IN THIS PODCAST, WE COVER:

 

06:16    Unnecessary medicines

08:04    ER Episode

09:34    Choosing your doctor

12:38    The strategy of imposing fear

17:00    Taking care of the elderly

24:45    Top aging remedies

30:25    Modern medicine

40:25    New course: Mindful Homeopathy

41:13    Joette’s goal

LINKS AND RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS PODCAST:

 

Ignatia 200 — for anxiety

Coffea 200 — for insomnia

Arthritis blogs

Darvocet banned

Hypericum or Arnica (or both) or Bryonia — for pain

Weston A. Price Foundation — nutrition and health

Practical Homeopathy® course page

Gateway to Homeopathy: A Guided Study Group Curriculum

Free resources from Joette Calabrese:

            Podcasts

            Blogs

Most important remedies to own (remember to use the code “Joette” to receive 20% off your Boiron purchase):

Arnica montana 200C

Aconitum

Rhus tox

Kali phos

Symphytum

Hepar sulph

 

Joette:  You don’t live a charmed life in this world. Nobody gets away scot-free. There’s no such thing! The fate of your family is in your hands. 

Kate:  You are listening to Podcast Number 51 with Joette Calabrese at practicalhomeopathy.com. On today’s podcast, Joette shares her strategies for staying healthy now and as we age. We will learn about the top homeopathic medicines for anxiety and insomnia. And, stay tuned at the end of this podcast for an exciting announcement!

Hi, I’m Kate. I’m here with Joette. Today, we’re going to talk about growing old. As I think of growing old, all these negative images come to mind like wrinkles and gray hair and forgetting things. So, tell me Joette, what do we have to look forward to besides that? Not that you’re old, but you work with a lot …

Joette:  Yeah, because I have experience now that I’m as old as I am. You know, what’s really funny? I just had a birthday. I thought I was turning 67. I was certain I was turning 67. My son said, “Mom, you’re turning 66.” So, I added a year!

Kate:  Oh, my gosh!

Joette:  I’ve been adding a year for a long time. I’ve been thinking I was going to be 67 soon. It turned out that I was 65, and I just turned 66!

Kate:  Oh!

Joette:  So, I just lost a whole year. So, I have much less confidence in what I can offer today now.

Kate:  But, you’re much younger. Because you have your mother living with you, and so, you are very familiar with the aging process.

Joette:  Yes!

Kate:  You’ve walked through this with your parents.

Joette:  I do think that. As they say, “Stuff happens.” I suppose there are ways to slow it down. In fact, I think it’s almost empirically verifiable that you could slow things down. I think that a lot of it has to do with looking around you and looking at those who are not in good health — and then doing the opposite.

Kate:  Yeah, right?

Joette:  I actually told my kids that when they were little. Whatever everyone else is doing around you, do the opposite, and then you’ll be pretty safe — in general.

I wrote an article quite a while ago called, “My Dad and the Dead Cardiologists.” My father remarked how was it that he was doing so well. I mean he had his problems. There’s no doubt about it. But, why is it that all of his cardiologists were dying? They were like falling like flies on a windowsill? It was amazing! I think in the article, my father and I had accounted for seven, and then after the article was published, we counted two more that had died. None of these doctors was older than my father. They were all his age or younger. He outlived them, sometimes by as much as 25 years and in many cases, 10 years.

So, why is it? Did my father have fabulous genes? No. He had a lot of brothers, and they all died quite young. His parents died young. His mother died in her sixties. His father died in his … I’m going to say it was also in his sixties. He had brothers that died in their sixties. He had sisters that died in their sixties. One sister — now, my father was one of 14 — one sister lived to 99. But,