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Jody Teiche - Reverse Aging Naturally With The 3-Pillar Method
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What if aging doesn't have to mean decline? Jody Teiche spent three decades as a high-powered celebrity publicist for icons like John Mellencamp and Duran Duran before chronic burnout forced her to completely rethink her life. That transformation led her to develop the groundbreaking "Think and Grow Young" method that's helping people reclaim their youthfulness at any age.
In this eye-opening conversation, Jody breaks down her three-pillar approach to reversing aging. Starting with gut health (where all chronic inflammation begins), she offers practical strategies to repair your gut microbiome. She then explores how visualizing what you want with emotion literally creates new neural pathways and sends high-frequency energy that attracts positive outcomes. The discussion expands to immune system support through specific foods, supplements, and practices that increase nitric oxide. Jody also emphasizes the vital importance of community, especially as we age, sharing remarkable stories of transformation like "Angie," who went from anxiety and chronic health issues after losing her husband to rediscovering joy and capability within just six months.
Whether you're experiencing burnout, noticing signs of aging, or simply want to maximize your vitality, this conversation offers accessible, science-backed strategies to help you feel and function years younger than your chronological age. Ready to think and grow young? Grab Jody"s book on Amazon and discover your path to ageless living at TeicheWellness.com.
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Welcome back to Open-Minded Healing. My guest today, jodi Teich, has discovered that just because you continue to age does not mean decline is inevitable if you reverse aging at the root level, jodi spent 30 years as a top entertainment publicist for music icons like John Mellencamp, duran Duran and Iggy Pop, and it wasn't until she began to experience symptoms of chronic burnout that she started to address her health and completely revamp her life at age 67. Jodi's the author of the book called Think and Grow Young, which dives into how youthfulness can be reactivated. Just because you continue to age does not mean decline is inevitable. Welcome, jodi Hi Marla.
Marla Miller:Thank you so much for having me. I'm very glad to have you here and I'm sure there are a lot of listeners who would love to learn how to age backwards. But we'll get into that and we'll get into your method for sure. But I want to go back in time to when you had what seems and you can tell me if this is true it seems like you had a pretty good career going when you were working as a entertainment publicist. So what did that look like? And what did chronic burnout look like? What symptoms began to show up for you?
Jody Teiche:Sure. So I did have a really great career. It was a 30-year career. It was in one of the fastest moving, highest bar cities in the world New York City and as a celebrity publicist. It's all about what have you done for me this moment, not what have you done for me today, and when you have a roster of clients and it's your shop I had people working with me and my company still, your feet really never touched the ground. You are constantly running and whether it was events, red carpet events or interview days or meetings, or acting as you do, when you run a company where other people are working with you acting as a mentor, a therapist, a mom Every hat that you can possibly wear when you're spending this much time with people and they have their own issues and lives and this stuff comes up. It's a lot of output.
Marla Miller:So how many clients would you be working with at a time?
Jody Teiche:We could have 10 clients at a time. It was a small shop, it wasn't a shop that had like 30 publicists, there were maybe seven of us. So we could have 10 clients at a time, maybe a little bit more, and then clients, would you know, their period of time working with us would end and either they would renew or it would not be necessary and we'd get more clients. That was the other piece constantly having to replenish clients, getting new business. So it was a lot. And I started my business after only five years working in the business. So it was a very early time to do that. It was just circumstances and me, the kind of person that I am. So I did have to learn a lot on the go. So, yeah, I burnt out. I burnt out many times and ignored it.
Marla Miller:What did your I guess your lifestyle look like at the time? As far as you know, are you drinking tons of coffee. How were you taking care of your body at that time?
Jody Teiche:I always ate pretty well. I came from a home where my mom was an early adopter of the health food store when it first started back in the 70s, and so when I was at camp as a kid I would get the care package box from home and mine wouldn't be filled with sugar daddies and sweet tarts, it would be filled with Barbara's seed cookies and those kinds of fun things. But I developed a taste for, you know, healthy food. So I was eating pretty well. Was I eating perfectly? No, but I was eating pretty well.
Jody Teiche:I was never really a junk food eater and I wasn't really a coffee drinker much at all. So it wasn't so much my nutrition although I'm sure I could have used tweaks it was rest. It was adrenal burnout burnout. So there were periods of time where I was meditating every morning and I handled things better then. But there were also periods of time when I wasn't doing things like that and there was a lot of stress because I also was a single mom and I had a young daughter and so there was a lot of pressure there. Adrenal burnout for me was I almost always felt like I was coming down with something. I felt tired and virusy. You know how, when your limbs and your body feels virusy, I felt that a lot Depression, some anxiety, and I would get sick. I would get sick, whether it was a cold, which I got sort of regularly, or the flu, or whatever it was. This was way, way pre-COVID. I retired from my PR business in 2009. So it's a long time ago already, but, yes, I always felt under the weather.
Marla Miller:So what was the catalyst for you saying this job has got to change, I've got to do something different? I mean, you were getting sick, but what really pushed you to make a drastic change?
Jody Teiche:through school and then moving back to New York after college and landing a job at a PR firm. But it was a good business that put a roof over our heads and food on the table and allowed us to have a nice life for me and my daughter. So really I wanted to get out. For years I knew it was not good for me and it wasn't a passion. So the combination you know absolutely took a toll, because we know how connected everything is body, mind and spirit. Right, it was really my second marriage where my husband, after a few years together, eventually landed a big job and said you know something, honey, if you don't want to do this anymore, you can stop. And I was like, yes, and I did.
Jody Teiche:I planned my retirement and in the summer of 09, I had a huge party. Stanley and I had just bought a beautiful apartment in Chelsea in New York and we were going to gut it and so before we did that, I invited all the employees that I had from 1984 to 2009 that I could find on Facebook and a lot of them came and clients that I had become friends with and I asked them to bring mementos of working with JLM. So they brought step-in repeats that went on the wall that was going to be repainted. We had markers that they wrote on the walls like their memories, and we had a beautiful party for my retirement. It was an amazing experience. And then I just took a big sigh of relief, got a puppy and just kind of did nothing. But that didn't last very long because I am a true typical type A New Yorker.
Marla Miller:Yeah, yes. Well, that must have given you the time and the space to sit with your thoughts for a minute and really tune in more to what you actually wanted. You know your job as a entertainment publicist may sound very exciting to people, but it does not mean that that's for everyone and that that's your inner purpose or what really resonates with you.
Jody Teiche:Absolutely, and it was exciting. I mean, I worked on projects that were once-in-a-lifetime projects. When the wall came down in Berlin in 1989, in the summer of 90, I don't know if you remember this, because it was a long time ago, but Roger Waters, one of the founders of Pink Floyd this because it was a long time ago, but Roger Waters, one of the founders of Pink Floyd, had a huge concert on what's called the Potsdamer Platz, which is the no man's land between East and West Berlin that nobody had touched since 1945. And after several months before then, people going down like workers, excavators, going down into the bunkers, finding Nazi artwork and other artifacts and mementos. We were there when this happened, preparing for this concert. In July of 1990, we had 350,000 people on the Potsdamer Platz and Roger had a celebrity band Cindy Lauper, Brian Adams all of these famous people were part of his celebrity band and he recreated the wall with the puppets and everything the wall concert.
Jody Teiche:That's incredible, and that was my project for all of North America. Wow. So it was huge. So, yes, it was exciting. Yes, there were incredible projects and moments and it wasn't my passion to be doing this day in, day out, because day in and day out were not necessarily those high points. It was more of a grind of being a service to my clients. So, yeah, it is and can be exciting and no, it's not for everybody.
Marla Miller:Yeah well, it just shows how important it is to tune into your own inner, knowing what resonates with you. So when you took this break, how were you discovering this next sort of life you wanted to build? Were you meditating a lot, or it was just kind of enjoying yourself and something popped up?
Jody Teiche:The combination of a few things, marla. Yes, I was meditating more regularly. I was also taking Sophie, our puppy, all over the city. We would walk all over, we would go to galleries, we would go shopping, we would go out to lunch. It was something that I never had the luxury to do my whole adult life, and so I was reveling in that for a while and I was talking with Stanley and thinking about what next, and what next wasn't health immediately. Health was always on my radar. Health was always something that friends would ask me about and I was always on the natural tip of things. When my daughter was four, three, I discovered homeopathy, and when she was four, it totally turned my life around because of what I was able to cure with Morgan, with homeopathy. But I was thinking about what to do, and really the next step for me, it turned out, was fashion, which is another passion of mine. So that was sort of a bridge between what I was doing and then what I ended up doing.
Marla Miller:So how did you end up getting into the health world and wellness for people?
Jody Teiche:Yeah. So there came a time when I was getting more and more involved in animal rescue. I was living in Florida South Florida at the time, fort Lauderdale and I was getting more and more involved in homeopathy because homeopathy had been the only thing to cure me of a year-long intestinal issue that I had. I tried all these things and it was reminding myself about homeopathy. I'd fallen off the wagon for a little while. That cured me. So I was recommitted there and I was learning more and more and more about nutrition.
Jody Teiche:I had had my Sophie on a raw diet ever since she was a puppy and I was always a voracious reader, researcher and learner of natural health. So I decided it really started in the pet space. I decided to create a course for pet parents that I was going to give live on what good nutrition looks like and why, and the basics of homeopathy for acute conditions that you can do at home. And I did that and I gave it live a couple of times and I got a great response from the pet parents who took my course and that morphed into me deciding, because I had spent decades at this point with friends asking me what should I do about this? What should I do about that with their health? That I really wanted to be able to serve people too.
Jody Teiche:So I went back to school and I got certified as a health coach through an amazing program out of New York City called IIN Institute for Integrative Nutrition it's the oldest and one of the most respected in its lane. And then I got certified to another national organization in human health coaching and I started coaching people and pets, and that is what has grown over the years, and eventually I honed into my Think and Grow Young method, because as I was aging and I was aging well, knock on wood, part of it my mom never looked her age part of it all the tools that I had amassed over the years to help my body tap into reversing aging. I wanted to share that, and that led me to my Think and Grow Young method, which is what I teach in my coaching, I speak about and I wrote my book about.
Marla Miller:That's what I want to get into. For sure is you have something called a three pillar method, so do you want to dive into that? What are those three pillars?
Jody Teiche:So, do you want to dive into that? What are those three pillars? Yes, absolutely so. It's a very holistic approach.
Jody Teiche:Pillar one as you and I have had this conversation previously too, marla begins in the gut. All good and poor health starts in the gut microbiome, and everybody has leaky gut, and I know that's a very broad, blanket statement. It's true, it's all a matter of degrees, but everyone has leaky gut, and I know that's a very broad, blanket statement. It's true, it's all a matter of degrees, but everyone has leaky gut staying in the gut microbiome system but are leaking through these junctions that are opened into the bloodstream, causing chronic inflammation, and we all know chronic inflammation equals disease. It's the root of all of it. So learning key tools that you can do yourself to start balancing your gut microbiome and creating a healthier gut microbiome is pillar one, and I go through all of that the kinds of things that the gut loves when you eat and do, as well as and there's plenty of science behind everything that I talk about in the book certain recipes and things like that that focus on how to shore up your gut microbiome. Pillar two is we become what we think about all day mind mastery. This is something that I studied with the late great Bob Proctor, who is one of the early human potential mentors, gurus, and has helped millions and millions and millions of people around the world learn to retrain their minds. I learned how to do that, and that is what I share in this book, but I also share specific tools and exercises that I learned elsewhere in my research experiences and discoveries. And at the core of all of it is living your most vibrant, most authentic, most wonderful life. And then pillar number three and they are all connected is supercharging your immune system, because 80% of it resides in the gut, and with dysbiosis or an imbalanced gut microbiome, your immune system is taking a hit chronically, and so there are things that you can do to shore it up as well as promote a healthy immune response. And so, without diving too deep into it, where it's going to be hard for the lay person to understand, I talk about certain tools, some recipes and ways to help support your immune system, certain supplements, things like that.
Jody Teiche:Then there's a bonus pillar, pillar four, which is community the importance of community, especially as we get older, but not only why it's so important, the science behind it and how to find yours, some tips to find yours. And you know it's interesting, marla, because just the other day and I might've mentioned this to you when we talked previously I was watching a segment on Meet the Press on TV and it was the former Surgeon General, dr Vivek Murthy, and he was talking about the epidemic of loneliness in this country. He was focusing on preteens and teens, but it really applies to everyone, and one of the things that he said is an antidote is community. That very word is an antidote is community, that very word. So it is so important to have that support around you where you feel you're part of something bigger and you share some common interests and you can connect. Connection is key. So that's sort of a synopsis of the book and what it covers.
Marla Miller:Yeah, when I think of health, I think of those things as well. You know the gut, the breathing exercise called the 478 that I learned through Dr Andrew.
Jody Teiche:Weil, that I love and I do myself every morning and I teach my clients and they use in their lives. You can do it any time of the day, it is very easy and I teach I have in the book and I also teach my clients Creating my Perfect Day, which is an exercise I do every morning, and meditation.
Marla Miller:Yeah, meditation is always at the top of my list.
Jody Teiche:Yeah, it's a great one.
Marla Miller:Yeah, there's so much good that comes of that Physically, emotionally, mentally manifesting. I mean it really is a powerful thing to incorporate In your book. I'm sure there's a lot of details and very interesting to read through all of that to learn what you've learned over all these years, starting with even when you were young and your mom was teaching you those things. It's funny that you brought up the health food store because I was thinking a health food store back then. But I do remember when I was in high school there was I think it was even called health food store. Like I remember it was full of supplements. It seemed like mainly Not like a grocery store type of thing.
Jody Teiche:Well, there were early food adopters to the health food movement, and Barbara's. She's still around today. Barbara's was one, and she would have these seed cookies. Yeah, the seeds were held together with, like honey, I think.
Jody Teiche:So it was sweet, so it was something that a kid might like, but it still was getting some good things in there and she would have these great cereals and all sorts of other things. So yeah, the health food stores that my mom shopped in, and there weren't a whole lot of them, yeah, and I actually want to share a funny story in a second but they would have some food. They would have some food on the shelves. I don't know about fresh, I don't remember, but yes.
Marla Miller:Yeah Well, that's great she was into that so early. Yeah Well, do you great she was into that so early. Yeah Well, do you want to share your funny story? And then I want to get back.
Jody Teiche:Actually I would love to. So the foreword in my book was written by Dr Marty Goldstein, and Marty Goldstein is one of the foremost integrative veterinarians in the world. He's had a documentary film made about him from an award winning filmmaker, cindy Meehl, and it's on Netflix. And he begins the foreword by saying you might wonder why a veterinarian is writing the foreword of Jody's book, but his health journey began when he was trying to cure himself from a debilitating illness that conventional medicine couldn't solve, and so he.
Jody Teiche:This was back in the 1970s. He did a deep dive down the holistic nutrition supplements rabbit holes and he came up with what he needed to be eating and tried supplements that he thought might work. And the only health food store in any realm closest to him was 25 miles away at that time and he would drive and he would take supplements that he thought looked interesting, try them. And if it worked for him, he thought, well, why can't this type of thinking work for our companion animals? And that started his practice, which became world famous.
Jody Teiche:People literally would come from around the world when their conventional vets couldn't cure their dogs or cats, and come to Marty, and Marty didn't cure them every time. Cats and come to Marty, and Marty didn't cure them every time, but he cured them enough at the time and he would cut down dosing from the human supplements that worked for him to fit companion animals and they would work on the companion animals. So this was something that he discovered way back when, and the health food store bridge is it wasn't much out there back then. So, yeah, I give kudos to my mom too for being like early on the bandwagon of something like a health food store back in the 70s.
Marla Miller:Yeah, yeah, to go against what most people know. Yeah, I'm sure she probably bucked up against some people being so progressive, you know, being one of the first yeah. Well so, going back to those pillars, like I said, I'm sure your book describes in detail each pillar and what you can do, but is there anything you can share just offhand, like a couple examples for each of those pillars, like the gut health? What are you?
Jody Teiche:doing to help the gut? Absolutely so. Gut health is a very bio-individual thing. So I would urge your listeners to get data and, quite honestly and I don't have I have a relationship with them, but I don't get anything for this I discovered not too long ago a relatively new stool test called BiomeFX that not only tells you what's in there in terms of strains of bacteria, pathogens, you know, proteobacteria, et cetera, which the GI maps and all those other tests that have been around a long time tell you, but it tells you what they're doing, what they're doing in there, and those other tests don't do that. So I have gotten incredible data from my clients through this test. So I encourage people get data because then you see exactly where you need to fix things.
Jody Teiche:However, what I would say is that the gut loves three things that I suggest in the book. One is fermented foods, probiotic rich, and if you happen to have a gut that is missing some major keystone or the key friendly bacteria major keystone or the key friendly bacteria Well, having something fermented every day whether it's kefir, better than yogurt, has more strains, or sauerkraut, or kimchi, or truly fermented pickles whatever it is fermented vegetables well then, maybe you're putting back probiotic strains needed in your gut. But regardless, the gut likes fermented food. So that's one. Two is soluble fiber. The gut likes soluble fiber.
Jody Teiche:So, whether it's inulin, apples, sweet potato, you can Google healthy soluble fiber foods. They'll give you a laundry list and just pick what you like and have something at least once a day of soluble fiber. And then the third is intermittent fasting. So if you can manage to create 16 to 18 hours between your last meal of the day and your first meal of the following day, that seems to be the sweet spot. And why that is is it seems to be the window where autophagy is set off in your body, and what autophagy is is your body is repairing misshapen cells that are not performing up to speed that it can repair and delegating for apoptosis or cell death the ones that cannot be repaired, which is really important. You don't want soldiers in there that aren't doing their job right or, you know, freeloaders that are contributing to poor health. So those three things fermented food every day, soluble fiber every day and intermittent fasting at least three times a week if you can't do it every day are three good tips.
Marla Miller:Yeah, and I do want to add something about the intermittent fasting, because there are so many benefits to it and I've looked at the research and everything on that. But there are some people that are saying, well, I don't think it's good, because people drink tons of coffee then or they're still eating stuff that's bad for them. They just think that within this window of time, I can eat it, and that's not what it's about.
Marla Miller:Eat the healthy stuff. If you drink tons of soda during that time frame, you're not going to experience the benefits of intermittent fasting so yeah, you know what I call it, Marla.
Jody Teiche:I call it pushing a boulder up a hill. Yeah, yeah, If you're eating garbage and you're trying to do something healthy, you're pushing a boulder up a hill. So, yes, and it's very important, what you rake fast with, Make sure it's something nutrient rich. I'll tell you another tip for your listeners. An amazing thing for your gut microbiome to have first thing in the morning is a tall glass of filtered water. Squeeze half or a whole organic lemon into it and then have a heaping tablespoon of organic chia seeds. Put that in there, mix it up, let it sit on the counter for at least 10 minutes, so those chia soak up all the water and get full and then mix it up again real good and then drink it right down. And what that does is, first of all, chia's have their mineral rich. They've got beautiful minerals in them and what they act as as they get through your digestive system into your colon is like a gentle but powerful whisk broom. So it gets in the nooks and crannies and it cleans out your colon. So that's a beautiful way to break your fast and then go into what you go into.
Jody Teiche:Coffee is not a bad thing. Make sure it's organic, Make sure it doesn't have metals and other nasty things in it and don't put stuff in it syrups and other things that are going to take away the health benefits. But there's been a lot of health benefits found with coffee and it's interesting because I was just listening to Dave Asprey, who is the father of biohacking. He created the term 13 years ago and he's at the forefront of living forever him and Brian Johnson. So he has a coffee called Danger Coffee. That sounds really interesting and I actually have a client who uses it. That's what I drink. You drink Danger. Yeah, Tell me what you like about that.
Marla Miller:Well, I went to the biohacking conference that he created, yeah, and that's when I started drinking it. But the reason why is because they say it's tested for mold, because that's an issue with a lot of coffees is mold, and they add minerals to it, which I like that, because a lot of times it depletes you of your minerals when you're drinking a lot of coffee. Yeah, yeah, it's not that the coffee is bad, it's more, and I heard this from a I won't say the name, but it's a popular person out there who's written books and everything. But he was down on the intermittent fasting because he said people just drink tons of coffee and which, like I said, that's not the idea behind it. So I didn't agree with what. I don't agree with what he was saying against intermittent fasting, but the thing with the coffee, too, is when someone's drinking so much of it, then they're getting so dehydrated. Yes, as well as if you're drinking a coffee that has mold or chemicals like you spoke of Exactly.
Jody Teiche:Just things to consider. I absolutely agree with you.
Marla Miller:Yes, so those are really great ways people can help their gut just right off the bat that you mentioned, so I like that. So what about now? The second pillar of mindset? Yeah, what are some specific?
Jody Teiche:things people could do offhand. This is very powerful because how you think about yourself, your health, the world around you impacts your health, impacts your life, impacts everything. So learning how to master your mind changes everything and the crux of it is, and what we become, what we think about all day is really what's at the root of that is learning how to visualize exactly what you want. But there are three pieces Visualize exactly what you want as if. Number two is as if it's already happening in your life. It's already here. And number three is put emotion behind it, how you'd feel if it was here, happening in your life. And those three together are powerful. Why? There are two reasons, two really foundational reasons.
Jody Teiche:Number one is biological, because the vagus nerve goes from your gut to your brain. It's the longest nerve in the body. It is the master, like mission control of your parasympathetic nervous system, your rest, restore, repair nervous system. Most people are in their sympathetic most of the time, which is the fight or flight. So we need to be more in our parasympathetic.
Jody Teiche:And when you think positive, empowering, exciting, happy thoughts, you are stimulating the production of more serotonin, dopamine if you're with others, oxytocin you are creating and you're lowering your cortisol levels and spikes, which is the source of chronic inflammation. So, biologically, you are creating an environment where your happy hormones are being produced, which has a cascading effect on everything else, lowers inflammation right, helps your gut microbiome, your immune system, everything that's a biological piece. The quantum physics piece is we're all made up of energy. Every cell in our body vibrates at its own frequency, vibrates at its own frequency. Love is the highest frequency.
Jody Teiche:When you're thinking happy thoughts, visualizing something happening that you really want in your life, as if it's already here, and putting that emotion behind it. You are sending energy out into the world. And there is a basic premise, a law of the universe called like attracts like, and what that means is what you're sending out comes back to you. So sometimes, you know, molly, you see people who think nothing ever goes right for me, I'm not good enough, I can't do this, whatever, and what happens in their lives kind of corroborates their thoughts about themselves, it validates it and it becomes a vicious cycle. Well, if you flip that script, the same thing can happen If you teach your mind to create these new neural pathways. That's another biological piece. Repetition, constant spaced repetition, literally creates new neural pathways, new ways of thinking, if you're consistent, if you do that, you create biological benefits. You create benefits coming back into your life on an energetic level and it changes everything.
Marla Miller:Yeah, yeah, and you can learn more about exactly what you're talking about through Dr Joe Dispenza's work, or he has so many books on that, as well as a new documentary called the Source. But, yeah, it explains exactly.
Jody Teiche:Well, who did Dr Joe Dispenza learn from? He learned from people like Bob Proctor. Who did Bob Proctor learn from? He learned from people like Napoleon Hill and people like Neville Goddard and people like Wallace D Waddles. This message of we become what we think about all day, manifesting through visualization with emotion, as if it's already here, has been around for a very long time. It's just each one of these people put their own spin on it.
Marla Miller:Yeah, exactly yeah, so different people can hear it in different ways. Yeah, so the third pillar. What are some ways to address the immune?
Jody Teiche:system, absolutely. There are certain foods recipes that have ginger and garlic and turmeric that are great for your immune system. Quercetin great for your immune system, your immune system. Quercetin great for your immune system. Having foundational supplements that we're all deficient in, like magnesium, like D3K2, like omega-3s these help your body fill holes that it needs to fill. That helps your immune system be stronger, not relying on things like antibiotics, but looking for other ways to handle viral or bacterial infections when you can. So, oregano oil, olive leaf extract, silver you can develop a toolkit and you can see a lot of this, learn a lot of this in my book. That is going to help you.
Jody Teiche:Carbon 60 is a beautiful supplement that a lot of people don't know about. That is one of the strongest antioxidants we know on the planet. Inside our bodies, glutathione is the strongest antioxidant Outside of our bodies, c60 is Nitric oxide activation in the body, very powerful to get more oxygen to your cells to repair and heal and boost your immune system. There's lots of things that most don't know that can benefit health and shore up and supercharge that immune system and, like I said, it's all connected. How you think is going to supercharge or deplete your immune system, the shape of your gut. Microbiome is going to supercharge or deplete your immune system, so it's really very holistic.
Marla Miller:Yeah, it all comes together. All three of those for sure need to be addressed. Yeah, and then the last one community. What would you suggest to people? To? You know, there are a lot of people that may not have community around them or may live far away from their families or, you know, don't have a big friend circle, Like what would you suggest for them.
Jody Teiche:It takes, for certain people, some courage and it takes consistency, but we have plenty of platforms to find your people. So let's say you're someone who loves nature and you live in an environment where there are walks, trails, et cetera. You might Google for your area groups that go on nature walks or do something in nature that resonates for you, or go on meetup and find groups in your area that do this Same for any interest that you might have. Look inside first, at what lights you up, and when you identify what lights you up and you know it might be covered over from years of sort of suppressing it because you just had to especially women, we had to take care of others Find what lights you up. This is your time. Find what lights you up and then go from there and find your community Online. If you can't find it in your area, you know that's the next best thing, and then that begets friendships, right, and that is a huge source of oxytocin.
Marla Miller:And we all want that Lots of oxytocin.
Jody Teiche:Yes, yes, so it takes some work, both internal and then finding your people, but it's very, very possible, and I have a couple of stories in the book about people that did that and a lot of suggestions.
Marla Miller:Yeah Well, can you tell people so how can people work with you? And then, you can get into the book and where they can find that.
Jody Teiche:Absolutely. The book is on Amazon and the full title is Think and Grow Young the Life-Changing Program to Reverse Aging, live Vibrantly and Reclaim your Youth, and it's a bright yellow, lemon yellow cover with bright blue letters, so you can't miss it when you search for it on Amazon. And if you do buy it, it comes obviously in an ebook slash, kindle, as well as in a paperback. If you do buy it and you like it, please review, because it helps tremendously with Amazon showing it to more people searching In terms of working with me, my website is Taish Wellness and I don't know if you have show notes underneath your podcast. Yes, yeah, but maybe you can have that there, a link there, and I'll give you the Amazon link for my book as well. And I also have two free guides that I'm happy to give your listeners that I'm happy to give your listeners. One is my manifesto 10, which is from the book, and it's 10 ways to feel 10 years younger Awesome.
Marla Miller:And the other one is the circle of life, and that gives you a guide to look at every area of your life and see where you're full and then where you need to do some work. That's great. Well, and I want to say Teich is spelled T-E-I-C-H-E, the Teich Wellness.
Jody Teiche:Yes, thank you, marla.
Marla Miller:Well, this has been such an interesting and fun conversation, and is there any last story you want to leave off with like a fun memory from past days? Like your Berlin Wall story was fascinating.
Jody Teiche:Yeah, I have lots of inspiring stories of people I've worked with and what they've been able to do. So one woman I call her Angie in my book to protect her privacy she came to me a year after she lost her husband. Suddenly she was in her late 60s and her whole world fell apart. She couldn't sleep, she had a lot of anxiety Shortly after losing him, she had some accidents. She fell on her face, she injured herself, she had chronic UTIs, she had lots of problems in and out of the emergency room and hospital and she was just really struggling.
Jody Teiche:So when she came to me, I knew there were certain things we needed to do.
Jody Teiche:We needed to really do all of the pillars right, because she was learning a new way to live without her husband.
Jody Teiche:So there were just a couple of foundational pieces that I started her on, and one in particular, which was a multivitamin that I had really grown to love because I work part-time here in Austin at a wellness center, and it's something that I learned about there and just saw incredible results with people who would come in and that in a week and a half made a difference. And then we put a couple of other pieces in place and did mind work together, taught Angie how to retrain her mind, taught her tools breathing, writing. Gave her outlets to help her express what was going on out of the head and onto the page. That is really helpful as well as retraining the mind and those new neural pathways. And then, you know, helped her shift her diet from things that were not healthy for her gut microbiome to things that were. But instead of removing things, we did what I call because I learned it from IIN, where I got my education crowding out. It's not deprivational it's replacing.
Jody Teiche:So we crowded out certain things that were not good for her for things that were, and after six months of working together, she is and it happened before this but a completely new person. She went to on her own. She went to an auxiliary club that she and her husband used to go to regularly on her own. For dinner, for a Halloween party, she made her own costume. She joined an exercise class at the Y. She joined a stained glass class because she thought it might be fun to express herself. She was out in the garden fixing the tractor, the lawnmower, the lawnmower, and going into his tool shed and finding things he like almost guided her to the drawers where things were. She was living again and finding more capabilities that she didn't know she had. So this is powerful work and it's exciting work and it's really rewarding work. So, yes, that is one of my favorite stories.
Marla Miller:What was the multivitamin? You said?
Jody Teiche:Yeah, it's by a company called Mother Earth Labs and it's called pH Balancer and it comes in liquid or it comes in tablets and what makes it amazing is it has a very broad spectrum of organic, of organic beautiful vitamins and minerals. But it also has a digestive group of ingredients added in the formulation an enzymatic, an antioxidant, so those berries, greens, so the chlorophylls and the things that are great for detoxing and great for alkalizing. But the thing that makes it different from another one they have called Comprehensive Core, which is the same formulation, but pH balancer also has adaptogens. So for people that are anxious, depressed, have a lot of stress in their lives, those adaptogens rhodiola and ashwagandha and all these other things that they have in that piece of the formulation I have seen really make a difference and it really did for her.
Marla Miller:That's great. Well, thank you for that story and thank you for sharing your wisdom and everything that you have learned to keep yourself looking and feeling so young. You look awesome, thank you. You look very vibrant, so it must be working, your method here.
Jody Teiche:I feel really blessed that at turning 70 in a couple of months, I don't feel anywhere near that.
Marla Miller:That's really fantastic and what we all want. We want to feel vibrant throughout our lives, so thank you for showing us the way and sharing the book out there. Thank, you.
Jody Teiche:Thank you so much, Marla. Thanks for having me on.