely have three billion CFUs in our product. And we noticed a 30% favorable shift within the intestine after solely two and a half weeks. And that is profound to see that kind of a change in such a brief period of time with simply three billion CFUs. And so, don’t get caught up within the 50 billion, 500 billion. That’s actually all advertising and marketing. And there’s actually no analysis behind that.
Katie: That’s so good to know. And the factor I beloved about this after I realized that was that it meant that now I may get probiotics to my children way more simply as a result of the refrigerated ones wanted to be taken in these very particular situations and also you wished the children to swallow them and a whole lot of my youthful ones on the time couldn’t swallow capsules.
However after I realized concerning the spore-based ones and the way they may survive via the intestine and survive at warmth, I spotted I may combine these into meals, into smoothies, and it was a lot, a lot simpler to get them for my children than in the event that they needed to swallow a capsule solely. And so I like that.
And I feel you guys have made this even simpler now as a result of the gummies simply obtained to my home lately and my little ones are virtually addicted to those. However I’d guess it’s an identical idea as a result of they’re secure and might survive all the way in which to the small gut. It’s effective to chew them. It’s effective for them to be in a gummy they usually nonetheless get digested and assimilated the identical method.
Tina: Yep, precisely. Precisely. It’s actually, that’s what’s so nice about these spores is that they’re so sturdy that we really examined them. You had talked about we may open them and blend them with meals. You can really bake with them. We examined them as much as 455 levels they usually stay utterly secure. So you might bake them and no matter when you’re making some kind of muffin or brownie or one thing you might do or no matter. As I used to place in my son’s piping scorching oatmeal. And that’s, it’s actually, good for teenagers to have the ability to have that possibility.
I imply, a whole lot of adults don’t even wish to swallow capsules. After which after all the gummy is simply, oh my God, that’s been actually thrilling as a result of they style so good. I imply, they style actually good. In order that’s been actually necessary. And that’s necessary to us simply to have the compliance so far as folks taking it. And I feel after they style good, folks will take it extra typically. And in order that was extra necessary to us. We waited a protracted, very long time to provide a gummy as a result of we had been like, oh, , there’s some substances that aren’t as nice as we’d wish to be. We wish to be tremendous, tremendous clear, however we did the least quantity of something and we had been simply in a position to, , we wish compliance. It’s actually necessary for us to have compliance with taking the product. And that appears to be what the gummy is doing.
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Katie: And one other cool factor relating to intestine well being that really I feel ties in and circles again to, again to high school as effectively, is that research frequently are displaying that a lot of our neurotransmitters are made in our intestine, really, and the intestine’s known as the second mind, and there’s so many connections there.
And I do know for lots of mothers particularly, it is a time of 12 months the place there’s extra stress, extra overwhelm, definitely extra working children round, extra scheduling. And it seems that we will really actually use supporting our intestine to our benefit relating to stress and psychological well being as effectively. And also you guys have finished some fairly fascinating work round particular strains which are tied in right here. So I’d love so that you can clarify that as a result of I’ve been utilizing JustCalm rather a lot these days, and it looks as if it actually does make a noticeable distinction on stress, however I’d love so that you can clarify why.
Tina: Yeah, so simply the intestine alone, simply taking the spore-based probiotic alone, our signature product goes to assist with that as a result of we all know 90% of our serotonin is produced in our intestine. Dopamine is produced in our intestine. GABA, which is the calming hormone, is produced in our intestine. So it’s so critically necessary to be specializing in our intestine well being after we’re speaking about psychological well being and our temper. We see this on a regular basis. So many individuals will perhaps come to our product as a result of they’ve gasoline or bloating or diarrhea, constipation, no matter it could be, after which they’ll say to us, oh my gosh, what, like I’m beginning to, like, I’m in a greater temper. I’ve extra power. I imply, would this have something to do with the probiotic? And I’m like, sure. You understand, within the pharmaceutical business, it’s like, Unwanted effects embrace suicidal ideas, loss of life, all these horrible issues. And it’s like right here uncomfortable side effects embrace higher temper, extra power and higher weight administration we’ve even seen.
So we all know that the probiotic alone helps with simply the leakiness of the intestine. You can return, such as you mentioned, to a different episode and we may speak about leaky intestine. And we all know that when you’ve a leaky intestine, that’s the irritation will begin going to a lot of your completely different organs, one in every of which is your mind. And that’s a part of what causes the difficulty. However now we’ve been specializing in the analysis that you simply talked about with this pressure referred to as Bifidobacterium Longum 1714. And this pressure is named a psychobiotic. And a psychobiotic is a probiotic pressure that’s serving to assist that gut-brain entry. So we all know we have now this intestine mind entry. It’s the communication superhighway, I wish to name it, as a result of the intestine is sending indicators to the mind and the mind is sending indicators to the intestine. And we’ve recognized this for a very long time.
We all know after we’re enthusiastic about one thing, we get butterflies in our abdomen. We all know after we’re nervous, we begin to go to the toilet. These are all connections, these are all indicators going forwards and backwards from the intestine to the mind, the mind to the intestine.
And so we all know that this Bifidobacterium Longum 1714 Pressure that’s present in our JustCalm product really has been ready, it’s been proven in research to have folks have a greater notion of stress. So simply that potential to deal with stress higher really helps convey us extra into that theta waves like mindset, so we’re extra in that circulate state. We all know that it’s really serving to with cognitive operate and talent to focus higher. So it was some actually compelling research on the 1714 pressure.
Katie: That’s so fascinating. And naturally, the opposite element that we all know that’s very well studied right here is again to the immune system element and that when our intestine well being is compromised, our immune well being is by nature compromised as effectively. And it looks as if there’s a really robust hyperlink with irritation right here. And it looks as if an increasing number of research simply preserve pointing towards the widespread hyperlink between most persistent illnesses really being rooted in irritation in lots of circumstances. And so anytime we will profit our intestine well being and provides it the chance to cut back irritation within the physique and to course of that extra successfully, it looks as if it is also gonna have a extremely constructive affect for the intestine.
However are there any particular methods, particularly as we transfer into sort of chilly and flu season that additionally can assist assist immune well being particularly from a gut-focused perspective?
Tina: Yeah, so all the conventional issues that I talked about, after which we have now a IgG product, which is an immunoglobulin G that has been actually, actually supportive. I imply, it’s actually supportive of the liner of your intestine, actually supportive of your immune system. We all know that IgG is principally an antibody that helps assault the, any viruses, toxins, issues like that, that are available, that our physique naturally makes immunoglobulin G. And we all know that this IgG product that we have now really provides us 25% extra of the IgG in our intestine, which is so necessary as a result of 90% of our immune system is present in our intestine. In order that’s one other technique that we like to make use of, particularly, , as you get into the autumn and winter months. I personally take all of it 12 months lengthy as a result of I feel it’s such a fricking phenomenal product. However I additionally, , I perceive that perhaps folks would possibly need to simply take it, , within the fall and winter season, however I’d extremely advocate that.
After which simply is from an immune perspective viewpoint is simply what we simply preserve speaking about, like calming ourselves down as a result of it actually does make a distinction on how our intestine is functioning. We’ve obtained to calm ourselves down and we live on this world that’s so, so, everybody’s wired. It’s like nearly like, , you get an award for being extra wired and being busier. And I don’t need, we speak about modeling for our children. We are able to’t mannequin that to our children. We’ve obtained to, , present them that we have now a lot success and happiness after we are simply not wired on a regular basis and we don’t must do the whole lot and be the whole lot to everybody. So, and I do know it’s arduous as a mother and a younger mother. And I simply, I want somebody had informed me that after I children had been little, simply to, , lower, give your self grace, go gradual, nothing, the whole lot doesn’t must be good and simply, , focus in your, your psychological well being too.
Katie: Yeah, completely. That’s so necessary. And that is purely anecdotal, so not medical recommendation. However with one in every of my daughters, I seen that the mix of IgG and the probiotic appears to actually assist. Really, she had some recurring eczema when she was youthful, and that appeared to assist her physique actually clear that. And she or he doesn’t have it in any respect anymore. So I don’t know if there’s something particular to that within the research, however in her case, that appeared to be type of just like the magic factor that helped her eczema for anyone on the market who may need eczema with their children.
Tina: Yeah, effectively, it’s all concerning the leakiness of the intestine. With the probiotic alone, we all know we have now a double-blind human scientific trial on leaky intestine that’s been actually supportive of the intestine well being, that we all know that’s supporting the intestine, the barrier and the intestinal barrier. And now we all know that the IgG product is additional assist of that barrier. And simply getting rid, I imply, simply conserving these toxins from seeping into our bloodstream is basically necessary when persons are coping with autoimmune points, after they’re coping with allergy symptoms. We have to seal up that intestinal barrier. I can’t overstate that sufficient. And people two merchandise are simply such, such big instruments in your toolbox.
Katie: And I do know as somebody who’s a busy enterprise proprietor and a mother and the whole lot else that you’ve in your plate, however you managed to remain, like I mentioned, so energetic and in good well being. So on a private degree, I’d love any ideas from you which are sort of your individual private 80-20, whether or not it’s each day habits, each day dietary supplements, something that you simply do as a part of a routine that you simply really feel like contributes to that.
Tina: Yeah, so I get up each morning and I do my affirmations. I meditate after which I am going for my morning stroll that I like a lot. Even within the winter, I’m from Chicago and I nonetheless will go within the winter and I’ll, , stroll and simply get exterior in nature. And I even love the snow within the winter. So I’m an enormous complement taker. Clearly I take our Simply Thrive Probiotic, our IgG, K2, our Prebiotic. I take all of our merchandise just about as a result of we don’t launch something that I don’t utterly agree with or that’s not researched and primarily based in science. That’s been essential to us.
I additionally take Brocelite, a Cell Chlorophane Complement, and I take Vitamin D, Vitamin C, Fish Oil. What else do I take? I take rather a lot. I’m attempting to consider what else I’d, I simply, I take so many, however I’m simply, I’m big. I simply consider that our soil is so depleted. It doesn’t have the vitamins that we need to be taking.
After which after all I’ve been specializing in intestine well being as a result of the whole lot else that you simply’re attempting to soak up goes to be absorbed that a lot better when your intestine is wholesome. And I feel that’s what we have now to recollect. We’ve a lot irritation happening in our intestine. And if it’s infected, it’s not absorbing vitamins. So it’s actually necessary that I feel folks begin with their intestine well being after which in any other case all these different dietary supplements and all these different wholesome meals that we’re consuming aren’t actually working.
I additionally am an enormous fan of intermittent fasting. I feel that individuals ought to do it in the event that they assume it really works for them. However for me, it really works nice. I did it, I used to be motivated. I do know so many individuals had been motivated by it to shed pounds. I used to be motivated by it due to the analysis, the way it helped the analysis in intestine well being. It’s very supportive of your intestine well being. We all know that sure micro organism really proliferate in a starved state. So I’ll do intermittent fasting and I normally simply do like a 14 to 16 hour quick, however no matter works for you. However we do know that there’s analysis behind that.
Katie: I agree. And I do know it’s gotten, there’s considerably like controversy, particularly round ladies and fasting, however I at all times sort of put intermittent fasting or time-restricted consuming in a separate class as a result of that is traditionally one thing we’ve at all times finished in some type and we’re definitely not consuming whereas we’re sleeping. So all of us are literally performing some type of intermittent fasting anyway. It’s simply experimenting with the timeline of that. And to your level, I feel it is vitally particular person and it’s at all times price being your individual major healthcare supplier and doing the experimentation to determine what’s going to be just right for you.
For me, after a whole lot of experimentation, I spotted I really feel nice on a time-restricted schedule, particularly if I shift it earlier within the day. That actually tends to assist with circadian biology. So I attempt to get morning daylight as quickly as doable after waking up. After which I attempt to eat in a extra ahead shifted window within the day. So I’ll eat a extremely nutrient dense breakfast with protein comparatively quickly after waking up. After which I’ll attempt to cease consuming for positive by sundown, however typically by like 5 PM. And I’ve seen that my sleep improves after I shift that consuming window earlier.
And I solely say that as a result of I feel a whole lot of the preliminary intermittent fasting recommendation was from guys and their biology works just a little completely different. And a whole lot of them would skip breakfast and eat it like one or two within the afternoon after which eat until eight o’clock at evening, which definitely works for some folks. However as a girl, I’ve seen for me that earlier window tends to work higher. So if somebody’s experimenting and never seeing good outcomes, that may be one suggestion I’d have is shift the window earlier and see if that makes a distinction for you.
Tina: Yeah, I like that. I don’t do it that method. So I may need to provide {that a} strive. However I like to really feel, you’re completely proper although concerning the, , even when you simply cease consuming earlier and also you go to mattress and then you definitely simply, precisely 12 hours is just not that troublesome to do and also you’re, , simply begin consuming just a little bit earlier.
Katie: Completely. And that’s like, once more, again to that type of constructive suggestions loop of stress and sleep and intestine well being and all of those components. The good factor is that if they’re not working for you, they will sort of develop into a destructive suggestions loop. However when you even make constructive child steps in any of these, it turns right into a constructive suggestions loop they usually construct on one another. So then power will get higher. It’s simpler to decide to doing the issues you need to do. You may make these habits extra constant and then you definitely proceed to construct that power and that motivation. So I like that we’ve gotten to cowl so lots of the features of that constructive suggestions loop right this moment.
And some questions I additionally like to ask towards the tip of interviews. I do know I’ve requested you these earlier than, however I’m curious in case you have any, whether or not it’s new guide suggestions or current books which have had a constructive affect on you and if that’s the case, what they’re and why.
Tina: Yeah, it’s humorous as a result of I at all times return to the 4 Agreements as a result of I do know it’s been used so typically, however I learn it so typically and I simply gave it to a younger household pal who’s a younger man who’s going off to school and he mentioned, Mrs. Anderson, oh my God, I simply learn this guide and it actually made such a distinction and , I’m actually having fun with it. And I simply, I’ve to say it once more, as a result of I do assume it’s price rereading if folks haven’t learn it as a result of it actually has made a giant distinction in my life.
And I talked about Wayne Dyer and one in every of his books, he’s obtained so many nice books, however one of many ones that I can see clearly now could be actually, actually good. And that’s in all probability the place I realized essentially the most about forgiveness. And I simply assume it’s actually nice for anybody that’s perhaps combating forgiveness. His, and simply his life story, it’s principally like a life story and the way you might see a lot clearer, , years later and the way it makes such an affect in your life to love, forgive and watch out with the phrases that you simply select. And yeah, these are some books that actually have been impactful to me and I reread them on a regular basis.
Katie: I’ll embrace hyperlinks to these within the present notes for you guys listening on the go. All of that’s at all times at wellnessmama.fm together with hyperlinks to all the merchandise you guys carry. And I consider there’s additionally a particular low cost from you guys that might be within the present notes as effectively. And lastly, any parting recommendation for the listeners right this moment that could possibly be associated to motherhood or intestine well being or mindset or any of the issues we’ve talked about or fully unrelated life recommendation.
Tina: Yeah, what I’d say, simply because we had been speaking about children, I feel, simply spend time together with your children. I feel that’s in all probability one of many largest issues that has impacted my relationship and my husband’s relationship with our children is simply the truth that we’re spending a whole lot of time, we’ve, we spent a whole lot of time with them and it’s these little, these moments of windshield time, which we, a pal of ours coined so eloquently, , simply you’re pondering like, oh, when you’re driving them right here and there, you’re not likely spending, it’s not high quality time. Imagine me, that’s typically essentially the most high quality time you get is driving them forwards and backwards to actions. They begin to discuss extra. So simply take pleasure in these occasions with them and be pleased about them as a result of they go by so quick. As , how unhappy I’ve been that my children have gotten older.
Katie: It does go by so quick. I feel my oldest one, turning 16, was a giant, like a sort of lightning bolt second for me of realizing simply how little time I’d have left with him nonetheless at residence. And so, yeah, I like that recommendation. I feel that’s an ideal place to wrap up for right this moment. And Tina, it’s at all times such a pleasure to speak to you. I’m so glad that we obtained to catch up and that we obtained to file it right this moment. Thanks a lot to your time.
Tina: Thanks, Katie. At all times a beautiful pleasure to speak to you.
Katie: And thanks as at all times to all of you for listening and sharing your most respected sources, your time, your power, and your consideration with us right this moment. We’re each so grateful that you simply did, and I hope that you’ll be part of me once more on the subsequent episode of the Wellness Mama Podcast.
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