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Wellness is a Journey

Continuing our smoothie episode, Chef Cat and Nurse Bridgette talk about ways to eat delicious, nutritious food as part of a sustainable plan to live healthy. Captions below.

Wellness is a Journey

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welcome to the ascend health show i’m your 

host nick angeles and you’re so confused

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right now as far as why am i drinking 

a smoothie it’s a really good one too

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i’m here with chef kat and nurse bridget from a 

to z living well solutions hello and you probably

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missed our last show which is where these were 

made but we thought it was such a good time

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that we’ll just continue and talk about a few more 

things to run out of things to talk about so from

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ascend health center where i’m one of the owners 

i’m a nurse anesthetist we deal with mental health

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we have psychiatry counselors we do ketamine 

infusions sprovato which is a similar nasal spray

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and also transcranial magnetic stimulation which 

right now you’re thinking well i don’t understand

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what smoothies have to do with any of that but the 

idea is that of a holistic healthcare so sometimes

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all you need is a smoothie and then you’re done 

and you don’t have to take pills and then other

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times you do need intensive medical treatments 

until you get to the point where the nutrition

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does make a quick difference in your life but 

because it requires a holistic approach and

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any patient or client it’s hard to say immediately 

like oh this will fix you because we’ve all seen

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those websites like the grapefruit juice or our 

special no offense to what you said in the last

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episode but our special stevia blend or this or 

like this is the key and you can waste a lot of

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money doing that or you can just simply narrow 

down to exactly what you need well that’s why

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you need a to z living well solutions so we are 

the proud uh co-founders and owners of a to z

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living well solutions we’re based in akron ohio 

and we serve all over northeast ohio with box

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lunches with a healthy message and our goal in 

life at this point right is really to educator

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and do you want to talk a little bit about what 

edu catering means to a to z yeah absolutely

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so just to add what nick you were saying about 

it takes a team approach and obviously we have

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three very unique positions here we’ve got a 

nurse next to us i’m a anti-inflammatory nurse

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holistic nurse and we have chef kat here and so 

three different areas of life but they’re all

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very important so we’ve got the health domain 

but then chef kat here she’s got the food

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category here and they all have to work together 

and so what we do is educators education

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and catering mix and we like to educate people 

on what they’re eating why they’re eating it how

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to swap out harmful ingredients and get yourself 

the proper nutrition so that you can enjoy life

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absolutely i remember i had a patient once who 

said you know i wasn’t depressed anymore when

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they put me on geodan but i also wasn’t awake 

so i talked to the psychiatrist and i was like

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i think this is cheating i’m not 

depressed i was like no no no this

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you’re not suicidal this is great and sometimes 

it’s that way with our food where we’re like okay

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i’m sad but i’m eating this bland food and i know 

i should be healthy and i feel that doesn’t really

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count as health this very cautious like okay i’m 

doing everything i’m supposed to maybe i’ll live

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for a long sad life like that’s not the goal of 

anything no no no no you want vitality you want

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longevity and a lot of foods actually when you sit 

down with the right intentions as i like to say

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and you produce a meal there’s so many emotions 

that go into it and you should have an experience

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when you’re cooking or when you go out to eat and 

such and that’s why i think that being connected

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to your food in some way is really important so 

we kind of say give professional tips we call

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them pro tips but basically a lot of those pro 

tips are focusing on how to live your best life

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while eating a meal while preparing the meal while 

even at work if you go out for lunch and you come

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back really slow your employer’s not going to 

be too happy either so we really um we cater to

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corporations schools and institutions and we 

really bring them healthy food but not like

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we’re not giving you celery sticks and calling it 

a day we don’t call it granola crunchy you know

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some people call like that we we call it really 

restaurant quality food that makes you crave and

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enjoy it but also when you’re done eating it we 

consider that as food as fuel so yeah we want you

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to feel energized from the food that you’re 

eating and uh we’re choosing specific menus

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designed to give you the maximum nutrition but 

also to give you the most bold flavors and that’s

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where chef cat really shines so does it need 

to be a subtle change or for example i think

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during the obama years where they change the 

school lunches and that was like a bunch of kids

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threw away peaches like that was what happened 

but at the same time if you’re giving a similar

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if it’s a similar food it’s just healthier 

ingredients is that like a better segue or

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yes i would completely agree our whole premise 

is that we know people like eating comfort foods

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you know there are people enjoy chocolate 

smoothies like the banana smoothie you’re eating

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but we just want to swap out different ingredients 

like instead of adding um you know chocolate and

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sugar and chocolate syrup and stuff like 

that we’re going to add a dandelion blend

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that gives a cocoa mocha flavor but you’re 

gonna get all these nutritional values added

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and not have all that extra sugar and it’s also 

energizing like when i’ve had dandelion mochas

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like i’m sure some of it’s a placebo effect where 

it smells like coffee tastes like coffee oh i feel

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the caffeine yeah but it is almost a different 

kind of plant energy where you just feel your

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cells working a little bit better exactly exactly 

plus there’s that whole like pat yourself on the

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back like right you did a really good job for 

drinking that smoothie but is there a limit to

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that too i know we’ve talked about this before 

bridgette of where people get so intense into

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their health yes that i think our last discussion 

is because i just listened to it again yesterday

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and we made the point of like that person at 

the party who’s eating the kale chips that’s

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what i was thinking all along like in the corner 

by themselves eating those celery sticks and

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they feel good and they’re proud of themselves 

but like everyone around them is like i don’t

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understand what’s happening here yeah yeah now 

we want to give a good balance between the two

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extremes because we don’t want you eating 

processed foods all day long every day

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because that’s your body’s going to turn into 

a donut basically but we don’t want you sitting

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in the corner by yourself eating a celery stick 

and segregating yourself because they’re eating

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processed foods so that’s where we like to bridge 

the gap between health and food i was going to say

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wealth but that’s wealth is it’s energy i think 

it’s intertwined because when you feel good

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you just have a stature about yourself you have 

confidence and such and so um we have some things

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that we’ve established in our business called 

guiding wellness principles and those kind of just

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bring us back to what what are we really after 

here and one of our guiding wellness principles is

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understanding what is the sad diet and we want 

to lead you to glad okay so that’s why i said

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health and wealth it’s all about rhyming a to z 

you know we’re really trying to get and i’m like

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with it here you know there you go we’ll just do 

limericks like straight limericks for everything

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so so anyways we um we really try and show people 

you know we’re you’re above average you’re more

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than standard so you should eat above standards 

and the standard american diet for a long time has

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given a disconstrued way of picking out what 

are the best foods for your body and i like

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to think that everybody’s body is different 

and so we use the sad and then we go to glad

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and the glad diet is really just about focusing 

on good ample nutritious foods and we go through

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that with all of our clients but i’d love 

to invite them to visit our website perhaps

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that would be a great way to get in touch with 

us yeah it’s a2zlivingwell.com correct yes

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from health to wealth what if they say well 

what about my wealth like do i need to give

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up all my wealth so i can eat healthy because 

that’s obviously a concern a lot of people have

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like i just can’t afford it gas prices are up 

my broccoli costs too much so what do you say

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well one of our most famous things that we used to 

say is you’re going to spend it now on your food

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or you’re going to spend it later in a hospital 

bed oh so you’re saying that they can see me in

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a little bit or they can visit you now right okay 

yeah that makes sense i think there’s everybody’s

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got a place okay so there are times that people 

will need certain services health-wise but if you

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could grab rain and control of your health from uh 

even wherever you’re at we meet you where you’re

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at to say hey are you drinking only soda every 

single day well let’s start incorporating some

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really good filtered water are you snacking after 

midnight well how about you eat like the way that

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you eat very heavy in the morning lighter at 

lunch and then even lighter at dinner time so your

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digestion track has a way to catch up some people 

choose different ways to um do the intermittent

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fasting and such so there’s various approaches 

to health but it’s just starting one step in the

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at a time and that’s the key is that we we don’t 

expect everybody to change everything immediately

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clear out their cupboards you know go go crazy 

and only buy organic and non-gmo everything

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now that’s that’s later in the future and you 

know even if you if you even get there but

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just like chef cat is saying you know let’s 

start with the most basics what’s your main

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source of water is it pop is that how you get your 

water in can we switch that can you start drinking

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more water and maybe one pop a week or something 

like that and so chef cat mentioning the small

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steps in the right direction are eventually you’re 

going to stack on those small steps and you’re

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going to have a big result and also to add to your 

um you know discussion with the health and the

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wealth you know chef cat in the episode previous 

was mentioning about the um the abundance of our

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land that we have we’re coming into the springtime 

and the summer time and there’s farmers markets

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there’s local farms driving around you 

know in in wadsworth i know there’s some

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farms around here you pick uh berries and fruits 

and things like that so sometimes you’ll be able

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to get them cheaper buy them in bulk right and 

you’re also saying it’s not inevitable like

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you don’t have to start on this journey then at 

some point you’re going to be like what’s what’s

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the name of those of those pumpkin seeds if they 

don’t have individual names i’m not interested

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yet if we listen to our bodies we can know okay 

this is enough for now or this is because that’s

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what i think is the most fascinating about diets 

there’s so many ideas but you simply have to even

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if something resonates with your brain your body 

might say you know what this isn’t working for me

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sorry and then you have to no matter how how 

much you’re like this is a philosophy that i

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really like that it really makes sense for my body 

right if we pay attention to our bodies that’s

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where we can tell like no this isn’t working for 

me well you’re greek right it’s all greek to me

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the greek word for diet is dieta and the true 

meaning of that where it originally intended

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was lifestyle and so that’s what we try and 

really share about is how to take hold of your

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lifestyle not just monday morning manchester 

you know it’s it’s about uh understanding that

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there’s a lot of days in the week seven maybe 

some say and um i don’t know why i said that but

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you know there’s people don’t like mondays yes 

they don’t really count i can’t mondays but um

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with every day that ends in y we’ll say it that 

way there’s an opportunity to make a good choice

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so it’s not you know it’s great when you get on 

a program and you want to clean some things out

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and you want to call nurse bridgette or hopefully 

it’s before you get to nick but he’s a good segue

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it’s about really living with intention every day 

so if you want to have that special treat on that

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one day there’s still three other meals mostly uh 

to choose a better option as the day progresses so

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the more you kind of attack not a diet is just so 

regiment although there’s times and places for it

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it’s really great to understand that diet means 

lifestyle and how are you choosing to live one

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bite at a time right no that makes sense because 

greek italian cultures they are like let’s eat

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a lot let’s eat together yeah someone will be 

offended if you don’t eat all this food right and

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so if you start cooking a bit more healthy then 

you can kind of get into that without because i

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know my parents they get confused because let’s 

say i gained weight and they’re like don’t eat

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that much but but our culture says you need to 

eat a lot so it was just a really funny thing

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to watch where they wanted us to eat all this 

food but also not eat all this food yeah yeah

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it’s that monitoring that daily balance i guess 

right so no that makes a lot of sense for sure

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and working through the confusion you know to also 

understand that every second that you everything

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that you put to your mouth you know smoothie it’s 

good smoothie very good that’s a choice that i’m

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making and i’m choosing to eat this right now 

and i could choose you know on the earlier show

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i could choose to drink this sugar water that 

says cranberry juice on it or i could choose to

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get my sweets from fruits you know so every single 

uh meal that you have is a choice every drink that

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you have is a choice and maybe you know you 

make three not so great choices but then you

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make three better choices so i mean are you where 

you at in that and probably eating with intention

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with mindfulness can start with a smoothie yeah 

because a lot of times there’s plenty of research

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that if you slow down when you eat when you really 

pause and like the food itself is more nutritious

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but you can’t go from eating mcdonald’s to like 

well why don’t you bake yourself some shepherd’s

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pie and really think about each bite so a smoothie 

is a really good transition for those five minutes

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you’ll have that okay i’m paying attention to 

this and then slowly you can grow into more

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right right right yes yes that’s you know 

okay so i have a funny story now so um

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it’s i i grew up on fast food i’m not gonna lie 

that’s that’s pretty much all my parents fed me

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uh they’re wonderful parents i love them very much 

but that’s what they knew to feed me right and it

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was quick and easy and so i remember going to um 

a fast food place with my dad and he got his food

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and we’re pulling out the parking lot and he’s 

already got the wrapper ripped open and like the

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it was it was a taco and the taco is gone within 

like two minutes of getting it in the car and i

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remember like looking at my dad like wow you 

really ate that fast um why’d you eat that so

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fast and he’s like well if i don’t eat it fast it 

doesn’t taste good and that i mean i was a little

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girl when he said that and that stuck with me like 

why do we have to scarf down our food right for it

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to taste good when we can sit here and savor 

certain things and really enjoy each flavor

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correct you know our tongue knows quality right 

if you really give it a chance to think about what

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it’s eating so then the mindfulness doesn’t work 

if you’re eating something terrible because then

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your brain’s like wait what are we doing yeah why 

am i eating this nasty tasting thing i can eat a

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lot so i know you guys were really nice with brand 

names and all that but i won’t be so i went to

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ihop because they had this great pancake all 

you can eat special yeah and literally about

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i don’t know 20 pancakes in or something my 

body almost oddly was like we’re done here

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i’ve got room for one more 

pancake but it was almost an

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audible voice of like no we’re done 

you are done this is god’s peace

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is that is that my cholesterol like what’s going 

on here well it’s about balance right that’s super

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brown yeah but it’s challenging too because a lot 

of times like i i’m sharing with you bridget how i

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did a study on all the ensure and those kind of 

protein drinks and now even in surgeries we’ll

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give them pre-operative patients and the patients 

do great instead of going eight or twelve hours

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without anything to eat or drink before surgery 

they better wound healing they don’t need as much

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pain medicine and some it doesn’t even make sense 

but it it is well this is what the body uses for

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fuel it’s food and if you don’t have it you’re 

not going to heal as quickly right but then even

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if you know modified corn proteins can do that for 

us imagine if you actually spent the time to make

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something like this yeah you give your body real 

raw nutrition right and for some people that is

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like a first step of okay let me have a nutrition 

drink but then it’s that is one where you can’t

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really stop there yeah what i said earlier about 

i think people are more willing to start if they

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realize okay there’s not some destination we’re 

all saying like look i know that cauliflower

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is on sale it’s a really good deal but i better 

get the organic one instead yeah i think if you

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have more flexibility yes one of our mentors 

says health is a journey not a destination

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and i think that’s important to keep in mind is 

that you’re really it’s just a day-by-day thing

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absolutely so if people want to reach you they can 

go to your website correct and oh i did have one

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question from the last episode you had mentioned 

how you can freeze foods individually yes

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everyone’s confused right now but this whole 

all the show is is me trying to learn things

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so do take like we’re really here for you it 

really it’s it’s nick’s show which is really

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embarrassing since i showed up late for the last 

one but anyway so do you take like the blueberries

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individually or like how individual are you 

talking about this the blueberries individually

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you put them on just like single layer just 

a single layer that makes sense yes and then

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once they’re frozen you can do whatever you want 

then once they’re frozen they’ll just pop right

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off and start putting them in bags i use a lot of 

little parchment layers so i can you know it kind

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of prevents them from clumping once they’re in the 

freezer right so mm-hmm i have a youtube video i’m

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gonna have to watch it because yeah unfortunately 

i’m the opposite where sometimes i’m like well

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i guess i should take this fork out of the 

tupperware before i toss this in this yeah

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and our youtube page definitely has some tips 

that are just sometimes silly and fun that is

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you know just cooking at home how you can 

become faster how you can become more efficient

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and have of course tasty food absolutely and then 

if you want to reach us at ascend health center

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at simply ascendhealthcenter.com 

our phone number is 330-754-4844

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and we treat a lot of anxiety depression 

we do some pain management on opioids and

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really we’re good for a lot of those confusing 

disorders where you’re not really sure what it is

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migraines fibromyalgia even some long coveted sort 

of issues because that’s a lot of what happens

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when you aren’t eating the right foods your body 

is unsure what messages to send yes you can’t even

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tell what your symptoms are so we’ve we have 

a lot of patients i’ve been to six seven eight

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different specialists and they’ll tell me like oh 

it’s all covered by insurance it’s like well it’s

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partially covered it’s basically like a 

really bad groupon is what’s happened here

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that’s real funny and so but and so that’s 

why it makes sense to find substitutes to

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eat healthy because no matter what’s wrong with 

you you know it’s gonna start getting better as

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you eat yeah right even if it’s subtle and you 

still need some other source of medical treatment

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you know that you know sugar and simple 

carbohydrates and the wrong kinds of fat are

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not going to help you so well speaking of that i’m 

sure you’ve seen non-alcoholic fatty liver disease

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that is something really curious that’s becoming 

more and more problematic right and non-alcoholic

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fatty liver disease for those of us who may not 

know is basically the liver is turning into fat

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right it’s getting clogged up turning fat 

typically we saw that with just alcohol use

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but now we’re seeing it with the processed foods

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and um you know that’s that’s something that we 

have to be aware of that if we’re eating too much

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sugar in general organs could be shutting down 

because of what we’re eating right you know and

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yes you’re going to help with things that we 

don’t know what’s happening but also you know

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every single food option that you’re eating is 

fuel for that body that you’re feeding you know

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absolutely food is medicine and you’re right 

because i work in a lot of gi places and it’s

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almost an epidemic at this point yeah where 

it’s simply like because it used to be when

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people in holistic medicine used to talk about 

detoxifying and we got to support your liver

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that the usual medical response was like this 

is ridiculous your liver takes care of all this

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but that’s a case where your liver is like no 

actually i can’t yeah it’s getting overburdened

0:21:41.200,0:21:45.040

right and i remember the first time seeing 

non-alcoholic fatty liver disease in the

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clinical practice and it was a 30 year old 

man he was a police officer and i was like

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are you sure you’re not drinking like are you sure 

there’s something that you’re not telling me about

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i did the same thing like like i didn’t believe it 

like yeah like he’s just like and he he’s like no

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i swear i don’t drink alcohol and i’m like okay 

i can really think about this here because i’m

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seeing an alcoholic liver but as we’re finding out 

it is more problematic and people really do have

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to pay attention to what they’re eating absolutely 

and starting with a smoothie is good good option

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well i think this is a good time to end the 

show because i’m almost done with my smoothie

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i’ve been drinking it i better say this whole 

time just so i won’t get it taken away from it

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but uh thank you all for joining us again 

this has been uh ascend health center and

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hse living well solutions and we’ll see 

you on our next show thank you thank you

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