LUNCHTIME LIFESTYLE LAB 11th April 2023

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so here we go now you can tell it's uh pre-recorded

and it's on a Sunday because look I haven't even done my hair look at that so anybody that joins us on YouTube they

can see the state of my Barney and the fact that it's Sunday and I'm chilling

right out and I've got my salsa dance your ass off t-shirt on

we need to blur that ass word I'm not sure if we're allowed to say arsenal in

this context I think we're all right you know a big donkey isn't it a nurse is a big donkey what's wrong with that

exactly in fact there was a there was a song Years Ago by Groove Armada called I

see you baby shaking that ass how cruel I know anyway

so yeah I am so happy to be here although I have to say I was slightly

confused when you said it was Sunday do you ever lose track of the days yeah all the time and also it's Easter Sunday and

I think this is my first Easter Sunday in the history of my beat years that

I've not had an Easter egg oh I never have them I never I never

understood the the link what was what's the link between uh gorging on chocolate and um

and a man with a beard coming out of a cave or something bunny rabbit it's all

about the bunny rabbit the Easter but because I'm away and I'm not at home the

Easter Bunny hasn't been able to find me right that'll be it so I'm obviously when I get home

there's going to be a big fat oh chocolate egg sitting on my doorstep I

can't wait yeah so I am delighted to be here because I was unwell last week

Dougie my voice Miracle recovery

I gave it um it felt like I was breathing glass

and felt like I had razor blades in my throat but it wasn't anything particular

it was some unbeknownst virus one of these things I picked up I had traveled back to the UK I had done trains planes

automobiles the usual um and you know the tube in London several times and then back again so all

that traveling small can find places considering I'm used to living in the countryside and only breathing beautiful

fresh air it was a massive blow to my system obviously picked up a little bug

um I gave it the two days that I only ever allow for illness and unfortunately

they happen to coincide with the day when we were supposed to be doing our lunchtime lifestyle lab so I missed you

Dougie it's been too long well it does seem like it's been a while does seem like it's been a while and you're

actually a way away at the moment um enjoying an Easter break yeah I'm

enjoying an Easter break this is my first time hands-free without children in 18 years no kids yeah no kids they're

all in other countries they're all visiting friends and family I feel like a it's like a rebirth I feel like a new

woman and I have to say I am really enjoying where I'm at because it's a beautiful place in the countryside it's

full-on reservoirs Rivers forests uh tracks and trails I'm in my element

so I'm just nice for walking then do you know what it is but you can only do it early in the morning it's

surprisingly hot here if you're on the Costa Blanca there is some or in Spain there's something gone wrong with their

thermometer this Easter and we were hitting 30 degrees and it's April hello

yeah yeah it's been warm so yeah we've been walking in the morning chillaxing in the afternoon and I've been doing

funny old stuff like I didn't a line dancing class yeah I feel like I know

it's great uh brilliant uh back to reality on Tuesday but I've still got a

couple of days to enjoy this Freedom loving it uh hi kids I love you I really do I really miss you kids

fantastic so the life lab what have we got on the agenda today well do you know

what um I wasn't feeling particularly sorry for myself when I was sick but I was feeling a little bit sorry for

myself and I thought maybe we could focus on that a little bit you know just to give myself a little bit of an extra

milking time in that it would be nice to talk about natural remedies and ways we

could focus on getting ourselves better because I did say to you a minute ago

that I gave it you know it's mandatory two days and then I said and now it's enough

kick the illness out the door it's time to crack on with life and um I think

it's really interesting to look at one's mindset when one is ill you know because

I don't wear it well at all I I don't accept it I don't enjoy it I barely

allow it um but some people tend to embrace illness illness a little

bit better or more and it's it's it's it's a question of why would you do that well maybe you

work dreadfully hard and something like a cold might come along or a virus might come along and you might need to look

upon it as a gift and you might need to say to yourself actually I'm going to take this I'm going to stay in bed for a

week because you know it's a message from somebody or something saying slow down dude but uh yeah so I'm of the opinion that

our mindset is a huge important factor in you know the length of time that it

takes us to recover or how we recover um I think or it is sad that there's a

growing body of medical and scientific research that shows that you can heal

yourself to an extent with your own mind now people might say what's all that

quackery you know enough out here it's only rubbish or she's talking a load of cards while maybe I am maybe I'm not but

I truly believe that I personally have um healed myself from my colds and my

viruses because I just won't tolerate them enough is enough so as soon as I'm

ready or as soon as I feel capable to get outdoors I do it rather than wallow

indoors or stay in my bed longer than is necessary I say right even though my breathing's not good and

even though I'm not feeling fit enough I am going to go for a walk so you know I think mindset is a very

important um factor in how we get ourselves ready the thing is you know as well that that

positive mental attitude and um and that way of thinking it releases

endorphins and endorphins you know they ease pain and they are

healing so that kind of makes sense from a science perspective doesn't it you know so think positive when you're sick

rather than be overwhelmed if at all possible try to think positively know that you'll get over with uh know that

you can battle it and fight it and recover and I think that you're you're setting yourself up for a better journey

through whatever illness you might have um the other thing that's very interesting is

as an example of why this might be true or proof of why this might be true is

the whole idea of the placebo effect so you'll have two people with the same

whether it be allergies whether it be a little illness or whatever it might be and they're both given a pill one's

given the red pill one's given the blue pill one is the real medication and one is the placebo now why is it that

repeatedly and over and over again it's been proven that this placebo effect the

person who's taking nothing at all you know it could be a bit of sugar in a capsule whatever it might be and they

themselves feel better and have a recovery what is that yeah they think they think themselves better think

themselves better it's it's positivity I mean some doctors advocate for you know using your mind to heal yourself and

some say you're deluded so I'm you know I personally try my best to use my mind

to help me get better um hypnotherapy is another great example

people use it for all types of ailments and um whether it be disease or whether it

be phobias or whether it be you know whatever condition hypnotherapy is a fantastic way it's how we access our

subconscious mind so we use a very tiny little bit of our nugget you know that small bit of

conscious mind that we use there's this amazing computer this amazing CPU this

Processing Unit called the subconscious mind and when we use hypnotherapy we access the power of our subconscious

mind which isn't something all of us understand completely but you know there's an awful lot of power in our

subconscious mind and that's why people use it to help with recovery so yeah there's a lot to be said for

healing ourselves there's a load of books out there that you can read and some of them are really excellent some of them are a little bit too like I said

before quackish so you know but there's lots of information online you can read about how your positive mental attitude

how your approach and um your way of thinking about your illness will will

have an effect on how and when you recover I thought that was an interesting thing we could talk about

what do you reckon doggy well um it's uh it's funny you should say this because it was World Health day uh

last Friday and I had a couple of doctors on with me and we were chatting

about very similar things in fact and I mentioned a favorite book of my God

anti-cancer a new way of life which um not only deals with that positive

mental attitude but couples that together with changing your lifestyle

completely or changing your diet for main mainly

um and it was written by a guy called Dr David

serve and Schreiber that's it and um it's great book it's I recommend it to

anyone not just people that are going through a cancer or or anything like that but um this this book deals with

um pre-war farming methods talks about that and how things have changed

um you know since then and how that really does affect how you feel and how

you respond and um a lot of these uh additives and things

that get past the Food and Drug Administration um you know they go tick and they yeah

put it on the supermarket shelves and people don't read labels when they go shopping they just go yep yep we'll have

that and that and that and that but what I'm saying is that that book deals with all of that but it also deals with the

positive mental attitude as well now when I was uh rather poorly some years ago I I don't know whether it was a

natural reaction where I just thought well okay this is what it is

are we going to deal with it what what are we going to do of course um not not

everyone can do that I mean some people go oh damn um I'm Ill yeah

yeah it depends on how emotionally strong I suppose you are or what other

factors you've got going on in your life your support system how happy you are in

yourself there's so many factors to consider if you're given a diagnosis or something serious it's incredible

because you can have two people they're given the same diagnosis on the same day and have you'll have one person say well

I'm going to beat this and you can have the other person who can be absolutely crippled with fear and not even know how

to approach it um and we can take ownership of that in

a way and try to do our own research and try to get our heads into the right place

and I think doctors and the medical profession are much more focused on that now rather than just focusing on the

Pharmaceuticals and I'm not knocking Pharmaceuticals they work you know they have saved so many lives in so many

different ways but I do love the fact that doctors now are focusing on the power that you have on your nutrition on

exercise I love that oncologist now are prescribing movement and walking as part

of your treatment plan they're not just saying oh and you should do a bit of exercise oh yeah don't forget to go for

a walk they're actually saying what I need you to do as part of your treatment plan is to walk three times a week for

40 minutes so they're being very direct and clear when they're prescribing what type of exercise you should do to help

improve your recovery um you spoke about you know the nutritional thing we have so much power both in

what diseases we may have or get and in how we recover for

from them and one of the main things is what you eat you are what you eat I mean

we all know that you know the whole an apple a day keeps the doctor away I can throw loads of cliches at you but it's

true and I'm not telling anybody today or tomorrow to completely radically change

their diet but you can slowly slowly eliminate certain things and add certain

things one of the buzzwords that we're all loving and it's been kicking around for quite a while is superfoods who

doesn't love the sound of that um they can't fly but they are the

superheroes of nutrition um and I I eat them all they're on my

list and I eat them if not every day a couple of times a week because firstly they're delicious and secondly they make

me feel good they make me feel like I'm treating myself well when I eat

c-r-a-p I feel like c-r-a-p you know when I have a bad day and I'm feeling

emotionally weak and I shovel the chocolate in or I eat too much sugar or I Gorge myself on cake it gives me a

moment of relief but ultimately I don't feel great about myself and I don't feel great physically but when I eat these

superfoods I just feel like I'm looking after my temple so so these are foods

that are rich in nutrients um fiber antioxidants they do Miracles

and wonders for our bodies and like I say they're delicious things like blueberries

um broccoli no some people are cringing at the thought of broccoli who doesn't love eating a little tree garlic

avocados leafy greens so throw spinach raspberries are particularly good

gorgeous I mean raspberries all those berries Ginger is brilliant um so you can drink it you can make a

tea out of it you can do it in your curries you can have it with your sushi get loads of Ginger into yourself beetroot

throw walnuts on your salads quinoa

it's another fancy one I wasn't brought off up on quinoa I can tell you I was

brought up I was brought up on a Duke a dookie beans and black eyed peas and stuff like that my mother decided she

was gonna um uh experiment with macrobiotic cooking

not always particularly successfully I can tell you that you can imagine right as a kid around so 11 12 years old

um being presented with a plate of dookie beans and just veggies and black eyed beans I mean

Gray but she didn't quite get the hang of it for a bit for quite a while and we were

a great guinea pigs well and you survived and look at you you're a great time I'm still here I'm

still here so I can't complain but well she had the right idea and that was probably quite a while ago now

everybody's talking about lentils and beans and they're nutritious and they're full of fiber and they mean we're not

eating the high carbohydrates and that you know the the spuds and the pastas

and the Rices which are all great as well in moderation if you can replace a little bit of your Spud and your pasta

and your rice with your beans or lentils it's gonna serve you better um if you're a fish eater salmon

brilliant you know it's a great superfood it's one of the top of the list if you if you need your protein and your antioxidants and it's full of

nutrients these Foods they're not disgusting you know there might be one or two of them there that you're not loving

um easy as well to add superfoods like seeds chia seeds and the Goji berries as

well just you know chop them in your yogurt or throw them on your breakfast cereal or whatever way you want to hide

or disguise them from the kids you can do so throw them in The Bolognese they're not going to know

um these are easy they're accessible they're not overly expensive they're natural they're not processed and

they're a great way of looking after your health you have the power nobody's Force feeding you you can decide what

you put in your mouth and that's going to help you feel better avoid disease and heal quicker from illness so yeah I

I love my superfoods do you know um I wasn't quite sure how our conversation

would go so I put a little post out on my socials

saying to because I was looking for sympathy so I put a little post out on our social saying that I hadn't been

well and that you know I had to to boot and that I was feeling much

better and that I felt you know that I had taken control Etc blah blah blah and I reached out to people to see if they

had any questions about their health and natural remedies so I got a whole I got

a fair few not Millions now because it's just me but I got a couple of questions that I thought we could cover Dougie do

you think we have time yeah sure so we had a question from Helen and

she's in Western super mare which I don't know that's in the UK somewhere sounds very good I love Western great

big long Sandy miles of beaches all right well she's a a great swimmer so

that might make sense um she says I've had a lung infection and I can't seem to get over it I

finished antibiotics and now I'm taking a mix of over-the-counter remedies I want yeah here we go I want to get

back to my swimming quickly any tips so we're talking about the lungs aren't we

really generally she's had a lung infection um lots of viruses hit the lungs colds

pneumonia there's all types of stuff we're gonna hit our lungs now I'm going to take it right back to the thing that

I love the most and that's walking I knew you were going to say that something I know right

because we exercise to have slim bottoms and we exercise to look good and we

exercise to have fun but did you know that physical exercise is probably one of the best things you can do for long

Health you might as well you know exercise your organs as well as you know

your your outer body so this is so important if you want to avoid you know

long issues be fit give your lungs the exercise they require but also if you're

suffering from a lung infection like I was there last week my lungs were in bits they ached they really hurt when I

breathed but as soon as I felt capable even though my lungs were at me I went out and I exercised because that deep

breathing this is nice you know it clears the

sputum yeah yeah you know that phlegm and that's what you want you want to get rid of that gun go to your lung selfie

thing is going to quickly loosen the flame and get it out and you can spit it

up or you can blow your nose or whatever you need to do so don't be afraid if you're feeling rough and your lungs

aren't great don't be afraid to get out and exercise you know some of us might be reluctant to think oh I'm not capable

or that can't be good for me it's you know you've got to change your thinking completely on that as soon as you can

get out and give your lungs the exercise I'm walking at a fairly gentle Pace isn't going to be over taxing is it no

gentle or as much as you're comfortable you know if you can breathe deeply you're going to get deeper into your

lungs and clear the phlegm so if you can build up a bit of pace and increase your breathing that's even better you know so

that's one of the and it's giving your body oxygen it's oxygenating your whole um blood you're filling yourself up with

your blood oxygen that's fantastic you know you're given your immune system a boost

um so yeah there you are go for a walk fixes everything told you um so Helen do that get out walking as

soon as you can get out and I'm not you know don't go running too soon or don't over exert yourself but get out walking

and exercise listen to your body listen to your body and listen to Neve and doggy

um another thing that's great is green tea a fantastic one for the lungs so I think

a lot of people drink really tea anyway it's great antioxidant but it's a really good one for the lungs anti-inflammatories as well because if

you think about it your lungs they are you know your Airways they're inflamed so any foods that are anti-inflammatory

oh love it live by turmeric every day to get to get turmeric to work properly you

have to mix it with um pepper and oil but the oil needs to be slightly heated

so it really reacts with the turmeric so the I I have been because because of

that and because of time restrictions and all that and it I was told years ago that you needed 16 of the little

turmeric roots and you need to Stew them and you need to prepare them and all that and I went oh for goodness sake I

don't have time for that time so I've been taking the capsules mixed with black pepper daily for must be 15 years

um and I swear by them you know I have been and I've had a great health touchwood she's knocking on her Noggin

I've got great health for for many many years so I do think everybody should Chuck turmeric into their morning

routine if they can yeah Long's steam therapy

um Helen as well is great one for your long health uh yeah that was a really good question

because I think right now A lot of people are affected with long health issues um another question that came in if

we've time for it yep was from Louise in Denia so she's local

to where I live um and this is something I think is very topical right now she says I suffer from

pollen allergies and I'm driven mad at four weeks I've tried the usual tried

and trusted medication from my Pharmacy but I can't seem to stop sneezing and my eyes are constantly swollen does anybody

have any magic solution no I'm I'm listening to this because okay um I've

today if I sound a little bit sort of nasally it's because yeah I've I've had

sneezing fits all day and I mean I'm not usually that bad with pollen but today has been

Dreadful I've been like streaming but um yeah not too bad at the moment but it's

been a whole day of it today well you're not alone right now there seems to be a mass of people complaining

about their allergies um so I think I thought it was a great thing to cover if we can quickly if we

have the time so doctors would if you've got serious allergies would um offer you maybe a monthly shot or you

know over-the-counter medications antihistamines and things like that but they don't always work and there are certain things you can do yourself

basically an allergy is when your immune system isn't quite working the same as everybody else's and doesn't react the

same two things like pollen dust mites pet Stander at mold spores etc etc and

you'll have a reaction you'll be Sneezy you'll be nasally and your breathing will be complicated

um as you're suffering from right now so guess what's top of the list doggy come

on exercise exercise well you know what it just so happens it

just so happens that in about about 20 minutes half an hour I'm going to be

walking with my dog for about um uh we usually do about just over an

hour on a Sunday would just pop down to the port and back and yeah that's uh that

should it's it it it it it'll certainly have but it seems contradictory doesn't it because if you've got a pollen

allergy you always imagine that you should stay indoors rather than get out there but you know if if

yeah exercise your lungs um obviously the best remedy for an allergy is to avoid the damn thing if at

all possible so if you've got a dust mite allergy you know stay out of Dusty areas etc etc but that's not always

possible so yeah for Louise in Dania I think one of the things people recommend

um is a stay-line irrigation nasty business but I know I have two kids with

allergies and as nasty and as messy as it is it really clears up their allergies for several hours especially

when they're sobering so suffering so a saline irrigation is a great one to give you a lot of relief long term during the

day and then I have a few little bits and pieces and we're kind of going back to superfoods again that are things you can

introduce yourself that are renowned for helping allergies one of which

and this one was a new one to me and I'm delighted I've discovered it because I'm going to bring it into my kids daily

routine it's a thing called butter bar butterbur have you heard of that one then look at

that I know I know exciting so it apparently it's a big green leaf and they used to use it to treat the

plague and fever in the 17th century but originally what they were using it for was to store butter in hot wet hot

weather so they'd wrap the butter in this Leaf so that's where it got its name butcherber and it's meant to be

fantastic now if you can get your hands on it you can stew it you can consume it that way or you can take it in capsule

form and from the little bit of research I've done it seems to be absolute magic for a whole

um plethora of breathing related allergies so let's get down the nature uh the natural remedy store and pick up

a bit of that uh probiotics acupuncture spirulina you may have heard of it it's

a nasty tasting business a lot of nasty you can put it in your Shake in the

morning I'm not doing it because it's green off but it tastes so strong so

again you can take that in capsule form and it's a great another antioxidant superfood so a great one to take for

allergies all the usuals peppermint eucalyptus all those things that are great for

breathing and clearing your navel cavities and nasal cavities nettle

another one that I was back in the UK recently and I was doing some Forest walks and the guy I was walking with he

who knew everything and anything about the nature around us and he picked up a nettle leaf and he rolled it up and he

ate it and I was there with my you know I was gobsmacked um and he was telling me about the qualities of nettle and he said one of

the great qualities is that's fantastic for allergies now in Spain I don't know are we a lot of nettles I don't believe

so um but certainly in the UK you can't go out for a walk in the nature without

getting your ankles you know strung by metal so you know get yourself a bit of nettle tea vitamin C which is good for

everything basically not just your allergies so get loads of vitamin C citrus fruits and all that so Louise I

hope that has helped answer your allergy question but if anybody out there please

this is where we love hearing from you guys if you've any advice personal

um tips on how to tackle allergies please old wives tales we love them let

us know because so many of us are suffering with the itchy nose and the

swollen eyes right now we will try anything so yeah let us know

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well yes because I do tend to walk my way well and I encourage everybody to get

out moving get exercise and get into nature and it will help your mindset and

will help your emotional and mental well-being and they are one of the best medicines when it comes to illness and

recovery from illness so get out there get walking you'll find me on the socials on walk your way well please hit

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life you'll love yeah I didn't even have to read it off a bit of paper that time no it's finally

gets an ear where it's the ear worm that will stick yes we're learning to live the Limitless life we love and we love

hearing your ways of learning to live your Limitless life so keep in touch with us all thank you yes I'm going back

to my holiday now and have a green tea and I'm going to have a walk in a forest and I'm going to feel absolutely fantastic thanks a million for having me

again doggy and I shall chat with you very soon enjoy your break enjoy your walk thank you thank you dog take a walk

today the road right away the wind on your back the Rays on

your face let's do what they say believe the cliche is gonna tell figure things out walk

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