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Katie: Howdy, and welcome to the “Wellness Mama,” podcast. I’m Katie from wellnessmama.com and wellnesse.com, that’s wellness with an E on the tip. And I’m right here immediately with Dr. Robin Berzin, who’s the founder and CEO of Parsley Well being, which is America’s main holistic medical follow, particularly designed to assist ladies overcome continual circumstances. And she or he based this firm to assist Individuals fight the rising tide of continual illness by means of, actually, personalised holistic medication. And she or he’s additionally the writer of a brand new e book referred to as, “State Change,” which we discuss immediately.
And on this episode, we go into numerous various things, root trigger, useful medication, why psychological well being struggles aren’t simply in our head, they will begin in our our bodies, and tips on how to do a self-assessment to get a baseline, tips on how to get cheap labs, poor actions versus habits and why the distinction is necessary, why she assessments thyroid ranges in each single affected person, why common shouldn’t be optimum and tips on how to perceive your lab outcomes, why ladies had been excluded from medical analysis till 1993 and so lab ranges nonetheless don’t mirror correct ranges for ladies due to this, what to learn about metabolic syndrome in blood sugar, the wonderful science of meditation, and a lot extra.
Very sensible episode. She’s numerous enjoyable to speak to, and I do know you’ll take pleasure in this as a lot as I did. So with out additional ado, let’s be part of Dr. Berzin. Robin, welcome. Thanks a lot for being right here.
Robin: Thanks for having me.
Katie: I really feel like this can be a long-overdue dialog, and I’m so excited we lastly get to speak. And I really feel like a few of your present work is extraordinarily related to our viewers of girls and mothers who’re listening. So I can’t wait to leap in. However for background, for individuals who aren’t acquainted with you, I might guess many individuals are, however are you able to simply form of give us an outline of your background, and what led you to your present work path into beginning Parsley Well being?
Robin: Yeah. Nicely, thanks for having me. Lengthy overdue, for certain. Excited for this dialog. I’m a mother of three. My youngest is six months. I’m a physician. And I’m not solely educated in inner medication, form of standard medication, educated in New York Metropolis, however I additionally educated in one thing referred to as useful medication, which is about attending to the foundation trigger, attending to the why. And people two trainings mixed collectively led me to see that there’s a highly effective want for all of us to have a type of medication that’s really holistic, that appears at us as a complete particular person, that understands our previous and our childhoods and the trauma that we’ve been by means of, and the context of our lives and what we’re consuming and the way we’re shifting, and whether or not or not we now have that means and objective, and must issue all of that into our plan for well being and wellness.
And so, all of that form of got here collectively for me, and I began the corporate referred to as Parsley Well being to deliver that form of medication, the most effective of standard major care plus the most effective of a extra useful, holistic method collectively, so that you didn’t have to decide on, in order that we may assist lots of people heal, particularly ladies, heal from the most typical points we now have immediately, that are the autoimmune, the GI, the psychological well being, the hormone, the fertility, the center points, the blood sugar points, and that girls actually need a unique type of care. So, that’s why I’m right here.
Katie: I undoubtedly had my very own journey with that within the early levels of Hashimoto’s, and making an attempt to get solutions from medical doctors. And numerous the traditional medical doctors checked out every little thing form of in isolation. And the thyroid is its personal form of remoted a part of the physique that wasn’t related to your intestine, or wasn’t related to anything. And it was a journey of numerous studying for me to uncover that. And I agree with you fully. I believe the most effective outcomes occur once we can use the most effective of each worlds, and when we now have knowledgeable sufferers, who’re working with suppliers who’re in alignment. I’ve mentioned numerous occasions on right here, we’re every our personal major well being care supplier, and we now have accountability for our well being, however the most effective outcomes occur when we now have a practitioner who understands root trigger, and who is aware of what they’re doing, to information us.
And I do know a few of your current work, you’re speaking quite a bit concerning the relationship between continual sickness and psychological well being. And I do know this, like, that mental-emotional aspect was an ignored piece for me for a very long time. That it was so humorous once I realized it, as a result of it actually was proper there the entire time. However let’s discuss that, as a result of I really feel like that is one thing that we’re beginning to perceive an increasing number of not too long ago.
Robin: So, I forgot to additionally point out, I’m the writer of a e book referred to as “State Change,” that got here out not too long ago, which is all concerning the bodily boundaries to peak psychological well being. And for thus many people, we really feel like our psychological well being is in our heads. And but, for many people, our psychological well being is definitely beginning in our our bodies. And in our medical system, actually, psychological well being is its personal division. And the medical doctors who’re centered on psychological well being don’t deal with the bodily. And the medical doctors centered on the bodily don’t deal with psychological well being. And that’s not working, as a result of there’s no magic concrete wall between our heads and our our bodies. And what’s occurring in your physique is occurring in your mind, and vice versa.
And once I began Parsley, , I didn’t begin it explicitly as a psychological well being service. It was actually for anybody affected by a continual situation, a number of continual circumstances, or simply signs they couldn’t work out. And what I noticed over and over that was form of magical was that we had been addressing nutrient deficiencies, excessive blood sugar, thyroid points, such as you had, that weren’t identified, hormone points. Serving to folks change how they handled their physique throughout the day when it got here to meals or motion, supplementation. And the way, alongside the best way, folks had been getting off their psych medicine, folks had been feeling higher, folks had been feeling extra in management. Like, they knew tips on how to assist themselves when it got here to psychological well being.
And whether or not you’ve gotten a household historical past of psychological well being dysfunction or a private historical past of trauma, or whether or not you’re affected by the burnout and continual fatigue and anxiousness, despair that we’ve all lived by means of for the previous couple years, irrespective of the place you fall in that, in the event you don’t handle what’s occurring within the physique, it’s like making an attempt to climb Everest and never attending to base camp. And so, I needed to create a roadmap for folks to get to base camp, as a result of we now have to search out our psychological well being, as , over and over and over proper now. It’s not one thing you choose off the psychological well being tree and stroll away with. It’s one thing we now have to domesticate each single day.
Katie: Yeah, and it is sensible that that could be a back-and-forth relationship, that our bodily well being impacts psychological well being. Additionally, our psychological well being influences our selections with our bodily well being and vice versa. What are among the mechanisms bodily that may affect psychological well being? Like, I do know we hear concerning the gut-brain connection, and the way intestine well being can affect psychological well being. And I do know there’s much more to it than that, however simply form of give us an outline of a few of these issues.
Robin: Yeah. You already know, to start with, I all the time say you possibly can’t know the place you’re going until the place you’ve been. And I don’t learn about you, however I don’t keep in mind what I had for lunch final Tuesday, not to mention, like, how anxious or foggy or drained I used to be. Or how bloated I used to be, or how a lot my proper knee ached or my left hip ached, , a month or two in the past. And so what we begin off with within the e book, and what we provide at Parsley as effectively, is that this self-assessment. That’s a complete physique symptom rating, and also you give your self a rating. And it’s a quantity, as a result of, once more, we will’t keep in mind this stuff. We acquired an excessive amount of happening.
And so, if you give your self that quantity, and you then begin to make a few of these interventions, you begin to see, “Oh, when my intestine’s actually flaring up, and my bloating and my reflux and my constipation and my fuel are actually unhealthy, my mind fog and my complications are actually unhealthy too.” And also you begin to join the dots throughout the physique. In order that’s truly the place we begin, is that this preliminary evaluation of the place you’re at from a symptom perspective, out of your feminine hormones to your psychological well being, to your intestine well being to your musculoskeletal well being, as a result of it’s all related.
After which what I like to recommend within the e book once we discuss form of figuring this out can be some testing. And I checklist out the blood work which you can take to your common physician, you possibly can see us at Parsley, nationwide or on-line, or you possibly can go to your common physician, be like, “Check this stuff.” As a result of let’s discuss your Hashimoto’s, proper? Thyroid problems. One in 5 ladies will likely be identified or have a thyroid situation in her lifetime. Most of that’s hypothyroid, so low functioning thyroid versus hyper, or excessive functioning. And when you’ve gotten hypothyroid, you get constipation, you get bloating, you get excessive ldl cholesterol, you get weight achieve, you get dry pores and skin, you get exhaustion, and also you get despair.
And I can’t let you know what number of ladies have come to see us and had been placed on an antidepressant or informed they had been depressed, and nobody had examined their thyroid for Hashimoto’s, which is a sort of thyroid, autoimmune-based hypothyroidism, or simply common selection, there’s two sorts. And once we discovered that they simply had a thyroid dysfunction, we may deal with that, and every little thing else cleared up. And so we stroll you thru among the testing. And we will speak extra about this, however your blood sugar, in case your blood sugar is excessive, your mind is infected, you’ll be anxious. And greater than 50% of Individuals have metabolic syndrome, or dysfunctional capacity to handle their very own blood sugar, proper? We eat, like, a, I believe it’s a 94% refined weight loss program, ultra-refined weight loss program. That is our flours, our sugars or processed meals. Something that got here in a bag that you just, like, pop open, or crinkles, like, didn’t develop out of the bottom, wasn’t an animal you could possibly acknowledge strolling round.
Like, , these meals are creating irritation within the physique, are creating excessive ranges of blood sugar that we will’t management very effectively, as a result of our our bodies weren’t designed to eat these sorts of meals. And none of that is about shaming meals or calling a meals unhealthy or good. However it is likely to be impacting your physique in a method that’s making you are feeling foggy, anxious, depressed. And so, we stroll by means of the issues to check for in the case of your thyroid, your feminine hormones, your blood sugar, your adrenals, your coronary heart well being, irritation. And you may take that checklist, or like, rip the web page out within the e book and take it to your physician.
After which we additionally, and we will get into this, we discuss among the issues that we do each single day. Meals, actions, how we take a look at know-how. Scrolling our social media, final time I checked, shouldn’t be serving to anyone out. Relating to psychological well being, and the analysis is de facto there that it doesn’t. It’s truly actually depleting our psychological well being. And so, then we speak within the e book about assessing your signs, assessing your blood work, after which assessing your core actions. And I name them core actions, not habits, as a result of what you eat daily, and whether or not you sit for 11 hours a day, otherwise you rise up and transfer, these issues aren’t habits. Habits, is, like, biting your nails. These issues are, like, core actions which are defining how you are feeling.
Katie: I like that distinction. And to simply go a bit of deeper on a few the belongings you mentioned, as a result of there have been so many good factors you simply made. On the thyroid aspect, I do know, in my expertise, and I don’t have Hashimoto’s now, all my ranges are regular and I don’t have antibodies, so I’m thought of fully Hashimoto’s-free. However once I was within the early levels, I might go to a physician and they might take a look at issues, and they might inform me, “Oh, your ranges are regular.” And what I finally realized was, A, there appears to be some discrepancy relying on who you’re employed with on what is definitely thought of regular ranges. And sadly, individuals who have thyroid issues are those which are getting examined that they’re basing the degrees on.
In addition to they didn’t take a look at my antibodies, or they examined, like, two issues, and so they determined these had been regular and didn’t take a look at anything. And so, that is the factor I like to elucidate, as a result of in the event you suppose you may need a thyroid challenge, and your physician’s solely testing a pair variables, they may not truly be figuring out an underlying drawback. However I might love so that you can clarify that higher. Like, what do you take a look at in the case of thyroid?
Robin: So, day one, if you come to Parsley, and once I say come, I imply, see us on-line and we order assessments, your native LabCorp, Quest, whoever we’re working with, otherwise you’re working with in your insurance coverage. However what we do is we now have a baseline panel, the Parsley baseline, and we take a look at the complete thyroid panel, together with antibodies, as part of that, in each single particular person. As a result of that is so underdiagnosed, and it’s rampant. And once we take a look at, , lots of people say, “Nicely, I acquired a TSH performed, and my physician mentioned it was regular.” Nicely, to start with, oftentimes, I’ll see folks are available in with TSHs of 4 and 5, their physician mentioned, “Ah, that’s okay, it’s borderline.”
And there’s a distinction between regular and optimum. And we now have to grasp that the reference ranges, the ranges of regular on our lab assessments, are based mostly on the common of our inhabitants immediately. And our common inhabitants in the US, 60% of individuals have a identified continual situation. Forty p.c have two or extra. Tens of tens of millions extra have a continual situation, don’t understand it but, as a result of we take a look at reactively. We wait until you are feeling horrible after which we take a look at. We don’t proactively take a look at for this stuff, which is incorrect. We’ve made ourselves up as, I name it a narrative. It’s like a Greek fantasy. Bear in mind the Greek myths from, like, elementary college? I name it a Greek fantasy that lab testing is pricey. It’s a lie that the labs have pulled over the insurance coverage corporations, however testing all this blood work is, like, actually low-cost, and it’s getting cheaper daily.
And so we take a look at reactively and we take a look at these averages. And common shouldn’t be optimum. And our nation doesn’t really feel good, it feels sick. And ladies are disproportionately, below 65, experiencing the overwhelming majority of the psychological well being points, the GI points, the autoimmune and irritation points, the fertility and hormone points. And ladies had been excluded from medical analysis till 1993. And so, we now have a very form of problematic set of reference ranges. And so, folks will come to me and say, “Nicely, my TSH was fantastic.” And I’ll say, “Nicely, I don’t care if it was fantastic. Was it good? And did they take a look at your free T4, free T3, anti-thyroglobulin antibody, anti-TPO?” These are the antibodies.
Antibodies, for everybody, are a part of your immune system that’s actually pure and necessary, and it’s how we combat off colds and flus, however it may well go haywire, and it may well get triggered and assault a part of your individual physique. And 80% of autoimmune illness, which is a few type of antibodies are attacking some a part of your physique, is in ladies, for causes that aren’t effectively understood. And Hashimoto’s, which you had and removed, and I wanna hear how you probably did that, as a result of that’s superior, , is de facto, actually frequent. And so, when our antibodies, our immune system, assaults our thyroid, our thyroid’s capacity to perform effectively goes down.
We additionally take a look at for nutrient ranges, as a result of, how effectively your thyroid operates and the way effectively these hormones function in your physique additionally relies on selenium, zinc, vitamin D, which the overwhelming majority of Individuals are poor in, iodine, iron, proper? So we wanna take a look at a few of these different issues that we will then right. We additionally take a look at meals allergy symptoms, as a result of gluten, for example, in wheat generally is a massive set off for Hashimoto’s. And for some folks, not everybody, however some folks, that may be an issue. So we take a look at all of at the present time one. And it may be a large unlock for folks to actually perceive not simply what’s “throughout the regular vary,” however what is perfect, and optimum for them.
Katie: Yeah, that’s such an necessary level. And I’d like to additionally speak extra concerning the blood sugar and the metabolic syndrome factor, as a result of I really feel like this isn’t talked about sufficient, regardless of the overwhelming majority of Individuals having a few of these markers for metabolic syndrome. And the excellent news is, it looks as if numerous the issues that may assist affect these are very a lot inside our management. However are you able to form of give us an outline of what are the markers that outline metabolic syndrome, how we will use blood sugar to our benefit? I’ve cherished utilizing a steady glucose monitor just a few occasions to get information by myself physique and what it reacts to with completely different meals. And now, like, my fasting glucose is 73 or 74 each single day, and that’s useful information I wouldn’t have identified if I hadn’t tracked it. So, are you able to give us an outline and a primer on all issues blood sugar and metabolic syndrome?
Robin: Yeah. So, metabolic syndrome is mainly the step earlier than diabetes. And for most individuals, diabetes is sort 2 diabetes, which is the type that we develop by means of weight loss program and life-style. So, sitting all day, consuming an excessive amount of sugar. The common American needs to be consuming lower than 25 grams of complete sugar a day, however they’re consuming 75. Oftentimes, one soda has 50 grams. And that’s like throwing a grenade in your digestive tract and watching it explode. That’s the way it feels to the physique if you eat one thing like that.
And so, the metabolic syndrome points are actually rampant, and it’s the place your physique’s having a tough time managing your blood sugar. And we have a tendency in medication to look, once more, reactively, i.e. when it’s a bit of too late, at hemoglobin A1C, which is a measure of whether or not or not you’ve gotten diabetes or metabolic syndrome. And in the event you’re at 5.7 or above, it’s metabolic syndrome, and 6.5 or above is sort 2 diabetes. And I’m gonna skip sort 1 on the market for proper now. For all of you who’ve sort 1, I hear you, I see you, however we’re gonna discuss sort 2 for a second.
And the truth is that 5.7 being that cutoff is a bit of bit arbitrary, and a bit of bit late. And I don’t prefer to see a hemoglobin A1C of even 5.4, or 5.5, as a result of it tells me we’re on our method. However once more, these are regular ranges. And what the A1C marker doesn’t do is let you know in the event you’re in your method. And so what we take a look at at Parsley is fasting insulin and fasting glucose, that are early markers. And we wanna see that fasting insulin, ideally, effectively on, round 2 or undetectable, however undoubtedly effectively below 10. And we wanna see our fasting glucose, that means very first thing within the morning, haven’t eaten something, what’s that blood sugar degree? We wanna see that round 80, 70s and 80s. We don’t wanna see it too low. Like, 50 shouldn’t be good. So don’t maintain…it’s not like golf, the place you simply need to maintain taking place.
However we wanna see it round 70s and 80s. And you wouldn’t consider the individuals who suppose that they’re Mr. and Mrs. Wholesome, consuming all the proper issues, shifting, who’ve a fasting glucose of, like, 95, 100. And that tells us that our physique’s having hassle managing blood sugar. And when blood sugar is perpetually excessive, your insulin goes up, you begin storing extra fats, particularly across the stomach. You begin getting extra irritation and immune dysfunction within the physique, your testosterone goes up. So, polycystic ovarian syndrome, which is de facto simply, not a illness, however a syndrome, is the primary reason for fertility troubles immediately, after age. And that’s largely a metabolic challenge. So, our blood sugar impacts our hormones, and our blood sugar additionally influence our brains and our anxiousness ranges. And it’s one thing that we should be much more proactive about.
Katie: And I like your use of the phrase, like, the core actions versus habits. I believe that’s a really…and it additionally speaks to us having extra management over it. And it appears extra enjoyable than simply habits. I’d love so that you can discuss among the possibly damaging ones that we now have, which are essentially the most negatively impactful, and in addition among the optimistic ones we will construct which are gonna be form of 80/20 finest issues we will do.
Robin: So, we reside actually completely different lives immediately, proper? I imply, I take into consideration myself as a child within the ’80s, after which what my youngsters live as little ones, like my five-year-old immediately, and simply what a unique world it’s. And I believe generally we now have to take a step again for ourselves and acknowledge that. We’re, like, battling by means of the day. Be the mother, do the work, get by means of all of it, proper, get to mattress, have a social life, do your job, like… And generally I believe we neglect that the best way which we’re dwelling all day, daily has been radically remodeled previously few a long time. And that’s placing a degree of stress on us that I believe that we’re cracking below.
So once we speak concerning the lives we’re dwelling and the rampant burnout and despair and anxiousness that many people are experiencing, we additionally need to do not forget that that isn’t simply coming from inside. It’s coming from exterior. However to your level, we do have management over it. So, the most important ones are what we eat, how we transfer, and our relationship with know-how, which aren’t habits, once more, as a result of these dominate our waking life.
And so, on the meals aspect, we talked about sugar, and refined and processed meals. For those who take away these meals out of your weight loss program, and in addition do away with the omega-6 fat, these are the canola oils, vegetable oils, grapeseed, rapeseed oils. We’re alleged to eat a couple of four-to-one ratio of omega-6s to omega-3s. That’s what’s wholesome for our physique. Common particular person’s consuming 26 to 1. As a result of all these vegetable oils are in all of the processed meals and all of the deli bars, and all of the issues that we eat, and they’re interrupting our mind’s capacity to make use of the serotonin we now have.
We all the time hear about this, the feel-good hormone, and it’s like, be, why is everybody, , so shy of serotonin immediately? Nicely, a part of it’s that we’re consuming meals that make it unattainable for our brains to make use of the serotonin we now have. So, slicing out these processed meals, cooking your meals, even cooking two out of three meals a day, I do know we’re busy, I do know we gotta seize and go generally. I do it too. However that’s the primary factor you are able to do.
And once more, what you place in your mouth daily is data for each single cell in your physique, and the microbes that reside in your intestine. And what you eat is impacting how you are feeling, not 20 years from now, however proper now. And so, I believe for lots of people, that’s a very thrilling wake-up name, and I do know for me it’s cheaper to prepare dinner, and batch prepare dinner, than it’s to eat out and purchase processed meals immediately, as a result of these costs have actually gone up. That’s primary.
The second is we sit, on common, 11 hours a day. We sit on our bottoms. And we now have legs. And we weren’t meant to do this. And the physique is designed to course of feelings by means of motion. The physique is designed to course of our feelings by means of motion. And so, if you sit, these feelings get caught. So, I is likely to be sitting right here proper now pondering, “Wow, this can be a actually massive podcast. I’m actually nervous. Katie’s so wonderful, and I needed to satisfy her eternally.” And I’ll not even consciously, like, suppose that thought. It might not even form of go throughout the, , the TV display in my mind, however I form of have it in a flash. After which I’ve an emotional response to that thought, which is a bit of little bit of concern.
And the second I’ve that emotional response, a wave of neurotransmitters and hormones cascades by means of my physique, touching each single cell. And that cascade, that wave, takes about 48 hours to clear. So, think about you’re feeling careworn and scared, and indignant, and all of the feelings we really feel 1,000,000 occasions a day. And also you’re sitting, and also you’re not processing these feelings. That’s how… We discuss feelings getting caught within the physique as if it’s this, like, I’m gonna use an unpopular phrase, however, like, woo-woo factor. And what we discuss within the e book is that it’s very scientifically-backed actuality. And this cascade of neurotransmitters and hormones can finally influence your cells’ capacity to perform, impacts your blood sugar, impacts your immune system, makes it more durable to heal. And that’s how we get weak spot and illness over time, proper.
So, feelings translate by means of the physique, and once we’re shifting, we wash that wave out. And but we sit 11 hours a day. So, getting up and shifting, each single hour, ensuring you’re spending half-hour to an hour a day. May very well be strolling, it could possibly be dancing, it could possibly be leaping on a trampoline. I do know, for myself, and I do know from so a lot of our feminine sufferers, like, motion has been connected to disgrace, and form of “shoulds,” and the very last thing we want as mothers is one other “ought to.” And so, within the e book, I write quite a bit about motion and train. In research, in 95% of sufferers, anxiousness and despair improved with common train. And solely 40% to 50% improved with treatment. Doesn’t imply we don’t want the treatment. Remedy is a phenomenal instrument, however it’s not sufficient.
And so, we put train in that method on the prescription pad, not as a result of it’s about getting match or wanting scorching. This e book shouldn’t be about that. It’s about feeling good, proper now. And these are issues that we will do without spending a dime. There’s so many nice exercises on YouTube and Instagram and all of the locations, that I benefit from. So, these are the issues which are in our management, that may assist us create a state change, a shift in how we really feel, each single day.
Katie: Yeah. And I believe you’re proper. There’s a unique societal expectation now, particularly on ladies. And I’ve heard it mentioned, , mothers are anticipated to work like they don’t have youngsters, after which father or mother like they don’t need to work. And we stock a lot greater than we used to. And I like additionally that you just introduced up the concept feelings retailer within the physique. Studying “The Physique Retains the Rating” was a very, like, mind-opening for me. And I began to truly perceive issues on a deeper degree once I began making these connections and being attentive to each feelings, and the place I used to be feeling them in my physique.
And I believe you’re proper. It doesn’t need to be an in depth course of, usually, to unpack these. It’s, motion is so useful. And for me, it was useful to unpack and have a distinction between, like, train and motion, which I form of outline as virtually like play. Since you’re proper, I believe we now have some damaging societal issues connected to train. And it’s like a factor we must always do, and I might argue there’s even numerous misinformation about the best way we “ought to” do it, and what we do within the fitness center, that’s not even that efficient. And so, I believe, like, train and energy coaching and sprinting, these are necessary issues and people are nice instruments. However motion is a much wider class. And simply issues like going exterior, you’re getting all these advantages of daylight and contemporary air and motion.
After which additionally, the concept we predict we form our surroundings. And we do, however our surroundings additionally shapes us, to your level. And so, if we will modify our environments to be extra pleasant to simply motion, like fixed motion versus train, that’s led to my home having, and I’ve talked about this earlier than, however, like, a gymnastics mat within the hallway, and a climbing dangle board within the kitchen, and yoga swings within the child’s room, simply because if it’s there, and it’s in our method, we have a tendency to make use of it extra.
Robin: Yeah. Completely. Like, take the yoga mat out of the closet and simply lie it down in your ground, so it’s all the time proper there. And, , for me, like, I’m not a fitness center particular person. Like, I’m that one that… I believe I went not too long ago, as a result of sometimes I’ll go. And the little, , card reader says, “Congratulations. You had been final right here 63 days in the past,” and I’m like, “Oh. Nice.” However, , I love to do yoga, I love to do weight coaching at dwelling. I like being exterior and being in nature. And so, these are issues that, , make me really feel good. And it has nothing to do with that form of punishment mentality that I believe all of us acquired schooled on in, like, the ’90s someway. The ’90s had been, like, the period of, like, go to the fitness center, punish your self.
And we now have a lot energy to shift how we really feel in these moments with these little issues. And so, what I’ve actually centered on within the e book was the science of that. As a result of I believe that, , even within the wellness group, generally there’s a bit of bit dismissiveness of the medical analysis behind this stuff. And there’s huge dismissiveness of those practices within the medical group. So I write concerning the science of meditation. Meditation is confirmed. It’s free. It’s confirmed to rewire your mind, cut back your cortisol, assist your digestion, assist your blood sugar, your hypertension, assist you to focus, assist you to sleep higher.
And that is all there. It truly rebuilds grey matter within the mind, that the social media and information feeds that we stare in any respect day are depleting. These instruments are literally negatively remodeling the construction of your mind. And meditation is, like, constructing within the different path, and forming new connections. Train helps your mind type new connections. Meditation does as effectively. And so, , within the medical group, we’re not utilizing a few of these confirmed instruments. And so what’s actually enjoyable, for me, , I do know the analysis and I’ve learn the analysis, however it was actually enjoyable within the e book to dive in and say, “All proper, let me return and, like, reread and revisit a few of these research.” And simply, even I used to be blown away once more by how compelling the analysis is behind train for psychological well being, meditation, vitamin. And, , vitamin is the primary factor on our prescription pad at Parsley. It’s like, it needs to be the primary prescription pad in every single place, due to its energy to remodel how we really feel immediately, and the highest continual circumstances we’re all dwelling with.
Katie: Yeah, and I like your level about meals being mainly like chemical inputs into the physique, not simply energy. I believe that was one other damaging aspect impact of the ’90s and the limiting energy. And there have been, after all, well-talked-about damaging unwanted side effects of weight loss program tradition on ladies, and the connection we now have with meals, and, like, having concern or guilt or disgrace associated to meals. For me, it was useful to shift to a mindset of how, like, what’s essentially the most nourishment per calorie or per quantity that I can get for a meals? Not, like, what’s the bottom calorie factor I can eat? And that alone helps you keep away from so many processed meals. However what are a few of your dietary tips that you just give ladies? As a result of my normal take is simply that we’re generally overeating, for ladies, usually undereating…however for certain, under-nourishing ourselves. Like, we’re virtually, like, malnourished, even when we’re consuming sufficient energy.
Robin: Sure. We’re overfed and undernourished. And that’s partially as a result of the meals trade has performed a quantity on all of us. I imply, you stroll by means of the airport, and I simply marvel at, like, the junk, the literal anti meals, the poisonous crap, that’s in every single place. And it’s positioned as simply, like, this can be a regular factor to eat. And also you take a look at the label… I used to be on the airport the opposite day, and I regarded on the label on a inexperienced juice. A inexperienced juice. And it had 50-something grams of sugar in a single little bottle, which is twice as a lot sugar that we must always have in a whole day. And so, we’ve simply been offered one thing that’s incorrect. And in order that’s a part of it, together with the form of inaccurate details about energy.
I’ll put it this manner. A cup of broccoli and a cup of soda, similar quantity, gonna have two very completely different impacts in your physique. Gonna develop completely different microbes in your intestine, gonna have completely different impacts in your blood sugar. One’s gonna create irritation, complications, and a crash. One’s gonna gas you and assist you to detoxify your hormones by means of your liver, and maintain you full and satiated. And so, for us, no less than in our consuming philosophy round psychological well being and bodily well being, it’s round, we name it plant-based paleo, which doesn’t imply which you can’t have animal merchandise. However it’s specializing in vegetation, complete meals, greens which you can acknowledge. They’re not pulverized right into a cookie, cracker, bar, pretzel, one thing. You already know, I see all these, like, cauliflower pretzels now. Even I, like, I purchased this, proper, on the well being meals retailer for my youngsters, and I’m like, “That is nonetheless junk meals. That is nonetheless, like, processed grossness.” It’s not a cauliflower, folks. It’s a pretzel. Let’s, like, personal it.
However, , and so, consuming these complete meals, lean protein, fish. On the lookout for well-sourced animal protein can be so necessary, not the manufacturing facility farmed stuff. And in the event you can, if it’s doable, if it’s not doable in your funds, then consuming some type of protein is method higher than consuming any type of sugar. And for lots of people, not everyone, however being gluten-free and dairy-free will be actually instructive. And I say instructive as a result of these meals will not be unhealthy or good. We’ve made it very binary, and I don’t love that a part of the area.
Dairy generally is a lovely meals for some folks. Dairy can style actually good, and be actually well-sourced, and be the supply of allergy symptoms, sinus infections, bronchial asthma, pimples, eczema, digestive problems, and be a very problematic meals for different folks. Wheat, and gluten, which is the protein in wheat, generally is a actually massive autoimmune set off, and even a psychological well being set off for some folks. It’s a set off for mind fog, and complications, and irritability. And so, folks take gluten out of their lives for 3 or 4 weeks and are like, “Oh my god. My digestion feels precisely prefer it did earlier than. I don’t have any digestive points with gluten, however man, my head feels clear. And I don’t have my migraines anymore.”
And so, eradicating the refined and processed meals, getting these omega-3s, like your olive oil, your walnuts, your small fish, like your herring, sardines. After which, actually specializing in trying out if, three, 4 weeks of no gluten, no dairy impacts you. As a result of if it does, it’s placing you within the driver’s seat round which meals are making you are feeling good or unhealthy on a given day. After which you possibly can select. Like, immediately is likely to be pizza day, and that’s superior. However daily gained’t be pizza day, as a result of you know the way pizza makes you are feeling.
Katie: Yeah, and I believe you introduced up one other good level about protein. As a result of one of many different unwanted side effects of us consuming this very processed meals and carb-rich weight loss program is, I discovered no less than, many individuals will not be getting sufficient protein, or no less than this was actually true for me. I assumed I used to be, after which once I truly began monitoring what I used to be consuming, I noticed I’m not getting sufficient protein, particularly with the quantity of energy coaching I’m doing. And switching to extra protein and much more, like, fibers, greens, I’ve days the place I’m like, “Oh my gosh. I’ve to eat a lot meals.” However my physique has a lot vitality and I’m so nourished, that it was, like, a shift out of that deprivation form of weight loss program mindset that I had had for thus lengthy.
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I’m additionally curious your tackle dietary supplements, as a result of actually, this can be a matter with many, many opinions. And everyone’s, after all, going to be very bio-individual, and there’s personalization right here. However it looks as if there are additionally some classes the place, usually, as a inhabitants, we are inclined to not…it’s more durable to get a few of these sure vitamins due to the meals provide being what it’s. What’s your recommendation to folks on dietary supplements?
Robin: Yeah. So, , dietary supplements, I like that you just introduced that up, like, get vilified. Like, “They’re ineffective and simply make your pee actually costly,” or, “They’re actually harmful,” or… And I’m like, it’s actually laborious for one thing to be actually each actually harmful and actually, like, ineffective on the similar time. So, , most medical suppliers will not be supplement-literate. And we’re, and dietary supplements generally is a actually highly effective instrument. Most dietary supplements on the shelf are ineffective, as a result of it’s a poorly-regulated trade, and so, I see folks… I keep in mind being at, like, a well being meals grocery retailer in LA years in the past. And this lady was standing, this, like, wall of dietary supplements, and every little thing mentioned hormone this and hormone that. And there was most likely, like, a 19-year-old, like, store employee man, and she or he’s him and she or he’s like, “It’s my hormones. Which factor ought to I take?” And he’s like, “I believe that one will work.” And I used to be simply standing there, like, biting my nails, like, “No, no. Oh, God, don’t do it,” proper.
So, there’s numerous ineffective stuff on the market. That mentioned, dietary supplements will be actually highly effective instruments. And the best way I take into consideration them is we’re not utilizing them to right a deficiency, largely. Like, usually, folks aren’t so poor in vitamin C that they’ll get scurvy, like a sailor from the 1800s. However we’re not optimum. And we will use dietary supplements as therapeutic instruments. So, I would prescribe magnesium glycinate or magnesium threonate as a very lovely sleep help, or a very lovely anxiety-calming complement. And so, I’m not correcting a magnesium deficiency with that instrument. I’m utilizing it therapeutically for a psychological well being or sleep purpose.
Equally, many individuals like myself, 66% of individuals have some type of an MTHFR genetic variant. Its not a mutation, it’s only a variant. It adjustments how we make neurotransmitters like serotonin, dopamine, norepinephrine. And so, a daily B vitamin doesn’t work for me. However once I take, or my sufferers who’ve this variant, take a methylated B vitamin, methylated B12, or 5-MTHF, which is methylated folate, or ideally each, you make extra serotonin, dopamine, norepinephrine, and it may be a really massive temper enhancer.
Now, it’s not like a Xanax. You possibly can’t take it as soon as. You gotta take it daily. And that’s the place I additionally see folks go incorrect. They acquired all these dietary supplements on the kitchen counter, and so they’re, like, mendacity there. And so they’re like, “Nicely, some days I take a bit of of this, and a few days I take a bit of…” And I’m like, that’s… It’s like taking 1 / 4 of an antibiotic and questioning why your sinus an infection doesn’t go away, proper? It’s not gonna work. So, you gotta take them usually.
And so, within the e book, I write about among the core, form of kick starter dietary supplements, like magnesium glycinate, like methylated B nutritional vitamins, which many individuals, many, many, many individuals profit from. Like a probiotic, to assist shift our intestine micro organism, as a result of our intestine micro organism are literally serving to form which neurotransmitters are energetic in our brains. Like omega-3 fat, so we will shift that stability I spoke about earlier away from these vegetable oils and in direction of these omega-3s that basically feed our brains. Our brains are made from fats. Our brains are about 70% made from fats. So getting these wholesome fat in will be actually useful, additionally, by way of reducing irritation. After which, vitamin D.
Most individuals are decrease in vitamin D. For those who spend an hour a day exterior completely bare, then extra energy to you. Like, you might not be low in vitamin D. However most of us have gotten the hat and the sunscreen and the garments. And we’ve been educated that, , the solar is, like, harmful. Which it’s not, however, , inside cause. So, vitamin D deficiency, which the vast majority of Individuals have some type of, it may well masks as despair. And so we suggest vitamin D3 K2. So, a few of these…these are among the fundamentals. After which there’s numerous others the place you may get a bit of bit fancy.
Katie: Yeah. That’s such an necessary factor, that distinction between it’s not nearly deficiency. Like, we’re not simply making an attempt to get into, like, not truly clinically poor in one thing, that a few of these are instruments to get into extra optimum vary. And no less than from what I’ve learn, there’s issues like, for example, that it’s tough to check for magnesium ranges, for example. And the assessments will be considerably unreliable, or simply complicated, I believe. And, like, I’ve learn that not numerous magnesium is definitely saved within the blood, so blood assessments are form of not essentially an excellent marker of that, whereas most individuals are typically low on magnesium anyway, and it’s not one which’s usually harmful to take. So it’s form of, to me, that’s, like, an important insurance coverage coverage. Like, I take magnesium on a regular basis.
And I’m… Vitamin D as effectively, I’ve seen it’s life-changing for folks. I’m am personally a naked-in-the-sun-for-an-hour-a-day sort of particular person. However I reside in an space the place that’s doable. And I notice most individuals don’t essentially have entry to year-round sunshine. However I really feel like each of these additionally level to a different necessary matter, which is sleep. And this will for certain be a fall-down level, particularly for mothers. And it looks as if sleep is a lever that completely impacts psychological well being, very straight, even very acutely. Like, sooner or later of sleep deprivation, we’re not mentally on our sport the following day. So, what are among the methods we will assist sleep throughout the day, like, these core actions we will construct?
Robin: Sleep is such a tricky one, proper? I really feel prefer it’s a tricky one for all of us. And I do know, like, I’ve a six-month-old. I do know when you have little ones, you’re identical to, “Nice, thanks. Thanks for the newsflash that I needs to be sleeping extra,” . However inside that, what you possibly can deal with is high quality sleep, as a result of high quality issues simply as a lot as amount. And so, that may imply every little thing for ensuring… You already know, I reside in New York Metropolis, and I reside below a big rock referred to as youngsters and work, so I barely see the sunshine of day numerous the time. And that’s my actuality. I want I’m like gonna transfer all the way down to the place you reside, so we will change that, or I’m right here in Austin proper now, and I’m like, “Ooh. Sunshine is wonderful.” However again to sleep, getting exterior within the morning, and getting publicity to sunshine within the morning can truly assist actually set that circadian clock, and get your physique form of prepared for what’s a traditional day.
After which, on the flip aspect, solar setting or night, so, actually dimming the lights, turning down the lights. And I like to recommend a screen-free 30, or 60, ideally, earlier than mattress. So, earlier than mattress is your time to stretch, meditate, learn a hardcover e book, prep lunch or prep meals for the following day, meditate, breathe, take a protracted tub, proper. However it’s not the time to be working, working, catching up, or scrolling your social media, as a result of that basically impacts our sleep. And we’ve heard quite a bit concerning the blue gentle emanating from telephones, and now there’s, , apps and stuff which you can display that blue gentle out. Blue gentle’s a part of it, however it’s truly been proven that it’s simply the pure stimulation of TV, or telephone, or pc earlier than mattress, that’s telling your mind it’s time to rev, rev, rev and go, go, go, and you then don’t have high quality sleep.
Chilly, darkish room. I can’t converse to this sufficient. Lots of people are sleeping in a very scorching area. So, I do know there’s these fancy… My husband acquired one. Like, the mattress covers that cool you down. He loves it. I really feel like I’m sleeping, like, my reptilian mind makes me really feel like I’m sleeping in a shallow pool of chilly water, and I discover it actually disturbing. So, like, to every his or her personal, proper, on these issues. However simply cooling your room down at night time in the event you can, to that 65 to 67 diploma Fahrenheit actually impacts your metabolism and your sleep high quality. Darkness. I put on an eye fixed masks. I put on earplugs quite a bit. Like, I don’t have to get up each time the child simply has, like, fuss, fuss, fuss at this level, . He’s not, , within the first couple months anymore. If he’s actually crying, I’ll nonetheless hear him, so it’s okay. However I believe that, , actually setting ourself up for that wholesome sleep.
After which, alcohol, , if I see another wine and mommy meme, I’m gonna lose it. However, like, , we have to study constructive strategies of managing our feelings. And on this tradition, we’re taught damaging strategies of managing our feelings. Alcohol, overworking, medicine, screens, media. And it’s okay. Like, I had a cocktail final night time at an occasion. And I’ll have a glass of wine right here and there. However, like, in the event you’re consuming extra days than you’re not, your sleep is disruptive, even when it’s a drink or two. And I believe lots of people, particularly ladies, don’t notice that they’re consuming a bit of bit greater than I believe they suppose they’re.
And so, actually looking at that, and I write about that within the e book. And it’s to not say, once more, I nonetheless drink some alcohol periodically. So, in the event you can have it as a wholesome a part of your life, then okay, however I believe we have to set clear boundaries round what that truly means, as a result of alcohol, in the case of sleep, it impairs your physique’s capacity to succeed in the decrease resting coronary heart charge and decrease core physique temperature that permit you to attain deep sleep and get by means of extra of these REM cycles that you could really feel rested the following day. So once I hear, “Nicely, I simply had that one glass of wine at 6:00 or 7:00, and I sleep eight hours, and, , I don’t get why I’m exhausted on a regular basis,” I say, “Nicely, let’s take that one glass of wine at 6:00 or 7:00 or 8:00 to zero on no less than 4 nights per week, or take a three-week hiatus and see how you are feeling.” And other people can see a very massive distinction.
Katie: Yeah, I’m an enormous fan of biking issues. And particularly going off alcohol in spurts for a pair months at a time. Or, like, I like to do, I don’t have to keep away from gluten and dairy anymore, however I discover that if I simply cut back numerous these form of meals, and alcohol, for 2 or three weeks, it’s like an important reset, and I simply actually deal with intestine well being throughout that point. And that tends to, like… I don’t wanna ever get again into the Hashimoto’s zone, in order that’s form of considered one of my preemptive issues.
I like that you just introduced up the display time factor as effectively. I believe one of many best issues we may all do for our well being is simply cease participating with the information altogether. However to your level concerning the stimulation of social media, I’ve these, like, pink gentle filters on my telephone. And I nonetheless don’t prefer to get on my telephone at night time, however there was an evening when my staff was like, “Hey, you could try this stuff on TikTok,” as a result of we have to begin placing content material on TikTok. And I had by no means been on TikTok, and so I began scrolling by means of it proper earlier than mattress, and I couldn’t flip my mind off, as a result of it had simply been, like, proven all these hyper-stimulating issues. And it was a horrible night time of sleep.
The identical with alcohol, although. That’s a type of issues. Carrying a tracker on a regular basis now, it’s like I’ve conclusive information for myself that even one drink, I get a lot much less deep sleep, my HRV is decrease, my resting coronary heart charge is up, and I don’t get better. And so, I’ve needed to, similar to you, like, I nonetheless drink occasionally, however it actually isn’t an in a single day factor, or I simply don’t get better from exercises and I don’t get good sleep. And it’s not price that trade-off.
And I do know out of your private expertise, when you are penning this e book, you had two youngsters already, I consider, after which acquired pregnant together with your third, and are working an organization, and I’ve been in that zone as effectively. So I’m curious what classes you took for your self, as a result of I do know when I’m deep in analysis, I’m like, “Oh, I logically form of knew this, however I want to use this.”
Robin: Sure. I imply, pay attention, I can’t be my very own physician. And I do know all the knowledge, proper? However, like, we will learn a weblog publish about private coaching. That doesn’t make us a private coach. I actually am not geared up to be a private coach for myself. And, , I not solely want all these reminders, I want assist, proper. And I believe, as mothers, we’re going by means of a time period, and also you mentioned it amazingly earlier, like, we’re alleged to maintain our children like we’re not working, and work like we don’t have youngsters. And that turns into actually unattainable. And so, setting boundaries, taking day trip, particularly in a world the place for lots of us, make money working from home, if that’s the place you’re at. Not everyone is. However that may imply form of being all the time on. There’s no clocking out. It’s simply, your work is all the time proper right here on this little field that I’m sitting in entrance of.
And so, setting these boundaries, to start with, and setting these calendar invitations. I’m an enormous fan of, like, calendar invitations for myself. I block time daily for yoga on my calendar, that my staff can’t schedule over. I block time within the night sure nights of week, for, like, my self-care time. And I put it on like a gathering. It’s simply as necessary as an investor assembly or a key rent, or no matter else I’m doing. I believe that blocking these issues out and treating your calendar in your life as critically as you deal with your calendar in your day job, if that’s what you’re doing, is de facto vital.
After which, simply actually figuring out, like, the place I can push it and the place I can’t. And pay attention, generally I push it too far, and my physique exhibits up and tells me that I pushed it too far, like, energetically, after which I pay attention. I imply, I’ll let you know the story. Like, it’s actually embarrassing, however final week, I’m right here in Texas for a pair weeks, working distant. I flew early morning to Chicago for the day on Thursday, from Austin, again to Chicago the identical day. Again at 1:00 within the morning. Subsequent morning, I’m an enormous intermittent sooner, works for me, doesn’t work for everyone, however I’m previous breastfeeding and previous being pregnant, and performed having youngsters eternally, woohoo. So I can, , get again to my biohacking. And I present up at a enterprise lunch, and I acquired dizzy, and I needed to put my head down on the desk, and I informed my husband to come back get me.
And it was a type of days the place it was simply an excessive amount of. And I cleared my calendar, and I simply rested that afternoon. And it was like, I believe generally we push by means of and push by means of and push by means of. And I’m any person who tends to motor, motor, motor, go, go, go. And again to the calendaring and the setting limits, I’ve actually cleared out my calendar for a few days this week, not simply Friday, once I wasn’t feeling effectively. However by means of this week, as a result of I used to be like, “Oh, I want to truly get better.” Not like a pair hours on a Friday, however I want to actually give myself that point and area. And I believe we as ladies simply don’t give ourself that point and area, after which we’re working on empty. I’ve so many sufferers who’re on youngsters two, three, and by no means form of put the fuel again within the tank between one and two, or between two and three. After which the depletion begins to actually take over.
And so, an enormous factor that we do, we do numerous preconception optimization, fertility work, serving to ladies get pregnant. Supporting their our bodies. They’re nonetheless on their very own in the case of truly getting pregnant. We do numerous maternity assist, we do numerous postpartum optimization and therapeutic, and, , coping with all of the stuff that’s occurring there, from psychological well being to autoimmune, every little thing. And in that postpartum interval, we actually focus quite a bit on how are you rehabilitating your self and placing fuel again in your tank? As a result of in the event you didn’t do this between the final two youngsters, you’re gonna begin to actually run on empty.
And I believe ladies don’t get that permission quite a bit. They only get, , take one other capsule, maintain going. And in some unspecified time in the future, no treatment is gonna change actually taking a timeout and restoring, for, like, weeks at a time. And I’ll prescribe to my sufferers, I’m like, “It’s important to take a break.” And that’s, like, in your prescription pad, not simply together with your refill.
Katie: Yeah, and that’s I really feel like a tough shift to make, particularly for mothers. And one I’ve needed to study the laborious method as effectively is to place… I now consider it as I’ve scheduled an important issues first on my calendar. And people issues are the issues that give me vitality to do the work. So, earlier than work conferences can go on my schedule, my exercises go on my schedule, household dinners go on my schedule, time with my youngsters goes on my schedule, and people are non-negotiable. And I realized… I used to be in a behavior for lots of years of form of, like, caretaking, that I might by no means have thought of not exhibiting up for my youngsters once they wanted me. However I wasn’t exhibiting up for myself, which additionally made me much less in a position to present up for my household. And in order that was a lesson I needed to educate myself.
And it’s humorous. I consider a correlation based mostly on what you mentioned of, , I can know quite a bit about private coaching. I’m not a private coach. That’s an important analogy. I additionally consider, like, I’m a doula. I’ve been by means of a few of scholar midwifery college. And but, once I was in labor, all of that went fully out the window, and I remembered nothing. And I used to be simply, like, despite the fact that if another person was in labor, and once they’re hitting that area of, like, “I can’t do it,” I might be like, “Oh, you’re virtually there. This implies this and this, and also you’re in transition.” After I’m there, I’m like, “No, that is gonna final eternally.” And if you’re in it, it’s laborious to see the ten,000-foot view, so it’s all the time useful to have these nice sources of steering from exterior, which form of loops again to the preliminary level about work with practitioners who’re your companions, and who you possibly can actually align your targets and transfer towards the place you wanna go.
And as we get very near the tip of our time, I can’t consider how briskly this has blown by, a pair extra questions I like to ask, the primary being if there’s a e book or various books which have profoundly influenced your life, and in that case, what they’re and why?
Robin: I like “The Energy of Now,” by Eckhart Tolle. And I believe, , we study very early in life in our tradition to form of future journey and dwell on the previous, and we don’t discover ways to be right here. And I’m actually responsible of that. In order that’s one which I come again to time and again and over, that basically shifted my perspective on actuality, that I extremely suggest.
Katie: I like that one as effectively. I’ll put a hyperlink to that within the present notes at wellnessmama.fm, after all, with a hyperlink to your e book as effectively. If folks need to continue learning from you or possibly have particular questions associated to preconception optimization, or postpartum, or any of those matters we’ve talked about, the place is the most effective place to search out you and continue learning from you on-line?
Robin: So, parsleyhealth.com. And we now have an superior e-newsletter, everybody, with wonderful… I imply, I’m speaking to the content material queen right here, so I don’t even know why ought to I say this. However we now have a tremendous e-newsletter, all doctor authored and edited, well being coach authored and edited, that offers numerous step-by-step instruments. You should purchase the e book “State Change,” which is my easy roadmap for locating and re-finding higher psychological well being each single day, in, anyplace books are offered, Amazon and Barnes & Noble and, after all, all of the locations.
For those who’re seeking to simply do, get your symptom rating, and do it on-line, I might try parsleyhealth.com/insights. Anyone can simply go there and get their symptom rating, and form of start that technique of that first step, which is, I have to know the place I’m proper now to be able to direct myself to a brand new place. After which it’s @Parsley_Health or @robinberzinmd on all of the socials.
Katie: Superior. These hyperlinks will likely be within the present notes as effectively. And any parting recommendation for the listeners immediately that could possibly be associated to one thing we’ve talked about, or solely unrelated?
Robin: Don’t let good be the enemy of actually good. Simply begin.
Katie: I like it. Nicely, we’ve gotten by means of a lot immediately. This has been so useful and sensible. I do know you’re a busy mother and a busy physician. I’m very grateful for you being right here immediately and sharing your knowledge with us.
Robin: Oh, my, gosh. I’m so grateful to you. Thanks for all of the work you do, and thanks for having me.
Katie: And thanks as all the time to all of you for listening, and sharing your most precious assets, your time, your vitality, and your consideration with us immediately. We’re each so grateful that you just did, and I hope that you’ll be part of me once more on the following episode of “The Wellness Mama Podcast.”
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