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Episode: #179 Take Away's from Our Longevity Expo
Celebrating a milestone with a homemade gluten-free, dairy-free, and egg-free cake, we take a moment to reflect on how personal experiences shape our journey toward a more holistic approach to health. Join us as we share insights on empowering yourself to address the root of health issues rather than just symptoms. We recount a memorable event where Dr. Carolyn Sederquist delivered enlightening perspectives on everyday toxins, underscoring the importance of staying informed and proactive in the battle against corporate medical systems.
Shocked by the latest updates to the Dirty Dozen and Clean 15 lists for 2024, we discuss the unexpected inclusion of beloved foods like strawberries and spinach due to pesticide concerns. Discover our tips for navigating these changes, including the benefits of opting for organic produce, despite the price differences. We also offer a flavorful alternative to your usual rotisserie chicken with organic whole chickens from Wild Fork, which we found to be a delightful game changer. Tune in to arm yourself with knowledge and strategies to make better choices for your health and wellness journey.
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This is the Berman Method podcast, featuring Dr Jake Berman and physician assistant Jenny Berman. We are here to treat problems and not symptoms. Disclaimer this podcast is for entertainment purposes only and not to treat anyone or to give medical advice. If you are interested in any information that we are giving and would like to use this for yourself, we recommend that you contact your primary care physician or reach out to us and ask us questions about yourself specifically. Enjoy.
Speaker 2:Here we are with the Berman Method podcast, focused on treating problems and not symptoms. David going against Goliath, with Goliath being the corporate medical system, western medicine, pharmaceutical companies, insurance companies. We do not believe they have your best interests in mind. They're businesses. They will choose profits over patient outcomes every single time and you have to take your own health into your own hands. You've got to do your own research. You've got to continue to own research. You've got to continue to ask questions, ask questions until it makes sense. Dr Jake Berman, here with my beautiful co -host.
Speaker 1:Jenny Berman, physician assistant.
Speaker 2:And our ride or die. Partner Walker Ryan drinking some delicious milk at the moment.
Speaker 1:Yes, right here, yes, Right here.
Speaker 2:Are you going to cooperate for us today?
Speaker 1:We think so he's growing so fast. He's almost three months old. Yep, and we have a two-year-old now.
Speaker 2:We have a two-year-old now.
Speaker 1:We had a birthday party, not a birthday party. We did not have a birthday party, we had a birthday celebration for our two-year-old.
Speaker 2:Some delicious cake.
Speaker 1:I did make gluten-free, dairy-free, egg-free cake, so essentially gluten-free and vegan cake With protein, and it had protein in it and it was delicious.
Speaker 2:So it was almost unhealthy to not eat it.
Speaker 1:That's what you made yourself think when you were eating several pieces of it.
Speaker 2:At least a quarter of it. A quarter of the cake went straight to my biceps. Yeah, because of the protein.
Speaker 1:Your personal trainer agrees.
Speaker 2:Yes, if you're listening.
Speaker 1:I really did make it with protein, though. Instead of using any milk or butter or eggs, I used a Koya vanilla protein drink. So I use Simple Mills, which is a gluten-free cupcake mix and it's actually a relatively low carb cupcake mix, honestly and added the Koya protein shake, so it really wasn't that bad. The icing meh, maybe not so healthy.
Speaker 2:It was. I think it's my favorite cake you've ever made ever.
Speaker 1:I feel like you say that a lot.
Speaker 2:That means you're getting better every single time.
Speaker 1:Or you just really like cake.
Speaker 2:I do really like cake.
Speaker 1:Vanilla cake with chocolate frosting I do really like cake, vanilla cake with chocolate frosting.
Speaker 2:Yeah yeah, yellow cake with chocolate frosting, not vanilla, not vanilla. Yeah, yellow cake with chocolate frosting.
Speaker 1:Well, this was vanilla.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it was delicious.
Speaker 1:So there you go, you can modify cake to make it a healthier option. It's not that it's really necessarily healthy, but it was a healthier option.
Speaker 2:Yeah, less bad.
Speaker 1:So let's move on.
Speaker 2:Moving on from cake we are going to bring our. We've had time to process and reflect on our big event that we hosted February 15th, so the day after Valentine's Day, we had a big event, exclusive event, primarily for our clients and their friends, and we limited it to 50 seats because the first 25 blew out, I mean sold out almost instantaneously. So we're like, okay, maybe we'll double it and still be able to maintain the intimacy and the quality, and we did. And we had the event and Dr Carolyn Sederquist was our headliner, our keynote speaker, and she brought up some really amazing things. And, jenny, you've been working with Dr Sederquist in a mentorship relationship for five years now.
Speaker 1:No more than that 2017,. I think I started with her, so eight years.
Speaker 2:I was referring more to, since you've opened your own business.
Speaker 1:Oh okay, yes, yeah, for five years yeah.
Speaker 2:You started working with her back in 2017. So, that's where the relationship started. Since you've opened up your own business, you guys are still tight and you consult with her all the time, and when she was up there presenting, she brought up some very interesting things that Even after all this time, I still didn't know that.
Speaker 1:Right, right. And I kept saying on Saturday, on February 15th, at the event when we were talking, how she's just so smart. Dr Sederquist is so smart and just a great speaker, really eloquent. But you know, again, just to your point, she always is researching and always bringing up things that we still don't know.
Speaker 2:It never ends. It never ends and that's one of the things that she's brought up multiple times. When we go and have dinner with her and her husband and her family when they're in town is one of the things that she misses the most is being in practice, Because when she's in practice she's constantly up to date with everything and it's so much easier to stay up to date. Now she has to work a little bit harder to stay up to date, but she's still doing it.
Speaker 1:Right, right. And she's like I actually love when you bring a client case to me, because then I have to get back into the research and reading and looking at things and then we can bounce ideas off of each other.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so we've got two really big take-home messages. Well, I have two really big take-home messages. I'm sure Jenny has a couple more and one of my biggest ones that she started off with almost instantaneously is we're talking about harmful chemicals, toxins, carcinogenic toxins, just toxins that are in our everyday life, not just food, but in everyday life. And she started bringing up air fresheners and perfumes. And I'm going wait a minute, air freshener, like you don't even think about it. I just want my house to smell good and Jenny's guilty of this.
Speaker 2:She wants this house to look good, feel good, smell good, and there's times where we'll use incense or candles or air fresheners and it just punches me right in the face but I never really thought about is that really good for you or is it really bad for you? And there's actual harmful toxins that are in these air fresheners. They are not conducive for your ecosystem, your body, and it's actually a harmful thing. Same thing with perfumes, where you don't even think about it. You spray on cologne, spray on perfume right onto the skin and your skin is one of the easiest absorption pathways into your bloodstream there is.
Speaker 1:Right, transdermal absorption is what they call it. And just side note on the air fresheners in the house Now, you may or may not know, but there is a company out there called Pura P-U-R-A and that's actually what we're using in our house now are these? It still is a plug-in, but it is essential oil based, so it's not harmful chemicals. You can pick your, you know, still pick the flavor, the smell that you want, but they're not passing chemicals or toxins through the airflow air particles. So it's actually a lot safer for not only you but your pets, your animals, the children that are in your house. It's called Pura P-U-R-A.
Speaker 2:Yeah, pets. This is how I got obsessive. Compulsive about this thing was it wasn't necessarily me as much, as I grew up with dogs. Jenny grew up with dogs and I've always known that dogs sense of smell is at least a thousand times greater than that of humans. So when I walk into a house and it smells like bleach, I'm immediately cringing for the dogs. I'm going those poor dogs Like how are they dealing with this, if this is this potent to me, like how are they dealing with it? So that's what got me going down this road. But now we're on the essential oil base and it's hopefully a win-win scenario.
Speaker 1:Right, I mean, you only know what you know based on what you read, right? We're not in there manufacturing the pura, so we can only understand what we read and believe what we read. So anyways, moving on back to the event and what Dr Cedarquist was presenting regarding the toxins, the chemicals, preservatives, pesticides, yes, that led into something that I didn't even know existed, and it's called the Dirty Dozen and the Clean 15.
Speaker 2:And this is a list of foods that is updated every single year retroactively, so it just came out for 2024. So it's a retroactively, so 2025 won't come out until the end of this year, and every single year they update what is the cleanest 15 items that you can buy and the dirtiest dozen that you should avoid at all costs, unless you do it organic.
Speaker 1:Organic right and that's what she was saying is for the Clean 15, based on the Environmental Working Group. So EWG is who presents this list. But based on the list for the Clean 15, you don't particularly have to buy organic and spend more money on the organic because they are the cleaner options with the least amount of pesticides and preservatives and toxins versus the dirty dozen. You better be buying organic if you're going to be buying it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and so she pulls up the list and right away one of the top things on the list I'm going. Are you freaking? Kidding me? It was celery, right.
Speaker 1:No, that was in 2023. Celery was 2023. This year didn't even make it on the Dirty Dozen. That was something she had mentioned was. I don't know if it was number 13,. You know, could have been the 13th one, or maybe it was way down as the 56th food, but celery didn't even make the dirty dozen this year, whereas last year it was number one on the list.
Speaker 2:But I was sitting there shaking my head, going I just had celery last night and every time we get wings, which is rare, but whenever we do get wings I'm like give me the celery, give me the celery in the ranch, I love it and I mow it down. What were some of the other things?
Speaker 1:You got the list pulled up now, yeah, do you want the dirty dozen first? Yeah, Okay, dirty dozen. So number one which we've had in our house the last couple weeks strawberries, strawberries.
Speaker 2:Are you freaking, kidding me the?
Speaker 1:dirtiest food if you're not eating organic strawberries, spinach, kale which could be the collard or the mustard greens, grapes, peaches, pears, nectarines, apples, bell and hot peppers, cherries, blueberries, green beans and we green beans every week we've got green beans and strawberries in our house every single week. Yeah.
Speaker 2:And we're going. Are you freaking, kidding me? And spinach, spinach and kale, kale.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:It's like wait a minute. Four of the top 12 are in our house every single week and I don't think that we're buying those organically.
Speaker 1:I generally do. Fruits and vegetables I generally buy organic. Okay, yeah, yeah, bagged salad, I guess, doesn't really come organic. So maybe not so much on the spinach that I'm buying in bags, but definitely on the fruit and green beans I'm buying organic and snipped and washed Good so they don't last very long.
Speaker 2:Yeah that's interesting though All of those berries, apples, pears, all the fruits, strawberries, all these things that you think are healthy, you go to Publix, you go to the fruit section and you buy these and you're like, yes, I'm doing something good for myself, but they're covered in toxins Right, and toxins, but they're genetically modified so that you can mass produce them.
Speaker 1:So for the Clean 15, for 2024,. So again, because this is retroactive, 2025 won't come out till December, so for 2024, we're just two months in avocados, sweet corn, pineapple onions, papaya, sweet peas if they're frozen asparagus, honeydew, melon, kiwi, cabbage, watermelon, mushrooms, mangoes, sweet potatoes and carrots. You generally don't have to buy organic at the moment and they're pretty clean.
Speaker 2:Yeah, ideally we buy organic all the time, all the time. Obviously there is a huge price fluctuation between organic and non-organic and at the end of the day you just want to be able to make the best decision possible. If you have to buy a non-organic apple, just know that. You know it might not even be worth buying. Why would you intentionally buy something that is on the dirty 12 and you know is covered in pesticides genetically modified to be three times the size? We talked about that multiple times on this podcast is look at the size of an organic apple and compare it to a normal non-organic apple in.
Speaker 1:Publix Right.
Speaker 2:It's three times the size. That can't be healthy. It can't be.
Speaker 1:No, kind of like the chickens too right, when you get a rotisserie chicken the organic one you're like man, that thing is tiny for the amount of money I'm spending. But is it really tiny, or are the other ones just injected to be huge? And then it's really not a healthy chicken that you're eating.
Speaker 1:I love that An organic chicken is a third of the size for three times the cost, the price yeah, yeah, speaking of that, just a side note we recently have been buying whole chickens uncooked whole chickens from Wild Fork, which is an online meat service that can be delivered to your house, and they have organic choices of meat. So we've been buying an organic bird to have delivered to the house a couple of them at a time and they're not cooked and we've been putting it in the Instant Pot and cooking it in the Instant Pot six minutes per pound and they have been just turning out amazing, super tender, super easy to shred. So we pull out the Instapot essentially just falls off the bone. We've been shredding that and using that as our shredded chicken throughout the week for whatever we need it for for snacks, for the girls, to add to dinners and it's been so easy and so much better than the store bought rotisserie chickens.
Speaker 2:Yeah, For years now, you've bought a Publix rotisserie chicken and shredded it every Sunday. You've bought a Publix rotisserie chicken and shredded it every Sunday and we've used that for snacks or dinners or whatever. Now we're just throwing that. You're throwing that whole chicken into the Instant Pot and my favorite part about it is the meat is actually moist. It doesn't dry out, which is one of the things that we struggle with, because we'll set the crockpot in the morning before we leave for work, so you know it cooks and then it stays on warm for hours until we get home and eat it, and that usually dries out the chicken, dries out the meat. So that's one of the downsides to coming home to a cooked meal is it's dry because we don't have a delay. Start crock pot. However, with this whole chicken in the Instapot, it is ridiculously moist and it's like holy cow. This is awesome.
Speaker 1:Well, in the Instapot you have delay start. So we've been using that on the rotisserie chicken to set it for the time to cook, but then also having it done closer to time when we get home and then it also marinates with the seasonings on it and then I'll usually put it in some broth with seasonings. I change up the flavor whenever I do it, but because it marinates on the delay start for a little while and then it cooks. It's been awesome. So just a side note on rotisserie chicken your store-bought ones are often injected with tons of chemicals and genetically modified organisms to extend the shelf life and make it grow bigger, versus this organic one from Wild Fork Shout out to Wild Fork and throwing it in your Instapot. It's so easy and the cleanup is simple.
Speaker 2:Easy peasy.
Speaker 1:And it's only six minutes a pound. That's not long at all.
Speaker 2:Yes, so highly recommend that. What else? Anything else? Big takeaways from the event.
Speaker 1:It was really awesome to hear some of the other providers too. We had two other functional providers the owner of Purely Used Spa was there, and we also had an Ayurvedic specialist yoga instructor, so hearing them speak on the panel was nice. It's always nice to get alternative options as opposed to more of the medically functional-minded that Dr Cederquist and I are, where we are very functionally based when it comes to gut health, but definitely still medically trained individuals versus having that more holistic yoga perspective was a nice touch.
Speaker 2:Yes, it was very nice. I think that one of my favorite parts about the whole entire event was we had about 50 people registered and almost every single one of them showed up, which is rare. Usually you have a minimum 10% no-show rate, closer to 20% no-show rate, and people came excited. People came energized. I was looking around the room and I didn't see anybody passing out. And here's a big one Not a single bathroom break during a presentation for two hours. So we started at 10, ended at 12, and not a single person got up while somebody else was talking to go to the bathroom. And I'm like I could not believe that, because we've gone to tons and tons of conferences and workshops and presentations and everything and it is almost. I don't know that there was ever a time that there wasn't somebody, myself included, getting up, going to the bathroom in the middle of somebody talking.
Speaker 2:Everybody was just so engaged because it was the exact opposite of what you hear on mainstream media all day, every day. It is the exact opposite of what you hear on the television every single day. It's the exact opposite of what you heard here, every single day that you go to your doctor's office. So people were excited, energized the amount of people that were standing around talking to each other, talking to random strangers, at the end of the seminar once it ended, and we're standing up walking around answering questions. People were not in a rush to get out and this is a Saturday. You know, people were investing their Saturday to come be with us and they weren't rushing out Right. It was insane.
Speaker 1:I couldn't believe it. When every topic spoke to someone. You know I had multiple people come up to me and be. It was insane, I couldn't believe it. So it spoke to each person separately, which was amazing. You know, between what Dr Cedarquist had to say about the metabolism and hormones versus what I brought in with the gut health, it was just provided to each specific person, like you said, different from mainstream medicine, of what their primary care doctors are just writing a script and handing to them.
Speaker 1:Yes so we gave a special offer to all of the individuals that joined us at the longevity event. They all had a special offer for Berman Health and Wellness for becoming part of our team at a lower price a lower rate. So if you're listening to this podcast, I'm going to extend the offer to podcast listeners. So if you are listening, you can email or call us and let us know that you listen to the Longevity Event podcast and we will extend that special offer to you personally are you losing your mind right?
Speaker 2:now how many times did you get up with walker last night?
Speaker 1:are you saying I'm sleep deprived right now?
Speaker 2:we did not talk about this. This was not part of the plan walker's saying don't yell at mom I'm not yelling, I, I'm just questioning.
Speaker 1:I said what I said Okay, so take action now, only for the next one week.
Speaker 2:Who are they emailing?
Speaker 1:Jenny J-E-N-N-I at BermanWellnesscom.
Speaker 2:And there's a time limitation, so this comes out on Monday. Yes, you have to email by.
Speaker 1:Friday.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:From Monday to Friday this week only. If you're listening to the podcast, then you can email me and let me know you listened to the podcast and you want to know what the special offer is for joining our program based on the longevity event special. So that's February 24th to February 28th.
Speaker 2:Wow, okay, that's impressive. That was very generous of you.
Speaker 1:I know, so take action now. Jake's like glaring at me right now.
Speaker 2:Okay. Well, that's all I got to say. I'm going to cut you off now, before you give away anything else, because it was a pretty big offer, like a pretty big discount, so that's why I'm just surprised.
Speaker 1:Okay, here we are One more month of love and generosity. I mean one more week of love and generosity. This month it's the month of love.
Speaker 2:It's the month of Hallmark, it's pink month. Okay, okay, we're hanging up now.
Speaker 1:Ciao for now. Thank you for subscribing on your social media and podcast platforms to the Berman Method Dr Jake Berman with Berman Physical Therapy and Jenny Berman, Physician Assistant, with Berman Health and Wellness. You can find more information on our website wwwbermanptcom for physical therapy. Wwwbermanptcom forward slash wellness for the health and wellness. You can also find us on social media, Facebook, Instagram and on your podcast platform, so be sure to follow us, like us, subscribe to us and, if you would like any further information, definitely visit our website and reach out to us. You may also find our free reports on the websites as well, where you can download this free information for yourself. Have a great day.