 YouTube family, oh my gosh. I know, I know, it has been a very, very long time. As some would say, a hot minute since I've been here. I actually had an email from YouTube being like, here I am, I thought, you know what, this year, quite obviously, I did not do Vlogmas. Now Vlogmas, if you're not familiar, is when a YouTuber will vlog the days leading up to Christmas in December and they just vlog days in their life, all of that kind of stuff. So instead of that, I thought, you know what, I'll do a random video about a life update and then I'm gonna share with you some of my absolute favorite tips, tricks, products that I use. PS, you do not need any products to reach your goals. There are just a lot of questions that I get about what do I use, what do I take to keep myself optimally healthy and to reach my goals efficiently and to keep them in a way that I don't have to think about it anymore. So that being said, if you're new here, welcome to my channel. There are so many videos on this channel filled with information that can help heal almost any health, wellness, and or body image challenge. We see people do programs, right? Let's use weight loss as an example because it serves as a good example, but let's take that across the board in terms of reversing autoimmune diseases and so forth. Now we see people do programs and let's say that they work, so let's use weight loss. People do programs, the weight loss works, they get results, as soon as they stop, the weight comes rebounding right back onto their body. Now, this is because what most people don't know is that your nervous system actually keeps track of every single thing going on in your body from birth right through the rest of your life. And however your body has been most consistently over the longest period of time in your life is how your nervous system believes that your body needs to be calibrated. And so if you do a program that is not conducted in a way that speaks to the nervous system on a fundamental level so that it can facilitate lasting change, no matter what you're doing, especially if it's only diet and exercise focused, as soon as you stop, the weight will come back or whatever else it is that you're going for. So I like to talk about how do you actually contact your nervous system and what kinds of things can help you. If you are new here and you like this video, please do give it a like down there that really helps my channel to grow and it supports the channel. I'm gonna be on here a heck of a lot more this year. I love YouTube, but I have had a lot going on in my life during 2021 and who didn't, right? But here I am in this year. I actually did a poll on my Instagram asking what it is that you wanted to see the most. And a lot of people said educational videos, which I'm gonna throw into this one. A lot of people said recipes. So I've got some recipes lined up, not in this video, but they're coming down the line. So please do subscribe. That really is where most of the support does come from and I'd love to have you subscribe to this channel so that I can help you reach your goals quickly, efficiently and in a way that's going to last you forever because it's going to empower you with the information that you need to know that is very difficult to find, trust me, so that you can take care of your own body to stay healthy happily ever after. So let's get into this. In order to contact your nervous system on a cellular level in a way that it will facilitate lasting change in your body, you need to, and I mean you must, as in it will not work if you don't. I don't get it. Well, thinking, you're subconscious. What is your thought patterning? Your subconscious starts forming when you're in the womb before you're born and then your brain builds on itself in very, very specific ways every seven years until you're around the age of 21. Your brain doesn't actually complete growing fully until you're 25 and by then it is an ingrained system that runs on old belief systems and patterning that you might not even realize is going on there. Now, your subconscious will speak directly to your nervous system, which speaks directly to your hormonal system, which runs the show in your body physically too. So your thinking process, number one. Number two, your breathing pattern. The muscles that help you breathe are hardwired into your nervous system. Out of the hundreds of people that I have worked one-on-one with over the last 12 years, I can tell you honestly that three of them did not have adrenal fatigue. What is that? It just means that your adrenal glands have been out putting too much cortisol or stress hormone over time. You are stuck in a sympathetic dominant state. If you have adrenal fatigue or if you have simply adopted an incorrect breathing pattern like most people, it means that you're breathing up into your chest instead of your low belly. When this happens, your neck and shoulder muscles get triggered to help you breathe. Those muscles are hardwired into your sympathetic fight-or-flight stress response nervous system. Every single time you activate that, even subconsciously just by breathing, you're actually suppressing the parasympathetic or rest, repair, and weight loss for those who are concerned about that nervous system. So the breathing pattern is number two. Number three, movement, your exercise. Now, anywhere you read, it's going to say high-intensity interval training burns the most calories from fat in terms of any form of exercise. But the biggest piece that people don't realize about that or they don't know is that it takes the human genome about 100,000 years to change a tenth of 1%-ish. And so by saying that, I just mean that your body thinks that it's caveman times. But your brain is a human brain that is very advanced living in this day and age. So your body doesn't recognize things like screens or different other things, processed foods and such. Your body doesn't know what that is. And so any time a caveman was doing high-intensity something, usually it was because we were being chased by something that was going to eat us. The point here is that it was a time of stress. And by the way, a properly designed high-intensity interval training workout is going to be a maximum of only 11 to 20 minutes. Now, if you do a properly designed weight training workout which should only be 45 minutes max, your body will burn excess fat and calories for up to 72 hours or three days after that workout. Workout smarter, not harder. And I've got tons of tips for you there, but thinking, breathing, moving, the next, sleep. We all have what's called a basal metabolic rate. Now that just means the rate at which your body is repairing itself and thus burning fat while you're at rest. That's what should be happening when you sleep. Most people's basal metabolic rate is not firing properly. If you have adrenal fatigue, like I said, most people do, your thyroid goes, oh no, we better prevent any rapid aging that will take place with this adrenal fatigue. And your thyroid yanks the brakes on your metabolism, slows it right down to help save your butt. Your sleeping pattern is very, very important. We run on what's called circadian rhythm via the sun and the moon. The sleeping pattern is everything. And I'm gonna get into that about intermittent fasting, for example. You don't need to do intermittent fasting. I can teach you how to get all of the results of intermittent fasting without having to do it as long as you're following circadian rhythm. Regardless, thinking, breathing, moving, sleeping, the next is nutrition. Now you have your own biochemical individuality. That means that your body metabolizes foods differently than even if you had an identical twin because once you're born, your physiology, therefore your nervous system is separate. So you metabolize foods differently than anybody else and you need to eat in a way that your DNA, your individual biochemical system recognizes. So thinking, breathing, moving, sleeping, nutrition, then hydration. Now when I say hydration, I don't necessarily mean the amount that you're drinking in terms of water every day. I mean the mineral corticoid balance in your body, which just means the fluid balance in your body, essentially. We know that we are like gigantic cucumbers. We're full of tons of water, right? Well, the cells on the inside of your body communicate with each other and they need to do this efficiently using electrical impulses that run along the fluid system of the body. So if your fluid system is out of whack, you'll notice that you have things like cellulite, water retention, so you can get rid of all of that, which we love, but the point here is that the cells on the inside of your body are communicating effectively. So thinking, breathing, moving, sleeping, nutrition, hydration, and they must be addressed in order to contact your nervous system on a level that it will facilitate lasting change and this is true for either weight loss or even reversing an autoimmune disease. So now let's get into the fun stuff. I just wanted to give you those tips. I can go into details. By the way, in the description box below, I have put a link for the webinar that I have coming up that will explain to you all six foundational principles of optimal health, the information about each, I can assume you probably don't know, and that you can apply to your lifestyle right away to get to your goals faster on your own without investing in products or any of that crap that you really don't need. So that webinar is coming up. It's full of all of my best tips, tricks, information, little tests you can practice on yourself to see where your health is at in certain areas. That is coming down the line at the end of the month. Now, if you can't make that webinar live, not to worry, I will make sure that you get all of the info, the entire recording of the webinar, all of my teaching materials, as well as the recording of the live Q&A that I do at the end of the webinar. So check the description box below for the registration link for the webinar. Okay, so a little bit of fun life catch up, right? Well, I moved into the cutest little micro condo that ever existed. We've got the living room, it is Christmas time. That is a clone of my cat. Okay, if you haven't heard of cuddle clones, you should look into that. I have a very unique looking cat and I decided to get a stuffy clone made of her, hilarious. This is my Christmas tree. Now, my Christmas tree, every single ornament on that tree is from somewhere that I have traveled. So everywhere that I've traveled, my souvenir of choice was an ornament. So every time I decorate my tree every year, I go down a long memory lane and I experience all those memories again. So that's a fun tradition that I would recommend anybody do. Here's the kitchen. Yeah, that's a KitKat advent calendar. Did you know if you're eating according to your own biochemical individuality, you can actually eat all of those things that are bad for us that we love without your body absorbing the insult from it? I can talk more about that too, of course. That's actually also in the webinar. Okay, it's laundry day today, so this is real life. I was like, I can't go on YouTube. I have my laundry out drying. I mean, vlogging is about real life, right? So, I'm gonna show you some of my favorite things during this little tour. This is my bathroom. Now that, this, 80 years old. What is that? That is called a squatty potty. And if you do not have one, oh, the glory of pooping when you get one. So I learned about that when I was in school that human beings used to go poop squatting on the ground in nature. That's how our bodies are designed, right? The modern toilet is not actually designed in a way that works with our physiology. So when you get a squatty potty or you can get a stool if you want and you put your feet up on it, what it does is it aligns your entire colon properly. Pooping has never felt better, trust me. Grab one, they're on Amazon. All right, so here's the bedroom. I feel like this is Cribs. This is my bedroom. Yes, I am so obsessed with my cat. I got a Disney portrait of her. I don't know if you like Disney. I'm a little obsessed with it. This is the best book. It is the Law of Attraction Collection or the Essential Law of Attraction Collection by Esther and Jerry Hicks. It's amazing. I teach a lot about manifestation and law of attraction. That's one of the recommended reading books that I have. By the way, I go live on TikTok every single time I get ready right here and I spill all of my best tips, tricks, info. And Zoe, I'll let you meet Zoe. Hey, she's the star of most of my videos. This is her clone. How ridiculous does this thing look? How crazy is this? I know, it looks kind of bad, but whatever. All right, so I'm gonna show you some of my absolute favorite products. So collagen, I get a lot of questions about collagen. What is it? Should you use it? What is it for? Well, bovine collagen comes from cows and bovine collagen is for helping anything on the inside of your body, especially your joint health and your gut health, but it will take care of your muscles, joints, tendons, bones, ligaments, organs, all of the good stuff on the inside of our body, but most predominantly your gut health. So if you have leaky gut, bovine collagen really, really good for leaky gut and really, really good for your joints if you have kind of not so great joints. So my favorite collagen, now bovine being good for the inside of your body, marine collagen is really great for anything on the outside of your body like hair, skin, nails. So my favorite collagen is this, the Organica brand, types one, two, three. Now this is the bone broth flavor, great for putting into oatmeal or into your coffee. I recommend getting flavorless those so that you can add it to more things. Okay, so I'm gonna show you my favorite probiotic. Probiotic, excellent for gut health. Prebiotics too, especially if you're on the roll of weight loss, prebiotics, huge. Now you wanna get a refrigerated probiotic. This is the brand that I like. Make sure your probiotic is refrigerated. Those are the best kinds of probiotics. They are the most potent. My favorite fish oil. A lot of people say, well, what should I take? I'm not somebody that thinks you should survive on supplements. I don't think that's a good thing, but certain ones are very, very helpful. This is the best brand of fish oil that I have ever seen. It's Carlson's. Now you should be taking fish oil in liquid form, but I can't do the oil texture in my mouth. It is nasty. Okay, so I hope you liked that little life update. Some of my favorite products. I'll show you one of my favorite drinks. This is a very, very healthy adaptogenic drink. Again, from Organica, it's a great brand. So this is an adaptogen milk latte. Coconut milk with organic mushrooms and herbs. It tastes like hot cocoa. Very, very delicious. So another purpose of this video is to ask you to please put in the comment section below what it is that you're interested in learning about this year. What are the goals that you have this year? Let's reach our goals in a way that's fun. I mean, if it's not a good time, it's not very much worth doing, right? So leave comments below. Let me know what's going on in your life. What's new? I haven't spoken to so many of you in so long. I've actually really missed you and I've missed doing this and I'm so excited to be back on YouTube. So I will be posting regular videos again. I don't have an upload schedule because it is busy times, but I will not leave you for another five months straight. I think it's been five months, I'm not sure. But that's what I've got for you today. Have an awesome rest of your day. Have an awesome holiday season. Merry Christmas, happy holidays, whatever it means for you. 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