Eat your vegetables, kids! In today's episode of According to the Cassels, Amy and Tray talk about the incredible antioxidants to be found in fruit and vegetables. The conversation begins with some thoughts on how each of our anticipation stress cycles works, and what that can feel like to navigate within a partnership. We get honest with some personal reflections around moments when our libidos haven't been in sync, and think about ways to sit with uncomfortable thoughts and perceived rejection, as well as reminding ourselves to be present with the ways that any negative emotion shows up in our bodies. Then, Amy artfully guides us through some fascinating science around antioxidants, phytonutrients, and just what all the hype is regarding free radicals! Lastly, we learn how to fight aging and disease using the rainbow that's on our plate, with a comprehensive list of healing fruit and veg to target a multitude of issues. Tune in to hear all this from the Cassels today, and more!

Key Points From This Episode:

• Amy and Tray each track their anticipation-stress cycle.
• Creating the very outcome you're trying to avoid by overthinking.
• Talking about testosterone, and the huge difference we've felt since we started supplements.
• Tray shares about feeling in a funk, and his frustration around expectations and achievement. 
• We discuss moments where our libido levels aren't in sync, and perceiving rejection.
• The importance of pausing to recognize and be curious about uncomfortable thoughts.
• How our thoughts can create and bring up negative things in our physical bodies. 
• Thoughts are like trains on a subway: you can choose to not jump on the train.
• Speaking to your support people when your thoughts are running away with you.
• How to interact with your partner and work with their way of processing stress.
• Talking about antioxidants, and reviewing our last episode about reducing sugar intake.
• Amy chats about her body's sensitivity to sugary foods now that her diet is sugar-free.
• Your gut is an ecosystem: discussing the relationship between sugar and candida.
• What are phytonutrients, and how our bodies are like a plant.
• The scary accumulation of free radicals that cause oxidative stress and aging. 
• Eating the rainbow, and how many vegetables we should be eating each day.
• What the Bible has to say about encouraging the use of plants and food as medicine. 
• Amy provides some great specific examples of plants and herbs with healing properties.
• A comprehensive list of the fruit and vegetables that give you all your antioxidant needs!
• Supplements are great, but they should be used to bolster your diet.
• Some excellent dietary supplements that the Cassels take. 

Tweetables:

“When a thought brings on an emotion that is an unwanted emotion, and it continually repeats itself, it's something that you have got to stop and sit with.” — @amy_cassels [0:11:46]

“Our thoughts have so much power, and they sometimes bring on negative things within our physical bodies that we don't always want.” — @amy_cassels [0:12:42]

“Pride and ego can be a blessing and a curse.” — Tray Cassels [0:16:04]

“Your gut is your ecosystem.” — @amy_cassels [0:22:06]

“If you're not going to eat a diet that is strong in these antioxidants, you're going to have to supplement.” — @amy_cassels [0:37:21]

Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:

Dr. Dean Ornish

Amy Cassels

Amy Cassels on Twitter

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