Wellness Stuff Worth the Hype: Add to Cart AFTER the Basics

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🧡 Don’t get distracted majoring in the minors
🧡 Tried and true home, recovery, personal care products
🧡 Favorite training, fertility tracking, and baby brands
🧡 Products to skip, and what to do while you save for these
🧡 Programs and subscriptions worth the investment

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Transcript

Adina: 0:29

Hello,

Diane: 0:30

Hello? Hi.

Adina: 0:32

hello, and welcome back to another episode of G Y S T.

Diane: 0:38

Is that what the party sounds like over there?

Adina: 0:40

Yeah. There is a party out my window, so hopefully you don't hear it on the recording. I put my air conditioner on and then I'm gonna noise reduce insider editing platform, so hopefully the like consistent hum of a noise

Diane: 0:54

Is it music or is it like, woo. Girls like

Adina: 0:58

music, you know? Yeah, it's, it's Thursday night here, which is the start of the weekend in Israel. So just people getting lit on my block, you know? Can't blame'em.

Diane: 1:09

Good. Good. As they should. That's okay. We can have our own little, little parte in here.

Adina: 1:15

Yeah, that's good.

Diane: 1:17

are you? What are you consuming? Tell me what's new.

Adina: 1:21

Okay. I'm really good, except I am pretty sleep deprived. Um,

Diane: 1:27

The trend

Adina: 1:28

it? Yes. The trend does continue. Um, it's been, it's been at least he's like going to sleep at a normal hour now,

Diane: 1:37

You're Bebe

Adina: 1:39

yeah, he's straight up parties from like two to 4:00 AM

Diane: 1:44

is he at that party right now?

Adina: 1:46

no, he's sleeping now. He'll be throwing his own party in a few hours. Um, yeah, just trying to figure it all out. You know,

Diane: 1:54

Yeah. Yeah. I, I'd say I know how that goes, but I don't, um, we've been kind of going

Adina: 1:59

like my other two kids didn't do this, so now I'm just like, huh. Like a lot of the business goals and aspirations that I set for this year were like thinking about my old postpartum experiences

Diane: 2:12

You're like, oh yeah, this will be great.

Adina: 2:15

they're not quite working for the current situation that I'm in. So

Diane: 2:18

Yeah, I, I'd say I know how that goes, but I don't, I think I mentioned on here that Huey, our other d Huey, the other dog, is kind of going through it with his health. And so he's been kind of coughing at night and pacing, and he's on these heart meds that really pump him up, like quite literally makes his heart pump harder. So I think that makes him feel like, what is happening? Why am I all like revved up at night? So he'll pace around. And then the other morning I woke up to Doug, my pug doing the dog noise. If you have a dog, you know, the noise gets you outta bed faster than any alarm clock. And I woke up to him like barfing outside of his bed. He was like, pause outside of his bed. He looked like a little drunk, just like

Adina: 2:58

Oh,

Diane: 2:59

It's like, so they're both going to the vet soon. They're stressing me out. I'm like, what do you need? What did you eat? Or are you getting older? But I plan on, um, making sure that Doug is as healthy as can be, because I want him to be like an 18 year old pug. He's slim thick. The vet says, always compliments his body, which I'm like, that is not the most, the best thing about him. Okay. Like don't just focus on his figure. But pugs are notorious for being food motivated and a little thick. So he's a little active, healthy guy. Otherwise

Adina: 3:29

Wait, did you see that reel I sent you about the pugs?

Diane: 3:32

probably they have blend together.

Adina: 3:35

I think it was the

Diane: 3:36

Oh, the We Anderson bug, which I love. I love, I would need more of that, please. Well, what else have you been watching?

Adina: 3:45

Well, we started beef, I told you,

Diane: 3:46

Mm-hmm.

Adina: 3:47

and I think we're like three episodes in or so. I'm really enjoying it. I did get up to the kettlebell swings.

Diane: 3:57

Yes. What were those all? It was all in the arms.

Adina: 4:00

Yeah. And what was that like an eight kg perhaps

Diane: 4:03

Yes. Just whatever they had at their apartment. Yeah. And Paul, his brother is supposed to be like this Jim Bra, but there they were just using those arms for those

Adina: 4:12

shoulder raising some eight kilogram kettlebells. Uh, yeah, it was, uh, pretty horrifying I would say.

Diane: 4:20

it was horrifying. Yes, indeed. Did you see any of the Met Gala looks, because we have to talk about that,

Adina: 4:27

The looks, yes, I did. I actually think, um, different than last year, I feel like everyone did a pr, well, most people did a pretty good job with the theme this

Diane: 4:39

the Carl Lagerfeld theme, which I have Mm. Mixed feelings about. He wasn't a very nice man and he was also rather

Adina: 4:46

lot of people are pretty upset about it,

Diane: 4:48

Yeah.

Adina: 4:49

but he was a great designer

Diane: 4:50

mm-hmm. We'll give him that if we can separate the art from the, the yuckies. Um, yeah. A lot of people just kind of loosely interpret the theme every year. Right. But I really thought Anne Hathaway was a favorite

Adina: 5:05

loved Emily Blunt, too.

Diane: 5:07

Oh, you did? I didn't love hers as much, but I

Adina: 5:09

thought it was very Chanel like. Yeah.

Diane: 5:14

The after party looks were very, like, I was hoping for some chic suiting. I saw Carrie Washington had a lovely suit on Pedro Pascal, who, if you've seen our Instagram, I had to make a Pedro period meme. He's in this long red overcoat from Valentino and these shorts, someone said he was dressed for Michigan weather with that outfit because you never know what you're gonna get, but it's all red. And so we made a meme that is showing like a happy period, and someone commented, it says, my period on time, um, pain free, no PMs, cute. Like, cute. I go, well, yeah, look at him. It's

Adina: 5:51

So cute. Um, yeah, Donnie actually hates when I refer to bread as cute. Like

Diane: 5:59

Why?

Adina: 5:59

whenever, I don't know, whenever I'm baking something, I'm always just like, oh my God, look how cute. It's, and it like

Diane: 6:06

What is it? If not cute?

Adina: 6:08

I know. I made, did you see those rug I made?

Diane: 6:11

Yes. At first I thought it was pigs in a blanket and I was like, oh, that's not what it is.

Adina: 6:15

No, it's a regula. So it's basically I took like the Baca do and I shaped them like regula. So basically you bake them the same way you would bake a croissant. You cut those triangles and then you roll'em up and they came out very yummy.

Diane: 6:37

They looked nice. I want, I wanna see like a little video of how crunchy they are, what that lamination do. Uh, you wrote in the outlined sourdough rugs

Adina: 6:46

Yeah, cuz my dad calls Ragga. My dad calls ragga rags.

Diane: 6:50

Hmm. A nice little edible rug could get into it.

Adina: 6:54

Is ragga something that people know?

Diane: 6:58

I think so. I do. Yeah. They'll have to tell us or they can, they can Google it. Google it. Um. Over here. I kind of did a repeat of that summer fish I talked about last week. I've been cooking my way through a couple of cookbooks I got from the library, one that I'm definitely buying called Colu Cooks. It's really yummy, really sexy layout. But then I just kind of freestyle this week and did a bison barbecue ball, little meatball, um, with sriracha barbecue sauce from Trader Joe's, and it was so yummy. So I just make'em, did like two pounds at a time because we gotta have extra balls and bake them and then

Adina: 7:37

is not enough. Honestly.

Diane: 7:38

Yeah, it still wasn't, it still wasn't, it got us through lunch. Each of us had a nice sized lunch the next day, but I definitely could have gone with three pounds and had

Adina: 7:48

I know I like always end up making two pounds of ground beef cuz that's just like how they come from the places we order from usually and between us and the kids. Like I always think like, oh perfect, two pounds of meat and then it's just gone. And I wish it had been four.

Diane: 8:07

I can't imagine it being just using one pound. That would get us maybe through dinner. Yeah. We need leftovers for two. Growing adults, growing adults. Um, so that's all we're eating over here on my watch list. I just started jury duty. It's on freebie, which is I think an offshoot of Amazon Prime.

Adina: 8:28

Wait, I think I watched one thing on freebie.

Diane: 8:31

did you, I didn't even, like it's sometimes not so great movies and shows with ads. Um, so I guess that's fine. I think that's where we watch Mad Men actually, even though we have the DVDs. What's a DVD player? So anyway, we started jury duty and think. The office. So documentary style slash reality show in that you're following a trial and all of the jurors are actors except for one man, Ronald, who's oblivious to the fact that he is amongst actors and everyone's just laughing at this ridiculous trial and jury unfold. Um, James Morrison's also in it, and it's funny cuz he's obviously, he's playing himself and he's trying to get out of jury duty, but he wants everyone else to know just how important he is. And this guy, the act, the guy who's not an actor, Ronald doesn't quite recognize him. He's like, you were in um, um, Westworld and then East. Well I'm also in all these list everything off. It's just the awkward humor that I love from the office. It's silly. It's not giving me the laughs as hard as the office does, but I think that's because the office is just a classic, you know? But it's still worth it.

Adina: 9:48

Yeah, nostalgia factor too. We've also been just like rewatching some arrested development, which has been really nice. Yeah, it's just been like a, when we're eating breakfast, just like 20 minutes, you know, cause there's such a bite size episode. Um, but it's actually really nice because you know that my memory for a lot of those lines is like a little alarming and it's been really nice cuz now like there are certain things that Donnie remembers on this rewatch, so now they're making more sense in like the family lexicon, you know?

Diane: 10:26

it's all coming back to you. Lucille's. Probably my favorite.

Adina: 10:30

she's the best. Um, yeah, so that's been fun.

Diane: 10:35

one banana. How much could it cost?$10. Oh, silly. Silly.

Adina: 10:44

All right. Let's get into the meat and potatoes of this one. Um, this is like a fun little episode. I feel like there's so much in the Instagram wellness world, and we've definitely warned about this before in the context of like supplements and when we talked about our data. That's dumb episode. Yeah. I think that some companies just have a really big. Influencer budget

Diane: 11:15

Mm-hmm.

Adina: 11:16

and we are here to help you cut through some of the noise. And we thought it'd be fun if we did an episode of what we recommend in the wellness world, what we think is actually worth the hype. Um, there's just like so much hype on the internet and it really is hard to know

Diane: 11:36

What's worth it?

Adina: 11:37

getting paid to talk about these things and do they actually care about this product and is it actually helpful? So we're gonna talk through what is worth your money. We might mention a few that are a waste of your money. And just making sure that we keep in mind what is distracting us from the basics. You know, oftentimes we talk about people majoring in the minors and some of this stuff is fun to have. Some of it is after a solid foundation is already. In place. And some of it is, even if you don't have your foundation in place, I think worth budgeting for because they can help with some of the foundational stuff. So sometimes it's just really fun to indulge in wellness things. Yes.

Diane: 12:26

Yeah. And if we're spring cleaning, or maybe some of you are thinking of that, some of these can help you with that. And all of these things that we're gonna talk about, we've used and loved and some of them for three, five plus years. So we've had our time to spend with them and really assess if it's worth it. I am all about efficiency, I'm all about maximizing my budget, and these are things that are well worth it to me. And as Adino was saying, like. As you're going to this episode, don't think that you're just gonna start like a running shopping list. Things that you have to have straight away in order to be healthy. We always counsel our clients to start with the foundations, and then these are things that you can add in alongside or after that, but prioritize what you're putting in your body, how you're moving it, how you're stressing and sleeping. And then these are great for some finessing. Some of them are things that are, my clients will add in after they get a rhythm with those other things. So let's dive into it with spring cleaning. First in mind, let's talk about air purifiers. Air purifiers, there are so many out there, whether molecule or I don't know, some that you can grab that are tiny and cute, but do they get the job done? And then some people might say, oh, well, I have an air purifier built into my ac, into my, um, into my home. So isn't that enough? Nah, they're not all made the same. So my top pick here is air Doctor.

Adina: 13:57

Mm-hmm.

Diane: 13:58

Love the air doctor. We have a couple here in our house, but why is it so important? Air quality is so important for our airway health, our lungs, our sinuses, our immune system, and you'd be shocked at what's in your home environment. In fact, indoor air is two to five times worse than the outside air. Oftentimes we're enclosed, especially in the winter, right? We're not airing things out, tracking things in from outside. We spent a couple of years in our homes from 2020 to 2022 ish, right? So what kind of air are you breathing in the air? Doctor, I love because this is, um, going to. Ultra filter your air well beyond what you can expect from your built-in home air purifiers. It has three stages of filters and it's gonna catch big stuff that you can kind of see floating through the air, whether that's dust, pet hair, we have pug tumbleweeds. It's just a nature of a pug, the nature of a pug or an owning a pug. Um, but it also has a carbon filter that can filter down like teeny tiny particles that are a hundred times smaller than what would be filtered from other filters. So things like viruses, mold, allergens, teeny tiny dander. Um, it will sort all of that out. It'll also have a fit when I use hairspray a

Adina: 15:22

knows.

Diane: 15:22

yes it does. Or I've ran the bath sometimes in the other room and we have one of the Air Doctor three thousands. It's like the medium model in our bedroom. And I have one in my office here running right now. Um, But the air doctor will kick on to high when we're in the, when I have the bath running. So I'm like, what is in the water? I also take it personally when I walk by it and it kicks on. And I'm kind of wondering, like if you fart near it, like what will it, what will it do? Haven't tried it yet.

Adina: 15:53

That is a great question. What is in your farts?

Diane: 15:56

Yeah. What's in your farts and what will happen if you fart near the air doctor? But I love that it has auto mode on, so it can constantly, um, test the air in your home and adjust as needed if you're cooking and you don't wanna have one near your right in the kitchen. Right. But if you're cooking, you might hear it kick on. Yes. Um, and I think I've mentioned this before too, but like, what are these homes with cooktops with no hood over them or fan, like, do these people cook? Like,

Adina: 16:23

Are they hidden? Perhaps because like I have seen people do a hidden hood where I couldn't even tell it was there

Diane: 16:30

That'll be nice. Or they built it into, I, I've seen some that are like, Made part of the design. It's not just this big structure, ugly structure, but I've also seen too many homes on Zillow recently where it's an electric cooktop in the middle of an island

Adina: 16:46

Ugh.

Diane: 16:46

and get this a home that was otherwise very beautiful, like 60 seventies time capsule and Adina had carpet, carpet in the kitchen. Can you even imagine

Adina: 16:57

no.

Diane: 16:58

an air doctor would be going bananas? So anyway, love the air doctor. I've noticed a difference sleeping overnight. Um, and we have an older home. We have a regular cleaning schedule, mopping these floors, dusting these floors, brushing the pug, but it's an older home. And so, um, with a history of my sinus stuff over the years and some health stuff I'm working through, it has been well worth the investment. They occasionally do some spring cleaning sales. Um, And different offers, but they're also different sizes too. So if you want, want, wanna try out one of the small ones in a bedroom for better sleep overnight, or you have a bigger open area, there are different size air doctors that you can choose from.

Adina: 17:41

I actually just wanna say this cause we didn't say this at the top of the episode and part of that did sound like a commercial. And I just wanted to be clear that like, we're not getting paid to talk about any of these things. These are things that we like, waited up to invest in and like ended up taking the plunge and here's how we actually feel about them. So, um, I

Diane: 17:59

remember that. Yeah. No one's paying us, but they can if they want. And

Adina: 18:03

I know maybe one day we'll get some spons from these guys.

Diane: 18:06

I hope that y'all know. And we also should mention that some of the links that we will share for these products in the show notes are affiliate links. And if you choose to use those, it only supports us in this podcast. And it's at no additional cost to you and I take the recommendations that I make about products or services. To my clients and to my community very seriously. I mean, I wish you could see the message requests that each of us get

Adina: 18:33

the best.

Diane: 18:34

we get for the dumbest shit and supplements. It's constant And

Adina: 18:39

Hey, strength plus nutrition.

Diane: 18:41

Yeah. I see you talk about health. I have this gut, this gut supplement that's trash. Would you like to try it? Um, 90% of those we turn down or just ignore. And something like, I mean, air Doctor is an investment. This is something I thought about and I re, I reviewed their site over and over for a while before investing it, uh, last year. So really, really love this one. So I'm glad we had that little disclaimer.

Adina: 19:07

Yeah. Okay. So what if you can't afford to put an air doctor in every room, but you would like to try to invest in some quality air? Um, so definitely I would prioritize the kitchen, like Diane said, and the bedroom, um, kids' room if you got kids, because they spend so much time in there and they're tiny little livers

Diane: 19:31

And their lungs.

Adina: 19:33

their little big lungs just like processing. And also, I mean, this is a whole other conversation, but I'm hearing just so many. More friends talking about their kids struggling with asthma and chronic sinus stuff. So obviously there's a lot at play there,

Diane: 19:49

A lot of gut stuff there, but this helps too. Yeah.

Adina: 19:53

error can make a big difference in just symptom management as well.

Diane: 19:56

Totally. So I mean, of course, clean, clean your house, clean your house and, and start there. Um, and so this isn't going to be like a forever replacement, but it certainly can help if say, let's say you know that you have water history of water damage in your home or your're renting and your landlord doesn't want to help you take care of an environmental issue. Like it's not practical or feasible for most people to move. So something like a quality air purifier, like air doctor can help you while you're in that environment. So that's something to think about. I mean, you can move it around. I've, I know people who have taken this small model with them if they were doing like extended vacation, like Airbnb style as well. So yeah, definitely something to think about if you can't change or move from your environment, some other things that you can do, like let's say you want to save up for something like that, but just not in the cards for you right now. Springtime, open windows for a little bit. Um, you can also. Clean out your, I think you put AC filters here, or your happa vents. Your, oh my gosh. What is HVAC cleaning? Have your,

Adina: 21:00

out your HEPA filters in your AC units, like get your vacuum out, get the dust off of there, replace them if they're really far gone. Um, and also something that we haven't talked about on the show in a while. So if you're brand new to this conversation, you may not know this. Like there is furniture and paint if you're doing any renovations in your home, or if you have recently purchased things, there are furniture and paints and things like that with less VOCs, volatile organic compounds, but, Even if you can't prioritize those, cuz sometimes those can be in a higher budget. You can let those things off gas before you put them in your home. So leave them outside if

Diane: 21:42

fart outside.

Adina: 21:43

Exactly. Um, so yeah, don't, don't bring all that stuff into your environment at once. When you're doing a renovation, it's a really good idea to be mindful about the paints that you're using and the furniture that you're bringing into your home.

Diane: 21:57

Totally good call there. Yep. And the air doctor can also filter out those VOCs, those volatile organic compounds. But open your windows for a bit. This one is huge, especially in our house because we have two dogs, um, is to wipe your paws, take off your shoes when you come into your home. And that's like something I grew up doing in an Asian household. It's changing from shoes to slippers in the house, but we have little wipes and like a towel by our door. So when our dogs come in, they know they gotta stop, sit, wipe your paws so you're not tracking in pollen, um, other dirt and debris through your house. Both to keep it clean, but also to minimize any allergens or environmental stuff that might be aggravating your sweet sinuses, you know?

Adina: 22:41

Yeah. Another thing you can do is get some plants. There are so many varieties of plants that actually help to filter out your air so you can look up which ones those are cuz they'll be more comprehensive lists. But plants help us. We help plants, you know how it goes.

Diane: 23:01

I have some that I'm moving to the plant graveyard because, um,

Adina: 23:04

Same.

Diane: 23:05

neglecting them. But then, I mean, there are some out there that take a lot of abuse and neglect very well. So I think it's like pothos snake plant. Um, yeah, you can look'em up, but they'll help clean the air. And I know there's a plant lady listening to this who's like, yay. A permission slip to get more plants. They're pretty, they're pretty, uh, we actually, I got a plastic plant from Target and I put it on a shelf that doesn't get much light. And also I was like, I don't wanna water this. And Neil's like, you got another plant? This is gonna die. And I go, it's not because it's not real. So it's not filtering the air, but.

Adina: 23:39

Neil. No faith.

Diane: 23:40

Yeah. Well, he knows. He knows he's seen them. So this next one also hot topic. Um, a hot product. Oh yeah. Literally

Adina: 23:51

Oh, you weren't doing that for fun?

Diane: 23:53

No, there I was. I was, I'm so funny. I didn't even know it. Sauna. So I would love to have a traditional, traditional sauna built into our home or

Adina: 24:03

Salty one.

Diane: 24:05

Mm-hmm. But yeah, we don't have that. So there are other options out there. Several are trending in the internet space. The one that I use and love is the Theis age, the massage. I actually still don't know how to pronounce it. Do you know

Adina: 24:20

I feel like massage would make more sense. Like,

Diane: 24:23

the massage? Like a massage? Hmm. Yeah. The, I don't know. Either way. It is a pop-up, portable if you want it to be Sauna. Sauna. And it's a red light. Yeah, a personal infrared sauna and it looks so dorky. Like I feel as though I'm, I'm sitting

Adina: 24:43

wearing like a weird costume.

Diane: 24:45

Yeah, exactly. But I love that it is portable because like I said, we wanna build something into our house, but we also have a smaller home right now. It's just nice that I can set it up, use it, pack it away. It takes me like three minutes to set up. So if you haven't seen it, um, your head, you're basically zipping yourself up in this thing. You can have your hands sticking out in your head, sticking out, and you're sitting on the, um, organic bamboo, natural bamboo chair that it comes with. It has a little smiley face in it, which is kind of cute, so you can stick your head out, which I like. Um, compared to others where you're completely setting, sitting inside the sauna, because I find that like heat can trigger headaches for me if it's too high. And like that could be a sign that I was dehydrated. But also like high heat can aggravate that if you're prone to headaches and if I

Adina: 25:33

especially histamine.

Diane: 25:34

Yes. Yeah. So, Also, if I don't wanna wash my hair and sweat profusely from my head, then maybe I don't sit inside. But you also could sit inside tent style if you like. It is, um, this infrared sauna a bit more gentle than a traditional sauna, which is gonna heat you up real quick. So I like that as well. As well as the red light, which has some great healing benefits. It's also nice when I'm trying to heal my skin or, um, just wanna sit right up next to those red lights. So that's also really lovely. And this company makes red lights as well?

Adina: 26:07

Yeah. And just a note about Sauna, because this is a great example of like majoring in the minors and maybe even skipping steps like, we do not recommend Sauna. your minerals are bottomed out, like that is a huge caveat. I think people think like, oh, detox, sauna, but some people sauna is gonna make things worse. Like way worse it's going to deplete your minerals even further. Again, if you have a history of histamine things or if histamine is driving some of your symptoms like this could be making things way worse. And so I wouldn't start there. I would want some more information about where your minerals were at before diving into something like this. And if you're not sure if this is you, then I would definitely recommend booking like an H T M A intensive with Diane. She's doing those, and that's a great way to get to the bottom of that information and know this is if this is an intervention that's going to help or harm you on your healing

Diane: 27:06

Such an important caveat because it, it does sound flashy, right? Like, I need to detox and, and sweat things out. And this is another, yeah, it feels good when you're in it and then afterwards, especially if you go in under hydrated, completely depleted, um, then it's just gonna feel worse afterwards and you might write it off, or a lot of people, I'll see people do this, like more is better. Like I stay, it's a flex sometimes. Like I can, I can stay in there at 160 degrees for 45 minutes and I'm like, oh. Yeah. How's your, how's your thyroid? How's, how, how's your stress? So definitely even for the people who are in a good place to tolerate sauna, I don't like them going in there for more than like 20 minutes. Like, definitely starting slow, definitely hydrating plenty. Um, but when we say, are your minerals burnt, bottomed out? Have, are you really stressed? Um, like Adina said too, you have histamine issues. Um, are you undernourished other ways? So this is something that I like to add in later when you've checked some of those boxes off. So yeah, I do like it though. If you're going to consider Asana. Someone asked about, what about the sauna? A sauna blanket, apparently that's a thing. Or like, it looks like a sleeping bag. You can burrito yourself

Adina: 28:19

Seen it. Seen it on the internet.

Diane: 28:21

Yeah. I mean, I know some fellow practitioners who like theirs and you Do you personally, I'm into a sauna blanket. Sounds disgusting. Like I just, I imagine it, like I'm sweating the bed and if I wanted to do that, I would just add another comforter around my bed and sweat there. And just, I, I like being able to sit and then put my hands out, my head out. It's great. Ew.

Adina: 28:47

Yeah. If I wanted to sweat lying down, I would just co-sleep with my toddler, you

Diane: 28:52

Abe's a little furnace.

Adina: 28:53

But yes, all my kids are just furnaces. Um, but that being said, I could see. benefit of like habit stacking of just kinda like forcing yourself to be horizontal and take a little rest in the middle of the day if you were going. You know, like I think that there's definitely something nice about the slowing down if your sauna was a blanket,

Diane: 29:19

I like to sit down. That's slow. A dog too, but yeah, I know what I mean.

Adina: 29:23

The sensation of that doesn't sound like something I would

Diane: 29:26

Did I tell you when I first used the Theis age, the massage, whatever, I was sitting in it and dug my pugs like low to the ground. He's 18 pounds, super cute, and he's very clingy and he couldn't see me. I was out of his line of sight just right next to him, but he had no idea. So I had a little video of him walking around the house looking in every room for me, and then he even walked around it like he could smell me, but he couldn't see me. When he finally saw me, he tried to like jump up into it and I was like, no, buddy. Saunas are not for little dogs.

Adina: 30:01

It's like how babies, like if you cover their face, they think you're gone.

Diane: 30:05

do they? So sad. Well, speaking of hot heating things up, I know we've talked about

Adina: 30:13

These segues are amazing. Diane,

Diane: 30:14

thank you. Seeing him hot bodies. You've heard us talk about, um, what a high temperature has to do with a good metabolism and fertility and all that good stuff, but how do you really track that? We're gonna talk about next fertility

Adina: 30:29

wait. If you haven't heard us talk about that, then please go back to our hot girl summer episode

Diane: 30:33

It's upon us.

Adina: 30:34

uh, get your, get

Diane: 30:36

Yeah. Get yourself literally hot and horny. Maybe not horny listening to our episode, but I don't know. I don't know what your, what your thing

Adina: 30:44

I dunno what you're into.

Diane: 30:45

you are. Um, anyway, our favorite fertility trackers. I know we've mentioned these a few times. Definitely check out other episodes. A couple. First up. I love Daisy Fertility Tracker. I've used it for, oh my gosh, like six years now. Um, as part of key part, part of my way of tracking my cycle, I use it to avoid pregnancy. Um, it is basically basal body temperature thermometer device. So I stick it under my tongue. I have to say that. Cause whenever I've shown a photo of it or a video of it, people are like, where do you stick it? You know, kitty. And someone's like, you can stick it your butt. I'm like, mm, not for me. I stick it under my mouth. I stick it under my tongue, tick my temp, and it gives me a red light, yellow light, green light based on my fertility status. But important part again, is, um, I'll track other signs of fertility via fam fertility awareness method in order for it to be an accurate, um, birth control situation. Yeah. Yeah. Kate.

Adina: 31:47

key piece here. So again, when it comes to investments, fertility trackers are an investment. Like temp drop is an investment, but it's a pretty useless investment if you don't know fertility awareness method. So you could totally practice the fertility awareness method with a$10 B B T, you know, basal body thermometer from your local drugstore or off of Amazon. But the reason that we like these specifically temp drop is the one that I like and the reason I love it is it is wonderful. For nursing moms, for shift workers, anyone with like inconsistent sleep. Because in order to get an accurate read on a basal body temperature, you need to have a certain amount of hours sleeping or in complete stillness. Um, and so that's not so realistic

Diane: 32:42

your baby's partying

Adina: 32:43

of us that are up at night nursing. Yeah. Um, and so with temp drop, you turn it on, you put it on your arm before you go to bed, and it takes an average temp over the night and it's still a very accurate vaal body temperature. And then you just sink it in the morning and it collects all that data for you. So again, these are both wonderful investments for ease of use as far as collecting the data of your B B T. But you need to learn fertility awareness method if you actually want to use these accurately for. Birth control or for bettering your chances of conception. And actually, um, Talia at Organic Fertility friend of

Diane: 33:27

Yes. friend of the pod, the one I ran into, literally in Tel Aviv. Love it.

Adina: 33:32

so cute. Um, she has a fam for birth control course that she's running of when this episode airs. I think it's probably a week

Diane: 33:41

little live course.

Adina: 33:43

um, we can, yeah, we can link that in the show notes. She's a wonderful fam. educator and just a cutie all

Diane: 33:49

Yeah. We love our fam, fam. So again, make sure that you hear it loud and clear. It is some, these devices are things that can enhance your natural cycle tracking routine, but don't just outsource your cycle and tracking it to a device. Um, and totally can start with something basic like I got it. A$10 thermo thermometer, oh my god. Thermometer, thermometer, thermometer at like cvs so Talia can teach you how to track all those tings. Love it. Okay, next up in the spirit of spring cleaning branch basics, this is one that I know I saw all over.

Adina: 34:28

the goat.

Diane: 34:29

Yeah. And I resist, resisted it. Cuz at first I admit I kept seeing it everywhere and it was a kit, right? So I was like, is this some kind of like, am I gonna have to build a team if I buy this? Am I gonna have to order it every single month? No. No, it is a cleaning kit, natural cleaning system. They give you a few bottles with a kit and you can use that in the concentrate that it comes with to clean, like everything, everything in your house,

Adina: 34:57

And it frigging works so well. Um, one thing I'll say about branch basics, if you haven't used it yet or you tried it and we're like, wait, does this work? You have to use it a little bit differently than a Windex type cleaner. Okay. When you make the spray out of the concentrate and water, which is also really nice cuz you're not paying for water. When you buy cleaning products from the store, you are paying for water. If those bottles, bottles are full already, cuz they are mostly water. Um, so when you make the spray bottle, if you think you're gonna use it like a Windex and just like spray on, wipe off, not gonna work so well with Branch. I find that if you spray it, let it sit for a little bit and then wipe it off, it really gets the job done. And. It is a female founded company. The founder is just such a sweetie. She went through it with her family and you can, you know, find her on many podcasts talking about the product. I just love her mission. Love that. It is actually like a actually clean product, not just greenwashing. It's like legit, legit,

Diane: 36:09

Yes. Especially if you're sensitive to fragrances, which I mean, growing up, I know you've said this before too, like growing up my folks used Fabrice to freshen the air. Like what? I mean they were just busy and sometimes couldn't get to a deep queen. Right. Fabrice tied like fully fragranced. Conventional products that like in later years, it just gave me a headache. It gives me a headache now when I'm around it or just stuffed me up. So these don't have any smell at all. Um, and yeah, when I clean my counters, I'll spray the, I'll spray the all-purpose cleaner on the counters, let it sit while I do something else for a second and come back and haven't had any problems. So, I mean, you can use it for cleaning. Use it for our mop water, for cleaning our counters. Um, there's a different bottle and concentration used for your bathrooms, cuz those tend to be a little bit more Jeremy, you know, um, you like the oxygen boost. So how do you love to use that for laundry?

Adina: 37:04

Yeah. I love the oxygen boost. I use it similar to how people would use baking soda. Like I'll, if I have a pot or pan that's really grinded on, I'll spray the concentrate spray and then sprinkle the oxygen boost over the top, let it sit, and then it scrubs everything off so easily. I also use it as a stain remover on my laundry, so, If I have a stain on something, spray it with a spray, sprinkle the powder over it, and then run the cycle and

Diane: 37:34

Yes.

Adina: 37:35

so well.

Diane: 37:36

I'm so picky. And this works like up to our standards in our house, so love it.

Adina: 37:44

yeah, and if you're thinking to yourself, wait, Adina lives in Israel, does Branch Basics ship to Israel? The answer is no, they don't. But if you've been listening to the show for a while, you know, we sent like a shipping container over the seas to bring all our stuff here. And I actually ordered, like usually I did a month subscription with Branch Basics. Like it would my oxygen boost and my concentrate would come to my house once a month. But I ordered like over a year supply of both of them and put them on the shipping container. So I don't know what I'm gonna do when it runs

Diane: 38:19

Nice. I wonder if I can send you a care package with some, yeah, you can do a subscription, but I don't think you, you have to like, I remember the, when I first got it, I wanted to see what I thought about it. I did a kit and then decided, oh yeah, this is great. Uh, we still use a lot of other things that likely you have in your house too, if you're trying to think about like moving from conventional cleaning products to things that are more natural. So the things that you can do with white vinegar, a big ass jug from Costco. Oh my gosh. Stinks a little. And Neil's like, did you clean the mirrors? It stinks like acids in here just for a second. I mean, you could put lemon in there too. Um, or use the

Adina: 38:54

Mm-hmm.

Diane: 38:55

Hydrogen peroxide we use for a lot of things. Borax, baking soda, lemon juice, like those, you can do a lot with those

Adina: 39:05

Yeah.

Diane: 39:06

Ooh, next step. This is, you've turned me onto these. In many

Adina: 39:10

Yeah. This is a fun one. And this is quality kettlebells. Okay.

Diane: 39:17

key.

Adina: 39:18

I have been running my program and coaching lots of ladies with kettlebells. My athletes always regret when they get the shitty bells.

Diane: 39:29

Mm-hmm. And what are shitty bells? Can we just spend a moment on what, what we don't like?

Adina: 39:36

Okay, first and foremost, I know it sounds like budget friendly bang for your buck. Do not get the adjustable kettlebell. You will regret it. The shape of it will make you angry.

Diane: 39:52

actually throw it.

Adina: 39:54

Yeah, it is. Just don't get it. Please don't get it. And then try to avoid the like really slippery ones, the ones with the rubber handles. Um, yeah,

Diane: 40:05

bells. Is that what they're called? Where they, the ball part of it? The bell part of it. They're all the same size, but they're different weights and then the handles are like too long,

Adina: 40:15

Square almost. Yeah.

Diane: 40:17

really maneuver them in the same way that you'd like

Adina: 40:20

Yeah. I don't like those for like hard style kettlebell training. Um, yes. A brand that I love, kettlebell Kings, they are a nice powder coated cast Iron Bell. They're a great brand and they're really quality, like they last. Um, other brands I really like are perform better. I think I, I, those might be my favorite. I go back and forth.

Diane: 40:47

that are any good?

Adina: 40:49

Rogue does, I have a couple bells from Rogue. They're, they're good too, but they're also like, um, the, the handles are a little fatter and like they, I don't know, they're not as good as those first two that I like the best Kettlebell kings Have performed better.

Diane: 41:04

Have you seen those on it? Primal kettle bells, like in the shape of like animal

Adina: 41:08

Yeah, the gorilla ones.

Diane: 41:09

They're just fun. Yeah. I don't know if how they'd work in a workout. Bigfoot, gorilla Orangutang. Who else?

Adina: 41:17

There's also, um, a brand, there's like small brands that I like supporting too. There's this guy glad that I met who has a company out of Florida called Willow Minka Fitness, and I met him at a kettlebell certification a while ago, and he's just a cool dude with a small biz and his bells are great. So you can find, um, small businesses to support too. Just look for cast iron powder coated bells. Like do not get slippery ones. Do not get rubber coated ones. Do not get adjustable

Diane: 41:47

Don't do it. Kettlebell kings. Where are the kettlebell queens? Like, can, can you start a kettlebell

Adina: 41:53

We're kings. We're kettle kings

Diane: 41:55

else the kings Is that like how everyone's a girly,

Adina: 41:59

Yeah, I guess

Diane: 42:00

that's what I hear. Anyway. Um, I, if you're local to me, west Michigan, and you know of a gym that I can drop into that has actually good kettle bells, Lemine know, because the place I go, sometimes I go there just because I want to get outta the house and work out somewhere. The bells suck. But then I've also dropped into gyms that are the quote unquote real nice gyms. They have all the other great equipment. Maybe they even have Pelotons I won't use. But the point is they spend cash on their facility, but then they have the dumbest kettlebells, either just a couple and they're like, everything that we just described that we don't like, or they just don't have'em. So if you, if you know somewhere

Adina: 42:40

Have you tried a CrossFit, like, have you tried doing like open gym at a CrossFit near you because they might have some nice road

Diane: 42:45

and then maybe they just let me do my thing and leave.

Adina: 42:48

Yeah. If you, uh, most, most CrossFit gyms, like during off hours have like open gym time where you can just like pay to come use the space.

Diane: 42:59

And the community is what I'm craving. Just like, you know, maybe not dogs walking over my mat and risking getting hit with my swing.

Adina: 43:08

yeah, look into, look into local CrossFits.

Diane: 43:11

yeah. I will do this next. These next couple are with Bay Bees in mind. So

Adina: 43:18

Yes. So like we talked about with, um, furniture and VOCs and all this stuff, I think it's important to note that you gotta like, really look out for this stuff when you're purchasing stuff like baby furniture or car seats because your teeny tiny baby with their teeny tiny liver is just trying to filter out all this stuff. And there's not a whole lot of regulations on what gets sprayed on these things and what materials get used. So if you really want like a non-tax or talk nursery, um, I highly recommend looking for. Less toxic furniture, meaning that the paints that they use are less toxic. The materials that they use are less toxic. So, um, as far as budget friendly, baby Leto is a brand that's pretty budget friendly and it, it's good pricing for less toxic furniture. Um, Ikea as well

Diane: 44:17

Yes. And for adult furniture and everyone furniture, um, the, the instructions are a bitch, but, um, I've heard that their standards are a lot higher than you might expect for, um, the price point that they're at. Like, we just did my built-ins here in the office and my little sewing space. And I found that there was a cabinet I really wanted that was just like all Pine Pine and like a couple other materials. No funky smell, so we love to see it.

Adina: 44:45

yeah, yeah. So you can, um, There's, there's a lot of brands that are doing it right, that you might have to pay way more for. You can just look for things that are like Green Guard certified. That's usually the certification that they'll have. And they'll, if it's something that they're doing, they'll probably brag about it. So I would just make sure you scroll to the bottom of the website and read what kind of certifications they have, what kind of materials they're using, um, but just something to consider. And then same kind of vein, but car seats can be super toxic, and especially if you live in the suburbs and your kid is spending a lot of time in there, I would highly recommend the brand click. They're definitely pricier, but. Their car seats are made from like Moreno wool, so they don't have to spray them with the flame retardant that is sprayed on most conventional car seats. So, and they're great. They're really nice and narrow. So if you have multiples, like you can put three across in a car and that's a good option to have. So

Diane: 45:45

That'd be a lot

Adina: 45:46

we love our click, click car seats. Yeah.

Diane: 45:49

Okay. Cool. Cool. This next one is for everybody.

Adina: 45:55

Oh, something that I forgot to talk about when we were talking about training with kettlebells. Is Barefoot Shoes. You know, I love a to Barefoot shoes. If you have not heard us talk about this, go back to our foot episode. Do you ever think you'd say that? Um,

Diane: 46:16

Now, are these for training or for every day or both?

Adina: 46:21

so. Whenever possible, I like to train completely barefoot, but if you are somewhere where that's not an option. If you're a gym that has, if you're at a gym that has a shoe policy or you are somewhere where the floors are kind of grimy, then Vivo Barefoot is one of my favorite barefoot shoe brands, and they make the PRI lights are a really nice option for training. They have a lot of shoes that are a great option for training, but I love their hiking boots too. Like there's just some really great options there. Again, they are an investment, but. They're great, really quality. And you can also, when you've worn them into the ground, cuz that's the other thing about barefoot shoes too, with shoes that have like a heel or some kind of soul, once that gets worn out, it's like those shoes are done, but with barefoot shoes, like you're on the floor anyway. So if they get worn, it's like, okay. So yeah, you can send them back and they have like a rev vivo, uh, what's the word I'm looking for? Um,

Diane: 47:27

like a trade-in low program

Adina: 47:29

yeah, yeah. Like they use your shoe to, they use the materials from your shoe to make new shoes, um, which is awesome. But yeah, they're a great company. The shoes are super comfortable and just like wonderful barefoot options. Also, I never mentioned this on the show, I don't think, but there is an Instagram account. I love Anya's reviews. I. And she does wonderful reviews of different barefoot shoes and different budgets. So if there's something specific you have your eye on, go check out her reviews and see what your options are in various

Diane: 48:01

cool. I love it. We're all gonna get our, get ourselves some. Cool shoes.

Adina: 48:07

Just one more thing about barefoot shoes. If they are a wellness thing, like you will see a lot of influencers talk about them, especially in the fitness space. If you are brand new to wearing barefoot shoes, if you have worn really restrictive shoes your whole life, if you have not gone through S T H H and learned how to train barefoot, Don't just like dive right in, buy yourself a pair of barefoot shoes and go on like a 10 mile walk in them. You know, like you have to, you have to ease yourself in because your foot will function differently. Your whole chain will function differently. So yeah, just

Diane: 48:41

Because even flat shoes that appear flat that are not barefoot shoes still have some kind of rise, like some kind of tiny little heel or lift to them. So it, yeah, that is an adjustment to make for sure. So next up we're gonna talk about some more filters, but now we're gonna talk about water filters. So this is something that, um, comes up a lot when I am working with one-on-one, uh, nutritional therapy intensive clients who are preparing to do their H T M A, their hair, tissue and mineral analysis. But it's also really important to think about if we want to upgrade our daily drinking water and the water that we are bathing and showering in. So I was someone who grew up like, yeah, tap's fine, I'll just do tap water. But I also live in Michigan and you've probably have heard about the. Shitty shitty water situation over in Flint. Or maybe you can just kind of taste, depending on how hard your water is, you're like, hmm, that don't taste so great, but beyond. Yeah.

Adina: 49:44

Water's like viscous.

Diane: 49:46

gross. Just thick, nasty.

Adina: 49:49

Yeah. It like sticks to you in the

Diane: 49:50

I remember going over to a friend's house and just, you turn on the tap and it's straight sulfur, like, um, and so sometimes we think, all right, it's so knocks it's water. Drink your water, but please filter your water beyond it tasting better. This also gives you the opportunity to filter out so many contaminants and environmental things that are naturally occurring, like heavy metals that's gonna make its way in there. Um, but also chemicals that are present in filtering the water, which we've been told, is to make it safe, right? Like fluoride. You gotta have that fluoride for your teeth health. Which

Adina: 50:24

Your T Dazzle. You remember that Parks episode? Oh, man, we gotta do something about that episode. It's so funny,

Diane: 50:33

Yeah, so one of our favorite dentists, um, but spoiler, and this could be an episode all on its own. You don't need fluoride for

Adina: 50:42

Do we need to do a fluoride episode?

Diane: 50:44

we do,

Adina: 50:46

Let us know in the dms if that's what something you wanna hear.

Diane: 50:49

Mm-hmm. And it affects other things like the way that we absorb, um, magnesium, calcium

Adina: 50:55

the way we convert T4 and t3.

Diane: 50:58

Yes, yes. So, ooh, that'll be an episode on its own. Let us know if you wanna hear it. Um, but the TLDR for now is you don't need fluoride for healthy teeth. And there are all so many different contaminants in chemicals and things in our water that we don't want to be ingesting and breathing every day Now. Before you spiral and think like you need to go invest in like the best filter out there. A filter is better than no filter. And if that's not in your budget right now, this is what I do with my root cause reset clients and clients is like, let's focus on food first. The foundations eventually though, let's, let's see if we can allocate some budget towards upgrading our water in some way. Okay,

Adina: 51:36

Yeah. Like a Brita filter is better than no filter Um,

Diane: 51:42

of some kind.

Adina: 51:43

yeah. And also like There's pros and cons to every filter. So there's like reverse osmosis, but it's more wasteful and there's carbon filters and you know, like there's, you have to remineralize the water. Like it, there's pros and cons, um, but we do encourage you to filter your water. It's just a matter of where you are in the budget for

Diane: 52:07

Yeah. And just like food quality, we're gonna think of good, better, best. So get the, get a basic filter if you can. Or maybe if you're in the position to get something for your home, you can, um, choose something else. The two that, um, I like and do consistently recommend are from Burkey and from AquaTru. So, Burkey, maybe you've seen that on the Gram too. It's this big old metallic looking thing that maybe if you were in a apartment, this is a great choice for you because there are different sizes. Um, you have one. So why don't, why don't you tell'em about that?

Adina: 52:41

I do have a burki and everyone who sees it, who doesn't know what it is, is like, is that a giant hot water urn? Like how much hot water do you guys drink? Yeah, but we love our burki. I know like recently there's been some controversy with Burki, but I can tell, and I don't know the specific details of that, but like Diane said, a filter is better than, no filter is like a three, uh, two-pronged car carbon filter, and it has a fluoride filter. Um, And you can taste a drastic difference in the water when you filter in there. So like, it's working, you know, like I think that, um, you know, maybe someone came for them on some of the studies that they were putting out there. I don't really know the details again, but we do notice a really big difference in our water using that filter. So we've had it for years. We love it. It's really easy. Yeah. Um, so that can be a con for some people. Yeah, we have a big one. It can be a con for some people if you don't have a lot of counter space, which we really don't, but we also don't own our apartment, so we weren't gonna install something. So it's been a good option for us. Um, people travel with Burkis. They also make like a sport top water bottle that you can take with you if you're gonna be somewhere where you don't know if you'll have drinking water. So

Diane: 53:55

took one of those or something similar to, to Bali because we want, we didn't wanna have water buy bottled plastic water bottles everywhere and you could put any water into it, push it down, and you have clean drinking water, which is pretty great. Yeah. So

Adina: 54:10

good option for like camping and hiking and stuff like that too.

Diane: 54:13

yes, so the Burki, like Adina is describing is, there are different sizes, is great. If you can't install something into your home, you're renting. Um, AquaTru is another option that I like. I have the countertop that has a gallon capacity. We also have a reverse osmosis system like built into our, um, sink tap in the kitchen, but also have AquaTru that they sent to me. And I do really like this. It is reverse osmosis though. So basically for unfamiliar what that means, it's, it's gonna strip everything outta the water, including the bad, the good, the bad, and the ugly. So it's taking out some good things that we need some minerals to, that we need to hold onto hydration. So that's why we talk about remineralizing it simply here. You could put, so pinch a real sea salt into your water, but make sure you're not just drinking what our mentor has called before. Hungry water, where it's completely strip tastes good, but you're going to have find that it goes right through you if you're, uh, drinking reverse osmosis and not adding something back into it. So, uh, AquaTru also has. One that can be installed under the sink if you really wanna ball out. I know there are options, be it, um, reverse osmosis or some other nice carbon filters that you can put, um, like a whole home system. So that would also cover your shower or bath water too. Um, but that is definitely more of an investment.

Adina: 55:36

Yes. And so if you can't make an investment like that, you can totally buy just like separate shower and bath filters, which we really recommend. These are a great place to invest because. They're not really a big investment for the most part. Um, Burkey makes a shower filter. There's other shower filters you can buy. Definitely, definitely get yourself a shower filter if you plan on doing an H G M A test, because it will drastically skew the results if you do not filter that shower water because

Diane: 56:04

it doesn't. But, um, if you live, like, okay, I know there are a bunch of listeners here in West Michigan and GR West Michigan and Grand Rapids and we have very hard water here. So that can skew your calcium result on your HTM A So if you are able to, I encourage people who know they have hard to very hard water to buy a filter and use it for a couple of weeks before I'll have them do their htma sample. Um, so Burkey's great. We use that one. And also you'll notice if you have these and you have had hard water, maybe your hair and your hair color like looks better and lasts longer. Like my hair color used to wash out faster and it just, my hair didn't feel as good as after we installed a shower filter, I noticed a difference.

Adina: 56:46

Yeah. And skin stuff too. If you have like rashy skin, sometimes the shower filter can make a really big difference. Um, also a bath filter. If you're a person who does baths, it's not like you're not filtering out absolutely everything with one of those little bath ball filters. But I like the company crystal quest. You can actually like see when the water's running through it, how much is, how different the water looks. Um,

Diane: 57:10

and you're like,

Adina: 57:11

yeah, you have to replace it also. You can't just like leave the same bath filter on there forever. But I, that's what I use to filter the hose water for my home birth. Um, and when I put my kids in like a little waiting pool over the summer, I always filter the hose water in there too. But if your kids drink the bath water, please use a bath filter. Um, Also

Diane: 57:36

balls and it just goes over the tap. like, you don't have to do

Adina: 57:38

yeah. So easy. Yeah. And if you're a person who puts magnesium in your water, like you are agreeing that we absorb things through our skin, so you might wanna consider what you're absorbing through that tap water.

Diane: 57:54

Yeah, your air doctor will let you know if you have one of those. Um, so again, Burkey, great filter option. We'll, we'll put these in the show notes. Crystal Quests. I know one of my clients is testing out Jolie, which is another one that's popular. And from what I could tell, looking at it looked pretty good. So I love my Burque shower filter. This next one, still not on the filter front, but water. Another water related product is humidifiers. I, again, this is not sponsored, but I won't shut up about this. I love canopy humidifier. A humidifier that I keep on my nightstand because I've gone through over the last few years, like last five years, like three to five different humidifiers, and most of them out there are so annoying to clean.

Adina: 58:39

Mm-hmm.

Diane: 58:39

to clean them and like I don't get a toothbrush out. I would get vinegar out and get all the nooks and crannies. And if you don't clean it very well, then it can mold in bil new. It's just so annoying. And most of them are ugly and

Adina: 58:50

Yeah. Donny and I used to like fight over who had to clean the humidifier at night, you know?

Diane: 58:55

Yeah. And they, they have dumb lights on them too.

Adina: 59:00

Yeah, they're all really dumb. Um, but now we live at the B H n need. Like a dehumidifier.

Diane: 59:05

Yeah, a couple of those running. But you're by the beach, so you're like, all right. But the canopy I really like because it looks pretty, just the shape, the design of it is nice and it doesn't have a mist the way I, I would see on other humidifiers where it's like just blasting mist that you can visibly see. So finally, I really like that it's dishwasher safe. You can take most of the components and throw it in your dishwasher and. I find that I don't have to clean it as often. I don't know how they figure this out, but it just, I don't have to clean it as often and it doesn't mold or mildew. It never has a weird smell and it just looks nice. So I have not, I've used mine for two years. I have noticed a significant difference through the winter, like the cold months when the heat is blasting, the air outside's cold in my skin. Like when I wake up in the morning, my skin feels a lot healthier, a lot more hydrated. But also if you're someone who's dealing with congestion, sinus stuff, maybe even you're told that you snore or someone you share a bed or room with snores, something like the canopy humidifier can be awesome. And then they send you a replacement paper filter like every month or whatever frequency you decide. But I love, love mine

Adina: 1:00:23

Nice

Diane: 1:00:24

not sponsored and I don't have an affiliate link, but I absolutely love this product.

Adina: 1:00:29

canopy if you're listening

Diane: 1:00:30

Next up, I know that we are both heavy into these obsessed,

Adina: 1:00:36

heavy in the Yeti.

Diane: 1:00:37

yes. Heavy in the Yeti. and the Stanley Cups. The

Adina: 1:00:42

Yeah, I'm not about that Stanley Cup, but gimme as many Yetis as I can get my hands on.

Diane: 1:00:48

Yes. Yeah. My, I think I mentioned it here before, our dentist gives you a Yeti at your first appointment.

Adina: 1:00:55

I know when Donnie heard that, he was like, can I come to Michigan for an appointment?

Diane: 1:01:01

let me, Adam. I think that the swell bottle was trending a few years ago, and I like that too. That bowling pin fit, uh, bottle. Now I do have a yet, uh, Stanley and I do like it. TikTok made me buy it. I have a 40 ouncer because I can just sip on that thing all day. And if it's my cup holder,

Adina: 1:01:19

Here is my issue with the swell bottle. First of all, that squeaky noise of the cap like haunts me now. No. My issue with the spell the swell bottle that you just mentioned is that squeaky noise of the cap like haunts me now. And if you are a nursing mom or just a busy mom, You know that you need a water bottle that you can drink with one hand. You can't be using the other hand to have to take the top off. So yeah, I like the Yeti water bottles with the straw top. And yes, the straw is plastic. That's a compromise, and you just have to clean it regularly, but

Diane: 1:01:55

it.

Adina: 1:01:56

love that bottle. And I think that I didn't get in on the Stanley hype because I no longer live in the suburbs and need my water bottle to fit in the cup

Diane: 1:02:06

Mm. Mm-hmm. What about your stroller? Is there a

Adina: 1:02:10

it has enough. Yeah, or I put like, I hook the top of my Yeti bottle onto a carabiner on the handle of the stroller, so Yeah. But love Yeti cups. Yeti bottles, the like, uh, the ice coffee in a Yeti Cup on the beach. Just love it. just get yourself a cup that you enjoy drinking out of great investment. Great wellness, e investment. Get yourself a non-plastic cup that you enjoy drinking out of.

Diane: 1:02:37

Yes. Cause you wanna have hot plastic in the sun and on the beach again, there is a straw, for instance, in the, in the Yeti, not the Yeti, oh my god. The Stanley. But I often just take that out and then I use the little just sippy, little sippy hole.

Adina: 1:02:54

Yeah. A little sippy hole in the, um, like the coffee cup yets. I just put my own metal straws in there.

Diane: 1:03:00

I'm always scared to drink from and walk through those. But, That's just one of my, my, one

Adina: 1:03:06

You're a grownup, Diane. You can do it.

Diane: 1:03:08

Oh, what if I trip? Anyway, this next one is a service or a subscription that I love, love, love, love. And I think I've been a member for the past, oh my gosh, like four years at least. Now I should go check my account, but that is Thrive Market. Maybe you've heard of it. This is think like favorite, favorite brands that you might find at health food stores. Brands that you've also never heard of or maybe you just can't get your hands on locally. They now also have fresh options like frozen seafood and I think meat too. They have pet products, uh, more holistic, safer house cleaning, house cleaning, home products, body care products, personal products. Thrive Market. I wanna say it's$59 a year, but man, has it been worth it? I joined because at the time we didn't have, we didn't have a Whole Foods here. We didn't have Trader Joe's where I live, and so there were some brands like cte. I Wanteds, grain-free tortilla chips, and they had the best price. So I, it'll show you when you, um, get into Thrive, how much you are saving via Thrive, um, instead of buying some of these at your typical health food store, right? And so I saved a lot of money on pantry staples and they also have their own brand. So I like the Thrive brand, like grain-free pasta, or even spices that come in. Little pouches. I'll stock up on that via Thrive and just so many brands that I love, their customer service is great. I've done a collaboration or a partnership with them in the past and got to know some of their team and just love that they give memberships to families. I've had clients who contacted Thrive like, Hey, I need to cancel my membership. It's not my budget anymore. And they gave one of them a membership. They're just such an awesome company and I really love this service for people. Who don't have access to, uh, great brands or local health food stores or who need things delivered. So postpartum moms, uh, mom, clients that I work with absolutely love it too.

Adina: 1:05:09

I also really like if you are newer to buying like pantry products with better ingredients, I find it's very easy to search the website as opposed to walking through a supermarket because you can filter by certain things. So like, For example, kosher, like if you filter by kosher and paleo, like you can guarantee that you'll find you'll have an easier time finding pantry products with less sheet garba ingredients that are also kosher.

Diane: 1:05:38

make it real easy to browse that way, which is really nice. Um, I do have something, I'm pretty sure it still works. I'll double check for y'all so you can get$20 off in order, um, when you sign up with Thrive, but it also shows some of my favorites that I shop on there that I order over and over again, but really like Thrive Market and it's worth. Worth checking out.

Adina: 1:05:58

Yes, totally. Um, this next category is definitely can be an investment, but such an important one if you really want to care for your health and you are going to be cooking in your kitchen so you're not outsourcing your health with tons of takeout. And that is pots and pans. I think there's a lot of like wellness hype around certain pots and pans and we're gonna break down for you the ones that we really think are worth the investment. Um, stainless steel, you cannot go wrong with stainless steel. Some good old, all clad cinar. Those are the ones that we have in our kitchen. I have both, cuz since we have kosher, like we need a meat set and a dairy set. So I have all clad as my dairy set and cinar as my meat I think.

Diane: 1:06:48

Yeah, all clad is definitely an investment, but it will last you. A lifetime. I think about, about some of the pans, the non-stick I bought in college or or after college or just some that I found at like home goods and they've already been tossed out because they just didn't last. These will last forever. So all clad for stainless steel is wonderful. If you're thinking about something for like bras and longer cook time and um, just something that you need sturdier like a, a Dutch oven, that's another good staple to have. I love, like her say, or a stove, um, are both lovely for enamel cast iron, you can put'em in the oven. They come in so many different colors. Uh, I actually have seen some of those, or maybe lodge, it was an enamel cast iron and lodge pan. I regret not buying and it was at home. Good. So every now and then

Adina: 1:07:38

I was just gonna say, home Goods has really good budget friendly options for those brands. Usually lodge you'll see there sometimes Le Cru say and St. But. There's usually some good, good fines if you just dig around. In home goods. It also depends how much you care about your aesthetic. Cuz usually after like Halloween, there'll be like a pumpkin shaped one for really cheap.

Diane: 1:08:01

I have a bright green one that, I mean, my sweet mom, I told her at the time I wanted like white or something neutral and she was like, here's the slime green one. But it still looks brand new. It has, it will be around for a long time. And also I wanna back it up and say, say like, why is it important to worry or mind your cookware? Well, we've all probably had Teflon or like non-stick and thought, oh, it makes cooking really easy. Right? But over time, that gets scratched up. And what do you think is happening to that coating? Where does it go? In your food,

Adina: 1:08:35

Yeah. You

Diane: 1:08:36

in your food? We don't want that. And we are going to encounter heavy metals and metals of all kinds in our environment. And if we have a healthy fast metabolism, we're detoxify detoxing them. Um, but let's just minimize that load. So this is something that I encourage, especially in root cause, reset clients for them to do after, um, after their program is start to look at their environment and what you're using to cook your food on is a great place to start. Um, as far as non-stick goes, maybe you've heard of this one. The always pan by our place.

Adina: 1:09:09

Mm-hmm. We both have'em. Yeah. And they're great. But if you can really learn how to use like stainless steel as non-stick, that's gonna last a lifetime. Like the always pan, you're gonna have to replace every few years. So is it the best bang for your book? Not really. Is it really easy to use? Yeah. And also caraway. Is another option that's like ceramic non-stick. And some of these I'm like, how non-toxic are they really? They're definitely better than Te Teflon. But, um, my mom just got some caraway pans, so when we were by her last month, I cooked with them and it was a great experience. Again, I wonder how long they'll last, but

Diane: 1:09:49

I think of good, better, or best again. And I mean, it's what They're usually like one, I wanna say like one 20. And we use ours in our house as the egg pan. So this is not the pan for your sear, this is not your

Adina: 1:10:02

You're

Diane: 1:10:02

high cooking? No. No. Okay. Non, it's non-stick. So for us, for me, it's the soft scramble pan. Leino is saying you can learn how to use stainless steel for non-stick, but there's a learning curve there. So if you want something for low to medium heat and something that looks cute under your stove, I have the salmon colored always pan, it's my egg pan.

Adina: 1:10:23

Yeah. Also, it's a good fish pan. It's really easy to get like a crispy skin without it getting stuck.

Diane: 1:10:28

Yeah. Yeah. That's key. Oh, fish is, I'm, I, I keep cooking cod because I'm trying to get better at cooking fish, but yeah, it's a little hard. Mm-hmm. Beauty and skincare, Ooh, buried this in here, but we have some faves, so we both have loved Beauty counter for years, and they're still, they're still pretty solid. But What are some of your favorites that you're still loving from Beauty Counter?

Adina: 1:10:53

I am much more, I don't, it's not low maintenance than you with skincare

Diane: 1:10:58

No, you

Adina: 1:10:58

just like, I, I, am, yeah. I just care less, I care less about it. Yeah. And especially since we've moved to the beach, like my skin is just great. Like, I ha it hasn't been a concern for me at all. So like I'd have my routine and I stick to it and like, it's fine. The only time my skin really got temperamental was like in Jersey when it was so freaking dry. But my beauty counter loves are, I love the, um, that oil cleanser, the Countertime Oil cleanser. I really like the Countertime Day cream and I use that day and night here cause I don't need like a thickie thick, you know? Um, and then I'll throw in like the vitamin C serum

Diane: 1:11:49

the Albright

Adina: 1:11:49

or the peel. Yeah. Every so often. But that's it. Like I have four products

Diane: 1:11:55

and that Albright serum actually, um, can stand up against some of my favorite, like cult fave SkinCeuticals, um, CE Ferulic that I used per years when I worked back in Med Spa. Like it's a pretty, it's a nice formula that

Adina: 1:12:08

Yeah, it really is.

Diane: 1:12:10

Um, yeah, so that's a good, that's a good, lineup. I, I love skincare cuz for me it's a moving meditation, but I've. Struggle with skin stuff, like since I was a teenager, so did my dad. Um, I mean, I've been, I've shared my story here, like gone through it with gut healing stuff. But for me, like my inflammation, sirens and my skin, I'm also out of a HydraFacial now. So like I'll purge when I start using retinol or like dabbling with skincare treatments. So we're dealing with that. Um, but I, this might, this is an episode all on its own. I've kind of come away from the trend of like clean, I'm using air quotes, all clean beauty all the time because I think that it's used so much as a marketing thing

Adina: 1:12:55

Mm-hmm.

Diane: 1:12:57

falls into that greenwash, um, green washy category. But Beauty Counter does have good products. They perform well for me. I'm, I'm using a mixture of things from a med spa under the care of an esthetician and other stuff. But I'm not gonna go too into all that lineup. I do wanna talk about Gua. Stone. Someone asked about this. What do you think about Guha facial massage and I have been trying a stone out in massage in general. Um, from primarily, primarily pure. They have a little stone. They have oils. Yes. I love their deodorant. So that's definitely worth the hype because it, how did we forget about that Deodorant and like, um, natural deodorant. Y'all? I've tried like over the years, at least 20 different kinds. Most of them don't work, but I consistently come back to the primly pure charcoal deodorant or their, um, lemongrass

Adina: 1:13:52

The blue Tanzi. Is that

Diane: 1:13:53

I've tried all, I like that one too. Do you use the blue Tansy?

Adina: 1:13:57

I used to use the charcoal one, and that's still what I would use if I was putting on deodorant. I sometimes use the beauty counter one, but

Diane: 1:14:04

Mm-hmm.

Adina: 1:14:05

honestly I just like,

Diane: 1:14:06

for me.

Adina: 1:14:07

I just never wear deodorant.

Diane: 1:14:10

But

Adina: 1:14:10

I just don't, I don't sometimes postpartum a little bit, but like,

Diane: 1:14:15

Yeah.

Adina: 1:14:16

I don't know. I'm, I'm at the beach. I'm training, I'm showering, like,

Diane: 1:14:20

And as you work on, on your gut health and your minerals, your mineral balance, like up that copper and won't sta so much. Um, but anyway, like, I mean, there is, if you're used to conventional deodorants, it's maybe in a bit of an adjustment. You're still gonna sweat because it's not antiperspirant. But I find that the primary pure deodorant lasts longer, like the actual container and throughout the day, like through workouts and whatnot. But yeah, I'm loving the guha stone for facial massage and also, um, just like a light little lymphatic massage with my serum that I use, um, because I'm trying to get that lymph flowing and it just feels nice at the end of the night. So someone also similarly asked about dry brushing, which can be helpful. This again could be a whole other episode. I, when I got a lymphatic massage, she was, Telling me all about it in the ways that dry brushing can be helpful. First for exfoliating, which is nice and warming up your skin, getting that lymph moving. But she said a lot of people are doing it wrong. So, um, yeah, you don't wanna be moving. A lot of people will say circularly circular motions towards the heart, and she's like, why do we wanna move fluid there? You wanna move it to the, the main drains? Um, so dry brushing, I like it for exfoliating, especially through the winter, but otherwise I like to get things moving. Massage feels nice, and then sweating and moving my body other ways. Yeah.

Adina: 1:15:49

The party, the party across the street from me just like really kicked up the noise. So hopefully it's not too bad. Um, yeah, this last one we had to mention because very hype, quite expensive, but in our minds, extremely worth the investment. And that is avocado, mattress and pillows. And so key word pillows. Um, the scene for Barb, the part, the scene from Barb Star, when they go to that motel,

Diane: 1:16:22

Yeah. And they had to ask for towels.

Adina: 1:16:24

Yeah. It's like, do you want pillows? yeah. Yeah. I think we want pillows. Um, but if you are looking to make a swap, you spend so much time in your bed. And the thing about really toxic mattresses is that they get more toxic over time as things break down in them. So,

Diane: 1:16:51

the bed, we'll get a cut, get you a cover. Which avocado also has. We have their waterproof covers. Like just cause.

Adina: 1:16:58

yeah. Um, in general, a waterproof mattress cover is just a great idea to extend the life of the mattress.

Diane: 1:17:04

matches like a sponge.

Adina: 1:17:06

Yeah. And you're sweating if you're nurse a baby, like there's just fluids. All right. Anyways, um, avocado mattress. So comfy. I love a nice firm mattress. So comfy. The pillows are mm. Can't say enough good things about the P pillows. I did

Diane: 1:17:28

and solid. I like that they're solid and they keep their shape. Nothing's worse than like, you go to a hotel and then your head just sinks all the way down to the mattress

Adina: 1:17:37

It like plunges. Yeah, it's terrible. Um, I did have a bad experience with their customer service, but again, that is one man's

Diane: 1:17:47

and then tell them what happened though.

Adina: 1:17:49

yeah, I, I don't need to go into detail, but pretty much like we were ordering a bunch of avocado mattresses before we moved because we wanted to put them on our shipping container. And they had like guaranteed me that they were gonna get there in time. But then there was a whole issue with the shipping and they didn't actually ship out. It was like, whatever. It was so much drama.

Diane: 1:18:08

secondhand stressed as

Adina: 1:18:10

Yeah. I was back and forth on the phone with them. They were just not as responsive as I wanted them to be. They were not. They were not. gonna comp me what I needed to be comped for, how annoying the situation was. In the end, they screwed up so big that I ended up with an extra mattress because they didn't realize that they had like shipped out one that they didn't think they shipped out whatever.

Diane: 1:18:32

So you got a free mattress, an extra

Adina: 1:18:33

I got a free mattress and like two of the mattresses didn't get there in time for our shipping container. Luckily we knew someone that was sending a shipping container a few weeks after us, so like it worked out, but it wasn't a great experience. Even with that, I would still recommend this product a million percent because they're so comfy. They're standards are wonderful. Yeah, go for it. Save up. Shop a sale. Get yourself an avocado, mattress and pillow.

Diane: 1:19:04

a year, which does make a difference, honestly. And like, like you're saying, I love a a firm mattress and I think the one we have is firm, but then we added like a topper on top of it. So it's firm, but it also, you just feel so held. And so we both love avocado. This next one, I'm sure you've seen an Instagram ad for, they're two big companies. You'll see ad for Parachute and Brooklinen. I can't speak to Brooklinen. I think they're similar, but I am obsessed with parachute bedding specifically. They're linen bedding and they're per kale sheet sets. I used to think, eh, I'll just get something from Target and like, yeah, when that was like where. Like budget for sheets. Great, great. But when we budget invested for a parachute, it changed my sleep, changed my life. Like, we'll both wake up or get into bed at night and just exclaim, like, I fucking love my bed. It's the nicest

Adina: 1:19:54

also.

Diane: 1:19:54

the nicest sheets I've ever had. And they're all, it's like all organic, um, cotton organic bedding, echo techs certified, like all the badges you can go see on their site. And their colors are just beautiful. We ha we, we love'em. Rave about them makes a great gift. Parachute,

Adina: 1:20:11

Yeah. Besides for the fact that organic cotton is like so comfy, like really quality natural materials, it really does make a difference. Like, you spend so much time in your bed, it is while you are detoxing, like if you're gonna budget to make a swap somewhere, that's a really great place.

Diane: 1:20:30

Your bed.

Adina: 1:20:31

Yeah. It's just so comfy. Like, you just wanna get in your bed every night and be like, I am obsessed

Diane: 1:20:38

Yeah, that's how I feel. Like I really thought, oh, how could good? Can they be real good? Like try'em and tell me what you think. Especially if you try parachute. Oh my God. So yeah, lots of good stuff. Oh my gosh. We had so much to say about all of our favorite things. This was like a favorite wellness things episode. And I know that there were more, there are more things that we didn't get to. There were some that you asked about in our. Dms and in our question box, so maybe we'll actually try to rapid fire about those, especially if you're listening through and like waiting for us to mention something that you've heard buzz about on the internet. So what we're gonna call it here, we always try to, uh, round it out around the same time. So let us know if you've tried any of these and, um, maybe what else you're loving. But above all else, we're gonna have to repeat it again. Make sure that you are focused on the foundations first and foremost, before diving into shopping for fancy air filters or saunas or whatever it may be. Because what you are doing to nourish your body through food, through stress management and sleep and movement, that is what is going to move the needle for you the most.

Adina: 1:21:49

Ooh, I have two. We didn't mention.

Diane: 1:21:51

Oh, as I'm trying to round out this effing episode.

Adina: 1:21:56

Well, these are important. Two wellness things that are very much worth the hype and that would be RCR and S T H

Diane: 1:22:04

Oh, so sounds like those are places you can work on your foundations.

Adina: 1:22:09

exactly what I'm getting at. I think that all these things are fun, but if you actually want to change your health, change your life. The best wellness investments you can make is investing in yourself, investing in that beautiful body of yours, that vehicle that you spend your time on this earth in, and get your gut right, your nutrition tight, get strong, UNC unclench, your behold. Just all the

Diane: 1:22:38

Yeah.

Adina: 1:22:39

you can find all the information in the show notes for both of those programs and you will not regret it my friends.

Diane: 1:22:47

and we actually share like our favorite products, whether they're these or others, we haven't mentioned here, our favorite supplements and everything else, food brands and more inside of our programs with our clients. So if you like what we're putting down here for free 99, then you'll definitely like what you'll find in our signature programs. Change your Health, change your Life. Babies.

Adina: 1:23:12

And UNC unclench your bee hole. And get yourself a cozy mattress.

Diane: 1:23:16

just those things. All right, we like you. We love you.

Adina: 1:23:20

K Bye.