 and I shall be your host as we journey to take your health back. We are coming to you live from my home in Makiki and from the studios of Think Tech Hawaii in downtown Honolulu. Think Tech Hawaii showcases very diverse topics with very colorful show hosts. We welcome you to join us daily as J. Fidel, our boss, makes sure that we have high quality content to share with you. Well last year I had the honor of meeting this unique young man who is visiting Hawaii from Ohio. I invited him to join us today as he's very passionate about many things that are of interest to me like my cardiac health, my oral hygiene and my nutrition. His name is Henry Lee and he works in a clinic in Ohio called the Heart Attack and Stroke Prevention Center and Complete Health Dentistry. The title of our show today is how to live long and how to live long and die short. Six worlds best doctors right in your own home. Today we shall be discussing how do we want to shift our mindset from sick care and treating disease to self-care and preventing it from before it happens. What I would like you to take away from today's talk is to adopt six, six simple daily lifestyle changes that will optimize your living and minimize your dying. Wow. I'd like to introduce to you my new found friend and lifesaver or should I say lives saver Henry Lee. Aloha and welcome Henry. Aloha thank you for that kind introduction Wendy. Yeah well I was just so impressed when I met you. It was only last year a short time but in that short time where you were visiting Hawaii we spent a lot of quality hours together and we welcomed in the new year as well as you took me to your work office at Magic Island at Alamoana Park and I think we put some really good thoughts together to help save this world so let's get started Henry. I know like me you um I wear many hats and I know you do too so can you share with us a few of those? Yeah certainly thanks thanks for asking so as you can see in some of these pictures here um as Wendy had introduced um I wear many hats some at the Heart Attack and Stroke Prevention Center of Central Ohio so I'm actually currently here in Ohio that's the top left hand corner there it's a partnership between medicine and dentistry because it's one of the very few places on the entire planet that has a cardiologist and a dentist under the same roof um and we look at preventative measures namely healthy lifestyles and you're going to hear about the six pillars that we emphasize we heavily base it on nutrition um and uh trying to combat the diseases and the root causes before they actually happen and we have a couple uh slides that we'll be showing you later at the bottom on the left as Wendy said I had the pleasure of meeting her in person about a month ago so that was super fun and I do a multiple intelligence coaching um I do a few ministries with youth and singles um around the area and I partner with another company called Juice Plus which is a nutritional healthy lifestyle company. Wow there's so many hats you wear and I know I'm going to have to invite you back because I want to share more with all the rest about the intelligence coaching and I hear that that's kind of like the new buzz word right now for people who are at home to get help and assistance going and getting through what we're going through um as we get through this COVID situation so if you don't mind that was uh if you didn't catch it that's the invitation to come back again all right just just go yes. Love you. All right so you shared with me that you know and uh you've heard Jeff Olson speak and Jeff Olson is a USA alpine skier he is one of your heroes I know that because he's one of my heroes too. I tell you I when I met him and I see the way he has uh used his training and all his skills in his life and how he raised his family his beautiful daughters and how they live in Colorado and share his passion for the joy of coaching um of course who could not admire Jeff Olson so I know that he describes life as a game can you explain that analogy to us Henry? Yeah absolutely um this is one of his phrases that he uses especially being an athlete but you don't have to be an athlete in order to understand that life is a game um you can see in several of these pictures whether you're looking at endurance on the top left or on the cycling or on weight training and strength whether you're looking at weight management and a weight loss or weight gain pregnancy is a big component of that um and just making sure that you are sustaining your lifestyle from start to finish so you can see there's some pictures here of communities of a little uh older folks who are you know conversing and having that community and um and that socialization flexibility is a piece of that too and anything that you do in life is either going to be moving you forward or backwards and it's up to us to make those decisions. Wow and so we should wake up in the morning and just say say to ourselves do we want to go forward in life or do we want to go backwards and make that affirmation I want to go forward today and then direct yourself in that direction and that's how we should start our days every day because what I mean who wants to go backwards right who wants that so we have to direct ourselves because sometimes some consciously we might not program ourselves that way and we might go backwards and sometimes I think um you know during this lockdown Henry honestly I've had days that I've gone backwards where I mean I just sat on my desk and just took the time to be still so most people would call that going backwards but I just say I took the time to be still and took more time to figure out what direction I want to go is that correct that's super healthy and keeping in mind that it's not a matter of what's good or bad those are very opinionated and subject subject right but it's asking yourself is it supportive or not supportive it's if it's supportive for you to slow down and take a breath to meditate then it's supportive yes right it's what it is for the moment and you're absolutely right I love that you're such a young man and you have all this wisdom that's why I could spend hours just hanging out with you so again in your young youthful age here on earth how would you grade the overall health of the world we live in today well that's a great question Wendy and you know this I chose this slide to show you because back in the day you know healthy living used to be really simple you know we had the ability to grow your food in your backyard you had gardens it was go outside and play it was you know grab something to drink you would go out and grab from the grab a drink from the hose yay we did that and I still I would still do that nothing wrong with that and life wasn't as busy but you can see in some of those pictures there that you know we've resorted to a such a busy lifestyle that we have to resort to what I know now or I call now as the three food groups that I grew up on it's processed foods refined foods and fast foods and oftentimes we resort to those because they're easy they're convenient and quite frankly they're kind of cheap so I I would say we have gone backwards we are one of the richest countries in the world and one of the most unhealthy as well wow every time someone says fast food I just think of an apple I think that's God's best fast food I mean and you know like we're on the run I grab an apple if I got to get in the car I wash my apple if I'm not lazy I'll cut it okay so it's not as fast but the faster food is grab that apple wash it down put in the napkin get in your car and go and I just crunch and eat and crunch and eat so to me that's fast food but people don't see it that way and so I think we have a lot of educating to do do you agree with me on that Henry oh absolutely and I think often I'm glad you brought up that point because our idea is constructed over what we grew up from the past and we often time associate fast food with am I allowed to say like McDonald's and Burger King I'm sure I love those too but you're right there's alternatives out there that are that exist is just changing our mindset into what fast food really means there it there exists healthy fast food and in fact the the beauty of this is the technology that we have today actually has the capability not only to produce unhealthy fast food but healthy fast food as well and it's just our responsibility to find that right and it's our our jobs Henry as um as health coaches and health educators I mean my breakfast for the last nine years is a kale smoothie and I've timed it it takes me six minutes to actually harvest my kale which I grow in my tower gardens I harvest my kale I blend it with some blueberries one of our powder mixes with ice and I don't use dairy and I pop that into the blender and in six minutes I have it in my cup and I'm either at my desk at work or I'm going in the car on the road with my breakfast in hand full of nutrients vitamins minerals and I'm just a happy camper I don't have to think do I want my eggs over easy or scrambled I just have my smoothie every morning and it takes to worry out of what am I going to eat for breakfast so there's so much we can do Henry and it's just our job right now is to educate people that there are such healthy alternatives like you mentioned so what can we all do to be healthier Henry I mean I'm learning and I'm hoping I learn a few more tips from you well that's exactly why you're watching today right um so those are you who are tuning in for wherever you are in the world you saw the title of this was the six best doctors in your own home and so I want to start with the graphic on the left here because that goes right along with what you and I were talking about before with the whatever you whatever decisions you're making whether it's eating or drinking or watching or reading it's either moving you forward or backward it's either feeding disease or it's helping you to fight it and so a couple of the six best doctors in the world or six pillars or whatever you want to call them and no particular order of priority but I'm going to go in a sequence that is hopefully going to help you remember these in a narrative format if you imagine going back to the first time that you got CPR trained right fresh air air is what you're all all of your cells need it's one of the the the two vitals that your cells need in order to survive and so if you are taking the time to make sure you're delivering that air to your cells then you are you just explode with life and the fact is that our lung capacity is about six times that of what we normally breathe in on a regular basis so being intentional about breathing the next one here is exercise exercises movement moving that air to your extremities and the nutrients because it doesn't do any good if it's just in your lungs and that helps with cardiovascular health and that's one of the things we emphasize that the heart attack and stroke prevention center hydration helps to flush the flush all the toxins out and every single chemical reaction in the body occurs in the presence of water and but in order to heal your body on the bottom left there rest and sleep and making sure that you're giving your time your body ample time to repair but that also requires that you have the tools and the the ingredients floating around in your blood and surrounding your tissues to heal while you are resting and so that's the good diet down on the bottom and lastly but not least oftentimes is ignored that sunshine is super important and you guys get this all the time in Hawaii super jealous right now because it's snowy out here but that sunshine helps with your immune system it helps with vitamin d converts the cholesterol in your skin to that and so it controls your mood it has a foundation for absorption of all sorts of different other minerals into your in your tissues so those are the six sort of simple mindsets that you can adopt and we're going to go through a couple examples of those in the next few slides but throughout the next what 15 minutes I want you to be thinking about where do I stand in each of those pillars which one of those can I make a promise to myself that I'm not going to be stuck in the same spot that I am at the beginning of 2021 I'm going to level up on each one of those and where do I start well so I'm ahead of you because as you were talking I took all my notes down okay and I wanted to see where I stood and I didn't even know you're going to ask me that but you know I'm just that kind of a person but out of the six I know I get lots of pressure I got lots of movement um hydration that's why I carry my hydro flask I make sure I drink enough I'm going to skip one I go to good diet I'm since retired I'm on a plant strong diet and I've worked on it and that's why I start my day off with kale smoothies and you know I get lots of sunshine I surf as often as I can I'm in that good beautiful pacific ocean with the sun on my back with the ocean the salt water on my in my feet and along with the walking on the sand without slippers or shoes on the rest part okay so that's one thing I had to work on and I'm going to say mahalo to COVID but because of COVID I have now time to rest more and so everyone always says when you need to sleep more and so I usually average about four hours of sleep a day and everyone says that's not enough so I can honestly say that now I get about five almost sometimes six but on a good day I get five and going on six so I'm excited about that and that's one thing I will say mahalo to being stuck at home is because I turned the lights off a little bit more earlier now so are you proud of me Henry? I'm glad that you had written all those down and you're right sleeping is one of those one of those areas that I get to improve on too but yeah I'm proud of you for at least getting five to six yeah well I'm gonna have it right now because I'm getting there with sleep and so it's in all due time I'm not happy about sleeping so much but I know I need it and it's a good time for me to do it so let's work on it and start the year off right right Henry? Right absolutely. Alrighty so I gotta ask you how does working alongside a cardiologist and adentes help shift the mindset of your patients from sick care and treating disease to a mindset of self-care and preventing it before it happens? Right so our cardiologist that we work on site with is Dr. Eric Goulder he spent 30 years of his career working in sick care is what he calls it waiting for you to have a heart attack or a stroke and then try and dispatch you up and one of the revelations that he had along with his now wife our dentist Dr. McClatchy so it literally is a marriage between medicine and dentistry a little play on words there but they follow something called the bail donating method which is not just looking at the aftermath of disease but getting down to the root cause and what you see on here is something called the root cause tree of arterial disease and it doesn't just refer to arterial disease it's really the root cause of a bunch of series of chronic diseases you can if you can see some of those I know it's kind of small to read but periodontal disease is highlighted endodontal and in lifestyle your sleep apnea some of those are the dental side the other ones refer to genetic testing we can actually go through and we have certain innovative pieces of technology that are state of the art some of them you can only find like one of these systems in an entire state I think in the state of Ohio here there's several things that we have at the center that you can't find anywhere else but we get to the root cause of inflammation that's the key Wendy inflammation is the stem of all chronic disease and when you get that under control right then you can start combating all the oxidative stress that leads to Alzheimer's and dementia and kidney disease rheumatoid arthritis diabetes the list goes on and on I totally come into agreement with that wow okay so what before we go further we have a question from the audience and he wants to know some of these six doctors seem to be beyond the capability of us as individuals we rely on our government to help make sure we get clean clean air and clean water for example what do we need most from government to help us as a healthy society hmm so one of the things before I dive into specifically answering to each of those six pillars right is really it comes from a mind shift at mind shift inside because if we look at ourselves as a result of our environment we are allowing ourselves to be controlled by the limitations that for instance in this question our government is placing on us but there's always alternatives out there so shifting the mindset into what are the possibilities that we have not yet seen based on our limited perspective and experience Wendy you had mentioned before for instance let's say nutrition there's a lot of issues around nutrition that we're dealing with today with the global warming or climate change or whatever you want to call it desertification our food has to travel thousands of miles before it gets to our plate through through transportation redistribution on the shelves on the grocery store and then sits on your counter not only that is we have all sorts of different genetic modification happening it's not regulated there's pesticides and herbicides that are just abusing all of our lands we're over farming and so yes nutrition is super important and there's again some decisions that we have to make we come to a crossroads do we resort to isolated mega doses of vitamins and in some cases that might help if I have a deficiency in vitamin D for instance that's helpful or do we find alternatives in order to bridge the gap of our nutritional needs from actual fruits and vegetables and so one of the things that there's a company called juice plus that has figured out how to dehydrate food at its prime peakedness of ripeness and so it locks in that nutrition and then they can transport that so it doesn't start decaying over time and package it into these capsules so it can deliver a super powerful concentrated punch of real fruits and vegetables that hasn't decayed over thousands of miles has not been abused with all sorts of pesticides and herbicides and really it gets rid of the need for the volume of water because it's dehydrated and the problem with all the sugar that's involved in having all these fruits and vegetables and that's particularly important for our like pre-diabetic patients, diabetic patients or really just anyone in life so that's just one example of one simple answer to that question would be probably what can we do or what can the government do it's basically education it's educating us on what our alternatives or options are out there and putting it and in us doing our own personal research as Henry has done as I have done and I mean I'm a titta chick from my and I had to learn everything from scratch and I understand now 17 years into studying this lifestyle that I am the one that can control it and the government you know they're going to do what they're doing and we can't do a whole lot about what their decisions are except we can govern what we want for our bodies and I think that's the most important thing is personal accountability and not wait for somebody else to tell us to do this or that we have to research it in ourselves so we we need to move on and otherwise we could spend the whole time on that in great questions so mahalo for that question so Henry what are some of the innovative ways you measure a person's health and help them prevent diseases before it occurs so we have a number of innovative tools and one of those is called a c i m t it's a crotted artery intima media thickness where we literally take an ultrasound to your arteries in your neck both left and right and we can measure the thickness which indicates how much soft plaque is actually in your arteries so we give you an arterial age and so you might be 35 years old but you have arteries of a 45 year old person so we measure that first in order to get a baseline and then we can give you some simple lifestyle changes to adopt in your daily habits very good wow so what are some simple tools that you can equip your patients to take that control of their own health sure so we have a number of different products we have a number of different charts and tracking and accountability but i think this picture shows a a very good concept to keep in mind when we're choosing those alternatives you know what if that syringe on the left didn't contain like morphine right if i have a headache or something like that or i'm recovering from a surgery what if it actually contained real phytonutrients to get to the root cause of that inflammation again right and so we equip them with tools like we mentioned before that juice plus we have stela life it's a homeopathic plant-based healing kind of ointment it's you can ingest it too we've got a number of things like perioprotech gel that not only whitens your teeth but kills the bacteria in your mouth that leaches into your blood and causes heart attacks and strokes and and diabetes and all that stuff and so really we look at what are some what are some ways that we can empower you with food primarily and simple exercises that fit into your lifestyle in order to reduce your chances of that disease starting rather than waiting for it to occur and then having to backtrack wow so i guess what we put in our body matters a whole lot and like i said i changed my lifestyle to a plant-based lifestyle and so that has helped me a lot so what results have you seen when people like myself adopt a plant-based lifestyle henry yeah so this is uh next graphic actually shows um not a full comprehensive but a pretty good list of some results that you see you see that the the tissues start healing faster because of the nutrients are already surrounding them in the blood and the tissues you have this durability that you've never experienced before the recovery time starts shortening inflammation starts going down systemically you see every system in the body start synergizing because when you are going to homeopathic plant-based fruits and vegetable grains and berries nutrition then it's not combating a single symptom it is addressing every body system in the entire organism wow so you know henry um when i everyone says when you turn 40 years old life changes your you know your arm grows too short you got to get glasses all that so so when i was 43 years old what i did was i prayed i prayed and i asked god to help me because i need to get my health in under uh under control and start living healthier so at 43 i made that request of him so i i was obedient and i listened and so that's when i went plant strong from that time and now i'm 61 years old and i've been 17 years on this lifestyle but how would you recommend our viewers to start taking their health back well wendy it starts with making sure you know and you acknowledge and notice where you are today and so these are those six pillars or those six best doctors right and so be honest with yourself in evaluating do i eat real food do i exercise on a regular basis do i get enough sunlight sometimes if the answer to that um you'll is a default to know unless you're intentional about stepping outside for a little bit even here in Ohio because it's dreary and snowing cold so coming with the baseline being honest with yourself measuring that first getting accountability and being consistent with that all right we have a quick question from the audience and i think i can answer this one and you can correct me if i'm wrong they want to know how much water should a person have a daily intake what and what i learned henry was um basically you take your weight and you divided by two so if i were a hundred pounds divided by two that means i should have 50 ounces of water or more and that's the baseline is that accurate enough yes okay we gotta move right on because we have like a just under a minute left so if our viewers viewers want to learn more about how to prevent heart attacks and strokes to learn more about other ways to optimizing their immune systems or simply look good feel great how did they get in touch with you henry yeah sure um you can see my email address is at the top in the center there um and my phone number is on the top right um and i can certainly and put you in touch with um our heart attack and stroke prevention center our complete health dentistry um our juice plus company um there's the list goes on any of those uh different homeopathic products that i mentioned um we can put those in your hands and if you are looking for a local complete dentist and we can find one for you and connect you with that resource wow very good you're a wealth of knowledge henry and that's why i wanted you on this show the time is up for now and i just want to say mahalo and sending you love and sunshine over there in ohio and we welcome you back to hawaii at any time so mahalo mahalo mahalo henry aloha mahalo thank you wendy