Aging Backwards at 55: Single Mom's Age-Reversing Routine

Summary

In this captivating video, Julie Gibson Clark, a 55-year-old single mom renowned for her impressive age-defying routine, shares her secrets to maintaining youth and health on a budget. Julie walks viewers through her daily habits, which include a disciplined workout regimen, a focus on nutrition with nutrient-dense greens and bone broths, and a strong spiritual and emotional foundation. She emphasizes the importance of integrating love and discipline in one's lifestyle to promote longevity and vitality.

Highlights

• Julie wakes up at 5 a.m., starting her day with spiritual readings and reflection to ground herself mentally. 🔔
• Her morning routine includes making a green drink enriched with moringa and beet kvass, packed with vibrant health benefits. 🍹
• Emphasizes the importance of muscle maintenance for aging, scheduling consistent weight training and cardio sessions. 🏋️‍♀️
• Advocates for a ‘Try it’ approach to health, as Julie assesses diet changes for two weeks before evaluating their effectiveness. 🔄
• Manages stress through prayer, meditation, and evening walks, creating a mindful balance in her lifestyle. 🚶‍♀️

Key Takeaways

• Building a morning routine that includes exercise and spiritual nourishment can lay the foundation for a healthy day. 🌞
• Healthy eating doesn't need to break the bank, as seen with Julie's creative use of fermented foods and broths. 💪
• Balancing physical health with mental and emotional well-being is crucial for long-term vitality. 🧘‍♀️
• Understanding personal health triggers and making dietary changes can drastically improve one's health, as Julie did with acid reflux. 🚫🍞🥛
• Listening to one's body and being gentle with the self is key, emphasizing progress over perfection. 💖

Overview

Julie Gibson Clark, an inspiring 55-year-old single mom, thrives with a youthful zest for life, not through expensive treatments, but with diligent daily practices. Her journey is a testament to the power of routine and intention. Julie starts her day early with spiritual reflections and invigorating teas, filled with ingredients like moringa and fermented greens that set the tone for vitality and health.

Her comprehensive workout regime consists of cardio, weightlifting, and strategic rest days, designed to build and maintain essential muscle mass. Julie’s approach to eating is equally disciplined and explorative. She regularly utilizes bone broth, fermented foods, and experiments with various dietary protocols to find what best suits her body’s needs.

Julie balances her physical practices with mental and emotional wellness, using prayer and meditation to keep stress at bay. Her story is a beacon for those looking to optimize their own routines; Julie proves that age is indeed just a number, especially when armed with the right mindset and habits.

Chapters

• 00:00 - 01:00: Introduction to Julie Gibson Clark This chapter introduces Julie Gibson Clark, a 55-year-old single mom who has one of the lowest speeds of aging globally. She has discovered a method to reverse aging signs and maintains her health with just $100 monthly, outperforming even billionaires. The chapter outlines Julie's intention to share her daily routine and strategies for staying healthy economically, aiming to uncover her secrets to vitality and what defines her as human.
• 01:00 - 04:00: Daily Morning Routine The chapter 'Daily Morning Routine' begins with a greeting and the excitement of meeting in person. It then details the morning routine of the narrator, who wakes up at 5:00 AM. Despite initial reluctance to work out, the promise of going to the sauna motivates them to get out of bed.
• 04:00 - 08:00: Childhood and Family Background The chapter titled 'Childhood and Family Background' opens with a habitual morning routine, showcasing personal preferences such as making the bed to a professional standard—a skill honed during the protagonist's experience working as a maid in a hotel through college. The chapter hints at an exploration of the protagonist's childhood, suggested to be a positive period, as indicated by the brief conversation about having had a 'great childhood.' The narrative sets a tone for detailed insights into upbringing and family life.
• 08:00 - 12:00: Religious Practices and Personal Beliefs The chapter explores personal memories related to religious practices and how they intertwine with individual beliefs. It begins with a personal anecdote from the author who was born and raised in Houston, Texas, with a father who was an astronaut. This background provides a unique perspective on religious and personal life, highlighting how activities like competitive swimming formed a significant part of their early life and were supported by family traditions and beliefs, such as pre-race routines shared with the father.
• 12:00 - 15:00: Morning Skincare and Workout Preparation The chapter discusses the importance of nutrition and fitness, starting with a personal childhood experience where eating Snickers improved performance in races. This early realization highlighted the impact of diet on athletic performance. The narrator was influenced by observing their father, a scientist who needed to maintain physical fitness for space training, emphasizing the role of consistent exercise and diet in maintaining health.
• 15:00 - 23:00: Workout Routine and Fitness Philosophy In this chapter, the speaker reflects on the influence of their father's unconventional approach to health and fitness, describing him as the 'original biohacker'. Recollections include his meticulous daily weight tracking and the myriad of supplements he consumed, including distinctive homemade concoctions. The speaker shares amusing anecdotes of family teasing and expresses deep admiration for their father's commitment to health, despite his unconventional methods. Through these memories, a strong bond and sense of family pride in these DIY health philosophies are highlighted.
• 23:00 - 33:00: Dietary Habits and Nutritional Choices The chapter 'Dietary Habits and Nutritional Choices' discusses the personal transformation of the narrator as they align with their father's habits, signified by a routine involving reading sections from the Bible and engaging in daily prayers, including the St. Francis of Assisi prayer, to foster peace and relaxation.
• 33:00 - 40:00: Coping with Stress and Mental Wellbeing The chapter 'Coping with Stress and Mental Wellbeing' emphasizes the importance of empathy, understanding, and love in our lives. It focuses on seeking to console rather than be consoled, understanding others rather than seeking to be understood, and giving rather than receiving. These principles are tied to the belief that these actions bring internal rewards such as receiving, pardoning, and being born to eternal life. The narrative includes a personal reflection on parenting, particularly dealing with the challenges of raising a teenage son, as a daily practice of patience, understanding, and generosity.
• 40:00 - 48:00: Reflection on Motherhood and Parenting The chapter opens with a reflective discussion on personal daily rituals, emphasizing the importance of a morning routine that incorporates religious texts, including sections from the Bible, such as the wisdom books and the Gospel. These readings are described as a form of spiritual grounding and personal nourishment.
• 48:00 - 55:00: Effective Time Management Strategies The chapter 'Effective Time Management Strategies' delves into the importance of resilience and love as pivotal strategies for managing life's challenges over time. It emphasizes that life can be tough, as illustrated by the speaker's own 55 years of experiences, which included significant hardships. The chapter suggests that having a foundation or belief system, such as those offered by religions teaching love and compassion, can help in maintaining mental and emotional endurance. Additionally, the speaker mentions a personal routine of meditating for about 20 minutes, which is then followed by engaging with digital devices, indicating the balancing act between personal time and reality.
• 55:00 - 65:00: Evening Relaxation and Meditation Practices The chapter titled 'Evening Relaxation and Meditation Practices' describes the narrator's morning routine which begins with checking their email for any urgent work messages from their boss before engaging in a workout. The narrator emphasizes the importance of putting the phone away to avoid distractions. They then proceed with their skincare routine, which includes cleansing the face and applying Dr. House's Rose day cream. This routine lays a calming foundation for the day and seems to be a part of their overall relaxation and self-care practice.
• 65:00 - 70:30: Conclusion and Final Thoughts In this chapter, the speaker concludes the discussion by sharing personal habits and preferences regarding daily routines and hygiene. They mention their use of Himalaya Botanic toothpaste with Xylitol, opting for a regular toothbrush on the advice of a dentist friend who warned against harshness on the gums. The chapter ends with the speaker gearing up for a workout, emphasizing pre-workout preparation.

Aging Backwards at 55: Single Mom's Age-Reversing Routine Transcription

• 00:00 - 00:30 this is Julie Gibson Clark a 55-year-old single mom with one of the lowest speed of Aging in the world she has figured out the way to reverse the signs of aging she spends only around $100 a month on her health protocol beating billionaires in the process in this video Julie will walk us through her daily routine and show us what she does to stay super healthy on a budget what's her secret how does she keep going and what exactly makes her human
• 00:30 - 01:00 hello it's so nice to meet you in person awesome come on in come on upstairs walk me through from the very top so wake up I've got an alarm that wakes me up at 5: and I lay there for a bit and think about how much I don't want to go work out but I tell myself it's okay CU I can just go and get in the sauna and that's what gets me out of bed so then I get
• 01:00 - 01:30 out of bed and I actually make the bed I'm a big fan of making my bed every day how do you make it look so professional well I I was a maid in a hotel through college you even have the little divots and oh yeah the whole thing hey Julie yes love and then it's off to make a cup of tea so Julie tell me about your childhood I had a great childhood
• 01:30 - 02:00 very fond memories I was born in Houston Texas and raised there my dad was a astronaut on Sky laab 3 so he was kind of training a good portion of my younger years I must have been eight cuz I was an eight and under swimming I started swimming and I used to swim like 3 hours a day just loved it my dad would come with me to swim meets and he'd say you know you go a you got a race in 30 minutes let's give you some Snickers so you have a glycogen load and like eight
• 02:00 - 02:30 nine years old I'm like wow I like can have a Snickers okay what impressed upon me was I did perform better in those races I could feel the sugar in my muscles and I just remember being very young thinking okay what you eat really matters was everyone around you really healthy my dad was just a scientist so he had to like train and train his body to be healthy for space so I just grew up watching him work out he was
• 02:30 - 03:00 definitely the original biohacker I mean I can remember in high school like seeing on the back of his bathroom door like his charts for like he would chart his weight every day and like look at the trends you know and I always had so many supplements my mom would be like oh you have too many supplements is he proud of you oh yeah yeah yeah yeah oh don't make me cry like I love my dad so much we used to tease them all the time cuz he would make these concoctions so when I was making one of my concoctions I was like making the green drink and I I was getting
• 03:00 - 03:30 everything down and I was like the transformation is complete I have become my father I called him I'm like Dad guess what like I'm totally you I'm going to sit down over here and glasses and Bible and I just read a couple sections from the Bible and kind of wake up and just relax with God and I a couple prayers that I say every day I do this St Francis ofi prayer for PE oh Divine
• 03:30 - 04:00 Master grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console to be understood as to understand to be loved as to love for it is in giving that we receive it is in pardoning that we are pardoned and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life so I pray that every morning like if anything's been edgy you know mostly that will happen kind of with my son being a teenager and it just helps me like okay that's right it's my job to understand and just to be giving in the world instead of taking is
• 04:00 - 04:30 always works out better so that's just a nice reminder every morning I do that and then I read a section from different parts of the Bible right now I'm in Sak and that's kind of the wisdom books and and then I read um a little bit of the Gospel every morning and if I need a little extra help I have a prayer to St an which I won't share that's only just for a if you need a special favor wow how much would you say religion or religious beliefs help you stay young
• 04:30 - 05:00 healthy and vibrant I mean if you want to play the long game like life is hard I mean just the 55 years I've lived I've been dealt some serious blows and you got to have something to keep you going all religions are a study in love and how to love yourself and how to love other people that's really to me all it is how long do you sit I do this for about 20 minutes then comes reality and I'm on my phone
• 05:00 - 05:30 and the first thing I do is check my email and it looks like I actually have a message from my boss so and I just uh make sure that there's nothing you know immediate that I could attend to before I go work out sometimes I sit here for another 20 minutes sometimes it's 40 but I'm just drinking my tea and then I put the phone away and it is time to wash my face first thing in the morning I just used this Dr House's Rose day cream that have been using for years you wash your face and then you put that on put a little
• 05:30 - 06:00 bit of that on that's cuz that's right before my workout and then I put on my workout clothes boom pow boom boom pow and what do you use to brush your teeth yeah I love this Himalaya botanic with xylol Xylitol can coat your teeth like fluoride but without the fluoride and you use just a regular toothbrush my best friend is a dentist I noticed she didn't use one I was like you don't use one she's like no they can really be a little too harsh on your gums so I stopped then I get my workout bag and it's time to go workout let's do it yep and key got to get this ready the night
• 06:00 - 06:30 before mhm don't wait till that morning cuz it's too early and you won't be able to think so this is very Arizona very Arizona my dad bought that for me what is inside the bag can you kind of show me sure so I got a towel for like you know being on the different machines and such uh this is a towel for post shower I got my shower shoes I got uh a bag that I take in the shower that's got kind of like my shampoo my conditioner um anything else
• 06:30 - 07:00 I need in the shower I got my clothes got my dress I'm going wear flipflops and all the stuff to take care of my hair and then the stuff to take care of my skin and skin bag deodorant you got to have that and a brush are there any products in here that you swear by that you're like I'm obsessed with these I'm obsessed with AA shampo because I love the smell here smell is
• 07:00 - 07:30 oh doesn't that smell good that's so like like baby heart yeah like I love it my body lotion I'm still kind of working out I just found this one product that I really like and I'm going to have to get the name of the company for you but it's Tallow which seems to be all going around you know Instagram these days but I'm really liking this for body lotion I feel like it's um safe and healthy and natural and in Arizona it's so dry you have to have something that's really
• 07:30 - 08:00 moisturizing and sticks with you all day and this really soaks into your skin and keeps it really nice do you put that everywhere uhuh for my face I've been using this for years to replenex so first the glycolics and then this one have you been healthy your whole life yeah with a few blips at a rough 30s and went to get some help from a doctor and the doctor just wanted to prescribe more medicine was already on a medication she wanted to prescribe another medication and I was like I just don't want to take medication my whole life like there's
• 08:00 - 08:30 got to be another way and this was for um acid reflex and I just kept thinking well if I have acid reflex it's got to be something I'm eating not knowing that stress causes a acid reflux in your 30s what was making that time so stressful this was from 29 to 31 32 married divorced I left my job as an engineer that I had trained for I had no idea what I was going to do next but I knew I couldn't do it anymore I moved out of my house and then moved different apartments maybe like four times I was
• 08:30 - 09:00 told I had two lumps in my left breast and then a man tried to kidnap me at knife point and he got in my car I won't get into that whole story but um that was kind of like the beginning of I got to take control of the situation and luckily like I got out of the car that was like a very empowering situation it turned out very positively for my life but that's when I was became like okay we got to like fix this I can't have this a reflex every day I don't think I need this anti-depressant anymore I I needed it at the time but you know I
• 09:00 - 09:30 didn't think I need it anymore so I sought the help of a naturopath I was in Portland Oregon and there's a naturopathic medicine school there a lot of my friends were talking about it and I I was like okay well let's see you know if that could help and sure enough you know get off all wheat and dairy two weeks no acid reflux and then when I went back to see her after those two weeks she said well I'll help you get off the anti-depressant if you want to try you know we can at least try she put me on a a neutraceutical protocol and
• 09:30 - 10:00 sure enough and what are nutriceuticals so nutriceuticals are just uh vitamins that you can use as a pharmaceutical using vitamins as healing what are the key things that you do every single week I always make sure I do a V2 Max and I typically do that on Mondays the reason for that is I've usually eaten some fun things on the weekends and so I feel like I might have a little bit more glycogen in my muscles
• 10:00 - 10:30 it makes me feel good about it plus I like checking it off for the week like making sure that gets done so I do a new region 4x4 that's 3 minutes warm up four minutes Hard 3 minutes easy four minutes you do that four times so that 28 minutes and I take those last two minutes to just chill out can do it on any machine you do the Norwegian 4x4 on the step on the stepmill yeah after that I'll work my trunk you so abs and lower back obliques I do that the for uh
• 10:30 - 11:00 anywhere between 20 and 30 minutes cold shower it's summer I don't get a cold shower in Arizona but in the winter it's a cold shower then I get ready for my day at the gym I just find it easier not to faff about between coming home and then having to get ready it just adds barriers so I want to reduce those barriers Tuesday I have a gym up in my neighborhood and I just do a full body free Weight Workout and the reason I go there is just it's easier to get around I can get all the that I need and so for
• 11:00 - 11:30 my full body workout I focus on trying to do at least three exercises for my lower body and three exercises for my upper body it's more working on form and mobility and and how many reps are you doing I'm doing three sets of 12 and I'm just walking to that gym so then I walk home I shower and get ready here so there's no sauna Wednesday I'm going to go to the gym and do Zone 2 cardio so either a slow on the stepmill or slow on the elliptical trainer or slow on the then Thursday I kind of evaluate do I
• 11:30 - 12:00 want to go in the gym and do full body weights on machines that is more focusing on because I'm kind of restricted by the machine I can up the weight a little bit more and hopefully build more muscle water are like boom boom boom the main things are hitting each week V2 Max One Time full body strength training twice and the remainder Zone 2 cardio then I'm going to do sauna as many days as I can and one rest day Sunday is is a day of
• 12:00 - 12:30 absolutely no commitments I might go for a walk I might go for a hike if my friend asks me but I do not commit to anything there's only like a few people I'll commit to my parents my best friend and my son that's it everybody else like I just won't make a commitment on Sunday I might see them but I just don't make a commitment to it I just need to have a day of like Lolly gagging that's good Shake It Up y'all so I'm like about size four now living in Oregon at that time I was probably a 16 or an 18 no you gained a lot of I was yeah I was like drinking
• 12:30 - 13:00 wine every night sometimes followed by some like whiskey I was like Starbucks every morning with the scone and like the full-fledged Frappuccino or so I mean all that Sugar crap I didn't know that that was so bad for you you know like so I was just doing that every day and it's Oregon it's cold you know you just keep covering up you don't really think about it and then it's just like oh my God like whoa so when I went down
• 13:00 - 13:30 that path that was when I started working out um I had always kind of worked out because of swimming you know I became interested in weights in college and so I joined the gym again and started going to the gym started lifting weights just eating healthier in general how was that going back to the gym and getting back into that felt so great it felt so great so empowering again after everything I'd been through like it just became like a power place cuz those those were tough times did your body have a shock I don't
• 13:30 - 14:00 remember that feeling negative like because I start really slow I don't jump in and like try to do everything at once who's the girl who played the mom in Terminator and she just like buff arms that was the first time like women were seeing like oh you could build that like it was just a New Concept you know this Shape magazine had her workout in there and I started doing that this is back in college and I had some great success with it so they showed you like how to build into that was like okay you know right now you're going to do two sets of
• 14:00 - 14:30 six for this week and then the next week it was going to be two sets of eight and you know like build up to then three sets of 12 that's where my whole three sets of 12 came from so you slowly like week by week add a little more why is gaining muscle important yeah so for aging I think it's really critically important uh I want to be able to walk up and downstairs I want to have that stability as I get older I certainly don't want to be one of those people that's the victim of a fall that then turns into you know all kinds of bad
• 14:30 - 15:00 outcomes right so and also I just I want to have a little bit to like unfortunately lose if God forbid you know like sometimes I have back problems and if I have to lay in bed for a few days I just want to build a lot of muscle so that once I'm older I don't ever want to feel frail that scares me more than anything in the world when I do this next dexa if I haven't get any muscle then I'm going to do three days of um full body weights so in the SAA yeah it's on the slightly less Hot Side maybe like I've never measured it
• 15:00 - 15:30 because I had heavy metal poisoning I knew that um after the sauna I need to shower to get any I don't know toxins that might be on my skin I want them off immediately which is why I shower right after do you like the cold showers it sucks like every day I get in I'm like am I really going to do oh come on like seriously am I going to do this and then I just like you know what just give it one second and you can like make it hot and then it's like oh actually feels kind of good like you know especially after and in fact like now that it's warm in
• 15:30 - 16:00 the summer the cold water is you know 80 plus de it's not cold at all I don't ever get that buzz that I get from the cold shower when I started it I was just coming out of this really stressful period And I was just doing it for the detoxification as well as like immune system I knew that like taking a cold shower after a sauna was good for the immune system I started doing it and like I don't know maybe like a week into it I'm like God I feel really good like I feel like I am on like an
• 16:00 - 16:30 anti-depressant again like what is going on I started researching it and sure enough huberman had something it's talking about this dopamine curve and how and it does it feels like it lasts for like four or five hours and then when the heat of the summer comes and I don't get that cold shower I just I'm like oh okay it's not the same that's it are you just naturally filled with this motivation to do no no so how do you get to do these things so I definitely have an inner General I can be really mean to myself I have been until I had my son as
• 16:30 - 17:00 you're like raising your kids and you're like you know don't talk don't let anybody talk to you like that and I'm like why am I talking to myself like that like that's really harsh like don't don't do that to yourself so I definitely took shame out of the equation you got to have an intention and you got to have a why so like my intention that's developed through reading through longevity and everything is like knowing that I could have a health span that matches my lifespan and so that I can be vibrant and vital and
• 17:00 - 17:30 strong all the years that I'm here and that I can travel that I could like have this whole other life like outside of my son my why is several things one I want to be there for my son and all the life changes he goes through and just if nothing else to just bear witness to his life but also if he needs me I can be there because it's it's kind I mean he has family that loves him and everything but I'm his everyday person so and you're his mother I'm his mom and I want to be there for as long as possible and
• 17:30 - 18:00 two unfortunately I'm watching my mom develop Parkinson's and watching that slow oh this breaks my heart absolutely breaks my heart and I don't one I don't want my fun my son to look at me and feel that way but I you know I just like oh this this absolutely horrible to see my mom like that you know knowing like what's coming to that is what gets me in the gym every day like okay I got to I got to work the muscles I got to do this I'm sure if she could go back 30 years she would do it she would have started lifting weights and and doing things she never really worked out or that kind of stuff she's raised on a farm naturally
• 18:00 - 18:30 skinny you know so she just didn't really worry about that so I think you have to have your intention you have to have your why and then couple that with the schedule and there's just nothing that'll stop you I am going to make a green drink with marola fermented greens uh this is moringa and the brand I'll have to get for you because it's the most studied brand I think it's called cooly cooy and then this is maca powder and that's like
• 18:30 - 19:00 a teaspoon I used to do a tablespoon of MinGa but now I'm down to like a teaspoon and then this is just the whole earth sweetener I mix it with a lemon and this is my new favorite Obsession beet cavass that I've been making and you made that yourself yeah I'll show you literally you chop up beets in here is about two beets they're raw and you want the you know the bacteria that's on the skin and chop it up put water over it and like I think I did about a half a teaspoon of salt for this size and just
• 19:00 - 19:30 mix it all up anyway so okay so this is pretty simple it's just a half a a Lemon Squeeze and like we make limeade and we'll just juice up a bunch of them it's like oh my shoulder hurts and you're like why am I so jacked and there we just got to take the seeds out hot tip you just use a little Fork oh very okay yeah so we're doing this we're going to mix these are marola fermented greens a little bit of chlorella in in there too I don't do you add the chorella to it or
• 19:30 - 20:00 is just I just like yeah mix the chorella and fermented greens I think it's usually like um one qu of its chlorella mhm um and then I'm going to put some water in here just enough to mix this puppy up wow so why cold water cuz it's greens and greens taste way better in fact we're going to put some ice in here too if you drink them warm it's e okay and then I'm just going to like how much beet cavass in there is different every day but isn't that look
• 20:00 - 20:30 at this color so beautiful isn't that crazy it just depends on like the day I don't depends on how much I have in the kitchen too I'm thinking oh I got to save some cuz again my son's like who who drank all the PE us wow he loves it that much he loves it that much some ice and I'll pop it off with water um hello to the cutest ice cubes in the world what and then I am a straw user so straw police come after me but these are um actually you know what I'll show you
• 20:30 - 21:00 what they are biodegradable straws plant-based so you can use a straw and still save the turtles all right do you want to try some we can just put two straws in there it's like we're on a date yeah that's so cute okay okay let me try this whoa wow is it good out good it's good right it's like so many flavors
• 21:00 - 21:30 yeah I love it it's it's definitely very doable it's like earthy but sweet and sour who earthy sweet and sour yeah it's like grass and Sour Patch Kids without sugar and refreshing if you want to make it really really fancy you can use bubbly water oh my god that actually would be so nice right it's really refreshing little if I want to feel like I'm having a special drink in the evening I mix the
• 21:30 - 22:00 Beet cavass I don't use the greens in the evening but I'll mix the Beet cavass with the bubbly water in a wine glass and then listen to this sound that's to me like that sound is so relaxing it's like everything I want from wine is right there there's a great um book I'll give you a title it is called the art of fermentation like this is the fermentation Bible if ever there was one anything and everything you want to know that's been fermented or can be
• 22:00 - 22:30 fermented is in here why fermentation I want to get as much of the as we call them in my house happy bugs as possible in my body it seems like more and more research is coming out about how good it is to have probiotics and so I do take probiotics sometimes but it saves a lot of money to just eat fermented foods and O by the way like I'd imagine there's still some nitrogen left from the beets like if you just do things now naturally it all then works synergistically
• 22:30 - 23:00 together and it's usually a lot cheaper than buying a supplement I don't go on a diet I go on a tri it it's like I'm going to try this and see and I'm going to stick to it for two weeks come hello or high water you know and then after that initial crap feeling sometimes you feel on a new diet do I feel better and see if it makes a difference this was right after my brother died unfortunately my hair was falling out I was really really tired my son didn't sleep very well and obviously like I said my brother just died so like At
• 23:00 - 23:30 first I was thinking okay it's just the stress of that my friend just said you know you should go get tested for heavy metals you and I was like what do you mean what are you talking about you know and I had just had some dental amalgams removed I mean I knew Mercury was bad for you which is why I was having him removed but like when they did it I think I swallowed some Mercury yeah so when I went to get the metals tested it turned out I had a lot of different Metals where did the heavy metals come from I mean obviously there's no for sure way of saying but like I was I'm an adventurous eater I'll eat anything so I'm in Dubai I'm in DOA
• 23:30 - 24:00 I'm all over the world like I love fish absolutely like I love that the flesh tastes different you know it's just so interesting they're all fish there was a time when I was on a diet uh living in Doha and I was eating like smoked Atlanta salmon for breakfast tuna for uh lunch and then sometimes like more fish for dinner like that would be my day and then I got on the fda's website and saw like how much tuna you could actually have in a day and I was like blowing way
• 24:00 - 24:30 past that so these like big bigger fish you were eating a lot of those oh yeah because it tasted so good shark I mean that's like it's like steak but like good another important like symptom I had when I would get out of bed it was like my feet couldn't feel the floor properly that's the way I would have described it but I just couldn't balance properly it was very weird I was also a Ceramics major for a brief year or so in college and in mixing glazes and I never wore the mask and so God only knows what chemicals I was breathing in who knows
• 24:30 - 25:00 you know who knows where we get these but when I started doing the cleanup with the doctor we did my genetics and I Carri that MTHFR Gene and a couple other things she said you just might not detoxify very well and so you're going to always have to like support your body in detoxification now it's time for my first meal of the day which is usually always yet another drink and I'm going
• 25:00 - 25:30 to make this really great greens latte from this book let me get the book better broths and healing tonics in here she's got this bone broth that's quote unquote sweet it doesn't have sugar in it when you make the bone broth you make it with all kinds of spices and apples instead of like onions and celery and it makes this really spicy broth it calls for green so I do 4 o of greens she says a cup of broth and a cup and A4 of any kind of milk blend blend I do it the other way around I like less of this and
• 25:30 - 26:00 more of the bone broth so and I use this vitto Coco cocoa milk I just it's not sweet it's not overly milky and I try to stay away from too much nuts in my diets why is that with autoimmune diseases you need to stay away from a lot of the lectin there's going to be some nuts in here but I just I try to keep it to a minimum and so far I haven't had any issues so I'm just going to top this off with a little bit more I'm going to go over um so it'll be about like a cup it's not rocket science right so we're going to put that over the greens and we
• 26:00 - 26:30 are going to quickly heat these bad boys up but the greens will cook down to like nothing they look like so much but they'll just cook down to like a little handful yeah and so while that's heating three tablespoons pecans are going to go in there we're going to do 2 tablespoons of ground flax seed which I pregg ground already and I just keep it in my freezer that's going to go in there and then there's three spices there is ground uh dried Ginger that's a a half a teaspoon a half a teaspoon of cinnamon
• 26:30 - 27:00 and 1/4 teaspoon of cloves so that's going to go in there and then she just says you know protein powder optional so I do a scoop of collagen protein and then this is a scoop of a vegan protein I either use organe or own one of the two but I think that's organe and it's vanilla and it has a little bit of sweetener in it so that's going in there and we're also going to put in half an apple here we go ooh I don't know if it makes a difference but I try to keep the chunks all like the same size and I just
• 27:00 - 27:30 use a Himalayan sea salt you can't get enough salt in Arizone especially if I'm like walking and doing the sauna it's I'm sweating a lot yeah yeah okay so now so now it's hot hot hot hot we're going to be really careful I'm going to do it over the sink because I have a forbrain that tells me just in case and then we're going to whip this puppy up little B [Applause]
• 27:30 - 28:00 and you drink just one cup of this or this whole I just drink this whole thing you drink the whole thing I love it I drink the whole thing so I'll just like leave this here go back up and work cheers first of all it smells delicious it's literally Christmas in a cup yeah oo like so spicy wow right can you feel the cloves on your tongue though wow uh-huh my heart I know it's a cup of Christmas
• 28:00 - 28:30 literally so delightful I know wait what the heck you know now is it sweet enough I always adjust the sweetness y it's like so nice it's a little bit salty but also sweet and so comforting mhm you don't have to make it as salty but I do just cuz I feel in a womb it starts with the broth you've got to make the bone broth I make it and half of it will fit in here and then the other half will go in my my freezer M and that yeah that
• 28:30 - 29:00 lasts me about I make it last through the week okay you know for sure like um and then the other and then I'll pull the other one out so it's kind like every other week it's either Saturday or Sunday that's when I just kind of look at okay what do I need for the week ahead you know how many vegetables do I need how much do I need any bone broth do I need this do I need that so Sunday is the food prep day yeah exactly how long does it take you to food prep for everything I don't time myself because this is my happy place like this is my if I'm very stressed I'm in the kitchen
• 29:00 - 29:30 if I'm very happy I'm in the kitchen if I'm whatever I'm in the kitchen like I love to cook for people and I was very very stressed out in my 30s and I would get this voice in my head I was going to make me cry but it would say you are such a failure how you know who do you think you are and I um I knew that I could be successful at cooking and so I would go home I would literally meet leave in the middle of the day like I'm going home forun and I would make a batch of cookies
• 29:30 - 30:00 because I knew that I could finish it from beginning to end and be very successful at it and then it just cooking became my comfort and so you know I know not a lot of people love to spend time in the kitchen like I do so it you know like I don't know how long my prep takes I'd probably figure like um for sure like an hour with the vegetables and then like the other stuff goes in like the this goes in the instant pot so I probably total I'm in the kitchen 2 to 3 hours like if I were
• 30:00 - 30:30 rushing and had something I wanted to do on a Sunday but I knew I needed a prep I'd probably give myself three to four hours M just so I didn't have to rush but I bet you could get it get it done in two yeah but you're relaxing you're enjoying total relaxation Zone suggestion you might have heavy metal poisoning you go get it checked out and you do y what do you do so we're going to do cation therapy you go in one day they give you a keator via an IV which
• 30:30 - 31:00 basically binds with any minerals like circulating so it's going to bind with the healthy minerals as well as the metals then you just urinate it out comes they're inserting an IV and inside that IV is something that Bing and so because it's pulling all the good ones out you got to go back the next day and they give you a round of healthy minerals I did that for like 12 weeks and all along she's measuring periodically like what happening in my urine what's happening in my blood so
• 31:00 - 31:30 she was helping me stay healthy and we even had like a point at which things just went sideways and I was per menopausal at the time it was just an awful hormonal State and I don't want anybody to ever feel that way so never try to Cate on your own you have to have somebody monitoring you and luckily she knew exactly what to do to help me but this is you know with the help of a doctor it went sideways and how'd that go I hit about week six and I was driving home and I was like whoa like I feel good it felt like my peripheral
• 31:30 - 32:00 vision opened up and like light was clear everything just looked not brighter but just like better and I just felt like I had a cloud over me that I didn't know was there and is was no longer there I kept thinking I had like depression and like talk therapy was great and it has helped me immensely but I just could never figure out like why do I feel like these weird sadnesses you know not that I don't get that I just have a resilient you know to to sad moments that I didn't have before
• 32:00 - 32:30 the cloud had lifted the cloud lifted yes and I just started feeling really good and I got kind of addicted well what else out there could make me feel really good like is there more also because we had to stop you know it's like okay you're all your metals are in like safe spaces you don't like this is not good for your body to be Keating all the time but knowing that one I'm going to have to detoxify like support my body and toxification which is when I started taking like a b
• 32:30 - 33:00 complex and magnesium cuz I always came back like chronically deficient in magnesium so I always started taking magnesium the B vitamins and then vitamin D3 K2 was recommended by her as well as the the omegas and so those I started taking at 40 so I've been taking those pretty consistently for 15 years and then going on like different Tri it so like you know I tried a vegan diet I tried the paleo diet I was doing doing Autoimmune Paleo which I felt very good
• 33:00 - 33:30 on but it's so restrictive I did keto which felt really good at first I remember calling my friend I'm like feel like I'm on like the happiest drugs in the world I think it was when it like kicked in or something but then it just like then it didn't and I had like a blood clot issue yeah and I was like I don't know if it's the diet or not but I'm not going to keep like it was it was it's hard it's really hard to do too and then that brings us to today glowing one of the be of Aging in the world Boom Boom
• 33:30 - 34:00 Pow for lunch I usually make a bowl of veggies my noos and some protein M and how many grams of protein are you trying to get a day so I'm doing 100 and that's based on my lean body mass and my lean body mass I think is about 100 PBS so I'm trying to do 100 gram of protein when I do this next dexa if I haven't gained any MUSC mass then I'll re-evaluate the protein
• 34:00 - 34:30 and the numbers of days that I I work out if you haven't gained muscle will you bump up the protein a little bit I'll bump up the protein yeah just in case it's helping but I'll also add that third day of Weights so we're going to do a veggie rainbow and then we had um some chicken breasts left over from a dinner I made the other night can we just talk about how beautiful this is yeah make things beautiful people it will inspire you and this is grocery store you just go to the grocery store get what you have yeah I'm just at Sprouts and and there it's all organic I do try to get a lot of different colors
• 34:30 - 35:00 like I got the purple carrots I have no idea if it has more vitamins in it than regular carrots but they're prettier and they're funner I mean my you know my son will go you know he's 17 and be like woo like whatever it takes so we're going to just measure out like a mix of veggies this is going to be my Nosh Bowl for the rest of the day I'm going to do about 8 oz because I'm going to get 4 o of Greens in the morning and then I'm going to make sure at night I get ideally another 4 o of greens but kind of vegetable 4 oz so I'm just going to
• 35:00 - 35:30 do like 8 O here and I know I really want some more of that so we are Boom at 8 oz and then I'm going to measure out 4 o of chicken breast and slice by slice figure out like I'm sure I need all this and 4 oz of chicken breast I think I said was 35 g of protein ooh 4.4 should I go over I'll just go over then we're going to make some noos o so tell me about novos do you feel like it's made a big difference made a huge difference this product came
• 35:30 - 36:00 up and I noticed it had like Alpha klutter in there it had glycine it also had lithium which my doctor was already just telling me about and I had lithium downstairs I was starting to take some and I was like oh my God this is like great it's got everything all in one little powder so when I went to order it they asked if I wanted to be part of a study I thought why not like one I got product for free I had to pay for the test that they were using but again it was a very minimal cost and then I thought well then I could see if this was going to be worth the monthly expense and the first six months that I
• 36:00 - 36:30 started taking the product my life went to complete crazy bille and I was so stressed so stressed and I mean some nights not sleeping some nights uh I mean definitely I was not doing this I was eating in and out here and there if I was eating at all like it was just a very very stressful time but I this is while you were testing when I first started Novis I wasn't like life was not great but it wasn't like out of control like that next 6 months it got out of
• 36:30 - 37:00 control but I really wanted to do good on the study like this is a testament to accountability you know I was like I felt accountable to them like that this is their study this is their burgeoning company I want to help them you know let me at least make sure I take it every day so and it's so easy when they called me hey it's time to do your six Monon test I just said I don't think these results are going to be good this is a like a life a major life stressor when I went to take the test I just was like give me a week you know a week of sleep
• 37:00 - 37:30 I'm like let me take the test and I dropped my pace of Aging by 8% so this is why I again I don't make any money from Nova telling you this like this is why I'm dedicated to this company because I know the product works I mean that's an 8% drop in a stressful time wow and then the next six months is when I implemented the working out the veggies all the stuff that I'm telling you about and that dropped me another 3% so um I'm hopeful when I take my next
• 37:30 - 38:00 test which will be a whole another year later that maybe either I've stayed the same or I've dropped it we'll see we're going to get another jar you can see we drink out of jars here good and some more water I just fill it a little bit stir it in and then add all the rest of it cuz then it doesn't Splash out on me right this is the orange flavor orange flavor yeah the longevity skin health and cognition I just mix it up again Arizona need your
• 38:00 - 38:30 ice and we'll just top it off and so I mix it with a lot of water I think they show their ad like I don't know 12 ounces water I'm like oh that would be so sweet like it's so you wait till you taste this it's like sweet and sour it tastes really good to me but I just need it really watered down first noos ever you've not tried it okay I haven't I'll give you some wow right it is sweet and sour right wow can you imagine making that with only like T in the water like an orange popsicle I've mixed
• 38:30 - 39:00 it with yogurt plain yogurt before and it gives it like this really like dessert like Flavor this tastes like cheating and you're just eating yeah I just kind of like Nosh the rest of the day so usually by dinner time I'm actually not hungry I'm almost Force feeding myself and it's just so I can make sure I get the protein I you're not hungry for dinner after rarely it is rare unless I've like really pushed myself at the gyms before all this were you would you say you were an eat or oh my God like I was one of those people that had to up ice cream every night
• 39:00 - 39:30 like oh yeah like this has been a game Cher the the bowl of vegetables like that just changed everything so let's bring it back to when you were a mother can you walk us through what was the difference in your health routine like before child when you had a baby and then now when he's a teenager that's I was really into my routine before I had him my routine before I had my son I mean I was in the gym six days a week like I am now I was sticking to that and
• 39:30 - 40:00 I was like I think I was like a size zero wow tiny and I got pregnant and I was like oh okay I was living in Dubai at the time and oh I still worked out and everything all the way up until I was just too big and it was not comfortable but I would walk for sure you know and then I had him and yeah like no there's no going to the gym I came home I was in Arizona when I had him and my mom was so sweet and helped me those
• 40:00 - 40:30 first few months but then I moved back to Dubai after like 3 months I would try to go to the gym like bring him to the gym he just was like a Restless little fella you know and wasn't pleasant for the other people in the gym and they didn't have like daycare centers I thought well two for one like put him in the stroller and go for a walk and that would calm him down and I would just I just walked a ton when he first was born I mean come on like you're not sleeping you can't even like get your head around it so like parents out there like give yourself some Grace you're not going to go back to what you did for a little
• 40:30 - 41:00 while like just buckle up how long are we buckling up for you're buckling up until they go to daycare until they go to daycare again I was kind of a solo mom pretty much right from the beginning from the time he was about maybe 6 to 9 months onward I was a solo mom just yeah I didn't have that like tag team I didn't want to like leave the house in the morning with him sleeping in his bed like just God like the house is going to catch on fire I I don't know I just never wanted to do any
• 41:00 - 41:30 of that like I thought oh God he'll wake up and I'm not there I don't know that just couldn't do it so I just got really into doing what I could when I could however I could thank God YouTube became a thing and like yoga with Adrien and then I would just try to do body weight exercises you know like air squads push-ups my son was never a sleeper I mean he didn't sleep until he was like 3 years old like I never got more than a 4our chunk of sleep until he
• 41:30 - 42:00 was about 30 how do you think about time management since you have so much going on even now with the teenager so I give myself a lot of Grace well first of all I make a plan usually like my plans kind of go with the school year there's the vacation when he's on vacation Plan and there's the when he's in school or in daycare plan like Hey we're going to you know exercise then I'm going to eat this you know I'm going to go to the store then like I was such a la gagger right brain person before I had him and having
• 42:00 - 42:30 to create a schedule I didn't know that that was important for kids oh okay this is helping him so having this schedule I was doing it for him but then I quickly realized like it really helped me understand like okay he's going to go down for a nap at you know 3 o' I think it 3:00 was nap time I'll probably fall asleep with him for a little bit but then if I wake up I can like do some air squats and I still kind of stick to that because I've learned like the schedule brings freedom but I ALS so given that that's my schedule I give myself a lot of Grace and a lot of
• 42:30 - 43:00 room for chaos to happen because that is the nature of kids and the reality is like now that my son going to make me cry like now my son is 17 what I would do to just go back to those days and it they were so chaotic and they were so hard to get any sort of like steady rhythm going but oh like embrace the chaos parents like embrace it cuz they're just so little and they're so sweet and they're lovely and like is going to leave like next year to go to college and that's going to be a tough
• 43:00 - 43:30 time for me for sure when they're young the Chaos level is really high and as they get older it comes down and so your ability to like stick to your schedule goes [Music] up okay so I usually just sit here I'll set a timer on my phone for 20 minutes okay that there and then I just close my eyes and I start by counting five each breath uh 5 4 3 2 1 through
• 43:30 - 44:00 the nose and out the mouth after that I just close my mouth and breathe normally and say my Mantra and I just do that over and over and over and over again and some days the Mantra is fast and some days the Mantra comes to me slowly I just roll with it what is your Mantra oh you are not supposed to sell per TM guidelines yeah oh okay but you're given a mantra you're given a mantra okay what happens if you don't do this it affects my sleep so
• 44:00 - 44:30 after about 3 days um my sleep starts getting really bad I wake up more that was the first thing I noticed I was like able to sleep better good right yeah the rest of the day just kind of walk me through what that is so now I'm just back up I'm working until about 4 5 5:30 it just depends on what I have to do and then I come downstairs and make dinner and again my son now 17 like sometimes he's
• 44:30 - 45:00 home sometimes he's not so it just depends if he's home then I'm going to make something really nice for dinner for the both of us and if he's not then I just make a quick meal for myself and just try to relax get whatever you know pick up the house whatever needs to be done or run errands if that needs to happen and then at about 7:30 7:45 after the sun has gone down and it's still like 100 billion degrees out I go for a walk it was kind of like a new practice I wanted to start instead of getting a treadmill desk again I just trying to
• 45:00 - 45:30 keep myself from having to buy yet another thing you know I was like if I get this treadmill what if it doesn't work and then I'd have a piece of junk to throw out and I just was like H why don't I just go walk outside you know let me see if I can walk tonight and then the next night we can I fit it in tonight can I fit in and sure enough it just seems like now every night I can do it and it's become a really nice end of day thing like it's like okay shutting down all the systems the kitchen's clean everything's ready for tomorrow I go for a walk and I just come in and wash my face and go to bed and that's it and
• 45:30 - 46:00 what do you do when everything falls apart I don't wait to be motivated I don't wait for a Monday I don't wait it's like oh I have this time right now where would I be in the schedule even now like cuz you know podcast and like doing different things and work gets busy it's like sometimes like I don't meditate you know or sometimes I don't but it's like okay now it's 4:00 what am I supposed to be doing now as part of my schedule and I just get right back on
• 46:00 - 46:30 figuring I'm playing the long game here so whatever like okay I missed a workout that's not great there's been a few times where like I've missed my full body workout so I make sure like okay s if I can get it on Saturday and I try to get at least one in a week a V2 Max I'm like well if I missed it I missed it because I quite frankly hate doing it but can we just break down like what are actually your costs so this is where having an intention is really really important so like Brian Johnson he has an
• 46:30 - 47:00 intention an bold and audacious goal which I wholeheartedly support of not dying like that's a brilliant intention like that's his intention I'm sure he has his why like my intention is not that it's to have a health span that matches my lifespan this is what's going to happen for people when they start bying you open that door and it's like all this information starts coming out you yeah there's a great scene on The Amazing World of Gumball where they're like should I shouldn't I and they like open up the computer and then it's just
• 47:00 - 47:30 like yeah was like I love that visual um and so that's how it feels when you open up this door all the things you can buy buy oh my God all the stuff you can buy so having that intention and having your why and knowing like a general idea of budget will help you make those decisions and so like let's say your intention is to live forever so you might want like more gadgets and more supplements but maybe you can't afford them so again you're going to have to think like this is a lifelong thing you're doing this for your life so like
• 47:30 - 48:00 okay you might not be able to afford it now but like what can you do then to increase your income or what can you do to afford that for me like I this going to go way back to when I was a little kid I was best friend Billy Anderson we would go around the neighborhood collecting like duck eggs and we would make these like mud holes and we were like cooking you know like with our eggs and our ducks and gr like duck eggs and grass and like this is where my love of cooking came came from and this idea of like my fingers in the earth I don't
• 48:00 - 48:30 know there just something about plants like every time I like buy vegetables I feel that same feeling this like guttural like I don't know I can't wait to like have a h like I I don't have a place to grow vegetables right now which is why I ferment things cuz that's kind of that same thing eventually I'll have a place where I can grow vegetables and uh be in the Earth every day cuz it just I think it's important to get as much nutrition as you can from the food that you eat so whether it's eating liver which I just can't I can't figure out how to like I do like Pate but that's it
• 48:30 - 49:00 and lots and lots of plants th those things are going to work synergistically better than just reaching for a supplement in your body and I think overall they're going to be cheaper and it's just going to work on so many different levels so that's how I've kind of reduced cost and I take the other things um which I don't include in my longevity class so the other things being you know the be vitamins the D3 K2 the magnesium and the omegas that like I'm to do that no matter what I just feel better on that but for longevity
• 49:00 - 49:30 I've added novos which um I buy it a year at a time so I think it's like 900 950 for the year so it ends up being about like $80 a month and then my gym members ship is 27 that's it and if there's one thing that you could tell to your younger self what would it be be gentle stop the whole like six weeks to a bikini bod kind of thinking because that just makes you feel more like a failure and focus more on like this is your health for the rest of your life I
• 49:30 - 50:00 think it's really really important that you have that intention and you have that why those are the first things and then you know the schedule we've talked about that but I also think like get those Foundation right first but don't think of the foundation as I've got to create this grand plan like you know I say I have a schedule but it's a schedule I've built over more than 20 years you know so you have to build it slowly and if you are doing nothing right now then just make 10 minutes I'm going to exercise for 10 minutes and I'm
• 50:00 - 50:30 going to eat this vegetable like that's going to be your schedule for the next think about like 16 weeks like try to just get something so habitual and so easy it's like brushing your teeth you just want it to be like part of you and if it takes like four months like what El we're talking about the rest of your life that's okay so take your time and just start by opening the space as they say like the heaviest weight to lift in the gym is the front door just tell your yourself if you're going to go to the gym you you're just going to go for 10 minutes or you're just going to go for
• 50:30 - 51:00 the sauna or or whatever and really just do that like make it so easy you can't not do it you're such an inspiration Julie honestly thank you I really hope that it helps some people to start if you get overwhelmed just remember just bring it back to the 10 minutes you just need 10 minutes all you got to do thanks for being so amazing