How Qi Gong and Other Eastern Medicine Philosophy's Can Help You Age Better with Joi Abraham and Yadi Alamin

Do we make it complicated? Are we looking for big, complicated theories for why we have bad times. Like when we get sick, we blame the medical system. Um, the beginning of Asian medicine starts with a book called the yellow emperor's classic of internal medicine.

About Joi and Yadi

Yadi Alamin was severely ill in 2000. The medical drugs he was prescribed made him sicker and he contemplated suicide due to pain and emaciation. Yadi’s mother recommended he get acupuncture. Yadi got more than that.

He credits the acupuncturist for saving his life. Yadi learned Eastern Traditional Healing Arts and Exercise and has been helping people since his recovery. Charlotte Reflexology opened in 2012, and has grown since training Joi Abraham to work in clinic.

Yadi is the apprentice of 3 Master Acupuncturists,  a six-time Certified Reflexologist, and a Tibetan Medical QiGong Therapist. He has 18 years clinical experience in Traditional Chinese Medicine, No Needle Acupuncture, Reflexology and Medical QiGong for Serious Conditions.

Yadi was diagnosed with a potentially fatal disease at 24, and learned how to heal himself without surgery, drugs and a cocktail of herbs. His philosophy is simple “do what works, and do it often.” He has had clients recover from a host of ailments using QiGong, Reflexology, and food-based methods.

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Roy - AGEUcational - How Qi Gong and Other Eastern Medicine Philosophy’s Can Help You Age Better (00:01):

Hello, and welcome to another episode of ageucational. This is Roy. So we are a podcast that we started to not only journal, uh, Chronicle our journey through aging, but also our parents and not, uh, you know, the situations that come up for them solutions that we may have. The other thing that we do is we do bring on professionals that are, um, you know, can help us through the aging process, can help us during the aging process and maybe even help us, uh, age, better do some things earlier in life. And so today, uh, we are blessed to have a couple of guests with us. I'm gonna let Terry and make the introduction.

Terry - AGEUcational (00:39):

Yes, we have a couple of practitioners from Charlotte Acu Bodywork formerly Charlotte reflexology. It's a unique alternative therapy based therapy clinic. Based in South park of Charlotte, North Carolina, they combine ancient Asian healing systems and modern technology to relieve pain, decreased stress, and help the body to heal their methods. They use different types of reflexology, Meridian therapy, and chigong using the three aspects to healing, diet, exercise, and manual therapy. They work with their clients to not only improve their health, but to enhance their quality of life. I'd like to welcome Yadi Alamin and Joi Abraham to the show. Thank you so much.

Roy - AGEUcational - How Qi Gong and Other Eastern Medicine Philosophy’s Can Help You Age Better (01:24):

Hi guys. Thank you all for being with us and taking time out of y'all's day. We certainly appreciate it. And look forward to talking with you.

Yadi (01:32):

I'm looking forward to seeing what happens during this. [inaudible],

Roy - AGEUcational - How Qi Gong and Other Eastern Medicine Philosophy’s Can Help You Age Better (01:40):

I've had a rough start to this podcast, but thank you all for hanging in with us. And, uh, yeah, we just wanna, you know, kind of get, y'all's take, uh, we are interested, you know, in the Asian and Eastern philosophies, uh, because I think it's, it's more than just the, the medicine part. I think it's a general, uh, yeah, it's holistic his thoughts, you know, how we think and perceive and, um, you know, we, we were talking a little, we thought we had a really good conversation going as I'm going to kind of jump back in the middle and say that, you know, uh, you know, part of it we were talking about is just the stress of living and making things simpler. Uh, you know, we talked about, I had interviewed again for a different podcast and, uh, he had been to another country that lived very much poor than we do or what we consider to be poor.

Roy - AGEUcational - How Qi Gong and Other Eastern Medicine Philosophy’s Can Help You Age Better (02:31):

But he said, the one thing that he noticed is that they were happy beyond belief with their very simple life and that he was just reflecting upon all the, you know, material, things that we think that we have to have to make us, uh, make us happy, which actually can probably add stress and take a lot away from our life in general. So we'll, we'll kind of jump back off in there. And, uh, Yachty was telling us an awesome story about some banana farmers. We, we can pick back up where wherever in that conversation that we need.

Yadi (03:05):

Okay. Um, before I say anything about the banana farmer, I was saying something yesterday on, on Facebook about how we're very complicated and we've tend to look for like big, complicated theories for why we have bad times. Like when we get sick, we blame the medical system. Um, the beginning of Asian medicine starts with a book called the yellow emperor's classic of internal medicine or a founding Dean aging. And the first question is it rude that people used to live over a hundred years? Um, why did they die at 20 and 30 now? And the answer was, they lost touch with nature, right? Like even in the story. And my joke was that, like, we only have conspiracy theories about like bad stuff, like when, when we get sick, but it's like those, the medical system, when the weather's bad, we go, Oh, they're controlling the weather, but when it's beautiful outside and it's sunny and there's a nice breeze, we never go, the people are enjoying bad things, but really it's a disempowering cycle that we just have to take control of ourselves.

Yadi (04:17):

And what you mentioned about, uh, psychological well-being or emotional wellbeing, physical wellbeing, these all take, uh, a piece of it, you know, and they're equally as important. It, it doesn't make any sense to be in the shape of your life, but you're depressed all the time. Right. You know, or we're on the simplicity of life. And I think you were talking about the story of the banana, right? So there's this, there's a guy in the Philippines, uh, who runs a banana farm. And his cousin from New York is visiting. And he's, he's like eating. Yeah. He's like eating a banana, go with, Hey, you can make millions selling these bananas. And the guy's like in his hammock sitting back like, mm, tell me about it. And he's like, well, you know, we reach out to the grocery chains and give them samples. We set up a distribution, uh, we have planes and trucks all around and we make millions. And the guy's like, yeah. Then what he's like, well, then we'll make all this money. And he was like, well, yeah. Then what? Since then we can do whatever we want. And the guy's like in the hammock,

Roy - AGEUcational - How Qi Gong and Other Eastern Medicine Philosophy’s Can Help You Age Better (05:33):

I think in the, uh, I I'll speak for me, I guess in the Western world that we, we tend to discount the, uh, emotional and mental health effects on our body. And I'll let you speak to that. But I am assuming that, you know, our emotional and our mental wellbeing, you know, can cause other problems that run throughout our body. I mean, I understand if, if you fall

Terry - AGEUcational (05:58):

Down a cliff and you break a leg, that's not much you can do about that. But like you said, if you're, if you're healthy, but you're depressed, then you're still not living your best life.

Yadi (06:07):

Right. You really need to be healthy. Yeah. There'll be a physical part of depression, which usually in Chinese, they call it Dan Kwan, which usually means when heat or hot phlegm. I said this the other day, every person I know who's under 30, who male, who has chronic ADHD or chronic gun anxiety, depression is losing their hair. So if you think there's no physical side of the emotion, it's not exactly, that's not the holistic view. A lot of times we've learned that the emotional it's physical, it's emotional for they're tied together. So a lot of times a physical ailment might be tied to an emotion that you've been holding onto or did not express. And it became physical at the time when it becomes physical, you're going to have to go through the body in order to release the physical element and the emotional imbalance as well. You can't just go through the emotional. So there's that, there's that line of thinking is like, if I just make myself happy artificially, then I'll just heal and it doesn't work that way. Right?

Terry - AGEUcational (07:19):

Yeah. No. And I, I feel, I feel like the older I get, you know, the more I'm being knocked in the head with that brick say he saying exactly that it's like, there are underlying issues here. You got to dig deep and you gotta deal with them. You've been pushing them away. You know, just anything, everything, not just the emotion.

Yadi (07:37):

Well, like, like Roy said, like if you fall and break a leg, obviously it's not, because you're not accepting the anger you have. It's because you fell and broke your leg. Right. But may have frustration when you couldn't move. When, you know, you were healing from a broken leg that now we're moving every move sets off that same chain of chemicals that you feel when you get angry. And it's like a chronic association with pain that you get angry with every time you have been. So not only is it pain, but it's also distressed, which is a waste of energy, which ultimately ends up becoming a very complicated pattern. And if you can do something visible and you can sort of get people to, um, to see how much energy they're wasting, uh, one of the clients I had, she was 49. I think she had terminal cancer and her husband cheated on her while she was going through the oncology.

Yadi (08:40):

And if you can imagine being scared to die, um, you know, not like a cute new, like, you know, someone is chasing me, but every day you wake up, like I'm dying, dying, right. And then this person you love betrays me. Her went so far off the deep end into, you know, her numbers, which were coming up and she was normalizing. This went off the deep end. There's no denying that when you're heartbroken or when you have, um, residual anger or you have fear, or you have anxiety that it's, it's using physical energy that you would need to heal, or you would need the function. It's just not an efficient management of your energy. Um, it, if you watched a horror movie, um, can you do deep breathing while you're watching a horror movie? Well, the music is like, I know some of us are living horrible. Like you had when I was a kid, uh, we were in the military. We never dealt with it, you know?

Terry - AGEUcational (09:50):

Yeah. And my dad was in the military, so I never dealt with it. I never dealt with it. He never dealt with it. I mean, Oh my gosh, so many things.

Yadi (10:01):

So the, uh, the beginning of the beginning of chain is just understanding that it's the process. It's not the thing itself that needs to change. If you have an infection, like a cold or flu, your body will get rid of it if it had enough endurance. But if it's burning itself out, because you, you know, you have some kind of physical element and you have the emotional on top of it, your immune system may not get what it needs because you're using it just to, you know, feel your emotion. It, I don't know if that makes sense, but everything requires energy. Right? Right.

Roy - AGEUcational - How Qi Gong and Other Eastern Medicine Philosophy’s Can Help You Age Better (10:38):

Yeah. We take away our energy, that our body was meant to, uh, fight off diseases and, you know, we've got them placed. And I, I guess that kind of leads into a couple of things is, uh, first off is sleep is that we need to get enough sleep every night to repair our bodies and let it have time to heal. And sometimes that, if you're not feeling well, if you have a physical ailment or anything else that may need, it may be longer than that recommended time. I think we have to listen to our bodies to know how much time we need in any anyway, that's something that we're working on because, um, you know, the preparing for sleep, sometimes it's not, it's not just that the time that you feel like you have your eyes closed, but it's that preparing for it. So we make sure we have a restful sleep and we make sure that we sleep for eight hours and, uh, you know, that's in the bed. I think he, well, and I'm gonna let you answer this. This is more of a question, but we need to do this. We need to have that. I think they call it her circadian rhythm that we need to get into where we're trying to get in bed at the same time. We're trying to get up at the same time. And,

Terry - AGEUcational (11:50):

Um, going through the same rituals, the reading or whatever, you know, whatever you need to do and not being on the phone, which I, I just busted myself because I knew that's where he was heading. The Moonlight's bad for me. I need to read, sorry, finish your question. No, no, no, no. That was, that was kind of where I was going is that we, you know, sleep is probably going to be, you know, one of the bigger things that we need to tend to, or how that we can help ourselves to heal and to actually lead to wellness.

Yadi (12:21):

It's there, there are three pieces to figuring out if they're healthy. Uh, one of them is, can you fall asleep when you wake up? Do you have any, um, when you eat, do you feel energized and do you have, um, do you have energy during the day? Those are kind of the three factors. Can you sleep? Do you feel energized when you wake up? Can you eat? And do you have energy during the day? And it's thing, energy is kind of, it's a really vague description. Um, but think of it this way. Um, I sleep maybe five, six hours a night. Why? Because I know she gone because I know, I know my body, I keep myself very regular, but if you're the type of person who doesn't function well on five, six hours of sleep, you need more than that. And there are different constitutions like Jordan and I are built differently.

Yadi (13:16):

Yes, we have a different, um, you know, gate different, a different set of constitutional strengths. Uh, she is stronger in her water organs, like her kidney and bladder would be stronger based on her type. And for me, its lungs. Um, so I have a good reading during the day and she tends to get heavy during the day. And she needs like water needs to sink. And, um, long as basically metal and metal can be Sharpie the direction, but it's kind of the type that will dictate what you need to do. Most people need to go to sleep at 10:00 PM, need to get about seven to eight hours of sleep, but that's not everybody. Right. Right. Um, there's a lot that associated with sleep. And I've noticed that a lot of times people don't even give themselves permission to go to sleep. They're always, their mind is always going.

Yadi (14:09):

There's something else they have to do. They're thinking about what they have to do for their children, or what's coming up the next day. Like they don't ever get their brain time to turn off. And that is part of sleep, like preparing to go to sleep, also improve, you know, gaining that, to do list done, uh, doing what you need to do in order to feel like your brain can relax so that you can actually fall asleep. If you still have all of those things going in your head, you're going to have a really hard time. So that should be part of your preparation. That's making sure your brain can turn off so that you can get the sleeping. Yeah. So there's a secret because we, this is very, it's a logical little discussion where we need it X amount of hours of sleep. Um, but the secret is that you can get the same kind of rest and restoration without sleep.

Yadi (15:03):

Okay. Um, that's the secret. So, you know, at the top of the show, you mentioned she'd gone. Uh, 21 years ago, I was 117 pounds. I was doing all organic and I was sleeping maybe seven, eight hours a day. And I still, I kept getting sick. I got off my medications that I was given for an acute disease, which we talked about this on a different broadcast. Um, the thing is I wasn't healing, no matter how much sleep I got. And I was introduced to Cimmaron as a standing exercise where you standing, you know, mine was 45 minutes where I'm standing in a horse stance, my arms like this, to create that, uh, open circuit from my heart to my hands and my nervous system to my fingers. And not, not even having that much of an explanation guys, like I just did the work that my teacher told me.

Yadi (15:57):

And within three to four months I was gaining weight. It wasn't my diet. It wasn't my sleep. The secret is there's a state in between waking and sleeping. Some people call it the state of brain or the Alpha's thing. And that's what happens during this long exercise where it's technically where you're breathing as slowly as when you sleep and your mind is undisturbed, like when you're sleeping, but you're actually awake. That's the secret that, you know, a lot of people will hear it and say, well, I don't want to do some wrongs, raising my arms and floating like some kind of animal. But the secret is I can work 19 hours a day and not need as much sleep as somebody in I'm 45 years old, been doing this 20, 21 years. And the aging thing doesn't seem to be, you know, killing me. Like it's killing a lot of folks in this age group.

Joi (16:54):

We aged prematurely at one point and then we turned it around so we could reverse that. So we, we both aged at a, at a younger age than we probably should have. So using some of the things that he's talked about, we have changed that trajectory and we've been able to change our bodies to be younger.

Yadi (17:16):

You go on social media and you see like the person that 20, and then they show him at 60 and they're all fit and pumped up. And you look at them, I'm looking at the base. Are your eyes sunken in darker? What's the w what's the condition of your internal organs? Because being physically fit is very cosmetic. You have nice looking, you know, uh, shape, but what's, your organs are still just as old and festering sergeants that way as they have been. Um, and we're, we're saying that you can literally sleep standing up. There's a way to do it. And it has just as many restorative effects as sleep. Okay.

Roy - AGEUcational - How Qi Gong and Other Eastern Medicine Philosophy’s Can Help You Age Better (17:55):

So now when you do she dong, uh, are you kind of, not only in a physical pose, but are you, um, kinda like meditate? Do you have to clear your mind and kind of keep it clear and do, um, I guess more of a meditation while you do it?

Yadi (18:10):

It's yeah, it's a really good question. It's it? You're just trying to focus on what you feel in your body. So instead of thinking, Hey, be quiet. Be still, you're just saying, am I grounded? Am I 50 50 on both feet? And my 70, 30 on both feet is my, the top of my head up is my chin drawn back. Do I have a pink pong space in my armpits? All of these little mechanics, there's no way your mind is going to go to like the Flintstones theme music, or you can't think, you know, you're not going to get distracted. Yeah.

Roy - AGEUcational - How Qi Gong and Other Eastern Medicine Philosophy’s Can Help You Age Better (18:46):

You offer, you have Checon classes. Don't you virtual Checon classes. Yeah.

Yadi (18:53):

Now we've taught in person here for eight years. Like literally hundreds of classes, uh, have a huge library of Chico, but yeah, the best way to learn as a person, like if you can take six months to go once a week and just train for an hour, you really get a sense of what's supposed to happen. Um, it's almost like if you take a tuning fork while a bunch of kids are playing piano and somebody plays the right note and everyone starts playing in the right team. Whereas if you just let the kids watch you through it and figure out how to play piano, it all sounds like chopsticks, you know, rap person preferable to do it in person. But you know, if you can't, for example, if you live somewhere remotely or you can't travel, for whatever reason, you can get some quality instruction online. That is part of why we created the library that we have so that we could get people introduced to this type of exercise. And then if they want further inspection one-on-one that can be arranged

Roy - AGEUcational - How Qi Gong and Other Eastern Medicine Philosophy’s Can Help You Age Better (20:04):

People that can't stand or maybe in a wheelchair. Is there any value to them still doing it without actually being a physically stand?

Yadi (20:13):

Okay. So we're all sitting right now, right? Yeah. Unless we're squatting on some weird thing to go sweat. Well, let's all do something together if it's okay. Yeah. So you don't have to be quiet. We don't have to meditate. All I want you to do is take your elbows, right. And keep them close to your ribs. And this is just like, you're doing an uppercut punch, just massage the rib cage lightly, just with shaping, just dragging it over the rib cage. Almost like you're doing upper cut punches and feel a little bit of warm across both sides of the ribs. So here's the two going apart, inhale, take a breath in through your nose and then exhale out of your mouth, keep doing what you're doing. And as you do it, you'll start to feel the expansion of your lungs when you inhale and the contraction as you exhale, your whole body warms up, which is very important. If you can't move around to get good blood circulation, that's all like a minute, right. Is anybody cold? No, no, that was great. I'm starting a fire. So it's a good passionate, the liver and gallbladder and the spleen and stomach. Um, it also helps slow your breathing down and make you more aware of your internal body. It just, something like that as an example, anyone can do to go home.

Roy - AGEUcational - How Qi Gong and Other Eastern Medicine Philosophy’s Can Help You Age Better (21:42):

Okay, great. Yeah. And the breathing is another great thing to talk about because I know myself, I used to keep a, I had this list above my desk of things to do. And one of them was breathing and people would always be like, Oh, you got to tell yourself to breathe. And I'm like, no, I need to remind myself to breathe properly because it doesn't have to be stressed, but it can be intense. Like I was working on a project yesterday with the spreadsheet and some graphics and I found myself tensed up, not breathing in, you know, I just have to step back and say breathe. But then also to take those deep breaths, conscious breaths in and out. So is there. And my thing is, I guess it just gets more oxygen, but I'll let y'all explain about the value of the deeper, proper breathing.

Yadi (22:31):

Just the exchange of gases. Like there's CO2 and there's Oh, two. Um, the quality of your breathing can be measured by how long you can hold the breath out after an exit. So we can try that, like inhale, exhale it all the way out all the way out now don't inhale yet. And let's count the 30 mentally. Okay.

Roy - AGEUcational - How Qi Gong and Other Eastern Medicine Philosophy’s Can Help You Age Better (23:07):

I gave up 15

Speaker 5 (23:10):

[inaudible]

Yadi (23:17):

Okay. 17. Okay. As you, as you felt the needed three, what emotions came up?

Roy - AGEUcational - How Qi Gong and Other Eastern Medicine Philosophy’s Can Help You Age Better (23:24):

Uh, not quite, uh, uh, well, I dunno how to describe it more anxious, like, okay. I really need to take a break. I'm drowning.

Yadi (23:35):

Exactly. Yeah. So, so a lot of times, um, Roy had to, um, to figure out how to breathe properly means you have to understand what your, uh, what's your underlying interest in. If you, if you don't feel like you have enough air and it's really not the case, you have plenty of oxygen. You can hold your breath for several minutes, like deep sea divers. It's a dream yourself, but what's happening is there's a lot of anxiety attached to breathing. Um, when you breathe out, that's when the diaphragm relaxes, the more relaxed the muscle is, the more it contents. So if you can get along a whole, the next time you inhale, you'll get saturated with that oxygen. Even if it took three second breath, it doesn't have to be very long. Um, but it's kind of counterintuitive as far as breathing. But the idea is that you take time and allow the oxygen to saturate you and allow the time, allowed time to get the carbon dioxide out.

Yadi (24:33):

Uh, instead of, you know, focusing on a deep inhale, whichever one does, and they do this thing too, which is kind of just sort of a shrug, but yeah, more so focusing on what you get rid of, which is very Eastern. Um, there's always, when you have a disease, that's always, what can you get rid of? Not what can you add to, okay. You know, if you had a cancer, for example, that's a growth of something that's abnormal. So if you start thinking, Oh, I have cancer. It's time for me to take organic honey raw honey time for me to take, uh, asking sampling, I'm going to take, um, Essiac team, whatever it is. Maybe that's not what you need to do. Maybe it's time to start cutting things out. Like for example, um, I need to breathe less during a minute, maybe focus on breathing three times a minute, instead of taking a breath, um, maybe focus on when I, instead of trying to pack all the, all the nutrients and eat enough for my body to feel satisfied, but not overwhelmed.

Yadi (25:38):

It's more about it. And believe it or not, you hit a good point because breathing is something we do all the time. It really teaches you about yourself. It's true. You know, um, going back to ADHD and anxiety, most of the people I know who have that have very short and sharp breathing. Hmm. You know, they, they constantly have congestions. So they, they have the green sharply to clear the airway. And when, when I tell them, Hey, hold the breath out. They go, and you can just really see what a person like on the inside.

Roy - AGEUcational - How Qi Gong and Other Eastern Medicine Philosophy’s Can Help You Age Better (26:12):

Are you just like ADHD? ADHD? Yeah. No, that's, that's a good point. Cause I'm the same way. I just, you know, those short breaths probably too much to, uh, taken a lot of them like that. So that's interesting that there's a correlation between that, for sure. Yeah.

Yadi (26:31):

So, yeah. So if you, if you have ADHD now jumping in, like if you have ADHD and you're holding breath out, we have any other thoughts at that point, the grief. Right. So that's, that's a real meditation. Like everything has left me except for one single thought that is to take that next breath. Yeah. Yeah. Now I'm not thinking about this feeling or my spinner or whatever. I'm like, okay, where's the next one?

Roy - AGEUcational - How Qi Gong and Other Eastern Medicine Philosophy’s Can Help You Age Better (27:01):

No, that's a good point. Cause, uh, you know, that's what I was thinking that whole time too. So that may, you know, cause when I try to meditate, uh, I have trouble turning it off and I'm always trying to redirect to, you know, focus on the breathing in and out and just how I'm feeling. But, um, that may be something I'll try. Next time is just to go ahead and exhale, get it out. And then that way I'll have one thought on my mind

Yadi (27:25):

It was breathing. We do it all day. So it's not like you can forget.

Roy - AGEUcational - How Qi Gong and Other Eastern Medicine Philosophy’s Can Help You Age Better (27:28):

Yeah. Right, right. So, um, as we grow, we have more and more body aches, uh, for many reasons. But you know, people become where they don't get around as, uh, as quickly our balance leaves, you know, what are some things that, uh, we can take away from the traditional Eastern medicine that can help us with those things?

Yadi (27:52):

Well, can I tell you guys another secret? Yeah, sure. This may where tradition meets technology is 2021 answers to questions. Okay. Okay. If you look up the word shoot, she, as in, um, she won't, or she, as in, uh, acupuncture, you know, moving the chin, the, the weird sheet literally means air, right? And it wasn't that scientific. We didn't think of air as nitrogen or oxygen or whatever. It was just the breath. There's something that's kind of new. It's been around Asia for about 10, 11 years, which would help with everyone's aches and pains. And it uses breathing. You know, where I'm going, talking about molecular hydrogen. So we started talking about the pandemic, which it's impossible for you to miss. There's a pandemic worldwide. If you look at the number of deaths in Japan, you look at the number of deaths in Korea and even [inaudible] China started using the technology about two months in, they put people on hydrogen gas, inhalation instead of the ventilators.

Yadi (29:04):

Uh, this is H two gas, which the generators are very inexpensive compared to a ventilator. When a leader is 80,000 hours, these are probably 2000, but they're all over Asia. And even the elderly people, Japan has the most centurions. Like they have the most, a hundred year olds out of any country and their death numbers are like nothing because a lot of them breathe hydrogen or they drink the hydrogen into water. And hydrogen has a way of stopping inflammation, which creates pain, which creates the other, every other disease that's related to inflammation, arthritis, bursitis, tendonitis, right? Yeah. All of the, uh, inflammatory conditions. If you look up molecular hydrogen, that's the best. The reason we were able to re open then during the pandemic, we just, we got the message from the head of pulmonology, Rouhani, Dr. [inaudible] back in March on the BBC network. And he said, yeah, we're using hydrogen and people are being released in three hours, not weeks.

Yadi (30:08):

Wow. Okay. So I put all my patients on hydrogen when they come in and I do my body work on hydrogen. If you can't be here, look up molecular hydrogen. Or we have a site that I think is that it's not the answer to all your health questions, but it's the answer to inflammation, to chronic aches and pain. Even I have a lady that couldn't sleep for about five years. Uh, I put the tube in her nose, she fell asleep for the first time that night she slept. Um, it's, it's, it answers a lot of health problems. Uh, but the thing is it's accessible and anyone can get it. Uh, there's it's basically considered an inert gas. There's a, about 10 years in scientific research and it does have a correlation to cheap breath. And, you know, we had our own experience with hydro therapy and daddy has actually been working with hydrogen for many, many years. And so when we heard about this therapy that they were doing in China, uh, we said, well, we've already been doing that for several years. So we understand the process and can help other people to do this as well. So we come from, well, we started a couple of stories about how it changed our lives as well. The guy that introduced me to it was 88. This was back in 2004 and it was still working in his garden.

Yadi (31:40):

He's still alive now. So, and that was old store. So, you know, you have to think, I watch it older people do. I didn't even know it was hydrogen in the beginning because it was just a weird device that I bought for a hundred dollars. Now they're much better made and technology is improved, but yeah, please, if you, if we don't remember anything else, look up molecular hydrogen, there's a water tablets on Amazon that has nothing to do with me. It's not anything I sell. Um, there's bottled water with hydrogen in it. Uh, there are a bunch of different companies, but if you're looking for something to help you throughout your day, you can't get to my office. You don't want to learn. She gone. This is my way. This is the, it's like the three, uh, the three, um, information that you got here that might change your life. Okay.

Roy - AGEUcational - How Qi Gong and Other Eastern Medicine Philosophy’s Can Help You Age Better (32:30):

You know, it's funny. Cause we were just talking about that the other day, Terry was asking about, uh, some hydrogen, hydrogen and dated water was the only water

Terry - AGEUcational (32:40):

That we were that was available to us. It was like a case of hydrogen, hydrogen eight or water. I'm like, I should've gotten it. It was gone by the time.

Yadi (32:50):

Yeah. I just think water is pretty. It was pretty awesome. She used to walk with a cane. She was able to, to walk again. I think we've told that story on different podcasts. Um, you know, she, she had a lot of trouble getting through the day. She had a lot of weakness in a lot of fatigue and one day it was a high, small day, high ground-level ozone day. And we had the wildfires from the mountains having to Charlotte. And that's not that we have in this area. So when that happened, air quality was terrible and I already had weak lungs. So the oxygen that I was able to get was very low and I have never, ever, even though I have been a flight attendant and have gone in low oxygen space, I had never had any cases that per proxy, but that one day I did, she had a credit card in your hand and almost I was looking for an excuse to pull the trigger on buying this $3,000 machine. They cost less now, but at the time it was three grand. And when you see somebody you care about that's in pain or struggling, just forget money, forget whatever I bought the machine. She went from being able to work one hour a day to working eight hours a day with no fatigue, no problems. Wow. And like, I, I, it's not anything else. It's not that it's not able to exercise.

Yadi (34:21):

That was family. You know, our own aging parents also do hygiene and it's helped my father tremendously. He's had high blood pressure. He had pre-diabetes and dermatitis. And the first thing that we did was put on my hydrogen therapy. And I remember, I remember he was not at, for only two weeks and he would do inhalation for an hour a day. And he was out there. You're blowing grass.

Terry - AGEUcational (34:55):

Wow.

Yadi (34:57):

And you know, no loss of energy or, you know, any 45 years, there's an experiment in hyperbaric, heightened, late stage cancer. And they were 50% successful in reversing terminal cancer. 1975. We have to search that in Google, but there's an abstract experiment from it's as old design. It's not anything new. It's just, now we can get it at, at home and we can get it at a price. That's a little bit more affordable for a lot of people.

Terry - AGEUcational (35:30):

Okay. Well, we'll check that out. We'll definitely check that out. One thing we touched on a little bit, uh, I just will kind of, um,

Roy - AGEUcational - How Qi Gong and Other Eastern Medicine Philosophy’s Can Help You Age Better (35:38):

Hit for a wrap up is our diet. And I know that's, you know, up there as important as our sleep and our breathing and everything else. So if we could touch on diet for just a minute.

Yadi (35:51):

Yeah. You know, you have to eat what fits you, your body constitution. You can't, there's no such thing as a healthy diet, too many people will go and say, well, I got cancer, but everything I eat is healthy. Well maybe not for, you know, like half the world is a yin type. You know, your body is cold. Your body tends to be heavier. And half of the world is young where, you know, you're more dynamic, we're more active, you're hotter by nature. And each one of us has a different set of rules that fit our NetSuite constitution. So if you know your constitution, you can eat accordingly to what fits you. I think, you know, as a general thing with diet, um, you have to stay away from what's the worst shotgun advice. Like everyone should take this vitamin. Everyone should take this thing. You're going to end up in a place where you have expectations, but there's no results. And then that's when people get upset because they said, Oh, this is what it was going to do for me. And it didn't do that. Right? So there's no, it doesn't work well. It doesn't necessarily work for your type. And you have to find the things that work for you. Even when, when people say drink, water, people go, Whoa, water with lemon water, with alkaline waters.

Yadi (37:08):

That's also based on your constitution. Um, so somebody was the other big thing was a tumor take tumeric tumeric draw. Well, that's not good that you have a hot nature because it's a hot rent. Um, take garlic, also a hot plant. Um, it makes some guys like, like garlic has an impact on the sex hormones. It's all, it's hidden in certain Eastern culture that, uh, preach abstinence. Um, so if you have, like, if you're trying to, uh, like amplify your libido, garlic might be the thing for you if you're not too hot natured, but it's good to know what your constitution is. You know, the foods I worked for me, but they're nothing like Joy's diet. And here we went through years where we ate according to whatever they knew, health information live, right. Feel terrible and not understand why. And that is part of the problem. You know, you eat these things and somebody else suggested, Oh, we're great. But if you don't know your type, you're going to waste a lot of time. There's juicing like drinking. That's terrible for juicing. If you have terrible salad, like, you know, everybody, if I eat a salad, it's nothing terrible cold. And I didn't understand why I hated valid if I warned that it was a little bit better. Um, now I understand that my body and not handle a whole lot of cold, raw food.

Roy - AGEUcational - How Qi Gong and Other Eastern Medicine Philosophy’s Can Help You Age Better (38:43):

Interesting. So how do we determine our, if we're hot or cold?

Yadi (38:48):

Well, the shortest answer is to contact somebody who knows. That'll save you a lot of time. There's also a book called your union body type by Gary Wagman. Um, which if you can get through the book, it's, it's a little bit long, it's kind of technical, but it doesn't have some very good information. Yeah. There's a, there's a, um, an exam like the questionnaire, you fill out, figure out what your body type is. Um, probably the easiest thing is to contact us. And you're going to answer in less than a half an hour. Um, not, not as a plug, but I'm just saying there aren't a lot of people doing, um, constitutional assessment. Like a lot of people will say, Oh, you have arthritis, lupus. And it has this, the same advice for everyone. Oh, turmeric's not working take black pepper with the tumor is not very specific.

Yadi (39:38):

Right. Interesting that, um, in addition to the hydrogen targeting and working with your body type improved my health twofold, and those two things really made a huge difference with my energy levels, my digestion and sweetie, okay. I will say this, but as a general, we eat way too much. And um, I, I eat two meals a day and I have for like 17 years. Okay. There was an article today that said, uh, there's really no reason to eat three meals a day. Um, and I thought somewhere on Apple news or something like that. Okay. I thought that was interesting that they are doing that now.

Roy - AGEUcational - How Qi Gong and Other Eastern Medicine Philosophy’s Can Help You Age Better (40:24):

And so do you snack at all? I'm like, I'm thinking two meals. That's all I, why?

Yadi (40:30):

No, no. It, after 12 hours, your body starts making the things that you want. That's those are the, that's the reason you don't age. Um, there were these guys that trained me, they used to wake up at 6:00 AM. They would eat, uh, 6:00 AM and eat at 6:00 PM, nothing in between. They were 50 and 60 years old. They were huge muscle bound. You know, a lot of them had no gray hair and it's that space in between meals that really gives them the body time to absorb what you ate. The book that we had talked about earlier, it says one of the reasons that we age more quickly it's because,

Roy - AGEUcational - How Qi Gong and Other Eastern Medicine Philosophy’s Can Help You Age Better (41:08):

And you know, and that's interesting because we, uh, you know, on our other program, we had a guest that we talked a little bit about fasting with, or we haven't aired it yet, but we talked to them and, uh, you know, that's the message that came out is this, uh, you know, eat five times a day. Small meals is probably more detrimental than, uh, you know, this fasting and the intermittent. And basically what the, you know, if you eat at six, six, you're, you're fasting, you know, twice a day almost, but it gives our body a chance to repair digest. And so, yeah, that's interesting. Very interesting. And so when you do eat, uh, kind of, do you just eat like normal portion sizes? Just like a little protein, a little vegetables.

Yadi (41:54):

Yeah. You have to have the fats, the protein, the vegetables. They should have a good balanced diet. I do a lot of, some vegetables, like a lot of seaweeds and things like that. Cause they have high moral content, which is good for me. Um, would probably be good for her.

Terry - AGEUcational (42:12):

I don't think you don't like green things. Do you, do you like green things salad, but I like them to be warm. Ah, okay.

Yadi (42:23):

So, um, Ross, not that great, but warm is, is wonderful. Warm is good. Okay. I think in fact, my father, uh, I feed him too many vegetables. I do like I do like,

Terry - AGEUcational (42:37):

Okay, okay.

Yadi (42:41):

Definitely make sure you get a fair amount of every kind of movie, you know, and, and just as a general thing, fruit may not be the most healthy thing. Like fruit, maybe something like, um, those, those sugars are really hard on your liver. And here's an interesting fact, the liver is the only organ that can actually break down. It's the same with alpha. So the liver can break both of those down, but it usually has a hard time with them at the same time, especially like, do you want cherries?

Terry - AGEUcational (43:20):

That's what I was going to say. Hmm. Don't have any fruity. So more appletini so mango margarita is really doing double duty.

Yadi (43:31):

They'll have like a burger in two donuts still alive.

Terry - AGEUcational (43:37):

Oh my gosh.

Yadi (43:40):

Uh, some kind of liver damage will eat a lot of fruit and their body is really having a hard time. Interesting. Okay.

Roy - AGEUcational - How Qi Gong and Other Eastern Medicine Philosophy’s Can Help You Age Better (43:50):

Well that's great information again. Uh, we thank you guys for stopping by and talking to us. It's always enlightening and enjoyable speaking with y'all and, uh, you've given us some things to think about on the, uh, the hydrogen and then also this eating that's interesting breathing for sure. So, um, why don't y'all do this, uh, tell us how people can reach out and get ahold of you, you know, who are the clients that you can work with and then, uh, you know, what can you do for them? I know that y'all have some, uh, you know, it's better. Uh, if they're there in North Carolina y'all can do onsite, but if they happen to be across the us, how can they reach out and interact with y'all, uh, over the internet internet,

Terry - AGEUcational (44:33):

Joy's got something to say,

Joi (44:37):

Think we do have a online consultation. And if you get to our website, uh, Charlotte Acu bodywork. So that's Charlotte ACU B O D Y w O R k.com. You'll find that there, and then you can book an online consultation.com.

Roy - AGEUcational - How Qi Gong and Other Eastern Medicine Philosophy’s Can Help You Age Better (45:01):

Okay. Awesome. Well, we certainly do appreciate it.

Terry - AGEUcational (45:05):

No, I was just going to say, this is awesome. We, you need, Roy needs an appointment. He'll do it online. I can tell him, got all the info.

Roy - AGEUcational - How Qi Gong and Other Eastern Medicine Philosophy’s Can Help You Age Better (45:16):

All right. Well thanks a lot guys. Of course y'all can always find us www.ageuucational.com on all the social media platforms, uh, uh, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, also this, uh, a copy of this will go up on YouTube as video. So you can look in at the, um, interview as we did it. And until next time, take care of yourselves and take care of you.

Terry - AGEUcational (45:42):

Thank you so much. We appreciate it.

 

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