Don’t Outlive Your Wellness, Know These 8 Foundations Of Health with Dr. Carol Shwery

Dr. Carol Shwery (DrCarolShwery.com) has been a dedicated healthcare practitioner for more than 40 years. She is deeply committed to helping people who struggle with feeling sick, tired, and in pain, find the root causes of their health challenges. She helps them reset their body and health so they can wake up feeling vibrant, full of energy, and ready for each day, no matter their age.

Through targeted lab testing, Dr. Shwery can assess how each system is working and design an individualized program to rebalance your body. Creating an individualized diet plan, a scientifically based supplement program, stress reduction, and exercise, a person’s health can improve dramatically – not only physically, but emotionally.

With an ongoing wellness plan, many health problems can be avoided, such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease, arthritis, female, adrenal, thyroid, and insulin hormone imbalances. Her clients are finding a vitality that has given them a new lease on life!

Her personal goal is to transform our broken health care system as well as our broken health and empower people to achieve optimal health so they experience the joy and freedom of a life without limits.

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Roy - AGEUcational (00:02):

Hello, and welcome to another episode of educational. This is Roy. So this is a fairly, relatively new podcast. And, uh, what we're, what we aim to do is we want to put information out there for not only the aging, but caregivers and, uh, those that are, uh, maybe getting closer to, you know, being seniors, that all kinds we're going to have, uh, you know, we're going to Chronicle our journey, mine and Terry's, uh, family, our parents, what we're going through. And then we're also going to bring professionals on. And, uh, we'd also like to hear stories of others that are going through things that have made it through things. You know, we want to be a good support group and I put some information out there for everybody just to make this aging process for yourself or your loved one, a much easier and a lot less stressful. So with that said, I'm going to turn it over to Terry. If you could introduce our guest.

Terry - AGEUcational (01:02):

Yes. We would like to welcome Dr. Carol Shwery for the second time. This is, this is the first time on this podcast. Um, but she was a guest on one of our other ones and we wanted to have her back. She is a dedicated health care practitioner for over 40 years, deeply committed to helping people who struggle with feeling sick, tired, and in pain. She likes to find the root causes of their health challenges helps them reset their day, no matter what their age, um, through targeted testing, Dr. Sherry can assess how each system is working and design an individualized wellness program to rebalance your body. Dr. Schwartz, thank you so much for coming and talking to us. Um, we'd like to welcome you to share the show and, and find out everything that we need to know about aging.

Dr. Carol (01:58):

Golly G [inaudible]. Well, thanks for having me back. You guys are wonderful and I so appreciate being able to share what I can with you guys in the, in a short and limited amount of time. And I know you wanted to talk about aging, correct? Yes, we do. So, all right. Yes. Terry, do you have a something you look like you want to say, well, I just want,

Terry - AGEUcational (02:25):

Hi. I wanted to say that you are a functional medicine practitioner, so maybe we can start there and just kind of tell a little bit what the, what the difference between functional and regular. What is it traditional? Thank you, regular. Um, let's go there.

Dr. Carol (02:46):

Okay. All right. So the difference in a brief way is the difference between conventional medicine and functional medicine is when you go to see a conventional medical doctor, they're listening to your symptoms, they're looking at you from what I call the top-down hi, I've got this symptom. And so what their, their approach is to go, okay, I want to eradicate the symptom. So we're going to give you their, their main, main emo or modus operandi is through medication and surgery. They're going to eliminate that as their, their orientation, functional medicine, we are going from the bottom up. So we're trying to find out why do you have that symptom what's wrong with you? So we're looking at trying to find root causes of why somebody has the problem and treat those rather than simply treating the symptom. So that's a difference of orientation. Um, and it, it, it provides different type of treatment modalities. So what we're trying to do is understand, um, in terms of functional medicine, we have many what I call foundations of health. And we're going to talk about those more today as we talk about aging and what we need to do does that

Speaker 4 (04:09):

Well. Yes, yes. Perfect. Thank you. Okay. Everybody jump right in.

Dr. Carol (04:21):

Obviously we're all aging. That is a statement of fact. We, and we want to get healthy aging at no matter what age we are. I mean, so for some people, they think of aging as once they had, you know, 65, you know, other people say I'm starting to age at 35, 40, whatever, but we want that same principle. Okay. And so why, why is this important for us? What is the reason we want to be healthy? And I asked you, and I asked your listeners that my wife, um, I just turned 66 Yahoo, uh, two to three weeks.

Speaker 4 (04:58):

I can't believe it happened. You collated birthday.

Dr. Carol (05:03):

So my why is, and probably yours. We have loved ones. We have grandchildren, we have people in our lives. We want to be there for, we want to live a life of, uh, joy and purpose. Um, my, one of my main choices, I love gardening. I'm a, I'm a master gardener. I want to spend hours a day out in my garden and I want to be healthy enough to do it. And so what's your reasons for wanting to stay healthy. That's really important. And so what today, really the idea is the best defense is a good offense. Okay. That's what we're really trying to achieve here. And so 90% of all illness is due to lifestyle 90%. And so 90% of all illness can be fixed with lifestyle. That's a big statement.

Speaker 4 (06:05):

Say that again, say that again. Let's do it. And while it's complete, you know,

Dr. Carol (06:11):

Hmm, 90% of all illness is due to lifestyle and 90% of all illness can be fixed with lifestyle. So that's a huge statement. So if you go to conventional wisdom, medical doctors, that's not necessarily the direction they're going to be looking at. So we had, so the point is we have an opportunity to control our health in far bigger ways than we ever thought. So we have this sense. There's a, there's a curve, a curve, a life's a life. Uh, I have to, I got to see, um, I can't remember the name of my curve. Uh, it's, it's chronicling the health and decline of health. And there is a, basically a curve that around 40, our health starts to decline rapidly. And that's the traditional trajectory of health in our country. We hit a certain point in all of a sudden things start to fall apart.

Dr. Carol (07:16):

And what we're trying to do in functional medicine is what I call rectangular rise their curve. So instead of going like this, and then we want to bring the health and just keep it sort of in a, in a rectangle until the very end, because we know we're all going to die at some point, but we don't want to have that trajectory really rapidly going downhill once we hit the forties and beyond. So that's really what we're doing today. And we have, um, ways which we want to, uh, make that happen. And so my goal is to try and fix our health and fix our healthcare system so that we can do that. And we talked last time and I want to talk again about that, that eight foundations of our health. Okay, we've got nutrition, we've got hydration, we've got stress reduction. We've got exercise, we've got a toxic environment.

Dr. Carol (08:16):

We live around 85,000 different chemicals every week we can encounter. And they do affect us. Um, we've got relationship is choosing. This is something we're going to talk about. Well, we can talk about it right now, seniors, in this time of COVID do you think isolation has, is become a giant problem for seniors? Oh my God, it's horrible. It is. And that's a foundation of health. Um, if we're not getting enough sleep, if we're too stressed out or simply where, you know, aging, uh, people when they age, especially if they're not living, uh, uh, you know, their health, their, their self care is not the best sleep can be a problem. The nervous system can be ramped up and out of balance. And then are people getting as much joy in life? We're, especially right now, these are the foundations of health and it doesn't matter how old you are, but as we age, these things become older.

Dr. Carol (09:14):

I wanted to just say one thing you guys know I have had, um, when I turned 50, I ended up with, uh, with, uh, with brain surgery. I had a tumor 14 hours. Surgery came out in Tacoma, came out of the coma, totally paralyzed on one side, completely and had to relearn. And I learned what it meant at 50 years old to be old because I was in a wheelchair with half a head of hair and an eyepatch over my eye. And I got to experience life as an old person. And it was, um, highly revealing from many points of view. And so I got a preemptive view of what it could be like, but it doesn't have to be like that. So it made my passion for wanting to help people even more important and real and real, because I've really got a sense of this. Um, and so I want to talk to you about things that you guys and your people can do today. That matters. Now I'm going to ask both your question. You guys, I'm sorry. What do you believe, or either of you or your listeners is the most feared situation about aging health wise?

Roy - AGEUcational (10:41):

Well, I'll go first. I think it's, um, it's outliving our wellness and being a burden on our family or just, um, you know, being trapped, being, having a, a good, fresh mind, but a body that like you were saying that maybe can't get out and garden anymore. If that was your passion or, you know, like me, I like to get out and hike. So if I couldn't go do that, that would not be, uh, good. So I, you know, I think it's, uh, it's kind two fold for me is I want to remain active until the end, but I also don't want to be a burden on anybody else. They, they, um, because, you know, we talk about that eventually is that, uh, that's a huge stressor to, to have to be a caregiver, to somebody who is in a mess. And then I guess the, um, just taking that a little further in, you think about it being self-inflicted. I mean, if you have an accident or something that happens to you is one thing, but as you began to get to a certain age, you start thinking about, well, am I self-inflicting, you know, future trauma on myself. So now's a good time to think about, you know, getting my lifestyle cleaned up. I can say that for sure.

Terry - AGEUcational (11:55):

My answer is getting Alzheimer's. I mean, definitely. And, you know, I joke, I joke about it all the time. It's not just because I have a sick twisted sense of humor and that's the only way that I can get through. Um, but my dad had Alzheimer's for at least a dozen years that we know of, for sure. And he's, he's, he passed away about five years ago, but, um, I mean, it was a long, it was just a long suffering and just to see his suffering and, and our, and you know, part of it's selfish. Cause we, he wasn't there. We just didn't see the twinkle in his eye on Alzheimer's for sure. But I joke about me, you know? Yeah. That's my Alzheimer's is kicking in, you know, I shouldn't do that. I gotta stop doing that.

Dr. Carol (12:40):

Oh yeah. But, but 50, but, but it's, it's, it's increasing in a really quick and rapid way. Alzheimer's and dementia are the number one concern of people who are aging. That is it. You hit it right on the head. So that's kind of wanted to talk about that today, but step back from that a little bit and go, well, why is that what's happening here? Because that is the number one fear everyone. Yep. Yes, it is. It is. It is definitely number one. So with that, I want to say, well again, going back to the functional medicine model, why is what is happening happening by the D 2050? Um, there, I mean, the numbers are going to be triple and quadruple what they are now for Alzheimer's it's, it's re it's rapidly increasing. Oh, so I want to just talk about a few things. We have a short period of time.

Dr. Carol (13:38):

So I wanted to kind of just get, give you a sense. The first thing is all timers, uh, dementia. These are functions of inflammation, inflammation. Okay. So if we need to deal with getting the inflammation in our bodies under control, okay. Uh, inflammation is the number one cause of degenerative disease all over our bodies. And it's not just arthritis or the itises cardiovascular disease, um, diabetes. These are all pro inflammatory diseases. So we need to get our inflammation under control. Okay. Things like Alzheimer's diabetes, arthritis, auto-immune diseases, which are hugely on the rise, neurologic diseases, cancers, pulmonary, they're all inflammation. And what's another little secret side. You know, side little information is belly fat. Okay. We think of belly fat is the belly fat. You can see on the outside, but I'm talking about the belly fat that's underneath that fat that sending out pro inflammatory signals in a big way.

Dr. Carol (14:55):

So we need to be able to go in the same diseases, including Alzheimer's can be triggered through the inflammation pathway through that excess belly fat. So we need to be able to go, wow, what do we need to do to manage this? So for your listeners, I just want to say, okay, what's these are, this is a driving force for aging inflammation. And so what can we do to limit the inflammation? What can we do today? We can decrease inflammatory foods okay. That we can do today. Um, these are, these are common pro-inflammatory foods. You've got gluten, gluten containing foods. Uh, you've got corn, soy products, dairy sugar, eggs peanuts. These are super common pro-inflammatory foods for these are things that anybody can manage right now. And it's just as an aside, gluten has been shown to be dramatically problematic for the Alzheimer's and dementia patients.

Dr. Carol (16:10):

So do you, do you know what I mean by that? I like my gluten. That's terrible. I know we all like our gluten, so yeah, we do. Yes. No, go ahead. I was going to say so what, so what types of foods? So, uh, breads, breads, breads pastas. Um, I mean, this is a large co LA LA uh, much longer everything I'm saying could be another two hours, but you can, what's valuable right now is, I don't know your, I asked you this the last time. I mean, you've got a whole foods where you live, but you got health food stores. You can go get non-gluten grain. Non-gluten breads. You want to stay away from gluten. And I'll tell you when I go ahead, when I get in heavy into gluten brain fog is my immediate response. And it's not, this is not just, um, it does, Oh little brain fog.

Dr. Carol (17:10):

You know, it leads somewhere. It has physiological ramifications. So these are things you can do to help yourself with fighting aging, by changing the diet that you have, you want an anti-inflammatory diet. You can also take omega-3 fatty acids. Okay. Because they are, every cell in our body is made up of fatty acids, every cell memory. So, and if you are, if you're deficient in Omega threes, then your pro inflammatory potential is higher. Okay. So that's another thing you do to fight off inflammation. And another little thing that you might want to consider is, um, you want, you want to, um, eat, um, nine to 11 servings of fruits and vegetables a day. That's tremendous amount. That's two, two giant dinner. Platefuls a day. So I encourage people to drink their fruits and vegetables. And, and especially for Alzheimer's we say the term go blue.

Dr. Carol (18:19):

Okay. Cause blue, like berries, these things are super pro anti-inflammatory. So if you make yourself a drink, you put some berries in it. This is going to be really anti-inflammatory, which is going to be really, really good. Okay. Um, good stuff. I want to also talk about your guts, your guts, and your brain are linked. So with you have a situation in your gut where your gut is something called leaky. Again, we could talk for hours about what leaky gut means, but it means that the cell, the membrane of your guts are so permeable that things can get through into your body that are not supposed to be there. Toxins, um, infections, uh, all sorts of particles that are not supposed to be in your body and guess where they can migrate to, they can migrate to your brain. So leaky gut oftentimes means leaky brain.

Dr. Carol (19:19):

Hmm. Interesting. So yeah, this is super important when it comes to as aging folks, our brain function, leaky brain. Oh my gosh. This is a big problem. For those of us who are in the aging process, we want to make sure that we don't have that situation. So the other thing about the gut, one of the main problems with, um, aging, especially now is people are depressed. Okay. There's a lot of depression in the world. Well, believe it or not, 70% of all our neurotransmitters serotonin, you've heard of that. Okay. And the gods it's in the gut, 70% is in the gut, none in the brain, in the gut. So if our guts aren't working well, then our moods can be greatly diminished. So again, how aging, it's not about, uh, go to the doctor and say, Hey, this COVID is knocking me for a loop.

Dr. Carol (20:34):

I need some antidepressants, well, that's an option, but the other, other option is, well, why is this becomes so bad besides the fact that we're living isolated, what physiological activity is place that can make this worse. So we want to think about the gut. Um, and, uh, and so again, the anti-inflammatory diet, the Omega threes, and if you take some probiotics or probiotic, rich foods, these are going to help with your leaky gut. If you have it, then most of us do. Um, and I just wanted, I'm going kind of quick. I don't know where we are. Kim was this good? Can we, can we talk a little bit about the probiotics? I mean, are, are, are there certain ones that are better? I mean, just a little view. Well, um, this is a very large topic. This is a large topic, but, um, I would say, I mean, if you want to go to the store, I believe probiotics is a very there. The, the topic is, is really the research on it is really growing right now a lot, but to get, uh, acidophilus, lactobacillus, acidophilus and or bifidus is pretty basic, um, all purpose probiotic, uh, for most people. And, um, you want to, at least in my opinion yet, try and get closer to 50 billion per dose. Okay. Um, not million billion. That would be just the night. That would be a way to start the plugging of the holes if they're there. Okay.

Roy - AGEUcational (22:21):

Okay. And I know we could talk about this for a couple hours on its own, but just two quick questions is, uh, you know, we, we had have a previous guest on that. We kind of got off on this and, uh, they were saying that there is a, uh, a prebiotic that you, it's probably a good idea to do a prebiotic, to make sure you have the bacteria for the probiotics to eat. And then the other thing that she did mention was that it's better to get it out of a refrigerated case than off the shelf, just because of shelf life issues.

Dr. Carol (22:56):

Well, prebiotics are different probiotics. You have to, well, this is the problem with this conversation. One of the things I heard you to do is that when you go to the health food store, you can always get these from me. Should you decide to, because I spend a lot of time researching the companies that provide these things. And part of the problem with probiotics is if they have not been tested to get through the bile and the gallbladder, you're just, it's like, you're, you're spending a lot of money for nothing. And so if you go to the healthy store, you say, what ha what has there been independent lab testing on your probiotics? And that, cause if they happen, you don't know what you're getting. Okay. Now prebiotics are not are what, the probiotics, which are really bacteria it's they feed on. Right. Okay. So you can get prebiotics, you don't have to refrigerate prebiotics. And the way that certain probiotics are being created now, not all need refrigeration. Okay. Um, but you need to go to the store and take due diligence and say, prove to me that you know, that what's on the label is in the body. Where's the, where's the independent lab testing on this product. And if they look at you like you're crazy, then I wouldn't

Roy - AGEUcational (24:13):

Good. Okay. Then you're done your job.

Dr. Carol (24:17):

Well, I just feel you got to go. I go in there just to see, and they go, what do you mean? I go, well, why would I do something if I don't really know that what's on the label is true. Right. Exactly. That's important to me. But I do want to say about attics, prebiotics are foods. Okay. So you can get, um, uh, uh, unripe, bananas, asparagus. Um, there are a list of foods, but you can also that you can eat, which are prebiotic in nature. But the other thing you can do is you can get a prebiotic resistant starch formula, which helped you. You do not have to refrigerate that. You can go in and say, I'd like a prebiotic formula, which are just a conglomeration of foods. Um, inulin. These are things that you can get to support the, make the, the production of the probiotic. Okay. So you can go to the store and say, I want, I want a prebiotic powder prebiotic formula, or you can get the foods artichoke or the chokes beliefs. These are, these are prebiotic foods. Okay. So does that make sense?

Roy - AGEUcational (25:31):

Thank you. And we'll invite you back to do a whole whole show on PR on probiotics and prebiotics. I know there's a lot to cover so we can, we can move on. I just had those questions,

Dr. Carol (25:42):

This last idea I really want you to, cause I decided since, since dementia and Alzheimer's is the number one concern. We really need to get to that. So the things that help promote that problem, diet, insulin, infections, stress, not getting the right kind of fats, exercise, sleep, um, social isolation. What does this sound like? This sounds like the foundations of health, but I want you to hear this one most important piece. What do you think Alzheimer's the other title for Alzheimer's disease. There's another title you weren't going to know. So I'm going to tell you and Roy, you're not going to like it. So

Roy - AGEUcational (26:26):

Don't, don't make me mute, mute, mute you.

Dr. Carol (26:31):

Other title of Alzheimer's is diabetes too. So it's called a diabetes too. Okay. Because insulin, when the there's a problem with insulin and how it affects blood sugar, we are, we have discovered that it is a direct correlation to the, to the, um, incidents of Alzheimer's increasing. Okay. So if somebody has a problem with their blood sugar and their insulin, which is how blood, where the problems are with, with blood sugar, you don't have a problem with a person doesn't have a problem with blood sugar. A person has a problem with how their insulin is or is not going to produce, enable where it puts the sugar in the body. So if we don't have our blood sugar handled correctly, we are prone to our potential of getting Alzheimer's is massively increased. So I really want people to hear that it's in paramount to manage our blood sugar, right? Because we don't want to go down that path if possible. So how do we do that? You know, we manage it with diet, um, and if need be altering, um, what we, you know, if we have to take nutritional supplementation to manage the blood sugar even more, cause that may be a very strong possibility.

Roy - AGEUcational (28:01):

What are some, uh, again, I know we could get way off on this, but just what are a couple of sub nutritional supplements that can help with blood sugar?

Dr. Carol (28:13):

Well, a lot of them and I'm, I'm in the middle of having a total brain freeze, right? No, no, you're fine. You're fine. Um, uh, licorice, but I'm, I'm trying to think of one thing in particular. Let me keep talking. I'm totally having a mental breakdown right now. No, no, you're good. You're good. Um, gosh, darn it. Anyway. I'll think of it. Yeah, no worries. No worries. Okay. I had some thoughts that I wanted to get the final few things. BDNF brain derived neurotrophic factor BDNF is it helps increase our brain chemicals, uh, and brain connections, neurologic neuro neuron, connections, exercise vital for improving that. So if you find that you are, you know, you want to not only improve our aging process, but our brain function, we got to exercise in order to do that. That's, it's very important for the specifically for this BA B D N F increase. So because if we don't, it's not going to work well. Um,

Roy - AGEUcational (29:25):

Two things that you've mentioned so far that the brain fog definitely, you know, when I eat wrong, not what I'm supposed to be eating. I can feel that, you know, some days it take two or three hours to just, you just feel like everything is moving slow in the brain, but then the other is the exercise. It's amazing how transformative that can be to get out and take a 15 minute walk. And it's like, uh, it's just like my head clears out thinking so much better, uh, have a lot of great ideas to come back and share with Terry. And, uh,

Dr. Carol (30:01):

Well, the other thing is like, I, one of the things, since COVID, I've never sat in front of my computer, I've never sat down for my work. Right. Well, I finally just last week got a, uh, uh, a desk that raises and lowers. So I tell you it's really fabulous because on YouTube you can find all sorts of five minute, 10 minute exercise routines for a standing desk. Okay. Okay. Okay. So, I mean, I got, I dunno, do you guys have Costco out where you are, you do plain from Costco. Okay. And it just sits on top of my skin. I can raise and lower it, and it's a way to get exercise even when you're sitting in front of your computer. That's really, really important. Okay. Okay. And then I just have two other things I want to say stress and the hormones that are produced in stress, in the stress in your body, they can pull apart your gut.

Dr. Carol (31:02):

They can make it leaky. And it also, your brain shrinks from stress. So we want to manage our stress level one nurse, one non one nutritional supplement way to do that is to take, um, B five B6 and vitamin C, these things, uh, they come in formulations like that, that can really help your, uh, your adrenal glands. Cause we don't want to bring the shrink. Right. Right. Um, and so we want, we definitely want to do that. Um, and, um, shoe other supplements to help with your brain health and healthy aging. And one of them is coconut oil. Okay. Coconut oil has been shown to be directly to the reduction of the symptoms of Alzheimer's. And I encourage people to open that oil about a tablespoon as a, as a basic dose in your drink, hopefully every day.

Roy - AGEUcational (32:06):

Yeah. I, I'm going to tell a quick story about that. If I can interrupt you for a minute that, uh, this has been a couple, two, three years ago, there was a, um, uh, a researcher that came and gave a talk here in the Dallas area. And this is a very limited information. They were just starting some, uh, bigger, more wide ranging research, but there was a lady in Florida who, and if, you know, one of the tests for Alzheimer's that they give you is that you draw a clock face and then they try to get you to put the around it. Okay. So this lady in Florida did it for her husband and he piled all the numbers down around five and six. And you could definitely tell, you know, he, um, he was in some stage of Alzheimer's or dementia. Well, uh, she started giving him three tablespoons of coconut oil every day.

Roy - AGEUcational (33:00):

And within about six months, he was able to almost properly align all the numbers. Now I'm gonna, you know, kind of bookmark that with saying that was one person. And she said that, you know, they had started some bigger studies, but, uh, you know, cause I used to take it and put it in my, uh, you know, my drinks that I may yeah, my smoothies, the one thing you just w you know, I think you have to Mark to be careful with is that it's very high caloric. And so I think it's like 130, 120, 140 calories per tablespoon. So just, you know, you have to be aware not to go overboard with it, but other things, coconut oil has a lot of other good uses. Like I've heard, uh, uh, dental practitioners say that, you know, rinse your mouth out with it. People use it for conditioner. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, there's a lot of good things, anyway, I'm sorry. Go ahead.

Dr. Carol (33:56):

In functional medicine, we're not worried about calories is calories in calories out is not going to get you healthy or, or gain weight if you're eating the correct foods. Right. Um, so we tend to not think about that. We want the physiology to be correct. And so if you're doing all of it correctly, that's not an area that we, um, we are going to be thought about. Oh, I came up, I couldn't remember my, my blood sugar stuff. So I remember it now. Okay. So chromium, okay. Chromium is sort of the main, the main thing, chromium cinnamon. I don't know if I said that or not. Uh, and, um, Burberry, um, you can go out and get formulas for blood sugar support, just basic blood sugar support. There are other things that are helpful, but those are sort of the basics. Okay. Okay. Awesome. Yeah.

Dr. Carol (34:52):

Thank you for that. Okay. Yeah. I just was like, I was having a complete brain fog. That's my whole day. It just wouldn't, you know, you got an idea of what you want to say and all of a sudden there's somebody says, well, what about this? And like, wait, wait, I didn't have the light in thought about that. Um, so I said, I wanted you to do the coconut oil and, uh, sleeping is you've got to try and get an asleep to, in order to have your health. It's a foundation. If you don't get enough sleep, that's going to be one of those broken foundations and it's not going to work well. So that's a quick rundown, in my opinion of things that relate to healthy aging, you know, that you mentioned

Roy - AGEUcational (35:38):

That. No, no, it was perfect. Uh, I was just thinking about, you know, for me, the sleep component is so important because what I noticed less sleep tends to make me want to eat more, tends to make me not want to go out and exercise and tends to probably make me be more prone to stress. So it, for me that, you know, one of the key things I have to watch is just getting enough sleep for sure.

Dr. Carol (36:04):

Right. And if you don't get enough sleep, it's gonna throw off, uh, insulin and growth Mormon. If you don't get enough sleep, which is going to Ang mess with your, um, uh, blood sugar. Yeah. Yeah. It's going to mess with your ability to lose weight. So especially sleeping before midnight and then making sure that you, um, cause that's when, uh, one of the things he thinks I like to say is insulin is out to play growth. Hormone goes away. Okay. So if you eat a carb, if you eat a carb meal late, like you want to, you don't want to eat any time within three hours of going to bed, you don't want to, okay. You do not. And if you eat a carb meal or a bigger carb meal, you want it to be five hours. Okay. Because it will mess with your growth hormone and it will mess with your sleep and it will mess with your ability to have a good, a good metabolism.

Roy - AGEUcational (37:04):

Okay. Okay. Well, that's a lot of great information. No. And I realized that we could do, uh, you know, we could do an entire episode on each, each one of those topics and then sub components of that as well. It's just a lot of, a lot of information, but I think you've given us a lot of good things to think about. And, uh, you know, cause that, again, I think you've hit some of the major points that I typically I've got on my list that, uh, above my desk is sleep hydration, you know, drink enough water, which I do not do, but, uh, eat right. And then, you know, exercise, move, do something. And, you know, it's, uh, all the news reports now are saying that, you know, sitting is the new smoking. So definitely the, um, I'm going to have to look into the standing desk. Never been okay. Yeah. I've seen them, but I wasn't really sure if, you know, I didn't know about standing up to do work, but, uh, it may be something worth giving a try. Yeah.

Dr. Carol (38:09):

Well, you know what I about it, but I don't know about you, but, but I never stopped before in my life. So, um, my hips and my back are like going, what are you doing? So this thing, I mean, I don't know if you can tell, I I'm, I'm, I'm rising up right now. You guys are not ignoring you, but, um, it's really this desk at Costco, I have to say was the, for the, for the price, it was big. So I could put my papers on it. I, you could put multiple screens on it if you need. Um, you know, so it was, it was quite, quite for the price. It was good. Yeah.

Roy - AGEUcational (38:47):

Interesting. Okay. Check one of those out. Well, uh, I think we, uh, we've taken about as much time from you as we can today. We appreciate it. And, you know, as, as always with you, we want to, we will make the invitation that we would love to have you come back on and, you know, start unpacking a lot of these, uh, foundations kind of a little bit deeper. Maybe we take one or two at a time and just see where we go with that. But, um, thank you so much for taking time out of your day, if you don't mind. Uh, you know, one question we usually ask is, so what is something that you do during the day? Um, and it could be an app or a habit, something that you use that kind of adds value to that health healthiness or wellness factor for you?

Dr. Carol (39:34):

Well, um, right now, um, well I said right now that the standing desk is like my real, my, my number, my excitement also, it's just hard. This is hard for all of us taking time to go. I'm going to take a certain amount of time to get off my butt and do something every day. Okay. So I have a friend, a physician friend of mine, and every morning at seven 30, we're meeting on zoom and we're exercising for 20 minutes. Awesome. Okay. Um, because doing it on your own, maybe harder. And so we both look at each other, our hair's all messed up and we're like, but we're doing yeah. So honestly it's like, when it's over, it's like, okay, I did it. Yeah. Okay. And the other thing, and Roy, you said it too. I have bottles or glasses of water wherever I go. I have, I always have, I have, you know, this is about holds about 20 ounces. I want to make sure I got water everywhere cause I want to hydrate. Right? Yep.

Roy - AGEUcational (40:56):

It's important. And the exercise portion, of course, you know, we always tell everybody, be sure and check with your doctor for your individual plan or what you can and can't do. But, um, I think there are so many options out there. You know, chair aerobics, there are things geared to most, any situation. And you know, another thing that I just got that I'll share this weekend was a, um, it's a TRX band. So basically, you know, you can do different body, weight, resistance training on it. And so, you know, what it's, what it has allowed me to do is, you know, in the middle of the day, when I'm feeling like that, like I need to stand up. I can get up, just walk over there, you know, maybe do five minutes worth of stuff, nothing heavy, but it is movement and it is getting me out of the chair. So, you know, there's a lot of great things out there.

Dr. Carol (41:48):

There's a lot of new, I think the world has finally discovered the largest population growth is seniors. There's if you go to Facebook, there is so many senior exercise programs right now. Lots of them. Yeah.

Terry - AGEUcational (42:02):

Oh, I have been getting those ads popping up left and right. I I'm a little offended that they think I'm old enough for these ages, but

Dr. Carol (42:13):

They're not all easy by a long shot,

Terry - AGEUcational (42:15):

But they're cool. I mean, who would have thought of some of these things?

Dr. Carol (42:19):

Yeah. So we've been experimenting with various ones. Yeah.

Roy - AGEUcational (42:23):

Yeah. And, you know, it's just good to get up and move in. Not only for me like the weight loss portion, but just for our health and mental wellbeing, it's good to, you know, get up and move during the day throughout the day, plus it. Plus it leads to me sleeping better as well. Yeah,

Dr. Carol (42:39):

Yeah. Yeah, definitely. Yeah. So I also want him to say for anybody who's interested, I am offering a free 15 minute consult. If you want to try and find out some of why you may be having health challenges or trying to prevent yourself from having health challenges as we age, I'm offering a free consult.

Roy - AGEUcational (43:00):

Okay. That's awesome. We appreciate that. And I was just fixing to ask you, if you could, you know, tell people who you work with, what you can do for them, and then of course, how they can reach out and get a hold of you to work with you.

Dr. Carol (43:15):

Well, um, I work with people of all ages, um, but as I am aging, uh, the people I'm drawing are often also aging. So I would say between 40, from 45 up, you know, I have 90 plus year old patients as well, but the people who are trying to say, I want to, uh, I want to address my health from a different point of view, right. They want to go deeper. And that's really the kind of person who says I've tried these things and I'm not really getting the results I want. Let's try something different. Okay. Those are the people who are drawn to me. Okay, great. So if you want to reach me, you can call my office and I can give you the phone number, which is (831) 476-6906. And let my staff know that you heard this podcast and are wanting your 15 minute consultation, we're going to find out what have you done for your health. What's worked, what hasn't worked, talk to you about what I do and see if you to, if this might be something you want to investigate further, or you can reach me through my website, which is drcarolshwery.com, D R C a R O L S H w E R y.com. You can reach me through that portal.

Roy - AGEUcational (44:53):

Yeah. And we will be sure and put all that information on the show notes where people can find that as well. So. All right. Well, thank you so much for your time. We certainly do appreciate it. Uh, of course we appreciate, uh, all those listeners as well. If, uh, please share with your friends and relatives, this is, uh, you know, some great information that everybody of all ages needs to hear. It's never too early to start taking care of our health, to help us live better through those latter years. So also you can find us on Apple podcasts, Google podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, all the major platforms. Uh, you can find us on our website at www dot age, UK national.com. And of course this, um, the video of this interview will go up on YouTube, uh, as soon as the episode goes live. So until next time, Dr. Carol, again, thank you so much. We appreciate all of it. Uh, good information. And we can actually gave us some actionable items. We can take action on to start helping ourselves.

Terry - AGEUcational (45:55):

No, and right now I'm cracking my whip.

Dr. Carol (45:59):

Right. Thank you so much for having

Terry - AGEUcational (46:02):

Me. Thank you so much for coming back and sharing all that information. Yeah, that's awesome.

Roy - AGEUcational (46:08):

All right. Until next time y'all take care of yourself and take care of you.

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