Aging: Is it a choice? | DFS 327

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Welcome to Destin for success. I'm your

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host, Jennifer Takagi, and today I want to continue part of the

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conversation from yesterday with or actually last week with Stu

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Morris about aging. And I've got like, three areas I want to tap

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on just a little bit genetics lifestyle, mindset. So let's

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start with genetics. So I remember growing up in my whole

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life, everything was, well, your grandma had this, and your uncle

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had that, and it just became an assumption, a reality, the the

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baseline that that was going to happen to me or somebody else in

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the family, because that was the thing. I was probably in third

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grade, maybe fourth. I had on a pair of sandals, and I was at my

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grandmother's house, and she turned around and she said, Oh

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my gosh, look at those bunions on Jennifer's feet. Like they

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look just like Aunt, whatever, which this would have been like

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my great, great aunt, I guess. And lo and behold, sure enough,

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I was 25 when I had bunion surgery, and they were so bad, I

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would get home from work and lay on the couch with my feet

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elevated because my feet hurt so bad, I went to the first

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podiatrist to get it checked out, and when I was waiting in

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the room for him, there was a chart On the wall that showed

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all the different, I don't know, deformities, I guess, of your

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feet. And I was like, Holy crap. Like, I have three. I had a

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bunion, I had a tailor's bunion, and then I had a something else.

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What was that a hammer toe or something? Yeah, my feet are not

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and we're not pretty. They're prettier now, but they were not

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pretty back then. And I can remember thinking, Gosh, my

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nanny told me when I was, you know, 10 years old, that I had

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bunions. And look at me now. And after I scheduled the surgery, I

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thought, oh, do I need a second opinion? I think I do. So I got

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a second opinion, and I go in the doctor's office, and he was

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like, oh, yeah, you have bunions. Like, we don't even

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need to do X rays. I can look at your feet and tell and I was

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like, okay, crap, so I'll have the surgery. And I did. But

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funny enough, nobody else in my family has had bunion surgery.

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My grandmother that told me all about whatever. Aunt didn't have

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bunion surgery. My mom did not. I have two sisters, my brothers

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now, since passed away, but he lived to be 53 he didn't have

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bunions. My dad didn't, like nobody had bunions. So was it

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just the shape of my feet and my grandmother, like embedded in me

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that that would happen. You know, I don't really know. My

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sisters and my mom, they pretty much thought, hmm, I might want

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a baby. And poof, they were pregnant, really, whether they

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wanted to be or not. I could have been a surprise. I'm not

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rightly Sure. I am a completely sure, big surprise, but I was

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the best surprise they had. But I had a mindset, I'm going to

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get married, I'm going to get pregnant. Well, I've been

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married a really long time, and I've had a hysterectomy and I

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never got pregnant, so I think it's not going to happen now,

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somehow, I don't think once you have a hysterectomy, that you

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can get pregnant. Actually, I'm 100% confident of that, but

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genetically based on my mom, my dad, my brother, my sisters,

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everybody thought pregnant, and they were so genetically, I

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should have been pregnant right away, right like, if that's the

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way the story goes, I should have gotten pregnant right away,

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and I did not. So as I got a little bit older, I kept

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wondering, how true are these genetic things? My oldest

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sister, Vicky, and I are, well, I'm close with both my sisters,

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but Vicky used to always say, oh my gosh, I went to the doctor

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and this is wrong with me. Wait till you get my age. It's gonna

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happen to you too. And we're eight years apart. And I started

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saying, No, I'm not. I'm not doing what you do. Oh, I went to

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the dentist and I had this problem. You're gonna have it

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too. And I'm like, No, I'm not. And funny enough, we really

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haven't followed the same path on what has gone wrong. So I

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just want to say I'm questioning this genetics thing. I was many

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years ago at the chiropractors office, and then. Was a thing at

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the time. It was called a chelation treatment. It might

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still be a thing, I don't know, but it was a thing. And you

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would go to an MDS office and you would get an IV, and they

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would put whatever is in a chelation infusion, supposed to

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make you healthy. I don't know healthy, happy, whatever. I

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don't know anything about it. So I'm not saying yes or no. I'm

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just that was the term. So I'm in the chiropractor's office and

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I'm laying on that killer roller machine that rolls and it

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relaxes your back and kind of stretches it out a little bit. I

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told him, one day, I'm just gonna buy one of these and have

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it in my living room. Oh, I hadn't thought about that in a

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long time. I might need to get one. I thought that was the

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coolest machine ever, but I'm laying on the machine getting

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the massage before I get adjusted, and I hear the

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chiropractor's wife talking to a doctor, the MD doctor, and he

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was using space in their office. I don't know why he was using

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that space, but he was and doing chelation treatments, and they

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had these recliners, and you could see him when you walked

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in, and when a patient was back there, they'd pull the curtain

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around. But I heard the wife asking the question, do genetics

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determine what's going to happen. And he said, Well,

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genetics is kind of like the blueprint to a house. You've got

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the blueprint, you've got the foundation poured, so you've got

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a lot of the structure is what it's going to be, but then the

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paint and the flooring and the texture on the walls and how you

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decorate it, that's all up to you. So the genetics are there,

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but how you choose to live your life and your mindset make a big

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difference, which are part two and three of this conversation

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today. And he said, If heart disease runs in your family and

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everybody has a heart attack at a young age, there is a very

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good chance that you are going to be prone to a heart attack.

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However, if you never smoke, if you eat most mostly Whole Foods.

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And can you tell I'm still lisping from my tongue surgery?

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It's still kind of hard people after all these weeks. But if

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you eat whole foods, you I don't know if you've ever noticed

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this, but if you shop at the grocery store all the way around

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the perimeter, that's pretty much natural foods versus the

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box stuff in the middle. If you exercise, did I say don't smoke?

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I think I said don't smoke. Limit your red meat and fatty

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foods like that can contribute to heart disease. I know that

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changes all the time. What's what? But he went through this

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list and said, If your dad had his first heart attack at 50,

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but he smoked and he ate a lot of red meat, was overweight and

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really didn't work out. And you're 70, and you've never had

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a heart problem, but you never smoked and you always worked

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out, and you've eaten mostly healthy foods, then you're gonna

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prolong when that happens. And I can remember thinking, Well,

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that makes a lot of sense. Like that just really makes a lot of

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sense. I might be genetically predisposed to something, but if

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we know that, other things will help. Okay, alright, so maybe

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you can, like, overcome that genetic piece, the lifestyle.

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I've just hit on the lifestyle, the lifestyle is and I smoked

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for many years. If you've been following me for a while, you

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know, I smoked for many years. If it hadn't been for the drug

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Chantix, I know there's a lot of controversy around it, but if it

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hadn't been for that, I would still be smoking. And I had a

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spontaneous dissection of my carotid artery in 2013 and I had

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been quit for like, six years at that point, and every medical

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professional that came in my room for the next four days, one

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of the first questions they asked was, Are you a smoker? And

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I was like, No, I quit in 2007 and they'd shake their head and

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say, well, you're really lucky you didn't have a stroke,

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because if you were still smoking, you would have had a

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stroke, and usually it takes a minimum of 10 years before you

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reduce those options or those chances. So fortunately, I did

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not have a stroke. It was just a random thing that happened.

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But every time anything happened prior to me quitting smoking,

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they would say, Well, if you would quit smoking, this would

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happen if you quit smoking, like it was like, Oh, you're in a

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dying bird in hell because you smoke. And one of the things

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was, my overall cholesterol is super low. P. Are jealous of my

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cholesterol. It's like, I don't know. 147 150 I don't know. It's

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ridiculously perfect. My good cholesterol is too low. I don't

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know the numbers. Let's just make some up. Let's say mine's

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27 and let's say normal is 40. Like, you know they want you to

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be 40 or higher on the good cholesterol. And they said for

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three years in a row, when they did my blood work, if you would

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just quit smoking, this number would go up. Guess what? Ladies

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and gentlemen, the number is the same. It has not gone up at all.

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It is stayed so freaking stable, it's ridiculous, but I didn't

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have a stroke, so that is like a humongous thing. I'll still stay

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not smoking. The other thing is, my pulse used to be really high.

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It ran like right about 9092, all the time. I quit smoking,

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and now my pulse is in the 70s, like as if I were an athlete. If

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you've met me in person or seen pictures, I'm a little fluffy. I

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am not an athlete at all, but my pulse is great. I went to the

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doctor to have my mouth checked to make sure after I had had my

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surgery in my tongue, which, yeah, the spots of my tongue

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were benign, and they say it's because I quit smoking. But I

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had to have the surgery because I used to smoke. But I go in and

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the guy takes my blood pressure, and it was, are you ready for

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this drum roll? Please? I wish I could do a drum roll. It was 100

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over 60. That's just unheard of. Somebody goes, Are you dead? I

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mean, I'm a little hyper. Did you notice I'm a little hyper,

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and I drink Diet Coke. I don't drink coffee, but I do drink

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Diet Coke. So like, my deal is, I'm fortunate in so many ways,

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like just naturally, things are good. My blood numbers are all

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really, really good. I do work out some, not as much as I

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could. I try to go to aerobics three times a week, but I've

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been traveling a lot, and I miss a lot, and I kind of eat

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whatever I want. Yeah, I drink, I drink beer. That's typically

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my my alcohol cocktail of choice. Every now and then I

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have frozen drinks. Those are really good, but lifestyle plays

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a lot into it. You see somebody who sits around all the time,

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they never move. If you're not moving, things aren't happening

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like you've gotta move your body. So that lifestyle plays a

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whole lot into the aging process. What is your lifestyle?

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What do you do? I'm going to throw in lifestyle also hanging

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out with other people. Are you social? Do you have friends? Do

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you have a positive attitude? Wait, that's going to go in

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mindset. That's in group three. But that lifestyle I I had a gal

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I ran into at the Dollar General at the lake the other day. And

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we call it the mall, because there's not a mall for, you

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know, 75 miles or something. But she looked at me, and she goes,

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I follow you on Facebook. You do so much. I just am exhausted

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looking at you. I could never be gone that long. And I went,

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Holy, really, well, I'm home, like, two and three days at a

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time. I don't even check my mail because I'm in the house. And

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she was like, oh, no, two or three days, that wouldn't be

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enough for me. But I have friends. I have friends all the

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way back to high school. I don't really have any college friends.

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I don't guess now I don't really have any college Finch. I still

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know people from college, but I don't like run around with them.

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And I have people I used to work with, and I have family I run

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around with. Like, I've got a wide variety. I also have a wide

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range. I remember my grandmother, Nanny mentioned

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previously, and one day, she was quite a bit older at that point.

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And she said, it really is sad when you get old and all your

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friends are dead. And I was like, wow, that would be sad. I

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have friends in all different age groups. I don't do I have

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any friends in their 20s. I have great nieces in my 20s, so I

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guess I could call them friends, but mostly in the 30s, 40s, 50s,

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60s, and I have some really good friends in their 70s. So like I

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go again, oh, wait, I even have 80 year old friends. So I cover

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the gamut, because when I'm still here, if some of my

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besties my age aren't here, I still want to have friends. So

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that's part of my lifestyle choice. I watch people retire

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and then their health would plummet because they didn't have

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that circle of friends to keep them up, keep them going, keep

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them motivated. So I'm going to say friends and social

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activities are part. Part of that lifestyle. Now we get to

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mindset, and mindset is critical. I told you before I

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would say to my sister, oh, that's not going to happen to

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me. That's not going to happen to me. We've had very few things

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genetically that have crossed. I have brown eyes. She has hazel

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eyes. She tans beautifully. I'm fair. One day I said, Oh, look

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at me. I'm the Bronze Goddess. And she started laughing. And

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she goes, she might be the ice princess. So, like a lot of

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differences, she's short, I'm tall, the other sister, same

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way. She's short, I'm tall. She tans, I don't she has hazel

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eyes. I have brand eyes. So lots of lots of differences there in

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the genetic and that aspect of our relationship, you know,

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being sisters even. I think it's funny, my sister that's three

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years older than me, Melissa, when we were growing up, people

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thought we were twins. I was tall, she was short. They

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thought we were twins because we looked a lot alike. And I was

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tall, she was short, but I want mayonnaise on a sandwich. She

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wants mustard. I want cheese on everything. She could go the

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rest of her life without having cheese. We have some things that

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are very different. You would have thought we were a little

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bit more alike, but we're not mindset. Your mindset can

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really, really control so much of your life. I see people that

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are so negative and so down, and they watch every freaking

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newscast and everything is bad and the world is falling apart

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and, oh, we just had an election, and my guy didn't win,

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or my guy did win, but there's so much to overturn. I mean,

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drama, drama, drama, drama. I don't watch the news. I'm gonna

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say it one more time. I don't watch the news. If somebody

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tells me something's happened in the world, I'll go look it up

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and see, like, what I can find out about it, but I don't watch

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the news. And when I became an entrepreneur, there was a book

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that I read, I don't remember which one, and now it's been in

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many books, and the author said, I don't watch the news. And when

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you talk to somebody, you can go, Hey, what's going on in the

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world? And they can tell you, and then you can choose whether

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you want to go look it up and confirm or not, like what's

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going on. If you are filling your head consistently with a

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total stream of negativity,

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of fear, of scary things,

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you create your own reality, and things start

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getting scary around you, and things start getting bad around

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you. And bad things do happen. I've had a lot of bad things

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happen in my life. If you've been on my podcast for a while,

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I've shared some of the biggies that have happened in my life.

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But I still want to believe, and I do believe, that good things

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happen and good things come to me. My friend Kimberly Crowe

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always says, oh, things are always working out for me. And

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it's true. I mean, she says it for her, but I say it for me

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too. I missed a light, and I got stuck behind a red light, and

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I'm sitting there initially thinking, dang it, I missed that

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light, and I was in a hurry and I wanted to go fast, and now I'm

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Skip this light, and seconds later, there's a crash ahead of

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me. If I had made that light, I would have been caught up in it.

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How does this all work? I don't know. Is it God? I believe it

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is. I believe it's the universe. I believe everything works out

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for me. I drive up to Toby Keith's before every thunder

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basketball game. And when I was still working for the

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government, we would go out to lunch there. Sometimes, I always

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get to park in front, I bet three times in 15 years I have

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not been able to park on the front row. Why? I have a mindset

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I'm going to park in front your brain starts looking for the

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good parking places. It's out there. It happens. It's real.

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You can think I'm a wackadoo. I don't really care. I prefer to

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live in my world. There is a book, and it was really eye

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opening to me. I just had it up on my computer, and where did it

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go? One moment, please. It's called younger next year. And I

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wanted to tell you who the authors were, Chris Crowley and

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Henry S Lodge. They have younger next year, and live until you're

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80 and beyond. And the really cool thing about this book is

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one chapter is written by a gentleman in his 70s who went to

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the doctor, and the next chapter is. Written by the doctor who

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is, I believe, an internist. So the older gentleman is talking

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about what's going on, and then the doctor steps in and gives

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the scientific reasons behind it. And the bottom line, the

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gist of it, get the book like, I'm not affiliated with them in

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any way. They don't even know who I am. I haven't even told

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them how much I love their book, but the bottom line of the book

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is, you're either growing or you're dying. You're growing or

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you're dying. Every cell in your body at this exact moment is

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either growing or decaying. The more healthy foods that you eat,

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the more you work out, the more you have a positive attitude,

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the better off your body is going to be. Do really great

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people get very horrible diseases, yes. Do they die of

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them every day? Can I explain that? Absolutely not. I cannot.

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But what I do know is there are a lot of healthy people who they

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are allowing their bodies and their minds to deteriorate

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because they're not taking proactive action. So if you want

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a fun read, or if you like audiobooks, the audiobook is

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fantastic younger next year, by Chris Crowley and Henry S Lodge,

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and that will help you overcome the genetics, the lifestyle and

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the mindset that is keeping you from living the life you want to

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live. I'm Jennifer Takagi with destin for success. I would love

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it if we hopped on a call to see if there's any way that I can

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help you in your situation, so you can be younger next year, so

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you can make a choice about how you want to age. I can't really

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do much about the physical part, because I'm not a nutritionist,

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a dietitian. I'm not in that scientific world, but there are

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a whole lot of other ways I can help you. I look forward to

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connecting with you soon. Bye.